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Speaker 1: Native Lampod is a production of iHeartRadio and partnership with

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome home, y'all. This is episode sixty eight of

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Speaker 1: Native Lampod and I'm gonna tell you why. I'm so

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Speaker 1: happy because my co hosts are here in person with me,

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Speaker 1: and for a change, they are in uniform. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're always out of uniform.

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Speaker 3: And finally for the disinformation, it's.

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Speaker 4: A bomb everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to doctor Yelvin.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, Well I gotta do the personal side.

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Speaker 4: This is my mother in law or my mother in love,

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Speaker 4: I say or, and you feel the sentence for me,

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Speaker 4: help you, Doctor Caroline Yelding coming to us from the

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Speaker 4: great city of Daphnet, Alabama. Down in Baldwin County, Alabama.

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Speaker 4: Jay's mom. I love her not just because she's my

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Speaker 4: mother in law. I love her as a human, just

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Speaker 4: as a person. But she thought about it us as

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Speaker 4: she watches every episode, maybe more than once, I'm not sure,

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Speaker 4: just as my mother does you. I love love you, Tom.

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Speaker 4: But when we did the whole nomination and you know,

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Speaker 4: going for these awards, she was very kind to go

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Speaker 4: and have these awesome sweaters made, y'all.

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Speaker 3: I want to ask her, does she think I'm this color?

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Speaker 3: I think you should have got.

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Speaker 4: This, you know what. She didn't even say that.

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Speaker 1: He just like randomly put.

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Speaker 4: Him in a bag and mailed it. I didn't. I

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Speaker 4: was like, oh, this is the same size.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, so ours were the same. He just mailed it.

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Speaker 1: The thank you to your mother in law honestly, because

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Speaker 1: we really appreciate it. Was so kind and it's that

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Speaker 1: nice family and there all right. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: keep the folks waiting because every week it's a jam

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Speaker 1: packed show, and I just think that's what happens during

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Speaker 1: this administration. They flood the zone and we are yet

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Speaker 1: again to catch confetti. So what you got, Andrew?

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Speaker 4: What we're talking about, Well, it's already been a while week.

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Speaker 4: I know we won't spend a bunch of time on it.

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Speaker 4: But once about Joy Reid, our good friend, and then

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Speaker 4: of course from.

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Speaker 5: The TV all well not yet, no, I'm saying, because

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Speaker 5: we're happing with Joy.

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Speaker 4: I'll messing with you. And then finally, would love to

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Speaker 4: get into some of these budget numbers and this ridiculous

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Speaker 4: package is the Republicans just past what you got in.

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Speaker 5: Well, I want to talk about that budget too. I

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Speaker 5: want to talk about what's going on on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk about if Democrats in Congress should

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Speaker 5: be going to the State of the Union to watch

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Speaker 5: a fascist lie to you for an hour, or if they.

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Speaker 3: Should be doing their own thing.

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Speaker 1: YEA, that's a good question. I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: this week, Donald Trump met with his cabinet for the

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Speaker 1: first time, and there was an uninvited guest I should say,

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Speaker 1: an elected member of the cabinet at the cabinet meeting.

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Speaker 1: And obviously I have a lot to say about my

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Speaker 1: dear sister friend joy Reid leaving, so we'll get into that.

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Speaker 1: And last week we promised you that we were going

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Speaker 1: to talk about local elections. We got a great question

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Speaker 1: on that, so we're going to get to you all

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Speaker 1: your questions too. H So a jam packed show, stay tuned, guys.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think we want to since we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start with the budget. I remember you saying that you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about medicaid, and I know I have

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Speaker 1: questions for you about that, as you know, my mother's

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Speaker 1: on medicaid, and I think you pulled some sound for us.

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Speaker 1: So let's it's a dim pressor is that what it is?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So Democrats how to press it right after or

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Speaker 3: actually this was right before the budget vote? And also

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Speaker 3: which part of the budget vote?

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Speaker 5: Because there were some nonsense in bnanigans that happen, like

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Speaker 5: what's really going on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 6: This is not a reality show, this is not a joke.

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Speaker 6: This is not politics as usual. It's a matter of

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Speaker 6: life and death, right, and so we will stand with

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Speaker 6: the American people. Stand with them today, stand with them tomorrow,

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Speaker 6: stand with them next week, stand with them next month,

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Speaker 6: stand with them this year, stand with them next year.

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Speaker 6: Stand with the American people. Until victory is one, this

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Speaker 6: budget is defeated and America is restored. So it's our

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Speaker 6: honor as House Democrats to be joined today by three

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Speaker 6: incredible Americans whose quality of life depends on all of

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Speaker 6: us stopping this reckless Republican budget, which is a betrayal

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Speaker 6: of the American people.

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Speaker 7: My name is Mary Beth Kofran, and I'm from Campton,

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Speaker 7: North Carolina, where I'm still recovering from the devastation of

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Speaker 7: Hurricane Colleen in September. I'm a proud member of a

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Speaker 7: Mom's Rising and a prestentiate of Representative Chuck Edwards. I

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Speaker 7: have custody of four of my grandchildren, ages ten, twelve, fifteen,

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Speaker 7: to addiction, domestic violence, and homelessness. I'm here today to

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Speaker 7: urge lawmakers to put families over billionaires and reject any

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Speaker 1: The program's club working families like mine rely on.

