They regain power. Theyre telling us. Theyre being straight about it. They will appeal lower Prescription Drug prices and raise drug prices. The Social Security and medicare. Theyll pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy, make them permanent, but they are not now individual tax cuts. Delta and the very foundation of american economy, if we dont meet their demands. Heres the thing, thats not conjecture. You dont have to just take the president s word for it. This week, in an interview with punchbowl news, House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy, he laid out his vision as a potential speaker, and that includes holding the economy hostage, refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless his demands for spending cuts are met. Now, this all sounds familiar, it should. Congress raised the that ceiling three times when donald trump was president. The Washington Post reporting it as avoiding the market rattling, economic showdowns that Congressional Republicans had force one democratic president barack obama was in office. U. S. Soared seven trillion dollars when trump was in the administration, a healthy reminder that republicans only spent care about spending limits when a democrat is in the white house. To their credit, democrats should do something about government spending. On friday, the federal budget cut in half, fiscal year 2022, from 2. 8 trillion dollars to 1. 4. Mccarthy is also adopting the politics of the pass with the gop midterm agenda. Last month, mccarthy unveiled his commitment to america pledge, marrying new can gorgeous contract with america in 1994 but reminder, this is 2022, and in 17 days, well see if the recycled strategy will win out over democrats for solutions. Joining me now, Judith Browne dianis, a sensitive director for the advancement project. Judith, 17 days out, a lot of voters, you talk to reporters, they are nervous about the economy, how can democrats convince them not to turn the government and with it, the economy, overturn republicans . Alicia, we did polling of gen z voters and voters of color. In particular, we wanted to focus on them because we know that they are the new majority. They are the ones who will be the majority of people of color, running this country, and wanted to see where they are. So, the note to democrats is that young people, that is their number one issue, inflation. Just the goods and necessities, housing costs, but heres the thing. If they dont know which party and which candidates actually stand with them are not going to help them. Democrats have to make clear that they are with them and that they have solutions. They have to reach them where they actually are. Well talk about that in just a minute. You know, judith, alexander patrick, i dont know if you ever read her in the Washington Post, but she does a parody that i sometimes have to go back and read to make sure that i am understanding the joke she writes. A vote republican, and we guaranteed to do our level best to distract you from the economy by impeaching everybody in government, putting Marjorie Taylor greene in charge of your things. And in our spare moments, urging the Supreme Court to eliminate any rights or protections that might be lying around. It would be very funny, judith, if were not partially true. As you see it, what is at stake for the biden agenda if republicans win back both branches of congress, with houses of congress. It is everything, right . Its voting rights, its the abortion ban. We have already seen the republicans moving Congress Quickly to try to put into place and abortion ban, so we know that is there. Everything, tax rates, well have lots of tax breaks, and we will be paying tax breaks. Immigration issues, we know how horrible they are on immigration issues, so its all on the line right now, and its very scary, the idea that they might just control both the house and the senate. So, its important. I think people know what is on the line, but they cant get through all of the stag to understand who are the people that are going to help us . Who are the people that will get us out of the mess that we are in. I also find it interesting, judith, whenever you do these pollings, the number of polling, the number of issues that can sort of be seen through multiple lenses. You can talk about threats to democracy, you can understand that in the context of 16. There are other voters who are understanding and answering that question in the context of having a country where they feel that there is political polarization. On the question of crime, this is something that republicans have wanted to run on. They believe that is a winning issue for them and it has been interesting to watch democrats jiujitsu this issue back from them, as it relates to 16, and as it relates to guns and gun safety. I want you to take a listen to this moment from belt demings debate with senator marco rubio. Youve done nothing, nothing to help address gun violence and get dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people. The truth of the matter is at the end of the day, americans have a Second Amendment right to protect themselves, and these colors out there, its their intent on killing as they are, they have found multiple ways to get a hold of weapons and cause must destruction. How long will you watch people being gunned down in first grade, fourth grade, high school, college, synagogues, grocery store, movie theater, a mile and a nightclub and do nothing . Heres the thing, judith, if republicans want to run on crime, it would seem they also have to grapple with this issue. That is right. Here is the nuance of this, they are running on law and order, because they dont want to talk about guns. Unfortunately, there are a lot of democrats who run on law in order to, and who are falling into the shop. Rudy, what people want is something