This is Bob Garfield from Lexicon Valley. I'm here with Mike Volo. Hey, Mike.

Hey, Bob. So there is this language tick, which seems to be increasingly popular, and I really can't quite put my finger on it.

So let's talk about it. Let's do the next Lexicon Valley this Monday on Slate.

I have to do the, let me do the intro.

Be quiet.

We're highly paid professionals.

Without further ado, I want to introduce the hosts of the Gab Fest, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson.

Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest, the Purdue Live show for the week of April.

It's April. I was going to say February.

For the week of April 20th, 2012,

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. I'm here with Slate senior editor, Emily Bazelon,

to my right, John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent and political director for CBS News

on my left. We are here at University Church just off the campus of Purdue University

in West Lafayette, Indiana. We're here thanks to the sponsorship of TIACREF. Thank you TIACref for bringing

us back. We had a great show here at University Church last year, and we're looking forward to a great

second show here. It's a beautiful afternoon. The light is streaming in, and we're looking forward to a great second show here. It's a beautiful afternoon.

The light is streaming in, and we know you're here, but the audience at home does not know you're

here.

So could you let the audience listening know that you're here?

Thank you.

Since we're in a church, I thought you were going to have them all join us in a hymn.

We could.

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