WEBVTT - Change is An Inside Job

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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<v Speaker 1>Meet your Girl Daniel Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's episode is really special. Usually I do not do

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<v Speaker 1>solo shows on Monday, but today April first, Happy April

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<v Speaker 1>Fool's Day, we have an announcement and it's kind of wild.

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<v Speaker 1>So today on iHeart, we launch Wokf's fifth season. That's right,

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<v Speaker 1>season five, which is pretty incredible. Five years ago in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen, which pause for shock for that shit, because

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<v Speaker 1>I posted a meme in my Instagram stories I think

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<v Speaker 1>like a week or so ago where it was. Can

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<v Speaker 1>you believe that twenty nineteen was five years ago? It's

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<v Speaker 1>hard to think back that far because so much has happened.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, what you know, Your head just starts spinning

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<v Speaker 1>trying to get back. And literally the other day I

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<v Speaker 1>went into my phone and put in twenty nineteen because

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<v Speaker 1>I literally had no real recollection of that year, like

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<v Speaker 1>it was wild, and so I had to put the

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<v Speaker 1>date in the year in and then begin to go

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<v Speaker 1>through photos and I'm just like, I look, here's my

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<v Speaker 1>thing to you all. Do this. If you have not

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<v Speaker 1>done this, if you don't do this on your phones.

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<v Speaker 1>Do it put in like January twenty nineteen, and then

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<v Speaker 1>just let or twenty nineteen and just go through the year.

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<v Speaker 1>I look like a different person, like one hundred percent

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<v Speaker 1>and the stress, the pandemic, I just look like a

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<v Speaker 1>different person. And so I say that to say that

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<v Speaker 1>when Andrew, my producer, who has been with me since

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<v Speaker 1>the beginning of WOKAF and so we're counting. So if

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<v Speaker 1>folks are like, wait a minute, I've been listening since

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<v Speaker 1>the beginning beginning, We're really looking at twenty nineteen as

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<v Speaker 1>wokf's independence year, which is when I left Sirius XM

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<v Speaker 1>and went to an independent company, went to DCP Entertainment,

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<v Speaker 1>and the show went through a couple of iterations after

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<v Speaker 1>leaving Sirius. And so for me, five years ago is

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<v Speaker 1>a wild time because it was a time that I

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<v Speaker 1>decided to really bet on myself and to bet on you.

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<v Speaker 1>All the listeners. Some have come and go, and there

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<v Speaker 1>are new and old and like ride dies from you know,

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<v Speaker 1>from the beginning, and people that have just heard about

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<v Speaker 1>me recently and are signing up. And I just want

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<v Speaker 1>to say, particularly to all of those that went on

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<v Speaker 1>this ride with me that signed up for Patreon that

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<v Speaker 1>are still on Patreon, which I can't express to you

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<v Speaker 1>all enough what your support financial support has meant for

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<v Speaker 1>my ability to continue doing this show in an independent fashion,

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<v Speaker 1>and even though it's been through so many bumps and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to go through you know them, and I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>we've been through so many bumps on this show, but

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<v Speaker 1>the country, my god, you know, we've been up and

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<v Speaker 1>down Everest, I don't even know how many fucking times

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<v Speaker 1>over the last five years. And so I just want

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<v Speaker 1>to thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

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<v Speaker 1>Just incredibly, I'm so indebted and in so much gratitude

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<v Speaker 1>for the love and support that you all continue to

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<v Speaker 1>show me and have allowed me to actualize my dreams

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<v Speaker 1>in a lot of ways. I just want to start

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<v Speaker 1>off by saying, too, just like a little quick background,

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<v Speaker 1>particularly for those that are new to wokay app, is

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<v Speaker 1>that back way back when you know, I launched this

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<v Speaker 1>show as a response to Donald Trump being elected president

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty sixteen and just being completely and totally fucking

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<v Speaker 1>flabbergasted that this country that I had decided to like

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<v Speaker 1>dedicate my brain power and work and energy and passion

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<v Speaker 1>to making better, whether that be as a school teacher,

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<v Speaker 1>as a fellow on a congressional fellow on Capitol Hill,

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<v Speaker 1>as a federal lobbyist, set a series of organizations and

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<v Speaker 1>cities to working, you know, and launching initiatives to better

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<v Speaker 1>the lives of LGBTQ plus people, particularly those that are

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<v Speaker 1>black and live at the intersection of multiple identities. I

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<v Speaker 1>believed in the promise of this country. I believed in

