1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKP Daily with me 2 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: your girl Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: Happy fucking Friday. We have made it to the end 4 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: of an extraordinarily tense week here in America. What should 5 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: I cover? Lord only knows, because there's just so much 6 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: I want to start off with this funny enough, you 7 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: know how they say never go to the comment section, 8 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 1: right because when you go to the comment section, you 9 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: know you'll get a lot of hateful things. So the 10 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: other day I decided to go to Apple because I 11 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: wanted to see, like how the show was doing, like 12 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: the ratings or whatever, like how people rate them. And 13 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: so right now on Apple this is where you get 14 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: the show. WOKAF has a four point three out of 15 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: five rating. So first of all, shout out to all 16 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: of the people that take time to do ratings, like 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: I genuinely appreciate it, and a lot of content creators 18 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: appreciate it. I do not get folks that hate listen 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: to shit like time is so precious. The number of 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: one star ratings that this show has is wild to me, 21 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: because here's the thing, my time, my life is precious. 22 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: I am not wasting thirty minutes plus listening to someone 23 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: who I can't stand, or watching a show I can't stand, 24 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: like it's stupid. So for those people who found themselves 25 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: to wokaf and then took that time to listen to 26 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: the show, decide that they can't stand me, and then 27 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: decide to take the extra time to go and write 28 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: a review, go live your life, bool, Go live your life. 29 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: Ain't nobody missing you over here. Go live your life right. 30 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: Do things that you enjoy, Listen to things you enjoy. Okay, 31 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: but again, shout out to those folks who left rave reviews. 32 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: I did not read them all, but I genuinely really 33 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: appreciate it, you know, particularly when things are just getting 34 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: tougher and tougher by the day, harder and harder to stomach. 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: It is good to know that there are people who 36 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: find value in the guests that I have on, who 37 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: find value in the commentary that I offer. It makes 38 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: getting up to do this work each and every day 39 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: worth it, particularly when I find myself down, which I 40 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: have been. You know, the holiday season is a mixed bag, 41 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: and it's a mixed bag for a lot of reasons. 42 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: Because we I don't know if it's hallmark, if it's society, 43 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: if it's capitalism that created the idea that like we 44 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: begin again new January first, and so there's always this 45 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: insane rush to get everything crammed into the last couple 46 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: of weeks of the year that you were in so 47 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: that you can begin fresh in the middle of winter. 48 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: If we were to actually be following a new year, 49 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: wouldn't the new year happen in spring and actually follow nature. 50 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: So for folks who feel the urge and the need 51 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: to like and this year strong, like, just fucking you know, 52 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: go about your business right, like if you have the 53 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: time off, if you're privileged enough to be able to 54 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: take the time between Christmas and New Year's off, like 55 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: just enjoy yourself, like I don't know, you know, soak 56 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: in a tub, light some candles, you know, do some 57 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: nice stretches, take some walks, cuddle with your animals. What 58 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: are some plants? But like this you know, rush and 59 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: urge to like start fresh in the middle of the dark, 60 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: to me does not really make any sense. I think 61 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: that more than anything, I like to use, you know, 62 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: the end of the year as an opportunity for reflection 63 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: right on, you know, on how things have gone, how 64 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: I am feeling is kind of where I'm choosing to 65 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: ground myself because I find that too often we're so 66 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: busy checking off all of the lists and the boxes 67 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: and all of the money that we need to spend 68 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: to gift people things and all of the things that 69 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: we need to rush and do, and then we need 70 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: to perform like happiness in some instances. And there are 71 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: some people that actually, you know, that are readily happy 72 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: at this time of year. There are a lot of people, though, 73 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: that I find that are performing happiness because all of 74 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: the commercials and the jingles and like every fucking you 75 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: know store window is telling you that this is your 76 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: time of year to be in full joy. Goddamn it. 77 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: It's always just like a lot of pressure. So I 78 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: just want to tell folks take the pressure off, Like 79 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: you don't need to be all the things and do 80 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: all the things. You can create new rituals, You can 81 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: create new