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Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest for December 8th, 2016.

The cling tightly to one tiny piece of good news edition.

I'm David Plotz of Alice Obscura.

Emily Bazelon of The New York Times Magazine joins me from New York. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. Sorry for being late. Thank you both for being so nice and patient. I visited your office yesterday, Emily at the New York Times. I just dropped by because I was in the Times building and felled with your colleagues about you for a bit. so they're very, they're very fond of you. Yeah. That's nice. I'm sorry I missed you. For what purpose did the gentleman go to, uh, the New York Times? Oh, New York Times is an investor in Alice of Secura. So I was just meeting with the people who invested in us. I had a few minutes to kill. And so I stopped by to see the Times Magazine. That was, of course, John Dickerson host of Face the Nation, who was in Boston today, apparently. Hello, John. Hi, yeah. I'm in Boston. I was at, I did something at the Kennedy Library last night, which was a joy, and it's the first time I'd ever been there. It's very cool. Oh, yeah, that's a cool building. We were just discussing before we started the show whether we should have an advice podcast, a dating advice podcast. So if you think we should. And we decided the answer was no. We think we should. Please let us know. No, we should not. I mean, could you think of a, I'm trying to think of a podcast that we would have less standing...

Like, I think a car repair podcast might be...

A car repair.

Car repair would be worse.

Yeah, that's true.

I wouldn't have nothing to say on car repair.

Hmm.

Anyway.

Okay.

I have...

I wouldn't have nothing to say. What a what is. Well, I mean, wouldn't people assume you have dating advice, John. You were just giving even the pre-show buildup. Yeah, that's true. So you clearly have a lot of say about that. Right, but people would assume that we would actually have absolutely nothing to say about car repair.

You just had to stick up for yourself. You know how to change a tire.

Yeah, exactly.

On this week's Gab Fest, dating advice.

On this week's Gab Fest, Donald Trump fills out his cabinet with a bunch of generals, a doctor, a lawyer.

How bad could they be?

Then, Pizza Gate and the real-life horrors of fake life news. Then, is there any chance the Electoral College will reject Donald Trump? And is there any way to fix the electoral college? Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And for Slate Plus, the Gab Fest gift guide, we will pick our favorite objects, books, tools, presence of 2016. If you were not yet a Slate Plus member, go to Slate.com

slash GabFest Plus. And the Slate Plus team tells us that you can give the gift of Slate Plus

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