Hey you guys, before we get to the show, I just want to talk about something real quick.

Over this past year, we, and when I say we, I mean the four or five people on any given

occasion who are making this show, spent basically every day working to do one thing.

And that was to take stories from the news and tell them to you in a way that helps you

understand this insane world we live in just a little bit better.

I mean, that's why we spent late nights trying to find just the right way to tell you the

story of how Mitch McConnell came to power.

It's why we worked really hard to bring you a story that asked the question, just how

far would you go, to rescue someone you love, even if that person might have been part

of ISIS?

It's why we had really hard conversations about stuff like white nationalism because we

want to understand all these headlines we're seeing about shootings and violence.

And the thing about all this is you are a huge part of helping us build this thing that

we do on our show.

You do that by making donations to your local NPR member station.

NPR is part of the public radio network.

Public radio stations give money to NPR.

NPR pays us to make embedded.

So when you give money to your local public radio station, it helps us.

So here's how you make a donation to your NPR member station.

Just go to donate.npr.org slash embeddit and take it from there.

Thanks.

...