Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: Hey there. And thank you very much for tuning in to your best. You real conversations around Mental wellness brought to you by MHA of Dutchess county and brought to you in part by the Northern and Southern Dutchess Community Coalitions. We've had a really fun run of episodes here, and we've gotten to speak with a lot of awesome people. We're bringing you back to the beginning right now because on our very first episode we had MHA CEO Andrew o', Grady, and now we got him back because we have some really amazing announcements coming up, so might as well hear it straight from the man himself. So, Andrew, good to have you back in here.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: It's great to be here. I've been watching the episodes. Excellent.
It's really nice to see my staff and learn more about them on your episodes. You kind of get from them who they are as people outside of the work.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: And it's really nice to see people's superpowers. I say that because everybody has a talent or a passion, and sometimes those. Those talents and passions come out in your interviews.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: And it's really great to see my staff in a different light and.
And you know, that opens up opportunities for people because, you know, if we're going to go down a different road and maybe I need a specific skill set for something and I learn from the podcast that somebody has an expertise in xyz. Yeah. And I'll reach out to them and see if they want to be part of something new. So I'm encouraging all our other staff to. To climb on board and get in here and let's learn about you and let's learn about the work you do and let the people know what great stuff we're doing here at mha.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: So one of the things that we have know, obviously we've had amazing conversations and as you said, we're learning, but some of the people, that good amount of the people so far have been like, I'm kind of a background person. I don't know about coming on to something like this, but I hope that they see from the previous episodes, like all the wonderful stuff like the co workers are saying and doing, and, you know, even majority of the people who've been on already, they were kind of hesitant to do it. And then they went on and did it and they were like, hey, I feel pretty good about that.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And they know the episodes are great. And you do a great job of cutting out small snippets of it to put it out on. On social media and yeah, don't. Don't be anxious about it. You're just sitting here having a conversation and. And Connor's never going to paint you in a bad light. And, you know, if you mess something up or say something wrong, it's probably just going to be edited out. So, you know, just don't be afraid. Come on in. And, you know, when I used to train on charting and making sure people write notes appropriately about the work they do with the clients, my biggest thing was don't sell yourself short, because if they write a quick note, so. So. And so he. He was fine, but they spent an hour with the person, and they really did a lot put that in the note because you're selling yourself short and you do a lot of great work. And that's the same here. Don't think of yourself as a background person. I mean. Yeah. You know, this is an opportunity for you to come. Come here and get in front of the camera. And I know you got to be proud of what you're doing. So this is an opportunity to talk about it.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Take the last episode, for example, with Natalie Seely.
Sorry, Natalie. I'm going to use you as an example right now. Before we did our episode, she just wanted a sec to kind of talk it all through. I had her come over for an afternoon, and we kind of talked it all out ahead of time. Put on the lights, put on, set up the mics as if we were doing it just to give her the experience. And she's like, okay, I think I could do this next week. And, you know, we did it. And I was messaging her yesterday, and we were saying. And I said, not as daunting or bad as you thought it was on. And it's like, no, actually, I'm really proud of them, really happy. And I hope that I can, you know, keep moving forward with this.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: So.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: So, again, Natalie, sorry for using you as example, but you're a phenomenal example in this case. And definitely the right. The right direction we want to go in.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: And it's a cat. You don't have to think about the camera being there. I mean, you're just having a conversation. You set up a nice cozy area, and we're just having a conversation. Yeah.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: It's even cozier now.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Thanks for.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: Thanks for letting me steal these chairs.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: Good.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: But of course. So we are getting ourselves recording in April. This is going to air in April, but we're getting ourselves into Mental Health Awareness Month with May. We got a lot of things that we're doing with that but we have a lot of announcements that are going to lead into the whole rest of the year.
Let's start off with the one that's pertinent to this time. Right now we're going to be starting to roll this out in April, but hopefully make it a big thing throughout May.
Again, speaking about last episode, with Natalie, being a part of the mobile crisis team, she deals with 988 constantly. And 988, essentially the 911 for mental health.
We're looking to do a certain challenge to raise more awareness for that. So do you want to get into that, what we're looking at, who we're partnering, partnering with and how we're moving forward?