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Speaker 8: Republicans in Congress are looking high and low for ways

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Speaker 8: to pay for another round of tax handouts for billionaires

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Speaker 8: like Elon Musk. Yes, and their eyes are locked.

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Speaker 3: In on Medicaid.

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Speaker 8: Millionaires and billionaires do not need any more handouts, and

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Speaker 8: federal lawmakers should not be entertaining the thought of ripping

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Speaker 8: healthcare away from millions of people like me in order

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Speaker 8: to pay for this upside down tax plan. Virginia is

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Speaker 8: one of nine states with automatic trigger language that says

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Speaker 8: if the federal government goes back on its promise and

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Speaker 8: reduces funding for Medicaid expansion even by one percent, then

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Speaker 8: the entire program ends and everyone in the expansion population

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Speaker 8: loses our health care. That is not only wrong as

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Speaker 8: a matter of public policy, but it is also cruel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a lot of questions for you.

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Speaker 4: Well, I appreciated the speakers who basically kept reiterating, you

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Speaker 4: have a stereotype of who you think are the beneficiaries

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Speaker 4: of this healthcare, but people like me. That first speaker

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Speaker 4: began by saying, but people like me, And she was

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Speaker 4: intentional with those words because I think as a constituent,

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Speaker 4: she knows as well what they're trying to communicate, which

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Speaker 4: who make bad health decisions and consume far too much,

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Speaker 4: you know, greasy food. But the statistics tell us that

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Speaker 4: one in every five persons in this country is a

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Speaker 4: beneficiary of Medicaid that's expansive across these United States, and

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Speaker 4: When it comes to our seniors who are in assistant

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Speaker 4: So what's crazy is is that those stealing from these

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Speaker 4: but now you're going to relocate that cost onto their children.

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Speaker 4: So you're not going to talk about You're not talking

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Speaker 4: Now you're taking parents out of the workplace, out of

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Speaker 4: no longer met by by the Medicaid coverage. This is

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Speaker 4: a sham. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, but

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Speaker 1: But here's my issue, Angela. I just feel like these

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Speaker 1: my challenge with these people. You wanted somebody else to

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Speaker 1: else to make that sacrifice. The challenge comes when it

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Speaker 1: knocks on your front door. And so now we're seeing,

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Speaker 1: where they're being impacted, and I just want to scream,

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Speaker 1: what the F word did you think? I didn't say

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Speaker 1: but honestly, I mean, with all my spirit, what the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it is remarkably frustrating.

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, bringing in the spiritual component of this,

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Speaker 5: we also can't wish harm on other people. Like I

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Speaker 5: So when we talk about these programs that are going

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Speaker 5: eight hundred and eighty billion dollar cut to Medicaid that

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Speaker 5: goes to serve seventy two million people in this country.

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Speaker 5: That's one in five Americans. Snap the Supplement on Nutrition

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Speaker 3: People, or more than one in eight Americans. And these

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Speaker 5: Couldn't go vote for them, so they relied on everyone

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Speaker 5: I can only imagine the sister that talked about what

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Speaker 5: percent cut. That eviscerates that program. And I think that

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Speaker 5: we have to have we have to continue to educate

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Speaker 3: Maybe compassion will knock at their friend door.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying, damn p I, but honestly, we have to

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Speaker 1: start feeling that way. I think a lot of people don't.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right because a part of me is

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Speaker 1: I'm stealing this from Dave Chappelle when he talked about

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Speaker 1: how we're getting all because he said, we're getting a

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Speaker 1: with the opioid crisis, like wow, we're really getting a

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Speaker 1: good look at each other. Because he said, I look

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Speaker 1: at these you know, white people, at these drugs, and

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Speaker 1: I don't care either, you know. And he was talking

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Speaker 1: being ravaged by cocaine, right exactly. And so we can't

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Speaker 1: keep saying, well, white folks, y'all vote ward. That's what

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Speaker 1: y'all get. You know. It's like.

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Speaker 4: Beginning of time though since the beginning of time people

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Speaker 4: have been civilization period that you look out for you,

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Speaker 4: you first yours in your own and.

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Speaker 1: Then be on for us because we get hurt the work.

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Speaker 1: I completely get the benefit from and.

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Speaker 4: My argument on the reason why public health ought to

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Speaker 4: be public greater public policy for the nation is because

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Speaker 4: your sickness can impact my well being. So for instance,

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Speaker 3: You just do so. I really believe our highest.

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Speaker 5: Service, for your highest good is telling you you are

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Speaker 3: You are not safe America, you are not safe. And

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Speaker 5: They are trying to bend to the will of Trump, yes,

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Speaker 3: Like we'll attest to this, there are certain things they

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Speaker 1: Thing they literally would go comb through after Tucker Carlson

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Speaker 5: joint session that is normally a state of the Union

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Speaker 5: if it's before March. But since this is going to

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Speaker 5: be delivered on March fourth, at the invitation of somebody

438
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Speaker 5: speaker Mike Johnson, Donald Trump is going to deliver a

439
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 5: State of the Union address, and we're just talking about Joy.

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Speaker 5: Joy will be sorely missed on that panel where she

441
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Speaker 5: breaks things down. But at the same time, I'm worried

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Speaker 5: about the objects of that chamber. I don't know what

443
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Speaker 5: he's gonna say, but I know most of it's not

444
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Speaker 5: gonna be true. I won't say I know, because you

445
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 5: know they're a little litigious, Saul say, I will bet

446
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Speaker 5: my bottom dollar that most.

