1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Good morning peeps, and welcome to Okay f daily. Right, folks, 2 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: let me just say just welcome to hell Okay with 3 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 1: me your new tour guide, Danielle Moody. So let's just 4 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: start this Tuesday off with the hot shit that happened 5 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 1: yesterday and then you know, move into the healthscape that 6 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,599 Speaker 1: is just life in America. So, first of all, how 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: does yesterday open up? Well, yesterday opens up with the 8 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: fact that there were rumors that Elon Musk once again 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: was making a bid for Twitter. Well, as it turns out, 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: by the time that we didn't even make it to 11 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: five o'clock yesterday that we learned that Elon Musk, yes, 12 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: has bought Twitter for the bargain basement price of forty 13 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: four billion dollars. Yes, the known races transphobe piece of shit, 14 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is now the owner of one of the 15 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: most important platforms for our democracy. Let's just start there 16 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: that while the Department of Justice is so fucking hell 17 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: bent on going after Russian oligarchs, that we are doing 18 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: nothing in this country to ensure that I don't know 19 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: that spaces and places that were made for the sole 20 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: purpose of connection of community of camaraderie, and all of 21 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: these things have turned into town halls and playgrounds for 22 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: the uber and super rich. But of course, I mean, 23 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: what else did we think was going to happen in 24 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: a country where we put fame and celebrity above integrity, 25 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: right and morals? Where you know, we allowed for a 26 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,919 Speaker 1: reality TV show host who is a failed fucking businessman 27 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: to become president of the United States. Right, I alone 28 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: can fix this. No, you alone broke the shit. Why 29 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: the fuck open? And maybe you know at some point 30 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: when we're all sharing cells at Rikers or whatever federal 31 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: facility that we will end up in at some point 32 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: in time, because you see, what has happened with our 33 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: social media spaces is that either they're being controlled by 34 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: monopoly all of Facebook and Meta, or they are being 35 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: bought up by multibillionaires who just want to have some fun. 36 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: The thing that I keep asking myself is where the 37 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: fuck are the people that are actually on our side 38 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: with any money? You know where is? But then I 39 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: think to myself, well, how would they amass such wealth 40 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: if you're not trampling on you know, the ability of 41 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: small business to be able to develop, if you're not 42 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: trampling on or stealing from your workers. If you're not 43 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: doing awful, crass shit, how else would you amass one 44 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars. It isn't on genius alone, which is 45 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: what we love to sell to the American people, right, 46 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: this fantasy that you know, it was integrity and hard 47 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: work that gets these multibillionaires where they are. It isn't 48 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: not for the ones that have tens and hundreds of 49 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: fucking billions of dollars. No, they did it on the 50 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: backs of people. But we don't want to tell that story, right, 51 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,119 Speaker 1: We want to provide the fantasy because then you have 52 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: regular schmows that are going around and caping for the 53 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, because at the 54 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, wealth is where it's at, 55 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: and that's what people want, right, and so they'll vote 56 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: against their own interests so long as you keep dangling 57 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: the false idea that they too, one day are going 58 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: to be rich, and when they are, they're not going 59 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: to want to pay their taxes. But until then, you're 60 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: going to pay more taxes than Elon Musk and Donald Trump. 61 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: Because that's the world, the country that we have created. 62 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: I am so fucking out done by Elon Musk and 63 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: this fucking sale because you know, there are many of 64 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: my friends and colleagues who are like, well, I'm not 65 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: gonna leave Twitter. You know, I'm gonna stay here and 66 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna fight. You're gonna fight what like the fucking cesspool? 67 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: You know, I am right now trying to figure out 68 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: because Twitter is where I have a mass, the most 69 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: followers right of all the platforms that I'm on. But 70 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to be in this fucking cesspool. I 71 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: got a piece last week of what it was like 72 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: to go against Elon Musk and dare I fucking have 73 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: thoughts and perspective on this six white, straight, wealthy man. 74 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: Dare I as this lowly black child of immigrants and 75 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: a lesbian at that have the audacity to speak out 76 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: against like this type of ego and obsession and craven behavior. 