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Speaker 1: Good morning, Keeps, and welcome to ook F Daily with

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

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Speaker 1: Happy Memorial Day. I hope that you have the day off.

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Speaker 1: I hope that you are doing something outdoors that if

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Speaker 1: the sun is shining where you are today. Coming up

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Speaker 1: my conversation, my weekly conversation with our friend, our in

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Speaker 1: house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel. And you know, Jonathan and

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Speaker 1: I get into a conversation on tactics and what tactics

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Speaker 1: we think that Democrats should be imploring as Republicans continue

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Speaker 1: to run gangbusters with their anti LGBTQ, anti black, anti

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Speaker 1: people of anti women, anti abortion, anti democracy, slate of

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Speaker 1: policies and bills, that they are just drowning, drowning the

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Speaker 1: country in And you know, recently we've talked about on

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Speaker 1: this show, and I've talked about on others about the

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Speaker 1: NAACP's call for a travel advisory, HRC's call for a

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Speaker 1: travel advisory, and other people to Florida, and we you know,

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Speaker 1: I've had conversations on this show. I have called for

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Speaker 1: a national boycott. I think that if you want to

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Speaker 1: see real change in this country, it looks like shutting

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Speaker 1: down capitalism. It looks like shutting this country down, grinding

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Speaker 1: it to a halt, and not in the way that

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Speaker 1: the Republicans are trying to do with the debt ceiling.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, by the time that this airs, maybe they

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Speaker 1: will have concocted a deal.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Again, I won't hold my breath because I don't want

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Speaker 1: to pass out. But the reality is that money talks

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Speaker 1: and bullshit walks. And I believe that boycott's work. I

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Speaker 1: believe it's why Martin Luther King called for a boycott

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Speaker 1: of the state of Alabama back in nineteen sixty five.

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Speaker 1: I believe that a call for a boycott nationally, though, however,

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Speaker 1: will do a lot more damage like a walkout and

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Speaker 1: be like, so we're done right until this country returns

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Speaker 1: to its democratic values. And look, I am very well

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Speaker 1: aware that America is flawed as fuck, But what we

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Speaker 1: have seen transpired over the last seven to eight years

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Speaker 1: under the Maga regime is absolutely abhorrent. Like it is

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Speaker 1: things that we have never seen in our lifetime and

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Speaker 1: have only read about in history books that are now

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Speaker 1: fucking banned in states around this country. And so when

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Speaker 1: we look at this and we realize that at this time,

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Speaker 1: this critical time in our body politic, that the people

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Speaker 1: still have a voice, still have a voice. We have

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Speaker 1: got to utilize it to the best of our ability.

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Speaker 1: We have got to take the action right, the drastic actions.

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Speaker 1: And look, I'm not saying that boycotts are easy. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that it will be a magical you know,

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Speaker 1: well in this sea of darkness that we seem to

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Speaker 1: am saying, is that people need to recognize their power.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: No one is trying to take away your vote if

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Speaker 1: it didn't matter right. Nobody is trying to ban books

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Speaker 1: if education is not power right. Nobody is trying to

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Speaker 1: shut down trans people and non binary people, if living

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Speaker 1: people to do the same and drop the fucking charades

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Speaker 1: and lies right that they have been leading their entire lives.

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Speaker 1: You see, trans people represent power in this country, the

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Speaker 1: power to live in your truth, to stand in that truth,

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Speaker 1: and to buck systems and conventions that tell you that

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Speaker 1: And so what I recognize is that the experience that

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Speaker 1: it from happening is to stop it from happening, right.

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Speaker 1: Not to pretend that because right now you live inside

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Speaker 1: of a blue state that we're like, oh, we're good, right, Like, oh,

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Speaker 1: California will always be blue, where New York will always

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Speaker 1: Racist white people, not just any type of white people.

