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Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sen. Welcome to willkay 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: I want to start off today with something that is alarming,

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Speaker 1: as one does in the twenty twenties, it seems as

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Speaker 1: if I will say this that since we have entered

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Speaker 1: into the twenty twenties, that everything has seemingly gone downhill.

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Speaker 1: And I say that not even tongue in cheek. It

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Speaker 1: just really feels like everything has gone downhill. We spoke

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Speaker 1: about this yesterday with doctor Jonathan Metzel with this just

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Speaker 1: consistency around panic and anxiety. So just another way to

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Speaker 1: know that you're not crazy with the way that you're

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Speaker 1: feeling well. Axios reports this which I just had to,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of laugh at but not really, which

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Speaker 1: is that the doomsday clock. The doomsday clock, which was

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Speaker 1: created by the bulletin of Atomic Scientist, is a symbolic

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Speaker 1: clock of you know, according to Axios, how close we

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Speaker 1: are to midnight, and midnight is essentially a human cause

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Speaker 1: catastrophic events. So the doomsday clock was created in nineteen

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Speaker 1: forty seven and was initially used, according to this article,

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Speaker 1: to represent the danger posed by nuclear weapons, and you

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Speaker 1: know that we had nuclear weapons were created, and these

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Speaker 1: scientists got together and started to think about all of

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Speaker 1: the risks to mankind. And at the time in nineteen

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Speaker 1: four seven, the only really truly to mankind was nuclear war,

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Speaker 1: as countries were building their nuclear arsenals. Well. Now, over

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Speaker 1: the course of many, many decades, the doomsday clock has

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Speaker 1: since evolved, and not in a good way, right in

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Speaker 1: the way that it takes into account other risks to humanity,

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Speaker 1: which is climate change, bioweapons, and disinformation. And for the

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Speaker 1: first time, so this is wild, but for the first

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Speaker 1: time in our history, we are the closest to midnight,

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Speaker 1: meaning basically the collapse of our humanity or a catastrophic event,

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Speaker 1: than we have ever been in our lifetime. And so

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three the announcement came down that we are

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Speaker 1: from twenty twenty which is when we were the closest

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Speaker 1: to midnight because of a global health pandemic. Now we

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Speaker 1: are ninety seconds to midnight. And this is what they say.

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Speaker 1: The clock is a figurative tracker of the world's proximity

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Speaker 1: to total human cause destruction. The clock's hands are moved

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Speaker 1: closer to midnight to suggest humanity is nearer to self

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Speaker 1: made catastrophe and farther when that risk appears to fade.

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Speaker 1: What has prompted some of these factors to contribute to

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Speaker 1: us literally ticking closer to our destruction is, according to

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Speaker 1: the Bolton of Atomic Scientists, this Russia's thinly veiled threats

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Speaker 1: the conflict by accident, intention, or miscalculation is a terrible risk.

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Speaker 1: The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone's

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Speaker 1: control remains high. They also go on to talk about

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Speaker 1: the expansion of China's nuclear capabilities, the rise in North Korea,

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Speaker 1: the increase in North Korea's missile testing, which we have

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Speaker 1: seen and every time it happens it is breaking news.

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Speaker 1: The climate crisis also continues to pose an existential threat,

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Speaker 1: they write, with global carbon dioxide emissions rebounding from their

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Speaker 1: pre pandemic low and climate change linked extreme weather events abounding. So, folks,

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Speaker 1: basically what they are saying is that, how do I

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Speaker 1: put this in delicate ways, We're fucked that every time

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Speaker 1: there is some type of catastrophic event and I would

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Speaker 1: argue that they should probably this is a global sense,

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Speaker 1: but they should probably add in, you know, America's mass

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Speaker 1: that that is what is also presenting a problem. So

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Speaker 1: you take into consideration mass shootings, climate change, bio catastrophe,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan and I are talking yesterday about this heightened anxiety

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Speaker 1: types of anti anxiety medications and antidepressants, it's because of this,

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Speaker 1: Like we're not all crazy, right, Like every time my

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Speaker 1: then Routers that comes behind that, I'm like, what the

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Speaker 1: don't want to walk outside and see a big fucking

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Speaker 1: has been hit by missiles, right, Because while that sounds crazy,

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Speaker 1: it's fucking not right. Like that's the thing is that

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Speaker 1: the demise of our democracy. Watching one of the two

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Speaker 1: major political parties morph itself into a cult of personality

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Speaker 1: and instead embraces them all in their big white supremacist tent,

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Speaker 1: and seeing that these people are not losing. Sure, folks

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Speaker 1: lost their Secretary of State races and lost local like

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Speaker 1: new crop of insurrectionists that are in the House of Representatives,

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Speaker 1: guess what, they would have all been fucking indicted before

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Speaker 1: denied placements on important committees like Intelligence because Kevin McCarthy's

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Speaker 1: actually wanted to hold the former twice impeach president accountable

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Speaker 1: for inciting an insurrection and you know, trying to bribe

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Speaker 1: out on them. So, folks, when you take all these

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Speaker 1: on top of all that has been transpiring globally, our

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Speaker 1: collective anxiety is not crazy. And now I want to

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Speaker 1: read you pieces of the bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday

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Speaker 1: like at midnight, you know, it's New Year's Eve and

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Speaker 1: instead of fireworks, it's just bombs going off everywhere, But

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Speaker 1: what it says and what it is stating is that

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Speaker 1: we are seeing real, viable, credible threats to our existence.

