Political Gabfest - Has It Only Been A Year?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Biden’s first year, SCOTUS's block of OSHA’s vax-or-test rule, and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s busy start.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
John Dickerson for CBS Sunday Morning: “President Joe Biden: The First Year”
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven series on HBO Max
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Deep Cover, Season 2: Mob Land
John: Take Note Podcast; Adam Webb for Take Note: “How to Keep a Notebook”
David: Paul Schwartzman for The Washington Post: “Missing Jewels And Art: A Lawsuit Against a Retired Professor Is Ruffling The Well-To-Do From Georgetown to Newport, R.I.”
Listener chatter from Alissa Surges: Allison Robicelli for The Washington Post: “I Spent The Night in an Empty Airport. it Was a Dream Come True”; Work at City Cast
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David talk about why to keep a journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for January 20th, |
| 0:11.0 | 2022, the Has It Only Been a Year edition? |
| 0:15.3 | I am David Plotz of CityCast. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:19.2 | In my home, I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning from his home in New York City. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm here on the top floor, Garrett. |
| 0:27.1 | Good morning, David. |
| 0:28.2 | And by Emily Bazelon, who appears not to be in her home, but to be in a horror movie of some sort. |
| 0:34.3 | In a very murky space where I am expecting some sort of killer or apparition to appear |
| 0:40.9 | behind her at any moment. |
| 0:43.0 | Oh, wait, she turned the light on. |
| 0:44.3 | Maybe she is in her home in New Haven Connecticut. |
| 0:47.0 | Emily Bath on. |
| 0:47.5 | Now she just looks like she's turned the light on with the evil thing that's coming from behind |
| 0:52.6 | her to like better illuminate it. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, the evil thing loves light. |
| 0:55.9 | Oh, I'm so glad to be here with you guys this morning. |
| 0:58.9 | This is really. |
| 1:00.0 | This boated so well. |
| 1:01.2 | Well, maybe our listeners should understand what you're talking about, David. |
| 1:05.0 | Just that Emily, for some combination of New Haven gloom and bad camera work and poor lighting within the Baslon |
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