I'm Toshi Regan and I'm Adrian Marie Brown and we'll introduce ourselves more fully in a minute

but here we just need to clarify that what you're about to hear was taped

before the coronavirus pandemic and before the most recent popular uprisings

against the police murder of black people.

From episode 7 on, we'll be talking about the book explicitly in this current context.

For these first few episodes, we talked about the work in the context of all the usual mess.

So be it, see to it.

So be it, see to it.

All that you touch you change

all that you change changes you the only last in truth is change is change.

God is change change.

Hello, Toshi. Hey Adrian.

So my name is Adrian. So my name is Adrian. My name is Toshi Regan.

And we are about to get you into the very first episode.

Sorry, like what the heck is that? episode.

Sorry, like what the heck is that sound? That's one of those bikes.

Sounds like a little farty car.

A bike with a motor on it.

All right, so the good news is we are sitting in my living room in Detroit, Michigan, where

Toshi has come, traveled from far and we to sit with me, and we are going to be recording something that we are calling the

parables podcast and it is a podcast about the parable of the sewer, the parable of the

the parable the talents and probably the parable of the Soer, the Parable of the Talents, and probably the Parable of the Trickster by

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