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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen. Welcome to WIKA F Daily with Meet

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

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Speaker 1: Every once in a while, when Doctor Jonathan Mexil are

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Speaker 1: in house, Doctor and I get together, we disagree, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I think that we have constructive conversations on how

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Speaker 1: we can get to a place of consensus. And so

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Speaker 1: on today's episode, we discuss where we think the Vice

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Speaker 1: president should be in her campaign as it pertains to

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Speaker 1: discussing gun reform. And you know, Jonathan is our expert

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Speaker 1: on gun reform and on how to speak to gun owners,

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Speaker 1: particularly with his new book, What We've Become. And so

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Speaker 1: we get into a conversation where we disagree, and I

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Speaker 1: think that we should not run away from those conversations.

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Speaker 1: I think that it is important for us to find

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Speaker 1: ways to connect and understand that what works for one

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Speaker 1: group of people may not work for another group of people.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you watched Vice President Harris's campaign

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Speaker 1: rally in Atlanta, which my god, folks, I tell you,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you, it's been a long time since

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Speaker 1: I have felt hopeful. It's been a long time since

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Speaker 1: I have felt possible and I am feeling all of

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Speaker 1: those things and more. Her speech was absolute fucking fire.

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Speaker 1: The call out, the direct call out to Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is exactly what his misogynistic in sell. You know, white

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Speaker 1: supremacist organization right cult cannot stand black women in power,

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Speaker 1: women of color in places of authority. And you know,

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Speaker 1: having the audacity to call him out and so in

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Speaker 1: doing so and doing it with the smile and doing

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Speaker 1: it with swag is exactly what shows the difference between

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Speaker 1: her campaign and Biden. I think that Kamala Harris's campaign

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Speaker 1: right now is one that feels fresh, It feels vibrant,

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Speaker 1: It is exciting, It is mimeable, which matters, right. And

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Speaker 1: you know, while I will continue to say that I

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Speaker 1: respect Joe Biden, I respect his act of patriotism that

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Speaker 1: he did, there was a serious, heavy tone to his campaign.

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Speaker 1: It was not hopeful, right, saving the soul of the

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Speaker 1: nation while factual was not hopeful. And so the VP's

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Speaker 1: ability to pivot from that into freedom and into using

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Speaker 1: Beyonce and into using images of things that we hold

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Speaker 1: dear as Americans, I think has galvanized folks in a

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Speaker 1: way that we missed dearly and a way that you know,

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Speaker 1: even Obama two thousand and eight. While this is reminiscent,

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Speaker 1: this is wholly a separate beast, and I am just

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Speaker 1: for one here for it. Coming up next, my conversation

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Speaker 1: with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks, you know that

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Speaker 1: whenever we have the opportunity to speak with our in

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Speaker 1: house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, we are always thrilled. First

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Speaker 1: of all, Jonathan, let me tell you that your book

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Speaker 1: Dying of Whiteness comes up now more than ever in

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Speaker 1: just regular conversation that I have, which is actually like

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Speaker 1: really funny. So I don't know why that is, but

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Speaker 1: it is coming up more and just casual conversation that

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Speaker 1: I'm having, not even like political conversations, so you're on

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Speaker 1: everybody's mind like what.

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Speaker 2: Like, hey, what do you want for dinner? And somebody says,

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Speaker 2: I'll have done way.

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Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, these people who are you know,

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Speaker 1: obsessed with Donald Trump and this culton like look at

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Speaker 1: them and the ear patches you know that he was wearing,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, you know, this is the shit that

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Speaker 1: Jonathan was talking about and Dying of Whiteness, Like this

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Speaker 1: is this crazy shit.

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Speaker 2: But the other thing, I let me just say really quick.

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Speaker 2: Before we talked that. I spoke yesterday at a it

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Speaker 2: was like anti racist boot camp in Minneapolis. It was

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Speaker 2: a great, amazing day, and I said, do you want

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Speaker 2: me to talk about my new book? And they're like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: is it's just on people's minds right now because kind

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Speaker 2: of the future of the country is either built or

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Speaker 2: dismantled right now. And I think that all the issues

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Speaker 2: that I was writing about as like almost historical, like,

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Speaker 2: oh God, isn't it crazy that we almost took down

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Speaker 2: our whole healthcare system during a pandemic, But now it's

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Speaker 2: all coming back, Like if Trump wins, he's going to

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Speaker 2: And so just the craziness that was just confined to

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Speaker 2: people are wanting to understand kind of what we're up against.

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Speaker 1: No, And I think that that's right because I think

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Speaker 1: and become a national crisis, right, And that is what's conjuring.

