KCAA: The Empire Talks Back with Wallace Allen (Sun, 6 Jul, 2025)

KCAA: The Empire Talks Back with Wallace Allen on Sun, 6 Jul, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
NBC News Radio. I'm Lisa Carton. At least fifty nine
people are confirmed dead following severe flooding in central Texas.
Kerr County Sheriff Larry Litha revised the death toll at
this morning's news conference. The sheriff noted search and recovery
efforts are continuing for the missing victims, which include eleven
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rain could make rescue efforts tougher that.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Water starts to rise again. I know that there hundreds
and hundreds of folks out.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
There who are searching, and hopefully their efforts will bear fruit.

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dating flooding of the Guadalupe River. The Pope specifically noted
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Speaker 2 (07:51):
Stop. Oh yeah, Sometimes do we need to be stopped.
I'm telling you, this is Empire Talks back on Wallace
Allen here on the case for truth and justice with
the right information to help improve the situation. Folks, there
are some things sometimes when we do need to be stopped.
I've just gotta say it. The fireworks deal is out

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of pocket, out of hand, just insane. How can you
be standing up on the mountain in the brush, setting
off firecrackers, setting off rockets, setting your neighbors house, setting
feels on fire. This is California. I don't know where
you think you live, but if you live in California,
you got no dog gun business. Shooting off fireworks, firecrackers, fireworks,

(08:36):
rockets that don't make any dog gun sense. Bombs for
playing with dynamite, what kind of sense does that make?
I mean, unless your name is I'm not gonna go there. Okay,
but there are people who love to see you act
the food, love to see you do stuff that destroys yourself,
love to see you do things that allow them to say, well,

(08:59):
you know them people in California, you're crazy. We need
to send the army out there to take charge of them,
because they don't know how to take charge of themselves.
We have people who are protesting an honest situation, honest
protest against this immigration killer thing that they're doing with ice.
Honest this is you have people who've been here all

(09:20):
of their lives, all of their lives, and now somebody says, well,
you're illegal, and now you turn the military loose on them,
running up and down the street, arresting people, destroying families.
Just got Would you go to work? Would you go

(09:40):
out and go get groceries if you knew that the
guys who are out there lurking, hiding behind signs to
come and get you. Doesn't make any sense, doesn't make
any sense at all. Now, why are they doing that, Well,
they're doing that to protect, to protect what are they
trying to protect. I'd like to make it simple and

(10:03):
say they're just trying to protect white supremacy, But it's
not just that, because there's only a few people who
understand the whole program of white supremacy. Other people have
been talked into it because they have such a great
con man, a great liar up front. You have destroyed that.
This is why people are out there blowing. This is
why people are out there standing in the middle of

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the dry grass setting off rockets because they have been
told that everything is fake. They've been told that no
matter what they do, it doesn't really matter because it's fake.
It is not fake. Life is real. What you do
is real. You have no business ignoring your little voice

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that says, nah, I don't do that. You know you
got that little voice. I know you do. Everybody does,
but you ignore it. Now you've been talked into believing
that it's okay to just lie. If you just lie
and tell the lie over and over and over again,
people are gonna believe it, and they do. This is
how crazy we are. There's a woman running for Congress,

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in running for a house representative in the state of
Georgia that says, all of these floods that we're looking
at right now, people dying in Texas, another MAGA state,
and she says it's fake folks. Nothing common about common sense,
but there is something common about spirituality and understanding what's

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really going on. You have a little voice, You have
an idea of what's right and what's wrong. You were
brought up in America. You have an idea of what's
right and what's wrong. You may not believe it all,
but you at least have an idea that men are
created equal enough to have access to equal opportunity, that

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women are not your objects of sexuality, and for you,
as a man, to do whatever you want to do.
You know that life is not a p D D
P diddy freak out. It's not. It's a thing of

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responsible potential. It's not guaranteed, but the potential. And that's
what we have to live for. We have to live
for what we see as as as righteousness. We have
to live for what we see as something that if
if I give it to you, then I should be
okay with you giving it to me. You get what

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you give, hopefully, and and and and you won't necessarily
live to see justice take place. God is the only
one that will get around to seeing everything actually fall
in place. So we as we see these absences of justice,

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these absences of common sense, these absences of people acting
in a real compassionate way with each other. It creates
the opportunity. It creates an opportunity for you to show
the difference between you at your best and you at

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your worst. Now we have an opportunity to take care
of each other. We have an opportunity I think a
bit of a responsibility that if you've got children, and
I think is important. You know, once people have children,
they tend to kind of smooth out because they realize
that there's something else on the planet to love besides themselves.

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And by doing the right thing with yourself, you can
express that love and expect to see a flower grow
in your child. And you don't want your beautiful child
flower to be spoiled by some cactus thorn occupying the
circumstances being raised across the street. So that means you

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need to help raise that child across the street. You
need to set an atmosphere that's going to work for
everybody in the sense that you're okay getting what you give.
If you give evil, If you give evil, what do
you expect to get back? If you give doubt and fear,

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what do you expect to get back. What is the
point and purpose of trying to intimidate and scare the
rest of the world, or try to slick them and
cheat them. What do you get out of that? Well,
what you get out of that isn't something that you want.
I know a man who lived a lie. Now he's

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afraid to die. He traded his soul so for a
bucket of gold. Now his soul wants to know why.
He cheated his friends for the sake of a dime.
Felt no pain at all, But now the devil has
come to claim his soul, and he feels so damn small.

