It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Happy Friday, everybody.

And today we have a special spring membership drive edition of our show.

Today is Friday, but we are starting the weekend early

with guests from our Saturday and Sunday shows. I'll give you the line up in a minute from the New York

Radio Hour on the media, radio lab, open to debate, and wait, wait, don't tell me. We'll have people

from all those shows this morning. And this is also a very special morning in the membership drive

because we have a two-for-one match for the whole show this morning. And then we will end

today's portion of the membership drive at noon. So you'll get Allison and the whole rest of

the day membership drive free after 12 o'clock. And we have a two-for-one match for this whole show this morning until then.

Craig Newmark, who focuses his giving on supporting journalism and journalism education,

is generously offering the money to get this going.

For every dollar you donate, Craig will donate another $2, so your donation gets us three times, really, what you donate.

This will be the only time like this, the only time like this during the spring membership drive.

So thank you for helping us to maximize Craig Newmark's generosity right now.

Together, you can do a lot to make up for the elimination of federal funding,

the total cutoff of that that Congress and the Trump administration imposed on us last year.

Thank you for considering a first-time membership.

Thank you for increasing your membership level.

Many of you, by just a little bit, we're asking for $3 a month more on your sustaining memberships when this two-for-one matches in effect from now until noon, because every dollar that you add

will count toward that. And all the usual thank-you gifts are available. Like any other day,

take a Brian Lairr's show baseball cap if you want one or a public radio nerd mug or anything

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