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Monday Mini: Election Anxiety · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha and Mo to stuff
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Speaker 1: I'll Never Told You production off iHeart Radio. And today
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Speaker 1: it is November one, twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Here in the US.
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Speaker 1: We are bearing down on election Day, which is November fifth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So we're doing an episode on election
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Speaker 1: anxiety that is very similar to our pass Upside we
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Speaker 1: did on election stress disorder, so you want to check
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Speaker 1: that out.
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Speaker 2: But this is coming out the day before the election.
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Speaker 1: I'm so content warning, I get it if you don't
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Speaker 1: want to hear about it. I have realized that Samantha
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Speaker 1: saw in action. I don't like being sprung upon questions
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Speaker 1: about the election.
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Speaker 3: Because I think I just asked what I was going
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Speaker 3: to do planning to do, and Stu I was like, Oh.
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Speaker 2: It's like bad, it's really bad.
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Speaker 3: It's not funny. It was funny now, but I was like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I was just asking what you're doing that day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really bad.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about a little at the end,
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Speaker 1: but it's not good also, but it's not the first
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Speaker 1: time it happened. But my friend Marissa, who's been on
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Speaker 1: the show good friend of the show, she brought up
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Speaker 1: something with the election while we were on vacation, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, no, we're not talking about it. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: I will leave the room. That's not happening. Fair enough, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I am not alone. So every year the American
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Speaker 1: Psychological Association are the APA, conducts and reports on a
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Speaker 1: survey of the stressors in the United States, and this
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Speaker 1: year there were the usual suspects family, money, job, but
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Speaker 1: one thing was looming abroad of them, and it was
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four US presidential election. In general, of
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Speaker 1: those surveyed, seven out of ten reported politics in the
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Speaker 1: election being a significant source of stress. This finding was
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Speaker 1: statistically significant across all parties, from seventy to eighty percent
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Speaker 1: of respondents, depending on the party. Many reported worries of
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Speaker 1: violence after the election no matter the outcome. Fifty six
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Speaker 1: percent believe the election could be the end of democracy
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Speaker 1: in the country. There have also already been sorts of violence,
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Speaker 1: so it makes sense people.
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Speaker 2: Have these fears.
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Speaker 1: The study also found about half of the three thousand
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Speaker 1: respondents didn't trust the system of checks and balances, About
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Speaker 1: forty percent have considered moving to a different country. About
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Speaker 1: forty five percent have said they would not date someone
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Speaker 1: with opposing political beliefs.
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Speaker 3: Just forty five percent. Yeah, that's surprising.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well who knows, like who is actually interested in dating.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how they specifically phrased that question, but
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Speaker 1: or maybe they were there open to the idea, but
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Speaker 1: probably won't. I think there's a lot of ways that
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Speaker 1: could play out. And on whopping, eighty two percent were
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Speaker 1: worried that people were basing their decisions and values on
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Speaker 1: misinformation or disinformation. So you can see our past episodes,
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Speaker 1: many of them we've done with bridget for more information
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Speaker 1: about that. Uh and yes, several experts said that social
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Speaker 1: media is exacerbating all of this and we are inundated
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Speaker 1: with text and emails and ads. It's worse in Swing states.
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Speaker 1: I watch a lot of YouTube, and I am I've
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Speaker 1: seen them all.
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Speaker 3: I haven't seen any ads outside of TikTok, so like
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Speaker 3: I can easily swipe away from them. I have seen
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Speaker 3: TikTok in itself saying that they are a trusted source
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Speaker 3: for election information. That's what which is really interesting to me,
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Speaker 3: Like broh what Also, it's totally funny with the amount
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Speaker 3: of TikTok's that are being you is by political people.
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Speaker 3: Flash candidates and the fact that they're shutting down TikTok
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Speaker 3: supposedly in January. I'm confused, but hey, it is what
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Speaker 3: it is on that level. Did you also see, speaking
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Speaker 3: of Missufre, you mentioned disinformation that Facebook is being sued.
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Speaker 3: I think because they had gotten millions of dollars from
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Speaker 3: misinformation ads from political campaigns and they have used them
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Speaker 3: and they have posted them m hm without any qualms
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Speaker 3: and everybody's like, okay.
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Speaker 2: Well it's also there's.
