Political Gabfest - Build Back Later
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss January 6th revelations, Build Back Better and voting rights and they are joined by Slow Burn host Joel Anderson to talk about Season 6: The L.A. Riots.
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Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
David A. Graham for the Atlantic: “The Paperwork Coup”
Barton Gellman for the Atlantic: “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun”
Charles Homans for the New York Times: “In Bid for Control of Elections, Trump Loyalists Face Few Obstacles”
Slow Burn Season 6: The L.A. Riots
Slow Burn Season 3: Biggie and Tupac
Emily Bazelon for Slate: “The Nazi Anatomists”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by bell hooks; We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, by bell hooks
John: Sharyn Alfonsi for 60 Minutes: “Negotiating With the Taliban to Save Lives Iin Afghanistan”; The Daily: “Economic Catastrophe in Afghanistan”; Christina Goldbaum for the New York Times: “Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation”
David: Julian Mark for the Washington Post: “Rapper Logic Wrote the Song ‘1-800-273-8255’ To Save Lives. He May Have Saved Hundreds, Study Finds.”
Listener chatter from Adrian Monthony: Geraldine DeRuiter for The Everywhereist: “Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David share their best holiday gift ideas.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the slight political gap fest for December 16th, 2021, the Build Back Later edition. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm David Plotz of CityCast. I'm here in Washington, D.C.C. And I'm joined, of course, by John Diggerson of CBS Sunday morning in New York City. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, John. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello, David. |
| 0:27.5 | And by Emily, Emily Mazelon. |
| 0:31.2 | Emily Maselon. |
| 0:32.8 | Wow, my name gets scrambled in so many ways, but I've never heard anyone add an M to it. |
| 0:38.1 | I was thinking of making a joke, and I think I got, so I was actually looking at my computer, and I saw, |
| 0:43.3 | Mah, Emily Mabazelon, Emily Bazelon, of the New York Times Magazine, and Yale University Law School is in New Haven. |
| 0:50.6 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:51.5 | Hey. |
| 0:52.0 | This week on the Gab Fest, the depressing developments in the January 6th investigation. |
| 0:59.2 | Oh, my gosh, on the future of American democracy. |
| 1:01.5 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:02.1 | I woke up really glum. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm just going to tell you that. |
| 1:05.4 | Then is build back better dead or just sleeping? |
| 1:09.2 | We will find out. |
| 1:10.7 | Then we will talk to Slate's Joel |
| 1:12.5 | Anderson about his new season of Slow Burn, which is about the LA riots. Plus, we will have |
| 1:19.0 | cocktail chatter. I don't think I have ever been quite as depressed about the future of our country |
| 1:25.2 | as I was this week reading about the January 6th |
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