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How Republicans and Democrats see Jan. 6 differently · Apple News Today

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  [MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Mark Garrison, Narrating: Good morning. It's Friday, January 5th.
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  I'm Mark Garrison in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today."
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  On today's show, dangerous winter weather coming to the East Coast,
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  overhauling parking in dozens of American cities,
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  and Esther Perel on the real reasons couples fight.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, President Biden is delivering a campaign speech in Pennsylvania today,
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  just before the three year mark of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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  It's an effort to frame the upcoming election
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  as a fight for democracy,
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  and argue that reelecting his potential Republican opponent,
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  Donald Trump, could be dangerous for America.
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  "Bloomberg" White House correspondent Akayla Gardner told us
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  about how Biden's approach is similar to his 2020 campaign strategy.
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  Akayla Gardner: His pitch then, and it's still now, is he talked about the soul of America
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  and the fight for the soul of America and really calling out hate
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  and this rhetoric that he feels that Donald Trump embodies.
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  And he is sort of holding himself as a moral standard.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Of course, voters will also weigh other factors,
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  including economic issues and the various global wars.
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  But Gardner says that the Biden campaign thinks that the health
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  of American democracy is a top concern for Democratic voters.
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  Gardner: They feel that, you know, there was certain polls that showed
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  that Americans broadly,
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  especially independents, especially Democrats,
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  felt as though democracy was under threat.
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  And they felt that that helped them keep the Senate, as they did in the midterms.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Which is why Biden is using the anniversary of the Capitol attack
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  to speak to voters.
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  But January 6th has had a very different effect
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  for many Republicans.
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  Recent polling from "The Washington Post" finds that Republicans
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  are now less likely to blame Trump for the January 6th attack
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  and more sympathetic to those who stormed the Capitol.
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  And more than a third of Republicans say they believe
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  the false conspiracy theory that the FBI incited the attack.
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  Gardner says that Trump's criminal charges
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  and the congressional investigation of the insurrection
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  have gotten him more support from his base.
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  Gardner: Really, Trump has cast himself as a victim,
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  whether it was in that investigation, whether it is in the indictments.
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  And that, I think more than anyone really expected,
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  has really driven support behind him.
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  Garrison, Narrating: In that same "Post" poll, when Democrats and independents are included, a majority
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  of Americans do think that the attack on the Capitol threatened democracy.
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  [GENTLE MUSIC]
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  Now let's take a quick look at some other major stories in the news.
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  In Iowa, a sixth-grade student is dead and several other people wounded.
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  A 17-year-old gunman attacked a school before dying by suicide.
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  Student Ava Augustus talked on "NBC" about hiding in the classroom
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  until she got the all-clear.
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  [START NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Ava Augustus: People are calling their parents, friends,
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  and then we hear, "He's down, you can go out."
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  And I run, and you can just see glass everywhere.
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  Blood on the floor.
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  [END NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Police say they found an improvised explosive device
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  in the school, which didn't go off.
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  The East Coast is in for a major winter storm this weekend.
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  New York and Boston are likely to get snow,
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  and Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia are forecast
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  to at least get frigid rain and dangerous roads.
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  That Biden speech in Pennsylvania we just talked about
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  was originally tomorrow,
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  but the White House moved it up because of the severe weather forecast.
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  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on another trip to the Middle East
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  as fears rise of major conflict spreading beyond Gaza.
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  Yesterday, the U.S. launched an airstrike against a militia in Baghdad,
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  which had claimed several attacks on U.S. forces.
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  American strikes inside Iraq are rare these days.
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  Iraq says it was a violation of agreements with the U.S.
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  And Paralympian gold medalist Oscar Pistorius is now out on parole
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  after serving 11 years in a South African prison.
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  He was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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  Before going to prison, he was a celebrated sprinter,
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  nicknamed "Blade Runner," for the carbon fiber prosthetics he used.
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  [INTENSE MUSIC]
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  America has a lot of cars, and that means a lot of debate about parking.
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  Drivers want to park close to their destinations,
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  and for a long time, city planners catered to them.
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  Many communities have had longstanding parking minimums,
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  strict regulations as to how many spots need to be provided
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  for every retail, office or apartment building.