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Speaker 1: So I think that it's really important for us to

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Speaker 1: coming up next my conversation with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks,

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Speaker 1: you know that whenever we have the opportunity to sit

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Speaker 1: down with our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, I

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Speaker 1: start off today's conversation with what the NAACP has issued

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of days, which is a warning

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Speaker 1: to black travelers. It is a warning to anyone that

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Speaker 1: that Florida is a dangerous place for you to be

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Speaker 1: rules and your rights before you travel to this state. Now,

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Speaker 1: you had academic historians bring receipts that offered that Martin

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Speaker 1: white domestic terrorism. So I want to get your first

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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. It follows up on the conversation that

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Speaker 2: emotional violence, racial violence. And the question is what's the

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Speaker 2: who didn't catch it, it's like, what do you boycott

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Speaker 2: that my concern is that we end up boycotting too much,

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Speaker 2: drown out the other voices? Which is hard, But I

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Speaker 2: guess the issue is, and we talked about this last week,

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Speaker 2: And my concern from a financial perspective, and I think

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Speaker 2: Twitter is a good example that boycotts in this social

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Speaker 2: the impulse to step back should be balanced against an

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Speaker 2: impulse to step forward. I mean, what if every liberal

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Speaker 2: you're just limiting your voice. And I've seen this in

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Speaker 2: many instances. I mean, we could debate other place boycotts,

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Speaker 2: like that. But I know in this era, with social

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Speaker 2: very easily countered by boycotting bud Light or boycotting New York,

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Speaker 2: even though it makes it makes a lot of emotional sense.

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Speaker 2: But what would a massive right wing boycott of New

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Speaker 1: I would love it. I would love it. Stay away,

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Speaker 1: you know, it would make Times Square so much more,

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Speaker 1: the same utility it did, right, I mean, you talk

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Speaker 2: Right? And to be clear, I mean, self care should

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Speaker 2: that the algorithms of Twitter have been turned against us this.

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Speaker 2: Nikki Fried on downstill and all these people who really

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Speaker 2: need help. So I just think checking out on Florida Now,

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Speaker 2: I would love a Disneyland Times Square, like you know

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Speaker 2: they're if they're not going to do that, like come

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Speaker 2: on here to.

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Speaker 1: Trying to make more traffic and more.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: We need Disneyland Times Square, lord, we need more people.

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Speaker 2: You know, we serve at Disneyland Times Square, bud Light

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Speaker 2: and everybody coming here. But no, New York needs revenue, man,

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Speaker 2: New York needs people. We've lost way too many people

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Speaker 2: and but but but again, I just think I just

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Speaker 2: supporting that, and it's so important. Really, it's got to

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Speaker 2: be I don't know, it's time for both and both

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Speaker 2: it's time for liberals to like be capitalist right now

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Speaker 2: now honestly, and like, how can we invest in things

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Speaker 2: like we just cannot We're you know, how can we meaningfully, meaningfully,

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Speaker 2: meaningfully support people in Florida and now people in every

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Speaker 2: place else that I mean, we can talk next week

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Speaker 2: about what's happening in Tennessee since all the stuff happened,

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Speaker 2: but you know, there was a lot of attention in Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: and now much worse stuff is happening in Tennessee. People

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Speaker 2: in Texas need support. So it's just, you know, we can't.

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Speaker 2: There was a fantasy before that we could just say, oh,

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Speaker 2: all the stuff in the South is happening down there,

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Speaker 2: but what's happening in the South is happening everywhere, and

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Speaker 2: so it's really like, I mean, thankfully that they you

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Speaker 2: see that ten Commandments bill in Texas that they were

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Speaker 2: going to have to hang at ten Commandments.

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Speaker 1: And yeah at cools.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was excited because I have a poster

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Speaker 2: from mel Brooks History of the World of he did

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Speaker 2: the Fifteen Commandments. It was hilarious when I was a kid.

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Speaker 2: I've a poster of mel Brooks with the Fifteen Commandments

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Speaker 2: and I was going to hang that. But I just think,

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Speaker 2: right now is the time to like, how can we invest,

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Speaker 2: how can we own things, how can we create a

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Speaker 2: counterbalance to really what's happening right now, which is that

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Speaker 2: these platforms are turning against us.

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Speaker 1: Let's remember that. For next week we'll talk about the

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Speaker 1: capitalistic resistance and what that actually what that actually can

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Speaker 1: look like. Jonathan as always friend, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for making the time for wokaf and these really important

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Speaker 1: conversations that I know people are having with themselves, with

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Speaker 1: their friends, with their colleagues, and it's important that we

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Speaker 1: have them on woka app. So we appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Take care everybody.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends on woka app.

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

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.