Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody for the very last time
Speaker 1: from the Brooklyn Bunker. It is New Year's Eve, and
Speaker 1: today is the last WOKEF. I have thought about for
Speaker 1: a while what this moment would feel like and what
Speaker 1: I would say, and I still can't process into words
Speaker 1: what this show has meant to me over the last
Speaker 1: seven years. Yesterday you listen to my conversation with the producer,
Speaker 1: the person that has been the engineer of this show,
Speaker 1: Andrew Marcello, and I said to him, you know, outside
Speaker 1: of my outside of my ex wife, my relationship with
Speaker 1: him and this show may have been my longest seven
Speaker 1: years of turning on a microphone and speaking with all
Speaker 1: of you from the heart, offering up my truth and
Speaker 1: how I see the world has been an extraordinary opportunity.
Speaker 1: And I am so grateful for all of the places
Speaker 1: that you fabulous, wonderful listeners have followed me at Serious,
Speaker 1: at DNR, DCP, you went to iHeart, you became Patreon subscribers.
Speaker 1: You have lifted me up in so many ways when
Speaker 1: I've had extraordinary, early dark moments. Look, I will be
Speaker 1: honest with you that when I got into politics so
Speaker 1: many moons and moons ago, I was very bright eyed.
Speaker 1: I felt super possible. I got into politics because I'm
Speaker 1: a child of immigrants, and this country gave my family
Speaker 1: a incredible path forward and made my life and my
Speaker 1: career possible by them leaving Jamaica in the nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: and coming to the United States. And so you know,
Speaker 1: there are some people that like will join the service
Speaker 1: to show their gratitude and appreciation to the country. And
Speaker 1: I got into politics. I wanted to work on policy
Speaker 1: that would help people, because that's what government is supposed
Speaker 1: to do. It is supposed to help people. You know,
Speaker 1: your tax dollar, your hard earned money, is supposed to
Speaker 1: go into making this country better for you, for your
Speaker 1: loved ones, and for generations to come. And I say
Speaker 1: that I was naive because you know, it didn't occur
Speaker 1: to me. I think when I was in college that
Speaker 1: people also enter into politics for the exact opposite reason.
Speaker 1: They enter in to gain the power to weaponize that
Speaker 1: power against those people that they don't like, against those
Speaker 1: people that they want to suffer, who they don't feel
Speaker 1: are deserving. And I genuinely I still do believe that
Speaker 1: there are more of people who believe the way that
Speaker 1: I do versus that believe in abusing power. But this
Speaker 1: show and the countless hours of conversations with some of
Speaker 1: my favorite experts and authors and academics and thought leaders,
Speaker 1: I hope it has left you as inspired as it
Speaker 1: has me, because the reason why I started WOKF initially
Speaker 1: seven years ago, it was a reaction. I was reacting
Speaker 1: to the fact that, following two successful terms of the
Speaker 1: first black president of these United States, that America would
Speaker 1: elect a white nationalist. And I was pissed, and I said, well,
Speaker 1: these people must be asleep, so I'm gonna wake them up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the alarm bell and say, this is
Speaker 1: what happens, Donald Trump, is what happens when you're not
Speaker 1: paying attention, when you think that politics is what other
Speaker 1: people need to care about. And so that first day
Speaker 1: that I sat down and I turned on that microphone,
Speaker 1: I was pissed. And all that came out of my
Speaker 1: mouth was rage because I needed an outlet. I need
Speaker 1: need a place to put it so that it didn't
Speaker 1: burn me up from the inside out. You all gave
Speaker 1: me that space. You gave me the space to be angry.
Speaker 1: And I have to say that as a black queer woman,
Speaker 1: you all know that black people are not allowed to
Speaker 1: show a range of emotion right before we get labeled
Speaker 1: the angry black lady, right the lazy this. We always
Speaker 1: have to watch our inflections and our tone and our
Speaker 1: body language. You all gave me the space to just
Speaker 1: be And if I wanted to drop eighty seven F
Speaker 1: bombs in an episode, you all were cheering me on
Speaker 1: and said, go ahead, We're here and we're listening. I
Speaker 1: believe that through this show and through this work, that
Speaker 1: I've actually become more of myself. I've trusted my perspective more,
Speaker 1: analysis more, and really believe that I do have something
Speaker 1: to offer. You all help me find that, and I'm
Speaker 1: forever grateful. And I hope that over the years that
Speaker 1: you left each episode learning not only a bit more
Speaker 1: about the country and your responsibility as citizens of this country,
Speaker 1: as workers in this country, as people in this country,
Speaker 1: but that you also learned more about yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: there have often been times where people have DMed me
Speaker 1: and told me that I've kept them sane, or they've
Speaker 1: DM me and have shared the involvement that they have
Speaker 1: you know, gotten into volunteering and knocking on doors and
Speaker 1: joining their city council and their school boards and just
Speaker 1: taking action whatever action they can take, but feeling empowered
Speaker 1: to do so. Folks have shared because of listening to
Speaker 1: WOKF daily. This show started out for those of you,
Speaker 1: as my co host on democracy says Wajah hot Alia,
Speaker 1: give you a deep cut. This show started out as
Speaker 1: one day a week, Sundays for three hours on Serious XM.
