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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 3, 2015.

So who can you discriminate against edition?

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura in Washington, D.C.

To my right is John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News.

Hello, John.

Hello, David.

And to my left, but 450 miles away, but on a computer.

That's just how far away she is. Is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine.

Hello, Emily.

Hello, David.

I saw Emily in her natural habitat of the New York Times Magazine this week. We ran into each other at the New York Times. I looked up in the cafeteria and there was David. Oh, yeah, that's when I got that weird email from you guys saying that you'd been immediately without me. I didn't dictate that email because he was having trouble typing it. Here's the thing. I got an email from you while I was listening to you for last week's show.

That's so funny.

So that was weird.

And another thing that's weird is the podcast app that I used to listen to the show allows you to slow the speed down.

So yeah.

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