Hey everybody, Maddie Sifaya here.

And Emily Quang.

All right, Quang.

Are you ready for some real talk right now?

A little heart to heart?

It's my favorite kind of talk.

Yes.

So just like all of you, the shortwave team

is figuring out how to make our way through this pandemic.

And making a daily science podcast is hard.

Making one in the middle of a pandemic

from our home closets and blanket forts is even harder.

So in order to continue bringing you the best possible show,

we're making a few changes over here.

Starting this week will be dropping episodes in your feeds

four times a week instead of five.

We plan to be back to five days a week soon.

You'll still get the pandemic coverage you need.

And we promise we'll still get weird and silly with you

on a regular basis in the name of science, of course,

because we don't know any other way.

Of course.

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