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But there's no place to run, no place to hide.
The devil is on his trail, no place to turn,
to find a kind word that could help to pay
his bill. It's a dog on shamans. It makes me
want to cry. Friend of mine traded his soul for gold.
Now he's afraid to die. Now you just might be

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confronted one day with the choice that's hard to make.
But if it's a question of your soul for gold,
I hope you know which one to take. Don't trade
your soul for gold, my friend. The price will never
be right, not enough for you to cast away your
soul to endless night. Don't trade your soul for gold,

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my friend, the price will never be right. Don't trade
your soul for ignorance, don't trade your soul for false power, faking.
It's too easy to be good, it's too easy to
step forward and help people. I've got a couple of
folks in here today that that's what they do. I've

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got a gentleman in here today that has invented and
patented a fertilizer that will help to make your garden grow.
I've got another gentleman in here today that once your
garden is growing and you find out it isn't growing,
he's gonna help feed you anyway. So I've got two

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people in here who feed you food for your body.
And as we do that, I want you to understand
it's really important to eat the type of attitude that
will feed your soul so that you will really be
able to not only help yourself, could help others. Now,
if you've got a garden, if you're growing anything, I

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guess there's those those little what's that little plant that
once you plan it that it looks like a cucumber squash.
Once you plan a squash. Those things, man, those things, understand,
they just grow. Anybody's growing a squash is growing more
squash than they can eat. Now, I mean that's a fact.

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If you want to make friends, grow some squash and
just take the extra squash up and down the street,
because you're going to have extra squash. But I'd like
to introduce mister Anthony Vasquez. Anthony, how are you doing
this morning?

Speaker 10 (17:49):
I'm doing good. I'm honored to be here on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
God is great. I'm grateful to have you here with us.
We have mister Michael Grissom.

Speaker 12 (17:58):
Mister Grissom, how are you This Absolutely fantastic, very good.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I wanted it to be here, honored to have you,
really honored to have you both of us, gentlemen in
the food business. I'm not gonna, as you could see,
I could talk all day.

Speaker 10 (18:13):
And I can listen all day to it long day long.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
But I'm blessed to have two people who are very
passionate about the things that they do. And Anthony, i'd
like for you to tell us a little bit about
yourself and what you do, and we'll do the same
thing with mister grisson.

Speaker 10 (18:31):
Well, just a couple things about myself. I've been in
the food business, especially agriculture farming for about fifteen years,
quiet as spoken, haven't really said much. At some point
I realized the value of a food, the value of
a seed, and that's something you can't deny. Interesting enough,

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I was convinced that I'll never turn back. When the
first plant came and there's a heart harvest, but then
there's a seeding process and sometimes you're not sure of
which which one comes first.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
It was like two harvests there you go so.

Speaker 10 (19:07):
Too guaranteed harvests, and when the seeds came, that one
plant that was maybe two dollars turned into almost two hundred.
And that's the moment I knew that we have so
much to give, that it's a new lifestyle ahead of me.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Hold it, I got interrupted. So you're telling me that
planting food gives you an opportunity to plant more food
because of the seeds that the food that you planted creates.
So if you had only one seed in the beginning,
and you properly planted it and fertilized it and it grew,

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that that one seed and that plant that it created
would make more seeds, maybe maybe two or three more.

Speaker 10 (19:53):
No, hundreds, thousands more just by the care of that
one plant.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
You mean, the extra plants that you grow from that
second set of seeds may make it be thousands, But
that first plant will give you some seeds maybe fifty, no, no,
one hundred, No.

Speaker 10 (20:12):
Normally the first round is about four hundred to five
hundred seeds.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
So if you were actually harvesting those seeds.

Speaker 10 (20:20):
As instead of just the food, because there's two harvests.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Correct, Okay, So okay, I'm gonna let it go. You
keep talking.

Speaker 10 (20:31):
That's when I realized that food is something you can't deny.
It's something that has a specific value. So for everyone
out there who's taking that one plant and taking the
seeds from the plant, they've counted how many seeds they've received.
At some point, you really loved that plant. You gave
everything that you needed for that plant, and that harvest

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is a dual benefit. But when you get to the
point where you're starting to enjoy seeds, you realize you
can plant and sow seeds everywhere, and that was the benefit.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Man. So if I'm up here on my little corner
and I plant some tomatoes, and you plant some yams
and you plant some collar greens and bladils, plant.

Speaker 10 (21:13):
Some basil, bell peppers, lettuce, spinach.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
So ten or twelve of us could have a passion
about our own little fruit. Correct, And because it's ten
or twelve of us, we could actually quickly have more
fruit and food than we could eat, and between ourselves
we could trade food and have a wider variety of

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food correct to eat.

