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More signs that the Defense Department's multi billion dollar contract to overhaul household goods shipments is not going well. As peak moving season gets underway, at least one military service is temporarily walking away from the global household goods contract and thousands of moves that were supposed to be handled by Home Safe the new vendor are headed back to DoD's legacy moving system. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been following the GHC saga for the last several years, and he's with us now for an update. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Marine Corps is DoD only military service that's managed to pass a financial statement audit. But the way it's gone about it isn't the sort of thing you'd want to do over the long term. The current process is expensive, time consuming, and filled with manual work arounds, but officials say they recognize those issues, and the next step is to make those successful audits more sustainable details now from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Navy has spent the last several years standing up technical solutions and designating them as intended for use across the fleet. Officials say the next step is extending that approach to the end point devices that sailors use every day, both ashore and afloat. For more on the unified endpoint initiative, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu talked with the Navy's Justin Finelli, Brandon Weller and Matthew Rambo.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Congress and other acquisition policy makers have been pressing the Defense Department to embrace more commercial technologies, literally, for decades. Well now there's a new push, a sweeping executive order issued last week tells DOD to reform its acquisition processes with a first preference for commercial solutions. That was also the theme of a panel Federal News Network's Jared Serbu moderated at last week's Sierra Space conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Congress and other acquisition policy makers have been pressing the Defense Department to embrace more commercial technologies, literally, for decades. Well now there's a new push, a sweeping executive order issued last week tells DOD to reform its acquisition processes with a first preference for commercial solutions. That was also the theme of a panel Federal News Network's Jared Serbu moderated at last week's Sierra Space conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Navy has spent the last several years standing up technical solutions and designating them as intended for use across the fleet. Well officials say the next step extending that approach to the end point devices that sailors use every day, ashore and afloat. For more on the unified endpoint initiative, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu spoke with the Navy's Justin Finelli, Brandon, Weller and Matthew Rambo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Navy has spent the last several years standing up technical solutions and designating them as intended for use across the fleet. Well officials say the next step extending that approach to the end point devices that sailors use every day, ashore and afloat. For more on the unified endpoint initiative, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu spoke with the Navy's Justin Finelli,Brandon, Weller and Matthew Rambo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Army has entered the fifth year for its Project Convergence. That's the service's annual war fighting experiment that helps inform the Pentagon's vision Joint All Domain Command and Control system (JADC2). This year is a little different. There's a part B. In addition to testing new technologies and war fighting concepts in the California desert, the Army is putting them through their paces in the place they might actually be used someday, the western pacific. We get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Army has entered the fifth year for its Project Convergence. That's the service's annual war fighting experiment that helps inform the Pentagon's vision Joint All Domain Command and Control system (JADC2). This year is a little different. There's a part B. In addition to testing new technologies and war fighting concepts in the California desert, the Army is putting them through their paces in the place they might actually be used someday, the western pacific. We get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's no secret that the Army wants to speed up its buying processes, but to do that, officials say they also need to speed up their processes for deciding what the Army intends to buy. That's likely to mean not just a scrub of the requirements the service already has down on paper, but new ways of defining future requirements as the army continues to move away from the big programs of record details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's no secret that the Army wants to speed up its buying processes, but to do that, officials say they also need to speed up their processes for deciding what the Army intends to buy. That's likely to mean not just a scrub of the requirements the service already has down on paper, but new ways of defining future requirements as the army continues to move away from the big programs of record details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The federal procurement system is famously complicated, but it's actually gotten more streamlined over the past decade thanks to an effort spanning three presidencies. It's called category management, and it's saved the government billions of dollars, and it's still a work in progress. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu wrote about it as one of the key issues that shaped the federal community in the last 25 years as part of our series celebrating Federal News Network's 25th anniversary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The federal procurement system is famously complicated, but it's actually gotten more streamlined over the past decade thanks to an effort spanning three presidencies. It's called category management, and it's saved the government billions of dollars, and it's still a work in progress. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu wrote about it as one of the key issues that shaped the federal community in the last 25 years as part of our series celebrating Federal News Network's 25th anniversary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When it comes to trimming the federal workforce, the Trump administration has had a string of court defeats over the last week and a half. So the administration is going all the way to the top government attorneys filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court yesterday asking the justices to stay a lower court ruling that ordered the reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees. The administration argues that's just one sign of a judicial branch power grab that only the high court can stop. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu joins us now with the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When it comes to trimming the federal workforce, the Trump administration has had a string of court defeats over the last week and a half. So the administration is going all the way to the top government attorneys filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court yesterday asking the justices to stay a lower court ruling that ordered the reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees. The administration argues that's just one sign of a judicial branch power grab that only the high court can stop. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu joins us now with the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tens of thousands of federal employees who were fired during their probationary periods have their jobs back on paper anyway. In a court filing last night, the Trump administration detailed the process agencies have gone through to reinstate those fired workers in the aftermath of a judge's ruling that found the terminations were illegal. But the administration also made clear it's not happy about having to process those reinstatements, and it's still fighting in federal appeals court. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu is here with more on the legal process and the details on which agencies are undoing those terminations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tens of thousands of federal employees who were fired during their probationary periodshave their jobs back on paper anyway. In a court filing last night, the Trump administrationdetailed the process agencies have gone through to reinstate those fired workers in the aftermath of a judge's ruling that found the terminations were illegal. But the administration also made clear it's not happy about having to process those reinstatements, and it's still fighting in federal appeals court. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu is here with more on the legal process and the details on which agencies are undoing those terminations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A half dozen probationary feds swept up in the government's mass layoffs got some good news this week. They're getting their jobs back, at least for now. The Merit Systems Protection Board found there's at least some evidence that their firings were unlawful, but this week's MSPB decision leaves a lot of questions still open, and one of the biggest does the same rationale apply to thousands of other feds who were recently let go during their probationary periods. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been following this case. He joins us now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A half dozen probationary feds swept up in the government's mass layoffs got some good news this week. They're getting their jobs back, at least for now. The Merit Systems Protection Board found there's at least some evidence that their firings were unlawful, but this week's MSPB decision leaves a lot of questions still open, and one of the biggest does the same rationale apply to thousands of other feds who were recently let go during their probationary periods. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been following this case. He joins us now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Plenty of federal agencies have begun deep cuts to their workforces – starting with probationary employees. The Defense Department is next up. The Pentagon says it will start laying off those new hires this week. About 54-hundred people are expected to be let go this week as part of what DoD says is just the start of a broader workforce reduction effort. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu joins the Federal Drive with more on what's happening this week and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plenty of federal agencies have begun deep cuts to their workforces – starting with probationary employees. The Defense Department is next up. The Pentagon says it will start laying off those new hires this week. About 54-hundred people are expected to be let go this week as part of what DoD says is just the start of a broader workforce reduction effort. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu joins the Federal Drive with more on what's happening this week and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Air Force says there's a new unity of effort when it comes to bringing new officers into the service. In December, officials created the new Air Force accession center, bringing the Air Force recruiting service and the home center for officer accessions under one Commander. The Commander is Brigadier General Christopher Amrhein. He talked with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu about the reasons for the reorganization and what it's achieved so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Air Force says there's a new unity of effort when it comes to bringing new officers into the service. In December, officials created the new Air Force accession center, bringing the Air Force recruiting service and the home center for officer accessions under one Commander. The Commander is Brigadier General Christopher Amrhein. He talked with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu about the reasons for the reorganization and what it's achieved so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Yesterday, we were supposed to find out whether the Office of Personnel Management'scontroversial deferred resignation program will be allowed to proceed, but we did not hear. As of now, the program is still in legal limbo as a federal court in Boston decides whether to issue a restraining order. Meantime, the government is now appealing a separate court's ruling that ordered it to reinstate Treasury payments to states and nonprofits, and a new lawsuit accusesthe government of sweeping privacy violations in connection with the Department of Government Efficiency's, activities, just a few of the pieces of litigation affecting federal agencies and their employees. Right now, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been up all night almost with an update on what's happening and not happening in the courts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Yesterday, we were supposed to find out whether the Office of Personnel Management's controversial deferred resignation program will be allowed to proceed, but we did not hear. As of now, the program is still in legal limbo as a federal court in Boston decides whether to issue a restraining order. Meantime, the government