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Speaker 2: on this, because I think that will open up everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: In terms of equity, oh.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, you know, I think the problem is that there

439
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 1: isn't just like one thing right When you look at

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Speaker 1: a true democracy, it's like one vote like counts right fully.

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Speaker 1: But if you live in certain states, we still go

442
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Speaker 1: by this electoral college situation, which is super old school

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Speaker 1: and for those people who don't know the electoral colleges,

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Speaker 1: it's basically gives states a certain number of votes so

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Speaker 1: that no matter kind of how the state, let's just

446
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 1: say the state all votes for one person that goes

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Speaker 1: to the majority of those votes in that state go

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Speaker 1: to one candidate. So what that means is that if

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Speaker 1: you vote it for someone else, your vote kind of

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Speaker 1: doesn't count. And that's more like and the electoral college

451
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 1: was set up, honestly just to keep slave states in

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Speaker 1: the same kind of power level with northern states. So

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Speaker 1: we're working on such an old racist system that said Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: those of you in Virginia and South Carolina, we don't

455
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Speaker 1: want you to feel left out, so we'll give you.

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Speaker 1: We'll count black people or enslaved people as to reeforce

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Speaker 1: of people so that we can add them up and

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Speaker 1: they become more numbers so you can have more electoral

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Speaker 1: votes so that you could have more of a say.

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Speaker 1: So our stuff is just like really slanted already, and

461
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Speaker 1: we got to kind of go in and clean a

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Speaker 1: lot of it out. So it's hard to say like

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Speaker 1: one particular thing, but I would say right now, in

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Speaker 1: this moment, what scares me the most is misinformation that

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Speaker 1: people are consuming every single day. And I think not

466
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Speaker 1: just about like you know, the fake news that's like

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Speaker 1: passed around on social media and social platforms. I think

468
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Speaker 1: about some like real quote unk quote reputable cultural sources

469
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 1: that like spew and like lift up the weirdest, the wrong,

470
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 1: like many many wrong people consistently, and and this viewing

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Speaker 1: of bad information. And I am so actually shocked at

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Speaker 1: how misinformed are people are. So the one thing I

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Speaker 1: would say is like social media is not is not

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Speaker 1: a news source. Now, if you are following h box,

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Speaker 1: if you're following Associated Press, if you're following you know,

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Speaker 1: you know other reputable news sources, the New York Times,

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Speaker 1: Washington Post, papers and media outlets of record. That's that's news.

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Speaker 1: But what somebody is posting on Facebook or what they're

479
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Speaker 1: posting on Instagram or TikTok, that is not real. And like,

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Speaker 1: we have stuff at face value, and so tell you.

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Speaker 2: I would listen, Stephanie, you preach into the choir. I

482
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Speaker 2: will have legitimate conversations with people and I'd be like, no,

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Speaker 2: I saw it the other day, is said they had said,

484
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, who is they? I and and people

485
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Speaker 2: that I consider intelligent, whomever they find that fits whatever

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Speaker 2: they feel, which is why some outlets, you know, and

487
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 2: this is my talk. This is not Stephanie's opinion, but

488
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Speaker 2: some out like a Facebook. I had to get off

489
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 2: because I was like, I can't and I know they

490
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Speaker 2: go out of their way to try to change it now.

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Speaker 2: But then for years we were listening to things that

492
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Speaker 2: were just like they said, she had five heads and

493
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Speaker 2: two kids. I remember this has nothing to do with anything,

494
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Speaker 2: but I remember when Sarah Palin was running for office

495
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Speaker 2: and she was cherisened rather right and social media that's

496
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Speaker 2: when it Waned. I believe. I believe the misinformation went

497
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Speaker 2: into a frenzy with the thought of this woman. She

498
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 2: was so incredibly polarizing. But that's when I that was

499
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Speaker 2: my first witness of it all for you remember that

500
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Speaker 2: time obviously because.

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Speaker 1: That Obama being a Muslim, Yeah, they.

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Speaker 2: Started he wasn't born here. Uh. And then there was

503
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Speaker 2: something about her daughter having a baby by black wrapper,

504
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Speaker 2: like she was secretly pregnant and had a baby VI.

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Speaker 2: It was just all I was like, enough, I can't

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Speaker 2: you know what, it just doesn't sound logical, and I'm on, like,

507
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 2: people will believe what they want to believe, so you right,

508
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 2: misinformation is a huge problem because people don't want like

509
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 2: there are people who will tell you January six was fine,

510
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 2: nothing happened, that wasn't a threat to our country.

