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Monday Mini: Women and Early Voting · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I welcome you stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I never told your production I heard you.
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  Speaker 2: And for this Monday many I'm going to do a
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  Speaker 2: quick timestamp, which is October twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's been a stressful year with all the
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  Speaker 2: ups and downs of campaigning. So FYI content warning. We
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  Speaker 2: are talking about elections and early voting.
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  Speaker 3: Not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: We're not doing to end depth of this, but we
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  Speaker 2: are going to talk about it. So if you're like, eh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe pass on. But like I said, this is more
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  Speaker 2: of like informational about what's happening around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing too deep, FYI.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, And dear God, the amount of texts that I
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  Speaker 2: have poured in because of this election has been ridiculously
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  Speaker 2: Like I have now like updated my phone because it
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  Speaker 2: took a while to a new system which lets me
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  Speaker 2: put in spam like blocks like that they do it
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  Speaker 2: for me and most in every single one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Because I went to look to make sure I didn't
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  Speaker 2: miss any important messages because I am that anxious Anny
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  Speaker 2: that I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, what if this was actually like something that
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  Speaker 3: I need to know?
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  Speaker 2: I went and checked through, but nope, every single one
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  Speaker 2: of them our campaign or fundraising texts, and I mean hundreds,
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  Speaker 2: really yeah, and some of them as of late have
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  Speaker 2: been coming through. So I'm telling you, I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: my phone or the like the services for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people's phone has been working over time trying to
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  Speaker 2: be like, no, this is spam, this is spam, this
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  Speaker 2: is real, this is spam.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's very stressful, and just let me say, I think
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  Speaker 2: our system is broken. And I say this in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not putting this on the show. I'm not putting
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  Speaker 2: it on our producer, I'm not putting it on Annie.
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  Speaker 2: This is just my own opinion. I think the system
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  Speaker 2: is broken and there needs to be pretty big changes,
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  Speaker 2: and that all the heated debates around around that that
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  Speaker 2: our system alone, I think is a legitimate debate and
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  Speaker 2: that needs to be talked about. However, as we understand
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  Speaker 2: that humans are not perfect, don't put anybody on a festival.
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  Speaker 2: You can admire people, but understand that they are not perfect.
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  Speaker 2: And eventually opinions are going to happen that you are
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  Speaker 2: not going to agree with. It's probably going to disappoint you.
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  Speaker 2: And the system has really limited us in so many ways.
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  Speaker 2: The electoral college sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: With that here on Sminty, we have been really conflicted
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  Speaker 2: on so much because we see the issues at hand
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  Speaker 2: and understand that it isn't a single issue when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to voting. It's not just one thing, one thing
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  Speaker 2: on the platform and that's how we vote.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what we think.
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  Speaker 2: We are looking at the totality of the future though,
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  Speaker 2: in understanding that this is a bigger picture. A post
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  Speaker 2: by Black Feminist fut Future Action Fund or BFFAF as
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  Speaker 2: they go by, put it in such an amazing way.
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  Speaker 2: I think that it's something that I agree with, especially
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the Democratic candidate and current Vice
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  Speaker 2: president Kamala Harris, which is not a hard name people
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  Speaker 2: swear to, even people.
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  Speaker 3: Who are voting for her still saying it wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris just be crazy anyway, Kamala Harris, and they
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  Speaker 2: write she quote has a strong record and is out
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  Speaker 2: front and leading on some of our fundamental issues, abortion access,
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  Speaker 2: maternal health care, economic advances for middle class people, LGBTQ
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  Speaker 2: plus equity, et cetera. But we find a lot of
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  Speaker 2: her previous policy positions and the policies she's putting toward
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  Speaker 2: to be conservative, the ongoing genocides, immigration, fracking, etc. But
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  Speaker 2: they also speak bffaf on the current fight at hand,
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  Speaker 2: saying quote, we also refuse to be idle while with
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  Speaker 2: fascist attempts to occupy the White House. Again, there's too
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  Speaker 2: much at stake in fascist control up and down on
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  Speaker 2: our ballots. This is a consideration of the ground we
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  Speaker 2: want to fight on. It's a consideration for fighting fascism.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that if you want to go look
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  Speaker 2: at their posts, go looking on Instagram. I'm sure they
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  Speaker 2: have it on their Twitter as well, and they do
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  Speaker 2: an amazing slide of whole conversation and they talk about
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  Speaker 2: their organization as a whole in endorsement and what they
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  Speaker 2: chose and how they chose to endorse whomever or whether
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  Speaker 2: to endorse anybody.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Great conversation because they put it again better than I
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  Speaker 2: could on my own when I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, this is this is a conversation.
