Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio.

It's been a full year of the Carol Markowitz show.

I'm so happy and honored for every single listener.

I'm also so grateful for IHeart Radio and for the Clay Travis and

Buck Sexton podcast network for giving me this opportunity. I didn't know if this show would work.

It's not news of the day. It's not about politics. I described this podcast as asking political people, non-political questions,

but it's also a show about living better, learning from other people, taking good advice.

And look, some episodes do veer straight into politics and there's just no stopping them.

A lot of people are just used to offering their opinion on what's going on

and are confused when someone asks questions about them personally.

I get that.

So we do our best to keep things not quite politics focused, more personal here,

and just to hope for the best.

This show has been doing a million downloads a quarter, and that is just wild to me.

I've had people who have been listening to me since the first episode and always offer feedback.

I really love that. I love hearing from listeners in general. I got a bunch of

mail recently about the dating episodes. I love getting the questions and I also love getting the

advice that people want to share. If you've got thoughts, drop me an email, Carol Markowitz Show at gmail.com,

K-A-R-O-L-M-A-R-K-O-W-I, C-A-R-N-Challies, Z-N-Z-N-Z-N-Z-A-N-Z-R-H-O-W at G-MEL. For season two of the show, I've switched up some of the questions based on your suggestions. I actually switched up one question, dropped one question, and kept one question. I'm no longer asking about our largest cultural problem, but more widely what the

guest worries about. It could be personal, or it could be cultural. I've dropped the question about

whether the guest feels like they've made it.

I've added a listener suggested question about advice the guest would give their 16-year-old self.

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