Speaker 10 (21:43):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
So it really makes sense to know your next door
neighbor very much. So it even makes sense to go
buy a plant and give it to your next door
neighbor as a gift, as a gift and tell you
know so, I mean, this is.

Speaker 10 (21:59):
The power of loving plants.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Power of loving a plant and paying attention to your
neighbor could take a lot of pressure off of us
and build a better community. But we don't have time
for that. How are we going to do all of that?

Speaker 10 (22:13):
But all the way the world works, Yeah, time is something.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
But we can figure out how to make that work.
And I think that's part of part of your program
is that you know you're you're talking about growing plants
not in a big old backyard but in a in
a five gallon.

Speaker 10 (22:30):
Small little bucket. That way you can have some success
and you can look forward to just like we grow,
that plant can grow, and we could take it away
and put it in a better place, but you can
utilize that plant for a year, sometimes a year and
a half just because it's it's safe, it's secure. And

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that's the benefit of just that five gallon bucket versus
the little small plant, little thing you buy in the store.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Very good. So the concept of it, vegetable nursery comes alive,
comes alive where you're able to establish a nursery. And
I'm saying you, but I'm thinking about me correct and
I'm thinking about those other folks out there who have
an attitude that says, wow, I could do this.

Speaker 10 (23:20):
I can now.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Everybody's not gonna you know, but those of you who
say I could do this, I want you to do
something now. I want you to write my phone number
down nine O nine nine one five seven nine two two,
not because you're promising that you're gonna do it, but
because you're thinking about thinking, maybe I could grow some
food and participate in this vegetable nursery project.

Speaker 10 (23:45):
With one hundred percent support, with support, and that's what
we really.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Didn't nine O nine nine one five seven nine two
two and leave a message. I will call you back.
Now that's just a little introduction of what we do there. Now,
mister Grissom, Yes, if you knew where there was a
group of where there was a vegetable nursery, several vegetable

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nurseries that were growing more food than the people could eat,
what would that do for your Well, introduce yourself and
what and tell us what you do, and let's see
how it fits into your lifestyle.

Speaker 13 (24:28):
Well, I would say that, would it happened?

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Wait a minute, you're trying to get my job. Listen
to this man's voice. Would you listen to his voice? Well,
I'm mister Grissom. We're gonna talk to you about your
radio show. Okay, man, listen to him. I love that.

Speaker 12 (24:45):
What would happen is that I would get excited and
a lot of communities would get excited. Because we currently
feed all over Los Angeles, starting Lancaster, Riverside, San Bernardino.
We also say food to Las Vegas. We have done
events up in Oakland and Chinatown, and we are currently

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working on a beautiful plan to help orphanages all over
the country.

Speaker 13 (25:14):
And we're able to do that because.

Speaker 12 (25:17):
Once we find good food and I'm not talking about
someone's trash, I'm talking about some food that is at
first class premium. We want to get that food into
the houses of seniors, and we want to get that
into the arms of families that are large families that

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just can't afford to go in the grocery store.

Speaker 13 (25:42):
Have you been in the grocery store lately?

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Missed the other day to get out of the sun
because it was so hot outside. I went in for
some air conditioning, but I wasn't going in to buy anything.

Speaker 12 (25:52):
Yeah, because who can afford to buy anything? And as
we were talking the other day with our people to
get the food from these large companies, that the food
is just land on the ground. That means that the
prices are just going to be so exuberant.

Speaker 13 (26:11):
That you have to be a millionaire to be able
to shop.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
So let me interrupt again. Now you brought to mind
something when you said there's several things about what we're
talking about. One is vegetables need to be fresh, Yes,
and they need to be moved quickly from the place
they're being grown to your dinner table. Absolutely, and so
that's important. And so getting food from the farms that

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are a couple hundred miles away is an issue, but
that's the way most of us are getting our food.
So which makes our other concept here a little a
bit even more attractive. If we're able to if you're
able to get all of your food right there in
la or right there in the neighborhood that or in
the community that you are going to distribute food, distribute

(26:59):
the extra food too. That allows it to be a
little bit fresher. But I want to get back out
make this quick point about something I said earlier about
the insanity of ice raids in California, rating our farm workers,
raiding our restaurant workers, rating our lifestyle here in California,

(27:24):
and another world's jealous California. And I understand, I understand,
but I will not stand under that and just be
oppressed by their jealousy. But folks, we have to we
have to realize that if they are ice is going
to scare the bejammers out of our field workers, our

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farm workers, that they're not going to go to work.
The farm workers. Okay, so we already know that there
are some farm workers who are not going to work,
reducing the work, reducing the work production that takes place
on the farms, and that in some cases that we

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are seeing food that is not going to get harvested
as a result of that, which means that there's going
to be less food available for the stores correct, which
means the prices are going to go up. And I'm
just projecting this and hoping that I'm wrong. But as
we add, you know, the nickels and the dimes that

(28:28):
normally make dollars, we can add the lack of the
nickels and dimes and see where the dollars are not
going to be there. In the case of the food,
lack of workers, lack of harvest, lack of food, more
cost for the food in the stores, many more of
you will be in the stores doing what I do

(28:51):
to get the air conditioning because you can't afford the
actual food. And that is a little bit of some
levity to take the laugh to keep from crying. But
it's something that we can should be thinking seriously about
so that we don't end up crying about it. And
that's access to our food. So, mister Grissom, what are

(29:12):
you doing with food now? How are you servicing people
with food at this point?

