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Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep.

It's time to face your darkest fears.

This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.

I'd like to take a minute to step back from talking to you as Drew the host and talk to you for a second just as Drew the person, to just be totally real for a moment.

I think it would be too easy to pretend everything's normal right now, business as usual.

It's been a while since normal has been a thing, but the recent events in the U.S. have created so much hurt and heartbreak, so much outrage and frustration.

It'd be, well, totally irresponsible, really, to not acknowledge it.

When you've got a public voice reaching thousands of ears every week, like we do on this

podcast, I feel it's our responsibility to use that voice to defend what's right and just.

And while our main purpose as a fiction podcast is to offer up dark tales to add a little

entertainment to your life, and maybe even a distraction from the troubles of everyday life,

sometimes the horrors of the real world eclipse those of the imagination. And it would be

irresponsible of us to not use our voice to speak up against

oppression, violence, and intolerance. Silence isn't an option. Black lives matter. Diversity matters.

Acceptance and equality, tolerance and love for one another. They matter.

Without kinship, without kindness, without compassion, we don't make it. We can't make it.

I truly believe that horror at its core is about standing together against the darkness.

The unknown and the evil.

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