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Speaker 2: October twenty six. It's gonna be you know lit, It's

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Speaker 2: gonna as a kid say, and then today I feel

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Speaker 2: like it's a very special episode. We got a couple

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Speaker 2: of first time guests on the show. We have Angela

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Speaker 2: George and I mean wait, Angela Fobbs and Adrian George. See,

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Speaker 2: I just literally was like, let me get this right.

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Speaker 2: And immediately messed it up. But of Democrats Abroad, what

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Speaker 2: First of all, how are y'all doing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Great, really great. I'm so happy to be here.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for letting us come on and

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Speaker 4: share our message with your audience.

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Speaker 1: Of course, of course. And Adrianne, how are you doing.

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Speaker 5: I'm doing great, great, thanks for asking. So happy to

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Speaker 5: be here. When Angela found out we were gonna be on,

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Speaker 1: Well, we're happy you could be on.

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Speaker 2: You know, we normally just worry about messing up people's

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Speaker 2: good reputation, you know, like, listen, you're good, you're good people,

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Speaker 2: playing guesst the race. Okay, we don't want to do.

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Speaker 2: Can y'all tell everyone what y'all what exactly is that

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Speaker 4: I'm the chair of the Democrats Abroad Global Black Caucus,

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Speaker 4: which Democrats Abroad is the overseas arm of the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 4: It's actually an official part In fact, in the primaries,

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Speaker 4: If you'd like to join Democrats Abroad, please go to

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Speaker 3: Everybody. This is not so you know, I don't.

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Speaker 2: is like literally people die for your vote, which is

437
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Speaker 2: a fact.

438
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Speaker 1: It's not an opinion. Like do y'all get that pushback too?

439
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 2: Where people are like, oh, you're gonna make me feel

440
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 2: bad if you keep wanting me to vote.

441
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,959
Speaker 3: You know, I have heard people's say stuff like that.

442
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 3: It's one of our our we have a.

443
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 4: Progressive caucus along with seven other caucuses too, but they

444
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 4: don't want to vote.

445
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 3: Shame people. And I get it.

446
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 4: I mean I understand that to a certain extent, but

447
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 4: we're not you know, I was a Bernie Sanders supporter

448
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 4: in twenty sixteen and in twenty twenty, like I'm I

449
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 4: am a.

450
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 3: Bernie stan one hundred percent, but he didn't win.

451
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 4: He didn't win in twenty sixteen, and he didn't win

452
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 4: in two thousand and twenty. So what is more important

453
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 4: to me is that we maintain democratic control instead of

454
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 4: having these crazy Republicans that are destroying our country. And honestly,

455
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 4: I wasn't I was a little neutral towards Joe Biden

456
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 4: in the beginning.

457
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 3: I mean before in the primaries, he wasn't.

458
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 4: Even on my life list, like as a person to

459
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 4: you know, he was not on anybody's list. So you know,

460
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 4: there's okay, there's some people that were always for him, right,

461
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 4: but I wasn't one of those people, you know. I mean,

462
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 4: I've voted for the Green Party in some elections.

463
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: In the past.

464
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not saying that to like be like proud.

465
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 4: I just just want people to understand where I'm coming from,

466
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 4: you know, Like I'm not just all like I haven't

467
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 4: been eaten by the machine, right, you know, and sucked

468
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 4: into the democratic whatever.

469
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:32,719
Speaker 3: You know, I haven't.

470
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 4: So but the thing is the thing that I realized

471
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 4: about Joe Biden, and this also goes for Kamala Harris,

472
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 4: is that Joe Biden is a thoughtful person and by that.

473
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 4: I mean, like, if you give him new information, he's

474
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 4: going to sit down, he's going to read it, he's

475
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 4: going to incorporate it into his plans, and he's not Yeah,

476
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 4: he's not going to be like you know Trump, who's just.

477
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 3: Like information woosh? Who can you know like?

478
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 4: And that's the type of person that we need to

479
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 4: have in the as a president in these days and

480
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 4: times when we have so many things to consider. I mean,

481
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 4: we've got the economy, and we've got climate change, we've

482
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 4: got COVID, we've got racism, we've got education, we've got

483
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 4: our financial system, we've got our housing market with so

484
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 4: many people who are going to be evicted you know,

485
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 4: anytime now. So we need somebody who's going to listen

486
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 4: to people who already know what to do. Because there's

487
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 4: a whole lot of people that spend a lot of

488
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 4: time on all these subjects trying to figure out how

489
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 4: to make them right and then actually hear them and

490
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 4: then incorporate that into a plan.

491
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 3: We don't need somebody just because.

492
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 4: You like them, you know. Or Trump, I don't know

493
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 4: what people like about him. I don't understand that at.

494
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: All, right, but yeah, yeah, I think I know what

495
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: they like racism. Yeah, that's kind of.

496
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 3: I mean, there's plenty other racist people.

497
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 2: Yes, but oh yeah, yeah, but he's the only person, yeah,

498
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 2: coming from this like here, he's the only politician who

499
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 2: was only racist.

500
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

501
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 7: He ran on he didn't have no policies, he didn't

502
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 7: have nothing else there was. I am racist, and white

503
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 7: people said that's what I won't and they voted him in.

504
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

505
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 2: I think there's a there was a big backlash to

506
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 2: just the fact that Obama was black, and it didn't

507
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 2: matter if the economy was better, it didn't matter if

508
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 2: our international opinion was better. To a lot of people,

509
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 2: they just felt it as an affront. I think a

510
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 2: lot of this is kind of the knock on wood

511
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: hopefully last throws of white supremacy that we're experiencing here

512
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 2: where the backlash is so strong because it's literally on

513
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 2: his deathbed, and I feel like this is an important

514
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: step to try to like end that harm and lower

515
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 2: that harm.

516
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: Over the next few years. We lost agent.

517
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: I sent her emailed to refresh and see if maybe

518
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 2: that'll help. I know she was at and a delay

519
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 2: and then her husband came home. He's probably playing Xbox

520
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 2: or something, so you can't.

521
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 6: Get a bandwidth back for me.

522
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 7: You were talking about Joe Biden, and the thing about

523
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 7: Joe Biden is that he actually cares about the country.

524
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 6: Trump doesn't care, and Trump.

525
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 7: Is self centered and so his self centeredness has literally spread.

526
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 7: It's like the example, and it spread across the country.

527
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 7: So that's why you have people saying, don't shame me.

528
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 7: That's why you have people doing these things because as

529
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 7: far as their concern, if it's not about them, that's

530
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 7: why you have people that have the opinions that have

531
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 7: about the COVID because it's about me. It's about what

532
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 7: can I do? No, no, not what can I do?

533
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 7: It's like how does this benefit me? And I don't

534
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 7: really care if it hurts somebody else as.

535
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 6: Long as it benefits me.

536
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 7: And once you get to that point, it's very it's

537
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 7: very frustrating talking to people.

538
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 6: When you go you have to think beyond this.

539
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 7: You have to think about people that you may not know,

540
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 7: might not have a relationship with, might not even be

541
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 7: able to relate to, but at least have some compassion

542
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 7: in your heart and understanding to realize that we're all

543
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 7: gonna go with this, This whole ship.

544
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 6: Is gonna sink.

545
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 7: It's one of the things where you can go you

546
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 7: do realize we're on this same boat. Trump is in charge,

547
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 7: and if he crashes into an iceberg, we're all going down.

548
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 7: And that's very hard to get people to understand that.

549
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 7: It's like we all need to be in this together.

550
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 6: That's why I don't mind shaming people that don't vote.

551
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 6: Vomped like that.

552
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 7: I don't mind shaming you because at the end of

553
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 7: the day, you're not voting, and you him and and

554
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 7: Hahn is actually costing my family.

555
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 6: It's hurting my family. I'm stuck.

556
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 7: I've been stuck in the house since March because of him.

557
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 7: Like we fed to realize the things here in America

558
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 7: is abnormal. Other parts of the country has actually start

559
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 7: functioning again. We're still locked down. We're not listening in

560
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 7: a scientists, we're not doing any of this, and a

561
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 7: lot of that it starts with him. And so it's

562
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 7: one of these things where as far as I'm concerned,

563
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 7: I am very thankful for all of you doing these

564
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 7: things abroad, because like like right just said, people have

565
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 7: a tendency to forget that we're all over the world,

566
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 7: and so just like our boats count y'all boats count too.

567
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 7: And America is so self centered and so wrapped up

568
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 7: in itself that it forgets that there are people that

569
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 7: care about America that are Americans. Did I actually hear

570
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 7: that are actually directly impacted by the things that happen here?

571
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just gonna say, also, when we're talking

572
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 2: about like people being overseas and stuff, they are affected

573
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: by these decisions, right, So I believe soldiers came up earlier.

574
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: Well, who's more likely to put you in a situation

575
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: that you know is untenable? You know what I mean?

576
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 2: Who's more likely to sing you somewhere to be like, look,

577
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: go stand in this area in another place of the

578
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: world and be on alert and ready to like blow

579
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: some stuff up at all times.

580
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Speaker 1: You know.

581
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 2: I think that kind of stuff affects things as well,

582
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 2: you know, getting in conflict. So yeah, we do seem

583
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: to have like these broad sweeping ideas about like, well

584
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,719
Speaker 2: the military is so gung host like. Well not necessarily.

585
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: A lot of people that that go join the military

586
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 2: are literally there to hopefully get an education, to get

587
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: you know, to get that GI.

588
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: Bill stuff like that. A lot of times it's black people,

589
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: trans people. Military.

590
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 2: Joining the military is another way to uh to to

591
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 2: to get like medical care, all kinds of stuff. So,

592
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 2: like the ideas that we have have also been shaped

593
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 2: by a lot of propaganda where it's like military white

594
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: dudes with tattoos that like want to blow up brown people.

595
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: It's like that maybe, but not everybody. You know, I

596
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: have friends in the military that are like black people

597
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: that would.

598
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,719
Speaker 2: Be like, yeah, some of these like more vocal people

599
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 2: are like very like conservative, but that's.

600
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Speaker 1: Not me, you know what I mean.

601
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, particularly here in the States, most black and brown

602
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 7: people have somebody related to them that has been in

603
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 7: the military. Even if it's like a few generations down

604
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 7: and people stop joining, most Americans, particularly brack have somebody

605
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 7: with my uncle, my great uncle, my great grandpa have.

606
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 6: Joined the military at some period of time.

607
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: Now, what does I don't know how much y'all hear

608
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: from from like back here, but what the where do

609
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: stuff like uh defunding the police, which is like a

610
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 2: big major thing here, how does that resonate across like seas?

611
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: Are y'all? Is this also like major? Is that?

612
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 7: Like?

613
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 2: Does that is that just like a thing where people

614
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: are like, well, that's back there, or is that like

615
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 2: a major uh uh no.

616
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: No thing there.

617
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Speaker 3: It's it's a topic. It's it's definitely a topic.

618
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Speaker 4: And the Global Black Caucus has been doing these events

619
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Speaker 4: that we call a GBC Cafe. It's modeled off of

620
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 4: the Socrates Cafe, if you're familiar with that, except we

621
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 4: can't call it a Socrates Cafe because we're not trained

622
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 4: and you know, I'll probably also cost money, so so

623
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 4: there's no reason we can just give it another name.

624
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 4: And we had a long discussion about this issue about

625
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 4: defunding versus abolishing versus reforming the police, and you know,

626
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 4: after a lot of discussion with people, most people were

627
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 4: in the point of they started off in the discussion

628
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 4: that they didn't know anything about any of those things.

629
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 4: It just defunding the police sounds, you know, inflammatory, and

630
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 4: so a lot of people were against it.

631
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 3: But we went through a lot of explanation about which each.

