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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 Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker.

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Speaker 1: I hope that you all had a RESTful, recharging weekend

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Speaker 1: and that you had the opportunity to celebrate Earth Day

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Speaker 1: by getting outdoors. I'm sure you saw the news at

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Speaker 1: the end of the week that Elon Musk was using

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Speaker 1: his platform once again to decentralize community. He has removed

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Speaker 1: people who have had like myself, who've had blue checks

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Speaker 1: that they earned. You know, however many years ago, removed

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Speaker 1: and verified accounts unverified, which is to help with the

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Speaker 1: push of misinformation disinformation. But I want people to understand

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Speaker 1: something because you know, I had posted and I let

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Speaker 1: people know that I'm going to be using Twitter fairly infrequently.

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Speaker 1: And it isn't just because of the removal of the

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Speaker 1: blue check, but it's because we have to understand that

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Speaker 1: spaces that were never created for and by the people

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Speaker 1: can always be disrupted, bought and deconstructed at the whim

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Speaker 1: of whatever billionaire, whatever corporation decides that they don't like

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Speaker 1: its use. The function of Twitter was to be a

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Speaker 1: global town hall, was to be a place where you

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Speaker 1: can gather and share thoughts and get information quickly spread.

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Speaker 1: You know, information start movements, activism organized. It became a

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Speaker 1: real tool of organization, not just the birthplace of Black

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Speaker 1: Lives Matter, but the Arab Spring and you know, the

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Speaker 1: protests in Iran and things that we've learned about before

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Speaker 1: mainstream media had the opportunity or even desire to pick

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Speaker 1: things up. If you recall learning about the killing of

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Speaker 1: from cable news. Cable news only started covering it after

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Speaker 1: there was an eruption from people on social media. And

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Speaker 1: so when you recognize that the status quo does not

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Speaker 1: want the mobilization of the people, it doesn't want a

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Speaker 1: collection of voices, because a collection of voices and community

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Speaker 1: with like minded people creates a movement. Movement then pushes

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Speaker 1: for change and changes what the status quo does not want, right.

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Speaker 1: They want a just a small few to be able

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Speaker 1: to have all right and for they have not to

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Speaker 1: continue to toil away and scramble and fight with each

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Speaker 1: other for the crumbs and the scraps that are left behind.

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Speaker 1: They want us to believe that our voice and our

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Speaker 1: vote don't matter, and that we're just screaming into avoid

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Speaker 1: So that builds frustration and anger, and then that turns

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Speaker 1: into malaise and complacency, allowing the powers that be to

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Speaker 1: continue to thwart progress, right, and not even just to

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Speaker 1: thwart it, but like we are seeing reverse, it bring

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Speaker 1: us backwards. And so the point of this is detachment destruction.

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Speaker 1: It is to create silos and separateness. Think about when

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Speaker 1: the slave trade began, and think about the ways in

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Speaker 1: which people, people, human beings were kidnapped from other tribes

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Speaker 1: to have connection and community to build a movement, right,

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Speaker 1: for people to organize, there were rules that were put

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Speaker 1: together that you know, black people, right, could not gather

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Speaker 1: in public spaces lest there be mutiny. Right. So you

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Speaker 1: have to understand, I bring us back to the point

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Speaker 1: of slavery to make a very stark correlation, not to

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Speaker 1: But you have to understand that power does not want

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Speaker 1: people organizing, Power does not want people gathering. Power does

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Speaker 1: not want connection. It thrives on disconnection and disruption and misinformation,

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Speaker 1: fear and anxiety. So what Elon Musk is doing is

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Speaker 1: no different than what has always been done. And what

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Speaker 1: people have to understand is that we cannot rest our

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Speaker 1: because millions of people use it that that means that

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Speaker 1: it's going to be forever. It's not. And our activism

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Speaker 1: and the crises, the layered crises that we are facing,

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Speaker 1: require a nimbleness, require an intellectual agility, require us to

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Speaker 1: gathering in spaces that we don't own. So with this

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Speaker 1: latest disruption from an egomania narcissist, white supremacist billionaire, what's

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Speaker 1: next should be the bigger question? How do we organize?

