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Newsworthy · Rich Spinster

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  SPEAKER_00: It's just all about love and life and living in freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what it's all about for me now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Rich Spenster Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am coming up the rough side of the mountain, and I am doing my best to make it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how I'm feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am happy to be joining you all this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in case you missed it, Katie Zachariah is out as press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: The shortest stint as press secretary in history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five days, y'all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Milk serves a longer term in your refrigerator than Katie did as press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's talk about her for a moment, shall we?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a huge comedic loss for the country.
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  SPEAKER_00: A country where laughs are desperately needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was freaking hilarious to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Katie Zachariah was hilarious, and I say perfect as Trump's press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if you're gonna get up there and you're gonna spin lies and do all of those things that Cunt and Zilla Caroline Levitt did, you need to be able to do it, I think, and and have the people watch and laugh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we didn't get a lot of laughs from Cunt and Zilla.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got a lot of rage.
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  SPEAKER_00: But from Katie, it was all giggles for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do have questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did anybody interview her?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know: did they even interview her for this role?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or was she interviewed by Trump only in the Oval Office?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the only thing she needed to prove was the ability to not hurl at the smell of two-day old urine.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was hilarious.
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  SPEAKER_00: What made her think that she could do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why are dumb people so confident?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what possesses somebody to step up for a role that they know they're not qualified for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is an important role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supposed to be an important role, but we know this country is not serious.
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  SPEAKER_00: If someone offered me that job, I would tell them I don't have the experience nor interest to do that job effectively.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not people with an IQ of 74.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, the people with an IQ of 74 raise their hands and they say, I got this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is not self-confidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is absolute delusions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Delusion that she could get up there and just fumble and mumble her way through the role as White House press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, consular Caroline Levitt, but at least she could answer a question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, one thing about Caroline Levitt, she's quick with a lie.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like she was born to lie, she was raised her whole life to lie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, have the the the most intellectually bankrupt and lazy administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: They thought, well, this, you know, she can do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But every interview that she did was a disaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every interview that she did was a disaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: I almost wonder if she's on some sort of antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication because when I saw a clip of her from Hannity's show, she was slurring a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what the hell's going on with her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what the hell's going on with her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure that she has some very important skills.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just don't know what those skills are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump might know, but the rest of us are clueless.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing: as soon as I saw her, I was like, this is a joke.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I can't describe it all of the time, but I know it when I see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: She has that dumb MAGA Barbie look.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just, you know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the long blonde hair, it's the overly orange skin, it's aging like milk, it's all of those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had that smiling with bright white veneers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the crazy part of this for me is that black women sit in offices every day, overqualified for the role that they have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And opportunities to get additional roles are those doors are few and far between and rarely opened for black women.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, Homegirl can just walk up there as press secretary and pretend to be a lawyer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just don't, I don't understand how.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how she came back for day two, but she does what frankly unintelligent and overconfident people do.
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  SPEAKER_00: They got this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then they shook her ass like a case of bad fleas.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were like, this ain't really for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna, we're gonna pivot here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember Carla from Cheers, Rhea Pearlman, and she's actually married to Danny DeVito in real life.
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  SPEAKER_00: She would have been a great press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: She would have been great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who else would have been a great press secretary?
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  SPEAKER_00: Shirley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shirley from What's Happening?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do y'all remember what's happening and what's happening now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Shirley, big Shirley, would have been a great press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jack K.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clark from 227, great press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Westlake from The Cosby Show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Theo's Math Teacher, fantastic, fantastic press secretary from Living Single, Maxine Felice Shaw Esquire, excellent press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of these options.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we were gonna go into the land of make-believe, we should have chosen somebody like one of these characters, but no, we went with Lawyer Barbie.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is one thing, though.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is one thing that I want people to hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: They put this underqualified, inept woman in this position of power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do what the fuck you want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do what the fuck you want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be who you want to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Step into a space as yourself fully and own it and don't give a damn about how that is received.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do that because as we have seen, it does not matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being quiet in that damn cubicle, that is not saving you somehow at that company.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not, it's not doing anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we have sisters right now sitting at jobs that they've been sitting at for 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they've received a promotion or two, but they have to really wait on some benevolent person at the top to acknowledge their worth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Acknowledge it for your damn self.
