1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay F Daily with 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody reporting from the Brooklyn Cilarium. 3 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: I want to start off today's show with just trying 4 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: to wrap my mind around the emotions that have been 5 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: flooding my brain since news broke about Putin's invasion of 6 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: the Ukraine. So many reports have been coming up. There 7 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: is NonStop coverage on all of the major news stations, 8 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: but there was a thread um that caught my eye 9 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: that was a series of reporting around the globe about 10 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: the conflict that is happening and how white mainstream media, 11 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: how white global mainstream media has decided to cover this 12 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: situation that is, by all accounts, friends, horrific, right it is. 13 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: And I talked about this yesterday and I'm going to 14 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: talk about it again today and I'm going to talk 15 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: about it until I see it being regularly covered on 16 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: mainstream news. Anti blackness is something that is so pervasive 17 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: in our country, in society, in our world that if 18 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: you even have the audacity to call it out, then 19 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: you are one that is making a bad situation worse. 20 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: You're the one that's being perceived as being racist because 21 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: you want to have conversations about the very real atrocities 22 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: that are being faced by people from the Ukraine, people 23 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: who are currently living in the Ukraine but are not Ukrainian, 24 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: like many Africans, like many Black Americans, like many Latin 25 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: X people, like people who live there are immigrants to 26 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: that country and happen to be black or people of color, 27 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: and how they are being turned away from the borders 28 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: of neighboring nations in favor of letting in white people. Look, folks, 29 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: everyone that is fleeing right now is a human being. 30 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: Everyone that is fleeing the violence that is encapsulating the 31 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: entirety of the Ukraine is worthy of being saved. Look, 32 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 1: I don't even buy the oh, women and children first situation. 33 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: I agree children first, right, But like again, this perception 34 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: of oh, only men can stay behind to fight or 35 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: should stay behind to fight is based in patriarchy. But 36 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: not only are we deciding who is worthy of saving 37 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: and who is not based on their gender and gender identity, 38 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: We're also doing it based on race, right, Like, oh, well, 39 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: we don't want you in this country. Meanwhile, I'm like, motherfucker, 40 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: who is bombing you? Who is attacking you? Right? It 41 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: is people that look like you, and yet you have 42 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: all over the news stations. And again I brought this 43 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: up yesterday, but I'm telling you that the fucking outrage 44 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: that I feel when I am seeing these Twitter threads 45 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: that are put together where it's like these European country 46 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: and these European news outlets are just so beside themselves 47 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: that people that look like them, that white people are 48 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: experiencing this type of violence, and then have the audacity 49 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: to say, like, oh, well, it's not like we live 50 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan or Iraq as if like, because there has 51 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: been violence in those countries, that means that somehow they 52 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: are deserving, they are somehow less civilized, right, even words 53 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: that are being used like this is civil you know, 54 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: European nations with restaurants and Netflix and Instagram, What the 55 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: fuck that is what we're using as the barometer to 56 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: decide our humanness towards other people. Do you have an 57 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: Instagram account? Do you have the ability to go and 58 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: get coffee? Are we fucking kidding right now? You know? 59 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: And the fact that these people, these reporters and politicians 60 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: feel it just so naturally to say things that are 61 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: so fucking racist, so anti black so anti people of 62 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,239 Speaker 1: color and then are met with no pushback. Oh yeah, 63 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: you're right, you know these other nations. Sure, I guess 64 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: we can muster up or scrounge around some crumbs of 65 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: empathy for them, but you know, they're savages anyway. It's disgraceful. 66 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: You know, we all wanted to scream and wave our 67 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: hands when Donald Trump was president of the United States 68 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: and he was closing down our borders to African nations. 