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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome to Steffane. Never told

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Speaker 1: you a prodiction by hur Radio.

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Speaker 2: So y'all, we need a break. We needed a break,

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Speaker 2: We've been needing breaks. So we're gonna take a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a break. So with our conversation of what

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Speaker 2: is happening with immigrants, ICE and DHS, things will bleak.

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Speaker 2: Thingsville heavy, Things fell dark. So we're going to pivot

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Speaker 2: a little bit and go away from that conversation. We'll

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Speaker 2: be back, but we're going to talk about what's happening

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Speaker 2: in today's politics, like immigration issues and how it's affecting

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Speaker 2: women such as an anxiety and stress, and why it's

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Speaker 2: important to take breaks. Yeah, it's a been on the nose,

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Speaker 2: but again, everybody's got to take a break. Also, Happy

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Speaker 2: Gallentines if you're listening today on February thirteenth, twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Six, Friday the thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: I know I was about to say that if you

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Speaker 2: also celebrate that happy Friday, I know you do. What

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Speaker 2: are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: I watch a lot of horror movies on Friday the thirteenth,

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Speaker 1: and one of my best friends is coming over, and

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Speaker 1: so is the Galentine's Day and a Friday the thirteenth, So.

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Speaker 2: What a good time are you going to watch Friday

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Speaker 2: the thirteenth?

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Speaker 3: Probably not.

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Speaker 1: I know this is controversial in the horror world, but

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Speaker 1: that's not one of my faves.

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Speaker 3: I do either.

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Speaker 1: I do like there's a really the one with Crispin

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Speaker 1: you're talking about slasher movies and the anticipation of kills

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Speaker 1: and what will it be? What will finally kill them?

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Speaker 1: Because you know they're going to die. There's some good

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Speaker 1: moments like that the Friday the Thirteenth series, and you

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Speaker 1: know you've got like Escape to New York, which is

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Speaker 1: objectively a very bad movie, but it has like funny,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. I'm gonna get in trouble. I

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Speaker 1: got in trouble when I was on the Daily Zeitgeist

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Speaker 3: Like that franchise over there.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I if you like it, I appreciate appreciate

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Speaker 1: that you do. I just gave a very big thumbs

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Speaker 2: Is this her opinion is my judgment on you.

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Speaker 1: I do like the twist at the end of the

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Speaker 1: first one, even though it is kind of problematic, but

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Speaker 1: I liked it. There are things I liked.

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Speaker 2: But generally though, no, that's not I don't. I'm not

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Speaker 2: of you. No, I think I was what I was

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Speaker 2: the Staples, and I'm just not into gore, violent horror movies.

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Speaker 2: I like the Ghosts even though they are violent, don't

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Speaker 2: a little more like the Haunting, the Hauntings. We've not

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Speaker 2: hear the updates of how You're gallantined Friday the thirteenth goes,

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Speaker 2: content warning because we are going to talk a lot

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Speaker 2: about current affairs still and unfortunately we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: I don't know if there is an upside, but you know,

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the downside thus far, especially

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about it. We the marginalized community are

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Speaker 2: We're not going to talk all about it. You should

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Speaker 2: definitely go read that article if you have the stomach

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Speaker 2: and I think it's important. So they start off with

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Speaker 2: a section that is titled threats to women in the workplace,

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Speaker 2: which is vast. So decapping of the Equal Employment Opportunity

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Speaker 2: Commission or the EEOC, that's a big one. The EEOC

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Speaker 2: was an independent federal agency and they write it like this.

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Speaker 2: They are the front lines of civil rights enforcement, investigating

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Speaker 2: stop discrimination by compensating workers who have been wronged. And

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Speaker 2: it has been proven that they have been wronged. And

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Speaker 2: Oh poor them. And now the EEOC is being used

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Speaker 2: this again is from the miss magazine article. They missed

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Speaker 2: that President Trump has a personal vendetta against With new

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Speaker 1: Interesting, the EEOC has also taken steps back and preventing

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Speaker 2: Really important, we see all those white men being discriminated against. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Moving on, So, they are looking to withdraw the Pregnant

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what once was a federal crime to use force,

