WEBVTT - Will Justice Be Served? 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.760 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wika EPI Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.919 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody once again recording from the 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:22.840 Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, it is now the second week of 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.800 January that we are entering into day ten of the 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.840 new year, and like I reported at the end of 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.960 last week or at least the middle of last week 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.319 with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel, the mainstream news has 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.559 decided to start reporting on the same thing, which is 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:46.760 the variant that we said last week was discovered in 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:52.720 Greece referred to as what delta cron, which is the 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:58.240 combo effect of the delta variant and omicron. Now, initially 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.560 there was one case that was reported in Israel, is 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.199 the same place that reported the first case of flu rona. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.240 Israel is also the place where they are beginning to 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.119 administer the fourth booster shot, where many of the world, 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.320 much of the world. You have to remember, as we 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.160 are talking about booster shots and vaccine rollouts and all 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.720 of these things, that Israel is on its fourth shot, 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.399 where many parts of the world still haven't received their first. 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.360 That is how imbalanced, how unjust the vaccine rollout has 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:38.080 been around the world. I digress though, because here we 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.680 are now just a couple of days pasted our conversation 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.319 that we had with Jonathan where we brought up these 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.160 two new words that I said that I did not 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:53.760 want to learn, delta con and fleur rona. And now 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.480 we have cases of fleur rona since that initial reporting 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.800 that have been discovered in the United States. And now 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.400 we have more cases of deltacron which has now been 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:09.079 discovered in Greece on the island of Cyprus. Now why 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:15.639 does this matter? Because the reality is that we are 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.160 very far. If you're listening to all of the doctors 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.880 for the last couple of weeks, as the beginning of 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.399 this surge has come, and we are we don't even 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.400 know where we are. I mean, that's the reality is that, folks. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.440 I gotta tell you, Like, first of all, I'm wearing 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:36.000 no makeup today because I have a allergy that I 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.440 have developed to my makeup. And maybe it's just COVID 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.000 the fact that I haven't worn makeup in such a 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.480 long time when we were in lockdown that now when 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.960 I do, my skin starts to break out if I 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.360 don't take it off immediately right after I put it on. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.880 Very odd. Nonetheless, why do I say all these things? 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.480 Because I just have to take a pause as I'm 0:02:55.520 --> 0:03:03.240 talking about these two new variants, and some days, I 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:09.000 got to tell you, some days feel more normal than others. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.200 And you know, I think that it's important to name 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.680 these things because we all keep being forced, you know, 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.560 by the virtue of work, by the virtue of capitalism, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.600 by the virtue of you know, the CDC that is 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.200 not really about protecting our public health but really about 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.600 getting people back in the workplace or making sure that 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:33.000 they never leave. To really wrap our minds around what's 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:37.480 happening right now and what what what the fuck is 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.200 really happening. What's happening is that we are living in 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.360 a global health pandemic that the world has not that 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.200 our world governments have not gotten a fucking hold of 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:55.400 that because of coming out of the gate and making 0:03:55.440 --> 0:04:00.640 this a political issue, whether it was attacking the Chinese 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.560 like the Trump administration did, and whether or not the 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.560 Chinese government is at fault for how soon they flag 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.880 the initial alpha variant back in twenty twenty to the world. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.000 Who knows and at this point, who fucking cares? Right, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:21.480 because we have mutated, we have had so many other 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.960 variants since then. And here we are at the beginning 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.640 of December. We just learned about amicron. We are in 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.440 week two, just beginning week two of twenty twenty two, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.960 and we are talking about not one, but two new variants. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:44.640 Now for the mainstream media, who is doing not the 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.520 best fucking job of one keeping people's anxiety down and 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.239 two weaving through the bullshit in a way that makes 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.640 people feel like they can come to you for information. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:02.279 The fact is we are very fa are from COVID 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:07.159 becoming endemic, meaning that more people will become infected, more 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:12.160 people will sadly die right before this becomes like the 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:17.240 common cold or the flu. Right. And the fact is 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.560 what is keeping me up and the reason why I 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.719 am back in the Brooklyn bunker, and I recognize this. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.160 I was having this conversation the other day with a 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.560 friend of mine, and I said, New York is very 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.840 different in terms of how New Yorkers, and I think, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.600 particularly people in the city, which are very different than 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.280 the fucking people that I grew up with on Long Island. Right. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:45.400 So New York City was the epicenter in twenty twenty 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.760 for COVID, Right, We're the epicenter for omicron, Right, We're 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.159 the epicenter for everything by virtue of the millions of 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.400 millions of people that live here in such a small space, right, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.640 So things that will come are going to come here 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.040 because of our international and transit community as well as 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.919 those you know, the cramped spaces in terms of like 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.560 there's not a lot of landmasks and there's a lot 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:18.680 of people, and so things are going to a communicable disease, right, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.440 is going to spread like fucking gangbusters in an area 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.479 as densely populated as New York City. And so I 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:31.279 say that to say that there is a deep post 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:37.120 traumatic stress from twenty twenty of the early days of lockdown, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.240 when all you heard on the streets of New York 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:46.000 City were sirens, were ambulances there. Every business was closed down, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.719 everything was shut down. All the iconic areas that you're 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.360 used to seeing in movies and on television that are 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.599 you know, runam up with tourists and New York as alike, 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:03.880 were eerily quiet, right empty. And so I can always 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.440 tell how things are trending with the virus by virtue 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.160 of just being in New York over the summer right 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.400 in spring and summer of twenty twenty one, there was 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:21.920 this feeling we had become newly vaccinated. There was this 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.600 feeling that life was beginning to return to the city, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.640 and I mean life had continued to churn. Right, There 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.560 are millions of people that are here. There are thousands 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.520 that left, right, The wealthy left, and they left for 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.240 their summer homes or their winter homes and got rid 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.720 of their New York City homes. And then there was 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.640 this like small little bubble, and now right, rent is 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.160 back skyrocketing, as well as mortgages and all of these things. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:53.000 But you can always tell how things are trending when 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.120 I walk out of my apartment, when I'm walking around 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.880 my neighborhood. In the spring and summer, there was this 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.320 sense that we were going to be able to return 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:08.600 to a new normal, right, a new abnormal where you 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.800 could walk into a restaurant and now not only did 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.040 you need to have reservations, but you also need to 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.280 be able to show proof of vaccination, and that you 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.680 were only going to be able to eat inside and 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.240 go to the gym, and go get your haircut and 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.760 go to certain places if in fact, you had proof 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.720 of vaccination in other places obviously, like the supermarket, pharmacies 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.840 and what have you. Doesn't matter, you're not sitting down 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.520 at a table, opening up, taking off your mask and 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.360 having droplets everywhere. But I had noticed that, you know, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.480 we had gotten to a place where New York City's 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:46.320 vaccination rates were so high that folks felt like they 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.960 could take off their mass when they were walking down 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.080 the street and kind of like not scoot to the 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.840 other side of the sidewalk, which is really fucking difficult 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:00.280 to do in some very busy parts of the Burrows. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:10.400 But as as like this this surge as winter began 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.520 to come, as the seasons began to change, and we 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.760 went from summer into fall, and then in early winter, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.920 it was like I started to see people wearing their 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.920 masks again. Outside. I started to see the outdoor dining 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.280 places still really full, right, but then now starting to 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.040 weed out one because it's colder, but because two people 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.000 in New York are self are putting together a self 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.360 imposed lockdown for the privilege that we're supposed to return 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.560 to work or their jobs completely changed, and now they're 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:48.120 just totally remote, right, Like they're just staying home and 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.280 you're seeing as you're walking around. You know, the regular 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:56.240 shops are open obviously, but like the restaurants aren't as full, 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.520 and people are back to wearing their full masks on 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.680 the street and giving each other space right as you're walking. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.120 That to me tells us this is far from being 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:11.240 fucking endemic. Right now. We have these seasons of death 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.680 in this country, and that's just something that is so 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.920 mind boggling that for the past two years we've been 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:23.680 turning on cable news and watching a death ticker. Just 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.080 think about that for a fucking moment, right And the 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.280 fact that it has become so normalized that we just 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.920 talk about, well, fifteen hundred people died today or six 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:42.040 hundred thousand people are infected today. The things that have 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:47.120 become normalized in the last two years are so goddamn 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.720 unsettling that there are some days and moments like this 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.960 past weekend, where I just sit back and I'm like, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.440 what the fuck does the end look like? Right? Like, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.840 can we even begin to imagine what the end could 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.760 possibly look like? When we are smack dab in the 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:13.640 middle of an incredible surge where everybody wants to continue 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.040 to tell us that you know, don't worry. The symptoms 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.559 are mild and blah blah. Yet our hospitals are at 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.640 a breaking point, some are breaking right. And now we 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:30.120 have two new goddamn variants, Delta cron and flew RONA. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.400 And I'm just like, is this how we all go out? Like? 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.000 It's not a comment, It's not Aliens right like it. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.000 It's not the movie The Day After Tomorrow when there's 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.120 the flood and the storm and everything and it's you know, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.560 perfect chaos at one time? Is it? This? Is it 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.760 that we're just all sitting around back, you know, self 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.400 sheltered on pins and needles, waiting for them to make 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:02.640 the announcement that oh, here's the super of super variants 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.359 that now evades all the fucking vaccines, all of the boosters. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.040 You can't touch shit, you can't go outside, and like 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.320 this is it? I just, you know, sometimes I really 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.680 look around. I look around my own apartment, and I 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.520 think about how much life has changed. I think about 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.600 how normal it is now to you know, instead of 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.640 make phone calls, you're on face time with people, right like, oh, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.439 let's just hop on a zoom And how having folks 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.600 in your home much like you guys are right now 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.240 in my living room has become the norm. I remember 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.640 watching sci fi movies and seeing people. You know, we 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.640 don't have the holograms, that's not popping up in our homes. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.600 But when you look at technology, when you look at 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.240 the way that this pandemic has changed the way that 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.679 we fundamentally relate with one another, right, Like when you 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.640 can say, hey, friend, do you want to do a 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.600 happy hour? And they're like ooh, virtual or in person? 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:05.000 Like we were not saying that in twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen. Right, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.680 we move into the twenty twenties, into this new decade, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.679 and it is a new It's like one new crisis 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:16.480 after the other. And I think sometime we're just trying 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:21.400 our best to get by, to make do that it's 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.760 even too much for us to allow our minds to 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.840 think about how drastically fucking different everything is now, And 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:36.760 I say take a pause because it's overwhelming. You know, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.880 I'm like, damn, today is January tenth, It is ten 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:47.800 days into this new year, and we have two new variants? 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.000 What the fuck is it going to look like in 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.480 the spring? Now? The good news, right, the good news 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.240 is this is that what I believe. And I'm not 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.760 a doctor or a scientist, and I don't pretend to 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.760 be one. I just pretend to be somebody that, like 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.600 you know, analyzes the world and looks at it through 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.360 a multiple of different perspectives. And what I am seeing, 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.960 at least, what the last two years is showing us, right, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.240 is that we are going to have these seasons of 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:22.360 death where life is going to feel somewhat renewed and 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:27.520 refreshed and normal, right, And I use heavy quotations with that, 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:33.760 and normal for a couple of months, right, roughly probably 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:39.560 from April until you know, until the beginning of the 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:51.120 Thanksgiving Christmas holiday mash up. So you'll have April, May, June, July, August, September, October, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:57.440 you'll have, right roughly like half the year that seems 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.920 relatively normal. You'll go out to eat, you'll you know, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.600 eat outside, you'll see more people, and then we will 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:10.040 have these seasons where for three to four months, for 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:14.600 those of us who genuinely follow science and believe doctors 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.800 and you know, and want to preserve as much as 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:23.200 we can our own physical emotional health and wellbeing will 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:28.920 probably self sequester for those months right where it's you're 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.880 not going to go out, You're not going to go 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.840 to the new restaurant and eat indoors. And it is 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:43.000 fundamentally shifted how we engage, how we show up with people, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.280 how we create community with people, but how we engage 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.080 on a day to day. And sometimes I'm just like, 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.720 we need to just fucking take a pause, take a beat, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.440 and give ourselves credit for how adaptable we have been 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:02.520 to fucking crazy this. It is nuts. I walk out 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.080 of my apartment and I'm looking around and some days 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:11.520 I'm like the security that I feel that there are 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.840 people that at least live in my immediate community who 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.360 were all massed up. And of course now the other 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.280 thing too, is that all the masks have changed. Right 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.080 where we all thought we were going