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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ookf Daily with Meet

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Speaker 1: Your Girl. Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, why can't JD. Vance just go away?

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Speaker 1: Every time there is leaked audio of this man, we

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Speaker 1: just learn what a fucking weirdo he is. And now

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Speaker 1: he has turned his attention to childless women who happen

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Speaker 1: to be teachers. He hates them just like he does

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Speaker 1: all childless women, but has a particular disdain. It's wild.

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Speaker 1: It's wild, and Donald Trump goes on doctor Phil and says, well,

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Speaker 1: you only need to vote this once and then you

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Speaker 1: never have to worry about voting again, continuing with his

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Speaker 1: line around being a dictator. On day one, we know

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Speaker 1: what the stakes are, we know what the narrative is

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Speaker 1: that this party is offering. And I just pray each

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Speaker 1: and every day that the excitement that we are seeing

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Speaker 1: is going to translate into the votes that are needed

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Speaker 1: in order to get Harris and Walls over the finish line.

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Speaker 1: And I mean in an effing landslide, not just by

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Speaker 1: the skin of our teeth. This needs to be a

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Speaker 1: decisive victory, one that will be written in the history books,

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Speaker 1: because I want like you all to be done with

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump for once and for fucking all. Coming up

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Speaker 1: today my conversation with our friend, our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzil. You'll be surprised by this conversation today

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Speaker 1: because Jonathan and I don't see eye to eye on

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Speaker 1: our thoughts around how the Harris Walls team is expanding

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Speaker 1: the Big Democratic tent. Jonathan offers some points as to

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Speaker 1: think said he thinks could be done better, and we

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Speaker 1: challenge each other on seeing the other side. So that

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Speaker 1: conversation is coming up next. Folks. You know that whenever

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Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to speak with our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzil, we are always always pleased and happy.

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Speaker 1: And Jonathan, oh, we even't spoken in over a week

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Speaker 1: because I was at the DNC.

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Speaker 2: We did your snazzy podcast last week.

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Speaker 1: Oh we did. Yeah, we did the other one. We

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Speaker 1: did the other one, the New Abnormal. So Jonathan, I

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Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts even though we are now

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Speaker 1: days removed from the DNC, But I thought about you

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Speaker 1: while I was there because of the presentation around victims

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Speaker 1: of gun violence that brought me to tears and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people around me in the United Center to tears,

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Speaker 1: and I just wanted to get your thoughts overall on

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Speaker 1: how again we talked about this, how this campaign is

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Speaker 1: dealing with the gun issue, how you thought that it

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Speaker 1: was handled during convention and by the time that folks

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Speaker 1: listen to this, we will be at less than seventy

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Speaker 1: days until the election, which is just extraordinary, And how

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Speaker 1: you're feeling.

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Speaker 2: First, let me just say that I'm so honored to

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Speaker 2: be speaking with you here today because you're a star

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Speaker 2: of stage. On screen, You've been stripping it, spilling it

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Speaker 2: across every outlet, Like every outlet, I'm like, oh, there's

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Speaker 2: Danielle on TV is spreading the love on everything. So first,

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Speaker 2: awesome job, and I will follow you anywhere whatever you

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: Now. I have to say, on one hand, of course,

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Speaker 2: that moment with the guns was incredibly powerful and well

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Speaker 2: it could have been totally cheesy, actually, but it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It felt very very powerful and very urgent, and so

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Speaker 2: I thought it was handled very well at the convention,

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Speaker 2: and I think that the message at that moment was

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Speaker 2: this coin and I'm really struggling with this, which is

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Speaker 2: that on one hand, I mean, I understand we're seventy

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Speaker 2: our base? If the issue is to rally our base,

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Speaker 2: then framing guns in that way is important with the

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Speaker 2: historical caveat that I write about in my book, which

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Speaker 2: is that Democrats will answer polls saying that they support

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Speaker 2: gun safety laws, but they don't vote based on them.

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Speaker 2: And so if they think that there's a new entree

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Speaker 2: vote based on background checks and red flag laws, it

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Speaker 2: would just be honestly, for a presidential election, like people

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Speaker 2: vote on a bunch of issues, but it's really Republicans

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Speaker 2: mobilize Republicans. And so it's a strategy. But my concern

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Speaker 2: always is that we're using a very saturated playbook that

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Speaker 2: where that conversation ends, or to highlight people I call converts,

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Speaker 2: It's just that that's a very small sample of a

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Speaker 2: the goddamn issue is, and I don't want government regulation

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Speaker 2: of my guns. He's actually somebody who said I probably

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Speaker 2: my guns, and so just saying we respect gun owners

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Speaker 2: the converts are not representing those people, and so I

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Speaker 2: very particular agenda which is not mine. I hope they're right.

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Speaker 2: But I also think that there's another way to message, which,

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Speaker 2: a gun. That doesn't really change our platform at all,

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Speaker 2: And so the question is, will white voters who are

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Speaker 1: I wondered too, about how you felt about the law

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's all about like permission structures. I mean,

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Speaker 2: get that, But you know, the question is just what

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Speaker 2: bigger group do they represent? Is that a statistically significant

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Speaker 2: just haven't quite seen that. And again, maybe that's not important.

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Speaker 2: hundred foreign policy experts wrote this guy's a danger to

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Speaker 1: because I have my issues with them, But you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm all for joy, you know, bring on the joy.

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Speaker 2: Well, there two less things. I mean one about the media.

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Speaker 2: respond to that? And I just think that the retort

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Speaker 2: for what's coming from Trump is either to get dragged

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Speaker 2: down in the ditches or to take the high road.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not sure which one is better. Obviously, I

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Speaker 2: just said I think Trump created a nightmare in Afghanistan

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Speaker 2: that we walked into. But that's different from how he's

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Speaker 2: going to use it. And the question is how do

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Speaker 2: you do you have to go down and have a

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Speaker 2: street fight with him or do you want to stay

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Speaker 2: at a higher level. And I don't know the answer.

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Speaker 1: Well right now, he's too busy talking about how good

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Speaker 1: looking he is on the campaign trail, So I don't

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Speaker 1: think that he's going to get around to policy anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: As always, my friend, doctor Jonathan Metzel, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for making the time for wokf We always appreciate

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Speaker 1: your insight. That is it for me today. Dear friends

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Speaker 1: on wok af as always power to the people and

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

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Speaker 1: as fuck.