November 6, 2025 • 26 mins
After some elections in the US, Anney and Samantha chat about some wins and some things to look out for.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to stuff
Wie never told your production by Heart Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour. And this time though,
it's gonna be good news bad news, So it's gonna
be we're gonna have a lot of upper good feelings
and then being like, oh no, but the this could
happen type of feelings as well. So we're calling this
the mixed bag happy hour. Okay, oh yeah, you're like
that mixed bag. But before we start, as per usual,
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
We're here, give me things.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And also, if you're doing happy hour activities as implied
by this episode, whenever you may be listening, do so responsibly.
We love you, we want you to stick around, be healthy. Friend, Annie,
are you doing any happy hour stuff responsibly?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I am? I am. I'm still working through some of
my My mom gives me like six bottles of wine
for my birthday, so still still working through that. And
it's a nice crisp red wine today Chris, it's pretty crisp.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You gotta keep it crisp. I am working off like
my body, I guess, fighting everything off, whether it's stress,
whether it's the viruses that are still continuing to happen
all around us. My mother just had COVID, so I'm
sticking with ginger all today. I am being old school,
like I love old school remedies because I'm also peek
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behind the curtain and hopefully you can't tell I'm having
a peppermint because that is the only thing that really
immediately helps me with any nauseousness or stomach aches. Udly,
I don't love like old school remedies. I mean it's
like it's known, it's like this does help and all
these things. But like ginger ill and peppermint I hold,
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I hold pretty closely to my heart as home remedies.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think I'm not a big ginger al person, but
ginger like those ginger cheese. Yes, if I'm nauseated.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Those do work as well. Yeah, to be fair, most
of the ginger ales don't have ginger in it. Well,
it's the phizzy vibe. But also sprite would help with me.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, my mom was big on that. Yeah, old school
is the right chick.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Chicken soup for me. Peppermints like these are the things
because Tom's actually made it worse. I don't know if
that's the chalkiness that made me feel like, oh, almost
immediately vomit. Anyway, I just went derailed this whole happy hour. Nonetheless,
we're back. I'm back, I'm back, And honestly, we have
had some hopeful moments as dark things have been in
the US. Go ahead, time stamp this here. It is
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November six five. I got the year right this time, Annie,
you did, I did. I was struggling, oh and all
the way to the nineties at one point. But we've
had some really good news and hopeful moments. I think
we've had a lot of back and forth in conversation
of like, is the new generation a better generation that
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are learning from our mistakes or are they just cycling
back to old school ways because they're listening for the
first time old rhetoric, old conspiracy theories and the tricks
of the trade of systemic racism and why those ployees
from white supremacists work. But we've had great news. If
you don't already know, New York City ended up electing
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Zoran Mandani, which is a huge deal which I'm not
gonna speak too much of because I'm not in New York,
but if you've been watching and you're on like left
leaning TikTok or social media, a lot of people were like,
I'm not voting for Mundani because we're not there, Like
that has been like the big conversation, and it's true.
I would have loved to voted. And I love seeing
millionaires who put money backing monopoly types of fascist regimes
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lose to that. Like I love everything about this, and
it does bring a whole new level of hope when
you see all the bad things that have happened around
the world. So congratulations to that campaign. Congratulations New York City.
We are proud of you. Here in Georgia, we have
had some amazing news. So it's been over almost twenty years.
So two thousand and six was the last time we
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had any Democratic leaders for the Public Service Commissioner, and
for the first time in almost twenty years, we flipped
those seats. Love this like, I love everything about this.
Peter Hubbard and doctor Alicia Johnson were the winners of
the Public Service Commissioner positions and we love everything about this.
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We've had a whole conversation about the monopoly when it
comes to Georgia Power, and they have continued to increase
prices without any kind of hesitancy, with no actual oversight,
and a lot of the people in that commission we're
making money and we're making private deals. To the point,
I mean, y'all, there was so much conspiracies. There are
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so much a muck in this situation. We had a
woman going through and got their files to show contracts
to see how underhanded the dealings were, and she immediately
got arrested. Hero, we love you. Hats off to her.
I think she used to be a counselwoman or part
of that commission and then she was not voted in.
But she was like, you know what, the public deserves
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to know. We never did get to know because they
arrested her before she couldn't release it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I have to say though, based on like next door
is a minefield, we need to come back and talk
about what's going on next door again. But people were
invested in this, but they wanted to know more about it.
They were like really angry about it. So it was
something people were talking about for.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Sure, it was a pretty big deal. I think it
went viral on several posts because they were like who
is this hero and then people going to find a
demonizer that wasn't working. It's kind of like some of
the things that we've seen with a certain person who
was currently on trial for murder, like they did not
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expect who the hero would be in these stories. Surprisingly
because I think, again, this is kind of the low
rumblings of like unhappiness of the public. But what we
saw again with the Georgia Public Commissions, it's a huge
thing because it was a whole state voting, so it
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kind of shows you what the people want so when
it's not gerrymandered and what that looks like now, and
it kind of gives me a lot of hope about
the governor's race and next year. I don't know if
you're aware, Georgia has several key elections coming up again.
