S2 E3 | Scott Anderson's Transformative Journey: From South Side Struggles, Dyslexia Challenges, and Organized Crime, to Mental Health Advocacy and Addiction Recovery Success - Happy Hour Holidaze

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Sean Febre (00:00):
Welcome to Happy Hour Holidays.
Your host for the time being,manny, still out, still on daddy
duty is Sean Fabre.
We got a special guest todayfor you.
We got Mr Anderson.
No, not the one from the Matrix.
This is Scott Anderson, but hemay give you a red pill.
Make sure to take it to wakeyou up from the Matrix.

(00:20):
Scott, how are you doing today?
I'm doing awesome.
Thanks for having me on.
That's fantastic man.

Scott Anderson (00:31):
I know we met you on, uh, the brandon rhyme
show.
Yep, and we we've also met inpassing at man who's the guy's
event?
Uh, sebastian gorka.
So we went to this event forthe cigar.
Uh, I think that was the firsttime that we met and you told me
something interesting.

Sean Febre (00:40):
The second time we met is that you have an eidetic
memory.
Yes, and what exactly can youexplain to the audience?

what that is in general.
It's basically, um, you havepriming effects of semantic and
episodic memory is is what youyou base your short-term into
long-term memory on.
Okay, so eidetic memory is notphotographic memory, which it's
misconstrued with a lot.
That's what I thought it was.

(01:07):
No, it's completely different.
Photographic memory isdifferent.
Eidetic memory just means thatwith a lot of things that you
engage in, that you'reinterested in, that are
meaningful to you, you have avery detailed recall of the
entire event in a episodic typeway, like you relive the moment,

(01:29):
almost like a video kind of, soyou're able to recall very fine
details to things that you'vedone in the past.
It's not super great when itcomes to memorizing words and
languages and stuff like that,more of, like I said, emotional
things that you're interested in.

Sean Febre (01:51):
So then I really don't know much about you, scott
other than quite a few things.
Well, not enough things Rightright.
Can you tell the audience kindof a little bit about your
backstory?
Are you from Tampa?
You said you lived abroad.

No, I've got quite an eclectic background.
I came from a very broken,damaged home, so basically I'm a
cautionary tale Started thatway, grew up in South side of
Chicago and then went throughhorrible, like I said, a broken
home.
My father was very physicalabusive, my mother as well,

(02:26):
emotional abuse, all kinds ofyou know terrible domestic
violence.
I witnessed it all.
By the time I was nine we hadmoved out of the city into the
suburbs and we moved from placeto place all over.
They got a divorce, thankfully,when I was nine.
Domestic violence it washorrible.
And then divorce, thankfully,when I was nine, domestic
violence it was horrible.
And then again it justcontinued on, but from two

(02:50):
families.
I went into the suburbs.
I went to high school there InChicago.
Yeah, no, it was in the suburbsof Chicago, it was New Lenox,
joliet area.
I started school there again,moved from place to place, so

(03:12):
all the time I was there we werevery poor on government
assistance, you know.
So we grew up on the governmentnipple and my mom, you know,
was just a train wreckborderline and my mom was just a
train wreck borderline.
So I didn't do very well inschool.
I was more worried about eatingand surviving than I was
academia, so went on to playfootball.

(03:37):
But my freshman year I spentincarcerated a little over a
year and a half altogether.
What's that?
Yeah Well, yeah yeah, but I wasin with 18, 19 year olds that
were, you know do you mindtelling us?
Again, it was due to the family.
It was very chaotic and verydomestic violence, physical

(03:58):
abuse all the time.
But it was a long story short.
My mother called the police,lied and said that I assaulted
her and then the cops came andobviously back then they didn't
you know, kids didn't reallyhave many rights, so they I had
an uncle that was at my house.

(04:19):
I showed up and I was likewhat's going on here?
I knew something goofy wasgoing on because we had a
conflict, a fight the nightbefore and came home and the
police came in, raided the place, kind of beat me up and
handcuffed me, dragged me out ofthe house and then drove me to.

Sean Febre (04:38):
I was 14.

Yeah, I was 14.
And they took me to a placecalled Mercyville.
It was basically an adult or ajuvenile psychiatric center.
I was there for several monthsand then went to a rural state
correctional.
You know, not a good start, butagain, I realized when I was in
there that I actually enjoyedthat more than my living

(05:13):
arrangement.

Sean Febre (05:14):
Yeah, you probably got food every day, yeah.

I gained like 15 , 20 pounds.
You know I had a bed to sleepon.
It was great.
I mean, we grew up really poor.
Like I said, we lived in theyou know projects would be a
kind word Three of us.
I had a younger brother and anolder brother.
You know we had to sleep in alittle tiny room the size of
this studio, cramped on eachother.

(05:37):
You know it was rough.

Sean Febre (05:38):
Yeah, it wasn't a good environment you know never
having any food, yeah it wasn'ta good environment, you know.

Never having any food, it was a nightmare.
So I grew up with thepsychological and physical abuse
and experienced and witnessedthings that children should
never see.
Is that kind of like a turningpoint in your life when you said
to yourself I never want tolive like this again?
No, unfortunately, I washardheaded and it came close to

(06:04):
death for me to get my lifeturned around.
So when I got out of thereagain, I attempted to go to
school.
I was emancipated.
Basically, the state saidlisten, we're going to put you
out there and as long as youfinish up school, don't get in
any trouble.
You won't go back to jail.
But you screw up and off you go.

(06:25):
So I was very cautious aboutnot doing anything to get get
caught.
Um, I never graduated highschool, um, and then I went on.
But I happened to be very goodat football, very good,
exceptional position.
I was a tailback, okay, and Ihad four, four, uh, speed.
I was 190 pounds.
Yeah, I was.
I was way up there.

(06:46):
I was all area, all conference,all state.
I only played two years, but Ibroke most of the records at my
high school division one, um.

Sean Febre (06:53):
So I had big 10, I had tons of big 10 scholarships.
Please tell me you took one man.

Well, see here's , here's the problem I you can't
without academia.
So so I I didn't graduate highschool, so I had to go to junior
college, joliet Junior College,and again I struggled with
school.
Not all areas of school.
I excelled in the things that Ilike got straight A's, but then
the other stuff I did verypoorly.

(07:18):
So basically, football kind ofgave me a little saving grace,
you know, because people kind ofoverlooked other things.
So when you're in juniorcollege you do with I think it's
the oh maturity act ofsomething or another, where you
basically go to school, you takeremedial courses and you test
out.

Sean Febre (07:37):
So is junior college like basically community
college?
Yes, community college.

Okay, okay, yeah yeah, and basically if you
don't do well in high school,it's a chance for you to get
your foot in the door forcollege.
So I had to take remedialcourses and stuff to get in
certain areas and then, once Idid that, I could apply.

Sean Febre (07:58):
You know I can go to a university, right yeah, to a
university to play football.

The problem was my freshman year of playing
there football.
I went screwing around with afriend of mine, also on the
football team, and he had gottena new truck.
We went to a fair this wasbefore the beginning of the
season and we got in a caraccident.

Sean Febre (08:27):
But you weren't driving.

No, he was drunk and I was begging him to let me
drive.
I wasn't drinking.
Actually, I was drinking but Iwasn't driving, or I wasn't
drunk, you weren't in too excess.
No, I wasn't, and it was goinghome, but there was a friend
that was having a party, so wewere going to go there.
We went down the road and itwas kind of gravelly and he was

(08:49):
like really going fast and thenthe back end kind of slipped out
.
We hit a pole at about 45, 50miles an hour.
It hit directly in front of meand it was a small little Nissan
truck, so through the windowyou know my head went I broke my
neck.
What's that?
No no seatbelt.
Um, I don't think that wouldhave helped, um, but, uh, cause,

(09:10):
the engine came through thecompartment, smashed my knees,
um, yeah it, it damaged me.
I, my um hairline and stuff.
I got scalped, so literally thetop of my my uh scalp was
hanging in my face.
It was bad, holy shit man.
We had a bunch of beer in thecar.
He was slumped over.

(09:31):
At first I thought he was dead,you know.
The steering wheel was bent, hewas knocked out and I didn't
lose consciousness.
But I mean, I noticed, I knew Iwas bleeding really bad and my
knees and everything werecrushed.
So I got out of the car and Iguess I had to wear with all the
hide, all the beer and throw itin the sewer and all that stuff

(09:52):
next door, Because it was rightin front of our old, you know,
grade school, believe it or not.
And so I got him up and, youknow, woke him up and I told him
I'm leaving.
You know he said I got to stayhere.
I got to stay here and I'm likeI'm out of here.
You know what I mean.
So I was like you do whateveryou want, but do not dare say I
was in this car because I didn'twant to go back to prison.

(10:14):
I don't want to go back to jailand be incarcerated.

Sean Febre (10:17):
So you got your hair hanging out, yeah.

Bleeding to to death and uh, no, unfortunately
I again I grew up withouthealthcare, so you're taking for
granted I had healthcare or Ihad a family.
So at that point I was just kindof living in this, living in
the street, living with friends,living from place to place,
nomadically, and, um, I did goback to, uh, my house, where my,
where my mom was, and she wassleeping, I don't know.
This wasn't too late, it wasaround 10 o'clock and I remember

(10:50):
walking and looking at my facein the mirror and I got it was
hanging down, so I didn't knowwhat to do.
So I literally took scotch tapethis is no joke and masking
tape and I taped my face backtogether and I had a shard of
glass maybe a good.
If you see the big scar there,yeah, that's where the glass

(11:13):
stuck into my bone and it wasstill hanging out like two
inches, so I didn't want toremove it, so I had to put tape
around it.
It was a mess On the way togetting there and, thank God,
some friends saw me on the wayhome.

Sean Febre (11:30):
Is that like?
The extent of how you healedyourself was with scotch tape?
No, no, no.

I almost died.
So basically what happened is Icalled my older brother, said
listen, it's an emergency.

Sean Febre (11:41):
You've got to come get me, and what year is?

this around.
This was in the 80s, 86, 87, sono, I was.
It was uh 1980, 88 or 89.
How old are you now?
Oh god, I'm on the wrong sideof uh.
45, 45, again, uh, so I'm, I'mover 50 yeah so um but yeah, so

(12:03):
I called my brother.
He, he came over there.
Thankfully I heard my momscreaming what the fuck are you
doing?
You know this and that andstuff.
Any any inconvenience for herwas a thing.
So I wouldn't dare tell her.
Hey, I was in a car accidentCause I'd get screamed and yell
at, I got to waste money Causewe were like.
I said you know, she was allabout her and not about us.
So my brother had already movedout, so he was on his own.

(12:26):
So this must have been 89, 90.
And anyways, he came and pickedme up.
I said I'm not going to thehospital.
He's like Scott, you got to goto the hospital.
I think you're, you know.
I said you know because Iobviously had a concussion.
I said just make sure you wakeme up every half hour.
You, I said just make sure youwake me up every half hour.
Because I knew if you had aconcussion, don't fall asleep,
because something bad couldhappen.

