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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 17th, 2014, the You're

Married, Syke! You're Not Married Edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate in Slate's Washington Beach Studio.

Do you think anyone uses the word psych?

No, but the way he used it was so perfectly, Edvid rang so true because it was like, I was back in 1985. It's funny. I had a different title for the show, but Mike Folo, as he was looking over my title right before the show, was like, how about psych? And I thought, yeah, that's right. Hey, I'll do the other one. You're married. You're not married. you're married. You're not married. That's much worse than you're married. Sike. Yeah. Plus, you don't want to deny our listeners their big 80s flashback. Every week is an east flashback. We are such people of the 80s, the three of us. We're all like, grew up in the 80s, formed in the 80s. The professor from Gilligan's Island just passed away, 89 years old. Really? Wow. I wonder what percentage of the cast is alive. It's like, you know, there are no living World War I veterans. There are no living Gilligan's Island cast members. Gilligan is almost certainly alive. Yeah, he is, I think. Marianne, Ginger are probably both alive. I think Marianne is... The studio says no in New Haven.

Is the skipper?

Marianna Ginger are not alive? Gilligan's not alive. Gilligan is not alive. Bob, what's his name? Bob. All right, you know what? Let's take a bet. Let's just do... Without knowledge, how many members of the cast, Gilgan's Island are alive? You think three? Yeah. I'll take the under on that.

I'll take two.

When was it actually made?

Who knows?

Just make a guess.

Make a guess.

I don take two. When was it actually made?

Who knows?

Just make a guess.

Make a guess.

I don't know. One. One. Okay. Three, two, one. We'll see who's right. It's probably going to be like five. Anyway, that was, of course, from New Haven, Emily Bazelon, Slate Senior Editor. and to my right, the Sir Galahad of this roundtable, John Dickerson Slate's chief political correspondent.

Hello, Emily, hello, John.

Does that make you King Arthur?

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