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  SPEAKER_00: Walk through that bitch like you were the boss.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't give a damn if you are a clerk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't have the integrity that you have, they don't have the talent you have, and they damn sure don't have the intellect that you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about that and walk in that and know that because these motherfuckers are below average, like a motherfucker.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of these bitches have IEPs that should have followed them throughout life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you have Lawyer Barbie pretending to be a press secretary, you got Mitch McConnell pretending to be alive, you got Donald Trump pretending to be the president.
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  SPEAKER_00: What the fuck?
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  SPEAKER_00: Their life is too short to pretend.
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  SPEAKER_00: You stand in who you are and own it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why I say all of the time if you want to open doors, you you open doors by electing and hiring black women.
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  SPEAKER_00: The majority of black women will open doors behind them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or they will leave with the door left open.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we think about our people in that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust me.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I didn't think about that, let me tell y'all something.
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  SPEAKER_00: I left a job one time, and the only reason I did not curse out every motherfucker at that job when I left, it is because I understood that I didn't just represent myself, that I represented another black woman who would go and who would apply there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I knew if I showed my ass at that job that they would never hire another Negro in life for the black woman who was going to come after me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted her to get an opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even though I knew she wouldn't get a fair shot, she maybe would get a shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I showed my natural black ass, she wouldn't get that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how I felt.
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  SPEAKER_00: I cared that the doors were left open and not closed.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Now I would have felt better had I caught some people out.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to open doors, you want people to fight for you, you want equality, you want justice, then what you want are black women in positions of power.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Have you all seen clips or have seen the debate that Senator Asoff and Mike Collins had in Georgia?
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  SPEAKER_00: Damn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did y'all see Senator Asoff annihilate Mike Collins?
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  SPEAKER_00: I almost felt sorry for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has been giving Mike Collins hell.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's been beating the fuck out of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like he's at target practice in his mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's bullseye every fucking time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Senator Osof reminds me of Liam Nielsen's character from Taken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember when they took his daughter?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was on the phone with dude.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, I don't know who you are, and I don't know what you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for a ransom, I can tell you I don't have any money.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I do have is a very particular set of skills.
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  SPEAKER_00: Skills that I have acquired over a very long career.
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  SPEAKER_00: Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not look for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not pursue you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you don't, I will look for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will find you, and I will kill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what that motherfucker's giving in Georgia.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what he is giving in Georgia, and I am here for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I literally was watching clips from the debate, and I was nervous for Mike Collins.
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  SPEAKER_00: This ain't what you want, Mike.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've never seen Taken, I suggest you go see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, and shout out to Jamie West, the woman in Indiana who has gone viral for her interview.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's running for city council.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, she was that was truly a lesson in not giving a fuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: She did not give a good goddamn.
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  SPEAKER_00: She she gave the answers that were true to her heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: She wasn't pretending to be somebody that she is not.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's who the fuck she is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she meant every word that she said when she ended that shit and she was like, We got guns too.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was not playing.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was not playing.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was talking to the people in her community who know what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I appreciated that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yes, she has gone viral and everybody's been laughing, but I I loved her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually think if the Democratic Party had more guts like her, we would be a lot further than we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the Democratic Party needs to take a lesson from Jamie West.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say what the fuck it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell, I think that they should have interviewed her to be press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's who needs to be press secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody who's just gonna tell you the truth.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck the spin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that Jamie West could do it.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved everything about it, frankly.
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  SPEAKER_00: This idea that we have to be these polished, perfect, controlled individuals is all this is all tenants of white supremacy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tenets of white supremacy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Control the population.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't be too joyous, don't be too loud, don't be too controversial, don't be too argumentative.
