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Email of Interest - Election Sanity for November 7th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have an email of interest. Is it about okay,
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  well up this program?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's the wrong one, or an email of interest?
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  Sure we could do that, yeah email oh interest.
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  Speaker 1: I got this late last night, says dear Gina. I'm
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  writing to thank you and Carrie and Bill for this morning.
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  I've been listening to you all for the last fifteen years.
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  When my husband then boyfriend introduced me to your show.
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  You've all become my comfort. I usually podcast the show
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  a day behind and reach for it often when I'm stressed, nervous, happy,
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  or just to feel safe. This morning, I was absolutely
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  distraught over the outcome of the election. I wasn't sure
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  how I was going to teach. I'm a math professor
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  at a small community college in Wyoming. I streamed your
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  show live this morning and found the comfort and stability
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  I needed to start my day. You all were honest
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  about how you were feeling, but also helped to bring
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  comedy and distraction from everything. Your laughter helped me see
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  I could show up from my people today anyway. I've
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  always wanted to write a thank you for everything you
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  all do and what you stand for. I'm sure today
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  was particularly difficult to face and show up for your listeners.
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  So thank you, we needed you with us. Here's to
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  continuing to show up, fight in the good fight. Thank
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  you again.
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  Speaker 2: Stay care, Sarah, Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: And I Sarah. I read your letter last night before
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  I went to bed, and it Your letter made me
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  feel better about the day. It also reminded me and
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  I wanted to tell you, Toot. I was reading a
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  lot of texts yesterday and I saw a couple that
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  were kind of in the same vein of like, not
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  only am I sad about the election, but I have
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  to figure out how to get up and go to work.
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  And I told Bill yesterday morning, I don't know if
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  I can do this today. That's how I was feeling yesterday.
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  And Bill made me laugh. On the way to work,
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  He's like, should we just drive to California?
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  Speaker 2: I left.
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  Speaker 1: So I was feeling that way. But I saw a
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  lot of texts from people yesterday who were saying, not
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  only am I said about the election, but I work
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  with a lot of mag of people, and boy, so
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  not only am I dealing with this, but I'm going
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  to have to go to work and these all of them.
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  Speaker 2: They're all such gracious winners.
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  Speaker 1: You know, And I just wanted to thank you too,
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  because I realize how lucky I am that, no matter
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  how bad I was feeling yesterday and not wanting to
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  come to work just because I was upset, knowing that
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  we are all supportive in this room, and knowing that
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  I just I have. I get to spend my day
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  with people that I agree with. I realize that not
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  everybody has that, and I don't take it.
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  Speaker 2: For grantedy you work with people you don't agree with,
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  it tough and jump, you know, you're not just all
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  wimpy all the time. Yeah, it's that's I'm I'm glad
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  that that person felt that way. But doing that for
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  that person who wrote the email, I hope Sarah that
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  you realize that it that it also took away some
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  time I needed to book my trip to Iceland, my
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  one way ticket to Iceland. The weather in Rakuvic is
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  better than it is here. It's forty five degrees and
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  slightly it's drizzly, but it's but it's still warmer.
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  Speaker 1: And and speaking about showing up for people, though I
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  was talking to Muhammad last night, my son, not the prophet.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you should talking to that, although you should talk
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  to the prophet a little more often.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, And he was so cute. He came home from
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  school and he's like, man, all the girls at school
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  were so upset and worried today. And it's it's important,
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  especially for young men, I think, to be there for
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  their friends and and and girls at school. And and
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  I told him, and he understands. But I said, if
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  if your other friends need help, you know understanding why
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  this is so upsetting for girls in particular, I said,
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  picture if on the ballot this time for for boys.
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  Here's here's what is going to become a national law.
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  All boys, the minute they hit puberty have a vasectomy.
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  You have to have a vasecto me, it's not your choice.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, this is the law. Is that I was miss something.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have a vasectomy. And it can only
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  be reversed when the government decides that it is okay
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  for you to have children.
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  Speaker 2: It would be.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think men think about.
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  Speaker 2: It, No, they don't. That's that's that's that's most of
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  the problem is the lack of empathy. I've never thought
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  about it until just now.
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  Speaker 1: But I am. I am so heartened by my son
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  and and his his friends at school, who are all like, Oh,
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  we feel bad for girls in particular right now, so
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  I appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: I got home and my son went, ha, told you,
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  I'm not kidding, told you. I said, son, I don't
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  want to talk with you about this. We don't need
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  you know. I love you, wh I know, and and
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  you love me? Yeah I do. Let's not talk about this.
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  Oh okay, you can keep this up or there's the door. Yeah,
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  he's yeah, he likes to he likes to provoke. Do
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  you I wonder where he gets that. It's sort of in
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  a different way. Yeah, kind of a different way.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess I just want to say to Sarah
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  and everybody else, as much as it was nice to
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  hear thank you that that we were here for you,
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  you are here for us too. We're all this is
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  a two way street, and we appreciate you for sticking
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  with us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we would also like your If you
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  would spend money on our advertisers, then I can afford
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  to go to the Iceland. I can do the show
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  from there. I wonder what the time difference is email
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  I'll int