Speaker 1: Hello, all my bunnies. This is Arden coming to you
Speaker 1: from my house. I am with our dearly beloved Anna
Speaker 1: Tanna hosny A. Hello, And believe it or not, I
Speaker 1: don't think we have ever actually missed a podcast, and
Speaker 1: we are not actually missing one right now. We are
Speaker 1: intentionally muting ourselves just so that we can take the
Speaker 1: opportunity to listen and read and learn, given the state
Speaker 1: of what is happening in the country right now, to
Speaker 1: our family of listeners, to in particular to our black listeners,
Speaker 1: we support you, and we are so grateful that you
Speaker 1: are a part with of of our world. And we
Speaker 1: want to educate ourselves so that how we can be
Speaker 1: an agent of change in this deeply flawed society and
Speaker 1: and we want to help change it going forward. Anna.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know, but she hosts
Speaker 1: this wonderful podcast called Ethnically Ambiguous, also on My Heart,
Speaker 1: about what it's like to be a brown person in
Speaker 1: this country, and she put together a list of resources.
Speaker 1: Um it's tagged on her Twitter page at Anna host
Speaker 1: ni Anna take it. Oh yeah, so it's pinned on
Speaker 1: my Twitter and it's just a donation resources Google doc
Speaker 1: I made and it It has over twenty different places
Speaker 1: you can donate your money from the Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: UH just there regular site and then the l A
Speaker 1: site because we're based in l A. There's the Action
Speaker 1: Bail Fund, UM Black Visions Collective, which is a Black lead,
Speaker 1: queer and trans organization UH. And there's Free Them for
Speaker 1: All Public Health, the National Bailout Reclaimed, the Block MPD
Speaker 1: one fifty, many many organizations where you can give your
Speaker 1: money to help. How you can I have the go
Speaker 1: fund means for George Floyd, Tony mcday, David mcintee, just
Speaker 1: these men, black men who were murdered at the hands
Speaker 1: of the police. You can find resources all over the
Speaker 1: internet to educate yourself to understand listen to what black
Speaker 1: people are saying. There's nothing wrong with realizing that you
Speaker 1: were wrong or you thought about something in a way
Speaker 1: that that might not have been the right way to
Speaker 1: think of things. So just understand that you can be
Speaker 1: wrong and it's okay as long as you learn from
Speaker 1: it and you do the work. I also like that
Speaker 1: what you were saying we were talking about earlier, just
Speaker 1: let it begin with me. You were saying, you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you maybe have been around family members
Speaker 1: and you hear them say, you know, say things to
Speaker 1: actually speak up and tell people not to speak like that.
Speaker 1: Just things like that that you can just just in
Speaker 1: your own like start your own hula hoop. That's what's
Speaker 1: the thing you can start with. Yes, it starts in
Speaker 1: your homes and it starts in your community. So you
Speaker 1: need to speak up. If people are saying anything racist,
Speaker 1: you need to point it out and need to explain
Speaker 1: why it's damaging. And yeah, just pointed out. And you
Speaker 1: might think, I'm just me. What difference is one person
Speaker 1: going to make, But it actually does make a difference
Speaker 1: because it starts small and it grows. We care about
Speaker 1: all of you, and there is still a pandemic out there,
Speaker 1: and truly this podcast it sounds corny, but it got
Speaker 1: me through my own personal hardest times in my life.
Speaker 1: And we really all of you. We care about all
Speaker 1: of you so much. We love your emails, we love
Speaker 1: hearing from you. We will be back soon. We hope
Speaker 1: you're all safe and sound. We hope your families are
Speaker 1: safe and sound. We're thankful for this merry tribe of
Speaker 1: like the people that are you know, every bug finds
Speaker 1: its light, my friend used to say. And I feel
Speaker 1: like we have this bright light and there's all these
Speaker 1: little beautiful butterflies flying around this light, and I just
Speaker 1: adore all of you. It's the most warm I truly
Speaker 1: believe it's the most warm hearted crowd of people I've
Speaker 1: ever been a part of. So um um, I just
Speaker 1: wish all of you well and will be back. And
Speaker 1: and because we also know that humor um humor, and
Speaker 1: it helps the soul, which then helps you be of
Speaker 1: service to others. So with that, I'm just sending you
Speaker 1: all lots of love and strength and safety and we
Speaker 1: will be back soon.