Coming Today at 1PM ET: Real Live Chat With Welch and Gillespie!

November 19, 2009

Live chat with the Seigfried and Roy of alternative politics that will inevitably lead to the great libertarian future, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, who are dialing in from opposite ends of the country because they are so goddamned sick and tired of debating which one is Seigfried and which one is Roy.

The fun begins right here at Reason.com today, Thursday, 1PM ET.

Two editors in chief enter the Thunderdome of live chat.

Three will exit.

Ear-biting, ankle-twisting, and the Sleeper Hold will be allowed. Name-calling not.

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Kyle Jordan|11.19.09 @ 9:19AM|#

There's gonna be some record of this, right? I'm crashing as soon as I get home but want to watch it after I wake up.

And after reading the above description, I'm half expecting Balko to show up at the end and take Gillespie and Welch out with a steel chair, proclaiming himself the next in line for the title of Editor of somesuch.

DMXRoid|11.19.09 @ 9:39AM|#

" Two editors in chief enter the Thunderdome of live chat.

Three will exit. "

Is this like an Iron Chef thing, where if someone gives Nick or Matt the business during the live chat, they too are crowned Editor in Chief of Reason?

Balko as Koga.

ed|11.19.09 @ 9:03AM|#

the Seigfried and Roy of alternative politics

I'll show up if you can promise me that someone will get his face eaten by a tiger.

|11.19.09 @ 9:23AM|#

I thought Bobby Knoop was Jim Fregosi's co-pilot.

(Why am I such a geek for 60s/70s obscure baseball references?)

The Gobbler|11.19.09 @ 9:24AM|#

Just so there is no misunderstanding, Nick wrote both this post and the alt-tag under Matt's head.

Matt Welch|11.19.09 @ 10:33AM|#

Your attention to detail is impressive.

The Gobbler|11.19.09 @ 11:39AM|#

Thanks!

(additional words added to appease server squirrels)

Montecore|11.19.09 @ 9:36AM|#

Which one is the Roy of the pair again?

ed|11.19.09 @ 11:59AM|#

The gay one.

|11.19.09 @ 9:55AM|#

Wow, no way dude thats the craziest thing I have ever heard. Tell me it aint so.

RT
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Xeones|11.19.09 @ 9:57AM|#

I agree with Anonymity Guy.

Art-P.O.G.|11.19.09 @ 10:13AM|#

This is all being collected for the future New York Times bestselling book "The Quotable Anonymity Guy".

Art-P.O.G.|11.19.09 @ 10:38AM|#

Hopefully Steve Smith shows up. That is all.

Steve Smith|11.19.09 @ 10:57AM|#

Sorry, I'm in Santa Barbara for a confirmation hearing. But maybe one of my sockpuppets will....

Art-P.O.G.|11.19.09 @ 11:09AM|#

Hey, whatever you do, don't speak in "ALL CAPS" at your confirmation hearing, Steve. ;) Seriously, good luck.

The Gobbler|11.19.09 @ 11:41AM|#

"http://smythesworld.blogspot.com/"

So is it Smythe or Smith?

Art-P.O.G.|11.19.09 @ 12:10PM|#

Dude. It's the internets. Spelling, even spelling one's own name, is arbitrary.

The Gobbler|11.19.09 @ 12:45PM|#

Sorry. It's just my impressive attention to detail, that's all.

Matt Welch|11.19.09 @ 12:53PM|#

WTF are you doing confirmation hearings for? Confirming bankruptcies now?

Steve Smith|11.19.09 @ 5:01PM|#

Chapter 13 cases require a judicial hearing to have the plan confirmed, which I, as counsel of record, needed to appear. BTW, how did I become associated with the Pacific Northwest? Is that some in-joke from "Atlas Shrugged"?

PSTEVE PSMITH|11.19.09 @ 11:08AM|#

HEARING DONE NOW. STEVE SMITH CONFIRM: RAPE GOOD!

HLM|11.19.09 @ 1:02PM|#

Where's the link? How do we get there?

ev|11.19.09 @ 3:48PM|#

Is that pic on the bottom really Welch? You look like a fucking rockstar/my rockstar friend Byron.

Hrmmm, they say...

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