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Back with The Takeaway, I'm Melissa Harris Perry. We're giving you a behind-the-scenes listen at how the takeaway is made.

One very special member of our control room team is engineer Vince Fairchild.

Now, be clear, we are a team of very vocal radio producers.

So Vince can sometimes be the quiet one. Of course, that means when he speaks, better go ahead and listen. In fact, y'all have been listening.

Many of the stories that you've heard, like the struggles of Mason, Tennessee.

Mason matters because we have been here the majority of us all our lives, and we're not just somebody who you can just push over, walk over.

Or this one.

My name is Nikki Giovanni.

I am a poet.

Yep.

Those ideas come right from Vince.

And he fact checks in the moment like none other.

He sound designs with mastery and he's so good that when our director Jay is out, Vince slides right

into the director's chair with a plum. And that is spelled APL-O-M-B. That is correct. Yeah,

that actually happens a lot, y'all. Vince tends to try to get my pronunciations and my spellings

together.

And we know that that is part of what makes him remarkable.

So without further ado, hey Vince.

Hey, Melissa.

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