Speaker 12 (29:16):
Well, I'd like to go back a little bit further
and talk about how I got started feeding communities and
it started back. I've been doing this for about ten years,
but it started in twenty twenty when the pandemic came.
When the pandemic came, there was people weren't working, they
didn't have access to food. So I was out hustling

(29:38):
food if you made, And what that means is I
was contacting any and everyone, but I had contracts with
every table who prepared meals, and so I was getting
upwardly between two thousand to twenty thousand meals a day,
and in the process of doing that, I ultimately was

(30:00):
feeding the homeless downtown on skid Row.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Really, yes, sir, okay? So what happened after that? Why
are you no longer feeding that group of people? And
what's your program now? And a little closer to the mic,
if you.

Speaker 12 (30:16):
Will, Okay, So what happened is on skid Row in
June of twenty twenty, people started to come by and say, hey,
what you got, and they would well away. I've never
had that, I never experienced that. I made tacos, shrimp tacos,
salmon tacos on the streets.

Speaker 13 (30:37):
People come and they eat the food.

Speaker 12 (30:39):
But there was so much food by June of twenty
twenty that they started to say, well, I think I'll
go down the street and get food.

Speaker 13 (30:48):
So at that time they had choices. Yeah, they had choices.
They had choices. And so, you know, you work hard
when you recover food.

Speaker 12 (30:56):
So I was recovering food at from Billions and Bonds
and then also other places throughout la and so it's
a lot of work and you don't want to gather
food and you can't get rid of it. So I
started feeding communities.

Speaker 13 (31:11):
I started doing yes, I started doing dry bars, and.

Speaker 12 (31:15):
So we were feeding, you know, like I said, twenty
thousand people and meals a day, and then we were
feeding two thousand a day in fresh fruits and vegetables.
And not only just fresh fruits and vegetables. I had
LinkedIn with several companies that would give me ten pouallets

(31:36):
of meat, and so I had turkey, I had ham,
I had beef, I had steaks, I had quail, I
had a just any type of food that you could
think of, hamhogs, you name it. I had that food
and we were giving it out all over Los Angeles, So.

Speaker 13 (31:55):
I saw that big knee.

Speaker 12 (31:56):
But then what's happened recently is that people can't afford
to even buy the food in the grocery stores. And
then on top of that, when you go out to eat,
have you noticed that McDonald's went from twelve dollars to
seventeen dollars and now if you go to fast food
restaurant it's somewhere around twenty dollars if you get a drink.

Speaker 13 (32:20):
Who can afford that?

Speaker 2 (32:21):
That's right? That's right. So you were initially feeding all
of that food that you earlier described to basically the homeless.

Speaker 13 (32:32):
People in the beginning.

Speaker 12 (32:33):
In the beginning, then I switched over and started feeding families.
And so the last couple of years, I've been doing
over twenty tons of food a week.

Speaker 13 (32:45):
So we've been moving, we've been peddling a lot of food.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Now that food that you were getting is probably no
longer available at the level that you were getting it.
Am I correct? Or what? Well, vegetables and meats and
things of that sort are probably not as accessible for
you as they as they were for am I.

Speaker 13 (33:09):
Well, let me tell you the drawback.

Speaker 12 (33:12):
So when you're taking donations of what has happened. People
are desperate to say that they're doing hundreds of millions
of tons of food. So they're accepting from the vendors
the worst possible food, and they're expecting the nonprofit organizations
to put that food on the tables of people in

(33:35):
the public. So just recently, I did have a run
in with several companies because they were giving me their trash,
and I had to call them and let them know
I'm not.

Speaker 13 (33:46):
Your waste management company.

Speaker 12 (33:49):
And so you know, I've been working on this program
to be able to feed people, but at wholesale prices.

Speaker 13 (33:56):
So this is where I'm at now.

Speaker 12 (33:57):
I've made to deal with one of the largest restaurant
wholesale companies in Los Angeles. We're currently making boxes. I
believe my boxes are too big because I'm used to
giving away so much food. I don't guess to give
you a bag or a couple of little pieces or something.
I let people load their cars up with the food
that I have. So I started off with a forty

(34:18):
pound box for fifty six dollars, and then a senior
box for thirty dollars that has between fifteen and twenty pounds,
and so we have everything in it. We have just
we have berries, we have peppers, we have squash, as
you mentioned.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
So your boxes basically are going out for about a
buck fifty pounds.

