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Courage · Rich Spinster

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  SPEAKER_00: It's just all about love and life and living and freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what it's all about for me now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Rich Spenster Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am happy to be joining you all this week because we have a lot to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's podcast is all about being a coward, all about courage and the lack thereof.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's start with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren Lickham Bobert.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: The streets are saying that you were out here licking staffers snatch.
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  SPEAKER_00: I this can't be true, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not anti-LGBTQ, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: The streets are saying Lauren Bobert likes the coaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I love this for you, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love when people's hypocrisy gets exposed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's one of my favorite things, actually, because Lauren Bobart has been a loud and proud voice of the anti-LGBTQ movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren, you're a muffdiver.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love this for you, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not Lauren Bobert, who was against the Equality Act, the act that extended civil liberties to LGBTQ folks for housing and employment and public accommodations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not you, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're voting against your own tribe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not Lauren Boebert, who wanted to restrict uh transgender youth healthcare.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, Lauren, not you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't get caught out there with your hand in the cookie jar, did you?
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  SPEAKER_00: The streets say Lauren wants all the cookies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren, they say you want all the cookies, and not only do you want all the cookies, but you paid$200,000 for people to be silent about your sexual escapades that you were having with staffers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, essentially$200,000 over sex.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren, now I always knew you were dumb, but anybody who pays$200,000 for sex has overpaid.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have overpaid.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't care how good those nights were, they were not that goddamned good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually, don't believe that her private sexual escapades are anyone's business.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think what happens in your bedroom, whether or not your bedroom is a revolving door, that is your business, and that that's your fucking prerogative.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's your right.
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  SPEAKER_00: But see, we have an ethics complaint because these are staffers.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the reason I feel like this is our business is because it highlights the hypocrisy of this party.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is why Grind is always crashing when Republican conventions are near.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mind you, Lauren has defended her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
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  SPEAKER_00: When, like, in all the while, you're out there taking advantage of your staffers and paying people to be quiet about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am telling you, these people are the lowest of low.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren Lickham Bobert.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Lauren, that's what I'm gonna call you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren Lickham Bobert.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, not you, Lauren, because you got enough problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got your son who was arrested for inappropriate sexual contact with a minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got your husband who apparently his thing is taking his woo out at bowling alleys.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now we got you having sex with male and female staffers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren, say it ain't so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another really offensive part of this for me is the fact that you paid$200,000 to keep it a secret.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love personally when people's hypocrisy is brought front and center when it's exposed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because she paid$200,000 not for sex, she paid$200,000 to keep her sex life a secret.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, you have no business sleeping with staffers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, that is unethical, but you don't give a good goddamn about ethics.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are sitting there as a representative of the people with a mouth full of muff talking about gay folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: You deserve all the ridicule, all the heat that is going to come your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, you're going to deny it because you're denying yourself, but the truth will set you free, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: We already know what you do in the dark will come out in the light.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now look at you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you indeed had sex with staffers, that's unethical and predatory.
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  SPEAKER_00: That shit must run in the family, huh?
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  SPEAKER_00: Nan, what do you do?
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  SPEAKER_00: You make a statement.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not a lesbian.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody has accused you being a lesbian, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: We accused you of being a lion twilaker.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we accused you of being.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead of making a statement saying these allegations are absolutely false and they will be proven so in time.
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  SPEAKER_00: You had to start out with, I am not a lesbian or bisexual, which to me means I am a lesbian or bisexual.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's nothing wrong with that, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: I support you living your truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bitch, I hope to see you with pride.
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  SPEAKER_00: She probably doesn't consider herself a lesbian or bisexual.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's just eating gochi.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: The accusation is that you paid someone$200,000 to keep this information silent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you pay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, I wouldn't pay$200,000 to keep for anybody to keep any secret of mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell it all.
