1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKF Daily with Meet 2 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker. Holy shit, 3 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: did Mercury come to play? Or did Mercury come to play? So, y'all, 4 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: let me tell you something. There has not been a 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: news day like Monday in a long fucking time when 6 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: I am actually gobsmacked by what comes across the Twitter 7 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: feed and comes across the newsfeed. So let's just jump 8 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: right in. As you all already know, Tucker Carlson and 9 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: Don Lemon are out of cable news, out of their 10 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: respective networks, Fox and CNN. So let's start first with 11 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson because that is the one that is giving 12 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: the biggest shock across media. And here's the reason why. 13 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: One Because Tucker Carlson has been the number one or 14 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: two rated show for Fox News and in cable news 15 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: for the last several years. He's pulling in you know, 16 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: three million plus viewers a night to his eight fueld 17 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: toxic masculinity driven dribble of bullshit right to his you know, 18 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: grievance bearing audience, and you know, back in I believe 19 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: it was because I want to get this right, because 20 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: the news is just kind of wild. But back in 21 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, if you remember that long ago, and it's 22 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: pre pandemic, so Lord only knows where our minds go 23 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: when we go to the tweens. But back in December 24 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, Tucker Carlson lost twenty six twenty six 25 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: of his advertisers after he said that immigration makes the 26 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: United States quote dirtier. Basically, my pillow was the only 27 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: thing that was running ads on Tucker Carlson's show, But 28 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: Fox decided to stand by their guy, and they did 29 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: not get rid of him. He went on other people's shows. 30 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: According to this article in the Washington Post, he went 31 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: on a show called Bubba Love the Sponge. Okay, he 32 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: made light of child marriage, calling rape shield laws quote 33 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: totally unfair, describing women as extremely quote primitive, and using 34 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: sexist vulgarities. He is also at the center of a 35 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: lawsuit by Abby Grosberg, who was suing Fox for sexual harassment, 36 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: and him and his producer, who was also fired on Monday, 37 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Justin Wells, are at the center of this life lawsuit. 38 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: And you know, I gotta say that Tucker Carlson has 39 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: said a lot of hot shit has done a lot 40 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: of hot shit, a lot of racist shit, a lot 41 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: of you know, misogynist shit, a lot of anti Semitic shit, 42 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: and Fox has stood by him because he brings in 43 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: the viewers, he brings in the dollars. So it's really 44 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: shocking to find out that. First of all, and if 45 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: you are watching the clips that have gone on with 46 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's laugh airing, which was Friday, April twenty firth 47 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: where he was eating pizza on the air and said, 48 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: you know, we'll be back on Monday, have a great weekend, 49 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: it is clear by his sign off that he did 50 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: not know on Friday that he was being fired. And 51 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: then turn around now Monday morning, right Monday morning, Fox 52 00:03:55,160 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: is still running promos for a Tucker Carlson's show. And 53 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: then it wouldn't be until now the afternoon or right 54 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: around noon that the on air announcement goes out that 55 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: says Fox and Tucker Carlson have decided to quote part 56 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: ways and that they want to thank him for his service, 57 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: I guess to destroying democracy and spreading lies that costs 58 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: the network seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars. So, folks, 59 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: this story is continuing to unfold. But I think that 60 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: what is really just like WHOA is. I will be 61 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: the first to say to you that I have said 62 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: all along to seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars 63 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: to a multi billion dollar network doesn't seem like much 64 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: to me. That seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars 65 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: is probably what Rupert Murder, you know, uses to go 66 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: out to lunch. So it didn't seem like it was 67 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: going to cause any type of serious waves. So, you know, 68 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: I have been wondering, as everybody else in media is 69 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: has was it a combination of the things. Did Tucker 70 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: Carlson's ego get the best of him in this situation where, 71 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: you know, thanks to the dominion lawsuit, we know through 72 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: leaked private messages, what Tucker Carlson was really thinking not 73 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: only about Donald Trump, which he famously said he quote 74 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: passionately hates, but what he also thought about Fox executives, right, 75 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: and it wasn't too nice. I mean, I don't know 76 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: about anybody who you know, talks shit about their boss 77 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: and then thinks that you ain't gonna get fired. But 78 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: this is what Tucker Carlson in one of the private 79 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: messages that Dominion was able to get their hands on 80 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: in their lawsuits, said quote, those Fox are destroying our credibility. 