1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody once again recording from the 3 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bunker. Why because COVID nineteen is raging out of 4 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: control and no one seems to understand how to get 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: a fucking hold of it. I don't know about you, 6 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: but I have talked to so many people over the 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, so many people, and every single 8 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: time that I pick up the phone to ring a friend, 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: to talk to a colleague, someone has contracted COVID so 10 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: much so that the United States is seeing about six 11 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: hundred thousand new cases a fucking day. But I want 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: to tell you this. On Day eleven of twenty twenty two, 13 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: which is this yesterday, I found myself, you know, on 14 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: the twitters, right like doing what people do. And I 15 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: go on Twitter and I see this from an er 16 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: doctor named Sam Gale, right, gh A l I And 17 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: he says, I cannot believe this is the tweet that 18 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: this man puts out. I cannot believe that I have 19 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: to say this, but do not consume your own urine 20 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: in an attempt to treat COVID nineteen. Do not consume 21 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: your own fucking urine as a way to combat COVID nineteen. 22 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: We are living in the stupidest fucking times ever. And 23 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: every day I look at the news and I'm just like, wow, 24 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: it's like the fuckery just took off in the twenties, right, 25 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: Like we're living in the twenties. Remember the nineteen twenties 26 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: were considered the Roaring twenties. It was you know, freedom 27 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 1: and women accessing their like, their their femininity and their power. 28 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: And you know, there was like gold rushes and there was, 29 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: you know, all of this vibrance that was happening in 30 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: you know, the nineteen twenties. In the twenty twenties, however, 31 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: it is like the gold rush is now just bullshit, right, 32 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: It's just a flow of crap coming at us every 33 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: which way. Anti vaxers. Just wrap your mind around this 34 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: for a moment. That anti vaxers will take worse medication. 35 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: They will ingest bleach, They will purchase whatever the Joe Rogans, 36 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: the Tucker Carlsons, whatever these people tell them to purchase 37 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: in order to come back COVID nineteen. They will do 38 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: a range of things. They will now drink their own 39 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: fucking urine right as a way to remedy COVID. They 40 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: will do everything except take the vaccine approved by humans 41 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: for humans to take for free, So they will pay 42 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: for bullshit. Right. They will consume disgusting bodily fluids, right, 43 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: but they won't go to their local fucking pharmacy sit 44 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: down for two point three seconds or a shot in 45 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: the arm that is free. They will even go so 46 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: far as to spend hundreds of dollars on fake vaccination 47 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: cards rather than to take a vaccine that is free. 48 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: How do you combat that? Right? Like, this is no 49 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: longer a oh well, we just don't trust, you know, 50 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: the vaccine, because now, folks, the vaccines have been out 51 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: for months, and the number of people that have died 52 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: from taking the vaccine probably around about a goose egg, right, 53 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: like a zero. The people that have had extreme side 54 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: effects right from the vaccine probably hunder you know, hint, 55 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: hovering around zero, right percentage or zero point blah blah blah. 56 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: It's not significantly, right, significant, right, it's not significant in 57 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: any way. The amount of people, however, that have died 58 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: from COVID over eight hundred and forty thousand. The number 59 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: of people who are experiencing long COVID, namely fatigue, irregular heartbeat, 60 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: brain fog, major migraines that are uncontrollable. These are things 61 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: that are lingering from the first, second, and now third 62 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: rounds of COVID. You know, I was talking to my 63 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: neighbor the other day and she was like, Danielle, you 64 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: still didn't get COVID, And I was just like, no, 65 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: And I feel like a pinball in a pinball machine, 66 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: just fucking you know, moving through the obstacles, trying my 67 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: best not to get something that is probably, at this point, 68 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: fucking inevitable. If you have six hundred thousand people a 69 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: day that are contracting a'micron, what is the likelihood that 70 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to remain positive? That is shrinking by the day. Right, 71 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: But just like another friend of mine who also has 72 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: remained negative, She's just like, look, I'm vaccinated boosted. I 73 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: still don't want it, right, Like, I still am going 74 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: to continue to do everything within my power to ensure 75 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 1: that I don't get it. If I get it, I 76 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: get it. But I'm not out here actively like hey, 77 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: i'm acron, give me a call, Hey you want to 78 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: hang out? No? Right, But you have these people, these 79 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: anti vaxers twenty five percent of the population. I'm watching, folks, 80 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: as the map of the United States is boot blood 81 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: red right now, like, oh, where where is spiking? Where 82 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: isn't spiking? It would be easier to color that portion 83 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: in right, everywhere in this country is spiking. We have Virginia, Maryland, 84 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: the District of Columbia right, the DMV right now, the 85 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: governor right which is currently going to change hands from 86 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: Democrat Northam to a Republican Trump light Yunken this coming weekend. 