1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody, back in effect after such 3 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: a long time away. I've missed each and every one 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: of you, and for those of you that are new 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: with us here on, iHeart welcome. I'm so excited to 6 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: be on this new platform, and for all of you 7 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: who have been on this joining with me since the 8 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: very beginning, I just can't wait for this next chapter. So, folks, 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: it seems that the entire time that I've been away, 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: trying to get my thoughts together, you know, get a 11 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: little bit of peace, taken some books and some walks. Unfortunately, 12 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: the world did not decide to take a break with me, 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: and things have been spinning out of fuck in control 14 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: from the unrelenting amount of anti trans bills that we 15 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: have seen, to Rondascentis and his high heel wearing self 16 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:15,559 Speaker 1: just trying to become I guess young Mussolini, to the 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: potential of Donald Trump being indicted with news coming out 18 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: of the Manhattan District Attorney's office. I mean, there's just 19 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 1: so much, so friends, I'm excited to be back. Let's 20 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: dive in, all right. Starting off, I have to say 21 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: that what we have seen over the last month plus 22 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: since we were together with regards to the anti trans, 23 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: anti lgbt Q bills have been absolutely crazy. And I 24 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: say that because, you know, folks, I am not kidding 25 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: myself when I thought that after the passage of marriage 26 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: equality that there would somehow be this slow move, continued 27 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: move towards progress that we would feel right like the 28 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: change that people have fought for since Stonewall, to watching 29 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: the White House turn into a rainbow after the passage 30 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: of marriage equality by the Supreme Court. After we told 31 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,119 Speaker 1: young kids that things would get better, folks, I did 32 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: not think that I would be here. I got to 33 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: be honest with you. I didn't think that things would 34 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: be perfect. But I sure as fuck did not think 35 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: that we would be going backwards at the speed and 36 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: at the rate at which we are right now. Where 37 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: it stands, dear friends, we have over three hundred pieces 38 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: of legislation that have been offered up to ban everything 39 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: from drag story time to drag performances in public to 40 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: gender affirming care to the criminalization of parents who want 41 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: to access gender affirming care for their children that are 42 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: under the age of eighteen. I mean I got to 43 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: tell you that it's terrifying. I have friends who have 44 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: made the decision to move out of the state of 45 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: Texas to move to Washington, d C. I know other 46 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: people that are making decisions who have the privilege, right, 47 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: Because let's be real, when we kind of make flipping comments, 48 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: you know, for those of us that happen too currently, right, 49 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: because it doesn't mean that it's forever. And I'll get 50 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: to the case of abortion that is happening right now 51 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: in Texas that has national implications. But when we look 52 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: and we say to people, well, why are you living 53 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: in Mississippi, Why are you living in Arkansas? Why are 54 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: you living in Tennessee? Just move? Let's understand that we 55 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: are saying that comment and it's dripping in privilege and 56 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: classism because there's only a select group of people, right 57 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: that can look at their significant others, or look at 58 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: their family, or look at themselves and say, you know what, 59 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: I have the money, I have the resources to pick 60 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: up and relocate my entire life, leave my family, leave 61 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: my friends, leave all that I know, and go pick 62 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: up and start someplace else. Right, So let's understand that 63 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: when we make these comments, right, it's like looking at 64 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: the people back during you know, terrible natural disasters that 65 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: we know have gotten worse. But it's like looking at 66 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: the people who live in Tornado Valley or who live 67 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: in hurricane places, and we say, well, why don't you 68 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: just move because it's not that fucking easy. Why didn't 69 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: you just leave when they said that the hurricane was coming, Well, 70 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: because that takes resource. Right, So let's just make clear 71 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: that when we say those comments, and I have definitely 72 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: said them and tweeted them before, that I understand right 73 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: that not everybody can move that way. And so when 74 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: we're looking at these pieces of legislation that all right 75 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: oriented out of that Petrie dish that we call Florida, 76 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: which began last year this time with the passage of 77 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: they Don't Say Gay Bill, that we know that every 78 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: Republican governor is acting like a copycat of Rhonda Santis 79 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: is trying to compete right on the national stage who 80 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: can be the worst. And these barrage of bills are 81 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: set to do nothing more, dear friends, then to make 82 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: us feel like the progress that we have made, the 83 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: progress that we have fought for, is done and gone with. 84 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: And so either we just lose ourselves in hopelessness, or 85 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: we begin to figure out a pathway forward. Because here's 86 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: the thing. I was talking to my therapist the other day, 87 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 1: and when I'm in therapy these days, you know, I 88 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: talk about a lot of my feelings of being kind 89 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: of trapped in an existential crisis. Right that. You know, 90 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: there are some people who will enter into therapy and 91 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: they learn that the stories that they're telling themselves are not, 92 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: you know, really aligned with reality. With me, however, right 93 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: doing this work, working in politics, working on the front 94 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: lines for social justice in a media capacity, that what 95 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: I am actually facing and what I'm talking about every 96 