WEBVTT - Ignorance is Expensive

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peeps, and welcome to will Gayeff Daily with

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

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<v Speaker 1>I want to talk today about the catastrophic scenes that

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<v Speaker 1>we are seeing coming out of California in places like Chatsworth, Capitola,

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<v Speaker 1>Studio City, Los Angeles, among others. The scenes are absolutely insane.

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<v Speaker 1>As I'm talking to you, I'm taking a look at

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<v Speaker 1>the live footage of mudslides consuming highways, of rain coming

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<v Speaker 1>into public transportation stations, stories of a horrific tragedy of

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<v Speaker 1>a five year old being swept away by the storm

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<v Speaker 1>that folks are now emergency operators are now looking for.

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<v Speaker 1>These things are not acts of God, and that is

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<v Speaker 1>what frustrates me. Whenever we continue to see headlines that

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<v Speaker 1>say historic, catastrophic, unbelievable, billions of dollars worth of damage.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that then meteorologists, whether people and others will kind

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<v Speaker 1>of shrug and just say, well, another state of emergency

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<v Speaker 1>has been called from such and such a state, and

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<v Speaker 1>our thoughts and prayers are with them. It's the same

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<v Speaker 1>thing that we do about gun violence in the United States.

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<v Speaker 1>We send our thoughts and prayers, we send a few

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<v Speaker 1>news cameras, we take footage, we take interviews, and then

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<v Speaker 1>we move on follow the bouncing ball. Our weather, our

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<v Speaker 1>climate is out of control. The climate crisis is no

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<v Speaker 1>longer impending. It is here. I keep thinking about. And

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<v Speaker 1>of course, as the news story and the calendar year changed,

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<v Speaker 1>we're not still talking about the catastrophic winter storm that

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<v Speaker 1>took place in Buffalo that killed dozens of people. Now

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<v Speaker 1>I want folks to wrap their minds around this because

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<v Speaker 1>I've said this before, but as I was on holiday break,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm watching like everyone else's the news coverage and just

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<v Speaker 1>my jaw dropping open when you're hearing reports of people

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<v Speaker 1>who are found frozen to death in their cars. There

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<v Speaker 1>were about forty people found frozen to death in their cars.

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to think about that for a moment.

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<v Speaker 1>That is not normal. It is not normal for temperatures

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<v Speaker 1>to drop in such a way and for snow to

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<v Speaker 1>come down in such a ferocious way that it was

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<v Speaker 1>like the winds of a hurricane and then the snow

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<v Speaker 1>storm of your worst kind of snow coming down. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>think about this. People who live up and around the

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<v Speaker 1>Great Lakes, up and around in Buffalo and bordering Canada.

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<v Speaker 1>They know how to do winter. This is not like

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of years ago when there were some snowflakes

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<v Speaker 1>that hit the ground in Atlanta, Georgia, and we heard

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<v Speaker 1>reports of children being stranded on school buses for like

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<v Speaker 1>several hours because Georgia never has snow, so people don't

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<v Speaker 1>know how to drive and they don't know how to

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<v Speaker 1>protect themselves. That is not the case. We're talking about

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<v Speaker 1>parts of Canada and New York that borders Canada. These people,

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<v Speaker 1>these towns know how to brace for snow. There was

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<v Speaker 1>also a lot of blame that went around as we

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<v Speaker 1>were watching this news unfold several weeks ago, just a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks ago, actually not even a month has passed,

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<v Speaker 1>and blame going to local officials for not announcing an

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<v Speaker 1>emergency soon enough. But again, if you believe that this

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<v Speaker 1>is a normal snowstorm, then you are going to take

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<v Speaker 1>normal precautions. But when you were talking about a snowstorm

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<v Speaker 1>that meets hurricane winds, you are talking about an entirely

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<v Speaker 1>different beast. We cannot continue to operate as if all

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<v Speaker 1>is normal when it is not. We cannot continue to

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<v Speaker 1>deal with these impending storms as if they're just par

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<v Speaker 1>for the course. They are not human beings are not

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<v Speaker 1>supposed to freeze alive. The last time, I feel like,

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<v Speaker 1>if you guys remember and I say, it's a terrible

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<v Speaker 1>great movie. The day after Tomorrow. The Day after Tomorrow

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<v Speaker 1>is this, you know, super fantastic kind of sci fi

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<v Speaker 1>dramedy of a movie where these three major storms, historic storms,

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<v Speaker 1>converge around the globe and for about one week, every

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<v Speaker 1>bit of satellite is blacked out by the amount of snow.

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<v Speaker 1>The temperatures drop about forty degrees within like an hour,

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<v Speaker 1>everything is covered in ice and snow, and there is

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<v Speaker 1>a breaking of the border on American side in order

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<v Speaker 1>to go south to Mexico and in southern States. It

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<v Speaker 1>is a scene that pretty much if you saw the

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<v Speaker 1>pictures over the holiday of the houses encased in ice,

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<v Speaker 1>literally encased in ice, these homes that were on a lake.

