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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Emily, and this is and you're listening

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Speaker 1: the stuff mom never told you. Now today we've got

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Speaker 1: So we thought as women we'd already fought in one

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Speaker 1: on many other levels. This is a global and national

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Speaker 1: you're going to hear a really interesting conversation in just

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Speaker 1: machine together. However, since the initial recording of our interview

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Speaker 1: with Amber, as most things do, as things go here

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Speaker 1: here an update on the fact that things have changed

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Speaker 1: a little bit with the Republican action around repealing and

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Speaker 1: Um and make make a note so that you know,

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Speaker 1: On May fourth, the House voter to repeal and replace

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Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, by a

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Speaker 1: narrow vote of two D seventeen to two. This vote

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Speaker 1: puts millions of Americans one step closer to losing their healthcare.

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Speaker 1: If this bill in fact did become law, it could

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Speaker 1: the Obamacare Appeal Act restructures and slashes the Medicaid program,

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Speaker 1: The Obamacare You'll Act is also a big attack on

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Speaker 1: of this conversation. Bee. We are so pumped today. We're

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Speaker 1: I think I said this off air, but like they

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Speaker 1: tried to get rid of the Ethics Committee first days,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have a clean administration. I mean, come on, like,

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Speaker 1: let's get rid of anything, anything that we could be doing.

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Speaker 1: Let's get rid of any voter protection uh committees, you know,

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Speaker 1: people who check the ballot boxes. Let's get rid of

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Speaker 1: that um and then just like let's start moving it.

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Speaker 1: Let's start moving being sport. So this is I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you are talking about it because it's we need podcasts

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Speaker 1: like this and folks like you all to actually explain

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Speaker 1: what's happening to American people because it's coming out as

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Speaker 1: so quick and we're going to look up and not

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Speaker 1: actually know the extent of our rights in our in

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Speaker 1: our own government, own democracy. So we're doing what we can,

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Speaker 1: doing our best. And the reality is that there have

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Speaker 1: been some checks and balances coming through. Thank you founding fathers,

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Speaker 1: thank you Constitution in right, and we saw the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration fail already when it came to repealing and replacing Obamacare,

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Speaker 1: which is an important component to this fight. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that you really see that as a as

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Speaker 1: a really an organizing victory because that and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: more about that kind of going forward, but you really

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Speaker 1: got to see that as a victory for for people

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Speaker 1: who make noise in this country, like you know, advocate

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Speaker 1: make their voices heard. And I think what's important to

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Speaker 1: note about the whole um a c A fight is

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Speaker 1: that there was a provision in the affordable care There

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Speaker 1: was it a revision in Trump's you know what is it,

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Speaker 1: like the World's Best World The actual name was. There

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Speaker 1: was an actual name too that was like the Nation

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Speaker 1: the Global Premier was like something ridiculously hyperbolic, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's there was a provision in there to defund important

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Speaker 1: organizations like Planned Parenthood. Right, So Planned Parenthood came to

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Speaker 1: directly under attack and was in the center the eye

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Speaker 1: of the storm when it came to the Trump administration's

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Speaker 1: uh kind of half baked healthcare policy, which got people

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Speaker 1: riled up, got organizers riled up and and rallying and

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Speaker 1: making their voices heard. And I think that's part of

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Speaker 1: the reason, especially part of the reason has to do

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Speaker 1: benefited directly from planned parenthoods extensive health services well beyond

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Speaker 1: reproductive health, but important reproductive health services as well. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much of a personal story to share

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Speaker 1: on that, absolutely because literally, as someone who grew up,

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Speaker 1: I always have a hard time talking about this, But

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Speaker 1: I don't mind because I think there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of women like me who I grew up very Christian

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Speaker 1: and Baptist. So any my mom did a great job

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Speaker 1: at explaining sexual health to me as best she could,

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Speaker 1: and there's still so much shame and stigma attached to

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Speaker 1: girl who have sex that when you're in the throes

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Speaker 1: of trying to figure it out, we definitely should tell

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Speaker 1: somebody to help you. You don't um. But I was

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Speaker 1: always grateful for my plan parenthood because the first time

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Speaker 1: I had barely had sex, I was terrified and we're like,

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Speaker 1: what does the plan? B here are like? What are like?

