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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma mea podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mumma MIA's twice daily

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Speaker 2: news podcast, The Quickie. Have you heard the name Zoran

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Speaker 2: mum Danny? Chances are this thirty four year old New

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Speaker 2: Yorkers face has popped up somewhere in your algorithm this week.

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Speaker 2: He's just been elected the one hundred and eleventh mayor

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Speaker 2: of New York City, one of the youngest to ever

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Speaker 2: do so. But why are we seeing and talking about

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Speaker 2: him here?

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Speaker 1: And what does it mean for.

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Speaker 2: Politics in the US? More broadly, Amelia Lester has all

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Speaker 2: the details, plus another big week in Hollywood, from Megan

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Speaker 2: Markle's return to acting to twenty twenty five's Sexiest Man Alive?

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Speaker 2: And do we need to watch Kim Karashian's new TV show?

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Speaker 2: It's time for an entertainment wrap up. Before we get there,

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Speaker 2: He's Claire Murphy with the latest from The Quickie newsroom

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Speaker 2: for Friday, November seven.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Taylor. Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as

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Speaker 3: the powerful speaker of the US House of Representatives, has

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Speaker 3: said she'll not run for reelection to Congress in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six, ending a four decade career of a progressive

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Speaker 3: Democratic icon. The eighty five year old congresswoman, first elected

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Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty seven, made her announcement two days after

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Speaker 3: voters in California overwhelmingly approved Proposition fifty, a state redistricting

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Speaker 3: effort aimed at flipping five House seats to Democrats in

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Speaker 3: next year's midterm elections. The move was in response to

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Speaker 3: a similar move by Texas to boost Republicans chances. Pelosi

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Speaker 3: has been at the forefront in battling for control of

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Speaker 3: seventeen to twenty twenty. She famously ripped up Trump's State

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Speaker 3: of the Union address speech right after he delivered it,

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Speaker 3: saying she did so because every page contained a lie.

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Speaker 3: He'd refused to shake her hand upon his arrival in

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Speaker 3: the chamber. While Pelosi accepted partisan fighting as part of

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Speaker 3: right wing conspiracy theorist broke into her San Francisco home

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Speaker 3: Last week, Francis Culture Minister said the Louver would install

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Speaker 2: Thanks Clen next international politics, a mayor elect taking on

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Speaker 2: But this story isn't just about who runs New York.

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Speaker 2: It's a defining political plot twist. And while he won't

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Speaker 4: Hope is alive. Hope is a decision that tens of

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Speaker 4: we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together, Hope

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Speaker 2: Of course, not everyone was happy. Former Trump advisor Steve

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Speaker 5: If you want to see what congressional Democrats wished to

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Speaker 5: Remember I've said we will never have a socialist elected

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Speaker 2: Still, one question remains, why was I seeing so many

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Speaker 2: is US correspondent Emelia Lester has the answers. Amelia, I

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Speaker 1: I think there are two reasons. The first is that

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Speaker 1: So people are kind of reading the tea leaves into

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Speaker 1: The second reason, I think what it's getting so much

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Speaker 2: So Zoram mum Danni refers to himself as a Demo

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Speaker 1: It's a party in itself actually in some states in

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like the left wing faction of the

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Speaker 1: that they're both the nominally left wing party. The Democrats

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Speaker 2: What do you think it is that actually won mum

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, look at the field. You've got

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Speaker 2: I was listening to Mum Danny's acceptance speech and I

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Speaker 1: He has described him as a communist, and perhaps more damningly,

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Speaker 1: he said that he is better looking than ma'am Darni,

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Speaker 1: who was asked about this in the last couple of

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Speaker 1: other reason why people have been electrified by this race

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Speaker 2: Stepping back from politics and into the bright lights of Hollywood,

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Speaker 2: it's been another big week for our dear celebrities, from

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Speaker 2: let's start with Megan Markle, former royal jam maker and

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Speaker 1: What's she up to?

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Speaker 6: I think that's exactly where it's going. A few months ago,

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's move on now to another story that dominated

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Speaker 2: I'm talking, of course, about People's Sexiest Man Alive, where

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Speaker 6: It did and it didn't, so obviously, Jonathan Bailey, man

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Speaker 2: Okay. Finally, Kim Kardashian's new show All's Fair has finally debuted.

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Speaker 6: They've been obviously, we know Kim Kay's been getting a

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's essentially just a Ryan Murphy series that follows

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