WEBVTT - The Next 28 Days 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, Keeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.520 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.279 and friends. Happy Black History Month, or, as I like 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.840 to say, the shortest fucking month of the year. So far, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.880 Ron de Santis has not outlawed it in the state 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.920 of Florida. So here's hoping we get through those entire 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:37.879 twenty eight days without some official governmental executive order stating. Thus, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.400 you know, every single day that I turn on the microphone, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:48.519 here our days that have become increasingly heavy, right our 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:53.520 days where you know, the alerts on my phone from 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.200 the New York Times, from Washington Post, just any fucking 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.840 breaking news outlet gives me heart palpitations. And I'm not 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.320 actually lying or being hyperbolic, like I actually am getting 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:12.160 sweaty palms and nervous, and the reason being that the 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:19.200 latest brutal killing of Tyree Nichols has really sent me 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:24.520 as it has so many people. But I had to 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.319 really make a conscious decision, as I shared with all 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.400 of you and I shared on social media, to not 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.640 watch the video and to give other people permission not 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:40.400 to watch the lynching of a black man on video. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:46.959 As people stood around who took oaths to serve and protect, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.640 and watched him be beat to death. I don't know 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:56.280 what has happened or what is happening to our society, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.600 but it feels like in so many ways we are devolving. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.000 You know, I can remember, as I'm sure so many 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.760 of you can. Maybe if you're in a state that 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.600 doesn't ban history books and doesn't ban the truth about history, 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.200 remember going through your history books and seeing the images 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:23.639 of black men hung from trees, tattered clothing, next broken bodies, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.480 battered and just a bunch of white onlookers dressed in 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:37.679 their Sunday finest using black death as entertainment, black tortures entertainment. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.320 That's the history of this country. That's the history that 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:47.160 Ronda Santis and Greg Abbott and Republican governors all around 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.079 this country don't want you to see and don't want 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:50.560 you to know. And the question that you need to 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.440 ask yourselves is why, right, why is it that I 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:01.440 just heard yesterday that Republican lawmakers in Florida have introduced 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.840 legislation that would allow anybody in the state of Florida 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.560 to carry a concealed weapon. And guess what, you don't 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.359 even have to worry about training because they're going to 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:17.919 wave that too. When asked on CNN why they would 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.000 introduce such a legislation at a time when we are 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:28.200 seeing increase political violence increase, mass shootings increase, you know, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:34.440 gun related deaths, CNN says, is this about safety, the 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:40.000 safety of Floridians. The GOP person responding said, oh no, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.680 this legislation isn't about safety. It's about everyone's god given 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.560 right to carry a gun. So I just want to 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:55.040 be clear about what Rhonda Santis and Florida Republicans are 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.560 doing in their minds. It is more dangerous for you 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.720 to carry a book. It is more dangerous for books 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.720 to be on the shelves that offer alternative perspectives to 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:15.320 this nation, to our history, and to our present day lives. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.200 It is more dangerous for them to have books on 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:24.000 the shelf about anti racism right and finding back against 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:33.279 capitalism and lifting up LGBTQ people, LGBTQ Americans that also 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.480 have been part of the progression and perfecting of this union. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:43.120 That they find those voices and that education more dangerous 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:49.240 than flooding the streets of that state with guns, giving 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.800 everyone the ability to carry one and not even be trained. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.599 They are telling you the quiet part out loud, that 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:06.479 education is dangerous. Education is powerful, and they don't want 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:11.520 you to have it. So they want us to remain dumb, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:18.719 to remain disconnected and subdued. Right, but also living in 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.200 a climate of fear that tells me, I can't learn 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.120 about the person down the street, but I have the 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:30.599 ability to defend myself against the lies, the mythical stories 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.120 that I'm being brainwashed with on a day to day basis. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:40.680 You see, folks, knowledge is power. It is why they 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.320 did not want enslaved people to learn to read. It 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.680 is why they made it illegal for enslaved black people 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.960 to learn to read, because you see, when you start 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.560 to read and you begin to question, you begin to 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.719 question what you're reading, you begin to question the people 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:04.000 around you and why they have been anointed. The leaders, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:15.840 the pastors, the preachers, the priests, the royals, who created 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:21.279 those rules that said you are to be subjugated, but 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:30.359 they are to be revered. Who created the rules that 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:36.559 said that slavery was a quote necessary evil in order 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.680 to build this nation, But then it's such so fucking necessary, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.440 But they don't want to tell you about the rape 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.919 and the torture and the lynchings that would cut out 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.479 live babies from black woman's bodies and toss them in 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:59.600 the sea because they don't want to face their own violence. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:09.040 You see, what I have been wrestling with is that 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.520 white Americans are both the problem and the solution to 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:22.440 systemic racism, political violence, police brutality to all that essentially 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:28.760 ails us because through their own creation, they have made 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.960 themselves the ones that are in charge. And so when 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.840 you look around and you see everything around you going 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.680 to shit, who the fuck is to blame? Not the 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.720 people that you've taken away power from and the boat from, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.240 and their voice from, and their lives from. Not those people. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:52.200 But that's who they're selling. That's what they're selling to 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.720 Fox News and to news Max and to QAnon that 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.320 it's the people that literally have no power, have no wealth, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.600 are the ones that are causing all of the problems, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:10.280 not the ones that are legislating it. I realize more 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.680 and more that Rohn de Santis's quest is not about 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:20.760 white comfort, it is about white subjugation and domination. You see, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:35.640 a conscious and responsible white public, white American public would 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:41.720 begin to demand better, would see that all of these 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.800 pieces of this puzzle that have been broken and spread 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.120 across this nation never to come together to create the 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.559 full story and picture that once they start to bring 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:59.400 these pieces together and they say, oh shit, racism didn't 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:07.760 end with the Civil Rights Act. Racism never ended, and 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:12.520 that it is embedded in every single facet of our lives. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.040 You see, you take the case of the gruesome death 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:25.640 of Tyree Nichols, a young photographer, skateboarder, father, human being, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.840 at the hands of five black police officers, and you 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.840 have people talking about, oh, it can't possibly be anti blackness, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:39.200 it can't possibly be racism because they were black. So 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:44.520 were the house negroes that lived with Massa. So were 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:52.320 the house slaves who, by their proximity to white power, 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.800 would sell out and lynch their own brothers and sisters 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:07.600 in order to keep themselves safe. Anti blackness isn't just 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.959 about the color of people's skin. It is about a 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:19.800 pervasive mentality that would tell those black officers that, oh, no, no, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.240 because they are wrapped in blue, they don't share the 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:31.600 same hue as Tyree Nichols, that that badge gave them 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:37.800 a license to think that they are better than who 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:43.480 they're supposed to be protecting and serving that they pledge 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.360 their allegiance not to the flag, but to the police 0:10:46.400 --> 0:11:00.959 fraternal order. Ferguson, Chicago, New York City all have had 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:07.360 black cops that have participated in and been part of 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:15.280 police brutality cases whose headline names. You know, there's a 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:21.640 saying that says that not all skin folk or kinfolk, right. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.719 I know, there are many a black people that go 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:30.079 on television that hate black people. You got one sitting 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:35.200 on the Supreme Court. Those are the types of black 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:40.200 people Republicans love, the ones that want to believe that 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:46.000 somehow they are better than the system of oppression that 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.079 was created to keep them down. Oh if I can 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:59.559 do it, then you can do it. This all this 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.240 or against wokeness, All of it comes back to a 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:11.280 desire to make sure that people stay asleep, because when 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:18.440 people are unconscious, they're easy to take advantage of. You 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.679 can steal from them, you can lie they ain't going 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:26.480 to do nothing day and awake. But the minute that 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:32.600 that alarm goes off, they become activated. And the minute 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:38.439 that people start to see all the ways in which 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.760 the systems that play are trying to work to take 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.000 away their power. This is what Rhonda Santis is doing 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:50.240 to white people. He does not want white Americans to 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.800 be empowered. Fox News does not want white Americans to 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.439 be empowered. He wants white people to live in fear, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.800 to look for the straw man, to look for Daddy 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.120 that's going to come and protect them, Lie to them 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.880 and tell them that all will be well, and that 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.199 they're not responsible for anything. No part of their lives 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.000 are they responsible for. Not their lack of education, not 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.360 their lack of job training, none of it. It's always 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.240 somebody else's fault. And Daddy's going to come in and 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:23.480 take care of those that are responsible for you feeling sad, bad, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:28.360 and I'm going to make sure that you can keep 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:34.240 living your lie. Because the minute that people start to 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.800 become educated and begin to question the world around them, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.959 