Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok Api Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording at the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I can not believe it. We have made it to
Speaker 1: the last woke f Daily episode of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: First of all, special announcement. We will be this very
Speaker 1: hard working team that is made up of myself and
Speaker 1: my producer Andrew, who have been working together for the
Speaker 1: last five years, are taking a break between Christmas and
Speaker 1: New Year, so there will not be new content because
Speaker 1: what we've decided is that we're going to take our
Speaker 1: own advice, which is I tell folks to rest all
Speaker 1: the time, to take a break so that you don't
Speaker 1: have a breakdown. And you know, what you don't know
Speaker 1: is that in order to have content between the week
Speaker 1: of Christmas and New Year's it requires a lot, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of pretaping.
Speaker 1: And as you all know, I am also the host
Speaker 1: of two other shows, and so our gift to ourselves
Speaker 1: this year was to say, hey, we're actually going to
Speaker 1: take a real break and allow ourselves to breathe. So
Speaker 1: today's episode will be the last episode until we return
Speaker 1: with fresh content in January. So folks, let's now that
Speaker 1: housekeeping is out of the way, take a look back
Speaker 1: at twenty twenty two. You know, I've been doing a
Speaker 1: lot of reflective urine review TV shows quick Plug. I
Speaker 1: will be on Simone Show on Christmas Eve at four
Speaker 1: pm on MSNBC. So if you are cooking and preparing
Speaker 1: for Christmas dinner and you want to still keep up
Speaker 1: on the news or watch her year in review, check
Speaker 1: that out at four pm Eastern on Christmas Eve. I
Speaker 1: will also be joining did a wonderful pre tape which
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about, folks seeing with the Reverend Al
Speaker 1: Sharpton for his twelfth annual Reavie Awards, which will take
Speaker 1: place on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at five
Speaker 1: pm Eastern. And if you don't want to watch it
Speaker 1: on the holiday, then just dbr it. But I will
Speaker 1: be on your television on both of those days. So,
Speaker 1: as I've been doing these Year in reflection, I have
Speaker 1: been kind of thinking about my own, you know, year
Speaker 1: of reflection. What have I been through this year and
Speaker 1: for the past couple of years since COVID probably right,
Speaker 1: So since twenty twenty I have spent New Year's Eve
Speaker 1: in my wonderful apartment, saging, journaling, lighting candles, setting intentions,
Speaker 1: and it has been a really wonderful way to end
Speaker 1: the year. I realized that in my youth, when I
Speaker 1: was younger, I wanted to be at every party, do everything.
Speaker 1: I've watched the ball drop in Times Square, I've gone
Speaker 1: to house parties, I've gone to big club parties. I've
Speaker 1: gone to sleepovers and hang out said you know, New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve for my entire life, even as a kid,
Speaker 1: was always a big deal. My grandparents used to throw
Speaker 1: you know, huge family parties and people would come in
Speaker 1: from all over to their holiday parties. So New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve in my household, in my life has always played
Speaker 1: a major part. And I think that as I got older,
Speaker 1: and you know, we all went through this thing called
Speaker 1: a global health pandemic and slowed down a bit and
Speaker 1: started to ask ourselves, well, how do I really want
Speaker 1: to start the new year? Do I want to start
Speaker 1: it hungover and clinging to a toilet because I have
Speaker 1: imbibed too much the night before? Do I want to
Speaker 1: start it out exhausted? And because of the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, you know, all of those big plans that
Speaker 1: that you're usually deciding in between, you know, weren't happening.
Speaker 1: And so I found myself on you know, one year,
Speaker 1: having a wonderful you know, early New Year's Eve lunch
Speaker 1: with one of my best friends and then you know,
Speaker 1: off to go do our own thing in the evening.
Speaker 1: I have, you know, had wonderful dinners, early dinners with
Speaker 1: my sister because she would usually fly out to head
Speaker 1: back abroad on New Year's Eve, and so that had
Speaker 1: become our tradition. And I found myself really enjoying this
Speaker 1: solitude and kind of being with my thoughts and not alone.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm facetiming all, you know, throughout after the
Speaker 1: ball drops, facetiming and connecting with people and wishing everyone well.
