Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: It's been now two weeks over a little over two
Speaker 1: weeks since the election, and I, like so many people,
Speaker 1: are still in a place of vacillating between grief and
Speaker 1: despair and anger and deep frustration at who America is.
Speaker 1: Like you who listen to this show, I wanted to
Speaker 1: believe that we had learned something over the last four years,
Speaker 1: that we had learned something, not just about Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: but about ourselves and what it was that was driving
Speaker 1: us as citizens of this country. And what I realize,
Speaker 1: as I'm still kind of coming out of the haze
Speaker 1: of post election despair, is that you can only grow
Speaker 1: to as far of a place as you're willing to
Speaker 1: move outside of your comfort zone. What do I mean
Speaker 1: by that? I mean that many of Americans are incredibly
Speaker 1: comfortable with just being concerned with themselves and the thought
Speaker 1: behind rugged individualism, like to each their own, I do me,
Speaker 1: I'm an island onto myself. All of these kinds of
Speaker 1: selfishness in behavior has largely been celebrated in this country,
Speaker 1: and it also is what is a let us to
Speaker 1: this current moment. You see in other countries and other
Speaker 1: with other communities, folks really do think about the collective.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing videos of young people in Japan, like
Speaker 1: elementary school kids in Japan, taking the trains by themselves,
Speaker 1: and they wear like these little vests, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my God, like look at this place.
Speaker 1: It's just so safe that these little kids are able
Speaker 1: to just you know, be on the trains by themselves. No,
Speaker 1: it's that their society decided collectively that the kids are
Speaker 1: everyone's responsibility, whether you know them or not. They created
Speaker 1: a village mindset where they weren't just going to look
Speaker 1: the other way, that they were going to care for
Speaker 1: one another. And that is I think the big deficiency
Speaker 1: of America is that we have never looked at our
Speaker 1: communities and said, how can I better this place? How
Speaker 1: can I build a greater foundation. No, it has always
Speaker 1: been about the me, me, me, look at my big house,
Speaker 1: look at my stuff, right that Like it is about
Speaker 1: my wealth. It is about how I'm building wealth for myself,
Speaker 1: for my family. It has nothing, it has had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the collective. We have in so many
Speaker 1: ways criminalize poverty in so many ways, we turn the
Speaker 1: rich into deities. So the other day I am on
Speaker 1: social media and a post about Kim Kardashian comes up,
Speaker 1: and she had posted on social media her new Tesla
Speaker 1: robot that she has gotten. Because Kim Kardashian is a
Speaker 1: multi billionaire. And we've watched over the last twenty years
Speaker 1: of reality TV, this entire family go from being normal
Speaker 1: wealthy living in Beverly Hills, you know, with big houses,
Speaker 1: to exceedingly disgustingly wealthy. They went from oh, look at
Speaker 1: my nice truck, to look at my fleet, to look
Speaker 1: at my private jet, to look at my compound. And
Speaker 1: I was watching this and I'm just like, how out
Speaker 1: of touch can one person be? But is it out
Speaker 1: of touch? Because this level of hyper consumerism, this level
Speaker 1: of absolute greed and over consumption, is what made her
Speaker 1: wealthy in the family wealthy in the first place. And
Speaker 1: all of those that watch, whether they hate watch or
Speaker 1: love watch, those that are aspiring to that level of
Speaker 1: distance from reality where there are people right now that
Speaker 1: are crying, that are desperate, that are so scared about
Speaker 1: what happens after Donald Trump takes power, what happens to
Speaker 1: them and their families and their livelihood. And she's on
Speaker 1: social media playing with a robot. And I'm not just
Speaker 1: calling out her, I'm calling out like the uber wealthy,
Speaker 1: that we have gifted them with our attention and our resources,
Speaker 1: because instead of us filling our own communities and creating connectedness,
Speaker 1: creating our real life safety nets, we sit around with
Speaker 1: scratch offs and with our dollar bills, and you know,
Speaker 1: and our hopes and dreams of having a lottery moment
Speaker 1: that will propel us away from community, that will put
Speaker 1: us in an entire ironly different orbit where we don't
Speaker 1: have to be responsible for anything or anyone other than ourselves.
