WEBVTT - The Now Place 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:20.000 Meet your Girl Danny L. Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:27.639 I don't know these days, you know, I just I 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:34.839 don't know where to begin. You know, Donald Trump has 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:40.839 decided to beckon Paul Manifort back to his campaign. Now, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.600 if that name sounds familiar, it's because that man is 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:50.840 a convicted felon who Donald Trump pardoned when he was president, 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.880 who had a bunch of ties to the Russians, who 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.600 did a number of illegal dealings, and is a fucking 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:03.360 liar and a criminal and a grifter. And Donald Trump's like, yeah, 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:08.560 you I need you back, right. Peter Navarro just reported 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:13.240 to jail for you know, being held in contempt of Congress, 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.920 and he's going to serve four months. And you know, 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.720 prison is not a deterrent for these people, is what 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.759 I realize. You know, you would think federal prison would 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.680 be the place that you don't want to go to. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.640 But when you look at like an Alan Weiselberg, right, 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:34.399 the former CFO of Trump Organization who worked under Donald 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.600 Trump and his father. You know, he's now been back 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.760 and forth to Rikers, seventy year old man, this doesn't 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.520 seem to be a deterrent for him to continue to 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.200 be under the thumb of Donald Trump. And so, you know, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.160 if there was ever a case study on how broken 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.720 our justice system is, our legal system is, it is 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:03.520 the Trumps, right. It is the ability to evade, evade, dobade, delay, delay, delay, 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.320 and just wear out the public because you have, you know, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.040 seemingly the resources to be able to just muck up 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.520 our judicial system and no one will stand up, you know, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:21.360 and just say no. Right. And of course, you know, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.800 this week we've learned Donald Trump is, you know, apparently 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.360 not as rich as he says that he is, because 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.359 he went to thirty different underwriters for his four hundred 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:37.920 and fifty million dollar bond in order to appeal you know, 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.959 the decision in the Tiss James case against him about 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:46.280 fraud and inflation of value, and he can't find anybody 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.840 to underwrite it, right, And apparently this multi billionaire doesn't 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.200 have liquid assets enough and half a billion dollars to 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.600 be able to pony up to continue his appeal. So 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.960 it's just, you know, you look at all of this 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.520 and it's just disgusting, and it's so exhausting to continue 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.560 to follow all of the delays, all of the bullshit, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.920 all of the lies, like it's just exhausting. And meanwhile, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:19.160 I think about the tens of thousands of innocent black 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:24.040 and brown people who don't have the resources for appeals, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.480 who are serving out jail sentences that are egregious, you know, 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:35.680 for minimal bullshit, right like drugs. You know, Meanwhile, Donald 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.000 Trump has harmed three hundred and thirty million plus people 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.160 and he's still walking around free. You know, it's enough 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.560 to make you want to throw your fucking hands above 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.160 your head and just say fuck it, like I just 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.200 don't care. You know, every day it's another assault by 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.400 the Republican Party to roll back fifty years of advancement 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.120 in progress so that white men like Donald Trump can 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.200 continue to you know, have their knee on the neck 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.240 of the little guy and say that they're tall. I'm 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.120 just tired, you know. And their strategy is working. Their 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.160 flood the zone, throw every fucking thing at the wall 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.760 is working in a system where you have a bunch 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.159 of radical right wing judges that are doing the bidding 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:21.840 of the people that put them there in the first 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.599 fucking place. And it's just nauseating, and it's like, when 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.359 will the people ever have a say? When will the 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.560 people actually win? You know, I don't know. I'm starting 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.320 to believe that maybe it is just for Hollywood, that 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.440 it doesn't really exist, not in any sustainable, long term way, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.520 right that you know, you could be lulled into complacency 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.200 about this country with two elections, you know, back to 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.400 back of a brilliant black man, and then be back 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.680 in the drudges of shit, you know, all over again, 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.200 to the point where you don't even remember that that 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.760 win even happened. I just, you know, to today's conversation 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.799 with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzil. We talk about this exhaustion. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.599 We talk about you know, I don't know how to 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:14.000 move forward, you know, how to continue to pull ourselves 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:20.479 up when you just feel so horribly weighed down. I 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.320 think that it's an important conversation to continue to have, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:25.919 you know, And I'll just offer to some of you 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.240 that I'm reading books right now like Burnout, the Secret 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.080 to Unlocking the stress cycle. I'm reading books like Laziness 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.000 does not Exist. I'm reading books like Broken Open, I'm 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.240 reading books like The Four Pivots, like I'm reading like 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.520 six seven different books right now as a way to 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.240 find some type of guidance on how to best deal 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:59.120 with this time of you know, continued bullshit. You know, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.039 just like we've never been here before, so how can 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.560 we use different tools to deal with the moment that 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.240 we currently find ourselves in. And I'm doing all of 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.760 the fucking research to try and figure it out. And I, 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.760 you know, I say to anyone that is an avid reader, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.280 that is, you know, listening to other shows and whatever, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.719 please do hit me up, send me a DM you know, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.480 comment on Patreon and the comment section under you know 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.719 these episodes, like do tell me what it is you 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.160 know that you are doing and using as a resource, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.720 because I think that we can all use it. Coming 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:47.640 up next, my conversation with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks, 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.839 you know that whenever we have the opportunity to sit 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.359 down with our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, I 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:59.359 am always always thrilled Jonathan. I don't know about you, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.400 but I have not been feeling my best. I have 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:09.159 not been sleeping well. I have felt very physically and 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.360 emotionally exhausted, and like I was saying before we started 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.680 recording for the first time. No, it's this is the 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.480 second time I took magnesium to go to sleep, and 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.920 it works like no sleep hangover like other you know, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.480 sleep aids or anything like that. But this is a 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.120 sign of my fraying nerves. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.280 Well, I feel like we're gonna I mean, I'm not 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.520 going to assume anything. I just I'm just going to 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.480 state for the fact that like you and I are 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:44.040 effectively the same person and two bodies and so and 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.240 which we know is true. And and I think part 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.800 of that thing is like it's there's just this is 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:56.240 like geopolitical anxiety. Like Durkheim, the sociologist, used to call 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:01.280 this anomi like oh sense of despair that basically the 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:02.960 world is spending away from you that you have no 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.000 control or something like that. So there's a whole sociological 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.520 literature which is basically about people like we're in right now, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.520 which is kind of the fascism for play stage of 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.600 the world, which is it's not so much that like 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.119 bad stuff per se totally is one hundred percent happening 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.280 right now, but you can see everybody like it's like 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.000 that feeling of being the only person who sees the 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.200 monster in a scary movie all the time, you know, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.720 and so that's kind of what it feels like for 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.920 people who like are worried about the direction. Right, So 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.240 there's this sense of like people you know telling you that, oh, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.200 I'm not going to vote, or the candidates are the same, 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.880 or you know, they really like, I mean credit to 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.280 the RFK Junior campaign, they're doing a great social media game, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.640 but they're like, oh, yeah, you know, maybe vaccines are 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:58.160 really you know, I probably got cavities in junior high 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.480 because of my vaccines or something like that. People are 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.280 just not reasonable right now, and so there's this sense 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.880 of kind of where is this all going That to 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.640 me is just incredibly physiologically personally unsettling, Like you can 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.439 kind of relax for a minute, but you can't relax 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.200 in the way that like we were talking about before. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.880 Remember last week we talked about like go go back 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.240 to yourself before the pandemic, where you know, all the bad. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.320 Stuff, right, the questions that you asked me right right, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:26.120 right right. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.040 And so in a way like now we're we're in 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.280 the middle of it, Like there's something really unsettling about change, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.400 and there's also you know, I'm sure there's like noise 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.640 around our apartments and all these other reasons for insomnia. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.480 But right now it's just kind of like this sense 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.440 of I feel like it's like if you had to 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.360 do an algebraic calculation of what it feels like right now. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:52.480 Like here's the line and it's one over the Obama 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:56.040 Hope poster. Remember, like the Hope poster where we were 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.600 all on the same team. Yes, yes, it was like 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.720 people used to say, like the invisible hand of Obama, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.960 like we're all like being taken care of, and we're 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.160 all we were out strategizing those guys. So hope wasn't 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.480 just like hope about like the future. It was hope 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.560 about like being on a team that was really on 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.880 the ball in terms of like you know, they they 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:19.199 were out thinking everybody. And now, like even the people 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.199 who were telling us before Biden was going to win, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.440 like Mark what's his name, the trial lawyer who does 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.000 the cases. I watched him on MSNBC the other day 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.000 and he was the guy before who was like, we 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.440 got this, Biden is not going to lose. Everybody, calm down, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.559 and he looked like he was doing a hostage video 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.839 like everybody. So people, I think are just people are 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.080 just nervous right now, and the question is like how 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.400 do we how do we get back to a place 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.920 like of solidity or it's really a place of strategy. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:56.720 Right You're talking and I'm you know, and I'm listening 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.320 to you, and I'm thinking about really, Jonathan, like all 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.760 of the different versions of ourselves that we've gone through 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.400 since twenty sixteen, right, Like there have been and I 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.520 think that one of the reasons why we are so 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:17.240 exhausted is because we have lived like I don't know, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.400 maybe five different lives since twenty sixteen. Right, Like, there 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.000 was the life that you were living as Donald Trump 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.040 was running against Hillary Clinton, and you still had that 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.720 kind of feeling of the Obama impossibility. We can make 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.760 this happen, you know, momentum, There's no way we elect 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.720 this guy following you know, the first black president that 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.320 the world loved, Like that just doesn't make any sense. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.600 Then that happens, then there's like this state of shock. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.960 So you're living in like your shell shocked self, Like 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.640 what is this reality that I'm in. I can't trust 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.440 this country that I once trusted to be in this 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.040 line of progression that it's been for my entire life, right, like, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.920 things have always gotten better. Maybe they've backslid in some areas, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:08.240 but by virtue of the perspective that I have as 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.560 growing up, you know, middle class in America with more 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.280 than enough, and so I'm recognizing the place that I'm 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.240 coming from. Things have always gotten better in my universe 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.760 and world. And then they backslide. Then we go into 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.480 a pandemic. Everything is just fucked up. Then we've lived, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.840 like you know, within the pandemic time at least three 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.720 different lives in that time, and then we're in the 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.840 now place. And then now is I can't trust anything 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:41.000 around me at any moment. Another pandemic could erupt at 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.800 any moment, like another war can be announced at any moment. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:51.440 Like it's just this sense of consistently waiting not just 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.000 for the other shoe to drop, but like the bomb 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.280 that you're waiting for figuratively and literally to drop here. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.640 And the other part of it, I think is like 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:07.640 the institutional story, which is like even when twenty sixteen happened, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.160 at least we had like the institutions still in place. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.640 But now it feels like that there's just been such 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.440 a sustained war on like the infrastructure. That part of 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:22.880 that anxiety is like there's just there's no fail safe 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.640 in a way right now is I think I'm just 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.720 trying to process like why we feel this way, And 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.920 part of this thing is that it's like there's no 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.560 fail safe to how this is feeling right because the 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.920 institutions that you thought, like even when Trump was doing 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.640 all this crazy shit the first time, it was kind 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.920 of like, oh, the CDC is going to stand up 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.280 to him and that whatever, and you know now they're 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.319 coming in with like a really strategic, coherent plan that 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:56.000 every everything is going to be politicized if this happens. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.959 And so it's just the checks and balances don't feel 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.960 like I want to I would take checks or balances 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.720 I don't need. I just give me one even right now. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.439 But it doesn't feel like there's that. And then I 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.120 don't know here's I mean. So let me just say, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.400 like I understand every time you send a TikTok out 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.679 into the wilderness, I feel it also like you know 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:19.360 what I mean, Like. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.359 I understand I reach anybody. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.040 Know I So I want you to know like I'm here, 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.680 like I've got a lighter and I'm holding it up, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:33.280 and I'm like swaying and stuff like that. So you know, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.960 so I hear you first, let me say, but but 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.760 I guess the question is like what can we do 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.880 that is not howling, which is what we're doing now. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:42.480 We're howling. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.080 Yeah, and so I. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.920 Don't know, like, and so is there something that could 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:53.440 happen between now and whenever? They could like change the narrative, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.280 you know, is there some political thing that could happen? 