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Monday Mini: How Are We Doing? · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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Speaker 1: I've never told your production of iHeart Radio. All right,
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Speaker 1: welcome to today's Monday Minni were I decided we're going
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Speaker 1: to go and see how are we doing? So? Hey,
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Speaker 1: fam how are you doing? Annie? How are you doing?
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Speaker 1: There's so many doings right there? Are there are reminds
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Speaker 1: me of I randomly watched an episode of Friends the
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Speaker 1: other day, and I was reminded of Joey saying how
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Speaker 1: are you doing? All the time I'm doing. I'll be honest,
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Speaker 1: I've been struggling lately. I think a lot of us have.
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Speaker 1: I have a lot of family drama happening right now,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like we've talked about this, but I
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Speaker 1: feel like everybody in my life isn't doing very well,
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Speaker 1: and that impacts me because I feel like I should
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Speaker 1: help you, but I don't know how to help you,
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Speaker 1: and so that becomes sort of a heavy burden to bear,
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to. Another part of that is
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Speaker 1: I don't want people to feel like they can't come
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Speaker 1: to me with what's bothering them, because it's gonna bother me,
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Speaker 1: So you kind of have to. I feel like I
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Speaker 1: have to keep that to myself, which is um a lot.
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Speaker 1: But I do continue to have support from great friends
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Speaker 1: like you, and that's been nice. Like, even though we're
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Speaker 1: two years into this pandemic, some relationships have just stage
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Speaker 1: and that there's something about that that I find really
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Speaker 1: beautiful and comforting. Right, Yeah, I'm with you. I think
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Speaker 1: you and I've talked about this that I just have
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Speaker 1: the same way. When something is bothering other people, it
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Speaker 1: bothers me, including if I watch it on social media
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Speaker 1: and I might not know you, but I see what
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Speaker 1: you're going through and for some reason, I wear it.
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Speaker 1: And I thought I was thinking that we need to
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Speaker 1: do an episode on this in general. It may be
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Speaker 1: more of a happy hour episode when it comes through,
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Speaker 1: but talking about true empathy, UM, and what that feels
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Speaker 1: like and what it does when you're so open or
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Speaker 1: because you've gone through trauma so therefore you're able to
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Speaker 1: be empathetic because you understand that level of pain, that
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Speaker 1: what that looks like today, and what that looks like
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Speaker 1: when you don't have the outlet. Yeah, and then also
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Speaker 1: people who don't understand what you're talking about, like like
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Speaker 1: literally like why why are you so affected? It has
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with you and look, but something to
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Speaker 1: do with people that I care about, and that means
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Speaker 1: it has something to do with me. But yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: with you with that. But yeah, I think it's also
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Speaker 1: because we do have good friends. We have great listeners.
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Speaker 1: I know, people checked in or like are you okay
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Speaker 1: after my I'm having a crisis, uh episode, And I
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Speaker 1: appreciate that so much because I know, yeah, it's like, hey, no, seriously,
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Speaker 1: you're good. Um. But that also tells us that hopefully
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Speaker 1: that you've been with us as well, and hopefully we've
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Speaker 1: been there for y'all, whether it's distracting you, given you
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Speaker 1: new information, maybe better, maybe worse, um, but just updating
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Speaker 1: you on what's going on in the last two years.
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Speaker 1: So thanks for sticking with us. Yes, you truly are
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Speaker 1: bright spots in our day when we hear from you
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Speaker 1: and you send those pictures and so sweet, it's so good.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I did want to do a quick rundown
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Speaker 1: of what was happening. And yeah, this is a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a negative ish look. So if you are like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear all the bad things today?
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Speaker 1: Can we not talk about it? You may want to
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Speaker 1: skip this one and come back because we are going
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Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about what's happening specifically in
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Speaker 1: the U S. I'm so sorry. I know we're fairly
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Speaker 1: US centric, but this is kind of the headlines that
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Speaker 1: we have seen. And yes, it is a March, Happy
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Speaker 1: Sat Patris Day. Yes, and it's also the anniversary when
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Speaker 1: I got my first dareth in the vaccine. Okay, well
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Speaker 1: I don't think I have green on right now. Well
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Speaker 1: your muster, I know. I'm so sorry. Um, but for
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Speaker 1: the US, and I don't know, is is this an
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Speaker 1: international thing? Not really? And we we really turned it
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Speaker 1: into a party thing here you ask for it's not
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Speaker 1: really a party thing, okay, so yeah, so this is
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Speaker 1: more of a US centric thing. But yeah, so for
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Speaker 1: those who do know what we're talking about, I don't
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Speaker 1: really do much of it because, yeah, I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: we're green. I guess corn beef and cabbage. I make
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Speaker 1: corn beef and cabbage and I drink ginness. I'm sorry
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Speaker 1: if that's so stereotypical or Paul, but I do like
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Speaker 1: the I like marking time through things like that. Yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I do love a good guinness. So celebrating is
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Speaker 1: not bad. Let's all just celebrate things. And I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't like to go out and bother other people
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Speaker 1: about it. That's as my partner brings our cultures together
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Speaker 1: by doing corn beef and hash and then kenji as
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Speaker 1: our cabbage. Yeah, last year he did um me so
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Speaker 1: broth marinade for the corn beef feels real if it's
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Speaker 1: real good, but it's good anyway. Coming back to yeah,
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Speaker 1: so it is like I said, March two, so if
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Speaker 1: this is like five years on the road to hope,
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Speaker 1: things have completely changed and it's better. M sighing. Um.
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Speaker 1: But yeah. You also talked about the fact that recently
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Speaker 1: you had your quarantine anniversary, and I guess I did too.
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Speaker 1: I don't keep up with days as much as you do, obviously,
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Speaker 1: but I was like, yeah, I guess that's about around
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Speaker 1: the time because we came back and everything was bad,
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Speaker 1: and you and I did one last recording the day
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Speaker 1: they deep cleaned our office like has mess suit level
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Speaker 1: of deep clean and said, don't come back for another
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Speaker 1: day or two. We should find that episode because I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure you can hear them in the background, like
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Speaker 1: I just remember looking love and like they have has
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Speaker 1: mess suit song. Should we leave? I know we were
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Speaker 1: looking at we should probably not be here right, like,
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Speaker 1: we're not coming over here for a second. So you're okay,
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, but you're in okay, You're in a
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Speaker 1: full suit to have the equipment to record at home.
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Speaker 1: Yet it was very we had to what are we
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Speaker 1: going to do? What can we do now? And I
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Speaker 1: think like a week before did our little dance video
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Speaker 1: that we did to love And now I'm like, now
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Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm good, But yes, that has happened, and
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Speaker 1: I know Andy and I we've talked about the five
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Speaker 1: that we're still fairly quarantined, like it's not as much
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Speaker 1: because I've come to the point like I need to
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Speaker 1: get out and do some things. But am I masking everywhere? Yes?
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Speaker 1: And yes, I know mass mandates have gone away, but
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Speaker 1: pretty much all over the country. We know that the
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Speaker 1: CDC has said it's okay, but I still have, like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I've been fairly healthier with a mask,
6:22
Speaker 1: and I mean that for colds and flues and all
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Speaker 1: of that. So I'm just gonna keep doing it. It It
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Speaker 1: feels very Asian. I wanted to just lean into that
6:29
Speaker 1: um which was funny because we went to Florida not
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Speaker 1: too long ago, which I am petrified of going to
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Speaker 1: Florida now because of a lot of the anti everything rhetoric.
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Speaker 1: But I was like, you know, still wearing my mask.
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Was I the only one? Yes? When
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Speaker 1: we were traveling down south, we went to a Bucky's
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Speaker 1: gas station. I said, it was a picture. It was massive,
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Speaker 1: it was chaotic. I was like, what is this place?
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Speaker 1: And it was very interesting. And when we walked in,
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Speaker 1: my partner and I had our masks on, and the
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Speaker 1: only people who really had masks were a few employees
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Speaker 1: and pretty much people of color. So I was like,
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Speaker 1: that tells you a lot right there. That tells you
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Speaker 1: a lot right there. Just talking about what is happening
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Speaker 1: with COVID in the US and internationally. This I got
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Speaker 1: this UH information earlier this week, so it's two days
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Speaker 1: old ishue as of then. It said that the cases
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Speaker 1: UH for COVID has gone down forty four point seven
7:39
Speaker 1: percent in the last two weeks UM. The average daily
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Speaker 1: cases are at this again, this is two days ago,
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Speaker 1: thirty six thousand, six hundred sixty nine. The total confirmed
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Speaker 1: cases is seventy nine million, seven thousand, seventy six. And
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Speaker 1: then to talk about the deaths, there has been an
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Speaker 1: average daily death of one thousand, three hundred thirty UM.
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Speaker 1: The total confirmed deaths equal out and this again into
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Speaker 1: the US nine seventy two thou two hundred and fourteen UM.
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Speaker 1: So we're closing in towards the million mark. And I
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Speaker 1: am horrified that we seem to be okay with those numbers. Again,
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Speaker 1: within these same reports that I got from both Healthline,
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Speaker 1: the CDC, and the NBC, it's saying that globally there
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Speaker 1: have been more than four hundred and fifty four million
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Speaker 1: confirmed deaths more than six million associated deaths, and this
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Speaker 1: is according to the Johns Hopkins Report. United States has
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Speaker 1: reported more than a seventy nine million confirmed cases. As
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Speaker 1: we said earlier, currently more than two four million people
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Speaker 1: in the US have received their first COVID vaccine YEA,
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Speaker 1: and more than two hundred sixteen people, how are fully vaccinated.
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Speaker 1: And then the number of BOOST is only nine million,
8:51
Speaker 1: still higher than I thought. What I like more, Yes,
8:55
Speaker 1: but that's okay. There's also a conversation that we're not
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Speaker 1: gonna too deep into it, that the numbers are way
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Speaker 1: lower than what it should be. It's probably three times
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Speaker 1: more what they have confirmed. So there's like been more
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Speaker 1: than six million associated deaths around the world again as
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Speaker 1: we said, um, and they're saying that's probably under the
9:16
Speaker 1: actual amount and it's probably eighteen million more. So like
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Speaker 1: that because unders underreported, which makes sense, but we don't
9:24
Speaker 1: have that as a confirmation. That's just an estimate of
9:27
Speaker 1: the fact that it has been underreported and or incorrectly
9:32
Speaker 1: reported and or not just not reported at all. But
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Speaker 1: kind of death is just us death and they move on.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things that's happening with that,
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Speaker 1: and of course there's a new delta omicron area, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: they've merged. Yeah, and I know I've read some reports
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Speaker 1: that they're expecting another wave with the Ukraine. Um, all
9:53
Speaker 1: the stuff happening in Ukraine and uh like fleeing from Europe.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's every time I'm like, it's time to
10:02
Speaker 1: go out, I swear, Yeah, it's like nope, I feel
10:06
Speaker 1: like at this point for me, I don't know about
10:08
Speaker 1: you that yes, we I am boosted. And if they
10:11
Speaker 1: tell us we have to have a second second boost,
10:13
Speaker 1: I'm ready. If I have a year, give it to me,
10:15
Speaker 1: that's fine, let's go, and like I'm going to be
10:18
Speaker 1: cautious still going out, but at this point I am
10:21
Speaker 1: going out. I am going to do more things, not
10:24
Speaker 1: all the time, like I will do the quarantine myself
10:27
Speaker 1: if I'm doing big events, so people, if I'm gonna
10:29
Speaker 1: be around people who at risk older, you know, autoimmune,
10:32
Speaker 1: any of that, and make sure that I am spacing
10:35
Speaker 1: myself that time. And I've still got plenty of tests
10:38
Speaker 1: to use, you know, stuff like that. I think that's
10:41
Speaker 1: still important. But yeah, I mean being responsible as a
10:45
Speaker 1: whole thing, and I hate that. Uh well, you know,
10:51
Speaker 1: since the beginning, it's been a fight for people in
10:53
Speaker 1: the US and people, you know, especially outside of Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: for US in Georgia and then going to Florida. Outside
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Speaker 1: of major cities, it's harder to get people to do
11:03
Speaker 1: and it's interesting to see where they lie. But I
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Speaker 1: guess that's just the way in life now, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: heavy sigh, heavy, heavy side, Moving on to more stuff. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so the Asian spaw murders that happened kind of hit,
11:20
Speaker 1: I guess in an anniversary. I hate the word anniversary
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Speaker 1: because it feels like a celebration, but it's a marker
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Speaker 1: that it was a little now a little over a
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Speaker 1: year ago. Um. And I was kind of reading through
11:33
Speaker 1: some things, looking at the conversations that we've had, and
11:36
Speaker 1: and I read in one report that according to the
11:40
Speaker 1: Center of the Study of Hate and Extremism, it revealed
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Speaker 1: that anti Asian hate crimes have increased by three thirty
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Speaker 1: nine percent, increased from so in the big numbers, it
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Speaker 1: seems that we were seeing it is in New York,
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Speaker 1: San Francisco, in l A. And I don't know if
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Speaker 1: it's just that side of social media that I'm on,
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Speaker 1: but I'm seeing a lot of reports of hate crimes
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Speaker 1: and targeted crimes in New York which have me terrified.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, and you know that I want
12:10
Speaker 1: to do a road trip, and of course New York
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Speaker 1: would be an automatic obvious, but as an Asian person,
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Speaker 1: I am constantly afraid anyway. Going to Florida, I was
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Speaker 1: really scared because I don't necessarily know if anything is happening.
