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Welcome back, Truth Seekers.
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You are tuned in to the Truth Today with TNA, episode seven.
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Seven, and a lucky number seven it is.
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Now that we're seven episodes in, we're still standing, still talking, and we're serving as a public witness to some of this crazy news that's happening all around us every day.
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And like we discuss every episode, we are not moving on.
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We're not moving on.
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This is the thing we refuse to let disappear into the ether, the story, the moment, the outrage.
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We're hanging on and we're talking about it.
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We came across a story that we're gonna cover.
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It's coming out of Louisiana.
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It really should have a lot more people paying attention because it involves drones flying over one of the country's most sensitive military bases.
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In March 2026, multiple unauthorized drones entered restricted airspace over Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
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This isn't just any base.
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It houses nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and plays a major role in our national defense infrastructure.
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Reports indicate that there weren't just one or two drones.
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We're talking coordinated waves of drones, sometimes over a dozen at a time, hovering and returning, operating for days.
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The part that's most important here is that US defenses were unable to stop the drones, not because nothing was done, but because our response wasn't built for that kind of a threat.
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These drones are small, low-flying, and slow, which makes them hard for our traditional radar systems that are designed for missiles and aircraft to detect.
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Even more concerning is that these drones were resistant to our efforts to electronically jam them and showed signs of evasive behavior.
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This is what modern warfare now looks like.
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Low-cost, highly adaptable drone swarms that can overwhelm expensive and the very best military in the world.
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There were also reports of confusion over authority.
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Who can actually take these drones down and when?
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So even when there was this threat, the response was not immediate.
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The bigger picture is this probably wasn't random considering we're now in the middle of a war.
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What this incident really shows us is very simple.
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The battlefield has changed, and in some ways our defenses have not kept up.
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And we're not moving on.
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This is something that's happening, although few people are discussing it.
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It's something worthy of conversation and something that we need to keep talking about because it's incredibly upsetting.
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Another thing that I find to be absolutely heinous is the apparent fact that food is being weaponized against Americans.
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That's if we can even call what we're being sold and fed at the supermarket food.
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Please stop poisoning food.
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Please stop pushing fast food.
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Please stop thinking that we're too dumb to know that words that can't even be pronounced by scientists have any place in our hot sauce or applesauce or anything it is that we're eating.
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And to our listeners and viewers, please pay attention to what you eat and what you're feeding your families and loved ones.
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It's really bad.
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It's really bad what they're putting in our food.
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It's really bad what they're spraying on our crops.
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It's really bad the things that are being passed off as fertilizer.
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It's really, really, really bad.
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And we're not moving on.
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But sometimes we have to stay uplifted and we have to make efforts to do so.
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So we're gonna share a feel-good inspirational story that we came across.
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And it's not just inspiring, it's deeply revealing about how systems work and who gets overlooked inside of them.
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This is the story of Dr.
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Jay Taylor Allen, who spent years working as a janitor at Yale New Haven Hospital.
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She was cleaning patient rooms, taking out trash, moving quietly through the same hallways where physicians, surgeons, and administrators were making life-altering decisions.
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But she was largely unseen.
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And it's precisely this contrast that makes the story so powerful.
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Because Dr.
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Shay wasn't disconnected from the system.
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She was inside of it.
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She was observing it every day, understanding how it functioned, seeing how patients were treated, but from a position where people don't typically assume insight, authority, or even presence.
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And that invisibility is a theme in her story.
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Everything shifts for her one day when her mother became seriously ill.
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And what's so difficult about this part is that her mother wasn't being taken seriously by her doctors.
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And at one point her symptoms were being framed as psychological, which unfortunately is something we still see happen with women all the time, especially women of color.
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And when patients don't fit a certain mold or aren't advocating in the right way.
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Right.
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And thank goodness, instead of accepting that, Dr.
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Shea did something that was both incredibly bold and strategic.
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She reached out directly to the CEO of the hospital, the very building where she worked every day, the offices she was cleaning, and she advocated for her mom in a way that forced attention and demanded accountability.
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And this is the inflection point.
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Because of Dr.
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Shay's efforts, her mom ultimately received a proper diagnosis.
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But this led to Shay realizing that advocacy is what actually changes outcomes.
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Being willing to speak up, especially when you're not supposed to, can alter the trajectory of many people's lives.
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And this realization has become her calling.
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She decided she wanted to become a physician, not only to practice medicine, but to be the kind of doctor who actually listens, who sees people fully, and who never dismisses them based on assumptions or their ethnicity or race.
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But the path there wasn't easy.
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This is where the story becomes even more important.
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She applied to medical school and got rejected over and over again, more than 20 times.
