Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I hope, hope that your holiday weekend was RESTful. I
Speaker 1: hope that this Labor Day weekend that you did not
Speaker 1: labor unless it was to do a labor of joy
Speaker 1: like gardening or walking or caring for your kids or elderly. I,
Speaker 1: for one, had a really wonderful holiday weekend. Usually I
Speaker 1: end up going away and then rushing back to get
Speaker 1: organized and clean out my fridge and do all of
Speaker 1: the things. And this holiday weekend, I decided to stay
Speaker 1: home and I got a labor of love completed, which
Speaker 1: I was really excited about, and got to catch up
Speaker 1: with old friends that I hadn't seen in a while,
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time outside, and just feel rejuvenated.
Speaker 1: As we're starting off this first week in September, and
Speaker 1: it's ninety something degrees here, so just know that just
Speaker 1: because it is back to school does not mean that
Speaker 1: the temperature is going to be cool. You know, it
Speaker 1: is summer technically until September twenty first. Nonetheless, folks, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at these fucking headlines and I'm like, oh, what
Speaker 1: am I going to talk about on this woke Wednesday?
Speaker 1: And you know, here's what I will say. I did
Speaker 1: a little TV over the weekend, and if you follow
Speaker 1: me on social then you saw the clips that went out.
Speaker 1: I did Yasmin the Sugian Show. Yasmin is a friend
Speaker 1: of mine and I always just enjoy our conversations on
Speaker 1: her show. And you know, she asked me what the
Speaker 1: Biden administration should do to deal with these you know,
Speaker 1: Republicans and their push for impeachment and their bullshit increase
Speaker 1: and blah blah, And I said something very just easy,
Speaker 1: you know, I said, the Biden administration, just like all
Speaker 1: of the supposed journalists that cover the White House on
Speaker 1: a regular basis, do you know what they should do?
Speaker 1: Maybe just ask the Republicans what they're offering the American people,
Speaker 1: simple and then follow up, right, Because what you're concentrating
Speaker 1: on right is banning books, banning abortion, gutting school curriculum,
Speaker 1: criminalizing the LGBTQ community, erasing the experiences and exceptionalism of
Speaker 1: black people, denying climate change, and you know, just basically
Speaker 1: doing everything that you can to stick up for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So what is it that you are actually doing for
Speaker 1: the American people. How are you sticking up for them?
Speaker 1: And what does that look like? And just wait, those
Speaker 1: are real questions that the American people want to know, right,
Speaker 1: should have answers to by one of the two supposed
Speaker 1: political parties in this country. But like I continue to
Speaker 1: say and all of you know who listen to WOGAF
Speaker 1: is that the Republican Party is not a political party.
Speaker 1: They are a cult and a movement for Christo nationalism
Speaker 1: in this country. That's it. There's a reason why in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, when Donald Trump was running and lost handedly,
Speaker 1: there was a reason why the Republican Party didn't bother
Speaker 1: coming up with an agenda. You see, every four years,
Speaker 1: the political parties in this country come up with their
Speaker 1: agenda so that the American voters know what it is
Speaker 1: that they are voting for or against. And in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: the Republican Party was like, we don't need to do that, right,
Speaker 1: We'll just roll with what we did in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: the world had vastly shifted in the four years that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was the president of this country. We had
Speaker 1: banned individuals from entering this country who were black, and Brown,
Speaker 1: we put children in cages and rip them from their parents. Right,
Speaker 1: we had had a and were in the midst of
Speaker 1: a global health pandemic where we recognized that we did
Speaker 1: not have important communication methods and just centralized public health information.
Speaker 1: And that's just like the tip of the iceberg. But
Speaker 1: during one of the most important consequential times in our
Speaker 1: country and in the world, there Republican said, We'll just
Speaker 1: do a rewind a redo and give the American people
Speaker 1: the same thing that we gave them in twenty sixteen. Folks,
Speaker 1: that should have been a huge red flag for anybody
Speaker 1: that was paying attention, particularly those people who vote for Republicans,
Speaker 1: because then they were telling you what they were going
Speaker 1: to offer you, which was a big bag of fucking nothing.