traditions, especially for those folks that find themselves 82 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: not with family or friends. Like, there is nothing saying 83 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: that you can't create new traditions for yourself. And I 84 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: will offer that for the past couple of New Years 85 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: right celebrations I have been here, cocooned in my home, 86 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: you know, lighting candles, doing yoga, meditating really deeply, and 87 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: just kind of taking stock right of the end of 88 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: the year. And part of that was brought on I 89 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: actually not even part of it. All of it was 90 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: brought on because of COVID, Right, Like, we weren't able 91 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: to gather with people for so many years, and we 92 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: would recognize that during the winter, right there would be spikes, 93 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,559 Speaker 1: and so you know, whatever plans you may have made, 94 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: you know, would get tossed in the trash. And so 95 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: instead of like lamenting about New Year's traditions gone by 96 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: and big parties and all of these things and trying 97 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: to find the place and do the thing, I just 98 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: really created the new tradition of wanting to end the 99 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: year solo with myself, you know, and just relaxing, taking stock, 100 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: you know, saging, just kind of you know, writing in 101 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: my journal, doing all of these things. And so this 102 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: year I decided that I'm sick and tired of the 103 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: fucking cold. Even though climate change hasn't been that cold 104 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: in New York. We've had some down days, but not 105 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: really And so I'm going away because I decided that 106 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: I wanted to spend the new year in salt water 107 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: and in warmth. So that's what I'm doing for myself 108 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: new tradition alert just decided a couple of weeks ago, 109 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: so just going to take a couple of days soa 110 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: can the sea wash away? Twenty twenty three, which was 111 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: a mixed bag, right, Like as all years are, I 112 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: don't think that we ever had a year where one 113 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: is like, oh my god, every single month, every single 114 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: day was amazing. Like, No, what we do learn, I 115 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: think as we age and as we really try and 116 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: unpack all different aspects of our emotions and our trauma 117 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: and our past and our patterns, is how to navigate 118 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: better when things are thrown at you, which they inevitably will, right. 119 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: I think that this idea of the perfect life or 120 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: the perfect way to be, or the perfect tree or 121 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: the perfect holiday again just adds in a lot of 122 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: pressure that we don't need because the world is a 123 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: pressure cooker enough. That being said, folks, if you are 124 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: feeling again a mix of like I'm really looking forward 125 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: to being with my family and friends, or like, how 126 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: am I supposed to experience joy? 127 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 2: Down? 128 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: You know, when I'm scrolling and I'm seeing such a 129 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: devastation and such lack of humanity and such trauma and 130 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: such violence. What I offer to you is what I 131 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: offer to myself, which is that the virtue of being 132 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: alive in this moment and having the ability to celebrate, right, 133 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: to be in joy, is a gift, and so treat 134 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: it like that. 135 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 2: Right. 136 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: It serves no one to marinate yourself in grief and 137 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: think that that is what solidarity looks like. No, your 138 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: resistance can also be soft. Your resistance can also look 139 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 1: like joy. Your resistance, you know, can look like engaging 140 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: in really thoughtful conversations with your family and friends. You know, 141 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: I think to myself often that we would not find 142 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: ourselves in this maga driven world right now if we 143 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: didn't heed the idea that not talking about politics was 144 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: somehow polite, Right, that not talking about our values and 145 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: our religion and sharing those things with the people that 146 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: are closest to us was somehow polite. It isn't. What 147 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: it does is create distance. What it does is create 148 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: gaps that allows negativity and stereotypes and discrimination and prejudice 149 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: to fill up that space. Why not engage in the 150 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: conversations with the people closest to you about the things 151 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: that matter to you the most. And so I want 152 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: to urge people as we are, you know, winding down 153 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: the year and you know, just about I guess you know, 154 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: ten days or so away from Christmas, if you're Christian 155 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: and you celebrate that that use this time to actually 156 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: talk with your family and friends. Do not turn away 157 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: from hard conversations, and do not just shut down because 158 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: somebody doesn't agree with you. You like, allow there to 159 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: be in exchange. Get off your fucking phones, you know, 160 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: and I'm saying that to myself. Get off your phones 161 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: right and talk And frankly, if you find it difficult, 162 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: get one of those little conversation starter card games and 163 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: bring that to your cocktail party, to your Christmas dinner, 164 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: to you know, wherever, and have people draw, you know, 165 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: draw a card and just like talk with one another. 