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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to will Gayeff Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn Booker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk today about the catastrophic scenes that

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Speaker 1: we are seeing coming out of California in places like Chatsworth, Capitola,

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Speaker 1: Studio City, Los Angeles, among others. The scenes are absolutely insane.

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Speaker 1: As I'm talking to you, I'm taking a look at

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Speaker 1: the live footage of mudslides consuming highways, of rain coming

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Speaker 1: into public transportation stations, stories of a horrific tragedy of

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Speaker 1: a five year old being swept away by the storm

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Speaker 1: that folks are now emergency operators are now looking for.

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Speaker 1: These things are not acts of God, and that is

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Speaker 1: what frustrates me. Whenever we continue to see headlines that

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Speaker 1: say historic, catastrophic, unbelievable, billions of dollars worth of damage.

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Speaker 1: Is that then meteorologists, whether people and others will kind

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Speaker 1: of shrug and just say, well, another state of emergency

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Speaker 1: has been called from such and such a state, and

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Speaker 1: our thoughts and prayers are with them. It's the same

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Speaker 1: thing that we do about gun violence in the United States.

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Speaker 1: We send our thoughts and prayers, we send a few

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Speaker 1: news cameras, we take footage, we take interviews, and then

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Speaker 1: we move on follow the bouncing ball. Our weather, our

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Speaker 1: climate is out of control. The climate crisis is no

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Speaker 1: longer impending. It is here. I keep thinking about. And

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Speaker 1: of course, as the news story and the calendar year changed,

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Speaker 1: we're not still talking about the catastrophic winter storm that

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Speaker 1: took place in Buffalo that killed dozens of people. Now

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Speaker 1: I want folks to wrap their minds around this because

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Speaker 1: I've said this before, but as I was on holiday break,

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Speaker 1: I'm watching like everyone else's the news coverage and just

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Speaker 1: my jaw dropping open when you're hearing reports of people

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Speaker 1: who are found frozen to death in their cars. There

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Speaker 1: were about forty people found frozen to death in their cars.

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Speaker 1: I want you to think about that for a moment.

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Speaker 1: That is not normal. It is not normal for temperatures

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Speaker 1: to drop in such a way and for snow to

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Speaker 1: come down in such a ferocious way that it was

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Speaker 1: like the winds of a hurricane and then the snow

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Speaker 1: storm of your worst kind of snow coming down. Also,

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Speaker 1: think about this. People who live up and around the

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Speaker 1: Great Lakes, up and around in Buffalo and bordering Canada.

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Speaker 1: They know how to do winter. This is not like

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when there were some snowflakes

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Speaker 1: that hit the ground in Atlanta, Georgia, and we heard

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Speaker 1: reports of children being stranded on school buses for like

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Speaker 1: several hours because Georgia never has snow, so people don't

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Speaker 1: know how to drive and they don't know how to

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Speaker 1: protect themselves. That is not the case. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: parts of Canada and New York that borders Canada. These people,

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Speaker 1: these towns know how to brace for snow. There was

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Speaker 1: also a lot of blame that went around as we

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Speaker 1: were watching this news unfold several weeks ago, just a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, actually not even a month has passed,

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Speaker 1: and blame going to local officials for not announcing an

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Speaker 1: emergency soon enough. But again, if you believe that this

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Speaker 1: is a normal snowstorm, then you are going to take

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Speaker 1: normal precautions. But when you were talking about a snowstorm

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Speaker 1: that meets hurricane winds, you are talking about an entirely

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Speaker 1: different beast. We cannot continue to operate as if all

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Speaker 1: is normal when it is not. We cannot continue to

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Speaker 1: deal with these impending storms as if they're just par

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Speaker 1: for the course. They are not human beings are not

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Speaker 1: supposed to freeze alive. The last time, I feel like,

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Speaker 1: if you guys remember and I say, it's a terrible

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Speaker 1: great movie. The day after Tomorrow. The Day after Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: is this, you know, super fantastic kind of sci fi

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Speaker 1: dramedy of a movie where these three major storms, historic storms,

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Speaker 1: everything is covered in ice and snow, and there is

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Speaker 1: is a scene that pretty much if you saw the

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Speaker 1: normal weather. If people are not alerted to what is

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Speaker 1: It looks like storms that are labeled as historic coming

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Speaker 1: each and every fucking couple of weeks. It looks like

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Speaker 1: seen and so don't know how to deal with. Ignorance

