Hey, O'Tian, this is Michael Onger, reporter and producer with On the Media, of course.

Did you happen to hear my piece on the show last week about Zello, the Waki-Tocky app used by

militia groups for recruitment and organizing? If you haven't heard it, you should probably

cancel your plans for the evening and just go ahead and cue that right on up. But for real, that piece took us so long to make. It was 20 minutes on the air

and on the podcast, but it took a hundred hours at least. I was deep in the militia world researching. I was on and off the phone with

WNYC lawyers trying to figure out how to use the most precise language possible. I was talking

with sources, tons of interviews. I listened to God knows how much militia chatter on Zello.

It was an enormous undertaking.

But the reason we made the story is that we felt that it was important for people to understand

how some of these groups are coming together around the election and, you know,

what can be done to kind of

mitigate the violence that so many of us are afraid of seeing on the news come November.

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