Why These Conversations Matter: My Thoughts & Exclusive Type. Tune. Tint. Interview EP68

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From the darkest corners of addiction to the brightest
heights of recovery, Sam Gladio has a story to tell.
As I look back at what was incredible, what drug does, I
was destroying myself when I wasdestined for greatness.
I didn't wanna die nameless. I was forgetting who I was.
Aimless. Multiple stories really, in his
original songs performed as DJ, Rhett said.

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to did that today though. So welcome back on our Rumbling

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honestly, and more than once, and I know what it means to
fight through adversity and still choose to speak your
fucking truth in life. This podcast isn't just about
the fucking easy answers, it's about the hard ones, the ones

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people want to avoid because that's where the growth really
is there. Whether it's my music that got
you here or the podcast itself with incredible guests I managed
to bring on, we're pushing boundaries, people exploring the
unknown and helping you level upin every way possible.
So thank you for tuning in today.

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I appreciate y'all to the highest degree.
Get ready for another deep dive and uncomfortable truths that
will transform the way you thinkand live.
So let's get into it. Today we're doing a solo episode
because I want to give a massiveshoutout to The last 22.
Yes, we had since the last solo solo episode that I had on and I

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wanna go through all the guests that that we had since then to
give you a bit of my thoughts about about them how much I
appreciated certain episodes in particular.
And stay tuned for the end of the episode because what I did I
didn't exclusive interview on another channel that Tom cranks

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that came on the show a while back.
Well, I went on his show to do an episode and I don't know if
you guys saw it, so I wanted to put it in this episode.
Toast taste tune till the end, because that's gonna be the end
of this podcast is gonna be the podcast that I did on his
channel. This podcaster was really built
around people like this there. Robert Riggs there has been

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exposing lies fucking years since Watergate, people.
So I was so honored to have him on because I've been exposing
lies of government and stuff like that for years and years.
And having somebody that did it like to the highest degree level
is a really amazing. The podcast with Robert Riggs
that was really a captivating and eye opening.

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Like this guy did it all and he did so much in investigative
journalism and stuff like that, that there's laws that changed
because of this guy. How much an impact that he had
on this world. It was very inspiring hearing
hearing his story. And you know, now we all have
this knowledge on on the on the one of our fucking phone and

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this guy was sleeping and and the archives to to do more
research and have more time. So it's really incredible.
And what Robert rags like when he really blew up, it's because
he figured out that the the the leader of the jail was letting
out a serial killers because he was getting bribed to get him
out. And then there was crimes

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happening and nobody was realizing that there was a
serial killer at Luke third. He was just letting them out And
Robert Riggs exposed that whole thing.
It's really a incredible and what shall I was he's such a
great guy that I had such a great conversation with him and
like I guess like this there. It's exactly why we built this

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podcast people. So guys like it or not like
Internet AI. All this is going to keep
getting bigger and bigger and that's why I had two guests in
particular to talk about this, talk about technology, talk
about how to protect yourself online.
And I really appreciate that these two guests of coming and
one of them is Craig Tyler. And it was a really nice to have

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him on because there's a lot of people that don't know these
kinds of things just to how to have it, your password secure
and stuff like that. There are a lot of people there
like don't know we live in theirInternet, but a lot of people
don't know the dangers and what's a lurking out there.
And if you guys didn't know, like the third biggest income

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and on the planet is cybercrime with 9.5 trillion dollars.
It's a really fucking incredible.
And I really appreciated Craig Taylor had come on and and give
his expertise to help people. And so you know how to protect
yourself online. And I find that very important.

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That's why there's some guests that I have that are not there
exposing lies like Robert Riggs are are there to share value
that I'm sure you guys really need.
Sometimes we don't take the timeto be like, oh, this is what I
need. But like I know that most people
don't take the time to look at security of Internet and all,
and all of this to keep your privacy private and stuff like

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that. So that's why it had a Craig
Tyler on. I find it's an important episode
if you really want to learn how to protect yourself online and
everything that is a crucial honestly in the world that we
are in as well. So I'm going to try to say the
name of the next one. So we had Ores Colmar Netsky on
and I'm telling you, I had the practice like 5-6 times to nail

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it initially before the first episode.
I did with him what I really appreciated about old rest.
It's cause he's like me there. He's unfiltered.
He's gonna say what he thinks and he doesn't live in bullshit.
He helps men grow better and an age better as men there.
And he has a group chats and hispersonal personal like private

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groups and stuff like that. And he's helping men across
across the globe there and he has this like no bullshit
approach there and he's hilarious.
I had him on and he went througha lot as well there.
He had an operation that he had to go to the bathroom in a bag
for months and months before he recovered from that short

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surgery. And it was a a real great
episode to have on. And it's eye opening for a lot
of people because you know, whenwe get older, like, oh man, this
is 40 always your back hurting and stuff like that.
And this guy is bench pressing alot of weight there and he's in
shape and he, he helps people tohow to grow better.
And I find like we only have onelife, people, we only have one

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life. We're promised or birth and
death and that's it. So learning how to grow during
that time and be healthy. I, I think it's very important.
That's why I had him on and he, we had great chemistry.
So I, I find that episode is really fun to have.
So here we go with this one. One of my good friends, Nathan
Thompson, like I, I saw that group there years ago when I was

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in 9/11 Truth and I I still fight for 911, but I'm not in
the 9/11 movement anymore because it's just a a hassle.
And I was realizing that the theflatter group was 120,000 people
on their Facebook group. I was like, what the hell?
How can a conspiracy that that intense have so many people?
Because this guy Nathan Thompsonlike a fucking beast.

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He was in the streets like literally given pamphlets and
Flyers everywhere being like, Hey, did you ever meet a Flyers
or like, no, he's like, well, I'm Nathan Thompson and
literally just show people that there's more questions that we
don't have answers to. And even after everything, like
I don't believe that the earth is flat people, but one that we

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should understand their theoriesand not understand where they're
coming from, because I've been exposing NASA for years and
years and I don't I really don'tthink we we want on moon ever.
And I've been exposing them for so long.
They're the CGI. The there was a live stream at
start point of the planet. And if you watch the whole

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thing, the planet, the lights problems of all planet at once
there, it's called CGI and greenscreen people.
It's like you're, you guys are being fooled.
And if you think that the, the the fucking picture of that of
that planet on your iPhone is a real picture, Well, the, the
guide of NASA, I showed it in inthat podcast that literally it's

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a painting and the guy doesn't know what it looks like.
He just he paints it. So everything is like we don't
have a real picture of Earth andthere's no curve nowhere.
When you really look at the people that tested this shit,
it, it's really, there's a lot more questions that we don't
have answers to that should be so simple, like like the plan is

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this big, the planet looks like that, but we don't.
So that's what created really the flatter movement.
It's not because these people are crazy.
It, it's really cause a lot of missing answers are things that
did not add up that made people like, oh shit, like nobody.
That's a flat earther. People wanted to become a
flatter. I'm telling you, like I was like

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anti that Shetler because we're so like closing minded because
we've been indoctrinated since the beginning that it's a globe.
You were in math class in the elementary school.
There was a globe in the in in the class.
Every movie you watch, there's aglobe spinning in front of your
face. Every news channel globe again.
So like we've been indoctrinatedand believing that this is it
and that's it. But actually it's like we're not

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even sure of what we're on. So I think it's very important
to start doing your research, especially in NASA.
It's like I had another group, one that we're about aliens and
stuff and they said like, I agree that NASA stands for never
a straight answer because it's literally that.
It's literally they're always gonna weed that like so it's a

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really captivating podcast. And since it's one of my
friends, like we're smoking, we're chilling.
And it's really to open your minds up.
It's like, I'm not trying to convince anybody that this is
that or this is that. I'm here to like give you the
facts that we don't know what the fuck we're on.
And and you guys should go checkout that episode, but you need

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to be open minded before clicking because you're gonna be
like, oh shit. I'm telling you, it starts like
that for everybody that that never heard their point of view
and everything. So I had that Jamie Beebe on on
the show. Like what a great person and a
great chemistry. We laughed the whole time.
A sweet, great person that went and she's a survivor of a

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abusive relationship and she never thought she was going to
leave there. And when COVID hit actually,
well she was starting to tell herself, damn, I I think I'm
gonna die here like this guy is dangerous.
So she started the steps little by little to like get make sure
that her dog was a security guard at a dog for somebody

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there to make sure that when sheleaves, she can bring the dog.
And it was steps by step becausethere's no running away of an
abusive relationship and that wealways feel that there's no way
out there and had a, a few guests that went through that
kind of stuff. And there's no easy way out and
everything. But hearing people that went

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through it and seeing the steps that they take, sometimes it can
open up your mind to like, oh wow, am I really in a
relationship that I really want or is really a safe for me?
That's it. That's really safe for me.
And she's also a cat, a casting director and she hired a lot of
people and she's host of two true crime podcasts, The Last

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Trip and strictly Stockings. So you guys should go check her
out, give her love and tell her that you come from here and I'm
sure she will very appreciate it.
What I really like about this story, and I put it in the gold
moment at the beginning, is she's like a that she did a list
of all the things that her ex told her that she couldn't do.

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Cause you know, when you're in an abusive relationship, that
guy always degrades you and stuff like that.
And she did a list of all the stuff that he said that she
couldn't do. And she's just been nailing 1
stuff after another since that time there.
She's visited, I think 40 something countries already, so
1/4 of the planet. Since she she left this
relationship and she's been thriving people and it's really

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amazing seeing the life of a perlike like the life out of
somebody. Like she's there and I I'm sure
before she was so constrained and now she's living the life
that she wants and it's really an amazing episode.
And she created the boyfriend bikini company.
She wanted to call it her ex-boyfriend bikini company
because for revenge, but she waslike, oh, it's like a negative

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name. So she she just did the
boyfriend bikini. I find it's an amazing idea.
Go check out the bikinis. They look fucking great.
So I had doctor Lynn Anderson onshe, she was so great, a lot of
chemistry between each other andwe're so 9, the same age
bracket. And I really appreciate having
conversations with people that are really from another middle

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of life that they meet up. And you know, we always think
that yoga is always that only that physical thing and karma is
always a bitch. Well, literally karma yoga
people. It's literally a pushing out
good vibes around people to havegood vibes back to you.
So, and the satisfaction of it being a good person towards

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other people. And I find so that is so
important because we're not in the world anymore that you
represent yourself and you gottabe a great person.
You should be, but most people are not because if you're not in
their cell phone, they don't really care.
So she talks a lot about that, that how much it's important,
every interaction and stuff likethat.
And people feel that. So it's not only meditation,

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karma and yoga, it's literally so many things combined.
And I find it's very important to have different perspectives
of views and different healthy habits that we can learn.
And there's some give and take in every guest that we have on
and in any person that you talk to in life, anybody can teach
you something in life. That's why I don't mind having

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conversations with people that are completely in a different
world or perspective view as me there.
So then I had Gary Pacelli on the podcast and it's one of the
favorite podcasts of a lot of people that listen to the show.
So if you don't see this episodeor the two that we did

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back-to-back, well, honestly, gocheck it out.
It's really an incredible. This guy went from patrol to the
car incarceration, being a law enforcement and there to then
going back on patrol and on motorcycles, then in the
vehicles, then became a DEA, then became a detective and then

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survived a murder from a criminal that tried to bring him
on auto route while he was hanging by the window people.
And he managed to survive got operated and they forced his
retirement and everything and his story is incredible.
You think you've you've been through shit.
Damn. It's really an incredible and
what a great guy, decent guy andA and a hero in this life there.

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We are free today because of people like Gary and, and people
in the army and law enforcement that are, are implying those
rules and they're not all good. But it's like these people like
you live on your Instagram all chill, bitch.
It's, it's because of people like that at the end of
everything. And I really got along with Gary
and we talked for like 3 hours, 40 the first time.

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That's why we separated it in two.
And then the episode after is a Gary again, because it's the
second part of it. And we talk when you think this
guy lived it all and now. So he was looking for like
something like camaraderie was gone in his life and he needed
that little adrenaline that he used to have the law enforcement
and everything. And so he was like skydiving.

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So one of the first years he skydive, he skydived 300 times
in that first year. People that fucking crazy.
My God, everybody's like, you gotta do it once, 300 times.
That first year is crazy. Look.
And his 380 something drunk while he became paralyzed, 1000
feet altitude, people without nocontrol of this parachute.

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And he was paralyzed for five months and a half and literally
he needs to land there 1000 feetaltitude.
And I showed that video on the podcast.
So it's really amazing. And we see his recovery too.
I built this podcast to, if I can bring to life the story of
our guests, God damn, I will. And thank God we have those
videos of his accent of him recovering, trying to walk again

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and everything. And this podcast is that podcast
in particular is really incredible because you see the
funny moments of his thoughts and everything to the darkest of
darkest of the thoughts of somebody that's living in like a
dead end moment that you don't think that there's a light at
the end of the tunnel tunnel. But like I said, that sometimes

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you're so deep down in that fucking tunnel that you just
can't see the light. But I'm telling you, people keep
going forward because pain thereis always temporary, maybe last
a day or or sometimes a week. But a certain point, if you keep
pushing forward, the light will come.
People, greens of hope will start appearing.
And that's why that podcast there is really amazing.

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I got along so well with Gary that we became friends after and
we, we, we stayed in contact now.
And I really appreciate him. And he sent me his, his book,
Not my time, like I'm not gonna die.
And he autographed it. And that means the world to me
cause I'm a book collector and not only I can call him my

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friend, but I have a a piece of a book that for me is worth
$1,000,000. There.
So next I had Ryan Mcgaughan on on the show and he teaches us
that the problem with most businesses, businesses, and this
is so true that everybody thinksit's like their baby.
They always think their baby is the prettiest.

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Baby in the world. And he's like, no ma'am, it's a
Frankenstein's baby. A lot of people like always
think that their business is thebest or their business doesn't
need polishing or nothing. And man, there's always stuff to
learn in life and to make your business better, make your
marketing better. And people like Ryan really help

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a lot of companies for that. And he's A and also an expert at
exit planning. I didn't know what it was
initially, but it's one way you want to sell your business but
passed up. Done to that other person so
they really carry this business.I find that that is a very
important to keep a legacy as well with your business and Ryan
was a great guy He took the timeto come on the show and I really

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appreciate that because there you don't need to come on the
shoulder. We don't have a million
subscribers people, but I'm telling you, I appreciate every
fucking person that does come because I, I can't give him a
million views, but for sure I'm going to, I'm going to bring
their story to life and give youguys this knowledge there.
And then we had David Hayes on. David Adler is a great guy and

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he he's a specializes in in the criminal psychology, mass
murderers and serial killers andcold cases.
So if you wonder about those kinds of stuff like, well, he
breaks it down to the highest degree.
We talked about why cold cases are hard to to to finish.
He's a genuine great person. And like you said on the

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podcast, if you guys have somebody that's disappeared and
something like that and he's ready to help a free Leela and
just give his time to you to help you.
So it's a very genuine great guythat had a great conversation
with him and I really appreciatehim coming as well on the show.

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And then we had a parking duringParker Dean.
Parker Dean is the official first stand up comment that we
do have on. He was hilarious and he does
this Kaiju in adult version. My goodness, the fucking
hilarious. I showed him on, I showed some
on the podcast, especially on the Spotify and Rumble one since
there's no copyright shipper. So I build the podcast a bit

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more bigger on those platforms cuz I don't get censored and so
I can bring to life really history or the videos I want to
show. And he was hilarious, a great
person as well. And he talks about incredible
stories. There was one about a skunk in
in a show and nobody was listening to him and everything.
And he managed to retake controlled this room there.

