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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Questlove, and we're continuing to celebrate Women's

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Speaker 1: History Month by releasing episodes of my new podcast with

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Speaker 1: Story Pirates. Historical Records is an explosive fusion of hip

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Speaker 1: hop and history, tailor made for music loving kids and families.

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Speaker 1: In this episode, Nimine learns the inspiring story of Judy Human,

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Speaker 1: who fought for the rights of disabled people, and a

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Speaker 1: list Broadway actor Jenna Brainbridge for fierce hip hop track

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Speaker 1: to honor Judy's legacy. We hope you enjoy Historical Records,

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Speaker 1: the show that proves that in order to make history,

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Speaker 1: you have to make some noise.

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Speaker 2: Hey, listeners, it's Niminy. Welcome back to Historical Records. We're

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Speaker 2: doing things a little different on the show today because

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Speaker 2: I am at the gardening store and whoops, I dropped

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Speaker 2: my trowel. Anyway, as I was saying, I'm throwing a

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Speaker 2: garden party tonight's and I need a few last minute supplies.

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Speaker 2: For example, these seeds, these pruning snips ooh, and this

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Speaker 2: huge clay pot. Oh.

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Speaker 3: Dear clean up on Aisle five, herb please report to

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Speaker 3: the vegetable section.

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Speaker 2: My bad. I'll just grab another large clay.

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Speaker 3: Pot herb clean up on Aisle five.

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Speaker 2: Stat whoops, I'll just grab another one, Herb.

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Speaker 3: Come red. Someone is breaking all the pots in Aisle five.

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Speaker 4: What.

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Speaker 2: I don't even roots for one? What is happening?

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Speaker 5: Herb?

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Speaker 2: Where are you?

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Speaker 6: This is officially a clean up emergency?

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Speaker 7: Ole fine?

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Speaker 2: Where am I? Okay, calm down, Niminy. You're back at

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Speaker 2: the bunker in your bed. There's no herb, there's no

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Speaker 2: Aisle five. It was all a dream man. I guess

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Speaker 2: I'm a little how you say, stressed about this garden party.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw later, but you know it's great for

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Speaker 2: stress gardening listeners, Let's go check on those plans.

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Speaker 3: It's historical Records.

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Speaker 8: You are now listening to Historical We're.

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Speaker 2: To make history. You got to have struggles to make history.

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Speaker 2: You got to show toois cannot be quiet loud as

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Speaker 2: a riot to make history. You gotta make some noise. Hello,

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Speaker 2: lovely listeners, Welcome back to Historical Records, the show where

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Speaker 2: I dig into historical records in order to produce historically

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Speaker 2: themed records. And by records, I mean songs, which is

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Speaker 2: actually a bit of a history lesson in itself. Did

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Speaker 2: you know songs and albums used to be called records.

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Speaker 2: It's true. And if you have an adult in your

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Speaker 2: life who still listens to records, be warned that if

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Speaker 2: you ask their opinion about music, they're gonna talk a lot.

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Speaker 2: Now follow me, listeners. We're headed to a part of

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Speaker 2: the bunker you've never been to. Oh hot, Tina, where

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Speaker 2: my headed? I'm on my way to the greenhouse to

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Speaker 2: check on my plants for the garden party later. Where

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Speaker 2: are you going? Oh, that's right. You're nocturnal, so you're

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Speaker 2: going to bed. And that's also probably why you're in

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Speaker 2: a dressing gown and a bonnet. And here I thought

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Speaker 2: you were making a bold fashioned choice. Sleep tight, Tina.

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Speaker 2: I hope you don't have any stress dreams about herb

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Speaker 2: Never mind, I'll see you later anyway, listeners. Today's episode

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Speaker 2: of Historical Records is all about Shooty Human, who is

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Speaker 2: known as the mother of the disability rights movement. But

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Speaker 2: before we learn more about her, I need to check

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Speaker 2: up on my plants. I started a bunch of seeds

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Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, and today's the first day I've

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Speaker 2: been able to check up on them. Oh no, all

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Speaker 2: the plants are dead or dying. What have I done

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Speaker 2: hate him?

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Speaker 5: And I'm here for the garden party?

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Speaker 2: Me, what are you doing here? The party is not

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Speaker 5: Ah, well, the invite didn't say whether it was five

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Speaker 5: am or five pm. I thought it was a little

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Speaker 5: weird that a party would start at five am, But

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Speaker 5: you're a little weird Nimini, like in a good way,

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Speaker 5: so I just went with it.