Speaker 12 (34:38):
Yeah, essentially, essentially they're about that. But you know, what
we're mainly trying to do is to get the distribution started. Okay,
that's the major problem here is my cost is going
to be more if I have to pay someone a
lot of money. So we're figuring out ways that we

(35:01):
can get this food delivered to San Bernardino, Riverside and
other parts. Because you know, I'm not just looking at
what's happening in my backyard. I'm looking at how do
we feed all of the people that are in need.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Your distribution model has been direct to people coming by
to pick up the boxes or and and you're now
looking for a situations where, say like here in the Empire,
where you would have a location that would allow people

(35:37):
to come to that location and pick up boxes.

Speaker 12 (35:40):
Absolutely absolutely, and so there's always a lot of volunteers.

Speaker 13 (35:45):
What I found while opening the back of.

Speaker 12 (35:48):
My truck is that I always I never had the
volunteers when I got there. So God is so wonderful
that when I would open the back of that truck.
People would just come and say, hey, free food. I said,
only if you help me. And so that's how I
got my volunteers, the people that would help. They would
come and I'd let them get whatever they wanted, what
they needed, and then they would help me to distribute

(36:12):
the food. So I'm looking for that person. And let
me tell you what happens. These people load up their
cars and then they go to all.

Speaker 13 (36:22):
The little senior places.

Speaker 12 (36:24):
All around town that they know of, and they're distributing
that food to other people. Even when the actors were
on strike, they were doing the same thing. They were
taking the food and they were distributing in their communities,
in their apartment complexes, and they were helping people. So
that's why we're called love mission people helping people.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Very good, very good. So you also you almost solved
your distribution issue there when you mentioned senior housing in
that I would imagine that that would be a good
place to starting to go shading or talk to them
about delivering the food, because if there's one hundred seniors

(37:06):
in the building, probably ninety five of them would benefit
from absolutely from that food situation. Very good, very good.
So what do you need that we can support you with.
And I'd also ask that same question to you, Anthony,

(37:26):
with what you're doing. What is it that we can
help you here further your project? How can we do that?

Speaker 12 (37:38):
Okay, so first, what we want to do is we
need to get the word out to people that can
benefit from the food the best. Now, I don't care
what it takes me, how long it takes me to get.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
The food to you, Well, I care because I want
it fresh.

Speaker 12 (37:53):
Well, this is what I'm saying is it might take
me all day to get the food out to whoever
needs the food.

Speaker 13 (38:01):
But I don't sleep until my job is done.

Speaker 12 (38:04):
So if I have to handle liver deliver that food
personally myself, I've been doing this for ten years and
so I'm no stranger to getting up at two o'clock
in the morning work until twelve at night so your
food will be fresh. However, what I need most is
to get the word out. Let's get people ordering and

(38:26):
saving money, and let's get them on a process of
getting the food weekly because each week I'm going to
give you something better, something different, because that's.

Speaker 13 (38:38):
What you need.

Speaker 12 (38:39):
We want to make sure that people with diabetes and
high blood pressure that you're now eating. The greens, the reds,
the yellows. These are the type of vegetables that you
don't get when we go into the fast food places, and.

Speaker 13 (38:53):
So we have so many people that are sick. Look
at me.

Speaker 12 (38:56):
I just turned sixty nine years old, and I got
to tell you, if God did put me on the
fruits and vegetables, I'd probably be all dried up right now.
But for sure the fruits and vegetables had me healthy.

Speaker 13 (39:08):
A few months up.

Speaker 12 (39:09):
Last year, I went into the hospital for heat exhaustion
and then the doctor says, Oh, we're going to do
a triple bypass on you. I said, oh, no, you not,
and so I went home. I was about two fifty two.
I started fasting, and I started eating my fruits and vegetables,
and look at me.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
You know.

Speaker 13 (39:29):
My friend called me the other day.

Speaker 12 (39:30):
He says, Michael, He says, even though you're getting older,
you're looking younger.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
All right now. And that was that was quite.

Speaker 12 (39:36):
A compliment, because at sixty nine years old, I'm not
bent over. I don't have a cane, and I worked
like a nineteen year old, and so I really feel
blessed and I want people to know that if.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
We're eating the right things, that I didn't have a
problem asking you to carry my bag in. You know
you look to look strong.

Speaker 13 (39:58):
Yeah, I picked a car needed.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
What kind of vegetables? As we talk about growing now,
and we talk about growing in a in a five
gallon bucket, how many different kinds of plants do you
advise we grow in the same bucket? I would imagine one?
Is that correct?

Speaker 10 (40:22):
That is correct? Normally it's just one plant in that bucket.
It's not too much room for two or three, so
just one plane.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
So if we are going to suggest to mister Jones
or miss Smith that we're going to give you five
buckets to suggest that you could grow five different vegetables
that that are going to help balance your diet and
keep you full and healthy, what particular plants would you advise?

(40:54):
And I know I didn't warn you on this, but
I should.