The governor of race is coming up, as well as
John Ossof's seat. Who I hope John Asoff has the
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courage to stand for the people of Georgia and not
buckle under some of the pressures because he has disappointed
me a few times, which I had high hopes for him,
and I have high hopes for or not as well,
Like we were so proud as a community to be
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able to say we elected and turned the state blue,
which was amazing. Obviously with all the conversations that have had,
but I feel like he's backtracked on some of the
things that are pretty important to a key amount of
people and his constituents. So I don't know. I know
things are hard with the government shut down. We have
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not even talked about Snap benefits or the loss of
Snap benefits and what's happening today with that. But what
we do know is they're holding that over everyone's head
for the sake of companies making more money and having
people lose access to healthcare. So it's such an ugly
bargain that it makes everything looks like gross. And by
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the way, apparently the current administration decided to have a
Gatsbye type of party, which is like a little two
on the nose bro.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about, this mixed bag
of conversation because it's kind of like, oh, yeah, we
can celebrate, but at the same time, we're very vigilant
in knowing that this is just a minor setback for
them because I feel like they're not angry enough that
means they have something.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Up their sleeves.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
This is what's kind of concerning me. I've also seen
so many small elections, and I say small as in
like mayoral elections in the state of Georgia specifically, were
smaller towns that are very red towns that all of
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a sudden flipped into having democratic leaders and I love
every bit of that. And I've seen a lot more
black women, African American women being able to be a
part of that leadership. Hello, Bainbridge, Georgia, which again pretty
significantly read for a long while, just elected their first woman,
first black woman, first you know, Democrat in a very
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very long time, and I'm like, wa, yeah, I mean,
and there's several other little cities like this that have
like come through. I believe that Atlanta just elected this
first Democratic Socialist on their Atlanta City Council, which is
pretty significant if you don't know what has happened with
copp City and how big that Atlanta City Council was
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a part of allowing for that type of establishment to
be built. Dot dot dot dot, a whole lot of
sort of history as well, but all of these victories
are big Virginia just like to a democratic governor, we'd
love to see that. And there's so much other conversations
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in this level. Prop fifty happened in California, which feels
kind of shady, Yeah, but it's playing the game in
the long run, so like, I'm not gonna not acknowledge
that as being shady. It is, but it definitely was
a response to the jerrymanderin conversations that were happening in Texas,
so kind of this level of like, oh my god,
why do we have to do this trickery? But at
the same time, it feels like the left has been
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too honorable to a certain degree. Yeah, And the one
thing I loved about one person's comment about Mandani is
like one person's literally said, Okay, now I have to
go from loving him so much and putting him on
a pedestal to keeping him accountable. And I was like, yes,
that is that is the definition of what we do
when everybody we talk about this level of like holding
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democrats responsible. That is absolutely what we always have said
when we see sexual accusations and we're like, you need
to step down, no matter if This hurts that moment,
no matter if some of the things you've done or
is good, but if some of the things that we
hold value is being completely dishonored with your actions, then yes,
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we want someone who is reputable. We can't have a
perfect person, but we know the lines that we have,
and I think that's some of the conversation again, when
we talked about the presidential election, about Harris, and we
were like, we don't love Harris. This is not a
thing where we were worshiping this person. We don't love Biden, don't.
We don't think he's God. And everything they do wrong,
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we want to hold them accountable. But at the very
least we know that we can, we have a more
likelihood of making the difference and making our voices heard
and being able to negotiate or to at least get
our concerns out there and changes to happen as opposed
to what is happening today. Yeah, which is what we've
talked about repeatedly. But with all of that, there's so
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many more other victories. And I want to hear about
your individual areas. I know y'all are going to chime
in it because it's been some good things happen as
of November fourth, but that means we are coming background
with all right, new things are happening, New elections are happening,
New things are like in conversation some of the people
here in Georgia, again, this governor's races has already gotten ugly,
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like go back and forth about who's going to do
for what primary in itself has become interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I've been I was interested in this because even
though I think a lot more people know about it now.
You know, local races don't necessarily draw that much attention nationally.
