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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ook F 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: I am very, very excited for one of the last

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Speaker 1: conversations to happen on wok F Daily to be with

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Speaker 1: the producer extraordinaire Andrew Marcello, who has been with wok

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Speaker 1: F Daily since the very first episode.

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Speaker 2: I think if I am not.

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Speaker 1: Correct, and has just been an extraordinary partner for the

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Speaker 1: last seven years in making this show possible. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted Andrew for us to be able to

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Speaker 1: close it out together. So it's been a journey. It's

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Speaker 1: been this, It has been a journey. I started this

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Speaker 1: show in response to Donald Trump's first election, thinking that

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Speaker 1: it was going to be a blip on America's radar.

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Speaker 1: And we're ending the show and he's starting a second

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Speaker 1: term in a couple of weeks, which is just wild.

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Speaker 1: But tell me first, like, seven years it's a long time.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel.

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Speaker 3: I feel like a different person than I was seven

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Speaker 3: years ago in a lot of ways. I feel like

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Speaker 3: the show itself has grown so much from where it started.

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Speaker 3: I'm very proud of where you and where we got

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Speaker 3: with this show. I wish I could say the same

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Speaker 3: for the country.

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Speaker 2: Sam.

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Speaker 3: You know, the show started out, even in the space

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Speaker 3: that it was in, as a more left wing oriented

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Speaker 3: or more progressive oriented voice, and I'm fearful that I

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Speaker 3: feel a lot of things. I have a lot of

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Speaker 3: feelings about how progressive politics have been treated over the

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Speaker 3: last four years. I think they were starting to become normalized,

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Speaker 3: and even during the first Trump administration, I felt like,

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Speaker 3: at least as a form of resistance, they were still

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Speaker 3: somewhat prominent and being heard. And I think the last

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Speaker 3: four years in particular have been really disheartening in terms

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Speaker 3: of the regression that has happened. In some ways, I

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Speaker 3: wasn't really actually surprised by Trump's reelection because I felt

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Speaker 3: the forces in society shifting more and more towards the right,

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Speaker 3: and I'm certain fearful for what's going to come next.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that that is right. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: be surprised, I think by his reelection. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: really believe that the country had progressed and had learned

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Speaker 1: write some really hard lessons in his first term, but

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Speaker 1: also over the last seven years. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that one of the villains, if I will say,

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Speaker 1: of the wok F daily story, have been the Democrats

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Speaker 1: and their messaging or lack thereof, and their desire to

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Speaker 1: really appeal to a center that doesn't exist anymore. I've

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Speaker 1: been referring to Democrats these days, those the Pelosis and

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Speaker 1: the Schumers, as they're basically moderate Republicans. They're what moderate

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Speaker 1: Republicans used to be before they all gave their soul

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: But I saw so much possibility right in progressivism, and

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Speaker 1: I thought that for certain, seeing Donald Trump's first term unfold,

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Speaker 1: a way to say, like, no, you're deserving of all

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Speaker 1: of these things that other industrialized countries have, like universal

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Speaker 1: And it seems as if they have gone in the

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Speaker 3: me years and years later. In June of twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden was speaking to donors at an event at

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Speaker 3: And then I think about I think it was Nevada.

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Speaker 3: There was some weekend in twenty twenty where Bernie Sanders

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Speaker 3: And what I don't know is that a democratic process.

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Speaker 1: But it has been backroom dealings. I feel like have

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Speaker 3: It wasn't winning a lot of states at the time.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't winning any states until Clyburn said, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: And I think that when the democratic establishment decides to

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Speaker 3: Right. I definitely feel like there was a lot of

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Speaker 3: But I think the suppression that occurred in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: It never made sense to me that for seven plus

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Speaker 1: you know, I've had a lot of time to reflect

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Speaker 1: but Donald Trump and MAGA for better or for Worse

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Speaker 2: To back away. Oh we're with black people.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, but white people don't seem to like that, so

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Speaker 1: we're going to fund the police more. Oh we're So

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Speaker 1: there was always this two steps forward twelve steps back

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Speaker 2: How do you see it?

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Speaker 3: There's two issues actually in twenty twenty four and this

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Speaker 3: it's so frustrating because crime is like a factual argument.

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Speaker 3: Like this idea that all of a sudden America's cities

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Speaker 1: This was not terrorism. Right. We can say acts that

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Speaker 3: out of the c suite. You are not a persecuted minority.

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Speaker 2: Are you sure?

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Speaker 1: Because Eric Adams said that they were, and so did

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Like, but that's that's.

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Speaker 3: And Cheryl Parker wants to evict a bunch of people

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Speaker 3: It's so like, who are there are there politicians of

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Speaker 1: And no, there aren't. And I was going to ask you.

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Speaker 1: Millions of people sat home on November fifth did not vote.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the years. It is your responsibility.

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Speaker 1: It is a right that was hard fought and one

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Speaker 1: and thought behind who you're pulling the levers for. However,

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Speaker 1: when folks looked at this, they said, they're all taken

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Speaker 1: What do you think led to so many millions of people,

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Speaker 3: I'm not at risk for saying this because you said

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Speaker 3: I know. We're talking about apac money, baby, we're talking

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Speaker 3: We're talking about the genocide being committed overseas. We are

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Speaker 1: last seven years.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I'm honored and I'm excited for

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Speaker 3: what's next for you. I'm apprehensive about what's next for me,

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Speaker 3: but I'll be you know, I'll be good.

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Speaker 2: You will you will be great.

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Speaker 1: Thank you because of the talents that that you have,

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Speaker 1: So thank you for making the time to join wok

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Speaker 1: f Daily. Thank you for all of the work that

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Speaker 1: you've put into wok f Daily and.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: That is it for me today.

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Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke af as always, Power to the

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Speaker 1: people and to all the people.

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Speaker 2: Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.