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Feminists Around the World: Black Women Breaking Records · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and what kome stuff?
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  Speaker 1: I never told your production of iHeart Radio and Happy
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Annie, Yes to you as well. I'm sad
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  Speaker 1: because we have a tradition of like spending it together. No,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe we're not together. Um, but yes, it
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  Speaker 1: is February today, and we wanted to shout out to you.
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  Speaker 1: Allow those Valentines if you so, celebrate. If you don't,
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  Speaker 1: we get that too. But we are going to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: by talking about the amazing black women who continue to
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  Speaker 1: break records and make history and push the boundaries. And
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  Speaker 1: though the list could go on and on and on
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  Speaker 1: and on, we picked a few to focus on today.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, we had to start with the
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  Speaker 1: Queen herself, Queen b Beyonce Yance Am I right, um.
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  Speaker 1: And Beyonce is, of course one of the biggest legends today.
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  Speaker 1: We even say on Beyonce's Internet, how dare you you know?
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  Speaker 1: Because she owns all the things, I'm sure it'll be
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  Speaker 1: Blue Ivy sing, so it shouldn't be too surprising that
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  Speaker 1: she would be a world record breaker. Beyonce became the
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  Speaker 1: most awarded Grammy winner as of three with an amazing
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  Speaker 1: thirty two Grammy wins um and not only that, she
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  Speaker 1: and her hubby jay Z, just in case you didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: uh tied for most nominated musical act in history with
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight nominations. So uh yeah, just to say they
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  Speaker 1: make some good music is an understatement, but of course,
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  Speaker 1: because we can't have nice things, we can't ignore that
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  Speaker 1: once again, Beyonce's snubbed four Album of the Year, which
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  Speaker 1: by the way, has only been given to three black
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  Speaker 1: women and all the entire history of the Grammys, so
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  Speaker 1: that fills like a smack in the face. But I digress.
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  Speaker 1: This year, more than half of the nominees were women
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  Speaker 1: and more than half were people of color as well,
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  Speaker 1: So small victories for the Grammys. Let's let's hope that
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  Speaker 1: they will do some better, as many have actually boycotted
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  Speaker 1: it because of what seems to be favoritism. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever. Yes, well, speaking of singing icons, Ashanti
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  Speaker 1: is out there breaking records to um but not an
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  Speaker 1: entertainment though we have to take a minute to remember
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  Speaker 1: that she wasn't the Guinness Book of World Records for
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  Speaker 1: fastest selling debut album by a Female artist in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand two, but she has broken another record, and this
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  Speaker 1: time in tech. Ashanti is the first black female artist
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  Speaker 1: to be a co founder of a web three or
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  Speaker 1: a web three point oh company, which are social media
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  Speaker 1: platforms that quote are an idea for a new iteration
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  Speaker 1: of the Worldwide Web, which incorporates concepts such a decentralization,
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  Speaker 1: blockchain technologies, and token based economics, or platforms that aimed
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  Speaker 1: to quote improve user experiences by helping creators own and
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  Speaker 1: monetize their content and giving them more control over their data. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is sort of beyond our pay grade, but it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of stuff that's going on. Um
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  Speaker 1: and many have talked about the interconnectedness of tech and entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: including the overall power of owning your own content or
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  Speaker 1: for creators owning your own content. UM. In an interview
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  Speaker 1: about her new venture, Ashanti says, quote, I want to
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  Speaker 1: continue to do things like this and have these conversations,
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  Speaker 1: to continue to spread the narrative, continue to use the
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  Speaker 1: platform and become the vessel and say, hey, guys, it's
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  Speaker 1: so important to own your intellectual property. You know, Like
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  Speaker 1: we come up and we set the trends with these
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  Speaker 1: dances for TikTok or for Instagram and all of these tutorials,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like creating awareness and understanding that ownership is
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  Speaker 1: so powerful is essential, absolutely, and that would be interesting
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  Speaker 1: to watch to see if this will take off and
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  Speaker 1: actually help content creators who are trying to navigate this
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  Speaker 1: new space. And though this isn't necessarily a world record breaker,
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  Speaker 1: we have to talk about the all black women's World
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  Speaker 1: War Two unit who finally received the Congressional Gold Medal.