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Speaker 1: We talked about this before, were worried about this, but
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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of AI generated videos that are
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Speaker 1: just fake and some of our politicians, so I'm here
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Speaker 1: in Georgia, have already had to come out and say no, that's.
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Speaker 2: That's not real. This is not real.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's stressing people out, and yes, it is
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Speaker 1: impacting women and young people. More sixty three percent of
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Speaker 1: women versus fifty eight percent of men reported a negative
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Speaker 1: mental impact due to the election. And one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite quotes came from psychiatrist dot com and it was
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Speaker 1: talking about the people who are kind of not worried
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Speaker 1: about it. More than a quarter of then twenty seven
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Speaker 1: percent felt optimistic about the upcoming election, Well, twenty two
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Speaker 1: percent of them said they're excited. Men in particular appeared
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Speaker 1: to be the most hopeful.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 2: Good on you, bro, I laughed out loud.
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Speaker 3: I read this. Yeah, sure, because no matter what, nothing
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Speaker 3: changes for them, even if it is like a Democratic presidency,
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Speaker 3: nothing changes for men. Yeah, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: Like it's interesting and to that level, like they don't have.
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Speaker 3: This is a game, yeah, of likening or losing versus
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Speaker 3: us being like, oh no, this is going to be
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Speaker 3: awful and we're going to go backtrack in so many
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Speaker 3: ways that people are going to die. More people are
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Speaker 3: going to die, and it's going to be mainly women
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Speaker 3: in marginalized people. Anyway, happy happy.
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Speaker 1: I know, I was thinking about it because I was
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Speaker 1: so bummed. I remember the first time I voted and
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Speaker 1: I was so excited was Obama.
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Speaker 3: I was a George Bush, George w That was my election.
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Speaker 3: That was in my Republican era. I hate to say it.
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Speaker 3: I apologize all.
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Speaker 1: You've you've changed I did.
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Speaker 3: I did vote for Obama. I was very excited about Obama.
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Speaker 1: We've also mentioned there have been reports of women not
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Speaker 1: telling the usually man that they're with who they're voting for.
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Speaker 1: So that's something else we've been seeing. Actually need a
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Speaker 1: lot more young people than I thought. It was impacting
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Speaker 1: young people the most, although I think for that specific
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Speaker 1: statistic it was young people in their lives. The ads
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Speaker 1: have been very, very gendered. As I said, I've seen them.
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Speaker 1: You've got your like like bros, be a man, vote
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Speaker 1: for come like all kinds of really gendered ads that
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Speaker 1: are happening. But it is having an impact on us
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Speaker 1: physically and mentally. Sixty percent of respondents in a separate
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Speaker 1: study reported that the election had really done damage to
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Speaker 1: their mental health. Half of that reported feeling fear, emotional eating,
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Speaker 1: lack of sleep, alcohol, or substance abuse. For all things
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Speaker 1: that people reported experiencing stress. We've done so many episodes
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Speaker 1: about this, but stress does wreak havoc on your body.
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Speaker 1: And then a lot of people were reporting feeling like fight,
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Speaker 1: flight or freeze at this time, which leads us to
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Speaker 1: the next point. A lot of us are struggling to
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Speaker 1: focus in all aspects of our lives because of the election.
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Speaker 1: Experts say that this is for several reasons, but one
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Speaker 1: is that it is a huge decision. A lot of
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Speaker 1: us do care about it. It can inspire a helpless
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Speaker 1: feeling too, because things have become so polarized and so
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Speaker 1: much of what is on theline feels intensely personal and unsafe.
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Speaker 1: Just if you've ever had this big decision, but there's
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Speaker 1: so much out of control when it comes to making it.
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Speaker 1: It's sort of that, but magnified. According to Stephen Stawsni,
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Speaker 1: who coined Election stress Disorder but he later renamed Headline
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Speaker 1: Stress Disorder, said about this, when we're focused on things
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Speaker 1: we can't control our influence, we feel powerless and anxious.
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Speaker 1: Anxiety is a general central nervous system response, not specific
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Speaker 1: to what triggers it. It makes us perceived threats everywhere.
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Speaker 1: He also went on to say that we can really
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Speaker 1: feed into these emotions when we're around each other, So
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Speaker 1: not just like with people who disagree with you, but
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Speaker 1: with people who agree with you, you can really work
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Speaker 1: each other up. Gen Z and millennials are the most impacted.
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Speaker 1: It did kind of bother me when I was looking
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Speaker 1: to this about how many of the sources were like,
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Speaker 1: here's how you make your employees more productive during this
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Speaker 1: time and then future planning. Many Americans are putting off
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Speaker 1: or changing travel plans because of the election. Delta Airline
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Speaker 1: CEO said people like to be home during the election period.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to be out traveling. I don't think
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Speaker 1: they want to be spending money until they understand what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen. According to NBC News Quote, sixty four
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Speaker 1: percent of US adults said they would avoid traveling in
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Speaker 1: the US have concerns about unrest depending on who wins.
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Speaker 1: According to a recent poll by the travel site Vacationer,
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Speaker 1: about a quarter said they'd stay home only if Vice
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Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris is elected, while just sixteen percent said
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Speaker 1: they would hold off if former President Donald Trump wins.
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Speaker 1: Some have also just reported being unable to travel with
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Speaker 1: family members from opposing sides of the political spectrum.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I'm going back and forth because my family's doing a
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Speaker 3: thing this weekend, and I had already planned to go
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Speaker 3: home the day before to see my parents, and I'm
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Speaker 3: going back and forth about going to see them now
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Speaker 3: because I don't want to see my entire family who
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Speaker 3: are Trump supporters. A couple of them are Trump supporters.
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Speaker 3: At first, I thought they were just like Republican supporters
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Speaker 3: and willing to vote for whomever, which we know those
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Speaker 3: have come about which are not great, but at least
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Speaker 3: I'm not Trump supporters. I have a couple of family
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Speaker 3: members who changed their profile to the assassination attempt to Trump,
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Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, literally, like that's the freight
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Speaker 3: expression that I get, because I was like, you're smarter
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Speaker 3: than this. Why are you idealizing this man? You, mister,
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Speaker 3: I am Christian to the core and want to be Christian,
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Speaker 3: singing gospel music all the time, are putting Trump as
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Speaker 3: a god who gives about your God? Like it's anyway.
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Speaker 3: All that to say is I am struggling about whether
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Speaker 3: or not I want to go home to see the
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Speaker 3: entire family, especially right before the election, and I'm really
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Speaker 3: freaking out because I don't want to talk about it.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to see them. It's going to cause
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Speaker 3: it's going to cause a riff and it's going to
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Speaker 3: be a not fun trip. I also feel bad because
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Speaker 3: I know my niece, at least at least one niece
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Speaker 3: who lean's left as well, she's going, so she and
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Speaker 3: they bring it up with her often, which is odd
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Speaker 3: to me because they would never bring it up with me.
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Speaker 3: And I think it has everything to do with like
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Speaker 3: the respect and understanding that she holds her own, don't
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Speaker 3: get me wrong, and she is more like out for
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Speaker 3: all the things that she is than I am. Like,
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Speaker 3: you know, I seem old fashioned compared to her. But
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Speaker 3: they seem to constantly want to bring it up with
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Speaker 3: her as if I guess that's still trying to change
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Speaker 3: her mind as where I'm like, yeah, we will have
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Speaker 3: it out battle like all out battle, and I will
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Speaker 3: also stop coming home. I will protect my piece anyway.
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Speaker 3: That means will staying away from y'all. And I think
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Speaker 3: that's part of the reason they don't bring it up
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Speaker 3: with me. But I still feel bad for her to
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Speaker 3: just feel like I need to be there to be
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Speaker 3: an ally would right like, but I gotta protect my piece. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's a lot.
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Speaker 2: That's a tough one. It's I know, I've told this
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Speaker 2: story before.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into it now, but it's
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Speaker 1: interesting in my family because my immediate family are all liberal, and.
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Speaker 2: Yet I still don't want to talk right because to them,
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Speaker 2: what do I know? What the do I know?
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Speaker 3: It's funny because you're probably the most resource of all
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Speaker 3: of them.
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Speaker 1: It really, and I just like, there's so many things
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Speaker 1: I haven't dealt with because we are not a good family.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to like addressing her issues with each other, I.
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Speaker 3: Haven't talked about the trauma that's happened in your life
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Speaker 3: to the point that I'm like, how do y'all communicate?
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Speaker 3: I don't talk to my parents too much, but the
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Speaker 3: fai las we've gotten to the point that like, yes,
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Speaker 3: we need therapy for these things.
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Speaker 2: My mom and I are good.
