1 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and happy Monday. It is Easter Monday 2 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: for those of you that celebrated the Easter holiday over 3 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: the weekend April thirteenth. And I am Danielle Moody, your 4 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: flight attendant, therapist and usher through the Apocalypse. Just kidding. 5 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: It's okay, f daily, folks, and a lot transpired over 6 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: the weekend that I'm going to bring to you. How 7 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: are you all hanging in there? That's essentially the question 8 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: that I have because it's been rough. I think that 9 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: last week was probably one of the roughest weeks that 10 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: we have had, not just because of the COVID numbers 11 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: that reached really crushing numbers, the most deaths. The United 12 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: States has taken over the spot that we would have 13 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: never wanted to be in the number one spot for 14 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: coronavirus cases for coronavirus deaths in the United States. New 15 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: York leading the way unfortunately in that space. But here's 16 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: what I will say about New York in this moment. 17 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: And I can't, you know, provide a enough praise for 18 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: what Governor Cuomo has been doing, because while New York 19 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: maybe the epicenter, I actually feel safer here than I 20 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: would anywhere in the country. Why Because leadership matters, and 21 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: it matters for me and I think for all New 22 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: Yorkers right now and people that are living in the 23 00:01:54,760 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: Tristate area to have a leader that is dedicated to truth, transparency, 24 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: giving us the tough love that we need, but providing 25 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: us with empathy, doing all of the things that are 26 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: necessary in this moment of great tragedy, of fear and anxiety, 27 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: which is holding us together. Over the weekend, you know, 28 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: as I celebrated the Easter holiday, which is a tough one. 29 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: It's it's tough, and I think that many people will 30 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: share my sentiment when I say that spending a holiday 31 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: in isolation, away from your family, your friends, your church, 32 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: your loved ones, whatever type of traditions and gatherings that 33 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: you would have normally over this weekend, for my Jewish 34 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: friends with Passover, for those that are getting ready to celeidate, 35 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: to celebrate Ramadan that is coming up, like this is 36 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: really trying. And you know, I'm not going to make 37 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: light of it, and I'm not going to try and 38 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: you know, have a speed bump over it, because I 39 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: think that it's important that we feel the loss and 40 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: the pain because that's how you begin to heal, that's 41 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: how you move on, that's how you can feel your 42 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: way through this. And I think that that's one of 43 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: the most important lessons right now that we can take 44 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:21,839 Speaker 1: on each and every day, is the feeling of this. 45 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: You know, my friend Sata said to me over the 46 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: weekend that maybe, you know, she's like, we just need 47 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: to give the earth a break. She needs to heal. 48 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: Mother Nature needs to heal from all of the damage 49 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: that's been caused. And maybe when we are able to 50 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: rejoin our lives society link arms, whether virtually or figuratively, 51 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: again with one another, will do so with a deep 52 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: sense of gratitude because we will understand collectively what it 53 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: means to have loss. And I think that the difference 54 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: with this and let's say, other wars and tragedies that 55 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: have happened around the world and in this country, is 56 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: that it's always focused on one community, one country, one place. 57 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: And the thing about the coronavirus is that it shows 58 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: us just how connected we all are. We're all connected 59 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: in the pain of consistent ambulance sirens and announcements of 60 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: death and obituaries and sadness and grief. You know whether 61 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 1: or not you know somebody at this particular moment that 62 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: is connected to the coronavirus, Whether or not you know 63 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: somebody that has passed away or is in hospital, doesn't 64 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: really matter, because we've all lost something, right, our connectivity, 65 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: our purpose. In many ways, myself, I'm driven every day 66 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: by my purpose to do good, to be better, to 67 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: try and offer information, to try and offer hope, to 68 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: remind everyone that listens to WOKAF and the other shows 69 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: that you do have power, right, that you do have 70 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: collective power, and you do have a voice and in 71 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: these days. And that's why I started off by saying 72 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: that last week was a particularly hard week, because I 73 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: think that in many ways, the shock begins to subside 74 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,679 Speaker 1: and the reality of the situation that we're in becomes 75 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: ever present and we're ever rooted in this moment. And 76 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: I think that that is what is so jarring, Because 77 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: the first week you can say, well, this sucks and 78 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: this is terrible, and you have a lot of shock 79 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: around it. The second week you can say, Okay, well, 80 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 1: you know, maybe it won't last that long and let 81 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,559 Speaker 1: me try and make the best of it. The third week, 82 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: and now heading into the fourth week, For many people, 83 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: it's like, how long is this going to go on? 84 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: And is it this in fact the new normal? Will 85 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: we return to society? And what doctor Fauci and many 86 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: others are saying is that will we rejoin society at 87 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: some point? Yes? Will it look like pre COVID No? 88 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: And so that also creates another layer of grief and 89 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: frustration because we didn't even have the time to really 90 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: say goodbye to our former lives and our former selves. 