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Speaker 1: But I was also wearing a mask because I'm wearing
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Speaker 1: a mask and I'm gonna be targeted. Am I going
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Speaker 1: to be called out for something? I have? It dealt
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Speaker 1: with that, y'all. But it's always in the back of
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Speaker 1: my head a little bit. I know. I told the
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Speaker 1: story when the first started hearing chatter of COVID and
12:35
Speaker 1: what was happening where it was originating from an owner
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Speaker 1: who is to blame. We were going to l A.
12:41
Speaker 1: My partner really wanted us to get masks. There was
12:44
Speaker 1: a shortage of masks and it felt gross to try
12:46
Speaker 1: to get like the in nine when even hospitals couldn't,
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Speaker 1: So I didn't want to do that. And also I
12:52
Speaker 1: had the fear that if I got on a plane
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Speaker 1: with a mask, people would automatically like either be scared
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Speaker 1: of me or try to get to me. Because as
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Speaker 1: an Asian person, I didn't want to stipulate as if like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm one of those people who maybe which is absurd, uh,
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Speaker 1: But again this is also my own fear of being Asian.
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Speaker 1: So many personal identity issues with that. But there's a
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Speaker 1: lot to be said and it breaks my heart and
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Speaker 1: I can't not not talk about it. With the anniversary,
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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of chatter within uh different communities
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Speaker 1: about what do we do? How do we handle this
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Speaker 1: was the conversation and even talking about the fact that
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Speaker 1: within the Asian communities. Yes, it's great that we're talking
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Speaker 1: and addressing some to some level, at least we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the hate against Asian communities, but we're not talking
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Speaker 1: about protecting sex workers, which was also a conversation at
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Speaker 1: that point in time, and who was targeted and why
13:44
Speaker 1: he was targeting them, And I hate that that's gone
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Speaker 1: to the wayside. It shouldn't have gone that way. And
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Speaker 1: then on top of that, we also need to talk
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Speaker 1: about the fact that the black community is still the
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Speaker 1: highest targeted group in the country for hate crimes. So
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Speaker 1: when we talk about the fact that we are seeing
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Speaker 1: such a backtracking, and this is kind of why why
14:02
Speaker 1: I would talk about, like how are we backtracking and
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Speaker 1: everything like at once upon a time, I thought we
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Speaker 1: at least had sympathetic ears, but now it's just become offended,
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Speaker 1: defensive conversations for things that doesn't make sense, like being
14:18
Speaker 1: defensive because you don't want to be told that your
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Speaker 1: ancestors were racist. No, they were, like point blank, just
14:25
Speaker 1: to acknowledge it, move on. They don't want to acknowledge
14:28
Speaker 1: that being white holds a privilege, and when they say,
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Speaker 1: why do we have that? I can't believe her back
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Speaker 1: to the ignorant remarks of why do we have Women's Month,
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Speaker 1: Why do we have Black History Month? Why do we
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Speaker 1: have you know, Asian History Month. That's so silly. When
14:43
Speaker 1: do we get White People's Month? And everybody's like, what
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Speaker 1: are you talking about? Is every day? Shut the god like,
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Speaker 1: that's the whole of the history, that's what we know.
