Political Gabfest: Donald Duck and the Seven Dwarves

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the second Republican presidential primary debate; the next federal case against Senator Bob Menendez, and the latest lawsuit of United States v. Big Tech. Join us for Political Gabfest Live in Madison, Wisconsin on October 25! Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Dan Balz for The Washington Post: “Republican debate brings chaos, attacks and a slog for second place” G. Elliott Morris for 538: “How outlier polls happen – and what to do with them” Nicole Hong for The New York Times: “Gold Bullion and Halal Meat: Inside the Menendez Investigation” John Dickerson for CBS News Prime Time: “FTC chair Lina Khan discusses need for regulations on big business” Lina M. Khan in The Yale Law Journal: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” Lisa Mascaro and Stephen Groves for AP: “House Speaker McCarthy is back to square one as the Senate pushes ahead to avert a federal shutdown” John Dickerson and Kris Van Cleave for CBS News: “How a government shutdown could cause chaos at airports” Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Mary Harris for This American Life: Act One of The Call; Slate’s podcast What Next hosted by Mary Harris; Never Use Alone Inc. National Overdose Prevention Lifeline; Dr. Alison Block for the Post-Roe America series of The Nocturnists podcast; and Slate’s podcast Amicus hosted by Dahlia Lithwick: “SCOTUS Is Not Done With Guns and Abortion” John: Michael Schneider for Variety: “CNN and Now-Canceled ‘Vice News Tonight’ Lead News & Documentary Night 1 Winners List” and John Dickerson for CBS News Prime Time: “How to stay safe online, according to CISA” David: Jonathan O’Callaghan for Nature: “This is what Earth’s continents will look like in 250 million years” Listener chatter from Kevin McEvilly: Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser in The New York Times: “The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David discuss the possible shutdown of the U.S. government. In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Zadie Smith about her book, The Fraud: A Novel. In the next Gabfest Reads, David talks with Kristi Coulter about her book, Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected] or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen 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.
0:15.6	September 28th, 2023, the Donald Duck and the Seven Twarves edition, and David Plotts of
0:22.1	CityCast in Washington, D.C., I'm joined, of course, by Emily Bazzlon of the New York Times
0:26.4	magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven, Howdy Emily.
0:29.8	Howdy, still having my brain messed with by mixing up Disney and Grimm's fairy tales.
0:34.8	Or I guess just two Disney.
0:36.3	Yeah, it's all Disney.
0:37.6	And then, of course, there's John Dickerson of CVS Prime Time, who is the Prince Charming
0:42.7	if we're going to do Disney's, or the Shrek of the Gap Fest.
0:46.3	Hello, John.
0:47.3	Hi, I think I'd rather be Shrek at heart, but then you get to look like Prince Charming,
0:52.2	is that possible?
0:53.2	Oh, sure.
0:55.2	I'll take that.
0:56.2	Yeah, no, that'd be nice.
0:57.2	That'd be nice.
0:58.2	Some sort of an AI confection where I get to be both.
1:01.2	Sounds good.
1:02.2	This week on the Gap Fest, the State of the Race, there was another Republican debate on Wednesday
1:08.5	night.
1:09.5	There was a shockingly bad poll for President Biden, and Donald Trump's numbers remain
1:14.3	amazingly steady even as he muses about executing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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