Political Gabfest - I Call On You To Do More
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🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Emily and David are joined by guest host Juliette Kayyem to discuss the arming of Ukraine, how to prepare for the next pandemic or catastrophe, and daylight savings time debates.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Megan Garber for The Atlantic: “The Grim Stagecraft of Zelensky’s Selfie Videos”
Atul Gawande for The New Yorker: “Costa Ricans Live Longer Than We Do. What's the Secret?”
The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters, by Juliette Kayyem
Here’s this week’s chatter:
David: Nina Siegal for The New York Times: “She Discovered What Happened to 400 Dutch Jews Who Disappeared”
Emily: Paul Blest for Vice: “Josh Hawley Accused Biden’s SCOTUS Pick of Being Soft on Child Porn”; Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “The Price of a Stolen Childhood”
Juliette: Maria Cramer for The New York Times: “A Year After Suez Blockage, Another Evergreen Ship Is Mired in the Chesapeake”
Listener chatter from Jonas Barciauskas: This Land podcast
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Juliette, Emily and David talk about what they think about when they want to increase their happiness.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for March 17th, 2022, the I |
| 0:12.0 | call on you to do more edition. I am David Plotz of Citycast. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm calling |
| 0:18.3 | on Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School to do |
| 0:21.7 | more from New Haven. Hello, Emily. More for the Gab Fest, more for you, more for the world, |
| 0:28.5 | all three. More for the world. John Dickerson is off this week, but we have making her full |
| 0:35.0 | Gab Fest debut. She's been here before in smaller roles. Juliet |
| 0:41.5 | Kayam, Juliet is the director of the Homeland Security Project and Security in Global Health |
| 0:46.6 | Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She's also the author of a forthcoming book |
| 0:51.3 | that we will talk about. The Devil Never Sleeps, Learning to Live |
| 0:54.9 | in an Age of Disasters. Hello, Juliet. Welcome to the Gat Fest. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm very excited. And you're in, you're probably in Boston or Cambridge or something, right? |
| 1:04.1 | Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okay. This week, we will talk about the war in Ukraine, the battle for |
| 1:10.6 | information and misinformation, |
| 1:13.6 | and why cyber warfare hasn't been as big a deal as people expected. |
| 1:17.2 | Then, why can't America manage to prepare for the next pandemic? |
| 1:22.2 | Juliet will explain that and also we'll talk about her book and how that explains it. |
| 1:26.4 | Then the Senate votes for |
| 1:27.9 | permanent daylight savings time. Does it make sense? I feel like we're going to have a really |
| 1:32.9 | good argument about this, but I don't even know where everyone falls. So we'll find out. Maybe |
| 1:36.8 | we all agree that we should just live on a single time zone or something. Plus, we'll have |
| 1:42.7 | cocktail chatter. President Zelensky gave an impassioned |
| 1:46.3 | address to Congress on Wednesday, which was incidentally, the thing I noticed, but I guess |
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