to be cute, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.360 show parts of our personality, you know, try and add 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.720 some you know, bit of flare to a situation that 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.160 seems so dire. Well, now we're all just in K 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.840 ninety five mass if in fact you can afford it 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:41.240 or find them and they're not counterfeit. But it's just, 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:47.360 you know, I want us to give ourselves credit for 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.760 how much we are adapting to times that are so 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:56.000 completely and totally out of our control, that we are 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.480 still going to work right where there is no relief 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:05.159 and mental health days and time to really just like gather, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.440 I saw this meme and this is what prompted today's 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.960 show opening, you know, and it was like, you know, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.080 it's supposed to be funny, right, like lighthearted, and it 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.200 was like, you know, the difference between you know, our 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.840 two cells. It's like pre twenty twenty, I used to 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.000 feel and this is the meme mashed up, but it's 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.000 like I used to be able to go to work 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.720 for you know, eight to nine hours, go out for 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.920 drinks with friends, go to a work event, circle back 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.560 to work the next the next day, do it all 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.040 over again, have commitments on the weekends, like just we 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:45.320 were moving right, we were doing things, and then they're 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.679 like and me today, it's like a struggle just to 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:54.800 get through, like just eight hours of work and you're 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:59.399 working from home. And while like the meme in and 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.080 of itself is supposed to be funny, like how much 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.439 we were doing versus how much we can do. But 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.680 what's lost in the in between of that and of 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:14.800 that translation is the fact that the weight of everything 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:20.400 has become so much right, Like we are on edge, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:25.360 and I don't think that we fully consciously are aware 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.720 of what that anxiety and what that stress is doing 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.960 to our bodies. Right. Like, sure people want to talk about, oh, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.960 the COVID nineteen, talking about like weight that they have 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.080 put on and this, that and the other thing, and 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.639 weight is like not even half of it. I'm talking 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.600 about the emotional weight. I'm talking about some days not 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.400 wanting to get out of bed, not wanting to get 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.359 off of the couch, to go to the kitchen or 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.560 to go into your office or your basement or wherever 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.600 to go and do work, that it's so difficult to 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.959 be able to function and focus on rudimentary task like 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:08.040 everything is normal. Meanwhile, you're also glued to the headlines 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.480 in Twitter to make sure that we didn't go to 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.760 war today, to make sure that there isn't a new 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.879 variant that you missed, or a CDC guideline that seems 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.159 like bullshit, or like some far right attack or another 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.640 person being killed that you video that is circulating, or 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.800 some other disaster that is impending. It's all of the 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:32.199 impending doom of it all that makes us feel like 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:37.800 holy shit, just answering an email, clearing out an inbox, right, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.679 getting done with one or two tasks a week now 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.760 feels like something we need to applaud, and frankly, we 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:50.639 fucking should because if you were to go back in time, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.080 and let me tell you, I started watching this terrible 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.280 show on Amazon Prime and maybe you all have finished 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.280 it called Solos, and it's like a sigh by, you know, 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:06.000 futuristic show where each of the characters and each of 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.840 the actors it's just them for the entire episode. So 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.600 think about the movie Castaway with Tom Hanks and it 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.879 just being him and Wilson the fucking ball. This is 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.280 a similar type thing, but it's like very meta. Anyway. 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:25.560 I say that to say that in one of the 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.520 episodes that Anne Hathaway was in, she was trying to 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.560 jump to the future, right. She wanted to get out 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.080 of the present situation of her life that had her 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:40.800 mother dying and excruciating death, that had her just so 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.959 stressed out and depressed and miserable, and so she just 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.639 wanted to project literally come up with this coding and 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.879 algorithm to get herself to the future so that this 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.439 current reality she was existing in wouldn't be real that 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.919 the alternate dimension her her in the future could fix 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:03.240 her currently and that and all I kept thinking about 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.560 to myself is that I have those moments. I have 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.359 those moments nowadays where I am just like I want 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.119 to be projected into the future, but the future just 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.400 doesn't seem that bright. But I want to be projected 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:22.520 into the ending of all of this madness. And what 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.840 troubles me, folks, and I don't mean to start your 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.360 week out like this, but what troubles me is that 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.720 I don't know if this Sometimes things don't always get better, 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.000 or sometimes better is not necessarily what we're hoping for, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.960 Like we're hoping for just blanket relief and going back 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.959 to normal. And I don't think that we ever go 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:51.400 back to pre COVID days, right Like I even think 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:58.080 that even if things were done tomorrow, I think the scars, 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:02.359 the emotional scars of what we have all been through, 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:07.840 will persist, and we'll have forever changed. The way that 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:10.240 we interact with each other, the way that we see 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:13.280 each other, the way that we interact with work, our environment. 