Happy Friday Slater's Laster's. We are trying something a little new this week. Last Friday,

Lizzie and I sat down together to chat AIs and popes and Anthropics and blessing Lizzie got when you were a teeny tiny baby in 1979.

JP2, bless my forehead. And so knowing this about Lizzie, that she was actually a holy figure, I was like, why aren't we doing this every week?

And we decided maybe you would like access to the good stuff.

Like Lizzie and I just shooting the shit every week.

So here we are.

Lizzie, hi.

Hi.

Hi.

First of all, I think we need to tell people that we've known each other for 25 years.

Yes, longer than I've known my husband. I have known Lizzie O'Leary. This is true. We worked

together at ABC News. We worked for Peter Jennings, which maybe tells you, I mean the 25 years

tells you, but it ages us. But like we put our sneakers on and ran around and handed over scripts. Yes, exactly, exactly. Very broadcast news. So we've been doing this for a minute. We have real thoughts. We often express them in the DMs. Maybe you want to be in the DMs with us. So here you are. Welcome. Lizzie, welcome. Thank you. It's lovely to be here. Okay. So if you are here, it's because you're a Slate Plus listener. We are so grateful for you. You help us keep the lights on. So let's get this started. This week we are talking about what? Well, let me do this. Lizzie, how are we going to run this? I think we're going to, should we put like, you know, we've got a shot clock and we can run it

backwards? That gives you a little bit of information about what I'm going to talk about.

Okay. We are each going to bring one thing that we want to talk about with our lovely Slate Plus members. Yeah. We're calling the segment what? What should we call this thing? Off the record? Yeah. I mean, just because it kind of is. I don't know. That sounds dirty. That sounds weird. That sounds like I'm sex to me, Lizzie. Sorry, I take it back. Okay.

Okay, we're going to call it off the record.

Let's just, let's commit to that bit.

So you and I are each going to bring like one thing we want to talk about, one thing we want to get off our chests that has been haunting us all week that we couldn't find room

for in our numerous shows.

Numerous shows, five shows a week.

This is number six for the left behinds.

But left behind but not forgotten.

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