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Dr. Lisa Strauss Gives Readers One Leg Up On Election Anxiety; DOJ Monitoring Could Make People Anxious on Election Day 11-4-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. You know the old adage
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  Speaker 1: here on one like a network, I'm Alex Scaret. You
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  Speaker 1: know the old adage about how people would rather wait
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  Speaker 1: on the line for the latest iPhone but not go
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  Speaker 1: to vote in their local district. Well that adage is
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  Speaker 1: turning the tide, because finally we have some respectable numbers
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  Speaker 1: here when it comes to early voting in New York
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  Speaker 1: City alone, our household in Queens was one of get this,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five thousand, one hundred and two
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  Speaker 1: people in Queens to vote Manhattan two hundred eighty two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty three, Bronx one hundred thirteen, nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five, Brooklyn three hundred and forty five thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty and then on Saten Island ninety
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, eight hundred ninety eight. I came out to
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  Speaker 1: vote early, and to be quite frank, I don't really
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  Speaker 1: care how you vote it because that's your business. But
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  Speaker 1: to see that one million and twenty eight people came
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  Speaker 1: out to vote early by the end of day yesterday
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  Speaker 1: close of polls, that is amazing. Because people are always
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  Speaker 1: worried Are people going to turn out? You know, experts
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  Speaker 1: are always worried are they going to turn out this election?
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  Speaker 1: Are people going to really show up? And I myself
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  Speaker 1: have always felt that people don't go to the voting
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  Speaker 1: booth as much as they do for, as I say,
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  Speaker 1: the latest iPhone. So to see this trend changing in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four for this crucial election means a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Just because I wrote in a candidate that I felt
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  Speaker 1: strongly about doesn't mean I'm excited that many people have
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  Speaker 1: gone out to vote this past few weeks since early
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  Speaker 1: voting started, one million, over a million people voted in
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  Speaker 1: New York City alone. That's great, that's exciting. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm battling about of a cold or whatever's
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  Speaker 1: going on here, but I'll be okay. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get this out there. There are four ways to cope
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  Speaker 1: with election anxiety, according to doctor Lisa Straus, who's a
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  Speaker 1: clinical psychologist in the Boston area. Another piece of the
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  Speaker 1: health section that I caught on too ironically enough, it
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  Speaker 1: was in the back pages of the Newark Star Electric.
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  Speaker 1: I think this should be the front because we're all
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  Speaker 1: dealing with this anxiety of the election. Are we whether
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  Speaker 1: it's media coverage on it, whether it's just it's the
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  Speaker 1: stress of who to vote for. Are you staying common,
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  Speaker 1: cool and collected, or are you as nervous as everybody else?
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  Speaker 1: Because doctor Strauss has four different steps for you to
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  Speaker 1: cope with election anxiety when it affects your sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: we are one more sleep till election day, So get
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  Speaker 1: your rest tonight. It's gonna be a big day tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Get your rest tonight, she says, to validate your fears
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  Speaker 1: and concerns, and that it's okay to be natural and
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  Speaker 1: natural to be worried. So she says, if you are
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  Speaker 1: especially hard time coping, you have a valid reasons rooting
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  Speaker 1: your experiences and disposition. The biggest questions people face are
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  Speaker 1: will dem democracy survive? Where will the next catastrastic storm
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  Speaker 1: or mass shooting be? I mean, there are some heavy
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  Speaker 1: questions there that people grapple with every day of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure doctor Strauss talks with them about it. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this anxiety won't go away just because
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  Speaker 1: the ballots are done and voted on tomorrow. I do
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  Speaker 1: think this process is going to play out for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, a long time, maybe even until Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: I'lla twenty twenty, she says, face your words during the day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Constructive daytime approaches can lessen insistent, insistent nighttime worries, set small,
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  Speaker 1: achievable scheduled goals to ameliorate the problem or assist you
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  Speaker 1: or others with coping. For instance, research had a volunteer
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  Speaker 1: for organization that counteracts a threat you are concerned about.
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  Speaker 1: Join with others, mutual support, validation, collective action. The benefits
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  Speaker 1: of other insights, Doctor stress rights all help in challenging times.
