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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I've never told to your protection of I Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: so UM as a recording this. It is November nine

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Speaker 1: and Joe Biden is the projected winner of the US election. UM,

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Speaker 1: and votes are still being counted. Our own state of

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Speaker 1: to have a personal conversation about our reaction to the

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Speaker 1: election and what we've went through. Sounds so dramatic, but

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Speaker 1: it's kind of true. Yeah, so this one's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be it's gonna be a little different. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: more conversational and more personal, UM because it high has

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Speaker 1: been a rough week and kind of churning through that

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Speaker 1: and UM having that conversation with you, all right. And

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Speaker 1: I will say it was kind of special because Annie

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Speaker 1: and I decided that because we are very much still

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Speaker 1: practicing quarantine rules and we have a small bubble of

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Speaker 1: much better. I think I kept saying that even though

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Speaker 1: both of us had different moments of like we're physically nauseous,

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Speaker 1: going through it together was really nice. So thank you Annie, Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you Samantha. Yeah, it was really nice. And Um,

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Speaker 1: when we look back, we've talked a lot about leftover

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Speaker 1: trauma from the twenties sixteen election and having that anxiety

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Speaker 1: when I came home, I this is terrible, but I

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Speaker 1: And and having somebody there to share in that those

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Speaker 1: it was nice. It was we had good I've distracted

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Speaker 1: good point. I think for me, I kept saying to

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Speaker 1: My focus is always like I need a purpose. Give

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Speaker 1: me a freaking purpose. I think I became the badgering

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Speaker 1: has been a very long and stressful week here to

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Speaker 1: it really culminated. And I know some of some of

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the impact of this is not limited to

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Speaker 1: the United States. But um, yeah, it was Saturday. The

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Speaker 1: as we record this still has not conceded. But oh,

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing is, like, we know these are

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Speaker 1: like any other election. Make sure you're registered, because they're

429
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 1: gon a purge guarantee, there's gonna be a purge. Um.

430
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: Make sure you're registered. If you want to do your absentee,

431
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: make sure you go ahead and request that absentee. I

432
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: think I want to do the early voting. I don't

433
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 1: know why, but I'm scared because of this negativity and

434
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: this whole like back and forth with the Supreme Court.

435
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna go early vote. Uh, I'm just

436
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: gonna make sure I'm still registered. I'm gonna do early voting.

437
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 1: I also want a sticker I missed. My sticker was

438
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: yeahs yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna early vote, and

439
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: I will say Fulton County has a really which is

440
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: Atlanta for those who don't know, Um, how's a really

441
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: good system because the Atlanta Hawks and all of them

442
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: decided to donate the space and time for the State

443
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: Farm Arena, which made it almost so easy to go

444
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: in and out and all of that. And we even

445
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: had the assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks being there

446
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: helping with that, so that's even more beautiful. Um. But yeah,

447
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be early voting. But uh, for those who

448
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: are asking, make sure you're registered if you and maptain

449
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: t you request it. If not, make sure you're on

450
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 1: to see the dates in the locations. Yeah, because I

451
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: was thinking about it, um, and a part of me

452
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: I was a little shocked because as you as your

453
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: listeners all know, there's only really one show I still

454
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: watch on TV, and it's Supernatural, so it's the only

455
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 1: way I see ADS and I was already seeing like

456
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: all he's add and I was like, this is too soon.

457
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: But then I thought about it. It's not that far away.

458
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: It's not January, so um, yeah, just go ahead and

459
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: take care of all that stuff, get your voting plan

460
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: as they say, Yeah, unfortunately. Yeah, Um, it was pretty cool.

461
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 1: It was one of those things where I was too

462
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: nervous to hope still, and so I had a group

463
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 1: of friends that I'm really close with. You're from Georgia,

464
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: some of them are not in George anymore, um, and

465
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: they were just texting me all kinds of stuff. I'm

466
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,719
Speaker 1: so excited, and I didn't respond because I was like,

467
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: it's no way this is gonna turn Like, right now,

468
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 1: it looks good, but something some county is going to

469
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: show up, I writ But I mean there was even

470
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: a moment when they said that there was a voter

471
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: machine out in Fulton County and they needed it, and

472
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: they didn't announce what happened. They just said they had

473
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: to recount something. And I was like, Oh, here we go.