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Speaker 1: Where are all the things? And I was grateful that

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Speaker 1: we could go to our local plant parenthood and also

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Speaker 1: here are condoms. Calm down, you're doing the most. You

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Speaker 1: were dry humping and at It's so true because I

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Speaker 1: think about how clueless a lot of us were I

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Speaker 1: went to Catholic school. I didn't really get a comprehensive

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Speaker 1: sex education at all. And I distinctly remember um like

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Speaker 1: playing like playing spin the bottle and thinking I was

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Speaker 1: going to get like pregnant. I didn't. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: just didn't know. And do you really want like And

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Speaker 1: this is another thing that like, I am almost embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: So this is a podcast on a share and get

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Speaker 1: somebody else Free girl, Yes, on a network that's dedicated

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Speaker 1: to ions and research. I'm embarrassed. I mean I might

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Speaker 1: lose my job for admitting this job. But up until

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Speaker 1: I was in college, I thought that you couldn't get

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Speaker 1: pregnant if the woman was on top. I literally got

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Speaker 1: that years. I got that. Well, that's a real thing

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Speaker 1: that people think and it's important. I got told that

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Speaker 1: they would know you're just out here. My favorite, my

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Speaker 1: favorite moment of you actually know nothing, Amber Villas, was

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Speaker 1: when I told you I worked for a sexual health

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Speaker 1: and reproductive rights organization. And I think it was I

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Speaker 1: forget this actor's name, but you got throat cancer. Oh

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Speaker 1: it's ah. Katherine Fada Jones's husband what's his name? Having

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Speaker 1: me crazy? Um, we got looked at it Michael Douglas.

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Speaker 1: So Michael Douglas had gotten throat cancer and there everyone

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Speaker 1: was saying it was because of kind of lingus and

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Speaker 1: we were in our all staff meeting and they were like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Michael Douglas might have though cancer from kind of lingas

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is kind of legs? And everyone

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Speaker 1: stopped and looked at me, like okay, so we're going

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Speaker 1: to get you all of the booklets in the bag.

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Speaker 1: And then it was explained to me that kind of

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Speaker 1: lingus is performing oral sex on a woman. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, okay, well I know what kind of lea,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't know it's called kind of lega. You

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Speaker 1: didn't know it by It's like I didn't know by

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Speaker 1: this government. And I'm like literally read to my best

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Speaker 1: and read all these things, like what else don't you know?

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Speaker 1: Like this is you cannot be responsible for young people.

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Speaker 1: It is like speaking of stuff. Mom never told you.

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Speaker 1: That's what I thought the name of this show was.

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Speaker 1: I'm just honest about my limitation. And it's so it's

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Speaker 1: such a good reminder that all of us, especially when

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Speaker 1: we're young and a little bit figuring. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say clueless, because we're figuring things out. There's a

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Speaker 1: part of life when you gotta figure things out, even

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Speaker 1: if you're in your mid twenties, and Plan PARENTHO is

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Speaker 1: there to help you do that. And for me it

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Speaker 1: was really important in college because my health insurance came

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Speaker 1: through my mom. My mom works at a Catholic hospital

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Speaker 1: which has an exception right and that they are allowed

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Speaker 1: to claim religious exemption from providing health coverage for their

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Speaker 1: workers that covers contraceptives, and of course they don't perform

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Speaker 1: Abussian services there either. But what that meant for my

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Speaker 1: mom's kid a k a. Me being a twenty year

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Speaker 1: old in college is that I was paying full price

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Speaker 1: out of pocket, like fifty plus bucks a month for

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Speaker 1: the birth control pill, and Planned Parenthood had financial subsidies

