Speaker 1: Good morning peeps, and welcome to Okay f daily. Right, folks,
Speaker 1: let me just say just welcome to hell Okay with
Speaker 1: me your new tour guide, Danielle Moody. So let's just
Speaker 1: start this Tuesday off with the hot shit that happened
Speaker 1: yesterday and then you know, move into the healthscape that
Speaker 1: is just life in America. So, first of all, how
Speaker 1: does yesterday open up? Well, yesterday opens up with the
Speaker 1: fact that there were rumors that Elon Musk once again
Speaker 1: was making a bid for Twitter. Well, as it turns out,
Speaker 1: by the time that we didn't even make it to
Speaker 1: five o'clock yesterday that we learned that Elon Musk, yes,
Speaker 1: has bought Twitter for the bargain basement price of forty
Speaker 1: four billion dollars. Yes, the known races transphobe piece of shit,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is now the owner of one of the
Speaker 1: most important platforms for our democracy. Let's just start there
Speaker 1: that while the Department of Justice is so fucking hell
Speaker 1: bent on going after Russian oligarchs, that we are doing
Speaker 1: nothing in this country to ensure that I don't know
Speaker 1: that spaces and places that were made for the sole
Speaker 1: purpose of connection of community of camaraderie, and all of
Speaker 1: these things have turned into town halls and playgrounds for
Speaker 1: the uber and super rich. But of course, I mean,
Speaker 1: what else did we think was going to happen in
Speaker 1: a country where we put fame and celebrity above integrity,
Speaker 1: right and morals? Where you know, we allowed for a
Speaker 1: reality TV show host who is a failed fucking businessman
Speaker 1: to become president of the United States. Right, I alone
Speaker 1: can fix this. No, you alone broke the shit. Why
Speaker 1: the fuck open? And maybe you know at some point
Speaker 1: when we're all sharing cells at Rikers or whatever federal
Speaker 1: facility that we will end up in at some point
Speaker 1: in time, because you see, what has happened with our
Speaker 1: social media spaces is that either they're being controlled by
Speaker 1: monopoly all of Facebook and Meta, or they are being
Speaker 1: bought up by multibillionaires who just want to have some fun.
Speaker 1: The thing that I keep asking myself is where the
Speaker 1: fuck are the people that are actually on our side
Speaker 1: with any money? You know where is? But then I
Speaker 1: think to myself, well, how would they amass such wealth
Speaker 1: if you're not trampling on you know, the ability of
Speaker 1: small business to be able to develop, if you're not
Speaker 1: trampling on or stealing from your workers. If you're not
Speaker 1: doing awful, crass shit, how else would you amass one
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars. It isn't on genius alone, which is
Speaker 1: what we love to sell to the American people, right,
Speaker 1: this fantasy that you know, it was integrity and hard
Speaker 1: work that gets these multibillionaires where they are. It isn't
Speaker 1: not for the ones that have tens and hundreds of
Speaker 1: fucking billions of dollars. No, they did it on the
Speaker 1: backs of people. But we don't want to tell that story, right,
Speaker 1: We want to provide the fantasy because then you have
Speaker 1: regular schmows that are going around and caping for the
Speaker 1: likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, wealth is where it's at,
Speaker 1: and that's what people want, right, and so they'll vote
Speaker 1: against their own interests so long as you keep dangling
Speaker 1: the false idea that they too, one day are going
Speaker 1: to be rich, and when they are, they're not going
Speaker 1: to want to pay their taxes. But until then, you're
Speaker 1: going to pay more taxes than Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Because that's the world, the country that we have created.
Speaker 1: I am so fucking out done by Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: this fucking sale because you know, there are many of
Speaker 1: my friends and colleagues who are like, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna leave Twitter. You know, I'm gonna stay here and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fight. You're gonna fight what like the fucking cesspool?
Speaker 1: You know, I am right now trying to figure out
Speaker 1: because Twitter is where I have a mass, the most
Speaker 1: followers right of all the platforms that I'm on. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to be in this fucking cesspool. I
Speaker 1: got a piece last week of what it was like
Speaker 1: to go against Elon Musk and dare I fucking have
Speaker 1: thoughts and perspective on this six white, straight, wealthy man.
