Episode 2.3 - Talking Transparency about Business

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you are now listening to talking
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transparency the podcast where
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transparents talk transparently hosted
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by theia Ross Melissa Len and Cody
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Connor all right welcome back to talking
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transparency I'm Thea I'm Melissa and
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I'm Cody
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on tonight's episode we've got a lot to
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talk about we're going to go through
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what we've been doing the past couple
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weeks what we're doing in the next
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couple weeks and we're going to have a
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little conversation about the big
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looming Topic in the trans Community
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tonight which is of course the scetti uh
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case that is being uh what that was
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heard earlier today at the
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scotus yeah I listened to some of those
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arguments so we'll talk about that um
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but how about we talk about what's like
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coming up right away which is well yes I
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guess tomorrow we've got our trans
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family dinner we're going to be at the
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Chrysler Museum tomorrow uh from 5:00 to
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8:00 p.m. uh everyone is invited you can
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go online to KES coalition.com tfd to
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RSVP if you haven't already although at
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this point I think we've already got
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about 50 or 60 RSVPs so I think we're
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going to have a packed house that's
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amazing yes that is incredibly amazing I
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am so excited I'm very this is this our
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last one this year this is our last one
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this year and we're we're actually going
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to be looking towards January 5th for
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our next one so in the new year we'll be
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setting another another one and
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hopefully we'll have one with the Life
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Center we've been trying to get
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everything coordinated with them so
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we'll have some more details about that
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either in the end of January or end of
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February so oh very good and the
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Chrysler um they are catering um the
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Chrysler Museum has graciously donated
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to trans the trans family dinner yes the
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Chrysler Museum has really stepped up I
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really have to to say that like it's
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amazing that they have helped us and
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they're reaching out to the trans
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community and they're helping create
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that safe space and letting people know
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especially this season
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that we're here we're going to be here
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for a while they actually have Taste
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Unlimited which is one of the local
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businesses I don't know if anyone
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watching this has ever tried Taste
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Unlimited they have amazing homecooked
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very um artisanal and and very rustic
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style Foods so they're going have tast
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all the fixin just all the spreads so
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awesome and then there's also the sixth
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annual Bake Off will be taking place at
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the same time so while we'll have our
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own little private room and we'll be
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enjoying these delicious foods will also
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be over there at uh uh right next door
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there'll be the sixth annual p with the
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some of the best most delicious and
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beautiful cakes you've ever seen some of
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the best artists and Bakers are going to
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be competing for you know can we taste
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test the said cakes it's a bake off like
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I imagine there going to have be some
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access to baked goods or there would be
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right I have been informed that we will
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have access that we will be enabled and
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allowed to peruse and potentially snack
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I don't know if it'll be the type of
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thing where they'll want donations I
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don't know if it'll just be open I'll
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donate for cake M I love cake really I
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need we need to set up cake at the table
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then apparently that's the trick that's
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how we get donations I love it'll be
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it'll be a big end to like a big year
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yeah cuz the callus Coalition is we're
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just a little over a year old yes oh wow
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yes I mean first interest
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meeting to what this is this will be our
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13th well I think if you count the ones
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we did last year I think we're getting
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close to like the I think this is the
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16th transf family this the 12th one
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this year oh no it'll be the 13th one
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this year uh of this year 13th one this
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year 16th overall and what that'll mean
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that probably what this year by the time
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we finish this dinner with these 50 60
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people coming we will have fed 400
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something people I think I think we are
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at 324 is what we had uh calulated so if
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we end up with uh with 50 60 people we
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be getting close to 400 meal sir uh this
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year across 13 different events which is
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really very good um and we're able to do
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it very economically we've had lots of
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wonderful Partners local restaurants and
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folks obviously when it's a family
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dinner people love to cook and bring
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things or like to show off what their
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cooking skills are yes and uh I'm very
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very proud uh that our operations
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director Ty former producer executive
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producer I guess I should say Ty um has
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done so much to make this the Tai the ti
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he's not here tonight but I will say
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that he is in spirit because he is
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working hard making Mak sure that we
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have all the vegetarian and vegan
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options that are available I know they
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just added a couple vegan dishes and
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things so that we will be able to
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accommodate everyone at the TR family
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dinner and I mean Ty so many people but
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especially Ty and Thea put so much work
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into the trans family dinners yeah and
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they've really in so many ways become so
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much more than dinner mhm oh yeah I mean
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we've we've done them at different
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places I mean uh the museum mhm you know
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coming up
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it's I do love it when it's it's really
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at the house though it's so cozy that's
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everybody's favorite I know it's
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everybody's favorite cuz it feels so
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table feels so much like a home family
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it really does I think everybody really
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digs MH agre digs that Vibe um but it's
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been cool to do it in other places it's
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been you know really cool to see and
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just since that
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first interest meeting not that long ago
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to
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see just how that event and how the Kos
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Coalition overall has grown and evolved
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and been able to do so much just this
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small group of people yeah we we just
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did our impact reports we were doing all
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of our giving Tuesday stuff by the way
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go to k coalition.com donate if you'd
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like to donate um but uh we we actually
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gave over $110,000 to 13 different
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wishes we were able to fulfill for folks
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in the community that includes things
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like fixing cars literally getting cars
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repairing floors uh avoiding eviction