632
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 4: Thing meant, and now there's really more people that are

633
00:34:53,760 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 4: leaning towards defunding versus you know, reform, because reform is

634
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 4: just some bullshit that doesn't doesn't get you anywhere. I

635
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 4: personally am for abolishing the police because the police are

636
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 4: doing a lot of jobs that we could have other

637
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 4: people doing and we don't need you know, like like

638
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 4: if my my family member is having a psychological episode

639
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 4: and I need help, I don't need.

640
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 3: To call the police because all they're gonna do.

641
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: Is shoot them. Right now, I feel you.

642
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: I think that's an interesting thing because we ask the

643
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: police to do so much that is not in their purview.

644
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 2: And when you have a hammer, you know, that's the

645
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 2: solution everything. It's like I got this hammer on my hip,

646
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 2: so mental help boom, you know what I mean, Like, Oh,

647
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 2: you got your cat stuck in the tree, Papa, Oh man,

648
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 2: it's not in the tree.

649
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 6: I got the weapons, let me use them, right.

650
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Speaker 2: And you know, I always think about that because it's

651
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: not necessarily an authority thing. When there's a fire, no

652
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 2: one's like abolished the fire department.

653
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,240
Speaker 1: Think they do a good job.

654
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: You know, When the paramedics come to like help you

655
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Speaker 2: with a medical emergency, no one has an abolished the

656
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 2: paramedics hashtag because we're like, you're doing a service and

657
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 2: you're doing it the right way. I'm sure paramedics showed

658
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 2: up and just started shooting us, we'd be like, oh,

659
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 2: maybe you should not have this job anymore as well.

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00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: So I could see that as well. And I love

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00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 2: what you said about Biden earlier, Karen Well, I voted

662
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: for Warren in the primary in North Carolina. Me too, Yeah,

663
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 2: I love Elizabeth Warren And she has a plan for everything.

664
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Speaker 2: Like she she just is like, uh, you come up,

665
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: like you ask her something, and she's like, I'm glad

666
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: you asked me that I already got a plan. You're like,

667
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: go ahead, girl, is we ain't about to have no

668
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 2: more student loans what we're doing? And she's like and

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00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 2: she always got a way to pay for it, like

670
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 2: all that stuff. But to be honest, I was okay

671
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: with the vast majority of the people running, like if

672
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 2: they were gonna be running against Trump, it was just gonna.

673
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: Be like, oh, yes, it's them.

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00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 2: And I think in a weird way, Biden being this

675
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: older white dude has made him.

676
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: Teflone enough to be able to like.

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Speaker 2: Win because he's the only person that one can have

678
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 2: gas and we won't like implode as Democrats like everybody else.

679
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: We just vote.

680
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: It's like they you know, Kamala Harris says, like, y'all

681
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: listen to Tupac in college, and people are like, I

682
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 2: don't that was ninety three or that was two thousand

683
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: and five.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

685
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 2: And it's like, why are we even acting like this

686
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 2: is a thing to vote about.

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00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: This doesn't matter.

688
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 2: And I think with Biden, he can say something and

689
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: he's just like I had a dude named corn Pop

690
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: almost fought him at a swimming pool and blah blah blah,

691
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: and we're just like, I don't know if that was

692
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 2: happening or not, but I mean, that has nothing to

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00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: do with anything, and I think that's an element that's

694
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 2: gonna help him.

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00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: I mean, he was in a debate where he.

696
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 2: Called Donald Trump a fool and a clown and a

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00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 2: racist and all this stuff, and it didn't even make

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00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: headlines the next day. Really like it wasn't even like,

699
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 2: oh my god, how unpresidential. It was like, he kind

700
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 2: of is a fool, so we kind of need I

701
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 2: think we are in a weird way. He's kind of

702
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 2: the only candidate who could have made it through the

703
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 2: gauntlet that people are erected for all these other people.

704
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll learn in the future that it shouldn't be

705
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 2: so hard towards those other people, but this is like,

706
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 2: I like, this is kind of what we got. And honestly,

707
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 2: he seems like a decent man, which once again low bar,

708
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: but literally when the other person is like I'm the devil,

709
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Speaker 2: decency is nice.

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Speaker 6: I can take this.

711
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 7: And it's one of these things where he wants to

712
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Speaker 7: take us back to normal, and people that like I

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00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 7: don't want to go back to normal.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 7: If we can get back to normal, I'm okay, because

716
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 7: once we get back to normal, we can't progress past

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Speaker 7: that part.

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Speaker 6: It's like, now nothing is normal.

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Speaker 2: It's like if you come in your house and the

720
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Speaker 2: thermon status at ninety eight degrees and someone's like, well, listen,

721
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Speaker 2: I can put it back down to like eighty where

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Speaker 2: it normally is. You're like, well, I kind of like

723
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 2: it cold, but you're right. I'll take the twenty degrees

724
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 2: back to normal just to live for now, and then

725
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 2: we can work towards that.

726
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: And I do feel like.

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Speaker 2: A Biden Harris ticket does go beyond just like getting

728
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 2: back to normal. But I think the things they have

729
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 2: to say when they campaign is gonna be a lot

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Speaker 2: of let's get back to normal.

731
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Speaker 1: But if you look at their plans.

732
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Speaker 2: And stuff, they're more left than people would give them

733
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Speaker 2: credit for it, but they're not as left as they

734
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 2: could be. And I think that for a lot of people,

735
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Speaker 2: they don't look at the plans, they don't watch the debate,

736
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Speaker 2: they don't like. One of the things I saw yesterday

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Speaker 2: that I think is so brilliant from their campaign. They

738
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 2: were being asked him and Kamala Harris keep being asked

739
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 2: about packing the courts, and they're essentially going the Republicans

740
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: are already packing the courts? Why like, why are we

741
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 2: even talking about this if this is a huge concern,

742
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 2: it is happening, so so like we're trying to correct

743
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: what is happening already and not like that deflection is

744
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 2: so smart because I feel like other candidates would have

745
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 2: felt the pressure to be like I have to have

746
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 2: an answer to this, and I have to show them

747
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 2: that I won't do it, or I have to show

748
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Speaker 2: them that this.

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Speaker 1: Is how I would do it.

750
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Speaker 2: But it would be fair no if that just tell

751
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 2: them it's happening now and we have an existential threat

752
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 2: in our face and we are trying to be the

753
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 2: solution of that. That is all. That's all the messaging

754
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 2: you need. This is an election unlike any other. You

755
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: do not literally need like I think on Twitter, there's

756
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 2: an idea that you need to have, like a plan

757
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,959
Speaker 2: and an answer and a thing for everything in real

758
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Speaker 2: life is just listen.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to calm this thing down.

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Speaker 7: And you know what, I don't think people realize and

761
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 7: maybe the way I for you, our democracy is on

762
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Speaker 7: the line.

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Speaker 6: If he wins.

764
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 7: Again, it will forever affect our democracy forever.

765
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Speaker 6: Like we will never go back.

766
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Speaker 7: And people fail to understand the reason why they are

767
00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 7: so dogmatic on taking your right away is because demark see,

768
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 7: is what keeps them in check.

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Speaker 6: It's what holds them accountable.

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Speaker 7: It's what makes them bend it will It's it's literally

771
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 7: because you're gonna have.

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Speaker 6: Correct politicians no matter what.

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Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong, but it's the thing that prevents

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Speaker 7: them from jumping on the deep end. And I think

775
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 7: that once that's stripped away, these same people that are

776
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,240
Speaker 7: being apathetic and all this stuff, they're gonna turn around

777
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 7: and they're gonna try to wield their power, but they're

778
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Speaker 7: not gonna.

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Speaker 6: Have the power.

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Speaker 7: It's like, use it while you have it, don't be like,

781
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 7: oh my gosh, where's where's the sword?

782
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Speaker 6: And somebody don't stole your sword?

783
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 7: That's because you left your front door open and you

784
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Speaker 7: allowed them to come in and steal it.

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Speaker 2: Now I noticed also, I was looking on your website.

786
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Speaker 2: How do people that are interested in like listen, I'm

787
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Speaker 2: a I'm a person who's a bride, I'm a Democrat.

788
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: I wanna vote. You know, I've made you know I'm

789
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 2: connected to these things. Maybe they're listening to the show.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of international listeners.

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Speaker 1: Do how do they get registered?

792
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 2: I even saw her like, you can get to your

793
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 2: ballot email to you or something like your like, how

794
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 2: does that work?

795
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Speaker 3: You can get it? So, okay.

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Speaker 4: We have a website that's available for anybody overseas, whether

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00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 4: you're a member or not.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: It's called vote from abroad dot org. That's three words,

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Speaker 4: one word altogether, vote from abroad dot org. And if

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00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 4: you go to that website, you can go there and

802
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 4: request your absentee ballot. So in most states, if you

803
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 4: haven't been registered to vote previously, your request for an

804
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 4: absentee ballot will serve as your voter registration also, so

805
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 4: it's a really simple process and any number of states

806
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 4: allow you to email that request to them, and in

807
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 4: our system you can do it all online and then

808
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 4: you can use a digital signature and it will the

809
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 4: system will email a copy to you and to your

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Speaker 4: local election office in the States wherever.

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Speaker 6: That might be wonderful.

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Speaker 1: And what is a what's the climate right now?

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Speaker 2: Like in Germany with like dealing with the pandemic, And

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00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of election cycle it is

815
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: there locally, But what's that like?

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, so the pandemic it's nowhere anything, nothing like

817
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 4: it is in America. And I haven't been to the

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Speaker 4: States during this pandemic time, but I know people who

819
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 4: have been there and come back or whatever, and they're

820
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 4: always like a little traumatized by it. But I mean

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Speaker 4: people here you have to wear a mask anytime you

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Speaker 4: go into inside of a building, a public space or

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Speaker 4: even a private.

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Speaker 3: Space if they ask you. Like churches and stuff like that, you.

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Speaker 4: Can't have I think you can't have a gathering over.

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Speaker 3: Like I think it's twenty five people or something like that,

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Speaker 3: twenty five.

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Speaker 4: Thirty although people are not having these kind of events

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Speaker 4: like this is not really happening.

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Speaker 3: The movie theaters.

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Speaker 4: I love movies, and the movie thinners are closed closed.

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Speaker 4: During the summer, they had a lot of drive ins,

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Speaker 4: you know, people were just kind of there were some

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Speaker 4: that were existing, but people started making like ad hoc

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Speaker 4: drive in so that people could go see movies. I

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Speaker 4: don't know what they're going to do in the winter

837
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Speaker 4: because it's not warm here. It's not warm here now,

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00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 4: it's rather cool. You need a coat now, like maybe

839
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Speaker 4: maybe not your thick winter coat, but like you know,

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Speaker 4: something that's going to keep you keep the wind out

841
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Speaker 4: of out of your jacket.

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Speaker 3: Schools are open, but a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of it keeps happening where somebody will get coronavirus in

844
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Speaker 4: the school and then they'll go back to doing online school.

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Speaker 4: They were they were doing mostly online school earlier in

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Speaker 4: the year of the school year, and then there was

847
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Speaker 4: summer break. Now they're back. My husband like he his office.

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Speaker 4: They're working from home. They have been since the beginning

849
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 4: of March. Yeah, a lot of people are working from home.

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Speaker 4: Then there's some jobs where you just can't work from home.

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Speaker 4: All the delivery people, grocery stores, pharmacies, doctors' offices.

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00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 3: But when you go into a grocery store.

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Speaker 4: Like say I want to go grocery shopping, so I

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00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 4: have to put my mask on, I bring a cart in, uh,

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Speaker 4: and then they have a station set up in the

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Speaker 4: front of the store where you like can disinfect your

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Speaker 4: hands before you come in.

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Speaker 3: And also there's like you know, they have like some

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Speaker 3: bleach or.

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Speaker 4: Something in water and a thing that you can wipe

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Speaker 4: off your wipe the cart down so that you're not

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Speaker 4: you know, you don't know where this car's been. Yeah, definitely,

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00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:51,959
Speaker 4: you have to stay Oh, I don't know how many

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Speaker 4: feet it is. You have to stay one point five meters,

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Speaker 4: which I want to say.

