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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Music following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for the week of December 27th, 2013, the

conundrums edition.

I'm David Plotz, the Eddorf Slate, and the Gab Fest is live tonight at the Ritchhaw stop in San

Francisco in front of a

packed and I hope rowdy and also I was hoping a morally troubled house, but not morally troubled.

John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, is to my far left.

John is a man constantly torn, and thus will be a great conundrum solver.

He is a walking conundrum. He is. His own way.

And then, of course, there is Emily Bazel.

I don't know either to walk or to sit.

Slate Senior Editor, Emily's moral compass points, I would say, somewhat to the north, but not always true north.

Sometimes a little west of that.

That's true.

This week on the political gap fest, our special annual conundrums show live for the first time ever.

We've collected your dilemmas, puzzles, and quandaries, and we will try to solve as many of them as we can in an hour.

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