Before I start the podcast today, I'd just like to say a few words.

The first thing that I'd like to say is that normally at this point in the podcast, I say

that if you'd like to support the podcast, you can do so through Patreon or PayPal.

But this week is a little different.

What you can do to support the podcast is support the people of Orlando, Florida, who've been

devastated by a terrible tragedy.

You can do whatever you can.

If it means donating money, if it means donating blood, which may or may not end up in Orlando,

you can do that. If it just means lending a hand to a friend of yours

who happens to be taking it hard because they're a member of the LGBT community

or just because they're taking it hard because it's a very hard thing to deal with,

and it's a very hard thing to see over and over again on the news be there for them,

you know, whatever it takes.

This is a very hard time.

And one of the things about doing a podcast like this is that disasters constantly pop up

and the worst disasters that pop up for lack of a

better term at this point. The worst disasters that happen are these mass shootings because,

you know, regardless of the body count, we should be able to stop them, and we're not

stopping them. So I'm not really going to get too far into it just now, but I do want to talk

about it later on because I chose the subject matter for this podcast about three weeks ago.

And when the events on Orlando happened, things slowly started to change.

And I slowly started to, or quickly, to be more honest, started to see a pattern and started to see,

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