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Yeah, you know, I travel back and forth to Catskill and also across the river quite a bit. And, you know, they have these signs next to the bridges and it, you know, it's the typical sign out there that, you know, the yellow letters and it just says, you know, you're not alone, call 988.
I don't know that that's the greatest marketing tool. I mean, I think that too many people, if I, if I share what 988 is in a group, most people will not know what it is. And, you know, somebody watching this, maybe because they have an affinity for mental health, maybe they work in the field, they probably know what it is. But the, the average person, I don't believe, knows what 988 is. So we had an idea to spearhead a challenge. And I like to go big or go home. So I have lofty aspirations around this. But, you know, we want to raise awareness. So, you know, I think about the Ice Bucket challenge and how popular that was and how maybe some people didn't research exactly what ALS is, but it certainly became a name that everybody knew about. And everybody was doing an ice Bucket challenge. I poured ice water over my head.
And not to minimize anything, but ALS is a very serious disease.
There's not, thank God, not too many people that have it, comparatively to people with mental health issues and struggles. And you don't have to have a chronic mental health condition your whole life, almost every single one of us.
You don't get through life without escaping a moment or a time where you're just, it's not good for you. It might be two in the morning, you might be alone, you might not know what to do. It might be a little worse. It might become a little pervasive for a period of your life, and you don't know how to access care. It's sad enough that people know to go to a cardiologist for heart care, but they don't know.
I can't tell you how many people call me and say, I think I need a therapist or a psychiatrist. But what's the difference between a psychologist, a psychologist, a therapist, a psychiatrist? Nobody knows that. They don't know who to call. They don't. They don't know who's going to be good. They don't know who.
How to access care.
988 is literally a number that people can call in a crisis, but also if they need information, if they need to know how to access care, it's the 911 for mental health. 988. Pretty simple. Three digits. Dial it. Somebody on the other end of the phone will pick up. In all 50 states and the five territories of the United States at any time, 24 7, 365 people need to know about it. So we have a challenge that we're going to kick off.
We're going to put our little challenge videos out early in April, and then we're going to hope it catches fire. And May is Mental Health Month. So we're hoping that it really catches fire in May and that people will do this challenge. It's going to be sing it, scream
[00:07:18] Speaker B: it, sing it, show it, show it.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: So we want you to get creative or just say it and challenge three people. So come up with a video to highlight 988. It's the new 911 for mental health.
Do a video, make a statement, scream it out, sing it, whatever you want to do, and then challenge three people to do the same thing. And hopefully it takes fire and we get the word out. And if it's anything like the Ice Bucket challenge, then I believe that within six months it'll be a commonly known,
[00:07:50] Speaker B: commonly known number.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Common phrase, every call if they need it. You know, people, people that are in crisis, are struggling. You share that. You've been there. Could be the middle of the night. There might even be people in the house, but you don't want to bother them or you're afraid to talk about it, but maybe you're alone, nobody's in the house. It's, it's. I'm not saying you, you're gonna, you're gonna hurt yourself. But let's say you're having those thoughts or let's say you're just really scared or you just need to. You need to connect to somebody. Not on social media, but actual person. Pick up the phone, dial 988. There's somebody on the other end. It's a trained clinician, trained person that will be on the other end talking to you empathically, understandingly, and will guide you to the next step. It doesn't mean that the police and ambulance are going to come. That's important because I was thinking about all the aspects of 988, and if we say 988 is the 911 for mental health, somebody might think if they call like they do 911, the cops are coming, the ambulance is coming, the fire. That's not going to happen. You're just going to have a conversation with somebody and somebody's always there on the other end of the phone. So it's great to know we need to get the word out. And so we're going to, we're going to do this challenge.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's a great challenge. You know, we're also working with Michelle Barone Media on this, and she's been a great asset with this. One of the things that you kind of mentioned already, and I really want to dive into this, is how, with what you said with als, it was a very fun challenge, but a serious disease. And here we're looking to do something similar, a fun challenge, serious condition here.
What is your, what is your belief? What is your mindset of being able to shine light by making light and having fun in order to put a spotlight on such a serious condition?
[00:09:32] Speaker A: Well, it can't, it can't be serious all the time. You have. Listen, life is life. And I hope, you know, I've gone through periods of my life where it's very stressful, and I hope I can look back at it and feel better at this time and laugh about it.
