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Speaker 1: Realty real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,

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Speaker 1: Angela Ye, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: special guests in the building. It's Montea Williams, Montell Williams.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Montell, I had to keep explaining to

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Speaker 1: him that you're not Montell Jordan No sixs. What is

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Speaker 1: six three? Yes? About fifteen years younger than me. That

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Speaker 1: was my joint. This is how we I'm just joking,

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Speaker 1: but why tell us here? What did you do for

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Speaker 1: four twenty Montell? Um, Let's see, And I was in

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Speaker 1: meetings half the day, flew across the country and had

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Speaker 1: a couple of meetings. You've been a big advocate of marijuana. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: but it's because of your MS though. Absolutely, And I've

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Speaker 1: been working out you know, literally a lot of people

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Speaker 1: don't know this, but I was involved in probably in

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Speaker 1: every single state that passed the medical marijuana law since

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Speaker 1: the year two thousand testified for a right. I currently

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Speaker 1: am involved in the state of Missouri, who is in

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Speaker 1: the process of passing probably would be one of the

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Speaker 1: most comprehensive medical maria want of laws in the country. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we kind of have to understand. Whatever anybody

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Speaker 1: wants to do all you want, I could care less.

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Speaker 1: From my perspective. This is a medication and it is

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Speaker 1: for a lot of people. And what we don't understand

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Speaker 1: is that just like you know, there's one medication that's

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Speaker 1: sold in this country right now today that it's sold

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Speaker 1: in seven eleven so in drug stores. It's not scheduled.

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Speaker 1: It's most deadly drug on a planet. It's been around

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Speaker 1: for one hundred years. Nicotine. No, we still don't we

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Speaker 1: still don't know what makes it work. Yet we sell it.

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Speaker 1: Let children could walk in and buy it, take it home,

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Speaker 1: and if they take too much of it, they will

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Speaker 1: be dead on your living room floor. Before you see aspirin,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, made from willow bark. I can't take because

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Speaker 1: the caffeine and it makes me jittery. Well it's not, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's made from willow bark. And back at the

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Speaker 1: turn of the century, you know, they knew that it

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Speaker 1: was an analgesic. They knew a little bit about it.

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Speaker 1: People used to boil the willow bark in their pots,

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Speaker 1: so people end up dead on their floors. So now

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Speaker 1: you started turning into a pounder. But if you take

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Speaker 1: too much aspen, It'll kill you. We don't know exactly

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Speaker 1: all of the reasons why I aspen work. We do

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Speaker 1: know some of them, but not all of them. It's

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Speaker 1: the same thing when it comes to marijuana. Marijuana and

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Speaker 1: the plant itself is a plant based medicine. We don't

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Speaker 1: know everything that works about it's still tell today, but

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Speaker 1: we do know that it's efficacious for certain illnesses. So

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Speaker 1: for me, I don't care if they go recreational over

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Speaker 1: to make sure that we produce a cannabis that for

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Speaker 1: persons who's ill it won't make us more sick. Do

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Speaker 1: you grow your own or do you actually go into growers.

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Speaker 1: I have some people who grow for me specifically, have

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Speaker 1: some people who do this. Have I have my own

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Speaker 1: compassionate care givers licensed in a couple of different states

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Speaker 1: that get to do that, and I'm taking care of

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Speaker 1: that now. Then you said recreational. What do you think

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Speaker 1: about recreational because you know so disenal, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you said, what does we'd hurt you? First of all, dude,

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Speaker 1: Then I got diagnosed with a MASS and then you know,

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Speaker 1: So I suffered from some extreme neuropathic pain in my

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Speaker 1: cannabis works to start suppressing that pain. Well, there's a

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Speaker 1: dudes listen to this right now, then, dude, I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't sleep it out cannabis. You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And if that's where your mind's at, you got to

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that there are people suffer from cancer,

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Speaker 1: owns the pattern on THHC and CBD. We fund research

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Speaker 1: on cannabis on a regular basis. Outside of the United States.

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Speaker 1: The United States from America, let's see, has been distributing

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Speaker 1: marijuana for the last thirty eight years. Every single month,

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Speaker 1: we give them medication. But people like Montell, who served

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Speaker 1: And we as a society sit back and let this happen.

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Speaker 1: police department are gonna say, oh, you're crazy. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: cost this X y Z what it's costing everybody lives right,

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Speaker 1: And I'm so sorry. See again, keep thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying this because I'm a black man. I'm

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Speaker 1: afraid I'm gonna be a black man. That's gonna be No.

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Speaker 1: Let's remember sixty percent, eight hundred thousand, that's what five

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Speaker 1: hundred and some thousand. It's Jonathan Franks, who's my ace

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Speaker 1: who just when I asked for for numbers, jo say

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Speaker 1: the number, I'm gonna give me a John in my life.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan looked that up for me. I'm available for hire.

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Speaker 1: Estimates of abuse by law enforce and personnel range from

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Speaker 1: study not not agreed upon, but it's a real study. Again,

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Speaker 1: so when you think about that though. Again, so guys,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand I'm not in this and I

441
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Speaker 1: don't want here in New York police officers. No, dude,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you I will stop and buy a police

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Speaker 1: officer lunch dinner. I am. I am on their side,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I'm hoping that maybe if we changed

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Speaker 1: the conversation a little bit and stop saying everybody's a

446
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Speaker 1: racist ass and no, no, no no, these are people I

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Speaker 1: don't care black. And remember, let's also remember what I

448
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Speaker 1: gave you the number. I'll give you a breakdown racially,

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Speaker 1: but I will tell you that I believe what I

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Speaker 1: did the first chearchialness. The numbers are identical, black, white,

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Speaker 1: Hispanic police officers have issues. Guys. You know you do

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. You don't think it's a race thing?

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Speaker 1: Is Oh no, there's race hit it, yes, sir, No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta add to put them all together. And

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Speaker 1: I can't say which percentage is which I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: some conference. I'm gonna have some meetings with a couple

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Speaker 1: of prominent psychiatrists that I know in the country in

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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. I'm working with a few

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Speaker 1: of them on some different issues. Because people don't don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's like I just I'm not just walking around spending

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Speaker 1: in the circle. I've been involved in the last four years,

462
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Speaker 1: and I think one of the things that's going to

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Speaker 1: be one of the most brown breaking breaking initiatives in

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Speaker 1: brain science that this world has seen as whenever we

465
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Speaker 1: know it now because I'm involved in the study, I'm involved.

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Speaker 1: I was the founder of a company that's called Helious

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Speaker 1: Medical Technologies is working on a medical device. It's called

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Speaker 1: the Pond's Device that's say, you know, a portable neuro

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Speaker 1: stimulator that literally helps the brain find pathways around damage

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Speaker 1: by putting the brain in plastic states. So we're currently

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Speaker 1: this company is doing one of the most comprehensive traumatic

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Speaker 1: brain injury studies that this country's scene in the last

473
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Speaker 1: ten years at three different centers of excellence right now

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Speaker 1: University of Montreal, University of Atlanta, Florida, University of Portland, Oregon.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing traumatic brain injury. And then I'm also doing

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Speaker 1: MS the University of Montreal. So I'm involved in a

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Speaker 1: project that were most are involved in a biofuel project,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the leading technologies in waste to energy.

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Speaker 1: And I've been involved in this now for four years

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Speaker 1: and I'm about to take another coup. I just had

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Speaker 1: meetings with the Secretary of Energy's office. I'm taking meetings

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Speaker 1: with different countries around the world because I have a

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Speaker 1: technology that literally can take everything from human waste too

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Speaker 1: used engine Greece and turn it into ten megast Oh yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: Oh so we need to talk you should you should

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Speaker 1: take a look. I should say to you that that

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Speaker 1: you know, Helius went public in Canada. We just got

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Speaker 1: on the otc QB here in the United States and

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Speaker 1: it's the one very well. You should be in that

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Speaker 1: one too. God Like, I'm intrigue me, man, because it's

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Speaker 1: like you've lived like four different lives. You was in

