Waypoints 12: He a Herb

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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The Waypoint gang has to work through their complicated feelings about the Slate Political Gabfest and, in particular, the worldview they bring to their work as expressed by their recent episodes on the passing of George H.W. Bush and the assault allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Is there a point where centrist punditry literally becomes one with parodies about it? Is the technical language of expertise more about gatekeeping and limiting political imagination than about describing and explaining the world around us? Finally, in our second segment, Rob has been watching the latest season of Hard Knocks and finds a fascinating portrait of a doomed coaching regime planning for a future that will have no room for it. Austin explains what a Herb is. Both topics center on Hue Jackson and the waning days of his tenure at the NFL's worst team.

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0:00.0	Oh hello, it's Thursday and it's time to welcome you to Waypoints, where Waypoint staff
0:24.3	and friends take a break to nerd out and deep dive on the culture, art and entertainment
0:29.4	that's been inspiring and provoking us lately and speaking of provocations, things that
0:36.0	will not stand.
0:39.5	We have our first Waypoint this week, which apparently Patrick just really wanted to
0:44.4	get something off his chest about the Slate Political Gabb Fest.
0:48.4	Patrick, why did you make me listen to David Plotz again after my glorious 10-year hiatus?
0:54.0	Okay, so let me set up the Slate Political Gabb Fest a little bit.
0:58.5	It's a podcast from the publication Slate.
1:02.2	I guess it's been going since 2005.
1:05.0	I've probably joined in around 2008.
1:07.3	I'll get to that part because it's sort of an important part of the reason I even brought
1:11.7	this up at all.
1:13.4	It's just an early podcast, right?
1:16.1	Part of the reason it is important and foundational in the larger podcast text is because it was
1:21.9	a time when there weren't a lot of podcasts happening and part of the reason it's popular
1:25.1	and institutional is because 2005 was a really early time to start recording conversational
1:31.0	thoughts about anything that's stuff that happened in meetings and podcasts did really
1:36.4	come into their own until years later.
1:39.0	The three hosts have been pretty much a constant, I think, since the beginning, at least
1:43.0	certainly when I started listening to John Degersen, who is a political writer reporter,
1:48.6	who was, I think, a columnist at Slate, then in the last five years or so became a co-host
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