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The following recording may contain explicit language. I can't get more explicit than may. Let's just say it may.

Thursday, February 14th, 2019 from Flate of the Gest, I'm Mike Pasca.

So we began the show yesterday with talk of, let us say, attentive members.

And if you listen on Slate Plus, I know you are. It was a linguistic inquisition into the meaning of a pre-apic idiom.

If you will, please, I hope you will. And I will forever commit to you that I will follow lines of inquiry no matter where they lead.

But in this case, I did so, not without some quams, some wary quams to say nothing of Harry Poms. No, no, here is the thing.

We were having a presidential candidate come in for an interview today. I don't want to reveal which one, but it might rhyme with beat Pudetage.

So I had this vision in my mind of a serious minded public servant in the car on the way over to Slate's headquarters to be interviewed, him saying to his assistant.

So what's this gist I've heard so much about? Let me call it up in my Google Play Stitcher or wherever I get my podcast.

What? Huh? What's he talking about? Heart, what? No, I'm a midwesterner. No, sir. And I didn't want that.

And yet still, I couldn't hold off. I sometimes think of things that I don't say. I want you to know that. People don't believe that.

Sometimes though, I can, I can't have self control. I really can. Let me give you an example. Recently, the richest man in the world addressed his being blackmailed by the National Inquirer by going on a certain website.

And I remember thinking, you know, if the story were about my manhood, I would think twice about putting my thoughts on medium.

I just wouldn't want medium to be associated with that particular topic, especially if I owned an outlet called The Post.

Do you know what I'm saying? But I thought that, but I didn't say that because I like to be high brow.

I like to go where my muse and the news takes me. And I was resigned. So today on the show, I open the International section.

I was hoping to talk about Chinese negotiations or Venezuela, but then right there, New York Times story on the Iranian missile program.

And there was a graphic and this graphic very clearly labeled the no-dong engine from North Korea powers Iranian missiles and rockets.

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