474
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: This is where we're gonna say they're gonna duplicate something,

475
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and instead it just pushed up the

476
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: numbers for the Biden votes, which made me kind of laugh.

477
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: Not gonna lie a little bit petty there, but that

478
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 1: was the only other issue. And then we also had

479
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: one of the whole workers being dosed here as well

480
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,479
Speaker 1: because he showed him throwing out something which ended up

481
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: being just like the instruction sheets and it wasn't anything

482
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: to do with the votes, and they were able to

483
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: prove it, and they were able to say discredit that

484
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: as him thrown out of ballot, but they got docks

485
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: for it, and now they're in danger and they're in hiding,

486
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: Like this is the most absurd I thought, and I'm

487
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: I'm so sad that people who volunteered to do their

488
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: civic duty and too volunteer to help are in danger. Now. Yeah,

489
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: that's terrible. Um yeah, and it's do you get feel

490
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: especially on Saturday, Um, they were like we because Atlanta

491
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: is pretty blue. Um, so you could feel the excitement

492
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: of people in Atlanta when it was happening, and there

493
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: were fireworks outside my apartment. You could see that, Oh,

494
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: fireworks all around. And then CNN had they were in

495
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: midtown Atlanta and there was this huge celebration going on

496
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: and most peopleuring mask which was good. Yeah, everybody was

497
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: very mask uh. And we have to also talk about

498
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams and she's not the only one. We are

499
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: not fredding her with the whole thing, but she definitely

500
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: pushed with fair fied action, which I think I miss

501
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: pronounced the last episode that we talked about, I said firefight, which,

502
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: by the way, what fair fight action and what they

503
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: did in pushing to get voters registered. Uh. I will

504
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: say I've gotten the most amount of postcards, the most fortifications,

505
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: the most phone calls and texts reminding me to get

506
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: a voter planned this election and it has everything to

507
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: do and not only verified action. We're gonna talk about

508
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: other organizations that are part of it a little later down.

509
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: So if you want information how to help, I know

510
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: I've gotten some people asking me that, um. But the

511
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: many different organizations and most of them that are really

512
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: made to push it's mainly marginalized community who has been

513
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: putting in this fight. Uh, whether it's the Latin X

514
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: community or the Asian American community or even the black

515
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: community that have really pushed harder and fought real hard

516
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: UM on this. And it's been amazing because even for

517
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: Gwinnette County, which has been still counting, apparently even though

518
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: they're done, they haven't completely registered everything. Uh, there's a

519
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: big immigration community there, and UM, the a p I

520
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: organizations here have pushed to make sure that things have

521
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: been translated appropriately for them and so that their instructions

522
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: are given because that's been neglected so often that the

523
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: translations and it's all in English, which is a completely

524
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: bias obviously, UM. But communities and organizations like that have

525
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: made a push which also helped register correctly and to

526
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: be able to vote. So it's been an amazing thing

527
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: here in Atlanta. And seeing these communities come together and

528
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: fight it is a beautiful thing. Yeah, and we you

529
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: can't forget that. And of these grassroots organizations or organizations,

530
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: a lot of them run by black women specifically, who

531
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: have been working for years, years to get people registered

532
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: to vote and to make sure that they show up, UM,

533
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: and will continue to work. That is hard, never ending work,

534
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: and that is they are now in over time. Yeah, exactly. UM,

535
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: I did really appreciate. I just want to shout out

536
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: my friend Marissa, who his friend of the show has

537
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: been on the show. She sent me, I mean it's

538
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: gotta be fifth TikTok's of people's reaction to Georgia flipping

539
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: these really hilarious, Like I need a hero. It's like

540
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: George and shows up. It's really good. Did you set

541
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: the ones with the maps? I don't know, did I?

542
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: So it's like they put lips on, yes, you know,

543
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: talking to each other, Nebraska talking to Pennsylvania, not Abraska,

544
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: Nevada talking to Pennsylvania. And then all of a sudden,

545
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: Georgia comes in. Yeah, he's like, hey, y'all up. Well, yeah,

546
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: I saw the one Messa sent me, the one where

547
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: it's Stanos and he's like, fine, I'll do it myself.