91 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: And that's jarring because we want to believe. And you know, 92 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: it's funny because I'm watching all of these commercials, commercials 93 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: that tell us that, you know, we'll go to concerts again, 94 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: and we'll go to restaurants again, and we'll hug people again, 95 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: and and I'm looking at them and I'm watching it, 96 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: and I'm saying, will we We don't know. We tell 97 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 1: each other that because I think that the reality is 98 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: too much to take, it's too much to swallow, it's 99 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: too much of a hard pill to get down when 100 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: you try and figure out what re emerging if I 101 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: use the biblical term of resurrecting from this, you know, 102 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: coronavirus lockdown that we've been in, What does it look like. 103 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: And I think that that's hard to figure out, and 104 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: we're all trying the best that we can. And I 105 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: just want to offer to people that last week was 106 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: really tough for me emotionally. It's a tough. This past 107 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: weekend was incredibly tough. Easter is a holiday for me. 108 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm not a religious person, but it's a holiday for 109 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: me that I had begun a tradition with my loved 110 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: ones and friends of gathering together and it kind of 111 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: being our holiday and our time to see everyone's kids 112 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: and just like enjoy each other and we do some 113 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: day drinking, and we play some games, and we take 114 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: pictures and we laugh for hours and hours and hours 115 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: and and it's hard to understand the deep sense of 116 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: loss and change and transition that we are all experiencing. 117 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: And you know, I took to social media, as everyone 118 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: is doing on a day and day out, and looked 119 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: at old pictures and liking everybody's old pictures or current 120 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: pictures of how they're trying to make the best of 121 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: it with online church and online synagogue and zoom celebrations, 122 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: you know, and all of it. Because I think that 123 00:08:55,320 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: what this has shown me, more so than any thing 124 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 1: else is just how much we yearn to be connected, 125 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: how much we yearn to love and share and be 126 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: in community with one another. And I think that a 127 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: lot of our despair and sadness and frustration comes from 128 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: that lack of connection and the lack of vulnerability to 129 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: admit that you want that connection. So I just I 130 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: offer that as a way to say that I am 131 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: here with all of you, love all of you, and 132 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: am sending you virtual hugs as we move on this 133 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: Monday and head into our fourth week, our fourth week 134 00:09:52,760 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: of lockdown. So where are things politically? Who the fuck knows? 135 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: You know? There was a piece in the Washington Post 136 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: over the weekend entitled Sidelined by coronavirus pandemic, Congress seed 137 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: stage and authority to Trump? What else is do? This 138 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: is how it begins. Weeks into a pandemic that has 139 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: upended American life, Congress is struggling to adapt to the 140 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: country's new socially distanced reality, hampering an entire branch of 141 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: the federal government during a crisis of epic global scale, 142 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: and tilting the balance of power in Washington towards Trump. 143 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,599 Speaker 1: With lawmakers dispersed across the country and with rules frequently 144 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: out of step with modern telecommunications. The House and the 145 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: Senate are only starting to come to terms with how 146 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,079 Speaker 1: to conduct many of their most essential functions amid and 147 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: extended national emergency. I just quote, I just think it's 148 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: time for Congress to think differently about how we operate, 149 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: said Rob Portman, Republican from Ohio. Most of my constituents 150 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: right now are working at least somewhat remotely. Some are 151 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: entirely teleworking, others are partly teleworking. So it's not as 152 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: though this isn't being done. Congress is one of the 153 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 1: few entities that has not been able to figure this out. 154 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: Both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Moscow 155 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: Mitch have made clear in recent weeks that remote voting 156 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,359 Speaker 1: is not feasible in the near term, citing concerns of security, practicality, 157 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: and even constitutionality. But the disruption on Capitol Hill only 158 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: begins with casting votes. And I have to say this, 159 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: You know, it's twenty twenty. It's twenty twenty, and the 160 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: fact that our institutions and agencies have yet to evolve 161 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: innovate technologically is incredibly struggled. Like troubling. The fact that 162 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: our infrastructure is not set up to handle this type 163 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: of disaster just shows exactly how vulnerable the United States is. 164 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: I mean, just think about this for a second. Any 165 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: terrorist you know who decided that, you know what, we're 166 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: going to move beyond planes into buildings like what happened 167 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: on nine to eleven. We're gonna evolve past planes into 168 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: navy vessels as what happened in Paul Harbor, and literal 169 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: boots on the ground. Instead, we're gonna focus on cyber 170 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 1: attacks and viral attacks. We're not prepared for any of it, 171 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: any of it. It's been nineteen years since nine to eleven, 172 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: right since one of the biggest terrorist attacks and significant 173 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: loss of life before the coronavirus in a single fucking day, 174 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: and we've done really nothing to think ahead of the 175 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: game about what happens if there was a global hacking, 176 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: if there was you know, any type of intervention. I mean, fuck, 177 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: it's been four years since the twenty sixteen election, when 178 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: we knew that the Russians hacked and tried to destroy 179 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: our democracy. They have been successful in some ways, but 180 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: in others. You would think that we would have put 181 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: together the plans and the security measures to ensure that 182 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 1: in the event of some type of major cyber attack, 183 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: that our government could still fucking function. And so here 184 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: we are, in the midst of a global pandemic, and 185 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: our House Speaker and Senate Majority leader are like, I 186 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: really don't know what to do here because voting is impossible, 187 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: So I guess we just won't fucking do it. What, folks, 188 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: we are only like two hundred plus days out from 189 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: the next election and Congress doesn't even know how to 190 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: vote amongst itself, let alone figure out how two hundred 191 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: and thirty million of us are going to be able 192 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: to vote? Like, what the fuck? This does not make 193 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: me feel calm. This does not make me feel like 194 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: government knows what the fuck it's doing. It makes me 195 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: feel like they are just as blind and just as 196 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: dumb and just as caught off guard as the rest 197 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: of us. What the fuck do we pay them for? 198 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: You know? One of the things about representation right is 199 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: that you look for people you vote in, people that 200 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: you believe have your best interests at heart and are 201 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: going to do their job to represent your best interests 202 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: right to the best of their ability. And what I'm 203 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: beginning to really wrap my mind and arms and legs 204 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: around is that they don't know much more than you do. 205 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: They are not thinking ahead. They are literally taking everything 206 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: step by step in one day at a time. And frankly, 207 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, that's not how our government should be functioning. 