WEBVTT - From Surviving to Thriving 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.720 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:22.040 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Chicago Bunker. Folks, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:28.760 it has been an absolute insane time here in Chicago. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:35.559 I'm recording this before tonight's finale of the acceptance speech 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:41.960 by Vice President Kamala Harris of the party's nomination. What 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.440 I will say preceding that about the last few days 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:51.080 here at convention have just, you know, been extraordinarily inspiring, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.920 has been fucking exhausting. I have been going to sleep 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.320 at like one third getting back to my hotel I 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.480 should say, at roughly one point thirty one o'clock in 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.559 the morning, which is actually two o'clock Eastern Standard time, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.160 which is where my body still is. But there's just 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.280 so much excitement, so much energy. You don't really realize 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.880 it until, of course you sit down or lay down, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.959 and then you're like, oh fuck, I'm exhausted and I 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:26.319 may not make it. The entire convention has been done 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:32.240 so incredibly well, from the musical guests, from the musical 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:38.000 roll call of the States, from the comedic skits. I 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.119 thought that Keenan Thompson's Project twenty twenty five skit yesterday 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.960 was extraordinary. For so long, folks, we have been talking 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:54.120 about Project twenty twenty five in really catastrophic existential terms, 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.640 and all of those things are true. I don't take 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.040 back any of the things that I've ever said with 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.520 regard to the sea giousness and the threats that Project 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:08.359 twenty twenty five poses. However, what I will say is 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:15.440 that this campaign has been absolutely brilliant in their ability 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:20.840 to turn this Republican Party and their ideas into a joke. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:26.400 And I feel like you diffuse the power of a 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:32.000 bully when you laugh in their faces instead of talking 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.919 about these people as if they are master minds, as 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.720 if they are you know, the titans of the universe 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.960 that are moving this country with just their whims and 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.440 their egos. Instead, you look at what they're offering and 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.880 what they're saying, and you turn it into a fucking joke. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:54.040 And so I think that it is really amazing the 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.840 ways that they have been able to use the last 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.799 couple of days to frame up not only the start 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:07.960 contrast in vision, an idea, in energy and in vibe 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:13.120 between the Democrats and the Republican Party, but how they 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.600 have also been able to turn Donald Trump, JD. Vance 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:23.000 and the Republicans into the jokers that they are, and 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.120 to me, that has been something that has been missing. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.919 They're not worthy of our fear, They're worthy of our 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.760 ridicule and of our laughter. And so I think that 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.240 the last couple of days have been really amazing, and 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.360 I want to turn now to last night's speeches and 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.480 the ones that really stood out to me. First off, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.000 what I love so much about convention is the way 0:03:54.040 --> 0:04:01.240 in which we're able to profile the depth of our 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.360 talent and bench in the Democratic Party. When you compare 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.880 that to the people that were on the stage at 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.680 the RNC, they look like fucking clowns. They look like 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.560 toddlers that were caught with their hands in the cookie 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.800 jar or playing in the mud, or like eating paste. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:28.120 Is essentially what the Republican National Convention look like. And 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.000 I think that looking at our bench and the talent 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:37.960 and the brilliance that we have again just restores my 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.880 faith in the Democratic Party. So some of the speeches 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.680 that stood out to me, like, first off, Hakeem Jeffries, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.320 who God willing in seventy five days will be made 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.760 Speaker Jeffries because Democrats will take back the House and 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.000 take back the Senate as well as taking the White House. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.119 But let me tell you something, Hakeem Jeff Freeze talking 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.240 about Donald Trump as that boyfriend that you broke up 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.599 with but won't fucking go away and keep spinning the block, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:13.400 which is a very Brooklyn, New York term, was just fantastic. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:18.719 I love Hakeem's delivery. He's so punchy and just funny 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.720 and very New York and you know, I love it. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:28.600 Oprah Winfrey, I thought was really brilliant yesterday. And here's 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.120 what I will say about Oprah. First off, did you 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.599 all know that she was a registered independent? Because I 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.720 did not. So like, she's, you know, talking about herself 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.159 as a registered independent and being there to talk to 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.760 other independents, and I'm like, how did I miss this? 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.599 But apparently a lot of people that I talked to 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.000 did not know that she was an independent. You know. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.080 The first public candidate that she ever came out for, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.840 and we all know this was Barack Obama in two 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.160 thousand and eight. I don't remember, and that I don't 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.400 know if it's because of the vortex that we've lived 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.120 in for the past eight years. I don't remember if 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.800 she came out and endorsed Hillary Clinton. But I do 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.160 know that her first ever political endorsement was for Barack Obama. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.120 But I think, you know, I was in conversation with 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.280 a couple of friends of mine and they were saying, 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.240 you know, it honestly makes sense, right, for the role 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.040 that Oprah has played in media and in America kind 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.719 of being like America's talk show host, it makes sense 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.120 that she wouldn't want to pick one side or the 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.560 other and kind of be you know, Switzerland in that way, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.320 but then really use her power and her platform both 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.640 in two thousand and eight and now to you know, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.560 stand with people whose values align with her own. What 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.440 I also thought was really great is that Oprah Winfrey 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.080 is the very person that Jadie Vance is telling us 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.400 is unworthy of having a voice, is unworthy of having 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.480 a vote, and it is just unworthy of existing. Right. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.719 Winfrey is a postmenopausal which you know became a term 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.240 because of JD. Vance and that podcast that he was on, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:13.200 But uh, you know, she is a postmenopausal, childless woman, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.080 not a cat lady, because she famously has a bunch 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:20.760 of dogs and is famously unmarried. Right, And we see 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.280 who the fuck Oprah is, right and who she has 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.800 been for decades, and that is the very image of 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.360 the person that JD. Vance tells us is unworthy, this brilliant, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:37.360 multi billionaire philanthropist and media giant. So I thought that 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.560 her digs at him and at the Republican Party were great. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:46.800 I thought that her story with regard to integration and 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:52.120 the journey of America was breathtaking, because if there is 0:07:52.240 --> 0:08:02.360 nothing else, you know, she is extraordinary. So I think 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:09.200 that there are just so many ways that Democrats have 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:15.960 showcased how important this election is, how important this moment is, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:21.440 but more importantly, how incredible of an opportunity that we have, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:27.000 because again, I think that instead of framing this election 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.080 through the lens of fear, which I myself have been doing, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.480 because I have been, you know, prior to the last month, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:39.560 very honest about my fear, very honest about my grief 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.720 and anxiety that all of us have been experiencing over 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.760 the last year, but particularly over the course of this 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:54.240 presidential cycle. And so the ability to now in such 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.840 a short period of time, because folks, again it has 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.760 only been a month, it has only been a month, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.400 to frame this now in not us voting from fear, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:10.360 but voting from a place of possibility and opportunity that 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:15.400 the country has. That we have is the greatest pivot 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:21.679 that I have ever seen a party make. And again 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.360 we have to give credit where credit is due, which 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.600 is to Joe Biden. Which is why we continue to 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.280 hear throughout this week the chance of thank you Joe, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:43.400 because without that man doing what is just unthinkable, giving 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:49.160 up power, putting aside ego, showing what it means to 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.880 truly be a patriot and put country over party or 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.760 self interest and desire, we wouldn't be in this place right. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.760 We would still be hanging on for dear life, where 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:10.280 now we have a fighting chance, like a real chance 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:17.120 to win. And so I will say that it feels 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.600 really fucking good, and you know, shout out to all 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.040 of the people too who are getting at me on 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.920 social media and saying that it's wonderful to see me 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.120 in a place of joy and just happiness, because y'all 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.080 have been listening, following, you know, for a long time, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.880 and you know, like I'm real, I'm a real person. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.000 I don't perform all I do that's different from my 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.559 day to day life and the time that I spend 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.680 interviewing and recording shows is turn on a microphone. But 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.480 how I am on this mic is how I am 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.720 in life, with my friends and with my family, and 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.959 so I don't pretend. So the joy that you were 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.079 sensing for me is fucking real. And it's not to 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.720 say that again, I don't know what is at stake 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.560 and at risk. You all know that I do. But 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:11.280 by this joyful warrior spirit being modeled for all of 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:16.280 us through this campaign, it's just given us another way 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:21.520 to fight, another way to look at the playing field 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.120 that we are on. And you know, there is no 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:31.360 better person to be honest than coach Walls, who last night, 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:37.840 I honestly don't know how you could listen to that man, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:45.000 watch those videos, see his family and not love that 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.560 man and not want that man to be our vice 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.360 president of the United States. Listen to his former you know, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:58.560 students and the kids on his team who are now 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:04.839 obviously grown men, but wow, you know, and the ending 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:09.440 of his speech in you know, giving everything football metaphors 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:14.720 and coaching us through like I feel his energy and 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.560 it's like I want to run through a wall for 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:25.160 this ticket because I believe that if we are able 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.840 to make it possible for them to govern, that the 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:34.720 future of America is going to be so bright that, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.600 of course there will be disagreements. Of course there will 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:44.079 be mistakes that are made, as our Forever Flowtus beautifully stated. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.400 But the fact is is that I think that Kamala 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:54.360 Harris and Tim Walls are exactly the shot of hopefulness, energy, 0:12:55.520 --> 0:13:00.640 good spiritedness that this country has desperately been starved of. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.560 And I say that not because the Biden Harris ticket 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.120 haven't tried to do their best, but I mean, folks, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:15.920 when you're coming into office with over five hundred thousand 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:21.880 Americans dead and thousands three thousand, If you guys, remember 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.439 when Joe Biden was sworn in after the insurrection, after 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.640 in an attempt to overthrow our government and our democracy 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.920 in our election, that three thousand plus Americans were dying 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:42.680 a day a day from COVID, and you had one 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.840 party that was telling us that's no big deal, who cares, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:53.000 didn't matter that we were living in cities and towns 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:58.400 where there were medical ships that were pulled up to 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:04.320 port in New York because we didn't have enough hospital 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:09.840 beds that our dead loved ones were being stored in 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:17.120 refrigerator trucks in our neighborhoods, where lines for food banks 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:26.240 were miles long. Folks like, there was hope on the 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:31.720 way in terms of the distribution of millions of shots 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:38.080 in arms to stop the death. But as you know, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.760 barely see now because mainstream corporate media doesn't want you 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.280 to see, people are still being hospitalized because of COVID 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.880 and people are living with the effects of long COVID. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.680 There was just I just saw right before I came 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.080 on air. You know, the next round of vaccines are 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.240 available for those sixty five and older and those with 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.960 high risk. All of that was made possible by the 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:08.640 Biden Harris administration, and so there wasn't a time for 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:13.560 jubulation when we were just trying to hold on the 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:21.800 last four years. So that's why this moment feels so needed, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.800 so necessary, because we want to be able to move 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:33.080 from a place of surviving to thriving. And the only 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.960 way that we do that is if we do every 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:43.200 fucking thing that we can to get Kamala Harris and 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.960 Tim Walls through that finish line. Because it is going 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:54.600 to take action every single day of registering people to vote, donating, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:01.520 holding house parties, persuading people, getting people to the polls. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.520 Early voting will start in just a couple of weeks 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.560 in some places. So as Tim Walls has been saying, 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.040 we will sleep when we're dead, but we have to 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.000 run through the tape on this one. Then numbers have 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.960 to be so overwhelming that they cannot be disputed. And 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:26.000 if each of us commits to that work, we will 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.120 get this done, and we will be victorious, and we 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.520 will begin to put this country back on a path 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:43.080 of progression and thriving. So I'm excited about listening to 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:47.520 the Vice President. I am excited about the close out 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:52.680 of the DNC, and you will hear my thoughts on 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:58.680 that on Monday's show. And you know, I just I 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.760 wish for all of us the continued energy and determination 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.800 persistence to get this job done, because it is not 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.600 somebody else's job. It is all of our jobs to 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:19.320 get this done. That is it for me today from Chicago. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.320 It has been an extraordinary time and an experience and 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.720 a privilege to be a part a small part of 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:31.600 the history that is being made. And I am so optimistic, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:36.399 so hopeful about what could possibly come next, and I 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.119 hope you all are as well. That is it for 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.719 me today, dear friends on wokef As always, power to 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.320 the people and to all the people power, get woke 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.160 and stay woke as fuck.