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Speaker 1: But we're completely desensitized. Like I saw an article the

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Speaker 1: other day about and I believe it was from CNN,

513
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 1: about how you know, like we social media is changing

514
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: the way that we think. Our attention span is limited,

515
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: so we can't absorb as much information as we used to,

516
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Speaker 1: and you know, it's creating more isolation, more violence, all

517
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,719
Speaker 1: of these things. It's like literally like and changing our

518
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: empathy levels as well. So like, because we're seeing fighting,

519
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: we're seeing so many bad things on these platforms that

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00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: make us feel like it's okay. So when we see

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Speaker 1: I don't know, the thousands of white people like storm

522
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Speaker 1: the Capitol with Confederate flags, it's like another day. No,

523
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: it's not another day. And that's why it's so incredibly

524
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Speaker 1: important that the January six hearings actually come to some

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Speaker 1: sort of conclusion. And that's why it's incredibly important. Is

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Speaker 1: happening with the former president actually being you know, potentially

527
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's not indicted yet, but like, all of

528
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: these things are happening, and they're important to actually protect

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Speaker 1: our democracy because if there are no checks and balances,

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Speaker 1: then what are we doing this for. If people are

531
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Speaker 1: not going to be held accountable for their bad actions,

532
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Speaker 1: what are we doing for?

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, I got to pay some bills. I wish

534
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Speaker 2: I could vote to not do this, no more commercial breaks.

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Speaker 2: But that's what happens. That's how this works, is how

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Speaker 2: this system works. When we come back on the other

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Speaker 2: side of the break, we have Stepney Young.

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Speaker 3: champion and Cary champion and carry chat bey out a

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Speaker 3: champion and carried chapion and carried chat pad ispsion entertainment

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Speaker 3: Connect you work, Harry Champion and carry champion is to

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Speaker 3: be a champion, a champion and carry champion. They yoh

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Speaker 3: a champion and carry champion and carried chat be praid.

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Speaker 1: Is the sposion.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Naked. Stephanie is here. Drop a knowledge,

546
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 2: get your pen, get your paper. She's going to give

547
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 2: you some resources so you know it is important to vote.

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00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 2: I want to repeat what you said because it's very powerful.

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00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 2: You talked about the actual voting process and how it began.

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00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 2: It began for rich white man, That's what it was for.

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00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 2: They started to expand it because they had no other choice,

552
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: because they wanted equity, not because they thought it was

553
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 2: good to make sure that the marginalized, the women, the

554
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: blacks were included. It was because it helped their process.

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00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 2: And over the years, we have refused to adjust rules

556
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: that were based how many years ago, you.

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00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: Know this country and from seventeen in the seventeen hundreds,

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00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: I mean.

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00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 2: The system has changed a bit, you know what I mean?

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00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: They and they still have the same voting rule. That's

561
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 2: insane to me.

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00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's it is nuts if you

563
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: think about it. Though, Let's just think about when the

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00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act that was what nineteen sixty five, I

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00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: believe might even but it's in our parents'.

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00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: Lifetime, yes, yeah, for sure.

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00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: We we speed past and we don't recognize that. Like

568
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: my grandmother was born in nineteen thirteen and love Joy Georgia,

569
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: and she technically really did not get the right to

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00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: vote in this country until she was fifty years old.

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00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: Same everyone was born in nineteen twelve. She talks about

572
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 2: it all the time. Same.

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00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: So, like, we're not that far removed. And I think that,

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Speaker 1: like we we're just things are moving. It feels like

575
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: we're moving so fast, like time is like elastic. I

576
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening right now, but like things are

577
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: moving so fast. We don't recognize that, Like we have

578
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: not we have not been on this journey so long.

579
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: This is a very young, young country. And that's one

580
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Speaker 1: of the reasons why people are so afraid of our

581
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Speaker 1: votes is because they actually know that we have the

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Speaker 1: power to change things. They know this country is going

583
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: to look different. We're talking about the next twenty twenty

584
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: five years, like this is going to be a majority

585
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: minority country, so people of color will be the majority.

