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Music GabFest. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for January 10th, 2013, the I am not a bully edition, although I kind of am.

I'm David Plotz, the Eddor Slate in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio.

With me, the polar vortex has brought back from the West.

John Dickerson, we missed you last week, John. Hello.

I really missed you guys, too.

It was sad except for that wonderful couple that came up and said hello while we were having a brunch in Salt Lake City. This very nice couple came over and

said they listened to the show and it was a really, it was lovely. If I couldn't be with you,

it was nice to be with two fans. You said, Governor Huntsman. You didn't really miss us. You were

having a great time. No, but I always carry you with me and miss you in some way. Okay. That other voice you hear, Slate Senior editor, Emily Bazelon, this week, she's in New York.

She is the only person in the tri-state area who is not fired today by Chris Christie.

Hello, Emily.

Hello.

It's nice not to be fired.

This week's Gab Fest, God bless Chris Christie, slow week, and we get a political scandal that would make anyone forget the cold weather, anyone forget the misery that is politics.

We will explore the twists and turns of Bridge Gazi or Bridgegate, which do you prefer?

I hate the gate at the end of everything.

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