1 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with 2 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording pre recording from my 3 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Silarium. Folks, it is woke Wednesday, but more importantly, 4 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: it is my birthday, and I just want to start 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: off today's show by saying just how much gratitude I 6 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: have for each and every single one of you that 7 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: have been supporting woke F for quite some time on 8 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: Patreon and those of you who have been riding with 9 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 1: me since serious days. It's been quite an amazing journey, 10 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: and I find that these days, on my birthday, I 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: actually just want to give gratitude to all of the 12 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: people around me. My family, my friends, you all, woke 13 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: a F nation. Um. You know, the past couple of years, 14 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: I think for all of us have been so incredibly trying. 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: We've been tested in a lot of different ways. And 16 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: for me, you know, the journey I have shared with 17 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: you all has been a long one to get to 18 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: a place where right now I can say I've learned 19 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: several things that I would like to kind of share 20 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: this morning before we get into our normal Woke Wednesday 21 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: conversation with our favorite in house doctor Doctor Jonathan Metzel. 22 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: But I've been I've learned a couple of things over 23 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: the past few years, and one of it, one of 24 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: them is this that I want to center my life 25 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: and my work around feeling right, and around feelings of joy, 26 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: feelings of passion, feelings of gratitude, feelings of peace. And 27 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: I say that knowing you know that you all listen 28 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: to me every single day, rage against the machine. But 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: the thing that I have really understood about what it 30 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: means to be angry. And there's a book that I'm 31 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: actually reading right now, and I'm hoping that we will 32 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: have the author on which talks about how important anger 33 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: is and that it is important to embody anger. That 34 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: anger is purposeful, right. Anger is a motivator. Anger springs 35 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: us into action. But when we hold that anger right, 36 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: it begins to eat us from the inside out. It 37 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: is toxic, right, That's why it is important to express 38 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: it and get it out. But understand more importantly, what 39 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 1: is it that is causing the anger? Right for adults, 40 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: unlike children, when children get into their tantrums, when they 41 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: get angry, they do that physically right, or yell or 42 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 1: scream because they don't really have the articulation or or 43 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: have the ability to truly interrogate their emotions. And it's 44 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: a term that I've been using a lot lately, interrogate 45 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: your feelings. I've been saying this to friends, and I'm 46 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: going to say to all of you, and what do 47 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: I mean by interrogate your feelings? I mean get to 48 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: the why. Right. It's okay to feel sad, It's okay 49 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: to feel lonely, it's okay to feel enraged, it's okay 50 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: to feel exhausted. Right. I think that we live in 51 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: a culture where we're really not allowed to express our feelings, 52 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: and particularly if you come from a marginalized community. We 53 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: all know the tropes about angry black women. You know 54 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: the aggressive black man. We all know the hot Latino. 55 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: All of the stereotypes and tropes that are thrown at 56 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: us that have us, in a lot of ways dismiss 57 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: our emotions. And what happens when we do that is 58 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: that they bottle up, much like traffic on a highway 59 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: with no exits insight. Right, there's no free flowing. And 60 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: I'm coming to understand that life really is about how 61 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: we move in alignment and how we move in flow 62 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: with our feelings and allow them to happen. And I say, 63 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: interrogate your feelings, because get to your why. There are 64 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: some days when I find myself completely depleted, and I 65 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: don't just say, oh well I'm depleted, let me go 66 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: take a nap or let me go zone out. But 67 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: what is causing that depletion? Right? Because if I can 68 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: get to if I can begin to mind those emotions, 69 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: that I can get to a place where I can understand. 70 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: Did I do something to disrupt my schedule? Right? Did 71 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: I get enough sleep? Did I drink enough of water? 72 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: Did I fall out of my regular routine and begin 73 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: doing so now I'm exhausted? Right? Did I have an 74 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,119 Speaker 1: outlet for myself this day? Did I speak to my friends? 75 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: Did I speak to my family? You know? How? Was 76 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: I engaging? And a lot of times I find that 77 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: on the days where I feel really depleted and really exhausted, 78 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: I haven't worked out right? And for me, initially, when 79 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: I started really aggressively working out, it was always surrounded 80 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: by weight loss. Every time that I would get on 81 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: these workout you know binges and things, it was always 82 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: about I need to get to this particular number on 83 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: the scale. I need to get to this particular number 84 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: that's hanging in my closet. But nowadays I actually in 85 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: the pandemic has been really helpful in this fact that 86 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: I look at my workouts as a way to stress relief. Right, 87 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: I am filled with a lot of rage. There's a 88 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: lot of shit to be angry about. If you are 89 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: paying attention, then you were angry. But it's what else 90 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: am I doing with that? The show, right, the podcast, 91 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: as well as Wednesdays and you democracy Ish and these 92 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: places in this form of my work have been outlets 93 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, but they've also been depleting. 