Hey there, it's Nick. And normally when I do a sort of pre-show announcement,

I'm operating off of some kind of script. And I'm not doing that right now because I wanted to

speak completely from the heart. And also because I have quite frankly no idea what I want to say.

I'm not even sure I'm actually even going to put this in.

Some people have described Love and Radio as existing in sort of another dimension out of time

and place. And it's something that I really love about the show and hopefully you do too.

But with the events of the most recent US presidential election, I can't help but feel

that tone is a little gosh at the moment. And I guess why I wanted to talk to you is in the next

few weeks, months, I'm going to be deeply considering what this means for us creatively,

topically. And I want to get your feedback of what you think. I wanted to hear from you guys about

how I can be of service to you all. Maybe that means doing exactly what we've always been doing,

giving people a space for empathy and nuance in a time which I'm willing to bet is not going to

be very nuanced in the next few years. Maybe we can use the tools that we have developed on the show

to cover new things. So I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at contact at loveandradio.org.

You could leave a comment on our Facebook page for this episode's post or you could leave us a

voicemail. The number is up on our website. Thanks for listening to this. And for this show,

I'm actually going to play an episode which was not originally scheduled for this.

Tonally, it's a little bit different, maybe not quite as stressful as a lot of episodes as we've

done, but it's a really beautiful piece. And I hope you enjoy it. Thanks.

I once jumped out of a helicopter with a parachute and I was approaching the ground and I came

under fire from the Vietcong. And you know you're under fire. I mean, you can't see a bullet,

but you can see a tracer. Every 10 bullets is a tracer. It's hours were read or green this will

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