Political Gabfest: These Walz Could Talk

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Juliette Kayyem of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to discuss the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz; Google’s search monopoly and antitrust trial loss; and the guilty-plea deals in three 9/11 cases undone by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Here are this week’s chatters: Juliette: NBC: Paris 2024 and International Olympic Committee: Olympic Channel Emily: International Olympic Committee: Table tennis rules, scoring system and all you need to know; Jake Rossen for Mental Floss: Why Do Some Olympic Athletes Wear Paper Numbers?; International Olympic Committee: Sports Swap; and Maia Hjelmar for GQ Australia: 16 Olympic athletes who succeeded in more than one sport David: Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson in The New York Times: Ten Meter Tower Listener chatter from Fraser Ronald in Ottawa, Canada: Ari Berkowitz for Scientific American: Is Your Nervous System a Democracy or a Dictatorship? For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and Juliette talk about RFK Jr. and The Bear. See Clare Malone for The New Yorker: What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want? In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with Roland Allen about his book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Ethan Oberman Research by Julie Huygen Hosts Juliette Kayyem, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz Follow Slate Political Gabfest on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/ @SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest Want more Political Gabfest? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen. Public.com+Public Investing: All investing involves risk. Brokerage services for US listed securities, options and bonds in a self-directed brokerage account are offered by Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Not investment advice. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank.Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1828849), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. . See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slate Political Gabfest. August 8th, 2024, These Walls Could Talk, Edition. I'm David Platts of Citycast. John Dickerson is on vacation.
0:26.4	No worries. Emily Baslan of the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School is of course here.
0:32.0	Hello Emily.
0:33.1	Hello.
0:34.1	From New Haven, I assume.
0:36.1	And replacing John, we got an actual Harvard professor, not replacing in perpetuity.
0:43.6	Sort of like, well, John is on his brief vacation sabbatical,
0:46.1	which is something that Juliet understands,
0:47.8	because she is a real genuine Harvard professor.
0:50.3	From the Harvard Kennedy School, Atlantic and CNN contributor Juliet Chaim much beloved
0:56.4	Gabfest irregular guest host. Hello Juliet.
0:59.3	Hello good morning.
1:01.3	This week on the Gabfest, Tim, these guys are weird, walls is
1:06.1	Kamla Harris's running mate. What does the Minnesota governor bring to the
1:09.9	ticket besides dad jokes and an extreme normal guy energy.
1:16.0	Then Google is a monopoly, says a federal judge,
1:19.9	what is going to happen to the internet's
1:21.8	most important company
1:24.0	now that ruling has gone against them.
1:27.0	Then defense secretary Lloyd Austin
1:29.0	canceled plea agreements with three 9-11 plotters who were tortured and have been held at Guantanamo
1:35.0	for 20 years. Why did he send their cases back for trial? Plus of course we'll
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