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- So, I guess I'll start off with,

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you are visiting.
- Yeah.

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- Us ahead of your Favorite Woman Tour.

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- Yes.
- Your upcoming tour.

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- Yes.
- How are you gearing up

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for that, right now?

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Are you focusing more
on, like, resting, like,

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being laid back or, sort
of, last minute prep?

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- No, I'm just prepping.
I'm just prepping.

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Which I feel like is,
sometimes you have to prep

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by not prepping.

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Does that make sense?

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Sometimes, you have to prep
by, like, not doing anything,

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and then sometimes you
have to prep by going

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"it's all wrong!" and,
like, really panicking

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and freaking out.

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(both laugh)

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So, I'm, like, doing a
combination of those two things.

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- But, "Full Frontal," you
often, sort of, joke about topics

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that don't have that much
light, like, some restrictions

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of, sort of, abortion rights care,

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or gender affirming care.
- Mhm.

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- How do you, sort of,
tackle bringing some sort of

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lightheartedness, or levity,
to some of these stories

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that are a little bit more complex,

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a little bit more painful, sometimes?

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- We would only really tackle
issues that we felt like

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we could find humor in,

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that we felt like there was any lightness

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that could be brought forth,

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and if there wasn't a potential for that,

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then we wouldn't do the story.

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- Absolutely.

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And, then that's, sort
of, a perfect segue.

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You've been working on this
docuseries with Soledad O'Brien,

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about women's healthcare.

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Talk, sort of, a little
bit about that, and, maybe,

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how that, kind of, came to
fruition, came to be, as an idea.

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- Well, definitely, we've
been wanting to work on a show

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together in the women's
health space, because,

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(inhales sharply) quite
frankly, there's just, like,

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so much misinformation,
disinformation, like,

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people just don't really
understand how little

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women's bodies has been studied,

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how much the male body has
been used as a template

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for all medical research, and, you know,

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maternal death rate in America
is, like, outrageously high.

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There's just so many issues in
the world of women's health.

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It feels like it would lend
itself to a really great show.

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- (giggles) And then,
talking about, sort of,

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all these shows, your past shows,

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the ones you're working on,

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with the current state of television,

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feeling a little shaky, to say the least.

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- Super shaky.
- I know you've dealt with

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some of your own cancellations.

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- Sure.
- It's something

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so many people have been dealing with.

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How do you think the
industry can, sort of,

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best support creators, and
how can creators, kind of,

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support each other with this landscape?

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- I don't know that I
have any great advice

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for engaging with the actual,
like, television industry

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right now, 'cause it is really
tough, and we are, kind of,

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like, on the cusp of,
like, a writer strike,

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and it's feeling really, as
you're saying, like very rocky.

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I really dunno how to answer
that question. (nervous laugh)

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It is not easy right now.

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