Political Gabfest - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial with guest Dwayne Betts; Andrew Yang’s campaign for Mayor of New York City; and why the U.S. invaded Iraq with guest Noreen Malone (host of the Slow Burn podcast).

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Netflix Is A Joke: “Richard Pryor's 1979 Joke About Police Still Applies”

“When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving” by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Jack Shafer for Politico: “How Substack Revealed the Real Value of Writers’ Unfiltered Thoughts”

The Million Book Project

Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts

A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Slow Burn Season 5: The Road to Iraq

Here’s this week’s chatter:

John: The Ezra Klein Show: “That Anxiety You’re Feeling? It’s a Habit You Can Break”; Bob Yirka for Phys.org: “Teaching Children to Play Chess Found to Decrease Risk Aversion”; Joe Trippi’s Twitter thread about Walter Mondale

Emily: PBS’s Philly D.A.

David: Michael E. Ruane for the Washington Post: “Harriet Tubman’s Lost Maryland Home Found, Archaeologists Say”; Peter Jamison for The Washington Post: “An ‘Insane’ Covid Lockdown Two Miles From the Capitol, With No End in Sight”

Listener chatter from Adam Siegel: The Economist: “How spooks are turning to superforecasting in the Cosmic Bazaar”

Slate Plus members get great bonus content from Slate, a special segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Dwayne Betts recites his poem, “When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 22nd, 2021, the Guilty, guilty, guilty edition.
0:13.8	I'm David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C. I'm joined, fortunately, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, Yale University Law School from New Haven.
0:23.1	Hello, Emily.
0:24.1	Hello, David.
0:25.5	And from New York City, John Dickerson of CBS is 60 Minutes.
0:29.9	Hello, John.
0:30.6	Don't give me your hello's.
0:32.7	Hello, David.
0:33.2	Okay, no hellos.
0:34.4	Howdy.
0:35.4	Howdies.
0:36.4	On today's Gap Fest, Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. How will it change policing? Will it change America? We will talk to the poet and activist, Dwayne Bess, about that. Then, why is Andrew Yang leading the New York mayoral race? He's barely a New Yorker. He's not a progressive. What's going on?
0:56.2	And then almost 20 years ago, the U.S. went to war against Iraq, a war that caused death and
1:03.7	destruction and cost $2 trillion, disillusioned millions of Americans. How did that war happen? Why did we go
1:10.2	to war? We're going to talk to Noreen Malone, who's the host of the new season of Slow Burn, a podcast series about events in history, in this case, about how the Iraq war happened. And, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter. Guys, guys, did I tell you about my new obsession I'm taking an online class in life drawing it is amazing I have
1:34.5	drawing life drawing I haven't done any drawings since high school I'm terrible but I love doing it and you'd think like life drawing it's like sexy but the models are just like regular people, and they have
1:44.3	regular people's bodies, which is too bad. But this week's nude male drawing class, the model was
1:48.9	former Justice Breyer. Can you believe he stayed on a little bit after class to talk to us, and he said
1:55.8	he'd always wanted to model. And now he's off the court. He finally has time to do it. It was really sweet.
2:01.5	And he was a really good model.
2:03.4	He was extremely still.
2:06.7	He said he sometimes would, he used to hold, he used to practice holding an expression for an entire Supreme Court argument in preparation.
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