208 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: You know. You take this pandemic for instance. Trump likes 209 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: us to believe and wants to convince America and the 210 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: world that he and his entire administration were completely caught 211 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: off guard. No one could have predicted this. Oh really, 212 00:15:55,040 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: then I wonder why the Obama administration put together a 213 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: all day meeting with the Trump administration's counterparts to the 214 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: outgoing Obama administration to practice this very situation. If no 215 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: one could predict it, then how could they have practiced? 216 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: Also if no one could have predicted it? Right? Like, 217 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: what this isn't how we have shown up to deal 218 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: with this global pandemic. It's not an accident, right. I 219 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: believe that ignorance sometimes is purposeful. And I keep trying 220 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: to ask myself and I haven't come up with the 221 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: answer yet as to what exactly this administration would get 222 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: out of bumbling the fuck out of their response to 223 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: this pandemic. It's like who is getting rich, who is 224 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: getting more power? I don't know. I don't know. I 225 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: do know that many of Trump's cronies have gone into 226 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: the ppe manufacturing business, but you know, for a fee m. 227 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: I do know that, I do know that the federal 228 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: government has given a considerable amount of money to one 229 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: of Trump's cronies, Peter Navarro, and the manufacturing of the 230 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: twenty nine million pills the hydros is what I'll call them, 231 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: because I can't pronounce the name the malaria pills. I 232 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: do know that. I just feel like if we were 233 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,360 Speaker 1: to follow the money, and I can't say it enough 234 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: because I'm not a you know, forensic accountant, but I 235 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 1: feel like if anyone is out there that is listening 236 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: who knows how to do this, please please, please, please 237 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 1: follow the fucking money. It's always about money with Trump, 238 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 1: and I feel like if we follow it and we 239 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: go back further enough, we'll get the answers that we're 240 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: looking for. But in the meantime, Congress isn't doing shit. 241 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: They're trying to pass yet another stimulus package in the 242 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: midst of this one that we've been told last week 243 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: that for those of you who will receive the twelve 244 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,919 Speaker 1: hundred one time twelve hundred dollars payment. You could be 245 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: waiting for as long as three months. So how is 246 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: that one time twelve hundred dollar payment going to help you, 247 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: your family, your small business if you're not getting it 248 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:57,199 Speaker 1: until I don't know, June or July. I have to 249 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: tell you that I am. Every day I become more 250 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: and more worried. Not that we won't come out of this, 251 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: because you know, all things end. It's just a matter 252 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,719 Speaker 1: of how right, Like you know, there are cycles, there 253 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: are stages, and we're being told, well, the Spanish flu 254 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: lasted actually for two years. Can I spend two years 255 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: in isolation? Probably not. I will probably lose my fucking mind. 256 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: I don't care how much Netflix, how much Wi Fi, 257 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: how many fucking walks I'm allowed to take two years 258 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: doing this. No. No, I've always wondered if I was 259 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: like built for prison. You know, like my dad, he's 260 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: obsessed with those prison shows. He watches them all the 261 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: time on on MSNBC, on TNT, wherever the fuck they 262 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: play those. And you know, I only ever watch I 263 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 1: can only ever stomach like ten minutes of them, and 264 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: I look at them and I always say to myself, like, 265 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: I really need to be above the law, because like 266 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 1: I can't. I wouldn't make it through prison. I don't 267 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: even think I would last a night. I think I 268 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: would lose it. And that's how I feel now when 269 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: they're talking about, well, the Spanish flu lasted for two years, 270 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: and I'm like, yes, true. I would also like to 271 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: believe that we did not have the technology one hundred 272 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: years ago that we do now. We did not have 273 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: the amount of scientists and researchers and different prototypes of 274 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 1: vaccinations that we could be trying different combinations of you know, 275 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: I'd like to think that a lot of things have 276 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: changed in the past hundred years. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe 277 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm wrong, because the best defense that we have against 278 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: this is to stay the fuck home, right. It's not 279 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: like anybody is like out in the street spraying the 280 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: air to try and get rid of coronavirus, because what 281 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: the fuck would you be spraying. But I do have 282 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: to say that the continued lack of coordinated response from 283 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: this administration from Congress in general is deeply troubling, and 284 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 1: I believe that if anybody else had been in charge, 285 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: whether it was Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, we wouldn't be 286 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: at half a million cases in the United States. I 287 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: don't think that we would have the most deaths in 288 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: the world either. There's a meme going around that shows 289 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: the countries that are led by women, right and their 290 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: response and how their countries are doing. And apparently, you know, Denmark, 291 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: New Zealand, Germany and several others that are led by 292 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: women have all flattened the curve for the entire country, 293 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: not just you know, a particular area like we're doing 294 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: right now in New York. Why is that right? And 295 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: I wonder is it because women recognize, like know what 296 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: they don't know and are not ruled by their ego 297 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: in the same way that male leaders are. I wonder, honestly, 298 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 1: I'm not even joking. Is it the fact that men 299 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: are completely ruled by their egos and so asking for 300 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: help or seeking out advice outside of yourself, especially when 301 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: you are a narcissist, egomaniac, petty small toddler of a man. 302 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: That Trump is admitting that you don't know something is 303 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: completely outside of your nature. But I believe that in 304 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: order to balance things out right, in order for us 305 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: to get back on track, you have to be able 306 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: to admit what you don't know and ask for help. 307 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: And I think that men in general have problems with that, 308 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: and I think that men that suffer from narcissistic disorder 309 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: like Trump do. It is impossible, So I, you know, 310 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,919 Speaker 1: I keep having these fantasies and wondering what would happen 311 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 1: if we had a woman in charge right now? Where 312 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: would the country be? And frankly, I think that we 313 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: would be a lot more unified. We'd have we'd be 314 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,239 Speaker 1: on the same page and possibly the same team, the 315 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,399 Speaker 1: American team. And you know that this would be a 316 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: way to unite us in some cases, the way that 317 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: rooting for the Olympics usually does. Right, it's not your 318 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: team or my team, it's our team against the world. 319 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: And I feel like any other administration would have been 320 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,959 Speaker 1: able to gather us up as a country and make 321 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: us feel like we can make it through this together. 322 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: But instead, what Trump has done is what he always does, 323 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: which is this level of divisiveness that has governors fighting 324 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: against one another in order to keep their own residence 325 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: safe as opposed to the entire federal government fighting to 326 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: keep us all safe. And well, that's where we are. 327 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,719 Speaker 1: The Undivided States of America. We made the joke, you know, 328 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: three and a half years ago when Trump was inaugurated, 329 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: when we said we were no longer the United States 330 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: of America. You know, I'm not too old to remember 331 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: when Barack Obama burst onto this political scene and was 332 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: talking about we're not read states and blue states, but 333 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: we are the United States of America. In these moments 334 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,479 Speaker 1: of great grief and strife and mourning and pain, you 335 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: need those messages. And I know I didn't truly understand 336 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: that until now. What it means to feel like someone's 337 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: hand is on your shoulder or rubbing your back or 338 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: making you feel like you can get through right now 339 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: is really about the triumph of the human spirit. When 340 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,239 Speaker 1: you feel like you've been beaten to shit day in 341 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: and day out, doing the same things over and over again, 342 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: going to the market, and fearing right that you may 343 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: rub up against somebody by accident or touch something by accident, 344 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: and you know, forget that you're not supposed to touch 345 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: your face or sneeze and what does that sneeze mean? 346 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: And all of these things, and you don't realize how 347 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: important it is to have somebody providing some level of solace. 348 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: You know, I can remember after the horrific shooting in 349 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: Newtown when I thought this was going to be it. 350 00:25:48,840 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: There's no way in life we shrug off the murder, bloody, 351 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 1: horrific murder of first graders and their teachers. There's no 352 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: way we just pick up and go on like that's normal. 353 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: And when President Obama made his way to Newtown for 354 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: their multi faith service that was aired, and the President 355 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: breaks down, you know, in tears, because how the fuck 356 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: did we get here when that is okay? How do 357 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: you get there? How do you look grieving parents in 358 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: the face and tell them that, well, there's nothing we 359 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: can do because you know, some people have their First 360 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: Amendment rights, and you know, we're not willing to budge. 361 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: We're not willing to ensure that all Americans are safe, 362 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: just those gun toting ones. When Barack Obama sang amazing Grace, 363 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: it's those collective moments of grieving where we remember our humanness. 364 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: And when you have an administration that is so evil 365 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: and so heartless, on top of battling with the anxiety 366 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: of the moment and the grief, there's just this deep 367 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: sense of what it means to be alone. Do you 368 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? When you feel like you're on 369 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: your own right, like nobody has your back, That's how 370 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: I feel right now. And I'm looking and I'm really 371 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 1: like desperately searching for moments of connectivity of community. I 372 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: love when my friends are posting that are still in 373 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: Manhattan every day at seven o'clock, the applause for the 374 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: healthcare workers and the all of the essential workers. Right 375 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: because it was last week that we learned about grocery 376 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: store clerk Leilani, young black girl twenty eight years old 377 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: diagnosed with cerebral palsy that was working at Giant food 378 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:15,959 Speaker 1: stores without protective gear, but wouldn't stop working because she 379 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: wanted to help the elderly get the things that they 380 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: needed as they would come into the grocery store. She 381 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: felt like her life had purpose and meaning and to 382 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:35,959 Speaker 1: watch her mother on MSNBC last week cry and grieve 383 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: the loss of her twenty eight year old daughter and 384 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,719 Speaker 1: then receiving her paycheck for that week that was twenty 385 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: dollars and sixty four cents, an amount of money that 386 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: I will never forget. How much is a life worth? 