Political Gabfest - Pool Boy

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4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Republican convention, violence in Kenosha, and whether the Falwell and Conway families’ dramas matter.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Thomas B. Edsall for the New York Times: “‘I Fear That We Are Witnessing the End of American Democracy’”

Omar Wasow for the Washington Post: “The Protests Started Out Looking Like 1968. They Turned Into 1964.”

Black Lives Matter Protests in Wisconsin: Charles Franklin Marquette Law School Poll 2020-08-26

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

John: Keith Johnston for Independent Voter News: “The 18th-Century Reason Biden's VP Pick Should Be a Night Owl”

Emily: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk ; Honeyland

David: Erin Berger for the New York Times: “Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’”

Listener Qiyu Liu @BlueSuedeQ: the Ikea Museum’s collection of 70 years of catalogues.

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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss what they wanted to be when they grew up and how close they came.

You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.
0:10.9	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 27th, 2020, the Pool Boy edition.
0:17.5	I'm David Flaudez of Business Insider. I'm in Washington, D.C. I am joined from New Haven, Connecticut, from her home office, I guess, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily.
0:31.6	Hello, David. Hello, John. And as always, from CBS's 60 Minutes, John Dickerson, who is again in Washington because he's providing valuable, important commentary on the convention.
0:47.3	Hello, John.
0:48.2	Hello, David.
0:49.3	Hello, Emily.
0:51.2	I'll accept that it's valuable.
0:53.5	I'm not quite sure.
0:55.1	John and I had such a nice walk after last week's show.
0:57.6	We got the actual pleasure of each other's company as opposed to just this Zoom, just the Zoom Dickerson, who is two-dimensional, I find.
1:08.7	On today's Gab Fest, the Trump Convention, which combines hatchact violations,
1:15.3	lies, grotesque stunts, lots of Trump children, and it's working, or is it working? We'll talk about that.
1:22.5	Then the shooting of Jacob Blake and the violence that has overtaken Kenosha, Wisconsin.
1:29.7	What is happening?
1:31.0	What is to be done?
1:33.0	Then the Conways and the fall wells.
1:35.9	To these two families tell us anything about the state of modern American politics or is our interest in them just rubbernecking?
1:43.1	Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter.
1:46.4	So, oof, it's been really hard for me to watch the Republican convention.
1:50.9	I've had a very hard time watching it.
1:52.1	I have not not watched nearly as much of it as I should.
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