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Hello and welcome to the Slate Libicle Gab Fest for November 20th, 2015, the I'm Not Throwing Away My Shot edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas at Sikura.

John Dickerson of Face the Nation is with me. Hello, John in Washington. Hey. Oh, David. John's voice is going to be awesome today. He's going to embody male vocal fry. Can you embody it for one second? Sure. Well, yeah, I keep trying to want to clear my throat, but I won't. I'll just own it. Yeah. Oh my God. It is sexy. It is super sexy.

We should go. The fans of Face the nation are just, they're beating up with sweat. We should, not because they're in a 95-degree studio. We should come up with something for me to narrate. We should. Because this is going to run out. This is going to be awesome. That other voice you heard, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine.

Hello, Emily, from New Haven. Hello, hello? Hey, I want to say that you said the title of the show with the wrong cadences. I did that on purpose. Okay. Do you want me to do it? I know it was kind of a joke. That's fine. I missed the joke again. He said the Hamilton. I emphasized my shot rather than my shot. Is that what you're talking about? I'm not giving away. I'm not throwing away. Also, by the way, it's not giving away. That's not giving away. That's worse. Yes. On this week's Gab Fest, we will...

All the Hamilton fans are having the equivalent of, like, rinsing out their brains.

Hands over their ears.

They're like, oh, man.

Shockboard.

Shockboard fingers.

That's exactly.

Let's go chew on some aluminum foil.

We may be fumbling things, but we have a lot of love to give that show.

So hang in there.

On this week's Gab Fest, we will replay our discussion about the Paris attacks from our live

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