548
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: Much appreciated Merissa. I don't have TikTok's I I depend

549
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: on her to send me the best ones, which she

550
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: I think she does, and I did really appreciate that.

551
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: And I know I have some friends who from Georgia

552
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: who said, you know, it's nice to see something positive

553
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: about her state when it comes to voting, which I

554
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: totally agree with. I will say, yeah, I liked several

555
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: people's tweets, and I don't ever talk about the South

556
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: and Georgia being the South and being the problem. We

557
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: were working and we've been working well. Also, was that

558
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: you should be one of uh talking about the football

559
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl where they like we blew the lead,

560
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: and I'd never bring that up again, but at least

561
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: for a little while. You can't hold us against us. Yes, yes,

562
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: so that was fun. Um. That was an unexpected, rare

563
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: glimmer of fun during all of this. UM. So we

564
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: were not together on Saturday when the winner was projected

565
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: to be Biden. So how did you react when you

566
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: found out? So Initially I sat here and just kind

567
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: of just looked at the phone because I was I

568
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: get all of my results off my phone because I'm

569
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: on streaming that works, I don't have cable here. UM.

570
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: And I didn't believe it because it was first I

571
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: think I saw it through seeing then even though they're trustworthy,

572
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: I still didn't want to be like until I hear

573
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: Fox announced it, I'm not gonna believe this. And and

574
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: then when I saw even Fox I think it was

575
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: like thirty minutes later, right who stated that there was

576
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 1: a projected winner. I just kind of sat here in shock.

577
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: Like for me, I don't react it quickly. I have

578
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: a moment of like, okay, calm and just think it through.

579
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: Is this possible? Have I been lied to? This is

580
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: a joke? What is happening? Um? And then I think

581
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: as I started reading everybody's post, everybody's tweets. Going through that,

582
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, okay, and it was literally just

583
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: being able to breathe. And that's what I felt. Nothing

584
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: else like. It wasn't like joy and over this top.

585
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: Like I didn't start screaming, I didn't do anything. I

586
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: just I just started breathing again, and that's exactly what was.

587
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: So about an hour later, I was like, oh, I'm

588
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: by myself. What do I do by myself? And even

589
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: though I wanted to kind of go out and about,

590
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: it's still just it felt like I felt exhausted, like

591
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: as if someone like I've been running for a marathon

592
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: and then just finally quit. So I was like, all right,

593
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: I live in a small like a quad plex. I

594
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: guess where I do have a few neighbors. So I

595
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: was like, anybody wants some champagne? I got some bubbles

596
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: and that was it. That's all I could do. What

597
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: about you? Uh? So I asked her. I think it

598
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: was CNN and a friend of mine had been texting

599
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: back and forth where she was. We were saying, you know,

600
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: I'll believe it when they announced it about Georgia because

601
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: all of our other friends have been celebrating, and we

602
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: were kind of more hesitant, and I happened to refresh

603
00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: the page right when we were texting, and I was like, uh,

604
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: I think it's Pennsylvania. The ad bid into the projected winter.

605
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: That that word projected made me really nervous that I

606
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: kept thinking, like, God, if I like an hour from now,

607
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: They're like, whoops, right, So I yeah. So many people

608
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: started sending me messages and they were so excited and

609
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: all these happy gifts, and I felt like I was

610
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: in uh and somebody sent me this message like I

611
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: was in the last twenty minutes of a horror movie,

612
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: where you know, it seems like the monsters dead, and

613
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: yet there are twenty minutes left, right, you know, you

614
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: know it's not all done. And that's kind of where

615
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: I still am. I feel better as the day has

616
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: gone on, and like when Biden gave his speech, which

617
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: I did not watch, by the way, I got highlights

618
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: of it, but then I I felt more Okay, it's

619
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: seems this is happening that we're all agreeing except for

620
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: the Trump campaign that he won, and so I feel

621
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: better now, but there's still a lot of uncertainty um,

622
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: and there is a part of me that worries I'm

623
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: going to look back on this very episode one day

624
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: and think, oh, you poor thing. You didn't know. It's

625
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: like I all the time I bring up with the Bantam.

