WEBVTT - Normalizing the Abnormal 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to Okay f Daily 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:19.320 with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks, 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.160 I want to open up today's show with a tweet 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.280 that I saw right at the start of the weekend. 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:31.880 And you know, once again, it was so jarring in 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.519 its honesty and in its realness that I think that 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:40.360 because we have become humans that are so busy doing 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.880 and not being, and because there is so much that 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.959 we are dealing with that are being put on our shoulders, um, 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.720 we don't stop and think, fuck, how am I doing this? 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.680 How am I managing? How am I getting through? So 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:02.320 let me read you this tweet from New York Times 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.399 best selling author of Patriarchy Blues better than we found it, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.720 Frederick Joseph, who, by the way, if you don't follow him, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.640 hashtag the Black Friend. He is fantastic. All of his 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.000 writing is incredible, as well as his tweets, and so 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:22.160 he tweeted this rent is too damn high, gas is 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.319 too damn high. The amount of deaths from COVID is 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.120 still too damn high. The police budget is too damn high. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.320 The amount of times World War three has trended is 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.119 too damn high. The expectations being placed on us while 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:42.000 this is happening are too damn high. I want to 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:49.559 delve into that, because since the beginning of COVID, right, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.680 we have been told that we need to work right, 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.640 that the economy can't shut down, and capitalism is necessary, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.800 and we must all do our part and find ways 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:05.760 to manage through folks, in the time that COVID, just COVID. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.720 I will touch on the other points that Frederick mentions 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.800 in his tweet, But Jess COVID, let's start there. There 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:20.880 have been Let's just let's get the exact number. Let's 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:25.200 get the exact number right now, because again with all 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:30.720 of this rush to the norm, right, rush back to normal, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.960 let's open everything up. COVID's not at all a big thing. Which, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.760 by the way, New York Magazine has a entire article 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.320 and cover that says this, that's said over the weekend, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.079 COVID is not over. And it was like a person 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.639 on a stretcher in front of a hospital because guess what, folks, 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.839 we still have about two thousand people dying a day 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.799 from COVID, just because the media has decided to s 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.480 talking about it, and the governors of said states have 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.200 decided that they're rolling back you know, mandates and all 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.200 of these things. And even doctor Fauci who came on 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.640 the show, said that, you know, we're at a drizzle 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.040 period and so we need to we're it's okay to 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.200 take off our galoshes and our rain boots and kind 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.760 of you know, work with the environment that we're in. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:28.400 But the reality is that those numbers, roughly eighteen hundred 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:35.160 to two thousand deaths are not normal. We've only normalized them, right, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.320 We've only decided to shrug it off. Every one of 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:43.400 us at this point, two plus years into this pandemic. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:48.760 No somebody who has died or is suffering from long COVID, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.160 which again is not actually being discussed on a regular basis. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.640 I talked to a friend recently who said that one 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.840 of their family members was suffering from law COVID, and 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.520 what did it look like for them? It looked like 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.560 the inability to concentrate, right, so, the inability to really 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.960 work for long periods of time, to be in front 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:16.719 of a computer that the quote unquote brain fog, brain fog, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.839 not frog brain fog that people have talked about isn't 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.120 just like a oh, I forgot what I was doing. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.320 I went into the kitchen and I forgot what I 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.919 was getting. No, no, it is almost complete like disorientation. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:36.120 Right then, an onset of migrains, right, that are so 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.680 debilitating that you need to close down everything, including all 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:44.080 access to light because it is causing you pain, the 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:51.280 inability to go far distances walking because it is now exhausting. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.480 These are symptoms that people are dealing with that are 0:04:55.600 --> 0:05:01.599 now being looked at as a disability. So when we say, oh, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:06.840 COVID is done or it's not that bad because the 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.120 number of deaths have gone down, one, the number of 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.039 deaths are still too fucking high. And number two, the 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:20.839 after effects of COVID are still incredibly debilitating and vary 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.160 from person to person. So while folks are like, well, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.239 you know, if you catch COVID, it's no big deal. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.960 If you are vaxed and boosted and what have you, Well, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:35.760 that depends on your very own bodily ecosystem, right, And 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.720 I don't know. I still personally, while I am doing 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:45.080 more things than I was, let's say in December, January 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.160 and February, I'm still trying to be as vigilant as possible, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.400 because I don't know right my own Bodi's makeup and 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.200 how it's going to fight off this virus and what 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.760 it's going to look like weeks after it's gone. Because 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.720 what Jonathan has told us on this show so many 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.040 times over the past two years is that the virus 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:13.520 continues to live in your body. Right, we have no 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:19.040 idea what the long, long term affects of a virus 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:24.400 living in your body. Is this particular virus that continues 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:31.080 folks to mutate. So again, it's like, I don't want 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.760 us in this Russian desire because we are emotionally fatigued 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.279 to want to say that we need to just move on. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.440 That we don't recognize that there are people that are 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.880 still suffering, and that there are millions of people who 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.240 have in fact been infected that will still suffer. So 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.440 what is our healthcare going to look like? Because I'm 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.320 going to tell you that one of the things that 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.440 Joe Biden had said several months ago and this point, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.159 who even knows if it was last year, if it 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.520 was months ago, I don't fucking know, but I will 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.559 say that what he said, what he offered was that 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.920 it was not going to be allowed under his tenure, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.119 that healthcare companies were going to be able to discriminate 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:24.080 right pre existing conditions, to discriminate against people who had 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.040 contracted COVID and were still suffering symptoms of it, meaning 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.520 that they weren't going to be allowed to not cover 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.200 those people or to exploit them in terms of the 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.440 kind of coverage that they could get. But that is 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.520 is that law. Has that been codified in law? Or 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.360 is it that when a Republican becomes president of the 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.120 United States, which will in fact be the last presidency 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.320 that we see, because then it'll just become an authoritarian 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.320 dictator and America will have a Trump light or a 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.559 Trump more knowledgeable for the next twenty some odd years. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.520 But nonetheless, I digress. The fact is that is not 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.400 codified into law. That is an exception that Biden is 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.240 making right now. So what does that look like after 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.840 twenty twenty four? Right? What does it look like when 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.520 we know that there will be other mutations? Because if 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.800 you've been following the science, and we've been following the 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.520 patterns of this virus, we know that another one is 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.200 going to come. And so right now, folks, let me 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.559 tell you what the startling number in the United States 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:41.079 has been. Since twenty twenty, nine hundred and sixty four 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:48.040 thousand Americans have died. As of today, nine hundred and 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.880 sixty four thousand Americans have died. That is nearly a 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.200 million people. And it will be by the time that 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.080 we get to actual spring and summer, it will be 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.680 over a million people will have died. But we have 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.400 an entire political party that has told us that this 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.079 was a hoax, that has told us that this is 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.480 no big deal, that it's just the flu. I don't 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.040 know when in our lifetime we had ever seen the 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:25.000 flu cause a million deaths in two years, the aggressive 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.760 nature of COVID and how it has upended our lives, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.760 and now with this rush, and I call it a 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:40.199 rush because again, we're not following the science. We're following midterms, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:45.880 we're following capitalism. Because if we were truly following the science, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.800 there wouldn't be You wouldn't hear the President of the 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.720 United States say, well, we need to put an end 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.319 to remote work and people just need to get back 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.760 into the office. It's now time. If you have had 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.880 the privilege of working from home over the last two years, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.080 then you know that you don't need to be in 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.840 an office in order to do your job. But what 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.480 you do know, and what you've become very privy to, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:15.920 is the fact that your employers have put in for ten, fifteen, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:20.760 twenty year leases for office space right that is not 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:25.120 being used currently to its fullest capacity, and that this 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.520 once again is about real estate and money. It has 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.000 nothing to do with whether or not you have the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.240 ability to do your job. Now. Sure, are there some 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.880 things that are better done in person, absolutely, but are 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.480 a majority of things able to be done over email, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:48.880 over zoom, over slack? Yeah, there are. You know. One 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.160 of the things I think that has been most startling 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.240 as I've been looking at the numbers of people that 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.280 are still remote working versus not, is that here in 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:02.480 New York where I am, only thirty five percent of 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.640 people who work in offices have gone back to work. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:12.559 So when you are riding around midday or what would 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.000 normally be considered rush hour for New York City for 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:22.640 the subways, what have you not packed? Because for those 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:29.080 companies who weren't locked into decades long leases, gave up 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:34.320 their buildings, gave up their office space, decided instead to 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.679 have a remote work or to get smaller huddling offices 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.720 that when folks need to be together, you can be. 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.439 But the expectation is not going to be that you're 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.720 going to be in this office five days a week, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.840 you know, eight to ten hours a day. So once 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:56.319 again you're listening to leaders from the president on down 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.000 tell us that like now is the time to go 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.560 back to normal. And I'm telling you close to a 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.679 million people are dead because of COVID and that those 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.480 that have gotten it and did not succumb it wasn't 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:19.760 fatalistic are still living with severe, severe conditions that are 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:24.199 not allowing them to quote unquote go back to normal. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.959 So the question that I have is why isn't the 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:35.760 administration talking about this? Why aren't people in media talking 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.360 about this? Because once again there has been a collective 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.720 decision that we are going to gas light the country 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:48.840 and just move on. And so you know, I say this, 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.480 and I say the collective gaslight because also we're talking 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.680 about rights as I'm going to make the pivot to 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:02.320 now move into our crisis that is happening in Europe 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:07.920 and move to Putin and the Ukraine and NATO and America. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.800 Is that We're having all of these conversations about how 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.280 the Russian people know nothing about the true nature of 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:19.559 what is happening right in their country, what what Russians right, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.160 what the Russian military led by Putin is doing in 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.280 the Ukraine. If you were to go around Russia and 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.240 ask the people what they think is the cause or 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.560 what they think is happening in the Ukraine, they're going 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.240 to give you the talking points that are out of 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.920 the Kremlin. They're going to tell you that their brothers 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.240 and sisters are out there fighting to liberate the Ukrainians 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:45.079 from Nazi influence. They're going to tell you that, like 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.839 you know, they have been killing civilians, killing their own. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.520 They're going to feed you what it is the Kremlin 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.640 wants them to know in order to keep them in 0:13:54.720 --> 0:14:00.720 line and keep them in support of this invasion. Now, 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.800 the thousands of people that have risked their life, their safety, 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.360 and their well being in Russia to protest what is 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:15.240 happening and what has happened right, those brave folks have 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:21.920 somehow gotten around the gaslight looping system and figured out that, yeah, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.440 we can't actually trust anything that is coming across State TV, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.960 anything that is coming across our radio, our social media, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.000 right is being monitored and we're not allowed to access 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.760 you know, X, Y and Z. But again, by virtue 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:42.320 of proximity, we know that there are tons of Russians 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:46.320 in Ukraine and tons of Ukrainians in Russia. That's why 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.600 they say like this is this is like a brother's war, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:56.720 a sister's war, right, We're fighting our own family. But 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.400 then I have told you that there are reports that 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.440 have come out where people are literally in the Ukraine 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.560 with sirens and bombs going off behind them, and their 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.040 family members in Russia are telling them that they are 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.440 making it up, that they are the ones that have 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:19.880 been brainwashed. Right, So this is how disinformation and misinformation works. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:25.600 And when you have a coordinated effort between your government 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.560 and your media in order to gaslight you, that is 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:37.760 the ultimate, the ultimate in disinformation and misinformation. By virtue 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.960 right of oh, we're just not going to disclose. That 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.880 is what is happening in the United States right now 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.680 with COVID and wanting to turn the page and go 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.440 to go back to the normal of twenty nineteen, which folks, 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.720 even if you do rip off your mask, even if 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.840 you do go back to indoor and do all of 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.920 these things. I'm telling you, the fear and the trauma 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.520 that we have lived under for the past two years 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.040 is not going to go away. While it feels good 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.400 to sit down in a restaurant and it feels good 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.280 to re engage in these environments once you go out, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.360 I'm telling you, I was out recently and I said 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.680 to myself, Wow, this feels great. And then I went 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.560 home and I took a test and I was just like, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:31.960 still on pins and needles. We're never washing away the 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.000 trauma of what we've lived through, and the fact that 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.080 we are not even giving it the space and the 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.560 weight to be able to work through it collectively. That 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.880 the desire is just like out of sight, out of 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:49.240 mind is really terrifying to me because I believe that 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.160 this is exactly how you go about making the same 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.840 mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.840 That we haven't learned anything over the past two years, right, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.480 What we have learned right about America and Americans is 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.840 that we are a selfish society. We are a country 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.800 that does not believe in helping other people or doing 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.679 things that may cause discomfort for us if it means 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:22.280 comfort for the majority, that we are not going to 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.520 challenge ourselves in any which way to actually be better, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.879 That we can't project onto other people any empathy or 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:37.320 sympathy if it is somehow upsets our current status and 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:42.240 our current state of ease. Right, There's a reason why 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.439 other countries have been able to tackle COVID in the 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.520 way that they have or fight back against misinformation, and 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:54.040 it's because their culture has always been based in community 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.520 and the success of the whole, not individual. But in America, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.800 all we care about, all we pride ourselves on is 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:06.400 our individual nature and desire, the pulling up from the bootstraps. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:11.320 I did it all alone, knowing that nobody has which 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:16.720 side note as let me make a pop culture reference 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.840 as well in here, because this is how my mind 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:24.760 is working today. I'm very overwhelmed no one has done 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.200 it all on their own, and that there are people 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:33.760 that work so hard in this country, well over the 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.080 forty hours a week, fifty hours a week, that hold 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.920 down multiple jobs and are still not able to make 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.360 ends meet. But in our country, where do we go 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:48.120 to get our advice from those that were born wealthy 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.400 to dictate to us how it is that we are 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.320 going to be able to live the life that they 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.840 were born into. And I say the pop culture reference 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.679 because at the end of last week, Kim kardash received 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.639 a lot of backlash from comments that she made in 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.960 an interview with Variety magazine as the Kardashians are getting 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:13.880 ready to make their premiere on streaming platform Hulu, as 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:20.359 they've moved from regular television to streaming, and Kim Kardashian, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.680 you know, is being asked, you know, what's the what's 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.919 the key to your success? And instead of saying, what 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.960 is actually the key to your success? Being born wealthy, right, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.480 being born with a name, being born with wealth, and 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.160 then being able to use that wealth that you were 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.320 born into in the name that you were born into, 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.080 and being able to turn that into a billion dollar brand. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.320 You're able to make billions because you were born into 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:52.240 fucking millions, right. But the answer that she gave was 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:56.520 so insulting to people that are working so hard and 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.440 still not able to make ends meet. What's he said 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.080 was people just need to work hard. Nobody wants to 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.440 work hard anymore. And I'm saying, bitch, who is nobody? 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.679 Who are you talking to? Because I know many people 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.199 who are busting their asses, right, who are either busting 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.280 their asses as entrepreneurs, busting their asses for other people, right. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.240 And in the age of inflation and how much more 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.640 expensive things have gotten, nobody's fucking income has gone up 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:34.040 to match that. We're just all trying to do more 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:40.080 with less. And so for somebody that was born into 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:45.840 wealth and whiteness and a name, right and fame to 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.640 then look at the rest of us who haven't had 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:53.000 the same advantages or opportunities and then totally have a 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.800 disassociation from that reality that you were born into. Then 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.440 to offer advice to other people, get the fuck out 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:08.919 of here, honestly, you know, I recently I have started 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.399 to think about, even in my own professional life, the 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.840 people who I have turned into deities, the people who 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.240 I have said, Oh, I want to emulate so and 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.879 so's career in so and so's steps. And I'm not 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.280 saying that folks can't offer advice, but offer advice off 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.440 the reel, right, offer advice off the reel, like I'll 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.840 take advice from fucking Oprah right, who was born broke 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:37.160 into poverty, into a set into the segregated South, and 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.080 was able to make the most out of the opportunities 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:45.640 that were presented. Right. I will take advice from a ditty, Right, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.200 a Sean Diddy Colmes who was taken the amtrack back 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.160 and forth, you know, at the beginning stages of hustling 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.080 into creating bad boy records. Right, I will take advice 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:02.320 from people who literally came from nothing or came from 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:06.240 something and we're able to turn it into something extraordinary. 