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or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, girlfriends. I just wanted to give you a heads up that this episode includes conversations about state violence and incarceration. But around those, you'll hear the twisty tail of how a group of artists
protest against the Russian government. Oh, and also there's going to be some swearing, but you knew that already, didn't you? Nadia is sitting in her Moscow flat playing the piano. I'm a piano player. It's typical thing for Russian kids.
You either have to go to ballet or do piano. She's stuck playing this little tune over and over. It was beautiful and really mystique. I wrote a little draft and embroidered to my friends and be quickly made a check and got all the hours and there's the punk player.
Punk prayer, a song of hope, anger, and dreams of a better Russia. And the friend she wrote that song for, they're the ski mask wearing protest collective, pussy riot, created by Nadia. The chorus goes British and Mary, please become feminist. And in the verses, we talk about reproductive justice.
We talk about the corruption in the church. Among my favorite lines, Gay Pride is sent to Siberian and shackles. Nadia doesn't know it yet, but punk prayer will be heard all around the world. With some pretty damning consequences. Eventually in Broadway, prison, she'll spend almost two years in a
prison labour camp, so in police uniforms from dawn till dusk. That's the price, Nadia and her pussy riot sisters will pay for challenging Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.
One of the most powerful, wealthy and dangerous men on earth.
We're not professional, criminals or anything like that, but just a bunch of artists who were doing her best. But punk prayer will also launch pussy riot as the moral conscience of Putin's Russia. The front runners of a global feminist movement, rallying together against Russian authoritarian power, and their weapon art. I'm Anison Field, and from the teams at Novel and I-Hot podcast, this is the girlfriend spotlight.
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Today, Nadia punks the president.
“The first time I saw Nadia Tomiconikaver and pussy riot was on my very 2012 Tumblr feed.”
I thought it was a cool statement, art funny hats, but it came and went like everything else on Tumblr. And then there were the arrests, the courtroom dramas, political interference, and prison time.
Now, pussy riot were making headlines, and I was gripped. But I never really learned how Nadia and the
other women got there. So let's start this story somewhere nice and picturesque. Like Siberia in 1989, the year Nadia was born. It's a beer reserve and wonderful place, and it has a shape of a huge penis. It's from the head of it. In that room, although it's visited every summer vacation,
“we've been in the balls. And to get from one part of the dick to another, you need to spend four hours”
in the plain. Wow. That is a big dick. I knew. Now, one can really impress me with the size of their thing after that. It's not just Siberia's size, but it's known for. It's also defined by its weather. It's a place where you have been there for nine months out of a year. It's minus 40 degrees. It tells you it's plus really, really heavy. Wind, polar winter, rings, it's own heaviness on everyone's lives. So people find also such escapes. It could be drugs and
sentence hard drugs. It could be bitter games. And for me, it was mostly books. And my house was filled with art books on Butte Tally, and early Greek art. And I think it gave me a radicalism that probably other rights would not emerge. Wow. You had like a really kind of high-brow early education in art. You weren't reading normal kids' books. Art came with my family in a package. My dad and my mom both very artistic people, my mom and dad split when I was five,
and she was responsible for feeding me and paying bills. My dad with whom I stayed connected and really close, he was in multimedia artisty in the Soviet era, which also pushed him to the edge
of society. But he gave me this passion to art. By the early 2000s, Nadia had basically learned
everything she needed from the grandmasters of art. It was time to look to the future. It was in magical coincidence that this festival of contemporary art came to my home city. I was around 13, and I was lucky enough to witness series of talks and exhibitions and performances of a few contemporary artists who became my guiding starts, and it started to model my life after them. At 16, Hungary to learn more, Nadia moved to the big city Moscow.
And there she started studying philosophy, but she was unimpressed by the art world. What I saw around me was mostly commercial art, which is way too boring. Commercial art is by definition something that is teasedless. But for me, my idea was to provide an alternative to the commercial art scene and hopefully stirred movement.
“And were you always interested in the sort of political sides of philosophy and art at that stage?”
