Hey, wonderful's welcome to episode of 533 of the JV club with my phenomenal guest

Alicia Wayne Wright.

Alicia is the host of the When Science Finds Away podcast.

She's also an awesome actress.

There are so many things I want to tell you that she has done, including something that I also have done.

And yet, we are on strike, so I will not bring up those things.

But rest assured, it's a great episode, a wonderful conversation,

and I know you will like it, and I know further that you will end up going to check out her new podcast.

It's so great, and we really dig in. you will end up going to check out her new podcast.

It's so great and we really dig into some of the very cool stories

that the podcast covers.

So check this out.

Hope everyone's doing well and I'll talk to you next week. Where did you grow up in Florida in In Florida. Okay, where we're in Florida?

Fort Lauderdale area. Okay. Was it was it was it come did it feel community oriented or did it feel like this is a place where all the kids my age are ready to move somewhere else as soon as they can?

Well, I mean, I mean it can be both. It's a pretty, yeah, I was going to say it feels like a pretty mixed bag my own personal experience my I come from a quite a large

Like I don't know like the generation above me was pretty large. My mom's one of nine kids and everyone

emigrated from Jamaica to the US and kind of congregated in Florida and so they built friend groups and then also their own families.

So when I wasn't in school, all of my non-school time was with my family, which felt like a community.

And then I had my school friends that I would hang out with

maybe once I got into my middle school era,

but for the most part when I wasn't at school I was with my family

which feels like a very immigrant experience because I see a lot of kids now and it's like all

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