September 12, 2024 • 35 mins
Get ready for Black Men’s Wellness Day in Atlanta, GA, coming this weekend on September 14th! BIN News Anchor Tyrik Wynn interviews Cee-Lo Green about the event and its impact on men's health. Tune in to hear how this important initiative is helping men take charge of their well-being.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What to do, Baby, It's hit Boy Tyreek Win. Y'all
are tuning into your home for twenty four to seven
news the Black Information Network. Y'all, we got some amazing
guests in the building today. We have Keith Dobbins, who
is the Atlanta coordinator for Black Men's Wellness Day, and
we got the Selo Green, who is a Grammy Award
win an artists. Appreciate y'all so much for coming. How
y'all feeling blessed?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So y'all got this amazing event coming up. We're talking
about Black Men's Wellness Day. It's gonna be big man.
Everybody gonna be out there.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
We pray everybody out there. We need everybody to be
out there. Get screened absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So let's talk us now.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Fourth one.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
This is the fifth annual. Yeah, this year's the fifth
time in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah he so, I love that. So let's talk a
little bit about that. So, for those of y'all who
don't know, the African American Male Wellness Agency as hostess
Annual Black Men's Wellness Day on Saturday, September fourteenth at
seven am at Morehouse College Public Health Sciences Institute and
for the past five years, Black Men's Wellness Day Atlanta
has been an annual event that features a five k
(01:02):
walk and run health screen is for black men. The
goal is to get as many Black men as possible
to participate in free on site health screens that measure
their blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, HIV, std STI, prostate cancer,
and more. So. That's a great initiative, y'all doing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Absolutely, dog, this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, we've been you know, black men lived twelve
years less than their counterparts in some parts of the country,
it's almost twenty years because.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Of diet and hygiene, not hygiene, but just diet. I'm sorry.
And that has affected us overall.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
And we've looked at that and so I know what,
we got to do something about that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And because we believe prevention is better than cure.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
So if we can let you know what the possibilities
are where you are, we can help you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And I think this is so important because I mean,
I know all of us can say that we've had
family members that we've lost the sickness and stuff. Yeah,
And it helps with these events because sometimes these events
can help men catch diseases early and there's so many.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Things like like our very first one in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Uh, fifty of the men who screened for HIV were
positive and did.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Not know it really yeah wow, yeah, so you know.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's it's, it's, it's it's it's completely necessary. And I
can't get the words like, I'm so excited about what
we're doing in the possibility of actually saving someone's life.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think it's it's amazing. Yeah. So we're pushing for
everybody to be out there.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Nice okay, So yeah, what made you want to become
an ambassador for this?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Well, we all could use the sport, we all could
use a village, we all use community, and I just
think at this point in my growth and development, your
accountability has to extend beyond the arts and crafts of industry,
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you know, I mean, you have to take life and
life in general more seriously and give it a focus
and make it a priority.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I'm saying, like, you know, for those that depend on
you the most, and that's the future in the next
generation is coming up, and so they need the example
and so to see men and black men even more
specifically galvanize and become accountability partner, excuse me, accountability partners
for each other is quite a feat, you know, said
to accomplish because it's a rare occasion.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, And can you say that there was maybe there
has been like a personal experience that kind of made
you want to do this, that resonates with you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Oh well yeah, absolutely, Man, I work very hard. And
when when brother Keith says prevention is better than cure,
you know, prevention is based upon practice, you know what
I'm saying. And you know a lot of us we
die because we lack the knowledge. And it's the information
that will bring about the equality, you know what I'm saying.
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And so it's just an imperative notion. And when the
spirit speaks to you, you have to move. And I'm
saying because I'm more afraid of the reap cushions of
being disobedient than that. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And here at BI in what we do, we do
this thing called the Healthy Minute, right, and so we
informed the black community on the latest health statistics and stuff.
And I can say, because I'm one of the people
that does that beat and I can say, looking at
the statistics, it is alarming for black people and black
men especially.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Absolutely, we had we screened it liken it. In our
event in Ohio, five thousand of the five thousand men
that were screened, eighty five percent of those guys had
high pertension, had numbers that were skyrocketing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I had another guy who came and he went.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Through the screening process and of one of the stations
he went to the doctor said if you and my patient,
I'd have you on five or six different types of
medications and said, you don't even need to do the walk.
Don't even do that five the five K because he
was surprised, he didn't know that he was that sick.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And a year later he ended up having open art surgery.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, And he said it started with at least the
shocking news that he wasn't healthy and he just did
a post on Facebook with a pair of his pants
and then you know what he is now, you know,
being more healthy. So yeah, this impacts a lot of
people and we're glad to be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And sometimes the assumption of the presumption is uh that
sickness and ailment is something that's weak, you know what
I'm saying. It's something that's vulnerable, and it's it's a
compromised position. But it's not a weakness. It's not a
threat to your masculinity to go and be found out
a big diagnosed again, because the worry is the tension.
And know what I'm saying, you feel me the concern,
the lack of knowledge. I mean, like just a clear
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diagnosis and an identification of something can give you clarity,
can give you closure. And I'm saying you feel me
like and it's that point of realization that gives you
the epiphty, the epiphanty of health, better mental health. And
we're sick because we're we're just kind of what's the
word I'm looking for kind of just oh man, I'm
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looking for the right word. Anyway, it's just at time
chips away and it takes from i mean, like of
your esteem. You know what I'm saying. You know what
I mean. And so it becomes this internal argument saying like,
you know, as opposed to an eternal dialogue, I mean,
like you could speak to yourself as a universe speaks
to you, and it's a call to action, you know
what I mean. And you know, I just think it's
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a great and noble practice, you know what I'm saying,
Like in place to be in with people who are
concerned not only for themselves, but for each other. You
know what I mean, because you know, if one of
us doesn't make it, you know what I'm saying, you build,
you intercede into someone else how to take care of
a village. But this has to be a general practice,
you know, I mean, like all these kids who don't
have fathers, you know what I mean, like and so
on and so forth. We got to do the way
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that the old folks did them saying like we got
to raise that village and be examples them saying like
in let a helping hand and an out of branch
of opportunity, mean like to each one and to teach one.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, and then we look at that people like se
Loo and others who have a platform, who have a
big voice and are able to reach the you know,
the multitudes about health and wellness and just just to
bring it into focus, uh, the health disparity and the
gaps that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Exist here in our country.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
And our focus is to close that gap, you know,
first by just removing the stigma that comes along with
mental wealth mental wellness.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Even in our own healthcare. You know, statistics say.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That black men don't like going to a doctor that
don't look like them, you know, So we provide black
doctors so that they can feel confident in terms of
getting those numbers and getting consultation. We want to make
sure that they're there so that they're comfortable and we
can do something about their health.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, So let me ask you why do you think
that is? Why do y'all think that's the case that
men don't like Well, one men don't like to go
to the doctor, period don't and two men want to
doctor others like they do.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Because we assume, and rightfully so, that there is systemic racism,
you know what I mean. We do realize that the
information is the actual equality. And so therefore, since we've
all been kind of disenfranchised, you know what I mean,
Like you don't trust yourself, you don't trust uh uh
that a black physician, you know what I mean, like
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is as qualified the way it's also assume when you
apply for employment elsewhere. You know what I'm saying. You
feel me it's like it seems like some type of
secondary knowledge, you know what I mean. But no, it's
the same knowledge, it's the same expertise, you know what
I mean. Uh, And it's the same excellence. We are
capable of it, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Mean, and you know to his point about you know,
we deal with so many things in terms of being
the leaders in our homes and in our in our communities.
