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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey, everybody, Kay Delaney here on atm the Charcuterie Board
of Talk Radio Boy. To say there's a lot happening, is,
my friends, an understatement, although why even bother I mean
that is that's the times we live in Everything at
the speed of light, or at least it feels that
(00:36):
way at the top. I'm going to start with what
so many of you asked me about. I didn't even
get to it in the mail bag because we had
a whole bunch of what I would call a plethora
of different items of people who had sent in several
days in a row. But Benjamin Att and Yahoo, Israel's
Prime Minister, has been talking about the path forward in
(00:56):
the war in Gaza. He did that during a meeting
yesterday with the military Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Zamir.
The general presented options for continuing the military campaign in Gaza.
Net Yahoo also told some Israeli reporters his office did
anyway that the PM might expand those operations across all
(01:20):
of the Gaza strip. So there's a lot of pressure
over the starvation in Gaza, but that doesn't seem to
move what's happening with Net and Yahoo at a meeting
of the UN Security Council. New York diplomats denounced to Moss,
but also called for Israel to announce the humanitarian crisis
in Gaza. Look, even President Trump has said this that,
(01:42):
my god, you look at the video and you can
see the big eyes, the starving kids, and it turns
your stomach. It's you're not humanif that you have absolutely
no reaction to that. So I think this whole thing
is going to blow up in a much, much different direction.
You might have missed this. The Trump administration is going
(02:05):
to make some foreign visitors pay cash deposits of up
to fifteen thousand dollars to help ensure they don't overstay
their visas, because you know how we've had problems with
that and occasionally someone gets arrested for something and then
it turns out, whoops, they overstayed their visa. In fact,
a few people who have murdered some innocent Americans. That's
been the case right where it just was one of
(02:26):
those things where it was investigated and it infuriated people
that they were in the country illegally because their visa
had expired eight, nine, ten months ago, or even a year.
That is a way to curb that to say, Okay,
(02:47):
here's how much you got to pay. You know, period,
that's it. So it's a conversation that is definitely definitely
being had. Meanwhile, in other corners of the US, in Utah,
the drought is so bad that the whole state is
(03:08):
really suffering with what other states, some other states are
dealing with, and that is the concerns over fire. And
you know, over the next seven to ten days, there's
going to be more weather patterns that look like they're
going to be super dry. So they have a second
(03:31):
problem besides worrying about is it going to be a
red flagger? Is this going to be put out? If
Utah doesn't break the trend before winter, the state's going
to lose a good chunk of their snowpack to dry ground.
Think of what people do and how much money they
spend when they cod Utah to ski in Detroit, in
(03:53):
some other areas of the Midwest and in the Northeast.
Still the problem persists over the Canadian wildfires, where it's
almost danger well, it is dangerous for people with asthma
or other conditions to go to go outside, so they're
being told not to go outside, and then you go
(04:14):
to California. The Gifford Fire is a wildfire burning in
that area of California that's destroyed over eighty two thousand
acres eighty two thousand acres. It started on Friday afternoon.
It's in the Los Padres National Forest right there along Sulvang, California,
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and so people have had to be evacuated in the
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties that are near there.
And it's tough to get the flames because you're talking
about thick brush and rugged terrain. There's about eight hundred
structures that are threatened. Here's what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You're a directly.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean that gives you the sense of truck scurrying
around trying to do everything they can to get this out,
and you had a thousand firefighters on that fire. It's
really the train is what is so super super super
super difficult Epstein Files. It's besides Texas Regis stictream and
(05:34):
the Titan sub report that guess what the CEO was
responsible for? What happened in sinking that sub something that
everybody suspected and that was talked about before. But the
Epstein Files that story's not going away. Julaane Maxwell told
the Department of Justice that the President never did anything
concerning anything around her, So the House Oversight Chair issued
(05:59):
some penis for the Epstein files. Like I said, it's
not going away. She moved prisons, and that's now become
part of the conversation.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Why was she moved to what you would.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Call a softer prison, what they call a cupcake prison
or club fed versus where she was serving a twenty
year sentence for sex trafficking and doing the dirty work
in corralling she was convicted of that the young women
for Jeffrey Epstein even participating in some of the nonsense,
(06:34):
the horrible.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Tragedy that it is.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And Trump, when he was asked about the whole Epstein thing,
just said what he's been saying all along.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm focused on making deals.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm not focused on conspiracy theories that you are.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And it's true, he's not focused on And nobody's even asked.
He said so many times he hasn't been asked about
a part. And every time he keeps getting asked, has
anybody asked for a pardon? He says the same thing
over and over again. No, nobody has asked for a pardon.
So the President was busy signing an executive order for
a new task force, a task force working on the Olympics. Ah,
(07:25):
the best who doesn't like the Olympics, right, go USA
And it's gonna be in Los Angeles twenty twenty eight.
And the key thing is making it smooth because the
country is what gets highlighted. Los Angeles gets highlighted, but
so does the US. So many people come in. A
lot of money is poured into the Olympics, and a
(07:48):
lot of money can be made if it's done right,
because it's tough in these times, but can be made
on the Olympics too.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So the task force is formed. It really kind of.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Surrounds the people that are part of the cabinet, which
makes sense if you think of the positions like homeland security,
the things that you would be concerned about. And there's
plenty of time if you do the math. So and
this is what it takes to put on the Olympics,
that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And I think.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's significant to make sure that there are enough people
in place, that there is enough security, especially when you're
talking about a sprawling area like Los Angeles coming up
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Speaker 9 (12:04):
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Speaker 4 (12:18):
To yes, Andy, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
We are in the man cave.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And what are we talking about? It in the man cave?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Boy, there's a lot of things that are pretty interesting,
including the fact that, yes, I am a huge NFL fan.
It's no secret we do nail the score when we
get into the season. Nail the score is such a
fun thing and I'll get everybody prep for that. I
know if you're listening to it to us in Saint Louis, boy,
you want to be part of this in Daytona, in
(12:48):
Portland and a lot of other places. And I'll tell
you how you can be part of it when we
get closer. But I like the fact that we've got
the preseason games coming up. Yes, it's only preseason, but
there's something about that football is in the air, and
I watch this. I watched the debut of this season's
HBO Hard Knocks, which features the Buffalo Bill's here's a
(13:13):
little sneak of it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
We got what spreads on? Where do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I just think it's the freshest that they're going to be.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Let's get like some regular throws too. You got Bob,
give me one outside. The best thing that you can
do between a quarterback and receivers have that open mind
of communication, understanding each other's expectations of when I'm thinking
of releasing a ball or where he's expecting that ball
(13:41):
to be, and then going out there and trying to
marry them up.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Ah, just learning his taels, is learning where he expects
me to be on certain routes.
Speaker 11 (13:55):
You want another one?
Speaker 10 (13:56):
No more?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Are you?
Speaker 11 (13:57):
I got you?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You gotta love that.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
What I like is I really do feel like, Yes,
the cameras are rolling, so you think you know what
are what are we not seeing?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
But I really feel like.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You do get I think they get used to the cameras,
and I think you do get a different version. Like
I'll tell you, I don't want to spoil it for
everybody if you're gonna watch it.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I really liked it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So you had Pagoula, the team owner, who was there
when Josh Allen went to look at the new stadium,
and it was there were really some funny moments there,
but also you got to you got to see the
new stadium and what that's going to look like, and
how they're going to keep out swirling winds and what
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they're doing and the innovative ideas it was.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I have to say, I bet it's going to be
pretty spectacular.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So this is their last season where they are now,
and then next year they they'll be able to I
guess the whole after go through the whole season, shift
to the new to the new stadium, and it is
pretty spectacular. And it's a really good episode of Hard Knocks.
It's just kind of a look behind what goes on
(15:15):
in an NFL team. We saw that with the Jets
last year. All right, speaking of what goes on in
an NFL team, the money situation, that part of it.
Who's signed, who's not signed, who's getting you know, who's
got their extensions, all of that comes into play, and
it definitely is a big story. When it comes to
the Dallas Cowboys. There are a lot of fans that
(15:37):
are pretty upset with Jerry Jones, one because they don't
think some people don't think he should be the GM
and he's the problem. And then the other thing is
Micah Parsons. He is not signed. There has been no
talk of a deal, you know whatsoever, and this and
he gets asked about it every day, And as somebody
(15:58):
who covered the Cowboys for long time, Jerry will answer
he knows how to answer questions. He'll talk to the reporters.
He never really ducked reporters or reporting when I covered
him ever, and I even covered him before I went
to Dallas. He used to be pretty gracious about coming
on my show in California. But anyway, it's not about that.
It's about here's how we answered the question of Parsons.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So there's always always negotiation, and the negotiation is to
put the best team on the field, and we it's
many times it's not even a question of deserving. And
then today's salary cap. You've got to have either art.
You can't have it all.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
There.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You go either or so what does that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
What does that mean? A couple of moves that I'll
mention just quickly. Here, the Chargers sign Keenan Allen, the
six time Pro Bowler receiver, returning to LA after a
brief stint with the Bears. So it's a one year,
eight point five million dollars deal for him. That's not bad, right,
money money, Money's.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Work many many many many many money.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Money.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I mean, he's thirty three, spend his first what dozen
NFL seasons with the Chargers before last year in Chicago.
Sometimes that whole bringing him back thing really can really
really can work out. And then there's this story, speaking
of contenders, I think the Vikings could be a contender.
(17:34):
Jordan Addison suspended. So the NFL slammed the Vikings wide
out with a three game ban for violating a substance
abuse policy. So Minnesota is going to start the twenty
twenty five season without one of their key offensive playmakers.
So maybe I got to take him off the board
as potentials. He's going to miss the Vikings games against
(17:56):
the Bears, the Falcons, and the Bengals. And this is
all a result of his arrest in July of twenty
twenty four and suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Right, so it goes back, It goes back to that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We could talk more about the NFL, but let's instead
jump to Major League Baseball, and here's some scores for
you that are coming down the pike. I know we
have Philly fans, right, So the Phillies blank, the Orioles
five nothing. I'm a Philly fan and I was looking
(18:36):
at what.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
The Phills are doing. I mean, they've got sixty five wins.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So Max Kepler, Brandon marsh Homeward, both of those guys homeward,
and you know, it was truly about getting those runs
up there, and you had extra runs that were also
smacked on. But Kepler hit a two run homer in
the second inning. When you get them early, that can
(19:01):
make a dramatic difference. Just a little pad for just
a little pad for the picture, right, Okay, Jumping on
a couple of others for you too, that people asked about.
When you're asking me, I'm going to do it. And
I know we have big Cardinal fans here. So Dodgers
at Dodger Stadium eat the Cardinals twelve six. The final there,
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and you know, part of that was great hitting in
the mid innings that made the big difference against the
against the Cards, and then early on it was pitching
for Los Angeles, that's for sure. So the Dodgers picked
up their sixty sixth win. The Rays beat the Angels
(19:46):
seven three. The Mariners beat the White Sox eight three.
How about the Mariners not allow to talk about them,
but that was their sixty first win, sixty first win.
Yankees finally had Aaron Judge back, but the Rangers got
the better of them to zip the final score there.
(20:07):
And you know, it's interesting because of course Yankees have
fans everywhere, kind of like how the Dallas Cowboys, the
whole America's team thing. They're either the team you love
to hate or the team you love, even if you
live in rival areas. And Nathan Yuvaldi pitched eight really
good innings and that made a huge difference. I mean,
(20:28):
he has like the most insane er. It's like a
one thirty five something like that. It's just crazy. And
of course Aaron Judge was back. Aaron Judge was zero
four three with two strikeouts as the designated hitter. He
was finally activated from the he's finally activated from the
(20:52):
ten day injured list. He had a strained no, it
was a it was a string a tenon strain in
his right l So he started he's going to start
throwing on Wednesday, and they're going to see how long
it takes to get him back into the outfield. But
at least they put him in a spot where he
(21:12):
could jump back in and get a crack at hitting.
But the Rangers shut that down. So good on the Rangers.
Let's say, I can squeeze one more in for you,
a couple more in for you. And in the eleventh
the Padres and the Diamondbacks, it looks like they're going
(21:35):
to lock this up, but the Padres ten to five,
so they broke it open.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
At the tail end of that, the Astros beat the
Marlins seven to three, and the Twins pick up their
fifty third by knocking off the Tigers. Doing that on
the road at Comerica Park. I know that we have
some Twins fans in the house, so to speak. So
the AL Central leading Tigers lost for just the third
(22:04):
time in nine games. They've been pretty they've been pretty hot,
and for the Twins, it was nice to pick that
up because they're kind of in that sort of rebuilding phase,
if you will, so that was a big win for them, a.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Good win for them.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
All Right, we're hopping over to the other side, and
I'm taking you to a couple of interesting places to
meet some really fascinating authors, the Bahamas and at the
tail end of the show to the UK meet you
on the flip. I am very pleased to welcome to
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author's corner Alfred Brathwaite. He has written this book that
makes me want to get in a kayak right now,
and you will want to get this book for sure.
The also Ran but a Champion, The Travels of a
Kayak from Karaakhu to Wahoo, and you can get it
for a song. You can get the kindle version, hardcover paperback.
And he has got such a good sense of humor.
(23:33):
He's in the background you can probably could have probably
heard him when we first jumped on. Alfred, thanks so
much from joining us from the Bahamas and coming on
the show.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, I thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let's talk about your adventures. Boy, you have had some
great adventures. Is that what made you want to put
this all in a book.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well, the initial purpose was to preserve what I had
experienced as a child, from the age of knowledge, so
to speak, to about eleven years, and the impression gained
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by me in later years that what I was exposed
to was a child was being lost and I did
not wish for that to happen. So the book actually
started with adventures, so to speak, but within a village
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of a small unknown island, and it involved not only
the events that were taking place, which at the time,
you know, didn't make much of a difference to me,
and the culture that was a part of the events,
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and of course the people that I was exposed to.
