Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6jxvAUVGYc Starts at: 00:10:20 (jump to 00:10:20)

David & Malcolm Opening Remarks and Welcome

[00:10:20] just as the genius child malcolm who i met through this thing four years ago and [00:10:24] um you know he he’s just an incredible like mc and a producer and just all around good guy so [00:10:33] yeah you guys um i this thing wouldn’t work at all without you two so thanks for doing it i’m gonna [00:10:40] kind of take a back seat and let you two take the reins and um i might come in a little bit [00:10:48] here and there so take it away guys thanks for doing it all right thank you thank you [00:10:56] hello everybody my name is david idemudia thank you tyler for the wonderful introduction i’m [00:11:02] a licensed social worker and therapist and as tyler has said community activist i’m a homeless [00:11:11] advocate for annarona county and i worked with crisis systems in the past as [00:11:18] well as homeless outreach services and i’m developing uh my own homeless outreach [00:11:25] organization as well um i just want to thank tyler again for what we were able to do with [00:11:34] the speak your truth event it happens to be one of the most uh happiest points in my year [00:11:41] at any time when i am you know a part of this this whole event brings some level of [00:11:48] uh of anxiety but the the payout from it all it just makes me feel like there’s so much purpose [00:11:55] in what we’re doing for everybody that’s either listening standing by getting up there and [00:12:00] speaking because it’s such a brave and bold space to be in and for us to be able to share [00:12:06] one another stories to be there listening and to not feel so alone uh is something that just [00:12:16] for us want to keep doing that [00:12:18] so i thank everybody for joining us and i am hoping that if you know someone’s story grabs you [00:12:26] makes you feel you know warm you can you know put a good comment down [00:12:32] if you’re having a difficult time like tyler said there’s a number listed [00:12:36] we’d like to know specifically where they could get that at but if you know there’s somebody [00:12:41] that’s having a difficult time they can always call the enter on the crisis response line [00:12:48] at 5522. yep you know david yeah it’s at the um like in the information below the video on [00:12:54] youtube if they expand that because um the number for the crisis hotline and the uh traits [00:13:01] perfect perfect right so i’m happy to hear that um but once again this this is this is this is [00:13:09] our our hard work our our soul into this and we had malcolm join us so i’m happy some odd years [00:13:15] ago and ever since then um yeah hope you have a good day guys and i look forward to seeing you and [00:13:16] see you go sister very soon and yeah thanks a lot and good night best of luck guys bye bye good night