Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Scoop, where you get the Scoop on this week's news. My name is

Jenna, and this is Smarter News. And we have a very special event today that I'm excited that

you're a part of, which is a live Christmas broadcast. So we have some questions that were

submitted from our Scoop audience. We also have those of you who are able to join us live that

can interact as well. We are broadcasting those of you who are able to join us live that can interact

as well. We are broadcasting live through smarternews.com, which is why I was getting that

feedback in my ear. Some of you would likely not be able to hear that, but I was hearing some

feedback in my ear, so I had to take a little second and pause and shut down some windows.

I don't know if you guys are like this, but this is my worst habit.

I have about 25,000 tabs open on my computer on a regular basis.

I think that reflects my brain, which is showing that there's a lot of different variety,

but very low efficiency.

And that's how I researched that. I want a little bit of everything.

I like a collage of information because it's really about pulling from different sources is how you

are able to pull together your reporting. That's how I feel I'm able to report the best.

You pull a little bit from here, you put a little bit from there. You notice connections that you

didn't notice before. And so it creates a very challenging workflow sometimes.

So thank you for your patience. I'm really grateful to see all of you. Jenna, Megan, Stephanie,

Jim, thank you again for joining us live. Before we get started in some of the news, so here's how we're

going to go through today. I have a quick news article I want to share with you that really stops me in my tracks

that emphasizes why what we're doing on smarter news is so important and why your contribution to

smarter news is so important and why you matter. I want to talk to you

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