Hey there. How you holding up? Welcome to season 19. I sincerely hope this will not be our

longest season. But our story this time is about hope. It's about making do in a time of crisis it's about people

coming together in extremely weird circumstances who never met each other

before to get things done quickly and it's a story from New York City, which we think is a couple weeks or so

ahead of where the rest of us are heading. So I hope it's going to give a lot of us

some ideas about what we can do and how we can be helpful.

This is an arm and a leg, a show about the cost of health care.

I'm Dan Wiesen.

I've been saying for a while that the show is focusing on self-defense because

the cavalry isn't coming and that one job for the show is to help us train ourselves

up to be some version of that cavalry, to hold the line.

And right now, holding the line is literally a life or death

situation on a scale we haven't really seen before.

People quote Mr. Rogers a lot these days about what to do in a crisis.

Find the Helpers. And this is a story about people deciding to become the Helpers

and finding each other.

It's wild and it's really, really lovely.

All right, let's go.

This story starts right in the middle of March,

when New York City basically shut itself down and a lot of people's jobs just totally went away.

That includes people like Kat Navarro.

Okay, who I was before all of this, maybe.

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