PBT, Episode 59; A Deep Testimony of a Family Man, ft. Gio

Danny sits down with Gio from the Don't Mind Us Podcast and gets an intense breakdown of a situation he experienced as a man, a husband, and a father. this podcast episode is heavy! we hope you enjoy.

Episode Transcript

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Is you ever wonder what is the truth?
Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and
the truth. All right, guys, welcome to

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another episode of Point Blank Truth Podcast.
Today we are doing a virtual edition of the episode and our
guest today is Mr. Geo from the Don't Mind Us podcast.
Geo, thank you so much for joining us.
How you doing today, Sir? I'm good, Daniel.
I appreciate you having me on. I'm really excited to be here.

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Yeah, man, thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
I got the whole setup going withthe virtual.
This is all new for me, but I kind of like the way it looks.
I I picked that background with the American flag and a little
crack in it, 'cause I feel like our country is super divided,
man. I know that you talk a lot about
politics on your platform and I've tuned into, since I've
joined the lead network, I've tuned into every episode you've

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put out since then. So I think it's only been like
three that I've listened to. But but yeah, man, you know, I'm
interested to hear a little bit more about you, Gio.
We've we've been talking throughtext and we're very like minded.
And I just want to hear you know, more about who you are,
where you're from, you know how you got into podcasting.

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Talk to me a little bit about that.
Well I should start off by saying that you'd be surprised
how many people are like minded Americans are.
I think Americans are pretty close and, and how we think,
whether you're Democrat or Republican, the only thing is
with the media will have you think that we're we're so far

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apart and they have us focus on all of the the small
differences. You know what makes us diverse
as a nation. But more about myself.
I, I do Co host the don't mind us podcast.
My Co host is Christian and we talk about a lot of different
things in politics. Specifically we like to right

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now we're focusing on Californiabecause there's a lot coming on
in the next several months into next year when we're going to be
choosing a governor. So we are kind of a an offshoot
of the Latino free Minds podcast.
So the, the, the reason we started don't mind us is because

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we do all of the Polish stuff on, on Latino free minds.
We prepare everything or this iswhat we're going to talk about
and don't mind us. It's kind of like, you know
what, let's go talk about that thing again.
And let's say what we really wanted to say.
And if somebody says a bad word or if somebody says something a

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little controversial, it is whatit is.
It's just don't mind it, don't mind us.
And that's how it started. And we were all on Latino free
mines. I came in very late to Latino
free mines. I was the last Co host of Latino
free mines. Even though the idea I I had
talked to Daniel about it beforehe started it.

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It was I, I was always afraid tojump in and give my political
opinion. I work in the tech industry and
I always thought if I, if I go out there, I'm going to hurt my
chances of not only keeping my job, but finding another job,
but another technology company. And what, you know, what is
Apple going to do if they find out that one of their employees

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I don't want for Apple? I'm just using it as as Apple.
What are they going to do if they find out one of their
employees is a conservative? Do you work for Apple?
Am I right below Tim Cook? I don't know.
So, so I had this fear of going out there and putting out my

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opinions. And at some point close to the
100th episode of Latino Free Minds, we were getting close to
the election with Donald Trump and Joe Biden slash Kamala
Harris. Now I just came on and something
just like switched in me where Ijust started saying things.

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It just started coming out. And then one day Daniel messages
me. He goes, hey, do you think you
can jump on Don't Mind Us for methis week and just roll with
Christian? I was like, all right, yeah, as
long as we do it on Tuesday, because Tuesday is the only day
that I have available. I jumped on and the rest is
history. The next morning he's messaging

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me like, man, that episode was probably the best Latino free
minds we've had. You guys had such great
chemistry. You and Christian just like
roll. It's hilarious.
The next episode again, he's like, man, I'm watching it with
my wife and we're just dying in the living room laughing at you
guys. And it's just it's not that
we're we're not comedic. We're not comedians, but we do

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just like to talk about politicsand from the point of view of
you're just talking to a friend.So it's it's really just off the
cuff how we feel about what's going on it.
It's it's not like Tucker Carlson sitting there talking to
Rachel Maddow and they're arguing over things.
We're just hanging out and that's it.

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That's yeah. Isn't it interesting that that's
the cool part about podcasting is I think that when it comes to
being a podcaster, it, it reallyis just about the flow of a
conversation, right? It's like we're not reading a
teleprompter. This isn't like a new studio.
It's just, it's, it's kind of like like freelance journalism

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in a way, but it's also just a conversation that people get to
tune into. You know how many times I, I
used to say this all the time islike, how many times have you
sat with a friend and had a fun discussion and you think back
and you're like, man, you shouldhave been there.
You know, you're trying to tell people about it.
It's like the podcasting world opens up the door to where you

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can have these fun exchanges with people and then share it
and it's and, and it's everlasting, dude.
It's gonna be on the Internet forever, you know?
Yeah, and and it's it, it goes back to the beginning how I was
saying you'd be surprised how like minded people are because
we get on here and instead of arguing around the dinner table

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on Thanksgiving, we're just chatting and talking about
things, you know, man to man. And we have an hour or however
long we have. And you're not going to be
afraid to to say what you have you have to say.
And I'm not going to hurt your feelings, Probably not going to
change your mind. But we're just going back and
forth as men. Right, right, right.

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That's neat, man. So where are you at?
Where are you located at geographically in California?
I'm in the Central Valley of California, just outside of
Fresno. OK, OK.
Yeah, So right in the center of California, it's it's always
hot. Probably not very different from
where you're at. Yeah, yeah, It's always hot in

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Temecula. Yeah.
You know what, man? I, I, I I happen to see the cast
that you got over there. You want to talk about that a
little bit? You were recently in an in a
motorcycle accident, dude. Thank God you survived.
It's crazy. Yeah, or you did I raise my hand
up? Yeah.
Well, you just, I just saw it out the corner and I and I, I,

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yeah. Oh, 'cause I put it on, I put
it. I have like this thing here I
was, I was in a motorcycle accident.
I was riding on the highway and I saw all the traffic stopping.
So I'm slowing down and I probably had about 50 feet
before the car in front of me. So I was slowing down to take up

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that space. But I can see out of the corner
of my eye, the right lane was slamming to a stop and I saw
this black car. I thought it I thought it was
going to hit the car in front ofit.
But then he just quickly came into my lane, took up my took up
all my braking space. So I hit the brakes.
And from that point I don't knowif I hit him.

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I don't know what happened afterthat.
It's it's just completely blacked out.
I do have like an image in my head of the the motorcycle
lifting up and the back tire coming off coming up and me
thinking like, oh shoot, not notso politely.
And then I remember standing up and seeing the highway like to

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my side and all the traffic behind me and then being in the
back of the ambulance. The the CHP report doesn't say
much either. The CHP report doesn't say if I
flipped without hitting or if I hit.
I don't think people were payingtoo much attention because they
were all slamming their brakes too, but it does.

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It did say that the motorcyclistfrom the CHP showed up was
standing on the side of the highway with his motorcycle.
And I was like, wow, I don't remember even getting my
motorcycle and moving it. I'm pretty sure I would remember
if somebody helped me because it, it was when people started
talking to me that I started to come back like in.

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And that was the, the CHP officer and then the ambulance
that showed up when they were talking to me.
And they're, they're like, hey, man, wow, looks like you broke
your arm. And I was like, oh, I did.
And he goes, yeah, you, you don't see the bones sticking
out. And I looked at my arm.
Oh. Man.
Oh, it's that bone and I'm goingto touch it.
And he's like, no, don't touch it.

