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So Nico, in the interest of Verisimilitude, and because this is where we start our conversation we're going to play your voicemail and then launch into a conversation from there.

I like that you're going to prove the bullying works to get yourself on the air.

Oh no, I didn't see it as that at all.

It was a respectful conversation.

No, no, I know.

I really appreciate it, you know, like, you never know with these sort of things when you, I always sort of try to approach them from a good place, but you never know because sometimes when you push, when you say like, hey, I, you know, I have a different feeling on this or whatever.

Sometimes, you know how it is.

Sometimes people just don't like to get those notes.

I don't like to get those notes all the time.

Hey sound opinions.

My name is Nico Stratus.

I'm a trans woman. I'm a writer, culture critic. I live in Toronto.

I just listen to your Desert Island jukebox episode about Lola by the Kinks and also the cover by the raincoats and I want to bring to your attention

that there's a key fact that you got wrong in the episode in kind of a serious way and prefacing all of this by saying that I know that the

conversation was meant well and was said with love but you refer to Lola as a

trans man or potentially a cross dresser and that is not true.

Lola is a trans woman.

There's a moment where the two of you, you know, talking about the raincoats cover

at how they kept the male pronoun and it's not, it's incorrect. I mean factually we know that Lola is based off of a real trans

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