Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is Joe Hagen. I'm here with my co-host Emily Jane Fox. Hi Emily.

Hi Emily.

We find ourselves in a very mercurial moment in history.

We don't know what's going to happen next, what has happened in the last two weeks, two months has altered everything we can

think everything we thought was a solid reality has melted under our feet and there's all this

incredible feeling of possibility and danger and there's talk of you know a new civil war don't read Matt Drudge whatever you do if

you want to like survive psychologically just that's a general rule as a general rule it's an full of alarm you know we're

talking about civil war statues coming down there's talk of you know taking down

the Washington monument you know there's talk of you know taking down the Washington monument you know there's

incredibly powerful political energy in this country right now. There's it feels like

the very very very beginning of absolutely necessary

progress in conversations and listening that have been so long overdue and a lot has changed in the last two weeks, not nearly enough,

and I think we're really just at the start of what will continue to change and evolve.

I feel sad, I feel ignorant, I feel hopeful for what is to come, and I feel like we are just at the start of what

will be a pivotal moment in United States history, particularly because of the

protests because of the pandemic and we are also in an election year where

all of those things will be given, we'll have a referendum on them, an up or down vote

on what we want this country to look like over the next two, five, six, eight years.

And that is the most powerful right and responsibility

that we have as Americans right now. I mean, part of it is staying at home part of it is listening or lending your voice or your pocketbook or your platform and a huge part of it is how we're able to turn up in November and the energy

that we are feeling over the last couple of weeks to make our values known, we'll transfer into what we decide to do in November.

And Joe, that is why the interview that you've done this week is sort of my fantasy interview.

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