The Thanksgiving Edition
Biden in 2024, the Rittenhouse verdict, and China.
Listen & Subscribe
Choose your preferred player:
Get Your Slate Plus Podcast
If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support.
Listen on your computer:
Apple Podcasts will only work on MacOS operating systems since Catalina. We do not support Android apps on desktop at this time.
Listen on your device:RECOMMENDED
These links will only work if you're on the device you listen to podcasts on. We do not support Stitcher at this time.
Set up manually:
Episode Notes
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Edward-Isaac Dovere and Jasmine Wright for CNN: “Exasperation and Dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris’ Frustrating Start as Vice President.”
Jonathan Chait for New York magazine: “Joe Biden’s Big Squeeze”
High Conflict, by Amanda Ripley
David French for the Atlantic: “Kyle Rittenhouse’s Acquittal Does Not Make Him a Hero”
A Bigger Picture, by Malcolm Turnbull
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
David: Conversation topic generator thanxiety.com
John: Jonathan Edwards for the Washington Post: “A Michigan Woman Tried to Hire an Assassin Online at RentAHitman.com. Now, She’s Going to Prison.”
Listener chatter from Keith Watabayashi @KeithWatabayash: Hieronymus Burps @hieronymus_burps about Long Boom Wired Cover
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, Emily, and David ask Malcolm Turnbull about the mundane details of life as the leader of a nation.
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 Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Shayna Elliot.