Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKP Daily with me
Speaker 1: your girl Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy fucking Friday. We have made it to the end
Speaker 1: of an extraordinarily tense week here in America. What should
Speaker 1: I cover? Lord only knows, because there's just so much
Speaker 1: I want to start off with this funny enough, you
Speaker 1: know how they say never go to the comment section,
Speaker 1: right because when you go to the comment section, you
Speaker 1: know you'll get a lot of hateful things. So the
Speaker 1: other day I decided to go to Apple because I
Speaker 1: wanted to see, like how the show was doing, like
Speaker 1: the ratings or whatever, like how people rate them. And
Speaker 1: so right now on Apple this is where you get
Speaker 1: the show. WOKAF has a four point three out of
Speaker 1: five rating. So first of all, shout out to all
Speaker 1: of the people that take time to do ratings, like
Speaker 1: I genuinely appreciate it, and a lot of content creators
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I do not get folks that hate listen
Speaker 1: to shit like time is so precious. The number of
Speaker 1: one star ratings that this show has is wild to me,
Speaker 1: because here's the thing, my time, my life is precious.
Speaker 1: I am not wasting thirty minutes plus listening to someone
Speaker 1: who I can't stand, or watching a show I can't stand,
Speaker 1: like it's stupid. So for those people who found themselves
Speaker 1: to wokaf and then took that time to listen to
Speaker 1: the show, decide that they can't stand me, and then
Speaker 1: decide to take the extra time to go and write
Speaker 1: a review, go live your life, bool, Go live your life.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody missing you over here. Go live your life right.
Speaker 1: Do things that you enjoy, Listen to things you enjoy. Okay,
Speaker 1: but again, shout out to those folks who left rave reviews.
Speaker 1: I did not read them all, but I genuinely really
Speaker 1: appreciate it, you know, particularly when things are just getting
Speaker 1: tougher and tougher by the day, harder and harder to stomach.
Speaker 1: It is good to know that there are people who
Speaker 1: find value in the guests that I have on, who
Speaker 1: find value in the commentary that I offer. It makes
Speaker 1: getting up to do this work each and every day
Speaker 1: worth it, particularly when I find myself down, which I
Speaker 1: have been. You know, the holiday season is a mixed bag,
Speaker 1: and it's a mixed bag for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: Because we I don't know if it's hallmark, if it's society,
Speaker 1: if it's capitalism that created the idea that like we
Speaker 1: begin again new January first, and so there's always this
Speaker 1: insane rush to get everything crammed into the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks of the year that you were in so
Speaker 1: that you can begin fresh in the middle of winter.
Speaker 1: If we were to actually be following a new year,
Speaker 1: wouldn't the new year happen in spring and actually follow nature.
Speaker 1: So for folks who feel the urge and the need
Speaker 1: to like and this year strong, like, just fucking you know,
Speaker 1: go about your business right, like if you have the
Speaker 1: time off, if you're privileged enough to be able to
Speaker 1: take the time between Christmas and New Year's off, like
Speaker 1: just enjoy yourself, like I don't know, you know, soak
Speaker 1: in a tub, light some candles, you know, do some
Speaker 1: nice stretches, take some walks, cuddle with your animals. What
Speaker 1: are some plants? But like this you know, rush and
Speaker 1: urge to like start fresh in the middle of the dark,
Speaker 1: to me does not really make any sense. I think
Speaker 1: that more than anything, I like to use, you know,
Speaker 1: the end of the year as an opportunity for reflection
Speaker 1: right on, you know, on how things have gone, how
Speaker 1: I am feeling is kind of where I'm choosing to
Speaker 1: ground myself because I find that too often we're so
Speaker 1: busy checking off all of the lists and the boxes
Speaker 1: and all of the money that we need to spend
Speaker 1: to gift people things and all of the things that
Speaker 1: we need to rush and do, and then we need
Speaker 1: to perform like happiness in some instances. And there are
Speaker 1: some people that actually, you know, that are readily happy
Speaker 1: at this time of year. There are a lot of people, though,
Speaker 1: that I find that are performing happiness because all of
Speaker 1: the commercials and the jingles and like every fucking you
Speaker 1: know store window is telling you that this is your
Speaker 1: time of year to be in full joy. Goddamn it.
