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Model actress and activist, Emily

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Radekowski, also known as

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Imrada, finally has a podcast

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I'm so excited to tell the Secret

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Squad all about this wonderful new

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show. Hi Lo with Erosa

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is a brand new chat series where

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each episode will range from politics,

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philosophy, and feminism to

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sex, gossip, and TikTok. She'll

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be marrying everything high and

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lowbrow. such a fun concept

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each week. There'll be two episodes

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first. She'll sit down with someone

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fascinating whether it be a big

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name, celebrity, incredible author

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or thought leader. On the second episode,

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it'll just be Amrada inspiring

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and connecting to her audience through

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thoughtful prompts and discussions. So

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who better to kick things off with Imrada

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than the queen of podcast herself?

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Alex Cooper, creator and host

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of, call her daddy, which my

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precious daughter-in-law, Morgan, was

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just a guest on, by the way. In

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this episode of Hilo, Imrada and

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AlexChat reputations, sex

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talk, and what to expect from the new

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show. you're personally invited

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and here's a listen.

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I'll start crying. You

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good? Yeah.

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Let me just dab my I know we're trying

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to keep this crazy. I love it. We're gonna have to

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do a disclaimer. I'm not crying because

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I'm here. I'm sobbing that I'm the

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first guest, so I've been very emotional.

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No, it's because apparently I'm allergic to mascara,

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so just if you see me dabbing, I could

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be crying bad. I'm gonna make this just that

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you're so emotional because we have such an incredible

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conversation, and that's gonna be all that

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people see. And I'm just gonna cut this right out

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about the mascaras. We're crying today, but I

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feel all the feel so we're gonna pretend it's because

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I'm in your presence and so emotional.

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Congrats on your show that this is amazing. Thank

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you so much. Alex Cooper. Welcome

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to high low with Emerada. Thank you

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so much for having me. I'm honored. Your set

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is so cute. I feel cozy.

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Good. You're the EP creator host

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of Call Herdaddy. Like, it's you.

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They And people don't even realize that you

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you edit a lot of the stuff. Right? What's your

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background. So I started, like,

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writing and producing and directing

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it and then being the host, and I'm fortunate that

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through my deal and the success. I've

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been able to obviously

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have a larger team around me, but the

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team is really just help definitely

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still a hundred percent hands on because

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I don't think call her daddy would be what it is

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if I just stepped away from it. So I told you I

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listened to early episodes and

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I had known. Okay. Don't shake your

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head. You're just backstabbing me. No. Just

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kidding me. No. First of all, no.

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Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna preface my

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early career stuff when I was like

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twenty whatever. There are things I am

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mortified that you can still it's still like

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the top ten Google Images is something that

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I shot when I was twenty twenty one. Obviously,

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blurred lines. Anytime somebody brings that up, I'm like,

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whatever. you had such

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a personal outlet. I remember I

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had in high school and like my first year

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of college, I had a blogspot. throwback.

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It's been deleted. I managed

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to break and and delete everything, but

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I remember seeing it even just three

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years later, and I was like, delete all

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of this, I can't believe this exists. So

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you have that, but you can't delete it.

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It's your It exists in the world

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forever. What's that like? is

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strange. I'm not like an absolute

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psycho. Like, it's very strange, I would

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say. I think at first, I don't

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know what it is, and I think I need to talk to my

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therapist about this. but there was never

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a moment for me content

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wise and publicly that I had

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a hard time being open on

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the Internet. It it just never phased

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me. I remember that same way. Right. Right. Right. I

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have talk to my therapist about this. Okay. Great.

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Your therapist can send me a little letter and explain

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it to me because I do think there was something

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about call her daddy that felt very

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comfortable to me, even though to the

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world it seemed very uncomfortable that I was

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talking about sex so explicitly, but

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I remember when I filmed the

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third episode of Karl Hernati, which is

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one of the most famous episode. So

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the one I listened to last night. Okay.

