Unveiling the Power of Comics in Addressing Mental Health

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She's not on deck yet.
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Hey, it's.
It's so much appreciated.
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Hey, what's going on, Whoopty?
Nothing much.
Just getting comfortable.
That's what they call it these days.
I didn't know the way.
I just ran up in here.
But the ship can't leave yet,and so.

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No, but what's.
But it's.
It's Thursday.
I literally did not realize itwas Thursday because it was so much
going on.
It's.
It's been a.
It's been a week.
It's been a busy week.
Like, I like.
Mayhem knows He's.
He's wrestling with his little one.
Down there washing hair now soshe can do the.

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The Huntrix braid for herfirst day of school.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Always the first day of school.
That was mine.
Hair.
Adding hair to her hair.
Like, why are you adding hair?
You.
You have long hair.
Why not?
Because I try.
Like, this is intentional.

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Like, I have hair.
It's growing.
I. I just choose to keep it bald.
Just.
Okay.
It's your thing.
And then finding loose haireverywhere and Me and my son are
like, so whoopty.
What's going on in your neckof the woods?
Nothing.

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Pacific Northwest with all therain and the flooding.
I had to swim to work thismorning and I had to swim back on
my way.
I had to take a boat back tothe house.
So once again, if the power goes.
Out, geez, I'm like, yeah,look, that Hurricane Aaron is not

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here to joke around.
So for those who stay in theCarolinas, battered down, batting
down the hatches and all thatgreat stuff, I hope you stay safe
out there.
I want to give outcongratulations to a certain couple.
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What?
Just a.
Last month.
Last month.
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One of my favorite cosplaying couples.
Because if you've seen themcosplay, never disappointed.
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They do a lot of work withPsycho Image Films.

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They actually did a short thatwe reviewed on here.
It was.
It was.
It was a love story, but it was.
It was a short story.
It was a love story, but itwas a zombie flick.
And I'll be damn.
From the.
From the score to the colorpalettes and everything, I'm like,
this.
This is really damn good.

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That was a phenomenal piece ofwork, especially for the short time
frame in which they had totell so much story.
Okay, so.
But we actually have a guesthere today, and this brother is.
He's a mental health advocate.
And we're going to be talkingabout mental health in the African

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American community, the nerdcommunity in comics.
Where do we see it most often?
All the above.
Halston Canty is in the building.
What's going on, Halston?
Hey, how you doing today?
How you doing?
I went over your bio, my guy,and this is what I can appreciate.

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You do the work, you do thework, and I appreciate that.
So thanks for that.
So let me just give everybodyout here a quick rundown.
He runs a program calledJourney to Manhood.
He's working with the youth onthe south side of Syracuse.
He was the president of theorganization called the bgsa, which
is the black grad studentorganization at Syracuse University.

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He's also part of the Veteranorganization, where veterans had
to tell their story of beingin the military on stage for a verbal
stage play.
That what he says that alwayssold out.
He's a counselor for also fora flag football coach in Brooklyn,
working with middle schoolkids, dealing with Everything from
anxiety, being bullied, angerissues, trauma, and much more.
He's an actor and a musician.

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He's also a life coach.
The man's got a resume.
I'm just saying.
He's also a life coach.
He keeps his life coaching services.
He's an educator for theOpportunity program at a community
college upstate.
But he's also a geek and alsodo life like the rest of us.
Halston, dude, amazing.

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I appreciate that.
Thank you so much for havingme here.
First and foremost, it's an honor.
I, I love the work that youall do.
So continue just doing great things.
Appreciate it.
Look, we, look we, what wepreach here amongst encouragement
and, and keeping peopleentertained and educated is we talk

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about mental health from timeto time and we try to keep our people
exposed, you know, to talkabout the things that really don't
get to be said too much too often.
So we appreciate.
So amongst the many thingsyou've already.
Done.
What brought you to those stages?

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What, what, what kicked thiswhole thing off.
In regards to what, which likebeing a part of the, the comics or
just like.
What do you mean?
Also as far as starting offthe mental health journey?
Oh yeah.
So.

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You know, I, I, I grew up, youknow, my father was a workaholic,
but in the process of that, myfather became an alcoholic, right?
And my mom, my mom is, is from Jamaica.
So a lot of times, you know,my mom was very, just cut and dry.
Like, listen, you go toschool, get an education and that's

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it.
And my dad was like, we don'twant to talk about nothing else but,
you know, work, work, work,work, work.
Right?
So a lot of times for megrowing up, it was trying to figure
out who I was, you know, whereI fit in and just the things that
I was dealing with internally,like not really having a place to
like, speak out, not reallyhaving a place to talk.

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If you don't know anythingabout Syracuse, just know it's not
a big culture up there interms of like Caribbean culture.
Like, it's, it's just you,you're, you're hard pressed, trying
to find anybody that prettymuch is, can identify with you in
certain spaces.
So just like having thatinternally and having to deal with

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that, but then coming outsideand dealing with like, you know,
the neighborhood, lack ofresources, all of those things that
you typically hear aboutwithin the poverty, impoverished
communities and trying tofigure out just who I was as a person.
But one day, you know, my momended up, you know, buying me some
comic books and it was the XMen, comic books.

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I'll never forget that.
And then from there, like, mymind totally just changed, right?
It just.
Totally, just expanded.
But I got into.
So I know you asked about howdid I get into the mental health?
But it was just like.
That was like my journey intojust becoming, like, I've started
realizing, like, oh, this is aworld that I fit in.

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This is a world that I wantedto be a part of.
This is a world that escapesme from just this.
This world of not knowing whoI am, not being able to find someone
to.
That I can identify with, notbeing able to talk to my father and
my mother.
Closing the door.
And once I closed the door andI got into these books, I totally
just drifted into a.

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Just a world that was, youknow, just continuously pulled me
in.
I'm learning characters, I'mlearning who they are.
I'm learning names, I'mlearning stories and origins.
I'm identifying and relating.
So as I got older, I startedrealizing, like, you know, I started
reading the Bible more andthings of that nature.
I started just looking at anyand everything that was just taking

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me from my reality.
And from there, I kind ofstarted just realizing, like, you
know, I. I have something that I.
That's inside of me, somethingI want to discuss, something that
I feel that makes me feel different.
And I started just gettinginto more of, like, trying to be
aware of who I am as a person.
And, I mean, I would go to thelibrary for hours and read and just
figure things out.

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And long story short, I wentto college and I ended up learning
about social work.
And I wanted to see more ofwhat that was about.
I wanted to try that and justsee how that can help me as who I
am as a person, just what Ihave to offer.
Just trying to figure out thetools and things that I've.
I've been dealing with.

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And that's how I pretty muchgot into it.
Just trying to figure moreabout myself because I had a lot
of moments in life of rage,anger, you know, just like, getting
fired from things, ruining relationships.
And I said, you know, I. Ihave to figure out I'm gonna have
to save myself, because, youknow, there's.
I don't have any mentor that Ican look to that can help me out.

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So I had to figure out, youknow, what I'm gonna do to save myself.
And so I went that route tolearn more about mental health as
I got into college and socialwork and things of that nature.
And that's how I got into it.
That's How I got into it.
You know, not a lot of peoplethink that down that path.
And.
And is.
It's very interesting whenpeople like.

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Like you just mentioned comicsfor a lot of people, especially the
blurred community that islike, that's you.
When you mention the X Men.
There are a lot of blurds whorecognize themselves in X Men even
now, what we deal with intoday's reality.
So, Navy, you got a question?

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You would put me out there, See?
See how you treat me?
I would.
I would go to second command,but she's got a bat down the hatches
real quick.
First of all, Mr. Halton, sir,it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
Thank you for your service.
You know, as.
As you're part of the veteransorganization I saw.
So bravo.
Thank you for that.

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Question 1.
Can I have that poster in the back?
Because I need to add that tothe wall.
You know, it's.
I ain't quite covered theentire wall space, but as a blurb
and definitely someone who isdefinitely an advocate for mental
health, what has been one ofthe most challenging obstacles in

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that.
That you still deal with todayas a blurt and as a black man.
For one, Getting black peopleto understand that it's not about
weakness, it's not about, youknow, being less masculine or it's

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not about, you know, being soft.
It's actually a strength,right, to go and actually talk about
how you feel, to expressyourself to.
To just get things off yourchest and off your mind that you
probably don't have anopportunity, you know, you probably
may not have someone in yourcorner to really just to talk to

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about your issues.
Like.
Like, if you really want to be real.
Heart disease is like, numberone thing that kills us.
Cancer is another number twothing that kills us.
Strokes are like the numberthree things that kills us, right?
So not having that communitywhere I can express and talk to and
reach out and be able to speakto people, that in itself holds us

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back, right?
Like, just sitting there andkeeping that inside and not feeling
like I have a community,because with comic books, right,
you have that world.
Like, I identify with thesepeople over here who.
And I can't say it foreverybody, but for some people, it's
like, I didn't fit in.
I didn't.
I couldn't find my circle.
I couldn't find the peoplethat, you know, that represented

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me, right?
And.
And when you're even coming upin certain neighborhoods, it's like
people only either, like thethugs and the gangsters, right, or
they, like, you Know, I don'tknow, just the people that are kind
of like, you know, just livinga wild kind of lifestyle in certain
spaces, or just those who justseem to, like, are always doing good
things and being popular andrepresent, you know, and then, like,

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there's like, you know, kidswho are in between trying to figure
out, like, well, who am I?
You know, how do I, you know,get a chance to, like, get people
to see me?
What can I do, you know, totalk to somebody?
So it's very.
It's very hard to get peopleto, like, reach out and, like, really
find someone to talk to.
And people being comfortableto talk about their feelings and
to talk about who they are.

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Right.
Like, we got 30 of ourcommunity doesn't go to.
I mean, does therapy.
And within that, it's like 10,15 is black women.
And then like 5 to 6% is men.
Black men who go to therapy.
So the number gets lower andlower in that spectrum.
So it's kind of like, that'sthe hard part of, like, really talking
about therapy and gettingpeople to discuss it, because what.

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What do some people do?
They find toxic ways to take care.
Of themselves or they lockinside themselves.
They lock inside themselves.
Right.
It's really.
Out loud or not at all.
Right.
And as someone who grew up inthe sphere, when you mentioned comics.
Comics was the gateway for meto, you know, go on my blur journey
to this very day.

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And I still remember theobstacles that I had to go through,
but when it came to a momentof pain, I didn't have anyone that
I could explain it to thatwouldn't look at me sideways or give
me that eye, like, take a nap.
You'll be okay, right?
I don't want to go sleep.
Let me.
Let me talk about this, okay?
I can sleep at night, but Igot a problem in front of me while

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I'm holding this comic book inmy hand.
So.
Yeah, and that's big.
This for you, by the way, Chris.
Shout out.
Oh, well, I'll be waiting forthat one.