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.440 But don't come off right. Don't come off as if 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:15.120 you are offering something to people. And essentially, because it's 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:20.320 essentially Kim Kardashian echoed and offered essentially what Republicans have 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:22.879 been saying, which is why they didn't want to offer 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:26.720 or vote for COVID relief. They didn't want to give 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.440 people any types of checks. They don't want to give 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:33.480 the American people back their own tax dollars to support 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.840 them in their times of need. No, because the assumption 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.800 is what Joe Mansion said, Oh well, if I give 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.360 the child tax credit, if I vote for this, then 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.800 people are going to use this money to go on vacation. 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:47.879 They're going to use this money, as he said, to 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:51.800 go hunting or whatever. You know, So we need to 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:57.639 make people live in an austerity type of situation because 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.680 they are undeserving of their own own money and resources back. 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:07.960 That is what politicians say. Kim Kardashian echoed that because 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:11.760 the assumption has always been at one at both at times, 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:14.920 they want to hold both things to be true. On 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.920 one hand, Americans are lazy. They don't deserve any child 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:22.159 tax credit, they don't deserve any support, they don't deserve 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.639 their own tax dollars. Put back into social security and 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.480 safety nets, into social safety nets that will help them 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:33.080 meet ends meet and not And as Joe Biden loves 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.560 to say, oh my dad used to say, provide some 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.800 breathing room. They don't give a fuck about your breathing room. 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.399 They want you to be broke, under educated, and desperate, 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:46.680 right because then you will do anything and everything in 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.320 order to get that little bit of breathing room through 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:56.440 a fucking straw, right, Like, that's what they want. And 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:59.680 when you start, when you sit back and you take 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:02.720 this all in and you look around, and you're just like, wow, 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.840 all of us, all of us are falling for the 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:11.280 rope padot. All of us are in love and indoctrinated 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:17.280 by wealth and fame and privilege. It's the reason why 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:22.720 you have people voting consistently against their best interest. Oh well, 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.600 if I were rich, or when I am rich, I 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:28.200 don't want to have to pay taxes, blah blah blah blah. Well, 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:32.840 the likelihood of you getting to that one percent having 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:38.440 come from the ninety nine percent is as likely as 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:45.080 you getting hit by lightning. But the lie of capitalism 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:51.000 is in its possibility, is in pulling out those few 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:55.000 examples of those that were able to somehow make it 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:59.840 in their version of squid game, right, and then we 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:02.800 use those people to say, oh, you two can do that, 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:08.760 not realizing that everyone's situation is one hundred percent different. 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:14.080 There may be consistent themes, but how we attack those themes, 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.240 how they show up in our lives are completely and 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:22.840 totally different. But you see, the lie of capitalism is 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:25.960 about the possibility of the thing. Oh, if you just 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:29.080 put your head down and work hard, then you'll get there. 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:32.280 And for those of us that have not arrived at 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:35.240 that place, it is not by virtue of the system 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:41.920 that we've been working in. It's by virtue of your laziness. Right, 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:45.920 So we've regurgitate the same shit to everyone around us 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:49.520 that has been told to us. The reason why folks 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:53.040 squid Game was so fucking popular wasn't just because it 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:56.320 was so obscene and it's over the top violence, but 0:25:56.480 --> 0:26:00.320 because of the fact that you can literally see the 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:04.440 parallels in our own lives and you're like, oh my god, 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:07.920 we would never get into a competition where people would 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:11.440 literally be killing themselves or getting the risk of being 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:15.199 killed just to wipe out their debt, wouldn't we haven't 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:17.879 you seen all of those I mean, from the birth 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.119 of reality TV, from the birth of Fear Factor, from 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:24.359 the birth of these shows where it's just like humiliate yourself, 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:28.320 humiliate yourself, or the possibility of getting a hundred grand 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:32.520 and people do it right, and they do it and 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:36.280 we call it entertainment as opposed to a flawed economic system. 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:47.200 Sometimes I honestly wish that I wouldn't make the connections. 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:50.800 Sometimes I wish that I could just go along for 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:53.320 the get along, because I think that life would be 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:56.679 a lot easier, right, I would have a lot less anxiety. 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:59.719 But I can't turn my eyes away from the truth. 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:02.800 I can't turn my eyes away from the fact that 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:07.280 I honestly believe that both sides of the political party, 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:11.600 both factions of the wealthy and the non wealthy, the 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:15.080 haves and the have nots, are all in cahoots for 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:20.200 the same thing, which is to gaslight the public into 0:27:20.280 --> 0:27:23.240 doing their bidding so that they can continue to live on, 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:26.320 to live on the mountaintop and then dictate to the 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:29.639 rest of us as they are cutting the bridges and 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:33.360 cutting the water and cutting the access and saying to us, well, 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:36.320 if you just worked hard enough, you two could climb everest, 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:39.800