then they begin to question who is leading them, and 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.360 then those people that are in power would actually have 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.319 to do something, wouldn't they. With a conscious and activated 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:56.160 citizen jury, they would actually have to what is it, oh, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.599 you know, act like a real democracy front that is 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:06.200 for and by the people and not just a bumper 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:16.320 sticker a T shirt. For the last six years, it 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.480 feels like more in so many ways, and then it 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:23.080 feels like short in the other. I have been on 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.320 air waves and streaming waves and turned my radio show 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:32.120 into a podcast and moved around a bit because I 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:37.080 never wanted to be silenced. I never wanted for there 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.880 to be other people to tell me what it is 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.440 that I can and cannot do. So for quite some time, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.760 I've just been toiling away with you know, the audience 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.360 that I have been able to grow brick by brick, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.040 episode by episode with the help and team effort of 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.000 my producer Andrew, who has been with me this entire time, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:08.440 and you all have given me such encouragement, such grace 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.440 and gratitude throughout these years to continue to speak my 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.920 truth and feel like you know my voices of value, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.560 because I can tell you that there have been many 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.840 times over the years where I've wanted to turn off 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.880 the mic and just be done and not come back 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:30.880 on the air, because you know, this climate, this political climate, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:36.520 this negativity, this awful dark energy, can zap away at 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.800 your soul, which is why I tell all of you 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.040 watch just a little bit of news, just enough, you know, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.920 and if watching it's too much, just read a couple 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.400 of articles a day, and then you know, back off 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.920 because the desire is to drain us, and it is 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:59.320 why it's necessary to take considerable amounts of breaks. So 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.320 why do I this up. I have two announcements that 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.040 I'm very excited to share with all of you. First, 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:15.000 because of all of you and your dedication to the 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:21.000 show and you're sharing and tweeting and instagramming and commenting 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.440 on TikTok and all of these things, wok af Daily 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:31.040 is moving to iHeartRadio. And I'm really proud about the 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:36.880 work and the effort of creating this independent, little engine 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:42.480 of a show to bring it to iHeartRadio under their 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.480 new vertical that they're going to be launching at the 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.960 end of this month. And I'm excited that woke af 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.240 Daily will be a part of this new slate of shows. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.480 And in the intram dear friends, I am going to 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:01.400 be taking the Black History Month off. I'm going to 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.160 be taking the next twenty eight days off from wik 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.040 af And I know, I know that some of you 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.320 are hearing this and you're like, no, don't do it, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.520 and then other people are like, yes, do it, but 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.880 I really don't want you to. But yes, you need rest, 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.480 because you DM me all the time and tell me 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.399 that I need to take a break and take a breath. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.200 So I've decided to do so. As the show begins 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:31.800 to transition to iHeartRadio and we relaunch, I've decided that, yeah, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.520 I could take a couple of weeks to catch my 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.320 breath in this new year, to decompress, frankly, from the 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.960 trauma and the tragedy and the grief of the last 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.600 several mass shootings, the last speeding depths, the anti blackness, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:53.920 the continued legislation to deny transpeople their humanity. Being in 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.760 this folks every single day, day in and day out, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:04.240 is my calling, but it also drives me fucking crazy. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.840 And if I don't take this time to be able 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.640 to recharge and reconnect so that I can power through, 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.159 I won't make it, you know, Frankly, I just won't. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:22.040 And I want to be as strong and as nimble 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.000 as possible. And so what does that look like? It 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:31.760 looks like WOKEAF will be relaunching on iHeartRadio in a 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.920 few weeks. Follow me on social media at D two 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:41.040 cents on Twitter, at D two cents on Instagram. Danielle 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.800 Moody underscore on TikTok to stay up to date. But 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:49.520 guess what, I host two other shows that come out 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.640 every week, so it's not as if you will go 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.320 without my voice. It just won't be five days a week. Instead, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.159 it will be three or four, so be sure or 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.480 if you do not subscribe to the Daily Beasts, the 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:09.720 New Abnormal that comes out on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.080 are the shows that I do with my friend and 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.680 co host Andy Levey. That show is the New Abnormal. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.520 It comes out three days a week. And then many 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.680 of you know my weekly show that I do with 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:26.360 my other good friend wash A Hot Ali Democracy Ish, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:33.200 which comes out new episodes every Thursday. So what is that? Oh, 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:38.680 you have Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. You can catch me 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.679 on my other two podcasts, The Daily woka F Daily 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:48.480 will be back. I'm just taking a little break as 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:53.199 we transition to relaunch wok F Daily on iHeart, and 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:58.359 I'm super excited about being on iHeart. I'm super excited 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:04.080 about offering you all, you know, the same biting, rage 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.040 filled content on a different platform. You will be able 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.280 to get it, folks, wherever you get your podcasts. It 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.080 is not going to be behind a paid wall, so 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.879 do not freak out in that way either. And you know, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.320 if you are a Patreon subscriber, I'm so excited to 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.560 be bringing you on Patreon when we come back some 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.679 fresh content. The ability to do you know, some quarterly 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:33.159 virtual meet and greets with me, and you know, be 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.679 able to be a part of the production and the 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.080 conversations around Woke a f and you know, how we 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.920 build community over there on Patreon has been incredible. And 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.560 the support that you all have continued to give me 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.800 and provide for me. You know, again, I tell you 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.359 that in twenty twenty, I didn't know if I was 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.560 going to be able to keep going. And you all 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.920 that have been supporting the show financially on Patreon again 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.000 and have allowed me to get to this place to 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.680 go to iHeartRadio. So I cannot thank you all enough 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:13.040 for your support, for your encouragement, for your love, for 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:17.679 your compassion, for your empathy, and for your grace. And 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.720 I am guys. You know we are in for a 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:26.840 fucking ride this year with this motherfucking Congress. Whether or 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.919 not Merritt Garland's going to show a spine, whether or 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.760 not George Santos is you know, going to be the 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.880 one who shot JFK. You know whether or not we're 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.600 going to have books in schools at all, or parents 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:41.439 are going to need to sign off on everything but 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.920 the fucking Holy Bible. Like, we are living in really 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:49.879 wild times and I have been so honored to be 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:55.200 your guide, your flight attendant, your political therapist, your cherpa 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.720 during this time. And so here's what I will offer 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.800 to you. You know where to find me. I am 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.440 all over social media. I just gave you the names 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.639 of the other shows to take the edge off over 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:14.000 the next few weeks. But a couple of things that 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.639 I am doing, a couple of books that I'm reading 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:18.800 that maybe you all want to join me in reading 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:24.399 as well. And then you know, life happened. So rest 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:28.040 Is Resistance is a manifesto and it is a book 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:33.200 by Tricia Hersey. Tricia Hersey runs the NAP Ministry on 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:37.359 Instagram and some amazing account, So if you don't follow 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:41.600 the NAP Ministry on Instagram, please do so because it's dope. 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:47.160 Rests Resistance is a book about how to reclaim rest 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:52.960 as part of the revolution, how to decolonize our minds 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:56.800 from grind culture and capitalism. The book is directed towards 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:01.440 Black people, whose bodies have been used against our will 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:05.840 right for centuries, but it is for everyone. It's directed 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:08.720 towards Black people to stop feeling like in order to 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:12.680 have value in life, we need to continue to produce. 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.840 But it is also about how all of us, regardless 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:21.959 of race, have become slaves to capitalism and grind culture. 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.320 And what has that done, you know, to us? Right? 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.560 And how for those that were privileged at the beginning 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:32.760 of the COVID pandemic and we're able to stay indoors 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:35.880 and we're able to slow down. Is the whole reason 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:42.120 why work has changed, right, why people are reclaiming their lives. 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:44.520 And So this is a book that I'm reading because 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:48.000 over the course of I'm going to finish it during 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:52.639 the month of February, because it again is a deep reminder, 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:57.639 a deep, deep reminder as to how we feel like 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:02.560 every part of our lives to be doing instead of being. 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:07.800 And we are not human doings. We are human beings. 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.040 And so I think that everyone could enjoy this book, 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:16.040 So check it out. Rest as Resistance. And then the 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:22.000 other book that I am reading is one that actually 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:26.199 I believe came out in twenty twenty, and you know, 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:30.520 I was all caught up in life and pandemic and 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:33.080 all of these things that I actually missed it. But 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:37.600 the book is entitled Untamed by Glenn and Doyle. And 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:40.359 Glenn and Doyle is a New York Times, you know, 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:43.879 bestselling author. She has many many books and I and 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:46.840 it's her twenty twenty memoir. And I got hit to 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:50.439 it because on one of my many walks, I was 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.760 looking for, you know, something to listen to. And any 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:56.920 times that I have ever found myself feeling off, for 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:01.320 feeling you know, wanting to understand my feeling and feelings 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:05.200 and my energy more, I check out what Brenee Brown 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:09.080 is doing, and lo and behold, I started digging and 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:13.560 you know, got into her being interviewed, and then listened 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:17.760 to her podcast, Brenee Brown's podcast, her very first podcast 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:21.960 in twenty twenty, where she interviewed Glenn and Doyle about Untamed. 