Speaker 1: Hey, this is any and Samantha, and welcome to Stephan
Speaker 1: Never told you production of I Heart Radio. I have
Speaker 1: what may be a trick question for you today. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean not technically, I'm just curious if I asked you,
Speaker 1: what is today's date? Do you know the answer? Well,
Speaker 1: because I'm sitting at my computer and I already wrote
Speaker 1: the date down once today, I actually would what is
Speaker 1: this January twelve? Yeah? I got it. And although I
Speaker 1: will say, as I was doing some things earlier today,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is still in the still am
Speaker 1: for us, I did have to go and look and
Speaker 1: had a moment of like, wait, is it really mid January? Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: uh yeah. I The only reason I knew today's day
Speaker 1: is because, um, as you know, Samantha, unless there's too
Speaker 1: I have a weird thing with numbers, and today we
Speaker 1: usually play Dungeons and Dragons on Tuesday, and I chose
Speaker 1: this as the date for possible first session because it's
Speaker 1: one one to twoosi or two one. All right, Yes,
Speaker 1: I know it's strange. I mean, hey, I like it.
Speaker 1: It's a very succinct of you. It succinct, it's a
Speaker 1: nice word for it. But I wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: the date in this one, just because we're doing an
Speaker 1: update episode. It's been a minute since. We've just kind
Speaker 1: of done a roundup of the news that's going on
Speaker 1: in the world, and a lot has happened. A lot
Speaker 1: has happened, um, and it's continuing to happen because they happen. Yes,
Speaker 1: So I think we're this probably comes out the day
Speaker 1: after we recorded, and I wouldn't be surprised if, like
Speaker 1: the whole world has changed. Yes, Jess wanted to put
Speaker 1: in the date, uh, and also quick trigger warning. We
Speaker 1: are going to have brief mentions of sexual assault, um,
Speaker 1: sexual abuse and murder. I mean pretty like a news
Speaker 1: like this is what happened in the story. We're not
Speaker 1: going to get into any details, but I did want
Speaker 1: to say it's going to be there. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just want to warn everybody about that. But first, let's
Speaker 1: talk about some sports, because lots have happened with women
Speaker 1: in sports. Like we're gonna miss some of it because
Speaker 1: I already I'm like, there so much I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about. And of course it's been you know, ten
Speaker 1: years since December, so I can't quite we can't quite
Speaker 1: remember all the things, amazing things that are happening, but yes,
Speaker 1: we did want to celebrate them. Of that, yes, um,
Speaker 1: And let's start with the NBA. So in late Becky
Speaker 1: Hammond made history by becoming the first woman to act
Speaker 1: as head coach for an NBA team during a regular
Speaker 1: season game. She's the assistant coach to the San Antonio Spurs,
Speaker 1: but she stepped into the head coach role after the
Speaker 1: man serving in that position was ejected during the first half.
Speaker 1: When asked about it after the game, Hammond said, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. It's a substantial moment. Honestly, in
Speaker 1: the moment, I was just trying to win the game.
Speaker 1: I say this a lot, but I try not to
Speaker 1: think about the huge picture and the huge aspect of
Speaker 1: it because it can get overwhelming the Spurs that we're
Speaker 1: playing the Lakers that night, and the Lakers ultimately one um.
Speaker 1: Lebron James, though, congratulated her, saying it's a very beautiful
Speaker 1: thing just to hear her barking out calls, barking out sets.
Speaker 1: She's very passionate about the game. Congrats to her and
Speaker 1: congrats for our league. And all of this was after
Speaker 1: Hammond made history when the Spurs hired her to a
Speaker 1: full time coaching position, and this all after she played
Speaker 1: sixteen seasons for the w n B A. I wonder
Speaker 1: why you used the term barking. I thought about that too.