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  unknown: I wouldn't give a damn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now remember, in April, Lauren said that Congress essentially needed to go to church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren said she didn't know why her colleagues were so horny.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Lauren, obviously, you're so horny too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I am curious to see how this story unfolds.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think if they really want to know the truth about Lauren, go ahead and get that search history.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guarantee you that her favorite genre of porn has to be amateur threesomes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I support your choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should not be embarrassed, Lauren, about your sex life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should be embarrassed if these allegations are true that you had sex with people who were your subordinates.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to follow this story and I'm not gonna let it go.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have had sexual relations with Lauren Berber, hit me up and let's tell your story.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want every dirty detail and I want all of those details played out in the media.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know where you had sex, how many times, what were the positions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Were y'all scissoring?
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  SPEAKER_00: This story is juicy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is juicy, and I want to follow it all the way through.
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  SPEAKER_00: And guess what, Lauren?
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  SPEAKER_00: If at the end of this it turns out that this was all a lie, that it was some kind of conspiracy against you, I don't give a fuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to touch on a story that everybody has been kind of talking about this past week, and that is the artist McLamore being essentially kicked off Ed Sheeran's tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saturday night in Philadelphia, Ed Sheeran took the stage alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he started off his show addressing the entire situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me say his statement was bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't feel that speaking up against the atrocities that are happening in Palestine should be controversial.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should all have enough humanity in us that we say, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fucked up.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're you're it's it's genocide.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people online are tearing him apart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Free Palestine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say free Palestine, stick up for MacLeamore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, Ed Sharon should have had the balls to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not surprising to me because people don't have the courage to do that kind of thing in their regular life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forget being on a grand stage with the world looking at you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Ed Sheeran simply doesn't have the courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and then also Ed Sheeran crying on stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that was a bit much for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a bit much for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody was supposed to be like, oh, he's on stage and he's talking about love and he's talking about this a place of unity and all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And people like to have those conversations.
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  SPEAKER_00: They always like to have a feel-good conversation about love and unity, as if those are not things that you have to fight for in this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't just have love and unity.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't just have peace because there's always someone poised to take that away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are things that, yes, we all should want, but we have to fight for those things and hold on to those things because they can be taken away just like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every single thing in life is political.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything is political.
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  SPEAKER_00: From where we live to what we eat to where your children are educated, it is all political.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bishop Desmond Tutu said, if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Ed Sheeran bent the knee.
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  SPEAKER_00: He bent the knee to the powers that be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think for me, it's just important to support the artists that don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to support people who are courageous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not saying that it's easy for people.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all have different personalities, we all have different makeup.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's easier for some of us to speak than for others.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when lives are on the line, I don't understand where your humanity goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people will disappoint you with their silence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And silence is deadly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Silence kills people every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there are always people who are poised to do harm to other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what do they want?
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  SPEAKER_00: They want the silence of good people.
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  SPEAKER_00: They want the good people to be quiet and not want to offend.
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  SPEAKER_00: They want the good people to be afraid to rock the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, please, please know that every atrocity in the world that has ever happened has been because we have allowed those atrocities to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell, here in the United States, look at happen what happened during Jim Crow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we still, we are still fighting for rights in America now as black people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're rolling them back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And do you know why they're rolling them back?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the majority in this country allows it to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't give a fuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't give a fuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they only care when something impacts their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in time, you see that it all impacts your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are all interconnected.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's another reason you shouldn't be looking up to celebrities, and you shouldn't be looking to celebrities for moral high ground for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Ed Sharon is just an example of so many people who are cowards.
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  SPEAKER_00: And cowards and people who are silenced are just as responsible for the horrors that happen in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and I could just say, fuck Ed Sharon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like this, this really isn't about Ed Sharon.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is about the fact that people need to use their voices and not fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because fear is the ultimate weapon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing, none of this shit happens without fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: You think ICE and Trump, you think Trump happened without fear?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear was of the blackening and browning of this country.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even people who don't even realize it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I read online that somebody said, Well, you know, I hate what Trump has done, but there was nobody else to vote for.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, there was.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was nobody else white to vote for, but there was somebody else to vote for.
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  SPEAKER_00: With everything that's going on with the administration, y'all need to go out there and stop fucking around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We all need to be voting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we need to, it needs not only to be a blue wave, it needs to be a fucking blue tsunami.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blue up and down the ballots everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we need.
