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Monday Mini: A Fond Farewell to 2022, Part 1 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stepan
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Speaker 1: Never Told You production of iHeart Radio. And today for
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Speaker 1: our Monday Mini, we wanted to take a look back
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Speaker 1: at some of our favorite episodes, full episodes, and I
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Speaker 1: would include Monday Minni's also in there because we did
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Speaker 1: we celebrated activists around the world. We celebrated an happy hour.
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Speaker 1: But we didn't have time to do this before the
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Speaker 1: year ended. But you know, it's still early in I
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Speaker 1: think you know, I'll look back a fond look back. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're definitely still reflection mode. So I think we're good. Yes, yes, yes, yes, um.
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Speaker 1: And it is like a behind the scenes. We do
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Speaker 1: release a lot of episodes, so it's a lot to
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Speaker 1: dig through. For one, um, for two, it's we classify
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Speaker 1: these episodes as full episodes, being what comes out Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: Friday full sometimes regular episodes, UM, and then Monday Mini.
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Speaker 1: It's this thing an activists around the world is this name,
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Speaker 1: But we have all this linko that I forget Sometimes
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Speaker 1: people don't know what we're talking right. Right when we
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Speaker 1: stretched to the we're gonna do five slash six days
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Speaker 1: a week of publishing our episodes, we got kind of like,
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Speaker 1: oh Lord, what are we gonna do because there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of work. As we've talked about four and you know,
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Speaker 1: we had to tell you of the hours that we spend,
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Speaker 1: which we love our jobs. I will say that we
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Speaker 1: have a very unique job and we get to learn
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Speaker 1: as part of our job, so we do love that.
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Speaker 1: So no complaints here, but that also means there's a
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Speaker 1: lot to be done. So one of the ways that
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Speaker 1: I get organized is categorizing things, and I feel like
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Speaker 1: that really helped me. So yeah, we have the Monday Mini,
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Speaker 1: which we typically try to keep short. We've definitely hit
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Speaker 1: the third thirty minute mark on those, so apologies for
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Speaker 1: that column. But it's also typically news related or whatever
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Speaker 1: is happening at that moment or something that important, So
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Speaker 1: we'd like to talk about that. The activists around the
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Speaker 1: World is obviously talking about people all around the world
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Speaker 1: typically identifying as film uh and giving their flowers today
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Speaker 1: while they're still alive and doing the amazing work that
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Speaker 1: we may have never heard about, and we want to
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Speaker 1: make sure that it's out there. And that's a shorter
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Speaker 1: segment because we don't have a lot of information, so
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Speaker 1: we give what we can and then yes, our quote
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Speaker 1: unquote regular episodes are typically following what has always been
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Speaker 1: done with these episodes, which is very research, um understanding
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Speaker 1: of something with issues with women or feminism um or
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Speaker 1: non binary people's uh to like, yeah, educate, to keep
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Speaker 1: educating ourselves, I guess. And we find different subjects fascinating
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Speaker 1: which we're gonna talk about. Um yeah, and then of course, yes, movies.
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Speaker 1: We love movies, so we have to add those two there.
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Speaker 1: We love books, add that to their. We love drinks,
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Speaker 1: add that to their. And I'm saying this in a
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Speaker 1: weird way as well, is the fight that we just
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Speaker 1: wanted to blow off theme and sit with y'all have
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Speaker 1: a happy hours before sitting at a bar or a
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Speaker 1: restaurant or a coffee shop, just catching up. It's joyful. Yeah, yes,
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Speaker 1: it was kind of because it's a lot of calendar
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Speaker 1: space to fill. Um. We like, we do love movies,
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Speaker 1: and it was like, okay, once a month, that's the
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Speaker 1: thing we don't really have to think about other than
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Speaker 1: choosing the movie. Um, once a month. A book, that's
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Speaker 1: another thing taken, you know, like female first with Thieves,
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Speaker 1: a segment with Bridget like it was you know, we
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Speaker 1: don't it's not that we run out of ideas, but
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's like every idea sounds like not an idea
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about, and a month later that
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Speaker 1: might change. But also the Monday many, I will say,
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Speaker 1: kind of came out of COVID. There's a couple of
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Speaker 1: reasons for it. UM, but we wanted to try a
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Speaker 1: shorter segment where we could just talk about news. And
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Speaker 1: it was right when the pandemic was happening, and I
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Speaker 1: remember we were sitting in in person meeting UM with
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Speaker 1: our then social media team, which is no longer a
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Speaker 1: social media team. They've gone to bigger things than that,
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Speaker 1: UM saying like, well, you people want to hear about COVID,
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Speaker 1: this COVID, so why don't you talk about that. We're like, okay,
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Speaker 1: right right, and here we are and here we are. Yes.