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:25.240 And you know, this is a book that is funny 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:28.320 as fuck. It's a bunch of short essays. I'm only 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:31.920 halfway through now, but it again is really teaching us 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:34.720 about the ways that women in particular have been lied to. 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:39.359 Right that the best compliment she says in this book 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:43.000 that you can give to a woman is she's so selfless. 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:47.320 This mother is so selfless, This wife is so selfless. 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:51.840 So somehow the epitome of womanhood is to give up 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:59.840 yourself in honor of your wife, your husband, your children, 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:05.920 her job. And this book is about her coming out, 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:10.159 rediscovering who she is as a woman, who she is 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:13.240 as a mother, and reclaiming her life. So you see 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:17.520 this pattern about rest is resistance and untamed right that 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:21.560 we have been women have been tamed in this country 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:25.240 and in so many countries and across so many cultures. 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:29.399 We've been tamed, the taming of the shrew right, the 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:33.480 unwilding of ourselves. And this book is about the rewilding 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:37.600 of ourselves and putting ourselves forward. So I'm finishing that, 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:41.719 so you guys can join me in this little mini 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:45.480 book club that I'm doing with myself over the next 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:50.600 twenty eight days. But again I don't ever really take breaks. 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:54.320 So you can follow me again at d two stands 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:59.560 on both Twitter and Instagram, Danielle Moody Underscore on TikTok, 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.600 and check out my other two shows. The new abnormal 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:12.080 on the Daily Beast and democracy Ish folks. I am 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.800 excited about this next chapter of Wika f Daily. I 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.960 hope that you all will return when I am back, 0:27:20.480 --> 0:27:24.320 most likely March first, whatever the first Monday is in March, 0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:27.719 is when I will be back. But I encourage you 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:33.560 all to do some cleansing yourself, do some journaling, do 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:37.600 some meditation, do some grounding. I think you know also 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:40.879 as I close out, that this is what winter should 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:46.880 be about. Winter should not really be about creating resolutions 0:27:46.960 --> 0:27:49.320 in the cold and in the dark. You know, these 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:51.680 new things that you're gonna do, but it should be 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:56.920 a grounding, a burrowing, or really getting inside of our 0:27:56.960 --> 0:28:02.080 skins and our minds and our hearts, leaning these things out, 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:07.800 excavating ourselves so that in spring we blossom. And so 0:28:07.920 --> 0:28:10.320 that's what I feel like I'm going to do this 0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:14.639 Black History Month these next twenty eight days, and I 0:28:14.760 --> 0:28:17.000 encourage you all to do the same, and then we 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:19.520 can talk about it. We can dish about it in 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:22.399 March as well. Last thing that I will say for 0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:25.840 those friends that are into astrology, and by the way, 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:28.000 nobody's paying me for any of these things, so these 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:31.560 are not infomercials. It's just shit that I'm into right now. 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:35.120 The other thing that if you are into astrology, as 0:28:35.160 --> 0:28:36.879 I know, some people tell me that they are, and 0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:39.480 then other people get on me. How Daniellier is supposed 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:41.920 to be this serious media person, Like, how are you 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:46.360 into astrology? I look through everything to help me understand 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:50.120 what we are going through and experiencing, to help me 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:58.840 understand the human experience and astrology, religion, meditation, Eastern scripture 0:28:58.960 --> 0:29:03.320 is like, all of these things help present the tapestry 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:08.560 and the layered, multifaceted nature of who we are as 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:11.840 humans and how we come into this world and why 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:16.080 people have pooh poohed astrology and gods and these things, 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:18.400 and folks, what does it all come back to? Fucking 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:22.440 money capitalism, putting money into the church and saying that 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:25.480 these men in black and white, and you know, these 0:29:25.480 --> 0:29:28.640 clergy are the ones who are the proximity to God 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:30.640 and can tell you about your future and can tell 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:33.120 you whether or not you're good or whomever. Because if 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:36.760 you were to trust yourself, if you were to connect 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:41.440 with the elements around you, then guess what you wouldn't 0:29:41.480 --> 0:29:49.600 tied to them. So check out Channy Nicholas. Chenny Nicholas 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:53.120 is a queer astrologer. She has an app, the Channy App, 0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:55.719 and as C h A and I. She has a 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:58.760 free version and a paid version, and it's kind of dope. 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:01.960 It's really dope and fun to you know, put in 0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:06.520 your birth information and to get your chart and to 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:09.800 understand yourself in a different way. Again, I am a 0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:14.800 somebody who's really interested in understanding myself and understanding people 0:30:14.840 --> 0:30:18.800 around me, and understanding how folks get swayed by a 0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:22.600