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Speaker 1: one vote like counts right fully. But if you live

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Speaker 1: in certain states, UM, we still go by this electoral

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Speaker 1: college situation, which is super old school and for those

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Speaker 1: people who don't know the electoral colleges, it's basically gives

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Speaker 1: states a certain number of votes so that UM, no

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Speaker 1: matter kind of how the state, Let's just say the

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Speaker 1: state all votes for one person that that goes to UM.

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

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

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Speaker 1: vote it for someone else, your vote kind of doesn't count.

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Speaker 1: And that's more like UM and the electoral college was

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Speaker 1: set up honestly just to keep uh 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

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Speaker 1: want you to fill left out, so we'll give you

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Speaker 1: will count black people or enslaved people as reforce of

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

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Speaker 1: become more numbers and you can have more electoral votes

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Speaker 1: so that you can have more of a say. So

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

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

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Speaker 1: of it out. Um, 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 are consuming every single day. And I think

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Speaker 1: not just about like, um, you know, the fake news

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Speaker 1: that's like passed around on social media and social platforms.

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Speaker 1: I think about some like real quote on quote reputable

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Speaker 1: cultural sources that like spew and like lift up the weirdest,

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Speaker 1: the wrong, like many many or wrong people consistently, and

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Speaker 1: and and this viewing of bad information. And I am

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Speaker 1: so actually shocked at how misinformed are people are. So

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Speaker 1: the one thing I would say is like social media

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Speaker 1: is not It's not a news source. Now. If you

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Speaker 1: are following uh Box, if you're following Associated Press, if

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Speaker 1: you're following you know, um, you know other reputable news

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Speaker 1: sources in New York Times, Washington Post, papers and media

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Speaker 1: outlets of record, that's that's news. But what somebody is

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Speaker 1: posting on Facebook or what they're posting on Instagram or TikTok,

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Speaker 1: that is not real and like stuff at face value.

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, I would listen, Stephanie, you preached into

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Speaker 1: the choir. I will have legitimate conversations with people and

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, no, I saw it the other day,

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Speaker 1: is said, they had said, And I'm like, who is they?

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Speaker 1: And people that I consider intelligent whomever they find that

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Speaker 1: fits whatever they feel, which is why some outlets, you know,

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Speaker 1: and this is my talking, this is not Stephanie's opinion,

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Speaker 1: but something out like a Facebook I had to get

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Speaker 1: off because I was like, I can't, I can't them,

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Speaker 1: and I know they go out of their way to

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Speaker 1: try to change it now. But then for years we

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Speaker 1: were listening to things that were just like they said,

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Speaker 1: she had five heads and two kids. I remember, this

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do anything, but I remember when Sarah

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Speaker 1: Palin was running for office and um, she was Chrisen

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Speaker 1: rather right, and social media that's when it when it

486
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Speaker 1: I believe, I believe the misinformation went into a frenzy

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Speaker 1: with the thought of this woman. She was so incredibly polarizing.

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Speaker 1: But that's when I that was my first witness of

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Speaker 1: it all for you remember that time obviously, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: doesn't Obama being a Muslim? Yeah, they started he wasn't

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Speaker 1: born here. Uh. And then there was something about her

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Speaker 1: daughter having a baby by a black rapper, like she

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Speaker 1: was secretly pregnant and had a baby. It was just

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Speaker 1: all I was like, enough, I can't you know, it

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Speaker 1: just doesn't sound logical. And I'm only people will believe

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Speaker 1: what they want to believe, so right, misinformation is um

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Speaker 1: a huge problem because people don't want like there are

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Speaker 1: people who will tell you January six was fine, nothing happened,

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Speaker 1: that wasn't a threat to our country. But we're completely desensitized.

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Speaker 1: Like I saw an article the other day about UM

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Speaker 1: and I believe it was from CNN about how you know,

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Speaker 1: like we social media is changing the way that we think.

