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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so check this out the politics. This is

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Speaker 1: my mom Mom. Yes, y'all know what's called me? Hello. Hello.

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Speaker 1: I'll call you Jason when I'm close to you in

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Speaker 1: you your properis to call your propagn hell. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, you know. Okay, y'all. So this is a

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Speaker 1: special hood politics. Uh, this is in partnership with spit

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Speaker 1: and twenty three and me. We're gonna talk about little

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Speaker 1: about it. So little background, um I had At some point,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I made this like off hand comment

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Speaker 1: it or not. She had said in this podcast like,

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Speaker 1: And I thought to myself when she said that, like, dude,

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Speaker 1: that's crazy. Yeah, I kind of don't. And listeners know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to raise Los Angeles. My mom

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Speaker 1: is not though. My mom Southeast d C. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Northwest Southeast you feel me? She Obama

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Speaker 1: Come on now, and okay, okay, I appreciate it, But

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Speaker 1: there's an entire history you know, with your parents that

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Speaker 1: and kids changed you. Yeah, so it was put on

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Speaker 1: your heart to write a letter, right, that's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So you can take over from there a little bit

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Speaker 1: like what you wanted to talk about in a letter,

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Speaker 1: not specifics obviously because that's between us, but just kind

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Speaker 1: I first of all, it you had come on a

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Speaker 1: a dagger in my heart. For a couple of different reasons.

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Speaker 1: One thing I wanted to add to when you talked

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Speaker 1: about us being raised in the projects, and this is

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00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: not an effrontery on anyone else that was raised in

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Speaker 1: the projects, but my mother, well in the projects, anyone

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Speaker 1: that whose ancestors or family, grandma and grandpa, anybody lived

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00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: in the projects knew that they used to have uh

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00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: a community center where they would give you government food,

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00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: government cheese, government peanut butter. But government this government that

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00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: my mother never took it. Yeah, we never received anything

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00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: from them because she chose not to. And one of

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00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: the reasons, probably as as I got older, I used

437
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: to tell people that raising nine children first in what

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00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: I realized now, which our normal reminded me of, is

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00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: that when we lived in Southwest Washington, d c. When

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00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: I was very little and born down there, it was

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00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: considered the slums. Right now, it is the war, everything

442
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: is exclusive, but back then, when they had black people

443
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: running around in there, it was the slums. But to

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00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: raise a family like that and not get any government assistance,

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00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: that talks of the struggle of h And I'm sure

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00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: my dad wasn't the only black man that when on

447
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: went out of the house in the morning and returned

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00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: back home in the evening for the betterment of his family.

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Speaker 1: And so we just we just were never exposed to

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Speaker 1: those things. And so that's how we grew. And that's

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00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: how I wanted. I wanted us as a family to

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00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: eat just good, healthy food, and you know, that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's what I did. I remember the time that I

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Speaker 1: that I suggested to the three of you, let's go vegetarian.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that conversation? And when I got so

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Speaker 1: much opposition that the three of you looked at each

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Speaker 1: other as if to say talking about and then and

458
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: then somebody said, you mean, I can't have any more ribs,

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00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: And somebody said no more steak, and you said, oh no, Ma,

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00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, Well, then you guys just go

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00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: ahead and do. But this is how I'm gonna eat.

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00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: And I didn't go vegetarian, but I just I just

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Speaker 1: cut out a lot of stuff and yeah you did,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I mean I've made similar choices, like

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Speaker 1: I haven't gone full of vegetarian, but um, for the

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Speaker 1: most part pescatarian, you know, in as in as best

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00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: as I can be. Uh. But I think one thing

468
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: that we do here is like you know, my wife

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00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: is like super good at like if we are buying

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00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: beef or chicken, it's like the high end stuff, you

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00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like she'll like she'll break bread

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Speaker 1: for that. That's like, you know, no nitrates, like you know,

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00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: completely organic. And what's crazy about like the Latino community

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00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: to which like again it's just a different narrative than

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00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: you know, which is posed to us. Is like you know,

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Speaker 1: in Acapulco, like they was dirt poor, you know, no

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00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: running water styles, but like you got fresh fruit every day.

