You Can Be Your Hero Baby

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(00:18):
Yeah.
Year, year, year, year is yourhost.
Raimundo.
Welcome to my show.
Where we relate, laugh.
Try to learn.
It makes you happen in theprocess.
But this is episode 40.
You can be Hey, bro.

(00:38):
Obviously this episode is aboutsaving yourself, but before we
get into that, Let's go let'sgo.
A book can teach A conversationcan assure you.
A poem can seduce you.

(00:59):
Uh, genius can inspire you, butonly you can save yourself.
By Anthony.

Malcom (2) (01:05):
Anaxagorou You got to save yourself.
Nobody's going to give youanything.
You got to go out and fight forit.
By Barry Manilow

raymundo-save-me (01:13):
Attitude to coves cause.
That's how strong are Phil aboutthis?
A message.
there's all these things thatcan help you.
There's people that can make adifference in your life.
But if you're not going to do itfor you and you can't do it Can
expect anybody else to do it foryou?
Or you can expect if you have ahabit of being that way, that

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people think you're going to bedifferent and you don't got to
do it for those people.
You got to show yourself thatyou're different, that you can
do it.
And the only way you can do it.
It's about taking action and.
You know, fight for like, Likelike you defending a smaller
sibling.
Or you've been discriminatedAnything of that nature, you got

(01:54):
to take it that fuckingpersonal.
You've at times we're going toneed, Yeah, we go only help
everybody needs help.
But.
Nobody.
Wants to feel like they got totake care of you.
Especially when you're an adult,man, You can get away with it
when you're younger, but theolder you get.
the less people got time tolisten to your stories, man.
And you got to change.
The way to fucking antagonists.

(02:16):
Protagonists moves.
And as you.
You know what I'm saying?
And then fucking, you, you beyour own antagonist.
That's, what's crazy.
Like you be, you play both theroles you'll never, and you
ain't even know.
But yeah, man, it's my 40thepisode.
I'm like.
Fucking super hype.
Like.
Uh, I feel like a hundred isaround the corner.
my ultimate goal was notthousand.

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Well, let's see how that goes.
I just recently celebrated.
My two year anniversary doingthe podcast.
You know how to do a real, uh,little.
Evaluation.
And I got a lot more work to do.
but.
I love doing it.
So it's just.
Figuring it out, how to do it.
I got to save my podcasts.

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That's what I gotta do.
I gotta save But anyway, on thisepisode, Got a special guests.
But let's get into So on thisepisode of the Raymundo Show, we
on some hero shit.
I ain't gone front.
We, you know, already mentionedearlier, we inspired by my son.
He gave, he gain glass shots,you know what I mean?

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but I feel like, you know, I,I've spoken about music, I've
spoken about all these things,man, but the superhero world is
so part of my life has been partof my life since I had the
fucking Batman and Superman bonoCEOs, bro.
Like, it's been, it's been along time.
but it, this episode I needed mybrother, the one that I go to
when I need to have a superheroconversation that only he can

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understand.
Even though we, we, we see himdifferently.
We got the same love for him.
But this guest, I spoke abouthim in episode one, the couple
that I married, he was on.
You Are Not Alone.
Part two recorded his ass and heain't even know But this guy is
a great father, great man.

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He's my, my brother, my, mymentor, my, um, my confidant, I
could go on and on.
no matter what, he will alwaysbe the jeweler.
But Let's give it up forJonathan.

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Yo, let me tell you, man, if that's the intro you do
for everybody, yo, I'm, I'm herefor another two hours because
holy shit, that is one fuckingamazing intro.
Can we curse you.
by the way?

Yeah.
Oh hell yeah.
This

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Can we curse?
Okay.
Are we live right

You free here, man.
This is free.

Track 2 (04:41):
Wow.
Are we live

right now.
No, we

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We're not live.
but let's make it live.

live cuz you know, you getting recorded.
But

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Let me tell you something.
This is an honor to be sittinghere on this seat, bro, because
we are 40 episodes in, and I'veseen people that sit here and.
the stories that they got totell.
.And if you haven't said it yet,it is a fucking honor to be on
this chair in this side of thescreen.

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You understand?

Yeah, yeah.

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it is a fucking honor, bro.
Like, I appreciate you, Thankyou so much for that.
I could commend you for, fordoing what you do every day,
every week.
your listeners are, are, arethanking you because I know
there's somebody out there wholooks forward to this in, in
addition to me.
cuz every Monday morning, I openup that podcast app on my 30

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minute drive to work and I say,Yo, let me see the next episode.

It, man.
Yo, and,

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grateful for being here, so,

I, And not to mention too, man, like it's an
honor have of you on the show.
Cause what people don't knowbehind the scenes, a lot of
things that I try differently.
A lot of things, you know, in,in my way trying to improve as a
podcaster.
Jonathan like listens topodcast, so, you know what I
mean?
I feel like he's like almostlike an expert at this shit.

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Like,

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Absolutely, man.

his, he, he's almost part of the production
team and he don't even know it.
Like he's behind the scenesthere's an episode, there's
something I said while I wasspeaking to him or, and honestly
like if it wasn't for him bro,like he's one of the people that
like, I don't know if I would'vestill been doing this shit, man.
Cuz it's hard when you startfrom the beginning, sometimes

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you lose a little bit.
Uh, you lose a little bit ofhope, man.
But his inspiring words and his,Yo your enthusiasm is on fire,
by the way.
I'm like I wish I could take ashot or something right now, or
some cold beer

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I, I'm gonna start it off like this.
I don't know if you had alreadylike a lead, But I started off
saying like, you know, I startedoff making jewelry for a living,
right?
And, um, sitting at a bench,like making jewelry, all day.
One thing that you don't know,right?
That guy that sits in the back,he wears headphones all day long
for eight hours, right?

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He clocks in, wears fuckingheadphones and he's gotta listen
to something.
And one thing that, working withthe guys that I work with,
coming up, working for thesejewelry companies, uh, Howard
Stern was huge.

legend
Genius.
Ever since he went Hollywood.

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You, walked in a shop with like 10 jewelers and
everybody was laughing.
At the same time.
and.
I'm Like, like, what the fuck iseverybody laughing about?

Yo is Boo on the
All right.
Damn.
But yo, but we gotta get intothe episode, but

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That's true.

that, can you please tell the people where you
from?

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Wow.
Listen, I'm from a small town.
called Bushwick, Right?
Grew up on Let's Go.
I grew up on Kaco betweenBushwick and Broadway.
Off the day, Train a block awayfrom EBC High School.
Shout out to everybody in EBCHigh School.

abc.
You know we gotta shot out abcwhere somebody Well we are.
Yeah.
Every time somebody from EVC ison here, we gotta make that
shit.
No, I'm glad you said that, man.
Now I wanna speak about modernday heroes while Jonathan shows
off his beers.
Give me a Cold Bear.
yeah, Modern Day Heroes, youknow what I'm saying?
The heroes that that, thatactually weren't, well, they can

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be written about, but theyweren't made up.
Uh, at first I wanted to talkabout, you know, the essential
workers, right?
people in the grocery stores,

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Nurses,

people, people in, in, you know, hospitals,
nurses, doctors, you know, shoutout to my sister Ken Kenya.
She was in the front line.

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Come

but anybody that life was at risk,

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Yes.

being outside while that, while that was going
on, you know, whether anyone'sever told you or not, yo you a
hero, like straight up, likeLeBron James jump shot, or, you
know what I'm saying?
Fucking

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That's huge.

Mayweather's Punch wasn't gonna, wasn't
gonna, bring, put food in yourcrib, wasn't gonna heal.
Wasn't gonna make sure yourfamily good, wasn't gonna
protect your face.
Workers, but another modern forlike modern day heroes.
Uh, the single parent cause

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God.
absolutely.

Cause yo, it is not easy man taking, uh, care
of, uh, one baby.
Then there, mom's doing it outthere with 3, 4, 5.
because Right.
Yo, um, I know, I know I gottwins, but even one of them, you
know, is a lot of work.
The fact that, you know, me andmy girl, we a dream team with
it.

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Yeah,

life easiest.
So you gotta give a, you know,respect to the Shout out to some
I wish, I don't, I can't thinkof no single moms, but, Oh shit.
Damn.
But I don't wanna like, letpeople know she's single.
But you know, my sister, she's,yo my sister's living her best
life.
She's making money.
She got the benzo my oldestniece is doing her thing.

