Hello, welcome to blocked and reported.

I'm Jesse Single.

Katie Herzog is off this week researching the best ways to access your sensitive treasury department data.

I am joined instead by Jack Despain ZZo. Dude, I don't know

how to pronounce your last name. Yeah, Jack to Spainzo. Zoh, Zach to Spain-Zo, aka Tracing Woodgrains.

You came out, you came out as Jack Zoe in the last year, right? Jack to Spainzo, yes.

You are a former producer, Tracing Woodgrains, as everyone knows you. Trace, thank you so much for coming up.

Hey, it's a pleasure to be back.

You will always be a part of the bar pod family.

Our podcast owes you a true debt.

You're currently a law student at Temple University.

Somehow on top of that, you're doing some excellent journalism and writing and social

mediaing.

We'll get to that in a minute. but first, you said you have an announcement.

Yeah, the timing of this episode happened to coincide with something pretty exciting in my professional life,

and I figured what better place to announce it than blocked and reported. Doge? Are you going to be on Doge?

No, I'm actually going to be launching an education policy think tank,

the Center for Educational Progress, alongside Lilian Tara, who just graduated from Harvard Education School. The two of us have been working on it for a bit in the background,

pulling things together, and we're about ready to launch, focusing on orienting education towards the pursuit of excellence.

Dude, that's awesome.

What was the name of your co-founder again?

Lily and Tara.

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