WEBVTT - Not-So Roaring 20s 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.279 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody once again recording from the 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.799 Brooklyn Bunker. Why because COVID nineteen is raging out of 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.280 control and no one seems to understand how to get 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.320 a fucking hold of it. I don't know about you, 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:33.320 but I have talked to so many people over the 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.200 last couple of weeks, so many people, and every single 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.479 time that I pick up the phone to ring a friend, 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:48.159 to talk to a colleague, someone has contracted COVID so 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.200 much so that the United States is seeing about six 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:57.000 hundred thousand new cases a fucking day. But I want 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:02.640 to tell you this. On Day eleven of twenty twenty two, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:08.440 which is this yesterday, I found myself, you know, on 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:13.640 the twitters, right like doing what people do. And I 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.800 go on Twitter and I see this from an er 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:25.319 doctor named Sam Gale, right, gh A l I And 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.920 he says, I cannot believe this is the tweet that 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.840 this man puts out. I cannot believe that I have 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:38.040 to say this, but do not consume your own urine 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:44.640 in an attempt to treat COVID nineteen. Do not consume 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:51.320 your own fucking urine as a way to combat COVID nineteen. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:59.560 We are living in the stupidest fucking times ever. And 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:06.920 every day I look at the news and I'm just like, wow, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:13.840 it's like the fuckery just took off in the twenties, right, 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.919 Like we're living in the twenties. Remember the nineteen twenties 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:22.040 were considered the Roaring twenties. It was you know, freedom 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:28.079 and women accessing their like, their their femininity and their power. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.440 And you know, there was like gold rushes and there was, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.800 you know, all of this vibrance that was happening in 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:40.320 you know, the nineteen twenties. In the twenty twenties, however, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.040 it is like the gold rush is now just bullshit, right, 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:50.200 It's just a flow of crap coming at us every 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:55.560 which way. Anti vaxers. Just wrap your mind around this 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:00.880 for a moment. That anti vaxers will take worse medication. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:08.720 They will ingest bleach, They will purchase whatever the Joe Rogans, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.760 the Tucker Carlsons, whatever these people tell them to purchase 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.799 in order to come back COVID nineteen. They will do 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.360 a range of things. They will now drink their own 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:26.079 fucking urine right as a way to remedy COVID. They 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:34.720 will do everything except take the vaccine approved by humans 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:41.280 for humans to take for free, So they will pay 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:52.960 for bullshit. Right. They will consume disgusting bodily fluids, right, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.240 but they won't go to their local fucking pharmacy sit 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.840 down for two point three seconds or a shot in 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.520 the arm that is free. They will even go so 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:09.600 far as to spend hundreds of dollars on fake vaccination 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:16.200 cards rather than to take a vaccine that is free. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:22.560 How do you combat that? Right? Like, this is no 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.760 longer a oh well, we just don't trust, you know, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.960 the vaccine, because now, folks, the vaccines have been out 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.880 for months, and the number of people that have died 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:42.120 from taking the vaccine probably around about a goose egg, right, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:49.640 like a zero. The people that have had extreme side 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:54.960 effects right from the vaccine probably hunder you know, hint, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.839 hovering around zero, right percentage or zero point blah blah blah. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:06.640 It's not significantly, right, significant, right, it's not significant in 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.680 any way. The amount of people, however, that have died 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.480 from COVID over eight hundred and forty thousand. The number 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:26.120 of people who are experiencing long COVID, namely fatigue, irregular heartbeat, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:35.320 brain fog, major migraines that are uncontrollable. These are things 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.080 that are lingering from the first, second, and now third 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.040 rounds of COVID. You know, I was talking to my 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.080 neighbor the other day and she was like, Danielle, you 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.080 still didn't get COVID, And I was just like, no, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:55.159 And I feel like a pinball in a pinball machine, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.920 just fucking you know, moving through the obstacles, trying my 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.039 best not to get something that is probably, at this point, 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.520 fucking inevitable. If you have six hundred thousand people a 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:14.200 day that are contracting a'micron, what is the likelihood that 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.960 I'm going to remain positive? That is shrinking by the day. Right, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.040 But just like another friend of mine who also has 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:28.560 remained negative, She's just like, look, I'm vaccinated boosted. I 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.600 still don't want it, right, Like, I still am going 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.200 to continue to do everything within my power to ensure 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.719 that I don't get it. If I get it, I 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.719 get it. But I'm not out here actively like hey, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.320 i'm acron, give me a call, Hey you want to 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:51.760 hang out? No? Right, But you have these people, these 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:57.120 anti vaxers twenty five percent of the population. I'm watching, folks, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.320 as the map of the United States is boot blood 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.040 red right now, like, oh, where where is spiking? Where 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.240 isn't spiking? It would be easier to color that portion 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:17.600 in right, everywhere in this country is spiking. We have Virginia, Maryland, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:25.440 the District of Columbia right, the DMV right now, the 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.880 governor right which is currently going to change hands from 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:36.760 Democrat Northam to a Republican Trump light Yunken this coming weekend. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:43.040 And Northam just issued a limited thirty day state of 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.960 emergency for the state of Virginia because of their hospitalization 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.160 rates and to open up more funding to be able 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.880 to support hospitals that are being crippled not only right 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.560 by the influx. Because here's the funny thing. The number 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:07.320 of hospitalizations right now in twenty twenty two in Virginia 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:13.200 has surpassed the number of hospitalizations at the peak in 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.560 twenty twenty. So while everybody wants to continue to say 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.760 that the symptoms associated with amicron are quote unquote mild, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:28.720 they are mild for people that are vaccinated and boosted, right, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:34.160 But people's idea of what mild is fucking varies. But 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.280 what we know to be true is that when these 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:43.920 health care workers right and hospitals are saying to their 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:49.240 states we need help, that's not actually signaling to me 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.120 that what is happening right now can just be shrugged 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.440 off and brushed off and say, ah, well, we'll reach 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:01.520 the surgeons peak and then it will decline. Yes, obviously 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:06.040 what goes up eventually does come down. But in this situation, 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.360 the damage that is created on the up right and 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.240 the damage that will be created on the decline is 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.520 actually what we need to be focusing on. Because as 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.320 I'm looking at this bloody red map of America where 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.839 every fucking state is spiking or surging, right, because these 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:32.760 are the only two alternatives right now. The vaccine number, however, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:38.720 hasn't fucking budged. It's still at sixty two point five percent. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.360 How is that possible? How is it that every other 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:50.080 person you may be talking to, texting with has COVID 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:55.679 and yet only sixty two point five percent of Americans 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:01.600 are vaccinated? And of course, right I continue to say 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:08.000 that when children are affected, people will do an about face. Well, 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.280 that's not true because what we've learned, right, and what 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.600 we've always known is Republicans don't give a fuck about kids, right, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.400 Stick those kids inside of a uterus, you know, maybe 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.320 they'll pay attention to that, but otherwise they could give 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:28.680 a fuck. Well, pediatric hospitalizations are up for children under 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.000 the age of twelve, because when you look at the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:37.560 vaccination rates for children right, which was approved recently, it's 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:42.199 fucking paltry. But yet we're sending those same kids to 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.240 school each and every day in some states that have 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:51.120 mask mandates, some that don't, some townships that have mask mandates, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.720 others that don't, and we're watching the numbers tick tick 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.920 tick all the way up. You know. I continue to 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.120 say that it is going to be a incredibly long 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.680 period of time until COVID is endemic. We are going 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:12.240 to see a lot more variance, right, a lot more 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.480 mutations before this thing ever goes away. I heard a 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:22.160 doctor today say, well, you know, this will eventually turn 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.720 into the Spanish flu. The Spanish flu right now is probably, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.400 you know, floating around like the common cold. The Spanish 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:36.320 flu was over a hundred years ago. I won't be alive, right, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.679 none of us fucking will when this shit is actually endemic. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.760 So I'm like, that's the question that I have, right, Like, 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.000 what's the timeline for this ship to be endemic? How 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:54.400 many people need to be affected infected right by the virus? 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.160 And if you are endemic to omicron, does that like 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:06.600 if armicron and the fast nature that it spreads turns 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.680 COVID into being quote unquote endemic, is it just the 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.160 Armicron variants that has become endemic, But that doesn't stop 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.800 the virus from continuing to mutate into other variants that 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:29.440 aren't Folks, It's like, it's so wild some days when 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.000 you think about the situation that we are living in 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.240 right now. I went to the post office for the 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.160 first time, and god knows how long I didn't even 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.240 know where the post office was in my neighborhood, right 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.120 because you do so many things online that you know, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.920 I forget certain things, and I only moved to this 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.319 area a couple like two years ago, a year and 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.560 a half ago, so I wasn't quite sure I know 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.320 where the fedexes are in the UPSs are anyway. So 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.640 going to the post office, the workers are all wearing 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.920 you know, K ninety five masks and gloves right as 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.120 they're sorting through they have to touch papers, have to 