94 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: So I look for ways in which to understand the 95 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: beginning of why I'm having these feelings and then understand 96 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: what does it mean to alleviate them. So for me, 97 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: walking doing high intensity training really makes me feel good, right, 98 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: It gives me energy, and particularly when I say that 99 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: I'm exhausted. But then I managed to put my yoga 100 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: mat down on the floor right behind me and get 101 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: into a workout. By the time that I'm finished, I 102 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: do really feel better. My mother wasn't lying to me 103 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: all of this time when she would say go do yoga, 104 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: go meditate, go work out and I would say, no, 105 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 1: I just want to lay on the couch and marinate 106 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: in my misery. That I realized that that is an 107 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: outlet for me. So I say, feel your feelings right, 108 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: allow yourself to go through your emotions. You know, observe 109 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: your emotions, which is what meditation teaches you, To not 110 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: pull yourself out out of your emotions, but to observe 111 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: them the way that you do clouds in the sky, 112 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: the way that you do wind blowing through trees, the 113 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: way that you observe you know the people around you. 114 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: You don't attach yourself to them, but you recognize that 115 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: it's happening right. And it's the same thing I feel 116 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: with our emotions and with anger and with rage. And 117 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: for me, what I am learning and practicing. I'm not 118 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: saying that I have found the answers, but what I 119 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: am learning and what is working for me is that 120 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: I say what I have to say right, whether it's 121 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: to an individual or to an entire audience, and then 122 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: I let it go. And it doesn't mean that I 123 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: don't care. It just means that I reconcile with myself 124 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: that I've done what I can, I've put the energy 125 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: out there, I've shared the message that I've wanted to share, 126 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: and then I move on. And I have found that 127 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: over the almost two years now of this practice, that 128 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: I no longer carry the same type of pain that 129 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: I was holding for really a long time, to the 130 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: point where my family started to say, maybe you shouldn't 131 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: do this show anymore, because you being forced or forcing 132 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: yourself to be in the know of everything bad that 133 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: is happening is changing you. It's changing your personality, it's 134 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: changing your demeanor. And they were right, because I hadn't 135 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: figured out what my outlet was, how I was planning 136 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: to actually move right, to move this energy around my 137 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: body and out of my body right. And I'm a 138 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: person who has wanted to dedicate their life and their 139 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: work to public service, whether it was working on the hill, 140 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: working for nonprofit organizations, working for different movement and social 141 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: justice organizations, or women's rights or organizations are LGBTQ. I've 142 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: always wanted my work to be on purpose, right, And 143 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: with that comes a lot of emotional exhaustion, because you're 144 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: both working to push justice forward for a community that 145 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: you're actually being oppressed in, right, And so there's a 146 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: lot that's there there's a lot that is there to mind. 147 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: And what I offer to all of you today is 148 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: my gift, my birthday gift to all of you, is 149 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: to begin to interrogate your feelings, begin to understand where 150 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: you have formed attachments right and are those attachments fruitful 151 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: for you? Or is there more consciousness and awareness that 152 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: you need to bring to varied situations, feelings and emotions 153 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: and expressions as a way to begin to release right, 154 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: Release the negative energy, release the toxicity. And a lot 155 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: of the convers stations that are upcoming in this week 156 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: and in the coming days are with people who do 157 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: extraordinary work, whether they are historians, doctors, journalists, activists, artists. 158 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: But I'm asking them, I'm asking a lot of people 159 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: the same question, which is, how do you stay in joy? 160 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: How do you find your joy right? What does that 161 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: look like for you on a daily basis, Because frankly, 162 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: folks in the society that we live in, they tell 163 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: you to suspend joy for forty hours a week, then 164 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: you go ahead and grab onto what you can for 165 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: that good day and a half of the weekend before 166 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: you start all over again. They tell you to hold 167 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: onto your joy for fifty for fifty weeks right out 168 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: of the year, and then you get two weeks of 169 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: vacation to then what live If we are not living 170 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: every day, if we're not choosing how we want to live, 171 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: if we're not orienting ourselves around the types of feelings 172 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: that we want. We've had a couple of really great 173 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:16,319 Speaker 1: conversations with folks, you know, about work and our relationship 174 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: to work and do we go after work that is 175 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: about our quote unquote passion or do we orient our 176 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: work around how we want to feel at the end 177 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: of the day. You know, maybe if we were to 178 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: start thinking in that way, how do I want to 179 