Hey there, it's Jonathan. So over the last 24 hours or so I have had texts, emails, friends,

the voice messages from people that I know from around the world actually asking if I'm okay.

The reason is because I live in New York City and we had a terror attack here yesterday

and I am a long time New Yorker. I was here during 9-11. I was in the city yesterday. I have friends in the city.

I am raising a family in the city and it's always horrifying to hear things like this, to see things like this on the news,

to have experienced large-scale things like this in the past. I was in Vegas a couple of days after what happened there just a month or so ago.

And

first I am okay. My family is okay as far as I know my friends are okay. Okay in terms of we're physically safe,

we weren't involved in anything. Emotionally, psychologically okay. I don't know.

It just, it hits you on so many different levels as a human being who feels the loss and wants to extend sympathy and empathy and just hold anyone who's affected by this as

as a husband and a father who lives literally just a few miles from where this happened and is raising a kid in a city who wanders all over

as a New Yorker who is connected to the pulse of this place and the people here as a human being who just wants to see the suffering stop on so many levels.

I don't have answers. I honestly wish I could say here's what I recommend. Here's what to do. I don't know anymore.

I honestly don't. And there are people a lot smarter than me, a lot more studied than me that probably have better advice.

All I can say is that for those who have felt it directly or indirectly or in some way touched by this or feeling the anxiety, the uncertainty, the concern, the rage, whatever it may be, you're not alone.

And

how I really need to share that and express it in a way that's constructive.

I think it's just important to know that you can reach out to people in your community and your family and your friendship and have the conversations you need to have so it doesn't stay bottled up.

And in some way maybe that will lead to conversations that start to try to understand each other a little bit more, try to see the humanity in each other a little bit more and try to celebrate and embrace.

That which is the same within us rather than to embrace that which separates us and leads to anger and rage and violence. That's it's all I can really say right now, but I feel like.

I can't just leave this on addressed. Yeah, that's what's on my mind. So we're going to we're going to tie it back into our regularly scheduled programming here and explore the topics of the day, but.

I just felt like I needed to speak to this the same way that I did just a few weeks back after I got back from Vegas. All right.

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