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Speaker 1: for like I was able to go there and get

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Speaker 1: it for like thirty bucks instead of fifty bucks. But

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Speaker 1: I had to demonstrate how poor I actually was to

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Speaker 1: make that possible. So thank you, be safe and avoid

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Speaker 1: having to use all of their services. Right, So, if

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Speaker 1: that's really the goal here, and research has shown that

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Speaker 1: education and access to contraceptive if whether or not, however

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Speaker 1: you feel about abortion is the way to reduce abortions

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Speaker 1: in real life. And I think what you just mentioned

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Speaker 1: Emily about sort of like being on your parents plan,

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Speaker 1: or being low income, or being a work like a

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Speaker 1: working young person. I think in one of the other

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Speaker 1: attacks that we've sadly seen from this administration on women's care,

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Speaker 1: UM comes in the form of Title ten. UM. Title

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Speaker 1: ten is our nation's family planning program, and basically it

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Speaker 1: helps millions and millions of low income people afford much

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Speaker 1: needed health care. And these are things like birth control.

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Speaker 1: These are things like um, you know, testing and treatment

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Speaker 1: for st I S including HIV. This is well woman exams.

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Speaker 1: This is you know, breast cancers, rereading, is contraceptives, all

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Speaker 1: of that, right, Like, these are things that people need.

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Speaker 1: This is basic care of you know, basic like maintenance

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Speaker 1: of having a body, being a person, you know, things

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Speaker 1: that we all need. UM in effects. Yeah, we've already

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Speaker 1: fought these battles. That's the thing that feels the word exactly.

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Speaker 1: And what's interesting is that this program is super popular,

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Speaker 1: right Like, Republicans like it, Democrats, this is not a

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Speaker 1: program that people don't like. It's a popular program because

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Speaker 1: I think most reasonable people know that when you know,

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Speaker 1: live in a society, it's good if people had access

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Speaker 1: to getting tested for infectious diseases so that people aren't

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Speaker 1: running around knowing like not knowing you know, they have

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Speaker 1: a disease. It's good if people have birth control. It's

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Speaker 1: good people have you know, it's good for society. UM

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I think it's really interesting that we that

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Speaker 1: we saw a pretty a pretty good attack on Title

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Speaker 1: tent so early on from this administration. And UM, just

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Speaker 1: as an interesting sort of procedural note, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to get too in the weeds of how this happened,

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Speaker 1: but UM, so, basically, the Obama administration rule that they

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Speaker 1: passed right after, right before he left office, basically made

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Speaker 1: it so that UM state lawmakers could not prevent specific

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Speaker 1: clinics from accepting Title ten funding. It based solely on

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Speaker 1: whether or not those clinics perform abortion or not. UM

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Speaker 1: that's already in the law, but this Obama administration rule

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Speaker 1: just clarified that, like, if you are a state legislator,

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Speaker 1: you cannot ban a clinic from getting Title ten funding

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Speaker 1: because they do abortion, because they happen to also provide

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Speaker 1: because Title tenn is about, you know, it's basic health

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Speaker 1: and this is what got us all celebrating. And Obama

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Speaker 1: was about to leave off at as he was about

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Speaker 1: to leave office, if you all remember, there were a

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Speaker 1: bunch of headlines like Obama just signed executive order that

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Speaker 1: will protect plant parent and even regardless of what administration

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Speaker 1: we're in, and it was literally, this administration is wild

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Speaker 1: to me, y'all. It's like they literally took note of

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Speaker 1: it and was like, okay, but that's the first thing

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Speaker 1: you all like this, Okay, we're getting rid of this

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Speaker 1: and just to add more explanation onto it. The thing

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Speaker 1: that I found the most hilarious about it, so when

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Speaker 1: the debacco happened around UM repell and replace in our Congress,

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Speaker 1: not being able to get that done because of the

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Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus, literally they were like, okay, well, we're definitely

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Speaker 1: still doing this whole defunding plant parenthood thing. And Mike

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Speaker 1: Pence came into UM cast the tie breaking vote that

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Speaker 1: would get rid of this protection. Like that's how important

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Speaker 1: it was. What's also interesting to me is that they

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Speaker 1: did this the day after having this big women's economic

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Speaker 1: leadership thing at the White House. He didn't happen. So

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Speaker 1: you basically, you know, got up and gave this big

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Speaker 1: speech about how women are so great and we should

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Speaker 1: protect women. But then and we should care for that.

