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Speaker 2: Hey everybody, it's Native Lampod and before we get started today,

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Speaker 2: The last day to vote is Friday, so just going

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Speaker 2: ahead and do it today. Right after that, car your

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Speaker 2: member of Congress and tell them to get their lives together.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 4: Welcome home.

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Speaker 5: Y'all.

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Speaker 2: This is episode sixty five of Native Lamp Pod. I

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Speaker 2: just got on my louting gear because somebody's losing the government.

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Speaker 4: Y'all want to guess who I am?

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Speaker 6: Hello, Elon musk.

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Speaker 4: Ding Ding ding ding Ding or maybe on one of

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Speaker 4: his programs that gave it away. Wow, Andrew.

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Speaker 2: I'm not doing racial anything you, especially in Black History Month.

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Speaker 4: This is our This is our first Black History Month.

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Speaker 7: Episode blackeded Black Black.

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Speaker 4: If you don't count my live pod from yesterday.

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Speaker 2: But happy Black History Month while the white people is

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Speaker 2: looting and stealing things out the federal government.

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Speaker 4: So, speaking of which, what are you talking about today, y'all?

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Speaker 6: Wydeed, we got to talk about the federal government. We

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Speaker 6: heard a lot of y'all's comments asking us the thievery

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Speaker 6: and the federal government and the proposal to a lot

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Speaker 6: of federal workers that they take these early buyouts and

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Speaker 6: what the implication for that is, not only for the

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Speaker 6: workers themselves, but society writ large.

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Speaker 1: That's right and exclamation mark the black middle class that

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Speaker 1: has been born into the DMV thanks to early careers

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Speaker 1: at the government doing excellent work in an excellent way.

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Speaker 8: Because why they earned it?

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Speaker 4: How about that they did earn it?

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Speaker 2: And speaking of did earn it, what we did earn

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Speaker 2: is a huge fight on our hands because of the

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Speaker 2: folks who chose to let the couch win in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four and also for the folks who chose to

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Speaker 2: vote for the other side despite everybody telling you exactly

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Speaker 2: what it was gonna be. We didn't need a crystal ball.

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Speaker 2: We had twenty sixteen to go through twenty twenty to

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Speaker 2: look into what Donald Trump was going to do. So

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Speaker 2: we are going to talk about what this fight means,

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Speaker 2: how we bring the fight to the feds, and what

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Speaker 2: role we all play, what does it mean to play

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Speaker 2: our position in this day and age while they are

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Speaker 2: looting treasury, trying to get rid of leases at GSA, etcetera, etcetera.

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Speaker 2: So so that is our rundown for today, and it's

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Speaker 2: a very very special episode. We don't have cost to action,

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Speaker 2: but we have a special tribute for someone very special.

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Speaker 4: Welcome home, y'all. Let's get into it.

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Speaker 2: All right, Andrew, So this was yours that we were

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Speaker 2: going to talk about these What was happening? What's happening

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Speaker 2: with the federal government employees they're being offered to, you know,

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Speaker 2: please go home, resign because Elon Musk wants to treat

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Speaker 2: the federal government like X formerly known as Twitter.

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Speaker 4: So what's up with this?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, it's wild.

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Speaker 1: Angela and Tiffany, and Tiffany, you and I can can

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Speaker 1: co do this one because I know DC is resident

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Speaker 1: everywhere you go, you're running into federal employees. I can

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Speaker 1: you're at USAA AID USAID and you were called out

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Speaker 8: Down on that.

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Speaker 1: I could imagine you feeling in some ways devastated, But

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Speaker 1: I just want to let you know what I was

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Speaker 1: told alone time ago. Check the source. Elon Musk is

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Speaker 1: that Elon Musk grew up and apartheid South Africa. When

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Speaker 1: So his exposure to us is through that lens, and

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Speaker 1: unfortunately for him and all of his privilege, he's actually

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Speaker 1: be surprised, none of us, that they want to now

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Speaker 1: now approaching the closing days for federal employees' ability to

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Speaker 1: accept the offer that's been made by Elon Musk, supported

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Speaker 1: by his vice president Donald Trump, and it essentially said

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Speaker 1: that we encourage you to leave the government. And this email,

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Speaker 1: by the way, we sent to two million federal employees

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Speaker 1: email two million employees of the federal government offering them

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to depart from the government. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: if you choose this option, you can go and you

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Speaker 1: can work from home, and you can take leave, and

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Speaker 1: we'll pay you all the way to September. Now, y'all,

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Speaker 1: there are lots of reasons to raise an eyebrow to

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Speaker 1: this kind of an offer. One, if the man is

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Speaker 1: getting triple, double, quadruple, you name it, benefits from it.

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Speaker 1: But more importantly, y'all, we got to see this for

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Speaker 1: what it is. This is their attempt to hollow out

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Speaker 1: the government and the government employees who in DC they

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Speaker 8: People of color, black folk very specifically, who.

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Speaker 1: Have gotten out of their place, have somehow been able

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Speaker 1: to navigate this government work committed years, decades in some

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Speaker 1: cases for folks to get where you are, only to

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Speaker 1: that you didn't earn it. I want you to hear

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Speaker 1: Senator Tim Kaine and hear his advice to federal employees,

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Speaker 10: My advice to you today is simple, even if it's

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Speaker 10: not easy. Don't give up. Don't give up. Keep serving

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Speaker 10: every day folks. You are here because of your expertise.

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Speaker 10: You are here because of your patriotism. You are here

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Speaker 10: because you know the value in dedicating your life to

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Speaker 10: serving your fellow Americans.

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Speaker 8: America needs you.

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Speaker 10: Donald Trump and cronies are determined to do anything they

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Speaker 10: can to knock you off. Course, they've even dangled a

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Speaker 10: phony buyout in your face. But make no mistake, that

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Speaker 10: buyout is a trap. Donald Trump has no authority to

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Speaker 10: offer you a resignation buyout. Don't trust a guy with

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Speaker 8: Yeah, just so that was again.

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Speaker 1: Senator Tim came from the state of Virginia, United States

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Speaker 1: Senator and one of the distinction I want to point

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Speaker 1: out here real quick is that this offer that Elon

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Speaker 1: it came under his ownership. I mean, they had to

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Speaker 1: much the same communication that was sent to clear out

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Speaker 1: senator is warning you that this may be a sham

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Speaker 1: deal is because the federal government is really just getting

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Speaker 1: into the business of buyouts. The Clinton administration had to

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Speaker 1: up to twenty five thousand dollars for a buyout. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: And it is right now contestable and there will be

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Speaker 2: I just really quick and tif, I don't won't talk long.

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Speaker 2: So senators him came represents Virginia. As Andrew said, Virginia

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Speaker 2: So if they agreed to separate from the government, they

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Speaker 2: And even for the folks who went back to Capitol Hill,

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Speaker 2: And so you forfeit that opportunity by doing this.

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Speaker 4: The other thing that we.

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Speaker 2: Should I want to throw into the mix here for

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Speaker 2: I think all of this is horrible, it's not fair.

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Speaker 2: People aren't necessarily thinking about consulting with their attorneys because

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Speaker 6: There, well, I think Angela can attest to this. It's

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Speaker 6: When President Obama was in office, I mean, DC to

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Speaker 11: I love you guys.