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but we don't want to not givethe shout out to, People that
are married, you know, like mybrother Jonathan, they have a
great relationship.
I love the way, uh, you knowwhat I'm saying?
They raised their kids and showthem so much love, man.
And they had a highlight ofeverything,

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that.

and everything, man.
Everything they've done fromthe, from shit from moving, what
he decide, you know, whatJonathan decided to do, which
we'll get into in a little bit.
make sure, you know, hisfamily's secure and then, and
they taken care of I definitely,when it comes to being a dad,
when it comes to taking care ofbusiness, I look up to this guy

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very much like we the same age,but you know what I mean,

Track 2 (10:44):
Yeah, man.
This is

look up to him, man.
So a

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appreciate that.
Appreciate that, bro.

Yeah, no, no, problem, man.
Um I wanted to talk about too,like parents that like, Like the
ones that like, I guess, I don'twanna say go the extra mile,
that just go in depth with theyshit.
You know what I mean?
Like, and I'm not saying, youknow, I'm not trying to offend
any parents, like, but just likeme, I'm just trying to use this
example.
Like right now I can afford toget my kids, you know, like good
food, right?

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But like in the future, I wantto be able to grow my own food
and be able to feed themorganically, you know what I'm
saying?
Like, so there's parents outthere right now that they, kids,
God forbid something happen tothem, they trust fund is all
their life insurance.
they don't buy no suites.
They don't, you know what Imean?
Like, and something as takingthe TV out they room.

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Like when my kids get older, Idon't want a TV in they room.
If you had what, what they said.
Uh, if your entertainment systemis bigger than your library, you
broke some shit like that.
Or maybe I just made it up andit sounds dope.

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that

I don't mean around, but I do it all the time
is better than my sign and

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Bars

I do it line after line.
All right.
But yeah, another modern day.
Another modern day hero.
Is yo those teachers, man.
You know, shout out to my ABCteachers that even though I said
fuck school, they was like, Nah,you graduated, you going to do
your thing.
And teachers don't get paidenough.

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You don't know that we shouldpay them a lot.
So people can inspire I to wantto be teachers.
Yo, give me, gimme a teacherthat made a, a significance in
your life, man.
That to this day, you can neverforget a,

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a, a school.

All right, let's all, we're gonna for,
let's go.
Gimme elementary.

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Oh, let's go elementary.
Oh my God.
We got Miss Yo r i p to Mr.
Za.
My fifth grade teacher, r p tohim.
I still got his Turtle.
25 years later, So we're stillwith that.

Oh, that's

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That That's a whole up, That's a whole episode that I
can get, Get into.
Shout out to Miss Gilby secondgrade teacher.
Shout out to Miss Wal fourthgrade teacher.
Shout out to, uh,

Oh wait, I wasn't trying to go through all
your grades.
I was just saying name one, onehighlight of each school.
Not Was about to, He was gonnabe like, in 10th grade it was
Ms.
Golden.
In 11th grade it was Mr.
Casmi.

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Got da.
Listen Elementary, Ms.
Wilkins.
Ms.
Wilkins, third grade teacher.
to this day, I wish I couldthank that lady in person.
Ms.
Wilkins.
She made yo she made myelementary school.
year, Junior high school, Me andher.
B.
Shout out at Herbi.
Mr.
Hava.
Mr.
Hava.

Mr.
Ha.

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let's get to high school.
Let's get to high school.
Let's get to high school.

Yeah.
I know this

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Ram, Ms.
Ramos, Miss River.
Yo, I got my first savings bankaccount.
Shout out to Ms.

yo, I remember that too.
She was awesome, man.

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Thanks to her.
You got of Ms.
Golden

Living my life like Ms.
Golden Yo, this, I feel her nameis Delilah.
Shout out to Delilah.
She's not Ms.
Golden.

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Del.

Um, but you always me.
Oh, Miss Marto.
Um, she just, she taught verywell.
She taught very well.
but, um, yeah, let, let me joinhim in high school.
I wanna say for elementary, Ms.
McGuire wire and Ms.
Potter.
Third grade, fifth grade, allthe other ones.

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Well, especially Ms.
Smith, she almost left me back.
junior high school.
In junior high school, there'sone teacher that I can, I don't
give, I don't get.
No, actually no, I'm gonna gowith this one.
Cause Miss Kirkpatrick, she,she's been fucking up Mr.
Antwan, yo.
And I went to 2 96.
So three four.
Now this is 2 96.
I was on Dark side here.

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Mr.
Antwan, I don't know.
He was a math teacher, man, buthe never gave up on me.
Like he always, and heremembered me.
A lot of teachers don't rememberyou.
in high school's easy.
First, you know, Lan, um,

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out to

Lan, Teva Lan, and Teva.
Cause I gave them the mosttrouble and they didn't, and
they never gave up on me inSantos.

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Shout out to Santo

Man.
Fucking Keith I think he livedso much shit.
Sometimes shout out the Vanessaand they got a beautiful family.
We had this conversation beforethe episode, but, uniform
heroes, and, you know what I'msaying?
I, I wasn't always too thingwith the, with the military
until like I heard why, he'sdoing it full time.

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I mean, we didn't get, well, wedidn't get to that, but yeah,
he's, he's in the military.
I love him.
Tell you about it.
I always respected why he didit.
Like his reason for even gettinginto it was dope.
And, you know, seeing where hislife has, has gone from, from
there to now, I think it was oneof the best decisions he ever
made.
From the surface we just thinkabout, you know, all the, all

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the,

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Yeah.

all the, the fire shit, the combat training,
shit that I would, that I, thatI wasn't at all.

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Yeah.
you know, you know what?
You know what's crazy?
that like, I think that I thinkthat's like an American thing.
that it's like a stigma that,like we watch these movies, we
watch these commercials.
and We think like the minuteyou, you join in the military,
like everybody just likeeverybody just shows shit,
Right?

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And I've heard this from peoplethat I work with and it's like,
we think that this is just, thatthis is the one thing that you
do when you join is just, andit's, it's like a yes and no
battle.
because it's like,

like

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you're trained to do it.
And like if you, if you're inthat realm, you in that world,
you understand infantry.
And infantry is like, everybodyis trained to shoot, right?
You, you join the military getto shoot, like that's your
purpose to go overseas to getdeployed and then you shoot.
That's probably your specialty.

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Like you could be a mechanic andyou're trained to shoot, you
could be, um, signal and you'retrained to shoot, right?
But you're, you're,

can you be a baker if you, if you trained to
shoot

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you can be a bigger, but you can be a cook.

Oh,

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and you're trained to shoot.

you can't be a bacon.
I'm gonna send somebody aletter, but go ahead.

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so you, you can be a cook, right?
You can cook in the kitchen, youcan make meals, you can make all
of this, you can cook food for,for other soldiers, but you
still trained to shoot, right?
Cause at the end of the day, youstill wear the uniform.
Like that's what you're trainedto do is trained to shoot,
right?
trained to kill.

to kill.

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But the thing that you don't understand is like that we
all, we watch movies, we watchlike these commercials, and it's
like, oh, like he's just trainedto kill, blah, blah, blah, but
everybody has a different joband there's hundreds of jobs in
the military and you don't knowthat until you get in and you

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join.
and You're like, all, right,Well, I want to join to like be
a mechanic.
I wanna join to work onsatellite.
I wanna join to work on radios.
I want to join to be a cook.
And you don't know that untilyou, you enter that world and
you, enter this realm of skillsthat you start to understand and

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say like, Okay, like I'mproficient in this.
I know how to do this, I knowhow to do that.
And when I, when I first joined,I was like, Oh, Yo, like you,
like the minute I go in, I'mthey gonna gimme a gun.
This is what I'm gonna do.
But there's, people active dutythat this is like, they're not a
five job.
That's Like who are they gonnashoot nine to five?

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Like you going in to come backhome at the end of the day,
like, you're not going to like,Oh, here's the gun.
You're like, you're just gonna,fucking shoot the shit, and
you're just gonna go back home.
It doesn't work that way.
You just gotta get the trainingto go overseas to make sure that
you protect and serve to thenmake sure you come back home, in

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time to get back to your family.
You understand?
there's a lot of shit behind it.
And I think that's somethingthat Hollywood leaves out.
I, that's something that, TVleaves out That's like there's
people that join and serve andthey don't see the reason why we
do it.
They don't see.

Yeah.

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jobs that are behind the movement.
There's so much more to it.
And one thing that I think thatwe're trying to get to the
pointer for the episode is, I,when I got activated, I'm only,
I'm in National Guard.
I only do, you know, I, Istarted off as one weekend a
month and when I started off itwas, you just doing this you're

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training and you go home by,Sunday done.
and, um, Covid happened.
And then once Covid happened, itwas like, Okay, there's, there's
people that, they have to be,versus the hospital, there's
people that they can't leave thehomes.
So they gotta, you know, wegotta bring them food.
And there's people that we gottabring them medicine There's
people that.

