Political Gabfest - Nothing’s The Matter With Kansas
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and Heather McGhee discuss the primaries and Kansan voters’ defense of abortion; Alex Jones on trial; and Annie Lowrey’s story of surviving pregnancy in the United States.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Sam Adler-Bell for The New York Times: “The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters”
Jason Beeferman for The Texas Tribune: “How Sandy Hook Lies and the Jan. 6 Inquiry Threaten to Undo Alex Jones”
Annie Lowrey for The Atlantic: “American Motherhood”
Annie Lowrey for The Atlantic: “The Most Important Study in the Abortion Debate”
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee
The Sum of Us podcast
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, by Emily Bazelon
Black Reconstruction in America, by W. E. B. Du Bois
Forbidden City, by Vanessa Hua
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: The Law & Justice Journalism Project
Heather: A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas
David: Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke; Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke; Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain
Listener chatter from Mohamed El-Sheik: Adriana E. Ramírez for The Atlantic: “Everyone Loses on Jeopardy Eventually”
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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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:15.7 | For August 4th, 2022, it's the Nothins, the Matter with Kansas Edition. |
| 0:20.5 | I am David Plotts. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:23.5 | Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School joins us |
| 0:27.2 | from a wooden shack somewhere in Northern New England. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:32.4 | Hey! |
| 0:33.4 | And John is out, I think he's going to be out for a couple of weeks, and that means we |
| 0:38.0 | have a chance to have a great new guest host, making her full hosting debut from the |
| 0:45.0 | some of us, the book, and the some of us, the podcast. |
| 0:49.1 | The Gap Fest welcomes Heather McGee, Heather, it's great to have you back on the show. |
| 0:52.9 | Oh, it's so fun, I'm so excited. |
| 0:56.0 | This week on the Gap Fest, Tuesday's wild and divergent election results, Kansas voters |
| 1:01.0 | stand up for abortion rights, Missouri voters, reject a monster, Arizona, and Michigan Republicans, |
| 1:06.6 | put election deniers on their November ballots, then the horrors of the Alex Jones trial, |
| 1:12.8 | and whether he can be punished enough or even at all for his sins. |
| 1:17.6 | And then we'll talk to the Atlantic's Annie Lowry about her grueling and disturbing and |
| 1:22.3 | profound account of her life-threatening pregnancies, plus we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:28.9 | For Tuesday night and August, the election results were really wild. |
| 1:33.3 | Kansas voters protected the abortion rights enshrined in the state constitution, according |
| 1:39.1 | to Kansas Supreme Court enshrined in the state constitution, with extraordinary turnout |
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