Speaker 1: But there is something if you do have the ability
Speaker 1: to even entertain the idea. And I know many of
Speaker 1: you are parents or grandparents or caregivers, and so you
Speaker 1: probably don't have the opportunity to be in solitude, But
Speaker 1: if you do, even for an hour, even for an hour,
Speaker 1: not even the whole night, even for an hour, I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's before you're getting ready to go out and
Speaker 1: do your big New Year's Eve thing, take an hour
Speaker 1: to yourself, you know, clear the space out wherever you are,
Speaker 1: light a few candles, sit down in quiet or listening
Speaker 1: to some type of meditative track or classical music or
Speaker 1: something whatever helps you get into the zone of just
Speaker 1: being at ease, being you know, equal at equilibrium, being
Speaker 1: in flow and not in a rush. In quieting your
Speaker 1: mind and really reflect and find, let's say, five things
Speaker 1: to be grateful for that happened in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: to you personally. Could be, you know, things with work.
Speaker 1: It could be things with home. It could be I
Speaker 1: kept my plant alive all year. It could be I
Speaker 1: cooked something different that I never cooked before, or I
Speaker 1: called that person instead of waiting for them to call me.
Speaker 1: But think of five things to be grateful for for
Speaker 1: the year and then set your intention, because you know, folks,
Speaker 1: regardless of how the year actually twenty twenty three shapes
Speaker 1: up and we don't know right but regardless of what
Speaker 1: is happening on the outside, because we know that there
Speaker 1: will be turmoil and we know that there will be pain.
Speaker 1: We know that there will be more historic political events,
Speaker 1: in historic cateshy strophic storms. We know that there'll be
Speaker 1: more death. We know that they'll be more anxiety. You
Speaker 1: can't control everything that is happening around you, but the
Speaker 1: things that you can control is what is happening inside
Speaker 1: of you. And the gift that I have received over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years is really being able to
Speaker 1: be more focused on how I am feeling about a thing,
Speaker 1: what my perception is about something that is happening, The
Speaker 1: ability to disrupt old records that are playing in the
Speaker 1: back of our minds that are telling us that we
Speaker 1: need to be doing more or producing this, or we
Speaker 1: are not worthy of rest, or why am I taking
Speaker 1: a nap and recognize that. You know, I believe that
Speaker 1: it was Gandhi, you know who said that if you
Speaker 1: really want to change the world, start with yourself. And
Speaker 1: I find that those things, those kind of cliche quotes
Speaker 1: or things that affirmations that people say, they're really true.
Speaker 1: They're based in a lot of facts that if you
Speaker 1: really do want to see changes in the world, then
Speaker 1: start to model that. Because what I have found and
Speaker 1: what we all know, is that marinating in the madness
Speaker 1: telling ourselves that we're not deserving of rest, that we're
Speaker 1: only worth what we can produce, never getting off of
Speaker 1: that treadmill, beating ourselves up for the littlest things doesn't
Speaker 1: serve us. You know, I joked with a friend the
Speaker 1: other day and I said that if calling myself every
Speaker 1: name in the book every time that my weight goes
Speaker 1: up and down and up and down, if being mean
Speaker 1: to myself was the key to being thin, than I
Speaker 1: would be a supermodel. Right if beating myself up for
Speaker 1: not fitting into the right dress or the right size
Speaker 1: at the right time, in the right moment, pressuring myself
Speaker 1: to say, well, oh my god, I'm going to see
Speaker 1: these people in two weeks, so I must lose twenty
Speaker 1: five pounds in two weeks. If that were helpful, then
Speaker 1: it would have worked by now, right, And I just
Speaker 1: use that as one example. The point is that the
Speaker 1: world is mean enough, the world is angry enough. The world,
Speaker 1: if you allow it, will kick your ass up and
Speaker 1: down the street, unrelenting. It is the loving of ourselves
Speaker 1: and allowing that love to really grow, to really root
Speaker 1: in us that allows us to have the light and
Speaker 1: the enter to love up on those around us. And
Speaker 1: then through that love, through that piece, through that light,
Speaker 1: we make cracks into the darkness. Right, we find some
Speaker 1: light in the tunnel. That we find ourselves in at times.