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What's going on, brother?
Like Navy said, thank you foryour service.
First and foremost.
My.
My question, like, I. I talk alot about mental health because of
my own challenges with mental health.
And I find it easier todemystify by just being up front

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and.
And conversational aboutwhatever it is that I may be going
through.
Not trying to expose and puttoo much out there.
But, like, like we weresaying, the.
The people need to see it inorder to.
To be able to say, oh, okay,that's something I can identify with.

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If he's able to do it, maybeI'm able to do it too.
What, I guess drives youpersonally to work with the.
I'm, I'm assuming, you know,working with the veterans group because
you're a veteran yourself, butthe, the journey to manhood, like,

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what has.
You want to reach out and work.
With the youth, man, I'm notgonna lie.
I've always have a given heartever since I was a kid, you know,
like, I've always wanted to,like, be in a position to like, help
people.
And I just, I've always feltlike I saw the world differently.
I've seen different things.

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So I'm like, if I have this,this way of thinking, somebody else
needs to know this information.
It's not to say that they'renot going to let, they're going to
listen to me, right?
Because, you know, especiallyif you're growing up in like, these
bad neighborhoods or whatever,you who do the kids are going to
pay attention to, they'regoing to pay attention to the people
that probably got the money,you know, get all the girls right,

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that hang out and do all ofthe, the things that might not be
so good, so kosher for thefamilies at that particular time,
but they also need to see thatit's other people out there who is
just as cool and, you know,can, can talk, can, can go through
things and also be able toexpress, you know, like, hey, man,

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I've been through that before.
I know where that journey goes.
I know where you're headed.
And down that road, like, Imeet kids who get shot and then they're
talking about like, hey, I'mready to go retaliate.
I'm ready to go back out there and.
And hurt somebody and killsomebody, right?
And then being able to like,you know, think about that, think
about the long run on wherethat's going to lead you and where
that's going to take you, right?

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Like, maybe you can put that.
That energy into writing yourown story, or maybe you can put that
energy in creating music orput that energy into a project or
something within your ownneighborhood, right?
Like, and I'm a.
And I'm a prime example ofsomeone that's coming from those
type of communities andchoosing a different path.
Like, a lot of times,especially growing up in the early

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90s, it was like, what are yougonna do?
Either, like Biggie said,either you sling and crack rock or
you got a wicked jump shot.
And that was like the thing,like, which road are you gonna take
within this space, right?
Like, which world do I see myself?
But I'm like, man, I'm a wholedifferent person.
I'm an example of anotherroles you can take and still feel

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like a man.
Still be secure in who you areand still live a.
You know, go through yourtrials and tribulations.
It won't be easy, but, youknow, you can still be impactful
and still make a difference inthis world.
So that's where I.
That's where I'm at a lot oftimes with it.
And I just want to make sureif I can, like, save somebody or
not save someone, but helpsomeone see a different light, then

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that, you know, that means alot to me.
That's what's dope, lady.
Mandalore.
Sorry, I had to unmute myself.
I know.
You better therapy them dishes.
That's for real.
You depressed, you betterdepress them dishes.
You want some help?
You better help that room.
That's right.

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Yeah.
Triggered.
I wanted to know what do you.
You help both.
Do you have.
You have adults and students,man, as well, right?
Sure do.
Okay, my.
My question is for the kids.
And I guess.
Well, I guess the kids rightnow that are like, in the middle

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of the road, like, they're like.
They're like, just hitting theline because I feel like those are
the kids that kind of get lostin the shuffle.
They may not necessarily be,you know, superstar A plus students.
You know, everything lookslike it's going great, but they're
quiet.
Right.
Like, they're literally just coasting.

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How do you keep an eye out forthose kids?
Or what are your tactics tokind of bring those type of kids
out of their shells?
I'm gonna be honest.
I don't really have ablueprint or a framework really,
when it comes to that.
It's trying to sit and have adiscussion with them, pry, ask questions,

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do assessments.
It's so many different thingsto get through to them because every
individual is different.
You made.
You don't know really what'sgoing to work.
It's kind of like sometimes Imight approach you some days and,
like, have a conversation andsee what's going on, see if this
was something you want to do.
And some days I might not beso heavy on you and just give you

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space to really wait for youto come around to me, but just do
check ins with you.
I mean, I think that's one ofthe main things is just not giving
up and always just giving hopemore than anything.
Like, as long as they areunderstand, like, they.
They text me to this day,like, man, you are somebody that
was really big in my life.

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You were somebody that did alot of amazing things for me and
helped me out.
And it was just simply likewhen everyone's laughing at them,
you know, I'm not gonna laughat you, man.
I'm actually gonna talk to youabout what's happening, what's going
on.
I'm gonna be there for you.
I might pull up and drop youoff or pick you up for something.
I might take you with mesomewhere and help you see a different
thing.
I might come over and justtalk to you and your mom and we all

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eat dinner and laugh and joke.
I might bring you a present.
I might just, you know, comeover, we go for a walk.
But anything is better thanjust completely acting like I don't
see you, even if you don'twant to speak and don't want to talk,
Giving you that space.
And guess what?
Even with my son, I'm like,here, read this comic book, brother.
Tell me how you feel about that.
You know, like, giving him anopportunity to like, you know, take.

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Figure his mind out and seewhat he likes.
So I, I'm never pushy.
I'm always just giving them a space.
And I let them know I see themall the time.
I see you.
I always see you.
And even.
And I'm never gonna leave themwith a bad, like, remark or something.
I'm gonna, like, you know,they do need real talk, but also
in that space, I'm gonnaalways give you.

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Well, like, you know, todaywas not your.
Your best day.
You know, you had momentswhere you didn't.
You didn't shine, but I knowyou can do better.
And I, And I see that in you.
And I.
And I always let them know Isee something bigger in you every
single time, you know, and sothat, that resonates a lot.
And they just, you know, theyjust become like, they just do check

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ins all the time for the restright now, for it's been so long,
but they continuously do checkins with me all the time, and I love
it.
So, yeah, I think that's dope,honestly, that you still have people
that you've helped and they,you know, grown up, they've gotten
older, and they say, you know what?

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I need to go talk to Halston.
I need to go talk to.
Steve's out real quick becausehe, He.
He got it.
He understood what I was saying.
He didn't judge me.
He didn't put me on Front street.
He didn't do any of the thingsthat Everybody else would do.
He just gave me an ear.
And sometimes that's all ittakes is just that ear.
No, the.
No judgment and.

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And having that person to talkto and just vent, you know, I want.
To know, do you all remembersomeone in your life who gave you
just that solid advice or justsays something to you every day?
It could have been just aword, right?
But you remember that personbecause even when you were not feeling
your best, that little wordmade you feel, you know, like, all

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right, he see me or she see me.
I needed that today.
And they don't even know that.
Do you know anybody like that?
They're not here anymore for me.
They're not here anymore.
But I still hear her.
That's my great grandmother.
That was somebody who I pretty much.
I stayed under her wing consistently.
But even the moments where itwas a quiet moment where she just

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knew there's something goingon in his head.
He's.
He's stressing.
She knew how to.
She knew that I addressedthat, you know, where everybody else
was like, he being quiet, hedoing this.
She just knew how to reach it,you know, and she didn't judge.
And sometimes.
Sometimes it was just sittingback and watching Xena, the Warrior
Princess and.

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And being done.
It was just.
And it was those moments ofquiet that she was like, you know,
I seen what was going on with you.
You okay?
Blah, blah, blah.
So, yeah, that's who that wasfor me.
It's a few people for me.
My aunt and my great uncleCecil, as far as family goes.

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And then Mr. Sparnroft.
He was my high school math teacher.
He's cool as there.
There was one.
I'm glad she said that.
There was one other woman.
She's no longer here.
Her name was Mrs. Lockley.
We used to call her.
She was a little black one.
She was about your hike here.
She was our high schoolhistory teacher, and she.
She fought for us to get blackhistory taught, but she couldn't

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teach it during this.
During the curriculum.
But she fought for us to getblack history taught.
She would.
She was like the aunt.
And we used to.
Her name was her.
Her name was Justine, but herinitials was J.L.
we used to call her justiceand Liberty because she did not play
that.
She.
She handled business and shegot everybody together.

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So.
Whoopty a question or theperson that I.
Either one or both.
Well, the person that I canrecall always giving me encouragement
is Mr. Cullen Parkinson, mysixth and eighth grade teacher.
We have such a connection thathe even came to my college graduation.

(29:37):
That man is still around andhe'll always be a part of my life.
He's family at this point.
My question for you is I findthat, you know, speaking about mental
health has become commonplaceamong a certain age group.
What do you think needs tohappen so that we can normalize similar
decisions, discussions amongour elders.

(30:00):
So we can normalize it amongstour elders with mayhem.
And it looks like yo, I was.
About to say we need to becomethe elders.
Like I don't want to give uphope on them but it feels like good
Lord.
What do you mean become the elder?
I already am.
I agree though.
I think we need to continueeducating ourselves.

(30:25):
I think that's extremely important.
We need to address policies,we need to address the political
figures in our communitiesabout, you know, mental health programs
and things of that nature.
We need to continue to rallythe community behind, you know, advocating
for mental health or puttingin things that may help better our

(30:47):
community that will changemental health features.
I mean there are communitiesthat don't have any grocery stores,
right?
Like food deserts and thingsof that nature.
There are places doesn't haveany parks or just is dangerous for
kids to walk and all of thosethings just in a self care day, like
just think about what you dofor your self care on a regular day
basis, you know, like thingsyou may take advantage of and just

(31:10):
take for granted.
There are people who don'thave the access to that and don't
have liberty for that on aregular basis.
And sometimes I know for myolder generation of family it was
like, like I said, the oldergeneration doesn't really want to
talk about mental health,doesn't really need it.
Right.
I'm a veteran, so the veterancommunity definitely doesn't want
to be a part of discuss thosemental health challenges as well.

(31:33):
But it's also like they, thestatistics need to be shown on like
how this has, you know, hurt us.
You know, how things like howthis hasn't, you know, help benefited
us at any way, shape, form or fashion.
And like having someone totalk about, you know, having someone
to speak to and discuss thiswith is, is extremely important and
very helpful for our ownsanity and for the next generation.

(31:56):
So I think that's some of thechallenges that we need to continue
to stand on.
So yeah.
I agree.
I've seen those discussions,I've seen some of those posts on
social media how people,they'll say things along the lines
of sometimes you have toseparate yourself from the, the familiar,

(32:18):
the familiar people who reallydon't walk the path that you need
them to walk.
So that could be the elders,that could be your peers.
It could be anything.
You know, just.
You know, people say, evenwith family, they say, yeah, sometimes
you have to separate from thattoxicity that's in family, you know,

(32:39):
in the family trees, wherethey're just like, yeah, it's always
the negative, the negative,the negative.
It's never.
It's never the.
The encouragement.
It's never the.
The achievements.
It's never anything else.
It'.
Yeah, but remember that timeor this, that another is that weight.
And there are people who aredealing with so much weight, even

(33:01):
now, they are dealing with somuch weight that they're just like,
how could you.
Knowing that this could affect me?
So I think that's somethingthat a lot of people, especially
the black community, couldreally learn from.
Yeah.
And even.
Even within the comic book, the.
The comic books and theblurred community.