Speaker 1: Sharing the same grievances and disliking the same people is
Speaker 1: not a recipe to enhance your life. This is a
Speaker 1: thing that I'm realizing about the Republican Party and just
Speaker 1: the way that this cult is moving is that it
Speaker 1: isn't about offering a fucking thing. It's about saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you hate that person down the street, I hate them too, Okay,
Speaker 1: so now we hate the same person. How is your
Speaker 1: life better. Are they giving you more money? Do you
Speaker 1: have better health insurance? Do your kids go to a
Speaker 1: better school? Because you guys have decided to hate the
Speaker 1: same people. You want to control what the fuck it
Speaker 1: is your kids learn. Here's an idea, fucking homeschool them. Right,
Speaker 1: you want to control what your kids learn, but I
Speaker 1: don't want you controlling what my kids learn. That's what
Speaker 1: it means to be at a public school. It's open
Speaker 1: to the public. If you want a private or religious education,
Speaker 1: then go to a private or religious school. But a
Speaker 1: public education is about teaching people all aspects of what
Speaker 1: it means to operate and function inside of a society. Right,
Speaker 1: not protect you from the truth. And I realized that
Speaker 1: there is just this desire for infantilism with the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: The way that they treat their base, the way that
Speaker 1: they treat Donald Trump. It's surely not like a man.
Speaker 1: And some would say, oh, well, it's because they want
Speaker 1: to turn him into a god. No, he's pretty much
Speaker 1: like a baby that they just pat on the head, right,
Speaker 1: they burp, they clean up his spit, up all of
Speaker 1: those things, and they tend to his every need. That's
Speaker 1: not a god. That's a child. So when asked these
Speaker 1: questions about you know, are we going to avert a shutdown?
Speaker 1: Because you know that the next three weeks of the
Speaker 1: political news cycle is going to be about whether or
Speaker 1: not the Biden administration is going to cave to the
Speaker 1: McCarthy House of Representatives and whether or not they're going
Speaker 1: to impeach him and open up an peachment inquiry and
Speaker 1: do all. It's bullshit, it's bullshit. I've literally turned off
Speaker 1: the news as soon as they started talking about, oh, impeachment,
Speaker 1: I was like, no, actually, we're not going to both
Speaker 1: sides this. Actually, I'm not gonna have this energy inside
Speaker 1: of my household because we know what it is, And
Speaker 1: if reporters actually wanted to do reporting, then they would say,
Speaker 1: there's absolutely no basis for this, and we're not going
Speaker 1: to cover it, right. But what we will cover are
Speaker 1: the four indictments that Donald Trump is under and the
Speaker 1: ninety one charges that are against him and his ilk
Speaker 1: because that's actual news, and whether or not the rule
Speaker 1: of law right is applied equally, which we know the
Speaker 1: fuck that it's not right. We know that there are
Speaker 1: people sitting inside of rikers, sitting inside of Fulton county jails,
Speaker 1: sitting inside of jails and institutions all across this country
Speaker 1: that have done something as little as selid bed of weed,
Speaker 1: something as little as shoplift, something as little, you know,
Speaker 1: as things like that, and they're serving out these ridiculously
Speaker 1: harsh sentences. Why because the justice system was set up
Speaker 1: to be another arm of slavery. That's it, so that
Speaker 1: you can then incarcerate these people black and brown people,
Speaker 1: particularly men, say that they are criminals, which you believe,
Speaker 1: whether or not they're behind bars or free, force them
Speaker 1: into labor at two cents right on the dollar to
Speaker 1: earn their freedom back to when they turn around and
Speaker 1: then get free. You don't give them back their voting rights,
Speaker 1: and you don't allow them to reintegrate into society, fulfilling
Speaker 1: the recidivism back into prison so that they can continue
Speaker 1: to push out goods. We don't believe in sweatshops in
Speaker 1: this country, but we don't actually talk about the forced
Speaker 1: labor camps inside of our own prison system and who
Speaker 1: the fuck is doing the work? Give me a break,
Speaker 1: you know. That's what I've been reflecting on over this
Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend, is like the lies around labor and work,
Speaker 1: capitalism and patriarchy right, and the affair between them. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm reading this book because all I do these days.
