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Hello and welcome to this late political gab Fest for December 20th, 2013.

The You'll Drag Me Out of the Supreme Court in a Pine Box edition.

I'm David Plotz, the Eddorf Slate.

I'm still not over the D.C. Holiday Party.

The drugs.

The MTV camera crew.

The multiple arrests.

John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent is here fresh from his arraignment.

John, how you doing?

I'm doing fine, David.

Although I think Emily's check me if I'm wrong on this, but I think he started to do a little bit of this American life pauses at the odd moments.

Oh, no.

You mean the sort of erratic erupting pauses?? Yeah. I just noticed when he was doing the introduction. I noticed he was doing a little. So we all start speaking in staccato and draw our listener. It's mad. It's the, uh, our last form of talking where you start and stop and you go really quick and then you stop a little bit. I noticed that with David. Just doing that now.

Damn you.

What a nightmare.

Damn you.

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