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Mutual Aid- Food Not Bombs, Joe Blank, Words of Will, Nataliya Vlchekova, Aspen Martin, Chanda Masta · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I brought this last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Food Not Bombs in Santa Cruz needs a new van.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our friend Keith McHenry,
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  SPEAKER_01: who's a Food Not Bombs co-founder,
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  SPEAKER_01: I follow him, we're friends, and I saw him put this up about two weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: First they needed repairs,
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  SPEAKER_01: and after trying to find parts and seeing what it would cost,
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  SPEAKER_01: they decided, you know what, we just need a new van entirely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Andrew Smith.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did pass along your message to Keith and he thanked me about reaching out
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  SPEAKER_01: to HVAC companies or electricians that are looking to retire certain vans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Catherine, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really appreciate your support and you're showing up at our
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  SPEAKER_00: live streams.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yes, if you have any leads on a van, that's the phone number there, 575-770-3377.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't spam them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't do anything silly to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Help them out if you got leads on a van or just reach out to me and I'll put you
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  SPEAKER_01: in touch with Keith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we've got our friend Joe Blank,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Reverend Joe Blank,
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  SPEAKER_01: incredible artist, pencil sketch artist, has put out the call for some mutual aid.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, he said that he had been trying to finish up some art.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was about two weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, no health care.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's disabled.
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  SPEAKER_01: Still in the process with an attorney for disability.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, facing bills and kind of doubt it'd be worked out.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, even if he gets his young dolly finished.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he did finish his young dolly, and I will show you what that looks like.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe it is still available for sale if you would like to purchase it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a hand pencil drawn sketch.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he does this.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's drawn pictures of Roger Waters and Julian Assange and Richard Meadors and
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  SPEAKER_01: a bunch of different figures that he gets inspired to draw.
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  SPEAKER_01: 8x10 pencil sketch done in .3mm nanodiamond graphite on premium cream drawing paper.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, labor of love.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't even imagine how many hours went into making something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you want to support Joe by purchasing that or some mutual aid,
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  SPEAKER_01: he has a Buy Me A Coffee.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can go to Twitter.com, at TheRevJoeBlank, and you can help him out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Words of will.
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  SPEAKER_01: Longtime friend of the show, friend of the network, whose wife is going through breast cancer.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anything we can do to help them ease their bills while she's going through it,
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  SPEAKER_01: because they still have,
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  SPEAKER_01: they have to live, they have food, they have rent, they have everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hospital bills are one thing, but they just have living expenses in general.
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  SPEAKER_01: He got an apprenticeship for, I believe, AC Repair.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then his AC went, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But he said not sure how much he could take,
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  SPEAKER_01: but that his skills were not really up to par enough to be able to repair it yet.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm seriously not making this up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our AC just broken, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_01: My one week of classes isn't enough to diagnose it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was at the end of August.
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  SPEAKER_01: But...
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  SPEAKER_01: The bills pile up.
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  SPEAKER_01: The expenses pile up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now the kids are all back in school.
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  SPEAKER_01: You got Halloween coming up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whatever we can do to help them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, their GoFundMe is here.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's done with the chemo, I believe, was the last time that he had messaged me.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was about two weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had heard from him.
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  SPEAKER_01: But that they're still just getting by, doing what they can.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next, we got Cowboy Kitty's sister-in-law, Natalia.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're still working to get her out of this ICE facility.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's been in there since, God, last July.
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  SPEAKER_01: She has asylum.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was apparently some $5,000 bond that they now want in order to let her out.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're talking about trying to get 10% of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know where we're at with that,
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  SPEAKER_01: but I know that certainly the people around her could use some funds.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you're able to out of means and want to help out,
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  SPEAKER_01: there's a great cause to help out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Routine traffic stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: Descent in Bloom wrote an article last summer about the profit motive behind
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  SPEAKER_01: the traffic stops that are going on in Ohio and just how much the county is making
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  SPEAKER_01: from ICE to keep detainees jailed there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there is definitely a profit motive.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then to treat these people like crap and provide them substandard food
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  SPEAKER_01: and overcrowd them in cells and You know, not give them blankets, etc.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know,
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  SPEAKER_01: just the worst living conditions to try to get them to want
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  SPEAKER_01: to voluntarily self-deport.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's their game.
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  SPEAKER_01: They want to get people to want to try to leave on their own.
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  SPEAKER_01: So support Natalia.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we also have Justice for Aspen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, too many of these GoFundMes lately.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, we've been talking about Aspen now since May of 2025.
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  SPEAKER_01: Aspen was in the wrong car, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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  SPEAKER_01: She ended up accused, spent more than two weeks in county lockup,
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, Sentin Bloom wrote an article about that, and you can read all about that here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me go to that article.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been so long.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this is a beautiful article written just about a year ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was starved, neglected, and degraded, but she held her humanity.
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  SPEAKER_01: It really is an incredible article in multiple parts
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  SPEAKER_01: that really breaks down her time in the Georgia lockup,
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  SPEAKER_01: in the fiefdom of Georgia jails, and then what now?
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  SPEAKER_01: And we are now 15 months later,
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  SPEAKER_01: and other than a live stream fundraiser, not much new has happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're just kind of fingers crossed waiting for that other shoe to drop someday,
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  SPEAKER_01: hoping that we can raise enough funds to fund her defense and get her case dropped.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because she is autistic and vegan and innocent, most importantly.
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  SPEAKER_01: She did not do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, and then finally we have Get Your Sunflowers Out, our friend Shanda Masta.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shanda, Indie Media Award Honoree.
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  SPEAKER_01: Was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in August of 2024 and fought real hard
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  SPEAKER_01: and did all kinds of treatments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did the chemo, did the radiation, did the holistic alternative treatments.
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  SPEAKER_01: We miss her dearly.
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  SPEAKER_01: We lost her on April 3rd of this year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in her honor,
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  SPEAKER_01: in her memory,
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  SPEAKER_01: we created a collection of merch with her likeness and the year she was with us
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  SPEAKER_01: on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can pick up a shirt,
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  SPEAKER_01: $20,
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  SPEAKER_01: or a tank top for $19, a hoodie for $27, and wear that to honor her.
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  SPEAKER_01: And any profits from that, of course, we would give to a cancer charity.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've only sold less than a dozen of them so far.
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  SPEAKER_01: But thank you to everyone that has.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they're available.
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  SPEAKER_01: So go to indienewsnow.com,
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  SPEAKER_01: click on the shop link,
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  SPEAKER_01: and you can get to the Fuck Cancer collection,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is right at the top of the shop.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again,
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  SPEAKER_01: as a reminder,
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  SPEAKER_01: Shanda was a 2023 Indie Media Award honoree for excellence in live streaming
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  SPEAKER_01: and broadcasting,
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  SPEAKER_01: along with her co-host from her show Beauty and the Boomer, Oz the Boomer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who I saw had popped into chat on Substack earlier tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good to see Oz.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love you, brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: Looking forward to seeing hopefully a show later this month or whenever you're ready.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can also get there by going to indiemediaawards.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: Looking up Shanda,
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  SPEAKER_01: you can find links to all of her original social media profiles and directly to
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  SPEAKER_01: the merch items.
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  SPEAKER_01: Finally, I just wanted to mention the INN Weekly Calendar, which I also maintain.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is in addition to the INN Newsletter on Substack.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a live interactive calendar that shows all of the podcast episodes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Live streams, articles that are written by Rich.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here's that article by Rich, Lies, Damn Lies and Running Out of Bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was from Sunday at 9.15 and it's on this interactive calendar and you can link
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  SPEAKER_01: to it right from there.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are multiple instances of clips from this show because one goes out as
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  SPEAKER_01: a podcast in the morning and one goes out through
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you
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  SPEAKER_01: want to subscribe to
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: the podcast, you can find them there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or if you want to find it on YouTube, you can find it all here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll link to this link.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can bookmark this,
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  SPEAKER_01: come back to it,
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  SPEAKER_01: and you can go back historically and look back at prior weeks and find all
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  SPEAKER_01: the content that INN puts out.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: We put out a ton of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, everyone, for supporting Independent Media.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, we need it more than ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will see you next Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what she said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love you all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Night, everybody.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: No!
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  SPEAKER_00: We just fucking lost the stream!
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place Is that what you want me to say?
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: You'll prove it's possible to sleep for days And I still think you're right here awake.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cost of living isn't much to make.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God, it's so hard to say.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: And when they told you everything was safe,
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