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Speaker 12: This is Charlene here.

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Speaker 1: Shock value of their actions because right now, every day

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Speaker 1: they get on TV, every day they wake up, every

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Speaker 1: time Trump must tweet. Whatever they do, their intention is

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Speaker 1: to overwhelm us by their sheer force and will that

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Speaker 1: they don't give us about any of the rules of

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Speaker 1: the game. And the truth is, y'all, my frustration has

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Speaker 1: so much been about the fact that the system seems

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Speaker 1: not to be able to reinforce its own rules. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, if it's illegal for Elon Must to go

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Speaker 1: in and occupy the treasuries back in system to have

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Speaker 1: access to information about every single American in this country,

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Speaker 1: our most private, our most protected information, if he can

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Speaker 1: do that, and the only thing we can hear from

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Speaker 1: members of Congress.

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Speaker 8: Is that's flatly illegal.

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Speaker 1: But he still got access to the system, and it's

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Speaker 1: still doing whatever he wants to do. It seems that

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Speaker 1: the systems fail safe, ain't catching nothing. The feil safe

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Speaker 1: is not a fel safe at all. And if I

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Speaker 1: were to, I think all of us have been in

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Speaker 1: a bit of a malaise after the election. Some of

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Speaker 1: it disbelief, a lot of it disappointment and hurt, some

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Speaker 1: of it blame around who's responsible for what and why

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Speaker 1: we lost. Some of it is denial that we even lost,

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Speaker 1: and something is still amiss in the system, and all

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Speaker 1: of that is fine, but I think we've had a

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Speaker 1: really hard time pivoting off of that devastation to believing

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Speaker 1: what they actually said to us when they ran. And

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Speaker 1: now my question is did any of the Democrats who

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Speaker 1: went out and caped for the Democratic ticket believe what

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Speaker 1: we were telling the voters. Did we believe that this

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Speaker 1: man was a threat to democracy, that we believed Project

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five was their blueprint and they intended to

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Speaker 1: implement it. Because if we believed it, it seems to

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Speaker 1: me the time between the transitions should have been on

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Speaker 1: how it is that we have a game plan that

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Speaker 1: catches them at every single step of the way. And

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Speaker 1: I got to admit Angela and Tiffany this week was

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Speaker 1: the first time I feel like I saw Democrats stiffen

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Speaker 1: a spine a little bit. The protests over at three

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Speaker 1: of our departments in Washington, DC, led by members of

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Speaker 1: Congress and attended by hundreds thousands of people, And then

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Speaker 1: I saw Senator Brian Schatz say I am going to

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Speaker 1: shut down all confirmations for any appointments at the United

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Speaker 1: States Department of State until the money for USAA is reinforced.

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Speaker 8: He can do that.

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Speaker 1: I gave you an example last week of the Republican example,

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Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberville, of holding up all military appointments, and he

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Speaker 1: did it for months on end.

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Speaker 8: So shacks on the Democratic side.

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Speaker 7: You know what, this is not business as usual.

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Speaker 1: We're not confirming people to the State Department until the

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Speaker 1: State Department relinquishes its control over an agency that was

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Speaker 1: established by the United States Congress and appropriated their budget

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Speaker 1: by the US Congress. Your job is to push send

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Speaker 1: on the check. That's it at this stage, because it's

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Speaker 1: been signed and passed into law. So the resistance can't

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Speaker 1: just be However, at congressional levels, we need mayors, we

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Speaker 1: need community leaders, we need school board members. There are

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Speaker 1: over a half a dozen, maybe two dozen Republican congressional

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Speaker 1: seats that are in compromised districts that can go Democratic.

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Speaker 1: There are to be strategies the Democratic Party locally in

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Speaker 1: each one of those congressional districts, be holding town hall

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Speaker 1: meetings and activating every time that Republican member votes against

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Speaker 1: their district's interests. Those are just some examples of ways

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Speaker 1: that we can engage. But it's not just one level

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Speaker 1: of engagement.

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Speaker 8: We got to.

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Speaker 1: Drill down if we're trying to have the kind of

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Speaker 1: impact that we know we need.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Andrew, first of all, I just think it's really

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Speaker 6: helpful insight to have both you guys, because Angela your

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Speaker 6: work in government mostly I know you've worked across several sectors,

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Speaker 6: but it's mostly been on the federal side. And Andrew,

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Speaker 6: your expertise, even though you've obviously dealt with federal government

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Speaker 6: as well, has been on the local side. So I

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Speaker 6: think this is really insightful information for not only our

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Speaker 6: audience but elected officials. I will tell you, guys, I

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Speaker 6: am a bit concern because it is how do you

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Speaker 6: fight this? You brought up Elon Musk. We talked about

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Speaker 6: him at the beginning of the show, and I'm thinking

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Speaker 6: about his multiple, multiple tentacles and across business, and I

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Speaker 6: do I feel like Congress is a bit feckless. Must

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Speaker 6: Rocket companies they effectively dictate the NASA schedule, now, the

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Speaker 6: DoD the Department of Defense, they depend on Musk technologies

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Speaker 6: to get most of its satellites in orbit. His companies

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Speaker 6: have three billion dollars across nearly one hundred different contracts

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Speaker 6: with seventeen different federal agencies, some of them that he's

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Speaker 6: trying to dismantle. His companies have been targeted and at

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Speaker 6: least twenty recent investigations, including the safety over his Tesla cars.

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Speaker 6: Anytime I call for a car and it's a Tesla,

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Speaker 6: I cancel. And in this new role, he'll have the

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Speaker 6: power to recommend wide ranging cuts, which he has been doing.

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Speaker 6: And it's we're essentially giving the world's richest man, a

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Speaker 6: government contractor, the ability to regulate the regulators who would

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Speaker 6: hold him accountable for any of these things. It is

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Speaker 6: overwhelming to combat. It's overwhelming to combat that. And so

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Speaker 6: when you guys, when I hear you guys, That's why

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Speaker 6: I wanted to start by saying, it's so effective to

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Speaker 6: hear you talk about it, I have to tell you.

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Speaker 6: For me, when people start talking to me about mid terms,

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Speaker 6: they start talking about Congress, they start talking about the

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Speaker 6: Democrats gonna do. I don't. I'm not even in it.

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Speaker 6: The we I'm talking about is our community. And I

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Speaker 6: think a lot of people want to know what do

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Speaker 6: lay people do if I'm not you know, a politician.

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Speaker 6: If I'm sitting here watching this happen, what do we do?

