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Digital Soulspace Weekly Wrap Up - Week Ending August 4th, 2026 · Digital Soulspace - Musings Of The Metaphysical, Magical, And Nonsensical

• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Hey everybody, welcome.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: This is the Digital SoulSpace wrap-up for the week of July 28th through August 4th.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the creator of Digital SoulSpace, Michael Robert.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Some people call me Mike Robert.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I decided to do this weekly wrap-up in person because I didn't like the way Notebook LM was kind of making it sound so sensationalized and kind of cheesy.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I we're definitely not that site.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: We are a site that's dedicated to exploring spirituality without the noise of ads or algorithms or you know, uh rude people uh trying to discount what your opinion is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are truly a community where everybody is a student and a teacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: So however strange you might think your belief system is, I guarantee you there's someone on digital soul space with a more extreme or more complex uh take on things.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's a truly safe space where you can discuss your belief system that may be unique to your own spiritual journey and and share it with others, and you may enlighten other people, and maybe people will say, Hey, I kind of like the way you think, I'm gonna take some of that.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: And and it really is a testament to how everybody's spiritual journey is their own and unique, and so we try to um really encourage that sort of sharing on our site, and unfortunately, the AI-produced version of this podcast wasn't doing a great job.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I said, you know what, I'll just do it myself, and I think that's a really great idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: So July 28th through August 4th, um, we had a lot of things going on, but let me just um start like every episode starts and explain that digital soul space is an independent online metaphysical community, so that means we don't have any ads, no algorithms, we never sell your data, yeah, and your privacy is a must.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to sell your data, we operate off of donations, and if you can't afford to donate, that's fine too.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: You can choose a free option, but we certainly appreciate your donations when you're able to do so because it's how we keep this site up and running.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: And we're approaching our five-year anniversary, so super excited about that.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: So we have this really cool uh um space on Digital Soul Space where we talk about tarot, and we have this automated tarot sort of class going on, and every day the system pulls a tarot card and explains it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're currently in the middle of going through swords, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And um and talking about the different um uh cards in the swords deck and what they um mean, and uh so when last week we were going, we were at the three of swords, uh, which is all about heartbreak.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people don't like the three of swords, but some people find a positive perspective about the three of swords.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we went through, you know, uh talked about the four of swords and and continued down to five and you know, and and just made our way through the um the uh swords suite.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: So that's really interesting to visit that space.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to visit the tarot space, we pull a different card every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not meant for divination, uh, these cards.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is meant to teach you tarot so that you can sit with the card each and every day and kind of learn it because um that's how you learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it takes years to learn tarot, it really does.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been using tarot for many years now, and I decided about three or four years ago to deep dive into it, and it it you'll keep 20 years from now, you'll still be learning something new about tarot.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: So um, yeah, swords isn't uh a lot of people's favorite suite either.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of uh a lot of sharp edges of swords for real, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so moving on, we have a lovely space called Th Freedom Through Astrology, and it is hosted by Donald Patak, and he is our resident astrologer.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is not compensated by us, he does this all through his love of astrology, and uh you can book readings with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've ever seen a movie where you have a wise sort of sage looking through books or wizard or just a very intelligent person looking through books and scripts and ancient manuscripts, this is a lot like how Donald's readings are, they are absolutely fascinating.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, in Freedom Through Astrology, uh Donald welcomed the Leo season and he watched the sun conjunct Jupiter and Cancer, and so that brings a sense of opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh Venus squared Mars and stirred up courage and creativity.
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  SPEAKER_00: The moon drifted from Aquarius into Pisces, inviting a softer and more self-nurturing kind of week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Donald is an expert in sidereal astrology, which is visible sky astrology.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is not Western astrology, so you just so you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Kiron, station retrograde in Pisces, so lots of wounded healing energy there asking us to reflect, to heal, and you know, to eventually guide others through their own healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I totally appreciate this little honesty side in those posts um about about Donald, uh, you know, the way he talks about the weather and uh and his cats and everything, and it's always it's always so cool with Donald's uh forecast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, uh in the gathering space is our general catch-all space, and this is where a lot of conversations occur on digital soul space.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's agnostic to any particular practice or modality.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can just post whatever you want there, and even if it's in the wrong space, we don't care.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's good, it's all good.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not a place of intense rules on digital soul space because that kind of chokes the creative process and chokes um sharing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, in the gathering space, um we um some of the members picked up on these big energies.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: We had uh the full moon, we had Jupiter, the opening of Lion's Gate, uh, which is on August 8th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's just uh some members calling it a time to feel fear and make the big moves anyway, you know, screw fear, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's a uh a little story in there about the energy people carry into a room, and if that can inspire other people in the room to actually act out right then and there.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: And um, this actually happened to me, which is why I wrote about it.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: And um we had uh eaten dinner at a restaurant, and there was a particular very well-known public figure in the restaurant, and nobody really recognized her, but you had people literally standing up in the restaurant talking about their heritage uh just at a random and how proud they were.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: And so I wondered if they were actually picking up on this person's energy because they're always public speaking, so maybe it was they were absorbing it without even without even knowing it, right?
