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Good morning again everyone. It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now we'll get a take on what it's like to be a teenage girl in the United States

at this current point in time through the lens of a new podcast called The Competition.

Have you heard of the Distinguished Young Women Program?

Every year, 50 of the country's brightest young women, one high school senior from each state,

had to Mobile, Alabama to participate in this program.

It's a massive competition consisting of choreographed dance

numbers, strenuous 10 minute fitness routines, all done while smiling of course,

talent shows and tests of self-expression. By the time they arrive, their scholastic achievements have already been tabulated into their final scores.

At the end, one winner takes home a life-changing sum of money to use for college.

Why do we bring this up today? Well one of our former colleagues,

one of our former colleagues who you might know from the podcast Dolly Parton's America has come back with the competition, a podcast centering the Distinguished

Young Women's Program and we meet a few of these distinguished young women

along the way and learn about the nature of girlhood along the way.

It's Shema Oliari back at WNYC for this. Shema,

Hi, welcome to the Brian Laird Show today.

Thank you so much for having me. It's good to talk to you, Ryan.

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