Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker.
Speaker 1: But guess what, dear friends, I Am going to be
Speaker 1: on the ground at the Democratic National Convention all week long,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be bringing you my thoughts and
Speaker 1: reflections on the day's events right here on WOKF every day.
Speaker 1: I'm super excited. I cannot express to all of you
Speaker 1: how excited I am to be attending convention. So this
Speaker 1: is my second Democratic National Convention. The first one was
Speaker 1: eight years ago for Hillary Clinton. And you know, I've
Speaker 1: been reflecting on this for the last week, like as
Speaker 1: I was finalizing details to be able to attend convention
Speaker 1: this year, And my god, eight years ago, this country
Speaker 1: was in such a vastly different space. And I can
Speaker 1: tell you that, I mean won me personally. I was
Speaker 1: in a completely different space and place. Like I could
Speaker 1: have never imagined eight years ago that now I would
Speaker 1: be a full time podcaster and content creator, and like
Speaker 1: having had the ability to do that because of all
Speaker 1: of you, because of all of the support that I've gotten,
Speaker 1: particularly from those that have supported me throughout the years
Speaker 1: on Patreon, I know that it's you know, for some
Speaker 1: it's five dollars, it's fifteen dollars a month, and for
Speaker 1: some people, you know, you don't know how much that
Speaker 1: money has allowed me to be able to get to
Speaker 1: the place that I'm in, Like I cannot express to you.
Speaker 1: Like people say, like, oh, follow your passion, follow your passion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you actually need the resources in order to be
Speaker 1: able to do that. And so having had people on
Speaker 1: patreon dot com slash WOKF for the past you know,
Speaker 1: few years supporting me and just believing in me, it's wild.
Speaker 1: It's wild to just recognize, like what immense gratitude I
Speaker 1: have for you all, and what immense gratitude I have
Speaker 1: for all of the people who listen, who support, who
Speaker 1: share my content on a regular basis. But eight years ago,
Speaker 1: you know, WOKF didn't exist. WOKF would come out of
Speaker 1: you know, that election, and it would launch in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen following the inauguration of Donald Trump. I remember heading
Speaker 1: into that convention not knowing, like, you know, other than
Speaker 1: seeing it on television, Like, what is this spectacle that
Speaker 1: comes into these cities around the country every four years
Speaker 1: to go through a process a nominating process as old
Speaker 1: as basically the country, and so you know, to be there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to attend because it was history, right. It
Speaker 1: was Hillary Clinton, the first woman to receive the nomination
Speaker 1: of a major political party. And you know, I remember
Speaker 1: being there setting up like my two mics and I
Speaker 1: had a banner because I had gotten press credentials, which
Speaker 1: are like very hard to get with a podcast that
Speaker 1: didn't really exist at the time, but it was just
Speaker 1: an idem I had. But I said, fuck it, I'm going,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm just gonna go people, and you know,
Speaker 1: I know people I've worked on the Hill. I've you know,
Speaker 1: worked at think tanks, i have worked for nonprofit organizations,
Speaker 1: and I'm going because I want a witness history firsthand.
Speaker 1: And it was extraordinary. I mean, it was incredibly exciting
Speaker 1: to be there, to be just in the energy, to
Speaker 1: see all of these people that you know, I would
Speaker 1: see on Capitol Hill, to see people that you just
Speaker 1: see on television just walking past you. And it was
Speaker 1: really exciting. But the funny thing is that I remember
Speaker 1: it didn't occur to me, honestly, like what I really
Speaker 1: reflect on it that Donald Trump could become president, Like
Speaker 1: I knew we'd gotten the Republican nomination, and you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you're following the media, right, was following is every
Speaker 1: move and this untraditional candidate and what have you. But
Speaker 1: I thought, as millions of other people did, that Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton was a shoein' right, Like this was all just
Speaker 1: gonna be this circus of an election. But then America
Speaker 1: was going to come to a census. We were just
Speaker 1: coming off of eight years of Barack Obama. There's no
Speaker 1: way you're gonna fall for this grifter and this pussy
Speaker 1: grabber and elect this man over this super accomplished woman
Speaker 1: who we've all known in our lives for as long
Speaker 1: as she's been in public service, right, And then we
Speaker 1: all know how that fucking ended. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how often all of you go back
Speaker 1: eight years, but it's hard enough to go back, for right,
Speaker 1: to go back before COVID, right, five years, to go
Speaker 1: back to January of twenty twenty when we didn't know
Speaker 1: what was coming in but two months, right, So going
Speaker 1: back eight years is really a trip down memory lane.
Speaker 1: Think about out where you were, where you were in
Speaker 1: your personal life, in your career, in your group of friends,
Speaker 1: like all of the things that have happened to us
Speaker 1: as individuals but as a country is kind of overwhelming
Speaker 1: to think about, and so we kind of wrap it
Speaker 1: around these highlighted moments. If you're looking at the years
Speaker 1: on a graph and you're like, well, this is twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: and here's twenty seventeen, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: But to be headed to convention and I may like cry, guys,
Speaker 1: because this is how I'm feeling today. I'm recording this
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and I'm getting ready to fly out to
Speaker 1: Chicago tonight as I'm recording this. But to think that
Speaker 1: I am flying into Chicago to witness the first black
Speaker 1: and Indian woman accept the nomination, the second woman and
Speaker 1: first woman of color to accept the nomination of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, I am just in awe. The amount of
Speaker 1: history that we have lived through is crazy. I remember
Speaker 1: when Barack Obama in two thousand and four was given
Speaker 1: prime time speaking slot at John Carey's convention, and I
Speaker 1: remember I was like newly I mean newly out of
Speaker 1: college in grad school, sitting in my living room with
Speaker 1: my roommate, and we looked at each other and said,
Speaker 1: who is that and why isn't he running for president?
Speaker 1: And it was Barack Obama's fucking moment. That man turned
Speaker 1: a career as an organizer, his first book into multiple
Speaker 1: runs for office until he would be elected, parlays that
Speaker 1: into a junior senator position, and parlays that into the nomination.
Speaker 1: But four years later, Barack Obama is a phenom. When
Speaker 1: you think about the first time you heard his name
Speaker 1: and that speech, if you remember, it was incredible and
Speaker 1: so to think about where we are after he talked
Speaker 1: about there are no red states and there are no
Speaker 1: blue states, There's only the United States. It was such
Speaker 1: an extraordinary moment in this country. Happened at convention. Four
Speaker 1: years later, Hillary Clinton would throw her hat in the ring,
Speaker 1: and we know how that turned out. Barack Obama would
Speaker 1: become the Democratic nominee. After pretty dirty not as dirty
Speaker 1: as things would come, but a pretty dirty campaign cycle,
Speaker 1: Barack Obama becomes the first black president of the United States.
Speaker 1: We see this beautiful black woman. They're two little girls
Speaker 1: who are now grown women. They're two little girls come
Speaker 1: out eight years we would have this incredible family, gifted
Speaker 1: man and woman. Because first Lady Michelle Obama, my god, right,
Speaker 1: who will be speaking this week at Vice President Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's convention. I'm just sitting here as I'm talking, and
Speaker 1: I'm just it's like flashbacks one after the other. So
Speaker 1: after eight years, we think, yes, Hillary Clinton, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: ready for you. And then America said that was too
Speaker 1: much history, too much healthcare, too much was going right.
Speaker 1: So we you know, we gotta slow that role. And
Speaker 1: we became complacent because we thought, well, there's no way
Speaker 1: people are going to vote for this grifter. And for
Speaker 1: the last eight years we've been living vacillating in between anxiety, fear,
Speaker 1: and now back to a place of hopefulness, back to
Speaker 1: a place where we can actually see a pathway forward.
Speaker 1: So I encourage all of you to really think about
Speaker 1: how far we've come in this time, but also be
Speaker 1: reminded of what is at stake. Over the weekend, I
Speaker 1: joined my friends Amin Mohedeen and Dean Ambodalla on Amen's
Speaker 1: show on MSNBC, and offset Dean and I were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, have people lost in the sense of hopefulness,
Speaker 1: the seriousness of this moment, And I said, no, we
Speaker 1: just don't have to fear what is coming because we
Speaker 1: have an alternative, so I don't have to berate you
Speaker 1: all with this seriousness that Project twenty twenty five is
Speaker 1: because we've been doing that for months. But what I
Speaker 1: do want to do is encourage all of you while
Speaker 1: we are in this place of hopefulness, why we are
Speaker 1: in this place of possibility, to do everything that you
Speaker 1: can within your power. It's not just enough to donate.
Speaker 1: It's not enough to just get yourself to the polls.
Speaker 1: What are you doing every single day to get Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris and Tim Walls over the finish line? Are you
Speaker 1: registering other people to vote? Are you volunteering? Are you
Speaker 1: making calls? Are you organizing your community in house parties
Speaker 1: and events to talk to them about the issues. The
Speaker 1: Vice President just released our economic plan. Walk through it
Speaker 1: with people. We have to do everything. There is not
Speaker 1: a stone that should be left unturned. There's not a
Speaker 1: person that should not have been talked to more than
Speaker 1: one time. We have to do everything because, like you,
Speaker 1: I do not want to wake up days after the
Speaker 1: election and say I could have done more and had
Speaker 1: that feeling that I had that election night in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: where I sat the next day in a Canadian airport
Speaker 1: the waitress at the diner that I was sitting inside
Speaker 1: of at the airport said are you okay? And I said,
Speaker 1: I don't think so, because I did not know what
Speaker 1: was meeting me when I returned to the United States.
