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Here We Are Again: 2024 Election Edition · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and walking to stuff
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Speaker 1: on her fertility prediction. I heard radio.
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Speaker 2: Let's put a date on this. It is November eighth,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. So we are in the fresh hell
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Speaker 2: that was election week. Also content warning. We are talking
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Speaker 2: about the election, about what's happening, and about our own thoughts,
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Speaker 2: and I'm suspecting Annie that this is going to be
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Speaker 2: very pessimistic in view. That's not the way we'd love
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Speaker 2: to do our episodes. I mean, I know I am
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Speaker 2: in general a pessimistic individual, the negative Nancy, as we
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Speaker 2: like to say, But I don't think there's any other
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Speaker 2: way around this one but to leane through being a
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Speaker 2: little bit disheartened. So for those of y'all who needs
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Speaker 2: to take it a breather from this, understandable. This is
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Speaker 2: all our own opinions and thoughts. This is in no
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Speaker 2: way in reflection of the entirety of Smantee. So I'm
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Speaker 2: not speaking for Joey, Maya, Christina or any I'm speaking
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Speaker 2: for myself when I'm talking about what's going on through
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Speaker 2: my head. Also that I know we're going to come
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Speaker 2: back and revisit a lot. I know I said in
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Speaker 2: the middle of, maybe in the end of or the
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Speaker 2: middle of a conversation about voting as well as my
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Speaker 2: fears and my family issues when it comes to politics.
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Speaker 2: That the one thing I do know for certain is
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Speaker 2: that we do rally. We as a people in a community,
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Speaker 2: we in the intersectional feminist community, do come through in
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Speaker 2: rallying together, and we are fighters. So I do understand that.
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Speaker 2: But right now we are in the state of mourning.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: I keep thinking a little bit about Kristen and Caroline's episode,
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Speaker 2: and I know, any that's really fresh for you because
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Speaker 2: you were the producer at the time, remo correct and
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Speaker 2: people realized, truly realize that Kristen and Carolina were intersextional
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Speaker 2: feminists and what that meant because for a while, when
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Speaker 2: the world didn't seem so bleak, we could talk about
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Speaker 2: women's issues without being divisive. And I say that loosely
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Speaker 2: because it's always been divisive. But on the whole, white
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Speaker 2: women were very accepting on conversations in pockets and not
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Speaker 2: having enough pockets. So we know that. And I'm not
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Speaker 2: saying white feminists right now, I'm talking about in general,
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Speaker 2: in what we see and what is accepted in the
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Speaker 2: women versus men conversation that often happens not necessarily intersectional
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Speaker 2: now in fact, absolutely not intersectional, just women versus men.
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Speaker 2: And that's an old adage, like a housewife joke that
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Speaker 2: was accepted, and then when it got to be like
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Speaker 2: a stickier issue of like, oh, so we were talking
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Speaker 2: about everybody having rights. No no, no, no no no no,
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Speaker 2: I just want to be able to say that to
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Speaker 2: my husband. He needs to clean every now and again
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Speaker 2: and again, this is very heteronormative speculation. So I know,
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Speaker 2: a long time ago, when Kristin started the show, it
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Speaker 2: was a niche show. It was a niche podcasting in
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Speaker 2: general's niche, and so having easy conversations about women wanting
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Speaker 2: more pockets was acceptable. But the minute they came out
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Speaker 2: and talking about their fear of Trump, a big chunk
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Speaker 2: of people left the show disappointed that they were that
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Speaker 2: Kristin and Caroline cared. So I know we are far
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Speaker 2: away from that. Like I'm pretty we've pretty much established
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Speaker 2: since then. Caroline and Kristin established that since then this
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Speaker 2: is that show that we are an intersectional feminist show.
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Speaker 2: And when we say freedom, when we say equal rights,
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Speaker 2: we're talking about equity for everyone so, but it's still
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Speaker 2: amazing that we're having a similar episode today. So a
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Speaker 2: lot of emotions, a lot of emotions are here, and
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Speaker 2: now we want to take a time to be very
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Speaker 2: transparent with you as listeners about where we are, about
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Speaker 2: the state we are in. We kind of prepped in advance,
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Speaker 2: as you know, if you listen to the episode chronologically
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Speaker 2: and you are up to date, which kudos if you are.