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  Speaker 1: Social media, among other resources, can provide valuable community and
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  Speaker 1: guidance critical moments. Here's the biggest one I think is
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  Speaker 1: very interesting. Setting aside upsetting content at night. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we don't like to go to bed with something awful
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  Speaker 1: in our heads, right, so why not? As doctor Streuss says,
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  Speaker 1: setting aside the ill time but compelling thoughts also changes
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  Speaker 1: any useful skill tolerating the discomfort of deferring them. Consider
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  Speaker 1: news holidays. Several of my patients have experimented that, she writes,
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  Speaker 1: with taking a few days to avoid the news and
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  Speaker 1: to a person, they report feeling common. They become less
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  Speaker 1: preoccupied and hyper vigilant. She also offers the better word
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  Speaker 1: hope scrolling, not doomed scrolling, where we can see courage
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  Speaker 1: and inspiring stories about generosity. And that's why I like
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the good news at times, because there
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  Speaker 1: are good news out there and we got to get
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  Speaker 1: back to that. And of course the good news is
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  Speaker 1: shoved into the final day's episodes of the weekly news
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  Speaker 1: instead of every night. There should be a good story
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  Speaker 1: coming out there. But I like that hope scrolling. Never
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  Speaker 1: heard of that term. I've never heard that term until
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  Speaker 1: reading doctor Strauss's piece with you Now on the One
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  Speaker 1: Leg Up Network, hope scrolling. I got to look into
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  Speaker 1: that a little more. And then she adds deep relaxation
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  Speaker 1: or the noting of overthinking or redirect your focus. After
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  Speaker 1: using different tools to combat this anxiety, such as hope
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  Speaker 1: scrolling and noting you're overthinking, you redirect your focus, you
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  Speaker 1: consider putting your mind on something absorbing but conducive to
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  Speaker 1: rest and peace. Verus leaving on vacuum to be filled
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  Speaker 1: again by the unsettling thoughts in my daily life. I
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  Speaker 1: like to say, by the end of the workday, my
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  Speaker 1: plate is clean, there's nothing left, just gotta go home
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like that should be the mentality when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to this election as well. And I think
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  Speaker 1: what doctor Strauss is writing here is that you have
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  Speaker 1: to clean your thought process up before you go to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: That way, the plate of thoughts is cleared, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it starts up begin the next day, it does, but
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  Speaker 1: at least you're going to sleep with a peace of mind,
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  Speaker 1: not these frazzle chaotic thoughts, especially about the election which
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  Speaker 1: is tomorrow. And then she also notes to adopt decent
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  Speaker 1: sleep habits, and that's always a tailors old as time,
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  Speaker 1: especially with time changes and the clocks changing. Do we
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  Speaker 1: sleep better with the clocks backwards or forwards? I think
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  Speaker 1: we sleep better when it's backwards because it's dark rab
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  Speaker 1: makes us want to go to sleep more. But the
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  Speaker 1: adaptation of sleep habits and changing them when and adopting
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  Speaker 1: better ones is crucial to our everyday lives. I got
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  Speaker 1: to sleep with Gabby a bit early and I jumped
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  Speaker 1: out of bed this morning, so I'm feeling pretty good
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  Speaker 1: at the time of this podcast posting. And I'm also
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  Speaker 1: I was also fired up to talk about this because
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  Speaker 1: bringing the health section to life here on One Leg
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  Speaker 1: Up Alex is a part of adaptability, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: part of life. And it's better than reading about the polls. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it actually is better than reading about what the polls
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  Speaker 1: are saying. As intriguing as that can be, we can
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  Speaker 1: also lose ourselves in the polling process and reading polls.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I was intereted in, you know, right up
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  Speaker 1: to the end where they say there's a dead heat
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  Speaker 1: poll here, he polled there. But I want to know
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  Speaker 1: how people in the real world can deal with all
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  Speaker 1: of this that we're seeing on our television screens. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know how people can deal with the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it looks like it looks like according to roll
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  Speaker 1: call dot Com and others, the Justice Department will be
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  Speaker 1: monitoring on election day. Now you talk about anxiety. Do
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  Speaker 1: we want the DOJ to monitor elections in eighty six
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  Speaker 1: jurisdictions nationwide tomorrow? That's anxiety ridden right there. They're doubling
