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Hello and welcome back to the Bodies Behind the Bus podcast.

We have an interesting episode today.

And I say interesting because, one, this is going to be on video as well.

So if you're just listening to us and you would rather experience this conversation with our faces attached to it. You can go to the links in the bio

right now and see us. We felt like this conversation was important to have face to face.

So that's why we're doing this reluctantly, especially Jay reluctantly. He is, he's hard-pressed

to get onto like every single Zoom call call it's just Jay's the black square

that's nothing there and you know every once in a while we get like an unmute if we're lucky

um but anyways we decided to have this conversation we are four four members of our six member board to talk about

what it has been like living in America from our different spaces that we inhabit after the

election. And, you know, it hasn't even just been like a week of processing this. I think all of us have been processing this for years. Some of us on this call lifetimes. But in particular, it feels like for me, the end of a season in a sense and the beginning of a very unknown, very scary season.

And I don't even think everybody on this call would feel that same feeling.

That's just how my body is experiencing this.

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