(33:23):
Right.
Like, part of it is that escape.
I am able to get away from thereality of what's going on around
me.
Right.
I used to love when the X Mencame out.
I couldn't wait to go watchthe X Men every single Saturday.
I needed to see what it waslike to have powers so I could deal
with these haters.
I needed to see what it waslike to have powers so I can blow

(33:45):
you off the face of the earthif I don't want to talk to you no
more.
I needed to be a part of that world.
I needed that energy.
But sometimes people feedtheir own thoughts, right?
All the time.
Completely.
So as a kid, if you go toschool and they don't like you, and
you might have a moment whereeveryone's talking about you, you
think from now and from threeweeks moving forward, the whole school

(34:08):
doesn't like me.
They hate me.
Right.
So now you're escaping intothis world and you're not dealing
with reality in some spaces,and that.
That might seem comfortable ina great place to be in, but at the
same time, it's like, you gotto get back to having the conversations,
doing the work, addressingwhat's going on with you.
And that may come later on inyour life, but the comic books for

(34:30):
me helped me.
Like, just learning aboutthose deep words and the feelings
and seeing Wolverine crash outso many times, I needed to see that.
Right.
I needed to be a part of that.
I needed to see how he justbattled sentinels, and he was the
smallest dude in the.
In the X Men.
I'm like, yeah, I need that.
So it was.

(34:50):
It was.
I needed that.
I needed to see that, man, it was.
It was definitely therapeuticfor me in a sense.
And it gave me a sense that'show I ended up getting into music.
Like I wanted to another wayto get myself out.
Like, now I got the power tospeak more and be more of an advocate
for myself and I got thestrength to do that.
So, yeah, I was going to askyou, so, like, what got you into

(35:12):
your music?
This is why I love doing this stuff.
Because when we have guestslike you that just.
That have that energy, this works.
Your music, your music.
You just said that this wasanother avenue, another.
Another route for you to speakout, to explain to, to, to vent,
to do whatever it is and reachthat other person or people who could

(35:36):
hear it.
So let's talk about your music.
How long you been doing, man?
I started doing music when Iwas like 15, 16, but I didn't take
it serious.
And then when I went to themilitary, me and my friends from
Chicago, they bought a laptop.

(35:57):
We all bought a laptop together.
I probably was like 20.
And we started recording songson the laptop.
So this is like, you know, along time ago.
And, you know, from there it'sbeen like 20 years.
And it was.
It was always just great tohear myself explain, express how

(36:18):
I feel, express what's goingon in my mind.
Yeah, I love music, man.
I love it.
What kind of music?
Just hip hop, you know, hip hop.
But I will listen to jazz, Iwill listen to.
Shoot.
I listen to some country, I'lllisten to reggae.
Just anything that has amessage sometime.

(36:40):
I'm definitely, you know, I'lldefinitely tune into, but I'm more
hip hop and R B more than anything.
On the, on the hip hop level,who has been your muse or who's been
your inspiration as far as that?
On a hip hop, Biggie Smallswas somebody that I really liked.

(37:01):
He.
I identified, right.
At one point, he was black andugly as ever, right?
So I. I needed to hear that.
I needed to hear that comp.
I needed to see that and thenhear the confidence, right?
It was a great.
The way he.
His style is cadence.
It was a dope MC to me.
Nas.
I'm Lauryn Hill, man.

(37:24):
There's so many, so many, somany dope artists that I really,
really liked that really gaveme some inspiration when I was listening
to them.
I wanted to answer yourquestion about who your inspiration.
For me, it was three peopleand two of them were teachers.
Taylor, this was the only lady.
I was the only black kid onthe journalism staff at my high school.

(37:49):
And she took me to differentthings as far as journalism, to be
a writer and to just excel.
And I became probably thefirst black president of the Indiana
High School Press associationbecause she pushed me and she believed
in me.
Mr. Reed.
Yeah.
I love that woman.
God rest her soul.

(38:11):
Mr. Reed was the first man whosaw me do cosplay and said I should
keep doing it because my firstcosplay was Mahanda's Gandhi.
And let me tell you, I got anA plus on that.
Project Mayhem.
Don't laugh at me, bro.
Them legs had to come out, okay?
When you wanna a.
Them legs will come out on curve.

(38:32):
I don't care what you say.
And finally was.
There's a tie between my UncleWilliam and my dad.
I lost my dad earlier in theyear, but he encouraged me to be
a blurb.
My Uncle William was the onewho encouraged me to love comics.
In fact, every time I got agood report card, he would take me
to the local, local comic store.

(38:54):
He says, Here's $50.
That's right.
Buy whatever you want.
If you got questions, I'll letyou know.
And because of him, I have this.
It's over 4,000 comics andI've never let go.
I love that man.
Yeah, My father, I remember hewent to the, the birth to the comic

(39:16):
book store and got like acoupon for like $20.
And I took that coupon, ranstraight to that store.
I bought Submariner Daredevilthe night them 1963 comic.
Submariner, daredevil, X Men, Avengers.
Just so many.
I'm not a D.C. head per se,but I do like some of the things

(39:37):
they, they do.
But you're a good man.
No, no, down in front.
Okay, down in front.
Oh my gosh.
So let's, let's talk.
I'm glad we got to the, thecomics part of it because there are
several characters in comicswho we know deal with several versions

(40:02):
of mental health issues.
You mentioned Wolverine.
He's a prime example forsomebody that has lived as long as
he has.
Right.
And has as much trauma asanybody else on that team.
Actually, more from the timehis claws came out, even before then,

(40:23):
because it was shown that, youknow, his, his, his mother was not.
She was a very social person,let's put it that way.
Very social person.
And she was social.
Yeah, right.
And she was social with thewrong person who had a lot of issues,

(40:47):
you know, so dealing with,dealing with that level of strain
and trauma every day of hisLife for over 200 plus years.
Yeah, I'm sure you're gonnawalk away with something.
Especially when you.

(41:09):
Your.
Your main enemy's favoriteversion of happy birthday is killing
people close to you or lovedones and then leaving them sprawled
out.
Happy birthday.
See you next year.
You know, I'm like, God,that's brutal.
That's all levels of brutalcandle, that's for sure.
Oh, my Lord.

(41:30):
Yes.
Forever catches strays.
I.
He forever catches trails.
Batman is another one that isnothing but severe ptsd.
That's a fact.
Never healing.
Yeah, people say, oh, it was.
It was when I'm like, youdon't understand this kid.
He was young and it happenedin front of him.

(41:53):
That will break anybody, youknow, and.
And he just chose a somewhathealthier path to.
To deal with it.
You know, he's like, I. I'mgoing to train myself.
I'm going to build myself up.
Which he did.
Problem is, he's bringing abunch of kids along with it, so.

(42:19):
Including his own.
Including his own offspring.
Can we say that whooptybrought up a perfect one.
Madeline Pryor.
Madeline Pryor is a prime example.
Identity disorder.
Jesus, I thought I was her.
Yeah, you're not, Gene.
But yeah, that's a problem.

(42:40):
Madeline Pryor is one.
Moon Knight has dissociativeidentity disorder.
Disorder running around withthree identities, and you never know
which one you're getting.
And they're all loud.
They're all loud.
Spider man.

(43:01):
Ptsd.
Consistent ptsd.
And.
And having that whale.
What's going on, man?
Oh, wow.
Thank you, Matt.
Consistent ptsd.
You know, losing your uncleand blaming yourself for it, and
then losing your girlfriendand blaming yourself for it.
Losing your child and blamingyourself for it.

(43:26):
Constantly fighting againstthe grain, feeling like he's never
enough, not really realizingfor everybody else, he is, he's enough.
And then more.
I don't know.
You mentioned some phenomenalcharacters that are staples within

(43:49):
the comic book culture, man.
And you don't get a greatcharacter without a messed up mentality,
without a dysfunctional family upbringing.
And I think, I think that'seven included in.
I mean, I can't speak foreverybody, so I don't want this to
be a monolithic thing.
But that's even included interms of like hip hop in your artists.

(44:11):
Right?
I need to know your story, andI needed to be as greasy as possible
or I don't want to believe you.
Right.
So I need this story to be asbad as possible.
I mean, Spider man, his issues.
Batman, his issue.
Cyborg.
You mentioned Cyborg and Cyborg.
Issues of his mother gettingkilled or dying.

(44:32):
And then it's like his bodyblown up, and now they're putting
him back together in pieceswith other metal pieces.
Like, it's just such a.
A crazy space.
But do you know how else wouldwe want our characters to be?
You know, like, we've so beenso accustomed to seeing that.
And they deal with theseproblems and these issues always.

(44:55):
Like, you mentioned, somebodymentioned Mr. Sinister.
Like, he is the.
The prime hater.
He knows I am going tocontinuously just ruin your life
and get into your brain andjust make you bug out.
Like it's.
It's somewhere Scott Summersand Jean Gray are like, why us?
Why do you keep messing with us?

(45:17):
And he told him.
He's like, because it's something.
Your bloodline becomes the strongest.
That don't mean every time,like, you just.
All the time is me or my wife or.
Come on.
Yeah.
These characters.
Joker is a prime example in when.
When you see thoseconversations between him and Batman,

(45:37):
they are two sides of the same coin.
Yeah.
There is just one.
They dealt with it differently.
You know, But I ask you this.
I think every single one ofyou, maybe not as extreme, but every
single one of you may have aJoker in your life.
Right?
How do you.
How do you deal with your Joker?

(45:59):
I divorced her.
How did you deal with this Joker?
I did not have kids with her,and I divorced her.
There we go.
Kept it moving, I think.
Yeah, yeah, it was one.
It was the ex Balsamore.
Like.

(46:19):
Oh, to the brink.
Like, what is.
What is it about me?
You know, I'm here all the time.
All of a sudden you show up.
Because you think you Batman.
Right.
Like so.
But yeah, that's.
It was one of those, I think.
Yeah, you're right.
That's probably how a hater thinks.
Like, oh, you think you somebody.

(46:40):
So I just want to be theperson to just get under your skin.
Right.
Maybe.
Right then.
I'm not saying that's forevery single person, but somebody
sees something and, like, Idon't really like you, you know,
And.
And it becomes.
Then it becomes a thing.
Right?
I'm like, I don't want to goover, hang out with him.
I'm gonna stay over here.
I'm gonna.
You know.
Yeah, yeah.

(47:02):
Mal says Black Blade, Raven, Dr.
Fate, Forge, Maximus, Ty,Ford, Mary.
Yeah, all of them.
All of them.
They all have an issue, and they.
They can't seem to just break from.
From the norm of it.
All.
Right?
And that.
And that's what hurts them.
And Blade, Blade, me.

