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Hosts Bonnie Gigallon and Brayan Mendoza talk with jazz vocalist Hope Diamond about her work as a singer, her inspirations, her newest album and Frankie's Backroom. David Perry comes on to the show to talk about Upon This Rock, a book that has been praised by the likes of Armistead Maupin as "The Gay Da Vinci Code". The news discussed in this segment include the recent recastings of various black cartoon characters with actual black voice artists, and Lulu Wang's issues with Ron Howard directing a biopic focused on Chinese people.
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