447
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Speaker 1: Of them, I mean, based on evidence before.

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Speaker 5: But I think what I'm really wrestling with right now,

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Speaker 5: y'all know, the CBC is where I grew up professionally,

450
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Speaker 5: and I am hoping that the Congressional Black Caucus, that

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Speaker 5: the Progressive Caucus, that the Hispanic CAUCAUS, that the KA,

452
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Speaker 5: the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and the Democratic Caucus

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Speaker 5: overall do not go to sit to be lied too

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Speaker 5: point hour and let a fashion tell him what he's

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Speaker 5: gonna do.

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Speaker 3: I really like, I cannot, I want to, I can't.

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Speaker 5: I want to see a half empty change the old chamber.

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Speaker 4: If they had any dignity about the offices that they hold,

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Speaker 4: all four hundred and thirty five of them, yep, And

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Speaker 4: they would never have extended an invitation to this man

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Speaker 4: in the first place to come and speak before the

462
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Speaker 4: first branch of government, the legislative, which existed before the executive.

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Speaker 4: They wouldn't have had him come there. They have They

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Speaker 4: lack self respect, they lack failty to the Constitution, and

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Speaker 4: quite frankly, they can't be They can't be in any

466
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Speaker 4: way respectful of their voters. As has been shown through

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Speaker 4: these town hall meetings. Many of them are out of

468
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Speaker 4: sync with the people who sent them there all because

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Speaker 4: their only goal right now in life, it seems, is

470
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Speaker 4: to have been the need of Donald Trump. But but, but,

471
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Speaker 4: but I'm mad mostly at the entirety of the Congress,

472
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Speaker 4: because when your branches attack, you fight back.

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Speaker 3: What do you guys think he's gonna say.

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Speaker 4: A bunch of lives for sure? Presume what do you.

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Speaker 3: Think he's gonna like tout?

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Speaker 4: The Grant said, gotten.

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Speaker 1: I think that this is the thing about the United States,

478
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Speaker 1: when when at this joint session, when he is speaking,

479
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Speaker 1: he's not just speaking to that chamber. He's not just

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Speaker 1: speaking to America, He's speaking to the globe. And I

481
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: think his global message is America first, America strong, we

482
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Speaker 1: are dominating. So he will present a fantastical imagery of America,

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Speaker 1: which we know something about, just a fallacy of what's

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Speaker 1: happening here. So I think he's going to present an

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Speaker 1: image of strength. He's going to talk about even though

486
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Speaker 1: he got his ass handed to him with with these turfs.

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to tout that as though it's

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Speaker 1: a victory. I think he's going to tout all of

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Speaker 1: these draconian policies he's introduced to executive orders that the

490
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Speaker 1: Republican Caucus has greased the wheels for him to usher through.

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Speaker 1: He's going to tout this budget. I think he will

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Speaker 1: attempt to show some muscle with China. I think he

493
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Speaker 1: will genuflect to putin the fact that he has completely

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Speaker 1: reversed US policy on the war in Ukraine. And this

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00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: is one you're listening, Angela, and Andrew just got in

496
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: a fist fight.

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Speaker 4: Throw it down.

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Speaker 1: He's reverse the US policy. So I wonder if there

499
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Speaker 1: were Republicans in the Chamber will stand up and applaud that.

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Speaker 3: Of course they will.

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Speaker 1: They've been they've been speaking out against that. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: not our policy, and it's like, yeah, but y'all gonna

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Speaker 1: be the knee.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he will go substantively into it. I

505
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 4: think he will say I think he will harp on

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Speaker 4: the mineral rights and the fact we've got a bargain

507
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 4: or a deal that is upcoming. But the substance of

508
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,239
Speaker 4: that fight, of that Russia's war against Ukraine is that

509
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Speaker 4: he won't give it the time of day because it

510
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 4: it will not sell to any to the majority of

511
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Speaker 4: Americans ears the story that he wants to tell about Ukraine.

512
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Speaker 4: I think he sees it as a transaction, a deal,

513
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 4: money to be made. This dude is so let's see

514
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 4: like a gangster. Yes, he's dealing with God as the

515
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 4: as if he's a gangster, Like, Hey, you give us

516
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 4: fifty percent of your country richest mineral rights, then we'll

517
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Speaker 4: talk about this whole securing you from Russia.

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Speaker 3: So let me let me, let me do that.

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Speaker 5: This Why haven't the Republicans said much about how fraud

520
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 5: sweeping these executive actions are? Like this man, Now, not

521
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Speaker 5: only are the executive actions broad sweeping. But as of

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Speaker 5: well when we recorded this podcast yesterday, he has violated

523
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Speaker 5: He was told he violated court orders.

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Speaker 3: Three different courts.

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Speaker 5: In an hour and a half told him he was

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Speaker 5: in violation. I haven't heard any Republicans speak up to

527
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Speaker 5: say something about it. So not only are they bending

528
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 5: like bowing down, bending the knee, all of that being

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00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 5: rubber stamp, they're also not pushing back on things that

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Speaker 5: we can the legislative branch.

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Speaker 4: If they won't defend themselves, they're definitely not going to

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00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 4: push back against this executive exertion of executive power. Problem

533
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 4: is is that this is a genie you will not

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00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 4: put back in the bottle. When that power is it

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00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 4: is given to the presidency, future presidents perceive it as

536
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 4: their power to and they'll point to their predecessors exercise

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00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 4: of it as being legitimate for their exercise of it.