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Speaker 1: Yet Trump's Department of Justice announced in its first days

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Speaker 1: YEP, makes sense when it comes to reproductive issues, it

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Speaker 2: Look, I have made a plan. Did not already tell

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Speaker 2: of pressure, like to the fact that we are having

435
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 2: large skill research for those who can about how this

436
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 2: is affecting us. So, yeah, with all of these bad things,

437
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: what can we do to give ourselves a bit of reprieve? Well,

438
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: the first thing to know is that as bad as

439
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: things are, this isn't the first time we've been here. Unfortunately,

440
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 2: we've talked about this. We hate this moment, but it's

441
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: good to note that we've been here before and the

442
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 2: majority of people are feeling overwhelmed, and that means that

443
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 2: there are a majority of people who disagree with what

444
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 2: is happening here, like that's the bigger picture. Like all

445
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 2: of these conversations, as bad as affecting everyone as a whole,

446
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 2: everyone as a whole are on similar lines. So that's

447
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 2: kind of comforting. There are so many good people who

448
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 2: are fighting, fighting with everything they have to undo what

449
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 2: is going on. One creator that I saw in my FYP,

450
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 2: which was at first I was like, I'm going to

451
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 2: scroll away because it seems very religious, I'm not sure

452
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 2: or spiritual, but she was talking about the pains, how

453
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 2: this is the pains of undoing all the damage. The

454
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 2: proverbial light at the end of the darkness apparently like

455
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: the fire cleansing to make it pear again. Yeah. I know,

456
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 2: it's a lot of metaphors. You're welcome, but it gives

457
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 2: a lot of hope because we do talk about having

458
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 2: to go through the struggle to get to the good,

459
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 2: to get to the nice, we have to have that drama.

460
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but apparently we do. And that

461
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 2: does give me a little hope that the more the

462
00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 2: darkness pressures, the more the light pushes back.

463
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 3: Can I do it? I know a star Wars always

464
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 3: go for it.

465
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: Yes, Well, I think this is actually relevant because a

466
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: lot of people are using it in videos about dark

467
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: times we're in. But at the end of the Clone

468
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: Wars the series, Obi Wan gives this speech and it's

469
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: very sad. It's like, these are dark times, this is

470
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: real bad, like oh god, and he's.

471
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 3: Like going over all of it.

472
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: But then at the end he's like, you know, we're

473
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: still there's still like there's still hope and all of

474
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: this stuff, what does that bring you to a new hope?

475
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: The movie and it's great, it is great, and then

476
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: you get the.

477
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 2: More movies to get there. Then apparently some sequels.

478
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: I mean, this is cyclical.

479
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 2: But the thing is, yes, it does remind us that

480
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: it is cyclical, as we've talked about, and we are

481
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 2: back and we know we know little more than we

482
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 2: did before, and that's kind of that conversation. We understand

483
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,719
Speaker 2: and we know a little more than we did before.

484
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: I mean, we were seeing kids stand up against authoritarianism,

485
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: finding real hard physically like kids calm down, but I

486
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 2: understand it. We see beautiful performances that bring people together

487
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 2: in celebration. Hello, bad Bunny. Did you watch that?

488
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 3: Yes?

489
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: And it was funny because I was planning on watching

490
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: it the next day. I wasn't watching the game, but

491
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: I had a friend who I don't know why, but

492
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: she was like, can you tell me what the score is?

493
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: And so I went on and it happened to be halftime,

494
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: so I got to watch it live and then I left.

495
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was It was a nice, fun surprise.

496
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: I was like, oh.

497
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not that sports have anything to do with it,

498
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: but the Seahawks winning made me feel a little better

499
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 2: as well.

500
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I wanted them to win.

501
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't most people who didn't have like

502
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: loyalties and the teams.

503
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't like the Patriots. I don't have

504
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: a lot of opinions about a lot of football teams.

505
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 3: But then I haven't liked for a long and a.

506
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: Lot of people do, like a lot of people do.

507
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: Like I said, seeing Seahawks meen seeing a woman owner,

508
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: like getting to celebrate seeing that one woman who wasn't

509
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: the owner I thought was an own owner, but like

510
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 2: having a show this is impeach and they they kept

511
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: showing it. I was like, yeah, like you like, this

512
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: is wonderful, but yeah, it does bring you a lot

513
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: of happiness and seeing all these things. I think we've

514
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: talked about that before. How when we see all this,

515
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: we see people rise up to take on this type

516
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: of battle, and that they are the people we get

517
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 2: to celebrate. Maybe we are a part of those people.

518
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: Hopefully one day in noting like that we were on

519
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 2: the right side of history, Like that's getting that's understanding,

520
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 2: Like okay, yes, eventually, cross your fingers. There has to

521
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 2: be a resolution. What that resolution looks like, we don't know,

522
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 2: but we know people are fighting. Though the current administration

523
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: seems to be trying to burn everything to the ground,

524
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 2: we've also seen the rise of new place, new people

525
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 2: stepping up. Mamdani for example, during our New Years, we

526
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: watched the New Year's celebration on a streaming network because

527
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 2: I don't have any cable whatever what not. So we

528
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: were like, oh, let's try to look at and we'll

529
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 2: do our little champagne heres avoiding all of the riddle

530
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 2: bullets as are being strown about in our neighborhood. And

531
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 2: it popped into immediately into Mumdani's uh inauguration. It brought

532
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 2: me so much hope there was I cried, I don't

533
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 2: live in New York to do with us here in Atlanta,

534
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: But because of what he represents for the younger generations

535
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 2: coming in doing some amazing things like he have you

536
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: read the latest about the fact that, yes, the Trump

537
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: administration tried to take down the Pride flag from Stonewall,

538
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 2: but Mumdannie's like, screw you, I'm putting it back. This

539
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: is my city. And I'm like, oh my god.

540
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

541
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: So seeing people like him stepping forward, we had a

542
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: lot of Democrats, socialists coming up on like small city

543
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: boards and some more. Love that. I love seeing changes

544
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 2: like that, So really excited to see that and having

545
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: that type of transformation happening where we're seeing and undoing

546
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,959
Speaker 2: of a two party system kind of with better systems,

547
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 2: hopefully some worse but also better. Yeah, we are naming

548
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 2: the bad guys out loud. I know, as gross as

549
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: everything is going, but we're starting to see the truth

550
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 2: behind all these well we thought were conspiracies, but it

551
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 2: turns out to be it was just flipped. Yeah, some

552
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: of them, not all of them. Some of them are

553
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 2: as this, but a lot of those like oh, they

554
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: were inside their own house, like they were looking at mirrors,

555
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 2: pointing fingers, trying to deflect. Okay, okay, And with that

556
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: the victims unfortunately not some not by choice, which is

557
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 2: something that we need to come back and talk about.

558
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 2: But they're coming out, reclaiming their livelihoods, standing and gregaining

559
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: their strength to face some of those horrible people and perpetrators.

560
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 2: Did you get to see the ad about the Epstein

561
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: file with the survivors?

562
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: No?

563
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so it actually popped up for us. A lot

564
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: of people online I've seen saying like this was taken down.

565
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: No one saw this, No one saw this, but someone

566
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 2: bought space to allow for about like several of the

567
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: Epstein survivors to come forward and have a conversation about

568
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 2: how they're being ignored or how they're being docs like

569
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 2: all these things, or how they're being censored. I actually

570
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 2: did see the ad. I was watching on the Peacocks

571
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: streaming network from the Super Bowl, so I don't know,

572
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: not a sponsor BT dubs. I don't know if it

573
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: was just through streaming and it wasn't through live TV, because,

574
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 2: like I said, a lot of people said they didn't

575
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 2: see it. I saw also with the AI ones. But

576
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: but it was really interesting to see because I think

577
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 2: that that was such an important conversation and I was

578
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 2: glad to see it, and I know a lot of

579
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 2: people stream it, so hopefully they got to see it too.

580
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean shout out to whoever made that happen,

581
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: because the Super Bowl ad space, as we know, is expensive.

582
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 2: And all that to say, some are being accountable. We're

583
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 2: seeing like a lot of musicians taking big stands. I

584
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 2: love that people being removed. Of course, I say accountable

585
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,919
Speaker 2: money wise, but they're already established. I don't see any

586
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 2: arrests except for Clinton's and I'm like, yes, they need

587
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 2: to be arrested if they did illegal deeds, so does

588
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 2: everybody else.