And I felt within myself that somehow, if I can
play a part in preserving these things, at least I
would have felt pleased with myself. It was only after
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writing about my homeland that I continued with the adventures
as a physician so to speak, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
And it's so interesting in your book.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And as I said the title, you know, when I
talked about the very beginning of it, they also ran
but a champion, and you talk about champion in a
much different way, not like a winner, but bigger than that,
broader than that. Am I right about jack of all trades,
that the ordinary becomes somehow you become a master, and
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even if it's just for once doing heroic deeds.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Well, the title of the book, I would say, originated
from my alma mater, my school song, but with inputs,
so to speak, from my mother. My mother was the
driving force behind whatever I did up to my age
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as a man, and she always hinted that I would
not be a champion because I did foolish things at times,
and she would say, oh, you will get ninety five,
but you will never get a hundred. And I wanted
to prove her wrong on that, although I accepted that
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the meaning of champion can change. But the school song,
with just one word different. The school song was the
also ram and the champion. Each one can but do
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his best. The winners displayed depends on the effort of
all the rest to be in the van is not
all for each has to play his role. The team
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wins the match at football, though, one man must kick
the goal. And that's what was a stanza in my
school song and it has stayed with me since then.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Wow, and that makes sense from what you're describing and
you talk about in the book Kariaku Go, you know,
growing up there but then leaving still at a young age,
and then coming back and seeing the differences. What were
the big changes, because you went into a really vast
description about it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, the cultural aspect of things in my youth came naturally.
It was spontaneous, and citizens got together, natives got together,
and they did these things every year, even though one
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person might be the leader. But then it was like
if the government got involved, there was a committee to
plan things, and that spontaneity was being lost, and I
didn't like it, although perhaps it was better, but somehow
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it didn't. It was a kosher with me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And again in talking about that, you also take us
on all these different adventures, like you mentioned to me,
the adventures in it, and certainly that's a big part
of it. You're as as a boy, what you did,
where you went as you grew older, and places that
you saw from beyond the Bahamas, from you know, even
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dancing reggae dancing in Jamaica while getting your medical education
as you mentioned, and then the practice in Grenada and
what happened there. Do you feel so fortunate that you
got to experiences had these experiences in these great cultures.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, I feel very fortunate. Although part of it was planned.
I received a scholarship to study medicine in Jamaica, but
the funds from the scholarship were not sufficient for the
entire course, and the government of Grenada at that time
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I did the rest of the funds, but always with
the understanding not only by them but by me that
it was a commitment to return to Grenader. So, having
finished my medical school, I made the decision that I
should see as much of the world as possible towards
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my specialization in medicon in a branch of medicine before
returning to Grenado. And it was because of that that
I went to Nassau to do my internship. I went
to New York, I went to Hawaii, I went to Canada,
and then I returned to Grenader. That was never in
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doubt in my mind. I was going back to Grenader,
but things just did not work out. Over two or
three years in Grenader and fortunately in a conference someone
came to me and say, hey, are you a pathologists?
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I said yes. He said my country needs a pathologist
right now, and that was Surinam. And I didn't know
where Surinam is. So my first question to him is
what is whey Surinam? And well, you know, I realized
it was in South America and what have you. But
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the initial commitment was to return to my home Grenader
and political situations made it difficult to stay. And having
gone to Surinam, it was not the intention to spend
my life in Surinam. So I took a three year
contract to practice pathology, including forensic pathology, and to be
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the head lecturer for the medical students at the University
of Surina and in years was finished. I left to
go back to return to the Bahamas because my spouse
happens to be from the Bahamas.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
When people read your book, what do you hope they
take away?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Ah, even without knowing how, but having a desire to
accomplish something must remain with someone. Because when I said
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I was going to be a doctor, I had no
idea how one was going to become a doctor. I
knew nothing except that well maybe a doctor in Karaokeo,
the only doctor there was only one might have impressed me.
But I honestly do not know why I decided that
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I wanted to be a doctor. I don't know if
it's because I wanted to help people. I don't know
if it's because it was maybe a means of making money.
I just wanted to be a doctor. And for me
to say to you, well it was this reason or
that reason, I would be dishonest if I said anything
like that. But once it was implanted in my brain,
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and with that determination not only from myself, but what
was instilled in me by that lady I called my mother,
that propelled me along the way towards success in a sense.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, and yeah, and you can tell when you read
when you read the book, and it does make you
want to take the great adventure and not be afraid
to take the leap. I think that's definitely one of
the big takeaways from reading your book. Alfred, thank you
so much for coming on.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, my mother on the day I was leaving Carrooko
to go to Jamaica to study medicine, my mother said,
don't you ever come back unless you're a doctor. And
on many an occasion I faltered and I had to
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pick myself up and kept going all over again. So
I thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Oh, thank you, what an inspiration.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Thank you, Bye bye bye bye.
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Joining us this time around on author's corner is Monique Wargeous.
We are so thrilled to have her and we're going
to London for this conversation. The name of her book
check this out. Is it's okay to feel like this
suppressed thoughts of an introvert. I think automatically right now,
many of you are relating to this and we haven't
even started this conversation. You're on America tonight with me
(38:27):
Kate Delady. Monique, thanks so much for coming on now.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
What was it that drove you to open yourself up
to write this book?
Speaker 11 (38:41):
So I think I love it is this.
Speaker 16 (38:44):
So within my last career, while I was in so,
I guess you have moments. I was always been someone
who's very reserved. I had moments where I just I
felt like I wanted to make a change because you
only pee that things aren't quite working out to make
a change, and I think I try different things to
(39:05):
try and do that. But then when I was finally
in a position where I had to take a career break,
I think that was finally time that I was finally
free enough to I guess, slow down, relax, just just assess.
And I've always wanted to write the book as well,
So then just being that free finally, because again I've
never been that free ever to just really sit down
(39:26):
and say, okay, let's how how how can we make
this work? So I think, so that's yeah. So that's
why I decided to write the book. And I feel
like I could based on my story, I felt like
I could help others as well, because I guess I
feel like we live in a world today where people
are afraid to be themselves or they feel like there's
consequences to being themselves. And I used to be that
(39:48):
person as well, so just being so I feel a
lot more open and authentic nowadays in terms of how
idpress myself and just being so aware now of barriers
that I PRETENTI we create by being reserved and not
being as open and things like that.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
One of the things that you and I talked about
is growing up in Jamaica and coming to England, so
feeling the difference is there, and then going off to
university and you talk about that in your book, and
is that all part of that journey that made you
be more reserved and put on that kind of shield that,
as you say, most of us walk around with.
Speaker 16 (40:25):
So in the book, So this slight twist. So what
you'll see in the books that you will see the
dark figure, which is what I've used to describe.
