WEBVTT - Why Are We Dying From Preventable Diseases 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:08.280 Yeah, that's what's up. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:08.640 Family. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:09.879 It's your girl to mek A d. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.680 Mallord and it's your boy my son in general. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.040 And we are your host of t M I to. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.080 Miki my Son's information, truth, motivation and inspirations. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:25.000 That you know, what's happen, what's you know what? 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:29.360 I was reading an article that says we're not we're 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:35.360 not supposed to sleep with our cell phones on the 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.840 side of the bed. They say, not even in the room. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.960 But what I be trying to understand is why do 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:43.440 they sell us stuff. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.159 Let's gonna kill it? That is, I mean, that's how 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:49.000 I think that's the one. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.240 No, But I mean this article was saying some serious ship. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.040 It was saying, basically, the radiation from the five G 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.480 is like not humanly consumable, like it's not good for 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.600 you. You should not have it in your space overnight, like 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.640 it's already And I guess it's true because now you're 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.520 talking about twenty four hours a day you're dealing with 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.759 the radiation from the towers and your phone. And they said, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.800 do not even have it next to your bed. They 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.440 talked about also like the tea television, the rays, like 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.880 how people sleep with the TV on overnight. I know 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.520 I do sometimes it. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.440 I'm scared of the dark. Oh see, I'm scared of 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:28.759 the dok. 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.840 I'm been scared since I was a kid. I don't 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.160 play but no, no, nor don't play. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:34.560 But that. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.640 TM I the real con they's too much information. It's 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.679 not but I but you. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:43.160 Know, I do. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.279 I sleep and I also, thankfully I am not afraid 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:47.920 of the dark. When I was a kid, I was 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:48.880 so afraid of the dark. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:49.600 It wasn't funny. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:51.600 I used to wake up and swore that I saw 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.520 things running across the I mean it just was. I 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.760 had a monsters in my it was bad. I was 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.200 traumatized in the projects we had to with the aluminum 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.600 for I told the story before over the light bulb 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.960 so I can have a night light in my room, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.480 Like this is very very serious when I and I 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.240 had to get over that. So now I will at 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.480 least sometimes I turn TV and I just I won't 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.680 even have it on too fall asleep because I can 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.799 do that AnyWho. The phone is a little different because 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.000 when I wake up, for like, I wake up all night. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.399 That's part of my anxiety. I you know, I'll look 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.760 a little bit send emails. But they're saying in this 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.720 particular article that is actually not healthy for you at 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.200 all to have your phone in the room and definitely 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.639 not next to you, because you are basically consuming all 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:45.120 this radioactive energy throughout the night. Now people sleep with 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.960 it in their bed. Yeah, with the whole phone, the 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:56.000 charging chords, the that's not good. That's not good, and 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.840 the extension chord because the thing don't don't run long 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.800 enough in the stags over there, like yep, all of 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.000 the all of the above. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:06.000 Yeah, need the stuff. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.280 But that's really I mean this thing. All I know 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:14.919 is that the rate that we are being diagnosed with cancer, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.160 these little articles they hide it over here. It is 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.600 behind a paywall. You might see one or two posts 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:28.359 about it on socials. Meanwhile, this is information we really 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:28.760 need to have. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.240 So I need to create like a little phone box, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.560 right that you could put your phone in and blocks 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:38.240 the radiation. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.840 How would your family members reach you if something is wrong? 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.640 But you can hear it with blockeration, so you only 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.640 use it. Take it off the box. 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.560 Well, I have a house phone, so I think maybe 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.960 the house phone is still. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.240 Is the radiation blocker. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.360 All I'm saying is the rate to which we are 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.000 getting being died knows with cancer, and people are saying, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.040 where are we getting all of this cancer from. Sure, 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.800 the food is important, and they didn't specifically say that 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.120 it's going to give you cancer. It basically implied and 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.280 said that these are some of the things, and one 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.719 of them is not being able to rest properly because 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.560 it's like you have energy going all around you all 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.280 the time. It's not healthy. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:23.200 So I was just. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.159 Reading that and it just it really brought me to 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:31.920 my thought of the day because also, you know, Painkillers 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.440 is one of my favorite shows on Netflix. I watched Painkillers, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.040 I've watched Dope Sick. I love these shows, and well 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.840 it's not that I love them, but I'm into it 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:47.760 because of my personal experience with opioids. And I as 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.760 I was watching Painkillers for like the fifth time, I 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.760 really honed in again on the Food and Drug Administration. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:04:59.440 Yeah, big thing. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.960 Well, actually it's not. And that's what's scary. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.240 Well, explain that. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:11.200 Well, because it's not like it's not it's not a 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:18.080 forty thousand person department within the federal government. There are 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.080 it's a smaller entity of people who have guidelines that 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.120 they're pretty much checking off. I don't know why, Like, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.160 I don't know why I thought that these people was 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.200 in white coats and there are people within the Food 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.280 and Drug Administration that are actual doctors and all of that. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.719 So let me not scare people. But it's not as 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:44.440 robust as I thought. I'm thinking that there is a 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.320 lad and everything that they do, they gotta bring it 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.359 on something like what and that is not the game. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.560 It's so you have to be really careful, really really careful. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.320 We got a doctor coming up. We're gonna talk a 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:58.960 little bit about it. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.680 Pretty much goes to you know, I put it in 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:06.680 the song and so on, on painkillers, the serious and I'm like, oh, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.440 they pretty much make drugs. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.560 You deal, we do a hundred years and they pay 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:13.960 a fine. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.919 The crazy thing is that when we looked at the 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:24.360 reality is the family who created the the OXYI, which 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.320 is one of the most addictive drugs in the world 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.400 that's killed probably about a million. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.440 I think it's one of that because. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.599 It was that when they made it, they said it 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.960 was a five hundred thousand. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.560 There's a lot of parents. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.560 Who are who have overdose to and they were they 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.640 had to pay like a four hundred million dollars five 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:44.880 with their billionaires. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:46.360 So they paid this five. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.679 They go back and they continue to make more money, 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.920 and they ain't take Isak off the market. People are 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.000 still being prescribed. And they know the addictiveness of it. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:00.320 They know the mortality rate of it, they know all 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:01.000 these things. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.279 But if ray ray on the corner, he get caught 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.880 with ten to twelve field, is he gonna do ten 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.240 and twelve years? So maybe more so it's just like 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.040 we we have to just be open mind. And that's 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.400 why when you say you thought this was this robust, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.720 they know this is just another agency. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:25.560 It's like any other agency. And because lobbied exactly say 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:30.920 lobby I'm gonna say lobbyed, so right, And then then 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.960 that means that outside entities like the medical industry, they 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.640 have actual power and the decisions that's being made. It's 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.240 just like, yo, this is why I don't like to 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.960 talk about the sex stuff, because this is why people 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.080 be like, I don't I'm not, I don't care about voting. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.800 I don't want to because because it's a lot, because 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.920 who's gonna vote when you know that they're playing around. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.520 But you have to pay attention to these things right 0:07:55.600 --> 0:08:01.440 like when you elected president or you elect certain types 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.679 of people, congressional members and others. These are the things 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.920 that we because we're looking for police accountability, students, debt relief, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.480 women's health issues, we look at this and say, we 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.240 don't always start reading the fine print of how people 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.080 feel about certain agencies. So they might be talking about 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:24.320 defunding certain agencies and making people responsible for figuring out 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:30.560 what their their concoctions for food and whatever are on 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.160 your own. They can be so drugs, they can be 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.520 saying that I'm not saying they are people. I'm not 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.439 saying that they are I'm saying they could make those decisions. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.240 And because it's not something that comes top of mind, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.880 you don't even read that part of the campaign with 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.160 materials or on the website for the president. You're not 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.480 even looking at that. And we should actually know that 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.320 the Food and Drug Administration is being fully funded and 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.560 has the type of things that they need to be 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.680 effective in their jobs. Anyway, just I was in my 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.680 fool in the day today is the agencies, the aid 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:09.439 the federal agencies need. Everybody needs a boss. The transportation 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.400 industry not just the boss needs the airplane people are 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.199 they doing whatever? 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.120 This isn't The only people that have bosses is poor people. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.320 Oh that's it. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.440 The transportation people are not, not the Deltas and the 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.160 I love Delta by the way, not the American. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.800 The pilots, you're crazy, you know. It's unny. They may 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.200 they not forty, but I'm doing I want, I say 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:35.360 what i want to do what I want. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.439 But it's really the ones that own the companies Southwest, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:38.720 but the. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.360 Pretty much pilots are contract it's pretty much because they 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.640 don't even have any Jewish. The Delta, the airlines don't 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.480 have any jurisdiction over the pilots. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.839 Well they can fire them, yeah, but they got you 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.120 they have. I think there are the pilots unionized because 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.440 I know that the employees, like Delta employees are not unionized. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.079 People like me lost and are working to try to 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:02.720 get them union. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.080 When we have a situation, they pretty much said there's 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.040 nothing that we can do to the point will win 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:08.559 the pot. 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.000 Right because the fact the legislation is that the pilot 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.400 is in charge on the plane. I mean it's it's 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.280 it's very technical and that's the type of stuff. It's like, damn, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.480 we talk so much about who's sleeping with who who's 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.600 and that type of stuff. Will be knowing. I'm trying 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:23.880 to get myself to. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.120 Learn you will. That brings me to my music segment. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.599 I just had one at first, but I'm going to 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.400 introduce my song into this because of what we were 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.559 just talking about. You know, we talking about painkillers, and 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.120 we're talking about voting. We're talking about all these things. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.400 And you know this new remixed song that I have 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.080 out right now to Jay Z's and it's the twenty 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:53.520 fifth anniversary of the song reasonable Doubt and I mean 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:58.200 of President Yet Presidents twenty seven, okay, And it's the 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.120 twenty fifth anniversary of the song their Presidents. And when 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:03.880 I was listening to the song, it's one of my 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.800 favorite songs that Jay ever made. And then I was 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.800 just talking thinking about presidents and he was like, I'm 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.720 all for presidents to represent me, and I was thinking 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.280 about the selection. I'm thinking about all of this. You know, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.880 we got guys that we got Trump just talking crazy, 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.320 and I'm just like, none of these people actually represent me, 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.000 Like there's nothing that they do or say that represents 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.840 me as a black man in America. So I remixed 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.560 it under that preference, and I talked about a lot 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.679 of different things. And so I want you to listen 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.680 to that song. It's my songs their President's remix called 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:35.840 none of These Presidents Don't Represent Me. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.320 And also the second. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.400 The second song is my twenty one savage man. I 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.360 was listening to this album I was working out two 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.640 years today and it's this song called letter Letter to 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:48.160 My brother. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:50.080 You know what I'm saying, And. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.040 Is it really briant brother? 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.440 B are you d d a letter to my brother? 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.680 And he was just talking about the realities that go 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.880 on his street life, you know, like how you just 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.000 you're trying to make it out sometimes, he said, he 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.040 said a line that was crazy. He said, I've got 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.160 a good heart. It is just in the wrong place, right, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.240 he said, most of us just have good hearts within 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.160 the wrong place and survive will be pray. You just 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.240 trying to make it out, which he used to making 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.480 out when he's just gonna cuff you like, And he 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.440 was just talking about so many things that the average person, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:30.000 especially black men in our community, experiences, you know, and 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:31.679 it was just like it was like, Wow, this is 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.040 a song that had a lot of substance in it. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.120 So just want to highlight spot like that twenty one 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.600 Savages letter to my brother. Go listen to that and 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.880 my songs. None of these presidents don't represent me. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.520 It's still adult track, and I hope that people will 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.360 listen to it because I feel it they don't represent me. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.520 I hate to say it because I don't like it. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.559 I don't want Donald Trump is my president. I really don't. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.520 And I don't give anybody the impression that. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.520 I'm for Donald Trump at all. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:07.360 But Joe Biden really disappointed me. Not and I'm not 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.199 talking about the fact that I knew I wasn't going 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.559 to agree with on his politics because we was definitely 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.040 going to fight him. We knew that we were getting ready. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.080 But no, he disappointed me. He disappointed me with this 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:27.320 Gods situation. Definitely, I'm disappointed. I had an expectation, not 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.240 that he would not be assigned this as he proclaims, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.880 but I had an expectation that when the people would 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.720 that as the people rise up the way that we have, 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:49.080 that he would have he would have I had. I 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:54.760 had an expectation that as the people have really you know, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.240 the way that people are rising up, I had an 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.760 expectation that he would step back and say I have 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.319 to I cannot. I'm not even saying that he actually 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.480 feels it or loves Palestinians, or that he was doing 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.040 it because I believe he was gonna do the right things. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.880 I'm saying that I thought that he would say I 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.760 can't even do this, like he keeps saying. They keep 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.560 saying Trump is a threat, and then yet you acting 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.960 like Trump. So I didn't. I didn't. That for me, 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.960 I'm disappointed in that. I thought they were more That's 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.280 what I was gonna say. That's it. I got it, Mice, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.440 I got it. I thought that they were going to 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.520 be more politically astute than they have been. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:40.080 I didn't spend nothing, anything, nothing. But let's get into it. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:40.880 I would guess. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:47.720 I guess in our last few shows. I don't know 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.880 if we even noticed it, but we've been talking about 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.680 health a lot. I realize, especially with all this extra weight, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.440 that a lot of people act like they don't know. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.000 But I have a few friends, including my dear friend Peaches, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.880 that does not let me forget because she will send 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.080 me a picture of myself out somewhere in a minute 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.040 and be like you see this circling the fat in 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.120 my cheeks, my neck, and it's okay because do we 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.720 do that for one another. It's not like she's trying 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.320 to like disrespect me or anything or shame me, but 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.640 she knows what I want to look like. And I 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.440 realized that I didn't have to be in the situation 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.480 that I'm in the backfat this, and that all of 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.920 these things happened to me because I thought that I 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.720 could just steal. I thought I was still thirty. I 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.680 don't know what I thought, but it's not. It isn't 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.280 so I'll yes. And what I realized is working out 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.480 by itself is not enough, Like you do have to 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.120 actually take care of your inside. I never knew this 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.480 whole theory of gut health. I never heard that before 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.960 in my life. I knew your stomach, but then when 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.320 I hear people talking about how much is happening in 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.640 your gut, I'm like, wow, there's so many concepts that 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.080 I can tell you right now. My family members that 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.200 live in Alabama, North Carolina, no wherever, we talk about 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.080 no gut health like at all. We did these things. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.560 It was can you try that good piece of pork 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.760 chop and tear it up. Now. They don't live like 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.200 that anymore because so many people have died from art 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.920 disease and whatever, and over time people have become introduced 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.640 to these things. But that wasn't the thing we were 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.920 talking about today though. Today we get an opportunity to 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:31.120 talk to doctor Robert Singleton, the second, who is an 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:38.760 anesthesiology physician, and he also is very big on the 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.800 internet talking about health. And you know, I don't know 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.280 if enough of us, Like I was talking to somewhere 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.640 recently and they were like, oh, certain things never show 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.040 up on my page. It's also what you follow like 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.200 and what you're interested in. And when I came across 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.520 the algorithm, when I came across doctor Singleton, obviously we 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.760 were introduced to him by LaToya Bond and our team 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.560 and they were like, Hey, you got to check this 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.560 guy out. It's some real robust discussion and rich discussion 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.200 going on on his social media about health in general. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.280 And I'm grateful that he's taking some time today, Scrubs 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.679 and all to come on and be a guest on 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.720 TAMI to talk about our health and help us get 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.119 straight on like what we pose to be doing to 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.000 get health in our community. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.919 How you doing, doctor, and how you doing today? 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.800 I'm doing great, great, glad to be here, and I'm 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.560 glad that we're talking about health because it's so important. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:42.119 Like you said, there's so many different health conditions that 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.520 affect us as black people disproportionately, and so it's important 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.199 that we have conversations like this to help ourselves, to 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:51.159 help our communities. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:52.040 Absolutely. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:52.359 Let me. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:57.080 Let me give a few points about how legendary you are. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:03.679 You are a board certified and caesiologists in Chicago. You 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:08.760 went to Howard University. We have Howard University nutcases that 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.000 follow us that they don't pull, they do not play 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.240 about the hu you know. Okay, but you are a 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:22.879 medical school grad from Howard and then also the ambassador 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.359 for the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. This is a very 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.840 very serious topic for me, and I'll tell you why 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:34.000 in the second and since completing your anestesiology training in 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.639 twenty sixteen, you've been committed to serving as an advocate 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.159 for patients and their families, practicing evidence based medicine and 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:46.640 insurance patience safety. And I'll tell you why this topic 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:53.159 is so sensitive for me around anestesiology. My mother in 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.359 twenty twenty. Prior to twenty twenty March of twenty twenty, 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.520 she had been told she has an issue with her 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.760 sophia gets where it closes and she has to have 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.639 it stretched, maybe every years or so. So this is 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.040 something that we believe, well, we pretty much know that. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:15.359 It became her new reality after working at near right 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.800 next door to the World Trade Center during nine eleven. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.520 So my mom, you know, she was there and the 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:28.520 fumes and whatnot, and then her esophagus changed as a 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.480 result of the pollution that so many people down there 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.800 faced and what have you. She lived, thank god, but 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:35.680 she did start to struggle with this thing. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:38.120 The last time that she. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.480 Was getting before this twenty twenty incident, the last time 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:46.960 she was getting her esophagus stretched, the doctor told her 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.560 that they did not like the way that she responded 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.200 to the anesthesia. They said that when it was time 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.040 for her to wake up, she was having a major difficulty. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.640 They did not like the way she rebounded and they 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.639 felt uncomfortable about it. However, with my mother, her situation 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.879 is either you get the stretching or go into complete 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.160 liquid diet, and even then she can choke and die. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.240 So she doesn't. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.480 Have a lot of options, right, So they did the 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.960 surgery in March of twenty twenty, and sure enough, my 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.040 mother had a stroke and lost the ability on her 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:23.160 left side. 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.320 My mother was a dance. 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.639 Instructor for a number of dance classes in her community. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.919 You cannot be her in my line on the dances. 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:33.639 You got vible videos. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:37.199 And every eighty million people watching her videos of her 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.800 line dance instructing and all of that. And now she's 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.240 in a wheelchair. She moves around a lot better, you know, 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.040 over to time things have gotten better, but she does 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.640 not have the ability to do much with her left 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.159 side and she needs twenty four hour care. So anesthesia 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:57.720 is a big topic of a place of pain for 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.040 us when we even start talking about it, And ironically 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:03.879 it is coming up on the Timeless. She's beginning to 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.880 choke again because in twenty twenty, once they did get 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.440 through the surgery, now she's starting to have the same 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.159 issues again and here were people having to try to 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.200 figure out what to do. So just for the personal reference, 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.359 this topic is really you know you and what you 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.320 do is very sensitive to me. But again, thank you 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.800 so much for joining us, and we just want to hear. 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:26.960 I'm sure how you got into this in the first place. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:32.080 Yeah, So, I've always wanted to be a doctor. I 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.199 just didn't know what type. I really liked surgery, but 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.280 anesthesia is one of those fields that doesn't get a 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:43.879 lot of exposure or it's not as known as the 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:49.400