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Political Gabfest Plus - Bonus: The Housing Fix Trump Won't Sign
Jun 2500:10:32Tap to summarizeFor this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss a rare bipartisan win, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, its numerous provisions which aim to help ease the nationwide housing crisis, and how this victory rapidly shifted into a different kind of crisis when Trump abruptly announced he wouldn't sign the bill unless the SAVE Act passes. Ronda Kaysen for The New York Times: Congress Clears Housing Bill, Cementing a Rare Bipartisan Feat Philip Wegmann, Siobhan Hughes, and Lindsay Wise for The Wall Street Journal: Trump Abruptly Cancels Signing Ceremony for Bipartisan Housing Bill Tony Romm for The New York Times: Housing Package Passed by Congress Has Wide Appeal, but It’s No Quick Fix Connor Greene for Time: The Five Republican Senators Who Voted Against the Bipartisan Housing Affordability Bill Marcela Escobari, Ian Seyal, and Paul Beach for The Brookings Institute: Research: Shock, Awe, and Economic Fallout: The employment effects of ICE enforcement in US cities Binyamin Appelbaum for The New York Times: Opinion: One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Nina Porzucki Research by Emily DittoHostsEmily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David PlotzFind out more about David Plotz's monthly tours of Ft. DeRussy, the secret Civil War fort hidden in Rock Creek Park. Follow@SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/SlateGabfestSlate Political Gabfest on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Amicus Plus - Extra: All Gas, No Brakes for this 6-3 Court
Jun 2500:31:25Tap to summarizeIn this exclusive Opinionpalooza extra, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take stock of today’s truly horrendous decisions handed down by a right-wing Supreme Court supermajority that’s marching in perfect lockstep on immigration, gun rights, and almost everything else. Dahlia and Mark sort through the brutalizing, even lethal implications for asylum seekers and more than 1 million recipients of temporary protected status, or TPS. Later: Why Justice Alito’s rejoinder to Justice Sotomayor’s dissent wasn’t just a crappy birthday present, but also the latest breach of decorum at the high court.This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court. The best way to support our work is by joining Slate Plus. (If you are already a member, consider a donation or merch!)This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock weekly bonus episodes of Amicus—you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Care and Feeding Plus - Introducing Deep Care: "Postpartum is Forever: The Fourth Trimester"
Jun 2500:27:46Tap to summarizeNewborn babies need a lot of care, and so do new parents. In this episode, Kaytura dives into life after birth, and how Black community midwives hold families during the postpartum period, a time when support systems tend to fall apart, and conventional medical care often falls short. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Care and Feeding Plus - Encore! How To Get Your Freak On After Kids
Jun 2500:46:19Tap to summarizeOn this episode: Let’s talk about sex, baby! Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are joined by sex therapist and author Dr. Rebecca Howard Eudy to get tips and advice for keeping the spice alive after kids. They talk about how to find flirty moments when life is overwhelming, a little advice from the movie Hitch (remember that one with Will Smith?), and Dr. Eudy explains the power of whispering. Plus! Lucy’s husband makes a surprise cameo. (It was as much a surprise to him as everyone else. But he’s a champ.)Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips.Follow us on YouTube!Join us on Facebook and email us at careandfeedingpod@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What Next Plus - No One Knows the Truth About the Iran Deal
Jun 2500:31:43Tap to summarizeWhere do negotiations with Iran stand at the moment? Well, Iran’s out from under a more-than-four-decade-long sanction and could start making bank, plus it controls the Strait of Hormuz and hasn’t agreed to any concessions on its nuclear program. On the American side, JD Vance got to see Switzerland. Guest: Tommy Vietor, co-founder of Crooked Media and co-host of the political podcasts Pod Save America and Pod Save the World.Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen.Podcast production by Rob Gunther, Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort.Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Decoder Ring Plus - Decoder Rings Back | Star-Spangled Sports
Jun 2400:19:38Tap to summarizeWe’re lucky to get a lot of listener questions—and now our host Willa Paskin is personally calling our listeners back to answer them, in a feature we’re calling Decoder Rings Back, available exclusively to Slate Plus subscribers. This week, we answer a question from Meredith Jones, a WNBA superfan in Indianapolis. She reached out to us wondering about an American ritual most people take for granted: Why is the national anthem always sung before professional sporting events? And why do you never hear it at, say, a Broadway show or a board meeting? What’s so patriotic about baseball stadiums and basketball courts? It turns out that sports and “The Star-Spangled Banner” are far more intertwined than you may think.This episode was produced by Cheyna Roth and Max Freedman. Evan Chung is Decoder Ring’s Supervising Producer. Phoebe Mulder is our intern. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director.If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, email us at DecoderRing@slate.com or leave a message on our hotline at (347) 460-7281. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Culture Gabfest Plus - Bonus: What Was Even the Point of All This?
