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Hello Arkansas. What's good little rock?

We are so excited to be here tonight.

Here we are. For those of y'all who don't. So excited to be here tonight.

For those of all who don't know, I'm Lori Lissar Raga.

I'm B.A. Parker.

And I'm Jean Dembe.

And we are the hosts of Coateswich, the show about race and identity from NPR.

Yes, we are.

All right, so, but what's happening in Arkansas does not always get a lot of national coverage.

But it's also clear that it's a lot more going on here than just

what you see in the headlines. I mean we've been here for a couple of days.

Yes. We've fallen in love with the beauty of the place is gorgeous. The foliage.

The foliage. All the foliage, all the hills,, beautiful hair.

I had a bomb cheese steak here, like what?

Y'all have fully cheese things here?

But we haven't just been getting to know about Arkansas

from eating your local food and going to visit your

local eatery establishments. However that is what it seems like. We've also been talking to you, the folks who live here, grew up here,

work here. I called up lots of local reporters. I'm sorry for how many of you I have

bothered in the last two months.

We started reading recent policy, hundreds of pages of it.

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