But I saw a lot of reporting about what was
happening in Georgia. And I think there was an article
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from Politico or AP but they had they had a
quote from some body of Republican strategists who wish to
remain anonymous, and he said, the thing that scares me
the most is what happened in Georgia. That should really
how did they get so many people to come out
for this election?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And again, like I think, I think our individual people,
like there's enough people talking about the voting situation in
Georgia that we had so many people putting out videos
upon videos about who was doing what who was doing
where being aware know that this is happening. Okay, we
know that this place, these places are changing voting registration
like they did all that. By the way they did
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all it's not making the news anymore because it's an
old tricks, the amount of people that they threw out
off the registrar and to have to repeat like I
looked every day up until the day I went to
vote to make sure myself and my partner were good
to go. And it was so funny because they had
a I always look at the preview ballot ballots, but
they have all of Georgia and I'm like, wait, oh,
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we don't who Why would Who's this first? And I
got really scared because I was like, oh, no.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Too, because I need to research everybody. And I'm like,
wait a minute, this cannot be right.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I cannot be right to the point, so I'm indicatur
and Atlanta mayor mayoral race was happening as well, which
that is whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And the dude was watching me, look out, look at
the example ballot, and he's like, hey, hey, it's okay,
We're not going to be We're not voting for Atlanta
mayor I was like, oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, thank
you because he saw the panic in my eyes. He
saw the panic happen. He's like, we're not in Atlanta
or in Decatur. I was like, oh, oh god, thank
you because I just had a moment of like, did
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I forget something?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeap. I actually there was one on my ballot that
I didn't know and I don't know how I missed it,
but I just wrote in somebody else's name because I
was like, I'm not going to vote for somebody I
don't know anything about because it didn't even have like
Democratic Republican. It was just like oh names, and I'm like, no, no, no,
I can't do that. I don't know how this say,
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but I just cannot vote for somebody I know.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I don't do research. Like that's the things like we
want to be fully aware and just as a reminder,
don't be discouraged. It's okay, you go, do you do
the best you can write in if you're not sure.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, I've written in your name before.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh no, And I'm like, how many times?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Three years?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
At least twenty years. But yeah, but that's so funny.
But yeah, there's so much to this conversation. But I
will say social media has really done such a great
job in that. And I know, like one of the
big creators in science world who I'm not a huge
fan of, but it's okay. He did a whole video
which trackted millions and everybody's like thank him for it.
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I'm like, no, no, we're not doing that. We're not
taking away from the individual creators that live in the
state of Georgia that went through not only going through
and having this conversation about who each person was, but
also feeling like this woman, Patricia Durand is the woman
we're talking about. Specifically she was She's a big critic
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to the Public Commission because they were like, this is
getting scary, and so she got charged with us stealing
trade secrets, which is also really shady to have trade
secrets for public commission that we pay for. Yeah, why
is not even a thing?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, And I have to say one of the things
I found really interesting, I feel like I'm one of
the few people that somehow still watches a lot of ads.
I saw a lot of ads about this race, and
like Jordan, but they were specifically saying, like Georgia powers,
raising your prices. Republicans are with the billionaires and looking
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the other way, And I just thought that was a
really like we might be coming to a turning point.
But you know, if people can't afford basic utilities, then yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Keep increasing the charge without any ability to dispute or
ask why. And it's just based on things including the
fact that when they build something or if something goes wrong,
they charge the consumer. Like they've admitted to all of
these things when they are a multimillion dollars if not
billion dollar company making amounts of money that are going
to people like Tim Nichols, who, by the way, was
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so like nonchalant that he really thought he had it
in the bag, which was the first mistake because he
is an incumbent and he was like no, no, no, no,
and making all these shady deals behind closed doors. Which again,
if it's for the public, why are they having trade
deals that are secret? Yeah, exactly Again, Durand I don't
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know her political stuff. I'm sure there's a lot of
things that when we come to the trough the black
she's not great, but for this instance, hats off, heads off.
We don't talk enough about that. But yes, so there
was a lot of great things, and I think, again,
what I'm concerned about it is that people don't seem
to be as concerned, Like, yeah, Republicans are kind of mad,
I'm doing all these racist tropes that they tip they
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would in every and all ways in all the capacities.
But it's kind of like they've already figured out the
gerimadering thing. Things that are going to the Supreme Courts.
They're gutting the Voting Rights Act. We know what's happening.
So they don't seem to be as concerned as we
think they should be. But with things like California, who
is kind of you know, meeting them on their level
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in this conversation, it does look better. But I am
concerned as to seeing that the State of Georgia does
not seem like they're shocked. I really think they thought
they were going to be kind of more untouchable than
they were. But the fact that they're not so worried,
or maybe they are, and they're just doing it in
secret as they typically do. And we're having bills, well,
we should be watching out for secret bills coming to
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light soon. So there are things that we definitely have
to have that conversation. So there's some really great stuff.
But again with the really great stuff, we have to
continue to watch and see what is happening behind closed doors. Kemp,
he's got his legacy to suck up to all of
the Republicans here before he leaves. I'm actually surprised he's leaving.
