1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: I hope, hope that your holiday weekend was RESTful. I 4 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: hope that this Labor Day weekend that you did not 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: labor unless it was to do a labor of joy 6 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: like gardening or walking or caring for your kids or elderly. I, 7 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: for one, had a really wonderful holiday weekend. Usually I 8 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: end up going away and then rushing back to get 9 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: organized and clean out my fridge and do all of 10 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: the things. And this holiday weekend, I decided to stay 11 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: home and I got a labor of love completed, which 12 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: I was really excited about, and got to catch up 13 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: with old friends that I hadn't seen in a while, 14 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time outside, and just feel rejuvenated. 15 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: As we're starting off this first week in September, and 16 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: it's ninety something degrees here, so just know that just 17 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: because it is back to school does not mean that 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: the temperature is going to be cool. You know, it 19 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: is summer technically until September twenty first. Nonetheless, folks, I'm 20 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: looking at these fucking headlines and I'm like, oh, what 21 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: am I going to talk about on this woke Wednesday? 22 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: And you know, here's what I will say. I did 23 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: a little TV over the weekend, and if you follow 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: me on social then you saw the clips that went out. 25 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: I did Yasmin the Sugian Show. Yasmin is a friend 26 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: of mine and I always just enjoy our conversations on 27 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: her show. And you know, she asked me what the 28 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: Biden administration should do to deal with these you know, 29 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: Republicans and their push for impeachment and their bullshit increase 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: and blah blah, And I said something very just easy, 31 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: you know, I said, the Biden administration, just like all 32 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: of the supposed journalists that cover the White House on 33 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: a regular basis, do you know what they should do? 34 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: Maybe just ask the Republicans what they're offering the American people, 35 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: simple and then follow up, right, Because what you're concentrating 36 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: on right is banning books, banning abortion, gutting school curriculum, 37 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: criminalizing the LGBTQ community, erasing the experiences and exceptionalism of 38 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: black people, denying climate change, and you know, just basically 39 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: doing everything that you can to stick up for Donald Trump. 40 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: So what is it that you are actually doing for 41 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 1: the American people. How are you sticking up for them? 42 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: And what does that look like? And just wait, those 43 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: are real questions that the American people want to know, right, 44 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: should have answers to by one of the two supposed 45 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: political parties in this country. But like I continue to 46 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: say and all of you know who listen to WOGAF 47 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: is that the Republican Party is not a political party. 48 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: They are a cult and a movement for Christo nationalism 49 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: in this country. That's it. There's a reason why in 50 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, when Donald Trump was running and lost handedly, 51 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: there was a reason why the Republican Party didn't bother 52 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: coming up with an agenda. You see, every four years, 53 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: the political parties in this country come up with their 54 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: agenda so that the American voters know what it is 55 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: that they are voting for or against. And in twenty twenty, 56 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: the Republican Party was like, we don't need to do that, right, 57 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: We'll just roll with what we did in twenty sixteen, 58 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: the world had vastly shifted in the four years that 59 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was the president of this country. We had 60 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: banned individuals from entering this country who were black, and Brown, 61 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: we put children in cages and rip them from their parents. Right, 62 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: we had had a and were in the midst of 63 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: a global health pandemic where we recognized that we did 64 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: not have important communication methods and just centralized public health information. 65 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: And that's just like the tip of the iceberg. But 66 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: during one of the most important consequential times in our 67 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: country and in the world, there Republican said, We'll just 68 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: do a rewind a redo and give the American people 69 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: the same thing that we gave them in twenty sixteen. Folks, 70 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: that should have been a huge red flag for anybody 71 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: that was paying attention, particularly those people who vote for Republicans, 72 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: because then they were telling you what they were going 73 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: to offer you, which was a big bag of fucking nothing. 74 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: Sharing the same grievances and disliking the same people is 75 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: not a recipe to enhance your life. This is a 76 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: thing that I'm realizing about the Republican Party and just 77 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:53,239 Speaker 1: the way that this cult is moving is that it 78 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: isn't about offering a fucking thing. It's about saying, oh, 79 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: you hate that person down the street, I hate them too, Okay, 80 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: so now we hate the same person. How is your 81 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: life better. Are they giving you more money? Do you 82 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: have better health insurance? Do your kids go to a 83 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: better school? Because you guys have decided to hate the 84 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: same people. You want to control what the fuck it 85 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: is your kids learn. Here's an idea, fucking homeschool them. Right, 86 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 1: you want to control what your kids learn, but I 87 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: don't want you controlling what my kids learn. That's what 88 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: it means to be at a public school. It's open 89 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: to the public. If you want a private or religious education, 90 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: then go to a private or religious school. But a 91 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: public education is about teaching people all aspects of what 92 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: it means to operate and function inside of a society. Right, 93 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: not protect you from the truth. And I realized that 94 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: there is just this desire for infantilism with the Republican Party. 