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And I don't want to say the punch there, but go check it
out. It was really a fucking
hilarious and he's a great guy because after the podcast, he
asked me for my address just to send me a letter of thank you of
putting him on. And that shows how genuine this
person is. And on TikTok, he does roast of
channels of TikTok and stuff like that.
So go give this guy love and tell him that you're you come

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from here and I'm sure he will appreciate it like any other
guest that I'm talking about right now.
And we had them amazing and beautiful Sarah Kaylon.
And you know me, I hate dating apps because it's all ah, yes,
no, yes, no, left, right. Like that's not how you find a
real person because that's just physical.
You're just, that's the angle. And she created an app that's

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not a swipe thingy And that you have coaches that teach you how
to be a better person in dating.So a lot of people, it's like
sometimes it's not the person that you're trying to date.
That's the problem is you don't even know yourself.
Love what you need, what you want.
And that's what she teaches. And she, she's been a

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psychotherapist for 30 years anda great person.
And I had so much chemistry withher that we laugh a lot.
We talk about errors that peopledo on dating sites and stuff
like that. So there's a lot of knowledge to
get from there and a lot of great advice to extract from
that podcast. So take notes and go check out

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that podcast. And I even did the her her test
on her on her website and literally I aced it.
So that was hilarious and also revealing for myself.
And we had the amazing Lisa van on Wow, what an incredible
person that went through the lowest of the lowest to the
highest of highs. She is also a survivor of an

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abusive domestic relationship. And her her story is really
crazy when you think things don't happen for a reason.
Well, she she got kicked out a vehicle by her big boyfriend and
literally the guy continued and in back of her was the
kickboxing studio and after a while she just walked the fuck

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in and it changed her fucking life people.
It took three years and 1/2 for her to get out of the
relationship, but she was building herself not only
physically but mentally during this process to really leave
this relationship at a certain point and then be became a coach
at that studio. And when you think the story
can't get more beautiful, this person became EU in the US big

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boxing team. Like literally she made it to
the highest of highs there. And I even show a video of one
of her fights on the podcast andshe she got asked to go teach
people self defence and she was abused when she was a child.
And before getting there, she was telling herself like, I
can't even teach nothing. Like like, what do you want me

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to teach her? Like she knew that there wasn't
a wrist break that she could have learned to stop the abuse
that she was living, you know, So when she arrived there, she
even know what she was gonna say.
And she thought that I am, I am strong.
I am and all this. And it started her.
I am institution. And she's been helping little

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girls and and and and children learn, learn that kind of stuff.
And it's really inspiring from her being a victim herself to
helping others. Very beautiful and a great
chemistry show. Great person.
And it was such a pleasure to have her on.
And then we had Frankie Games totalk about, like we said what

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Robert Riggs, somebody has been exposing lies and fighting for
truth. Frankie James is exactly that
there. She's been black, black, black
balled by the US, the Canadian government for years and years
before like the big social mediathere because she was talking
about climate change and stuff like that in her paintings.
And then they wanted to censor. She couldn't even she was going

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into Europe and Canada was trying to censor her paintings,
interrupt it. It's really incredible.
Like before being censored was awas normal, like she was one of
the first like activists being censored and blackballed by by
the Canadian government and she they literally had to apologize
at the end. It's they she made her she made

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them apologize quite incredible.And her story is really a
touching. And I I I went through her whole
book and wow, what a story. Her parents, her her sisters and
brother like took it upon their that themselves to try to put
her her sister that had Down syndrome and her her father and

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that's an old person, tried to put them in two centres when
these two people just wanted to finish their life together.
And so they manipulated the system, the healthcare system,
the government to make them likethey're not capable of taking
care of themselves to take control and throw them in
institution. And Frankie did everything she
could to fight against the government, the medical team,

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and literally her own family to save her sister from going there
and her father. It's really an amazing and
amazing and touching story. And what a great person.
And I, I, I took it upon myself to put at least 100 pictures in
that, in that podcast. So I bring it to life quite a
lot. So I, I hope you guys appreciate

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the work I did, though. We're talking about like a 15
hour editing job. We had Lindsey Javan Aker and it
was so amazing. A lot of people that don't know
the, the Hollywood like the problems these people face.
Well, think that these people are rich and they're they're,
they're quite chilling. But she works with these people
in private and literally she tells us about the genuine,

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their genuine problems and stufflike that.
And she was hilarious and she met from all kinds of people in
this industry and there was so much to extract from her that we
were quite limited. But I'll hopefully I'll get her
back on to earn even more. She was sweet and captivating
and hilarious as shit and I really hope you guys appreciate

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that I managed to have her on. I didn't even think I could get
her on cuz she's considered the secret weapon of Hollywood
people. So the fact that managed to get
her on like, I still don't know how I did that today, though we
had a Dibutyl Teresa DeWitt, very an incredible person,
conservative Christian person, has a website and and also a

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book being joyfully married. And she talks about being a
positive person in a relationship.
And instead of being like, Oh, what you should do this and the
relationship to be better. Not at all.
You think about yourself, What can I do to make my relationship
better? Not all you should do this and
that. And I know it all starts with
yourself. And she gives a lot of tips and

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she's a very charismatic and very funny.
It was a great podcast and we had great chemistry.
So it was really fun to to have her on and she gives out great
device. There are a lot of of personal
stories that makes us understandwhy she got she she gives these
advice and I find that very important.

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So go, go, go give some love to her and or go check out the
podcast if you didn't have time.And then we had Peter Moore.
Peter Moore others like cartoonist for Colorado son.
He traveled the world, met Obamapissed and a volcano and he he
went on a trip with Matt Damon in India.
And I put over 100 cartoons in this podcast to really show his

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art at the same time. So I bring it to life the most I
can with what I had and a real genuine great guy.
Funny. We had good camera 3.
So it's really a really a funny podcast as well.
And a lot to learn of somebody that's traveling that much and,
and, and literally accomplished so much because a lot of people

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are never going to manage to puttheir feet on the lawn of the
White House and not yet. Are you going to talk to Obama?
So this guy did it all. And then one of my favorite
podcasts I, I did, I went to theone with Gary.
I really, really loved it. And the one with Vic Lagina,
believe it or not, is really oneof the funniest and best ones

(30:36):
that I did so far. I listened to his whole audio
book and it's 12 hours, people. And it was really captivating
because he has so many details of every porn scene that he he
filmed. He filmed 3792 different porn
scenes, people. So this guy lived it all.
So he talks about the the lows of of building brown, the lows

(30:57):
and highs of building browsers and and building your business
for him to get the new scenes todo and everything.
I was starting point. He said that he was doing 30 or
40 scenes a month there. The this guy was rolling there.
And so he talks about this industry from the interior, like
like we don't know the interior most of the time.

(31:18):
And he's genuine and he's been through it all, addiction and
everything. And seeing a lot of people die
as well in porn industry had a huge impact on him.
That's why he he was realizing that he had to slow down certain
things and he's a great, good hearted person.
That's why a lot of girls tryingto manipulate him and he fell
and in toxic relationships one after another.

(31:40):
His story is really incredible and worth the laugh, honestly.
And I built this podcast, that podcast in particular, very
well. So and we see a story come to
life there and what a great guy and we, or how do you say we're
on the same page for a lot of stuff?
So we got along very well. Then I had Doctor Nuccitelli on

(32:03):
the show and he created Eye protector.
He identifies psychopaths onlinefrom the troll troll trade to
the dark psychology. A lot of people don't understand
what dark psychology is. And instead of being like Craig
Tyler, that's more insecurity ofand, and the tech side of cyber.

(32:23):
Well, he's more the psychologic and the brain side of this.
So I was like, I'm gonna give the people a different
perspective. And he's a genuine funny guy.
And what I like about him is when he talks about something
he's there with like there's a there's three times types of
people that so and he put some bang, bang, bang, bang.
So everything is like a fact based and one thing after

(32:46):
another. So I really appreciated the way
he gave the knowledge. So it's really a more
swallowable for a person listening to the show.
And then we had to have Gary Baselli back on to showcase this
guy lives at all people, like I said earlier.
So having him again, like we didn't miss nothing like to talk

(33:08):
about because we still talk for three hours, 50 minutes, people.
It's literally all his stories that are hilarious from what we
wouldn't know knowing cops and stuff.
Like he talks about an alien abduction that when when they
would stop a guy, he would just put that beam on him so that the
guy was just like in his face. And so he would like like, you

(33:30):
know, zombie like because there's a light on him and he
can't see in front of him. And normally they're fucked up.
So they're literally he, he was laughing in the car while his
partner was dealing with him, but he just saw somebody that
was getting pulled by the light.Like.
Like an alien abduction people. Oh my God.
And he tells us about these crazy stories like he had to go

(33:50):
to a sort of place for the 4th time only because they didn't
know what channel to watch and shit so he just got rid of the
batteries. Oht man, So what an incredible
by and for him to take the time again to give us almost a four
hours of his time telling us allthe knowledge and stuff that he
went through and stuff he lived.Wow.
I really appreciate Gary to the highest degree to come again on

(34:12):
the show and literally give us some great content like that.
I had Catherine Oman on the show, really a great person.
And you know, in advance, sometimes I I would think that
I'm probably not gonna have chemistry with a person of such
a different age group or something.
But right away let me and her got along very well, a great

(34:35):
person and she's a very open minded person and she talks
about tantric sex and tantric meditation and and tundra and
like, because the only things that we heard about it is that
American Pie. And I even put it in the podcast
of that part of American Pie when he's like like that and
there's nothing happening. So, so she really break breaks

(34:57):
down the misconceptions from that movie to reality and how we
can integrate to tantric in our life without like needing a full
of experience there. So, and literally a lot of us
there don't know how to go find that right person for us because
we don't know how to be selective and stuff.

