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Speaker 1: Good day, Good day.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to bring you with me on my morning

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Speaker 2: walk as I set up this additional mini episode of

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Speaker 2: our How to Citizens stories, you can consider what you're

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Speaker 2: about to hear to be the wrap up. John and I,

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Speaker 2: John Alexander and I kicked a sauce together, and we're

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Speaker 2: closing it out together with a joint video celebrating what

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Speaker 2: we've learned and inviting.

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Speaker 1: You to be a part of war. In additional news,

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Speaker 1: I returned my Tesla yesterday and I decided to call

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Speaker 1: it my liberation Day. Now, I'm not a hero. It's

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Speaker 1: not like I just burned thousands of dollars or tens

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Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars.

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Speaker 3: My lease was up.

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Speaker 1: But I take it as a positive sign. That's the

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Speaker 1: world that the universe times my least to be free

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Speaker 1: of this while Elon Musk is throwing up Nazi salutes

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Speaker 1: and attacking the United States in America. And I did

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Speaker 1: go during a protest of Tesla, and so the protesters

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Speaker 1: got boosted by my return. I was boosted by their presence.

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Speaker 1: And I know not everybody has the money to stop

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Speaker 1: owning Elon Musk associated things or the freedom. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: absolutely depend on starlink. Maybe you absolutely depend on SpaceX

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Speaker 1: and maybe you just started carle saying you can't afford

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Speaker 1: to get out of it.

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Speaker 4: But whatever steps we can take do matter. It definitely

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Speaker 4: made me feel a bit lighter, and that's it for me,

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Speaker 4: So the personal update. Go ahead and check out this story.

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Speaker 4: Go to our site stories dot howdositizen dot com, and

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Speaker 4: in the show notes for this we have a link.

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Speaker 4: John set this up into a simple link tree to

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Speaker 4: all the stories. So if you missed any of these stories,

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Speaker 4: we got you. That is just length tree slash week

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Speaker 4: of Citizening. Okay, have a great week. Let's keep citizening

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Speaker 4: and build this new world. And I will be dropping

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Speaker 4: stuff in the feed from time to time that are

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Speaker 4: on message with the idea of citizen as a verb.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I will throw some of my talks and public appearances,

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Speaker 4: maybe throw some of John stuff in here, and stuff.

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Speaker 1: From other collaborative. All right, you're hearing yard work happen.

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Speaker 1: This is real life. This is I'm being silly, all right.

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Speaker 1: Check out the audio of the video. You can watch

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Speaker 1: the video via the link in the show notes. Thank

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Speaker 1: you again, Peace, You've been.

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Speaker 3: Told a story.

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Speaker 5: We've all been told the same story that human nature

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Speaker 5: is selfish and individualistic, that the crises are piling up

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Speaker 5: and no one cares. That we're all just consumers looking

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Speaker 5: out for ourselves all while the wall burned and no

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Speaker 5: one really cares. That's the story we get from most

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Speaker 5: of our media most of the time.

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Speaker 6: But what you see from the stories we shared last

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Speaker 6: week and from the hundreds that have been shared back

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Speaker 6: with us in return, is that story is a lie.

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Speaker 6: When you zoom out, apathy might be what you see,

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Speaker 6: but when you zoom in, you find that people everywhere

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Speaker 6: are finding each other, finding the ways they want to

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Speaker 6: get involved and make it happen everywhere. Citizen not just consumers.

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Speaker 3: So we're asking you to citizen with us.

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Speaker 5: Join our mailing list at stories.

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Speaker 3: That hoowtocitizen dot com.

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Speaker 5: These stories are happening in communities like Memphis, Tennessee, and Lexington,

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Speaker 5: Kentucky at the Corset Library and step by Step Incorporated,

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Speaker 5: where people facing real challenges are really stepping up with

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Speaker 5: great responses, telling stories.

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Speaker 3: From their point of view that mostly we don't hear.

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Speaker 6: It's happening in the worlds of business and tech, where

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Speaker 6: pioneers like Ca Sassoon in San Francisco and the Chai

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Speaker 6: Hacknite crew in Chicago are showing that the best way

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Speaker 6: to face big challenges isn't to impose solutions on people,

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Speaker 6: is to get everyone involved in figuring them out together.

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Speaker 5: It's happening in real local politics, school board wards, county courts, councilors, clubs.

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Speaker 5: It's happening from Pennsylvania to Appalachia, which aren't that far apart,

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Speaker 5: which you get my point. It's happening amongst the real

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Speaker 5: people crossing real divides, realizing that they can gain more

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Speaker 5: from working together than by staying apart.

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Speaker 6: And it's happening when crisis hits, as we've seen an

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Speaker 6: Alta din or in Pasadena in the aftermath of those

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Speaker 6: horrific fires. The humans are really so selfish And how

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Speaker 6: do you explained something like Dina Heels, What actually happens

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Speaker 6: in the aftermath of crisis is that we find each other,

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Speaker 6: We help one another. This is who human beings are.

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Speaker 5: My name is baratun Day Thirst and a few years ago,

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Speaker 5: my wife Elizabeth and I made a podcast called how

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Speaker 5: to Citizen where we see citizen as a firm.

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Speaker 6: And my name is John Alexander. And at the same

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Speaker 6: time I was writing a book called Citizens, Why the

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Speaker 6: Key to Fixing Everything? As all of us, the two

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Speaker 6: of us, were basically coming to the same insight at

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Speaker 6: the same time, on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

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Speaker 5: Over the past week, we have lifted up a different

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Speaker 5: kind of story, a story of we, not just of me,

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Speaker 5: a story of real people practicing power, a story of citizening.

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Speaker 5: And we've seen a hunger for the story, not just

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Speaker 5: to consume, but to be that story.

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Speaker 6: Now we've seen that hunger. We want to do more,

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Speaker 6: but we need you with us. If you believe in

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Speaker 6: this bigger story of us, sign up at stories dot

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Speaker 6: how toositizen dot com. We don't know exactly what's next,

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Speaker 6: but if you're on that main list, you'll know as

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Speaker 6: soon as.

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Speaker 3: We do, or almost as soon as we do.

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Speaker 5: I mean, technically we're gonna know first because we have

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Speaker 5: access to the inbox, and then we're going to tell you,

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Speaker 5: like as soon as possible. Listen, the story is the

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Speaker 5: thing that's what we actually live inside of, and this

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Speaker 5: moment right now is a battle of stories, one that

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Speaker 5: scapegoats and vilifies and separates us and turns allies into enemies.

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Speaker 3: But there's a much bigger, more beautiful story waiting for us.

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Speaker 3: It's alive everywhere. We just have to look for it,

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Speaker 3: tell it, and become it. But let's tell that story

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Speaker 3: together