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<v Speaker 1>The wind brought in the water, then the snow covered down,

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<v Speaker 1>the temperatures dropped, and these people would have to chisel

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<v Speaker 1>their way out. People were trapped in their car died

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<v Speaker 1>six minutes away from home. You think to yourself, well,

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<v Speaker 1>six minutes, why couldn't they just walk? Oh, because when

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<v Speaker 1>they got out of the car. The snow was waist

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<v Speaker 1>deep and they could not see nor could they traverse

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<v Speaker 1>in waist deep snow and get home. Stories of a

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<v Speaker 1>man carrying a woman's body frozen and leaving it at

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<v Speaker 1>the steps of I believe a fire station or a

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<v Speaker 1>police station so that she could be found. These are

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<v Speaker 1>the stories that have kind of been glossed over. And

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<v Speaker 1>we're glossing over these storms as if it's just par

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<v Speaker 1>for the course. They are just going to get worse,

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<v Speaker 1>and there's no real way to prepare when everybody is

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<v Speaker 1>sticking their fucking heads in the sand as if they

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<v Speaker 1>are ostriches and pretending that what we are seeing is

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<v Speaker 1>normal weather. If people are not alerted to what is

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<v Speaker 1>happening and understand that this is what climate change looks like.

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<v Speaker 1>It looks like storms that are labeled as historic coming

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<v Speaker 1>each and every fucking couple of weeks. It looks like

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<v Speaker 1>each season bringing us historic weather events that we've never

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<v Speaker 1>seen and so don't know how to deal with. Ignorance

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<v Speaker 1>is expensive, not only in the cost of lives, but

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<v Speaker 1>in the cost of money that it is going to

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<v Speaker 1>take to rehab these towns and places. Can you get

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<v Speaker 1>ice insurance? For a house when it's encased in it,

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<v Speaker 1>and then when it melts, then it's a flood. The

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<v Speaker 1>pipes have burst in these people. Homes are demolished, lives

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<v Speaker 1>are being upended because we refuse to deal with the

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<v Speaker 1>climate crisis that is not impending, that has arrived and

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<v Speaker 1>arrived with significant fucking force. So now we switch gears

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<v Speaker 1>to look at California, where, according to the New York

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<v Speaker 1>Times quote, a catastrophic string of storms continue to pummel California,

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<v Speaker 1>with the additional rain aggravating ongoing flooding conditions and raising

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<v Speaker 1>the risk of flash floods and mudslides. Scenes of destruction

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<v Speaker 1>played out across the state. In Chatsworth, a Los Angeles suburb,

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<v Speaker 1>several people were rescued. Get this, folks after a sinkhole

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<v Speaker 1>swallowed two cars, augusting Los Angeles River and mudslides threatened

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<v Speaker 1>homes in southwest Los Angeles after rare flash flood warning

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

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<v Speaker 1>even know what that sound is, if it's something that

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<v Speaker 1>has never happened before. How the fuck do you know

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<v Speaker 1>what to do when you hear this sound? What do

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<v Speaker 1>you know is coming in the northern part of the state.

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<v Speaker 1>High winds and flooding rain carved out a chunk of

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<v Speaker 1>a pier in Capitola, a suburb of Santa Cruz. Parts

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<v Speaker 1>of Union Station in downtown Los Angeles were flooded on

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<v Speaker 1>Tuesday morning. LA Metro officials warned customers to expect major delays. Now, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>if you go on the New York Times and you

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<v Speaker 1>look at some of the catastrophic scenes, it is like

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<v Speaker 1>a river entered the Metro station in La. Now, I

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<v Speaker 1>remember it was last year in New York that I

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<v Speaker 1>think about maybe five to seven inches of rain came

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<v Speaker 1>down in a day. And some of the subways in

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<v Speaker 1>New York, which are so antiquated were built in like

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen twenties, look like it was a geyser, right,

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<v Speaker 1>So that's happening. Then they go on shaver Lake. Earlier

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<v Speaker 1>rainfall had already drenched the ground and increased runoff. There

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<v Speaker 1>have also been landslides in the shaver Lake area in

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<v Speaker 1>Fresno County in the central part of the state. So

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

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to think about California, in LA in particular,

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<v Speaker 1>what is a joke about La It never fucking rains there.

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<v Speaker 1>They are consistently and have consistently been in a drought

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<v Speaker 1>for I don't know how many fucking years at this point.