87 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: And Northam just issued a limited thirty day state of 88 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: emergency for the state of Virginia because of their hospitalization 89 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: rates and to open up more funding to be able 90 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: to support hospitals that are being crippled not only right 91 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: by the influx. Because here's the funny thing. The number 92 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: of hospitalizations right now in twenty twenty two in Virginia 93 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: has surpassed the number of hospitalizations at the peak in 94 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So while everybody wants to continue to say 95 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: that the symptoms associated with amicron are quote unquote mild, 96 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: they are mild for people that are vaccinated and boosted, right, 97 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: But people's idea of what mild is fucking varies. But 98 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: what we know to be true is that when these 99 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: health care workers right and hospitals are saying to their 100 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: states we need help, that's not actually signaling to me 101 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: that what is happening right now can just be shrugged 102 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: off and brushed off and say, ah, well, we'll reach 103 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: the surgeons peak and then it will decline. Yes, obviously 104 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: what goes up eventually does come down. But in this situation, 105 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 1: the damage that is created on the up right and 106 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: the damage that will be created on the decline is 107 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: actually what we need to be focusing on. Because as 108 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: I'm looking at this bloody red map of America where 109 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,839 Speaker 1: every fucking state is spiking or surging, right, because these 110 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: are the only two alternatives right now. The vaccine number, however, 111 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: hasn't fucking budged. It's still at sixty two point five percent. 112 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: How is that possible? How is it that every other 113 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: person you may be talking to, texting with has COVID 114 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 1: and yet only sixty two point five percent of Americans 115 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: are vaccinated? And of course, right I continue to say 116 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: that when children are affected, people will do an about face. Well, 117 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: that's not true because what we've learned, right, and what 118 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: we've always known is Republicans don't give a fuck about kids, right, 119 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: Stick those kids inside of a uterus, you know, maybe 120 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: they'll pay attention to that, but otherwise they could give 121 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: a fuck. Well, pediatric hospitalizations are up for children under 122 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: the age of twelve, because when you look at the 123 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: vaccination rates for children right, which was approved recently, it's 124 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: fucking paltry. But yet we're sending those same kids to 125 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: school each and every day in some states that have 126 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: mask mandates, some that don't, some townships that have mask mandates, 127 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: others that don't, and we're watching the numbers tick tick 128 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: tick all the way up. You know. I continue to 129 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: say that it is going to be a incredibly long 130 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 1: period of time until COVID is endemic. We are going 131 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: to see a lot more variance, right, a lot more 132 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: mutations before this thing ever goes away. I heard a 133 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: doctor today say, well, you know, this will eventually turn 134 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: into the Spanish flu. The Spanish flu right now is probably, 135 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: you know, floating around like the common cold. The Spanish 136 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: flu was over a hundred years ago. I won't be alive, right, 137 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: none of us fucking will when this shit is actually endemic. 138 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: So I'm like, that's the question that I have, right, Like, 139 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: what's the timeline for this ship to be endemic? How 140 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: many people need to be affected infected right by the virus? 141 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: And if you are endemic to omicron, does that like 142 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: if armicron and the fast nature that it spreads turns 143 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: COVID into being quote unquote endemic, is it just the 144 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: Armicron variants that has become endemic, But that doesn't stop 145 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: the virus from continuing to mutate into other variants that 146 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: aren't Folks, It's like, it's so wild some days when 147 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: you think about the situation that we are living in 148 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: right now. I went to the post office for the 149 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: first time, and god knows how long I didn't even 150 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: know where the post office was in my neighborhood, right 151 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: because you do so many things online that you know, 152 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: I forget certain things, and I only moved to this 153 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 1: area a couple like two years ago, a year and 154 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: a half ago, so I wasn't quite sure I know 155 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: where the fedexes are in the UPSs are anyway. So 156 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: going to the post office, the workers are all wearing 157 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: you know, K ninety five masks and gloves right as 158 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: they're sorting through they have to touch papers, have to 159 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: do this. They have dividers up, right, This man walks 160 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: in packages mask under his chin, because that's where the 161 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: fuck it goes, Right, You have a mask on walking 162 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: around outside and you have it under your chin, but 163 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: you walk into a building and it doesn't occur to 164 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: you to put it up. The worker at the USPS 165 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: was like yelling, put your mask on. It is not 166 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: a chin guard. She said it twice before the gentleman 167 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 1: realized that he was talking to him, that she was 168 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: talking to him because he's just so used to right 169 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: nonsense that like nobody's going to say anything. And here's 170 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: the reality, folks, right, is this that it shouldn't be 171 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: the burden on workers. Right, And this is this is 172 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: going to get into my whole rant on capitalism again, 173 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: because I'm just so overwhelmed with fuckery, right, Like I 174 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: just feel like we are suffocating in it. So you 175 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: have a pandemic that is ravaging through the workforce, and 176 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: the response to that is not to create safer conditions 177 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: so that people feel like they can show up, right, 178 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: it's about just speeding through this whole entire new you know, 179 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: quarantine time that the CDC decides to release, right, it's 180 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: that it's no, we're not going to ensure smart thinking 181 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: in this new normal of of of the world that 182 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: we are living in. We're not going to say to ourselves, okay, hmm, 183 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: it's been too years. The surges come in the winter, 184 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: then things level off by the spring. So these are 185 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: the mechanisms that we're going to put in place because 186 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: we are starting to realize that normal and going back 187 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: to normal doesn't actually exist. So we're going to work 188 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: with the data and information that we have in front 189 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: of us based on the last two years, and we're 190 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: going to rock from there. That's not what we are doing, 191 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: right Because I said this, I said it on social media. 192 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: I said, so here's the thing. You know that our 193 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: biggest to gathering holiday right Thanksgiving, Hanka and Christmas? Right, 194 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: big family gathering times New Year's Eve. So you know, 195 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: every year, right until COVID vanishes from the earth, that 196 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: between November and fucking March, right, maybe February, but most 197 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: likely March, you're going to be witnessing an increase of 198 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: the positivity rate. So why wouldn't it occur to industry, 199 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: to politicians to offer ways in which here's the thing. 200 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: You work from home. If your job allows you to 201 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: work from home, we're not going to require you to 202 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: go in that We're going to a lot for there 203 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: to be more money right into places like the USPS, 204 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: which we know was gutted under the Trump administration, to 205 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: be able to employ somebody that stands at the door 206 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: right as a guard to ensure that everyone that is 207 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: coming in and I say two people because that person 208 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: needs to have backup. Right, that's the reality of the world. 209 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: World that we're living in, the world is dangerous. People 210 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:09,120 Speaker 1: are assholes, right, And no hostess, no USPS worker, no 211 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: delivery person, no anyone should have to deal with the 212 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: trauma that patrons want to put out on other people, right, Like, 213 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: that shouldn't be the case. So what investments are you 214 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: making to ensure that the staff that is showing up 215 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,959 Speaker 1: for work are fucking safe? None? What are you doing 216 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: from the months of November till March when you have 217 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 1: large swaths of the twelve to eighteen year old population 218 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: that isn't fucking vaccinated but they are school age, Maybe 219 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: during the November until March, right, that you should institute 220 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: remote learning and that maybe may just maybe we should 221 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: get off of the agriculture fucking calendar that our schools 222 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: have been operating under since the beginning of public schooling 223 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: and move into reality, which is actually year round school 224 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: where instead of much in the same way that many 225 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: that follow education and follow the development childhood development right 226 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: would say, there's no actual reason for kids to have 227 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: off for two months over the summer, there really isn't. 228 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: And that instead, which creates a lot of lesson loss, 229 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: a lot of memory loss during that time, particularly for 230 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 1: low income children, right, because they don't have the benefits 231 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 