WEBVTT - We're Back (Kind of) with More Stories All Week

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

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<v Speaker 1>long time since we dropped anything into this feed, almost

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

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<v Speaker 1>is a test. This is Baritundae and Hi, thanks for

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

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<v Speaker 1>my life partner and business partner Elizabeth, our democracy, the

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<v Speaker 1>stock market. Everything's just a bit intense. And we made

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<v Speaker 1>this show How to Citizen for moments like this, to

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<v Speaker 1>help us move through them, to have some practice at

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<v Speaker 1>living well together and coordinating our actions and being creative

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<v Speaker 1>about self government in the face of such destruction. So

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

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<v Speaker 1>season two get guests or was it season one or

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<v Speaker 1>was it season three? I think it was season one.

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<v Speaker 1>Time is weird? John Alexander. Remember British dude wrote the

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

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<v Speaker 1>been doing a lot of combined efforts with John. We've

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<v Speaker 1>brought on someone named Sheer Abramowitz to help us find

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<v Speaker 1>new stories, stories that don't really fit the description of

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<v Speaker 1>a whole podcast. But during the week of April fourteenth,

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

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<v Speaker 1>launching a story a day on Instagram and on LinkedIn,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm going to see if I can just shove

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>but I will take the audio from these videos and

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<v Speaker 1>I will put them in the feed and if you

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<v Speaker 1>hear it, then it worked. And if you don't, then

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just I'm just talking to myself. But maybe you'll

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<v Speaker 1>feel the vibe shift in your life. If you want

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<v Speaker 1>more stories of people citizen ing, if you know of

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<v Speaker 1>more of these stories, head to stories dot howtocitizen dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>We've got a little sign up form and we want

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<v Speaker 1>to know that you're interested and if you know more stories,

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<v Speaker 1>we should know about. And we're going to be sharing

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<v Speaker 1>each of these stories every day for about a week,

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<v Speaker 1>sending it out through email and pushing it on social media,

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<v Speaker 1>just to counter program all the noise and distraction and

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<v Speaker 1>destruction and nonsense and remind us that we have agency,

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<v Speaker 1>especially when we do it together. So if I'm technically

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<v Speaker 1>not a total idiot, what you should hear after this

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<v Speaker 1>is the audio of the launch video that I made

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<v Speaker 1>with John as we pointly are launching this week of

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<v Speaker 1>Citizen in story sprint. All right, take a deep breath.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going to get through this peace.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey.

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

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<v Speaker 1>and I made a podcast called how to Citizen, where

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<v Speaker 1>citizen is a verb.

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<v Speaker 2>My name's John Alexander. And at the same time Barretonde

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<v Speaker 2>was making that podcast, I was writing a book called

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<v Speaker 2>Citizens Why the key to fixing everything is all of us?

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<v Speaker 2>So the two of us are basically hitting on the

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<v Speaker 2>same insight at the same time, on opposite sides of

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<v Speaker 2>the Atlantic.

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<v Speaker 1>That democracy is something we do, not something we have

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<v Speaker 1>or don't have, That citizen is a verb, not just

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<v Speaker 1>to now that people all over the world and every

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<v Speaker 1>part of society are doing it, but that most of

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<v Speaker 1>us don't see this story because the media doesn't put

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<v Speaker 1>those on our screens and on our feet. It's pointed

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<v Speaker 1>in the wrong direction.

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

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<v Speaker 2>it's difficult to believe it's happening, especially when the stories

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<v Speaker 2>we are top division despair. This affection makes us believe

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<v Speaker 2>that there's no point doing anything. Exactly the time when

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

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<v Speaker 2>when you start to look, you find that people are

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<v Speaker 2>leaning in everywhere. And when you see that, you start

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<v Speaker 2>to believe that there might be something you can do,

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<v Speaker 2>and you start to get involved as well, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>when things really start to change.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, we decided, let's team up, let's tell more of

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<v Speaker 1>these stories together. I reached out and found a bunch

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<v Speaker 1>of these stories across the United States and get the

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<v Speaker 1>people making those stories real tell them in their own voices.

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

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<v Speaker 1>So we're dropping one a day on Instagram and on LinkedIn,

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<v Speaker 1>and we need your.

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<v Speaker 2>Healthy stories fly. It'll make a real case of the

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<v Speaker 2>thunders we're talking to and they need to get behind this.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Here's how you can help.

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

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<v Speaker 1>story a day and we're announcing them each day via email,

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<v Speaker 1>so you don't miss it. I don't want the algorithm

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<v Speaker 1>getting between you and a deeper practice of democracy, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>Sign up at stories that howdositizen dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>Second, follow Barreton day the Citizens Guy and how to

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<v Speaker 2>Citizen on Instagram and Barreton day Thurston and John Alexander

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<v Speaker 2>on LinkedIn. That's where we'll be posting.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's the obvious. Do what you do with an

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<v Speaker 1>online video you're into like it, Come share and you

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<v Speaker 1>know the drill, and talk about other people doing similar things.

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<v Speaker 1>Forward and on to someone who's not on social media

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<v Speaker 1>but needs to see. The more we see these stories,

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<v Speaker 1>the more we can embody and be these stories. They're

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<v Speaker 1>out there, and if we can demonstrate that supply and

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<v Speaker 1>that demand, then we can get more resources to tell

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<v Speaker 1>more of these stories. The world we know is already here.

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

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<v Speaker 2>a newsletter going out this week, please list it in there.

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<v Speaker 2>That would be amazing. If you have any thoughts on

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<v Speaker 2>what else we should do, get in touch, post something

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<v Speaker 2>in the comments here, get in touched on other website

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<v Speaker 2>Stories dot howtositizen dot com. Basically anything we can do

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<v Speaker 2>to get these videos out there, prove the case that

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<v Speaker 2>there's an appetite for this kind of storytelling. We want

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<v Speaker 2>to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's do this spoiler alert. We already are