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Speaker 1: And what is crazy is I feel like a hundred

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Speaker 1: be sifting through you know, news and articles and information

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Speaker 1: clearly preventable, this apocalyptic living that we are doing on

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Speaker 1: a broken planet? That why didn't anyone do anything? Like?

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Speaker 1: How could you take no action when you see that

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Speaker 1: becoming increasingly the norm? Why wouldn't you create legislation that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't everyone collectively care about humanity? And the funny thing is, folks,

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Speaker 1: remember being a young person learning about the Holocaust and saying,

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Speaker 1: six million souls to be exterminated from this planet and

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Speaker 1: and we have representatives in our government who are telling

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Speaker 1: I tell you that I feel absolutely fucking crazy because

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Speaker 1: makes no fucking sense. George Santos is a member of

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Speaker 1: Similarly with the fucking Second Amendment, the four fathers of

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Speaker 1: a fucking hundred magazine of bullets could do to the

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Speaker 1: a time of unprecedented danger, and the doomsday clock time

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Speaker 1: a decision our experts do not take lightly. The US government,

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Speaker 1: to their fullest ability to turn back the clock. The

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Speaker 1: war on Ukraine has raised profound questions about how states interact,

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Speaker 1: eroding norms of international conduct that underpin successful responses to

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Speaker 1: a variety of global risks, and, worst of all, Russia's

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Speaker 1: thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world

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Speaker 1: that the escalation of the conflict by accident, intention, or

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Speaker 1: miscalculation is a terrible risk. The possibility that the conflict

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Speaker 1: of radioactive materials. Efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency

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Speaker 1: doomsday clock is sounding an alarm for all of humanity.

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Speaker 1: We are on the brink of a precipice, but our

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Speaker 1: We know what needs to be done, they write. The

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Speaker 1: a crisis mindset, folks. That statement cannot be more clear.

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Speaker 1: The anxiety that we are feeling is one that is

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Speaker 1: steeped in real existential threats to humanity. Over a million

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Speaker 1: What this statement lies out, lays out, excuse me, is

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Speaker 1: century pandemics are no longer once in a century. And

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Speaker 1: what is so chilling and crazy is that we have

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Speaker 1: all of the information and tools to stop what is happening,

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Speaker 1: but for a handful of crazy, fucking egomaniac white supremacist leaders,

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Speaker 1: we can't get anything fucking done. So when I say, oh,

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Speaker 1: here are options which are becoming really limited. Either we

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Speaker 1: have a revolution in this country, one that is steeped

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Speaker 1: in justice, climate justice, gun reformed justice, you know, the

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Speaker 1: free from mass shootings, one that actually is prepared for

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Speaker 1: the worst and not just by building up our fucking

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Speaker 1: pentagon stockpiles, but one that is invested in the future

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Speaker 1: while also taking care of the present. Instead, we have

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Speaker 1: refusing to take vaccines so that they can spread illness,

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Speaker 1: and have the freedom to do so, and mass shootings

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Speaker 1: I want folks to really truly understand that you are

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Speaker 1: not alone. You are not alone in having moments a

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Speaker 1: said many times that fighting for justice and equity is

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Speaker 1: a marathon. It is a marathon that is also a

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Speaker 1: But when we take into account the things that are

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Speaker 1: what is happening, it does become overwhelming. This is why folks,

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Speaker 1: I encourage therapy. I encourage healthy use of medication. I

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Speaker 1: encourage meditation, connecting with nature, you know, connecting with art,

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Speaker 1: with music, spending time with people who lift your spirits

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Speaker 1: lose your mind. I do this show as a form

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Speaker 1: recognize that you're not crazy. You're not crazy for caring,

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Speaker 1: You're not crazy for being worried, because we have a

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Speaker 1: lot to worry about. You know, we are living in

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Speaker 1: unprecedented times. As I know, so many people have said

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Speaker 1: we need leaders to meet this moment, and currently there

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Speaker 1: is not only an absence of collective leadership and force,

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Speaker 1: but there is just no will and it is up

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Speaker 1: to us to force their hand. Otherwise we are going

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Speaker 1: to be collateral damage in the games that they are playing.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on Will

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Speaker 1: gay 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

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Speaker 1: fun