Layla.
Hi, Steve.
You sound a little impatient with me already.
No, no.
Whoops.
It's just really early.
I'm tired.
Well, it's good to hear your voice.
It's good to hear your voice.
And before we get started, we're supposed to, and I'm happy to,
make a note here that public media has not only brought you the news this year,
we've been part of the news this year.
Yeah, we don't like to be part of the news.
But we're happy to still be here,
happy to still bring you up first in all the podcasts you love from NPR.
Public media, it's made for you.
We're not thinking about shareholders or advertisers.
We're thinking about what you need to know and what we need to ask to help you understand the world we're living in.
Federal support was canceled for public media this year and yet stations across this country,
and I visited a bunch of them, by the way.