Oakland Conundrum
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz solve listeners' most pressing philosophical conundrums including personal conundrums like, would you rather be exceptional at one thing but awful at everything else?
And societal conundrums like, would you prefer to have Trump as your father or as your President?
And special guest Adam Savage brings his myth-busting expertise to help.
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| 0:00.0 | The philosophical question that we face is, are they still the Oakland Raiders? |
| 0:04.5 | At what point have they stopped being the Oakland Raiders? |
| 0:08.6 | They will no longer be... |
| 0:12.7 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gapest for December 26th, 2019, the Oakland Conundrum Edition. |
| 0:23.3 | We... the Oakland Conundrum Edition. We're looking out, we're looking out at an audience that seems progressive, but not |
| 0:29.9 | unrealistically, unrealistically progressive. |
| 0:33.0 | An audience filled with people who work in technology, but not in the broie terrible technology. |
| 0:38.8 | They work in social justice, but not in the |
| 0:41.6 | calming kind of social justice. |
| 0:45.3 | And there are people who are definitely willing to build some housing, |
| 0:49.6 | but not willing to sell the whole city out for developers. |
| 0:52.7 | In short, we're in Oakland, California. |
| 0:56.6 | The Gab Fest is live at the Fox Theater |
| 1:00.2 | in the heart of downtown Oakland. |
| 1:02.1 | There may be no there, there, |
| 1:04.3 | but there are a lot of you here. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 1:08.9 | On my left is Emily Bazelon, of course. |
| 1:17.8 | Just as Reggie Jackson made his name with the Oakland A's, |
| 1:23.6 | then went on to legendary fame in New York with the Yankees. |
| 1:27.4 | So Emily Bazelon made her bones |
| 1:29.8 | as a dogged reporter for the Tri Valley Herald covering San Ramon. |
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