1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host. Ros 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Sean McDonald recognized that we all have different definitions of success, 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 1: for some and suscisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: up and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: their very best life. These are my passions and that's 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: what I'm going to do for you. I want you 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: to stop tripping over small challenges and prepare to rise 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: above the bigger obstacles that life will present to you. 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: That's what my guests do on this show. They bring 10 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: these nuggets of information that will motivate you. Take those 11 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: nuggets from these interviews and use apply them to your 12 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 1: life and keep winning. My next guest is a true winner, 13 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: longtime friend, Dr Ian Smith, who is the author of 14 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: many number one New York Times best selling books Shred, 15 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: The Revolutionary Diet, Super Shred, The Big Results, Died, Blast 16 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: to Sugar Out, The Clean Twenty, The Ancient Nine, Cleaning 17 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 1: Lean and Leving other books with mays of copies in print. 18 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: His newest book, The Unspoken That's by Ian K. Smith, 19 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: the first in stall his Ask Came Mr series. Will 20 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: we released in October one, but you can buy it 21 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: right now. He's currently the solo host This is the 22 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: Big News, The Big News. He's currently the solo host 23 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: of the nationally semicated Emmy Award winning television show The Doctors. 24 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: He's gonna be on stage by myself as a longtime 25 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: medical contributor to an Emmy Award winning show. He's been 26 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: on The Rachel Ray Show many times recently please working 27 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: the money making conversations. Dr Ian Smith. Wow, man, that's 28 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: that's quite an introduction. I was trying what you're talking about, 29 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: hey man, when you have a career, I didn't go 30 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: all the way back to the Jitny Jones days, Jenny 31 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: Jones days. Man, when I first saw your little skinny 32 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: behind on TV. Smile and look at alert now. Man. Uh, 33 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: you know we've always crossed paths on TV. I remember 34 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: in New York when uh, Steve and I Steve Harman 35 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: I was up in two thousand and five. We crossed 36 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: paths back then and then came on the television show. 37 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: And we've always stayed in touch. And if you had 38 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: projects are the big State farm project, Pound Laws, that's 39 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: when that's when we really Reconnectedly, he seriously really created 40 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: our relationship. But it's always a bit about encouraging people 41 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: to do better, to be better. Talk about that as 42 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: part Why is that such a strong mantra in your life? 43 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: Dr N Smith, Well, you know, one of the reasons 44 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: why I wanted to become a physician so many years 45 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: ago was because as a young boy, I was really 46 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: um impressed and inspired by my own pediatrician. And I 47 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: felt like my own pediatrician really was trying to help 48 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: me and make me a better person and keep me 49 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: healthy and give me a great opportunity to maximize what 50 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: I couldn't life. And that really, that really kind of 51 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: um gave me the seed to want to help people 52 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: and to empower people. I just thought it was so 53 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: powerful that here was a guy who had the ability, 54 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: uh to really empower me and change my life. And 55 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: so I really wanted to do that in my career, 56 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: and you know, I've chosen different ways to do that, 57 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: because listen, let's think about this. At the end of 58 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: the day, it doesn't matter how famous you are, how 59 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: rich you are, how many oscars or Emmy's or Tony's 60 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: or houses or cars that stuff. At the end of 61 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,839 Speaker 1: the day, it really doesn't matter. We all are going 62 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,839 Speaker 1: to make our transitional journey. Um, and when you make 63 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: Before you make that transitional journey, you want to be 64 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: able to say to yourself that you fought the good fight, 65 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: you did the best that you could, and you try 66 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: to do something to leave a legacy to help others. 67 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: And that's what I believe. We're temporary custodians of this 68 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: great earth. And you know, greats before us, Maya Angelou, Winston, Churchill, Picasso, 69 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: I mean, great to the greats, they all have had 70 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: to take this journey. And so while we still have 71 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: breath in us and our life is still vibrant, my 72 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: recommendation for people is to do the same thing, which is, 73 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, my recommendation is to try to figure out 74 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: what it is that you could do to help others 75 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: to make the world a better place and leave a legacy. Yeah, 76 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: it's it's nice to make a paycheck, no doubt about it. 77 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: It's nice to have materialistic things, no doubt about it. 78 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not shunning those things. But what I'm 79 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: saying is when you form a priority list and you 80 