Political Gabfest - Mature Minor
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
John, David and Josie discuss the escalating threats to democratic elections, minors’ rights to vaccination, and Josh Levin on the podcast One Year: 1977.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Slate’s One Year: 1977
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, by Josh Levin
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Here’s this week’s chatter:
John: Gaia Pianigiani and Emma Bubola for The New York Times: “Italy’s Government to Ban Cruise Ships From Venice”; The New York Times: “How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?”
Josie: Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
David: City Cast: “City Cast Expands to 8 New Cities”
Listener chatter from Chris Heuberger, @chrisbup: David Owen for The New Yorker: “How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change”; Solvable podcast: “Mapping Catholic Lands Can Help Solve Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest for July 15th, 2021, the mature minor edition. |
| 0:13.4 | I am David Plotz of CityCast. I am in Vermont, not in Washington, D.C.C. I'm in Vermont, |
| 0:19.8 | great green state. Vermont. I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning. CBS Face the Nation. Hello, John Dickerson from New York. Hello, David. From his new home in New York, I think. No, I'm not in the new home yet. Oh, you're not in the new home yet? No, I'm in the very room in which you spent the night. |
| 0:39.5 | You're very small on my screen, so I couldn't really tell where you are. And also, I just look into your eyes, John. I can't see anything around you. We've found a new place to live, but we haven't moved there yet. And Emily, as promised last week, is on vacation, a well-deserved vacation. |
| 0:55.8 | And so we're joined by beloved... I haven't moved there yet. And Emily, as promised last week, is on vacation, a well-deserved vacation. |
| 0:55.8 | And so we're joined by beloved GabFest regular Josie Duffy Rice, who's a writer in Atlanta. |
| 1:02.3 | Hello, Josie. |
| 1:03.5 | Hi. |
| 1:04.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:05.5 | So this week, will Democrats figure out a way to defend voting rights, to protect voting rights? |
| 1:11.5 | Then a new front on the vaccine war, in the vaccine war. |
| 1:16.1 | Also, what kind of country has a vaccine war? |
| 1:18.2 | Should kids be allowed to vaccinate themselves over their parents' objections? |
| 1:22.1 | And then a fascinating new podcast, one year tries to make sense of the year of 1977. |
| 1:26.6 | We'll be joined by host Josh Levine |
| 1:29.0 | to talk about 1977. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. Texas Democrats fled the state |
| 1:37.5 | to stop there being a legislative quorum in order to prevent or delay passage of a voting |
| 1:43.9 | restrictions bill. Again, to try to delay passage of a voting restrictions bill. Again, to try to |
| 1:46.1 | delay passage of a voting restrictions bill, they were back in emergency session that had been called |
| 1:49.9 | because they delayed this voting restrictions bill before. Republicans are adamant, Republicans |
| 1:57.4 | who fully control Texas government legislatively and at the gubernatorial level, |
| 2:03.1 | they're adamant that they're going to push through this voting restriction bill and had an |
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