Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic

medium, and animal communicator. And I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no

bullshit, mystical advice for living your very best life.

My loves, I hope that you're having a lovely week and I am so thrilled to share with you.

Part one out of two of my conversation with Amanda Seals on Small Dose's Podcast

and let me tell you, if you don't know Amanda Seals, you are in for a real treat. I mean,

obviously, if you do know Amanda Seals, you already know. You're in for a real treat,

but basically Amanda Seals is everything. She's an activist, a comedian, an actor, the

creator of Smart Funny and Black. She's a rapper, a host, an inspireer of my heart and yours.

Really, she's just an inspireer of hearts. What are you going to do? She's a damn cancer.

Enjoy. Welcome to another episode of Small Doses. I'm particularly excited about this

episode because this has come together in a very organic way. And I have talked about

this person on the show and now she's on the show. You're pronouning a sheet? Yes.

Okay. Now she's on the show. So I like when things like this happen. So let me tell you

a little backstory. And I'm not even sure if you know this, Jessica, Lignato. By the way,

we'll get into why I, I referred to you as Lignido on the show and then learned that that was

the improper pronunciation. It's not bad. It's really not bad. And I, I think it's Lignato,

but it's Lignido is the most common pronunciation. And I feel like it's fine. I refuse to miss

for now, people's names. I have explained that the actual last name is Derat. Wait, it

is a Jewish, wait, give it to me correctly. So, okay. So we're Iraqi Jews, which back in

the day fled the Inquisition. So, right. So like we, we basically went to Lignato's were

fleeing the Inquisition. They fled to Syria, Egypt and Iraq. And I think my family went

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