589
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.

590
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 2: And it's also like this is one of those and

591
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 2: going on, we'll see what happens becau because I think

592
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 2: tides have really turned in that conversation. They've tried to

593
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 2: hide and ignore it for a long time. Of course,

594
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 2: we're hearing a lot of conspiracy stuff and I wish

595
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 2: I would stop because that just blurries the blurs the lines,

596
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 2: as well as people trying to mock it. I've seen

597
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 2: apparently a couple of companies or a company of like

598
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 2: small businesses using epstein list to talk about their food

599
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 2: or coffees do that.

600
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: Why would you want to be associated with it.

601
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: Rage made now could be and it's working to a

602
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 2: certain extent. Then there's yeah, I know there's a lot

603
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: of disinformation and misinformation as we talked about, there's a

604
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 2: lot of truth again that is coming out too, and

605
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 2: we can finally see after years of just hearing conspiracies

606
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 2: or just playing out lies, we as a nation are

607
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 2: watching and realizing the truth versus what was being fed

608
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: to us once upon a time by controlled media. And

609
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: I say these big terms in like, please don't think

610
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 2: I'm talking about all the conspiracies, because there's a lot.

611
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: But we know with the access to social media, there's

612
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 2: a lot of this information. But there's also a lot

613
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 2: of things that are coming up that we got to see.

614
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 2: I'm getting a lot of stuff from South Korea news,

615
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: German news, I'm getting lots from the UK Australia being

616
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 2: able to tell us what they are hearing and seeing

617
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 2: versus what we are seeing in the US, and I

618
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 2: think that's really important, and that brings up a lot

619
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 2: of conversation about them being able to hide things as much.

620
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,720
Speaker 2: So that's great to note, Like social media has really

621
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 2: changed how we see things in both good and bad

622
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 2: and though it can't be stressful. It's good to know

623
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: some are seeing this stuff for the first time and

624
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 2: having a reaction and having to unlearn some things and

625
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 2: finding some truths some things. So it's interesting, Like I've

626
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: seen a lot of content and I have this like

627
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 2: pettiness in me that really bothers me. At the same

628
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 2: time that I get I'm glad that when they come

629
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 2: back like I was wrong. I voted for this, but

630
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was going to affect me like this,

631
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 2: and that selfishness makes me angry. But at the same time,

632
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 2: we need that turn. We need those turns, so we

633
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: can't scare them away, even though I want to yell

634
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 2: at them.

635
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: No, I understand that it's difficult. It's difficult because it's like,

636
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: well we I think that's part of the problem too,

637
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: though it's like the news you consume.

638
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 3: But I was like, we've been saying it, this is

639
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 3: what they've been saying, this is what.

640
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: And now you're like, oh, you're right, but you don't

641
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: want to say you're right. You just said I just

642
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 2: didn't know. Like instead of taking a responsibility, you're like,

643
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: yeah you did, Yeah, you did. Just take responsibility, and

644
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 2: there are some who are doing that. We're seeing podcasters

645
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 2: who influenced the elections very hard come out and be

646
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 2: like I didn't know. I'm like, told you did, Yeah,

647
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 2: now you did, you did. You just hoped that they

648
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: were not going to be this bad and you just

649
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 2: didn't realize how hard it was going to affect you.

650
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Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, we don't want to be

652
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Speaker 2: We don't want them to take it back. We want

653
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Speaker 2: them to keep on this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah's tricky. S and L did a sketch on.

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Speaker 2: This that was so perfect it was also alarming because

656
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Speaker 2: it was a little too on the nose again. Yeah,

657
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: oh so Yeah, there's a lot of things. So with

658
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: that as a reminder, self care, the real kind, not

659
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 2: soar bought capitalistic ideas, which we've talked about a little bit,

660
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 2: is resistance. So we want to take some time to

661
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 2: talk about some of the things that we can do,

662
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: some of the practical things that we are told, and

663
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 2: also just kind of like mental health practices not a lot. Again,

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Speaker 2: we're not doctors, we're not psychologists. I am a social worker,

665
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 2: so I have a small bit of information, not a lot,

666
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 2: and we're not trying to tell you you need to

667
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: do these things. Don't go to a doctor. Gou what

668
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: psycho like. If you can afford therapy, therapy is wonderful,

669
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Speaker 2: find a good one.

