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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Thursday, April 6, the Crossing

Many Lines Edition.

I'm Emily Bazon, staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, and today I am taking over

from David Plott's because we are having a big week of switch-rew in which David went

over to the Slate Culture Gab Fest and we are very happy to welcome Dana Stevens Slate's

film critic from the Slate Culture Gab Fest.

Hey Dana.

Hey can I just say that this switch-rew was initially my idea or at least some version

of it.

I just because the news has gotten so political and cultural mixed together and that we're

all talking about politics all the time, I had suggested oh why don't we do some kind

of swap that would be great and now here I am having to be put in the felt colored cover

table and asked about politics.

So here you are our beloved Guinea Pig and we are also here with John Dickerson, host

of Face the Nation who is in DC Dana and I are in Brooklyn.

Hey John.

Hi.

And I want to tell you about a bunch of live podcast shows that Slate and Panoply have

put together for the summer.

If you're in DC or New York and actually if you're out west the summer too.

The Culture Fest has a show or two, we have a couple of shows in DC and also in Denver,

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