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  SPEAKER_00: Definitely don't be aggressive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Watch your tone, watch your face.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: You gave a look in that meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is everything okay?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Give other people a space so that they feel comfortable to speak, but also you're not talking enough.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we really want to hear from you.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, it's always gonna be something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fuck all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those rough edges.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we need.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need people with rough edges.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need corners that are not always rounded off.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need people who stand in front of us, and what they exude may not be polished.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may not be perfection, but what it is is the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need people to stand in truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also feel like Jamie West, there's something about her that makes me feel like she loves Shania Twain.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can totally see her going, the best thing about a being a woman is my prerogative to have a little fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh uh oh, it's totally crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forget I'm a lady, a man's shirt, short skirt.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: I can I can totally see her liking Shania, but I can also see her liking something like Leonard Skinner or something like that.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll fuck with Jamie West.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know anything about her, but what I saw, I really appreciated, and I feel like we needed that in the zeitgeist.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: There was another school shooting, and this time it was in Oregon, where some children lost their precious lives, and again, America don't give a fuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why are we even bringing it up?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't even bring them up anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't bring up school shootings, I don't bring up everyday gun violence because everyday people seem to have become more and more desensitized.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that is what they want.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they want a country where people are so desensitized, where there's so much bullshit that you're seeing online and on the news that people don't even have a chance to check in with their humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: They look at the numbers and they say, oh, two killed, four killed, six killed.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not so bad.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: They look at these school shootings as if they're just something that you can't control, something that happens in America.
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  SPEAKER_00: I often wonder how far gun violence prevention legislation would get if school shooters were black.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the majority of school shooters were black, if black people were arming themselves and going into schools and killing innocent children, maybe there would be uh tougher gun laws.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because then people would actually fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: The problem is we live in a country that doesn't see danger when they see a white person.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't see, as a country, white people as being as dangerous as they are, therefore, gun violence prevention legislation they want just directed towards the cities where they believe the problem is.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the problem is in Oregon, the problem is in Colorado, the problem is in Florida, the problem is everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: But society only sees that as a black and brown problem so they can have the prerogative to not care and pretend that this can never touch them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it touches them all of the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the memories are short.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so what?
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: We had another school shooting.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to have another one, and we're going to have another one, and we're going to have another one until this country decides that we don't want anymore, until this country decides that we have to get serious about gun violence prevention.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what does that actually look like?
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  SPEAKER_00: Getting serious.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means also getting serious about all of the underlying issues that contribute to gun violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means getting serious about poverty.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means getting serious about mental health.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means getting serious about education.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means getting serious about violence, period.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're only as good as the way you care for your future.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: And America has shown with its inaction on guns that it doesn't care about its future.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I hate the people who are like, well, you can't stop acts all acts of gun violence.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: So so what?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: So what?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: No, you cannot stop all acts of gun violence.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: No one says, oh, we shouldn't work on breast cancer because we can't cure colon cancer.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: They only say this about guns and their rights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right to bear arms.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: What about a right to live?
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's coming to your door in some way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you may not care now, but you're gonna care later.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm just a ray of sunshine today.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: I I I am I am really curious about the outcome of the midterms simply because I want to see how sick the country has become.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: How sick are we really?
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  SPEAKER_00: If we are healing, we're going to elect people that are committed to change.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: We want a different type of Democrat in office.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want a Hakeem Jeffries, we want somebody with some balls.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like Jamie West of Indiana.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: The fact that any of these races are even close speaks to how sick this society has become.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: It speaks to how sick MAGA is.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: It speaks to how sick white supremacy is.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: And if America is nothing else, it is an example.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: It is an example to the world.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And right now, America is an example of what happens when society oppresses a group of people.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: We see what happens when a government is not committed to the education of their people.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: We see what happens when you lose freedom of the press.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: We already see what happens.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: We see what happens when there is no oversight.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: We see what happens when there's no checks and balances.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: When there are no checks and balances, people at the top become much wealthier.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: Telling you, everyone else, working people, that you need to work a little harder.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Don't depend on Medicare or Medic Medicaid.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you if you get sick, you should have just been born wealthier.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be able to see a lot more about the prognosis of this country once the midterms are passed.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I and I hope, I hope that this is the start of America being in remission in some way.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Give good human.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: As much as you can, give good human.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: So we are almost to the point of where I am going to be taking a little hiatus from the podcast for the holiday season.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: I've decided that the last podcast of this season will be November 4th, the day after midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I will come back on January 4th to start the new season.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I still will be active on social media at Rich Spenster.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: So please follow me on Instagram.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: So just wanted to put that out there.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to the Rich Spenster Podcast.
• 21:34
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• 21:38
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• 21:43
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• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful week, everyone, and I will talk to you soon.