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Women Around the World: Olympic Wins for Women Part 1 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told your production of I Heart Radio. Annie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we was there at any point you thought you were
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  Speaker 1: so good at some sports that you're like, I could
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  Speaker 1: do this in the Olympics. Yes, what was it? It
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  Speaker 1: was not realistic at all, But I didn't think I
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  Speaker 1: was going to be a gymnastic champ. Oh nice, and
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  Speaker 1: I legitimately, like, even in child mind, looking back, I
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  Speaker 1: had no reason to think that people weren't giving me
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of boosts. It was all just in
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  Speaker 1: my head, right, I like it, Yeah, did you did
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  Speaker 1: you have one? Well? So, because my only real understanding
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  Speaker 1: of what being Asian was was from tell Division and
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  Speaker 1: we don't see many Asian people, but people like Christine A.
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  Speaker 1: M Agucci made me think that I could be a skater,
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  Speaker 1: which is absurd because I live in the South and
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  Speaker 1: there was no skating rink, especially ice skating rink around
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  Speaker 1: me anywhere. But I'm like, that's oh yeah, absolutely, that's
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  Speaker 1: what the Asian people do, right wrong, because I could
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  Speaker 1: not do that. Ever. I barely can roller skate. I'm
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  Speaker 1: petrified roller skating. So it's kind of hilarious but in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, I was like, yes, that's what the Asian
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  Speaker 1: people do, the grace of ice skating. And you know
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  Speaker 1: Christie Amagucchi, come on, then she was American sweetheart for
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  Speaker 1: a while, and I know Nancy Carragin was until all
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  Speaker 1: the debacle went down. But just saying, Christie Imagucci has
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  Speaker 1: like a special place in my heart. And speaking of
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  Speaker 1: we all wanted to be real current And for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who aren't listening when this episode was initially released,
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  Speaker 1: today is July, go ahead, timestamp in here, and we
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about what is happening with the twin
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  Speaker 1: D twenty. It's actually twenty twenty, right, we're just a
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  Speaker 1: year behind because of COVID. That correct, I think so,
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  Speaker 1: But I've been calling, okay, so whether it's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be Olympics in Tokyo and some of the women who
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  Speaker 1: continue to kill it in things that will never be
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  Speaker 1: able to attempt in my life ever, and yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: so you know, yes, they are amazing, yes, yes, And
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  Speaker 1: because we know the Olympics are not over, as we
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  Speaker 1: record this and release it, we will return with a
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  Speaker 1: part two. But in the meantime, let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: get started. Because there are so many folks out there
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  Speaker 1: just breaking records standards in all kinds of expectations, including
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  Speaker 1: Momiji Nicia from Tokyo, who is one of the youngest
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  Speaker 1: to win a gold medal in the Olympics so far
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  Speaker 1: in skateboarding. She's at thirty year old, who has won
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  Speaker 1: a gold medal in skateboarding. Oh yeah, don't worry about me,
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  Speaker 1: just wondering what I'm doing with my life. All good,
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, she's not the youngest to compete
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  Speaker 1: in this year's things. And again I am questioning how
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  Speaker 1: little I did with my teenage years. Just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think you did plenty, Samantha. Definitely not winning gold medals, well,
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  Speaker 1: not in skateboarding or in any official Olympic capacity, but
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  Speaker 1: there are other things. I don't know if I've ever
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  Speaker 1: won a gold medal. Now that you've made me think
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  Speaker 1: about it, keep going. I will make an event for you,
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  Speaker 1: just for you. And if you're wondering, more than half
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  Speaker 1: the women in the final competition of the skateboarding were teenagers.
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  Speaker 1: The oldest medal winner in the competition was sixteen year
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  Speaker 1: old Funa Nakayama, the bronze winner. How you said, l
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  Speaker 1: is also thirteen years old. Yeah, lots of younger. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess maybe it's a skateboarding competition, but yeah, more
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  Speaker 1: than half of them. We're that young. Yeah. I tried
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  Speaker 1: to get into skateboarding one summer, fell and hurt my
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  Speaker 1: chin and never did it again. So that's my experience. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So did you watch the competition? I did sell a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but they killed it too. Oh yeah, I was impressed.
