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And to end our show today, we now turn to our friends at the WNYC show, New Sounds.

As some of you may know, WNYC, like so many other news and cultural organizations, has been weathering financial difficulties.

Unfortunately, that has looked like it would mean

our colleagues at New Sounds are slated to be part of the most recent rounds of staff cuts.

But several major donors have stepped up to help, and they're now feeling both grateful

and optimistic at New Sounds about reaching their goal,

but more help is needed.

So we're going to talk about the show and we're going to talk about the campaign as we

welcome none other than the longtime host of New Sounds, John Schaefer.

Hey, John.

Hey, Brian.

You want to update people first on what the status of the campaign to save new sounds is?

Well, you know, we were pretty pessimistic at the beginning, but, you know, as you said,

we've had a couple of major donors get us kind of, we have, let's put it this way the finish line is in sight and we have

finally opened up the campaign to our full community of listeners to try and get us over the line it just

you know it feels like an appropriate time and we didn't want to do it earlier because as I say

we didn't know if this was going to work and we didn't want to be it earlier because as I say we didn't know if this was

going to work and we didn't want to be taking money from people that you know if they weren't going

to get what they were donating for so you've got a specific sort of new sounds specific pledge drive

is a way to put it and that goes just for another day or two exactly and you And, you know, this is a really remarkable thing.

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