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Can't go to the supermarkets toget food, so we gotta give them
meals and we gotta give thempantry bags.
And then one day he said, Okay,we need people in New Rochelle
knew Rochelle was one, one areain New city that really got
affected by, Covid.
and um, I forget if it was likethe council the chairman, the

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governor, I forget who it wasthat said like, Okay, we to, um,
activate through Westchester andum, get some soldiers that does,
you know, start, you know,feeding the community.
And, and so like, you know,shout at 95, Lincoln, Shout at

yo 95 Lincoln

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95 Lincoln Avenue, we have given so much food out to
New Rochelle that it was likelines around the block.
We would Just get shout off toFeeding Westchester.
Feeding Westchester.
of America.
They would come with trucks.
They would back it into thedriveway, They, we would bring

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down the pallets.
We would break down the we wouldput em plastic bags and we would
give out the bags to this linethat we used to wrap around the,
building up the block of 95Lincoln and people would just
come to get food, to get Turkeyto get, to.
Get, uh, uh, vegetables get tocereals, pantry.

awesome, man.
Cuz you know, they seen you inthe uniform and they seen you,
distribute everything and, thefact that you had the uniform
and you were able to help themwith something, man.
Like, I feel like it's apowerful thing when you, you
know, I mean, when you get helpby a cop, I would think being in
some type of smokey situation,you see that firefighter outfit,

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you know what I mean?
But like I was telling you, theoutfit don't make the hero.
The hero, the, the, the outfitdon't make the hero, the hero
make the outfit.
yeah, um,

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the

the team, the team, the chain will make the,
the chain don't make the man.
maintenance Shane shane don'tmake the man
a lot of people that take their job
serious and they really want tohelp people.
And every time they put on thatuniform, not only do you re not
only do you respect them, butthey respect themselves.

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Yeah, for sure.

just a outfit can make the difference of how
you see somebody.
So,

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That's insane.

and what you can get from that is a outfit
can make you really feel goodabout yourself.

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Absolutely.
Like we were just giving, awayplastic bags with, with, with
goodies you know, like we weregiving away goody bags.
And to think that like, peoplewould look at us and be like,
Yo, like they're wearinguniform, They're giving us a bag
like full of veggies and andpantry food.
And, and I'd just be like, Oh myGod.

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like, they think I know the,answers to shit.
And I don't know where theanswers are.
Shit, I'm just here to give awaybags.

Yeah.
And, but you know what?
You didn't have the answers, butyou being there gave them hope.

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That's it.

And it's crazy, man.
That's why, that's why, youknow, shout out to, you know,
everybody who puts on theuniform and, and goes out there
and risks their lives.
You know, and, and, and they'renot only the heroes cuz they put
their life on the line, butthey're the heroes because they
got family waiting for them tocome back home and

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Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Listen, Shout out to the 360 9that just left on Sunday.
they just left, to, They justleft overseas on Sunday.
They, they left the whole familybehind.
They're gonna go out for a yearthen we're gonna take over their
time.

That's crazy, man.
So,

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That just.

sacrificing what you wanna do for the,
either the better of, you know,people in general, the, or the
betterment of your family.
You a fucking hero.
I ain't gonna front just the mothe main point I'm trying to get
to the show is that you can beyour own hero.
I know it starts from beinginspired, by someone.

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That's hero like, or heroic orbrave or courage or just does
something that you felt wasimpossible.
But they're the ones doing itand that's why we fall in love
so much with, you know,superheroes that are, that are
fake cuz oh man, they're doingso they're doing all these
things.
I mean that to us areimpossible.

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But, so I gonna, from theconspiracy guy in me makes me
think the Star Wars and all thatshit is the real shit.
And all the other, the real, youknow, the other shit is the
bullshit.
Cuz if I go outside to try toget a girl and, and I have that
boombox, she's either gonna callthe police or she's gonna send
her cousins to come outside andfuck me up.

(24:53):
Cause ain't nobody that, youknow what I'm saying?
Oh, the name was, you saw whathappened, the other, what I said
earlier in the story.
But, um, but I, yeah, I guessthe point I wanted to drive with
these qualies

Track 2 (25:05):
yeah.

about modern day heroes, that we can see, or
we know my brother but it is,you can save you

Track 2 (25:15):
Yeah.

whether it's if you're dependent on somebody
when it comes to finances, youcan put a plan together to get
your finances in order.
There's so many videos, there'sso much information out there
that.
and fuck waiting foropportunity.
You sometimes you gotta go getthat shit and, you know what I'm
saying, Save yourselffinancially.

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Which I feel like you can relateinto that because I feel like, I
don't know, ever since shit wegot outta high school, I don't
remember.
You never having a job.
Never.
Like you always make sure thatyou are not gonna be in a
position where you can't makemoney or not gonna have money
coming in.
Which, which I feel like whereyou've been, you've been so
consistent of, um, always lovingit up.

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And, you know, he got great kehe got his credit, his his grade
too.
Man, don't let him, don't lethim Don't let him think.
It's not But experience, you gotthe, I feel like you saved
yourself financially.
You never had to call me and askme for money.
You never had to depend onnobody in your family or anybody
in your circle for money.
No one ever had to worry aboutJonathan being the friend that

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they have to worry about payingfor him at a re.

Track 2 (26:24):
Wow.

And you know, it's important.
You don't wanna be that friend,man, I'm that fucking friend.
I'm gonna keep it a buck.
Like, not always.
Sometimes I got my duckers inorder, but

Track 2 (26:32):
Nah.
no, no, no.
You never, you,

But to me, to me, I feel like I'm always the
friend that's like, he's eithertrying to figure it out
financially or he figured outfor a short time and now he's
back on the way to being orunsure man.

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That's, that's crazy.
That's crazy that you mentionedthat because I, I've Never even,
like, that's, that's never evenbeen like a thought in my mind.

Cause you just,

Track 2 (26:56):
like,

you can almost see it way back.
So you, you always beat it tothe punch.
know?
Even, um, when you got thatfucking studio apartment, man, I
was real proud of you.
I was really proud of you whenyou got the, when you yo, when
you got the hoopty, when you gotthe studio, When you move with
Susie, like, you know what I'msaying?
you know what you going to do.

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And I feel like you probablydidn't even notice to this
episode, bro.
You and your own hero bro.
You've been saving yourself forthe long.
I know You get help from people.
You know, we all get help.
We all need help from people,but you've been saving yourself.
And it's crazy.
if so many people, I mean, ifpeople really realize that this,
the things that they can, theycould control, can make the

(27:41):
difference in their lives.
So, you know what I'm saying?
We gotta give you a

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Let me tell you

that somebody puts it out, listen.

Track 2 (27:47):
big shout out to the Raymundo show because big shout
out to the Raymundo show becauseyou, you fucking given me light
right now.
Like, I don't, I've never seenthe, what you've just spoken of.
In, in, in light, you know?
And

it's real shit.

Track 2 (28:07):
It's real shit because holy shit.
like,

He's in like, Yo, it was them.
BIS or whatever.
Fuck you been drinking.

Track 2 (28:18):
I wish it was, I wish it was, but you, you really, you
speaking real shit right now.
I don't know what you're smokingright now, but

up in here.
Here.

Track 2 (28:28):
is real shit, bro.
Like,

To realize on a, on a, on the episode that
you've been your own hero.
So you already setting the, youalready setting the temple up
for, for Amazing and Max.
So by the time, by the time theyget to see this or hear this or
you, I know you gonna be in awhole nother place.
Cause history shows you gotforesight, so you'll be on some
whole other shit by time to getolder.

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But to keep continuing aboutsaving yourself, saving yourself
emotionally, you know, not beingaround people that make you feel
like shit, that don't bring you

Track 2 (29:00):
right,

don't make you feel good about yourself.
When you don't feel good and youknow what, not that they need to
do it, but doing that is part ofthe, and that's one thing that
me and my brother share.
We are great at things.
We see the potential.
But sometimes when you are inthe middle, you two, uh, what's
the word?
You too self-conscious.
And sometimes you need yourfriend to tell you, nigga, yo,

(29:22):
you fire you.
Dope.
Like, when, when Jonathan givesme an insight of the episode or
something I did that I thoughtwas like, nonchalant, he was
like, Yo, the way you said walkthat is, was like, You really
meant it

Track 2 (29:39):
what you are doing.
You're doing the Lord's work.
You're doing Lord's work.
Cause it is incredible for Youto just make this shit happen.
And realize, like, I've beenlistening to podcasts 2012 when
I used to tell people yo, likeyou should listen to podcast,

(30:00):
you listen to this, this andthat.
like, what the fuck is that?
Like I'm still listening toHoward Stern.
And for you to just do it theway that you do it and the way
that you're trying to beagle andfind out how to word things And,
and the chemistry.
is Like, don't stop doing it.

