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SMNTY Classics: Disability Pride and Women · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie Anne Smitha and all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: I ever told you productive Ihearted you, And today we
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  Speaker 1: are bringing back a shorter episode we did. It was
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  Speaker 1: Monday Menu back when we were doing those as well
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  Speaker 1: about disability pride and women specifically, and we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about the statistics and how it looks the picture that
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  Speaker 1: it paints. And since we are a year removed from this,
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  Speaker 1: I do think we're going to come back and do
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  Speaker 1: what does it look like right now? But because we
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  Speaker 1: are in Disability Pride months and a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: some of these episodes are like, we could bring this
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  Speaker 1: back over and over again because it just feels like
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  Speaker 1: it's still so relevant. So here we are. Please enjoy
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  Speaker 1: this classic episode. Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to staff. I'll Never told you production, I Heart You.
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  Speaker 1: And as this comes out, it will be July first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, which is the first day of Disability
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  Speaker 1: Pride months, So we wanted to kick that off with
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  Speaker 1: just some statistics. I'm sure we'll have more topics to discuss,
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  Speaker 1: but I just wanted to look into it because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that we've ever we've done episodes on disability
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  Speaker 1: Pride and disability obviously, but I wasn't sure with the
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  Speaker 1: current state of statistics were so I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. With that content warning for domestic violence, rape,
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  Speaker 1: sexual assaults, and eugenics, we're not going to get two
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  Speaker 1: in depth into any of those things, but that is
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  Speaker 1: a part of the statistics unfortunately. So here we go
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  Speaker 1: from you and women. It is estimated that one in
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  Speaker 1: five women live with a disability. Women with disabilities experience
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  Speaker 1: various types of impairments, including physical, psychological, intellectual, and sensory
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  Speaker 1: conditions that may or may not come with functional limitations.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, the diversity of women with disabilities includes those
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  Speaker 1: with multiple and intersecting identities across all contexts such as ethnic, religious,
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  Speaker 1: and racial backgrounds. Their status has refugee, migrant, asylum seeking
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  Speaker 1: and internally displaced women, LGBTQ plus identity, age, marital status,
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  Speaker 1: and living with or being affected by HIV. From the
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  Speaker 1: CDC quote, about thirty six million women in the US
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  Speaker 1: have disabilities and the number is growing. About forty four
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  Speaker 1: percent of those age sixty five years or older are
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  Speaker 1: living with disability. The most common cause of disability for
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  Speaker 1: women is arthritis are rheumatism, so I think something to
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind with a lot of these statistics is
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  Speaker 1: we have talked a lot about just in general, how
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  Speaker 1: women and marginalized people are not always taken seriously as
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  Speaker 1: patients when they come in with things, and that has
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  Speaker 1: led to really long delays in getting something diagnosed. It's
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  Speaker 1: also led to potentially death. But also on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately we're seeing in a lot of countries, not just
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  Speaker 1: the US, kind of slashing of healthcare, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that centers around disability. So from now quote, women
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  Speaker 1: with disabilities are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to wage equality.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, women who are disabled made seventy
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  Speaker 1: two cents for every dollar paid to a man who
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  Speaker 1: is disabled. Compared to the non disabled community, women with
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  Speaker 1: disabilities made sixty eight cents to every dollar earned to
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  Speaker 1: able bodied men. If an individual from this community is
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  Speaker 1: seeking employment, the current hiring rate of women with disabilities
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  Speaker 1: between the ages of sixteen to sixty four stands at
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven percent. Throughout the employment process, women can face
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  Speaker 1: challenges ranging from organizational readiness and inclusivity to accessible employment
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  Speaker 1: processes and workplace inclusivity provisions. And here's another one from
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  Speaker 1: American progress. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
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  Speaker 1: the CDC, disability affects one four black people in the
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  Speaker 1: United States. However, getting a clear picture of what it's
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  Speaker 1: like to live with a disability or as a person
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  Speaker 1: of color can be difficult, due in large part to
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  Speaker 1: the fact that data collection on these issues is limited
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  Speaker 1: and inconsistent. The data that are available show African Americans
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  Speaker 1: are more likely to have a disability than white people,
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  Speaker 1: as well as that the disability appears to have greater
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  Speaker 1: impacts on them. Both black people and disabled people face
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  Speaker 1: barriers to education and employment that limit their earning potential.