387 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: How much was her life worth? Twenty dollars in sixty 388 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: four cents, Giant Foods did not provide her with latex gloves, 389 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: hand sanitizer, a mask, anything. And while cheering our first 390 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: responders as we should, because they're dealing with extraordinary, extraordinary 391 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: stress to try and live up to their oath to 392 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: do no harm and to help as many people and 393 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: save as many people as possible, so are our grocery 394 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: store clerks, So are our truckers, so are nursing home attendants. 395 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: And they're getting up every single day and they're doing 396 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: their jobs, and they're doing so without the safety gear, 397 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: clothingpes that they need. And what we are learning each 398 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: and every day is that the numbers of those people 399 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,479 Speaker 1: who do those jobs that are on the front lines 400 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: are largely black and Latin X right, people of color, 401 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: and they're dying. This virus is targeting those that are 402 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: the most vulnerable among us. And that doesn't just mean 403 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: with underlying health conditions. It means economically vulnerable as well, 404 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: the ones who do not have jobs that allow them 405 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: to work from home, the ones who who are essential 406 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: workers and need to get on the subways and the 407 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: buses and the shuttles and get to their jobs. And 408 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: we're not protecting them. Their companies aren't protecting them, and 409 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: we're not protecting them as a nation because this administration 410 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: and big business gets to the side. Who's expendable. You 411 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: know Republican yesterday, I don't even know her name, and frankly, 412 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck, and neither should you. And 413 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: she's one of those Republican personalities on social media, and 414 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: she tweeted and said, you know, it's time for America 415 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: to open back up. And somebody responded to her tweet 416 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: and said, well, then, why don't you go down to 417 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: your local supermarket and start bagging groceries. Why don't you 418 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: go into the hospitals and start cleaning up the waist 419 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: of coronavirus patients. Why don't you start doing something in 420 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: your community if you're so quick to put everybody else 421 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 1: back on the front lines while you tweet from the 422 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: safety of your fucking home. All of these people right 423 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: who were talking about while we all just need to 424 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: get back to work, where are they tweeting that from? 425 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: Where are they saying that from? Because there are thousands 426 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: of people, tens of thousands of people that are going 427 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: to work every fucking day and they're dying so that 428 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 1: you can go and get you know, the canned soup 429 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: that you want, right, so that they deliver you your 430 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: packages that you're ordering while this administration is you know, 431 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: really hell bent on bailing out big businesses, but won't 432 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: bail out the United States Postal Service, you know, the 433 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: one rain nor rain, nor sleet nor snow will keep 434 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: your postage and packages away from you. This virus is 435 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: revealing so much, so very much about what is broken 436 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:10,840 Speaker 1: in this country, what has been broken. People are shocked 437 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,359 Speaker 1: when they see the numbers as it pertains to black 438 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: and brown people that are dying from the virus. And 439 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: I was saying all last week, why why are you shocked? 440 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: You've known these things. You've known that a majority of 441 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 1: black and brown people are the ones that live in 442 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: and around poverty levels, right. You've known that they are 443 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: more likely to be unensured, that they are more likely 444 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: to have medical underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes. 445 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: They are most likely to live in environments that have 446 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: food deserts right where you're not going to get supermarkets 447 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: and healthy foods where you are picking up your food 448 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: goods for liquor stores or bodegas or whatever type of 449 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 1: pantries are available where the cheaper food, right, is the 450 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 1: food that is worse for you, but it's the food 451 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:22,920 Speaker 1: that you can afford. So why would anybody be shocked 452 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: if you follow racial disparities and gaps, racial wealth gap 453 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. This virus is moving 454 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: right along those lines. We talked last week about the 455 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: fact that in particular areas of the country, if you 456 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 1: happen to be born black, and not just black and 457 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 1: poor or black and working class, but just black in 458 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:57,919 Speaker 1: certain areas, your life expectancy is almost two decades less 459 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,279 Speaker 1: than your white counterparts. But this is the land of 460 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:08,360 Speaker 1: the Free, the home of the brave, where the American 461 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: dream lives, and yet your life expectancy can be tracked 462 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,439 Speaker 1: by your zip code. How the fuck does that work? 463 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 1: You know? I've been thinking because I am sheltered in 464 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,240 Speaker 1: place with my family on Long Island, with my sister 465 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:34,399 Speaker 1: who is an international school teacher, and we've been having 466 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:43,239 Speaker 1: lots of deep conversations about distance learning and what is 467 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: going to happen to young kids who were all ready 468 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:56,719 Speaker 1: at schools that were graduation rates super low, didn't even 469 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 1: have the books that students need, let alone the ability 470 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: to provide them all with computers. We're talking about school districts, 471 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:13,799 Speaker 1: public schools that have a large population of free and 472 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 1: reduce lunch recipients, which means that you have to make 473 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: very little money, right in order to be able to 474 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 1: qualify for those for your kids. You think that those folks, 475 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: those families have Wi Fi at home, You think that 476 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 1: they have multiple electronic devices so that their kids can 477 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 1: distance learn. Are their parents those that are the essential workers? 