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Hello and welcome to this late political gab Fest for August 16th, 2013, the Bazelon Family Edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.

Once again, at Cliff House Audio in Montpelier, Vermont.

Joining me from New Haven is a special double bill of Bazelon, Slate Senior editor Emily Bazelon.

Hello, Emily.

Hey, David.

And at Emily's side for the Gab Fest, as for everything else, is Mr. Emily Bazelon,

known to his students at Yale, his friends, and soon to book buyers nationwide as Paul Sabin.

Hello, Paul.

Hey, David.

Paul is a professor of, what are you a professor of? Environmental history,

history of the environment. American history. American history. All right.

They let them teach about other stuff, too. They have low standards here at Yale.

We consider it all connected. I'm glad to see that the digs are starting already.

I'm looking forward to that. So, Paul, do you actually listen to the GabFest, or do you ignore us because you've got enough of Emily otherwise? Well, I do get enough of

Emily, and she channels your opinions and ideas and debriefs each week on how the Gab Fest has gone,

so I know the ups and downs of it. I don't talk that much about it.

And I don't get a chance really to listen to Gap Fest that much, but I love it when I do get a chance to hear. So no.

The answer is no.

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