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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to this late political GabFest for the week of March 22nd, 2013,

the scary, out-of-touch,

narrow-minded, stuffy, old man edition.

We are live this week at a sold-out 92nd Streetwide Tribeca in Michael Bloomberg's New York

City.

The cigarettes are hidden behind the counter, but the giant sodas and beers are flowing freely.

Hello, New York.

I'm David Plotz, the edge of Slate, joining him on stage, on stage, in stage, naturally, is Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson. Hello, John.

Hello, darling. What did you say? Darling? Yeah. That's nice.

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