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Speaker 1: But we thought we would run through some of our
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Speaker 1: very favorites of two of those specific segments UM, And
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Speaker 1: for me, I think it's going to be very clear
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Speaker 1: which ones I would lean towards for the ones that
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Speaker 1: are quote like just the regular ones, not the feminist
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Speaker 1: movie Friday or whatever. I really loved the Merry Sue
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Speaker 1: episode which came out towards end of summer, I believe, Well, no,
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Speaker 1: maybe olier than that, but it was after Prey came out,
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Speaker 1: and that was trending, and that was just a really
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Speaker 1: fun one for me to dive into because it's something
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Speaker 1: I know a lot about and I have a lot
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Speaker 1: of passionate feelings about so many passion of feelings. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Also along that line, I really loved the love Letter
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Speaker 1: to fan Fiction one I got to do, and that
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Speaker 1: was just cool because I didn't know a lot of
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Speaker 1: history about how fan fiction came about in our more
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Speaker 1: modern era, like how did that get started? That was
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Speaker 1: really cool. I loved doing the Star Wars Birthday special
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Speaker 1: and I'm already planning a second one this year. But
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Speaker 1: peek behind the scenes. There was a massive technical problem
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Speaker 1: with that episode and I had to re record it
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Speaker 1: again with as Samantha. So you want to go back
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Speaker 1: and listen to it, and you didn't. You did it
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Speaker 1: on your birthday, and I was like, oh no, we
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Speaker 1: try to purposely plan that you didn't have to do
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Speaker 1: things on your birthday. Not only did you have to
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Speaker 1: re record so much because we did so much that
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Speaker 1: day unfortunately, as well as your savor episodes and yeah,
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Speaker 1: Christina was a beast pitting it together and making it
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Speaker 1: coherent because it literally, thank god, it was huge dogging
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Speaker 1: and we're just going huh okay, yeah it was. I
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Speaker 1: felt it was a strange moment my life listening since
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Speaker 1: I was listening to myself back because I had my audio,
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Speaker 1: it was just glitched out, and I was trying to
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Speaker 1: replicate and like figure out what you might have said
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Speaker 1: because I don't have your side, right should have as
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Speaker 1: to send it to you. They had been awkward to
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Speaker 1: trying to do it one side on me, one side
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Speaker 1: on you. It happened very suddenly. I didn't realize there
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Speaker 1: was a problem because it didn't show up in the audio. Um,
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Speaker 1: and so I didn't know until like the day of
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Speaker 1: right and I think I had to re record ten things.
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Speaker 1: So much the follies of recording from home, for sure,
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Speaker 1: you know, we love it, but there are things that happened.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of pros. I was thinking about this
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Speaker 1: the other day because somebody was asking, would you ever
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Speaker 1: do you want to go back to the office, And
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Speaker 1: I made a list of pros and cause in my head,
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Speaker 1: but you know, I love a list. You've been like overall,
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Speaker 1: that's it's pretty rare that that happens. Here's a lot
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Speaker 1: of pros I need to I need a backup system,
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Speaker 1: is what that taught me. Right, we we we kind
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Speaker 1: of both painted because I also had an incident where
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Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad as yours and I was able
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Speaker 1: to like redo my audio without having to re record.
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Speaker 1: But it is like, what am I going to do?
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Speaker 1: And I don't think I could do what you did.
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Speaker 1: There's no way that I could try to replicate that.
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Speaker 1: I'd be like, well, we're screwed, let's do it again.
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Speaker 1: I think if it had been one episode, it also
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Speaker 1: goes back to me not wanting to ask for help.
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Speaker 1: But I think if it had been one episode, I
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Speaker 1: would have reached out. But it was ten. I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure including saver it was ten. Yeah. But since I
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Speaker 1: did that episode, which was like a love letter to
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Speaker 1: myself and what I want and what I love about
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Speaker 1: Star Wars and specifically Luke Skywalker, since that became a
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Speaker 1: stressful experience, I've already started thinking about the follow up.
