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Yes, I LOVED This Week · The Naked Room

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  SPEAKER_00: What's up, roomies?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sitting here on Friday night reflecting on this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had my ninth anniversary on November 4th.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on November 3rd,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was screaming at the television all night with my mind blown,
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  SPEAKER_00: not being able to comprehend what the hell was happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have been just elated all week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it just feels like the ultimate correction to see all
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  SPEAKER_00: of these women governors being elected.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first black woman governor ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first Native American woman governor ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of these states
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  SPEAKER_00: that have not seen any Democrat candidates win.
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  SPEAKER_00: In decades, decades and decades.
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  SPEAKER_00: One was like 1932.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just,
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  SPEAKER_00: I just feel a sense of hope in a way that I haven't in a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like in 2008, I had just moved to DC in February and the night Obama got elected,
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  SPEAKER_00: I decided to walk to the White House Just to see what was happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had no idea what I would come upon.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when I got there, even blocks away,
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  SPEAKER_00: there were thousands and thousands of people gathering and celebrating.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the feeling,
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  SPEAKER_00: the uplifting feeling and the anticipation of what was to come was so palpable.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't thought about it a lot recently and I sometimes forget that I did that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I just remembered it this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that feeling that I had came back.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't experienced something like this since then.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one else has either.
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  SPEAKER_00: There hasn't been anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it feels good to feel good.
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels good to exist in love and supporting our neighbors,
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  SPEAKER_00: supporting our community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Looking out for each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: The human condition makes us want to look out for each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the best of humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's always the other side, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's always the side where people exist in fear and hate and scarcity and lack.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've seen that run rampant for the last decade.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's always been good under the surface, no matter what.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are people doing good things all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this week just showed us all that people want that.
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  SPEAKER_00: They want to see that not under the surface.
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  SPEAKER_00: They want to see it right out in front and center.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it gives me so much hope for humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives me so much hope for our country and for the rest of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: We cannot be nationalists at this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are too interconnected with everyone, all of us, everything, every plant, animal,
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  SPEAKER_00: human, everything is interconnected.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for us to act like that's not the case is of detriment to ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must exist in a headspace
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  SPEAKER_00: Where we understand that everything is connected.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to treat our environment with respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to treat animals with respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it feels like this week says that that's what people want.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about us coming together and looking out for each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was Tallarico who said it's not a left versus right issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a top versus bottom issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the richest people versus everyone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't even want to think about it like that because I feel like we all need
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  SPEAKER_00: to look out for each other no matter what our status or bank account,
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  SPEAKER_00: whatever it is. But we really need to look out for each other as the masses.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm excited. I really am.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just feel, I knew, I felt a shift happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been feeling it for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I knew that this would not sustain itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: The idiocy that we've been living in.
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  SPEAKER_00: The nastiness and the ugliness
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  SPEAKER_00: of what we've been seeing from our government.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I also want to remind people that
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  SPEAKER_00: Gosh, I've heard so many times people say, oh, my vote doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it does. Look at what's happening in Mississippi right now with the Senate race.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's coming down to like hundreds or just a thousand votes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really so close.
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  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully this example, this midterm election...
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll allow people to see that they do matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: That you casting your vote can actually make a difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think we're just about to see really big change happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like for the better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bringing out the betterment of humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean the rest of the world is applauding us right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: People around the world care about what happens here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we are such a superpower.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because what we do here affects everyone else in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because again, we are all interconnected.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no way to deny that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'm stoked.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I hope that if this is not the outcome you were looking for,
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  SPEAKER_00: I genuinely...
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sending you love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sending you love if you're scared, if this isn't what you were hoping for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we are on the same page and you are excited, I'm sending you love too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the whole goddamn point.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all just need to love each other and support each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: And stop with this division.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we are never going to get ahead if we're constantly fighting with each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's my big message for tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is I love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just go and exist in more love.