626
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: Remember when we did that Hello Twenties episode. Oh jeez,

627
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: we didn't know it was coming. We were fairly wrong.

628
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: I don't know that we were wrong. We just missed

629
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: all the very big key points. Well, I guess we

630
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: didn't know at that point about the virus, right. That

631
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: didn't come into light till February. Right, Yeah, I think

632
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: they were. We heard a little bit about it, but

633
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: it was kind of just like you know, this thing

634
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: in China. I think I think we knew about it,

635
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: but not. It was at the very bottom of our radar.

636
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: In February was when we started to be like, oh wait,

637
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: something happening. Yeah, And in the end of February beginning

638
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: of March it turned to oh no. I think that's

639
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: when we came back from l A and we're like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, those cases started happening when we were there, yep.

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Speaker 1: And then I went to Canada and you went to Orlando,

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Speaker 1: and that's when everything started to be canceled everything. Everything

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Speaker 1: was being canceled. Then I was like, oh no, this

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Speaker 1: is I thought I was gonna be trapped in Canada, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Canada, I would have been happily trapped there.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Florida. I didn't want to stay there. I

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Speaker 1: love you, but not to live there. We were in

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Speaker 1: very different places. Um. And yeah, I'm really nervous about

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Speaker 1: the lame duck period. I'm really nervous about the damage

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Speaker 1: that has been done and it could still be done. Um.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's really changed the precedent. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: bold and white supremacist. I think that Trump supporters will

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Speaker 1: be violent and threatening in the coming weeks and months.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and as we've seen, as they're doing account

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Speaker 1: it wasn't even uh projected or it wasn't even called

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Speaker 1: from many states. They were standing there with guns. I

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00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: know there was two arrests for threats and they've been

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Speaker 1: there with guns. That's the part that blows my mind

659
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Speaker 1: is that, well, we know why, we know why this

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Speaker 1: is being allowed, and we know why it's not become

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Speaker 1: a bigger issue, which I love the rhetoric, which is say, look,

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Speaker 1: you know we're protesting, and I say, we um, there's

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Speaker 1: protests here and there's no rioting or looting, And I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: that's also because you didn't get gased or bombed or

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Speaker 1: pushed back or arrested. So which is interesting because the

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Speaker 1: other protests none of them really had guns. But yet

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Speaker 1: we're pushed back like that and you are illegally on

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Speaker 1: public or government property with guns, which is absolutely against

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Speaker 1: the law, and nothing's being done. So there is not

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Speaker 1: necessarily that they are being peaceful, it's just the reaction

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Speaker 1: is very different, UM, And so I think that's a

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Speaker 1: whole big conversation in itself, and that's what scares me

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Speaker 1: is that what we've already seen it happen and nothing's

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Speaker 1: being done. We saw the caravan that went and try

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Speaker 1: to push a bus off of the road and nothing

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00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: was done. So these are the conversations that we have,

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Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of fear because of the reactions

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Speaker 1: and protests and not because of what's being done in reaction.

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Speaker 1: I think that makes sense, and yeah, that absolutely has

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Speaker 1: me feutiful. And the continued rhetoric of pushing back, calls

681
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: to arms, um, calls to all of these different antics

682
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: that are not being questioned as high as as as

683
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: much as it should be, because it feels like now

684
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: that we're here, the Democrats are still saying, do this

685
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: middle ground instead of change, And that's also something that

686
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: I'm afraid of, and I think AOC has been calling

687
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: that out very quickly, like quick quit doing this, because

688
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: for some reason, John Kasick is given credit for Biden's win,

689
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: Like the Democratic Party the Platform has been giving John

690
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Speaker 1: Kasick the credit for being able to get the election

691
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Speaker 1: instead of the many marginalized communities who come together with

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Speaker 1: funding and advocacy and the grassroots campaigns being credited for it.