We we we always uh fighting or leveraging. You know,
if I'm sick or fro'm weak, then you know that
I'm not able to fulfill my duties in my house
or in the community.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So we suck it up.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, We've been expected to be leaders regardless of
how we've been nurtured. Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
A recent survey says.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That black little black boys between the ages of hey
in eighth grade don't really see a positive role model.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And that's why we do our ambassadors.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So you asked the question earlier because I want them
to see people like Seelow who have gone through his
journey and it's still been successful and have impacted so
many people, you know, in and out of our community.
So we want to showcase these guys. Yes, Oh, if
I see that, I can actually be that. Unfortunately, I
think that's the way life is. You know, we can
talk about this and that other, but until we actually
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see it and we say, oh, it's attainable. So part
of our focus is is of course the physical wellness.
We also have another component and initiative about mental wellness
called Real Men, Real Talk, So we open up that up.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We'll open that up, so we have we use talk therapy.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So these men can talk in a safe place, can
talk about the things that they deal with from a
societal perspective, economic perspective, all of those things. So that
there we can kind of free ourselves in terms of
the tunnel vision that we generally have about ourselves and
be more broad based.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
In terms of what we can do the pssibilities are
in our lives.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
So this is more than just a walk, more than
just a Black Man's Wellness Day. We have other initiatives
that go throughout the year where we impact African American man.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Absolutely because nothing guarantees result or repetition. So this is
just not one one day. You know what I'm saying,
Like it needs to be a lifestyle. I mean, like
health and wellness should be an habitual behavior. I mean
like and it should be Black Man's Wellness Day every day.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, And that actually brings me to my next point.
What I want to know for both of y'all. How
do y'all manage y'all's own health and wellness given the
demands of y'all's career and have y'all faced any specific
challenges as a black man, specifically you with the entertainment industry.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Health? Absolutely, yeah, I believe it begins, you know, internally.
As I stated before, you know what I mean. It's
the way that you see the world, the lens that
you look at life through, and the questions and inquiries
that you make. You know what I'm saying. So I
have the right attitude. But I'm also the perfect example
because I'm not in perfect form. I can be better.
(11:04):
I can improve what I mean like, and I have improved.
I mean, each day is a Moustone achievement because we
are creatures of habit as a human being. You know
what I'm saying. You just only know what you know.
You know what I'm saying, like, but you could also
know what you don't know you know what I'm saying
and inquire in that direction them saying like, be enlightened
by the opportunity and recognize the genuine article of someone
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that wants to breathe life into you. You know what
I'm saying, and that's what this organization can do, will
do and does daily, you know what I mean. And
I can appreciate that. And so they've encouraged me to
come and be a part of it because you know,
I have the platform, have the voice, have the influence.
I have the spirit I mean, like the sentiment I
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mean and the true in life experience. I mean, you know,
so come on, man, you know I ain't I ain't
an fortune that got that. I'm saying, Well, I'm a
work in progress and we're gonna try our best. I'm saying,
like in every day you know is you know, it's progressing,
the progressive forwardmotion.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
See, Lord is kind of like our post a child,
if you will, in terms of just his attitude. He's
a He's a great guy. And he said earlier, I'm
not a shy person. You know, he has this he
has this this light auror about himself.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And he has a I like and and and for me,
as a vocal coach and a vocal producer.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And using my voice a lot and as a singer,
I understand that I teach something called the complex voice.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So the complex voice is a culmination of.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Your your your the health of your spirit, the health
of your of your mind, uh, the health of your body.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Because you can tell when the person sings something.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That is going on that that little thing that you feel,
that that kind of connects with you is what connects
all humanity to each other.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Right, So whatever I'm going like, if I talk to
somebody on the phone and they're like, oh, I'm all right,
you can say what's going on?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Because if you're looking at your bills every day, you're
gonna look like what you look at.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
If you're looking at that, you want to start resembling that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
So for me, the most important part is the mental
wellness aspect of it. So I always want to, like
the Bible says, you know, think good things and good
thoughts and speak to yourselfs and hymns and songs and
spiritual songs.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So that I can lift my spirit.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
So the higher my spirit is lifted, the more clear
the message comes from my voice, because I will impart
to you and when I sing, because when you sing
something about music, it is the folly medium in the world,
in the earth realm that doesn't ask your permission to
enter your spirit. So as singers is what I do.
I know that I'm impacting, see a little impacts. I
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was singing this song today, you know earlier, I say,
every time I see it, I want to sing that
song makes me crazy, you knowing it.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
So beautifully, And that's when you do realize, Wow, you
know what I mean. That song in particular, or any
of that music, it's not mine anymore. It belongs to people.
That's you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's good you sing it better than you do.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
But see, we call him cool Keith because he's a
complicated man.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, he cool. You know he's cool with your
wet leather in the summer, man, it'll still be cool.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
That's cool Keith. Gotta see, he's a specimen of a man. Yes,
he is.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So I love the whole idea of the approach of
what we do and how health impacts that. So if
I'm around good vibes and good and I'm speaking good things,
that's going to help me produce a good sound.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And you know, I like to throw a little bit
of the comic relief in there for us, for all
of us, because I want to encourage us all to
be able to laugh a little louder. And I'm saying
like and directly in the face of the adversity itself.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's crazy because you know, it's like what you think
and how you feel impact your body, whether you're in.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
A good situation or not.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
If I think good things, my body is going to
respond to what's going on in my mind and.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
What he were saying earlier, like, we don't have most
of the resources, like you know, there's a lot of
comparisons to be made about our contemporaries. The one thing
they have that we don't have is inheritance. Most of
the time, we end up having to start over all
of the time. So we got to make up for
lost time as grown adult man. I'm forty nine years old,
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and let me say, you feel me like, But anybody
that knows me, they know that we've been putting the
manuscript into music itself since I started as a young man.
I started at seventeen, And anybody know the music, Goodie, Mom, judge, family,
y'all know it, right, So y'all know, y'all know what
our campaign has been, what I mean, all over the years,
and so I'm proud of it. This is just a
continuation of the same work. I mean, that's what it is. Yeah,
(15:45):
we got to do it, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And I want to ask y'all, like talking about doing
this and doing this event, what do y'all hope to
achieve with this? What's the main goal here?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Well, my goal is to screen at least between five
hundred and a thousand men.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Nice, I think if we impact men.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Atlanta has the second largest population of African Americans in
the country, second only to New York, just past Chicago.
And I think that if we impact the men in Atlanta,
We're going to impact the rest of this country. The
Western hemisphere or Western civilization. Western culture leads the world
in terms of establishing culture around the world. I was
on my way to Soul, Korea, and on the plane
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I saw a band from Korea looking like us, I mean,
advancing like us. Weren't it closed like us? I said, fact,
where does that come from? It comes from this culture,
especially in the African American community. When we impact those people,
this demographic and make them strong, it's going to make
a change in the world. So I want to see thousand,
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at least a thousand men's screen that day.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Nice, Absolutely, And that was going to go a step
further just to say, we're going to galvani as a wrangle.