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Speaker 1: Um our attention span is limited, so we can't absorb

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Speaker 1: as much information as we used to, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's creating more isolation, more violence, all of these things.

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Speaker 1: It's like literally like and changing our empathy levels as well.

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Speaker 1: So like because we're saying fighting, we're seeing so many

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Speaker 1: bad things on these platforms that make us feel like

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Speaker 1: it's okay. So when we see I don't know, the

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Speaker 1: thousands of white people like storm the capital with Confederate flags,

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Speaker 1: it's like another day. Uh No, it's not another day.

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's so incredibly important, um that the

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Speaker 1: January six hearings actually come to some sort of conclusion.

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's incredibly important is happening with the

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Speaker 1: former president actually being you know, potentially you know, he's

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Speaker 1: not indicted yet, but like, all of these things are happening,

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Speaker 1: and they're important to actually protect our democracy because if

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Speaker 1: there are no checks and balances, then what are we

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Speaker 1: doing this for? If people are not going to be

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Speaker 1: held accountable for their bad actions, what are we doing work? Hey,

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Speaker 1: everybody had to pay some bills. I wish I can

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Speaker 1: vote to not do this. No more commercial breaks. But

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Speaker 1: that's what happens. That's how this works, is how this

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Speaker 1: system works. When we come back on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the break, we have Stephanie Young. Every champion and

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Speaker 1: carevery Chappi is to be a champion a cheppion and

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Speaker 1: carry Cheppi and they carry chepiano Cheppi and they carry

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Speaker 1: Cheppi and they carry cheppi sports and then the same

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Speaker 1: making make it workry cheppi and they carry Cheppi. Is

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Speaker 1: to be a chepian, a chappi and they carry Cheppi

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Speaker 1: and they cheppi and they carry Chappi and they care

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Speaker 1: with Cheppi sposion. Then welcome back to Naked. Stephanie is here,

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Speaker 1: drop a knowledge, get your pen, get your paper. She's

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00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: gonna give you some resources so you know it is

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Speaker 1: important to vote. I want to repeat what you said

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Speaker 1: because it's very powerful. You talked about the the actual

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Speaker 1: voting process and how it began. It began for rich

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Speaker 1: white man, That's what it was for. They started to

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Speaker 1: expand it because they had no other choice, because they

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00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: wanted equity, not because they thought it was good to

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Speaker 1: make sure that the marginalized, the women, the black the

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Speaker 1: blacks were included. It was because it helped their process

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Speaker 1: um and and over the years, we have refused to

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Speaker 1: adjust rules that were based how many years ago in

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Speaker 1: this country and from seventeen in the seventeen hundreds, I

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Speaker 1: mean the system has changed a bit, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, they and they still have the same voting rule.

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Speaker 1: That's insane to me. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: nuts if you think about it. Though. Let's just think

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Speaker 1: about when the Voting Rights Act that was what nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty five, I believe, Uh, but it's in our parents lifetime, Yes,

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00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: for sure. We we speed past and we don't recognize that.

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00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: Like my grandmother was born in nineteen thirteen and loved

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Speaker 1: George Georgia and she technically really did not get the

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Speaker 1: right to vote in this country until she was fifty

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Speaker 1: years old, was born in nineteen til she talks about

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00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: it all the time. Same. So, like we're not that

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Speaker 1: far removed. And I think that, like we were, just

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Speaker 1: things are moving. It feels like we're moving so fast,

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Speaker 1: like time is like elastic. I don't know what's happening

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00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: right now, but like things are moving fast. We don't

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Speaker 1: recognize that, like we have not we have not been

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Speaker 1: on this journey so long. This is a very young,

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00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: young country, um. And that's one of the reasons why

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00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: people are so afraid of our votes is because they

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Speaker 1: actually know that we have the power to change things.

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Speaker 1: They know that this country is going to look different.