(12:47):
Anyways, I woke up, I sleptthrough the night, woke up the
next day.
It was Sunday and I remembersaying I'm going to watch the
Bears game.
We were watching the Bears game, we're diehard fans there, and
basically what happened was Iended up having to go to the
hospital because I was bleedingout and so on.

(13:08):
So I went to the hospital andthe plastic surgeon came in and
had to remove the glass.
I had like 141 stitches in myface.
They tried to repair thehairline and it was a mess.

Sean Febre (13:21):
You have hair now.

Well, yeah, but.
I mean mean it's not good hair,I mean obviously it's uh you
know, but that's because andthat's why I have these scars
all on the back of my headbecause they had to take, you
know, hair and stuff and theydidn't have hair restoration
like they do now back then sothey just kind of, you know,
sewed stuff back in there.

Sean Febre (13:39):
It was uh, you know, it was a meatball surgery and
then that was pretty much theend of your football career.

Well, yeah, because I went back and
obviously my knees were crushedand stuff.

Sean Febre (13:49):
Did you have like torn ACLs as well?

Yeah, that was the end of the football career.
I broke my back, my neck.
I had a big lawsuit about it.
Unfortunately, the attorneytook advantage of me and so I
didn't walk with what I shouldhave because I had big 10
scholarships.
I still have all the, the, the,you know, letters and all that
good stuff and the newspaperarticles and unfortunately so

(14:14):
that was the end of that.

Sean Febre (14:15):
And this was your freshman year.

Yeah, this I was starter, you know, and, and I
could have.
Anyways, could have, would have, should have the L Bundy saga?

Sean Febre (14:25):
What was the college that you played for?

Well, it was Joliet Junior College, but I was
going to play.
Yeah, I was going to play.
I had a scholarship to Iowa.
Had you played a game yet?
University of Florida no, wewere just preseason.
Yeah, just preseason games.

Sean Febre (14:40):
So then, after that, what do you do then?

Well, I was like I got to.
You know I was in juniorcollege so I figured you know
what I'm going to try to get aneducation.
So I struggled through juniorcollege but again I was having
difficulty in certain areas.
Other classes I was exceptional, straight A's no effort.

Sean Febre (14:58):
What subject?
Because you said that beforeMath and English and spelling.

You know grammatics.

Sean Febre (15:05):
So what was the bad?

the topics you really didn't care for, that you
were struggling with, yeah, butit turns out it's a processing
difference In your prefrontalcortex, the left like anterior
circulatory area of the brain.
You have how you processinformation.
I didn't process informationbecause again I had issues.

Sean Febre (15:23):
Unless it was math or English.
Yeah, math, and.

English consumer math.
Again I had issues, unless itwas math or English.
Yeah, math and English consumermath, statistical stuff I
excelled, but when it came toalgebra, those types of maths
that are more symbolic.
They don't actually have anypractical application.
I struggled with spelling,English processing, and I
struggled with that since I wasa little kid.
Uh, English processing and Istruggled with that since I was

(15:47):
a little kid, so it was again anarea of the brain that was
damaged that, um, I neededassistance for I had dyslexia.

Sean Febre (15:56):
Nobody accounted for that I needed glasses I
couldn't see no healthcare.

So plus, like I said, when you're living in a
home where you don't havenutritional health, you don't,
and it's constant chaos andabuse.

Sean Febre (16:06):
Education isn't good .

Yeah, it's just not something you can thrive in.

Sean Febre (16:11):
So then you didn't stay in junior college.

Well, I hung in there.
I tried everything to getthrough and I got through like
90% of it.
And then again my livingarrangement no money, no
transportation.
Did you have a job?
No, I couldn't get a job.
No, high school education Ididn't graduate from high school
.
Fast food, yeah, and back thenit was.
You think it's bad now gettinga job?

(16:33):
Back in 88, 89, there wasnothing.
We were in a crisis.
So I went no, they weren'thiring.
I even had friends that ownfast food restaurants, their
parents and I couldn't get a jobthere because I don't have
transportation.
Okay, yeah.
So no car.
No high school diploma.
I did physical labor.

Sean Febre (16:54):
Well, you had a GED, at least right no To get into
junior college right?

No, you don't need a GED.
You have to take remedialcourses, which would be the
equivalent of a GED.

Sean Febre (17:02):
I mean, your backstory is just.

it's a struggle, dude, I didn't know anybody
that went to school, that wentto college that graduated
college.
I had no support, no help fromany family, so I had just got, I
had jail.
You know that doesn't look goodon my resume.
The only thing I had that wasmy saving grace was my ability

(17:26):
to play football and again, andthat was gone.
So I, you know, at this point,you know I was like free falling
.
I was free falling fast so Igot involved with I guess you
call it the mafia or whateverand gangs and people.

Sean Febre (17:44):
Organized crime.

Organized crime and I did a lot of bad stuff to
make money and hustle.
I was a hustler.
I was a big kid.
I was very versed in physicalcombat, so I-.

Sean Febre (17:57):
You're as big now as-.

I was 190.

Sean Febre (18:00):
Well, I don't know how much oh.

I'm 210 right now, so yeah, so I mean pretty
much, I don't know how much.
Oh, I'm 210 right now, so yeah,so I mean pretty much.

Sean Febre (18:07):
I was like 205 in college.
I don't know if it's within thestatute of limitations, but it
isn't, so I'm not worried aboutthat stuff.

There's no crimes to connect me to.
But basically, like dealingdrugs and shit, I will say that
people around me would stealcars and get rid of them for
money.
So around me would steal carsand and get rid of them for
money.
So that would be underinsurance fraud.
Yeah, like we would takesomebody's car and not me, I'm
just saying a legend yeah,legend, um, but basically, uh,

(18:35):
take cars, burn them and andthen they'd get the insurance.
Give us some money for theinsurance.
We hustled that pool.
I collected money from peoplefor stuff very exceptional.

Sean Febre (18:47):
And I don't know about now stuff like that.

What's that?

Sean Febre (18:49):
You ever heard of the APA.

No.

Sean Febre (18:51):
The Amateur Pool Association.

Yeah, Back in Chicago everybody played pool.
We'd go to pool halls all thetime.
The color of money just cameout Constantly and we were all
big fans of that stuff so Iwould hustle pool, make money
doing that kind of stuff.

Sean Febre (19:06):
So you had to get money any way.

You could, I could, yeah.
Yeah, I didn't sell drugs,thank God, but I couriered.
Like I said, I was more of acollection, I would be.
I was more of a strong man.
So if somebody owed money, Iwould come collecting from you.

Sean Febre (19:23):
And how old were you at this time?

I was like 18, 19.

Sean Febre (19:28):
Oh my God, bro.

Yeah, but I was doing it, since I was a little
kid, you know, holy shit, Ididn't have a car, I didn't have
transportation, you know what Imean.
So I was very limited in what Icould do.
So you said if someone saw you.

Sean Febre (19:38):
They wouldn't want to see you right.

Yeah, this was a bad day because I was.
I mean I was.
I trained in martial arts sinceI was a kid.
I never had to.
I did bad stuff.
Let's just say that I hurtpeople.

Sean Febre (19:52):
Allegedly, yeah, allegedly, allegedly.

I'm not proud of all that stuff.

Sean Febre (19:58):
No, but it made you who you are.

Yeah, and that wasn't a good person.
Like I said and I'm trying tobalance this between I was like
an alter ego.
There was the bad side of methat I was engaged in surviving
in, and then there was theinside part of me that knew it
was horrible and bad, and I felthorrible shame and guilt and I
struggled with depression,anxiety, horrible self-esteem

(20:21):
issues.
Plus, you're worrying, how areyou gonna?
You're worrying, where are you?
How are you going to eat today?
Where are you going to sleeptoday?
You know?
So it was just living on thestreet.
I literally was living on thestreet.
I I remember, you know, havingto go from friend's house to
friend's house, sleeping outside.
Um, it was, it was, um, it wasa nightmare so nightmare.

Sean Febre (20:40):
So then, how long did you do that?
Well, so you were, so you were18.

Yeah, 18.
And I said, listen, I wasspiraling down, I was getting to
the point.
I finally got to the pointwhere I actually got through
junior college.
It was a struggle.
It took me three years to getthrough it, but I made it
through and I got an associate'sdegree.

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Then I was like okay, now what?
Let's get a job.
So I was doing odd jobs.
Well, I wanted to go to school,but that takes money and I
didn't have money.
Thank God, I was awarded thestate.
So I applied for like PellGrants and those types of things
.
So I got it.
The government said listen, aslong as you're in school and

(21:27):
this was a turning point inpassing at least half time or
full time I'm sorry, full time,we'll give you money.
And that was my only claim tofame.
So while I was hustling, I wasgetting money enough to survive
by these Pell Grants and studentloans.
But I did make it through.
And then my plan was tocontinue in school.

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But I had to take the GRE andall that other good stuff and I
wasn't good with testing.
So anyways, because of thecognitive deficits, all the
other wonderful attributes, Iwas going through, it turned out
I applied for multiple schools.
I did get into Northern IllinoisUniversity.

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It was a big, big deal for meIn that year-long stint.
In between there I was, like Isaid, living from place to place
, living crashing on friends'couches and that stuff.
When I got in there, this isaround the time I got that
settlement from the car accident.
So finally, things aligned forme.

(22:32):
So I took that money and I paidfor school for a year and
bought a piece of crap, car And-.

Sean Febre (22:43):
How much did you get from the settlement?
$17,000.
I should have gotten.

Well, it was garbage for what the amount was
that the attorney took like 90percent.
Um, what a scumbag.
He was a friend of the thefamily and, um, he just
absolutely took advantage ofjesus christ.
Uh, thankfully he died horriblyum you know he got what he
deserved.
But I mean I think he died fromcancer or something good.
Good for him, but um, butanyways he.

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Uh, it was I.
I got that settlement, so thatwas it.
I remember buying a gold chainwas the only luxury food, and
then you know that the car andstuff to get down um to northern
illinois university and beforewe finish off this story, we
gotta take a short break.

Sean Febre (23:29):
We'll be right back and we're back with happy hour
holidays.
We were now on to his portionof his life at northern illinois
.
Yeah, I got.

basically what happened was I finished junior
college, I um, I moved over Ibelieve it or not reunited with
my biological father because Iwas kind of desperate.
I just needed a place to stay,so I moved over with him.
He lived in a place calledNaperville, which is a nice area
.

Sean Febre (23:57):
This is still in Illinois.

Yeah, this is all in Illinois and he lived in
this tiny little place.
Literally the entire apartmentwas the size of this studio, one
bedroom, little, looked like acamper almost, and I just slept
on a cement floor and didn'thave any belongings other than a
little bit of clothes, and Iused this little side closet

(24:20):
where you put shoes.
It was just again, not thegreatest of environments Early
90s, I'm assuming.
Yeah, this is yep yep.
This was in 89, 90.
So basically, I went toNorthern Illinois University,
went there for a year I thankGod.
I had a friend that was goingthere and he went to school like

(24:41):
three times a week but hebasically rode, you know, drove
from where he lived to there,which is like 30 minutes, and
but he had an apartment.
So he said, listen, you canjust stay there, crash on the
couch and use, use my apartmentand stuff like that.
So I said okay, and I again, itwas just horrible experience.

