Political Gabfest - Gab Me Baby One More Time
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🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss New York City’s primary election, J.D. Vance’s Senate run, and injustice illuminated by Britney Spears.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
Molly Ball for Time: “Breakfast with J.D. Vance, Anti-Trump Author Turned Pro-Trump Candidate”
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker: “Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare”
Caitlin Flanagan for The Atlantic: “You Really Need to Quit Twitter”
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: This American Life: “There. I Fixed It.”
John: John Dickerson for CBS News: “Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III: Full Face the Nation Interview”; Julian Mark for The Washington Post: “Rep. Andy Kim’s Suit in the Capitol Cleanup Photo Was From A J. Crew Sale. It Now Belongs to the Smithsonian.”; Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?”
David: Visiting the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness with Navajo Tours USA
Listener chatter from William Quill: Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding: “The World Through the Eyes of the US”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 8th, 2021, the Gab Me Baby one more time edition. |
| 0:15.9 | That just occurred to me as we were talking. |
| 0:18.2 | Good work. |
| 0:19.1 | I am David Plotz of CityCast. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm back for my vacation. |
| 0:24.2 | Good to be back with the gang. |
| 0:26.9 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School joins us on the eve of her vacation. |
| 0:32.9 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:33.7 | Hello. |
| 0:34.7 | And John Dickerson of CBS's. |
| 0:39.5 | That's not what you were from. John Dickerson of CBS's, that's not what you were from. |
| 0:47.6 | John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning and Face the Nation joins us. |
| 0:49.5 | And it's always a vacation with John. |
| 0:50.3 | Really? |
| 0:52.4 | He's a human vacation. |
| 0:52.9 | Not really. |
| 0:54.1 | John works so hard. |
| 0:54.8 | Probably not. |
| 0:55.3 | Hello. |
| 0:55.9 | How are you? |
| 0:56.7 | Hi. |
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