Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 27th, 2022, the Briar Watch hath ended edition.

I am David Flots of CityCast. I'm here in Washington, D.C. I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School

from somewhere else. Dallas, Dallas. Dallas. Traveling. And by, of course, John Dickerson

of CBS Sunday morning from New York. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily.

Hello. Before we get to, we're going to get to Breyer, obviously, but I just, I had an amazing weekend experience, which is that I went to the very tip-top of Minnesota with my college roommates, and I snowshoed and snowmobiled, and I went dog sledding, which is the most amazing experience I've had in years. Have you guys dog sledded? No. No.

It is amazing. It's amazing. I cannot recommend this enough. This is my, this is like I'm putting

my cocktail chatter at the top of the show. It is incredible. It was like a million below zero,

seven below zero out in the woods south of Ely, Minnesota. And there are these hundred

Alaskan huskies out there. Each one has

their own, their own little kennel. They're happy as clams, even though it's so cold. They're so

happy to be out there. They're so happy to run. And there's this bunch of lean hippies, 25-year-old

apple-cheeked hippies who are taking you out on these sled rides.

It's amazing.

It is just amazing.

There was also, there was this one incredibly old guy there who was like he was in charge of feeding all the dogs.

And I was like, why is there this really old guy?

And they, and they said it was a new intern.

It was his new intern, Steve.

And he was, and it was Stephen Breyer. He'd

started an internship at this dog sledding place. He is desperate to compete in the Iditarod,

now that he's off the court, and he's retired, he's training, he's like learned to harness the dogs,

how to drive dogs. He bought his own sled, which is named Equal Justice.

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