Attn, Reason.com Readers: Get Ready For The Ultimate Live Chat—Welch and Gillespie, uncensored, unscripted, unintelligible.

Live chat with the Glimmer Twins of Late-Capitalist America, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch.

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

All your questions answered! All your sacred cows gored! All Al Gores sacralized!

Smoking, swearing, and spitting will be allowed.

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Comments

[John]

Matt, the 70s called. They want their glasses, hair and jacket back. Dude, you can only pull off the Bullett look if you actually are Steve McQueen.

[The 70s]

I called on a black rotary phone...

[Jesse Jackson]

That's racist!

[Attorney]

Will I need to install some sort of IM software for this?

[J sub D]

Promise you won't talk about Alaskan ex-governors.

[Paul]

x2

[The Gobbler]

John McCain let you down, Matt? You know you can't really blame him for your book's poor sales numbers.

[Matt Welch]

That was Nick's alt text. You can tell, because he's the one who wrote the post.

[The Gobbler]

Given that no one is credited for writing this piece, I'm gonna call bullshit.

[Matt Welch]

Oh look! You're right. Anyway, I didn't write the alt text.

[R C Dean]

Really? Because I liked the Gillespie alt-text.

[John]

Now that McCain is no longer available, what are the odds Welch or someone on the staff writes a Palin book in the next three years? I would say at least even.

[The Gobbler]

Oh hell yeah. And all day long they'll be plugging it in H&R. I got so sick reading Welch's thinly vield book plugs. Sometimes five or six per day IIRC.

[Matt Welch]

YDNRC

[The Gobbler]

Thin skin much?

[Matt Welch]

More like a strange interest in making sure things said about me & the magazine are accurate. I know, crazy.

[Enough About Palin]

Matt's right, Gobbler. True, it was scores and scores of posts, but it was spread out over the course of several months.

http://reason.com/search?cx=00.....earch#1354

[Matt Welch]

Now try Doherty's!

[Enough About Palin]

huh?

[Matt Welch]

Do the same search on Radicals for Capitalism!

[Episiarch]

Brian's not as fun to pick on as you are, Matt.

[Matt Welch]

Dammit!

[Warty]

It's the glasses, I'm afraid. People have a hard time not raping a man with glasses. Stay out of forests, Matt.

[The Gobbler]

vield = Veiled

[Ethnic Victim]

He came at me vielding a butcher's knife and vaving Mein Kampf in his hand!

[Warty]

John, the jerk store called. They're running out of YOU.

[Riley]

Who cares? You're their all-time bestseller!

[SugarFree]

They both look like the back cover photos of small-run poetry collections put out in 1973. That neither let be re-published.

[Art-P.O.G.]

Ha ha, yeah. But the poetry in those books was so cool.

[sage]

Geez, Nick and Matt, you sure you want to do this? These guys are making trolls look like "reason"'s best friends.

[Enough About Palin]

What do you mean?

[Chad Fan]

Are you kidding? I'm counting on Chad being there. I want Nick and Matt to engage him and his ilk.

[Lignin For All]

Ooh! Can we bring our ilks?

[Jerry]

Oh look, it's Simon & Garfunkel!

[brotherben]

More like Ponch and John.

[brotherben]

Will there be text of the highlights? My sound drivers have left the building.

[hmm]

The more "give us money" stories I see the more I wonder if they are buying pot by the one hundred pound block with the proceeds. The posts get stranger and stranger.

The photos look like a bad picture of Starsky and really pale Huggy Bear.

[Art-P.O.G.]

You note that the posts get stranger and stranger, but that's also the case with commenter posts, not just posts from the editors.

[hmm]

I expect the commenters to be retarded, that is what comments are for.

Yes I do my part and tow the lion and sometimes the other guys lion.

[hmm]

I expect the commenters to be retarded, that is what comments are for.

Yes I do my part and tow the lion and sometimes the other guys lion.

[Art-P.O.G.]

You can say that again (boy that joke never gets old)!

[Football-helmet kid]

YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!

[Art-P.O.G.]

I've never seen Welch look so gritty and hard-boiled, but then a 5 o'clock shadow, a pensive expression and a proper suit will do wonders for a fella.

[Matt Welch]

Hangover, wincing, etc. Day after or of a wedding. Do not do a Google image search on my name and Johnny Cash.

[Art-P.O.G.]

Whoa, I had no idea you were a country-western singer. Nice.

[Nick Gillespie]

For the record, that was my alt-text on Matt's mush! See you tomorrow!

[Matt Welch]

IN HELL!

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One could argue that this is hell.

[hmm]

I noticed no mention of jello being allowed or disallowed.