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You're listening to Radio Lab, the podcast from WNYC and NPR.

Hello everyone, this is Radio Lab, the podcast. I'm Chad Abumrod.

And I'm Robert Quilwich and Jad Sick.

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But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't explain to you the situation to you, the podcast listener, are in.

But there's been some confusion here among our podcast.

There's exactly what's going on.

In the last five podcasts, you've listened to completely produced hour-long programs.

Yes, that's why we began Radio Lab as a radio show, hour-long programs, which we work very, very hard on. Yeah, I mean, I think of us as having two, we have radio labs for the radio, which are hour-long programs, and you've just heard a bunch of those. And then we have radio labs just for you, the person who sign up. Those are called the podcast. And we could do stuff on the podcast that are a little less formal. Yeah. And not that we're terribly formal on the radio. But it's just a looser form. So we can come a different length. Shorter. Shorter. Or longer. Yeah, that's true. That's true. We've ran conversations between you and various smarty pants that have run pretty long. Really long. And have been great. Yes. Or close to forever. But the point is, this is now the beginning of a podcast. So this is not, and if you're wondering where to find us on the radio, the issue there is is that we're on the radio at different times all over America. So you have to ask your local station when they run radio labs. Sometimes it's in

the morning, sometimes it's in the evening. But the podcast is anytime you choose. That's right.

And starting with this podcast, this post-season five podcast, I want us to read to you, Mr. Krall,

the second paragraph of an article that was recently in the New York Times.

Okay.

Have you heard about this fellow Barack Obama?

I know about the New York Times.

Oh, yes, I heard him too.

Okay.

Well, new researchers have documented, I'm quoting here, what they call an Obama effect,

showing that a performance gap between African Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered

before Mr. Obama's nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his

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