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You're going to you can get it. It's, it's going to get
infected. And I was like, oh, I, I, I
didn't know. I didn't even realize it was
bone. I thought it was just like skin,
like hanging out. He's like non rope.
That's definitely bone. Let's let's get you sit down.
Let's get you sitting down. We're going to check all your
vitals. And he's just talking to me.

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I think he's just trying to keepme awake.
And he's like, so are you going to get back on a motorcycle?
And I was like, yeah, man, of course I'm going to get back on
a motorcycle. Why wouldn't I?
And he's like, yeah, man, that'sthat.
You have to get back on. But as soon as I got back in the
as soon as I was in the hospital, I was like, no way.
I'm never going to ride a motorcycle again.
I 'cause I started thinking about my family, like my wife,

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my kids, and I'm like, there's no way.
I, I can't leave everything behind because I want to save a
little bit of money on gas. And that's the only reason I'm
riding a motorcycle. It's not free.
It's, it's not because I have this sensation.
I mean, it is free. It is.
You do feel free when you're riding, but it's not because I

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need that. I need that jolt energy.
Ride for life, dude. Yeah, no, it was because gas is
expensive and riding a motorcycle is cheap.
Yeah, and it's easier and it's easier to, you know, to cut
lanes. You you never really stay in
traffic. In California, it's legal to
lane split. Yeah.
So it it, it it's fun. But as soon as I as soon as my

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wife was there, I was like, I'm not going to ride my motorcycle.
I'm not going to ride a motorcycle again.
She's like, you sure? I was like, yeah, it's not worth
it. I'd rather just get a Tesla.
You know what, you know, when I get out of here, I'm going to
heal up. We're going to get a Tesla and
that's it. And I've, I've stuck to it, man.
I, I went, we went and test drove the Tesla.

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I put an order in and hopefully in a few weeks I get mine.
Nice dude. What kind of what kind of Tesla
did you go with? I went with the Model 3.
I it's, we went and looked at the Y in a three and my wife's
like, yeah, that I mean that theY is perfect for the family and
it's just five of us and it's plenty of space in the trunk.

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Yeah. Something with something about
the way she was acting was not really sitting well with me.
And we go into the the showroom and the guys going showing all
the settings in the computer. And I was like, yeah, so if I
get the full self drive, I get 0% interest, right.
And he's like, Oh no, Sir, I'm sorry.
That's only if you get the Model3.

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And I looked at my wife and I was like, I think I like the
Model 3 better anyways. And she's like, well, what's
the, what's the, what's the interest on, on?
I think they were doing like 3.99.
And I'm really good at math. So I was like, I live with a guy
and I go, what is the interest? Because I'm not going to do the
math if you already know. And he's like, oh, I don't know.

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He starts pulling up the calculator on the little Apple
machine. And I looked at my wife and I
was like, well, it's probably going to be between 5 and 6000 /
5 years. And she goes OK and full self
drive is 8000. So it's only like a 2 1/2
thousand dollar difference. Like yeah.

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And then consider that the Y is a couple $1000 more than three.
So really it's only like a $500 difference.
And I prefer the way that Model 3 looks.
And she looked and she was like,honestly, I don't really like
the Y. It's a little bubbly.
And I was like, yeah, it is bubbly.
So since so since every time we see the Y now, I'm like such a

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bubbly looking car, she starts laughing and she's like, yeah,
it is bubbly. So yeah, we went with the three.
For me as, as the big person in the family, I sat in the back of
both cars, the three and the Y and my wife's like, yeah,
there's so much more room in theY And I'm like, it feels exactly
the same, except when I look up,there's all this space in the Y

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and I'm like, I'm not that tall.And I, I think by the time my
kids get that tall, they're going to be driving themselves.
So they're not going to be in here and, and, and travelling
like far. We have a gas car for that, like
we have an SUV. This is really my way to get to
work. And computer, yeah.
This is to replace my motorcycle, which was selfish of

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me because it's only it's a onceit's a it's a 2 seater but I had
it like modified a lot so it wasA1 seater really.
Yeah, I, I used to ride, man. I, I switched to Harley and then
once I, I got out of the Marine Corps and had kids, I really
wasn't driving. I really wasn't driving.
I really wasn't riding as much anymore, so I ended up getting

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rid of it too. And, you know, and I noticed
that when I would ride, I, I wasn't as comfortable.
I don't know what it was. Something switched in me where I
was like, you know, I've been down before on a bike, you know,
and, you know, with, with motorcycles, there's two types
of riders. There's those who have been down
and those who are going to go down, you know, so, yeah.

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So I, I just always felt like, Idon't know, I, I, I'm going to
get out while I still have all my limbs and everything's good.
So I ended up trading it. And trading it, man, I, I grew
up my dad rode a motorcycle whenI was a kid.
He, he went a really long time before going down.
He was probably around like 5550to 55 years old when he finally

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went down, broke his sternum. And that's because he was, he
was going through some stuff andI think he was drinking and he
was right around the corner justlike getting the fluids moving
in his bike. And he went around the corner
and, and, and dropped it. And I, I always thought like,

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well, I mean, if he could be safe for for so many years, I'm
not a young man, I'm not going 120 miles an hour on the
highway. I'm going speed limit.
I'll pass up a car if I need to,but that's about it.
I'm not going crazy. Yeah, but that's the thing.
It's, it's not, it's not just yourself.
There's a lot of stupid drivers out there in case.

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Yeah. And that's that's what it is.
Yeah. You know what I mean?
What do you think you're going to do?
Like taking up the lane next to you in the middle of traffic?
They're just going to hit you, they're going to slam into you,
and you're still going to be in trouble in California because an
illegal lane change is your fault.
But. Really, I didn't.

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I didn't know that that was the case.
Yeah, so I always thought, oh, it, it, it's kind of a new law.
So it, it used to be like if somebody hits the back of your
car, you're kind of like, oh, like that he hit me.
But now it's if, if you make an unsafe lane change, then it it

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is your fault because you didn'tplan for them to stop.
And the the problem is the burden is on the person that hit
you to prove that you did an illegal lane change.
So it's it's a lot more common that people get caught now
because all these Teslas have cameras.

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A lot of people have dash cams or witnesses are are nice enough
to stay behind. In my instance, there was a
witness, but the witness said I was lane splitting and I'm like,
no way. There's no way I was lane
splitting. Like I'm too, I'm too much of A
chicken to to lane split on an interchange in traffic when

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people are like on their phones,you can see, you know, you know,
when you ride a motorcycle, you can see people swerving and
stuff. So on the interchange is I'm
just like either I'll go if the cars are completely stopped and
I can see that they're all matched up.
But if there's a way for them tokind of maneuver over to the
left or the right, I'm, I'm going to slow way down before

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getting it from him. I don't care if there's a
motorcycle behind me. You can all scoot over.
You go ahead. Because I have kids at home.
And before I leave home, my, my son, he comes up, my younger
son, he comes over. He's like, dad, be safe, be
safe. And I felt so bad.
And when I when I came home fromthe hospital, so I was in the

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hospital for like 3 days, I camehome and he didn't even want to
look at me. Oh, that's.
Funny, he, I was like, hey, what's wrong?
He's like, well, I mean, you always say you're so safe.
And I'm just like, man, I wantedto start crying when he said
that, 'cause I'm like, hey, you know, yeah, it's, I was, it's,

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it was so stupid of me to be selfish, to want to ride a
motorcycle and say, yes, 'cause there's so many other options
nowadays. Yeah, Nah.
And, and, and for sure, man, you're lucky to, to just have
broken your arm. You know, things could have been
much worse. And it happened so quick.
That's the crazy thing, you know, it just, you know,

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especially on a motorcycle, sometimes you get put in a
position where you just have to hope for the best.
And what's crazy about what, what, what piqued my interest
about your story is how there's so much that you don't remember,
you know? And that that tells me that you
were probably really concussed, that you, you know what I mean?
Your bone is sticking out and you're like standing up on the

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highway. Like that had to be a crazy
scene even for people walking byor or sorry, people driving by
and they see you like, like, didanybody stop to help at all?
I don't know. Oh, man, Yeah.
So you don't even know. That's wow, man.
Well, thank goodness you're all right, dude.
How's the recovery going? Like do you need any other
surgeries or something? I don't know, I don't think I'll

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need other surgeries. They put in a couple rods.
I broke both of the bones in my in in my arm.
The I, I don't know the technical terms, but I, I broke
both. I broke, I broke both the bones
and a couple of the wrist bones,also many pieces.

