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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok Api Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording at the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I can not believe it. We have made it to

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Speaker 1: the last woke f Daily episode of twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: First of all, special announcement. We will be this very

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Speaker 1: hard working team that is made up of myself and

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Speaker 1: my producer Andrew, who have been working together for the

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Speaker 1: last five years, are taking a break between Christmas and

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Speaker 1: New Year, so there will not be new content because

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Speaker 1: what we've decided is that we're going to take our

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Speaker 1: own advice, which is I tell folks to rest all

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Speaker 1: the time, to take a break so that you don't

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Speaker 1: have a breakdown. And you know, what you don't know

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Speaker 1: is that in order to have content between the week

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Speaker 1: of Christmas and New Year's it requires a lot, a lot,

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Speaker 1: a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of pretaping.

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Speaker 1: And as you all know, I am also the host

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Speaker 1: of two other shows, and so our gift to ourselves

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Speaker 1: this year was to say, hey, we're actually going to

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Speaker 1: take a real break and allow ourselves to breathe. So

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Speaker 1: today's episode will be the last episode until we return

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Speaker 1: with fresh content in January. So folks, let's now that

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Speaker 1: housekeeping is out of the way, take a look back

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Speaker 1: at twenty twenty two. You know, I've been doing a

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Speaker 1: lot of reflective urine review TV shows quick Plug. I

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Speaker 1: will be on Simone Show on Christmas Eve at four

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Speaker 1: pm on MSNBC. So if you are cooking and preparing

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Speaker 1: that out at four pm Eastern on Christmas Eve. I

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Speaker 1: will also be joining did a wonderful pre tape which

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about, folks seeing with the Reverend Al

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Speaker 1: Sharpton for his twelfth annual Reavie Awards, which will take

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Speaker 1: place on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at five

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern. And if you don't want to watch it

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Speaker 1: be on your television on both of those days. So,

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Speaker 1: as I've been doing these Year in reflection, I have

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Speaker 1: been kind of thinking about my own, you know, year

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Speaker 1: for the past couple of years since COVID probably right,

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Speaker 1: So since twenty twenty I have spent New Year's Eve

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Speaker 1: in my wonderful apartment, saging, journaling, lighting candles, setting intentions,

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Speaker 1: and it has been a really wonderful way to end

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve for my entire life, even as a kid,

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Speaker 1: Eve in my household, in my life has always played

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Speaker 1: And so I found myself on you know, one year,

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Speaker 1: Thank you all for an amazing twenty twenty two. I

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Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck. Happy holidays, friends,