I won't brother, I

Track 2 (30:21):
Don't stop.
Because when you stop, that'swhen you fail.

That's the only time you really fail is
when you

Track 2 (30:27):
when you stop,

cause Cause

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you don't, it's like you plant a seed in the soil and
then you stop watering it,

it's gonna

Track 2 (30:36):
not going,

Mm-hmm.
But that same soil, You couldreplant the seed.
I don't even know if you coulddo that.
I just, I sounded like I

Track 2 (30:44):
No, you could plant the seed.
but You already planning theseed.
Just keep ordering it.

Just keep watering it.
Nah,

Track 2 (30:51):
it

not heavy.

Track 2 (30:53):
get it.
You see what I'm saying?
So don't stop, don't stopordering it.
You got the seed in the ground.

there, man.

Track 2 (31:02):
Keep ordering it, bro.

Yeah,

Track 2 (31:05):
you got it.
You got it.

Eventually that shit gonna sprout.

Track 2 (31:09):
It's, got it.
it's there.
It's there.

It's, it's gonna be beautiful, man.
I like that you used that, that,that would hit my brain late.

Track 2 (31:18):
It is beautiful, bro.
You're doing a beautiful thing.
You're doing a beautiful thing.
Don't stop.
I want my episode to be a, uh, arevisit 135 episodes in and be
like, yo Reba, 35 episodes.
ago when, You know, we hadJonathan in, Oh shit.
Like, we don't even talk aboutthat.
We, we out

Yo, you know what's crazy?

Track 2 (31:42):
Don't

The, the hundredth episode is, is
projected to be here next, well,2023.

Track 2 (31:50):
look at that.

December.
The 50th episode is dropping onmy mother's birthday, Yeah, man.
But, um, yeah, man, like, like,like Diddy said, man, it's 10
years and we still running thismotherfucker

Track 2 (32:07):
Duty's.
Go

long, as, long as you, like Jonathan says, as
long as you keep wording thatplant,

Track 2 (32:12):
keep ordering

you know what I'm saying?
As only a matter of time, beforeyou can experience your growth
and be able to see it, you know,it takes bamboo five years, to
be fully developed.
But you know what happens whenthat shit is fully developed is
one of the strongest, you canmake fucking so many different
things from Bamboo, but you needthose five years and some, you

(32:35):
know, I know we want it to befaster than five years, but it
needs to be as long as it needsto be until you get where you
need to get.
And I just fucking love that.
but yeah, man.
we wrapping this up, man.
Pretty much you wanna be yourown hero, man.
You wanna be proud of you.
having the respect of you dowhat you say and you say what

(32:57):
you do will give you like arespect.
not only from yourself, but fromthe people that, that you love
and admire or you know what I'msaying?
Even that's how your idolsbecome your rivals.
They fucking respect you youknow what I mean?
Like, I know Star Trek, they'vegone where none had gone before,
but where few have gone before.
Cuz all the distractions and allthe hurdles and ob objections,

(33:21):
the ones that do the, you know,that, that make it are the ones
that's ready to be ready to dothe stuff that everybody don't
want to do.
Or even the stuff that doesn'teven feel counterintuitive to
them or kind of productive.
and most importantly, when youbecome your own hero, take care
of you.
You don't need anybody outsideof you to make sure that you are

(33:44):
good.
And there's nothing like thatpeace of mind.
I don't gotta be on some lowestlane shit and put myself in
situations where I know I'm goodcuz Superman gonna save me.
Nah, you be your own Superman.
If you are a woman, you'll beyour own, uh, Wonder Woman.
Shout out the susu.
You heard shit and you know,when it comes to brand, you know

(34:07):
what I'm saying?
You gotta be your own fuckingTed b Beyonce, you know what I'm
saying?
Money.
Money.
That's a wrestling No, that's are that's a wrestling term.
I couldn't think of anybody who,with money yet.
But,
The equity.
More Mundo after this commercialbreak.
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Yeah.
I'm proud and happy to announcethat.

(34:28):
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(34:50):
A forward slash the Raimundoshow.
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yeah.
And I'll see you there don'tjust meet me there.
Greet me So Snoop dog But anywayback to the show
I wish I could think of a character that was
like a hero in the book rightnow.
But, um, uh, yeah, that's prettymuch, um, Oh, oh, oh,

(35:13):
definitely.
Can you please let it give us a,a character

Track 2 (35:20):
Yo, lemme tell you something about Batman, bro.
We're gonna talk about Batmanand, uh, I think this is, this
is, this episode has been tryingto happen for a long time
between you and I and, um, thisis a character that I think grew
up in your life and my life.
And, um, you know, it's somebodythat just, we hold close to our

(35:42):
heart because

Cause

Track 2 (35:45):
It, we talk about, Michael Keaton, You know, we
talk about from Michael Kean toBen, like,

Yo, Yo, I mean, you meet from Robert
Patterson.
You, you can't be,

Track 2 (35:55):
So, Robert Patterson, my, well, my fault, Excuse me.

to Batman, bro.

Track 2 (36:00):
Stir, Stir.
Robert Paterson.

Sir Robert Patterson

Track 2 (36:05):
let me tell you.
And we just, we just lost thebeautiful Queen Elizabeth,
right?
That Sure.
Adam West to be Batman.
She saw it.
Adam West, Michael Keaton,George Clooney, Fucking Val
Kilmer, Uh,

to mention.
she saw the Batmans.
We don't know who the fuck theyare.
You know who, what I'm talkingabout.
The ones with the, with theHalloween fucking seat, the the
party Fair Fucking Batman,

Track 2 (36:33):
the.

I forgot.
We're looking up.
But

Track 2 (36:37):
We gotta like that up.
Yo.
It's like there's been a lot ofBatmans and ev and every
generation gets their ownversion and you know, we attach
ourselves to, to this character.
And it's so crazy because, youknow, we see these like, oh,
this is a superhero from a comicbook and a cartoon.

(36:57):
Like this is little kid shit.
And then you see like grown assmen, like, just still so
passionate about, you know, wejust celebrated Batman Day and
everybody like, What the fuckare you celebrating Batman Day
before?
Like, yo, like these are thingsthat we could, these moments
that we could pass down to ourkids.
And this is like what we grew upwith, It's a character that I
relate to that I can never letgo.

(37:18):
And uh, everybody that knows meknows like I'm So attached to
that man.
so are you?
You know, that's something thatbring

of course, man.

Track 2 (37:26):
together.

Oh, yeah, I mentioned that I'm gonna do
other podcasts and eventually,uh, me and John think gonna do,
you know, it's funny, I feelweird calling him Jonathan, cuz
I usually call him Pip, but,

Track 2 (37:40):
I think I love that title a couple years ago,

right?
I

Track 2 (37:45):
I know

knows like why he's calling you that, why he's

Track 2 (37:48):
why calling you

on the podcast though.
Not on the podcast.
Oh man.
Um, yeah, but we going do a, a,a podcast strictly dedicated to
Badman, so, you know what I'msaying?
We getting, we can explore alltypes of shit.
Cuz when it comes to Batman, hegot so many layers.
You can find different ways toreally, bring out what's great

(38:11):
about the character, whyeverybody gravitates towards
him.
Which, leads me to the nextpoint where, I was just talking
about like reading, like, youknow, when you read a book in
school,

Track 2 (38:22):
God.
Babe.
Thank you so much.
You're, um, this episode isbrought to you by delirium.

there, so I wish I had some beer, man.
Now I'm feeling like I'm feelinglike Efn and, and you, me and
Efn had the water nigga, and Ihad the beer.
I was like, shit

Track 2 (38:41):
Damn.
Oh man.

But yeah, my, my hero was Badman and I wanna
say my hero was Badman becausehe didn't have powers.
You see he had the ladies, youknow what I'm saying?
I

Track 2 (38:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

I mean, you don't notice until you older,
but his mind was his greateststrength and he has like a lot
of dope qualities that, thateven in real life, if you try to
mimic it, can help you with yourlife.
So I wanted to cover those, uh,with my brother Jonathan, which
is the Batman qualities that fitreality, right?

(39:16):
So one of the things Batman is,is known for is he's You know
what I'm saying?
If he's gonna get some the getpoison ivy, He became a plant
expert to be, to get the joker.
He had a, he had to stop youknow what I'm saying?
To get the joker, he had tothink like someone who sadistic,

(39:38):
someone who psychotic And forthe real, he probably the really
just probably pissed him off cuzthis motherfucker with them
questions, bro.
I would've been tight.
I'm like, yo,

Track 2 (39:47):
yo, you got win question.

more.
Yo, if he asked me one morequestion, what's, what's his
real name?
I always good Ed would've ni myyo if Equa and Nma hits me one
more time with this question.
Yo.
Wait, wait.
Before I ask you this questionthough, but like, in Batman,
Batman forever, you don't thinkthat was like, you know, when
they figured out the, in the, inthe end E they're like b e ema.