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: feel when I enter into this space when I leave 180 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: this space? Right, then maybe we realize that we don't 181 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: need as much as we think, because look, everything is 182 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: a capitalistic driver. Right Like you're sitting around, you're watching TV. 183 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: Even if you're fucking watching Netflix and the ship goes 184 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: on pause, they're still advertising to you because do you 185 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: know what these companies have realized is that your TVs 186 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: are personalized billboards that are in your home. A couple 187 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: of months ago, I was chilling on my couch hanging 188 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: out with a friend and we were doing what everybody 189 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: does on Netflix, just going through all the categories, trying 190 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: to find something to watch. Eventually, you know, listening to music, 191 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 1: hanging out and forgot about the TV. Then all of 192 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: a sudden, my smart TV started advertising all of the shows, 193 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: all of the series, and the movies that were on Netflix. 194 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: So even when we weren't actively going through the lists, 195 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: the TV was still advertising to us, making us think 196 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: that we wanted something that we actually had decided we 197 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: didn't want. But I needed to hit off twice in 198 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: order to get my personalized billboard to go off. And 199 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: so we don't realize how often we are inundated with 200 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: messages that are telling us that we need more or 201 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: should want more then we actually have or really truly need. 202 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: I've been thinking about happiness a lot these days because 203 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: I find myself after a really ending, a really long relationship, 204 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 1: going through divorce, unpacking a lot of negativity and toxicity, 205 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: and really understanding what is it that I want my 206 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: life to be about? What do I want to do? 207 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: What do I want to offer? Again interrogating those feelings, 208 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: I started to realize that all of the things that 209 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: I thought that I wanted, that I thought meant success 210 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: in one place or another, didn't conjure actually the type 211 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: of feeling that I wanted, Right, I want to feel light, 212 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: I want to feel at ease, I want to feel 213 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 1: at peace. And you may say to yourself, denial, how 214 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: do you do that when the world is falling apart 215 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: around you? And I say, how do you not do 216 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: that when the world is falling apart around you? Because 217 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: you see what I keep saying, and what I want 218 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: to offer is that if we are not grounding ourselves, 219 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 1: rooting ourselves like trees in things that are actually within 220 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: our control, then what are we doing? We are just 221 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: reacting to the whims of these other people. Now I 222 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: have the ability in my small corner of the world 223 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: what we all do, because that's what social media was 224 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: intended to do, was to democratize how we communicate. Right, 225 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: So we all have the ability to have nuance to 226 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: use our platforms, but then recognize that we can use 227 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: our platforms to do other things other than spend day 228 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: in and day out talking about talking about our white supremacists, 229 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: domestic terrorists, political party that's trying to destroy the country. 230 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: Though that is true, that is absolutely true, But do 231 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: you know what else is true. The leaves are changing 232 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: colors if you live on the East Coast, like there's 233 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: a Christmas to the air. Now it's cozy sweater season. 234 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: The holidays are approaching, hoping to share with like friends 235 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: and family or family. Right, life is about choosing, That's 236 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: what I believe, like actual freedom is. That's why I 237 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: fight for social justice, so that people have choices, right, 238 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: they have the same choices that everybody else has. Right, 239 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: That's what I fight for. But what I recognize is 240 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: that happiness is a choice, but it isn't a passive choice. 241 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: You have to actually work to be happy. You have 242 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: to think about what you're grateful for each and every day. 243 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: You have to honor that. You have to put yourself 244 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: in places and spaces with people who help you vibrate 245 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: higher and be better. And so I offer this as 246 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: my gift to all of you on my birthday today, 247 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: because we all deserve joy. We all deserve sunshine and 248 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: laughter and happiness and dance and music, you know. And 249 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: I want us not to suspend or wait for particular 250 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: moments to really live. I want us to be living 251 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: every single day because you don't know when it's going 252 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: to be over. You don't know how it's going to end. 253 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: And so if that is true, then how are we 254 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: really living each day? How are we expressing our joy, 255 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: our gratitude, our peace, and what are we offering into 256 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: the world. I do believe that small groups of people 257 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: can change the world. As Margaret Mead said, it's indeed 258 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: the only thing that ever has. And I do believe 259 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: that self care is an act of revolution. That is 260 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 1: what ARDR. Lord said. I also believe that joy, unrelenting, beautiful, 261 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: just connected joy is how we fight against the hatred 262 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: and the disgust and the oppression that we see. They 263 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: are not going to steal my joy from me, right 264 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: because even during slavery, there was dancing, there was music, 265 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: there was love, there was marriage, there was hope. They 266 