670
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 3: Find a good one, find a good one, follow through.

671
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but these are some things outside of that that

672
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Speaker 2: might be of help. And here's a bit of advice

673
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Speaker 2: that Anxiety and Depression Association of America says that we

674
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Speaker 2: can do when it comes to post election and political

675
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 2: related stress and anxiety. Essentially, we can practice accepting the discomfort. Now,

676
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 2: let's clarify. I'm not accepting what's happening. We're not giving up,

677
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: but we're accepting what has happened and moving forward like that.

678
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 2: It is here, it is, That's where we are. This

679
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 2: is where the laws are, this is where the lit lines.

680
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 2: If we can prevent it, this is where we are.

681
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 2: And they want to talk about these types of bills.

682
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 2: We need to call our senators. That's something we can do.

683
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 2: That's controlling it. But to live in anxiety and fear

684
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: of not being able to control it makes you unravel

685
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 2: very quickly inspiral, so we don't want that. Instead, understand, Okay,

686
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 2: this is where we're at. This is the reality of it,

687
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 2: which is for immigration issues, ICE is happening. However, they're

688
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 2: talking about taking some of the funds away. That's important.

689
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 2: That's something we can do. So we can call our

690
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: our senators, we can call our people representatives, tell them

691
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 2: to stop. The tension centers are happening. What the hell.

692
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 2: But we have senators and state representative who understand this

693
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 2: is really bad and the community doesn't want it. We

694
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: can call those people. We can go to these meetings.

695
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 2: That is something that we can do so we can

696
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 2: accept this discomfort of how everything is not great. But

697
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Speaker 2: these are steps that we can do that it's applicable,

698
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Speaker 2: that helps us move forward. Yes, I think it's very important.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 1: It is, And here's some advice from calm dot com

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00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,760
Speaker 1: about how to worry a bit less. Also, not a sponsor, Yes,

702
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: not a sponsor. Take a break from social media and

703
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: the news. Focus on what you can control, such as

704
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 1: positive action, meditation. You know that we love it here.

705
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: We've been meaning to get Eves back in for another episode. Yes,

706
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: share with others who you trust, but don't spiral, and

707
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: do fun activities like walking, reading, working.

708
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 2: Out, writing fan fiction. Gallantines with horror movies.

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00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, And I have to say, said, friends,

710
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: I told you about this. I didn't tell you it

711
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: was her, but I think you can guess what is.

712
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 1: But anyway, she recently came over and she was spiraling

713
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: about politics, and we had to have like a I

714
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: know it's bad. I know it's bad. I can't say

715
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: it's not bad, but I like having that friend, like

716
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: the friendship of yeah, it's also nice. That's also something

717
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: you can lean on in times.

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00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. And even though we are not parents and

719
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 2: we've already told you why, kind of harshly, it was

720
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 2: like people don't not choosing to be parents. We know

721
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 2: we do have parents on here and the data line

722
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 2: seed dot com actually wrote some things for parents. This

723
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Speaker 2: was in relations to COVID and being in lockdown with children.

724
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Speaker 2: But I feel like it's really good for this time

725
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 2: as well, especially when everybody feels like it's frantic and

726
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: you are stressing out on a different level. They say,

727
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 2: remember for you, specifically, if you have children who are antsy,

728
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 2: what makes your kids antsy and panicked, whether it's being

729
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: overstimulated or under Knowing how your child reacts will help

730
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: both you and them because if you can prevent things,

731
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 2: that is key to so many things. But I'm sure

732
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Speaker 2: for parenting as well. Playful parenting what they say, helping

733
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Speaker 2: with their mood and yours. It's okay to be playful

734
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: and fun. Sometimes it feels gross in like these times.