Speaker 11 (40:33):
Who I'm speaking of.
Speaker 16 (40:36):
And so I think as we grew up in Jamaica,
I did not grow up with this person, and then
we came to the UK, but then it was kind
of like from there was five years in hell, what
it felt like and just the abuse that would come
from that whether it's the words that's being said or
the just things that were happening, and just there's always
(41:02):
being that on or I've always felt different. So, for example,
one of the keys thinking that I've said is so
they say I'm in the room, there's about twenty people
in a room, and there's something that's being discussed, and
then everyone will be in agreement. But then I will
have a different view. But then because of how shy
I was at the time, and then I'm thinking, well,
if everyone's in agreement, then that must be the correct
(41:22):
way of thinking. So then there's no point me saying
what I have to say. And I remember I had
a manager one time, and I guess he realized how
I was kind of coming the past in those meetings,
and he came over to me and he said when
he's everything okay, and I was like, yeah, everything's fine,
and then he was like, do you what's your thoughts
on what we discussed today? And I said to him
and then he said, oh, I think that's the idea
(41:44):
that we'll go with. And then that shocked me because
again I was thinking, even when you have okay, I
have the lowest self esteem as well. So you're like, well,
if everyone's thinking that way, that must be the correct
word of thinking. But then so then again, and I
guess that the way he managed helped me to, I guess,
come up with mysh a little bit more and to
speak up more evil when it is different as opposed
to going at the crowd.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
And so stories like that are in the book are
we throughout the book, and again it's it's okay to
feel like the suppressed thoughts of an introvert. You can
get the book on Amazon, Barnes and over wherever great
books are sold. And we're not going to tell everyone everything,
but give us another story, another example of how you felt.
Speaker 11 (42:27):
How I felt.
Speaker 16 (42:29):
So I think one of one of the peopleital moments
in the book is when I lost my hair. So
I'm someone I have always been a person at school
who had a different hair style every day. And I
think there was one moment I guess, you know, if
you could ever turn out hands of time. So I
remember my sister wanted to burn my hair one tom
and I always said no, no, no, and then I
(42:50):
finally gave in, and it felt like from that moment
that was the beginning off the end. So I think
I was around eighteen, and I actually started to lose
my hair and it got to a point where it
couldn't It wasn't containing where you were, so the only
option was to be was to cut it. And that
made me feel so because you only feel like you
I've lost my identity in a way because being that
(43:12):
person had different hairstyles and just couldn't do that anymore,
and also being female as well and having no hair
as well. So I actually hid in the house for
about three or so years at the time, but I
just didn't like the look or I didn't want to
be mistaken for a manner or anything like that. But
whereas now I love my hair, but it always took
(43:32):
time to kind of grow into it. So that's that's
one of the moments about half less. And then you
just understand the strength in that story and not being because.
Speaker 11 (43:41):
I used to.
Speaker 16 (43:42):
I used to also be an overthinker, so you know,
feeling too embarrassing is that something to even be am
I allowed to feel like this or but then but
then just feeling that freeness And now I've been able
to utilize that story to help still be therapeust at
moments for myself, but then also to help others based
on as are going through at the time. So that's
one of the main things I wanted to do to
(44:03):
write the book to help based on these feelings and
just again being a thing to be like this.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
What was the most challenging part for you in writing
the story and telling some of those stories.
Speaker 16 (44:16):
The most challenging part, I would say, again with my
overthinking self, I think is just thinking about what my
family would think when the book came out, And honestly
that was just me overthinking because they really loved it
when it had come out. I'm am of my sister,
so it was just me overthinking. But then just knowing
time because everyone experienced this thing differently, and you know,
(44:38):
you don't want to intentionally hurt anyone that you love,
so just seeing how they received it obviously really took
the pressure off to know that they and honestly even
remembering the stories differently as well, because again, even though
you want to experience the same thing, everyone remembers something differently.
I felt for them, so I think that that was
the moment I would say this part family would have felt.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
When people read the book, What do you hope they take.
Speaker 16 (45:02):
Away again, I hope they take away that there is
value in all of us and we should we shouldn't
be afraid to embrace our differences, got differences of what
make the world their own.
Speaker 11 (45:13):
So that's exactly what I would like to wanted to
pick them it.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
And it's interesting because that's really what we've been talking
about here, and this is absolutely the essence of your book,
There's no question about it. So I would have to
think meeting you before the book and then meeting you
after the book, is it quite different for you? Has
that been part of that journey for you?
Speaker 11 (45:32):
That?
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Wow, things have really opened up in a much different way.
Speaker 16 (45:37):
I'm honestly you know, I'm still on the journey as well,
but I'm definitely a lot more confident now, definitely a
lot more open. Just I guess it's just to have
a height of awareness as well. So I said to
being that reserved and the barriers didn't It wasn't away
of the barriers. I was created before even meetings of someone.
Speaker 11 (45:54):
So that's been there's been.
Speaker 16 (45:55):
Conscious of that now and then how I'd like to
be received and how I'd like to be treated as well.
So so now I say a big difference of the
confidence from me and having.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
That confidence now in the way you are in the world.
Is it so much easier to deal with whatever? Walking
into a crowd, walking into a group, jumping into the
middle of a conversation and not thinking, ooh, maybe I
shouldn't say this because that's not it's like you told
us about the work situation. Oh well, if everybody's going
that way, I guess I should just do the same thing.
And you're not doing that now, right.
Speaker 16 (46:26):
No, Honestly, it does feel a lot better because so
and You're right, I no longer feel the need to
suppress anything. So I will just say say, in my
opinion if I have a difference of opinion, because and
be'st think because and I guess that's the way. Contident
will help with that as well, because we're not all
here to have the same exact opinion.
Speaker 11 (46:45):
All the differences are what makes everything special.
Speaker 16 (46:49):
So I definitely enjoy the aspect of this being able
to express myself and at the time that i'm I'm
feed in the thing as well as opposed to let
it go for a couple of days, months, weeks, so
we sayeah.
Speaker 11 (47:00):
So I definitely feel the difference now.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
And you mentioned about your family that you worried about
how they would take it, but then of course they
embrace the book and that's a great feeling. So that
probably gives you more confidence. This book is living and
breathing it out there in the world. Does that feel good?
Speaker 11 (47:16):
It does not, really what it does, And so I want.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
To tell everybody again. You can get it on Amazon,
Barnes and Noble. And you've got an instagram that people
can go to.
Speaker 16 (47:28):
Yes, so my instagram is Monique dot a dot words
the author.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
That's easy to remember.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
So I'm thinking, Monique, and I asked you this too
when we were talking off the air, I bet there's
another book maybe coming in the future.
Speaker 16 (47:44):
No, that definitely is an Honestly, I can't wait to
write it.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Well, we can't wait to see what's next. Go out
and get this book. What fun speaking to you.
