1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay Effi Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our pod 3 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: stream studios here in Times Square. Folks, let's just say this, 4 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: things are not going well in Afghanistan. They have not 5 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: been going well for the last several weeks since the 6 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: Biden and Harris administration announced that they would be withdrawing 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: all troops from the region after twenty two years of 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: being involved in a civil war and in a conflict 9 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: where we thought that the United States was building a 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: democratic infrastructure to help the people of Afghanistan. Well, we 11 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: were receiving reports that there was going to be considerable 12 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: attacks happening outside of the capital of Kabul at the 13 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: airport where there were one mornings that went out not 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: just from the United States but from the UK as 15 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: well to their citizens in the region to move away 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: from the airports because they were very concerned that the 17 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: security threats that they were receiving were going to actually 18 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: come to fruition. Well, lo and behold sadly they have 19 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: with reports of multiple military folks being killed because that 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: is where they were stationed, outside of the airports. And 21 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: then also there were apparently suicide bomber attacks that happened 22 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: at a nearby hotel as well. Folks, when you see 23 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: the pictures coming out of Afghanistan, heartbreak doesn't begin to 24 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: really convey what is transpiring in this region of the world. 25 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: And you know, there are several military folks throughout the 26 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: years that I've had on various shows that I have hosted, 27 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: and to follow them now on social media to just 28 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: see how exasperated they are by the fact that they 29 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: lost friends, right, people lost lives, they lost limbs in 30 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: order to secure this country. And at the end of 31 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: the day, the United States really did not have a 32 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: plan for entry, and they sure as fuck did not 33 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: have a solid plan for exit. And you know, I 34 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: said this earlier in the week that Congresswoman Barbara Lee 35 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: was the only the singular person member of Congress to 36 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: vote against going to Afghanistan, because she said, why are 37 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: we going to a place where we have no clear 38 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: path out and don't really know what we are going 39 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: there for? And I find, you know, when I talk, 40 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: and I'm not a foreign affairs expert, and I make 41 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: that very very clear, but I am a person that 42 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: has enough information and research and talk to enough people 43 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: to have a clear eyed opinion of the way in 44 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: which the United States goes around the world and bigfoots 45 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: in other countries creating these terror vacuums when they decide 46 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: to withdraw. And that's exactly what is happening in Afghanistan. 47 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: We're in conversation with the Taliban for fuck's sake, right, 48 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: and assuming that we're taking a terrorist organization on their 49 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: word about what they are going to do once the 50 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: United States is fully out of the country or as 51 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: they say that the operation to evacuate people will be 52 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: done on August thirty first, according to reports from MSNBC, 53 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: CNN and many other outlets. Is this the reality is 54 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: that even if the United States were to keep pace, right, 55 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: given the suicide bombing attack that just happened that clearly 56 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: killed people, right, civilians and military alike, clearly has now 57 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: created a more heightened sense of security in that area, 58 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: the United States is not going to be able to 59 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: keep up the pace of evacuations that they were talking about. 60 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: So how is this deadline of August thirty first, which 61 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: is just a couple of days from now, really going 62 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: to happen. I don't get it, And you know, General 63 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: McMaster was the National Security Advisor under Trump for one 64 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: year twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen, and he has had 65 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: a military career for well over thirty years and is 66 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: currently teaching at Stanford University. And he said made a 67 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: comment that actually had me take real pause. It was 68 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: one of those moments when you're kind of washing dishes 69 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: in the kitchen and then you hear a phrase and 70 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: you put the dish down and you turn over and 71 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: you're like, did he just say that? And this is 72 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: what McMaster said, And this is a person. Look, I 73 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: don't applaud various military folks because I don't understand military 74 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: operations as well. You have some people that are hawks, right, 75 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: that just believed that really aggressive of military action is 76 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: the only way to navigate in countries, right, And then 77 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: you have other people that believe in more diplomatic approaches. 