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Happy Hour #245: Post Midterm Election Reflections · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie.
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  Speaker 2: And Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to Stuff I've Never Told You, a production
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  Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. Okay, y'all,
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  Speaker 3: so a peek behind the curtains. We're recording day of
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  Speaker 3: release because There's too much.
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  Speaker 2: That was happening. I needed a moment. I needed a moment.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, Annie, I have to wait to
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  Speaker 3: see what happens with this midterm elections. And just putting
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  Speaker 3: a timestamp here, just in case you don't listen to
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  Speaker 3: it as soon as it's released. I mean, why wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 2: Come on now.
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  Speaker 1: Just kidding.
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  Speaker 3: It is November 5th, 2026. And yes, we probably had
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  Speaker 3: one of the biggest, biggest ordeals of midterm elections. So
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot to talk about. But today... We want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about our feels. We're going to get into
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  Speaker 3: our feels. So it's not a bitch and wine this
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  Speaker 3: time around. So I didn't warn you.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need wine.
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  Speaker 3: It is a debrief and a little bit like celebratory
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  Speaker 3: because I feel like we've not had enough of that.
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  Speaker 3: Like we've been scrounging for joy. And for the first
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  Speaker 3: time in a very long time, it kind of is
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  Speaker 3: flooding us. with an opportunity to actually take it in.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what we wanted to do today. So if
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  Speaker 3: you're listening for this happy hour, do so responsibly, whatever
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  Speaker 3: happy hour thing you might be doing. If it's just
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  Speaker 3: listening to us and cleaning, wonderful. Hope you're getting your
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  Speaker 3: tasks done. Go back to what you were doing. Stop
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  Speaker 3: getting sidetracked. That's what happens to me. I get sidetracked
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden. So go back to your thing,
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  Speaker 3: listen to us. But Annie, are you doing anything happy hour-ish?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it may not be a b * * * * * * wine,
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  Speaker 1: but I bought the wine anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrating wine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrating wine. We can do both.
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  Speaker 3: I am drinking my bubble water because, yeah, I get sleepy.
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  Speaker 3: I did drink on the night of the election. So
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  Speaker 3: I thought it would be interesting because we kind of
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  Speaker 3: talked about this previously of what we do and how
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  Speaker 3: we try to prepare and cope, especially since 2016, when
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  Speaker 3: things went downhill very quickly for a lot of us.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a slippery slope. And then we had another
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  Speaker 3: disheartening moment with Kemp and Stacey Abrams here in Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: because we had such high hopes for Stacey Abrams, who
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  Speaker 3: really has done so much for politics and especially Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have to give her her due.
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  Speaker 3: But with that, like, we've come to a point of
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  Speaker 3: being really, really cautious about And very anxious.
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  Speaker 2: Would you say that's the correct way to describe it? Yes. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: And I was with you during the 2020 election, and
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't stop throwing up because I was so anxious.
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  Speaker 4: And then at the night of the election, I was
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  Speaker 4: so anxious. I had like a very big panic attack.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I would say that's an accurate statement.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think back on it. I can't remember
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  Speaker 3: it at all. I can't remember what I did. My
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  Speaker 3: mind is blank. We weren't in the new house yet,
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  Speaker 3: were we?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Back in the 2020 election, we were not.
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  Speaker 1: I live with you. That was not in your new house.
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  Speaker 1: It was your old apartment. Yeah. I was violently ill.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot remember it.
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  Speaker 5: We watched the Star Wars, the weird Ewok movies.
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  Speaker 1: Boutique, like your character.
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  Speaker 4: You really like.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I did like that one.
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  Speaker 1: That was to distract me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess we were trying to make sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we were trying to like do things. I do, I
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  Speaker 3: vaguely remember it. I have man, I don't doubt. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that was like a better, I put that in quotes, election.
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  Speaker 4: That was a strange one because it was during COVID.
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  Speaker 4: So the results, it took a while to come in.
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  Speaker 4: So even after I left and went back home, we
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  Speaker 4: weren't sure what the results were going to be.
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  Speaker 1: But for those recent midterms, the panic attack was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Did you have a panic attack this one?
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: So I definitely, the entire day, I looked like I
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  Speaker 3: was on drugs, kind of in that sense of, like,
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  Speaker 3: I was just everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I was everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I was bouncing from place to place to place.
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  Speaker 3: I was hyper, like, over the top. I'm distracted pretty easily.
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  Speaker 3: But typically, I'm a sit-down distracted. Like I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be distracted by my phone or like, you know, something
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  Speaker 3: completely different, but not like jump around and do things.
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  Speaker 2: That's not my go-to.
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  Speaker 1: I wish it were.
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  Speaker 2: I would be more productive.
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  Speaker 3: And this is when I was like cleaning and walking
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  Speaker 3: around and looking at things and going outside and doing
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  Speaker 3: these things. I was so anxious because I really did
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  Speaker 3: not know where this was going to go. there's, like,
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  Speaker 3: everybody was saying different things, whether those Republicans were, like,
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  Speaker 3: the red wave, the blue wave, all of these things. And, like,
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  Speaker 3: I hate these cliche sayings. But I kept thinking, like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know because I don't know
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  Speaker 3: between the bots, between what I think seems hateful, between, like,
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  Speaker 3: the big rage bait stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I really could not figure out where we were going.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know because there was all these, like, heightened
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  Speaker 3: sense of danger in voting, which was a tactic that
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  Speaker 3: was used previously to be like, oh, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: bring in armed people so that they could like discourage
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  Speaker 3: people from voting, thinking that they were going to be
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  Speaker 3: stopped or being confused. Like all of those things, I
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  Speaker 3: was ready for whatever, like the fact that they were
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  Speaker 3: talking about sending in the National Guard, which I didn't
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  Speaker 3: go out the day of voting because you and I
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  Speaker 3: voted early. But like my partner went and he went
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  Speaker 3: in and out.
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  Speaker 2: He was in and out.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, oh, well, it can't be. that
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  Speaker 3: bad but i was anxious i really had no idea
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  Speaker 3: what was going to happen did you have an inkling.
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  Speaker 4: No and i think that's because we've been burned so
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  Speaker 4: many times before uh i and i i hate it
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  Speaker 4: but i i think it's a safety measure but i've
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  Speaker 4: become really kind of closed off to you I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't trust these polls. I don't believe any of
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  Speaker 4: that stuff. I believed people were angry, but I also
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  Speaker 4: feel like there are some people that they just have
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  Speaker 4: such a hang up about voting for the opposite party
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  Speaker 4: that they would never. So there were some that I
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  Speaker 4: was confident. I was pretty sure John Ossoff was going
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  Speaker 4: to get reelected. Right.
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  Speaker 1: But like a lot of them, no, I was not
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  Speaker 1: confident at all.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly, our governor, our governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms doesn't always,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't really have a great track record in the state.
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  Speaker 2: She has done what she could.
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  Speaker 3: Like they did make up things that I even believed
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  Speaker 3: for a minute that I had to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I have to retract that, that she didn't finish out
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  Speaker 3: her term.
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  Speaker 2: She did. She just didn't come back for reelection, which
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  Speaker 2: is not typical. Right.
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  Speaker 3: But she and our current mayor, Andre Dickens, were in
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  Speaker 3: favor of Cop City, which we are, like, I say we, Annie,
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  Speaker 3: I keep putting us in the we, but I'm pretty
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  Speaker 3: sure we're on the we, are vehemently against any kind
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  Speaker 3: of tactile things like that and reopening jails and prisons
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  Speaker 3: that should not be open.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff like that really bothered me.
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  Speaker 3: So for a lot of us, who want to see
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  Speaker 3: true change, like we want a Mandani level of change.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be my new verb.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she isn't the most wonderful representative that we wanted.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely voted for a different Democratic candidate previously, but,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it came to be Keisha Lance Bond. Don't
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  Speaker 3: get me wrong, because I voted for her and.
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  Speaker 2: I would vote for her again. And there is joy
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  Speaker 2: in knowing that we have changed.
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  Speaker 3: And my hope is And I think this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a lot of us that we can hold
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  Speaker 3: her accountable. And this is what we've been talking about
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  Speaker 3: repeatedly and will continue to. Like, I don't mean to
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  Speaker 3: be the pessimist, but we wanted someone that we can
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  Speaker 3: have a conversation with for change and progress, not have
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  Speaker 3: a fight with to try to keep us out of
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  Speaker 3: the old ways, you know, the old racist, prejudiced ways,
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  Speaker 3: which is what we've been in. And so this is
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  Speaker 3: this is progress. I think I've seen it and I've
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  Speaker 3: heard the term harm reduction votes. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: the actual really great way of seeing this. We're voting
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  Speaker 3: for harm reduction at this point because we're so far
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  Speaker 3: back and the harm has been immense. And I think
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  Speaker 3: Keisha Lance Bottoms, I believe Keisha Lance Bottoms is that
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  Speaker 3: person that can help reduce the harm. And we hope
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  Speaker 3: that she can progress even further because she now has people.
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  Speaker 3: Now we have people here in the state specifically that
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  Speaker 3: can hold her.
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  Speaker 2: To that level. Like, we are blue, Annie. How crazy
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  Speaker 2: is that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and also just shout out to people in Texas
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  Speaker 4: who have.
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  Speaker 1: Been working so hard. Kansas, like, how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Texas, like, y'all hadn't even had an inkling yet. Like,
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  Speaker 3: y'all are progressing, I feel like. We were so baby steps. Like,
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  Speaker 3: we had one senator. Then we got two senators. And then, like,
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  Speaker 3: the slow run. And then last year we got a
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  Speaker 3: Republican public commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Slowly happening. And then all of a sudden, Texas is like, nah,
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  Speaker 2: watch this. And they just ramped it. Everything's bigger in Texas. Apparently.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all are killing it. And even with the awful redistricting.
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  Speaker 3: and gerrymandering there and here in Georgia, South Carolina, come on, Mississippi?
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  Speaker 3: There are two states in this country that I'm scared
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  Speaker 3: to go through and try not to stop at.
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi, I'm sorry, was one of them because it scares me.
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  Speaker 2: The daylights out of me. Backwoods areas of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: backwoods areas of Georgia. I'm like, nah, nah, nah. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to stay out of here. However, hello, Kansas, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, what? What is happening?
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  Speaker 1: This is beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: And we're actually going to do an episode on. for
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  Speaker 3: this one for tomorrow if you are listening again in
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  Speaker 3: the timeline as it's released, which some of you do.
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  Speaker 3: The joy, the palpable, I was screaming into a pillow
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  Speaker 3: because after, and I don't know what you did, because
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  Speaker 3: you had a panic attack, so I kind of know
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  Speaker 3: what you did. But I will say, for me, as
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  Speaker 3: I'm freaking out, after Ossoff was called here, which, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, and I've been waiting, 725, it was projected.
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  Speaker 3: We were like, what?
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  Speaker 2: They closed, just closed 25 minutes ago. By a lot.
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  Speaker 3: The joy of seeing those numbers, I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm locked in. Because that was a shock. I knew,
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  Speaker 3: I had a feeling he would win. If anybody would win,
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be him. But I was like, what?
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  Speaker 2: Already?
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  Speaker 3: And so my partner and I started sitting down and
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  Speaker 3: watching a little bit Cormackie. came through yeah of course
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  Speaker 3: of course uh we watched him on youtube so we
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  Speaker 3: got to watch all the behind the scenes um but
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  Speaker 3: as we were watching and i was seeing all the
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  Speaker 3: numbers i was like.
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  Speaker 2: What is happening.
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  Speaker 3: And then to see keisha lance bottoms her numbers rising
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  Speaker 3: as quickly as it did y'all georgia voted for a
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  Speaker 3: black woman Granted, it's because Black women showed up, like,
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  Speaker 3: as they always continue to do.
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  Speaker 2: And they are the ones putting the fight. But the
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  Speaker 2: joy that I have in.
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  Speaker 3: Knowing that our state is pretty much being ran by
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  Speaker 3: Black women. Oh, my God. I have so much hope, Annie.
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  Speaker 3: I was looking through the list. I was like, every
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  Speaker 3: single one except for, like, two positions, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I want to cry. at the beauty of these pictures.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah there was a because i watch a lot of
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  Speaker 4: um comedy news segments and there was a a part
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  Speaker 4: in one of them where they were just showing pictures
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  Speaker 4: of people who won and i thought it was a
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  Speaker 4: joke i thought it was like the onion it's like
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  Speaker 4: oh never in that part of georgia never it's true
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  Speaker 4: no yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Watching and seeing who won. The fact that Georgia now also,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats also have control of the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we have a Democratic governor. We have a Democratic house.
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  Speaker 2: We got the secretary of state. Yeah. Is held by
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  Speaker 2: a black woman.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I have to tell you, I'm sure. You listeners
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  Speaker 4: all across the U.S. have been bombarded by negative political ads,
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  Speaker 4: but I have to tell you, it was wild ads
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  Speaker 4: against the women running in Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: And people were like, oh, not buying it.
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  Speaker 2: The elections that I watched the most of, the ones,
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  Speaker 2: of course, like I said, Mississippi shocked me to no end.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what's happening in Mississippi?
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  Speaker 3: I did watch Angie Nixon based in Florida, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: very sad that she lost, but she So close.
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  Speaker 2: This is, and we're going to talk a bit about this.
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  Speaker 3: To me, Florida kind of is like, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: our younger sister or younger sibling and that you're doing great.
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  Speaker 3: I know it doesn't feel like a win because technically
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  Speaker 3: you didn't win. However, the progress that is being made
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  Speaker 3: in Florida, in Florida, and that's like capital letters, Florida,
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  Speaker 3: is amazing. And this is exactly what Georgia had to
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  Speaker 3: go through as well. And again, Stacey Abrams was kind
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  Speaker 3: of that lead for us. and having this conversation and
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  Speaker 3: trying to like pick back up in so many ways
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  Speaker 3: and like seeing what's happening with Florida. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is similar. You're going to, it's going to get there.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to get there. And y'all have done so
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  Speaker 3: much work in Florida. It's exciting to see this continued
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  Speaker 3: progress because they've made, they flipped so many seats in
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  Speaker 3: the state legislation in Florida. I was also shocked that
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  Speaker 3: they were able to do all of that. But the
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  Speaker 3: races I was also watching was of course, Michigan, with
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  Speaker 3: Abdul El-Sad, watching him win, and all the smear campaigns
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  Speaker 3: that happened through everyone, because he is Muslim, and the
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: fact that he is a doctor, and the fact that
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: he came against RFK Jr., which, by the way, seeing
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  Speaker 3: him win was a delight. Seeing Susan Collins lose?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I may have started screaming profanities at her. Not very
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  Speaker 2: feminist of me, I know, but.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she hasn't been great for women.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I had a lot of rage. So it came
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  Speaker 2: out watching her lose.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I didn't know this until later
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  Speaker 3: about the fact that the person who was campaigning, Troy,
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  Speaker 3: who won, last minute pickup.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because there was a huge scandal.
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  Speaker 2: The Democratic Party was like, yeah, we can't have that.
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  Speaker 2: We're not allowing that. That's not on our watch.
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  Speaker 3: And they scrapped it and started over very quickly and
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  Speaker 3: still won.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was delightful.
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  Speaker 3: Watching the Ohio campaign with Amy Acton winning because of
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  Speaker 3: the disgusting campaigns run against her. Honestly, though, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think he was going to win anyway, but he really
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  Speaker 3: nailed the coffin with that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if we have some, like, agents.
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  Speaker 3: That are participating in the Republican campaign being like, no,
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  Speaker 3: this is.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest idea ever.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like sleeper agents. Which, by the way, is one of
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  Speaker 4: my favorite new, I think it was Alex Jones. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, so Trump was a sleeper Democrat all along.
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  Speaker 2: I believed him. I came from money. I'm like, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, man.
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  Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he can do, but not in that way.
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  Speaker 2: Not in that way. He doesn't care about politics. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I think. And he's racist, so he should be
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  Speaker 2: a Republican. Like, I think he's genuinely racist.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And misogynist. And a predator. So, you know, add that up.
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  Speaker 2: And what is that equal to? I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 3: Watching that, of course, Tallarico in Texas was a beautiful
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  Speaker 3: thing to see.
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  Speaker 2: There were so many amazing moments. in this election that
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, wow, I really didn't think this
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  Speaker 2: was possible. I did. I assumed some good things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But not to this level.
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  Speaker 3: I think I've been, yeah, like you said, we've been
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  Speaker 3: so traumatized by previous elections that we just didn't think
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  Speaker 3: it was possible.
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  Speaker 2: And then seeing all of this has been glorious.
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  Speaker 3: I will say after Ossoff won, I think as I
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: was watching Keisha's numbers go up, I was like, you
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  Speaker 3: know what?
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I need a drink.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I got your fancy shot soju glasses you sent me.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I was so excited. I'm like, oh, it's the time.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: It's time to pull it out.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: And we did our soju shots as we were sitting
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: there watching and seeing everything happen.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: And it's interesting to see.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Of course, we're still waiting to see what's happening, I believe,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: in Alaska and Mississippi. Looks like Alaska's leaning red, unfortunately. Okay,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: so for the Senate, we're waiting for Alaska and Mississippi
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: to For House, it looks like we're looking at... Oh, yeah,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I did see this. Colorado, which is Lauren Boebert's area.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: So we're waiting to see who will win in that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Florida and North Carolina. And I think there's some governor.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's interesting to see how this has changed. I.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Like, my heart is settled back down. And I'm like,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you know, now we're in time for fix-it mode. We
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: need fix-it mode.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: And to hunker down and to see how we can
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: hold these people accountable. Because it is very important that
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: we do so. But shout out to the peoples that
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: really did this. The young generation killed it. All right,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Gen Zers. Yeah. I knew you would be all right.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Of course, the black community really held up. showing that
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: our Latina voters are probably the flip, like the people
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: that are watching the hardest right now, because they are
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: the ones that kind of are the swing votes. Asian
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: community has jumped up.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Thank God.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I was like, I can't, I mean, like, it's still
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: not great, but at least like a 70% and more
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: that I was like, okay.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: White women, no.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: White men gave up on you a long time ago.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I think my partner is a good one. But yeah,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: it's like, but it is interesting to watch. How do
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: you feel now?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: I feel, it almost feels unbelievable. I thought there could
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: be some January 6th kind of thing that would happen.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: So I was waiting for that too. So I feel
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: like I was preparing for so much bad that I
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: almost don't know what to do with myself but i
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: am cautiously hopeful that things will change and that you
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: know people will press for things to change because clearly
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: that's i would say that's the big thing that the
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: message i received was people are not happy with how
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: things are going so that's a cause for for pushing
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: to change.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Things yeah what did you do anything to celebrate I
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: think I had a glass of wine and went to
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: bed early. The panic attack really took it out of me.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, fair. That's really fair.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: But I woke up early and I watched a lot
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: of the results that way.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I think I did that with the last election, too,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: because there's something about the anticipation.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: For me, this is a case where, like, the spoilers
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: are good. Just tell me the outcome.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I get you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I get you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Like this real life, I need the spoilers. I typically
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: do that too. But this one had me on the
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: edge between watching like the numbers.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my God, because it was so close.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: BT dubs.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So I was watching one TikTok because there's a mini,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: you know, talking about the fact that because of these
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: massive changes, especially like in Georgia and the fact that
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: we have outnumbered and have grown in the democratic control.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: That we could actually start talking about taking and changing
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the electoral college and the way we vote.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: And that being a possibility now.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: That would be nice.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: That would be massive.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Also, shout out to the states who voted to protect abortion. Yes.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Also, boo and tomatoes to those who decided to put
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: in anti-trans laws.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Always. You assholes. Anyway, yeah, no, there's some big, we're
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: going to talk about it in our upcoming episode about
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: some of that, because it wasn't actually a key issue. Surprisingly.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's one of the reasons that it helped.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know there was that quote from, I think
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: it was Republican in Texas that was like, we're running
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: all these transgender attack ads and they're just not working.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: People don't care.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: That's right, South Carolina. That was crazy. There was some
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: crazy stuff happening in those ads. I was like, what
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: is Lindsey Graham's sister doing?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: She doesn't get a name.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: We barely knew ye.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Thank God. These memes and these tweets.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: We're all going to hell, but I'm enjoying it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Also, appreciation to people from other countries.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yes. There's so many who are congratulating and crying for us.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: And also, if you're listening to this and you're kind
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: of like, I don't really know who you're talking about,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: but I get the vibe.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Google them. It's ridiculous.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: All right, y'all. That's it. But cheers. We are excited
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: about being able to go to our regular content before
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I came on. No, I guess it was during when
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I came on. It was like all downhill stuff that
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: we're like, we got to fight. And then for like
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: about four years, we're like, we got to try to
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: bring it back up. All right. Hopefully, we're going to
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: have good news to share. Yes. We're going to have
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: more victories.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And really, thanks to all the work people did.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And congrats.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Congratulations to states who this is new to because i
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: remember when georgia flipped and i.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Was like wow yes that feeling that joy yeah it's
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: a delight and obviously we're with you because like still
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: we got an added plus that we didn't know we
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: would have yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Exactly from purple to blue no state is guaranteed i
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: i i firmly believe that even states you'd never guess
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: so and and to states like Florida who are doing
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: all that work and didn't flip.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: But, you know, you've made all that progress. Yeah. It's good.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah. All right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Hey, and let us know about what's happening in your
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: area if we left, like, just about how you handled everything,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: what your thoughts are. And if you're in Florida, if
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: you're in the red states who have been fighting to
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: try to push for equity and feel a little discouraged,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: let us know how you're feeling because we're with you.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Because we know this fight is hard, but you got this.
• 25:00
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• 25:01
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• 25:04
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