1: of having all the latest tablets and tools and this, 232 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: that and the other. Thing. We know right by virtue 233 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: of COVID that many kids didn't even have access to broadband, right, 234 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: so remote learning was damn near impossible. But see they 235 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: knew this ship before, right, But still there was no 236 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: investment that was going to be made because we only 237 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: react as a country. We are not proactive, right, we 238 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: only react to shit. Right. But here's an idea. Maybe 239 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: go into year round schooling where you just break up 240 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: those two months into breaks throughout the year that at 241 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: every month or every quarter you do, you have two 242 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: weeks off. Right, Maybe that two week is a block, 243 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: or maybe it's a week at the beginning and a 244 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: week at the end, but that you continue, you have 245 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: a continuity of learning. And so in this new normal 246 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: where we know that the winter months are going to 247 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: be dangerous months for this country, for the world right 248 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: that experiences winter, that COVID will always be at an 249 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,479 Speaker 1: all time high, why don't we start to create a 250 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: new normal. This is what I don't understand, this is 251 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: what drives me fucking crazy, is that it's like we 252 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: never learn anything. We don't retain any of the information 253 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: that we've acquired since twenty twenty and apply it to 254 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: now and into the future. We just keep wanting to 255 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: go back to normal and lose everything that this virus 256 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: has shown us. You know, I tell people, on a 257 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: personal level, think about your life pre COVID and think 258 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: about it now. For those people who did have the 259 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: privilege and the opportunity to slow down, they will tell 260 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: you that their lives are forever changed. I am one 261 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: of those people. I think a lot more about my 262 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 1: health and wellness. I think a lot more about rest 263 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: and recharging than I ever did pre COVID days. I 264 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: think a lot more about relationships. I think a lot 265 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: more about how I spend my money and where I 266 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 1: spend my money. Right, I'm applying what I have been 267 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: able to learn over the last two years because I 268 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: know that frankly, I don't want to go back to 269 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: the way that I was thinking and doing and acting 270 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: pre COVID. I want those lessons that I have learned 271 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: about slowing down, about meditation, about taking care and loving 272 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 1: my body, about shrinking my orbit so that only the 273 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: people that are around me are people that I trust, 274 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: that love me, and I love them, and that is 275 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: my community and my village. Right, these are the things 276 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: that I have learned that will forever be a part 277 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: of my character, my life, my day to day. But 278 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: why is it that when we're looking at the way 279 00:21:54,320 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: in which our worlds have been like tremendously uprooted and 280 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: are still just hanging up in the air above us, 281 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: how is it that we don't use that information to 282 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: build and think better. I don't get it, I really don't. 283 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: It's like we're all still fumbling around in the dark. 284 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: But I'm like, there is some information that is out 285 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:31,959 Speaker 1: here that is apparent. Right. It's mind blowing, it truly is. 286 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: And I think that you know, we will talk to 287 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel this week, who will you know, 288 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: give us the latest and go over you know, more 289 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: about these new variants and more about what we're hearing, 290 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: what we are learning. But the reality is that you know, 291 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: as my mother has said, you don't need the CDC 292 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: to tell you to wash your hands. You don't need 293 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: the CDC to tell you that wearing a mask is 294 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: going to prevent COVID at this at this point, at 295 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: this stage of where we are in this pandemic that 296 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: is never going anywhere, and so you have to do 297 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: what is going to be right for you, for your families, 298 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: for your loved ones in order to stay safe. Take 299 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: the information that you have gathered anecdotally over the last 300 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: two years and apply it. I just don't understand why 301 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: our leaders won't do the same thing, shifting gears. I 302 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,199 Speaker 1: want to talk about Kevin McCarthy, that spineless piece of 303 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: shit who is the minority leader in the House of 304 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: Representatives and as a Trump lackey, Trump lap dog, just 305 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: a peon, an accolade, a hanger on, or he's disgusting, right, 306 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: he's an embarrassment. But anyway, he gives an interview to 307 00:23:54,680 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 1: Bright Bart where he has declared that when Republicans take 308 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: back the House and take back the House with a 309 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: historic margin, that he is going to ban certain leaders 310 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party from being able to hold committee seats. 