WEBVTT - New Abnormal 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.880 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.759 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording pre recording from my 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.759 Brooklyn Silarium. Folks, it is woke Wednesday, but more importantly, 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.960 it is my birthday, and I just want to start 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.640 off today's show by saying just how much gratitude I 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.320 have for each and every single one of you that 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.720 have been supporting woke F for quite some time on 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.400 Patreon and those of you who have been riding with 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.520 me since serious days. It's been quite an amazing journey, 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.640 and I find that these days, on my birthday, I 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.159 actually just want to give gratitude to all of the 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:58.360 people around me. My family, my friends, you all, woke 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.000 a F nation. Um. You know, the past couple of years, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.800 I think for all of us have been so incredibly trying. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.679 We've been tested in a lot of different ways. And 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.200 for me, you know, the journey I have shared with 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.400 you all has been a long one to get to 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:20.520 a place where right now I can say I've learned 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.399 several things that I would like to kind of share 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:28.039 this morning before we get into our normal Woke Wednesday 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.399 conversation with our favorite in house doctor Doctor Jonathan Metzel. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.800 But I've been I've learned a couple of things over 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.560 the past few years, and one of it, one of 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:43.760 them is this that I want to center my life 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.000 and my work around feeling right, and around feelings of joy, 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:53.920 feelings of passion, feelings of gratitude, feelings of peace. And 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.920 I say that knowing you know that you all listen 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.240 to me every single day, rage against the machine. But 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.440 the thing that I have really understood about what it 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.600 means to be angry. And there's a book that I'm 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.919 actually reading right now, and I'm hoping that we will 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:16.079 have the author on which talks about how important anger 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.160 is and that it is important to embody anger. That 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.400 anger is purposeful, right. Anger is a motivator. Anger springs 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.000 us into action. But when we hold that anger right, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.960 it begins to eat us from the inside out. It 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.519 is toxic, right, That's why it is important to express 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.800 it and get it out. But understand more importantly, what 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:43.359 is it that is causing the anger? Right for adults, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.040 unlike children, when children get into their tantrums, when they 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.240 get angry, they do that physically right, or yell or 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.679 scream because they don't really have the articulation or or 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.520 have the ability to truly interrogate their emotions. And it's 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.320 a term that I've been using a lot lately, interrogate 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.840 your feelings. I've been saying this to friends, and I'm 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.840 going to say to all of you, and what do 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.400 I mean by interrogate your feelings? I mean get to 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.880 the why. Right. It's okay to feel sad, It's okay 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.760 to feel lonely, it's okay to feel enraged, it's okay 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.480 to feel exhausted. Right. I think that we live in 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.800 a culture where we're really not allowed to express our feelings, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.240 and particularly if you come from a marginalized community. We 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.960 all know the tropes about angry black women. You know 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.400 the aggressive black man. We all know the hot Latino. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.520 All of the stereotypes and tropes that are thrown at 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.880 us that have us, in a lot of ways dismiss 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.480 our emotions. And what happens when we do that is 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.320 that they bottle up, much like traffic on a highway 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:57.320 with no exits insight. Right, there's no free flowing. And 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.280 I'm coming to understand that life really is about how 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.760 we move in alignment and how we move in flow 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.640 with our feelings and allow them to happen. And I say, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.280 interrogate your feelings, because get to your why. There are 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.720 some days when I find myself completely depleted, and I 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.839 don't just say, oh well I'm depleted, let me go 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.159 take a nap or let me go zone out. But 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.160 what is causing that depletion? Right? Because if I can 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.200 get to if I can begin to mind those emotions, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.520 that I can get to a place where I can understand. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.920 Did I do something to disrupt my schedule? Right? Did 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.960 I get enough sleep? Did I drink enough of water? 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.520 Did I fall out of my regular routine and begin 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.640 doing so now I'm exhausted? Right? Did I have an 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.119 outlet for myself this day? Did I speak to my friends? 