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00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: Yeah there was. You got up in the morning and

479
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: you went and bought the food for the day, so

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00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: it was fresh fruit, fresh vegetables. She's always eight like that,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. They when they were kids,

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Speaker 1: she talks about this too, like they didn't get fast food,

483
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: like her mom didn't do it. She was just like no,

484
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: they cooked every day. And it was like but you

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00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: go to the market, you buy the beans, you boil

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00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: the beans. You know they bought you go to the

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00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: corner where there was like the fruit lady right exactly

488
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: sitting in the corner like eating what I'm saying. So

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00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: you just they always ate like that, you know what

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00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you know, of course they was you

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00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: know when they got to l as you know, you

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00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: had your you had your talkies and hot cheetos like

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00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: they did that, you know what I'm saying. But it

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00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: was like no, we like we chopped vegetables every day,

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00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: made beans every day, you know what I'm saying. You

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00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: know what that that that's a beautiful thing. Though I

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00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: don't mean to interrupted, but that's a beautiful thing because

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00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: when you think of people living in poverty, a lot

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00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: of people that have lived that way and have I

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00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to say that have been their

501
00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: lifestyle has been governed because of pap her tea or

502
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: mid level poverty. They go for the cheapest of things

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00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Convenient. But when you sign a

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00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: family like hurt like almost background in my background where no,

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00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: that was no go that that was just no, it

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00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't an option, you know. So and um,

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00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: it continues on, it continues on, and the girls eat

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00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: well and you do too, very Yeah, it's true, it

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00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: just continues on. The one thing that did like for her,

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00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: She's like, what kills us is is there's a tortilla

511
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: with every meal. So we're just so it's the same thing.

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00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: It's like sugar. Yeah, I mean, so we try to

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00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: do the we try to do corn instead of flower,

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00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: you know. But whatever we're doing, we're doing the best

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00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: we can anyway. Mom, thank you for your transparency. Yeah,

516
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: this was fun. Yeah, and thank you to twenty three

517
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: and me for letting us do this. And then there's

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00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: like all the other like that you are on my

519
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: maternal side, like the ancestry stuff, like on the maternal side,

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00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: your blood is Bantu, you know that African Yeah, you're

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00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: from the Bantu region, according to it is okay. I

522
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: know that one of my sisters had told me one

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00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: time that my my dad was from Angola. Is that

524
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: part of that? Now? My my dad's dad because of

525
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: like how close that angling is to our to our line,

526
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,719
Speaker 1: Like since he's like your grandfather, he takes up a

527
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: lot of the percentage because that just through through that

528
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: DNA in there. But but we're essentially we're essentially like

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00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: subsaharent East African Okay, you know, which is like not

530
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: average for you know, slave descendants. Most slave descendants are

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00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: mostly West African. But which we're that too, because any

532
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: slave descendant is everything, you know what I'm saying. But

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00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: Bantu and Lonnie m hmm. Well, I used to get

534
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: a lot when I was in California where you know,

535
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: especially when I start wearing my hair down, and I

536
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: used to get comments about how was I from the Islands,

537
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: and it was like you just don't look like you're yeah,

538
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: but you're all from that. Yeah. And my comment is

539
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: that none of us are all black anymore. Yeah, so

540
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: there's that, right, Yeah, yeah, all the mistaken for Ethiopian stuff,

541
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, maybe you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, anyway, Uh, mom,

542
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: you want to give everybody your socials. I'm just kidding,

543
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: just kidding. Get nobody, do not follow my mama on Instagram,

544
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: I slap and playing man. So checking in from MARYL

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00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: and from the d n V. You know what I'm

546
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: saying from you know, PGC, Prince George County. Ladies and gentlemen,

547
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: my dukes, let go, Thank you very much, mama. Alright,

548
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: so my pleasure eat? Well, yes, that's right. Oh yeah.

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00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: You got any words of wisdom for these folks? Well,

550
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: my only words of wisdom would be to make wise

551
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: choices when you eat. Because you aren't always gonna be

552
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: thirty five. You're always gonna be forty, god willing. You

553
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: aren't always gonna be sixty one day, you're gonna be

554
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: seventy or eighty on. And you want to still be

555
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 1: able to walk around the block without having your shortness

556
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: of breath. You want to be able to run a

557
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: half mile without shortness of breath. You want to be

558
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: able like me to do sit ups and push ups

559
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: and leg binds and all of that. It's all in

560
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: our choices, not only what you eat, but your life

561
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: choice is in the things that you expose yourself too.

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00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from, but just eat

563
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: your veggies. They're the good Earth. There's from the good Earth.

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00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: Then and stay away from that fried, greasy food you

565
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: broke up. You broke up, Okay, as good as smells good.

566
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: But no, I'm being silly. I just didn't want you

567
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: to drop the gym's I know, But all I'm saying

568
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: is that you'd be surprised at what you can ove

569
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 1: and fry and enjoy it. So just just stay healthy.

570
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: If you want to stay alive, stay and eat healthy.

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Speaker 1: You will be thankful when you get over a