(47:25):
Blade being born half vampireat birth because his mother was turned
Raven, whose father ispractically the devil, you know.
You know, and you mentioned,you meant like Cyborg.
Cyborg.
Survivor's guilt and thenidentity, you know.
Now, mind you, we're notdiagnosing any of these characters.

(47:47):
This is how they're portrayedto us in comics and, and in some
forms of media, you know, andyou see that, you see that suffering
Superman who lost an entire planet.
His fan.
Well, is his blood family.
Not knowing who he is.

(48:07):
Not being able to connect tothat, you know, that part of himself
being lost.
There's that level of, youknow, that teenage angst of finding
out he, who he is.
Growing up with that.
That's a lot.
That is a lot.

(48:34):
Wow.
Coming in.
I tip my hat and salute toyou, sir.
Thank you.
But.
Yeah, Lady Mandalore.
What, what heroes or villainsor anti heroes do you think have

(48:56):
some, some of those quirks,those issues?
I, I, I have a different question.
Okay.
Kind of.
Of course.
I'd want to get your thoughts.
Did you see Thunderbolts?
No, I didn't.

(49:16):
No, I didn't see it.
I'm going through is.
No, no, you're fine.
I promise.
It's okay.
Wait for the dvd.
It's all right.
Or whatever.
It's gonna come out.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
She's not saying that.
No, no, no.
I wanted to know.
Well, I guess with a characterlike Sentry, you know what I mean,

(49:38):
he's got the, I guess he's gotthe personality.
With him, it's not really did.
It's just an entity that kindof met.
Is manifested in him.
That is just an absolute.
Oh, no, it's the void that he expresses.
And it's like the darkest ofdark things, whatever anybody comes

(50:01):
into contact with him.
Bob has a lot of issues.
Yeah, a lot.
And that's not just in the movie.
In the.
That man has issues.
Yeah, Yeah.
I, I don't know how you handle.
I don't think he has anybodyto handle him in that, in the MCU

(50:22):
universe yet.
He kind of.
The power of friendship.
He's got to help him in the mcu.
I, I don't know if thatnarrative is a little irresponsible.

(50:42):
I don't know.
What do you, how do you feelabout the way the m. Well, I guess
superhero movies in generaltackle these issues of bullying,
of mental illness, things like that.
Is there, is there a moviethat you liked that maybe touched

(51:02):
on it, or do you think theycould do a better job?
Are they doing a job at all.
That'S a great question.
Sorry, I don't know.
I've.
I've never like fully sat andlike processed it.
I do know, like I mentionedbefore, if the character isn't almost
narcissistic, psychotic, youknow, if they aren't like bugging

(51:26):
out in a way, some way, shape,form or fashion, you're not going
to get a great story.
And I think that's part oflike the energy that they give to
the rest of the world, to theaudience, on, like, we need our characters
to just be going throughsomething chaotic and psychotic.
Right.
Just.
We need, we need them to.

(51:46):
And that's how we're going toget our story.
So it's almost like you needthat energy in order to turn into
somebody and get people torally behind you.
Right.
And these people deal withmany head issues and problems and,
and they never really fullyrecover from anything.
Right.
It's just the next story withthe next story and the next director

(52:06):
gets it and they paintedanother way.
But it's the same storiespretty much going around.
I, I asked a question and Idon't really want to get too race
heavy, but if you really thinkabout it, besides, you know, like
Wakanda, do we have any otherblack families or black superheroes

(52:28):
that are painted in almost ona level of omega, Right.
Like, where is that beingshown at all?
Within the comic book?
The world.
In the comic book world, you,outside of Wakanda, you have Storm.
Right, Right.
She got all that in Wakanda and.
She was in Wakanda.
Right.

(52:48):
So to me, it shows.
Like.
Yeah, she's honorary.
She's honorary Wakanda.
Right.
And then she's also a part oflike a strong leader handling her
business on the X Men team,dealing with the warlocks.
I mean, the, the, the peoplethat's under the ground, the Morlocks.
Right.
But in that sense, where elseis there a character that is being

(53:15):
portrayed and shown as, youknow, a black character, as someone
as great as the Wakandans.
Wakandians.
In America.
In America also.
Right.
I think the only character,and I wouldn't say as great, but
still deals with a lot ofinner turmoil is Sam Wilson.

(53:35):
He still deals with.
He, he's have, he has thewings, he has the shield.
People look up to him.
However, he still deals withthat internal.
Am I enough?
Can I do this right?
I don't have a serum liveaction or comic book in the pages.
He doesn't have that.

(53:55):
He's, he fights that all the time.
You know, you See it.
He has that inner.
The inner monologue.
I can do this, but I have tobe up front for everybody else.
I have to stand in foreverybody else.
Still.
Those are just things I'venoticed within this space.
And it's like, you know,you're fighting the gang, you're

(54:18):
fighting the.
Your neighborhood, yourmother, father, not being around,
you're fight.
You're continuously fightingthat inner turmoil, your.
Your neighborhood.
But then, you know, so that'sone of the things.
It's like, if we don't evensee that in comic books, it's, you
know, representation iseverything, you know, and so it's
almost like it's not going to exist.

(54:39):
And we.
We continuously need to feedthis energy.
So, you know, not being tooreliant on the comic books, in a
sense, to.
Not to give, to understand howwe should move, but also understanding,
like, it's.
We're gonna have to still dothe work within ourselves in this
reality of trying to be better people.
All right, Laney, we're gonnago to you, and then we're gonna take

(55:00):
a break.
What's up?
What's up?
Actually, Kara took myquestion because I really wanted
to get your thought process ofhow the revengers, I guess you could
say how that.

(55:20):
How you liked how they dealtwith mental health and that.
So I think I'll just go backto maybe an origin.
Hopefully.
You didn't answer it.
How does it feel to be a blackman representing mental health?
Because I feel like beforeeven meeting you, I'm 45.
I've never seen that.
You know what I mean?
So how does it feel to be ablack man in the mental health space?

(55:46):
I feel great, I'm gonna be honest.
But I do.
I do think that that comeswith a sense of knowing who I am
and having a little bit of,you know, I'm not really worried
about how other people view meand see me, but I also know it's
not received well all the time.
You know, some people, youknow, I.
Some people think, like I'vementioned before, it's soft, is.

(56:10):
Is not masculine.
It's something that weshouldn't talk about.
I've had people, like I said,I'm not trying to be race heavy with
this, but I had.
I had a, you know, a whitelady tell me she doesn't want me
in the field.
You know, I don't know why menare in the field.
Right?
Like, why are you here?
You know, so I've.
I've dealt with my own issuesat, In a sense But I'm not here for

(56:31):
you, you know, I'm here for myself.
I'm here for my community.
I'm here to better, you know, my.
On my family, right?
This is bigger than justtalking to you and trying to, like,
figure out what's going onwith her.
You could ignore me for all I care.
I'm gonna still do what I haveto do and push forward and do what
I got to do for my family.
So it's.
It's.
It hasn't always been an easything, you know, But I don't let

(56:55):
anything stop me in terms of,like, just going forward and doing
what I have to do, right?
Like, I'm.
I'm gonna.
I'm gonna make a way, somekind of way.
And now I have.
I have family calling me,telling me, hey, because of you,
I've reached out to my sonthat I've never talked to, and me
and him had a conversation,and he told me he loved me the other
day, right?
And that's big because, youknow, these guys been to jail, these

(57:18):
guys been accused of a lot ofthings, and now they're opening up
and want to speak to their kids.
I have veterans contact me andlike, hey, man, because of you, I.
I've.
I've now decided to go totherapy or people we've known.
That was like, I give my daughter.
I now want to speak to mydaughter more.
And I've listened to her whenI used to get mad and just get angry

(57:39):
so fast.
Now I give her the space totalk to me, and I kind of take a
step back, right?
And I.
And I change how I'm.
How I'm speaking to her.
So it's like, once youunderstand that it's bigger than
you.
It's really.
There's people relying on you,people depending on even this space
right here.
There's people who love thisspace and come here to.
To get away and blurreds.

(58:02):
That's not always even.
I used to ask, you know,Laney, like, exactly.
Like, how does.
How does it feel?
Like, what are you.
What is this about?
Like, explain more to mebecause you put me in a different
world, and you gave me adifferent viewpoint on how to look
at certain things.
Things where I just was, like,for a second, I didn't even know
this existed.
And I was always like, wow,this is great.
Like, I can be a part of this.

(58:23):
And we all good.
We.
We don't have to judge each other.
We just laugh and joke.
Like, so, yeah, this is amazing.
So I love it.
This.
This Is what's dope.
I. I built this platform.
And my very first co host, Ibrought him in because he runs what
the.
That's D.C. chambers over atwhat the.
Shout out to him.
And his.
His father had passed and hehad to watch that.

(58:46):
He had to pull the plug.
He had to do the whole thing.
And I brought him in because Iseen it was a need, you know, like,
this is my guy.
We.
We joke around and stuff.
But, you know, he had wentradio silent for like two weeks and
he finally reached out and Isaid, I tell you what, because I
know you like talking aboutthe stuff.

(59:06):
I know you're not asknowledgeable about it, but you know
enough about it, like, youknow, to.
To.
To stay in the game.
Come on.
You know, and he.
And he tells that.
He says that, you know, he'slike, yeah, if.
If, you know, that helped himout, you know, to get that, you know,
to not just take his mind offit, but it helped him cope and it
helped him, you know, dealwith those emotions and everything

(59:27):
else.
And he's the one that's donetherapy, you know, so.
And.
And that circle of black menthat I know reaching out for therapy
is getting bigger and bigger.
That's right.
And I'm glad that it isSpartan real quick.
Got a question.
I don't know.
I had to get the Ms. Racheland Gracie's corner out of my head

(59:49):
from putting kids to sleep.
So I. I apologize.
Right now.
Right now all I hear is go tosleep with a trap beat.
So I just stopped myself for a second.
Sorry I didn't get to catchyou in the beginning, but I just
want to echo the fact of just,you know, the whole emphasis on mental

(01:00:09):
health.
I guess my only question is,and this.
If this has already beenanswered, forgive me, but how did
you come to find your.
Your purpose as far as mentalhealth in the black community and
how you can actually, youknow, where did you find your.
Your why?
If you haven't alreadyanswered that, man.

(01:00:31):
I felt like I was the lastperson ever to talk about mental
health.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
Like, I. I was just talking toyour family here about having anger
issues and not really beingsomeone that was willing to listen
and, like, feeling like I kneweverything at one point.
And I just.
I just started to, like,really, like, you know what?

