Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, August 1st.

I'm Emily Bazlon.

I'm here in Washington with David Plotz, and John Dickerson is with us, joined from some

remote undisclosed location.

Hey, John.

Hi.

So I want to start by saying thank you to everyone who enjoyed our slug fest last week.

I have to also confess that I felt just humiliated about how much cursing I did on that

slug fest. I really didn't know when we started yelling at each other that we were going to air

this or I would never come in. I think it's just like I think it's ridiculous that you're apologizing for that. really didn't know when we started yelling at each other that we were going to air this,

or I would never have been. I think it's ridiculous that you're apologizing for that.

I think it's totally ridiculous.

We're journalists our entire job.

The whole point of being a journalist is that you curse all the time.

And our listeners should know, those of you with delicate sensibilities, close your ears.

But in fact fact most of the

time in the slate office people are cursing because journalists curse it's like a that's a it's a

habit of the job i think it doesn't mean that it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't mean that we curse at

home it doesn't mean that we curse in front of our children as some of our our listeners wondered

about right we weren't intending you to play that for your kids.

I don't know.

Why is it?

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