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.880 do this. They have dividers up, right, This man walks 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.440 in packages mask under his chin, because that's where the 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.240 fuck it goes, Right, You have a mask on walking 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.320 around outside and you have it under your chin, but 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:20.040 you walk into a building and it doesn't occur to 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.640 you to put it up. The worker at the USPS 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:30.320 was like yelling, put your mask on. It is not 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.480 a chin guard. She said it twice before the gentleman 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:40.719 realized that he was talking to him, that she was 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.760 talking to him because he's just so used to right 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:53.240 nonsense that like nobody's going to say anything. And here's 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:59.880 the reality, folks, right, is this that it shouldn't be 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.160 the burden on workers. Right, And this is this is 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.480 going to get into my whole rant on capitalism again, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:15.640 because I'm just so overwhelmed with fuckery, right, Like I 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.480 just feel like we are suffocating in it. So you 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:25.080 have a pandemic that is ravaging through the workforce, and 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:30.280 the response to that is not to create safer conditions 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.880 so that people feel like they can show up, right, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:40.280 it's about just speeding through this whole entire new you know, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.800 quarantine time that the CDC decides to release, right, it's 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:52.000 that it's no, we're not going to ensure smart thinking 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.720 in this new normal of of of the world that 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.960 we are living in. We're not going to say to ourselves, okay, hmm, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.480 it's been too years. The surges come in the winter, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.840 then things level off by the spring. So these are 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.600 the mechanisms that we're going to put in place because 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.320 we are starting to realize that normal and going back 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.200 to normal doesn't actually exist. So we're going to work 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.720 with the data and information that we have in front 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.240 of us based on the last two years, and we're 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:28.240 going to rock from there. That's not what we are doing, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.800 right Because I said this, I said it on social media. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:37.120 I said, so here's the thing. You know that our 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:46.480 biggest to gathering holiday right Thanksgiving, Hanka and Christmas? Right, 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.680 big family gathering times New Year's Eve. So you know, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.440 every year, right until COVID vanishes from the earth, that 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:05.120 between November and fucking March, right, maybe February, but most 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:10.800 likely March, you're going to be witnessing an increase of 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:17.600 the positivity rate. So why wouldn't it occur to industry, 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:23.200 to politicians to offer ways in which here's the thing. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.840 You work from home. If your job allows you to 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.320 work from home, we're not going to require you to 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.840 go in that We're going to a lot for there 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.840 to be more money right into places like the USPS, 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.920 which we know was gutted under the Trump administration, to 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.040 be able to employ somebody that stands at the door 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:52.000 right as a guard to ensure that everyone that is 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.960 coming in and I say two people because that person 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.960 needs to have backup. Right, that's the reality of the world. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.040 World that we're living in, the world is dangerous. People 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:09.120 are assholes, right, And no hostess, no USPS worker, no 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.920 delivery person, no anyone should have to deal with the 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:21.040 trauma that patrons want to put out on other people, right, Like, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.399 that shouldn't be the case. So what investments are you 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.040 making to ensure that the staff that is showing up 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.959 for work are fucking safe? None? What are you doing 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.080 from the months of November till March when you have 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:45.120 large swaths of the twelve to eighteen year old population 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.159 that isn't fucking vaccinated but they are school age, Maybe 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.960 during the November until March, right, that you should institute 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.000 remote learning and that maybe may just maybe we should 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.879 get off of the agriculture fucking calendar that our schools 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.680 have been operating under since the beginning of public schooling 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.920 and move into reality, which is actually year round school 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.240 where instead of much in the same way that many 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:22.120 that follow education and follow the development childhood development right 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.760 would say, there's no actual reason for kids to have 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.399 off for two months over the summer, there really isn't. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.919 And that instead, which creates a lot of lesson loss, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.560 a lot of memory loss during that time, particularly for 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.879 low income children, right, because they don't have the benefits 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.159 of having all the latest tablets and tools and this, 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.000 that and the other. Thing. We know right by virtue 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.600 of COVID that many kids didn't even have access to broadband, right, 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.600 so remote learning was damn near impossible. But see they 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.159 knew this ship before, right, But still there was no 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.560 investment that was going to be made because we only 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.800 react as a country. We are not proactive, right, we 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:13.160 only react to shit. Right. But here's an idea. Maybe 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.800 go into year round schooling where you just break up 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:22.400 those two months into breaks throughout the year that at 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.600 every month or every quarter you do, you have two 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.280 weeks off. Right, Maybe that two week is a block, 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.080 or maybe it's a week at the beginning and a 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:34.199 week at the end, but that you continue, you have 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.200 a continuity of learning. And so in this new normal 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.879 where we know that the winter months are going to 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:47.240 be dangerous months for this country, for the world right 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:52.000 that experiences winter, that COVID will always be at an 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.479 all time high, why don't we start to create a 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:01.600 new normal. This is what I don't understand, this is 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:06.040 what drives me fucking crazy, is that it's like we 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.480 never learn anything. We don't retain any of the information 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.760 that we've acquired since twenty twenty and apply it to 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:19.040 now and into the future. We just keep wanting to 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:24.800 go back to normal and lose everything that this virus 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.760 has shown us. You know, I tell people, on a 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:33.560 personal level, think about your life pre COVID and think 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.080 about it now. For those people who did have the 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.680 privilege and the opportunity to slow down, they will tell 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.320 you that their lives are forever changed. I am one 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.800 of those people. I think a lot more about my 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.680 health and wellness. I think a lot more about rest 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:56.159 and recharging than I ever did pre COVID days. I 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.600 think a lot more about relationships. I think a lot 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.800 more about how I spend my money and where I 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:06.360 spend my money. Right, I'm applying what I have been 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:12.359 able to learn over the last two years because I 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.359 know that frankly, I don't want to go back to 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.920 the way that I was thinking and doing and acting 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:23.760 pre COVID. I want those lessons that I have learned 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:28.879 about slowing down, about meditation, about taking care and loving 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.919 my body, about shrinking my orbit so that only the 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.080 people that are around me are people that I trust, 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.280 that love me, and I love them, and that is 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:42.000 my community and my village. Right, these are the things 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.480 that I have learned that will forever be a part 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.320 of my character, my life, my day to day. But 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:54.240 why is it that when we're looking at the way 0:21:54.320 --> 0:22:01.200 in which our worlds have been like tremendously uprooted and 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.840 are still just hanging up in the air above us, 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:10.200 how is it that we don't use that information to 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:15.639 build and think better. I don't get it, I really don't. 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:18.600 It's like we're all still fumbling around in the dark. 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.200 But I'm like, there is some information that is out 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:31.959 here that is apparent. Right. It's mind blowing, it truly is. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.280 And I think that you know, we will talk to 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:39.359 our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel this week, who will you know, 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:41.960 give us the latest and go over you know, more 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.480 about these new variants and more about what we're hearing, 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.919 what we are learning. But the reality is that you know, 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:50.879 as my mother has said, you don't need the CDC 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:53.600 to tell you to wash your hands. You don't need 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:56.320 the CDC to tell you that wearing a mask is 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.879 going to prevent COVID at this at this point, at 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:03.359 this stage of where we are in this pandemic that 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:07.800 is never going anywhere, and so you have to do 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.240 what is going to be right for you, for your families, 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:15.000 for your loved ones in order to stay safe. Take 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:19.680 the information that you have gathered anecdotally over the last 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:24.720 two years and apply it. I just don't understand why 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:30.760 our leaders won't do the same thing, shifting gears. I 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:35.199 want to talk about Kevin McCarthy, that spineless piece of 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:38.399 shit who is the minority leader in the House of 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:44.320 Representatives and as a Trump lackey, Trump lap dog, just 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:50.320 a peon, an accolade, a hanger on, or he's disgusting, right, 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:54.600 he's an embarrassment. But anyway, he gives an interview to 0:23:54.680 --> 0:24:03.120 Bright Bart where he has declared that when Republicans take 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.159 back the House and take back the House with a 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:13.040 historic margin, that he is going to ban certain leaders 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:17.440 in the Democratic Party from being able to hold committee seats. 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:24.680 And this is his response to Democrats and Democrats alone 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:35.120 stripping dangerous terrorists that are in the Republican House leadership 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:42.880 from having committee seats. Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert, among 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:47.800 others that have lost right or that should lose their 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:52.720 seats for the bile shit that they have said. Right, 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:58.199 and it is amazing to me. It's like Republicans just 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:02.159 operate on a tit for fucking tat and context doesn't 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:07.960 fucking matter. Right, We're gonna impeach Joe Biden for what exactly? 