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Speaker 3: About six feet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Apart like when you're in the store and when you're

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Speaker 4: in line, most people are pretty good about it. Uh.

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00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 4: My problem is all the mask wearers who like, oh

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Speaker 4: my god, I cannot stand these people.

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Speaker 7: I'm like, you do know, it's all the same hole, right,

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Speaker 7: Like there's yeah, your mouth and nose, ain't.

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Speaker 2: I Honestly, I made a T shirt design for our

876
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Speaker 2: store that says, the mask goes over your nose too,

877
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 2: because it's just it's ridiculous.

878
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: It's a past fel i Q test. It's an instant

879
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 1: past fail. You're like, oh, oh, that's a shame.

880
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: You all you you you were so close to just

881
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 2: cover the nose to Yeah, you would have made it.

882
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: Yeah.

883
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 5: Uh.

884
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: And what about in Sweden, Adrian.

885
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 5: Well, I'm back from the abyss am.

886
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 2: I actually you're your We saw we saw you coming

887
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 2: on and off man.

888
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, struggle is real, as they say, But I'm back

889
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 5: in Sweden. We've had a kind of a different approach

890
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 5: than most of Europe, whereas we didn't have any mandatory lockdown.

891
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 5: It was what I've learned from the Swedish About the

892
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 5: Swedish people is that when your government and health authority

893
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 5: tells you to do something that's basically the same thing

894
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 5: as an order, it's you know, they suggest so they said,

895
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 5: you know, work from home, social distance hygiene. They never

896
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 5: mandated masks, no, very recently. They just said, you know,

897
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 5: if you're in a place where you don't feel like

898
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 5: you can be safe for social distance, then you should

899
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 5: wear a mask. The buses, it depends on where you live.

900
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 5: They told people, don't take the public transportation unless you're

901
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 5: an essential worker and really need to get to work.

902
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 5: You know, if you're unless you're a csential worker. They

903
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 5: were basically saying you need to work at home. The

904
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 5: King came on TV and said, listen to you like

905
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 5: our equivalent of Doctor Fauci and just techno and the

906
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 5: Queen King never comes on TV or rarely, and crowds

907
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 5: of only fifty, gatherings of only fifty, I should say so,

908
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 5: like when we go out, we would sit out on

909
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 5: the outdoor seating or something. When I go to my

910
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 5: grocery store, is hardly anybody there. They have special hours

911
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 5: for older and vulnerable people to go early in the morning.

912
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 5: If I take public transportation, like my bus here, they

913
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 5: have if they have it like taped off in the

914
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 5: front so you can't get near the bus driver. I

915
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 5: haven't paid bus fare and I don't know how long

916
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 5: because the thing pay is up in the front. But

917
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 5: they have this big sign on the window that says

918
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 5: the bus is not free, so you're supposed to be

919
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 5: able to produce your fare card at any time. You

920
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 5: can't go to the hospital with people, like if they're

921
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 5: going to go for a routine whatever, because they're like,

922
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 5: no COVID, you can't go. They have restrictions like that,

923
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 5: but no mandatory lockdowns. And because of that, our economy

924
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 5: is kind of doing pretty good, and we haven't had

925
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 5: like the pushback like they're having in some places in

926
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 5: Germany where people are protesting on the street and saying,

927
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 5: get us, lead it, lead it, you know, give us

928
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 5: out of lockdown. You know, we don't want to we

929
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 5: don't want to do that, but people pretty much know

930
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 5: what they need to do and do it. It says

931
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 5: like social responsibility. But we did have a lot of

932
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 5: deaths in the in the elder care home, and our

933
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 5: health guy says, you know, he wish you could have

934
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 5: done that better. But I you know, I've been working

935
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 5: from home for years, so I work from home. But

936
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 5: my husband's the Swedish military. I'm going to sink a

937
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 5: swim with him because he's still going to work. But

938
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 5: I'm stressing him all the time, you know about what

939
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 5: you're doing. And he says, they have like Angela says,

940
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 5: what is it one and a half meters or something

941
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 5: apart and they don't do things like they used to. Yeah,

942
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 5: but you know what, I know, I've been going so

943
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 5: long going on, Karen, you have my sister's name. I

944
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 5: always remember your name.

945
00:49:55,719 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 7: Oh props you didn't feel Oh.

946
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 5: No problems.

947
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 6: I think for me when it comes to like the

948
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 6: things they do with abroad.

949
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 7: I think the United States and it's not We're number

950
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 7: one is stupidity. The United States started the protest of

951
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 7: not wearing a mask, and do you think us doing

952
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,280
Speaker 7: that set the example for other countries to get bold

953
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 7: to and come out and time out.

954
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 6: We tied to being lockdown.

955
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 4: Also, yes, in Germany, you know, it's a very small

956
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 4: minority of people that are these weird mask protesters. I'm

957
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 4: one hundred percent sure it's the same group of people.

958
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 3: You know, q andon has.

959
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 4: Spread throughout the world, and there's a bunch of people

960
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 4: in Germany that believe in QAnon, And I think it's

961
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 4: the same group of people because really, like eighty percent

962
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 4: of people are just like, Okay, I'll just wear a mask.

963
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 4: And the thing is is that for me, the longer

964
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 4: I wear the mask, the more I get used to it.

965
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 3: Right, Like, it's just it's not that complicated. And we

966
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 3: weren't in the very beginning.

967
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 4: They were saying, don't wear don't wear a mask, just

968
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 4: keep a distance. But I had masks and I was

969
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 4: wearing them because I'm a little.

970
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 3: Bit paranoid about stuff like that.

971
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what they did in Sweden. Sweden

972
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 4: has like like ten million people.

973
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 3: You can't do that in.

974
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 4: A place that's just people are everywhere, like Germany. I

975
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 4: mean really with almost ninety million people. It's it's a

976
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 4: little it's different because it's like it's like everywhere is

977
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 4: New York City, you know. I mean that it's it's

978
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 4: not it's not okay, it's not all crowded, but I

979
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 4: mean it's like people are tightly packed.

980
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 3: No matter where they are. And even in a small

981
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 3: place like where I.

982
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: Live, the all anti Masks people have guns because ours.

983
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:58,919
Speaker 3: Dudes, nobody has a gun here.

984
00:51:59,160 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

985
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 4: You people people own guns, but that you have to

986
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 4: keep your gun at the gun club or your hunting club.

987
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 3: You can't keep it in your home.

988
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: So you can.

989
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 3: I mean there's there's a lot of people in Germany

990
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 3: that own guns. But people you don't have to worry.

991
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 4: That somebody is gonna shoot you, like if you're just

992
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 4: in your house or something that's never gonna happen.

993
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: I want to I want that life.

994
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 5: So their guns in Sweden, yeah, because because people hunt.

995
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 5: You know, we have a military. My grandfather was from Texas.

996
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 5: You know, he had a gun for hunting. But it

997
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 5: was like for hunting. You know, he didn't have a

998
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 5: you know, I from DC, I don't know anybody that

999
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 5: had a gun. Maybe my friends had guns that I

1000
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 5: didn't know about.

1001
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 3: Hi.

1002
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 5: You know, you know they're the hunters and then they're

1003
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 5: the criminals, you know. And I wouldn't worry about gun

1004
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 5: crime in Sweden, but there is racism in Sweden and violence.

1005
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 5: You know, I haven't found utopia. If we can get

1006
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 5: to Wakanda.

1007
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my goal.

1008
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 6: I want the first class ticket.

1009
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,760
Speaker 2: Well my thing is, are your anti mask people also

1010
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 2: the one are they allowed to bring their guns to

1011
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 2: the protest for against masks?

1012
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 4: Really you cut out the house with a gun and

1013
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 4: people would probably freak out.

1014
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 3: Then they would call the special police that handle that

1015
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 3: type of thing.

1016
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 7: Special police, y'all, special police.

1017
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 2: Like I wouldn't mind like extra digit for the special police,

1018
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 2: you know, like nine one one one. This motherfucker got

1019
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 2: a gun, come here and do something about this, you know.

1020
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 2: But yet that like that's the thing for us, is

1021
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 2: like they are embolden, they have weapons. Like it's really

1022
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 2: not about the mask, like you said, it's kind of

1023
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 2: that Q and non thing. It's a lot of conspiracy

1024
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 2: theorists it's a lot of like right wing online like communities,

1025
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 2: and they show up to these protests under the guise

1026
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 2: of we're against mask. And we found out this week

1027
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 2: they just arrested quote unquote militia or as I like

1028
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:18,760
Speaker 2: to call them, terrorist group that was going to kidnap

1029
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 2: Gretchen and whitmar the like one of our governors, the

1030
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 2: Michigan Yeah, those are the same people who are like,

1031
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 2: I'm against a mask. I'm like, I don't think this

1032
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 2: is about a mask.

1033
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 6: It's not about a mask.

1034
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: This seems deeper than me.

1035
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 2: So also, uh, do y'all have pumpkin spice in the.

1036
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: Areas of the of the world? Y'all are in because

1037
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: I love it?

1038
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 5: But you know, I just yes, we do.

1039
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 4: There is Starbucks here, so they have those pumpkin latte

1040
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 4: whatever drink coffee. So I'm you know, but I do

1041
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 4: like I made this drink one year. It was like

1042
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 4: a hot chocolate with pumpkin spice kalua.

1043
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 6: Oh yeah that sounds delicious.

1044
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. It was super.

1045
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1046
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 3: We love fall here too.

1047
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 4: With all our pumpkins and everything and gingerbread.

1048
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 2: Yes, and it sounds like it's fall for longer up there.

1049
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 2: Y'all already. You know, it sounds like y'all being cold

1050
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 2: for a while, Like this might be the move for me.

1051
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 2: It might have to take this international, and we had

1052
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:29,879
Speaker 2: to move somewhere where it's pumpkin spices year round.

1053
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 3: Come on, well, I don't know if it's your year round. Well,

1054
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 3: you know, go ahead, Adrian.

1055
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, in Sweden it's you know, six

1056
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 5: months of the year, if you're way up north, you

1057
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 5: have nothing but sun. And the opposite of that, six

1058
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 5: months of the year, if you way up north you

1059
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 5: don't have any sun. But the summers here are gorgeous

1060
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 5: and long because the sun doesn't go down till like

1061
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 5: eleven and it's never really ever dark. You can't really

1062
00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:00,439
Speaker 5: have fireworks here in the summer, like when americansss abroad

1063
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 5: if we do something for Fourth of July, we can't

1064
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 5: do for fireworks because it's not dark enough. But I

1065
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 5: was going to say, we have Starbucks two pumpkin spices here,

1066
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 5: and my birthday is Halloween, and they have Halloween here

1067
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,959
Speaker 5: too now or they didn't always, and they're already starting

1068
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 5: to sell the Halloween candy. And but it's COVID, so

1069
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 5: don't I hope no one is truck or treating around here, because,

1070
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 5: as I say, the swees aren't big on masks, and

1071
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 5: I'm not having these little kids. You know, they carry everything.

1072
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 5: But all the American influence is not just our music.

1073
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 5: It's not just our movies. You know, the you're going

1074
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 5: to see Thanksgiving on the restaurant menus. You know, these

1075
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 5: chefs that are trying to do fusion and stuff. And

1076
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 5: in addition to the Americans that are here that have

1077
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 5: their own businesses. You know, you're going to see these

1078
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 5: pop up places. Burger places are everywhere. You know, it's

1079
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 5: it's if they're obsessed, I can't say obsessed, but very

1080
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 5: aware of what's going on in America with the politics.

1081
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 5: You know, they'll they'll make our president, what happened, what

1082
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 5: happens in the White House will be reported before domestic news,

1083
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 5: you know, before national news. You know, the international news

1084
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 5: will dominate the broadcast.