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Speaker 1: And so it's really ugly that that that they are

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Speaker 1: not acknowledging who should be acknowledged. And I think that

695
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: needs to be called out very quickly because this white

696
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: man did not win it. Sorry sorry, He was a

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00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: cute little whatever background dancer, sure, but he was not

698
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Speaker 1: the forefront of what was happening. Just because he made

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Speaker 1: a couple of speeches does not mean he won something

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Speaker 1: for anyone else. So I think that's part of my

701
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Speaker 1: fear as well. It's like, what do we do in

702
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: making sure a that history does not rewrite itself into

703
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: seeing how and who won this election, be that we

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Speaker 1: do protect the community and don't sleep on the fact

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Speaker 1: that there are extremists out there who are willing to

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00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: go to violent, violent extremes to take what they think

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00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: is there or what they think have been in justice,

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00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: which is absolutely ridiculous. And see, do we actually see change, yeah, yeah,

709
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: and holding them accountable for that change, yeah, yeah, because

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Speaker 1: it's going to be tough with all the good luck.

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Speaker 1: Um And I kept thinking, I was really struck by

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Speaker 1: how this whole thing reminds me of an abusive relationship

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00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: of like the gas lighting and the lies and the

714
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: threats and their erosion of trust in yourself and reality

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Speaker 1: because it's kind of it's kind of how I feel

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00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: right now of like, like you said, it's a bad

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Speaker 1: breakup or just it's not even that I don't trust

718
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: Trump in his campaign, which I absolutely don't. I almost

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00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: don't trust myself to be a good judge of reality anymore.

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Speaker 1: And that that is like long lasting damage and the

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Speaker 1: stuff we're going to have to face. UM. I did

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Speaker 1: want to end on some positive things and then we

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Speaker 1: do have listener me on this one. It was really

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Speaker 1: cool to see people over the world and the United

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Speaker 1: States celebrating I love everybody who dressed up as mailboxes here.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite clips currently is of those two

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Speaker 1: mailboxes like grinding against each other. That was so funny. Um,

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Speaker 1: that was really nice. I like I said, it was

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Speaker 1: really cool to see my friends, a lot of them

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Speaker 1: who haven't been politically active, get really into it and

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Speaker 1: being involved and like what goalties are flipping and um,

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Speaker 1: they were texting me about Stacey abrooms. Um, and it

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Speaker 1: was cool that Georgia was so close and potentially I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping they I'll say it soon even though they'll be

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Speaker 1: a reek out potentially did flip um. And I love

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Speaker 1: that so many people texted me simply yub nub, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, part of our to get earness was

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Speaker 1: to watch that e Walks movie. That. Yeah, I would

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Speaker 1: say it was better than the holiday special. Oh that's

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00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: not saying much. It was pretty bad. It was pretty bad,

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00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: but it was enjoyable. But yeah, for anyone who doesn't know,

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00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 1: yep nub is like the little Walker Cree song they

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00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: sing at the end of Return of the Jedi, the

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00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: original non edited version, when the empire is defeated. She

745
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: was very upset by the remake of that. I am.

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00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I got so angry about it. Is there

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00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: any other hopeful thing you want to add before we

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00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: get to some listener mail. No, yeah, I think just

749
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: make sure you keep being involved. Let's not let this

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00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: momentum die. We gotta keep pushing, we gotta keep fighting.

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00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: And yeah, again we have to hold the people we

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00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: elected accountable. And again also we need to re uh

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00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: readjust and read look at some of the voting tactics

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00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: and policies at this point. But yeah, yeah, um, and

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00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: don't forget there are other elections, not just presidential wants,

756
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: so keep up, keep up to date on that. Um.

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00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: But yes, we did want to read some listenermail. But

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Speaker 1: first we have one more quick break for a word

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Speaker 1: from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you sponsor. Uh

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Speaker 1: And we are back with a letter from Joe. Joe wrote,

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Speaker 1: I just finished listening to your your Election Stress Disorder episode,

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Speaker 1: and I had to write in I'm an immigrant in Canada,

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Speaker 1: but I'm also feeling the stress of the U. S. Election.

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Speaker 1: I have a pH d in biology, and many friends

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Speaker 1: from my grad times have moved to the States to

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Speaker 1: do postox our professorships. My heart is with you all,

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you. I wanted to write in to share

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Speaker 1: what I've been doing to keep stress at a decent level.