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Speaker 1: Stop stop talking. But it's it's it's baffling and really
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Speaker 1: exhausting to try to have that conversation. And yeah, it
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Speaker 1: kind of points to the other thing that we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: The anniversary of Brianna Taylor's murder. Again, I hate that
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Speaker 1: word just recently happened, and of course there's nothing, there's
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Speaker 1: nothing that has happened. There is a lawsuit pending, I believe.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the point that they are being uh
15:20
Speaker 1: compensated for the pain the families are able to but
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Speaker 1: no real conversations, no knock warrants, still exists. Even though
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Speaker 1: some some jurisdictions say that they are doing something about it,
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Speaker 1: they really haven't. We are seeing continued deaths of marginalized people,
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Speaker 1: including especially in the black community, and no one is
15:40
Speaker 1: talking about it, and we see outside of the George Floyd,
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Speaker 1: which we know they appealed the sentence of Chauvin who
15:49
Speaker 1: was the cop who had murdered George Floyd, but he
15:53
Speaker 1: is sentenced and they're talking about what that appeal looks like.
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Speaker 1: So that was one small victory and I say small, uh,
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Speaker 1: and I don't even say it's a victory at least
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Speaker 1: the beginning of justice. And then also with the Ahmad Aubrey,
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Speaker 1: which I really want to talk about the fact that
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Speaker 1: with that the anti lynching bill that just finally passed,
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Speaker 1: with the fact that three damn representatives were like, nah,
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to pass this, one of
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Speaker 1: them from being from Georgia. I'm like, wow, you are
16:21
Speaker 1: scumb You are scumb And the fact that part of
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Speaker 1: the rhetoric is that doesn't exist. And I'm like, what
16:27
Speaker 1: do you think happened to them? Ahmed Aubrey, that was
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Speaker 1: a lynching and they have been convicted of hate crimes,
16:34
Speaker 1: which I'm glad to hear, but I know that's really
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Speaker 1: no comfort. Still that still an innocent man died, um
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Speaker 1: and it took way too long for anything to be done.
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Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean black people are safe. It doesn't
16:50
Speaker 1: mean that black men are safe. That that's that's what
16:53
Speaker 1: justice is supposed to be, a little bit of like
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Speaker 1: easing of the mind. But we know that's not what
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Speaker 1: this is. There's so many things that we could talk
16:59
Speaker 1: to that and again, the same conversation with Brianna Taylor,
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Speaker 1: just her being just her, her whole family and her
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Speaker 1: partner being right through the coals and through the mud.
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Speaker 1: That's the stuff that I just really, yeah, I'm sorry, y'all,
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Speaker 1: I'm going down a bad track. This is where I
17:16
Speaker 1: say I go down negative Nancy type of conversations. But
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Speaker 1: that's that's the conversation, is that it's been years and
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Speaker 1: we've not seen justice for her. We've not seen anything
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Speaker 1: to have changed. We would like to see at least
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Speaker 1: policy have changed, like that's I know, that's the smallest
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Speaker 1: things that you could do for her family, and that's
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Speaker 1: not happened. And that's why we have to keep talking
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Speaker 1: about it. And that's why I will talk about it
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Speaker 1: every year. So get prepared for next year's conversation, y'all.
17:56
Speaker 1: Any Oh my god, this whole backwards stepping with the
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Speaker 1: queer policies, with the anti trans policies, I cannot believe
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Speaker 1: from twenty fifteen when gay marriage was finally legalized and
18:08
Speaker 1: we got to celebrate because we saw such beautiful moments
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Speaker 1: together to today where we're talking about having to figure
18:16
Speaker 1: out how to fight just to be able to say
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Speaker 1: gay apparently, and I know that's a broginalization. That's not
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Speaker 1: what the Florida bill was completely, but to demonize the
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Speaker 1: queer community to children in such a way is so disgusting.
