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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKF Daily with Me

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Speaker 1: your Girl. Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker Today.

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Speaker 1: I woke up and did not want to get out

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes. I am feeling incredibly heavy, incredibly low,

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Speaker 1: and doing all that I can to muster the energy

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Speaker 1: to keep pushing forward. We've all been dealing with just

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Speaker 1: non stop havoc on our nervous systems for the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks. But if we're really honest, the last eight years,

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Speaker 1: and so, if you do find yourself like I do,

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Speaker 1: where you are at a very low point, you find

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Speaker 1: yourself at a very low moment. I want to offer

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Speaker 1: to you to just give into what your body needs,

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Speaker 1: which is rest, which is a social media break, which

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Speaker 1: is a news break, and go and do things that

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Speaker 1: nourish you. Because what I think is happening right now

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Speaker 1: with this inundation of just bad judges, bad decisions, bad

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Speaker 1: people gaining power and reverence on social media, in corporate media,

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Speaker 1: the fall of our democracy, of places like MSNBC who

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Speaker 1: now have pretty much shown and revealed who they are

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Speaker 1: with inviting Eric Trump on air, Katie Turr really with

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Speaker 1: removing Mourning Joe from the air and lying to the

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Speaker 1: hosts about why really like, that's what we're doing, all

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Speaker 1: to comply and be complicit in the anointing of Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump as king. It's vile and it's disgusting, and I

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Speaker 1: think that more and more people are recognizing that they

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Speaker 1: are not to be trusted. And so I just woke

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Speaker 1: up feeling really heavy and also more committed to telling

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Speaker 1: the truth, to doing the work, to uplifting the truth,

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Speaker 1: and trying to wake as many people up as humanly

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Speaker 1: fucking possible. The announcement of jd Vance as Donald Trump's

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Speaker 1: running mate tells you everything that you need to know

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Speaker 1: about Republicans. Donald Trump could have, if he was interested

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Speaker 1: in actually gaining voters, chosen Nikki Haley. Now, I think

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Speaker 1: Nimroda is a piece of shit, But what it would

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Speaker 1: have indicated at least two Republican women is that you

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Speaker 1: believe in their power and their purpose as well. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump said, yeah, Nah, she don't have the complexion.

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Speaker 2: For that, right.

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Speaker 1: Remember, but you saw her just this week on the

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Speaker 1: stage at the RNC, bending the knee, kissing the ring

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Speaker 1: a party that sees her as nothing more than the

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Speaker 1: fucking help. So choosing jd Vance a man that has

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Speaker 1: said that he believes in abortune one hundred percent. No,

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Speaker 1: there is no cause in his mind that rape or

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Speaker 1: incest or anything horrific would constitute a second thought. He said, no,

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Speaker 1: just rape is inconvenient right. But two wrongs don't make

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Speaker 1: a right, which is what he said. Tell that to

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Speaker 1: victims of sexual assault. He has said that women should

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Speaker 1: the better men of the children. He has said that

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Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus people are an abomination and wants to roll

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Speaker 1: back any protections that the community has gained in the

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Speaker 1: past several decades. He is a white supremacist. He is

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Speaker 1: a liar. He is a man that said in twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen that Donald Trump was America's hitler, and now in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is Shooken and Jivin on the stage

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Speaker 1: with him. These people are not to be trusted, and

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Speaker 1: they're also to be taken.

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Speaker 2: At their word.

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Speaker 1: So do not sit this election out. Do not think

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Speaker 1: that you're going to get another bite at the apple.

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Speaker 1: Do not waste your vote on a third party. Use

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Speaker 1: your power, your platform, your treasure, your talents to secure

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Speaker 1: our democracy over the next three and a half months.

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Speaker 1: Because where who we have been withh wait for coming

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Speaker 1: up next, dear friends, my conversation with friend of the

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Speaker 1: show bridget Todd, the host of the pod There Are

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Speaker 1: No Girls on the Internet. We get into a great

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Speaker 1: conversation about tech, about democracy, about this upcoming election, and more, folks.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to welcome back to WOKF Daily

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Speaker 1: bridget Todd, the host of There Are No Girls on

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Speaker 1: the Internet, which is launching its fourth season on iHeart

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Speaker 1: On Outspoken, and I'm so excited to have you. Every

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Speaker 1: time that I have you on, we have such rich

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Speaker 1: conversations about the world, the culture, society that we are

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Speaker 1: threads and the ban on TikTok and kind of the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do feel like we are in a really

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Speaker 3: things like you know, politically motivated deep fakes and cheap

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Speaker 3: what platform can I use? Or you know, when something

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Speaker 3: I'm a little bit concerned about our information ecosystem online.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that, particularly when you make the point

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Speaker 1: That was I think a bat signal bridget to the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so the way that you broke down

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Speaker 3: so I think that what lawmakers who are trying to

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Speaker 2: Like that's like, like that's my like big theory.

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Speaker 3: And I also think like there's a kind of a like, oh,

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Speaker 2: All for it.

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Speaker 3: I don't think just spanning one platform gets us there.

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Speaker 1: We can all list off on the top of our

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Speaker 1: have been abusing our data and abusing us since like

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Speaker 1: their beginning, what responsibility did Meta take for the twenty

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Speaker 1: What was the accountability that Meta had to play? YouTube

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Speaker 1: terms of broadcasting and platforming disinformation, misinformation and white supremacy.

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Speaker 3: And in fact, I would argue that platforms like YouTube

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Speaker 3: I think the dynamic has really become that they don't

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Speaker 3: to shift that because these platforms would be nothing without us.

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Speaker 2: They got us, aren't being accountable to us.

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Speaker 1: You know? And I wonder because to that point, how

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Speaker 1: because I feel like we have also become intellectually enslaved

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for having me Danielle Happy Pride.

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Speaker 3: You can follow me on Instagram at Bridget Marie DC

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Speaker 2: But if you want to follow it, if you want

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Speaker 3: Me, it's a Bridget makes podcasts. Yeah, I'd love to

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Speaker 1: Amazing As always, thank you so much for making the

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Friends on wokef as always,

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

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.