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Speaker 1: So maybe they'll want you to talk about your new

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Speaker 2: Well that is the argument of my new book, that

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Speaker 2: our gun policies don't understand that we're not talking about

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so let's talk about where we are right now.

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Speaker 1: It is, as we're recording this, we are just a

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Speaker 1: little over a week since the massive seismic shakeup in

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Speaker 1: our elections, where Joe Biden has stepped down, Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: lot of issues right Democrats win when Americans understand what

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Speaker 1: at the top of many people's lists is gun reform,

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Speaker 1: because every time that there is a shooting, there is

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Speaker 1: back to normal. So, as you are seeing the momentum

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Speaker 1: they this campaign should be taking the gun debate? As

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Speaker 1: just pushing for everyone to have a gun. You get

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Speaker 2: Well, I very strongly feel, having as you know, research

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Speaker 2: this issue very closely across red and purple state America,

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Speaker 2: that this is an opportunity to reboot the gun debate.

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Speaker 2: I think the trap that Democrats fall into and I

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Speaker 2: into is conflating popular quote unquote support for gun reform.

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Speaker 2: I support background checks. But that's really different from can

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Speaker 2: We won the war of popular opinion, we've won the

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Speaker 2: That is roundly rejected across many gun owning purple and

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Speaker 2: And so I think it's an opportunity for the Harris

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Speaker 2: talk about gun ownership. In other words, what democrats so

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Speaker 2: And so when people vote, they hear Donald Trump's voice

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Speaker 2: And I just think Democrats get into a mistake, into

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Speaker 2: Number One, we have way, of course, way too much

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Speaker 2: and fifty million guns privately owned. There are over two

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Speaker 2: We immediately alienate people. So if I was doing the

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Speaker 2: because they're being advised.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, give us an example of what it

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Speaker 2: in the United States. But the the issue that a

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Speaker 2: lot of gun owners know is that I'll give you

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Speaker 2: an example of background checks. This is just one example

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Speaker 2: that background checks are when you a point of sale interaction. Again,

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Speaker 2: it's important. It's like getting a driver's license when you

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Speaker 2: go to buy a gun, your name is run through

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Speaker 2: able to buy a gun. Now that sounds great, right,

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Speaker 2: we don't want bad people having guns. But the two

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Speaker 2: problems with that. First of all, is that, as I said,

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Speaker 2: And so even though everybody's like yelling about background checks,

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Speaker 2: an incarceration record, for example, you ping on a background check.

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Speaker 2: So who do you think ping's on a background check?

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Speaker 2: People of color, communitic color, who then go to the

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Speaker 2: quote unquote legal gun market and stuff like that. So

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Speaker 2: the whole system is just like we act. I think

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Speaker 2: when I write about this and talk about it, I

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Speaker 2: have like a broader agenda. I talk about gun safety

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Speaker 2: as you and I have talked about. They're all these

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Speaker 2: Did you just say fucking tone change?

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Speaker 2: are convinced by me, I will take you to dinner.

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Speaker 1: So put it in the contract.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, again, I do want to hold on to

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Speaker 2: this point, which is just like I think it's important

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Speaker 2: for Kamala Harris to sound like a new kind of candidate,

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Speaker 2: and this is one way of many that she can

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Speaker 2: do it right. Because we're seeing that more black Americans

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Speaker 2: are buying guns now, more liberal Americans are buying guns now.

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Speaker 2: This is a chance to like actually acknowledge a bigger

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Speaker 2: story about what's happening.

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Speaker 1: This is what I'll say, and well we'll leave it

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Speaker 1: here today, which is that why are more people buying

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Speaker 1: guns because people feel less safe because our communities have

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Speaker 1: been made to feel less safe, of course, and if

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Speaker 1: you focus on safety and what actually goes to build

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Speaker 1: up community and connection, then guess what. People are not

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Speaker 1: going to fear their neighbor and they're not going to

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Speaker 1: fear public spaces.

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Speaker 2: I'm putting for you just for saying that, that's perfect.

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Speaker 1: So to me, it's like, let's then let's then focus

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Speaker 1: on what it is that makes communities safe, which is

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Speaker 1: not more cops, not more guns. But as you said before,

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Speaker 1: green spaces like community centers, wonderful public education facilities, community

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Speaker 1: you know, like sidewalks. All of these things like walkable

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Speaker 1: areas make places safer and make people more connected. And

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Speaker 1: if we did that, then we would not have the

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Speaker 1: fear driving our impulse to protect ourselves with weapons of war.

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Speaker 2: That was my point. You just made my point. I'm

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Speaker 2: voting for you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we will leave it here today, our friend Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: thank you for a rigorous debate and conversation. As always,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. That is it for me today. Dear friends

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Speaker 1: on wokf as always, power to the people and to

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Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.