One Measly Report

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Juliette Kayyem and discuss the status of the Jack Smith reports and Donald Trump’s legal troubles; Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk’s continued cozying up to Trump; and the horrific wildfires raging in Los Angeles. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Juliette, Emily, and David discuss dropping into the memory hole the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with David Greenberg about his new biography, John Lewis: A Life. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Want more Political Gabfest? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.
0:08.1	I want to talk about something important today because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.
0:15.7	January 9th, 2025, the One Measley Report Edition.
0:21.1	I'm David Plotz of CityCast from an extremely snowy and bitterly cold Washington, D.C.
0:26.4	Joining me, of course, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School.
0:30.5	Hello, Emily.
0:31.8	Hey, David.
0:32.9	And John, I think, is on Carter Funeral Duty.
0:37.0	So he's not with us this morning.
0:39.8	No worries.
0:40.5	We have beloved guest host, Juliette Kayam.
0:43.9	Juliet is professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
0:47.5	She's also the author of The Devil Never Sleeps, Learning to Live in the Age of Disasters, which is a good book to be talking about in a week of
0:56.4	natural disaster. This week on the Gab Fest, after all that, after the endless malfeasance,
1:03.4	the civil liability, the criminal conviction, so many indictments, the Trump legal peril will
1:07.7	end this week probably with one little report. Then the platforms and the
1:14.6	billionaire surrender, the metaverse failed Mark Zuckerberg. So why not the magaverse? We're going to
1:20.3	talk about the abject capitulation of the billionaires to Trump. Then the Los Angeles fires and what
1:26.4	they signal about climate and urban resilience,
1:29.7	plus we'll have cocktail chatter.
1:31.7	This episode is brought to you by Simplysafe. With the evenings getting darker earlier,
1:36.7	it's time to upgrade your home security. Simply Safe systems start from less than 200 pounds,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

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.