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Speaker 1: How do we continue to mobilize, Where do we gather

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Speaker 1: of technocrats? Right? And so what does that look like?

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Speaker 1: Does it look like, you know, finding new online spaces

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Speaker 1: us also back to more localized community and relationship? You know,

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Speaker 1: Three years later when we said a mass disruption was

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Speaker 1: have gone back to this new abnormal. It's this broken

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Speaker 1: same old. And what I'm saying is that from Tennessee

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Speaker 1: other places, you are seeing local action take place. And

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Speaker 1: local action is what is pushing legislatures, what is pushing

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Speaker 1: and reconnecting people to come together under a common call

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Speaker 1: and banner, which is freedom, right, which is family, which

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Speaker 1: that as we're watching things shift, not just to be

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Speaker 1: angry about it. And anger is justified when it is,

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Speaker 1: you know, put towards action. But anger on its own,

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Speaker 1: you know, can each you from the inside out. But

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Speaker 1: we need to think about what's next. Coming up next

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Speaker 1: my conversation with our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks,

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Speaker 1: whenever I have the opportunity, you know, each week to

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

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Speaker 1: I am always thrilled. However, Jonathan, our conversations have you know,

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Speaker 1: they're just never good. They're never good and filled with hopefulness.

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Speaker 1: And so it's unfortunate that we live in a country

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Speaker 1: to start today with the case of Ralph y'arl as.

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Speaker 1: Folks know this, this case, Jonathan has really sent me

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Speaker 1: this week emotionally, it has just really hurt my soul

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Speaker 1: in so many different ways. So I want to start

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad we're starting with this. As you might

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Speaker 2: my book was about gun laws in Missouri, and particularly

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Speaker 2: Was he racist or whatever? And in polite ways which

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Speaker 2: I will not be as polite in our conversation because

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Speaker 2: we speak very honestly here. My answer is I don't care,

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Speaker 2: And that reason is because I don't know if somebody

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Speaker 2: That was the story of dying of whiteness. A couple

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Speaker 2: what does that mean? That means you feel like somebody's

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Speaker 2: more often than not, they have the protection of the law.

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Speaker 2: In fact, in this case, I really don't think this

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Speaker 2: who gets shot, but it's also data repeatedly shows that

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Speaker 1: You know, there was a picture that was being circulated

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Speaker 1: the trigger. And I thought about this juxtaposition, Jonathan, between

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Speaker 1: then I think about the life of Ralph y'all and

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Speaker 1: the fact that miraculously he's out of the hospital and

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Speaker 1: And so I think about this dichotomy of America, right,

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Speaker 1: talking about the seventy five million that voted for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the Maga hat wearing folks. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about some semblance of normal fencitting white people who

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's important to note that many white

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Speaker 2: people do think this is ridiculous, horrible, or horrific or unconscionable.

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Speaker 2: that in Tennessee, for example, where I am, after the

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Speaker 2: minds was enough. So I'm optimistic about the future. But again,

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Speaker 2: I just think right now, like we just have to

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Speaker 2: think much more strategicly, Like if they if we're going

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Speaker 2: to push Clarence Thomas out of the Supreme Court, let's

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Speaker 2: make sure he's not replaced by somebody who's twenty years

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Speaker 2: old and supports the NRA. You know, I mean, we

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Speaker 2: have to we have to kind of think long term.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what a what a what a concept? As always,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Metsell, thank you so much. For making the time

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Speaker 1: to join us on wokayf and trying to make sense

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Speaker 1: of I don't know this, uh, this ship that we're

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Speaker 1: living in. That's all I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Puppies.

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Speaker 1: We say that every week and we'll be to talk.

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Speaker 2: About that next week.

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Speaker 1: Thank you friend. That is it for me today. Dear

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Speaker 1: friends on wokey f as always, power to the people

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

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Speaker 1: woke as fuck.