Giant Fires Everywhere
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John, David and Jamelle discuss the impacts and threats of wildfires and the climate crisis, apocalyptic election talk, and the four of them envision a new and improved post-pandemic work week.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s special show -- part of the Texas Tribune Festival!:
Abrahm Lustgarten for The New York Times Magazine: “The Great Climate Migration”
Galen Durke for FiveThirtyEight “The Challenges Of Holding An Election During A Pandemic”
Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “Trump’s Perverse Campaign Strategy”
Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times: “Whose America Is It?”
Isaac Stanley-Becker for The Washington Post: “Pro-Trump Youth Group Enlists Teens in Secretive Campaign Likened to a ‘troll farm,’ Prompting Rebuke by Facebook and Twitter”
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamont
Here are the week cocktail chatters for this week:
Emily: Janet Malcolm for The New York Review of Books: “A Second Chance”
John: @AmeliaFrappolli’s, twitter thread about the mad hatter who shot John Wilkes Booth, Boston Corbett, as chronicled in Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West by Dale L. Walker.
Jamelle: Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin; The Mandalorian, Season 2
David: The Oddly Satisfying channel on YouTube.
Listener chatter from Janet Green @janetcetera: Jonathan Ore and Kevin Ball for CBC: “Paddle of the Century”
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:05.9 | Yep. |
| 0:06.7 | Headphones are on. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 17th, 2020, the Giant Fires Everywhere edition. |
| 0:18.6 | I am David Plotz in Washington, D.C. I am joined from New Haven, Connecticut, from her home by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily. Hey, David. Hey, Jamel. Hey, John. That was too soon. You couldn't tell. They haven't been introduced yet. People don't even know they're there. We don't exist until we're introduced. |
| 0:38.2 | I know, but I'm looking at their smiling faces. Continue. |
| 0:41.8 | Also joining us, of course, is John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes from New York. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Jamel. Hello, Emily. And joining us for the whole show today, thank goodness, is the New York Times columnist Jemelle Bowie from Charlottesville. |
| 0:57.3 | Hello, Jemelle. And joining us for the whole show today, thank goodness, is the New York Times columnist |
| 0:56.0 | Jamel Bowie from Charlottesville. Hello, Jamel. Hello there. I'm not going to go through |
| 1:00.6 | this round of hellos. Yes, this ridiculousness. We are live. We're live today. We're live on |
| 1:07.6 | YouTube and Facebook here on Wednesday evening as part of the Texas |
| 1:11.0 | Tribune's at Virtual Festival. We always love being with the Texas Tribune. We were in Austin |
| 1:16.4 | last year, I think, for this. Certainly, we've been in Austin for the show. Maybe two years |
| 1:21.2 | ago. No, we were there last year. And I cannot. I think it was last year. Yeah, everything, time, |
| 1:26.6 | the kind of dilation and compression of time craziness. |
| 1:31.5 | I, for one, cannot wait to get back to Austin post-pandemic. |
| 1:35.5 | Before we get started, we want your questions, listeners. |
| 1:39.3 | Please drop them in the comment section wherever you are. |
| 1:42.8 | We will answer the questions that we can. So put them in the comment section either you are. We will answer the questions that we can. |
| 1:44.8 | So put them in the comment section, either on YouTube or Facebook or wherever you're watching us, |
| 1:49.6 | and we will answer anything we can. On today's GabFest, the forest fires that are scorching the |
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