1085
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 2: We are like reality TV at this point with our presidency,

1086
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 2: like because I mean it's like this motherfucker got COVID

1087
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 2: dog Like yes, and you know that that's gonna break

1088
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 2: all the news.

1089
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 7: Yes, all and all the other contestants that will at

1090
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 7: the house with him caught it too.

1091
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 6: Yeah that that was like you got it. You awesome,

1092
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,959
Speaker 6: here's your COVID to Bingo because I had him all.

1093
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 5: On the car.

1094
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1095
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's been We're weird. Yes, in a way,

1096
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 3: we're dominated. I mean, I don't Sweden.

1097
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 4: Sweden isn't a part of NATO, is it, Adrian No, No, okay,

1098
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 4: So so in Germany, Yeah, it's it's we have a

1099
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 4: whole lot of military bases here.

1100
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 3: There used to be a lot more in the past

1101
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 3: than there are now.

1102
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's kind of like we're I don't want

1103
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 4: to say we're one country because we're not, like say goodness,

1104
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 4: uh but but.

1105
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 3: It's kind of I mean, we just have a lot.

1106
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 4: We have a lot of agreements and partnerships with Germany,

1107
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 4: and under normal circumstances like Angela miracle should be Trump's

1108
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 4: best friend, but he hates her, right, so she's a woman.

1109
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no there's no why.

1110
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no rhyme or reason to to do where

1111
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 2: like he there's no decision where he can like make

1112
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 2: it make sense. It's just I'm gonna do this and

1113
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 2: then and and you make it make sense, you know,

1114
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 2: what I mean where it's like, yeah.

1115
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: So I don't like them people.

1116
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 2: By the way we're coming, we're jumping out of the players,

1117
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 2: climbing the chords, like why this is y'all figure it out, y'all,

1118
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 2: y'all make it make sense. I don't want to do it.

1119
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: It's terrible. He'll just say something like it's terrible, yes,

1120
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 1: and then we.

1121
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 2: Got to roll with that, and it's like this is

1122
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 2: an international fucking thing, like this is a lot of

1123
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 2: people on the line because you.

1124
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: Don't like people who talk speak French or some ship.

1125
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 5: You know what.

1126
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 7: I think it's bigger than that, because his ego is

1127
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 7: so big and he.

1128
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 6: Takes everything personally.

1129
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 5: This is just me.

1130
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 6: They joke him whenever he would come out to places.

1131
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's over way.

1132
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 6: He didn't want to walk nowhere. He wanted to use

1133
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 6: the carts.

1134
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 7: Not trying to be funny, like like he didn't have

1135
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 7: no decords.

1136
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 6: So they started talking. It started talking and joking him.

1137
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 7: You know, everybody else is like, oh, this is fifteen minutes,

1138
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 7: let's walk into group.

1139
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 6: And he was like bringing a golf cart and they're like.

1140
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 7: Right, and they're like, oh, he is stupid and so

1141
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 7: It's one of the things where I think he got

1142
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 7: tired of being embarrassed and it hit hit his ego.

1143
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 7: That's why he started dropping out of stuff and not going.

1144
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 6: Over abroad as much because he felt attacked.

1145
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 7: Well, you should feel attacked, you feel is how I

1146
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 7: feel ashamed.

1147
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 2: Now, Angela, Adrian, how'd y'all get into traveling because it

1148
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 2: sounds like y'all were traveling before you were like involved

1149
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 2: with Democrats of Vat or anything like that, So like, well,

1150
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,439
Speaker 2: like how did y'all end up like traveling so much?

1151
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 2: And then like what made go I want to live

1152
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 2: over here?

1153
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 3: Right, Adrian? You go first?

1154
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 5: Well, I'm trying to think. Oh, okay. When I I

1155
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 5: used to work for a reggae record company and one

1156
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 5: of our artists that we had distribution rights for in

1157
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 5: the US was from the UK, Mad Professor. He was

1158
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 5: in England and he had the largest black owned recording

1159
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 5: studio or whatever in the UK, and he also had

1160
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:00,080
Speaker 5: all these other artists on this portfolio, and so I

1161
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 5: planned a five city tour for them, but it was

1162
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 5: in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hawaii, and

1163
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 5: we ended up in DC. I got to go to

1164
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 5: all of them with them, except for Hawaii. Of course

1165
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 5: I'm salty about that, but so with working with him

1166
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 5: so closely. He said, you know, if you ever come

1167
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 5: to London, you know, you could stay in my house,

1168
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 5: have a house for artists. And so I went and

1169
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,959
Speaker 5: I visited and he wasn't even in town. His wife

1170
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 5: and his sister in law met me at the house

1171
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 5: with the key, and I just fell in love with London.

1172
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 5: You know, it was just one of the coolest places ever,

1173
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 5: I thought at the time. You know, I went to

1174
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 5: Ronnie Scott's and they were that's when junkle music was out,

1175
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 5: and it was just one of the coolest places. Somebody

1176
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 5: pulled me off the curb, almost got hit by a

1177
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 5: car because you know, I was just supposed to look

1178
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 5: on the opposite side of the road. I was looking

1179
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 5: right when I should have been looking left or the opposite.

1180
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 5: And it was just the coolest thing. And then I

1181
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 5: ended up getting the internship at them at a record company,

1182
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 5: PolyGram Records, which is now part of Universal, and then

1183
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 5: I just like, you know, I like it. And then

1184
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 5: I had relatives. My uncle used to work for the

1185
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 5: State Department and lived all over and his mother, my

1186
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 5: maternal grandmother, and both my grandmother's actually and grandfather had

1187
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 5: done a lot of international traveling, and at one point

1188
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 5: I thought I worked for the State Department and then

1189
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,439
Speaker 5: just ended up taking like a grad school class over there,

1190
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 5: and you know, you meet some guy and you end

1191
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 5: up moving all your stuff and the next thing you

1192
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 5: know that you're an expat.

1193
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: That's the way, you know, that is the way. Okay,

1194
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: it's undefeated.

1195
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 2: And like, is there a musical artist that you listen

1196
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 2: to in Sweden or from Sweden right now that you

1197
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 2: would recommend for us to give a try?

1198
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 5: You know what? There is this brother Tim buck To

1199
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 5: whose father is African American and his mother's Swedish. And

1200
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 5: I'm gonna see if I can put it in the

1201
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 5: chat box for you. Okay, he's deep and I don't

1202
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 5: really listen to her, but supposedly she's world famous. Have

1203
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 5: you heard of Robin? She's Swedish? And then yeah, Robin

1204
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 5: r O B y N she's Swedish. And then he's dead.

1205
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 5: Now I can't think of his name, but he used

1206
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 5: to run Swedish house Mafia. That was some good party.

1207
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 5: Like if you know, like a DJ that he did

1208
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:37,439
Speaker 5: a lot of collaborations with all kinds of singers from

1209
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 5: R and B too, singer songwriters. But you know, I

1210
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 5: try to listen to try to. I try to go

1211
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 5: to like Billboard and see what's happening in the States

1212
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 5: so I can still current. But if I have to confess,

1213
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 5: what I've been listening to lately is the soundtrack from Hamilton.

1214
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 5: I'm obsessed with it. I even dream about it.

1215
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 2: My friend bosses that's her favorite, like right now, like

1216
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 2: I've never even so I haven't watched Hamilton, and I'm

1217
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 2: low key scared because all the people I know that

1218
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 2: watch it end up being upset, and I'm like, I

1219
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 2: don't need that in my life right now.

1220
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 5: Well, you know there's one song you don't have the votes.

1221
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 5: You don't have the votes. I hope that's what we're singing.

1222
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: The vote Listen. I'll learn it. Okay, I'll watch it

1223
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: and learn it.

1224
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 7: If that's what happened, I was damn it and have

1225
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 7: it pop up so I can read it.

1226
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: Now.

1227
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 2: What about you, Angela, how'd your journey OVERSEASCAR? Because I

1228
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 2: you know, I heard you say earlier it's been twenty years,

1229
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 2: so like, what what gave you like the bug to

1230
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 2: be like, I'm traveling and was it also just a

1231
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 2: man that you was like and now I'm here, I'm

1232
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 2: staying over here.

1233
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 4: Well, it started off that, I mean, I always had

1234
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 4: a job where I traveled a lot inside the United States,

1235
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 4: and then I started doing contract work, and that I

1236
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 4: had a job that was.

1237
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 3: In Eritrea in Africa, and just.

1238
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 4: Which I don't know what it's like now, but it

1239
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 4: used to be really nice. And I met this guy

1240
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:21,439
Speaker 4: on the way home in the in the airport, and yeah,

1241
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:23,240
Speaker 4: I met this guy all the way home in the airport,

1242
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 4: and we ended up like actually being in the same

1243
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 4: seatow and yeah, and he was going back to Germany

1244
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 4: and I was going back to Florida and he I

1245
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 4: don't know. We had like we actually I stayed one

1246
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:45,000
Speaker 4: day because I screwed up my plane tickets, so I

1247
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 4: had you can go straight from Africa to the United

1248
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 4: States and one day. It takes two days on the

1249
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 4: way there, but somehow I planned it where I had

1250
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 4: a gap when I got to Frankfurt, so we had

1251
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 4: one day. We went out, we went shopping, blah blah blah,

1252
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 4: and then I went back.

1253
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 3: I went back home.

1254
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 4: He gave me his his like phone number and address,

1255
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 4: and you know, we started a relationship long distance, and

1256
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 4: I had been going back and forth, you know, like

1257
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 4: to see him a few times, and at a certain

1258
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 4: point he.

1259
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 3: Was like, oh, I think I want to move to

1260
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 3: the United States.

1261
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 4: And then I was like, okay, sure, And then I

1262
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 4: thought about him, like, you know, I want to go

1263
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 4: and have some adventure. So I basically got rid of

1264
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 4: a lot of my stuff, packed everything up in three suitcases,

1265
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 4: and moved to Germany.

1266
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 2: Wow that I mean, first of all, I mean when

1267
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 2: Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meet each other in this

1268
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 2: movie that about this day, it's gonna be it's gonna

1269
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 2: be an amazing script. Okay, same seat on the plan, Like

1270
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 2: what the hell? How what are the coincidences of that?

1271
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 2: And then like do either of y'all like speak other

1272
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:03,160
Speaker 2: languages or can you just like get bound English? So

1273
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 2: it's just like, you know, the the language that they

1274
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 2: kind of teach everyone.

1275
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: How's that word?

1276
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 5: I don't know everybody English? I mean from the you

1277
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 5: go to your friends' houses with their kids, I don't

1278
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,960
Speaker 5: know when they start learning five or seven or whatever,

1279
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 5: and they watched they don't you know, I can go

1280
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 5: to McDonald's in the little McK teen. You know, I

1281
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 5: can say to my best Swedish you know, I want

1282
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 5: to have you know, Hamburger and poem free and they like,

1283
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:37,479
Speaker 5: they answered me back in English. You know, everybody wants

1284
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 5: to speak English too. That could be a handicapped to

1285
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 5: learning because you're like, oh, you speak English, great, But

1286
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 5: I tell people, now you speak English, I'll speak Swedish

1287
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 5: and they don't. They don't subtitle the movies. And when

1288
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:53,919
Speaker 5: I lived in Belgium, if you watch in French TV,

1289
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 5: they sub they dub everything, which is horrible. But in

1290
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 5: the Flemish part is because you know, it's horrible. It's

1291
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 5: like al Pacino and this crazy French you know accent

1292
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 5: and you're like, that's not But in the in the

1293
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 5: Flemish parts of Belgium they speak really good English and

1294
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 5: they don't dub. And you don't want to speak French there,

1295
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 5: you know, so they see the Flemish or English. But

1296
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 5: but yeah, so Sweden is very easy. You can and

1297
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:25,800
Speaker 5: if you're an IT person that's their own language, it's

1298
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 5: easy to get it jobs here and you can go

1299
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 5: and never speak I know people that have lived here

1300
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 5: fifteen years and they told me, don't speak Swedish, speak

1301
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 5: English because then you keep the upper hand. But you

1302
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 5: know it's good for social situations.

