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Hello, friends. Welcome. So great to see you. And welcome to the very first episode of the preample podcast. Of course, this is not the first podcast we've ever done. Perhaps you've seen our more than 400 episodes of Here's Where It Gets Interesting. And the preamble is just a new iteration of podcasting to meet your needs. It allows us to make sure that we are meeting this

very politically fraud moment, one in which people are feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety,

and the questions seem to be nonstop. So I'm glad you're here. I'm Sharon McMan, and this is

the preamble, where facts, find context, and

hope still has a home. The last few weeks have been a huge whirlwind around here, as we have been

working to get this show up for you, and also working to relaunch the preamble as a new weekly

magazine. It has been a lot of 18-hour days. It has been a lot of caffeine. It's been way

too many cups of coffee and late nights and 2 a.m. Conversations on Slack as we are trying to

edit and upload and reformat nearly a dozen new pieces

on the preamble.com. And I would love to have you check it out. It is absolutely beautiful.

It's going to land in your inbox every Thursday morning. And we are so excited about everything

that lies ahead. We also want as much information to be

free as humanly possible. If you would like to become a paid subscriber that gets you access to a

bunch of fun perks like being able to submit questions for this show, we want a really good work

we're putting out into the world to be as accessible to as many people as possible.

So head to the preamble.com and see the entire new site redesign, which is essentially like taking a team of civil engineers, setting them next to a bridge and saying, you have two weeks to reconstruct a new copy of this exact bridge except make it more beautiful.

Go. And the engineers were basically like, let's get started. So it has been a huge lift and we're so

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