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  Speaker 1: So in ninety four, the Women's Army Corps had more
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  Speaker 1: than a hundred forty thousand women serving, including at least
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  Speaker 1: black women. And there we have the six thousand eight
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  Speaker 1: company made up of eight hundred fifty black women who
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  Speaker 1: was led by Army major charity Atoms. And yes, this
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  Speaker 1: was one of the companies I had, I think five
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  Speaker 1: different companies put together, and their story is fascinating. They
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  Speaker 1: went through basic training including obstacle courses and drills, they
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  Speaker 1: studied enemy aircraft and weapons, and endured marches and they
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  Speaker 1: actually were deployed to England and I believe they were
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  Speaker 1: the only crew to be deployed where they were faced
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  Speaker 1: with a daunting task of handling the backlog of mail,
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  Speaker 1: so that was a pretty big deal. Apparently with out
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  Speaker 1: the correspondence, morale was low as well as the mere
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  Speaker 1: lifeline of the communication between organizations like the Red Cross
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  Speaker 1: all around the world. So once they arrived and they
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  Speaker 1: went straight to work, reducing the time to complete the
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  Speaker 1: work from six months to half that time, which was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: They worked in shifts twenty four hours a day and
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  Speaker 1: cleared about seventeen million pieces of mail. And once they
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  Speaker 1: got finished there, I think they could travel to other
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  Speaker 1: places to help organize that as well. Of course, this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the only work these companies did um and the
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  Speaker 1: hardships they endured as they sacrifice for their country were vast,
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  Speaker 1: including losing people during that time, but they kept in
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  Speaker 1: contact and had many reunions throughout their life. UM And
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  Speaker 1: they've had dedications and ceremonies for their courageous work, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't until last year two that they were given
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  Speaker 1: the honor of the Congressional Gold Medal, and I believe
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  Speaker 1: a few of the women are still were still alive
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  Speaker 1: to actually get those medals. UM And speaking of awards,
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  Speaker 1: Nigerian athlete Goodness and Watch, who set a world record
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and twenty two for breaking the world
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  Speaker 1: record twice. Actually at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England,
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  Speaker 1: and Goodness, who already held the record, broke her record
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  Speaker 1: for women's discus throw events, throwing a thirty six point
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  Speaker 1: five six meters. During the metal ceremony, Goodness said, I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't believe that I broke my world record twice. I
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  Speaker 1: am so happy. Before the event, I thought, if I
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  Speaker 1: can get a silver or bronze, I am okay with
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  Speaker 1: that rather than go back empty handed. But I didn't
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  Speaker 1: believe that I could make it to the top. I
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  Speaker 1: felt nervous beforehand. It has been so nice to be here. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: um and she is a Paralympic winner and I think
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  Speaker 1: she's also a pair of canoe athlete UM, so it's
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  Speaker 1: really exciting to see. I did get to see a
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  Speaker 1: clip of her breaking that record and the victory that
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  Speaker 1: happens I was really amazing as her team cheered her
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  Speaker 1: on and moving on to more athletes for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in history, and all black women's team competed in
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  Speaker 1: the Charles Regatta in two in Boston. Um and the
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  Speaker 1: team included founders of Rowing in Color Denise A. Keno
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  Speaker 1: and Patricia DestinE and history maker Daphne Marshinko, who was
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  Speaker 1: the first black rower in the boat race in t
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  Speaker 1: And Yeah, this is kind of a big deal, but
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  Speaker 1: really sad that it took till two for this to happen. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And of course when we talk about rowing, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know much about it any Do you know much about it? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I was involved in it in college, but like that's
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  Speaker 1: the extent of point knowledge. Well, when I gather, especially
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  Speaker 1: when you get involved in regatta's and all of this
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  Speaker 1: is a fairly privileged sport. And and with that, of
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  Speaker 1: course it does have some gate keeping components to it,
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  Speaker 1: so that it took till two to even have an
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  Speaker 1: all black women's team is sad but not completely surprising.
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  Speaker 1: And in their response of being the first in the race,
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  Speaker 1: they said, it's time that a lot of those first
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  Speaker 1: are not based off racial or you know, religious backgrounds.
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  Speaker 1: It should be based off the records that we break
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  Speaker 1: more like two thousands or five thousands. That's what we
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  Speaker 1: wrote for a keynote goes on to say, I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to the day when this isn't an exciting moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'll look forward to when this is just a normal
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  Speaker 1: day in rowing. Um, And of course I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a big conversation in itself, but we do want to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate that they were able to break those barriers and
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  Speaker 1: they continue to do so, and it's something that they
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  Speaker 1: are passionate about. And if you want to hear more
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  Speaker 1: about what they're doing and how they continue to break
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  Speaker 1: down barriers in rowing, Rowing in Color is a podcast
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  Speaker 1: that started early January twenty by Keynoe and Dustine, so
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  Speaker 1: you should definitely take a list, and they talk a
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  Speaker 1: lot about diversity and accessibility in their podcasts. Yeah, very cool. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And and speaking of lastly, we're a little late on
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  Speaker 1: this one as this world record holder was reported in one,
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  Speaker 1: but we did want to celebrate Linda Gilroy because gil
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  Speaker 1: royal holds two world records for her collection of l
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  Speaker 1: c D gaming systems and two thousand, four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty playable gaming systems, and her collection is extensive, including
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  Speaker 1: it how your electronic handhelds and apparently every game Nintendo
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  Speaker 1: released in North America. And not only that, but you
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  Speaker 1: know you've gotta have your pac Man tabletop machine. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Her love started at eight years old when she found
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine read Conic Baseball game, which was
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  Speaker 1: broken at the time, but she took the time to
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  Speaker 1: fix it so that she'd play with it, and even
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  Speaker 1: with a fire that made her start over with her collection.
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  Speaker 1: She has amassed an impressive collection and instead um and
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  Speaker 1: all of it seems to be in working order. All
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  Speaker 1: the games there. Uh. Gil Roy is an electrical engineer
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  Speaker 1: and kept collecting as an adult, not only because she
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  Speaker 1: didn't have these games as a child, but to beat
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  Speaker 1: her own high scores. You know about that, don't you anything? Oh? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt she is an avid gamer and maybe
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  Speaker 1: even has enough to start her own museum. Yes, please, yes, please.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a contemplation, but it sounds like she
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  Speaker 1: has an amazing, amazing collection and the pictures that we
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  Speaker 1: saw pretty impressive. Yeah, yes, very impressed. Indeed with everyone
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  Speaker 1: everyone on this list. Congrats to to all of you. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And if there's anyone we missed, any records we missed,
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