The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 29th, 2016, the

Fail to Prepare to Fail Edition.

I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

John Dickerson has just tumbled into the studio off a red eye.

John Dickerson of Faced the Nation.

You faced the entire nation overnight, John.

Yeah, exactly.

It was a bit of a bumpy nation, but we got here.

Man, there's just no way to get, there's just no way to go anywhere. Yeah, no, just the like trying to sleep in that, in one of those chairs, it's just, it wasn't happening. That other voice is, of course, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, who is, I'm guessing New Haven. No, Brooklyn. You're in Brooklyn. You don't know. Yeah, Joss and I made a secret Brooklyn plan last night. Oh, my God. It was so helpful because I really did not give her anything. Why are you in Brooklyn? Are you pickling again today? I am doing some work in New York today. Thank you very much. If only I'd been able to go to Brooklyn, because then the red eye, it would have been no sleep till Brooklyn. Is that a song? Oh, dear. I don't get that. What is that? It's a Beastie Boys song. Oh, I thought you were doing a last accent. Don't be like, oh, dear. Don't condescending me. We didn't know the Beastie Boys. I feel humiliated your right.

I think it was a piece of his growing up that it's missing.

Oh, God, you condescending.

I think if you're going to be called out on non-music knowledge, not knowing that Beastie Boys is like a badge of honor.

Did you know what it was, Emily?

No, I had no idea. None. I thought he was talking about last exit from Brooklyn and like making some weird wordplay that didn't work. I thought that too. That's what I thought. And when you leave Brooklyn, it'll be motherless Brooklyn. Uh-huh. All right. Onward. On this week's, on this week's Gab Fest. On this week's Cavest, the state of the race now that we have hurtled the first debate, how big a bounce will there be for Hillary Clinton after her apparent victory, her clear victory.

Then we'll talk about whether Donald Trump should try to tar Hillary Clinton by talking about Bill Clinton's infidelities and generally loathsome behavior towards women.

Then the huge spike in American murders in 2015, or was there a huge spike?

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.

And in this week's Slate Plus segment as part of Slate's ongoing 20th anniversary celebrations.

We head to the political GabFest archives to nominate and discuss our favorite segments of all time.

Last week, the folks that hang up in Liston, the Culture Gab Fest, and the Double X Gab Fest also spent time digging through their archives and choosing highlights from their histories. And on

Wednesday, Slate published a special podcast that features all four of those conversations to listen

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