Speaker 1: Dare I as this lowly black child of immigrants and
Speaker 1: a lesbian at that have the audacity to speak out
Speaker 1: against like this type of ego and obsession and craven behavior.
Speaker 1: God forbid I do that and not become a target
Speaker 1: of the right and of these fucking bots. I'm just
Speaker 1: so sick to fuck death of this place. And you know,
Speaker 1: I realized yesterday at around three o'clock, like I cannot
Speaker 1: allow an afford for America to make me obese because
Speaker 1: all I want to do is just sit around and
Speaker 1: eat bags of chips and fucking wash it down with
Speaker 1: a bottle of vodka, just to get to a level
Speaker 1: of numb. That's the feelings that are going through my
Speaker 1: head right now, right like, is how do I numb
Speaker 1: this sense of fucking rage that I can't I can't
Speaker 1: manage to wrap my fucking arms around. So you have
Speaker 1: the Elon Musk story that breaks. Then you have, you know,
Speaker 1: one good story that happens with regard to Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and the fucking fact that we have no Department of Justine,
Speaker 1: So with any type of fucking cohonez, any type of
Speaker 1: fucking ovaries, any type of fucking spine that is going
Speaker 1: to activate on all of the goddamn information that we
Speaker 1: have out there that people have been reporting on and
Speaker 1: investigating on, but paging Merrick fucking Garland, My god, you know.
Speaker 1: So you got this one story of a New York
Speaker 1: judge that says, you know what, We're holding Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in contempt right on a ten thousand dollars a day
Speaker 1: fucking charge until he turns over the documents that A. G.
Speaker 1: Tiss James has stated right via subpoena that she needs
Speaker 1: in order to continue her investigation. Well, a New York
Speaker 1: judge said, yeah, I take my job seriously, and so
Speaker 1: we're finding you ten thousand dollars a day. And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, now, for any normal person ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a day, one ten thousand dollars a day would
Speaker 1: fuck us. But Donald Trump, he don't pay nobody, He
Speaker 1: don't pay his friends, he don't pay the fucking government.
Speaker 1: So you tell me how the judge is going to
Speaker 1: be collecting ten thousand dollars a day from Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: And also, if you're a billionaire or a fake one
Speaker 1: at that, how is ten thousand dollars a day going
Speaker 1: to affect you when you don't pay any of your
Speaker 1: bills anyhow? Like, do you understand what I'm saying? So
Speaker 1: even the perception of there being some sliver of justice,
Speaker 1: I'm like, unless the judges going to knock on Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's door and say, give me ten thousand dollars every
Speaker 1: single fucking day, write me a check, Unless we throw
Speaker 1: that motherfucker in jail, what are we going on again?
Speaker 1: A hope in a dream? Right? With these civil fucking
Speaker 1: cases that end in no jail time whatsoever, but just
Speaker 1: cash penalties. Then then we moved to the other breaking
Speaker 1: news that happened yesterday. CNN has obtained twenty three hundred
Speaker 1: text message exchanges between Mark Meadows and Trump's inner circle,
Speaker 1: including his disgusting fucking spawn who all of them, along
Speaker 1: with forty current and former Republican members of Congress right
Speaker 1: who were actively working to overthrow the election and texting
Speaker 1: back and forth on as our friend Glenn Kershner called it,
Speaker 1: the fucking trees and hotline that they were on in
Speaker 1: order to get Mark Meadows to do something. But you see,
Speaker 1: it was really funny to me that in these exchanges,
Speaker 1: which began before the election and then ended with the
Speaker 1: inauguration of Joe Biden, that even before even before a
Speaker 1: fucking vote a ballot was cast and counted, Don Trump
Speaker 1: Junior is out there along with Marshorie Taylor Green along
Speaker 1: with others, saying we need to do something to stop
Speaker 1: this steal. You have Sean fucking Hannity texting back and forth,
Speaker 1: who has a megaphone right, texting back and forth. What
Speaker 1: do I need to do? Boss to Mark Meadows, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I'll alert the people that they need to be voting
Speaker 1: in all of these states that Donald Trump is fucking
Speaker 1: trailing in. But you know that he's trailing. You know
Speaker 1: that you've said that you've gotten your fucking trollmaga people out.