When we say men, that's not a terminal classification that
we can just throw around casually. We're gonna have to
make men out of male nature. It's different between the
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men and male That's what sure what I'm saying, like,
you know, uh, you know, uh, you know, men take accountability,
you know what I'm saying. Like, so we will be
coming out and an aspiration to be better men. I'm saying,
you feel me because male nature doesn't persist, It insists
on itself, you know what I mean. So we have
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to just change that narrative. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Your church, I can talk once we get wound up.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Especially, that's great accountability partners, man, that's who we are.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
We all need them. Y'all need some accountability partners keep
us on track. Man.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, it's so important. It's so vitally important that that
village thing is real thing.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's a thing.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah yeah, come on, man, come see it to believe it. Man,
you know, get a bird's eye view and have my
app done on the walls, starting to take farm.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It's a miracle, ladies and gentlemen, see it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's what's Yeah, most definitely, Atlanta definitely got to make
it out to this. And what I want to know
is when it comes to men accessing good, regular health care,
what do y'all think is the biggest thing that's preventing that?
What's in the way.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Our our stereotypes shortcut us from making it the second basem,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Mhm?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I said, our stereotypes shortcut us from making it to
second base. And by the third you exhausted. And that's why, Harley,
that's why so many of us never make it home,
you know what I'm saying. So you have to change
your game plan because life is a game within itself.
It's about how you navigate, how you wiggle, you know
what I'm saying, Like, you know, and you have to
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be limber and able, you know what I mean, and
knowing what you're up against, and you got obstructions in
the way, and you have energies and i'm and enemies
that oppose or your your growth and development, you just
do you just do? You know what I'm saying? Like,
and you know again then that that that notion, you know,
then carries over into our financial literacy, our inclusion blah,
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blah blah economics and stuff like that, because we also
remind that's when that's when being black don't feel so good.
When you when you know that you're you're sick and
you don't really know exactly what's wrong with you, but
you're ashamed. And when you when you sit down in
front of that that that bill. You know what I'm saying, like,
you feel black And I'm saying that because you know
that you've been dis enfranchising, you know that you've been cheated.
You know what I'm saying that out of your out
of your civil rights. You know what I'm saying, like
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we should at least have that. That's what I want
to see on the debate last night. And what I'm saying,
you know what I mean, like why y'all want to
kill your clientele?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That's that's See, there's something like social determined social determinants.
So those those things that determine us socially, whether in
the neighborhood where we can't access healthcare or we don't
know about Like for example, there's a screening going to
happen on it called peripheral.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Artery disease, So you ever heard of that prefer artery.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So so most of those types of screenings are not
available in our community, but those the prefer artery screening
is going to measure the blood pressure in your extremity.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So your hands, fingers, your feet, your ankle.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
If those, if the blood pressure is lower than it
is here, then that tells us that there's an opportunity
or possibility of some kind of amputation or something's going
on in your body. And uh, even though black people
don't lead in terms of getting amputies, but we do
lead into death after we have that amputation. So uh,
those are things that are that social determinants. Maybe I
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can't get to a place where I can get a
perferle artery screening, and therefore I live my life and
not ever know and then boom, something happened. So those
are the things that inhibit us from doing what we
need to do.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, since Cilo, you bought it up, I'm gonna go
ahead and talk about it. So because my news director
gave it this a sigment for later on today, So
I gotta get some mos or what people thought about
the debate. So I want to get y'all's opinion on
what y'all thought about the debate last, Like, since y'all
watched it first.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I'm gonna be sure.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
But it's such a clear contrast between those that are
knowledgeable about government and those that are trying to be
in government just because you're floating on your name or
your opportunity that you have as opposed just like having
a bus driver or drive a plane. You know you
can't do by yourself, but why would I want you
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driving that plane if you're really a bus driver. And
it was just such a clear contrast and presidential stature
and someone.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That's just.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Have no policies, no plans, so on and so forth.
But people can make their choices.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yes, one thing about politics, man, it doesn't really discriminate him,
something like black doesn't qualify male, or female doesn't qualify,
Compassion qualifies, and critique qualifies. You know what I mean?
Somebody told me something interesting. It was like, would you
rather you're president be a politician or human being? Now,
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if it's a politician, don't expect the whole truth. Expect
a tailored truth, edited to fit a format. Human being
might tell the undisputed truth, but it may offend you,
right and his humanity him said like may showcase the
flaw that we all have as human beings, but on
the contrary, it does prove that a human being could
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be president. Does that make sense? Yeah, I mean it
means you could do it if you apply yourself. So
it's all about appliance, you know what I'm saying, And
of course the information as well. They mean, like if
you marry those two, there's no limit to what you
could potentially do, even know what I'm saying. So I
like so I like some of the humanity I hear
(23:06):
and rhetoric that said, you know what I mean, Like,
you know, mistakes that make quirks quirks and stuff like that,
like because it's not supposed to be perfect, and I
think we're growing in that way, you know what I mean.
That said, this is a year of reveal and you know,
revelation and things of that nature. So I can I
can dig that I'm saying. But if you want me
to just be specific, I definitely feel like miss Harris
(23:27):
did her thing. She spoke very well last night, nice
I think, so Okay, Yeah, that's how I look at it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
You can do things supposed to be perfect. Man, if it's perfect,
it's a lie. Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah yeah, So shifting things back to health, right, So, uh,
just just to kind of close things, I don't want
to know what message do y'all have for black men
in the importance of taking care of themselves, not just
for the family boss the community as well.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yourself is where you rest, yourself is where you invest,
you know what I'm saying. So extension of yourself are
your children, the woman that you've chosen that make you
feel me and the way that you are revered and
referred to in your home, which would be your castle,
you know what I'm saying. So you can't be a
non smoker sitting in the smoking section. I expect to
get second hands smoked. I'm saying, you feel me so
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so you are the product of your environment. So we
got to take care of each other, you know what
I mean, because it's about being one. I also want
to say rest in peace to the wonderful and lovely
mister Frankie Beverly. We lost heard about that, and also
to the survivors of nine one one. Excuse me, ninety
eleven is more affectionate term, yes.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, yeah, And I was gonna say you mentioned that
you mentioned that thing about the second hand smoke. Man. Okay,
so I like to go to the casino. Sometimes it
be a little hard being in Vegas, Like you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Let me tell you, let me tell you. Okay. So
I was and I still. I'm doing a residency now
as we speak at the Wind Resorts. But my first
residency was at the Planet Hollywood, and I'm talking about
that recirculated air, you know what I mean. It smelled
like boy, the ghosts of Christmas past. It just but
(25:21):
I didn't notice it because we're living there. And I mean, like,
what's What's what's cool and convenient about Vegas regis residencies
for performers, Uh, is that you know your living quarters
is upstairs. You come downstairs, do you want to go
and back upstairs, go to sleep, whatever you want to do.
But you are breathing in a harsh reality. And it
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was only when I had to leave and do something else,
maybe like the weekend, and when I came back, I
was like, oh my god, this is disgusting. Its foul
and my man's uh you know, this was years ago.
I guess it don't matter. He probably ain't got that house.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
My more.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
But my man, my man, money made weather like he
let me use one of his vacants out there, one
of the fully furnished turnkey want nobody out there. The
best pool, the best pool I ever swam, and man
felt like chicken doodle soup. That's what.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's what I call health and well living in a mansion.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I like him, But I love Vegas though. Man, But no,
you're right, you're right. Just to bring it back to
the point. Man, No, but you know there's there's no
judgment them saying you feel me. There's only observation. You
know what I'm saying. And you know, so we observe
that we can't do better, were capable of doing better.
We should and we will because you know, at a
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point of Asian accountability that man like, hey man, we're
closer to the know what I'm saying, We're closer to
the fourth quarter than he is to the first. I'm saying.
It ain't no going back. I mean, life is that
uh that that infinite one way street. Everything is forward
and going back to past is permanent. You can't change it,
what I'm saying, But you can live in the now.
What I'm saying, I can make a better decision.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
That's right, man, This is so good, I know man.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So and one thing that yeah, the show.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Change right now. Knowing better is doing better. It's curse you.
You gotta do it else. Don't be disobedient.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
That's the biggest kids, disobedience or obedience and doing it
even if you don't feel like doing it. But you
know that to do it right and to do the
right thing always get you always get back what you
put in, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, And what I want to know just the y'all
got this event coming up. Not only y'all have a
health screens, but y'all gonna also have some other stuff.
Y'all gonna have Freddie Falcon out there. Y'all also gonna
have a dance contest. I'm gonna win that, just like.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Doc either or Freddy. We're doing Freddy go win it.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
But yeah, we got we got, we got a kid
zone area out there. Uh, there's Barber's gonna be there
to cut kids hair. We have the five K. It's
an actual issue five K. So if you wanted to
qualify for the Boston Marathon or the Peach Tree Run,
this event will qualify you for that. Yeah, and we'll
have an entertainment stage. You have a local artist. From
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what I hear, there's a couple of celebrities that were
so impressed by an event in Ohio where forty five
thousand people showed up Mari Hardwick and Hey Power. They're
all like, Bro, They're like, I can't believe this is
in my city.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I said, we know you was in our city.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
But since you know you're here, you know they're planning
on being a part of it.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
All the way through.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
That's funny. You mentioned that we have been binge watching
Power again. No way, and Omari is my brother, but
my son didn't know that he was from Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I said, yeah, I don't know why nobody knew that,
but I told him.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I said, it's got to be some type of conspiracy.
Gets because he is our strongest suited leading black man.
He should be all over doing everything. He's the best
of me. I'm giving you your flowers, bro, because I'm like,
I'm so convinced of you know what I mean. You know,
missus Saint Patrick, when he when he's in that when
he's in that role.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I'm like you, I believe it. I mean, we love Tommy,
We love Tasha, we love everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Everybody is so great. And I was talking. I was
talking to a friend of mine who was an executive
on that show, and he said, well, and maybe I
should mention this, but maybe you know what I'm saying.
You know, they've been having that long extended cliff hang
about his ghost ahead or nothing. So you know, I
hope they can pull that off. Man, that'd be so dope,
would be doing.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I want to ask him, why why did you leave?
Why did you let him shoot you?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Come on, come on, tyree, you know that that's your daddy. Man,
y'all talk that out.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
What you're doing?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Shoot your daddy?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah, crazy man, Come on, head to the Man's well
this day, man speaking the special guests at the Walk
as well. Man, Lady who's break dancing on the Olympics,
she's going to be there, you know, So.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Let me get ready.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Now that's a joke. That's a joke.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, you perform it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I could.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
I'm not gonna do some impromptu mins. We'll see everybody hit
my cash out. Man, give me motivated.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
We got you, we got you, Okay, cool man. I
definitely appreciate y'all so much for coming in. This has
been greatly This is amazing. Yeah, and go ahead, let
everybody know the details. Location. All that good stuff is Saturday.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Cool Keith, Okay, Okay, Saturday, September fourteenth, from seven a m.
Until twelve noon will be at Morehouse College right in
front of the Ray Charles Performing Our Center on West
End Avenue. We're taking over their whole street from West
from from Joseph E. Larry all the way over to Westview.
We're taking over the entire street. Will have over twenty
different health screenings. You got to make sure you're there
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because these health screenings from skin cancer, oral cancer, prostate cancer,
prevent blindness, vision screening, dental screening, HIV, help see A
one C cholesterol hypertension, glue coats B and my smoke cessation, kidney,
peripheral artery, vascular care, mammogram, COVID nineteen, chiropractice, mental health,
flu vaccinations, COVID, COVID nineteen, vaccinations, shingles. Everything got all
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that fair free absolutely free with free food bag.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, now y'all, y'all definitely gonna get people out of
y'all say free food.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, this was up.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I'm sorry a bag of free food. Y'all.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
This is great for real.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And before we go, you gotta ask anything new you
got coming up? Anything, any new projects you working on.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Man, Look, I've been saying that for ten years because
it's taking this long. But we uh, we are here.
I'm going to say that we are. We're in the yard.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Were at the gate of a new Narles Barkley album,
Me and the brothers were talking about getting back together
and trying something again, the goodie mob, of course. But
you know, I'm a free agent, man, so I just
kind of like record at my leisure. You know what
I'm saying. I'm doing next Instagram monitoring and that's, you know,
(32:03):
its own working part. And I'm saying, but I love
to do music, you know what I mean. And you know,
I'm hoping to see more and more initiatives that I'm
a part of. It's just about coming back to the
community and starting back over from from square one. I believe.
I mean that because that's where it was all based
from in the first place. Just go back, we trace
those roots, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know,
make sure that we are growing and what I'm saying,
you know, showing and improving, and I think that'll better
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more effectively raise the appreciation and the people again so
they can hear and appreciate the music that it was
that we did. You know what I'm saying. You know
what I mean, because we are outnumbered. Really what I'm
saying as far as messages is concerned, I mean, and
you know the only the difference between good and bad
is the budget.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, true, that's true.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Man, the legendary low big time hero Oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And when is the how long is the residency that
you're doing?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Well, this one we did on a you know how
you do rent like month to month, So I didn't
get them a long extensive contract with them, and they
we're gracious enough to have it done that way and
we just grow, show, improve and them saying you feel
me like it's a great response from each audience and
we'll attack another one on. So Like, I wasn't scheduled
(33:17):
two months ago to do Formula one in Vegas, but
now I am because I just did a show a
last week. Oh you think it would you be available
on so and so come do the F one.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I'm like, let me see what you got.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Okay, that up man.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yoh, So we definitely gonna be looking out for that
new project coming soon. Definitely gonna be then to check
that out. And guys, make sure y'all head on out
to Black Men's Wellness Day. It's gonna be awesome. It's
gonna be amazing. It's gonna be lick beaus. Y'all gonna
have music out there too, music, food, Freddie Falcon, all
that good stuff, and get your free health screen is
going to guys. Health is important as black men. We
gotta take our health seriously. And I applaud you guys
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so much for doing this, you becoming an ambassador, you
putting this whole thing together. This has been great and
y'all have a lot of people involved, so I know
it's gonna be an amazing turnout and I believe y'all
gonna hit that goal of getting the five hundred to
one thousand men health screen there. Yeah, save lives. I
love that, And that's what your riskman say. What don't
you riskman say? Save lives?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yes, save saving black men's lives.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
We're looking for at least.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Five or six thousand people, and out of that we
probably do about ten percent of that in terms of
screening itself.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
But yeah, we we are. We're looking for that many
sure five, see you there too, right, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, what's matter of fact? Okay, it started
at seven, right, what we gonna stretch before we stretch?
I played on winning that five.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Ko oh yeah, we got got it for you too.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Okay, So screen which stretch stretching around eight thirty or
so something like that?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Okay, yeah, that's what's up? All right? Then, Well, I
see y'all out there, see what's going serve It's gonna
be great. Yeah, appreciate y'all so much tuning in. Thank
y'all so much for coming. It was great having y'all,
And make sure y'all stay tuned into the Black Information
Network on your home for twenty four to seven news.
It's been your boy, Tyrek Win. Catch you out next time.