77 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: God forbid I do that and not become a target 78 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: of the right and of these fucking bots. I'm just 79 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: so sick to fuck death of this place. And you know, 80 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: I realized yesterday at around three o'clock, like I cannot 81 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: allow an afford for America to make me obese because 82 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: all I want to do is just sit around and 83 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: eat bags of chips and fucking wash it down with 84 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: a bottle of vodka, just to get to a level 85 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: of numb. That's the feelings that are going through my 86 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: head right now, right like, is how do I numb 87 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: this sense of fucking rage that I can't I can't 88 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: manage to wrap my fucking arms around. So you have 89 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: the Elon Musk story that breaks. Then you have, you know, 90 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: one good story that happens with regard to Donald Trump 91 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: and the fucking fact that we have no Department of Justine, 92 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: So with any type of fucking cohonez, any type of 93 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: fucking ovaries, any type of fucking spine that is going 94 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: to activate on all of the goddamn information that we 95 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: have out there that people have been reporting on and 96 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: investigating on, but paging Merrick fucking Garland, My god, you know. 97 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: So you got this one story of a New York 98 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: judge that says, you know what, We're holding Donald Trump 99 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: in contempt right on a ten thousand dollars a day 100 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: fucking charge until he turns over the documents that A. G. 101 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: Tiss James has stated right via subpoena that she needs 102 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: in order to continue her investigation. Well, a New York 103 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: judge said, yeah, I take my job seriously, and so 104 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: we're finding you ten thousand dollars a day. And I'm 105 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: thinking to myself, now, for any normal person ten thousand 106 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: dollars a day, one ten thousand dollars a day would 107 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: fuck us. But Donald Trump, he don't pay nobody, He 108 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: don't pay his friends, he don't pay the fucking government. 109 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: So you tell me how the judge is going to 110 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: be collecting ten thousand dollars a day from Donald Trump? 111 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: And also, if you're a billionaire or a fake one 112 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: at that, how is ten thousand dollars a day going 113 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: to affect you when you don't pay any of your 114 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: bills anyhow? Like, do you understand what I'm saying? So 115 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: even the perception of there being some sliver of justice, 116 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, unless the judges going to knock on Donald 117 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: Trump's door and say, give me ten thousand dollars every 118 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: single fucking day, write me a check, Unless we throw 119 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: that motherfucker in jail, what are we going on again? 120 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: A hope in a dream? Right? With these civil fucking 121 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: cases that end in no jail time whatsoever, but just 122 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: cash penalties. Then then we moved to the other breaking 123 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: news that happened yesterday. CNN has obtained twenty three hundred 124 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: text message exchanges between Mark Meadows and Trump's inner circle, 125 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: including his disgusting fucking spawn who all of them, along 126 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: with forty current and former Republican members of Congress right 127 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: who were actively working to overthrow the election and texting 128 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: back and forth on as our friend Glenn Kershner called it, 129 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: the fucking trees and hotline that they were on in 130 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: order to get Mark Meadows to do something. But you see, 131 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: it was really funny to me that in these exchanges, 132 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: which began before the election and then ended with the 133 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: inauguration of Joe Biden, that even before even before a 134 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: fucking vote a ballot was cast and counted, Don Trump 135 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: Junior is out there along with Marshorie Taylor Green along 136 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: with others, saying we need to do something to stop 137 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: this steal. You have Sean fucking Hannity texting back and forth, 138 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: who has a megaphone right, texting back and forth. What 139 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 1: do I need to do? Boss to Mark Meadows, Yes, sir, 140 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: I'll alert the people that they need to be voting 141 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: in all of these states that Donald Trump is fucking 142 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: trailing in. But you know that he's trailing. You know 143 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: that you've said that you've gotten your fucking trollmaga people out. 144 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: But guess what, it's not enough, right because you don't 145 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: want to take shit on face value. You don't believe 146 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: in democracy or free and fair election. So even before 147 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: the fucking election happens, you're out there trying to do 