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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OOKF Daily with Meet

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Speaker 1: your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, folks,

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Speaker 1: As we get ready to close out this year, and again,

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Speaker 1: like I've been saying, I truly believe that the new year,

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Speaker 1: your new year, your personal new year, should begin in

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Speaker 1: the spring when nature begins it's new blossoming, and that

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Speaker 1: winter should be a time of reflection of you know,

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Speaker 1: places where there is gratitude, the places for growth, and

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Speaker 1: you know what good you want to continue carrying with

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Speaker 1: you As the calendar year shifts, there's just so much pressure,

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Speaker 1: I believe, in getting everything done and racing to the

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Speaker 1: except for our perspective, which is pressured by society and

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Speaker 1: Hallmark and sales and all of these things, and sending

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Speaker 1: your last email. Also that you can take, what if

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Speaker 1: us to be thoughtful about how we each are deciding

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Speaker 1: to close out the year. And so as the shows

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Speaker 1: come up over the holiday break, we have pre recorded

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Speaker 1: a bunch of shows that I am excited for you

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Speaker 1: year with or get to know for the very first time.

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Speaker 1: But coming up in conversation first is my friend and

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Speaker 1: co host of my other show, Democracy Ish, which comes

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Speaker 1: up live on Thursdays our new episode drops. So if

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Speaker 1: you have not been listening to Democracy Ish with my

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Speaker 1: friend wajahat Ali, author and Daily Beasts columnist, you are

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Speaker 1: certainly missing out on a fabulous thirty minutes each week

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Speaker 1: where we bring on some of our favorite guests, or

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Speaker 1: and forth. Waj has a fantastic book entitled Go Back

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Speaker 1: to Your Country, and he just provides such sharp, keen, funny,

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Speaker 1: sarcastic commentary that I adore. So I hope that you

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Speaker 1: enjoy this coming episode with my friend Waja hot Ali. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to welcome back to WOKF Daily,

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Speaker 1: my co host of Democracy Ish and author of the

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Speaker 1: book Go Back to Where You Came From and columnist

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Speaker 1: at the Daily Beast, Waja hot Ali and just all

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Speaker 1: the things chie maker you know, father soul searcher, all

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Speaker 1: first question, what would you even call this past year?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: How were you closing out twenty twenty three? Feeling about

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Speaker 1: the state of our politics, the state of our world?

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Speaker 2: Exhausted but marginally optimistic because there's no other option for

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Speaker 2: us as we enter perhaps one of the most pivotal

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Speaker 2: years where I know it sounds like a cliche, folks,

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Speaker 2: but you know, we try to fight for demococracy and

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Speaker 2: seeing a bloody war which is rippling out. We're seeing

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Speaker 1: You know, you started off by saying marginally happy. So

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Speaker 2: The two things the opposite of hope is apathy, and

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Speaker 1: You're either going to vote for this sustainability of our

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Speaker 2: just maybe me and Danielle aren't crazy. Maybe just maybe

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Speaker 1: Twenty three, right, and I think that we have been

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Speaker 2: Because the education, then you also education. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: So it's like every single way that we have watched

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Speaker 1: They're comfortably saying this in twenty twenty three. Do you

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Speaker 2: It's the same in my communities as well. And you know,

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Speaker 2: just us. You got one year to win them over.

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Speaker 2: I think Biden needs to run like his back against

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Speaker 2: all in with culture. Like we said, fight for democracy.

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Speaker 2: That's a kitchen table issue. We saw it in the midterms.

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Speaker 2: I would remember that your base is a multicultural coalition.

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Speaker 2: It's just not registering with people. Fight fire with fire,

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Speaker 2: Call out Donald Trump as a dictator, use the word fascism,

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