Hello there. Brandon here with a quick show note up at the Well.

I am Brandon Edgians, and Anson will be joining us in just a moment.

I am currently sitting in a gazebo in Georgia behind my childhood home, listening to the crickets, and taking it easy

and relaxing after what has been a very difficult year.

You should take a breath, too, and listen to the crickets and then join me for part two of our interview with

Leon Inglesrude actor actor, director, producer, martini samurai, extraordinary.

And, if you're so inclined, make yourself a COVID teeny.

Leon walked us through the recipe back in part one, so go back and listen to that.

Now, remember, COVID in this this case stands for carefully oscillated,

very idiotic drink. And now, sit back and relax and rejoin Leon, Anson, and a few of our friends,

back in March, as we discuss the issues of the day.

For me, philosophically, like, I have this thing that I have been circling around for most of my adult life, which is the question of why isn't being alive enough.

Why can't we find joy and fulfillment in the fact that we're just alive?

It goes back to that idea of we're not our economy, you know, that if you get right down to it, if you ask somebody, what will you

give up if I don't kill you? It's everything, you know. And at our core, we understand that

being alive is really important, but yet it's so hard for us in our day-to-day life to actually live from the

place that being alive is the point. I want a world where we don't have to have it threatened

to not understand that, where we don't have to have people all around us dying and a Damocles

sword hanging over our head in, to see the Damocles sword

to suddenly think, oh, I'm happy that I'm alive. How do we cultivate a set? I mean, I think,

you know, this is, I take this as my job as an artist to do this, that I'm trying to wake up

the sense that to be alive is good.

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