Hello ladies how are y'all today?

Hi sisters oh I am vibrant

because we're in vibe check my dear yes yes we are here for vibe check

let's tell folks who we are first.

I am poet and writer Saeed Jones.

I'm journalist and Tony Award winning producer, Zach Stafford.

I am journalist and podcaster Sam Sanders, just trying to keep up with these two and you are now

tuned in to our weekly group chat turned podcast called Vibe Check.

What a time to be a vibe.

I just came over with that one.

Wow.

Wow.

Put that on a t-shirt to Zay!

Round of applause for us.

Episode one.

I'm so excited. We're here. We have arrived. We have made it.

It's been a while in the making. I mean, when did we have the idea to kind of maybe pitch our group chat as a show. It happens deep in

pandemic times. I think the first inkling may have been well over a year ago

and then I think we got serious about this about a year ago.

Like last time.

And I went back and looked at my calendar because around the same time that we were talking

about the show and talking to people about it, a few of us, maybe all of us, found men and all of our

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