What to do, Baby, It's hit Boy Tyreek Win. Y'all
are tuning into your home for twenty four to seven
news the Black Information Network. Y'all, we got some amazing
guests in the building today. We have Keith Dobbins, who
is the Atlanta coordinator for Black Men's Wellness Day, and
we got the Selo Green, who is a Grammy Award
win an artists. Appreciate y'all so much for coming. How
y'all feeling blessed?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So y'all got this amazing event coming up. We're talking
about Black Men's Wellness Day. It's gonna be big man.
Everybody gonna be out there.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
We pray everybody out there. We need everybody to be
out there. Get screened absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So let's talk us now.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Fourth one.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
This is the fifth annual. Yeah, this year's the fifth
time in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah he so, I love that. So let's talk a
little bit about that. So, for those of y'all who
don't know, the African American Male Wellness Agency as hostess
Annual Black Men's Wellness Day on Saturday, September fourteenth at
seven am at Morehouse College Public Health Sciences Institute and
for the past five years, Black Men's Wellness Day Atlanta
has been an annual event that features a five k
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walk and run health screen is for black men. The
goal is to get as many Black men as possible
to participate in free on site health screens that measure
their blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, HIV, std STI, prostate cancer,
and more. So. That's a great initiative, y'all doing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Absolutely, dog, this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, we've been you know, black men lived twelve
years less than their counterparts in some parts of the country,
it's almost twenty years because.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Of diet and hygiene, not hygiene, but just diet. I'm sorry.
And that has affected us overall.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
And we've looked at that and so I know what,
we got to do something about that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And because we believe prevention is better than cure.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
So if we can let you know what the possibilities
are where you are, we can help you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And I think this is so important because I mean,
I know all of us can say that we've had
family members that we've lost the sickness and stuff. Yeah,
And it helps with these events because sometimes these events
can help men catch diseases early and there's so many.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Things like like our very first one in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Uh, fifty of the men who screened for HIV were
positive and did.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Not know it really yeah wow, yeah, so you know.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's it's, it's, it's it's it's completely necessary. And I
can't get the words like, I'm so excited about what
we're doing in the possibility of actually saving someone's life.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think it's it's amazing. Yeah. So we're pushing for
everybody to be out there.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Nice okay, So yeah, what made you want to become
an ambassador for this?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Well, we all could use the sport, we all could
use a village, we all use community, and I just
think at this point in my growth and development, your
accountability has to extend beyond the arts and crafts of industry,
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you know, I mean, you have to take life and
life in general more seriously and give it a focus
and make it a priority.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I'm saying, like, you know, for those that depend on
you the most, and that's the future in the next
generation is coming up, and so they need the example
and so to see men and black men even more
specifically galvanize and become accountability partner, excuse me, accountability partners
for each other is quite a feat, you know, said
to accomplish because it's a rare occasion.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, And can you say that there was maybe there
has been like a personal experience that kind of made
you want to do this, that resonates with you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Oh well yeah, absolutely, Man, I work very hard. And
when when brother Keith says prevention is better than cure,
you know, prevention is based upon practice, you know what
I'm saying. And you know a lot of us we
die because we lack the knowledge. And it's the information
that will bring about the equality, you know what I'm saying.
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And so it's just an imperative notion. And when the
spirit speaks to you, you have to move. And I'm
saying because I'm more afraid of the reap cushions of
being disobedient than that. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And here at BI in what we do, we do
this thing called the Healthy Minute, right, and so we
informed the black community on the latest health statistics and stuff.
And I can say, because I'm one of the people
that does that beat and I can say, looking at
the statistics, it is alarming for black people and black
men especially.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Absolutely, we had we screened it liken it. In our
event in Ohio, five thousand of the five thousand men
that were screened, eighty five percent of those guys had
high pertension, had numbers that were skyrocketing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I had another guy who came and he went.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Through the screening process and of one of the stations
he went to the doctor said if you and my patient,
I'd have you on five or six different types of
medications and said, you don't even need to do the walk.
Don't even do that five the five K because he
was surprised, he didn't know that he was that sick.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And a year later he ended up having open art surgery.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, And he said it started with at least the
shocking news that he wasn't healthy and he just did
a post on Facebook with a pair of his pants
and then you know what he is now, you know,
being more healthy. So yeah, this impacts a lot of
people and we're glad to be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And sometimes the assumption of the presumption is uh that
sickness and ailment is something that's weak, you know what
I'm saying. It's something that's vulnerable, and it's it's a
compromised position. But it's not a weakness. It's not a
threat to your masculinity to go and be found out
a big diagnosed again, because the worry is the tension.
And know what I'm saying, you feel me the concern,
the lack of knowledge. I mean, like just a clear
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diagnosis and an identification of something can give you clarity,
can give you closure. And I'm saying you feel me
like and it's that point of realization that gives you
the epiphty, the epiphanty of health, better mental health. And
we're sick because we're we're just kind of what's the
word I'm looking for kind of just oh man, I'm
(06:02):
looking for the right word. Anyway, it's just at time
chips away and it takes from i mean, like of
your esteem. You know what I'm saying. You know what
I mean. And so it becomes this internal argument saying like,
you know, as opposed to an eternal dialogue, I mean,
like you could speak to yourself as a universe speaks
to you, and it's a call to action, you know
what I mean. And you know, I just think it's
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a great and noble practice, you know what I'm saying,
Like in place to be in with people who are
concerned not only for themselves, but for each other. You
know what I mean, because you know, if one of
us doesn't make it, you know what I'm saying, you build,
you intercede into someone else how to take care of
a village. But this has to be a general practice,
you know, I mean, like all these kids who don't
have fathers, you know what I mean, like and so
on and so forth. We got to do the way
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that the old folks did them saying like we got
to raise that village and be examples them saying like
in let a helping hand and an out of branch
of opportunity, mean like to each one and to teach one.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, and then we look at that people like se
Loo and others who have a platform, who have a
big voice and are able to reach the you know,
the multitudes about health and wellness and just just to
bring it into focus, uh, the health disparity and the
gaps that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Exist here in our country.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
And our focus is to close that gap, you know,
first by just removing the stigma that comes along with
mental wealth mental wellness.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Even in our own healthcare. You know, statistics say.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That black men don't like going to a doctor that
don't look like them, you know, So we provide black
doctors so that they can feel confident in terms of
getting those numbers and getting consultation. We want to make
sure that they're there so that they're comfortable and we
can do something about their health.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, So let me ask you why do you think
that is? Why do y'all think that's the case that
men don't like Well, one men don't like to go
to the doctor, period don't and two men want to
doctor others like they do.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Because we assume, and rightfully so, that there is systemic racism,
you know what I mean. We do realize that the
information is the actual equality. And so therefore, since we've
all been kind of disenfranchised, you know what I mean,
Like you don't trust yourself, you don't trust uh uh
that a black physician, you know what I mean, like
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is as qualified the way it's also assume when you
apply for employment elsewhere. You know what I'm saying. You
feel me it's like it seems like some type of
secondary knowledge, you know what I mean. But no, it's
the same knowledge, it's the same expertise, you know what
I mean. Uh, And it's the same excellence. We are
capable of it, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Mean, and you know to his point about you know,
we deal with so many things in terms of being
the leaders in our homes and in our in our communities.