Speaker 1: It's that mentality, that separateness, that allowed us to be
Speaker 1: torn farther apart by the lies and the disinformation that
Speaker 1: was used to further divide us. And so now out
Speaker 1: of time, when the uber wealthies, their wealth has just
Speaker 1: ballooned to astronomical levels, all I can think about, folks,
Speaker 1: is the term eat the rich, because people are not
Speaker 1: even prepared for the scarcity, the austerity and the pain
Speaker 1: that Elon Musk promised before the election that is now
Speaker 1: going to be realized. That you've given yourself over too
Speaker 1: and so as I'm emerging from this haze, what I
Speaker 1: realize is that we need more community, not less. We
Speaker 1: need to rely on each other more, not less. We're
Speaker 1: not going to survive as just these individual islands. We're
Speaker 1: going to need each other now more than ever, and
Speaker 1: we're going to have to choose to divest from the
Speaker 1: things that actually are making us sick. And that isn't
Speaker 1: just about divesting from bad food and adding in more movement, right,
Speaker 1: That isn't just about divesting from the obvious, but also
Speaker 1: the insidious. And what do I mean by that? I
Speaker 1: mean that our consumption of twenty four hour cable news
Speaker 1: that is in place solely to lie to us, that
Speaker 1: is in place solely to feed the need and the
Speaker 1: greed of CEOs and shareholders at the expense of everyone else.
Speaker 1: Just this week we've watched as Joe Scarsbrough and Mika
Speaker 1: Brazinski go tomorrow Lago to kiss the ring of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: They are indicative of how corporate media is going to
Speaker 1: move in the times of fascism. They're going to hail
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, saying wash him and normalize at the expense
Speaker 1: of all of us. They're going to gaslight in a
Speaker 1: way that has us believe that, oh well, because the
Speaker 1: uber wealthy are doing okay, and maybe some of the
Speaker 1: people that they throw a bone to in their own
Speaker 1: little fiefdoms are able to keep their heads above water,
Speaker 1: then things are not as bad. But trust me, friends,
Speaker 1: it's going to get absolutely fucking bad. And so are
Speaker 1: you going to believe the bullshit that they're going to
Speaker 1: dish out or are you going to start to rely
Speaker 1: on our knowing that we need community and wholeness and
Speaker 1: hopefulness more so than we need their outside agitation and bullshit.
Speaker 1: So I say truly to divest. Divest from cable news,
Speaker 1: Divest from those things that actually do not serve you
Speaker 1: and feed you. Divest from social media to the extent
Speaker 1: that you find yourself doom scrolling. Turn off the alerts
Speaker 1: that tell you Donald Trump woke up today and today
Speaker 1: he's appointed you know, Jack in the box to lead
Speaker 1: x Y and widgets and things. Now, folks will say
Speaker 1: to me, will Danielle, how am I gonna stay in tune?
Speaker 1: You can choose what you consume when you consume it,
Speaker 1: and then spend the rest of your time actually working
Speaker 1: to build what it is that you need. People keep
Speaker 1: asking me, what does resistance look like? What should I do?
Speaker 1: What do you feel? No one in this moment can
Speaker 1: honestly tell you how to feel and what to do.
Speaker 1: Folks need to tap in to themselves their own timelines.
Speaker 1: This is the thing I'll share with y'all because I
Speaker 1: tell you will find me on good days, you will
Speaker 1: find me on bad days. I am a full fledged
Speaker 1: human being. And one of the things that I realized
Speaker 1: over the weekend is that I have been consumed with
Speaker 1: operating on Mauga's timeline. What does that mean? It means
Speaker 1: that I haven't missed an appointment announcement, I haven't missed
Speaker 1: a move that has been made, or legislation that is
Speaker 1: up for vote, or all of these things. And I'm
Speaker 1: just anxious with anticipation of what is the next horrific
Speaker 1: thing that is going to be announced? How is that
Speaker 1: serving me? And I know that it's not serving all
Speaker 1: of you. We need to operate on our timeline, not
Speaker 1: following theirs. So it looks like, what are the books
Speaker 1: that I need to be reading. What is the nourishment
Speaker 1: for my mind, body and soul that I need in
Speaker 1: this moment? Because following their every move has me standing still.
Speaker 1: We can't follow every bad thing, share every bad thing.
Speaker 1: My girlfriend asked me the other day after I'd had
Speaker 1: a terrible day, She said, what was you know? Did
Speaker 1: you have one good conversation today? Did you have like
Speaker 1: one meaningful connection? And I hadn't. Every conversation that I
Speaker 1: had had been steeped in bullshit, had been steeped in darkness,
Speaker 1: every fucking conversation, so much so that by the time
Speaker 1: I had finally logged off from the Daniel Moody Show,
Speaker 1: obviously it's dark outside, but I hadn't gone outside all day. So,
Speaker 1: in recognizing that I had had no nourishment for my soul,
Speaker 1: no connection that wasn't about the heinousness that is happening,
Speaker 1: put on my sneakers, put on my jacket, opened my door,
Speaker 1: and just went for a walk, to walk around my neighborhood,
Speaker 1: take in some air on my face, and just move.