(01:00:51):
I gotta change my energy.
And when I was doing theJourney to Manhood program and I
was working with so manydifferent kids, it was an opportunity
to, like, go back to schooland really open my Brain to like
therapy and like social workand really figure out, like, what
are these skills and tools.
So the lady told me, she waslike, you know, there's no black

(01:01:12):
men really within that field.
She was like, you shouldpossibly open up and just think about
it.
Because I wanted to get in the business.
I was like, I want to go tothe business world.
I'm trying to get some.
Some money.
I need to do something to getsome paper.
That's therapy for me.
Like, the more my bank accountcomes with old's, the better I'm
gonna be, right?
But then all that's great anddandy, but still that will not help

(01:01:33):
you in the inner kid that youhave inside of you that still needs
to be healed, that's stilldealing with trying to figure out
how to talk to people and work relationships.
So once I. I've discoveredthat about myself, like, I'm gonna
go to this world and then whenI got in there, I'm like, yo, this
is crazy.
All of these things that Ididn't know that's triggering me.
Like, people have ptsd and youthink it's just your mentality.

(01:01:55):
It's also in your body.
It's also in the way you sleep.
It's the way you make carry yourself.
It's when the light hits youreyes, you don't want to look the
certain way, right?
These are all things that youdon't know that you're experiencing
from problems andcomplications in your life.
And you think it's just anatural way.
Like, you're like, oh, that'sjust how I am.
It might not be how you are.

(01:02:16):
That's really things you haveexperienced that you don't know your
body is dealing with.
And it's time to.
You got to let some of thatstuff out.
So once I startedunderstanding that, I'm like, no,
I need to teach this.
Because as I mentioned before,I grew up, I love my family dearly,
but I also had a toxichousehold at times.
And I was like, man, I need toshare this with my mom.

(01:02:38):
I need to share this with my brothers.
Like, I need to share thiswith my family more because this
is is amazing stuff.
And then at first it was likethey weren't really listening, and
then they started comingaround because they started noticing
I was doing the work at thesame time.
You know, the kids is like,look, running up to me and having
fun and talking to me more,and people are really picking my
brain more.

(01:02:58):
And I stay with it.
I just stayed with it.
I was like, I'm gonna stay inthis space because I need this to
save my life.
I need this, you know?
So, yeah.
So, Austin, we're gettingready to take our break.
I'm gonna come back.
We got a couple news bites to cover.
Can you stick around?
Yeah, I'm here.

(01:03:18):
I'm here.
All right.
All right.
We'll be right back with our guests.
We're gonna talk about.
So some little news bites thatwe've got picked up and we might
touch a little more on thesecrazy comic characters that, you
know, got some mental issues.
So we'll be right back.
Let's reach out one time, Sam.

(01:04:27):
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All right, we are back and ourprivate chat is blowing up.
We got some.
We got a couple news bites.
So here we go.
So, Mayhem.
I know you're gonna love this.

(01:07:27):
He's a big Severance fan here.
But Tillman has been cast inthe new Spider man brand new day
film.
And rumors are already runningrampant about who he may play.
My money's on Robbie Robertson.
That's just what it is.
I still blame.

(01:07:47):
I still blame chaos, even forthat rabbit hole he sent me down.
Yes, Severance is a phenomenalshow that everyone should watch much.
What is it?
What is it really about?
Just what is it about?
7 liveaction version of One Piece.

(01:08:10):
Girl.
Girl, go to your room.
A lie.
Go to your room.
You're.
You're.
You're spot on.
So that's interesting.
Oh, my.
Oh, my God.
Why?

(01:08:48):
Says something to me on second Sunday.
And I feel like I gotta sit there.
This is Kira's fault forbesmirching severance.
Well.
I hate to Kira's.

(01:09:09):
Kira is spot on about severance.
That's why I'm like, she's right.
How.
Oh, said the blind man.
Okay, all right.
Now go on.
All right.
No, I'm wrong.
I'm wrong.
I'll be wrong.
It's okay.
No, no, but he's.
He's been coming up in theworld and.

(01:09:30):
Yeah, I guess.
I guess he's made.
I. I haven't watchedSeverance, so don't do it.
So.
But I know.
I know the actors that.
That are on the show, and he'sone of them.
And him being cast in BrandNew Day, people were saying, oh,
he's gonna be Norman Osborne.
I said, I don't know.
Think so?
No, he's not Coleman Deo, right?

(01:09:51):
There ain't no way.
Wait a minute.
Norman Osborne, that was inthe anime series To Brand New Day.
No, that.
That.
That Norman Osborne is ColemanDomingo put.
That on the Ways the Waves was immaculate.
So we.
We already know off the batthat he's not going.
That's a fact.

(01:10:12):
So.
But no, I.
My money's on Robbie Roberts Johnson.
I figure if this is going tobe Peter starting from scratch, so
to speak, you gotta have.
You gotta have a.
You gotta have a Robin to a Batman.
You gotta have somebody toTriple J. Yeah.
I apologize to our guest.
I cuss a lot.

(01:10:35):
He works at the Daily Bugle.
He's the only person.
He's the only person that J.Jonah Jameson will never cuss out.
Yeah.
And he will listen to.
Yeah.
Yes.
He's practically.
He's practically his second in command.
Yeah.
He was played by Bill Nunn inthe Ted Raimi's Spider man films.

(01:10:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Every time.
Every time.
Radio Raheem.
Yeah, Radio Raheem played himin the Rami.
In the Rami series.
Because every time Jonah wentoff, he was the.
He was the calm one thatalways came in there.

(01:11:17):
But.
But you notice in the Spiderman movies, he never yelled.
Everybody else never yelled at him.
In other words, every timeJay, Jonah had.
Every time he was yelling, hewas like, jonah, we gotta have this
in by this time.
That was.
That was.
In other words, Kara, he was you.
Yeah, he was the one.
He was the one that had triedJesus, not me.
Literally on his own.

(01:11:41):
Okay.
He's a mess up.
You know, it's.
It's gonna click and I'm gonnaget that text message.
I know who he is.
Took you two hours.
Just look him up.
Kira, you.
You've seen.
No, no, I believe.
I believe y'.
All.
I. I know who, like, I knowwho he is now saying Radio Raheem.
And I'm like, oh, okay, thatdude that was in Spider man for like
five minutes.

(01:12:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can't miss.
Can't miss, right?
And.
And in other news, since theWayne brothers has the rights back
to their scary moviefranchise, of course Anna Faris and
Regina hall are coming back.
Yeah, I know.
That's right.
Back together.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
We're gonna see Crazy headswith Gina Hall.

(01:12:27):
Love to see.
They got.
They got a decade.
Oh, they do.
They have.
So.
They have so much ammo to workwith now, like, as if they didn't
have ammo to work with before,but they have so much to work with.

(01:12:49):
Level material.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I. I'm not gonna be.
I'm not surprised that thatwould even happen at this point.
I need.
I need.
Just give me three real goodChris Pratt jokes.
That's all I really want in my.
In my spirit, you know that'sgoing to happen.

(01:13:10):
Talk about somebody who justdisappointed everybody.
Star Wars.
Star Lord.
Star Lord will not be seen in Avengers.
Doomsday.
Starlord gonna be in the dark Star.
Starlord gonna be in theSunken Place.
For a little while.
Still gonna be his grand.
At his granddaddy's houseeating cereal.

(01:13:33):
There's some good cereal.
Shut up.
They'll probably.
They'll probably have him justlike his counterpart did.
And what if working at the icecream shop.
I feel.
I feel.
I feel bad for his PR person.
His PR Person is probably onthe fifth bottle of alcohol right
now.
Like, all you had to do wasshut the up.

(01:13:54):
Won't wear it wear off after a while.
I was with you, Peter, when you.
And they said you didn't pullthe trigger and you did.
But this.
I can't.
I can't back you.
I'm sorry.
But yeah, that.
I. I'm like mayhem.
I. I'm looking for that.
I'm.
I'm.
That would be the level ofpetty only a Waynes could do.
But I want the.
Actually between.

(01:14:14):
Between that and Marlon's rolein him, I. I want to see so much
weigh in.
Fans just succeed right now.
That's nice.
Let's talk about Marlon.
Because they don't.
They used to seeing the goofyside of Marlon.
Serious side.
Anybody see the serious side?
His serious acting is to behis next level.

(01:14:35):
Marlon gets in his dramatic bag.
It's a rap.
Yeah.
He can do it better than you think.
This would be, like, at leastthe third that I know because it
was Noah, because it was, wasrequing for a dream.
And then he's the Fresh Princeof Bel Air where he plays Will's
father.
And now, now this.
Yep.
Seeing him in that ser.

(01:14:55):
You be like, this ain't thesame Marlin.
This is not the same dude.
He's.
He's been showing, like,little flits here and there amongst,
like, some of his comedymovies, too.
I think it.
What is it in.
In Mo Money there.
It's not a long scene, but heturns it when he gets pissed at his,
his brother for.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:15:16):
Because they were like.
Because they were broke allthe time.
He's.
It's been there.
It's been there.
He just doesn't have the roleto let it, like, rock.
And I think, I think him isgoing to be that thing that's like,
yep, absolutely, the leadactor is.
Because everybody's looking atMarlon like they gonna, they're gonna

(01:15:37):
be talking about this.
All I gotta say is I feel badfor the NFL when that movie comes
out out.
It's not gonna do nothing to them.
They.
There's gonna be some references.
That's all I want.
I'm looking forward to thefact of just.
It's like, how bad do you want it?
And then the, you know, thegoat sacrifice out of nowhere, like.

(01:15:58):
Yeah, it's.
I, I, they didn't get no slack.
After any given Sunday.
They're good forever.
They are good forever.
I don't know.
You didn't give it Sunday.
They, they still, they stilltalk about the stuff that went on
behind the.
Scenes of that movie.
Lt wasn't acting.
He was.
No, let me Shut up.
Here's a question.

(01:16:20):
Here's a question, everybody.
Who was the one comedic actorthat really impressed you when they
decided to do dramatic acting?
Always going to be Robin Williams.
Always.
Yes.
At the list, Robin Williams is one.
I'm, I'm gonna go against the coven.
Say, Adam Sandler.
Yep.

(01:16:43):
He does it.
He does.
When he does it, he does it.
Well, I'll out.
Yeah.
Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrison.
Yeah.
I like some care.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, yeah.
And see, I think just like comic.
Book marketing, actually oneof my favorite.
Movies, like My Cabin Book Marketer.
Said comedians make fun oftheir pain.
So it's not, not hard tobelieve they make great dramatic

(01:17:05):
actors, especially serial killers.
I mean we've just named, wejust named what, four already who
have managed to show a seriousside that you're not used to seeing.
Pretty much.
Like you're like the Majestic.
And what's the other one hedid Truman Show.

(01:17:27):
It was another one that.
It was like number room 23 ornumber 20.
And you're waiting like hisfirst dramatic role for Jim Carrey
and you're waiting for him toturn him like, oh, this is a joke
and it's it.
You're not getting jokey JimCarrey at all.