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Speaker 6: My thought has always been, we have to give people

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Speaker 6: something to believe in again, because so many people are

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Speaker 6: checked out, and I don't know how we get people

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Speaker 6: to pay attention before it's too late, because we're going

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Speaker 6: to see tangible, palpable things happen that are going to

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Speaker 6: devastate all Americans, but us first. It's gonna devastate Black

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Speaker 6: folks first, and it's gonna hurt us the hardest. And

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Speaker 6: so I think if we, you know, we try to

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Speaker 6: do the best we can here at Native lampod with

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Speaker 6: informing people. We had a call and you know, we

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Speaker 6: were all complaining and Michael Harriet, who you know is

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Speaker 6: a writer and is a great journalist, he had a

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Speaker 6: really good point that made me so outraged, and I

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Speaker 6: want to share it. I wanted to share it like

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Speaker 6: it was my own original thought, but it's not. It

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Speaker 6: was Michael Harriet's. But he was basically talking about after

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Speaker 6: white folks have stolen so much from Black people, including

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Speaker 6: our labor, our culture, our ideas across the board, they're

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Speaker 6: stealing your money right now, they are taking money from

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Speaker 6: U HBCUs they taking money from you. Alphas omegas aka Dela,

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Speaker 6: They taking money from you to give it to Delta

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Speaker 6: Delta Kai or whatever. They shutting y'all down, Black folks

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Speaker 6: who depend on a range of services. They taking money

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Speaker 6: from you to fill the pockets of people who don't

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Speaker 6: even need it. They are enriching themselves. And to me,

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Speaker 6: even that simple enough message is enough to outrage people

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Speaker 6: from the bottom up. I think when Democrats start talking

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Speaker 6: about policy, and you know, it gets when you start

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Speaker 6: incorporating complicated government language. People in the two now and

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Speaker 6: they're already pissed off. We have amazing leaders like Congressmen

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Speaker 6: Ayana Presley who we know and love, congress Woman Jasmine Crockett,

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Speaker 6: who have the ability to speak very plainly and make

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Speaker 6: it digestible. But I just think a lot of people

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Speaker 6: feel outraged or they feel despondent, and they want to

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Speaker 6: know what to do with it. And I'm just am

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Speaker 6: curious you all's perspective. What do you say to those people?

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Speaker 6: The people who might not they might not have capacity

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Speaker 6: to call Congress eight hundred times, maybe once or twice

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Speaker 6: a week, but like, they are pissed now and they

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Speaker 6: want to take it to the streets. I don't know

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Speaker 6: if marches is the thing. I don't know if blocking

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Speaker 6: traffic on the four or five is the thing. Maybe

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Speaker 6: I don't know. But do y'all have any thoughts about that.

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Speaker 4: I think that you brought up Congressman and Pressle. I

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Speaker 4: think we should go to her.

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Speaker 2: But what I will say is everybody's role isn't the same,

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Speaker 2: and so you play your position. So here is Congressmoman

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Speaker 2: and Pressley playing her position at a rally. And I

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Speaker 2: do want to give credit where credit is due. These

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Speaker 2: rallies and convenience have been organized by move On and Indivisible,

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Speaker 2: and the members of Congress showed up to play their

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Speaker 2: position in front of the Department of Treasury yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Let's go ahead roll there.

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Speaker 14: As a pod member of the Committee on Overside, I'm

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Speaker 14: here for some real.

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Speaker 15: Time congressional oversight. This is an unprecedented moment, a constitutional crisis.

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Speaker 4: But we will match their energy.

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Speaker 15: With unprecedented organizing, marbiligy, mobilizing, agitating. We will see you

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Speaker 15: in the courts and Congress and the streets.

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Speaker 14: Elon Musk is a not seen not BA baby, a godless,

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Speaker 14: lawless billionaire hello, would elected any law. This is the

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Speaker 14: American people.

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Speaker 7: This is not your trashy.

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Speaker 14: Cyber truck that you can just dismantle.

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Speaker 16: The part and so up.

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Speaker 17: And I want to say to Republican colleagues.

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Speaker 4: At senship.

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Speaker 6: Will here to say in the hopes that you will.

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Speaker 15: See the light, but if you do not see the light,

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Speaker 15: we will bring the fire.

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Speaker 6: I got goose bumps.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was so powerful.

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Speaker 2: And I think that as frustrating as it is to

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Speaker 2: have to stop pause for a moment to figure out

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Speaker 2: the approach, it's clear that there has not been a consistent,

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Speaker 2: cohesive approach. We know that there has been a lot

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Speaker 2: of internal within the Democratic Party. Hell even just this

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Speaker 2: past weekend with these elections, many people don't even know

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Speaker 2: who Ken Martin is, the new DNC chair.

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Speaker 4: What is his strategy?

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Speaker 2: Is he working with Democratic leadership in the House or

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Speaker 2: the Senate to come up with an approach. Why aren't

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Speaker 2: they sitting in on the House floor saying it won't

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Speaker 2: be another damn bill that passes until you get this

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Speaker 2: dude under control. The Senate side, it won't be another

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Speaker 2: nomination that nobody will get confirmed until you do right

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Speaker 2: by your taxpayers. There is a clear to me approach

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Speaker 2: that is about putting your body on the line in

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Speaker 2: ways where most of our members have already had to

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Speaker 2: do that. We have some brand new elected senators. Every

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Speaker 2: time I think about Lisa Lisa Blunt Rochester, the first

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Speaker 2: image I have of her is her praying feverishly on

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Speaker 2: January sixth, and now she's got to do this all

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Speaker 2: over again. The insurrection looks different, but it is an

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Speaker 2: insurrection no less. And so we have to be clear

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Speaker 2: about what is our collective call call.

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Speaker 4: Our first call is to unify. It is to get

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Speaker 4: on the same page.

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Speaker 2: Whether you are a Republican, Democrat, independent, a libertarian, whatever,

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Speaker 2: you should want to protect your hard earned money.

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Speaker 4: You should want to protect your taxpayer dollars.

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Speaker 2: Did you sign up to pay for Elon Musk six

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Speaker 2: coders to come in and have full, unfettered access to

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Speaker 2: the Treasury payment systems?

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Speaker 4: Probably not, regardless of your party.

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Speaker 2: And so I think at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: we have to look at the fact we don't have

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Speaker 2: the executive branch. The executive branch is now run by

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Speaker 2: an oligarchy. It's a monarchy, it's all type of it's

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Speaker 2: a problem We don't have the legislative branch, but we

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Speaker 2: have places.

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Speaker 4: Andrew rays such a good point. We have places where

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Speaker 4: we can lean in those Republican members who just barely

658
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Speaker 4: won in mostly blue districts. Who are those people? We

659
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Speaker 4: should be putting them up on our social media.

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Speaker 2: Blow them up, let them know you're going to be

661
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Speaker 2: right there at every town hall meeting, at every public

662
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Speaker 2: appearance in their district, letting them know that if they.

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Speaker 4: Don't sign up to protect democracy, this is gonna be

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Speaker 4: their last term.

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Speaker 2: Hell, it might be all of our last term. But

666
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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. We do have the judicial brands,

667
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: use it. There are a number, there are even Ronald

668
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: Reagan appointed judges, confirmed judges who are stopping Donald Trump

669
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Speaker 2: because it's too far. So we have got to utilize

670
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Speaker 2: every single tool because guess what, y'all, Just like democracy

671
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 2: is fragile, so are the tools. So if we don't

672
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Speaker 2: immediately use what we have at our disposal, we're gonna

673
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Speaker 2: be in trouble.

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Speaker 6: Well, we talked a bit about Andrews actually kicking you.

