Hello, hello, hello. Thank you for joining me today. Listen, people have questions

about how did we end up with all these territories and protectorites? Are they US citizens?

Do they have representation in Congress? Like how did American Samoa even get to be American

Samoa? So today I'm chatting with my friend Ashley Spivey and I'm going to tell you exactly

how it came to be. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon. And welcome to the Sharon

Says So podcast. I'm so excited to have my friend Ashley here today. Thank you so much

for doing this. I don't we've been talking for a long time and people have been bugging

me to have you on, bugging you to come on. So yay, we're doing it. No, I was honestly

so honored whenever I got the email because people had been sending me messages asking

if I was going to come on. And I was like, tell people, just give people a little overview

of what you do. Oh wow, okay. So this is kind of hard to explain, but I'm a nanny. I've

been a nanny for wow over 15 years at this point. I feel like I have a presence on social

media because I was on a reality show called The Bachelor. But we can just forget about

all that. I am barely memorable on the show. I have tried to use my platform to get people

to read, to donate blood, to sign up for beat a match. I also encourage people to do things

like vote in local elections, sign up to be an election worker. Yes. Just small actions

that make a big difference. Just like donating blood one time can save three people's lives.

It's a very, very easy, quick, tangible way to truly make a difference in somebody's

life. Yeah. I mean, if saving a life, is it making a difference in the world? Then what

is truly? Right. Yes. And I also love that you have signed up to be an election worker.

I think that is so fantastic. More people need to sign up to work in elections are pool

of election workers tends to skew quite elderly at this point. And we need to be able to

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