The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 26, 2017, the live from Chicago edition.

We are on stage in front of a rowdy and large crowd.

At the Merle Reskin Theater on the campus of DePaul University in Chicago. It is great to be in Chicago. Hello.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. To my immediate right is John Dickerson.

CBS has faced the nation.

And to John's right, in only this respect, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine.

On this week's GabFest, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, Arizona Senator John McCain,

former President George W. Bush, this was the week when Republicans savaged President Trump

but couldn't manage to speak his name. Does this foretell an actual split in the party?

Then we'll talk with Cook County State's Attorney Kim Fox about criminal justice reform here in Chicago.

Then, since the Harvey Weinstein story broke in the New York Times last week,

there has been a flood of news about ill-behaving men, assaulters, harassers, bulliers,

and they are now getting publicly shamed.

Is it finally impossible for men to behave like scum toward the women they work with?

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter and a Slate Plus segment, which will be a Q&A with you, our dear audience.

And yes, it is kind of weird to shill for a show that is going to be 1,200 miles to the east of here.

But here we go.

But we're going to shill anyway.

I've checked with American Airlines.

And for just $269, you could fly to Boston on December 6th

and see our Gab Fest show, our conundrum show live at the Wilbur Theater in Boston at 7.30 p.m.

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