(25:04):
I did do well in most of myclasses other than, like I said,
the areas of the math andEnglish was just terrible, so
you did good in science.

Sean Febre (25:14):
I did.

Yeah, I did fantastic in everything else, so
my grade point average wasdoable.

Sean Febre (25:27):
But then I had.

I got academically dismissed.
I had to go back home At thatpoint.
I was like that means that ifyou get a failing grade in one
of your classes just one you canget academically dismissed.
That just means that you got totake no-transcript government.

(26:13):
So I was just taking classes sothey would pay me money so I
could live.
Tell me you walked away with abachelor's.
Oh, I did.
I have a bachelor's degree, butthis is later on.
From University of SouthFlorida.
I did a nursing program at HCC,hillsborough Community College.
I didn't sit for the because Igot accepted into USF.

(26:37):
And then I got a master'sdegrees in rehabilitation and
mental health counseling andthen I got a PhD in psychology
and now I'm board certified inaddiction and I'm a licensed
mental health counselor and alsoAS.

Sean Febre (26:54):
That counting right, you have five degrees.

Yeah.

Sean Febre (26:57):
Holy shit man.

Yeah, but that's after I learned how to learn.
That's after I addressed theissue.
I was talking to you when Icame to Florida.
It was a desperate-.

Sean Febre (27:05):
When did you come to Florida?

That was in 1991 .
Okay, so, I migrated becauseeverything I figured I had lost.
I got academically dismissed.
I couldn't find work.
I was doing construction 5o'clock in the morning, working
in the snow and the sleepingrain.
You were probably making money,though doing that right Back
then then as a laborer you'remaking five, six bucks an hour,
the guys you know half the timethey would keep our money and
we'd have to fight to get it.

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I built the cypresses in theair surrounding Chicagoland
areas.
The cypresses are like whereyou go for honeymoons and stuff,
like all these kind of coolrooms and stuff.
So I did that for about a yearrooms and stuff.

(27:47):
So I did that for about a yearand I was living at a friend's
house and thank God theO'Connors, junie O'Connor and
Mike, and thank God that theylet me in the house and treated
me like a son.
That was the first time Iactually had like a family.

Sean Febre (28:02):
And this was in Illinois.

This is in Illinois.
This is right before I decidedand I had made like a family and
this was in Illinois.
This is in Illinois.
This is right before I decided.
And I had made this game plan.
I got to get out of Illinois.
I hated it because all thesemiserable miseries were there.
I hated the people, I hated theweather.
It was horrible.
I was depressed, anxious, I waspraying for death basically
every day.
So I said you know what?
I'm going to go to Florida andI'm going to start new there.

(28:26):
I'm just going to drive, getthere and start over.
I'll become a bouncer, I'll goto school, I'll try anything.
But I got to get out of here.
That place was death to me andcause.
My soul was just being rippedout of my body, and so I got to

(28:48):
live there.
I saved money, you know,working and doing all that stuff
, and thank God they paid for myfood.
It was just fantastic that theyhelped me out.
What's that?
The O'Connors?
I love them.

Sean Febre (28:55):
They were so good to the, are they still with us?

Yes, yes, unfortunately, I haven't spoke
with them in years and years andyears.
There's more drama with that,not with them, with their son.
When I came to Florida, whichcity did you move to?
Well, I just drove.
I just drove and drove until Icouldn't drive anymore.
So Miami, no, I made it toTampa.

(29:18):
Okay, when I got to Tampa, yougot to remember this was a long
time ago.

Sean Febre (29:22):
There was groves all over the place, downtown Tampa
was like empty.

It was empty.
I got there around 11 o'clockto 1130 at night and I drove
down the middle of downtown Iguess it would be Ashley and
there was nobody there.
Literally, the lights were on.
I'm like what is this?
You know, I thought it was atown, a small town, and I pulled
over to the side because therewas a bunch of kids, like three
taxis, and I said hey, I'mlooking for Tampa, where is it?

(29:49):
And they started laughing.
They're like this is it?
I said what I said wherethere's no people here, I said
where's the city at?
And they're like this is it?
Literally, this is downtown.
And I was like oh man, andthey're like what's going on.
So I kind of explained to them.
They said hey, go back theother way, get off on on
fletcher avenue.
There's a university there andthat's more usf yeah and, and he

(30:14):
said drive there.
So I drove down there.
I got off on fletcher, Ihappened to turn right and that
took me right down by by rightby the university and I saw that
there was like a university.
I turned left on um 42nd avenuethere and, uh, I drove down the
road and I just pulled in tothe side, kind of got lost.
But it was an apartment.

(30:34):
There's a bunch of apartmentcomplexes this is days before
gps navigation.
I didn't have anything and I wasdirectionally challenged, so
just the fact that I made it.
There was a was yeah, it was amiracle Cause I was definitely
you probably just took 75 allthe way down.
Yeah, I did pretty much prettymuch and I asked directions

(30:55):
everywhere I went and stuffevery five minutes.
I even had to pull over onetime, waited for a cop to pull
over and say what's going on andsay I am lost, I don't know
where I'm going.
You know, and he, he drove infront of me and so I'm going,
and he drove in front of me andso I had help.
But anyways I made it there.
I slept in my car.
The next morning I got up Ionly had a certain amount of
money.

Sean Febre (31:11):
And I didn't have so you came down here not knowing
anybody.

Not knowing a soul, not nothing.
Why'd?

Sean Febre (31:16):
you choose Florida.

Because it was warm.
I got tired of living in my car.
My friend worked at a gasstation.
I'll tell you how rough it was.
I would go in my car and theyhad a gas.
Stations have like heat lampsin these little washing areas
and they have little doors thatclose so you can stay warm.
So I would drive my car in there, close the gates and then you

(31:41):
know you'd have to have like 50cents or a dollar, and then it
gives you five minutes of heat,but those heaters are really hot
so it warms up the whole place.
So my buddy said listen, I'llleave the door open so late at
night you can come on in there,park your car and then that way
you can heat up my Kirschbaum.
And so I did that.
I lived literally from place toplace, so when I didn't have a

(32:05):
place to crash I had to live inthese, you know, in the back of
my car.
What kind of car did you have?
I had a little hatchback.

Sean Febre (32:15):
How are you sleeping in that car?
Well, it was a little hatchback.

And you know.
So I had like a bed back thereand I had, you know, all my
stuff and it was a, uh, capri.
It looked like a Ford Mustangbut it was a Capri, but it was a
hatchback, it looked cool.
It was a four banger piece ofgarbage I think I bought for
like 400, $500.
That's all I could get, but, um, anyways, so that's how I lived
.
You know, just uh, getting byand I would steal from grocery

(32:43):
stores food and stuff, just toallegedly, allegedly.

Sean Febre (32:48):
Yeah.

I came clean with them later on.
It was a store that I workedwith when I was a kid and that's
how I ate.
That was all in Illinois.
That was all in Illinois.
All this is all in Illinois,within you know, eight different
counties and stuff like that.

Sean Febre (33:00):
So you said to yourself fuck this.

Yeah, I'm done.
I said, said I didn't want tolive.
So I'm like I'm going to go toFlorida.
I had been to Florida a coupletimes with friends on spring
breaks.
To where Daytona With no moneyat all, daytona and stuff like
that and again I would hustle.
I was a good hustler and backthen I was a good-looking kid, I
had the golden tongue and Icould just weasel my way in

(33:25):
everywhere and it was a greatexperience.
So I said you know, I'll gothere because that light, the
beautiful, and it just had thisaura about it for me Never snows
.
Never snows.
There's good people there andeverybody, so anyways, I go
there, I sleep the next day, Iget up.
Now I've got to come overcome.

(33:46):
How in the hell am I going toget to?

Sean Febre (33:49):
How much money did you have?

I had $1,200.

Sean Febre (33:51):
And then that's after you pumped in gas to get
down here, or that's everything.

After, when I arrived, I had $1,200.

Sean Febre (33:59):
Was that a lot back then?

No, no, that was about.

Sean Febre (34:03):
Rent was 300 for a tiny one bedroom efficiency well
, that buys you four months yeah, yeah, essentially well, minus
food, gas, well yeah, but I meanI was willing to eat ramen,
noodle and steal, whatever Ineeded to do.

Um so, so food.
I could always hustle, but yeah, in my mind I needed three
months, four months, to get ajob and start earning money.
Where was the first?

Sean Febre (34:32):
place that you it was Cambridge Woods.

I can't believe.
I remember that.

Sean Febre (34:38):
Where the hell is that?

Cambridge Woods, right off of 42nd Street.
It's where Fontana Hall was.
Right across from 42nd andFletcher holy shit, yep and um.
So I ended up, uh yeah, livingin that area for all through
college there, believe it or notso then you attended usf also
when you moved later on.
These are later.
I lived on the street.
So basically, four monthscouldn't find a job, still,

(35:02):
still again.
No, it was, it was.
It was a rough situation.
Um, I couldn't.
I did get a job after thewithin the three months, so I
was bouncing.
I was, you know, trying to workdoing bouncing.
But there again, if you're notpart of the good old boy network
here, it's hard to get intothat where are you?
Bouncing in ybor city.

(35:23):
Oh shit, yeah, all the placesthat started yeah good in ybor
city back when it was brand newand um brand new ybor.

Sean Febre (35:31):
No, no, the bar scene.

Oh the bar scene was was new there, so um, but
uh I so I stayed in that alittle apartment.
I got a roommate and um and hadcool.
So they kind of were teachingme what to do, where to go, all
that other good stuff.
So finally, when I was all justabout out of money, I found a
place to work.

(35:53):
It was at Hillsborough Countydevelopmental center, right off
of Bruce B Downs, there whereall the medical buildings are.
Um on Bruce B Downs in Fletcher.

Sean Febre (36:02):
There was Bruce B Downs back then.
I'm sorry, I don't know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah , not Bruce B Downs.
What's the name dragged there?
56?
, 56, no.

Sean Febre (36:11):
Right, because 56 turns into Bruce B Downs, I
think.

Yeah, I think it was Bruce B Downs.
It's the main drag there, right?
I'm just asking because I don'tknow.
I thought it was Bruce B Downsin Fletcher and anyway.
So it's Hillsborough CountyDevelopmental Center.
I was making $3.60 an hour.

Sean Febre (36:29):
Was that minimum wage back then?

Yeah, holy fuck yeah.
And basically, in order tosurvive, I had to sleep in my
car in the parking lot, becauseI was out.
I had no tag, no title to mycar, it was so I'm driving
around illegally, but weren'tyou staying at Cambridge?
I did, but I, I, my money ranout.

Sean Febre (36:51):
Oh, and then that's it.
Yeah, and that was it.

And then I was struggling and then literally a
week later, I got this job.
So I'm like, shoot, I gotta,you know, I don't, I just need
money for food.
So I took the job becausebasically they offered food and
they train you for six weeks.
So I figured for six weeks Ican come and eat food at
breakfast.
And then you know what I mean.
They were going to train me andpay me the 360 an hour for

(37:16):
training and it was like innursing, basically it was like a
home health care aid.
So basically what you did youworked with assisted living, but
for adults with severehandicaps and severe behavioral
problems, the worst population.