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  SPEAKER_00: But once that happens, we need a different type of, we need a different type of elected official.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need somebody who's willing to be uncomfortable, who's willing to take the heat, who's willing to have some courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need the Hakeem Jeffries of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need people who are standing on business and will call a thing a thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am tired of these weak ass, marshmallow ass Democrats.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we need we need people in office who are standing on business for democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have heard about bipartisanship my entire life.
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  SPEAKER_00: The shit doesn't work.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Democrats are the only people who get gave a damn about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Democrats get in office, what do they say?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we want to work with both sides.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fuck both sides at this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Republicans get in office, they don't give a damn about anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Constitution, both sides, religion, lying, they don't care about anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you elect people who have no real courage, they allow anything and everything to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: How is it that we have a president of the United States who ignores the Constitution?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: He and his family have made money off of the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things are getting higher and higher.
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  SPEAKER_00: People can't afford to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of that, and nobody has stopped them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we have a country and a Congress and a Senate full of Ed Sharons, full of motherfucking cowards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just mad that there's no Republican who will take the mic at a press conference and say, this is an incompetent bitch.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one will say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one will grab the mic and say Donald Trump is a dementia patient.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't know what the fuck is going on.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: But here are the people who are really running the country, and here is their agenda.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're robbing the country blind.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a fascist state, and y'all better get your bitch asses out there and vote, or this shit is over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Game over America.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one is grabbing the mic and saying that this is what I'm saying about we don't have people who have courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of cowards, the American press.
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  SPEAKER_00: You all are a bunch of fucking cowards.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh your daddy Trump kicked y'all out of the White House, CNN?
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  SPEAKER_00: What happened to the free press?
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: But see, this is what you damn it get.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because CNN has been playing this game for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: What good is the free press if the free press, the free press is bought and paid for?
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  SPEAKER_00: What good is the press when the press is like Ed Sheeran?
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  SPEAKER_00: No damn balls.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all don't have any balls.
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  SPEAKER_00: You played to Trump, you you focus on ratings instead of the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You lost your integrity.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need and never needed entertainment news.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: We need news.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to know what is happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: They whitewashed Trump a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: They made Trump seem funny and harmless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, the 92%ers, we were out here saying, Are y'all out of your mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you see what's happening here?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is fascism coming your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is racism.
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  SPEAKER_00: We saw everything coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know why?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because we know it when we see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had to have CNN having MAGA folks spewing lies on their channel and not challenging it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not challenging it, yielding, folding to the president of the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now you're upset that you got kicked out of the White House.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at all of the news programs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at all the people who fucking folded.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is all about being a coward.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have so many people who don't have any courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lauren Boebert, you have no courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: You cunt licking liar.
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  SPEAKER_00: The press?
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  SPEAKER_00: The press has no courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ed Sharon, no courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many people in our lives have no courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And having no courage, being controlled by fear, is the way that atrocities are allowed to happen over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: People have to have courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes courage sometimes to just make it through another day when you're feeling low, or if you're lost in grief, or if you are suffering from clinical depression.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes courage to make it through another day sometimes for people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes courage to stand up for yourself and to fight for what is right just for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: That takes courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you, a people without courage are a people who are poised to allow atrocities to happen.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: They allow dumb people to do dumb things in dumb ways.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then the rest of us are supposed to just suffer it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And but I do have some hope when it comes to that, because some of these young folks, some of these young folks are about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of these young folks don't give a damn.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, they're not like how it was when I was growing up.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I was growing up, you you could argue with your parents, maybe about politics or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at the end of the day, you knew when to shut the fuck up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not these kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of these young white kids, they don't give a damn.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw a woman, I saw a young woman arguing with her mom online about her mother voting for Trump, and they were going back and forth, and basically she was like, fuck you, mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are the people that give me hope.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Those are the people that give me hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: These kids aren't wishing.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not tiptoeing around their friends and family.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're standing on business and they're saying what it is, and that gives me hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: That gives me hope that some people's children are gonna break the cycle.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives me hope that some people's kids are better than the people that raise them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we need more of.
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  SPEAKER_00: More of that kind of courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: More Kelly's to say, fuck you, mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we need.
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  SPEAKER_00: Y'all better get with the program.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's time to flip the fucking tables over in the temple.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to the Rich Spenster podcast.
• 20:32
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• 20:35
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful week and be of courage.