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Speaker 1: Good morning, Keeps, and welcome to wikate F Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your Girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about before we jump into our

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Speaker 1: conversation with our friend Jonathan Metzel, just recent polls that

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Speaker 1: have come out and this idea that there is growing

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Speaker 1: descent inside of the Democratic tent. And what I want

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Speaker 1: to say is that I get it right. I'm the

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Speaker 1: first person to say on a regular basis that Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden is really ruining his chances of re election because

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Speaker 1: of his staunch, quote unquote ironclad support of Netanyahu's genocide.

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Speaker 1: And what we are seeing take place around the world

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Speaker 1: are countries that are recognizing, one by one Palestine as

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Speaker 1: an independent state, with three this week, Norway, Spain, and

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Speaker 1: There are now one hundred and forty two of the

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Speaker 1: that are making this decision, and the United States is

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Speaker 1: becoming increasingly isolated in this area. And while I'm looking

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Speaker 1: these countries have been changing their position right when they

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Speaker 1: are polling on this issue, people are changing their position

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Speaker 1: to where you know, prior to October seventh, but prior

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Speaker 1: to nearly forty thousand depths in Palestine, you know, people

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Speaker 1: Now the situation has drastically changed. And the more death

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Speaker 1: seeing play out on our screens, the more that other

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Speaker 1: is going to be left right if they are standing

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Speaker 1: this president is going to really need to take into consideration,

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Speaker 1: you know, moving outside of our foreign affairs, massive like

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Speaker 1: fucking disaster. I want to take a look at where

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Speaker 1: the polls are and we'll dig into this with Jonathan

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Speaker 1: with a recent Vanderbilt pole, where people are in terms

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Speaker 1: of their stances on abortion, particularly in these redder states

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Speaker 1: seeing is that since the overturning of Roe v. Wade,

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Speaker 1: since the Dobbs decision, that people that were readily referred

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Speaker 1: to themselves as pro life quote unquote are now pro

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Speaker 1: choice right because what they believe in what we are

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Speaker 1: seeing with every single headline that now is not just

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Speaker 1: sufficient that we have overturned abortion rights in twenty states

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Speaker 1: country will look like if women and people with uteruses

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Speaker 1: no longer have access to contraception right, if the birth

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Speaker 1: control after pill like condoms, all of these things are

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Speaker 1: the future of women. So go back to the fucking,

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Speaker 1: you know, nineteenth century where Republicans are looking for legislation

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Speaker 1: it will look like. And again for folks to say, well,

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Speaker 1: my protest vote come November. Think fucking again, because after

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Speaker 1: fifty years of access to abortion. We never thought that

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Speaker 1: that would be overturned in our lifetimes, and yet here

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Speaker 1: Coming up next my conversation with our friend, our in

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Speaker 1: house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks, you know that whenever

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan metzil, we are always thrilled. And Jonathan, you

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Speaker 1: have some news and updates for us, so please share.

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Speaker 2: Well, Hey, everybody, I've been I've been really burning it

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Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. I'm just back from DC. I

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Speaker 2: was at a conference. You and I have talked about

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Speaker 2: this a little bit, but I coined this term structural competency,

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Speaker 2: which I developed with some other people to look at

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Speaker 2: how you can engage anti racist health education, not just

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Speaker 2: about like changing people's identities or attitudes, but actually changing

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Speaker 2: the structures that promote inequity. And it turned out that

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Speaker 2: Crediting Board, and so we had a meeting right now.

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Speaker 2: This has obviously been in the works for a couple

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Speaker 3: And so we had this.

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Speaker 2: Meeting to kind of figure out why, you know, what's

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Speaker 3: And I'll be keeping people updated.

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Speaker 2: On that, and so lots going on because of course

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Speaker 2: it's also a serious moment because of the Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: affirmative action decisions and what would happen to education if

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Speaker 2: Trump won and all these kind of things, and so

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Speaker 2: a lot of ballancing about how to further those things.

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Speaker 2: And then next week I will say hi to everybody

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Speaker 2: from Hawaii if anybody wants.

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Speaker 3: To join me.