(35:17):
But she, she, she speaks about that and she's really an
outspoken as a kind of person and she's of author of like
many, many books there. And she's been talking about
Tundra and Tantric for years andyears.
She's an expert in this field. And I found it important to
really destroy that misconception because the only
thing we know about it is like what we saw in American Pie is

(35:39):
well, and that doesn't say much.So then we had a robber Weiss on
the show, a great decent guy that he, he explains to people
why we should video to put that into our business to help us
grow and marketing and literallyselling, selling objects and
stuff. So he's the CEO of multi vision

(36:03):
digital and he came on the show to give us all this knowledge.
A lot of people like don't know what SEO is or, or B2B or B2C
and like he breaks it down people and a lot of people like
don't know that kind of stuff. No matter how good you are at
doing videos, like you're never going to be as good as a
marketing team. That's why we should pay if you

(36:24):
really want that good marketing behind your your video there and
then the the last episode that that we did, we came all the way
from the 22 back to this one. I had Mark Corona undershoot
from sleeping on his sisters couch people to literally
building a fucking country of his own in between California.

(36:46):
It's incredible. His best friend was a DJ while
he was a trivia host and his friend is DJ did the whole world
like 193 countries. And when he was at his last
country, he was like, man, we should create one of our own.
Like who would think about this?And literally Mark and him, like
I thought that was a stupid idea, but let's try it.

(37:08):
And literally they build the Republic of slow jam Estan
people. It's fucking incredible.
This story is incredible. And he talks about retention
time because a lot of people like can't.
There's not a lot of retention time and a lot of people.
And he talks about positive video messaging because that's
so important people. It's like I I talked on the show

(37:28):
about just my mom putting a little messages my lunch by how
much that had an impact on me and he gives out a low videos
like that to people that are citizens of soldiers.
Thank you can't live there, but you can still become a citizen.
You guys can go check out his page and everything.
And if you guys go check out anyof these guests on their profile
or their personal socials will tell them you're coming from

(37:50):
here because we're going to havesome come back on that people.
So show that you're great fans. If you you really want interest
in these people, tell them whereyou're from.
Tell them you're from here and that you're going to go check
him out. And I really appreciate Mark
Corona. He was hilarious.
And I found that videos of his arrest I could build while he's

(38:10):
talking about it. So it really looks great.
And I hopefully I can have him on like a couple months to see
where slow jamming stand is going and where it's growing
because now they're at 30,000 people subscribe to that
country. So it's a, they're growing quite
fast and quite well in, in like 2-3 years.
It's really incredible for and for him to go to NATO and

(38:33):
managed to have the three minutes there it it's really
incredible. So while Baca had Tom Cranes on
the show, what an amazing guy. EMT answered over 3000 calls on
his life while at the same time he was an alcoholic and a man.
He was working for a news channel at the same time and
trying to to help people at the same time of fighting his

(38:55):
demons. It's really incredible because
most people are going to hide these demons and for him to be
vulnerable to talk about it, it,it it's, it's that's incredible
because a lot of people think that people that are EMT are
like anti drug and anti everything.
Look, no, no, a lot of people gothrough some stuff and for him
to answer 3000 calls and helpingpeople.

(39:16):
It's what a great guy. And I had a great conversation
with him so much that he invitedme on his show called type tune
tint. So go guy, guys, go go give us
some love to Tom Kranz on his podcast.
And we're going to finish with aare you guys seeing the the full

(39:36):
episode on right now about me going on his show?
And I really like the way he didit.
And I felt honoured. It was like an attribute or
homage the way he does his episodes.
And I really appreciated that because nobody ever did that for
me. So I want to thank you all for
checking this episode out. And I hope you guys like the

(39:59):
interview that you guys are going to see right now.
And I hope that you guys have a great fucking.
Weekend and I'm telling you what's coming up in April and
May and beginning of June is really incredible because we're
booked till like mid June right now so I've been getting emails
from a lot of people like that wanna be on and so we.

(40:21):
Were booked. To the highest degree.
So I'm telling you guys, get ready for a lot of fucking
incredible guests. So thanks again for coming on
and I hope you guys appreciate the interview that you guys are
going to see and remember this is your number one destination
to challenge the norms and sparkmeaningful conversations people
and grow there because a lot of people are just like this and

(40:45):
don't wanna grow. There's a lot to learn in life,
no matter if it's listening to me or listening to another
podcast. So I appreciate y'all as
subscribed. I got that Channel.
Go check out my music DJ Wrentham on all music platforms
people and I'll see you guys next week.
Welcome to Type Tune Tint. I'm Tom Krantz.

(41:12):
From the darkest corners of addiction to the brightest
heights of recovery, Sam Gladio has a story to tell.
It was incredible what drug does.
I was destroying myself when I was destined for greatness.
I didn't wanna die nameless. I was forgetting who I was.
Aimless. Multiple stories really in his
original songs performed as a DJretsat rap sensation, attracting

(41:35):
thousands of streaming followers.
His songs reach out to addicts but also echo regrets about
opportunities lost, love lost and time lost to cocaine
addiction. Today, 10 years sober, Sam has
rediscovered his voice. After writing songs since age
13, he's recording songs old andnew.
And now, at age 35, DJ Redsan islooking down the barrel of

(41:57):
success. And I'm joined right now by Sam
Gladu from his palatial estate in the suburbs Of Montreal.
Correct. Yeah, about 50 minutes away from
there, yeah. Yeah.
So we're we're, we're stretchingout into Canada.
We've done, let's see, we've done Australia today, Canada,
that's it. California, that's almost like
another country, but that's another, that's another whole

(42:20):
thing. Sam is also known as DJ Rhett
Sam, and he is an extremely prolific rap artist, songwriter,
podcaster. He also is the CEO of a
nonprofit that gathers used books and gives them to needier.
I mean, there's so much here, I'm not even sure I can get it
all in and 1/2 hour, but we'll do one thing at a time.

(42:42):
I had the pleasure of being a guest on Sam's podcast, Rumbling
Facts. It's out there, folks.
It talks about all kinds of stuff with all kinds of diverse
people, which is one of the reasons I was kind of attracted
to it. You know, Sam, it's like no
holds barred. Sam will talk to anybody about
anything, which I love. And Sam is a very genuine
person. So how are you today, Sam?
Thanks for. Joining, I'm doing great and

(43:04):
having you on the podcast initially was a very eye opening
scene that that other side of EMT and learning that people
have struggles and you were juggling those two jobs.
That was quite amazing. So I'm just fortunate to have
met you. Well, I appreciate that.
I'm fortunate to have met you. You've had some of your own
struggles, like I guess we all kind of have.

(43:25):
But for right now, I'm going to read the very first sentence on
the most recent post I saw on your Facebook page, which is
2024 has been a year that changed my life.
I never imagined things would fall into place like they did.
Cool. That's really a nice optimistic
way to start this little this little chitchat.

(43:46):
So give me the the top highlightthat makes 2024 so great so far
for you Sam. Because I'm OCD, so I
procrastinated. You did it for 21 years writing
music. So I was writing when I was 13
and I'm 3035 right now and releasing for the first time was
January 2nd so that. Was the 2nd of this year 2024.

(44:10):
That was a huge, huge milestone.I didn't care if nobody listened
to it. At least I got the door open.
And that was the beginning. Because after I released it,
even if for me it wasn't perfectat the highest degree, but Oh my
God, the adrenaline of dropping it and OK, let's move on to the
next one. Let's go next one.
And Oh my God, for the first time we started releasing.

