WEBVTT - Democrat Death March 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:19.000 me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker, Folks. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.720 I wrote a piece this week for The Daily Beast, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.079 and I want to unpack it with you because as 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.880 we are learning more about what is transpired in the 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.479 one hundred and eighty seven minutes that the President of 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.760 the United States went missing on January six, twenty twenty one, 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:43.040 as we understand more about the entire strategic, thought out 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.080 plan to overthrow our government from the foot soldiers to 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:52.040 the architects. The thing that is troubling me and continues 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:57.160 to trouble me, is that Democrats aren't doing a fucking 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.200 thing with the information that is being served up on 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.720 a silver platter by the Republican Party, who is an 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.320 obvious cult who is an obvious fascist, authoritarian regime that 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.120 sees that our democracy is not something that they want 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.040 to be on board with anymore. They have given numerous examples, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:24.039 they have given numerous of their own talking points, and 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.640 yet you hear Democrats say things like We're going to 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.000 focus on kitchen table issues, and the thing that I 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.119 want to say is what fucking difference do kitchen table. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.440 Issues make when you can't vote, when you don't have 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:43.080 access to an abortion, when you're so concerned about sending 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.920 your kids to school because they may be shot up 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.760 by an AAR fifteen. But everybody wants to talk about 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.320 this bipartisan deal that is on the table, which, by 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.080 the way, the fucking legislation hasn't been written. And do 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.520 you know what doesn't include in this bipartisan, historic three 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.680 decade legislation. Nothing that will absolutely end gun violence in 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.760 this country. Nothing that will end mass shootings in this 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.079 country because the assault rifles ban is off the table. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.799 Raising the age to twenty one in order to buy 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.440 a gun is off the table. So what you see 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.320 is just a bunch of fucking money for mental services. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.440 And that's not the issue. The issue isn't that we 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.240 don't have enough psychologists and psychiatrists in America. It's the 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.680 fact that we have three hundred and ninety million guns 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.040 and only three hundred and thirty fucking million people. So 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.800 while everyone wants to pat themselves on the bat that 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.160 Democrats and Republicans are coming together, they're coming together to 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.400 do nothing more than pageantry, because it's not going to 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.440 stop people from being gunned down in their grocery store, 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.359 their school, or their place of worship. So here we are, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.040 as democrats, are making what seems like a fucking death 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.200 march to the mid term elections. And I keep saying 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.040 to myself, where is the goddamn messen? Because by the way, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.960 I get the top lines on a regular basis, and 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.120 the top lines are bullshit. We are obviously heading towards 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.600 a fucking recession. I can't get tampons, some people can't 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:16.640 get baby formula. Gas is at five dollars a fucking gallon, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.400 and that's in places that are good, not places like California, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.320 which have always had historically high gas prices. So when 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.320 you have one of the two major political parties that 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.880 have turned into a cult, that offer and have offered 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:36.440 nothing to the American people, that are so inbed with 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.800 white nationalists, you would think that Democrats would say, well, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.480 what is your alternative? Me or Hitler? But of course 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.560 that is not where they are. So I wrote about 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:52.600 it to give some thought, to provide some insight to 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.080 Democrats that you know, maybe want to actually try to 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.880 win instead of what they usually do. So the piece 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.160 at the Daily Beast right now is entitled Democrats need 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.400 to tell Americans how dangerous the GOP really is. And 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:13.080 this is what I write. The January sixth Committee hearings 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:17.880 are laying there just how much coordination there was between racist, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.480 far right extremist groups and Trump's attempt to steal the election. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.360 Last month, a white supremist traveled hours to a black 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.120 neighborhood in Buffalo for the express purpose of killing as 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.080 many black people as possible. Let me pause there, because 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.760 what has happened over the past couple of days, over 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:43.360 last weekend is that we've seen arrest of white nationalist 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:49.400 groups that were getting ready to riot at a Pride parade. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:54.919 We have gotten reports of the Proud Boys. According to 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:59.400 the Washington Post, they were gonna disrupt a story time. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:06.880 No they weren't. They were initiating a fucking attack language matters. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.560 Five to seven Proud Boys rolled up to a California 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.960 drag story time that people bring their children to because 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:23.800 drag is about imagination and fabulousness and sparkles and good times, right, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:29.760 And they rolled up into the event screaming transphobic and 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:35.880 homophobic slurs, essentially causing an absolute scene and chaos, scaring 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.200 the shit I'm assuming out of parents and caregivers as 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.080 well as the drag queen that was in the midst 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:49.200 of performing their work. But everyone in media wants to say, oh, 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.760 it was a disruption. No it wasn't. It's intended an 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:59.840 intentional fucking harm and violence. So in the introm se 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:05.160 the Buffalo shooter, which you know was arrested alive, killing 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.240 ten black people, we have the murder of nineteen children 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.440 and two of their teachers. And in the midst of 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.960 it all multiple mass shootings and multiple acts of violence 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.520 at the hands of white supremacist groups. Who did I 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.240 just say that they were in bed with Donald Trump, 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.760 trump Ism and the Republican Party. What connections have Democrats 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.760 made to this point. None, because they want to say, oh, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:37.040 not all Republicans. If you have subscribed and voted with 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.160 Donald Trump over ninety percent of the time, if you 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.159 did not vote against his impeachment, if you did not 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.640 stand up after the insurrection when your own life and 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.039 ass was on the line, then you are aligned with 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.680 the far fucking right. They may want to do part 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.080 and parcel within their own circles, but Democrats need to 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.760 tell the fucking truth to the American people, which is 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.360 what they refuse to do because they think somehow that 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.719 that's taking the quote unquote high road. It's not. What 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.760 it is is not helping the American people be able 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:15.640 to see very distinctly who the Republican Party is. So 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.840 let me continue. Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:25.040 Security issued a stark warning that the US is in 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:30.320 a heightened threat environment following several recent attacks that have 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:35.200 highlighted the dynamic and complex nature of the threat environment. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:41.240 Seem like there's a there, there here. Why then, is 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.760 it so hard for Democrats to connect the dots and 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.679 communicate to the American people just what exactly is going 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.160 on here? So let me take my hand at it. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:59.120 As I wrote for The Daily Beast, violent extremism, racism, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:04.080 and bigotry are a growing threat, and their ideologies are 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:10.440 entwined with mainstream conservatism. Right now, there, see how easy 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:18.520 that was, Democrats. Doesn't seem confusing. I'm not talking about 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.960 your kitchen table. I'm talking about the fact that you 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.920 should feel safe in your home, you should feel safe 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.040 in your community, you should feel safe wherever you go. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.400 But if you are a person of color, if you 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.839 are a person from a marginalized group. If you are 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.439 not white, male, ciss straight, and Christian, and I use 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:43.640 quotation marks, you win danger, girl, you win fucking danger. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.280 So for these people out here who want to say, oh, well, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.800 my gas prices are high because of Democrats, no they 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.640 are not. They're high because we're at war. They're high 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.560 because we have come up with no fucking way to 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.480 access energy in any real way, because we keep tap 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.280 dancing for the Prince in Saudi Arabia kissing the ring 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.240 of Putin in Russia. And so you would think that 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.080 we would have learned something through our scarcity. In fact, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.680 during the height of COVID, when production was shut down, 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.680 that how entwined America is with the world, and that 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:30.640 by placing money in green energies, whether it be wind 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.800 or solo or just innovation in general that is about 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:39.520 sustainable technologies, maybe we wouldn't be in this place. But oh, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:44.240 that's right. America and our politicians are in bed with 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.680 the oil companies and the gas companies and all of 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:52.880 these people. You have Joe Mansion, King Cole, right, do 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.040 you think that he wants to invest in technologies that 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.840 aren't going to add more money to his pocket. No 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:03.440 he's not. But the reality here, folks, is that it's 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:09.680 either these jellyfish, spineless people or white supremas. And I'm 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.720 just saying, by virtue of who I look like and 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.480 where I come from and who I love, they ain't 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.120 going to accept me as part of the pact. What 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:25.079 about you? I go on to say this in the piece. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.440 It has been crystal clear for quite some time that 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:35.280 this isn't Ronald Reagan's Republican Party anymore. The new Republican 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.960 regime is more aligned with members like Representatives Elis Stefanik, 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.760 who pushed white supremacs theories, and Marjorie Taylor Green and 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.400 Paul Goser, who don't even pretend to hide their ideology 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:52.280 when attending white supremacy conferences. Where are these Republican leaders 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.040 taking their direction from? Donald Trump, the man that, on 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.640 January sixth, as a capital was under siege in in 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.760 a plume of smoking chaos, told his rioting followers that 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:07.800 what he loved them. It doesn't get much clearer than that. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.599 Trump said he loved the people that beat police officers, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.960 the people that built a gallows to kill his own 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:19.720 vice president, of whom he later said that well, maybe 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.560 they were right. Head over to the Daily Beast to 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.680 read the entirety of my piece entitled Democrats need to 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:34.800 tell Americans how dangerous the GOP really is folks. 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Folks, 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.600 I am very excited to welcome to oigate Affadaily Anna DeShawn, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:50.760 who is CEO of E three Radio and of The Cube. Anna, First, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.800 you know it's so hard, right, we like literally before 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.280 I said, how are you you say, how are you, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:03.199 how are you this pride? How are you feeling in 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.240 this black queer body that we have about where we 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.120 are in this country right now, in this good, good 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:16.040 month of June, this busy queer month of June. Yeah, Well, first, 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.040 thank you for having me on your show. I love 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:23.920 your show and what you do. Thank Exhausted, angry, frustrated, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:28.720 fired up. I made a post recently just because I 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.320 was preparing for my podcast, Queer News, and I was 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.120 just like, you know, as a black person, as a 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.520 queer person, and as a woman right now, all three 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.440 of my identities are under attack, and I'm exhausted. So 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.440 I was, I was preparing to write my script for 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.680 the Queer News podcast, and I just couldn't get through it. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.160 I mean it was I was two and a half 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:56.400 hours in. I can't find the worst script to really 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:01.040 express my frustration and anger. Because on that particular day, um, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:06.280 the Buffalo mass shooting had just occurred, right Robe Wade, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.320 the leak had just happened, and then Brittany Griner's detainment 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:15.480 had been extended, all at the same on the same day. Yeah, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.520 and I was just like, this is my life, Like 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.760 this is my reality. This is what living at the 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.120 intersections means. This is why you know this pride. I'm 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.920 not all pumped up to go walking into parade, right 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.000 I'm not pumped up for that. I want to know 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.080 where's the march, Where where's the fury, where's the protests happening? 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.280 Because at this point right we've been under attack from 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:44.520 right wing legislation, legislators across the country, trans rights transfer ye, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.040 people are actually having to think about picking up and 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:54.080 moving their families to different states. This is every day 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.760 life right now. And we're supposedly in America and in 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.640 this very free country, and it's not feeling free to 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.480 this very queer and black and woman field body right now. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.400 And so for me prior right now is exhausting and 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.640 it's furiating. And my hope is that I use my 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.920 platform to express that and to keep people engaged because 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.440 it's very easy also to tune out because you can't 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.520 take it, you know, you don't want to take it 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.760 all in. So my hope is that I'm keeping people 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.840 engaged with our platform and what we are talking about, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.720 because people do need to be in tune. We can't 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.280 tune out right now like this ain't the time to 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.080 be hiding under a rock. This is the time to 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.440 like tap into that James Baldwin, and tap into that 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.200 rage and do something about it. You Know, it's so 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.440 interesting because so many people that I've been talking to 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:47.760 are finding themselves rereading Baldwin, rereading Octavia Butler, rereading Tony Morrison, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:55.160 rereading Nikki Giovanni, and really trying to tap into in 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.560 their time. We're talking about the nineteen sixties, and we're 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.360 talking about literal I know that Republicans love to play 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.119 right now like cities are burning, that black people are burning, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.320 ship down everywhere, and that we know that that is 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.560 not the case. But in the nineteen sixties it very 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:14.960 well was right because as we have as has been said, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.960 rioting is the sound of those that are unheard, right, 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.120 And so when you just listed out all of those things, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.360 all of the layers of as I heard a doctor 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.879 say on MSNBC the other day, compacted trauma, that's what 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.560 all of that was. Right. She's talking about Brittany Griner. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.920 We're talking about her being used as a political pawn 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.200 and no one making a stink about it, And people 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:40.720 are saying, oh, it's because you know, we got to 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.639 work behind the scenes, And a part of me is 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.240 like or because she's a black gay woman, right, Because 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.280 the reality is is that if that were Tom Brady, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.639 you don't think that this would be a regular segment 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.000 on anybody's sports center. It would be a regular segment 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.680 on anybody's news, right, whether or not it was said 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.360 to we're working behind the scenes. And so I guess 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.840 my next question for you is, given all of the 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.640 weight and the fact that you were so directly connected 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.280 to the LGBTQ community by virtue of your work and 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:18.880 your platform, what are you hearing? Right? Like, our folks disengage, 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:24.080 not because they don't care, but because it's self care. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:29.119 Are they disengaged or are they outraged but don't know 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.000 where to channel that? And so by virtue, it's just 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:39.240 social media outrage as opposed to we're in the streets outrage. Absolutely, 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.360 they don't know what to do with it, They don't 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.960 know what, they don't know where to go. So part 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.640 of my work is I try to give people call 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:51.840 to actions in all of the stories, because there has 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.680 to be a way that we can channel this. If 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.119 it's not in the street, then there's another way. Because 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.760 I think that everyone's work doesn't have to be in 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.239 the street, right. I think that's the beautiful part about life. Right. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.879 Everyone's not called to be that activist. Some people are 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.480 called to be advocate. Some people are called to do 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.760 the work at their own homes and their own families. 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.359 So I do try to provide people calls to action 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.679 because I do think that people are engaged when I post, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:24.080 and I think I find the most engagement on TikTok TikTok. Right. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.160 People are aware of what's happening, but they just don't 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.879 know what to do. So right for example, where Britney 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.960 Griner and covering her story. I think she's one hundred 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.800 and fourteen days now wrongfully detained in Russia. The call 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.800 to action right now for me is to tell people 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.840 go sign the petition and then go call your legislature 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.200 legislators and let them know that her wife is trying 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.359 to get in front of President Biden right now, that 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.600 her wife needs is trying to get in front of 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.639 him to urge him to bring her home. Right that 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.040 coach Don Staley has said that she will give up 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.040 her visit right the game call visit to the White House. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.600 So that Cherrell can have that visit with President Biting 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:08.280 because that's how important it is to her. There's calls 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.480 to action on everything, and I think for us, it's 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.840 about using our platforms to tell people how they can 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.600 do it, because I think a lot of people just 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:22.000 feel exhausted. I think people do feel exhausted. COVID has 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.439 tired us all out if nothing else is happening in 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.520 the world, and people don't know what to do. So 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.879 I just try my best to give to give people 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.639 ways in which they can show their support because a 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.000 lot of people don't have money. And I'm somebody from 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.720 the church, right, So, time, talent, treasure, Okay, you got 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.639 one of the three that you could be giving to 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:47.560 an organization to people that you want to see when so, 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.800 for example, good news, right, Justine Lindsay just became the 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.280 first trans woman cheerleader in the NFL. She's a black 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.680 trans woman. Right, that's amazing, But also right now she's 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.800 getting a lot of hate. When I told that story 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.640 on the podcast, I said, go follow her on Instagram 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.520 and write something really nice in the comments, like take 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.840 a moment and support her and offset some of the 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.480 hate that's happening. That that will go a long way, 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:19.400 because the trolls are real, and so if you can 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.399 get through that with some positivity, that's the way you 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:24.920 can support this system right now, because what she's doing 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.119 is amazing. You know, it's so true, because you know, 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.840 we all know, and particularly in the work that we do, 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.520 don't read the comments section, right I never read the 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.960 comment section after I write a piece. I never read 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.440 the comment section because I've said my piece. So if 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:42.760 you want to go and use the comment section for, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.719 you know, to to have a monologue, a soliloquy, you know, 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.200 go off, But I'm not going to engage in that way. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.800 But the reality is is that it takes a toll. 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.840 And so when you you know, and you talk about exhaustion, 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.399 I talk about exhaustion on willk app all the time 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.879 because I say that, you know, if we do not 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.879 seek rest, if we do not seek refuge, if we 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.719 do not find ways to cent her joy in our lives, 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:10.959 we are going to burn out, which is part and 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.760 parcel of all that is being thrown at us. And so, 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.760 in using your platform to kind of be as an 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.679 act of service, how do you tell folks and also 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.679 for yourself, what do you do to take this heavy 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:30.960 weight off of you, even if only for a few hours? 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:34.040 What is that? What does your self care look like? 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:39.199 Right now? For me? Every morning, it is me and 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:44.680 my prayer corner, with my journal and my meditations and 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.159 my music and my candles and my pictures from my 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.680 family of me growing up, and it looks like me 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.000 taking time. And sometimes I lose track of time and 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:58.720 I'm there for like an hour, but it is truly 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:01.080 that quiet time. And the more that I just refuse 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.919 to give up for absolutely anything or anyone or anything 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:10.800 happened around me, because my grounding for me is through 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:15.120 my spiritual practices. And so for me, it's that time 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.200 when we bought our new house, but right before the pandemic, 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:21.280 I was like, thank you. I told my wife, you 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:23.760 can have this whole room, but this little corner, this 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:27.520 corner is my corner. Okay. And anybody know my wife, 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.400 though she is a diva, Okay, there's close, there are 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.720 close on close, okay, But I told her like, this 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:36.679 is my corner and you cannot do anything in this corner. 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.400 So that corner is my corner. That's that's really how 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:43.280 I ground myself. And I also love to exercise, right 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:48.280 those indoor friends. Yeah, my movement, my creativity going, if 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:50.679 it's a walk with my puppy, if it's something on 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:54.800 the trail mill, if it's core work, like moving really 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:59.000 helps my spirit a lot. Yeah, you know, I just 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.720 recently broke my So walking used to be used to 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:07.840 be my walking meditation frankly of being able. I meditate 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.120 at least twice a day, but walking used to also 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:14.399 just be my you know, connection to the water, to nature, 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:17.560 to getting outside. And I say all of that is 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.840 important because, you know, for the past couple of months, 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:24.560 and I don't know about you, because my work is 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:29.320 about sitting behind me, staring at this TV and screaming 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:33.120 as I am watching our democracy crumble, and then having 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:38.920 to write about said democracy crumbling. And I think to myself, 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:45.800 I don't know if we have the fire right now 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:49.640 to fight back. And I say that because we are 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:53.600 all so exhausted that even the good practices that I 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:57.359 developed during you know, quarantine have fallen away as the 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.520 world has started to come back together. But the world 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:03.639 has come back together in this topsy turvy upside down space. 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:08.920 And so it's how do you envision creating the fire 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:13.920 that has people get back in a state of rage, 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:17.280 but not stay there, you know, for their own health 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.560 and well being. Because we know that our community too 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:25.280 has high risk for everything alcoholism, drugs, anxiety, depression, suicide rates, 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:28.679 all of these things. You compound that with these anti 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:32.199 trans bills, with these anti LGBT bills, it just ReBs 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:35.800 everything back up. And so how do you go about 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:40.440 creating the fire for the connectivity but literally not having 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:47.600 people burn. It's the magic key, isn't it the magic key? 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:53.880 I think Unfortunately, people only get fired up when they 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:58.960 see something egregious about to occur, right, So I felt 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:01.399 like people were really fired up when the leak of 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:04.879