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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest from May 5th, 2016,

the suspending of my campaign edition of the Gap Fest.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

I'm in Washington, DC, back in our studio, back from Atlanta, sadly.

Go ahead, that trip a lot.

With me in Washington, also back from Atlanta, is John Dickerson, host of Face Nation. Hello, John.

Hello, David.

And even though John sounded like he was calling across the chasm, he is just across the table.

He was not actually across the chasm.

And then actually across the chasm, the chasm of most of the Northeast is Emily Baszlon of the New York Times, who was in New Haven.

Indeed. Hello. I feel like we're all a little punchy today.

I feel a little punchy. Can we talk for one second about the amazing thing that was reported by maybe it was 538 or the upshot or somebody saying they were looking at what is the time.

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