The Breyerwatch Hath Ended

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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John, Emily and David discuss Justice Breyer’s retirement. They are joined by Anne Applebaum to talk about what global moves may be coming to address threats to Ukraine, and The Gist’s Mike Pesca covers a round robin of the week's news. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics, by Stephen Breyer Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic: “The Bad Guys Are Winning” The Gist Slow Burn: Watergate Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven series on HBO Max The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope Here’s this week’s chatter: Emily: Vauhini Vara for Believer Magazine: “Ghosts”; This American Life: “The Ghost in The Machine” John: Dylan Matthews for Vox: “Can Giving Parents Cash Help With Babies’ Brain Development?” David: Tiffany Lukk for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine: “Where to Go Dog Sledding in Minnesota”; Nicole Wetsman for The Verge: “CDC Emails Show That Vaccine Cards Are Supposed To Fit In Your Wallet: The Covid-19 Cards Do Not Fit In Wallets” Listener chatter from Tom McIlroy: Michael Zhang for PetaPixel: “Photographer Finds Polar Bears That Took Over Abandoned Buildings” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David discuss the screen adaptation of Station Eleven. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (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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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for January 27th, 2022. The Brire Watch
0:42.0	Hath Ended Edition. I am David Plott's, the city cast here in Washington, DC. I'm joined
0:48.5	by Emily Bass, a lot of New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School from somewhere
0:52.7	else. Dallas, Dalless. Dalless. Dalless. Dalless. Dalless. Dalless. Dalless. Dalless. Dalless.
0:58.8	And by of course, John Dickerson of CBS Sunday Morning from New York, hello John.
1:03.1	Hello, David. Hello, Emily. Hello.
1:05.9	Before we get to, we're going to get to Brire, obviously. But I just, I had an amazing
1:11.5	weekend experience, which is that I went to the very tip top of Minnesota with my college
1:15.9	roommates and I snow-shoed in Snowmobile. And I went dog sledding, which is the most
1:19.8	amazing experience I've had in years. Have you guys dog sledded?
1:23.4	No.
1:24.4	No.
1:25.4	It is amazing. I cannot recommend this enough. This is my, this is like, I'm putting my
1:29.4	cocktail cheddar at the top of the show. It is incredible. It was like a million below
1:33.8	zero, seven below zero out in the woods south of Ely, Minnesota. And there's these hundred
1:40.0	Alaskan Huskies out there. Each one has their own, their own little kennel. They're
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