478 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: So are they home by themselves? And are they going 479 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: to be able to stick to a routine all by 480 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:54,160 Speaker 1: themselves to learn? So how much further will these kids 481 00:37:54,280 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 1: already fall behind their counterparts that are white and more 482 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: economically well off than they are? You're talking now, let's 483 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: just assume that a lot of schools across this country 484 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:22,799 Speaker 1: have closed right since March. You're talking about missing four 485 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,440 Speaker 1: months out of the school year, right, because the likelihood 486 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: that anybody is opening back up in May, let's just 487 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,560 Speaker 1: say April is a wash. Right. We are at April thirteenth, 488 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: so April is a wash. It is halfway done. Basically, 489 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: you think May schools are going to open back up. 490 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,960 Speaker 1: I don't think so. So you're talking about four and 491 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,040 Speaker 1: five months of being out of school. Then we go 492 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: into the summer, so that's an additional two months, and 493 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: then we pray to God that your kids can go 494 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: back to school in September. You're talking about having an 495 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: educational loss of six months or more for kids who, 496 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 1: for all intensive purposes, we're already academically behind their classmates. 497 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 1: I know this because I went to school for education policy. 498 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: That's what my master's degree is in early childhood education. 499 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,799 Speaker 1: There are children who were starting at school in let's 500 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 1: say kindergarten, in preschool already five and ten thousand words 501 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 1: behind their counterparts. That's how education begins and falls alongside 502 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:58,520 Speaker 1: racial and poverty lines, in some cases racial and economic lines. 503 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: Were kids that are entering school, and you think that 504 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 1: they're entering school all on the same playing field and 505 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 1: a blank slate, they're not. There are young kids that 506 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,280 Speaker 1: are going into school with more words, so they already 507 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,600 Speaker 1: have a sturdy foundation upon which to build. Friends that 508 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 1: I've been talking to that are homeschooling, their kids have 509 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 1: ordered all of these products and packets and things from Amazon. 510 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,960 Speaker 1: What about those people that can't afford any of that. 511 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,280 Speaker 1: The same way that I've talked about people being able 512 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 1: to have panic shopping is a luxury. Folks, Being able 513 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:45,040 Speaker 1: to panic shop and stock up your house with three four, 514 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,040 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars and more of groceries, of liquor, of this, that, 515 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,600 Speaker 1: and the other thing that is a fucking luxury and 516 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: a privilege. A majority of people in this country have 517 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 1: to wait for pay day in order to go and 518 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: get the necessities that they need. So even if you 519 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,600 Speaker 1: are struggling now, which a majority of Americans are, ten 520 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,960 Speaker 1: percent of the population has filed for unemployment. Let that 521 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: sink in ten percent, and that was only three weeks 522 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:28,600 Speaker 1: into the epidemic. We're still at the beginning. What does 523 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,719 Speaker 1: this look like six months from now, a year from now, 524 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: does that look like twenty percent, thirty percent, fifty percent 525 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: of the population filing for unemployment? But right now, if 526 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:51,919 Speaker 1: you have a home, a pantry that is filled with 527 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,040 Speaker 1: canned goods and pastas and rices, and a fridge that 528 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,880 Speaker 1: is packed, and a wine fridge and wine that is there, 529 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: you count yourself among the privilege, whether or not you 530 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:08,759 Speaker 1: are jobless. If you have those things, that is in 531 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,840 Speaker 1: stark contrast to many people right now. There's a reason 532 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,319 Speaker 1: why it took New York City public schools so long 533 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:21,759 Speaker 1: to close, because you're talking about a school population of 534 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:31,560 Speaker 1: over one million children, a majority of which live at 535 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:39,080 Speaker 1: poverty levels, so much so that New York City made 536 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,240 Speaker 1: lunch free across the board because that's how many kids 537 00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,279 Speaker 1: were receiving free and reduced lunch. So everybody might as 538 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 1: well we live in this fallacy that we've been fed. 539 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:02,640 Speaker 1: America is the best, We're the greatest nation. Everybody wants 540 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:11,239 Speaker 1: to come here. Some people do, Yeah, But when I 541 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:16,279 Speaker 1: start to look at how we have been reacting as 542 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:23,560 Speaker 1: a country to this global pandemic versus other countries, how 543 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:33,000 Speaker 1: other nations are providing true economic help that are stopping 544 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:38,440 Speaker 1: debt collectors and bills and halting mortgages and rents, and 545 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:47,799 Speaker 1: providing food and assistance for all people who are set up, 546 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,879 Speaker 1: who had been set up for distance learning, and who 547 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,480 Speaker 1: had innovated on education already so they weren't caught off 548 00:43:54,520 --> 00:44:00,680 Speaker 1: guard by this. Who've provided healthcare to their entire country 549 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,160 Speaker 1: instead of kicking three and a half million people off 550 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,799 Speaker 1: in the midst of a global pandemic and not extending 551 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,800 Speaker 1: the health exchange so that more people could be covered 552 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:16,400 Speaker 1: in the middle of a health pandemic. America hasn't been 553 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:21,160 Speaker 1: great in a long fucking time, but we've just been 554 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:26,200 Speaker 1: fed a lot of bullshit. But now when push comes 555 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:32,080 Speaker 1: to shove, we are realizing just how far behind we are. 556 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:43,480 Speaker 1: You know, I, you know, I can't stand the pandering 557 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,320 Speaker 1: that is done to Trump voters, right like, I'm fucking 558 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:52,759 Speaker 1: over that. But the way that Trump was able to 559 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:59,480 Speaker 1: collect these aggrieved white folks so easy, right, like shooting 560 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:07,280 Speaker 1: fish in a arrol Because for them as well as 561 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,880 Speaker 1: you know, black and brown people and women and people 562 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,880 Speaker 1: who live at the intersection of multiple identities, and with 563 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:18,440 Speaker 1: each identity, their economic status and their economic viability is 564 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,960 Speaker 1: slashed just a little, right death by a thousand cuts. 565 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:29,080 Speaker 1: America hasn't been great, and for some was never great. 566 00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,640 Speaker 1: But when you have an egomaniac monster that comes out 567 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,960 Speaker 1: and pretends and lies to you and says that he 568 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,799 Speaker 1: can make it great, sometimes you're so downtrodden that you'll 569 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:47,040 Speaker 1: take the lie because the truth is so damn painful. 