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Speaker 1: Welcome the season two of How to Citizen with Baritune Day.

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Speaker 1: Where we believe in citizen as a verb, where we

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Speaker 1: show up, where we participate in our democracy, invest in

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Speaker 1: our relationships, know our power. All that's really nice to

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Speaker 1: say and so hard to do when we're as divided

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Speaker 1: as we are, when folks are literally storming the US cabinet.

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Speaker 1: So many ways we could talk about this division. Why

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Speaker 1: can't Republicans and Democrats get along? Should we have a beer,

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Speaker 1: let's sing Kumbaya? We're not doing that. No, this season,

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Speaker 1: we're going deeper. We're talking about the money because, to

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Speaker 1: be real, it's hard to citizen when we can barely

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Speaker 1: pay the bills. Volks are like, oh my god, you

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Speaker 1: are going to give black woman money? What I like?

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Speaker 1: Why not? Now I'm not an economist, but I do

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Speaker 1: know that wealth inequality is tearing us apart, and it's

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Speaker 1: preventing us from living in the democracy we all want.

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Speaker 1: So where are the solutions. Who's creating wealth that isn't

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Speaker 1: powered by racism? It just felt like there was something

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Speaker 1: terribly wrong with the way that politics was narrating the

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Speaker 1: stories of the lives of the people around me. Who's

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Speaker 1: making it easier for me not to give all my

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Speaker 1: money to Jeff Bezos. We're gonna have a real fight

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Speaker 1: on our hands about whether we live in a country

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Speaker 1: where Amazon decides how our economy works, and who's making

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Speaker 1: sure people aren't working three jobs just to pay rent

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Speaker 1: getting dollars of dead canceled. It might as well be

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Speaker 1: fifty million. In this season of How the Citizen, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna find out there are people out there building an

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Speaker 1: economy that strengthens our democracy instead of weakening it. Together,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna learn how we can invest in that economy

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Speaker 1: so we can all citizen better m