166 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: Put the phones away, put on some music, and just 167 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: engage because it's that it's that kind of connectivity, it's 168 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: that kind of community building. It's that kind of intimacy 169 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: that is what moves our humanity forward and what expands 170 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: our humanity as opposed to shrinking it into a device 171 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: that we are looking to to tell us everything about everything, right, 172 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: instead of just thinking and wondering. Remember wondering right when 173 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: you somebody would ask a tough question or quiz and 174 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: instead of coming up with the answer, it's like the 175 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: answer wasn't really the thing. We just wanted to wonder 176 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: a bit. So in this season that is supposed to 177 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 1: be about wonderment and joy and magic and all of 178 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: these things. Get back to that, and that requires putting 179 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: your phone down and not just getting from A to Z, 180 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: but like wondering about what comes in the middle, and 181 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: you'll be surprised, right, You'll be surprised by it. So 182 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: that's what I am planning to do and focus on 183 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: and really try and create new ways of being because 184 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: what I'm finding right as we are living through just 185 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: I don't know, some days, impossible times, is our in 186 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: ability to connect with one another and to just take 187 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: you know, just shut down and shut off anything that 188 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: we don't like in search of the things that you know, 189 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 1: we supposedly will boost our own way of thinking. One 190 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 1: of the reasons why I love to read so much 191 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: and have an obsession with books right now, and I 192 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: can't help myself from purchasing more. I get sent so 193 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: many books from publishers and literary agents, you know, to 194 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: get authors on the shows. So like I'm always like 195 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: downstairs in you know my I'm always getting like a delivery. 196 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: But I also, on top of the books that are 197 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: sent to me, I also purchase an obscene amount because 198 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: I love learning. I love reading. If it's fiction, I 199 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: love discovering new worlds and new spaces if it's nonfiction. 200 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: I love the ability to expand my mind and increase life, 201 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: like you know, my knowledge base, and you know, I 202 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: think about how important and how powerful books are, which 203 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: is why there is such a rush to erase everything. Right, 204 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: Like when you see when you need to figure out 205 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: what the opposition finds dangerous, look at the things that 206 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: they're trying to ban, right, look at the things that 207 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: they're trying to control, and then double down on them. 208 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: If you're struggling to figure out what to get for people, 209 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: don't get them another fucking sweater. Don't get them something 210 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: that they can get themselves. Get them a book, Get 211 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: them a you know, an audiobook or a hardcover book 212 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: or a softcover book. Give them an experience, right like, 213 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: give them a journey to take sign them up for 214 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 1: some podcasts, you know, light plug. But I think that 215 00:13:53,400 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: if we all had the desire to learn more, to 216 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: expand our horizons and not just be told what to think, 217 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 1: how to act, where to move what matters, we would 218 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: find ourselves in a better place. And so for me, 219 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: as I wind down the year, I'm kind of reflecting 220 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: on books that I've read, conversations that I've had, books 221 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: that I'm bringing with me as I decide to end 222 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: the year in salt water. Because I'm really interested and 223 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: curious about humanity right now. I'm also really worried about 224 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: humanity right now, and the best way for me to 225 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: realize to stop worrying is to limit the amount of 226 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: time that I spend on social media and to increase 227 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: the amount of time that I spend reading and writing 228 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: and listening to music and connecting with my friends and 229 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: family and authentic and real ways. I think that if 230 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: we were to spend our time doing that, we would 231 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: find ourselves less angry, less scared, less filled with anxiety, 232 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: right because connection is what has us avoid that or 233 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: experience it less. Frankly, why do I say this on 234 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: this fucking Friday? Because I have found myself over the 235 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, as many of you have who 236 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: have DMed me and tweeted at me, just consumed with worry. 