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So I got a couple rods. I have a plate.
That goes and keeps my wrist in place, so I can't move my wrist.
That kind of sucks. That really sucks actually.
I can't do anything. I can't.
Even are you going to, you're going to, are you going to have
to go to like, you know, like physical therapy and stuff?
Yeah, to be able to get the, do they say you, you, is it

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possible for you to get full range of motion back and all
that? Unlikely it it'll, it'll be
close to full range, She said. The, the way that the surgeon
said it, she's like, it's it, it's serious and the fact that

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you're not going to get full range of motion back.
But for the normal things that you do, you'll be able to do
everything. You'll be able, you know, you
can go back to the gym. You could do all, all your
things. But if you were a pitcher, I
would say I will tell you this year, not that your career is
over, but all, all the normal human things that that people

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do, you'll you'll be able to do that 100%.
That's what I wanted to hear, that my baseball career was
over. Yeah, well, man, God bless you,
dude, and I'm happy you're stillhere with us, man.
If that's that's all that, if that's all you how you came out

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of that, then it's a blessing indisguise.
You know what I mean? Yeah, man.
And, and, and now you're about to have a brand new Tesla, so
that's nice. Yeah, I'm, I'm really excited
about that. I, you know, I, I said it's it,
there's, there's other options out there.
I mean as corny as it is, you can drive AI could have been
driving a Prius and saving more than on my motorcycle because

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motorcycles are gas guzzlers. They they suck up gas like you.
You only get, I think I was getting like maybe 3540 miles
per gallon and I think the Priusgets like 50 to 60.
And it's only like a 5 gallon tank.
Yeah, you know what I mean? Exactly.
So, you know, really think aboutyour choices.

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You know, lanes, laneslitting isgreat until somebody cuts you
off and you don't have a you don't have a big iron cast
protection like you do in a car.So yeah, think about it, man,
especially who rides motorcycles.
It's all these young kids. They're the ones that are flying
past you on the highway. They have a lot.

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Of yeah, it makes my dude, it makes my heart sink when like I
see motorcyclists driving crazy.I'm like, oh man, they have no
idea. Like the risk they're taking
doing that, bro. You know, it's just, you know.
I was like slow. Yeah, right.
If I was flying, I mean, let's just say I was going speed
limit, let's just say I was going 65, I would, I, I would

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have died for sure. Right.
Yeah, that's fuck, it's so scaryto think about.
Sometimes I, I, I used to ride to see my parents in Sacramento.
Well, in the Sacramento area, they're up near Folsom.
I used to ride up there and people come up on their little
motorcycles, the little Rice Rockets and they want to race
me. And I'm like, Nah, man, I'm, I'm

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in my mid 30s. I want to live for a long time.
You go have fun. I'm just chilling.
I'm like swaying, swaying like Nah, no, no, no.
That's so funny, man. Yeah, you know, once I, when I,
when I had a Harley, I enjoyed that much more because, I don't

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know, it's like there's something about the, the crotch
rocket, you know, like having a Gixxer where you're leaning like
just the way you're positioned, like you want to go fast.
There's things that you don't think you'll ever do on a
motorcycle that completely changes when you're on the bike
and you're, you know what I mean?
And you throttle it. It's like, you know, so having a

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Harley, just the position, the way I'm seated is different.
It was just much more cruising. It was nice, man.
But, but definitely, I'm happy that I got rid of the bike in
time before I had some sort of crazy accident.
But 'cause you never know, man, you know, and, and I do in the
Marine Corps, if you ride a motorcycle, they make you do all

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the courses. I mean, they pay for it all.
So it's cool 'cause you have, like, all the knowledge.
Yeah. Like, you learn how to trail
break and you, you know, you have to update your basic riders
course and advanced riders course.
You have to do it like every twoyears or something like.
That and that's what I took, I took the MSF club courses and
and did all that and that's why I was upset with the CHP report.

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Like I haven't gone to talk to them, but they thought I was
lane splitting cause the witnesssaid I was lane splitting.
Almost like Nah man, I was. I was riding on the inside of
the lane because that's the safeplace to be.
Because you want them to see youwhen you're riding your
motorcycle. You don't want to be on the
outside of the lane because I was.
Where they don't see you, Yeah. Where they don't see you and

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they think they can go in and push you off the road because
that happens a lot. If they if they see that open
spot, they're just going to movein and what are you going to do?
You're either going to have to speed up or slow down or go into
the wall. Yeah.
You know, it's best to be safe. Yeah.
But you know, kids still have a dad and that's and my wife still

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has a husband and that's that's it really important to.
Me, that's the most important thing, man.
Hell yeah. So tell me a little bit about
you said you said. So you got 3 kids then 'cause
you said there's five of you. Yes.
Yeah, what's, what's the age split?
I have an older son, he is. He's going to be 14 in a few

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days and I have twin twins, a boy and a girl.
They'll be 9 in November. So well, excuse me, they'll be 8
in November. So there's a there's a big gap
in between them. We struggled to have a second in

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between there and God just blessed us when we thought we
weren't going to have kids anymore.
I can get into that. I can get into some of the
struggles that we dealt with because there's a lot of parents
out there that, you know, they miscarriages and things like
that. As as easy as it is for some,

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for some women to have babies, Imean, obviously there's the
pregnancy pains that women go through, but there are women
that deal with the struggles of,of trying to conceive or to have
a, a child to give birth. And we, we struggled with that
for a little bit with our first man.
It was so easy. My old making them is the easy

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part. No, but the, the, the pregnancy
was, was it was easy. My wife had all the cravings.
She went through all the annoyances of being pregnant.
Not an annoying for me. I loved every bit of it.

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Just in case he sees the podcast, right?
But you know, getting big, the swelling of the feet, the
feeling sick or feeling hungry in the middle of the night and
you particularly want to eat something you know you want.
With my oldest son, she wanted bullies all the time.
Do you know what bullies are? The.

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They're like, they're almost like popsicles, but they come in
these plastic things and some people can snap them in half or
you cut them and you cut the endoff and it's just.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like.
The I know you're, I know exactly what you're talking
about. Yeah.
It's it's it's not like the the popsicles with the with the
sharp edges, but they're roundedoff, right.

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It looks it looks like a kind oflike an Otter pop, but it's.
And she did like daughter Pops, too.
It's kind of the same thing. Yeah, but it's.
It's shaped like a like one of those hourglass things.
Right? Exactly.
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so she would always crave.Those with my with my older son.
So luckily we have a with a store called Winco nearby.