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Speaker 1: We're talking on the next years, like this is going

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Speaker 1: to be a majority minority country, so people of color

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Speaker 1: will be the majority. They know that. That is why

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Speaker 1: there is where we're here, right. And also like, and

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking literally on behalf of myself here, but if

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Speaker 1: you you've you heard a congresswoman say to the former

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Speaker 1: president of the United States, who was a part of

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Speaker 1: spooing all the disinformation and continues to be um to

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Speaker 1: this day, which is beyond dangerous, literally say and thank

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Speaker 1: him for protecting white life when it came to row

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I mean said, she did not even misspeak.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I did. The next day. This woman was insane.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what else is insane. The fact

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Speaker 1: that we have a Supreme Court justice by the name

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Speaker 1: of this is all Carrie Champion saying, the fact that

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Speaker 1: we have a Supreme Court justice by the name of

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Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas with his wife Jeanie who is in bed

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00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: with the right Party, Right Party insurrection, insurrection, telling Trump

586
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Speaker 1: to do all types of illegal things as the president.

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00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: This woman is a radical. And do you not believe

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Speaker 1: they don't pillow talk, And do you not believe that

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00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: he's not making sure she doesn't go to jail because

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Speaker 1: what she did is it's one he should not be

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Speaker 1: sitting on that he should not visiting, defrocked whatever, sit down. Look,

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Speaker 1: as my mother defined, yes, they're like a disgrace. My

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00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: mother says that consistently, but like it is a disgrace,

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Speaker 1: they're a good marshal. That's what that's the person to

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Speaker 1: feel to see. So I mean it is, it is,

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Speaker 1: it's beyond me. We've reached like a different level. So

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Speaker 1: no matter how exhausted we all are from everything, like,

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Speaker 1: we don't have the ability to like take a long

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Speaker 1: nap here. So right now, and I'm not sure in

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Speaker 1: the exact are date of this, but we're about ten

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Speaker 1: mondays away from the election. This airs on Monday, so

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00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: that's fine. Yeah. So yeah, and by the way, as

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Speaker 1: we get even closer, we'll re up and put more

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Speaker 1: messaging out and so yeah, and and so I I

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Speaker 1: say all that to complaint, so people understand the urgency

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Speaker 1: of what we're doing. So you cannot stay on social

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Speaker 1: media and and be like, I know what's going on

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00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: with Kim Kardashian and North and not know what's going

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00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: on in our country. It is unfair to yourself. It's

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00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: unfair to your children, it's unfair to your family. It

611
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: is so disrespectful in the country that we're living in.

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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: If we needed to vote. If you thought voting was

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Speaker 1: like breathing, it is the equivalent, like you need to

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Speaker 1: breathe to live. I promise you That's how I feel

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00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: about what the the the lack of urgency when it

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Speaker 1: comes to voting. Yeah, and all that. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people live, especially because of all the misinformation

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00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: are getting or just lives really on social media. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, they feel as if, oh everything's rigged or

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Speaker 1: it's conspiracy. I worked in the federal government. I worked there,

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Speaker 1: Okay for many days. It wasn't your cousin at the Pentagon.

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00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: Remember when when COVID first started, the Pentagon said, now

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Speaker 1: cousin at the Pentagon, you worked there. She worked in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d she is, she's legitimate. People like me, like nobody

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00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: is coming up with some deep conspiracies like nothing is.

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00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: It's just there are people who are trying to be corrupt,

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00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: for sure, and that that was definitely a former president

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Speaker 1: of the United States, and we're saying that play out

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Speaker 1: right now. But at the end of the day, like,

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Speaker 1: this is not an episode of scandal. This is real life.

