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You're listening to the Philanthropisms Podcast with Rodri Davis. Hello, you're listening to the Philanthropisms podcast, and I'm your host, Rodri Davis. This is a new podcast where we put philanthropy in context. Um, whether that's historical context, looking at the sort of wider context of what's going on around the world today within philanthropy, looking at wider debates that might affect philanthropy or where philanthropy might affect them, and thinking ahead to what the future might hold and what we can tell about the sort of trends that might shape it. So this isn't a proper episode, we'll be kicking off soon in a couple of days with that proper episode. Uh this is really just to welcome you to the podcast to give you an idea of what it's about and whether you might want to listen to it and who I am. And so I'll do a proper introduction and in the full episode to me, but uh as I say, I'm Rodri Davis, I'm an author, I'm a researcher, I think quite a lot about philanthropy, and I'm basically just a kind of unrepentant philanthro nerd. I do all sorts of stuff, blogging, speaking, uh lots of stuff on social media where I've got various feeds kind of talking about philanthropy, history of philanthropy, what's going on now, what used to go on and what's gonna go on next. Um what we're gonna do on this podcast, uh, as I say, is try and put philanthropy in context, and we're gonna do that in a couple of different ways. We're gonna have conversations with guests from the world of philanthropy and civil society from around the globe. Um I've got some great ones set up already, although I'm not gonna tell you who they are because I don't want to jinx them. Um we're also gonna do some sort of deep dive explorations where I'll take you through interesting themes that bring together some perspectives from the history of philanthropy, kind of tie them to what's going on now, and give us some thoughts about what's going to be going on in the future. And so if that sounds good, do check out the podcast when it comes out. Um, the other reason that I'm doing this now is just to give you a peek behind the curtain. It's useful to have something to be able to post so that I can start trying to get the podcast uh into all the various distribution channels, particularly Apple, which takes a very long time to get sorted out. And so I'll leave you with that for now. Uh, see you all soon for the first episode. And here, just to give you a little taster of what you might expect, is a little uh musical interlude uh featuring the words of Julius Rosenwald.

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At Meeting of Industrial Leaders in Washington, here's Julius Rosenwald. Most people are of the opinion that because a man has made a fortune, that his opinions on any subject are valuable. Don't be fooled by believing because a man is rich, that he is necessarily smart, there is ample proof to the contrary.

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Okay, well, if you enjoyed that, there's plenty more where that came from. We'll be melding together the uh the silly and the serious. You know, I don't think any subject is uh is important enough that you shouldn't be able to deal with it in a slightly flippant way, and I think sometimes actually uh bringing a bit of levity to something uh sort of shows that you actually uh understand it and care about it, and that's you know generally the kind of uh motto I live my life by. But anyway, we will uh be back soon with the first proper episode, so subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, uh, keep an eye out on social media and tune in for that. Bye, mm-hmm.