311 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: And this is his response to Democrats and Democrats alone 312 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: stripping dangerous terrorists that are in the Republican House leadership 313 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 1: from having committee seats. Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert, among 314 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: others that have lost right or that should lose their 315 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: seats for the bile shit that they have said. Right, 316 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: and it is amazing to me. It's like Republicans just 317 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: operate on a tit for fucking tat and context doesn't 318 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: fucking matter. Right, We're gonna impeach Joe Biden for what exactly? 319 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: Trying to keep the American people safe? What are you 320 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 1: going to search around for hunter Biden's laptop again, so 321 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: we can come up with a whole other fucking goose egg, Like, 322 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: what is it that you're going to look for? Oh, 323 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, he adopted a dog, but it wasn't the 324 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: right dog, so he should be impeached. Like, just think 325 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 1: about the circus, the circuits that we left with the 326 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: election of Joe Biden and what is going to happen 327 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, because you know, here's the reality. 328 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna lose midterms, right like, unless something extraordinary happens 329 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: in the next ten months, right before the November elections, 330 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 1: we will lose. And the reason why is that the 331 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: party that is in power in the White House, in 332 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: the executive always right, traditionally loses in the midterms. But 333 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: here's the thing. If we continue to talk about and 334 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 1: treat these mid terms as if they are fucking normal 335 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: and that we are not working against the fucking Antichrist here, 336 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,639 Speaker 1: then yeah, we are going to lose. But by Kevin 337 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: McCarthy saying the fucking quiet part out loud, which is 338 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: that we're just looking for retribution, right like, we're just 339 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,479 Speaker 1: looking to cause harm. We're not getting into office and 340 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: you can rely on us to do anything right for 341 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: the American people. Remember, these are people that were in 342 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: power right and didn't offer not a fucking thing during 343 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,239 Speaker 1: their last year in office, not nothing right, nothing to 344 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: help the American people. So tell me, right, other than 345 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: low voter turnout because everyone is just exhausted and outdone 346 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: by the current state of the world, right, and not 347 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: seeing the advantage of what it means to vote for 348 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: the quote unquote good guy or dare I say the 349 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: less bad one, how it's affecting their day to day lives. 350 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, that child tax credit, the stimulus 351 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: money that you got, that shit is going to be 352 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: long gone from people's memories. Right. What they will remember 353 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 1: now is that COVID is still around, right, that they 354 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: have lost more friends and family, that the country is 355 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: more divided than ever, and because we have a media 356 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: that both sides the fuck out of everything, they'll blame 357 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: Democrats just the same way that they blame Republicans, not 358 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 1: understanding because the Democrats do a shit job at messaging 359 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: just how dangerous at times are that we are living in. 360 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: So now you have Joe Biden finally recognizing, almost a 361 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: year later after his administration takes office, that maybe we 362 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,880 Speaker 1: should do something about voting rights, because you know, democracy, 363 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: Maybe we should actually figure out what it is that 364 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 1: we are going to do to make sure that we 365 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 1: don't have a full blown authoritarian fascist takeover the way 366 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: that we've seen transpire around the globe in places like 367 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: Turkey and Hungry and Russia, right, that maybe we would 368 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 1: do something about it, and that you would find a 369 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: way to get those two pieces of fucking shit Joe 370 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: Mansion and Kursen Cinema on board with, you know, saving 371 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: the country. I gotta tell you that I sat on 372 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: Twitter yesterday for like a good amount of time, and 373 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: you know, like I tell you all, I try and 374 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: take my own advice. I try only to dip in, 375 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: you know, kind of survey the situation, read some news, 376 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: you know, take some notes, you know, and then pull back. 377 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: And I do this because it's not safe, right, It 378 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: is emotionally and mentally unsafe to be on social media 379 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: for in my humble opinion, more than like ninety minutes. Right, 380 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: It's like staring at the sun. You shouldn't do it, 381 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: not even for a short period of time. But when 382 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: I'm on there, writer author love the ij says, this 383 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: was yesterday. It is day ten of twenty twenty two, 384 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: and this is like the longest year ever. And this 385 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: is what I'm coming to just get. And