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Speaker 1: And the fact that Georgia has done a similar bill
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Speaker 1: as well. I don't think it has passed yet. I
18:36
Speaker 1: think it's still sitting for votes. I don't know. They
18:39
Speaker 1: could have done it at night. They love doing things
18:40
Speaker 1: at night. We've discovered when people aren't paying close attention. Um,
18:44
Speaker 1: we know that that's what's happened throughout different places. We
18:48
Speaker 1: know the anti abortion stuff, anti approachoice stuff is happening everywhere.
18:52
Speaker 1: Conversation about a topic pregnancies back on the table. I'm like,
18:55
Speaker 1: oh my god, I thought we corrected you once and
18:57
Speaker 1: you were laughed at once. Do we have to do
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Speaker 1: this again? And what is wrong with you? How are
19:03
Speaker 1: we backtracking? Yeah? Yeah, I don't know. I feel like
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Speaker 1: there's a part there's a part of me that thinks
19:12
Speaker 1: that they're politicians bad faith politicians are relying on the
19:18
Speaker 1: facts that everybody is so tired and everybody is got
19:27
Speaker 1: all these things on their plate during the pandemic, and
19:30
Speaker 1: they're also really playing too to their base and to
19:34
Speaker 1: like these kind of identity politics and building it up two.
19:38
Speaker 1: I think try to get back in power and back
19:41
Speaker 1: in control of the government. In one way that they
19:45
Speaker 1: love to do that is to have like an emotional
19:49
Speaker 1: scapegoat issue two point to right and you're right, you're right.
19:54
Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely where we are because I cannot
19:57
Speaker 1: believe we're here with Kemp and Georgia about US ENTIL
20:00
Speaker 1: g bt Q anti trans bills when not too long
20:03
Speaker 1: ago Deal was smart enough to say no, no, we
20:07
Speaker 1: can't have these policies because these businesses are going to leave.
20:11
Speaker 1: And now we're doing it again and none of these
20:13
Speaker 1: the businesses are talking like it. It's interesting, I will
20:17
Speaker 1: say they they do a lot of redistricting have pushed
20:19
Speaker 1: out some of the more democratic policymakers. That absolutely has
20:23
Speaker 1: something to do with that. We have to pay attention to.
20:26
Speaker 1: People are so focused on trying to keep specific lawmakers
20:30
Speaker 1: in place and for us in the state of Georgia
20:32
Speaker 1: were knocked us back up for reelection. We have the
20:36
Speaker 1: governor election is coming up as well, so we're definitely
20:39
Speaker 1: having to scramble, I guess to say, to do this
20:44
Speaker 1: all again when it felt like we just did it
20:45
Speaker 1: yesterday and again again for us in the state of Georgia,
20:53
Speaker 1: we just had a federal court tell us essentially that yeah, yeah, yeah,
20:58
Speaker 1: this whole jerryman orything is bad, and yeah it's probably illegal,
21:01
Speaker 1: but it's a little too late for her to us
21:02
Speaker 1: to do anything, so sorry, it's gonna stand. So that
21:05
Speaker 1: felt really hopeless in so many ways. Also, just kind
21:08
Speaker 1: of pointing out some big stays outside of Texas that
21:11
Speaker 1: we probably need to look at again is of course
21:15
Speaker 1: Georgia for all the things, you know what, all the
21:18
Speaker 1: Red states. Let's just be honest, let's look at all
21:20
Speaker 1: the red states on what they're doing. Missouri is doing
21:24
Speaker 1: some interesting things. Ohio with anti abortion laws again the
21:27
Speaker 1: whole topic thing. I mean, Alabama has joined in, Kentucky
21:31
Speaker 1: has joined in for anti trans stuff. There's a lot,
21:36
Speaker 1: there's a lot. Again, I believe the Georgia Anti trains
21:39
Speaker 1: bill I actually went into effect about the athletes trans
21:43
Speaker 1: people not being able to compete in high school or
21:47
Speaker 1: school sports. From what I gather, maybe it's still the bill.
21:50
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it hasn't been squashed for sure. The again,
21:54
Speaker 1: Georgia's version of don't say gay, don't change critical theory
21:57
Speaker 1: portion has already passed for school systems, but not necessarily
22:02
Speaker 1: the anti gay don't say gay bill. That's still uh,
22:06
Speaker 1: something that is happening right now. And yeah, I think
22:09
Speaker 1: part of this again is theatrics, as us said, because
22:13
Speaker 1: it is re election for our governor who used Trump
22:19
Speaker 1: for the longest time as a way of like, look
22:22
Speaker 1: at me, I'm so conservative. And then that whole random
22:25
Speaker 1: commercial that he did with the shotgun in his lap. Yep,
22:30
Speaker 1: that's everything. Oh guess what in Georgia, you don't need
22:33
Speaker 1: a carrying perament because that's going to make us safe.
