Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff.
Speaker 1: I never told your protection if I heart radios how
Speaker 1: stuff works. And welcome to a new year and a
Speaker 1: new decade. So happy new Year, Happy New Year. I
Speaker 1: this is so weird to record this before. It's actually
Speaker 1: why I'm a little confused, because like later on, we'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk about what we actually did, probably
Speaker 1: have a bunch of nothing, but now I wonder went
Speaker 1: well for both of us. I am going to pretend
Speaker 1: like it's the apocalypse, and as we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I don't know when that episode is
Speaker 1: coming through about us talking about two thousand ten, goodbye
Speaker 1: two thousand ten, And I was super confused and confused
Speaker 1: it with the two thousand's because I am in that
Speaker 1: point in my life where nothing really big has happened,
Speaker 1: like the marriage, no wedding, no children, no houses. When
Speaker 1: someone wants to buy me a house, um, I will say,
Speaker 1: I am now to the point. These are some acknowledgements
Speaker 1: that I did get a new job in two thousand ten.
Speaker 1: So so just as we're twenty, I will give my
Speaker 1: highlight two thous that I forgot about because I was
Speaker 1: a decade. All I got I started back to social
Speaker 1: work because I left it for a little while because
Speaker 1: of being really jaded and really actually had them to
Speaker 1: some anxiety attacks. Because of that, came back to social
Speaker 1: work brought me to this show. Um, as well as
Speaker 1: the fact that I have been able to and and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this later, I know, but to the
Speaker 1: point that I can get my own whatever, whether it's
Speaker 1: a car, all of that without another signature, I've established
Speaker 1: enough credit to do that. And to me, that's really
Speaker 1: significant because I had to work really hard because I
Speaker 1: made some huge mistakes in my college years and those
Speaker 1: two thousands that were not actually acknowledging because it was
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Oh my god. Um, but I got
Speaker 1: to that point. So you know, I'm like, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: those are significant things in adult ing. Yes, so I
Speaker 1: want to say that. So in two thousand twenty, happy
Speaker 1: new year, as we've come in, I will become I'm
Speaker 1: hoping more acknowledging in the small things as obviously when
Speaker 1: we recorded the throwbacks, yes, as look at the past rather,
Speaker 1: I could not remember a damn thing. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: very funny. Look that put me in a spiral when
Speaker 1: I went back to my house and talking to my
Speaker 1: friends who are my age but you're definitely not my age, um,
Speaker 1: as we have established, and it was like, wait, what
Speaker 1: does this look like? Because we become a whole new
Speaker 1: group of women with not having settled down, working on
Speaker 1: our career. I'm caring more about ourselves than pleasing someone
Speaker 1: else or trying to become a couple, which is not
Speaker 1: a bad thing. This is all really big things, but
Speaker 1: it's become more and more normalized that women can be
Speaker 1: single and then do not have to be married before
Speaker 1: thirty okay before party. Um. So it's really interesting to
Speaker 1: have that conversation of like, what does that look like
Speaker 1: when you go past a certain point when you're not
Speaker 1: in your twenties, getting your new job, establishing yourself as
Speaker 1: an adult and an independent and going past that and
Speaker 1: and not hitting the monmarkers of let's have a relationship,
Speaker 1: let's get married, let's have children, you know, we have
Speaker 1: the sp What does that look like as an adult? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it is going to be in this second I
Speaker 1: think really fascinating stuff is going to come out because
Speaker 1: it's kind of new, especially in our modern times, that
Speaker 1: people aren't doing this right and that it's okay, like
Speaker 1: we are supporting each other and we have a support
Speaker 1: group as before you were called spinsters or old maid
Speaker 1: as we had previously talked about, which is absurd in
Speaker 1: both of those conversations instead of just a bachelor, you know,
Speaker 1: and now so okay and it's normal. And then also
Speaker 1: we still have that social network as we're no longer
Speaker 1: kind of like the Bridget Jones. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've ever watched it. That's my Christmas Specials because I
Speaker 1: love calling for Okay so much. Apparently he's single now. Um,
Speaker 1: but she would go to the couple's dinner and then
Speaker 1: one of the first things is why are women single now?
Speaker 1: I was one of the little bit little scenes and
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, it doesn't help that we have scales
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Do you know, making herself the butt
Speaker 1: of the joke because she's single. That's not such a
Speaker 1: need anymore. And and accepting being single is okay, or
Speaker 1: even with couples that aren't with children and still still
Speaker 1: live that kind of vicarious life of we're not bound,
Speaker 1: not that children bound you, but there's a lot more
Speaker 1: responsibility having children. As we know this when you're responsible
Speaker 1: for a little life. But yeah, it's it's so it's
Speaker 1: not as hard to be single in your later ages.
Speaker 1: I feel like or be unattached in that life. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily single people may be in a relationship, but you're
Speaker 1: not married. You're not tied down in that level of
Speaker 1: depending on someone else's finances, depending on someone else's living situation,
Speaker 1: and they're you know, good or bad decisions. So having
Speaker 1: that availability of support network and having more and more
Speaker 1: people becoming or in that lifestyle of waiting, it's kind
Speaker 1: of nice and it's it's not so abnormal as once
Speaker 1: you would have seen in Hollywood of old, right, And
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things with technology and
Speaker 1: twenty ten, it's the rapid growth of technology, we've been
Speaker 1: exposed to a lot more experiences in different, um, different
Speaker 1: ways of succeeding or living then the traditional Hollywood this
Speaker 1: is success. You have married, you're married, you've got a house,
Speaker 1: you have two point five kids, whatever it is. Um
Speaker 1: we've just seen that really shift, and I think we're
Speaker 1: going to start really seeing the impacts of that shift
Speaker 1: in this and so we see more and more women
Speaker 1: coming in power, whether it's in politics, whether it's being
Speaker 1: a CEO of a company, whether it's being a voice
Speaker 1: where those who are unheard or not not heard. Um,
Speaker 1: we talked about people like Jennifer Gunter. Gen Gunter, Doctor
Speaker 1: jen Gunter has become a phase for conversations of female health.
Speaker 1: And I think it's fantastic because she is seen as
Speaker 1: somewhat of a leader to be able to acknowledge all
Speaker 1: of possibly not all of, but a lot of our
Speaker 1: issues that were not acknowledged before. And here is a doctor,
Speaker 1: here's a doctor who um cares about women's health and
Speaker 1: women's issues and have gone through these things as well,
Speaker 1: who was speaking and have become more and more popular,
Speaker 1: more and more acknowledged as a professional as an expert.