(40:14):
That's it.

Track 2 (40:27):
That was two hours and 46 minutes long.
I'm mad that they took him thatlong to figure out.
Enigma was Enigma.
Why

There was like a nma, um,

Track 2 (40:45):
Um, lemme tell you.
I look, we still gonna give himthe credit.
He is the greatest detective.
He is the greatest detective.
But Robin Patson, he had toguess that question a little
bit.
Five seconds too late.
Like you have to, He had tospeed that up, man.

it didn't match what I, you know, my
expectation.
Right?
Like, I'm like, he did somedetective shit, you know?
You know, he answered thequestion the beginning.
He did the sc, you know what Imean?
But like

Track 2 (41:13):
it's gotta be.
But like the, the

like, he's dead alive

Track 2 (41:17):
what upset me was that I figured the question out
before Edward Paterson did what?
I was watching the movie, I'mlike, Bro,

He,

Track 2 (41:23):
out 30 seconds ago,

he took Edward and Nma and the guy who plays
Batman and made him and namedthem Edward Patterson

Track 2 (41:34):
I was so mad.

Now, but speaking of Batman's
determination, man, like,

Track 2 (41:39):
Yes, Yes.

who outta all his villains?
Who you think he had to be themost determined like to get?
Cause and he has a, he has acrazy catalog of villains.

Track 2 (41:51):
a crazy catalog.
I mean, I'm you talking aboutthe joker number one?
You, you talking about theScarecrow, you talk about Edward
Nema, who keeps him on his feetas a detective.

The scare.
Yeah, the scare.
You know why the scare is tough?
Because he could turn Batmaninto a punk in seconds

Track 2 (42:10):
Yo be with the fear, just Theia.
And, not to mention the factthat like his whole role as
Badman is based on fear.
Like Going out there to fightcrime, you know, because he
can't Let this happen again.
This is a little boy who'sscared cuz he lost his parents
when he was 12, 13 years old andhe's fighting crime every night.

(42:33):
So that another little boydoesn't ha the same shit.
Doesn't happen.

Right.
that's part of his vendetta.

Track 2 (42:39):
that's the part, his vendetta and it, it never ends,
you know?
And then you get into like thepsychological shit.
Like, it's like, all right, wellthis guy's fighting crime
forever because that's nevergonna go away.
So like, what's he stopping?
You know?
So it's like, it's a.

Yeah.
That's crazy.
I never looked at it like that.
Like he's, it's like he can't doit, but I feel like the way he
feels better about what happenedto him is that, that that's his,
what you call it, that's hisoutlet.
what.
But what you mentioned though,which since we talking about the
qualities, fear, right?
I, that's always my signaturequestion.
usually when I have a guest,what role does fear play in your

(43:16):
life?
And Batman wears the suit.
He his suit.
Like example, if, if it wasn'tfor fear, there would be no
Batman.
Like when you really thinkingof, you know, from a perspective
like he needed, his parentneeded to die, for him to have
the fear for it to happen toanyone else, Right.
I guess he didn't really knowwho he was.
And then when he turned his fearinto the symbol that he was

(43:40):
gonna use to strike, I don'twant to use fear again, but to
strike, you know what I'msaying?
Terror.
And, and, and, and those thatknow, if I use my fear to scare
people, I would, I would beSpider-Man cause I'm fucking
terrified of fucking spider asbro

Track 2 (43:55):
I think, um, just using it in that context and out of
the Batman two hero contacts, Ithink fear is.
I think, I think it's anecessity in a sense.
Um, because you know, A lot ofpeople are driven.
from fear.
and but without, without fear.

(44:16):
I think a lot of people can'tdrive that steering wheel into

into

Track 2 (44:22):
rolled that path.
And I think, um, you had a guestin episode 35 who actually press
that button, right?
Um, I forget his name.
He

Cheatham.

Track 2 (44:34):
Jin treating, but he's, he really said something that
um, relates to this, episode andit's

Oh yeah.
He said fear is in the driver'sseat

Track 2 (44:43):
is in the driver's seat.
If you're not brave enough to toface your fears, I don't know
if, if, if you can drive thatsteering wheel, you can drive
that vehicle.
You can't steer that steeringwheel because what, That's one
thing that can motivate you, topursue the things that you don't
think you are capable of doing.

(45:03):
you know, And it's like, youknow, perfect example, you know,
you jumped off a plane, youknow, and that's, that's a fear
that everybody that jumps off aplane before they jump off.
But something drove you to that.
Right.
And I bet you the head was fear.

(45:23):
I.

exactly the, the, the thing that knowing that
something makes me feel thatuncomfortable, I figured the
best way to go to it is to dothe most uncomfortable version
of that fear.
Which is like, I mean, ain'tnobody jumping outta space
That's some whole, not maybe theyear 3022

Track 2 (45:47):
Although there was that guy from that Red Book
commercial that did jump offlike some level, some

I, I, I saw that, man, I remember that shit.
Damn.
I might have to put that in theclip.
Yo Herby put that in the clip.
Oh yeah.
He's still not, he's still notworking with niggas.
Fuck Yo, shout out to mybrother.

Track 2 (46:10):
Yo, shout out to.

Um, yeah, but, but like overall, man, like,
like without fear, I feel likethere wouldn't be a reason to
level up a reason to, to bebetter.
To, like even to evolve, totransform the fear of never
being your best, the, the fearof loss.
When it, when it comes to fear,like the main thing is laws you

(46:32):
fear of losing, you fear, notbeing good, letting something
happen again.
It's just,

Track 2 (46:39):
Just, just, And, and that's, that's a good point that
you bring up because, um, Thisthing that you're facing right
now is something that everybodygoes, through.

and you think you the only one until you talk
to somebody like, yo, I'm scaredtoo.
just like, like, No matter howmany times you parallel, you
still gonna feel that littlenervousness was when they all
looking out the window.
But you still gotta yo, but youstill gotta park.
And after you finish parking,even after you feel
uncomfortable, you know what?
You fucking did it.

(47:10):
And now you can go inside afteryou've been walk, you've been
driving around for an hour and ahalf looking for some goddamn
parking

Track 2 (47:17):
Oh my God.
And that, and see and then, andthat's when you face your fears,
that satisfaction at the end ofthe road, that's the light at
the end of the

it really is.
Yeah.

Track 2 (47:26):
Like, Yo.
like I faced my fears.
I made, I did, I did thisachievement.
I, I I endured And I'm able togo on and live the next day to
face it, you got.
out of bed outta yourcomfortable bed, nice and cozy,
cotton fucking smell and fresh.
Like Downey, You got on thattree with a bunch of assholes
and then you went to work.

(47:48):
You got there, you came backhome in one piece.
That's commendable.
you just, face your fears.
And That's one, one example ofall the shit that we all as,
Listen, New Yorkers,

We worry all the time, especially in the
train.
I don't know, man, After Covidshout.

Track 2 (48:05):
that takes a Jay train.

Yeah.
Shout out to the jade train.
next stop.
Casky, Huke Street.

Track 2 (48:12):
You go

Um,

Track 2 (48:15):
a Z?

to take what you said and, and piggyback off
it pretty much, when you, whenyou fear something and you do
it, I feel like that's the realyou, That's when you, that's
when you really see what youmade of.
Right.
Oh, and this is how I'm gonnaend it with fear.
Right.

Track 2 (48:32):
If I could make it here, I could make it anywhere.
My phone.

If I can make, This is how Amanda with fear,
Right.
Um, everybody, experiences it.
It's, it is the only thing thatallows us to raise ourself to
new heights.
Right.
And what's dope is.
What makes someone brave?
The word brave, the word couragecan be experienced if you not

(48:58):
feeling fear, if you're notscared, if you're not nervous.
And what makes that world wordcomplete is that you feel those
things and you still do them.

Track 2 (49:06):
Yeah.

got a job interview, you scared as fuck
that you going fuck up, but youwent and did it and then you
knew it.
Instead of staying home, notgetting the job, you gave
yourself the opportunity.
You didn't wanna go to thataudition cuz you scared that you
going to bomb.
At least now someone might bethere that might use you for
another role, or you mightactually get the role that you
went, went out for.
Like, you never know.

(49:27):
it could be as simple as work oras it, it could be as complex as
pushing yourself to the limitlike I did when I jumped off
that plane.
So, but as far as, as far as to,to go to another Batman quality,
he's always prepared.

