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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Emily, John and David discuss Russia’s war crimes; Disney’s reaction to “don’t say gay”; and Amazon’s first union. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Andrew Exum for The Atlantic: “The Russian Military Has Descended Into Inhumanity” Noam Scheiber for The New York Times: “Amazon Workers Who Won a Union Their Way Open Labor Leaders’ Eyes” Microsoft: “The Rise of the Triple Peak Day” When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel H. Pink Here are this week’s chatters: David: Jessica Contrera for The Washington Post: “The Remarkable Brain of a Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages”; The Wedding Party; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art: “Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits” John: Jill Lawless for The Associated Press: “Darwin Notebooks Missing For 20 Years Returned to Cambridge”; Darwin Correspondence Project: “Fanny Owen” Emily: Twitter thread by Manvir Singh @mnvrsngh on time spent “doing nothing” in small-scale, non-industrial societies. Listener chatter from Kate Conquest: “The Avian Soap Opera Unfolding Atop This Berkeley Bell Tower Has Humans Riveted” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David discuss the trend of working a “third shift.” 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.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for April 7th, 2022, the Hague Rumor
0:11.5	edition.
0:12.5	I am David Plots of CityCast, I'm in Washington, D.C., I'm joined by an extremely chatty
0:18.8	Emily Baselon of the New York Times Magazine at Yale University Law School who practically
0:22.4	did a podcast before we started taping, and it's only like eight in the morning.
0:27.2	It's not embarrassing.
0:29.2	You're just, I'm just raising expectations, but people will expect you to really bring
0:34.7	it today.
0:35.7	Mmm, what's funny is that it's, is if I hadn't spoken to anyone for a week, but actually,
0:39.6	I got to go to New York and to have to people yesterday, so maybe that's what's set it
0:42.8	off.
0:43.8	Now I can't shut up.
0:44.8	Yeah, you're a chatting New Yorker now.
0:46.6	You're animated by social interaction, and so you're more animated because you've had
0:50.2	social interaction rather than deprived of it.
0:54.0	And that other voice, of course, was John Dickerson of CBS Sunday Morning in New York,
0:58.6	Hello, John.
0:59.6	Hello, David.
1:00.6	Hello, Emily.
1:01.6	I am not energized by the company of others.
1:04.0	Also, that is a true fact.
1:06.7	This week, on the Gap Fest, the war crimes of the Russian Army are exposed.
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