Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 24th, 2021, the Thanksgiving edition.

Happy Thanksgiving, dear listeners. I am David Plotz of Citycast. I'm here in Washington, D.C.

For my favorite of all holidays, the only holiday that matters. And I am so thankful to be with my dear ones, Emily Bazelon, of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School. Hello, dear Emily. Hello, dear David. The question, though, is, did you bake us a pie? Did your mom bake us a pie? No. My mom's all over it. My mom's a pie 15 and counting, and it's only Tuesday morning. Amazing. Can you remind me again, what is the marginal pie? In other words, you got your pecan, your apple, your cranberry, your plum, your rhubarb. But, I mean, once you get to 15, are you... No, it's the Moka Butter Crunch.

There's a...

There's a... There's a... There's a... There's a... There's a......the first pie of all. The queen of pies. Then there's... The Pye of all pies. Then there's... The marginal ones... There'll be like... I can never remember, like, there's one called like the Antifecken pie, which is some, you know, old, old Celtic pie of some sort. Echlefeckon, Echlefecken. Echlefecken. Oh my God. Echlefeckon. That was, they'll be like a kind of like apricot Some apricot custard pie

Where you'll be like, why? Really?

Did this have to happen?

My mother went and got passion fruit from some

The H-Mart out in way out in Virginia

So she could make a passion fruit custard pie

And I just thought that's not a good use of time

So she's just shopping for weird flavors Yeah That's Yeah. That's John Dickerson. Dear John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning. Hello, John. Hello, David. I'm, I'm going to seek out. Eckercifekin or Fecter Weckin or whatever is my new favorite thing. It's almost like an invermectin turmeric pie.

It is. It is. It actually does. It does have restorative properties and prophylactic properties. That is true. Well, little, little explored, but we will be doing some clinical trials at the Plots House. This week on the Gab Fest, will Joe Biden run for president again and what will happen if he doesn't? Then the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse and its implications for everything.

And then we will be joined by our favorite Australian, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull,

to talk about the increasing tension between China and the Democratic world and what to do

about it. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. John Dickerson, only half of Democrats would prefer

Joe Biden as the party's nominee in 2024, according to a recent poll. Biden turned 79 this past

weekend. He'd be 82 at the beginning of a second term, 86 at the end of it.

My God. Democrats are already facing a terrible 2022 map, and they are wondering what should happen in 2024.

So is there always talk of replacing a president, or is this unusual strong talk and early strong talk?

I think, well, there are real reasons and political reasons.

The real reasons are the ones you cite.

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