Not Even Cold in The Ground
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the unseemly rush to replace Justice Ginsburg, the coming presidential debates, and 200,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine: “Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down”
The Long Game by Mitch McConnell
Thomas B. Edsall for the New York Times: “Five Things Biden and His Allies Should Be Worried About”
Linda Chavez for the New York Times: “Democrats, You Can’t Count On the Hispanic Vote”
John Dickerson for the Atlantic: “The Slow-Fingered President”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
Emily: Shaila Dewan for the New York Times: “Few Police Officers Who Cause Deaths Are Charged or Convicted”; Michael Tanenbaum for Philly Voice: “Pennsylvania's 'Naked Ballot' Ruling Will 'Cause Electoral Chaos,' Philly Commissioner Warns”
John: Tariro Mzezewa for the New York Times: “The Flight Goes Nowhere. And It’s Sold Out.”
David: Tara Parker-Pope for the New York Times: “Does Wearing Glasses Protect You From Coronavirus?”
Listener chatter from Katerina Barry: Mike Pomranz for Food & Wine: “Italy's 'Wine Windows' Were a Product of the Plague—Now They're Making a Comeback”
Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss where they’ve found moments of peace amidst the chaos.
You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello and welcome to this late political Gab Fest for September 24th, 2020. |
| 0:16.2 | Not Even Cold in the Ground Edition. |
| 0:18.8 | I am David Plotz in Washington, D.C., staring into my closet, which I feel is like a metaphor |
| 0:24.8 | for how the world feels these days, staring into a closet. |
| 0:30.9 | I am joined from New Haven, from her home in New Haven, Connecticut, by Emily Bazelon |
| 0:37.2 | at the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello, David Plotz. I'm glad we're going by these long, formal names this morning. That seems important to clarify our identities utterly. |
| 0:49.6 | Just to maintain some shred of dignity in these undignified times. |
| 0:55.7 | A man who always maintains more than a shred of dignity is John Dickerson of CBS' 60 Minutes, who is somewhere. |
| 1:02.5 | Where are you, John? |
| 1:03.1 | Hello, John. |
| 1:04.0 | Hi, I'm in D.C. where I have to quarantine for a million years before the debate. |
| 1:10.7 | Wow, that's a long quarantine. |
| 1:13.7 | A million years? |
| 1:15.0 | They don't believe in just nice little negative COVID tests, apparently, huh? |
| 1:18.9 | Well, you've got a quarantine before you can take the test. |
| 1:22.2 | But when you're out of quarantine, let's go for a walk again. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, I don't, anyway, we can feed that up. Never. That will be never. |
| 1:30.8 | On today's Gab Fest, the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the obscene haste to fill her seat with a conservative justice and how that may affect the election, which the president says he cannot lose. |
| 1:47.2 | Then the first presidential debate is next week. |
| 1:48.5 | How is it shaping up? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.