KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 14 Apr, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 14 Apr, 2025

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What's Up?

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Team? This is my reporter and if Janni Locker with
I love Sarredino County Radio Show on Casey NBC one
O six point five ten siftym when we will talk
politics and culture and history and we have an incredible
show today. If Janni, what's in store for us today?

Speaker 13 (06:26):
Oh man?

Speaker 14 (06:26):
We have an amazing show with an amazing group of
phenomenal brothers doing great things in our community. I allow
the brothers to go ahead and induce yourself starting over
with brother Alonzo.

Speaker 13 (06:36):
Good evening everyone. My name is Alonzo duncan Uh.

Speaker 15 (06:40):
I am the vice president of Programs and Community Relations
for one hundred Black Men.

Speaker 13 (06:48):
Good evening. I'm doctor David Morrow.

Speaker 8 (06:50):
I'm serving as current president for the hundred Black Men
at the Inland Empire, and.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm Antonio Winter is on the mentoring chair for the
hundred Black Man in an Empire.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
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Speaker 10 (07:06):
What's going on, y'all?

Speaker 12 (07:08):
Yeah, that's how you do right there?

Speaker 13 (07:11):
Coming on heah, you got that, you know, going.

Speaker 12 (07:15):
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What up?

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(08:47):
your kid excelling in some really interesting stuff. I mean
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It's put your kids in summer school. Put them in
summer school.

Speaker 14 (09:30):
You know, someone had just tagged me in the I
love Sam Marnardino County your page, your group, I should say,
I'm asking about like different school options, and I did.

Speaker 13 (09:40):
I did tag there definitely.

Speaker 12 (09:42):
I mean I went to summer school one year and
it was fun.

Speaker 13 (09:47):
It was funny.

Speaker 12 (09:48):
It wasn't because I was being punished where home No
Pacific Cardinal pr Yeah yeah, but still, you know, if
your kids are having a little problem in school or
or or they need to you know, you want to
be a little ahead, you know what a great way,
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they helped students that need extra help. Right, So if
you have a student that just really having a hard
time settling in at school, they have the facilities necessary
and the one on one instruction necessary over there to
handle students that need extra help, right. And he showed

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me this room that had a place where the kids
could just decompress with like bean bags and games and
things like that. So instead of you know, you know,
it's not always good to punish kids, I mean detention
and all that stuff. Right, Maybe it's something going on
at home, you know, maybe they need to talk to
to the counselor or something. So this is a good

(10:53):
school team. I wouldn't say it if it wasn't. I
I went over there and I looked.

Speaker 14 (10:59):
I looked myself, Yeah, what I love about them, Like
you said, talking about those alternative to punitive punishment, right
or punitive models, right, trying to avoid that school to
prison pipeline. They're trying to cut that off by providing
the resources, trying to get to the root of the cause.
Like you said, it could be something going on at home,
or it could be situations amongst their peers, but giving

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them a space to address the mental health side of things.
And that's something I don't believe any of us had
in high school. When we were growing up, those things
were not even the world has changed so much. I mean,
we were blessed that we didn't have to worry about
school shootings and things of that nature, like none of that.

Speaker 13 (11:39):
Least for myself. I didn't have to worry about any
of that.

Speaker 14 (11:42):
And I went to Sarmadina High School. You know, it's Sarberdidino, right.
But the world has changed so much that is definitely
a need for a different kind of approach that doesn't
utilize the punitive measures and seeks to address the whole
well being of the students.

Speaker 12 (11:58):
Yea, and not so much of a focus on just
the mathematics in science or anything specific. We need to
let our kids figure out what they wanted and then
they'll excel. You end up as a mechanic, but you
were always meant to be a painter. You're never gonna
be you. You might have a really nice, uh you

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know engine looking you know what I'm saying that maybe
you were the like Picasso. Yeah, I just I like
to like to let the kids loose, you know, give
them a foundation, let them loose and see what they build.
You know and then give them those tools build that.
Oh yeah, build what you need to build a yoga studio,

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right yeah, and bigger thank you Palicharter Academy. And we
have the standout of the week.