Speaker 1: But guess what, it's not enough, right because you don't
Speaker 1: want to take shit on face value. You don't believe
Speaker 1: in democracy or free and fair election. So even before
Speaker 1: the fucking election happens, you're out there trying to do
Speaker 1: what exactly And how is that not against the law?
Speaker 1: How is it not fucking treason? How is it not
Speaker 1: election fraud? But once again, paging Merrick Garland, anybody see him?
Speaker 1: Anybody here from him? Should we put him on a
Speaker 1: fucking milk carton, folks? I am at a place. I'm
Speaker 1: at a place where I'm beginning to go back to
Speaker 1: the dark side, where I'm like, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I do the work that I do because it's clearly
Speaker 1: not having any impact, And I don't know why people
Speaker 1: aren't more riled up about the fact that your democracy
Speaker 1: is being fucking stolen from you in broad daylight, from
Speaker 1: wealthy billionaires, from the fucking greedy, from these fucking treasonoust
Speaker 1: ass obstructionist cult members like and no one is doing
Speaker 1: a thing. Somebody tweeted at me yesterday and they were
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, I think that the biggest mistake that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has made. It I'm thinking to myself, I mean,
Speaker 1: the biggest Which one are we talking about? Is it
Speaker 1: the fact that you're not going to relieve student loan debt?
Speaker 1: Is it the fact that you still think Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: is an upstanding moral citizen, or is it the fact that,
Speaker 1: like you put in the most lackluster milktoast, motherfucking ag
Speaker 1: after we had a fucking mobster in the White House?
Speaker 1: Which one of the mistakes we pull them down today? Okay,
Speaker 1: because that's the question that I'm asking. The tweet said
Speaker 1: this when Joe Biden said that we were going to
Speaker 1: turn the page right and not look in the past
Speaker 1: to what Trump has done, but look in the future.
Speaker 1: They were like, yeah, that was the biggest mistake that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden made and we all should have been paying attention.
Speaker 1: But you see, I, along with many of you, were
Speaker 1: paying attention way before that when I didn't want Joe
Speaker 1: Biden to become President of the United States. And now
Speaker 1: I think to myself, you know, somebody will say, well,
Speaker 1: who could have won. I don't know anybody with an
Speaker 1: authentic message that was actually going to penetrate the people.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, folks, And I keep doing these
Speaker 1: media trainings with nonprofit organizations and groups that are like
Speaker 1: issue based focused from abortion to voting, to civil rights
Speaker 1: to incarceration, and I keep telling them stop trying to
Speaker 1: hit people with your facts and your figures. No one
Speaker 1: gives a fuck. I literally said that yesterday in a training.
Speaker 1: No one cares. You keep trying to meet people with
Speaker 1: your motherfucking bullet points, and they're bringing actual bullets to
Speaker 1: this duel. Right, So here's the thing that you need
Speaker 1: to understand on Earth too. In alternative fact land that
Speaker 1: Kelly an Conway and the rest of the entire MAGA
Speaker 1: nation lives in, they don't have facts there. What they
Speaker 1: do have is a significant and important ability to storytell
Speaker 1: and rile up their base. And I say to myself,
Speaker 1: where the fuck is that on the left. No, we're
Speaker 1: too good for that. We think that if we tell
Speaker 1: you that the polls say that eighty percent of Americans
Speaker 1: believe that you should have an abortion and have the
Speaker 1: ability to do so, that that somehow is going to
Speaker 1: resonate with actual, real people who don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: about your facts and your bullet points. Folks, if we
Speaker 1: are not asking ourselves why we are doing such things
Speaker 1: right and like who we are trying to meet? Do
Speaker 1: we think that people are showing up in this upcoming
Speaker 1: midterm election cycle? Do we think that anything is going
Speaker 1: to get them out? And now that we don't even
Speaker 1: have right these quote unquote democratic town hall spaces to
Speaker 1: be able to send out our messages because guess who's
Speaker 1: going to fuck with the algorithms. Guess who's going to
Speaker 1: make sure right that the trolls and the bigots and
Speaker 1: the racists have their way. You might as well have
Speaker 1: sold Twitter to fucking Donald Trump, basically, right. So here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I do not know if any of this
Speaker 1: even matters anymore. That's where I am, dear friends. I
Speaker 1: don't know if everything, if all hope isn't lost. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you listen to me, you probably think
Speaker 1: at this point then I'm fucking crazy because some days
Speaker 1: I'm scrounging around in the dark just trying to find
Speaker 1: that mustard seat of hope and put it deep into
Speaker 1: my pocket and seal it up real good, hoping that
Speaker 1: it doesn't escape me again. And then there are days
Speaker 1: like today where I just want to go outside, go
Speaker 1: into the middle of the street and just fucking scream.
