Political Gabfest - Million Dollar Jab
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the post-pandemic economy; vaccine hoarding; and they're joined by Alex Stamos to talk about infrastructure, cybersecurity and the Colonial Pipeline hack.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
David Leonhardt for the New York Times: “A Misleading C.D.C. Number”
Dana Goldstein for the New York Times: “President of Key Teachers’ Union Shares Plea: ‘Schools Must Be Open’ in Fall”
Brian Krebs for Krebs on Security: “A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
John: Craig Welch for National Geographic: “Groundbreaking Effort Launched to Decode Whale Language”
Emily: A Good Mother by Lara Bazelon; America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
David: B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz “
Listener chatter from Adam Schear: Walker Caplan for LitHub: “The Key to Dodging Cyber Censorship Rules Might Be . . . A Minecraft Library?”
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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David each recount a decision that changed the trajectory of their lives (not marriage related).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 13th, 2021, the million-dollar jab edition. |
| 0:13.5 | I am David Floss of Citicast. I'm in Washington, D.C. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine |
| 0:19.5 | and Yale University Law School is, as ever, from New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello, David. |
| 0:26.4 | Hello, John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes and Face the Nation, and probably lots of other things. |
| 0:34.7 | Every CBS News Enterprise you can think of joins from his home. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily. Today on the Gab Fest, we're going to talk about |
| 0:46.6 | whether unemployment benefits are discouraging Americans from looking for work and whether we |
| 0:51.3 | should be worried about the latest jobless numbers. Then we will talk about vaccination. |
| 0:56.9 | Why are vaccination rates slowing? |
| 0:59.4 | Should we be giving vaccines to India? |
| 1:02.3 | Should we be, in fact, vaccinating all the teenagers who are now eligible for vaccines? |
| 1:07.2 | Should we be giving million dollar lottery prizes to people who get vaccines? Yes, we should. Then we will be joined by Internet security guru, Alex Stamos, to discuss the colonial pipeline hack and its implications. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And I know we don't cover celebrity news much on the Gap Fest, but I wanted to just flag one story. I, for one, |
| 1:28.9 | although you guys maybe were not surprised, that the mediator in the Kardashian-West divorce is going |
| 1:33.4 | to be none other than former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Breyer worked in family law |
| 1:38.8 | early in his career, and apparently he spent some of 2020 when he was still on the Supreme |
| 1:44.0 | Court secretly training as a mediator. |
| 1:47.3 | So that's pretty cool. |
| 1:48.4 | Weston Kardashian, according to reports I read in People magazine, wanted a mediator who knew nothing about either of them, which made Breyer an ideal candidate. |
| 1:57.1 | That's probably true. |
| 1:58.5 | That part. |
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