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Speaker 1: the military, you was a super successful daytime talk to

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Speaker 1: your host. Now you involved in the you know, new

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Speaker 1: energy resources and stuff like that. Like how like what's

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Speaker 1: just thought process? Like some people can only do one

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Speaker 1: thing at a time their whole life. But let's start

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Speaker 1: from the talk show you kind of a military explain

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Speaker 1: that from out of the military marine, a naval guy

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Speaker 1: go to become a huge daytime talk show. Hope. All

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Speaker 1: right here, I'll give you. I'm gonna give you. I'll

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Speaker 1: try to give you the two minute montel. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm a product of bussing. So I'm gonna go back

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Speaker 1: to to my whole life led me to where I am.

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Speaker 1: That's fred to you. I got a father again, who's

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00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: eighty three, my mother's eighty two. They're aligned right now today.

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Speaker 1: My mom uh never graduated from college, but ended up

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Speaker 1: being a former foreman at Westinghouse. Back then it was

508
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Speaker 1: called Bendex. My dad, uh worked four jobs. Man. He

509
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Speaker 1: was a musician, He was a carpenter, he was a firefighter.

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Speaker 1: He also drove a camp a little bit make it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, I got a little what you think

512
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Speaker 1: it's going on right now? That's my problem. Man. You know,

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Speaker 1: we gave him to have enough jobs. I'm still trying

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Speaker 1: to give another one. Man. Yeah, I keep telling the

515
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Speaker 1: man you did this to me. We just stop it.

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Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I mean very early on, my

517
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Speaker 1: father just beat it into us. You know, back in

518
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: the day, it was Okay, so you beat it into us,

519
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: you know, education, education, education. So I followed that path

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Speaker 1: and I did pretty well. And I did very well

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Speaker 1: when I was in school, you know, I was in

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00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: all of the things that you're you're supposed to be in.

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Speaker 1: I had enlisted in the Marine Corps first, but then

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Speaker 1: I got picked to go to the Naval Academy. I

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Speaker 1: graduated from the Naval Academy. I got a degree in engineering.

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Speaker 1: I got a minor international security affairs. I went on

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Speaker 1: from there to go to to the Defense Language Institute.

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Speaker 1: I got a degree in Russian Ya got pad, got

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Speaker 1: a degree in Russian. I went onto the National Cryptologic School.

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Speaker 1: I got agree in uh cryptology. So I'm one of

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Speaker 1: those people, man, I mean, I like to fill this

532
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Speaker 1: brain with as much as I can fill it with.

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Speaker 1: How you go from Gi Joe to Oprah? Okay, okay,

534
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: so all right, I'm on active duty. I was stationed

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Speaker 1: at the National Security Agency in outside of Baltimore. Okay,

536
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Speaker 1: I was running the office there where before it was

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Speaker 1: against the law. It was against the law back then

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Speaker 1: to run troops and have them deployed for more than

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00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: one hundred and one hundred days at a time, I

540
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: was running guys because I ran all the Persian, Hebrew

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Speaker 1: and varsity linguists in the military out of an office

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Speaker 1: at the National Scurity Agency. These guys were spending one

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Speaker 1: hundred eighty days one hundred ninety days at sea at

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Speaker 1: a time. While they were gone, their families were running

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Speaker 1: the market. So I started a program where I bought

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Speaker 1: all the families that of my guys under the base,

547
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Speaker 1: made them live on a base. Then I bought this

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Speaker 1: family together. Once a week we would have these seminars.

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Speaker 1: So I started working with the families with the kids.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have some of the younger kids. We

551
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: don't have problem with the ones that were in high school.

552
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: We have dropouts and all this stuff. So I was

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Speaker 1: working on this project. Another friend of mine, officer who

554
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: was in the military, knew about that asked me to

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Speaker 1: come and speak at a seminar. It was at the

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Speaker 1: Big eight Black Student Union Conference nineteen eighty eight in

557
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Speaker 1: Kansas City, Missouri. I spoke at that conference one speaking engagement.

558
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: I got thirty five speech speaking request. Those thirty five

559
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: turned into two hundred by the time I woke up.