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Speaker 8: I just, I just I would say a man, and

676
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Speaker 8: then give it back.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Well I'm giving it back to you. I'm passing

678
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Speaker 6: the mike to you because we were talking about this

679
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Speaker 6: a little bit before we record on our conversation, and

680
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Speaker 6: we talked about the buyers remorse that some people are having.

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Speaker 6: Now Angela just made I think a really good point,

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Speaker 6: a challenging point for us to accept, but a point

683
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 6: about friendly fire, you know, because you don't like twenty

684
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Speaker 6: five percent of what somebody said, like you, you know,

685
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 6: we're cut off, or you think, well, your community voted

686
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Speaker 6: overwhelmingly for this. So I'm not gonna help and I'm

687
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 6: not gonna share in your outrage. I'm a wait till

688
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 6: it comes to me. And I do think we have

689
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Speaker 6: to set that aside on some level. You know, we

690
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Speaker 6: this week Donald Trump and and Prime Minister Netanyah who

691
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Speaker 6: wasn't was in town and just what they have planned

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Speaker 6: for Gaza. It's basically an intention to displace one point

693
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Speaker 6: eight million people Palestinians who call Gaza home, and Trump

694
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Speaker 6: has described it as turning it into the Riviera of

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Speaker 6: the Middle East. There's no solid plan on what this

696
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Speaker 6: looks like. There's no he said, you know, well, we

697
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Speaker 6: have to go to other countries with humanitarian efforts and

698
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Speaker 6: see if the Palatinians can live there. There's no plan

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Speaker 6: on how to do that. But also it's not even

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Speaker 6: your place to do that. It's just so awful. And

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Speaker 6: so we talked, Okay, well let's let's play the clip

702
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Speaker 6: and then I'll pick up on the other side.

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Speaker 7: It is illegal, yeah, illegal.

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Speaker 18: I would like to see Jordan, I'd like to see

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Speaker 18: Egypt take some look. The Gaza thing has not worked.

706
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Speaker 18: It's never worked. And I feel very differently about Gaza

707
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Speaker 18: than a lot of people. I think they should get

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Speaker 18: a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land and we get

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Speaker 18: some people to put up the money to build it

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Speaker 18: and make it nice and make it habitable. And I

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Speaker 18: don't know how they could want to stay. It's it's

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Speaker 18: it's a demolition side.

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Speaker 1: Not amounts of forcibly displacing those people from Godzas.

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Speaker 9: I don't think so.

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Speaker 18: I think if they had the opportunity, they'd love it,

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Speaker 18: if they had an alternative together. They have no alternative

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Speaker 18: right now. I mean they're there because they have no alternative.

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Speaker 9: What do they have?

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Speaker 18: It is a big pile of rubble right now. I mean,

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Speaker 18: have you seen the pictures of it? Have you been there?

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Speaker 18: It's to live? Who can live like that and very dangerous.

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Speaker 18: A shooting all over the place is bombing all over

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Speaker 18: the place on both sides. No, I would think if

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Speaker 18: they had an option of moving to an either in

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Speaker 18: a large group or various smaller groups and take care

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Speaker 18: of the close to two million people, I would think

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Speaker 18: that they would be thrilled.

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Speaker 1: This is exhibit A listeners of why you do not

729
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Speaker 1: want to take history out of public education. But also

730
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Speaker 1: the ridiculous man's comments were completely void of the fact

731
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Speaker 1: that the Palestinian people who he's talking about redeveloping and

732
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Speaker 1: making the riviera, have been occupied in my brisk land.

733
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Speaker 1: And the greater is the greater. What we now know

734
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Speaker 1: today is Israel for centuries. This is their land, and

735
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Speaker 1: people who don't understand have no appreciation for history, and

736
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Speaker 1: a people's who could say something that's flagrant as we'll

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Speaker 1: put them away, you know, cinem elsewhere.

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Speaker 7: No, da da dah.

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Speaker 8: This is not going to work. Who the hell are

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Speaker 8: you let.

741
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Speaker 1: Me say this Palestine, the Gaza is sovereign territory. Sovereign

742
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Speaker 1: you If anybody across the country, across the world listened

743
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Speaker 1: to Trump, Yet at that press conference, they could only

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Speaker 1: conclude one thing, and that is that the United States

745
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Speaker 1: of America is now a rogue nation, a rogue nation

746
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Speaker 1: who does not conform to international norms, treaties, and laws.

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Speaker 6: We stand alone on the global stage.

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Speaker 8: As a well.

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Speaker 1: No, we got good company going down there with Maduro, right,

750
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Speaker 1: hang out over there with Poop Kim Jung Ouh's got

751
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Speaker 1: a place for you, right.

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Speaker 7: Those are the kinds of.

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Speaker 1: People who we are now lining up side by side

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Speaker 1: with holding hands because they are also despots, just like

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Speaker 1: the despot that we have as president of the United States.

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Speaker 1: What is what, Tiffany, to your question around what do

757
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Speaker 1: we do with those folks who we know, communities who

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Speaker 1: we know could have performed differently in the life.

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Speaker 6: Like some of the Palestinians and their protest vote.

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Speaker 1: It could all look different, right, I would have to say,

761
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Speaker 1: not only, we're not burying the hatchet here. What we're

762
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Speaker 1: saying is is that divided, none of us will be

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Speaker 1: able to stand divided, none of us. We're all fodder.

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Speaker 1: We're all food on the plate for them to devour.

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Speaker 1: So in this moment we got to come together. But

766
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Speaker 1: but but but know this, I need you to remember

767
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Speaker 1: that I'm coming to have your back right now. And

768
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Speaker 1: I need this to inform you and the folks who

769
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Speaker 1: you have influence over the next cycle, because we've got

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Speaker 1: congressional races and this and that and go down the list.

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Speaker 1: But this is not a carte blanche live and let live.

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Speaker 1: This is I'm with you on this. But let me

773
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Speaker 1: tell you this much. I need you to remember this moment.

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Speaker 1: Sketch it in your brain, on your heart, and in

775
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Speaker 1: your hand so that the next cycle you're not sitting

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Speaker 1: out here post selection with your regrets and stay homes

777
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Why because you saw

778
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Speaker 1: the bigger picture and recognized that this is a formula

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Speaker 1: that we just have to work to our advantage and

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Speaker 1: we will creep along and make progress as we can.

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Speaker 6: You got, Angela.

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Speaker 2: I just have to so I'm I'm for you know.

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Speaker 2: I was on the pre production call. I'm for unity.

784
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 2: I just got to get something off my chest. And

785
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Speaker 2: I've been doing really good and not cussing on this podcast,

786
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 2: but I'm telling you now I'm about to cuss.

787
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Speaker 4: So please bleep it. Where the fuck is Jill Stein's

788
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 4: bitch ass? Where is Jill Stein? Because my question is

789
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Speaker 4: you had all of this.

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Speaker 2: Iire and fire for what was happening with the Palestinian people,

791
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 2: as you should have. Your dumb ass got on a

792
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Speaker 2: podcast and called me a a black face in a

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Speaker 2: high place.

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Speaker 4: You had all of.