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They're open 24 hours at least they were before COVID.
You know, during COVID, everybody wanted to shut down.
Like Walmart used to be 24 hours.
Do you remember when Walmart was24 hours?
Yeah, yeah. I think there are still some
that are. I don't know if any in
California, but I think there are still some.
Yeah, I, I. There might be like one or two

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in the Fresno area, but the onesnear me are not 24 hours
anymore. Everybody wanted to close after
COVID, so she was always cravingthose bullies.
She always wanted tacos, things like that.
And I was like, man, I was here for it, man.
I love bullies and I love tacos.With the with the small ones, it

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was different. Like she was craving like
chocolate cake. She never liked chocolate cake
and I didn't like chocolate cakeeither.
But I I started to love it when it's so funny with the.
Cravings. You're like, I guess.
I guess I'll go to Taco Bell at 2 AMI.
Don't want to but. Taco Bell or jack-in-the-box,

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like the the $0.99 tacos, I don't know why she wanted those.
It's like, that's weird. So yeah, we dealt with that.
But in 2015, when my son was about 3 years old, we moved to
Los Angeles for career, career opportunities.

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And that was amazing. Like, we love living in Los
Angeles. There's so many things to do.
There's museums, there's Disneyland down the road,
there's Universal Studios. You can go to the beach.
We're at the beach all the time there in Malibu and the Pacific
Palisades. RIP to all the buildings out
there. And yeah, I can't just go out to

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the to Pacific Palisades anymore.
Just down the beach. I guess you can go to the beach,
but there's nothing there. But there used to be this, there
was like this restaurant in the Pacific Palisades that we used
to love to go to. And not, not that we could
afford to eat a bunch there, butthey would serve on the beach
and you can order like a Coke and like a Taco, a fish Taco and

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just be out there on the beach and just hang out.
And we loved doing that on, on on the weekends.
It was important for me because I was travelling for work.
I would be gone for like a week or two at a time.
So when I came home, I would getoff that plane thinking I'm
going to take my family out something.

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If my wife wants to go shopping,we're going to go shopping Now.
It's so different. It's like, I don't want to do
nothing this weekend. Like I've been home all week.
But when we were in LA, it was fast living, man.
Every weekend we were doing something.
I went to all the museums down there, even the boring ones, the
kid ones, the, you know, the tube museum, the Discovery

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Museum, the the Peterson. Have you been to the Peterson
Museum? I don't think so, no.
The Peterson Museum is pretty awesome.
Because they they have a bunch of cars.
I highly recommend it. Even even the girls love it like
my daughter loves it. And then there's there's a car
museum in Sylmar, but that one'snot as fun.

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In 2015. Excuse me, in 2017, my wife and
I were expecting a baby boy and,and everything was going great
up until about the 4 1/2 month, five months in.
And usually they say like 5, youmake it to five months.

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It's pretty smooth after that because we, we've had trouble
having a baby up until that point.
But making it to that fifth month is supposed to be like the
huge milestone you make it to that you're just going to cruise
to 10 months. Unfortunately, we found out some

(32:46):
bad news that she had at the that she was diagnosed with the
weak cervix. So she needed to go into bed
rest. And I was fine with me.
I was like, I'm going to supportyou all the way.
You can let your company know that you you can go and leave
whatever. They were so gracious to let her

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work remote until she couldn't. So she would have to be lying
down, hips up. But it only lasted a few days
because her water broke and we rushed to the hospital.
We're exactly like 20 weeks. And they were like, you know,

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the, the, the baby's not going to make it at this point.
We need, we need to protect you.And it, it, this was one of
those instances, you know, there's, there's this argument
with the, the abortion, anti abortion fight where people that
are pro-choice are always like, well, you know, we, we, we need

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to have laws to protect the mother.
This was one of the very few cases where it was to protect
the mother. My wife was that they, all her
vitals, vitals were going crazy.And they were like, you know, we

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need to, to deliver the baby. And then I started praying and I
was like, you know, God, I, I, Idon't think that I can handle
what comes with the baby being born at 20 weeks because not to
say that the baby will have problems, but it's highly likely

(34:40):
that the baby will have problems.
So, you know, I was just talkingwith God and I'm just like, you
know, if it's your will, you know, and we can be here for as
long as we need to be here for more weeks to keep the baby in
'cause, you know, we want another child, but I need my

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wife and my son needs his mom. You know, I'm happy with my one
son. I'm so happy like, like I, I,
this doesn't need to be if, if it's if it's not in your will,
but you also know the things that I can carry and as strong
as I try to pretend to be. I don't know how strong I am to

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be able to have a a child with with special needs.
And I know I have my, my in lawsthat they're so helpful, but I
don't know that that's a burden that I want to put my wife
through and, and I want to go through.
But whatever version you will like it, it, it, if, if that's,

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if that's what happens, then then that's what happens.
And and I'm, I'm going to love my child no matter what.
I'm going to raise them in the church.
And you know how, how however things go, but save my wife and

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we were in the we're in the hospital and they're like, we we
need to deliver the baby. There's there's no, there's no
choice here. So I was like, I understand
whatever. You can do.
Say let's, let's, let's do everything we can do to save
life today. My, whether, whether it's both
my child and my wife, my wife, you know, how however, works out

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this, you know, God knows all things and, and, and whatever
needs to be done when we need tomove forward because I can't
lose both. I can't lose both today.
So, you know, we have, we, we, we go into the delivery room and

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we go through the, the delivery and the baby was born stillborn.
And I thought that was it. I was like, you know, you know,
I was trying to comfort my wife.She felt awful, just completely
devastated. And but she was really weak.
And the doctors were like comingin and out.

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And I'm like, yeah, what is going on?
Like, I get it. Like the baby was born
stillborn, but like, give us some space.
And it wasn't even like that. They, they, they didn't, they
didn't. It's like they weren't giving us
space. And I'm like, something's going
on. And the doctors are like
looking, they keep looking at her numbers and I'm like, what,
what's going on? And her doctor comes and he's

(37:41):
like, I need to talk to you out in the hallway.
And he's like telling me like, you know, your wife is, is her
numbers aren't looking good and she's going into septic shock.
We're going to move her into theICU, her Organism sitting down.
I don't know what's going on with her.
So they moved her into IC, into ICU, and we were there for a few

(38:07):
hours and then the doctors are coming in.
They're trying to figure out what's going on.
And then finally one doctor comes in, he goes, we're going
to have to put her into an induced coma because her organs
are shutting down and we just need all of her energy to
conserve life. We don't know what's going to
happen. We need you to know that you

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need to for the worst. You know, I already I already
lost my son, right? And which?
And you're you're how? How old was your your your?
You have your 14 year kid who's about to be 14 now.
How old was he at the time he was about?
Four years old. So you have a four year old.
You just lost your just had. You're stillborn and then now

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you're facing the reality of having to lose your wife.
Exactly and. And you know, having
miscarriages is hard, but when you get to that those to those
four or five months and you start to think like, oh, we're
in the clear. We're going to have the baby.
Now you start to imagine like, oh, this is how it's going to be
with this Big Brother. This is how it's going to be

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having two sons. You start to plan things out and
then and then it's all right away from you.
And at the same time, you have to comfort your wife who has to
deal with, you know, things thata woman goes through that, you

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know, not being able to give birth, even though she's already
she's already done that. I'm like, you know, don't worry,
like we already have. We already have our, our, we
already have Gabriel. I'm, you know, I love him.
He's, he's all I need. If that's all that God wants to
give us and that's all that God's going to give us, I'm
completely fine with that. Maybe later on we adopt.

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If, if you have that need, I'll support, I'll support it.
We'll we'll do that. I don't have a problem adopting.
You know it. It's, we can raise another child
if there's the need for that. But right now, I want you to
know that you this is more than enough for me.
And then and then she's then goes into an induced coma and

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they're telling me like, you know, we don't know what's going
on. We're running all the tests,
blood tests, testing this, we'rescanning that.
And this is going on days like like a week and and it's going
on. She was in.
She they put. Her in an induced coma for a
week. We were in the hospital for

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like. Three weeks before they move
until she finally, they will finally woke her up and before
they they before she came back, she they came back and they were
like, we think we figured it out.
She has an audio autoimmune disease and she's called TTPHUSI

(41:10):
think is what they called it. And all I heard was autoimmune
disease. And I'm like, what do you mean?
Like my wife has AIDS. Like like what the hell.
Classic dude. Movie.
Like no way dude. Like no, I got it.

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Is it contagious? So I'm getting all this
information. And when they walk out I'm
immediately looking it up like what the heck is this?
I'm watching videos, Ted Talks and the TGPHUS and trying to
figure out what it is. And then the doctor comes back
and he's like, OK, so here's thedeal.
We have this, this is a very unique case.

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We've never dealt with anything like this.
But there is a medicine that we can give her a treatment, but
it's very expensive. And the hospital has put an
order for it, but we're trying to work it out with the
insurance because it's really expensive.
And I'm like, dude, I'll do whatever.
Like I, I, I have a house in Fresno.
I'll sell it like whatever, whatever we need to do.

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And doctor walks out. Of course, I go right back to
the Internet to find out what's going on.
And I look up the treatment and apparently the treatment for
this is, it's, it's this, it's like a shot that you get.
They consider one, one shot a treatment.

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And I remember him saying we have 4-4 treatments on order,
but she's going to have to take treatment every single day for
the rest of her life. As soon as she starts, she has
to take it for the rest of her life.
Apparently each treatment is like several $100,000.
And I was like, when I saw the price, I was like, Oh my God.

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Apparently, like in Great Britain, the, the government,
it's really hard to get it approved, but the government
will cover it. You know, our, our, our, you
know, medical insurance isn't like that here in the United
States. So I started stressing out like,
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Like I can sell my house, but that's only going to cover like

(43:15):
a few days. It's not even going to cover a
week. So it's crazy, dude.
So the doctor comes in after like a day or two and he's like,
all right, the insurance has approved it, but we're just
doing some last things and I'm like, oh, thank God.
Like the insurance approved it. I don't know what that means for
the future for, but for right now, like, you know, my wife is

(43:37):
safe for right now. And then a few hours go by and
I'm like, man, when are they going to come back with this
treatment? Like my wife's still in a coma
and he comes back after like man, like 8 hours.
It was, it was like a long time.And he goes change of plans.
We're not going to do the treatment.

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We think we found something else, but we're, we're running
more blood tests and I'm like, dude, isn't my wife dying here?
And he's like, don't like just give us a few hours.
And then they came back like another 8 hours later.
This is already going to the next day again.
And they were like, OK, we, we found that she has a, a very

(44:23):
particular strain of E coli. It's I can't remember the name
of it now. I want to say like saying hi or
something, but it's not, it's, it's not a city in China.
She had a, a particular strain, strain of E coli.

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And he goes, we're going to put her on dialysis and
plasmaphoresis and we're going to see if that brings her back.
So I started doing it and a few days go by and they're like, her
vitals are getting better. And at this point she's like
really bloated. Like she's like 2 twice as as as

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big as as her normal size is because she's got so many fluids
going in her. Really.
Yeah, man. She got really big.
And I mean, keep in mind she's really pregnant.
Oh yeah, Yeah, that's true. Damn.
She's really pregnant, so so. Normally I feel.
Like when normally when people get put into an an induced coma,

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they lose a lot of weight on it 'cause they're only receiving
what they need, you know? But you have that.
I forgot about that. She was pregnant, gave birth,
her body didn't really have the time to recover post birth
recovery. And you just get putting in that
probably had some huge impact onher.
Yeah, that was a lot. It was a lot going on.

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And so they said her vitals weregetting better.
And then one day she just like woke up and she's got the
breathing tube in her and she wants like, she wants to tear it
out and they go grab her arms. They have to tear it down.
Her eyes are like really bloodshot, like red, like like,

(46:08):
like all the white is just red. I mean it, I mean, if if it
wasn't my wife, it it would lookcompletely scary, like a like a
horror movie. And, you know, she's been in a
in a coma for, for, for days anddays and days and days.
So she hasn't been able to take a shower And, and you know, I

(46:34):
it, it was just, yeah, it was not good.
And you know, she's, she woke up, she's freaking out and they
get her to go back to sleep. And they were like, man, that
was, that was really good. She woke up.
So they took out the no, they didn't take out the breathing
tube. They waited for her to wake up

(46:56):
again and they had to explain toher like, look, you've been in a
coma for, for X amount of days. You went into septic shock.
Your, your, some of your organs are coming back, but your
kidneys haven't come back. And that's a major concern
because it's not filtering your blood.

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And you have a, you, you have anissue with your blood, you know,
and they're explaining to us herblood is, it's, it's not, it's,
it's running too thin. So it's not coagulating or, or
whatever they called it. You know, they're given all

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these statistics and they're like, it's, it's, it's not good.
The, the, the plasmapheresis is helping.
But it's, it's still like we're,we're, we're working on this.
You can see it like with her, her blood vessels on her skin,
all those little red spots. That's because the the the blood
is coming through those vessels because it's too thin and so

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they're running. They're they're running.
The plasmapheresis for for more days and she starts to get
better and, and, and thank God they were able to save her life.
And after that she went to dialysis and plasmapheresis for
a few weeks. She was really weak.
It was a long recovery, but thatwas hard, man.

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We, we, we, we lost the baby. And when she woke up, she had to
deal with what I had already been dealing with on my own was
the loss of the baby. And you know, I'm going to, I
was going to work because I still have a son, right?
Like I still have to provide. I was going to work.

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And everybody at work is like, you should just like, and I'm
like, no, you don't understand. Like my wife's in a coma.
Like I'm just sitting in a hospital depressed.
Like I can work. I, I can work.
It gets my mind off of things. My father in

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Like I need to work. So I was, I was working and
yeah, man, once once she came out of it, it was, it was a hard
time just to like again, talkingto her.
Like, you know, I'm happy with, with my son.

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I, you know, I have a lot of, I've had a lot of time to, to
think about this. They had given us a, a box of
like photos and footprints and stuff.
And we've, we've never opened it.
Yeah, we've never opened it. It, it was too hard for her to,
to deal with that. And I, I put it away and, and,

(49:59):
and she, I, I, I, I think she's probably forgotten about it.
But yeah, man, it, it was, it was hard to get past that.
That's crazy, dude. And.
Now we have twins, 'cause. I I bet people are thinking
like, well, but don't you have younger kids?
Yeah, man, I do have, I do have younger kids.