69 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: But lo and behold, folks, he ain't the only one 70 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: that's ever done that. He's not the only president that's 71 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: ever done that in this fucking country, and he's sure 72 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: is not the only one that has ever done it. 73 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: On a global scale, black people are unwanted everywhere because 74 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: that's what the pervasiveness of white supremacy does and looks 75 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: like that it makes it acceptable to dehumanize, dismiss and 76 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: ignore completely how our suffering as black people throughout the 77 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: diaspora is then even more compacted when you add anti 78 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: blackness on top of everything else, and the fact that 79 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: the news needs to be fucking called out in order 80 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,559 Speaker 1: to do the right thing. So finally, after three four 81 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: hours of having CNN on in the background, I saw 82 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: a black what seemingly looks like a reporter of color 83 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: stationed at a railroad station in Poland to be able 84 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: then to offer up the analysis again of how these people, 85 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: African people are being treated and what they are being 86 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: met with. So then when kicked back to Anderson Cooper 87 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: right this whole reporting that was done, he once again 88 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: talks about, well, it's you know, the scenes are terrible, 89 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: and women and children and they're coming exhausted and tired, 90 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: but once again doesn't use it as an opportunity right 91 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: to then signal back to the reporter that was just reporting. 92 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: No one should have to deal with the stresses of war, 93 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: the exhaustion, the fear and anxiety, and then add race 94 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: and racism on top of it. No one should have 95 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: to be dealing with that, but he didn't acknowledge it. 96 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm so tired of these fucking media outlets doing the 97 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: bare fucking minimum or nothing at all. Four hours of 98 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: coverage of the attacks and you get a two minute 99 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: segment on the atrocities that are being met with people 100 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: that are people of color, and I fucking hate using 101 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: that term, but I don't know what else to say 102 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: because it isn't just Africans, It isn't just those that 103 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: are Arabic, like it is if you have melanin in 104 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: your skin, you are being turned away from neighboring countries 105 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: because you're safety. You are seen as the problem that 106 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: is entering in. Meanwhile, who the fuck is the one 107 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: dropping bombs and what do they look like? But somehow 108 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,719 Speaker 1: we're still the problem. And I say the collective we 109 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: because they wouldn't care if I was black an American, 110 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: if I was in that train station or at those borders, 111 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: like on foot, they see the skin and they turn 112 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: you away. Doesn't matter if you too are a woman 113 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: holding a frying baby and you happen to be black. 114 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: We are in such fucking trouble as a global community. 115 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: I am going to transition shortly to talking about the 116 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: climate report that came out yesterday that was so fucking startling, 117 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: like just I mean, we're so fucked right, and realizing 118 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: that the warnings that had been coming in had been 119 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: coming in for decades, but our politicians don't care. Greed 120 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: runs everything, and accountability right like actual companies following a 121 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: guideline that would have that would force them to stop 122 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: polluting our environments. Oh no, no, no, it'll hurt business. 123 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: We only have, as far as we all know, because 124 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: I'm not Elon fucking Musk, we only have one goddamn planet. 125 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: But it's like, it's it's the fucking greed that is 126 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: driving every goddamn thing here. It's Putin's greed for fucking 127 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: power right and reliving the glory days of the USSR. 128 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: It's America's greed that is driving our reaction to fucking 129 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: COVID right like it it is the It is money 130 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: and power is why we are in these catastrophic situations 131 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: right now. Whether it is war, whether it is climate change, 132 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: whether it is fighting against fascism, all of it, all 133 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: of it comes back to money and power. It's outrageous. 134 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: Folks Like I'm just you know what I always say. 135 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: There's a meme that goes around that says that if 136 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 1: you're tired of hearing about racism, imagine how fucking tired 137 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: we all are of experiencing it and then having it 138 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: just outwardly ignored. These people calling for solidarity around the world, Oh, 139 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: we need to be in solidarity with the Ukrainians, and 140 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, we do. But when aren't white folks ever, 141 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: whether it be in America or around the world, in 142 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: solidarity with black people that are suffering, with black people 143 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: that are facing more, no, the globe just shrugs it 144 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: off and says, oh, well, they're savages, so that's expected. 