Speaker 1: And no, it is in the oncoming train, right. It
Speaker 1: is growing that light that we allow to get dimmed
Speaker 1: throughout the year, dimmed and dimmed by other people's outside opinions,
Speaker 1: by their expectations. That sometimes by the time that we
Speaker 1: get to this time of year, we're exhausted and overrun
Speaker 1: with obligations, grief. You know, the end of the year
Speaker 1: is not always happy for people. It is just yet
Speaker 1: another stress or another thing that they have to do.
Speaker 1: And so I say to you, shift the narrative. Give
Speaker 1: yourself back some peace, give yourself back some gratitude from
Speaker 1: making it through this year, because frankly, too many people
Speaker 1: did not. Whether it were celebrities that we lost tragically,
Speaker 1: whether it was family members that you lost abruptly, or
Speaker 1: loved ones or pets. They call it the present because
Speaker 1: it really is a gift. And I also find that
Speaker 1: reflection is a gift. Not the turning over our shoulders
Speaker 1: and saying well I should have and I could have
Speaker 1: in all of that, No, but deep reflection that is
Speaker 1: actually rooted in gratitude. For me, the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: in building my own gratitude practice, I can't express to
Speaker 1: you how much it has really fundamentally changed my life
Speaker 1: because things that used to send me into a downward
Speaker 1: spiral of just darkness and despair. Now I have the
Speaker 1: power to disrupt that thought and ask myself, is that real?
Speaker 1: Is that true? We always speak and I just used
Speaker 1: it in absolutes, the always and the never. But our
Speaker 1: stories that we tell ourselves are they true? Or is
Speaker 1: it a matter of shifting our perspective of having gratitude
Speaker 1: for what is inside us and what is around us?
Speaker 1: Is that really the truth? Is that what meant matters?
Speaker 1: And I think that reflection and the ability to pause
Speaker 1: and again, even if it is just even if you
Speaker 1: don't have an hour, if it is a few minutes
Speaker 1: of being intentional, of breathing, of reflecting, of honoring yourself
Speaker 1: and how far you've come this year, give that gift
Speaker 1: to yourself. Because I think that this life train, y'all
Speaker 1: this spinning. You know, what would we cover that scientists
Speaker 1: had said that the Earth is now spinning faster this year,
Speaker 1: right because of climate change. Things aren't slowing down. And
Speaker 1: so if we're waiting for everything around us to slow down,
Speaker 1: rather than taking a queue from our exhaustion and slowing
Speaker 1: ourselves down, then we're not really listening. And I think
Speaker 1: that the opportunity to pause, to listen, to reflect is
Speaker 1: indeed a privilege, because there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: that don't have the time for that, that literally can't.
Speaker 1: Every second of every day is accounted for to somebody
Speaker 1: else other than themselves. And so if you do find
Speaker 1: yourself actually being able to shut down between Christmas and
Speaker 1: New Year's, being able to spend time that you want
Speaker 1: to spend time with family and friends, chosen family and
Speaker 1: friends as well, make sure to make some time for yourself.
Speaker 1: What I'm thinking this year is that I am going
Speaker 1: to I'm not going to commit to journaling every day,
Speaker 1: but I am going to commit to writing down my
Speaker 1: thoughts of how I'm feeling at the end of this
Speaker 1: year on New Year's and what my hopes are in
Speaker 1: what I hope to manifest in twenty twenty three, my
Speaker 1: hopes for myself and my hopes for the world. And
Speaker 1: I want to check in with those thoughts every couple
Speaker 1: of months, not as a well you need to do this,
Speaker 1: but just as a moment to say, did I accomplish
Speaker 1: what it was that I set out to do. Am
Speaker 1: I closer or have I changed my goals altogether? And
Speaker 1: being nimble and allowing myself the ability to do that.
Speaker 1: But I think it's important, particularly as time just seems
Speaker 1: to move faster, to really take pauses, write things down,
Speaker 1: do a voice diary, and mark the moments because they
Speaker 1: are fleeting. So my wish for all of you as
Speaker 1: we mark this new year is more groundedness, more peace,
Speaker 1: and more joy. That is about not what we can produce,
Speaker 1: but just steeped in who we are, finding things that
Speaker 1: really do give us a spark, give us a light,
Speaker 1: and doing more of that, and stumbling through the process
Speaker 1: of finding what those things are and enjoying being in
Speaker 1: the present and not as I said, and I have
Speaker 1: said to my girlfriend, not future casting, right, because manifestation
Speaker 1: is not about future casting. It's about setting your intentions.