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Speaker 1: is expensive, not only in the cost of lives, but

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Speaker 1: take to rehab these towns and places. Can you get

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Speaker 1: ice insurance? For a house when it's encased in it,

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Speaker 1: and then when it melts, then it's a flood. The

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Speaker 1: pipes have burst in these people. Homes are demolished, lives

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Speaker 1: climate crisis that is not impending, that has arrived and

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Speaker 1: arrived with significant fucking force. So now we switch gears

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Speaker 1: to look at California, where, according to the New York

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Speaker 1: Times quote, a catastrophic string of storms continue to pummel California,

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Speaker 1: the risk of flash floods and mudslides. Scenes of destruction

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Speaker 1: played out across the state. In Chatsworth, a Los Angeles suburb,

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Speaker 1: several people were rescued. Get this, folks after a sinkhole

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Speaker 1: was issued Again we're using words like rare. People don't

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Speaker 1: High winds and flooding rain carved out a chunk of

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Speaker 1: So that's happening. Then they go on shaver Lake. Earlier

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Speaker 1: have also been landslides in the shaver Lake area in

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Speaker 1: there is not an area that hasn't been affected. Now,

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Speaker 1: They are consistently and have consistently been in a drought

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Speaker 1: historic weather events, and yet we have a political party,

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Speaker 1: now in places where we're not used to hearing these things.

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Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, well, another hurricane is hitting Florida. No,

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Speaker 1: and those that can afford to postpone the devastation will

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Speaker 1: for the rest of us. It will be Elyseum the

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Speaker 1: other terrible movie, but basically lays out Earth has become

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Speaker 1: But now we have arrived. We are watching people that

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Speaker 1: woman sang it, and it was brilliant, and you know

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Speaker 1: it was just this woman just sitting around waiting for

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Speaker 1: aliens to come because this place is ghetto. And I

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Speaker 1: I you know, these are things. I know that it

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Speaker 1: systems that have been put in place, all of these ideologies,

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Speaker 1: all of this lies and nonsense just go up in

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Speaker 1: the air at the same time. That's where we're watching

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Speaker 1: a system's breakdown of everything and anything. And there's no nimbleness, folks,

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Speaker 1: there's no adaptation. How do we move with the new

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Speaker 1: So how are we supposed to actually do anything to

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Speaker 1: make significant change? You got fucking Republicans that are still

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Speaker 1: talking about bringing back big call. What are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile your constituents are drowning or freezing to death. It's

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Speaker 1: and soon it'll be fire season, and then it'll be

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Speaker 1: won't be any seasons. It'll just be this consistency. Right.

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Speaker 1: There was one episode what was it? Ah, it was

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Speaker 1: don't know why they decided to make it a musical,

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Speaker 1: That's not too far off. Sadly, that isn't twenty and

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Speaker 1: thirty years into the future. We already experienced and are

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Speaker 1: continue to experience a global health pandemic that at us

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Speaker 1: all shutter our doors and windows for three four six months,

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Speaker 1: and in speaking of China, three years. I just feel

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Speaker 1: like our leaders are not preparing for what's next. They

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Speaker 1: I got to tell you, folks, what is coming next

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Speaker 1: isn't good. And I don't see a part of the

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Speaker 1: there and I'll be safe from the tornado, from the fires,

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Speaker 1: from the snow, hurricanes, from all of these catastrophic events.

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Speaker 1: So we're just going to make it part of the course,

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Speaker 1: kind of like losing five hundred people a day to

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Speaker 1: COVID Ah, that's just the way that it is. Every

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Speaker 1: time there is a major catastrophic storm, We're okay with

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Speaker 1: a couple dozen people dying. We should care more. What

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Speaker 1: this country, what this world is lacking is empathy, It's consciousness,

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Speaker 1: and I just without it, I think that things are

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Speaker 1: And I just don't know what preparation for catastrophe, historic

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Speaker 1: catastrophe looks like. For those of you, dear friends that

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Speaker 1: are listening in areas that are being hardest hit, do

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Speaker 1: the best that you can to stay safe, to stay protected,

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Speaker 1: and God willing you're able to weather out these storms.

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Speaker 1: You're definitely in my thoughts and I will continue to

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Speaker 1: lift up these conversations, hoping that they fall on listening ears.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke

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Speaker 1: a f as always, Power to the people and to

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Speaker 1: all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.