(44:33):
Because finding a producer when you're an artist, I realize it's
all a scam world. It's all a scam world.
I lost $14,000 and 31 different producers.
Jeez. Because you go in that building,
they ask you that 50 or 200 bucks an hour and you leave with
nothing. And finding somebody that
believes in you as much as you believe in yourself.
Well, it's hard and most people want that pay instead of that

(44:55):
royalty. But you want a guy that wants
that royalty because he's going to care if that song is good.
So I I found 215 years ago and he couldn't do rap.
So it, it really made me introduce the rap and that's
where I did like my first 2/3 shows bars for the first time.
And when I met my producer 3 years and a half ago, me and him

(45:17):
just clicked to the highest degree in music and in beliefs
and in knowledge like we it's a drug knowledge.
So right when I felt I found that guy, I started working with
him to the highest degree. And my breakup was in November
and I had a flame in me just to get revenge, not to hurt her
just for me go get successful and make her pay.

(45:39):
Oh fuck, he's achieving. He's not on pause anymore, he's
not on stall, so I don't like. Getting hurt and having a
breakup was actually part of an inspiration for you, was a spot.
For you, absolutely. It was really a flame.
I told my producer we're gonna start releasing ASAP.
So he was like, OK, wait a second.
And then he we figured out OK, we're gonna start releasing this
first one January 2nd. So it all starts after that.

(46:03):
And for sure I got multiple milestones like I I liked we hit
like 90,000 books 5 days still gay gave back and I touched
140,000 streams a couple days ago as well.
So these two achievements are are are huge for me because I
never thought people would be gravitate to my music honestly.

(46:26):
Yeah, OK, so Speaking of your music, I've, I've looked at
quite a few of your music videoshere and.
Probably not your type. Well, I OK, so, you know, Full
disclosure, I was never really that huge a rap fan because it's
too much work. You got to listen.
It's all about the words, right?It really is because every song
is a poem. Every song is a journey, not

(46:46):
just yours. Everybody's, you know, But I
completely respect rap artists, you know, I don't totally get, I
get where it came from in the States, you know, it's really,
it's really kind of ghetto musicand it's really kind of St.
poetry really is what it is. And I respect all those people
out there who have made it. And you're on the way yourself,
you know? Just because I don't listen to
it in my car doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it,

(47:07):
you know? I'm saying that because I'm
telling myself I. You're probably forced a bit
yourself though. Hey, I'm an old fart.
What can I tell you? I'm like a jazz classical guy.
But I also like Flume, you know,and I like some of your tunes.
I just listened, in fact, to a couple of your tones that they
have kind of a melancholy tone to them.
They're in minor keys. You, you wrote a song about,

(47:30):
let's see, amazing taste. That's one of the songs you made
mentioned that made one of the Billboard charts.
And it sounds like it's about some woman who you absolutely
idolized. Such an amazing place.
Whatever happens, every memory Iwould never erase.
Every day I want to see a cute face and touch your hot waist.
You always know how to make my heart race because you're my

(47:51):
queen and I'm your ace. I never went passing first base.
Is that like the love of your life who then went away?
That's. Somebody else?
Make believe woman. Yep.
Ah, jeez, the highest degree. And I wrote that song at the
same time. I wrote cheesy to say that it's
like a week difference. And I wrote that when I was 19,
both of them. And when my grandmother read

(48:12):
those books, those those songs, she read the song and she
started crying. I'm like, why are you crying?
Oh, it's so beautiful. So who are you thinking?
Are you thinking about this girlthat was singing?
I'm like, no, not at all. This is the feeling I would have
if I would be in love to the highest degree.
And cheesy to say is more everything the guy doesn't say
for that girl that he should say.

(48:33):
So all both songs really fit together one after another.
You know, you procrastinated andyou put off, but really, it's
not so unusual for people to have an inch to create something
in their teens. I've talked to a couple of
writers about this thing. You know, they, they, they felt
the itch, they wanted to write, but it took either a teacher or
some event or some trauma or something good in their life

(48:55):
until they finally said, hey, I am right.
I don't need somebody's permission to do this.
I can just do it. So I don't think that's all that
unusual. So let's go back just a little
bit here. All the music that I'm listening
to, that's all created by you onyour computer, all the
instrumentation, all the. Singing all my producer, he has
a recording studio at his place,so that's where we saving money

(49:18):
to the highest degree. So he works every aspect of a
sound that you hear. For sure I got a creative
thought in that, but literally Idon't know how to create music
at all. I'm the one that is a good
writer. So I, I, I normally how we work
to create the beat. I'm gonna read him the first
verse, not the, the chorus, the first verse.

(49:39):
And he knows how I feel right now about the song.
He creates a right there. It's always exactly what I think
the song should sound out without me thinking in advance
that's what I want. I don't know what I want.
And then he he takes it out. I'm like, bro, that is
incredible. You, you've had songs and music
and writing in your within you since you were a kid, really.

(50:00):
When I realized that we needed adiary in life and I didn't want
to be that that person with a little book that walks around,
but I had a line paper, big linepaper.
And everybody that knew me in high school or had, they were
like, oh, this guy always have the these two, three books just
writing all the time. Because each time I had a
thought, I wrote it down. Each time I had a feeling, wrote

(50:21):
it down and try to make the person reading it feel what I
was feeling. Feel that he's in that room as
well. But you, you made notes and and
just kept thoughts and emotions on paper.
All these all for all those years.
That's what you based, and you based your songs on those.
Still have all the original papers to the higher grades.

(50:44):
Incredible that they have to follow me.
There are a lot of writers who do the same thing.
They take notes and then they, they outline, you know, their
chapters and then they sit down and write.
I tried doing that. I can't.
I don't have any freaking discipline at all.
I told you before, I have no attention span whatsoever.
I've got, that's why my podcast episodes are around half an
hour. I've got the attention span of a
goldfish. So I get an idea.

(51:05):
I sit down and I start writing. You know, I just kind of vomit
writing. I just put it down and then I
walk away and come back in a couple days and look at it and
then I just kind of, I write everything like from beginning
to end, you know what I'm saying?
I don't like, I don't write. I don't spit out a couple of
paragraphs here and then rearrange it.
I just sit down and that's how I've written all my books.
And that works for me. It kind of makes it fun.

(51:26):
It's like the the story unfolds while I'm writing it.
I don't even know how it's goingto end most of the time.
Did you? So after November you decided,
all right, I'm going to get off my ass and I'm going to record
these songs. And are all of these songs songs
that you wrote over the years? Are some of them knew as well?
Oh yeah, there are some that areliterally from this year, but

(51:47):
the the in the first like I think six or seven, I think five
of them are old writings. And yeah, I think there's only a
one really a new one. And, and those ones that I wrote
this that year, and it was levels of complication.
I wanted to explain people how complicated my mind is.
So that's why I called it levelsor complication.

(52:09):
Because honestly, even people that know English well, if they
just listen to the song, you're going to be a bit lost with the
metaphors and imagery. But I did like a little clip.
So the visuals that you understand that there where
where I'm going with all that. But that's the only one in the
first. In the first ones, that was a
new writing. What is your biggest obstacle in

(52:32):
in your creative process? Before it's still the same
thing, but now know how to work with it.
You when you have a blockage, you said that you take a break,
come back later, have a fresher mine and keep moving me.
I realize if I do that, man, I can be stuck for months.
So what I realized is I got to stop focusing the right one

(52:54):
song. I got a any thought that I have
in the rhymes are in imagery that makes me feel I need to put
in a song. I'll write it down.
So I have a sections of my my notes that it's it's called
extras and you just have these two lines, 5 lines here and they
all rhyme. They're all placed, but they

(53:14):
don't make sense with nothing. And so I'm writing at least from
8 to 16 songs at once. So every time I'm like, OK,
well, this right here, right here, this was right there.
And there was one like a love song that I I said in the song,
I was at the top of my cloud andI fell and I dominated that line

(53:37):
from the song because I wanted to be the song, be a bit more
positive. And I took this this part that
was taking me made for a breakupsong and put it in my prison
song in the chorus. So it's and it fits perfectly
there. So I don't wanna stop my mind to
be creative because I just want to move forward.
And if I I stick to one thing, well, writers block exists now.

