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One of the best and worst things about our jobs here at Planet money are the deadlines.
They're relentless, but they keep us honest because while we're being honest without deadlines, we would work on stories forever, reading that one last paper, doing that one last interview, checking that one last fact.
That is, of course, if it weren't for, for the deadline, because of deadlines, at a certain point, we fade up the music, read the end credits, turn off our recorders and go on to thinking about the next story.
But it's not like that for the people we talk to.
For our stories, the music doesn't just fade up on their lives.
No.
They fight on another day, encounter new obstacles, learn new lessons.
And so every once in a while around here, we like to check in on those people and their stories, call them up and say, hey, how'd that work out for you?
It's a show that we've been doing for over a decade here at Planet Money, an idea we kind of stole from a radio great, the legendary Paul Harvey, who had a show called the.
Rest of the story.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Nick Fountain.
That's our show today.
The rest of the story updates on the stories we've reported and from the people we've met along the way.
Hey there, it's Amanda Aronczyk.
Before we get back to the show, a bit of year end reflection.
In 2023, Planet Money followed the wild arc of inflation of interest rates.
We brought you a series about AI and an episode produced by AI.
And we served up another extremely infotaining season of Planet Money summer school.