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Hello and happy Friday.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

This was our latest installment of Unearthed all this week.

Here is how this went.

I wanted to take time off around Christmas and New Year's.

So before leaving the office for Christmas and New Year's, I roughed out basically

all of both parts of the episode. And then the plan was to come back to work on the first workday

of the year, go through all of my RSS feeders to pull out anything else

that I thought should be added to the episode that had happened in the last two weeks of the year,

and then read through everything, and then send it to Holly. And there were, I think, three or four

things that made news at the very end of the year that were added. The Victorian Shoes was one of the things that was added.

That was actually something that I saw the headline of while I was out,

and I emailed myself an email that just said Victorian Shoes as the subject line

and a link to the article as the body of it.

So I got all that finished up, and I sent it to Holly.

And I thought to myself, boy, wasn't it nice that I didn't have to have a lengthy exploration of all of the ways that the federal government is attacking my profession.

And then I went, wait a minute, have I missed anything that the federal government is doing to attack my profession?

And that is when I learned that while I was out of the office and not really looking at the news,

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