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Welcome to Vancouver True Crime.
I'm honored to have a very 

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special guest, something very 
different that I usually do. 

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I want to do more interviews of 
people in the community event 

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coover and Metro Vancouver that 
are doing good, things in the 

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community. 
And and revi here has an amazing

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page on Instagram. 
She highlights black cultural 

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events and Vancouver Caribbean. 
You're doing a liquid from the 

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whole entire black community and
and things like concerts and 

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Fashion shows. 
I've seen so many and it's 

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really caught my attention and I
really wish and I hope everyone 

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listening can support her and 
maybe and go to some really fun 

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events because Vancouver. 
Truly needs more fun people and 

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more fun events will be nice to 
bring the fun back to Vancouver.

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So revi, want to introduce 
yourself. 

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Tell me about your platform and 
maybe some upcoming concerts and

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events that people can go to. 
Alright. 

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Hi, my name is Ruby and I am 
founder of black van Club on 

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Instagram and I guess I describe
myself as a events blogger. 

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But this is all new to me. 
And like you said, my page aims 

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to highlight black events or 
events by black people. 

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Or if let's say, I'm black 
artist is performing in the city

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will host bad for the community.
To know what's happening in the 

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city and I think, I don't want 
to get too far ahead, but why I 

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started the blog was I think 
after the pandemic, I realized I

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needed to ReDiscover the city 
that lived in for about 12 

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years. 
I made a conscious effort to 

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kind of, you know, explore the 
city this summer. 

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Everything was back open. 
Everyone was looking to have fun

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and I think I start to document 
the journey on my page. 

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So came out of a place that 
you're saying you want. 

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You, we went through the 
pandemic like all of us and you 

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probably saw there was something
missing in Vancouver as far as 

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events and and community and you
filled in a gap there by 

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highlighting your community. 
Maybe told me a little bit about

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your background and and maybe 
where your food came from before

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Vancouver. 
And okay, yeah, so like many 

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people in the city, I am a 
transplant. 

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I was not Not born and maybe I'm
here from Africa Zimbabwe. 

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Oh, wow. 
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was as a student student I would
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I would go out, are these 
concerts the whole? 

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You know, when you're young and 
then the older you get, the less

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time you have to spend. 
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with what's going on on the 
scene, the older you get Right? 

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Yeah, caught up in a Thing 
Called Life, right? 

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I think, but I was still. 
Social person. 

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Yeah, go out my friends and then
obviously the pandemic hit the 

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right down and it was kind of, 
you know, a tough time for 

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everyone around the city. 
I pretty much kept to my bubble 

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for about two years. 
I didn't really go out to events

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like that and I think as a whole
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has events community and things 
going on in the city has kind of

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shifted, you know, I kind of yes
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A change and it's like, yeah, 
this is used to go to are no 

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longer there, you know. 
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Even restaurants, like, you 
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All that didn't make the 
pandemic that didn't make the 

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pandemic and yeah, I know what 
you mean. 

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Yeah, so I think like many 
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being indoors. 
I was tired of, you know, not 

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doing anything and being afraid,
I made a conscious effort. 

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I said, you know, I'm going to 
ReDiscover the city. 

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I'm honored. 
Yeah, what Vancouver has to 

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offer? 
I wasn't even telling one of my 

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friends, like I was tying them. 
Like I took a vacation in 

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Vancouver. 
Like I? 

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Yeah. 
Did he? 

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Like, I would treat a city. 
I was visiting, right? 

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Be a tourist in your own town 
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Is clearly, I kind of lost touch
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city and obviously there's a lot
of things that I do know that 

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with their before and new things
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as a conscious effort by the 
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So yeah. 
Well it's really amazing. 

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Like I said, you know my 
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you know crime-related and 
there's lots of crime to report 

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in Vancouver and then I came 
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I'm like oh this is nice. 
This is cool like that we need 

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more of this. 
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highlighting, like he said, 
concerts events, fashion shows. 

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And and again, you know, this is
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people live, go to a city to 
have access to these things. 

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You know, museums restaurant 
events, you know, fashion shows,

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you know, live theater and I 
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it's always was very lacking in 
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before the pandemic, been 
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So it's nice that people like 
yourself with some 

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entrepreneurial Spirit going to 
fill in that Gap. 

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So maybe talk about maybe some 
upcoming events for end of 

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September and maybe in October 
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out more about going on your 
platform about and keep 

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informed. 
About these events are so 

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basically I think the way I 
would Post. 

