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Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: there are times when I think to myself, God, there

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Speaker 1: must be a bottom, right like there has got like

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Speaker 1: we cannot keep drilling down to the Earth's core of fuckery,

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Speaker 1: right that with Republicans. At some point we've got to

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Speaker 1: hit bottom and begin the slow, dark ascent up from

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Speaker 1: the ocean's floor back up to the surface. But no, no,

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Speaker 1: every fucking time that I think that we've reached it,

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Speaker 1: this is it. We're gonna begin the ascent. It's been dark,

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Speaker 1: it's been crazy, it's been scary, it's been violent. But no, no,

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Speaker 1: we're going to make the turn and make our way

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Speaker 1: to the surface. And then they go ahead and just

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Speaker 1: keep fracking, keep drilling, drill, baby, drill, as Sarah Palin

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Speaker 1: once said, right, that's what they're doing. They're drilling to

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Speaker 1: the core of our values, our beliefs, the truth, just

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Speaker 1: drilling through. Because here we are where you have sitting

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Speaker 1: members of Congress Republicans in both the House, led by

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Speaker 1: their Fisher Prize speaker Kevin McCarthy, and led you guys

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Speaker 1: know quotations and folks in the Senate talking about Manhattan

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Speaker 1: District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and the fact that an indictment

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Speaker 1: and for Donald Trump, mind you, is looming not just

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Speaker 1: in New York, but with the Department of Justice if

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Speaker 1: that ever comes to fucking fruition with Fannie Willis down

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Speaker 1: in Georgia, if that ever happens, and the GOP doesn't

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Speaker 1: remove her from her position before she's able to do that.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that you would have Kevin McCarthy go

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Speaker 1: on these bullshit conservative talk shows and say that what

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Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg is doing, which by the way, is his

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Speaker 1: job to investigate crime, which was taken over by his predecessor.

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Speaker 1: And if you've been listening to Woke for quite some time,

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Speaker 1: you know that Alvin Bragg has never been my favorite person.

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Speaker 1: I think it's laughable when you have people like a

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Speaker 1: last Stafonic referring to him as a progressive radical DA

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Speaker 1: check his record, That ain't it right? I wish it was.

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Speaker 1: But radical progressive, Nah, that ain't that, dude. And I

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Speaker 1: went after him when after Scythance left and he came

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Speaker 1: had the one that wrote a book about Alvin braggbeing like, no,

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Speaker 1: there's not enough evidence here, so we're not moving through

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Speaker 1: with this case on Donald Trump turned around and surprised me, right,

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Speaker 1: rightfully so, and said, but we have enough on this.

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Speaker 1: We are moving through with a grand jury on the

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Speaker 1: campaign finance, on the financial crimes and lives that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump used to silence Stormy Daniels that Michael Collin went

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Speaker 1: to jail for. And you have these Republicans like Kevin McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: like Rand Paul that are threatening, right the District Attorney

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Speaker 1: they're going to defund the Manhattan DA's office, that they're

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Speaker 1: going to haul him in in front of the committee

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Speaker 1: are the same motherfuckers who didn't give a fuck whether

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Speaker 1: or not the Trump administration was coming in and obliging subpoenas, right,

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Speaker 1: Like y'all, they said, deuces, they said, fuck you, sue me, right,

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately the Democrats did not have the brass, the backbone,

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Speaker 1: through with suing folks who didn't show up for subpoenas

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Speaker 1: right outside of Steve Bannon. So I gotta say that

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Speaker 1: their defense of Donald Trump at this stage of the game,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the fucking family values party, right,

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Speaker 1: the quote unquote family values. This man has been married

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Speaker 1: after he is now current wife gave birth to their

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Speaker 1: son fucked a porn star. And this is the fucking

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Speaker 1: want to defend. This also coming from the law and

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Speaker 1: all good, fine with law and order, law and order there,

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Speaker 1: but when it comes to following the fucking law, you

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Speaker 1: want to go to bat for somebody that's been skirting

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Speaker 1: because he's rich, because he's white, because he's powerful, and

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Speaker 1: because he is sis. Give me a fucking brick. And

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Speaker 1: again with these bullshit journalists that when they sit down

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Speaker 1: By the fuck are they Ain't no crime spree here.

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Speaker 1: Crime has been going down right to stop with your

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Speaker 1: We're good. So I appreciate Alvin Bragg's team coming out

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Speaker 1: watching the weaponization of the Republican Party their power and

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Speaker 1: Maybe you should start thinking about our fucking democracy and

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Speaker 1: what happens to the media industry when you have a

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Speaker 1: of all your warm and fuzzy coverage, what he's going

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Speaker 1: to do to the Fourth Estate, exactly what he's doing

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Speaker 1: what the Trump administration did, which is just you know,

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, friends, my conversation with our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel to talk about Yes, Ran Paul again

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Speaker 1: And it's a picture for folks who haven't seen it,

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Speaker 1: to Ruby Bridges, and it reads this, the people who

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Speaker 1: you know, on college campuses. But that's all being overturned.

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Speaker 1: And so as much as I think a sweatshirt sucks,

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Speaker 1: about the ideology that it's perpetuating. And they're right, and

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Speaker 1: that's yeah, they're connected, they're connected. Yeah, and the policies

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Speaker 1: that's a good image that you want to see, which

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Speaker 1: is a young white boy wearing an AAR fifteen flag,

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Speaker 1: because this Republican Party doesn't pledge allegiance to the same

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Speaker 1: sort of kind of formed out of off the back

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Speaker 1: of slavery. John, Then, I just want to once again

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Speaker 1: thank you for making the time and squeezing us in

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Speaker 1: today on Woke F We appreciate you and are waiting

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Speaker 1: with bated breath for January twenty twenty four for your

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Speaker 1: new book coming soon. Take care of everybody? That is

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Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends on woke F. As always,

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

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Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck