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I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

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

Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And John Dickerson of Slate and CBS'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's wearing his cool glasses, so he looks like... Oh, right. You can see me. I forgot. He looks 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 the nation brand the only way i can see i keep them on we were trying to make you self-continent are you gonna wear them on tv are you going to wear them on tv are you going to wear them on tv no because i, I'm only, I only use them to read. So then I would, I would spend a lot of time on TV doing this, looking over the glasses, which would make four out of five guests want to reach over and punch me. But can't you do that thing where you pull them off and put them on and pull them? And use them to make some incredibly poignant point them at people

yeah no that's true i could that could be my thing everybody needs a thing you know and mine could be the

pompous use of my uh drugstore glasses these are uh where did i i bought these in some airport

drugstore glasses the John Dickerson movie.

On this week's Gab Fest, the failed attack on Pam Geller's anti-Muslim gathering in Garland, Texas was ISIS behind it.

Should Geller be vilified or celebrated?

Then the GOP, America's Party of Diversity.

Why does the Republican presidential field have so much more diversity than the Republican Party does? And then the hilarious, ridiculous, alarming

controversy over a U.S. military exercise in Texas, Operation Jade Helm 15 plus.

I can't believe you don't understand that the federal government is coming for their houses, David.

How can you dismiss this threat?

We will discuss that.

The federal government is outside your door right now.

Oh, my God.

The federal government knocked on John's door right now.

You are hostile territory outlined in red.

If there were hostile, if the government was making a map of hostile territory, Emily,

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