1303
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 2: Wow, And when you go to the doctor, how do

1304
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 2: they how.

1305
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,479
Speaker 1: Do they figure you keep the upper hand? Like, how

1306
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 1: does that work?

1307
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 5: Because you're you've got them because because here's the thing

1308
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 5: I found out about Swedish. I don't know if you

1309
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 5: don't have a lot of Swedish listeners, but their English

1310
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 5: is even though they're English is good, is not nearly

1311
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 5: as good as they think it is. You know. So

1312
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:06,160
Speaker 5: if I have commanded my tongue my master tongue, I'm

1313
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 5: gonna still have the advantage in the situation. And so

1314
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 5: for some reason they SIT's like American work ethic is

1315
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 5: very respected and the way Americans do business, maybe not

1316
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 5: employee relations because you know their laws here, but you

1317
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 5: know they think you're cunning, you're clever, you're sharp, you're

1318
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,719
Speaker 5: gonna get things done. So if you handle the whole

1319
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 5: thing like from an American and in English, just like okay, boom,

1320
01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 5: you do. I have seen that in situations you have

1321
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 5: the upper hand. That would make me cockey too.

1322
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 2: That that would make sense too, because of slavery, right,

1323
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:48,599
Speaker 2: because we have such a like our work work ethic

1324
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,959
Speaker 2: is all like forty hours sixty hour.

1325
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,560
Speaker 7: Work, yeah, and we don't take no days all like.

1326
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:56,920
Speaker 7: And in other countries they were like, you know what,

1327
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 7: we're not working. We're not working our work as the

1328
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:01,560
Speaker 7: then no vacation.

1329
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 1: Off, yeah, like here is.

1330
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 2: No vacation, no sick days, none of that over here.

1331
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 7: Then I have a baby, you better you better hope

1332
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 7: your job pay you. If not, you better pop it

1333
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 7: out and be here a lot right, right.

1334
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 4: It's way different over here. I mean I speak I

1335
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 4: speak German and I also speak some French, and I

1336
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 4: can't say that I speak Latin, but I had six

1337
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:31,719
Speaker 4: years of Latin in high school.

1338
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:35,439
Speaker 3: So that serves me very well for a lot of things.

1339
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 1: It helps, it helps, I'll speak it.

1340
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 2: I'm I don't speak it, but I took it in

1341
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 2: high school and uh for a couple of years.

1342
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:46,719
Speaker 1: And it does help break down the root of words,

1343
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: so you can.

1344
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 2: Be like, oh, I think what they're saying is related

1345
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 2: to this, like this is the word for money, and

1346
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 2: then what you just said this and that comes okay.

1347
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 2: So I don't know your language, but I do know

1348
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,080
Speaker 2: the root of what you're saying is money. So it

1349
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,640
Speaker 2: helps like a little bit, but it can't help as

1350
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 2: much as like, you know, actually like getting out there

1351
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:09,599
Speaker 2: and speaking it.

1352
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, that is true, but in Germany, so

1353
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:18,480
Speaker 4: it really literally depends on where you live. Like every

1354
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 4: most people in Germany take they you have to take

1355
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 4: English in class. I don't know when it started, but

1356
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 4: it's fairly like within the past ten years that they're

1357
01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 4: starting at first grade teaching English before they started at

1358
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 4: third grade.

1359
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 3: So everybody knows English now.

1360
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 4: Whether they will speak it or not or if it

1361
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 4: just went in one ear and out the other is

1362
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 4: a whole another situation.

1363
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:47,760
Speaker 3: So it just depends on where you are.

1364
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 4: And if what I find really interesting is that when

1365
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 4: I'm alone, no one speaks English to me. Ever it

1366
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 4: makes me angry, like I'm like, I'm an American, look

1367
01:11:58,040 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 4: at me.

1368
01:11:58,320 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 5: I shouldn't have.

1369
01:11:59,280 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 3: To speak German.

1370
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 4: But if I'm with my husband, then people are like

1371
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 4: they just start off on English.

1372
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I don't know what that is about.

1373
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,640
Speaker 7: But I don't know why you think because you're a

1374
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 7: woman and they just I just respect this man, So

1375
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 7: I'm gonna put out the English for him.

1376
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's so weird.

1377
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 2: What about food? What is y'all's favorite food in the

1378
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 2: country you're in. You know that first of all, that

1379
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 2: took a little too long. Okay, that made.

1380
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 5: Me feel like it wasn't think about it.

1381
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:42,839
Speaker 1: Like the food wasn't popping, like it wasn't seasoned properly

1382
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 1: or something.

1383
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:52,479
Speaker 7: It was like, oh man, food, well, okay, some pepper

1384
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 7: to taste.

1385
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 4: Well.

1386
01:12:56,520 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 5: I know in Sweden there's a lot of stuff are

1387
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 5: acquired taste, a lot of foods that are like well

1388
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 5: and something that wasn't. Salmon is a very popular item

1389
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 5: and a very big port. No problem. I love salmon.

1390
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 5: I probably figured out fifty different ways to cook salmon.

1391
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 5: But the most common way you're gonna get it is

1392
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 5: with potatoes. Potatoes. I remember what I think I was

1393
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 5: here too. I was like, do we have to have

1394
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 5: potatoes so often? You know, there are other alternatives, you know,

1395
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 5: but potatoes are a staple and haring pickled fifty different ways.

1396
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:37,600
Speaker 5: But you know, I found my ones that I like

1397
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 5: the most. And then there's in you know, of course

1398
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 5: they're they're regional things. But the Swedish meatballs, you know,

1399
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 5: maybe that they serve at Ikea. I don't know if

1400
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 5: I've ever had a mat akia. You know, they're pretty good,

1401
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 5: you know, with the Lincoln berry, you know, which is

1402
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 5: kind of like cranberries. But I cook, you know, all

1403
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 5: kinds of food, and I very rarely eat sweet, just

1404
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 5: regular Swedish food at a restaurant. But I don't think,

1405
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 5: and there's tons of vegetarian vegan options, so I think

1406
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 5: if you came here you would find anything you would want.

1407
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 2: Okay, And what about Germany, what's the food like over there, Angela?

1408
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:14,599
Speaker 3: It would depend on what your taste in food is. Really.

1409
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 3: I'm a vegetarian, and I haven't.

1410
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 4: Always been a vegetarian, so it's not like I've never

1411
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 4: eaten any other foods, but you know, vegetables.

1412
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 3: I grew up. Where I grew up in Ohio.

1413
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 4: Was a town with a lot of German immigrants, so

1414
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 4: I pretty much knew all the food and stuff, you know,

1415
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 4: before I got here. It's just like, in a way,

1416
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 4: it's like being just back at home, except nicer and better.

1417
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 3: But so a lot of people.

1418
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 4: Like snitzel, you know, that's just like breaded pork, you know,

1419
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:51,919
Speaker 4: with a sauce, and.

1420
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:54,960
Speaker 3: Like mushrooms or onions or something.

1421
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 4: A lot of people like that, or yeah, my husband

1422
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:01,640
Speaker 4: prefers like a court on blue, which is like a snitzele,

1423
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 4: a piece of pork wrapped in a piece of ham

1424
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:06,440
Speaker 4: with cheese.

1425
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 3: Wrapped around it with breading.

1426
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 4: Okay, I can see Karen is like, I'll have one

1427
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 4: of those.

1428
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 2: That sounds absolutely everybody is a vegan up in there.

1429
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:21,680
Speaker 3: Okay, no, no, they're not there. This is like the

1430
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 3: meat the most.

1431
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 4: It's hard to I can't be a vegan here because

1432
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 4: it's too hard.

1433
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 3: I would starve to death, so I can.

1434
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 4: I can only be a vegetarian because there's otherwise, you know,

1435
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 4: every now and then if we go out to dinner

1436
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 4: or something, or when in the past, before COVID, before

1437
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 4: we can now we can't go out to dinner so much.

1438
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 3: But I would if I go out if.

1439
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 4: There's nothing really vegetarian on the menu, I'll just have

1440
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 4: like some fish or something. You know, it's not I

1441
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:50,599
Speaker 4: can't eat too much fish because it kind of grosses

1442
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 4: me out after a certain point.

1443
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:55,719
Speaker 3: But but you know what else do people like here?

1444
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:59,799
Speaker 1: What about there's go ahead, go ahead, No, you got

1445
01:15:59,560 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 1: you there.

1446
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 4: This is something that that that they call it's called

1447
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 4: grew ena susa, which is green sauce.

1448
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 3: And it's like these a different bunch of herbs and different.

1449
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 4: Things mixed up with like a cream sauce with like

1450
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 4: like not cream, cheese and sour cream and it makes

1451
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 4: this sauce you like blend it all together and then

1452
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:24,800
Speaker 4: you serve it like with a piece of roast.

1453
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:26,439
Speaker 3: Beef and potatoes, and.

1454
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 4: It's actually really good. I rather like it, you know.

1455
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna eat meat.

1456
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 5: But yeah, I was gonna say that, no hush puppies

1457
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:44,720
Speaker 5: over here. Unfortunately, no hush puppies. You know. I did

1458
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 5: turn my husband on the corn.

1459
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:51,479
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like if you can cook, and

1460
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 2: you coming from America as a black person, you kind

1461
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 2: of got the advantage on the field when it comes

1462
01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 2: to cooking, you know what I mean. Like it's a

1463
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 2: little unfair, you know what I'm saying. I feel like

1464
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 2: you could just like if you could just get them

1465
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 2: to come to your house and cook for them, Like

1466
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 2: it's a rap, you know what I mean.

1467
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: They staying, you know what I'm saying, It's like, oh,

1468
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 1: this is what.

1469
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:11,640
Speaker 5: You want, Okay, Well I didn't know.

1470
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 6: I bet you they ain't got no sweet.

1471
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,840
Speaker 5: Well, yes, sweet potatoes. Did you say sweet potatoes? Because

1472
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:21,759
Speaker 5: I have some of my refrigerator.

1473
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 2: Sweet te grits and grits sweet.

1474
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 5: I heard grits because I bring grits black with me

1475
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:29,600
Speaker 5: and my my suitcase.

1476
01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 3: Grits.

1477
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 5: I bring back you see, I bring back old based Yeah,

1478
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 5: I bring back old Bay seasoning come from DC. I

1479
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 5: bring Adobe, you know, I definitely bring back my seasonings.

1480
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 5: I bring my grits. I bring you know, and I cheat, Karen,

1481
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 5: don't be mad, but I'll buy the Jiffy corn bridge.

1482
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 5: Ain't that wrong with that one egg quarter cup of milk?

1483
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:54,920
Speaker 5: And you know? So I will bring those things back

1484
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:56,640
Speaker 5: because you will not find them here, but then you

1485
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 5: will have the American section. And there is an American

1486
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 5: store here. Yes, where I live in Stockholm is like

1487
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 5: small hope Charles isn't listening, like ten times more expensive

1488
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 5: and at seven eleven or something.

1489
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 1: Okay, Angelaia say, I.

1490
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 4: Was gonna say that any American store is really just

1491
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 4: a garbage store.

1492
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:24,200
Speaker 3: It's like pop tarts, fruit loops, you know.

1493
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 6: What they think?

1494
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 3: Can yeah?

1495
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 4: Okay, it's embarrassing sometimes, like is this what we are

1496
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 4: known for cheese and a can.

1497
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:39,759
Speaker 6: And the thing is, you know, the one go ahead,

1498
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 6: no care.

1499
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:44,760
Speaker 5: And you think, what because I'm gonna say, you don't

1500
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 5: know what Angela said, because it's.

1501
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:50,759
Speaker 1: Right, go ahead, Adrian, you got you got it, go ahead.