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I wonder if he's like made enough money so he's
feeling secure. That's only good I can or he's making
big plays later.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, maybe this is my conspiracy theory. We were talking
about conspiracy theories before this, but like, whatever is going
on with Marjorie Taylor Green, who I still think is terrible,
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but she said some things that are like what that
are very I don't know, democratic leaning, I don't know,
but I'm like, did she get a deal with CNA?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Because she's also leaving, so I'm just I'm always like,
did you get a book deal? What the thing are you?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
A Canice Owen's like, are you going to back and
become your own network? Well see AOC responded this, and
AOC's response was that she feels like Marjorie Taylor Green
is going scorched earth because her people did not back her,
so she quickly found out that whole like all but me,
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if I play this game, they'll they'll support me as
a one woman. And then she found out, oh no,
they're gonna be misogynistic and sex this towards me too.
What let me flip this because Trump did not give
the approval for her to run for governor, which she
would she was actually looking to do, and then when
she did not have any support, after sucking up to
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Mega as much as she did, she was like, well, fine,
I'm gonna do the opposite. It's kind of too late
because we over here in this lead left leading era
were like, no, we know what you did. You will
never forget what you did. We will never accept you
into this like like we'll say that if you're okay,
like as in like you do you great, we'll stop,
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I guess calling you out as much. If you don't
say stupid things in her ass, if you don't say
ignorant things right and stop poraspic people. Great, But we're
never going to be like, oh yeah, definitely she should
represent us.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Never like the people that we'd like, we still don't trust.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Right, Yeah, it's just bizarre enough to be like.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh, no, what when you start agreeing with people that
you despise, there's this level like you have to question.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Why, yeah, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And then you realize, oh, they're being racist on a
different level or the backpackond guess they have to make
money on a different level versus this is what I've
always thought, and now it's making them money or making
them like clickbait.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't know. Honestly, My main
point of this is because I really don't know what
to make of it, is that I I the first
thing I thought was she's got some other deal going on, Yeah,
something else and probably yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Kimp too. I feel that way about Kemp coming around
and be like, you're too quiet. There's something happening or
he's being very quiet, because this is kind of what
he did when he first ran, when he was actually
a part of the election board and didn't like renounce
himself while he was running. I'm like, do you not
see the conflict eventual? Oh you don't care? This kind
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of same level that he did a lot of things underhandedly,
very quietly so no one would blast them, which is
kind of what he does in general.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know that weird it is, and
I have to say, like again, out of Trump's administration
because it's such a like circus show. There have been
a lot of books that have, like I knew, I
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don't even know how many, but so many books, so
many specials, so many things have come out of this,
and it's an odd system to be like, I was
backing Trump for this long, but here's my book, Takedown
of Him. Please buy it, right, it's very bizarre system.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, it's the same people who's like, well, it's making
me money now to be under Trump and getting my
name up there. Oh, this is a one step too far.
I'm going to remove myself from there, wait a few
years and then come back yep, and hope that they's
accepted and that the anti Trumpers, which there's a lot
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that just hate Trump and so are willing to do
that if it means giving him a bad name. But
it's just like, no, you are not trustworthy, no, because
there's nothing about like what, there's no flip here like
he was always this bad.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yes, and it took you this long to notice it
or either to care about it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, it just affected you at this point.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Exactly monetarily probably right.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
There's so many odd things. But like I will say,
Kimp was oddly he's forced to be a trumper without
actually ever being a trumper.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah mmmm that. I mean, everything is a mess right now.
So this is not like news. But man, the Republican
Party I buy. I'm like, how do you Either you
have to be for him, or you're you're not or
you're out, or you have to be silent and not
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say anything.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
The other great news the Momster Liberty lost every single
one of the of the racist every single one. Can
we talk about? That's joyous that the campaign of banning
books and banning trans women and all of these things
they lost. That's glorious to see because for a minute
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they were highly in power. So knowing that they lost
every single one, that's a beautiful moment.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That is nice.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
That's nice. I would end on that because it just
feels good.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It does feel good, it does.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It just feels good. Let us know what's going on
with in your area, because we love these victories that
let us know what's going on that we should be
watching because we also need to be very aware and
I think the more we are able to bring to
light the better we're able to have conversations and be
aware of who the right way is, like going down
the right path, because it's still confusing because also the
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other conspiracy theory in this well, I didn't know the mom,
but the other conspiracy theory is that a lot of
people may be flipping to becoming quote unquote democratic in
order to pretend. We've seen a few times where they
flip that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Well, listeners, please let us
know listeners from around the world also don't happening. There's
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour. And this time though,
it's gonna be good news bad news, So it's gonna
be we're gonna have a lot of upper good feelings
and then being like, oh no, but the this could
happen type of feelings as well. So we're calling this
the mixed bag happy hour. Okay, oh yeah, you're like
that mixed bag. But before we start, as per usual,
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we are currently not being sponsored by any of if
we do affiliates or products or any of the such
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
We're here, give me things.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And also, if you're doing happy hour activities as implied
by this episode, whenever you may be listening, do so responsibly.