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helping people with clothing and other
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other other things as well the list is
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is growing as we continue to do more we
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also gave over $5,000 to other trans Le
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organizations uh and partner
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organizations so that they can continue
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to do the work that they're doing we did
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six workshops including one with the
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ACLU which was know your rights workshop
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and financial literacy workshops when it
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comes down to all the things I mean plus
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we did the 12 trans family dinners and
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we've got one more here before the the
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year um and uh obviously this lovely
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podcast where I think what is this this
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is going to be episode 26 I guess where
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I I I said we're on season two
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so season two we made it to season two I
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feel good about that wow I'll take that
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cuz technically you know our very first
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episode of this podcast was recorded in
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late November of last year so we've
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officially crossed over into recording
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this podcast for a year a year what
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doesn't feel like a year I mean does but
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doesn't it's been a big year it has been
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a big year Cody ran for
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office I mean I didn't but I was no you
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you ran all the people in office you
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just ran them around like that's that's
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the way to be yeah I just you know I
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just really like yelling at people it's
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fun not my candidates did you say
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alienating people yelling no yelling oh
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yelling okay I'm sorry politicians it's
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my favorite that's me I like alienating
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people no I'm sorry I don't like
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alienating people I really enjoy um
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getting to meet people and that's that's
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the thing about the trans family dinner
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one of the coolest things I found out we
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were doing some research there is a
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group that has started a trans family
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dinner program out in British Columbia
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in Canada oh wow what totally uh like
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separate from us we were doing some
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research we were doing some Google
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search just checking out the SEO and
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such over the past week and we saw that
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there had been one that like within the
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past week had just like started it just
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like a new
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trenders awesome it really is awesome
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because we've always said like we don't
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have a monopoly on the concept of a
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trans family dinner more that that can
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happen the better oh my gosh absolutely
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absolutely so if they are listening if
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they ever get a chance to listen y'all
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are awesome we love you uh definitely
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reach out let's see if we can't create a
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coast to coast network of trans family
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dinners because uh it is a sort of thing
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that we'd love to see these things
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happen more and we have over 60
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different people we're going to meet so
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many new families I'm super excited so
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many emails have been coming in about it
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that's amazing it's it's it's it's good
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the community is clear the community
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really yeah coming together really
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coming together yeah no I'm I'm so
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excited to go tomorrow night yeah it's
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going to
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be a great way to to end off the Year
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this year has been really really
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impactful I tell you the past couple
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weeks we did what was it at Tor we were
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able to bring over a Thousand Paper
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Cranes folded by our very own producer
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Athena uh she uh diligently worked her
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fingers to the Bone just bleeding paper
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cuts all up and down all the all the
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digits you know just just doing
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everything she can
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aact make it
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anywhere we still have your pterodactyl
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it travels us it's a bigan oh it's a big
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you did a big it looks much more like a
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pterodactyl than it does a crane that's
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hilarious that's so funny but um I know
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we're going to have Christmas ornaments
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that we're going to be selling hopefully
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to fundraise for these things to keep
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them going next year at the trans family
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dinner so we're going to have those each
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stuff with like little Christmas ball
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little um colored cranes we've got the
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green and the red and the white we've
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got the trans colored ones obviously and
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some other things so hopefully we'll
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have those and just spreading that
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little bit of magic so I don't know
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aesome don't mean to plug the the Sal
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stuff but we definitely we got to plug
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that Sal plug away plug away um but no
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and then also the other thing that we
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got to do is we got to be a part of the
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transgender information and empowerment
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Summit a couple weeks back we got to
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travel up to Richmond again Athena came
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with us uh producer Tai came with us we
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had our uh Heather ston who's been on
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the podcast before is uh one of our
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directors our events director came up
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and helped us put all pull all these
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different things and we actually got to
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shoot a documentary film it's a really
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little short film Melissa you know cuz
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you helped us you let us borrow all the
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wonderful audio equipment that we
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couldn't take all of this stuff you know
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um but you let us uh uh borrow the
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microphones and we're hopefully going to
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be debuting that next week so that'll go
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live and we'll be able to watch that and
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it's it's just stories that we caught
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from people going to these different
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events cuz it it was an all day event
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they had name change clinics they had
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individual work shops where they were
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teaching people about how to empower
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themselves how to ID how to access
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certain Medical Care oh wow there were
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uh trans Elders in abundance just
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walking around just being able to we got
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some interviews with some really truly
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powerful people um and the advice that
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they gave was the type of advice that
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comes from experience but also we had
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the the the advice of people who were
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very young young trans non-binary folks
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who are like this is what I'm doing and
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uh people of different Faith backgrounds
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and I'm just really excited the way that
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it came out and I hope
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that we'll we'll put it out through
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talking transparency so if you're
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listening check uh check us out next
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week hopefully we'll have another
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episode we're actually going to have I
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believe Alex wind CP is going to be on
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so that's going to be very exciting and
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then also you'll be able to check out
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that documentary exciting and learn all
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about how to empower yourself I love
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that I'm so glad it went really well um
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and then today in DC there was a rally