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<v Speaker 1>the responsibility of each generation to do its part to

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<v Speaker 1>make way right for the generation to come behind it

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<v Speaker 1>and pick up the baton, and that we would get

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<v Speaker 1>better right with more knowledge, more access, more technology, each

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<v Speaker 1>and every year, each and every decade. And then Trump happens,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, I will say, folks that since then,

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<v Speaker 1>since then, and we're talking now, it's like it's so

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<v Speaker 1>hard to kind of go through the years. But Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump was inaugurated seven years ago, and since then it

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<v Speaker 1>is like a portal of hate has opened up in

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<v Speaker 1>this country and is just eating it from the inside out.

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<v Speaker 1>And what began my career as this hopeful, ambitious young

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<v Speaker 1>person that saw how government and policies were able to

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<v Speaker 1>bring my family from Jamaica to the United States to

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<v Speaker 1>build a life and a way that I could then

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<v Speaker 1>exist right and be first generation American born here because

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<v Speaker 1>of policies that allowed for immigration right and the ability

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<v Speaker 1>to start over and build a life right. And my

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<v Speaker 1>family has always had such a strong sense of pride

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<v Speaker 1>for this country. And I think that that's what makes

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<v Speaker 1>me so angry about the anti immigrant, hateful, white supremacist

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<v Speaker 1>rhetoric that we hear in this country, which is that

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<v Speaker 1>you will meet no person of greater pride than an

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<v Speaker 1>immigrant who has come to this country and built a life.

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<v Speaker 1>You will meet no one more dedicated to this country

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<v Speaker 1>than an immigrant that comes here. And that's just facts.

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<v Speaker 1>Because up until right the last seven years, America, while imperfect,

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<v Speaker 1>has been that country where you can start anew and

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<v Speaker 1>build something for you, yourself, your family, build a community.

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<v Speaker 1>That has always been the promise of America in its hopefulness.

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<v Speaker 1>And so and I'm getting like choked up talking about it,

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<v Speaker 1>because what's happened over the last seven years has been

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<v Speaker 1>a robbing, a ransacking of that hopefulness and that idealism

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<v Speaker 1>that everyone should have. Right. You think about things that

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<v Speaker 1>were impossible until they were done. That's the story of America.

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<v Speaker 1>We have so many faults, so don't get me wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>right and I could, I could list them right as

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<v Speaker 1>well as you. But I want to speak about for

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<v Speaker 1>a moment, like the hopefulness and the idealism that is

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<v Speaker 1>actually what has made America great and a standout from

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<v Speaker 1>other nations. What is heartbreaking is that over the last

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<v Speaker 1>five years of me being on air and independent with WOKF,

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<v Speaker 1>I have seen a horrific devolving of America and my

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<v Speaker 1>own hopefulness, my own desire to participate in this American project,

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<v Speaker 1>in this democratic project, because until seven years ago when

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump became President of the United States, there was

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<v Speaker 1>a belief that even though we have horrific gun violence,

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<v Speaker 1>even though black people are killed by police on a

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<v Speaker 1>regular basis, even though there are hate crimes and hatefulness,

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<v Speaker 1>that there was still opportunity and still more people that

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<v Speaker 1>believed that we could be better tomorrow than we were today,

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<v Speaker 1>and that we all, with our varied talents, ethnicities, culture races,

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<v Speaker 1>that we add something, We add value, not by virtue

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<v Speaker 1>of what we produce, but by who we are. But

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<v Speaker 1>now as I look back and I hold up just

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<v Speaker 1>unlike Wikipedia, let me see all of the things that

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<v Speaker 1>happened in twenty nineteen, y'all so much that it is

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<v Speaker 1>genuinely like so hard to think back pre pandemic. But

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<v Speaker 1>I want to give you some highlights. Well, five years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>we weren't in two wars. Five years ago, a million

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<v Speaker 1>plus Americans hadn't died from a global health pandemic. But

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<v Speaker 1>we had a number of Democrats announcing that they were

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<v Speaker 1>going to be running for president, which all of whom

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<v Speaker 1>I had forgotten about, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Mary Ann Williamson,

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<v Speaker 1>Elizabeth Warren, Like, I kind of forgot that so many

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<v Speaker 1>people had announced to take on Trump, and that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the Supreme Court had allowed Donald Trump to roll back

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<v Speaker 1>progress inside of the military with limiting the participation of

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<v Speaker 1>patriotic trans people who wanted to serve their country, and