Speaker 14 (12:47):
Our standout of the week is the organizations, the faith
leaders and the participants that came out to our interfaith
immigrant Walk for Justice in downtown Riverside.

Speaker 13 (12:56):
It was a beautiful event.

Speaker 14 (12:58):
Faith leaders from the Islamic, the Jewish faith, Christian Faith,
Catholic coming together, community to come together to show that
our immigrant population is welcome here to humanize and and
ultimately to protect because it's going to take people powder
to make really any kind of systemic and tangible change

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within this nation. So it was a beautiful example of that.
I'm close to three hundred people were there and we
we walked down to the Catholic Saint Francis de Sales.
Oh thank you brother, Actually, thank you brother. I appreciate that.
And actually got two people that reached out to me
that want me to cover their community events. So if
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hit up Ipianni locker or go through my Facebook.

Speaker 12 (13:43):
I'm acting surprised, but I listen to his video engaging
I'm very proud yes man Yanni's photography. You can see
it in his eyes how much he loves it. Yes,
And that's that means you can you're good photographer.

Speaker 14 (14:01):
And really and one thing I want to shout out
and and so that's our standout of the week.

Speaker 13 (14:04):
And so thank you to Sydney Ta and.

Speaker 12 (14:06):
Uh and Milk Josh Shaboo. That's right across the street
from uh Costo Costco. And it's like a hot pot.
So they give you some vegetables and you got some
meat and you cook your your bowl on there and
you put the meat and vegetables in there and then
you dip it in the different sauces. It's so good.
She has a cocktail lounge there different uh different specials

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and stuff. So look her up for on Milk jaw
uh Shaboo on Instagram or you can also uh try
their Yeah that bbq. It's Korean fried chicken. It's over
on Redlands Boulevard and uh oh and Anderson Yeah Amison

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right there by the bakers. And then there's also the
the mochi nut right there. She so like what Cindy
and her and her husband decided to do was to
bring some foody places to the local area. Like you know,
she's she's a real estate of she did real estate
and she realized that the market's changing, so she decided
to do something new. So let's support her for doing that, right.

(15:14):
That's that's scary and super cool. No, totally, totally and
the food is awesome, man, So that's a reason to
go anyway.

Speaker 14 (15:21):
So it's it's always scary to take the first steps
to manifest your dream, but you it's it's totally worth
it because the life and the fulfillment that you feel
for moving towards or manifesting that dream or vision that
you've been given. It's it's priceless to know that, hey,
I'm living in the purpose. I'm manifesting the dream and
vision that I've been given to help build the legacy

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and the you know that you want to provide for
yourself and your family. So, yes, it's scary and and
and it could be some something unknowns, but please believe,
if you find the courage and shure have to move forward,
the victory is just ahead of you.

Speaker 12 (15:58):
And uh, this show is also brought to you by
motivational realizations.

Speaker 13 (16:03):
The energy of positive thought.

Speaker 12 (16:06):
Yes, yes, and uh and with that we'll get ready
with the show. I'm gonna leave the history tibbot out,
but I want to mention one history thing. The National
Range Show is happening this weekend, right so check it
out on Instagram, n os uh, and just go over
and have some fun at the Orange Show. You know,
we just spent a little money.

Speaker 11 (16:27):
You know.

Speaker 12 (16:27):
I know it's expensive sometimes for to make a lot
of kids, but just go on there and it's cheap
for the tickets and and you know what, Uh, maybe
just take them to the exhibits in the art and
show them the different things like that, and maybe only
do a couple of rides, but you know, have some fun.

Speaker 13 (16:44):
There you go, There you go. I have two things
I want to say before we dive in.

Speaker 14 (16:47):
Is I want to shout out Eat money for this
awesome new graphic that I've seen.

Speaker 13 (16:52):
How'd you.

Speaker 16 (16:55):
Guys probably thought I was playing Pokemon on my iPad
right now, but I was getting that loaded up for you.

