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Speaker 1: Wakey Waki. This is Laverne Cox and I'm back but almost.

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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled at Season two is in the works and

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Speaker 1: we'll be on your podcast player very very soon. But

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Speaker 1: in the meantime, why don't you listen or re listen

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Speaker 1: for some of you to my award winning first season.

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Speaker 1: We talked about everything from opera and mental health, from

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Speaker 1: self compassion and dating to class shaming and housing segregation

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Speaker 1: and all the conversations need to be heard on a loop.

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Speaker 1: Award winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara.

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Speaker 2: One of the things about being poor is it's exhausting.

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Speaker 2: It is exhausting either because you're doing four jobs. I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to bring up some kids and find some childcard,

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Speaker 2: but also you're trying to process so much.

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Speaker 1: Making Season one of The Leverine Cox Show was intense, glorious.

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Speaker 1: I opening healing. It was really challenging because there were

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Speaker 1: so many in tense conversations that we had. But I

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Speaker 1: learned so much, I grew so much, and it was

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Speaker 1: just really wonderful. You do not want to miss the

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Speaker 1: brilliance of the multi talented created superstar Billy Porter.

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Speaker 3: I have something to say and I wanted to make

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Speaker 3: sure that I was saying it for real, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, and using my voice in service or the eye

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Speaker 1: opening straight talk of author Richard Rothstein.

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Speaker 4: The white working class families returning war veterans were subsidized

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Speaker 4: to move to these suburbs, gained over the next couple

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Speaker 4: of generations wealth from the appreciation of the value of

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Speaker 4: their homes. African Americans were prohibited from participating in this

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Speaker 4: wealth generating program.

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Speaker 1: And Ben Kimberly Foster and I talk about beauty girl,

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Speaker 1: it's more than skin deep.

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Speaker 3: What I would want is even those people who don't

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Speaker 3: fit any beauty ideal, any standard, right that you can

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Speaker 3: have access to the care that you need, that you

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Speaker 3: can have access to safety, that you don't have to

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Speaker 3: spend your life on the treadmill of self doubt and anxiety.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much more. Brene Brown of Lobe, Toronto, Burke,

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Speaker 1: doctor Cornell West.

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Speaker 5: How shall integrity face oppression? What does honesty do in

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Speaker 5: the face of deception? What does decency do in the

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Speaker 5: face of insol How shall courage meet group? For those

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Speaker 5: questions are as relevant as they can be today.

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Speaker 1: You get me one, listen, won't do it so Lavernecock

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Speaker 1: Show is back every Thursday starting July twenty seven. It's

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Speaker 1: time to freshen up, folks,