Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigoso. Welcome to the show. Hello everyone. Thank you for being here. Today I am joined by T.S. Madison. But before we jump in, I just want to thank everyone that has supported the show through our new Patreon. After five years and 200 plus

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Now, this episode today is one I'm really excited to present. If you're unfamiliar

with T.S. Madison she's an author, comedian, television host, producer, artist, motivational speaker,

LGBT-2-plus activist and most importantly,

the star of a new show on we TV called the T.S. Madison experience.

It's a behind the scenes look at Madison's journey to become the first black trans woman to host a mainstream talk show.

And as you're about to hear on this kind of talk show, we would be so lucky to have her host one of these.

T.S. identifies as a heterosexual transgender woman and what she's done in this space for her community is nothing short of remarkable as

she's fond of saying she lives loud live and in color.

Now I want to give a fair warning here. The nature of this conversation, which

explores her time as a sex worker, is sometimes graphic, the language, vulgar.

We dive into uncharted territory for the show,

discourse around sexuality and those early childhood experiences where we're all a little uncertain about

what's happening and why. T.S. has a way of turning all of this, especially her pain, into comedy. The goal of this

conversation is to understand both the pain and the comedy.

I thank T.S. Madison for being willing to have this conversation

and to you for listening.

Thanks for being here.

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