Speaker 1: And I love that. And I say that because how
Speaker 1: long ago, I mean, shoot, talked about the Ohio and
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna talk about little politics, but the
Speaker 1: Ohio politician who tried to draft in about topic pregnancies
Speaker 1: and reimplanting them and then having to come back and say,
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, how did I know that didn't
Speaker 1: work or what? And then doctor Gunter, who was one
Speaker 1: of the first one, and the twitter verse saying what
Speaker 1: is wrong with you, this is not a thing. And
Speaker 1: by the way, this is harmful for women who wish
Speaker 1: this could be a thing. Your little ass hat that
Speaker 1: was I love the term anyway he's asked, but he asked.
Speaker 1: Hat is different from mass but every time supernatural, But
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I love that bad has become a forefront,
Speaker 1: and as comes along, I think finally we're having moments
Speaker 1: of being represented. It's coming to terms, coming to that point.
Speaker 1: Finally we can see ourselves, whether it's and we're gonna
Speaker 1: I know we're talking about the movie industry, what would
Speaker 1: be talking about politics. Once again, we're talking about within
Speaker 1: the medical field, just experts in general who we can
Speaker 1: see as Yes they've done the studies. Yes they've been
Speaker 1: a part of these crisis as well. And I think
Speaker 1: a part of that once again, doesn't me going back
Speaker 1: to in two thousand's this is my male marker in
Speaker 1: two thousand ten through now, I didn't see anything significant
Speaker 1: because I didn't hit what would have been the normal
Speaker 1: in you and I had the first episode are we failures?
Speaker 1: And I felt like I was a failure because I
Speaker 1: hadn't hit those male markers. But I love the fact
Speaker 1: that and coming in twenty when I look back at
Speaker 1: that that's not abnormal necessarily, and in being able to
Speaker 1: have conversations with my friend group who are in that
Speaker 1: age group and have also been in the same place
Speaker 1: I am, I can acknowledge the fact that yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we those are not our mom male markers either, and
Speaker 1: redefining what mile markers or significant things are in our
Speaker 1: life as being normal. I love that. Yeah, And um,
Speaker 1: I really want to come back to this idea that
Speaker 1: I read about when I was researching this episode to
Speaker 1: call it um woman of the House because the drastic
Speaker 1: shifts we've seen in the past to two decades where
Speaker 1: women are getting more of the college degrees, women are
Speaker 1: actually a larger part of the workforce, women are doing
Speaker 1: a lot of finances. They're also for better or worse,
Speaker 1: largely worse, but they're caring for the family. They're like
Speaker 1: head of the house. And it's caused such there are
Speaker 1: men's groups. I did not know this. I learned this
Speaker 1: that people will go to where they feel like they
Speaker 1: aren't meeting the standards of being a man because the
Speaker 1: woman is the breadwinner and she does she makes all
Speaker 1: of the big decisions, and I just I'm really fascinated
Speaker 1: by all of these changes and what that's going to
Speaker 1: mean for a future. Um. So, yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: things are coming and it's interesting the battles, like you said,
Speaker 1: people are fighting this as you're taking away tradition, you're
Speaker 1: taking away are what's wholesome. So when you look at
Speaker 1: Mike Pence and has standard a family and what the
Speaker 1: household should look like, which, by the way, obviously if
Speaker 1: you've not listened to us before, we don't agree with
Speaker 1: those and we're gonna try to be as objective as possible,
Speaker 1: but you should know in twenty it's been a rough
Speaker 1: four or five years and it's we're kind of tired
Speaker 1: of playing middle line. Would you agree with that any
Speaker 1: And I think to this point that we can't afford
Speaker 1: to be in that middle line anymore. Um, objective and
Speaker 1: listening and debating is beautiful. I'm going to say that
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a problem with that. But if
Speaker 1: we're allowing things and sentiments to pass that are harmful
Speaker 1: for an individual and not talking about it or not
Speaker 1: acknowledging it as harmful or not calling it out as
Speaker 1: harmful is just as bad. And we know this as
Speaker 1: a quote about the man who sits back and does nothing.
Speaker 1: It's just as guilty or the woman, or the woman
Speaker 1: or those who identify as nonfinary everybody. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: with twenty comes with it's time, and it's been time,
Speaker 1: but I think we're getting a little more and more
Speaker 1: courage to have that conversation of why is this ultimately
Speaker 1: harmful for the individual, not even the humanity alone in itself?
Speaker 1: And now I think that's the whole back and forth
Speaker 1: is people are scared of change, and so what are
Speaker 1: they going to do or what are we going to do?
Speaker 1: Or what are whomever is scared of that change to
Speaker 1: try to fight it? And is not necessarily good or bad? Right,
Speaker 1: We're going to be having a lot of those conversations
Speaker 1: this coming here, So get ready, y'all get ready. Isn't
Speaker 1: it weird to think when I was okay, so when
Speaker 1: you look up what's gonna happen in twenties? Nobody likes
Speaker 1: predicting because then you can go back and prove they're wrong.
Speaker 1: So everyone was like, don't ask me. Probably self driving
Speaker 1: cars and five G but that's all I'll say. Um,
Speaker 1: I was like, there's going to be more than one
Speaker 1: presidential election in this decade, and it was just weird
Speaker 1: to think I don't know because we're well, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I was researching too, and it was hilarious about what
Speaker 1: people are predicting, and then below it would be like,
Speaker 1: this is probably not going to happen. Yes, people like
Speaker 1: to cover their ass by the way we should say.