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Speaker 1: We could care for women unless they need healthcare. And

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Speaker 1: if you get healthcare, I cannot help. Also in the

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Speaker 1: new plan that they put forward, they were like, also,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna make it harder for you to get maternity cares.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what they want us to do.

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Speaker 1: I think they just want us to stay in the

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Speaker 1: house and like read the Bible. And because right now

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Speaker 1: these protections are popular, like you just said, across the board,

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Speaker 1: because they actually put us in a place where with

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Speaker 1: the correct information, it actually helps women to better plan

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Speaker 1: out their lives, and therefore it helps everyone. It helps

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Speaker 1: our economy, it helps our community. UM. It gets you

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Speaker 1: the information you need. And with things like titled ten,

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Speaker 1: it prevents more abortion um, which honestly is the goal. Like,

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Speaker 1: we want people to be able to access the full

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Speaker 1: range of their health care so that when they need

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Speaker 1: to make an abortion decision, that they're also able to

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Speaker 1: do that with the best information possible. And right now,

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Speaker 1: people like Mike Pence are making it so much harder

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Speaker 1: regardless of how many meetings he has women women, or

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Speaker 1: how many times he's photographed having lunch with his wife.

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Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is he does not love you.

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Speaker 1: And this is why one of the notes sided charges

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Speaker 1: just keep saying during election, when people are like Trump

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Speaker 1: is the worst, Mike Pence is Actually he's so he's

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Speaker 1: ten times worse, mostly because he has had practice in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: This man has literally found ways to not only try

649
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: and he has successfully defunded um playing parenthood in his state,

650
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: but he's able to do it in a way where

651
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: he uses the law to get people caught up in

652
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: litigation as they determine whether or not these things are

653
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Speaker 1: even possible. Didn't his state this pretty epic? Like HIV

654
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Speaker 1: AIDS outbreak help? Sorry am I allowed to say? Hell? Yeah,

655
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: they did? Like of course that's gonna happen when you

656
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Speaker 1: don't provide healthcare. They literally had a breakout, Like so

657
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: when And those are the material consequences that all these

658
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: folks who are preventing this because they care about the babies,

659
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: they care about the families. You're actually tearing apart families

660
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Speaker 1: because you're giving When you take away people's information, you

661
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: are setting them up for a lifetime of just issues.

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00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: You're actually when you take away people's education and an

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Speaker 1: outbreak around HIV and s c I s happen, you're

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Speaker 1: throwing them back into the health care system to be

665
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: there constantly because they're sick, because you took away the

666
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: information that would prevent them from getting sick, which should

667
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: be the goal of our health care is to actually

668
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: get people so healthy and keep them healthy, not make

669
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: it in a way that they're only coming to you

670
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: when it's the worst case scenario, which we were all

671
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: got all of those UM images I remember growing up.

