WEBVTT - How Far We've Come 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.600 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.680 me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:23.040 But guess what, dear friends, I Am going to be 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:27.160 on the ground at the Democratic National Convention all week long, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.800 and I'm going to be bringing you my thoughts and 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:36.440 reflections on the day's events right here on WOKF every day. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.879 I'm super excited. I cannot express to all of you 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:46.920 how excited I am to be attending convention. So this 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:53.080 is my second Democratic National Convention. The first one was 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:58.320 eight years ago for Hillary Clinton. And you know, I've 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.160 been reflecting on this for the last week, like as 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:08.840 I was finalizing details to be able to attend convention 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:14.080 this year, And my god, eight years ago, this country 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:20.480 was in such a vastly different space. And I can 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:25.360 tell you that, I mean won me personally. I was 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.959 in a completely different space and place. Like I could 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.160 have never imagined eight years ago that now I would 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:38.280 be a full time podcaster and content creator, and like 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.039 having had the ability to do that because of all 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.480 of you, because of all of the support that I've gotten, 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.360 particularly from those that have supported me throughout the years 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.320 on Patreon, I know that it's you know, for some 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.640 it's five dollars, it's fifteen dollars a month, and for 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:02.120 some people, you know, you don't know how much that 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.200 money has allowed me to be able to get to 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.160 the place that I'm in, Like I cannot express to you. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.880 Like people say, like, oh, follow your passion, follow your passion. Yeah, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.160 but you actually need the resources in order to be 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.200 able to do that. And so having had people on 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.640 patreon dot com slash WOKF for the past you know, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:32.160 few years supporting me and just believing in me, it's wild. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:38.440 It's wild to just recognize, like what immense gratitude I 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.480 have for you all, and what immense gratitude I have 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.440 for all of the people who listen, who support, who 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.520 share my content on a regular basis. But eight years ago, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.440 you know, WOKF didn't exist. WOKF would come out of 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.760 you know, that election, and it would launch in twenty 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:03.320 seventeen following the inauguration of Donald Trump. I remember heading 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.760 into that convention not knowing, like, you know, other than 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.280 seeing it on television, Like, what is this spectacle that 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.520 comes into these cities around the country every four years 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.440 to go through a process a nominating process as old 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:23.320 as basically the country, and so you know, to be there. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.440 I wanted to attend because it was history, right. It 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:35.360 was Hillary Clinton, the first woman to receive the nomination 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:41.400 of a major political party. And you know, I remember 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.520 being there setting up like my two mics and I 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.560 had a banner because I had gotten press credentials, which 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.600 are like very hard to get with a podcast that 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.360 didn't really exist at the time, but it was just 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.240 an idem I had. But I said, fuck it, I'm going, 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.240 and you know, I'm just gonna go people, and you know, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.920 I know people I've worked on the Hill. I've you know, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.600 worked at think tanks, i have worked for nonprofit organizations, 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.960 and I'm going because I want a witness history firsthand. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.720 And it was extraordinary. I mean, it was incredibly exciting 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.719 to be there, to be just in the energy, to 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.279 see all of these people that you know, I would 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.159 see on Capitol Hill, to see people that you just 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.400 see on television just walking past you. And it was 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:32.159 really exciting. But the funny thing is that I remember 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.920 it didn't occur to me, honestly, like what I really 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:41.080 reflect on it that Donald Trump could become president, Like 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.320 I knew we'd gotten the Republican nomination, and you know, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.719 obviously you're following the media, right, was following is every 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.520 move and this untraditional candidate and what have you. But 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.320 I thought, as millions of other people did, that Hillary 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.719 Clinton was a shoein' right, Like this was all just 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.919 gonna be this circus of an election. But then America 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.599 was going to come to a census. We were just 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.919 coming off of eight years of Barack Obama. There's no 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.039 way you're gonna fall for this grifter and this pussy 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.640 grabber and elect this man over this super accomplished woman 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.440 who we've all known in our lives for as long 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:29.400 as she's been in public service, right, And then we 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:34.440 all know how that fucking ended. And so you know, 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.600 I don't know how often all of you go back 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.320 eight years, but it's hard enough to go back, for right, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.000 to go back before COVID, right, five years, to go 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.320 back to January of twenty twenty when we didn't know 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.200 what was coming in but two months, right, So going 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:58.920 back eight years is really a trip down memory lane. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.360 Think about out where you were, where you were in 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.560 your personal life, in your career, in your group of friends, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.520 like all of the things that have happened to us 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:16.560 as individuals but as a country is kind of overwhelming 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.640 to think about, and so we kind of wrap it 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.360 around these highlighted moments. If you're looking at the years 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.080 on a graph and you're like, well, this is twenty sixteen, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.279 and here's twenty seventeen, and so on and so forth. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:37.560 But to be headed to convention and I may like cry, guys, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.480 because this is how I'm feeling today. I'm recording this 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.000 on Sunday, and I'm getting ready to fly out to 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.479 Chicago tonight as I'm recording this. But to think that 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:58.880 I am flying into Chicago to witness the first black 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:04.680 and Indian woman accept the nomination, the second woman and 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:11.480 first woman of color to accept the nomination of the 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:17.280 Democratic Party, I am just in awe. The amount of 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:23.680 history that we have lived through is crazy. I remember 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:30.400 when Barack Obama in two thousand and four was given 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:37.280 prime time speaking slot at John Carey's convention, and I 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:43.760 remember I was like newly I mean newly out of 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:49.800 college in grad school, sitting in my living room with 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:55.520 my roommate, and we looked at each other and said, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:03.880 who is that and why isn't he running for president? 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:12.960 And it was Barack Obama's fucking moment. That man turned 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:21.960 a career as an organizer, his first book into multiple 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:29.560 runs for office until he would be elected, parlays that 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:35.480 into a junior senator position, and parlays that into the nomination. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:42.400 But four years later, Barack Obama is a phenom. When 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.560 you think about the first time you heard his name 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:54.320 and that speech, if you remember, it was incredible and 0:08:54.400 --> 0:09:01.400 so to think about where we are after he talked 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.000 about there are no red states and there are no 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:09.040 blue states, There's only the United States. It was such 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:17.600 an extraordinary moment in this country. Happened at convention. Four 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:22.320 years later, Hillary Clinton would throw her hat in the ring, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.120 and we know how that turned out. Barack Obama would 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:31.320 become the Democratic nominee. After pretty dirty not as dirty 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:35.600 as things would come, but a pretty dirty campaign cycle, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:42.360 Barack Obama becomes the first black president of the United States. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.760 We see this beautiful black woman. They're two little girls 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.200 who are now grown women. They're two little girls come 0:09:53.240 --> 0:10:02.479 out eight years we would have this incredible family, gifted 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:08.160 man and woman. Because first Lady Michelle Obama, my god, right, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.800 who will be speaking this week at Vice President Kamala 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.520 Harris's convention. I'm just sitting here as I'm talking, and 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:22.560 I'm just it's like flashbacks one after the other. So 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:28.240 after eight years, we think, yes, Hillary Clinton, Okay, we're 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.040 ready for you. And then America said that was too 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.600 much history, too much healthcare, too much was going right. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.679 So we you know, we gotta slow that role. And 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.920 we became complacent because we thought, well, there's no way 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.160 people are going to vote for this grifter. And for 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:58.680 the last eight years we've been living vacillating in between anxiety, fear, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.480 and now back to a place of hopefulness, back to 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:10.120 a place where we can actually see a pathway forward. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:16.800 So I encourage all of you to really think about 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.960 how far we've come in this time, but also be 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:30.040 reminded of what is at stake. Over the weekend, I 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:35.400 joined my friends Amin Mohedeen and Dean Ambodalla on Amen's 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:42.080 show on MSNBC, and offset Dean and I were talking about, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.400 you know, have people lost in the sense of hopefulness, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:53.240 the seriousness of this moment, And I said, no, we 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.080 just don't have to fear what is coming because we 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:03.280 have an alternative, so I don't have to berate you 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:08.719 all with this seriousness that Project twenty twenty five is 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.480 because we've been doing that for months. But what I 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.679 do want to do is encourage all of you while 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.920 we are in this place of hopefulness, why we are 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:23.320 in this place of possibility, to do everything that you 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.640 can within your power. It's not just enough to donate. 