148 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: what exactly And how is that not against the law? 149 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: How is it not fucking treason? How is it not 150 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: election fraud? But once again, paging Merrick Garland, anybody see him? 151 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: Anybody here from him? Should we put him on a 152 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: fucking milk carton, folks? I am at a place. I'm 153 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: at a place where I'm beginning to go back to 154 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: the dark side, where I'm like, I don't know why 155 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: I do the work that I do because it's clearly 156 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: not having any impact, And I don't know why people 157 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: aren't more riled up about the fact that your democracy 158 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: is being fucking stolen from you in broad daylight, from 159 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: wealthy billionaires, from the fucking greedy, from these fucking treasonoust 160 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: ass obstructionist cult members like and no one is doing 161 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 1: a thing. Somebody tweeted at me yesterday and they were 162 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: just like, yeah, I think that the biggest mistake that 163 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has made. It I'm thinking to myself, I mean, 164 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: the biggest Which one are we talking about? Is it 165 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: the fact that you're not going to relieve student loan debt? 166 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: Is it the fact that you still think Mitch McConnell 167 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 1: is an upstanding moral citizen, or is it the fact that, 168 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: like you put in the most lackluster milktoast, motherfucking ag 169 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: after we had a fucking mobster in the White House? 170 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: Which one of the mistakes we pull them down today? Okay, 171 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: because that's the question that I'm asking. The tweet said 172 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: this when Joe Biden said that we were going to 173 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: turn the page right and not look in the past 174 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: to what Trump has done, but look in the future. 175 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: They were like, yeah, that was the biggest mistake that 176 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: Joe Biden made and we all should have been paying attention. 177 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: But you see, I, along with many of you, were 178 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: paying attention way before that when I didn't want Joe 179 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: Biden to become President of the United States. And now 180 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: I think to myself, you know, somebody will say, well, 181 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: who could have won. I don't know anybody with an 182 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: authentic message that was actually going to penetrate the people. 183 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, folks, And I keep doing these 184 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: media trainings with nonprofit organizations and groups that are like 185 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: issue based focused from abortion to voting, to civil rights 186 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: to incarceration, and I keep telling them stop trying to 187 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: hit people with your facts and your figures. No one 188 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: gives a fuck. I literally said that yesterday in a training. 189 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: No one cares. You keep trying to meet people with 190 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: your motherfucking bullet points, and they're bringing actual bullets to 191 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: this duel. Right, So here's the thing that you need 192 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: to understand on Earth too. In alternative fact land that 193 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: Kelly an Conway and the rest of the entire MAGA 194 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: nation lives in, they don't have facts there. What they 195 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: do have is a significant and important ability to storytell 196 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: and rile up their base. And I say to myself, 197 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: where the fuck is that on the left. No, we're 198 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: too good for that. We think that if we tell 199 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: you that the polls say that eighty percent of Americans 200 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: believe that you should have an abortion and have the 201 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: ability to do so, that that somehow is going to 202 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: resonate with actual, real people who don't give a fuck 203 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: about your facts and your bullet points. Folks, if we 204 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: are not asking ourselves why we are doing such things 205 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: right and like who we are trying to meet? Do 206 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: we think that people are showing up in this upcoming 207 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: midterm election cycle? Do we think that anything is going 208 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: to get them out? And now that we don't even 209 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: have right these quote unquote democratic town hall spaces to 210 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: be able to send out our messages because guess who's 211 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: going to fuck with the algorithms. Guess who's going to 212 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: make sure right that the trolls and the bigots and 213 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: the racists have their way. You might as well have 214 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: sold Twitter to fucking Donald Trump, basically, right. So here's 215 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: the thing. I do not know if any of this 216 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: even matters anymore. That's where I am, dear friends. I 217 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: don't know if everything, if all hope isn't lost. And 218 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: you know, if you listen to me, you probably think 219 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: at this point then I'm fucking crazy because some days 220 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: I'm scrounging around in the dark just trying to find 221 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: that mustard seat of hope and put it deep into 222 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: my pocket and seal it up real good, hoping that 223 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: it doesn't escape me again. And then there are days 224 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: like today where I just want to go outside, go 225 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: into the middle of the street and just fucking scream. 