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: refused right in their own way, to be ruined. And 267 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: when I say ruined, I mean to have every aspect 268 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: of you destroyed. We have autonomy and we have choices 269 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: on how we engage with each other, how we engage 270 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: with the news. Right. I don't say to turn it off, 271 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: because we need an engage citizenury, but you can choose 272 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: how and when you do. I'm happy that all of 273 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:24,959 Speaker 1: you haven't been engaging with me and in community with 274 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: each other, talking in the comment section, connecting with each 275 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: other on walk Wednesdays on the IG Live. It brings 276 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: me such extraordinary joy, and I can't thank you all 277 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 1: enough for making it worthwhile for me to wake up 278 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: in the morning, for making it worthwhile for me to 279 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 1: turn on the TV and to want to figure out 280 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: what's going on so that I can share it with 281 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: all of you. I get to do what I love. 282 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: Some days I don't like it, but I always love it, 283 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: and it is because of all of you. And so 284 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: today I just want to say thank you. I appreciate 285 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: you and find ways to live in your joy, whatever 286 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: that is, find it and do it each and every day. 287 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: Coming up next, dear friends, is my conversation with our 288 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, where we will discuss 289 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: the latest with COVID nineteen. What Jonathan's thoughts are about 290 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: the vaccines that are now approved for people as young 291 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: as five. For children as young as five years old, 292 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 1: I'll talk about my own experience getting the booster shot 293 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,479 Speaker 1: over the weekend. I can report that I had no 294 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: symptoms other than dead arm. You know, I couldn't really 295 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: lift it for about a day, but that was it. 296 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: We'll get into that and so much more so coming 297 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 1: up next doctor Jonathan Metzo. Folks, As you know, I'm 298 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: always excited when I have the opportunity to chat with 299 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzo to discuss, you know, 300 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: a myriad of things that are playing our world that 301 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: are Lady, we talk about doom. Sometimes we text about, 302 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,959 Speaker 1: you know, nice things, but on a regular basis, I 303 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: think that we talk probably more about doom. But I 304 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: wanted to start off today with sharing a little bit. 305 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: We will talk about COVID as we've been doing. Do 306 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,479 Speaker 1: you realize, Jonathan, that you and I have been talking 307 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: about COVID for almost two years? It will be it 308 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: will be two years when the calendar year changes. Oh 309 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: my god, I had a full head of hair when 310 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: we started talking. It's crazy. Yeah, this thing, it's just 311 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: our life. I guess it's our life. I mean, it 312 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: really is. It really is our life. And it's you 313 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: know what I find these days is, you know, we're 314 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 1: never gonna not talk about COVID. I feel I feel like, um, 315 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: we're never gonna not hear about it in you know, 316 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: in the news. We are going to be in a 317 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: constant state of watching numbers go up go down. I 318 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: think that well, first off, I will let folks know this. Um. 319 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: Over the weekend, I was finally able to receive my 320 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: booster shot. I had dead arm for you know, about 321 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: the day, about twenty four hours and that was it. 322 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: I had no side effects. But I didn't have any 323 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: side effects in the first you know, in the first 324 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: iteration of the vaccine. Thankfully, um, no fever, no chills, like, 325 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: no nothing. And the same thing bode true for the 326 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: booster shot. I had Maderna as my VACS as my vaccine, 327 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: and I had fisers as the booster shot. Jonathan, what 328 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: have you been hearing and thinking with regard to the boosters? 329 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: And you know, it looks as if only seventeen percent 330 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: of Americans, if am I wrong, that have received a 331 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: booster shot at this point. Well, I went in a hospital. 332 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: So I got my booster a couple of months ago, 333 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: and I was bummed out right. I got Maderna for 334 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: my first shot, and then I got Maderna as the 335 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: booster and I didn't feel anything like you know, I 336 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: had a little store arm for a little bit. But 337 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, did you guys, give me like the group 338 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: on booster or like a sugar pill or something like that. 339 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: Because I didn't have any side effects at all, and 340 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: that was most people. Most people I know did not 341 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: did not have any any side effects. And so, you know, 342 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: I feel like if people were like freaked out by 343 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: the first two shots, because people people really had some 344 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: side effects from the second shot very often. But I 345 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: think in general, the set effects of the booster, because 346 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: your system is kind of you to this thing. By 347 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: now we're a lot less and so that that was 348 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: kind of part of what I was, part of what 349 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: I was experiencing. But I do think that in general, 350 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: you know, in general, more people getting boosters, I think, 351 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: in general is a good thing in the context of 352 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: what we what we've been talking about, you know what 353 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: I have to say too, So I would I went 354 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: into a local CBS um out on Long Island and 355 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: was able to make an appointment about probably two days 356 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: before I arrived. They had, you know, a slew of 357 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: appointments available because I hadn't been able to get a 358 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: booster in Brooklyn. There were there have been no appointments 359 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 1: and it's a it's appointment only. So I went out 360 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 1: to Long Island. I was able to get it there. 361 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: And Jonathan, you know, I'm sitting and I'm waiting the 362 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes right after you get this shot to make 363 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: sure you're okay. When for me, when I get shots 364 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: or you know of anything, Um, I get woozy, like immediately, uh. 365 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,719 Speaker 1: And then and then it dissipates. I don't know if 366 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: it's more my anxiety or like what, you know, what 367 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: the shot is that I'm getting, but it happens without fail. 368 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: But I was sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, God, 369 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: I can't stand Americans. They are so selfish and so 370 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: self absorbed. And I say that because it was literally 371 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: no sweat off my back to go and get this appointment. 372 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: It was free, right, And all I could think of, 373 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: Jonathan as I'm sitting there are the millions of people 374 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: that are still around the world that are still clamoring 375 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: to try and get their first shot of a vaccine. 376 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 1: The fact that their governments haven't had you know, easy rollouts, 377 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: the fact that it's money that is coming out of 378 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: their pockets. Even though country the more the wealthier, high 379 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: high income countries said that they would provide help and 380 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: economic boost you know, to those two places and pay 381 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: for vaccines. But we know that that's been lagging. And 382 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 1: I think to myself, my god, Americans have it so 383 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: goddamn easy, and yet we look to make everything so hard. Well, 384 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: you know, it's weird because again, like you know, as 385 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 1: we you know, we've got like now quite a lot 386 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: of data on these vaccines, right and it's it's just um, 387 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: you know there, it's just so clear, first of all, 388 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 1: what's happening, Like there are countries in Europe for example, 389 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: that have very low vaccination rates that have high COVID rates, 390 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: and there are countries that have relatively high vaccination rates 391 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: that have low COVID rates, and so the vaccines are 392 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: super effective. And as you say, you know, it's crazy, 393 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: but like in Africa, like less than ten percent of 394 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: the people have even have access to a vaccine, notably less. 395 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: And so in a way, Number one, just as a country, 396 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: we have a lot of privilege right now of access 397 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: to this particular technology, and the fact that we're fighting 398 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: about it and politicizing it, I totally agree with you, 399 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: is incredibly appalling. But I don't know, it's hard because 400 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: that also that argument is not going to work, right, 401 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: It's our goal to get as many people vaccinated as 402 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 1: as as possible. We want many people to get vaccinated, 403 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 1: and that argument will work as well as like, you know, 404 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: the argument of like their poor starving children in Ethiopia, 405 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: so eat your dinner when you're a kid, and stuff 406 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 1: like that. Like, people don't respond to that kind of logic. 407 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: And so I think this is just kind of the 408 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: state of where things are in general. In general right now, 409 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: America is doing pretty well, I mean boosters aside, our 410 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: rates of delta are going down. It feels it seems 411 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: like places that have had the most vaccines are doing 412 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: the best. Um, but there are It's not like, oh 413 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: my god, work. There's some good things happening and some 414 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: scary things happening. The good things I'll start with first, 415 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: see something. I prefer you start with the bad things 416 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: so that we can end on the good things. All right, 417 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 1: I'll start with the bad thing. Then tell us what's 418 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: terrible so we can end on something good, you know, 419 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: the bad thing. Put this at the w JO put 420 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: out a warning this morning which I totally agree with. 421 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: I've been thinking this for a while, which is that 422 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: there are plenty of places in Europe that have good 423 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: adherents and good vaccination rates that are seeing virus resurgences. 424 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: And so there's a lesson in that for the United 425 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 1: States right now, which is like, even though our rates 426 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: are falling right now, we tend to follow Europe by 427 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: a month or two pretty often, and Europe is getting 428 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: hammered certain parts of Europe right now, and so this 429 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: idea of like the whole thing being over and stuff 430 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 1: like that, we should just look as we did in 431 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: the very beginning of the pandemic to Europe and recognize 432 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: that's probably what our fate is going to be. We're 433 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: probably going to see some kind of other rise, and 434 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: so right now is a very important time to get 435 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: people vaccinated as much as possible. So partially I think 436 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: the warning sign is comparable countries, comparable vaccine rates even 437 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: better a little bit better than ours are seeing rises 438 00:27:52,880 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: and virus right now. Is still delta that there. We 439 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 1: haven't been talking about any new variations, uh for for 440 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 1: quite some time, thank god. But why is this you 441 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: were about to say, but why is this rise happening? Well? 442 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: Two reasons. One is there's probably a more contagious version 443 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: of delta out there, certainly that that's what people are 444 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: thinking about in the UK right now. But the other is, um, 445 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 1: you know, kids haven't been vaccinated. People are letting their 446 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,479 Speaker 1: guard down and going back to mosh pits, which I 447 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: love and I miss um and and other kinds of 448 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: daily life kinds of things for a lot of people, 449 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 1: and so social behavior is just going back to baseline. 