I think I arrived in my interest in politics through my interest in avant-garde art and their role-building ambitions, which was political in a way that they wanted to build musicality and that sort of totality of art that wants to change life once and for all. Was it really speaking to me? And I wanted to see something like that around me. I'm on a young, hungry artists, I wanted them to change the world. I wanted them to change
while, at least, our government, which was, at the time, nothing towards authoritarianism.
Nadia was only ten when Putin first became president and started centralizing power.
Regional autonomy was reduced. Media outlets were brought under state control and over the years,
Critics of the regime died under suspicious circumstances.
more authoritarian and more nationalist. Two things that, understandably, have never sat comfortably
“with Nadia. It's dangerous not just for Russian people, but also for people abroad for”
even in countries. Nadia believed in Russia, but not Putin's Russia. She believed in culture and education. Art, freedom, she had to do something. So in 2007, Nadia, together with the man who had become her husband and another couple, started a collective. They planned to arrange protests all over Moscow. So the choice of name was clear. Vina. Vina means war in Russian, it meant war against conservative, open institutions, and the political order. Vina did things
like storming the Russian White House, which is the heavily guarded government headquarters in central Moscow. By jumping over the six meter fence and running for their lives through the grounds.
“We were debating if we are going to be electrocuted once we reach the top or shut.”
That would not be fun, but it didn't happen so all good. And the idea was to show that resisting is indeed an option. Imagine if a group of anarchists can freely do this very radical action and without every getting caught, without going to jail without getting arrested. Then,
imagine what would happen if a million of people try to do the same. And eventually, we will have
really democracy. Okay, a small goal. Life for women and queer people in Putin's Russia had arguably gotten worse. Rights were rolled back and patriarchal rhetoric seemed to dominate politics and culture. And so, eventually, four years in Vina brought me to the need of studying something that will be feminist-branded that will focus not just on achieving democracy, but also on protecting rights of queer people on making sure that gender equality is achieved
“in my country. And this is how President Wright was born. Wow. And how did you come up with the name?”
It's a great name. Just a little mean cut sitting in her apartment. Cut is your caterina Sumutes of Itch, who had also been part of Vina and had a pretty messy flat. Neither a cut or her dad cared about cleaning stuff out. If you opened the fridge, you'd die from the smell. It's September 2011, six months before Putin, then Prime Minister, is set to return for a third term as Russia's President. Nadia, who's now in her early twenties, knows what this means. More
powerful one, less democratic freedoms, agency and rights for everyone else. So, she and Kat are into
something they're calling punk feminism. And we looked at this term broadly and not just punk as music, but also really bold and groundbreaking artistic moves. So, we are truly inspired by the Raid Girl Movement. The Raid Girl Movement was actually a pretty big inspiration for me, too, when I was in my early twenties. It was this DIY feminist music scene that was started in the Pacific Northwest in the early 90s. And I actually wrote one of my final music school essays about
them. After I was the only one who put my hand up when the lecture asked if anyone would call themselves a feminist. He said, "Watch out for this one and everyone laughed at me." I obviously had to go on a feminist rampage after that, and the Raid Girl Movement was the perfect outlet. The people at the heart of it were angry, but also playful. They made scenes and sang punk songs about politics and sex and misogyny. The genre's high priestess, Kathleen Hanna,
from the Bambachini Kill, had this famous slogan, "Girls to the Front." Meaning the girls stood at the front of shows while the dudes had to move to the back. In short, Raid Girl was the antithesis to my old lecturer and to Putin's Russia. We started to joke around what would happen if Russia had their own Raid Girl Movement moment. We thought that it would be cool to record a song of a Russian version of Raid Girls, but we were visual artists. So me and Kat wanted to start fake
band and convince everyone that it was an actual band. This fake band would put on guerrilla gigs to draw attention to the government's human rights violations and hypocrisy. We just said to
"Pusy Raid" to bring a derogatory term for a woman for a girl that we are goi...
word "bitch queer punk" was reclaimed. Name sorted. Right. And now everything else. So what if we need what do bands do? Remember cyclists watch some videos and we went on website where people sell used stuff in Russia. We didn't have money at all, but we bought a guitar that didn't play
and looked to guitar that we used as props to create an image of a band. They were called that first
song in Kat's bathroom. We didn't have smart phones at the time, so it was just a very cheap Olympus recorder and we didn't have any knowledge on how to put songs together. So it was very
“ugly and that's punk. That's DIY. You're doing exactly how you should be. We weren't even”
able to put together a loop like in a continuous fashion. So there was this little pause in between of the loop. So it would be like do do do do do do do do do and that's syncopation sounds like you're in jazz now. What's going on? That's very cool. But also I mean the sad factors there's like nothing more punk band than being like a punk band who insists they're not a punk band, even if you weren't one. Which is so cool. You've gone through the looking glass. Thank you.