145 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: Empathy shouldn't be something that like, you have to prove, 146 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: consistently prove your humanity in order to get But that 147 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: is what black people and people of color who make 148 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: up the global fucking majority have to deal with day 149 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: in and day out, whether we are at war or not. 150 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: Because the world is constantly at war with us. Let 151 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: that sink in that to be black and exist on 152 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: this planet is to consistently have targets at your back 153 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: literally and fucking figuratively. It is only Tuesday. It is 154 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: only Tuesday. It is March first, This is the beginning 155 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: of Women's History Month. And do you know I spent 156 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: yesterday reading up on what's happening in Ethiopia, reading up 157 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: on the weaponization of rape. But we don't care about 158 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: the two gray people, right, and I may be pronouncing 159 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: that completely wrong. We don't care that thousands of these 160 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: people have been murdered, that rape has been utilized as 161 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: a tactic of war, gang raping as little as nine 162 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: years old. Why aren't we talking about this because they're 163 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: black and they come from villages that we couldn't possibly 164 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: fucking imagine. They are breathing, living human beings who should 165 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: have value by virtue of nothing other than that. So 166 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:06,439 Speaker 1: fucking tired of people having to prove their humanity in 167 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: order to get empathy, sympathy. I got to prove to 168 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: you that I too have children, have homes, have aspirations, 169 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: have desires, have dreams. Why is that something that is 170 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: reserved solely for white people. I don't want to play 171 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: the oppression Olympics. I don't want to have a hierarchy 172 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: of suffering. I just want equal coverage, equal flags going 173 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: up on social media that show solidarity for all of 174 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: those that are suffering, not just one fucking race in 175 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: one fucking region. Why can't we hold these things all 176 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: at the same time and don't let the fucking media 177 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: lie to you. Oh, there's just so much to cover, No, 178 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: because there are a lot of things to cover, but 179 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: you only decide to cover one thing one way all 180 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: the fucking time. It's some days it's becoming impossible, folks. 181 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: To take this all in. It feels like everything is 182 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: coming at us like a fire hose, like opening a 183 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: fucking you know, fire hydrant, and just it's just flooding, 184 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: just flooding with toxicity, with bad news, with negativity, with evil, 185 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: with horror, just flooding, And it's like, where the fuck 186 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: is the wrench for us to close this offer? At 187 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: least let send it, because you can't drink from a 188 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: fire hose. You can't take this shit in all day long. 189 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: It is one bad story after the next. And I 190 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: want to thank people who send me, you know, tweets 191 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: and messages and dm me on Patreon and dm me 192 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: in social media, because you are bringing attention to stories that, 193 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: like I would have to have a team of researchers 194 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: to go and dig, and by the way, I do not, right, 195 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: So I utilize all the things that you guys bring 196 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: me in so that I can pay attention to the 197 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: things that mainstream news is not covering and that I 198 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: don't have the bandwidth to read all the time, the 199 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: seventy five fucking papers around the world to get a 200 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: sense of what's going on. So I appreciate it so much, 201 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: but at the same time, It's just like, how do 202 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: we muster through? How do we muster through? Why are 203 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: we in the midst of all of this? Why can't 204 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: we just look at these images in these videos of 205 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 1: all people suffering and think, dear God, what is at 206 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: the root of this? And then figure out how we 207 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: get how we move from this, how we get better. 208 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: It's the same lies. It's the same bullshit, over and 209 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: over and over again. Greed power nations run by meglomaniac men, 210 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: corrupt politicians looking for their payout, regardless of who they 211 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: sell out in the process. It's a travesty. You know 212 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: what I posted yesterday and I said, you know, God 213 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: damn it. I posted a reel on Instagram and then 214 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: I shared it on Twitter, and I was just like 215 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: to pause from ethnic cleansing that is happening in Ethiopia, 216 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: to talk about the war that is going on in Ukraine, 217 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: to then take a hot beat to talk about the 218 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,959 Speaker 1: climate change study that I'm about to switch to. It's like, 219 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: and then to talk about all of the COVID restrictions 220 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: that are just disappearing now in New York. You won't 221 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: need to show vaccination, you won't need to wear a 222 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: mask COVID is done, except it's not so. Between the 223 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: global health pandemic, the climate crises, war, perpetual racism, fascism, 224 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: white supremacy, all of these things, transphobia, homophobia. Right, Like, 225 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: when I tweet people like what did I miss? Oh? 226 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,959 Speaker 1: Is it still the normal concoction of life ending crises? 