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  But "NPR" looks at how that's changing.
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  A lot of places are ditching parking minimums,
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  saying that the land can be put to better use.
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  Cities like Austin are at the forefront of this movement.
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  The city council there recently eliminated parking minimums,
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  making it the largest U.S. city to do so.
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  The argument is that eliminating the minimums creates more space
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  for affordable housing
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  and encourages more walking and better public transit options.
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  It could also help the environment.
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  Asphalt parking lots trap heat and can cause water runoff problems.
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  It's important to understand that this is not an elimination of parking,
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  just removing the regulation.
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  Now property owners can decide how much parking they want to create.
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  Still, some residents don't like the move.
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  Malcolm Yates told "NPR" that Austin needs a lot of parking spots.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Malcolm Yates: Austin has developed as a low density city
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  without adequate mass transportation system.
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  Austin citizens cannot give up their cars.
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  [END NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Tony Jordan, president of the Parking Reform Network,
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  told "NPR" that people should focus
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  on what's lost when land is taken up by parking lots.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Tony Jordan: The housing that could have gone in that space or the housing
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  that wasn't built because the developer couldn't put enough parking.
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  So we just lose housing in exchange for having convenient places to store cars.
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  [END NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: And there's also a lot of support for the change in Austin and elsewhere.
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  More than 50 other cities and towns have gotten rid
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  of parking minimums, from Alaska to California to Florida.
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  Finally, the well-known couples therapist, Esther Perel, is Shumita's latest guest
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  on our interview show, "Apple News in Conversation."
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  They talked just before Shumita's maternity leave
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  about the problems modern couples face.
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  In Esther's view, we're asking too much of our partners these days.
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  [START APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Esther Perel: We want one person to give us companionship, economic support,
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  co-parenting, intellectual equal, best friend, confidant, passionate lover.
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  And we also hope to find that person on an app.
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  And the unprecedented expectations come also
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  with unprecedented disappointments.
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  [END APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: She has tips for how to navigate this, and she does have some customized thoughts
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  for Shumita.
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  [START APPLES NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Shumita Basu: Well, I would really kick myself if I had had this chance
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  to speak with you, Esther Perel,
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  and not ask you for some advice personally.
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  Perel: I've been feeling it the whole conversation. [LAUGHS]
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  Basu: Um, I'm pregnant with my first child.
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  So, I wanted to ask you, what advice do you have for…
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  for me and my partner, for couples like us,
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  right when they become parents for the first time?
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  Perel: Yes, having a child is a redistribution of resources.
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  Time, money, attention, touch, sensuality, you name it.
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  Basu: Mmm. Mm-hm.
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  Perel: And it demands a lot of attention.
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  It demands real, careful, deliberate attention
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  to not let the couple die on the vine.
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  Especially given that today the survival of the family depends on the happiness
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  of the couple.
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  Basu: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Perel: So, the couple that gives everything they have to their kids
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  and leaves nothing for themselves
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  puts the family at risk, not just the couple.
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  That's something I tell lots of people because there is
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  an unprecedented child centrality
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  at this moment that really demands for the people to abdicate
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  of themselves at a level that has reached an apex of folly.
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  Basu: Hm.
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  Perel: Now you know what I think.
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  [BOTH LAUGH]
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  And so, to do that, to have the couple maintain itself,
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  the most important thing I can say is find a community.
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  Basu: Find a community.
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  Perel: Find a community. Don't go at it alone.
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  Basu: Mmm.
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  Perel: You get support, you get adult time…
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  Basu: Mmm.
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  Perel: …and you get a sense that other people care about your kids.
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  That you're not the only ones who have to be there responsible
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  and with your love and your attention.
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  And that liberates you when you know that they have other people.
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  I don't know what kind of extended family you have around you,
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  but if you do, involve them,
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  and if you don't, create a family of choice.
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  Basu: Mm. Mm. Oh, that's such great advice. Thank you so much.
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  Perel: You're welcome.
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  [END APPLES NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: If you're listening in the Apple News app, that full episode is queued up
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  to play next.
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  If you're listening in the Podcasts app,
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  just search for "Apple News In Conversation."
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  Enjoy the weekend, and I'll be back with the news on Monday.
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