Track 2 (49:41):
Readiness is big Read, readiness is big.
Let me tell

yellow.
Fuck that, Huh?

Track 2 (49:49):
Listen, readiness is huge.
Like this, this man is alwaysready.
He's got his little utilitybowel.
His Batmobile is fully loadedwith, with gas.
He probably uses diesel fuel,right?
I don't think he uses regularguy.
I don't think he,

You think that's a V6 or magic

Track 2 (50:06):
think that's a big thing.
I think he uses diesel fuel.
yeah.
It like, like readiness is, is,is, you know, that's, he's
always prepared.
And I think, as a person thatwakes up every morning.
you know, There's one thing thatI, that that

the most organized person.
He's one of the most organizedpeople I know

Track 2 (50:23):
and and I don't know if that's because I'm, I'm, I'm,
I'm, thank you for that.
I Appreciate you, But I don'tknow if that's Like I, I still
have to be diagnosed with like OC D I don't know if.

he got his socks for Wednesday already on

Track 2 (50:37):
I,

on the bed, ready to go.

Track 2 (50:40):
I, I just felt little this morning.
Listen, listen, this, I had afriend Daniel Torres, shout out
to Daniel Torres.
Man, I, I hope, I hope he'swatching this.
I met him in P 74.
There was one thing that heshowed me every day, and it was

(51:02):
on his left pocket.
It was a wallet and on his rightpocket was the keys, to the
crib.

Mm-hmm.
He tell you always keep yourphone, wallet and keys

Track 2 (51:14):
No, no, No, no.
Like we were fucking 12 yearsold, like.
We were young, but it was like,he would always had a thing,
like he had his keys to thehouse and I was like, Oh shit.
Like he's got keys to the house.
Like, I need keys to my house.
So I got keys to my house and hehad a wallet where he, I don't
know, we had fucking a dollarand like, I don't know, candy

(51:35):
receipts.
But it was like, just the factthat he did that every morning,
I, I was like, Yo, I need, Ineed to, like, this makes sense
to me.
Like I need I need the cash, Ineed the keys, and I need the
chap stick.
Right?
Because like, we still,

the keys, the wallet, the house, everything.
The car,

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But it, it, it was that, that like method of like,
thinking of like, I can't walkout without these things because
these are the tools, that I needto carry on the day.
Like, I need my keys to.
get back home.
I need my chapstick.
Cuz I got big fucking lips.
I got, I need, you know, I needmy wallet to pay for candy.

(52:17):
But it was like these littlethings that like, just I grew up
with and it is part of justbeing ready, Like being ready.
Like I can't walk out the housewith my phone now.
I can't, walk out the keys.
Like, I haven't forgotten myphone in like 10 fucking years
because I know like, this is oneof my tools that I need to get
through the day.
So it's like if I don't, havethese things, So basically going

(52:40):
back to Batman, it's like, okay,he's got a little.
Utility belt, the Batmobile,he's ready to go fight crime, we
can't go fight crime.
and we don't have these thingsin our pockets.
Right.
Why are you gonna walk therewithout money?
The minute you walk out the dooris already you down hundred.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I got it.
You not doing yourself anyjustice if, uh, you don't carry
around your tools.

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You need your utility.

You need your, yo, think about it, right?
and a lot of, I feel like a lotof people do a Batman.
He looks at the, the, thesituation from all angles.
I feel like what's, what are thegood things that can happen?
What are the bad, what are thebad things, the possibilities?
What are their weaknesses?
What are their strengths?
And I feel like you need to dothat with the things that you're
trying to take serious.

(53:31):
Right?
When example, Okay, I wanna be asalesman, or whatever the fuck
you wanna be.
You can't, you, you can't, youcan't be on some, It's only, I'm
only gonna think about thepositive stuff when you really
consider factors that won't workout good, you are able to come
up with like, answers to yourobjections that what, what they

(53:52):
call in sales, right?
okay, if, if I don't get thisjob, boom, then I know that I
can go on Craigslist and theyalways hiring for this, like
just everything.
you know, does the companyreally pay well?
Does this, you know what I'msaying?
Or if you go into an interview,you know, you, you found out
that the person interviewingloves the giants.

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Right,

what I mean?
Like, like

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Yeah.
You're gonna use that You'regonna use that to be like, Yo,
why

yeah.
Or you hear something that thepercentage of people that go to
a certain place, Get mugged orwhatever, like, you know what
I'm saying?
You that would make you makesure you carry your maze.
I'm trying to make the pointthat, whether it's work, whether
it's family, whatever thesituation is, be prepared and
factor in all the things thatcan happen.
So you, not certain things, Imean certain things, you're

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gonna be surprised, but youknow, you'll be able to handle
them better if you can see themcoming.

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Absolutely.

But pretty much be ready so you don't have
to get ready.
The more you know,

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in addition to what you were saying, like, not just like
tools and stuff, but like, Ithink mentally and physically,
like, I think you gotta beprepared to go out there because
you don't know, what you'redealing with.
You don't know who you're comingacross.
Like you gotta be mentallyprepared to address anybody, to
just face anybody, and I thinkthat's a whole conversation on
its own, you know, mentalhealth, you know, I know that's

(55:13):
something big that you think youmake

of course, of course.
We always got time for mentalhealth,

Track 2 (55:17):
mental health.
is huge.
Is huge.
So I think, um, just part ofreadiness, I think, I think
mental health, just talking tosomebody, making sure that,
your, your psyche is is, is incontrol.
You know, like you Just havingto just be grounded into making

(55:38):
sure that like, not just youyou're good, but like the people
that you may come across today.
you're well aware likeeverybody's a hundred percent
out there.
you know, and you may comeacross a person that, not a
hundred percent, and you don'tknow how to face that, but you
gotta be prepared to face thosekind of people, you, know?
And, um, that's something that,you know, it, it, it's all part

(55:59):
of being prepared of like facingthe world, just being open to
the world.
and being to these people whoare going through things that
you may not understand, youknow?

Malcom (56:13):
AFTER A QUICK BREAK Guess who's making a stop at the
Ramono show?

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Baby.

Say what up,

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Hi.
Hi baby.
How's it going?

I'm hoping I could be this guy's hero, or I
can damn the,

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he is door.
Perfect timing.
Perfect timing.

another dope quality that he has is that he's
rich

Track 2 (56:44):
Oh,

and, Yeah.
And Mo and the thing aboutmoney, man, that's it, you know,
is what make the world go round.
I don't care how, I mean, unlessyou ready to live off the grid,
you gonna need that brand Andit, like you can help so many
people with your words, youknow, they say the best things

(57:08):
are free,

Track 2 (57:08):
Mm-hmm.

but things like hospitals, groceries,
things of that sort don't careabout what you gotta say, they
just care about what, what yougoing to pay So, you know what I
mean?
I think, I mean, could there bea Batman?
With no bread?
Yeah.
But it would be a very cheapversion of what we get to see

(57:30):
now.
Saying like, his bats might be ahoopty.
His plane might be a fuckingglider.
and his motorcycle might be anelectric scooter.

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You live in a parking project, you gotta cut

they gonna know he's bad, man.
They were like, Batman.
That motherfucker live on a 12floor.

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floor.

Oh, in the fifth, fifth.
five.
Like, you, you can do good,right?
You, you could get a lot done,but eventually you gonna need
some funds, You're gonna needsomething.
if you're financially free,right?
You could spend a lot more timewith your family.

(58:18):
You could do all these things,right?
So pretty much in whateveryou're trying to do, whether
you're trying to do whateverthe, you're trying.
You know, explore a differentcareer, you know what I mean?
Or business, um, or even yourjob.
You can use things to just make,you could just use money to make
everything better.
Not, but not depend on iteither.
It's not that you need it tomake it

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Right,

it's just, it's just the cherry on top like
you doing all the other stuff.
Cuz you can have money and bemiserable.
So

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when it comes to Batman, right?
Like he's got all the gadgets,he's got all the cars, he's got
all the cool equipment.

all the women

Track 2 (58:55):
and yeah, like, it, it, that that's defined by money
because he's, he could affordall these cool toys.
But I think what we love aboutBatman, it's not the cool toys,
but it's, more about

nah, I think it's the cool toys.

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is the cool toys.
You think so?
Cause you can collect the

no, no.
It's part of it.
It's the, it's part of it.
Because, I even get forward tolooking through the guy.
You know, I look forward toseeing what Ga Jay's gonna have.

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Listen, He's got the gadgets, he's got the money to
afford the toys and the coolshit.
I think it's the deep down of.
His end goal, he goes out atnight to fight crime, to try to,
avenge his parents to be a kidagain.
And I think us as human beings,as men, as you know, when we

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grew up to be, you know, boysyou know, raising families,
raising kids, raising children.