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Speaker 1: This is not like you know, Last Designated Survivor. We

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00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: need to let And that's one of the reasons why

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Speaker 1: I had the whole entertainment panel at our summit to

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Speaker 1: talk about we have to have narratives um and more

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00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: nuanced stories that we're telling the public about government, because

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00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: it's not supposed to always be this kind of one

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Speaker 1: like lane of like corruption, which I think helps to

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00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: feed into any bad information you get. You're gonna refer

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00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: back to that bad TV show you watched, even though yeah,

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00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: we like to watch it, it's fun, whatever, but it's

641
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Speaker 1: not real. And I think that sometimes we get wrapped

642
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: up in these like fake conspiracies of like, well, doesn't

643
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: matter what I do because everything is already set up. No,

644
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: it's not, actually, but what what what's happening right now

645
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: is that you're really falling into that matrix of feeling

646
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: like things are set up and people are like, well great,

647
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 1: do you all stay home and I'm gonna vote. There

648
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: are people with with huge platforms who believe that, and

649
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: that is another part of what you said is you

650
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: think is the biggest problem is the misinformation. Well, everybody,

651
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: I know, you know, something can happen, and they're like,

652
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: I'll tell you if you look back on this day,

653
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: it indicated that you're just like, Okay. For me, I

654
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: try to stay grounded and not really feed into perhaps,

655
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: but there is something Stephanie to the system is working

656
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: the way the system is set up to work. That's true.

657
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: So what I think again, people might be confusing conspiracy

658
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: theories for the system is set to work the way

659
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: the system is set to work. Right. Yeah. And one thing,

660
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: one thing I do want to mention is jerrymandering because

661
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: I think when you think about those members of Congress, right,

662
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, I'm from Atlanta. John Lewis was my congressman,

663
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: Like my entire life based um, but we voted for

664
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: him and we love to him, and he's obviously an

665
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: icon and all these different things. And you know, I

666
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: think about that district in Atlanta in the way that

667
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: it's carved out. And what they do is on the

668
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: on the state legislators legislative side, right, So the people

669
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: who you probably don't even think you're voting for you

670
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: because you're not paying attention for them. But when you

671
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: don't vote, you actually are voting for somebody because someone else. Right, Um,

672
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: they are able to determine, like how they map out

673
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: these districts right in your state. And so what that

674
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: means is that they have taken um the pen and

675
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: gone super crazy to ensure that we don't ever want

676
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: the seat not to be a red seat, right, or

677
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: we don't ever want the seat not to be a

678
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: blue seat. Potentially, so let's make this whole like district

679
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: the shape of an E doesn't even make sense, so

680
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: that we're packing in the voters that we know will

681
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: vote for us, and so that this other group of

682
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: people will never ever have a chance to win UM.

683
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: And that is that's what jerrymandering is. It's where politicians

684
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: are picking their voters as opposed to being the other

685
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: way around. So it can feel like sometimes it doesn't

686
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: matter because it doesn't matter what we do. We don't

687
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: have enough numbers to beat this person right right, That

688
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: is what former Attorney General Eric Holder is working on

689
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: right now with his organization UM. And if you tap

690
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: into what they're doing, I mean they're they're helping to

691
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: to redraw maps all over this country and helping to

692
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: really in partisan jerrymandering. Uh So that really does count

693
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: when you actually vote. So some of these kind of

694
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: more institutional problems UM that are creating, you know, the

695
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: system to work in the way that they were created

696
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: to work in, right, UM, are being addressed. We might

697
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: not know that they're being worked on. So I want

698
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: people to at least have some hope and understanding that,

699
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: like the things that we're talking about aren't just like

700
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: flying by the way, So I always paying them any attention.

701
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: People are working on them. It just takes a long time,

702
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: just like it took fifty years to overturn rope, okay,

703
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: because it didn't and it took them along time to

704
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: get to this moment into this place, UM. And so

705
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,959
Speaker 1: it's going to take us a very very long time

706
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: to right some of these wrongs. But we will never

707
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: be able to do that if we do not vote.

