Yo, welcome into the house of L podcast. I am Lawrence Holmes. Thank you so much for hanging out with me on the podcast today. We are brought to you by Zinny.

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I have a great episode for you this week. My man Dave Ross is one of the most interesting people that I've come across in my time and working in media and you will find out directly why that is the case when you hear him talk about his life and his experiences.

And his his his experience in media. Very interesting dude. Very interesting dude. Before you do that. I know you're listening to this podcast. I don't know if you listen to the episode that Maddie Lee put out the Ryan Divish episode.

I really think it's important that you listen to that episode. I know that you were like, oh well the Kevin Mather thing happened a little while ago. Go listen to it. If you only go listen to the intro that Maddie did the stuff that's going on in America right now when it comes to harassment and these anti Asian attacks that we're seeing in the United States.

In the United States, it really touched her in a personal way. And I was really proud of her for using the platform to share her feelings about a lot of this stuff. So I really appreciate it. If you went back and you took a listen to that at your leisure.

But it's an important piece of podcasting that she did. And this is not her regular genre. She's a writer by trade. And I'm I'm grateful that she shared what she's going through right now as an Asian American as a Chinese American in particular.

What she's going through right now. So please go back and listen to the Ryan Divish episode of the podcast because I think it's really good. It's really important and offers a perspective and point of view that I think we all could bear using and hearing.

So thanks to Maddie Lee for an excellent episode of the podcast.

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