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.760 Did I speak to my family? You know? How? Was 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.080 I engaging? And a lot of times I find that 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.440 on the days where I feel really depleted and really exhausted, 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.640 I haven't worked out right? And for me, initially, when 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:08.000 I started really aggressively working out, it was always surrounded 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.200 by weight loss. Every time that I would get on 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.560 these workout you know binges and things, it was always 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.560 about I need to get to this particular number on 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.880 the scale. I need to get to this particular number 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:25.120 that's hanging in my closet. But nowadays I actually in 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.479 the pandemic has been really helpful in this fact that 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.720 I look at my workouts as a way to stress relief. Right, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.680 I am filled with a lot of rage. There's a 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.880 lot of shit to be angry about. If you are 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.400 paying attention, then you were angry. But it's what else 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:45.120 am I doing with that? The show, right, the podcast, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.359 as well as Wednesdays and you democracy Ish and these 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.520 places in this form of my work have been outlets 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.560 in a lot of ways, but they've also been depleting. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:02.600 So I look for ways in which to understand the 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.880 beginning of why I'm having these feelings and then understand 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.920 what does it mean to alleviate them. So for me, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:18.279 walking doing high intensity training really makes me feel good, right, 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.680 It gives me energy, and particularly when I say that 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.400 I'm exhausted. But then I managed to put my yoga 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.320 mat down on the floor right behind me and get 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.760 into a workout. By the time that I'm finished, I 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.400 do really feel better. My mother wasn't lying to me 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.720 all of this time when she would say go do yoga, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.240 go meditate, go work out and I would say, no, 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.359 I just want to lay on the couch and marinate 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.480 in my misery. That I realized that that is an 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:49.039 outlet for me. So I say, feel your feelings right, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.560 allow yourself to go through your emotions. You know, observe 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.880 your emotions, which is what meditation teaches you, To not 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.800 pull yourself out out of your emotions, but to observe 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.080 them the way that you do clouds in the sky, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.680 the way that you do wind blowing through trees, the 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.760 way that you observe you know the people around you. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.600 You don't attach yourself to them, but you recognize that 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.720 it's happening right. And it's the same thing I feel 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.800 with our emotions and with anger and with rage. And 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.240 for me, what I am learning and practicing. I'm not 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.880 saying that I have found the answers, but what I 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.720 am learning and what is working for me is that 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.520 I say what I have to say right, whether it's 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.280 to an individual or to an entire audience, and then 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.400 I let it go. And it doesn't mean that I 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:47.520 don't care. It just means that I reconcile with myself 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.720 that I've done what I can, I've put the energy 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.360 out there, I've shared the message that I've wanted to share, 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.800 and then I move on. And I have found that 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:02.920 over the almost two years now of this practice, that 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:08.640 I no longer carry the same type of pain that 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.760 I was holding for really a long time, to the 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.840 point where my family started to say, maybe you shouldn't 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:21.000 do this show anymore, because you being forced or forcing 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.760 yourself to be in the know of everything bad that 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.840 is happening is changing you. It's changing your personality, it's 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.080 changing your demeanor. And they were right, because I hadn't 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.319 figured out what my outlet was, how I was planning 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.840 to actually move right, to move this energy around my 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.640 body and out of my body right. And I'm a 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.200 person who has wanted to dedicate their life and their 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.560 work to public service, whether it was working on the hill, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.520 working for nonprofit organizations, working for different movement and social 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.960 justice organizations, or women's rights or organizations are LGBTQ. I've 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.920 always wanted my work to be on purpose, right, And 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:12.080 with that comes a lot of emotional exhaustion, because you're 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.920 both working to push justice forward for a community that 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:22.800 you're actually being oppressed in, right, And so there's a 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.640 lot that's there there's a lot that is there to mind. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.080 And what I offer to all of you today is 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.800 my gift, my birthday gift to all of you, is 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.520 to begin to interrogate your feelings, begin to understand where 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:41.160 you have formed attachments right and are those attachments fruitful 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:46.560 for you? Or is there more consciousness and awareness that 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.640 you need to bring to varied situations, feelings and emotions 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.600 and expressions as a way to begin to release right, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:59.480 Release the negative energy, release the toxicity. And a lot 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:04.240 of the convers stations that are upcoming in this week 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:09.439 and in the coming days are with people who do 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:16.760 extraordinary work, whether they are historians, doctors, journalists, activists, artists. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.640 But I'm asking them, I'm asking a lot of people 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.120 the same question, which is, how do you stay in joy? 