Hey, everyone. Emily Quang here with the spoke that keeps the shortwave wheel turning.

None other than our supervising senior editor, Jisal Grayson.

What's up, Gigi?

Hello, Emily Quang. You wonderful human. How's it going?

It's good. Our team is taking time off this holiday season,

including today, an observance of Christmas.

So we're taping this a few days before.

It's a time for celebration and change.

We have news. After two years of leading the show, Jisal, our Empress,

is going on to new projects at MPR.

Yeah, this is my last holiday season as your boss and editor of the show.

But as you say, I'm staying close though.

I am just ratcheting down my hours so I can spend, like, legit spend more time with my family.

I really like them. My teens are growing up too fast.

All those things. So I just wanted to take this chance to tell our listeners a sincere thank you

for listening to this show. And little behind the curtain here, it's got the best people working on it.

Like Rebecca Ramirez behind the Zoom window and Emily Quang behind the microphone.

Y'all, it's a wonderful team. So happy holidays to all our listeners and whatever you're celebrating.

If you're celebrating, we hope you're having a good day.

We do. And Jisal, you are such an incredible advocate of this show.

I'm so glad you're going to be still around.

And we've really made some audio magic over the years.

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