Welcome to the Unspeakable Podcast. I'm your host, Megan Down. My guest is Freddie D'Bore,

and I'm going to introduce him in a second. But before that, a couple of announcements. The first is

that our monthly Zoom hangout for founding members will now be on the third Sunday of the month at 8 p.m.

So this is the thing where I get together with you guys for about an hour and a half every

month and we talk about the show and you can grill me about the guests and anything else.

We had been basically meeting on the first Sunday of the month, but it turns out that

that's the hangout time of some other podcasts that you might also be fans of.

So we don't want to have any competition or get into any territorial disputes.

So unspeakable podcast hangouts will now take place on the third

Sunday. That means the next one will be March 19th, Sunday, March 19th at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

Previously, I said it was March 5th. That did not happen. Again, this is for founding members. This is a really

great perk. So if you want to participate, go to the substack and join at the founding member level.

The second item is that on March 18th, I will be part of a literary festival in New Jersey,

celebrating the novelist Philip Roth. That's called Philip

Roth Unbound is taking place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Roth's hometown of Newark,

New Jersey. I'll be part of a panel called What Gives You the Right? And we'll be talking about

issues of culture and identity and who is allowed to write what.

For tickets, you can go to njpac.org. That's njpac.org. And come on out.

There's going to be a lot of really cool events and a lot of great speakers and authors.

So please do think about attending. Okay, and the last

item has to do with the unspeak easy. The first thing is that our online community will be launching

very soon, like in the next few weeks. So make sure you're on the mailing list if you want updates

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