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Speaker 1: So I'm excited. I've got I've got new points, I've
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Speaker 1: gotten even more points I hope with this follow what
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Speaker 1: that you're going to include whatever you've done or going
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Speaker 1: to do in your fan fiction, because I know your
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Speaker 1: fan fiction is based on Star Wars as well, so
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Speaker 1: I hope that becomes a part of that special. Oh yes,
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Speaker 1: you know sometimes people post essays on on fan fiction sites,
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Speaker 1: so I've written a lot of essays. I could do
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Speaker 1: that too. Yes, I'm sure you have you and your essays.
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Speaker 1: I love an essay, but yeah, very I'm already like
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Speaker 1: got some bullet points. So and I will include any
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Speaker 1: fan fiction notes as you know that. There's no no
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Speaker 1: way I won't include that. But that's that's a long
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Speaker 1: time from now. Some of them that are like we've
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Speaker 1: said this before, but the way we typically do these
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Speaker 1: episodes is I will take the lead on Oncemanth will
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Speaker 1: take the lead on one, and is I would say,
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Speaker 1: if you know it's it's probably pretty clear a lot
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Speaker 1: of the time who did Some of the ones that
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Speaker 1: you did that I really really loved was strategic incompetence,
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Speaker 1: UM and women and dissociation, even though dissociations still trips
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Speaker 1: me up saying oh I saw it again the other
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Speaker 1: day and I could not say it because in my
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Speaker 1: head is disassociation and we know that's that's the case.
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Speaker 1: And because I've said that I'm not gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to reslay dissociation, I did it. I did it for
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Speaker 1: my faves. Uh included uh the Association episode as well
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Speaker 1: as A Lady in the Blues, which was our Women
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Speaker 1: in the Blues Industry. I loved looking that up. Music
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Speaker 1: is amazing anyways, but when you dig into the history
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Speaker 1: of it and the people who you rarely know about,
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Speaker 1: but that did so much for that genre and for
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Speaker 1: music in general. It's amazing to look into their history,
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Speaker 1: which I love. I also really liked our women only
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Speaker 1: communes because the idea is so wonderful. Yes, I know,
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Speaker 1: I know, you know we have to go back and forth.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I get it. It's not because I hate man,
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Speaker 1: It's just because it just sounds lovely. And my dream
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Speaker 1: still is that in our elderly time together, we're just
10:12
Speaker 1: going to have a giant commune with all of my girlfriends. Like,
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Speaker 1: that's that's what I want. That's what I want. I
10:18
Speaker 1: do want to put like a bonus because this was
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Speaker 1: from but I really like the Perentification episode that we did,
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Speaker 1: which was yes mine as well, because I'm like, that's
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Speaker 1: such a fascinating subject. Not many people know about it.
10:31
Speaker 1: I this is something I'm passionate about because it talks
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Speaker 1: about health to trauma and growing up and what that
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Speaker 1: looks like when it's like when it manifests as adults.
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Speaker 1: So and of course me and you having moments of
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Speaker 1: that's this and this and this. So I do love
10:46
Speaker 1: those revelatory self assessments slash yeah triggering, I guess in
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Speaker 1: those episodes for The Intimacy Coordinator one was one of
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Speaker 1: my favorites of this year because it opened up so
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Speaker 1: much conversation and about the entertainment industry and what we're
11:03
Speaker 1: looking at. I kind of want to come back because
11:05
Speaker 1: brook Shield is coming back out having a conversation of
11:07
Speaker 1: what she was forced to do as a child, including
11:10
Speaker 1: apparently being uh in Playboy magazine at ten years old.