Speaker 1: I'm choosing to believe it's because she sounds really fierce. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, okay, we'll go with that. But let's move
Speaker 1: on to a baseball And yes, it's been a minute
Speaker 1: since was this was announced, but we of course have
Speaker 1: to highlight it. Uh So it was announced earlier this
Speaker 1: year that as of marche, Bianca Smith will start her
Speaker 1: position as the Boston Red Sox minor league coach, becoming
Speaker 1: the first black woman in major league history to act
Speaker 1: as an on filled coach. And she's only twenty nine, Okay,
Speaker 1: feeling really pretty much underachiever, She said about it quote,
Speaker 1: I don't consider myself a role model before this. It's
Speaker 1: still kind of weird to think that, to be honest,
Speaker 1: that wasn't really my intention when I took the job.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy if my story can inspire other women,
Speaker 1: other women of color, other people of color, or really anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't want to put limits on it. If anybody
Speaker 1: is inspired by the story, then even better, which is
Speaker 1: a big congratulations, Bianca. Yes. Also in baseball news, Kim
Speaker 1: A made history in November as becoming the first uh
Speaker 1: general manager for a Major League baseball Yep, she will
Speaker 1: be the first manager for the Miami Marlins and has
Speaker 1: made a huge step. She's also the first East Asian
Speaker 1: American to hold this position as well. So congratulations and
Speaker 1: we're excited to see what happens. Go Marlin's I guess
Speaker 1: And now let's start out football. Um. Yeah. Towards the
Speaker 1: end of Sarah Fuller was touted as the first woman
Speaker 1: to score in a college football game while playing for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: Her varsity sport is soccer, but she stepped into some
Speaker 1: football shoes due to player absences because of COVID nineteen uh.
Speaker 1: And she sparked a lot of conversation. But also she
Speaker 1: was not the first woman to score in a college
Speaker 1: football game. Uh. Not to diminish at all what she did,
Speaker 1: but you know, just context. Um. Katie Hanita scored the
Speaker 1: first points for college football for New Mexico in two
Speaker 1: thousand three, and she was followed by Kent States April
Speaker 1: Goss and and they weren't the only ones either. Um.
Speaker 1: But Katie Henita started playing at Colorado, where she alleged
Speaker 1: a teammate raped her, but the charges were never filed.
Speaker 1: In response, she was mocked by her coach, attacked by fans,
Speaker 1: and rape apologist. Because of that, she's often left out
Speaker 1: of this first conversation UM. Her stories a painful one
Speaker 1: and a reminder of what women in the world of
Speaker 1: sports so often face. UM and moving on a little
Speaker 1: away from sports, we wanted to talk about Elliott Page
Speaker 1: and we know most of you have already been aware
Speaker 1: of Elliott Page's announcement in December stating he's trans with
Speaker 1: the preferred pronouns of he they, but we couldn't pass
Speaker 1: us up at the moment to celebrate with him and
Speaker 1: his openness and inspiration for all the lgbt Q plus community,
Speaker 1: and many of his colleagues and past co stars said
Speaker 1: love and support as he made the public announcement, and
Speaker 1: of course his biggest supporter his partner, Emma Partner they've
Speaker 1: been maisedince January eighteen and uh Emma said a message
Speaker 1: of love, stating quote trans queer and non binaty people
Speaker 1: are a gift to this world, and she went on
Speaker 1: to say that Elliott's existence is a gift in and
Speaker 1: of itself. Shine on sweet e. So yeah, that's sweet. Okay.
Speaker 1: So some other news in arts Volva themed arts specifically,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well yes, because it recently there is this
Speaker 1: peace that caused quite the controversy in Brazil. So, after
Speaker 1: eleven months of carving and trench digging, twenty men lowered
Speaker 1: a one hundred and eight foot longer about thirty three
Speaker 1: ms long Volva handcarved by sculptor Juliana not A into
Speaker 1: the grounds of Brazil's Botanical Art Park You've seen a.
Speaker 1: Notari calls the work diva, and she says it quote
Speaker 1: questions the relationship between nature and culture in our western
Speaker 1: phallocentric and anthropocentric society and that it should spark conversation
Speaker 1: about the quote problematization of gender. Um. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: piece of art caused fiery debate. Uh. It debuted mere
Speaker 1: days after Brazil's president claimed that abortion would never be
Speaker 1: legal in the country. He came out hard against the sculpture,
Speaker 1: labeling it as quote leftist propaganda of scene and reprehensible.
Speaker 1: When the artist first posted about its debut on Facebook,
Speaker 1: it got over twenty five thousand comments. Many of them
Speaker 1: from enraged right wingers. One right wing Brazilian pundit suggested
Speaker 1: that the sculpture should be dealt with with a penis
Speaker 1: of the same size, which is gross and disturbing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's the taste of one of the Facebook comments. Is
Speaker 1: it not enough to see so many women showing their
Speaker 1: bums using short shorts? Are mini skirts? Now there's a
Speaker 1: vagina on an open field. This to me can never
Speaker 1: be called arts um. And then there was another one
Speaker 1: where a father was like, what will I say to
Speaker 1: my daughter, my eleven year old daughter when she sees this?