Speaker 11 (47:52):
Thank you so much, No, thank you so much for
having me again.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
Great to talk to Monique there and.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Listening to what she had to say, Thinking that certainly
her book is transformative, it is healing, and there is
a reflectiveness in her book. And I think so many
people are going to get charged up by hearing her
story and her journey too, as we talked about in
the interview.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
So go get that book now.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
It's on Amazon and Barnes and over anywhere great books
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Hey, everybody, Kay Delaney here on atm the Charcuterie Board
of Talk Radio Boy. To say there's a lot happening, is,
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that is that's the times we live in Everything at
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(00:36):
way at the top. I'm going to start with what
so many of you asked me about. I didn't even
get to it in the mail bag because we had
a whole bunch of what I would call a plethora
of different items of people who had sent in several
days in a row. But Benjamin Att and Yahoo, Israel's
Prime Minister, has been talking about the path forward in
(00:56):
the war in Gaza. He did that during a meeting
yesterday with the military Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Zamir.
The general presented options for continuing the military campaign in Gaza.
Net Yahoo also told some Israeli reporters his office did
anyway that the PM might expand those operations across all
(01:20):
of the Gaza strip. So there's a lot of pressure
over the starvation in Gaza, but that doesn't seem to
move what's happening with Net and Yahoo at a meeting
of the UN Security Council. New York diplomats denounced to Moss,
but also called for Israel to announce the humanitarian crisis
in Gaza. Look, even President Trump has said this that,
(01:42):
my god, you look at the video and you can
see the big eyes, the starving kids, and it turns
your stomach. It's you're not humanif that you have absolutely
no reaction to that. So I think this whole thing
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You might have missed this. The Trump administration is going
(02:05):
to make some foreign visitors pay cash deposits of up
to fifteen thousand dollars to help ensure they don't overstay
their visas, because you know how we've had problems with
that and occasionally someone gets arrested for something and then
it turns out, whoops, they overstayed their visa. In fact,
a few people who have murdered some innocent Americans. That's
been the case right where it just was one of
(02:26):
those things where it was investigated and it infuriated people
that they were in the country illegally because their visa
had expired eight, nine, ten months ago, or even a year.
That is a way to curb that to say, Okay,
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here's how much you got to pay. You know, period,
that's it. So it's a conversation that is definitely definitely
being had. Meanwhile, in other corners of the US, in Utah,
the drought is so bad that the whole state is
(03:08):
really suffering with what other states, some other states are
dealing with, and that is the concerns over fire. And
you know, over the next seven to ten days, there's
going to be more weather patterns that look like they're
going to be super dry. So they have a second
(03:31):
problem besides worrying about is it going to be a
red flagger? Is this going to be put out? If
Utah doesn't break the trend before winter, the state's going
to lose a good chunk of their snowpack to dry ground.
Think of what people do and how much money they
spend when they cod Utah to ski in Detroit, in
(03:53):
some other areas of the Midwest and in the Northeast.
Still the problem persists over the Canadian wildfires, where it's
almost danger well, it is dangerous for people with asthma
or other conditions to go to go outside, so they're
being told not to go outside, and then you go
(04:14):
to California. The Gifford Fire is a wildfire burning in
that area of California that's destroyed over eighty two thousand
acres eighty two thousand acres. It started on Friday afternoon.
It's in the Los Padres National Forest right there along Sulvang, California,
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and so people have had to be evacuated in the
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties that are near there.
And it's tough to get the flames because you're talking
about thick brush and rugged terrain. There's about eight hundred
structures that are threatened. Here's what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
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Speaker 3 (05:09):
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Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean that gives you the sense of truck scurrying
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and you had a thousand firefighters on that fire. It's
really the train is what is so super super super
super difficult Epstein Files. It's besides Texas Regis stictream and
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the Titan sub report that guess what the CEO was
responsible for? What happened in sinking that sub something that
everybody suspected and that was talked about before. But the
Epstein Files that story's not going away. Julaane Maxwell told
the Department of Justice that the President never did anything
concerning anything around her, So the House Oversight Chair issued
(05:59):
some penis for the Epstein files. Like I said, it's
not going away. She moved prisons, and that's now become
part of the conversation.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Why was she moved to what you would.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Call a softer prison, what they call a cupcake prison
or club fed versus where she was serving a twenty
year sentence for sex trafficking and doing the dirty work
in corralling she was convicted of that the young women
for Jeffrey Epstein even participating in some of the nonsense,
(06:34):
the horrible.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Tragedy that it is.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And Trump, when he was asked about the whole Epstein thing,
just said what he's been saying all along.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm focused on making deals.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm not focused on conspiracy theories that you are.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And it's true, he's not focused on And nobody's even asked.
He said so many times he hasn't been asked about
a part. And every time he keeps getting asked, has
anybody asked for a pardon? He says the same thing
over and over again. No, nobody has asked for a pardon.
So the President was busy signing an executive order for
a new task force, a task force working on the Olympics. Ah,
(07:25):
the best who doesn't like the Olympics, right, go USA
And it's gonna be in Los Angeles twenty twenty eight.
And the key thing is making it smooth because the
country is what gets highlighted. Los Angeles gets highlighted, but
so does the US. So many people come in. A
lot of money is poured into the Olympics, and a
(07:48):
lot of money can be made if it's done right,
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on the Olympics too.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So the task force is formed. It really kind of.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Surrounds the people that are part of the cabinet, which
makes sense if you think of the positions like homeland security,
the things that you would be concerned about. And there's
plenty of time if you do the math. So and
this is what it takes to put on the Olympics,
that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
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including the fact that, yes, I am a huge NFL fan.
It's no secret we do nail the score when we
get into the season. Nail the score is such a
fun thing and I'll get everybody prep for that. I
know if you're listening to it to us in Saint Louis, boy,
you want to be part of this in Daytona, in
(12:48):
Portland and a lot of other places. And I'll tell
you how you can be part of it when we
get closer. But I like the fact that we've got
the preseason games coming up. Yes, it's only preseason, but
there's something about that football is in the air, and
I watch this. I watched the debut of this season's
HBO Hard Knocks, which features the Buffalo Bill's here's a
(13:13):
little sneak of it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
We got what spreads on? Where do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I just think it's the freshest that they're going to be.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
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give me one outside. The best thing that you can
do between a quarterback and receivers have that open mind
of communication, understanding each other's expectations of when I'm thinking
of releasing a ball or where he's expecting that ball
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to be, and then going out there and trying to
marry them up.
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me to be on certain routes.
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are what are we not seeing?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
But I really feel like.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You do get I think they get used to the cameras,
and I think you do get a different version. Like
I'll tell you, I don't want to spoil it for
everybody if you're gonna watch it.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I really liked it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So you had Pagoula, the team owner, who was there
when Josh Allen went to look at the new stadium,
and it was there were really some funny moments there,
but also you got to you got to see the
new stadium and what that's going to look like, and
how they're going to keep out swirling winds and what
(14:46):
they're doing and the innovative ideas it was.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I have to say, I bet it's going to be
pretty spectacular.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So this is their last season where they are now,
and then next year they they'll be able to I
guess the whole after go through the whole season, shift
to the new to the new stadium, and it is
pretty spectacular. And it's a really good episode of Hard Knocks.