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at the Supreme Court because of you know
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scetti hearing but there was uh I've
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seen videos today which there was a lot
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of people out there in front of the
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Supreme Court um protesting and making
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their voices heard for the trans
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community and so that always make it
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always fills my heart because you know
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people showed up it wasn't it wasn't
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small it wasn't like a small group of
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people it was it was a a nice size
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protest out there so um so that was
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awesome I think that was fantastic I
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mean I wish we didn't have to do that
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but at least people are getting out
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there and um and making sure that they
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they Supreme Court knows that
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as
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conservative um Supreme Court Justices
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we expect you to read the
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law um and we expect you to give
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decisions that are um just and that
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we're not going to go quietly because
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y'all heard about South Korea right no
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what happened South Korea is in martial
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law France's government South Korea is
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not in martial law nah-uh cuz they're
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that guy tried to put South Korea in
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martial law and the people were like
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nah-uh everybody in Parliament showed up
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and and voted against the martial law
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like and put the order like said no and
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it like that I mean like that it was
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that fast well that's good I know and
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then what I said the French government
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went voted no confidence so they're in a
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wreck yeah and Germany's still in a
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wreck for the most part yeah um speaking
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of Here Comes the usfg sorry yeah uh um
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and then did y'all hear about the the
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the um quote
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assassination um today oh yeah the yes
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the good news yeah that guy with that
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there's a free freed up $10 million
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salary out there folks for the CEO of
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the United uh what is it United United
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healthare Healthcare uhhuh who his
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legacy will be that they deny 32% of
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their claims
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um their patience they they
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screw they just screw people over for
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their and get their stock BuyBacks and
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their [ __ ] bonuses and his $10
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million salary at 50 years old off the
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[ __ ] backs of working people here's
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the weirdest thing when I started doing
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research into it because they said that
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he was the CEO of United Healthcare M
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turns out United Healthcare is one
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corporate entity within the United
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Healthcare Group and there another CEO
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of United Health that's why I was like I
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searched I was like the United
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Healthcare CEO I wanted to find out
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information about him prior to the
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assassination and found out that like
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it's just such a large conglomeration of
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transnational organizations that it's
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just one of multiple $10 million CEO
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salaries yeah no 100% never mind all of
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the dividends that they give out to
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their stockholders every single quarter
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and they do that only one way yep
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literally through the lifeblood of
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people who they deny care to and it's uh
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an overcharge listen if I was on the
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street I didn't see anything listen I
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don't ever Advocate violence but I also
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feel like they Advocate violence yeah I
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mean here's I mean listen we're going
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the [ __ ] around and find out stages man
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like people are tired no that's people
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are sick literally sick and tired that's
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that's for real I
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mean you don't survive the kind of life
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I've had without knowing
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when something when a Situation's become
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more dangerous
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yep and there has because of the
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election because of the validation of
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the rhetoric yep and and the people
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behind it there has been a
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significant escalation yeah um there are
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people that are more empowered than they
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were before there are people that are
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more scared and more desperate and more
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desperate than they were before
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um perfect really good example if the
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circling jet will ever stop
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circling um so now I've owned uh firearm
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for a very long time now mhm um but I
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never felt the need to go get my
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concealed sure me either yep but I just
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applied for it this last weekend yeah I
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know but I same same right yeah yep yep
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same
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um and that is
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because I can see where myself and my
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family mhm are in more danger and how
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the
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escalation um and the uh validation of
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creating that danger is is there
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um there's much more of that mhm um and
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so there's a much higher chance now that
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when I'm out and about somebody will
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feel like it's okay
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mhm to come do something dangerous to my
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family well it's what it's the
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inevitable outcome when you have like I
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grew up in a country that we were told
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no one is above the law yeah but now we
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literally have a president who's guilty
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on dozens of counts who are just going
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to get away with it above the law well
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when you have government validated
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stochastic terrorism yep with all
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removal of consequence
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and and and that's it's the
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disintegration of the imagined order
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folks the social contract if you will
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the social contracts are expiring it's
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frayed mhm it's ripped it's on fire it's
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smoking literally yes yeah literally so
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um so yeah so that happened today and
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I'm like I the amount of no [ __ ] given
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I'm seeing on the people posting about
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this is making my Frosty little heart so
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warm you know what I mean like cuz I
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just feel like we're just so over it I
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mean I short little story I went to my
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insurance broker my company insurance
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broker today who has just been making
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money off of me for the last like 12
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years and I've never like held his foot
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to the fire about like you know I just
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renew every year and never I haven't
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literally seen the man in a freaking
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decade but um I took a look at you know
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I got my health insurance premiums for
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the company or renewing in January and I
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just looked at it and I was like you
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know I probably should I don't know how
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I eventually got on this plan but I
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probably I should probably look and just
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see what else is out there and make sure
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that I'm not just like screwing myself
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you know or the people with like good
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you know coverage like there if there's
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better coverage or whatever sure so I go
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see this dude and right away within I