Speaker 1: And then there's a comment under it where it's like,
Speaker 1: maybe don't make your daughter ashamed of hergital right or
Speaker 1: you gonna be like, this is your vagina is in
Speaker 1: the story? I don't understand. I think she's already probably
Speaker 1: know she has one. She doesn't. That's a whole of
Speaker 1: the problem. You need to have a conversation. This is
Speaker 1: not the artist first time when it comes to art
Speaker 1: and the female body, which she often suggests similar to
Speaker 1: an open wound and representative of the wound of social
Speaker 1: inequality when it comes to women, which we had to
Speaker 1: talk a little more, not too much more about what's
Speaker 1: happening with Brazil later on with abortion, uh rights coming
Speaker 1: through in Argentina. But she told CNN quote is one
Speaker 1: of the biggest wounds I've created. This wound is, however,
Speaker 1: infinitely smaller when compared to the traumas of slavery, unprotected employment, ecoside,
Speaker 1: and violent traumas that happened in this Yusena as an
Speaker 1: other private colonial properties um And obviously it's pretty striking. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really striking. It's like this beautiful red just
Speaker 1: vulva green, nice green hill. I've found it very very
Speaker 1: visually striking. Yeah. Also, of note, because it has made
Speaker 1: a big splash, there's a Danish TV children's show about
Speaker 1: a man with a giant penis. And that's all to
Speaker 1: be said for now. Well, okay, there you go. Interesting, Yes,
Speaker 1: interesting is a word for it. Uh So that's that's
Speaker 1: our brief wrap up of the entertainment art world. But
Speaker 1: we did want to talk about some politics first though.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pause for a quick break for word from
Speaker 1: our sponsored and we're back, thank you sponsored. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we wanted to jump a little into politics, and
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, everybody's kind of tired
Speaker 1: of it, but we couldn't bypass updates without mentioning things
Speaker 1: that are happening in the political sense of disasters. I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know how to say it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so specifically to q And on the conspiracy and the
Speaker 1: riots that had just recently occurred. Um, No, there isn't
Speaker 1: any specific numbers right now that I could find. Uh,
Speaker 1: there were plenty of women present for the riot of
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill, although if you look at the pictures,
Speaker 1: they are definitely outnumbered by them men. So whatever the proportions,
Speaker 1: maybe I did find it odd that out of the
Speaker 1: five people that were killed, two or women, especially again,
Speaker 1: as I said, when you look at the pictures, the
Speaker 1: majority of the people they are seen to be men.
Speaker 1: Um and so that seems like a percentage wise, a
Speaker 1: bigger percentage of what was represented, a bigger percentage of
Speaker 1: women who are killed than what was represented. So that's
Speaker 1: I found that interesting in itself. Um, and we're not
Speaker 1: going to talk too much, but we did. Again, like
Speaker 1: I said, we didn't want to mention what's happening with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we've talked about q and on a few times
Speaker 1: on the show, and their research is pretty new on that,
Speaker 1: but one thing is clear. Social media has played a
Speaker 1: huge part in creating and spreading this conspiracy theory. In
Speaker 1: one report, uh, it's said that platforms like Instagram have
Speaker 1: had a huge influence on right winged conservatives in spreading
Speaker 1: of the Q and on conspiracies, especially on women, as
Speaker 1: the majority of the users on Instagram are women. And
Speaker 1: we are definitely going to look more into the influence
Speaker 1: of social media women and extremism in a later episode,
Speaker 1: So keep an eye out for that one. Yes, uh, sorry,
Speaker 1: just too too clear for us to ignore, too clear
Speaker 1: to ignore to present. I don't know, also say it, um,
Speaker 1: and we don't want to linger too long on all
Speaker 1: the things that we already know, because I know, for me,
Speaker 1: I've been pretty glued to the news and reports of
Speaker 1: what's been happening since January six. However, we did want
Speaker 1: to look at some of the results of that day, um,
Speaker 1: and one specifically was the death of Ashley Babbitt, who
Speaker 1: was an ex military, avid Q and non supporter who,
Speaker 1: according to her social media, posted frequently in support of
Speaker 1: Trump about the fact that the election was stolen. All
Speaker 1: these things as you was shot eempting to break through
Speaker 1: the glass door at the Capitol. There were many different
Speaker 1: rumors women around who she was initially, including that for
Speaker 1: one of the conspiracy theories that she was actually part
Speaker 1: of Antifa uh and some spread that she was an
Speaker 1: Antifa insergeant to bring violence in and then some like
Speaker 1: the attorney from Georgia Lynn Wood, said that she actually
Speaker 1: didn't die and was alive and well, and this was
Speaker 1: another conspiracy made by the radical left, but we can
Speaker 1: state that she was confirmed dead. So it's really interesting
Speaker 1: the extremes that they have gone and specifically to this woman. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and in the fallout she has become a martyr
Speaker 1: to to this cause. UM. It is reported that she
Speaker 1: was hailed as the quote first victim of the Second
Speaker 1: Civil War and is being hailed as a quote freedom fighter.