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  Speaker 1: According to the National Disability Institute, people with disabilities are
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  Speaker 1: twice as likely to live in poverty than people without disabilities,
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  Speaker 1: and nearly forty percent of African Americans with disabilities live
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  Speaker 1: in poverty. Even after adjusting for education levels, Disabled African
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  Speaker 1: Americans are more likely to live in poverty than other
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  Speaker 1: people with disabilities. So there's the economic impact. But then
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  Speaker 1: there's something else we've also talked about before, which is
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  Speaker 1: the sexual violence domestic violence impact that intersects with disability. So,
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  Speaker 1: going back to nowt about one in four women have
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  Speaker 1: experienced contact, sexual violence, physical violence, and or stalking by
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  Speaker 1: an intimate partner during their lifetime. Research has shown that
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  Speaker 1: women with disability are more likely to experience intimate partner
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  Speaker 1: violence than those without disability. In fact, researchers found that
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  Speaker 1: compared to women without a disability, women with a disability
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  Speaker 1: were significantly more likely to report experiencing each form of
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  Speaker 1: intimate partner violence measured, which includes rape, sexual violence other
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  Speaker 1: than rape, physical violence, stocking, psychological aggression, and control of
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  Speaker 1: reproductive or sexual health. And here's a quote from the WHO,
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  Speaker 1: the World Health Organization. One systematic review of found greater
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  Speaker 1: risk of intimate partner violence for women with disabilities compared
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  Speaker 1: with those without, while another also found higher rates of
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  Speaker 1: sexual violence. So that brings us to the intersection of
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  Speaker 1: reproductive rights and disability. And obviously there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: turmoil around reproductive rights in the United States right now
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  Speaker 1: and in a lot of countries right now. As always, listeners,
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  Speaker 1: if you can write in what's going on in your area,
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  Speaker 1: we would love to hear from you, because it is
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  Speaker 1: a lot happening very quickly, it feels like. But here
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  Speaker 1: is a quote from American Progress, Reproductive and disability justice
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  Speaker 1: are both human rights based frameworks that at their core
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  Speaker 1: share fundamental similarities. They both prioritize the right to bodily
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  Speaker 1: autonomy and self determination, the right to raise children if
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  Speaker 1: one chooses to have them with dignity and in a
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  Speaker 1: safe environment, the right to access the healthcare one needs
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  Speaker 1: free from political interference or stigmatization, and the right to
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  Speaker 1: community care. Yet, even with such overlaps, the reproductive justice
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  Speaker 1: and disability justice movement have rarely interacted due to misunderstanding
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  Speaker 1: and miscommunication, particularly around abortion. Through the leadership of LGBTQ,
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  Speaker 1: Black and Indigenous activists and visionaries, reproductive and disability justice
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  Speaker 1: communities are reframing the conversation to be more inclusive of
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  Speaker 1: multi marginalized individuals. Exploring the intersection of the disability and
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  Speaker 1: reproductive justice communities is not only necessary to better understand
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  Speaker 1: how current societal structures hinder or restrict people with disabilities
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  Speaker 1: from making reproductive health decisions that are right for them,
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  Speaker 1: but also what policy solutions must be crafted in order
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  Speaker 1: to ensure reproductive justice is a reality for all. And
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  Speaker 1: then now goes on to go into yes the fact
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  Speaker 1: that abortion cares being restricted or banned in several states,
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  Speaker 1: and that for women with a disability, pregnancy or the
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  Speaker 1: ability to access abortions can be very life or death.
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  Speaker 1: It's not necessarily a choice, but the only option. And
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  Speaker 1: also that because there is this higher rate of sexual
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  Speaker 1: assault that we discussed, that it could impact even further
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  Speaker 1: this community, which is very, very important. But also remember
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about this before, reproductive justice does not only
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  Speaker 1: equal abortion, especially when we look at the history of
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  Speaker 1: force sterilization that particularly impacted women and extra particularly women
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  Speaker 1: of color with disabilities. So here's a quote from American Progress.
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  Speaker 1: The reproductive rights movement has historically fought for the legal
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  Speaker 1: right to abortion in connection to disability. This has occurred
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  Speaker 1: in an environment dense with misinformation and stigma about pre
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  Speaker 1: needle diagnoses of disability. Disability selective abortions, which are based
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  Speaker 1: on a diagnosis of disability before birth, are fueled in
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  Speaker 1: part by eugenics, with ablest assumptions about disability and lifespan,
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  Speaker 1: quality of life, and the desirability of raising a disabled child,
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  Speaker 1: among others. So I think when we talk about intersexual feminism,
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  Speaker 1: this is so important and why this disability pride is
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  Speaker 1: important and why we need to have these conversations and
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  Speaker 1: why we need to talk about these intersections, because as
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  Speaker 1: we discussed in past episodes and in our book People
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  Speaker 1: with Disabilities, which by the way, there is an ongoing
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  Speaker 1: conversation of how preferred terminology, So I just want to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that, but that it is the largest marginalized community
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  Speaker 1: in the world that can impact anybody, whether it's temporarily
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  Speaker 1: or permanently. So I think this is so important to
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind these intersectional numbers and keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: this history, and not to involve people who should be
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  Speaker 1: involved in conversations decision making conversations, because as we know,
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  Speaker 1: this is a big election year, not just for the
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  Speaker 1: US but for a lot of places, and with everything
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  Speaker 1: that's going on, it's really important that we not leave
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  Speaker 1: people out of conversations like this that should be the
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  Speaker 1: ones leading. So yeah, just wanted to go over some
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  Speaker 1: of those statistics because I was just curious and there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of resources out there for people who
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  Speaker 1: want to look more into it, and I'm sure, as
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  Speaker 1: I said, we'll be coming back and doing more episodes,
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  Speaker 1: but for now, we just wanted to kickstart this month
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  Speaker 1: with this short Monday many and if you have any
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