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  Speaker 2: This is being trying to be transparent and really having
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  Speaker 2: a hard time voicing it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they did a good job.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, this means that we understand that we have
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  Speaker 2: to keep fighting and putting pressure on those who will
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  Speaker 2: be in office. Also as a reminder, the local elections
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  Speaker 2: are just as important. Listen to our previous episodes with
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  Speaker 2: Melody and State Representative part Canon. These are really important
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  Speaker 2: campaigns and elections that you need to pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: look into and actually research and can help shape the
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  Speaker 2: future of our PoTA and choices. So even some of
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  Speaker 2: the conversations we're having about the system as a whole,
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  Speaker 2: this shapes it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really important.
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  Speaker 2: Looking at Georgia alone, which has become a swing state,
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  Speaker 2: you can see the continued fight on trying to get
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  Speaker 2: citizen votes to not only be counted, but to be
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  Speaker 2: safely completed. You can see how poll workers had to
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  Speaker 2: sue due to the amount of violence and fear that
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  Speaker 2: they have been put through things to not only big politicians,
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  Speaker 2: but local politicians and in fact taking some of those
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  Speaker 2: big politicians properties. And I love every bit of that.
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  Speaker 3: Get his mansions, ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Get his mansions, his scars.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, going back on and again, we have to look
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  Speaker 2: at this as a part of the bigger picture, just
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  Speaker 2: like the Supreme Court, which has caused more changes in
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  Speaker 2: the last four years due to the changes in its
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  Speaker 2: new appointments. So these are unfortunately lifetime terms, which shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be very disappointed in people who we looked up to
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  Speaker 2: and allowing some of these things to happen, honestly thinking
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  Speaker 2: that they were doing something better, thinking that it was
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  Speaker 2: impossible that Donald Trump would have been elected. But it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't impossible, and it really does over for the lack
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  Speaker 2: of better terms. And these are some things that we
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  Speaker 2: need to look at and understand in the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 2: Again with the caveat that we don't completely agree, and
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  Speaker 2: there are things that we are concerned about even with
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  Speaker 2: the better candidate quote unquie like i'mp in that in quotes.
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  Speaker 2: So just recently, the Georgia Supreme Court actually struck down
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  Speaker 2: deploy by Republicans to try to possibly deny election results
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  Speaker 2: or the such. So here's a little bit from the
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  Speaker 2: AP News about it. Quote One rule would require three
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  Speaker 2: poll workers to count ballots, not votes, by hand, once
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  Speaker 2: polls closed. The other two had to do with the
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  Speaker 2: process to certify county election results. Democrats and some voting
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  Speaker 2: rights groups had raised concerns that the rules could be
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  Speaker 2: used by allies of Trumps to slow or deny certification
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  Speaker 2: or election results, or to cast doubts on results at
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  Speaker 2: the former president. This is the presidential election to Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris. So of course this once again
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  Speaker 2: at least to the groundwalk of trying to invalidate an
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  Speaker 2: election result. We've seen it happen, we know it's happening,
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  Speaker 2: much like what they tried to do in the previous election.
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  Speaker 2: But many, including some Republicans, see this ruling as necessary
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  Speaker 2: and that the attempt to change these rules are more
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  Speaker 2: deceptive than anything else. So a lot of people who
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  Speaker 2: would consider themselves Republicans really felt like, oh God, what
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  Speaker 2: are they doing? Understood the gravity of what these rule
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  Speaker 2: changes could mean. So thank god that has been struck down.
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  Speaker 2: I'm honestly surprised. I'm not gonna lie. I was really scared.
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  Speaker 2: So with that early voting has commenced. Annie, you voted.
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  Speaker 1: On the day of right the day it started.