done around gun violence prevention. They want something done about access to guns, so thats really where the sweet spot is for democrats, who continue to talk about the. In fact, in our poll, the issue step for gen z voters, in particular, first was inflation, second was Racial Discrimination and racism. Third was Abortion Access because this is after the Supreme Court, and then forth was gun violence prevention. Theyre scared. Describe to go to the mall. Scared for their younger brothers and sisters to go to school. That has got to be the nuance, and without talking about democrats, defund the police, refund the police and talk about the thing that people care about, which is the guns that are in the hands of people who we need protections for people, so that they dont have access to guns in the way we do right now. When you talk about those issues that are important to gen z, or to talk a little bit about student debt and bring in harry litman, Legal Affairs columnist for the l. A. Times. On friday, a federal appeals temporarily blocked President Bidens Student Debt Relief program. Can you talk us through what is next in the legal battle . Its really just a very brief delay, alicia. What the court said is you challenge and you want to stop everything for now, well do it for a few days until you give us the papers, and then well decide. I know that there was a fair bit of panic. Everything has been shut down, but its just a temporary risk until they can get the arguments in and decide whether or not to actually enjoy the program. Harry, it does not bode well . I would not say that, actually. All theyre saying is, we really have to queue it over, and there have been many decisions today. They said, theres no standing here. Nobody has a right to challenge it. Thats an argument in that case to. Courts do this sort of thing, just to let them get the papers in, et cetera, in case there will be reputable injuries. I think we should hold it off for a week before saying that. All right, harry, its one of those times that i am very happy to be told that i am wrong. I would be even happier to be proven wrong. Judith, hes the reason i want to bring in harry and talk about this. There is student Debt Forgiveness on its merits, put then there is also this back and forth that we are seeing play out in realtime, where you have President Biden and our colleague Jonathan Capehart interview, i want you to imagine what it will be like if republicans gain control. They are going to start undoing, dismantling what ive done. The administration had open the doors for borrowers to begin submitting their applications. This was becoming very real to people, so the possibility that something that seemed like a step forward to people could be taken away, to me, it distills in every away the threat that democrats are ready to make clear to voters. The court cases will move forward. But at the end of the day, this is a another way in which there has got to be a connection to voters. They have to make it real clear who is against this. Who is bringing these lawsuits to stop this . Its not democrat governors, right, these are the republicans. So, not only are they pushing through abortion bans, but they also want to make sure that there is no debt cancellation. So, it is pretty clear, i dont, know a good pr person, i do not even know if you have to be a good pr person to get the word out around this midterm. Because to me, it is pretty clear. I think people will be fired up if they get the right message and we get the right messengers out there telling. It julia, thank you for being with. Us can i have one yes, harry, but then you had come, back to get more time on the other side. I mean, this is all, true the failed policy. But were talking about the 300 people who are embrace the big lie. Wartime of Marjorie Taylor greene, who has said we should execute democrats. Its not just the policies, its the crazy kind of stoppage of government. Merrick garland, get your calendar out. That also should be on the ballot. Absolutely, theres so much happening in the atmosphere. Again, thank you, judith. Coming up, our theme of the hour, what if republicans win . Harry just laid it out. Miss Secretary Of State Jocelyn Benson, an election denier. They are running for office in her state and across the country. And next, the trump subpoena from the January 6th Committee. It is out. Harry tells us what we learned, and what comes next. First, Jessica Layton who is standing by with the other big stories were watching this hour at msnbc. Jessica . Hi, alicia. We continue to fall that Breaking News out of texas where investigators are working to determine a motive for that deadly shooting today at methodists dallas medical center. To Hospital Workers there were killed. Police say they did confront the gunman, and they shot him. The suspect survived, and we are told he has been moved to a another hospital. Hurricane rosslyn is now a category four storm and barreling toward Mexicos Pacific coast. 