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And at one point, she was even told by an academic advisor that they just didn't see her becoming a doctor in the cards.
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What a travesty that that's what advisors are telling people out there who can come in and change the world and truly make a difference.
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This is such a defining moment in the story because it's the one where most narratives end.
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It's the place where people internalize that negative feedback and recalibrate their expectations and say, I shot too far this time, I can't make it.
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But the amazing part of this story is that Dr.
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Shay doesn't quit.
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She continues forward anyway.
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Eventually, she got into medical school, graduated from medical school, and then on match day, this is where it all comes full circle.
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She found out that she matched back at Yale New Haven Hospital.
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The same hospital, the same hallways, the same environment, except now she's entering it as an anesthesiology resident.
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This kind of full circle moment is rare, but what makes it meaningful is who she's become in that process.
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She's been so intentional about it.
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She's spoken about wanting to bridge the gap between physicians and service workers because she remembers exactly what it felt like to be overlooked, to be physically present in the room, but socially invisible.
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And that perspective is something you simply cannot teach in a classroom.
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That is a lived experience shaping how she will treat patients, how she will interact with colleagues, and how she will carry herself in a system that typically forgets the humanity of the people within it.
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To me, this story is about so much more than resilience.
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It's about finding your purpose, having a vision, the discipline to implement a long-term plan, and an unwavering belief in oneself.
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And it's also a reminder that the people who are underestimated by a system are often the ones capable of making the most change and transforming those same systems.
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The truth today with TNA cannot wait to see how Dr.
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Shea's career unfolds because she's clearly a positive change maker.
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All the news is not always good.
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And this week, a jury in Los Angeles delivered a pretty big verdict that could fundamentally shift the landscape for big tech.
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If you're paying attention, this is one of those cases that could become a landmark.
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It really is.
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The case centers on a 20-year-old plaintiff who was identified in court as Kaylee.
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She sued Meta and Alphabet, the parent company of YouTube.
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The jury found them liable for her mental health struggles, specifically citing anxiety, depression, and body dysmorphia that was triggered by their platforms.
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Numbers here are important.
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We're talking about a$3 million award for compensatory damages, followed by an additional$3 million in punitive damages and attorney's fees.
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Punitive damages are designed to punish and deter.
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In this case, Meta is on the hook for about 70% of the total, and YouTube's going to pick up the remaining 30%.
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And the question is, why does this matter so much more than some of the previous cases on related topics?
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Because for years, tech companies have relied heavily on a powerful legal shield, Section 230.
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It generally protects platforms from liability for what users post.
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But here's the strategic brilliance that the lawyers used in this case.
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The plaintiff didn't focus on the content.
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They focused on the conduct and the design of the platform.
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This wasn't about a specific post or a comment.
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It was about the product, the infinite scroll, the push notifications, the beauty filters.
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The argument was that these features were engineered to be addictive to a developing brain.
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In other words, it wasn't about what was on the app, it was about how the app worked.
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The jury essentially ruled that these platforms are defective products.
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And that distinction could change everything.
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If this theory holds up on an appeal, it creates a roadmap for the thousands of other lawsuits building across the country.
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Instead of arguing over free speech or content moderation, these lawsuits argue that the software itself is a public health hazard.
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So what will be the immediate implications for Meta and Google?
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Massive exposure for one.
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This was a bellwether trial, a test case, if you will, and it gave 1,600 other plaintiffs a blueprint on how to do it right.
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Yes, and I guess there's also operational pressure because these companies may now be forced to materially change how they design their platforms for minors.
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Not just for PR reasons, but to mitigate the risk of being sued for negligent design every time a teen opens up their app.
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And then there's the financial risk.
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If$6 million verdicts start scaling across multiple jurisdictions, we're no longer talking about isolated losses.
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We're talking about systemic and pervasive liability.
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The bottom line is this this case signals a huge shift.
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Courts and juries are increasingly willing to look past traditional tech protections and ask a deeper question.
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Did these companies know that their products were harmful?
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And did they prioritize engagement over safety anyway?
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Well, at least once with this jury, the answer was a resounding yes.
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And for big tech, the legal consequences may just be getting started.
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Moving on to our books of the week, my book of the week is actually not a book.
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It is a magazine.
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It's the special issue of Newsweek on autism in girls and women.
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There's a lot of great information in this issue, particularly on page 29, there's a section called Lost in Diagnosis, and it discusses the misdiagnoses that women with autism frequently receive instead of their correct autism diagnosis.
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And then there's also a part of this section where it covers the conditions that frequently tend to co-occur with autism.