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So after all that traumatic stuff, we decided to move back
to Sacramento. That's that's where we're from.
Like we, we spent some time living in Fresno.
My in laws were like, you know, we're moving back to Fresno.
It's too expensive in Los Angeles.
And my wife and I were like, oh,we can't not, not that we can't

(50:43):
afford it, but it's, it's going to be really hard to have our
son here in Los Angeles. We're working in Woodland Hills
and you're traveling. You know, you can be in New York
this week. You can be in Florida next week.
You can be in Mexico. And it's just me having to drive

(51:05):
the 45 minutes if he gets a stomach ache at school and like,
it doesn't, it doesn't work. So we decided to move to the
Folsom area up near, I'm not sure if you know where Folsom is
at, but it's in between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.
Yeah, my my wife is from. Sacramento, OK, Yeah.

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Yeah, so we, we moved out there for, for a while and my, my
family, they're they're all active and young and moving
around and my parents work, livevery busy lifestyles.
And when we do get together and all the family comes together,

(51:50):
it's a ruckus, man. Start thinking, people start
fighting. My wife is like, I can't raise
my son around this. Like I, I forgot how your family
was when before we moved out of Sacramento.
And I was like, yeah, I, I haven't forgotten.
This is why when my mom's like, oh, so and so invited us to

(52:12):
quinceanera or a wedding, I'm like, I'm good.
Yeah, I, I'm, I'm all right. I, I don't want to deal with
that. And my voice always like, but I
love weddings. I'm like Nope, no, not this one.
Not this one. When you find out who fought,
who got a little too drunk, who was running around naked, just

(52:34):
like weird stuff, like just complete dysfunction.
Yo, let me, let me ask. You though, so like after that,
how, how long was it before you guys got pregnant again?
Because I'm sure that that was like there was like this
lingering fear that both of you kind of dealt with.
Oh, complete. Fear.
So I thought, I thought, 'cause when I talked to her

(52:59):
gynecologist, when we made the decision to, for, to give birth
to the, the son that we lost, the way he explained it to me
was that they were going to remove her.
Oh, they were probably going to have to remove her ovaries or
cervix. I can't remember.

(53:20):
I don't know the, the, the female parts.
I mean, I did biology. I, I, I promise you I had a good
grade in that class, but I don'tremember.
I I no, I'm the same way dude. I'm the same way.
You know, when, when, when we have the deal with the with,
with our wives giving birth and stuff, You know what I mean?
Like, I mean, with the exceptionof what you had to go through,

(53:41):
'cause that's, that's wild, bro.But that little couch that they
give us to just sit there and wait, bro, nobody talks about
how uncomfortable that couch is.You know what I mean?
That little crappy blue couch, Dude, come on, man.
It's kind of tricky. You make it look like a
recliner. I'm just, I'm just teasing.
Yo, OK, what about this? I'm I'm interested to know this.

(54:02):
What did your when your wife came back fully and you had your
first conversation with her, What did she remember?
And also did she ever talk abouther experience through the
through being under like did didshe experience anything like,
you know what I mean? Like what is I don't know if if

(54:23):
if you're willing to share that information.
Yeah. So she does remember going to
hospital when when she broke her, when her water broke, Yeah.
She remembers getting. Rolled up to the room, but I
don't think she remembers much after that.

(54:45):
She does. So I asked her, like, do you
remember anything when you were under?
Like did you have any nightmares?
Did you have any dreams? And she goes, the way she
explained it, she goes, I, I, I don't remember a lot, but I do
remember like everything, everything being black and and

(55:06):
void. And then suddenly I was like
surrounded by angels and we wereall singing and, and my, and my
wife sings at church. She's the musicians.

(55:27):
She's the musician director at church.
She plays the piano. But she was like, it was, it was
completely different. Like, I mean, just the, the, the
level of sinking and the, and the happiness and the joy.
And I was like, and that kind ofhurt me.
I was like, wow, so you were having a good time, huh?

(55:51):
I was, you know, I was, I was going to work.
And then from work I was, I'm sitting like, how dare you.
Crying. How dare you sing with the
angels? Yeah, well, you leave me here
with this stress. Yeah, I'm.
I'm driving, listening. To The Beatles like yesterday.
And I'm like, oh, we'll see so far, you know, And yeah, no,

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I'm, I'm kidding. I, I didn't get under about
that. But it was, it was amazing to,
to hear that. Because when it's funny, because
when I had my accident, I also had like really vivid dreams.
I can't really explain all of hers.
I remember that one. But I, I, I can't explain mine.

(56:35):
I so my, my first night, I, I couldn't sleep in the hospital.
Nobody. Who the heck can sleep in a
hospital unless you're in a freaking coma, I guess.
But when I got home the first time I fell asleep, I was having
this dream and I've had I had this dream.
I've had this dream a few times in the last few months.

(56:58):
And, and you prophetical translators out there, feel free
to message me on what the heck it means.
So I've had, I've had this dreamin, in the past few months where
I was in this really big house and multiple level home, like
3-4 stories. And I remember the first time I

(57:18):
had this dream, my father-in-lawwho has passed away and he
passed away in 2020. He, he came out and I remember
thinking like, oh, what's my father-in-law doing here?
And he goes, look, you're in this house, but I need you to

(57:38):
know that there's an entity here.
But I have I've trapped it on the top floor.
Don't let the kids go up there. Don't go up there when soon as
you can leave this house, leave this house.
And I don't completely remember that dream, but I do remember we

(58:03):
were all looking for my for my son, Gabriel, my oldest son.
And I was like running outside. And it was almost like I was out
in the in the hills, like in Plaster County and or El Dorado
County, where we were living before when we moved up to near

(58:24):
Sacramento. And it was like forest and there
was like this huge porch wrappedaround the whole house.
I remember running on the porch looking for my son.
And that's all I remember from the dream.
But when I came back from the hospital in this accident, I was
having this dream. I was having a dream in the same

(58:45):
house, the same house where I'vehad multiple dreams in.
And I was in the room with my younger son and a spirit that
like his blanket started liftingup and immediately I was like,

(59:07):
Oh, no, And my son wasn't payingattention.
And I was like, Johnny, watch out.
And I started praying. I'm like praying.
I was rebuking this spirit that wasn't in the room and I knew
where I was. I knew I was in that house.
And I mean, I was praying hard. I I, I, you know, I was like,

(59:28):
you know, I telling it's got to leave in Jesus name.
I mean, I was just, I was going in and then finally it just
stopped. And then I turned in the corner
of my eye, I can see my, I can see my daughter run up.
Like I think she got scared and started running up And I was

(59:50):
like, I immediately I was like, she's not supposed to go
upstairs. Like they're not supposed to go
upstairs. So I started running after her
and I started running up and suddenly like the stairs were
broken, but she was up, she wentup and I'm like looking around.
And the center of this house, it's like, it's, it's like one
of those houses, like an old house where the stairs are in

(01:00:11):
the middle of the house and it'slike a square and you can like
look up and you can see up, up, up on the next floor, but the
stairs are broken. So I was like, man, I got to get
up there. So I, I, I had to like get up on
the stair and like jump up and pull myself up.
Not crazy. I'm a big guy, but I can do pull
ups. Not any, not anymore next year

(01:00:34):
probably. But I, I pulled myself up and
I'm like running around looking for her.
And I, I ran in this room and there was like a chair like like
like this chair, but bigger. And I can see my daughter's feet
and I started yelling out for her.
And and that's when I like, immediately I, I woke up and my

(01:00:58):
son was standing in front of me.My older son, Gabriel, he's
like, what? I'm like, what do you mean?
What, what's going on? He's like, you were yelling my
name. And I'm like, I wasn't yelling
your name. And my wife's like, he wasn't
yelling for you. He was yelling for your sister.
And I was like, immediately I was like, oh, like, you heard,