Speaker 1: I'm also I am very much this person where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I may have mentioned it, and so therefore, if it happens,
Speaker 1: like I told you what happened, but I wasn't really
Speaker 1: really confidential, but I kind of think I knew was
Speaker 1: going to happen to take ownership of it after the fact,
Speaker 1: if you're correct, but if you aren't correct, I told
Speaker 1: you and moving on, Yes, yes, I see what you're
Speaker 1: up to you. I think it works for me. Is
Speaker 1: a big year because it marks a century since suffrage
Speaker 1: in the United States and that this is the hundred
Speaker 1: years since the Nineteenth Minute passed, which granted women the
Speaker 1: right to vote in this country. Is also the tenth
Speaker 1: anniversary of UN Women, and the UN has announced that
Speaker 1: the decade will mark the beginning of what they're calling
Speaker 1: you in women to point. Oh wait, what does that
Speaker 1: look like? Then what is you and women to point
Speaker 1: out they're just having right now that having conversations about
Speaker 1: about what they want in this decade, what they wanted
Speaker 1: to look like, and they haven't announced it yet, but
Speaker 1: they're conversing on it. Okay, So I need to know
Speaker 1: who are they? The UN people? But who is it
Speaker 1: the women or people? Okay, the women are okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: making sure it's like, are we talking about like the
Speaker 1: representatives that they're out there or Okay, there's a part
Speaker 1: of the conversations Okay, she says an ambassador, So like,
Speaker 1: is it actually the UN members or the ambassadors off
Speaker 1: or so there's a whole group, Um, I think you
Speaker 1: and women and it's it's not some of them are
Speaker 1: ambassadors and some of them are members, a mixture, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Emma, yeah, we'll see. So there are a
Speaker 1: lot of organizations if this is something of interest with you,
Speaker 1: because this is such a year as such an anniversary
Speaker 1: for a lot of things that are setting goals and
Speaker 1: ways that you can help achieve those goals for equality
Speaker 1: for everybody. Um. But yeah, that's that's pretty cool, right,
Speaker 1: I know, like at the beginning of every decade, you
Speaker 1: have hopes that by the end of that decade, something
Speaker 1: of blah blah blah has happened. Yeah, I wonder if
Speaker 1: that puts a whole new spin on resolutions. It doesn't it,
Speaker 1: I think it will. Again, as we talked about previously
Speaker 1: about nine, everybody was super freaking now so assumed that
Speaker 1: it was the end of the world. So Prince saying,
Speaker 1: you know, party like it's nineteen nine, which I still
Speaker 1: say that phrase in two thousand nineteen if you're welcome,
Speaker 1: but which I just said it to our birthday. Um,
Speaker 1: but that you start having the significant I have to
Speaker 1: do these things. Not only is it a new year,
Speaker 1: but it's a new decade, is the beginning of something blah.
Speaker 1: So we have to see hopefully you would have some
Speaker 1: changes that were significant to that decade. Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to rethink all of my resolutions. Oh do you
Speaker 1: have resolution? I am? Yes. Are you a resolution person?
Speaker 1: I am? Absolutely? I am. I'm very competitive, so I
Speaker 1: usually achieved them, and I am so competitive that I
Speaker 1: don't care that that sounds kind of braggy. It's true,
Speaker 1: but most of my nerves kind of silly, Like one
Speaker 1: year my resolution, I okay, So I make. However, many
Speaker 1: the year ends in, so this year will be twenty
Speaker 1: UM and so a lot of them are small. So
Speaker 1: one year I learned how to do the quarter thing
Speaker 1: on your knuckles where you can like move the corner.
Speaker 1: So I I have a lot an assortment of very
Speaker 1: random skills that I learned from New Year's resolutions? What
Speaker 1: was yours from twenty nineteen? And did you accomplish those?
Speaker 1: Not all of them, but just a few. I did
Speaker 1: accomplish most of them. One of them, I do fall
Speaker 1: into the trap of making the really vague ones that
Speaker 1: you can't succeed. That is the biggest New Year's resolution trap.
Speaker 1: And one of them was essentially get your destructive streak
Speaker 1: out of your system and then new decade, take better
Speaker 1: care of yourself. We'll see if that's true. I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you have gone through therapy. I knew,
Speaker 1: have really made an effort in doing that, and that
Speaker 1: was this year. That is a huge step. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's frustrating because as I said, and I think
Speaker 1: in our Trauma Miny series, I really really went off
Speaker 1: the rails when Trump was elected, Like I was pretty
Speaker 1: healthy before then, and then it just blew up and
Speaker 1: so it's hard because I know is going to be hard,
Speaker 1: but I keep putting it off and he really, there's
Speaker 1: no something will always come up, so right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: that's my goal. Okay, Yeah, I don't do resolutions. Um.
Speaker 1: I am one of those. I'm a pessimist slash realist,
Speaker 1: and I always, as a cynic, will always bet on
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario and when i'm because it's like
Speaker 1: I win win so I can say either I told
Speaker 1: you so or all this pleasant. I got something out
Speaker 1: of that because it's better than I thought kind of situation.
Speaker 1: I am absolutely that person. Um. I also am absolutely
Speaker 1: that person that I'm like, yeah, that's about right. Something's
Speaker 1: gonna go wrong, some disaster of some sorts. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the butt of that story somehow or some way. Um.
Speaker 1: So therefore I don't do a lot of resolutions. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing though, when we ended last year,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this many times because it's just
Speaker 1: a great story. I think you and I had a
Speaker 1: really great friendship beginning story. Um, but like sitting together
Speaker 1: and planning out what it would look like to be
Speaker 1: host together, not even hosts, but the fact that we
Speaker 1: would do this series that was really really dear to
Speaker 1: our hearts and very personal to both of us. And
Speaker 1: then you know, my own goals, like I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: it on the show, which by the way, I'm still
Speaker 1: shocked that I'm on the show because I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: not that great and I'm definitely just coming on the
Speaker 1: cotails of seemingly like yourself, as well as Caroline and Kristen,
Speaker 1: who I who I hold as dear friends as well
Speaker 1: as amazing mentors in this field, because this is really
Speaker 1: odd to me, this as a person who has been
Speaker 1: on feet on the ground, in the in the in
Speaker 1: the crowd, hands dirty type of person with social work
Speaker 1: coming into this seemingly It's like, what is this world?
Speaker 1: And then also people seeing me sometimes it's really a
Speaker 1: nerving because I love hiding. That's one of my favorite things,
Speaker 1: being that, you know, person in the corner, saying a
Speaker 1: snide comment every now and again, getting a chuckle and
Speaker 1: then moving out of the way. That's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite positions in life. But stuff like that has been
Speaker 1: things that I'm like, Okay, I'm taking a risk, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm taking a chance and hopefully giving
Speaker 1: some outlook that is a little different from your usual
Speaker 1: than whether that's coming from social work, as I know
Speaker 1: everybody's tired of hearing that conversation, but coming from that
Speaker 1: social work field, coming from being a woman of color,
Speaker 1: coming from being adopted, you know, into this odd, odd
Speaker 1: spectrum of being in the Southern culture as well, and
Speaker 1: having an unsurety of what's going to happen next as
Speaker 1: a female person of color in the South, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's feeling like I'm underachieving because of my trauma
Speaker 1: as a child, holding with all the attachment issues. But
Speaker 1: here I am, and I'm like, okay, I'm coming to
Speaker 1: the point that I'm adulting. It's kind of about time
Speaker 1: to be honest, um, but acknowledging that I have strengths
Speaker 1: with my weaknesses and using the So it's kind of
Speaker 1: an interesting prospect. And what does look like for me
Speaker 1: coming into my forties. I'm going to be coming, you know,
Speaker 1: very well, a red one in I'll be forty, and
Speaker 1: this is significant birth year for most people. And I'm
Speaker 1: kind of trying to hold to the fact of what
Speaker 1: have I contributed, What am I contributing? How have I helped?
