WEBVTT - Weaponized Tragedy and Trauma

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKATEP Daily with Meet

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<v Speaker 1>your Girl Danielle Moody back recording from the home Bunker, Folks.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to start off today's show with telling you

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit about where I was at the end

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<v Speaker 1>of last week. I took a trip out to California

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<v Speaker 1>for Reproductive Freedom for All's annual luncheon, and Reproductive Freedom

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<v Speaker 1>for All is the new name of the organization formerly

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<v Speaker 1>known as NAYRAU. And I have been someone who has

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<v Speaker 1>worked inside and around different movement spaces throughout my entire profession,

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<v Speaker 1>helping different organizations, whether they be LGBTQ focused, anti racist focused, abortion,

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<v Speaker 1>rep justice focused, and so on, so long as they

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<v Speaker 1>are focused on progressive issues. I have worked in a

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<v Speaker 1>number of capacities as a consultant to help advance progressive causes.

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<v Speaker 1>And I was invited to speak on a panel about

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<v Speaker 1>new media and progressivism. And when I arrived the night

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<v Speaker 1>before the luncheon where I was speaking, I had the

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<v Speaker 1>wonderful opportunity to meet Amanda Zerowski. Amanda Zerowski is the

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<v Speaker 1>lead plaintiff in a case against Texas for their atrocious,

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<v Speaker 1>deadly abortion ban. You heard Amanda's story most likely if

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<v Speaker 1>you were watching the Democratic National Convention, where reproductive freedom

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<v Speaker 1>was center stage throughout the entire event, but on one

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<v Speaker 1>particular night, the stories of women who almost died like

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<v Speaker 1>Amanda almost did because she was pregnant and was miscarrying

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<v Speaker 1>and the doctors waited until she was near death in

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<v Speaker 1>order to give her abortion care. Her story is horrific

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<v Speaker 1>and is something that should never happen inside of a

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<v Speaker 1>developed country, but her story is becoming the norm in America,

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<v Speaker 1>where we've heard of the two women black women who

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<v Speaker 1>died in Georgia because they did not receive the abortion

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<v Speaker 1>care that they needed, and they left their children and

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<v Speaker 1>families behind. Those children will grow up without mothers unnecessarily.

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<v Speaker 1>Amanda's story is center stage along with two other incredible women,

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<v Speaker 1>one of them who is also an OBGYN, who talk

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<v Speaker 1>about their harrowing experiences of horrific I don't even know

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<v Speaker 1>the word, but in a documentary called Zaraski v. Texas

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<v Speaker 1>that is currently doing the film festival circuit, these women

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<v Speaker 1>their stories are front and center. One woman who was

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<v Speaker 1>forced to carry a non viable fetus two term, only

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<v Speaker 1>to listen in anguish as that baby was born and

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<v Speaker 1>then would suffer a horrific, suffocating death four hours later.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what the overturning of Robi Wade has returned

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<v Speaker 1>America to a patchwork of protections for women and people

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<v Speaker 1>with uteruses. There was Ziaski. The tech Sis documentary is

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<v Speaker 1>executive produced by Hillary Clinton Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence,

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<v Speaker 1>and it can't find distribution because no distributor will touch it.

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<v Speaker 1>And so the documentarians, the filmmakers are taking this film

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<v Speaker 1>literally town by town, festival by festival, working really hard

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<v Speaker 1>to get it widely released before the election. This is

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<v Speaker 1>what censorship looks like. It isn't because the film isn't good.

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<v Speaker 1>It's winning awards. It's because it talks about abortion and

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<v Speaker 1>changes the narrative around abortion. You see, for too long,

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<v Speaker 1>we've allowed the right to literally write the story about

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<v Speaker 1>what kind of person seeks an abortion. They've made it

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<v Speaker 1>seem like it is women who just want to live

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<v Speaker 1>a free wheeling life and no family, no responsibilities, and

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<v Speaker 1>are just out there, you know, getting one abortion after

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<v Speaker 1>the other. The reality is that the women and people

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<v Speaker 1>with you verses that get abortions oftentimes already have children.

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<v Speaker 1>Oftentimes are having a horrific medical episode like a miscarriage,

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<v Speaker 1>like a non viable pregnancy, and they need to be treated.

