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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 24, 2021. Thanks for giving

the edition. Happy Thanksgiving dear listeners. I am David Plott's of CityCast. I'm here in

Washington, D.C. Before my favorite of all holidays, the only holiday that matters. And I am so

thankful to be with my dear ones, Emily Bazlone of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University

Law School. Hello, dear Emily. Hello, dear David. The question though is, did you bake

us a pie? Did your mom bake us a pie? No, my mom is all over it. My mom is at pie 15 and counting.

And it's only Tuesday morning. Amazing. Can you remind me again what is the marginal pie?

In other words, you got your pecan, your apple, your cranberry, your plum, your rhubarb. But I mean,

once you get to 15, are you? No, it's the local better crunch. There's a, there's a, there's a

mocha crunch pie, which is not marginal. That's the first pie of all. The queen of pies. Then there's

the pie of all. Then there's the marginal ones. They'll be like, I can, I can never remember

like there's one called like the onto feccan pie, which is some, you know, old, old Celtic pie

of some sort. Echo feccan, echo feccan. Echo feccan. Oh my god. Echo feccan. That was,

there'll be like a kind of like apricot, some apricot custard pie where you'll be like, why?

Really? Did this have to happen? My mother went and got passion fruit from some, the H-Mart

out in way out in Virginia. So she could make a passion fruit custard pie. And I just thought

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