On October 1st 2011 Nadia and Kat played the song they recorded during a presentation on punk feminism. They say it's by a new Russian punk band called Percy Wright and they call the song
“Kill the Sexist. The sexist that they're referring to is not explicitly Putin but it is a”
comment on his ideology. I personally write one to start making a noise about the imminent return to presidency that he's planning. But they are just two people. This fake punk band needs more members and fast. We didn't have a lot of time just felt like we have to work a every single day and try to at least fake that we have an actual movement because we didn't have any money so we're mostly still in stuff from supermarkets here. We lived by shoplifting
and then we started to work actually with our friends punk musicians and you told them just write something shitty like it's really quick and an hour and we'll screen something on top.
“It was mostly me and Kat as the core but we were good at art propaganda.”
We knew how to write personal uses, how to conduct a journalist, they work with professional photographers and videographers and put together videos. It's an unheard of
speed of production. Would you be able to tell me about your very first protest that you guys did
together? The first batch of protest actions was called Frey the Cobblestone. It was the end of October in Moscow and it was really freezing cold raining. Not fun to be outside so we decided to invade Moscow subway and we found places with this scaffolding being in the middle of the station and it looked just like the stage. So we would climb on that little platform unpack our guitar that didn't play and connect the microphone that did work and make the action
wearing brightly colored mini dresses and ski masks to conceal their identities. Pussy Riot shout and dance on subway scaffolding and encrauded subway cars. They warned that ballots will be used as toilet paper in the approaching elections and we did dozens of those in the subway and then compelled it all together in one video. Pussy Riot's actions aren't designed to scare people. That tricksters, inspiring hope. What they're doing is fun but also
dangerous because almost every single time they perform they get arrested. Imagine cops run to the base of this scaffolding and there's unless you learn how to fly, there is no way to escape. Some cops are nice, some cops are nuts, some cops are you know, punching you and dragging you around but you're here and I was used to it. I mean did you not after you realized that
happened the first couple times did you not decide to like perform on the floor where you could
make a run for it? That would not be beautiful. I can't argue with arms but Putin did. After the break, a punk prayer.
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we're talking to one of the goats here. To Bill Burr. I don't think I've ever met somebody, so exactly out of the mind is I am. And now we even have more great guests coming up, including the great John Tutorial. It's called happiness, delivering happiness. Mariano Rivera. And many, many more. Open your free high-hard radio app, search delivering happiness, with Nick Tutorial. And listen now. In December 2011, Putin's party, United Russia, won the
parliamentary elections, amid allegations of electoral fraud and a pre-arranged roll swap with the sitting president. Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets to protest. They were the largest protests in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 90s. Pussy Riot was there too. They shouted lyrics like, "Right and Russia, Putin chickened out." You could find them screaming their protests songs in luxury boutiques and fashion shows, a top expensive cars.
And they do behind it was Putin was strong and a lot of money to make people compliant to everything he does. And we went to this places where rich people in Moscow were hanging out at the time. To warn them that one day their lives are going to get complicated because of Putin. Next on their target list was the Russian Orthodox Church. Nadia and Pussy Riot believed that the Church is support of Putin, created an unhealthy
Authoritarian relationship between church and state.