Speaker 1: If you were to see, if I were to just
Speaker 1: like turn the camera around and show you how many
Speaker 1: books I have everywhere, like I'm running out of space,
Speaker 1: I have a problem. But then also people send me
Speaker 1: books so that I can interview authors. Nonetheless, I am
Speaker 1: reading this book for pleasure. And it's like a coffee
Speaker 1: table book. And it's called Hua, which is the French
Speaker 1: word for joy, and it is this beautiful book about
Speaker 1: living in France written by a black woman named Agerie.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you, folks, it is just a
Speaker 1: little piece of heaven every time that I open it.
Speaker 1: But one of the sections talked about the month of
Speaker 1: August in France, and the joke in the United States
Speaker 1: is always like all the French don't work and they're
Speaker 1: always on break, and it's you know, how does anything
Speaker 1: ever get done? And what I learned in the book,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, around some politics, was that the
Speaker 1: French have a mandatory five week vacation. Everyone does five
Speaker 1: weeks off. They have a law that makes it illegal
Speaker 1: to eat at your desk, to be forced to eat
Speaker 1: at your desk. Everyone is given an hour at minimum
Speaker 1: to go and eat lunch, somewhere, to sit, to be,
Speaker 1: to exist like a human being, not a machine that
Speaker 1: is just pushing out product and is measured in their productivity.
Speaker 1: We in America used to scoff and laugh at the
Speaker 1: French for their what healthcare system that provides for parents
Speaker 1: to be home when they have a newborn for a year? Right? Oh,
Speaker 1: our country would fall apart? No, the fuck it wouldn't. Actually,
Speaker 1: just like we thought that if you didn't grind yourself
Speaker 1: away inside of a cubicle from nine to five, then
Speaker 1: somehow companies and businesses wouldn't make any money. Shock and surprise,
Speaker 1: they made more. Because the happier that people are, the
Speaker 1: more ability that they have to actually function during their
Speaker 1: working hours as a full fledged human being makes them
Speaker 1: a bit more productive. Surprise that all of the reports
Speaker 1: and all of the information that is pointed in that
Speaker 1: direction only happened because of a global health pandemic when
Speaker 1: people were forced to shelter in place. So when I
Speaker 1: think about labor and the ways that you know, because
Speaker 1: I've been thinking a lot about traveling and the fact
Speaker 1: that I want to travel more. That next year, I
Speaker 1: am planning several trips and one of them will be
Speaker 1: to take off for a considerable amount of time in August,
Speaker 1: and folks will be like, oh my god, like, how
Speaker 1: are you going to do that? You have these shows
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Just like everyone else, I too,
Speaker 1: am tired, and I am tired of following a news
Speaker 1: cycle that doesn't produce any new information, just new outrage.
Speaker 1: So to take a break, right, And I think about traveling,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, there's so many places in the
Speaker 1: world that I want to go to. And the fact
Speaker 1: is is that two weeks really is not enough, particularly
Speaker 1: if you're flying somewhere that it takes an entire day
Speaker 1: to get to and you need the time and the
Speaker 1: ability to adjust to a new time zone, give your
Speaker 1: body ability to acclimate, and then you begin your exploration. Well,
Speaker 1: if you were to do that properly, it would take
Speaker 1: three weeks. And so why is that so unheard of
Speaker 1: to be able to do? Why is that rest something
Speaker 1: that we only give in the United States to the
Speaker 1: fucking rich when there are actual countries who are quote
Speaker 1: unquote developed like America that do this on a regular
Speaker 1: fucking basis that they have put it in their constitutions.