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: day is real, right, Like I'm not making up three 97 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: hundred pieces of legislation, Right, I'm not making it up 98 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 1: in my head. That you have people like Rhonda sand Fitz, 99 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, Paul Gosar, Matt Gates, and others that 100 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: are using language like Mike Knowles did at Sepack a 101 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago when he said that transgenderism needs 102 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: to be quote eradicated. Right when you have people who 103 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: are in positions of power or have proximity to power 104 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: that once they do have the White House back once 105 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 1: they do have the Senate back that their eradication plan 106 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 1: can be operationalized. That's not me being chicken little. That's 107 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: not me, you know, making up stories. That's me taking 108 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: the facts of what it is that these people are 109 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: articulating and saying, oh shit, if we don't hold on 110 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: to the White House in twenty twenty four, if we 111 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: don't expand the Senate, right, if we don't take back 112 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: the House, that the eradication solution that the Republicans are offering, 113 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: and they're starting because I want folks to understand two. 114 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: And this is the piece in the piece that I 115 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: wrote in the Daily Beast last week entitled Democrats need 116 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: to fight harder as the GOP tries to eradicate transpeople. 117 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: And what I said in this piece is this eradicate right, 118 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: eradicate What does that word actually mean? And this is 119 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: what I want people to understand. To be clear. Quote, 120 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: the definition of eradicate is to remove or destroy entirely. 121 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: So when Michael Knows says this, and by the way, folks, 122 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: he said this to a room that was filled with applause, 123 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: This is not me saying, oh, well, they probably don't 124 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: really mean it, right. This is me sitting down with 125 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: my therapist being like, I am having trouble mustering up 126 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: consistency around my joy and ease because I feel like 127 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: the walls they're closing in on me as a black 128 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,719 Speaker 1: queer woman, as an out black queer woman, as an 129 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: out black queer woman with a bit of a platform 130 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: that she uses to advance equity and justice. Right, So, 131 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: what I say about this terminology, what I say about 132 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: these bills, is this terminology like this is used for 133 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: one purpose to separate people from their humanity. Why, to 134 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: normalize brutality, to make a violence legislatively or physically not 135 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: only justifiable but necessary. When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis 136 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 1: referred to the Jewish people as quote vermin that needed 137 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: to be quote eradicated from Germany, they were able to 138 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: convince enough of the population that their neighbors were subhuman. 139 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: So I want you to understand and feel community in 140 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: the fact that you are not alone, if you, like me, 141 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: are struggling these days with finding your north star, finding 142 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: your sense of hope, your sense of light, when every 143 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: single headline, every single alert that's coming across on your 144 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: phone is one of something else that is bad, that 145 00:10:55,120 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: was just past. But here's the thing that I want 146 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:14,479 Speaker 1: folks to understand is that it is time, dear friends, 147 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,599 Speaker 1: it is time for all Americans, whether you know a 148 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: trans person, whether you are a member of the LGBTQ 149 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: community or not, to wake the fuck up. Because what 150 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: I close and write in this piece and the Daily 151 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: Beast is this Republicans are laying out their plans. First 152 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: they come for the transgender community, but because a majority 153 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: of Americans don't know a person who is trans, they 154 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: do nothing. Eventually they come for you. It's time we 155 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: as Americans wake up and realize the end to me, 156 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: to freedom and our collective humanity is within and the 157 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: war has already begun. That's the truth, folks, those are 158 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: the facts. This for the Republican Party has never been 159 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: about protecting children. It has never been about the concern 160 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: around children. It has been the concern around the consolidation 161 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: of their power and the ability to weaponize government to 162 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: serve their own ends. You go for the most marginalized 163 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: and vulnerable community because when we look at reports, I 164 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: think less than twenty percent of the American population actually 165 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: know somebody who is trance. You see, you go for 166 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: the community that people still have a hard time placing 167 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: their fingers are and you you dehumanize them because it's 168 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: easy because most likely over the holidays, right at your 169 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: kitchen table, you're not sitting across the table from somebody 170 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: who is transgender nonconforming. But I want to tell you this, folks, 171 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: it shouldn't fucking matter. It shouldn't matter whether you know someone, 172 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 1: whether it is a person that is inside of your 173 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: own family, in your own classroom, next to you, on 174 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: the job, sharing a cubicle with you, they are a person. 175 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: They are human, And what we know to be true 176 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: is that this is a tried and true tactic. I 177 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: talk to you about Hitler because when people are feeling 178 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: the weight of their lives, when they feel like the 179 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: walls are closing in and they are drowning, and they 180 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: are looked for anyone to blame to say, so long 181 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: as that person suffers, then I will be doing better. 182 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: The reality is that Democrats need to do more and 183 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: show people the true face of the Republican Party that 184 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: is full on anti trans, anti Semitic, anti black, anti woman. 