Speaker 1: But we all saw what met us. So we cannot
Speaker 1: look currently at where they are saying, and by they,
Speaker 1: I mean corporate mainstream media is saying that the polls are, oh,
Speaker 1: she's up by four here, tied here, up by five here,
Speaker 1: because someone posted an image and it was the week
Speaker 1: before the twenty sixteen election, and the national flocking polls
Speaker 1: said that Hillary Clinton was up by twenty points. Twenty points.
Speaker 1: So that is the day that I lost faith in
Speaker 1: all polls. And I tell people that all the time,
Speaker 1: I've had pollsters on this show and on The New
Speaker 1: Abnormal and on Democracy Ish, and I tell them, I
Speaker 1: don't mean to disparage your industry, but I don't give
Speaker 1: a lot of stock to polls, because in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: the week before the election, Hillary Clinton was all the
Speaker 1: way up, and I remember that Donald Trump was shot
Speaker 1: that he had won. I'm also not convinced now in
Speaker 1: hindsight that he actually did. But that's a story for
Speaker 1: another day. I want us to get through that finish
Speaker 1: line and wake up excited for the America that is
Speaker 1: to come, and jubiliant as we count down the days
Speaker 1: to inauguration when we see Madam President Kamala Harris sworn in,
Speaker 1: That's what we want, and I just want folks to
Speaker 1: know she is not perfect. They will not have a
Speaker 1: perfect administration. I will absolutely still be on air critiquing
Speaker 1: and asking questions because that's what I do. But we
Speaker 1: are never again going to allow the perfect to get
Speaker 1: in the way of the good. And I believe that
Speaker 1: she is good. I believe that she believes in democracy
Speaker 1: and the middle class. I believe that she wants every
Speaker 1: child in this country, regardless of their zip code, to
Speaker 1: have access to equality public education. I believe that she
Speaker 1: wants everyone in this country to have high quality healthcare.
Speaker 1: I believe that she wants America's infrastructure to be the
Speaker 1: envy of the world. I believe that she wants first
Speaker 1: time home buyers to have the hurdles to building wealth removed.
Speaker 1: But we are also going to need to deliver her
Speaker 1: a Congress that is going to deliver us those campaign promises,
Speaker 1: because absent all the d's down ballot, we're going to
Speaker 1: be going head to head with Mitch McConnell or whatever
Speaker 1: other cripkeeper they roll out. We cannot have that happen.
Speaker 1: This week on WOKF Daily, I am going to be
Speaker 1: doing a bunch of solo shows, providing you with reflections
Speaker 1: on the day's events, who I spoke to, what's going on,
Speaker 1: some behind the scenes stuff. But I also have another
Speaker 1: important announcement. I have launched my very own YouTube channel
Speaker 1: at Danielle Moody Underscore. It is the same handle that
Speaker 1: I have on TikTok that I have now on YouTube,
Speaker 1: and I am going to be going live there. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be producing shorts and video interviews, and I
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Speaker 1: want us to rely on corporate mainstream media anymore. I
Speaker 1: want to create the content, the channel, the vision for
Speaker 1: what journalism, what reporting, what analysis should look like. And
Speaker 1: feel like you all have been riding with me for
Speaker 1: a long time and you know that I am always
Speaker 1: looking for new, better ways to provide you the content
Speaker 1: that I want. Right. Podcasting is great because you can
Speaker 1: do it on your commute, you can do it while
Speaker 1: you're gardening, you can do it while you're working out,
Speaker 1: playing with your kids, your dogs, your cats, whatever. The
Speaker 1: video content is something that I have always wanted to
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Speaker 1: I am one of the nerds there. I also launched
Speaker 1: my show Get Woke, which is a micro show that
Speaker 1: I'm doing on YouTube that I've been doing on Mary
Speaker 1: Trump Media that is now going to be on my
Speaker 1: own channel at Daniel Moody Underscore. We're going to provide
Speaker 1: you the link in the show notes so that you
Speaker 1: can easily get there, and if you follow me on
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Speaker 1: excited to bring you all fresh video content going live
Speaker 1: and you know, check in and see who I am
Speaker 1: going to be running into and interviewing and it's just
Speaker 1: I'm so excited and I'm excited to bring it all
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Speaker 1: dear friends, Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.