We we we always uh fighting or leveraging. You know,
if I'm sick or fro'm weak, then you know that
I'm not able to fulfill my duties in my house
or in the community.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So we suck it up.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, We've been expected to be leaders regardless of
how we've been nurtured. Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
A recent survey says.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That black little black boys between the ages of hey
in eighth grade don't really see a positive role model.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And that's why we do our ambassadors.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So you asked the question earlier because I want them
to see people like Seelow who have gone through his
journey and it's still been successful and have impacted so
many people, you know, in and out of our community.
So we want to showcase these guys. Yes, Oh, if
I see that, I can actually be that. Unfortunately, I
think that's the way life is. You know, we can
talk about this and that other, but until we actually
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see it and we say, oh, it's attainable. So part
of our focus is is of course the physical wellness.
We also have another component and initiative about mental wellness
called Real Men, Real Talk, So we open up that up.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We'll open that up, so we have we use talk therapy.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So these men can talk in a safe place, can
talk about the things that they deal with from a
societal perspective, economic perspective, all of those things. So that
there we can kind of free ourselves in terms of
the tunnel vision that we generally have about ourselves and
be more broad based.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
In terms of what we can do the pssibilities are
in our lives.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
So this is more than just a walk, more than
just a Black Man's Wellness Day. We have other initiatives
that go throughout the year where we impact African American man.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Absolutely because nothing guarantees result or repetition. So this is
just not one one day. You know what I'm saying,
Like it needs to be a lifestyle. I mean, like
health and wellness should be an habitual behavior. I mean
like and it should be Black Man's Wellness Day every day.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, And that actually brings me to my next point.
What I want to know for both of y'all. How
do y'all manage y'all's own health and wellness given the
demands of y'all's career and have y'all faced any specific
challenges as a black man, specifically you with the entertainment industry.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Health? Absolutely, yeah, I believe it begins, you know, internally.
As I stated before, you know what I mean. It's
the way that you see the world, the lens that
you look at life through, and the questions and inquiries
that you make. You know what I'm saying. So I
have the right attitude. But I'm also the perfect example
because I'm not in perfect form. I can be better.
(11:04):
I can improve what I mean like, and I have improved.
I mean, each day is a Moustone achievement because we
are creatures of habit as a human being. You know
what I'm saying. You just only know what you know.
You know what I'm saying, like, but you could also
know what you don't know you know what I'm saying
and inquire in that direction them saying like, be enlightened
by the opportunity and recognize the genuine article of someone
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that wants to breathe life into you. You know what
I'm saying, and that's what this organization can do, will
do and does daily, you know what I mean. And
I can appreciate that. And so they've encouraged me to
come and be a part of it because you know,
I have the platform, have the voice, have the influence.
I have the spirit I mean, like the sentiment I
(11:47):
mean and the true in life experience. I mean, you know,
so come on, man, you know I ain't I ain't
an fortune that got that. I'm saying, Well, I'm a
work in progress and we're gonna try our best. I'm saying,
like in every day you know is you know, it's progressing,
the progressive forwardmotion.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
See, Lord is kind of like our post a child,
if you will, in terms of just his attitude. He's
a He's a great guy. And he said earlier, I'm
not a shy person. You know, he has this he
has this this light auror about himself.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And he has a I like and and and for me,
as a vocal coach and a vocal producer.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And using my voice a lot and as a singer,
I understand that I teach something called the complex voice.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So the complex voice is a culmination of.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Your your your the health of your spirit, the health
of your of your mind, uh, the health of your body.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Because you can tell when the person sings something.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That is going on that that little thing that you feel,
that that kind of connects with you is what connects
all humanity to each other.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Right, So whatever I'm going like, if I talk to
somebody on the phone and they're like, oh, I'm all right,
you can say what's going on?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Because if you're looking at your bills every day, you're
gonna look like what you look at.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
If you're looking at that, you want to start resembling that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
So for me, the most important part is the mental
wellness aspect of it. So I always want to, like
the Bible says, you know, think good things and good
thoughts and speak to yourselfs and hymns and songs and
spiritual songs.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So that I can lift my spirit.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
So the higher my spirit is lifted, the more clear
the message comes from my voice, because I will impart
to you and when I sing, because when you sing
something about music, it is the folly medium in the world,
in the earth realm that doesn't ask your permission to
enter your spirit. So as singers is what I do.
I know that I'm impacting, see a little impacts. I
(13:40):
was singing this song today, you know earlier, I say,
every time I see it, I want to sing that
song makes me crazy, you knowing it.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
So beautifully, And that's when you do realize, Wow, you
know what I mean. That song in particular, or any
of that music, it's not mine anymore. It belongs to people.
That's you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's good you sing it better than you do.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
But see, we call him cool Keith because he's a
complicated man.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, he cool. You know he's cool with your
wet leather in the summer, man, it'll still be cool.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
That's cool Keith. Gotta see, he's a specimen of a man. Yes,
he is.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So I love the whole idea of the approach of
what we do and how health impacts that. So if
I'm around good vibes and good and I'm speaking good things,
that's going to help me produce a good sound.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And you know, I like to throw a little bit
of the comic relief in there for us, for all
of us, because I want to encourage us all to
be able to laugh a little louder. And I'm saying
like and directly in the face of the adversity itself.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's crazy because you know, it's like what you think
and how you feel impact your body, whether you're in.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
A good situation or not.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
If I think good things, my body is going to
respond to what's going on in my mind and.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
What he were saying earlier, like, we don't have most
of the resources, like you know, there's a lot of
comparisons to be made about our contemporaries. The one thing
they have that we don't have is inheritance. Most of
the time, we end up having to start over all
of the time. So we got to make up for
lost time as grown adult man. I'm forty nine years old,
(15:24):
and let me say, you feel me like, But anybody
that knows me, they know that we've been putting the
manuscript into music itself since I started as a young man.
I started at seventeen, And anybody know the music, Goodie, Mom, judge, family,
y'all know it, right, So y'all know, y'all know what
our campaign has been, what I mean, all over the years,
and so I'm proud of it. This is just a
continuation of the same work. I mean, that's what it is. Yeah,
(15:45):
we got to do it, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And I want to ask y'all, like talking about doing
this and doing this event, what do y'all hope to
achieve with this? What's the main goal here?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Well, my goal is to screen at least between five
hundred and a thousand men.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Nice, I think if we impact men.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Atlanta has the second largest population of African Americans in
the country, second only to New York, just past Chicago.
And I think that if we impact the men in Atlanta,
We're going to impact the rest of this country. The
Western hemisphere or Western civilization. Western culture leads the world
in terms of establishing culture around the world. I was
on my way to Soul, Korea, and on the plane
(16:28):
I saw a band from Korea looking like us, I mean,
advancing like us. Weren't it closed like us? I said, fact,
where does that come from? It comes from this culture,
especially in the African American community. When we impact those people,
this demographic and make them strong, it's going to make
a change in the world. So I want to see thousand,
(16:49):
at least a thousand men's screen that day.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Nice, Absolutely, And that was going to go a step
further just to say, we're going to galvani as a wrangle.
When we say men, that's not a terminal classification that
we can just throw around casually. We're gonna have to
make men out of male nature. It's different between the
(17:14):
men and male That's what sure what I'm saying, like,
you know, uh, you know, uh, you know, men take accountability,
you know what I'm saying. Like, so we will be
coming out and an aspiration to be better men. I'm saying,
you feel me because male nature doesn't persist, It insists
on itself, you know what I mean. So we have
(17:35):
to just change that narrative. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Your church, I can talk once we get wound up.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Especially, that's great accountability partners, man, that's who we are.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
We all need them. Y'all need some accountability partners keep
us on track. Man.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, it's so important. It's so vitally important that that
village thing is real thing.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's a thing.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah yeah, come on, man, come see it to believe it. Man,
you know, get a bird's eye view and have my
app done on the walls, starting to take farm.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It's a miracle, ladies and gentlemen, see it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's what's Yeah, most definitely, Atlanta definitely got to make
it out to this. And what I want to know
is when it comes to men accessing good, regular health care,
what do y'all think is the biggest thing that's preventing that?