Speaker 1: You know, the past is done, the present is happening,
Speaker 1: in the future is unknown. We can still desire and
Speaker 1: have desires for things that are we hope to come.
Speaker 1: But I find that I prefer to manifest than hope
Speaker 1: because manifesting, to me requires more action and intention. And
Speaker 1: so I wish for all of you the ability to
Speaker 1: manifest your intentions and the space to do that, and
Speaker 1: the care that it takes, the self care that it
Speaker 1: takes in order to make that happen. So, dear friends, now,
Speaker 1: with the minutes that we have left, I want to
Speaker 1: think about you know, I do this and I'm sure
Speaker 1: many of you do this too, with your family and friends.
Speaker 1: I like to do roses and thorns, right, the roses
Speaker 1: and thorns of the year, And we're going to do
Speaker 1: this the political style, the roses and thorns of this year,
Speaker 1: because my God, so much has happened. And I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people that do love watching all
Speaker 1: the year in review shows because so much happens that
Speaker 1: you actually forget, and it's good to be reminded all
Speaker 1: of the times that we thought that we were not
Speaker 1: going to get through, that we were not going to
Speaker 1: get to the other side, that we did. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's one of the powerful things about years
Speaker 1: in review. So roses and thorns, because chronologically I will
Speaker 1: never remember all of the things that have happened. A
Speaker 1: thorn of twenty twenty two was the overturning of Rob
Speaker 1: Wade fifty years of precedent, a woman and people with
Speaker 1: Uterus's bodily autonomy just gone. And I have admonished people
Speaker 1: for not taking to the streets and staying in the
Speaker 1: streets in the way frankly that the Iranian women and
Speaker 1: young people are in order to make it known that
Speaker 1: they will not be overrun be told what they can
Speaker 1: and cannot do. That was a real thorn of the year.
Speaker 1: To state it mildly, the Rose mid term elections. The
Speaker 1: polsters were wrong again. There was no red fucking wave.
Speaker 1: There wasn't even a red drip. Americans, particularly gen Z,
Speaker 1: people of color, black women, did the work that needed
Speaker 1: to be done and showed up at the polls in
Speaker 1: mass Why because democracy. He was on the line. Their
Speaker 1: lives were on the line. And while mainstream media wanted
Speaker 1: us to believe that, oh no, it's just the economy
Speaker 1: and people only care about their gas tank. No, no,
Speaker 1: people actually care about democracy. The election deniers did not
Speaker 1: win office in the way that they wanted to. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump does not have the Midas touch. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, everything that he touches turns into a lawsuit
Speaker 1: or shit. So that is the highlight that there is
Speaker 1: still a spark in all of us. The fight in
Speaker 1: all of us to hold on to our democracy, and
Speaker 1: I hope that it continues, because I will tell you
Speaker 1: that the push for authoritarianism and fascism hasn't gone away
Speaker 1: and hasn't eased up, and neither can we another thorn
Speaker 1: climate change run amok. We saw three quarters of Pakistan underwater.
Speaker 1: We have seen extreme weather across this country. In Nigeria,
Speaker 1: in remote places, in close places, every single storm and
Speaker 1: fire was historic. And the rose in that is that
Speaker 1: I think that people are starting to wake up and
Speaker 1: realize that climate change is in something that is impending,
Speaker 1: it is actually happening. And it's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why Generations Z came out in mass for midterm elections
Speaker 1: because they're like, we're inheriting this planet that you all
Speaker 1: are turning into a fucking trash heap. And there is
Speaker 1: no debate with our generation about whether or not it exists.
Speaker 1: It's like, how long is it going to take you
Speaker 1: all to get the fuck out of the way so
Speaker 1: we can actually do something about it? So that to
Speaker 1: me is a rose a thorn. So many mass shootings,
Speaker 1: so many mass shootings from Buffalo to Uvaldi to Club
Speaker 1: Q and to the countless countless shootings in between. America
Speaker 1: is sick. America has an obscene addiction to guns to violence.
Speaker 1: The Rose. President Biden pass gun safety legislation. Gun safety
Speaker 1: legislation hasn't been passed in this country for decades. Do
Speaker 1: I think that it went far enough? No? I don't.
