Political Gabfest - Come On, Man, I Heard You Liked Me
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden, the debate over reopening schools, and the three hosts are joined by astronaut Scott Kelly to talk through tips for living in confined spaces.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John discuss the ethics of human challenge trials for vaccine development. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show.
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Here are notes and references from this week’s show:
Michael J. Stern for USA Today: “Why I'm Skeptical About Reade's Sexual Assault Claim Against Biden: Ex-Prosecutor”
Brian & Eddie Krassenstein for Medium: “Biden Accuser, Tara Reade, Allegedly Stole from Non-Profit Organization”
Seren Morris for Newsweek: “What is 1 Day Sooner? Scientists Seek Volunteers to Become Infected with Coronavirus to Speed Up Vaccine Development”
Peter Singer and Richard Yetter Chappell for the Washington Post: “Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Experiments on Human Volunteers”
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
Emily: Linda Villarosa for The New York Times Magazine: “‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America”
John: Kathryn Krawczyk for The Week: “Michigan Governor Introduces a GI Bill for Frontline Workers”; Rosalind Adams and Ken Bensinger for Buzzfeed: “After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators”
David: David’s new newsletter for Business Insider; Johnny Diaz for the New York Times: “Cities Close Streets to Cars, Opening Space for Social Distancing”
Listener chatter from Püblic Üniversal Fiend @UniversalFiend: Associated Press: “Dutch Students Complete Trans-Atlantic Voyage Forced by Coronavirus”
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political guy at best for April 30th, 2020, the Come on, man, I heard you like me. |
| 0:13.2 | Oh, God. |
| 0:14.4 | Oh, great. |
| 0:15.3 | Get the reference? |
| 0:16.2 | You got that reference? |
| 0:17.3 | I'm David Plotz, joining me, of course, from their particular lockdown |
| 0:25.0 | quarantines, John Dickerson of CBS at 60 Minutes from New York. Hello, John. Hi. And Emily Bazelon of the New York |
| 0:32.1 | Times Magazine in Yale, University Law School, from her home in New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello. On today's Gab Fest, we will talk about Tara Reid's accusation that Joe Biden sexually |
| 0:43.8 | assaulted her in the early 1990s and how that could shake up the presidential race. |
| 0:50.8 | Then, should colleges and elementary schools reopen in the fall? Can they reopen? Must they reopen? We will |
| 0:57.9 | discuss that. And we will talk to astronaut Scott Kelly. He lived a year on the International |
| 1:03.5 | Space Station. He is here with wisdom about how to live well in tight spaces. Plus, of course, |
| 1:10.1 | we're going to have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:12.5 | According to Tara Reid, in 1993, when she was a Senate aide, |
| 1:16.1 | Joe Biden accosted her in a hall, pushed her up against a wall, |
| 1:18.9 | and penetrated her with his fingers. |
| 1:21.5 | Reed's story, which she has told in different forms in different ways over time, had not been getting too much attention in this campaign until the last few days when two bits of corroborating evidence came out. |
| 1:38.9 | Two different people, but notably a former friend of hers, a Democrat named Linda Lacasse, confirmed to |
| 1:45.0 | Business Insider that Reid had told her the assault story back in the 1990s shortly after, |
| 1:51.8 | a couple of years after it allegedly happened. And then a tape surfaced from Larry King, |
| 1:57.8 | the Larry King show from more than 20 years ago in which a woman who's |
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