708
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: And that's why it's so critically important. I also say,

709
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: one thing when it comes to righting some of these

710
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: wrongs in the way our system is set up is

711
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: that we had the Freedom to Vote Act and the

712
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: John was Voting Rights Act. We're trying to restore the

713
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: John Was Voting It's out so that we can protect

714
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: these states that have a history of discrimination on the

715
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: on the basis of race, like Georgia and other states

716
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: that are experiencing high voter suppression issues. And then, um,

717
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: we also have the Freedom to Vote Act, which expans

718
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: the right to vote. Uh, you know, it helps with

719
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: automatic voter registration in some states. It helps with more

720
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: early early voting days. It modernizes our system because we

721
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: all grew up believing in Everybody says the United State

722
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: it's the best country in the world. Well are we?

723
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: There's many other so great? Why our voting systems so

724
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: old and antiquated? Why don't we go to a place,

725
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: we go to a polling place, you have to wait

726
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: an hour or two hours that I should be able

727
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: to vote from my phone, look exactly, so, why why

728
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: aren't we updating these processes and these systems. But it's

729
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: not even just voting. Look around, We've just got an

730
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: infrastructure bill for the first seven out and know forever

731
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: because our roads are crumbling. Obviously, climate changes is literally

732
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: taking over the world right now, all over the world.

733
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: Bloods in Pakistan and all these terrible there was it

734
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: was it was a massive flooding I think in Mississippi

735
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: the other day or somewhere here and shifting and it's

736
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: affecting you're drinking water right now. So like and definitely

737
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: like there's so many things that are happening because instead

738
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: of people, uh you know, working on our behalf, people

739
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: have been working to maintain power, they're not working for

740
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: us right there with power absolutely, and they're beyond frightened

741
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: because the minority in this country is about to become

742
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: the majority. Uh. Chris Rock made a really funny joke.

743
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: He said, um, you know when kids act were they

744
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: act really really crazy when it's nap time or time

745
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: to go to slaves. Now they're doing stupid stuff. They're

746
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: like action and something, you know. So that is what

747
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: we're experiencing right now, Like people the temper tantrum because

748
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: they know it's time to go sleep, especially over them. Uh.

749
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: So you know, I just don't want people to get

750
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: discouraged by everything. They're saying, I want people to know

751
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: that folks are working in the scenes as as possible

752
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: or run of the scenes. Um. But but we all

753
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: have to do our individual part, and that is the voting. Yeah,

754
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: and we don't want you to be discouraged. We want

755
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: you to go out and vote. We want you to

756
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: be activated. We want you to care about something. Because

757
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: to me, that's a large part of what's going on

758
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: with voter apathy and people not caring is because they

759
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: don't They don't have anything that has ignited them. It

760
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: doesn't effect in their minds. They asking how it affects

761
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: them as an individual. If you're talking to someone about voting,

762
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: they're like, what they have to do with me? What

763
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: does that do with my my me working day to day,

764
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck. Literally it literally has everything to do

765
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: from there, we see it. Yeah. Yeah, well look so

766
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: in I'll say this, like we had the highest voter

767
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: turnout in modern history where over of Americans voted, and

768
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: they voted because obviously we're all sitting down it was COVID,

769
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: but you could see how government impacts your lives. If

770
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: your president does not believe in a global pandemic, if

771
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: your governor does not believe in the global pandemic. Um.

772
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: All of these things impact the way in which you

773
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: are making money. Can you actually go to work? Can

774
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: we watch out, Stephanie? So like we saw firsthand how

775
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: government impacks our lives every single day, and now they're

776
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: trying to take control of our uterus. So uh like

777
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: now that to me, there's absolutely no excuse, and I

778
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: know that through research. Unfortunately, like messaging around, especially for

779
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: young black people, it doesn't resonate that, oh, your grandparents

780
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: fought for this right, they died for this. They're like whatever,

781
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: which is really sad, and they don't view voting as

782
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: a responsibility but more it's like a choice that they

783
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: maybe should make. UM. I would encourage people if if

784
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: you're if you're interested, if you like history, if you