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  Speaker 1: the number of areas this presidential election and adding locations
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  Speaker 1: in key swing states said to decide their race. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty forty four jurisdictions were monitored. But I like
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  Speaker 1: the states. I say, no, the dj will not be
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  Speaker 1: in our hair during this process and what are they
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  Speaker 1: monitoring for to make sure maybe you vote for Trump
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  Speaker 1: goes for Kamala. I mean, seriously, it's tough to have
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  Speaker 1: a peace of mind when you know the DOJ is
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  Speaker 1: circling around eighty six jurisdictions monitoring. I hate that we're
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  Speaker 1: monitor and I think this is what she's talking about,
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  Speaker 1: which is face your worries during the day. So I'd
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  Speaker 1: rather talk about it now than lose sleepover tonight. It
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  Speaker 1: back quite frankly, this podcast is a great place to
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  Speaker 1: just store what my cranial is thinking, and if you
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  Speaker 1: want to listen, great, If not, at least I have
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  Speaker 1: a space here to just talk about things because that
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  Speaker 1: is how I get my worries out in my I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say anxiety, but I guess anxiety and
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  Speaker 1: certainly my displeasure with certain things. When it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the One Leg Up on News, this is my vessel
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  Speaker 1: to really vent. And I'm so glad you are listening
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  Speaker 1: to my venting sessions because I think they matter. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're important. I think these stories that I've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about on the One Look up on News is
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  Speaker 1: something that's not been told anywhere else. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it with you, just like I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about how the DOJ is going to be
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties and the swing stay of
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania to remote locations like the northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: Jurassics is in. Seven major swing states appear on the
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  Speaker 1: monitoring list, including Fulton County. Now, remember Fulton County have
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  Speaker 1: false election frog claims in twenty twenty. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: in a way, they listen to Trump and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: actually monitor for real. Now that could be a good thing,
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know this door J monitoring eighty six locations.
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  Speaker 1: Why not just the ones that either Trump or Kamala
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  Speaker 1: or others have voiced concerns about instead of eighty six
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  Speaker 1: of them. Just go into the hotspots of where election
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  Speaker 1: integrity is at most in question. That's my solution to it,
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  Speaker 1: instead of this wide swath of election monitoring that I
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  Speaker 1: think will scare people in mind, scare people to even
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  Speaker 1: vote who they wanna vote for, knowing there could be
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  Speaker 1: either monitoring or repercussions possibility. I mean, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: about as bad as when Trump suggested the military go
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  Speaker 1: in and sees ballot boxes. That was a pretty wild
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  Speaker 1: claim four years ago. Well this is just as bad
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  Speaker 1: cause the DOJ should not be standing over everybody seeing, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how are you voting today? Are you voting the right way?
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  Speaker 1: Are you doing it right? Like they should be worried.
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  Speaker 1: And I I think the vote counting folks are doing
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  Speaker 1: their civic duty, but they should be worried about how
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  Speaker 1: the votes are counted more than who's casting the vote.
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  Speaker 1: Let me say that one more time. They should be voting, uh,
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  Speaker 1: worried about the vote counters over the voters. That's where
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  Speaker 1: there should be concerned, not monitoring how someone votes, but
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  Speaker 1: monitoring how the votes are being counted. And I hope
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  Speaker 1: that's the cause here, but I feel like there's a
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  Speaker 1: mix of both. And we will see and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how they monitor if those who are here illegally are
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  Speaker 1: voting in this election as well. There's already been one
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  Speaker 1: arrest in Michigan. There could be more down the pike,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody to keep an eye on. I wonder who
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  Speaker 1: they're monitoring, the voter or the vote counter. And That's
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  Speaker 1: where I'll leave it today, as we are upon in
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  Speaker 1: just a few hours election day, and though their early
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  Speaker 1: voting has been incredible and outstanding. If you haven't gotten
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  Speaker 1: out to vote yet, please do and vote with your heart,
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  Speaker 1: not by who you're being told to vote for. And
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  Speaker 1: remember there is that right an option if you feel
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  Speaker 1: so obliged. Here on the one that got Network