Speaker 1: I really do. I just want to do and I
Speaker 1: want it to be socially acceptable to do so. I
Speaker 1: want to act like a toddler just for a good
Speaker 1: sixty seconds and scream up because that's the level of
Speaker 1: rage that I have right now? What the fuck, guys,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is this administration doing about anything? Seriously?
Speaker 1: What are we doing right now? I just you know,
Speaker 1: Congress had the ability a long time ago to fucking
Speaker 1: regulate technology firms. Right are they media? Are they technology?
Speaker 1: What kind of rules and regulations? What can we be
Speaker 1: thinking about right? Future? Tense? About what is being developed
Speaker 1: and making sure making sure that not one company, one
Speaker 1: person has a fucking monopoly, right, making sure sure that
Speaker 1: like the people are still participating in this democracy and
Speaker 1: have the ability to do so. And guess what we
Speaker 1: have failed across the board because what I just what
Speaker 1: I what drives me crazy, folks, is that greed will
Speaker 1: always win out. We have been sold through Hollywood right
Speaker 1: through you know. Mister Smith goes to Washington through these
Speaker 1: you know, Scooby Doo type tales where good prevails that
Speaker 1: happens in Hollywood, it doesn't happen in reality. And what
Speaker 1: I'm realizing is why we were so in love with
Speaker 1: Obama was because he was our real life fairy tale
Speaker 1: come to life. Right, all of the things that we
Speaker 1: thought couldn't happen and would never happen, he materialized, right,
Speaker 1: he actualized. But that's a once in a generation type
Speaker 1: of leader. And it only lasted for eight years and
Speaker 1: then was erased in four Then we went back to
Speaker 1: the same old, same old. And I'm being asked questions
Speaker 1: about what do you think if Bernie Sanders runs again?
Speaker 1: Are you crazy? Right? Is this an Octanagerian like fucking
Speaker 1: face off? Is that what we're doing? Folks? I M
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know where we go from here. Where As
Speaker 1: I speak, right now, the Supreme Court is hearing a
Speaker 1: case that will allow prayer back in schools, So we
Speaker 1: are just think, just just sit with me for a minute.
Speaker 1: Abortion is already lost in Red States, right, has been
Speaker 1: in June. It'll be lost across the country, and there
Speaker 1: will be a patchwork of abortion asylum states. At the
Speaker 1: same time that this is going on, we're going to
Speaker 1: have on our six to three Supreme Court probably prayer
Speaker 1: back in schools at the same time that we're going
Speaker 1: to be allowing for this to transpire. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that it has, but I'm saying the Supreme Court is
Speaker 1: hearing it, and I'm saying who is on the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court leads me to believe that at a time when
Speaker 1: people are not going to be able to get abortions,
Speaker 1: you're going to allow prayer back in school We're not
Speaker 1: allowed to say gay, We're not allowed to talk about
Speaker 1: critical to talk about race or identity or difference right
Speaker 1: at all? What else is happening? Oh, transuth aren't allowed
Speaker 1: to play on sports. We have hundreds of voter suppression
Speaker 1: bills across the country. They are making signals about, you know,
Speaker 1: defunding public schools and bringing back um pre Brown versus
Speaker 1: the Board of Education, so resegregating our schools. They're floating
Speaker 1: around stripping marriage equality, which we just need one case
Speaker 1: out of Texas to do that, because now they want
Speaker 1: to protect Texas. So that was that was said by
Speaker 1: a candidate running for attorney general there. And then they're
Speaker 1: also coming for interracial marriages, because that was something that
Speaker 1: was said just flippantly. But once again, we don't want
Speaker 1: to take any of these things seriously. Like as a party,
Speaker 1: we don't want to fight the culture war because that's
Speaker 1: not what the American people want. They want kitchen table issues. No,
Speaker 1: they want to know that they're going to be able
Speaker 1: to send their kids to school for an actual education,
Speaker 1: like so that they can be global citizens, so that
Speaker 1: they can participate in their democracy and understand what that
Speaker 1: actually means and how far we have come and why
Speaker 1: we are backsliding now. But under the current systems in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia,
