Political Gabfest - Actually It Is ‘Infrastructure Week'
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the Delta variant and the vaccination decline, the bipartisan infrastructure plan living another day, and the pandemic Olympics.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
David Leonhardt for The New York Times: “Why Aren’t the Vaccines Approved?”
Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring: “Let's Get More People Vaccinated”
Ross Douthat for The New York Times: “How to Reach the Unvaccinated”
John Dickerson for CBS News: “Governor Asa Hutchinson on ‘Face the Nation,’ June 27, 2021”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
John: Jack Thomas for The Boston Globe: “I Just Learned I Only Have Months to Live. This Is What I Want to Say”; Susan B. Glasser for The New Yorker: “‘You’re Gonna Have a Fucking War’: Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran”
Emily: Eliza Apperly for The Guardian: “‘Stumbling Stones’: A Different Vision of Holocaust Remembrance”; Atlas Obscura: “The Bebelplatz, Berlin, Germany: The Site of the Famous Nazi Book Burning Campaign of 1933 Remembers It’s ‘Night of Shame.’”
David: The Quiet American, by Graham Greene; Catherine Bosley for Bloomberg: “Women Are Still Suffering More Than Men in Pandemic Job Hit”
Listener chatter from Ragav Venkatesan: “W Series: Off Track”; Giles Richards for The Guardian: “Hamilton Commission Report Aims to Improve Diversity in Motorsport”
If you enjoy the show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Danny Lavery's show Big Mood, Little Mood and you’ll be supporting the Political Gabfest. Sign up now at slate.com/gabfestplus to help support our work.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss billionaires in space.
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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gapest for July 22nd, 2021. |
| 0:12.0 | The actually, it is Infrastructure Week edition. |
| 0:15.4 | I am David Plotz. |
| 0:16.7 | I am of city cast and I'm still here in Vermont, USA. I'll be back in Washington, D.C. later, and I'm still here in Vermont, USA. |
| 0:21.8 | I'll be back in Washington, D.C. later, but I'm still in Vermont. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning and Face the Nation, probably from Manhattan, I guess. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello, John. |
| 0:32.2 | Yes, from the city of New York. |
| 0:35.4 | And back from Europe, where she's done the grand tour is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:44.5 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:45.3 | Nice to be back. |
| 0:47.1 | Are you the first of us to have crossed the American border since the pandemic began? |
| 0:52.9 | Maybe so. |
| 0:54.3 | If neither of you have, then yes. |
| 0:57.4 | Congratulations on getting back. They still exist those other countries. They were happy to have us, seemingly. |
| 1:02.3 | This week, the vaccine crisis, the Delta variant is rampant, yet vaccination rates are not going back up. |
| 1:10.4 | What can be done to get more Americans vaxed? |
| 1:13.7 | Then why is this infrastructure bill stagnating? |
| 1:17.8 | Didn't they make a deal on it? |
| 1:19.0 | Is there going to be an infrastructure bill? |
| 1:20.6 | What is happening with that Senate of ours? |
... |
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.