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Speaker 1: I'm recording this on my phone. It's been such a

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Speaker 1: long time since we dropped anything into this feed, almost

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Speaker 1: exactly two years. But we're back, sort of, and this

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Speaker 1: is a test. This is Baritundae and Hi, thanks for

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Speaker 1: staying subscribed. We've been all over the place me personally,

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Speaker 1: my life partner and business partner Elizabeth, our democracy, the

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Speaker 1: stock market. Everything's just a bit intense. And we made

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Speaker 1: this show How to Citizen for moments like this, to

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Speaker 1: help us move through them, to have some practice at

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Speaker 1: living well together and coordinating our actions and being creative

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Speaker 1: about self government in the face of such destruction. So

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Speaker 1: here's the news. We've been collaborating with one of our

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Speaker 1: season two get guests or was it season one or

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Speaker 1: was it season three? I think it was season one.

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Speaker 1: Time is weird? John Alexander. Remember British dude wrote the

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Speaker 1: book Citizens, How the Solution everything is Everyone. Well, we've

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Speaker 1: been doing a lot of combined efforts with John. We've

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Speaker 1: brought on someone named Sheer Abramowitz to help us find

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Speaker 1: new stories, stories that don't really fit the description of

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Speaker 1: a whole podcast. But during the week of April fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, as I'm recording this. That's today. We're

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Speaker 1: launching a story a day on Instagram and on LinkedIn,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to see if I can just shove

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Speaker 1: it into the feed in here. I'm running this by myself.

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Speaker 1: We don't have the team together for podcasting how to Citizen,

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Speaker 1: but I will take the audio from these videos and

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Speaker 1: I will put them in the feed and if you

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Speaker 1: hear it, then it worked. And if you don't, then

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just talking to myself. But maybe you'll

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Speaker 1: feel the vibe shift in your life. If you want

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Speaker 1: more stories of people citizen ing, if you know of

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Speaker 1: more of these stories, head to stories dot howtocitizen dot com.

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Speaker 1: We've got a little sign up form and we want

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Speaker 1: to know that you're interested and if you know more stories,

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Speaker 1: we should know about. And we're going to be sharing

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Speaker 1: each of these stories every day for about a week,

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Speaker 1: sending it out through email and pushing it on social media,

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Speaker 1: just to counter program all the noise and distraction and

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Speaker 1: destruction and nonsense and remind us that we have agency,

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Speaker 1: especially when we do it together. So if I'm technically

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Speaker 1: not a total idiot, what you should hear after this

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Speaker 1: is the audio of the launch video that I made

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Speaker 1: with John as we pointly are launching this week of

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Speaker 1: Citizen in story sprint. All right, take a deep breath.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get through this peace.

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Speaker 2: Hey.

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Speaker 1: I'm Barton day Thurston. A few years ago, my wife

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Speaker 1: and I made a podcast called how to Citizen, where

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Speaker 1: citizen is a verb.

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Speaker 2: My name's John Alexander. And at the same time Barretonde

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Speaker 2: was making that podcast, I was writing a book called

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Speaker 2: Citizens Why the key to fixing everything is all of us?

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Speaker 2: So the two of us are basically hitting on the

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Speaker 2: same insight at the same time, on opposite sides of

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Speaker 2: the Atlantic.

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Speaker 1: That democracy is something we do, not something we have

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Speaker 1: or don't have, That citizen is a verb, not just

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Speaker 1: to now that people all over the world and every

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Speaker 1: part of society are doing it, but that most of

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Speaker 1: us don't see this story because the media doesn't put

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Speaker 1: those on our screens and on our feet. It's pointed

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Speaker 2: That's a real problem because when we can't see it,

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Speaker 2: it's difficult to believe it's happening, especially when the stories

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Speaker 2: we are top division despair. This affection makes us believe

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Speaker 2: that there's no point doing anything. Exactly the time when

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Speaker 2: we most need to be leaning, and it's dark because actually,

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Speaker 2: when you start to look, you find that people are

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Speaker 2: leaning in everywhere. And when you see that, you start

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Speaker 2: to believe that there might be something you can do,

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Speaker 2: and you start to get involved as well, and that's

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Speaker 2: when things really start to change.

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Speaker 1: Well, we decided, let's team up, let's tell more of

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Speaker 1: these stories together. I reached out and found a bunch

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Speaker 1: of these stories across the United States and get the

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Speaker 1: people making those stories real tell them in their own voices.

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Speaker 1: That we've collected about a week's worth of these stories,

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Speaker 1: So we're dropping one a day on Instagram and on LinkedIn,

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Speaker 1: and we need your.

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Speaker 2: Healthy stories fly. It'll make a real case of the

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Speaker 2: thunders we're talking to and they need to get behind this.

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Speaker 2: So there's a real appetite to hear these kind of stories.

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Speaker 2: Here's how you can help.

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Speaker 1: First, hit yourself on the mailing lift. We're dropping one

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Speaker 1: story a day and we're announcing them each day via email,

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Speaker 1: so you don't miss it. I don't want the algorithm

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Speaker 1: getting between you and a deeper practice of democracy, all right,

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Speaker 1: Sign up at stories that howdositizen dot com.

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Speaker 2: Second, follow Barreton day the Citizens Guy and how to

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Speaker 2: Citizen on Instagram and Barreton day Thurston and John Alexander

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Speaker 2: on LinkedIn. That's where we'll be posting.

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Speaker 1: And there's the obvious. Do what you do with an

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Speaker 1: online video you're into like it, Come share and you

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Speaker 1: know the drill, and talk about other people doing similar things.

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Speaker 1: Forward and on to someone who's not on social media

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Speaker 1: but needs to see. The more we see these stories,

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Speaker 1: the more we can embody and be these stories. They're

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Speaker 1: out there, and if we can demonstrate that supply and

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Speaker 1: that demand, then we can get more resources to tell

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Speaker 1: more of these stories. The world we know is already here.

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Speaker 2: Beyond that, we're really in your hands. If you've got

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Speaker 2: a newsletter going out this week, please list it in there.

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Speaker 2: That would be amazing. If you have any thoughts on

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Speaker 2: what else we should do, get in touch, post something

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Speaker 2: in the comments here, get in touched on other website

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Speaker 2: Stories dot howtositizen dot com. Basically anything we can do

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Speaker 2: to get these videos out there, prove the case that

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Speaker 2: there's an appetite for this kind of storytelling. We want

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Speaker 2: to do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this spoiler alert. We already are