What's in the way.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Our our stereotypes shortcut us from making it the second basem,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Mhm?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I said, our stereotypes shortcut us from making it to
second base. And by the third you exhausted. And that's why, Harley,
that's why so many of us never make it home,
you know what I'm saying. So you have to change
your game plan because life is a game within itself.
It's about how you navigate, how you wiggle, you know
what I'm saying, Like, you know, and you have to
(19:05):
be limber and able, you know what I mean, and
knowing what you're up against, and you got obstructions in
the way, and you have energies and i'm and enemies
that oppose or your your growth and development, you just
do you just do? You know what I'm saying? Like,
and you know again then that that that notion, you know,
then carries over into our financial literacy, our inclusion blah,
(19:28):
blah blah economics and stuff like that, because we also
remind that's when that's when being black don't feel so good.
When you when you know that you're you're sick and
you don't really know exactly what's wrong with you, but
you're ashamed. And when you when you sit down in
front of that that that bill. You know what I'm saying, like,
you feel black And I'm saying that because you know
that you've been dis enfranchising, you know that you've been cheated.
You know what I'm saying that out of your out
of your civil rights. You know what I'm saying, like
(19:50):
we should at least have that. That's what I want
to see on the debate last night. And what I'm saying,
you know what I mean, like why y'all want to
kill your clientele?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That's that's See, there's something like social determined social determinants.
So those those things that determine us socially, whether in
the neighborhood where we can't access healthcare or we don't
know about Like for example, there's a screening going to
happen on it called peripheral.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Artery disease, So you ever heard of that prefer artery.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So so most of those types of screenings are not
available in our community, but those the prefer artery screening
is going to measure the blood pressure in your extremity.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So your hands, fingers, your feet, your ankle.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
If those, if the blood pressure is lower than it
is here, then that tells us that there's an opportunity
or possibility of some kind of amputation or something's going
on in your body. And uh, even though black people
don't lead in terms of getting amputies, but we do
lead into death after we have that amputation. So uh,
those are things that are that social determinants. Maybe I
(20:54):
can't get to a place where I can get a
perferle artery screening, and therefore I live my life and
not ever know and then boom, something happened. So those
are the things that inhibit us from doing what we
need to do.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, since Cilo, you bought it up, I'm gonna go
ahead and talk about it. So because my news director
gave it this a sigment for later on today, So
I gotta get some mos or what people thought about
the debate. So I want to get y'all's opinion on
what y'all thought about the debate last, Like, since y'all
watched it first.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I'm gonna be sure.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
But it's such a clear contrast between those that are
knowledgeable about government and those that are trying to be
in government just because you're floating on your name or
your opportunity that you have as opposed just like having
a bus driver or drive a plane. You know you
can't do by yourself, but why would I want you
(21:45):
driving that plane if you're really a bus driver. And
it was just such a clear contrast and presidential stature
and someone.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That's just.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Have no policies, no plans, so on and so forth.
But people can make their choices.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yes, one thing about politics, man, it doesn't really discriminate him,
something like black doesn't qualify male, or female doesn't qualify,
Compassion qualifies, and critique qualifies. You know what I mean?
Somebody told me something interesting. It was like, would you
rather you're president be a politician or human being? Now,
(22:25):
if it's a politician, don't expect the whole truth. Expect
a tailored truth, edited to fit a format. Human being
might tell the undisputed truth, but it may offend you,
right and his humanity him said like may showcase the
flaw that we all have as human beings, but on
the contrary, it does prove that a human being could
(22:46):
be president. Does that make sense? Yeah, I mean it
means you could do it if you apply yourself. So
it's all about appliance, you know what I'm saying, And
of course the information as well. They mean, like if
you marry those two, there's no limit to what you
could potentially do, even know what I'm saying. So I
like so I like some of the humanity I hear
(23:06):
and rhetoric that said, you know what I mean, Like,
you know, mistakes that make quirks quirks and stuff like that,
like because it's not supposed to be perfect, and I
think we're growing in that way, you know what I mean.
That said, this is a year of reveal and you know,
revelation and things of that nature. So I can I
can dig that I'm saying. But if you want me
to just be specific, I definitely feel like miss Harris
(23:27):
did her thing. She spoke very well last night, nice
I think, so Okay, Yeah, that's how I look at it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
You can do things supposed to be perfect. Man, if it's perfect,
it's a lie. Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah yeah, So shifting things back to health, right, So, uh,
just just to kind of close things, I don't want
to know what message do y'all have for black men
in the importance of taking care of themselves, not just
for the family boss the community as well.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yourself is where you rest, yourself is where you invest,
you know what I'm saying. So extension of yourself are
your children, the woman that you've chosen that make you
feel me and the way that you are revered and
referred to in your home, which would be your castle,
you know what I'm saying. So you can't be a
non smoker sitting in the smoking section. I expect to
get second hands smoked. I'm saying, you feel me so
(24:25):
so you are the product of your environment. So we
got to take care of each other, you know what
I mean, because it's about being one. I also want
to say rest in peace to the wonderful and lovely
mister Frankie Beverly. We lost heard about that, and also
to the survivors of nine one one. Excuse me, ninety
eleven is more affectionate term, yes.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, yeah, And I was gonna say you mentioned that
you mentioned that thing about the second hand smoke. Man. Okay,
so I like to go to the casino. Sometimes it
be a little hard being in Vegas, Like you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Let me tell you, let me tell you. Okay. So
I was and I still. I'm doing a residency now
as we speak at the Wind Resorts. But my first
residency was at the Planet Hollywood, and I'm talking about
that recirculated air, you know what I mean. It smelled
like boy, the ghosts of Christmas past. It just but
(25:21):
I didn't notice it because we're living there. And I mean, like,
what's What's what's cool and convenient about Vegas regis residencies
for performers, Uh, is that you know your living quarters
is upstairs. You come downstairs, do you want to go
and back upstairs, go to sleep, whatever you want to do.
But you are breathing in a harsh reality. And it
(25:43):
was only when I had to leave and do something else,
maybe like the weekend, and when I came back, I
was like, oh my god, this is disgusting. Its foul
and my man's uh you know, this was years ago.
I guess it don't matter. He probably ain't got that house.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
My more.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
But my man, my man, money made weather like he
let me use one of his vacants out there, one
of the fully furnished turnkey want nobody out there. The
best pool, the best pool I ever swam, and man
felt like chicken doodle soup. That's what.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's what I call health and well living in a mansion.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I like him, But I love Vegas though. Man, But no,
you're right, you're right. Just to bring it back to
the point. Man, No, but you know there's there's no
judgment them saying you feel me. There's only observation. You
know what I'm saying. And you know, so we observe
that we can't do better, were capable of doing better.
We should and we will because you know, at a
(26:43):
point of Asian accountability that man like, hey man, we're
closer to the know what I'm saying, We're closer to
the fourth quarter than he is to the first. I'm saying.