It's just kind of a look behind what goes on
(15:15):
in an NFL team. We saw that with the Jets
last year. All right, speaking of what goes on in
an NFL team, the money situation, that part of it.
Who's signed, who's not signed, who's getting you know, who's
got their extensions, all of that comes into play, and
it definitely is a big story. When it comes to
the Dallas Cowboys. There are a lot of fans that
(15:37):
are pretty upset with Jerry Jones, one because they don't
think some people don't think he should be the GM
and he's the problem. And then the other thing is
Micah Parsons. He is not signed. There has been no
talk of a deal, you know whatsoever, and this and
he gets asked about it every day, And as somebody
(15:58):
who covered the Cowboys for long time, Jerry will answer
he knows how to answer questions. He'll talk to the reporters.
He never really ducked reporters or reporting when I covered
him ever, and I even covered him before I went
to Dallas. He used to be pretty gracious about coming
on my show in California. But anyway, it's not about that.
It's about here's how we answered the question of Parsons.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So there's always always negotiation, and the negotiation is to
put the best team on the field, and we it's
many times it's not even a question of deserving. And
then today's salary cap. You've got to have either art.
You can't have it all.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
There.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You go either or so what does that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
What does that mean? A couple of moves that I'll
mention just quickly. Here, the Chargers sign Keenan Allen, the
six time Pro Bowler receiver, returning to LA after a
brief stint with the Bears. So it's a one year,
eight point five million dollars deal for him. That's not bad, right,
money money, Money's.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Work many many many many many money.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Money.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I mean, he's thirty three, spend his first what dozen
NFL seasons with the Chargers before last year in Chicago.
Sometimes that whole bringing him back thing really can really
really can work out. And then there's this story, speaking
of contenders, I think the Vikings could be a contender.
(17:34):
Jordan Addison suspended. So the NFL slammed the Vikings wide
out with a three game ban for violating a substance
abuse policy. So Minnesota is going to start the twenty
twenty five season without one of their key offensive playmakers.
So maybe I got to take him off the board
as potentials. He's going to miss the Vikings games against
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the Bears, the Falcons, and the Bengals. And this is
all a result of his arrest in July of twenty
twenty four and suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Right, so it goes back, It goes back to that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We could talk more about the NFL, but let's instead
jump to Major League Baseball, and here's some scores for
you that are coming down the pike. I know we
have Philly fans, right, So the Phillies blank, the Orioles
five nothing. I'm a Philly fan and I was looking
(18:36):
at what.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
The Phills are doing. I mean, they've got sixty five wins.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So Max Kepler, Brandon marsh Homeward, both of those guys homeward,
and you know, it was truly about getting those runs
up there, and you had extra runs that were also
smacked on. But Kepler hit a two run homer in
the second inning. When you get them early, that can
(19:01):
make a dramatic difference. Just a little pad for just
a little pad for the picture, right, Okay, Jumping on
a couple of others for you too, that people asked about.
When you're asking me, I'm going to do it. And
I know we have big Cardinal fans here. So Dodgers
at Dodger Stadium eat the Cardinals twelve six. The final there,
(19:23):
and you know, part of that was great hitting in
the mid innings that made the big difference against the
against the Cards, and then early on it was pitching
for Los Angeles, that's for sure. So the Dodgers picked
up their sixty sixth win. The Rays beat the Angels
(19:46):
seven three. The Mariners beat the White Sox eight three.
How about the Mariners not allow to talk about them,
but that was their sixty first win, sixty first win.
Yankees finally had Aaron Judge back, but the Rangers got
the better of them to zip the final score there.
(20:07):
And you know, it's interesting because of course Yankees have
fans everywhere, kind of like how the Dallas Cowboys, the
whole America's team thing. They're either the team you love
to hate or the team you love, even if you
live in rival areas. And Nathan Yuvaldi pitched eight really
good innings and that made a huge difference. I mean,
(20:28):
he has like the most insane er. It's like a
one thirty five something like that. It's just crazy. And
of course Aaron Judge was back. Aaron Judge was zero
four three with two strikeouts as the designated hitter. He
was finally activated from the he's finally activated from the
(20:52):
ten day injured list. He had a strained no, it
was a it was a string a tenon strain in
his right l So he started he's going to start
throwing on Wednesday, and they're going to see how long
it takes to get him back into the outfield. But
at least they put him in a spot where he
(21:12):
could jump back in and get a crack at hitting.
But the Rangers shut that down. So good on the Rangers.
Let's say, I can squeeze one more in for you,
a couple more in for you. And in the eleventh
the Padres and the Diamondbacks, it looks like they're going
(21:35):
to lock this up, but the Padres ten to five,
so they broke it open.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
At the tail end of that, the Astros beat the
Marlins seven to three, and the Twins pick up their
fifty third by knocking off the Tigers. Doing that on
the road at Comerica Park. I know that we have
some Twins fans in the house, so to speak. So
the AL Central leading Tigers lost for just the third
(22:04):
time in nine games. They've been pretty they've been pretty hot,
and for the Twins, it was nice to pick that
up because they're kind of in that sort of rebuilding phase,
if you will, so that was a big win for them, a.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Good win for them.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
All Right, we're hopping over to the other side, and
I'm taking you to a couple of interesting places to
meet some really fascinating authors, the Bahamas and at the
tail end of the show to the UK meet you
on the flip. I am very pleased to welcome to
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author's corner Alfred Brathwaite. He has written this book that
makes me want to get in a kayak right now,
and you will want to get this book for sure.
The also Ran but a Champion, The Travels of a
Kayak from Karaakhu to Wahoo, and you can get it
for a song. You can get the kindle version, hardcover paperback.
And he has got such a good sense of humor.
(23:33):
He's in the background you can probably could have probably
heard him when we first jumped on. Alfred, thanks so
much from joining us from the Bahamas and coming on
the show.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, I thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let's talk about your adventures. Boy, you have had some
great adventures. Is that what made you want to put
this all in a book.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well, the initial purpose was to preserve what I had
experienced as a child, from the age of knowledge, so
to speak, to about eleven years, and the impression gained
(24:17):
by me in later years that what I was exposed
to was a child was being lost and I did
not wish for that to happen. So the book actually
started with adventures, so to speak, but within a village
(24:38):
of a small unknown island, and it involved not only
the events that were taking place, which at the time,
you know, didn't make much of a difference to me,
and the culture that was a part of the events,
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and of course the people that I was exposed to.