We love you, we want you to stick around, be healthy. Friend, Annie,
are you doing any happy hour stuff responsibly?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I am? I am. I'm still working through some of
my My mom gives me like six bottles of wine
for my birthday, so still still working through that. And
it's a nice crisp red wine today Chris, it's pretty crisp.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You gotta keep it crisp. I am working off like
my body, I guess, fighting everything off, whether it's stress,
whether it's the viruses that are still continuing to happen
all around us. My mother just had COVID, so I'm
sticking with ginger all today. I am being old school,
like I love old school remedies because I'm also peek
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behind the curtain and hopefully you can't tell I'm having
a peppermint because that is the only thing that really
immediately helps me with any nauseousness or stomach aches. Udly,
I don't love like old school remedies. I mean it's
like it's known, it's like this does help and all
these things. But like ginger ill and peppermint I hold,
(02:16):
I hold pretty closely to my heart as home remedies.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think I'm not a big ginger al person, but
ginger like those ginger cheese. Yes, if I'm nauseated.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Those do work as well. Yeah, to be fair, most
of the ginger ales don't have ginger in it. Well,
it's the phizzy vibe. But also sprite would help with me.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, my mom was big on that. Yeah, old school
is the right chick.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Chicken soup for me. Peppermints like these are the things
because Tom's actually made it worse. I don't know if
that's the chalkiness that made me feel like, oh, almost
immediately vomit. Anyway, I just went derailed this whole happy hour. Nonetheless,
we're back. I'm back, I'm back, And honestly, we have
had some hopeful moments as dark things have been in
the US. Go ahead, time stamp this here. It is
(03:04):
November six five. I got the year right this time, Annie,
you did, I did. I was struggling, oh and all
the way to the nineties at one point. But we've
had some really good news and hopeful moments. I think
we've had a lot of back and forth in conversation
of like, is the new generation a better generation that
(03:25):
are learning from our mistakes or are they just cycling
back to old school ways because they're listening for the
first time old rhetoric, old conspiracy theories and the tricks
of the trade of systemic racism and why those ployees
from white supremacists work. But we've had great news. If
you don't already know, New York City ended up electing
(03:50):
Zoran Mandani, which is a huge deal which I'm not
gonna speak too much of because I'm not in New York,
but if you've been watching and you're on like left
leaning TikTok or social media, a lot of people were like,
I'm not voting for Mundani because we're not there, Like
that has been like the big conversation, and it's true.
I would have loved to voted. And I love seeing
millionaires who put money backing monopoly types of fascist regimes
(04:17):
lose to that. Like I love everything about this, and
it does bring a whole new level of hope when
you see all the bad things that have happened around
the world. So congratulations to that campaign. Congratulations New York City.
We are proud of you. Here in Georgia, we have
had some amazing news. So it's been over almost twenty years.
So two thousand and six was the last time we
(04:39):
had any Democratic leaders for the Public Service Commissioner, and
for the first time in almost twenty years, we flipped
those seats. Love this like, I love everything about this.
Peter Hubbard and doctor Alicia Johnson were the winners of
the Public Service Commissioner positions and we love everything about this.
(05:01):
We've had a whole conversation about the monopoly when it
comes to Georgia Power, and they have continued to increase
prices without any kind of hesitancy, with no actual oversight,
and a lot of the people in that commission we're
making money and we're making private deals. To the point,
I mean, y'all, there was so much conspiracies. There are
(05:23):
so much a muck in this situation. We had a
woman going through and got their files to show contracts
to see how underhanded the dealings were, and she immediately
got arrested. Hero, we love you. Hats off to her.
I think she used to be a counselwoman or part
of that commission and then she was not voted in.
But she was like, you know what, the public deserves
(05:45):
to know. We never did get to know because they
arrested her before she couldn't release it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I have to say though, based on like next door
is a minefield, we need to come back and talk
about what's going on next door again. But people were
invested in this, but they wanted to know more about it.
They were like really angry about it. So it was
something people were talking about for.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Sure, it was a pretty big deal. I think it
went viral on several posts because they were like who
is this hero and then people going to find a
demonizer that wasn't working. It's kind of like some of
the things that we've seen with a certain person who
was currently on trial for murder, like they did not
(06:31):
expect who the hero would be in these stories. Surprisingly
because I think, again, this is kind of the low
rumblings of like unhappiness of the public. But what we
saw again with the Georgia Public Commissions, it's a huge
thing because it was a whole state voting, so it
(06:52):
kind of shows you what the people want so when
it's not gerrymandered and what that looks like now, and
it kind of gives me a lot of hope about
the governor's race and next year. I don't know if
you're aware, Georgia has several key elections coming up again.
