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

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned yesterday on Woke Wednesday, today's conversation with

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Speaker 1: our friend or in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, is

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Speaker 1: going to be our reflection on this week, marking the

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Speaker 1: four year anniversary since COVID was named a global health pandemic.

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Speaker 1: And what I can tell you is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I put up a couple of videos on TikTok and

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, and it is so disheartening to me some

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Speaker 1: of it. And I know that there are trolls and you know,

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Speaker 1: and all of those things, but it is so disheart

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Speaker 1: heartening to me to put up these videos that really

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Speaker 1: encourage us to reflect on this time and people respond

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Speaker 1: with like it was a hoax, it was the flu,

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Speaker 1: it was you know, it didn't matter. And I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: the distortion and the misinformation, the chosen ignorance is just

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Speaker 1: wildly disheartening. I don't know what else to say about it,

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Speaker 1: but I do know that for the rest of us,

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Speaker 1: particularly the wok F engaged wonderful audience that you are,

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Speaker 1: that we need to be reminded of the trauma that

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Speaker 1: we have gone through and continue to go through, to

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Speaker 1: reflect on what we lost and also what we gained,

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Speaker 1: right and how our lives have changed.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday that how I got started in this

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Speaker 1: comment was with my mom, who celebrated a birthday this week,

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Speaker 1: and her birthday coincides with, you know, now the shutdown

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Speaker 1: of the world and her brain surgery and all of

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Speaker 1: these things, so it's a notable time for us each

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Speaker 1: year over the last four years. And you know, so

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Speaker 1: when she was teaching yoga this week, she did exactly

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Speaker 1: what I did on the show, which was, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of have her students think about and reflect on

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Speaker 1: the last four years where they were four years ago

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, how their lives have changed. You know,

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Speaker 1: Have they given any stock to that change, right? Like,

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Speaker 1: are they asking their friends and their family how they

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Speaker 1: really are, how they have been managing, you know, or

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Speaker 1: have we just gone back to business as usual. I'm good,

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Speaker 1: things are great, you know lies and you know, and

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Speaker 1: she said that it was really powerful that folks were

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Speaker 1: really appreciative, because I think that we need to give

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Speaker 1: ourselves and each other the permission, right to publicly be

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Speaker 1: able to grieve in a lot of ways, the ways

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Speaker 1: that our lives have been turned upside down, and that

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Speaker 1: you know, many of us are looking for the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to share our truth and be vulnerable about the ways

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Speaker 1: that we are different, about the losses that we have suffered,

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Speaker 1: and about the purposeful changes that we have made, the

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Speaker 1: shifts that we have made in our lives, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I offer to all of you this coming weekend,

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Speaker 1: like reach out to your friends, your family, you know,

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Speaker 1: offer it up, you know, to ask people how they're doing. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's been four years, Like isn't it wild? Like how

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Speaker 1: have you been managing? And just see what happens. Because unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: without direct leadership from the top, giving us as a

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Speaker 1: country the opportunity to collectively grieve, which I think would

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Speaker 1: be incredibly powerful, it has been politicized. As evidence by

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Speaker 1: some of the comments that you wouldn't see because I've

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Speaker 1: my page. But to deny people the opportunity to grieve

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Speaker 1: real loss of a life, of livelihood, of stability, is

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Speaker 1: to deny each other's humanity. And that's why we're in

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Speaker 1: the predicament, the shit show that we're in right now

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Speaker 1: because of the forces at play that are working to

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Speaker 1: dismantle our humanity, our values, our shared morals. So how

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Speaker 1: do we put those pieces back together? It begins with

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Speaker 1: recognizing ourselves and each other, providing grace and space for

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Speaker 1: necessary conversation. So coming up next my conversation with our friend,

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Speaker 1: our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks, you know

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Speaker 1: that whenever we have the opportunity to speak with our

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Speaker 1: in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, I am always thrilled,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled this week honestly because Jonathan. This month

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Speaker 1: is the four year anniverse since COVID was named a

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Speaker 1: global health pandemic by the WHO, by the CDC, and

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Speaker 1: our worlds were altered in March of twenty twenty. And

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Speaker 1: what I find so troubling as I do my own

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Speaker 1: March twenty twenty was when my mother was diagnosed with

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Speaker 1: for us it is a time of like deep reflection

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Speaker 1: and gratitude. But Jonathan, what I realize as I do

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Speaker 1: my own reflections every year and my FAMI family does theirs,

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Speaker 1: that collectively, as a country, we just pretend that this

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've been thinking about this so much. I'm

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Speaker 2: so glad we're talking about it for the history of

