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🗓️ 24 March 2022

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David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by Ruth Marcus to discuss Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing; Ukraine keeps fighting through atrocity; and more allegations of Republican candidates committing domestic abuse. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Dana Milbank for the Washington Post: “Cruz Attacks Jackson For ‘Critical Race Theory’—But Sends His Own Daughters to Learn It” Henry Olsen for the Washington Post: “Republicans Are Right to Oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson” Here’s this week’s chatter: David: BioHacked: Family Secrets: “The Genius Experiment: Part 1”; The Genius Factory, by David Plotz; The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World, by Riley Black John: Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century, by Dana Stevens Ruth: Christine Emba for The Washington Post: “Consent Is Not Enough. We Need A New Sexual Ethic.”; Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, by Christine Emba Listener chatter from Eric Jason Martin: Nick Paumgarten for the New Yorker: “Retirement the Margaritaville Way." For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Ruth, John, and David discuss their strangest behaviors. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for March 24th, 2022, the Deep-Sai edition.
0:13.9	I am David Flotz of CityCast, I'm in Washington, D.C., a rainy Washington, D.C., all week, as
0:21.4	Katanjee Brown, Jackson stared into the dead eyes of Senators and then went out into the
0:26.9	rain afterwards. I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning. Hello, John, how are you?
0:33.0	Hello, David. It's all so rainy here, but we don't want to, it's going to be sunny when people
0:37.4	are listening to this. That is true. It's going to be an absolute ray of sunshine no matter what the
0:42.2	weather around them is. And a living ray of sunshine, who is herself bathed in sunshine, Ruth
0:47.4	Marcus, Washington Post columnist, sitting in for Emily today. Ruth, welcome back to the Gap Fest for
0:53.3	the Empthtime. Hello. Hi, good morning. I am not bathed in sunshine. I'm bathed in the odd light of
0:59.8	the Washington Post recording booth. It does look like you've been anointed that you're an
1:04.9	unceasing, I'm sorry. Indeed I am here at the Gap Fest. Thank you. She's surrounded by black with a
1:11.9	pin of golden light on her on her the top of her head. It is in fact, it looks like she's been
1:17.5	illuminated by the Great Awakening. This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Katangi
1:23.6	Brown Jackson and Ted Cruz and Josh Holly are just as, orcsum as you would expect them to have been,
1:29.9	then how can, how should, how will the war in Ukraine end and will it end anytime soon?
1:37.0	Then new domestic abuse and child abuse accusations against Missouri Republican Senate candidate
1:42.2	Eric Grytens. Will they derail his campaign? Why are there so many abusers or people with
1:48.9	unfortunate relationships towards women running for office these days? Plus, we'll have cocktail
1:54.1	chatter. So my favorite moment in the KBJ confirmation hearings this week came on. I think it was Tuesday
2:01.4	when Ted Cruz presented Jackson with a blown up display of a book that Cruz says is taught at
2:08.5	Georgetown Day School of School that Jackson serves on the board of. I don't actually remember
2:13.2	even what Cruz is talking about or what Jackson's response was just that she began the response with
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