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GoFundMes Need Help: Food Not Bombs, Words of Will, Nataliya Vlchekova, Aspen Martin, RIP Chanda Masta · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then finally, we've got our GoFundMes and fundraisers.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, we actually,
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  SPEAKER_01: I got an update earlier today about Natalia,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we're going to start with this Food.Bombs truck that we see there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a fan of Keith McHenry.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of the co-founders of Food Not Bombs.
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  SPEAKER_01: I brought one of his articles last week about Santa Cruz homeless population
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  SPEAKER_01: and what they're doing to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: This week,
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  SPEAKER_01: Keith made an appeal on Twitter because a lot of what Keith does is shares a lot
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  SPEAKER_01: of what Food Not Bombs is doing around the country and around the world
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  SPEAKER_01: to support homeless people and to provide meals unquestioning to people.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they need a little bit of help.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said that the Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs van is in the shop being repaired after
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  SPEAKER_01: the radiator and cooling system failed yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bad timing as the need for food, of course, is increasing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Please consider making a donation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he links directly to their donate link on their website.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't use a payment.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know which payment processor they do use, but I don't believe it's one of the big ones.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is specific to food dump ops.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's Keith.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, a dollar for peace.
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  SPEAKER_01: That should be what the dollar looks like, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But of course, we've got war criminals and slave owners on our money instead.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next one is words of will.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have not heard from words of Will this week,
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  SPEAKER_01: but last week I mentioned that Will this summer has had their dryer, washer,
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  SPEAKER_01: refrigerator,
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  SPEAKER_01: and AC all break while going through the biggest financial crisis of their lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: His wife,
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  SPEAKER_01: Elizabeth,
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  SPEAKER_01: was diagnosed in May with breast cancer, and her job caught her part-time work.
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  SPEAKER_01: They now have help through the hospital, but paying bills is very tough.
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  SPEAKER_01: He just got an apprenticeship job, but that's not really giving enough hours or paying yet.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now the car's broken down.
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  SPEAKER_01: He can't even do the DoorDash stuff that he was doing before.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if there's anything that anybody can do to help,
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  SPEAKER_01: this is the GoFundMe for them to raise some money and help them get through
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  SPEAKER_01: while she's been going through her chemotherapy treatments and getting treated
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  SPEAKER_01: to hopefully beat this breast cancer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fuck cancer, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, thankfully they've made prides in treatments and
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  SPEAKER_01: the survival rate has increased substantially.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I can't even imagine having to go through that with the kids and everything else.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again, love you, Will.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're here for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anything we can do, anything you need me to shout out, you know where to find me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just reach out anytime.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next we have Natalia.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to read to you the DM that Cowboy Kitty sent to me earlier today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Criminal lawyer got all charges against Natalia dropped.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she has protected status.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank God.
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  SPEAKER_01: We won.
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  SPEAKER_01: They have to release her soon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Anthony, Cowboy Kitty, says thank you for all your help.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love you all so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: And thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: To everybody,
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  SPEAKER_01: thank you to Descent in Bloom for the article that she wrote to help raise awareness
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  SPEAKER_01: and to raise money for that GoFundMe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you to everybody in this chat for continuing to support Cowboy Kitty and
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  SPEAKER_01: for supporting Natalia in her unjust,
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, very just fight from her unjust arrest under suspicion of a DUI.
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  SPEAKER_01: She wasn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: They let her car go over a year ago already.
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  SPEAKER_01: They haven't impounded her car, but she's still in fucking prison.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she had asylum.
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  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully, hopefully, oh my God, I'd love to see her in this chat one night.
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  SPEAKER_01: That would literally make my day.
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  SPEAKER_01: It would make my year to see her come hang out in this chat.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope that becomes a reality someday.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for updating me and for all the advocacy work you've done on behalf of Natalia.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure she has no way to possibly thank you for keeping this story going.
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  SPEAKER_01: But wow, man, great, great stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we do need some good news occasionally, and I'm thrilled to bring that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't like to be all doom and gloom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I know Mary assumed she'd be sent to the front line in Nazi Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nope, apparently that's not going to happen again.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to uncross my fingers until we know she's out and safe.
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  SPEAKER_01: But man, that was that was great to hear tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, she's of course going to need some money getting back on her feet.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing that her job no longer waited for her, but I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a GoFundMe out there,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I wanted to put a link out there that if you're able to or you do want
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  SPEAKER_01: to support that, by all means, please do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know that when I did my interview with Shanda last year, somebody...
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  SPEAKER_01: You know,
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  SPEAKER_01: watch that and gave her a thousand dollars and it literally helped her pay her rent
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  SPEAKER_01: and buy food for like a couple of weeks.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I do this because I never know who's watching and who wants to help and has
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  SPEAKER_01: the means to help.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't, just please share it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just want to actually get people to help that they need and shout out fundraiser.
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  SPEAKER_01: I also, by the way, wanted to shout out to her.