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Speaker 1: They know that that is why there is why we're here,

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00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: right And also like I'm speaking literally on behalf of

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Speaker 1: myself here. But if you've you heard a congresswoman say

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Speaker 1: to the former president of the United States, who was

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Speaker 1: a part of spewing all the disinformation and continues to

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00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: be to this day, which is beyond dangerous, literally say

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00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: and thank him for protecting white life when it came

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Speaker 1: to row. And I'm like, Audi, she said, she.

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Speaker 2: Did not even misspeak. Oh maybe I did. The next day.

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00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 2: This woman was insane. I'm gonna tell you what else

596
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 2: is insane. The fact that we have a Supreme Court

597
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Speaker 2: justice by the name of this is all Carrie Champion saying,

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00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: the fact that we have a Supreme Court justice by

599
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Speaker 2: the name of Clarence Thomas with his wife Jeanie, who

600
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: is one hundred percent in bed with the right Party,

601
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Speaker 2: right party insurrection, telling Trump to do all types of

602
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 2: illegal things as the president. This woman is a radical.

603
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: And do you not believe they don't pillow talk? And

604
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: do you not believe that he's not making sure she

605
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: doesn't go to jail, because what she did is it's

606
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Speaker 2: one he should not be sitting on that he should

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Speaker 2: not be.

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Speaker 1: Sitting defrocked whatever, sit down, like as my mother defunct.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're a good mar.

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Speaker 1: Like a disgrace. My mother says that consistently, but like

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00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: it is a disgrace. They're a good marshal. That's what

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00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: that's the person to feel to see. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is, it is, it's beyond me. We've reached like

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Speaker 1: a different level. So no matter how exhausted we all

615
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: are from everything, like, we don't have the ability to

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Speaker 1: like take a long nap here. So right now, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure the exact iradate of this, but we're

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Speaker 1: about ten mondays away from the election.

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Speaker 2: This airs on Monday, so that's fine, yeah, so away

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Speaker 2: and by the way, as we get even closer, we'll

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Speaker 2: re up and put more messaging out and so yeah,

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Speaker 2: And so I say all that to complaints to people

623
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: understand the urgency of what we're doing. So you cannot

624
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 2: stay on social media and be like I know what's

625
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 2: going on with Kim Kardashian and North and not know

626
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: what's going on in our country. It is unfair to yourself,

627
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: it's unfair to your children, it's unfair to your family.

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00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 2: It is so disrespectful in the country that we are

629
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Speaker 2: living in. If we needed to vote. If you thought

630
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 2: voting was like breathing, it is the equivalent, like you

631
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 2: need to breathe to live. I promise you That's how

632
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 2: I feel about what the lack of urgency when it

633
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: comes to voting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and all that. I think a lot of people live,

635
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: especially because of all the misinformation they're getting or just

636
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: lives really on social media. You know, they feel as if, oh,

637
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: everything's rigged or it's a conspiracy. I worked in the

638
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: federal government. I worked there. Okay, for many it wasn't.

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00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 2: Your cousin at the Pentagon. You remember when when COVID

640
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,719
Speaker 2: first started, Yeah the Pentagon said not a cousin at

641
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: the Pentagon. Mephit, you worked there. She works in Washington, DC.

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00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 2: She is, She's legitimate, not Justagon.

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00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: People like me, like nobody is coming up with some

644
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: deep conspiracies like nothing is. It's just there are people

645
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: who are trying to be corrupt, for sure. And that

646
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: was definitely a former president of the United States, and

647
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: we're seeing that play out right now, but at the

648
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: end of the day, like, this is not an episode

649
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: of scandal, this is real life. This is not like

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Speaker 1: you know, last as a NATed survivor. We need to

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Speaker 1: let And that's one of the reasons why I had

652
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Speaker 1: the whole entertainment panel at our summit to talk about

653
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Speaker 1: we have to have narratives and more nuanced stories that

654
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Speaker 1: we're telling the public about government, because it's not supposed

655
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Speaker 1: to always be this kind of one like lane of

656
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: like corruption, which I think helps to feed into any

657
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Speaker 1: bad information you get. You're going to refer back to

658
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Speaker 1: that bad TV show you watched, even though yeah, we

659
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: like to watch it, it's fun, whatever, but it's not real.

660
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Speaker 1: And I think that sometimes we get wrapped up in

661
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Speaker 1: these like fake conspiracies of like, well, doesn't matter what

662
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Speaker 1: I do because everything's already set up. No, oh it's not. Actually,

663
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Speaker 1: but what's happening right now is that you're really falling

664
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Speaker 1: into that matrix of feeling that things are set up

665
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: and people are like, well, great, do you all stay

666
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Speaker 1: home and I'm going to vote.