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  Speaker 3: How was your experience?
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  Speaker 1: It was really great.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, because we have seen so many voting restrictions in Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: I had a plan because I am very fortunate. I
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  Speaker 4: work from home. My polling place is like two bucks
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  Speaker 4: from here. You can do in early voting. If anyone's
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  Speaker 4: listening in Fulton. You can vote any polling place but
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  Speaker 4: the one not on the day of okay, but before
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  Speaker 4: early voting. You can vote anywhere. But I was just
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  Speaker 4: gonna walk over and see how crowded it was. Because
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  Speaker 4: if you work from home, if you have a flexible schedule,
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  Speaker 4: I've read you should not go during the mornings, not
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  Speaker 4: during lunch, not during time. Some people who don't have
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  Speaker 4: that flexible schedule should go because the line will get
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  Speaker 4: so long and people will not will turn away because
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  Speaker 4: they have other they have children, or they have things
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, I was like, well, I'll go check.
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  Speaker 4: I want to just get it done because it's bothering
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  Speaker 4: me and I'm nervous and I just wanted to check
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  Speaker 4: that off my list. And I went and there was
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  Speaker 4: a line, but it was moving so quickly. It was
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  Speaker 4: so organized. It was, as we've discussed before, mostly black women.
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  Speaker 4: It was a library near me, and they would like
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  Speaker 4: you would go and get your card, and then there
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  Speaker 4: was somebody who would direct you to the nearest open machine,
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  Speaker 4: and then there was somebody that would direct you to
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  Speaker 4: the It was just so smooth. I was like in
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  Speaker 4: and out, even though the line looked like it could
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  Speaker 4: be a bit of a wait.
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 4: I got it done really quickly, and I thought, I, oh,
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  Speaker 4: for sure, you know, probably i'll walk by and I'll
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  Speaker 4: think I'll come back later.
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  Speaker 1: But no, but I didn't had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: I had a great time, you know what. My experience
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  Speaker 2: was not like that. So I went the following week
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  Speaker 2: last week, if if you were listening when this was published,
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  Speaker 2: and we just went. I kind of got nervous because
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  Speaker 2: it was around lunchtime and I was tired. Because you
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  Speaker 2: had told me that. I was like, oh, that makes
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  Speaker 2: a lot of sense. I don't want to be in
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  Speaker 2: the way. My partner and I both work from home,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not a big deal. But when we arrived,
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  Speaker 2: there was nobody in line. There was nobody as in fact, well,
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  Speaker 2: so funny is I walked in and it's a library.
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  Speaker 3: Can we talk about how much I love libraries.
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  Speaker 2: I love libraries, and this library was so cute in
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  Speaker 2: this area, and I'm like, oh my god, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: So I walked in.
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  Speaker 2: We walked in and we couldn't quite figure like we
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  Speaker 2: saw the arrows, but there was like the way they
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  Speaker 2: taped it off just in case, there was gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a big line, kind of confused because it was emptied,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know which side to go. But the
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  Speaker 2: woman at the green, she's like, Noah, come me here,
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  Speaker 2: like directing us and then telling us where to go.
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  Speaker 2: And it was all black women but one person who
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  Speaker 2: was a black man, so it was like that's exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And they were all older and I love that, and
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  Speaker 2: they were like buying for our attention, like cove. It
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  Speaker 2: was so shutest thing, and so it felt like I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, I get choices, and there they want
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  Speaker 2: me to come and talk to them instead of being
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  Speaker 2: like as if we were a nuisance. And the woman
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  Speaker 2: who did my stuff was so was like talking to
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  Speaker 2: me and giving she gave.
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  Speaker 3: Me a pitch. She's like, yeah, all you need to do.
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  Speaker 2: Is this the kindest person And you could tell she
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  Speaker 2: was actually happy to be there. So this is week
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  Speaker 2: two of early voting, and she was still excited obviously
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  Speaker 2: to be manning the station. When I went and finished
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  Speaker 2: everything I had already researched at the beginning what I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do looking through videos. TikTok has really changed
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  Speaker 2: in informative information giving information. I will say of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know there's misinformation, but if you look through it
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  Speaker 2: and try to find like people who are more aligned
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  Speaker 2: with your views, and actually look up several videos, not
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  Speaker 2: just one, several videos and finding your trusted people, it's
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  Speaker 2: great information because these propositions, they're awful because there's their
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  Speaker 2: word is so badly that oftentimes I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 2: being tricked and we'll just say no across the board
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  Speaker 2: because they can always bring it back.
