A friend sent me a meme the other day.

It was like a Paddington meme, and the caption was,

born to Dilly Dally, forced to fight fascists.

I like, you had me at Dilley Daly.

Hi, everyone, it's Nicole Wallace. You may know me from Dilly Dally.

Hi, everyone.

It's Nicole Wallace.

You may know me from Deadline White House.

This is our new podcast called The Best People.

Rachel Maddo is our North Star here at MSNBC.

She also happens to be as funny and smart and supportive off camera as she is on.

So for this episode of The Best People, we dig into the news, shirtless Vladimir Putin,

and all sorts of other things.

This is The Best People with Nicole Wallace, and this is my dear friend, Rachel Meadow. So, Rachel, thank you for doing this. I know you're more than very, very, very busy,

but you're truly, I don't know why I feel I'm about to get weepy, but you're not just one of the best

people in my life. You're one of my closest friends in this world. You are everyone's TV friend,

but I feel like you get to be my real world friend.

And I have to say the last six months, I know where I was when I called you in all my scary moments.

There's a part on my run where I run with the baby and I would have to run far enough that she'd be asleep,

but I would like pull off in this spot.

And as the election was coming to an end and the stories

that we covered became so real. And in my scary moments, like you were my lifeline and the person

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