Sean Febre (37:36):
you can think of.
Isn't that like a psych wardalmost?

Kind of, but it's for folks that have severe
disabilities and behavioralproblems, but most of them are
in wheelchairs.
They can't move, they're drool,the fecal matter, the urine.
So basically that's what you'redoing most of the time.
It's a rough job, it's a roughTurnaround was 95%.
I can see why.

(37:58):
So of my class of 20 thattrained in there, I'm the only
one that stayed.
There was a girl that stayed,but she quit after the first day
.
Just the smell from walking onthe unit was enough to make you
gag and vomit.
So everybody but I had nochoice.
So I'd live in my car, I'd work16 hours a day doing this 16

(38:18):
hours because overtime is what Icould make enough money with
Time and a half yeah, time and ahalf.
So I did that for a year and ahalf, scheming all along how I'm
going to get into nursing.
Because I looked and I saw thenurses there made like $15 an
hour, $10, $15 an hour.
So I'm like man, that's what Iwant to do is get into nursing

(38:39):
or healthcare.
So I applied to HillsboroughCounty Community ACC and applied
for the nursing program and,believe it or not, I got
accepted right as the time whenthey were cutting down, they
were going to cut out my thatexperience probably helped you

(39:00):
get accepted, that is yeah,absolutely, and I had to take
all the prerequisites.
So I had to take anatomy,physiology, biology, you know
all the pre-med.
So I had to basically dopre-med for two years and I did.
But at that time when I got toHCC I went to the student
affairs and said I'm havingtrouble learning.

(39:23):
And they said, well, you haveattention deficit hyperactivity
disorder.

Sean Febre (39:26):
And you didn't know this at this point.

Well, we kind of did, but nobody cared.
So nobody really cared.
I had that problem since I wasa little kid, in grade school,
but nobody cared about that backthen.
So they said you have ADD, youhave dyslexia.
They studied me in depth and Iall these psychologically bells,
cognitive testing, all thisother stuff turns out that I I

(39:51):
had an exceptional iq, but I wasliterally almost mentally
retarded in certain areas.
And they said how can thiscan't be, there's too much of a
disparity.
So they tested me for all theseother things and that's when we
figured this out.

Sean Febre (40:04):
So they made an IED for me Did they prescribe you?

Yeah, they wanted to give me medicine for.

Sean Febre (40:10):
Ritalin or Adderall.

No, it wasn't Adderall back then.
They didn't have it.
But it was Ritalin, it wasCycler, desparamin.
There were several things.

Sean Febre (40:18):
You had to take all that.

Well, I didn't, I didn't I, I, I refused to.
I tried the.
I tried the Ritalin and Ididn't like the way it made me
feel, so I stopped taking it andI'm like I can.
I'm more interested in help melearn.
Let me pay.
They cause they have healthhealthcare there.
So they checked me out andthey're like wow, you're, you

(40:40):
got to get your teeth fixed.
Well, yeah, it's part of thestudent.
You know you pay for that, soyeah, you get free student
services, which was the greatestthing ever, because then I
could get treated for all thethings that were going on and
get fixed up, and then they paidfor my glasses so I could
actually see in class.
They helped me with all kindsof areas, so they worked with me

(41:00):
.

Sean Febre (41:01):
It sounds like HCC is pretty fucking good.
It's awesome.
I love that place.
I got my AA from there, yeah.

I love that school because they were so good
and kind to me.
They helped me with the studentloans, everything.

Sean Febre (41:13):
You know what Illinois?
Take note Florida's doing itbetter.

Way better, way better.

Sean Febre (41:18):
And that was back in the 90s.

Yeah, yeah, I mean HCC shout out to you.
Guys were fantastic to me.
You made a huge change, GoHawks.
So that's where I started.
They said listen, let's get you, because I had to take algebra,
I had to take the differentmaths and stuff like that.
But they helped me through allthat stuff.
The teachers worked with me.
There were small groups.

(41:41):
Small class settings were smallgroups.
You know small setting, youknow class settings and the
teachers if you really put forththe effort and said, hey, can
you help me with this, they gotme tutors.
They would tutor me after classand they got me yeah.

Sean Febre (41:54):
Well, it was tuition .

But the teachers didn't have to do that.
No they didn't.
So they worked with me and Igot through and I remember
loving.

Sean Febre (42:01):
I wonder do you know a teacher His name's Soash?
No, okay, never mind, thenSounds familiar, shout out.

Don Soash.
But I got.
So I started to thrive inschool.
He taught me how to read withcolors and I'd have to put these
colored papers over andhighlight things and I'd have to
read out loud and there was alot of stuff to it.
So you had to nearly reroutethe pathways in your brain for

(42:34):
learning and I did this for twoand a half years.
But in the process I learnedhow to learn and when I did that
I excelled.
I did very well.
I had a 3.7 grade point average.
So I got through the math, whichwas awesome and incredible.
I did the, you know.
I got through all the remedialstuff and then, right when I and

(43:01):
I made it through the nursing,you know, I did the program and
all we had to do was sit forclinicals and then test and then
we can get our LPN.
During that time I got acceptedat USF, which was my dream to
go in, and I wanted to be apsychologist, a doctor or
something like that, because Iwas so confident now that I
learned how to learn and I hadsupport that I could do it.

(43:23):
So for the first time ever, Ireally enjoyed learning and I
would work literally if you hadto study for an hour, I would
work eight hours.

Sean Febre (43:32):
Oh shit.

Just so that I could be equal with you or above
.
So in doing that again helpedme dramatically and I became the
opposite of what I was before,which was undisciplined,
disorganized and all that otherstuff.
Now I became unbelievablydisciplined and organized and
structured and stuff, becausethis was my only way out.

Sean Febre (43:54):
Why did you have to study so much longer than
everybody else?

Because I didn't learn like you.
You could study for 20 minutesand retain 30.
I could I have to study.
If I did that, I wouldn'tretain anything, but if I
studied and got it so you nevertake 90 percent of, you never
took the prescriptions no, no, Iwouldn't take the prescriptions
.
No, I didn't like the way itmade me feel how did it make you
feel?

Sean Febre (44:16):
I'm just curious.
I've never taken rid of it itmade me more anxious.
And I was suffering withanxiety.
I was suffering with depressionBecause there's amphetamines in
it.
Right, what's that?
There's amphetamines.

Ritalin is cocaine, essentially and
basically.
Adderall is methamphetamine inthe way that the body processes
it.

Sean Febre (44:35):
Well, I think Adderall literally has
amphetamines in it.
It does Basal salt methotrexate.
Yeah, it's super bad yeah.

It's a class two scheduled substance.

Sean Febre (44:42):
That should tell you something right away and it has
to be prescribed.
So, yeah, it should tell yousomething.

Yeah, just because they put a time release
absorption in.
It doesn't mean, if you cut itup and snort it, then well, now
you're doing meth.
Oh, you got some Adderall?

Sean Febre (44:57):
And that's why do you think it's the most popular
misabused drug there is.

Is it Because yeah, absolutely without
question.

Sean Febre (45:03):
I would agree with that.
Yeah, because by collegestudents.

By college students.
Yeah, absolutely, and.

Sean Febre (45:08):
I would be lying if I said I didn't take Adderall in
college.
I definitely Right, yeah.

Well, you and the other 80% of people.
But so once I learned how tolearn essentially, long story
short once I learned how tolearn, I excelled in school and
when I got to USF, they put mein the program.
They tested me academically andcognitively.
They helped me with all of thatstuff in terms of training and

(45:34):
learning, and you know how toread all that good stuff.
You know for dyslexia and allthe, all the stuff.
They allowed me to have a quietenvironment to take tests,
which was good.
You know I sat in the class butI had to be.
You know they put me in theback, in a more quiet
environment, and they gave melike an extra 30 minutes of test

(45:56):
.

Sean Febre (45:57):
Wasn't the front have been more helpful?

No, they just wanted to quiet.
So we'd pick anywhere in theroom that was quiet or where it
was non-distracting.
Cause I found when I took thetest I'm paying attention to
everybody else taking the testand I'm not focusing on what I
need to.
So just by moving me in thehall or in front of the teacher
or next to the teacher and andgiving me a little additional
time, I excelled.
I excelled straight A's acrossthe board.

(46:19):
Time I excelled, I excelledstraight A's across the board.
And these were hard courses Imean, they were pre-med courses
and so a program came availablecalled Counselor Education.
It was a master's program, andI said you know what I love this
?

Sean Febre (46:33):
This is what I want to do and Counselor Education,
counselor Education, to become acounselor.

Yeah, in education, so a consultant
testing all kinds, helping kidsthat had learning disabilities
like me, and help them and getthem prosperous.
So I went through that wholeprogram and then midway I'd say
three quarters of the waythrough they changed it and they
said, oh, we're going intorehabilitation counseling, which

(47:00):
is really big now, andrehabilitation counseling is any
kind of like rehab, vocationaltraining, anything from schools
and stuff.
So they said, tell you what,since you have all these credits
and you're about to graduate,we're going to give you two, two
for one, because we're going toapply these credits over here
and now you just have to take anextra 30 credits and we'll.

(47:22):
We'll give you and I was taking15 credit hours, which is
full-time, working full-time andum getting straight a's.

Sean Febre (47:29):
So I I had really overcome that obstacle, um and
when we get back we will finishthat story like comment and
subscribe.
Thank you for everybody thatwatches.

We're here with mr anderson, because I don't
know anybody named anderson.

Sean Febre (47:47):
The matrix, bro.
Yeah, we'll be right back.
We are here with mr dr anderson.
I mean he does have a phd, guys, I do.
That is Mr Dr Anderson, mrAnderson, yeah, mr Anderson,
where were we at?
We were at USF.

Well, we were just talking about I was rising
up from the bottom of the pit.
So basically really badchildhood, broken abuse, went
through horrible things.
Failed at school, didn'tgraduate high school.
Had a shot at footballprofessional football and that
got crushed too suddenly andagain, I don't want to blame

(48:29):
that Counselor education yeah.
Then I started at.
I had to go work in that timewhile I was in between school,
living on the street, living outof my car, eating out of
garbage cans.

Sean Febre (48:42):
Driving all the way.

And then I decided you know what, I'm not
going out like that.
So I decided I'm just going toup and come here to Florida.

Sean Febre (48:49):
Went to downtown Tampa.

Didn't even know it was downtown Tampa, didn't
even know it was downtown TampaWent back to the USF area that
sparked my interest.
After three, four months ofjust struggling and not being
able to find work, I said youknow what?
Um, I got a job at hillsboroughcounty developmental center and
one of the worst environmentsyou could possibly work in.

Sean Febre (49:10):
Not because of the residents, because it's just a
very hard job, but yeah you'rebasically working in shit and
piss and drool all day long andthat that is literally.
I mean because of the residents.
Yes, yeah.

But I love the residents.
I love them.
I really did.
They were still hold true in myheart to them.

Sean Febre (49:28):
You got your bachelor's degree, yeah.

