Hello, welcome to part two of our delightful chat with Michael Strype.

If you haven't heard part one yet, stop what you're doing, you go back to the feed, find

part one, listen there, and then come back here for part two, here's part two.

I feel like we're talking about two things, both of which are crystallised in your book.

So we've got Covid and that has changed the world in a massive way.

It's paused the world in a massive way.

But I do fear that people will forget it, and actually it won't change anything.

That's my fear.

But then we're also talking about just a word that's come up a few times is privilege.

And the way in which we are all waking up to, for me I feel long overdue, the fact that

there is so much inequality that I have through being a white gay man, have been able to skip

past, and if I think of myself 15 years ago, I was never talking about any of the stuff

that I talk about now, and I wonder what you, as an artist, feels that does for you and

how you feel you must represent it in whichever medium you're working in at the time.

I think accepting that that's accepting the truth of that and then allowing humility,

allowing humility, I think that's really important to be able to say, I don't know everything,

I don't know the experience of that.

I can empathize, I can try to imagine, but I will never know what it feels like to be this person

with that person, but there is a basic humanity that we all carry within ourselves.

The book is also very much about feminine energy, and that's very much where I think we're

headed, if we actually survive, and I think I'm an optimist, I do think that we will survive.

I don't think that COVID is going to be forgotten, we differ on that, I think it's going

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