672
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Speaker 1: Um I was much younger than before Obama took office

673
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: when they were just talking about the epidemic of people

674
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: going to the er instead of to UH to their

675
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Speaker 1: healthcare provider. And that's what we're going to look at

676
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 1: if they ever succeed of actually repelling this, because people

677
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: aren't going to need care no matter what. They're just

678
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: going to find alternative ways of getting it, or we're

679
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Speaker 1: going to die. Wow. Unfortunately, Mike Pence is not the

680
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: only one who we have to keep our eye on,

681
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: really and truly when it comes to enemies of women

682
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: and women's health. There is a new player on the scene,

683
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Speaker 1: Neil Gorsick, who was just confirmed to the Supreme Court,

684
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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk more about him in just

685
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: a quick second. We'll be right back. And we're back,

686
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: and unfortunately we've got another player on the scene we

687
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: have to talk about. We know that last month in April,

688
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: the Senate went ahead and went forward with what's called

689
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: the nuclear option, making it easier for a confirmation of

690
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: a hyperpartisan Supreme Court justice, in this case, Neil Gorsic

691
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: to be confirmed to the bench to join our Supreme

692
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: Court justices uh in a term limitless role as a

693
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice, And as we know, the Supreme Court

694
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: is very important in terms of places where a woman's

695
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: right to choose has been protected and upheld in the past.

696
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Speaker 1: What do we think about Gorsi edition, Well, I think

697
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: the fact that they pushed through one of the longest

698
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: standing positions in US government is abserved through a thing

699
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: called the nuclear option, which I was mentioning, is some

700
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: of the best political theater I've ever seen in my

701
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: entire life, because again, what the GOLP is doing masterfully

702
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: is learning all the rules and applying them to places

703
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: where they don't belong. When Mitchell McConnell presented the nuclear

704
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: option as a way for UM them to push through

705
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: this Scotus pick um, they're like, oh, this doesn't apply

706
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: to that, and they're like, says, who does, let's vote

707
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: on it. We got it, We're gonna do it. And

708
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: they've changed the rules of the Senate. Democrats and Republicans

709
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: agree is bad, right, because historically I don't remember what

710
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: dead old white guy said there, but some some founding

711
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: father said that the Senate is the cooling saucer of

712
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: the hot cup of coffee. That is right. The Senate

713
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: is supposed to be the more temperate body in our

714
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: government that that helps UH put forth bi partisan solutions

715
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Speaker 1: and Neil Corsi is anything but yeah. And I feel

716
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Speaker 1: like they just for eight years under Obama's administration they

717
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: did nothing, and now it's like they want to be

718
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 1: head of the class. They're going right now, they're doing

719
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Speaker 1: the absolute most. And it's scary because rules like this exists,

720
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: because if we remember during UM, I don't have no

721
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: problem bringing up Obama's administration, even though apparently we're not

722
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: allowed to talk about that anymore. But Trump is allowed

723
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: to talk about his election daily. UM. But he created

724
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Speaker 1: they access some of these rules because if you remember,

725
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Speaker 1: he was so gridlock, he wasn't able to do anything.

726
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Speaker 1: So basically the gel it looks. What what is happening

727
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: now is they didn't even vote on right. What's happening

728
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: now is the GLP is taking those rules as like

729
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: they took note of everything Obama did and they're expanding

730
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Speaker 1: it to do really awful things. Whereas Obama was creating

731
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Speaker 1: UM accessing rules are using executive orders. Right, the executive

732
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: order thing was thrown up in his face even by

733
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Speaker 1: UM Trump before he took office, where he used the

734
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,959
Speaker 1: executive orders because he wasn't able to get anything through.

735
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Speaker 1: And now the GOLP has taken note and is using

736
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Speaker 1: those same kind of tactics but stretching them to their

737
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Speaker 1: limits to actually hurting harm American people instead of protect them.

738
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Speaker 1: So it's it's again, it's scary, and we have to

739
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: are the best we can to explain what's happening. And

740
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Speaker 1: I don't want to compare the executive orders, right, we

741
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: can't compare the tactics of the Obama administration to this

742
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: this like new totally like not like off the grid

743
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: new future that they just set themselves up for in

744
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: the Senate, they sent Mike Pennce down to again break

745
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: the tie as a show of force for the White

746
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: House to vote this Supreme Court justice. And this is this,

747
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: this should be troubling, like this is our I don't

748
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 1: want not normal. This is not this is not business

749
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Speaker 1: as usual. It's very unusual. Um. And so I know

