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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 Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker. Folks.

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Speaker 1: Oh my fucking god, there is good news to report

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Speaker 1: and it couldn't come soon enough. This week was election

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Speaker 1: week in America and on the ballot our rights as

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Speaker 1: per usual, since the dawn of MAGA in Ohio, in Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: in Virginia, the voters had their voices heard. In Ohio,

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Speaker 1: they have now enshrined abortion protection into the constitution. After

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Speaker 1: the Republicans spent twenty eight million dollars to try and

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Speaker 1: deny this right to Ohioans, they fought back and now

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Speaker 1: abortion and abortion access will be the law of the land.

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Speaker 1: Over in Kentucky, Governor Andy Basheer, Democrat, won handedly against

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Speaker 1: the Trump backed and supported Daniel Cameron. You may remember

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Speaker 1: Daniel Cameron because he was the ag who, you know,

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Speaker 1: just kind of didn't do his job when Breonna Taylor

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Speaker 1: it cost her her life, Daniel Cameron didn't really give

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Speaker 1: a fuck because you know what, folks, just a reminder

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Speaker 1: not all skin folk are kinfolk. I think most surprisingly

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Speaker 1: and most excitingly is what took place in the state

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Speaker 1: of Virginia. Glenn Youngkin, the Republican in a vest, basically

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Speaker 1: in Virginia. And once again, the voters said hell no.

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Speaker 1: Not only did the Democrats hold on to the state Senate,

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Speaker 1: they also flipped the House blue. So Glenn Younkin can

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Speaker 1: So what does this say to us, folks? What can

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Speaker 1: we understand and know from this moment? And I think

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Speaker 1: it's this. It's the fact that when the people understand

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Speaker 1: the messengers, the representatives that are voting for, are quality

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Speaker 1: candidates who care about them, who care about democracy, they

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Speaker 1: show out and they show up. Now Republican and now

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Speaker 1: talking head Rick Santorum said the quiet part out loud

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Speaker 1: when he said, oh, first of all, this motherfucker referred

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Speaker 1: to abortion as a quote unquote sexy issue. So make

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Speaker 1: that make sense? But on top of which, he also

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Speaker 1: suggested that this is why what happened in Ohio means

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Speaker 1: that democracy doesn't work, meaning that allowing people to vote

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Speaker 1: right on the issues that affect their day to day

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Speaker 1: life don't work because what Republicans want, and what they

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Speaker 1: are saying very clearly is a theocracy layered with fascism,

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Speaker 1: because nothing that the Republican Party is offering to the

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Speaker 1: is why they want to anoint Donald Trump their king,

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Speaker 1: so that he can weaponize the Department of Justice, he

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Speaker 1: can weaponize the military against the American people, and they

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Speaker 1: can by force have their way. That's what Rick Santorum said.

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Speaker 1: That's what all of the Republican candidates that are vying

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Speaker 1: quote unquote for the presidency when we all know that

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Speaker 1: they're really vying to be Donald Trump's vice president. That's

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Speaker 1: what they are saying right now. We have somebody that

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Speaker 1: and shocked out of their gatum. They are telling us

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Speaker 1: with each candidate with each vote, with each person who

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Speaker 1: back to the show on gidridadis, the author of The Persuaders,

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Speaker 1: to talk to us about democratic messaging, to talk to

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Speaker 1: us about the moment that we are in where we

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Speaker 1: I am very happy to welcome back to wok F

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Speaker 1: Daily author writer thinker on On Gidatas, who has been

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Speaker 1: on this show before. When your book, which is now out,

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Speaker 1: has been out in paperback, The Persuaders at the front

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Speaker 1: lines of the fight for hearts, minds and democracy. I

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Speaker 1: can think of no better book, no better timing than yours.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to start off with how I've

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Speaker 1: been starting off most conversations, which is asking people how

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Speaker 1: anger and rage everywhere. So how are you managing?