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Speaker 2: This smoke for Kamala Harris, and you still ain't said

796
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Speaker 2: a goddamn thing about Donald Trump or this administration. Meanwhile,

797
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: he's done exactly what Jared Kushner said he was going

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Speaker 2: to do, which is to have a plan to develop

799
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Speaker 2: this area so it's beachfront property. And these people are

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Speaker 2: still suffering, and you are silent. You are complicit with

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Speaker 2: this man.

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Speaker 4: Now, I'm not even trying.

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Speaker 2: To come at all of the people who voted for her,

804
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Speaker 2: who stayed at home, which also I'm very, very frustrated by.

805
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Speaker 2: But I want to be so clear about the fact

806
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 2: that this is the problem. If a motherfucker comes around

807
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 2: every four years, well all kinds of shit, but they

808
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 2: can't protest when your money is getting hijacked, Federal dollars

809
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 2: are being frozen. American people still can't afford these damn eggs,

810
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Speaker 2: and you're silent. Be clear about who they are. Don't

811
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Speaker 2: you ever come at me again. My work's be for itself.

812
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 2: Whether we're in cycle or out of cycle. Don't you ever,

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Speaker 2: God damn come for me again now to unity you

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Speaker 2: and it why I just got to get ahead. I

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Speaker 2: just am saying you, guys, I know now we have

816
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Speaker 2: to move forward. We cannot sit and I told you so,

817
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: because that I told you so puts us in the

818
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Speaker 2: very harm tip that you talked about.

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Speaker 4: We, our people can't afford.

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Speaker 2: To sit on the sidelines and be harmed, because to

821
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: your point, our people will be harmed first. So my

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Speaker 2: question is, if the other side strategy is to steal,

823
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Speaker 2: to kill, to destroy, just like the devil, what is

824
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: our strategy to counter that?

825
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 4: What is our.

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Speaker 2: Strategy not only to respond, but to prepare so that

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Speaker 2: we're not on our heels the next time this is coming.

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Speaker 2: We've got to figure out how to not let the

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Speaker 2: perfect be the enemy of the good. We just got

830
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Speaker 2: to and I hate to continue to talk about harm

831
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Speaker 2: mitigation and harm reduction and our votes. We should get

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Speaker 2: abundance and winover re vote because of all that we've

833
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Speaker 2: given to this country.

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Speaker 4: That's exhausting. But also here we are.

835
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Speaker 2: I definitely don't want to be coming from going from

836
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Speaker 2: trauma to trauma. Yeah, you know, like this ain't it either,

837
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Speaker 2: So we gotta figure it out.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate the question. I say this because I think

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Speaker 6: this is something you were hitting on Andrew about, you know, unity.

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Speaker 6: And I think Black women in particular have been great

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00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 6: organizers because when we organize, we do it for the

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00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 6: greater good of community. And I understand black women that

843
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 6: y'all are tired, because I'm tired. We tied. You know,

844
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Speaker 6: we a is tired of the bullshit like we are tired.

845
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Speaker 6: But the country benefits from us saving ourselves. We're not

846
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Speaker 6: out here trying to die as sickophants for our country

847
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 6: who still causes us harm. We are out here saving ourselves.

848
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Speaker 6: We're saving our husbands, our sons, our daughters, our families,

849
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Speaker 6: our parents, our grandchildren, the future generations of us who

850
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 6: have yet to be born. And sometimes that is going

851
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 6: to cause us to dip into a cause because we

852
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 6: are trying to stop the train from running us over.

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Speaker 6: And if it's fifteen people in front of me, I

854
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 6: need to stop the train from running you over, because

855
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 6: after that train knocked you down, it's coming for me.

856
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 6: And I think we have to change. I get it.

857
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 6: We pissed off, We pissed off. After the election, we

858
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 6: looking at everybody like we ninety two percent, what the

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00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 6: fuck were y'all doing? You know, we get that you

860
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 6: showed up. Did you get into your group chat and

861
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 6: bring your mama, your cousins, your auntie? Did y'all do

862
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 6: it like we've been doing this forever? Like how many

863
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 6: times did we have to do it for y'all to

864
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Speaker 6: get the message. Kim Blackwell made the point we got

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Speaker 6: to talk to white women now. And when I say

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Speaker 6: we got to talk to white women, that does not

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Speaker 6: include Yeah, that is not my ministry in it. I'm

868
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 6: not good for that. That's not Angela's ministry. That's not

869
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Speaker 6: good for that. It might not be Andrew's ministry. And

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Speaker 6: we don't know.

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Speaker 7: Look, I ain't talking.

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Speaker 1: All I'm saying is when you do show up at

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Speaker 1: the meeting, and now we're all in emergency mode because

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Speaker 1: you're coming down your street or your.

875
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 7: Block on your way, I'm gonna we're gonna be there.

876
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, We're gonna be there for the

877
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Speaker 1: fight that impacts us collectively. We will be there for

878
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: the fights that impact us collectively, but you will be

879
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: called to the carpet. We're going to remember in this

880
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: moment that remember how you feel right now?

881
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Speaker 6: Right, Well, I just I just want to I just

882
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 6: want to finish the other point about it's not just

883
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Speaker 6: white women, because there's also the Latino community, you know,

884
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 6: and that we don't talk a lot about because white

885
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 6: run newsrooms still center white folks, but the Latino community

886
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 6: is very disaggregated, you know, different countries of origin, different philosophies,

887
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 6: but they splintered heavily towards Republicans. Somebody got to talk

888
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 6: to that ain't my my ministry either. I'm quicker to

889
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 6: do that before I could could with white women, but

890
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 6: I don't know enough. I'm a guest of the community,

891
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,399
Speaker 6: not a member of it. So y'all need to talk

892
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 6: amongst yourselves and we will do what Weekend Palestinians with

893
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 6: their protest vote. Somebody got to talk to Palestinian people

894
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 6: like we really do have to take on the Fred

895
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 6: Hampton approach. Poor white folks. Somebody got to talk the

896
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 6: poor white folks. That ain't my ministry, you know. I'll

897
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Speaker 6: echo Dave Chappelle when he said, of all the whites,

898
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 6: the poors are the worst because they really don't us right,

899
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Speaker 6: and they are the like obviously their exceptions to this rule,

900
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 6: but a lot of them feel like I'm in this

901
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 6: situation because of you. When when the wealthiest white man

902
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 6: laughing at all of us, they don't have no community

903
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 6: for you, that you think Elon give a shit about you.

904
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 6: It was Virginia, he don't care great exactly exactly. So

905
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Speaker 6: I don't know how we do those conversations. Something that

906
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Speaker 6: Angela you said when we were at Kim Blackwell's conference

907
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Speaker 6: in Miami and we were talking about being tired, and

908
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 6: this is before the election. We were talking about being tired,

909
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Speaker 6: and you made a good point and said, well, maybe

910
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Speaker 6: everybody's not tired in the same way. So I know,

911
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,359
Speaker 6: if it's not my ministry to talk to white women,

912
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 6: if you got the patients and tolerance for it, then

913
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 6: that's that's your ministry, like right now. But we have

914
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 6: to give people something to believe in. And something has

915
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:01,439
Speaker 6: to uh to outrage us before before it's massive loss

916
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Speaker 6: of life, before it's acts of violence. Something has to

917
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 6: bring us to outrage for us to bring this country

918
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Speaker 6: to unity and for us to unite and fight. And

919
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Speaker 6: I don't know what that is, but I know every

920
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Speaker 6: week on this podcast, we will have these discussions, try

921
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 6: to figure it out, and if y'all got ideas, we

922
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Speaker 6: want to hear from you two about it.