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Speaker 2: There are people with huge platforms who believe that, and

668
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Speaker 2: that is another part of what you said, do you

669
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Speaker 2: think is the biggest problem is the misinformation everybody. I know,

670
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Speaker 2: you know, something can happen, And I'm like, I'll tell you,

671
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Speaker 2: if you look back on this date, it indicated that

672
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Speaker 2: you're just like Okay. For me, I try to stay

673
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Speaker 2: grounded and not really feed into perhaps, but there is

674
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Speaker 2: something Stephanie to the system is working the way the

675
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Speaker 2: system is set up to work.

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Speaker 1: M That's true.

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Speaker 2: So what I think again, people might be confusing conspiracy

678
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Speaker 2: theories for the system is set to work the way

679
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Speaker 2: the system is set to.

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Speaker 1: Work, right. Yeah. And one thing, one thing I do

681
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Speaker 1: want to mention is jerry mandering because I think when

682
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Speaker 1: you think about those members of Congress, right, you're like, Okay,

683
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Speaker 1: I'm from Atlanta. John Lewis was my congressman, like my

684
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: entire life basically, but we voted for him and we

685
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: love him, and he's obviously an icon and all of

686
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: these different things. And you know, I think about that

687
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: district in Atlanta in the way that it's carved out,

688
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: and what they do is on the on the state

689
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Speaker 1: legislators legislative side, right, So the people who you probably

690
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: don't even think you're voting for you because you're not

691
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: paying attention for them. But when you don't vote, you're

692
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: actually our voting for somebody someone else. Right, they are

693
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: able to determine, like how they map out these districts

694
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Speaker 1: right in your state. And so what that means is

695
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: that they have taken the pen and gone super crazy

696
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Speaker 1: to ensure that we don't ever want the seat not

697
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Speaker 1: to be a red seat, right, or we don't ever

698
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: want the seat not to be a blue seat potentially,

699
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Speaker 1: so let's make this whole like district the shape of

700
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Speaker 1: an E doesn't even make sense, so that we're packing

701
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Speaker 1: in the voters that we know will vote for us,

702
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: and so that this other group of people will never

703
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Speaker 1: ever have a chance to win. And that is that's

704
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Speaker 1: what jerry mandering is. It's where politicians are picking their

705
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: voters as opposed to it being the other way around.

706
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Speaker 1: So it can feel like, well, sometimes it doesn't matter

707
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Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter what we do, we don't have

708
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Speaker 1: enough numbers to beat this person, right right right, That

709
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Speaker 1: is what former Attorney General Eric Holder is working on

710
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: right now with his organization. And if you tap into

711
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 1: what they're doing, I mean they're helping to redraw maps

712
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: all over this country and helping to really end partisan

713
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: jerry mandering, so that really does count when you actually vote.

714
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Speaker 1: So some of these kind of more institutional problems that

715
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Speaker 1: are creating, you know, the system to work in the

716
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: way that they were created to work in right are

717
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: being addressed. We might not know that they're being worked on.

718
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Speaker 1: So I want people to at least have some hope

719
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 1: in understanding that, like the things that we're talking about

720
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: aren't just like flying by the way side. Know he's

721
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: paying them any attention, People are working on them. It

722
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: just takes a long time, just like it took fifty

723
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: years to overturn row okay, because it didn't happen. It

724
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: took them a long long time to get to this

725
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: moment into this place. And so it's going to take

726
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: us a very very long time to right some of

727
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: these wrongs. But we will never be able to do

728
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Speaker 1: that if we do not vote, and that's why it's

729
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: so critically important. I also say one thing when it

730
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Speaker 1: comes to righting some of these wrongs in the way

731
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Speaker 1: our system is set up, is that we had the

732
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Speaker 1: Freedom to Vote Act and the job was Voting Rights Act.

