Hey, how to listeners. I'm coming to you today with some exciting news. I'd like to

introduce my new co-host and your new best friend, Courtney Martin. Courtney, welcome to

the show. Thank you, Carvelle. Hello, everybody. I'm so excited. First of all, it's such an

honor to share this with you, Carvelle. I'm such a big fan of your work. It's true. It's

true. I'm psyched to be in this with you. And deeply honored that Amanda Ripley, I'm

feeling some big shoes. I think she's an incredible journalist. And I just feel really grateful

that she thought I'd be good for this. But yeah, I mean, I'm widely curious and kind of

obsessively helpful sometimes to a fault. So this is actually a perfect fit for me. I'm

just one of those people who is always looking for answers to other people's questions. And

now I get paid to do it. Like how sweet is that? You've come to the right place. Along

those lines, tell us the listeners a little bit about your background. So I'm a journalist

by training, although kind of a weirdo journalist, I've never like fully felt like I fit into

the traditional journalism world. So I co-founded something called the Solutions Journalism

Network. When I was a wee young thing with David Bornstein and Tina Rosenberg, and that

was really out of my conviction that journalists should be covering solutions as rigorously

and compellingly as we do problems. And that's another reason I was really interested

in this podcast is kind of redefining how we think about who is an expert. And I know

that's been important to you, Carvelle, is like, not necessarily looking at just positional

authority or just someone who knows how to be part of elite networks, but like who are

the actual authorities on various topics that we care about? And how do we think more

like expansively about that? And you've written like a ton of books,

it seems like. I think according to my notes, 4,578 books, you've written in the last five

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