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Speaker 2: I mean, aside from the state of the world and

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Speaker 2: then great, you know, the world, the world complicates that.

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Speaker 2: Right now, it's just such an awful time, and I

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Speaker 2: You know, pushing the limits of like whether we can

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Speaker 2: And I use that phrase carefully because that's basically the

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Speaker 2: Or can we not live together? Can we live together

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Speaker 1: Can we all live together? Can we and not just

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Speaker 1: live together in a way that ignores each other's differences? Right?

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Speaker 1: Like I think that you and I broke both probably

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Speaker 1: grew up in age where it was about people being

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Speaker 1: the place that we find ourselves in. If we're looking

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And first of all, let me say this, and

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Speaker 2: in all communities. But the truth is around the world,

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Speaker 2: if you go back far enough into your ancestry, wherever

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Speaker 2: So our ancestors were able to live together because they

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Speaker 2: numbers of people controlled everything. Right, That was like some

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: If you look at what we are trying to do

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Speaker 3: Laps around what our ancestors try to do.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to live with all kinds of different people

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Speaker 2: safety means, of what love means, of what having each

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Speaker 3: It is a very high class.

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Speaker 2: Fail, right, Like we are failing at doing something super

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Speaker 2: because it's really easy to just ask one guy to

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Speaker 1: And I love the fact that what you are, how

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Speaker 1: The United States is really this hodgepodge.

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Speaker 2: And I travel a bunch. I travel around the world

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Speaker 2: You know, China fantastic country. China is not a country

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Speaker 2: or just makes you feel like you don't understand the world,

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Speaker 2: and you're caught literally between your daddy and your son,

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Speaker 2: which I think you know a lot of fifty year

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Speaker 2: old men in this country would feel. Donald Trump's very

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Speaker 2: happy to talk you through those feelings. And if you

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Speaker 2: actually look at what Donald Trump's saying, it's not a

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Speaker 2: policy and this and that he's actually trying in many

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Speaker 2: ways to talk you through those feelings. They don't want

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Speaker 2: you to being a man anymore or just the way

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Speaker 2: he performs, right, He's actually he actually recognizes that that's

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Speaker 3: Sense of homelessness or alienation. Right.

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Speaker 2: I would much rather Joe Biden help talk that man

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Speaker 2: through the era, or AOC talk that man through the era,

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Speaker 2: or activists or organizers. I'd rather door knockers are going

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Speaker 2: and talking to them. Like I think, if we get

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Speaker 2: into this notion that people don't need to be helped

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Speaker 2: with their psychological transitions in an era of extraordinary power shifts,

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Speaker 2: we're not like righteously avoiding emotional labor that we shouldn't

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Speaker 2: have to do. We're just handing people to fascists who

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Speaker 2: are very happy to talk people through psychological displacement.

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Speaker 1: I mean, god, damn, yeah, you have just once again

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Speaker 1: convinced me that that you know, it isn't about the

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Speaker 1: emotion labor of the thing. It is who who do

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Speaker 1: we want them to be educated through and educated by?

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Speaker 1: Because they will be right? And I think that that,

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Speaker 1: to me, that's the perfect place for us to land today.

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Speaker 1: But that is that is the question. And I think

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Speaker 1: that your book and every everything is about that people

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Speaker 1: are stuck and you just you just this was so succinct,

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Speaker 1: and thank you so much. It was so succinct because

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Speaker 1: people are stuck, and it's like, how do we want

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Speaker 1: to get them unstuck? Is is truly the question, folks,

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Speaker 1: if you have not gotten it yet, the book is

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Speaker 1: the persuaders at the front lines of the fight for

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Speaker 1: hearts and minds, hearts, minds and democracy, which is everything

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Speaker 1: of where we are. Thank you so much, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you for talking to you. I mean I could

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Speaker 1: talk to you for like literally, I need you to

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Speaker 1: talk me through life. We'll do a series, but thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke

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Speaker 1: a app as always power to the people and to

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Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.