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Welcome to Pressen Podcast. I'm Shanei Alexander and this is where we talk through your problems and we attempt to give you our best advice but today my friends there is no we it is just me we're going to do a little

Q&A episode we're going to do a little temperature check. I'm by myself today because I feel like I was always too scared of doing solo episodes and I did one and I had a ton of fun.

I feel like you guys had fun too. This one's just a little Q&A and then we might do some

advice but y'all I was feeling like having a little hang because to be honest I'm talking to my friends on the phone. We're face timing and things like that but I am missing human interaction and I'm not missing it enough to be crazy and be out at a crowded bar, not happening anytime soon.

But I am just missing that like face to face talking with my girlfriends in person moment.

So I'm hoping this if you're feeling that way too this kind of scratches that itch for you.

I am aware I'm talking to myself.

So it doesn't exactly scratch that itch

for me personally at this moment,

but we're gonna do what we can.

So first, it is June 26, so we're still in the month of June.

The world has just been so insane around us

and I feel disgusted obviously about like the racism and things that have like kind of just been in our society for so long.

People are like, oh it's been such a hard two months.

I'm like, guys, this has been happening forever.

It's been like a pretty crazy last century, but I can't help but feel like

hopeful in this time. I hope that we are learning something from this time that it won't pass us by. I do have a little bit of paranoia about kind of letting this moment slip through our fingers, but if it's any consolation, I'm going to try to do my part to keep these kind of issues top of mind and continue to help point my audience, point you guys to really helpful resources and really incredible people in the black community doing anti-racism work and you know I just I'm feeling

Hopeful and I can't say that I felt that way a few weeks ago and not that it's about me and how I feel but certainly like just I see the things that are happening in our news and our culture and some of it is still so devastating but I also do see little spots of hope so I hope you can grasp onto those along with me.

Also please stay the fucking side because the coronavirus she's back she never left she

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