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  Speaker 1: I was impressed. Oh and speaking of we mentioned surfing recently,
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  Speaker 1: first time uh in the Olympics, says an Olympic event.
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  Speaker 1: Chris and Moore, Hawaiian native, became the first Olympic surfing champion,
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  Speaker 1: and right behind her is South African surfer Bianca Buten Dog,
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  Speaker 1: who was originally ranked seventeen. Yeah, she made it and
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  Speaker 1: she did a killer job. So congrats to them. And
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  Speaker 1: on one of the other awards, with three on three basketball,
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  Speaker 1: the US Ladies won their first gold medal this year.
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  Speaker 1: The team members Stephanie Dolson, Alicia Gray, Kelsey Plum, and
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Young were able to win by losing only one
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  Speaker 1: game throughout the tournament. Kelsey Plum, who was the all
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  Speaker 1: time leading score in the n C double a was
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  Speaker 1: able to score fifty five points throughout the game and
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  Speaker 1: was able to help the team come together to take
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  Speaker 1: home the medal. So congratulations, y'all. Yes, I'm sure they
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  Speaker 1: were waiting on congratulations from from here they are. There
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  Speaker 1: are so many different races and events within swimming, and
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  Speaker 1: we're not going into all the winds, but we did
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  Speaker 1: want to highlight some of them, including Australian swimmer MM
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  Speaker 1: McKeon um, who shattered the one hundred meter freestyle Olympic
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  Speaker 1: record on Wednesday by point thirty nine seconds. There's also
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  Speaker 1: Alaska olympian at seventeen year old Lydia Jacobi, who won
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  Speaker 1: her first gold medal for the one hundred meter breaststroke
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  Speaker 1: this week. Her whole town erupted in cheers and hugs
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  Speaker 1: as they watched her results, even better as the history
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  Speaker 1: of her small town and how there's only one fifty
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  Speaker 1: pool in the entire state. She is the first Alaska
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  Speaker 1: to make it on to the US Olympic swim team
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  Speaker 1: and also first time Olympic Australian swimmer. Arianna Titmas has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people talking as she's making her way
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  Speaker 1: through the Olympics with US. So far two gold medals
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  Speaker 1: which many thought Americas from my Katie Ladeki would dominate.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely a lot of conversation about what she is
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  Speaker 1: doing and making all the waves in her accomplishments. And
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't leave without mentioning Katie Ladeki, who was a
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  Speaker 1: veteran of the competition, and she's currently holding five gold
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  Speaker 1: medals for this Olympics and may be able to break
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  Speaker 1: the record of the most gold medals won by female
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  Speaker 1: swimmer in the Olympics, so she just three more to
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  Speaker 1: beat that record. And then moving on to weightlifting, heidel
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  Speaker 1: Indias is one the first Olympic gold medal for the Philippines,
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  Speaker 1: which has not gotten a gold medal in nineties seven years.