Speaker 10 (40:56):
That's a good one though, you know, down to the
favorite five. So out of my experience over ninety nine
different types of plants, the basics that you need today
is your lettuce. Definitely your beats. That's the primary you
need beats. Beats. It's something about that red or the purple.
When it's cut, it's interesting. It's like the closest thing

(41:17):
you can get to just blood. So that's why I
love the organic model of beats, because when you cut it,
it's a representation of God's love with the superfood of beats.
So beats you really need in your life. And then
you have your tomatoes, which may take time, just so
you have a good, well balanced meal. I recommend basil.
That would be the one on the line. There's about

(41:39):
five types that most commonly we grow. Out of the five,
I'm a fan of the what you call gourmet basil,
mostly for chefs. There's a sweet basil, but then there's gourmet,
and then the last one of my list is a
sweet pepper. If I had a choice instead of a
hot pepper, I would choose a sweet pepper or a
bell pepper.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
So we've got lettuce, beats, tomatoes. That's a decent little salad, basil.

Speaker 10 (42:04):
Basil, and basil. You have your basil, and then the
last one is you can have your bell pepper, your
sweet pepper. The basic five four, but your five is
what you really need at your house, and that'll give
you a well balanced at least one percent organic model
to your diet.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Now I'm having a little trouble visualizing the lettuce growing
in this five gallon bucket. Okay, what I mean is
that my problem of vision or is that an actual issue.

Speaker 10 (42:36):
That is a good point. So the lettuce itself will
need a lot more space than five gallon, But what
it will do is during its stages of growing, each
of the leaves are edible, so you don't always have
to wait till For example, the ro main lettuce, there's
about seven or so.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
It doesn't have to end up being ahead of.

Speaker 10 (42:54):
Lettu No, does not need to be the head of letters.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
So it's it will kind of grow the same way
that color.

Speaker 10 (43:00):
Would grow similar to it. Or spring mix. There you
go a spring mix. Sometimes a lot of families like
when they get the food, they want the vegetable to
be really small. Microgreens is kind of where but it
goes past a microgreen phrase to a spring mix, so
you can you can eat it.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Just as well.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
Micro green may keep growing. It's a spring mix, and
most often if you're growing in a five gallon bucket,
you can trim the lettuce. But you really are looking
for like a spring mix model.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Uh, you did not put collar greens in your top five.
And I know that collar greens. Once you get that
collar green tree going, it'll work for you.

Speaker 10 (43:39):
It will pass the past the five gallon. Yeah, it'll
you'll need a home for a collar.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Green, but it'll work in that five gallon. It will.

Speaker 10 (43:50):
It'll take you a little time and then after that
we need to pick her up and give her a
good home.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
But the collar green will take a home in places
that others won't. Is that true? That is true? Okay,
so all right, okay, so five and a half would
be the college green. I'm just you know, I'm from
Mississippi for my mother, and you know they know how
to cook them things, and so I'm just kind of
how you gonna not put some kind of greens in
your garden.

Speaker 10 (44:14):
You might just need to ask you to add that
six item on the list and make sure you start
getting involved with that one percent that we believed in
you and to get started. But you did ask me
a question, and I thought about this just taking time listen,
and you asked, what do we need? Like, what do
we need? So initially when we started off on this
topic of what do we need? Me coming on airs,

(44:37):
because I'm really looking to touch some of the young
any man. Actually, let me just not say young, but
wherever you fall in life.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
We got a sixty nine year old and feel like
forty two, said city, thirty thirty. Okay, there we go.

Speaker 10 (44:51):
He's moving at the speed lights. So I just want
any man. There's two types of growing, and I think
there's a fear some men that are really tall shit
and have to bend down. It's a long way down.
So we would raise these beds. And when we talk
about fertilizer, you're gonna need fertilizer. You're gonna need to
call Wallace and arrange how we can better suit you

(45:13):
if you want to be involved and have a raised bed.
But when you think about what we need, we need
men and women to take that one percent and push
it forward. There's a fact that you have to think
about the importance of one percent of your diet at
any organic model. That way your body can recognize what's

(45:35):
real and what's fake. So I think that one percent
is a big deal, and I think that one percent
will carry you to two percent, as your heart may desire.
But that one percent is why we're on the air today.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Now you said, raised bed. Now, some people got sleepy
and thought, you know, they don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (45:53):
That's right, So I'll elaborate on that. My grandmother, she's
right at eighty five, and she looked in the doctor
told her, oh, you want to do some gardening. She's
so used to being sometimes down below. I told her
we're gonna raise the bed four feet high with raw
hard dirt. There's a difference between the dirt you buy
in the store, like compost. You need raw hard dirt.

(46:16):
That way, there's no irrigation issues and temperature adjustments. So
when you get to that point we raise that bed up.
She's able to go to the same model with her.
Doctor told her to to tend to the guard.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Does this bed of dirt d to be about three
feet about three.

Speaker 10 (46:34):
Feet of raw hard dirt. And that's why there's a cost.
That's why I'm talking about one percent. It's gonna be
at some point do you want to bend down? Stand up?
But you get the factor in if if I'm gonna
be in this business, it's either I'm gonna always bend
down or I'm gonna stand up. But that dirt itself
is why the one percent of families out there are
people we want you to gravitate to this model because

(46:57):
you may need support on that one, whether it's what fertilizer,
seeds plants, but you need to have support to go
down a path to one percent.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
So what we're really looking at here is an expansion
of the idea, that being that many of us would
appreciate having a garden, but most of us have no
intentions of being a gardener. And so you are talking
about refining the idea of a garden from someone who

(47:30):
has a big backyard and making a garden to someone
who has a a what maybe a four by eight
foot area that a platform could be put together and
they could that would be a site to grow everything

(47:51):
that you just talked.

