The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. For the 29th of October, I'm John Dickerson in Washington.

David Blotz is also here in Washington with me. And Emily Bazelon is in New York, right? Yeah. Excellent. Good.

In Slate's Spiffy new office.

In Slate's new office, that's our 15th office in two years.

Is that right?

I don't know.

Jacob sent around that email?

It's very nice here.

We're like nomads in New York.

But now we're finally in that office and everybody up there is very happy.

Today we're going to start and talk about the elections.

That's our first topic. And then our second topic will be about what it's going to look like for

the president. If the elections go the way, we think they might, which is that the Republicans

take control of the House, but not the Senate. Will the President benefit from that new

arrangement or will it be constant gridlock, despair, and woe?

Or could constant gridlock be wonderful, which is a position some people may hold?

Our third topic will be a case about video game violence, which Emily will explain to us.

It's a Supreme Court case, right, Emily?

It is.

Fantastic.

All right, let's start quickly.

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