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  Speaker 1: She went after completing a lift of twos, which was
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  Speaker 1: an Olympic record. She was one of only nineteen athletes
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  Speaker 1: to be sent from the Philippines. Moving on to gymnastics,
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  Speaker 1: Oxana Chosepha Tina, forty six year old gymnasts representing Uzbekistan,
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  Speaker 1: competed in her eighth Olympics. She was given a standing
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  Speaker 1: ovation as she completed the vault. She first competed in
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  Speaker 1: nine representing the Soviet Union. Yeah go because my body
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  Speaker 1: hearts just thinking about doing anything like that. And then
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  Speaker 1: Sunni Lee or Sunnisa Lee of the U S won
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  Speaker 1: her gold medal in gymnastics YEA. She is the first
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  Speaker 1: among American to make the US team. UM. She talked
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  Speaker 1: about the pressure ship belt after Simone Biles made a
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  Speaker 1: difficult decision to not compete, but has pulled out an
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  Speaker 1: amazing victory. And if you haven't seen the video of
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  Speaker 1: her family watching her, you should. It gives you all
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  Speaker 1: the fields. It was kind of sweet. We did want
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  Speaker 1: to touch briefly on some controversies, including outfits which I
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  Speaker 1: were going to come back to in an upcoming episode
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  Speaker 1: on some some updates UM and I couldn't believe this
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  Speaker 1: happened after we did our Olympic episode. I was like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: But Norway's handball team was fined after they refused to
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  Speaker 1: wear bikini bottoms and they wore shorts instead. Pink the
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  Speaker 1: pop star has said she would pay for their fines,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the Norwegian Handball Federation, who said they
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  Speaker 1: would pay the fine as well as their all in
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  Speaker 1: the same boat. UM. Germany's gymnasts where full body suits
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  Speaker 1: and protests of sexualization of women within the conversation, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: that is a huge conversation we can have and we
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  Speaker 1: will touch on in a future episode. Right, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's really important to note that is so ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: Like it was one person tweeted about it, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they get fine for wearing too much clothes in the Olympics,
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  Speaker 1: but then they get suspended or sent home for wearing
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  Speaker 1: not enough clothes in school. What is this ridiculous? And
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  Speaker 1: then we couldn't talk about the current events of the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics without talking about the goat Simone Biles and her
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  Speaker 1: decision to not compete. Yeah, there have been many and
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  Speaker 1: yet not surprising, most of them are conservative men um
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  Speaker 1: who have criticized her for her decision to step down
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  Speaker 1: for her own mental health. And this is such a
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  Speaker 1: big conversation on how young women are pushed to sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: everything for the idea of representation, of placing so much
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  Speaker 1: responsibility on young women to be the perfect doll, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's to be respectable or whether it's to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be sold essentially to be married, like all of
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  Speaker 1: these different things. But also why we look at listening
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  Speaker 1: to our bodies and our mental health as a type
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  Speaker 1: of weakness, which this whole big conversation of that as
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  Speaker 1: also is why we think these athletes owe us something?
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  Speaker 1: And of course I'm sure we're gonna get into this
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  Speaker 1: in their updates as well, but I think it's really
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  Speaker 1: it would be really hard for us to bypass this
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  Speaker 1: without talking about what is happening with this conversation and
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  Speaker 1: the nice at Simone Biles hasn't been able to start
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  Speaker 1: this conversation, even though honestly we could talk about Naomi Osaka,
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  Speaker 1: who also did the same thing during the tennis matches,
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  Speaker 1: which has been harshly criticized once again. And there's this
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  Speaker 1: whole level of why we think people owe us. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're famous, Yes, their job and they do something, but
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  Speaker 1: they as anywhere, anybody anywhere, we all have to take
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  Speaker 1: all for six time and sick leave. So why are
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  Speaker 1: we so adam and that they have to literally break
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  Speaker 1: their bodies and their health for us, And so such
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  Speaker 1: a big overall conversation, and let's not talk about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we put this on young black women as
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  Speaker 1: well in a hold different manner, and the double standards
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  Speaker 1: and again the intersectionality of the demands that we place
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  Speaker 1: on these young women and what we expect from them.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we've told our stories about tennis, We've told
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  Speaker 1: our stories about being in gymnastics. I cannot do a
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  Speaker 1: cart wheel anymore us. That's the only thing I used
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do. There's no way in hill
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  Speaker 1: we have any kind of real argument about why someone
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  Speaker 1: can't compete and turn our bodies inside out for us, like,
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  Speaker 1: come on, yeah, and we'll we'll definitely return to this
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  Speaker 1: conversation again because I have so much to say about it,
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  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of us do. But I
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  Speaker 1: think that's one of the funny thing because I did
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  Speaker 1: watch a lot of Olympic events with my friends recently
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  Speaker 1: on this vacation, and before someone biles chopped out, we
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  Speaker 1: were saying, like, this is ridiculous, how much pressure, Like
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  Speaker 1: every commercial is about how she's the best and she
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  Speaker 1: can do like it too much, um, and it's very
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  Speaker 1: unhealthy to be like, how dare you speak up for
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  Speaker 1: your own health? And okay, anyway, that's what we safer. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I promise we will return to this conversation and we
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  Speaker 1: will revisit Olympic winners and people we want to highlight
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