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:10.960 Trying to keep the American people safe? What are you 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.920 going to search around for hunter Biden's laptop again, so 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:17.560 we can come up with a whole other fucking goose egg, Like, 0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:19.760 what is it that you're going to look for? Oh, 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.320 Joe Biden, he adopted a dog, but it wasn't the 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:25.600 right dog, so he should be impeached. Like, just think 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.439 about the circus, the circuits that we left with the 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:33.359 election of Joe Biden and what is going to happen 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:37.840 in twenty twenty three, because you know, here's the reality. 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:43.920 We're gonna lose midterms, right like, unless something extraordinary happens 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:49.200 in the next ten months, right before the November elections, 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:52.120 we will lose. And the reason why is that the 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:55.359 party that is in power in the White House, in 0:25:55.400 --> 0:26:02.280 the executive always right, traditionally loses in the midterms. But 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:06.199 here's the thing. If we continue to talk about and 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:09.360 treat these mid terms as if they are fucking normal 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:13.560 and that we are not working against the fucking Antichrist here, 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.639 then yeah, we are going to lose. But by Kevin 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:21.359 McCarthy saying the fucking quiet part out loud, which is 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:25.320 that we're just looking for retribution, right like, we're just 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:29.479 looking to cause harm. We're not getting into office and 0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:32.119 you can rely on us to do anything right for 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:35.280 the American people. Remember, these are people that were in 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:42.159 power right and didn't offer not a fucking thing during 0:26:42.240 --> 0:26:46.239 their last year in office, not nothing right, nothing to 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:51.040 help the American people. So tell me, right, other than 0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:55.400 low voter turnout because everyone is just exhausted and outdone 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:58.919 by the current state of the world, right, and not 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:01.960 seeing the advantage of what it means to vote for 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:04.480 the quote unquote good guy or dare I say the 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:08.840 less bad one, how it's affecting their day to day lives. 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:13.240 Because here's the thing, that child tax credit, the stimulus 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:15.359 money that you got, that shit is going to be 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:20.560 long gone from people's memories. Right. What they will remember 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:24.640 now is that COVID is still around, right, that they 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:28.280 have lost more friends and family, that the country is 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:31.200 more divided than ever, and because we have a media 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:34.440 that both sides the fuck out of everything, they'll blame 0:27:34.520 --> 0:27:38.480 Democrats just the same way that they blame Republicans, not 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:42.359 understanding because the Democrats do a shit job at messaging 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:45.280 just how dangerous at times are that we are living in. 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:50.800 So now you have Joe Biden finally recognizing, almost a 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:55.879 year later after his administration takes office, that maybe we 0:27:55.960 --> 0:28:01.880 should do something about voting rights, because you know, democracy, 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:06.879 Maybe we should actually figure out what it is that 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:10.199 we are going to do to make sure that we 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:14.640 don't have a full blown authoritarian fascist takeover the way 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:18.359 that we've seen transpire around the globe in places like 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:24.080 Turkey and Hungry and Russia, right, that maybe we would 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:27.439 do something about it, and that you would find a 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:31.720 way to get those two pieces of fucking shit Joe 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:35.480 Mansion and Kursen Cinema on board with, you know, saving 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:41.840 the country. I gotta tell you that I sat on 0:28:41.880 --> 0:28:47.840 Twitter yesterday for like a good amount of time, and 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:50.560 you know, like I tell you all, I try and 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.200 take my own advice. I try only to dip in, 0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:57.200 you know, kind of survey the situation, read some news, 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:00.840 you know, take some notes, you know, and then pull back. 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:05.040 And I do this because it's not safe, right, It 0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:10.000 is emotionally and mentally unsafe to be on social media 0:29:10.080 --> 0:29:15.120 for in my humble opinion, more than like ninety minutes. Right, 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:17.520 It's like staring at the sun. You shouldn't do it, 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:21.120 not even for a short period of time. But when 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:30.520 I'm on there, writer author love the ij says, this 0:29:30.600 --> 0:29:34.360 was yesterday. It is day ten of twenty twenty two, 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:39.000 and this is like the longest year ever. And this 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:42.880 is what I'm coming to just get. And I'm having 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.360 conversations that I hope that you all too, are two 0:29:46.320 --> 0:29:49.400 with the people that you care about about their emotional 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:52.880 and mental capacities at this time. And I talked about 0:29:52.920 --> 0:29:54.840 this yesterday and I'm going to continue to talk about 0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:58.080 it because I don't want us to just power through 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:03.000 right We're not. We won't make it if we just 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:05.960 put our heads down and just get the thing done, 0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:10.200 because we don't know when the end is. We don't 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:12.680 know where it is. We don't even know at what 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:16.440 portion of this pandemic we are in, right, Are we 0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:20.080 in the middle? Is at the beginning? Still? Right? Like? 0:30:20.760 --> 0:30:25.440 Are we close to the end? We have no fucking idea. 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:30.160 And that's how we are losing days and weeks and 0:30:30.520 --> 0:30:36.880 hours and minutes of our lives racked with anxiety and stress. 0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:40.480 I mean, the amount of things that have happened already 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:46.400