185 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: Everything that they are pro is about regression. You know 186 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: why they went ahead and reverse Rob Wade because they 187 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: don't want women and people with uterousist to have the 188 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: autonomy over their bodies. Because guess what reports are coming out, 189 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: folks that younger generations are not getting married and they're 190 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: not having kids at the same rate. So let's blame 191 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: the books. Let's blame wokeism instead of the fact that 192 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: capitalism only works for a certain few. So let's remove 193 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: the books and then call that freedom. I don't know 194 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: about you, but I don't know a free democratic society 195 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: that jail's librarians and targets schools and targets private industry 196 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: for stating their opinion on the states where their headquarters are. 197 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: The way that Rhnda Santis is going after Disney. This 198 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: isn't about fucking freedom. You got Marjorie Taylor Green talking 199 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: about wokeism is being shoved down my throat. I say, 200 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: turn off the fucking television. If you choose to want 201 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: to live your life like an Austrians, if you believe 202 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: that freedom looks like something that should only be given 203 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: and taken by those that are white, that are cists, 204 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: that are hetero, that are Christian, then you shouldn't live 205 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: in these United States because our founding may be fucked up. 206 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: But the work that we have been doing to perfect 207 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: our union each and every generation is work worth doing. 208 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: But understand, folks, that we have had people by different names, 209 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: but of the same white, angry, angry, rageful faces pushing 210 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: against progress since the beginning of time, literally since the 211 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: formation of what we know to be the United States. 212 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: There is always, as my therapist is trying to move 213 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: me out of my existential downward spiral, there is always 214 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: going to be polarity in life. The yang and the yang, 215 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: and the dark and the light. That is just what 216 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: it means to exist. We're not looking for a utopia. 217 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: We're looking for equanimity. We're looking for balance. But my 218 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: feeling is that what happens when Republicans and I far 219 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: right christio fascist agenda begins to wait on the scale, folks, 220 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: then the light and the love and the goodness and 221 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: what is just needs to put just as much weight, 222 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: if not more, on that scale as well. We don't 223 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: have the luxury, dear friends, to rescind our energy and 224 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: our time and say, oh no, maybe next time I'll 225 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: go get him, because we are at a point, folks, 226 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: where those next times are not given. They want us 227 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: to believe that they are gaining steam and momentum, and 228 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: they are. But I will tell you that the reason 229 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: why this is happening is because there are more people 230 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: that are fucking woke and conscious to social injustices to 231 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: the layered crises than have ever been before in this 232 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: country and globally. People have become critical thinkers that are 233 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: asking questions about why we've been operating under this arbitrary 234 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: set of societal norms that actually don't feel like they fit. 235 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: The shit is not couture. It's like a cheap fucking suit, right, 236 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: So we talk about, oh, well, a woman is a 237 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: woman and a man is a man, says who ask yourself? 238 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: Who benefits from the lies that we've been fed. Adulthood, 239 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: dear friends, is about on learning all of the things 240 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: that we have been taught. We have been brainwashed to 241 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: understand the reason why the right is pushing in the 242 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: way that they are because more people are questioning. That's 243 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: why they want to move the books, folks. That's why 244 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 1: they want to erase history. That's why they want to 245 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: put their clause into curriculum, because an educated populace is 246 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: a dangerous populace to the status fucking quo. So if 247 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: that doesn't show you that we are winning, right, because 248 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 1: let me tell you something, people don't steal and take 249 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: things that are of no value. That's why they try 250 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: and steal your vote. That's why they're trying to steal 251 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: your books. That's why they are trying to steal our joy. 252 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: Our job as we march forward together is a reclamation project, folks, 253 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: because I'm telling you this show, the next iteration of 254 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: wok F is not about marinating in the misery. It 255 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: is about recognizing the polarity, recognizing that, yes, I'm going 256 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: to be honest about all the dark shit because there 257 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: is a lot of it, and I'm also going to 258 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,959 Speaker 1: be honest about all of the light, about all of 259 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 1: the good because we cannot get stuck in one place 260 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: or the other. We have got to be nimble, to 261 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: be pliable, to be expansive in the way that we 262 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: think and in the way that we dream, because without 263 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: the ability to have ease, without the ability to actually dream, 264 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: we cannot think past the bullshit that we are in 265 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: right now. And we have got to be able to 266 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: think past it otherwise we can't actualize it. So this 267 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: is a window into what woke a f in our 268 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: new chapter, in our new home of iHeart will be. 269 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: It'll be about holding the both and about asking the 270 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 1: critical questions, about unpacking what we don't know, and calling 271 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: in our friends, our academics, our analysts, our authors, our 272 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: change makers, our activists, our artists, our musicians to help 273 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: make sense out of all of the fucking nonsense. Because 274 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: I know that there is a strong desire to want 275 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: to tune out, because everything is really overwhelming. And that's 276 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 1: why you have to have the ability to be able 277 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: to pick and to choose. And I'm so happy that 278 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: I'm one of the choices that you make. That is 279 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: it for me today, Dear friends on woke f as always, 280 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power, 281 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.