Speaker 1: Have I not helped, And how can I continue to
Speaker 1: be a better, better source of whatever their advocate for
Speaker 1: those who can't speak for themselves, are better advocate for
Speaker 1: those who are not being heard like that is something
Speaker 1: that's in my twenty twenties, and I guess being a
Speaker 1: part of this podcast being a part of something that
Speaker 1: is very very poigned of trying to talk about the
Speaker 1: intersectionality of not only feminism but just humanism. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that's the best way to put it. What
Speaker 1: does that look like in especially when you feel opposed
Speaker 1: and whether it's by other women, whether it's by politics,
Speaker 1: whether it's famine members, whether it's your own head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's too okay. You've got to get your pass through
Speaker 1: these anxieties and insecurities to being stronger, not necessarily for yourself,
Speaker 1: but for others. And what does that look like? Again?
Speaker 1: Everyone is going to say hindsight twenty you know it's true.
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, I'm you will I won't. A
Speaker 1: lot of publications are preemptively calling the year of the Woman.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I'm claiming it, We'll claim it.
Speaker 1: And when we say one women, I'm saying with the
Speaker 1: X women. You know, w O M x N. That's
Speaker 1: how we're going to call it. Okay. So, for the
Speaker 1: first time ever, the Center of American Women in Politics
Speaker 1: collected a data set of female rebound candidates candidates who
Speaker 1: decided to run again after a law US and as
Speaker 1: comes to a close. They've identified seventy nine. This is
Speaker 1: the first time they've ever had those numbers. The mindset
Speaker 1: previously was that in general, if a female candidate laws
Speaker 1: in election, she went on to something else on like
Speaker 1: male Canadas. And we also just haven't had as many
Speaker 1: women running for office as we do now. In either way,
Speaker 1: this is an encouraging development. Another exciting thing is that
Speaker 1: as we get more women in office, we're going to
Speaker 1: start seeing them and act policies in this decade, and
Speaker 1: one example of this is the policy responses to me too.
Speaker 1: This movement led to an increase increase in sexual harassment
Speaker 1: bills introduced in states across the United States, which many
Speaker 1: of them will go into effect in or or soon
Speaker 1: after that. So that's I mean, we can see it's happening.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying people are becoming women x UM coming
Speaker 1: on and understanding we got to go past our fears
Speaker 1: and anxieties and securities because it's better for everyone has
Speaker 1: a collective and yes, it's time, it's time and fun.
Speaker 1: Side note is when a lot of movies in the
Speaker 1: future took place like Blade Runner still waiting from a
Speaker 1: flying car. I'm waiting for the fashion decision where we
Speaker 1: all wear like silver jumpsuits or the black leather. I want,
Speaker 1: you know, just everybody. Besides where you're gonna wear a
Speaker 1: metallic who knows why to be fair? I wait black
Speaker 1: all the time. But nothing is faux leather, pleather, none
Speaker 1: of that because I just don't I won't comfort. Everything
Speaker 1: to me should be spandex. That's what is happening with
Speaker 1: future people. Well, you know it's got to be comfortable
Speaker 1: spandex because we can go superhero round on this. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, let's go Wally in which they're
Speaker 1: all just in their floating chairs in the jumpsuits and
Speaker 1: that's all very obviously either polyester of swords that wanted
Speaker 1: to are comfortable. I wanted to be like the cotton
Speaker 1: soft cotton. Well that's what I want. One of the
Speaker 1: technology predictions I did find, as we said in our
Speaker 1: Goodbye twenty tens episode. Fashion is a big thing, even
Speaker 1: if we didn't talk about it that much. Is that
Speaker 1: clothes there will be nano technology enclosed now and that
Speaker 1: there will be other fashionable expand to include more than
Speaker 1: what we think of it now. So it was it
Speaker 1: going to be like a pant less but with pants
Speaker 1: maybe those Speaking of technology, let's talk about some technology. Um,
Speaker 1: it's so one of my favorite nerdy things. As Samantha knows,
Speaker 1: I love science, I specifically love physics, but I was
Speaker 1: really into, uh, this graph of showing how technologies just
Speaker 1: we're at the very bottom of a huge exponential increase,
Speaker 1: really not two dozen ten, because I feel like so
Speaker 1: many we're jumped. Yeah, so we're like coming up now.
Speaker 1: So imagine you're looking at a big kind of you.
Speaker 1: We're at this kind of center top of the year.
Speaker 1: We're about to go. Okay, okay, that makes it. Probably doesn't,
Speaker 1: but no, I saw it because you can basically, technology
Speaker 1: is going to improve at a really really rapid rate,
Speaker 1: and it will continue to change how we interact or
Speaker 1: don't interact. So in two thousand eighteen, Live Person asked
Speaker 1: people to name a famous woman in tech, and only
Speaker 1: four percent were able to While we're able to name
Speaker 1: a famous men in tech, I'm guessing it's mainly Apple people.
Speaker 1: A lot of people said Alexa or Syrias. Oh no.
Speaker 1: But as more women take on leadership roles in the
Speaker 1: tech world, there's hoping that that will change. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie how to moment where Alexa and Sirium like,
Speaker 1: who are those actual voices? Because you know, like the
Speaker 1: movie Her, Yeah, you start wondering, who are these actual people?
Speaker 1: I knew tangentially not tangentially a friend of a friend, uh,
Speaker 1: the voice of Marta, which is our public transport in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and it was weird to hear her speak, I would think,
Speaker 1: especially like in England when they do mind the gap,
Speaker 1: mind You're like cool. Artificial intelligence is going to play
Speaker 1: a role in the twenties and beyond, and as we know,
Speaker 1: coding can contain bias from the coders that can be
Speaker 1: baked into the code of an AI, which would be huge.