Speaker 13 (16:59):
Awesome, thank you.

Speaker 12 (17:01):
How do you listen to this show on the app?

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Could also watch the live stream currently and see all
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Speaker 13 (17:18):
Thanks sir, awesome, awesome.

Speaker 14 (17:19):
And the second thing I wanted to mention is that
I'm so proud of you brother, that you've been going
to the mountains, You've been going to the beach and
you know, getting out of I know you love Salmon.

Speaker 13 (17:28):
We all know you love Sarren Adina.

Speaker 12 (17:30):
I was in Saronio County, Samuel Mountains.

Speaker 14 (17:33):
You wore, you wore, but did you did leave the
county to go to the beach. And I'm proud of
I took to Venice Beach.

Speaker 13 (17:38):
I know you did. I'll be praying for you.

Speaker 12 (17:42):
That was fun, and thank you for noticing that. I
just want my mom's life to be normal and even
if it's not normal to go to the beach and
all these things quickly, but if you don't know how
much time there is there, then yeah, you know, like
I want to go to the beach, gonna.

Speaker 13 (18:00):
Be there, You're gonna make it happen. Why delay it? Definitely?

Speaker 14 (18:03):
With that being said, let's let's dive into the one
hundred Black men of the Inland Empire.

Speaker 13 (18:08):
How y'all brother's doing today? Good? Definitely? Definitely should we
start with the president or all right? We definitely But
doctor Morrow, how are you doing today? Brother? Wonderful?

Speaker 14 (18:19):
Wonderful, wonderful if you can kind of give us the
mission in the background, how did one hundred Black men
of the Inland Empire come to be well?

Speaker 8 (18:26):
Actually, uh, we had a previous conversation to getting on
air and you guys were kind of talking about Damon
Alexander and.

Speaker 13 (18:35):
Just to me share that, we shout out to that.
Let me share it.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
We're really grateful because we're standing on his shoulders.

Speaker 13 (18:43):
He's one of the charter members.

Speaker 12 (18:45):
He's one well, he's pretty tough.

Speaker 14 (18:48):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (18:48):
He this spearhead and he is he is a marine
who are strong shoulders.

Speaker 8 (18:53):
They are they are who also love Sam Bernardino and
really wanted to do something with the group and constant
trade and focus on what can be done to uplift
San Bernardino. So we just want to shout him out
for that. And with that, they developed a great mission
plan to talk about uplifting the community through our four
pillars with your education, health and wellness, mentoring, and economic empowerment.

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So if you work around those things that really you
talked earlier about the whole child when you talked about
the POW school, And that's kind of like our organization, right,
those four pillars encompasses everything that can happen in our
particular organization with the mentees and the families and the communities.

Speaker 13 (19:41):
So that's why.

Speaker 12 (19:42):
We hear so you you received your doctorate in.

Speaker 8 (19:47):
Your your doctor my doctors and organization development and leadership.

Speaker 12 (19:54):
And so this is the perfect position for you.

Speaker 8 (19:57):
Right, Well, I think it's perfect not because of the
education so much, but because of, as my colleagues would say,
the heart. I really have a heart for the people,
especially the people that may not be as fortunate as
other people, or the families that might not be in
a situation as well as other people. And that's where
I get my joy and my passion from working for

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those people in the community.

Speaker 12 (20:23):
And I also I also see fulfillment. And you know,
you get your education and to be able to utilize
it later on in ways that that help others.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
Right, Yeah, I mean education does help because I also
have a nation counselor I can work with, you know,
the families and the kids, you know, on that psychological level.

Speaker 13 (20:44):
I love that. I love that, and I also saw that.

Speaker 14 (20:46):
I believe you work with the Jack and Jail organization
as well.

Speaker 13 (20:50):
Well.

Speaker 8 (20:51):
We have several partners in the community because we are
a community based organization. And yes, Jack and Jail both
chapters in the in them por one in Pomona and
the other one here in the i E are real
close partners with us, along with na A c P
the i E, Riverside and Pomona, as well as n

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C and W in those particular cities.

