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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok 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 hope that those of you who our fathers had

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Speaker 1: a wonderful Father's Day weekend. You know, I was home

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Speaker 1: am well into, you know, very very adult age, and

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Speaker 1: I have enjoyed the maturation of my relationship with my parents.

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Speaker 1: And I just like when I have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go home and visit, which is probably more so than

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Speaker 1: most people unless you live in the same town. I'm

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Speaker 1: just able to refocus on what's important and what matters.

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Speaker 1: Like sure, I will sit and I'll you know, talk

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Speaker 1: like a little bit of politics, but honestly not really.

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Speaker 1: The focus is on joy and spending good times together

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Speaker 1: and creating memories. And I think that it is really

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Speaker 1: important to remind ourselves that there is only so much

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Speaker 1: that we can do right. You can post you can share,

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Speaker 1: you can donate, you can educate, you can try and

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Speaker 1: push this country your representatives to be better. But in

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Speaker 1: that pushing, I also want folks to recognize when it's

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Speaker 1: to show how woke and conscious you are by making

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Speaker 1: every single waking moment about injustice, oppression, trauma and all

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Speaker 1: of these things. I think that the way to also

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Speaker 1: living in gratitude. I thought about how many fathers have

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Speaker 1: and I'm just you know, I'm reminded as I start,

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Speaker 1: you know, really be present in moments of joy, like

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Speaker 1: truly present, because it's what keeps us going and it

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Speaker 1: is what fuels us. Coming up next, my conversation with

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Speaker 1: Pride Month coverage. That conversation is coming up next, Folks.

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Speaker 1: I am very excited to welcome to WOKF Daily. No

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Speaker 1: you today, Kathy, about you know, it's Pride, right and

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Speaker 2: Thanks Danielle, and we cannot tell you how much we

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the questions I do want to

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Speaker 2: It's hard. I think that Pride organizers have always been

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Speaker 2: You know, law enforcement may be more supportive of the

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Speaker 2: So I actually appreciate you bringing it up because a

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Speaker 1: I think that it's important to lift up because I

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Speaker 2: Absolutely more and more. And I think that you know,

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Speaker 2: What do you say, Well, if you can safely go

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Speaker 2: I think there are ways that you can connect, and

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Speaker 2: it is just it's so powerful to see this amazing,

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Speaker 1: Kathy, I thank you so much for the work one

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Speaker 1: think that you know, we need it. We need to

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Speaker 2: So, I mean, the easiest thing to do to follow

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Speaker 2: We're on Instagram, we're on x We're on Facebook, we're

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Speaker 2: on LinkedIn. You can also go to our Queer the

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Speaker 2: Vote website which is just squere thevote dot org. You

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Speaker 2: the waste that you can get engaged both virtually and

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Speaker 2: folks join us for again. The great Change Conference can

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Speaker 2: be a life changing experience. It's like basically like it's

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Speaker 2: like an activist pride for a week, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's true.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. It's true. I've been to my fair share.

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Speaker 2: It's not a conference. A Kia Johnson, our executive director, says,

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Speaker 2: it's not a conference. It's an ecosystem. I always say

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Speaker 2: it's not a conference, it's an experience. Like we try

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Speaker 2: of grow and you know, really make a difference and

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Speaker 2: great change.

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Speaker 1: Lati Rana, thank you so much as always been making

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Speaker 1: the time for WOKF. Really appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you too, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends on wok F.

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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.