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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stephane

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Speaker 1: Never Told You, a production of I Heart Radio. And

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Speaker 1: welcome to another sub sub sub subsegment of fictional women

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Speaker 1: around the world. I'm very excited about this one. There

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Speaker 1: are going to be minor spoilers because as we record this,

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Speaker 1: the funale of the Disney Plus show Miss Marvel just

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Speaker 1: happened last night, and I stayed up late to watch it.

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Speaker 1: And she's my favorite character to play in The Avengers

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Speaker 1: video game. Yeah, because she's she's very powerful, but she

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Speaker 1: But because that's really color are full and fun and vibrant,

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Speaker 1: interesting character for sure. Um. Okay, So again, I'm really

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Speaker 1: Sanna Aminats in Miss Marvel number one, though she appeared

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Speaker 1: And she's so good, she's so good that I love her. Yeah.

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