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The january Six Committee, with a fresh subpoena for former President Trump and eighth sentence for his ex advisor steve bannon. The committee wants the committee to turn over documents by november 4th, and testify week before the election. As robin, and yesterday a judge sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of congress. Bannon will remain free while he appeals. All right, lippman argues that trump enablers who took the fifth should pay the same price, writing quote, the House Committee lack the time and muscle to force them to cooperate. Now, the Justice Department should aggressively pursue their testimony and investigate their possible criminal conduct. Back with us, Los Angeles Times columnist harry litman, hes a former u. S. Attorney and a host of the podcast. Andy kroll, hes the author of a death on w street, the murder of seth rich and the age of conspiracy. All right, harry, your impressions of the subpoena. Did anything we learned yesterday surprise you . While, a, little first, it was very striking that four page letter that just eviscerated him. It was blistering. That was not part of the subpoena. So, that was just sort of added. And i think it is a little bit of a portent of what the report is going to look like. Then, there are a couple of interesting things. They wanted to know every phone he had used january 6th. So, they are on to him about this trick of grabbing an aids phone and using it so his phone does not have any records. And then finally, they subpoenaed anything about scott perry and other members of congress. While, of course, perry is a member of congress. So, it suggested they were really shining the spotlight on that one scheme where perry introduces trump to jeff clark, who is going to proceed to try to take over the department of justice, prompting a threat for everybody to reside. So, that, those little details. Otherwise, they just said give us everything. And we will see you on the fourth or 14th. But i do not think they really anticipate that he will comply. To that point, andy, trump claimed, claimed he was willing to testify during the mueller investigation. We know how that turned out. Is there anything to his strategy here other than delay, delay, delay . I cannot imagine that the former president , his lawyers especially, would want him anywhere near giving live testimony or sitting for a deposition with this committee and handing over the extensive amount of documentation that the committee asked for. As harry pointed out, the committee is asking for communications between all of these different figures who were central to trumps effort to subvert the last election. I will also mention the election or lawyer keweenaw mitchell, the constitutional scholar john eastman, and these people who were in the subpoena would have a luminous evidence, presumably, and would certainly be critical to understand trumps role in communications. But we have seen the president avoid these kinds of requests for information before, and all kinds of other litigation. Weve seen his allies plead the fifth and go out of the way to avoid cooperating with the January 6th Committee in a substantive way. Its impossible to see how trump, in this instance, as one to step forward and say, actually, i would love to sit in front of this committee and tell you what i know. And addition to all of the grandstanding, i think there is some sort of winking and nodding to his base that is like i wanted to do it, it just did not work out, continuing his narrative that is nowhere near reality. Harry, i want to ask you, congressman jamie raskin says the committee is closely examining the Secret Service. Take a listen. A number of the actions undertaken by the Secret Service have raised serious suspicions on the part of different members of the committee. And we intend to get to the bottom of that. That is a matter of utmost gravity. The Secret Service demands complete professionalism. And not political loyalty to a particular individual. Harry, to say nothing at the potential consequences for our national safety, for a national security, talk me through the potential consequences then for those agents who cover for trump. They got to get the bottom of it, and thats that number one. I dont know if they will have time. I dont think it is too likely if the house changes hands, but theres reason to think that people just destroyed their tax, even though they knew that they werent supposed to, and we now know that they received all these really dire warnings of murderous action by the proud boys, and they later said, well, we did not get anything. Those are two scandalous that really are at risk of being very depending on what happens to congress. Congressman raskins right to express the intention, but congress has to alqaeda and type of investigation. Some of them are potential crimes, that the doj could look into, but there is a risk that what would in other days be a megaton scandal, might actually just be set to the site. Throughout this hour, we have been talking about what it could look like if republicans win in november, whether were talking about the economy, whether were talking about reproductive freedoms, so i want to talk about what happened specifically to the general Six Committee, should republicans take control of the house come january. How that Ticking Clock then plays into the subpoena, your thoughts . I have been talking to members of the january Six Committee, and their advisers. They are very much thinking of this work as a race against the clock, and that clock ends at the end of the year. That is what is in the Organization Framework for the jenner Six Committee and with the Midterm Election so close right now, with control of the house voting very much on a knifes edge going into the Midterm Elections, theyre planning and working assesses they can to do as much as they can under the assumption that come january, come a possible change of control in congress, speaker Kevin Mccarthy or whoever the republican speaker might be, is not going to say, hey, take another six months or, hey, continue to offshoot into the Secret Service. This new speaker is not only going to shut down the committee but potentially look for ways to retaliate, potentially look for ways to undermine the work that has already been done. So they have a window of time now, a couple of months to try to get everything in and everything on the record that they can before the possible change happens. W bat for our democracy, both the undoing of the workday done and the possibility that you would have congress focus instead on retaliation. Harry, andy, thank you both so much. Next, more than half of the republicans on the ballot this november denied the results of the 2020 election. Can Secretary Of State Jocelyn Benson on what is at stake for voters in her state and beyond. Democrats keep control of congress, President Biden wanted to codify roe. I will ask the president of emilys list, a democrat Enthusiasm Post obscene carry to november. To november. And ask your doctor about biktarvy. Biktarvy is a complete, onepill, onceaday treatment used for hiv in certain adults. Its not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights hiv to help you get to and stay undetectable. Thats when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. Research shows people who take hiv treatment every day and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit hiv through sex. 