Hey, O'Tem listeners, this is Michael Onger, reporter and producer with On the Media, of course.

Did you happen to hear my piece on the show last week about Zello, the Waki-Taki app used by

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cancel your plans for the evening and just go ahead and cue that right on

up. But for real, that piece took us so long to make a hundred hours at least. I was deep in the

militia world researching. I was on and off the phone with WNYC lawyers trying to figure out how to use the most precise

language possible. Tons of interviews, I listened to God knows how much militia chatter on Zello.

We felt that it was important for people to understand how some of these groups are coming together around

the election and, you know, what can be done to kind of mitigate the violence that so many of us

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