Hey, y'all. Hi. We just wanted to jump on before the episode to let you know, we recorded this

a couple weeks ago, so before everything that is currently going on. That being said, we thought

it was a really good episode to release right now because our guest, Lauren Duka, is a journalist.

She is incredibly dedicated to getting people politically engaged and active.

And so our discussion, even before all of this was happening,

deals with a lot of that.

Like when you're feeling overwhelmed, what are the ways to get yourself engaged easily?

She mentions a newsletter that she has called Pancake Brain, which comes out once a week, and she

puts a whole bunch of resources into one, you know, pretty short and sweet newsletter with links

and all that stuff. So basically, we're hoping that

y'all will find this episode useful in terms of what is going on now, even though it was

recorded prior to what is going on now. Yes. And we just wanted to give you guys the heads up about

that because, you know, like, we don't think in listening back that anything comes off as super out of touch with this moment, truly.

But at the same time, it's probably going to be clear that this was recorded beforehand.

And it just feels like the past couple weeks have been such an unbelievable game changer

that it's hard in some ways now to have these episodes that we recorded prior to this

that we had lined up for Pride Month.

It's hard to roll them out in the same way.

We've been making some adjustments and changes as a result. And if you did not hear our

episode last week, we talked exclusively, it was just the two of us, we talked exclusively

all things like Black Lives Matter, just gave a bunch of resources, talked about some things

that both of us had learned, some mistakes we had made, and then learned from and wanted to share that.

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