This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 8th, 2020, the spitting into a sheet of flexiglass edition.

I'm David Plotz.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of Yale

University Law School and The New York Times Magazine from New Haven. Hello, Emily.

Hello, David. And by John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes from somewhere with some really

depressing-ass ceiling.

Poor God. Like a really sad, sad punch-out ceiling there above you.

I don't know where it is.

I'm actually in the CBS Washington Bureau, but you're right.

The image on the Zoom call right now looks like I should be pressing you for a little bit more detail about your financial history before I make this

lease agreement with you.

Actually, I feel like you're in a boiler room and after this you're going to make calls

and try to sell, sell 80-year-olds on some penny stock.

So maybe...

Right.

Or tell them their social security is being revoked until they give me their.

Yeah.

Can we just admire that John has repartee in him right now since he was on television, like until late last night, trying to be smart and sharp?

And up again early this morning, although they canceled my hit, which will, which gives you some indication of how quickly the

vice presidential debate has already, you know, made its way through the news cycle. Or the

alternative version is that they didn't want to hear what I had to say. I think the first

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