450 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: So there are a bunch of different reasons that people 451 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: just kind of thought, oh, were this is over because 452 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: our rates are falling, and so it's all of it's 453 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: all of those factors together, and there's still an open 454 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: debate about how how contagious fully vaccinated people are in 455 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: terms of what they're passing on to other people. We still, 456 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: you know, we're working on it pretty hard, but we 457 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: still don't know the answer. So I think that those 458 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: are the reasons. But again, this is, as they say, 459 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: an evolving situation, and we have to think of it 460 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: that way because it's not like, oh, here's the answer 461 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: and then tomorrow, because it's not exactly the same. I 462 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 1: understand that's anxiety producing, but I would say, you know, 463 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: we just have to keep reminding people we're in the 464 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: best possible spot right now right, we have the most 465 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: access to the best treatment, and we should we should 466 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: continually to continually remember that. And there are you know, 467 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if it will work here, 468 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: but there are places like Singapore and Asia, in places 469 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: like that where if people don't want to get vaccinated, 470 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: that's kind of their right, but they also are getting 471 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: denied access to like free treatment like the free booster 472 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: you got, or free healthcare or free COVID tests stuff 473 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: like that. So I think there's going to be an 474 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: economic price to pay. Also, again, we'll have to see 475 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: how that happens. But of course having a lot of 476 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: unvaccinated people is also just very expensive for our country 477 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: because those people end up in the ICU and stuff 478 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: like that. So the question is what's the economic cost 479 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: of this kind of kind of stuff? You know? Um, 480 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: So now we have five to eleven year olds, um 481 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: with the five wait oh wait, I didn't get to 482 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: say a good thing. You get to say the good thing. 483 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: You're right. Let me let me Jonathan, what is your 484 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: good thing to say? Well, you're real leading it to 485 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: two good things. Number one is um Vaccinating kids five 486 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: to eleven is going to be huge it's a huge deal, 487 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: massive deal, and I think that it will dramatically stop spread, 488 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: it will dramatically improve health and and also because there 489 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: is still long COVID for kids, it'll improve the lives 490 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: of a lot of kids. And so certainly I think 491 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: that getting kids vaccinated UM is a big deal. They're 492 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: getting a smaller dose of the vaccine UM, but I 493 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: think I think it's a huge deal. And you know 494 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: that there's you know, there's like if you look at 495 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: the numbers, like the negative effects are so minimal compared 496 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: to the actual effects of COVID. I know in parts 497 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: of the world they're not using a full dose Maderna 498 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: for kids because of the very very small risk but 499 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: a real risk of cardiac inflammation. So we also have 500 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: Visor and other stuff like that. But the other big 501 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: news is that Visor has a pill that basically works 502 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: the same way that monoclonal antibodies do. This pill and 503 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: I've been excited about this for a long time. I 504 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: think we talked about on the show a couple of 505 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: months ago that basically this is a pill that works 506 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: the same way that monoclonal antibodies do. It gives you 507 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: an antibody boost in response to a pill. So if 508 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: you get if you get COVID, you can just take 509 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: this pill and it will actually work the same way. 510 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: It'll it'll boost your boost your moon response. So having 511 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: a pill treatment for COVID for people who get COVID, 512 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a big deal because 513 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: it's really a pain in the nethers to actually go 514 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: get monoclonal antibody treatment. But the fact that there's going 515 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: to be a pill for people who've been infected, I 516 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: think is also a very It comes with a caveat, 517 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 1: but it's a very big deal. Is it something? Is 518 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: this pill if you can track COVID, do you have 519 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: to take it within a certain time frame? Otherwise the 520 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: treatment is not as effective. Yeah, and that's true for 521 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: monoclonal antibodies also, So if you think you've got it, 522 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: you take up. It's basically the deal is going to be. 523 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: If you think you've got it, you take a home task, 524 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: you're positive, you take the pill and it'll improve your outcomes. Now, 525 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: there are other anti inflammatory kind of medications that are working. 526 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: There's an older antidepressant that seems to be helping people. 