Speaker 1: that's not going to be the case. So you tell
Speaker 1: me where you think America is going to be a
Speaker 1: year from now. I won't even go into twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four because I honestly don't think that we make it there,
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying? Not intact as like
Speaker 1: a country. I think that we get to twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four and have an election the way that you know
Speaker 1: Orbon in Hungary has elections, and the way that Putin
Speaker 1: in Russia has elections and the way that Mohammad bin
Speaker 1: Salam has elections right, like they're going to be elections
Speaker 1: with air quotes, but they're not going to actually matter,
Speaker 1: amana fucking thing. So you tell me with the list
Speaker 1: of things, and I know that I'm missing many, trust
Speaker 1: and believe, where do you think that we go as
Speaker 1: a country in a year from now? What do you
Speaker 1: think that that looks like Republicans are certainly going to
Speaker 1: take back the House in the Senate right if they don't,
Speaker 1: the only reason why that won't happen is literally an
Speaker 1: act of somebody's God, right like divine intervention is literally
Speaker 1: what I am praying for now. So what does that
Speaker 1: tell you about what I'm hearing from on the ground,
Speaker 1: grassroots organizations and issues focused organizations. I'm hearing that they
Speaker 1: don't understand the current media landscape that we're in and
Speaker 1: the climate, and the things that they are putting out
Speaker 1: are still under the perception that we're not dealing with
Speaker 1: one political party and one hopped up white supremacist cult
Speaker 1: that actually knows how media works, that knows how to
Speaker 1: get people onto their side, that knows how to rile
Speaker 1: up people. Because they don't have to depend on facts.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you you don't have to defend non
Speaker 1: facts either. The facts are on our side. You just
Speaker 1: need to tell the stories. Folks. I don't feel good today.
Speaker 1: I did not feel good yesterday. It's why I tell
Speaker 1: you that by the time that we get to Friday,
Speaker 1: that if you are not shutting off the news, shutting
Speaker 1: off social media and just connecting with the people around
Speaker 1: you or the environment around you and just like engaging
Speaker 1: in that way, you are not going to make it.
Speaker 1: And I need every single one of us to make it,
Speaker 1: including myself, because I feel on the fucking verge today
Speaker 1: right like I mean, there is just nowhere to look.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing was is that when I came
Speaker 1: back from spending time with my friends over the weekend,
Speaker 1: I was like so blissful, like completely blissed out, Like
Speaker 1: where was I Just like you know, in nature by
Speaker 1: the order, you know, playing with little kids and you know,
Speaker 1: being in the outdoors, like there's nothing better than that.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, you know, this is how
Speaker 1: people begin to slowly disconnect and disengage. Because I don't
Speaker 1: believe it's because we don't care. I think that for
Speaker 1: some people. It's because we care too much, right, that
Speaker 1: we care so much that now what is transpiring every
Speaker 1: single day is actually too much for our emotional and
Speaker 1: spiritual well being. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: if that is not intact, right, then we are not okay. So,
Speaker 1: if it now becomes a matter of survival right an
Speaker 1: emotional health and well being versus being actively engaged in
Speaker 1: a crumbling democracy, what do you think most people are
Speaker 1: going to choose. They're going to choose to hold on
Speaker 1: to whatever little pieces of their sanity that they can
Speaker 1: and let the rest go with God. That's what they're
Speaker 1: gonna fucking choose. So you know, folks, as a person
Speaker 1: who truly believes in our democracy, that believes in like
Speaker 1: the voice of the people, I am struggling today to
Speaker 1: figure out how to hold balance, how to hold space
Speaker 1: for the rage that I have and the desire to
Speaker 1: utilize whatever platforms that I have for however long or
Speaker 1: short I may be able to hold onto them for
Speaker 1: before I decide that my emotional well being and the
Speaker 1: health and wellbeing of my family and friends is more
Speaker 1: important than raging against the machine that is literally going
Speaker 1: to turn us all up and spit us all out.