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: take that landscape view of life, not the portrait view, 81 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: but the landscape view of life. When you do that 82 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: you'll realize that those material goods and those particular assets 83 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: are way less important than the asset of life and 84 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 1: giving an experience. You know, it's important that you said 85 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: that the way you speak and articulate, you know, because 86 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: my mom recently made a transition, and I bring that 87 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: up on the show because I always felt that you 88 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: are important in my life. Or You have a book 89 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: out at the time called Blast to Sugar Out, and 90 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: I interviewed you on the show and I went, Man, 91 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: I love this book. I loved this book and I 92 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: took it home and I lived in the land of 93 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: My mom was residing in Houston at the time. I said, Mom, 94 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: and I took the Carictankers. I said, I want you 95 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: to follow because a cookbook to it and not only 96 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: tells you what you should do, but it also gives 97 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: you recipes and what you should eat on a daily basis. 98 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: And we followed that, man, and it really improved her health. Man. 99 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: And and I want to thank you for for providing 100 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: that tool in my life for me. Give because you're 101 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: helpless it in your life, especially when your parents get older. 102 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: You don't either, there's no there's no miracle period to 103 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: get it right, But they are opportunities out there for 104 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: people like you to provide us with information or tools 105 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: that can make our lives better while we're still here. 106 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: And you did that for me, my brother, and I 107 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: want to say personally thank you well over something. I'm 108 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. I mean, you know, as a writer, 109 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: which I do every day of my life, as a 110 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: writer and a content creator, you know, I work often 111 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: in in isolation and a vacuum, meaning you know, I'm 112 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: at my computer, you know, at my desk at three 113 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning. You 114 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: know it's dark outside the families of sleep. I got 115 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: music on the radio, trying to keep up. But you know, 116 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: you work not really knowing whether or not what you're 117 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: creating is going to be impactful to someone. But I 118 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: work with the hope. I work with the hope that 119 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: even if one person can find a benefit or feel 120 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: like what I've written and created has changed uge their life, 121 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: whether it's in fiction or whether it's a nonfictional health books, 122 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: either one, if it can impact even just one life, 123 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: it makes me feel like all of the time and 124 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: the effort and the dedication was well worth it. So 125 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: you saying to me, and you told me this before, 126 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: but you're saying to me how that book impacted your mother. 127 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: That's exactly what my intention was. My intention is to 128 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: write things and to create things for people so they 129 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: can take it and immediately incorporated in their lives and 130 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: see a difference and hopefully, you know, live better and 131 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: live stronger, and live longer and live happier. Well, you know, 132 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: and thank you for you know, being who you are. 133 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: The reason I shared that story with you, because you're 134 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: about to become, you know, the solo host for the 135 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: thirteen twieson of the of the Doctors. And sometimes I 136 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: just want to let you know what you do, what 137 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: you've written, you know, and I'm sure you know. We've 138 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: been involved in other I feel life changing events, like 139 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: the events we did with Stay Farm. I felt that 140 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: was life changing. You come on Steve Harvey Show talking 141 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: about trade, and I've seen you on other shows, but 142 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: I just want to hear from one on one you 143 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,119 Speaker 1: you you had a positive effect in my life, and 144 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: and it was so important that I tell you this 145 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: because I allowed your book to be part of my 146 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: mom My Mama. You know what I'm saying to my mama, 147 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: not anybody my mama. And uh and and and that's 148 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: important for you to hear it because you're about to 149 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: go to a platform now where it's a world stage, 150 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: and you can you can keep that little nugget in 151 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: your head and say what I do has relevancy because 152 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: television can kind of dilute that because it's television. It's entertainment, 153 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And uh, but I want 154 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: to tell you something real fasts, I'm gonna tell you this. Listen, 155 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: when I got this opportunity, first of all, I'm very 156 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: honored and privileged and grateful for it first of all, 157 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: and I thank God for it. But I wasn't even 158 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: looking for and Rashan, you've been in business long enough 159 