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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 15th, 2016.

The There Once Was a Union Made, but Not Anymore Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

John Dickerson, Face the Nation is in Vermont.

I'm sure he got that Woody Guthrie reference, didn't you, John? No, I missed it. The title. What was the Woody Gathers? Their once was a union made? Oh, yeah, sorry. I was... God. You're already losing him. You're already boring him. I'm sorry. I was off in the mountains in my brain. Sorry. That's, so anyway, there's Dickerson in Vermont. But here in Washington with me in our studio, whoa, it's Emily Basslon of the New York Times magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. We're all back together. It has been, I feel like it's been an age since we've done a show together. It has been weeks, months, a month. Well, it has been the whole turning of the new year.

So that's true.

But I don't think we haven't been together for four weeks, practically.

Crazy.

Crazy.

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