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Speaker 2: I won't argue with you on that, but I don't

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Speaker 2: know if there's gonna be a party at all. Now,

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Speaker 2: just look at this garden.

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Speaker 5: It's not all bad. The leaves on this shrub here

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Speaker 2: They're supposed to be green.

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Speaker 5: Ooh, yikes, What were the conditions like in here?

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Speaker 2: You know me? I love my gadgets, so I set

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Speaker 2: sprinklers to go off every five minutes at random intervals

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Speaker 2: programmed gentle thunderstorm noises to play whenever that happens. Oops,

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Speaker 5: Who would go to a garden party without an umbrella, Nimoni.

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Speaker 5: I understand why you programmed this room the way you did,

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Speaker 5: but it looks like you have a lot of different

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Speaker 5: plants in here. Individual plants need specific conditions to thrive.

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Speaker 5: You can't expect a bonzie tree and a cactus to

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Speaker 2: Wow, I guess not. I was just excited to have

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Speaker 5: In everything, totally understandable, and actually it makes me think

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Speaker 5: about this week's episode about Judy Human Really why i'll

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Speaker 2: Oh, Lee, I think the party's off. You can put

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Speaker 2: away that bird shaped whistle you brought as a party favor.

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Speaker 5: Actually, this bird whistle is this week's history simulator.

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Speaker 2: Oh you know, I love a theme. Let's go.

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Speaker 5: Just as a heads up, this whistle attracts actual birds,

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Speaker 5: so you might see some after I blow on it.

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Speaker 2: It's great.

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Speaker 5: I love birds me too, But jes a reminder, there

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Speaker 5: are over eleven thousand species of birds, and I can't

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Speaker 2: In that case, maybe we should pause because I really

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Speaker 2: don't like sign Then fly I don't know, Well, come on,

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Speaker 2: let's fly. Whoa where did we travel to? Lee? I

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Speaker 2: assume somewhere near an ocean.

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Speaker 5: No, we're on the south lawn of the White House.

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Speaker 2: What then, why the seagulls. The birds have.

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Speaker 5: Their own reasoning, Nimini, best not to question it. But

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Speaker 5: you should look over there at.

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Speaker 2: That platform where a bunch of people are standing in

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Speaker 5: Yup and see that woman over there wearing glasses in

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Speaker 2: That's Judy Human. Does Judy Human work at the White House?

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Speaker 5: Not yet. Eventually she does end up working with President

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Speaker 5: Clinton's administration, but that's still a few years away. Today,

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Speaker 5: she's here because President Bush is signing the nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: And what did the ADA do?

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Speaker 5: It's a civil rights law that says it's illegal to

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Speaker 5: different before the ADA in what way?

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Speaker 5: Take Judy for example, when she was a kid, she

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Speaker 2: That's not fair.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't. But when the ADA became the law of

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Speaker 5: the land. See that wheelchair ramp over there leading up

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Speaker 5: to the stage where Bush is speaking. That is one

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Speaker 5: small way the ADA helped to make spaces accessible for everyone. Wow,

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Speaker 5: and look do you see how there's an ASL interpreter

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Speaker 2: Yes, I love watching interpretters, especially at concerts.

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Speaker 5: That's part of the eightya two. Judy was part of

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Speaker 5: a movement that wanted to change the world, to give

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Speaker 2: Seems like everyone here is happy about the ADA getting passed.

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Speaker 2: But is it just me or does Judy seem a

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Speaker 5: Spot on Nimoni. Judy showed up to support this act

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Speaker 5: being signed because it was a step in the right direction,

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Speaker 5: but she had openly spoken out saying she didn't think

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Speaker 2: She said that to the president.

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Speaker 5: Well, she said it to the media, so President Bush

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Speaker 2: Oh, I really admire her honesty. Me too.

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Speaker 5: It can be really intimidating to speak up for yourself. Now,

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Speaker 5: let me take you further back to another time when

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Speaker 5: Judy spoke up. Just prepare yourself because you know the

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Speaker 5: bird thing.

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Speaker 2: We can do this, Lee, give us a whistle. Oh,

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Speaker 2: thank goodness, it's a flock of meadow larks.

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Speaker 5: Gorgeous here we are. What a beautiful way to travel.

