Hey there! Here's some important news from Network Rail,

if you're planning to catch a train over the May Bank holiday weekends.

From the 28th of April to the 1st of May and from the 27th to the 29th of May,

Network Rail will be working to upgrade and improve the railway for us all.

And while most of the network will stay open,

some train services will be affected. So, be in the know before you go.

Please check before you travel at nationalrail.co.uk forward slash May.

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It's Monday March 20th, 2023 from Peachfish Productions. It's The Gist I'm Mike Pesca.

And for the next couple of days, we are going to delve into what we learned during the pandemic

and what we're still learning. Today is a three-part interview with one guest, David Zwei.

He's reported for New York Magazine, the Atlantic, the Free Press, and other publications.

He was, as we'll get into, part of what's called the Twitter Files.

I don't know if among you, my listeners, that has a good or bad connotation.

But I vouch for Zwei's reporting. He was the first in the pages of New York Magazine,

the first to at least bring to my attention the differences between the US and Europe when it

came to masking school children. And he put his finger on the very true conclusions that

masking in schools among little kids wasn't showing much of a difference. So, we're going to use

that. You get into all sorts of questions about the pandemic, masking the great barrington declaration.

You know what that is. He was right there in the middle of it, as you will hear. And what he thinks

about the quality of the discourse, the debate, the functionality of our systems of actually

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