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you heard me. She's like, yeah, you were
praying and, and like rebuking something and I was like, oh,
you like, you can hear me. I I was like deep in sleep.
And she's like, yeah, you were having some kind of nightmare.
I don't know what the heck's going on, but you're scared on
the kids. That's.
Wild man, I I called up my my. Brother-in-law who's also my

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pastor and I, I, I told him whatwas going on and yeah, you, you,
you people that can translate dreams.
Let me know, man, what's going on.
It it it was a it was a weird one.
It was weird. I I, I I think there's sometimes

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there's purpose behind dreams, especially when you keep having
the same one over and over. And yeah, I mean, I got AI got a
big house, but not like that one.
Yeah, yeah, that one was like, yeah.
Not it's, it's. Funny man, I I agree.
I think that, you know, the, theworld, the universe, it's so

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weird, man. Like, you know, I've been, I,
I've, I've talked about it recently, but, you know, I've,
we've gone to church and, you know, I pray everyday and I've
really been working on my relationship with God.
And it's just interesting, you know, I, I had a personal
experience where at this point, it's just hard to deny that God

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is real and he exists and he's here for us.
You know, but it's funny, like people like Elon Musk, how he
says like it's more than likely that we live in a virtual
reality. It's like you got a funny way of
saying you believe in God, man. Yeah.
You know, like, yeah, where thisis a virtual reality.
Yeah, it's God's virtual reality, you know what I mean?

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So, yeah, I mean, everything happens for a reason.
If you keep having these dreams in this house, it's got to mean
something, right? I'm sure somebody out there can
can kind of break it down. We had somebody come to the
church. And he in, in the past, he has
prophesied over me. And he, he, it was probably like

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a year ago he came to the churchand he was, he told me like,
man, I, I, I see you. And I don't know why, man.
I just, I just for some reason, I, I, I see you moving
somewhere, but you're like around like big people, like,

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like people that make laws, people that, people that control
stuff like the city, like, I don't know if they're like
mayors or something, but I'm seeing this and, and I don't
know, man, I'm just letting you know, like I, I, I, I, I don't
know if, if, if you're, you're planning on getting a new job

(01:04:19):
or, or, or making some kind of move or something, but
something's coming. Just be ready for it and then
like. A.
Couple like not even a week later at work, my boss was like,
he comes and talks to me. He's like, hey, we're looking at
this office in downtown, we needto see if it can work for us.

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So I look it up and we've since moved in there, but I'm I'm
looking it up and I'm like, well, what's around it?
And it's in the same building building as the Administration
of Social Security. It's the city of Fresno,
Homeland Security and ICE is in there.

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The congressman has an office there.
The ATF is, is there next door. The federal courthouse is, is
right next door. The Superior Court of, of
California's there. The County Courthouse is, is
right there. And I was like, man, that's
crazy. That's that, that would be crazy

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if that happens like that. He said that and here we are.
And we made that. We, we have made that move.
We, we moved in in July and early July to, to this building.
But he also had, he had come back a, a month or two ago and
he was like, man, I don't know if you're going to, you're going

(01:05:51):
to get like a big house or something if you're making a
move. But I, I just keep seeing you
in, in, in this really big houseAnd I, I don't know, I, I, I,
I'm, I'm just seeing you in thisbig house.
And when I woke up from that dream, all I can think about was
like, that was that big house and there's something about it.

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So I should probably reach out to him and, and talk to him
about it and see what he thinks.Because, you know, I, I never
put too much into like prophecies and, and, and this
and that. I just read about it in the
Bible and I'm not discrediting it.
I believe it, right? I believe what I read in the
Bible, but to say like, oh, there's prophets that walk

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today. I I never really believed that
until now. It how with dealing with, with
with these people, I feel like my, my faith has opened up in,
in directions that I never wouldhave even dreamed of 10, five

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years ago. Yeah, yeah, man, it's, it's a
it's a lot going on in this country, a lot going on in this
country and in the in the aspectof faith, yeah, I.
Agree, man. And you know, it's just
interesting. It seems like you've been
through a lot and I think that, you know, God puts hardship in
our way to kind of make us stronger and prepare, you know,

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and you know, I appreciate you sharing everything, man, that
shit. I, I really wasn't sure what we
were going to talk about, you know, and then like, you know,
it got it got intense, man. That's, that's, that would be my
nightmare. What you experienced, you know,
with your wife and stuff. And, you know, thank God she's
OK. And, you know, and I'm sure it's

(01:07:42):
made your, your guys's relationship and love for each
other even stronger, you know, and then on top of you just
recently had an accident, you know what I mean?
And it's like, you know, everything happens for a reason,
dude. And I really appreciate you
sharing all that, dude. We're getting, we're getting
close to the end here, man. You know, I don't know, what do

(01:08:04):
you got? Give us some, give us a, a, a
closing message for the listeners and tell them where
they can find you at, dude. Well, I I appreciate.
The the chance to be selfish here.
So I again, my name is Jio. I'm part of the don't Mind don't

(01:08:24):
Mind us podcast. We are part of the lead network,
which is a network of multiple independent podcasts that work
together to try to grow. We all, we, we collaborate, we
share resources, share tips and and plans and we even make these

(01:08:45):
clips that seem to be going viral.
People recognize us out there inthe streets when we go out to
like political events are like, Oh, you guys are those guys that
make those clips. So it's really awesome to work
with people that not that we areall, I'd like to say like
minded, but not that we all agree 100% on everything.

(01:09:08):
You know, we're all independent thinkers, We all think freely,
but we're able to get together and, and share this, this group,
right? This, this organization and
we're all trying to grow together.
I, I, I got to plug everybody right now.

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Daniel, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead, do it.
Mondays we have California. Unfiltered at 7:00 Tuesday is
don't mind us at 7:00. That's my show with my my buddy
Christian where we talk about all kinds of fun political
stuff, but we try to make light of it.
We try to find a way to make light of it.
Sometimes it's hard to with politics, though, sometimes

(01:09:49):
things that are going on, it's hard to to laugh at.
But if, if we can find a way to do it, we're going to find a way
to do it. And then the Wednesday nights is
Latino free minds. It's a little bit more of a a
structure. It's a lot more of a structure
in in the political realm. They focus a lot on in in

(01:10:11):
politics and trying to educate people in, in things that are
going on. They like to focus big on local
politics, not necessarily just where they live in Fresno or in
the Bay Area, but they also focus on other places in
California. They talk to local politicians,

(01:10:31):
Congressman, they have a lot of people on.
They've talked to governor candidates.
They've talked to congressional candidates.
That's a fun show. Wednesday's at 7.
Thursday's is the Spanish Day. Thursday is, is first is
Calimente Libre with Karina Powers and she's out on the

(01:10:53):
Central Coast of California and she talks about things that are
going on in Congress, things bills that are moving.
She's just trying to educate thethe just the normal person in
Spanish. It's it's a lot like a Latino
free minds, but it's in Spanish.And then the hour after that,

(01:11:13):
8:00 is La Patria. And that's an awesome show.
Alfred is always having some cool guests on there.
And then Friday it's Daniel point blank truth.
And man, I, I, I have to say that I, I, I love your show
because it gives me it. It shows me the side of

(01:11:35):
education that I almost am I'm blind to right.
When you have, when you talk about things that are going on,
these are things that are going on in school boards all over
California, really all over the country.
I, I think, I think you made a comment last week like, you

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know, these things happen in other states too.
It's just that everybody loves to laugh and make fun of
California. So it's it the these battles
that are going on with you guys,you guys come out and talk about
things and I'm like, oh man, we use those.
We use those things that my kidsschool too, like how come I'm

(01:12:18):
not paying it? I didn't realize that I signed
off on this. And what if I clever or I ready
or whatever these programs are using their information away to
who were they giving their information away to?
You got to make money somehow. And and you know, you talk about
the decisions that they're making.
The it's, it's just man, or evenlike even like.