227 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: Got it? And I asked the question jokingly, I'm like, no, seriously, 228 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: when is too early to start drinking. I'm not advocating 229 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: alcoholism by any means, but I'm like, this shit is 230 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: very real, right, And you know, I meditate and exercise 231 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: and go on walks and do the most, but like, 232 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: my shoulders are still at my ears and my head 233 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: is pounding so much at night that I'm looking at 234 00:19:55,960 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: the clock at one, two, three am because I can't 235 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: quiet my mind. I know I'm not the only one. 236 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: I'm not special in this situation. I just have the 237 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: ability to narrate what many of us are living and 238 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: feeling in this moment. Something's got to give today, Right 239 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: later today, the President is going to give his first 240 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: State of the Union address. I cannot believe that this 241 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: is happening at this time. And when I got the 242 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: heads up and looking through. Oh, here are some of 243 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: the themes and the highlights. I'm like, these are the 244 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: same themes and highlights that have been given by democratic 245 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: presidents before. Let's talk about how strong the economy is. 246 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: Let's talk about, you know, the policies that we've passed. 247 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: Let's not address the fucking anxiety, the depression, the fear, 248 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 1: the war, the fact that we have insurrectionists that have 249 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: not been dealt. Well, let's not address reality, right, Let's 250 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: just sugarcoat all of this ship and put it out 251 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: with the state of the Union, and then still refer 252 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: to our friends from across the aisle, which are parts 253 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: of American fucking oligarchs that funded the fucking insurrection in 254 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: the room that you're standing in. But let's pretend I'm 255 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: tired of living in the land of fucking make belief. 256 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: I want somebody to deliver the truth, no matter how 257 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: hard it is of a pill to swallow. I keep 258 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 1: rewatching the Matrix series right over and over and over again, 259 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: because I'm telling you that there is something very extraordinary 260 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 1: about that series, right, And if you pick it apart 261 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: and there have been theses written on it, and you know, 262 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: think pieces to the million times over that have been 263 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: written about it because it's so very real. Morpheus played 264 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: by Laurence Fishburne in the opening scenes as mister Anderson 265 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: played by Keanu Reeves slash Neo, is coming to the 266 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: real all of his ideas and beliefs that there is 267 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: something more at play in this world than what is 268 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: meeting his eyes. And when they finally meet for him, 269 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: Neo to make the ultimate decision. Do I take the 270 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: blue pill or the red pill? Do I continue to 271 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: live a life that I am in slumber in right 272 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: or do I take this red pill here that will 273 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: wake me up to the reality that has been kept 274 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,880 Speaker 1: from me. Morpheus looks at him and says, Neo, you 275 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: know this. You've been living in a dream world. You've 276 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:10,360 Speaker 1: been pacified literally when we learn of the tanks that 277 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: human bodies are in to feed into this matrix, to 278 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: feed into this system. Folks, Yes that is sci fi, 279 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: Yes there is fantasy. But I want to ask you, 280 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: what are the ways that you believe that our current society, 281 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 1: our government, has pacified us, has had us living and 282 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: existing and swirling around in this dream world of American 283 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: exceptionalism and white superiority that has us believed that as 284 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: a nation that we are so much more superior than 285 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: any of these other places, these other regions, these far 286 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: reaching geographies that have experienced war on their own soil. 287 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: Waking up one morning and your neighbors and your community 288 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: is destroyed and gone. We are living unconsciously in this 289 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 1: country because the reality of what we are being faced 290 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: with right now, for too many people is too much 291 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: to bear, so they would rather take the blue pill 292 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: and stay asleep. But I don't know how you're gonna 293 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,239 Speaker 1: sleep when your house is flooded and there's water up 294 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: to the roof. I don't know how you're going to 295 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 1: sleep when the viruses break out from all of the 296 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: now mosquitoes that are carrying gangae fever and malaria into 297 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: regions of the world that have never experienced that, on 298 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: top of other viruses that are going to happen because 299 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: of the climate crises we are in, because of the 300 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: deforestation that is happening, because the heating of the ocean, 301 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: and the depths of the animals that we actually need 302 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: that we are in ecosystem with. How are you going 303 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: to sleep when your state capitol buildings are being taken 304 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: over by radical right wing fascists who are deciding to 305 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: bring in, you know, eighteen wheeler trucks and blare their 306 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 1: horns and block the streets because they've decided to do 307 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: a takeover. You mean, like the caravan that is crossing 308 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: the country right now. We can no longer afford folks 309 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: to stay asleep. People can't afford to continue to take 310 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: the blue pill, and for me, the state of the 311 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: Union should be the one red capsule. Wake the fuck up. 312 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: We got a political party that is sitting in this chamber, 313 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, many of whom participated in the destruction 314 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: of our democracy from this very floor. They were on 315 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: their phones working with contacting the insurrectionists that would defecate 316 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: in our hallways. We cannot afford not to pay attention, 317 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: not to call it out, and to assume that everything 318 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: is the way that it's always been. It is not, 319 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. We can't pretend that in a couple 320 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: of months time that our democracy is not going to 321 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: be gone, because there are over three hundred pieces of 322 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: legislation that have been rolled out by members of this 323 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: very chamber right now, Ladies and gentlemen that have funded 324 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: the destruction of our democracy. We have members of our 325 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: own Supreme Court whose partners and spouses have reported to 326 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 1: have ties to the insurrectionists that wanted to hang our 327 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: former vice president. This is in conspiracy, folks. This isn't 328 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: left wind radical radicalization. This is sleeper cells that are 329 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: not that asleep, that have been activated in communities all 330 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: around this country, being led by officials in this very room. 331 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 1: That to me, dear friends, would be the kind of 332 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: state of the Union that would meet the fucking crisis 333 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: that we are in right now. You know why, because 334 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: it would be the fucking truth, and people will say, 335 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: oh Valtane, yeah, oh my god, we can't do that. 336 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: It would cause mass panic. If you are not panicked 337 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: about what you were seeing, reading, hearing, then you are 338 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 1: not paying attention. So there is nothing that Joe Biden 339 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: could offer up in that state of the Union that 340 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: is the truth that would have people be like, oh, 341 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: he doesn't know what he's talking about. Oh, yes he does. 342 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: I would love for the President to say, you know what, 343 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: as you watch what is unfolding in the Ukraine, in 344 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: these metropolitan cities that very much look like New York, 345 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: in La and San Francisco, that we are not immune 346 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: from mutiny, that we are not immune from war. We 347 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: may not have seen it as of yet, but we 348 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: have had our own invasions that have been happening. We 349 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: just don't call it that, right. You think that people 350 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: and these other regions are sitting down, and maybe they are. 351 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: Maybe they're thinking to themselves, well, there's two sides to 352 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: this story. Maybe we should talk to the terrorists and 353 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: you really get their perspective. You know, maybe it isn't 354 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: about mayhem, rape and murder. Maybe it is about identity politics. 355 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: Maybe it's about economic anxiety. We should give them a 356 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: chance to air out their side. Sounds fucking stupid, doesn't 357 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: it when you're putting it on other people. But what 358 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,719 Speaker 1: if our president were to actually tell the fucking truth, 359 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: were to actually call out for the world to see 360 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: that we no longer have to political parties, that this 361 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: country is headed towards a danger zone, and the only 362 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 1: things that we have left in our arsenal here is 363 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: our power and our privilege to vote, which is going 364 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: to be gone in a few short months. So you 365 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: can vote for the Republicans. That is absolutely your choice. 366 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: This is still currently on my watch a free and 367 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: fair country. But that time we are on a ticking 368 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: We are ticking down. We have a countdown clock. So 369 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: you can choose to vote for the party that wants 370 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: to ban and burn books. You can choose to vote 371 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: for the party that wants to rip off mass, that 372 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: wants to say that tending to the needs the emotional 373 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: well being in the fissical care of a transgender child 374 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: is abuse. If that's the party that you want to 375 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: vote for, then by all means, now again, you can't 376 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: say those things in the chamber because it is politics. 