You know, the more we get comfortable with it, the more, more commonplace it is, and it eliminates and eradicates stigma when you can do that. The shame associated with what somebody's struggling with is literally the thing that keeps it stigmatized. Yeah, it's the shame. And there needs to be no shame around mental health stuff.
We, you know, we, we all vacillate on a scale of mentally unwell to mentally. Well, let's say a scale of 1 to 10. And, you know, forgive me if I, if I said this in our first episode. I don't know if I did, but we all vacillate on that scale. And if you say, where would you like to be on that scale of 1 to 10? Mentally unwell to mentally well, and most people would say five Well, I like to be. If you're talking about energy, and I like to be a six. You know, have a cup of coffee. Your brain's clicking a little faster. That's good. Four. Four is a little on the. On the slower, depressed side. And six is feeling pretty good. But you get up into the seven and the eight and nine, you're talking about being manic and not having control over what's going on. And everything's swirling around you and you're really not focused and you're really not doing great. And if you get into the lower numbers, you're, you know, you're. You're isolating, you're not wanting to get out of bed, you're not wanting to participate in life.
And so we all vacillate on that scale. And sometimes it's hourly, sometimes it's monthly, sometimes it's weekly, daily. Whatever it is, you know, we're met with challenges. You know, there could be a death in our family. God forbid there could be. You could be facing eviction. You might not. You lose your job, you don't have the money to pay for xyz, your relationships, whatever it might be. Work is stressful. There's things that are going to move us on that scale. And so if it gets to a point where you're overwhelmed and just, you know, panicking or have heavy anxiety, that's the time to call and listen. You have to make. We're not making fun. When you're doing a fun video about highlighting 988, you're not. You're not making fun of mental illness. You're just. You're maybe getting somebody to watch a video and laugh and, you know, what they take away from it. 988. They know what it is now.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: That's all that matters. We want to have fun with this.
You know, each one of these videos, if people do them, is their own psa. Public service announcement. You're doing a public service announcement. You should be proud because I guarantee you, if you do one of these videos, you're saving a life. You're potentially saving a life because you're part of a bigger. A bigger movement that's going to get the word out and there will be people, I can assure you that, that are thinking about hurting themselves and dial 988 because they know what it is and they don't hurt themselves and they get help they need and then they move on and they become a better themselves. Your best you. You become your best you.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: Exactly. No, I think there's more people than we know of in our lives. We probably know somebody who is dialed 988 and we don't know it, you know, and, you know, I shared my story with Natalie, how I dialed 988. It was a kind of comedic story. But say I really was in trouble. Yeah, I knew it in the back of my mind where it's like, okay, I had this. If I really needed it. You see it, you hear it, whatever it is, you slip it into your pocket for whenever it's necessary, whether for yourself or somebody else. You never know when it's going to actually become necessary. So, of course, very similar to the ALS Challenge, how they had a landing page they were raising money as well. For with als, we're going to be doing something similar as well. Besides just the hashtag, hashtag 988 challenge, we're also going to be having a landing page for it on the MHA Duchess site, right?
[00:12:57] Speaker A: Yep. We're going to have a landing page. On that landing page, you can learn about what 988 is, where. Where it's available, which is literally everywhere in the United states and the five territories. And.
And you're just going to know what 988 is. And then. And then we're going to introduce you to MHA Duchess. You know, it's not. We're not looking to. We're not looking to make money off this. This is a psa. But we also do great work in this community, and funding is not always available, and we always want to try new things. We always want to be innovative. And I like to believe this 988 challenge is innovative. So that's an example. We have many things that we can do. We just don't have the funding for it. Most of the work that MHA does, and you've heard about some of it on your podcast, is suicide prevention. It might not be labeled suicide prevention, but if you're working with people and you know that you are their outlet, that you are the person they can contact if needed, if they're checking in on you, then that's suicide prevention.
