Welcome to Democracy-ish.

And I'm Danielle Moody.

And we are very excited to bring another esteemed, esteemed guest to democracy, to democracy-ish,

uh, writer, activist Parker Malloy, but I will turn it over to Washa Hot to do his movie

phone. Good intro of good, good people. Parker Malloy pitches off all the right people. She is the host and author of

the present age with Parker Malloy on Substack. You can read it on readtpa.com. And she is the winner of

the 2022 NYU American Journalism Online Award winner for Best Media Criticism. Thank you so much, Parker,

for joining us. I look forward to that every week,

by the way. That's what

makes me happy in life, the fact that

Danny allows me to do the movie phone voice.

I mean, it's such joy.

With the movie phone voice, what's the point of having a

podcast? Yeah, I mean, what's

the point? Parker, you are Yeah. I mean, what's the point?

Parker, you are always in the fray.

You're doing the good work.

You get attacked by all the right and wrong people.

The first question I want to ask.

We want to talk to you about media criticism.

We want to talk to you about how our institutions can do better.

But among your many roles, you're also openly transgender.

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