78 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: But this is what General McMaster said. He called the 79 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: United States' role in Afghanistan over the past twenty two 80 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: years strategic narcissism. And I nearly dropped the dish that 81 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: I was washing when I heard that phrase, because it 82 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: so clearly articulates America's position in Afghanistan. He talked about 83 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: it as essentially looking through the lens of America. You 84 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: cannot go into various regions, especially complicated, layered regions that 85 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: have been in distress for generations, and go in with 86 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: the lens of Americanism and impose that on other countries 87 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: and then think that you're going to create some type 88 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: of mirrored democracy. And he said, you know that isn't 89 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: what was never going to happen. There was never a 90 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: clear plan as to what we were actually doing there, right, 91 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: So initially it was to hunt for the people that 92 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: were behind nine to eleven, but lo and behold with 93 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: more intel and information, those fucking people came from Saudi Arabia, 94 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: right and so, but because we have really tight knit 95 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: relationships with the Saudis, we didn't go where we actually 96 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: needed to go. So here's the thing. How do we 97 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: deal with the fact that the United States is not 98 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: going to be able to evacuate all of the people 99 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: that need to be evacuated and the assumption is that 100 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: they are going to be over a quarter of a 101 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: million people that are going to be left behind that 102 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: have worked with and collaborated with the United States over 103 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: the last twenty years. What does that say about the 104 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: United States, What does that say about our operations across 105 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: varied countries right underdeveloped or developing countries that basically, the 106 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: US will come in, not provide you with a clear timeline, 107 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: and then when they decide that they've had enough, they'll 108 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: just up and leave. And Europe fucking left right and 109 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: and in this case left at the airport, left to 110 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: be murdered and slayed by the Taliban, because we're taking 111 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: their word for the fact that they're not going to 112 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: do anything, even though we have reports that have come 113 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: out and said the Taliban is going door to door, 114 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: knocking on doors and executing family members of people who 115 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: worked with the Americans. So they're not even people in 116 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: that household that them themselves had worked with Americans, but 117 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: say their brother, their sister were as an interpreter, and 118 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: now those people are being hunted. We've already heard reports 119 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: of women, women in the workforce being told by the 120 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: Taliban that they need to stay home because apparently they 121 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: have not trained their men in dealing with what working women. 122 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: So that's availed bullshit that we are going back to 123 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,239 Speaker 1: one of the strictest Sharia law practitioners right in the region, 124 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: which is the Taliban, where women are stoned to death, 125 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: right where they're not allowed outside of their homes unless 126 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: they are under the guardianship of a man. That they 127 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: are not allowed to work, that they are not allowed 128 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: to be educated, that they are not allowed to drive. Now, 129 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: let me not say this in a way that makes 130 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: it seem like again, the United States doesn't do fucked 131 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: up shit to women, because here's the thing is that 132 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: we always look at these countries, right, and we say 133 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: how barbaric, how horrible. Meanwhile, there is one abortion clinic 134 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 1: in all a fucking Mississippi, right And Roe v. Wade 135 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: is being challenged in the United States because the Republicans 136 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: don't believe that women in the United States, in a 137 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: democratic society, have the ability to have autonomy over their bodies. Okay, 138 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: we don't have an equal pay law in the United States, 139 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: so we know that women are oftentimes making way less money, 140 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: particularly if you are a woman of color, making way 141 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: less money then their white male counterparts. So let us 142 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: not pretend that we are going around the world to 143 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: tell you how to deal with and how to create 144 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: equity for women when in this very fucking country we 145 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: don't have equity for women. Okay, so just because we 146 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: don't stone people to death in the streets, right, doesn't 147 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: mean that we have actual equity in this country. And 148 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: I think that when we are talking, particularly about women's issues, 149 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: we need to come from a lens and come from 150 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: a place of transparency and honesty about where the United 151 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: States is incredibly lagging behind other industrialized nations. All that 152 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: to be said, the situation is rapidly deteriorated in Afghanistan. 153 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: There are reports heartbreaking of children being trampled of a 154 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: five year old little girl. This is from an unverified source, 155 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: but a five year old little girl being caught in 156 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: the blast this week and dying in the arms of 157 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 1: a worker, a person, an Afghan person who was working 158 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: with the United States military over the past several years. 159 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: You know. And what is sickening on top of sickening, 160 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: on top of sickning, is that the Taliban gets to 161 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: say that they are successful in driving the United States 162 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: from Afghanistan, reclaiming power in just a matter of weeks. Right. 