This is the Talking Dead, a podcast dedicated to the AMC TV show The Walking Dead. Hey everybody my name is Chris

and this is the talking dead number 488. My name is Chris. And my name is Jason.

And this is the Talking Dead number 488 recorded Thursday, June the 4th, 2020.

Welcome to the program everyone.

Jason, how are you doing this week

i'm okay it's a qualified okay yeah

there's there's a lot going on in the world right now so know, I think we need to start the show this week on a bit more of a serious note than we usually do.

Yeah. Because there are some incredible things happening across the US right now and in other parts of the world too, but as everybody knows there are a series of just mass protests taking place all over the US and people are

protesting the systemic racism against black people that is abundant apparently in police services around the United States and

seems like it's really built into our entire society.

And you know it's it was instigated by the horrific and tragic murder of George Floyd and

George's is the one that is most recent and you know in a long line of

murders and oppression inflicted on black people in America going back decades

longer than that, like forever, basically. And you know, I must admit that I'm not really

sure how to talk about this issue, and that's obviously part of the problem and really just

kind of not good enough on my part and on everybody's part but it it stems, I think, from a feeling that no matter what I say,

anything I say is going to be totally inadequate.

Right?

And on the other side of things I also think that staying silent about it is far worse so and that's what people have been doing for far far too long.

So you know it's one of those things where it's it's difficult to address but it

must be addressed right? It does and it's incredibly frustrating and I agree with you I'm conflicted you know staying silent not saying

anything is absolutely inadequate but anything I say or we say also seems inadequate.

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