Speaker 1: I don't mean and want to be dooming gloom on
Speaker 1: a day and day out basis. But I'm reading the cards,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the tea leaves, I'm seeing the headlines
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, yo, you know, is this how
Speaker 1: they felt in you know, in Germany and in South Africa,
Speaker 1: like as apartheid and the Nazis were bearing down? Is
Speaker 1: this like? But where do you escape to? I mean,
Speaker 1: just on Sunday we were cheering the fact that McCrone,
Speaker 1: you know, is the first centrist right in France's history
Speaker 1: or president regardless of party, to be reelected like Frances
Speaker 1: like one and done right and they like to move
Speaker 1: on real quick. But given right mccrown on one hand
Speaker 1: and then Lepine on the other, they're like, so maybe
Speaker 1: we don't want to be fascists like right now, maybe later.
Speaker 1: But the thing that I said yesterday, and what folks
Speaker 1: have to understand and recognize is that she grew in
Speaker 1: there her numbers much in the same way that Trump did.
Speaker 1: So while Donald Trump did not win the twenty twenty election,
Speaker 1: I know, I don't need to tell you good people
Speaker 1: that he gained millions of voters. So while le Penn
Speaker 1: did not win this time, she gained percentage points. The
Speaker 1: last time she ran she got something like thirty thirty
Speaker 1: three percent of the vote. This time she got nearly
Speaker 1: forty two forty one point eight, so basically forty two percent.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't make anybody. He feel good. And as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, over the weekend, aim and Mohedeen had
Speaker 1: one of the best threads on this. He's like, wake
Speaker 1: the fuck up, you'll sitting here, you know, popping champagne
Speaker 1: and celebrating, and he's just like, this is not over.
Speaker 1: Like this is a slow as Bill Mahr said, a
Speaker 1: slow moving coup. I will add it is a slow
Speaker 1: moving global coup because think about what a G seven
Speaker 1: looks like but for evil, right, think about who's sitting
Speaker 1: down at the table. Oh, I don't know, MBS or Bond,
Speaker 1: putin Trump a Lapen, Right, think about those people being
Speaker 1: in control of the most powerful countries and them being
Speaker 1: able to seize power all at the same time. Think
Speaker 1: about that, because that's the global plan and strategy. Then
Speaker 1: you dismantle, right, all of the things that alliances were
Speaker 1: created around, and you redo the world in the image
Speaker 1: of authoritarianism and destruction. You're able to bring back a
Speaker 1: slave trade. You're able to traffic and kidnap and do
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want. You're able to make
Speaker 1: literal deals with the devil. Folks, you think that today
Speaker 1: I'm going off the deep end. I want you to
Speaker 1: pay attention. The only reason why these things, these horrible
Speaker 1: historical stains have been removed from the world, is because
Speaker 1: of America and forces of good doing what was right.
Speaker 1: Waiting too fucking long, but eventually doing what was right.
Speaker 1: What happens when who is quote unquote good or good
Speaker 1: ish no longer has power, nor do they have any
Speaker 1: hopes of regaining it. This is where I am today.
Speaker 1: This is what is actually keeping me up at night,
Speaker 1: and I go back to the beginning. Look, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be anybody's alcoholic. I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: anybody's attic. But like I understand when people get into
Speaker 1: places where they're just like I just want to numb
Speaker 1: the pain. And that's why I'm like, we got to
Speaker 1: dive headfirst into whatever kind of wellness and community and
Speaker 1: network that we need in order not to do that.
Speaker 1: Because I'm seeing reports and this popped up on my
Speaker 1: screen over the weekend. Depression, anxiety, and suicides are up,
Speaker 1: and not just among teens right, They're up everywhere. It
Speaker 1: isn't just like the fact that we've been living in
Speaker 1: and through a pandemic for going on three fucking years.