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.440 For example, is there some going on the offense? Is 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.320 there something that Democrats could do? I mean, I think 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.800 about this a lot, like I do feel like part 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.800 of the this is just kind of the part of 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.120 the buying we're in right now, is that we just 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.160 have like if you watch like liberal television, for example, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.360 ninety percent of it is about Trump, right, It's about 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.360 bad stuff Trump did. And it's because like we have 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.000 a defensive game, but we don't really have an offensive game, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.400 like like, oh, here's some cool things Biden did, or 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.400 you know, what are Biden's picks for the NCAA tournament. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.520 Or but it doesn't The thing is like none of 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.680 like because I am not on the conservative like sphere, right, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.080 So I don't get any of the news that they get. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.760 I am in somehow, you know, I am in progressive 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.920 news funnels, and I am in whatever is considered like mainstream. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.560 The reality is is that no one cares about the 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.960 things that Biden is doing. Well, they don't care mainstream media, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.240 like it's not even about the narrative that's coming out 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.280 of the White House. Because I think, I honestly will 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.800 say that I think that they are trying right, like 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.320 it comes across my social media, but mainstream media doesn't care. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.640 Well and and they're you know there, and I mean 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.360 mainstream media is like hanging on the lip of the 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.840 black hole as every thing gets sucked into the void 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.440 right now. I mean we know this because we know 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.480 the people. But so it's it's it's hard because but 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.840 the other issue, let's just be honest, is Biden is 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.960 not like Newsworthy in the way that you know Trump, 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:41.320 Trump speaks in provocative, moronic social media clips or something 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.600 like that, and so you know, you know, this is 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.520 what we have, right but Biden and Biden is running 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.560 the country. So it's pretty exhausting too, but it is, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.800 you know, it is this is what we got. So 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:56.800 this is this is what we got so we got to, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.760 you know. But I love that David Sedaris quote that 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:00.760 you posted the other day. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.440 Oh my god, family, I'm like, who did I even see? 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.320 I stole it from a friend of mine who had 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.600 posted it, and I was just like, oh my god. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.199 I'm like, this is amazing. I want to be so 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:17.320 folks know what we're uh, what we're talking about. Let 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.960 me pull it up because it was so poignant. So 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:25.840 here's folks, here's the quote by David Sadaris says, quote. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.720 I think of being on a plane. The flight attendant 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.600 comes down the aisle with her food cart and eventually 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.480 parks it beside my seat. Can I interest you in 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.520 the chicken? She asks? Or would you prefer the platter 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.560 of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.639 be undecided in this election is to pause for a 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.560 moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked. It's 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:53.679 so I mean, it's so perfect because this is what 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:58.160 Americans are doing right now. It's like Donald Trump is 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.960 telling you everything. There is nothing that is a secret. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.200 Project twenty twenty five is right on the Heritage Foundation's website. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.040 They are telling you that they're coming for social entitlements, 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.960 they're telling you that they are coming for a national 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.800 abortion band for IVF. They're telling you that they are 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.040 getting rid of anything that has to do with Dee 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.000 and I. They are telling you like every single thing 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.400 that they are doing. They are rolling out in cases 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.239 and in peatrie dishes like Texas and Florida, Alabama and 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:31.600 what have you. And America is like, hmm, whoa you know? 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:37.400 Biden stutters, yeah, well, but I mean, here's my problem 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.000 with the way, not you and I formulated, but it's 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:44.080 being formulated more broadly. The scariest part of this is 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.760 that people want Trump. Like I interview a lot of people. 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.160 It's not like it's not like, oh there, some people 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.440 are sleepwalking. The people we know are sleepwalking. But other 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.679 people really want Trump. Like what Trump is saying is 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.160 what they want. They want They want that world, which 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.320 is to me a world. And I don't think people 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.480 realize quite how depressing it is, you know, hunting down 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.440 your enemies and not having freedom and looking over your shoulder. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.280 And will you be able to get your driver's license renewed? 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.560 Will you able to get through airport security? Can you travel? 