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Hello and welcome for the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 11th, 2018, the very stable genius edition.

I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C.

Joining me from a studio in Manhattan, New York,

is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily Bazelon. Hello, hello. And also

joining us today, well, will he or won't he? Is he here? Is he not here? Could it possibly be?

Yes, it is. Our very own John Dickerson, no longer of CBS,

has faced the nation, but the new host of CBS this morning. John Dickerson, welcome. You're

still on the Gab Fest. I'm still on the Gab Fest and we'll forevermore co-host of CBS this morning.

We don't want to leave out Gail and Nora.

Good point. It's like our show. It's like our show. It's David is constantly trying to give single members of a three-person team autonomy. Normally it's himself. Or top billing.

As a case, maybe the person who asked the questions, David was that in your head of the

situation before? You're right. I noted in one of the, in some of the press coverage of you, John, said you were a frequent guest on the Gab Fest. Yes. That's true. Well, it is frequent. I mean, that's quite frequent. A weekly participant therein. And the sun is a frequent appearance in the sky. Just remember we were the first Troika in your life, John.

I know.

Well, you know, in trying to, we'll talk about this change in my life later.

But, you know, when people have asked, well, you know, why are you doing this and how do you know that you can do this?

And I said, well, you know, I've been talking about issues with two other people for the last 12 years.

And some of them political and often some of them not political.

So thanks for training me, guys.

All right.

That's right.

We're the trading wheels.

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