(54:01):
You can just put it in the rightsection.
And if you don't have one, put in the extras.
And sometimes I recheck the extras and I'm shocked I wrote
this shit. What?
That's why you need to write your thought right away.
So you said you're, you, you have OCD, but you sound like a
master of multitasking. Actually, if you're doing,
you're writing eight different songs at once and you're
plucking part of this one out and putting it over here and

(54:23):
you've got your extras and your that's like, that boggles my
mind. I don't, you know, I mean, God
bless you for being able to do that.
And that's, that's your creativeprocess.
And you know, all I can say is go with it because it's
obviously working. What?
How did you feel when you heard your first produced song?
Honestly, I did a video about this.

(54:46):
Oh my goodness. I like I say, I'm like I know
people adults sound perfect. But we had to release it and for
sure it wasn't like on point sound perfect.
But the lyrics were exactly whatI wanted to say.
It's just I wasn't good enough to put it sound perfect on beat.
The chorus was incredible. But it's me emptying my heart

(55:07):
about this breakup. That's the first song.
That's a dark winter bliss. Sad nice dark inner bliss pain
you won't be miss lonely nights.Dark winter bliss Shit hurts
getting dismissed. Crazy nights start Winter bliss.
Can't believe I feel like this. She lit a flame in me to to
literally start releasing. So I wanted before releasing a

(55:29):
song that we already had prepared.
We really released that one, theone I just wrote because that's
the first part of the the whole story.
And then my last song that's notout yet.
I say it and I'll see you guys at Christmas because after that
it's going to be a whole year when we do that come back around

(55:50):
for sure. I wanted it to be better, but
when we wait for something to befucking perfect, that's going to
be a long ass life people because something perfect is so
rare. So might as well do your best,
give it all and when you feel it's maybe close to release,
release it and move on. Next one go keep.

(56:10):
And like that you learn the process because if you don't
release, you're not learning shit.
You're just on pause technicallyby thinking you're not good
enough yet. But if you don't start
releasing, don't start writing that book.
Don't start doing that. Well, you're just going to stay
stable on pause and you don't want that.
That's a great, a great approach.
It really is. I mean it, it forces you to just
keep on creating and keep on pushing stuff out because.

(56:34):
And, and it gives you the pressure after your release one
because you're like, oh shit, I told everybody I'm gonna release
one every two weeks. So then two weeks later that
other one come out, then the other one.
And they just kept going one after another.
And we're going to take a littlebreak here so that I can
shamelessly self promote my bookWreck in return.
We talked a little bit about that on your podcast that I just

(56:56):
do a little commercial here, folks read this book.
It's really good and we'll be right back with Sam.

(57:36):
All right. You mentioned, we mentioned
briefly you're nonprofit and it's called making others read,
correct? Yeah, yeah.
And then? Tell me what that is?
What's? What's and in French it's called
Sam Philly Sam making others read cause and and not as the
name, but because in French, when you say somebody makes

(57:57):
somebody else read, you say Sam Philly.
So but like that even has my name in it.
So like that's fucking epic. And it's my friend's wife that
figured that out. And it all started there because
I had a nightmare and a books changed my life when I was a
kid. I was 11 years old.
My grandma bought me the 801 1/2lies and truths about the
Titanic. That shocked me forever

(58:19):
realizing that there's way more to every story in life.
So I became that became a drug for me.
So I knew books are everything. So when I arrived here where I
live now, I got robbed twice in the past four years and I was
sober to and I'm telling you, I wasn't shit before doing crap.
Nobody stole from me, OK? And in five years I got cleared

(58:43):
twice. When I say cleared, I mean no
fridge, no toothbrush, no pictures of family, no T-shirts
of hockey, we your name on it. Everything gone twice.
Do they catch them? Did they catch the guy?
Or no, two different people thatdidn't even know each other and
two people that would have took a bullet for.
So when I moved to Bromont, the first thing I I didn't do is

(59:04):
give my address to fucking nobody.
So nobody knew where I lived andI had nothing.
I had a little 22 inch TV. I had one hat left, I had one
shoe talked because I was, I waspoor shit and I had everything
robbed. And I, I wanted to give back my
time. So I went to this to a thrift
shop just to help the elderly down there with the physical and

(59:27):
our starting point after five days, I was realizing that we're
throwing out 200 to 600 books a week.
And I was like, what the hell? And in my life, I realized that
if a, an author makes 50,000 copies of a book, there's
50,000. So he started throwing them out
and that number get shortened. So I had a nightmare, I think
that week after and I woke up there.

(59:47):
I was just seeing these two giants throwing it in the
furnace books and I I was jammed.
Eric couldn't do shit. The next day I called the thrift
shop. I'm like, OK, we ain't throwing
no more books out. Like, well, Sam, what the hell
we're going to do with the box? I don't know.
But what you're going to do is put my name on the boxes.
I'm come every week, pick them up and I'm gonna figure out
something. I didn't know what yet.
I just wanted to make sure we'renot throwing out knowledge.

(01:00:09):
It just doesn't make sense to me.
So I started doing research online what I could do with this
and I was starting to realizing there's some books that are
worth something. That could pay at least the gas
for me to do what I want to do. And I realized that in cities
around here, we have boxes beside the road that are called
alive at all. That means you read and you give
back. You put back so you take one.

(01:00:31):
But that doesn't happen. People just taking life like we
know. But me, I didn't give a shit if
they took it forever. Me, I just want to.
Give him back. Because each time I went to
Granby all my life I saw those boxes, but they were empty all
the time. So now they're filled.
Every week I fill three cities up.
Been three years and nobody elsedoes that.

(01:00:51):
So each week, every six days to 9 days, I go when my car a
little hatchback in that town and I'll tell you the car is
packed to the to the rafters andII each time I go 6-7 days after
they're empty. Every week.
So somebody's taking them and presumably reading them, right?
Yeah. Because that's the primary.

(01:01:11):
Bus stops and park and parks. Is that the primary place where
you give away the books or do you give them way elsewhere?
That's that's what, that's how you do it basically.
Yeah, and sometimes when I got too much children books because
that happens because we only have two boxes at parks.
So what I do for those I go to AA daycares and I ask if they

(01:01:31):
need books and if so I drop them2-3 banana box of the Oh my God
because it's so expensive especially for their cares
because it's not their kids there.
So for them to start buying books they won't do it.
But I had too many and I had to figure out a way for let's say
that happens if the box is stillfull I need to find a way to
keep giving us. So I I started just calling

(01:01:54):
those places and they accepted most of them my books unless
they had some in advance, but they were all surprised and they
all took it normally. And you mentioned you just
eclipsed 90,000 books that you've you've done this with
right Jesus. So went how over how many years
are we talking about? Here, three years and a half
about by myself. That's a beautiful thing, man.
I can't wait to be at that 100,000.

(01:02:16):
Yeah, sure, that's worth a celebration, right?
Damn right. You mentioned in your youth was
your grandmother who said there's more to everything in
life or you you learned that from somebody.
There's more to everything. Things don't just they're not
the way they appear. That seems to be a theme in
quite a few of your podcast episodes when you go to rumbling

(01:02:37):
facts, you've talked to one or two conspiracy theorists.
So you talked to me about a little bit of behind the scenes
behind the news business and andthat seems to be a theme of
yours honesty and kind of being,you know, looking beyond what's
on the TV. You've got one song where you
talk about the box in the cornerand I don't remember the lyrics.
But that album box and. Yeah.

(01:02:58):
That's it. That's constantly telling us
what to believe. It's real.
Right, exactly. So you are very aware that
there's it's almost like there'sa matrix, right And that maybe
we're not that there's the matrix, but are we living in the
matrix or reality, right. So.
Like, because there's a veil on most stories that I wanna pull
off. So how do you do that?