I'm having 386 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: conversations that I hope that you all too, are two 387 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: with the people that you care about about their emotional 388 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: and mental capacities at this time. And I talked about 389 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: this yesterday and I'm going to continue to talk about 390 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 1: it because I don't want us to just power through 391 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: right We're not. We won't make it if we just 392 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 1: put our heads down and just get the thing done, 393 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: because we don't know when the end is. We don't 394 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: know where it is. We don't even know at what 395 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: portion of this pandemic we are in, right, Are we 396 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: in the middle? Is at the beginning? Still? Right? Like? 397 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: Are we close to the end? We have no fucking idea. 398 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: And that's how we are losing days and weeks and 399 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: hours and minutes of our lives racked with anxiety and stress. 400 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: I mean, the amount of things that have happened already 401 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: only ten days, eleven days into this new year is astronomical. 402 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: And so when you think about that and the capacity 403 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: that people have to hold, that we all have to hold, 404 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: you have to let some things go. So what do 405 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: you think folks are going to let go by the 406 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: time that we show up in November of twenty twenty two? 407 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: What do you even think this country is going to 408 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: look like? Where in the pandemic will we be? Will 409 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: we be riding high off of a really good summer, right, 410 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: or will we be stopped dead in our tracks with 411 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: a lethal fucking variant and then that just sends everything 412 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: tanking once again. It is just, you know, it's hard 413 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: to figure out how to feel, let alone, where to 414 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: go and what to do. And we have to be 415 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: honest about that. We have to be honest about these feelings. 416 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: We have to be honest about the exhaustion. We're not 417 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: producing in the same ways that we were producing. But 418 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: industry is beating us right all into submission. They don't 419 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: care if you're sick five days. Well, I'll tell you 420 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: that a friend of mine, her kids tested again after 421 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: five days. Guess what, They were still fucking positive, right, 422 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: So they weren't going back to school. And you know, 423 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: so it's just like we don't allow our bodies to 424 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: even heal, right, because got to work. So what do 425 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: you think the effect is on our minds with what 426 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: we are dealing with and what we are taking in. 427 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: I think that midterms are going to be devastating, and 428 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: I don't even think that people understand how fucking devastating 429 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: things are about to get. And this is why I say, 430 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: if you are not grounding yourself in some type of 431 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: self care, some type of wellness practices. If you are 432 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 1: not figuring out what is going to keep you moving, 433 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: keep you breathe, keep you in a place of positivity, 434 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: of joy, being able to dip into frustration, rage and 435 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: then pull yourself back out. If you are not figuring 436 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: out how to maneuver, you will end up spiraling out 437 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 1: of control. The things that we don't talk about that 438 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: the news isn't covering on a regular basis, the rate 439 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: of suicides right. Opioid use is on the rise. People 440 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: are just looking for any fucking way to numb themselves, 441 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: and we're not paying attention to it. We're talking about 442 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: the long term, long haul COVID in terms of its 443 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: physical effects, but what about the mental and emotional ones. 444 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: These are things that we are not addressing. What is 445 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: this doing to our kids, the ones that are young 446 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: that will never remember anything before, right, and the ones 447 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: that do remember before, but each and every day that 448 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: feels like a distant memory. You know, in generations, you know, 449 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: as generations pop up, you have you know, the silent generation, 450 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: the baby boomers, you had Gen X, which everybody ignores. 451 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 1: You have you know, the millennials, now the millennials and 452 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: all of these things. But you know, while we talk 453 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: about the population size and we will often talk about 454 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:38,240 Speaker 1: those different pivotal moments that bind generation, this is going 455 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: to be a major moment that not only shifts the 456 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: way we work, how we work, how we engage, what 457 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: community looks like, what that means, right, It's going to 458 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: shift how we see and view the world as a 459 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: place that is unsafe and unstable. And so what are 460 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: the ramifications of that. What are future politicians if in fact, 461 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: we keep some sembilance of government right living through this, 462 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:18,759 Speaker 1: how is that going to shift how they think about capitalism, 463 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: about government, about democracy. It's wild, you know, it is 464 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: just every day is wilder than the next. And it's frustrating. 