So anybody that wanted to make a donation, and we're not asking for a lot in this challenge, we're just, if you want to make a $9.88 donation to MHA, it's going to go toward our suicide prevention and our innovative ideas. So that's the goal. That's what we want to accomplish, not the donations. We don't care if you give a donation. If you do that's fantastic. But we want you to do a video. We want you to share it with three or four your friends, challenge three of your friends, and hopefully they do it and it takes off. And we really want to raise awareness. That's all we want to do.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the educational aspect of it all, making sure that we get it out there. And as we said, the scream it, sing it, show it, it's meant to be versatile for whatever people's talents are. You were saying a moment ago how you're learning everybody's talents as they're coming onto the show, and some of them are like, oh, I didn't know that about this person. You might be able to discover something about one of your friends out there. If you want to scream it is like, just have fun with it. Grab a group of friends, scream it out in a field. If you want to sing it, make a song around it, figure out a lick on the guitar. That might be cool for it. If you're a visual artist, make a board, write a really cool design around 988, something like that.
We're working on a few skits around it, too. Like, you might recognize a few of the scenes that we're going to be portraying real soon. And others are going to be original skits. Have fun with it. Find who you are and whatever these videos are. Yeah, we're going to have a lot of fun later.
[00:15:11] Speaker A: We're going to find out I am not an actor, so that's going to be a problem. But that's okay. We're going to have fun with it.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: Yeah, but you don't have to be an actor. You don't have to be an actor. You don't have to be any of these things to have fun with it and to make it your own and again, hopefully save a life.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: Let's hope. I mean, listen, you never know. You could give a smile to somebody in the street as you're walking by, and that could save a life. You don't know the impact you have on people.
I had a gentleman I met the other day in Home Depot. I bumped into him and he. He's donating a flag to another event we're going to talk about in a second. But he's donating a piece of art that he did for that event, and he.
I got to say, I don't really remember it, but he recalls one Christmas, like, 25 years ago where I guess our family and his family were out to eat, and he was. He was dealing with the stress around the holidays, his 8 year old kid was causing all sorts of problems at the table and he was just not, he's stressed. So I don't know why I did it or how. I guess I sent a bottle of wine over to his table, but he told that story. He says, you know, this is my favorite Andy o' Grady memory. And I was sitting there, my whole family is stressed and you sent a bottle of wine over and it just broke the ice and everybody laughed and we had a good night and it changed the whole thing. So, you know that little, little tiny things you do for people, you don't know the impact you have on people. So yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna change some lives in this and, and just, you know, the only message I have for people out there in this world is just be kind, be friendly, open a door, smile. Really, it can make a huge difference to anybody. This guy right here is just Mr. Mr. Happy. He's wearing different outfits every day. He comes in here, but you know, he's himself, he's, he's unique and you know, he's, he's a great guy. My daughter went to school with him and told me that he used to go and stand on top of the tables on Wednesdays in the cafeteria at Roosevelt High School and play his guitar and sing. And yeah, some people are different and that's okay. But embrace the difference because it's, it's your superpower.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: So congratulations, much appreciated. Now you have to ask, who's the crazy one? The guy who stood up on the tables or the guy who hired the guy who stood up on the tables?
[00:17:05] Speaker A: I saw something there, but I was just telling you that I'm really impressed. I mean, you do some great work and you're doing some great stuff for MHA and you're pushing stuff out and you're supporting all of us in our ideas and it was a great investment and I think it's going to pay tenfold. So thank you.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: Thank you very much. Honestly, I'm very blessed to be here. This whole studio, this, all of this, you know, has meant so much to me and it's making me be my best self.
And I'm hoping that I'm using these tools that you're giving me now to help make other people their best selves as well. And I think this is a good segue into another thing that we're going to be announcing real soon. This is kind of like a soft announcement, this episode, but we'll do the big announcement real soon about it. And something. I've been really grateful to be on the ground floor with you guys with having some experience in concerts and festivals and live music for many years. We're going to be doing a charity concert in October, and that's going to be a lot of fun. And there's a lot of different elements that have gone into this behind the scenes, but we have artists who are signed. We're going to be rolling that out. We don't have an exact date for the ticket sales going up yet, but it will be soon. But this is going to be really exciting.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: So you want to get into that.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So we're. We usually have a gala every year. Many agencies have galas. You know, you have your silent auction, you have speeches and that kind of stuff. This year, we're going to do something a little different. We're going to have our gala at the Bartvon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, New York.
It's not really going to be a gala. It will be a fundraiser.
