WEBVTT - Indoctrination Nation 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.880 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to lokate f Daily with 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:20.120 me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.440 So it is the final day of Pride, and I 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.720 want to shout out my fabulous producer Andrew for putting 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:34.159 together such an amazing slate of guests and conversations that 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.760 I was able to have this month. As our theme 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:43.520 was you can't ban Queer Joy. And you know, as 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:49.440 I reflect on the last month and I will get 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:55.600 to the Supreme Court's decision momentarily, it's been a really 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:00.680 long haul, folks. It has been a really difficult and 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:07.520 tough several years. But I have to say that, you know, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.240 I long for the days, like I said yesterday in 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.880 my conversation with Andrew, I long for the days when 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.920 we were lamenting about the corporatization of Pride, when we 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.840 were you know, having conversations about how companies can engage 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.000 in a more authentic way. That Pride doesn't end at 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.600 the end of June, that it is something that you 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:34.120 should be investing in all year long, that LGBTQ plus 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:39.600 organizations people you know, need that investment, and that it 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:44.560 isn't just like check the box that we can do more, right, Like, 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.000 we can all do more and be better. And that's 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.400 not where we are right now. We're not even in 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.600 the we can be better and be more. It's like, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.000 can we hold on to the bare fucking minimum? And 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.720 so for me, this Pride season has been a mixed 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.520 bag in a lot of real ways. I have felt 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:11.799 really sad and really distraught at what I am seeing 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.640 in the news every day, the attacks on trans youth, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:21.240 the attacks on non gender conforming people. And I know 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.120 that I've said this before, but it bears repeating that 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:30.359 these attacks right are coming at a time when America 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:37.880 was becoming more inclusive, more accepting, and more understanding, where 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.360 people had critical thought around you know, why have we 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.079 been fed this binary right? Like? How did we all 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.560 get roped into this? I mean I started having issues 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.600 when my you know, younger cousins were being born and 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.120 I was going into stores to just buy basic fucking 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.960 toys like let me go get a teddy Bear? Why 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.320 does a teddy Bear need to be pink or blue? 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.440 Let me go get you know, a set of Legos? 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.360 Why does the legos that are for boys, why are 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.600 they primary colors but for girls. They're pastelle and I'm 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.359 only building princess castles like you are. You want to 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:22.280 talk about indoctrinization, We are indoctrinated from birth about what 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.760 your role is in our society. From birth. You come 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.840 out of you to row and they slap a pink 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.040 or blue hat on you. Now they have the you know, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.560 the white with the pink and blue stripes, but it's 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.560 still the same thing. This is to designate a boy, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.880 and this is to designated girl. Leaving no room for 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:51.120 self actualization number one and two, just leaving no room 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.480 for what that actually means. Again, you go to stores 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.600 like Target and Walmart, and you're going and you're buying 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.680 you know, baby shower gifts or what have you, and 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:06.280 you're seeing onesies that say lady killer. You're seeing onesies 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.840 that say, you know, I love to shop right, And 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.480 who are the you like? I don't need to tell 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.839 you who they are geared towards. So from a very 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.359 young age, you're taught as a girl, what do you like? 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:24.279 You like pink, you like fluffy things, you like strollers, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.520 you like baking, you like jewelry. And if you don't 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.400 measure up to what it is that society tells you 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.840 that you're supposed to like and how you're supposed to look, well, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:40.560 then you're the problem, not society's dictation. And similarly, for boys, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.400 what are you told? Boys don't cry, you need to 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.880 be tough, We don't hug, we don't you know, do 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.440 girly things. That the feminization of anything is to be 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:57.080 taken as an insult or an affront to your masculinity. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.080 So to make sure that people don't think that that 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.159 I'm a girl, or don't think that I am gay, right, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.480 and I use air quotes and don't think anything negatively 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:12.600 about my masculinity, I must soup myself up right. And 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.200 you know, when you think about the way the messages 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:23.320 that we have taken in it's only in the last 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.880 twenty sumid years that we're really starting to do a 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:32.000 deep reflection on the why. And I think that why 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.520 trans and non binary people are such an affront to 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.880 white evangelical Christians is because they don't want you to 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.560 have critical thought, because then you start to question them. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.320 You start to question the Bible, you start to question 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:54.200 their interpretation of right from wrong, You start to question 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.560 where their thoughts originated from right and how conflicting they 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.560 are to with Jesus that is supposed to be right, 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.280 loving and caring and accepting and doing all of this 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:12.120 missionary work right. But your Bible tells you that you 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.599 should discard people, you should hate people, you should shame people. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.880 This shit just doesn't line up. But it only lines 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.720 up if you go along with it, if you get 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.960 along for the gut along. And so trans people and 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:33.039 non binary people, by their very existence are questioning the 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:37.480 systems that we've all been bought into because them saying, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:46.200 you know what I do not. My feelings do not 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.919 coincide with the gender that I have been assigned at birth, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:57.159 these expectations, these physical presence of myself, like, I am 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:02.080 not aligned, And we should all have the power and 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:07.240 the ability to say I do not feel aligned with myself. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.680 And if I do not feel aligned with myself, then 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:14.600 I can't give myself to anything. And if I am 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:22.120 asking you to respect me, to respect my body, why 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:28.400 should the response be anything other than Okay, whatever it 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.000 is that you need, I can do because it's not 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:39.040 that big of a lift. But that's beyond where we are. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:49.040 There is a attorney general in Kansas who has taken 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:58.440 it upon himself to decide that trans people who had 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:05.920 their birth identification and their licenses changed to match their 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:11.200 gender identity will go back, will be reversed. Doesn't matter 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.280 how much it's going to cost the state for these 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:18.440 fiscal loving Republicans. It's cruelty, is the point. And people, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.600 and he said had the fucking audacity to say, I 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.440 don't think it's going to change anything. Fuck you, it's 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.000 not changing anything for you. You're just looking for a 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.840 fucking win. You're looking to have your name in the headlines. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.960 So for me, as I reflect on this month, it 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:43.840 has been a lot of ups and downs. You know, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:49.000 we just celebrated on June twenty sixth. What was it? 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.720 Let me think, let me do the math in my head, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:59.079 the seven year anniversary of marriage equality, which is so incredible, Right, 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.480 it's been seventy years. But what do we know about 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.320 the Supreme Court with the decisions that they've been making 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.760 and the one that they just made this week, that 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.760 doesn't mean shit. Precedent doesn't matter to this court. So 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.240 this court is going to be known for the Roberts Court, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.640 all of the rights that they've taken away from Americans 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.800 in this country, all of the rights of bodily, autonomy, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:32.600 of affirmative action that allowed for decades for campuses in 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:39.160 this country, for education, for workplaces to become more diverse. Right, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.000 And what every single report has said is that diversity 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.200 is good for the bottom line. It's also good for 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.560 the country. But now the Supreme Court, just in the 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.040 same way that they overturned a woman's right to choose, 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:59.000 they have now overturned college emissions ability to use race 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.880 as one of the reasons that they would admit people 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.840 into school. And it was beautiful. I will say this 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:12.319 that the descent that was offered up by Justice Katansi 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:17.000 Brown Jackson just encompasses the way that I feel, and 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.760 I want to read it for all of you. She 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:26.440 wrote this in the twenty nine page descent with let 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.800 Them Eat Cake obliviousness. Today the majority pulls the ripcord 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.400 and announces colorblindness for all by legal fiat. But deeming 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.400 race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.480 And having so detached itself from this country's actual past 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.319 and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.560 interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.480 of higher learning are doing to solve America's real world problems. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:59.080 No one benefits from ignorance. Although formal race linked legal 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.959 barriers are gone on, race still matters to the lived 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.600 experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways, and today's ruling 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.840 makes things worse, not better. The best that can be 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.160 said of the majorities perspective is that it precedes ostrich 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.120 like from the hope that preventing consideration of race will 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:22.640 end racism. No, it won't. To saying bullshit that Justice 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.000 Roberts said when he gutted the Voting Rights Act, Oh, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.600 we have moved past race in America. And then right 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.720 after that ruling, what did all of the racist ass 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:37.200 states do right who were under preclearance that in order 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.040 to change their voting rules they needed to go and 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.800 go through illegal proceeding in order to get the okay 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.880 to make sure that it wasn't racist. What happened after 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.040 that is the same fucking thing that happened when they 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:53.920 reverse Roe v. Wade, everything just reverts back. The clock 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:58.640 went back to the nineteen fifties. Here in America was 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.880 nineteen seventy four, right nineteen seventy three that Roe v. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.960 Wade was passed. Right, Affirmative action has been around for 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.600 four decades. Similarly, so, every bit of progress that had 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:16.480 been made in my fucking lifetime is now erased by 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.520 a weaponized grif thing asked criminalized Supreme Court that the 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.920 Democrats don't have the fucking backbone or the fucking ovaries 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.280 to do dick about. When asked by a reporter after 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:34.520 his speech, Right, what did Joe Biden say? Is this 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.880 a rogue Supreme Court? He said, it's not a normal 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.200 Supreme Court? Well, you're the president of the United States. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.840 What the fuck you gonna do about it? You're not 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.920 asking the Department of Justice to investigate? Right, Oh, it's 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.240 separate and I don't want to seem But it doesn't matter. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.720 It doesn't matter what the perception is, because they are 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.800 always going to perceive you as doing something that you 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.240 shouldn't be doing. So why not just do the right thing? 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.920 Why not speak out so that the people who voted 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:02.600 for you know that they're on you, You're on their side. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.920 Don't tell me about separation when they are trying to 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.240 reinstill right that there is no separation of church and state. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.120 I'm just waiting. I'm looking at the countdown clock until 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.760 slavery comes back, and people will say, well, Clarence Thomas, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.080 will you know, never go along with that. Well, he 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:24.600 already has his massa. His name is Harlan Crowe, right, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.120 he just prays that he will continue to be benevolent. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:33.440 But let me tell you, good, good people, that nothing 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.640 is protected, nothing is safe, There is no precedent. This 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.559 is their America. I was not eager to find out 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.480 what it was going to be like to live inside 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.240 of Jim Crow and segregation. But albeit, we're gonna find 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.120 the fuck out, aren't we, Because that's where we're headed, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.200 where companies no longer have to hire people of color 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.800 or meet any benchmark, and there will be no legal recourse, 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.400 so black and brown people will be stuck in the 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:08.640 invisible cast system that is racism and discrimination in America. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.800 I hope the fifty three percent of white women, when 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.200 there are more white women that have benefited from affirmative 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.240 action than any other group, I hope they feel good today. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:27.320 You know, Ugh, we're in a really dark and dangerous place, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.680 and I would love to tell you that I believe 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:39.080 that good will win out. But this is not a 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:43.000 DC comics This is not Marvel, you know, this is 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.440 not a fairy tale where good wins out in the 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.880 end and we just have to, you know, ride the 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.600 bad times. I don't think that good is going to 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.000 weigh out in the end, you know. I after the 0:14:56.040 --> 0:15:00.960 decision came down, frankly, I burst into tiers two and 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.240 three times. And this is not me being hyperbolic, Like 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.080 America is being destroyed right before our eyes by people 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:14.080 that have been bought and sold by white Cis head billionaires, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.720 and no one is doing anything about it. Right, they're 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.280 calling these things ethic violations when they're not ethics violations. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.800 They're bribes, their bribes to do exactly what it is 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.200 that they've done. You were brought in to overturn Roe v. Wade. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.840 You were brought in to demolish the Voting Rights Actor. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.360 You were brought in to demolish affirmative action. You were 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:36.560 brought in to make certain that white cis hetero men 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.000 remain on top, and that there is no legal recourse 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.640 for anybody else to make an inch or headway in anywhere. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:52.760 That's where we are. So when folks are talking about, oh, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.120 all we need to do is vote, well, I did 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.120 not vote for any of those justices. Right, we vote 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.760 for the president of the United States, and because fifty 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.720 three percent of white women didn't want to vote for 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.080 one of their own, Donald Trump, a man that has 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:11.640 been twice indicted, right is guilty of defamation and libel 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.680 for sexual assault, and you know, is a national security threat. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.200 Got to pick three Supreme Court justices. The man is 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.040 illegitimate as a human. The least we could do is 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.080 fucking investigate those justices. But no, we don't do that. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.640 We're not even investigating Clarence Thomas. And all that shit 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.359 is now out in the open. Thank god for journalism 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.120 as it remains right now, because the next decision is 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.840 gonna come down and is gonna gut the ability to 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:43.160 have free speech in this country and a free press. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:52.680 These are not hyperbolic statements. I said this back in 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.720 twenty sixteen before the election, that if Donald Trump became 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.920 president of the United States, it was the beginning of 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:04.199 the end of America. This is where we are, and 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.080 people still scratching their heads like thinking that we're going 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.840 to operate as normal. None of this is fucking normal. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.000 But they're lulling us into believing that, like Oh, elections 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.520 are fair and people still have a voice. No, you don't. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.440 You don't have as much of a voice as Paul 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.560 Singer or Harland Crowe, the billionaires that bought members of 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.399 the Supreme Court. You don't have as much of a 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.640 voice or as much of a sway as Donald Trump, who, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.280 if anybody else had as much evidence against them, would 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.399 already be in jail and would not be out on 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.639 anybody's bond, and would have gotten mug shots done. So 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.440 don't talk to me about equity and justice in America. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:51.520 That is a misconception. It is a fabrication. So here 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.680 we are, you know, at the end of Pride Month, 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.000 right on the cusp of the fourth of July high 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.359 which is to celebrate America's independence from Great Britain. And 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:10.240 I'm like, America doesn't even know who it is or 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.280 who it wants to be. It's been filled with so 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:19.320 much fairytale euphemism and lies. I don't know what there 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:24.119 is to fucking celebrate. In three years, America is supposed 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.520 to turn two hundred and fifty years old, and I 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.639 don't even know if twelve months from now we're going 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:33.960 to have a democracy. I don't know if twelve months 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.480 from now we won't have slavery back. We're already reinstituting 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:46.159 child labor laws. Greg gabbittt just passed legislation that denies workers' 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:51.040 water breaks. It's as hot as the devil's ass in 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.520 Texas right now. There are places that are hitting one 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:58.280 hundred and twenty five degrees and this motherfucker saw fit 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.840 to pass legislation to make sure that people don't have 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:07.320 to have water breaks. Are you crazy? This is where 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.240 we are, and it isn't just Texas, it isn't just Florida, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.920 it is everywhere. The final nail in the coffin of America, 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.800 as you know, it is a twenty twenty four election. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.600 That's when they have finished the job. But frankly, I 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.480 don't know if twelve months from now, from this, even 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:31.880 this fucking moment, if there's gonna be anything worth saving. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.919 We're in such hard times and I am not gonna 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.120 pretend to you ahead of you know, a holiday where 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.240 a lot of people travel and take the week off 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.960 and what have you, that like all is hunky dory. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.679 It's not staying positive, staying in joy, staying balanced is 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:57.959 like a full time fucking job at this point. You know, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.720 I am doing the very that's that I can, and 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.400 I still break down because I don't even have kids. 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.080 But I can't imagine looking at your children and thinking 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:14.359 that they have a future in this country, particularly if 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.640 they're black or brown, particularly if they're queer, Like, how 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:20.760 are you looking at your kids and telling them that, 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:22.720 like they can be anything that they want to be 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.000 when you have a Supreme Court and an entire Republican 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.080 Party that is going to ensure that they are nothing 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.159 more than what they want them to be, which is 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:35.479 of service to them. I don't know, folks, I you know, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.840 I really I am struggling, as I know that many 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:45.320 of you are as well. I don't know. All I 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:49.960 can say is that we need to take some time 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:57.040 to rest as a holiday approaches, and you know, take 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:02.919 really good care of ourselves because my own emotional and 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.800 mental health is kind of hanging on by a thread. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.560 I'm spending trying to spend at least ninety minutes outside 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.800 a day to connect with nature, to just move my body, 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.080 to look out at the water and see something that 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:25.240 is greater than myself, because right now the world, this 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:30.000 country feels very small like suffocating for many of us 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:34.480 who live at the intersection of multiple identities. We are 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.200 being told that we need to go back into the closet, 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.960 that we need to step off the curb. When you know, 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.840 miss white so and so or mister white so and 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:49.040 so passes, that we don't matter right, that we shouldn't exist, 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.479 And that is a really tough pill to swallow and 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.040 try and slap a smile on your face and keep 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:59.800 your head up day in and day out. Yeah, take 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:04.480 good care of each other and yourselves, because we're really 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:10.760 in for a very, very long long haul. That is 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:14.760 it for me today, dear friends. On this wok F 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:20.919 coming up for the holiday week, I'm really excited about 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.960 wok F cookout, where we're bringing in some of our 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:29.560 faves to have conversations about liberty, about justice, about equity 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.840 and freedom and what that means to us in these 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.480 perilous times. And so I hope that you all, while 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:39.480 resting by a pool or at a beach, or taking 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.159 a walk, or gardening or playing with your PEPs or 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.600 your kids, you know, take a listen and shout me 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:47.920 out on the socials, or if you are a Patreon 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.880 and you're watching this video right now, shout me out 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.480 in the comment sections, but I'm saying fuck it to everything, 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:58.000 to all things. This whole show was one giant, just 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:03.159 bucket to where we are right now as always, dear friends, 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.320 Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:14.200 get woke and stay woke as fuck. Take care.