It ain't no going back. I mean, life is that
uh that that infinite one way street. Everything is forward
and going back to past is permanent. You can't change it,
what I'm saying, But you can live in the now.
What I'm saying, I can make a better decision.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
That's right, man, This is so good, I know man.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So and one thing that yeah, the show.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Change right now. Knowing better is doing better. It's curse you.
You gotta do it else. Don't be disobedient.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
That's the biggest kids, disobedience or obedience and doing it
even if you don't feel like doing it. But you
know that to do it right and to do the
right thing always get you always get back what you
put in, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, And what I want to know just the y'all
got this event coming up. Not only y'all have a
health screens, but y'all gonna also have some other stuff.
Y'all gonna have Freddie Falcon out there. Y'all also gonna
have a dance contest. I'm gonna win that, just like.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Doc either or Freddy. We're doing Freddy go win it.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
But yeah, we got we got, we got a kid
zone area out there. Uh, there's Barber's gonna be there
to cut kids hair. We have the five K. It's
an actual issue five K. So if you wanted to
qualify for the Boston Marathon or the Peach Tree Run,
this event will qualify you for that. Yeah, and we'll
have an entertainment stage. You have a local artist. From
(28:12):
what I hear, there's a couple of celebrities that were
so impressed by an event in Ohio where forty five
thousand people showed up Mari Hardwick and Hey Power. They're
all like, Bro, They're like, I can't believe this is
in my city.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I said, we know you was in our city.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
But since you know you're here, you know they're planning
on being a part of it.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
All the way through.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
That's funny. You mentioned that we have been binge watching
Power again. No way, and Omari is my brother, but
my son didn't know that he was from Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I said, yeah, I don't know why nobody knew that,
but I told him.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I said, it's got to be some type of conspiracy.
Gets because he is our strongest suited leading black man.
He should be all over doing everything. He's the best
of me. I'm giving you your flowers, bro, because I'm like,
I'm so convinced of you know what I mean. You know,
missus Saint Patrick, when he when he's in that when
he's in that role.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I'm like you, I believe it. I mean, we love Tommy,
We love Tasha, we love everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Everybody is so great. And I was talking. I was
talking to a friend of mine who was an executive
on that show, and he said, well, and maybe I
should mention this, but maybe you know what I'm saying.
You know, they've been having that long extended cliff hang
about his ghost ahead or nothing. So you know, I
hope they can pull that off. Man, that'd be so dope,
would be doing.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I want to ask him, why why did you leave?
Why did you let him shoot you?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Come on, come on, tyree, you know that that's your daddy. Man,
y'all talk that out.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
What you're doing?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Shoot your daddy?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah, crazy man, Come on, head to the Man's well
this day, man speaking the special guests at the Walk
as well. Man, Lady who's break dancing on the Olympics,
she's going to be there, you know, So.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Let me get ready.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Now that's a joke. That's a joke.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, you perform it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I could.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
I'm not gonna do some impromptu mins. We'll see everybody hit
my cash out. Man, give me motivated.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
We got you, we got you, Okay, cool man. I
definitely appreciate y'all so much for coming in. This has
been greatly This is amazing. Yeah, and go ahead, let
everybody know the details. Location. All that good stuff is Saturday.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Cool Keith, Okay, Okay, Saturday, September fourteenth, from seven a m.
Until twelve noon will be at Morehouse College right in
front of the Ray Charles Performing Our Center on West
End Avenue. We're taking over their whole street from West
from from Joseph E. Larry all the way over to Westview.
We're taking over the entire street. Will have over twenty
different health screenings. You got to make sure you're there
(30:44):
because these health screenings from skin cancer, oral cancer, prostate cancer,
prevent blindness, vision screening, dental screening, HIV, help see A
one C cholesterol hypertension, glue coats B and my smoke cessation, kidney,
peripheral artery, vascular care, mammogram, COVID nineteen, chiropractice, mental health,
flu vaccinations, COVID, COVID nineteen, vaccinations, shingles. Everything got all
(31:05):
that fair free absolutely free with free food bag.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, now y'all, y'all definitely gonna get people out of
y'all say free food.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, this was up.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I'm sorry a bag of free food. Y'all.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
This is great for real.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And before we go, you gotta ask anything new you
got coming up? Anything, any new projects you working on.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Man, Look, I've been saying that for ten years because
it's taking this long. But we uh, we are here.
I'm going to say that we are. We're in the yard.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Were at the gate of a new Narles Barkley album,
Me and the brothers were talking about getting back together
and trying something again, the goodie mob, of course. But
you know, I'm a free agent, man, so I just
kind of like record at my leisure. You know what
I'm saying. I'm doing next Instagram monitoring and that's, you know,
(32:03):
its own working part. And I'm saying, but I love
to do music, you know what I mean. And you know,
I'm hoping to see more and more initiatives that I'm
a part of. It's just about coming back to the
community and starting back over from from square one. I believe.
I mean that because that's where it was all based
from in the first place. Just go back, we trace
those roots, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know,
make sure that we are growing and what I'm saying,
you know, showing and improving, and I think that'll better
(32:25):
more effectively raise the appreciation and the people again so
they can hear and appreciate the music that it was
that we did. You know what I'm saying. You know
what I mean, because we are outnumbered. Really what I'm
saying as far as messages is concerned, I mean, and
you know the only the difference between good and bad
is the budget.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, true, that's true.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Man, the legendary low big time hero Oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And when is the how long is the residency that
you're doing?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Well, this one we did on a you know how
you do rent like month to month, So I didn't
get them a long extensive contract with them, and they
we're gracious enough to have it done that way and
we just grow, show, improve and them saying you feel
me like it's a great response from each audience and
we'll attack another one on. So Like, I wasn't scheduled
(33:17):
two months ago to do Formula one in Vegas, but
now I am because I just did a show a
last week. Oh you think it would you be available
on so and so come do the F one.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I'm like, let me see what you got.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Okay, that up man.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yoh, So we definitely gonna be looking out for that
new project coming soon. Definitely gonna be then to check
that out. And guys, make sure y'all head on out
to Black Men's Wellness Day. It's gonna be awesome. It's
gonna be amazing. It's gonna be lick beaus. Y'all gonna
have music out there too, music, food, Freddie Falcon, all
that good stuff, and get your free health screen is
going to guys. Health is important as black men. We
gotta take our health seriously. And I applaud you guys
(33:55):
so much for doing this, you becoming an ambassador, you
putting this whole thing together. This has been great and
y'all have a lot of people involved, so I know
it's gonna be an amazing turnout and I believe y'all
gonna hit that goal of getting the five hundred to
one thousand men health screen there. Yeah, save lives. I
love that, And that's what your riskman say. What don't
you riskman say? Save lives?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yes, save saving black men's lives.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
We're looking for at least.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Five or six thousand people, and out of that we
probably do about ten percent of that in terms of
screening itself.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
But yeah, we we are. We're looking for that many
sure five, see you there too, right, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, what's matter of fact? Okay, it started
at seven, right, what we gonna stretch before we stretch?
I played on winning that five.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Ko oh yeah, we got got it for you too.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Okay, So screen which stretch stretching around eight thirty or
so something like that?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Okay, yeah, that's what's up? All right? Then, Well, I
see y'all out there, see what's going serve It's gonna
be great. Yeah, appreciate y'all so much tuning in. Thank
y'all so much for coming. It was great having y'all,
And make sure y'all stay tuned into the Black Information
Network on your home for twenty four to seven news.
It's been your boy, Tyrek Win. Catch you out next time.
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