Welcome everyone, once again, to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio.

We are delighted to have you on board.

I am Matt Kaplan and I regret to say that this will be the last time, as far as I know,

that I will be joining Casey Dreyer for the Space Policy Edition, although SPE has a bright future ahead of it.

Casey, Chief Advocate and Senior Space Policy for the Planetary Society.

Welcome once again, Casey, and probably for the last time, with me.

Matt, you preempted my acknowledgement of this.

This is a very frightening time for those of us at the Planetary Society, who depended on Matt Kaplan to lead us in our podcasting and radio efforts and production and everything.

So Matt, I don't know what to say.

This is our last show together.

You will still be around, we should emphasize, helping the society.

But as regular listeners know, you've handed the baton over to our colleagues, Sarah Ahmed, who will be running the regular show.

And then I will forge forward somehow in the Space Policy Edition.

So this will continue, but it just won't be the same.

So Matt, I just want to thank you before we start for indulging me on this idea of doing a special Space Policy Edition version of the podcast, which was I think six years ago now,

and that you just graciously accepted all the extra work that it took to make it.

So I could not be more appreciative and we will miss you very much on this show.

Thank you so much, Casey.

I will very much missing doing this with you six and a half years, but who's counting?

It has been such a blast.

I have learned a lot.

I'm sure the audience has also done that.

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