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So I have a weekly event 
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So, I kind of compiled a list of
about 27 events a week, which is

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a lot in Vancouver. 
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I like you get at least one 
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several events depends how busy 
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So I posted on the Asian black 
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posted Vancouver events 
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so if you're looking Before 
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And if you take a quick scroll, 
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that is, you know, the Vancity 
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Festival, that's going on at 
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So cool and like live reggae 
Reggae Hip-Hop soul. 

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So where is that going to be 
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Sorry, Granville Island 
Granville Island. 

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So to so Their audience hears 
this so at Granville Island on 

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September 24th. 
There will be live, reggae 

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they'll be Latin reggae hip-hop 
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local artists. 
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And the address is this 1411 
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Spur a lie. 
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So I like trying to put the time
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usually linked. 
Check my stories highlights. 

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There's a highlights that 
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click in there, sorry clicked on
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Yeah, I'll send a link to the 
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get tickets or more information.
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And he did a great job 
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You do like a nice slideshow. 
You can just slide through. 

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There you go, through the list, 
look for the events that your 

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inch, and there's quite, it's 
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Cuban cultural Gala at the 
Ukrainian all this one looks 

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pretty. 
Citing Roz woman Champion, 

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hearing couple are at the Civic 
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I do for you wrestling fans, 
right? 

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pertaining to black people, the 
black experience is very diverse

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and people for interest and from
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people is that they weren't seen
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much ignored in terms of the 
marketing, Pray that they get 

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kind of off the Crocs a little. 
They may not know like, you 

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know, these are Cuban garlic 
going on, you know? 

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So I think representation 
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where black people can 
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these things and different types
of things as well. 

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Yeah, I know you're very 
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Like you have everything from, 
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cooking ghanian cooking Feast by
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That sounds pretty amazing and 
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the LGBT community. 
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so it, you know, you've done a 
really great. 

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Great job. 
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So yeah, you know, again, one of
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complain about Vancouver. 
Oh, there's nothing to do 

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nothing to do, right, drum and 
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Cultural Center. 
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really great things. 
Comedy comedy show on the 27th. 

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And then if you check the pages 
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like festivals that are growing 
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So I had the series going about 
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festivals that were going on. 
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So initially when I first did 
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there's a lot of stuff going on 
about nine festivals. 

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I posted really did well. 
And it had a lot of shares and a

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lot of Engagement. 
So I was like, well, excellent. 

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People are looking for this type
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Yeah. 
Not like I'm doing anything. 

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Us it's not rocket science you 
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making information easily. 
And yeah, I know you have a 

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good. 
Your graphic design is really 

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nice. 
I think you have a good, you 

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have a good flare of how you 
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stuff, it's very easy to read 
and it's very yeah. 

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You know, I enjoy the post I and
you know, I share them to just 

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to kind of give people a break 
from Mike, you know, Doom and 

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Gloom and crying, you know, so I
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it's a, it's a, it's a bright 
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really appreciate what you're 
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And and you know, I want, I want
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place that I grew up in when I 
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You see fun to go out, used to 
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events and festivals and stuff. 
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the younger generation need 
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Well, before they all move away,
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I mean, the thing is, what I've 
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people doing, the work is just 
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So where every time I go, I try 
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events or Organizers or the Arts
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a lot of these events. 
Oh, for sure. 

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Yeah, you know a few people 
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and them oh, for sure. 
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No totally. 
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It again, you know, you know, 
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that, you know. 
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you know, coordinating finding 
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so, you know, the oldest work, 
the no one shows up. 

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Right? 
So the promotion or of, it's 

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important, right? 
And getting people have been 

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stuck in this mindset of not 
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to go out and for various 
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Now in other stuff that, you 
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choose to go and have some fun 
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experience for them. 
Something, you know, for made me

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for non-black people like Asians
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cultures. 
It'd be great for them to be 

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exposed and different, you know,
different, you know, of events 

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like this. 
And like you said, the black 

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community is very diverse. 
It's extremely diverse. 

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And and and so this, this is 
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How you you present that 
diversity from stuff? 

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From the Ian from African to, 
you know what I mean? 

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That it's a real. 
It's real interesting. 

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Mix that you put together what 
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What I think is the important 
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we want more of these events to 
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Like we have to show up and 
support and is not absolutely as

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any Community whether you're 
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supporting people of color black
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And you know, because they 
invented a comedian whose black 

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and white comedians, you know, 
jokes the jokes. 

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Everything's. 
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Yeah. 
So about the more we support. 

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The more we see people color and
black people doing These things 

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for example, like the Juneteenth
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the summer. 
That was the first one that ever

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happened. 
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turnout. 
So they first think that, you 

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know, and I feel like because it
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was so successful that next 
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might have more and more people 
write what not just, you know, 

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black people but everyone from 
around Vancouver, to support 

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black artists on the stage 
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So you know, once we The more 
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part, you know, like I'm just a 
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I'm just an average person. 
I'm not, I don't have any 

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background in events, or 
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It's just something that was a 
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And when I started posting, you 
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and people meeting and they were
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for posting, thank you for 
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And I, you know, I always get 
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my stuff like people are really 
grateful. 

