This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.

I feel like we went a little bit into like smoking.

That was a great discussion.

I like, what is authentic, man?

Totally did.

Hello and welcome for the Slate Political GabFest from May 30th, 2019, the Freedom Gas edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

I'm in Washington, D.C.

Joining me electronically,

psychologically is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, Yale Law School, and the book

charged. Emily, you have too many titles. We have to ditch one of them. Pick one. It's summer.

We can ditch Yale for the summer. Hey, nice to see you. Emily's in New York, I think. Yep. Not joining us this week is John Dickerson. He is, who knows where, he's off somewhere. And in his place, after a long hiatus, back on the Gab Fest, Julia Yafi, GQ correspondent. Julia is also working on a book about Russian women. Welcome back to the GabFest, Julia. She's with me in D.C.

Hello. Hello. Oh, thank you so much. I know you've been missing that. Is that all I get? Is that the... No, I give you later. Okay. Great. On this week's show, the European Parliamentary Elections, what do they portend for geopolitics and for American politics, if anything? Then the Trump administration escalates its war on climate science. Why? Why, why? Why would they bother? Why are they so retrograde and wicked about this? And then the catastrophe at Mount Everest and what it tells us about travel in the modern age and the Instagram age.

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.

And a reminder, we've got two live shows coming up on Saturday, June 8th at 2 o'clock at the SVA Theater in Chelsea. We're going to do a live show as part of Slate Day. Nicole Hannah-Jones is going to be with us on that day for that show.

She is a colleague of mine at the New York Times Magazine and rating a forthcoming book about school desegregation.

Everyone's got a forthcoming book except me and you, Emily. Because your book is

out. I'm, yes. My book counts for a while, don't you think? It's not forthcoming and yet. And that's a day when there's going to be a Trump cast. There's going to be a culture gap fest. There's going to be a waves. There's going to be a mom and dad are fighting. There's going to be, I think, a dear prudence. There's going to be everything is going going to be going on as part of Slate Day, and we're going to have our live show at 2 o'clock that day. So there's slate.com slash live. You can get tickets for that. You can get tickets just for our show or all day passes for the slate festivities, slate podcast festivities. And then, dear ones, on July 10th, a Wednesday, we're going to be in Canada, in Toronto, at the Kerner Hall, in the TELA Center for Performance and Learning.

And you can get tickets for that show, our first international show, at slate.com slash live.

We hope to see you there.

We hope to enjoy talking about the Toronto Raptors

NBA championship, which will have been won at that point. We can talk about that. So get tickets

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