(01:17:47):
Like, like you were justwaiting and it didn't come something
you're just like, wow.
Like.
And I think that was a lot ofpeople's take that they were waiting
for the funny to come in it.
Like, no, this ain't that movie.
Wayne Brady, if you ever did aserious role, dude, you gotta do

(01:18:08):
it.
You gotta do it.
You gotta do a serial killer.
The day Chappelle skit was enough.
Dude like, oh, he's.
Oh, oh, okay.
Wayne Brady's not friendly.
No, that was Wayne Brady being himself.
As grave digger in Black.
Oh yeah.
Black Lightning.
He was great.
There was no joke in him at all.

(01:18:29):
He was, he was straight up.
Now the one comedian that Ireally enjoy his dramatic side was
Richard Pryor when he didsome, when he did Some Kind of Hero.
That is one of my all time favorites.
Yeah, I remember my fatherwatching that and him like thinking
it was going to be a comedy him.
Because that was like at thepeak of his.

(01:18:49):
Now that wasn't even.
Yeah, that was at the peak.
He was peaking in his comedy run.
But that's a comedy thatalways goes, My mind always goes
back to that.
But he, he wasn't.
The thing about Richard Priorin Harlem Knights, he didn't do a
lot of funny lines.
He was kind of a straightshooter, you know, except for like

(01:19:13):
when, when, when, when, whenEddie Murphy when he was little and
dude was like, get these kidsout of here.
They bad luck shot him.
Like he did say he was bad luck.
Rest.
Rest in peace, Del Re.
Rest in peace.
Kiss my entire ass.
So yeah, there's, there's,there's a lot of.

(01:19:34):
You're right.
There are a lot of comedicactors who, when they do something
serious and I think becausethe general public is so used to
them doing something funnythat when they do something serious
they are either reallyimpressed, shocked or not impressed
because they're just like,that's not what I was here for.
They're, like, disappointed.

(01:19:54):
They're disappointed, right?
You know, Kira mentioned Robin Williams.
Never in a million years Iwould have thought he had that level
of range to play somethingserious and to play a serial killer
in another movie.
Like, One Hour Photo?
Yeah.

(01:20:18):
One Hour Photo.
Wait, why?
What am I.
No.
What, you didn't like One Hour Photo?
No, it's good.
No.

(01:20:39):
Was not good.
Would you.
Would you rather see it as Pennywise?
Because he could have pulledthat off, too.
Oh, man, that would have been insane.
Now, see, I would haveactually liked to seen that.
That's not funny.
I know you mentioned Jim Carrey.

(01:21:00):
What role are the comediansthat you've seen?
What role has shocked you or,like, put you in a place like, yo,
I had you him or you her?
I think majority of the ones.
Y'.
All.
Y' all pretty much mentionedRobin Williams.

(01:21:22):
Jamie Foxx sometimes actuallyis funny.
And when he does a seriousrole sometimes it's kind of weird
to see him in those spaces.
He's not.
His acting range sometimes iskind of like, he's great at his characters,
you know, Like.
Yeah, yeah, at that.
At that character range.
But sometimes to see him in,like, those serious roles is.

(01:21:42):
Is.
It's funny to me because I'm.
I'm used to, like, Wanda and.
And things of that nature.
And then when I see him reallyplay a serious role, like, it was
a movie that recently came outon Netflix.
I forgot it.
But to see him in the Rock, Ichecked it out.
I'm like, I want to see how he.
He.
He acts.
He plays this role.
So it was.
It was different a little bitto see that.
I just want to see them stepoutside of the label more than anything.

(01:22:06):
Like, even Laney mentionedAdam Sandler.
To look at him and see him getkind of serious is weird for me at
times because I'm like, I don't.
Like, I don't know wherethey're at mentally, but I know they're
probably pushing the.
Pushing things forward for themselves.
So.
Yeah, I always forget thisbecause Mel just mentioned it.
Robin Williams was a dramamajor from Juilliard.

(01:22:27):
I always forget he was roommates.
Marie.
Oh, yeah.
He got his legit.
So, yeah, I guess it's thecircle you come from.
Pretty much.
It's the circle you come from.
Whoopi Goldberg and Ghost.
The story behind her andPatrick Swayze, him standing up for
her.
Yeah, like, because the studiowas trying to play her, you know,

(01:22:49):
they was like, it.
The movie Is led by PatrickSwayze and Demi and Demi Moore.
They were trying.
Not.
They were trying to downplayWhoopi Goldberg's role.
And he said, no, if she doesn't.
If she doesn't get somebilling in this, I'm not doing this
movie.
And Ghost is really good.

(01:23:10):
Really, really creepy too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I. I tell you, one comedianwho's no longer with us who I think
was definitely on their way todoing something dramatic and Ellis
Birdie mad.
Oh, yeah.
I think he was.
I think he was the one.
He was.
There's.
There was.
I think there was a film.

(01:23:30):
Really.
They was.
I think there was a film readyfor him that.
Yeah, that was something hewas gonna tackle.
That was.
There was a role with his nameon it before.
Before he left us.
I think the way even hedelivers comedy, you can see that
seriousness in it.
I mean, that was just a partof his way.

(01:23:52):
Soul minutes.
Soul man and life and shoot.
Guess who.
Yeah, because he was on a.
He.
He was there.
He was there.
That's.
It's kind of a formula ifyou're the, you know, comedy, comedy,
comedy, comedy, comedy.
Give him something dramatic.
Just watching his.
His TV show that he had, like,to see him being as a father and.

(01:24:14):
And dealing with, you know,the teenage or the kid issues and
his wife issues and all ofthat, you.
You really didn't expect.
But it was good to see him bein that space and that take that
range like it was.
Yeah.
Gone too soon.
Definitely.
Especially when you're.
When he takes the situation,which was based on real life, and.

(01:24:35):
And make it comedic so you canjust imagine what the reality would
actually was and how.
How do you have to deal with it?
What I was thinking.
Chris Rock as well.
What was it?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think you broke Wy.

(01:24:59):
Outside.
Outside of Pooky.
Outside of Pooky.
He did one of the.
He.
Was he in Jigsaw?
Oh, yeah, That's.
That's when I spiral.
Yeah, that's when I hadalready stopped watching.
It was one of those.
It wasn't bad.
He said it was one of those.
It was one them.

(01:25:20):
Mad.
Because that.
That was a role that notwritten by black people.
You.
You are not about to go into awarehouse by yourself and immediately
not think, maybe I should waitfor backup.
That's that Scooby Doosyndrome right there.
I just hate.
I just hate roles that, youknow, were not written by black people.

(01:25:41):
Let's go to the hottest woods.
No.
Let'S not.
For who.
It's like Maybe we should stopfor gas in this town that's only
got one person that looks likehe's missing three teeth.
Keep pushing.
We gonna make it to the next town.
Yes.
Kevin Hart, Fatherhood.
Yes.
There was no black person inthat story though.

(01:26:02):
So, you know, that's why that happened.
Yeah.
And that father fatherhood wasone of those.
I'm like, yo, I wasn't thelevel I really wasn't ready for.
I'm like, oh, oh, you gotright to it.
Oh my God.
Okay, so yeah, you're right.
You're right.
So you come out of town, all.

(01:26:24):
Of us in here watching some anime.
Well, I don't know how I feelabout this one yet, but.
But Crunchyroll has made adeal with Delta Airlines and you
can.
Why?
Oh my God.
Anime on their flights now.
I. I ain't said this all show.

(01:26:46):
No.
I don't know.
I'm honestly, I'm not payingfor it any other way.
Sir, that put that on the airline.
I'm not paying for it anyother way.
I'm so sorry.
How long is this flight?
Okay, you're how we're layover on the tarmac.

(01:27:07):
All right.
I guess I can watch this alittle bit, I suppose.
Why are you opposed?
Navy.
Go ahead.
Delta's hot garbage.
And I'll never fly them.
And there's no point because Iflew them at one point and then there
was a stewardess named Carolynwho I wanted to toss off the plane,
which is the reason why I'llnever fly on Delta.

(01:27:29):
That was not the way I wasexpecting that to go.
Remember?
Listen, you never know what toexpect when it comes to me.
Come on now.
Come on.
Apparently there's, there's a.
There's a stewardess namedCaroline on adult airline that's
still cussing out the river.
That that definitely was.
She's like when he said andthere's a stewardess that I wanted
to toss and I'm like, where'sthis going?
But I guess I wasn't waitingtill the end of the show for that.

(01:28:00):
Why did you do that?
You catch me off guard every time.
I wasn't waiting till the endof the show for that one.
You supposed to.
You know.
You know.
That'S between Delta and Spirit.
And I'm sorry, I'm.
I'm just not a good flyer.
So I can't say which airline.
Not as bad.
If I, if I feel a little bumpin the air, I turn to a five year
old girl.
So.

(01:28:22):
I gotta see this.
I have to see that.
No No, I don't want to see that.
Because the last time I flew,this 80 year old black woman sat
there and treated me like thekid at church that was acting up,
but still thought I was gonnabe a good person.
Just.
Just.
Baby, it's so.
It's okay, baby.
It's just a little bump in the air.

(01:28:43):
I'm sitting there sweating,and I'm holding this one, this old
lady's hand, and she's like,would you like some candy?
Hard candy?
The strawberry.
The strawberry raffle candy.
No, you just don't understand.
Understand this scene.
Me in the middle aisle.
She's right next to me.

(01:29:04):
Tears and stuff not rollingdown my eyes.
My big old ass is a big ass, baby.
And that is embarrassing ashell to actually tell that story.
But you know what?
In a mental health.
In the mental health space.
I'm glad you told that story, brother.
Yeah, had to get that.
Austin, are you familiar withfootball at all?

(01:29:26):
A little bit, yeah.
All right, so what you can'treally fully appreciate in this story
is that Spartan is like, ifVince Wilfort and Ray Lewis had a
baby, like, he's.
He's a large human being.
So now just hear what he saidagain in your head about this old
black lady nursing him throughthis fight.

(01:29:58):
Oh, man.
All that was in my head wasthe Ed Norton Hulk was like, you're
gonna put me inside of a smalltube with a bunch of angry New Yorkers?
I think not.
That's not.
But that, however, is a better analogy.
So I'm only.

(01:30:19):
I am six two.
I am not that big.
Since this guy.
That's six two.
Thank you, Kara.
Thank you.
I have sat there and saidmultiple times on this podcast, I
am the smallest one out of myfamily, if y' all ever met the rest
of them.
Okay?
So that does not.

(01:30:42):
Though I have sat there andsaid, I am the smallest one in my
family.
Which again.
To the rest of us trapped onthis planet with you, sir, you are
a large man.
You are a large man.
That is irrelevant.
It's definitely a video.
And a cop and trying to shoothim or something like that.

(01:31:03):
And it didn't happen like you.
We had that running joke.
What was that about?
Wait, where was it again?
Nah, the cop came to you andwas like, trying to shoot and like,
nah, they just walked away.
Something like that aboutcoming to your house.
We had a running joke about that.
I'm gonna look.
It was like a John Wick moment.
Okay?

(01:31:23):
Y' all know what the I'mtalking about.
It took me a Second.
I'm sorry.
It took me a second.
Yeah, because I say.
Just showed up up.
And they sat there, was like, we.
We ain't.
No.
Look at me.
Was like, no, wait up to your house.
Yeah, you want to be.

