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Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Me your Girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home bunker, Folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm exhausted. I find this a week. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what to do anymore. It's so overwhelming. But it

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Speaker 1: is woke Wednesday, and there are just so many things

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Speaker 1: that I want to draw attention to. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to start with the fact that the country is literally

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Speaker 1: under a heat dome that isn't dissipating but instead expanding.

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Speaker 1: There are places across this country that are and have

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Speaker 1: been experiencing triple digit temperatures four weeks. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I did an interview that you all will here on

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Speaker 1: here next week with Danielle Kampomore who helped connect the

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Speaker 1: dots to how reproductive health is going to be impacted

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Speaker 1: by climate change. Because I think that too often when

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Speaker 1: find their way into the press, it is again a

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Speaker 1: string of quote unquote isolated and historic incidents. Right, We're

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Speaker 1: because of said heat wave, or we'll talk about wildfires,

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Speaker 1: which is what is creating the heat dome that we

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Speaker 1: worst air quality. Like, these are not things to shrug off,

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Speaker 1: you know. I was in a conversation with my mother

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Speaker 1: it's not really weird. It's our new normal. And these

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Speaker 1: are things that people need to understand, like these things

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Speaker 1: are not going away. They're actually going to get worse

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Speaker 1: with each and every passing summer and each and every

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Speaker 1: passing year because those that are in power are choosing

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Speaker 1: to absolutely ignore this problem that is screaming in our face.

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Speaker 1: Right there is no way to look at the temperatures

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Speaker 1: that are happening in places that are normally areas that

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Speaker 1: and people are just like, oh, well, folks need to

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Speaker 1: you know, run air conditioner. I told you guys this

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Speaker 1: the other day on the show I got to notice

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Speaker 1: from con ed here in New York. That's that I

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Speaker 1: think it was two weeks ago that I was running

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Speaker 1: my air conditioner, running the electricity thirty three percent higher

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Speaker 1: that I had in the prior weeks. So what does

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Speaker 1: that amount into? More electricity? More fucking money? Right, the

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Speaker 1: higher cost it is going to be in order to

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Speaker 1: live in changing temperatures. So again, folks are just like, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: people just need to get air conditioners, or oh we

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Speaker 1: to cost money that no one else is going to

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Speaker 1: this fucking ignorance that the Republican Party perpetuates is expensive, right,

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Speaker 1: Ignorance is not cheap actually, And so you have in

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Speaker 1: these places where we are going to again we're talking

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Speaker 1: the NICKU that need more attention and care as their

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Speaker 1: what are already broken down healthcare system. Like, folks, it

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Speaker 1: just behooves us to connect the goddamn dots here and

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Speaker 1: see that our elected officials choosing to be ostriches is

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Speaker 1: don't know whose body temperature can exist. As we start

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Speaker 1: to see temperatures around the world, Like I reported on

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Speaker 1: Why because of turbulence? Why because of the rising heat

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Speaker 1: I don't get how we don't haul a massive summit

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Speaker 1: endangering people's homes and property like folks. It I mean,

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Speaker 1: totally not. I want to talk about the recognition, the

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