Speaker 1: We just accept the fucking bare minimum because that's all
Speaker 1: that we've ever been given. That's what I'm realizing. Being
Speaker 1: in a relationship, and I've said this on this show
Speaker 1: before with America is like being with an abusive partner.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, they show you some kindness,
Speaker 1: or they show you that you matter. But on the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, if you are a person, if
Speaker 1: you are black, if you are brown, if you are
Speaker 1: a woman, if you are LGBTQ plus, if you are
Speaker 1: an immigrant, if you are not Christian, this country treats
Speaker 1: you like fucking trash. And yet we still do everything
Speaker 1: that we possibly can to be loved. Right, And what
Speaker 1: does that love we think look like? Right? Look, I'll
Speaker 1: grind myself into the ground for you so long as
Speaker 1: I have you know, healthcare. I'll grind myself into the
Speaker 1: ground for you, so long that I can afford to
Speaker 1: pay half of my income to rent. Folks, there is
Speaker 1: a deep evaluation that I'm doing these days. You know.
Speaker 1: It comes from finishing up over the summer Bell Hook's
Speaker 1: book All about Love, which, for if you have not
Speaker 1: read it, I highly recommend it. It comes from finishing
Speaker 1: Young Pueblo's lighter. It comes from just really thinking about
Speaker 1: a better way to live and a better way to exist.
Speaker 1: And it cannot be the consistent outrage and grinding ourselves
Speaker 1: into the ground because it's not working. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The only thing that it's doing is
Speaker 1: welcoming in an early grave, is welcoming in disease. And I,
Speaker 1: for one, am tired of it, like I really am.
Speaker 1: There was a deep reflection that I have been in
Speaker 1: and been doing for a while now, journaling and meditating
Speaker 1: and praying and coming to a different kind of wokeness,
Speaker 1: a different kind of consciousness, a different kind of tapping
Speaker 1: in and really wanting to connect with what actually nourishes
Speaker 1: your soul, your spirit. Right, I feel like we are
Speaker 1: just giving our energy and our vibration and our power
Speaker 1: to these evil forces that keep us in this juggernaut
Speaker 1: of rage and anger. And I'm just like, for what,
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green is going to be an asshole whether
Speaker 1: you tap into the news today or not. She ain't changing.
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy's going to be a spineless piece of trash.
Speaker 1: Whether you follow every single headline of how he's being
Speaker 1: used and abused by the very evil ass people that
Speaker 1: he gave authority over the publican party. Right, the polls
Speaker 1: are gonna waver and go up and down and up
Speaker 1: and down, because this mainstream media is going to cover
Speaker 1: this election cycle like it's normal, right, like it's the
Speaker 1: twentieth century and it's a horse race and someone's up
Speaker 1: and someone's down, as opposed to saying that really it
Speaker 1: is about our ability to function in side of a
Speaker 1: democracy or whether or not America's empire is finally crumpling
Speaker 1: and we're too scared to really recognize it because we
Speaker 1: have never thought about what is on the other side
Speaker 1: after it's done. Everything has its cycle, everything has its time,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing that is always true. Change change.
Speaker 1: As Octavia Butler said Impowable, the Powable series, God has changed. Right,
Speaker 1: everything you touch you change, and everything that you change
Speaker 1: changes you. And so the question that we all need
Speaker 1: to be asking ourselves these days is how do we
Speaker 1: want to change? Because change is inevitable. Do we want
Speaker 1: to pickle inside of ourselves or do we want to
Speaker 1: nourish ourselves? And what does that nourishment look like? Right?
Speaker 1: Because eating a donut and eating a salad, you're eating
Speaker 1: one is nourishing you. The other is right just quick,
Speaker 1: fast food that doesn't add anything except sugar to your bloodstream,
Speaker 1: that gives you a momentary high and then it fades.
Speaker 1: These are the things that I'm contemplating these days, as
Speaker 1: we're ending this year, the couple of months left to
Speaker 1: go and enter into what I believe is going to
Speaker 1: be one of the most vicious electoral cycles of our
Speaker 1: life and potentially the last. And so the question that
Speaker 1: I want all of you listening to ponder on this
Speaker 1: Wednesdays what does consciousness really mean for you? What does
Speaker 1: it mean to be woke for you in this day
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Speaker 1: are living inside of a really significant moment of deciding
Speaker 1: not only who we are going to be as a collective,
Speaker 1: but who we want to be individually, right, and are
Speaker 1: we ignoring those alarms that are going off That is
Speaker 1: it for me today. Dear friends on Woke af AS always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.