81 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: I think, Tucker Carlson, you destroy your own credibility any 82 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: time you open up your mouth. But I digress. He 83 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: later wrote, quote, A combination of incompetent liberals and top 84 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: leadership with too much pride to back down is what's happening. 85 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 1: And that's when he was referring to the election fraud conspiracy, 86 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: you know. And as it would turn out, right, he 87 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: would have a completely different tune when he was on air, 88 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: because what we know about Fox much in the same 89 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: way that we know about Trump and all of Magadam, 90 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,799 Speaker 1: is that they created a beast that they can't control. 91 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: So they pretty much placate and play to their base, 92 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: whether they're a politician or a cable news anchor. And 93 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: that upsetting, you know, Magadam isn't just about viewers, you know, 94 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: turning off the channel. I actually believe that they're afraid 95 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: of these motherfuckers since the insurrection because they know that 96 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: they'll take up arms if Donald Trump directs them to 97 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: do so. So this whole instance right now of Tucker 98 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: Carlson being fired from Fox, and I had tweeted yesterday 99 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: that that motherfucker is going to land on his hooves 100 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: and people laughed, and I mean hooves right, because he's 101 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: you know, a jackass, He is a dog, he is 102 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, whatever the name is that you want to say. 103 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: But you know, he lost all credibility as a human 104 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: to me a long time ago. But the fact is 105 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: is that Fox is making changes now, whether or not 106 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: this is going to result in a change in their content. Lease, folks, 107 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: let us not hold our breadth for fear we may 108 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: pass out. Because understand that when Fox got rid of 109 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly because of his mountain of sexual harassment lawsuits, 110 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: everyone was like, oh my god, the network is done. 111 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: Oh my god. Bill O'Reilly was their guy, was the 112 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: face of Fox. And then guess who comes in, Tucker Carlson. 113 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: So this is a situation where, you know, you may 114 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: think that you're cutting off the head of the snake, 115 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: but that motherfucker just keeps regenerating. And that's what they 116 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: do with the you know, commentators over at Fox. There's 117 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: always going to be somebody who is you know, gross 118 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: and evil and willing to debase themselves and willing to 119 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: lie you know, with abandon in order to claim the 120 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: top spot at Fox, right, and they will always welcome 121 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: that person with open arms. And so we'll continue to 122 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: follow this story as it unfolds. But I think that first, 123 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: if you can get rid of Tucker Carlson, then everybody 124 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: else at Fox needs to be watching their backs because 125 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: it means that I believe you know, and we will 126 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: see if it plays out to be true, that this 127 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: is not going to be the last head to roll. 128 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: It may be the first, but it is not going 129 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: to be the last head to roll at Fox. And 130 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: I would pay attention to those that were named in 131 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: the defamation lawsuit by dominion, those who were lifted up 132 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: as carrying the water for the big lie night after 133 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: night after night since twenty twenty, and see what the 134 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: cleaning of house will ultimately look like. So now folks 135 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: switching gears from Fox to move over. As Fox was 136 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: making their announcement, CNN said, hold my beer, and they 137 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: fired Don Lemon. Now, what makes the firing of Don 138 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:47,599 Speaker 1: Lemon rich at this point is the fact that, allegedly 139 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: Don Lemon said via tweet, he broke his own fucking news, 140 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: which was pretty fucking funny if you ask me. He 141 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:02,119 Speaker 1: broke his own news by basically coming out and tweeting 142 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: before The New York Times broke the story that he 143 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: was not alerted by management at CNN that he was 144 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: being fired, but that he was alerted by his agent 145 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: that he was being fired. And you know, folks, if 146 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: you remember, this is what happened with Don Lemon. Don 147 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: Lemon was on air on this morning show with his 148 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: two women co hosts, where he made comments about women 149 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: being past their prime when basically they get out of 150 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: their twenties and their thirties, that they are no longer 151 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: you know, attractive, they're no longer needed, you know, like 152 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: a whole host of things. It was pretty fucking foul, 153 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: and both of the women co hosts of the morning 154 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: show on air tried to push back against Don Lemon 155 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: and say, yeah, that's not the case, blah blah. He's 156 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: just like, yeah, whatever, if you don't like what I'm saying, 157 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: google it. It's facts. And so following that on air 158 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: cringe moment, Don Lemon was pulled off the air for 159 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: a while, but there had been a lot of murmurings 160 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: that much in the same vein as Tucker Carlson that 161 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: apparently Don Lemon thought that he was bigger than CNN, 162 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: that he had become, you know, difficult to work with, 163 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: that his ego was getting the best of him. And 164 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: so you know, to that, I will say the funny 165 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: thing about TV, and you know, as somebody who has 166 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: been going on TV and never hosted a show on TV, 167 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: which is very, very different, but as somebody who goes 168 00:11:54,240 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: on TV fairly regularly, I have come across hosts who were, 169 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: you know, incredibly full of themselves, right, like in some 170 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: respect in order to be on TV or think that 171 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: your opinion matters, you have a healthy self esteem. And 172 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: also the reverse can be true, is that like you 173 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: need the applause and you need the attention in order 174 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: to feel like you're a person of value. Like it 175 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: runs the gamut. But to say that I've never come 176 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: across people with like major egos who don't actually speak 177 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: to their guests until the cameras turn on, or that 178 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: make you feel incredibly uncomfortable. Like all of those things 179 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: absolutely one hundred percent happen on a regular basis. And 180 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: so it's not shocking to hear that Don Lemon, who 181 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: had been at the network for seventeen years and has grown, 182 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: you know, grew in prominence by CNN household name. Like 183 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: everybody you know knows Don Lemon, knows his face. I 184 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: don't think that he has the same distinguished like is 185 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,439 Speaker 1: the face of CNN, but he is one of you know, 186 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: their most famous names and famous faces. But when you 187 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: start to think that you and your personal brand are 188 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: bigger than the network, network executives don't like that, you know, 189 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: they do not like that. They like to be able 190 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: to believe that they have power and a voice in 191 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: what is said and how you move and what is done. 192 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons, dear friends, that you know, 193 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: for a while, when I first started on cable news, 194 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: I was like so so so so willing. This is 195 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: like ten years ago, over ten years ago at this point, 196 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: so willing to do whatever was asked. You know, look 197 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: a certain way, sound a certain way. If you go 198 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: back to my you know, clips of me on TV 199 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 1: from like the twenty tens up until probably around twenty eighteen, 200 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: I wasn't as forthcoming as brash as some people would say, 201 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: as bold as I am now when I go on television, 202 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: because I had been crossing my fingers in toes and 203 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: playing the game in order to get in contributorship, in 204 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: order to be considered for a show. And those people 205 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: who do get those gigs walk and talk and sometimes 206 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: look a certain way. And then it started to dawn 207 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: on me that there is kind of a golden handcuff 208 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: situation that happens when you become affiliated with a cable 209 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: news outlet. They have the ability to control your social media, 210 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: They have the ability to control what shows you go on, 211 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: what you can say, what you can't say. And so 212 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: while you have access and have this huge platform, you're 213 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: not able to really offer to the extent that you 214 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: want to what is on your mind, because you're not 215 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: going to go against or bite the hand that beats. 216 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: We saw this with Tiffany Cross on MSNBC, who you know, 217 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: Fox News attacked Tucker Carlson attacked her, and she went 218 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: on the defensive and was not backed up by her network. 219 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: And not only was she not backed up, she was 220 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: fired right for coming to her own defense. And so 221 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: you realize that there are some people, largely men, largely 222 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: white men, who are able to do and say what 223 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: they want for a time. But apparently this mercury retrograde 224 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: is also fuck around and find out season for some 225 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: of these men in cable news. And so I tell you, 226 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: like it's all this is why one of the major 227 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: reasons that I came to podcasting and I came to 228 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: the development of Woke Up because I was like, fuck it, 229 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: I don't want people telling me what to do. I 230 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: don't want people telling me how to think and what 231 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: to say and what stories to cover. So just know, 232 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: you know, particularly shout out to my patrons that if 233 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: you are, you know, supporting me and my voice, know 234 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: that those resources go towards me being able to be 235 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: and remain independent. Now while I am so happy and 236 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: fortunate to be with iHeart, they are an entity that's 237 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: just like we want you for you get ahead, go forth, 238 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: do you? And those places are few and far in 239 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: between to find. And so, you know, for people who 240 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: always comment