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Speaker 1: I never told you a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Annie, Auntie, Samantha, and just so I

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Speaker 2: can get into practice, because we know how well I've

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Speaker 2: been doing with the time and year and such. Today

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Speaker 2: is as we are recording this January sixth, twenty twenty six. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I got the right year. It still sounds very foreign

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Speaker 2: to me. This is an absurdity that we are in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. But also congratulations we made it to

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Speaker 2: this far.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is so much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And as we are in the new year,

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Speaker 2: we are with a new round of a feminist activists

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Speaker 2: around the World. I am just squishing it all together

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Speaker 1: I need to ask you about this because I'm the

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Speaker 1: one that writes the titles and you always change it.

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Speaker 1: And so I've been using feminists around the world because

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Speaker 1: then the last one we did, you said it's activists around.

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Speaker 2: So I've been doing activist around the world probably the

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Speaker 2: last six months, when in the beginning of last year,

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I said, yes, feminists around the world

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Speaker 2: that's what we're doing. And then I realize that it

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Speaker 2: goes beyond this, Like when we're talking about everything, we're

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Speaker 2: also sometimes it's misconstrued to what we're talking about. As

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Speaker 2: well as the fact intersectional feminism comes into play that

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Speaker 2: becomes even longer title. This is what happens with an

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Speaker 2: over analytical individual takes over a segment annie part like

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Speaker 2: you know, multiple partners, as well as changing of titles.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, I feel like most of

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Speaker 2: into activism in different ways, and I think highlighting activists

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, you do you and I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: you know, that was good to revamp and talk about

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Speaker 2: what the segment is. For anybody who is new to

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Speaker 2: our show. We do this once a week where we

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Speaker 2: it is through activism of some sorts, creating new things, inventions,

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Speaker 2: all of it, and we love all of it. And

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Speaker 2: has been under a lot of scrutiny under this current administration,

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Speaker 2: but we wanted to take a minute to talk about

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Speaker 2: her work and how she's been an advocate for so

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Speaker 2: think it's important that we don't forget a lot of

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Speaker 2: the first that we see today who are with us today,

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Speaker 2: because we talk about first with our friend Eves, but

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Speaker 2: Omar has been someone who has been doing this fight. So.

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Speaker 2: Omar is the second youngest child of her family, who

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's gonna be so much more coming from her.

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