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Speaker 5: This is the but their lack of pushback is also

539
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 5: weakening the judicial brand.

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Speaker 4: But they don't share I understand. Do I think they

541
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 4: believe in the in the principle of co equal unless

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00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 4: a Democrat is in the White House.

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Speaker 5: Or one of the branches a Democrat in the White House,

544
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Speaker 5: They're like you're actually lesser than us.

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Speaker 4: What I'm saying, I think they will. They speak with

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Speaker 4: fork tongue and they act with fork tongue.

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Speaker 3: But even the idea that tongue is I appreciate it.

548
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Speaker 1: Yes, even the idea that this week we saw three

549
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: separate judges, you know, hold the line. I just again

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00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: will keep reiterating, I do not think the courts are

551
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: going to hold you know. I do think we are

552
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: looking at the judiciary erode.

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00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 4: And if it rose, then we are looking at an

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00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 4: all powerful executive and the idea of checks and balances

555
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 4: will cease to exist any longer. Because if the legislative

556
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 4: branch cannot hold accountable and can't defend their turf, and

557
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 4: can't make the president do anything because his principle, what

558
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,479
Speaker 4: will throw us into the crisis system saying send your

559
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 4: army to enforce it, and yourself, the legislature, you send

560
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 4: your army to enforce how I spend this money?

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Speaker 5: So, Andrew, I got to ask him this to this's

562
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 5: an elected official question. Andrew, you are the only one

563
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 5: here who's been an elected office. Right now, it's a

564
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 5: hot debate on Capitol Hill on whether or not any

565
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 5: city Democrats should go to the State of the Union.

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Speaker 3: Would you go to the State of the Union.

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00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: That's a good question.

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00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 4: I really I would not, but I would, But I

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Speaker 4: would have also been off the boat several weeks ago

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Speaker 4: to appropriateness, decorum, bestowing the normal respects of the office.

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00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 4: And why do I say that the moment that the

572
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 4: President decided that he was going to approach upon the

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00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 4: legislative branch's ability to manage the country's purse, and he

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00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 4: decided money that was passed and signed into law that

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Speaker 4: he will withhold, redirect, demolish entire departments. You've now come

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00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 4: on our side. You've crossed that red line, and the

577
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 4: only way it gets held is that we will draw

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00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 4: your agenda to a close before you've even gotten started,

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Speaker 4: until you recognize this difference and reinstate what has been

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00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 4: passed under law.

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Speaker 5: So, based on what you're hearing, the American people say,

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Speaker 5: Democrats aren't doing enough, They're not holding the line, they're

583
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 5: not doing da da da. Somebody posted the other day

584
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 5: this is mild tangiment, not much. Somebody posted the other day,

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00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 5: it's interesting that a moment ago they were just two

586
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 5: sides of the same. But now you know exactly where

587
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 5: to go to call on for help. Absolutely, And I

588
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 5: was like, that's a really good point.

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00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: Should Yeah, Leonard, who you know.

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Speaker 5: I fight with bout stuff all the time, was like,

591
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 5: but that shouldn't mean that they can't be held accountable.

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00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 5: So to that end, the people in Democrats districts and

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00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 5: Democratic districts, when they're saying I don't see you fighting

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00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 5: for me, you seem like this as politics as usual.

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00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 5: What do you think they're getting wrong? And what would

596
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 5: you say to Democrats on the hill to do differently?

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00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 4: I said that Donald Trump talks and acts with four tongue.

598
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 4: The Democrats are appearing to act with four tone, which

599
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 4: means this is the greatest threat to democracy. On one hand,

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00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 4: but on the next hand, y'all skinning and grinnin the

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00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 4: evening's reception. There's photos of you all acting like the

602
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 4: day didn't happen and yesterday didn't happen. So if you

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Speaker 4: want the American people the public to believe you what

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00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 4: you say, then I need to believe that she believe it.

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00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 4: And if when I look at you, you don't look

606
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 4: like you believe what you just told me, or else

607
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 4: you would have comported yourself differently. People aren't stupid, not

608
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 4: by a mile. They may not understand the mechanations of

609
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 4: the process all the way through, but they know what

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00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 4: truthful looks like. They know what a lie is, whether

611
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,239
Speaker 4: it's spoken or whether they visually observe it. So I

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00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 4: just think where we are failing, where the party is failing,

613
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 4: where democratic leadership is failing is not, and where their

614
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 4: heart is and where their advocacy is and where they

615
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 4: would have come down on these issues. Where we are

616
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 4: failing at is you're communicating that we are in our

617
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 4: last days, but you're acting like it's just another day

618
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 4: on the job.

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Speaker 1: That'day, can we practice something that we said we were

620
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: gonna do it?

621
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Speaker 4: We didn't.

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Speaker 3: You didn't give us. We didn't know we were ready

623
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 3: yet know because it's look okay.

624
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 4: You supposed to do it.

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00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 3: Wait okay, but tif so Andrew answered as elected official,

626
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 3: elected official advising like colleagues, when you look at what's happening,

627
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 3: I know regularly you're saying, I am overwhelmed by this

628
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 3: is too much, Like I think it's already too late.

629
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 3: What do you expect for people that you paid as

630
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 3: a taxpayer. Some of you may have voted for some

631
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 3: you may have support another way. Some of you may

632
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 3: have just platformed because you agree with them on one

633
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 3: issue but not everything else. Or you disagree with them,

634
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 3: but just in the role they're in.