And I felt within myself that somehow, if I can
play a part in preserving these things, at least I
would have felt pleased with myself. It was only after
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writing about my homeland that I continued with the adventures
as a physician so to speak, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
And it's so interesting in your book.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And as I said the title, you know, when I
talked about the very beginning of it, they also ran
but a champion, and you talk about champion in a
much different way, not like a winner, but bigger than that,
broader than that. Am I right about jack of all trades,
that the ordinary becomes somehow you become a master, and
(25:54):
even if it's just for once doing heroic deeds.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Well, the title of the book, I would say, originated
from my alma mater, my school song, but with inputs,
so to speak, from my mother. My mother was the
driving force behind whatever I did up to my age
(26:23):
as a man, and she always hinted that I would
not be a champion because I did foolish things at times,
and she would say, oh, you will get ninety five,
but you will never get a hundred. And I wanted
to prove her wrong on that, although I accepted that
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the meaning of champion can change. But the school song,
with just one word different. The school song was the
also ram and the champion. Each one can but do
(27:07):
his best. The winners displayed depends on the effort of
all the rest to be in the van is not
all for each has to play his role. The team
(27:27):
wins the match at football, though, one man must kick
the goal. And that's what was a stanza in my
school song and it has stayed with me since then.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Wow, and that makes sense from what you're describing and
you talk about in the book Kariaku Go, you know,
growing up there but then leaving still at a young age,
and then coming back and seeing the differences. What were
the big changes, because you went into a really vast
description about it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, the cultural aspect of things in my youth came naturally.
It was spontaneous, and citizens got together, natives got together,
and they did these things every year, even though one
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person might be the leader. But then it was like
if the government got involved, there was a committee to
plan things, and that spontaneity was being lost, and I
didn't like it, although perhaps it was better, but somehow
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it didn't. It was a kosher with me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And again in talking about that, you also take us
on all these different adventures, like you mentioned to me,
the adventures in it, and certainly that's a big part
of it. You're as as a boy, what you did,
where you went as you grew older, and places that
you saw from beyond the Bahamas, from you know, even
(29:14):
dancing reggae dancing in Jamaica while getting your medical education
as you mentioned, and then the practice in Grenada and
what happened there. Do you feel so fortunate that you
got to experiences had these experiences in these great cultures.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, I feel very fortunate. Although part of it was planned.
I received a scholarship to study medicine in Jamaica, but
the funds from the scholarship were not sufficient for the
entire course, and the government of Grenada at that time
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I did the rest of the funds, but always with
the understanding not only by them but by me that
it was a commitment to return to Grenader. So, having
finished my medical school, I made the decision that I
should see as much of the world as possible towards
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my specialization in medicon in a branch of medicine before
returning to Grenado. And it was because of that that
I went to Nassau to do my internship. I went
to New York, I went to Hawaii, I went to Canada,
and then I returned to Grenader. That was never in
(30:47):
doubt in my mind. I was going back to Grenader,
but things just did not work out. Over two or
three years in Grenader and fortunately in a conference someone
came to me and say, hey, are you a pathologists?
(31:07):
I said yes. He said my country needs a pathologist
right now, and that was Surinam. And I didn't know
where Surinam is. So my first question to him is
what is whey Surinam? And well, you know, I realized
it was in South America and what have you. But
(31:29):
the initial commitment was to return to my home Grenader
and political situations made it difficult to stay. And having
gone to Surinam, it was not the intention to spend
my life in Surinam. So I took a three year
contract to practice pathology, including forensic pathology, and to be
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the head lecturer for the medical students at the University
of Surina and in years was finished. I left to
go back to return to the Bahamas because my spouse
happens to be from the Bahamas.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
When people read your book, what do you hope they
take away?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Ah, even without knowing how, but having a desire to
accomplish something must remain with someone. Because when I said
(32:41):
I was going to be a doctor, I had no
idea how one was going to become a doctor. I
knew nothing except that well maybe a doctor in Karaokeo,
the only doctor there was only one might have impressed me.
But I honestly do not know why I decided that
(33:03):
I wanted to be a doctor. I don't know if
it's because I wanted to help people. I don't know
if it's because it was maybe a means of making money.
I just wanted to be a doctor. And for me
to say to you, well it was this reason or
that reason, I would be dishonest if I said anything
like that. But once it was implanted in my brain,
(33:28):
and with that determination not only from myself, but what
was instilled in me by that lady I called my mother,
that propelled me along the way towards success in a sense.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, and yeah, and you can tell when you read
when you read the book, and it does make you
want to take the great adventure and not be afraid
to take the leap. I think that's definitely one of
the big takeaways from reading your book. Alfred, thank you
so much for coming on.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, my mother on the day I was leaving Carrooko
to go to Jamaica to study medicine, my mother said,
don't you ever come back unless you're a doctor. And
on many an occasion I faltered and I had to
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pick myself up and kept going all over again. So
I thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Oh, thank you, what an inspiration.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Thank you, Bye bye bye bye.
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Speaker 1 (38:04):
Joining us this time around on author's corner is Monique Wargeous.
We are so thrilled to have her and we're going
to London for this conversation. The name of her book
check this out. Is it's okay to feel like this
suppressed thoughts of an introvert. I think automatically right now,
many of you are relating to this and we haven't
even started this conversation. You're on America tonight with me
(38:27):
Kate Delady. Monique, thanks so much for coming on now.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
What was it that drove you to open yourself up
to write this book?
Speaker 11 (38:41):
So I think I love it is this.
Speaker 16 (38:44):
So within my last career, while I was in so,
I guess you have moments. I was always been someone
who's very reserved. I had moments where I just I
felt like I wanted to make a change because you
only pee that things aren't quite working out to make
a change, and I think I try different things to
(39:05):
try and do that. But then when I was finally
in a position where I had to take a career break,
I think that was finally time that I was finally
free enough to I guess, slow down, relax, just just assess.
And I've always wanted to write the book as well,
So then just being that free finally, because again I've
never been that free ever to just really sit down
(39:26):
and say, okay, let's how how how can we make
this work? So I think, so that's yeah. So that's
why I decided to write the book. And I feel
like I could based on my story, I felt like
I could help others as well, because I guess I
feel like we live in a world today where people
are afraid to be themselves or they feel like there's
consequences to being themselves. And I used to be that
(39:48):
person as well, so just being so I feel a
lot more open and authentic nowadays in terms of how
idpress myself and just being so aware now of barriers
that I PRETENTI we create by being reserved and not
being as open and things like that.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
One of the things that you and I talked about
is growing up in Jamaica and coming to England, so
feeling the difference is there, and then going off to
university and you talk about that in your book, and
is that all part of that journey that made you
be more reserved and put on that kind of shield that,
as you say, most of us walk around with.
Speaker 16 (40:25):
So in the book, So this slight twist. So what
you'll see in the books that you will see the
dark figure, which is what I've used to describe.
Speaker 11 (40:33):
Who I'm speaking of.