163 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: Trump's negotiations with the Taliban allowed there to be five 164 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: thousand Afghans who are associated with ISIS to be released. 165 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: And where did they go back to fucking isis. So 166 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: I just, you know, we really have to take a deep, 167 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: serious examination of who America is in the world right 168 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: now and who we want to be because the amount 169 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: of money, resources, and lives that have been lost over 170 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: the past two decades in this part of the world 171 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: is unconscionable. And for this current president to say that 172 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: we are not going to deviate from the plan, that 173 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: we are not going to make any arrangements to be 174 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: in this country past the thirty first of August, knowing 175 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: good god damn well that there are going to be 176 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: mass executions, right And I hate listening to these news 177 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: reports that are talking about getting Americans out where and 178 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, what about the Afghans? What about these people? Right? So, 179 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: now you have created this crisis of humanitarian proportion that 180 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: we have not seen, have not witnessed right since Syria. 181 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: And this is worse because we're dispersing these people all 182 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: around the world, not really having a plan for what 183 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: happens to them next. And when this story fades from 184 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: the news, these people are going to be left with 185 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: trying to piece together what is left of their lives. 186 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: And I can't express that enough that we will never know, 187 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: and maybe I should never use the word never, certainly 188 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: not in these fucking abnormal times. But for the most part, 189 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: as Americans do not understand what it is like to 190 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: live under a terrorist regime. We do not understand what 191 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: it could be like to have to have just a 192 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: few hours to pack up what you can carry and 193 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: flee your homeland, never to return again, to be left 194 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: on an airport, to be left there and just hope 195 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: that you'll be able to find a way out of 196 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: this country alive. We don't understand that here in the 197 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: United States. We look at these images kind of in 198 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: the same way that we look at and connect to 199 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: Hollywood movies, except these are real people and these are 200 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: real lives. And what we are already seeing is how 201 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: the right wing is trying to turn these people that 202 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: are fleeing, that worked alongside us for two decades into terrorists. Right. 203 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: So I am fearful for these people as they are 204 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: moved from Afghanistan into other parts of the world and 205 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: what is going to happen to them there. But I 206 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: will say this that you know, not only is this 207 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: just this scenario emblematic of where we go wrong in 208 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: America on a regular basis in terms of what it 209 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: is that we are doing. We create these power vacuums, 210 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: these terrorist vacuums all around the world, and we do 211 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: a very shit job in our own media of covering 212 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: the truth. We don't even cover the truth of what 213 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: is happening domestically, let alone really engage with what is 214 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: happening with the American presence in these developing nations right 215 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: that have these massive terrorist cells. We don't deal with 216 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: our own terrorist cells here because if we did, then 217 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: we wouldn't have had a president that told people to 218 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: stand back and stand by and then set them up 219 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: for an insurrection. All I'm saying is this, I think 220 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: that things in Afghanistan are going to get tremendously worse. 221 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: We are going to see images and hear stories that 222 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: are going to be so damaging to this current administration 223 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: because they will bear the brunt, because they will be 224 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: the ones that decided to pull out right and leave 225 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: these people high and dry to be executed one after 226 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: the other after the other. I fear for the women 227 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: and girls that are left in this country and what 228 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: will happen to them. They had a little sliver of 229 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: hope and promise through the last twenty years of being educated, 230 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: of getting jobs, of adding value to their lives into 231 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: their country. Now that is all coming to a halt, 232 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: just like that. Overnight. We create a lot of problems, 233 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: and yet we present ourselves as the world saviors. And 234 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: I think that what is coming to light right now 235 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: is this consciousness, this wake up moment of wait a minute, 236 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: We aren't the savior. We aren't the heroes in this story, 237 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: right And I don't know, honestly when we really truly 238 00:15:55,520 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: have been the heroes in any foreign story. But that's how. 239 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: That's the force feeding that we have gotten, that we 240 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: have received over so many generations. And I think that 241 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: right now what is happening in Afghanistan is a wake 242 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: up call for all of us. 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