22:37
Speaker 1: But on the good news, okay, we're ben come back
22:41
Speaker 1: with the good news. Uh, the Violence Against Women's Act
22:45
Speaker 1: has been reauthorized. We know. I think we talked about
22:48
Speaker 1: the fact during the Trump administration it just kind of died.
22:51
Speaker 1: They just allowed it to slip away, and all of
22:54
Speaker 1: the things that we needed to protect women and a
22:58
Speaker 1: lot of these horrific crimes involving domestic and uh domestic
23:02
Speaker 1: violence has come back, and the Biden administration has re
23:07
Speaker 1: authorized it to remain until twenty twenty seven, which means
23:11
Speaker 1: that the grant programs will remain until twenty twenty seven.
23:15
Speaker 1: That's the good news. It increases services and support for
23:17
Speaker 1: survivors for underserved and marginalized communities, which is great. So
23:23
Speaker 1: something maybe it's always been here, but I feel like
23:25
Speaker 1: it's fairly new. Establishes a federal civil cause of action
23:29
Speaker 1: for individuals whose intimate visual images are disclosed without their consent,
23:35
Speaker 1: allowing a victim to recover damages and legal fees. Creating
23:39
Speaker 1: a new resource center on cyber crimes against individuals, and
23:43
Speaker 1: supporting and supporting state, tribal, and local government efforts to
23:46
Speaker 1: prevent and prosecute cyber crimes, including cyberstalking and the non
23:51
Speaker 1: consensual distribution of intimate images. So that is really new.
23:55
Speaker 1: I feel like the last time we talked about things
23:57
Speaker 1: like revenge porn and all of that, that was only
23:59
Speaker 1: really in California in New York, if I remember that correctly,
24:03
Speaker 1: Like any kind of being stated, now, this is not
24:07
Speaker 1: law enforcement. This is civil so that means that you
24:09
Speaker 1: could at least get money for damages. So that's good
24:13
Speaker 1: to see that something is happening and that they've created
24:17
Speaker 1: a new UH task force for this, so that's that's interesting.
24:21
Speaker 1: And if you're wondering where I got this from, it's
24:22
Speaker 1: actually from the White House briefing room UM about the
24:25
Speaker 1: Violence Against Women's Act and what they're doing. So there's
24:28
Speaker 1: a lot of new things. So I am very very
24:30
Speaker 1: excited to hear that. I feel like we're gonna have
24:33
Speaker 1: to decipher and go through and talk about what isn't
24:36
Speaker 1: here because there's some things that are kind of like,
24:39
Speaker 1: are we overstepping on because there's something specific to um
24:43
Speaker 1: native and indigenous territories in the U S that I'm like, Okay,
24:46
Speaker 1: we have to be careful because they do maintain their
24:49
Speaker 1: own government. They should be allowed to be respected. So
24:52
Speaker 1: we'll have to come back and look at it. But
24:53
Speaker 1: it is interesting to see that it's finally back up.
24:56
Speaker 1: They did it. I feel like it took it too long.
24:58
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just me because I feel that should have
25:00
Speaker 1: been one of the first things done, but whatever, at
25:02
Speaker 1: least it's done within the first two years of his administration.
25:05
Speaker 1: So we'll come back to that and talk a little
25:07
Speaker 1: more about what we can look forward to as in
25:11
Speaker 1: what we can tap into for resources for women who
25:13
Speaker 1: are going through some heroic things in their lives. Yeah,
25:17
Speaker 1: so good news, y'all. Yeah. Yeah, And these are all
25:24
Speaker 1: topics that, you know, all painful, we definitely have to
25:27
Speaker 1: talk about, and I appreciate you bring them to us, Samantha,
25:31
Speaker 1: and all of them we can be can be expanded
25:33
Speaker 1: on and should be expanded on. So I'm sure we'll
25:36
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