A Few Words

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, all my bunnies. This is Arden coming to you
from my house. I am with our dearly beloved Anna
Tanna hosny A. Hello, And believe it or not, I
don't think we have ever actually missed a podcast, and
we are not actually missing one right now. We are
intentionally muting ourselves just so that we can take the

(00:21):
opportunity to listen and read and learn, given the state
of what is happening in the country right now, to
our family of listeners, to in particular to our black listeners,
we support you, and we are so grateful that you
are a part with of of our world. And we

(00:41):
want to educate ourselves so that how we can be
an agent of change in this deeply flawed society and
and we want to help change it going forward. Anna.
I don't know if you guys know, but she hosts
this wonderful podcast called Ethnically Ambiguous, also on My Heart,
about what it's like to be a brown person in

(01:01):
this country, and she put together a list of resources.
Um it's tagged on her Twitter page at Anna host
ni Anna take it. Oh yeah, so it's pinned on
my Twitter and it's just a donation resources Google doc
I made and it It has over twenty different places
you can donate your money from the Black Lives Matter

(01:25):
UH just there regular site and then the l A
site because we're based in l A. There's the Action
Bail Fund, UM Black Visions Collective, which is a Black lead,
queer and trans organization UH. And there's Free Them for
All Public Health, the National Bailout Reclaimed, the Block MPD

(01:45):
one fifty, many many organizations where you can give your
money to help. How you can I have the go
fund means for George Floyd, Tony mcday, David mcintee, just
these men, black men who were murdered at the hands
of the police. You can find resources all over the
internet to educate yourself to understand listen to what black

(02:06):
people are saying. There's nothing wrong with realizing that you
were wrong or you thought about something in a way
that that might not have been the right way to
think of things. So just understand that you can be
wrong and it's okay as long as you learn from
it and you do the work. I also like that
what you were saying we were talking about earlier, just

(02:28):
let it begin with me. You were saying, you know,
if you if you maybe have been around family members
and you hear them say, you know, say things to
actually speak up and tell people not to speak like that.
Just things like that that you can just just in
your own like start your own hula hoop. That's what's

(02:49):
the thing you can start with. Yes, it starts in
your homes and it starts in your community. So you
need to speak up. If people are saying anything racist,
you need to point it out and need to explain
why it's damaging. And yeah, just pointed out. And you
might think, I'm just me. What difference is one person
going to make, But it actually does make a difference
because it starts small and it grows. We care about

(03:11):
all of you, and there is still a pandemic out there,
and truly this podcast it sounds corny, but it got
me through my own personal hardest times in my life.
And we really all of you. We care about all
of you so much. We love your emails, we love
hearing from you. We will be back soon. We hope
you're all safe and sound. We hope your families are
safe and sound. We're thankful for this merry tribe of

(03:34):
like the people that are you know, every bug finds
its light, my friend used to say. And I feel
like we have this bright light and there's all these
little beautiful butterflies flying around this light, and I just
adore all of you. It's the most warm I truly
believe it's the most warm hearted crowd of people I've
ever been a part of. So um um, I just
wish all of you well and will be back. And

(03:56):
and because we also know that humor um humor, and
it helps the soul, which then helps you be of
service to others. So with that, I'm just sending you
all lots of love and strength and safety and we
will be back soon.