Speaker 1: Amazon did away with its AI recruitment tool after that
Speaker 1: AI showed a preference for male candidates. So right now
Speaker 1: only twelve of the AI research workforce is made up
Speaker 1: of women, only twelve, and only of leadership positions are
Speaker 1: held by people of color. So to combat this, there's
Speaker 1: a push to diversify the AI world through programs and
Speaker 1: nonprofits like AI for All and AI. This is a
Speaker 1: huge conversation for a lot, a lot, a lot of reasons,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna play a role in pretty much everything
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about, and also just pretty much
Speaker 1: everything movies, book, TV, music, maybe maybe even podcast. Wait,
Speaker 1: am I gonna list my job before I even started? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Oh damn well, Actually, and this is a whole other
Speaker 1: nerdy topic I love dishing dishing on is empathy. So
Speaker 1: jobs that require empathy and human human interaction, they don't
Speaker 1: think the AI will be able to replace that. There's
Speaker 1: been a conversation because that's one of the things I've
Speaker 1: said about social work and any of the body who
Speaker 1: does any of those types of level, whether they work
Speaker 1: with children, women, homeless, whatever, that they're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to do that. But there seems to be
Speaker 1: a back and forth about whether or not people in
Speaker 1: technology and who are really big into technology like to
Speaker 1: argue with me about the benefits of sure these items.
Speaker 1: I'm like, huh wow, yeah. And it is interesting too
Speaker 1: because I know for actors like I read a lot
Speaker 1: of headlines that said, um, James ten is going to
Speaker 1: be the biggest star of the twenties because they're remaking
Speaker 1: a movie with him in it. Really, yes, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there is that aspect that they're already kind of
Speaker 1: replacing actors, and that seems like a very human profession
Speaker 1: that we're like requiring. So we we'll see. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: AI is going to also play a huge role in
Speaker 1: several things we're not going to talk about, but one
Speaker 1: of the big ones is medicine, the medical field, education,
Speaker 1: and self driving vehicles. I've been kind of work on
Speaker 1: that run a minute. I think it will happen to stick.
Speaker 1: I will make a prediction. You're gonna make that prediction.
Speaker 1: That's right. You can come back at me and say
Speaker 1: any hope of friends, then I hope we haven't become innoma.
Speaker 1: And yeah, five G is gonna be a thing. That's
Speaker 1: what almost every article said. Five G seems like that
Speaker 1: seems fairly plausible. Yeah, yeah, totally. I actually thought pipe
Speaker 1: was already a thing because my my Internet says I
Speaker 1: can access pipe G. Really, I just assumed that I
Speaker 1: was always behind. Well, we clearly are not. This is
Speaker 1: not an Internet technology show. Nope. So speaking of AI
Speaker 1: as more and more tasks become automated, endless predict that
Speaker 1: women will feel the first way, since so many of
Speaker 1: our jobs are gender skewed into the late twenty twenties.
Speaker 1: But in the long run, jobs long dominated by men
Speaker 1: will likely be hit harder, which makes sense because when
Speaker 1: we think about things like garbage trucks and all over that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so many accidents in so many ways of like safe
Speaker 1: safety precautions. One better way to make it easier by
Speaker 1: having things that won't get harmed or I can't sue
Speaker 1: unless the machines become sentient. Oh lord, oh Laura speaking
Speaker 1: a blade runner. The World Economic Forum estimates that by
Speaker 1: over seventy million jobs will be replaced by automation, but
Speaker 1: three million will be created as a lot of these
Speaker 1: jobs will be in STEM where women are traditionally under represented.
Speaker 1: This could impact women more, but this means it's the
Speaker 1: time that we can change that. We know it's coming,
Speaker 1: we can work to change that. It further emphasizes the
Speaker 1: significance of getting girls and women into STEM fields and yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to deal with a lot of the
Speaker 1: things it's not like Onces come to a close all
Speaker 1: those issues go away. We're gonna have to deal with
Speaker 1: a lot of the things we talked about in that episode, um,
Speaker 1: including deep fakes, which is a very I find very distressing,
Speaker 1: so distressing. Yes, yes, so that's kind of a brief
Speaker 1: overview on on some things that might happen in twenty
Speaker 1: We do have some more pop culture things that might
Speaker 1: happen in who You're so excited? I am. But first
Speaker 1: we have a quick break forward from our sponsor and
Speaker 1: we're back, Thank you sponsor. So again, the trends of
Speaker 1: the twenty tins will continue into the twenties when it
Speaker 1: comes to you a greater number of societal thrillers and
Speaker 1: horror movies, and the increasing number of women and people
Speaker 1: of color directing and starring in blockbusters. Oh, for example,
Speaker 1: Kathy Anne's Birds of Prey starring Margot Robbie Nikki Carro
Speaker 1: is helming Mulan, which I'm very excited about. The Black Widow,
Speaker 1: directed by Kate Shortland and starring Scarlett Johansson and chloes
Speaker 1: Out is slated to direct Marvels, The Eternals and all
Speaker 1: four of the Marvel DC superhero movies coming out in
Speaker 1: twenty are directed by women and to our Chinese American,
Speaker 1: which I'm excited about. And yeah, now I guess with
Speaker 1: Spider Man, the first one to helm the new generation
Speaker 1: of Marvels since all of the so phase four. The
Speaker 1: last movie of Phase three was Spider Man Far from Home.
Speaker 1: So that was a part of that Phase three. Yes, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: because I thought maybe that was Phase four, but that's
Speaker 1: opening up to Phase four. Yeah, okay, so in twenties
Speaker 1: we're going to have Phase four, so that should be interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I remember, as a lot of you probably do,
Speaker 1: when the Marvel announced all of their projects and so
Speaker 1: many of them involved women and people of color, and
Speaker 1: it was a lot more diverse than they have been.
Speaker 1: And there was of course the internet backlash of dudes
Speaker 1: like no, not one Marvel or whatever. But and as
Speaker 1: we said, and um the previous episode, I know some
Speaker 1: people might be tired of superhero movies, are wondering where
Speaker 1: we're talking about them, but so many people see them
Speaker 1: and it really does impact kind of a lot of
Speaker 1: culture and are just where we are they honestly, by
Speaker 1: being more diverse, it does help have these conversations and
Speaker 1: move the needle right and as we talked about with
Speaker 1: fan girls, look, if you bring in fan girls for
Speaker 1: more and more fan girls, that's a lot of money
Speaker 1: to be made. And we already said that. Yes, Black
Speaker 1: Widow looked amazing. It does right now. Another one I'm
Speaker 1: excited about but very curious Thor Love and Thunder, which
Speaker 1: comes at one, featuring Natalie portmaneu Thor an Tessa Thompson
Speaker 1: as Valco. I guess I don't know that Natalie Portman
Speaker 1: is going to become Thora, but I'm pretty sure she
Speaker 1: picked up the hammer. They kind of announced that, they
Speaker 1: are not already announced it. Yeah, but it's I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if she's going to become Thor's significant role.
Speaker 1: She's gonna be like the news Thor ladies or um
Speaker 1: and take it with T love I love, of course.
Speaker 1: So I'm very excited about that Black Panther two in
Speaker 1: two blade Mrs Marvel. She hulk of interest to me,
Speaker 1: but not particularly like woman based Falcon and Winter Soldier
Speaker 1: coming out on Disney. Plush is on Disney Plus, yes,
Speaker 1: Disney Plus. And Thrust, which I've been asking a lot
Speaker 1: of people if they've heard that phrase, and no one
Speaker 1: has just let you know. Well, it's definitely a thing.
Speaker 1: And I think, again, this may be one of those
Speaker 1: things where I was really confused about what decade I
Speaker 1: came from. Significant decades and I'm that old. I'm like
Speaker 1: those kiss and I can't imagine look on my mom's
Speaker 1: face if I tried to explain this here. But I
Speaker 1: think I might, I think I might. Please do I'll
Speaker 1: tell you how it goes. So of twenties Sundance Film
Speaker 1: Festival competition directors, forty six percent are female, which marks
Speaker 1: the third year in a role in a role in
Speaker 1: a row that numbers has gone up. Y are people
Speaker 1: of color and of the lgbt Q plus community. So
Speaker 1: he was still not high enough, y'all. Still not high enough?
Speaker 1: Definitely not, but it is encouraging that the numbers keep
Speaker 1: going up. Absolutely And because I'm a huge, huge nerd,
Speaker 1: and I've made it very clear on this show. Before
Speaker 1: Spider Verse two comes out sometime in two, have you
Speaker 1: already set time with Chuck to do movie Crush with
Speaker 1: them for that one? I should on the calendar. I
Speaker 1: was like, Chuck, can we do a part two on
Speaker 1: the movie Crush where I continue to talk about Spider Verse.
Speaker 1: Chuck is our celebrity, obviously, and so he loved you
Speaker 1: on that, and they loved you on that. So that
Speaker 1: means you're a celebrity, and I'm very impressed. It means
Speaker 1: that I can make demands. You're right, I love it.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to television, television is in such
Speaker 1: a state of change right now. A lot of big
Speaker 1: TV shows are on their way out, including Supernatural, leaving
Speaker 1: a vacuum for studios to fill, and reports indicate that
Speaker 1: multiple television networks are pushing for more female lead and
Speaker 1: female directed shows, and more show centered on people of color,
Speaker 1: which is also promising. The c W is actually, I
Speaker 1: believe the one exception because their audience excuse so female.
Speaker 1: They're trying to find the show which hey, because they
Speaker 1: did have The Pretty Little Liars, which was a huge
Speaker 1: hit for them, um as well as they put it
Speaker 1: in a Supergirl uh, and they did Black Lightning, who
Speaker 1: is now female. I think the stars now female, which
Speaker 1: is awesome, and that my neighborhood did they think film
Speaker 1: so many things that I just don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1: It feels like they're not all that great, but whatever
Speaker 1: passing judgment. Oh, actually we did do in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: The hate you give was filmed there. Cool. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was very excited about that. I was tried so hard
Speaker 1: to find I was not cold enough. So you know,
Speaker 1: um and I say, we talked about you, and I
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about doll Face. Yeah. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet, but my friends recently watched it and
Speaker 1: they are are they fans. So I have a hard
Speaker 1: time with it because it is so on the nose.
Speaker 1: I started watching it, I kind of had to back
Speaker 1: off because I am a binger. So if I'm into something,
Speaker 1: I commit and I'm going to finish it out. And
Speaker 1: I think you were even impressed by the time frame
Speaker 1: up supernatural, don't worry about it. But yeah, Dolphin's I
Speaker 1: think had some really nice antics within the problematic antics
Speaker 1: that wasn't seen to me can be overused, as we've
Speaker 1: talked about before about women being friends and women being
Speaker 1: advocates for each other. Um. And for those who don't
Speaker 1: know the actual plo, I'm not given too much. But
Speaker 1: the main character comes in after a breakup, a heart breakup,
Speaker 1: realized that she has no friends female friends, and goes
Speaker 1: back to her past to find her female friends and
Speaker 1: then the relationship there is and trying to bond with women,
Speaker 1: and I guess to me, it's kind of one of
Speaker 1: those as you and I have talked about with the
Speaker 1: Last Adventures movie, where they tried so hard to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: women are great. Look at this the second clip of
Speaker 1: women being great, right, But that's kind of what it
Speaker 1: felt like to me with Dolphins. And and again this
Speaker 1: is completely my opinion because it's cute and all, but
Speaker 1: then you still have the overachieving tiger mom Asian character
Speaker 1: in there, and I understand it's kind of niche, over reaching,
Speaker 1: sarcastic show. Um, what is that parody? It's kind of
Speaker 1: a parody of that, but it just feels like it's
Speaker 1: also feeding into this is who you are, this is
Speaker 1: who they are, right. So you do have this like
Speaker 1: Brenda Song who plays the overbearing, overachieving character, and then
Speaker 1: you have Shane Mitchell who comes in as the party
Speaker 1: girl who doesn't have enough whatever, but that she's easy going,
Speaker 1: nicer than everyone type of mentality. So it's kind of like, Okay, cool, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited that this cast has brought this together.
Speaker 1: And then you also have an imagining Catwoman character that's
Speaker 1: a part of this. Yeah, so it's all very interesting take.
Speaker 1: I'll have to check it out. It was on a
Speaker 1: lot of people's list when I was like, what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen to television, and a lot of people's at doll
Speaker 1: face why, I don't know. I haven't seen it, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. I will say it does have one
Speaker 1: of my favorite actors because I watched Criminal Minds forever
Speaker 1: because I am that person, Matthew grey Googler who was
Speaker 1: the ultimate nerd hot guy, and he plays uh, a
Speaker 1: main guy interest character. So it's interesting to have him
Speaker 1: in there. Okay, well I'll I'll report back um when
Speaker 1: I wherever I get around to it. That's really easy watch.