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Speaker 1: This was January of nineteen eighty eight. June of nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty eight, I was on Today Show. I had spoken

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00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: a seventy thousand kids across the country in twenty five schools.

563
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Speaker 1: I dropped. I just got out of the military and

564
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Speaker 1: I started a nonprofit organization called Reached the Americans Dream,

565
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Speaker 1: and I spoke around a country from nineteen eight to

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one in high schools all over America. And

567
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Speaker 1: I was walking into schools. This was back before there

568
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Speaker 1: was anybody in a school in this entire country. There

569
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Speaker 1: was only one guy that spoke in school before me,

570
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: was a guy a by the name of Thoma. So

571
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Speaker 1: from eighty eight to ninety one, think about this, I'm

572
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Speaker 1: in all these high schools. Everywhere I went. It became

573
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Speaker 1: a media event. I was on everything from Incredible Sundays

574
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Speaker 1: to you know, every new show kind of covered me

575
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Speaker 1: and every market I was in. So I had an

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Speaker 1: audience from eighty eight to ninety one. There comes to

577
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Speaker 1: ninety one, I ended up meeting somebody. I literally went

578
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Speaker 1: to Hollywood, had one meeting without an agent or manager.

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Speaker 1: I got the packaging fee for my show, so I

580
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Speaker 1: packed my show, sold my show to myself. January ninety one,

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Speaker 1: went on the air for three years. Those people I

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Speaker 1: spoke to it In a three year period of time

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Speaker 1: from eight eight and ninety one, I spoken to about

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Speaker 1: about a million kids across the country. I went on

585
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Speaker 1: the air. All those kids now are twenty two, twenty three.

586
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 1: They went, Hey, that was that dude that was at

587
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Speaker 1: my school. Yeah, bang, next thing. The show just took off,

588
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: and it's really under selling this thing. You was on

589
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Speaker 1: the air for seventeen years. Seventeen years at daytime talk.

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00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: You see shows come and going. Well, when I was

591
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Speaker 1: on the air, one hundred and seven shows came and went.

592
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: I started up when I was on the air, and

593
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Speaker 1: we stayed on and I stopped the show. It was

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Speaker 1: eighty seven that went for another year and reruns eighty

595
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Speaker 1: eight And why do you stop? Well, you know, after

596
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Speaker 1: seventeen years. Honestly, I had sixteen addendums to my contract

597
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: and number seventeen wasn't working out the right way, so

598
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Speaker 1: they wasn't it wasn't paying you that money, you know,

599
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Speaker 1: And it was also a time, you know, I mean

600
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Speaker 1: after that period of time, I literally I want to emmy.

601
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Speaker 1: I've been nominated for one each year after day I

602
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: was like, you know, what am I doing? And I

603
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: wanted to move on there with other things I wanted

604
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: to do. Why do you think your show was so successful?

605
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: I think is one of the things we did from

606
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: day one is I put this as a moniker on

607
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Speaker 1: every producer's desk that we had. We didn't belabor what happened.

608
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: We tried to figure out why things happened and we

609
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: would come up with solutions. That's what every single show

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Speaker 1: that I did had. I would tell you what happened.

611
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: We would stay on that from when the segment had happened,

612
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: and we would dig deep into what why it took place.

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Speaker 1: And I was one of the shows I think that

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Speaker 1: you know, for that seventeen year period of time. You know,

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Speaker 1: I respected the living rooms we were invited into. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I we you know, I did the same

617
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Speaker 1: Solaios stuff that everybody else did, maybe the first year

618
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Speaker 1: that we were on, but we turned it into you know,

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Speaker 1: I think, a pretty conflict driven and not just necessary conflict,

620
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Speaker 1: but solution driven show. I'm reached by people all time.