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don't know three minutes of talking to
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him
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I knew he was a conservative what gave
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it away well I mean he's in the
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financial services industry number one I
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mean um it was when I said I uh that
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when I told him that we pay 100% of our
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employees healthc care premiums and he
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looked at me and was
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like oh you why do you pay 100% not 50%
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and I was like yeah and I said because
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we believe in our employees having
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Health
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Care um because I believe that we should
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all have Healthcare
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Universal um Healthcare and he went well
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respectfully all agreed to disagree and
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I was
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like okay ding ding ding Republican how
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can a human being say that oh oh listen
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if I recapped half of this
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conversation with you you would you
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would be like Melissa I mean I
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definitely got in my oh man
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he I definitely uh tested him for sure
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and he was not accustomed to that um and
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and in the end I basically like got up
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you know put my coat on and I shook his
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hand and I was like hey steuart I said
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you know I just you know thank you for
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taking the time with me um you know as
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soon as I find another you know broker
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insurance broker that is not a
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republican um I will definitely be you
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know moving my account over to them um
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but until that time you know thank you
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for managing our you know company's
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plans but I just wanted to let you know
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like that that would and he was like
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uh well Melissa I don't what how does
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that have I mean can we talk about that
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and I was like sure and and I mean so we
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just ended up I mean I having this
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conversation about how he was just
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[ __ ]
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stunned that I would even that I just
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would even
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consider not doing business with someone
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another business because of their how
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they vote and I was
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like that's the problem
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steuart y'all are so used to that not
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being an issue and guess what it's going
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to be an issue yeah cuz they escalated
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mhm it's like excuse me Stuart are are
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you okay with like police going door too
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and rounding up illegal immigrants in
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our neighborhood we're in our city MH
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yeah and then and yeah but it's but he
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he you know but the financial and I was
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like uhuh yeah there's two kinds of
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people people who vote for their wallet
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and people who vote for people I vote
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for people you vote for your wallet
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steuart I that's the problem
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that's the problem and so um he could
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not he just couldn't believe it and and
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I was like yeah like I mean already as
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it is this
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um I I look at these these vultures
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really I mean I'm sitting there with
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insurance like with an insurance broker
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you know who has literally been making
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money off of you know
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zero work zero I do I zero I process
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when I I add and delete my own employees
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with CA like you know what I mean like
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he literally does zero work and is
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like but you would stop doing business
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with me because I'm a
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republican yes I said did you vote
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Republican well I have voted yes I've
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you know both voted both sides I said oh
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did you vote a republican this last this
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last election
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so caught off guard like with such
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direct questions like that you know what
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I mean and he's like well yes I yes I
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did and then has the audacity to
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say
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Melissa I believe in
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abortion and you know it just shows how
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much you don't know me because I have a
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non my my child is non-binary
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oh God and I looked at
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him and before you were just a bad
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person now you're the devil literally I
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literally looked at him and I was like
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you should refrain from
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tokenizing yourself like your uh
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tokenizing your child and um tokenizing
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your your
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um uh your your supposed support for
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women um like because you have you know
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a wife
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um you
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vote against the very people you
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Proclaim to
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love because it's about economics
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steuart like and it's not even about
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economics let's be real mhm like we're
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talking about someone who ostensibly has
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like is in like related to financial
00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:54.789
services like his his job is to look at
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numbers and to run numbers you know
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exactly you should be able to understand
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tariffs uhhuh Stuart mhm are you like
00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.390
are you what is wrong with you what
00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:07.230
literally that was me walking out of his
00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:08.950
office I as I'm walking out of his
00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:10.630
office I was like yeah and also I really
00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:12.470
do hope that my small business is still
00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:15.070
open thanks to your vote because of how
00:24:15.080 --> 00:24:16.830
the tariffs are going to affect my small
00:24:16.840 --> 00:24:19.510
business in a couple years Stuart so
00:24:19.520 --> 00:24:23.310
like I mean he I left no I mean look
00:24:23.320 --> 00:24:25.789
here's the deal he's my broker on record
00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:28.510
he has to I don't give a [ __ ] what I
00:24:28.520 --> 00:24:31.029
said to him today he has a job that he
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is obligated to do and he will do it he
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will do what I asked him to do today and
00:24:37.399 --> 00:24:39.389
then I can't wait until I'm going to
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reach out to Harbor and um find uh the
00:24:42.520 --> 00:24:46.470
Hampton Roads um uh the lgbtq plus like
00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:48.430
Chamber of Commerce yes the
00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.070
hrb yep so to find someone that can
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handle like cuz I literally all I need
00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:57.029
is a broker change but anyways that was
00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:59.630
my little not not short short story well
00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:01.190
we could talk about this off podcast but
00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:02.510
I might know
00:25:02.520 --> 00:25:05.470
somebody okay all right good um but
00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:08.990
anyways um so yeah so [ __ ] insurance
00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.870
people right now I don't like it's a
00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:13.389
mess um so what else happened has
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happened
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um Sarah
00:25:17.399 --> 00:25:20.110
McBride oh goodness yes we were off last
00:25:20.120 --> 00:25:21.470
week so we didn't get a chance to talk
00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:23.549
about get a chance to talk about that
00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:25.269
but uh it's a great segue from talking
00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.350
about Stuart who voted you know
00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:29.269
Republican despite having a non-binary
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child there is a cognitive dissonance
00:25:31.520 --> 00:25:33.190
for a lot of Republicans that they don't
00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:34.070
understand that what we're really
00:25:34.080 --> 00:25:35.830
talking about is equal protection to
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bring it back to scetti which is a very
00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:40.110
broad topic but it's also like they're
00:25:40.120 --> 00:25:42.269
going to make Sarah McBride the the
00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:44.789
whipping girl the example yeah they're
00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:46.630
going to try to humiliate and denigrate
00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:48.110
and take everything they can away from
00:25:48.120 --> 00:25:50.950
her and I have mixed feelings because I
00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:53.269
