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Women Around the World: A Year End Review · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stephane
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  Speaker 1: never told your production of I Heart Radio. And welcome
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  Speaker 1: to either our very last Women Around the World for
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  Speaker 1: this year or our very first Women Around the World
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  Speaker 1: for twenty two. I know you never know with us.
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  Speaker 1: So today is December one. I just got my booster.
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  Speaker 1: Still feeling okay a little bit, but I'm feeling good,
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  Speaker 1: feeling good, feeling happy about it. I will say the
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  Speaker 1: person who did my shot was very gentle. I told
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  Speaker 1: her after the fact that she was very kind. It
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  Speaker 1: was like kind of massage my arm. So yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was at a Walgreens over here in East East Point, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: if you know where that is. But we're not talking
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  Speaker 1: about shots today from my Women around the World. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why, but we are talking about this year
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that we decided to start this segment
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  Speaker 1: and how I love I've loved the segment. Ay, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you. Um. I really love digging into
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  Speaker 1: seeing who is doing what and just basking in their
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  Speaker 1: amazing nous. Yeah, now I love it too. I love
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  Speaker 1: hearing about people I don't normally hear about in the news,
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  Speaker 1: and like all of the creative ways that they've advocated
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  Speaker 1: or been active around an issue, whether that's art or government.
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  Speaker 1: I just find so many, so many other stories that
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is so cool and it I find
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  Speaker 1: it really inspiring that there are all of these different
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  Speaker 1: ways that you can do that that you can't advocate.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to look one way, it can look
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of different ways, right, And I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to count how many we did I want to say,
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  Speaker 1: include eating the fictional women around the world. We have
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  Speaker 1: about forty four to forty five because a few of
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  Speaker 1: these we kind of hopped around and did some other things.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that's how many we've gotten. And
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  Speaker 1: I know we are just at the tip of the
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  Speaker 1: iceberg when we have these conversations. One of the big
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  Speaker 1: things that I wanted to do with the segment um
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  Speaker 1: and any you and I talked about was just really
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  Speaker 1: giving the flowers to those who are still alive today
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  Speaker 1: instead of waiting and just celebrating in memorandum, as well
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  Speaker 1: as the fact that, yeah, there are so many things
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  Speaker 1: happening around the world that we don't know. We are
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  Speaker 1: very obviously United States centric, not because we want to,
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  Speaker 1: but because That's kind of how it goes. When you
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  Speaker 1: get your news, it's directly affected, very localized. Sometimes only
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta's half the times it feels like for me, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you any um, maybe your fictional worlds,
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  Speaker 1: so that's your localized bits of news. So it's been
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  Speaker 1: like really fun to try to really dig in and
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  Speaker 1: dig deep. I will say. The frustrating part is not
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  Speaker 1: having enough information, um, and I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: what they did, and I want to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing, but we literally are like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: only three minutes long because I can't find all of
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  Speaker 1: the in depth information. Maybe it's because of a language barrier,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe it's because not enough people are talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've featured several women who haven't been on
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  Speaker 1: Wikipedia yet are not Wikipedia level, which they should be,
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  Speaker 1: let's say that. But we have those moments as well,
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  Speaker 1: so discovering some things, so kind of highlighting some of
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  Speaker 1: the people that we have talked about. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: have to shout out Nicola Mitchell, who created Girls Who Brunch.
