Hello Mike Allen.

Allen.

Hello, Nylaboodoo and congratulations, I'm being the host of Axios today.

You are now the voice of Axios today. You are now the voice of Axios. Well that means a lot coming from you, Mike,

as one of the best known and hardest working journalists in Washington, And I think many people already get your must read newsletter,

Axios AM, and we are going to help people start their day

with a new podcast.

I wonder if you can help me tell everybody what it's

going to be about. Nyla we're gonna be the smartest, funnest breakfast table in the world so

we're gonna make you smarter, faster on the topics that are changing the world.

Connecting business, tech, media, politics, science, AI, all going to make for great conversations all day.

And Mike, in those topics that you talked about, I think there's a really interesting philosophy

that happens that I'm learning a lot about it, Axios, just about how all of those

things you mentioned are actually related? When we were starting Axios, we realized

that just being up to speed on a topic or two wasn't enough in this revolutionary

transforming world that you had to see how things connect and collide, how tech hooks on to business, how politics and media interplay. So it's

those collisions that are going to make for conversations on Axios today.

And so Mike, the best thing is we're going to do all of this in just 10 minutes.

Axios means worthy in Greek.

We've always tried to be worthy of your time and attention, and now we're going to be worthy of your time and attention and now we're going to be worthy of your ears.

It's actually a little crazy to try to launch this daily news podcast in the middle of a pandemic.

Mike, we're actually doing this via Zoom so you and I can practice

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