785
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: if you value it. UM. Brian Stevenson, who is an

786
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: amazing lawyer who works um consistently twenty four hours to

787
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: help get people off of death row. He has a

788
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: lynching memorial down in Montgomery, Alabama, and I went there

789
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: recently and literally, I mean you can see these pillars,

790
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: like you have to look up like you are looking

791
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: at a body, and it is it is Jarring, and

792
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: you see the county and the name, and you see

793
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: people with your last name, you can't help to think

794
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: this is a family member of mine. But that's this

795
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: whole wall looks like the Vietnam Memorial Wall where there

796
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: are reasons why these these men or these women were lynched.

797
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: And I kid you not as either whisk there is

798
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: either looking at a white woman. Okay, that was that

799
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: was one of the reasons why. You know, folks religious

800
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: at a high level. But the other one was voting. Voted,

801
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 1: they tried to vote. It's like, oh my god, Like

802
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: there were countless of African Americans killed, countless just for

803
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: trying to vote. So you know, I think us not

804
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: understanding that history. But it's beyond like for me disappointing

805
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: because you know, it wasn't that long ago. And if

806
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: we take it for granted and shrug it off, uh,

807
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: and look, I get it, that's a part of voter

808
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: Suppressioncause voter suppression manifest in the physical, the laws and

809
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: the barriers, but it manifest potential who the thought that

810
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: my vote doesn't count. Um listening to stories when people

811
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: tell me, like my my grandmother would talk about when

812
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: she finally got to vote, or they would dress up

813
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: because voting was a privilege. They understood how it was

814
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: like putting your Sunday's best to go and vote because

815
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: it is a privilege. And now it's like, oh is

816
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: everyone near me? Do I have time? Can I park here?

817
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: You know? I don't. I don't know how. And I

818
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: think we're trying our best to do that. But voting

819
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: is still very much a privilege for the market. I mean,

820
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: where do you want Do you want to live in

821
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: a democracy? Like democracy is where the people are supposed

822
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: to have the power, right, so you can only have

823
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: the power if you participate. And I think that we've

824
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: been spoiled because we haven't had to think in this country,

825
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: well where is my water coming from? Do I have

826
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: to walk, you know, miles to a well to get water?

827
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: Or do I have electricity? Or do I have access

828
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: to this? You we have access to so much, and

829
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: we've just sat down and gotten comfortable. And I think

830
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: to like, after President Obama was elected, it was like,

831
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: all right, well he's gonna fix everything and and I'm

832
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,720
Speaker 1: not gonna do anything else. I mean literally, that's what happened.

833
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: People sat down and that's when you know, he lost

834
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives, and he was so limited in

835
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: what he actually could do. But you had people like

836
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell back in the day stand up and say

837
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna make him a one term president. You have

838
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: people stand up in on the floor in the House

839
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: of Representatives and call him a liar in a tone

840
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: where you know that it wasn't liar was not the

841
00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: word they wanted to say. The other at the end

842
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: of the day, like, you know, I think, I think

843
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: President Obama doesn't get all the credit that actually he deserves.

844
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: Um and and trying his best work in the system

845
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: that is racist and that I agree. I agree. I

846
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: had no Christian working with him and showing him the

847
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: respect as a man um and then turning around and

848
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: being mad and being like, well he didn't fix this

849
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: or he wasn't able to do this, and then you know,

850
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: and then sitting back and then and then listening to

851
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: all the disinformation with his heartbreaking UM in six and

852
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: allowing like all that chatter to deter you from to

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

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Speaker 1: Court that looks the way it does. So I there's

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: lives at jo't right. We have to remember this. It

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Speaker 1: takes seven touches to get people to get someone renistered

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Speaker 1: to vote. Seven So you can't just go hey, register

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Speaker 1: and 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 well yeah. And then also for

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Speaker 1: 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. Um. And what we

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00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: do when we vote, we have parties at the polls.

