Good evening, folks. Thanks for joining us. I'm Phil Bruce from NPR and this is Jennifer Farrow from KCRW.

Thanks so much for joining us for what we know is going to be a great night. We know you've

been listening to all that great madmen music out there and trying to get you warmed up

and it won't take much. We're very excited about this partnership between NPR and KCRW.

One of the things it's producing, you see these cameras all around, we're going to have a video

of tonight's

program on NPR.org sometime in the next few weeks, and so you want to keep an eye on that.

But a few lucky people are seeing it tonight as it happens.

Jennifer?

Yes, so thanks for being here tonight.

And I also want to think before I tell you about that element, I want to thank Miriam Muscarolos and the other board members from the NPR Foundation who made this night possible.

So thank you to them.

Thank you very much.

And as Phil mentioned, we're webcasting this live.

I mean, we put these tickets on sale and they sold out in like, I don't know, five and a half minutes or something.

So clearly we didn't charge enough.

And we have too small of a venue.

But what we decided to do is webcast it live.

And so on KCRW.com right now, you can see yourself, so everyone should wave to the little cameras.

So let's get started.

If you'll help me out and silence your mobile devices,

and then help me welcome our great treasure at KCRW

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