465 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 1: It's frustrating to feel like you're the only sane one. 466 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: And that's the beauty of woka f Nation is that 467 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,799 Speaker 1: you're not alone in your sanity, like there are other 468 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: people who think like you, who are feeling the same 469 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,439 Speaker 1: way that you are. And it's hard, right, It's it's 470 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,399 Speaker 1: hard to send people emails and say, oh, I hope 471 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 1: this finds you well, I just you know what I 472 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: say nowadays, send an email to somebody and I said, 473 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,320 Speaker 1: I hope that this email finds you in the best 474 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: spirits you can possibly be in at this time. It 475 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: is long and drawn out, but it's the fucking truth, right, 476 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: because part of my understanding of this moment is to 477 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: just be honest. I just want to be as authentic 478 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,240 Speaker 1: as possible. We're dealing with so much fraud, so many lies, 479 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: that I want my word to be that of one 480 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 1: that is matched with integrity. I wonder if more of 481 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,319 Speaker 1: us were to think that way about being impeccable with 482 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: our word, about our word mattering, about being as authentic 483 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 1: with ourselves and with others as we can possibly be, 484 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:53,399 Speaker 1: maybe that shift right would help us better navigate these 485 00:36:53,520 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: very unstable and uncertain times. January sixth is now the 486 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,880 Speaker 1: remembrance of that is in our rear view mirror, but 487 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: the reality of what we continue to face as a 488 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 1: nation is still staring us directly in the face. Ri 489 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:22,240 Speaker 1: Melbourne and MSNBC had an interesting opening around his January 490 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: sixth segment where he talked about the inequality that we 491 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: are witnessing, the gross inequality, and how this Justice Department 492 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 1: and Merrick Garland have the ability and the sovereign authority 493 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: to deal with the fact that these sentences either or 494 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,319 Speaker 1: not happening for these insurrectionists because now we're referring to 495 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 1: them as maga tourists, or that they are so light 496 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:56,839 Speaker 1: it means absolutely nothing. And that sure you want to say, oh, yeah, well, 497 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 1: we're just you know, doing these low level things so 498 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,240 Speaker 1: that we can get to the big fish. But again 499 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 1: I state, if you do not send a stark and 500 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,200 Speaker 1: clear a message to white Americans that they are not 501 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 1: able to defecate in the halls of democracy and trespass 502 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,280 Speaker 1: at will because they feel like this country fucking owes 503 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 1: them something, then what are you doing exactly except setting 504 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: up the mechanisms of another coup. I don't understand that. 505 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: I really don't. You know. One bright spot so far 506 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,600 Speaker 1: of today is this that was reported so right now. 507 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,560 Speaker 1: There are multiple cases that are in the hands of 508 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 1: US District Judge Amid Metta, and he was questioning both 509 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: Trump lawyers and the lawyers for the House Democrats there. 510 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 1: So this is multiple cases based around January six that 511 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:59,040 Speaker 1: are charging the former twice impeached disgrace president of the 512 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 1: United States with conspiracy with far right wing groups, conspiracy 513 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:10,760 Speaker 1: to overthrow the government and Trump lawyers, of course, of course, 514 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 1: just want the cases thrown out. Right. They have no 515 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,120 Speaker 1: merit because they argue that the president was acting in 516 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 1: his official duty as the President of the United States, 517 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 1: questioning Congress in the same way that he would question bills. Right, 518 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: except the questioning of bills didn't end up with one 519 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,840 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty officers injured and six people dead. Right, 520 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,239 Speaker 1: So let us not claim And if Donald Trump was 521 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,640 Speaker 1: in fact operating in his quote unquote official duties, if 522 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 1: that is what the judge says, then Donald Trump, as 523 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: president of the United States, was threatening a coup and 524 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:48,400 Speaker 1: leading one. Right from the ellipses, we know that Trump 525 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,919 Speaker 1: does not have the very best people around him, nor 526 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,680 Speaker 1: can he afford the very best lawyers because the ones 527 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 1: with actual degrees from real universities don't want to fuck 528 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: with him. So I want to say this to you 529 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:08,920 Speaker 1: because I thought that this was really interesting. So meta, judge, 530 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 1: Meta the US district judge. He says to the Trump attorneys, 531 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:21,040 Speaker 1: and this is not verbatim, so you know, but it's 532 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 1: my It's basically, he says, what do I do about 533 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 1: the fact that the president didn't denounce the conduct he goes, 534 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: what do I do with the fact that for nearly 535 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:40,400 Speaker 1: two hours, two plus hours, one hundred and eighty seven minutes, 536 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 1: that the President of the United States, by various accounts, 537 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:54,919 Speaker 1: was sitting and watching TV watching the insurrection unfold with glee. 538 00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 1: I added the glee part with glee and said and 539 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: did nothing. And Meta goes further to say, and then 540 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:12,400 Speaker 1: when he finally did issue a tweet, it makes more problems. 