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: to know that sometimes when you're not looking for something 160 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: is when things come to you. So you know when 161 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: I got the call or the text actually to have 162 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: the conversation about it, I was on my knees in 163 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: my garden, sweat and dirty, weading we need my garden, 164 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: and I got this text message from a number I 165 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: didn't even recognize, saying to me, hey, dr Ian, we 166 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: think we have a great opportunity. We like to talk 167 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: to you about and it ended up being the executive 168 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: producer of The Doctors. And you know, after this conversation, 169 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: she's explained to me the kind of the changes they 170 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: want to make to the show, and they want to 171 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: revamp it. They want to get rid of the you know, 172 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: they typically had an ensemble cast of co host they 173 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: want to get rid of that. Make it one or 174 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: just two cost and Um, at the end of the conversation, 175 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: do you want to do it? Just like that? So 176 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: what do you think? Do you want to do it? 177 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: And Uh? I was like, yeah, of course I want 178 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: to do it. Uh. You know, but but that being said, um, 179 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: and thanks to Dr Phil and Jay McGraw, his son, 180 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: they're the ones who owned the show. Um. But you 181 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: know what's interesting is this. I tell you all that 182 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: to say that we are given opportunities in life, and 183 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: those opportunities are not sometimes frequent opportunities. And I think 184 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: that people have to recognize opportunities when they're given to 185 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: them because opper cotunities don't always come and the way 186 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: that you want them to come, or that the way 187 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: you immediately recognize. I'll never forget sitting when we're doing 188 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: fifty million pound challenge. We were in TEDD. Jake's Powder's house, 189 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: we were in TEDD. Jake's church and yep, and I'll 190 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: never forget the part of the sermon that he said. 191 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: It has stuck with me every sense, and this is 192 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: years now. He said, God gives us blessings, but unfortunately 193 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't recognize the blessings because they 194 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: don't come in the form that they prayed for them 195 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: to come into. But God has still sent them a blessing. 196 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: They don't and they don't recognize it. That was so 197 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: powerful to me. And I've told my family this many 198 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: many times that you ask for things and that things 199 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: may come to you, but just because they don't come 200 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: to you and the perfect way that you asked for them, 201 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: you're missing out. Well, the same thing with opportunities. Opportunities 202 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: come to you and many shapes and sizes and fashions, 203 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: and you have to have your eyes open, your ears alert, 204 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: and your sense is ready to be able to take 205 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: advantage of it. This is a great opportunity for me. 206 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: It's a national stage. Um, it's the first time they've 207 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: ever had a single host. It's obviously I'm African American, 208 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: right so now I'll be the only African American male 209 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: in daytime television hosting a show. And I say that 210 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: because the opportunities we get are not very often. But 211 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: when we get these opportunities, we have to do the 212 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: best we can to show and put our best foot 213 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: forward and basically represent. So I gotta get on this 214 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: stage and in this studio, and I got to represent 215 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: and let people know that we can do this, that 216 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: I can do it. And I just think it's very important. 217 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: You know, let let me explain a little bit more 218 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: about when the blessing doesn't come the way you may 219 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: have wanted it, because you we all want our talk shows. 220 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: You've always said that, you said in my offices, your 221 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: want show. So you get this call, but you get 222 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: it doing the middle of a pandemic. You don't know 223 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: if Hollywood gonna re kick off promotion, color production, you 224 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to be an audience. And 225 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: this is what he's saying when he's gotten this opportunity, 226 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: but it is not coming to him in the form 227 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: that he's prayed for. It's coming in a very uh 228 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: remote but unsure time, and so you have to make 229 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: a decision to realize this is a blessing. Let me 230 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: take advantage of let me say yes and not walk 231 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 1: away annoyed. That is happening right now, that's what you're 232 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: talking about, right Dr Smith. You know this requires We 233 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: moved the set from l A, so the set is 234 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: on the Paramount lot. Typically the show has been there 235 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: for twelve seasons. It's now gonna be in Stanford. We 236 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: have a brand new set that's beautiful, it's awesome looking. 