Speaker 1: Did it ban assault rifles? No it didn't. It did
Speaker 1: some things, and so for that you get a rose.
Speaker 1: America's infrastructure crumbling so many ways, Thorn, And guess what.
Speaker 1: The infrastructure is only going to get beaten down more
Speaker 1: by what? Climate change? The Rose. The Biden administration did
Speaker 1: what the Trump administration said they were going to do
Speaker 1: but never did, which was actually pass an infrastructure bill
Speaker 1: that will begin to reshape this country and make investments
Speaker 1: right into smart technology, green technology, sustainable energies. So for that,
Speaker 1: get a rose. Donald Trump. Thorn has continued his crime
Speaker 1: spree against to America, ending the year with selling NFTs
Speaker 1: which are now funny enough losing value, as is Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So that makes sense. And another thorn is will Merritt
Speaker 1: Garland do what he needs to do? The Rose being
Speaker 1: the January sixth Bipartisan Committee did they laid out with
Speaker 1: ten hearings a million plus documents, hundreds of interviews. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump knew what he was doing. This wasn't an accident.
Speaker 1: January sixth wasn't an accident. It was planned. It was
Speaker 1: premeditated and done so at the behest of the criminal
Speaker 1: in chief, who wanted to thwart the will of the
Speaker 1: people and overturn a free and fair election. I can
Speaker 1: think of no greater crime than to not prosecute Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I don't even care if they lose. Want them to try,
Speaker 1: because the trying will say more about this country than
Speaker 1: ignoring it all together. Folks, there were so many ups
Speaker 1: and downs, and you know, we got a little air
Speaker 1: back in our sales with the midterm elections. No, we
Speaker 1: didn't keep the House, but they didn't really gain the
Speaker 1: House either. Anything can happen to five members of Congress
Speaker 1: just saying, and it has in the past, and so
Speaker 1: their margin of victory yes, very slim. What I believe,
Speaker 1: dear friends, is that America is and has been, at
Speaker 1: a crossroads. It needs to reckon with its past in
Speaker 1: order to understand its present and chart its future. Whether
Speaker 1: or not we actually do that, I don't know. But
Speaker 1: what I have said before, unwokeapp is that I've let
Speaker 1: go of my ego in this work. I've let go
Speaker 1: of the belief that I'm going to see all of
Speaker 1: the freedoms and the rights and the perfection of this
Speaker 1: union that I want to see in my lifetime. But
Speaker 1: the work that I am doing, that each of us
Speaker 1: are doing, with the platforms that we have created and
Speaker 1: that have been provided for us, is to move that needle,
Speaker 1: is to bend that arc even further. And so I
Speaker 1: wish for you all at the end of this year,
Speaker 1: rest restoration, rejuvenation, so that we can continue the work
Speaker 1: together to secure and to fortify our democracy for generations
Speaker 1: to come. I can't thank you all enough for allowing
Speaker 1: me to do what it is I believe that I
Speaker 1: am called to do, which is to be a messenger,
Speaker 1: which is to use the platform that I have by
Speaker 1: virtue of you all tuning in each and every day,
Speaker 1: following me, tweeting at me, listening to the show, sharing
Speaker 1: the shows, giving me the energy to do the work
Speaker 1: that I believe that I was called to do, which
Speaker 1: is wake people up to their power and to their purpose.
Speaker 1: And once they are woke, then they will take their
Speaker 1: energy to wake up more people. If all of us
Speaker 1: right decide that it is our jobs to educate those.
Speaker 1: Once we become educated, to activate those. Once we become activated,
Speaker 1: Then I believe that we will make it that we
Speaker 1: will win. And what does winning look like. It looks
Speaker 1: like a secure democracy. It looks like children and adults
Speaker 1: being able to live free in their skin. It looks
Speaker 1: like people being able to love and declare that love
Speaker 1: to whomever, wherever. It looks like bodily autonomy. It looks
Speaker 1: like the best person getting the job, not the person
Speaker 1: with the most connections and the greatest wealth. It looks
Speaker 1: like being able to rest while also having the ability
Speaker 1: to provide for yourself and for those that you love.
Speaker 1: It looks like being and receiving love and sharing love.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for an amazing twenty twenty two. I
Speaker 1: will see you all in the new year. As always,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck. Happy holidays, friends,