Hi, I'm Essie Cup, and I've spent my career interviewing people about politics, presidential elections, and some really tough breaking news.

But now I need a break, and I think you do too.

So on my new podcast, Off the Cup,

I'll still be interviewing people,

usually famous and most likely my friends.

But about life, you know, the stuff that consumes us

when we're not consumed by politics?

So come join me every Wednesday for some conversational self-care.

Listen to Off the Cup on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite

shows.

I'm Dr. Lorry Sandos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the US elections approach,

it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever.

But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share with the science really shows that

were surprisingly more united than most people think.

We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics,

and that we need to do better and that we can be better.

Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in a rain.

Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isickson.

He's the most successful self-made business person in America.

A printer, a scientist, a founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.

Franklin casts his lot on the side of Revolution and it's another thing that splits

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