Speaker 1: Because operating on their timeline has had me stand still
Speaker 1: and been glued to social media in fear of missing something,
Speaker 1: And what I'm actually missing is myself. I Ever, so
Speaker 1: often folks get reminded that, like, while I am grateful
Speaker 1: for the work that I do and I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: the opportunities that I have. That it also can become
Speaker 1: all consuming and dark and sad, and I tell myself, well,
Speaker 1: this is your job, this is what you signed up for. No,
Speaker 1: it is not. No, it is not one hundred moons ago.
Speaker 1: When I decided to go into politics, it was because
Speaker 1: I really wanted to help people, because I really wanted
Speaker 1: When I was in high school taking ap government in
Speaker 1: politics and I said, I want to go to school
Speaker 1: and I want to major in political science, it was
Speaker 1: because I really wanted for people to understand how government
Speaker 1: works for them and against them, what their role was.
Speaker 1: I wanted to understand the ins and outs. I didn't
Speaker 1: get into politics because AI was pawed hungry, or because
Speaker 1: I wanted to be rich, because certainly this ain't the
Speaker 1: place to be unless, of course, you are on the
Speaker 1: wrong side, which is totally funded by so many oligarchs
Speaker 1: and so many billionaires. But the fact is is that
Speaker 1: it is so easy to lose sight of what is
Speaker 1: it that people actually need in this moment, because what
Speaker 1: you don't need is a blow by blow of everything
Speaker 1: bad that is happening. What you do need is to
Speaker 1: know a little bit and nourish a whole lot. That's
Speaker 1: how we're going to get through. And that is not
Speaker 1: about burying your head in the sand, as I talk
Speaker 1: about political ostriches. No, it is about understanding in yourself
Speaker 1: what can I control right? What can I actually do?
Speaker 1: So sending people? Did you see this bed thing? Did
Speaker 1: you see that bad thing? Did you see that? Take
Speaker 1: a pause for a moment and say, what's the purpose
Speaker 1: and the intent behind this? Is it to educate? Is
Speaker 1: it to create anxiety and fear? Am I doing something
Speaker 1: that is actually of service? Am I offering a service?
Speaker 1: Or am I just spreading my anxiety around? These are
Speaker 1: the questions that I am asking myself as of late
Speaker 1: to figure out what is the pivot, the transition that
Speaker 1: I need to make as we head into the dark ages.
Speaker 1: Because I have said on this program and on others,
Speaker 1: I will do this work for as long as it
Speaker 1: remains safe and legal, because truly I do not want
Speaker 1: harm to come to my family or friends because of
Speaker 1: the work that I do. So there will be decisions
Speaker 1: that I will need to make as things become clearer.
Speaker 1: I am not obeying in advance, I am not bending
Speaker 1: the knee. But so long as I find my work
Speaker 1: to be of service to others. I will continue to
Speaker 1: do it. It may not be in this country, but
Speaker 1: I feel like we all have to be asking ourselves.
Speaker 1: Is what I'm offering to others nourishing? Is it helpful?
Speaker 1: And sometimes it is helpful to them, It is helpful
Speaker 1: to just like let out that primal scream. And other
Speaker 1: times it is just adding more fuel and devastation on
Speaker 1: the fire that is not needed. Sometimes, friends, when things
Speaker 1: burn down, you find yourself with an opportunity to rebuild.
Speaker 1: And let me say this, not all of us are
Speaker 1: going to make it to that rebuilding stage. That is
Speaker 1: what Stefan offered last week in our interview. Not everybody's
Speaker 1: going to make it, much like everyone did not make
Speaker 1: it through COVID, Everyone did not make it through the
Speaker 1: Nazi regime. Everyone did not make it through South Africa's apartheid.
Speaker 1: Everybody did not make it through Stalin. We have to
Speaker 1: understand that and know that. But what are we leaving behind?
Speaker 1: What are we offering in this moment that can actually
Speaker 1: be of service. That's what I want us to start
Speaker 1: spending our time and our energy on, because without community,
Speaker 1: without real life connection, the weight of what is coming
Speaker 1: will crush us. This is why I consistently talk about fortifying,
Speaker 1: and I say it to you as much as I
Speaker 1: say it to myself, because yesterday I had to peel
Speaker 1: myself up off the floor and force my self outside
Speaker 1: for fresh air, for connection. And then other days I
Speaker 1: just let myself be, be exhausted, be sad. But then
Speaker 1: I reach out. I reach out to my friends, I
Speaker 1: reach out to my family, and I think about what
Speaker 1: I can do for all of you that listen, that follow,
Speaker 1: and I need for all of us to be thinking
Speaker 1: more about the collective and less about our individualized pain
Speaker 1: and frustration and grief, and thinking, what is my offering
Speaker 1: in this moment? How can my service be a lantern
Speaker 1: in these dark times? That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Dear friends, on woke af as always, Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.