(01:31:45):
No, they sat, though.
They sat there, and old boywas like, you know what?
We were just going to thebackyard, but then we saw you.
We just decided we want to askpermission first.
Well, I'm glad, because I haveno problem shooting people.
People.
So let me write this down.
We need several.
We need several Spartans inhis family on the front line.

(01:32:05):
Is that what you're saying?
Oh, my God.
I know.
I. I tried to defend myself.
I just.
I just dug the hole deeper.
I just.
I'm confusion.
I'm.
I'm not.
I'm not on the understandingyou make.
A backhoe look like a Tonka truck.

(01:32:27):
Okay, what are we doing here?
Sir, you have lifted cars.
Trucks.
I'm sorry.
Trucks.
Where's Demetrius at?
Given when he gives that.
Look.
Don'T give me too much credit.
I pull trucks not lifted.

(01:32:52):
On the Internet.
I appreciate that.
Thank you for that admission.
Don't give me that much credit.
If I could lift a pickup, there's.
Some people I would goknocking on doors on right now.
Mr. Spartan, what.
What was the make and model ofthe truck?

(01:33:13):
That.
That.
I'm not reading that.
Oh, oh, oh, so we're not.
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait,wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
That doesn't help your case.
That's why I'm not.
That's why I'm not gonnarepeat it.
Would you say that it was alarge truck?
I plead the fifth.
Okay, don't stop with that.

(01:33:41):
What was that one line in that movie?
Come on, Cletus.
Come on.
Anyway.
Tldr Spartan.
Large, y'.
All.
He large.
He's the reason why he handlesthe engine of the ship.
That's why y' all trying toget me dressed.
He's literally.

(01:34:01):
He literally has said on thisshow that, yeah, I just went ahead
and put the.
Lifted up the engine.
I'm like, yeah, engines are heavy.
Dude.
Dude, I know you have.
I know you have a.
A crane to put it in, but youjust made it seem like, oh, this
is just every day.
I built the Eiffel Tower outof metal and brawn.

(01:34:24):
Like, that was not my.
That was not a good idea atthe time.
That was definitely not a good idea.
Feel like you go to gay bridge.
That was.
Was me.
That was me right there.
And mind you, he's wearing.
He's wearing Superman today.
Yeah.
You are not helping your case, sir.
No, I'm not.
Not at all.
I need a.

(01:34:44):
Don't.
Look.
Spartan's wife has literallysaid, I will call my husband.
Please don't.
Did that today.
She did that today in a freaking.
Which every wife should do, however.
She's just like, I'm usingevery bit of this man for intimidation.

(01:35:07):
I don't know how this becamemy therapy session today, but, yeah,
this is the safe space.
Exactly.
No, no, Austin.
My wife does that.
My wife has sat there and saidmultiple times because she's.
She's fun size and she's angry.
So anytime.

(01:35:28):
Anytime that she says husband,and she goes, I'm gonna call my husband.
Hold on.
Your partner.
I like it.
It wasn't me.
I love you.
Be brave.
Be brave.
I love you.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, let me laugh.

(01:35:50):
How is it.
How is it?
I'm the captain of the shipand I'm the one who doesn't go after
Kirk.
Kira, because I know better.
If y' all are unhappy withyour world, just let me know.
I will leave.
Sending Kira in is like.
You basically just sit in.
Baba Jaeger.

(01:36:12):
Stop it.
All right now.
Don't gas my up.
I ain't that goddamn bad.
I'm sorry, what was that,Madam Bob.
You can't even look at the camera.
You can't even look at thecamera at that statement.
No, you can't.
I'm not.
It works.
I'm very reasonable, andthat's why your voice.
I'm just sitting.
Okay, Just don't be stupid.
That's all I'm saying.

(01:36:33):
That's all she's saying.
So that's not my fault, though.
That don't make me bad.
Be better.
Okay, Let me tell you straight up.
Yeah, sure.
Kira's friendly.
I am.

(01:36:53):
All right now, y'.
All.
Okay.
Okay.
I love it.
We do it all in front of company.
It wouldn't be nice if we didn't.
No, hold on.
He's from a West Indian house household.

(01:37:13):
He knows exactly what the hellI'm talking about.
Don't come in here with no.
And we'll all be fine.
Go do that at your mother's house.
Don't do that here.
Tell us how you really.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm not the only one.
I'm glad I'm not the only onethat noticed that Bama.

(01:37:38):
Looked over.
He like, hey, me, I. I recognize.
I recognize it.
Not.
I'm gonna deny it.
I recognize it.
So.
Oh, my God.
No, we.
We do all this.
Everybody that Knows us, thatwatches and follows us.
They know, they know how wejoke is is this is normal.

(01:38:00):
We, we aren't tearing anybody down.
It's all up.
It is always all up.
But see, this is somethingthat we deal with like, like I'm
from a family where the men onmy mom's side of the family might
as well been like the Wayne's brothers.
It's dozens all day.

(01:38:21):
Yeah, you learn to rock andhead jokes for sure.
Like, we all got big heads.
So what's the.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
They say that makes a strong,a strong.
A healthy relationship, man.
A healthy friendship.

(01:38:42):
So you need that banter?
Yeah.
Oh, God, yeah.
I.
Look, you tell me to talk andthen I don't.
And then you tell me to whatdon't say nothing more.
And I stop.
Oh, no, keep going, keep going.
And no, it's your turn now.
Keep going.
No, I'm okay.

(01:39:02):
I, I had my, I had my.
Time in the therapy seat.
Go for it.
This is beautiful.
I need, I need that 150 perhour type therapy.
Said this is why I'm afraid tohook with a woman from nyc.
What?
All right, well, let's stayover there.

(01:39:23):
Wow.
Good.
Stay.
Open it before we get to the.
You're nice, right.
Beyond skin off.
My God, the shirt off my back.
Except for now because I'm cold.

(01:39:43):
Yeah.
She's so nice right now.
It's nice.
I am, I am very nice.
I tell all you in here howmuch I love your asses all goddamn
day.
Oh, yeah, you love.
You love with force.
We got it.
I don't have a problem with it.
We called you our life coach.
We did.
We did say you was the lifecoaches girl.

(01:40:04):
I'm just saying.
It's just, look, we're all ofa certain age and we're at the point
where I can't just, you know,say, oh, you can do it.
I say, get.
What the are you doing?
Get off your ass.
Yes, exactly.
What are you doing?
I, I, I will.
I'll be the first one, thefirst to say that when, When Lady

(01:40:24):
Manador senses something is upwith me, she calls me same.
And she said, I have left you alone.
Don't think I haven't calledyou in my head though.
But I've been leaving.
Oh, I know it.
I sense it.
I trust me, I know, I know.
She'Ll hit me up and I'm going.
It's almost like, it's almostlike big sister slash auntie vibes.
So she's like, captain, I'mLike, I'm fine.

(01:40:48):
I'm fine.
I. I assure you, I am fine.
You know, and there's neverany question after that.
I'm like, nope, I'm fine.
You're sure?
I. I'm fine.
I will let you know.
Or trust me.
I'm not holding back.
This is how I know when I'm introuble with Kira.
She'll text me and she'll callme by my first name, and I'm going.

(01:41:12):
I say Monty all the time.
Is fine.
Because you.
You got that privilege.
You've been given that right.
But when you say Montel, I'm going.
He said, everything tucks.
And he's just back side of the hemisphere.
He's like, I'm back in.
I'm back in the Navy.
What's going on?
Yeah.

(01:41:32):
I will pretend to be anemperor penguin to get away.
Give me a black suit.
I don't want you to think anything.
Whatever.
Y'.
All.
God damn.
I'm trying to be nice to y'.
All.
Never last.
And there's New York because.
Why.
Why am I getting dragged.

(01:41:54):
Dragging you?
They're just saying, look froma distance vibes all day.
Huh?
What?
Lady?
I said, you're giving Leo andGemini vibes all day.
Look, look.
Mayhem.
Hardy vibes.
Mayhem said, like, she's easyon Leo.
She's an honorary.
What kind of Nazi.

(01:42:18):
What are you doing?
Just kidding.
It fits.
It works like a hyena.
Is this.
Not.
Not the.
Not.
Not the.
A.
Not bringing it back.
Not going back to Lord in.
In our.
In our last piece of news.
And in the last piece of newswhen we get around here and I'm calling

(01:42:39):
it the.
Who's interrupting my kung fusection of the news.
Somehow China.
China's government will now beusing AI to revamp a lot of Bruce
Lee and Jackie Chan classics.
Come on, man.
Come on.

(01:43:02):
I. I don't leave the alone.
It ain't broke.
I don't like it.
Skynet phase three.
I don't like it.
I really don't like it.
You want to know how much?
You want to know how much Idon't like it?
Now, Billy, how many times I told.
You not to call here andinterrupt my kung fu.
I'm just saying I don't like it.

(01:43:24):
You know, they're not remakingany movies.
They're.
They're doing the George Lucasand that's the problem.
They're enhancing Bruce Leeand Jackie Chan classics for four
examples.
And I. I.
You really want to see intothe Dragon where Bruce Lee goes super

(01:43:45):
saiyan.
I don't want to see that at all.
Oh, or they do the DrunkenMaster with Jackie Chan.
Yeah.
What happened to.
What happened to just readingthe old school way of like revamping
your films without doing that,without using there, without.
Using AI because everybodywants to see stuff in 4K and 8K.

(01:44:06):
And honestly, the stuff thatwas actually made during the late
80s, early 90s was actuallygreat filmmaking.
Just leave it alone.
I go to YouTube to watch myfavorite Kung Fu flicks, Five Deadly
Venoms.
Let's go.
I like the grainy look.
It's fine.
I mean, Snake.
Snake and Crane.

(01:44:30):
I'm going to be sospecifically and particularly upset
like this.
The.
The action movies of that ilkwas like me and my mom's thing.
Like this was my entry intofilm and action film specifically.
And it's like, I. I don't wantto see Game of death in 4k if it

(01:44:54):
means you're going to get ridof Bruce 2 and copy paste Bruce Lee
over his.
Like.
Like, I don't.
No.
I know exactly what.
In such a very specific waythat I want to feel like.
It's.
It's me personally.
And because I am an unculturedswine, I'm going to feel like China

(01:45:15):
has ever done.
And they're doing it to me specifically.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.
Because what's gonna happenand what's gonna happen is they're
probably gonna do like, rereleases overseas anyway, and then
they'll probably come overhere next.
And all that's going to be onmine is finding the faults.

(01:45:38):
Yep.
You're gonna.
You're not even gonna befocused on the.
The.
On the film itself.
You're going to be worriedabout where.
Every mistake, every error,every glitch, that's.
That's for y' all that haveseen it already.
Not for the kid.
You know what this is?
This for y' all is what?