No.
Raising Canan,

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raising kids, right?
Um, I think that we look atBatman in that, sense of like,
He doesn't give up, he doesn'tgive up into the things that he
wants to do.
And not so much as us, you know,getting vengeance, but it's more
of like the determination as menas a Bruce Wayne who goes out at

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night to fight crime.
We go and grab our baby as thewife is just making milk or
putting him to sleep in bed atnight is what?
says it's that's us as BruceWayne who are determined to
raise these kids, you know, to,to, to be better.

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man.
To be.

raymundo-save-me (01:00:49):
don't want Bruce Wayne to be your dad,
though, you ain't never gonnasee Luke

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Oh, you never see him like yo, it's my dad, he wants
to get moved.
Nah, he's out there fine crying.
He's gonna be back by

deal, this fucking guy.
But, um,

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God, you got a black eye.

Outta all these qualities, which you feel,
which one you feel is probablylike, like the most, like the
nuclear is the main one.

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Wow.
that's a lot of qualities.
Uh,

but I'm gonna have to say nothing to me.
I don't know.
Nothing comes together.
Cause there's other stuff that Imentioned that we can't talk
about cuz we, we, we will behere ever.
Like Batman, he has anobsession, right?
This, this gave him on the, he'sobsessed.
He's probably, he's more Batmanthan he is.
Bruce Wayne.
Like Bruce Wayne is actually,

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Yeah.
That's the, that's the cover.

that's his cover up.

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Yeah.

know what I mean?
So

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can I pick one or do I, can I pick more than one?

I would say

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Pick

know, like the top three.
Like,

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I got a top three for

right, gimme the top three.
Run, run it.

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Top three.
Top three right?
now is discipline,determination, and readiness.
You can't, if you don't have anydiscipline, bro, I, I feel Like,
you, you can't get any winglife.
Like you need to havediscipline.
you need to have a way to saylike, this is what I want, This
is where I want to get to.

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Like, I'm gonna knock out ahundred pushups today.
I'm gonna do it before Brexits,before lunch, before dinner.
That's the discipline.
I'm gonna stick to thisschedule.
This is what I'm gonna do done.
If you don't have thatdiscipline to say like, I'm not
going to eat this, I'm not gonnaeat that for lunch today.
I'm gonna skip this, I'm gonnado that.

(01:02:35):
If you don't have thatdiscipline like that, that fucks
up your whole your whole, youlike Your whole person.
Like everything that you'retrying to do, that you're trying
to be, that you're trying tofight for.
If you don't have to, I can'twake up.
at 7 55 to make it to my car ateight o'clock, so make it to

(01:02:57):
work on.
I can't do that.
I gotta force, myself to wake upat a certain time to get to
work.
So if I don't have anydiscipline, it's, not gonna work
out.
Like, if I can't, I can't wakeup at, at, at seven 15 to say
like, Oh, I'm okay.
I'm gonna wake up my kid cuz hegotta make it to the bus on
time.
If I'm not disciplined, I'mgonna fail him.

(01:03:18):
So I need discipline.
That's, that's key.
That's number one.
Determination is It's it isnumber two.
That's number two.
Like I can't, I can't dedicateany goals to, myself if I'm not
gonna walk that journey to.
get there.
So I need Determination.
I need to know, like, this iswhat I want.
this is what I wanna Do at bythe end of the week.

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I need, to do that.
and let me tell you something,this is not, something that I
live by.
I don't want, I'm not gonna hearsit here and say like, Yeah, I
got, I got all three, I got all,all top three.
Like, it doesn't work that way.
Like I'm, I'm battling this shitthe way that you are, the way
that everybody, the wholeaudience is, you know what I'm
saying?
Like, but it's, it's a key thatwe have to, live.
Like, It's like we need these,

It's like we

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these keys to, to get through, to get to where we
wanna be.
And if you don't have, thisinformation, if you don't have
discipline, if you don't.
All these little keys that manfollows it, It is gonna be
difficult to get there, causeain't nobody gonna tell you to
get there.

That's a fact, man.
If you got a Batman,determination is discipline.
Um, but for me,

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Hold on, let me see.
Can I say the last

Oh yeah, Yeah.
You, you got one more game.

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Just writing this, Just, readiness.
just I could say it asphysically and mentally tough
and ready.
Willing, and

Nice.

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mentally tough.
You gotta go out therephysically and mentally tough.
especially if you grew up inBushwick you already know,

cause niggas

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especially if you grew up.
If you go out and you grew up inBushwick, you gotta be
physically and mentally toughand you know you gotta come with
it.
You understand Like you gonnahop on that day train, You gotta
be physically at the tough cuzsomebody may not be in a good
mood today and you Holding ononto the wrong bar.

And another reason why readiness is
important, right?
Cause what success is whenpreparation meets opportunity.
And if you're ready, guess what?

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Wow.

And you know, and you know what?
Not for nothing.
You can never truly be readythough.
I, I don't, I I think it's justthe word we play around with or
something.
But you never really ready Ifeel like you never really
ready, You only know that you'regonna, that you're, that you're
willing to act

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right.
That you're absolutely rightbecause you can't bring a gun to
I fight,

nah.
Or pen

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No.

You're chesting the line of fire with
your thin ass vest.
Be bringing the boy to Ben.
How the boys go win get in thetriage.
Nah, man.
Yeah, but

Track 2 (01:06:06):
So I think the allow was bring a knife to a gunfight.
I think I said it wrong.
You might have to re redo thatpart.

nah, we're keeping that shit.

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Even if you're mentally, physically, and
mentally tough and woken inthat, you don't know if you're
bringing a knife to a gunfightwhen you walk out that door.
So my point is that you stillgotta be ready, willing, and
able to come.
out there.
You guys still gotta bephysically and mentally tough to
face those fears.

and everything starts mentally you, mentally
tough.
You'd be tough enough to dealwith, you know, everything that
comes your way.
But in the only way you reallyget mentally tough, I mean, at
least from my perspective, is,having control of yourself in
some way.
Right?
Cause I feel like there's somany things that, we get
distracted, we have worries.
loss, fear, everything, butbeing mentally tough allows you

(01:06:59):
to still have those things andstill fucking do it anyway.
And I think when it comes downto a lot of shit, it's either
you, whether you gonna do it ornot.
Are you ready or not?
Are you gonna do it?
Are you scared?
All right, but are you gonna doit?
Are you deter?
Well, Determina, see, and Ithink determination is this two
part process, right?

(01:07:20):
Cause I could be to determinedfor three days and not finish
this shit.
But when determination iscomplete is when you've done
what you was determined by.
Like what, what made youdetermined in the first place,
right?
So

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Wow.

I'm determined to be the greatest podcaster
alive.
Right?
Now you can say I'm determined,but if I quit for three years,
am I still determined?

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No,

when you'll give me my respect is when you
seen results For mydetermination, like as a, as of
mine,

Nancy (01:07:47):
As of my

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that, that's it.

Oh, I, I threw a transition bomb.
I feel like the way we justexplained it, how you can relate
it to your real life, to your,to know, to your reality, I
think it's dope and you shouldreally consider it.
Um, I know he's a made upcharacter, but some, you know,
fake it till you make it.
Sometimes you gotta be a made upcharacter, you know what I'm

(01:08:17):
saying?
until it comes to life like,until you come to life like Fat
Albert, you know, come out rightdown the motherfucking tv.

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Uh, is that king Peel?
No,

No, Keenan and Cal.
Cal Keenan.
Keenan.

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king and ke ke peel.
Kind like fat out, but littlebit

Yo, he, he's another one I wanted to show.
I used to see him in the cityall the time.

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bro.
Peel.
Oh,

Oh no.
Oh no.
Nah.
Those dudes.
Those dudes is legends.
I was talking about Keenan is alegend too, but, uh, Peel, they
hilarious, man.
They,

Track 2 (01:08:58):
oh.
King P,

I would love to do a ski with them, man.
I feel like it'll be

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Oh God.

but that's the thing, man.
I always think I'm funny and I'mnot always, I'm not always in,
but, um,

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I, think if

nah, I know man.
I appreciate that.
My, It's like my friends thatknow me know I'm funny and then
they, they don't think, I mean,they don't think all my jokes is
funny, but So to wrap this up,which human ability should be
considered a superpower?
Just name one.
I started off with you cuz onceI tell you, you'll know it'll

(01:09:32):
start coming to you.
Um.
I'm gonna go with awareness.
No, no, no, no.
Fuck that.
You know what's a great human,You know, what's the, I think
it's the best rejection proof.