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  Speaker 1: She was a past winner for Lorials Women of Worth
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  Speaker 1: and he's doing some amazing things. Apparently we might see
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  Speaker 1: her on some other things. I guess we can't mention
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  Speaker 1: it because she told us affair, didn't she almost I
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  Speaker 1: almost blew it. But she's doing some amazing things. She's
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  Speaker 1: also an author, so if you look up her name,
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  Speaker 1: she's got a bunch of amazing books out there there,
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  Speaker 1: y'all should check it out. Having her on the show
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  Speaker 1: talk about what she's doing, how she's been influencing so
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  Speaker 1: many of those around her just from her own past,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what another part of women around
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  Speaker 1: the world for me, is that they're coming from maybe
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  Speaker 1: a struggle or maybe something they were lacking, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: seeing seeing something that was missing in their community, and
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  Speaker 1: they really took it to heart and did something about it.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, that's what I think. As a child, I
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  Speaker 1: never really had big aspirations to be this, this or that,
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  Speaker 1: but that is something I wanted to be able to
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  Speaker 1: say that I did. It was that I gave back
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  Speaker 1: to the community when I saw something was lacking, or
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  Speaker 1: I took something that was so disheartening for me as
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  Speaker 1: a kid when I was missing all these things, and
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  Speaker 1: I came back and decided to do it for those kids,
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  Speaker 1: um and or people in general. Yeah, Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I love hearing these stories too, of the importance
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  Speaker 1: of seeing like having that mentor that person you can
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  Speaker 1: look up to, and knowing that these women, by doing
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing, are impacting so many others who might
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  Speaker 1: go on to impact their communities and so on and
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  Speaker 1: so forth, which I find just so inspiring. It is.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, kind of like another loreal women of birth
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  Speaker 1: that we kind of brought it that we hadn't intend
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  Speaker 1: to do with Jahad Gray who has been working to
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  Speaker 1: and female genital mutilation of children and arranged marriages, and
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  Speaker 1: she had an amazing story and just really pushing for
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  Speaker 1: organizations to take keyed and making a change for her
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  Speaker 1: community as well. I think she moved Atlanta. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if she's still here or not. That would be
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  Speaker 1: nice to know. And then Gladys Reddick, who has been
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  Speaker 1: working for the movement Missing Murdered Indigenous Women Girls and
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  Speaker 1: two Spirits. She was the one that had created the
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  Speaker 1: Walk for Justice and has been so much in bringing
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  Speaker 1: attention and like asking the hard questions for her country,
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  Speaker 1: for the government saying what are you doing, um, which
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  Speaker 1: is a great question we all need to be asking,
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  Speaker 1: what are people doing? We had Ruby Corrado, who was
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  Speaker 1: an activist and supporter from El Savador, who have been
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  Speaker 1: frighting for rights and justice for the trans and l
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  Speaker 1: g pt Q plus community. Like all of these different
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  Speaker 1: people that we've been able to talk about, it's been amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's a government official like Unity Dow who did
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  Speaker 1: so much during her time in trying to make change
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  Speaker 1: in our country, I just think it's so important. And
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  Speaker 1: I will say these are some of the most amazing
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  Speaker 1: people that we've talked about UM and can't talk enough
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  Speaker 1: about honestly, Like I really UM which I could dig
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  Speaker 1: more into it, and we would like love to get
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  Speaker 1: to the point that we could interview some of these people,
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  Speaker 1: but of course we do not always have that access
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  Speaker 1: as we would hope, which we hope to change a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, and then we add a little
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  Speaker 1: extra because we wanted to go beyond talking about organizations
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  Speaker 1: that work for the betterment of women and those who
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  Speaker 1: identify as them and girls, like we really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: push to see what was happening. And yeah, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these people have started their own fights, nonprofits organizations
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  Speaker 1: to make a statement, to make a push, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: changing UM bad policies or just talking about some of
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  Speaker 1: the injustices that have been happening around the world. So
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  Speaker 1: we've added that recently, Um, what else have been we've
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  Speaker 1: been doing any Well, obviously the fictional women, which was
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  Speaker 1: your idea but very on board with, right, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we talked about but why it was
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  Speaker 1: important that we do talk about fictional representation in media,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why we said it. I mean, any tell
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  Speaker 1: me why it's important. I mean, as someone who grew
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  Speaker 1: up loving fiction and being very imaginative and just having
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  Speaker 1: like day dreams day James and daydreams and writing things down,
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  Speaker 1: it was a big deal for me when I would
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  Speaker 1: see somebody that I could identify with or that reminded
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  Speaker 1: me of me. And I think that those messages you
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  Speaker 1: do internalize them very young. So if you're like, like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff I wrote when I was younger,
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  Speaker 1: it was a male character. It was the main character.
