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Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for Friday.

July 10th.

I'm John Dickerson in a rare state of ecstasy because it's now for the second week in a row.

Emily Bazelon is here with us in the studio along with David Plotz.

And there are hundreds of other people in the studio, including our... It's like a live...

It's like a live gap fest in this sardine room.

Yes.

Because we have with us, or we have special guests with us, Johanna Grunhut and Jonathan Fombom.

Well done.

With him we just had a delightful lunch.

They were the winners of the Slate contest from our last live show where we raffled off one lunch with us.

And we've just had that lunch.

It was great.

We're all totally hammered, except Joanna who's not because she doesn't drink before.

Having a baby?

I wasn't going to go into that.

You'd already started down that road.

But I didn't go down that road in the end.

Today our three topics are going to be.

I think we have to start with Sarah Palin, who has been in the news of late, the still current, but soon to be former governor of Alaska, and also a famous point guard.

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