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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik app Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from a different funker.

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Speaker 1: I decided that I needed a vacation, just a short

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Speaker 1: trip to visit some friends, the folks. I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: you know, this week, like every week in America, is

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Speaker 1: becoming increasingly pressurized. I guess is the best word um

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Speaker 1: just being churned right. You know, you know when they

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Speaker 1: tell you to stay out of the water at the

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Speaker 1: beach because you know there's a rip tie, there's rip

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Speaker 1: currents that are coming through. That's what I think is

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Speaker 1: the perfect analogy for America right now. Seemingly the water

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Speaker 1: looks good, you're at the beach, and then the next

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Speaker 1: thing that you know, you're being sucked under and don't

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Speaker 1: have the strength to be able to swim back to shore.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we are all caught in this rip current.

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Speaker 1: New reporting has come out, came out yesterday in the

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Speaker 1: Washington Post that I got to tell you. I started

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Speaker 1: reading it and was just like, I just want to

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Speaker 1: throw everything out. I want to throw the fucking paper out.

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Speaker 1: I want to throw the country out. And I just

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Speaker 1: want to start over. But new reporting comes out because

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Speaker 1: of course folks are getting ready to write a book.

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Speaker 1: But in the Washington Post there's an article talking about

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Speaker 1: the cowardice of the Republican Party, particularly Mitch McConnell and

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy following the insurrection. So let me give you

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Speaker 1: the you know, the cliff notes on this story. So

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, and we all know this because

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Speaker 1: if you remember a few days after the insurrection, if

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Speaker 1: you even remember that the vote that took place, once

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Speaker 1: they cleared those thugs and fascists and domestic terrorists out

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Speaker 1: of the Capitol Building, that the vote was restored to

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Speaker 1: certify Joe Biden's win, right, And at that time, Mitch McConnell,

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Speaker 1: along with a handful of Republicans, gave a you know,

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Speaker 1: good talking to to Donald Trump and to say that

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Speaker 1: this is not who we are, this isn't what this

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Speaker 1: country is about. Blah blah blah blah blah. And much

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Speaker 1: like you, I thought that the insurrection was going to

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Speaker 1: be an extraordinary turning point. I thought that after four

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Speaker 1: years under Donald Trump, that would culminate in the you know,

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Speaker 1: destruction of our Capitol building. Officers being beaten, a woman

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Speaker 1: being killed, that this was going to be a reckoning,

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Speaker 1: a collective reckoning about who we were. And what this

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Speaker 1: article in the Washington Post laid out is that Mitch

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Speaker 1: McConnell and Kevin McCarthy wanted Donald Trump to resign, wanted

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Speaker 1: the impeachment to happen, wanted it to make clear that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was not going to be able to run

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Speaker 1: for office again, and that they wanted to rid him

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Speaker 1: of the party, rid him from the party. But then,

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Speaker 1: because these people are beholden to their racist, rabid base,

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Speaker 1: and they saw that their response no thanks to Fox News,

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Speaker 1: O A N Newsmax and QAnon for painting the insurrection

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Speaker 1: as if it was, you know, just your regular tourists, visit,

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Speaker 1: just your regular demonstration that ends up with thousands of

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Speaker 1: people breaking into the Capitol Building, stealing from members of

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Speaker 1: But because they got that intel right from media who

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Speaker 1: what have we done? Right? As we all thought that

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Speaker 1: they would, well, McConnell and McCarthy do what they do

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Speaker 1: best with their spinelessness, which is recognized that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: They want mayhem, they want violence. Right. I look around, Um,

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you quick quick side note. I am

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Speaker 1: out in Maryland and there are Trump Trump fucking flags

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Speaker 1: all over here. And one of these flags isn't just

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Speaker 1: it's not enough to just have the name Trump on it.

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Speaker 1: It also said like wouldn't you like to take away

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Speaker 1: it is the self aggrandizing. It's just disgusting, really what

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Speaker 1: it is. And it's just wrapped in white male fragility, right,

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and his tanning testicles. Like that's what masculinity

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Speaker 1: But nonetheless, let may not insult toddlers. But the reality

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Speaker 1: to impeach Donald Trump you needed seventeen Republicans, right, there

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Speaker 1: was an opportunity for that vote not to happen along

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Speaker 1: party lines, for McCarthy and McConnell to say that for

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Speaker 1: for us not to be aligned with domestic terrorists and violence,

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Speaker 1: and for this to be the lasting impression of this administration,

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Speaker 1: we need to rid ourselves of Donald Trump, and we

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Speaker 1: folks like there could have been right, the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: is right. They do what is about power. And this

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Speaker 1: they could have said, you know what, no, we need

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Speaker 1: not who our party is, right, But they decided not

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Speaker 1: to because they realized that Donald Trump was still powerful,

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Speaker 1: I'm really trying desperately to seek my own joy. Which

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Speaker 1: is why I decided to leave town just for a

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Speaker 1: of a movement that is about justice, that is about

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Speaker 1: the expansion of that is about truth and facts right,

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Speaker 1: That is about science, right, that it is about democracy

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Speaker 1: and what that means right. It means, you know, government

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Speaker 1: I need you to also believe that you are unworthy.

