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Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson are Live in Atlanta discussing Georgia’s midterm election with NPR-WABE’s Rose Scott, as well as increasing political violencein the U.S.; and affirmative action at the Supreme Court. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Closer Look with Rose Scott John Dickerson for CBS Primetime: “Political Threats And Violence In The U.S.” (Inteview with Robert Pape) Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman Here are this week’s chatters: John: Carrie McBride for The New York Public Library: “100 Years Ago Men and Boys Fought on the Streets of New York Over Wearing Straw Hats Past Summer” Emily: Fleishman Is in Trouble David: The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan; Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, by Neil Stephenson; The Immortal King Rao, by Vauhini Vara; Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr; The Circle, by Dave Eggers Listener chatter from John Campbell McMillian: Atlanta Police Department’s Citizen's Police Academy For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John take listener questions live. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They think they're gonna play the music live. Here we go. Let's see what happens. Here we go.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to the late political gap best.
0:09.7	November 3rd, 2022 the live in Atlanta edition. I am David Plott's of CityCast and this week the gap that is live in front of a beautiful but anxious crowd.
0:35.7	At the first center the arts on the campus of Georgia Tech University.
0:47.3	I'm joined on stage of course by my co-hosts on my far left. Atlanta is of course the the city too busy to hate and John Dickerson.
0:58.5	That's kind of the John Dickerson nickname. He is so busy and so has no hate in him at all. John Dickerson of CBS is prime time.
1:11.3	And then on my near left the second most famous non-practicing lawyer in the Yale University class of 1999, Emily Bazzlon.
1:20.1	Thank you. Emily Bazzlon who is the most famous non-practicing lawyer from the Yale University Law School class of 1999?
1:30.9	I'm actually the class of 2000 but I think you might be speaking of Stacey Abrams. Although yeah right?
1:36.9	Why did you take an extra year to graduate?
1:41.7	So you're the most famous non-practicing lawyer from the Yale class of 2000.
1:46.1	I don't know but anyway. Why aren't you losing a governor's race somewhere?
1:53.3	Crowd did not like that. Not like that. You just lost them.
1:57.7	Yes. Come back. First you promised a live band and there wasn't one.
2:04.5	And then you said mean things about apparently the person they want to be going.
2:08.9	This week on the campus.
2:12.9	The election is underway in Georgia and around the country we will talk to Atlanta's own rose God about what's happening here and about how the rest of the election might unfold.
2:22.9	Then the shocking attack on Paul Pelosi and how it is a harbinger of a surge in political violence when we will somehow connect that to Elon Musk and Twitter.
2:33.7	And then the Supreme Court prepares to get rid of affirmative action in higher education.
2:38.9	Plus of course we will have cocktail and chatter.
2:43.7	The election is underway. Every single person in the state of Georgia except the people who are here tonight is currently canvassing I think for either Warnock or Walker.
2:53.9	And Americans are voting everywhere. We are going to talk about the state of the race across the country but especially in Georgia.
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