legitimacy to Putin as a divinely sanctioned leader. So Pussy Riot came up with a way to draw
attention to it. It would be dangerous. Lots of people would be appalled. But no one would be able to ignore it. On the day off the performance set was really called "not cozy windy grey". A lot of participants said the day of the action that they aren't going to be able to draw in. People felt uneasy. It's February 21, 2012. I'm Pussy Riot who are about to do a flash mob performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Right in front of the altar they're going to
sing "Pong Prayer" which is the song you heard Nadia describe at the start of the episode. The song
that calls on the Virgin Mary to become a feminist and banished Putin. We'll need that. We're
touching topic that is potentially radioactive but we believe that because we do this symbolic artistic protest, we don't punch anyone. We don't destroy anything which will be fine. As a priest is literally offering sacraments to worshipers. Five Pussy Riot members in their signature scheme asks and colorful dresses sing, kick and punch the air before the altar. It happened all very quickly 42nd of the funds. We got pushed away by the gardens really quickly.
“They didn't make any attempt to arrest us because I think it was more like just a minor annoyance”
where this crazy girl is jumping up and down. Why do they do that? They took her piece of equipment,
like our little audio system. They were very proud of. We were having with church security and then mother fuckers give us back our equipment. Pussy Riot don't get their equipment back and despite no arrest in the cathedral, Nadia knows things are about to get serious. She goes on the run, changing her location every day. But didn't use her funds, who didn't use internet, who were anxious and they're right to be. The news of their protest was making its way to the
president himself. Putin personally gave an order to arrest us and Putin gives an order. It begins to interpret the whole system of pressure is looking for you. You don't know when the arrest is going to happen. You almost wanted it to happen because at least it's some sort of clarity. Notice the use of when not if. Because after a week of trying to outrun the authorities, the arrest does happen. It was me and my husband at the time we went to buy presents for our
daughter who was about to turn four years old next day. And we got surrounded by around 20 people in plain clothes. The yelled at us just said, hands against the wall. They're very, verybly abusive
“to me. And I think it came from from the fact that they were not able to find us for a week.”
So it was relief. It was really for me and it was really for them. Nadia and fellow Pussy Riot members Katso Mitzvitch and Maria Alioquina are all sent to a detention facility to a week trial. Once you're transported there, it's not a joke. There's the protest ripple out from Moscow. A YouTube video of punk prayer goes viral. At her Moscow concert, Madonna even dawns a ski mask and dedicates her song like a virgin to Pussy Riot. And in late July, the trial starts.
When it started, it became obvious that it's very accusatory and the tone of the judge and the tone of all the participants from the government side was so rude and so discriminatory to us. They told us this feminism is by definition hostel to the orthodox religion and orthodox religion is a key ideological system for Russia. So hence we are hostel, not just to the religion, but to the entirety of Russian and Russian people that we were told that we are paid
by Holy Clinton to destroy Russia. They said that we accursed the entire country and
“thus we need to be burned at the stake. Some people said if you need to be whipped publicly on the”
red square, oh my god, I realized that there is nothing really here to blues. I'm already
Really going to jail.
They're in a glass case, being infuriatingly positive and doing some devilish twitching, of course.
It was a lot of fun, seriously. In Nadia's closing statement, she describes Pussy Riot as "freer than the prosecution" because, quote, "we can say what we want." While they can only say what political censorship allows. Nadia Cat and Maria are convicted of who lookenism, motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison. And despite her tough exterior, Nadia is scared. Tears in jail seemed like a lot, because by that time I was in jail for six months
and it felt like eternity and imagine that after they locked up three times more and then I'm
going to be moved from Moscow to penal colony which basically Gulag, labor camp. I was terrifying.
Yeah, what to tell me about that? Tell me about your time and prison. And it went through 12 different societies. I was just not an easy prisoner, just demoralized. I didn't feel like myself.
“I forgot what I was before, and I think it was just deep, deep trauma, definitely.”
destroys your image of yourself, your identity. And it was forced to work all the time that I was in sleeping. I was performing different tasks. Like I was sewing, police uniforms, then I was digging, trenches, then I was moving heavy zones around Pinal colony. This is how the oppression prison authorities are controlling the prisoner. They make sure that they are exhausted physically and emotionally. To the point of turning into walking corpses. And that's who I became in the labor camp,
took me a year to to realize that I'm still the same person who I was before jail, that I still have a voice to protest against the prison system. They've started hunger strike, roads, and open letter, protests against the prison conditions. A couple of weeks after I started my hunger strike I spent a month in different prison facilities and prison cars. I was a long-term, one month without any connection with my relatives or lawyers. They thought by then that I'm broadly dead.