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They like, you know, Oh, I feel 
skiing. 

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I feel like you are genuinely 
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our can, you know, help us as 
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with the world. 
So for me, you know, I, you 

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know, I just started off as a 
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of Bloom taking a life on its 
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Yeah. 
So that's what keeps Going good.

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Well that's wonderful. 
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you coming on. 
I'm going to share this link on 

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my platform and then hopefully 
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we'll get more people supporting
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what you're doing and and when 
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for me to go to some of these 
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So I look forward to going as 
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So it's cool. 
Ha ha ha. 

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I could do it, I could do a 
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I could do a crime one, or 
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Or maybe do some Storytelling. 
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Yeah. 
That'd be cool. 

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Yeah, we'll talk about it for 
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That's that's kind of sounds 
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Yeah. 
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though that you mentioned that 
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podcasters owner doing live 
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I was totally cool. 
Wow. 

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People are going to like there 
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I think there were in beat a 
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Theatres, like, people are going
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to sit in the audience and to 
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They can just listen to it on 
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walking. 
I think that's a terrific. 

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Yeah, I'd probably do it in a 
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I'd have to do it where the 
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interaction for me to make it 
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right? 
I don't know. 

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Did I don't know if when you 
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okay? 
There was these books were gonna

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go off track. 
But who cares either they ever 

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seen those books when you were a
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the story? 
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you have to choose? 
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There's a person to this or not,
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endings, right? 
Depending of how you pick in the

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book so maybe I can do like, a 
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the ending and then it's like a 
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Getting their participation, 
Thing. 

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You just engaging with the 
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see their finger people life. 
Yeah, you did. 

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I could watch it on Netflix but 
I want to go watch it and yeah, 

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that's true. 
Yeah, you know, again it's fun 

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and like, you know, for myself 
not Towing talk with myself. 

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It's a similar story as yours 
honestly. 

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I thought I was just going to 
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I was at home. 
I started working from home. 

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My kids have are on the autism 
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Spectrum. 
So I worked in a had a corporate

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background. 
I worked in corporate sales. 

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I couldn't be out of the house, 
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sometimes up for two hours a day
and then being gone for 10 hours

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a day with my kids, I couldn't I
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a tragic, my wife passed away. 
So now I'm at home something. 

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Okay. 
Got to start something at home 

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and this like this like you it 
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void and that kind of created a 
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yeah. 
Yeah, yeah, I'm great. 

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But you know I never I never in 
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like 10 years ago that I'd be 
doing this tiny never would have

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guessed this. 
I mean that's fruitful the 

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beauty of life. 
You never know where you'll be, 

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you know. 
Yeah, that journey of Discovery,

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you know, that's the best thing 
for sure. 

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For sure. 
And like I said, the the and 

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when I said with another guy is 
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platform is meeting really cool 
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I met you, I met a cowboy that 
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and These children from a human 
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I met, you know, high-powered 
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I bet you know, some really, 
really interesting cool people 

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that I would never probably 
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So I that that's the fun part 2.
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I could say the same the most 
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and I would have never met them.
So yeah, made some good 

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connections. 
Some of them some friendships as

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well. 
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what's happened from Small 
little idea. 

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Yeah, and that's something. 
I actually encourage the 

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audience because again, you 
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with depression and anxiety. 
A lot of mental health issues 

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Vancouver has a very high rate 
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this is how you get out of it. 
You find something that you care

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about something that you could 
put your energy into something 

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productive and and it won't grow
overnight, and that's not going 

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to blow up over night, but 
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grows and grows a I'm like a 
Snowball Effect, right as so 

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keep all controlling its bigger 
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something that you built with 
your own hands, your idea and 

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anyone can do it. 
Like you said, what? 

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It's not rocket science but it 
everyday, it's a little bit of 

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work, a little part of applying 
yourself and, you know, and then

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it will be something. 
It definitely, it definitely 

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takes consistency. 
Yes, and dedication. 

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And I think what makes it easier
for me to keep consistent is, I 

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actually meet people in real I 
swear like, oh yeah, I saw this,

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if I go to the bank, oh, I saw 
Are these? 

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I saw your I've actually met 
people in real life. 

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I've touched them. 
I spoke to them Exchange number.

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So it's like, wow, this is 
actually real. 

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So yeah, you're affecting people
in the community. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
The World Wide Web. 

