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Sickboy

Care, Race & Redemption w/ Verena Rizg

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a deep dive into the past and present of nurse practitioner Verena Rizg. A conversation that taps into the nuances and complexities of faith vs culture when approaching grief. The boys finally get schooled on the difference between LPN, RN and Nurse practitioner (turns out LPN does not stand for Lower Paid Nurse, sorry dad) and a very much needed dive into how race effects both giving and receiving care.

Transcript

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0:05.3

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0:13.8

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0:18.6

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0:24.2

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0:30.2

This is a CBC podcast.

0:32.3

This is a CBC podcast. I don't even know where we're going to go with this.

0:59.9

I don't even know if someone's talking about.

1:01.4

I don't want to interrupt you.

1:03.9

Because in my culture,

1:04.8

interrupting is a sign of enthusiasm,

1:06.5

but in North American culture, it's very rude.

1:08.3

Oh, that's really funny because we just interrupt each other

1:10.8

and our guests all the fucking time.

1:13.0

And, and, and, and.

1:13.4

It's, uh, it's a, it's a sign of enthusiasm for us to.

1:19.8

Sometimes our, sometimes our fans are like, you interrupt your guests quite a bit.

1:23.7

Yeah, we, we oftentimes get a lot of feedback about, uh, that's our biggest, our lot of feedback about how often we interrupt our guests and each other.

1:31.7

Although, let me just say this because we don't have headphones, I left the splitter just be mindful of speaking over each other.

1:36.9

No.

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