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Speaker 1: Now I'll come up but telling me, you know, they'll

622
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: come during the mid twenties, early thirties and say, you

623
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Speaker 1: know you were the only person my mom would let

624
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Speaker 1: me watch when I came over from school, and I think,

625
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: you know, I was a testament to to the value

626
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: of what our producers put in the world. What do

627
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: you think about those other shows that were always on

628
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: the air, like you said, because the same thing, my

629
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: mom would almost let me watch a certain type of show,

630
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: like your Mares or your Jerry Springs. What do you

631
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: think about those type of shows? You know, I mean unfortunately,

632
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, you know, it's like a smorgers board,

633
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You walk into a restaurant

634
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: and you know, they got a big old smoger board

635
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: laid out there. You got apples and candy on one end,

636
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: and all the fruit and all the dessert over there,

637
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: and you have substance of stuff over here. Well, you know,

638
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: you take a look at who gravitates the witch and

639
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, you can't make a person eat what

640
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Speaker 1: they're not gonna want to eat. And I think as

641
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Speaker 1: long as you offer people a cross section of some

642
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Speaker 1: valuable information, they can come up with some decent decisions.

643
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: You know, I'm and I go back and forth almost

644
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: every couple of months. Now. I think I'm gonna go

645
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: back on a let me go talk to song and

646
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: then we should down and we have a conversation. And

647
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I've talked to everyone in the industry,

648
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: and most of what's going on right now, I really

649
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: you're getting ready to see what's gonna happen in the

650
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Speaker 1: next year and a half. We are going to be

651
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: the most divisive society we've ever seen. The next it's

652
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: gonna be over a billion dollars spent each party to

653
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: put a person in the White House, and it's all

654
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: gonna be garbage, trash conversations. And I don't want to

655
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: be a participant in that. If I have to, don't.

656
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: You don't feel like you need to be, though, because

657
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: like you said, you got you gotta put something out

658
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: there that you know, counters all of that. On what

659
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is I probably will do it on

660
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: my own like a podcast. Yeah, we're working out. I mean,

661
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: I'm there's a couple of things, but I just have

662
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: to figure out if I riffed. I want to go

663
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: through the whole thing. A building the side the studio nine.

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Speaker 1: You know. But I talked to some brothers like me

665
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: who feel like you know, when it comes to the

666
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: presidential election, I look for a novelty and my president. Now,

667
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: the Brock was the first president I would voted for sure,

668
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: not just because he was a black man, because I

669
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Speaker 1: believed in the change that he said he was offering.

670
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Speaker 1: And now I'm looking at Hillary. She seems like she

671
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: has a lot of white House experience, and she seems

672
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: like the sexy pick when the first female president and

673
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: you want to whatever, she seems like the sexy pick,

674
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: like that's the that's the popular pick for like the

675
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: people who may not know a lot about politics and

676
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: who to vote for. I have, you know, I have

677
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 1: MYO for me. The jury is definitely out. There's nobody

678
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: on the Republican side right now. And you know, I

679
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: was a Republican the straight I was a Republican form

680
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: for fourteen fifteen years of my life when I was

681
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: in the military. Then I got out of I switched

682
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: parties become a Democrat. Now I'm literally as independent as

683
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: you could possibly be because I just don't believe in

684
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: the money. I mean, this is just gonna be about

685
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: who puts up the most money to get elected that

686
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: she's gonna go in office, period, and let's make sure

687
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm sick of you're gonna see nothing

688
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: but point fingerpointing of where the money is coming from.

689
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: Everybody's taking dirty money. You can't have a fundraiser to

690
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: be president. You can't have a fundraising right right now,

691
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: it's the candidates aren't even gonna have to do fundraising

692
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Speaker 1: themselves in that traditional sense. Said, the individuals are already

693
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Speaker 1: building money. Huh you said everybody gets dirty money. Yeah,

694
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: everybody foreign money. Dirty money is all they're all gonna

695
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: get it. So now what do we do? So I'm

696
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: trying to find a candidate that believes in some of

697
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: the things that I believe in. So far, I haven't

698
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: filed one. Yeah, I need. I need the candidate I

699
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: started talking about police reform on a major level in

700
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: America's probably gonna get my attention. Um, you know, I

701
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: need police reform, I need immigration reform, I need medical reform.