Speaker 16 (40:36):
And so I think as we grew up in Jamaica,
I did not grow up with this person, and then
we came to the UK, but then it was kind
of like from there was five years in hell, what
it felt like and just the abuse that would come
from that whether it's the words that's being said or
the just things that were happening, and just there's always
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being that on or I've always felt different. So, for example,
one of the keys thinking that I've said is so
they say I'm in the room, there's about twenty people
in a room, and there's something that's being discussed, and
then everyone will be in agreement. But then I will
have a different view. But then because of how shy
I was at the time, and then I'm thinking, well,
if everyone's in agreement, then that must be the correct
(41:22):
way of thinking. So then there's no point me saying
what I have to say. And I remember I had
a manager one time, and I guess he realized how
I was kind of coming the past in those meetings,
and he came over to me and he said when
he's everything okay, and I was like, yeah, everything's fine,
and then he was like, do you what's your thoughts
on what we discussed today? And I said to him
and then he said, oh, I think that's the idea
(41:44):
that we'll go with. And then that shocked me because
again I was thinking, even when you have okay, I
have the lowest self esteem as well. So you're like, well,
if everyone's thinking that way, that must be the correct
word of thinking. But then so then again, and I
guess that the way he managed helped me to, I guess,
come up with mysh a little bit more and to
speak up more evil when it is different as opposed
to going at the crowd.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
And so stories like that are in the book are
we throughout the book, and again it's it's okay to
feel like the suppressed thoughts of an introvert. You can
get the book on Amazon, Barnes and over wherever great
books are sold. And we're not going to tell everyone everything,
but give us another story, another example of how you felt.
Speaker 11 (42:27):
How I felt.
Speaker 16 (42:29):
So I think one of one of the peopleital moments
in the book is when I lost my hair. So
I'm someone I have always been a person at school
who had a different hair style every day. And I
think there was one moment I guess, you know, if
you could ever turn out hands of time. So I
remember my sister wanted to burn my hair one tom
and I always said no, no, no, and then I
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finally gave in, and it felt like from that moment
that was the beginning off the end. So I think
I was around eighteen, and I actually started to lose
my hair and it got to a point where it
couldn't It wasn't containing where you were, so the only
option was to be was to cut it. And that
made me feel so because you only feel like you
I've lost my identity in a way because being that
(43:12):
person had different hairstyles and just couldn't do that anymore,
and also being female as well and having no hair
as well. So I actually hid in the house for
about three or so years at the time, but I
just didn't like the look or I didn't want to
be mistaken for a manner or anything like that. But
whereas now I love my hair, but it always took
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time to kind of grow into it. So that's that's
one of the moments about half less. And then you
just understand the strength in that story and not being because.
Speaker 11 (43:41):
I used to.
Speaker 16 (43:42):
I used to also be an overthinker, so you know,
feeling too embarrassing is that something to even be am
I allowed to feel like this or but then but
then just feeling that freeness And now I've been able
to utilize that story to help still be therapeust at
moments for myself, but then also to help others based
on as are going through at the time. So that's
one of the main things I wanted to do to
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write the book to help based on these feelings and
just again being a thing to be like this.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
What was the most challenging part for you in writing
the story and telling some of those stories.
Speaker 16 (44:16):
The most challenging part, I would say, again with my
overthinking self, I think is just thinking about what my
family would think when the book came out, And honestly
that was just me overthinking because they really loved it
when it had come out. I'm am of my sister,
so it was just me overthinking. But then just knowing
time because everyone experienced this thing differently, and you know,
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you don't want to intentionally hurt anyone that you love,
so just seeing how they received it obviously really took
the pressure off to know that they and honestly even
remembering the stories differently as well, because again, even though
you want to experience the same thing, everyone remembers something differently.
I felt for them, so I think that that was
the moment I would say this part family would have felt.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
When people read the book, What do you hope they take.
Speaker 16 (45:02):
Away again, I hope they take away that there is
value in all of us and we should we shouldn't
be afraid to embrace our differences, got differences of what
make the world their own.
Speaker 11 (45:13):
So that's exactly what I would like to wanted to
pick them it.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
And it's interesting because that's really what we've been talking
about here, and this is absolutely the essence of your book,
There's no question about it. So I would have to
think meeting you before the book and then meeting you
after the book, is it quite different for you? Has
that been part of that journey for you?
Speaker 11 (45:32):
That?
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Wow, things have really opened up in a much different way.
Speaker 16 (45:37):
I'm honestly you know, I'm still on the journey as well,
but I'm definitely a lot more confident now, definitely a
lot more open. Just I guess it's just to have
a height of awareness as well. So I said to
being that reserved and the barriers didn't It wasn't away
of the barriers. I was created before even meetings of someone.
Speaker 11 (45:54):
So that's been there's been.
Speaker 16 (45:55):
Conscious of that now and then how I'd like to
be received and how I'd like to be treated as well.
So so now I say a big difference of the
confidence from me and having.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
That confidence now in the way you are in the world.
Is it so much easier to deal with whatever? Walking
into a crowd, walking into a group, jumping into the
middle of a conversation and not thinking, ooh, maybe I
shouldn't say this because that's not it's like you told
us about the work situation. Oh well, if everybody's going
that way, I guess I should just do the same thing.
And you're not doing that now, right.
Speaker 16 (46:26):
No, Honestly, it does feel a lot better because so
and You're right, I no longer feel the need to
suppress anything. So I will just say say, in my
opinion if I have a difference of opinion, because and
be'st think because and I guess that's the way. Contident
will help with that as well, because we're not all
here to have the same exact opinion.
Speaker 11 (46:45):
All the differences are what makes everything special.
Speaker 16 (46:49):
So I definitely enjoy the aspect of this being able
to express myself and at the time that i'm I'm
feed in the thing as well as opposed to let
it go for a couple of days, months, weeks, so
we sayeah.
Speaker 11 (47:00):
So I definitely feel the difference now.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
And you mentioned about your family that you worried about
how they would take it, but then of course they
embrace the book and that's a great feeling. So that
probably gives you more confidence. This book is living and
breathing it out there in the world. Does that feel good?
Speaker 11 (47:16):
It does not, really what it does, And so I want.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
To tell everybody again. You can get it on Amazon,
Barnes and Noble. And you've got an instagram that people
can go to.
Speaker 16 (47:28):
Yes, so my instagram is Monique dot a dot words
the author.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
That's easy to remember.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
So I'm thinking, Monique, and I asked you this too
when we were talking off the air, I bet there's
another book maybe coming in the future.
Speaker 16 (47:44):
No, that definitely is an Honestly, I can't wait to
write it.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Well, we can't wait to see what's next. Go out
and get this book. What fun speaking to you.
Speaker 11 (47:52):
Thank you so much, No, thank you so much for
having me again.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
Great to talk to Monique there and.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Listening to what she had to say, Thinking that certainly
her book is transformative, it is healing, and there is
a reflectiveness in her book. And I think so many
people are going to get charged up by hearing her
story and her journey too, as we talked about in
the interview.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
So go get that book now.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
It's on Amazon and Barnes and over anywhere great books
are sold
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