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  Speaker 3: You can't. It's harder to repill.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, all right, but I've had really
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  Speaker 2: good like moments with getting information, So thank you to
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  Speaker 2: those who are providing that information, who are putting in
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  Speaker 2: that work for us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. But after I got done, like.
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  Speaker 2: I upload everything, the woman who had greeted me was
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  Speaker 2: also the one that helped me upload everything, and she's like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, when you see this number go up, that
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  Speaker 2: means you're vote counted. And she was so excited to
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  Speaker 2: let me know that. And then as soon as it
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  Speaker 2: went out, she's like, yeah, you did it. It gave
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  Speaker 2: me a little sticker. That was one of the best experiences,
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  Speaker 2: and again all my experiences have not been bad.
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  Speaker 3: There was one day that.
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  Speaker 2: We went voted I think it was the day of
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  Speaker 2: and they actually had like food trucks around to encourage
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  Speaker 2: people to vote and get like free food or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Not free food, but you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a long line, but this was so
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  Speaker 2: in and out there was nobody. I think two people
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  Speaker 2: came in after us. They were just as excited to
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  Speaker 2: be told where to go all these things. It was
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  Speaker 2: lovely of experience and being at the library also gave
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to my partner to get his library car,
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  Speaker 2: which was seamless going into this library.
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  Speaker 3: They had artwork, they have knitting clubs.
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  Speaker 2: They have they have knitting clubs, they have cars, Christmas
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  Speaker 2: card making clubs.
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  Speaker 3: Like it was. It is the cutest thing. We are
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  Speaker 3: not taking full advantage of it. BT dubs.
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  Speaker 2: I also was just on the show with Margaret for
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  Speaker 2: Cool People who did cool stuff, and we talked about
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  Speaker 2: libraries and one specific indigenous librarian from Puerto Rico who
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  Speaker 2: came to New York and changed things for the better.
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  Speaker 2: So if you all need to go listen to that
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  Speaker 2: episode because it's a fantastic episode and Margaret actually does
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  Speaker 2: a whole reading from the native librarian who has been
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  Speaker 2: like had been telling folklore of their area.
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  Speaker 3: So great.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, all that to say, I love libraries. So if
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  Speaker 2: you get a chance, I bet there's a library for
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  Speaker 2: early voting, that is that are holding the voting. So
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  Speaker 2: you should go to there and then make sure you
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  Speaker 2: go get your library card.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's awesome. I didn't know you can get free
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  Speaker 3: subscriptions to like New York Times. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? You can.
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  Speaker 4: You can rent movies, you can rent fishing pools at
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  Speaker 4: some places. You can rent statues at some places. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they do a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They do a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all go check it out. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a great experience for those who were
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  Speaker 2: discouraged or anxious, because this can be an anxious process,
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  Speaker 2: especially with everything you have heard, with all the like
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  Speaker 2: processes that have happened. Go and do it, and usually
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  Speaker 2: the official people are cool. Usually so I have yet
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I could be wrong, but I have yet
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  Speaker 2: to see actual people who are pole workers to be
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  Speaker 2: any part of the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't either. I just read today about worries
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  Speaker 4: about that, but I have not either. And I'll also say,
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  Speaker 4: like I know, probably tired of hearing it, but even
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  Speaker 4: I did it.
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  Speaker 1: Check to make sure you're registered to vocus because even
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  Speaker 1: if you're not, you have time, but you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to find out the day when you get there. So check.
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  Speaker 2: Just check. Because of all of the things that we've
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  Speaker 2: had in Georgia and many other places where they're thinking
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  Speaker 2: about I think I did it every week, and then
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  Speaker 2: right before we left, I checked mind with my partners.
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  Speaker 3: I was freaking out.
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  Speaker 1: I was too, and so just it's easy. It's also
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  Speaker 1: so also.