saw how people responded on the left you
00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:54.710
know when she was her little statement
00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:56.029
did you see her statement and she's come
00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:57.470
out publicly and talked about it a
00:25:57.480 --> 00:25:58.830
couple times at this where she's like
00:25:58.840 --> 00:26:00.190
you know I'm not here to focus on
00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:01.870
bathrooms I'm here to focus on issues
00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:04.950
that delawarians care about very
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:06.710
Centrist very like I'm not going to
00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:08.389
fight this
00:26:08.399 --> 00:26:11.149
fight and that's pissed off a lot of
00:26:11.159 --> 00:26:13.750
people people want a hero they want a
00:26:13.760 --> 00:26:17.070
warrior MH but to quote Homer you know
00:26:17.080 --> 00:26:18.590
show me a hero and I'll show you a
00:26:18.600 --> 00:26:20.870
tragedy mhm the reason why they're
00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:22.710
playing this game is cuz they understand
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:25.029
they can s censure her they can give
00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:26.789
rules violations they can stack that up
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:28.510
and try to strip her of her seat and her
00:26:28.520 --> 00:26:30.190
power absolutely and they know that
00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:31.630
every single time that they distract
00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:33.310
from from her actually being able to
00:26:33.320 --> 00:26:35.149
like give constructive input or all
00:26:35.159 --> 00:26:36.830
these other different things they're
00:26:36.840 --> 00:26:38.710
going to problematize her to those
00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:40.310
moderate voters who may or may not be
00:26:40.320 --> 00:26:41.510
like well I think we just don't want to
00:26:41.520 --> 00:26:44.149
deal with this issue with our
00:26:44.159 --> 00:26:46.470
representative and that's what she's
00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:48.549
she's trying to fight for because she
00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.350
wants to take power right I see it as
00:26:51.360 --> 00:26:53.350
like we need to give her grace right
00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:55.149
because disgrace is being heaped upon
00:26:55.159 --> 00:26:57.830
her shoulders they're trying to disgrace
00:26:57.840 --> 00:27:00.909
her so so we have to dig deep and F
00:27:00.919 --> 00:27:02.029
understand that she's not going to come
00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:03.510
out and fight every single battle she
00:27:03.520 --> 00:27:05.350
has to pick those battles now it's the
00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:07.590
same as I look keep her goal in mind she
00:27:07.600 --> 00:27:10.669
does yeah not not cut off her no she
00:27:10.679 --> 00:27:13.350
accomplish and not spend all of her
00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:15.630
energy fighting their fight which is
00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.310
exactly what they want they want Obama
00:27:18.320 --> 00:27:20.950
it was the same thing with Barack Obama
00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.750
right he as a the first black President
00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:25.310
coming in they wanted everything to be
00:27:25.320 --> 00:27:26.549
about that and and that's what they're
00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:28.510
doing to her they want everything to
00:27:28.520 --> 00:27:31.590
about her being transer that's right and
00:27:31.600 --> 00:27:34.029
not about her being a good
00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:36.549
representative that was elected by the
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.549
People by the people to represent the
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:43.990
people of Delaware mhm um and and their
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:47.509
interests and I actually think it's
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:50.389
stronger of her to not play into that
00:27:50.399 --> 00:27:52.549
game I know that everybody would like to
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:54.950
you know this big stand and and and some
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:58.310
sort of big display but that's that's
00:27:58.320 --> 00:28:00.110
exactly what what they want they want
00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:03.870
that prod they want the the blow up cuz
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:05.870
then they can just use that as more
00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:09.870
ammunition and invalidate oh um all all
00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:11.870
of these things I think her staying
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.389
focused and staying on task and spending
00:28:15.399 --> 00:28:18.669
as little time playing their game as
00:28:18.679 --> 00:28:23.029
possible um is as smart of her and I
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:25.509
think it's it's harder for her to do
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:26.590
than to give
00:28:26.600 --> 00:28:31.350
in pressure from both sides to basically
00:28:31.360 --> 00:28:33.110
be this person that she probably even
00:28:33.120 --> 00:28:35.710
isn't right but let's be real let's be
00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:37.509
the the battlefield that she's on right
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.269
now is every single invocation of her
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:43.070
name every time she speaks having
00:28:43.080 --> 00:28:45.950
everyone deadname her misgender
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.909
herh but it's also as much as hard as
00:28:48.919 --> 00:28:50.430
that's going to be it's also a radical
00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:52.310
act because every time a Democrat
00:28:52.320 --> 00:28:55.389
correctly uses her real name genders her
00:28:55.399 --> 00:28:57.470
correctly every time a republican slips
00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:59.789
up m mhm and refers to her with the
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.110
right prouns everything it is is a
00:29:02.120 --> 00:29:04.190
testament to her resilience to who she
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:06.470
really is and also a testament to their
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.350
ignorance and their hate right on the
00:29:08.360 --> 00:29:10.350
record over and over and over and over
00:29:10.360 --> 00:29:12.549
and over and over and over again and if
00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:13.750
they think that that's going to help
00:29:13.760 --> 00:29:15.909
them now in the future if that's
00:29:15.919 --> 00:29:18.509
something that's going to be good um
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:20.789
then they they yeah they're they they're
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:22.389
they're kidding themselves but I guess
00:29:22.399 --> 00:29:23.909
the issue bigger and I don't mean to to
00:29:23.919 --> 00:29:25.430
cut you off the bigger issue isn't just
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:26.789
what they're doing to Sarah McBride but
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.230
the fact that Nancy Nancy mace I was
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:30.950
just about to say it's nanc she's going
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.870
for all federal employ places of
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:35.549
employment you know all the different uh
00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:37.110
cour houses all the different federal
00:29:37.120 --> 00:29:39.549
Offices and to restrict uh the rights of
00:29:39.559 --> 00:29:41.909
transgender people in general uh and
00:29:41.919 --> 00:29:44.269
that's the sort of thing that I don't
00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:46.549
know that's not that's not a game and
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:47.870
when you talk about someone like steuart
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:49.509
who's like oh well I have a non-binary
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:52.070
child yeah but you voted for that St
00:29:52.080 --> 00:29:54.310
Stuart you voted to take away equal
00:29:54.320 --> 00:29:56.269
protection to separate bathrooms to give
00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:57.750
different water fountains to take away
00:29:57.760 --> 00:29:59.350
their health insurance to make sure that
00:29:59.360 --> 00:30:01.750
your child struggles to get employment
00:30:01.760 --> 00:30:03.509
to get housing so that they can be
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:05.230
discriminated in their workplace and now
00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:07.630
you're just shocked that someone would
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:09.230
even remotely think to myself I don't
00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:12.029
want to do business with you mhm yeah
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:13.350
but I digress I'm sorry what were you
00:30:13.360 --> 00:30:16.310
saying no no Nancy no 100 like my big
00:30:16.320 --> 00:30:18.070
thing is that this is all for stunt and
00:30:18.080 --> 00:30:23.710
show because Nancy knows that Sarah and
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:26.350
Nancy both have their own private
00:30:26.360 --> 00:30:29.029
bathrooms and their offices
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:33.029
so she made this an
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:36.350
issue to make it just an issue to go
00:30:36.360 --> 00:30:38.669
into the Federal Building like that you
00:30:38.679 --> 00:30:41.590
know what I'm saying like she knows that
00:30:41.600 --> 00:30:43.269
do she knows that they have P like their
00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:46.029
own bathrooms Nancy literally did this
00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:48.990
for publicity and it's it's it's
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:51.630
abhorent what I'm seeing and I'm I mean
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:53.149
just to think about like her pushing a
00:30:53.159 --> 00:30:55.509
bathroom for federal facilities just
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.590
goes oh okay well that'll pass through
00:30:57.600 --> 00:30:59.310
the house and that'll probably pass
00:30:59.320 --> 00:31:00.909
through the Senate and of course it'll
00:31:00.919 --> 00:31:02.430
get signed Now by Trump like and
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:03.990
there'll be no justice department to
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:06.310
come right there'll be most of the
00:31:06.320 --> 00:31:08.470
federal Appel courts are conservative
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:10.029
there'll be no scotus challenge there'll
00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:12.389
be no way to overturn it uh and we will
00:31:12.399 --> 00:31:14.310
basically be stuck with you know
00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:16.590
institutionalized discrimination and
00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:18.669
oppression of trans people and it's
00:31:18.679 --> 00:31:19.950
something that is very real it's
00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:21.509
something that we all have to contend
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.110
with that is going to very likely happen
00:31:23.120 --> 00:31:24.990
in different ways and forms and we have
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.430
to hope that the Supreme Court who is
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:29.789
hearing the scetti case today who's
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:31.710
heard it is going to over the next
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:34.389
several months watch this cruelty play
00:31:34.399 --> 00:31:37.149
out M and then they have to decide is
00:31:37.159 --> 00:31:39.190
this Civil Society is this what the
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:40.909
Constitution prescrib is this what we
00:31:40.919 --> 00:31:42.909
want to go forward I have to hope that
00:31:42.919 --> 00:31:45.909
there are enough people that say this is
00:31:45.919 --> 00:31:47.950
not tenable because the other thing that
00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:49.310
really shocked me we talk about the news
00:31:49.320 --> 00:31:50.509
that's come out the past couple week is
00:31:50.519 --> 00:31:53.590
the the potential kicking out of 15,000
00:31:53.600 --> 00:31:57.029
active duty military service members um
00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:58.470
my understanding was that the department
00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.549
event said there was like 42,000 people
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.110
that were short from the recruitment
00:32:02.120 --> 00:32:04.389
Drive last year that we like to be at
00:32:04.399 --> 00:32:06.549
full Readiness so like to kick 15,000
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.710
people out it's not just hurting our
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:09.669