they're just like, you should be on TV, 241 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: you should have a you know, a TV deal. Yeah, 242 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: at one time that was part of the dream. And 243 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: then you get up close to that dream and you realize, oh, 244 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: it's an you know, it's a mirage, and that that 245 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: ain't it. But for those like Tacer Carlson and Don Lemon, 246 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: there are those that, like Icarus, fly too fucking close 247 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: to the sun and get their wings melted off. And 248 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: that is what happened in two different instances for two 249 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 1: different reasons. Because let me tell you, if Don Lemon 250 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: were at Fox and had said the hot shit about 251 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: women that he said there, it wouldn't have even touched 252 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: a nerve, right, It probably would have been applauded, you know. 253 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 1: And if Tucker Carlson were anywhere else and did a 254 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: quarter right of the things that he's been able to 255 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: do that have elevated him at Fox, he would have 256 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: been fired, right. So you know, this is playing to 257 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: the audience in both instances, with both networks playing to 258 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 1: their audiences. In this instance, though with Tucker, Fox has 259 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 1: taken a bit of a fucking gamble because if you watched, 260 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: their stock plummeted after the announcement came out. So we 261 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: will see where this takes us. But let me tell 262 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: you it is a how of a fucking way to 263 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: start the week. And I you know, people will laugh 264 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: and joke, but mercury went into retrograde on Friday after 265 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: a solar eclipse that happened on Thursday. So if you 266 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: think that astrological energies do not take part in what 267 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: is happening. This is something time and tested for thousands 268 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: of years. Mercury retrograde is about communication, right, It is 269 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: about outward presentation. It is about taking things slow because 270 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: a lot of things that have to do with technology, 271 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: with media, with speech oftentimes get misconstrued and there's a 272 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: kind of breakdown. So mercury retrograde is a time for 273 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: us to kind of move slower with more intention, right, 274 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: give ourselves some more time and grace and reflection. Right. 275 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you whoof m mmm, she did 276 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: not come to play. I want to bring your attention 277 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: to another story at really kind of took my breath away. 278 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: And it is a piece by Dereck Thompson in The 279 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: Atlantic entitled America fails at Civilization Tests. Now, in this piece, 280 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: which I've got to tell you friends, I highly recommend 281 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: that you read, this is how Derek Thompson starts it out. 282 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: He said, the average American his age, he's in his 283 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: mid thirties, is roughly six times more likely to die 284 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: in the coming year than his counterpart in Switzerland. And 285 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: what this piece goes on to talk about is how 286 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: we have been measuring what the true test of a 287 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: civilization is. And one of the truest tests is can 288 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: it keep its children alive? Is what he says in 289 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: the piece. And I want to read you this passage 290 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: that I just I was floored. Quote how's the US 291 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: doing on the civilization test? When graded on a curve 292 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: against its peer nations? It is failing. The US mortality 293 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: rate is much higher at almost every age than that 294 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: of most Europe, Japan, and Australia. That is, compared with 295 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: the citizens of these nations, American infants are less likely 296 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 1: to turn five, American teenagers are less likely to turn thirty, 297 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: and American thirty somethings are less likely to survive to retirement. 298 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 1: He goes on to say, to write this last year, 299 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: I called the US the rich death trap of the 300 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 1: modern world. The quote rich part is important to observe 301 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: and hard to overstate. The typical American and spends Get this, folks, 302 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: spends almost fifty percent more each year than the typical 303 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: brit And a trucker in Oklahoma earns more than a 304 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: doctor in Portugal. But get this, he continues with this 305 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: extra cash ought to buy us more years of living. 306 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: For most countries, higher incomes translate automatically into longer lives, 307 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: but not for today's Americans. A new analysis by John 308 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: Byrne Murdoch, a data journalist at the Financial Times, shows 309 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: that the typical American folks, hold onto your seats here, 310 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: the typical American is one hundred percent more likely to 311 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: die than the typical Western European at almost every age 312 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: from birth until we're tied. Basically, money does not save us, right, 313 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 1: so people believe that, Okay, well, the US is the 314 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: richest nation, so then our maternal mortality rate should be 315 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: much lower than it is. And you know from listening 316 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: to this show that if you are talking about black 317 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: maternal mortality rate, we know that one in five black 318 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: women that go in to give birth