Hi, this is Alex Goldman, I'm one of the hosts of the show.

I'm speaking to you on behalf of the entire reply all staff.

We wanted to give you an apology and a bit more context about the story you're about to hear.

This episode is part of a series called The Test Kitchen,

which was reported by Shreethi Pinimanani, and is about the structural racism and toxic work environment

at the Food Magazine Bon Appetite.

Days after the publication of the second episode in what was supposed to be a four-part series,

former colleagues of ours at Gimlett publicly described multiple instances of troubling behavior

from both Shreethi and my longtime co-host, PJ Vogue.

These accounts prompted a reckoning on our team about the work culture at reply all,

and they also left us asking whether we could continue to air this story without interrogating ourselves

and what is unfolded at Gimlett.

We now understand that we should not have published this series as reported,

and the fact that we did was a systemic editorial failure.

We are not going to be continuing the series,

and PJ and Shreethi have both decided to leave the reply all team.

I and the entire team know that making reply all,

getting to tell people stories for living, is a huge privilege.

We also know that we let a lot of people down and made a lot of mistakes.

We are very sorry for our many failings.

We are sorry to our colleagues and our former colleagues we hurt.

We are sorry to you, our listeners.

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