570 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,319 Speaker 1: So why I watch these commercials, these pandemic commercials that 571 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:58,400 Speaker 1: are you know, showing us concerts and game days and 572 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,359 Speaker 1: you know, celebration and telling us soon will be reunited. 573 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:08,160 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, are you sure about that? Because I'm 574 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 1: not so sure. I'm not so sure that we see 575 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,440 Speaker 1: stadiums packed again. I'm not so sure that we see 576 00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:21,000 Speaker 1: you know, sweaty people dancing the night away inside our 577 00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,000 Speaker 1: outside of clubs. I'm not so sure that we see 578 00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: our beaches packed with you know, summer revelers again. I'm 579 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:36,160 Speaker 1: not so sure that you see Broadway and Times Square 580 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:40,040 Speaker 1: and all of those places packed with millions of moving bodies. 581 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,839 Speaker 1: But sometimes the lie of the commercial and of the 582 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,839 Speaker 1: Trumps of the world that tell us that they're going 583 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,399 Speaker 1: to return, wind the clock back and take us back 584 00:46:54,440 --> 00:47:02,000 Speaker 1: to better times eases the reality that we're in now. 585 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:07,560 Speaker 1: Trust and believe. I don't, you know, say to myself like, oh, well, 586 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 1: you know, those poor people like Trump just sold them about. No, 587 00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:19,200 Speaker 1: they're racist folks, so like understand that. But it's this 588 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:22,880 Speaker 1: approach of the used car salesman, right that is trying 589 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,360 Speaker 1: to make the shiny lemon that you're going to be 590 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,440 Speaker 1: driving home with seem a lot better than it is 591 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,000 Speaker 1: because it's what you can afford, so you might as 592 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,719 Speaker 1: well make the best of it. Lie to me, tell 593 00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:36,800 Speaker 1: me it's amazing. Tell me it runs like a Mercedes, 594 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:42,920 Speaker 1: even if it's a Pinto. That's what Trump did for 595 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,640 Speaker 1: the forty percent of Americans that back him. No matter what, 596 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to bring back prosperity. I'm going to bring 597 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,200 Speaker 1: back your factory jobs. I'm gonna put you white man 598 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,640 Speaker 1: back on top of the pyramid where you belong again. 599 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,160 Speaker 1: They know it's bullshit, They know those jobs are long gone, 600 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:13,960 Speaker 1: but the pretending makes them feel better. But I think 601 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,799 Speaker 1: in these times, we need what Governor Cuomo has been 602 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,439 Speaker 1: bringing to the people of New York. Tough love, right, 603 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,759 Speaker 1: stay the fuck home. Yeah, I know it's painful. Yeah 604 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,360 Speaker 1: I don't want to close down the parks, But I 605 00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,280 Speaker 1: also don't want you all to die. I also don't 606 00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,480 Speaker 1: want to continue to go on national television every day 607 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,120 Speaker 1: to tell you that seven hundred and ninety people, eight 608 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,680 Speaker 1: hundred people, a thousand people all died in one day. 609 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:47,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that either. Tough love is important. 610 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,000 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that I don't love you, just means that, 611 00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:59,560 Speaker 1: like you don't need the kid gloves, America should have 612 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,640 Speaker 1: taken off the kid gloves a long time ago. Tell 613 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:11,000 Speaker 1: people the truth. The reality is that been fed alive 614 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:15,520 Speaker 1: for a long time. You know, you were told that 615 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:19,759 Speaker 1: if you just work hard, if you just had a 616 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,720 Speaker 1: high school education, you were going to be able to 617 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,760 Speaker 1: buy a house, a car, and provide for your family 618 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,840 Speaker 1: and always going to be great. Well, that lasted for 619 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:35,440 Speaker 1: a little bit till the Industrial Revolution, until more people 620 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,480 Speaker 1: started going to college. And then we continue to tell people, 621 00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,680 Speaker 1: just go to college, get a degree, and you'll get 622 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,520 Speaker 1: a great job, and then you'll be able to afford 623 00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,000 Speaker 1: all the things that you want. Except those things continue 624 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,680 Speaker 1: to get more and more expensive, and your paycheck got 625 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,520 Speaker 1: less and less and less. So we keep telling you 626 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,120 Speaker 1: work harder, work harder, go get another degree, Go put 627 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,719 Speaker 1: yourself further in debt, but don't worry. You'll get a 628 00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,040 Speaker 1: good job and you'll be able to afford the house 629 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,680 Speaker 1: and the car and the kids and this and then 630 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:07,480 Speaker 1: the other thing. And little by little, all of that 631 00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:13,000 Speaker 1: started to become less and less true. Now we have 632 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,960 Speaker 1: twenty something year olds, thirty something year olds, forty something 633 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:23,040 Speaker 1: year olds that are saddled with six figure debt because 634 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,160 Speaker 1: we told them it was the most important thing to do. 635 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,560 Speaker 1: We also keep telling folks that like, yeah, you can 636 00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,800 Speaker 1: go and get your vocational certification, and like you'll be okay, 637 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:45,759 Speaker 1: you fucking won't. We haven't been planning ahead for what 638 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:52,799 Speaker 1: evolution looks like. We're still operating with twentieth century ideals 639 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,600 Speaker 1: in the twenty first century. There's a reason why other 640 00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,839 Speaker 1: countries are handling things a lot better than we are, 641 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:11,560 Speaker 1: because they've been preparing, because they haven't still believed that 642 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,040 Speaker 1: the tooth fairy was really the thing, and that the 643 00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:19,160 Speaker 1: easter bunny existed. What we are dealing with in this 644 00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,960 Speaker 1: country with going to the grocery stores, multiple grocery stores, 645 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:27,400 Speaker 1: and realizing that you know, uh, salmon and toilet paper 646 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:31,040 Speaker 1: and you know, fucking paper towels and soap just don't 647 00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,600 Speaker 1: you know, miraculously appear out of nowhere. There are countries 648 00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,080 Speaker 1: where what we are experiencing now is a complete disruption 649 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:44,919 Speaker 1: of our norm has been their norm. Where food isn't 650 00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:51,880 Speaker 1: readily available, it's scarce, where you don't have economic stability, 651 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,600 Speaker 1: where you can't believe the ship that government says because 652 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,440 Speaker 1: they've been lying to you for decades and that we 653 00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,480 Speaker 1: know that they're all corrupt, and we just kind of 654 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:04,560 Speaker 1: moved through ruin. We are now in America living everyone 655 00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:10,080 Speaker 1: else's norms. The people who we turned our nose down at, 656 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,320 Speaker 1: who we said, how could you possibly vote for these people? 