WEBVTT - The Business of Cannabis 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:10.239 What's Up, Family, I'm Tamika D. Mallory and we are 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.120 your hosts of Street Politicians, the place where the streets 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:17.800 and politics meet. What's good? Everybody was the family Street 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.720 Politicians is hot number one. We've had a lot of 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.119 things going on for the last few weeks, and you 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.440 all know that we spent six weeks covering so many 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:34.760 different aspects of the gun violence awareness and reduction and 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:40.280 prevention movement UM. We have had advocates on, We've had 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:46.120 law enforcement on, We've had elected officials on, We've had victims, 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.559 We've dealt with women and how they are impacted by 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:54.040 gun violence, and we had we well, we absolutely have. 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.120 I mean our brother Samson Styles, who was on, uh, 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.720 the young man from Wilchairs Against Gun Violence. I mean, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.720 we we've really tried to cover Kareem it's his name. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.680 We tried to cover all the aspects, but there's so 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.839 many more. And beyond the fact that there's so many 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.000 more aspects, there's so many other people that are doing 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.039 work UM that have different ideas about the ways in 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.440 which you can reduce gun violence and the ways in 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.640 which we can just increase peace and and and and 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.760 increase positivity in our communities, and so that can't be 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.959 the end. We did want to focus for six weeks 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:36.279 so that we could give people examples and information about 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.920 where to get started or how to keep working in 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.639 their own communities. We've been doing this work for some time. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.480 It does not always get the attention that it deserves. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.000 If we post the video or post the show, we 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.400 may get several thousand people, which thankfully at least, you know, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.880 thousands of you pay attention to our show and watch 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.000 the videos. But when we post something about the hot 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.720 a trending topic, we have thousands of upon thousands upon 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.240 thousands you know of folks who tune in. That's just 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:13.680 the reality, unfortunately, of people being attracted to um, you know, 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.000 sometimes mess other times just things that um you know, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.639 make you feel light, make you you know, things that's 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.119 trending and so. But but I think it is important 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.400 that regardless of how many likes and shares we get, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.360 that we still do what we know it's necessary. And 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.679 there's somebody out there who's able to go back and 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:38.240 follow the six week series and the six episodes and 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.880 and really sort of write down different ideas that they 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.440 may have found and heard that will help them to 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.840 enhance the work that they're doing in their community. Definitely, 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.280 you know, we want to highlight that. We want to 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.400 make sure that people understand because we always get like 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.680 I always say, we get backlash about what we talk 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.840 about when we talk about police, you know, brutality for 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.919 these violence against us, and you don't talk about it, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.320 and we do. So, you know, and we took six 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.280 whole weeks to focus on the gun violence that going on, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.040 that's going on our communities, those people impacted, those people 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.680 doing the work to change, you know, and trying to 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.880 heal the community. So you know, it's necessary, you know, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.359 and we we actually need more. I mean, we could 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.840 have gone on so many different people. It wasn't enough 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.239 of law enforcement for me. Like I think that because 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.040 we had a former chief, UM, which is important, but 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.480 he obviously can't speak officially for the NYPD or any 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.600 other police department. UM. And I think we need to 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.960 have more dialogue with law enforcement. And as you've been saying, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.880 people who agree and people who don't agree. I have 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.120 no problem having conversations with people that I disagree with, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.560 because you know, I can get the point of view. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.160 You know, you want to make sure that you get 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.440 someone else's point of view. A lot of things about police, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.840 and I'm not keen on or I don't really agree 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.800 with a lot of the practices that they have, you know, 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.960 and so I want to see the perspective so I 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.320 can understand why do you think it makes sense? Why 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.720 why do you think this actually makes sense? And either agree, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.200 agree to disagree, and we still gotta do the work. 