226 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: I really do. I just want to do and I 227 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: want it to be socially acceptable to do so. I 228 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: want to act like a toddler just for a good 229 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: sixty seconds and scream up because that's the level of 230 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: rage that I have right now? What the fuck, guys, 231 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: what the fuck is this administration doing about anything? Seriously? 232 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: What are we doing right now? I just you know, 233 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: Congress had the ability a long time ago to fucking 234 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: regulate technology firms. Right are they media? Are they technology? 235 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: What kind of rules and regulations? What can we be 236 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: thinking about right? Future? Tense? About what is being developed 237 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: and making sure making sure that not one company, one 238 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: person has a fucking monopoly, right, making sure sure that 239 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: like the people are still participating in this democracy and 240 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: have the ability to do so. And guess what we 241 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: have failed across the board because what I just what 242 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: I what drives me crazy, folks, is that greed will 243 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: always win out. We have been sold through Hollywood right 244 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: through you know. Mister Smith goes to Washington through these 245 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: you know, Scooby Doo type tales where good prevails that 246 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: happens in Hollywood, it doesn't happen in reality. And what 247 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: I'm realizing is why we were so in love with 248 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: Obama was because he was our real life fairy tale 249 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: come to life. Right, all of the things that we 250 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: thought couldn't happen and would never happen, he materialized, right, 251 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: he actualized. But that's a once in a generation type 252 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: of leader. And it only lasted for eight years and 253 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: then was erased in four Then we went back to 254 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: the same old, same old. And I'm being asked questions 255 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: about what do you think if Bernie Sanders runs again? 256 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: Are you crazy? Right? Is this an Octanagerian like fucking 257 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: face off? Is that what we're doing? Folks? I M 258 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know. 259 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: I don't know where we go from here. Where As 260 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: I speak, right now, the Supreme Court is hearing a 261 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: case that will allow prayer back in schools, So we 262 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: are just think, just just sit with me for a minute. 263 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: Abortion is already lost in Red States, right, has been 264 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: in June. It'll be lost across the country, and there 265 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: will be a patchwork of abortion asylum states. At the 266 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: same time that this is going on, we're going to 267 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: have on our six to three Supreme Court probably prayer 268 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: back in schools at the same time that we're going 269 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: to be allowing for this to transpire. I'm not saying 270 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: that it has, but I'm saying the Supreme Court is 271 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: hearing it, and I'm saying who is on the Supreme 272 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: Court leads me to believe that at a time when 273 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: people are not going to be able to get abortions, 274 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: you're going to allow prayer back in school We're not 275 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: allowed to say gay, We're not allowed to talk about 276 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: critical to talk about race or identity or difference right 277 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: at all? What else is happening? Oh, transuth aren't allowed 278 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: to play on sports. We have hundreds of voter suppression 279 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: bills across the country. They are making signals about, you know, 280 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: defunding public schools and bringing back um pre Brown versus 281 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: the Board of Education, so resegregating our schools. They're floating 282 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: around stripping marriage equality, which we just need one case 283 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: out of Texas to do that, because now they want 284 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 1: to protect Texas. So that was that was said by 285 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: a candidate running for attorney general there. And then they're 286 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: also coming for interracial marriages, because that was something that 287 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: was said just flippantly. But once again, we don't want 288 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: to take any of these things seriously. Like as a party, 289 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 1: we don't want to fight the culture war because that's 290 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: not what the American people want. They want kitchen table issues. No, 291 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 1: they want to know that they're going to be able 292 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: to send their kids to school for an actual education, 293 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: like so that they can be global citizens, so that 294 