11:14
Speaker 1: I did not realize she was that young. I knew
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Speaker 1: she was like really teenagery for Calvin Kleinas where she
11:20
Speaker 1: wasn't quite nude, but she was very sexual. And of
11:23
Speaker 1: course Blue Lagoon, but we're not gonna getting that. But
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Speaker 1: I do want to revisit that because that kind of
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Speaker 1: goes hand in hand and we talked about the industry
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Speaker 1: and who is being protected and who isn't. I really
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Speaker 1: loved that episode that you did as well. I love
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Speaker 1: any and all episodes that you are so passionate about
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Speaker 1: that you just rant on into like fury. Your hands
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Speaker 1: are flying everywhere and you get bigger, and then you're like,
11:46
Speaker 1: I know when I ask you a question or make
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Speaker 1: a statement. Those are some of my favorites. It does
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Speaker 1: include the Star Wars I think it's I love and
11:55
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a minute. But I love a
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Speaker 1: lot of your fictional women around the world because you're
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Speaker 1: so pasionate about that. I also loved, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it was two, the episode on all of
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Speaker 1: your female characters, women characters from video games, Yes Survival
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Speaker 1: or yes, Oh, I do too. And it's funny because
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Speaker 1: I get so excited about things, and a lot of
12:23
Speaker 1: times I'll be like, clearly, the email just calls for yes,
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Speaker 1: no cuts, and I'll be like, and we're also going
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Speaker 1: to talk about this next and just you wait, really
12:35
Speaker 1: we're passionate about it. We love talking about these things.
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Speaker 1: I also loved I didn't include this one, but I
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Speaker 1: was looking back. I love the one that I did
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Speaker 1: on like things not to say to a sexual person
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Speaker 1: because that was a Monday many um, and that was
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Speaker 1: one where I was like, I was getting riled up
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Speaker 1: and you're being very supportive. So love when we getting
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Speaker 1: wrong with that. Let's go yeah. Uh moving on to
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Speaker 1: feminist movie Fridays sometimes Wednesdays, sometimes Mondays. Actually we do
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Speaker 1: love movies, so this one was really hard. Like everyone,
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that one was good. That one
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Speaker 1: was good. I obviously loved like the horror ones. I
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Speaker 1: loved Scream and Fresh. I loved Pray that was really good.
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Speaker 1: I loved Rogue one because of your anguish, which a
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Speaker 1: lot of listeners rode in and enjoyed as well. We're sorry,
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Speaker 1: but it was funny. Why Yes, um, I did love
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Speaker 1: This wasn't really a movie episode, but it kind of
13:39
Speaker 1: came out of our Spoiled Saturdays, which we need to
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Speaker 1: do more of. We have only done the one on
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Speaker 1: Doctor Strange, and that was when Joey was like, hey,
13:46
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of thoughts about this, and they
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Speaker 1: came on and did the episode about Scarlet Witch and
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Speaker 1: that was a great episode. It was had a lot
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Speaker 1: of thoughts on that. Yes, yeah, always glad to joey
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Speaker 1: on and then I loved doing the Anne of Green
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Speaker 1: Gables movies, which I had never seen. I had friends
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Speaker 1: that were very passionate about it, so I kind of
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Speaker 1: knew about it. But it was fun to see something
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Speaker 1: that you knew so much about we're excited about, and
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Speaker 1: I was kind of like learning from you. I really
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Speaker 1: enjoyed it, and then the listeners loved it too. We
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Speaker 1: got so many great messages about those, so that was
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Speaker 1: really fun. It's heart, It gets you in the heart.