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Speaker 2: Wow you who are because we have so many episodes
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Speaker 2: and we understand you know, we didn't know yesterday the episode. Again,
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Speaker 2: if you're following along the timeline chronologically and actually up
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Speaker 2: to date with everything or close to it. I was
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Speaker 2: concerned what was happening with my family and knowing that
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Speaker 2: this is going to be another huge bump in the
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Speaker 2: road for my relationship with my family. But I don't
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Speaker 2: think it had hit. I don't know if it has
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Speaker 2: it in general, the actual results of it all. And again,
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Speaker 2: I don't think it comes as a surprise that for
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Speaker 2: me personally, my pessimistic self is having a hard time
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Speaker 2: finding the silver lining in this moment. I woke up
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Speaker 2: at five thirty am, looked at my phone on Wednesday morning,
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Speaker 2: and immediately whispered because my partner was asleep in bed,
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Speaker 2: and I could not stop saying that, oh my god,
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Speaker 2: what the Even though it wasn't surprising, it still was
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Speaker 2: real talk Everything seemed so dark. It was dark literally
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Speaker 2: realizing not only did he win the electoral votes, but
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Speaker 2: he won the popular vote in a landslide, and I
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Speaker 2: watched as Congress also fell under the Republican control. And
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Speaker 2: this is new. This did not happen last time around,
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Speaker 2: So the fact that this is happening makes me nauseous.
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Speaker 2: Of course, this will be a huge difference. This will
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Speaker 2: be a huge difference. The amount of damage that can
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Speaker 2: be done in the next four years feels massive and
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Speaker 2: feels very like apocalyptic to me. And ironically, again, the
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Speaker 2: Happy Hour just released seems almost uh toop optimistic. I
6:38
Speaker 2: think in comparison to where we're at, I will say
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Speaker 2: that there has been and is this dread that's in
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Speaker 2: the pit of my stomach, that's in my heart, that's
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Speaker 2: in my throat. It is all but paralyzing. It feels bleak.
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Speaker 2: Trying to record this episode is a chore, Let's be
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Speaker 2: very honest. I keep asking myself, why do people hate
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Speaker 2: themselves so much that they would vote against their own
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Speaker 2: interest and of course our interest, like everybody's interest, And honestly,
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Speaker 2: this is specifically to my Asian community. It's the only
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Speaker 2: fifty four percent voted Democrat while thirty nine percent voted Republican.
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Speaker 2: Apparently there is another stat and I cannot find it,
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Speaker 2: but people are saying that seventy two percent of the
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Speaker 2: Asian women voted for Democrat. So that does make me
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Speaker 2: feel a little more hopeful, like at least it's higher,
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Speaker 2: but the fact that they're still the marginalized, especially when
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Speaker 2: it comes to the fact that she is an Asian woman,
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Speaker 2: like we can't even vote for okay, okay, And I
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Speaker 2: say maybe me having my own experience growing up in
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Speaker 2: a very white family and community, and not only white,
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Speaker 2: but very conservative if you know anything about North Georgia,
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Speaker 2: if you know anything about going outside of the metro
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Speaker 2: area of Atlanta, very conservative. The amount of Trump stuff
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Speaker 2: everywhere was incredible and scary for me growing up, I
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Speaker 2: felt like I mean I did, I absolutely felt the
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Speaker 2: need to acclimate with my then community and the overall
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Speaker 2: dislike of my Asian heritage and again wishing to be
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Speaker 2: white was really overwhelming growing up, Like I would stare
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Speaker 2: at myself in the mirror, begging myself to be whier,
8:43
Speaker 2: like I would think about the fantasies. And I loved
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Speaker 2: books growing up, and I love fantasy stuff about having
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Speaker 2: the wish, having a wish that I could be white
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Speaker 2: the guy. I can't explain the amount of self loathing
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Speaker 2: I had as an Asian person growing up because I
9:01
Speaker 2: felt so out of place and so ostracized that my
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Speaker 2: solution was to hate myself and blame my heritage instead
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Speaker 2: of seeing the opposite, like that the world around me
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Speaker 2: is up and hateful. When I say this, that this
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Speaker 2: type of self hatred and anti Asian ideas and to
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Speaker 2: my adolescent inks, adding to my adolescent acts, I mean
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Speaker 2: it was not a great mixture. And being taught also
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Speaker 2: that I must be grateful to those who saved me.
9:33
Speaker 2: And I'm putting that in quotes from an assumed bad situation. Again,
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Speaker 2: we don't know really had a choke hold on me.
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Speaker 2: And so you know, I made a joke about the
9:44
Speaker 2: fact that I had voted for Bush when I first
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Speaker 2: turned voting age in college because I was that self hating,
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Speaker 2: not understanding what this meant to me, and I like,
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Speaker 2: it still doesn't feel as bleak doing that. Don't get
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Speaker 2: me wrongways bad because what he did was bad, but
10:02
Speaker 2: still doesn't seem as big as of what's happening today,
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Speaker 2: I will say that. And when it comes to and
10:07
Speaker 2: again this is going back to the Asian people immigrants
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Speaker 2: in general, like the higher high rates of Latina Latino
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Speaker 2: voters who went for Trump, who a lot of them are.
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Speaker 2: Some of them are saying some repercussions of that already.
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Speaker 2: But when it comes to like the American dream and
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Speaker 2: then the idea that a person could obtain, it is
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Speaker 2: often only if they adhere to the ideas and structures
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Speaker 2: that the white rich men put into place, and that
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Speaker 2: means to idolize and wish to become like them. Like
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Speaker 2: that's the American dream that's being sold. So many people
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Speaker 2: in my similar circumstances, immigrating with the hopes of a
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Speaker 2: quote better life, get sucked into this narrative that all
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Speaker 2: the problems of the world are because of other foreigners
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Speaker 2: and again putting that in quotes who don't play by
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Speaker 2: the rules, they literally create scenario that pissed themselves against
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Speaker 2: each other. Again instead of seeing the whole picture that
11:05
Speaker 2: oppression is created in order for the powerful to remain powerful.
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Speaker 2: They put the they buy into the idea of the
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Speaker 2: squid Games. And I'm talking about the K drama. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so I'm making a reference here to K drama. There
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Speaker 2: is a prize, but only a few, if not only
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Speaker 2: one of the lowly people can get that uh prize.
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Speaker 2: So you must fight amongst yourself against your own selves.
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Speaker 2: Like that's that's what is being played out in politics,
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Speaker 2: and no one wants to talk about it. And yes,
11:38
Speaker 2: that was the point of the Squid Games. If people
11:41
Speaker 2: were like, oh what I thought it was just a
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Speaker 2: fun K drama? No, And and and just to also
11:47
Speaker 2: put in that the South Koreans are struggling here that
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Speaker 2: the divide between upper middle class versus lower socio economics
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Speaker 2: is so huge there is hardly no middle class. And
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Speaker 2: that's the point. I'm struggling to see those numbers, especially
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Speaker 2: how vastly they differentiated from Biden. And of course this
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Speaker 2: is that conversation about Missage Noir that we knew would
12:13
Speaker 2: always be a point in this conversation and a big
12:18
Speaker 2: stickler to how they would defeat Harris. We know this.
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Speaker 2: It didn't even matter what her policies were. It was
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Speaker 2: just missage. Noir is gonna win out. The only people
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Speaker 2: is speaking of which who seem to best understand this
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Speaker 2: and has always understood this from the beginning, have been
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Speaker 2: Black women. Black women have known from the beginning, and
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Speaker 2: I'm saying this from the beginning, as in Lake trying
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Speaker 2: to fight for rights when they were able to speak
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Speaker 2: their truth slash the truth that the breaking down of
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Speaker 2: a system must mean to break it down completely, not
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Speaker 2: just from one issue. He's not just about voting rights
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Speaker 2: as they wanted to talk about in the beginning of
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Speaker 2: the nineteenth Amendment, but has to include anti lynching laws,
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Speaker 2: equal rights for all, rights to not only be able
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Speaker 2: to work in the workforce, but being able to protect
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Speaker 2: those in the workforce. Well, it's just often endangered and
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Speaker 2: forced women of color into these workplaces or limited their
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Speaker 2: work options, or even being able to remain at home
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Speaker 2: if possible, and also being told they should be at home,
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Speaker 2: but also serving others and for minimal paid. Still, they
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Speaker 2: knew that oppression for one group or any group, meant
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Speaker 2: oppression for everyone. They knew that they know that no
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Speaker 2: one is free unless everyone is free. That that's the
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Speaker 2: phrase and is simple. The giant they have been that force.
