WEBVTT - Manchin and Sinema DGAF 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.360 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to will Gate Up Daily 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.840 with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back recording live from 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.560 our pod stream studios here in Times Square. Imagine having 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:27.560 the ability to put together historic legislation that would be 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.400 revered for decades to come, as was the New Deal. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:37.040 Imagine being able to shape the future of this country, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.440 protecting us from climate change, for protecting us, for protecting 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.279 families from a shifting economy so that they're able to 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.880 care for their children. That you know, people in Texas 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:52.200 want to force you to have. Imagine having the power 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.760 to do that and then just deciding, you know what, Nah, 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.720 I'm good. That's what it must be like to be 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.080 O Mansion and Kirsten Cinema, the two most disgustingly selfish 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:09.039 pieces of shit on the planet right now. The other day, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.560 Eleventh Films and I talked about this, put out a 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.240 video to tell us exactly how much money the Mansion 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.720 family was making. Cinema is over in Europe, you know, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.840 collecting her checks not from her constituents, right, but collecting 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:27.240 them from overseas, filling up their packs, filling up their coffers. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.039 They don't give a fuck. How is it that we 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.800 have a government that is supposed to be foreign by 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.480 the people of these United States, that can be obstructed 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.880 by two senators that represent not even a quarter of 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.199 the population fucking combined. How is it that these two 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.440 people that maybe represent a handful of millions of people 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.880 between their two goddamn states get to hold the rest 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.240 of US hostage? You know, there was a video recently 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.200 on CNN that one of the WOKAF listeners sent me, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.800 I appreciate you set me in the video, and it 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:08.840 was a CNN segment on how West Virginia is being 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:15.840 hit by thousand year floods often right, how part of 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.600 the state is either underwater and the other half is 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:24.040 in drought so bad that over the past year, the 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.040 governor of the state has had to declare a state 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.600 of emergency. You declare a state of emergency so that 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.480 you can get federal funds into your state in order 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.839 to help with the cleanup. How often do you think 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:39.799 that we're going to be able to tap on fucking 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.320 FEMA's door before all of that money dries up, Because 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.480 instead of safeguarding these communities like Joe Mansion, has the 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:53.520 opportunity to do against these you know, thousand year floods. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.880 He's decided that he's going to block the climate change 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.320 part of the infrastructure bill that would help his own 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.760 goddamn state. And what was worse is that when these 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.160 motherfuckers were interviewed on CNN and they were asked by 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.680 the reporter, so, you know, what do you think about 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.639 climate change and the climate change legislation that is right 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.919 now being stalled because of your senator. I think that 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.120 climate change is a bunch of hoop law, and I 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.960 don't want to play into it, says this stupid, stupid 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.440 man who has been living in a trailer with himself, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.640 his wife, his two kids, and three dogs because he's 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.280 still rebuilding his fucking home from the thousand year old 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:41.120 flood that took it out. Yeah, but here's the thing. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.000 Let's not play into reality. Let's not play into the 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.119 fact that insurance companies are not going to cover right 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.119 your rebuild. Let's not play into the fact that, oh, yeah, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:56.160 big coal that you think is supporting your livelihood is 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.720 actually going to cost you your life. How can you 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.160 have a livelihood if your house is under fucking water 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.640 and you can't get to work because the bridges have 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.520 been washed away. That's what they were talking about in 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.560 the segment. Since that thousand year flood in this one 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.960 particular town, they still don't have a grocery store, they 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.719 still don't have an elementary school, and I believe that 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.000 they don't have a courthouse either, because they've been wiped 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:27.680 away and they have yet to be rebuilt. Joe Mansion 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.839 has been in control of that state for the last 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.920 forty goddamn years, and they are fucking ringing in dead 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.479 last and most societal metrics. And then you have these 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:44.280 people so fucking brainwashed right by the right wing as 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.600 they're staying standing in water up to their fucking waists 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.080 talking about, Oh, I'm not going to play into climate change? 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.640 Are you dumb? And this is what I realize is 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:00.240 that it doesn't matter whether it's Democrats or Republicans, right 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:06.040 that they don't care about their constituents. They really don't. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.560 They care about money, They care about themselves, They care 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.720 about you know what is Joe? What is what is 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.360 Joe Mansion give a fuck about a thousand year old 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.159 a thousand year flood that's coming. When that motherfucker is 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.159 sitting real nice and high on his seven hundred thousand 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:26.360 dollars yacht. Right, how do you justify having close to 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.479 a million dollar yacht when the combined average income of 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.200 the people that live in your fucking state does it? 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.839 It hovers around thirty thousand. But you guys keep voting 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.840 for him and then talking about like how your life 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.760 is better. I'm just so confused, I really am. And 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:52.240 you know, I spent a god awful amount of time 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.719 watching the news the other day and I got to 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:59.000 tell you that, you know, I turn it off after 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.600 like a couple of hours, and I'm wondering why my 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.640 mood is such shit. I'm wondering why, like I feel 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:13.240 so anxious, And it's because nothing is being done. The 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.719 news highlights every single problem that we're facing right now, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.120 and nothing is being taken care of, not one goddamn thing. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.240 So if people were to ask me, you know, what, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.560 do you think, what kind of grade would you give 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.880 Joe Biden right now? Which, by the way, he has 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:33.159 a fifty percent disapproval rating. He has his worst rating 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.680 since he entered into office in January this month. And 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.400 do you know why, because we actually thought that we 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:45.080 were voting historically for change, not for mediocrity, not for 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.599 a bunch of bullshit executive orders that can be turned 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.600 over with the next president that comes in, as we 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.840 saw with Barack Obama. We've seen what exactly what has 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.680 the Biden Harris administration done over the last ten months. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.560 Have they locked up the members of Congress that were 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.279 behind the insurrection? Have they locked up anybody that was 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.200 behind the insurrection, the attempted coup to overthrow our government? 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.560 Have they put together a voting rights bill that would 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.520 pass and push back against all of the three hundred 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.280 plus voter suppression laws that have gone out. Have they 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:24.640 offered up anything to help women's women's rights right to 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:31.840 ensure that Rovi Wade remains. No, they haven't. Right, you 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.720 have the Justice Department right now that is saying that 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.000 what is happening in Texas to Texas bill is unconstitutional. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.880 They're asking for a stay by the Supreme Court. But 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.920 guess what, we got a six to three court, so 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.520 that's null and void. You tell me how many justices, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.600 how many federal justices has fucking Biden put out in 0:07:54.640 --> 0:08:02.080 the last ten months? Right? Anything anything come into mind 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.080 that any justices? Have there been a hundred that have 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.920 been appointed. Have there been fifty? Have there been twenty five? No? 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:13.520 I think that maybe we have five to ten. I 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.520 am just sick to death of being told there is 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.560 nothing that we can do, knowing that we are about 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.680 to lose the House and the Senate in a year, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.000 and then what then We will lose the White House 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.080 and we will be right back to where we were 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.920 in the Trump era, and it'll be worse because they 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.520 are emboldened and empowered, and we will have nothing, no recourse, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.120 no nothing. And I continue to tell people, you better 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.760 fucking enjoy your life right now. You better enjoy each 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.120 and every moment, because what is on the horizon is 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.560 going to be worse than your worst nightmare. It is 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.320 going to be worse than what we experience during the 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.600 Trump era. Because you know what Republicans know, they are 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:04.320 fucking winning. They are winning across aboard their white evangelical 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.319 Christian white supremacy fucking scheme over the last thirty forty 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.640 years is now coming to fruition. And let me tell 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.000 you something what doctor Jonathan Metzel said earlier this week 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.040 that when a hundred year old law is going to 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.040 be overturned by the Supreme Court, trust and believe that 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.080 every single fucking right that you think that you've had 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.920 and you think is just in stone, including you know, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:34.240 the end of slavery, Brown versus the Board of Education, Right, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.800 all of these things that you think are like sewed 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.160 up and oh, they'll never come for that. Fucking Wake up. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:49.040 They are marching right towards it. First they come for 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.079 women's rights, right, and you think that it's going to 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.240 stop an abortion. No, no, no, they are going to 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.479 come for birth control. They are going to come for IVF, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.200 They're gonna come for surrogacy, They're gonna come for every 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.760 way that they can manipulate and own a woman's body, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.319 which then will own a woman's future. In this country, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.080 we love to parade ourselves around the world to talk 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.480 about women's rights and what women need, and we don't 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.000 do dick to project women at home. So again I ask, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.720 what is a Biden administration doing about that? What is 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.559 a Biden administration doing about the fact that we need 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.560 a voting rights, build a pass, and we need the 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.560 fucking filibuster to be deaded. And you have two fucking 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.199 Democrats right now who the media continues to call moderates 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.040 when that's not what the fuck they are. They are obstructionists. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.000 They might as well be arsonists to our democracy because 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.760 it is going up in smoke because of them. We 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.640 had a three point five trillion dollar robust bill that 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:02.400 was going to be life changing, generation changing for this country. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:07.040 It is being whittled down, as I fucking speak, because 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.800 you know, Joe Mansion doesn't like certain things. I didn't 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.760 get to vote for Joe Mansion, So why the fuck 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.720 does he get to be the one that is making 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.840 decisions for the rest of us. That's the question that 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.360 we should all be asking. You didn't get to vote 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.720 for Joe Mansion. You voted for Joe Biden. But Joe 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.920 Biden isn't the one that's acting like the president of 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:32.040 the fucking United States right now? Is he looks like 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.760 to me that it's Joe Mansion and fucking Kursen Cinema 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:41.360 as president and vice president and the people did not 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:48.520 vote for them. I am sick to death of the inaction. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.600 I'm sick to death of the iNTS. I'm sick to 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:57.000 death of being told, well, everyone's hands are tied, because 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.480 when Republicans have power, their hands are never tied. And 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.720 what Glenn Kushner told us last week is like they 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.360 will work inside and outside of the law. They don't 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.920 give a fuck. And you know why they don't give 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.440 a fuck because Democrats never hold their feet to the fire, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.000 because they're not afraid of Democrats. There is no fear 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.040 there because they know they won't do shit. Steve Bannon 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.760 was just voted nine to zero to be held in 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.000 criminal content. This is gonna be a long drawn out, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.600 bullshit thing. You tell me why we can't have federal 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.320 agents knocking down that motherfucker's door and dragging him out, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.120 knowing that he was part of a conspiracy to overthrow 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.800 the fucking government. If he were a brown man, if 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.480 he were a Muslim man, you think that Steve Bannon 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.120 would be fucking walking around these United States open and free, 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.440 or you think that he would be in somebody's fucking 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:53.160 federal prison awaiting a fucking trial. I would love for 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.920 us to have the same goddamn standards that have been 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.200 put in place to put black and brown and poor 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.840 people in their place, to put the wealthy, white and 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:08.600 privilege in their fucking place. But alas we do not. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:17.400 I'm telling you this country, this administration is an entire 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.880 fucking disappointment. So if you find yourself most days just 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.520 being like, you know what, I want to stop caring. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.200 I feel you, I am you and you are me. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.360 Because the rage is just it doesn't go anywhere. I 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:39.760 can't figure out a vessel to put it in. I 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.559 feel like most days i am screaming out into the 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.640 void because I'm looking around at the people who are 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.160 in power, who have open ears and open eyes, and 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:54.200 yet are pretending like we're not under attack, like that 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.040 we are not at war with authoritarian fascist right now, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:09.360 Wake the fuck up, Woosa wo Sa Friends. Coming up 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:14.120 next is my conversation with Nadia Okamoto. She is the 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.920 host of a new show called Tigress, and we will 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:22.280 get into a really great conversation on reproductive rights, on periods, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:27.800 on menstrual cycles. That is coming up next, folks. I 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.720 am so excited to not only welcome onto Okay, but 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:36.240 into the DCP entertainment family, Nadia Okamoto, host of the 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.120 new show Ti Griff. I am really excited to talk 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.600 to you because your background, the work that you have 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.320 already done is so interesting. You're the co founder of August, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:51.440 which is a lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.360 Talk to me about that being as how right now 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.200 we're kind of devolving into the Handmaid's Tale, where we are, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.200 you know, setting up the situation, a scenario in which 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.880 it is becoming completely normalized in Okay to go back 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:10.600 to policing women's bodies and policing women's reproduction. We barely 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:15.440 have normal commercials about periods on television when we're selling tampons, right, 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.720 So talk to me about what it means to reimagine 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.040 the period. Yeah, I mean, I think it's really interesting 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.080 that you bring up the Handmaid's Tale, which, by the 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.640 way of the show I could not watch because it 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.600 made me so angry because it is terrifyingly realistic in 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.880 some ways. Right, but you know, I think, you know, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.880 kind of building off of that. A huge part of 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.680 my mission with August Branding and reimagining period care is 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.000 to say this is a part of our biological process 