Speaker 1: Many have posted about her being executed for fighting for
Speaker 1: free and ferial election and have even vowed quote your
Speaker 1: blood will not be in vain, we will avenge you.
Speaker 1: And with that, the hashtag say her name was used
Speaker 1: in regards to her death. UM and many of those
Speaker 1: who watched as the Q and on and far right
Speaker 1: groups appropriated the hashtags ayer name, We're more than upset
Speaker 1: um as creator of the say her Name hashtag, Kimberly
Speaker 1: Crenshaw tweeted hashtags say her Name is a campaign to
Speaker 1: reverse the invisibility of black women killed by the police
Speaker 1: and the long legacy of state sanctioned violence against black
Speaker 1: women that has repeatedly been erased. The debauched right wing
Speaker 1: use of hashtag sayer name is a continuation of that erasure. UH.
Speaker 1: And it's important to note that as they continue to
Speaker 1: steal from the Black community again, how they have seemingly
Speaker 1: no understanding of what it stands for and ignoring the
Speaker 1: implications as they continue to try to rewrite the events
Speaker 1: that occurred right. Um. And again we're not going to
Speaker 1: say too much, but yes, the impeagement process has come forward. UH,
Speaker 1: some of the documents written by Representative Omar as well
Speaker 1: as UH Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi coming forward
Speaker 1: with stating that they are proceeding with impeachment process against
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, including the fact that they did put in
Speaker 1: their charges of inciting riot in the insurrections. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see as majority of the
Speaker 1: people who are speaking for impeachment seem to be women. UH.
Speaker 1: Female politicians rather than men. A lot of the men
Speaker 1: are asking for calm and unity kind of obviously forgetting
Speaker 1: how it started and the implications that unity wouldn't mean
Speaker 1: that there's something to be on common ground with. And
Speaker 1: storming the capital with a plot of kidnapping and hanging
Speaker 1: people not a common ground. Just just put that up there.
Speaker 1: But again we're moving on, uh, And we wanted to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the UK tampon taxt and
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this year, UK became the most
Speaker 1: recent country to abolish the tampon tax, often called the
Speaker 1: sexist tax, which makes sense or sells tax on period
Speaker 1: and minstrel products. This has actually been in the works
Speaker 1: and a part of the budget says last March, and
Speaker 1: it was extremely unpopular, but it couldn't go into effect
Speaker 1: until the UK broke from the EU. That's because according
Speaker 1: to the EU, minstrell products are classified as a luxury product.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so lovely, and according to the EU law,
Speaker 1: luxury products must be taxed at least five percent. I've
Speaker 1: never thought of my period as a luxury have you? No? No,
Speaker 1: just no, but you know, I can see for some
Speaker 1: but I don't know what, Okay, then I just know
Speaker 1: people get really picky about period stuff. That's fair. And
Speaker 1: just to be clear, the the tampon tax was really unpopular,
Speaker 1: not the trying to repeal of the Tampa tex Um.
