Hey folks, we're going to get started in a second, but one quick thing before we do.

That's right. This month, we are joining our favorite podcast hosts, great people working with the likes of NPR, the podcast network Gimlet, WB, Z, etc.

To encourage podcast fans to spread the word about this podcast format we all love.

And it's really simple. All you have to do is just tell

someone who doesn't listen to podcasts about one episode you loved from any podcast. That's right.

Be that annoying person. And no, you're helping them out. And if you're doing it on social media,

use the hashtag tripod just to wet your whistle. We are at South by Southwest right now.

And Rico and I were part of a podcast event yesterday, and we also were on stage with the wonderful podcast, another round,

which you should listen to if you haven't heard it already, and Mortified, which is another great

podcast where people recount stories. They read stories that they wrote when they were young.

Yeah, which is mortifying.

They're beautifully mortifyingly terrible.

So that's an example of what you could do, folks.

It's a TRY pod is the name of this initiative.

It is quick and it's easy and it gets you instant karma points because you've just made

someone's life a little richer by introducing them to a fun podcast.

All right. And now it is time for Speak Easy. Put the Speak Easy theme music right here, please.

No, do it here, please.

Hi, this is Brendan.

And I'm Rico and welcome to Speak Easy.

This is an occasional podcast-only episode where we play you some stuff that didn't make it into the full cut of our show that we really wanted to share with you.

And then we talk about it off the cuff, possibly using slightly more R-rated language, aka we speak easily

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