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.360 It's not enough to just get yourself to the polls. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:34.320 What are you doing every single day to get Kamala 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.400 Harris and Tim Walls over the finish line? Are you 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.640 registering other people to vote? Are you volunteering? Are you 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:48.679 making calls? Are you organizing your community in house parties 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.360 and events to talk to them about the issues. The 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.160 Vice President just released our economic plan. Walk through it 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.719 with people. We have to do everything. There is not 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.440 a stone that should be left unturned. There's not a 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.040 person that should not have been talked to more than 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:13.199 one time. We have to do everything because, like you, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:18.320 I do not want to wake up days after the 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.520 election and say I could have done more and had 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:28.959 that feeling that I had that election night in twenty sixteen, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.520 where I sat the next day in a Canadian airport 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.920 the waitress at the diner that I was sitting inside 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.920 of at the airport said are you okay? And I said, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.240 I don't think so, because I did not know what 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.400 was meeting me when I returned to the United States. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.800 But we all saw what met us. So we cannot 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.560 look currently at where they are saying, and by they, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.800 I mean corporate mainstream media is saying that the polls are, oh, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.000 she's up by four here, tied here, up by five here, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:15.120 because someone posted an image and it was the week 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:21.080 before the twenty sixteen election, and the national flocking polls 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:27.400 said that Hillary Clinton was up by twenty points. Twenty points. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:34.040 So that is the day that I lost faith in 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.360 all polls. And I tell people that all the time, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.120 I've had pollsters on this show and on The New 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.320 Abnormal and on Democracy Ish, and I tell them, I 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.160 don't mean to disparage your industry, but I don't give 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.840 a lot of stock to polls, because in twenty sixteen, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.600 the week before the election, Hillary Clinton was all the 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.960 way up, and I remember that Donald Trump was shot 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.080 that he had won. I'm also not convinced now in 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.160 hindsight that he actually did. But that's a story for 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.960 another day. I want us to get through that finish 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:17.560 line and wake up excited for the America that is 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:23.520 to come, and jubiliant as we count down the days 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:31.680 to inauguration when we see Madam President Kamala Harris sworn in, 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:36.400 That's what we want, and I just want folks to 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.920 know she is not perfect. They will not have a 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:45.880 perfect administration. I will absolutely still be on air critiquing 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.240 and asking questions because that's what I do. But we 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:53.480 are never again going to allow the perfect to get 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.840 in the way of the good. And I believe that 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.840 she is good. I believe that she believes in democracy 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:05.920 and the middle class. I believe that she wants every 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.600 child in this country, regardless of their zip code, to 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:13.920 have access to equality public education. I believe that she 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.000 wants everyone in this country to have high quality healthcare. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:23.440 I believe that she wants America's infrastructure to be the 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.520 envy of the world. I believe that she wants first 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:33.320 time home buyers to have the hurdles to building wealth removed. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.240 But we are also going to need to deliver her 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:43.440 a Congress that is going to deliver us those campaign promises, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:50.040 because absent all the d's down ballot, we're going to 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.640 be going head to head with Mitch McConnell or whatever 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.920 other cripkeeper they roll out. We cannot have that happen. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.439 This week on WOKF Daily, I am going to be 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:10.440 doing a bunch of solo shows, providing you with reflections 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.600 on the day's events, who I spoke to, what's going on, 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.000 some behind the scenes stuff. But I also have another 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:25.080 important announcement. I have launched my very own YouTube channel 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:30.280 at Danielle Moody Underscore. It is the same handle that 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.720 I have on TikTok that I have now on YouTube, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.760 and I am going to be going live there. I'm 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.000 going to be producing shorts and video interviews, and I 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:47.080 want you to subscribe. Subscribe, subscribe, Get everyone that you know, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.000 bring it like it's a party. 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