Welcome back to The Pride of Spoken. It's Pride Month of course and as you already know,

all month we're chatting with and celebrating LGBTQIAC plus survivors. My name is Matt

Scott and I am here with the one, the only, the iconic survivor legend and hero in my opinion.

Evie Jakota, doctor, Evie Jakota, how are you doing? Oh Matt, only you can make me this smiley

and energized at eight in the morning after landing at a flight so late last night. So I'm so thrilled

to be here with you and I can't wait to set up this wonderful interview that you ingraced it.

Yeah and I mean of course wonderful to see you right back at you for 8 a.m. And yes like so far

we've talked with Carla, we've talked with Hi, I think phenomenal conversations and interviews

and Evie do you know who this week's conversation is with? I mean there's the title of the episode

but you haven't seen it yet. I do know I know that today or you know yesterday you and Grace

spoke with the missy bird from a survivor season 39. And I'm so excited to get us into

room because I know in particular that talking to missy was something you were extremely excited

to do when you were preparing the list you were like let's get missy, let's make it happen.

And I would just I would love if you could you know share with me, share with the people you know

why this was so important to you and yeah yeah I'd love to. Yeah yeah and I really like I love

our group of survivors in this I mean all the prideous folk and people who've come in but this

has been such a great group of folks and missy for me not only in terms of being like another

black person a black queer person is someone who resonates but I think for me what's so fascinating

about missy and I think we saw echoes of this with Bryce actually which he talked about last year

in his interview with you Evie is that missy comes off one way on the show and a completely

different way outside of the show missy is emotional in real life missy is fun missy loves pasties

and cannabis and that those things come up a lot in the beginning of this interview not pastries

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