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  Speaker 2: That's where you need to you can find your district
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  Speaker 2: because I didn't know. I was like, who what? Because
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  Speaker 2: the sample ballots had all of them. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I'm not voting for all these people.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, those are the massive sample ballot they give.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't specify as terrifying, you need to find that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like twenty seven pages to me.
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  Speaker 2: In the state of Georgia, we have some state Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court justices for election and there are a couple of
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  Speaker 2: people who are in the running. None of them were
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  Speaker 2: on my in my district, but I was like, dang,
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  Speaker 2: I wish they were. I could I don't, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't wish any were, but I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: seen the ballot for those who did, so those are important.
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  Speaker 1: Those are important.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we did have some good experiences. And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't heard here, in the US, early voting
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  Speaker 2: has hit some amazing records. According to a CNN article
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  Speaker 2: written by ZACHARYB. Wolfe, at least eighteen million early voters
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  Speaker 2: have been cast as of October twenty second, So I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure like I was a part of the afterwards, So
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  Speaker 2: there's got to be more, right. And in our state
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  Speaker 2: of Georgia, at least seventy percent of the votes have
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  Speaker 2: already been cast due to early voting, so the numbers
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  Speaker 2: are already kind of there. And not surprisingly, it has
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  Speaker 2: been more women during the early voting, but not too
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  Speaker 2: much more. Here's a quote from that scene in an
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  Speaker 2: article quote. More women, making up fifty five percent of
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  Speaker 2: the early votes so far have voted in Georgia, compared
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  Speaker 2: with men who have made up forty five percent. According
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  Speaker 2: to the ballats, of which Catalyst has data, Biden won
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  Speaker 2: more than half of Georgia women in twenty twenty, and
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: women also accounted for more than half the voters that
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  Speaker 2: year according to the Scenn exit polls. So you gotta know,
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  Speaker 2: and the majority of those voters are from the ages
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: fifty to sixty five and older, which they've made up
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: like seventy percent of those voters so far. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of was surprised.
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  Speaker 1: By that number.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it makes sense.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I wonder if early, like if absentee, that ballads.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Are included in that number. I didn't notice.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: So there's a lot out there, and there's a lot
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: we could speak on. And we again apologize for the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: lack of episodes that may have been expected. We, like
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: most of you, have definitely hit that election fatigue see
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: past episode. We talked about that with an overwhelming amount
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: of anxiety that hits when it comes to being transparent
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: with the listeners. So any and I talked back and
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: forth back and forth about doing bigger episodes and having
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: conversations about it. And I think for us and for
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: me specifically, the debilitating fear and knowing that we do
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: hold the responsibility and the information that we provide really
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: holds back some of the things that we want to
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: talk about. We really wish we could go back to
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: episodes of just talking about women in pockets, where the
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: minute that a Kristen and Caroline episode started talking more politically,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: they started getting backlash and we know this, and after
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: their exit, Bridget and Emily stepped their toes in knowing
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: that they would be talking about it. Bridget, I know
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: we have talked about it before. As being a woman
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: of color, a black ones specifically cannot ignore some of
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: those bigger politically charged, racist, racially charged episodes. Myself, as
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: a woman of color Asian woman can avoid that either.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: After twenty sixteen, things changed drastically Obama. When President Obama
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: was here, things changed pretty drastically as well. But when
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: it came to women's issues, when it came to marginalized
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: people's and their issues, twenty sixteen changed a lot. So
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: we know that we have a responsibility and voicing truths
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and facts and also like being transparent in letting you
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: know who we are as humans. Like that's podcasting, that's podcasts,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: and podcasting in itself has changed as we know it,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: the way that it is split and the interest and
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: how it's become a place of friendships honestly and like
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: relationships that you want to listen to. So with all
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: of that, we do apologize if you had expected more,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: but understand that we just like you are going on
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: this roller coaster ride and trying to really unlearn and
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: learn things as we go along with with the way
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the times have changed.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of funny.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: It's kind of funny though, because you were asking me,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: like about politics on podcasts and like this Trump go
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: on podcast and he said, has he done Joe Rogan?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Guess what.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Did? He said he would invite Kamala too, didn't he?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I have no idea if you did. It was just
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: funny to me because we had just talked about yeah, yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: and like, yeah, Kamala Harris being on Call Your Daddy
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: and that brought a lot of backlash to her who
