You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions, the second episode in which I am your host Sarah Izger joined by untitled other dude from Tennessee, David French.

I'm a frequent guest, frequent guest.

David, you just started at the New York Times, congrats.

Yeah, thank you. I'm on day three.

I will say that the New York Times Slack is larger than the Dispatch Slack.

Interesting.

Yes, but there are commonalities.

Namely, the Dispatch Slack has a dog pictures channel.

And then so does the Times.

But the Dispatch Slack dog pictures channel is actually for babies. That's the joke.

It's dog pictures because that's I think Slack comes with that channel.

And then I, who I think I had the first baby at the Dispatch immediately co-opted it for baby pictures, which I thought was hilarious because there's no baby pictures auto Slack channel.

Yeah.

So yeah, but it is it is it is funny.

We do put dog pictures and dog pictures channel and baby pictures. So it's a big thing.

It's anyone you love.

Yeah.

So I've thought long and hard like if I'm going to introduce myself in New York Times Slack, which you don't actually do it.

It's much more tightly controlled than you know, all seven five six seven thousand people total free for all.

But in the opinion side of it, there is an opinion animals Slack channels.

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