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um we also had some uh new members.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Amanda um joined Digital Soul Space or introduced herself officially.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, Amanda's super, she explained she's super shy, and uh, and so she just wanted to say hi anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: So hi Amanda and welcome to Digital Soul Space.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're certainly uh glad you're here in our community.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we also had a lot of poetry this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have we are so blessed because we have a lot of members that either share with us their poetry or are like poets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people are even published.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um we have uh an incredible member named Martin that has published several books on his poetry, and he was kind enough and generous enough to send those over to me so I could have them, and that was just wonderful.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you, Martin, for that.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: We have uh people that shared uh journal prompts, uh, which is wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love journal prompting about what it is they want to carry into the month of August and what to leave behind in in July.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, we had lots of laughter in uh gathering space.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes people post funny memes, and that's absolutely wonderful and welcome.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: And um and and then I actually posted in uh the Gathering Space about an incident I had in and protecting the environment in my own community and how important that is to me and kind of the stressful situation I was going through uh with uh residents uh wanting to um eradicate um cane totes in their backyards, but at the same time uh would have harmed uh nesting birds.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, I got into that.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um we actually have uh some members uh that need healing.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we had some healing requests uh for a member that is going through some healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're a member of Digital Soul Space and you're listening to this, please do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we love healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whether that be through prayer or through Reiki or through spell work, whatever healing modality you practice, if you could send her some healing, that would be absolutely uh wonderful.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: In our pagan space, we celebrated uh llamas, uh the first day of the harvest.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's a time of gratitude, breaking bread together, and giving thanks for the first fruits of everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's August 1st.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh listen to me, first, August 1st, that that uh happened.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's a pagan holiday, uh holiday.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, I'm having problems.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I should have let the AI do this.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but it's perfect because as we go through the wheel of the year, I I love that you know we're experiencing this harvest, and next month will be the autumnal uh equinox.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: So we will have uh we had the um uh spring equinox, which is equal parts of day and night, and we will go through it again with the autumnal equinox, welcoming the fall, and then as we proceed uh uh forward and forward to the shortest day of the year to the beginning of Yule, which is the winter solstice, which is just my favorite uh time of the year.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: So um fall to December, my favorite time of the year.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: I love um uh Halloween, I love um uh Yule, all the pagan holidays, and the energy is just amazing.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: My mediumship spikes, everything.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to get a reading for me, it's September through December.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always the best.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we had uh uh we have a space on digital soul space called The Magic of Nature, and we had some conversations in there going on about baby birds in the backyard and uh these wonderful uh giant lizards in South Florida called South American amoebas.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they're also called the Amazon Racerunner, and how you know you can see those in South Florida, and it's just you know, that's one of the things about digital soul spaces.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about anything that makes us feel magical or or um connected to source energy, to spirit, um, and uh and often that includes nature, lots of nature posts in our nature space.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in the universal law of attraction, I shared my experience with uh being in the hot seat with Abraham Hicks, and you can actually find that podcast.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: We recorded it live on Digital Soul Space, and you can find that here on our podcast.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh as it's actually the previous episode, and I talked about how amazing it was to interact with Abraham Hicks and to be in that hot seat and to and how it's changed my life completely.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's law of attraction is for real.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if you don't like Abraham Hicks, maybe you'll like Neville Goddard, but it's totally um for real.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um there was also a post that we wanted to make sure everybody was aware of the AI uh that we use on the site.
