That is a little boy in North Carolina named Lachlan, whose mother, her name is Erica

Collis, she explained to me, she'll only let him listen to the first sentence that's

uttered on any given episode of this show.

He thinks the show itself is called High Folks This Is Kevin.

So thank you so much for helping us introduce the show this week Lachlan and to the rest

of you just a few words before we start.

If you are new to the risk podcast, be sure and check out our recent best of risk, number

three and four episodes and our live from San Francisco episodes.

Those are great ways to get to know the show and if you already know the show, share those

suckers with your friends.

Now listen, if you are a fan of podcasts, you may already be aware that Congress is considering

passing the Shield Act soon.

This issue could not possibly be more urgent and crucial for us podcasters, all of us podcasters

are under attack from a patent troll called personal audio that claims to own the patent

for podcasting itself and seeks to extort money from all successful podcasts and bankrupt

this all.

As President Obama says, patent trolls are those who do not produce anything themselves, they

just seek to extort from those who do.

This is a huge problem, not just for podcasters, but for entrepreneurs all over the country.

So we are asking all of our fans to go to eff.org slash shield to contact your representative

and tell them to make the shield act law.

Very easy to do, just a couple clicks and as far as podcasters are concerned, it could

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