Okay, hello. Hi. It's Barry. Just me. The, uh, you know me. Barre, the people's princess. And that's, that's what they call me. That's ridiculous. Nobody calls me that. I'm, I'm just popping in at the very beginning to say this episode is a little bit

tough. Given the cultural climate, perhaps this episode is really timely or horribly mistimed, but don't know you will be the ones to let me know

that I started researching this story about two weeks ago and then recent events in

America and now across the world they affected my thinking and I really had to decide whether or not I was going to record this episode and I opted to record it.

Okay, as I said, it gets rough in parts, but man, what a story it is.

Okay, that was your warning.

And I'm going to have to edit that because...

Why did I call myself the People's Princess?

Nah, fuck it. I'll keep it in.

Standing up for what you believe in is hard.

It's very difficult because it can cause a lot of anger and a lot of disagreement.

There's a lot of heartache involved in saying what you really, really believe.

But we must say it, we need to.

You have to put an end to what you see is wrong.

But here's the thing.

In some places, that's easier said than done.

In some places, it's not too dangerous to have an opinion.

It's not too difficult a road to travel down to be the one who stands up and says what they think.

Let me ask you this.

What if standing up for something you believed in

was the end of your life?

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