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Speaker 3: You're your mom and you'r you have done really well
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Speaker 3: the rest of them, although she still doesn't know everything,
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Speaker 3: maybe now more because of the book, but.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but anyway, I'm good with her.
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Speaker 3: Y'all are to me. Y'all are the quintessential wasps of me,
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Speaker 3: but in the country in the.
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Speaker 2: South, not really religious.
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Speaker 3: But a little bit religious, but more of like very intellectual,
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Speaker 3: And we don't talk about feelings everything until.
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Speaker 2: Each other and we never talked about it again.
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Speaker 1: But it did leave for like a mark and we
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Speaker 1: had a huge right after the twenty sixteen election, so
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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it with them.
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Speaker 2: And I was reading I was reading something I had.
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Speaker 1: A really we all did, but I had a really
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Speaker 1: bad reaction to the twenty sixteen election, and so I
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm it's coming back and a lot of
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Speaker 1: us haven't recovered from it. And I was reading an
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Speaker 1: article about how this election it's just bringing up all
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Speaker 1: of that stuff. But I feel frozen. I feel like
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Speaker 1: I can't I can't make any decisions. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to make decisions. It feels like my world is going
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Speaker 1: to end. So on like Monday, like planning on calling
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Speaker 1: my mom, like it's the last time I might ever
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Speaker 1: speak to her. This is like so much stress. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So for anyone out there feeling it, I'm with you,
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Speaker 1: with you, and you know, we say, make a voting plan,
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Speaker 1: go vote, make an election day plan, election week plan.
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Speaker 3: We have to ease and do it, though.
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Speaker 2: You have to tees into it. Oh my gosh. Oh.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of tips on how to manage
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Speaker 1: the stress, but I don't think, I mean, none of
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Speaker 1: them are surprising. It's like, yeah, I know that, I
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Speaker 1: know that, Like go outside, don't engage too much on
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Speaker 1: social media. If it's stressing you out, take a step
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Speaker 1: away from politics. If it's stressing you out, maybe meditate
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Speaker 1: or do something meditati if it's just kind of the
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Speaker 1: normal stuff. But you to also contribute or volunteer to
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Speaker 1: a cause you care about that might make you feel
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Speaker 1: like you have more right control or something.
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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting, like there's a thing you know.
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Speaker 3: In general, the conversation about hopecore about trying to see
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Speaker 3: hopeful things, whether it's like a good story of the day,
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Speaker 3: I feel good story of the day, or seeing like
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Speaker 3: puppies or I love a good puppy and Halloween costumes
15:50
Speaker 3: and puppies are amazing. Franny's to be able to cry
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Speaker 3: her heart out, and she loves to do anything that
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Speaker 3: makes her ball and cry out. Just the Last of
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Speaker 3: Us too. I'm sure you're gonna watch like some of
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Speaker 3: the Last of Us show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I don't know. I'll have to think. I
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Speaker 2: haven't planned.
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Speaker 3: It, you haven't planned it yet.
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Speaker 1: Because sometimes sometimes that would put me in a darker place.
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Speaker 3: I do love, That's what I'm saying. That's like a
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Speaker 3: lot of people don't. I can't do that, But I'm
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Speaker 3: like you why I enjoyed this.
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Speaker 2: I love doing that, like on a like not day
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Speaker 2: where I think the world might end. But I don't
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Speaker 2: know about that specific day. I might need a break.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of like conversations about people
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Speaker 3: trying to do hope court things, trying to get out.
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Speaker 3: There's been a lot of scary stuff. I unfortunately I
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Speaker 3: don't listen to much of the updates people are doing, predictions,
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Speaker 3: going back and forth, because it's making me crazy watching
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Speaker 3: the number. Don't look at that like. I know that
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Speaker 3: eight million voters have already put in their votes in
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Speaker 3: the state of Georgia, which is amazing. I also know
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Speaker 3: that Cod County is going through a thing right now
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Speaker 3: where people have been purged or haven't gotten their absentee
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Speaker 3: ballots yet, a lot of people. And we know Cob
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Speaker 3: County as much as Georgia as a swing state, Cobb
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Speaker 3: County is a swing county, so it's a huge and
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Speaker 3: that's one of the redistrict thing that had happened previously
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Speaker 3: not too long ago, in order to try to jerry
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Speaker 3: mander that area. I love how amusing these terms as
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Speaker 3: if they're anyway. All these things, and I think there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of stuff going on, but yeah, being able
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Speaker 3: to take a step aside if you can, it's hard.
