I Know a Predator When I See One
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🗓️ 20 August 2020
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the Democrats’ virtual convention, the U.S. Postal Service, and the bipartisan Senate report exposing more Trump ties to Russia.
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Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
John: Keith Johnston for Independent Voter News: “The 18th-Century Reason Biden's VP Pick Should Be a Night Owl”
Emily: Claire Cain Miller for the New York Times: “‘I’m Only One Human Being’: Parents Brace for a Go-It-Alone School Year”
David: Shtisel
Listener Rich Bravo: “Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome for the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 20th, 2020, the I Know |
| 0:11.9 | A Predator when I see one edition. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm David Plotz, a business insider in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:18.2 | I am joined from, I think, New Haven, Connecticut once again by Emily Bazelon |
| 0:23.6 | at the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello, hello. And from a hotel room in Washington, D.C., whereas he is recovering from his |
| 0:33.8 | late-night convention analyzing duties for CBS News John Dickerson of 60 minutes. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, John. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello, David. Good morning. Hi, Emily. |
| 0:43.6 | Hi, yeah. |
| 0:44.5 | John is mad at me because I just said something mean, which I'm now apologizing to you on the air, |
| 0:49.4 | and it was wrong. I apologize to you and Jocelyn on the air. |
| 0:53.2 | One of the things, first of all, I wasn't really mean. It was just slightly overshot the mark. |
| 0:57.9 | But the thing David once said, like, I don't know, maybe 15 years ago, whatever, is that the key in making apologies is to make them abject. |
| 1:07.3 | He's really good at it. |
| 1:08.6 | He's really good at it. And you know who's bad at it? |
| 1:11.4 | Everyone else on the planet. |
| 1:14.9 | That's nice of you to say. |
| 1:16.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:17.0 | On today's Gab Fest, the Democratic Convention, which was planned for Milwaukee, but actually |
| 1:23.1 | is everywhere, is turning out to be way more interesting and better, I think, than at least I |
| 1:29.8 | expected. And we will talk about some really remarkable moments and speeches from this week |
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