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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 12th, 2021, The Little Fires Everywhere edition.
0:15.8	I'm David Plotz of CityCast. I'm here in Washington, D.C. A sweltering. We're setting a record today, Washington, D.C.
0:25.0	And...
0:25.8	That sounds horrible. It's horrible. I haven't been outside yet, so I don't know how horrible it is.
0:30.6	I am joined by Emily Vazlon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School.
0:35.9	Hello, Emily, from her home in New Haven,
0:38.3	I think. Hey, David. Yeah. And also by Josie Duffy Rice, a writer in Atlanta. And now,
0:45.9	Josie has a new job. Josie, you're the interim co-host of the Daily News podcast, What a Day.
0:50.0	What a Day? And welcome. I'm really excited. It is basically a 20-minute breakdown of the news
0:56.9	every morning, what you need to know and what you can do about what you need to know. And so I'm really
1:02.0	excited. I'm joining Monday, August 16th, two days a week. And alongside Gideon, Resnick, and Priyanka Arabendi,
1:10.2	and Trevelle Anderson.
1:11.7	And that starts on Monday. So, yes, I am no longer unemployed. I'm still sort of unemployed. Congratulations. What a day. What a day that will be. And John Dickerson is just on vacation, I guess. I don't know where he is. Probably is on vacation. Maybe we'll let him come back. This week,
1:28.4	the IPCC, the intergovernmental panel on climate change, issued its sixth report on the state of climate change.
1:34.9	The IPCC report presents a dire, dire, dire, dire prospect for humanity. How do we avoid despair and fend off the worst of climate change?
1:47.0	Or maybe we don't and we just have despair.
1:49.4	Then a new book explores the enormous impact that Ralph Nader and other citizen activists have
1:54.2	had on American life and reaches a very surprising conclusion about them.
1:57.4	We'll be joined by its author Paul Saban, aka Mr. Emily Bazelon.
2:03.2	That's going to be great.
2:04.9	Then this week in COVID lunacy, what should be done about kids and schools as the pandemic
2:11.0	threatens to disrupt yet a third school year?
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