But the majority of the people attending may not even realize it's a fundraiser they're going to go because it's a concert with some. With some fairly heavy hitters coming to Poughkeepsie. It has the country music theme. So if you're into country music, please, please support this event and come see some great music. I don't know too many. I've been to a number of concerts. I'm not a big concert goer, but I've been to a number and usually two acts, maybe three at the most.
This. This is gonna have. This is gonna be three and a half hours long. It's gonna have four acts. And I'm hearing that there are some surprise guests coming in that will also play on stage.
Yeah, it's going to be. It's going to be really great. It's going to be really great.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: Yeah. So we're going to have. And I think we can say the names of the people at this point. So we're looking at Jake Banfield, who I don't personally know as much about him yet, but looking online, he's got a significant following. He's really building up. He's kind of have that mix of kind of like that pop country vibe,
[00:19:34] Speaker A: which is really cool.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Then we have Ian Flanagan, who's a friend of mha. He was at our gala this past September from the Hudson Valley.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: From Sargers on the Voice, I think he made it to runner up on the Voice.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Yeah, he made it pretty far. He worked with Blake Shelton and also after being on the show, has collaborated with him, written with them, they've put out songs together. He's quite an amazing guy and he's got an incredible story about recovery in his own right and really excited to have him.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: And he's going to emcee tonight.
Connor could have done that. But we're going to have. We're going to have. We're going to have Ian do that. He's going to emcee the night.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: Ian's going to do great.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: He's going to do a great job.
And then our third act is Maggie Rose. Yes, tell me about Maggie.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: So Maggie Rose. Maggie Rose, yes. She has the country vibe to her, but she's also got this awesome indie rock blues vibe to her as well. She's been writing for people for decades. Along with putting out her own stuff, she's had multiple Grammy nominations, not to mention, if you grew up with Disney Channel, like 2000s, 2010s. She wrote the Shake it up theme song. So just. Just saying, she does more than just country. There's some of that in there, too. So she's got some Disney influence in her there. But the albums that she's put out recently are really transcendent of a lot of different genres. And if you haven't heard of her stuff, it's fantastic. I believe WDST in the area has played a lot of her stuff, so she's more than just country. So WDST plays a lot more rock and indie around the area. So I think that just goes to show that we're having some versatility here. And from all accounts, she sounds like a wonderful person.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: That's a concert in itself. But our headliner is going to be Craig Morgan. Craig Morgan from Redneck Yacht Club, the famous Redneck Yacht Club song, and many more. I mean, you can listen to his music and you've heard it if, even if you're not a big country fan, you've heard some of his. Some of his stuff. So. But if you're a country fan, I know you know who Craig Morgan is. So he'll be here, you know, anchoring our show, and it's going to be great. We're. We're really. I'm looking forward to it. It's something new and different.
A little anxious about it. We got to put people in the seats.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: When you have concerts like this, I learned a lot about this in this process that, you know, putting on a concert nowadays is a bit of a risk because if you don't sell out or something, were to happen.
You know what? Earth, whatever, whatever could happen that could impact people coming to the show.
It can be an investment that doesn't pay out. But I have, I believe, with 988 seats, I believe in a bartaban. Beautiful theater.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: 988.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: 988.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: A beautiful theater, historic theater, comfortable seating, incredible sound.
This is going to be a show to remember, I can promise you that.
There's even talk of, like, at the end, all the artists get up and they're really putting this together and they're really thinking about how they can do it. But I'm looking forward to it. I, I, I, I really love this community and I love to, I love to put on a presentation. Whether it's our gala, whether, whatever it might be, I really love, I take pride in making sure that it's an experience that people enjoy.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: So this is not going to be a half assed show. This is a top notch show. We're using, we're, we're working with some real big talent management people and we're bringing it to Poughkeepsie. So I hope you come and check it out and it's going to be a great night.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: October 4th. October 4th. Put it on your calendar. Pencil it in. October 4th. Tuesday. October 4th, I believe. Thought it's October 6th. Well, we're going to say that again if it is.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Hold on.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: I thought it was October 6. Because it is October 6. Because it's a Tuesday. October 6. It is October 6.