923
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Speaker 2: I want somebody to start a petition and make sure

924
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Speaker 2: just signed on run over never again.

925
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Speaker 4: That's what I want. That's a good starter.

926
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And more importantly to people who actually went and

927
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: sacrificed their vote that direction, see what you got for it?

928
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Speaker 9: All?

929
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Speaker 8: Right? Where they at now? You look into the left,

930
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Speaker 8: right behind you, side front.

931
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Speaker 4: They ain't know where to be treated you like a

932
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Speaker 4: load dollar.

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Speaker 7: Hello, or useful tool right because we don't know what's

934
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Speaker 7: there there around her and.

935
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Speaker 8: What always there.

936
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Speaker 1: But let me one thing I just want to say.

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Speaker 1: Everyone does have a question about where it is, we

938
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Speaker 1: need to what it is. My simple response is it

939
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: is not rocket science, y'all. There is no We don't

940
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Speaker 1: have to conclude some chemistry formula that we don't remember

941
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Speaker 1: since high school.

942
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Speaker 8: It is nothing like that.

943
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Speaker 1: It is you feel this in the heart and the

944
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 1: nerve and in the sinew that something ain't right, and

945
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: you take that righteous indignation and you spread it to

946
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: your family, friends and neighbors. And then while y'all sitting

947
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: there chatting about how unbelievable. The moment is you start

948
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,760
Speaker 1: putting out ideas around how we stand in the gap,

949
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Speaker 1: what we do, it is it is just that visceral

950
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Speaker 1: that it happens. And yes, I'm with Angelin and Tip

951
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: about a plan and hopefully we folks gonna get there.

952
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: But in the meantime between time, everything that has been

953
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: forecast is happening right right. You don't have to wait,

954
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: it is happening right now. Get in touch with your heart, nerve,

955
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: and your spine, your sinew, and get to work. I

956
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: don't need you telling me. I know what I gotta

957
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: do now. I see the threat. It is staring me

958
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Speaker 1: in my face every day.

959
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Speaker 4: Andrew, can you answer that though? What are you like

960
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 4: for some people who literally do Congress members? Yeah?

961
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Speaker 1: I was Locally, we'll publish the list of the seats

962
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: that are targeted seats, and if you live in those areas,

963
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: you start making noise in those areas.

964
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Speaker 8: And it don't take much.

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Speaker 1: If you went to a congress person's office and you

966
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Speaker 1: bought fifteen of your friends, I guarantee you that's fifteen

967
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: more people than they've seen all year.

968
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Speaker 8: At that office.

969
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: It is just as simple as going to have been

970
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: saying in the grocery store, because sometimes it gets this way.

971
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Speaker 1: You see, your politician. People never hesitated when I was

972
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: mayor may. I love your managor Da da dad, but

973
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Speaker 1: you need to get them street lights on earlier on block.

974
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: Bloh blah blah blah blah. They let their demands be known,

975
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: and they didn't make apology for making those demands be known.

976
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: You do the very same thing here. And I know

977
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: it will be exhausting to have to call your Republican

978
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 1: members of Congress because you live.

979
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 8: In a red state or in a red district.

980
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: But you call them anyway. Why Because they are no

981
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: longer candidates for office. They are now the congress member

982
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: for all of us, and all our tax dollars are

983
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: being aggregated to pay for this here system. So so

984
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: you're accountable to me, So Angela's That's what I'm saying

985
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: around them. It is touchable, it's tangible, it's feelable, and

986
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: you don't need a rocket scientist to solve this problem.

987
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 8: We are the solve.

988
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 6: And they are the minority. Correct me if I'm wrong, Andrew,

989
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 6: they are the minority. Like when you in population. That's

990
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 6: what I mean, because people get caught up and like,

991
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 6: oh it's split, you know, like, oh, it's so close

992
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 6: in the Senate because it's you know, they got this

993
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 6: much of a majority. But no, right, when you zoom

994
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 6: out across the country, MAGA Republicans Conservatives, they are the

995
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 6: minority in this country. A majority of people support most

996
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 6: of the Democratic policies. The challenge is, this is how

997
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 6: we got confused, and Angela corrected, that's what the popular

998
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 6: vote last time because it was such a narrow margin

999
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 6: and the voting population was so small, So people think

1000
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 6: there are these two equal forces when they are not

1001
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 6: this when it was the count. Right, But there is

1002
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 6: this small amount of people with power over this amount

1003
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 6: of people, and we have to make people real happen, right, right.

1004
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 2: That's the same way slavery was. There were more folks

1005
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 2: enslave than there were slave holders. And I think that

1006
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 2: we have to remember that we are the people. We

1007
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,280
Speaker 2: the people have power in our hands. And to that point,

1008
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: we have Robert, who's a regular who has sent in

1009
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 2: his own CTA and he's talking about what he's doing.

1010
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 4: Let's roll that.

1011
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 16: Hey, this is Robert from les in South Carolina. Welcome home, y'all,

1012
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 16: call your congressional members. Make your voice heard, make the

1013
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 16: issues heard. I don't care if you've got a Democrat Republican.

1014
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 16: I got all Republicans. I'm giving him hell right now.

1015
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 16: Call them most have ever called in the last seven

1016
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 16: or eight days. Call your congressional members. They need to

1017
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 16: know you exist. They need to know these issues are important.

1018
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 16: They need to feel the pressure.

1019
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 8: Let's go. Welcome home.

1020
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 6: That's right, Welcome home, Robert. I wonder if what has

1021
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 6: a dog? He looked like he has a dog.

1022
00:54:55,920 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 4: It sounds like, but you know the the what.

1023
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 2: I just gonna tell you one thing, Andrew, because Andrew

1024
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 2: is our resident Rainbow Rainbow coalition builder. I wanted to

1025
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 2: play Robert because I think it's important we put people

1026
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 2: in boxes based on where they are geographically. This is

1027
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 2: Robert from South Carolina, y'all. Robert is about that life.

1028
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 2: He's always, you know, reaching out to the show and

1029
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: letting us know when he likes something, when he doesn't

1030
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 2: what he's doing. I think it's so important to understand

1031
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,399
Speaker 2: that one person can make a huge difference. And that's

1032
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 2: what all we're saying. Do not forfeit your power in

1033
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 2: this moment. Do not forfeit the fight. You might not

1034
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 2: want to call it resistance anymore than I do. I

1035
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 2: get it, But we have so much to do in

1036
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,720
Speaker 2: so little time. Andrew's right, we do need to figure

1037
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 2: out what our demands are in a line quickly, but

1038
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 2: we don't have a lot of time. As time goes on,

1039
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,280
Speaker 2: the more tools that we continue to lose.

1040
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 8: That's sir, Oh, that's it.

1041
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 4: Well.

1042
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 8: I love Robert's comment in this since Angela and Tiff.

1043
00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: That he has figured out the big secret that politicians

1044
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: don't want you to know, and that is simply that

1045
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,959
Speaker 1: it don't take a lot of people to move them.