(01:03:18):
I mean, how do you how do you determine what's real and what's
not? Real instead of just accepting
what is given well I'm gonna Fact Check research listen to
both sides literally go through when I was a kid I after I read
that book I was 14 three years later and I was calling people
in Belfast about the Titanic experts that that that like put

(01:03:44):
their life on hold just to to study the.
Titanic because you know, you wanna.
Do Oh yeah fuck fuck what the government has been telling me.
I wanna know from people down there, was there really a fire
in that 6th and that 6 engine? Yes, there was.
And all this stuff there. And then you realize that the
the movie comes out in 97 and they kept pushing that one bow

(01:04:07):
and I was like what? It's a replica of the the
Olympic and nobody knows that because even the movie made sure
that you don't look at the Olympic.
So after that I was like God damn.
So everything's probably there'sa bigger reason for it.
So you gotta be outside the box.It's OK to take the news, but
tell yourself that there's probably a reason they're

(01:04:27):
pushing a narrative. Well, that's, you know, that's
really kind of encouraging for me as a news person.
For a little while after I left CBS, I taught journalism at a
university on Long Island. And one of the classes that was
taught not by me but by other professors was something they
called news literacy. And that was about teaching kids

(01:04:47):
in college. You know, what does that mean?
Just because somebody says it's news or a story, does that mean
you're just going to take it at face value?
And it taught people to kind of to kind of look at news the way
they buy a refrigerator. You know, you don't just buy the
first one you see in the store. You do your research, you go
online, you talk to other people, You see how this

(01:05:08):
particular newscast has been vetted.
You know, what what about The New York Times and what's,
what's their editorial policy and all that stuff.
And people really need to do that here in the States anyway,
now more than ever because, you know, I know that that the word
fake news has gotten really popular here.
But unfortunately, there is a lot of fake news, especially on
social media. You know, people, I'm one of the

(01:05:30):
last people in the world who sits down at 6:30 and watches an
evening newscast because I grew up with that.
I'm an old news fart from way back.
So I sit down and I watch NBC orCBS, whatever.
But most people don't do that. They get their phone from this
right here or from other people or from social media.
And you really have to do what you, you have to like for your

(01:05:51):
own sake so that you're not, youknow, spreading bullshit and,
and believing lies. You have to kind of do homework
on your own. That's important.
And for me, all my life, I neverwanted the lie and I hate lying.
Even when I was a kid, I knew the best way for my mom not to
know would would be lying, but Icouldn't lie.
So I was putting myself in trouble all the time because I

(01:06:12):
was just saying everything that I thought and my mom thought I
was. I got fire, not fire like a sent
away from school because of my unfiltered Ness.
And she was pissed on the phone every time.
Why the hell are you bringing Sam back home?
Don't you guys know that he you're giving him vocation?
Like what the hell? It's like the punishment is

(01:06:33):
keeping him in school, not not that he's like accepted love.
My son's gonna be unfiltered. So don't ask the question you
don't wanna fucking answer to SO.
So unfiltered is that a euphemism for you just kind of
said what was on your mind and to hell with the impact?
How? Oh yeah, exactly.
I don't care about the impact because if you can't take
reality, it's not my fucking fault.
It's like everybody has the right to have their own opinion

(01:06:56):
and I respect any opinion that that that gets said.
I don't live behind a mask and I, I think words are fucking
important. So I that's why I promote
critical thinking and everything.
And I was the first one when 911happened to tell all my friends.
I gotta look at that because you've never seen two buildings
that fall that fast. And, and literally I was one of

(01:07:17):
the first. I was like, be before the the
Michael Moore's documentary thatreally broke it.
Like I was before that, I was like, if Titanic wasn't probably
an accident because there's justa lot that we can't know about
it. Well, 911 and all the rest after
Las Vegas shooting and the Gulf of Tonkin and all this, I was

(01:07:39):
like, wow. So they, they don't mind killing
people to have a narrative goinga certain direction.
So, and I felt there's comfort in truth.
There's comfort and reality. So before I go to sleep all
chill, I rather know that that the 2997 people that died on

(01:07:59):
9/11, I rather know the truth than except what was fed.
Yeah, you remind me a lot of a friend of mine here in New
Jersey named Markland Johnson. He's he's a he has a podcast,
he's an MC. He's also a comedian, stand up
comedian. Really.
He he he he sounds just like youin that, you know, this is I'm

(01:08:20):
unfiltered. This is what I think.
And if you want me to live, why that's not going to happen.
This is the way. Plus, he's black, so he's very
sensitive to the microaggressions and the kind of
bullshit that just goes with being a black man in America.
This has gotten him in trouble. You know, he's lost friends.
I think he's probably lost a jobor two, although he never

(01:08:41):
actually said that to me. But you know, people get
friendly with him because he's avery, he's got a great
personality. He's very charming.
But, you know, when they hear something they don't like, it's
like adios. So I'm guessing this has cost
you in addition to being tossed out of school once, once, once
or twice in your youth, it's cost you more, maybe, huh.
Yeah, I lost that. 32 big jobs Iloved and three jobs total.

(01:09:04):
OK, so Speaking of working, do you have a day job?
Well, no, not really because I, I'm frustrated so much on the on
my music and the podcast, But what I do is I have a two
friends in particular that that need their houses clean and I do
that for, for them and I do charity by cleaning the, the,

(01:09:24):
the thrift shop that used to. So I still take the books, but
at the same time, once a week I go clean out there because I
have enough Chester with no germs and cleaning.
So there's one of my friends that I started the podcast with
initially. She's French and right when she
broke her leg, even if I knew her for about like 3 weeks, I
was like, if you're stuck at thecast for another month, tell me
though, I'm just gonna come to your do you the whole thing at

(01:09:47):
your place. Like oh, you don't need to.
I'm like, hey, you're going to have a month of dust.
I got it. Look, it's all good.
And she even told me she like when I saw you cleaning, it was
like really something beautiful.Like you're really doing it
because you love it. And I was surprised that
somebody really said that straight up because normally the
clients not there and for her toreally see it.
I really appreciate that becauseI did it from the bottom of my

(01:10:09):
heart like I did with my neighbor when I saw her.
Her kitchen wasn't as clean as she.
It looks everywhere. Her place, she's like Sam, I
can't climb up there. I'm like, you're going to tell
me I got it, Go sit down. I got this shit.
So I do that once in a while to go help and I cut trees for one
of my friends as well. So like that, like that I'm I

(01:10:31):
can do what I want to choose my times with everything I'm doing.
Well, hopefully the music will like, you know, sustain, you
know, you know, we all make yourfame and fortune with your music
and with your collaboration there.
But it's a little by little music.
Because yeah, I know. To give you guys an example of
100, thirty, 40,000 streams of what that gives in the pocket of
the artist while I I checked it yesterday and it said $149.

(01:10:57):
So and I don't mind that. I I find that's incredible for
me, but literally, if you think you're just going to live on
that at the start, there's no fucking way to so so people got
to stop thinking 100,000. I'm going to make it.
Fuck no. Yeah, it's not even a.
Pain the same with books. When I self publish all my books
and if I sell a book for 12 bucks on Amazon I get I think

(01:11:17):
$4.00 in change and a lot of thebooks I sell as ebooks.
And the theory there is you sellthem for $0.99 because that's
what most people sell them for. But you want to sell more ebooks
so they move up on Amazon's rating list.
Like how where it is in the standings on a $0.99 ebook I
make $0.30. So I'm not doing it for the

(01:11:38):
money. I'm doing it because I love
writing and I love the process. I do have this, you know, this
dream that one day some Netflix producer is going to call me up
and say I loved your science fiction book, let's make a
movie, but that that's not goingto happen.
I'm one of the other things thatattracted me to your story was
the fact that you are a recovering person as well as am

(01:11:58):
I, as I'm several other people I've interviewed here, I've
covered. Let's see, Danny was a
recovering heroin addict. Mary Beth was a recovering
crystal meth addict. She became a judge.
A judge? Yeah.
And, and I was, I, I drank a lot.
I've been sober for a long time now.
And you were a cocaine addict and you've been good for, I

(01:12:18):
think 10 years. You told me 10 years.
Yeah. Did that addiction and or
recovery inform your creativity at all?
I think a pressed pause on my life for like 7 years I think
that's why I think. Yeah.
So you weren't doing any writingor any creating at that time.
You were just. Doing well, not not that two
years I was on it, that's for sure.
I restarted writing after I became sober, but literally I

(01:12:42):
was in debt everywhere, everywhere.
We're talking about like 36,000 for sure in total everywhere.
And I had no car because they took my car away.
So no more permit and I needed lawyers to receive my children
and see my family in two years. So and my teeth were a fucking
fucked up blood destroyed for meto set and now I fixed that.
But it's literally all the fixing of that error of that two

(01:13:04):
years. Yeah, it it took seven years to
literally fix all that. So five years total for sure to
get out of it and re put my lifeon point because my teeth were
fucked up. I didn't even want to show
myself nowhere. And I'm telling you I was crying
some nice to sleep. No fucking joke telling myself
that like I, I don't look that dad, I'm quite intelligent and I

(01:13:28):
have teeth so fucked up that I'membarrassed at highest degree
and anybody I looked at at my age didn't have teeth bad like
that. And it's not because I didn't
brush. I brushed fucking a lot.
It's literally this drug destroys your teeth.
So I, I always felt like I couldn't have this reset button
that I felt I deserved for my teeth especially.