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.400 We gotta do it. It's something that you know, goes 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.360 against the culture, goes against our people, that violate our 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.040 civil rights. We're gonna make sure that we stand up 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.000 and protest against those things. But if they're all practices 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.239 that the police want to do that makes sense within 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.400 our community, then we will embrace those were just not 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.000 anti police all the way. You know, we will ultimately 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.000 goes to abolished police because we want communities that don't 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.440 need police. We want to be able to walk outside 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.280 and not have to think about crime. And that only 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.840 means that we have to eliminate poverty. Until we eliminate poverty, 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.840 crime is going to exist. We understand that. But so 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.800 until we do that, we're gonna there that even when 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.560 you eliminate poverty, they're still gonna do somethings. I mean, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.200 that's the part that I'm now because I think we 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.080 have through the research and work that we've done and 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:07.360 the study that we've been engaged in alongside so many 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.160 of the advocates, we pretty much know what the community 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:17.000 needs and how to eliminate policing and strengthen community public safety. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.120 We we we we have that. We can talk about that 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.040 all day and night, but no one I still haven't 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.600 figured out. And that's the part that I'm working on. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:30.279 What a what am I doing with the serial murderer um, 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.960 the serial rapists? I'm trying to figure those are mental? 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.920 Those are mental things, you know. So you think if 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.840 we it's the same methods applied, the same method I 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.080 think when you identify that somebody is mentally unstable, you 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.080 know what I'm saying, You don't the you know, the 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.560 mental Fielking diagnose that. So yeah, it's definitely mental, you know. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.160 And if we identify that prior to it, then the 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.880 police is you know, don't have to get involved. You 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.760 put people inside institutions, you make sure they've monitored because 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.400 usually you conteend when somebody's a serial murderer, I think 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.159 they when they showed, you know, a lot of these 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.800 different shows to talk about serial murderers, and they talk 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.080 about how they identified that they had mental issues way 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.200 when they were younger, and some people just looked it 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.960 off or just didn't pay attention to it, and it 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.120 just fostered into something that was more so I think. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.120 So you think there's a service that we can provide 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:34.320 a person that is a pedophile, um from when they're young, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.880 of course, but how do you know when a person 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.360 is nine or eight that they're gonna like younger. I 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.760 don't think all of those things are able to talk 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.039 identify all the time. I think I think when we 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.800 have school, I think school, and you know, in the 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:55.719 mental health and um just like psychological just having someone 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.680 to talk to. I think those should be very prevalent 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.120 in all public schools, like you, because you have to 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.320 be able to understand the mind state of a child 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.440 and and see and forster and see what they think. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.480 You know, to be able to identify, because you can 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.400 tell a lot because when you most parents and things 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.400 like that, they identify things and their children they can say, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.400 you know, I remember young he was just very angry 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.600 all the time. And I used to try to figure 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.680 it out and try to wonder why he was just 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.560 this angry person and I didn't know. And then they 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.480 see those and then they're not in the mental health issue. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.320 I mean, so they don't really know. They just identified 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.440 that there's something wrong, you know. I'm saying. So when 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.040 you have mental health people inside schools and then you 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:44.200 know the experts, I guess specifically, Yeah, they specializing specifically 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.559 deal with each child. You know. I think that should 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.680 be a mandate that mental health dealing with children. Each 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.880 child has to have evaluations and talking to and being 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.280 able to talk. Those are things that need to And 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.880 I think as you do that, I think we can 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.160 circumvent and get in front of a lot of especially 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:06.080 mental health criminology such as you know, serial murderers and pedophiles. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:12.480 So you say, okay, the same methods applied even to 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:17.880 the worst criminals and bad actors in our community. I mean, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.600 I think there's no way that we're going to be 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.480 able to circumvent every chrome. I mean what I'm talking 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:27.800 about the majority of them, The majority of crimes are 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.520 preventable or able to or foreseeable. You know, either you 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.760 can prevent them or you can foresee them and circumvent 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.800 and get in front of them. I believe that. I agree, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.880 I agree. I guess that's that's that's right. So speaking 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.240 of prevention, it brings me to my thought of the 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:50.400 day because you know, so, you know, the last few weeks, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.400 the big debate, there's even protests happening because Mayor Deblasio, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.280 the mayor of New York City, our city that we 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:04.959 live in, has said that beginning August thirteen, the rules 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.000 have now changed to Um, if you go to a 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.160 restaurant and you, uh, First of all, they don't care 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.400 about masks. They're saying, you have to prove somehow that 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.959 you're vaccinated. I haven't even really looked into how you're 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.520 