95 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: The way that they treat their base, the way that 96 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: they treat Donald Trump. It's surely not like a man. 97 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: And some would say, oh, well, it's because they want 98 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: to turn him into a god. No, he's pretty much 99 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: like a baby that they just pat on the head, right, 100 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: they burp, they clean up his spit, up all of 101 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,119 Speaker 1: those things, and they tend to his every need. That's 102 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: not a god. That's a child. So when asked these 103 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: questions about you know, are we going to avert a shutdown? 104 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: Because you know that the next three weeks of the 105 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: political news cycle is going to be about whether or 106 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: not the Biden administration is going to cave to the 107 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: McCarthy House of Representatives and whether or not they're going 108 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: to impeach him and open up an peachment inquiry and 109 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: do all. It's bullshit, it's bullshit. I've literally turned off 110 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: the news as soon as they started talking about, oh, impeachment, 111 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: I was like, no, actually, we're not going to both 112 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: sides this. Actually, I'm not gonna have this energy inside 113 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: of my household because we know what it is, And 114 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: if reporters actually wanted to do reporting, then they would say, 115 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: there's absolutely no basis for this, and we're not going 116 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,079 Speaker 1: to cover it, right. But what we will cover are 117 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: the four indictments that Donald Trump is under and the 118 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: ninety one charges that are against him and his ilk 119 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: because that's actual news, and whether or not the rule 120 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: of law right is applied equally, which we know the 121 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: fuck that it's not right. We know that there are 122 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: people sitting inside of rikers, sitting inside of Fulton county jails, 123 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: sitting inside of jails and institutions all across this country 124 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: that have done something as little as selid bed of weed, 125 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: something as little as shoplift, something as little, you know, 126 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: as things like that, and they're serving out these ridiculously 127 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 1: harsh sentences. Why because the justice system was set up 128 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 1: to be another arm of slavery. That's it, so that 129 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: you can then incarcerate these people black and brown people, 130 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: particularly men, say that they are criminals, which you believe, 131 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: whether or not they're behind bars or free, force them 132 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: into labor at two cents right on the dollar to 133 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: earn their freedom back to when they turn around and 134 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: then get free. You don't give them back their voting rights, 135 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: and you don't allow them to reintegrate into society, fulfilling 136 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: the recidivism back into prison so that they can continue 137 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: to push out goods. We don't believe in sweatshops in 138 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: this country, but we don't actually talk about the forced 139 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: labor camps inside of our own prison system and who 140 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: the fuck is doing the work? Give me a break, 141 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: you know. That's what I've been reflecting on over this 142 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend, is like the lies around labor and work, 143 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: capitalism and patriarchy right, and the affair between them. You know, 144 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm reading this book because all I do these days. 145 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: If you were to see, if I were to just 146 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: like turn the camera around and show you how many 147 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: books I have everywhere, like I'm running out of space, 148 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: I have a problem. But then also people send me 149 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 1: books so that I can interview authors. Nonetheless, I am 150 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: reading this book for pleasure. And it's like a coffee 151 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: table book. And it's called Hua, which is the French 152 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: word for joy, and it is this beautiful book about 153 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: living in France written by a black woman named Agerie. 154 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: And I will tell you, folks, it is just a 155 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: little piece of heaven every time that I open it. 156 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: But one of the sections talked about the month of 157 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: August in France, and the joke in the United States 158 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: is always like all the French don't work and they're 159 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: always on break, and it's you know, how does anything 160 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: ever get done? And what I learned in the book, 161 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: believe it or not, around some politics, was that the 162 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: French have a mandatory five week vacation. Everyone does five 163 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: weeks off. They have a law that makes it illegal 164 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 1: to eat at your desk, to be forced to eat 165 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: at your desk. Everyone is given an hour at minimum 166 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: to go and eat lunch, somewhere, to sit, to be, 167 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: to exist like a human being, not a machine that 168 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: is just pushing out product and is measured in their productivity. 169 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: We in America used to scoff and laugh at the 170 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: French for their what healthcare system that provides for parents 171 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: to be home when they have a newborn for a year? Right? Oh, 172 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: our country would fall apart? No, the fuck it wouldn't. Actually, 173 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: just like we thought that if you didn't grind yourself 174 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: away inside of a cubicle from nine to five, then 175 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: somehow companies and businesses wouldn't make any money. Shock and surprise, 176 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: they made more. Because the happier that people are, the 177 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: more ability that they have to actually function during their 178 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: working hours as a full fledged human being makes them 179 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: a bit more productive. Surprise that all of the reports 180 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: and all of the information that is pointed in that 181 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: direction only happened because of a global health pandemic when 182 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: people were forced to shelter in place. So when I 183 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: think about labor and the ways that you know, because 184 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: I've been thinking a lot about traveling and the fact 185 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: that I want to travel more. That next year, I 186 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: am planning several trips and one of them will be 187 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: to take off for a considerable amount of time in August, 188 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: and folks will be like, oh my god, like, how 189 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: are you going to do that? You have these shows 190 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Just like everyone else, I too, 191 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: am tired, and I am tired of following a news 192 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: cycle that doesn't produce any new information, just new outrage. 