Welcome back happy hour listeners. Today we have a very different episode than what you've

probably ever heard from Ray Chennai. I'm about sure happy hour for you. Before we get started,

I want to first highlight the fact that our last two episodes when we had Gina and Carion

were recorded and released prior to all of the events that have taken place in our world today.

You know, they were fun for us in lighthearted, but there's much more serious matters that have

been going on in our world that we want to address. So obviously with everything that's happening

today, we don't want to take anything lightly. So instead of doing our regular style episodes,

this isn't going to be as lighthearted, we're going to dig a little bit deeper and shift in the

conversation over to some very important topics that are at the forefront of our attention.

So in the last few weeks, our world as we know it, or as we have chosen to know it,

has been greatly shaken. We've gone from this global pandemic to being quarantined and away from

everyone, you know, into something that's completely different and the world hasn't

undoubtedly changed, but it's one of the most important moments for our generation. And it's

this modern civil rights movement that is taking place and the magnitude of everything that's

happening is just so intense, it's so important, it's so heavy and it's uncomfortable, but it's something

that we necessarily, but it's something that's necessary for us to talk through and address.

So, you know, Rachel, I don't know if you can hear it in my voice, it's a little shaky because

it is probably the most deep, heavy conversation that we've had on this podcast to date.

Yeah, and I think it's important to know that, like I love that you talked about how

we had some pre-recorded episodes and that's why we haven't addressed it. I don't want anyone to

think that we've been shying away from this. Becca actually reached out to me like a week ago

and wanted, maybe even longer than that. And you wanted to address some of the things that have

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