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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for December 28th, 2012, the conundrums edition, our final episode of the year.

I'm David Plotz, the ad der of Slate in Washington, D.C. with John Dickerson.

Slate's chief political correspondent, John, you are a year older and two years wiser. Hello.

Hello, David.

And from New Haven, Slate's senior editor, Emily Bazelon, whose New Year's resolution is to renounce Satan and all his minions.

Hello, Emily.

Hello. So this is a very special episode of the Gab Fest, and by that I don't mean that Mr. T will be coming on or that...

Mr. T.

Michelle Obama will appear.

That's like the most 1980s reference ever.

I know, but that was a very special episode.

You know, it's a very special episode of different strokes where Mr. T is on.

That's true.

If you really reach back into your cultural treasure chest. Justin Bieber will not be making a guest cameo to demand that all of us spay our cats. To bring on Beaver fever. So we are going to have a special episode by which I mean we are going to talk about conundrums, the questions, dilemmas, moral crises, picking and Confusions that plague our lives.

And you have given us these conundrums.

Thank you.

Over the past month, listeners have sent us more than 100 conundrums.

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