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<v Speaker 1>And there are women like Chrissy Teagan, who, if he

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<v Speaker 1>followed her a couple of years ago, had announced her

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<v Speaker 1>pregnancy with her husband John Legend and then miscarried, And

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<v Speaker 1>what she would learn after the overturning of Rob Wade

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<v Speaker 1>was that what procedure was used on her to save

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<v Speaker 1>her life was an abortion. She didn't know it, and

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of women don't know it because the doctors

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<v Speaker 1>are and the health professionals are moving in a way

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<v Speaker 1>that they're doing everything at their disposal to save that

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<v Speaker 1>person's life so that they don't bleed out like the

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<v Speaker 1>two women in Georgia did. So this film and the

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<v Speaker 1>discussion that I had the great fortune to listen to

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<v Speaker 1>when I was out in California really opened my eyes

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<v Speaker 1>to the power of story and the necessity for story

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<v Speaker 1>at a time when there is just so much disinformation,

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<v Speaker 1>so many lies that are out there trying to distort

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<v Speaker 1>our understanding of reality. Because that's what the Republicans are doing.

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<v Speaker 1>At the end of the day. This is not just

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<v Speaker 1>like about telling little fibbs about croud size here and there.

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<v Speaker 1>This isn't just about you know, the AI deep fakes.

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<v Speaker 1>The ultimate goal is to actually shift and create and

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<v Speaker 1>construct an entirely different reality than the real world, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're seeing it with fifty percent of the population. So

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<v Speaker 1>when there are storytellers that are brave enough and subjects

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<v Speaker 1>like Amanda that are brave enough to want to tell

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<v Speaker 1>their stories, they deserve a fucking audience. But the distributors

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<v Speaker 1>are spineless, are narrow minded, are small, and don't understand

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<v Speaker 1>the gravity of the situation that we are in. Every

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<v Speaker 1>day that I turn on my microphone and computer, I

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<v Speaker 1>am reminded about the awesome responsibility that I have to

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<v Speaker 1>tell the truth to help navigate all of you through

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<v Speaker 1>a world that is becoming increasingly chaotic on purpose. I

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<v Speaker 1>can't express to you enough how important independent media is

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<v Speaker 1>at this time, and how its importance and its need

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<v Speaker 1>will increase over time. Our reality is being tested, our

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<v Speaker 1>reality is being upended, and if we don't ground ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>in truth, if we don't share important stories that we

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<v Speaker 1>know are true, we're going to get lost in the

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<v Speaker 1>tornado of lies. Just like the people who have just

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<v Speaker 1>suffered the tragedies of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, people

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<v Speaker 1>literally not receiving aid, choosing not to receive aid because

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<v Speaker 1>of the lies that Donald Trump and the Republican Party

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<v Speaker 1>are telling them that if you accept FEMA aid, they're

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<v Speaker 1>going to take your home, which is a bold face lie.

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<v Speaker 1>They are weaponizing tragedy and trauma people's deep fears for

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<v Speaker 1>their own political gain, and it isn't something to be

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<v Speaker 1>shrugged off anymore. On The Danielle Moody Show, which I

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<v Speaker 1>encourage you all to watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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<v Speaker 1>The Danielle Moody Show is live Monday through Thursday on

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<v Speaker 1>YouTube five pm Eastern. I told people last week that

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<v Speaker 1>the Zariski film needs support. It needs donations. If you

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<v Speaker 1>head to the film Collaborative dot org, you can donate,

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<v Speaker 1>you can host a screening because we're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>to do this work from the grassroots because the powers

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<v Speaker 1>that be do not want these messages getting out. They

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<v Speaker 1>don't want women and people with uteruses to understand that

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<v Speaker 1>what is happening in these states right now, how Project

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five is unfolding in places like Texas and

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<v Speaker 1>Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee and throughout the country.

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<v Speaker 1>More than half of the country does not have abortion access.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't care about the life of the pregnant person

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<v Speaker 1>and our mortality rates for women, maternal mortality rates are

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<v Speaker 1>skyrocketing and will continue to do so. And for those

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<v Speaker 1>people who think that oh, I'm in a blue state

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<v Speaker 1>or I'm in a blue city inside of a red state,

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<v Speaker 1>are safe, you are not. We are hanging on by

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<v Speaker 1>a thread. So it is films like this one that

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<v Speaker 1>require our attention and require our amplification. And that is

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<v Speaker 1>why I ask folks, if you are liking these shows,

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<v Speaker 1>these episodes, I ask you to like them, to share them,

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<v Speaker 1>to post them, to get them out into your universe.

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<v Speaker 1>Because the more people we can connect with and encourage

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<v Speaker 1>to really actively participate, to listen, to have conversations, to

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<v Speaker 1>have the tough conversations. Because this is what I said

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<v Speaker 1>when I was on the panel. I was in a

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<v Speaker 1>ballroom full of majority white women, and I told them

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<v Speaker 1>very explicitly, fifty percent of white women are going to

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<v Speaker 1>still vote with Donald Trump in this election. These are

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<v Speaker 1>your family members, these are your colleagues, these are your friends,

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<v Speaker 1>These are the people that you sit on the pta with.