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  Speaker 1: And looking back, I have a lot of thoughts about
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  Speaker 1: why that is, But I think it's just because I
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  Speaker 1: was seeing that a lot. And then also just apart
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  Speaker 1: from the influence it has on on people as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: of what we believe women can do um and especially
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  Speaker 1: for young girls. I just think it's more interesting, Like
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  Speaker 1: it makes better entertainment if we have these more diverse
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  Speaker 1: experiences as opposed to something that's pretty much been a
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  Speaker 1: monolitht for a long time with some outliers Like I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just it makes for better storytelling. It's more
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  Speaker 1: representative of us of the world, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: really really important. So it's always like, we want good stories,
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  Speaker 1: right right, we want very rounded stories, and yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: need more. Honestly, as you are bringing more and more
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  Speaker 1: people out, I love it. It's kind of like, who
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  Speaker 1: is this person? Tell me what's going on and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that yeah, there is now a request because I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like we don't demand enough, but for more
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  Speaker 1: diverse people who represent us as individuals and recognizing that yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are young women, girls, non binary, trans people who
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  Speaker 1: love this stuff too. We should be represented, yes, And
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  Speaker 1: I think that it does excite me. It's it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those things where I'm like with everything we talked about,
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  Speaker 1: it's the hesitation, but also the optimism because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we are seeing more mainstream, like we're seeing more
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  Speaker 1: diverse like superhero movies and things like Star wars are
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  Speaker 1: divers fying. You're like, I wanted to be handled well
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  Speaker 1: and respectfully, so there's always that very as well, and
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  Speaker 1: of course the fan boys and all the backlash, which
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  Speaker 1: is very frustrating, but that does make me. I am
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  Speaker 1: happy to see it. I'm happy that it's moving that way. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I still think like we could do so so, so
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  Speaker 1: so much more, um in terms of like women and
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  Speaker 1: race and also like queer stories. This is why I
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  Speaker 1: go to fan fiction all the time because I could
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  Speaker 1: find that there. But I am happy that it seems
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  Speaker 1: to be becoming more common and also less acceptable for
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  Speaker 1: someone I'm not going to say that it's way better,
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  Speaker 1: but it's becoming less acceptable for somebody to tell the
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  Speaker 1: story who really shouldn't be telling the story at the
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  Speaker 1: very least of getting called in as they should. What
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  Speaker 1: do you have in store? Because I know you're already
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  Speaker 1: thinking it. This is kind of the inside joke between
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  Speaker 1: all of us that Annie's already prepared and has been
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  Speaker 1: trying to rein it in. But what can we look
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  Speaker 1: forward to in the next year or in this year,
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  Speaker 1: whichever it is. That's a good question, because I do
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  Speaker 1: have a list, and it's got like fifty names on it.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate listeners who have written in with their suggestions.