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: they can participate in their democracy and understand what that 295 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: actually means and how far we have come and why 296 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: we are backsliding now. But under the current systems in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, 297 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: that's not going to be the case. So you tell 298 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: me where you think America is going to be a 299 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: year from now. I won't even go into twenty twenty 300 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: four because I honestly don't think that we make it there, 301 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying? Not intact as like 302 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: a country. I think that we get to twenty twenty 303 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 1: four and have an election the way that you know 304 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,360 Speaker 1: Orbon in Hungary has elections, and the way that Putin 305 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: in Russia has elections and the way that Mohammad bin 306 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: Salam has elections right, like they're going to be elections 307 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 1: with air quotes, but they're not going to actually matter, 308 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: amana fucking thing. So you tell me with the list 309 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: of things, and I know that I'm missing many, trust 310 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 1: and believe, where do you think that we go as 311 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: a country in a year from now? What do you 312 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,239 Speaker 1: think that that looks like Republicans are certainly going to 313 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: take back the House in the Senate right if they don't, 314 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: the only reason why that won't happen is literally an 315 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 1: act of somebody's God, right like divine intervention is literally 316 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: what I am praying for now. So what does that 317 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: tell you about what I'm hearing from on the ground, 318 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 1: grassroots organizations and issues focused organizations. I'm hearing that they 319 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: don't understand the current media landscape that we're in and 320 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: the climate, and the things that they are putting out 321 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 1: are still under the perception that we're not dealing with 322 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 1: one political party and one hopped up white supremacist cult 323 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: that actually knows how media works, that knows how to 324 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: get people onto their side, that knows how to rile 325 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: up people. Because they don't have to depend on facts. 326 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you you don't have to defend non 327 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: facts either. The facts are on our side. You just 328 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: need to tell the stories. Folks. I don't feel good today. 329 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: I did not feel good yesterday. It's why I tell 330 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: you that by the time that we get to Friday, 331 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: that if you are not shutting off the news, shutting 332 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: off social media and just connecting with the people around 333 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: you or the environment around you and just like engaging 334 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: in that way, you are not going to make it. 335 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: And I need every single one of us to make it, 336 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: including myself, because I feel on the fucking verge today 337 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: right like I mean, there is just nowhere to look. 338 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: And the funny thing was is that when I came 339 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: back from spending time with my friends over the weekend, 340 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: I was like so blissful, like completely blissed out, Like 341 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: where was I Just like you know, in nature by 342 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: the order, you know, playing with little kids and you know, 343 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: being in the outdoors, like there's nothing better than that. 344 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, you know, this is how 345 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 1: people begin to slowly disconnect and disengage. Because I don't 346 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: believe it's because we don't care. I think that for 347 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: some people. It's because we care too much, right, that 348 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 1: we care so much that now what is transpiring every 349 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: single day is actually too much for our emotional and 350 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: spiritual well being. And at the end of the day, 351 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: if that is not intact, right, then we are not okay. So, 352 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: if it now becomes a matter of survival right an 353 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: emotional health and well being versus being actively engaged in 354 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: a crumbling democracy, what do you think most people are 355 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: going to choose. They're going to choose to hold on 356 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 1: to whatever little pieces of their sanity that they can 357 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: and let the rest go with God. That's what they're 358 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 1: gonna fucking choose. So you know, folks, as a person 359 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: who truly believes in our democracy, that believes in like 360 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: the voice of the people, I am struggling today to 361 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: figure out how to hold balance, how to hold space 362 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: for the rage that I have and the desire to 363 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: utilize whatever platforms that I have for however long or 364 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: short I may be able to hold onto them for 365 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,479 Speaker 1: before I decide that my emotional well being and the 366 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: health and wellbeing of my