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1-800-The Awakening · 1-800-1800

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  SPEAKER_00: Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have reached the voicemail box of 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_01: Please leave a voicemail if you are interested in The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hello, you've reached 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_02: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have a burning question.
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  SPEAKER_02: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have
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  SPEAKER_02: a
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  SPEAKER_02: burning question.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was so good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love when you do robot voice.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm really good at it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I just told you, the acupuncturist did tell me I need to start singing more.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: I just feel like you need to use your voice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also got the greatest compliment today from an insult.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wait, should I quote it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Read it verbatim?
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  SPEAKER_00: We got a comment on our Apple podcast that said that we're less annoying than other women.
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  SPEAKER_01: 90% there, Moki T335 says.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm listening to the episode and on the good side, I do like their voices.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've listened to some podcasts with female presenters and the vocal fry is just too much.
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  SPEAKER_01: These two sound really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, they made a dig that the United States is not exceptional and I take exception to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep up the good work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Agree to disagree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this someone we know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, No, because then I was obviously dying of curiosity.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then I Googled the username and saw reviews that he had left
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  SPEAKER_00: on other
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  SPEAKER_01: women podcasters
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  SPEAKER_00: podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's certainly not someone we know.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was like a comment on like a BBC for history show that was mad about some.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's not he's not really doling out more than three stars.
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  SPEAKER_00: We kind of did as well as we could with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm so obsessed with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we got another review.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that one's really nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Should I read that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I know everyone's here for a different reason, but.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't think we need to read our reviews aloud to everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just thought Moki we should share because I did send it to Katie and she said,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never seen anyone say something that nice about a woman's voice on the internet
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  SPEAKER_00: before.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is insane.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we should post that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I ask something quickly?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is vocal fry?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't really get it still.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what it is, but I can kind of tell you what it sounds like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do we have it at all or we don't have it?
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  SPEAKER_01: I actually think we don't really have it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't want it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't think you want it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we're uniquely special women.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's when you go like, ah, like that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel like you never stop talking or something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Basically, you're creating this sort of like low, deep, edging sound in the back of your throat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who talks like that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I can think of a couple people, but...
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  SPEAKER_00: Name them.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's between me and you later when we're not being recorded.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: No fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: My name is Mabel and I do not have vocal fry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my name is Madeline and I don't even know what vocal fry is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yesterday,
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  SPEAKER_01: our friend Jamie made a really amazing point,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is that he had no idea that we even had bonus episodes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is a bonus episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you have to pay for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess the bonus episode probably isn't the right place to advertise the bonus episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just something to consider for us next time we record.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a self-selecting
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  SPEAKER_00: crowd.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we'll let them know.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you listen to the bonus episodes and you love them,
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  SPEAKER_00: tell your friends who just don't even know they exist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Please.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have to be doing this for someone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay,
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  SPEAKER_01: so our bonus episodes are an opportunity for us to go outside the rigid structure of
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  SPEAKER_01: the year itself and to talk about just other things that happened in
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  SPEAKER_01: the 19th century or just other things we're interested in.
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  SPEAKER_01: This time we're talking about something we're interested in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a book called The Awakening by Kate Chopin from 1899.
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  SPEAKER_00: So interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: So should I do a little biographical on Kate Chopin?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kate Chopin was born in 1850 and she died in 1904.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to bury the lead here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Madeline, do you know where she died?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's insane.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, she didn't die there, but she died from something she suffered there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I thought she died there.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, she died four days later or two days later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_01: She basically got a stroke or brain hemorrhage at the St.
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  SPEAKER_01: Louis World's Fair in 1904 and died two days later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it was so awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: And really hot.