Speaker 1: Three hours. WOKF did not start as a daily show,
Speaker 1: and it did not start as a podcast. It was
Speaker 1: a satellite radio show where I turned on the microphone
Speaker 1: and I took calls for three hours, and it was exhilarating.
Speaker 1: I missed when I started podcasting, the interaction with the audience,
Speaker 1: the interaction with all of you, hearing what you are
Speaker 1: thinking in real time, creating the space and the opportunity
Speaker 1: to ask questions that I may not have known and
Speaker 1: the answer to but let's all figure it out together.
Speaker 1: So when I moved the show into a podcast and
Speaker 1: into a daily show, it was really because I felt,
Speaker 1: like Tony Morrison once said, if there is a book
Speaker 1: that you don't see, then you need to write it,
Speaker 1: and so I wanted to helm a show that I
Speaker 1: thought was missing in our daily discussions around politics, the
Speaker 1: unvarnished truth. I'm not here to provide folks with euphemisms.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to sugarcode what is happening, because I
Speaker 1: believe that we're all adults and can handle the truth.
Speaker 1: And still I look around now seven years later, and
Speaker 1: to be honest, I actually think that there's been a
Speaker 1: devolving in our media and it is one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why I am choosing to end wika at Daily
Speaker 1: as a podcast and have started The Daniel Moody Show
Speaker 1: on YouTube Monday through Thursday, five pm Eastern and being live,
Speaker 1: is because I want to engage with people again, because
Speaker 1: I feel like we need each other now more than
Speaker 1: ever before. People need if it is just an hour
Speaker 1: day to feel like you are surrounded by like minded
Speaker 1: people who believe in the promise of America, who believe
Speaker 1: in progress, who believe that all people, all people should
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to create a dream of their choosing.
Speaker 1: That's the place for you, and that's the place I
Speaker 1: wanted to create. And so by having that show be
Speaker 1: live and open chat, I get to engage on a
Speaker 1: daily basis and see in real time time what people
Speaker 1: are thinking and feeling, how these stories are landing. And
Speaker 1: so I decided that it was time to end a
Speaker 1: show that I have loved because it was time to
Speaker 1: try something new, because I believe truly and this is
Speaker 1: the same critique that I have of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: the establishment Democrats. You cannot continue doing the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again and expecting a different result. That
Speaker 1: is the definition of insanity. So I said, I can't
Speaker 1: continue to do the same show, have the same conversations
Speaker 1: over and over again over the last seven years, and
Speaker 1: continue going into infinity if I want a different result,
Speaker 1: if what I want is to really build community, to
Speaker 1: really have people invest in independent media. And so that's
Speaker 1: what the next chapter looks like for me. It looks
Speaker 1: like being a content creator across varied platforms, but really
Speaker 1: utilizing video, utilizing lives to connect with all of you
Speaker 1: in real time. I'm going to be over there producing
Speaker 1: and creating different shows for the new year. Democracy Ish,
Speaker 1: which is has been once a week now at twelve
Speaker 1: pm Eastern on Fridays, is now going to be twice
Speaker 1: a week with WAJ and I We're going to start
Speaker 1: and end the week with all of you on my
Speaker 1: YouTube channel, The Danielle Moody Show, four days a week.
Speaker 1: I'm also going to be introducing an interview series that
Speaker 1: I'm going to do so that I bring back some
Speaker 1: voices that you may have heard and others that you're
Speaker 1: unfamiliar with to this new space. I'm also working going
Speaker 1: to be working on a project with our friend, our
Speaker 1: in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, so that him and
Speaker 1: I can continue the conversations that we've been having, but
Speaker 1: on a different platform and with a different infusion of energy.
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of WOKF. Sadly, I'm not as proud
Speaker 1: of the country. And when I said at the top
Speaker 1: that I'd thought about this moment so many times, of
Speaker 1: the end. Right, I'm a scorpio, so I can be dark,
Speaker 1: but I've thought about the end so many times, and
Speaker 1: I genuinely thought, I should say I genuinely hoped that
Speaker 1: I would be ending the show and a new, joyful
Speaker 1: chapter of America would be beginning under you know, Madam President.
