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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for the 24th of May, 2013.

The An Apple a Day Keeps the Taxes Away edition.

I'm David Plotz, the under of Slate.

Slate's chief political correspondent, John Dickerson, is at my side here in Slate DC studio. Hi, John. Hello, David. And from New Haven, where she is fuzzy over our conference but is beaming and full of good health. And Vim and Vigour, as always, is Slate Senior Editor Emily Bazelon, author of Stixon-Sinones. Hello, Emily. Hello. Oh, I like the idea that I'm full of good health. Fuzzy? Oh, you mean fuzzy on the... Fuzzy on the screen.

The screen that's... Baslon, author of Stix and Sones. Hello, Emily. Hello. I like the idea that I'm full of good health. Fuzzy?

Oh, you mean fuzzy on the... Fuzzy on the screen. The connection is... Perhaps in the green as well. Her computer does not focus well on Emily. Her computer is out of focus. I'll mess around with that while we're talking. She looks like she's like, it's like from a space station. Yes, she does have that space station.

Yes, I'm expecting like a space station. Yes, she does have that space station.

Yes, I'm expecting like a little pouch of tang to go floating by.

Hello, second grader is a Clearview elementary school.

This is how photosynthesis works in space.

Ignore the urine that's floating around me.

The headphones sort of add to that vibe as well, right?

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