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Hey, everyone.

We recorded this episode you're about to hear more than a week ago, but we wanted to take a week to pause our regularly scheduled programming in order to honor the lives of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, as well as the countless other black lives that have been taken by police in America throughout its history.

We stand firmly with Black Lives Matter here at Nightcall, and we absolutely condemn the acts of

violence that we've witnessed that have been carried out by a militarized police force during the

protests. At Night Call, we talk about our dystopian reality, strange days and lonely nights.

With that as our mission, it would be

really avoidant of us to ignore the movement for change happening across the country, as well as

the rampant police brutality and mismanagement we've seen it come up against. As our friends

Bobby Finger and Lindsay Weber at Who Weekly pointed out last week, our platforms are a privilege,

and staying silent on

issues like police brutality and racism isn't an option. We're putting a lot of thought into the best

way to use the night call platform as we continue to release episodes during a very uncertain time.

As always, we want to hear from our listeners about what's going on on and off the air. Please

keep emailing us at

nightcall podcast at gmail.com. If you have any feedback, if there's anything you would like to hear

us talk about on the show, anything comforting you want us to cover. And if this week's

conversation about gambling in California split is not your cup of tea right now, we completely understand.

Attention is a finite resource, and we totally support you taking yours wherever you need to right now.

So with all that in mind, thank you so much for your support and understanding during our brief hiatus.

And now our discussion on gambling,

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