Political Gabfest - Hey, Groomer
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss Russia’s war crimes; Disney’s reaction to “don’t say gay”; and Amazon’s first union.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Andrew Exum for The Atlantic: “The Russian Military Has Descended Into Inhumanity”
Noam Scheiber for The New York Times: “Amazon Workers Who Won a Union Their Way Open Labor Leaders’ Eyes”
Microsoft: “The Rise of the Triple Peak Day”
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel H. Pink
Here are this week’s chatters:
David: Jessica Contrera for The Washington Post: “The Remarkable Brain of a Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages”; The Wedding Party; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art: “Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits”
John: Jill Lawless for The Associated Press: “Darwin Notebooks Missing For 20 Years Returned to Cambridge”; Darwin Correspondence Project: “Fanny Owen”
Emily: Twitter thread by Manvir Singh @mnvrsngh on time spent “doing nothing” in small-scale, non-industrial societies.
Listener chatter from Kate Conquest: “The Avian Soap Opera Unfolding Atop This Berkeley Bell Tower Has Humans Riveted”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David discuss the trend of working a “third shift.”
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for April 7th, 2022, the Hay-Groomer edition. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm David Plotz of Citycast. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm joined by an extremely chatty Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School, |
| 0:21.8 | who practically did a podcast before we started taping. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh my God, that's so embarrassing. |
| 0:27.6 | It's not embarrassing. |
| 0:28.9 | You're just, I'm just raising expectations that people will expect you to really bring it today. |
| 0:35.9 | What's funny is it's as if I hadn't spoken to anyone for a week. But actually, I got to go to New York and talk to people yesterday. So maybe that's what's set it off. Now I can't shut up. Yeah, you're a chatting New Yorker now. You're animated by social interaction. And so you're more animated because you've had social interaction rather than be deprived of it. And that other voice, of course, |
| 0:55.5 | was John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning in New York. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, |
| 1:00.7 | Emily. I am not energized by the company of others. Also, that is a true fact. This week on the |
| 1:07.7 | Gab Fest, the war crimes of the Russian army are exposed. |
| 1:14.2 | What does that mean for the outcome of the war in Ukraine? |
| 1:22.9 | Then the new bizarre Republican obsession with grooming and how that connects to Florida's don't say gay law and the interesting assault on Disney that is now taking place. And then what does the |
| 1:30.8 | Amazon Union foretell for organized labor in the United States? Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:36.0 | The Russian Army's war crimes in Buccia, which were revealed when the army withdrew from around |
| 1:40.5 | Kyiv last week, have rekindled the world's fury about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 1:47.4 | Americans and Europeans are going to increase sanctions on Russia, probably targeting Russian coal, |
| 1:54.1 | more Russian banks, Putin's children. |
| 1:56.5 | But the war, of course, drags on. |
| 1:58.6 | And Russia seems committed to taking the Dombos region, to conquering Maripole, to making life hell for Ukrainians across the country. |
| 2:08.5 | So I want to start with a question, which I think could get at how long this is going to last and is this war going to turn out as badly as everyone |
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