The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 27, 2017, the if only this were a movie and not Our Lives edition.

I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura from New Haven. No longer in Washington,

Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is with us. Hello, Emily. Hey, David. And John Dickerson,

Wawt, Waw, of Face the Nation, CBS is with me in Washington. So that's sweet consolation.

Yeah, it's sad.

We're not all together again, but I'm...

I know.

I'll come back.

On this week's Gab Fest, the extraordinary swirling spectacle of the Senate where Mitch McConnell in his dungeon laboratory has shocked to life a monster of health care reform,

possibly a skinny monster. We will consider that spectacle. Then the bizarre showdown between President Trump and his first best, best, goodest supporter, Attorney General Jeff Sessions,

as well as a whole lot of other bizarre showdowns that are happening in the White House,

a strange White House.

Then President Trump's surprise proposal to bar transgender people for military service, plus we will have cocktail chatter.

Before we get to the regular show, we have an exciting announcement.

Our fantastic GabFest researcher, Kevin, is moving on to a full-time, glorious job,

as GabFest researchers do, and we're hiring someone new to succeed him. It's a 15-hour-a-week

position, mostly Wednesday, Thursday work. It's based in D.C. It's a lot of research and working with us and figuring out topics and figuring out the best stories for us to read.

And it's been a great stepping stone for people looking to make their way in journalism or in policy.

So if you're interested, please reach out to us by emailing us at gabfest at slate.com,

send us a resume and a cover letter. And we'll look forward to hearing from you. And oh,

I should note, it's paid and decently as well. It's a paid position. Thanks. So when I was in

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