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Speaker 2: They have done that work, and they have shown again
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Speaker 2: and again they are willing to do it even when
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Speaker 2: they're most likely to be the most unappreciated and absolutely
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Speaker 2: not given any credit. I think in Georgia alone, you
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Speaker 2: can see this. You can see the wavering here. How
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Speaker 2: when things have gone right, I guess in that viewpoint
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Speaker 2: of liberals in general, they're willing to clap their hands
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Speaker 2: and gay way way to go. But when things go wrong,
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Speaker 2: they just get lumped into Georgia sucks type of conversation.
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Speaker 2: And we'll talk a little bit about that a little
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Speaker 2: bit later. But the percentage was fifty point seven percent
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Speaker 2: voted for Trump, with the mind that not only was
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Speaker 2: there a surge of purging of the voter registration, bomb threats,
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Speaker 2: absentee ballots not being sent out correctly, which, by the way,
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Speaker 2: Cobb County, which was the biggest issue, still was blue,
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Speaker 2: not as blue as could be, but still flip blue
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Speaker 2: because that's a swing county for us, by the way, y'all,
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Speaker 2: And so many other things, the gerrymandering alone, so many
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Speaker 2: other issues at hand that they barely barely won. And
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Speaker 2: it isn't because the black women stopped working because they
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Speaker 2: never stopped. I hate the fact that we were read
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Speaker 2: like so badly, like the one small thread of hope.
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Speaker 2: It's even if she lost. Please let us be blue,
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Speaker 2: Please let us remain blue. I honestly am struggling with
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Speaker 2: understanding any of this. I do feel like my family
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Speaker 2: voted against me as a person, as a human, and
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Speaker 2: I know they have not tried to reach out to
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Speaker 2: me by the way, we have not talked. But knowing
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Speaker 2: that they care so much more about these quote unquote
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Speaker 2: bad guys immigration, which I've yet to see them affected by,
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Speaker 2: says in fact, my brother has been taken advantage of
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Speaker 2: by three white women, including Besley, hundreds of thousands of
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Speaker 2: dollars from him to go and bankrupt. I don't understand
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Speaker 2: how he sees immigration as being the issue. Let's be
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Speaker 2: very honest. I knew it. I knew that this could happen.
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Speaker 2: We knew that things were falling this way. Unfortunately, I
16:21
Speaker 2: still had hope. I still hoped, but I didn't want
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Speaker 2: to see it. In four k this is not something
16:28
Speaker 2: we wanted to see. But here we are. There's so
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Speaker 2: much more to do. We know this. I'm a little
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Speaker 2: more scared than before because people are dying. We also
16:39
Speaker 2: know that people continue to die, people are being deported,
16:46
Speaker 2: people are putting put in bad situations. Extremists have come
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Speaker 2: out in victory saying that saying the most awful stuff
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Speaker 2: that they've been able to hide, or at least they
16:59
Speaker 2: thought that would be ridy killed four, but they no
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Speaker 2: longer feel that, which is a concern. There's I know
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Speaker 2: there's still investigations, and I haven't even talked about the
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Speaker 2: failing of this system in general, because it is a failing.
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Speaker 2: I haven't talked about who, Like I don't want to
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Speaker 2: talk about who's false? Is this? Who did this? Who
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Speaker 2: were wrong? People who are angry should be angry. People
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Speaker 2: who have fought should be tired and feel disappointed. And
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Speaker 2: that's completely reasonable. There's a lot of things happening right now,
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Speaker 2: but I think we have to remember we have more
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Speaker 2: to do. And I'm saying this we as a collective
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Speaker 2: Asian person in my community, I can only speak to that.
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Speaker 2: I am disappointed. Like I said, I am very scared,
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Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean we're going to give up. I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to give up, although I really want to,
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Speaker 2: because you know, I'd like to sleep, you know, these
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Speaker 2: special times I sleep, I will say, for ourselves and
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Speaker 2: for a lot of our people, I think we have
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Speaker 2: to give ourselves room to rest and mourn, but also
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Speaker 2: to remember that we still have to rally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and just to everyone out there, I know.
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Speaker 1: So it's been so hard, and it feels very like
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Speaker 1: when I did my election anxiety episode. I've seen it,
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Speaker 1: like my calendar ends on this day, and so now
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Speaker 1: it's just like we fight for the next day, the
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Speaker 1: next day. But you're not alone because so many of
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Speaker 1: you were so kind and you reached out, so thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you for doing that. And I feel it's so
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Speaker 1: frustrating because I wanted to like spend the next four
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Speaker 1: years fighting for more progress instead of fighting going backwards.