Speaker 1: So one thing we do know is that traditional television
Speaker 1: has changed will continue to change. Streaming, they believe as
Speaker 1: we've reached the saturation point. There are too many services.
Speaker 1: Most people are only willing to pay for two, and
Speaker 1: now we have ten plus services. Now I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think about many I pay for. You know, you gotta
Speaker 1: have the one you share, so everybody contributes. So so
Speaker 1: I don't actually share any of mine. Oh I do
Speaker 1: I have a pot, so I did one, but then
Speaker 1: as soon as my series at a Light went off,
Speaker 1: discontinued it. You know what I'm talking about. Everybody did it.
Speaker 1: Everybody did it. I didn't do it, but my HBO
Speaker 1: comes with my internet. Actually, so TV is going to
Speaker 1: continue to change. What is that? What we can say
Speaker 1: music a music experts predict that technology, as it advances
Speaker 1: and becomes more readily available, music creation will become more democratized.
Speaker 1: Already producers have gotten younger. An article I read give
Speaker 1: the example of Billie Eilish and her brother Phineas, who
Speaker 1: produced When We All Fall Asleep? Where Do We Go?
Speaker 1: In his apartment? With readily available music processing programs? And
Speaker 1: on top of that, musicians being discovered on things like
Speaker 1: Instagram or TikTok. But to be fair, they also were
Speaker 1: being discovered in YouTube. On YouTube they were, but now
Speaker 1: even more so. Understand tektok anyway, so we'll probably see
Speaker 1: continue dominance a female artist like of course, I feel
Speaker 1: like these people will never die because they're gonna be legends. Beyonce,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Lizza, Rihanna, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 1: I think they keep putting their names out there as Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the kind of it's kind of the battle
Speaker 1: of who's the queen, but it's it's the end of
Speaker 1: mean girls. You put up the crown. Yeah, And that's
Speaker 1: become more and more looked down on, which I love.
Speaker 1: I love that instead of competing with each other, is
Speaker 1: now a time to come together and it's each other.
Speaker 1: It is the beautiful love each other. Another beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Moving on to other entertainment, The Last of Us two, which,
Speaker 1: as everyone knows, probably the Last of Us is my
Speaker 1: favorite video game. I had no idea what that was,
Speaker 1: and it just said. It features Ellie, which is one
Speaker 1: of the first really strong young video game characters, playable
Speaker 1: video game characters that I really immediately was moved by,
Speaker 1: very complex, very well thought out character. The sequel is
Speaker 1: coming in February, and very very very very excited sometime
Speaker 1: I'm seeing in February. Amount actually got delayed. Um the
Speaker 1: Olympics again, there's gonna be more than one Olympics, but
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see Smone Biles at Olympics to a right, yes,
Speaker 1: yeah uh. And then the rise of e sports. This
Speaker 1: was in a lot of people's this is what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen in twenties. We talked about the sports very briefly
Speaker 1: in our Women in Gaming episode and how very few
Speaker 1: women are represented and what is actually a very lucrative industry.
Speaker 1: So as e sports grow more popular, which they are,
Speaker 1: I believe more people watched the World of Warcraft some
Speaker 1: video game thing than the Super Bowl. Um, the last
Speaker 1: the last super Bowl. Yeah, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: conversation that we need to have. We want to see
Speaker 1: awesome women in the field of sports. Yes, so a
Speaker 1: lot of things on her I is in and speaking
Speaker 1: of a lot of things in the horizon. We have
Speaker 1: to talk about politics. But first we're gonna pause for
Speaker 1: one more quick break for word from our sponsor, and
Speaker 1: we're back, Thank you sponsor. Yes, we're back with politics.
Speaker 1: We do have a very big presidential election coming up
Speaker 1: here in the United States, and just so you are prepared,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking a lot about politics and
Speaker 1: women in politics and those who identify as women or
Speaker 1: non binary people coming in. Hopefully they'll be more and
Speaker 1: more of those represented in politics. Is going to happen
Speaker 1: because it is and we know it's a big as here.
Speaker 1: It is. It is Yeah, as we record this, we
Speaker 1: don't even have a Democratic candidate. And yeah, it is
Speaker 1: weird to think there will be more elections. There will
Speaker 1: be two more this decade. Yeah, not to mention all
Speaker 1: of the mid term state and local elections. And we're
Speaker 1: going to have to do something about that student debt.
Speaker 1: And I say this personally as myself at this point,
Speaker 1: I still have a little bit of student debt um
Speaker 1: as of now in the US forty three million student
Speaker 1: loan borrowers oh an estimated one point for trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: And getting an education, let's be honest, should not be
Speaker 1: something that financially follows you around the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: But yet it still does. And we know that. And
Speaker 1: I will say for my coming up, my brother, my
Speaker 1: older brother, and my I don't I think my sister.
Speaker 1: Neither one of them had what we call the Hope Scholarship,
Speaker 1: which is in the state Georgia. And I know a
Speaker 1: lot of places in the country have this type of
Speaker 1: education where you're an A B student, you get fully funded.
Speaker 1: You may not get paid for, you may not get
Speaker 1: scholarships for housing or all of that, but if you're
Speaker 1: in state tuition, it's covered but before then people had
Speaker 1: to either you had to choose to go to school
Speaker 1: or to get a job. And and as we know,
Speaker 1: I think, as I've learned growing as an adult take
Speaker 1: care of myself. I can't do both because I can't
Speaker 1: pay and give that much time and try to get
Speaker 1: money at the same time. And and those who can
Speaker 1: who do it, it's hard, and you know what, hats
Speaker 1: off to you. We see you, we know you're working hard.
Speaker 1: Do it um. But yeah, that's one of the big
Speaker 1: questions that's coming up, and one of the big debates
Speaker 1: of where do we lie when it comes to education,
Speaker 1: and why are we penalizing people for trying to further
Speaker 1: themselves and should we be allowing this type of situation
Speaker 1: to grow and this type of companies that are making
Speaker 1: money off of it? Is that who is truly being
Speaker 1: benefited for this kind of profit profiteering? I guess right.
