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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't go to stuff.

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Speaker 1: I've never told you production of iHeart Radio. Hey Annie,

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Speaker 1: that's a good question for you. Did you take any

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Speaker 1: kind of martial arts blowing up? Or did you want to? Uh? No,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I wanted to. Oh, I desperately wanted to.

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Speaker 1: I was quite clumsy and accident brone, as you know.

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Speaker 1: And I was at my brother's soccer game. But I

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Speaker 1: like somehow got hurt at his soccer game, and my

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Speaker 1: parents became a little careful with one they would let

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Speaker 1: me do, even though they did let me do gymnastics,

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Speaker 1: and boy did I bust my face on that. I

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Speaker 1: fell right on that balance. Me I did take it

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Speaker 1: is not martial arts. But the closest I got was

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Speaker 1: I did take kickboxing in seventh grade and I took

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Speaker 1: tai chi. It's okay, have you done any self defense

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Speaker 1: classes because most of those are like has some jiu

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Speaker 1: jitsu or judo or in it? Did you do that?

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Speaker 1: I did? Um? I did do some self defense. And

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Speaker 1: I have a hilarious story where I was. I was

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Speaker 1: in uh this like soundproof room and marching band uh

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Speaker 1: and I was with my best friend and I was

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Speaker 1: teaching her to get out of a chokehold, but we

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Speaker 1: didn't realize until like two minutes had passed that everyone

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Speaker 1: was staring at us to the glass window and I

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Speaker 1: was like choking my friends to their eyes and I

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Speaker 1: had to explain everything. It was all good, perfect, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was quite embarrassing. How about you. So I didn't

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Speaker 1: take it while I was growing up, but I do

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Speaker 1: have memories of being in Korea. I guess maybe this

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Speaker 1: is part of our group activities in the orphanage had

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Speaker 1: doing some taekwondo, which makes a lot of sense because

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Speaker 1: I actually knew some of the forms and some of

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Speaker 1: the moves that was practiced, especially when you were a newbie,

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Speaker 1: like the white belt. But outside of that, I've never

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Speaker 1: really done it, and I really want to because right

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Speaker 1: now I'm watching all these TikTok videos. I'm on TikTok

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Speaker 1: now and all I do is just watch videos of dogs, pets,

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Speaker 1: people falling and dancing or martial arts. And there's this

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Speaker 1: one one where this young woman is just going after

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Speaker 1: these like six ft two men and she's like probably

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Speaker 1: five ft one, tiny, and I'm like, I want to

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Speaker 1: do that. She's a badass. But the reason I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about it is because I wanted to talk about more

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Speaker 1: Olympics right right, all right, and to keep us continuing

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Speaker 1: on with this theme in our attempt to stay relevant.

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Speaker 1: Just kidding and being relevant, of course, means time stamping

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Speaker 1: might as well do that our episode. So people are

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Speaker 1: so confused if they are listening to this several years

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Speaker 1: down the road, today's August six one, which means that

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Speaker 1: the twenty Olympics, which was postponed from last year, is

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Speaker 1: going on right now. But we're not talking about results today.

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Speaker 1: We are going to come back to those for some

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Speaker 1: of the women who have done some cool things since

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Speaker 1: our last Women around the World, but for this woman

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Speaker 1: around the world, we are specifically talking about one team

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Speaker 1: which was created by the IOC or the International Olympic Committee.

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Speaker 1: We talked about them in sixteen, the Refugee Olympic Team,

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Speaker 1: and we are taking a look at the ten women

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Speaker 1: who are part of this year's team, and a majority

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Speaker 1: of these women are competing. This is why I thought

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Speaker 1: was very interesting. Yeah, so yes, the Refugee team was

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Speaker 1: created in twenty sixteen, after establishing a Refugee Emergency Fund,

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Speaker 1: which was donated to integrate refugees in sports and um

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Speaker 1: they were invited that same year to compete in the

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Speaker 1: Games in Rio de Janeiro and again in the twenty Olympics.

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Speaker 1: So let's look at the women on the team, starting

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Speaker 1: with Rose Nethyclakonian um And we're trying our best at

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Speaker 1: the pronunciations, but apologies if we messed it up. Who

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Speaker 1: sixteen Games. Um And was originally born in South Sudan.

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Speaker 1: And it's now competing in track, which I've been watching

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Speaker 1: why am I so into this? I don't understand. Those

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Speaker 1: I know, we just completely digressed. And there's Muna Dook

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Speaker 1: And then we have Afghanistan born Masama ali Zada who

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Speaker 1: women's road race for cycling this year. Then we have

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Speaker 1: sports shooting, we have Luna Solomon, who was born in

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Speaker 1: to train under gold medalist Nicolo Campriani. Then there's Ustram Mardini,

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Speaker 1: And another judo woman's mixed team member is Assanda Aldas,

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Speaker 1: another City of native who continues to compete and is

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Speaker 1: currently being coached by her husband, who are both currently

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Speaker 1: residing in the Netherlands. And yeah, they have been a

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Speaker 1: wonderful team. I know Camia alsa Day almost almost got

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Speaker 1: all of them, and they've done a great job competing

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Speaker 1: this year for sure. For sure, and as of recording,

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Speaker 1: there's still a couple of days of the Olympics left,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens in the meantime. Listeners, if

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