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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen, and welcome to wok app Daily with

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Speaker 1: Me Your Girl Danielle Moody pre recording from the home Bunker, Folks.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we welcome back to the microphone the

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Speaker 1: producer of woka app Daily Andrew Marcello, to kind of

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Speaker 1: dig into a conversation on media and the failings of

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Speaker 1: media and what we have learned as people continue to

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Speaker 1: turn off corporate mainstream media and tune into other outlets.

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Speaker 1: Whether this is just a blip of this moment of

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Speaker 1: anger and frustration, or if it is really time to

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Speaker 1: move away from what was the legacy fourth Estate and

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Speaker 1: build something new. Right now, there are conversations that bubbling

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Speaker 1: around with Donald Trump kind of remaking as he's going

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Speaker 1: to just everything in America, but remaking the White House

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Speaker 1: Press Corps and getting rid of those that are detractors

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Speaker 1: to him, but also ushering in a new age of

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Speaker 1: new media, potentially replacing the abcs and the NBCs of

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Speaker 1: the world with the bro podcasters that he frequented and

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Speaker 1: his administration has frequented in the past. Now, obviously I

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Speaker 1: disagree with Trump on a lot of things, on everything actually,

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Speaker 1: but on this in terms of where does legacy media

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Speaker 1: and new media fit as America is being remade? I

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Speaker 1: think is a really important question because storytelling and the narrative,

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Speaker 1: as we have seen with this past election, is what

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Speaker 1: people held onto. It didn't matter what was actually fact,

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Speaker 1: It mattered what they felt about it, right, A lot

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Speaker 1: of their feelings came from what they heard from particular

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Speaker 1: people and particular outlets. So if we don't open our

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Speaker 1: minds up and recognizing that everyone is not getting their

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Speaker 1: information in the same place which we've known, but that

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Speaker 1: no longer can folks rely on the fourth estate in

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Speaker 1: the way that it did, where does that leave us

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Speaker 1: and where do we go from here? So we get

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Speaker 1: into that conversation Andrew and I which is coming up next, folks,

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Speaker 1: I am happy to welcome back on the microphone the

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Speaker 1: producer of WOKF Andrew Marcello, who has been on providing

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Speaker 1: a lot of insight into not only the gamer male,

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Speaker 1: toxic male, toxic perspectives from a gamer no, no, no no,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying that you were bringing perspective to us on

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Speaker 1: like the rise of toxic male ideology, thinking kind of

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Speaker 1: what has become the magaway and showed us how it

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Speaker 1: was seated in gaming, you know. And I continue to

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Speaker 1: use that show Andrew by the Way, as like a

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Speaker 1: primer for people who keep saying, I don't understand what

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Speaker 1: happened to men, I don't understand what. I don't understand

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Speaker 1: where all of this is coming from. And I was

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Speaker 1: just like, well, here's one perspective that I think is important.

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Speaker 1: But today, as we are counting down the days until

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Speaker 1: January twentieth, which is the inauguration of Donald Trump for

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Speaker 1: a second regime, we are watching as mainstream corporate media

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Speaker 1: just obeys in advance, capitulates to his anger, to his threats.

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Speaker 1: We have seen it most recently with Morning Joe on MSNBC,

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Speaker 1: with Mika and Joe admitting to their viewers that they

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Speaker 1: went down to mar A Lago to go clear the air,

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Speaker 1: right to go and restart conversations, as they've said. We've

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Speaker 1: watched it with The Washington Post deciding that they were

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Speaker 1: not going to endorse a candidate for the first time

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Speaker 1: in their paper's history. We watched it with the La Times.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it now with Meta as Zuckerberg congratulating Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump on his victory. Can't wait to work with you.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what you make of this moment in media.

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Speaker 2: In two words, I would say, my take is that

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Speaker 2: it's not good. Yeah, it's scary. As someone who works

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Speaker 2: in media, even if I'm not working on a mainstream

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Speaker 2: media outlet, I have heard and seen reports. I haven't

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Speaker 2: heard directly, not to imply that, but I have seen

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Speaker 2: reports of people at major media outlets, particularly at MSNBC

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Speaker 2: and CNBC, are really worried about their future. And this

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Speaker 2: is before we've even had an inauguration. I don't feel that,

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Speaker 2: at least right away, we will be thrust into a

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Speaker 1: Oh interesting, you don't feel like that will happen right away.

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Speaker 2: I don't because of how many people in America, including

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Speaker 2: how many people on the right, believe in the First Amendment,

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Speaker 2: whatever their interpretation of the First Amendment is. I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I hope, I'm optimistic that all of those things overnight

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Speaker 2: on January twenty third, or whatever it's going to be,

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Speaker 2: there's not going to be a mass shut down of

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Speaker 1: That are.

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Speaker 2: Critical of power. However, that being said, I don't think

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Speaker 2: I don't think you know you asked about mainstream outlets

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Speaker 2: I don't think MSNBC and CNN, especially NBC News, or

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Speaker 2: to go back to your question, is we're seeing these

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Speaker 2: legacy media organizations very quickly capitulate. Right so, even if

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Speaker 2: it's not going to be like front page, Trump is

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Speaker 2: our dear leader, I fear that there will be a

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Speaker 2: rapidly slow, insidious creep of There will be a creeping fascism.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard that term before, but

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Speaker 2: this is a I think a perfect application for it.

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Speaker 2: I think we're going to see a creeping of fascism

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Speaker 2: in our news media at essentially all mainstream corporate levels,

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because I don't think I've heard

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Speaker 1: the term, but I don't think that this is a creep.

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Speaker 1: If we want to be honest about that, I think

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Speaker 1: that we could say then that for the last nine years,

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Speaker 1: corporate mainstream media has been creeping fascism, has been capitulating,

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Speaker 1: has been sanewashing, whatever the phrases that we want to use.