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.920 How do you find your joy right? What does that 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.920 look like for you on a daily basis, Because frankly, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.520 folks in the society that we live in, they tell 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.720 you to suspend joy for forty hours a week, then 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.080 you go ahead and grab onto what you can for 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.160 that good day and a half of the weekend before 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.920 you start all over again. They tell you to hold 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:51.320 onto your joy for fifty for fifty weeks right out 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.719 of the year, and then you get two weeks of 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:59.880 vacation to then what live If we are not living 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.480 every day, if we're not choosing how we want to live, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:08.280 if we're not orienting ourselves around the types of feelings 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.679 that we want. We've had a couple of really great 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:16.319 conversations with folks, you know, about work and our relationship 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.440 to work and do we go after work that is 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.640 about our quote unquote passion or do we orient our 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.640 work around how we want to feel at the end 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.480 of the day. You know, maybe if we were to 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.679 start thinking in that way, how do I want to 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.480 feel when I enter into this space when I leave 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:38.160 this space? Right, then maybe we realize that we don't 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.679 need as much as we think, because look, everything is 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:46.520 a capitalistic driver. Right Like you're sitting around, you're watching TV. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.080 Even if you're fucking watching Netflix and the ship goes 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.080 on pause, they're still advertising to you because do you 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.360 know what these companies have realized is that your TVs 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:01.280 are personalized billboards that are in your home. A couple 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.679 of months ago, I was chilling on my couch hanging 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.360 out with a friend and we were doing what everybody 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.120 does on Netflix, just going through all the categories, trying 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.640 to find something to watch. Eventually, you know, listening to music, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.199 hanging out and forgot about the TV. Then all of 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:26.360 a sudden, my smart TV started advertising all of the shows, 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.520 all of the series, and the movies that were on Netflix. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:34.600 So even when we weren't actively going through the lists, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.200 the TV was still advertising to us, making us think 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.840 that we wanted something that we actually had decided we 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.720 didn't want. But I needed to hit off twice in 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.800 order to get my personalized billboard to go off. And 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:55.200 so we don't realize how often we are inundated with 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.040 messages that are telling us that we need more or 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:04.080 should want more then we actually have or really truly need. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.760 I've been thinking about happiness a lot these days because 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:16.840 I find myself after a really ending, a really long relationship, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:22.719 going through divorce, unpacking a lot of negativity and toxicity, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.960 and really understanding what is it that I want my 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.160 life to be about? What do I want to do? 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.120 What do I want to offer? Again interrogating those feelings, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.920 I started to realize that all of the things that 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.840 I thought that I wanted, that I thought meant success 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:44.800 in one place or another, didn't conjure actually the type 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.960 of feeling that I wanted, Right, I want to feel light, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.400 I want to feel at ease, I want to feel 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.440 at peace. And you may say to yourself, denial, how 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.680 do you do that when the world is falling apart 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.559 around you? And I say, how do you not do 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.720 that when the world is falling apart around you? Because 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.360 you see what I keep saying, and what I want 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.160 to offer is that if we are not grounding ourselves, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:14.319 rooting ourselves like trees in things that are actually within 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.680 our control, then what are we doing? We are just 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:23.920 reacting to the whims of these other people. Now I 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.440 have the ability in my small corner of the world 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.640 what we all do, because that's what social media was 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:33.280 intended to do, was to democratize how we communicate. Right, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.600 So we all have the ability to have nuance to 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.720 use our platforms, but then recognize that we can use 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:48.080 our platforms to do other things other than spend day 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:53.600 in and day out talking about talking about our white supremacists, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:58.120 domestic terrorists, political party that's trying to destroy the country. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.520 Though that is true, that is absolutely true, But do 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.960 you know what else is true. The leaves are changing 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.800 colors if you live on the East Coast, like there's 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.920 a Christmas to the air. Now it's cozy sweater season. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.320 The holidays are approaching, hoping to share with like friends 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:24.880 and family or family. Right, life is about choosing, That's 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.560 what I believe, like actual freedom is. That's why I 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:33.400 fight for social justice, so that people have choices, right, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.880 they have the same choices that everybody else has. Right, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.560 That's what I fight for. But what I recognize is 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:46.000 that happiness is a choice, but it isn't a passive choice. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.160 You have to actually work to be happy. You have 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.760 to think about what you're grateful for each and every day. 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.520 You have to honor that. You have to put yourself 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.920 in places and spaces with people who help you vibrate 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:06.880 higher and be better. And so I offer this as 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:11.600 my gift to all of you on my birthday today, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:16.960 because we all deserve joy. We all deserve sunshine and 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:23.320 laughter and happiness and dance and music, you know. And 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:28.440 I want us not to suspend or wait for particular 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.600 moments to really live. I want us to be living 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.320 every single day because you don't know when it's going 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.360 to be over. You don't know how it's going to end. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.200 And so if that is true, then how are we 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.280 really living each day? How are we expressing our joy, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.760 our gratitude, our peace, and what are we offering into 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:56.080 the world. I do believe that small groups of people 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.000 can change the world. As Margaret Mead said, it's indeed 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:05.040 the only thing that ever has. And I do believe 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.679 that self care is an act of revolution. That is 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:18.160 what ARDR. Lord said. I also believe that joy, unrelenting, beautiful, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:24.920 just connected joy is how we fight against the hatred 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.920 and the disgust and the oppression that we see. They 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:34.080 are not going to steal my joy from me, right 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:40.560 because even during slavery, there was dancing, there was music, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:48.080 there was love, there was marriage, there was hope. They 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:56.600 refused right in their own way, to be ruined. And 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.440 when I say ruined, I mean to have every aspect 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:07.040 of you destroyed. We have autonomy and we have choices 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.359 on how we engage with each other, how we engage 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.720 with the news. Right. I don't say to turn it off, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.240 because we need an engage citizenury, but you can choose 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.480 how and when you do. I'm happy that all of 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.959 you haven't been engaging with me and in community with 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.600 each other, talking in the comment section, connecting with each 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.840 other on walk Wednesdays on the IG Live. It brings 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:38.560 me such extraordinary joy, and I can't thank you all 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:44.199 enough for making it worthwhile for me to wake up 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.159 in the morning, for making it worthwhile for me to 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.680 turn on the TV and to want to figure out 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.280 what's going on so that I can share it with 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.640 all of you. I get to do what I love. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.640 Some days I don't like it, but I always love it, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.520 and it is because of all of you. And so 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.600 today I just want to say thank you. I appreciate 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:14.040 you and find ways to live in your joy, whatever 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.920 that is, find it and do it each and every day. 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.600 Coming up next, dear friends, is my conversation with our 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.000 in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, where we will discuss 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:33.160 the latest with COVID nineteen. What Jonathan's thoughts are about 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:37.560 the vaccines that are now approved for people as young 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.840 as five. For children as young as five years old, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.679 I'll talk about my own experience getting the booster shot 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.479 over the weekend. I can report that I had no 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.920 symptoms other than dead arm. You know, I couldn't really 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:55.520 lift it for about a day, but that was it. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:20:00.480 We'll get into that and so much more so coming 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:07.640 up next doctor Jonathan Metzo. Folks, As you know, I'm 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.560 always excited when I have the opportunity to chat with 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:17.480 our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzo to discuss, you know, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.600 a myriad of things that are playing our world that 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:26.720 are Lady, we talk about doom. Sometimes we text about, 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.959 you know, nice things, but on a regular basis, I 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:34.679 think that we talk probably more about doom. But I 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.760 wanted to start off today with sharing a little bit. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.919 We will talk about COVID as we've been doing. Do 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.479 you realize, Jonathan, that you and I have been talking 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.919 about COVID for almost two years? It will be it 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:53.320 will be two years when the calendar year changes. Oh 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:54.880 my god, I had a full head of hair when 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.760 we started talking. It's crazy. Yeah, this thing, it's just 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.920 our life. I guess it's our life. I mean, it 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.639 really is. It really is our life. And it's you 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:12.240 know what I find these days is, you know, we're 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.719 never gonna not talk about COVID. I feel I feel like, um, 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.560 we're never gonna not hear about it in you know, 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.760 in the news. We are going to be in a 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:26.000 constant state of watching numbers go up go down. I 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.000 think that well, first off, I will let folks know this. Um. 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.200 Over the weekend, I was finally able to receive my 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:40.040 booster shot. I had dead arm for you know, about 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.280 the day, about twenty four hours and that was it. 