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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 18th, 2015, the Chaos Candidate Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

I'm the chaos host, John Dickerson of Slate, who is the orderly,

orderly host of Face the Nation, is here. Also, I keep saying John Dickerson of Slate,

but you are John Dickerson of Faith the Nation. It's just, it's like a tick. John Dickerson of

Face the Nation, who is an orderly host, is here with me in Washington, and we're in the

foreign policy studios for a few weeks because our beloved Slate studio, actually totally

unbeloved Slate studio, is gone while Slate moves. So this new studio is, it's nice.

Oh, my gosh, it's incredibly nice. Your one's blood pressure drops precipitously being in here. It's all the sound

boards are this lovely linen covered blocks on the wall. It looks almost like art where we've got

some kind of nice polished desk in front of us at swanky digs. And in New Haven, in her own home, which is probably a swanky dig of some sort, is Emily?

Oh, it's super swanky.

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