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Speaker 6: Hey lady, are you gonna stand in the middle of

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Speaker 2: I'm walking here.

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Speaker 5: If it's a break, we're lurking here.

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Speaker 6: All right, All right, everyone's a character in New York City, Lee,

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Speaker 6: Look over, there is that.

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Speaker 2: Kid, an old timy Newsy in a cap selling papers.

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Speaker 8: It sure is extra extra read all about it. Woman

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Speaker 2: Whoa he must be talking about Judy Human.

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Speaker 8: Extra extra read all about it. Judy Human wins case

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, newsies were a fixture of life in the

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Speaker 2: eighteen hundreds. How far back do we go?

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Speaker 5: Lee, the nineteen seventies.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the newsies as darkly accurate.

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Speaker 5: You Let me worry about that nmony. Listen to what

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Speaker 5: the newsies are saying about Judy.

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Speaker 2: Extra extra read all about it. In a twist of.

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Speaker 5: Fate, Judy Human wins discrimination lawsuit.

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Speaker 3: Against the school board that bought it from attending school

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Speaker 2: Okay, wild, what are they talking about.

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Speaker 5: When she was entering elementary school in nineteen fifty two,

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Speaker 5: a school board in Judy's neighborhood didn't let her attend

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Speaker 2: That seems outrageous even for the nineteen fifties, But what

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Speaker 2: does that have to do with these headlines about her

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Speaker 5: Years later, after Judy had earned her teaching license, that

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Speaker 5: same school board sai she couldn't be a teacher in

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Speaker 5: their school because she failed the medical exam because she

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Speaker 5: couldn't walk.

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Speaker 2: That's really unfair. She was obviously able to be a teacher.

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Speaker 2: She was just going to need to get around the

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Speaker 2: school in her own way. In schools today, there are

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Speaker 2: not only ramps in elevators so that everyone is able

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Speaker 2: to get around. There's even braille on all the signs

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Speaker 2: on the walls to help those that are vision and paired.

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Speaker 5: Exactly, and all that progress is the result of Judy

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Speaker 5: and her colleagues demanding that buildings be more accessible. Because

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Speaker 5: the world is largely designed with able people in mind,

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Speaker 5: you have to use your imagination in a new way

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Speaker 5: to rethink places and make them for everyone.

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Speaker 2: If only the school board could have realized that back

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Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty two.

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Speaker 8: Extra Extra Exclusive Interview with Judy Human, page four.

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Speaker 5: Oh we should read that. Excuse me, Hi, I'd like

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Speaker 5: to buy a paper.

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Speaker 8: Please show a thing that'll be three fifty.

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Speaker 5: Three fifty That is expensive for the seventies.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, here you go, neosy.

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Speaker 8: Thanks Extra extra podcast assurer and swindled by anachronistic noozy.

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Speaker 8: Read all about it, you little rascal.

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Speaker 2: Wait, Lee, why would we just read about it when

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, maybe I could return this paper to that

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Speaker 2: That's a burn.

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Speaker 5: Well yeah, it's called a jacksnipe.

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Speaker 2: I might need to sample it for a beat. That

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Speaker 5: Judy Humans about to give her statement. Sorry, okay, so niminy.

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Speaker 5: Here we are at the Overseas Press Club at Judy's

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Speaker 8: Judy, how do you feel now that you've won the case?

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Speaker 9: I feel qualified to teach now and I don't want

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Speaker 2: I bet Judy was an amazing teacher.

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Speaker 5: She didn't end up teaching that much after the lawsuit.

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Speaker 2: What that makes me sad to hear?

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Speaker 5: It's actually pretty inspiring. Judy realized that her work needed

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Speaker 2: What did she end up doing?

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Speaker 5: I'll show you.

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Speaker 2: Her case. What am I supposed to.

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Speaker 8: Go with this?

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Speaker 5: Did you know that Benjamin Franklin wanted the National burn

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Speaker 2: Knows that late? Where are we?

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Speaker 5: Sh try to keep your voice down. It's pretty late

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Speaker 2: We're in some kind of office building full of people

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Speaker 5: It's less of a sleep over and more of a

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Speaker 2: Hm hm, that makes sense. People are definitely sitting, mostly

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Speaker 2: And based on the various haircuts, I'm guessing we're in

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Speaker 2: the seventies again.