635
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 5: What are you expecting for them, Like, what is the

636
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 5: thing they need to do that is markedly different than

637
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 5: what they're doing right now? I mean the Democrats, well,

638
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 5: unless you talk we want to talk about Republicans what

639
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 5: they need? No, I mean because honestly, people have asked

640
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 5: me this before, and I'm like, if you say Democrats

641
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 5: to me, if you say midterms to me, like, I

642
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 5: don't I because to me, the system is part of

643
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 5: the problem. The infrastructure of this system is part of

644
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 5: the problem. I am not interested in repairing, restoring, working

645
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 5: with the Democratic Party. I am only interested in harm

646
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 5: reduction for the people. And if that means.

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00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,959
Speaker 1: Obliterate, blow up this whole system to rebuild something new,

648
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that. Don't dis anybody. But I'm

649
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: okay if the Democratic Party falls completely like because then

650
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: that means then we have to build something new. And

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00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: as you've often reminded us, Angela, white supremacy is bipartisan

652
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Speaker 1: and so I think that right, I think the message

653
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Speaker 1: that they took from these last elections were is, you know,

654
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Speaker 1: we were messing around with these in words and the

655
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: LGBTQ community, and the the trans community, and you know,

656
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: all the other people of color, and we need to

657
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: go back and try to get these white conservatives again,

658
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: Like they just have such a hard on for that group.

659
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: They didn't walk away and think, Oh, we should have

660
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,479
Speaker 1: drilled down. We should have danced harder with the folks

661
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: who brung us. We should have given the up and

662
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: coming voter, the aspirational voter, something to latch onto. You know,

663
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: we should have inspired them. We should have led with

664
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: our convictions. They didn't do that. They walked the middle

665
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: of the road and became political roadkill. So I am

666
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: not so interested in uplifting them. I am completely open

667
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:38,439
Speaker 1: to ideas. Angela's leading the charge for us to try

668
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: to figure out ways for us to work together to

669
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 1: make sure that all people are not subject to the

670
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: harm that's gonna come out of this administration. And I

671
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: gotta tell y'all, you watch the Game of Thrones, you'll

672
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: understand it's gonna be the long night, Like this is

673
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: not going to be a bad four years and then

674
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: we go back. I think this is going to be

675
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: a long night of generation devastation for us. So I

676
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: don't know that I look at the Dems for that,

677
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: but I want you to see me and you bias.

678
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: I want to know your opinion on this too. I

679
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: think if you were so ed of the rest of

680
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Speaker 1: Black calou because I know you would tell them, no,

681
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: don't go. Absolutely yeah, I would say I would do

682
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One is, I would tell them

683
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: to platform their guests, so you know the state at

684
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: the City of the Union for those watching at home

685
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: or listening at home or wherever you listen for.

686
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 3: Those who don't know this.

687
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Speaker 5: At the State of the Union, members of Congress normally

688
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 5: bring a guest with them, and their guest is normally

689
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 5: central to something that's happening right now. So I'm sure

690
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 5: a lot of the members are going to be bringing

691
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 5: federal workers who were laid off or who took the payout,

692
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: you know, a kid or yes, a kid who I

693
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 5: don't even know what the other side be doing. That'd

694
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 5: be like I brought somebody that arrested the last time.

695
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, definitely a January sixth partner. And then also

696
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 5: I brought the one, this this man from ice who

697
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 5: sorry about his accent, but that's what came to me.

698
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 5: I brought this man from eyes who put that last

699
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 5: illegal who broke all them laws, and go on town

700
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 5: to obay and you're gonna celebrate it. But the Democrats

701
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 5: will likely bring someone who's been impacted by these crazy cuts,

702
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 5: and so I would tell them, don't just bring them

703
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 5: and put them in a press release. Go somewhere else

704
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 5: and put them in position for the world to hear

705
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 5: their stories, because and tell people hear how these things

706
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 5: impact humanity one story at a time. People just don't care.

707
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 5: They're aloof they're overburdened by all the crazy news. It's

708
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 5: just like whatever, it's too much. I'm like tip drinking

709
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 5: out five. I'm just overwhelmed. So we have to figure

710
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 5: out a way to cut through the overwhelm. And I

711
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 5: think the only way you do that is with empathy.

712
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 5: You have to tap into people's empathy. And I'm just

713
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 5: I got a hold on the hope because if I don't,

714
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 5: I'll die. The people still have that, and I think

715
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 5: the last thing I would say is definitely don't go.

716
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 3: And wherever you go, I.

717
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 5: Think you either wear a red because it's a code red,

718
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 5: or you wear black because it is the funeral.

719
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Speaker 4: Of democracy solemn.

720
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 5: You know, I say people gonna watch, don't I don't

721
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 5: know that people are gonna watch.

722
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 4: I think there will be folks who absorb it because

723
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 4: of the entertainment value.

724
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 1: You talk about the social media.

725
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 4: But but Donald Trump is a performer and a lot

726
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 4: of folks follow him to go to the show. They

727
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 4: want to see the show. What what I hope that

728
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 4: Democrats who would do is not seed all of the time. Yes,

729
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 4: Donald Trump takes to up a lot of space. But

730
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 4: if people don't hear what the alternative view and vision is,

731
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 4: they'll drink from a you know, a mirage because somebody's

732
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 4: offering something. But if you're not offering anything, people won't

733
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 4: quote you, hook line, sinker on your policy. But when

734
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 4: you're explaining what it is that you're intending to do,

735
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 4: they're gonna get a feeling. And that feelings are going

736
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 4: to be this guy's looking out for me and he

737
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 4: sees me, or this dude's on another planet. He's not

738
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 4: for us, he's not like us, he's not whatever is.

