Political Gabfest - Biden Gets Frisky
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon discuss the raucous State of the Union; the spy balloon and U.S.-China relations; and Susan Dominus’s reporting on missed opportunities in treating menopause.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Katie Rogers and Peter Baker for The New York Times: “Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting.”
Susan Dominus for The New York Times Magazine: “Women Have Been Misled About Menopause”
Stephen I. Vladeck for The New York Times: “Don’t Let Republican ‘Judge Shoppers’ Thwart the Will of Voters”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Sabawoon Samim for Afghanistan Analysts Network: “New Lives In The City: How Taleban Have Experienced Life In Kabul”
David: City Cast DC live; The Brothers Ashkenazi, by I. J Singer. Join David Plotz for a live taping of the City Cast DC podcast at the Politics & Prose Union Market location, Wednesday March 1 at 6:30 pm. You can register here for a free ticket.
Listener chatter from Ryan Clements: The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, by Ian Urbina; The Outlaw Ocean podcast
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, John, and Emily discuss the use of “judge shopping”—picking a preferred judge by suing in a single-judge district—to invalidate legislation nationwide.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:16.4 | February 9th, 2023, the Biden gets a frisky edition. |
| 0:21.4 | I am David Plotts of CityCast in Washington, D.C., I'm joined from New Haven. |
| 0:27.7 | I think no, maybe still California, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine |
| 0:31.2 | in Yale University Law School, where it is hella early. |
| 0:33.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:34.9 | Hello. |
| 0:35.7 | Thank you for the people who sent me nice California messages. |
| 0:39.4 | And from New York City, where it is only early, John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time. |
| 0:44.6 | Hello, John. |
| 0:45.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello. |
| 0:47.1 | This week on the Gab Fest, what did we learn from President Biden's state of the Union |
| 0:51.8 | on Tuesday besides the fact that the very interesting fact that Marjorie Taylor-Green looks |
| 0:56.3 | exactly like the white witch from the Narnia movies, exactly. |
| 1:00.8 | That was my revelation. |
| 1:03.4 | Then the Chinese spy balloon and the state of U.S.-China relations. |
| 1:08.2 | Then a question you did not expect to hear on the Gab Fest this morning. |
| 1:13.0 | What is menopause? |
| 1:14.5 | We will talk to Sue Dominus about her fascinating story about why medical America does such |
| 1:20.0 | a poor job dealing with the condition that affects half of the world. |
| 1:25.0 | Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter. |
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