family and friends is more 367 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: important than raging against the machine that is literally going 368 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: to turn us all up and spit us all out. 369 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: I don't mean and want to be dooming gloom on 370 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: a day and day out basis. But I'm reading the cards, 371 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: I'm looking at the tea leaves, I'm seeing the headlines 372 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, yo, you know, is this how 373 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: they felt in you know, in Germany and in South Africa, 374 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: like as apartheid and the Nazis were bearing down? Is 375 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: this like? But where do you escape to? I mean, 376 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: just on Sunday we were cheering the fact that McCrone, 377 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: you know, is the first centrist right in France's history 378 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: or president regardless of party, to be reelected like Frances 379 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: like one and done right and they like to move 380 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: on real quick. But given right mccrown on one hand 381 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: and then Lepine on the other, they're like, so maybe 382 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: we don't want to be fascists like right now, maybe later. 383 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: But the thing that I said yesterday, and what folks 384 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: have to understand and recognize is that she grew in 385 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: there her numbers much in the same way that Trump did. 386 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: So while Donald Trump did not win the twenty twenty election, 387 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: I know, I don't need to tell you good people 388 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: that he gained millions of voters. So while le Penn 389 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 1: did not win this time, she gained percentage points. The 390 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: last time she ran she got something like thirty thirty 391 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: three percent of the vote. This time she got nearly 392 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: forty two forty one point eight, so basically forty two percent. 393 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: That shouldn't make anybody. He feel good. And as a 394 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 1: matter of fact, over the weekend, aim and Mohedeen had 395 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: one of the best threads on this. He's like, wake 396 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: the fuck up, you'll sitting here, you know, popping champagne 397 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: and celebrating, and he's just like, this is not over. 398 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: Like this is a slow as Bill Mahr said, a 399 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: slow moving coup. I will add it is a slow 400 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: moving global coup because think about what a G seven 401 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: looks like but for evil, right, think about who's sitting 402 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: down at the table. Oh, I don't know, MBS or Bond, 403 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: putin Trump a Lapen, Right, think about those people being 404 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: in control of the most powerful countries and them being 405 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: able to seize power all at the same time. Think 406 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: about that, because that's the global plan and strategy. Then 407 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 1: you dismantle, right, all of the things that alliances were 408 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: created around, and you redo the world in the image 409 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: of authoritarianism and destruction. You're able to bring back a 410 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,719 Speaker 1: slave trade. You're able to traffic and kidnap and do 411 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want. You're able to make 412 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: literal deals with the devil. Folks, you think that today 413 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: I'm going off the deep end. I want you to 414 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: pay attention. The only reason why these things, these horrible 415 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: historical stains have been removed from the world, is because 416 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: of America and forces of good doing what was right. 417 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: Waiting too fucking long, but eventually doing what was right. 418 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: What happens when who is quote unquote good or good 419 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: ish no longer has power, nor do they have any 420 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: hopes of regaining it. This is where I am today. 421 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: This is what is actually keeping me up at night, 422 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: and I go back to the beginning. Look, I'm not 423 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: trying to be anybody's alcoholic. I'm not trying to be 424 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 1: anybody's attic. But like I understand when people get into 425 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: places where they're just like I just want to numb 426 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: the pain. And that's why I'm like, we got to 427 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: dive headfirst into whatever kind of wellness and community and 428 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: network that we need in order not to do that. 429 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: Because I'm seeing reports and this popped up on my 430 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: screen over the weekend. Depression, anxiety, and suicides are up, 431 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: and not just among teens right, They're up everywhere. It 432 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: isn't just like the fact that we've been living in 433 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 1: and through a pandemic for going on three fucking years. 