Welcome to We can do hard things.

I'm here with Jessica Yellen and we meet with you once a week to tell you what's going on in the world so that you know what's going on in the

world in a way that is, I think the revolutionary thing about this, Jessica, is that it's

meant to tell you what's going on in the world as opposed to meant to hook you in a vicious

roller coaster cycle of nervous system breakdown? Is that our objective?

I do think that that is a fair assessment of what we aim to do, at least. Great. Every week we try.

We really, really try. We're not saying that there won't be a little bit of a little bit of

hilly terrain, but we're not intentionally taking you on the roller coaster.

But we do want to respect you enough to tell you what's going on in the world as clearly

as it can be seen.

Jessica sees it super clearly.

And then also the good news is then you have the information you need to take some action

and then you can go about the rest of your week without having to toxicify your body

with the onslaught of news that is intended to activate you. Is this correct? I love that. So we titrate

the toxicity of your news. Always within alliteration. I appreciate that. I love it. I also appreciate

how every week you try to frame our efforts in a way that people can understand like, we're not

trying to make you stressed. It's just that these events are very hard to put in the most calm

context. It's like trying to make it calm is like the Homer Simpson. I can't promise to try,

but I can try to try. We're going to try to try here today. Let's try to try.

We're going to try to try. So this has been a shocking, although we say it every week, as if it's an anomaly, a shocking week of news, which unless, if you're hearing this bit of news for the first time I'm really delighted for you because this one

sit down get ready I would like to see your face I wish I could see your face

listener as you hear this if you're hearing it for the first time if not

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