WEBVTT - A Year of Reflection 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.360 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok Api Daily with 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.080 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording at the Home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.360 I can not believe it. We have made it to 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:29.840 the last woke f Daily episode of twenty twenty two. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.440 First of all, special announcement. We will be this very 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.360 hard working team that is made up of myself and 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:43.279 my producer Andrew, who have been working together for the 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.440 last five years, are taking a break between Christmas and 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.360 New Year, so there will not be new content because 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.920 what we've decided is that we're going to take our 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.639 own advice, which is I tell folks to rest all 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.720 the time, to take a break so that you don't 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.160 have a breakdown. And you know, what you don't know 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.600 is that in order to have content between the week 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.680 of Christmas and New Year's it requires a lot, a lot, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.720 a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of pretaping. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.479 And as you all know, I am also the host 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.760 of two other shows, and so our gift to ourselves 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.080 this year was to say, hey, we're actually going to 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.600 take a real break and allow ourselves to breathe. So 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.240 today's episode will be the last episode until we return 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:42.080 with fresh content in January. So folks, let's now that 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.080 housekeeping is out of the way, take a look back 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.560 at twenty twenty two. You know, I've been doing a 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:56.640 lot of reflective urine review TV shows quick Plug. I 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:01.520 will be on Simone Show on Christmas Eve at four 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:05.680 pm on MSNBC. So if you are cooking and preparing 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.799 for Christmas dinner and you want to still keep up 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.799 on the news or watch her year in review, check 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.560 that out at four pm Eastern on Christmas Eve. I 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.040 will also be joining did a wonderful pre tape which 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.040 I'm really excited about, folks seeing with the Reverend Al 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:27.160 Sharpton for his twelfth annual Reavie Awards, which will take 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.720 place on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at five 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.680 pm Eastern. And if you don't want to watch it 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.480 on the holiday, then just dbr it. But I will 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:41.119 be on your television on both of those days. So, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.320 as I've been doing these Year in reflection, I have 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.400 been kind of thinking about my own, you know, year 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.440 of reflection. What have I been through this year and 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.400 for the past couple of years since COVID probably right, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:00.320 So since twenty twenty I have spent New Year's Eve 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:07.280 in my wonderful apartment, saging, journaling, lighting candles, setting intentions, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:13.920 and it has been a really wonderful way to end 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:18.880 the year. I realized that in my youth, when I 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.920 was younger, I wanted to be at every party, do everything. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.320 I've watched the ball drop in Times Square, I've gone 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.600 to house parties, I've gone to big club parties. I've 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.560 gone to sleepovers and hang out said you know, New 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.160 Year's Eve for my entire life, even as a kid, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.120 was always a big deal. My grandparents used to throw 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.200 you know, huge family parties and people would come in 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.280 from all over to their holiday parties. So New Year's 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.760 Eve in my household, in my life has always played 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:54.280 a major part. And I think that as I got older, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.000 and you know, we all went through this thing called 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.760 a global health pandemic and slowed down a bit and 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.960 started to ask ourselves, well, how do I really want 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.840 to start the new year? Do I want to start 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.160 it hungover and clinging to a toilet because I have 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.920 imbibed too much the night before? Do I want to 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.000 start it out exhausted? And because of the last couple 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.000 of years, you know, all of those big plans that 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:24.120 that you're usually deciding in between, you know, weren't happening. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.120 And so I found myself on you know, one year, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.120 having a wonderful you know, early New Year's Eve lunch 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.720 with one of my best friends and then you know, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.920 off to go do our own thing in the evening. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.360 I have, you know, had wonderful dinners, early dinners with 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.560 my sister because she would usually fly out to head 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.320 back abroad on New Year's Eve, and so that had 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:53.159 become our tradition. And I found myself really enjoying this 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.320 solitude and kind of being with my thoughts and not alone. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.640 I mean, I'm facetiming all, you know, throughout after the 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.359 ball drops, facetiming and connecting with people and wishing everyone well. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.919 But there is something if you do have the ability 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.919 to even entertain the idea. And I know many of 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.479 you are parents or grandparents or caregivers, and so you 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.640 probably don't have the opportunity to be in solitude, But 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.039 if you do, even for an hour, even for an hour, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.040 not even the whole night, even for an hour, I mean, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.039 if it's before you're getting ready to go out and 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.960 do your big New Year's Eve thing, take an hour 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:37.039 to yourself, you know, clear the space out wherever you are, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:43.520 light a few candles, sit down in quiet or listening 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.880 to some type of meditative track or classical music or 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.920 something whatever helps you get into the zone of just 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:54.800 being at ease, being you know, equal at equilibrium, being 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.760 in flow and not in a rush. In quieting your 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:06.120 mind and really reflect and find, let's say, five things 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.640 to be grateful for that happened in twenty twenty two 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:16.839 to you personally. Could be, you know, things with work. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.880 It could be things with home. It could be I 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.360 kept my plant alive all year. It could be I 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.080 cooked something different that I never cooked before, or I 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.720 called that person instead of waiting for them to call me. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.599 But think of five things to be grateful for for 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:39.760 the year and then set your intention, because you know, folks, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.400 regardless of how the year actually twenty twenty three shapes 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:49.040 up and we don't know right but regardless of what 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.680 is happening on the outside, because we know that there 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.960 will be turmoil and we know that there will be pain. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.719 We know that there will be more historic political events, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.760 in historic cateshy strophic storms. We know that there'll be 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:09.640 more death. We know that they'll be more anxiety. You 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.880 can't control everything that is happening around you, but the 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:18.520 things that you can control is what is happening inside 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:24.200 of you. And the gift that I have received over 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.640 the last couple of years is really being able to 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.640 be more focused on how I am feeling about a thing, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.800 what my perception is about something that is happening, The 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.200 ability to disrupt old records that are playing in the 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.480 back of our minds that are telling us that we 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.680 need to be doing more or producing this, or we 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.119 are not worthy of rest, or why am I taking 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:58.000 a nap and recognize that. You know, I believe that 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.440 it was Gandhi, you know who said that if you 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.920 really want to change the world, start with yourself. And 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:10.120 I find that those things, those kind of cliche quotes 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:15.360 or things that affirmations that people say, they're really true. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.600 They're based in a lot of facts that if you 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.760 really do want to see changes in the world, then 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.560 start to model that. Because what I have found and 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.680 what we all know, is that marinating in the madness 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.520 telling ourselves that we're not deserving of rest, that we're 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.800 only worth what we can produce, never getting off of 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.360 that treadmill, beating ourselves up for the littlest things doesn't 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.160 serve us. You know, I joked with a friend the 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.959 other day and I said that if calling myself every 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.320 name in the book every time that my weight goes 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.480 up and down and up and down, if being mean 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.960 to myself was the key to being thin, than I 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:06.720 would be a supermodel. Right if beating myself up for 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.200 not fitting into the right dress or the right size 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.720 at the right time, in the right moment, pressuring myself 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.520 to say, well, oh my god, I'm going to see 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.720 these people in two weeks, so I must lose twenty 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:26.120 five pounds in two weeks. If that were helpful, then 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.480 it would have worked by now, right, And I just 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.240 use that as one example. The point is that the 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:39.199 world is mean enough, the world is angry enough. The world, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.920 if you allow it, will kick your ass up and 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:51.560 down the street, unrelenting. It is the loving of ourselves 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.720 and allowing that love to really grow, to really root 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.360 in us that allows us to have the light and 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:05.400 the enter to love up on those around us. And 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.640 then through that love, through that piece, through that light, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:17.480 we make cracks into the darkness. Right, we find some 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:24.200 light in the tunnel. That we find ourselves in at times. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.840 And no, it is in the oncoming train, right. It 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.400 is growing that light that we allow to get dimmed 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:38.080 throughout the year, dimmed and dimmed by other people's outside opinions, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.880 by their expectations. That sometimes by the time that we 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.920 get to this time of year, we're exhausted and overrun 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.760 with obligations, grief. You know, the end of the year 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.960 is not always happy for people. It is just yet 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.600 another stress or another thing that they have to do. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:05.720 And so I say to you, shift the narrative. Give 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.640 yourself back some peace, give yourself back some gratitude from 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.760 making it through this year, because frankly, too many people 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:23.640 did not. Whether it were celebrities that we lost tragically, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:29.959 whether it was family members that you lost abruptly, or 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:36.000 loved ones or pets. They call it the present because 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.960 it really is a gift. And I also find that 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:45.920 reflection is a gift. Not the turning over our shoulders 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.360 and saying well I should have and I could have 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.480 in all of that, No, but deep reflection that is 0:11:52.520 --> 0:12:00.880 actually rooted in gratitude. For me, the last couple of years, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.600 in building my own gratitude practice, I can't express to 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.880 you how much it has really fundamentally changed my life 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:15.439 because things that used to send me into a downward 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:21.080 spiral of just darkness and despair. Now I have the 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.480 power to disrupt that thought and ask myself, is that real? 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.880 Is that true? We always speak and I just used 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:38.800 it in absolutes, the always and the never. But our 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:47.079 stories that we tell ourselves are they true? Or is 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:51.360 it a matter of shifting our perspective of having gratitude 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.719 for what is inside us and what is around us? 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.360 Is that really the truth? Is that what meant matters? 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.600 And I think that reflection and the ability to pause 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.840 and again, even if it is just even if you 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.120 don't have an hour, if it is a few minutes 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:19.559 of being intentional, of breathing, of reflecting, of honoring yourself 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:27.000 and how far you've come this year, give that gift 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:33.880 to yourself. Because I think that this life train, y'all 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:39.599 this spinning. You know, what would we cover that scientists 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.640 had said that the Earth is now spinning faster this year, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:49.120 right because of climate change. Things aren't slowing down. And 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.120 so if we're waiting for everything around us to slow down, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:57.000 rather than taking a queue from our exhaustion and slowing 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:03.000 ourselves down, then we're not really listening. And I think 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.880 that the opportunity to pause, to listen, to reflect is 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.840 indeed a privilege, because there are a lot of people 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:15.400 that don't have the time for that, that literally can't. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.920 Every second of every day is accounted for to somebody 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:26.400 else other than themselves. And so if you do find 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:31.520 yourself actually being able to shut down between Christmas and 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:36.520 New Year's, being able to spend time that you want 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.960 to spend time with family and friends, chosen family and 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.560 friends as well, make sure to make some time for yourself. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.040 What I'm thinking this year is that I am going 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.760 to I'm not going to commit to journaling every day, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.480 but I am going to commit to writing down my 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.600 thoughts of how I'm feeling at the end of this 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.440 year on New Year's and what my hopes are in 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.760 what I hope to manifest in twenty twenty three, my 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:15.880 hopes for myself and my hopes for the world. And 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:23.040 I want to check in with those thoughts every couple 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:27.640 of months, not as a well you need to do this, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:34.480 but just as a moment to say, did I accomplish 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.480 what it was that I set out to do. Am 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:47.120 I closer or have I changed my goals altogether? And 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.040 being nimble and allowing myself the ability to do that. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.160 But I think it's important, particularly as time just seems 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:59.760 to move faster, to really take pauses, write things down, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:06.920 do a voice diary, and mark the moments because they 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:13.840 are fleeting. So my wish for all of you as 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:19.440 we mark this new year is more groundedness, more peace, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.080 and more joy. That is about not what we can produce, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:30.440 but just steeped in who we are, finding things that 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.320 really do give us a spark, give us a light, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.760 and doing more of that, and stumbling through the process 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:46.080 of finding what those things are and enjoying being in 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.920 the present and not as I said, and I have 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:55.200 said to my girlfriend, not future casting, right, because manifestation 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.520 is not about future casting. It's about setting your intentions. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:05.280 You know, the past is done, the present is happening, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.879 in the future is unknown. We can still desire and 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.080 have desires for things that are we hope to come. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.040 But I find that I prefer to manifest than hope 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:23.159 because manifesting, to me requires more action and intention. And 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.760 so I wish for all of you the ability to 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:33.120 manifest your intentions and the space to do that, and 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.600 the care that it takes, the self care that it 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:43.760 takes in order to make that happen. So, dear friends, now, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:50.280 with the minutes that we have left, I want to 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.960 think about you know, I do this and I'm sure 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.680 many of you do this too, with your family and friends. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.600 I like to do roses and thorns, right, the roses 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.959 and thorns of the year, And we're going to do 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.960 this the political style, the roses and thorns of this year, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.239 because my God, so much has happened. And I you know, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.600 I'm one of those people that do love watching all 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.879 the year in review shows because so much happens that 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.480 you actually forget, and it's good to be reminded all 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.560 of the times that we thought that we were not 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.879 going to get through, that we were not going to 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.520 get to the other side, that we did. And I 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.040 think that that's one of the powerful things about years 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:39.880 in review. So roses and thorns, because chronologically I will 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.399 never remember all of the things that have happened. A 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:48.520 thorn of twenty twenty two was the overturning of Rob 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:55.679 Wade fifty years of precedent, a woman and people with 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:06.600 Uterus's bodily autonomy just gone. And I have admonished people 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.760 for not taking to the streets and staying in the 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.000 streets in the way frankly that the Iranian women and 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.320 young people are in order to make it known that 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.800 they will not be overrun be told what they can 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:28.120 and cannot do. That was a real thorn of the year. 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:38.639 To state it mildly, the Rose mid term elections. The 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:43.359 polsters were wrong again. There was no red fucking wave. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:49.600 There wasn't even a red drip. Americans, particularly gen Z, 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:55.080 people of color, black women, did the work that needed 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.240 to be done and showed up at the polls in 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.440 mass Why because democracy. He was on the line. Their 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:06.119 lives were on the line. And while mainstream media wanted 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.880 us to believe that, oh no, it's just the economy 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.360 and people only care about their gas tank. No, no, 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.840 people actually care about democracy. The election deniers did not 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:19.720 win office in the way that they wanted to. Donald 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.000 Trump does not have the Midas touch. As a matter 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.800 of fact, everything that he touches turns into a lawsuit 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:30.480 or shit. So that is the highlight that there is 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.119 still a spark in all of us. The fight in 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.960 all of us to hold on to our democracy, and 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.120 I hope that it continues, because I will tell you 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:46.280 that the push for authoritarianism and fascism hasn't gone away 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:52.480 and hasn't eased up, and neither can we another thorn 0:20:54.080 --> 0:21:01.200 climate change run amok. We saw three quarters of Pakistan underwater. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:09.480 We have seen extreme weather across this country. In Nigeria, 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:17.520 in remote places, in close places, every single storm and 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:25.520 fire was historic. And the rose in that is that 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:27.879 I think that people are starting to wake up and 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.080 realize that climate change is in something that is impending, 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.000 it is actually happening. And it's one of the reasons 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:39.439 why Generations Z came out in mass for midterm elections 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.640 because they're like, we're inheriting this planet that you all 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:49.080 are turning into a fucking trash heap. And there is 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.359 no debate with our generation about whether or not it exists. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.720 It's like, how long is it going to take you 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:57.640 all to get the fuck out of the way so 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:01.520 we can actually do something about it? So that to 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:12.679 me is a rose a thorn. So many mass shootings, 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:19.919 so many mass shootings from Buffalo to Uvaldi to Club 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:28.080 Q and to the countless countless shootings in between. America 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:37.480 is sick. America has an obscene addiction to guns to violence. 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:48.479 The Rose. President Biden pass gun safety legislation. Gun safety 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.840 legislation hasn't been passed in this country for decades. Do 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:54.919 I think that it went far enough? No? I don't. 0:22:55.720 --> 0:23:00.560 Did it ban assault rifles? No it didn't. It did 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:04.680 some things, and so for that you get a rose. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:15.480 America's infrastructure crumbling so many ways, Thorn, And guess what. 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:18.400 The infrastructure is only going to get beaten down more 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:24.240 by what? Climate change? The Rose. The Biden administration did 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.439 what the Trump administration said they were going to do 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.880 but never did, which was actually pass an infrastructure bill 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.919 that will begin to reshape this country and make investments 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:51.440 right into smart technology, green technology, sustainable energies. So for that, 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:59.200 get a rose. Donald Trump. Thorn has continued his crime 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:03.399 spree against to America, ending the year with selling NFTs 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.879 which are now funny enough losing value, as is Donald Trump. 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:12.919 So that makes sense. And another thorn is will Merritt 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:16.879 Garland do what he needs to do? The Rose being 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:22.000 the January sixth Bipartisan Committee did they laid out with 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:29.520 ten hearings a million plus documents, hundreds of interviews. Donald 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:32.879 Trump knew what he was doing. This wasn't an accident. 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:36.840 January sixth wasn't an accident. It was planned. It was 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:42.360 premeditated and done so at the behest of the criminal 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:45.439 in chief, who wanted to thwart the will of the 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:50.960 people and overturn a free and fair election. I can 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:56.280 think of no greater crime than to not prosecute Donald Trump. 0:24:56.520 --> 0:25:02.359 I don't even care if they lose. Want them to try, 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:07.959 because the trying will say more about this country than 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:15.240 ignoring it all together. Folks, there were so many ups 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:25.399 and downs, and you know, we got a little air 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:31.240 back in our sales with the midterm elections. No, we 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:35.560 didn't keep the House, but they didn't really gain the 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:39.600 House either. Anything can happen to five members of Congress 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:44.440 just saying, and it has in the past, and so 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:51.880 their margin of victory yes, very slim. What I believe, 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:56.920 dear friends, is that America is and has been, at 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:03.040 a crossroads. It needs to reckon with its past in 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:07.879 order to understand its present and chart its future. Whether 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:11.600 or not we actually do that, I don't know. But 0:26:11.720 --> 0:26:15.440 what I have said before, unwokeapp is that I've let 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:19.720 go of my ego in this work. I've let go 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:24.159 of the belief that I'm going to see all of 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:27.320 the freedoms and the rights and the perfection of this 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:31.560 union that I want to see in my lifetime. But 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:33.840 the work that I am doing, that each of us 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.560 are doing, with the platforms that we have created and 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:41.240 that have been provided for us, is to move that needle, 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:47.879 is to bend that arc even further. And so I 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:50.200 wish for you all at the end of this year, 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:58.760 rest restoration, rejuvenation, so that we can continue the work 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:06.119 together to secure and to fortify our democracy for generations 0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:13.719 to come. I can't thank you all enough for allowing 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:17.080 me to do what it is I believe that I 0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:20.760 am called to do, which is to be a messenger, 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:24.760 which is to use the platform that I have by 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:28.160 virtue of you all tuning in each and every day, 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:32.800 following me, tweeting at me, listening to the show, sharing 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:37.679 the shows, giving me the energy to do the work 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:41.359 that I believe that I was called to do, which 0:27:41.440 --> 0:27:44.640 is wake people up to their power and to their purpose. 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:48.760 And once they are woke, then they will take their 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:52.680 energy to wake up more people. If all of us 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:59.720 right decide that it is our jobs to educate those. 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:05.520 Once we become educated, to activate those. Once we become activated, 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:11.119 Then I believe that we will make it that we 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:14.680 will win. And what does winning look like. It looks 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:20.359 like a secure democracy. It looks like children and adults 0:28:21.000 --> 0:28:24.359 being able to live free in their skin. It looks 0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:29.040 like people being able to love and declare that love 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:38.280 to whomever, wherever. It looks like bodily autonomy. It looks 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:41.600 like the best person getting the job, not the person 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:46.960 with the most connections and the greatest wealth. It looks 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:51.000 like being able to rest while also having the ability 0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:54.240 to provide for yourself and for those that you love. 0:28:57.680 --> 0:29:04.480 It looks like being and receiving love and sharing love. 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:12.320 Thank you all for an amazing twenty twenty two. I 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:18.760 will see you all in the new year. As always, 0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:22.240 Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:27.640 Get woke and stay woke as fuck. Happy holidays, friends,