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And now, today's podcast episode.

All right, all right.

Here we go again.

Britt Hartley, how are you?

I'm doing really well. Things are good. I'm meeting with my post-warman group tonight. I'm looking forward to seeing them. So things are good.

Awesome. We were just talking off the air. What's next week's episode?

Next week we are going to have on, in fact, I don't know her name.

I only know her from TikTok, so I only know her TikTok handle.

But she recently left or she left a Zen Buddhist community.

And she's speaking out about the sexual abuse and patriarchy that is rampant in Buddhist

centers and her story from Zen Buddhism.

And I'm just so fascinated for us to talk about patriarchy and sexual abuse in a different

religious connotation than kind of our history.

So that's going to be super fun.

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