Hello, my dear for the love podcast community. You guys were popping in at a special time

this week to let you in on a very cool project. I've been a part of this year and I definitely

want you to be a part of it too. You may have heard of a little organization called The

Gates Foundation. It's literally out there doing hugely important work having a deep

and profound impact on the world. And they're excited to share stories about some of those world

changing initiatives and most importantly the innovators behind them. And I was honored when they

asked me to service the host for a brand new podcast series they are calling Make Me Care About.

You guys, they rounded up the most interesting people to actually make us care about all kinds of

stuff we might have never thought of like for example poop. Okay, poop. We have a whole poop show.

I sit down and talk to an expert about why the thing we're talking about matters. Probably more

than we even realize it does. Like in this case, how sanitation systems work and why they are in

danger of being outdated, which could wreak so much havoc on our public health. And then the

solutions they're working on to radically change the configurations of our indoor plumbing solutions

over the next few decades. I promise you this is a fascinating conversation. And poop is just one.

Like that's not the only thing we're asking you to care about. We're getting the skinning on stuff

like syringes and iodized salt and college digital money. You guys, there's so much more. And I

can't even begin to tell you how much I learned by being a part of these conversations. It was fun

and it was fascinating. And of course, I knew I had to share these episodes with our community here.

So we're going to be airing several of these over the coming few weeks as a little extra bonus.

In addition to our regularly scheduled episodes to pop in your ears at the end of the week.

I know you're going to find these conversations as interesting and as illuminating as I did. And I

hope they inspire you to be more curious and care about something new that maybe wasn't on your radar

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