Speaker 1: It's always just like a lot of pressure. So I
Speaker 1: just want to tell folks take the pressure off, Like
Speaker 1: you don't need to be all the things and do
Speaker 1: all the things. You can create new rituals, You can
Speaker 1: create new traditions, especially for those folks that find themselves
Speaker 1: not with family or friends. Like, there is nothing saying
Speaker 1: that you can't create new traditions for yourself. And I
Speaker 1: will offer that for the past couple of New Years
Speaker 1: right celebrations I have been here, cocooned in my home,
Speaker 1: you know, lighting candles, doing yoga, meditating really deeply, and
Speaker 1: just kind of taking stock right of the end of
Speaker 1: the year. And part of that was brought on I
Speaker 1: actually not even part of it. All of it was
Speaker 1: brought on because of COVID, Right, Like, we weren't able
Speaker 1: to gather with people for so many years, and we
Speaker 1: would recognize that during the winter, right there would be spikes,
Speaker 1: and so you know, whatever plans you may have made,
Speaker 1: you know, would get tossed in the trash. And so
Speaker 1: instead of like lamenting about New Year's traditions gone by
Speaker 1: and big parties and all of these things and trying
Speaker 1: to find the place and do the thing, I just
Speaker 1: really created the new tradition of wanting to end the
Speaker 1: year solo with myself, you know, and just relaxing, taking stock,
Speaker 1: you know, saging, just kind of you know, writing in
Speaker 1: my journal, doing all of these things. And so this
Speaker 1: year I decided that I'm sick and tired of the
Speaker 1: fucking cold. Even though climate change hasn't been that cold
Speaker 1: in New York. We've had some down days, but not
Speaker 1: really And so I'm going away because I decided that
Speaker 1: I wanted to spend the new year in salt water
Speaker 1: and in warmth. So that's what I'm doing for myself
Speaker 1: new tradition alert just decided a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: so just going to take a couple of days soa
Speaker 1: can the sea wash away? Twenty twenty three, which was
Speaker 1: a mixed bag, right, Like as all years are, I
Speaker 1: don't think that we ever had a year where one
Speaker 1: is like, oh my god, every single month, every single
Speaker 1: day was amazing. Like, No, what we do learn, I
Speaker 1: think as we age and as we really try and
Speaker 1: unpack all different aspects of our emotions and our trauma
Speaker 1: and our past and our patterns, is how to navigate
Speaker 1: better when things are thrown at you, which they inevitably will, right.
Speaker 1: I think that this idea of the perfect life or
Speaker 1: the perfect way to be, or the perfect tree or
Speaker 1: the perfect holiday again just adds in a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure that we don't need because the world is a
Speaker 1: pressure cooker enough. That being said, folks, if you are
Speaker 1: feeling again a mix of like I'm really looking forward
Speaker 1: to being with my family and friends, or like, how
Speaker 1: am I supposed to experience joy?
Speaker 2: Down?
Speaker 1: You know, when I'm scrolling and I'm seeing such a
Speaker 1: devastation and such lack of humanity and such trauma and
Speaker 1: such violence. What I offer to you is what I
Speaker 1: offer to myself, which is that the virtue of being
Speaker 1: alive in this moment and having the ability to celebrate, right,
Speaker 1: to be in joy, is a gift, and so treat
Speaker 1: it like that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It serves no one to marinate yourself in grief and
Speaker 1: think that that is what solidarity looks like. No, your
Speaker 1: resistance can also be soft. Your resistance can also look
Speaker 1: like joy. Your resistance, you know, can look like engaging
Speaker 1: in really thoughtful conversations with your family and friends. You know,
Speaker 1: I think to myself often that we would not find
Speaker 1: ourselves in this maga driven world right now if we
Speaker 1: didn't heed the idea that not talking about politics was
Speaker 1: somehow polite, Right, that not talking about our values and
Speaker 1: our religion and sharing those things with the people that
Speaker 1: are closest to us was somehow polite. It isn't. What
Speaker 1: it does is create distance. What it does is create
Speaker 1: gaps that allows negativity and stereotypes and discrimination and prejudice
Speaker 1: to fill up that space. Why not engage in the
Speaker 1: conversations with the people closest to you about the things
Speaker 1: that matter to you the most. And so I want
Speaker 1: to urge people as we are, you know, winding down
Speaker 1: the year and you know, just about I guess you know,
Speaker 1: ten days or so away from Christmas, if you're Christian
Speaker 1: and you celebrate that that use this time to actually
Speaker 1: talk with your family and friends. Do not turn away
Speaker 1: from hard conversations, and do not just shut down because
Speaker 1: somebody doesn't agree with you. You like, allow there to
Speaker 1: be in exchange. Get off your fucking phones, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying that to myself. Get off your phones
Speaker 1: right and talk And frankly, if you find it difficult,
Speaker 1: get one of those little conversation starter card games and
Speaker 1: bring that to your cocktail party, to your Christmas dinner,
Speaker 1: to you know, wherever, and have people draw, you know,
Speaker 1: draw a card and just like talk with one another.