supposed to prove it, but you have to prove that 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.320 you're vaccinated in order to be able to do in 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.320 restaurant dining, in room dining, and some other things in 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:33.040 this city. Um. And you know, September a month or 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.080 so later, it's going to be mandatory to the point 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.800 that the health Department will be out checking the restaurants 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.719 and I guess walking up to your table saying let 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.400 me see your paperwork or let me see I don't 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.360 know what, but they're trying to prevent COVID, but I 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:54.040 don't think I'm spread. You can't prevent they've already, Like 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.679 I just this one. These things just don't make sense. Well, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.480 you can't. You can reduce it, reduce it, you can 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.600 reduce it, but I don't think just what. Well, First 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:08.440 of all, masks definitely have reduced the spread of absolutely, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.280 because we know it from our own homes. We know 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:17.280 if I'm from our own homes. Absolutely, I know from 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.880 my own life and from others around me that people, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.360 even people who are caring for a person who has COVID, right, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.000 even folks in the medical field, they wear their masks. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.400 And these and by the way, mask are not a 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.199 new phenomenon. The way that we are wearing masks now 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.160 is probably not healthy. I agree it's not healthy for you. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.440 But masks, they're not new. Medical professionals have been using 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:50.520 masks to prevent the spread of viruses and other things forever. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:55.520 And so we know that when people first, when doctors 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.800 and nurses were coming into contact with COVID patients, but 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.800 before they figured it out, they were getting sick like 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.160 crazy because they didn't know. And then when they realize, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.600 oh shoot, I have to wear my mask, and I 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.320 might need the what's the you know, the blue one, 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.120 and then something else to cover it, and not just 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:20.000 the fancy ones. Then you started to see a reduction 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.880 in the amount of healthcare professionals who again your doctors 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.120 doing your I don't know, maybe I'm just making up something. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.839 The doctor may have come in on a g Y 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.720 N appointment and usually they don't wear their mask until 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.839 they actually start to examine you. But they don't come 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.400 in the room and they talk to you. They want 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.000 to sit down, have a good conversation, how you doing this, 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.959 and that it's good to see you out of that, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.880 and maybe shake your hand, because that was the thing 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.440 doctors used to shake your hand, and then the next thing, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.439 you know, you touch your face, you rub your eye, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.960 and that's how you're spreading things. But once we knew 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:59.520 about social distancing, wash your hands, wear your mask, it 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.319 began to reduce the amount of people in the health 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.400 care profession and in other places that we're getting COVID. Now, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.600 does that mean that it's gonna totally stop it Absolutely not. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:15.200 But I know that your chances of transmitting COVID to 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.840 another person or any virus when you have washed your 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.240 hands and you have something that's protecting you and that person. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.320 It's just common sense that the dot the virus is 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.080 not going to jump through the mask. That's just not realistic. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.680 Well I'm not saying they jumped through the mask. That's 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:35.400 most of these masks don't prevent everything from going through anyway. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.520 So if you're talking to the mask and and it's 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.160 coming off the side anyway, yeah, but that's even if 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.599 you if you look at the average person with the 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.240 mask when you talk, there's places that the air can 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.360 go through. That that's why you can steal within a mask. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.800 You don't go out a hundred, but do you still 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.240 have air pockets within the mask? It doesn't realize that 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.360 you can catch I didn't say it completely. I never 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.640 I never used the word completely. I said reduces. So 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.320 that's like you can catch something when you have on 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.959 a condom, but the chances of it being transmitted is less. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:13.000 So if it was a hundred percent or without the condom, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.719 you put the condom on, you might be down to 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.240 or even less than that. So I'm saying that it 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.160 is there is a reduction based upon mask. But I'm 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.520 saying in this situation. They're not even asking people to 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.800 wear masks, right, They're saying you have to be vaccinated. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.680 But the problem is that we know you can still 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.920 catch COVID if you're vaccinated. So I am so very 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:41.800 confused as to what we're doing, and actually constitutional or 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.080 civil rights or some ship is being violated by telling 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.640 folks they can't go sit in a restaurant. I'm trying 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.679 to understand why we've gotten so comfortable asking people about 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.440 their little hipper stuff, right, because there was supposed to 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.320 be hipper laws that prevent you from being able to 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.240 ask another person. It's like asking me, are you on 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.720 birth control? Like, I don't know. I don't know if 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.680 I have to answer that question, especially if you and 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.640 I are not engaged in something that like you know 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.600 what I'm saying, like, And I think that's why it's 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.440 not the mandates. I think these are threats, right, and 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.240 they keep saying them, and I don't think they constitutionally 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:24.160 can stand up. It's like, you know, concerts haven't said, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.040 oh you have you have to have this, and you 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:27.560 have to have that, And a lot of people I 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.080 know ain't going in showing no nothing, they have any 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.560 ticket they're asking you a question or they're telling they're 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.920 putting out broadly that you need to have these things 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.760 so that you think, well, I gotta let me go 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.880 get it. And and and that's a it's a it's 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.440 a trick. It's really like a trick because they're not 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.880 really I can't see you walking to the restaurant they're 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.520 asking you for a vaccine, but they're going to because 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.520 they haven't seen. I haven't seen yet that's happening, well 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.400 not yet, because I mean New York is gonna be 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.840 the first city that it's ever happened then. But at 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.640 the same time, my thing is, I am so torn 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:04.600 because us on one side, I completely understand that you 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:10.640 have workers, you've got healthcare providers, you essential workers, as 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.360 they say, You've got people out here who can't afford 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.640 to get sick or like me, I went to Houston, Texas. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.800 That's why those people, if they feel this is what 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:27.000 I'm trying, it's impossible, though, I'm sorry. If you feel 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.880 that you can't afford to get sick, then you need 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.280 to take the vaccine. You can't you can't tell somebody 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.600 else who don't feel like they can't afford if I 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.640 feel like my immune system is way stronger than everybody else. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.680 I probably get sick once every five years with a 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.200 cold for two days, and you're gonna tell me that 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.680 I'm just saying. I'm just saying, Okay, you probably see. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.800 But for the most part, I don't really get sick 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.080 like and if I do get sick, immediately, my immune 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.480 system fights it all. So you're telling me that because 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.760 you feel like you're set of people that I need 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.560 to take ac No. You well, but but but and 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.840 and and every time we have this conversation, we always 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.720 go back to and I'm charging our entire team with 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.680 us finding professionals that can talk with us about this topic, 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:23.600 because again now we no, but we still need professionals 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.680 because even what we may think is common sense. It's like, 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.360 you know, you go to the doctor's office and you say, well, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.720 common sense to me. My mom said to me the 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.840 other day, I told us that something said, something's going 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.960 on with my eye. I really don't know what to do. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.640 Is going through changes. And she said, when my eye 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.280 was going through the same thing, and she started saying, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.960 I just put a warm compress on it. But when 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.520 I read what the medical professionals said, they are saying, basically, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.160 the warm compress is the worst thing that you can do. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.120 But from her perspective, her common sense tells her put 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.920 the warm compress on it, because this is what she's 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:02.720 used to use it. If somebody you get a medical 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.600 profession that says, don't do this is the worst thing 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.560 that and you do it and it works for you, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.320 it didn't work. It didn't work. I'm just trying to 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.600 tell you that that's the issue. But I'm trying to 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.720 tell you if she said, listen, what it didn't work 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.119 for you? No, no, no, it did not work for her. Okay, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.280 so then she was giving you advice that didn't work. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.080 Didn't even make sense to give you that. But that's 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.399 not the point it because this is this is the issue. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.399 The issue is. It's like she's been putting a band 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.480 aid on it and it's getting her from day to day, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.199 but it's not solving the problem. And so when we 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.280 when I went and read up on it, the it's 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.280 not that the that the warm compress doesn't make her 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.520 feel better in the moment, but in terms of healing 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.840 the problem, the cold compress is actually better. And there 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:53.560 was information about why because the warm creates another swelling, 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.320 and this and this and then a third. So it's 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.800 making it feel better. But she still has this eye 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.520 problem for the last several months, and now she's using 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.919 the cold compress, it's actually helping to speed up the 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.520 healing process. So what I'm suggesting is that when people 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.280 who have actually studied, and this is the conversation you 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.640 and I get into often, I have a concept from 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.959 me visiting prisons. Right, I've been inside, I've