Hey everyone, Jody Abergan here. Welcome to our Some Sunday context series where we are bringing you conversations new and from the archives that try and give you a little context for what we were up to here in 2026. And up next is a new conversation. We took part in the on airair fest in Brooklyn this past week, one of my favorite podcast festivals.

Shout out to everyone who attended and said hi.

Nikki and Kelly flew into New York and we had a chat, the three of us,

checking in on how things are shaking out with America 250.

Now, this was sort of a soft launch, I would say, of a series of bonus conversations

we're going to do throughout this year looking at the semi-Quincentennial, what it means to do

the work of history in this moment, and so on. Some of those will be live shows. Stay tuned for that.

And some will be with special guests. I will tell you, we have got a great one coming up.

I can hardly keep the secret.

But anyway, here is part of our audio from our chat in front of a live audience in Brooklyn.

Now, I say part because if you want the full bonus conversation,

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Anyway, either way, here is the first part of our chat at On AirFest.

We were lucky to be introduced by the great Ronald Young Jr.

So you'll hear his voice first. Coming up right after these ads.

Coming up now, in 2020, America celebrates its semi-Quincincennial, that's 250 years since the Declaration of Independence.

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