377 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: So we can't talk about voting, God forbid, But we 378 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: can sure as fuck paint the picture of what we're 379 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: up against, what the world is up against. But then 380 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: that would be too much truth, right, So instead, let's 381 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: talk about the economy. Even though we're all watching the 382 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: fucking down Jones, where most of our four or one 383 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: k's are fucking crumbled before our eyes with each fleeting day. 384 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: We're just in so much trouble. We're in so much trouble, 385 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: And what pisces me off is that nobody just wants 386 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: to tell the truth. Nobody just wants to rip off 387 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: the band aid. Everybody is still doing this tap dance 388 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: and this jig like everything's okay, and this is like, 389 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: you know, the Obama years. I'm like, look around, folks, 390 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: like y'all just pretending that a global health pandemic is 391 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: not still raging. Just because you don't talk about something 392 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Case in point, insert racism. 393 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: Just because you don't want to talk about it, you 394 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: don't want to deal with it, because it's uncomfortable, doesn't 395 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: mean that it doesn't fucking exist. Let me turn my 396 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: attention now to the report that came out on climate change, 397 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: and I want to pull it up because the New 398 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: York Times did a summation, but you can access the 399 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: entire report. They have many different versions, but essentially it 400 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: was written by over two hundred and seventy scientists from 401 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: I believe it is sixty seven countries. And of course, 402 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: now my computer does not want to open and work, 403 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 1: so let me say this sixty seven countries an intergovernmental 404 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: panel on climate change. The climate change report is entitled 405 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: climate Change twenty twenty two Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The report, 406 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: according to Antonio Gutierrez, who is the UN Party of 407 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: the UN Climate Leadership he says, is this. It is 408 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 1: an atlas of human suffering, a damning indictment of failed 409 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:14,919 Speaker 1: climate leadership. Here are some of the highlights that were 410 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 1: brought up in this report. That is, you know, friends, really, 411 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: I don't know how to say it to you. Really 412 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: fucking alarming. So let me bring up finally that I 413 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: can on my computer. Let me bring up some of 414 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: the major findings here. Basically in the article in the 415 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: New York Times, climate change is harming the planet faster 416 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: than we can adapt. The UN warns the authors, Brad 417 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: Plumer and Raymond Zong right this, The dangers of climate 418 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm 419 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 1: the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless 420 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,240 Speaker 1: greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, according to a major 421 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: new scientific report released Monday. They go on to write, 422 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: the perils are already visible across the globe. The report said, 423 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, storms, floods, and other extreme weather events 424 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 1: displaced Listen to this, folks, Listen to this, displaced more 425 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:34,479 Speaker 1: than thirteen million people across Asia and Africa. You want 426 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: to talk about a fucking refugee crisis, right, We want 427 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: to talk about the crisis that is at the borders 428 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: right now. In the bordering nations to the Ukraine, thirteen 429 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 1: million people have been displaced were displaced in twenty nineteen alone. 430 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: But we are not talking about these quote unquote climate 431 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,920 Speaker 1: refugees who are leaving their homes because of drought, because 432 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,359 Speaker 1: of floods, because of fires. This report talks about US 433 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 1: needing to now build homes that are higher that these nations, 434 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 1: the wealthier nations that are able to use billions of 435 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 1: dollars to provide weather walls and retrofit buildings and build 436 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: higher homes. Well, if you are a poorer, low income nation, 437 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 1: what the fuck are you able to do? Once again 438 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: relying on the benevolence of these white, wealthy nations that 439 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: are actually responsible for your current situation. You think that 440 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 1: it's these small fucking countries, these small fucking islands that 441 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: are the cause for the greenhouse gas emissions. Know, but 442 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,319 Speaker 1: they of course will be the ones to pay the 443 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,280 Speaker 1: brunt of the issues first, and then it will trickle 444 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: down to the rest of us. But we won't air 445 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,840 