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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for September 25, 2015, the Carly-Scottie

Franny edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm here with John Dickerson and Slate DC's studio. Hello, John Face the Nation. John Dickerson, that is. Hi, David. Squeaky boy. John Dickerson. And then... You said John really aggressively, so, John had to... I had to quail to Twitter back at you.

Oh, really? And then Emily Bazelon. Was that aggressive enough? Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. How are you guys? Are you guys well? Yeah. Was it just last week that we did the live show? Yeah. It feels like it was ages ago. It does. Wow. Yeah, I agree. Eons. On this week's Gabfest, however, past is past.

This is the future.

On this week's Gabfest, Scott Walker, or as I like to call him, President Walker, drops out of the Republican presidential race months before the first vote.

Then is Carly Fiorina's rise for Real? And then the Pope visits America. Is he

like a giant panda? Is he cuddly but unworthy? Or is he the real deal? Plus we'll have

cocktail chatter and in Slate Plus, David Cameron and a dead pig. What is that? What is that story?

If you are not yet a Slate Plus member, you can get it by going to slate.com slash gabfest plus.

Two quick announcements.

First of all, our beloved intern Tark is leaving, which means it's time for a new GabFest intern.

It's a paid position, a paid part-time position.

It's based in Washington, D.C., and it's a great job. It's a great fun job. People have used it to jump into journalism, to jump into other things. And I think everyone who's done it had a really fun time. If you're interested, please... We'll just speak for them.

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