702
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: I need I need a lot. I need, I need,

703
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: I need. I need to hear what a person is

704
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: going to do for the least of us, you know,

705
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: like write this minute again. There are ships in a

706
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: line in the Persian golf and you know, one missile

707
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: we are in a bad state of hurt, and you know,

708
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 1: I mean it's bets that hurt that you know may

709
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 1: not be one that we can pull back from very quickly,

710
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a lot of people hurt, a

711
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: lot of people killed. Now. Unfortunately, we live in a

712
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: society where less than point zero eight percent of the

713
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: society has to put on a uniform to protect the

714
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Speaker 1: democracy that you're asking for. And I happen to be

715
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: one of people that people. Most people are not gonna

716
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: like me this year, but if I'm running, I want

717
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: to candidate to step up and say, damn it, it

718
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: is time. This country needs to stop all the divisiveness.

719
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: Let's come back together and recognize that step outside of here,

720
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: that green passport that we carry. Brother, go over to

721
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: to Abu Dhabi right now and see when somebody says, oh,

722
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 1: that's a medica about that, you can get the same

723
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: look that the guy who's got blond hair and blue

724
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: eye is gonna get and the guy who's got brown

725
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 1: hair is gonna get. They don't care about that at all.

726
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: So target is on your chest, right. So if that's

727
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: the case, and we have forces that are figuring this

728
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: out right now, very quickly, I say that more of

729
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: the society needs to pay a price for defending this democracy.

730
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: I'm for a draft. I'm for a draft. Out a draft.

731
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: Come on, when I said draft, When I said draft,

732
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: I mean it this way. I'm for public service. You

733
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: graduate from high school that you didn't have to pay

734
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: to go to. You have a driver's license, you didn't

735
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: have to pay anything extra for other than training you

736
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: get you're driving on roads that need infrastructure. We haven't

737
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: even figured out how to educate enough people. Do you

738
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: know one of the highest pay professions in the city

739
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 1: right now is plumbing and electricity because we're not educating

740
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: enough kids to getting into the marketplace. So you got

741
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: guys here. Okay, so let's get back to that in

742
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: a minute. But why is it that we aren't making

743
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: all of us do something in the society. So when

744
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: I say draft, I mean a national service. You know

745
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: there's a lot of every other country on this planet

746
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: requires some form of give back for what you get

747
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: for free. You don't mean military though, you don't mean well,

748
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: let's take your pick. Let's have national service. If you

749
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: choose you don't want to serve in the military, then okay,

750
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: then you will be part of the fire crew or

751
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: because you know we got fires, you are going to

752
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: do something to give back to the society, and I'm

753
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: gonna pay you WHOA, I don't want to say free.

754
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: There have been several times along the way. You go

755
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: back for the last forty years. Every five to ten

756
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,959
Speaker 1: years there's been a president who has proffered this idea

757
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: of national service, and we as citizens fight that because

758
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: we just would like to still get something for free. Well,

759
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: you're getting it for free, and you want to pay

760
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: the price to protect it. And that's why you have

761
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: so many young people in this country were walking around

762
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: so disfigured. We've gone back multiple times to pay the

763
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: price to protect us for all of us. So I

764
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 1: want some form of national service. So park service, fire department,

765
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: police department. I want you up, but coming out of

766
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: high school, give me something back. I agree. You don't

767
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: think that that taking as much tax as they do

768
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: with some type of service. Now, I agree with the

769
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: draft to a certain extent. A lot of kids out

770
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: there that are doing nothing, that don't that drop out,

771
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: that just sit on the street corner. Those kids, Yeah,

772
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: but not military, because you got a lot of black

773
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: kids who feel like and I don't blame them for

774
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: feeling that way. Why would I go fight for a

775
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 1: country that I feel like it's oppressing me? Well, you

776
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: know what? Hell cool? So I tell you what I

777
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: what I want to do. I'll put together National Service.

