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Hey there, now that we've wrapped season three of an arm and a leg,

we're going to do something a little different. It's time to take a look back at

what we've learned and what I've learned in making this show. What are the big big

lessons including stuff we never actually got to talk about on the show.

And what are some big projects we're going to tackle in the next year or two?

So spoiler alert, we are definitely going to keep looking at self-defense

and what we can do to help ourselves and help each other fight back and keep from getting

crushed by all the weird screwed up appalling confusing ways the health care system and the health insurance

industry and a bunch of other money-making powers that be keep messing with us.

I'm telling you, I'm learning a ton every day and every day I have more questions.

But I'm not just going to yack at you, that would be weird. Instead, I'm going to do a slightly less weird thing, and I'm going to ask one of my favorite colleagues to interview me.

You know, before I did this show, I was a reporter for Public Radio, and Sally Herships was a role

model and then a mentor and a friend.

So a few years ago, I got to work for a national show on public radio called Marketplace, and Sally was one of the people whose work on that

show made me want to work there because she's so smart, she's so funny, she's so human, she's super

kind. She's a great storyteller. And so when I got there, she was one of the people who really showed me the ropes and helped me understand how to do that job and since then she's on a lot of work for planet money a bunch of other places to you.

So there's basically nobody I'd rather talk to about this work and

there's nobody I feel better about putting in charge for the bulk of this episode

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