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🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We’re not going to sugarcoat it. That election was tough. But there are some points of hope that can help us make our way forward. We got together in the studio to look at victories around the country for transit and safe streets, and to discuss how we can all hang in there together and continue making positive change in our communities.
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This episode was edited by Ali Lemer. It was recorded by Josh Wilcox at the Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. Transcriptions are by Russell Gragg. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear.
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone. I am Sarah Goodyear and this is the war on cars. I'm here in the studio with my co-host, Doug Gordon. Doug, I would normally ask, how are you doing? |
0:23.0 | But that's a little bit of a fraught question |
0:25.6 | as we're a week out from the presidential election. |
0:28.9 | And so I'm going to first ask, is it okay |
0:32.1 | if I ask how you're doing? |
0:34.3 | I was going to ask you, actually. |
0:36.1 | You know, you are married to a woman. Your |
0:39.3 | marriage could potentially be in jeopardy in the coming years. And honestly, one of my first |
0:44.4 | thoughts when this all went down was you. And my friends who are in relationships that could be |
0:51.9 | declared, if not illegal in their home states, federally banned. |
0:57.0 | Yeah, that's sort of where my head and my heart was. |
1:01.7 | You know, I had a feeling Trump was going to win. |
1:05.9 | I had staled myself for another electoral college popular vote split. |
1:14.4 | I didn't necessarily prepare myself for him winning the popular vote. You know, as the numbers come in, it's still pretty close. I think he's only |
1:18.9 | going to wind up winning by one or two percent. It's not the blowout, the mandate that the narrative |
1:25.0 | is suggesting. Yeah, I'm, it's not easy. |
1:30.1 | Yeah. |
1:30.3 | I've got a kid who has had many surgeries in his short life already, and I worry about |
1:35.9 | the Affordable Care Act and what that's going to mean for him and our family. |
1:39.6 | I'm Jewish. |
1:40.9 | I am really worried about anti-Semitism and what has been unleashed, not just here, but |
1:46.7 | everywhere. So other than that, doing great. I had a waffle this morning for breakfast with |
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