The governor of race is coming up, as well as
John Ossof's seat. Who I hope John Asoff has the
(07:16):
courage to stand for the people of Georgia and not
buckle under some of the pressures because he has disappointed
me a few times, which I had high hopes for him,
and I have high hopes for or not as well,
Like we were so proud as a community to be
(07:37):
able to say we elected and turned the state blue,
which was amazing. Obviously with all the conversations that have had,
but I feel like he's backtracked on some of the
things that are pretty important to a key amount of
people and his constituents. So I don't know. I know
things are hard with the government shut down. We have
(07:58):
not even talked about Snap benefits or the loss of
Snap benefits and what's happening today with that. But what
we do know is they're holding that over everyone's head
for the sake of companies making more money and having
people lose access to healthcare. So it's such an ugly
bargain that it makes everything looks like gross. And by
(08:22):
the way, apparently the current administration decided to have a
Gatsbye type of party, which is like a little two
on the nose bro.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about, this mixed bag
of conversation because it's kind of like, oh, yeah, we
can celebrate, but at the same time, we're very vigilant
in knowing that this is just a minor setback for
them because I feel like they're not angry enough that
means they have something.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Up their sleeves.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
This is what's kind of concerning me. I've also seen
so many small elections, and I say small as in
like mayoral elections in the state of Georgia specifically, were
smaller towns that are very red towns that all of
(09:10):
a sudden flipped into having democratic leaders and I love
every bit of that. And I've seen a lot more
black women, African American women being able to be a
part of that leadership. Hello, Bainbridge, Georgia, which again pretty
significantly read for a long while, just elected their first woman,
first black woman, first you know, Democrat in a very
(09:31):
very long time, and I'm like, wa, yeah, I mean,
and there's several other little cities like this that have
like come through. I believe that Atlanta just elected this
first Democratic Socialist on their Atlanta City Council, which is
pretty significant if you don't know what has happened with
copp City and how big that Atlanta City Council was
(09:52):
a part of allowing for that type of establishment to
be built. Dot dot dot dot, a whole lot of
sort of history as well, but all of these victories
are big Virginia just like to a democratic governor, we'd
love to see that. And there's so much other conversations
(10:12):
in this level. Prop fifty happened in California, which feels
kind of shady, Yeah, but it's playing the game in
the long run, so like, I'm not gonna not acknowledge
that as being shady. It is, but it definitely was
a response to the jerrymanderin conversations that were happening in Texas,
so kind of this level of like, oh my god,
why do we have to do this trickery? But at
the same time, it feels like the left has been
(10:35):
too honorable to a certain degree. Yeah, And the one
thing I loved about one person's comment about Mandani is
like one person's literally said, Okay, now I have to
go from loving him so much and putting him on
a pedestal to keeping him accountable. And I was like, yes,
that is that is the definition of what we do
when everybody we talk about this level of like holding
(10:58):
democrats responsible. That is absolutely what we always have said
when we see sexual accusations and we're like, you need
to step down, no matter if This hurts that moment,
no matter if some of the things you've done or
is good, but if some of the things that we
hold value is being completely dishonored with your actions, then yes,
(11:18):
we want someone who is reputable. We can't have a
perfect person, but we know the lines that we have,
and I think that's some of the conversation again, when
we talked about the presidential election, about Harris, and we
were like, we don't love Harris. This is not a
thing where we were worshiping this person. We don't love Biden, don't.
We don't think he's God. And everything they do wrong,
(11:39):
we want to hold them accountable. But at the very
least we know that we can, we have a more
likelihood of making the difference and making our voices heard
and being able to negotiate or to at least get
our concerns out there and changes to happen as opposed
to what is happening today. Yeah, which is what we've
talked about repeatedly. But with all of that, there's so
(12:01):
many more other victories. And I want to hear about
your individual areas. I know y'all are going to chime
in it because it's been some good things happen as
of November fourth, but that means we are coming background
with all right, new things are happening, New elections are happening,
New things are like in conversation some of the people
here in Georgia, again, this governor's races has already gotten ugly,
(12:24):
like go back and forth about who's going to do
for what primary in itself has become interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I've been I was interested in this because even
though I think a lot more people know about it now.
You know, local races don't necessarily draw that much attention nationally.