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:21.040 Can you work? You know? What ideological tests are you 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:24.040 going to have to take to prove yourself. You're going 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.439 to get spied on by your neighbors. Like, we know 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.480 how this works because it's happened to many other countries, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.439 not ours. It's not very fun and it's not a 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.399 great way to live, but a lot of people want 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.880 that life. They want like dad in control and punishing 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.679 their enemies and all that kind of stuff. Those guys, 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.960 I just think, more power to you if that's the 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.080 world you want. But the thing the scarier part for me, 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.520 and I think the audience you're talking to are like 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.080 our friends who are like zoned out. 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:55.880 You know what I mean. 0:19:56.119 --> 0:20:00.880 Like if everybody just votes for Biden, who've from last time, 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.560 We're fine, We're there, you know, we're fine. But it's 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:08.960 really the people who are like being distracted and don't 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.880 see the David Sadaris binarya in. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:21.679 A way, if you're not seeing the David Sadaris scenario, 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.840 if you're not seeing that picture, then you're just not 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.119 paying attention. And if you're not paying attention, then I 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.640 don't know what else to do, right, And that's kind 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:30.600 of why I posted the video that I did this 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.800 week of me just like exasperated because if you're at 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.639 a place, and here's the thing, Like I get where 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.399 people are as it pertains to Israel and Gaza. I 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.520 know I am in that same place. But if, for 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.199 whatever fucking reason, you think that things are going to 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.040 get better for people in Gaza, for the Palestinians as 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.240 a whole, if Donald Trump becomes president, then you really 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.720 don't know what the fuck you were talking about. Right 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.760 then you really have no idea for an issue that 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:05.080 you may have woken up to six months ago. You 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:09.240 really have no idea like that you are holding not 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.879 only your life, but their lives in your hand with 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:13.240 this singular vote. 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.879 Well, you know, I follow the Israeli media very closely, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.000 and I have a lot of collaborators in Israel and 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:19.960 as you know, relatives and stuff like that. And I 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.960 can just tell you the Israeli right wants Trump to 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.840 win so that they can wipe everybody out. You know, 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.600 the Israeli right are Trump supporters. And so I don't 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.040 I agree with you in so so many ways. Now, 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.560 I think we need I guess, answer my own question, 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:37.960 because we just have five minutes left. I think we 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.879 need we need like a common cause, you know, And 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.560 I think democracy might be abstract. I don't know, we 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.160 need some kind of we need some way to remind 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.159 ourselves we're all on the same team. Like, I just 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.800 think losing democracy is very abstract for a lot of people, 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.480 So I don't know to parts of the issue is 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.240 like how can we how can we concretize being on 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.439 the same team in a way? I mean, I personally 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.800 have thoughts about how I plan to go about this, 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.840 which maybe we can talk about next week. I personally 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.320 feel like the anti DEI stuff has actually gone way 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.160 too far. It's actually, yeah, it's getting to the point 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.760 where like you're either on one side of it or 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:16.640 you're on the other. But it's getting to the point 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.520 where it just is really really egregious what they're trying 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.840 to do. Like I'm you know, let's talk next week 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:25.600 about this what they're trying to do. There's a bill 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:30.360 today to outlaw like not just DEI and met education, 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.840 but like the ability of medical centers to treat low 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.560 income people. Basically, Like it's getting to the point of insanity. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:41.000 But I just think we need, like we need some 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.920 concrete common causes that remind everybody why we're on this 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:48.040 side of this side something something like that. So I 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:50.320 don't know, that's that's that's my thought. 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.760 I mean, you know, again, everyone in this country doesn't 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:59.000 vote who is eligible to vote. A majority of people 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.639 think that, you know, politics has nothing to do with 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.880 their lives. It is not for a lack of trying 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:12.080 and articulation imagination that there are people who just don't 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.000 care and are never going to care. Right. There are 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:18.440 people that are interviewed that think that the Supreme Court 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.920 overturned Roe v. Wade because of Joe Biden, right, because 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:24.639 they have absolutely no idea how government works and have 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:29.479 no idea who installed the last three justices. When Hillary 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.000 Clinton was very clearly articulating that the Supreme Court hangs 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.280 in the balance with the twenty sixteen election, everyone shrugged 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:38.400 and said, oh, I can't hear you because you're a woman, 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:42.000 and you shriek. Right. So it's like, I'm at the 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.480 point where I do believe that forty percent of the 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.000 country wants an authoritarian. I do believe that forty percent 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:51.440 of the country thinks that somehow they will be better 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.840 off even though over the four years of Donald Trump 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.200