Political Gabfest - Hot, Hotter, Hottest
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🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Josie Duffy Rice discuss Europe’s deadly heat wave, Joe Manchin’s balk at climate legislation, and the inevitable tragedies already happening post-Roe.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Lindsay Whitehurst, Camille Fassett, and Jasen Lo for the Associated Press: “Social Programs Weak in Many States With Tough Abortion Laws”
The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O'Rourke
Forbidden City, by Vanessa Hua
Homesick and Happy: How Time Away from Parents Can Help a Child Grow, by Michael Thompson
John Dickerson for Slate: “My Daughter Went Away to Camp and Changed”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Carol D. Leonnig and Maria Sacchetti for The Washington Post: “Secret Service Watchdog Knew in February That Texts Had Been Purged”
Josie: Zak Cheney-Rice for New York Magazine: “Larry Wilmore Knows No Bounds”;
David: Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps; Elias Esquivel for World Athletics: “Patterson Takes Surprise High Jump Gold In Oregon”
Listener chatter from Mark Wegener: Gamaliel Bradford for the January 1930 issue of The Atlantic: “The Genius of the Average: Calvin Coolidge”
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.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:07.0 | For July 21st, 2022, it's the hot, hotter, hottest edition. |
| 0:20.5 | I am David Plotts of CityCast, I'm in Washington, D.C., Emily Baslan is, I hope, somewhere cooler. |
| 0:28.6 | And in her stead, we are so pleased to have Josie Deppie Rice, Gap Fest regular, she's |
| 0:34.0 | a writer, sweltering in Atlanta. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello Josie. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.5 | And John Dickerson is also a writer and many other things for CBS News, sweltering in |
| 0:45.4 | New York City. |
| 0:46.4 | Hello John. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello, heat hot. |
| 0:48.4 | That's thunderous writing you Josie. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | Wow. |
| 0:54.0 | There's something special about a morning thunderstorm, though, that is we had one in New |
| 0:57.8 | York this week. |
| 0:58.8 | And it's, I couldn't put my finger on it, but there is something both magical and terrifying |
| 1:03.3 | about a morning thunderstorm. |
| 1:04.9 | This week on the Gap Fest, the catastrophic heat waves devastating Europe and the United |
| 1:09.5 | States and what they hailed for our future, then did Joe Manchin destroy Joe Biden's presidency, |
| 1:16.9 | the Democratic agenda and also human civilization. |
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