237 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: You know, you hear it in the conversations that I'm 238 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: having about poll numbers and like really worrying that Democrats 239 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: and the Biden administration are just going to hand this 240 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: election to Donald Trump because they're not paying attention to 241 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: their base, They're not paying attention to what matters. They're 242 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: thinking that how we viewed foreign policy in the past 243 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: is somehow going to be how we move and think now, 244 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: and it's not right. I think that a lot of 245 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: people are a lot more conscious and aware of what 246 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: are money has gone to do. And while we are 247 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: here without you know, universal healthcare, while we are here 248 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: without childcare tax credits, while we are here without innovative 249 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: and thoughtful green architectural design that is funded by government, 250 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: while we are here, you know, teetering on the brink 251 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: of authoritarianism and fascism, we send billions and billions and 252 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: billions of dollars to kill people. You know, I woke 253 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: up this morning and I was thinking to myself, the 254 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: Biden administration is requested something close to fifteen billion dollars 255 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: to aid Israel in their warmongering. They've only pledged one 256 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in humanitarian aid to Gaza. How the 257 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: fuck does that make sense? It doesn't even make sense. 258 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 1: Like in the math, you spend billions of dollars to 259 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: destroy and one hundred million dollars to rebuild, and how 260 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: can you rebuild? They're turning this area, this part of 261 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: the world, Gaza into a graveyard. They have eighty five 262 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: percent of the people are displaced. Half of the people 263 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: that have been killed or children and women. You know, 264 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: I know that it's controversial to tell the truth right 265 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: and to share feelings, but like, I'm centered around humanity 266 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: and this is not the type of world that I 267 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: want to live in. And I know that like one 268 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: conversation at a time won't fix it, right, But I 269 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: know that not talking about these things, not trying to 270 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: understand right, to overstand why we believe that a world 271 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: filled with chaos, fueled by greed and anger and ego 272 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: is it just because it's all we've ever known. And 273 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: that's why I tell us it is time for us 274 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: to rest, so that we can rest our minds and 275 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: our nervous systems and imagine and dream about other worlds 276 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: and other ways of being because how we are being, 277 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: how we have been socialized, it's terrible, right, But I 278 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: do know that when you are on the brink of 279 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: birthing something new, there is a lot of pain involved 280 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: in that, and I think that we are in that pain. 281 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 2: You know. 282 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what the other side looks like, but 283 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,479 Speaker 1: I know that we can only control what we can control, 284 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: and we can control what we consume. We can control 285 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: the conversations that we have, but not control in the 286 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: way to shrink them and to shrink ourselves, but to 287 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: try and understand, to wonder, to expand that needs to 288 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 1: be our goal. That needs to be the way that 289 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: we want to be and see better is by doing 290 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: better ourselves and hoping that that becomes a ripple effect. 291 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: So as the year winds down, and you know, and 292 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: I will continue, we're gonna take a break here at WOLLKF, 293 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: but we're going to leave you with some amazing episodes 294 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: and conversations and interviews with some of your faves. But 295 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: I too need a break, you know, to wind down, 296 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: to rest, to dream, to sleep, to imagine what comes next, 297 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: because what we've been experiencing is heartbreaking. What we've been 298 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 1: experiencing is traumatizing, and we don't even allow ourselves a 299 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: moment to reflect on that. No, are we existing with 300 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: sirens and bombs raining down, Absolutely not. That isn't our 301 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: current exists, But it doesn't mean that we are not 302 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: traumatized by what we are seeing and what we are consuming. 303 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: So just you know, it isn't about flipping the calendar 304 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: year and all of a sudden new year knew me. 305 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: It is about, though, having the privilege and the time 306 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: to reflect on what has transpired and what you're hoping 307 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 1: to create a new you know, as we begin another 308 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: twelve months of the year. 309 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 2: That is it for me today, Dear friends, on this 310 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 2: feel good, fuck it Friday, Please tell me in the 311 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 2: comment section under this Patreon video how you were feeling, 312 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: what you are doing, what you need, you know, what 313 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 2: you're hoping for as this year closed out and we 314 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 2: begin and. 315 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: New That is it for me, dear friends. As always, 316 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power, 317 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.