Hi, Insiders, it's Erica Mandi here, and this one is just for you. Before we get started,

I do want to say it means so much to have your support as an insider. It helps us keep making

the newsworthy, supporting our team, and it gives us the flexibility to stay true to our approach

without having to worry too much when we have to turn down a potential sponsor. I mean, just one recent

example was when I had to turn down a major prediction market company as a sponsor. I believe

that would have been a big conflict of interest. So truly, thank you for helping to make sure

we have financial support regardless. And for this episode, we will start with the questions

about how the show gets made.

We got several of those and how we make editorial decisions like choosing stories.

Then we'll get into a couple of the final more personal questions.

So let's get into it.

Okay, I'll start by answering Andrew and Rachel's questions about our process for choosing stories.

We look at three main things generally in this order when deciding which stories we'll make it into the newsworthy each day.

So number one, what's the most important and or most talked about news of the day?

We want our listeners to stay engaged in that national conversation.

We never want you to feel like

you're living under a rock or don't know about something that's important. Number two, what truly

impacts our listeners' lives the most? This is not just about politics. Our lives are varied and

therefore impacted by everything from, you know, Supreme Court decisions to advances in medicine,

even Amazon's

new delivery systems, right? We like to make sure that our daily news reflects everything

that might show up in your daily life. Number three, we ask ourselves, do we have a wide

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