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If these Secretary Of State win, what is it actually want to mean for our democracy . I, mean it is a five alarm fire. It means that we will have people in charge of our democracy who do not believe in democracy, people who have shown already through their actions in 2020 that they will not stand by or support the will of the people if they do not agree with it. Now, what this also means, and what we can expect them to do, is implement policies that make voting more confusing. Use their platforms as a opportunity to spread information. And then stand in the way or potentially block the certification of election results, typically in 2024 president ial election, if they for whatever reason, disagree the will of the people. You walk us through the life cycle of an election. Im particularly interested in the fact they have farright groups weaponizing that mistrust and actually Training Thousands of poll workers. Your sense of what that is going to mean for the process . In all things, we have to remember that the law, the constitution are squarely on the side of democracy. And there are protections in place to ensure voter intimidation, wherever it comes from, is illegal. And we will work to enforce that law. And there are also efforts to ensure that if poll workers i mean, poll workers are employees of the local communities that they serve. And if they violate the law, they could be removed, even in the middle of an election day. So, we have plans in place to ensure that, if there are the poll workers are clear what their roles and responsibilities are. And if they depart from them or in any way break the law or violate the ethical responsibilities of Election Workers they will be removed. And we have people on standby ready to step in and replace poll workers, in case they dont show up or are removed. Your gop rival has accused you of using voter mules, dead people to cast ballots. I mean, how do you run against someone who is not living in the same reality . I think its a question of truth versus lies, Conspiracy Theories versus fact, experience, and defending a mobocracy in a time like this. My opponent is someone who did not stand by the results of the election in 2020, still to this day. And actually, in 20, 20 was trying to stop ballot votes from being counted. She pedals in Conspiracy Theories and has no vision for how she would run the department of state, other than to say her agenda would be to write her own personal politics. And this is not unique to michigan. We see similar votes folks running to take these positions in arizona, as you mention, nevada, minnesota. This is the moment where voters who are upset or perhaps concerned about our democracy need to step up and ensure that those defending our democracy in the future are serving as Secretary Of State, not those who denied the right to vote for voters across this country. It strikes me that just last night President Biden called out republicans for harassing lawmakers and Election Officials like yourself. Take a listen. We are at one of those Inflection Points in history, where we have reached a point where there has been such a division that you have what i call the mega maga republicans, who think it is all right to threaten violence. That is not appropriate. They talk about how they are concerned about security, but yet, you saw what happened on january 6th, the whole world saw it. But i think there is reason for concern. I, i, i wonder both the how where you are for your security as well as your of employees. I understand the stakes are very high. But i also understand that you personally have a lot at stake. Like, why stay in it, why continue to fight . I mean, it is exhausting. And it is hard to always be looking over your shoulder and be on edge and be prepared to withstand any potential attacks, threats, or harassment. This is what we have been dealing with. This has been our normal for over two years now. But the reality is, and you know, we talked before. I start my career in selma, alabama. And the truth of defending our democracy overtime really runs through our history. That people need to be willing to stay on the front lines. And it was the case in selma in 1965, they face Billing Clubs and tear gas, it just we could have a right to vote. So, we have these moments, like we all do, where we are overwhelmed with the challenges that are facing us. But they are really challenges that are facing our democracy. And as someone who signed up to guard minority, as michigan Secretary Of State, i embrace those challenges. And work to make them stronger and connect us with those who defended democracy throughout the history of our country. Secretary Jocelyn Benson, thank you so much for being with us. 