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Speaker 1: And it's frustrating too because I've had so many friends
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Speaker 1: reach out to me who are scared. I'm scared too,
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Speaker 1: but whose jobs are going to be affected by this?
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Speaker 1: Impacted by this, because like I have a friend who
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Speaker 1: works with a CDC RFKA Junior is gonna be in
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Speaker 1: charge of that, so who knows what's gonna happen there.
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Speaker 1: And then I have a friend who's a nurse, been
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Speaker 1: on the show, and I don't know if this was
19:50
Speaker 1: just poor timing or what. But they had to go
19:52
Speaker 1: through a training on how to tell people are pregnant
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Speaker 1: that their babies are dying. Yeah, it's just it's a lot.
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Speaker 1: It takes a physical toll. Like I've been very sick.
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Speaker 1: I've been physically sick, and that makes it harder to.
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Speaker 2: Fight.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, we can't. I don't want to give up.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to let them win. Makes me mad
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Speaker 1: just thinking about it. But it does hurt. And I
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Speaker 1: kind of a diet of people being like, ow, you're
20:37
Speaker 1: being so dramatic. Come well, good for you. You're probably
20:41
Speaker 1: better off than me. So if you feel it, if
20:50
Speaker 1: you're hurting too, because I have so many people text
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Speaker 1: me too and they're like, am I this too much
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Speaker 1: of a reaction? Why do I feel this way? And
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Speaker 1: I was like, no, it hurts. It hurts, and it
21:04
Speaker 1: does hurt because a lot of us do have the
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Speaker 1: conservative family members and this is a time where the
21:15
Speaker 1: holidays are bearing down upon you, and well what do
21:18
Speaker 1: I do about this? I'm already like having imaginary fights
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Speaker 1: with people because I have a lot of like men
21:29
Speaker 1: in my life who are liberal. But then they always
21:33
Speaker 1: dismiss me when I'm like, don't you think sexism had
21:36
Speaker 1: a role here? And they're like, no, Okay, cool, it's
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Speaker 1: not like it's my job. Great, but it does. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's I right before this, I was reading an
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Speaker 1: article and I briefly mentioned it in the election anxiety episode,
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Speaker 1: but it was about like the trauma of the twenty
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Speaker 1: sixteen election and like how so many people are still
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Speaker 1: dealing with that and how this was compounding upon that.
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Speaker 1: But it is worse because the damage he can do
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Speaker 1: in this second term is worse. But it was also
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to come back and talk about
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Speaker 1: this maybe when we're both in a better place. But
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Speaker 1: it was also saying like one of the reasons for
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Speaker 1: better or worse that Kamala Harris really didn't make a
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Speaker 1: big deal about like being perhaps the first woman candidate
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Speaker 1: or perhaps the first Asian black the candidate, is because
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Speaker 1: there was such a backlash in twenty sixteen to when
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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton did that, to the point there were articles
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Speaker 1: written about like feminists elected Donald tr Yeah, and if
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Speaker 1: that is true, if just like the idea of having
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Speaker 1: out of forty seven presidents a woman, of just like
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Speaker 1: having equal rights and equity and safety, like people just
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Speaker 1: want to exist. If that is still enough to call
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Speaker 1: such a backlash, then yeah, we have a lot, a lot,
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Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of work to do.
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Speaker 2: Right, It's not surprising to see that a lot of
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Speaker 2: the reactions for Trump's when are conservatives sending messages to
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Speaker 2: black people, to women, to queer people. Haha, you'll never
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Speaker 2: be free. I own you, essentially is what the message
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Speaker 2: has been, to the point that people are like been
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Speaker 2: reporting it to the FBI. But if the Project twenty
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Speaker 2: to twenty five, which we haven't talked much about, but
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Speaker 2: a part of that Project twenty twenty five is literally
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Speaker 2: reversing any of those equities or equal rights conversations. Oddly,
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Speaker 2: and I've noticed people telling this recently that Trump specifically
24:18
Speaker 2: has been very quiet since is the victory, which is
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Speaker 2: not like him. So that scares me more. But the
24:23
Speaker 2: first thing he said that he's gonna do is immediately
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Speaker 2: undo or any trans rites day one, just horrifying and scary,
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Speaker 2: and then immediately go into obviously abortion stuff. And now
24:36
Speaker 2: that the Republican Party has taken control with a big
24:41
Speaker 2: chunk of very conservative, right winged people at his I
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Speaker 2: guess at his side as his accomplices. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: we're going to have to look at, and there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of we're going to have talk about. I feel
24:56
Speaker 2: like the tone of smant He might change a little bit,
25:00
Speaker 2: not that it hasn't already. After twenty sixteen, we went
25:03
Speaker 2: through we as a show, not necessarily me, but the
25:06
Speaker 2: show in general went through massive changes and hosts, like
25:10
Speaker 2: back to back to back, like within that same administration.