Speaker 1: right because they're black and brown people. Who gives a fuck? 446 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: I digress rising heat and drought are killing crops and trees, 447 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: putting millions worldwide at increased risk of hunger and malnutrition, 448 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 1: while mosquitoes, as I mentioned earlier, carrying diseases like malaria 449 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,239 Speaker 1: and danae, are spreading into new areas. Roughly listen to this, 450 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: dear listener. Half the world's population. Half the world's population 451 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:41,360 Speaker 1: currently faces severe water scarcity at least part of the year. Folks, 452 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 1: this is happening in places like Arizona. Okay, not some 453 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: faraway land that you'll never visit or can't point out 454 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,920 Speaker 1: on a map. This is happening already in parts of 455 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,520 Speaker 1: the United States. Once again, we are not covering this 456 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: on a regular basis, But I have talked to people 457 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: who are wealthy who have talked to me about the 458 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 1: importance of climate properties. Do you know what climate properties are? Well. 459 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: It used to be that the desire of the wealthy 460 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 1: and those with means were to have summer homes that 461 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 1: were waterfront and what have you. But now they are 462 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: seeing the devaluation in that because of what climate change. 463 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: Buying a home on a waterfront you might as well 464 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,879 Speaker 1: just put it in the middle of the fucking ocean, right, 465 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: So now the wealthy who have the means to be 466 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: able to think and plan ahead are buying climate property 467 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: homes that are inland or in mountainous regions, or more importantly, 468 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:55,759 Speaker 1: on natural springs. You think that they're buying homes that 469 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,719 Speaker 1: are on natural springs just for their own benefit, or 470 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:07,399 Speaker 1: that they can monetize right and continue and expand their 471 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,360 Speaker 1: wealth when the rest of the country is in it 472 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: living literally in a thirst fucking trap. Wrap your mind 473 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 1: around that. Camille Parmesan, and ecologist at the University of 474 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 1: Texas Austin, says this one of the most striking conclusions 475 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,759 Speaker 1: in our report is that we're seeing adverse impacts that 476 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 1: are much more widespread and much more negative than expected 477 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,120 Speaker 1: to date. The New York Times reports many nations have 478 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 1: been able to partly limit the damage by spending billions 479 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,760 Speaker 1: of dollars each year on adaptation measures, right, but those 480 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 1: efforts are too often quote incremental. Preparing for future threats 481 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:08,080 Speaker 1: like dwindling fresh water supplies or irreversible ecosystem damage will 482 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:15,400 Speaker 1: require quote transformational changes. But you know this, people like 483 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,120 Speaker 1: Joe Manchion, by the way, who are heading up the 484 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 1: Committee on Climate Change, King Cole, they don't like transformational, 485 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:31,240 Speaker 1: any fucking thing. Remember that I consistently say we're supposed 486 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:36,280 Speaker 1: to move at a pace that is comfortable for the mainstream. 487 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:42,760 Speaker 1: So any type of transformational action that would actually help 488 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,399 Speaker 1: us meet this crisis moment, these motherfuckers don't want to take. 489 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:52,680 Speaker 1: Not these fucking white centrist moderates. Oh that's too much, 490 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,320 Speaker 1: it'll hurt big business. Who gives a fuck about the planet, 491 00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 1: Just don't look up. The piece goes on to say this, 492 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 1: the reality is that scientists have been warning us about 493 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,880 Speaker 1: this four decades, and that they believe what they are 494 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,360 Speaker 1: witnessing now is that the pace of climate change is 495 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,759 Speaker 1: happening so rapid that we are not going to have 496 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,000 Speaker 1: time to adapt in the way that we thought that 497 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,719 Speaker 1: we were going to have time to adapt. That essentially, 498 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,480 Speaker 1: we are in a head on collision with climate change 499 00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:38,439 Speaker 1: with no ability to divert course because we have run 500 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,240 Speaker 1: out of time. They go on to say that global 501 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 1: temperatures have already increased by an average of one point 502 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,680 Speaker 1: one degree celsius or two degrees fahrenheit since the nineteenth 503 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: century as humans have pumped heat trapping gases into the 504 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,080 Speaker 1: atmosphere by burning coal, oil, and gas for energy and 505 00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,520 Speaker 1: cutting down forests. Now, we talked about this on woke 506 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:06,920 Speaker 1: ap last week. When the point is being made about 507 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,880 Speaker 1: the need to develop energy sources outside of the hot 508 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,560 Speaker 1: three that I just named. Because in terms of war, right, 509 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,840 Speaker 1: what do people go to war for. They go to 510 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:23,560 Speaker 1: war to spread, to gain power, and to consume the 511 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: natural resources of said place. Will putin because Russia is 512 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 