Then I went to junior college for nursing and
then went through that, gotaccepted at USF and then that's
when I started to take off.
I got help for the learningdisabilities that I had, got
treatment for that and decidedto take life seriously and
started to work and stuff likethat.

Sean Febre (49:48):
How old were you now at that?

point, I was like 22.
When you got, your bachelor's.
No, when I got my bachelor's, Ithink I was 23.

Sean Febre (49:58):
Okay.

I was 23.
Bachelors, I think I was 23.
Okay, I was 23.

Sean Febre (50:01):
So, and then that's when you started to go to your.
What is it?
Overgrad or graduate school?
Graduate school.

Yeah, postgraduate, postgraduate, yeah
, so well.
Postgraduate, phd, and thengraduate school is the master's
in rehabilitation and mentalhealth counseling.
Undergraduate is the bachelor'swith a minor in sociology, and
then the associate's degree isjust, you know, associate's
degree, but at that point youknow I had gotten my life
together.
This was in 95 is when my lifechanged, because I was in USF.

Sean Febre (50:33):
I got accepted, I was living.

No, I was like 24.
Oh yeah, this is later on.
I was much older In 2000,.
I got my PhD in 2001.
Oh, okay, I got my master's in99, and I got my bachelor's in
95.

Sean Febre (50:50):
You're a schoolaholic.

Well, again, because that was my livelihood,
literally, because thegovernment would pay for most of
that and I used student loansto survive until I got ahead,
would pay for most of that and Iused student loans to survive
until I got ahead.
After that, I was, you know,like I said, during that time,
right before then, literallyeating out of garbage cans,
living in the street.

Sean Febre (51:10):
I mean it was rough.
When you say eating out ofgarbage cans, do you mean eating
out of Literally eating out ofgarbage cans?

Yeah, when I worked at Hillsborough County
Developmental Center, theresidents, you know, is filled
with drool and spit and all thatstuff.
They would eat this food thatwas made and then whatever they
couldn't eat we'd throw in thegarbage.
Well, I would go outside afterthe shift and pick through the
garbage and eat that food, Bro,because I was starving.

(51:37):
So, yes, yes, and a lot oftimes I would vomit right after.
You know, I tried to hold itdown for 30 minutes but because
it was so rancid and disgustingto eat, you know, it was just,
it was horrible, it was horrible.

Sean Febre (51:50):
But I had to survive .
You literally have probablygone.
We've had a lot of people onthis show.
I mean we've released over 70episodes.
I've never had anybody gothrough what you've been through
.
This is this is started fromthe bottom.

Yeah, now I literally had my, my mother and
my father do everything theycould possibly do to destroy me,
my, my same, with my olderbrother and my younger brother.
We, we, just.
There was such hatred, suchhatred and vitriol between all
of us.
We were all trying to survivewith nothing.
So it's like throwing the lastscrap of food amongst brothers.

(52:28):
They're going to try to killeach other for it.

Sean Febre (52:31):
So that's the environment I lived in when did
you actually say to yourself Ihave now a stable life Because
everything 95.
95?

95.

Sean Febre (52:42):
I looked around in Ashford Green.
Did you get a job doingsomething?

Yeah, at Ashford Green.
I was sitting there and I'mlike this is me, this is who,
this is where.

Sean Febre (52:52):
I was supposed to be .
Were you renting a place?
Did you buy a house?

Yeah, I rented a place.
I had a roommate, John, who wasa good friend of mine, and John
, who is a good friend of mine,and he was in school for
engineering and we rented that.
The place was filled withsorority girls.
I had enough money.
I was working at the charterhospitals.
I was very smart at that point.

Sean Febre (53:12):
You were able to buy food.

Yeah, I never worried about food.
He worked at a restaurant so hewould bring home food, so we
had an abundance of food andstuff and the rent was
reasonably cheap and it wasfantastic.

Sean Febre (53:28):
Did you ever believe that life could be like that?

No, no, I literally came to the precipice
of changing my life when I wasworking at Hillsborough County.
I was living off of 15th Street, near Marbella.
It's the crack houses,literally in a crack house.
It was living off of 15thStreet, near Marbella it's the
crack houses, literally in acrack house.
It was $150 rent, noelectricity.
I couldn't afford electricityor utilities.

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I literally bought an extensioncord, dug a hole and hooked it
up to the washer and dryer.
No to the washer and dryer.
They had a little area in theback and I would plug it in at
nighttime so that I could havelight.
And I had a little 13-inch TV.
That was my only majorpossession and I'll tell you I
had— Well in your car, right,yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, but it

(54:13):
wasn't registered, it didn'thave a tag, so I couldn't really
drive it.
It was just for emergencies andI remember, sitting on the floor
I had contemplated committingsuicide.
So I had it all worked out andI had kept journals to all this
stuff since 82, november 12,1982.
I remember starting a journalbecause I wanted to document

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this is how dark it was.

Sean Febre (54:37):
When were you born?
What year?
69.
So 82.

So what year?
69.

Sean Febre (54:41):
So 82.
So damn, bro yeah.

I was 12, 13 years old, yeah, yeah, and I had
already seeking to commithomicide at that age, because I
wanted to kill.

Sean Febre (54:52):
No on my parents.

Oh shit, I wanted to kill my mother and my
brother and sister.
So I was contemplating that andI was basically documenting and
justifying why I was doing it.
I wanted to leave this book ofmy diary saying this is what,
all the horrible things.
I documented, every singlehorrible thing that happened to
me, the thousands of them, andall the terrible things that she

(55:16):
did to me and my dad and allthat other stuff that she did to
me and my dad and all thatother stuff.
So I kept this journal for upuntil you know, in my 30s, of
all these trials andtribulations and stuff like that
.

Sean Febre (55:27):
Well, yeah, I had to wait for the statute of
limitations to run out.

But, yeah, I plan on it, I plan to speak on
it and stuff like that.
Because, coming from when I didand yeah, I mean I kept a
detailed journal every day ofwhat was that but there was a
point when I was reachingworking at the thing and they
were going to cut out the, theovertime, which means I'd be on
the street again, and I rememberthinking I got to get back into

(55:53):
.
You know, I got how is this.

Sean Febre (55:55):
Is this why you were living with John?
No, no, no, this is way before,but this is this is what
started my ability to even getthere.

I was working at that place, living in the crack
house, not doing crack, butliving there contemplating
suicide, and I said you knowwhat I'm going to do it?
I had a gun and a revolver andI planned on doing it.

Sean Febre (56:17):
Second Amendment, right by the way.

Yeah, and I planned on doing it right, by
the way, yeah, and I and Iplanned on doing it.
So one night I had all thecandles, I I remember drinking a
, a 40 ounce of old english andhaving my last wonderful supper,
which was a, uh, a whopper, um,or or, uh, yeah, a whopper from
burger king, and uh, I sat downand I put the gun to my mouth

(56:40):
and I was about to pull thetrigger.
I had a tarp laid out andeverything.
I had my book there, I had anote, I had everything all laid
out.
I was because I wanted peopleto know why I did it.
What's that?
Well, the second I was about topull the trigger, this flash
came into my head, said stop,stop for a second.
And I thought to myself have Idone everything I could possibly

(57:04):
do?
Did I leave everything on thefield?
Did I try everything?
Because I thought everythingwas just bad luck and it was a
curse against me, and so on.
And I cursed God every day andprayed for him to take my life,
almost dared him to take my life, and prayed for him to take my
life, almost dared him to takemy life.
And I reached that point and Isaid is it possible that I'm
what's causing all this?

(57:25):
Because I blamed everythingelse and nothing works.
So I said tell you what I'mgoing to do.
I'm going to stop.
I'm going to give it one shottomorrow, that's it.
My last day is going to be then.
Tomorrow I'm going to live bypure truth.
I'm not going to lie, I'm notgoing to deceive, I'm not going
to do any of that.
I'm going to.
I had three warrants for myarrest in different states.

(57:46):
I was wanted, it was a mess.
So I said you know what?
Tomorrow I'm going to trysomething complete.
I'm going to do the completeopposite of what I'm doing now.
The next day I got up I went tothe pay phone I called.
It was in Daytona, believe itor not, one of the places that I
had a warrant.
In Illinois I had a warrant andin Northern Illinois I had a

(58:11):
warrant.
So I called this place and Isaid listen, ma'am in tears.
I have a warrant for my arrest.
This is what happened, so onand so forth.
I have no money.
I'm literally going to commitsuicide.
I explained to her and I can'tbelieve she listened to me.
Back then people actuallyanswered the phone and she was
almost in tears and she saidhoney, listen to me, I'm going

(58:33):
to talk to the judge and I'mgoing to see what we can do
about this.
And she said can you call metomorrow?
Same time tomorrow, I called onthat pay phone.
I remember the last $3 I hadwent into that pay phone and she
said listen, make an effort topay, do you have it?
I said no, but I went to thepawn shop I was telling you this

(58:54):
story before and that wasbasically my bank and I would
send them.
Literally, she gave me anaddress.
I would send $4, 88 cents, $3,week after week.

Sean Febre (59:07):
And I would write a letter.

I'm making an effort and showing the judge
that I was making an effort.
After doing that for I don'tknow, maybe six weeks, seven
weeks, consistently, calling inonce a week and making that
thing, she said, listen, thejudge is going to drop this
because you made such an effort.
And right there, I knew Godexisted for me, that it was me,

(59:33):
I was the one that was doingthis.
So every day that I did rightand lived righteously and was
truthful, good things happenedand I stopped.
Do you see what I mean?
Right when that happened, I gotaccepted into HCC and I was
like wait a minute, I'm going togo to school.
I had these epiphany after anepiphany and I said I can start

(59:55):
school and they're going to payfor my school.
And so it was an amazingepiphany that I had.
When I couldn't pull thattrigger, I learned that there is
hope and I guess that's whatspawned it in me, and then that
made me work 10 times harder andto do the right thing.
Same with the other two wars.

Sean Febre (01:00:15):
Not only that, but you are the master of your
future Right.

Scott Anderson (01:00:19):
But I didn't know that at that.

I thought I was just part of the thing and I was
actually going to lead intosomething with that is that most
people they don't have a strongrole model growing up Right.
Especially if you come from abroken home and you come from,
you know, a poor family, theydon't have a lot of people that
they can turn to that can be amentor.

And then some mentors are bad mentors.

Right that role models.
They have bad coping skills andthey teach that to their kids.
So I never really had a mentoruntil I started looking at les
brown.
Do you know?
Who exactly that was my mentorwhen we created for brave
frameworks.
I would listen to him.

Eric thomas, tony robbins exactly every
single day was the one of thestarters they would.

And now, since back then there wasn't youtube or
anything, there wasn't reallymuch for you to grasp.
You were pretty much at themercy of whatever was dealt to
you.

Yeah, yeah I was living in a dark surprise.
You're alive.
I I listen the story you'retelling me.
I'm surprised you're alive atleast 15 close death experiences
.
I was run over by a car, I wasshot, I was stabbed.

I had bats taken to me Ajected from a car?