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I want to bring in Laphonza Butler, she is the president of emilys list, and she is rallying voters ahead of this election. Here is the thing weve been talking about, laphonza, which is there is sort of the reality we need to be talking about and thinking about, which is if republicans were to gain control of the legislature, what is it that they would do . We know, we know what democrats would do. You had President Biden saying im going to codified dobbs, thats the first thing were gonna do. You kind of dont have republicans all singing from the same song book about what is they want to do. You have Lindsey Graham out there talking about a national, a federal ban. And have other republicans saying, i dont know, that may go too far. Your sense of what voters need to be prepared for on this key issue, if you are existing in a reality where republicans win in november . Yeah, alicia, thanks for having me. And i think, well, right now in this moment, it may seem as if the member of the Republican Party are in different places. We just have to be reminded that they have consistently, from their leadership, said since the past since dobbs was decided and roe was overturned, whether it was Mitch Mcconnell or Kevin Mccarthy or mike pence or Lindsey Graham, what is consistent is they are determined to take away freedom from people in this country to make decisions about their own body, and to ensure that they themselves, elected officials, have the power and control to make decisions for every woman in this country. Now, what form that shows up in, you know, who amongst us knows. But they have been very consistent in what they plan to do. They havent scrubbing their websites and softening their language, i think it is clear that they have communicated what they intend to do. And i dont think the American People are gonna be fooled by one bit. The Dobbs Decision, i dont need to tell you, the Registration Surge of new voters, particularly women, particularly young, particularly democratic, absolutely huge. How do you translate that surge in registration into wins . It is not taking a single vote for granted. It is the candidates doing in the work to communicate their values, their goals and intentions. To represent the will of the American People, it is getting out the message. It is the actions that we see every single day by ordinary people all over this country who are determined to have their voices heard. Whether it is the 30,000 new registrants in North Carolina since the Dobbs Decision. Or what we see taking place with voting in states all over the country where women and young women, mostly democrats, think are showing up in record numbers. It is what we saw in kansas. It is ensuring that we are doing the work. We are not leaving a single voter untouched or an engaged. And we are communicating clearly about what is at stake. And it is our very freedom that is on the ballot this november. And in the case of kansas, you saw something where was not necessarily a bunch of women, democratic women, who would call themselves pro choice necessarily. It was a wider coalition, some of which felt that this was extreme government overreach, that the government had overstepped. Something you keep hearing, laphonza, and you are probably hearing it even more than i am because of the work that you do, if you look at the polling, you are not as fired up about roe, theyre not as fired up about abortion as they were a few weeks ago, months ago, when the Dobbs Decision was fresh. I think part of that is that you cannot seem esoteric to people, right. Since roe was overturned, State Restrictions still having a big impact on americans. I want to play some sound. I think a lot of folks have heard it. But its really important. Its a texas woman, she had a medical issue with her pregnancy at 18 weeks was told miscarriage was inevitable. But she could not get an abortion. Lets listen to some of her story. I could not make the decision to myself. We could not make the decision for our daughter, our doctors could not make the decision. I mean, they were just as furious as we wear because their hands were tied. I had they acted, they would have been charged with a felony. Being told that you are going to lose your baby and you just have to live with it for several days, theres nothing we can do. I was left, you know, wanting either to get so sick that my life was at risk. Or that my babys heart stopped beating, so that it could be over. That sound is absolutely devastating, that story is devastating, we are grateful to that mom for being willing to share her story. There is also just the truth that that is not an isolated incident, right. This is happening all across this country. Part of what a crystallizes is there is a right, there is a concern, there are people who are motivated by that right. There is also basic health care that is being denied. You know, alicia, it tears my heart apart. And i know for the viewers who are watching, and those all across the country who know someone who has faced similar circumstances since these extreme laws have been put in place in state after state, where republicans control the legislature, or control, and control the governors mansion. That is, you know, so clear, a story that continues to make the point so clear that politicians should not be in our doctors offices. That it has these decisions are complex, they are heartwrenching for families who have to go through it. And then what we have got to do is not is to make sure that we go to the ballot this november to elect democratic, prochoice women and prochoice candidates who are going to stand with the will of the majority of the American People and ensure that women are able to make these decisions with their families and what their physicians. And i just join you in appreciating the courage of that woman and her family for sharing her story and making this all Crystal Clear what really is at stake this november. Laphonza butler as always, thank you for your time. Tomorrow at 3 pm eastern, do not miss a special from my colleague yasmin , lets talk about, it abortion rights. Yasmin went to pennsylvania to get answers from voters on both sides of the aisle, that is tomorrow 3 pm eastern on msnbc. Next, bringing her experience to life. My conversation with Tony Award Winning playwright quiara hudes on her return to feeder. Her return to feeder. Tual. 