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<v Speaker 1>So the ground is super super dry. Then you have

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<v Speaker 1>these catastrophic storms that come. The ground is dry, which

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<v Speaker 1>means you would think like, oh, it just saturates and

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<v Speaker 1>that's good. No, it's too fast. It's like when I

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<v Speaker 1>allow my plants to dry out, then I go ahead

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<v Speaker 1>and warter them the same amount. Well, I actually need

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<v Speaker 1>to ward them slow of the pace of how the

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<v Speaker 1>plant floor is saturating. I can't bring down the planter

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<v Speaker 1>all at once, right, because then I overwhelmed the plant

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<v Speaker 1>and it overflows. That's exactly what is happening here. So

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<v Speaker 1>all over California, from Sacramento to San Francisco to Santa Cruz,

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<v Speaker 1>Santa Barba, Los Angeles. The pictures, folks have cars that

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<v Speaker 1>have water up to the windshield. People are literally in

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<v Speaker 1>kayaks kayaking down what used to be a street that

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<v Speaker 1>they drove down. The flash flooding is coming so quickly

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<v Speaker 1>it is literally wiping cars and people in them away.

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<v Speaker 1>The death toll is now in the dozens of people

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<v Speaker 1>in California. So in California it's rain, and in some

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<v Speaker 1>areas in the north it's snow. In Buffalo bordering in

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<v Speaker 1>Canada it was catastrophic snowstorm. All of these quote unquote

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<v Speaker 1>historic weather events, and yet we have a political party,

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<v Speaker 1>a white supremacist political halt, that wants to argue still

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<v Speaker 1>the merits of climate change as dozens of people die

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>but every hurricane that has hit Florida in the last

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<v Speaker 1>couple of years or hit Puerto Rico has been what

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<v Speaker 1>historic and catastrophic. There's only so much money to repair

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<v Speaker 1>these places because we're not having any conversations about weatherizing.

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<v Speaker 1>We're not having any conversations about mitigation, We're not having

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<v Speaker 1>any conversations about prevention. All we are doing is all

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<v Speaker 1>we've ever done. And how does that match up? How

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<v Speaker 1>does the status quo match up with historic events? It

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't fucking apply. I'm so outdone because it's like reading

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<v Speaker 1>Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. It is like watching

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<v Speaker 1>any sci fi novel put to film. All of this

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<v Speaker 1>has been predictable. As a matter of fact, all of

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<v Speaker 1>it was predicted twenty and thirty years ago. But there

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<v Speaker 1>is something about greed that has people overlook the human

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<v Speaker 1>cost and tragedy so that they can continue to drill

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<v Speaker 1>for oil, to frack the fuck out of this planet,

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<v Speaker 1>the only home that we have, and continue fucking it

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<v Speaker 1>up so that they can put money in their pockets

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<v Speaker 1>and do dick measuring competitions into outer space, where guess what,

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<v Speaker 1>We're just going to continue to transport our racism, our

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<v Speaker 1>white supremacy, our misogyny, our capitalistic thinking of extraction out

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<v Speaker 1>into outer space. Nothing's going to change. We're just going

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<v Speaker 1>to continue to ruin the only home that we have,

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<v Speaker 1>and those that can afford to postpone the devastation will

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<v Speaker 1>for the rest of us. It will be Elyseum the

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<v Speaker 1>other terrible movie, but basically lays out Earth has become

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<v Speaker 1>the fucking ghetto in terms of no access, no water,

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<v Speaker 1>systemic oppression, systemic everything, disease, all of these things. Elyseum

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<v Speaker 1>is where the wealthy live, where there's no disease and

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<v Speaker 1>there's just peace. And because they cherry picked the people

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<v Speaker 1>that they want to exist in this place. These movies

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<v Speaker 1>that were sci fi that were made back in the

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<v Speaker 1>early two thousands, and books like Octavia Butler's Parable series

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<v Speaker 1>that was written in the early nineties seems so far fetched.

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<v Speaker 1>But now we have arrived. We are watching people that

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<v Speaker 1>have massive amounts of wealth not do anything to help

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<v Speaker 1>anyone but themselves. They're not taxed in a way where

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<v Speaker 1>we could take a portion of Elon Musk's over one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and forty billion dollars amount of money that this

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<v Speaker 1>fucking man has. Imagine that actually having been taxed the

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<v Speaker 1>way that it should and being able to put that

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<v Speaker 1>money towards I don't know, a green new deal that

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<v Speaker 1>the Republicans wanted to lambass. Because God forbid. We don't

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<v Speaker 1>just deal with the ship that is the present. God forbid.

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<v Speaker 1>We look forward to the future and we think to ourselves,

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<v Speaker 1>what can we do so that future generations don't inhabit

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<v Speaker 1>a trash heap. There was a really funny song that

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<v Speaker 1>went viral in twenty twenty and it was called Earth

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<v Speaker 1>is Ghetto. I Want to Leave, And it was like

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<v Speaker 1>the catchiest fucking tune. It was put to everything Black

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<v Speaker 1>woman sang it, and it was brilliant, and you know

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<v Speaker 1>it was just this woman just sitting around waiting for

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<v Speaker 1>aliens to come because this place is ghetto. And I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think that the aliens are interested anymore because who

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<v Speaker 1>would want to come here? It's like taking over Twitter

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<v Speaker 1>after Elon Musk? Why is what is attractive about that job?