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Speaker 3: It's hard because there's so much on the line. I
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Speaker 3: think the one thing we have to remember, even though
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Speaker 3: I don't like remembering, going back to the twenty sixteen election,
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Speaker 3: and everybody's like, what the fuck? And I cried and
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Speaker 3: everybody else cried. Literally that was the year that I
17:55
Speaker 3: lived below in the basement of a gay dude, very nice,
18:00
Speaker 3: and he started screaming. He started screaming like in anger
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Speaker 3: and like in terror. Rightly, so I was there too,
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Speaker 3: But I do mind, like my reactions are all quiet.
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Speaker 3: I'm very stoic, Like I don't know because I'm the
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Speaker 3: freeze person for sure, that I just sit and stare,
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Speaker 3: like you'll see me shut down. But the shutdown just
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Speaker 3: looks like nonchalant, right and ease because I don't react immediately,
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Speaker 3: but like we know those moments. But I also remember
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Speaker 3: immediately after how people rallied, like how people rallied together,
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Speaker 3: and that as things can be bad, yes we know that,
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Speaker 3: and it's not ideal, the amount of people that come
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Speaker 3: out together and united is also amazing to see, Like
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Speaker 3: the amount of power that black women had for a
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Speaker 3: state of Georgia immediately after that election was amazing to see.
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Speaker 3: As political and sideways as the Women's March did get
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Speaker 3: after the fact, the initial was beautiful. It was beautiful
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Speaker 3: to see. So we have to remember that they're still
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Speaker 3: We're not out. Whatever happens. We're not out. Whatever happens.
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Speaker 3: There's a bigger fight to go. Even if we do
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Speaker 3: get the better results, there's still going to be a fight.
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Speaker 3: There's still going to be a fight, and that's never ending.
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Speaker 3: But there are so many people who do fight, and
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Speaker 3: the people who do fight are amazing people. And out
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Speaker 3: of like the ashes come the beauty, you know, like
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Speaker 3: all of the darkness, there does come amazing things. And
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Speaker 3: that's the part we have to remember. It is like
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Speaker 3: we've been down this road. It's gross, and this one
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Speaker 3: is a little more threatening, I guess that's the best
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Speaker 3: way to put it. It feels more threatening because we
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Speaker 3: know there's a bigger plan and he has gotten the
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Speaker 3: lay of the land and trying to figure it out
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Speaker 3: his way. But also we know there's enough people that
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Speaker 3: also are fighters, and that's what we have to remember. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Two, and again, shout out to all of the people
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Speaker 1: who are volunteering, who are making this happen. A lot
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Speaker 1: of them black women like who have been doing this
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Speaker 1: work have been on the ground not getting their due
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Speaker 1: as they should but doing it because they care about it.
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Speaker 1: Like without them, there's so many things like the smooth
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Speaker 1: election days we had that we talked about.
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Speaker 3: The amazing people who were there. Yeah, and even with
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Speaker 3: the biggest threat that dude with a freaking machete, he
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Speaker 3: was immediately arrested. So that is a good news. They
20:29
Speaker 3: got the repercussions pretty quickly. Yeah, so it's good to
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Speaker 3: see like they didn't just get away with it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is. I mean, it's sad that.
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Speaker 3: The stupidity and what's so funny is like five years
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Speaker 3: down the road, I think he's going to be really embarrassed,
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Speaker 3: if not already, I think so he's going to have
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Speaker 3: so many things to come back and be like I
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Speaker 3: was dumb, And this is everything to do with the
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Speaker 3: rhetoric of social media and his people. But all that
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Speaker 3: to say is we did see me consequences at the
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Speaker 3: very least, and people are not going to let that lie.
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Speaker 3: Like that's as many bad things have happened. I can't
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Speaker 3: I don't know how to phrase it, because it's just
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Speaker 3: one of those things where everything has to be done with,
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Speaker 3: even and even kill, like in just being able to
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Speaker 3: hold on rationally, but hold on to hope and stuff
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Speaker 3: like that. You're like, oh, damn it, of course, but
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Speaker 3: then like, oh good he got arrested.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, go see our past episodes we've
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Speaker 2: But I do think a part of this too is that.
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Speaker 1: It feels like everything feels ridiculous, Like everything, it feels
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21:48
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