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<v Speaker 1>this president was like No, I forgot that Roger Stone

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<v Speaker 1>had been charged with seven counts of obstruction of justice

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<v Speaker 1>and witness tampering, but he would later be pardoned right

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<v Speaker 1>by Donald Trump. I forgot that there had been so

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<v Speaker 1>many shootings when you pull up Wikipedia and you look

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<v Speaker 1>and you put in a year, and they listed out

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<v Speaker 1>month by month, and kind of pull out, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>important dates where things had happened, so many shootings, pretty incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats took back the House to stop Trump. Bill Barr

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<v Speaker 1>lied to the American public about the contents of the

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<v Speaker 1>Mull Report. The list kind of goes on and on

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<v Speaker 1>and on, and it's just we've lived so many lives

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<v Speaker 1>since then, and that's kind of what has stood out

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<v Speaker 1>to me the most is that I feel like I

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<v Speaker 1>have a lived so many lives over the last five years.

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<v Speaker 1>Our certainty about things that we could expect, our stability

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<v Speaker 1>have all been uprooted, and there's this sense of feeling

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<v Speaker 1>untethered right like you're just in this consistent state of unraveling.

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<v Speaker 1>And to one extent, I find the unraveling cathartic because

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<v Speaker 1>I think that America has spoon fed us a consistent

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<v Speaker 1>diet of lies about who America is, what our shared

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<v Speaker 1>values are, the idea of our exceptionalism, this badge of

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<v Speaker 1>honor that we would wear around the world as we

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<v Speaker 1>are the hardest working people that never take vacations, while

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<v Speaker 1>the rest of the world looks at us and it's

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<v Speaker 1>just like, huh, but your quality of life is shit

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<v Speaker 1>and you were all dying much younger. The pandemic in

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of ways helped lift the veil around the

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<v Speaker 1>grind of capitalism and the fact that sure, you could

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<v Speaker 1>put in fifty sixty seventy eighty hours a week, but

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<v Speaker 1>if you drop dead, they will clean out your cubicle,

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<v Speaker 1>your office, your locker in within a day and slide

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<v Speaker 1>somebody else into your slot, pay them half of what

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<v Speaker 1>you are being paid, and start the process all over again.

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<v Speaker 1>We started to real lies during the course of the pandemic,

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<v Speaker 1>how important precious and short our time on this planet is,

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<v Speaker 1>and how do we really want to be living our lives,

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<v Speaker 1>and do we really want to be living our lives

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<v Speaker 1>in a way where we're spending our days, hours off

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<v Speaker 1>of our lives, commuting, putting our lives on hold, so

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<v Speaker 1>that we could put the value in the importance of

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<v Speaker 1>insert said company, said organization. First, well, they pay my bills, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>But can you also be a full human being? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>People loved to talk about work life balance, but what

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<v Speaker 1>folks realize for those that were privileged enough to be

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<v Speaker 1>able to do their jobs from home was that going

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<v Speaker 1>into the office was a lie for corporate real estate

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<v Speaker 1>and for your bosses to be your overlords because there

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<v Speaker 1>was a lack of trust. But yet they want to

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<v Speaker 1>say that we're a family. Keep that familial language out

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<v Speaker 1>your mouth. This is a job. My family doesn't hold

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<v Speaker 1>evaluations and then fire me. Right. My family doesn't put

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<v Speaker 1>my worth right in connection to what I produce for them.

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<v Speaker 1>So this idea that your workplace is your family is

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<v Speaker 1>a lie. It is it's a lie to get you

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<v Speaker 1>to go above and beyond but only be paid what

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<v Speaker 1>is on the ground. So why am I going above that?

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<v Speaker 1>So people started to think differently and move differently, and

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<v Speaker 1>we like to joke and I have about generation ze.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh they don't want to work as hard and blah blah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>because actually no, they want to work smarter. They want

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<v Speaker 1>work to actually work for them and their lives and

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<v Speaker 1>not the other way around, because they've seen their parents

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<v Speaker 1>and their grandparents burn the fuck out. What would have

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<v Speaker 1>made a difference if not just following along and climbing

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<v Speaker 1>up the ladder right, hoping to be recognized and to

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<v Speaker 1>be seen and to someday be paid your worth. But

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<v Speaker 1>you just go along for the get along. That's what

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<v Speaker 1>the prior generations did. And this one whose life was

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<v Speaker 1>abruptly halted by a global health pandemic. They have a

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<v Speaker 1>different understanding of how precious life and time is and

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<v Speaker 1>how everything can be gone in an instant. We can

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<v Speaker 1>learn from them instead of thinking that we know everything,

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<v Speaker 1>We can learn from how gen Z looks at work

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<v Speaker 1>and thinks to themselves, Yeah, this is just not my vibe.