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.400 that makes human life possible and needs to be treated 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.880 as the magical, powerful thing that it is. Right. That 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.240 means being very upfront about period blood. I post multiple 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.560 videos of period blood on TikTok a day of my 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.400 own period blood and showing how the products actually work, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.000 and being open about period pain so people aren't having 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.760 to suffer in silence, talking about the inequalities around access 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.479 to period care, which I believe should be completely subsidized 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.560 and supported for free. And I think also when we 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.600 talk about reimagining periods similar to the Handmaid's Tale, which 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.280 equates women to having a sole purpose and utility of 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.560 bearing children, I think that's been a lot of the 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.240 conversation around periods. Right. When you're taught as a young 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.400 person what a period is, You're taught that is when 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.160 you can now bear children, right, when menopauses when you 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.280 cannot bear children anymore? Right? And how we know what 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.600 it means when you do or do not get your 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.120 period is whether you're pregnant or not. Right. And I 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:38.880 think that a lot of what we wanted to do 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.960 was throughout history, when you look at period ads, it's 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.480 you know, buy our products so that you can hide 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.160 your period, you can forget about it, and you can 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.640 attract the date. Right. How many period ads have we 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.120 seen throughout history where it's like, oh, when she puts 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:53.720 the tamp on in her date picks her up and 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.280 they have like a great date and she's wearing a 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.400 white dress, right, Yeah, And I think that a lot 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.560 of what we're trying to say is like, yes, your 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.720 period is linked to fertility, by de fact, that does 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.920 not mean having a period as preparing us for motherhood. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.000 And it's not means that having a period is defining 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.119 our utility as someone who can produce, right, and really 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.680 just saying my period is my period and just something 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.879 I'm going to take care of for my body. You know, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.960 It's so funny because I can think, you know, I 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.439 have such vivid memories of when I first got my 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.000 period because I was very young. I was ten years old, right, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.480 and so I remember being ten and I was foolishly 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.280 excited about it because I thought it meant that I 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.879 was like becoming a woman, right, because this is what 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.120 you were told. And you know, but I remember during 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.000 that time, you know, my mother is a nurse by trade, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.399 so we had like real conversations about your period, about 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.960 your body, about why you were going to feel uncomfortable 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.800 if you were bloating what you know, what was actually happening, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.840 That it wasn't something to just ignore, right, that it 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.840 was like a part of your body. I think what's 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.960 really interesting is that since you know, many many, many 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.479 thousands of moons ago that I got my first period, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.919 that we haven't evolved in the conversations that we have 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.560 about it, right, Like, I still go into an obgyn 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.520 and I'm still learning new things, and I'm saying, where 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.119 is the research. We are more than half of the 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.639 population in the United States, and I'm so confused about 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.280 why we don't have like real conversations about what's going 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.679 on with the body, about how it equates, you know, 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.240 with the moons, with the ocean, with water, with all 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.920 of these facets of you know, our lives, and we 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.880 just don't talk about it. And I can remember even 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.600 an episode and this will you know not age well 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.320 because of who Bill Cosby is now, but on The 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.840 Cosby Show, when the young character Rudy got her period, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.200 it was a big deal. It was a purposeful episode 0:18:55.240 --> 0:19:00.600 about womanhood and about you know, power and and you know, 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.240 in fertility and all of these different things. And I remember, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.600 because I was around her age it being something that 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.480 was celebrated. What do you think needs to happen? Right? 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.960 Because even I just I can't imagine what young girls 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.840 and boys should be learning now in school when they're 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.760 taking health classes and sex said and whatever it is 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:26.800 that they're doing. I don't ever remember learning about how 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:30.439 my body changes, like what is to be expected. It 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.800 was just like here's a banana. This is how you 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.399 put on a condom, you know, go on your way. Yeah, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.600 I mean. And one thing I really want to point 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.720 out too is I think part of our mission of 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:45.000 reimagining periods is to actually not equate it with womanhood, right. 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.399 I think you know. I also when I got my 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.520 first period, my mom celebrated and said, you're a woman, right, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.760 And that's kind of what I understood, like having boobs 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.280 and getting a period was like, now I'm a woman, right. 