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Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for July 10th, 2015, the How

Many Pushups Should the President Be able to Do?

I'm David Plotz of atlas obscure in

washington dc with me in washington dc resplendent is john dickerson a face the nation

hello john hey david i'm i'm resplendent i'm also i'm in a constant state of glow because

it's a thousand degrees in washington always these days it It is, and it's going to be 2,000 in here. We will be baked. We're not allowed to talk about it. I forgot. We're not allowed to talk about how hot it is in the studio. Emily Bazelon, you're somewhere else. Where are you? Hello. I'm in New York. It's quite temperate here. And I'm enjoying David just shaved his beard off, so I'm getting my first glimpse. David, you are sort of glowing. There's more of your face to glow. There is. There's more of me. There's more of me to glow. Less of me to love, because the hair was really part of me. And listeners will have an auditory benefit from that as well, because there will be no more of that scratching on the microphone. Yeah can't, that's me rubbed. That's listeners, that's me rubbing my stubble. On this week's show, we'll have a Dickerson Fantasia in the first episode. We're going to talk about polling, presidential polling. This is the one occasion in American history when polling may actually matter, and John is going to revel in it.

Oh, because it's going to be wrong.

No, no.

It's not because of it.

We'll get to it in one second.

Then the very interesting Gawker versus Hulk Hogan sex tape trial, which just got postponed.

We're going to talk about the First Amendment issues raised by that.

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