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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. For November 6, 2015, the predator in the bathroom

edition, I'm David Plots, the Atlas Obscura. John Dickerson of Face the Nation is here with me in

Washington. Hello. Hey John. I'm happy to be with you. I thought you were going to be in New York,

so I'm happy to see you. No, I was in New York until I was on the train. Now I'm back.

That is that chuckle is Emily Vazlon of the New York Times magazine. She's in virtual reality,

since apparently the New York Times magazine is all VR. That's right. Except I had nothing to do

with any of it except to ooh and ah, appropriately. Can I just say that after our quiet card

discussion, I've now written the quiet card in my last two train trips and maybe I'm now

now quiet car convert. It's pretty nice, right? Yeah. As long as you're playing by the rules.

Yeah, I even shushed someone. Oh my gosh, you've really gone over my- I did it very, I did so

awesomely though. Very, very, it was very cool. If you do say so, it was a hell. It was definitely

like the cool. Hey, it was like chill. It was like chill. It was like really chill. It was good. Everyone

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