Hey, everybody, it's Peter.

So a little while after the lockdown started, I was sitting in my closet at home, wrapping

up that week's show.

And I got to the part right before I ended by saying this is NPR, you know, with a pause.

And I blurted out something like, hey, everybody, congrats for getting through the week.

Let's do it again.

And somebody told me that was nice to hear.

So I did it again the next week and the next and now it has become a thing.

And here is the thing.

It's completely sincere.

It's been a tough year for everybody, including everybody you're about to hear on our show

this week and doing our show for you in a real way with you has helped all of us immensely.

We really are in this together, which is why we are taking a second here at the end of

a tough year and hopefully right before a much better one to ask you to donate to your

local station.

Go to donate.npr.org slash weight.

Thank you.

See you and thank you in person next year.

From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

Hey Peter, cut me.

I'm your umbilical cord.

Bill Curtis.

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