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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen, and welcome to ook 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: it is a bittersweet that wok F is winding down.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to dedicate a solo show that you will

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Speaker 1: listen to over the holidays on my reflections over the

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Speaker 1: last seven years of helming this show and speaking and

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Speaker 1: creating an audience with all of you. But I couldn't

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Speaker 1: have done this show without the consistency of the presence

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Speaker 1: of doctor Jonathan Metzel, who for four years has shown

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Speaker 1: up each and every week to engage in conversation with me,

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Speaker 1: with all of us, and just to think about, you know,

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Speaker 1: just think about it for a moment, what we've been

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Speaker 1: through as a country over the last four years, what

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Speaker 1: you've been through personally over the last four years. It's

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Speaker 1: wild to kind of wrap your mind around. And I

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Speaker 1: have found such solace and hopefulness in the grounding conversations

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Speaker 1: that I've been able to have with Jonathan over the

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Speaker 1: last several years. And I think that his insight has

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Speaker 1: been invaluable and I have appreciated it so very much,

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Speaker 1: And it is just I can't believe that this is

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Speaker 1: our last interview on WOKF and so today we just

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Speaker 1: take some time to we're reflect on what has transpired

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Speaker 1: over the last four years, what we've learned and you know,

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Speaker 1: and give thoughts to how we move in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So I really hope that you enjoy this conversation, this

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Speaker 1: last conversation on WOKF with our friend, our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel. Uh So, folks, I am this is

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Speaker 1: this is so crazy. Uh For four years, for four years,

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Speaker 1: uh doctor, our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzl has

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Speaker 1: been in conversation on WOKF daily and today is our

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Speaker 1: wiping tears from his eyes. Is so wild to think

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Speaker 1: about the hours Jonathan, that you and I have spent

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Speaker 1: together on air. I first off just want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for all of your time, for all of your

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Speaker 1: analysis over the years, which has just been like priceless.

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Speaker 1: But I guess I want to start off with you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, think about what's happened to like our lives,

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Speaker 2: just in the world globally and personally, and so it's

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Speaker 2: great to have a consistent friendship above all else that

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Speaker 2: kind of sees you through all of these ups and

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Speaker 2: downs about elections and global shit and relationships and breakups

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Speaker 2: and everything else. Like we've become really good friends. This

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Speaker 2: love I love that part, and so that part has

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Speaker 2: it's funny to think about, like when we first started

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Speaker 2: And then about halfway through we realized, like, okay, just

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Speaker 1: We'll figure it out the microphone and we'll figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Because we just figured out that like we had, we

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Speaker 2: for me, that's that beside any like one thing. I mean,

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Speaker 2: but but but but even beyond that, we just created

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Speaker 1: bring up. But at some point we just realized, well,

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Speaker 2: Well, I think, you know, it's interesting, like I gave

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Speaker 2: We talked about this, I think last week, but that

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Speaker 2: idea that basically the opposite of to be in the

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Speaker 2: political opposition. People are just really tired and they feel

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Speaker 2: like the system's not working for them, and they feel

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Speaker 2: like it's overwhelming, and it it doesn't matter who you

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Speaker 2: vote for. Elon Musk can overturn your entire economy with

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Speaker 2: two hours of tweeting, And so it feels hopeless and

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Speaker 2: people start to check out. And I know from having

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Speaker 2: studied other places that kind of go down the path

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Speaker 2: that we are potentially going down. It's when people start

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Speaker 2: to become exhausted, they become complacent. But the other issue

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Speaker 2: is the old methods of protests and resistance are not

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Speaker 2: going to work. I mean, doing a women's march right

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Speaker 2: now is not going to work. You know, it's it's

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Speaker 2: it's we need a new strategy that is a much

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Speaker 2: more strategic strategy that involves more money, more people. And also,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if we're serious about speaking, for example, to

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Speaker 2: the interests of working class people, we can't just shout

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Speaker 2: louder about things that they already know about. We actually

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Speaker 2: need a new plate. And so you know, something's going

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Speaker 2: to emerge. I hope something. I hope something is going

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Speaker 2: to emerge, and I hope it's I hope it's a

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Speaker 2: new thing that is more on the ground and less.

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Speaker 2: You know, we won the social media a wars for

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Speaker 2: a while there, but we didn't win the convince people

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Speaker 2: that we have their best heart passengers in my mind thing,

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Speaker 2: So I think we're going to need a new playbook,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's what's emerging right now.

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Speaker 1: Are there any opportunities that you see inside of the

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Speaker 1: obstacles in front of us in this incoming administration?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people realize we're on the same side, and you

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Speaker 2: know who knows, you know who who knows? I mean again,

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Speaker 2: like when to be honest, when Trump won, I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, I got to live with this for the

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Speaker 2: next four years. I hope he does a good job.