Speaker 1: The chief executive of the Fawcett Society, one of the
Speaker 1: UK's oldest charities pushing for gender rights and equality, Felicia
Speaker 1: Willow commented, quote, It's been a long road to reach
Speaker 1: this point, but at last the sexist tax law that
Speaker 1: saw sanitary products classes non essential luxury items can be
Speaker 1: consigned to the history books. And of note, here in
Speaker 1: the US, the conversation is not always so simple. Some
Speaker 1: of the texas on mintoral products go to helping lower
Speaker 1: class people who can't afford these items, so that is
Speaker 1: something to think on. Yes, yes, um, And now we
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about Kim Janey. With President elect Biden
Speaker 1: selecting current Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh to his cabinet,
Speaker 1: Kim Janey is said to be the next mayor, which
Speaker 1: would make Kim Janie the first black person to become
Speaker 1: mayor of Boston. She is currently the city council president,
Speaker 1: and by city rules, the council president is who would
Speaker 1: fill the spot of mayor until the special election that
Speaker 1: would be held, right, and that's a pretty big significance,
Speaker 1: especially for a town like Boston. So it'll be really
Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens UH until the special elections
Speaker 1: and how she has perceived and how she's received as well.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of interested. I'm very interested in seeing
Speaker 1: what that does. Um. And also I wanted to speak
Speaker 1: on Representative Maryland Strickland, and as a Korean woman, UH
Speaker 1: have to give a special shout out to her, who
Speaker 1: became one of the first Korean Americans to be elected
Speaker 1: to Congress. She is now a representative of Washington State,
Speaker 1: and not only is she one of the first Korean
Speaker 1: women to Congress, but she's also the first black representative
Speaker 1: for Washington. And as an homage to her heritage, she
Speaker 1: donned her traditional Korean wear a hyndbook for her swearing
Speaker 1: in ceremony. And I can't lie. It was so fulfilling
Speaker 1: to see this line. It jumped at me immediately, and
Speaker 1: I was so excited and shocked and very surprised to
Speaker 1: see such representation in our current government. And obviously it's
Speaker 1: the first, it's a complete first, and I'm almost a
Speaker 1: little in disbelief that it actually happened and the fact
Speaker 1: that it didn't get bigger headlines. And not because don't
Speaker 1: I think she's special because she's Korean, but because she
Speaker 1: is taking on such representation and being someone who is
Speaker 1: iconic to that culture, and I love it and shout
Speaker 1: out and thank you. Yes, yes, um. Well, we do
Speaker 1: have some more updates for you, but first we have
Speaker 1: one more quick break for word from our sponsor, and
Speaker 1: we're back. Thank you sponsor, And we're back with a
Speaker 1: couple of international headlines at the top here, starting with Japan.
Speaker 1: So in an effort to boost the birth rate in Japan,
Speaker 1: and AI has been launched to match Japan's lonely hearts
Speaker 1: like there's these lonely heart points and they try to
Speaker 1: match people up based on them. The government plans to
Speaker 1: subs does any local governments that already use or plan
Speaker 1: to use an AI to pare people up, And this
Speaker 1: year the government is looking to put nineteen million dollars
Speaker 1: into this effort. This is a push after the country's
Speaker 1: the lowest birth rate record on year last year, just
Speaker 1: eight hundred sixty five thousand babies. According to reporting by
Speaker 1: the BBC, Japan's population is predicted to fall to fifty
Speaker 1: three million by the centuries end from seventeen eight million.
Speaker 1: And I have to say, one of the first things
Speaker 1: I thought when I read that is Wow, how optimistic
Speaker 1: they think they'll make it, will make it to the
Speaker 1: end of the century. Wow, I'm in a dark place. UM.
Speaker 1: Some experts believe AI matchmaking is not the way to go,
Speaker 1: that the problem is low wages, and that improving childcare
Speaker 1: options is a better route to pursue UM and probably
Speaker 1: will surprise no one, but it was women saying this,
Speaker 1: like maybe we should look into childcare and those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. Um. And also they point to Japan's gender
Speaker 1: equality ranking on the World Economic Forum, which is one
Speaker 1: out of one fifty three places in twenty nineteen. UM.
Speaker 1: And we wanted to revisit, uh, what was happening with
Speaker 1: Brazil and Argentina. So we recently did a Monday Many
Speaker 1: on the passing of the pro abortion law in Argentina
Speaker 1: and wanted to mention something interesting that we recently saw.
Speaker 1: A new trend has been occurring in Brazil since it's
Speaker 1: still illegal to obtain abortions outside of rape, which has
Speaker 1: been tightened by the way with this regulation on it
Speaker 1: being mandated to be reported to police um or endangering
Speaker 1: the life of the person pregnant. In Brazil, many people
Speaker 1: have been traveling to Argentina to terminate their unwanted pregnancies. Previously,
Speaker 1: many Brazilians have been placed in danger by using uh
Speaker 1: not so healthy kind of dangerous abortion methods or even
Speaker 1: being tricked into taking counterfeit abortion pills. Some have gone
Speaker 1: as far as obtaining visas and flying into areas to
Speaker 1: gain access, which is often very very costly. But now um,
Speaker 1: they're able to have closer access with the new laws
Speaker 1: in Argentina, right and we as we mentioned earlier, there's
Speaker 1: no conversation that there is going to be any lessoning
Speaker 1: of that abortion. Those abortion laws so absolutely sad, but
Speaker 1: at least uh, I guess encouraging to see that they
Speaker 1: do have easier access than what is happening in Brazil.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's something to keep watch on because they
Speaker 1: do talk a lot about, um, how Argentinean law has
Speaker 1: affected countries around them. Yeah. Um, and I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about COVID and again, UM, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna mention very briefly, Uh, what's going on and about
Speaker 1: how the job lost during COVID has, as we've talked
Speaker 1: about previously mainly affected women, and now we have some
Speaker 1: numbers and according to reports, there has been a total
Speaker 1: net loss of a hundred forty thousand jobs in December alone.
