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my experience when it comes to uh

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disability being included in the

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conversation about uh inclusivity has

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been that in general it hasn't been it's

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only recently that it's really started

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to move the needle I mean uh I do a lot

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of work with SAG-AFTRA and uh and is

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around issues of diversity and

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inclusivity and I got to say that the

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performance of disability committee has

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done phenomenal work in moving the

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needle and getting this conversation

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happening in the industry uh it's

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amazing how much energy it takes to get

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that that big old Boulder rolling just

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an inch and they've uh and they've done

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that and it's starting to move now it's

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actually starting to roll and people are

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having that conversation cuz uh cuz

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people I think what's what I'm most

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excited about right now is that so many

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people are talking about equality and

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inclusivity and they are trying to make

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sure that that nobody gets left out and

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so when you point out to somebody that

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they're leaving out 20% of the

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population they pay attention they wake

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up and so that to me has been uh I think

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it's not been nearly as hard a

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conversation as it would have been

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10 15 years ago people suddenly go oh

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you're right you're right I haven't been

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thinking about that I haven't been

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including performers with disabilities

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in my projects I haven't been hiring

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writers with disabilities I haven't been

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looking for producing you know so that

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the simple fact that it's being pointed

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out to them in uh sometimes in the you

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know shaming way but sometimes in the

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this actually will help improve your

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bottom line because people always want

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to see themselves on camera and it

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doesn't always need to be a point in

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fact sometimes it's most powerful when

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you know you see a person on camera with

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a disability and it's not the point of

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the story uh that's happening more and

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more it's not happening enough let's be

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clear but it's happening more uh cuz you

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know at the end of the day I think

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people are starting to realize that if

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you say you stand for equality it's got

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to be equality across the board it can't

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be just for equality for people that

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look like me or my gender or think like

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me or love like me it's got to be

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equality for everybody either you fight

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for every body or you're really just

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fighting for yourself and people like

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you so I think that's the message that's

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got to get out there more and more and

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that with that simple and I think it's

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out there in that little simple note of

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don't forget about these PKS who are by

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the way the biggest population of people

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that are forgotten in the country

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