Jun 2400:21:29Tap to summarizeAfter wrapping up the first year of hosting his podcast Cannonball, Wesley Morris joins Steve, Dana, and Julia in their ultimate month of hosting this podcast to get at a question that motivates all culture podcasts past, present, future: why talk about culture at all? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Culture Gabfest Plus - Toy Story 5 Crushes It at the Box Office Edition
Jun 2401:20:40Tap to summarizeThe Gabfest’s end is nigh but we’ve still got a few bits of culture to gab upon. This week, Steve and Dana are joined by longtime Gabfest star pinch hitter Dan Kois. First up for consideration: Pixar’s Toy Story 5. In this fifth installment of the computer animation studio’s flagship franchise, the threat to the vital bond between toy and child are computers themselves. Will Pixar, of all entities, save us from the threat of screentime? Maybe not. Is it nice to be back with Woody, Buzz, Jesse and the gang of plushies, dolls, and various transitional objects? Maybe so.Next, the panel drops into the indie comedy ecosystem of the streaming service Dropout TV and talks about its chaotic cult hit game show Game Changer, now in its eighth season. Does the goofy hijinks therein offer a framework for the future of TV? They discuss. Finally, supreme, very special friend of the program (SVSFOP) Wesley Morris joins to talk about the New York Times’ package on the six sentences that define America and his essay in it about Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam.”In our bonus episode, Wesley sticks around to theorize with Steve, Dana, and Julia about the point of even having podcasts about culture.EndorsementsDana: "What Steven Spielberg Taught Me About Fear, Catharsis, and Being Human" by Wesley Morris in The New York Times as well as, maybe for the first time ever for Dana in Gabfest history, a piece of technology: the MacBook Neo.Julia: The ongoing career—after composing the Gabfest theme—of the composer Nicholas Britell including his work for the NBA and particularly the composition "Agape" on the film score of If Beale Street Could Talk. Wesley: The potato salad recipe in Pearl Bailey's cookbook Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook.Dan: Writing fan mail to authors whose work you love. Also, the music of the recently departed South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, particularly the album Mindif.Steve: The semi-fictionalized documentary about David Hockney A Bigger Splash and Philip French's review of it for BFI. Also, David Denby's 1990 New York Review of Books essay "The Real Thing" about the documentarian Frederick Wiseman. --Email us your thoughts at culturefest@slate.com. Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What Next Plus - What the Pool’s Reflecting
Jun 2400:27:25Tap to summarizeMost people probably don’t think about the reflecting pool on the National Mall much, but Donald Trump sure does. His efforts to cosmetically raise it to his standards have been staggeringly expensive, and ineffective in surprising ways. It encapsulates the Trump presidency experience pretty succinctly.Guest: Christina Cauterucci, Slate senior writerWant more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen.Podcast production by Rob Gunther, Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort.Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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ICYMI Plus - My Decade-Long Payment App Feud
Jun 2400:45:15Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, in collaboration with No Such Thing, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Manny Fidel, Noah Friedman, and Devan Joseph to talk about payment apps, and how they’ve changed the way we think about money. Plus, Kate reveals her own payment app predicament, and, with the help of the boys and a handful of experts, brings an unspoken, decade-long Venmo feud to a close. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay, with help from No Such Thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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