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.240 I think it's forever changing, and it's changing so rapidly, 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:22.200 And so I just offered that if you feel unstable 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.760 some days, Like you feel goodish on a Monday, but 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.840 by Friday you're like, what, Like, what is this I'm 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:34.479 living in? Understand that you are not alone, that you know, 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.360 sometimes I do feel like we are living inside some 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:43.240 fucked up matrix right where it's like we're just all 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.800 supposed to pretend that everything is kumbaya, that all is well, 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:49.840 and that if you draw attention to the things that 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:53.040 are at fault or that are crazy, then you're the 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.119 one that's labeled. Right, Like, that's what the right is 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.640 doing right now with their collective gaslight of the country. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.280 One six didn't happen. COVID is blown out of control, 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.160 there's nothing wrong with the environment, the economy is solid, 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:11.639 like all is well. Right, Meanwhile they're staging a fucking 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:18.040 fascist authoritarian coup every single day, right. The stress is real. 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:22.040 So I just say to you, you know, as I 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:31.440 will remind myself to give yourself daily grace, meditate, prey, garden, walk, yoga, 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:36.000 whatever it is that allows you in positive ways. Look, 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:42.159 I love cocktails. Everybody who knows me knows that I 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:46.119 am trying on a regular basis for that not to 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:49.600 be my go to exhale, which is why I have 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:53.040 a regular meditation practice, which is why I need you know. 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:58.360 This week is starting me back on my daily exercise regimen, 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:03.240 and just because it takes a lot these days to 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:08.000 keep it all together, and so it's okay when we 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:12.080 fall off, when we decide that we're not getting up 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:15.679 that day, that is fine too. I just want folks 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.320 to know that you are not alone in trying to 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:23.679 make sense of insanity, and that they're just sometimes you 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:26.639 just can't make sense of it. All you can do 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:30.200 is do what you can do to keep yourself safe, 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:34.560 those around you that you love safe and healthy, and 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:39.080 that be the success of the day, of what the 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.399 daily successes look like. I think that not only do 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:44.960 we need to get rid of this idea that we're 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:47.280 going to be able to quote go back to normal, 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:49.960 but I also think that we need to get rid 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:59.720 of these predefined ideals of what success looks like, because success, 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:03.000 what success looked like for you in twenty nineteen, is 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:05.040 not going to be the same thing that success looks 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:07.720 like in twenty twenty two. And I think that if 0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:10.640 we're honest with ourselves and the people around us about that, 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:14.439 then we'll be able to maneuver, be nimble in ways 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:17.159 that help us to not only deal with this moment, 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:19.879 but to find ways to thrive in it as well. 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:24.359 Coming up next, folks, is my conversation with our good, 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:28.520 good friend Glenn Kirshner, MSNBC legal analysts and the host 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:31.520 of Justice Matters. We are going to delve into the 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:36.240 current sentences that were released for some of the seven 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:40.000 hundred plus insurrectionists that have been picked up Merritt Garland's 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:43.640 speech and what Glenn thought about that and whether not 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:46.679 this is signaling that the Justice Department actually has a 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:53.520 spine and is going to do something and much much more. Folks, 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:56.640 you know that I have been dying for my first 0:25:56.680 --> 0:26:00.679 conversation with our next guest in the new year, Len Kirshner, 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:04.560 MSNBC analyst and the host of Justice Matters. Glenn, the 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:08.680 only person that I wanted to talk to following a g. 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:13.679 Merritt Garland's press conference on January fifth, was you. I 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:17.160 have been dying to hear your thoughts. I tweeted mine. 0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:22.160 I have shared mine in many different ways. It's been 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:25.480 how many months since we've heard from Merritt Garland and 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:30.320 his Justice Department many and you know, we were anticipating 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:35.000 I at least was anticipating some actual news. What were 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:39.560 your thoughts on his presser, So, Danielle, Happy New Year. 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:42.920 On the one hand, I think anything short of him 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:46.840 parading Donald Trump across the stage and cuffs was going 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:51.400 to feel like a little bit of a letdown. But 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:54.399 there were three things that he said that I was 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:58.119 really happy he did say. I was I was really 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:01.360