But I saw a lot of reporting about what was
happening in Georgia. And I think there was an article
(12:54):
from Politico or AP but they had they had a
quote from some body of Republican strategists who wish to
remain anonymous, and he said, the thing that scares me
the most is what happened in Georgia. That should really
how did they get so many people to come out
for this election?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And again, like I think, I think our individual people,
like there's enough people talking about the voting situation in
Georgia that we had so many people putting out videos
upon videos about who was doing what who was doing
where being aware know that this is happening. Okay, we
know that this place, these places are changing voting registration
like they did all that. By the way they did
(13:35):
all it's not making the news anymore because it's an
old tricks, the amount of people that they threw out
off the registrar and to have to repeat like I
looked every day up until the day I went to
vote to make sure myself and my partner were good
to go. And it was so funny because they had
a I always look at the preview ballot ballots, but
they have all of Georgia and I'm like, wait, oh,
(13:57):
we don't who Why would Who's this first? And I
got really scared because I was like, oh, no.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Too, because I need to research everybody. And I'm like,
wait a minute, this cannot be right.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I cannot be right to the point, so I'm indicatur
and Atlanta mayor mayoral race was happening as well, which
that is whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And the dude was watching me, look out, look at
the example ballot, and he's like, hey, hey, it's okay,
We're not going to be We're not voting for Atlanta
mayor I was like, oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, thank
you because he saw the panic in my eyes. He
saw the panic happen. He's like, we're not in Atlanta
or in Decatur. I was like, oh, oh god, thank
you because I just had a moment of like, did
(14:38):
I forget something?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeap. I actually there was one on my ballot that
I didn't know and I don't know how I missed it,
but I just wrote in somebody else's name because I
was like, I'm not going to vote for somebody I
don't know anything about because it didn't even have like
Democratic Republican. It was just like oh names, and I'm like, no, no, no,
I can't do that. I don't know how this say,
(15:00):
but I just cannot vote for somebody I know.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I don't do research. Like that's the things like we
want to be fully aware and just as a reminder,
don't be discouraged. It's okay, you go, do you do
the best you can write in if you're not sure.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, I've written in your name before.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh no, And I'm like, how many times?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Three years?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
At least twenty years. But yeah, but that's so funny.
But yeah, there's so much to this conversation. But I
will say social media has really done such a great
job in that. And I know, like one of the
big creators in science world who I'm not a huge
fan of, but it's okay. He did a whole video
which trackted millions and everybody's like thank him for it.
(15:46):
I'm like, no, no, we're not doing that. We're not
taking away from the individual creators that live in the
state of Georgia that went through not only going through
and having this conversation about who each person was, but
also feeling like this woman, Patricia Durand is the woman
we're talking about. Specifically she was She's a big critic
(16:07):
to the Public Commission because they were like, this is
getting scary, and so she got charged with us stealing
trade secrets, which is also really shady to have trade
secrets for public commission that we pay for. Yeah, why
is not even a thing?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, And I have to say one of the things
I found really interesting, I feel like I'm one of
the few people that somehow still watches a lot of ads.
I saw a lot of ads about this race, and
like Jordan, but they were specifically saying, like Georgia powers,
raising your prices. Republicans are with the billionaires and looking
(16:45):
the other way, And I just thought that was a
really like we might be coming to a turning point.
But you know, if people can't afford basic utilities, then yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Keep increasing the charge without any ability to dispute or
ask why. And it's just based on things including the
fact that when they build something or if something goes wrong,
they charge the consumer. Like they've admitted to all of
these things when they are a multimillion dollars if not
billion dollar company making amounts of money that are going
to people like Tim Nichols, who, by the way, was
(17:17):
so like nonchalant that he really thought he had it
in the bag, which was the first mistake because he
is an incumbent and he was like no, no, no, no,
and making all these shady deals behind closed doors. Which again,
if it's for the public, why are they having trade
deals that are secret? Yeah, exactly Again, Durand I don't
(17:38):
know her political stuff. I'm sure there's a lot of
things that when we come to the trough the black
she's not great, but for this instance, hats off, heads off.
We don't talk enough about that. But yes, so there
was a lot of great things, and I think, again,
what I'm concerned about it is that people don't seem
to be as concerned, Like, yeah, Republicans are kind of mad,
I'm doing all these racist tropes that they tip they
(18:00):
would in every and all ways in all the capacities.
But it's kind of like they've already figured out the
gerimadering thing. Things that are going to the Supreme Courts.
They're gutting the Voting Rights Act. We know what's happening.
So they don't seem to be as concerned as we
think they should be. But with things like California, who
is kind of you know, meeting them on their level
(18:21):
in this conversation, it does look better. But I am
concerned as to seeing that the State of Georgia does
not seem like they're shocked. I really think they thought
they were going to be kind of more untouchable than
they were. But the fact that they're not so worried,
or maybe they are, and they're just doing it in
secret as they typically do. And we're having bills, well,
we should be watching out for secret bills coming to
(18:43):
light soon. So there are things that we definitely have
to have that conversation. So there's some really great stuff.
But again with the really great stuff, we have to
continue to watch and see what is happening behind closed doors. Kemp,
he's got his legacy to suck up to all of
the Republicans here before he leaves. I'm actually surprised he's leaving.
