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Speaker 1: I'm t T and I'm Zakiyah and from Spotify. This

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Speaker 1: is Dope Labs and we are back. HEYZ, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: T T?

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Speaker 1: What isn't going on? I'm just thinking about everything that's

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Speaker 1: happened since our last episode, the January sixth insurrection, and

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Speaker 1: then we got a new president and a new vice president,

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Speaker 1: and it felt like we had COVID, you know, a

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Speaker 1: little bit under control. The vaccine became available, but then

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Speaker 1: the Delta Varian said not so fast, right, And then

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Speaker 1: that ship and container that got stuck in the Suez Canal.

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Speaker 1: It felt like everything got stuck after that. I'm still

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Speaker 1: waiting on some curtains I ordered in twenty twenty. I

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Speaker 1: believe you first has showed us that everybody needs us

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Speaker 1: to explain Wi Fi and bandwidth and what you should

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Speaker 1: have should not be, you know, putting on your computer.

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Speaker 1: Then the attack on women's rights in Texas and basically

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Speaker 1: across the country, the recent oil spill in California. It's

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Speaker 1: like when our Dope Labs family needed us most, we

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Speaker 1: just disappeared. But you know what, y'all didn't stop calling us.

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Speaker 1: Y'all are the best friends.

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Speaker 2: Hi, this is Catherine objected to your podcast.

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Speaker 1: Man, there is just way too much going on in

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Speaker 1: the world, and so we really got to kind of

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Speaker 1: make up for some lost time and cover all the

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Speaker 1: stories we can. So that's why I start in November eleventh.

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Speaker 1: Dope Labs is going to be a weekly show. You

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Speaker 1: heard that right, party people. Every week we take a

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Speaker 1: story that everybody's talking about in news, pop culture, sports, food,

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Speaker 1: you name it, and we dig deep into the science

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Speaker 1: behind it, because science is in everything and science is

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Speaker 1: for everybody. And let me tell you, we have some

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Speaker 1: incredible labs lined up for the semester. We're talking to

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Speaker 1: Natalia Razinski, head of strategy in the US for Karna,

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Speaker 1: about fintech and how technology can make shopping even more accessible.

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Speaker 1: Our adulthood has been so chaotic, so people want to

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Speaker 1: take control of that, and money is the number one way.

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Speaker 1: We're also doing a deep dive on the HBCU experience

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Speaker 1: with Spotify's very own Xavier Journ. Again, to me, the

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Speaker 1: college ex experience was the black college experience and that's

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Speaker 1: the only experience I want. It was that simple. And

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Speaker 1: we also have a two part episode that's all about fashion,

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Speaker 1: from the marketing to fast fashion to sustainability and affordable luxury.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be so good.

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Speaker 2: You literally vote for everything with your money.

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Speaker 1: People will continue to produce the shift that you buy.

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Speaker 1: It's like so simple and we're going to have so

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Speaker 1: much more, especially now that we're weekly. But there's another

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Speaker 1: big change we have to talk about tt right, Semester

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Speaker 1: four is going exclusive to Spotify starting December sixteenth. All

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Speaker 1: you have to do is download the Spotify app, sign

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Speaker 1: up for free, and find Dope Labs and all of

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Speaker 1: your other favorite shows. It's so easy. And if you

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Speaker 1: already listen to Dope Labs on Spotify, don't forget to

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Speaker 1: follow us and tap the bill icon so you get

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Speaker 1: a heads up whenever we drop a new episode. So

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Speaker 1: just to recap, Dope Labs is coming back for semester

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Speaker 1: four with weekly episodes on Thursday, November eleven. Listen to

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Speaker 1: Dope Labs Semester four for free on Spotify.

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Speaker 2: See sou