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Hello and welcome to the Sleep Political Gab Fest for Halloween.

October 31, 2014, the Aldisoneu if you marry a Republican edition. I'm David Plott's

of Atlas Obscura in Washington DC. On this week's show, apparently there's an election on Tuesday.

Can the Democrats avoid a total debacle? John Degerson will tell us.

Then the last acceptable prejudice in American life, its partyism. We will explain what that is.

And do we need a law against it? And then gamer gate, the Byzantine poisonous crazy politics of

video games. Plus we'll have cocktail chatter and then slate plus the town that wants to ban tobacco.

Will they be able to do that? Emily Baszlon of the New York Times magazine and John Degerson of

slate and CBS News are both in New York. Slates New York City, they are plotting against me there.

What have you come up with? The right conspiracy. Let it begin. We're going to shave off your beard remotely.

That would be an interesting thing. Maybe we could get a sponsor to do that. Maybe Harry's could do that.

Before we get started, there are just a couple of quick announcements about it. 78 announcements.

There are just a couple. Look, you don't ever have to do these announcements.

Just keep your mouth shut. I'm not looking forward with a bearded breath.

I have to deal with it. I'm the person dealing with all this.

I'm not blaming you. I'm fellow feeling. I'm feeling your pain.

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