It's O.K. Not to Be O.K.

Reid This Reid That

Joy Ann Reid and Jacque Reid

News, Politics

4.6 • 881 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The play cousins have a self-care power hour with their guest, Emmy Award winning journalist Mara Schiavocampo, who talks about the mental health dangers of “toxic positivity” on social media and in society and the freedom she felt by publicly admitting she felt like “a mess”. Cousin Joy-Ann advocates for a 4-day work week and Cousin Jacque calls for more unity among Black people when we are providing service to one another.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome to read this read that I am the always adorable and kind,
0:14.7	Jacky Re. And I am the always wide awake and sunny Joyan Reed.
0:22.1	Yes, you are. Yes, you are my cousin.
0:25.0	My name is ironic.
0:28.0	Listen, how are you?
0:30.0	That's loaded. That's loaded. And you know what there was a time when I think all of us had the the
0:40.0	convention was to say I'm great no matter what right because it's considered rude to not say great because you're really the person who's asking generally doesn't really want to hear your sob story they really are just asking to be
0:52.8	polite but you are my real cousin and my real play cousin so I can be honest with
0:57.4	Jew and I can say baby like the old people people say, done me done.
1:04.0	finish.
1:06.0	done me done.
1:08.0	done me done.
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	Like the old West Indians would say done, baby, I'm done.
1:15.0	GUR.
1:16.0	GOSS, I'm literally, I'm freaking exhausted.
1:20.0	If there were an extra day in the work week, this would be at the day after Friday, that's before the weekend starts.
1:27.3	Yeah. Like, you know, Dun day. This is a day.
1:31.8	Dun day. I'm really starting to think that the work week should really be four days.
1:37.0	I'm thinking that like...
1:38.0	Oh, yeah.
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