Speaker 1: It is the confluence of all of these things that
Speaker 1: I've been naming. We are in fucking danger. And so
Speaker 1: I say it out loud that, you know, people, the
Speaker 1: urge is always to grab something external in order to
Speaker 1: fill us up. I don't want that to be the
Speaker 1: case because I believe that things are going to get worse, right,
Speaker 1: and we need our strength and our wits about us.
Speaker 1: And so what does wellness look like when everything is
Speaker 1: on the verge of collapse. I don't know. But what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I'm putting it out there and I'm
Speaker 1: wanting to name it, because if we don't find what
Speaker 1: works for us and be able to double down on
Speaker 1: that now, I worry about us later. Things that I
Speaker 1: have been doing that I can offer up. I am
Speaker 1: spending a lot more intentional time with my friends right
Speaker 1: in community. I am spending a lot of time on
Speaker 1: longer meditations. I'm trying to reach out and connect with
Speaker 1: more people For me, My work is kind of toxic,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to figure out how to creatively share
Speaker 1: my thoughts with folks so that I can hit people
Speaker 1: where they are. But we need to figure out and
Speaker 1: then activate for our selves what is going to be
Speaker 1: our go to sources. And also, you know, again staying
Speaker 1: on the dock side, if all of these things were
Speaker 1: to magically disappear, have you built up enough of a
Speaker 1: reservoir of wellness within you in order to sustain you
Speaker 1: if those things are taken away. I want to use
Speaker 1: the people of Russia as an example. Right, all of
Speaker 1: our sanctions, they're not hurting Putin, They're hurting the Russian people.
Speaker 1: And the hopes is that you hurt the Russian people
Speaker 1: so much that what they turn around and they revolt, Well,
Speaker 1: everything has been taken away from them. There are social media,
Speaker 1: their access to their banks, their access to friends and family,
Speaker 1: right like the truth them outside media. How do you
Speaker 1: sustain in a country like that. That's not me offering
Speaker 1: that example because I think the exact thing is going
Speaker 1: to happen, but the fact that it has happened to
Speaker 1: the people of Russia, that it has happened in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: What is going on there? The fact that there are
Speaker 1: countries that already exist like this because they're run under
Speaker 1: you know, dictatorships. How do you manage in that state?
Speaker 1: This is why I want us to use woke app
Speaker 1: as a meditation and rage, yes, but as a place
Speaker 1: to ask those questions to people in the chat, in
Speaker 1: the comments, like what are you doing? You know, if
Speaker 1: you are sharing, then maybe you can help open our eyes,
Speaker 1: right because without community, we're going to lose our sanity.
Speaker 1: And I don't want that for myself and as surely
Speaker 1: do not want it for you all. So we have
Speaker 1: got to engage not only in the topics of the
Speaker 1: day and making sure that we are up today with
Speaker 1: what is happening, but that we are also up to
Speaker 1: date with our care because I'm telling you, folks, this
Speaker 1: is fucking Tuesday, and I already want the week to
Speaker 1: be over. I don't even want to know what everything
Speaker 1: will look like by the time we get to Friday.
Speaker 1: That's how I'm feeling right now, And I'm just like, hmm,
Speaker 1: did I go walking today, did I work out today?
Speaker 1: Did I connect with friends and family today? What are
Speaker 1: those things that are going to keep my spirits up
Speaker 1: as the world around me seems to become you know,
Speaker 1: a subway tunnel with no way in our out. Friends,
Speaker 1: that is it for me today on Woke f Please, please,
Speaker 1: please please. My one request is that after you listen
Speaker 1: to Woke app, after you listen to one of my episodes,
Speaker 1: take three to five deep cleansing breaths. Those are breaths
Speaker 1: that you take in from your lower diaphragm through your
Speaker 1: nose hold for a count of four seconds, just four seconds,
Speaker 1: and then breathe it out. Do that at least three rounds,
Speaker 1: three times, and then let it go. Focus on something
Speaker 1: good for ninety minutes, right, for twenty minutes, for fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: whatever time that you have, so that you can pick
Speaker 1: it up again. Because I know from my own family
Speaker 1: and friends that the way that I deliver things and
Speaker 1: how it comes out is piercing, right, And I want
Speaker 1: you all to continue to be engaged, but I want
Speaker 1: you well, so three rounds good solid deep breaths and
Speaker 1: then let it go. As always, dear friends, Power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.