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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danny L. Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I don't know these days, you know, I just I

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Speaker 1: don't know where to begin. You know, Donald Trump has

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Speaker 1: decided to beckon Paul Manifort back to his campaign. Now,

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Speaker 1: if that name sounds familiar, it's because that man is

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Speaker 1: a convicted felon who Donald Trump pardoned when he was president,

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Speaker 1: who had a bunch of ties to the Russians, who

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Speaker 1: did a number of illegal dealings, and is a fucking

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Speaker 1: liar and a criminal and a grifter. And Donald Trump's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you I need you back, right. Peter Navarro just reported

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Speaker 1: to jail for you know, being held in contempt of Congress,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to serve four months. And you know,

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Speaker 1: prison is not a deterrent for these people, is what

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Speaker 1: I realize. You know, you would think federal prison would

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Speaker 1: be the place that you don't want to go to.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at like an Alan Weiselberg, right,

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Speaker 1: the former CFO of Trump Organization who worked under Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump and his father. You know, he's now been back

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Speaker 1: and forth to Rikers, seventy year old man, this doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to be a deterrent for him to continue to

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Speaker 1: be under the thumb of Donald Trump. And so, you know,

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Speaker 1: if there was ever a case study on how broken

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Speaker 1: our justice system is, our legal system is, it is

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Speaker 1: the Trumps, right. It is the ability to evade, evade, dobade, delay, delay, delay,

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Speaker 1: and just wear out the public because you have, you know,

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Speaker 1: seemingly the resources to be able to just muck up

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Speaker 1: our judicial system and no one will stand up, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just say no. Right. And of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: this week we've learned Donald Trump is, you know, apparently

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Speaker 1: not as rich as he says that he is, because

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Speaker 1: he went to thirty different underwriters for his four hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty million dollar bond in order to appeal you know,

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Speaker 1: the decision in the Tiss James case against him about

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Speaker 1: fraud and inflation of value, and he can't find anybody

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Speaker 1: to underwrite it, right, And apparently this multi billionaire doesn't

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Speaker 1: have liquid assets enough and half a billion dollars to

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Speaker 1: it's just, you know, you look at all of this

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Speaker 1: and it's just disgusting, and it's so exhausting to continue

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Speaker 1: to follow all of the delays, all of the bullshit,

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Speaker 1: all of the lies, like it's just exhausting. And meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: I think about the tens of thousands of innocent black

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Speaker 1: and brown people who don't have the resources for appeals,

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Speaker 1: who are serving out jail sentences that are egregious, you know,

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Speaker 1: for minimal bullshit, right like drugs. You know, Meanwhile, Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has harmed three hundred and thirty million plus people

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Speaker 1: and he's still walking around free. You know, it's enough

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Speaker 1: to make you want to throw your fucking hands above

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Speaker 1: your head and just say fuck it, like I just

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Speaker 1: don't care. You know, every day it's another assault by

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party to roll back fifty years of advancement

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Speaker 1: in progress so that white men like Donald Trump can

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Speaker 1: continue to you know, have their knee on the neck

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Speaker 1: of the little guy and say that they're tall. I'm

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Speaker 1: just tired, you know. And their strategy is working. Their

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Speaker 1: is working in a system where you have a bunch

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Speaker 1: of radical right wing judges that are doing the bidding

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Speaker 1: fucking place. And it's just nauseating, and it's like, when

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Speaker 1: will the people ever have a say? When will the

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Speaker 1: people actually win? You know, I don't know. I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to believe that maybe it is just for Hollywood, that

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really exist, not in any sustainable, long term way,

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Speaker 1: right that you know, you could be lulled into complacency

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Speaker 1: about this country with two elections, you know, back to

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Speaker 1: back of a brilliant black man, and then be back

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Speaker 1: in the drudges of shit, you know, all over again,

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Speaker 1: to the point where you don't even remember that that

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Speaker 1: win even happened. I just, you know, to today's conversation

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Speaker 1: with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzil. We talk about this exhaustion.

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Speaker 1: We talk about you know, I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: move forward, you know, how to continue to pull ourselves

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Speaker 1: up when you just feel so horribly weighed down. I

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Speaker 1: think that it's an important conversation to continue to have,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I'll just offer to some of you

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Speaker 1: that I'm reading books right now like Burnout, the Secret

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Speaker 1: to Unlocking the stress cycle. I'm reading books like Laziness

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Speaker 1: does not Exist. I'm reading books like Broken Open, I'm

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Speaker 1: reading books like The Four Pivots, like I'm reading like

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Speaker 1: six seven different books right now as a way to

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Speaker 1: find some type of guidance on how to best deal

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Speaker 1: with this time of you know, continued bullshit. You know,

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Speaker 1: just like we've never been here before, so how can

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Speaker 1: we use different tools to deal with the moment that

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Speaker 1: the fucking research to try and figure it out. And I,

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Speaker 1: you know, I say to anyone that is an avid reader,

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Speaker 1: that is, you know, listening to other shows and whatever,

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Speaker 1: please do hit me up, send me a DM you know,

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Speaker 1: comment on Patreon and the comment section under you know

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Speaker 1: these episodes, like do tell me what it is you

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Speaker 1: know that you are doing and using as a resource,

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Speaker 1: because I think that we can all use it. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, my conversation with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks,

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Speaker 1: you know that whenever we have the opportunity to sit

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Speaker 1: down with our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, I

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Speaker 1: am always always thrilled Jonathan. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 1: but I have not been feeling my best. I have

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Speaker 1: not been sleeping well. I have felt very physically and

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Speaker 1: emotionally exhausted, and like I was saying before we started

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Speaker 1: recording for the first time. No, it's this is the

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Speaker 1: second time I took magnesium to go to sleep, and

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Speaker 1: it works like no sleep hangover like other you know,

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Speaker 1: sleep aids or anything like that. But this is a

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Speaker 1: sign of my fraying nerves.

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Speaker 2: Well, I feel like we're gonna I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to assume anything. I just I'm just going to

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Speaker 2: state for the fact that like you and I are

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Speaker 2: which we know is true. And and I think part

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Speaker 2: of that thing is like it's there's just this is

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Speaker 2: like geopolitical anxiety. Like Durkheim, the sociologist, used to call

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Speaker 2: this anomi like oh sense of despair that basically the

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Speaker 2: literature which is basically about people like we're in right now,

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Speaker 2: right now, but you can see everybody like it's like

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Speaker 2: that feeling of being the only person who sees the

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Speaker 2: there's this sense of like people you know telling you that, oh,

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Speaker 2: me is just incredibly physiologically personally unsettling, Like you can

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Speaker 2: Remember last week we talked about like go go back

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Speaker 2: to yourself before the pandemic, where you know, all the bad.

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Speaker 1: Stuff, right, the questions that you asked me right right,

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Speaker 2: And so in a way like now we're we're in

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Speaker 2: But right now it's just kind of like this sense

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Speaker 2: Like here's the line and it's one over the Obama

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Speaker 2: and he looked like he was doing a hostage video

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Speaker 1: Right You're talking and I'm you know, and I'm listening

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Speaker 1: to you, and I'm thinking about really, Jonathan, like all

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Speaker 2: case and locking up me probably in all my patients.

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Speaker 2: It'll be great for business.

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Speaker 1: So other than that, great for business. See you next week,

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Speaker 1: my friend.

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Speaker 2: Take everybody, keep living the dream.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on wok

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Speaker 1: f as always power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fun