733
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Speaker 1: We're trying to restore the John's Voting Rights Act so

734
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Speaker 1: that we can protect these states that have a history

735
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Speaker 1: of discrimination on the basis of race, like Georgia and

736
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Speaker 1: other states that are experiencing high voter suppression issues. And

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Speaker 1: then we also have the Freedom of Vote Act, which

738
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Speaker 1: expands the right to vote. You know, it helps with

739
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: automatic voter registration in some states, It helps with more

740
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Speaker 1: early voting days. It modernizes our system because we all

741
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: grew up believing and everybody says, the United State, it's

742
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Speaker 1: the best country in the world. Well are we, Yeah,

743
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: there's many other were so great. Why are voting systems

744
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: so old and antiquated? Why don't we go to a place,

745
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: we go to a polling place, you have to wait

746
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Speaker 1: an hour or two out by that from my phone,

747
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: look exactly, So why why aren't we updating these processes

748
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: and these systems. But it's not even just voting. Look around.

749
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Speaker 1: We've just got an infrastructure bill for the first seven

750
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 1: ou't know forever, because our roads are crumbling. Obviously. Climate

751
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: changes is literally taking over the world right now, all.

752
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Speaker 2: Over the world.

753
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: Bloods in Pakistan and all these terrible.

754
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Speaker 2: There was a it was it was a massive flooding,

755
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Speaker 2: I think in Mississippi the other day or somewhere.

756
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Speaker 1: Here in fifting and it's affecting there drinking water right now.

757
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: So like and definitely, like there's so many things that

758
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: are happening because instead of people, uh, you know, working

759
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: on our behalf, people have been working to maintain power,

760
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: they're not working for us right they're results with power, absolutely,

761
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 1: and they're beyond frightened because the minority in this country

762
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: is about to become the majority. Chris Rock made a

763
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: really funny joke. He said, you know when kids act,

764
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: they act really really crazy when it's nap time or

765
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: time to go to slave around, they're doing stupid stuff.

766
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Speaker 1: They're like actionall and so you know, so that is

767
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: what we're experiencing right now, like people of the temper

768
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: tantrum because they know it is time to go to sleep,

769
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Speaker 1: especially open for them. So, you know, I just don't

770
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Speaker 1: want people to get discouraged by everything they're saying. I

771
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: want people to know that folks are working in the

772
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Speaker 1: scenes as much as possible or run of the scenes,

773
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Speaker 1: but we all have to do our individual part, and

774
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Speaker 1: that is the voting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And we don't want you to be discouraged. We

776
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 2: want you to go out and vote. We want you

777
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 2: to be activated, We want you to care about something,

778
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 2: because to me, that's a large part of what's going

779
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 2: on with voter empathy and people not caring is because

780
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 2: they don't care. They don't have anything that has ignited them.

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00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 2: It doesn't affect in their minds. They see how it

782
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: affects them as an individual. If you're talking to someone

783
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 2: about voting, they're like, what they have to do with me?

784
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 2: What does that do with my my me working day

785
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 2: to day, paycheck to paycheck.

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Speaker 1: It literally has everything to do from there, we see it. Yeah, yeah,

787
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: well look so in twenty twenty, I'll say this, like

788
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: we had the highest voter turnout in modern history, where

789
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Speaker 1: over of Americans voted, and they voted because obviously we're

790
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: all sitting down it was COVID, but you could see

791
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: how government impacts your lives. If your president does not

792
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: believe in a global pandemic, if your governor does not

793
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: believe in a global pandemic, all of these things impact

794
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: the way in which you are making money. Can you

795
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: actually go to work?

796
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 2: Can we walk out pay Stephanie?

797
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: So, like we saw firsthand how government impacks our lives

798
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 1: every single day, and now they're trying to take control

799
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Speaker 1: of our uterus. So like now that to me, there's

800
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: absolutely no excuse, and I know that through research. Unfortunately,

801
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: like messaging around, especially for young black people, it doesn't

802
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: resonate that, oh, your grandparents bought for this right, they

803
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: died for this. They're like whatever, which is really sad,

804
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: and they don't view voting as a responsibility but more

805
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: is like a choice that they maybe should make. I

806
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: would encourage people if if you're if you're interested, if

807
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: you like history, if you if you value it. Brian Stevenson,

808
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: who is an amazing lawyer who works consistently twenty four

809
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: hours to help get people off of death row. He

810
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Speaker 1: has a lynching memorial down in Montgomery, Alabama, and I

811
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: went there recently and literally, I mean you can see

812
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: these pillars like you have to look up like you

813
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: are looking at a body and it is it is jarring,

814
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: and you see the county and the name, and you

815
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: see people with your last name. You can't help the

816
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: thing is this a family member of mine? But he