541 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,240 Speaker 1: It exacerbates the problems that were already happening and unfolding 542 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:21,560 Speaker 1: at the Capitol building. It doesn't make it lesson he goes, 543 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,360 Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do with that? And to 544 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 1: the attorneys for the House Democrats and the Capitol Police 545 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,319 Speaker 1: and others, he says, you know, to what extent are 546 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:43,279 Speaker 1: we to police a president's speech? Right? Where do we 547 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,480 Speaker 1: draw the line? Well, to me, the line would easily 548 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,680 Speaker 1: be drawn at you know the fourteenth Amendment, which basically 549 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:56,839 Speaker 1: says that you cannot threaten to overthrow the fucking government, right, 550 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:03,560 Speaker 1: that that is an act of treason punishable to the 551 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,239 Speaker 1: fullest extent of the laws. So where do you draw 552 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,799 Speaker 1: the line on the president's speech? When the president is 553 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:15,360 Speaker 1: himself or herself if ever, we get to her inciting violence. 554 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:23,160 Speaker 1: Moe Brooks right, who's being sued by Congressman Eric Swalwell. 555 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,080 Speaker 1: He's being sued and now is under even more investigation 556 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,960 Speaker 1: for his speech where he told the rioters in January 557 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,240 Speaker 1: sixth to go fight, fight, fight, fight for your country. 558 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:44,200 Speaker 1: Go take your country back, folks. I mean, it's like 559 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:50,879 Speaker 1: people are literally organizing, had organized in plain goddamn sight. 560 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: They know what they said. You can pull up the 561 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,520 Speaker 1: fucking transcripts of what they said. So how is it 562 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,080 Speaker 1: that Trump's attorneys come in and they say, oh, well, 563 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,879 Speaker 1: the whole thing should be dismissed because he's president. You see. 564 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:08,960 Speaker 1: Because Donald Trump presumed and until now right and we 565 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,080 Speaker 1: will wait to continue to just wait and see, presumed 566 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:17,000 Speaker 1: that the office of the presidency was like Willy Wonka's 567 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,480 Speaker 1: Golden ticket. You can get to do whatever you want, right, 568 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,840 Speaker 1: you got the keys to the kingdom. And he took 569 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,920 Speaker 1: that as meaning that he was, in fact a king, 570 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,120 Speaker 1: a dictator. I can say and do whatever I want 571 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:37,120 Speaker 1: and it's protected. I can use whatever agency and department 572 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 1: that I want to investigate people that I don't like, 573 00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,359 Speaker 1: to lock them up and throw them in jail. Kevin 574 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,440 Speaker 1: McCarthy is saying the same thing right now. I don't 575 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,640 Speaker 1: like you. Not that you did anything illegal, not that 576 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,759 Speaker 1: you threatened to kill a member of Congress, not that 577 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,400 Speaker 1: you're lying and spreading false information about the election, about 578 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,520 Speaker 1: our government, or about a pandemic. No, it's just that 579 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,200 Speaker 1: I don't like you and I don't want you to 580 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: have a voice, So I'm going to take it from you. 581 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:10,680 Speaker 1: That's how these people are operating. So what do you 582 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:15,399 Speaker 1: do with that? Right? Like, what do you do with 583 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,520 Speaker 1: the information that is in front of you. So Judge 584 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,799 Speaker 1: Metta hasn't signaled one way or another yet how he 585 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,640 Speaker 1: is going to rule, But based on his questions to 586 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,120 Speaker 1: the Trump attorneys, I would say that we're going to 587 00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:35,120 Speaker 1: move to fucking trial because there is no if we 588 00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,879 Speaker 1: are living in a country of laws, which I do 589 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,160 Speaker 1: not think that we are, at least the laws that 590 00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:46,000 Speaker 1: apply to everybody, which they never have. But it's so blatant. Now, 591 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,040 Speaker 1: then how do you not hold the president of the 592 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,279 Speaker 1: United States accountable? Because essentially what Donald Trump did is 593 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,719 Speaker 1: just tell every piece of crap human being that if 594 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,680 Speaker 1: you want the best criminal in the world, if you 595 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:07,360 Speaker 1: want the protection, just run for president, because then you 596 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,279 Speaker 1: get to do whatever you want, whenever you want, and 597 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,360 Speaker 1: everybody and everything will cover up for you, because you 598 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,120 Speaker 1: know the stakes would be just too high to go 599 00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:25,520 Speaker 1: after a sitting president. My god, my god, what have 600 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:33,520 Speaker 1: we come to? That is it for me today? Folks 601 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,680 Speaker 1: on woke a f as always Power to the people 602 00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,240 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay 603 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:42,399 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.