(19:07):
I wonder if he's like made enough money so he's
feeling secure. That's only good I can or he's making
big plays later.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, maybe this is my conspiracy theory. We were talking
about conspiracy theories before this, but like, whatever is going
on with Marjorie Taylor Green, who I still think is terrible,
(19:35):
but she said some things that are like what that
are very I don't know, democratic leaning, I don't know,
but I'm like, did she get a deal with CNA?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Because she's also leaving, so I'm just I'm always like,
did you get a book deal? What the thing are you?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
A Canice Owen's like, are you going to back and
become your own network? Well see AOC responded this, and
AOC's response was that she feels like Marjorie Taylor Green
is going scorched earth because her people did not back her,
so she quickly found out that whole like all but me,
(20:15):
if I play this game, they'll they'll support me as
a one woman. And then she found out, oh no,
they're gonna be misogynistic and sex this towards me too.
What let me flip this because Trump did not give
the approval for her to run for governor, which she
would she was actually looking to do, and then when
she did not have any support, after sucking up to
(20:36):
Mega as much as she did, she was like, well, fine,
I'm gonna do the opposite. It's kind of too late
because we over here in this lead left leading era
were like, no, we know what you did. You will
never forget what you did. We will never accept you
into this like like we'll say that if you're okay,
like as in like you do you great, we'll stop,
(20:57):
I guess calling you out as much. If you don't
say stupid things in her ass, if you don't say
ignorant things right and stop poraspic people. Great, But we're
never going to be like, oh yeah, definitely she should
represent us.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Never like the people that we'd like, we still don't trust.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Right, Yeah, it's just bizarre enough to be like.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh, no, what when you start agreeing with people that
you despise, there's this level like you have to question.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Why, yeah, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And then you realize, oh, they're being racist on a
different level or the backpackond guess they have to make
money on a different level versus this is what I've
always thought, and now it's making them money or making
them like clickbait.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't know. Honestly, My main
point of this is because I really don't know what
to make of it, is that I I the first
thing I thought was she's got some other deal going on, Yeah,
something else and probably yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Kimp too. I feel that way about Kemp coming around
and be like, you're too quiet. There's something happening or
he's being very quiet, because this is kind of what
he did when he first ran, when he was actually
a part of the election board and didn't like renounce
himself while he was running. I'm like, do you not
see the conflict eventual? Oh you don't care? This kind
(22:28):
of same level that he did a lot of things underhandedly,
very quietly so no one would blast them, which is
kind of what he does in general.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know that weird it is, and
I have to say, like again, out of Trump's administration
because it's such a like circus show. There have been
a lot of books that have, like I knew, I
(22:56):
don't even know how many, but so many books, so
many specials, so many things have come out of this,
and it's an odd system to be like, I was
backing Trump for this long, but here's my book, Takedown
of Him. Please buy it, right, it's very bizarre system.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, it's the same people who's like, well, it's making
me money now to be under Trump and getting my
name up there. Oh, this is a one step too far.
I'm going to remove myself from there, wait a few
years and then come back yep, and hope that they's
accepted and that the anti Trumpers, which there's a lot
(23:39):
that just hate Trump and so are willing to do
that if it means giving him a bad name. But
it's just like, no, you are not trustworthy, no, because
there's nothing about like what, there's no flip here like
he was always this bad.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yes, and it took you this long to notice it
or either to care about it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, it just affected you at this point.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Exactly monetarily probably right.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
There's so many odd things. But like I will say,
Kimp was oddly he's forced to be a trumper without
actually ever being a trumper.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah mmmm that. I mean, everything is a mess right now.
So this is not like news. But man, the Republican
Party I buy. I'm like, how do you Either you
have to be for him, or you're you're not or
you're out, or you have to be silent and not
(24:38):
say anything.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
The other great news the Momster Liberty lost every single
one of the of the racist every single one. Can
we talk about? That's joyous that the campaign of banning
books and banning trans women and all of these things
they lost. That's glorious to see because for a minute
(25:02):
they were highly in power. So knowing that they lost
every single one, that's a beautiful moment.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That is nice.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
That's nice. I would end on that because it just
feels good.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It does feel good, it does.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It just feels good. Let us know what's going on
with in your area, because we love these victories that
let us know what's going on that we should be
watching because we also need to be very aware and
I think the more we are able to bring to
light the better we're able to have conversations and be
aware of who the right way is, like going down
the right path, because it's still confusing because also the
(25:38):
other conspiracy theory in this well, I didn't know the mom,
but the other conspiracy theory is that a lot of
people may be flipping to becoming quote unquote democratic in
order to pretend. We've seen a few times where they
flip that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Well, listeners, please let us
know listeners from around the world also don't happening. There's
a lot happening, and even though we have a lot
of episodes, it's really difficult to cover it all in
a way that is comprehensive. Yes, yes, So if you
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