Hey, it's Michael. Back again, doing the Talking Before the Show thing.

Last week and yesterday, we gave you a heads up that the Times is going to be asking

listeners to become audio subscribers if you

want full access to podcasts.

As we said, there are a few things to know.

Every day, our newest episode, That that day show will remain free to everyone listening everywhere as

will the shows from the last few days. If you have full news subscription to the New York Times and thank you for that,

audio will be included.

And if you don't have that, but you want full access to New York Times Podcasts,

you can get a specific audio subscription.

Now you're going to start seeing options for logging into your Times account

or subscribing on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify.

Aside from this, you're also probably noticing today's show looks very long.

I'm here to tell you that it's not. We did not make a super long

episode of our show. We're doing something out of the ordinary to make our case

that you want to subscribe to NYU audio and to support the work that we do and

the shows that we make and to get full access to the whole universe of our wonderful podcasts.

So today and in the coming days we're going to send you episodes

and excerpts from some of our colleagues.

Shows that we think you're going to love to hear.

We're going to tack those right on to the end of our episode.

It's kind of like a prize at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box. Today, that prize is an interview that our colleague from the opinion section,

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