817
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: has his whole wall looks like the Vietnam Memorial wall,

818
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Speaker 1: where there are reasons why these these men or these

819
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Speaker 1: women were lynched and I kid you not is either

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Speaker 1: there's either looking at a white woman. Okay, that was

821
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Speaker 1: That was one of the reasons why you know, folks

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Speaker 1: were lynch at a high level. But the other one

823
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Speaker 1: was voting. Murder voted, they tried to vote. It's like,

824
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Speaker 1: oh my god, like there were countless of African Americans killed,

825
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: countless just for trying to vote. So, you know, I

826
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Speaker 1: think us not understanding that history, it's beyond like for

827
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Speaker 1: me disappointing because you know, it wasn't that long ago,

828
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Speaker 1: and if we take it for granted and shrug it

829
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Speaker 1: off and look, I get it, that's a part of

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Speaker 1: voter suppression because voter suppression manifests in the physical, the

831
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Speaker 1: laws and the barriers, but it manifests potential. Who the

832
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Speaker 1: thought that my vote doesn't count.

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Speaker 2: Listening to stories when people tell me, like my my

834
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 2: grandmother would talk about when she finally got to vote,

835
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Speaker 2: or they would dress up because voting was a privilege.

836
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Speaker 2: They understood how it was put on your Sunday's best

837
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Speaker 2: to go and vote because it is a privilege. And

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Speaker 2: now it's like, oh, is there one near me? Do

839
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Speaker 2: I have time? Can I park here? You know, I

840
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Speaker 2: don't I don't know how, and I think we're trying

841
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Speaker 2: our best to do that, but voting is still very

842
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 2: much a privilege for the market.

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Speaker 1: It is. I mean, where do you want to do

844
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Speaker 1: you want to live in a democracy? Like democracy is

845
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: where the people are supposed to have the power, right,

846
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Speaker 1: So you can only have the power if you participate.

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Speaker 1: And I think that we've been spoiled because we haven't

848
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: had to think in this country, well where's my water

849
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: coming from? Do I have to walk, you know, miles

850
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Speaker 1: to a well to get water, or do I have

851
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: electricity or do I have access to this? We have

852
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: access to so much and we've just sat down and

853
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: gotten comfortable. And I think too, like after President Obama

854
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Speaker 1: was elected, it was like, all right, well he's going

855
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: to fix everything and I'm not going to do anything else.

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00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: I mean literally, that's what happened. People sat down and

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Speaker 1: that's why in twenty ten, you know, he lost the

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Speaker 1: House of Representatives and he was so limited in what

859
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: he actually could do. But you had people like Mitch

860
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Speaker 1: McConnell back in the day stand up and say we're

861
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Speaker 1: going to make him a one term president. You had

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Speaker 1: people stand up in on the floor in the House

863
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Speaker 1: of Representative and call him a liar in a tone

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Speaker 1: where you know that it wasn't liar was not the

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Speaker 1: word they wanted to say.

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Speaker 2: I want to just say exactly the other are not coming.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Like you know, I think,

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Speaker 1: I think President Obama doesn't get all the credit that

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Speaker 1: actually he deserves and trying his best to work in

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Speaker 1: a system that is racist and that I agree had

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Speaker 1: known Kristin working with him and showing him the respect

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Speaker 1: as a man, and then turning around and being mad

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Speaker 1: and being like, well he didn't fix this or he

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Speaker 1: wasn't able to do this, and then you know, and

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Speaker 1: then sitting back and then and then listening to all

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Speaker 1: the disinformation which his heartbreaking in twenty sixteen and allowing

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Speaker 1: like all that chatter to deter you from to deter

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Speaker 1: you from voting. And now we have a Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: that looks the way it does, so I there's so

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Speaker 1: many examples to point to. I think the thing that

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Speaker 1: we have to remember is this, for those of us

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Speaker 1: who do participate, it can be frustrating when we talk

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Speaker 1: to our family members or the people in our lives

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Speaker 1: at don't right. We have to remember this It takes

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Speaker 1: seven touches to get people to get someone readsured to

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Speaker 1: vote seven So you can't just go hey, register and

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Speaker 1: they're like, okay, that's like an anomaly. Did you finish,

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Speaker 1: did you complete it? Make sure you do this? Did

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Speaker 1: you do that? So it's not going to be a

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Speaker 1: one and done. These conversations aren't a one and done.

