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when it comes to the news. Of course, Smarter News is always dedicated to quick, concise,

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but every once in a while, we have to spread out what we meet by concise. And instead of three minutes, maybe we could talk for about 30 minutes and some of the big stories of the week and take

your questions, and that's what we try to do here. So we're broadcasting live on Instagram,

as we're also recording audio for those that want to watch and listen later on YouTube and podcasting platforms everywhere. But it was a really interesting week in the world of smarter news. We had to adjust a couple things. So I thought I would start off with that because I was able to do something I haven't been able to do in a really long time. And that is step in front of a big crowd and talk about what we're doing here.

And over the course of the last couple years, of course, we had the pandemic.

That certainly prevented some travel.

I also had a baby.

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