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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 15th, 2018, the Rex, Rex edition.

I wished we had Stormy Daniels because I was like, we could have Rex, Rex, X, X, X, X, X.

But we're not going to do it.

You saw best Rex we ever had.

No, worst wrecks.

Worst wrecks I ever had.

The New York Post headline.

That was a great headline.

That is Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post sitting in this week for Emily Bazelon.

Hello, Ruth.

I'm doing my Emily Bazelon, non-imitation.

Hello, hello.

Nicely done.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, and Ruth is with me in Washington, but John Dickerson of CBS's this morning, or CBS this morning.

I still don't know if there's an apostrophe.

The apostrophe is silent. The apostrophe is silent.

The apostrophe is silent.

Yes.

Hello, John Dinger.

Hello, David.

On this week's Gab Fest, this I would say, and I will appeal to both of you, this was one of the newsiest weeks I can remember that didn't have something like absolutely catastrophic in it, but just unbelievable amounts of news, unbelievable variety of stories. So we're not going to be able to get to all the incredible things that are happening, to Theranos, to Toys R Us, Toys R Us is closing. To the House Russia investigation, to North Korea. We're not going to get to North Korea. There's all kind of, I'm sure John, pick your favorite story. We're not getting to. It's incredible. Well, you know, you did a pretty good job there between Theranos and, uh, the Toys R Us. I was, I mean, it was an iconic brand and a part of growing up who didn't love walking down the aisle and seeing all the things you couldn't get?

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