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<v Speaker 1>You know everything can stop tomorrow because it has, so

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<v Speaker 1>how do I want to live this one precious life?

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<v Speaker 1>These are some of the questions that we have been

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<v Speaker 1>asking ourselves, folks over these last five years, over the

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<v Speaker 1>last five seasons of WOKF, where we've tried to bring

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<v Speaker 1>in experts and academics and authors to work through these

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<v Speaker 1>conversations with us, to maybe offer us a different perspective,

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<v Speaker 1>a different vantage point, to help open up and expand

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<v Speaker 1>our minds and our hearts a bit more. But when

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<v Speaker 1>we really take a minute, take a pause, to sit

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<v Speaker 1>back and look at all we've made it through to

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<v Speaker 1>this point, My God, do we owe ourselves more than

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<v Speaker 1>a round of applause, more than a pat on the back.

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<v Speaker 1>We need to sit in deep gratitude for how much

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<v Speaker 1>we have been through and we are still here. There

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<v Speaker 1>are so many that are not. We have definitely been

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<v Speaker 1>going through really dark times. But I still when I

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<v Speaker 1>can see sunshine and blue skies and hear the birds,

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<v Speaker 1>that's when my possibility and hopefulness grows. And some days

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<v Speaker 1>I got it, some days I don't. Some days you

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<v Speaker 1>got it, some days you don't. But we hope right

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<v Speaker 1>that there are people around us who do have it

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<v Speaker 1>when we don't, who can carry the hopefulness when we

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<v Speaker 1>are feeling hopeless, that we can be in community and

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<v Speaker 1>be balancing each other out as we move through these

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<v Speaker 1>really difficult times. America has change so much, and not

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<v Speaker 1>for the better in a lot of ways. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we've made way for a return to unabashed racism. We've

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<v Speaker 1>moved back to a place where white supremacy is celebrated

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<v Speaker 1>and not marginalized. It's hard, I tell you this often

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<v Speaker 1>it is hard to get on this microphone some days.

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<v Speaker 1>The last five years have been really difficult, very challenging

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<v Speaker 1>to keep going and feeling like there is any impact

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<v Speaker 1>to be had. So I just deeply appreciate those of

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<v Speaker 1>you who send messages and tweet and post and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>share bits and pieces of the show, because I will

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<v Speaker 1>tell you that I've had a lot of dark days,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of days when I want to just pull

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<v Speaker 1>the plug and I say, what does it all mean?

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<v Speaker 1>Does it even matter? And then on those very low days,

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<v Speaker 1>someone comments, share is a thought, thanks me. And I

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<v Speaker 1>have always said that if I can only reach one person,

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<v Speaker 1>but that one person then sees things differently and then

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<v Speaker 1>starts having different conversations with the people around them, and

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<v Speaker 1>then those people start to see things differently, and so

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<v Speaker 1>on and so forth, and then we become this ripple effect.

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<v Speaker 1>Because what I do know is that change is an

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<v Speaker 1>inside job. So if we can change and shift the

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<v Speaker 1>way that we think and expand and the way that

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<v Speaker 1>we love, and we begin that work on ourselves, that

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<v Speaker 1>light shines out and it opens other people's eyes, It

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<v Speaker 1>pulls the veil off, and it gives other people that

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<v Speaker 1>you may not even know, permission to do something differently,

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<v Speaker 1>to speak up, to take on varied responsibility to make

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<v Speaker 1>this world better. So, on this five year anniversary and

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<v Speaker 1>the kickoff of season five of Woke AFFI Daily on iHeart,

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<v Speaker 1>I just want to thank each and every single one

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<v Speaker 1>of you for your hopefulness, for your persistence, for your valor,

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<v Speaker 1>for your love and support of independent media and voices

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<v Speaker 1>like mine and a show like this. I would not

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<v Speaker 1>have made it through the last five years without you all,

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<v Speaker 1>so thank you. That is it for me today. Dear

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<v Speaker 1>friends on Woke af AS always, power to the people

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<v Speaker 1>and to all the people power, get woke and stay

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<v Speaker 1>woke as fuck.