Hey, it's Michael. I'm here with some news about this show. Starting next week, the New York Times

is going to be putting a paywall on all of its podcasts, including The Daily, meaning that in order to have full access

to New York Times Podcast, you'll need to subscribe. Don't be scared by that.

The easy way to access everything, if you ask me, is to become a subscriber to all of the

New York Times. If you do that, you'll get access to all the podcasts, every single show, and you'll also get full access to the entire

New York Times. Games, cooking, culture, domestic news, foreign news, the most distinctive news report in the world.

And you'll be supporting the work of our newsroom.

But if you don't want to go that route, you can choose option number two and sign up for

a New York Times audio subscription.

Now that won't get you all that other great stuff I just mentioned, but it will get you access to all New York Times

podcast including the daily, past episodes, early access to episodes, bonus

content. Now, just to be clear and totally transparent, do you have to subscribe to

hear New York Times podcasts to hear the Daily? No, you don't. We want everyone to be able to listen. So the most recent

episodes of all shows, including the Daily, are going to remain free.

As you're deciding what to do with all this information,

I just want to say to you, our incredible loyal audience.

We started this show during the 2016 election.

We created the daily as a way of helping you, our listener,

understand a hugely complicated moment.

And honestly, that's remained our guiding star ever since. You. We think about you all the time. We think about you obsessively. We think about what you're curious about. What's confusing to you, what you'd love to learn,

what will challenge you, what will move you and make you laugh and enrich your life.

That's really how we operate. You are why we do our work. And we hope very much that when you see a subscription

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