25:13
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, another think about it was stressful.
25:20
Speaker 2: I cannot believe all of that happened within one administration,
25:24
Speaker 2: that there was like for host change, it was yeah,
25:29
Speaker 2: oh my goodness. Anyway, sorry y'all because I came in
25:31
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen that was still under his administration.
25:36
Speaker 1: Yep, it feels like.
25:40
Speaker 2: Yes. On top of the fact, COVID happened, so a
25:44
Speaker 2: lot of things were different obviously, and everybody the show
25:49
Speaker 2: was changing in direction. But twenty happened and we established
25:53
Speaker 2: We established a good tone for us, I think in
25:56
Speaker 2: what we were able to create and how we were
25:58
Speaker 2: able to create, on how much demanded of us or
26:01
Speaker 2: expected of us. When it came to going from two
26:04
Speaker 2: to three days a week to five to six days
26:07
Speaker 2: a week and We're still going to try our best
26:11
Speaker 2: to give lighthearted inspirational stuff obviously that that's the one
26:17
Speaker 2: thing I know for sure is that we're gonna get
26:20
Speaker 2: a lot of inspirational names and a lot of people
26:22
Speaker 2: who are doing some amazing things that we could support
26:25
Speaker 2: and watch. And I'm sure all you listeners will be
26:27
Speaker 2: some of those people, and I'm excited to find that out.
26:32
Speaker 2: But we will also make sure that we are fighting
26:36
Speaker 2: to get truth out, which sounds so gross because the
26:40
Speaker 2: way that is phrased seems like a right winged mantra. Yeah,
26:49
Speaker 2: and I hate that that's what we're doing. But honestly,
26:51
Speaker 2: like we we've talked about the importance of like unraveling
26:56
Speaker 2: disinformation and misinformation, and that is something that I think
26:58
Speaker 2: is something that will have beay on us as podcasters
27:03
Speaker 2: that is continuing on. We want to make sure that
27:07
Speaker 2: we are voicing that and we are working for that
27:10
Speaker 2: because that is our job and that is our privilege.
27:15
Speaker 2: So I'm bear with us as we change with the environment,
27:22
Speaker 2: I guess the UH and social status of everything, and
27:26
Speaker 2: hopefully we can remain I mean, I don't know.
27:43
Speaker 1: I do want to say this is like a random
27:45
Speaker 1: thought that I had, and I'm not angry at the
27:48
Speaker 1: person who said it to me, But this is in
27:51
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. A friend of mine said to me after
27:55
Speaker 1: Trump was elected, and he was like, well, you will
27:59
Speaker 1: never rune out of time to talk about now, Like, no,
28:03
Speaker 1: I wouldn't over run out of dogs without.
28:07
Speaker 2: We were never without. Like people ask us constantly, how
28:12
Speaker 2: do you think of so many things because we have
28:14
Speaker 2: to publish so many episodes and it literally sometimes we
28:17
Speaker 2: do have moments, but then there's not any point. Have
28:20
Speaker 2: we actually went out of an idea?
28:22
Speaker 1: No, And it's not. But the thing is, like there
28:26
Speaker 1: were always gooda There's always going to be intersectional feminist
28:30
Speaker 1: things to talk about right now. It's just I was
28:33
Speaker 1: hoping I'd never have to think about this guy again, right,
28:36
Speaker 1: other than like the legacy and what gave him power
28:39
Speaker 1: in the first place. Right, But now here we are,
28:43
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's because I know he's also trying to
28:46
Speaker 1: get rid of the So when you're elected, you replace
28:52
Speaker 1: the cabinet. Yeah, but there's like thirty five thousand other
28:55
Speaker 1: jobs that you don't replace, and that's for stability. He
29:00
Speaker 1: wants to get rid of that and replace them with
29:03
Speaker 1: people he likes, which means like potentially you couldn't even
29:08
Speaker 1: trust the weather like.