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<v Speaker 1>I you know, these are things. I know that it

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<v Speaker 1>seems crazy, but these are things that literally keep me

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<v Speaker 1>up at night, which is I just did not I

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<v Speaker 1>continue to say it, I did not think that I

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<v Speaker 1>would be this young watching the planet just combust along

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<v Speaker 1>with our political landscape, along with everything, all of these

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<v Speaker 1>systems that have been put in place, all of these ideologies,

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<v Speaker 1>all of this lies and nonsense just go up in

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<v Speaker 1>the air at the same time. That's where we're watching

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

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<v Speaker 1>there's no adaptation. How do we move with the new

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<v Speaker 1>information that we are receiving? How can we move? We're

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<v Speaker 1>in fucking gridlock because we don't even believe the same reality.

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<v Speaker 1>So how are we supposed to actually do anything to

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<v Speaker 1>make significant change? You got fucking Republicans that are still

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<v Speaker 1>talking about bringing back big call. What are you talking about?

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<v Speaker 1>Meanwhile your constituents are drowning or freezing to death. It's

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<v Speaker 1>really wild, and it's wildly terrifying because I'm not quite

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<v Speaker 1>sure as I look at these pictures and these videos

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<v Speaker 1>and listen to story after story, and I'm like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>and soon it'll be fire season, and then it'll be

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<v Speaker 1>hurricane and tornado season, and then guess what, there just

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<v Speaker 1>won't be any seasons. It'll just be this consistency. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>There was one episode what was it? Ah, it was

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<v Speaker 1>a last season of Dear White People, and they I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know why they decided to make it a musical,

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<v Speaker 1>but nonetheless they fast forward to like I think it

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<v Speaker 1>was twenty five or thirty years into the future, and

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<v Speaker 1>the two characters this is at the height of quarantine

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<v Speaker 1>and they have like these mechanical mass now that just

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<v Speaker 1>come over your face. You tap an ear and they

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<v Speaker 1>just like come up over your face, and stores and

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<v Speaker 1>buildings are set with lockdown mode whenever the air is

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<v Speaker 1>too polluted or it's raining and it's no longer normal rain,

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<v Speaker 1>it's acid rain. You are locked into wherever you happen

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<v Speaker 1>to be. If you are at a grocery store, if

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<v Speaker 1>you're at a clothing store, if you're in your home,

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<v Speaker 1>you are locked in until the air and the environment

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<v Speaker 1>is clear enough for human beings to be able to

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<v Speaker 1>go back outside, and it's to just become a part

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<v Speaker 1>of normal, everyday behavior. You just never know what's coming.

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

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<v Speaker 1>thirty years into the future. We already experienced and are

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<v Speaker 1>continue to experience a global health pandemic that at us

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<v Speaker 1>all shutter our doors and windows for three four six months,

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<v Speaker 1>and in speaking of China, three years. I just feel

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<v Speaker 1>like our leaders are not preparing for what's next. They

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<v Speaker 1>barely are dealing with the ship that is in front

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<v Speaker 1>of them, let alone preparing for what is coming. And

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<v Speaker 1>I got to tell you, folks, what is coming next

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<v Speaker 1>isn't good. And I don't see a part of the

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<v Speaker 1>country that you can safely say, oh, I'm gonna go

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<v Speaker 1>there and I'll be safe from the tornado, from the fires,

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<v Speaker 1>from the snow, hurricanes, from all of these catastrophic events.

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

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like losing five hundred people a day to

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<v Speaker 1>COVID Ah, that's just the way that it is. Every

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<v Speaker 1>time there is a major catastrophic storm, We're okay with

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<v Speaker 1>a couple dozen people dying. We should care more. What

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<v Speaker 1>this country, what this world is lacking is empathy, It's consciousness,

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<v Speaker 1>and I just without it, I think that things are

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<v Speaker 1>going to be getting far worse before they get better.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just don't know what preparation for catastrophe, historic

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<v Speaker 1>catastrophe looks like. For those of you, dear friends that

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<v Speaker 1>are listening in areas that are being hardest hit, do

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<v Speaker 1>the best that you can to stay safe, to stay protected,

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<v Speaker 1>and God willing you're able to weather out these storms.

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<v Speaker 1>You're definitely in my thoughts and I will continue to

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<v Speaker 1>lift up these conversations, hoping that they fall on listening ears.

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<v Speaker 1>That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke

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<v Speaker 1>a f as always, Power to the people and to

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<v Speaker 1>all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.