already it's not just hurting our
00:32:09.679 --> 00:32:11.029
military there's all sorts of arguments
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:12.870
about that there's cost there was some
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:14.870
assessment of all the costs it's
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.269
upending tens of like thousands of
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:19.310
people's lives their their safe but it's
00:32:19.320 --> 00:32:22.509
also sending a message that we are
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:26.029
unproductive useless dangerous bodies
00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:28.549
that even our pres presence as chaff for
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:31.950
the military machine yeah is is unwanted
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:34.509
unnecessary and bad and what that for
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:36.389
boess and what that shadow cast over
00:32:36.399 --> 00:32:39.830
every single else is not only are we are
00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:42.230
we not supposed to be there us being
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.629
there is a negative thing but the
00:32:44.639 --> 00:32:46.350
argument is literally that cutting
00:32:46.360 --> 00:32:49.029
15,000 people from the military will
00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:51.710
make the military more
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.029
ready because of the people they're
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:56.149
cutting that's basically what they're
00:32:56.159 --> 00:32:58.590
basing the argument on so we can't we
00:32:58.600 --> 00:33:00.710
can't kid they they don't they're
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.870
devaluing us it's it's something like
00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:05.430
it's a part and parcel of getting ready
00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:08.629
to discard people right cre the
00:33:08.639 --> 00:33:10.710
perception that they're creating the
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:12.549
perception that that adding a trans
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:14.350
person to the equation is adding a net
00:33:14.360 --> 00:33:17.149
negative mhm well I mean to to to
00:33:17.159 --> 00:33:19.149
society and that and that's I mean the
00:33:19.159 --> 00:33:21.710
real scary part is that the uh if you go
00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:23.909
on the stock exchange you can buy shares
00:33:23.919 --> 00:33:26.430
in um what is it
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:30.629
cxw um for $21 a share which is private
00:33:30.639 --> 00:33:34.350
prison system oh goodness and um you
00:33:34.360 --> 00:33:35.950
know you buy you can buy your little
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.669
piece of you know slavery because that's
00:33:38.679 --> 00:33:40.710
what we have and that their stocks have
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:44.509
gone up 64% since the election because
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:46.710
they're private prisons and they like to
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:50.870
build private prisons and their stocks
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:54.070
again have gone up 64% just since the
00:33:54.080 --> 00:33:55.710
election do I need to bring up the
00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:58.549
bounty hunting in Texas the 10 ,000
00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:59.950
bounties where they're potentially
00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:02.110
paying people for reporting trans people
00:34:02.120 --> 00:34:04.470
in the bathroom MH and yep and I know
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:06.350
they they appli that to the prison in
00:34:06.360 --> 00:34:09.190
the country of the free yep oh yeah but
00:34:09.200 --> 00:34:10.869
you see for me it's also especially it's
00:34:10.879 --> 00:34:12.629
like oh let's take a trans woman and
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.030
force them into a Men's prison Aaron
00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:17.069
Reed did a an interesting article and
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:18.550
Analysis on what actually happens
00:34:18.560 --> 00:34:20.389
through interviews and like research
00:34:20.399 --> 00:34:22.829
statistically to trans women in prison
00:34:22.839 --> 00:34:24.990
and it's hell because it's either 23
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:26.790
hours a day of solitary confinement to
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:28.230
keep yourself safe
00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:31.550
mhm or non-stop rape yeah exactly like I
00:34:31.560 --> 00:34:33.349
hate to use just casually the word but
00:34:33.359 --> 00:34:34.950
like it's also the shock of it is kind
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:37.109
of important in this particular instance
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:38.710
because what we're talking about is like
00:34:38.720 --> 00:34:40.990
the utter destruction of people yeah the
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:43.190
devaluing of them their bodies their
00:34:43.200 --> 00:34:47.310
criminalization of them and uh I had a
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:49.430
conversation uh recently whether or not
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.230
this is a genocide mhm and I'd love to
00:34:52.240 --> 00:34:54.389
hear y'all's opinion because I don't
00:34:54.399 --> 00:34:55.829
know what the threshold is I certainly
00:34:55.839 --> 00:34:57.030
wouldn't call this a holocaust that's a
00:34:57.040 --> 00:34:59.310
very hisor historical specific term
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.349
that's way over both like but we talk
00:35:01.359 --> 00:35:04.630
about like cultural and social genocide
00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:07.630
like eraser of an entire group of people
00:35:07.640 --> 00:35:10.349
the the systematic devaluing of them and
00:35:10.359 --> 00:35:14.310
and and that is I don't know where no we
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:18.069
live in a society right now where our
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:19.870
government
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:23.030
um with clear support
00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:25.950
of a substantial amount of ignorant
00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:28.790
people are uh
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.870
uh basically trying to erase trans
00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:36.150
people's ability to exist in society
00:35:36.160 --> 00:35:39.349
everything from accessing Medical Care
00:35:39.359 --> 00:35:43.589
to literally being out in public
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.630
mhm
00:35:45.640 --> 00:35:48.390
um and it's
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:52.430
not one of the most frustrating Parts
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:56.150
about this whole scenario and anybody
00:35:56.160 --> 00:36:00.309
listening listen to this very
00:36:00.319 --> 00:36:02.670
carefully none of
00:36:02.680 --> 00:36:05.309
this not
00:36:05.319 --> 00:36:09.510
abortion not the attack on trans people
00:36:09.520 --> 00:36:13.790
has anything to do with anybody's
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:18.150
values all right when they stopped being
00:36:18.160 --> 00:36:21.390
able to motivate people to vote with
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:23.790
racism at the end of
00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:26.550
segregation they moved on to abortion
00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:30.230
and they moved on to the lgbtq
00:36:30.240 --> 00:36:32.430
community and when they stopped being
00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:34.150
able to motivate people to vote by
00:36:34.160 --> 00:36:37.030
attacking just the lgbtq community they
00:36:37.040 --> 00:36:40.150
centered in on trans people and
00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:44.349
specifically they centered in on trans
00:36:44.359 --> 00:36:46.750
kids and then they begin
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:49.710
attacking everybody related to
00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:51.910
them all right and does have anything to
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:53.550
do with their values or what they
00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:55.710
believe has everything to do with
00:36:55.720 --> 00:36:58.710
tricking dumb people into voting for
00:36:58.720 --> 00:37:00.230
them so they could take their money and
00:37:00.240 --> 00:37:02.750
they could keep control of their money
00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:05.510
yeah and that's what it's always been
00:37:05.520 --> 00:37:10.309
about and that's what it's about now so
00:37:10.319 --> 00:37:13.190
just anybody listening make sure you
00:37:13.200 --> 00:37:16.349
understand that this is not some moral
00:37:16.359 --> 00:37:19.349
justification this is not some religious
00:37:19.359 --> 00:37:23.109
edict none of that exists this is about
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:25.990
tricking you into voting your money
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.589
their way period end of story and they
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:30.990
don't care if they have to eliminate a
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:32.550
bunch of people to do it and they never
00:37:32.560 --> 00:37:34.270
have that's
00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:37.670
right so just to be clear
00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:40.069
mhm it's always about social and
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:42.510
economic control um I I I've said this
00:37:42.520 --> 00:37:44.069
before on the podcast I say it when I'm
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.589
talking with people all the time that it
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:47.950
wasn't until 1952 that loving be
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:49.510
Virginia was ruled and that it would
00:37:49.520 --> 00:37:50.550
used to actually be illegal for
00:37:50.560 --> 00:37:52.270
interracial marriage but that
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:54.390
interracial marriage still
00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:56.589
existed that those families that that
00:37:56.599 --> 00:38:00.390
love still found a way and that despite
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:01.990
everything that they're going to throw
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.589
at us they can they can take my name
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:06.109
they can put a wrong piece of it doesn't
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:08.630
change who I am they can do all sorts of
00:38:08.640 --> 00:38:10.069
different things to try to De like
00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:11.950
dehumanize and humiliate me but it won't
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:14.390
change the fact that I exist and that
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.950
I'm worthwhile and that all of my trans
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:21.550
siips they exist and they're worthwhile
00:38:21.560 --> 00:38:23.309
and not only that they're valuable and
00:38:23.319 --> 00:38:24.910
they're vital and they're unique because
00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:27.030
the thing about it is if you get to know
00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:29.990
trans people like actually get into the
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.270
community there's hardly a group of
00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:35.470
people in society who have to fight so
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:37.910
hard to find their own light and once
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.309
they do who are aren't just like
00:38:40.319 --> 00:38:43.230
overjoyed and wanting to spread it m who
00:38:43.240 --> 00:38:45.430
are like finally finally I'm not
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:48.349
drinking salt water finally I I have I
00:38:48.359 --> 00:38:51.910
can go like and to think about the come
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:53.990
back to it the 15,000 military service
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.150
people those are some of our best people
00:38:56.160 --> 00:38:57.790
those are people who for For Better or
00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:58.950
Worse however you feel about the
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.710
military-- industrial complex however
00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:02.870
you feel about imperialism American
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:05.030
imperialism these are people who said I
00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:06.950
want to live a life of service who have
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:11.190
been highly trained educated we've spent
00:39:11.200 --> 00:39:13.349
tax dollars on them to be in the
00:39:13.359 --> 00:39:15.470
positions they're in and then the then
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.270
they're like we just don't like your