739
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 4: Voters make those decisions in a moment's time, right, but

740
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 4: all the time with elected officials with their quote unquote

741
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 4: leaders and so I just we have to believe what

742
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 4: we're saying, and if we believe it, then we got

743
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 4: to act like we believe it.

744
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 5: I wonder if some of this is psychological, like if

745
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 5: well me, I mean like the inability to respond, like

746
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 5: oh my god, Like for me, I'm just like my

747
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 5: humanity is like, oh my god, this can't be happening,

748
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 5: Like this really can't be happening, Like we might lose

749
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 5: every platform, ability to communicate with people. We need to mobilize,

750
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 5: Like they're like, we really could be in a really,

751
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 5: really bad situation, Like we are in the best situation,

752
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 5: but it can get much much worse. So I think

753
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 5: some of what they're doing cycle it's like a subconscious

754
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 5: If I treat this as.

755
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: Normal, maybe you don't go back to normal. Yeah, let's

756
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 3: just get through this budget reconciliation.

757
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: Process we're gonna have.

758
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 4: They're responding like the average American is allowed to respond.

759
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 4: But when you sit at the helm and you'll look

760
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 4: to for leadership, when your moment of leadership shows, you

761
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 4: better be there to meet it. And unfortunately, I think

762
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 4: you know people have gotten the wrong idea around what

763
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 4: public service is and what you're actually there to do.

764
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 4: That they're putting their tea leaves, you know, their finger

765
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 4: up to the wind, see which way is going, and

766
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 4: then that informs how it is you choose to show up.

767
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 4: I think, or you have the pedestrian instinct where the

768
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 4: attacks are coming from so many places. I'm just gonna

769
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 4: go turtle, and when I come out of it, it

770
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 4: will it will be different. That is a survival mechanism.

771
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 4: We have that as humans as as as umo sapiens.

772
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 4: But leaders have to exercise something different. Doesn't mean that

773
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 4: you won't be reacted by what happens, and you won't

774
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 4: have a very human reaction, but your rebound time that'll

775
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 4: be a hell of a lot quicker because we don't

776
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 4: have days times hours to waste to figure out a

777
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 4: message or to get over your hurt feeling. Because the

778
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 4: activists are demanding you do more. They're afraid it's the

779
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 4: people too.

780
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 3: And the other thing is on this I want people

781
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 3: at home who are watching to know Andrew is not

782
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 3: just former former elected official, He's also a former organizer

783
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 3: and a damn good one. He started his solo pods

784
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 3: this week, and his solo pod was on how to organize.

785
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 3: He's gonna do a whole.

786
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 5: Because we don't know how y'all gonna be able to

787
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 5: organize at home, but he's gonna make sure that you

788
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 5: have all the tools and.

789
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 4: The ones that are in your lane. You're uncomfortable this

790
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 4: way there. We want to unvelop the multitude of ways

791
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 4: in which you can get but there will be no excuses.

792
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: He's on one speaking of because you're talking about organizing

793
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are concerned about, like what

794
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: do you do with the grassroots. We got a great

795
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: question that we didn't get to last week, and we

796
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: promised we'd get to that this week. So thank you

797
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: for your question. Let's roll the question on a local

798
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: elections because I thought that was a really good one.

799
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 10: Hey, Native Lampard, my name is Andrea. I am in

800
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 10: Fort Worth, Texas, originally from Cleveland, Ohio, shout out to

801
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 10: the land, but living in Fort Worth for about nine

802
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 10: years now.

803
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 3: And my question is this.

804
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,399
Speaker 10: The city of Fort Worth is the fastest growing city,

805
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 10: the fourth largest city in Texas and the twelfth largest

806
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 10: city in America. Our local elections are coming up this

807
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 10: means city council, mayor, and the school board. And my

808
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 10: question is what should our asks, what should our demands

809
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 10: be of our locally elected officials to impact change and

810
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 10: reduce the harm that's going on in Washington, d C.

811
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 10: Is there anything that we can ask of our locally

812
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 10: elected officials, so our city council, our mayor, school board.

813
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: I love, love, love that question, and I think this

814
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: is a great panel to answer that question. Andrew. I

815
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: want to come to you on this because I think

816
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: your best position to answer this, but I just want

817
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: to give the audience a little context about why this matters. So,

818
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: voter turnout in local elections is actually really small, and

819
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: not just I hate when people say off election years,

820
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: because there are never any off election years. There are

821
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: always elections happening. So voter turnout in the United States

822
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: is much lower anywhere than any other than most other countries.

823
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: So we have around sixty percent voter participation in presidential elections,

824
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: forty percent in mid term elections, and turnout sores up

825
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: to ninety percent in countries with mandatory voting, and reaches

826
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: around seventy percent in overall developed countries. So we are

827
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: lagging behind and we're seeing suffering the consequences of that now.

828
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: After decades of political polarization, jerry mandering, voter suppression, et cetera.