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Speaker 1: The very tough place.

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Speaker 3: You know, It's funny.

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Speaker 2: I read the reservation, I'm like at the plannerser raised,

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Speaker 2: I'm like you, And then I was looking at my

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Speaker 3: You know how long it takes to get to Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: From New York, like seven hours?

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Speaker 3: It's eleven hour flight. Uh, you know why?

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Speaker 1: I really did not know that I've ever been, so

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Speaker 2: No idea, and maybe I picked the slow flight that

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Speaker 2: like goes, do you have a connection. No, it's straight flight.

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Speaker 2: so it's eleven hour lifting flight. But then you layand

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Speaker 2: and it's like, hey, here's your you know why tie

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Speaker 2: and all this stuff. But I'm going for that. I mean,

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Speaker 2: national it's called the ENCORE Conference, the Conference for Diversity Educators,

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Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, so well, exciting, all those exciting things, and

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I want to turn turn

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Speaker 1: one of those polls, Jonathan, you brought my attention to

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Speaker 1: that comes out of your university, the Vanderbilt Pole majority

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Speaker 1: So about a little over a thousand people were polled

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Speaker 1: influential on public policy. IVF and proposed gun control legislation

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Speaker 1: legalizing marijuana for recreational use. So let's dive into I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little it's about fourteen months style, yeah.

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Speaker 2: My colleagues and political science do this poll regularly, and

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Speaker 2: And I think there are several important things to note. First,

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Speaker 2: And that's why you hear Kamala Harris and other people

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Speaker 2: As I've said many times in our conversations, I think

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Speaker 1: I think that Democrats need to get over the idea

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Speaker 1: But are we willing to give up our democracy? Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we become I mean, if you want to

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Speaker 2: and you've got to think like one party. And so

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Speaker 2: I think that's that's part of it, is like healing

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Speaker 2: these democratic rifts. But then the other part is, I

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Speaker 2: can't remember what state did you see this? There were

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Speaker 2: it was like a massive portion of undecided. They didn't

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Speaker 2: That was a a much more far right position in

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Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. So now a bunch of other candidates

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Speaker 2: electors are going to the Democratic Party not being committed

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Speaker 2: to Biden also, but they're not doing it because of

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Speaker 2: gods that they're doing it because of I can't remember

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Speaker 2: some other.

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Speaker 3: I can't remember what the issue is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, no disrespect anybody, but and so the the

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Speaker 2: Democratic Convention is going to have protests, yeah, it's going to,

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Speaker 2: but all these different undecided voters and all these kind

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Speaker 2: of things. So I don't know, I mean, I just

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Speaker 2: feel like we should, like with respect everybody. I love,

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Speaker 2: just frigging roofing myself and everybody else and like get

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Speaker 2: us all on the same page and then, you know,

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Speaker 2: or something like. It's just the amount of like not

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Speaker 2: just real discord. I'm not trying to take away from it.

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Speaker 2: But also this kind of chaos just serves the Republicans.

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Speaker 2: And so yeah, sorry.

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Speaker 3: That was that was that was a rant. But I'm

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Speaker 3: just feeling frustrated.

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Speaker 1: No, as we close out, Like, I believe in everybody's

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Speaker 1: right to protest, I believe in everybody's right to you know,

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Speaker 1: utilize uh these you know, primaries, local elections to have

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Speaker 1: get to November, they get their shit together and recognize

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Speaker 1: that like, we're not going to have that right to

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Speaker 1: continue to protest, We're not going to have workers' rights

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Speaker 1: and protections. We're going to have an underclass, We're going

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Speaker 1: to have a subjugated female population. And if you think

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Speaker 1: that things are bad now, I assure you they can

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Speaker 1: get worse under the United Reich, which is what the

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Speaker 1: MAGA Republicans want. We'll leave it there today. My friend

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Safe travels to Hawaii and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: when you're on the ground there.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I will next next week, I'll if anybody wants to

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Speaker 2: be there not I'll hold up a pineapple next week

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Speaker 2: when we're talking.

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

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Speaker 1: F as always Power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay work is spot