237 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: But now it requires me now to travel um to 238 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: go shoot the shows. And you know, listen, I'm the 239 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: first one talking about safety and dangers during the pandemic. 240 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: So I had to make a decision with my family 241 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: about whether or not this is something I should do, 242 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: given that I would have to travel for this, and 243 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: I've been living in a bubble for the last six months, 244 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: so I've been at home, i haven't traveled, i haven't 245 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: been on anything public for the last six months to 246 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 1: protect myself, my family and others. So so yeah, you're right. 247 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: It came at a time that was not ideal given 248 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: all that's going on. But my wife said to me, 249 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: you have to do this because it's it's too big 250 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: of an opportunity and too big of a platform for 251 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: you to say no to. And yes there is some 252 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: risk to us personally, but the positive side of it 253 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: you being able to give a voice to America, a calming, 254 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: scientifically based voice about the facts of the pandemic, what 255 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: people can do, how you can inspire people. She said, 256 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: you have to do it, So you know that's the decision. Yes, 257 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: this is a blessing, and I'm going to take the 258 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: blessing in the form that it came to me. There 259 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: you go, there you go. Now in the medial conversation, 260 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: you stuck out a little thing that a boy guard 261 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: me now doing it. I'm tell you something, And just 262 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: to share a personal story for me, I broke free 263 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: of it a little garden to doctor tomatoes, sage man 264 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: I got. I got photos of tomatoes and uh halapenia 265 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: peppers and it's it is and it's gonna become an 266 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: annual thing. Tell us about your garden that you talked about. 267 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: Obviously you're living in this bubble and what benefits did 268 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: it give to you And why would you recommend people 269 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 1: to do their own organic layout their own gardens. Well, 270 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something. I love yard work. I mean, 271 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:33,359 Speaker 1: and people say to me, wait, you do your own yard. Absolutely, 272 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: I do my own yard. I find it to be 273 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: very meditative. Um, I'm by myself, I can think through things. 274 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: I'm engaged. It's physical, by the way, when you really 275 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: get down to it. You know, cutting your grass, weeding 276 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: your garden, planting, digging, very physical work by the way. Um, 277 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: and I really enjoy doing it. And um, the pandemic 278 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: really said to me. And I've had landscapers. Don't get 279 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: me wrong, but I said, during the pandemic, you know what, 280 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this myself. Actually, you know, why can't 281 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: I do it? I did it as a kid. I 282 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: enjoyed cutting grass as a kid, right, making my five 283 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: hours a cut. Uh, So why can't I do it? 284 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: I'm physically able to do it. And I gotta tell 285 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: you it's one of the best decisions I made because 286 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: it really gave me an outlet. It gave me a 287 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: way to be physical without you know, I work out 288 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: all the time, but it gave me another way to 289 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: be physical without it being a mandatory workout. So I 290 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: have more of a I used to have a more 291 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: of a vegetable garden. I have more of a flower garden, 292 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: so I have a lot of different types of flowers 293 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: um and the weeds have just the weeds said, listen, 294 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna take advantage of the pandemic because they just 295 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: went crazy for some reason this year. So I literally, Rashan, 296 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: I have spent hour, not one hour, I have spent 297 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: hours pulling up and here's the thing. They look like plants, 298 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: by the way, that yeah, we're not talking about weed 299 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: at like straw. These looks they look like nice plants, 300 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: but they're not. They're really weeds and deep deeply that's right, right, 301 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: So so yes, I've been doing a lot of products, Rashan, 302 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: I've been writing a lot. I told people to begin 303 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: in pandemic on Instagram and if you're on Instagram, follow 304 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: me at dr Ian Smith spelled the doctor out Ian Smith. 