1046
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: And when they don't hear from us, they think that

1047
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: we're okay with what they're doing. They take silence as

1048
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: complicity and in many cases approval for what they're doing.

1049
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: And if you know you not approving, let them know

1050
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 1: you're not. And I promise you they are soft in

1051
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: the sense that they don't like to be unpopular. They

1052
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: don't like to be on the opposite side of the

1053
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,800
Speaker 1: people who put them in office because them same people

1054
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: got the they empowered to take them out of office.

1055
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 8: That's what you have, that's what you should stand on.

1056
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 8: I put you here.

1057
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: I ain't vote for you, but you got here, well

1058
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:37,959
Speaker 1: we sure as hell going organize and take you out.

1059
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, thank you again, Robert. Don't go anywhere though,

1060
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 6: because we'll be right back on the other side of

1061
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 6: the break.

1062
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,280
Speaker 10: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

1063
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 2: You know what we should do the next couple of shows,

1064
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 2: Maybe we can eat semi relate a call with a

1065
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 2: member of Congress and like, what what we do?

1066
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 4: What we would say.

1067
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 2: My person that I would want to call is Kirsten

1068
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 2: Cinema because I just don't understand what's happening. Why she's

1069
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 2: whipping votes for Tulca Gabbert. That's the story for another day.

1070
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 2: But I think it's really important for people to see

1071
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 2: it's really not that hard.

1072
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 6: They have to simulate. I think we should do it

1073
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 6: in real time. Uh D.

1074
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 4: But that's what I meant, like actually, not a role play,

1075
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 4: but I actually called OK.

1076
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was gonna say, sorry, a one party territory

1077
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 6: so we can record.

1078
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 8: Except they're responsible to all of us.

1079
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean the law, but I mean no, no,

1080
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 6: I mean the law where you can't there's a two

1081
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 6: party state or a one party state and then two parties.

1082
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 2: But that's to record the call. We wouldn't be I

1083
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 2: guess we are technical, so I'll tell them. I'll be

1084
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 2: like I'm calling from.

1085
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 4: Native lamp pis exactly, but my listeners can hear you.

1086
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 6: But I believe d C is one one party. Only

1087
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 6: one party has to know a call is being recorded.

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Speaker 6: In some states is both parties have to know. So anyway,

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Speaker 6: what we were recording in DC when we do yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: but I really like that idea to call members. I'm

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Speaker 6: not gonna say who, but somebody daddy be calling members.

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Speaker 2: Eddie Rye Junior all day, ain't no secret. Everybody on

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Speaker 2: PAPA right probably on the phone with a member right now.

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Speaker 4: He has a listenership. Sorry, I'm so on in tangent,

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00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 4: but I got to tell you all this.

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Speaker 2: So there's a reparations bill that's up in the Washington

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Speaker 2: State legislature. When I tell you, Eddie ride Junior is

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00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 2: raising holy hell about this book bill. He not even

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Speaker 2: letting this. This man is telling him he wants to

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Speaker 2: make sure the build on die. Eddie Ryde is like,

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Speaker 2: let me tell you why you're wrong. This bill is

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Speaker 2: in the House of Representatives is here's here He's like,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna pass this bill, and I'm like, Dadd's gonna

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Speaker 2: take a legislator legislature.

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Speaker 4: But we're gonna talk to Papa Ride about strategy after this.

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Speaker 2: Right now, his role is agitation, Mine might be advocacy.

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00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 4: We all have a role to play.

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00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 2: Let the agitators agitate, let the advocates advocate, and let

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Speaker 2: the legislators legislate.

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Speaker 4: And I don't got knowing more Reverend Jackson ryme but them.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna go to this thank you, very special tribute.

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00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 4: Shout out to Reverend Jackson. We love you.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to this very special tribute. When this podcast airs,

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00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 2: it will be a special day. And so here we are.

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Speaker 4: We have something to share with youll stame recording, h

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Speaker 4: I hope.

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00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 8: So anyway, what they want me.

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00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: To say here, oh tiff Man, happy birthday, they are

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00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: this is crazy.

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Speaker 8: Happy birthday friend. Listen.

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00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: They want me to say here, Oh you is kind,

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00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: you are smart, you is important. That's a good message,

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00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: but it's Tiffany. I can make my own message.

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00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 8: What's up, big beautiful friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to wish you another happy three sixty

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00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: five and to say that this last year was made

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00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: all the more rich for me because of the time

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01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: we had deepening into our friendship. You are brilliant, you

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01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: are hilarious, you are direct, you crazy as hell, and

1130
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: you'll get a brother in a fight in a minute

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01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: just saying do better. Happy birthday, girl.

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01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 2: I stand before this thing to show you the type

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Speaker 2: of queen you are.

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01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 4: Happy birthday, says, I love you so much.

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01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing time, space, your brilliant your beauty,

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01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 2: your encouragement with the world.

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01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 4: I pray that this year, you know.

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01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 2: It, pulls off a miracle for you, because right now,

1139
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 2: the way this thing is set up, America is the ghetto,

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01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 2: but you deserve so much more. So let's pray for

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01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 2: divine favor and that you get all the things that

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01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 2: you ask and hope for because you are worthy, My sister.

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Speaker 17: I love you, Bee Birthday, Birthday, Happy birthday, tiff. I

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01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 17: just want you to know, sister, how much I love you,

1145
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:12,919
Speaker 17: how much I adore you, that I am absolutely clear

1146
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 17: that in a moment like this, we need truth speakers

1147
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 17: like you. I cannot wait until this new book comes out.

1148
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 17: I cannot wait to see all the wonderful, wonderful, powerful

1149
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,959
Speaker 17: things that I know you will do that you are doing,

1150
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 17: but most importantly, just thank you for being you. You

1151
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 17: have been such a blessing in my life. Your spirit,

1152
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 17: your courage, your truthfulness, your jokes, like your time. Just

1153
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 17: spending time with you has been one of the greatest,

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01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 17: greatest blessings in my life. So I just want to say,

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01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 17: happy birthday.

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01:01:48,800 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, happy birthdays, happy LB Right when we sound like

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01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 6: happy birthday, Tiffany, you are creating your own way, which

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01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 6: I love.

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01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 4: You've always done, so.

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Speaker 6: I salute you the cocktail, Happy birthday.

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Speaker 5: Enjoy Hey, Tiffany cross.

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01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 8: Dime piece.

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Speaker 5: As we all know, I just wanted to push you

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01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 5: a happy happy birthday. You are the sweetheart of the machetes,

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01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 5: always making sure that you're taking care of everybody else

1166
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 5: and hoping that this birthday you take care of you

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01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 5: because you deserve all the good things. Love you so much,

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01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 5: baby says, And anybody asked me, yes, we are related,

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01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 5: love you girl.

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Speaker 19: Oh my Tiffy, and I wanted to wish you a

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01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 19: happy birthday.

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01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 20: Well, he would actually like to say, come give me

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01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 20: a belly rub. That Happy birthday to the best dog

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01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:08,479
Speaker 20: Auntie and the guest sister machete that anybody can ask

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01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 20: having a great birthday. Hopefully clearly he's he's given you

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01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 20: his best, he's getting you all because.