Speaker 1: Put the phones away, put on some music, and just
Speaker 1: engage because it's that it's that kind of connectivity, it's
Speaker 1: that kind of community building. It's that kind of intimacy
Speaker 1: that is what moves our humanity forward and what expands
Speaker 1: our humanity as opposed to shrinking it into a device
Speaker 1: that we are looking to to tell us everything about everything, right,
Speaker 1: instead of just thinking and wondering. Remember wondering right when
Speaker 1: you somebody would ask a tough question or quiz and
Speaker 1: instead of coming up with the answer, it's like the
Speaker 1: answer wasn't really the thing. We just wanted to wonder
Speaker 1: a bit. So in this season that is supposed to
Speaker 1: be about wonderment and joy and magic and all of
Speaker 1: these things. Get back to that, and that requires putting
Speaker 1: your phone down and not just getting from A to Z,
Speaker 1: but like wondering about what comes in the middle, and
Speaker 1: you'll be surprised, right, You'll be surprised by it. So
Speaker 1: that's what I am planning to do and focus on
Speaker 1: and really try and create new ways of being because
Speaker 1: what I'm finding right as we are living through just
Speaker 1: I don't know, some days, impossible times, is our in
Speaker 1: ability to connect with one another and to just take
Speaker 1: you know, just shut down and shut off anything that
Speaker 1: we don't like in search of the things that you know,
Speaker 1: we supposedly will boost our own way of thinking. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I love to read so much
Speaker 1: and have an obsession with books right now, and I
Speaker 1: can't help myself from purchasing more. I get sent so
Speaker 1: many books from publishers and literary agents, you know, to
Speaker 1: get authors on the shows. So like I'm always like
Speaker 1: downstairs in you know my I'm always getting like a delivery.
Speaker 1: But I also, on top of the books that are
Speaker 1: sent to me, I also purchase an obscene amount because
Speaker 1: I love learning. I love reading. If it's fiction, I
Speaker 1: love discovering new worlds and new spaces if it's nonfiction.
Speaker 1: I love the ability to expand my mind and increase life,
Speaker 1: like you know, my knowledge base, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think about how important and how powerful books are, which
Speaker 1: is why there is such a rush to erase everything. Right,
Speaker 1: Like when you see when you need to figure out
Speaker 1: what the opposition finds dangerous, look at the things that
Speaker 1: they're trying to ban, right, look at the things that
Speaker 1: they're trying to control, and then double down on them.
Speaker 1: If you're struggling to figure out what to get for people,
Speaker 1: don't get them another fucking sweater. Don't get them something
Speaker 1: that they can get themselves. Get them a book, Get
Speaker 1: them a you know, an audiobook or a hardcover book
Speaker 1: or a softcover book. Give them an experience, right like,
Speaker 1: give them a journey to take sign them up for
Speaker 1: some podcasts, you know, light plug. But I think that
Speaker 1: if we all had the desire to learn more, to
Speaker 1: expand our horizons and not just be told what to think,
Speaker 1: how to act, where to move what matters, we would
Speaker 1: find ourselves in a better place. And so for me,
Speaker 1: as I wind down the year, I'm kind of reflecting
Speaker 1: on books that I've read, conversations that I've had, books
Speaker 1: that I'm bringing with me as I decide to end
Speaker 1: the year in salt water. Because I'm really interested and
Speaker 1: curious about humanity right now. I'm also really worried about
Speaker 1: humanity right now, and the best way for me to
Speaker 1: realize to stop worrying is to limit the amount of
Speaker 1: time that I spend on social media and to increase
Speaker 1: the amount of time that I spend reading and writing
Speaker 1: and listening to music and connecting with my friends and
Speaker 1: family and authentic and real ways. I think that if
Speaker 1: we were to spend our time doing that, we would
Speaker 1: find ourselves less angry, less scared, less filled with anxiety,
Speaker 1: right because connection is what has us avoid that or
Speaker 1: experience it less. Frankly, why do I say this on
Speaker 1: this fucking Friday? Because I have found myself over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, as many of you have who
Speaker 1: have DMed me and tweeted at me, just consumed with worry.