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  SPEAKER_00: We use AI in the capacity of automating things.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't use AI in the capacity of you chatting with an AI or pretending to be an AI or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, everything that we use AI for is automation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I was a computer coder, which I'm not, I am an IT professional though.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but if I was a computer coder, I would code this myself, you know, to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I use an AI to code the program that will post about certain things automatically so that we know when the next full moon is coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also, though, however, that comes with a little caveat, and that is that if anyone listening or anyone on the site would like to do this themselves, like would like to do a post before the moon goes full and indicate, you know, the different times around the planet that it goes full, I would love for a human to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But until you know, someone steps up and volunteers, uh, really the only person we have that volunteers to do consistent posts about a specific topic is Donald with his uh Freedom Through Astrology space that he runs.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's just amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he does such a great job on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people, you know, we all work full-time and stuff, so I understand it's tough, but I still want to convey that information of full moons, pagan holidays, and and things that we can learn.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so we use AI strictly uh for automation purposes.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, even the podcast AI that we had prior, I really didn't like it.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's under too sensationalized.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just gonna be doing these weekly updates myself so that y'all get an uh a taste for what it is to be a member on digital soul space.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we're just a really low-key community, and uh we really enjoy one another, and we're growing slowly through the years, and it's a lot of fun.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I do want to um talk about in here the events we have on digital soul space.
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  SPEAKER_00: So every Sunday night we have an event called the Light Lounge, and it's hosted by one of our um members.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a Zoom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um her name is Kimber, and she hosts the Light Lounge every Sunday night at 8 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern, if it's Eastern daylight, doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always Eastern 8 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Kimber hosts this, and basically what it is is that if you want to meet other members, it's a Zoom call that we have.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't want to have your camera on, you don't have to.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: But if you want to meet the other members and chat with them and just share something that happened to you during the week, that's like really cool.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: And some people sometimes people talk about paranormal stuff, sometimes people talk about psychic visions, or sometimes people talk about what they bought at the grocery store.
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  unknown: Really?
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's no rules, there really isn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that starts at eight o'clock, and it typically goes on for uh uh lately about two hours.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: People really enjoy talking to one another and meeting one another on the Zoom chat, and that's available also on Saturday mornings.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the cool things is about digital soul space is if you look on Saturday mornings, if you look that at the events section, it'll tell you what the time is in your time zone.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: But on Saturday mornings at uh at 10 a.m., we have um the text chat.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: You can you get into a chat room and you can just chat with people, and that's fun too.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes there's a lot of people in there and sometimes nobody shows up.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: It all depends.
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  SPEAKER_00: But so it's a really cool thing.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's like um chatting with friends and stuff, and we even have a retro chat where we that happens every month and a half or so, two months, that where we listen to 80s music at the same exact station on the internet.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: We listen to the 80s music together, and we just like go back in time and remember all the cool songs and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that happens Saturday mornings at 10 a.m.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then the retro chat happens every two months, I believe.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then we um every once in a while we'll have like a special event like Mandela Coloring where we all color together online.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that happens in the events section.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: The more people that participate, the more often we have um events like that, um, live presentations, live readings, uh guest speakers, it's all good.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: We we love doing stuff like that on digital soul space.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: So that's about it for the weekly uh wrap-up.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Lots of other things go on.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: I I didn't, you know, mention, but there's a kind of like the highlights, right, of what was happening on the site.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: And there's always every day there's something new to look at.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: There's people on the system because we're global, because you know, there's people on the system 24 hours a day.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: So if you ever can't sleep at night, get on the system and start perusing.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: And you might even find somebody that says, Hey, anyone want to chat?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, because we're very popular in the United States, but also in the UK, and some of our most amazing members are in the UK.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: So you might find somebody to talk to there.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: So just a reminder that uh we are a um private uh community and that we're funded by your donations, and everyone's a student and a teacher at digitalsoulspace.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's no sort of people telling you that your belief system is incorrect or that your system is wrong, or you're allowed to say that doesn't resonate with me, of course.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: And you're allowed to say, Well, you know, that's not what I do.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: But under no circumstances do people ever tell you, well, that's just stupid, or that's just wrong.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's against our terms of service.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: So people will never tell you that.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: And if they do, you just let a moderator know.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's a very similar interface to like Facebook or something like that.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: There's, you know, a feed, and we have uh many, many different spaces which are like groups, but they're everybody's a member of them.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: But it's just like arranged by topics, you know, the different things you can talk about.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: But like I said, the gathering space is the catch-all.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can put anything there and talk about anything.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, we're a great community.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: We're approaching our five years, and like I said, when you sign up, pick a donation amount.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: And if you can't afford to donate, you can pick the free version.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, these are tough times, right?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: And uh compassion is is a big thing for us.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, uh hope you enjoyed our weekly wrap-up of what's going on in digital social space.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope if you've never signed in, that this encourages you to visit our community and just uh give it a try, okay, everybody?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening, and I'll see you next time either on a full podcast episode or these bonus episodes of the Digital Soul Space weekly wrap up.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: Take care, everybody.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful day.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Be safe.