[00:23:04] Speaker B: All right.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: October 6. Don't miss it. October 6. Yep.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: There you go. Fantastic.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: Throw that in. Yeah.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: So, yeah, October 6th. This is going to be terrific. And one thing that we haven't even mentioned, like with Craig Morgan, too, he's a veteran, so. And we are very big with our veterans program here. So each person kind of has a different role in the spectrum when it comes to the mental health field, where each person has some kind of experience personally when it comes to their advocacy, whatever that might be. So it's really neat to be able to tie the art, the music, and the mental health and wellness all together to make this such a beautiful culmination of it all here in Poughkeepsie.
It's really incredible what we're trying to pull together here. And if you're, if you guys are good enough out there, we, we might be able to get a couple of these guys on the show to talk to.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: We're hoping we get that to happen. Every one of them has. You'll Hear if you get them on the show, I'm sure they'll share because they publicly shared their struggles like you said. Craig Morgan was a long term vet in Marine Corps, I believe, had his struggles with that and has an affinity for veterans, talks about it all the time. He also had a terrible tragedy. His son passed away in an accident. So he went through his. On that scale, he's gone through his struggles.
Maggie Rose has talked about her personal mental health struggles at times and so she's publicly spoken about that. And Ian Flanagan and Jake Banfield both have struggled with certain things. I know they're in recovery and I also know that they've struggled with their mental health stuff at times. So. Because that all comes hand in hand with people dealing with addiction. So all four have an affinity for making people better.
And so I just think this has all the synergy for becoming a great show. A show that people are going to celebrate. And we really want to make sure that when you walk out of that show, you're like, wow, that was great. I can't wait for them to have another one because I think it's going to be really successful.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: I have very high hopes for it. I think things are going to go very well. And the artists that we have, that we have are phenomenal. I'm really looking forward to this simply just as a fan.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: But then, you know, being, you know, here working behind the scenes of it too, it's really, really humbling. It's a beautiful experience to get to work with everybody on this behind the scenes.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: It's going to be fun. We're going to have some great auction items there.
Somebody's donated a beautiful large flag that he painted with the, with the 911 towers in it.
That's going to be up on the stage. That's going to be for sale.
It's going to be a great night. We're going to highlight MHA, we're going to highlight 988. We're going to highlight these artists, really, we're going to highlight these artists and we hope you walk away and have a better understanding of what MHA is. And like I said, I'm sure like 750 people are going to walk into that show that night and not have any idea what MHA is. And maybe when they walk out, they will. So that's okay. That brings us some awareness, right?
[00:25:57] Speaker B: Absolutely. No, that's what music does. That's what art does, without a doubt. So as of recording this, we don't have all the landing pages. The ticket links are not out yet. We will be announcing that very, very soon. We'll be putting out a more social media announcements, PSAs, all that in regards to the concert along with the 988 challenge. That stuff will be coming out very, very shortly. But this is kind of our soft launch of it and you'll start seeing stuff trickle out through April into May and it's going to get real crazy real soon and we are excited for it. Andrew, as I don't believe there's anything else that we really wanted to mention as of this point, but I wanted to leave it where is there any like last little nugget or last little topic that you want to touch on that before we wrap up this episode, either based on what we said or anything that hasn't been said yet?
[00:26:43] Speaker A: I'm just going to repeat out what we talked about with 988 because this is a 988 challenge that we're kicking off and we hope that you join us. We hope that you do a video, you put it out there, you challenge your friends to do a video themselves. Let's get creative. Let's get fun. We want to raise awareness about 988. We want you to make sure you use the hashtag 988challenge and also the hashtag mhaduchess.
We want to get the word out. So let's talk about what 988 is. Let's get it out there. Let's everybody do a PSA and have some fun with it.
Let's really roll this out. So make sure nobody's alone, that nobody suffers in silence and that nobody sits there not knowing what they need to do because they can pick up the phone and dial 988. And you will save a life if you do this psa. So we hope you join us.
[00:27:30] Speaker B: Fantastic. Beautifully said. Again, make sure that you keep an eye out on all of our social medias, on our websites, all that for all the information to come. And trust me, we're going to have a lot of fun skits with Andrew in in the near future.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: We'll see.
[00:27:43] Speaker B: We'll see. Andrew, again, thank you so much for being here.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: All right, Connor,
