Political Gabfest - Is San Francisco a Hellscape?
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss Tuesday’s primaries, the economy (is it as bad as we all think it is?), and are joined by Susan Matthews to talk Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Nellie Bowles for the Atlantic: “How San Francisco Became a Failed City”
Emily Bazelon for the New York Times: “America Almost Took a Different Path Toward Abortion Rights”
Derek Thompson for the Atlantic: “Everything Is Terrible, but I’m Fine”
Patricia Cohen for the New York Times: “Global Growth Will Be Choked Amid Inflation and War, World Bank Says”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
David: Jack Hitt for the New York Times: “Want to Do Less Time? A Prison Consultant Might Be Able to Help.”
John: The Economist, “The coming food catastrophe”; The Paris Review, “Henry Miller, The Art of Fiction No. 28”
Emily: Moore v. Harper
Listener chatter from Daniel Reich: “The Path to Power” by Robert Caro
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John talk about the 20th anniversary of The Wire.
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:10.8 | For June 9th, 2022, it's the Is San Francisco a Hellscape edition. I am David Plotz of CityCast. I'm in Washington, |
| 0:24.3 | D.C., back in Washington after being in Chicago, which is definitively not a Hellscape. |
| 0:28.8 | I am joined, of course, by my dear one's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale |
| 0:33.8 | University Law School. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And John Dickerson of |
| 0:39.2 | CBS's Sunday morning from New York City. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily. Hello, |
| 0:46.0 | world. This week, we're not going to talk about the January 6th commission hearings because they're |
| 0:51.0 | tonight for where we are, it's Thursday morning when we're taping. And so they're awkwardly, awkwardly time. So we're going to talk about lots of other things. |
| 0:57.2 | Instead, we're going to talk about Tuesday's primary results, which were either really bad for |
| 1:01.4 | Democrats or incredibly bad for them, we'll discuss. Then we'll talk about the bad vibes economy. |
| 1:07.8 | Americans are pretty okay with their own economic circumstances, but deeply |
| 1:12.8 | depressed and gloomy about the country. Why is that? And then the new season of Slow Burn, Roe v. Wade |
| 1:19.3 | digs into how America's abortion politics came to be. We will talk to its host and creator, |
| 1:24.5 | Susan Matthews. Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:33.4 | So there's a form in journalism these days, which is six things we learned on Tuesday about whatever. |
| 1:35.1 | And everyone does this now. |
| 1:44.1 | Any time you open up any publication, the New York Times, probably johncbs.com, Vox Media, they've got six things that we learned. And there were a lot of six things we |
| 1:45.6 | learned on Tuesday from the primaries in various states, notably California and Iowa, but a lot of other |
| 1:52.7 | ones too. They all felt to me like they kind of downplayed the really big one, which is that |
| 1:56.6 | Democrats are in just monumental trouble. Democrats are not really voting. Republicans are nominating |
| 2:02.5 | quite electable candidates in the few competitive races that exist. John is like, maybe, electable |
| 2:07.9 | isish. And people are unhappy. So, John, John, am I painting too dire a picture for Democrats |
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