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The Gopla nine thousand. I wasn't

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gonna say it. Turn it down. And so I

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remember so many people were like, oh

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my god. What does your dad think? Mhmm.

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I remember I was really not

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nervous at all. And I was like, is there

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something wrong with me, but I think it's just because

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I was confident in the message that I was

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really trying to put out, which was to make

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women and men just feel empowered to

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have a conversation about sex that I -- Yeah.

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-- really didn't feel like was being had,

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especially in the millennial space. I,

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like, cringe a little bit

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at my voice. I

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was doing this whole, like, hi.

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I'm Alex from call her daddy,

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bitch. By the way, I love

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it. I like when I listen

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to it the other night, I was like, this is

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amazing. It's so funny too. just

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to hear you say how intentional, what you

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were doing was, and how quickly people

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would write off a blonde twenty

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three year old woman and be like, she's an

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idiot. What is her dad? think, what's

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her mom gonna think? And then you're like, catch me

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in a few years. Yeah. It's like

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the Jessica Simpson phenomena where it's

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like she knew exactly the character she was playing.

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Like, Paris Hilton same thing and the bimbo

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phenomenon in the way that people just

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disregard women so easily. And you

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knew you work in complete control. You're

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like, hello, there's white space here.

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this is something and I'm willing to do it. I don't

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give a fuck. Well, I think that's what frustrated

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me too was obviously in the beginning,

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people really tried to pitch and homie is like,

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the girl that's really good at giving blow jobs.

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And, like, thank you. Yeah. I was

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gonna say, what if I don't think that's your

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resume. Right. But also, but I'm running a

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business. And I'm not all just

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sex. And I felt it was

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hard definitely to try to transition

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out of that period, but I don't regret

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it at all. And I really do think that it

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was so liberating to be able

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to have conversations openly about sex

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and it frustrated me that

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men can openly talk about it. And it's

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so cool -- Yeah. -- that's so mysterious. And

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then women, it's like, you're a fucking whore. You're

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a slut. And I was like, well, no one doesn't

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take them seriously if they then talk

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about sex. It's oh, yeah. Of course. You're just

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locker room talk. You're just man. Again,

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so grateful for how caller ID started, but

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there is no denying that there was definitely

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a very long

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period of time where I tried to transition the

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show and there was so much pushback

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not from my audience. It was really from

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media being like, she's the sex

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girl, not to call anyone out, but my

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publicist even has had conversations

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with magazines and they're like, we will

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give her in the magazine

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multiple pages, but don't

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think we're ready for a cover because I don't think the

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world's ready for that because she still really embodies

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sex. I'm so pissed for you.

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Really? As a human being, like, I'm

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not having sex every single

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day of the week, a hundred times. I

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love sex. I do love men. I

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love my boyfriend, but I have

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different things about me because life's reality.

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Right? Like -- Yeah. -- in the morning, you have morning

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sex and then you read the news and you get pissed off

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about something. and then you have a smart conversation

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with your friend and then later you, like, put on a

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slutty dress. Yes. That is, to

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me, part of my

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reality. Jessica. Honestly,

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it's the title of the podcast, hi, Lou, with

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Amrada. Because to me, it's all one

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in the same talking about what happens in the

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bedroom. women to women and

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talking about political issues. As a

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woman, it's all the same to me. I don't

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really see the difference. I understand my people see

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it as eyebrow, low brow, whatever this is

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trashy, this isn't. To me, it's all

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about communication and that's radical and that's

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how change happens. I

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cannot thank you enough for being

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my first guest. I so enjoyed talking

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to you. I don't wanna be gushy, but I just

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admire you so much and I can't wait to what you

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do next with your life and with your podcast. Thank

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you so much. Emily, I'm honored to be your first

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guest. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

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you so much coming. We

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did

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it. From

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Sony Music Entertainment and something

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else, listen and follow Heilah

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with Imrada wherever you

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get

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your podcast.