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Quiara, i want to read you something you said in a speech delivered four years ago. I fear that the ways theater has harm me are winning out over the ways theater has nourish me. What was the harm . And why come back now . Part of the harm is that, you know, our National Institutions develop memory just of their habits over the years. And latinos did not evolve with the regional theater and the National Theater landscape. So, Writing Out Of My identity, out of the philly reconsider is i inherited, and bringing those stories to spaces where actors are, you know, theres Latina Actors Performing onstage to essentially historically white institution. Its after a few years that accumulates and starts to feel like, what is going on here . And are we performing identity or performing our truth . And it can be confusing. It can be exhilarating, because you are crossing cultural boundaries. But it can be alienating. So, i took a step back and said let me write a book, maybe that will reach different audiences. My broken language has been described as the burial in philadelphia in the 90s and a family held together by women. Recalling the uplift, the spirits, the dance, navigating the margins of many communities, they forge a language all their own. As true as it is of the play, it seems its true of all of you as a community of working actors offstage, i wonder when you have been this for each other . I think we have created a family and we have become pillars for each other. The process of reversing this play has been really illuminating, and has brought me back to myself, because i felt the wounds as well. And we have become each others touchstone, so that we can come home. And its a celebration and joy and rapturous, at the same time we are spending time with the pain, the valleys, that inevitably cross upon our lives. Rules for complicated, interesting women are hard to come by. You layer on being latina and having to convince Casting Agents that you could play any role. Those rules dont come around every day. I thought perhaps a career is supposed to look a certain way, because of how what i saw out there, also having people say, while, you dont really look like an actress. Or that is not the dialect that i am looking for. Because when it comes out of your mouth, it sounds a little different. To know how to navigate those comments, you find where you do belong. I remember when quiara said to me yeah this is a industry that does not just not care about you, it really does want to keep you down. And i remember just the heartbreak of that, and agreeing. And here we are, years later, you know, we got over that. And now we are telling stories again, and forging a language. Your frequent collaborator, linmanuel miranda, said describing you that you are in touch with spirits, a woman who went into play writing because she sensed that her familys stories, those in puerto rico, there was in philadelphia, would fade if she did not give them language. I wonder what it has been like to work onstage in this production while also watching what is happening on the island of puerto rico. In the context of knowing that our loved ones are maybe still without power there on the island, and our community is struggling on the island, its, its planting a flag and saying there is still joy, there is still resilience, there is still a part of our spirit that finds a way thats actually genius at finding a way. Because weve had to. Its not random geniuses, its inherited that comes out of real practice. So, thats part of what were doing, is saying we are here. I like to say when my moms generation arrived in philadelphia, they had to build the community. They did not have time to tell their story. Either time to tell the story. So, as the island is undergone crisis and hopefully building resilience and new ways forward, the storytelling has to keep up. You know, we are part of american history. I feel that strongly and loudly. It was not in my High School History class. So im doing my little bit here and on the stage to say no, were part of the american records too. I remember when you were first staging water by the spoonful, your cousin, about whom this is based, was in the audience, yes, sitting next to you. And his leg was shaking. And you are so nervous because you are like, oh, my god, ive told a story thats not just my story to tell. This story, i mean, you are cracking the whole family wide open. Do you have those nerves this time around . Or do you now know its sort of going to be okay . The reason i start writing the play is because i remember year we danced hardest. Its the year that [speaking spanish] came out, kicking our butts all the time. We play the tape so often, the tape broke. Its one of the most joyous years in my memory. It was also the hardest year for us, because there was so much lost that year. And i said, how can that be . How can it be that we danced like, no one knew joy we experience, when there is fuel after funeral . If the 80s and 90s, remember these towns and cities. It was very hard. And i said i have to write about that. Thats theres Something Special there, and those two things to exist together. And so, you know, i have to be real. Im dealing with painful times in my family and joyce times. And sometimes, medicine, you know, even when you are trying to heal, can reopen the wound a little. So, i just try to be careful and loving in the work. But also, be honest and let the work go there to those real and the places. And indeed it does. 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