My childhood best friend Allison has entered the world of podcasting with her uniquely community focused show “The Locally Sourced,” I am so honored to be her featured guest on this week’s episode. You can check out our conversation here. Having known each other since 1994 when I first moved to town with my family, it was cool to discuss both our personal growth and how our friendship has evolved from playing Mortal Kombat in my basement to raising children of our own. She was also the very first person to read the manuscript for what became my first published novel, when we talked about a lot of the things in the book that were inspired by actual people and places it was hard not to step right back into our respective roles as the dorky buck toothed kid with the bad bowl cut and affinity for power rangers and the girl who was constantly protecting him like she was his own personal body guard.
I am super excited to see who else she gets to talk with and watch this passion project become more refined as she shines the spotlight on local businesses, talents, and reverent figures around town. It was a fun transition from the podcast I posted Thursday night where I sounded off on the recent surge of COVID deniers who happen to also be patients actively fighting the disease and contentiously battling with the very people who are trying to save their lives over the validity of the pandemic. Its difficult not to get worked up about the current social climate when I have loved ones working out there on the front lines, putting their lives and their families at risk for the benefit of others. This is not about politics. This is about personal accountability, the lack of responsibility from our government, and the detriment of propagandist thinking and the apathy it has induced in so many people from a malfeasant administration and its glorified fascist leader. At the end of the day, I do not care if you are a conservative or a liberal this is the United States of America not the Wall-Mart Republic of Donald Trump. We must do better than this, people are dying at a staggering rate while healthcare workers, first-responders, and essential workers are feeling demoralized, indignant, and fatigued by the lack of support and the insane behavior of those who are under the spell of a pied piper. I do not want to wear out my welcome with yet another soapbox diatribe, but damn it…. what the hell is going on in this country? I want to wish you all a healthy and happy holiday, I know a lot of us are not going to get to spend Thanksgiving with a lot of loved ones but make the best of the time you have with those who are in your bubble and don’t forget to reach out to those who you are unable to see physically (be it through phone, text, e-mail, or ZOOM) and make sure they know that they are missed and they are loved. We will get through this everyone, we just need to weather the storm and do our best to remain undaunted by the narcissists who made a bad situation THAT much worse.
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