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  SPEAKER_01: I saw something about Lana Dell,
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  SPEAKER_01: who was one of the first people that I used to chat with
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  SPEAKER_01: in Joe Firestone's chats five summers ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: I heard that she had some kind of a medical thing,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I don't even know where to find her,
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  SPEAKER_01: but if you want to find her GoFundMe, please do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't done with our GoFundMe, though, because we still have justice for Aspen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Justice for Aspen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, no news is good news.
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  SPEAKER_01: I saw Halo pop their head up this week to like a couple of things,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we haven't heard very much from Halo about Aspen's case.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, we're hoping that no news is good news, but they're gathering their experts.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're getting their ducks in a row so that when that phone call does come, they're ready.
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  SPEAKER_01: Aspen was in the wrong car,
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  SPEAKER_01: wrong place,
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  SPEAKER_01: wrong time,
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  SPEAKER_01: 15 months ago,
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  SPEAKER_01: and was arrested in Georgia on accusations of drug trafficking,
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  SPEAKER_01: which the driver of the RV was apparently doing, not her.
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  SPEAKER_01: She didn't even know, but they were all arrested in the car and charged.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's been home in Oklahoma.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she can't really work.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we need help to help fund that defense.
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  SPEAKER_01: More about her story was written by Descented Bloom.
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  SPEAKER_01: At this article here, she was starved, neglected, and degraded.
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  SPEAKER_01: She held her humanity.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's absolutely true.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll see you next time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And lots of things that you can do to help and support.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the way to do that is linktr.ee slash justice the number four Aspen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then finally, that's Aspen's thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Fuck Cancer Collection, on behalf of our friend Shanda, who I mentioned earlier.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was more than two years ago that Shanda was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer.
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  SPEAKER_01: She fought hard for 18 months, beat it back twice, and it came back on her.
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  SPEAKER_01: And...
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  SPEAKER_01: We lost her in April.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she's an Indie Media Award honoree.
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  SPEAKER_01: I used her Zago illustration to put the years that she was alive underneath her name
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  SPEAKER_01: and illustration on a shirt.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are still stickers coming.
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  SPEAKER_01: I heard from Ryan at Big Frog this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: He apologized in the delay.
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  SPEAKER_01: But that the other merch is coming.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again,
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  SPEAKER_01: reminder that Shanda was an Indie Media Award honoree for outstanding excellence
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  SPEAKER_01: in live streaming and podcasting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two other things, IndieNewsNow.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I've been mentioning all night, there is a place to keep the news free.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is where you would be able to make a direct contribution,
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  SPEAKER_01: either with a credit card or however you wanted to,
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  SPEAKER_01: even directly with a bank account.
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  SPEAKER_01: You didn't want to use a credit card.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's also the merch store here,
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  SPEAKER_01: which at the top of is the Fuck Cancer Collection honoring Shanda.
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  SPEAKER_01: But there's also INN logos and there are Indie logos and Boat Smashing in other boats.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wore that shirt when I went away to Cape Cod last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesse Jett, my dial doesn't go to delicate.
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  SPEAKER_01: All different shirts and merch you can pick up there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cats or dicks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.
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  SPEAKER_01: They moved that up to...
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  SPEAKER_01: Looks like higher, as well as the Indie shirt and the Boats shirt.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's now all on the homepage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can get right to them.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: So that's our merch store.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then finally, I wanted to show the interactive calendar, which I've shown before.
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  SPEAKER_01: I try to update regularly.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's included in our weekly update that goes out every Friday or at least a screencast.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's the link to access it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a really cool interactive calendar that I put together and try to maintain
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  SPEAKER_01: so that people can find all things INN,
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  SPEAKER_01: including,
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  SPEAKER_01: by the way,
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  SPEAKER_01: if it's an INN newsletter,
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  SPEAKER_01: like Reef and Collins clips are published to INN newsletter as well as to YouTube.
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  SPEAKER_01: Separate timing to a separate place, separate audience.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to separate that and list that as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Same thing as IndieMediaToday.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: I publish at 8.30 in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: That same clip would publish to YouTube at 10 p.m. that evening.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, totally separate audience at a totally separate link,
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  SPEAKER_01: but two different ways to access the same clip.
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  SPEAKER_01: This one ad-free if you don't have YouTube Premium.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a reason why I'm including all of these different links there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course,
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  SPEAKER_01: the AM Wake Up simulcast,
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  SPEAKER_01: like the one from this morning from T-Lab Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_01: which we co-stream every weekday morning at 10 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eastern with Steve and AM Wake Up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tomorrow will be Revolutionary Wednesdays with Teast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, this is the INN Weekly Calendar.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can get there through the link there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And...
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  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, that's all I got.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm done.
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  SPEAKER_01: I swear.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love you all.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would say support Independent Media like I usually do because we need it
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  SPEAKER_00: more than
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  SPEAKER_01: ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I will see you next Tuesday, fam.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love you all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Night, everybody.
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  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.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not what you want me to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: You prove it's possible to sleep for days.
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  SPEAKER_00: 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 save.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they told you everything was saved, were you saved?
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  SPEAKER_00: You say.