750
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Speaker 1: that a lot of this um, it sounds very, very

751
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Speaker 1: depressing and overwhelming. But I need to like pull out

752
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: because it's really not all bad. There are things that

753
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: we can do help make noise about this. And I

754
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: do think that with U. A. C. A. Again, the

755
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Speaker 1: reason why that was a failed was because of it

756
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Speaker 1: wasn't you know, It was because people like you listeners,

757
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: right like people who made noise, people who talk to

758
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: their lawmakers, people who stood up and said no. And

759
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Speaker 1: so I do think, you know, that should be seen

760
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Speaker 1: as a kind of a victory, a small victory. So like,

761
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Speaker 1: I don't want to make it all at all seem like,

762
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, it's not rosy, but but it was. I

763
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: think the failure of the Republican's attempt to repeal and

764
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: replace Obamacare is a show of strength or grassroots and

765
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: what's challenging is in this this saturated news environment, where

766
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: it does get overwhelming, it does get hard to keep

767
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: up with this administration's rapid fire pace of really dangerous

768
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: policies and initiatives. We have to remember that women's health

769
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: is foundational to the health of our entire world. We

770
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: have to remember to stay vigilant on protections that have

771
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: already been well established, that have already been protected in

772
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: the law, are under attack in a way that we

773
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Speaker 1: might not even be able to fathom. And just to

774
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Speaker 1: add to and I know we're trying to uplift and

775
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: I promised to bring it back to that, but also

776
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Speaker 1: it's important to note, even in highlighting that victory of

777
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: people staying out, that the the a c A also

778
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: didn't get replaced because of the Freedom Caucus. And the

779
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 1: reason why I bring up the Freedom Caucus is because

780
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Speaker 1: we're lumping them into the victory. And really what the

781
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus is, it's they're big push around the A

782
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Speaker 1: c A is that it didn't go far right. So

783
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Speaker 1: when that didn't pass because of the Freedom Caucus, the

784
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus um and tactic that I really want the

785
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: Democrats to use is that they are pushing the Republicans

786
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: to go further and when what why we need to

787
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: be aware of them is because that's why these appointees matter,

788
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: is because they are these little things that like trying

789
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: to take away Title UM ten, trying to push through

790
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Speaker 1: SCOTUS without any kind of real approval processes, are because

791
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: they have vow to make women just the undercast of

792
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Speaker 1: this society. And we need to acknowledge the Freedom Caucus

793
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: because they're not going to stop until they get what

794
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: they want. And this is a time for our side,

795
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: Democrats and progressives to be the same way we tend

796
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 1: to um concede a lot, or to find the middle

797
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: ground where when we need to actually be pushing the

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00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: most radical, our most dreaming legislation possible forward because that's

799
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: exactly what this other side is doing, and if we don't,

800
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: we'll find ourselves just in the middle where we're still

801
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: having a conversation about the A c A and never

802
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: getting to the point that the C A does need

803
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: to be improved, that there needs to be more. It's

804
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: not it needs to go further. It's not universal health care.

805
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: Everyone isn't getting what they need from the A c A.

806
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: And it's okay to talk about that while also saying still,

807
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: the GOLP sucks right now and they are not the answer.

808
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: But we need to make sure the things that we're

809
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: pushing through also directly improve the lives of the most marginalized,

810
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: because that is when we get to the point where

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Speaker 1: we're celebrating Roe v. Wade, But we never got to

812
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: repelling high. We never got to making sure that poor

813
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: women have access to apportion care as well. And that's

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Speaker 1: what I see my role as as an organizer and

815
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: as an activist and as a communicator who speaks out

816
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: a lot against the nuances in our movement, especially in

817
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: the women's rights movement, not because I think we're doing

818
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: it completely wrong, but because I need us to do more.