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Speaker 5: Correct, we're in nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 2: I thought sit ins were like protests, like the ones

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Speaker 5: That's right, All of these folks are part of DA

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Speaker 5: Disability in Action, an organization that Judy helped create that

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Speaker 2: Are they all protesting about another teacher license getting denied?

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Speaker 5: No, this is a much bigger moment. This is what

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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy three. But didn't you just say it's nineteen

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Speaker 5: Yes, So in nineteen seventy three, after other protests led

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Speaker 5: it is great. But before section five oh four could

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Speaker 2: So all these activists had already helped bring about a

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Speaker 3: Okay, everybody, I don't want to wake you have if

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Speaker 5: I'm not exactly sure what's happening now.

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Speaker 2: They're taking down that big sign that says twenty one

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Speaker 3: Fellow protesters, if you can, we'd love for you to

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Speaker 5: Oh. I see all these people have been here protesting

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Speaker 2: That's such a long time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and some of the people here needed specific medical

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Speaker 2: How did they know what to bring them? I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's nineteen seventy seven. There are no cell phones, and

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Speaker 2: I don't think they'd just let the protesters use the

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Speaker 5: Oh they didn't. In fact, the FBI cut the phone

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Speaker 2: Is using sign language to communicate with somebody on the

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Speaker 5: Isn't that amazing? The FBI couldn't stop asl.

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Speaker 5: They'll be here for a few more days, twenty four altogether.

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Speaker 2: I know this is a protest and everyone here is

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Speaker 5: I don't think so? And actually that makes me think

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Speaker 5: But here we go. Owls. What a perfect bird to

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Speaker 5: take us to our next stuff.

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Speaker 2: You're right, Lee, those owls were on thepe I'm seeing

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Speaker 2: a bonfire with people gathered around it. I hear frogs

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Speaker 5: Oh no, I do not do well with mosquitos.

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Speaker 2: We better be quick. What's the scoop on this gathering.

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Speaker 5: We're at a place called Camp jen Ed. It's a

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Speaker 5: summer camp Judy went to and she was a teenager. Look,

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Speaker 5: she's right over there, sitting near the fire.

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Speaker 2: Where Sorry, it's hard to tell from this far back,

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Speaker 5: She's the one who just made everyone laugh.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to bring you here because Judy talks about

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Speaker 2: Her to want to change that. Maybe this is where

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Speaker 5: Other campers from Jened went on to be disability rights

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Speaker 2: Okay, they're really getting into that song. Oh, which reminds

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Speaker 2: looks like you're getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. Yikes, let's

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Speaker 5: We're heading back to the studio. So he's sort of

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Speaker 2: All right, here we are back at the studio.

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Speaker 5: I'm covered in bug bites. Why did I create a

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Speaker 2: Oh? All that, and you didn't even get us'more?

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Speaker 5: Oh No, one came back with us a.

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Speaker 2: BII. Okay, listeners, let's hear this song about the one

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Speaker 5: I'm looking for feisty disabled.

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Speaker 7: But I was paralyzed from below the wigs.

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Speaker 2: But just know that the song ain't a sod story.

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Speaker 7: Ain't the go crying home to your mom's story.

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Speaker 9: This about finding force when you're afraid, getting lemons.

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Speaker 9: You know they called me a fire hazard.

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Speaker 5: We will show them a fire.

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Speaker 9: Had to give them some sass claim my dignity, change

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Speaker 8: So we had to be f see.

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Speaker 5: Be the brawler you want to be.

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Speaker 7: I see make the shift that you want to see.

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Speaker 7: I see no time for the niceties. Feisty, be feisty

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Speaker 9: I want to be a teacher, help the youth outright.

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Speaker 9: They say I can't teach because I can't Watchcuse.

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Speaker 9: You know, they settled out of court. First ever teacher

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Speaker 5: Feisty, be seisty.

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Speaker 9: As you can SeeMe of facts of led to many positives,

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Speaker 9: We on a mission to improve the positions of people

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Speaker 9: It was worth it when we finally got our props,

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Speaker 7: Sae be the brawl or you want to be I say,

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Speaker 5: Feisty, be feisty.

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Speaker 7: Feisty, be the brawl or you want to be feisty,

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Speaker 2: Feisty, be feisty. We'll be right back after a few

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Speaker 2: words for the grown ups. Listeners, thanks for joining in

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Speaker 2: Hey Nedy Haley, Hey, Hi Man, Hey Tina Yo.