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But when you actually go then 
you meet someone who's like, 

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yeah, I go on your page all the 
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crazy. 
Hey, you know, yeah, and and 

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you're touching people in a 
positive way and it which is 

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great and and you know, I really
salute what you're doing and so 

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tell people again, how can they 
find you how they support your 

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work? 
How you know, all about that? 

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SLI active on Instagram. 
So black van Club. 

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So blackpearl8 Club CL movie on 
Instagram. 

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I also have to go on that page. 
I have my link tree there. 

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But black man club.com page. 
I'm still working on developing 

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that you know I have a full-time
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me to have the actual site. 
Yeah I know it's or I building 

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my website as I speak because I 
get so distracted so many things

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like So like totally Philly, I 
guess it's probably building two

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years, you can see whatever 
update on Instagram is updated 

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on the website. 
So, if you're not an Instagram 

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person, you just go to the 
website, right? 

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Then I have Tick-Tock cannot 
Instagram person. 

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I have a black fan club on Tick 
Tock. 

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Well, fine antique Buck. 
Yeah, so I'm just growing that 

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as well just different ways. 
People like to consume things 

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differently. 
Yeah, so what I'll do on the 

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post, I'll post your link tree 
and then they can find how to 

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No, you know hopefully though 
follow you on LinkedIn and get 

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updated post because like I 
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for the audience to understand, 
typically what you do is you 

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break down events for what's 
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the next couple of weeks at a 
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period? 
Per week, right? 

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Going on. 
And then, if there's a holiday, 

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like let's say there was Labor 
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those four days Friday to 
Monday, where it was just events

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for Labor Day. 
Right? 

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I'll probably do the same thing.
Maybe for like Halloween, where 

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I pray. 
Okay. 

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Yeah, you have a lot of events 
and usually there's, at least 10

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to 12 to 15 events for that 
week. 

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So people, They have nothing to 
do there there. 

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There you go. 
Right there. 

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Something. 
There's something for everyone. 

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And in your post like there's 
it's very diverse. 

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It's and I really believe 
there's a something fun for 

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everyone. 
There's family stuff. 

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There's more concert stuff, 
there's LGBT stuff. 

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So, you know, you really cover 
you do a good job, covering all 

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the events and I'll have 
Festival post coming next week, 

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so something for like fall 
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attend events changes is the 
weather changes. 

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So right, you know, less outdoor
stuff. 

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So, again, thanks for coming on.
Maybe next time. 

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You'll do a live with me. 
Yes. 

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You know what's so funny? 
I'll tell you, I'll tell you a 

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confession. 
I had my plan. 

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Form, for a whole year, I didn't
put my name. 

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I didn't put a picture of 
myself. 

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I only because again, Jen in 
the, in the beginning, I was 

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putting more work into the 
podcast. 

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The Instagram was kind of like 
secondary and then and then, of 

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course, the link the link to, I 
mean, not to LinkedIn the 

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Instagram exploded and then then
I used as more engaging in the 

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local community and stuff like 
that. 

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So, but for the first year, I 
did not have my name picture. 

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Anyone everyone says are you 
like some kind of Batman 

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character that don't want to, 
you know, I some okay, fine. 

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I started posting pictures and 
then slowly you know I started 

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doing some live, they did a few 
one minute videos, I think if 

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you look scroll down, I'm like 
walking through the forest and 

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then you do a tank top right and
and then you know, I got and 

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then the first live I ever did 
was with two lawyers who 

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high-powered lawyers and was a 
pretty intense conversation and 

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and that was that's how I how I 
broke the ice on that, right? 

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So it's like right at the deep 
end of the pool. 

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You know, you know, safety net 
and yeah. 

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So so then they here we are 
today. 

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So I have. 
I'm still discovering what I can

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do with the platform for sure. 
Thanks for me. 

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If I'm going to be in front of 
the camera, it has to be 

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meaningful it. 
Yeah, of course. 

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Like I just want to be seen type
of thing. 

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Yeah. 
Because the whole purpose of the

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page is to promote the 
Creator's. 

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Yeah. 
Secondary I am. 

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Do you want to take a step back?
But you know what, you should 

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be. 
You should be proud of what you 

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did and you're a beautiful lady 
and I think people would love to

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see you. 
So thank you. 

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Sometime soon. 
All right. 

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Well, I'm Gonna Let You Go here 
and I'd love to do this again. 

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Maybe we can hook up for a quick
podcast for Halloween. 

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We'll talk about some Halloween 
events. 

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I'll be fine. 
Go from there. 

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All right, rather be thank you 
so much, and I look forward to 

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seeing your events and I would 
love to go to the some, to, as 

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well. 
Wonderful day. 

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Let's see you later. 
Bye bye.