is now appealing a separate court's ruling that ordered it to reinstate Treasury payments to states and nonprofits, and a new lawsuit accuses the government of sweeping privacy violations in connection with the Department of Government Efficiency's, activities, just a few of the pieces of litigation affecting federal agencies and their employees. Right now, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been up all night almost with an update on what's happening and not happening in the courts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration appears unlikely to see the workforce reductions it's hoping for through its deferred resignation program, at least not now. The program is also on pause after a federal court issued a temporary restraining order yesterday, but the Trump administration is still pressing forward on its promise to cut down that federal workforce. Agencies are bracing for what's likely coming next, a reduction in force. Here with the latest, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman and Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration appears unlikely to see the workforce reductions it's hoping for through its deferred resignation program, at least not now. The program is also on pause after a federal court issued a temporary restraining order yesterday, but the Trump administration is still pressing forward on its promise to cut down that federal workforce. Agencies are bracing for what's likely coming next, a reduction in force. Here with the latest, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman and Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For federal employees who saw some appeal in the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, today is the last day to hit that reply button on the mass email from the Office of Personnel Management. Or maybe not, a new lawsuit challenging the program asks a federal judge to extend that deadline, and not just that, but also order OPM to start over and answer some of the legal and workforce planning questions still lingering. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been covering the litigation. He joins me now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For federal employees who saw some appeal in the Trump administration's deferredresignation program, today is the last day to hit that reply button on the mass email from the Office of Personnel Management. Or maybe not, a new lawsuit challenging the program asks a federal judge to extend that deadline, and not just that, but also order OPM to start over and answer some of the legal and workforce planning questions still lingering. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been covering the litigation. He joins me now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After many years of delays, the Defense Department is finally started ramping up use of its multi billion dollar household goods moving contract last month, and it's not going well. Hundreds of military families have been hit with late pickups, and even no shows, the problems are so serious, DOD has given the prime contractor a formal notice that it appears to be out of compliance with the contract. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been following the global household goods contract many years now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After many years of delays, the Defense Department is finally started ramping up use of its multi billion dollar household goods moving contract last month, and it's not going well. Hundreds of military families have been hit with late pickups, and even no shows, the problems are so serious, DOD has given the prime contractor a formal notice that it appears to be out of compliance with the contract. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been following the global household goods contract many years now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Navy has been pushing hard to move to a portfolio management approach to its information technology investments. Next up is cybersecurity. Officials say too often individual programs decide how to secure their systems and networks. The idea is to move the Navy and Marine Corps to what they call a holistic approach that considers people, processes, technology as all part of the equation. We get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Navy has been pushing hard to move to a portfolio management approach to itsinformation technology investments. Next up is cybersecurity. Officials say too often individual programs decide how to secure their systems and networks. The idea is to move the Navy and Marine Corps to what they call a holistic approach that considers people, processes, technology as all part of the equation. We get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It seems like only yesterday, the Defense Department finally got its long awaited enterprise cloud computing contract off the ground, but DoD is already planning for the successor to the multi billion dollar joint war fighter cloud computing program. One objective will be extending cloud services into tactical environments. Now the department has seen some early success in doing just that under the current iteration of JWCC. Details now from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It seems like only yesterday, the Defense Department finally got its long awaitedenterprise cloud computing contract off the ground, but DoD is already planningfor the successor to the multi billion dollar joint war fighter cloud computingprogram. One objective will be extending cloud services into tacticalenvironments. Now the department has seen some early success in doing just thatunder the current iteration of JWCC. Details now from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The first military paycheck of 2025 lands in service members bank accounts. Next week, they'll see one of the biggest increases in decades, 14.5% for junior enlisted service members and 4.5% for everybody else. Some troops will get even bigger raises in the new year, though, on top of the base pay raise, housing allowances are increasing by 5.4% still, the real number depends a lot on where they're stationed and a little bit on their rank. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been digging into the data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The first military paycheck of 2025 lands in service members bank accounts. Next week, they'll see one of the biggest increases in decades, 14.5% for junior enlisted service members and 4.5% for everybody else. Some troops will get even bigger raises in the new year, though, on top of the base pay raise, housing allowances are increasing by 5.4% still, the real number depends a lot on where they're stationed and a little bit on their rank. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been digging into the data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the world of federal contracting, it's not uncommon for vendors on the losing side of a competition to file a bid protest, but filing a bid protest three years after a contract award, that is unusual, but it's exactly what's happening with the Defense Department's multi billion dollar global household goods moving contract the federal contract dispute that just won't die. Federal News network's Jared Serbu has been following the procurement for all these years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the world of federal contracting, it's not uncommon for vendors on the losing side of a competition to file a bid protest, but filing a bid protest three years after a contract award, that is unusual, but it's exactly what's happening with the Defense Department's multi billion dollar global household goods moving contract the federal contract dispute that just won't die. Federal News network's Jared Serbu has been following the procurement for all these years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned to its home port in San Diego on Friday after a multi month tour at sea, including an unusually long stint of 107 days without a port call. But the Nimitz class aircraft carrier had something that's been unheard of until now, ubiquitous, high speed internet connectivity, even when it was 1000s of miles from shore. The connectivity experiment is part of a navy project called Sailor Edge Afloat and Ashore for how they tested it and the difference it made. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu spoke with the Lincoln's Combat Systems officer, Captain Kevin White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned to its home port in San Diego on Friday after a multi month tour at sea, including an unusually long stint of 107 days without a port call. But the Nimitz class aircraft carrier had something that's been unheard of until now, ubiquitous, high speed internet connectivity, even when it was 1000s of miles from shore. The connectivity experiment is part of a navy project called Sailor Edge Afloat and Ashore for how they tested it and the difference it made. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu spoke with the Lincoln's Combat Systems officer, Captain Kevin White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

College and University ROTC programs have a crucial role in training the military's future officers. In fact, they produce more officers than the military's own academies. But there's no analog for DoD civilian workforce, and officials want to change that. The department's new Defense Civilian Training Corps is now up and running at four universities. They're modeled to a degree on proven ROTC programs, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu got an update on how it's going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College and University ROTC programs have a crucial role in training the military's future officers. In fact, they produce more officers than the military's own academies. But there's no analog for DoD civilian workforce, and officials want to change that. The department's new Defense Civilian Training Corps is now up and running at four universities. They're modeled to a degree on proven ROTC programs, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu got an update on how it's going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

You can find lots of reasons why it takes more than two years to build the annual defense budget. A big one is the fact that DoD acquisition systems and its financial management systems don't talk to each other, at least not very well. That's a problem the Pentagon is starting to solve, though programs, big and small are beginning to use a common data lexicon, and officials are hoping for some big management gains. Thanks to that added visibility we get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

You can find lots of reasons why it takes more than two years to build the annual defense budget. A big one is the fact that DoD acquisition systems and its financial management systems don't talk to each other, at least not very well. That's a problem the Pentagon is starting to solve, though programs, big and small are beginning to use a common data lexicon, and officials are hoping for some big management gains. Thanks to that added visibility we get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Defense Department has a new plan to deploy 5g wireless systems on military bases and other locations around the world. Planners want to fill in the gaps not covered by telecom companies in remote and austere locations. The Pentagon says the new strategy will accelerate DoD development of private 5g networks tailored to the particular needs of each base. Details now from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Defense Department has a new plan to deploy 5g wireless systems on military bases and other locations around the world. Planners want to fill in the gaps not covered by telecom companies in remote and austere locations. The Pentagon says the new strategy will accelerate DoD development of private 5g networks tailored to the particular needs of each base. Details now from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Network defense these days is way more than about desktops, laptops and servers. User endpoints are growing fast, and one of the ways to make them manageable is to use secure by design principles in the Internet of Things ecosystem the government can push the market that way. Greg Touhill is a former Federal Chief Information Security Officer, now the director of the cert Division at the Software Engineering Institute. He spoke with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Network defense these days is way more than about desktops, laptops and servers. User endpoints are growing fast, and one of the ways to make them manageable is to use secure by design principles in the Internet of Things ecosystem the government can push the market that way. Greg Touhill is a former Federal Chief Information Security Officer, now the director of the cert Division at the Software Engineering Institute. He spoke with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's taken a while, but the Pentagon is making a lot more use of special pay and hiring authorities Congress gave it to hire cyber experts. DoD has ramped up its use of direct hire authority for cyber civilians. Over the past year, about half the people hired into the cyber accepted service joined via this expedited process, not the competitive ranking system the government uses for most civilian positions as Federal News Network's Jared Serbu reports, it's had an impact on the department's vacancy rate for cyber jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices