This week's episode is brought to you by nobody again.

But again, I'll use this suddenly empty ad space to encourage you to think about how

to support people who are being hit much harder than I am.

Musicians, artists, writers, and podcasters, individual direct donations and sales could

mean the world of difference to them.

They all have patrons and Venmos and PayPal accounts.

There's also your favorite local businesses.

Your food from them, order books from them, order whatever from them.

If you have some disposable income, if your job and your paycheck are unaffected, honestly

this is the time to increase your budget for arts and entertainment and getting takeout

and just impulsively buying things.

It's not self-indulgent at this moment to buy art or albums or get dessert with the

takeout order.

It is an act of social solidarity.

Then there's the critical infrastructure for those who are really struggling.

People food banks need more money.

Domestic abuse shelters need more money.

To say nothing of the people closest to you.

Your friends and family.

Lots of times you ask somebody how they're doing in the instinctive responses to say,

it's fine, everything's fine because we all have our pride.

People don't want to feel like a burden.

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