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Speaker 1: Good morning, peepsend and welcome to ok 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 2: In today's conversation, we sit.

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Speaker 1: Down with our friend, our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel,

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Speaker 1: and we talk about a range of things that are

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Speaker 1: happening right now as it pertains to our democracy and

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Speaker 1: the erosion that is taking place, the crumbling that is happening.

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Speaker 1: But as I turn on the microphone today, George Clooney

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Speaker 1: has decided that after putting together a fourteen million dollar

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Speaker 1: fundraiser for Joe Biden, that he thinks that the smartest

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Speaker 1: thing to do is to come out and to say

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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden should step aside, that he considers him

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Speaker 1: a friend, and he's a good president and was a

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Speaker 1: good vice president, but that it's time for him to

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Speaker 1: step aside. And what I've wanted to elevate in this

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden in step aside conversation is one the massagin

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Speaker 1: award that is taking place with the absolute just dismissal

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Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris, who is the Vice President of the

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Speaker 1: United States, and the fact that it is overwhelmingly rich,

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Speaker 1: white powerful men that are coming out calling for Biden

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Speaker 1: to resign to be replaced with a white man, as

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Speaker 1: if we don't already have a succession plan in place

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Speaker 1: in this country if something happens to the President of

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Speaker 1: the United States. What I recognize about this is that

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Speaker 1: these people who are coming out, overwhelmingly white men, who

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Speaker 1: are coming out and calling for Biden to step aside,

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Speaker 1: have nothing at risk. Their lives are not going to

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Speaker 1: be the ones that are upended because of a Trump regime.

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Speaker 1: They are not going to have to live under threat.

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Speaker 1: They are going to have the finances and the skin

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Speaker 1: tone to be able to fully and George Clin can

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Speaker 1: raise his kids on Lake fucking Como and the other

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Speaker 1: political punditry, white wealthy male class, they'll be fine, and

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Speaker 1: they'll probably just get lock and step with Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: in order to save their own asses. But it is

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Speaker 1: the rest of us, who are part of marginalized communities

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Speaker 1: who are the ones that are going to be in danger.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm not willing to fucking gamble with changing

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Speaker 1: a horse four months into the election. What I am

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Speaker 1: willing to do is something that John Stewart brought up

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Speaker 1: on The Daily Show, which is we need to bring

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Speaker 1: in everybody, the governors, you know, the House representatives, the senators,

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Speaker 1: the medio personalities and what have you, and get on

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Speaker 1: the same page about creating a multiracial, multi generational coalition

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Speaker 1: in order to fight back against fashion and Donald fucking

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Speaker 1: Trump and MAGA and Project twenty twenty five. That's what

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Speaker 1: our time should be used for, is to do what

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Speaker 1: it is that people in France did who came from

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Speaker 1: different ideological makeup, but they recognize the threat at hand

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Speaker 1: that Marie Le Penn and our far right party we're

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Speaker 1: going to have on France, and they did what needed

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Speaker 1: to be done, and then they can figure out how

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Speaker 1: to fucking govern. But we need to focus on how

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Speaker 1: to fucking win. And that's the problem that Democrats find

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Speaker 1: themselves in right now, is that they would rather spin

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Speaker 1: their wheels and have a bunch of wealthy, white powerful

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Speaker 1: for another white man.

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Speaker 2: Folks.

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Speaker 1: We are not going to win that way, and I

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, my conversation with our friend, our in

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Speaker 1: house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks, you know that whenever

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Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to chat with our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzil, we are always thrilled and pleased. And Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: you are getting ready to take a big trip. You

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Speaker 1: are headed to Israel in a few days.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're leaving this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Okay, if our faithful viewers could see my apartment right now,

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Speaker 3: they would send they would send help. But now I'm

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Speaker 3: going to I'm going to England. First. I'm giving a

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to Israel to lecture about structural racism,

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Speaker 3: which is something they feel like they really want to

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Speaker 3: a particular constituency. But I'm going to interview people about

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Speaker 3: like there were a lot of similar forces at play

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Speaker 3: to write a piece just about put everything aside if

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Speaker 3: that Candaidate on the left was somebody nobody's really all

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Speaker 2: You know, I think it's one a couple of things

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Speaker 2: when you talk to them about structural racism, And obviously

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Speaker 2: structural racism looks different depending on the country that you're in,

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Speaker 2: depending on what ethnic racial groups, cultures you know you're discussing,

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Speaker 3: So I've been learning and lecturing in the Middle East

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Speaker 3: Everybody thinks it's like white Europeans and and they're all

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Speaker 3: It's they've been anti occupation forever and you know a

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Speaker 1: I've said this before, I think to you, but I

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Speaker 1: And so when I was looking at Israelis and I'm

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Speaker 1: And so just like again with this idea of teaching

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Speaker 3: And you know, the other interesting thing is that there

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Speaker 3: So there's just a whole tribalizing. I mean it's also

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Speaker 1: Everyone needs to be focused on. What I want to

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Speaker 1: We need to get to inauguration day. We need to

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Speaker 3: It's just really it's like the viewership of NMSNBC versus

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Speaker 1: Well we will leave it there today, my friend. I

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Speaker 1: thoughts are around their own issues of structural racism.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I've here. I actual, to be honest,

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Speaker 3: it was like take your breath away moment. I'm like,

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Speaker 3: do you want me to come talk about peace negotiations

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Speaker 3: or war something? And like the actually we want to

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Speaker 3: learn how we can be more racially equitdople. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: there was something about it. This was like the last

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Speaker 3: answer I thought. I'm like, oh, I'll come, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'll come and we'll see and again this group is

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Speaker 3: mixed in ways that are just it's you know, you

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Speaker 3: can't get a sense of what it's like from here

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Speaker 3: in that regard. You know, they're so anyway excited to

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Speaker 3: go and come back and talk to everybody about amazing.

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

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Speaker 1: a f 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.