527 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: So anything that's going to mitigate the effects once you 528 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: get the illness is a big deal. The caveat is 529 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: that the illness, as we know, is a pretty slippery mofo, 530 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: and so as people start taking this pill, the virus 531 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: is going to start inventing ways to get around it. 532 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 1: And so, you know, we have a lot of pills 533 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: that we're promising in the beginning, but as the antibody, 534 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: as the virus became more resistant, they were less fact 535 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: But at least at this moment, it's it's gonna be 536 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: a big deal, you know. I wanted to ask you 537 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,959 Speaker 1: this question. I was reading an article in the New 538 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: York Times over the weekend, and it was a story 539 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: of a woman who had long COVID and she ended 540 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: up killing herself because the I guess her organs were 541 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: shutting down, the depression had settled in, and she just 542 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: realized after months and months and months, she didn't want 543 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: to live like that anymore. So sadly, she ended up 544 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: taking her own life. I don't feel like we are 545 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: talking about long COVID enough. I don't know if that's 546 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 1: because we don't have a real understanding about how it's 547 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: caused and how it varies from person to person, but again. 548 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: You know, I am of the philosophy that we need 549 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: to scare people right into wanting to get the vaccine 550 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: into understanding that it isn't just oh well I get 551 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: COVID and then it goes away. It's like, no, there 552 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 1: are many people who get it and they are suffering. 553 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: They are now going to be you know, technically disabled, 554 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: you know, moving forward being able to get disability because 555 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,879 Speaker 1: of the effects. Can you talk to us about what 556 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: you know about long COVID, what you have heard, what 557 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,439 Speaker 1: you have studied, and understand it to be sure? Well, 558 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: let me just tell you why I think it makes 559 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: sense and why maybe a little bit of help conceptualizing it. 560 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: In the very beginning, people thought that COVID was a 561 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 1: lung disease, and as shitty as having a lung disease is. 562 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people like me thought, well 563 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: that's bad, but you know we can we can treat 564 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: a lung disease, right, Well, we'll block access to lungs, 565 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: we will, we have treatments for lung diseases, things like that. 566 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 1: So when we thought it was just staying in the 567 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: lungs the way largely some viruses, I mean, when you 568 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,800 Speaker 1: get a cold, for example, It's not like floating around 569 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: your brain and stuff like that. So we thought it 570 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: was a respiratory disease, possibly similar to like a rhinovirus 571 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: or something like that. But then people started having a 572 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 1: bunch of other symptoms like cardiac comflammation, or the most 573 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaker 1: important was psychiatric symptoms, which is what I pay attention to, 574 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: or forgetfulness, brain symptoms, fatigue, all these other factors, and 575 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,799 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you're like, this virus is 576 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: not just staying in one part of people's bodies. It 577 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 1: actually has the ability to do things like, to use 578 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: a technical term, cross the blood brain barrier. That's the 579 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: barrier that basically keeps your brain and your cerebro spinal 580 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: fluid inclosed in your spine and your brain, right, And 581 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: so if a virus can get in there, which is 582 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 1: like sacred space for humanity, right because that's like very 583 00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:00,279 Speaker 1: pristine territory, if a virus can do that, then we're 584 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: looking at a different kind of virus. And so you 585 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,319 Speaker 1: start thinking like what other viruses can do. That kind 586 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,680 Speaker 1: of thing can get into your heart, can get into 587 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,399 Speaker 1: your brain, and then it's a Then it's not a 588 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,919 Speaker 1: great category, right because you think, for example of lime disease, right, 589 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,840 Speaker 1: lime disease can get into you know, all these places 590 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,920 Speaker 1: that make you think and feel and feel tired and 591 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: things like that. Herpies is another really good example, right 592 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 1: because think think about like when you had chickenpox as 593 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: a kid, and then you can get herpes zoster later 594 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: on in your life because this thing is living in 595 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: your in your nerve cells and your root ganglian for 596 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:44,400 Speaker 1: your entire life, herpes encephalitis, all these kind of things. 597 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 1: These things never go away. They're living in you forever 598 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: in a way. And you know then then then you're 599 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 1: talking not talking about treating these things, you're talking about 600 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: suppressing these things. And so um, there are a lot 601 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: of people who have I mean, just to be totally honest, 602 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,080 Speaker 1: I have a version of this because I have a 603 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,799 Speaker 1: version of vertigo that is in my inner ear. It 604 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 1: turns out like a lot of men get this for 605 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: some reason, and it's like a herpes virus that you 606 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 1: get like when you're a kid from your lip or 607 00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,439 Speaker 1: you're something like that, and it lives in your ear. 608 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: And so I have this dizziness that I you know 609 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 1: that I've had to take um of anti viral. It's 610 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,880 Speaker 1: kind of partly why I freaked out about to COVID 611 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: so long. But it's like, you know, it's no big deal. 612 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,279 Speaker 1: I just have to take a suppressing drug because it's 613 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,359 Speaker 1: not like we can kill something like that or like, 614 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: you know, people who have have shingles, right, same kind 615 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 1: of thing. So these things live in you. And so 616 