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:20.390
identity so [ __ ] off that's what the
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:22.790
military is doing like it's disgusting
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:25.430
like it's absolutely it's anything they
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.670
do can do to keep that vote train
00:39:27.680 --> 00:39:29.829
running yes absolutely what it is any
00:39:29.839 --> 00:39:31.950
anything they can do if if if one thing
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:33.430
cools off then they bring it up
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:36.270
somewhere else as many bills as they can
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.470
bring up as much Focus I mean how many
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:42.710
hundreds of bills were brought up based
00:39:42.720 --> 00:39:46.470
on just lgbtq topics M I brought that up
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:49.030
to Stuart in trans topics alone how many
00:39:49.040 --> 00:39:50.589
hundreds of bills were brought up about
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:55.470
any other topic right um you know it
00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:58.390
it's and and and that's what it is
00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:02.390
that's and it's disgusting mhm it is um
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:04.349
and in the end of the
00:40:04.359 --> 00:40:08.390
day it'll fail mhm no no matter you know
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:11.470
no matter how ugly it looks it'll fail
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:12.829
yeah
00:40:12.839 --> 00:40:15.349
um it might get uglier before it gets
00:40:15.359 --> 00:40:17.030
better but oh and it will yeah I think
00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:19.270
it will it will I mean it it might it it
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.510
it'll get uglier before it gets better
00:40:22.520 --> 00:40:25.349
um and there are desperate people out
00:40:25.359 --> 00:40:30.550
there mhm there are are um I
00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:33.309
mean I'm not going to lie November was a
00:40:33.319 --> 00:40:36.349
lot was a hard month for me yeah yeah
00:40:36.359 --> 00:40:39.670
you know losing the election was
00:40:39.680 --> 00:40:44.550
like a better thing than yeah yeah in
00:40:44.560 --> 00:40:47.910
the month yeah of November you know
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:54.430
um the uh just the the amount
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:59.270
of anti-trans rhetoric mhm I mean how
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:00.390
difficult it was to watch a football
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:01.990
game I stopped watching so many football
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.550
games something that I love mhm just
00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:06.430
because of the hateful
00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:09.870
commercials being broadcast um by the
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:13.430
Trump campaign oh mhm oh yeah because
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.470
they were it was all the anti-trans ads
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:18.270
yeah but uh anti-trans football ads
00:41:18.280 --> 00:41:20.230
during football yeah anti anti-trans ads
00:41:20.240 --> 00:41:22.589
during football G so obsessed with us
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:24.430
yeah yeah it was it was it was before
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:26.710
the election yep right before the
00:41:26.720 --> 00:41:28.510
election before the election they did
00:41:28.520 --> 00:41:31.870
that on purpose but
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:36.309
uh you know the the election
00:41:36.319 --> 00:41:41.950
and um the ramp up of
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:44.270
just them doing the things that they
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:47.430
said they were going to do yeah yeah um
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:50.069
people not believing them yeah certainly
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:54.109
has had a huge impact mhm on the mental
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:56.630
health especially of my child yes of
00:41:56.640 --> 00:41:58.190
course um
00:41:58.200 --> 00:42:02.670
um that was very difficult that has
00:42:02.680 --> 00:42:05.710
changed a lot of things and
00:42:05.720 --> 00:42:08.829
Dynamics in our life very quickly yeah
00:42:08.839 --> 00:42:13.069
you know MH
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.710
um go homeschooling now okay so you are
00:42:16.720 --> 00:42:18.349
homeschooling now that that's one of
00:42:18.359 --> 00:42:20.069
them I
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:21.710
mean
00:42:21.720 --> 00:42:25.670
uh increased Mental Health Care
00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:28.750
happening now on
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:33.349
mhm so you know then then Thanksgiving
00:42:33.359 --> 00:42:37.030
was like a bummer oh so my my
00:42:37.040 --> 00:42:40.589
grandmother's had breast cancer for 12
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:44.309
years now she 12 years now um and and
00:42:44.319 --> 00:42:47.510
then you know yeah they stopped
00:42:47.520 --> 00:42:50.910
treatment put her on hospice oh yeah and
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:53.430
so drove the family
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.670
out you know for Grandma's last
00:42:55.680 --> 00:42:58.030
Thanksgiving Grand Thanksgiving
00:42:58.040 --> 00:42:59.990
it's a bummer yeah so that was a bummer
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.390
that was how we I know we ended November
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:04.270
so are we glad it's December I'm a bit
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:06.790
ready for December I know I've been like
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:08.549
honestly I've been I've been turtling
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:09.950
like it and it's hard because it comes
00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:13.349
with this guilt right cuz like you feel
00:43:13.359 --> 00:43:15.510
especially with the way things are going
00:43:15.520 --> 00:43:18.630
like man I should be making my videos I
00:43:18.640 --> 00:43:21.870
should be doing these things but then at
00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:23.790
the same time you have to you know at
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:28.589
least at some point um whoever you are
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:30.230
uh when you find yourself in that
00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:32.750
situation where you've you've just been
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:36.069
hurt a lot mhm you kind of have to let
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:39.510
that let yourself do that like yeah
00:43:39.520 --> 00:43:43.549
absolutely um and so but I I am feeling
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:47.390
better going into December you know and
00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:50.549
doing all of the trauma response things
00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:54.670
y right yep yep um and uh and going into
00:43:54.680 --> 00:43:57.990
the new year and you know just
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.829
continuing to bring that fight up but
00:44:00.839 --> 00:44:02.430
also understanding that there's whole
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:06.670
new it's a whole new changing Dynamic y
00:44:06.680 --> 00:44:08.630
you know there's there's a lot of not
00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:11.190
knowing there's know what to expect but
00:44:11.200 --> 00:44:12.990
not know like it's like we know what to
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:14.710
expect but we also don't know what to
00:44:14.720 --> 00:44:16.430
expect because there's no guard rails
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:18.430
this time there's no guard rails how far
00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:20.390
can they really yeah how far can you
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:23.870
really take it take it yeah um you know
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.069
all of those things in involved and so
00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:29.430
you know that's a dynamic that can
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:33.349
change very very quickly you know yeah
00:44:33.359 --> 00:44:36.309
like like I said you're even preparing
00:44:36.319 --> 00:44:39.430
yourself for interacting socially right
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:42.430
differently mhm absolutely oh yeah I
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:44.270
feel like I am more stifled than I've
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:45.750
ever been despite the fact I rant and
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:48.270
run my mouth on this podcast I do find
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:50.790
it very difficult to communicate with
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:53.470
people because there's so wild because
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:54.950
you said the uncertainty wildly
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:58.950
different levels of um response there
00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.309
are some folks that I talk to who are
00:45:01.319 --> 00:45:03.750
well yeah things will be okay including
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.190
trans and queer folks there are folks
00:45:06.200 --> 00:45:08.270
that I'm talking to who have already
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:10.470
moved you know from Virginia which is a
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:13.870
relatively safe State um all things
00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:16.109
considered out the safest state um and
00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:17.750
then there are folks who are you know
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:19.870
freaking out who are hoarding medicines
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:21.990
who are doing everything they can
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.470
because they're afraid of being go loed
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:26.990
like like for lack of a better term like
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.349
like they're afraid of like them
00:45:28.359 --> 00:45:30.150
knocking door to door and coming for
00:45:30.160 --> 00:45:31.870
them or arresting them out in public
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:33.630
because they're Trans in public and
00:45:33.640 --> 00:45:35.230
being forced into a prison or them
00:45:35.240 --> 00:45:37.390
having to flee um so there's these
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.390
different levels of fear and the the
00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:41.349
uncertainty I think is part and parcel
00:45:41.359 --> 00:45:42.549
of like you what you were saying the
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:44.510
stochastic terrorism because they want
00:45:44.520 --> 00:45:46.309
to encourage people to do the work for
00:45:46.319 --> 00:45:48.950
them not just the aggressors but also
00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:52.990
the oppressed many folks um are we're
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:55.589
being tenderized so to speak we're being
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:58.829
pulverized uh uh and beaten up and it's
00:45:58.839 --> 00:46:01.150
very very hard to watch the
00:46:01.160 --> 00:46:02.710
conversations I've had over the past
00:46:02.720 --> 00:46:05.230
couple weeks with trans people my transs
00:46:05.240 --> 00:46:07.750
who are scared for their lives for their
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.109
ability to have hormones for their
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:10.990
ability to succeed to be able to have
00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:14.109
their jobs um uh statistic uh I know we
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:15.510
were talking very specifically about
00:46:15.520 --> 00:46:16.990
things that have happened locally and
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:18.790
people that we know people like like
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.710
people in your family people that that
00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:22.510
we love but then also like the Trevor
00:46:22.520 --> 00:46:24.230
Project said that their reports of
00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:27.190
suicide and calls were up over 700% yeah
00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:29.430
the reports to crisis hotlines the calls
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:31.790
to their crisis hotlines up over 700%
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:33.910
spiked over the I don't think I don't
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:35.549
think that a lot of conservatives are
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.470
really understanding what they've done
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:40.150