Yeah, I mean.
So I've lived a rough lifedoing very bad things and again
I blamed it on everybody else.
I had an external locus ofcontrol in this victimhood
mentality which was in myneighborhood.
We were all victims.
The man owed us money,everybody you know, so it
justified our aberrance in ourbehavior.
And the second I didn't pullthe trigger.

(01:01:50):
I decided I'm not a victimanymore, that I'm going to be in
100% control and I'm going totake responsibility for
everything and I'm going tochallenge it and whatever
happens happens.
And all three of those chargesthe judges, even though it took
some time and one of them I hadto pay off, the other two got
dropped.
They dropped the charges.
They worked because I washonest, because I worked,

(01:02:14):
because I was consistent,because I over.
So I learned that, wait aminute, if I do that and apply
this to everything, I'm going tosucceed.
And then, when school started,and then I applied that same
work harder than everybody elsefocus everything, cause I
thought this was my one shot,this is my one shot.
And and I lived that way Isacrificed, going out and

(01:02:37):
partying and doing.
I just completely cut 100% offand it was all work 100%.
Now I'm not saying that's good,but it got me through, and then
I learned to come halfwaythrough.

We're not saying that's bad either, though.

Right, no, no, that's what you need to survive
and to get where you're going.
Then you pull it back, then youfind a medium ground.
So at times you have to go fullin full in.

If you can't believe in yourself, how can you expect
other people to believe in you?

But if you don't love yourself, if you don't
respect yourself, if you can'tbe who you are, you're not going
to do those things.

A thousand percent.
So then let's move forward towhen you were living with John.
You had abundance.

Yeah, I took full advantage of it.

Is that when life started to?

turn.
It went so fast and soprosperous, and so my mind.
I had evil in my mind.
So the depression, the anxiety,the low self-esteem, you
surround yourself with positivepeople at that point?
Well, it wasn't, so you have tofix that first.
Then you surround yourself withpositive people, so I was
forced into situations of havingto deal with people, and

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because those people were decent, and the only reason I had
access to decent people was why.
Because, I became decent.

Oh, okay, yes.

And then USF, because there's bad people at
USF but had I not been decent?
I've been with them.
But because I turned decent,because I accepted the
responsibility of that and Ibecame decent, that's why they
were attracted to me.

That's why they accepted me when I tried to get
around those people before theydon't want to be around those
people.

Yeah, I have an old saying at my clinic with
patients If you stand in shitlong enough, you start to stink,
and the only people that aregoing to be around you or accept
you are other people who stinkand who are standing in shit.
So if you don't want to bearound those people, you have to
clean yourself.
Cleanse yourself and removeyourself from the shit, and when
you do that, good people willnow accept you, and that's who's

(01:04:34):
going to be around you.
And that's what I had to do.
So USF was my proving ground.
That's where I had to make my.
I had to study twice as hard aseverybody.
I had to sacrifice not going toparties and hanging out and
doing all that stuff.
I had to work harder thaneverybody.
I had to do things nobody elsewould do.
But because of that it put mein a position later on in life

(01:04:58):
where now I can do what I wantto do where others can't.

So this is just your 20s.
Yeah, this isn't even into your30s.

This is not even in my 30s.

So what happens next ?
What happens next?

Well, the next level after the USF and
excelling.
I excelled in school.
I mean, I did two master'sdegrees.
I did with the counselor, ed,and the rehab and them merging
together.
I was taking 15 hours plusworking at the hospital, plus,
you know, I was thriving in this.
My body and my brain couldn'tget enough education because it

(01:05:32):
had been starved from it for solong.
I knew the answers, they're inmy head but I couldn't
articulate.
I couldn't get it out there andstuff.
So now I found a way to getattention.
So I was going to be thesmartest person in my class.
I was going to be the smartestguy in my fraternity.
So I got to relive life.
So in junior college in Joliet,I couldn't join a frat.

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I couldn't do this.
I didn't have a car, I couldn'tdate people.
I couldn't do all that stuff.
So I suffered through it anddid it poorly.
So this was a new chance.
Which changed my life is I gotto relive my life.
How many people get to relivetheir life?
I literally got to reliveeverything the right way Knowing
, you know.
People say, god, I wish I couldgo back in life and relive it,

(01:06:16):
knowing what I know now.
I did that I did.

did that in real life, and you did it young
enough too.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely well, and still
currently currently, I trust me,I have had a life.
If I died now, I did more thanmost 10 people and then you were
also.

So when did you like ?
So you get your PhD right inearly 2000s 2001, 2001, yeah
what?

then, well, I was working in the hospitals
running hospital units, aruunits, adult recovery units, uh,
addiction recovery units andstuff like that.
I'm like, wow they're making,because now I was in your 30s at
this time.
Um, yeah, I was like 32 orsomething like that.
Yeah, so I was young and um.
Well, but um I had.

I went to the school .
I taught as a teacher.

I was the ESC specialist for Hillsborough
County.
I had done a lot of stuff and Iwas trying to feel out, you
know, business wise, but I wasalways an entrepreneur.
I was always a hustler.
I was always good with money.
You can give me a dollar, I'llturn it into 10.
So I was always good with thatand I didn't like working for
the man.
The man being theseinstitutions like the hospital

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administration, the schooladministration, they were all
corrupt.
They're bad people, very badpeople, and they're corrupt.

Well, they overcharge like crazy.

Yeah, they're taking advantage of the students
.
They're stealing the money,they're getting paid.
So I'm like, wait a minute, whyam I doing all the work and
they're putting me at risk andwhen I could do this?
So basically, to get to thepoint, I decided when I was at

(01:07:55):
the hospital they wanted me tocharge patients and write off
and sign off on all thesemodalities and treatments that
we were giving, that we weren'tgiving.

And I said no because I'm the one signing.
Yeah, it's fraud.

So I was a whistleblower and unfortunately
for me that means I'm fired andkind of blackballed from that.
But I got a settlement and theygot fined a huge, massive
amount of money and so on and soforth.
They ended up going out ofbusiness.
They had to be bought out byanother hospital but but still,

(01:08:28):
what was the hospital?

can you say?
It was town and countryhospital.

Uh, the ariuners , um no, that's uh, that's off
of uh, by the mall over thereand uh, no, that's in.
I forget the name of the areamart.

Martin Luther King.

No, this is I don't even know.
Yeah, I don't remember what the, but it was by the mall, by the
Tampa Bay Mall, like Westchasearea, kind of around that area,
town and country hospital.
Yeah, no shit.

They no longer exist , right Well no, because it got
bought out.

Because of all that stuff they had a lot of
problems.
So what?
They revamped it and stuff likethat.
So now it's a differenthospital, but same type of thing
, and I did all.
I loved the hospital.
I just didn't like theadministration.
They were all corrupt and thenthey tried to blame it on me and
again I was fine.
I was the whistleblower, butyou know how they try to turn it
around.
On schools, I worked for theHillsborough County school

(01:09:19):
district.
Do an ESE specialist for?

these?
What's ESE?

Exceptional student education, people that
were like me growing up and fromgenius all the way to special
needs special education and theywere writing IEPs and getting
$10,000, $12,000 and then notproviding any services for it?
Individual education plans,sorry, and so I again

(01:09:44):
whistleblower on that, and thatended my career there, which was
fine.
I didn't want to be part ofthat whole education system.
It's so corrupt and vile.
It's horrible.
It's just an indoctrinationcamp for dysfunction.

That's literally what it is.

So I got out of there before then, but I
whistleblowed on them and thatcost them a lot of money and a
lot of change, which is good.
So I decided you know what.
I want to do things my way, theright way.
I want to start an educationcurriculum.
I want to start treatment forpeople suffering with substance
abuse and mental health.

(01:10:20):
Because I went through all ofit, I know how to do it, I know
what's going to help.
I know the curriculum from theground up.
So I spent years creating acurriculum and then I started
when I lost my job at thehospital administration, where
you were falsely fired Well no,they fired me, and yeah, they
got busted for that and theypaid me for it.

(01:10:40):
Falsely fired Well no, theyfired me, and yeah, they got
busted for that and they paid mefor it.

Falsely fired.
Well, yeah, I guess you'reright.
Yeah, wrongfully terminated.

But yeah, I mean , they fired me.
It wasn't false, they were justwrongful.
They didn't want me to blow thewhistle on them.
So, anyways, all that stufffueled me and then I decided I
went to, spoke to Tony Edwards.
He was the guy in charge of65D30.
It's the licensing throughDepartment of Children and
Family for facilities.

(01:11:07):
Nobody at that point, anindividual practitioner, had
ever had an individual licenseto practice like a hospital.
It's all companies and, youknow, like hospitals.
So I said, well, I want to dothat.
And he's like how are you goingto do that?
How are you going to learn allthis stuff?
And because you got to havethousands of pages of your

(01:11:29):
curriculum, you have to haveeverything.
You got to go through 65D30 andthey have rules and regulations
.
You have to have hundreds ofpages of outline of how you're
going to do all this andimplement it, and so on.
I spent a year doing it becauseI was that determined and that
passionate about it.
Long story short, I was thefirst person to ever be licensed
with a facility license.

(01:11:52):
I bought a property, I turnedit into a clinic and then I
wrote the laws, the rules, theregulations.
And then I wrote the laws, therules, the regulations, the
student handbook or the employeehandbook, all by myself, based
upon the rules.
So, and started my clinic, arcof Tampa.

And when we get back we will talk about ARC of Tampa
.
We'll see you right, right,right again.
Fool me once.
You can't fool me again.
And we're back with happy hourholidays.
After this short little break,we were now getting into the
meat and potatoes the saga OfARC, Mr.

What does ARC stand for?
It's Addiction Recovery Care ofTampa?
Oh, okay yeah.

Multiple locations, or what's that?

Multiple locations, tampa, oh okay, yeah,
multiple locations, or what'sthat Multiple?

locations Two, two Nice Nice.

So but right now we're 23 years Holy shit,
that's a long time.
Yeah, 23 years and we providesubstance abuse, mental health,
everything from probation, duisespecially.
We specialize with the DUIs andthe probation obligation.
So if you get a DUI or you geta drug charge, you go through

(01:13:07):
probation.
Give us a call.
We'll set you up with yourtreatment service hours and get
you in fast, easy, quick andaffordable.

So also how many people that take the course do
you see again?
Or it's not a course, man.
Well, yeah, what's therecidivism rate?

Yeah, For me, for our program.
We're exceptional, so we don'tdo a 12-step program, we do like
what I talk about.
That's the whole purpose ofgetting on here and giving you

(01:13:49):
my back facilitate that topeople so that they don't go
down that path, so they can veeroff and get down a healthy path
lifestyle.
And so we probably I'd saymaybe 5%.

Oh wow, that's a lot lower than I thought it was
going to be.

Yeah, most places have about 40 or 50%.

And then you probably have a team of.

We have a 65% success rate long-term one year
that's good.
Recovery For an outpatient,that's incredible.