Speaker 1: You know, you hear it in the conversations that I'm
Speaker 1: having about poll numbers and like really worrying that Democrats
Speaker 1: and the Biden administration are just going to hand this
Speaker 1: election to Donald Trump because they're not paying attention to
Speaker 1: their base, They're not paying attention to what matters. They're
Speaker 1: thinking that how we viewed foreign policy in the past
Speaker 1: is somehow going to be how we move and think now,
Speaker 1: and it's not right. I think that a lot of
Speaker 1: people are a lot more conscious and aware of what
Speaker 1: are money has gone to do. And while we are
Speaker 1: here without you know, universal healthcare, while we are here
Speaker 1: without childcare tax credits, while we are here without innovative
Speaker 1: and thoughtful green architectural design that is funded by government,
Speaker 1: while we are here, you know, teetering on the brink
Speaker 1: of authoritarianism and fascism, we send billions and billions and
Speaker 1: billions of dollars to kill people. You know, I woke
Speaker 1: up this morning and I was thinking to myself, the
Speaker 1: Biden administration is requested something close to fifteen billion dollars
Speaker 1: to aid Israel in their warmongering. They've only pledged one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in humanitarian aid to Gaza. How the
Speaker 1: fuck does that make sense? It doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 1: Like in the math, you spend billions of dollars to
Speaker 1: destroy and one hundred million dollars to rebuild, and how
Speaker 1: can you rebuild? They're turning this area, this part of
Speaker 1: the world, Gaza into a graveyard. They have eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of the people are displaced. Half of the people
Speaker 1: that have been killed or children and women. You know,
Speaker 1: I know that it's controversial to tell the truth right
Speaker 1: and to share feelings, but like, I'm centered around humanity
Speaker 1: and this is not the type of world that I
Speaker 1: want to live in. And I know that like one
Speaker 1: conversation at a time won't fix it, right, But I
Speaker 1: know that not talking about these things, not trying to
Speaker 1: understand right, to overstand why we believe that a world
Speaker 1: filled with chaos, fueled by greed and anger and ego
Speaker 1: is it just because it's all we've ever known. And
Speaker 1: that's why I tell us it is time for us
Speaker 1: to rest, so that we can rest our minds and
Speaker 1: our nervous systems and imagine and dream about other worlds
Speaker 1: and other ways of being because how we are being,
Speaker 1: how we have been socialized, it's terrible, right, But I
Speaker 1: do know that when you are on the brink of
Speaker 1: birthing something new, there is a lot of pain involved
Speaker 1: in that, and I think that we are in that pain.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the other side looks like, but
Speaker 1: I know that we can only control what we can control,
Speaker 1: and we can control what we consume. We can control
Speaker 1: the conversations that we have, but not control in the
Speaker 1: way to shrink them and to shrink ourselves, but to
Speaker 1: try and understand, to wonder, to expand that needs to
Speaker 1: be our goal. That needs to be the way that
Speaker 1: we want to be and see better is by doing
Speaker 1: better ourselves and hoping that that becomes a ripple effect.
Speaker 1: So as the year winds down, and you know, and
Speaker 1: I will continue, we're gonna take a break here at WOLLKF,
Speaker 1: but we're going to leave you with some amazing episodes
Speaker 1: and conversations and interviews with some of your faves. But
Speaker 1: I too need a break, you know, to wind down,
Speaker 1: to rest, to dream, to sleep, to imagine what comes next,
Speaker 1: because what we've been experiencing is heartbreaking. What we've been
Speaker 1: experiencing is traumatizing, and we don't even allow ourselves a
Speaker 1: moment to reflect on that. No, are we existing with
Speaker 1: sirens and bombs raining down, Absolutely not. That isn't our
Speaker 1: current exists, But it doesn't mean that we are not
Speaker 1: traumatized by what we are seeing and what we are consuming.
Speaker 1: So just you know, it isn't about flipping the calendar
Speaker 1: year and all of a sudden new year knew me.
Speaker 1: It is about, though, having the privilege and the time
Speaker 1: to reflect on what has transpired and what you're hoping
Speaker 1: to create a new you know, as we begin another
Speaker 1: twelve months of the year.
Speaker 2: That is it for me today, Dear friends, on this
Speaker 2: feel good, fuck it Friday, Please tell me in the
Speaker 2: comment section under this Patreon video how you were feeling,
Speaker 2: what you are doing, what you need, you know, what
Speaker 2: you're hoping for as this year closed out and we
Speaker 2: begin and.
Speaker 1: New That is it for me, dear friends. As always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.