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Speaker 1: If we had had a robust fourth estate, then the

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Speaker 1: people of this country would have been educated. With every

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Speaker 1: move that Donald Trump made, both during his presidency and.

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Speaker 2: After, I don't think enough people noticed some of the

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Speaker 2: writing on the wall, or writing on the all sends

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Speaker 2: people noticed the signs that were happening in the first

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Speaker 2: Trump administration. The New York Times firing their public editor

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Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos, acquiring the New York Post or sorry, the

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Speaker 2: Washington Post, that either happened shortly before or shortly after

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Speaker 2: the election of Trump. NBC News being led by a

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Speaker 2: right wing whatever the name is of the person who

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Speaker 2: runs NBC News. I remember at the time somebody who

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Speaker 2: was right wing took over, and that meant NBC News

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Speaker 2: and also MSNBC were actually being run with a conservative

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Speaker 2: at the top. And I think a lot of people

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Speaker 2: didn't pay attention to those things happening in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: That is fair in terms of who was in the

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Speaker 1: c suite, right and who is in the c suite

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Speaker 1: dictates what goes on the front page is considered as

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Speaker 1: headline news. And you know, over the last nine years,

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Speaker 1: we have watched as this country has turned into an

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Speaker 1: overt oligarch right, like, oligarchy and the presence of wealth

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Speaker 1: and power has always been the foundations of our part

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Speaker 1: of the foundation of our democracy. However, it's now overt

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Speaker 1: right that you have a Mark Zuckerberg saying on the

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Speaker 1: day of the you know, congratulations, can't wait to work

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Speaker 1: with you, so excited about what the future holds. And well,

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Speaker 1: thanks Mark Zuckerberg, because you spent the election cycle suppressing

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Speaker 1: the algorithm so that we couldn't be talking about politics

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Speaker 1: on your sites like threads and Facebook and Instagram. Right,

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Speaker 1: so it's like we've already experienced what that suppression looks

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Speaker 1: like in social media. And and when you have places

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Speaker 1: like the Washington Post bought by Jeff Bezos that was

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Speaker 1: more concerned with his Amazon contracts than he was with democracy,

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Speaker 1: making decisions that are not about the readers but are

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Speaker 1: about his shareholders and his own literal self interests. What

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Speaker 1: do you think that that is doing to the faith

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Speaker 1: that people have, And whether or not. We are seeing

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Speaker 1: already that they're turning away from these places, but where

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Speaker 2: You think To answer the last question, I think where

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Speaker 2: things will go probably with distrust in the mainstream media,

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Speaker 2: sources will continue to be a fracturing, a decentralization. I

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Speaker 2: think you've already seen it with the right wing, and

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Speaker 2: we've seen it in conversations that you and me have

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Speaker 2: had talking about Breitbart News, and to extrapolate a little further,

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Speaker 2: the Daily Wire and quote unquote sources like that. The

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Speaker 2: Onion now owns Alex Jones's former outlet and they're going

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Speaker 2: but for a time that was a major source as well.

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Speaker 2: What I don't think having said that, I don't think

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Speaker 2: because I don't see there being money put behind something

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Speaker 2: where people who are liberal minded will probably continue to

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Speaker 2: But I think also about like that's on the left,

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Speaker 2: and that's liberal minded people like you, even have stuff

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Speaker 2: can't say because I genuinely have no insight where the

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Speaker 2: still watch TV. So maybe what will happen is people

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Speaker 2: what is the left in America will find those sources

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Speaker 2: for themselves with the power of the Internet and the

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Speaker 2: power of non traditional media sources. But for the countless

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to something that you said

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Speaker 1: with regard to not seeing the left version of some

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Speaker 1: extremist sites that you named not seeing a left wing

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Speaker 1: left wing version of that? As some people have said, Oh,

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Speaker 1: we need our version of Joe Rogan, we need our

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Speaker 1: how does that land for you?

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Speaker 2: The left had version of Joe Rogan. His name was

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Speaker 2: John Stewart, and I think he's actually back on TV

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Speaker 2: a little bit. But like, I have a trigger finger

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Speaker 2: reaction sort of when people say, like, we need a

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Speaker 2: it's really getting at, which is, like, Joe Rogan is

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Speaker 2: a very popular figure among disaffected young white men, sis straight,

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Speaker 2: a useful idiot. Please don't get mad at me, Joe Rogan.

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Speaker 2: Don't come after me with lawyers. But like you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean, he's someone who he can have anyone

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Speaker 2: on his show. If Kamala Harris had gone on his show,

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Speaker 1: Did you know she didn't?

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Speaker 3: She didn't.

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Speaker 2: But if she had, though, if she could have said

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Speaker 3: It would go oh huh yeah, oh huh wow. Oh

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that, But don't people say? And then

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Speaker 3: something his producer feeds him and then she says an

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Speaker 3: not think that the left needs that. I don't think

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Speaker 2: I won't say exactly like Elon Musk, but I will

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Speaker 2: I know that the thing is we all do though, unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: I think that's something though, Like Bill, I understand, listen

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Speaker 2: we don't have power, one, well, we will leave it

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Speaker 1: There's a lot on the mind, but we do we

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Speaker 1: need to have a different conversation about.

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Speaker 2: Power, local billionaire and.

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Speaker 1: What that looks like, because this ain't it. Andrew As always,

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Speaker 1: thank you so very much for everything you do for

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Speaker 1: WOKF and giving us food for thought today. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: To any billionaires or legal representation of billionaires listening, everything

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Speaker 2: that was stated in this interview was parody and is

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Speaker 1: That is it for me here, Folks on Woke af

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Speaker 1: AS always power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.