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Hello and welcome to this late political gab Gab Fest for Thanksgiving Week, 2015, the thousands were cheering edition.

I'm David Flotz of Atlas Obscura.

John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation, is here with me.

Hello, John.

Hi, David.

We are before Thanksgiving, so John is still,

he's not as stressed as he tends to get in his Thanksgiving because he's a big, big producer

of Thanksgiving food. And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine joins us from New Haven. Hello.

Hey, and produces only Apple Pie.

Hey, could we change the title to thousands were not cheering?

Wouldn't that be our nice fact check? No, we're going to leave it as thousands were cheering.

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