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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.

From May 8th, 2015, the Jesui Pam Geller edition I'm David Flotz of Atlas Obscura,

Emily Bazlon of The New York Times Magazine joins me from New Haven.

Hello, Emily.

Hello, David.

And John Dickerson of Slate and CVS's Face the Nation is somewhere else.

Where are you, John?

I'm in Chicago.

I'm in the city of broad shoulders.

And John is wearing his cool glasses, so he looks like...

Now, I hate you can see me, I forgot.

I kind of movie star nerd like a little bit.

He does, that is John's look, that's what he's going for.

Is that the new face of the Nation?

I can see.

I've kept them on, we were trying to make yourself conscious.

Are you going to wear them on TV?

Are you going to wear them on TV?

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