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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, Title 42, and the current prayer in school debate. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Daphne Keller for The Center for Internet and Society: “What Does The DSA Say?” John Dickerson for Slate: “Born Identity” Here are this week’s chatters: David: Ed Kilgore for New York Magazine: “Utah Democrats Endorse Independent Evan McMullin in Challenge to Mike Lee”; CityCast.fm/jobs John: Reddit thread: “This is a 3200-year old attendance sheet found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Reasons for worker absence include ‘embalming brother’, ‘brewing beer’ and ‘bitten by scorpion’”; The British Museum: Ostracon Emily: Ronald Brownstein for The Atlantic: “Why California Wants to Recall Its Most Progressive Prosecutors”; Vanessa Romo for NPR: “The LA Sheriff Now Says No Charges For The Reporter Who Wrote About A Cover-Up” Listener chatter from J.T. Horn: Mary Pols for Downeast Magazine "Why Maine Owes Its Most Breathtaking Public Lands to One 1972 Newspaper Story" For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss John’s prescient 2011 piece about Trump’s birtherism. 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 Kevin Bendis. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is surprising, is it going on holiday in Britain and it not raining every day?
0:09.6	Is it booking an Uber and being picked up by your grand?
0:15.5	Is it realising your cat has more friends than you?
0:21.3	Or is it finding the best of the NFL to stream free on ITVX?
0:25.8	You be the judge ITVX, the UK's freshest streaming service.
0:31.6	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for April 28, 2022, the so much free speech edition.
0:45.5	I'm David Plots of CityCast here in Washington DC and that,
0:49.5	dear friends, is our new theme.
0:54.3	Of the New York Times Magazine, Yale University Law School, John Dickerson of CBS
0:57.3	Sunday Morning. How exciting is it to have a new theme?
0:59.8	I love it. It's so rousing and who do we have to thank for this new theme, John?
1:06.3	They might be giants. They are giants because they are giving me this permanent smile from
1:12.0	listening to that. It's, oh, what a joy that it's to listen to. It just puts the equilibrium
1:17.9	of the cosmos back in order. It's so joyful. That was our new theme from They Might Be Giants.
1:25.1	We will hopefully be talking to John and John from They Might Be Giants in a few weeks,
1:30.9	maybe on a Slate Plus segment to hear about their process in creating it, but we're so proud to
1:37.7	have it, so thrilled to have it and hope you guys enjoy it. This week on the Gap Fest,
1:45.0	Will Elon Musk make Twitter better or worse than the Biden administration is struggling
1:52.0	with the Southern border, with asylum, with a politics immigration. What's their way out of it?
1:56.8	And then will a Supreme Court gut the establishment clause and allow everyone to pray whenever
2:04.8	they're doing any government business at all times. Plus, of course, we're going to have cocktail
2:10.0	chatter. But you can only pray if you do government business at the 50-yard line.
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