I'm Derek Thompson, long time writer with the Atlantic magazine on tech, culture, and politics.

There is a lot of noise out there, and my goal is to cut through the headlines, loud tweets,

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Plain English starts November 16th.

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I'm Sean Fennese.

I'm Amanda Dabin, and this is the big picture, a conversation show about a lot of stuff.

We're getting down to our final days of the Amanda for a little while on the show, so we

figured it's time to get as much of you as possible.

We've got an ask Amanda Mailbag later in this episode.

First, we wanted to hit on the producers guild nominations, the writers guild nominations,

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