The following podcast contains the word fuck.

Give it up for day might be giant.

They will be back throughout the show to brighten us.

A huge thank you to they might be giants who are not only the most delightful musicians I know,

but they're also very philosophically difficult.

And I would give you this conundrum from their 2002 album No,

which I listened to a lot with my children, which goes like this.

Clowns are from the circus.

Barking comes from dogs.

Eggs come from a chicken and log cabins come from logs.

But where? Where do they make balloons?

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gavfess for December 28, 2017,

the conundrum edition.

We are live in front of a sold out crowd of noisy

and morally confounded New Englanders

and the Wilbur Theatre in downtown Boston.

And I want to start by saying that for too long,

this beautiful city has been held hostage to the moldy old wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

And tonight we come to Jack Hammer their names off these marble walls

and carved new ones,

Bazzlon, Dickerson, and Plots.

We come, we knew philosophers to congetate and to mull,

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