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Speaker 1: So we'll be having parties at the polls. Uh this

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Speaker 1: October for early voting and going into obviously election day

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Speaker 1: November eight Um, you know vote National Vote Registration Day

874
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Speaker 1: is coming up. I know nobody knows about that day.

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Speaker 1: Only people who work in the space do Regardless, Um,

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Speaker 1: the S eighteen is gonna be a really big week

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Speaker 1: of action where we'll be out there registering voters and

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Speaker 1: we would love people to join us in doing that.

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

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have another call um on the nineteenth with

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Speaker 1: someone's special link wink, so that people are you know,

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

883
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Speaker 1: you want to do more, we are that. That's it

884
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,760
Speaker 1: is free to come to and we make it easy.

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00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: We try to make it fun and celebratory. Um. But

886
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: like this is a continual conversation, and I hate what

887
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: people say we don't want to talk about politics at

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Speaker 1: the dinner table. You should, absolutely because if you don't

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00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: do politics, politics will do you and it's doing us. Amen. Amen,

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Speaker 1: Stephanie Young, thank you so much for sharing all of

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Speaker 1: this wisdom. More importantly, keeping us focused. We have to vote.

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Speaker 1: That's all that matters. That is the end of the discussion.

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Speaker 1: You don't know who to vote for, you can go

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00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: to when we all vote dot org. You can type

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Speaker 1: in your address. You can find out who you should

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Speaker 1: be voting for, party wise, whatever works for you. And

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Speaker 1: more importantly, seven touches, y'all. I'm gonna keep saying seven touches.

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Speaker 1: That was nice touches. It's seven touches. And if you

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Speaker 1: feel like for those friends who say voting isn't everything,

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Speaker 1: well it's the first thing. Then you got to advocate

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Speaker 1: for the issues you care about. But that's another that's

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Speaker 1: another episode, but you will have them all. Let's trust me. Um.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you so very much. Is there anything else

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Speaker 1: that you wanted to add before I let you go? No,

905
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Speaker 1: just make sure you're falling us and social at when

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00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: we all vote. We have a lot of explainers breaking

907
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: down everything that's happening so that you can feel smarter

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

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

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Speaker 1: upcoming weeks of action. So maybe intimidated you, guys, it's

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Speaker 1: an easy process, it is. I wonder, thank you carry

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Speaker 1: so much? All right, So again mid terms, she said

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Speaker 1: about ten mondays away, I'll re up this guy's I

914
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Speaker 1: will re up this so that you make sure that

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Speaker 1: you pay attention. But what I thought was really important,

916
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Speaker 1: she said, you can go to the win we All

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Speaker 1: Vote website, putting your address and then say, hey, who

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Speaker 1: should I be voting for? Because it is intimidating. It

919
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: is an intense process. But we need help. And that's okay.

920
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: All of us need to help, myself included. I need

921
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Speaker 1: you guys to follow them and when we all vote,

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Speaker 1: that's on Instagram when we all vote, or listen, go

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Speaker 1: to when we All Vote dot org. That's what she said.

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Speaker 1: That's how you can find out how to register to vote,

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Speaker 1: how you can find out what you need to be

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Speaker 1: doing in this next election, and you can also see

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Speaker 1: what other events that they have coming up. Um. I

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Speaker 1: will revisit this just before mid term elections to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we are activated. We cannot let them take

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Speaker 1: this privilege away from us, because voting is a privilege.

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Speaker 1: Go ask you a great great great great grandparents. Okay

932
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Speaker 1: they may not be around, Go ask your great grandparents,

933
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Speaker 1: or your grandparents or your mom. Voting was a privilege

934
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Speaker 1: for the marginalized. It really was, and I think we

935
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Speaker 1: take it for granted. And I hope that you've learned

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Speaker 1: something today as we try to change the world. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening to Naked and I will talk to

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Speaker 1: you all. Thanks. Sweet