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Speaker 3: I showed up today around five thirty am for your

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Speaker 2: Ah, it was up, Mum, up Pazon, you did.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was kind of weird to have a

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Speaker 2: A good way. Thanks Phil, You're kind of weird too,

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: Also, I just want to say, to this pile of

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Speaker 8: Wah.

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Speaker 5: I actually had a question about that, Niminy. I thought

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Speaker 5: you were inviting us to a garden party, but there's

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Speaker 2: I thought we could change this from a garden party

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Speaker 2: to a gardening party. I have all these different types

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Speaker 2: help them grow. So will you help me create a

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Speaker 2: better environment for each of these different types of plants.

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Speaker 5: Sure, what are all these birds doing here? I'll explain later.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's what is very good with a wheelbarrow.

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Speaker 2: Let's get gardening. Thanks everyone. While we all work on

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Speaker 2: the garden, I am gonna briefly sneak away for an interview. Hi, Alie,

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Speaker 2: can you introduce yourself for our listeners.

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Speaker 11: My name is Ali Stroker and I am an actress

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Speaker 11: and a singer and a dancer. I have had the

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Speaker 11: privilege of performing on Broadway and winning a Tony Award

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Speaker 11: for my performance in Oklahoma, where I played ado Annie.

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Speaker 11: And I also am an activist and an advocate for

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Speaker 11: people with disabilities. I was injured in a car accident

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Speaker 11: when I was two and use a wheelchair for mobility.

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Speaker 11: I have a two year old son named Jesse, who

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Speaker 11: is hilarious and such a joy. And I'm married to

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Speaker 11: the love of my life named David, and we live

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Speaker 11: in Westchester.

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Speaker 2: Amazing. Now, Elizabeth, can you tell us a little bit

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Speaker 2: about yourself?

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Speaker 5: Okay, So I'm Elizabeth.

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Speaker 4: I'm fourteen and I'm in theater at my school. I

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Speaker 4: do chorus, and I like to play slued hockey, baseball, swimming.

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Speaker 2: So Elizabeth, I know you have some questions prepared? Do

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Speaker 2: you want to jump in with your first one?

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Speaker 4: What was the one thing that was most challenging for

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Speaker 4: you with your disability to start your acting career.

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Speaker 11: I began singing and doing theater when I was seven

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Speaker 11: years old. And before I began doing theater, I was

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Speaker 11: really shy and I felt really different being a little

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Speaker 11: kid with a disability.

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Speaker 5: It felt really hard.

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Speaker 11: It felt like when I would enter rooms, I was

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Speaker 11: being stung by base It was just so uncomfortable. And

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Speaker 11: then when I got on stage, everyone was staring at me,

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Speaker 11: but it was for a different reason. Now it wasn't

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Speaker 11: because of my wheelchair. It was because I was the

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Speaker 11: star of the show and I was totally hooked.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I can relate to that a lot, because like when

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Speaker 4: I was in sixth grade, it was really hard and

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Speaker 4: I went to theater and I was on the stage

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Speaker 4: and it kind of felt like it was where I

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Speaker 4: was supposed to be. I saw myself as a normal kid,

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Speaker 4: not with the disability.

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Speaker 5: Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 11: Wait, can I ask you a few questions?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 11: Yes, Okay, what is your dream role in a show?

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Speaker 4: I really want to try out for Dorothy and Wizard

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Speaker 4: of All Yes, But like I'm shy, and it's like

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Speaker 4: very scary.

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Speaker 2: For me totally.

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Speaker 11: I don't know what your audition will be like, but

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Speaker 11: I always say to people like, if you have any

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Speaker 11: questions about what I can do and sort of you

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Speaker 11: know how I moved in my physical vocabulary.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to talk to you guys about it.

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Speaker 11: Because the truth is, like, when you're collaborating on a show,

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Speaker 11: you probably have as many ideas as they do. Yeah,

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Speaker 11: and maybe even more that they wouldn't even think of

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Speaker 11: because you live with your disability and you know what

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Speaker 11: is really kind of unique and cool about it, and

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Speaker 11: there's ways to be creative and incorporate it into the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 11: you know this concept of clicking your heels three times?

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Speaker 2: Like I wear a lot of rings.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't know if you use a wheelchair or not,

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Speaker 11: but like I like to click my rings against my wheels.