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Right now, like the big controversy with us, it's like
this isn't just in Temecula. Every state this is going on
where it is legal for for a trans girl to go into the locker
room with our daughters and shower with our daughters if
they wanted to. And what could be happening in
your? What's that?
You talked about a loophole last.

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Week on how to protect your daughter Yeah, you know, a lot
of. Conservatives aren't happy about
it, but it just, it just is whatit is, you know, because the
loophole is that there's already, we already have privacy
rights to privacy as individuals.
So there is a way for you to go to your district or to your
individual principal, your individual school and say, hey,

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my daughter's not comfortable. She has a right to privacy.
You guys need to accommodate her.
There's a document, man. I'm forgetting the person's
name. If anybody's interested just
reach out to me. But there is a document that is
already tailored for California.It fits it like literally you.
You can print the document, you can get it for free.

(01:13:46):
I went to the the legal. I forgot the the name of the of
the company, but it's some, somelawyer firm in California.
I went to their website and I tried to find it and I couldn't
click it. So I called them and they
actually emailed me the document.
So you guys can reach out to me.You can reach out to them if you

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have any questions. But it's just a document.
It's a right to privacy document.
And you give that to your principal and they have to
accommodate you. And a lot of conservatives are
upset because their argument is that, you know, no, our
daughters don't have to leave the bathroom.
It should be the transgender student that needs to be
accommodated. And while I, I do agree with

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that, we have to address the things that we can do right now,
like in Temecula, it's it's a big thing.
At one of our middle schools, atour last school board, some
girls came and spoke and they said there's a boy changing, a
biological boy changing with us.We don't want to fill out a
mental health accommodation or claim to be super religious for
our right to privacy to be respected.

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And that's legit. You know what I mean?
So yeah, that's what we, we try to do over here.
It seems like a weird. Loophole to get out of an issue
that should just be taken care of.
But it the reality is we need towe really do need to protect our
Potters, right yeah, and sons too because you don't you really

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don't want it to be the other way around either like I don't
want my son to be in a in a locker room with with a strong
girl you know right, right. Or or even.
And dude, I, my inbox is always full with local people, people
who TuneIn, people who are left-leaning, right leaning,
like, you know, I've, I've, I feel like I've developed a good

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reputation in my area. There's a lot of things that I
don't talk about or touch on just because it's like, you
know, I kind of don't want to godown that rabbit hole without
any more information. But I recently had somebody
reach out to me who's a staff member in our district that was
like, hey, what about the staff members that don't want to have
to deal with that? Like what for example, what

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about the male PE teacher that has to deal with, like what you
said, like a trans boy in the locker room?
He doesn't want to see lady parts, you know, or vice versa.
It's like, yeah, they, they. Have they have?
Right. Exactly.
Like, think, dude, I think aboutthat.
It's like it's not just lady parts, it's just child, child
lady parts that you're exposing these adults.

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You put me in a weird position. Yeah, I don't want to see that,
you know? So, yeah, but this is just
what's going on in California right now.
Temecula's got the limelight 'cause our school board tried to
come up with their own way to deal with it and they, they
weren't really listening to everybody's opinion on it.
Like, hey, a mental health waiver, that's ridiculous.

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A religious accommodation, that's ridiculous.
There's a right to privacy already, isn't there?
So now we're in the limelight. But this is a reality for every
Californian and, you know, and other states could be happening
at your school and the, the, thestaff members are just telling
your students to be hush, hush, don't say anything.
Like, don't be a bigot. For all you know, your, your

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daughter can be already dealing with this and basically being
bullied into like, don't be ridiculous.
That's a girl. Just accept it.
You know what I mean? So yeah, it's, it's important
for us to step up and be involved in school board
specifically. And that's kind of where we
started with this. So, yeah.
And and be aware that. The that the document exists and

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I know that there's going to be a lot of people out there like,
oh man, you're just bent into what they want you to do.
You know what, think about this.You're going to want to protect
your kids first, even if it's, if it means right now that your
daughter or your son has to change in their own private area
so that they're not exposed to something that they shouldn't be

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exposed to because it it's happening like my, my, my oldest
son, he's going to be 14 Now he's going in.
He's he's in the eighth grade. But when he was in the third,
third grade, we got a notice that there that from this, from
his school that there was going to be a trans individual in his

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classroom like a, like a child. And I was like, dude, they're
third grade. That means that they're like 9
years old. What the heck do they know?
What do you know about what you want to be and what you're
supposed to like? You don't like, Oh man, you just
want to go to the parents and punch them in the face and, and
you know, and, and it's. Interesting man is because the
the other thing that I try to tell parents also because what I

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experienced a lot in Temecula isparents jump to the conclusions
and like we've had some weird situations and then we've had
some situations that are questionable.
But then it was like it was really nothing and it was a
parent that jumped to conclusions.
We can't just be the dad that goes to the school board and is
yelling on the microphone, but then we don't even know the
teachers names. Like there is a process.

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If you see something you don't like, address it with the
teacher. You know, I think a lot of
parents, there's another side tothis is a lot of parents are
afraid to say something to the teacher and then they're just
emailing school board members and superintendents nasty
emails. And it's like, dude, make your
presence known. These are our children, right?
Like if I have a teacher that has like, let's say I go to a

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classroom and a teacher has a poster on the wall that's like
pro LGBTQ or whatever, you know what I mean?
Like I'm going to ask for a meeting with that teacher.
I'm going to make sure that it'sunderstood.
Like, hey, I just want to know where you, why you feel like you
have that? Are you just supportive?
Is it something that you teach? Is it part of your curriculum?

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I want to know 'cause you have aright, you have a right to
freedom of speech. And I'm not trying to change
your mind or tell you have to take it down.
But I also have a right to decide which adults are spending
time around my children. And we have to make our presence
known. I mean, that's the only way to
do it. We have to learn how to live
with people that has have these different views.
You know, I don't think that they need to be kicked out of

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the district. Just like, like I'm not going
anywhere. We have to learn how to coexist.
And I'll respect your boundariesas long as you respect mine.
But we have to break that threshold.
We have to have the balls to step up and say something.
You know, we don't just, we can't just e-mail the
Superintendent about something we've seen, you know, reach out
to the teacher. If that doesn't work, reach out
to the principal. If that doesn't work, that's

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when the e-mail goes to the Superintendent.
But you know, a lot of people doit backwards because they're
afraid to. Offend somebody or you know what
I mean they're scared they just want to hide behind school board
members to make decisions for usand like it don't work like
that, you know, like the right to privacy the principal needs
to accommodate you. You know what I mean this
doesn't have to be national newsreach a lot of these a lot of

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these teachers and these principals.
There's a lot of them that do have the same beliefs that I
have that you have, that we have, you know what I mean?
And and there's this weird culture where California's
created where it's like parents against teachers.
And it shouldn't be like that. And we're the ones that have to
make sure that we we, we break, we break the chains of that

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dynamic, you know what I mean? So yeah, dude, I appreciate you,
man. Thank you so much for coming on,
man. And yeah, we'll just keep
pushing, bro. Exactly.
I. Appreciate you having me on.
Yeah, man, of course. We'll see you guys later.
Thank you for tuning in. God bless.

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