1502
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:55,560
Speaker 5: No. I was gonna say, Luckily the one that that

1503
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,880
Speaker 5: I know of his own but an American, and he

1504
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 5: you know, that's where we for well in this Thanksgiving Okay,

1505
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:04,719
Speaker 5: we really want cranberry sauce. It's hard to find cranberry

1506
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 5: sauce here, so you can get the Ocean spray cranberry

1507
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 5: sauce in the can. You're like, okay, this got the

1508
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 5: Libby's Pumpkin pie spice. You know, he's got the all

1509
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 5: the like the Graham crackers, you know, don't we don't

1510
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 5: you can't get crack get Graham crackers here. They've got

1511
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 5: something else. So the stuff he's got all that stuff

1512
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 5: like that. So when sometimes when you really like the

1513
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 5: double stuff Oreos or something, it's like, if you really

1514
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 5: want to get your stuff, you'll go there. But he also,

1515
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 5: you know, I think a lot of sweets come in

1516
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:43,200
Speaker 5: there and just out of curiosity and buy that like

1517
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 5: cheese and the can stuff like Angela talked about. But

1518
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 5: he's got like the Duncan Hines cake mixed, the cake frosting.

1519
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 5: You can't buy cake. You can't find cake frosted in

1520
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 5: the can. That's your thing, you know. So it's all

1521
01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 5: that stuff. But he, you know, now that I think

1522
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 5: about it, he doesn't have grits and Jiffy. So I

1523
01:19:58,320 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 5: got to get on him about that.

1524
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 2: They start importing that you shouldn't have to come all

1525
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 2: the way back to the States to get some grits.

1526
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 5: Come on now and and I think for me.

1527
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 7: The most frustrating part is uh that a lot of

1528
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 7: these are not trying funder their white people's standards of food.

1529
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 7: And you go, oh, y'all must be looking at the

1530
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 7: checklist on what white people buy in masks and just

1531
01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 7: think this is what Americans eat.

1532
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 6: And you're like, it's more than just white people here.

1533
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 7: I hope y'all notice, like and so, and I bet

1534
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:28,840
Speaker 7: you when other people in other parts of the world

1535
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 7: come here and see our international section, they'd be like,

1536
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 7: what the hell is this?

1537
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 6: You probably do the same thing to them.

1538
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:37,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you go to like the local Asian market,

1539
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:41,679
Speaker 2: it's like a whole It's like it's like a bunch

1540
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 2: of like microwavable frozen noodles and shit. It's like, that's

1541
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 2: I guarantee you that's not That's not the wave over there.

1542
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 2: But what about I think I heard Adrian say earlier

1543
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 2: that Sweden has a king?

1544
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:56,760
Speaker 5: Is that?

1545
01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: Did I hear you correctly?

1546
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:09,320
Speaker 5: It's not to Challah, but uh, Sweden. Sweden is what

1547
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 5: they call a democratic monarchy, so we do have a

1548
01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 5: royal family, which is symbolic and the main primary thing

1549
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 5: for them. What I've been learning is they go around

1550
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 5: on a lot of trade missions and sign a lot

1551
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 5: of deals for Sweden because you know, they're they're they're ambassador.

1552
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:37,839
Speaker 5: They're like really upgraded, top of the line ambassadors for Sweden,

1553
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:40,519
Speaker 5: for the Swedish way of life or you know, to

1554
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:44,719
Speaker 5: do business. Sweden is really well known for innovation, clean energy,

1555
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 5: you know, these ambitious goals to be completely completely carbon

1556
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 5: neutral and you know twenty years or things like that.

1557
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 5: Our buses are electric and bio all this stuff. So

1558
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:57,880
Speaker 5: they take that all around the world and do it.

1559
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:03,640
Speaker 5: So yeah, and he they give out the Nobel Prizes,

1560
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 5: you know, the Nobel except for the Peace Prize that's

1561
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 5: in Oslo. And very ceremonial. They come out on National

1562
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 5: Day June sixth, in the national and the traditional clothes,

1563
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:20,320
Speaker 5: so very you very rarely hear from them or see

1564
01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 5: them unless it's a gossip magazine. So that's why I

1565
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 5: was impactful when he came on and said, look, this

1566
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 5: is COVID. This was in March April. I think you

1567
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 5: know that this is serious. Listen, and we haven't heard

1568
01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 5: from him again. You know he won't come out for

1569
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 5: the I don't know if you remember, there was a

1570
01:22:36,479 --> 01:22:43,560
Speaker 5: tsunami in Thailand in two thousand five or something maybe

1571
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 5: and a lot of Swedes go to Thailand for Christmas.

1572
01:22:47,240 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 5: So a lot of Swedes died in that resulting tsunami,

1573
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 5: and that had been the last time I heard that

1574
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:56,280
Speaker 5: the King had been on TV when it was kind

1575
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 5: of like a message to console the nation. So it

1576
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 5: took COVID when the nation needed a message. And people

1577
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:04,719
Speaker 5: much say if the king says do what you better

1578
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:06,719
Speaker 5: do it. I don't know what would happen if you didn't.

1579
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:08,959
Speaker 1: But well, I mean people.

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01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 2: I mean it's good that the king is utilizing their

1581
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 2: power for good to just come out down.

1582
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:16,559
Speaker 6: Like I don't need to be around here all the time.

1583
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, although it makes you wonder about all the times

1584
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 2: that that they didn't quite get bad enough for him,

1585
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 2: you know, but they're just like, it's a lot of

1586
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:28,000
Speaker 2: wildfires over He's like, and not yet, Okay.

1587
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:28,920
Speaker 1: I'm.

1588
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 2: Let's let's see how bad it burns it that way?

1589
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 5: There were there were a lot of fires here a

1590
01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 5: few years ago. No, it wasn't bad enough for him

1591
01:23:39,479 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 5: to get on TV. COVID. This COVID the C nineteen

1592
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:49,639
Speaker 5: is no joke. And you know, people are here. I've

1593
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:51,439
Speaker 5: read it in the papers that people in Europe are

1594
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 5: starting to get COVID fatigue because they have been under lockdown.

1595
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 5: And I do feel sorry for a lot of people.

1596
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:00,440
Speaker 5: Say in Paris or London, you're in the little partments,

1597
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 5: you know, these high rises, you know, no front yard,

1598
01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:06,439
Speaker 5: no backyard. You know. I feel lucky that I'm in

1599
01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:09,719
Speaker 5: a house, I got green spaces. But a lot of people,

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01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,640
Speaker 5: you know, I remember when I lived in Brussels, I

1601
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:15,640
Speaker 5: was in an apartment, you know, I wasn't in the

1602
01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 5: big building. But a lot of people are living cramped right,

1603
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:23,640
Speaker 5: and a lot of people have anxiety. A lot of

1604
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 5: people are in multi families and small places, especially in

1605
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 5: our communities. I know. So it's tough. So some people

1606
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 5: are not doing so well in Europe because it did

1607
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 5: go hard with restrictions. So you know, hopefully we can

1608
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 5: just do what we need to do a little while

1609
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 5: longer and write it out.

1610
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1611
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:49,479
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I know we see it too here, like people

1612
01:24:49,600 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 2: just getting fed up.

1613
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: You know.

1614
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 2: I always say to Instagram stories always tells the truth.

1615
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 5: You know.

1616
01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:57,800
Speaker 2: It's like you go to someone's Instagram stories, they're like, oh,

1617
01:24:58,040 --> 01:25:00,559
Speaker 2: just turn twenty nine at a part are you with people?

1618
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:03,759
Speaker 2: And You're like, oh, okay, you couldn't take it anymore.

1619
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 1: Finally got tired, you have had enough.

1620
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:11,160
Speaker 7: And maybe it's just the the fear of me walking

1621
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:13,640
Speaker 7: outside and Kobe be like, I'm still out here and

1622
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 7: I just going back in. Maybe I'm the older one

1623
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:20,799
Speaker 7: seeing COVID out there with like him and his boys,

1624
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 7: like you come out here if you want to, you know,

1625
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 7: we'll be sure to make you sick like I see

1626
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 7: it like.

1627
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 6: And so for me, I don't care how tired I get.

1628
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,640
Speaker 7: I'm that they will standing there, will wait for me

1629
01:25:33,360 --> 01:25:35,880
Speaker 7: to be like I have had enough, so not me?

1630
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 6: And I have a question, y'all do y'all have Amazon.

1631
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:40,120
Speaker 6: I know that might sound wild, but do yes?

1632
01:25:40,439 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: Everyone?

1633
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:45,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, And my best.

1634
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:49,599
Speaker 5: Friend k Karen, that wasn't a bad question because Amazon

1635
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:52,639
Speaker 5: is coming to Sweden. If I want to get something

1636
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 5: from Amazon, now I have to order from Germany or

1637
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 5: the UK. But it was like one of the happiest

1638
01:25:57,040 --> 01:25:59,320
Speaker 5: days in my life. I read Amazon and I look

1639
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:02,559
Speaker 5: there hiring, they're setting stuff up. It's coming to Sweden,

1640
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 5: and that obsts a lot of people though, because they're like,

1641
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:06,719
Speaker 5: it's gonna close down a lot of small it is,

1642
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:10,679
Speaker 5: you know, businesses or you know what. But I want

1643
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 5: my prime I want my free next day shipping, and

1644
01:26:16,160 --> 01:26:18,280
Speaker 5: I know it's Sweden. They're gonna get pair paid a

1645
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 5: fair wage and have five weeks vacation because that's what

1646
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 5: every that's the minimum that everybody gets. They're gonna, you know,

1647
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:29,200
Speaker 5: they can't not be in compliance with the with the

1648
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 5: country labor laws. So maybe an Amazon worker in Sweden

1649
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,960
Speaker 5: I have it a little better than in the States.

1650
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:36,719
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.

1651
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:40,439
Speaker 2: Everyone's gonna have everyone's gonna have Amazon, it's just they

1652
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 2: don't have it on the moon.

1653
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:42,600
Speaker 6: Like we.

1654
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:47,840
Speaker 2: Figure out like how to space fair and like use

1655
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:48,920
Speaker 2: warp poles and stuff.

1656
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:52,840
Speaker 1: That's it's gonna be there, like is the board. You

1657
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:53,639
Speaker 1: have no choice?

1658
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 7: And uh, with it coming to Sweden, you've been able

1659
01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 7: to order this stuff online now instead.

1660
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:00,000
Speaker 5: Of going all the way home.

1661
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:01,920
Speaker 1: Oh that's where this question came from.

1662
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 2: Kars has been trying to solve your grits problem the

1663
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 2: entire time.

1664
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: You know what, she hasn't heard anything else.

1665
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:16,639
Speaker 5: I appreciate how I can't. I'm gonna let you know

1666
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:19,959
Speaker 5: if they stalk, you know, because what kind of merchandise

1667
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 5: are they going to have? That's what you know. Is

1668
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:24,640
Speaker 5: it gonna be catered to the Swedish market or is

1669
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 5: it they're gonna have might have.

1670
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 4: Where just like they have you can buy everything. You

1671
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:33,440
Speaker 4: can buy American products on Amazon.

1672
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 3: Dot d But isn't isn't polina grits? Also?

1673
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 2: It is kind of like you know, it's yeah, it's

1674
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:45,600
Speaker 2: not the same exactly as grits. But listen, it'll do

1675
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 2: they like they like like they favor as we say,

1676
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 2: uh we say here in the South where two people

1677
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:56,640
Speaker 2: kind of look alike, like are y'all family? I don't know,

1678
01:27:56,680 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 2: but y'all favor polenta and grits Definitely favorgether.

1679
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I don't.

1680
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 4: I don't eat grits, but which I know people can

1681
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 4: hate on me or whatever, but I have trauma as

1682
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 4: a child being fed cream of wheat, oat meal and grits,

1683
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 4: and so I don't need any wet damn Well, okay, first.

1684
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 2: Of all, sorry, you don't need to be throwing creama

1685
01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:25,599
Speaker 2: wheat and and.