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Speaker 2: the world, for the history of everything we know, but

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Speaker 2: also for our own history. Right, you and I started

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Speaker 2: talking as you say all these things, but you and

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Speaker 2: I started our conversations because we were like, holy crap,

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Speaker 2: what started our weekly conversations. And so it's also I

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Speaker 2: know I didn't get anything. I'm sorry, but this part

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Speaker 2: of the story is like it just feels like, and

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking of Eric Kleinenberg's new book, like the World

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Speaker 2: broke and we never put it back together is kind

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Speaker 2: of what it feels like. And so it's funny, like

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give you an example that is not

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Speaker 2: related to COVID for how I've been thinking, which is,

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Speaker 2: and I think I've talked about this for a bit.

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Speaker 2: It was like the middle of the night and I

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Speaker 2: watched Ferris Buehler's Day Off. And the crazy thing was,

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Speaker 2: here's Ferris Buehler. He hangs out with his friends. He

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Speaker 2: like ditches school, they steal the car, they go to

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Speaker 2: whole thing is the movie was made like a year

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Speaker 2: doing all this stuff, but they couldn't conceive that they

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Speaker 2: go to a payphone or something. Farris Bueler would have

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Speaker 2: happened that irreparably, irreparably changed everybody's consciousness. And now when

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Speaker 3: Just track as far right, right, right right, But nobody

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Speaker 3: you watched millions of people in the movie Dancing at Chicago,

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Speaker 3: nobody could have conceived And it's just a way that

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Speaker 2: And the other thing about Faris Bueler's Day Off, which

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Speaker 2: So it's just funny that like things happen that change

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Speaker 2: gone and there's no you know, it's funny, like think

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Speaker 2: just it's just the loss of life was so an

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Speaker 2: People feel less social, they feel less communal, they feel

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Speaker 2: there's the massive things, which are death, and then there's

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Speaker 2: how we think about things we never thought about, like

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Speaker 2: going five days to a week in the office. Of course,

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Speaker 2: yeah that's what I do and I like my colleagues

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Speaker 2: the enduring thing which I think really has profound political implications.

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Speaker 1: Also, And I think that that's right, that our perception

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Speaker 1: like you said, wouldn't have even been able to like

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Speaker 1: deep way as well. But to the perception piece about

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Speaker 1: other countries have a deeper reflection because of and people

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Speaker 1: the fact that there isn't like a moment of silence

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Speaker 1: you know, having this reflection is deeply American because we

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, and let me say three things. But the

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Speaker 2: I had one more thing to say about this. I

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Speaker 2: taught a class for a long time on COVID and society.

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Speaker 2: We started teaching it in the second midst. I spoke yeah,

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Speaker 2: the most powerful And I'll tell you in a bit.

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Speaker 2: We stopped teaching that class. It got too intense because

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Speaker 1: wild to reflect on your twenty nineteen self and today.

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Speaker 1: So I'll give you the last thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Well, just that the election really matters. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 2: kind of stating the obvious, but part of the reason

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Speaker 2: we can even have this conversation is that we had

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Speaker 2: the shadow of a functioning public health infrastructure. Trump is

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Speaker 2: now saying if they win, they're going to destroy the CDC,

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Speaker 2: They're going to end every vaccine thing, They're going to

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Speaker 2: end all this stuff, and so, you know, I would

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Speaker 2: just say that the lessons are still pretty urgent about

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Speaker 2: why the election matters and public health, it would seem

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Speaker 2: to be like on the top three of the list.

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Speaker 2: It's not for a lot of people, but it should

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Speaker 2: be because if we do away with research about how

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Speaker 2: to treat illness and public health and structure and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that, then ten years from.

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Speaker 1: Now smallpox will be back, you know, like U leo.

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Speaker 2: All these things, yep, if we've never heard of and

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Speaker 2: so and so. I just think that it really ties

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Speaker 2: into like why the reason number like nine and fifty

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Speaker 2: eight about why the election is so urgent is about

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Speaker 2: one side clearly is using the pandemic to talk about

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Speaker 2: destroying the public health infrastructure and that really can't and

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Speaker 2: healthcare infrastructure, and to me, that would lead to a

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Speaker 2: very different and much sicker country. And the other side

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Speaker 2: is saying, let's learn from this and and boost our

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Speaker 2: well being. So to me, that's a pretty straightforward choice.

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Speaker 1: As always, my friend, doctor Jonathan Metzel, appreciate you. Happy

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Speaker 1: anniversary tea four years of oh I got of conversations

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Speaker 1: on on woke at our own narrative. Really really appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. Let's keep going, everybody.

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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.