819
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: We need to do better. We need to do so

820
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: much better than what we're doing now, because it's not

821
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Speaker 1: enough to protect me as a twenty seven year old

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Speaker 1: working black women. I need to make sure that my

823
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Speaker 1: niece's mom, who doesn't have access to formal education, who

824
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: is on government assistance, is also allowed to see her

825
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: life in the future beyond this administration. And then some

826
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Speaker 1: I see things. I agree with what you're saying, but

827
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Speaker 1: I also see things a little differently, and that if

828
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: our Senate is now going to be able to vote

829
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: things through with a simple majority, we have to remind

830
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Speaker 1: Republicans that they know women. Some of them are married

831
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Speaker 1: to women, some of them are women. And if Republicans,

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Speaker 1: especially level headed Republicans, who I think make up the

833
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: majority of that party even though they don't make up

834
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Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus, per se, level head to Republicans like

835
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: moderate Republicans who don't want to see of our society

836
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: marginalized in a way that that strips women of their

837
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: basic access to health care, especially poor women. If you

838
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: really believe in in sort of in a Republican agenda

839
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: that doesn't include perpetrating and and going after poor women

840
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: and women's health issues, make your voice heard. We need

841
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: to tell Republicans who are in power that they have

842
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: a responsibility to represent fifty of the American people. That's

843
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 1: somebody's ministry, that's not mine. And while while a group

844
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: of us is working with the Democratic Party, UM, I'm

845
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: also really invested in us coming up with alternatives because

846
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: I don't UM, I'm really invested. Again. We talked about

847
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: the Black Joy mixtape about really diving into what I

848
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: believe is a renaissance for people of coming in this country,

849
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: specifically black people, of creating systems UM outside of our

850
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: government that will serve and protect us. So that means

851
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: like building community accountability UM, coming up with alternatives to

852
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 1: the lack of child care access, coming up with giving

853
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: people direct information around sex ed since we know it's

854
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: not going to be taught in their schools, Creating freedom schools,

855
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: free breakfast programs like this is the type of organizing

856
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: that we're going to have to dive into again because

857
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: this administration. Literally my only help is Maxine waters show.

858
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: As long as exactly as long as she is pounding

859
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: this pavement and doing her justice of saying these people

860
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: have zero credibility, I'm with it, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: important to notice too, and I believe they can all

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Speaker 1: exist at the same time. My issue often is on

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Speaker 1: on the progressive side of things, is making sure that

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Speaker 1: we're also supporting the people that we find radical and

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Speaker 1: not just stealing their ideas and putting it in a

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Speaker 1: more comfortable framing UM like a Pepsi commercial or a

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Speaker 1: women's march, but actually throwing funding and throwing resources behind

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Speaker 1: movement for Black Lives, behind reproductive justice organizations like Sister Song,

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Speaker 1: like Sister Reach, b y P one hundred advocates for you.

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Speaker 1: The list goes on. I'm here to talk about them.

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Speaker 1: If you've heard it here first Phillips calling for a

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Speaker 1: new Black organizing renaissance. So Amber, I noticed, so this

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Speaker 1: is one of the things I really want to test

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Speaker 1: of plug. While you were doing this episode, I noticed

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Speaker 1: that you shouted at a couple of good organizations. And

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00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: so one of the things, in addition to staying vigilant

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Speaker 1: and you know, making a lot of noise to your

878
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: electric officials, another thing that you can do to really

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00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: can back is feeling of sort of overwhelming negativity coming

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00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: out of this administration that does feel very overwhelming, is

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Speaker 1: you know, blessing an organization that you like with a

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Speaker 1: little bit of coin, right, So like me about give

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00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: the coin right? Like thinking through you know, who are

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00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: those organizations in your even in your local communities, who

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Speaker 1: are doing the work that you think is important and

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Speaker 1: it was going to be important to the next four years,

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Speaker 1: and so you shout it out. One of my favorite

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Speaker 1: organization's Sister Song. Tell us about Sister Song. So I'm

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Speaker 1: of course biased, but I don't care UM. I sit

