Hello everybody, welcome to Homo sapiens.

How are you? Welcome to a brand new episode of Homo sapiens built especially bespoke for you

wonderful listeners. Last week, it was World Vade's day, but also over the weekend it was

small business day. So we're doing a little spotlight on small LGBTQ plus businesses,

LGBTQ plus run ones or friendly ones because they're a different thing aren't they?

It's really nice to go to an LGBTQ plus friendly or run business. I think there's a different

perspective on things. So I'm going to be reading out your suggestions of ones that you know

and love and I'm going to be talking to spanners with manners who are a brilliant group of lesbian

mechanics. They're sort of changing things in their own subtle way and they're fascinating

and I love them. So that's going to be a really brilliant chat and then also we're going to be

speaking to the wonderful actor and comedian Nick Dodani. He's the star of Netflix show A Typical

and he also recently starred in Dear Evan Hansen that was adapted for the big screen when it was

on the big screen and he also was in waitress on Broadway and we chatted about so much brilliant

stuff. He's such a lovely man and he sort of gives such an interesting perspective because

basically you know he was one of the first gay Indians South Asians to come out and make comedy

about being a gay Indian and the intricacies and details of that and he went viral when he did

this joke about he told his mom that he was gay and she said happy gay or AIDS gay and that you

know it was a joke but it's kind of what put him on the map and then that how that's developed and

how post-black lives matter, how that moment that continues now is how it's changed his view of

what kind of comedy he wants to do and you know he's an actor really now. It doesn't just

stand up so much anymore but really interesting chat and he's set up this amazing community called

The Salon which is for South Asian performers and creative makers of any sort to come together

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