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GabFest.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Pearl Harbor Day,

2012, December 7th, the Doomsday scenario edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, and I am not in Washington.

I am in the swanky confines of the Slate New York studio. And Slate senior editor,

Emily Bazelon, is here with me. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And in D.C., probably feeling lonely, bereft without us is Slate's chief political correspondent, John Dickerson. Hello, John.

John, are you secretly overjoyed to be by yourself? Well, normally I am always happier by myself than in the company of other people.

But once a week, I am sad if I'm not without the two of you. And now is the time.

Oh, that's sweet.

Gabfest emprosario, Andy Bowers, has made a trip in from Los Angeles, and he is here watching over

me and Emily like a Christmas angel. Hello, Andy. And it very raped our internet connection, too.

He did? Yeah. I didn't realize that. Yep. So don't forget, we have a live show coming up. On January

23rd, it's at 6th and I in Washington, D.C. will we have a live show coming up on January 23rd.

It's at 6th and I in Washington, D.C.

We'll probably have a cocktail party beforehand, which will also be great.

We're really looking forward to it.

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