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Speaker 1: You have to consistently talking people yeah. And then also

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Speaker 1: for the people in your life, you have to say, look,

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Speaker 1: I will do this with you, I'll help you get registered,

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Speaker 1: I will go vote with you. And what we do

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Speaker 1: when we'll vote, we have parties at the polls. So

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Speaker 1: we'll be having parties at the polls this October for

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Speaker 1: early voting and going into obviously election Day November eighth,

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Speaker 1: you know vote National Voter Registration Day is coming up.

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Speaker 1: I know nobody knows about that day. Only people who

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Speaker 1: work in this space do. Regardless, the September eighteenth is

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Speaker 1: going to be a really big week of action where

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Speaker 1: we'll be out there registering voters and we would love

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Speaker 1: people to join us in doing that. We're going to

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Speaker 1: have a big training call on the thirteenth. We're going

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Speaker 1: to have another call on the nineteenth with someone special

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Speaker 1: link link so that people are you know, if you

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Speaker 1: want to do your part, you feel like you want

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Speaker 1: to do more. We are that that's free to come

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Speaker 1: to and we make it easy. We try to make

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Speaker 1: it fun and celebratory. But like this is a continual

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Speaker 1: conversation and they hate what people say we don't want

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Speaker 1: to talk about politics at the dinner table. You should,

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Speaker 1: absolutely because if you don't do politics, politics will do you,

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Speaker 1: and it's doing us.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Amen, Stephanie Young, thank you so much for sharing

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Speaker 2: all of this wisdom. More importantly, keeping us focused. We

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Speaker 2: have to vote. That's all that matters. That is the

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Speaker 2: end of the discussion. You don't know who to vote for,

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Speaker 2: you can go to when we all vote dot org.

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Speaker 2: You can type in your address. You can find out

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Speaker 2: who you should be voting for, party wise, whatever works

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Speaker 2: for you. And more importantly, seven touches, y'all, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: keep saying seven touches. That was nice touches.

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Speaker 1: It's seven touches. And if you feel like for those

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Speaker 1: friends who say voting is and everything, well it's the

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Speaker 1: first thing. Then you've got to advocate for the issues

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Speaker 1: you care about. But that's another that's another episode, but and.

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Speaker 2: You will have them all. Trust me. I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: so very much. Is there anything else that you wanted

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Speaker 2: to add before I let you go?

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Speaker 1: No, just make sure you're falling us some social At

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Speaker 1: when we all vote, we have a lot of explainers

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Speaker 1: breaking down everything that's happening so that you can feel

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Speaker 1: smarter about what's going on. And yeah, we'd love for

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Speaker 1: you to join us and volunteer with us, especially in

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Speaker 1: these upcoming weeks of actions.

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Speaker 2: So maybe intimidated you, guys, it's an easy process.

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Speaker 1: It is. I won here.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: Thank you carries so much.

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Speaker 2: All right, so again midterms, she said about ten mondays away.

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Speaker 2: I'll re up this, guys. I will re up this

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Speaker 2: so that you make sure that you pay attention. But

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Speaker 2: what I thought was really important, she said, you can

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Speaker 2: go to the when we All Vote website, put in

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Speaker 2: your address and then say, hey, who should I be

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Speaker 2: voting for? Because it is intimidating. It is an intense process.

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Speaker 2: But we need help. And that's okay. All of us

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Speaker 2: need help, myself included. I need you guys to follow

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Speaker 2: them at when we all vote. That's on Instagram when

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Speaker 2: we all vote or listen, go to when We All

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Speaker 2: Vote dot org. That's what she said. That's how you

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Speaker 2: can find out how to register to vote, how you

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Speaker 2: can find out what you need to be doing in

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Speaker 2: this next election. You can also see what other events

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Speaker 2: that they have coming up. I will revisit this just

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Speaker 2: before midterm elections to make sure that we are activated.

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Speaker 2: We cannot let them take this privilege away from us,

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Speaker 2: because voting is a privilege. Go ask you a great

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Speaker 2: great great great grandparents. Okay they may not be around,

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Speaker 2: Go ask your great grandparents, or your grandparents or your mom.

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Speaker 2: Voting was a privilege for the marginalized. It really was,

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Speaker 2: and I think we take it for granted. And I

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Speaker 2: hope that you've learned something today as we try to

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Speaker 2: change the world. Thank you for listening to Naked and

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Speaker 2: I will talk to you all next week.