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Speaker 2: I really do. Like it's not like I want him

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Speaker 2: to fail for four years and everything to fall apart

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Speaker 2: so that I can win some more argument. I want

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Speaker 2: the economy to do well. And then when he started

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Speaker 2: making the appointments and doing all this stuff, you know,

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Speaker 2: I thought, man, I don't know, So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, my concern is that our system is like

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Speaker 2: wanting the other side to do bad. So you can

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Speaker 2: point everybody and say, look, how shitty. They are swinging

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Speaker 2: on this pendulum, and there's some serious things at play

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Speaker 2: right now, right like getting it's easy to bluster your

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Speaker 2: way into a trade war. It's really hard to manage

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Speaker 2: and get out of a trade war, or when a

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Speaker 2: trade war. So we're blustering our way into some really

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Speaker 2: complicated stuff, and I just hope he's got like the

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Speaker 2: right brilliant minds to navigate this.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan, you have seen who he is appointing, So which

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Speaker 1: one of them is bright and brilliant?

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Speaker 2: The job of the hut? The secretary of Labor. Yeah, Now,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just saying I'm making a point,

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Speaker 2: which is that it's going to be important at some

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Speaker 2: point to have qualified people. So who knows how long

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Speaker 2: this cabinet will? You know, I was being a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit ironic, I think, So I do want to ask you.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've mentioned it a couple of times. People

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Speaker 1: are exhausted, People are finding themselves in a place of hopelessness,

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Speaker 1: and what comes with that is that people tune out.

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Speaker 1: And I think to a certain extent it is important

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Speaker 1: to tune out. I don't think that you can follow

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Speaker 1: everything that this administration is going to be doing and

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Speaker 1: your mental health stay intact, Like I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that that is going to be possible. But what

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Speaker 1: recommendations do you have for people to keep their wits

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Speaker 1: about them as the circus comes to town?

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Speaker 2: You know? Again, I think, believe it or not, Fetterman

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Speaker 2: is right about this. Pick your battles, be really strategic

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Speaker 2: about your battles. Think about the strategy of our positions.

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Speaker 2: You know, I just think we're kind of a leaderless

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Speaker 2: organization right now, and we're new a little bit of direction,

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Speaker 2: and so there's a lot of you know, are we

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Speaker 2: for or against murdering a healthcare CEO? Are we for

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Speaker 2: or against like all things? I don't know. We're just

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Speaker 2: like all over the place right now about like things

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Speaker 2: like that. So I think we're trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: like what we're about, But it's not going to be

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Speaker 2: something we know. In other words, if we yell louder.

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Speaker 2: I believe this, and all my research shows if we

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Speaker 2: yell louder about medicare for all, or if we yell

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Speaker 2: outder about common sense gun reform, it's not going to

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Speaker 2: convince more people. If we become more centrist, we lose

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Speaker 2: people on the left. So we need some kind of

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Speaker 2: thing that's not you know, that takes a reckoning, It

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Speaker 2: looks in a mirror of how we got here, and

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Speaker 2: then thinks about ways. There was a really, I thought

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Speaker 2: good article in the Atlantic about how politics is the

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Speaker 2: game of persuasion, and right is really good at persuading people,

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Speaker 2: and the left is falling into trap of kind of

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Speaker 2: moralizing people, and so we need to get back in

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Speaker 2: the persuasion game a little bit more. I just think

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Speaker 2: about in my book, for example, the one guy who said,

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Speaker 2: you think, if you just yell louder, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: know your points. But I understand your points already, and

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Speaker 2: I don't agree with them, and so we you know.

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Speaker 2: So again, I think we're gonna have to think about

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Speaker 2: our playbook, think about how to broaden our coalitions and

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Speaker 2: build from there. And then also, as much as possible,

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Speaker 2: save all the archives of our institutions that are about

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Speaker 2: to be taken apart.

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Speaker 1: All right, last thing for you is, you know what

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Speaker 1: are you most looking forward to in twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 2: My softball team is going down to Mexico. We're playing

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Speaker 2: if they'll have us, I guess from local Mexican teams.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing a lot of like different traveling and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that, and so I hope things don't implode. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: I think Vanderbilt's doing some pretty incredible things right now.

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Speaker 2: I think there are there's progress happening in a lot

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Speaker 2: of places in this country, and I just hope doesn't

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Speaker 2: get arrested stopped. I meant too much.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, my dear friend, I cannot thank you

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Speaker 1: enough for all of these years, for all of these conversations,

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Speaker 1: and I look forward to seeing you in the new year,

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Speaker 1: and you know, figuring out a way that we continue

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Speaker 1: talking because it has been that has really been an honor,

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Speaker 1: and I genuinely mean that.

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Speaker 2: Very much the same for me, And thank you to

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Speaker 2: everyone out there who followed along.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. That is it for me today, dear friends,

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Speaker 1: on woke app as always, power to the people and

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Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke.

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Speaker 1: As fun