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

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moodie, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, Today,

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Speaker 1: I am in a place of anxiety. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: be honest in sharing how I'm feeling when I'm feeling it,

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Speaker 1: because I know that many people are in a place

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Speaker 1: of anxiety and fear about the future. And you know,

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Speaker 1: my advice, at least the advice that my therapist offered

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Speaker 1: me today was you can only control what you can control,

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Speaker 1: right and for me, that is right now making doctor's

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Speaker 1: appointments and getting vaccinated and making sure that like my

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Speaker 1: health is okay in the event that the ACA is

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Speaker 1: repealed and I lose health care, that at least for

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Speaker 1: the year ahead, that I am up to date on

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Speaker 1: all of the important appointments that I need to have.

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Speaker 1: And I encourage everybody who you may pay for their

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Speaker 1: own insurance like I do as an entrepreneur, to do that,

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Speaker 1: you know, in thinking about what the future is going

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Speaker 1: to look like, maybe dedicate more time to spending with

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Speaker 1: your friends and family. The holiday season is coming up,

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Speaker 1: and I know that for a lot of people, the

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Speaker 1: holiday season is a mixed bag. I personally am grateful

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Speaker 1: that I enjoy it, that I enjoy the time with

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Speaker 1: my family, but I know for a lot of people

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Speaker 1: is going to be filled with strife. There are some

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Speaker 1: people that aren't going to be spending time with their

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Speaker 1: family because of what happened with the election. And I

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Speaker 1: want to say to those people too, if you are

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Speaker 1: one of them that is going to make the decision

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Speaker 1: not to spend time with your family, do what it

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Speaker 1: is that will make you feel safe, make you feel seen,

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Speaker 1: and make you feel cared for. And if being with

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Speaker 1: a family that possibly voted against your rights and your

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Speaker 1: life and your livelihood and your safety isn't that, then

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Speaker 1: like that's okay. And also letting them know why is

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Speaker 1: also okay, because I think that in a time when

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Speaker 1: the truth of who America is has been revealed to

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Speaker 1: all of us, it's time that we all start telling

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Speaker 1: the truth to each other, not in a way to

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Speaker 1: weaponize truth, but in a way to make people aware

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Speaker 1: of your why. So it isn't just oh, I'm not

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Speaker 1: coming home for Thanksgiving because I'm busy or because I

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Speaker 1: have a prior commitment. It's because you saw fit to

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Speaker 1: vote against my rights, my life or that of those

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Speaker 1: that I care about and those that I love, and

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Speaker 1: I realize that now we no longer share the same

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Speaker 1: values and the same morals, and so I will no

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Speaker 1: longer be spending holidays with you. That's a fair thing

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Speaker 1: to say, because we don't know what the road ahead

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Speaker 1: looks like. But I do know that I want to

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Speaker 1: fill my time, whatever time that I have, with those

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Speaker 1: that I love and care for deeply. You know, our

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Speaker 1: time is precious, and so I don't want it to

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Speaker 1: be spent wrapped up in fear and worry about a

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Speaker 1: future that I cannot control. And I think that I

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Speaker 1: say this to you all now as I am ingesting

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Speaker 1: you know, my time with my own therapist, about like

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Speaker 1: control what you can, let go of what you can't,

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Speaker 1: and understand that we all have roles to play at

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Speaker 1: this moment. We may not know what those roles are

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Speaker 1: at this moment, but that they will be revealed to

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Speaker 1: us in due time if we are paying attention to

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Speaker 1: our internal clock, to our internal messaging and not just

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Speaker 1: what is filled up on social media. So coming up

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Speaker 1: next is my conversation with our friend, our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel. It's the first time Jonathan and I

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Speaker 1: are speaking since the elections, so we share and reflect

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Speaker 1: on what the last two weeks have been like and

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Speaker 1: kind of what we are offering up to others as

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Speaker 1: we're in this mode of reflection. But what I will

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Speaker 1: end with today too is saying that if you are

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Speaker 1: finding yourself exhausted, if you are finding yourself weighed down,

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Speaker 1: listen to your body and give yourself a break. We're

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Speaker 1: also moving into winter. You know, the trees have lost

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Speaker 1: their leaves. You know, the animals are going into hibernation.

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Speaker 1: Our bodies flow on the same timeline and clocks as nature, right,

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Speaker 1: And so if you are feeling heavy and tired, more

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Speaker 1: so now than allow yourself the space and the time

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Speaker 1: does too. It burns us out. So I encourage us all,

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Speaker 1: when we need to in order to relieve our bodies

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Speaker 1: of this stress, of this darkness. But that you have

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Speaker 1: to lean into what brings you light. You have to

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Speaker 1: let go of what does not, so that you have

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Speaker 1: forward wherever that forward will lead you folks, you know

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Speaker 1: that whenever we have the opportunity to sit down with

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Speaker 1: And it has been, Jonathan, two weeks since the results

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Speaker 1: of the presidential election. I know that a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are still very much reeling from the election and

