The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest, the annual Conundrums show.

We are live at the Park West in Chicago, Illinois.

We're live for a night, for a night of moral bickering and ethical wrestling and squabbling of all sorts.

I'm joined on stage. I'm David Plott, of Atlas Obscura and Slate. I'm joined on stage by Emily Baszlon of the New York Times magazine.

And by John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News.

So, let's get to the show. Let's get to the Conundrums.

During the show, we're going to ask you if you have a Conundrum, please come up to the mic.

We're going to interspers the ones we've gathered from people on the internet and people that tweeted to us about them.

We're going to interspers those with ones that are going to be live in the audience.

So feel free to come up to the mics with your excellent Conundrum.

So let's start with, oh, and we should say we're going to have a special guest coming midway through the show.

Amy Dickinson is going to be here to offer professional, professional advice on this.

All right, so let's, we're going to do this first question. We had debates about what our first question would be.

I'm going to make a executive decision. It's from Ben Hylvile, which is a really weird name.

A good name, an interesting name.

And also my favorite.

Our great question asked, Clorce.

My favorite German beer.

Hylvile? All right.

So, so Ben's been asked a question, which really makes you wonder about his marriage, but here we go.

So you've been posits the following situation.

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