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Speaker 5: All of a.

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Speaker 11: Sudden, It's like, who says clicking your heels three times

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Speaker 11: has to look the same as it's always look like

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Speaker 11: I can click my wheels instead of heels three times.

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Speaker 11: There's so many cool opportunities to come up with creative options.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Elizabeth, is there anything you want to ask Ali?

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Speaker 2: About Judy Human.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was kind of cool that like she

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Speaker 4: thought for like our rights because of our disability.

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Speaker 11: Judy's whole thing was she was sick of hearing no.

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Speaker 11: She believed that we as a community of people with

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Speaker 11: disabilities deserved to have access and rights. By the way, Elizabeth, like,

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Speaker 11: I believe that the future is accessible. And that's the

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Speaker 11: life that I'm leading and the work that I do

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Speaker 11: in my life.

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Speaker 2: To make it so.

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Speaker 11: I always say when someone is not able to see that,

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Speaker 11: that's not a person for me, and that's okay too.

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Speaker 2: Like, I surround.

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Speaker 11: Myself with people who are passionate about my ability and

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Speaker 11: access to the world, and you will have the same Elizabeth.

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Speaker 11: You're so bright, you're so smart, Like, continue to surround

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Speaker 11: yourself with people who believe in accessibility and change.

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Speaker 2: Ah, this was an amazing conversation. Thank you both so

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Speaker 2: much for being here.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Do you inspire me?

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Speaker 2: I'm inspired by you.

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Speaker 11: Great to meet you and have a wonderful day, But by.

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Speaker 2: Bye, listeners, Thanks for joining in today and for going

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Speaker 2: on a journey with me to learn about the disability

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Speaker 2: rights activist Judy Human. And a huge thanks to today's

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Speaker 2: guests Jenna Bainbridge, Ali Stroker and Elizabeth. We'll be back

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Speaker 2: next week with another episode, another song, and another hero.

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Speaker 2: After all, someone's gotta make more historical records. Until then,

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Speaker 2: remember to make history, you gotta make some noise. Oops.

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Speaker 2: Forgot to turn the random sprinkler timer off. Gotta go

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Speaker 2: signing off. This is Niminy reminding you to stay my seat. Bye.

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Speaker 6: Historical Records is produced in partnership with Story Pirates Studios,

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Speaker 6: Questloves two on five Entertainment, John Blickman and iHeart Podcasts.

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Speaker 6: Executive producer by Amir Questlove Thompson, John Glickman, Lee Overtree

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Speaker 6: and Benjamin Salka. Executive produced for iHeart Podcasts by Noel Brown.

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Speaker 6: Producers for Story Pirate Studios are Isabella Riccio, Sam Bear,

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Speaker 6: Eric Gerson, Andrew Miller, Lee Overtree, Peter McNerney and niminy Ware.

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Speaker 6: Producers for two one five are Sean g Brittany, Benjamin

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Speaker 6: and Zarah Zolman. Hosted by niminy Ware. Our head writer

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Speaker 6: is Duke Doyle. Our historians are Gabe Pacheco and Lee Polis.

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Speaker 6: Music supervision for two one five by Stroe Elliott. Scoring

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Speaker 6: and music supervision for Story Pirate Studios by Eric Gerson.

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Speaker 6: Sound designed and mixing by Sam.

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Speaker 8: Bear at the Relic Room in New York City.

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Speaker 6: Additional recording by Brett Tuban, song mastering by Josh Han.

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Speaker 6: Theme song by Dan Foster and Eric Gerson and produced

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Speaker 6: by Eric Erson. Production coordination by Isabelle Riccio, Production management

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Speaker 6: by Maggie Lee. The line producer for Story Pirate Studios

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Speaker 6: is Glennis Brault. Pr for Story Pirate Studios is provided

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Speaker 6: by Naomi Shaw. Episode artwork by Camilla Franklin. This episode

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Speaker 6: was written by Megan O'Neill. The song Judy Human was

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Speaker 6: written by Dan Foster and produced by Eric Gerson. Special

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Speaker 6: guests Ali Stroker, Jenna Bainbridge, and Kid interviewer Elizabeth. This

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Speaker 6: episode features performances by Peter McNerney, Megan O'Neill, Lee Overtree, Lee, Polis,

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Speaker 6: Austin Sanders, Jamie Watson, and Nimini Ware