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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GAMFEST for September 26th, 2014. The

Dead Dead Dead at 75 edition. I'm David Plottsy. I'm a large of Slate and Washington DC.

On this week's show, Eric Holder steps down as Attorney General. Can you blame him?

Then the President's War against ISIS, ISIL, whatever you want to call it,

is it wise and is it legal? Then an article in the Atlantic magazine written by a 57-year-old

makes the case that you should die at 75 plus cocktail chatter. I've got a great

Teddy Roosevelt, another Teddy Roosevelt cocktail chatter this week, and in Slate Plus,

the incredible story of John Downey, who was held as a prisoner of war longer than any person

in American history. Emily Baszlon, still no longer a Slate editor, still unemployed, though.

Still, this is your last day of unemployment. Not joining the long-term unemployed is in New Haven.

Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And John Dickerson, who had never been unemployed, probably. Have you

ever been unemployed, John? You're a Slate senior editor. No, he's not. You're not a Slate senior.

You're a Slate chief blow-up correspondent. It depends. Let's see. My first job was in

a summer of seventh grade and I've had a job at some point during the year, every year since then.

But have there ever been a period as an adult where you didn't have a job? It depends. When I wrote

my book, I took three months off, but that's not... No, you had a job. You knew you were coming

to Slate. I'm not exactly... It's crazy. It is. I'd like to try and see what it feels like

to not have a job. It's weird. There's this way, the rhythm. I think of this as...

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