305 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: I told people in the very beginning, I said, guys, 306 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: here's the deal. We don't know how long this is 307 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: going to be, we don't know how severe this is 308 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: going to be. But one thing you can do is 309 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: be productive. Fine projects. Thing that you always said you 310 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: wanted to do, do these things that you've always said. 311 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: If I had more time, if I hadn't. Well, now 312 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: we got the time. So I've been extremely productive. I've 313 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: been writing like crazy. I wrote my book for twenty one. 314 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: I've already finished two of those books. I got two 315 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: books come up. Then my new book is coming out 316 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: or yeah, in October. First The Unspoken. Let's go and 317 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: talk about it right now, Let's let's set it up. 318 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: Let's go and set it up right. You know your 319 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: new good doctor Ian Kate Smith. It's written under that name, 320 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: not under doctor Ian Smith. Correct, And it's about a 321 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: former Chicago detective, Ashcane's desperate for redemption after refusing to 322 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: participating the police department cover up involving the death of 323 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: a young black man. Sounds very current, don't it? Pushing out? 324 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: Push it out of the fourth. But he won't sit 325 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: quietly on the sideline. He's compelled to fight for justice 326 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: as a private investigator, even if it means putting himself 327 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: in jeopardy. What a timely book. Come on that Unspoken. 328 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: I tell you something, see, this is this is the 329 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: crazy thing. Rich. I started writing this book two years ago, 330 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: so before everyone thinks that I wrote this book to 331 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 1: mattch the time that we're now had nothing to do 332 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: with this. Let me tell you why I wrote this book. 333 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: I've always wanted to write a character, a strong African 334 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: American male character. I felt like, when you look at 335 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: the landscape of TV and you look at fiction, we 336 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: don't really have that character. We don't have it, I mean, 337 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: And so I said, and in my desire to have one, 338 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: I said, I'll just write it. I said, you know, 339 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: no one's written it like I'm gonna write this character. 340 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: So I had this idea for this character. He's tough, 341 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: he's um uh, he's a great athlete, former athlete. He's smart, 342 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: he's good looking, he likes golf, he likes classic cars. 343 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: He's a fun guy. He's had some some troubles in 344 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: his romantic life. He basically got stood up by his fiance. 345 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: So he's not perfect. He's imperfect. He's perfectly imperfect, right, 346 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: which is he's a real person. But here's the deal. 347 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: I was watching the news one night and I saw 348 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,959 Speaker 1: about the shooting of Laquam McDonald in Chicago. And I 349 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: was watching the video of this young black guy walking 350 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: away from police officers and getting shot and with no 351 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: he had no no, no, it was unarmed, he was 352 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 1: no threat. He was just walking away from them. Now 353 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: they told him to stop, but he kept walking and 354 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 1: they killed him. And as I'm sitting there looking at 355 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: the video and reading the stories, what really what I realized, 356 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: Rashaan was my goodness, God's amazing. Thank goodness, someone had 357 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: bodycam video. Number one, right, number one, thank goodness for 358 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: bodycam video. But number two, they suppressed it for over 359 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: a year and they settled with the family. That's right, 360 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: that's right. They oppressive video. Someone leaked the video to 361 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: the media and that's when the firestorms started. But that 362 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: was a year after it happened. So thank goodness someone 363 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: leaked the video because they had already settled with the 364 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: family and thought he was all under the copet. It 365 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 1: was yeah, yeah, yeah, So I said, Wow, what a 366 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: great entree for my character. I'm gonna make this guy 367 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 1: be a farmer detective with the Chicago Police Department who 368 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: leaves because he won't participate in the cover up of 369 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: what they police call a bad shooting. Um and then 370 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 1: he hangs up his own shingle and starts taking on 371 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: very select cases around the city of Chicago. It takes 372 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,239 Speaker 1: them all the way to the wealthy North Shore, all 373 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: the way to the south Side and in between. So 374 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: that is what the unspoken is about. People love it 375 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: and already got option to be a TV series, so 376 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 1: fingers crossed. Um, they're gonna start shopping it in a 377 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: couple of weeks because the producers want to make a 378 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: TV show. But you know that's this is another passion 379 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: of mine. You know, I'd say to people, guys, listen, 380 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: follow your passion. When you follow your passion, you're not working. 381 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: It's not work for me. It's just me having fun 382 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: and and and doing what I love to do. And 383 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: that makes it much easier if the beauty of you 384 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: has been always yourself motivator. But when I look at 385 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: this book, and you know, if you're online, it got 386 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: four and a half out of five stars, and reviews 387 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: all been uh, brilliantly received, and uh and this is 388 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: a great compeller. It's this is another part of your layer. 