1686
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 1: In here with us. That's that's not that's not the

1687
01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:30,200
Speaker 1: same as grits.

1688
01:28:30,200 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, they don't got nothing to do with grit

1689
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 2: That is not That is not grit's business.

1690
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: But that's what they.

1691
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:42,639
Speaker 4: All say until you eat them, and then you're like, oh,

1692
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:43,799
Speaker 4: they'd all taste nasty.

1693
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:46,840
Speaker 2: So I used to be I used to be traumatized

1694
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 2: by grits when I was a kid because my grandmother,

1695
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 2: you know, she would make these big breakfasts and by

1696
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 2: the time everything was ready, that grits would be cold

1697
01:28:58,200 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 2: and I would never eat cover it, like my like,

1698
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 2: the texture is too nasty to me. And my families

1699
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 2: think I was so stinked. They'd be like, why are

1700
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:08,559
Speaker 2: you so picky with these grits. I was like, look

1701
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:10,600
Speaker 2: at these grits. This is like it is now the

1702
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 2: shape of the bowl. But but you know, and also

1703
01:29:14,520 --> 01:29:16,439
Speaker 2: like I just didn't under I didn't understand the labor

1704
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:19,640
Speaker 2: at the time, crema. I didn't understand the labor at

1705
01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:21,599
Speaker 2: the time that it was that my grandma was making

1706
01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 2: like literally eight different things at.

1707
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: The same time.

1708
01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 2: So you might have to put some water in the

1709
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 2: grits and stir them up again like like, and we

1710
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 2: didn't and at the time, also we didn't have a

1711
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:34,840
Speaker 2: microwave yet, so she used to have to take the

1712
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:38,320
Speaker 2: grits for just for me, and she would remake the

1713
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:41,200
Speaker 2: grits just for me, and then they would be delicious.

1714
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:42,840
Speaker 6: But it was just because she loved you.

1715
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was like a finite period of time

1716
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 2: that grits were good. This is what I'm saying. But

1717
01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 2: at the same time, she would never be smirch the

1718
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:53,000
Speaker 2: table with oatmeal or crema weed. She would never do

1719
01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 2: something the traumatizing like that.

1720
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:58,759
Speaker 5: So I understand, but you know, I have to stand

1721
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:01,719
Speaker 5: up for creama weed. Mom likes creama week with half

1722
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 5: and half. That's like her little thing before she goes

1723
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:07,760
Speaker 5: to bit. She's like, because I'm getting too skinny, I'm

1724
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 5: too skinny. So she'll have like a little thing of

1725
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:13,360
Speaker 5: kreama wheat for half and half. I don't have any

1726
01:30:13,720 --> 01:30:17,160
Speaker 5: bad memories with any of those things. Oat mil cooked

1727
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 5: properly is great, you know, but they don't really have

1728
01:30:23,439 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 5: oatmeal here. Again, that would be something they have something.

1729
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:29,599
Speaker 5: It's always something similar, it's not exactly the same thing.

1730
01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 2: This is the real divide in the Democratic Party right now.

1731
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:38,479
Speaker 6: This is where we need to be having a debate.

1732
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 6: I can't wait until this is like the biggest scandals ever.

1733
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the This is the discussion.

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Speaker 2: This is These are the questions that the media is

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01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 2: afraid to ask come out between big oatmeal, big grits,

1736
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 2: and big creama wheat. Okay, we need to get to

1737
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:58,719
Speaker 2: these discussions so that we can get on the same page.

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01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 3: Real, Rockley, I don't like breakfast. This question, that's it.

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01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:08,320
Speaker 1: What were you gonna say, Adriana'm sorry, Angela.

1740
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Speaker 5: I was gonna remember we were in Tokyo that breakfast food,

1741
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:13,960
Speaker 5: and Japan has a whole nother spin all what breakfast

1742
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:19,680
Speaker 5: food is? They like slavery breakfast learned to like fish

1743
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:24,400
Speaker 5: for every It was a competitive you like, what is that.

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01:31:24,400 --> 01:31:26,639
Speaker 3: All the time? Raw cooked?

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01:31:26,680 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the breakfasts were okay, It's just that

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01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:34,439
Speaker 4: I never you know, they always say people in Japan

1747
01:31:34,479 --> 01:31:36,519
Speaker 4: eat a lot of fish, but then you don't really

1748
01:31:36,600 --> 01:31:39,639
Speaker 4: think that they really mean it, like it's in every meal,

1749
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:42,759
Speaker 4: Like doesn't matter what you're eating, it's something with fish

1750
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:42,960
Speaker 4: in it.

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01:31:43,120 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 5: So sometimes you know, what, Angela, what was that that

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01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 5: they had at McDonald's. What kind of fish was?

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01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:52,280
Speaker 3: It was a lobster burder? Oh my god, it was

1754
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 3: so good.

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01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:53,519
Speaker 7: It was good.

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01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:59,439
Speaker 4: It was lobster, a roll of lobster on a bun

1757
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:01,960
Speaker 4: with some the sauce and tomatoes and lettuce, and it

1758
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:02,839
Speaker 4: was it was excellent.

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01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:04,960
Speaker 7: See we be cheated here in the States, and that

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01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 7: was McDonald Yeah, that sounds that sounds great MC's.

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01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes I just go on YouTube and look at

1762
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 2: like how like Japanese omelets and stuff like that. Just

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01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 2: like yo, they they making it a completely different way

1764
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 2: over there. So one day hopefully we get over there

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01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:23,480
Speaker 2: and get to try for ourselves.

1766
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Speaker 6: That's the goal, the COVID goal away.

1767
01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:29,599
Speaker 5: That's the goal, all right, But you don't want Angela probably,

1768
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,760
Speaker 5: And well you know what ron I wanted to ask

1769
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:34,880
Speaker 5: when I was gone into the abyss. I know you

1770
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:38,160
Speaker 5: started asking Angela why, and Karen is like, she's a

1771
01:32:38,240 --> 01:32:42,280
Speaker 5: vote shamer, but like why some people don't vote, and

1772
01:32:42,280 --> 01:32:44,040
Speaker 5: I don't know if Angela was, they got a chance

1773
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 5: to tell you that a lot of Americans just don't abroad,

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01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:49,000
Speaker 5: don't even know that they can vote. And that's she

1775
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 5: probably got it. She get into that. I just wanted

1776
01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 5: to make sure she's had a US passport.

1777
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:58,320
Speaker 1: Yeah she wasn't able to, but go ahead, okay, yeah.

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01:32:58,120 --> 01:33:03,000
Speaker 5: Because for example, you know what if I had kids

1779
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:06,280
Speaker 5: here in Sweden and they never lived in the US,

1780
01:33:07,360 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 5: and you know, as long as I did everything I

1781
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 5: needed to do with the embassy and make sure they

1782
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 5: had their passports, they're American citizens. They can still vote

1783
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:14,680
Speaker 5: even if you've not lived in the US. There are

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Speaker 5: a lot of dual citizens, especially in Americas, in Mexico

1785
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:21,599
Speaker 5: and in Latin America that are dual citizens, and English

1786
01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 5: may not even be their first language. Vote from abroad.

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Speaker 5: Dot org forward slash es is our voting website for

1788
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:31,640
Speaker 5: Spanish speakers. But a lot of people think that or

1789
01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:33,479
Speaker 5: I've been out of the States too long. You know,

1790
01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:36,680
Speaker 5: I'm not connected. I don't really know what's going on,

1791
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:42,600
Speaker 5: you know. Ballipedia dot com or you know, do your research.

1792
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:46,520
Speaker 5: It's your Americans that live abroad are required to file taxes.

1793
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:48,640
Speaker 5: It doesn't mean that you necessarily have to pay, but

1794
01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:51,919
Speaker 5: we have to file taxes. If our sons turn eighteen

1795
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:54,679
Speaker 5: that were born abroad and liverbroad they have to register

1796
01:33:54,760 --> 01:33:55,839
Speaker 5: for selective service.

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01:33:56,360 --> 01:33:56,599
Speaker 1: You know.

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01:33:56,640 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 5: We have all these requirements and obligations and American citizenship,

1799
01:34:01,400 --> 01:34:03,519
Speaker 5: so it's our right and duty to vote as well.

1800
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:07,280
Speaker 5: So no one is too disconnected. If unless you gave

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01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:09,960
Speaker 5: up your American citizenship, then you what you wouldn't expect

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01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:12,080
Speaker 5: that you would have the right to vote as long

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01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 5: as you're an American citizen anywhere. Didn't we read about

1804
01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:16,920
Speaker 5: that astronauts that voting from the space station.

1805
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:20,920
Speaker 4: That's right, we're voting from space, so you can vote too,

1806
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 4: wherever you are.

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01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:24,120
Speaker 3: It's very simple.

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01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:28,840
Speaker 5: Well, look this has been I think somebody said balladready

1809
01:34:28,920 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 5: dot org. I'm sorry, Rod, it's a good place to

1810
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:34,719
Speaker 5: research the Canadaate. Thanks for that, because I wasn't aware

1811
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:39,000
Speaker 5: of that resource. But yeah, we're seeing a lot of them,

1812
01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:44,720
Speaker 5: just like two thousand sixteen got Angela involved. Even though

1813
01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:47,720
Speaker 5: she always voted, she knew that there must be other

1814
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:52,479
Speaker 5: Americans around here somewhere doing something. I think that this

1815
01:34:52,560 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 5: is the year twenty twenty that all the people that

1816
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 5: were maybe sat out twenty sixteen for whatever reason, apathy,

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01:34:59,439 --> 01:35:02,680
Speaker 5: disappoint with the candidate, or thinking that this was a

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01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,840
Speaker 5: sure thing, how it was going to go. I think

1819
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 5: that they have they need they know now if they're

1820
01:35:08,439 --> 01:35:11,759
Speaker 5: not propelled to the skate to the to the Angela

1821
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:13,600
Speaker 5: likes to really get on them when I when you know,

1822
01:35:14,160 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 5: if I bring up this point, but if you I

1823
01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:23,080
Speaker 5: can't think of one reason why any American abroad would

1824
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:26,959
Speaker 5: not vote now because we are embarrassed to walk around.

1825
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:30,080
Speaker 3: But it's more, it's more than that.

1826
01:35:30,280 --> 01:35:33,679
Speaker 5: Behind a mask, it's topping, it's.

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01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:34,320
Speaker 3: It's more than that.

1828
01:35:34,360 --> 01:35:36,559
Speaker 4: It's not just a matter of whether you're embarrassed, because

1829
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:40,240
Speaker 4: quite honestly, I can manage a few, you know, disdainful

1830
01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:43,360
Speaker 4: looks from Germans, like that's not gonna kill me. But

1831
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:45,880
Speaker 4: people think that they, oh, I live outside of the

1832
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:48,800
Speaker 4: United States, so I can hide and these problems aren't

1833
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:49,519
Speaker 4: going to bother me.

1834
01:35:49,840 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 3: But it's not true.

1835
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:52,160
Speaker 5: We're like the.

1836
01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:58,800
Speaker 4: United States is kind of uh everywhere, and we're doing everything,

1837
01:35:59,120 --> 01:36:02,360
Speaker 4: and we're in every everybody's business, and sooner or later

1838
01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:05,720
Speaker 4: you're gonna need a new passport. Then you'll really have

1839
01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:09,160
Speaker 4: to interact with the United States government. And they've already

1840
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:13,320
Speaker 4: started with people who are trams messing with them with

1841
01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:14,360
Speaker 4: their passports.

1842
01:36:14,439 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 3: You know about how if.

1843
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 4: This isn't your birth name or some other crazy madness,

1844
01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:21,400
Speaker 4: you know that they can't give you a passport.

1845
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 3: It's so from.

