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Speaker 1: And That's what you Really Missed with Jenna.

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Speaker 1: Podcast Welcomed You and That's what You Really Missed podcast

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Speaker 1: Gleaking News. This is the snicks Miss edition of fourth

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Speaker 1: annual Welcome Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Jenna, and welcome to our very very special guest

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Speaker 2: and fellow Team snicks Miss member Telly Kusaka's team man Google.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, so happy to be here, so happy

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Speaker 1: to have you, and wouldn't be snicks Miss without you.

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Speaker 2: No, So this year is our fourth annual snicks Miss.

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Speaker 2: If this is your first time hearing about snicks Miss.

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Speaker 2: After our wonderful friend Nya passed away in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: we all got together as a group and wanted to

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Speaker 2: do something hopeful, something positive, something in honor of Nya's

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Speaker 2: memory and how wonderful she was. And so what we

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Speaker 2: annual Christmas party she used to throw for all the

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Speaker 2: Glee cast and crew. They were the wildest, craziest, most

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Speaker 2: fun party stories that we will we cannot share right

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Speaker 2: right publicly.

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Speaker 1: We hide those secrets in our hair, Okay.

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Speaker 2: But Naya was a big supporter of a local charity

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Speaker 2: here in La called Alexandria House, which supports women and

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Speaker 2: children in need of transitional housing. And luckily they've been

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Speaker 2: so gracious to us every single year, along with Nya's

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Speaker 2: for Alexandria House thanks to the incredible support from literally

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Speaker 2: all around the world, every corner, yes, and it has been. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: just three of us. We sort of send out the

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Speaker 2: bat signal and everybody responds and helps if they're able to.

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Speaker 2: That year, and the support within our own family and

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Speaker 2: support publicly has just been tremendous, and it feels like

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Speaker 1: So this year is very special because out Now is

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Speaker 1: an unreleased song that Naya from some of her solo

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Speaker 1: music recorded back in twenty twelve, and at the wonderful

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Speaker 1: gracious approval of writers of this song and of Yolanda,

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Speaker 1: Naya's mother. We are releasing this for you all to

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Speaker 1: hear the incredible vocal and the amazing talents of Nya

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Speaker 1: in her prime, which she was always in a prime,

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Speaker 1: so no question about that.

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Speaker 1: Keep this really centered around Naya A, really rest centered

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Speaker 1: the song. Well leave in all the notes where you

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Speaker 1: can donate if you feel that the Snicksmas spirit moves

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Speaker 1: I am curious of your reflections on the past four

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Speaker 1: Just thank you for joining us, Kelly, about you, Kevin,

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Speaker 2: Yes, go download, stream and preferably by because that's more

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Speaker 2: Broken by Nia Rivera. Any where you listen, download or

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Speaker 2: slash Snicksmiss twenty twenty three that's Snicksmiths with two x's

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Speaker 2: We have a goal of fifty thousand dollars. So you know,

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Speaker 2: And we love Naya, love you snakes, and we hope

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