Pushkin.

I'm really grateful for you taking the time to speak with me real quick about what you guys are doing.

I mean, music cares, to my mind, has always been such a great resource for the music community. Many people have many

things to say about the big, bad record industry. I feel like music cares though might be one of the

true oasis within that industry where it's just like, you know, you guys do so much good stuff.

And it's been a wild week in LA and everyone's affected, but being as we're a music podcast

and we have people who are musicians who listen and people who are in the area who are affected,

I just thought it might be nice to get a quick chat with you about how you guys are

helping and, you know, if anyone's listening to who who might need help that you guys are a resource for them.

Well first of all just let me just tell you how much I love your podcast and it means a lot

that you take a moment to bring us out here and to feature us a little bit.

Thank you.

You know, I'm amazed you know who music hears is.

We don't really do marketing.

We just started social media what I think a year or two ago.

You know, so it's hard for us in an organization to sometimes get our own story out there. So we really

appreciate you giving us an opportunity to speak. Yeah, we were leading into Grammy week, which is

normally a very busy time of the year for all of the various Grammy

organizations. Music Cares was founded by the Recording Academy about 35 years ago. And so we're

one of their affiliates. We are a 501C3 charity. And so we have our big fundraiser during

Grammy Week. It's called Music Cares Person of the Year. It usually takes place the Friday before the big telecast. So it's sort of like the charity gala of Grammy

Week. So it's already a taxing time period. And Music Care's, you know, over half of our

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