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Speaker 1: Welcome to Woke a F, a place for bold, authentic,

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Speaker 1: patreon dot com, slash woke a F and subscribe. This

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Speaker 1: week on woke Wednesday, I chatted with my friend, author

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Speaker 1: of the book Dying of Whiteness, doctor Jonathan Metzel, about

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Speaker 1: how we preserve our mental health in these perilous times.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen. The last thing that I want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, ask and because we are working to expand

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Speaker 1: Woke a F and expand it in terms of the

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Speaker 1: conversations that we have that are not just steeped in

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Speaker 1: politics and not just steeped in the bad, but also

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Speaker 1: helping people to figure out ways to just live better,

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Speaker 1: especially you know, during this time when you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like in some ways people feel like joy is limited, right,

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Speaker 1: and we are talking about adaptation. So I'm just thinking

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Speaker 1: for folks, especially folks that are in the medical profession,

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Speaker 1: who are on the front lines. They're seeing all of

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Speaker 1: the horrors that we're only hearing about and I wish

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Speaker 1: that we saw it because I think that our behavior

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Speaker 1: would change from seeing it with our own two eyes.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not, I don't know. But what advice do

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Speaker 1: you impart on people or what do you do in

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Speaker 1: order to keep like your spirits like you know, they

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Speaker 1: may not be at one hundred percent, but in order

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Speaker 1: to stay like out of the dark clouds? What advice like,

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Speaker 1: what do you know your friends do family members that

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Speaker 1: are like, you know, yeah, it sucks, but like I

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Speaker 1: just developed this, I just started doing this, or like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just want to give people something that

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Speaker 1: they can hold onto when they feel so out of control. Well,

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Speaker 1: I never knew taking payote was so shut up, I

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Speaker 1: I you know, I would say that there's there's a

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Speaker 1: you know, I just keep thinking back to the literatures

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Speaker 1: on mood and exercise. It's not just that we're stuck

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Speaker 1: with this coronavirus floating around and a crazy ass government

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. It's also that our

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Speaker 1: lives are so unmoving right now, we don't move at all,

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Speaker 1: and so in a way, there's all this great literature

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Speaker 1: about different kinds of ways that you can increase your

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Speaker 1: mood by becoming active in ways that you weren't before.

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Speaker 1: There was a great video in New York Times the

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Speaker 1: other day about a seven minute home workout that you

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Speaker 1: can do a couple times a day to keep your

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Speaker 1: heart rate up and things like that. So I think

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Speaker 1: part of the issue is how can you stay active

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Speaker 1: in a way that is completely I mean in the

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Speaker 1: old days, like you'd run to the sub way, right

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Speaker 1: you know, meet your friends to go jogging or something

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Speaker 1: like that. We have none of that stuff right now.

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Speaker 1: And so part of it for me is about staying active.

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Speaker 1: And so just personally, every three hours, I have a

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Speaker 1: twenty minute some kind of movement break something like that,

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Speaker 1: just to force myself not to be at my computer

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Speaker 1: the entire day. And it for me that has really helped,

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Speaker 1: even if it's at this inside seven minute workout or

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Speaker 1: doing exercise bands or p ninety x or going jogging

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Speaker 1: when it's not too cold out and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: And so I think movement for me is something that

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Speaker 1: I wasn't used to doing it the way like like intentional, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but not only I do it the way I snack

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Speaker 1: in a way right now, which is I don't do it.

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Speaker 1: It's not like a huge meal all the time. I'll

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Speaker 1: do like twenty minutes of exercise every three hours or

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Speaker 1: something like that, and got it to me that has

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Speaker 1: actually made a huge difference, you know, and if not,

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Speaker 1: then Peyote is you know, two thumbs up. But but no,

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Speaker 1: But but I would say I would say that, I

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Speaker 1: would say that that in a way, it's it's a

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Speaker 1: different way of thinking about your body and movement and

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Speaker 1: embodiment in a way that I think is super important.