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Speaker 1: I do find it interesting because, uh, my partner's brother
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Speaker 1: apparently listened to this episode and got me a Christmas
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Speaker 1: gift based off my love of a green games, which
14:34
Speaker 1: you did as well. But I was like, he's like,
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Speaker 1: I opened it up and it's a pouch that has
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Speaker 1: Anne of Avonlea and he was like, is that the
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Speaker 1: right one? I was like, wait, did you get this
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Speaker 1: from the podcast? And he goes yeah, because I know
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Speaker 1: my partner didn't say anything. I've never said anything, and
14:50
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen him since that episode release, so I
14:53
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, that is some on point
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Speaker 1: listening and paying attention. Kudos. So John, if you listen
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Speaker 1: to this episode. Thank you. I still appreciate that. Let's
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Speaker 1: shout out. Yeah. That was actually one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: movies as well, obviously Anna Green Gables, Anna of Avonlea,
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Speaker 1: which I made you watch both. Thank you for enduring
15:16
Speaker 1: a large grade series for me, because the next one
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Speaker 1: will probably be Pride and Prejudice. Just wait, yes version,
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Speaker 1: that's the longest. Okay, okay, that's future people. Um for me,
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Speaker 1: Everything everywhere, all at once was one of my favorites
15:32
Speaker 1: as well. Obviously, I feel like that could be unsaid
15:36
Speaker 1: and just being known because uh not only you watched
15:39
Speaker 1: it first and you're like, this is amazing, I love
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Speaker 1: it whatever whatnot. And then we went to the theater
15:44
Speaker 1: watched it together, and then came home watched again, and
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Speaker 1: I really did. I loved everything about it, the messaging,
15:51
Speaker 1: the beauty of having an Asian family taking center of
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Speaker 1: a story and really holding tight that it like translated
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Speaker 1: universally for whole families with mother issues or mother disapproval,
16:03
Speaker 1: all those things. So I really love talking about that
16:06
Speaker 1: movie because I think it hit both of us in
16:09
Speaker 1: different ways in our conversations and relating with movies. So
16:12
Speaker 1: it's beautiful to do Scream. I also liked it too,
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Speaker 1: because I do like it, but you also get real
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Speaker 1: passionate and that one the newer version as well, which
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Speaker 1: you absolutely loved and was so excited. You made me
16:25
Speaker 1: watch the third scream sad like that's the level, because
16:32
Speaker 1: that's the level of love you have for this, this franchise,
16:36
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed that. I enjoy watching something that you love.
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Speaker 1: I liked it. It's it's reminiscent to me from way
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Speaker 1: back when UM about Rogue one and Fresh and whatever
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Speaker 1: was it the Mexican movie Oh Tigers that I think
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Speaker 1: that one out right. I picked that one out. I
16:55
Speaker 1: gave you a list of three. I said, this one's
16:58
Speaker 1: probably got the most we could say about it, and
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Speaker 1: you were like, okay, so you you traumatized me this
17:04
Speaker 1: year as well with those three movies. So thanks, You're awesome.
17:15
Speaker 1: I mean, real god, we had previously seen, It's just
17:19
Speaker 1: we hadn't talked about it. Yeah, I had previously seen,
17:22
Speaker 1: and I knew I was gonna be angry, but I
17:24
Speaker 1: was mad at you then, and it translated in our
17:26
Speaker 1: episode because I was like, you didn't tell me. That
17:30
Speaker 1: was like still to this that you did not tell me,
17:33
Speaker 1: only one dies? What what the hell? Annie? That was
17:37
Speaker 1: one of our funniest disconnects I think we've ever had
17:40
Speaker 1: over Star Wars is because, like I said in that episode,
17:42
Speaker 1: I always assume people know what happens. And I was like, oh, yeah,
17:46
Speaker 1: it's like the Titanic of Star Wars. And the look
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Speaker 1: you gave me, I could have dropped dead in that second.
17:51
Speaker 1: I was so upset. I have tears in my eyes
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Speaker 1: because I was because it was so traumatized. It was
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Speaker 1: like so upset and thinking back and I was like,
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Speaker 1: what the why why? Yeah, And I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I've made a mistake. Well on that note, Um, traumatized
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Speaker 1: crying over here, it's fine. Traumatized crying, which you know
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Speaker 1: I love, I love you do, not trying to get
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Speaker 1: better about it. I promised. Uh, that's we're gonna stop
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Speaker 1: here for now. We're gonna come back UM in part
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Speaker 1: two and talk about some of our other things that
18:31
Speaker 1: we loved in two, about books and interviews and things
18:35
Speaker 1: like that. So keep your ears, eyes peeled ready for
18:40
Speaker 1: that all the things, um, and if you have any favorites,
18:45
Speaker 1: you know, we would love to hear that. If you
18:46
Speaker 1: have anything you'd like to hear more of We've already
18:48
Speaker 1: gotten some of those messages, and thank you, thank you
18:50
Speaker 1: so much because a lot of these choices we made
18:53
Speaker 1: a Brown books and movies especially have been because of
18:57
Speaker 1: you and because of suggestions you've made. So thank you,
19:00
Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, you can email us that stuff at
19:02
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Speaker 1: at stuff One Never told You. Thanks as always to
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Speaker 1: our super producer Christina, which we heard list of favorites. Christina,
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Speaker 1: please send us your list of favorites. I mean Christina's
19:16
Speaker 1: episode when she came one that was one of my
19:20
Speaker 1: very favorite ones we've ever done it. That was awesome,
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