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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Music The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 28th, 2014.

If you listen closely, you can hear Clarence Thomas shouting edition.

I'm David Plotz, the Eddor Slate,

here in our Washington studio. We are just a week out from our live show at 6th and I here

in Washington, D.C., on March 6th, Thursday. It's going to be a fun night. I am here to make a

request, a favor, a beseeching. If you are going to come to the

Gab Fest, you're thinking of coming to the Gab Fest. You probably like the Gab Fest.

We need more people who like the Gab Fest, like you. The more we build the audience, the more time

we can spend on it, the better the show is. And so, this is the serious favor. If you're going to

come to the live show, think about bringing a friend with you or a colleague or a loved one or a friend of me or an enemy, someone who doesn't listen to the gab fest.

And maybe the live show will interest them.

It'll introduce the show to them.

Maybe that will get them into podcasting and into the gap fest.

It will give you a great night out under any circumstances and it may win us a new fan.

So please come.

Tickets are at slate.com slash political DC.

Slate.com slash political DC.

From New Haven, joining us is Emily Bazelon just complaining about the winter as she has been all winter.

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