657 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:19,319 Speaker 1: They must be dumb, they must not care. We'll look 658 00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,799 Speaker 1: at us. It's the same shit that now everybody can 659 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:31,080 Speaker 1: say about America. Ooh, America, yikes. Half a million cases 660 00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:38,520 Speaker 1: of the coronavirus a botched reaction. It'll probably be an 661 00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,080 Speaker 1: even more botched recovery, if we can even use that word, 662 00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:50,920 Speaker 1: or throw that word around at all. Everything about this 663 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:59,640 Speaker 1: country is predicated upon some false ideal. Everything about our 664 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,560 Speaker 1: government was pretty much based in a handshake that we 665 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:08,680 Speaker 1: just assume that everybody else would follow. I think that 666 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:14,920 Speaker 1: the coronavirus is showing us ourselves, our deep vulnerabilities and 667 00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:20,760 Speaker 1: our weaknesses, how much we've taken advantage of mother Earth, 668 00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:29,439 Speaker 1: how much we've taken advantage of each other, how much 669 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,560 Speaker 1: we've taken for granted as a society, as a people, 670 00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:38,719 Speaker 1: as a global community. The luxury of thinking that when 671 00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,839 Speaker 1: you go to the store, what you want, exactly what 672 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,560 Speaker 1: you want is going to be where it always is. 673 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,239 Speaker 1: Your paycheck is always going to come, You're going to 674 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,160 Speaker 1: pay your mortgage, you're going to pay your taxes, you're 675 00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:53,960 Speaker 1: going to send your kids to school, You're going to 676 00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,200 Speaker 1: be able to have a little joy in your life. 677 00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,359 Speaker 1: And that's going to be It never occurred to us 678 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,160 Speaker 1: than any of the as things could go. But yet 679 00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:06,760 Speaker 1: there are millions of people around this world who would love, 680 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:12,040 Speaker 1: as my friend Amon Mohadeen said on MSNBC, love the 681 00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 1: idea of being able to shelter in place. But you know, 682 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,399 Speaker 1: Syrian refugees had to leave their fucking homes because of war. 683 00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:32,400 Speaker 1: So I say all that to say that it is 684 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,680 Speaker 1: okay to grieve, to feel the deep sense of loss, 685 00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:43,440 Speaker 1: to cry, to be down, to spend however many days 686 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:53,920 Speaker 1: in bed. But I also ask you to remember that 687 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,919 Speaker 1: if you have a bed, and you have a home, 688 00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:01,279 Speaker 1: and you have covers to pull up, and television to 689 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:06,440 Speaker 1: zone out on, and family to fight and bicker with 690 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:14,200 Speaker 1: and be sick of, count your blessings, count yourself lucky. 691 00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,120 Speaker 1: You can be both. And you can be both in 692 00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:22,279 Speaker 1: grief and in deep frustration and panic and also recognize 693 00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:29,880 Speaker 1: your privilege and your good fortune. We can do both. 694 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,919 Speaker 1: We don't need to do one or the other. And 695 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:35,560 Speaker 1: it fluctuates sometimes by the minute, sometimes by the hour, 696 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:45,799 Speaker 1: sometimes by the day. But it's important, I think, to 697 00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:49,480 Speaker 1: take stock of what we all have, what we all 698 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:55,640 Speaker 1: have lost, and what we're grateful for. I am a 699 00:55:55,680 --> 00:56:00,680 Speaker 1: person who lives very much in the future. Did live 700 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,800 Speaker 1: very much in the future. I used to lament the past, 701 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:12,480 Speaker 1: try and dash the present, dash through it, and just 702 00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,800 Speaker 1: focus on the future, focus on what I was building 703 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:22,000 Speaker 1: for well in these deeply uncertain times, the future is unknown, 704 00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,319 Speaker 1: as it's always been, but now more so than ever, 705 00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:28,719 Speaker 1: the past is a memory and the present really is 706 00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:38,760 Speaker 1: all we have literally, the world, our environment. This global 707 00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:42,920 Speaker 1: pandemic has forced us to look at and to think about, 708 00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:48,520 Speaker 1: and meditate on and pray on what is most important 709 00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:55,360 Speaker 1: because everything else has been stripped away. I think that 710 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,719 Speaker 1: the only way that we move through this is with 711 00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:02,800 Speaker 1: a deep sense of gratitude. Again, if you are listening 712 00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:07,239 Speaker 1: to me right now, on a run, or you know, 713 00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,800 Speaker 1: in a car because you just want to take a drive, 714 00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,719 Speaker 1: or on a walk with your dog, or around your 715 00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,880 Speaker 1: dining room table or nustled into your couch or in 716 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:24,120 Speaker 1: bed with the covers pulled up, take a moment, close 717 00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:29,000 Speaker 1: your eyes, take a big inhale through your nose, exhale 718 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:36,240 Speaker 1: through your mouth and just sit in gratitude because there 719 00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,840 Speaker 1: are too many people right now that have none of 720 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:52,800 Speaker 1: those things. So yeah, it sucks. But with all things 721 00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:58,080 Speaker 1: that grow, there are pains. With all transitions, there is 722 00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:06,000 Speaker 1: some level of being uncomfortable. But we will be reborn, 723 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:10,880 Speaker 1: we will rebuild, and I hope that next time around 724 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,520 Speaker 1: we will do so with a lot more compassion, a 725 00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:25,000 Speaker 1: lot more love, a lot more authenticity, and with a 726 00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:30,960 Speaker 1: lot more deep, deep gratitude for everything that we all 727 00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:38,760 Speaker 1: bring to the table. So as we prepare for this 728 00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:46,840 Speaker 1: new week of our new normal, I challenge us all 729 00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:51,120 Speaker 1: each and every day, as we continue to press on 730 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:56,960 Speaker 1: to find those moments of joy, to write them down, 731 00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:04,400 Speaker 1: say them out loud, to record them, because when things 732 00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:09,880 Speaker 1: are dark, they will be our little flickers of light. 733 00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,560 Speaker 1: That is it for me here, Folks on Woke a F. 734 00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:23,400 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power. 735 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:28,240 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck, and remember Woke 736 00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,680 Speaker 1: a F is free for the next three weeks. So 737 00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:34,360 Speaker 1: share this show with all of your friends and tell 738 00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:38,320 Speaker 1: them they can get it free wherever they get their podcasts. 739 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:45,080 Speaker 1: So let's all get through this together. Stay safe as fuck,