(01:45:59):
Like you said, Chris, what theprequel Star wars series was me,
I'm the OG 4, 5, and 6.
When that, when those threemovies came out, I. I said, what.
What did you do?
But what did you do?
Why would you do this?
It was fine.

(01:46:19):
And then they.
They around with the, with 4,5, and 6.
That's where I was like,that's where I had the mix up at
or the.
The upset at is that I didn't like.
Do you really want to see it?
Do you really want to see aremake of Master the Flying Guillotine?

(01:46:39):
Oh, hell no.
Sorry.
Hold on.
Hold on respectfully, I feellike Kira, are you saying that you
are like not.
Hey, not the, not the prequel warning.
No, she's a purist.
What are you gonna say?
Yeah, she's okay.
Have you, you, you've seen thekung fu movies, right?

(01:47:03):
What does that have to do withthe conversation that we're having?
That's all about to say.
I was about to say the same thing.
I thought she was going afterwhat she said for Star Wars.
I think that's his point.
That, that's his point.
I think that's the point.
What does that have to do.
I'm.
I.
What I'm saying is I like theway that the original films looked.
Don't touch them.

(01:47:24):
But for the new kids that hadnever seen a it before, it was the
greatest thing on, on the planet.
Okay.
Me knowing what it looked likeoriginally was great.
Me seeing what they did andchanging, I'm like, but what was.
But what?
What?
For who it was.
And let's be honest, it wasn't bro.
There was nothing wrong.
Before we check out.

(01:47:45):
Let's be honest.
At the time when thoseprequels were first released, that
was a new thing.
The CGI was a couplecompletely new thing.
So Disney was the first to puttheir hands on something like that
and really play with it.
Yeah.
However, it does not hold upwhen they, when you, whether you

(01:48:05):
have it on dvd, whether youhave Blu Ray, whether they showing
like on TNT or whatever, youlook at it completely different now
and you say, wow, it doesn'tlook that great.
We're not saying anythingabout the storyline.
The storyline is completely fine.
The look, the aesthetic, itdoesn't hold up.
You know what it makes me do?

(01:48:29):
It makes me.
I wanna.
I'm holding my purse a littlebit tighter.
That's why when they went and.
And re released 4, 5 and 6 anddid the same thing, adding stuff,
I'm like, you didn't need todo that because now it really looks
off off it.
It looks completely unnatural.

(01:48:49):
That's why when they did 789,especially with seven and first thing
fans were looking at, theywent back to Jim Henson.
They went back to the puppetsand it worked.
Grounded.
Yeah.
You know, so what it wasalmost the same story retold in a
different format.

(01:49:09):
Yeah.
They went back to basics,which was the.
The best thing they could have done.
There's nothing wrong withusing cgi, you know, but don't do
it.
Just there's an abundance inwhich you.
Use it just because you.
Just because you should neverthought about it you shouldn't.
Right.
You right now in movies,you're starting to see more and more
people say practical effectsto working.

(01:49:31):
Yep.
So sorry, ma', am, I can'twatch the original Star wars because
I was in the theater when theyoriginal one came out.
So trust me, that memory laysheavy on my mind, so.
All right, well, here we go.
Wrap up protocol initiated.

(01:49:52):
Captain, we are wrapping upHalston Canty.
Talk to the people, let themknow where they can find you.
Oh, you can find me on Lifewith Halston.
H A L S T O N on Instagram.
You can find me at the Mentalwealth at mental Wealth Academy 8.

(01:50:16):
You can find me at MentalWealth Academy 8 on YouTube.
That's where I'm at for right now.
Look, brother, we need morepeople like you in our communities.
Yes.
To speak and to act and tomake those pathways.
So thank you for doing whatyou've done.
Thank you for everythingyou're getting, you're doing in the

(01:50:37):
future.
Thank you for coming on andtalking about it because there are
a lot of people who are goingto listen to this and you know, who
have watched it.
We're going to watch it andsay, yeah, yeah, this is, I needed
this.
So I appreciate you.
Appreciate you, my guy.
I appreciate you all forhaving me, man.
This has been a cool experience.
It's great to meet you all.
Thank you for the questionsand just the, the camaraderie.

(01:50:59):
Overall has been pretty great.
So thank you.
Appreciate it.
Lady Mandalore, talk to the people.
Hi, my name is Lady Mandalore.
I am a very friendly New Yorker.
You can always.
I'll be happy to offer myservices in giving you a tour of
my beautiful crime ridden city.

(01:51:19):
But no, seriously girl, no,listen, you miss, you missed whole
thing.
There's a whole prisoner.
That's my street right now.
The helicopters are flying inthe whole night.
Yeah, yeah, you missed this part.
You missed it.
Yeah.
But you can find Mar and thelovely Mr. Navy Martel on Sundays

(01:51:40):
at 7pm Eastern Standard Timeon room words on YouTube and Twitch
and possibly Tick Tock if Ican figure it out.
Where we talk aboutindependent comics.
We have lovely comic bookcreators that are on and then me
and Navy, we just be shootinga shit about comics that we love
in general and sometimes popculture stuff like movies and TV

(01:52:01):
shows.
And I also do voice acting andI also stream video games on Fridays
at 7pm Eastern Standard Time.
I am still running the gamutof my first RPG that is Expedition
33 and Star Wars Legos.
It's fun, yay.

(01:52:24):
Whoopi freaking do.
Talk to the people.
You can find me on Instagramat once.
You freaking do.
And also on Tick Tock.
Also, if you're in the marketfor nerdy nails, you can find me
at Fresh Pressed by Z onInstagram and also now on Tick Tock.
All right.

(01:52:44):
Very own horror aficionado,Queen of the Kebab Cabra.
Whatever.
Thank you.
I'm hungry.
I didn't eat today.
That's why I was like that.
What I snacked on was not sufficient.
It was.
I was not happy with it.

(01:53:05):
That's what it was.
I hope you clipping that.
Go ahead, lady.
What's up, y'?
All?
Geek by Heart.
Me and my husband run Geek by Heart.
You can find us on allsocials, including YouTube, IG, Twitch,
and tick Tock.
I right now am am streamingLegend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild.

(01:53:28):
Having a great time doing it.
And when Sound Hill F comesout, which I believe is September
26th, I'm gonna be up on that.
So I'm very, very excitedabout that to get scared.
Other than that, me and Jaytalk about trailers and movies all
the time.
So come join us.
We are a lot of fun, right?
You don't want to be like thatold lady on weapons.

(01:53:51):
I have got to go watch thismovie, Mayhem.
It's a little funny.
It's a little funny.
It's a little scary.
Yeah, we'll be watching.
You can find me at Mayhem Media.
That's m a y e h e m Media.
I talk movies and comics andTV shows.

(01:54:12):
The most important thing Italk about is mental health.
So please remember to takeyour meds, take your pto, Take a
deep breath, let that go.
And tomorrow's not promised.
So cause Mayhem today.
I was working, right?
Right.
Navy Mon.
Talk to the people.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, BLS of all ages, good evening,

(01:54:34):
good morning, good afternoon.
Design Navy Montel.
Your frosty bearded BL herewith the crew on a Thursday.
If you want to know what I'mup to, just follow me on Navy Montel
to see what shenanigans I'm up to.
Sometimes I just do check insbecause here lately we need to check
in with each other becauseeverybody's on a certain, certain
level of mental health.
They need to be checked upon.
That makes a difference.

(01:54:55):
You say, hey, are you okay?
Or say, hello, I'm with thisincredible lady every Sunday at seven
as we talk about comics andcreators and all types of stuff and
we just shoot shit and do whatever.
I'll be At Atlantic Comic Conthis weekend and next week I will
be at Dragon Con.
Yeah.
And after Dragon Con to my.

(01:55:16):
My streaming schedule and theBlur chrome combos are coming back.
So shout out to.
Shout out to Duron flood forAtlantic ComicCon.
They are doing some.
He is doing some great stuffout that way.
So if you are in the area andyou can still get a ticket, good
luck.
Shout out.
Shout out.

(01:55:37):
Oh and I do voice acting too,so from time to time I do.
Voice acting so well, it's bound.
It's down to me.
I just said it.
Spartan, go ahead.
Damn.
Just don't waste a moment.
He gonna bench press you for that?

(01:55:59):
It does.
It doesn't help.
I'm going to the gym afterthis either.
My cases.
My case is falling fasterapart than Boosie's right now.
Now.
Anyway, black underscore.
Spartan 615 is where you canfind me on the interwebs.
Shows are still going on.
We still cover all the mess.
Including you cracker barrelfans on how the fact we got here
every Wednesday at 7:30.

(01:56:20):
Yeah, people are losing theirminds over a dog on logo.
Myself, Safari and Joe willcover everything from Gamescom that
just happened these lastcouple of days on Get Bit podcast.
Uh, there's a lot.
Especially with Laney's, uh,Silent Hill, which I know you're
gonna love and other ones.
But we'll cover that tomorrowat 8:30.ish.
Still doing Wu Chang Fallen Feathers.

(01:56:41):
Although my streaming is alittle bit off because you know,
babies gotta go to sleep andno, it's on my plays at midnight
so.
Good because I do cuss a lotof my.
I do cuss a lot of my streams.
Thank y' all for watching atthe same time guys, the rules still
apply.
Please respect the cosplayers.
Cosplay is not consent.
Please wash your ass.
You're grown adults.
Soap is not that.
Soap doesn't cost that much atthe same time.

(01:57:01):
Be nice, be kind, talk andshare your fandoms.
Don't be a dick and we'll allbe cool.
All right, now it's down to me.
Thank you for tuning in.
Thank you to our guest,Halston Canty, mental health advocate.
Stand up guy.
We need more community.

(01:57:22):
Absolutely whole his whole platform.
Go check him out on all thosefolks platforms.
You can catch us Tuesdays andThursdays, 8pm Eastern.
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(01:57:42):
Also don't be afraid to donate.
It helps.
It helps keep the ship afloat.
But thank you to the crew.
Thank you to Trey.
Trey Mosley.
Thank you to Mal for those donations.
Shout out to Moon storytellers.
Shout out to Bama.
Everybody that's been in thecomments, thank you for showing up.
Always, always.
This is fun to do.
This is always dope when I canreach out to people, to the community.

(01:58:05):
Shout out to Laney forbringing Halston in.
This was amazing.
This is great.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So nervous.
A little nervous, all of youpeople in here, but it.
I. I maintain.
Oh, we, We.
We're.
We're a party.
Don't worry.
We're a party.
So remember, everyone, toremember to always entertain yourself

(01:58:27):
and others, educate yourselfand others.
Most of all, encourageyourself and others.
I'm Chris Fury with thisamazing crew along with our guest.
Come back Tuesday.
You never know who we got orwhat we're talking about, but guaranteed
for about good two hours, youain't got to worry about the rest
of the world.
So until then, we're out of here.
Yeah.

(01:58:51):
Snake, are you okay?
Snake?
Snake.

(01:59:12):
Sa.

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