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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the Joy Reid show.

It's Wednesday.

I can already see the chats already heating up.

Y'all are already in here.

Somebody's got some like angry emojis. Why are there angry emojis in the chat? Y'all come on, don't be angry emojis. We just started the show. Welcome to the show. Big up to everybody who's watching on YouTube. I can see the YouTube chat here, looking here at the Twitch chat. Let me jump over and say hi to the Twitchies. Hello to everybody that's watching on the stack.

That is the substack.

That's our cute way of saying the substack chat. Thank you all for being here. Wherever you're listening, if you're listening on an audio platform, we appreciate you as well. Let's not forget our friends on LinkedIn. We still don't come up with a name for the LinkedIn people. I call them LinkedInys, but apparently that's not sufficient. We're going to come up with something for them. Also, our Facebook fam, not. Not the LinkedInys? Absolutely not. LinkedIn's. I'm a LinkedIny. We've also got the people who watch on Facebook. Our Facebook friends, we appreciate them as well. We just appreciate everybody. We just are thankful that each and every one of you is joining us. We have now topped 444,000 subscribers on the tube.

211,000 plus on the stack, 30,000 plus on Facebook. It's a small but vibrant community. And, of course, our about 400 strong on Twitch, the little Tucci's. I haven't really been able to count the LinkedIn people. That's maybe why they don't have a name yet. Y'all come up with your own name. Tell us what you want to be. But you're all readers to me. Everyone is a reader. We appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you to everybody who has been voting in our eyeglasses contest for shop

redbag.com. We're very excited. The numbers are coming in. I've peaked at them, but I don't want to,

I don't want to jinx it by really telling you what's happening. But if you go on shopredbag.com

or go on shop.joyanread.com, you can continue to vote for one of the three specs. We can create our readers. Our VonTel frames is our VonTel partnership. So thank you all for voting in that. Please continue to vote because I really need help bigger now. I'm going to tell you, I told Jason just before the show that, well, I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say anything more. I'm going to say vote for, I told Jason just before the show that, well,

I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say anything more. I'm going to say vote for one of the

frames. Okay. Let's just vote for one of the frames. We're going to, we're going to lock in and we're going to figure out what kind of frames you want. What kind of colors you guys like? What kind of style you like, should they be stylized? Should they be plain? What color should they be? All the things.

Okay, we're going to figure all that out, the shape, all those things. Okay? So please continue to do

this. Should they be stylized? Should they be plain? What color should they be? All the things.

Okay, we're going to figure all that out, the shape, all those things.

Okay?

So please continue to do that. I want to start. You know, we normally do the moment of joy at the end, but I actually want to do a moment of joy right at the top. Because y'all, listen, I can't hold it to the end of the show. I can't wait two hours to tell y'all.

We won a Webby!

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