It's Brian Air Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone and fastened your seat belts. It's

2024. If you were new to the show in 2023, maybe you even just discovered us on some days off over the holidays.

Welcome back for a year two.

If you're currently raising kids, wasn't it great to have a lot of time with them over the holidays?

And yes, it's okay to acknowledge that you're really glad they're back in school today.

Yes, you can do that and you're not a bad parent.

If you've been with us longer than just last week or just last year, happy new year and here you still are.

Here we still are. I hope you were all safely strapped in as we try to navigate the possibly very bumpy ride ahead.

Again, this year we will try to have the best conversations we can for the New York area

and beyond, conversations with guests and conversations with you about the big events in our area and anywhere in the world.

We'll continue this year to try and present respectful conversations about the Middle East and America's role in it that are open to hearing

the aspirations and grievances of both the Israeli and Palestinian people and that respect

both the obvious truths like that there's a

humanitarian catastrophe in front of our eyes right now but also the many

complexities of the underlying issues. We acknowledge again that those

conversations are difficult and we won't always

get them just right, but we will try in good faith.

Again this year we'll be doing a climate story of the week on Tuesdays.

Mark your calendars if you follow climate news.

Our climate story of the week on Tuesdays again.

We'll kick that 2024 series off during this show today. Remember it's Tuesday not Monday today even though it might

feel a lot like a Monday. Again this year despite all the big and heavy soul searching

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