389 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: And the reason I always like about you, liked about you, 390 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: and still like about you is the fact that you 391 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: are willing to let that journey taking that direction. And 392 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: when you when you see the opportunity, like you said 393 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: that blessing, you didn't know it was gonna happen. You know, 394 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: this is something you're watching TV and it just dawned 395 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: on you creatively. Wow, this this is something this, this 396 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: that that that that next key that allowed me to 397 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: be creative. And that is what this book is about. 398 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: The Unspoken you can buy right now. It comes out 399 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: officially out October one. Give us a little juicy what 400 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: is this particular storyline about? Now, I hey, you tell me, 401 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: because I don't want to give away too much of so. Um, 402 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: the book opens up with a very wealthy white woman, 403 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: aristocratic from the North Shore of Chicago. She goes down 404 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: to the South Loop and she's going to asking Yes. 405 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: She goes down to the South Loop and she finds Ashcane, 406 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: our man, and she says to him, I want you 407 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: to find my missing daughter. And he doesn't want to 408 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: do it at first, and just something she says to 409 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: him that he piques his interest because money is not 410 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: an issue for him. He's fine. He got a big 411 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: selling from the city. So he doesn't take cases because 412 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: of the money. He takes cases only when it it tingles, 413 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: something tingles inside of him and says, I gotta look 414 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: into this. And um, that's the opening book. And so 415 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: he's The book is him trying to find this wealthy 416 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: white girl who disappeared. And the ride starts is twisting 417 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: and turning. It's up and down. You go to the 418 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 1: tough streets of Englewood, Um all the way up to 419 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: the North Shore, or in the wealthy coast of Downtown 420 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: to the go. It's just you know, Chicago. He goes 421 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: everywhere in Chicago, by the way, is a character in 422 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: the book Chicago. Chicago is I think a very misunderstood 423 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: city and it's but it's an important city. It's the 424 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: third country's third largest city. But it's a flyover city. 425 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,919 Speaker 1: Everyone talks about l A and New York and you 426 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 1: fly over Chicago. And so I really want to Chicago 427 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 1: itself to be a character. I want you to understand 428 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: the post of the city, the grid of the city, 429 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 1: of the fashion of the city, so the every everything, 430 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: all parts of the city. It's a corrupt city. Chicago 431 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: is a corrupt city, you know. It's it's the foundation 432 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: of this city. It's corruption. And I don't say that 433 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: in a negative Maejoritan way, but that's the truth. If 434 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: you look at the history of Chicago, it's about back 435 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: room deals, it's about connections and who knows who and 436 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: aldermen and and and the Cook County President. So I 437 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: felt like, what a great place to put a private 438 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: investigator series in the city that has so many different 439 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: faces to it. Well, you know what I'm telling you, 440 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. Chicago was one of that favorite cities 441 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: great food. By the way, if you ever want to 442 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: traveling around where I want to eat great food, go 443 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: to Chicago. They got it, they got it. But you know, 444 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: you know, let's shift gears a little bit because you 445 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: are on the Doctor and we're the middle of a pandemic. 446 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: H When you read an articles the stags that aint 447 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: four percent of the people who actually die from COVID 448 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: ninteen have pretty sixteen medical conditions. When you realize that, 449 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 1: you know, African Americans are people of color or overtly 450 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: affected by the covidnighteen virus. What is your role in 451 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 1: all of this, just from an informational standpoint, doctor, Well, 452 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think that it's been very 453 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 1: unfortunate what has happened in our country. And I say 454 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: that I'm trying to be calm about it because it 455 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 1: really roused my blood pressure. The fact that the medical experts, 456 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: the scientists, the doctors, the nurses, the public health advocates, 457 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: the fact that they were not the leading voice of 458 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: this pandemic and and guiding the country and how to 459 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: fight it, And that the politicians made it a political 460 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: issue and therefore stripped the true a political nature of 461 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: the pandemic. It's science. Science and medicine are not political. 462 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: People make it political. Viruses and political of virus infects. 