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Welcome to Our Body Politics. I'm creator and host Farai Chidea. Tanya Mosley is one of the most

celebrated voices on public radio and podcasting today.

She's host of the award-winning podcast Truth Be Told, which wrapped up its fifth season in May.

And this year, she was named co-host of the long-running legendary interview show, Fresh Air.

I'm so grateful that you agreed to co-host our show.

I'm so happy to be working with you and to hear your work on our show.

Terry, thank you and thank you for being so generous and spirit and generous in sharing the mic. And it's truly an honor and a pleasure to be co-hosting the show with you.

She's also a former correspondent and co-host of the Midday Public

Radio Show here and now. To learn more about her path towards journalism royalty, I'm joined today by

Tanya Mosley herself. Just so you know, we'll be talking about psychedelics in this show. Welcome,

Tanya. Oh my gosh. Thank you for having me for Rai. You know, we have walked some parallel paths in terms of creating our own things, but you are so much bigger than any one thing. You are all the things, as we like to say. And I have to say that you are my absolute favorite voice in radio. Before we get into what you actually talk about,

were you just like some little kid who talk like this, or did you develop a radio voice?

Okay, two things I want to say first. Maybe yes. Apparently, that's what folks around me told me

is that I've always had a voice for radio, for broadcast in some way. Also, for I,

I just want to say, we have to take a moment to say, hearing you say that I'm one of your

favorite voices is so meaningful to me. The favorite. The favorite. Okay, the favorite. Back

check. Yes. Because what you have meant to me and my career, I can't even really articulate it. I first discovered you working overnight when I was working overnights for a local television station in Michigan and you were a television correspondent and I would see you and you were like a beacon. I thought, okay, I see myself in this woman and I aspire to be what

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