(01:13:50):
Oh my goodness. And then I realized that there
is a reset button and I was shocked when I figured it out
because I was taking one tooth out at a time.
But we're talking about 180 bucks each shot.
So at a certain point, I figuredout since the healthcare system
in Canada is free, but dentists are not.
Well, if you go do your researchabout what you're feeling, your

(01:14:14):
infection in your mouth while literally you swallow this taste
constantly because you have infections in your mouth.
So I literally amplify just a bit how much I was swallowing
because it's written online death if you swallow too much.
So I really just push that script that way in two seconds.
The dark the dentist was OK. Wait, we're gonna call in

(01:14:36):
Sherbrooke and you're gonna go to the hospital.
We're gonna get that cleared. And I was like, what?
And I had 18 left, but all in the front.
So I didn't show that much. And I'm telling you that day I I
have it on my my, my second camera.
I feel my teeth like this and big to really see him the last
time there because I knew this was the end.
And when I arrived there like, oh, you're going to fall asleep
and this much time never saw it.I wake up and I tell my mom

(01:14:58):
right away they didn't do it. What the fuck are they waiting?
Sam, Sam, Sam calm down it's already done.
And I I put my hand. I had no more pain, no more
nerves because they take out thenerves.
I was crying like it was Christmas.
How happy I was that I knew thatthis reset button just happened.
So I locked myself up at my dad's place for like 2 months
with my dog and only my dog. And two months later you can go

(01:15:21):
get it fixed after. And then the process of one
thing after another. So, so that was, you know, the
fear of losing your teeth basically.
That's what pushed you to finally stop.
Uh, no, not at all. It's literally a one of my
friends didn't give me a choice and like literally the he came
to my place with the trailer because everybody that tried to

(01:15:42):
stop me right when he got out the door blocked and blocked and
blocked everybody. I didn't go fuck.
I was just saying he's trying tochange me like let me live my
life. But I'm killing myself and they
see it, but it wasn't good enough.
That's why. And and my cocaine song I I say
like angels and friends told me I would end up to no good, but
the Sam the devil on my shouldertold me I could.

(01:16:04):
So when my friend passed, he arrived with a trailer.
He was like ohhhhh with boxes and everything.
I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, bro, you coming to my
place? I'm gonna feed you like what the
fuck are you crazy? He packed my shit, throwing that
end in that thing the whole timetaped everything by himself
because I wasn't moving. I don't give a fuck.
And halfway through my shit for the first time I'm like, man,

(01:16:25):
maybe 3 meals a day could sound good.
So I went to his place and I helped him move the rest of the
stuff move there and waking up at the right time like a human
doing your bed like the normal stuff, eating at the right
times. It really helped me seeing that
maybe we could start being sober.
And I wasn't sober yet because now since I didn't need fridge,

(01:16:46):
I didn't need stove because I'm living at somebody.
So I was selling that for the rest.
So 3 weeks later I see this girlon Facebook that had the balls
to show herself smoking a bong. And I was like man, that's
before it was legal. So I was like, man, this girl
has balls and I like that. So I, I texted her, went to see
her, fell in love to the highestdegree a month.
Then she was realizing everything that was hiding the

(01:17:08):
drugs. And she was like, OK, it's me or
the drug one or two like there'sno, I ain't gonna see you die.
And she knew. So right then and there I was
like, man, my friend took me outand this is the girl that's
going to fucking save my life, Ithink.
And I love her to death. I thought I was going to die
with this girl. And I gave her credit card,

(01:17:29):
debit card and the numbers I could call to get this drug and
erased them from my phone. And she even called these places
make sure I didn't call back. And it took 33 days of pure
fucking hell. No, no 12 step program, no
intervention, literally just nightmares.
Oh yeah, nightmares of me looking through the cupboards

(01:17:51):
every fucking night like a psychopath looking through the
fridge looking to rob myself because I'm not going to take
her credit card. But if I find my cards, oh, I'm
going to clear my I don't give afuck.
So thank God for those two people.
Because I was just going to say,So you had a really good friend
who cared about you and then a young woman who cared enough
about you. And so are you still friends

(01:18:13):
with those guys? Still friends with that guy and
the girl after the breakup we quite separated on each side but
I'm all she knows I appreciate her to the highest degree for
what she did for me and that that that guy is such a great
person. When I started recording I never
said the story before. When I started recording at the
studio I was realizing his housewas like 2 roadside and it's

(01:18:36):
literally a tick that toe so it's really close.
So I'm certain point I was talking to my friend about it
and I'm like, I feel like I'm a piece of shit if I don't go see
him and tell him the impact he had because I I think he knows,
but not at the degree that I feel that he was the change.
And when I told him that when I went to see him after the

(01:18:57):
recording studio, I told him, like, now I'm recording my
music, I'm recording how I feel.And it's all starts because you
decided that that no, sorry, I'memotional that no was not good
enough and you were like, fuck that.
This kid deserves a shot. And man, I'm here today and I'm
fucking got a flame in me and I just want to fucking help others

(01:19:18):
in this hard ass life. And it's all because of you all
because you didn't take that no.So sometimes they're you got to
accept help. Sometimes it's.
Just hard. That's that's true.
But as every addict knows, it's a lonely Rd.
You basically walk down that road by yourself.
There's help, there's 12 steps, there's meetings, there's
friends, there's people who loveyou.
But at the end of the day, you're the one going through the

(01:19:39):
cabinets for 33 days. You're the ones sweating out,
you know, a bottle of vodka or whatnot.
But look at you now. You're a beautiful young man.
You got you got a great smile. You're looking good, you're
sounding good and you're like, you know, you're doing good
stuff here. This is great.
It's really kind of a privilege to know somebody who's went
through who's going through all that crawled through shit and
came out clean on the other side.

(01:20:00):
So good for you, Sam. I really appreciate you joining
me here. I've been with Sam Glad who?
DJ Rhett, Sam, people, he's all over YouTube.
Was all over Facebook. I think I saw and I voted for
you. America's next hit maker.
What's that? Give us that really quick.
So I, I got I got ridden by Busta Rhymes on Instagram, the

(01:20:23):
check mark guy. I was like, what?
This guy is a legend in the Ragade and because of his speed
and he's like, oh, did you know that you have enough streams to
be in this competition? I'm like, oh, might as well.
And I went to see it's not a scam.
It's literally Rolling Stones magazine.
They're promoting this. So I got it.
I got in, they put us in different groups.
I was in a group of 62 people. So it all works with free votes.

(01:20:45):
So let's be realistic. If you got a huge fan base,
you're probably gonna win. So so I'm realistic in life, OK,
I don't think I'm going to win it.
But like American Idol, it's often not that person that wins
that has the biggest career. So as long as the right person
sees me, like, that's what counts.
And like I told everybody, we don't have a huge fan base.
So just the fact we're in the top 10 is a huge win.

(01:21:08):
And I appreciate that to the highest.
Degree. Meet again when you really hit
it big, you're on the way. You might not be there just yet,
but you're getting there. You've only been doing it.
You know for sure. What 6-7?
Months. Seven months, yeah.
Look at all you've done already.Sam Gladu, Thank you so much.
DJ Rett Sam, people check him out.
Thanks, Tom. I really appreciate that,
everybody. Yeah, yeah, Let me tell you,

(01:21:34):
it's a hard flight. But you're not alone.
There's always life where buyer side.
Alright, let this song be your night.
Breaking trains rising above. Spreading love across the
nation. Break the freebase addiction.
Find your new elevation.

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