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.879 And I think that a lot of our mission with 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.760 August is to create like a truly gender inclusive brand, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.439 because not everyone who gets a period is identifies as 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.320 a woman. Yeah, some might be transgender or non binary. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.199 And I think really making that distinction between gender as 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.520 a social construct and sex is very necessary. I also 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.560 think that when you look at the discrimination around periods, right, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.760 whether it be you know, in other countries, girls not 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:24.800 being able to go to school when they're other period right, 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.840 And it's like because when you get your period, you 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:28.840 get married off and have kids. Right, when you get 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.120 your period is when female gender and mutilation happens, because 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.240 now you're a woman that needs to be censored. Right. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.560 So I think that even when we have these you know, 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.159 quote unquote positive examples of periods in mainstream media, in 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.480 the very small instances where it happens, it's done so 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.320 in a way where it's getting your period equals being 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.880 a woman, right Biologically, that's saying being a woman being 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.479 grown means that I can have children, right. And so 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.199 I think that a lot of what we're trying to do, 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.200 even with the language that we use, right, we don't 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.280 say feminine care because feminine is an incorrect term. It's 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.639 not only X exclusive. Feminine is about gender expression, not 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.320 gender identity, nor does it have to do with biological 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.680 sex in your organs. Right. So I think that there's 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:11.840 so just so much there, you know, I think a 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.960 lot of it. What was your question again, everything that 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:17.359 you were saying it was good, and I'm like, I 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.280 don't even remember, oh, gon sex said? Okay, yes, So 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.439 I think, you know, I think the fact that we 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.840 even have sex said in some schools is still like 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.359 like unfortunately, like that is still a big deal. Right 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.000 in most schools, sex said does not happen full stop 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.280 period Right. When we used to do educational initiatives around 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.400 trying to go on the nonprofit I worked on, when 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.280 we would trying to go to schools to talk about periods, 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:45.199 we could not do it in public schools because it 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:47.400 was considered such an inappropriate topic. We needed to get 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.359 permission slips from parents about right, Like, this is a 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.000 topic that is not considered appropriate. Right, I mean so 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.040 menstruation as a whole. You would have needed to get 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:03.480 a permission slip to have a conversation about something, Okay 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:05.480 in most schools that we went to, Yeah, like that 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:07.560 was the case, and it was such a barrier that 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.840 we could not have those conversations right in the chance, 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:14.200 Like for me, I learned sex that it was one afternoon, right, 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.359 and the girls went into one classroom, the boys went 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.800 to other. Right, So also setting up gender binary. But 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:21.879 then you talk about the basics, right, this is what 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.000 a tampon is, This is what a pad is. Blood 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.080 will come out like once a month, and it just 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.000 means you're not pregnant. Right, And here's a tampon, here's 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:31.199 a pad you might have cramps. Right, we don't learn 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.040 about what color period blood is the fact that like 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.119 it's coming out of the vagina, which is not the 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:38.520 external part, it's actually the canal, right, and like knowing 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.080 the language. But also I think that where it's so 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.640 important that we get comfortable talking about periods is well 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.560 we talk about periods in mainstream media. It's referred to 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:50.480 as like just when blood comes out, right, And I 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.840 think the reason why I don't say August is a 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:55.720 period product company, say we're a lifestyle period brand, because 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.399 there's a difference between period and a mensonal cycle. Right. 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:00.879 A period is when blood is coming out. The mental 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.639 cycle is the twenty four to seven happening all the 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:06.880 time cycle, right, And getting your period is not just 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:10.399 the blood, it's the period pain, right. And cramps aren't 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.520 all the time just cramps. It's also uterine fibroids, endometriosis, 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:18.239 so many other conditions that are completely underdiagnosed that are 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:21.440 such intersectional issues that we don't talked about because we 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.320 don't talk about periods. Right, So even when we talk 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.240 about period cramps, if we do not educate young men 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:31.720 streaters about period pain, they will they are conditioned to 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:35.440 even gaslight themselves for the very real pain that they're experiencing. Right, 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.320 If we don't teach non men streaters like young sis 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.000 boys to talk about periods, we will continue with the 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:44.159 stigma where people are afraid of being ridiculed for advocating 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:46.960 for their own health. Right, and that not only has 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:51.679 repercussions on someone's individual period experience, that expands to period 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:54.640