And I thought, who knows, it's happening with me, but I ended up in Siberia, which was awesome. I ended up in Krasnayarsk, which is the city that I visited every single summer. This is the city where my grandmother lived, the city between the balls. Just like the gay pride parade, Nadia sang about in church. She too had been sent to Siberia
“in shackles. No, it's related. Well, as the best thing I could ever have to me, I came back home.”
Yeah, in a way, I'm sure you never expected. No, you only get to know where you are,
and you're there. They didn't transport you a pretty much as a sack of potato. But outside of the prison walls, Nadia is no sack of potatoes. She's become a powerful symbol. Amnesty International names her a prisoner of conscience. Calls to free pussy riot echo around the world, along with a furious international debate about freedom of expression. Then, finally, after 18 growing months in prison, on December 23rd,
2013, Nadia and Maria are released early. Two months before the end of my term, putting decided to send an Amnesty to release not all political prisoners, but just a few of them.
“And I think he targeted specifically those who have been talking about the most.”
Some people believe that Putin's Amnesty is just some big propaganda stunt. Designed a bolster rush as image before they host the 2014 Winter Olympics. But Putin isn't the only one planning for the games. We got out and went right back into action. We wrote a song, "Button will teach you how to love the motherland." And it was dedicated to political prisoners,
those who really mean jailed into corruption, to increasing authoritarianism in Russia. Percy riots will be there at the games in Sochi, with a newly released Nadia. She's an international symbol of radical resistance now, and everyone's waiting to see what she'll do next. After the break, all eyes on Nadia.
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Open your free iHeart Radio app. Search delivering happiness with Nick Taro. And listen now. In February 2014, only two months after Nadio was released from prison. Percy Wright traveled to Sochi to protest the Olympic Games there. Even before we jumped on the plane to go to Sochi, the starting from Moscow, we got followed by the cops constantly. We were there targets number one at a time when we got released.
So every move every step is being watched. Every word has been listened. I mean after spending all of that time in the penal colonies, like having a really tough ride a bit, you know, sounds like it was awful. But you're not afraid to be back out, protesting, doing more actions. After I've heard, I was shaking. It was so scary for me to go back to jail, but it felt like we had to make this to statement. Under an Olympic banner, armed with a
plastic guitar, Percy Wright sing their newest protest song. Putin will teach you how to love the motherland. But mid-song their attacks, beaten and dragged by militiamen, wielding whips and pepper spray, bloodied yet defiant, they keep going. We're getting arrested five times a day, but we've
Realized almost impossible to do actions in the same style we've done before,...
so hyperfile as activists. Wow, what was that like saying there when I mean it just seems like you've been completely haunted by the police? Prejudice your real and feel yourself like a paranoid, but with one important note that you're actually being followed. It's weird, but Nadia is not going to admit defeat. There was a lot of stuff to be done in Russia. We started a media project, this called Mijia Zona, and the idea behind it was to tell all the
people of Russia what's happening in prisons, in police departments, and tell about the
most important political trials of the time. Not the number one independent media outlets in Russia,
which is a truly incredible given that it has started a bunch of punks. But eventually you left
“Russia, could you tell me why and how that happened? I think I would never leave it if I had to”
make a conscious decision to leave. It was just a series of circumstances. A series of earliest of me and people who I cared about, who got in the mix, just because of me, just because they were working with me, and I felt like I'm responsible for that. I felt very guilty, so I felt like I need to move away, just take a step back to predict people I love, and that pushed me to stay for some time out of Russia, because I still wanted to create, or I just didn't want to put people in
danger of situation by associating with me. Outside of Russia, Nadia could use her reputation to be
even louder, and without the police literally breathing down her neck. In 2023, she put on her first
“solo gallery exhibition in LA, an immersive installation, which she called Putin's Ashes. Putin's”
Ashes is a response to Putin's full-scale invasion to Ukraine. For the first two months of the invasion, I could not think about making art. I was doing everything I can to help with resources, or do actual help, and then after a few months, I felt like I need to make an artistic statement, and it was a group of women from Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. We all came together to curse Vladimir Putin. The ultimate art piece is the performance that is documented in a video of the
scored Putin's Ashes accompanied with the song that I wrote. In the piece, Nadia can be seen leading the women, clad in fish nets, and red ski masks, in a ritualistic ceremony to burn a large portrait of Putin, and collect its Ashes. Putin didn't like it one bit. My friends, I got visited by police and ask some questions, then there were a couple of searches at my friends' apartment who still lived in Russia into my ex-mother-in-law. Nadia was declared a foreign agent by the
Russian court. She was put on the country's most wanted criminal list. Now, I'm arrested in a censure, so I knew that if I go back to Russia, I'm going to be arrested immediately, and even now, when I hear left Russia, I feel uneasy about it. The only meaningful connection that I've ever had in terms of my arts and geography was the connection between me,
“my art, and Russian. I think I get it. Your heart's still in Russia, right?”