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And so if you have one of those conditions and you're really solid about the accuracy of those diagnoses or that diagnosis, if you think it's possible that you might be autistic, you very much should probably look into testing with a clinical psychologist or a neuropsychiatrist.
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If you want to learn more about autism in women and girls, I highly recommend this special issue of Newsweek.
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I love that.
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My book this week is To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960.
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And I know, I know, maybe everyone here has read it, but I came back to this book recently, and I want to tell you, it hits completely differently right now.
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There's this image that I have of Atticus Finch sitting in front of that jailhouse with a lamp and a book.
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And just in light of everything that we see happening right now, I kept asking myself, what does it actually take to simply show up and stay?
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Even when the outcome is not guaranteed, even when the system is rigged against you.
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There is something about that image that I simply cannot shake.
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And it's the whole thing.
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If you've never read To Kill a Mockingbird, pick it up and read it.
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And if you have, go pick it up again and
read it again.
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You will find something new there.
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I promise you.
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Moving into our songs of the week, I'm not sure how much longer we can talk about music week after week without me disclosing the fact that I am a ginormous deadhead, and I always have been.
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Their songwriting over their long touring careers is simply incredible and so varied.
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It's never boring, and there's truly something for everyone.
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But since I must pick one specific song, it was very difficult for me to narrow it down to just one.
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But I would have to say that they have a song called Man Smart, Women Are Smarter.
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And the version that they played on July 6th in 1990 is particularly spectacular.
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There is a video of this performance as well.
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And this version really features Bobby Weir's voice, Jerry Garcia's smooth guitar, and we've got Mickey on the drums.
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It's just top-tier dead.
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In the video of this performance, there's a part where they really start jamming and their super shy bassist Phil Lesh starts smiling.
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And as a fan at live shows, it's top-tier entertainment when the entertainers are entertained by themselves.
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If I was born any earlier, I would have 100% spent a few years of my adolescence following the dead around, but God had other plans.
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That's awesome.
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Thank you for sharing.
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My song of the week this week is from Jerry Jeff Walker.
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The song is Mr.
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Bo Jangles.
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This takes us back to 1968.
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It's originally from an album of the same name.
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Now, before you say anything, if you know the song, yes, it's a little bit sad.
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Yes, it may have you feeling all the feelings, but there's something about joy inside of grief that is unbearably human.
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And the song is truly very, very beautiful.
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This song is also important because it is unlikely to have been Jerry Jeff's claim to fame.
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It was covered a number of times by big names in the music scene, including the nitty-gritty dirt band, Bob Dylan, Robbie Williams, John Denver, Neil Diamond, and perhaps, in my very humble opinion, the most lovely version of all, Nia Simone.
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And I would just say that it was a beautiful song and a great introduction to Jerry Jeff if you've never heard of the guy.
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Moving on to our main
topic today, it's called fake friends.
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That's what we're going to be going all into.
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And this is obviously very personal for everyone.
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We don't intend to really overexplain ourselves, but just take our word for it.
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We have authority to speak on fake friends.
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Fake friends.
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Two words that should never ever go together.
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But yeah, here we are talking about it.
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And I want to be clear before we get started that when we're talking about fake friends, this is not a person that you've drifted away from or a friendship that's faded over the years.
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We are talking legitimately about people who were never actually in your corner, who wore a costume of friendship while running varying and different ulterior agendas.
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What always gets me is how good they are at it.
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A fake friend is not obvious.
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If they were obvious, they wouldn't be dangerous.
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They're warm, they're interested, they act like they're interested, they act like they care, they remember things, but they show up strategically at exactly the right moments to get the information they're looking for.
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And you become their own best defense attorney without even knowing that you've been retained because you're relying on years of a friendship and other things that are kind of clouding your vision and how you're relating to this person.
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I think that's exactly it.
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The thing about a fake friend is that they need you to lower your guard.
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That is the mechanism of manipulation.
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A stranger simply cannot hurt you the same way that a friend can, because a stranger doesn't know where the soft spots are.
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The stranger doesn't know your secrets the way this fake friend does.
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The fake friend has a roadmap and they use it, and perhaps most deservingly, you gave it to them.
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Then they file it away and they wait for the right time to use it.
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And then when they use it, it's like this surreal moment because you trusted them with that roadmap.
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You handed it to them voluntarily because you thought that they were a safe person.
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So the betrayal isn't just what they did, it's the retrospective audit that you began doing on every single memory of interactions that you have with this person, and you want to believe that they were real, but you have no evidence to believe that they were.
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In fact, you're just left going, wow, like how did I miss all of this that whole time?
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Was any of it real?
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Was any of it real?