829
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: Most of the people elected now did not face a

830
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 1: competitive election. So this is I've looked at an analysis,

831
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: as the New York Times did, and this is just

832
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: on Congress. More than nine thousand congressional and state legislative

833
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: primaries elections were held last year. On average, just fifty

834
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: seven thousand people voted for politicians in the US House

835
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: primaries who went on to win the general election. So

836
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: that means a small fraction of the more than seven

837
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: hundred thousand Americans. Each of those winner now represents that

838
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: tiny bucket, so we're going through minority rule. Addition, precisely

839
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: a third of the current members of the House, this

840
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: Congress that we're dealing with right now ran unopposed in

841
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: their primary, so they didn't even have someone to run

842
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: against them. The lawmakers who do face primaries, as you

843
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: all have witnessed bore witness to, they are partisan hacks,

844
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: They are right wing extremists, they are magacultists.

845
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 3: And so those people actually.

846
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 1: Find a path I e. Marjorie Taylor green Ie Lauren Bobert.

847
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: They find a path to have a direct impact on

848
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: what our life looks like. Only fifteen to twenty seven

849
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: percent of voters across the country cast a ballot for

850
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: their local elections in twenty eighteen, and that number has

851
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: continued to go down. Voter turnout in twenty twenty two

852
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: for elections was the second highest for a non presidential

853
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: election year, because I think people were you know, it

854
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: was coming off of your COVID, people were inside. But

855
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: my point is this is still talking about right, and

856
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: this is talking about congressional elections. When you get to

857
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: city council and for work, they're over thirty five people

858
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,959
Speaker 1: running for the city council for a ten city seat.

859
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: The numbers of people who cast ballots for that are

860
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: even fewer. So my point is that is where you

861
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: have a unique opportunity to make your needs and you're

862
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: once heard because you're dealing with a smaller pool of people,

863
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: and you can be the loudest voice in the room

864
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: to make sure those candidates hear you. I worked on

865
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: a campaign in Baltimore, and there's an extremely high number

866
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: amount of returning citizens who live in the state of Maryland,

867
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: and so a lot of the formally incarcerated individuals who

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00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: prefer to be referred to as returning citizens. They're so

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Speaker 1: powerful in number that if you're running for the City

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Speaker 1: of Baltimore, you have to pass through them. They hold

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Speaker 1: a candidate's forum and it's very organized and they are active,

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Speaker 1: and so I really appreciate that and honor that. But

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Speaker 1: to her question, because I don't want to go, you've answered.

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Speaker 4: It and beautifully.

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Speaker 1: The value to ask, well, that was where I kind

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Speaker 1: of fall back.

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Speaker 4: Ask for what you feel helps to create the beloved

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Speaker 4: community for you and the people who you care about

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Speaker 4: in love. And if that means school's being funded at

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Speaker 4: equity equitable levels for your kids and the kids who

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Speaker 4: live on the other side of the tracks and the

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Speaker 4: folks who are on the opposite side of that, then

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Speaker 4: that becomes your demand and that power is the movement.

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Speaker 4: If it is environmental justice that you mad that the

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Speaker 4: majority minority neighborhoods don't have grocers grocery stores with healthy

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Speaker 4: food options and the same, then that becomes the thing

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Speaker 4: that you go and you do. But I will tell

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Speaker 4: you it isn't just your local, you know, garden variety issues.

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Speaker 4: It's also we have the tenth Amendment to the Constitution

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Speaker 4: that carves out the rights of states, and within states

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Speaker 4: the jurisdictions and municipalities they'rein appertaining who also have their

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Speaker 4: own set of rights. And so if you and your

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Speaker 4: community wanted to say we're going to be a sanctuary place,

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Speaker 4: or we're excited as going to do reparations, and we

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Speaker 4: value diversity and inclusion in the city because we all

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Speaker 4: do better from it, those are all values that can

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Speaker 4: be stated, advocated, done, and become local law.

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Speaker 5: And states might be our last hold out. You didn't

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Speaker 5: give up on the court. States might be it. And

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Speaker 5: speaking of holdout, we ain't got no more time to

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Speaker 5: hold out. Soder Now Podcast, we gotta wrap it and

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Speaker 5: then we're gonna get time.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, welcome, welcome, welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Speaker 1: Or a final question, Oh yeah, we do have this,

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Speaker 1: maybe we should answered if you were a question on

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Speaker 1: the mini pod our mini pods drop once a week,

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Speaker 1: so be sure to well, just check it'll be dropping.

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Speaker 3: Out new series on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, but constantly check our channel. Make sure you're

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Speaker 1: subscribed to Native Land because then you'll be alerted when

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00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: there's a new content updated there. If you guys don't

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Speaker 1: have cts, I have a CCA. Okay, here's my CTA.

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Speaker 1: When you're in public, I don't want to hear your

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Speaker 1: phone conversation. Please use your ear butts. Like I hate

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Speaker 1: when people are walking down and you're like, yeah, he's

916
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Speaker 1: saying it was gonna be boo boo boo boom. Please,

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Speaker 1: if you don't mind.

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Speaker 4: I would like. I don't like it. That's how you

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Speaker 4: hear the whole. I mean people are walking through grocery stores.

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Speaker 3: Please.

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Speaker 1: My call to action is use your ear butts. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear you know it's walking through. I

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Speaker 1: just don't like it. That's my only one.

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Speaker 5: I call to action is if you don't answer text

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Speaker 5: messages or phone calls, Tiffany Andrew, you don't.

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Speaker 3: Get to have no damn.

927
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Speaker 4: It. Just in my own time.

