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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Music The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 5th, 2015.

This Gab Fest is on Background Edition.

I'm David Floss of Atlas Obscura.

Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine

joins me from New Haven. Where are you, Emily? No, that's true. I thought we could make a

secret of it since we're on background. Yes, I am in New Haven. It's right. Someone says that

Emily is in New Haven. And John Dickerson of Face the Nation is, where are you, John?

I'm in Manchester, New Hampshire. In Manchester, New Hampshire. So we're going to stop, we're going to just like pause from it to Kvell because John's first show is this weekend. So if you do not watch Sunday shows, now you have something to do on Sunday morning.

John, what time is Face the Nation on?

Well, you'll have to, it depends on your local. You have to check your local listings.

It's on 1030 in D.C., but you have to check your local listings.

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