die in this country. Right, 319 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: So just understand that when they are talking about average 320 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: American numbers, that we are talking about white Americans, and 321 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: that when you factor in for race and ethnicities, these 322 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: numbers are even worse. Right. So this is what Burn Murdoch, 323 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: who has done this study, says that, quote, the typical 324 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: American baby is about one point eight times that's nearly 325 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: two times more likely to die in her first year 326 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: than the average infant from a group of similarly rich 327 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 1: countries Australia, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, the UK, Japan, the 328 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: Netherlands and Sweden. Goes on. By the time an American 329 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: turns eighteen, the US death ratio surges to two point 330 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: eight percent. By twenty nine, the US death ratio rockets 331 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: to four point two two, meaning, friends, that the typical 332 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: American Again, when we say typical American, read that as 333 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: white is more than four times more likely to die 334 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: than the average resident in the higher income nation. Now, 335 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: there are a number of reasons that the author Derek 336 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: Thompson and the analyst Burn Murdoch observes, and one of 337 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: them is what we talk about every week with our 338 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: friend doctor Jonathan Metzel, which is guns. The CDC has 339 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: reported that what the number one killer of children and 340 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: teens in this country is in obesity, isn't cancer, is 341 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: in car accidents, but it is gun violence. Right, So 342 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: with the rise in gun violence, which by the way, 343 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 1: the number of gun deaths in this country have doub 344 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: boled in the past ten years, it isn't that, as 345 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: the author writes, and I love this line so much. Quote, 346 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: America suffers not from a monopoly on despair and aggression, 347 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: but from an oversupply of instruments of death. He goes 348 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: on to write, we have more drug overdose death than 349 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: any other high income country because we have so much 350 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: more fentanyl even per capita. Right, So we have not 351 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: as the media mainstream media, or as the Republican Party, 352 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: which is the death cult, would have us believe that, oh, 353 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: everybody is just mentally ill. Because if that were the case, 354 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: then wouldn't one then create a health system that then 355 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: cares for all of this mental and emotional instability which 356 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: they believe to be the cause of gun violence. No, 357 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: because that would make too much sense. It isn't that 358 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: we have more mentally unstable or emotionally unstable people than 359 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: any other country, or that we have more pressures than 360 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: any other country. No, we just are able to get 361 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: in AR fifteen in the way that most people in 362 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: other countries go out to get coffee. Right. So what 363 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: I found really terrifying about this is that it's the guns, right, 364 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: But then it is also our lack of access in 365 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: this modern rich nation two universal healthcare. Because you see 366 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: all of the other countries that were mentioned have universal 367 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: basic healthcare. So not only do we have more weapons 368 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: and drugs of death, right, but we also don't have 369 00:26:54,080 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: the healthcare infrastructure to actually deal with the other issue 370 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: that we have, like obesity, which is incredibly high in 371 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: comparison to other nations. Right, which is the fact that 372 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: we are a largely sedentary country where we take thirty 373 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: percent fewer steps. And this author I love this so much, 374 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: ties that into once again wealth because those that can 375 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: afford to actually live in cities close in proximity to 376 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: their jobs, right, take more steps, are healthier, X, Y, 377 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,479 Speaker 1: and Z. But we all know that even since just 378 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: the bubble of the pandemic, what housing costs have looked like. Right. 379 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: So the further out from a city that you live 380 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: means that you are going to need to drive more, 381 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: which means that you are going to spend that time 382 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: that you would have walked a couple of blocks right 383 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: to your place of employment, you are now spending hours 384 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: in a car in order to get there. All of 385 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: this is connected, and it's all what kills me. What 386 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,239 Speaker 1: kills me when I read this article is that it 387 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,439 Speaker 1: all can be fixed, but there's no desire, there's no 388 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: will to fix it. So, ain't nobody looking out for 389 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,719 Speaker 1: your health but you. Ain't nobody looking out for the 390 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: information that you are consuming but you? And so overall, 391 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: what is the theme of today's show America is sick 392 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: all the way across the board, and the question is 393 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: will anyone ever do anything about it? That is it 394 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends on Woke a f as 395 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: always Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 396 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.