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Speaker 1: Never told your protection of I Heart Radio, and we

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Speaker 1: are here celebrating activists and advocates around the world. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we should put that in our title somehow. Um, And

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Speaker 1: as we always do, we love to celebrate all the

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Speaker 1: things we can want themes, historic themes, all of that,

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Speaker 1: and want to keep on our intersectional journey in giving

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Speaker 1: all of our people and for us. So yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: our tagline, I think? Is that? Is that? It? That?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, pretty short. But I don't like anything short.

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Speaker 1: Don't blame reference to a story that she was featured

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Speaker 1: So if you don't know what we're talking about, you

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Speaker 1: the episode, Well, I caught it red Velvet. I think

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Speaker 1: So this became a very intense card. Even yeah, definitely

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Speaker 1: the organization. She said, when your community is always under

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