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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb-Fest from April 5, 2018, the caravan of Gabb-Festers edition.

I am David Plot, that was obscure. I am back from vacation, which is explained the pep in my voice.

I was in Columbia, South America, which I strongly recommend.

We may talk more about that later, but man, do I recommend Columbia.

And John Dickerson of CBS this morning in New York is also back, hello John.

Hi, can you have pep in your voice, don't you have pep in your step?

Oh, I don't know.

Why can't you have pep in your voice?

Well, I suppose you can, but I just have always heard it when it's in your step.

And then it leads me to the question of what in God's name is pep anyway.

It's a little extra oomph.

Yeah, it's an oomph. I have an oomph in my voice.

One of my kids tried to enter during yesterday for the first time, and it was crazy,

because he was so peppy. It was those things are dangerous.

There was pep. That was pep in a voice.

That's not a sugar.

Yes, sugar plus caffeine plus who knows what else?

That other voice.

That is, of course, Emily Baslan of the New York Times magazine who was back from nowhere.

She helmed the good ship, Gabb-Fest brilliantly while we were gone through storms

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