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<v Speaker 1>This is your walking buddy, and you have been told

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<v Speaker 1>not to have impolite conversations. Let's not make it uncomfortable.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's just keep things on the surface. Don't talk about politics,

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<v Speaker 1>don't talk about religion, don't talk about what matters, in

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<v Speaker 1>order just to save space, to save face, and to

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<v Speaker 1>create this false sense of a calm space. If we

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<v Speaker 1>don't have these hard conversations, if we do not broach them,

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<v Speaker 1>then we double down into our siloed camps, and we're

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<v Speaker 1>more susceptible to the lies that are spread because we

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<v Speaker 1>refuse to engage. The way that Donald Trump and Republicans

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<v Speaker 1>win is when we go into our separate corners and

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<v Speaker 1>decide to believe their narratives rather than engage with people

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<v Speaker 1>in real life. Our democracy thrives because of we the people,

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<v Speaker 1>not we the algorithm, not we the siloed, not we

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<v Speaker 1>the tribe, but we all the people. So we have

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<v Speaker 1>to get uncomfortable. And you know, as famed personal trainer

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<v Speaker 1>said Jillian Michaels, like, you have to get comfortable with

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<v Speaker 1>being uncomfortable if you want change. Change does not come

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<v Speaker 1>from your comfort zone. As so many personal trainers say

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<v Speaker 1>about personal and physical trendsransformation. The same is true about

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<v Speaker 1>political and spiritual transformation. It doesn't come from a safe space.

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<v Speaker 1>That's where the status quo lives. We must extend ourselves,

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<v Speaker 1>open our arms, open all the modes of communication to

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<v Speaker 1>get back to a place of community, collaboration and togetherness. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I tell you all the time, like I believe that

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<v Speaker 1>a good amount of the population is fucking gone and

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<v Speaker 1>they are looney tunes and they are not coming back.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you know and love one of those people,

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<v Speaker 1>then don't pooh pooh them slowly try and bring them

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<v Speaker 1>back in to our shared reality. I watch and I

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<v Speaker 1>played this video on the Danielle Moody Show last week

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<v Speaker 1>of a woman that was being interviewed and literally saying

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<v Speaker 1>that the government was controlling the weather, that they were

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<v Speaker 1>seeding clouds to intensify storms because she heard that from

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<v Speaker 1>Marjorie Taylor Green, from Donald Trump and quote unquote reputable

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<v Speaker 1>Republican politicians seating the clouds. And people were commenting and

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<v Speaker 1>laughing and calling her stupid. And I said, this is

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<v Speaker 1>not the fringe. It was ten fifteen years ago. You

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<v Speaker 1>would have seen that story on the cover of the Inquirer.

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<v Speaker 1>That person would have been in an aluminum hat and

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<v Speaker 1>he would have been like, Ah, whatever, crackpot, this is

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<v Speaker 1>now fifty percent of the population. Folks. It didn't happen overnight.

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<v Speaker 1>It happened over a decade. It happened over by telling

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<v Speaker 1>people that there are facts and alternative facts. It happened

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<v Speaker 1>by telling people all no, the crowds were overwhelming, even

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<v Speaker 1>though you're seeing empty space at Trump's inauguration mass empty space.

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<v Speaker 1>It starts small and then it builds into a full blown,

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<v Speaker 1>fucking avalanche of lies, so much so that you don't

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<v Speaker 1>know which way is up. Right has become left, left

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<v Speaker 1>has become right, down has become up, up has become down,

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<v Speaker 1>and you're just absolutely disoriented and exhausted. That is the goal,

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<v Speaker 1>and to a certain extent, it is working, which means

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<v Speaker 1>that those of us who are still on Earth one

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<v Speaker 1>need to amplify, amplify, amplify the truth through our platforms,

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<v Speaker 1>through our conversations. We have got to rebuild community brick

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<v Speaker 1>by brick, because their goal is to tear us down,

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<v Speaker 1>so we have to be stronger than the lies that

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<v Speaker 1>they are spinning. I encourage all of you to head

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<v Speaker 1>over to the film collaborative, or to take a look

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<v Speaker 1>at the trailer, to take a look at the action

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<v Speaker 1>campaign for Zarawski. The Texas can host a screening between

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<v Speaker 1>now and the election. Do so. If you have the

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<v Speaker 1>treasure and the ability to donate, do so. Every dollar counts.

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<v Speaker 1>We need to spread the message that is it for

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<v Speaker 1>me today, Dear friends on Woke af AS always power

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<v Speaker 1>to the people and to all the people. Power, Get

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<v Speaker 1>woke and stay woke as fuck.