463 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 1: What's called a host and that's just a body. It 464 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: could be a rich person, a poor person, a black person, white, Jewish, 465 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, Muslim, it doesn't matter. And and the 466 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: fact that the government, that some certain leaders in the government, 467 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 1: quote unquote leaders in the government, the fact that they 468 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: made this a political issue is really really disgusting and 469 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: it has compromised the entire country. The number of deaths 470 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: would not be where it is, the number of injuries 471 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: would not be where it is. The loss not listen 472 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: to this, No one talks about really the loss of 473 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: life experience. Kids not being able to go back to school, 474 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: sports being canceled for kids their seniors, the last chance 475 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: of being able to win the state title, um, kids 476 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: not being recruited because they didn't were able to play 477 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,439 Speaker 1: a whole season and recruiters couldn't see them. People not 478 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: being able to tend their children's graduation a whole class, 479 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: not being able to walk up on the stage in 480 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: front of hundreds of people, thousands of people cheering them 481 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: out after four years of hard work. Rashan, think about 482 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: the loss of life experience all because all because some 483 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: quote unquote leaders in Washington wanted to politicize this and 484 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: not take it seriously. And now this is the damage, 485 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 1: this is the carnage. So as a physician, as an American, 486 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: as a as a lover of human life, this has 487 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: been a really, really tough time for me to see 488 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: what has happened, because I'm telling you. You ask anybody 489 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,719 Speaker 1: who's been to med school and they will tell you, Rashan, 490 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: this isn't complicated. Scientists and doctors know what to do, 491 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: but weren't allowed to guide the country and how to 492 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: minimize its effect. And that's why this is very sad. 493 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: In history will not look very kindly on this period 494 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: of American life because it will show how in cape 495 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: Fable when we weren't not I should thinking we were 496 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: very capable. It will show how an effective and in 497 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: aft we were when we had tons of capability that 498 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 1: we ignored it absolutely and let cliticizing it, trying to 499 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: keep the stock market open, trying to keep the country open, 500 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: when when it can be a layer with simple decision 501 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: where I'm at social distance and be and using political 502 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: intimidation too. That's what you're saying by not allowing the 503 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: doctors be doctors and scientists be scientists and be guided 504 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: by their decision making. No, we're going to change the rules. 505 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: You can't change the We're not listen, we're s You 506 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: don't want me to talk to you about the ins 507 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: and out, the exit and o's of the economy. I'm 508 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 1: not an economist. You don't want me leave that conversation. 509 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: I'm serious, right, You don't want me to tell you 510 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: the excess and ohs of how to drill for oil. 511 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: That's not what I do. I've I've never never done it, 512 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: haven't trained in it. But here we have people who 513 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: have never never done anything in the scientific community are 514 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: gonna tell the country what is a good vaccine? What 515 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: is the proper medication when a vaccine should be available? 516 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,640 Speaker 1: How can you say that? That's like me saying you, hey, 517 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: Ra Sean, you know what in six months, I want 518 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: the stock market to be over said not what, Well, 519 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: because I said that we should be at for It 520 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. Science doesn't work because you've got 521 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: some deadline sciences. Science science happens on its own. And 522 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: I just think, you know, it's just been horrible in 523 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: this country, just very sad. And the classic example what 524 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: you just said. The CEO of Astra Zeneca say it 525 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: in April that he would have a vaccine in September. 526 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: I guess who paused in September, Astra Zeneca. So that's 527 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 1: what you're saying. You cannot predict science. You're just like 528 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 1: you cannot predict your stock market, That's right, And you 529 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: can't give into political pressure. My feeling, and I'm public 530 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: about this, My feeling is had the country shut down 531 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: for four to six weeks like the other countries had done, 532 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: I mean shut down, no air traffic, no interstate travel 533 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: with trains and buses. Had we all shelton in place together, 534 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: all of us care where you live, from South Dakota 535 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: to Louisiana to Boston to l It doesn't matter if 536 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: we all just sat at home, and our small communities 537 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: and let this thing die down. Let it die down. 538 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: We be in a much different world right now. But 539 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: because people didn't want to do it, Rashan, in a 540 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 1: uniform way, everyone said, well, I got rights, I got right. 