Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

And this folks,

our researcher and producer Jacob

recently wrote in this little prep doc that we have

and said, you know you're about to do your 400th episode

and look here we are folks, can believe it 400 episodes 400 is a lot of

episodes so we've got something special planned but let me immediately say

hello and congratulations to Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and

Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there. Hello and

congratulations I am tired. I know that's a lot. That's a lot.

That's a lot sort of mind-blown a little bit.

It is mind-blowing, but when you do three a week,

it adds up.

And, you know, I will say like,

it's really nice that we're doing this at this moment because we've hit

this 400 mark this is running on Thanksgiving so hopefully you know folks are

listening as you're cooking or whatever it just feels like the vibes feel good the other

thing worth noting is that this 400th episode real coincidence here, but it happens to be coming at this moment when we are starting the annual Radiotopia fundraiser.

And so I think this is a chance to say congratulations and thank you to Radiotopia and moreover thank you to you

listeners and anyone who's a member of Radiotopia and I'm not going to do a big fundraiser pitch here

but I will say that like this show only comes together because of listener support.

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