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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May Day, May 1st, 2015.

The, can I get some of that Clinton Cash edition? I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

John Dickerson of CBS, Face the Nation, and Slate is here by my side and sneezing off in New Haven.

Or maybe New York. Are you in New York and New Haven? She's in New Haven. I'm sorry.

In New Haven sneezing is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello? How are you guys doing?

I'm fine. Is that a ficus tree behind

you, Emily? Or is that a potted plant? It's a potted plant. She's not a potted plant. What a gardener you are. Just for our listeners to imagine what we're looking at. We're looking at a computer here with Emily on it. She's standing. And behind her over her left shoulder is a fikus tree. She's now gesturing as though she were on.

Vanna White.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So that's what the vibe is here.

On this week's Gab Fest, the upheaval in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, we will have Tonohsi Coats of the Atlantic in to talk about that.

Is anything going to change after yet another death of a black man at the hands of the police?

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