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  Speaker 1: I do think so far. I like Mile Lopez and
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  Speaker 1: Echo on Hawkeye, and she's getting her own show, so
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  Speaker 1: I think that would be interesting to visit. Um and
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  Speaker 1: she's an indigenous deaf character and actor UM, so I
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  Speaker 1: think that would be really cool. Obviously a SOCA, there
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  Speaker 1: will be some interesting things to talk about with that,
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  Speaker 1: but that show is coming out, so that would be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of like we said and whatever was
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  Speaker 1: it the Hawkeye episode, There's a lot of content coming
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  Speaker 1: out and I'm kind of overwhelmed. I'm not saying something
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  Speaker 1: because I big fan, but I'm like, WHOA, I'm interested
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  Speaker 1: to see how they handle quote Lady thor Yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: characters like that where it's kind of like the woman
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  Speaker 1: version of this, which I'm hoping they'll kind of upgrade
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  Speaker 1: into it's not just the woman version of this man character.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually their own characters. That would be nice. It
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  Speaker 1: would be nice, but that would be nice to see. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I hope Afre shows up. We already did an episode
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  Speaker 1: on her, but I hope she shows up soon. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of a lot of ideas, but
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  Speaker 1: I do want, like, as as passionate as I am
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  Speaker 1: about this, please listener to send in your request. The
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  Speaker 1: Ted last one was listening test And it's not that
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  Speaker 1: I had never wanted to see it, but I probably
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't have watched it, um if not for that episode,
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  Speaker 1: and I really really loved it. So I love I
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: love finding these new characters that are really resonating with people,
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  Speaker 1: as I love Ted Lasso, I love Rebecca um. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as as she's saying, we do love the suggestions and
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  Speaker 1: we do read them, we do hear them. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: might take us a while because you know, it takes
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  Speaker 1: us a while, but we do we'll see them. And
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  Speaker 1: speaking of which, we had one of our favorite segments
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  Speaker 1: where listener Taylor sent us a bunch of information pretty
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  Speaker 1: much wrote a show for us because they were so
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  Speaker 1: excited about that as well as knowing and understanding what
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  Speaker 1: was happening and wanting to highlight. We loved that, um,
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  Speaker 1: not just because it was easy for us, but also
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  Speaker 1: because we don't always know what's going on out there.
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  Speaker 1: We try so hard to highlight as much as we can. Obviously, again,
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  Speaker 1: like we said, it's very centralized because it's just Anie
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  Speaker 1: and I doing the research, looking up Google, telling Google
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  Speaker 1: to find it for us, or not looking at the tweets,
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  Speaker 1: hoping that we're connected enough looking at all of what
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  Speaker 1: we can for the newest information, but we don't always
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  Speaker 1: know what's happening. So we are giving a call out
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  Speaker 1: to y'all the listeners. And we actually had someone sending
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  Speaker 1: in about the information about Poland, what was happening in
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  Speaker 1: Poland and giving us organizations about in Germany and allies
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. Things like that are so helpful.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're interested in having your information slash something
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  Speaker 1: that you think is really really important or something amazing
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  Speaker 1: that's happening, or a woman or a person that identifies
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  Speaker 1: film or non binary, really think that they need to
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  Speaker 1: be highlighted, send it in. You would love to do
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  Speaker 1: like a monthly episode dedicated to the people that you
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  Speaker 1: think need to be highlighted. So please, if that is
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  Speaker 1: something you are interested in, you automatically have someone in mind.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as I said this, now again we want
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  Speaker 1: this to be outside of the US as much as
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  Speaker 1: possible because we want to connect with all of our
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  Speaker 1: listeners so we know we have a lot of listening
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  Speaker 1: in India. Something's going on there you want to tell
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  Speaker 1: us about. We obviously have some listeners in Poland, would
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  Speaker 1: love to hear what's going on there as well. Canada
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  Speaker 1: give it to us, England, give it to us. Anywhere. Chili.
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  Speaker 1: We know that we have some listenership there. Please send
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  Speaker 1: us something that we might not know. We want that
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  Speaker 1: to be highlighted, and we think it's important that you
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  Speaker 1: are involved as well. Yes, please, please please, and that
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  Speaker 1: we would love to feature any of those stories. Resources
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  Speaker 1: are always welcome, just because, like like Samantha said, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for us to hunt those down I think
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  Speaker 1: being in America and based on what the Google algorithm
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  Speaker 1: is here. But yes, please send those to us if
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  Speaker 1: you're in the US and you're like, oh, we still
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  Speaker 1: want to hear from you. Yeah, and if there's anything
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  Speaker 1: amazing going on around you, because believe us, there's so many,
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  Speaker 1: so many things we could talk about um and this
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  Speaker 1: is but one of our many segments. So right, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: these listeners you our only hope, right, I see what
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  Speaker 1: you did that there? Yeah. As in fact, obviously if
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  Speaker 1: you have some characters that's out of this world. Electical
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  Speaker 1: Yes we need those two. Yes we do. So please
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  Speaker 1: send any of those suggestions or resources our way. You
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