Lemonada. The people who want to tear the world down are really clear on what they're doing.

And so for all of those of us who want to be hopeful, what we don't want to be is peace signs and like,

you know, woo-woo, like, oh, let's just make everything wonderful. It's like, we've got to get

organized. We've got to get diligent. We've got to get diligent.

We've got to get activated.

And so to me, that energy is exciting. It gives you the purpose and meaning of life. Welcome to Pod Crush. We're hosts. I'm Penn. I'm Nava. And I'm Sophie. And I think we would have been your middle school besties. Breathing through our noses and exhaling through our hoses.

Oh, no. Sophie. And I think we would have been your middle school besties. Breathing through our noses and exhaling through our hoses.

So glad this thing is coming to an end. Oh my goodness.

Pre-finally episode coming right up.

Hello, hello. Welcome to Podcrush. This is our pre-finally. We have the finale, which you should know by now. If you haven't heard, we will tell you it is Leighton Meister, who is our first, our A1 Day, once she's our first guest. A lot of people ask for her to come back. She's the only person who has ever come back. She is our last guest. And she's on video.

We know that you were begging us for her to be on video. That's right. We were not a video enterprise then. We are now. Today's episode is very different from anything we've done in the past. If you've been listening to Pod Crush for a while, you would know that we're a show that explores our guest's middle school years.

That's our launching point every time we start at 12, not 12 p.m., but 12 years old. It's

spoiler plate, right, for us? But today's episode is different because we're not exploring our guests

coming of ages. We are asking our guests to help us make sense of humanity's collective

coming of age. We're suggesting that that's the period that we're in

and how this idea of coming of age can be used as a prism to view the world through

and to help us make sense of some of the admitted craziness we might see around us.

What's really special about today's episode is that we have an academic who's going to frame like this historical

moment who's going to help us think about this really from the view of the community, the collective,

our systems and institutions. And then we have a guest who's going to actually really help us

think about each one of us, what can we specifically do? And I love that we get to kind of hear

that full perspective.

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