Two Trillion Dollars

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David are joined by epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves to discuss the latest pandemic debates and also by Civil War historian David Blight on what history can teach us about surviving catastrophe. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John discuss insights they have gained from their experiences with social distancing. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email 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 March 26, 2020,
0:41.7	the $2 trillion edition.
0:44.9	I am David Plott's of my closet, Emily Baslan of Yale University,
0:52.5	in the New York Times Magazine, and her attic joins me from New Haven.
0:57.5	Hello, Emily.
0:58.6	Hello, hello.
0:59.3	Nice to see you on Zoom.
1:02.0	And John Dickerson of CBS 60 Minutes and his bookshelf.
1:07.3	Hello, John.
1:08.4	And you have got lights of your book too.
1:11.1	I do.
1:12.2	And I would show people, but this is not a visual medium, as I've been led to believe.
1:17.3	And I just enlarged the screen and looking at myself,
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