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: she actually invited Trump too, and he just refused.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: She made that a point.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: But she also talks about the fact that, yeah, she
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: thinks that women's issues are a big important part of
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: her podcast, so she can't understand why people are shocked.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a strange thing that's happening right now.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: There's a lot happening.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Honestly, everything feels like a fever dream some days.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: It does, absolutelutely it does.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: But all that to say, we just want to lay
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that out there because I think you might not have cared,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: You might rather us not spoke about it, But either way,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: it would be disingenuous for us not to kind of
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: like be transparent and let you know where we are
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: at with that, especially with the elections being so close,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: and yeah, there are so much more we do want
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: to tap into. That overlap with other things so politically,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: like we talked about it in religious Trauma, which yeah,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: you know, we did a whole unexpected series on Remember
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: and Massogy noir that can't be ignored with elections and
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: this election specifically, also an interesting amount of women who've
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: been talking about lying to their husbands or boyfriends about
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: who they were voting for, which I think is something
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: that we need to explore because there's definitely been like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: uh so, one of the biggest phrases in different like
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: relationship TikTok is people will say, uh, I hope that
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: a love like this will never find me, or I
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: hope a love like this will find me, or like, God,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I've been waiting for this, like just kind of like
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: these specific phrases, but like I have seen more and
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: more women being like I can't tell my husband who
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I'm voting for because he will get mad at me
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and whatnot. But I lie and told them I vote
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: for Trump, Like that's the insinuation. And then many like
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: women stitching those videos and being like, uh, girl, you
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: need to rethink your relationship, which kind of comes back
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to that whole conversation once again about like is politics
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: should politics be a factor in your relationship? And once
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: like things because of Trump and because of the extremism
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: on both sides have come about. It has become a
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: really heated debating issue, which it wasn't once upon a time,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: right supposedly, But I do I find that interesting.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Well, did you see the the viral video from a
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: woman from Georgia in her nineties voted for the first time, Yes,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: because her husband had just died and he was like,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I don't think you should vote.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not allowing you to vote, and then she got to.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: But they are possibly getting into trouble. Did you see that? No,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: because his daughter, her daughter had helped her, and they're
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: calling that fraud.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, she seems so excited to do it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: What I thought.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I didn't.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: They're causing this like you made her vote for Harris
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: or I don't know. I don't know if she did
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: There's this uproar, and I was like, what is happening?
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: This is supposed to be fun and joyful.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing anymore anyway.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was Harris, I think, but
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: they were.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: There was cries of like this fraud, an assumption because
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: she a woman, Yeah, she was a vote woman being
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: told she can vote for the first time in an
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: issue without her without you know, with her husband not
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: making like not denying that right from her.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I have to say I've seen it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: I have seen this before with friends of mine or
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: their boyfriend is very controlling about like you're voting for
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: this person, and it always made me so uncomfortable.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that conversation with like, mmm, you need to rethink.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Oh I don't think this is a red flag anyway.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: We're gonna have to come back and talk about that later.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I think we'll do that after the fact when we
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: had a break from everything. But oh yeah, so a
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: lot's happening. Choices are being made. Hopefully eventually we can
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: actually have our voices heard on a bigger scale. Let
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: us know how things are going for you in your state,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: about your voting plans. If you have some or things
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that are occurring. I still have that knitted. I voted yeah,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: me too.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Blanket mm hmmm, I.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Think it was were we supposed to send that daughter?
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no it was I was the daughter
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: of a listener, yeah named don Oh. You could write
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and yell at me, but yeah, I've sent us these
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: beautiful because George is a swing state.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Now, like come out and vote.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I voted yeah, yeah, which is fantastic. Which eventually I'm
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: going to talk about coming back to talk about needle
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: points slash point punch needling, y'all. That's going to be
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: an episode soon or at least on Monday, Minnie. But anyway,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I still have that, so thank you.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I do too. Yes, but for.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for any other listeners, let us know what's going
• 24:41
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• 24:44
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