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Monday Mini: Paralympic Wins · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and welcome to stuff I've never
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  Speaker 1: told you production of I High Radio. And today we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to read a listener mail that we received a
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  Speaker 1: while back. UM, which yes, we do read the listener mail,
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  Speaker 1: although I have some concerns about some of the older
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  Speaker 1: email addresses. They should all in theory come to the
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  Speaker 1: same place. But UM, just in case, our emails stuff
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  Speaker 1: media mom stuff at ihart media dot com, we do
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  Speaker 1: read them. We respond in might take a minute, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll get there. We will get there and it will
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  Speaker 1: be a personalized response. But we wanted to read this
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  Speaker 1: UM letter from Taylor that was really well typed out.
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  Speaker 1: We we really appreciate when people take the time time
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  Speaker 1: to contact us and and you know, provide us with
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  Speaker 1: information perhaps we didn't have, or maybe we didn't didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: or bring something to our attention that we might have missed.
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  Speaker 1: UM and Taylor wrote in about the Para Olympics. So
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  Speaker 1: Taylor wrote, I was very happy that you did a
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  Speaker 1: two part or a while back on women in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: I love sports, and none of my female lead podcast
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  Speaker 1: cover sports. You both have said that you're not interested
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  Speaker 1: in sports, so it meant a lot for you to
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  Speaker 1: do not one, but two episodes on the Olympics. That
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  Speaker 1: being said, you did not think to cover the para Olympics, because,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, women made history there too. More importantly,
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  Speaker 1: disabilities don't disappear. These athletes live with them every day
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  Speaker 1: and don't deserve to be a race. I guess if
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  Speaker 1: you don't do sports, you may not know what these are.
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  Speaker 1: These are the equivalent to the Olympics for people with disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: I think one time it was mentioned that links don't
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  Speaker 1: make it past the firewall. So I'll give you some facts. Boom, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you again. For the first time, USA sent
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  Speaker 1: more women than men to the Paralympics, and the women
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  Speaker 1: won just over six of US medals who According to
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  Speaker 1: an article I found on NBC Sports, this is notable
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  Speaker 1: because the Paralympics are less gender balanced than the Olympics,
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  Speaker 1: women accounting for of total Paralympic athletes in Tokyo and
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  Speaker 1: increase from the last Olympics. Wilchair rugby is a mixed event,
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  Speaker 1: and Kylie Grimes of Team Great Britain is the first
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  Speaker 1: woman to win a gold medal in mixed wheelchair at rugby. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is huge because there's a reason that sport is
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  Speaker 1: called murder ball. I have heard it called that. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about sitting volleyball, Well, a lot
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  Speaker 1: happened in sitting volleyball, so we're gonna talk about it. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Laura Webster played while pregnant with her fourth child. This
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  Speaker 1: was her fifth Paralympics and the second Paralympics she played
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  Speaker 1: in while pregnant uh. The only difference was that she
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  Speaker 1: told her teammates this time around UH and when searching
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  Speaker 1: for her name, there was an article on her from
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  Speaker 1: AP News with the USA's gold medal win and women's
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  Speaker 1: sitting volleyball. This meant all of volleyball events from the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics and Paralympics were swept on the women's side. The
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  Speaker 1: US won gold in Olympic indoor volleyball and beach volleyball.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's the first time that's ever happened. Rwanda
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  Speaker 1: was the first Sub Saharan team in this sport to
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  Speaker 1: compete at the Paralympic level. They never want to set
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  Speaker 1: in all that time until this year, not just one set,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, and a classification match. They beat Japan in
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  Speaker 1: straight sets three. There's an article on Olympics dot com
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  Speaker 1: detailing why this is a big deal. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was mentioned that Rwanda was one of the more expansive
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  Speaker 1: club systems for the sport. Here's some names to google.
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  Speaker 1: Anastagia Pagonis just go along, Tatiana McFadden, Oxana Masters, Susannah
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez Para Triathlon, Spain One gold is a doctor was
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  Speaker 1: on the cover of Time magazine. You can find the
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  Speaker 1: article on Olympics dot com. Baby at the Paralympics, four
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  Speaker 1: month old Valencia got special permission to travel to Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: as both her parents were competing. Her dad gregaraias polycrinitists.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully I said that right was competing in bacchi ball
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  Speaker 1: and her mother, Katerina Patroni, is his assistant. They won
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  Speaker 1: silver in the BC three classification um And there's an
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  Speaker 1: article in Paralympic dot org on this. And this is
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  Speaker 1: very US heavy because this is what NBC focused on.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe your research will help make it more internationally friendly.
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  Speaker 1: Typically don't you're doing a great job. Also you should
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  Speaker 1: look up though. We the fifteen campaign, and this is
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  Speaker 1: the biggest human rights campaign ever. The fifteen is a
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  Speaker 1: reference to their being fifteen percent of people estimated living
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  Speaker 1: with disabilities, which is equivalent to one billion people. The
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  Speaker 1: long video on YouTube for it is great. If you
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  Speaker 1: need other suggestions for episode, I suggest Jane Goodall because
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  Speaker 1: science obviously a good one. And an update on the
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  Speaker 1: US women's national soccer team. Yes, lawsuit against the U
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  Speaker 1: s s F or PAPA. I don't remember who it's against.
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  Speaker 1: There was a recent update, but I didn't really understand it.
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  Speaker 1: When to Olympics and Paralympics are in February, you better
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  Speaker 1: believe I'll be watching those as well. Agreed, and thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for bringing this. We did have a
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  Speaker 1: discussion that we needed to do this not gonna lie
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  Speaker 1: kind of escaped our periphery because we got really busy
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  Speaker 1: with other things, which is not an excuse. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you definitely did a lot of work for us.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you, Taylor. Thank you so much, Taylor, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for sending like links, thanks to follow up. We definitely
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  Speaker 1: want to revisit this and and do more research. And
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  Speaker 1: I will say um lately for something else we're working on.
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  Speaker 1: I was researching the a d A in the history
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  Speaker 1: of women advocating in the field of disability and women
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  Speaker 1: with disabilities. And I will admit that's a an area
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  Speaker 1: that I did not receive a lot of education in
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  Speaker 1: and I've had to really dig into writings and works
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  Speaker 1: and articles and it's been really really amazing and enlightening.
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  Speaker 1: But it is something that I'm working on, and um,
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  Speaker 1: we do want to talk about more absolutely, And I
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  Speaker 1: actually I will say I don't really watch a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sports, but I do love sports. I like playing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very competitive. I mean, I'm also very competitive in
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  Speaker 1: video games. But I I have a friend who's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, now you're one of my TikTok prone Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: I've got like a friend who's a sports friend, and
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  Speaker 1: she's always like, here's what you need to watch, and
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  Speaker 1: here's who's coming up, and here's who's amazing and who's
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  Speaker 1: doing all this amazing stuff. And I love this. So
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  Speaker 1: Taylor really really really appreciate sending this message. And we
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  Speaker 1: are certainly looking in February where we'll be watching and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna revisit this for sure in the meantime. Listeners,
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  Speaker 1: if you have any anything you want to send to us,
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  Speaker 1: any facts, suggestions, links, you can do so whole episodes.
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