The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest!

And the Slate Culture Gab Fest!

And the gist with me, Mike Pesca!

That's right, this is the first ever superfest coming to you from the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.

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It's that kind of thrill.

So I was thinking about tonight and some thoughts occurred to me.

You know too often too many of us lie prostrate beneath the hooves of our enemies horses.

The riders be they the Mongol hordes of ignorance, the caustics of indifference,

the Jan Jouid militia of misinformation.

And we are forced to smile the grin of supplication through teeth of despair.

But who will guide us through these times?

Who will be that voice, those voices?

They are the trio with Brio, the threesome whom I am more taken with than Liam Neeson,

the panel for whom the truth remains an ideal untrammeled,

weighing in at a command 481 pounds,

hailing from Washington DC, Washington DC, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

with sometime living in Washington DC.

They speak in our voice, American, I give you the slate, political gap fest.

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