Speaker 13 (47:51):
About, things you wanted to grow on us.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
That's right now. The issue becomes who's going to maintain
that garden. Now we had talked about your quest to
create young farmers, to create an employment opportunity for young
men and women and old men and women who want

(48:14):
to do this, anyone who wants to effectively develop that
green thumb and like working with plants. I guess the
concept here is you could have a thousand acre farm,
or you could have a thousand little farms correct in
people's backyard. That's correct, little gardens that produce the basically

(48:38):
do the same thing, and.

Speaker 10 (48:40):
We want to bring that back. I think agriculture right
now is a component where if you think about today,
based on how the model of the US is going,
you're going to need to have friends in agriculture.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
And folks, you don't have to come through us now.
We're describing this because it can be done. We're here
in California, where the weather and the world is beautiful.
You may be living in Magaland somewhere where you know
it's just as important for you to be able to
feed yourself and make friends with some friends and make

(49:15):
friends with people who are angry about life enough to
you know, believe you know, when they wake up from
the lie, they're gonna need to eat anyway. So I'm
not one of those people that says, oh, good for them,
but they voted for him, they should have all of
the pain that you get. No, I didn't feel that
way about the people who who died in the Jim
Jones cult. Okay, I felt sorry for them, and I

(49:38):
feel sorry for anybody that's caught up in a cult.
So the idea is that if you can put together
these four by eight foot platforms three feet deep and
build a garden for people. Our thought is that traveling
gardeners correct, Okay, So that if you're on my street

(50:02):
and we've got ten of these in people's backyards, you're
able to come on my street and work those gardens,
service those gardens, and we will pay you. I will
pay you to work my garden. And there's a couple
of ways to do it. I can tell you. I
can tell you by first of all, whatever the costs

(50:22):
started to build this, I'll cover that. And obviously I'll
cover my seed costs because with all them seeds getting
ready to grow, I probably want those. You know, you're
probably gonna tell me how we can create a seed bank, right, okay,
so I want to keep those. But my watering of
the plant. Now, so there's a way. I mean, you
pay the pool man, you pay the pool man, you

(50:44):
pay the lawn man, you pay the guy to come
by and spray dust around your house, or the insects
and stuff don't go in, So why would you not
pay the gardener and to come in.

Speaker 10 (50:55):
You can even go a step further. If you feel
that you really want to know your food, and we're
advocate for the one percent, you can send it to
the lab just like you go get a test.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Oh listen, they're not sending their water.

Speaker 10 (51:06):
Can do whatever, not the water their food.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
People do telling them they get lead in the water.
They're telling them they got plastic in the water. They're
telling them they got materials in the water life taking chemicals.
Ain't nobody checking their water.

Speaker 10 (51:20):
You need to check your food. If you want to
question about your food and you question it, we could
send food off to the right now. In agriculture, you
have to send your food off to the lab to
make sure they test it. So I see that because
you can always look at how good your food is
growing at home, and that would be a good example
of you just know exactly where you're at with what
you're doing at home and then possibly what's in the world.

(51:41):
But you have a way to get yourself access at home.
So that's why I think that one percent is important.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
You could be listening to this showing as I look
at our stats, we've got people all over the country
and sometimes out of the country, and who want you
may want to do this and once again give me
a call. We're not trying to be exclusively, not at all.
We wanted to make the world a better place and
the only way to do that is to share. Michael,

(52:09):
you wanted to say something to Gohet.

Speaker 13 (52:10):
I did. And you know I love his concept because
a couple.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Bringing that MIKEE a little closer to you. You've got that.

Speaker 12 (52:17):
I love his concept because about three years ago I
started to look for other.

Speaker 13 (52:23):
Ways that we could get food to me so I
could get it out to people who need it.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (52:30):
So the concept is this, if I'm growing tomatoes and
cucumbers and potatoes and you're growing snow peas, collar greens,
collar greens and butter bleat is then I can trade
with you, and you can trade with me, and then

(52:51):
we can trade with Wallace.

Speaker 13 (52:53):
And so what we're doing we can.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Meet on the corner once a we could call it
a farmer's market.

Speaker 12 (52:57):
Yes, exactly. So I love the concept because it works.
It feeds communities and there are a lot of people,
believe it or not, here in Los Angeles that are
from Arkansas, Mississippi and places like that.

Speaker 13 (53:11):
Hey, they grew up on farms, so they know all
about it.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
People up from Washington and Oregon, that part in California,
that part Idaho, and that part, and they can grow
a little food as well.

