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

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

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Speaker 1: I am going to tell you that today's conversation with

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Speaker 1: Jonathan was pre recorded following the announcement the decision by

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to end our democracy, and it is

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Speaker 1: a very low conversation in terms of energy feeling. We

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Speaker 1: are in a world of trouble and I cannot express

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Speaker 1: that enough. I cannot urge you enough to use the

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Speaker 1: remaining months that we have to organize, to strategize to

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Speaker 1: get people to vote for Joe Biden. But understand that

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Speaker 1: that is about a four year lifeline. It is not

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Speaker 1: indefinite at all, and the Supreme Court has saw to that.

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Speaker 1: If Donald Trump is elected, I will tell you that

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Speaker 1: the first one hundred days are going to be the

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Speaker 1: bloodiest and the worst that this country has ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And that's saying a lot. I need people to take

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Speaker 1: this with the gravity and the seriousness that people took

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Speaker 1: their lives in Germany in Austria in the nineteen thirties.

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Speaker 1: You are not overreacting. Do not let anyone tell you

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Speaker 1: that you are overreacting. But I will urge you not

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Speaker 1: to allow your fear to paralyze you into a place

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Speaker 1: of apathy and complacency. I will urge you to utilize

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Speaker 1: that fear to propel you to make really hard decisions

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Speaker 1: in the coming months about your future, the future of

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Speaker 1: your families, of your community. We are at that moment,

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Speaker 1: and the more folks that can share these messages, that

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Speaker 1: can share these podcast interviews, that can post them on

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Speaker 1: your Facebook, on your Instagram, on whatever social platform that

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Speaker 1: you use to get this message out, please do. It

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Speaker 1: is not about the numbers, I don't give a fuck.

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Speaker 1: It is about getting as many people to a place

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Speaker 1: of safety as they can possibly find for themselves in

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Speaker 1: this moment. The demise following a Trumpet win will be

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Speaker 1: swift like nothing you've ever seen, and there will be

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Speaker 1: no protests at that point that can stop it. So

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Speaker 1: folks need to prepare. And that's the conversation that Jonathan

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Speaker 1: and I get into on today's show. Well, I like,

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Speaker 1: I I don't even know what to say. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: say my usual, which is like, you know, it's doctor here.

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Speaker 1: This guy right so excited to have our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan metzel Uh here because if there was any

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Speaker 1: time that you felt like you need a doctor, it

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Speaker 1: is probably at this moment, Jonathan. We are talking, uh

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Speaker 1: recording this a day after uh the Supreme courtious ended

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Speaker 1: democracy in this country, and I'm still reeling from the news. Uh,

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Speaker 1: not doing that well? So how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy? How the words? You're gonna ask me that? Well,

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Speaker 2: let me start by first responding to some of our readers,

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Speaker 2: listener fans out there who want us to talk about

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Speaker 2: cheerful stuff. So I'll start with a cheerful thing, which

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Speaker 2: is it's July. It's beautiful outside. We got another good July, August, September, October.

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Speaker 2: Now we got take another good five months of this thing.

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Speaker 2: So this should be our summer of love. Right, if

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Speaker 2: we're going down on the Titanic, this should be that.

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Speaker 2: You know, if there's a restaurant you always wanted to

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Speaker 2: or practice dry humping or whatever you want to do,

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Speaker 2: this is the time to do it. Because this is

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Speaker 2: this is our summer of I wouldn't say it's our

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Speaker 2: on down that road. So if you wanted to do it,

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Speaker 2: like do it now. So that's that's part of it,

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Speaker 2: is like, you know, I just think that there's you know,

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Speaker 2: so the question is, I don't know. I'm to be honest,

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Speaker 2: it's the last hardest twenty fours for me, not that

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Speaker 1: I think that we are the least surprise. I honestly do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, think about the long game, right, I mean

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Speaker 2: But there's so much there's just so much disbelief, and

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Speaker 2: what's the nature of that disbelief? Like when people like

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Speaker 2: frustratingly shouting this for so long, and maybe there's just

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Speaker 2: taking over the Supreme Court, which they were using guns

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what my sister said to me this morning,

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Speaker 1: what is the plan? And I will say this. I said, Look, basically,

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Speaker 1: So get as many people organize, donate up and down

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Speaker 2: Where can a first and go.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can go to a lot of places.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows where I'm going, sir, Where is that, David Busters?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I said it on TV like nine times already.

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Speaker 1: But it's just, you know, I think that I mean,

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Speaker 1: show with me fleeing.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me just say please. My grandfather was the

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Speaker 2: Then let's get cracking here.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan. That is it for me today,

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Speaker 1: dear friends. As always, power to the people and to

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