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And that's where the real grief is because you're not just losing the person, you're losing the version of yourself that trusted the fake friend to begin with.
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And you're losing all the moments that you thought were real.
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You're grieving something that never existed, more than likely, and there's no real way to name that type of loss.
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Yeah, it's very strange.
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And people will try to say, well, you know, surely there were red flags.
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I just recently ended a friendship that I had with someone for over 20 years, and of course there were red flags.
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That's why, whenever the last red flag was raised, I was like, okay, we're good.
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Um, but the question then becomes, why is it always on the person who was betrayed that it's their fault that they didn't see the red flags?
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Why are we having to see red flags in our friends?
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And why are we being asked to take blame when someone comes into our life and deceives us for whatever reason?
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This is something that's so important for our listeners and viewership.
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If any part of this lands for you, if you're sitting there recognizing your own story somewhere in the midst of this, the fact that you were deceived does not mean that you were foolish.
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It means you were human.
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The capacity to trust, even though your trust was misplaced and abused, is not evidence of weakness.
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It is your strength, it is your gift.
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And whatever you put out into the universe with good intentions comes back to you.
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Depending on what you believe, it may come back to you multiplied.
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Do not let this fake ass person take that away from you, too.
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I want to add that recovering from the discovery of a fake friend is not linear.
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You don't just decide to trust again and then you do.
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It's a two steps forward, one step back, kind of wondering if new people in your life are also running a con.
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But then it also makes you look back at the other real friends that you have in your life because until you found out that this one friend was a fake friend, they were in the real friend category.
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So the real mind F comes from what it does afterwards.
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It's just so unfair.
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Well, and on the topic of your friend that you recently had to cut ties with for multiple reasons and protection and all of that.
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In preparing for our discussion on this, we discussed the idea that there's different kinds of fake friends.
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There are the fake friends who are always there when you're winning.
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They're always there when you're on top, they're celebrating all of your victories.
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And they're the first person that is to congratulate you and find out where the party's gonna be so they can sit at your table and take advantage of whatever kind of perk they're gonna get from your wins.
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But with that particular type of fake friend, the minute that the weather changes, and perhaps this is why we consider this type of a fake friend to be fair weather, they are nowhere to be found.
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Those friends, I think, in many ways are easier to clock because their behaviors are so incredibly transparent.
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Things are good, they're there.
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The weather's nasty, they're nowhere to be found.
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The fake friends that we're talking about are the ones that engage in real manipulations, and they are there for you when times are tough.
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They are there for you in some of the darker seasons of your life.
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They begin to reveal themselves in different ways, and that's where the whole retroactive sort of analysis and whatnot of the relationship starts happening, and you do start second guessing everything and all of the things that have happened along the way.
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So I would say those types of fake friends are.
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Infinitely more dangerous than the other type.
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Yes, I would agree.
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So we need to give ourselves permission to be more reserved and read people better before we actually put them in a safe real friend category.
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And that's not cynicism, that's self-preservation.
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There's a big difference.
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I feel like we could talk about fake friends for hours and hours because we really, really could.
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We have more show to get into.
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And my sense is we will get back into this in some way, shape, or form before all is said and done, because we always do.
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So let's move into something a little lighter.
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Word of the week.
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We have a great word of the week this week.
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The word of the week is clocksucker.
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Oh, clocksuckers.
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A clocksucker is someone who wastes your time deliberately, strategically, and with no remorse.
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Not someone who's just disorganized or running late because their life is challenging and complicated.
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A clocksucker is someone who uses time itself as a weapon.
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They schedule the meeting that could have simply been an email.
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They're the one who asks for an extension that they never even needed.
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They run out the clock on your patients, your cases, your resources, and your life.
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Ooh, okay.
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Clock sucker.
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Add it to your vocab immediately.
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Use it precisely, use it profusely, use it fearlessly.
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And if you see clock suckers out there, give them a shout out.
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Fave follows for this week.
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Okay, so before we get into our fave follows, I just want to say that we follow people on social media.
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We do not personally know these people.
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And there has been more than one occasion where we will be following someone for months at a time, and we're we agree with everything that we've heard so far.
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And then all of a sudden we will come across that one video where we discover that they are horrifyingly misogynistic, or they said something that was just like crazy, you know, on another level.
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So we just want to disclaim our favorite follows.
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We are not 10 toes down on that these people are-of-the-earth people and that we agree with every word they've ever said.
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These are just people that we found on social media that we find to be insightful and entertaining.
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And we hope that they are good, positive people.
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But like we were talking about fake friends, there are a lot of people who are fake in whatever context that they are out in the world.
