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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GavFest for October 23rd, 2015. The 11 hours and she didn't flinch edition on David Plott's of Atlas Obscura.

I'm in Washington, BC with our new producer, Jocelyn Frank. That is exciting. We have a new producer, hello Jocelyn.

The author is waving, she knows better than to speak, apparently. John Dickerson, a face-to-nation, joins me from somewhere, a hotel room, somewhere, where?

New York City.

Hello.

You can't exactly.

That's not exciting enough.

Not exactly.

Far-flung, but it flung anyway.

Yeah, well, and also flung. Emily Bazelon is more far-flung this week of the New York Times magazine. Emily, you're in the Central Time Zone, we know.

I am in Memphis in the kindly home of Anseli Larson, who I'm very grateful to for taking me in this morning.

So we're having a late taping this week, so you're hearing the show late, apologies.

But it's because the news, the news required us to do it. On this week's GavFest, we will talk about Hillary Clinton's Titanic performance in front of the House Ben Gazi committee.

Then we'll talk about Jeb Bush's attempts to make Donald Trump angry.

And then we'll talk about a controversial essay by our former colleague Matthew Eglaceus claiming that the Democrats are in really, really big trouble, but they don't seem to notice.

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