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 1: I guess the point I'm trying to make here is 617 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 1: COVID put itself in that category, right. It's the kind 618 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: of thing that's going to live in your body and 619 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: and it's and so that's why I feel like people 620 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,720 Speaker 1: who are fighting to not you should not get COVID 621 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 1: if you can help it um for this reason. Now, 622 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 1: your immune response is super important. All these things that 623 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: you know, leading intellectuals like Aaron Rodgers or telling us 624 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,439 Speaker 1: all that stuff super imported. I wanted to I want 625 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: to talk about him too very quickly. Again, but I'm 626 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 1: saying that long COVID is telling us as a species 627 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: that this illness is living in our body, right, and 628 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,239 Speaker 1: it's going to impact different people the way it does 629 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: other people. But again, I'm thinking about this COVID in 630 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: a way similar to like lyme disease causing chronic fatigue, 631 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,640 Speaker 1: or herpie is causing chronic encephalitis and things like that. 632 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: Like in a way, all of a sudden, it becomes 633 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: something that you need to suppress. And what that means 634 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: is that our immune system is not just going to 635 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,839 Speaker 1: destroy it completely for certain people not for others. I mean, 636 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 1: that's really frightening, right, And again, I don't think that 637 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 1: we're having those kind of conversations about how this virus 638 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: lives and where it will live and how it won't. 639 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 1: It is not going to go away. Um, you know, 640 00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:00,040 Speaker 1: on the Aaron Rodgers point, how dangerous was it what 641 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,680 Speaker 1: he did in terms of lying to the league or 642 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 1: we're understanding now that everybody knew that he wasn't vaccinated, 643 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 1: but the public didn't know. And I just want to say, 644 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: again from your perspective, how dangerous is what it was 645 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:22,640 Speaker 1: that he has done, which is lying? Well, I think 646 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,799 Speaker 1: for me it's the line, right. I mean, I think 647 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,000 Speaker 1: that we're at a point right now. I were When 648 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 1: I get on an airplane, I wear a mask. In fact, 649 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,919 Speaker 1: I wear three masks because a lot of people aren't 650 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,879 Speaker 1: wearing masks on airplanes right now. And I'm just trying 651 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 1: to protect myself and then protect the people who I'm 652 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 1: going to hang out with. But I don't know if 653 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: somebody is not going to wear a mask. At least now, 654 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 1: I feel like I have a mask regiment that will 655 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: protect me. I just treat an airplane like I treat 656 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,759 Speaker 1: the emergency here. You know, I figured there's COVID all 657 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:58,360 Speaker 1: around me, and I want to protect myself and and 658 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: and it's the same thing with vaccines, Like I just 659 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,920 Speaker 1: think I want everybody to get it. I want us 660 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: to do better, but I realize certain people aren't going 661 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 1: to do it right now. So I think that that's fine, 662 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 1: But I think the line is a major major issue. 663 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: Right this guy was not wearing a mask and going 664 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 1: into the room with media. I think that he was 665 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,759 Speaker 1: putting all these other people, including his teammates, at risk. 666 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 1: He was putting reporters at risk and things like that. 667 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,879 Speaker 1: So I think, really, for me, what's really the dishonesty? 668 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 1: And then come on, dude, like you're really going to 669 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: then quote MLK, you know. So I just think that 670 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,759 Speaker 1: it just had like weeness written all over it for me. 671 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,280 Speaker 1: And I would contrast it with like Kyrie Irving, who 672 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,440 Speaker 1: even though I don't agree with what he's doing, at 673 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: least he's saying, look, I made this choice and I'm 674 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,239 Speaker 1: going to hear the by the policy. So I think 675 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,680 Speaker 1: the issue for me was the line more than anything. Yeah, 676 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 1: it was. It was the same for me because at 677 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 1: this point in time, there honestly was no reason for 678 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,480 Speaker 1: him to lie. Just be honest. I'm not getting vaccinated, 679 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,960 Speaker 1: and stick by whatever your convictions are, even if they're bullshit, 680 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 1: just stick by them and be honest about it. I 681 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,440 Speaker 1: don't agree with any of these athletes that don't get vaccinated, 682 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,480 Speaker 1: but I have more respect for the ones at the 683 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 1: very least that are open and transparent about it. As always, Jonathan, 684 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,759 Speaker 1: thank you so much for making the time to join 685 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,719 Speaker 1: Woke a f and walk us through what is our 686 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: new abnormal COVID and how we're living with it. We'll 687 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 1: get through it. Everybody appreciate you. That is it for 688 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: me today, dear friends, on this wonderful, wonderful Woke Wednesday 689 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:49,920 Speaker 1: slash Birthaday, there will be no Woke Wednesday ig live today. 690 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,240 Speaker 1: I am taking my own advice and I am taking 691 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: the rest of the week off. But don't you worry, 692 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,040 Speaker 1: because there are brand new episodes every single day this 693 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,759 Speaker 1: week because I think about you all before I check out, 694 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:07,480 Speaker 1: So do know that there are wonderful interviews and episodes 695 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,400 Speaker 1: that are planned for you. But there will be no 696 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: live today, but I will be back next week Wednesday, 697 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,960 Speaker 1: live on IG at three thirty pm Eastern, per usual 698 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 1: as always, dear friends, Power to the people and to 699 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.