541 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: This wasn't about rights. This was about how do you 542 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: attack a global pandemic? And then you look at the data. 543 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: On the show The Doctors, we're gonna talk about this 544 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,959 Speaker 1: September twenty one, wee premiere. We're gonna talk about what 545 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: did other countries do? Why is it that they had 546 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: a hundred days of no infections? And we're gonna compare 547 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: what they did and what the best lessons are. But 548 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: we just didn't do it right, Rashan. People talk about 549 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta open the economy. Well, listen, what 550 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: good is opening the economy if people end up getting 551 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: sick and you gotta close the businesses again, you want 552 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 1: to have a ping pong relationship. Open clothes, open clothe, 553 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: And now look where we are. I called it, you 554 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: called it. That's the perfect theme for the new season. 555 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: Take your power back. Tell us the background of why 556 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: that's important. Just listen to see. I'm gonna man, I'm 557 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: gonna enjoy. If I can't see it, I'm recording it 558 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: because you're already on fire by the pod that you're 559 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: on fire. But the thing about our relationship, we just 560 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: get the talking doctor, We just get the talking and 561 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: next thing you know, it's thirty minutes later. We gotta 562 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: go ahead. I gotta stop talking to you you, brother. I 563 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: can't take it all your talk. But the theme is 564 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: take your Power Back. Tell us about the new season. 565 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: You kind of hitting on it on the premiere episode, 566 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: but what is that arc of the season. Take your 567 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: power back? Very succinctly, Take your power back means that 568 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,679 Speaker 1: we have been living in times that we have felt powerless. 569 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: These are uncertain times, these are dangerous times. People are 570 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: scared and nervous, understandably, so we want to show people 571 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: that there are things that you can do to take 572 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: some of that power back, not all of it, because 573 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: some of this is out of our control, like the vaccines, 574 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: out of our control. But there are things that you 575 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: can do within your own homes, within your own life 576 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: to take some of that power and stability back. And 577 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: so we're gonna inspire people, We're gonna challenge people, We're 578 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: gonna give you the best answers that we can find 579 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: that are scientifically based and not politically based. And my 580 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: my mission to my team was this. In the very beginning, 581 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: I said, guys, every day I want to do something 582 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: that every person watching can make a change in their 583 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: life to improve it. And that's our mission. We wanted. 584 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: This is a show for the people. It's about the 585 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: People's not about what dr Ian thinks, what my producers think. 586 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: It's about what people need. So we want to put 587 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: this show forward. You also send me a d M 588 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: on Instagram at dr Ian Smith. Uh spell the doctor 589 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: out and let me know what you want us to 590 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: talk about. Uh, let me know about your experts. We 591 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: want different experts from all walks of life to give 592 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: us different experiences. This is gonna be a show for 593 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: all of us. It is let me a diverse show 594 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: tackling issues that we all care about. And you know 595 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: I post about you, so you know when people react 596 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: very good when I post about dr Ian Smith on 597 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: my Time life. And so if you've got a banner, 598 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: they say, it's what you just say. Please tell you 599 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: people to get it to me so I can post 600 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: and let people know that this show is about the people. 601 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: Is not so much about the producers, is about the 602 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: people in the voices. They want to be a part 603 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: of the show. You're engaging them. But more importantly, his 604 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: book They Unspoken To Coming Out is already out officially 605 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: out October first. You're premiering your new episode of the 606 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: thirteen season. He's the solo host. Dr Ian Smith is 607 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: who's the solo host of The Doctors, the author Ian 608 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: Kate Smith is the same person, same person doing this 609 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: thing and multiple levels. Like I said, he's been a 610 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: blessing in my life. He's a blessing to my mom. 611 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: I appreciate you and my last sting. If you ever 612 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: do an episode, brother by Bacon col Man man, I 613 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: show up, I show up and do it, but do 614 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: some baking on the show. Just let people live right. 615 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: I'll take care. I'll take you and I appreciate your 616 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: friendship to the years and we've had a lot of 617 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: experiences together and the road in over yet, so let's 618 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: keep goingout again. Thank you for coming on the show, 619 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,719 Speaker 1: and get their banners to me about your show so 620 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: I can get them posted before the show premieres. Thank you, 621 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: my brother, appreciate you, love you, Take care, if you 622 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 1: when we get more episodes of Money Making Conversations, please 623 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: go to money Making Conversation dot com. I'm your host, 624 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: Rashaan Madan Coup