778
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: It's things in every city. How about I need some

779
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: daycare man so that some young black mothers can go

780
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: back to school and get a degree to treat the

781
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: mothers and fathers. Let's put together National service. Guy, you

782
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: pick what you want to do. You don't like the

783
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: policing going on in the neighborhood, then for two years

784
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: you come out of high school, you go to the academy,

785
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: the police academy for your community like that. Look, I'm

786
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: talking about National Service. I mean and and you know

787
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: I get smacked ups out ahead of every cocktail party

788
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: I'm at. And believe me, brother says, it's not just

789
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: young Afrimerican males who said I don't want to do

790
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: this because I don't feel like I'm respected. There's also

791
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: there's some very privileged, wealthy African Americans, Whites, Caucasians, Asians

792
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: who feel can me, that's what y'all need to do

793
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: for me? Oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no,

794
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It is time to stop this stupid that missile.

795
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: Let's get ready hit the eyes and how or whatever.

796
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: Don't care what your classes. I'm so I'm sorry and

797
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: people don't like that, but you know that's our roll.

798
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: Where can they hear more of montel every day? Because

799
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: some people need to hear some of this. And you

800
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 1: are you running for some type of office in anything,

801
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: you gotta start coming up bit some more, man. Yeah,

802
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: especially now over the next year and a half with

803
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: the elections and stuff going on, we would you know,

804
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: we gotta do that, you know what, because here's one

805
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: of one of the things that I tell you what

806
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: I'm really happy about, man, and it's experiencing. Let's I

807
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: set a little thing on your podcast about the experience

808
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: here is and I've been running my mouth a lot.

809
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: But what I like as a fact that there are

810
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: questions coming back or questions just of interest in getting

811
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: more knowledge. And what I like to do is try

812
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: to give out what I think is now that I

813
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: applaud an opportunity to debate. To toss, Let's let's do

814
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: a farm here. I'll come hang on with you, especially

815
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Speaker 1: on you know What'll I go out a couple of

816
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: if I'm in town, I'll come hang on. We'll uh

817
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: CON's role on the politics, and well I'll be a

818
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: little psychkick reporter. I'll take me on phone around if

819
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: I find something gonna go. Yeah, when we're reaching a

820
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: week for you every morning, please dot but you know

821
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,919
Speaker 1: you want now let's talk about that, because here's here's

822
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: something we got to do about this, because right now

823
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: I'm working in Missouri. Because let's say tomorrow, this is

824
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: gonna sound crazy and you guys are gonna say, oh,

825
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: why are you doing this? If tomorrow, if the President decided,

826
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Speaker 1: I'm going to change the schedule from schedule on the

827
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: schedule too. And as a matter of fact, I'm gonna

828
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: allow every state in the Union to make its own

829
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: determination whether or that wants to be recreational or medical.

830
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: You do your thing. I'm still gonna come here and

831
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: ask you to do shows on fighting for ordinances in

832
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: every state for medical cannabis. Many duke, so many extraction

833
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: techniques that are used and some of the ways that

834
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: we process and some of the things that they grow

835
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: it in, you know, could in certain maladies cause of

836
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: seizure could ascerbate symptoms of some illnesses. And so what

837
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: we need to do is we need to have somebody

838
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: out here growing not just weed. We need to have

839
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: somebody growing marijuana at a medical level. Now I got

840
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: some growers out here who are doing that right now.

841
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: So I would say to you, it's like the paradigm's

842
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,919
Speaker 1: got a change at some point in time, we really

843
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: do it. And I would say this to all those

844
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: people out there who are recreational smokers. May ask you

845
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: a question. Do you still take logs out back, put

846
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: it in the ground, pour something on it, lighter on fire,

847
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: and hold your food on a stick and cook it?

848
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: Or do you go to a nice stove? Yeah, or

849
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: do you go to a microwave? Did you not jump

850
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: from the caveman time to this era? So let me

851
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: just explain something to it. They're so as as great

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Speaker 1: and it gives you the benefits that you want. I'm

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Speaker 1: help the other So we got to try to upgrade this.

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Speaker 1: The blunt things are over and closing. Let me translate

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Speaker 1: Montesta about smoking that bullsh This is why, this is

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Speaker 1: why we've got to do this this political season. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can translate everything. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Montell Williams,

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