434 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: It is the confluence of all of these things that 435 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: I've been naming. We are in fucking danger. And so 436 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: I say it out loud that, you know, people, the 437 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: urge is always to grab something external in order to 438 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: fill us up. I don't want that to be the 439 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: case because I believe that things are going to get worse, right, 440 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 1: and we need our strength and our wits about us. 441 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: And so what does wellness look like when everything is 442 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: on the verge of collapse. I don't know. But what 443 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: I'm saying is I'm putting it out there and I'm 444 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: wanting to name it, because if we don't find what 445 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: works for us and be able to double down on 446 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: that now, I worry about us later. Things that I 447 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 1: have been doing that I can offer up. I am 448 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: spending a lot more intentional time with my friends right 449 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: in community. I am spending a lot of time on 450 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: longer meditations. I'm trying to reach out and connect with 451 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: more people For me, My work is kind of toxic, 452 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: but I'm trying to figure out how to creatively share 453 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: my thoughts with folks so that I can hit people 454 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: where they are. But we need to figure out and 455 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: then activate for our selves what is going to be 456 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: our go to sources. And also, you know, again staying 457 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: on the dock side, if all of these things were 458 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: to magically disappear, have you built up enough of a 459 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: reservoir of wellness within you in order to sustain you 460 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: if those things are taken away. I want to use 461 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: the people of Russia as an example. Right, all of 462 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: our sanctions, they're not hurting Putin, They're hurting the Russian people. 463 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: And the hopes is that you hurt the Russian people 464 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: so much that what they turn around and they revolt, Well, 465 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: everything has been taken away from them. There are social media, 466 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: their access to their banks, their access to friends and family, 467 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: right like the truth them outside media. How do you 468 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:54,800 Speaker 1: sustain in a country like that. That's not me offering 469 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: that example because I think the exact thing is going 470 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: to happen, but the fact that it has happened to 471 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: the people of Russia, that it has happened in Ukraine. 472 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: What is going on there? The fact that there are 473 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: countries that already exist like this because they're run under 474 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: you know, dictatorships. How do you manage in that state? 475 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: This is why I want us to use woke app 476 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: as a meditation and rage, yes, but as a place 477 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: to ask those questions to people in the chat, in 478 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: the comments, like what are you doing? You know, if 479 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: you are sharing, then maybe you can help open our eyes, 480 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: right because without community, we're going to lose our sanity. 481 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: And I don't want that for myself and as surely 482 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: do not want it for you all. So we have 483 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,239 Speaker 1: got to engage not only in the topics of the 484 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,239 Speaker 1: day and making sure that we are up today with 485 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: what is happening, but that we are also up to 486 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: date with our care because I'm telling you, folks, this 487 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: is fucking Tuesday, and I already want the week to 488 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: be over. I don't even want to know what everything 489 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: will look like by the time we get to Friday. 490 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: That's how I'm feeling right now, And I'm just like, hmm, 491 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: did I go walking today, did I work out today? 492 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: Did I connect with friends and family today? What are 493 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: those things that are going to keep my spirits up 494 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: as the world around me seems to become you know, 495 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: a subway tunnel with no way in our out. Friends, 496 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:55,719 Speaker 1: that is it for me today on Woke f Please, please, 497 00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: please please. My one request is that after you listen 498 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,719 Speaker 1: to Woke app, after you listen to one of my episodes, 499 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:12,280 Speaker 1: take three to five deep cleansing breaths. Those are breaths 500 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 1: that you take in from your lower diaphragm through your 501 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,760 Speaker 1: nose hold for a count of four seconds, just four seconds, 502 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 1: and then breathe it out. Do that at least three rounds, 503 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: three times, and then let it go. Focus on something 504 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 1: good for ninety minutes, right, for twenty minutes, for fifteen minutes, 505 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: whatever time that you have, so that you can pick 506 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: it up again. Because I know from my own family 507 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: and friends that the way that I deliver things and 508 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: how it comes out is piercing, right, And I want 509 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: you all to continue to be engaged, but I want 510 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: you well, so three rounds good solid deep breaths and 511 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,880 Speaker 1: then let it go. As always, dear friends, Power to 512 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke 513 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.