Speaker 13 (53:22):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
I think the other issue that I don't want to
miss is that the employment opportunity, the business opportunity. If
you have twenty five thirty clients whose gardens that you
are taking care of us, and they're paying you a
stipend every week to come by and handle that, and
they are giving you, I would imagine forty fifty maybe

(53:45):
sixty percent of the food. Because you can't eat food,
you can't eat it, and so you would like to
create a business for someone, you be part of that business,
and you are actually creating a farmer's market for that
gardener who's making the food, and the farmer could be

(54:05):
a farmer's market at the corner, it could be a
farmer's market at the church. It could be a farmer's
market at the senior center. As a matter of fact,
if I had a senior center, I would be on
top of this right now in terms of having somebody
come by and take care of a platform garden so
that our people at the center could eat, so that

(54:26):
our cafeteria at the center could have fresh food on
an ongoing basis. As a matter of fact, we need
to keep figuring this out because right now the only
thing that I'm missing is work. What is it the
job development people, workforce developments. We're here, so you work

(54:47):
with workforce development.

Speaker 13 (54:48):
No, this is what it is.

Speaker 12 (54:50):
The concept that I created is one to help orphanages
in Ghana and all of the parts, even here in
Los Angeles, San Bernardino.

Speaker 13 (55:00):
And the way it works is this.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
You have fertilizers, you.

Speaker 12 (55:04):
Bund people that want to buy the boxes, and we're
gonna give you between ten and fifteen percent of the earning.
So now you're earning money by helping someone else to
buy food at wholesale prices. And let me tell you
can sit there and be on your phone. I know
you know twenty five people that go to the grocery store.

(55:24):
If you get them on your list to buy directly
from you, we will give you that ten to fifteen
percent each week that they buy the food. So we're
creating more income for families and seniors and other people
who are in need.

Speaker 13 (55:39):
So we are at the work source.

Speaker 10 (55:41):
And you're right when you say that model in the
senior model, and you have Workforce EDD, and then you
have the food box distribution. These are big components honing
down in on the senior community. You're gonna need workforce support,
Workforce Development EDD, You're gonna need their support, and it's
because they have to help bridge these new opportunities to

(56:03):
be able to service centers like the Senior Center. So
if there is a vegetable garden on site, given access
to fresh food, then that collaboration would help bridge that gap.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Right there, we're on the quickest hour on radio, and
this hour has been sponsored by the Improved Association. Five
and one seat three. But I want to say we
are talking to Anthony Vasquez, a gentleman who understands that
food has to be approved, it has to be labeled correctly,

(56:35):
and it has to be inspected correctly. And so we're
not just blowing in the wind here. Our operation going
through you. Mister Vasquez has an official them to it
that meets the requirements of food distributors of our grocery stores,
of all the labeling requirements that are there. So do
your seeds, so does everything. Your fertilizer is patented.

Speaker 10 (57:00):
Our fertilizers patented. So when I give these ideas, that
one percent is example of this concept, and I think
you brought up a big point. The advocacy for me
showing up today is for one percent. Senior community should
have one percent access to fresh food and we're talking
fresh food certified. And then you have youth should have

(57:21):
access to one percent. Their brains are going to need
that so they develop properly at least one percent. We're
not talking about fifty We're talking about one percent.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
One percent of the food that you intake in your body.
One percent can make your body recognize the difference between
good and fake.

Speaker 10 (57:41):
That's the point. Just like today we walk outside, if
you looked at something concept that's that we've been here
for quite some time on this earth. You know what
good and bad means. But that one percent helps your
body identify when it's coming across bad stuff, what it
needs to do with bad stuff and turn it into good.
And that's between you and your body and that one percent.

(58:03):
So we're advocating for families out there, officials, anyone listening
be a part of our one percent movement. That's what
this is about. One percent. It could start with five
pots in your backyard, but when you call Wallace, that
one percent goes a long way, and that means we
will meet you halfway, just like you gave one percent,
If we give one and you're incorporated into a food

(58:26):
box model all the way to direct delivery, it's involving
the one percent and that step forward. And that's why
I'm glad you brought up some of these challenges today
because I think families should be prepared for the one
percent model.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Yes, there's nothing common about common sense, and we all
realize that the world is getting more expensive because we
are not in charge of too much more than the
ground that we stand on. But if we are willing
to take charge of the ground that we stand on,
we will find that there is room between our feet

(59:00):
to row the food that we need to eat. About that,
did I say that? Did it rhyme?

Speaker 5 (59:04):
Well?

Speaker 13 (59:04):
I don't know if it's ryan, but it certainly makes that.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
We might need to make a song on it. Excuse me, Anthony?
Can you write a song on that? If we control
the ground between our feet, we can got enough room
to grow the food we need to eat. That sounds
good to me. Much time do we have there? Okay, listen, guys,

(59:30):
I really appreciate that you joined us today. You have
elevated our information. Uh bank, Uh, we know something now
that we didn't know before. Now, everybody won't take advantage
of it. But that's the way it is. That is correct.
But if you want to take advantage of what we've
said today and you are not clear about it, feel
comfortable giving me a call on my cell phone and

(59:51):
leave a message nine O nine nine one five seven
nine two two. I guarantee you I will get back
to you, and I guarantee you that I will a
tempt to answer whatever your question is and try to
bring you into the new world of self control. And
it's God's world. It's a spirit