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Speaker 1: trying to make sense of where we are. And you

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Speaker 1: and I haven't spoken in two weeks, So tell me

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Speaker 1: how you are making sense of where things are right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean the hard thing right now is we are

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Speaker 2: in our lives are just honestly going to change pretty dramatically,

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Speaker 2: I think toward the end of January in a way

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Speaker 2: that is going to be really seismic. And I don't

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Speaker 2: know how to handle that because I feel it deeply,

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Speaker 2: and I read your social media posts and I know

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Speaker 2: you're up at five five o'clock in the morning thinking,

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Speaker 2: you know what, because it's even it's kind of like

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Speaker 2: remember we used to say, like wake up before the election,

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Speaker 2: but now I know so many people here who are like, oh,

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Speaker 2: it won't really impact me, or you know, somebody told me, oh,

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Speaker 2: they're only going to deport like the murderers and the rapists,

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Speaker 2: like somebody I know and stuff like that. So there's

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Speaker 2: kind of a level of I mean, I understand it's exhaustion,

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Speaker 2: but it's also kind of disengagement or denial or something.

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Speaker 2: And I think about that in a couple of ways.

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Speaker 2: I mean, one is it's frustrating. I don't know whether

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Speaker 2: I feel sometimes like I'm the guy who, like you

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Speaker 2: probably feel it's like in a scary movie where you

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Speaker 2: see the monster but nobody else does and it still

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Speaker 2: feels that way, like the monster is like eating the townspeople.

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Speaker 2: And so the level of like I just want to

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Speaker 2: be checked out is probably going to continue in a way.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of the world kind of divides in that way.

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Speaker 2: And also I feel like it's a divide between people

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Speaker 2: who understand have histories of historical trauma and people who don't.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of my feeling sometimes also, So that's part

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Speaker 2: of kind of frustration in a way. You know, I understand,

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Speaker 2: like it's not like this time, It's not like twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 2: People aren't going to be like out there protesting and

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Speaker 2: but it is that moment of like waking up at

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Speaker 2: I have a couple of colleagues who come from places

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Speaker 2: where tutalitarian regimes took over democracies, and I said, like,

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Speaker 2: just one like wake up moment. It was like people

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Speaker 2: ready for it. I just feel like our society is

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Speaker 2: much more primed for what's coming now than it was

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Speaker 2: honestly frustration. I mean, I feel like you and me

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Speaker 2: and other people have been warning this for a long time,

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Speaker 2: and even for me, like I tried to write my

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Speaker 2: last book, I tried to call it How We Lost

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Speaker 2: as a wake up call, and I said, like, we're

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Speaker 2: going down the wrong path. We're not understanding what's happening

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Speaker 2: here like many people did. But there was this similar

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Speaker 2: first place, So all of those emotions are kind of joined.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Wajahat my co host so on Democracy,

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Speaker 1: Ish says that he often to our listeners that him

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Speaker 1: and I are like Paul Revere, but instead of listening

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Speaker 1: doing wollkf, it has been consistently trying to get people

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Speaker 1: you know, my sister said something to me the other day,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan that has stuck with me, and she goes, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't really blame an untrained dog from bining somebody,

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Speaker 1: So she's like, so, in all honesty, she's like, it's

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Speaker 1: not as if I really blame Donald Trump and the

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Speaker 1: Republicans for doing what it is that they said that

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Speaker 2: Wait, am I the fucking dog?

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Speaker 1: Saying, because you're like, where are the people?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm still on Twitter because I

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Speaker 1: Join me on blue Sky.

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Speaker 1: You can still stay on Twitter, but join join me

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Speaker 2: I'm on blue Sky. But the idea that like there's

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Speaker 2: people are getting promised what they want, which is some

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Speaker 2: in Tennessee in twenty ten when I wrote Dying of

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Speaker 2: There's always going to be something. But I also feel

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Speaker 2: they broadened their coalition, they promised people things. Whether or

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Speaker 2: which is that liberals like me are making up all

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Speaker 1: are much harder and their existence has become much harder,

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Speaker 1: that they're going to start asking a lot of questions.

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Speaker 2: I hope that's right. I just I think again, the

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Speaker 2: much more competitive in red states and purple turning red

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Speaker 2: in a way. And so I think you're right. It's

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Speaker 2: our side. Given the framework of our side right now

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Speaker 2: is one that we have to think really hard about.

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Speaker 2: Because again, I've just seen in Tennessee that if one

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Speaker 1: Basically, Yeah, I agree as always, my friend Jonathan, thank

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Speaker 1: you so very much for your insight as we begin

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Speaker 1: our journey into the dark ages. You remain a light.

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Speaker 2: We have until January twenty seconds. Everybody, make sure to like,

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Speaker 2: go to a lot of parties, have a ton of sex,

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Speaker 2: do everything you have to do until you know. We

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Speaker 2: have got another good couple weeks here.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, take Jonathan Sport. That is it for me today.

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Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke af AS always, power to the

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Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and

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Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.