Speaker 1: I'm t T and I'm Zakiyah and from Spotify. This
Speaker 1: is Dope Labs and we are back. HEYZ, what's going on?
Speaker 2: T T?
Speaker 1: What isn't going on? I'm just thinking about everything that's
Speaker 1: happened since our last episode, the January sixth insurrection, and
Speaker 1: then we got a new president and a new vice president,
Speaker 1: and it felt like we had COVID, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit under control. The vaccine became available, but then
Speaker 1: the Delta Varian said not so fast, right, And then
Speaker 1: that ship and container that got stuck in the Suez Canal.
Speaker 1: It felt like everything got stuck after that. I'm still
Speaker 1: waiting on some curtains I ordered in twenty twenty. I
Speaker 1: believe you first has showed us that everybody needs us
Speaker 1: to explain Wi Fi and bandwidth and what you should
Speaker 1: have should not be, you know, putting on your computer.
Speaker 1: Then the attack on women's rights in Texas and basically
Speaker 1: across the country, the recent oil spill in California. It's
Speaker 1: like when our Dope Labs family needed us most, we
Speaker 1: just disappeared. But you know what, y'all didn't stop calling us.
Speaker 1: Y'all are the best friends.
Speaker 2: Hi, this is Catherine objected to your podcast.
Speaker 1: Man, there is just way too much going on in
Speaker 1: the world, and so we really got to kind of
Speaker 1: make up for some lost time and cover all the
Speaker 1: stories we can. So that's why I start in November eleventh.
Speaker 1: Dope Labs is going to be a weekly show. You
Speaker 1: heard that right, party people. Every week we take a
Speaker 1: story that everybody's talking about in news, pop culture, sports, food,
Speaker 1: you name it, and we dig deep into the science
Speaker 1: behind it, because science is in everything and science is
Speaker 1: for everybody. And let me tell you, we have some
Speaker 1: incredible labs lined up for the semester. We're talking to
Speaker 1: Natalia Razinski, head of strategy in the US for Karna,
Speaker 1: about fintech and how technology can make shopping even more accessible.
Speaker 1: Our adulthood has been so chaotic, so people want to
Speaker 1: take control of that, and money is the number one way.
Speaker 1: We're also doing a deep dive on the HBCU experience
Speaker 1: with Spotify's very own Xavier Journ. Again, to me, the
Speaker 1: college ex experience was the black college experience and that's
Speaker 1: the only experience I want. It was that simple. And
Speaker 1: we also have a two part episode that's all about fashion,
Speaker 1: from the marketing to fast fashion to sustainability and affordable luxury.
Speaker 1: That's going to be so good.
Speaker 2: You literally vote for everything with your money.
Speaker 1: People will continue to produce the shift that you buy.
Speaker 1: It's like so simple and we're going to have so
Speaker 1: much more, especially now that we're weekly. But there's another
Speaker 1: big change we have to talk about tt right, Semester
Speaker 1: four is going exclusive to Spotify starting December sixteenth. All
Speaker 1: you have to do is download the Spotify app, sign
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Speaker 1: your other favorite shows. It's so easy. And if you
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Speaker 1: a heads up whenever we drop a new episode. So
Speaker 1: just to recap, Dope Labs is coming back for semester
Speaker 1: four with weekly episodes on Thursday, November eleven. Listen to
Speaker 1: Dope Labs Semester four for free on Spotify.
Speaker 2: See sou