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.680 I had no side effects. But I didn't have any 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.720 side effects in the first you know, in the first 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:53.399 iteration of the vaccine. Thankfully, um, no fever, no chills, like, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.160 no nothing. And the same thing bode true for the 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:02.080 booster shot. I had Maderna as my VACS as my vaccine, 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:06.480 and I had fisers as the booster shot. Jonathan, what 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:12.160 have you been hearing and thinking with regard to the boosters? 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:16.080 And you know, it looks as if only seventeen percent 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.760 of Americans, if am I wrong, that have received a 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:23.320 booster shot at this point. Well, I went in a hospital. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:24.760 So I got my booster a couple of months ago, 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.320 and I was bummed out right. I got Maderna for 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.320 my first shot, and then I got Maderna as the 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.879 booster and I didn't feel anything like you know, I 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:34.320 had a little store arm for a little bit. But 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.080 I'm like, did you guys, give me like the group 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.000 on booster or like a sugar pill or something like that. 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:40.800 Because I didn't have any side effects at all, and 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:45.560 that was most people. Most people I know did not 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.399 did not have any any side effects. And so, you know, 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.600 I feel like if people were like freaked out by 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.000 the first two shots, because people people really had some 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.480 side effects from the second shot very often. But I 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:58.960 think in general, the set effects of the booster, because 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:00.720 your system is kind of you to this thing. By 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:04.520 now we're a lot less and so that that was 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.240 kind of part of what I was, part of what 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.560 I was experiencing. But I do think that in general, 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:13.080 you know, in general, more people getting boosters, I think, 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:15.080 in general is a good thing in the context of 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.600 what we what we've been talking about, you know what 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:19.720 I have to say too, So I would I went 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:23.760 into a local CBS um out on Long Island and 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:27.280 was able to make an appointment about probably two days 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.399 before I arrived. They had, you know, a slew of 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:33.399 appointments available because I hadn't been able to get a 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.440 booster in Brooklyn. There were there have been no appointments 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:39.440 and it's a it's appointment only. So I went out 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:41.120 to Long Island. I was able to get it there. 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.440 And Jonathan, you know, I'm sitting and I'm waiting the 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.920 fifteen minutes right after you get this shot to make 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:50.200 sure you're okay. When for me, when I get shots 0:23:50.280 --> 0:23:55.840 or you know of anything, Um, I get woozy, like immediately, uh. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:57.719 And then and then it dissipates. I don't know if 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.600 it's more my anxiety or like what, you know, what 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:03.680 the shot is that I'm getting, but it happens without fail. 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:07.200 But I was sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, God, 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:13.800 I can't stand Americans. They are so selfish and so 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:20.320 self absorbed. And I say that because it was literally 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:22.800 no sweat off my back to go and get this appointment. 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.240 It was free, right, And all I could think of, 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:31.000 Jonathan as I'm sitting there are the millions of people 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.320 that are still around the world that are still clamoring 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:36.720 to try and get their first shot of a vaccine. 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:41.119 The fact that their governments haven't had you know, easy rollouts, 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:43.240 the fact that it's money that is coming out of 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:47.200 their pockets. Even though country the more the wealthier, high 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:52.520 high income countries said that they would provide help and 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:57.440 economic boost you know, to those two places and pay 0:24:57.480 --> 0:25:00.359 for vaccines. But we know that that's been lagging. And 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:03.880 I think to myself, my god, Americans have it so 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:09.760 goddamn easy, and yet we look to make everything so hard. Well, 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.960 you know, it's weird because again, like you know, as 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:15.160 we you know, we've got like now quite a lot 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:18.919 of data on these vaccines, right and it's it's just um, 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:22.320 you know there, it's just so clear, first of all, 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:25.439 what's happening, Like there are countries in Europe for example, 0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:29.080 that have very low vaccination rates that have high COVID rates, 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:31.600 and there are countries that have relatively high vaccination rates 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:34.000 that have low COVID rates, and so the vaccines are 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:37.080 super effective. And as you say, you know, it's crazy, 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:40.000 but like in Africa, like less than ten percent of 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:44.040 the people have even have access to a vaccine, notably less. 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:49.040 And so in a way, Number one, just as a country, 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:51.680 we have a lot of privilege right now of access 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:55.040 to this particular technology, and the fact that we're fighting 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:57.439 about it and politicizing it, I totally agree with you, 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:03.000 is incredibly appalling. But I don't know, it's hard because 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:05.520 that also that argument is not going to work, right, 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:07.879