because it's not just a winning it's not
00:46:40.160 --> 00:46:43.150
a game they they've stolen Hope from
00:46:43.160 --> 00:46:46.030
people they've really no one is coming
00:46:46.040 --> 00:46:48.030
to save us there is very little
00:46:48.040 --> 00:46:50.230
Battleground for us left there is just
00:46:50.240 --> 00:46:52.950
fear and I want so badly to tell people
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:55.190
that it's going to be okay that it's
00:46:55.200 --> 00:46:57.230
going but I can't I can't tell them that
00:46:57.240 --> 00:46:58.190
no
00:46:58.200 --> 00:47:00.309
so I I I don't even know maybe I'm
00:47:00.319 --> 00:47:01.950
messing up in this podcast saying that
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:03.910
you know publicly now publicly on a
00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:06.190
podcast but it's it's scary to me
00:47:06.200 --> 00:47:07.990
because I want so badly to say we're
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:09.950
going to be here but I don't know
00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:11.109
whether or not they're going to
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.309
persecute us for trying to affirm trans
00:47:13.319 --> 00:47:14.870
Youth and trying to create safe spaces
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:17.230
for Trans youth I don't know what is or
00:47:17.240 --> 00:47:18.710
isn't going to happen in the coming
00:47:18.720 --> 00:47:21.630
years we we we don't and and
00:47:21.640 --> 00:47:27.750
that's um it's an important thing
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:31.910
to you know acknowledge that that that
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:37.510
we don't know if it's going to be okay
00:47:37.520 --> 00:47:39.630
you know and maybe it's not maybe it's
00:47:39.640 --> 00:47:42.190
not going to be okay we know that we're
00:47:42.200 --> 00:47:45.829
going to fight it we know that we're
00:47:45.839 --> 00:47:46.870
going to
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:49.230
survive we know that trans people have
00:47:49.240 --> 00:47:51.390
always existed and they always will
00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:54.950
exist we know that that we will adapt as
00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:57.870
communities as families mhm we know that
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.589
we will do what we need to do to take
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:03.309
care of each other that's what we know
00:48:03.319 --> 00:48:05.589
we don't know that it's going to be okay
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:07.069
we don't know that people aren't going
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.190
to be hurt we don't know that it's that
00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:11.670
it's not going to become harder to be in
00:48:11.680 --> 00:48:13.470
public I mean we know that it already is
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:17.510
harder to be in public yeah um you
00:48:17.520 --> 00:48:21.349
know we we don't know any of those
00:48:21.359 --> 00:48:23.750
things what we do
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:25.750
know is
00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:29.150
that we will keep fighting we will keep
00:48:29.160 --> 00:48:31.309
fighting for each other we know we'll
00:48:31.319 --> 00:48:33.589
keep showing up we know we'll keep doing
00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:35.750
it scared we know we'll keep doing it
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:37.790
hurt we know we'll keep doing it when
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:39.710
it's not okay and we know we'll keep
00:48:39.720 --> 00:48:43.349
doing it until it is that's what we know
00:48:43.359 --> 00:48:44.910
that and one thing else I would add to
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.270
that is that now more than ever it is
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.069
vital that our allies show up in every
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:52.190
single sentence in every single moment
00:48:52.200 --> 00:48:53.109
in the same way we're talking about
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:54.870
Sarah McBride and how the Democrats
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:56.230
every single time they gender her
00:48:56.240 --> 00:48:59.390
correctly they use her name they are we
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need everyone in our community to be
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doing that I need the local restaurants
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and businesses to put out safe space
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signages I need us to get on the same
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page because we're not going to have the
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state or the federal government or the
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justice department or the appell at
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courts or any people that are going to
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come and and adjudicate justice so
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Justice will be found in those small
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moments Justice will be found in
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individuals choosing to act correctly to
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make the right decision to make people
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live rather than die to spread Joy Joy
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rather than hate to turn on a light
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rather than to spread Darkness well what
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was was one of my it's one of my
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favorite quotes mhm and I don't even
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know if if tolken actually wrote it or
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if it was just added in by the writers
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and and in the the first like animated
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movie but it's something Gandalf said
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and is something along the lines of of
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people think it takes great
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acts to keep or to to counter the
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darkness but that's not what I found
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I found it's the small
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kindnesses of regular people that keep
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the darkness of B
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mhm yeah I can agree with
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that that is that's where it is you know
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people people think their life is about
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big things mhm that it's about Grand
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actions that it's about the big
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events no trust me your life is made up
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of the cumulative decision
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the small kindnesses the little moments
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that's what makes a good life yeah when
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you make the small decisions well all
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right a mountain is not one big piece no
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it's a thousand tiny pieces tiny grains
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and and so is
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life and understanding that you can do
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all your big moments right and if you
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miss the small ones you will have a bad
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life you know and that's what's
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important to remember just like you were
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saying saying now that's what's
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important to remember now is it's not in
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the big things going on the way through
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this is found in the small things that
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we do for each other and with each other
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every day well and like trans family
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dinner like the trans family dinner
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which is a perfect like Circle back to
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the trans family dinner because that's
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legitimately where we're all going to
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be celebrate each other yep
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[Music]
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um you know do the things that you need
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to do to protect yourself and keep each
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other safe mhm but but show up for each
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other keep that
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strength and uh anything else going in I
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mean I'm excited about the dinner
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tomorrow I'm excited about all of the
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things that we have done I mean I think
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that's one of the most important things
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to remember you know we go back over
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that report that we we put out for the
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end of the year um how many
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meals we we've put out how many
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thousands of dollars and and how much
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help we've given the
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community um and and raised for the
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community because really that comes from
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all sorts of different places that that
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money um and that work that help um and
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and being able to share with other
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organizations um in the midst of
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everything that's been going on the last
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year you know know as a as a small
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little group we've been here fighting
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back and that's that's the example um of
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what we need going forward yeah and we
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just need to keep spreading that message
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um hopefully there's more dinners and
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and British Colombia and and and
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everywhere else that they could happen
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um and and and that'll
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be that that's that's how we win that's
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how we were always going to win yeah and
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if you want to help us do that go to kis
00:52:55.839 --> 00:52:58.109
coalition.com /d donate I'm sorry I have
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to do it I apologize have we literally
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have to because it it does take money it
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does take funding you can also join as a
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:05.990
member you can go to KES coalition.com
00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.990
membership to support us5 $10 a month
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:10.470
that enables us to continue to do this
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work to be able to fulfill trans wishes
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and to keep these trans family dinners
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going and the importance of it is is
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underscored by something we say every
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episode no yeah it's it's the most
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important thing it it it brings the joy
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mhm that will always defeat to hate mhm
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every time every time