193 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: So to take a break, right, And I think about traveling, 194 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 1: and I'm just like, there's so many places in the 195 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: world that I want to go to. And the fact 196 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: is is that two weeks really is not enough, particularly 197 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: if you're flying somewhere that it takes an entire day 198 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: to get to and you need the time and the 199 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: ability to adjust to a new time zone, give your 200 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: body ability to acclimate, and then you begin your exploration. Well, 201 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: if you were to do that properly, it would take 202 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: three weeks. And so why is that so unheard of 203 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: to be able to do? Why is that rest something 204 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: that we only give in the United States to the 205 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: fucking rich when there are actual countries who are quote 206 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: unquote developed like America that do this on a regular 207 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: fucking basis that they have put it in their constitutions. 208 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: We just accept the fucking bare minimum because that's all 209 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: that we've ever been given. That's what I'm realizing. Being 210 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: in a relationship, and I've said this on this show 211 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: before with America is like being with an abusive partner. 212 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: Every once in a while, they show you some kindness, 213 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: or they show you that you matter. But on the 214 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, if you are a person, if 215 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: you are black, if you are brown, if you are 216 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: a woman, if you are LGBTQ plus, if you are 217 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: an immigrant, if you are not Christian, this country treats 218 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: you like fucking trash. And yet we still do everything 219 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: that we possibly can to be loved. Right, And what 220 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: does that love we think look like? Right? Look, I'll 221 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: grind myself into the ground for you so long as 222 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: I have you know, healthcare. I'll grind myself into the 223 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: ground for you, so long that I can afford to 224 00:15:54,200 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: pay half of my income to rent. Folks, there is 225 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: a deep evaluation that I'm doing these days. You know. 226 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: It comes from finishing up over the summer Bell Hook's 227 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: book All about Love, which, for if you have not 228 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: read it, I highly recommend it. It comes from finishing 229 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: Young Pueblo's lighter. It comes from just really thinking about 230 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: a better way to live and a better way to exist. 231 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: And it cannot be the consistent outrage and grinding ourselves 232 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: into the ground because it's not working. Do you know 233 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The only thing that it's doing is 234 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: welcoming in an early grave, is welcoming in disease. And I, 235 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: for one, am tired of it, like I really am. 236 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: There was a deep reflection that I have been in 237 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: and been doing for a while now, journaling and meditating 238 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: and praying and coming to a different kind of wokeness, 239 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: a different kind of consciousness, a different kind of tapping 240 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: in and really wanting to connect with what actually nourishes 241 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: your soul, your spirit. Right, I feel like we are 242 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: just giving our energy and our vibration and our power 243 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: to these evil forces that keep us in this juggernaut 244 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: of rage and anger. And I'm just like, for what, 245 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green is going to be an asshole whether 246 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: you tap into the news today or not. She ain't changing. 247 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy's going to be a spineless piece of trash. 248 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: Whether you follow every single headline of how he's being 249 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: used and abused by the very evil ass people that 250 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: he gave authority over the publican party. Right, the polls 251 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: are gonna waver and go up and down and up 252 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: and down, because this mainstream media is going to cover 253 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 1: this election cycle like it's normal, right, like it's the 254 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: twentieth century and it's a horse race and someone's up 255 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: and someone's down, as opposed to saying that really it 256 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: is about our ability to function in side of a 257 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: democracy or whether or not America's empire is finally crumpling 258 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: and we're too scared to really recognize it because we 259 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: have never thought about what is on the other side 260 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: after it's done. Everything has its cycle, everything has its time, 261 00:18:48,600 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: and that's the thing that is always true. Change change. 262 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: As Octavia Butler said Impowable, the Powable series, God has changed. Right, 263 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,360 Speaker 1: everything you touch you change, and everything that you change 264 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: changes you. And so the question that we all need 265 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: to be asking ourselves these days is how do we 266 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: want to change? Because change is inevitable. Do we want 267 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: to pickle inside of ourselves or do we want to 268 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: nourish ourselves? And what does that nourishment look like? Right? 269 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: Because eating a donut and eating a salad, you're eating 270 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: one is nourishing you. The other is right just quick, 271 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: fast food that doesn't add anything except sugar to your bloodstream, 272 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: that gives you a momentary high and then it fades. 273 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: These are the things that I'm contemplating these days, as 274 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: we're ending this year, the couple of months left to 275 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: go and enter into what I believe is going to 276 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: be one of the most vicious electoral cycles of our 277 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: life and potentially the last. And so the question that 278 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: I want all of you listening to ponder on this 279 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: Wednesdays what does consciousness really mean for you? What does 280 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: it mean to be woke for you in this day 281 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: and age? Tell me if you're a patron underneath this video. 282 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: For those that are not patrons, every Wednesday and Friday 283 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: is a video show, So tell me what you think 284 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: underneath this video. And for my other wonderful listeners, get 285 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: at me on the socials, because I think that we 286 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: are living inside of a really significant moment of deciding 287 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 1: not only who we are going to be as a collective, 288 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: but who we want to be individually, right, and are 289 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: we ignoring those alarms that are going off That is 290 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: it for me today. Dear friends on Woke af AS always, 291 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power, 292 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.