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Speaker 1: Yo, I'm Baritone Day, and I want to tell you

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Speaker 1: a crazy story from my childhood. When I was nine

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Speaker 1: years old, my mother gave me a special assignment. She

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Speaker 1: said it was up to me to come up with

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Speaker 1: the system we would live under after democracy and maybe

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Speaker 1: capitalism had failed. I repeat, I was nine years old,

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Speaker 1: and I know that's a wild assignment one apparently I

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Speaker 1: failed at because all the headlines thirty three years later,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about democracies and crisis, democracies at the tipping point,

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Speaker 1: and I agree, But which way our democracy tips? That's

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Speaker 1: up to us, and that is the spirit of my

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Speaker 1: new show, How to Citizen with Baritone Day. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm the Barton Day. In that title, there's no other

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Speaker 1: barratuone days. It's a one barrattone day show. But it's

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Speaker 1: not an only barratone day show because in this show,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to introduce you to people who are tapping

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Speaker 1: into that collective power. Were all a part of organizing

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Speaker 1: communities to make a difference and change outcomes in areas

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Speaker 1: as diverse as public safety, worker rights, voter turnout, even

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Speaker 1: our food systems. Did you know that we can keep

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Speaker 1: ourselves safe without giving all of our money to the

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Speaker 1: police department. Did you know that we can build an

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Speaker 1: economy that works without giving all of our money to

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Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos? I know is wild. This show is going

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Speaker 1: to involve you in that project because it'd be very

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Speaker 1: authoritarian for me to make a show called Hot the

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Speaker 1: Citizen where I just talked down at you. Instead, I'm

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Speaker 1: inviting you in literally to be a part of the

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Speaker 1: tapings of the show, which we do live with the audience,

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Speaker 1: and also to convert some of that news rage you're

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Speaker 1: probably sitting on into action where we are going to

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Speaker 1: give you things you can do to be a better citizen.

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Speaker 1: Our media isn't fake, but it is incomplete because so far,

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Speaker 1: much of the mess sage we've been getting is how

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Speaker 1: broken the world is, as opposed to all the work

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Speaker 1: being done to mend it. Much of the message we've

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Speaker 1: been getting is how alone we are, how powerless we are.

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Speaker 1: But there's another side to the story that talks about

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Speaker 1: us as a part of something greater, something that we

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Speaker 1: can do together, that sees the current moment as an opportunity,

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Speaker 1: with pandemic revolution and all, to reimagine and reclaim this

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Speaker 1: word citizen. Take it back from those who have weaponized

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Speaker 1: it against people who don't have the right paperwork, and

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Speaker 1: converted into a verb big enough to invite us all

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Speaker 1: to participate in determining our society, how it works and

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Speaker 1: for whom, the whom being the many, not just the few.

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Speaker 1: How do citizen with Baritune day? It literally takes all

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Speaker 1: of us, and that includes you coming August to the

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you listen

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