Your heart's in your arms. I'm very touched to the place. I'm very touched to my language.
And I was of a much rather speaking Russian right now. I never think that this murder is
through, you know, the mistalented or the most connected, definitely not the most powerful, but I have this dedication and I always think like what if more talented musicians did, what frustrated, but I stick to this DIY principle, follow your dreams and down the consequences. After years of imprisonment, harassment and attacks, Nardis commitment to see a better Russia, without Putin, has never wavered. And I just know she won't ever stop as long as he's in power.
It's nothing short of awe-inspiring. I can't believe I'm already saying this, but this is the last episode of the first season
Of the Girl Friends Spotlight.
other seven amazing stories, then do go back and listen. And if you like them, tell your friends.
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But in the meantime, coming up next on the Girl Friends, a brand new original limited series, "With me, you go, and he's in." Kelly Hornet spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. I'm 100% innocent. While behind bars, she learned the law from scratch. "You guys are a god, aren't it?" Jill House lawyer. And as she fought for herself, she also became a lifeline for the women locked up alongside her.
It was her defeat in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. So many of these women had lived the same stories. I said were you a victim of domestic violence, and she was like, "Yeah." But maybe Kelly could change the ending.
“I said, "How many people have gotten other incarcerated individuals out of here?”
I'm going to be the first one to do that."
This is the story of Kelly Hornet, a woman who spent 12 years fighting not just for her own freedom, but her girlfriend's too. I think I have a mission from God to save souls by getting people out of prison. The Girl Friends, Jill House lawyer, listen from July 14th on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, it's Anna, you've reached the Girl Friends hotline, leave your story after the turn. Okay, gotta go, love ya. So I have this friend who I've been friends with for almost nine, ten years now, and although we've only actually lived in the same place for three of them, me and her have built this routine while living apart from each other.
And it'll be that we'll wake up and we'll call each other, we'll eat our meals together. There was odd time where I was over at this guy's house that I was seeing,
“and I think he went to pee, and in that 45 seconds I managed to fit in a call, just to update”
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If you'd like to find out more or donate to help them secure equal rights for women and girls across the globe, you can go to womankind.org.uk. The Girl Friends Spotlight is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts. For more from Novel, visit Novel.odio. The show is hosted by me, Anna Sinfield. This episode was written and produced by a Marlia Swordland.
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I'm Nick Tutorial. You probably know me from NYPD Blue, the longest shot, or Spike Lee's Black Plansman. And on my no podcast, the living happiness with Nick Tutorial, I deliver pizza to a new guest. I've shared a slice with everyone from Seth Rollins.
What are you doing, my bell? To Bill Burr. I don't think I've ever met somebody. So exactly out of the mind is I am. And now we even have more great guests coming up, including the great John Tutorial.
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Every week the news gets worse. The world gets crazier, and Yamanica is here to tell whoever's responsible. You're the problem.
“Do you know I just found out who Sydney Sweetie was?”
If he got a bunch of women, then I should have a bunch of men. Do better or do less, so I don't have to do so much. I'm Yamanica, and I'm out. Listen to your problem with Yamanica on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Summer blockbusters are back.
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