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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Festival. December 30th, 2021, the Conundrum

Edition. I am David Plodz of CityCast. I'm not in Washington, DC. We're all together

for the very first time since pandemic. Hello, Emily Baselon, sitting right next to me in

New York City. Hello, David Plodz. I am so glad to be here with you guys. Hello, John

Dickerson, sitting right next to me. I wanted to be sitting in your lap, but that was probably

going too far. But to feel the vibration of other human beings in a close space, it's

amazing. It's so great. We are. But that's enough of it. We're good. Cut that off right

there, John. We got a Conundrum show. You guys this year sent us an epic list of questions.

There are so many great questions this year. And there are literally 800 questions. One

person, one single person sent us 400 questions, which were great just by himself. But we have

so many questions to get through. So let's get going. We're going to have a guest coming

in. Dwayne Betts is going to join us very soon to talk about Conundrums, including Conundrums

that he has for us. So hold your horses. We'll be there in a second. Let's get started.

The one I would like to start with is from Harris Feldman. To whom or what do you owe the

most money? In other words, what have you taken the most benefit and joy from in life per

dollar that you've spent on it? And the idea of Harris says comes from the fundraising

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