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Speaker 1: on the board of Sister Song UM and it is

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Speaker 1: a reproductive justice organization led by the phenomenal Monica Ray

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Speaker 1: Simpson UM. And they are a national organization that is

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Speaker 1: based in the South, and that is very important to

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Speaker 1: mention because the Southeast is where you have very high

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Speaker 1: rates of s t I s UM and very little

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Speaker 1: representation of government and government of people who are trying

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Speaker 1: to change that fact. So yes, Sister Song is phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: They also have a conference coming up this year in

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Speaker 1: October called Let's Talk About Sex and more information is

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Speaker 1: coming out on that as well that I definitely urged

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Speaker 1: people to learn more UM learn more about again UM.

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Speaker 1: Other amazing organizations that I love who taught me about

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Speaker 1: reproductive justice are New Voices UM Pittsburgh and Cleveland, which

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Speaker 1: is led up by Latasha D. Mains UM. And again

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Speaker 1: speaking of the South, I have they give a shout

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Speaker 1: out to Sister Reach there located in Tennessee in their

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Speaker 1: phenomenal organization and of course mine as well advocates for you.

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Speaker 1: Were not a reproductive justice organization, but we have a

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Speaker 1: reproductive justice lens. I mean you may have heard of

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Speaker 1: our campaign UM. The one in three campaign or even

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Speaker 1: our Great American Condom campaign, And we do work working

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Speaker 1: directly with young people um to make sure that they

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Speaker 1: have access to the things that they need and become

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Speaker 1: leaders and advocating for what they need themselves. And I

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Speaker 1: think the same can be said. To add it to

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Speaker 1: the list is Planned Parenthood for America right. Check it out,

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Speaker 1: donate when you can get in touch with your local clinics.

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Speaker 1: It can happen uh. And there's a shortest board of

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Speaker 1: right of advocacy organizations out there. We can put our

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Speaker 1: money where our mouth is. At the very least, it

921
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: will probably make you feel a little better in the

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Speaker 1: face of this war on women's hell. So we want

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Speaker 1: to hear from you SMNDY listeners, how has access to

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00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: reproductive healthcare and really all kinds of women's healthcare made

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Speaker 1: a different in your life. You heard our stories, you

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Speaker 1: heard Bridget Amber and I share how access in the

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Speaker 1: United States has made a huge difference to us. And

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Speaker 1: for those of you abroad, share what your thoughts are

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Speaker 1: on the Trump administration's pointed attack against women in the

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Speaker 1: world and women here in the United States. And the Amber,

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Speaker 1: I just have to thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: on Today a joy. I can totally see what people

933
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: call you, the high Priestess of black y'all, don't get

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Speaker 1: it twisted. Bridges is also phenomenal. She's the reason why

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Speaker 1: I'm a digital strategist. She's amazing. Emily, I'm also going

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Speaker 1: to give you a shout out of your phenomenal as well.

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Speaker 1: But like Bridget has just ushered me. There's so much

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Speaker 1: and I'm so honored. Never Never and Again. Amber is

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Speaker 1: joining us from Advocates for Youth and she's also the

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Speaker 1: co host of the Black Joy Mixtape. Amber. If people

941
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,919
Speaker 1: want to hear your phenomenal podcast, what should they do well?

942
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: You can go to SoundCloud or iTunes and Google Play.

943
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: It's just Black Joint Mixtape. We're on Twitter and Instagram

944
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 1: as well at Black Join Mixtape and again. You can

945
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: hit me up or ask me questions or tell me

946
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,280
Speaker 1: you know you were wrong about that. All my social

947
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: as well and it's just at Amber J Phillips two els.

948
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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, and keep us posted

949
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: on your thoughts on this episode and what you'd like

950
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: to hear from us next. You can tweet at us

951
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,720
Speaker 1: at mom Stuff Podcast. Find us on Instagram. At stuff

952
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: mom Never told You, And of course we love receiving

953
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,279
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