1: a big source of oil for the world can basically 513 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 1: hold it fucking hostage, as ken Saudi Arabia and many 514 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: of the oil rich nations in the Middle East. But 515 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: if even them right have begun to diversify where their 516 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,360 Speaker 1: money is coming from because they are sitting on a 517 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,920 Speaker 1: depleting asset. There's only so much fucking oil. So even 518 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 1: if you're looking at it from an economic standpoint, there 519 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: is an imperative here to switch how and where we 520 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:06,480 Speaker 1: are getting our energy from because it's being depleted one 521 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:11,880 Speaker 1: through actual war, and two because we are fucking up 522 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,960 Speaker 1: the planet in such a way that it's not going 523 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,440 Speaker 1: to reinvent itself, not at least with us existing on it. 524 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:33,320 Speaker 1: I will go on. Poor nations are far more exposed 525 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:38,279 Speaker 1: to climate risks than rich countries. Between twenty ten and 526 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:44,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, droughts, floods, and storms. Listen to this number 527 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:52,600 Speaker 1: killed fifteen times as many people in highly vulnerable countries, 528 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:58,080 Speaker 1: including those in Africa and Asia as in the wealthiest countries. 529 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:03,440 Speaker 1: I'm going to read that again between twenty ten and 530 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:09,800 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So in the last ten years, droughts, floods, 531 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:15,239 Speaker 1: and storms have killed fifteen times as many people in 532 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:20,640 Speaker 1: highly vulnerable countries, including those in Africa and Asia as 533 00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:31,200 Speaker 1: in wealthier countries. Wealthier nations like the United States of 534 00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:37,160 Speaker 1: America are able to decide who is expendable and who 535 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: is not. This is the core narrative, folks, and it 536 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: keeps popping up, whether it's COVID or climate change, right, 537 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 1: whether it's war or jobs. It is those that are 538 00:44:55,640 --> 00:45:00,600 Speaker 1: in power, that are often male, often white, oftensists quote 539 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:07,320 Speaker 1: unquote Christian, often wealthy, that get to dictate the principles 540 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: that the rest of us must abide by. And then 541 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,759 Speaker 1: those poorer nations you get to say are expendable in 542 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: this larger game of how much can we consume and 543 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 1: how powerful can we be? It is sick, it is twisted, 544 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 1: and we are watching it play out on the macro 545 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:35,120 Speaker 1: and micro level. I encourage you folks to read the 546 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,800 Speaker 1: rest of this article and if you do have the time, 547 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,440 Speaker 1: to check out the report. The article is entitled climate 548 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,200 Speaker 1: change is harming the planet faster than we can adapt 549 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:53,880 Speaker 1: the un warrants and now for your moment of wellness. 550 00:45:55,520 --> 00:46:00,240 Speaker 1: As I found myself drinking from the fire hose of news, 551 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,319 Speaker 1: I decided that I needed to take a beat. And 552 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,960 Speaker 1: I don't often take a beat in the middle of 553 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,239 Speaker 1: the day. I kind of like to go, go, go, 554 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:14,000 Speaker 1: and then finish my day and then relax. But I 555 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:19,960 Speaker 1: realized as I was reading and watching the news that 556 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,760 Speaker 1: I started to have shortness of breath, that I started 557 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:29,160 Speaker 1: to develop a headache, and I decided to close my 558 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,279 Speaker 1: computer to put my phone on do not Disturb. For 559 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:40,000 Speaker 1: ten minutes, I turned on a meditation of what it 560 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,640 Speaker 1: means to turn inward, what it means to give ourselves 561 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,560 Speaker 1: a moment, to catch our breaths, to still our bodies 562 00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,280 Speaker 1: and our minds, Because if we are not fortifying ourselves 563 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,759 Speaker 1: right now, dear friends, self care is not even the 564 00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,520 Speaker 1: name that I would call what it is that we 565 00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:00,600 Speaker 1: all need to be doing every day, because it doesn't 566 00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,040 Speaker 1: just doesn't seem powerful enough but if we are not 567 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:12,080 Speaker 1: fortifying ourselves emotionally, spiritually, physically against these powers of evil, 568 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,600 Speaker 1: we will crumble. We will not make it through. So 569 00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,680 Speaker 1: if you need to close your computer, turn off your 570 00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:27,120 Speaker 1: phone at various points of the day to just ground yourself, please, 571 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:32,319 Speaker 1: dear friend, do that. It is needed. It is required. 572 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,160 Speaker 1: The moments, the times that we are living in are 573 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:41,720 Speaker 1: extraordinary in all of the wrong ways. Take what time 574 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:46,799 Speaker 1: that you need in order to refocus and to realign. 575 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:55,719 Speaker 1: That is your moment of woke wellness, Be well, and 576 00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:03,880 Speaker 1: stay woke. That is it for me today, dear friends, 577 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,480 Speaker 1: on woke app as always, Power to the people and 578 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,080 Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke 579 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:11,560 Speaker 1: as fuck.