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Speaker 1: That's where we are with this iteration of the Republican

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Speaker 1: So it isn't enough to say that it isn't enough

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Speaker 1: And it's like they want to call people communists, but

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Speaker 1: what I realized this week too, when I was attacked

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Speaker 1: quote unquote free speech town hall space where everyone gets

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Speaker 1: Dare you come to me and expect me to be

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Speaker 1: And so you look at what rhnd De Santis is doing.

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Speaker 1: to a state that actually welcomes them. How about that?

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Speaker 1: Like you can keep the fucking park, but like they'll

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Speaker 1: majority of this fucking country is. Because it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: happening in rural areas or you know, or quote unquote

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Speaker 1: inner cities. It was happening everywhere. Suburban townships, right, which

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Speaker 1: is supposed to be the American gym, where you have

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Speaker 1: the house in the white picket fence in the front,

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Speaker 1: the places where you saw people wrapped around for miles

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Speaker 1: in food lines. So what does that say right about

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Speaker 1: our country? Not fucking much. I go back to parable

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Speaker 1: of this. I go back to Octavia Butler. I go

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Speaker 1: back to the fact that that woman was a soothsayer,

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Speaker 1: that the confluence of just disaster crisis after crisis after crisis,

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Speaker 1: that all you needed to do was have one person

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Speaker 1: like Donald Trump, just pull one thread and keep yanking

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Speaker 1: it until the entire project fell apart. It breaks my

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Speaker 1: heart on a regular basis, and that is, you know,

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Speaker 1: I realize some days that the core of my anger

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Speaker 1: and rage is really grief. It is truly grief. And

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Speaker 1: when you think about it, unpack your own. Where does

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Speaker 1: our anger, our righteous anger, come from. It comes from

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Speaker 1: a place of reef. We wanted to believe that this

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Speaker 1: country was better than it was because we were gas

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Speaker 1: lit our entire lives thinking that America was exceptional. We

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Speaker 1: sold American exceptionalism everywhere and anywhere. And I've said this

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Speaker 1: time and time again on this show and others. America

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Speaker 1: is not exceptional. It just has better pr right. It

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Speaker 1: just had a bigger megaphone and the ability to spread

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Speaker 1: its lies far and wide. But anybody sitting back now

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Speaker 1: who is not actually in America but looking at America,

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Speaker 1: is like, how y'all are a fucking mess. And this

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Speaker 1: whole time I thought that you were better than us,

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Speaker 1: that you had this whole political democracy thing worked out.

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Speaker 1: Come to find out you don't know shit. Come to

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Speaker 1: find out one man alone could ruin this. Donald Trump said,

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Speaker 1: one man alone, I alone can fix this. No, I

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Speaker 1: alone can ruin this. Who would have thought I sure

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Speaker 1: as fucked didn't. Oh, dear friends, this is what I say,

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Speaker 1: at the end of this week, on this Friday, is

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Speaker 1: take some time, take a lot of time, you know,

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Speaker 1: take take time to I don't know, connect with nature, meditate,

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Speaker 1: you know, connect with friends. Just unplug from this mess

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Speaker 1: and not and don't just do it over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I made the joke the other day that weekends are alive.

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Speaker 1: They're not two days. It's actually one day and a half. Right, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Saturday is the one full day that you have of rest.

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Speaker 1: It isn't Sunday because part of Sunday is preparing for Monday. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: and Friday you're working, and then you have Friday night,

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Speaker 1: and most of us are too fucking exhausted to even

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Speaker 1: enjoy Friday nights anymore. Right, so you get one day Saturday.

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Speaker 1: But that can't be all that we're working towards or

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Speaker 1: all that we're hanging onto. It has to be our joy, friends,

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Speaker 1: Our sanity is relying on our ability to find joy

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Speaker 1: in the most minuscule things. We must grab onto those

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Speaker 1: things on a daily basis. We must make joy a

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Speaker 1: part of our daily practice. Otherwise we are not going

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Speaker 1: to make it to the other side. And if we

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Speaker 1: cannot conjure the light within us to lead us through

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Speaker 1: this darkness, we will not make it. So, you know, please, please, please, please,

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Speaker 1: as these days get, you know, just feel heavier, please

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Speaker 1: figure out what your joy center is and hone it.

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Speaker 1: Grow it, grow your light, because I'm telling you that

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Speaker 1: this darkness, if you don't hone that light inside of

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Speaker 1: you right you're not going to be able to navigate through.

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Speaker 1: So please take that time. That is it for me

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

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Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay

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Speaker 1: woke as fun and joyful, joyful as fuck. You deserve

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Speaker 1: it by virtue of your birth, not because you have

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Speaker 1: to earn it. Be well, friends, see you back here

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Speaker 1: on my day