listened to 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.360 what a bunch of people have to say about it, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.199 and I kind of think I know stuff. But when 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.359 I'm speaking to you, someone who spent seven years inside 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.879 the system about it, I know that there's no way 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.560 if I haven't slept there, lived there eight the food, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.840 done the things, experience, the culture, I can't possibly know 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.080 more than you about this about being in prison, and 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.960 everything you're seeing is right, right, So what the only 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.119 thing I'm trying to tell you is based on what 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:53.320 I'm saying, you are right. They have people that study prison. Right, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.119 There's people that go to school every day and they 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:01.160 study about prison. Right, They've never actually been to prison. Right, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.720 They've talked to people been to prison, They can give you. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.600 They can give you a whole thesis on prison mentality 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.679 and never actually been in prison, right, So who is 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.080 more of a professional scene. What I'm talking about is 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.040 this life experience. If I live my life every day 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.879 and I get sick, right, and I do certain things 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.480 for my sickness that heals me, and you tell me 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.600 that based on your studies, the thing that healed me, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.000 it's not right. That's what I'm trying to explain to you. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.639 So your professional but then I'm trying to professionalism just 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.760 means that somebody study the book my real life experience. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.920 I don't put somebody's studies over my room. But the 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.240 but here's the issue. But here's the issue. Here's the issue. 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:49.639 You haven't experienced the mutation of viruses. You also have 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:54.359 not experience having diabetes and also having a virus. So 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.600 you want to assume that someone who has studied it 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.560 to the perspective, to the extent that they got diabetes. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.399 Person at the table, they have a my son person 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.800 who's pretty healthy at the table. They have another person 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.240 who you know it might not be you know, may 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.399 not be diabetes and all of that, but they obese 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.600 or they have different issues, and those people are coming 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.840 together and working with this professional who has studied viruses. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.359 I want to assume that that person has a little 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.480 bit of a step above in terms of knowledge. Then 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.359 we then we then we do so all I suggest 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.159 the medic you have so many different people that have 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:38.800 different I understand that, but that my studies tell me 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:43.960 this and other person. But that's my point. My point is. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.000 My point is that when we as people who haven't 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.800 studied it, we don't have certain health concerns. We don't 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:55.159 have everybody sitting at the table. I think that what 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:59.399 is responsible is to have somebody there who may be 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.600 able to provide perspectives that can help deal with a 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.680 wide array of individuals. Because if me and you, my 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.640 son and Tamika just kicking it about COVID, we have 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:11.880 our opinions, we have a lot of the same We're 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.159 pretty healthy, you know, we have a lot of the 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.760 same things. We try to eat as best as possible. 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.920 I'm worse than you, but you know these things, right. 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.960 We're both um slim and shape, you know, we're not obese. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:25.359 We have all this, so we could kick it and 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.960 talk about it and have a certain idea. The problem 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:32.720 comes in when we are on platform speaking to a 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:37.280 broad audience of individuals, then we have a responsibility. Just 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.840 like we're bringing practitioners in that are dealing with gun 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.720 violence from different perspectives that you and I may not know, 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.240 or we learn things and we're like, oh, okay, that's 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.640 what's up now, I understand this or I always knew that, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.119 but it sounds better when it's coming from somebody who's 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.679 doing it every day. We have a responsibility to apply 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:59.520 the same thing to talking about a disease that has 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.439 killed or at least the effects of the impact of 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:05.680 the disease has killed over six hundred thousand people. That's 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.199 all I'm suggesting. I'm saying. Just like we candle everything 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.200 else where, we bring professionals to the conversation, so we're 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.199 responsible with the information that's going out into the world. 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.960 We have a responsibility with COVID because it's too many 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.760 people that are impressionable that's listening that could go and 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.360 try to apply what we're talking about and they mess 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.320 around and apply something that we don't even know because 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:30.520 we don't have some of these forms, you know, these 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.159 are what do you call them? Pre existing conditions and 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.840 other things that put people's lives. So that's my do 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:43.760 because yeah, but no, but but even but they have 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.520 been healthy people who have dropped dead to COVID and 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:53.840 everybody's like exactly, so that's well, No, I wouldn't say 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:57.840