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Speaker 5: Action for y'all and for the people at home is

929
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Speaker 5: tell your members of Congress don't go sit there behind

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Speaker 5: in that chamber on Tuesday to watch the State of

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Speaker 5: the Union.

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Speaker 3: That's my call to action. I really want to talk

933
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Speaker 3: about Jamal Oh.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so on the mini pod, we didn't get a

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Speaker 1: chance of talking to for you in but essentially a

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Speaker 1: Fox News personality misrepresented Pastor Jamal Harris Bryant. And anyway,

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Speaker 1: we're going to get into that on the Mini Pod.

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Speaker 1: So if you're watching this on Thursday, be sure to

939
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Speaker 1: tune into the Mini Pod because we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about media and the violence that is promoted from the

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Speaker 1: increasingly extreme right zealots who are being encouraged for this

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Speaker 1: kind of violence. And eventually, I believe it's going to

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Speaker 1: come knocking at our front door as it did with

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Speaker 1: our friend of the show and our personal friend, Pastor

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Speaker 1: Jamal Harrison Bryan.

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Speaker 3: So well, yes, so we'll get.

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Speaker 1: Into that on the Mini Pod and any other announcements

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Speaker 1: that we have for the folks we love.

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Speaker 4: You know what we need to do.

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Speaker 5: That was my whole point in bringing up what support

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Speaker 5: your own, Let's build our own. We are in a

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Speaker 5: space that Tiffany occupies every Wednesday now that is held

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Speaker 5: and owned and operated by Roland Martin, and he has

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Speaker 5: the blueprint for what it looks like to build your own.

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Speaker 3: So one we can thank you.

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Speaker 5: So much exactly for the people, by the people, and

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Speaker 5: the truth remains unfiltered. Roland Martin Unfiltered films here every

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Speaker 5: every day and he let us share his space, so.

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Speaker 1: That that is what the network.

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Speaker 3: Yes, then that is that is what supporting black people

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Speaker 3: looks like.

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Speaker 5: We're going to be supporting our own because you know what,

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Speaker 5: we turn the TV off, turn the TV off.

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Speaker 3: I didn't need to interrupt you, but I definitely didn't

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Speaker 3: want to be here.

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Speaker 1: I think we didn't knowledge. Yes, we appreciate in the

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Speaker 1: studio y'all can't see, but it's so nice. It's so

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Speaker 1: nice anyway, just another reminder to please leave a review

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Speaker 1: and subscribe to Native Lampard wherever you get your platforms.

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Speaker 4: And thank you from from the show. Thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 4: thank you, thank.

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Speaker 3: You on every other side of the world.

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Speaker 1: Image Awards were three months ago, like that's almost.

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Speaker 3: Years ago.

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Speaker 5: But Derek Johnson, President here Y's chief of staff. Everybody

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Speaker 5: who voted, no matter how many times you voted, we've.

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Speaker 1: Been appreciated and congratulates as a Joy Reid who also

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Speaker 1: won imag right right, so we know that you all

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Speaker 1: value her, even if the network doesn't value her and

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Speaker 1: by associations, they don't value you because you voted for

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Speaker 1: her show. So we appreciate.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to everybody else who is in our category.

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Speaker 1: We honor your everybody. We appreciate you and honor you.

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Speaker 1: And Joel takea edie just because I love Josecau.

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Speaker 4: She won, she was.

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Speaker 1: And vice president here. Yeah, President, we're rolling through.

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Speaker 3: Did you say the President? Who should want know?

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Speaker 4: The President? The President's Award?

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Speaker 3: President who should have won?

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Speaker 1: We got to get out of here because we got

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Speaker 1: another and you want to make sure you know. New

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Speaker 1: episodes drop every Thursday, with special solo pods every Monday

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Speaker 1: and Tuesday. As Angela said, Andrew started his don't forget

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Speaker 1: to follow us on social media, subscribe to all of

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Speaker 1: our our text or email on our website at native

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Speaker 1: landpod dot com. Thank you all so much for uplifting

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Speaker 1: us and tuning in every week voting for us. We

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Speaker 1: cannot do and I know a lot of you all

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Speaker 1: say it's cross talk and we can't hear you, and

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Speaker 1: it's better when you're in person. We're all in person,

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Speaker 1: which means there was a little bit of less cross talk.

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Speaker 1: And the more that you all support us, the more

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Speaker 1: often we can be in person together. So please be

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Speaker 1: sure to tune in because it costs money for the show.

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Speaker 3: Yes, tune in and makes you subscribe to our you

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Speaker 3: two yes, Don Leomon got up to five hundred thousand subscribers.

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Speaker 1: We want to meet done.

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Speaker 3: We don't want to beat down. We want to meet down.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and congrats Don, there are Besif you're fourteen days

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Speaker 1: until mid term elections. We are your host. I'm Tiffany

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Speaker 1: Grosse here with Angela Ran Andrew Gillay. We will see

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Speaker 1: you next time.

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Speaker 4: On Home everybody.

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Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all morning.

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Speaker 11: Thank you for joining the Natives attentional with the info

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Speaker 11: and all of the latest Roy Gillam and cross connected

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Speaker 11: to the statements that you leave on our socials. Thank

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Speaker 11: you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice is clear,

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Speaker 11: so grateful it took.

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Speaker 4: The execute roads.

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Speaker 11: Thank you for serve, defend and protect the truth even

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Speaker 11: in pat walking home to all of the Natives, we

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Speaker 11: thank you.

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