Speaker 1: So that's something we're gonna have to do with. Something
Speaker 1: else we're gonna have to deal with is sustainability and
Speaker 1: climate change. One big thing I saw is that China
Speaker 1: has a plan to ban it cold by the end
Speaker 1: of thewies and six of its main districts, and that
Speaker 1: is a huge, huge thing. It would be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they are leading the way when it comes to sustainability technology,
Speaker 1: So something to keep an eye on. And one I
Speaker 1: did want to mention when I was searching twenties women whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to find any kind of thing, Google
Speaker 1: tried to auto correct it to um, we will have
Speaker 1: a female president in the twenties, just not now, meaning
Speaker 1: there will not be a female president. I got me thinking,
Speaker 1: do you think we'll see a female president in twenties twenties?
Speaker 1: I really hope. So yeah, I think the narrative has changed,
Speaker 1: is changing better and better, and people are finally facing
Speaker 1: the fact that women are put on a different standard
Speaker 1: than men. And I think that's one of the big
Speaker 1: things of like of having when Hillary Clinton came in
Speaker 1: and her having her condientials, but then her having that
Speaker 1: type of baggage that she brought in and her being
Speaker 1: titles likable. Why didn't you use these people instead? And
Speaker 1: now we have those people and they're still unlikable, and
Speaker 1: it's it's we're turning. Some people are actually changing their
Speaker 1: mind realizing oh, this really is a thing, because they
Speaker 1: were the one that to say, well, if you had
Speaker 1: this person and it's not working. And I think I'm hoping,
Speaker 1: but that's happening, and I'm and all. When it comes
Speaker 1: down to it, I want to see that progress. But
Speaker 1: I want to see someone who's just qualified period. You know.
Speaker 1: That's kind of where we are at this point in time,
Speaker 1: and at this time it may not be who I
Speaker 1: would want it to be, but I think at the
Speaker 1: very least, I'm going to cross my fingers and and
Speaker 1: and truly believe that people are going to see that
Speaker 1: leadership is important, and who we choose is really important,
Speaker 1: and who we choose to ignore is also really important.
Speaker 1: That's my non answer that the traditional we've come out
Speaker 1: are predictions are there will be five G and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with it. Oh, automated cars, I think that
Speaker 1: will be a thing. Um. Yeah. When we're talking about hopes,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about what I hope for. I
Speaker 1: want to see more women in people of color making
Speaker 1: badass content, right. I want to see them in leadership positions. Um.
Speaker 1: I wanted to continue having these conversations around intersectionality, sexism, racism,
Speaker 1: how we can uplift marginalized voices. I want to see
Speaker 1: women's equality improve everywhere. Because again, the United States is
Speaker 1: not the only thing in the world. And I read
Speaker 1: a lot of articles that said, this is our final
Speaker 1: decade in power. I mean, and that makes sense as
Speaker 1: you see the protests happening for a lot of movements,
Speaker 1: whether it's India in Brazil had really powerhouse uh protests
Speaker 1: for people for women as well, and seeing that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that absolutely makes sense. Because our voices are getting louder
Speaker 1: and louder and louder. And we have Greta I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna call it Gretta. We had Greta coming in talking
Speaker 1: about the fact that she's uh, you know, she's concerned.
Speaker 1: And these group of kids are coming out strongly and
Speaker 1: I love that. And it's an international group of kids
Speaker 1: and that's beautiful and I think, yeah, absolutely, that makes
Speaker 1: perfect sense. Do it. Yeah, inspirational inspiration. Um, I want
Speaker 1: to see white women recognize their privilege more. Yes, I
Speaker 1: want us to talk about violence against trans people because
Speaker 1: they're not having those conversations enough, the rolling back of
Speaker 1: abortion bands. Yes, I want to see more women in
Speaker 1: leadership positions all around the world. And I hope we
Speaker 1: finally get serious about climate change and affordable healthcare. Passing
Speaker 1: the e r A would be cool, the equals Equal
Speaker 1: Rights Amendment and more podcasts for women. I just want
Speaker 1: those really pantsless pants, the pantsless pants. Uh. I will
Speaker 1: put in another another very vague prediction that technology is
Speaker 1: going to drastically change. I believe that is true. I
Speaker 1: will stand behind that because the changes in my lifetime
Speaker 1: as an adult has been shocking. The things that I
Speaker 1: and again some of you are not going to realize
Speaker 1: this for another years and that's fine, but coming to
Speaker 1: the point of where I am today too. When I
Speaker 1: left college thinking I know the world, the mass changes
Speaker 1: in technology alone is shocking and looking back on what
Speaker 1: it was then and to the things that I can't
Speaker 1: work today because I don't understand it. I've become my
Speaker 1: mother just like I just have to acknowledge. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: going to be crazy the things that we do, how
Speaker 1: easy things are going to be accessible and at the
Speaker 1: same time, how detrimental those accessible things can be for people. Um.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when I talked to my kids
Speaker 1: that I work with and I'm like, hey, if you
Speaker 1: put it out, there is out there forever, nothing is
Speaker 1: private and having to from you know, years ago that
Speaker 1: wasn't a thing to today, it's like what and kids
Speaker 1: not acknowledging an under standing that what that means. That
Speaker 1: was something else I read in a lot of these
Speaker 1: pieces about the twenties is that privacy is going to
Speaker 1: become a quaint thing of the past. It's almost going
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, yeah, is that Black Marror episode
Speaker 1: the one of two that I watched? There you go
Speaker 1: impart into this conversation. Yeah, And there's also a lot
Speaker 1: of interesting technology around speaking of Black Mirror, of being
Speaker 1: able to digitize yourself after you die that might happen,
Speaker 1: and then being able to interact with using your brain,
Speaker 1: just interact with technology that chip in the brain to
Speaker 1: turn things on the whole chip in the brain. As
Speaker 1: they say, um, who says every day Samantha, you never
Speaker 1: asked that you do? Uh And Yeah. For the show,
Speaker 1: we're hoping to do more collaborations, more traveling, finally get
Speaker 1: the book club going. And we just want to say,
Speaker 1: as we close out this episode, we're so so thankful
Speaker 1: to have you listeners in our community, constantly making us better,
Speaker 1: and we hope that you had a safe, happy holiday
Speaker 1: and that you have a safe, happy decade. Yes, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being accepting and being patient as
Speaker 1: we grow together and learned together, which is what I love.
Speaker 1: And please know that one of our goals is to
Speaker 1: continue to learn and being taught new things. So continue
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