And then you probably also have a team of
psychologists, or no?
So what exactly is it Tell meabout ARC?
Well, you don't have a team ofpsychologists, no?
So what exactly is it Tell meabout ARC?
Well?

you don't need a team of psychologists.
I see about 20 to 50 people aweek, holy shit.
So basically, for the hub thatI'm referring to, the ARC of
Tampa Addiction Recovery Care,off of 13719 North Nebraska
Avenue, we see mostly peoplesuffering with substance abuse

(01:14:46):
and mental health issues.
So we have primarily there DUIs, where you go through DUI
counterattack or probation andthen they send you off to a
treatment provider that's me andthen you would have to go
through a substance abusetreatment course.
But we also have other half ofthe folks are people suffering
with mental health issues likedepression, anxiety, sleep

(01:15:09):
issues, parenting issues,relationship issues that need
help to get their life in orderto find out how to stop this and
how to implement a goodlifestyle.
So we work with them as well,either in individual or group
most likely group facilitationand then they again have great

(01:15:31):
outcomes.

So you said you speak to 40 to 50 people a week.

Yeah, 20 to 50 people patients.
I have a week.

And that's three days a week.
So is the majority of thebusiness you listening, right?

No, it's the majority of me talking Really,
yeah.
And then the rest is intakes,evaluations and assessments and
drug screening.
So we have a lab, we have todrug screen and stuff not dips
actual drug screening, andthat's a whole process.
And then we have intakes,evaluations and assessments to

(01:16:05):
evaluate what's going on, what'swrong with your child, what's
happening, why are they actinglike this?
And then coming up with atreatment plan and implementing
that and facilitating in thatone of our programs.
And then the rest is thelectures and the education.

Now, as a business owner, is there an exit plan,
because you can't do it forever,right?
Or can you?
I can.

I can talk.
So as long as I can talk, I'mgood to go.

But are you going to be doing it well into your 70s?

I've been retired since 2002.
So I'm just semi-retiredbecause I love doing this.
This is a promise I made when Igot my life back that I would
facilitate and do this until Ican't.

You mentioned off air that you lived abroad, so
this was during your retirement,semi-retirement.

Well, 2002, when I started the clinic.
I was an entrepreneur.
I had a little restaurant.
I bought some commercialproperties and stuff.
It was Scottie Cafe, so it wasa cafe.
We sold high-end coffeesmoothies.
Where was it?
It was on 13719 North Nebraska.

You love North Nebraska, bro, because I bought
a whole complex there, oh youbought it, so I own the land and
the buildings.
So of course I'm going to putit in there.
Is it a strip plaza?

Yeah, and Gracie Tampa they were in there.
So the fight studio, yeah, the,the original Gracie Tampa was
in there.
Um yeah, so and I had amortgage company prime one
mortgage, um so, I did a lot ofstuff.
That was 07, 06, 07, 08, 09.
So yeah, after the crash,obviously, the mortgage company,
uh, we folded that, we put inan insurance company, now Bendec

(01:17:45):
, insurance company, and now Didyou call it Van Dyke, bendec,
bendec, oh, okay, yeah, it'sjust an insurance, you know,
right up Property insurance.
Yeah, yeah, different types ofinsurances.
And then, yeah, the restaurant.
When that went down, I had itfor four or five years.
You know it was great, butagain it was crushing times back

(01:18:07):
then.
So during the, the fall, of therecession.

So you know.

I tried to make it work as best I can.
It was a great experience andthen you know, like I said, put,
put different things in andstuff like that.

So I've always been an entrepreneur.
You're clearly a real estateinvestor.
Yeah, I'm a rest estateinvestor.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Do you mind telling people howmany properties you own?
Two, three, four, fivecommercial, five commercial,
holy cow man, are those better?
Those are probably better thanresidential, I'm going to assume
, because, even though you haveto Well, not with.

Airbnb and stuff and the cost of commercial is
rising.
But for a while there, man Itook a hit for a long time 2020,
right, yeah, I mean you'relooking at 18, 19, 20.
I mean you couldn't rent forover $1,200.
Now I could rent for 2,000 if Iwanted to.
Big difference.
So a lot of those commercialproperties I sold to pay

(01:19:01):
everything off, so I don't oweanything and then that way I can
invest that money, like I said,abroad, and I wanted to have a
place in Colombia and a place inHaco or Costa Rica and stuff
like that.
Which Haco Beach is in.
Yeah, haco Beach is like yeah,but so I've lived since 2008

(01:19:22):
back and forth to Costa Rica andthen after about eight or nine
years, it kind of turned intomini New York, so I had to go on
over to Medellin, colombia, andI've been there for eight or
nine years.

Is it true what they say about Medellin?
You can't walk around withwatches.
You can't walk around with namebrands.
No, that's absolutely false.

Where I live, is like Davis Island.

Really.

Yeah.
So whatever you can't walkaround, that's absolutely false.
Where I live is like davisisland really, yeah.
So whatever you can do in davisisland, you can do that.
Is it smart to go out late atnight in provenza or parque
yellow with, uh, gold chainshanging out?
No, if I did that downtowntampa, I'd be mobbed.
So there's no difference.
Um, do you do that in thebarrios?
No, I wouldn't go down 15thstreet over here in suitcase
city and walk around with thateither.
So so no, it's very safe.

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It is very safe.

So you would pretty much say that Medellin is like,
or at least parts of it, becauseevery place has a ghetto right,
tampa's got ghettos.

I'm going to call them ghettos, cause that's
what there's bad areas, badareas, low income, but they're
not ghettos.
Um, but they're bad areas, youknow where?
Where there's gangs, and wherethere's gangs, there's violence,
there's corruption, same hereyou ever been robbed there?
No, never, never even close.

No, I'm kind of connected there so it'd be a bad
idea to fiddle with them.
How do you get around if youcan't speak it?
I understand it, you do.
Yeah, I've been practicing.

I did 352 days on my little Spanish app Rosetta
Stone no it's one of thoseother ones, the little frog guy,
but I do all right, I havestaff, I have people, a driver
and Juan and a couple ofSebastian and a couple of guys,
and so if I need that, I have it.

So you have international properties?
Yeah, what if somebody wants tofollow the same route?
Do they have to hire a realtorin those cities?
Do you go down there?
Do you see the properties?

Yeah, I have friends that are real estate
guys and stuff.

So the first thing you got to do is set up with the
bank.

Yeah, so this is like a six eight-month thing.
First you would have to firstset up an account with the Bank
of Columbia there, and then youwould have to get approved.

As a non-citizen right.

Right as a non-citizen.

And then you start with the real estate agent.

They'll tell you what to do, how to fill out
these forms, all this otherstuff, and then they do
background, you know backgroundmeaning that you have to have
witnesses and people that vouchfor you and all this other stuff
and accounts and you have to bestable in your environment here
and stuff like this, just toset up a bank account.
It's minor, minor, it's nothard.

It's not difficult.
What's the process like?

But let's say you just had cash and you wanted
to, which is what you're goingto need.
You set up the bank account,you go through the vetting
process and stuff you could.
It would be difficult and Idon't know if it would be
worthwhile, but yeah, you can doall that stuff, but you would
work with the realtor there andyou get a really good attorney
there.
Um, and why would you need anattorney?

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Well, because to make sure thatit's all legit.
Shouldn't the realtor don't?
I don't trust anybody but theattorneys and the people that
work.

So in order to purchase a property, say in
managing, you would need anattorney right and the real
estate person together.
Yeah, in the bank let me askyou a question, cause this is
one fear I have of investingabroad the ability for the
government to seize the property.
And now, that's it.

It's 10 times more here.
Really, yeah, I would.
I'm 10 times more fearful ofthat here than there.
I've never heard of it thereunless unless you're talking
about San Andreas, when theywent through and killed all the
cartels and just seized theirmansions.
Oh, that was back in the 80sright, yeah, that was a long
time ago.
Yeah, a long time ago.

So why are you more fearful of it here?

Because our government is so corrupt and
vile.

here, let's talk about our government.

Let me just really quick the ARC of Tampa,
the whole backstory of why I'mgiving out all that personal
information, is to let you knowthat if you're suffering out
there, if you're in a very darkplace depression, anxiety,
substance abuse there's a wayout, even if you don't think so.
If I can make it out, anybodycan make it out.

(01:23:41):
So the reason of telling itcause I'm not ashamed of where I
came from it's made me who I am, it's, it's, it's helped me, um
, to understand the process.
Reach out, reach out and I canassure you, just by putting the
minimal effort in, you can getbetter.
I guarantee it.
Okay, so don't lose hope, um.
Reach out, someone will bethere to help you, I guarantee

(01:24:04):
it.

And how can they reach out?

to you.
Oh, you can go, listen, go toyou want to drop your phone
number on there.

Yeah, I don't want to do plugs and stuff, but you
can say no do plugs.

Go to YouTube and Google Dr Anderson Addiction
.
You'll have 200 plus videos allfree of charge.
It'd be nice if you subscribedor liked them, but you can go in
there and they're allcategorized for free.
And that way, if you can'tafford treatment services, if
you don't have access to it, ifyou're ashamed of it, go there,

(01:24:37):
watch the videos.
It'd be like being in with atherapist.
It'd be like being in with apsychologist or a therapist or a
psychiatrist.

all the information you could possibly know and and
support is right there on thatchannel, I mean, and you
probably probably thousands uponthousands of views, maybe even
millions of views, right?

I don't know, I don't.
I don't put it up for that, tobe honest with you, so I don't
even know you.
Should, man, you monetizeyoutube channels like crazy.
I'm more interested in helpingfolks.

I have plenty of money, I'm pretty it up for that
to be honest with you, so Idon't even know you should.
Man, you monetize your youtubechannels like crazy.
I'm more interested in helpingfolks, I have plenty of money.

I'm pretty well to do.
I'm I'm good with all thatstuff.
I'm more about getting themessage out.
I have been ostracized becauseof mental health and substance
abuse has been a black mark onsociety, but now I'm I'm
starting to shine.
I'm starting to shine and mymessage is getting out.
Why?
Because you have no choice.
You can't hide me anymore.

(01:25:28):
Substance abuse and mentalhealth is rampant.
We are in a mental healthcrisis here in America, so I can
help.

You know what, talking about a mental, what
would you call?

it Health crisis .

Mental health crisis .
Wokeness, pretty much.
It propelled that to thespotlight, didn't it?
Because, in my opinion, I thinkpeople that are quote unquote
woke they're the ones sufferingfrom it the most.
They are afraid to be offended.
Woke means liberalism.

Liberalism is an ideology that used to have
merit but but doesn't anymore.
I'm talking about theliberalism that's current in the
last couple years, last threeor four years since trump
derangement syndrome, yes, whatbecame a real thing?
Yes, um, so liberalism to me isa form of mental illness.
I did it on another show whereI I said all right, here's the

(01:26:23):
definition of mental illness.
Plug the show, yeah, here.

Oh, it's the consumer quarterback show with
brandon rimes um and alex limayeah yeah, absolutely gotta
shout out to my boy.
I know alex jones though.
Yeah, alex jones, I got you,but it's alex lima.

Yeah depends on when you knew him yeah, but um,
no, great, great show.
I'm a regular on there a coupletimes a month for the last year
and I put out segments aboutthat you know Brandon loves
talking about politics, bro.

Oh yeah, absolutely, and again.