Speaker 1: As an in fact, women account for one hundred and
Speaker 1: eleven percent of the loss. Yes, one hundred and eleven percent,
Speaker 1: because the original number of job loss was one fifty
Speaker 1: six thousand, but sixteen thousand jobs were gained, and yes,
Speaker 1: men were the ones to gain all of them. But
Speaker 1: those who felt the damage were mainly Black and Latina women,
Speaker 1: especially those in the service industry. As the pandemic continues
Speaker 1: to red john and the fact that last month had
Speaker 1: an upswing in the number of cases as well as deaths,
Speaker 1: UH service sector industries were hit the hardest and reminder,
Speaker 1: many are still calling a lot of these services as essential,
Speaker 1: but these are typically the lowest paid um Since February,
Speaker 1: women have lost a net of five point four million jobs,
Speaker 1: which make up for fifty of the job loss. In December,
Speaker 1: the overall US unemployment rate was six point seven percent,
Speaker 1: but for the women of the Black and Latina communities,
Speaker 1: the unemployment rates were eight point four percent and nine
Speaker 1: point one percent, which is a significantly larger percentage. And
Speaker 1: by the way, for white men, the percentage was five right.
Speaker 1: Um And much like the counterpart of white men, white
Speaker 1: women made significant gains in the job market. According to CNN,
Speaker 1: some of the reasons for the job loss for black
Speaker 1: and Latino women is due to the disproportionate flexibility within
Speaker 1: some of these jobs sectors. The lack of paid sickly,
Speaker 1: loss of childcare, and the inability of working from home
Speaker 1: have been huge to turns in job security. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: and now just a couple of random notes to wrap
Speaker 1: it up. I didn't know exactly where to put it
Speaker 1: out there, but it felt like significant enough to talk about. Yes,
Speaker 1: So starting with Lisa Montgomery, the first woman to face
Speaker 1: execution in seven decades UM. She was granted a stay
Speaker 1: of execution on Monday, January eleven, pending a competency evaluation.
Speaker 1: Montgomery was charged for the murder of Bobby Joe Stinnett
Speaker 1: and cutting out of a fetus and kidnapping, and was
Speaker 1: sentenced to death in two thousand eight in the state
Speaker 1: of Missouri. Right, and they should be noted that her
Speaker 1: date of execution was actually supposed to be today by
Speaker 1: lethal injections so January twelve UM. However, through numerous reports
Speaker 1: and interviews, many have been concerned with her lack of
Speaker 1: understanding and extensive mental health knees after years of continual
Speaker 1: sexual and physical abuse and torture. She was diagnosed with
Speaker 1: fetal alcohol syndrome at a young age but was never treated,
Speaker 1: and therefore there's a lot of questions about mental health
Speaker 1: and our responsibility as a community when it comes to
Speaker 1: things such as capital punishment and the death penalty. So
Speaker 1: this is definitely going to be something that we need
Speaker 1: to keep a watch on, especially after last year and
Speaker 1: our current administrations extreme push to actually go through with
Speaker 1: the death penalty and all of the executions that had
Speaker 1: happened right um, but hard pivot from that. Shout out
Speaker 1: to the women of the United States Air Force Test
Speaker 1: Pilot School, the TPS at Edwards Air Fource Base in California,
Speaker 1: who have become the largest graduating class of women test
Speaker 1: pilots with the record number of five women A Captain's
Speaker 1: Casey Horgan, Rachel Williams, Sarah Voorgert, Klin Tongue, and civilian
Speaker 1: Reina Duncan have set the record as they graduated with
Speaker 1: the class of and speaking of pilots, for the first
Speaker 1: time in history, the Navy has its first black female pilot,
Speaker 1: Lieutenant j G. Madaline Swiggle, who is a tactical jet pilot.
Speaker 1: So congrats all around, all around. In with that happy note, congrats, congrats, congrats.
Speaker 1: I think if you know, we've balanced out the good
Speaker 1: news at the bad news in this one right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure we missed things. So please feel
Speaker 1: free listeners to write in. Uh, there's things we should
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