29:11
Speaker 2: Right, So he's trying too.
29:15
Speaker 1: He's definitely tried that, I think, honest.
29:17
Speaker 2: Windmill thing because he wants to change the climate change
29:22
Speaker 2: climate like he doesn't. He doesn't want to talk about it.
29:25
Speaker 2: He wants to say no, no, no, y'all, keep keep getting
29:28
Speaker 2: all the coal. We're good.
29:29
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
29:30
Speaker 2: He also has he he's also part of the reason
29:32
Speaker 2: why a lot of our standards have changed, and the
29:35
Speaker 2: FDA and all of that. Anyway, Yeah, but it's okay.
29:42
Speaker 2: We will talk about also how economically we are. Effects
29:46
Speaker 2: of a rumor of tariffs have already made impact in
29:50
Speaker 2: a lot of companies, which we'll have to come back
29:53
Speaker 2: to because again, as we've told before, women hold the
29:55
Speaker 2: buying power in the household, so we have to have
29:59
Speaker 2: that converse of what that looks like. I will say,
30:02
Speaker 2: we're gonna try to end with some positives. Only have
30:07
Speaker 2: four things, any I know there's more, y'all, so you can,
30:09
Speaker 2: you can, but here's a few. Maryland elected their first
30:16
Speaker 2: black woman as the US Senator. Her name is US
30:18
Speaker 2: Senator Angela also Brooks. She is an attorney. She has
30:22
Speaker 2: done some amazing things in Maryland already, so I'm excited
30:25
Speaker 2: to see her. I think she's the fourth black woman
30:28
Speaker 2: to be elected into the US Senate. Uh. And I'm
30:31
Speaker 2: really sad, but glad she's there. I said that that's
30:35
Speaker 2: the number, and I'm glad she's there.
30:37
Speaker 1: Though.
30:38
Speaker 2: New Jersey elected the first Asian American US Senator, Andy Kim.
30:42
Speaker 2: Really excited to see what he can do and hope
30:45
Speaker 2: he does us proud. Do be proud, man. Don't maybe
30:48
Speaker 2: sit here crying on this corner, okay.
30:50
Speaker 1: Uh.
30:51
Speaker 2: And Sarah McBride, who has already made history, has also
30:54
Speaker 2: made history as the first openly transgender US House of Representative.
30:59
Speaker 2: She again made history as a state senator in Delaware,
31:01
Speaker 2: but now as a part of the US House of Representatives.
31:05
Speaker 2: We are so glad you're there, Sarah. We are rallying
31:07
Speaker 2: behind you and excited about the work. And I'm sorry
31:10
Speaker 2: about the work you we're about to have to go through.
31:12
Speaker 2: And out of other good news, seven out of ten
31:15
Speaker 2: states who had reproductive rights on their ballots one protection
31:20
Speaker 2: for those rights. I love that. I love that the
31:23
Speaker 2: people were able to speak out. Of course, three of
31:25
Speaker 2: the states did not, including Florida, but we also know
31:28
Speaker 2: the misinformation in the campaign that the Santis did in
31:30
Speaker 2: order to make sure uh to sabotage that. So that's
31:36
Speaker 2: a whole different conversation. But to the other seven states excited, Unfortunately,
31:41
Speaker 2: we will see what. Okay, no, no, no, I'm a backtrack.
31:45
Speaker 2: I'm not saying god, I'm nope, Nope. We're celebrating that
31:48
Speaker 2: and ending it there. We're celebrating that. Yes, we're celebrating this,
31:55
Speaker 2: but we will keep an eye on what's going on
31:57
Speaker 2: and have conversations and come and have a conversation about it.
32:02
Speaker 2: We love you listeners. To those who have stuck with
32:07
Speaker 2: us through all the changes, thank you, to all those
32:13
Speaker 2: who support us, To those who have the privilege to
32:20
Speaker 2: support those marginalized and do so, thank you. We would
32:26
Speaker 2: love to hear from you. We will mourn together, so
32:31
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32:35
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32:41
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32:48
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32:52
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