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Um,

What that means is, yo, you know, the in
in sales is the law of averages,right?
You heard of that?
If I, if I see 10, how many no'sdoes it take for you to get a
yes.
If your rejection proof, yougonna get whatever you want.
Because what stops a lot ofpeople in the tracks is the
simple word or two letter word,

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All right.

but then put dreams in the cemetery that we
can't see,

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right?

No.
So if you can be told no amillion times and still not die
after that.
I really like example, if I'mtrying to be a salesman, if I
ask a million people to listento the Ramo show, I feel like
I'm almost gonna guarantee thatout of those million that I ask
a hundred thousand gonna like myshit.
But a hundred thousand even justput a dollar into my shit, I

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would never have to work again,cuz I'm gonna go from there.
So that just lets you know thepower of that.
That's a human superpower.
You could take projection.
But anyway.
Which one you, which one did youthink of during that?
All that shit.
I've been talking.

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shit, I wanna say readiness.
I wanna say like,

no, don't, If you say readiness one more time,
I'm gonna fucking erase that.
He's like, Cause you know,Batman's readiness and he's
like, yo, super power readiness.
Um,

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Just being prepared.
just being prepared.
Just being, going out there andjust knowing like you got the
tools in life to go out thereand just make it work, make it
happen.
Like, you can't go.

being prepared is a superpower that, that,

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Absolutely.
Like you gotta go out,

I didn't have it on my list, but it is, cause

Track 2 (01:11:33):
you gotta go out there with the right tools.
No matter who you are, no matterwhat you do.
Like you gotta go out there withthe right tools like, Whether
you, you know, whether you are areal estate agent, whether you
are a sales man, whether you, ajuah, whatever it is.
Like you gotta go out there,with the right tools.
you gotta be ready to like, justtackle on the day, tackle on the
world.

(01:11:55):
So writing is what, that's,

and you gotta have the right tools, right?
Cause you know what I'm saying?
If you gonna do someconstruction shit, but you got
dentist tools, you know what Imean?
You go,

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so I hope You go, out there with the right tools.
Cause I'm, I'm, you.
Like, Yeah.
Like, you know what your job islike, All right, I'm gonna go
out there knowing I need aflashlight.
that's your superpower.
That's, you gotta go out therewith the right tools.

what?
I like that.
So the ones we going with isJonathan's word of the day
readiness And mine is, uh, beingrejection proof.

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Yeah.

Awareness and being an action taker.

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Hm.

You combine all, even if you combine those
fours of rap awareness, you'reable to,

Track 2 (01:12:40):
Yeah.
Your

realize what's going on,

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of

be able to see something that no one else is.
rejection proof.
You don't take no for an answer.

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Okay.

Readiness.
You never have to get ready ifyou're already ready, Right?
and what was the other one?
Oh my God.
A action taker.
You take action, or you talk andtake action, you are bad shut.
What, what?
You said shut your mouth.
I'm talking about I'm talkingabout action, baby Yeah, man.

(01:13:12):
But the wrap it up.
Why should you save yourself?

Track 2 (01:13:16):
Look man, I think uh, you got one life live.
Got one life live, and uh,

You don't end up in the general hospital,

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you.

You gotta be there for all yourchildren, I wanna thank
Jonathan's bladder for

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Broke about five times.

Nah, it's all good man.
That's crazy.
That's the first time I'veinterviewed anybody.
You're the first person to go tothe bathroom on an interview, so
you be history.
Your history, brother why youthinking you should save
yourself?
And for me it is as simple assaying, cuz you can't always
depend on other people.
That's it.
I don't give a fuck howdependable the person is.

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I don't give fuck.
another person can't always bethere.
When they got their own shitgoing on.
So

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You got some good ass questions, man.

On the next show.
And the power not, may, may notbe superhuman strength, but it's
is what you need to proceed withanything.
If you got the power of love, ifyou got the power of, of, of

(01:14:38):
desire, if you have the powerof, dreaming big, you know, you
have the power to be anybody whoyou want to be.
If you put your mind to it andyou doing that, you'll become
your own hero.
And maybe they can writesomething or basic comic book or
you, you know what I'm saying?
I'm looking for what the mancoming out 2046, you know what

(01:15:02):
I'm saying?
And, and, um, Jonathan, theorganizer, I, but nah man.
Yo, this was a great episode,man.
Like, uh, it was great to talkabout being a hero.
Uh, wait, my brother, one of mybest friends, someone who's a
topnotch member, The supportsquad.

(01:15:25):
once this bus, once the Munoshow get established, he go, he
gonna have a position as aconsultant.

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That go

honestly, this show would not be, I don't think
it would be as great as it's,as, as it is in his spectacular
is becoming without my, mybrother's words.

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Appreciate

His words and his energy, man.
And if there's one thing I knowmy brother is always going to be
there So, so, you know what I'msaying?
And it was, it was great tofinally get an episode.
He was supposed to be on seasonone, you know, now we're gonna
finally do that podcast, Batmanpodcast.

(01:16:06):
Hopefully, I would say hopefullyby next year, cuz this year
looking kind of hectic.
But, If we don't do it by nextyear, I'm not doing it.
That's how seriously we have todo it.
I don't wanna keep dragging shitto years, like if it is not done
next year, but we doing that.
So

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Michael Key and Batman, 1989 commentary coming soon.

come to Sue, man.
Everything badman.
you know, once we think of thename and we think about what
direction we're gonna go with,it's gonna be so much fun.
I look, I really look forward todoing that cuz, you know, saying
I love Batman and That's wherethat shit came from.
Yo, that I'm watching thatepisode as a kid I was just

(01:16:48):
like, wow.

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Yeah,

Man.
But like I was saying, man, itwas great having you on the
show.

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Same, same,

coming man.
You did your thing.
It was great to get yourinsight.
definitely not gonna be the lasttime, but Yeah.
This one you were supposed to belike.
Yeah man, it was great being onthe show.

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Listen You see is hot bro.
You see this hot.
Um, I appreciate you.
I I love the Raymundo Show.
Um, it's, it's honor.
Is it a pleasure to be here.
I can't thank you, enough, man.
I didn't think I was gonna makethe cut, but I made the cut

Yeah.
Wait.
With my closest friends, it'sjust a, a secret pressure to
wanting to be a classic.
But when I realize just like onthe phone, man, it's just always
a great conversation.
Whether it's on the laptop,whether it's in person.
Whether you know what I'msaying?
It's in a bar with Lui listeningto fun tonight, eight fucking

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thousand times.
It's always, it's always lovetonight.
That shit,

Track 2 (01:17:49):
This is the first, first episode, and I'm sure it
won't be the last so,

yo.
And you know what's crazy?
We still talking about Susu

Track 2 (01:18:02):
Oh, yeah.

All right, brother, til next time, brother.

Track 2 (01:18:05):
Yo.
So next time.
uh, Big Shot.
Theo Show is a pleasure.
It's an honor.

love brother.

Track 2 (01:18:12):
we out.

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Saving yourself.
Shouldn't be an option, but anecessity.
Of video game.
Is the only time.
You could play with yourdestiny.
Keep questioning why you haven'tmade it.
When you didn't learn therecipe.
If you've got complete trust inyourself.
Then, you know, you got asuperpower.
It's beautiful.
Like the bloom form of fuckingflower.
It's a numbers game, but none ofthe numbers matter.

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If you can't count on yourself.
Doesn't mean you can't be likeMacGyver with the resources.
But most importantly, you wantto be able to be in positions to
help the ones you love.
The ones that share blood.
And the ones that didn't callyou a scrub when you was in the
passenger side of your bestfriends.
Who'd you going to call?
Definitely not the Ghostbusters.
When you got you like the wordyou.

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Flip mode is the only time youshould be hanging with a Boston.
Being your own hero.
It's not about wearing a certainoutfit.
Or your accolades or how muchyou get paid and laid it's about
that grit.
That grind.
Whatever it takes to makeyourself proud all the time.
Or at least most.
Me personally, I want to be myown So when my kids look in the

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sky, They'll believe me when Isay your father can fly.
Cause I feel like Superman whenI see the love in the eyes.
And I'm here to testify.
The hero I will grow to be.
We'll be for them.
Because they saved me when theytook my misery and brought it to
a N.
But I hope this episode made youthink.
Because.
You will get.
Guero and freaky.

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Fucking place.
I want to thank you for tuningin.
I want to dig my brother,Jonathan.
For co-hosting the show with me.
And bringing that great energyto the show.
I always have a lot of fun when.
My brother's is on the episode.
But.
I hope you got the messages,man.
I just want you to be your ownhero, everything.

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And I feel like.
Is always.
Meant to make us think outsideourselves, but.
You got what it takes, man.
But if this is your first timejoining.
Or you or regular?
Is all love is the Brooklyn way.
Well be safe out there.
Peace love Mundo out.

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