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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ookate F Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your girl Danny al Moody, recording from the home

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Speaker 1: bunker of folks. I am recording this prior to the

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Speaker 1: President speaking addressing the nation, so you will have to

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Speaker 1: follow my social media for my reactions to that. But

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Speaker 1: I'm very happy to welcome back to the show. After

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Speaker 1: his travel abroad, our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel

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Speaker 1: has returned. He has spent some time in London, he

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Speaker 1: people are feeling and talking about the US, talking about

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Speaker 1: gun control, talking about a lot of different issues that

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Speaker 1: overlap with what is happening here, folks. I'm getting ready

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Speaker 1: to take a couple of days off, I know, shocking,

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Speaker 1: have done over the past couple of days. I will

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Speaker 1: But for all of the good things, you know, follow

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Speaker 1: me on social because I never truly take off. So

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Speaker 1: coming up next, our conversation with our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks, it has been weeks, weeks I think,

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Speaker 1: about gun reform, hop in from continent to continent. Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. Hey, it is so it is so great

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a crazy time to be away. I mean,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, and did you laugh at them?

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Speaker 2: And so the talks were interesting, but they were you know,

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Speaker 2: But it was really a powerful trip and it left me.

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Speaker 1: You go to the Middle East fairly frequently, and war

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Speaker 2: And that it's the similar thing to what could happen

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so grateful that you are back safe.

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Speaker 1: I think that the work that you do Jonathan, obviously

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Speaker 1: Well, we will leave it there today, my friend, glad

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Speaker 2: You, Thank you, Thank you. Talk to Suke.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke

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Speaker 1: af as always, Power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.