1846
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:26,759
Speaker 2: Even children born on military basis. They're trying to change

1847
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,920
Speaker 2: some of the laws for like for that overseas, like

1848
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 2: it does affect people eventually down the line, even when

1849
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:35,800
Speaker 2: you think it can. I think that's one of the

1850
01:36:35,920 --> 01:36:40,160
Speaker 2: lessons that's come from twenty sixteen is how big these

1851
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:43,920
Speaker 2: decisions can get when you when you assume that there's

1852
01:36:43,960 --> 01:36:47,559
Speaker 2: a baseline and someone's like, no, there's not a baseline.

1853
01:36:47,560 --> 01:36:51,520
Speaker 2: We're going to change everything. So hopefully people are more activated.

1854
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:53,880
Speaker 2: Can you tell people once more time, one more time,

1855
01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:56,439
Speaker 2: like where to go? Because I think we have like

1856
01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:58,080
Speaker 2: a minute a half left before we get cut off

1857
01:36:58,080 --> 01:37:00,400
Speaker 2: by the session, So like, tell everybody where go to

1858
01:37:00,439 --> 01:37:01,960
Speaker 2: find to find.

1859
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,800
Speaker 1: You and to vote overseas.

1860
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:08,760
Speaker 4: Uh, if you would like to find us, you can

1861
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:13,439
Speaker 4: go to Democrats Abroad Dot org and slash join to join,

1862
01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:17,160
Speaker 4: or Democrats Abroad dot org slash BC to find out

1863
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:19,840
Speaker 4: more about the Global Black Caucus and join. If you're

1864
01:37:19,880 --> 01:37:23,000
Speaker 4: an overseas American, you can go to vote from a

1865
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 4: broad dot org to request an absentee ballot or register

1866
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:30,519
Speaker 4: to vote. Hurry up, y'all, because time is really running out,

1867
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:31,880
Speaker 4: and I just want to give.

1868
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 3: A plug for I will Vote.

1869
01:37:33,439 --> 01:37:35,479
Speaker 4: If you look if you live in the United States,

1870
01:37:35,479 --> 01:37:38,439
Speaker 4: go to I will vote dot com and register to vote,

1871
01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:42,600
Speaker 4: or verify that you are registered to vote, because Republicans

1872
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 4: will purge you without even a second thought.

1873
01:37:45,800 --> 01:37:46,120
Speaker 7: Yep.

1874
01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:51,280
Speaker 5: And of course, and if you're going to be paying, yeah,

1875
01:37:51,360 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 5: you can follow Instagram now. Yeah, even if you're seventeen

1876
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:00,599
Speaker 5: now we're going to be eighteen by November. Third, register

1877
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:04,639
Speaker 5: to vote. It's your first time, do it. I've seen

1878
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:06,960
Speaker 5: foot pictures of somebody one hundred and ten putting her

1879
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 5: ballot in the pole. She was peep, geared up. You

1880
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 5: know this is take somebody to the poll. Help somebody

1881
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 5: make a plan. First plan is the register to vote.

1882
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:19,280
Speaker 5: If you haven't already request your ballot if you're overseas,

1883
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:21,720
Speaker 5: requested to come by email. If you already requested your

1884
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,000
Speaker 5: ballot to come by mail and it hasn't come. Send

1885
01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:28,720
Speaker 5: in the federal Emergency right and absentee ballot because it's

1886
01:38:28,800 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 5: less than what is it, twenty four days.

1887
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:34,760
Speaker 4: But if you go to Democrats Abroad dot org if

1888
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:37,000
Speaker 4: you want to help on how to do a FOB

1889
01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:39,720
Speaker 4: or if you want to find out you need help

1890
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:42,360
Speaker 4: about requesting a ballot, if you go there, we have

1891
01:38:42,439 --> 01:38:49,400
Speaker 4: links and we have live help on all day Sunday, Thursday, Tuesday, Thursday,

1892
01:38:50,200 --> 01:38:54,280
Speaker 4: Friday and Saturday. There's online one on one help that

1893
01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 4: people can help you. It's a zoom conference. You just

1894
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:00,120
Speaker 4: jump into the link and then people are there to

1895
01:39:00,120 --> 01:39:04,200
Speaker 4: help you with whatever problems you have about voting. Don't delay,

1896
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:08,920
Speaker 4: please hurry and gosh, I'm so thankful that you guys

1897
01:39:08,960 --> 01:39:09,439
Speaker 4: had us on.

1898
01:39:09,560 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 3: I really appreciate it.

1899
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:13,559
Speaker 1: No, thank you for coming on. We really do appreciate

1900
01:39:13,600 --> 01:39:14,200
Speaker 1: the work, the job.

1901
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:18,560
Speaker 2: And hopefully you know our audience has been educated by this,

1902
01:39:18,760 --> 01:39:22,519
Speaker 2: and people that are oversee specifically because like I said,

1903
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:25,040
Speaker 2: our podcast goes all over the world. Hopefully they're like, oh,

1904
01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:28,599
Speaker 2: here's this avenue where I can help stay politically involved.

1905
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 1: Because if you listen to the show. There's no way

1906
01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 1: you're not hearing all these.

1907
01:39:31,360 --> 01:39:34,160
Speaker 2: Politics we talk about, so you can stay politically involved,

1908
01:39:34,200 --> 01:39:37,240
Speaker 2: in active and connected. And I think you also provide

1909
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 2: a place for people to feel connection in a world

1910
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:43,640
Speaker 2: that says like, well, once you're not in these borders,

1911
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:47,320
Speaker 2: you don't count, you know, so now they can. And

1912
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:50,040
Speaker 2: apparently we just discovered you can go over two hours

1913
01:39:50,040 --> 01:39:55,840
Speaker 2: in crowdcast, so that's nice. That's we didn't plan to

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01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:58,880
Speaker 2: discover that. Normally it just cuts us off. It's like bye, so,

1915
01:39:59,479 --> 01:40:03,040
Speaker 2: but yeah, I do special Yeah, thank you. You know,

1916
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:07,200
Speaker 2: we're the International Audition Special Edition. But yeah, I think

1917
01:40:07,439 --> 01:40:09,320
Speaker 2: like the work y'all are doing is so dope. And

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01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:11,439
Speaker 2: you know, it's one of those things where we do

1919
01:40:11,520 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 2: the show, we're like, it's a comedy show. It's funny,

1920
01:40:13,880 --> 01:40:16,840
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But you know, times like this is

1921
01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:19,760
Speaker 2: like listen, anything we can do to help get the

1922
01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:23,960
Speaker 2: word out, like, we gotta do it. So we appreciate

1923
01:40:24,040 --> 01:40:27,639
Speaker 2: y'all coming on and y'all your stories are so dope,

1924
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:31,280
Speaker 2: and we also got to learn about international.

1925
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 5: I didn't care, can I ask you? Do you all

1926
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:37,080
Speaker 5: have mail in voting and early voting in North Carolina.

1927
01:40:37,120 --> 01:40:39,439
Speaker 5: What's yours voting? What your voting plans?

1928
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:42,880
Speaker 2: So we have mail in ballots, we already requested ours,

1929
01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:45,639
Speaker 2: we got them. But we're actually planning to go and

1930
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:48,080
Speaker 2: early vote like we always do in person. We're just

1931
01:40:48,120 --> 01:40:51,559
Speaker 2: gonna wear a mask in social distance. Our early voting

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01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:55,040
Speaker 2: in North Carolina starts October fifteenth, so we'll probably go

1933
01:40:55,160 --> 01:40:57,600
Speaker 2: like the sixteen because I've been looking online and it

1934
01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:00,439
Speaker 2: seems like everyone stayed the first day. It's like a

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01:41:00,479 --> 01:41:02,280
Speaker 2: line around the door, and then you go the next

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Speaker 2: day and it's like you can walk right in and out.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna wait.

1938
01:41:06,040 --> 01:41:07,680
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna wait like a day tune and then

1939
01:41:07,760 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 2: walk home, walk right in and out like we always do.

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01:41:10,720 --> 01:41:11,840
Speaker 1: But that's our plan.

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01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:14,760
Speaker 2: And then, of course, if all else fails, like if

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01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:18,120
Speaker 2: something happens where on the fifteenth or sixteen where it's

1943
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:22,360
Speaker 2: really like any complications with voting in person, then we

1944
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 2: would fill out our ballots and then we're gonna drive

1945
01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:27,599
Speaker 2: to the actual drop off place instead of putting them

1946
01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:30,120
Speaker 2: in the mail, and drop our ballats off. My parents

1947
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:32,400
Speaker 2: already did it. My mom sent me the picture and everything.

1948
01:41:32,520 --> 01:41:35,519
Speaker 2: So that's our plan. I think everyone needs to have

1949
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:38,160
Speaker 2: a voting plan just in case.

1950
01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 7: Man.

1951
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:42,080
Speaker 1: And I'm telling y'all, if you can avoid it, do not.

1952
01:41:42,160 --> 01:41:45,479
Speaker 2: Wait till the day of Okay, especially if you're black,

1953
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 2: and especially if you're in the South.

1954
01:41:47,160 --> 01:41:50,760
Speaker 1: They be playing tricks on voting day. Okay, Like the.

1955
01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 6: Machines went down. They didn't have the call ship them off.

1956
01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:59,600
Speaker 2: Like Stacey Abrams should be governing right now, you know,

1957
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:00,599
Speaker 2: Andrew Gill.

1958
01:42:02,240 --> 01:42:04,160
Speaker 1: So the like. Don't play with it.

1959
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:07,040
Speaker 2: If you have the privilege or the advantage to be

1960
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:09,639
Speaker 2: able to make a plan and do it before, then

1961
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:12,080
Speaker 2: do it before, even if it is mail or whatever.

1962
01:42:12,200 --> 01:42:14,320
Speaker 2: So hopefully you know, I just want us to win

1963
01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:19,280
Speaker 2: in November, y'all. So all right, well, thank y'all so

1964
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:22,599
Speaker 2: much for coming on. And uh, like I said, it was,

1965
01:42:22,640 --> 01:42:25,559
Speaker 2: it was fun. And I hope we get some people registered,

1966
01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:27,479
Speaker 2: or we get some people overseas involved.

1967
01:42:27,479 --> 01:42:29,759
Speaker 6: Hope y'all, particularly overseas get involved.

1968
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 2: I hope y'all get some you know, because we're y'all

1969
01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 2: right now the fifty seconds, say I believe he said.

1970
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:40,120
Speaker 2: And look, hopefully we get Puerto Rico and DC we

1971
01:42:40,200 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 2: get up to fifty four. Uh, like we we got

1972
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:46,759
Speaker 2: to do everything all hands on deck and uh even

1973
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:49,719
Speaker 2: and the one thing I did want to add because

1974
01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:52,640
Speaker 2: I think right now, in this moment, it's almost like

1975
01:42:52,760 --> 01:42:56,840
Speaker 2: going unset. But even if Biden wins, it's still a

1976
01:42:56,840 --> 01:42:57,840
Speaker 2: fight every day.

1977
01:42:57,800 --> 01:42:58,280
Speaker 6: Yes it is.

1978
01:42:58,320 --> 01:43:01,439
Speaker 2: So this is not this is not us again, Like, oh,

1979
01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:04,960
Speaker 2: if Biden wins, we can finally relax and there we go,

1980
01:43:05,080 --> 01:43:08,759
Speaker 2: got mission accomplished. Like there's so many things that still

1981
01:43:08,800 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 2: need to happen in this country, in this world that

1982
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:14,840
Speaker 2: go beyond just whether or not the president is a Democrat.

1983
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:16,880
Speaker 1: But the president being a Democrat.

1984
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:18,800
Speaker 2: Is a big first step for a lot of the

1985
01:43:18,840 --> 01:43:20,559
Speaker 2: things I would like to see happened in this world.

1986
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:23,600
Speaker 2: So all right, y'all, we'll be back tomorrow.

1987
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:25,719
Speaker 1: Until then, I love.

1988
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:26,280
Speaker 6: You, I love you too.

1989
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 1: Wow bye everybody,