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01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 4: He's very excited for you on your special day. So hey,

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01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 4: it was up, Tip.

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Speaker 21: I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday, and

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01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 21: I also wanted to thank you. You know, you're such

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01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 21: a sports expert and you're such a gifted broadcaster. I

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01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 21: just want to thank you for never fully taking the

1183
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 21: dive into sports broadcasting.

1184
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 8: Because I might be out of a dove.

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01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 21: I mean, if you're kind of astute on point analysis,

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01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 21: and with your breath of knowledge about sports, you really

1187
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,439
Speaker 21: made sure that my career was able to stay on track.

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01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 4: So thank you for never jumping into sports.

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01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 7: Happy welcome, You're welcome.

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Speaker 4: Kid, Happy birthday.

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Speaker 13: I just hope that this is the most abundant and

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01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 13: beautiful year for you, because you absolutely deserve it. Your

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01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 13: heart is massive, You are generous, you are thoughtful, you

1194
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 13: are brilliant, and you are always, always, always looking out

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01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 13: for the people. So I hope that this is the

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01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 13: year that all the people look out for you, That

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01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 13: people watch out for you because the heights are going

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01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 13: higher and higher, and then you have the happiest birthday.

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Speaker 7: I love you.

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01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 22: As happy birthday, sending you the warmest, biggest, bestest birthday

1201
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 22: wishes on another trip around the sun. My wish for

1202
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 22: you is that your voice becomes even stronger. My wish

1203
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 22: for you is that you attract all of the goodness

1204
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 22: in the world from top to bottom, left to right.

1205
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 22: My wish for you is that you finish your book

1206
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 22: and that we get the blessing of learning from one

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01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 22: of the sharpest minds.

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01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:08,919
Speaker 5: In the game.

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01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 22: And my other wish for you, Tiffany, is that you

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01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 22: get loved on from near and far in all of

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01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 22: the ways. And may it be equal to or bigger

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01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 22: than all of the love that you put in the world.

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01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 22: That's a lot of love, girl, that's a lot of love.

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01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 22: I love you a lot. I'm wishing you the happiest birthday.

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01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 22: And I know times are weird, but you are a

1216
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 22: bright light. Oh you are a bright light in the

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01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 22: darkest of times. Love you, says.

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01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 17: Beautiful, beautiful, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.

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01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 4: I get ready to a show, but girl, I have

1220
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 4: to say something. My producer says, Happy birthday too, Happy Birthday.

1221
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 4: Have a great day and another wonderful year around.

1222
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 8: Them to come to New York act.

1223
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 23: What's up? How are you doing, tiff what's your favorite aquarian?

1224
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 23: Plus love wishing my other favorite quary in a happy birthday.

1225
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 23: Keep fighting a good fight, Glarily.

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01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:44,919
Speaker 9: Oh that's now we all know how I feel about

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01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 9: p d A podcast The Splays of Affection. But I

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01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 9: got an assignment from our chief of staff, and of

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01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 9: course I'm going to hop on to say Happy birthday

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01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 9: to you, Tiffany, my dear friend. You are a force

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01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 9: of nature, someone we love, trust, listen to, and just

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01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 9: value so deeply. I hope you have an amazing birthday

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01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 9: and can't wait to celebrate with you in person.

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Speaker 8: Happy birthday and you're wrapping the.

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Speaker 24: Book in the bed, Tiffany, Happy birthday. Sorry just for

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01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:24,800
Speaker 24: the podcast. This is roy Wood or Machine, Tiffany Cross

1237
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 24: a very esteem and professional birthday, and I hope that's

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01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,080
Speaker 24: your birthday is as spectacular as you are and you

1239
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 24: get to drink a lot of wine and eat a lot.

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01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 8: Of drugs I mean food.

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01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 4: Happy birthday to our.

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Speaker 8: Harmed beautiful friends.

1243
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 4: Words from the birthday Queen.

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01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 6: I will tell y'all off off camera, what has been

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01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 6: going on this week with that is the best birthday celebration.

1246
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,439
Speaker 6: If if no nothing else happened, that is the best

1247
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 6: birthday celebration. I'm gonna watch that about twenty more times.

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01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 6: Thank you guys for pulling that together. And I just

1249
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:17,640
Speaker 6: feel so full and grateful. I'm grateful. I'm broadcasting a

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01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 6: day from Roland Martin Studio. Yes, a Blackyard Network roller

1251
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 6: Martin Unfiltered. I'll be broadcasting here from now on. And

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01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:29,680
Speaker 6: it just I feel so grateful to be uh, to

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01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 6: be able to have this platform, to share it with

1254
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:33,679
Speaker 6: you guys, to share this space with you guys.

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01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:34,479
Speaker 18: Uh.

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01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 6: And if I could do anything, if I had like

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01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:38,639
Speaker 6: one wish, it would be that we all the people

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01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 6: in that video, all of the machetes, all of us

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01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 6: would be together in person. I couldn't think of anything

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01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:48,280
Speaker 6: material that I'd want. I couldn't think of I was

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01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 6: talking about this the other day. If I had all

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01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 6: the money in the world, I don't know that it

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01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 6: would solve any other problems I'm having right now, and

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01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 6: maybe a few, but not not really. But it really

1265
01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 6: the older I get. It's the intangible things. It's the

1266
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,639
Speaker 6: it's the laughter, it's the jokes, it's the feel good

1267
01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 6: moments and most of those have been shared with the

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01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 6: folks you saw in that video with you guys, and

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01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 6: so I'm just so abundantly grateful and this year and

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01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 6: there was a lot of inside messages from the Machete,

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01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 6: So Alicia, I heard you, I hear everything you're saying

1272
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 6: and every everybody else. I'm just so grateful and my

1273
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 6: cup run is over. So what a blessing. So thank

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01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 6: you guys, so so fun.

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01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 8: Happy birthday, Yeah, birthday.

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01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,679
Speaker 2: Make sure y'all send all the love to Tip today.

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01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 2: It is her birthday, the day our podcast drops. And

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01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 2: she's a Black History Month queen, so you can tell

1279
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,639
Speaker 2: her Happy Black History Month too. If you don't, make

1280
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 2: sure you also follow her other podcast, which is called

1281
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 2: Across Generations. There are six hundred and thirty five days

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01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 2: until the midterm elections, and most importantly, it's Tiffany's birthday.

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01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 6: Welcome home, y'all, Welcome home, Welcome home.

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01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,760
Speaker 3: Please, thank you for joining the Natives intentional with the

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01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,639
Speaker 3: info and all of the latest rock gulum and cross

1286
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 3: connected to the statements that.

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Speaker 8: You leave on our socials.

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01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 3: Thank you, sincerely for the patients reason for your choice

1289
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 3: is cleared. So grateful it took the OA to execute roads.

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01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 3: Thank you for serve, defend, and protect the truth, even

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01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 3: in pain. For walking home to all of the natives wait.

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01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 10: Thank you.

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01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 2: Native Lampard is a production of iHeart Radio in partnership

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01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 2: with Reason Choice Media. For more podcast from iHeartRadio, visit

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01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to

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Speaker 2: your favorite shows.