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You Had Me at Black

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You Had Me at Black

You Had Me at Black

Society & Culture, Black Stories, Personal Journals, Arts, Performing Arts, Black Storytelling, Storytelling Podcast, Documentary, Black History Month, Black Podcast, Black Voices

4.0982 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

To her horror, Jessica's dad reveals an unconventional plan to get in to their local zoo. Produced by: Afi Yellow-Duke Scoring by: Charlie Caperning After listening, check out our Kickstarter: youhadmeatblack.com/donate. We're raising funds to bring our live experiences on tour to different cities! Today we released a new reward for ten $50 donors: a 90-minute crash course in launching and growing a podcast. This course will be taught in a virtual small-group over Google Hangout and will cover: - Picking a podcast name - Equipment and software - Designing your cover art - Hosting, and getting set up on platforms like iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play - Must-do marketing activities (pre-and post-launch) Finally, be sure to chat us up in Twitter @youhadmeatblack

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey what's up everyone. Welcome to You Had Me at Black. I'm Martina Abrahams.

0:05.4

So if you've been tuning in lately, you'll know that one, we do live shows called You Had Me

0:10.9

Black Live and two, our next live show is in DC, Chocolate City, and that is really exciting because it is our first show on the East Coast. And you know we don't want to stop at DC and we want to go to every

0:26.2

city that we possibly can. And you know not just in the United States but we know we have

0:31.3

listeners in London, Johannesburg, part of Canada and we want to come to

0:36.1

y'all too. But our challenge is, we're a very small team of volunteers. All of us either work full-time or a full-time

0:44.7

students and we are working on a shoestring budget like thin barely hanging on

0:50.7

budget and so we recently launched a Kickstarter to help us bring

0:56.5

you had me at black to as many cities as possible. And so our goal is

1:02.4

$25,000 by June 17th.

1:05.0

Now if you're familiar with Kickstarter, you'll know that there's a catch.

1:10.0

Kickstarters are all or nothing.

1:12.0

So if you don't raise your full goal,

1:15.1

then you can't access any of the funds.

1:17.4

So even if we raise like $24,900, we don't see any of that money. And so we are really, really, really hoping for all of your help to get us across the finish line.

1:28.0

We are already a fifth of the way there by the grace of God,

1:32.0

and you know, we are just really excited to keep up that

1:34.2

momentum and so if you love you have me at Black and you want us to come to your

1:38.6

city and you want to hear stories from people in your area,

1:42.8

please consider contributing to our campaign.

1:46.0

You can find it at you had me at black.com slash donate.

1:51.5

And we have a special offer for all of those aspiring or new

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