735
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 2: I talked about this in my Happy Hour episode and

736
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 2: being like I am going to be dancing. It feels

737
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 2: weird that that's what I'm gonna put my energy in

738
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Speaker 2: for half my for part of my week. But I

739
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 2: need this and it's okay. It's okay to need to

740
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Speaker 2: be relieve the stress. And same thing with playful parenting,

741
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 2: whether it's taking your child out enjoying things, whether it's

742
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 2: going to park, explaining a little money if you if

743
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 2: you can afford it to do activities like, that's okay

744
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 2: and it's great for both of y'all unless it's too

745
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 2: stressful and you can take them out, reunderstand, but like

746
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 2: maybe staying at home and doing fun, cooking things together

747
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: without making too much of a mess, but things that

748
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 2: you know that you enjoy and they enjoy as well.

749
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 2: They also haven't made a great point of not letting

750
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 2: the unknown scare you, and I feel like this was

751
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 2: just for everyone, not just the parents. And I feel like, yeah,

752
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 2: this is actually really good advice. They write, quote, it's

753
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 2: tempting to jump on the bandwagon of calling this chapter

754
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 2: of our lives uncertain times, which again was relevant for

755
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 2: pandemic and now because frankly they are, And she writes,

756
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: I detest the message that phrase suggests. However, it's as

757
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: if it's saying we know nothing instead of we're just

758
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 2: generally uncertain, like they're saying, Okay, it's not that we

759
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 2: don't know, so that we don't know right now, like

760
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: things are not quite clear, but we know of things,

761
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 2: We know things, how things are going, and we know

762
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 2: people are doing things. She goes on to say, take

763
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 2: back control of your mental health by not buying into

764
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 2: catchphrases or anything else that causes undoing anxiety. So just

765
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 2: living alone and like this is so bad. Like we

766
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: say uncertain times, they're like testing in uncertain times. A

767
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: lot on here, But it does feel like an impending

768
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 2: doom sometimes the way we hear it, and we shouldn't.

769
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 2: It's a better understanding and knowing that at this moment,

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00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 2: as bleak as some things may be, you are in

771
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Speaker 2: your house or your workplace or wherever you are at

772
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 2: that moment, you are doing whatever that you have to

773
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 2: do for us. We're right now in our space recording,

774
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 2: letting you know the good and the bad, and in

775
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 2: this moment, we are going forward with the next moments,

776
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: ready to handle what's coming up. And even if we

777
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 2: don't feel like we can handle it, we will. Yeah,

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00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: I mean inevitabay we have to. And when we pass that,

779
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 2: we can look back and see how well did we do,

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00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 2: how not well did we do, and kind of prepare

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00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 2: for the next steps. And I think that's so much

782
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 2: to that, and not allowing for all of the negativity

783
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: and negative phrases to get us, which is oftentimes used

784
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 2: as fear mongering. We know this, So I think that

785
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 2: was really good ideas in that conversation. Yeah, there's a lot,

786
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 2: but just again, remember it's not hopeless. It's not hopeless.

787
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 2: We just have to take some deep breaths and take

788
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 2: some good action and take minutes for ourselves.

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00:45:54,360 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's it's interesting to me that when Trump

790
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: was first elected in twenty sixteen, I put a sign

791
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: on my door that says this is not normal, and

792
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: so things wouldn't be normalized, right, and then the pandemic happened,

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00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: so I left to sign up, and then Trump was

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00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: elected again and I left the sign up. This has

795
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: been there for years, but it is a good reminder

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00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: when I see it of like, okay, because it feels

797
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: like they're trying to normalize all of these things. I'm like, no,

798
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: this is really really not normal. Do not let it

799
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: become normal if you can, whatever you can do to

800
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: prevent it from becoming normal. So I think having a

801
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: reminder too like this. Hopefully, listeners, when you listen to this,

802
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: it's the reminder of, yeah, this is not normal. We

803
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: have put people before as have put so much work

804
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: into fighting what's happening now, and people right now are

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00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: doing it too.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's not hopeless.

807
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: No, no, no, but definitely take time for yourself.

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Speaker 3: Take time for yourself.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And we would love to hear from you. What are

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Speaker 1: your thoughts about this, listeners? What are you doing uh

812
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: to take that time for yourself? You can email us

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