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Speaker 1: My first one is that I'm running my first half

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Speaker 1: marathon this Saturday. That means I'm tapering, running much less

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Speaker 1: than usual to give my body time to heal before

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Speaker 1: race day this week, and jittery because I want to

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Speaker 1: go outside for a run and I can't sigh. That

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Speaker 1: takes me to my second stress reliever and the one

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Speaker 1: I've been relying on the most, cross stitching. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to find a full time job since

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the pandemic. I moved with my partner

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Speaker 1: across the country in March for his post doc, and

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Speaker 1: cross stitch has been my sanity savers since then. I've

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Speaker 1: been stitching since I was seven, but I took a

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Speaker 1: long break in my twenties. This year I figured out

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy not just stitching, but also designing my

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Speaker 1: own stuff. I opened a little Etsy shop and I've

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Speaker 1: been sharing my patterns there. I do science skiki stuff,

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Speaker 1: and I have a large section dedicated to what I

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Speaker 1: call side pride science supporting Pride. I'm attaching a couple

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Speaker 1: of picks of my favorite stitches and here's my aunt

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Speaker 1: stuff you want to see more Instagram dot com, slash

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Speaker 1: cross stitch geek. Love the podcast and keep up the

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Speaker 1: amazing work. I'm rooting for the best in the United States. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much, and yes, definitely go check out

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Speaker 1: the Instagram the pictures you sent or amazing Joe, I

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Speaker 1: love them. I definitely really am like a tempted. And

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Speaker 1: also I went down a very fun rabbit hole of

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Speaker 1: like I want a geeky nerdy candle. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I used all my candles when the power went

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Speaker 1: out and also during Halloween for the pumpkin, so I

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Speaker 1: in the market for candles, that might as well be

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Speaker 1: in the market for candles, which is fair. Which is fair? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I I might have to get a pattern questitch. They're

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Speaker 1: awesome for me. I might have to do it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're really awesome. And thank you for the kind words

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Speaker 1: and for thinking of us during this very stressful election time. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then Teresa wrote, I write academic horror analysis with

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Speaker 1: some friends of mine and since you both love horror movies,

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Speaker 1: I thought I did invite you to check out our site.

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Speaker 1: We're called What Sleeps Beneath Based on what you guys

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Speaker 1: takes on ginger snaps and the Exorcism of Emily Rose.

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Speaker 1: Your episode on Supernatural minstrual horror was awesome and his

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Speaker 1: right in line with the research project that we're working

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Speaker 1: on for conference at the end of November called Rural

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Speaker 1: Gothic Women in Folk Horror. If you have a moment

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Speaker 1: working on anything cool. Listeners were happy to share it,

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Speaker 1: so Sinda, we love it, um and we wanted to

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Speaker 1: add that listener to Lauren. She reached out on Instagram

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Speaker 1: asking how to help with the Senate runolfs. As you know,

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Speaker 1: we have to run als which could decide the majority

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Speaker 1: of the Senate. I'm so crazy. So right now we

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Speaker 1: have John Auso versus David Purdue UM and Reverend Raphael

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Speaker 1: Warnock versus Kelly Loffler. So those are big things that

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Speaker 1: look at and I know people who have asked, as

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Speaker 1: Lauren has asked, since she's not a Georgia resident, UM,

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Speaker 1: what she can do to help. So we thought we

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Speaker 1: would just put a few organizations that have been a

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Speaker 1: huge part of why our state has turned blue, including

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Speaker 1: we already talked about Fair Fight Action, which is fair

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Speaker 1: Fight dot org um. And then also Georgia Muslim Voter

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Speaker 1: Project which is g A m v P dot org,

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Speaker 1: Asian Americans Advancing Justice which is Advancing Justice dash Atlanta

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Speaker 1: dot org. Black Folks Matter which is Black Folks Matter

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Speaker 1: Fund dot org New Georgia Project. You can just look

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Speaker 1: L EO dot org, which is Latin X Organization UM

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Speaker 1: that has helped as well. And then Latino Community Fund

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Speaker 1: Georgia which is lc F Georgia dot org. Asian American

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Speaker 1: Advocacy Fund, which is Asian American Advocacy Fund dot org.

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Speaker 1: And of course you can follow Red were in Raphael

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