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It's me, James, and I just wanted to explain, as you're listening to this, we recorded

this around midnight on Friday after having spent,

I think, three days, four nights in Minneapolis.

And the tone of what we recorded here is hopeful.

I remain hopeful and inspired by the people we met in Minneapolis,

and I remain so proud of everything they've done.

But about nine hours after we sent this off to our editors, Alex Preti was killed by two Border Patrol agents.

And the tone of this would have been different if we had recorded after that.

And that's just the nature of the work we do but we don't want

anything in the hopeful tone here to suggest that we don't grieve his passing that we aren't

thinking of the people who loved him right now because we understand that they're going through a

very difficult time but we still want you to learn from what's happening in Minneapolis and for what people are doing

there. And we hope that you remember that as you go through this episode. And I think that

honestly, those two things that we have to balance just as we deal with the state of the world

is just, you know, everyone we talk to, this was so present on their minds, is both an awareness of the beauty of the things that they are building and also an awareness of the darkness that has caused them to need to build these things.

But anyway, we hope you enjoy these episodes and are following more closely with more current news about what's happening and are talking to the

people around you, wherever you are, about how you will keep yourself and your neighbors safe.

And yeah, thank you.

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