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Speaker 1: And I realized that's not like a deep reflection kind

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Speaker 1: like for me, I was realizing so much of my

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Speaker 1: own kind of Saturday nine mood was the fact that

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Speaker 1: I'm not used to or not made for, standing in

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Speaker 1: front of my computer. Yep, yeah, no, I think that

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Speaker 1: that's right. I tell Fok, I work out every day.

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Speaker 1: I probably work out five or to six times a

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Speaker 1: week doing things that I really like. So whether it's

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Speaker 1: like that. But I do realize that movement is so

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Speaker 1: important because I live in a very small apartment in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: and if I look at my step pedometer, it can

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Speaker 1: that's not going to work. So I do think it's

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Speaker 1: really important, especially as we are all parked in front

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Speaker 1: three hours, every ninety minute, you know, every ninety minutes,

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Speaker 1: every two hours, something that is a reminder in your calendar,

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Speaker 1: you know that goes off. That's like, huh, I've been

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Speaker 1: sitting a long time. Let me do a couple of

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Speaker 1: yoga poses. Let me go, you know us step outside

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Speaker 1: and like take in some air, you know, with my

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Speaker 1: mask on and do those things. So that is helpful.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Metze, we always appreciate you for breaking down, you know,

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Speaker 1: hard news, but you always do it with humor and light,

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Speaker 1: and we appreciate that. To hear my full conversation with Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: head over to patreon dot com. Slash woke f This

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Speaker 1: week we witness the absolute worst that America has to offer.

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Speaker 1: We watched in real time and insurrection take place at

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Speaker 1: the Capitol Building and on Thursday's show, I could not

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Speaker 1: help myself. I was overcome with rage, with grief with

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Speaker 1: madness at how we even got here. I am outdone

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Speaker 1: and overwhelmed with a sense of grief at what we

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Speaker 1: have witnessed over the last twenty four hours in America. Tragedy.

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Speaker 1: Tragedy would be the genre of this American tale for

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Speaker 1: those that are claiming to be naive, ignorant saying to themselves,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe this is happening. Or the US Capitol

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Speaker 1: Police were caught off guard. No one could have prepared

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Speaker 1: for this. Understand, dear friends, trusted listeners, that they are

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Speaker 1: indeed full of a type of shit, a type of

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Speaker 1: manure that is just so fucking wretched. Donald Trump tweeted

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, weeks ago, that what was to transpire on

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Speaker 1: January sixth would indeed be wild. Those were his words.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, let's just even not look at the last

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Speaker 1: five years, let's just look at the last few months.

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Speaker 1: Had claimed a head of an election that the election,

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Speaker 1: if he did not win, it was rigged, and then

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Speaker 1: his supporters would have their way with this country regardless.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not a person that asks for consent

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Speaker 1: or that even understands what the word consent actually fucking means. Well,

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Speaker 1: we would know that from the over twenty fucking alleged

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Speaker 1: rape cases and sexual harassment cases. So it is of

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Speaker 1: no surprise. It should be of no shock to us, then,

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Speaker 1: right that we have arrived at a place where Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has decided to have his way with America, whether

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Speaker 1: we consent to it, acknowledge it or not. We have

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Speaker 1: been set up. We have been led astray to believe

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Speaker 1: that this constitution, that these political norms that we have

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Speaker 1: allowed ourselves to believe and digest as truth or what

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Speaker 1: and who defines us. But no, that is not the case.

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Speaker 1: What defines us as a nation is the leadership that

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Speaker 1: we choose to represent us. So what message did we

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Speaker 1: send to the world in twenty sixteen when we decided

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Speaker 1: to give the power of our democracy to our reality

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Speaker 1: TV show host who told us from the beginning just

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Speaker 1: how racist and rancid he was. We gave up being

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Speaker 1: we the people when we decided as a collective that

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Speaker 1: a white supremacy should be who follows in the steps

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Speaker 1: of our first African American president. What we are witnessing

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Speaker 1: is the collective blowback of what happens when white supremacy

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Speaker 1: is challenged. This country is a disgrace It is a

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Speaker 1: remarkable piece of trash. And I say that with pain

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Speaker 1: in my heart because I knew that this day was coming.

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Speaker 1: I felt it. I've known it for years. This is America.

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Speaker 1: A M E R I K K K A. Folks.

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