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And hope that our people are good people, but we realize that the longer that we do this, the more we're gonna discover that there were people who were our favorite follow previously that we wish we could go back and and maybe choose a different person that week.
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Anyway.
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Fake follows.
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Yeah, fake follows.
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Faith follows.
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So my follow this week is a spiritual life coach.
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His handle is I3ST3VE.
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His name is Steve, and he's definitely well versed in the laws of spirituality.
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He has incredible
insights and he uses his real life situations to explain how energy works, how karma works, and how important alignment is.
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And when I very first started following him, I came across some of his content and he said something very profound.
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And I don't know if how you guys are, but I feel like Steve, some kind of is channeling when he's speaking and making his content because he's a prolific content creator.
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He posts multiple times a day, and it's always very good things.
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But I feel like there are some things that he says that are like so profound that he doesn't even realize how profound they are.
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And this is one of those things.
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So he said, When you speak boldly, timid men call it arrogance.
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Teal and I don't care about what people think generally.
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So we especially don't care about the opinions of the timid folk.
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And if you look around the world right now, does it really feel like the time to be timid?
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Absolutely not.
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It's the time to use your power and your platform to speak up and out and give a voice to the voiceless.
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So I'm gonna play a clip of some of what Steve's content is.
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Okay, so here's a clip of Steve.
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I don't know who this message for, but you do.
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Stop coming back to me looking for relief like I'm your solution.
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I'm not stepping in to save you.
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I'm not fixing what you broke.
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You made your choices, you said what you said, you did what you did.
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And now that's circling back on you.
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You want peace?
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It's not gonna happen.
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That's not how this works.
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Because when you had the chance to move right now, you chose to betray, you chose to attack, you chose to come against me, and I didn't respond.
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I stepped back and I let God handle it.
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So don't look at me like I'm the one doing something to you.
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I'm not what's hitting your life right now is what you try to send to me.
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The pressure, the confusion, that loss.
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That's not punishment for me.
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That's consequence.
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And I'm not gonna interrupt it.
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I wish you the best, I really do, but you're gonna have to walk through it without me picking in those days dangerous.
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So that's one thing that is happening all around, I think, a lot of us right now, is we're watching people who dug graves for us fall into them themselves.
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And it's kind of a wild time to be spiritually on the same wavelength as somebody across the country with a completely different life doing completely different things.
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But that's how vibes are.
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I'm very grateful that I've found Steve.
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I think he's out there spreading positives and good messages and doing great work, so that's a great follow.
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One more follow for this week.
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My fave follow is gonna be TikTok Mama.
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Her handle on IG is TikTok Mama M-O-M-M-A 7.
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She is a hot silver-haired lady representing the H and our culture.
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She's a trip.
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She's a girls girl, but she takes no shit.
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I remember seeing her for the first time many years ago, lip syncing to the anthem Mo City Dawn in her beautiful kitchen.
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And I've honestly been a fan of hers ever since.
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If you haven't checked her out, she's great.
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She does great things for the HTOM community, and she's a great follow.
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Now it's time for our see you next Tuesday.
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This is the moment that many of you have been waiting for since the top of the show.
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This is a weekly recognition of those among us, particularly those who might be in positions of power or authority.
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Maybe they're abusing it, but whatever it is, they've gone above and beyond in the service of truly exceptional candidate behavior.
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The field this week was, as always, deeply competitive, but the political class continues to give with extraordinary generosity.
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So generous, but there can only really be one.
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We did consider potential and worthy candidates like Governor Greg Abbott.
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He's always a potential candidate for many people, but especially those of us in Texas.
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We also considered Chrissy Teagan.
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Chrissy Teagan, I want to like you so badly.
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I've I've tried so hard to show you grace, but you just keep popping up with these weird things from the past.
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And I'm sorry, girl, you're you didn't make it this week, but we might find out more things where you definitely become one in the future.
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At least for this week, we've got an even better one for y'all.
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This week's see you next Tuesday goes to Mark Wayne Mullen.
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I mean, where do we even begin?
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So, on behalf of everyone that you have failed, ignored, dismissed, and actively harmed this week, we see you and we honor you with the recognition that you have so richly earned.
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Congratulations, Mark Wayne.
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So that's episode seven of The Truth Today with TNA.
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Seven whole episodes of never letting anything slide and not shutting up or moving on.
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And we are going to continue.
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We are not moving on.
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If this episode made you feel seen, share it.
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If you liked it, pass it on, send it to somebody who needs it.
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And if it made you mad, good.
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Get mad, do something, say something, speak out.
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Channel it into something positive.
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And now you have a word of the week, some favorite follows, and a candidate to think about.
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So you know where to find us.
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See you next Tuesday.