Speaker 1: The fact is, folks, is that a new chapter of
Speaker 1: America is beginning. It's just not what we had hoped
Speaker 1: for or what we had worked for. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that the work is done. And I know that
Speaker 1: many of you, like myself, have been vacillating in varied
Speaker 1: states of hopelessness, varied states of darkness, and I want
Speaker 1: to tell you that you are not alone. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to lie to you because I've never lied to
Speaker 1: you before. We are going to experience a lot of darkness.
Speaker 1: And like I say, in darkness, if you can't find
Speaker 1: the light, know that you are the light. That how
Speaker 1: you can serve and also project your energy in the
Speaker 1: moments and the days and the weeks and the years
Speaker 1: ahead are going to matter. Don't only think about resting
Speaker 1: when you are on the verge of burnout or a breakdown. Understand,
Speaker 1: as I hope that you've learned from this show, that
Speaker 1: resistance takes on so many different forms. For some, it
Speaker 1: is going out and it is dancing, and it is
Speaker 1: dancing to the beat of your own drum. It is painting,
Speaker 1: It is gardening, It is cuddling with your fur babies.
Speaker 1: It is reminding yourself that joy is a part of
Speaker 1: the resistance and important part in the face of people
Speaker 1: who want you to be miserable who are actually their
Speaker 1: only delight that they find is in quote unquote owning
Speaker 1: the lips. That's a sad way to be that your
Speaker 1: only comfort over in Magaville is other people's discomfort. Mm Mmm,
Speaker 1: that's not a party I want to go to. So
Speaker 1: if your resistance doesn't take the shape of marching or
Speaker 1: protesting in the streets, then find out what your resistance
Speaker 1: does look like. Maybe it is is putting out your
Speaker 1: art to make sure that you are capturing the feelings
Speaker 1: and the emotions of this time. But each of us,
Speaker 1: each and every single one of us, has a responsibility
Speaker 1: to find a way, our way to engage in this
Speaker 1: moment to be of service to others. If we can
Speaker 1: each use our own platforms to lift up voices that matter,
Speaker 1: information that is necessary and factual, then we must do that.
Speaker 1: But I will say this too, we need each other
Speaker 1: in real life more than ever. We need to go
Speaker 1: back to the basics of what it means to be
Speaker 1: in community with one another because it is really hard
Speaker 1: to hate somebody that you actually know and have experience
Speaker 1: with and memories with. I'm not talking about toxic folks
Speaker 1: in your life. I'm talking about your neighbors down the street,
Speaker 1: or your neighbors below you or above you in your building.
Speaker 1: We need to get back to what it is like
Speaker 1: to create senses and experiences of belonging because at a
Speaker 1: time when we are going to be pitted against one another,
Speaker 1: we need to, as the Vice President said on the
Speaker 1: campaign trail, instead of pointing fingers, link arms. And I
Speaker 1: believe that wholeheartedly. I've said this before that all of
Speaker 1: us are not going to make it to the other side.
Speaker 1: All of us are not going to be able to
Speaker 1: enjoy the fruits of our labor or the shade of
Speaker 1: the tree that we plant. But we do so anyway
Speaker 1: knowing that others will. So Know that you don't have
Speaker 1: to follow every single terror every single day to show
Speaker 1: how woke you are. Being woke is not just about
Speaker 1: being miserable and finding every rageful thing to scream about.
Speaker 1: It is about finding ways to connect at a time
Speaker 1: when people are working over time to have us so
Speaker 1: disconnected from one another. Take your breaks so that you
Speaker 1: do not have a breakdown. Rest is also part of
Speaker 1: the resistance. But know that while woke af may not
Speaker 1: be in your inbox every day, know that I am
Speaker 1: here and there are ways to continue to listen, to engage,
Speaker 1: to follow, because I refuse to be quiet in this moment.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find new and innovative ways to
Speaker 1: use my voice, and that's the journey we should all
Speaker 1: be on. So I hope to your friends that you
Speaker 1: will join me over on YouTube, that you will find
Speaker 1: me and the Danielle Moody Show and subscribe and join
Speaker 1: that growing community and take this woke ap energy over there.
Speaker 1: For those of you that are on Patreon, I'm so
Speaker 1: excited about the opportunities that we have moving forward into
Speaker 1: the new year because I will have more bandwidth as
Speaker 1: well to be able to give to all of you
Speaker 1: as well. So thank you, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: believing in me and believing in this show, but more importantly,
Speaker 1: believing in yourselves and the possibility of a truly multiracial democracy.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we need to go through darkness, dear friends, in
Speaker 1: order to really appreciate the light, but never lose sight
Speaker 1: of the light that is inside of all of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity of
Speaker 1: a lifetime to speak with all of you daily. That
Speaker 1: is it for me today on WOKF Daily as always
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people power.
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck, take care of
Speaker 1: each other, and Happy New Year to you.