I always have been careful about politics
because of my position insociety, so we have to be
careful.

I'm at the point where I'm like fuck it, I don't
care anymore If.
I offend your feelings, I donot care.

Yeah, and I'm at the point where I can't be
canceled.
I'm financially stable, so Idon't.

they can't they can come for me all they want.
I'm just speaking the truth.

So I'm careful to a degree, but I call it
psychological politics, or thepsychology of politics, what CNN
has been doing for the last 20years Exactly, and that is a
psych-op tenfold, thatpropaganda Taylor Swift is not a
psych-op Did you see that video?

Yeah, Taylor Swift is not a psy-op.
The whole thing is propaganda.
It's all psych-op Everybodyliterally said the same shit,
bro.
Yeah, all in unison, yes, allin unison, and also calling
Trump Vance weird.
Yeah, all of them, yeah.

Everything they do is a mantra who is the
machine?

Who is the machine that is running it?
Pelosi Schumer.

Soros, soros funded, and then all of Congress
, basically all of those radicalcommunists, because this is all
about I'm glad you said it.

This is all about.
I'm glad you said this is allabout.
This is did you see whathappened in uh, pennsylvania?

socialism.
Socialism is the intermediateright before communism.

They're all marxist.
Yeah, when you run out of ourmoney, then it's.
Did you see?
Did you see pennsylvania, wherea bunch of communist flags were
flying?

I know they were marching.
They're not hiding it anymore.
No, they're not All of theiragendas.
Why would you want to flood theworld with open borders?

Well, the Economic Forum said it Right.
So again, they're not hiding it.

They're not hiding it at all, they're 100%.
They just rename things.
That's what the Marxisthandbook says is listen, say
something and then rename it.

Handbook says is listen, say something and then
rename it, put a nice name on it, and, and it's still communism.

You just put lipstick on a pig and and then
just create a mantra, push it tothe propaganda and say it until
somebody believes.

I mean, can we think about any socialist or
communist nation that isflourishing right now?

they never, have never will.

I mean hundreds of thousands, millions, millions of
millions.
Cuba's fucked North.

Korea North.

Korea.
Well, that's more like atotalitarian dictatorship.
Venezuela, canada.

Australia.

Yeah, all hurting, all hurting bro Destroyed
Venezuela gone.

Yeah, what was the one?
El Salvador.
I've been to Venezuela.

El.

Salvador, that's back in the 90s, in, and I'm
sorry, um, in 2002, 2003, andI'll tell you, it was fantastic,
beautiful.
I had a girlfriend fromcolombia, she, or costa rica,
that owned properties there, youknow, like a little fourplex.

She just destroyed the whole car, everything, the
places, and it was a richcountry because the resources
they have are oil reserves thatthey had man, they could have
been very rich, absolutely Forsuch a small nation.

They were yeah, it's like the size of New.

Mexico or something, and then for them to go from
wealth to complete poverty isastonishing.

Well, this all started and here I'll give you
my quick lineage of it, or myopinion of it Started.
Here I'll give you my quicklineage of it, my opinion of it.
It started with the liberal inthe 60s.

the liberal professors at the colleges Like
we have currently here in the USWell yeah, now 93% of all
liberal professors are woke or,of all professors, are liberal.

Yeah, communists that are trying to push their
message through.
So colleges are a waste of timenow, unless you just want to be
indoctrinated into a woke.
You know Cult, yeah, cult.
It's a shame because you knowyou work so hard to get rid of
slavery.
You know as best you could.

And you know who got rid of that right.

Republicans did, and now all these people are
literally living on the, thedemocrat plantation, just
carrying water and and they'reliterally started it right stuff
.

What's that you know ?

yeah, lbj, of course, yeah, yeah yeah, when
they took the father out of thehome and input and put uncle sam
in there yeah, that's exactly.

Yeah, yeah, how as many kids as you can?
We'll pay for your kids, aslong as there's not a father
around when they incentivizedweakness um when they
incentivized the victimhood andthen paid the key fathers away.
That started in 2016.
Yeah Well, the incentivizingvictimhood started in 2016.

Whenever welfare Safe spaces, welfare is
instituting that.
That's what welfare is.
Now, don't get me wrong Learnedhelplessness.

I think there are some people that take advantage
of the welfare system that needit.

That need it.
That's never been an issue.
And then they want to get outof it they want to get out of it
.
Nobody has a problem withhelping people that need it
Exactly.

But there are people that just systematically take
advantage of it without an endin sight for getting off the
welfare system, and that's justit.

The plan is give them money so they vote for us.
That's it, that's, literally,it, that's what welfare is we're
going to pay for you?
We look very virtuous and thenyou're going to vote for us.
That's it.
That's all it is.

It's a way to pay people to vote for them and the
ignorant people do notunderstand that the government's
not paying for it.
I know it's the taxpayers thatare paying for it.
So when you go to the grocerystore and you see that eggs are
now $3.16 for a dozen as opposedto $1.12, well, now you know
who's really paying for it.

When you print trillions of dollars.
The literal definition and Iwent classes and inflation is
easily defined.
When the government.
What the cause is?
When the government prints moremoney that's out there being
circulated than is out there,the value of the dollar drops

(01:32:38):
precipitously and then you needmore and more of that dollar to
pay for other things, which isinflation.

Do you think that they really messed up when they
went off the gold standard?

Of course.
I think that's the downfall,yeah.

But isn't it kind of ominous that no other country
really is on the gold standardand the US dollar is still worth
in the top three against othercurrency other than the euro,
the pound?

yeah, that's because all those other
countries are corrupt, so we'rejust now becoming like them.
We absolutely yeah instead ofbeing the gold standard,
literally.

Uh, that ended back in like what nixon's yeah yeah,
yeah, when he took it allbecause we went off the gold
standard, I think back in like1920 that's because they wanted.

They wanted that's because they wanted the
feds to be able to control theeconomy and how to print money.

That's another scam the Fed.
Well, the Fed is a centralizedbank.
It's not owned by the USgovernment.
I know who owns the Fed.

The oligarchs that made America Rothschilds,
rothschilds, the Rockefellers,rockefellers.
Of course, maybe the Carnegies.

Really, maybe the Vanderbilts.

That's it, and geez, what is Black Rock?
What is you know who owns mostof these?

Talking about Black Rock, the two assassins.

I know we're in the commercial.
We're in the commercial, I know.

Bro.
So Black Rock's not even hidingit, they're like.

You know what we're just gonna say.
The propaganda isn't being hitanymore.

It's a matter of fact yeah, but liberals don't,
don't fucking see it, becausethey are being blinded by the
msm propaganda and they are justperpetuated.
One term, one sentence, overand over again across abc, msnbc
, mbc, cnn, over and over.
They are being programmedmentally and do you know why to

(01:34:28):
believe?

it.
When people are inadequatecognitively, what they do is
look for authorities for talkingpoints to tell them what to
think to tell them what to thinkand then they're parroting
right, and then they, and thenthey feel like they belong to
the people in power and thatthey're doing their job, that
they're keeping up.
So there's a cognitivedissonance to it, where people

(01:34:52):
of low intelligence, lackingcritical thinking, that don't
have the capacity to, or theself-esteem or self-awareness to
stand up and to do their ownthinking and stand up and have
an opinion they need that.
They're sheep and that's whythey call them sheep.

(01:35:12):
Now, sheep aren't bad.
Sheep can be bad when they'reindoctrinated with propaganda.

I think all sheep are bad.
Well, but we need those.

Unless they produce wool.
Well, and they do, leftunhindered and by wool.
But we need those.

Unless they produce wool.
Well, and they do, Leftunhindered and by wool I mean
like employment, so if theyweren't being indoctrinated.

We need sheep.
They work, they do this, theypay the tax.

We need them.

And then the good leaders lead those sheep
and then there's the dogs andthe sheep herder.
You know, the dogs protect andthen the sheepherder.
The dogs protect and then thesheepherder guides and leads.
So you can make that an analogyfor the president and Congress
and the Senate.
And then the sheep, and thenyou've got some of the radical
out thinkers that make changes.

(01:35:55):
Why do they make changes?
Because they call the peopleout, and that's supposed to be
the media and they don't do that.
The media used to do it.
They did, but then they learnedthat they could make a lot of
money and they were bought andpaid for when they started
siphoning all of the taxpayersmoney.
And then they bring it off toUkraine, which is basically just

(01:36:16):
a laundering service for money,and then those people send it
back to the congressmen andsenators who pay off everybody.
Then there's your system.
That's the system we live inright now, and the doj and the
fbi all the alphabet uh people,they uh alphabet, meaning the
three-letter agencies.
They um, they're bought and paidfor.

They're as corrupt as the day is long I'm I'm
curious to see what happens withuh Diddy and all the people
that he can potentially expose.
Yeah, including Michael Obama.
I mean Michelle Obama.
I'm sorry, I pulled a Barackthere.

Yeah.

Just as corrupt.
So we have approximately threeminutes left yeah.
Is there anything that you wantto leave the audience with?
It could be nuggets of advice,it could be something that could
change someone's life.

Don't be stigmatized by mental health and
substance abuse.
Seven out of 10 people aredealing with it.
Seven out of 10 people aresuffering with it.
Don't be stigmatized by it.
Find help.
If you can't find it or if youhave call us, call us Addiction
Recovery Care of Tampa.
Share the Love Charities.
That's a charity that I have.
We fund all of that stuff.

(01:37:28):
We offer scholarships.
I will point you in the rightdirection.
Or go get that informationonline at YouTube or TikTok,
google.

Dr Anderson Addiction on, there Are you on.

TikTok I am.
I have a whole channel fullwith all kinds of videos.

I am yeah, oh there and stuff like that.
I am, I have a whole channelfull with uh, I am, yeah, oh, so
you're all I'm gonna have toget all that info so we can
collab on the videos.
Absolutely without question, Ihave a lot of good information.
Sorry to interrupt, by the way,no no, that's fine.

So, so don't be afraid, get out there, get help.
Um, and and I'm telling you,it's not as hard as you think to
get better, to become stable,could take a week to two weeks,
believe it or not, with a littlebit of effort.
And, like I said, there's tonsof videos on there telling you
how to do that on your own.
But if you need assistance, getit.

Let's get some entrepreneur advice now.

Yeah, super easy Again.
Start your own LLC or a Ccorporation and get your taxes
in order Be able to invest inthings that are going to have a
return not necessarily rightaway, but especially real estate
is a good investment.
But you have listen, I'll makeall of the young kids rich.

(01:38:40):
Tell your parents.
If you're 8, 10 years old, tellyour parents to put $10,000,
$5,000, $2,000 into a Roth IRAor an IUL for insurance and
build that over the next 20, 30years.
When you're 30 years old, youcan thank me for the four or $5
million that'll be in thataccount.

Yeah, because the market I mean it's it never goes
down.

Never goes down because it's corrupt.
So it's it never goes down.
Never goes down because it'scorrupt, so it's always going to
win.
House always wins okay.

Well, it was a plum pleasing pleasure to have mr
anderson dr anderson over hereon here on happy hour holidays.
Thanks for tuning in, guys likecomment and subscribe and we'll
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