Hello and why is this happening with me your host Chris Hayes?

Well it is the that time of year again as we hit towards the holidays when we do our

semi-annual mailbag with the number one with pod producer, the one and only Donnie

Holloway, joining me on the mic, welcome Donnie. Thank you so much Chris. I'm

so glad to be here. I'm so excited for our mail bag.

We always look forward to these.

This is our second time doing the mailbag on Instagram Live.

We love the live interaction part of it and interacting with so many people so just really

thrilled to be doing this again as we reflect on the year that it was and think about

the year that's ahead. Yeah it's great we had We had a very, very, very, very, very busy year on With Bud.

It was such a busy year.

I mean, and personally, I feel like With Pot continues to be such a professional thrill,

so gratifying.

Chris, we have so much to talk about the past year.

We're going to switch it up a little bit this time, too.

Got a surprise, some questions from former guests actually, from our live tour.

So we'll get into some of those, including a question from this up-and-coming talent that

you scouted out. the one and only Rachel Maddo.

So we'll get into a question or questions from her actually because in true form Rachel sent over a different options, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Chris, you know, we've been doing this podcast for a few years now.

In terms of where people can find us, people definitely found us out on the road this year as we were on the

national tour was great meeting so many people so many people from across the

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