Speaker 14 (21:16):
Definitely a n C, the National Council for Negro Women, Yes, sir, definitely, definitely.
I just want to well, definitely, definitely, thank you.

Speaker 13 (21:24):
Doctor. Let's let's jump over to the to the VP. Yeah,
that's awesome. Let's go for it. Let's try it. How
you doing, brother Alonza? All good? My brother, all good?

Speaker 14 (21:33):
How's your experience been working with the one hundred Black
men up the Empire?

Speaker 15 (21:37):
You know what, it's it's been awesome, man. A lot
of work, but it's been worth the wait and the work.
It's a little different, you know. As you mentioned before,
I am a proud member of Omega Soft fire fraternity
in corporating.

Speaker 13 (21:52):
Okay, that's I forgot. Yeah, proud member.

Speaker 15 (21:58):
So uh and life remember that if we're gonna add.

Speaker 12 (22:01):
It, are you.

Speaker 15 (22:03):
Know, we just got to put some factions out there first.
But you know, no, seriously, one hundred black men, it
has been phenomenal.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Man.

Speaker 15 (22:15):
I retired three years ago and I hit the hit
the ground running, just liking Omega man. So I have
a lot of respect for the organization.

Speaker 13 (22:25):
And hoping, I imagine maybe a.

Speaker 15 (22:28):
Little too long for it, but you know, I still
get a little some you know.

Speaker 14 (22:33):
Yeah, A question that I have for you because we
spoke outside of the connection. You know, you know my
cousin Toya No the Kroom's family, right, And how has
your backgrounding corrections. Has any of those skill sets or
or approaches been something that you utilize in your leadership
role with one hundred Black men of the Inland Empire.

Speaker 15 (22:55):
Absolutely, But before it got the correction, my leadership was
coming up. You know, I was a middle linebacker, so
we called the defense.

Speaker 13 (23:07):
Yeah, so we we we what the shot callers for
the defense? Uh man.

Speaker 15 (23:12):
Just growing up it was simple, man. My pops always
told me, Man, you lead, you don't follow. You lead,
and I've always take the mindset.

Speaker 13 (23:24):
You know, I'm a.

Speaker 15 (23:24):
Worker, worker be you know, my wife at times she'd
be on my case, but she she respects what I do.
And I'm a very community oriented Corrections, you know, I
tell people now that aren't retired, uh, Corrections and Parole,
same organization, just a different titles. But it humbles you,

(23:47):
you know, coming up in that background, that upbringing, and
you seeing it. You know, hey, some people made a
left turn, so I made a right. So before I
ran the light, I was like, you know what, go
ahead and.

Speaker 13 (24:00):
Make this right. So it's been good. Man.

Speaker 15 (24:03):
I've dedicated twenty nine and a half years toward I'm
proudly retired and I tell people all the time we
go to juvenile We used to go out to Juvenile
Hall and speak and the and the and the officers
to be like, man, you just retired from doing this
type of stuff. Why would you want to go back
and give back? And I just smile everything. You asked

(24:24):
me that question earlier, and I smiled. I say, if
not us, then who here? You got to understand it
has to be in your heart.

Speaker 14 (24:31):
Amen, Well said, Well said brother, and my Robert, if
you if you have a question, jump on in there.

Speaker 12 (24:37):
That well said, I honestly believe this. I'm starting to
I think I actually didn't interview a demon on this organization.
Back it's starting to come back to me. Now, a hundred,
one hundred black men, what it do you actually do?
What is the main mission of the organization?

Speaker 8 (24:55):
The main mission is mentoring and this is our mentoring Okay.

Speaker 14 (24:58):
Well definitely, brother and Tom, yes.

Speaker 13 (25:02):
Yes, definitely.

Speaker 14 (25:03):
So if you could answer what is it seems like
mentoring is a foundational aspect of the one hundred Black
men after the Inland Empire, and you are over the
mentorship aspect of that.

Speaker 13 (25:15):
So why is mentory so important nowadays?

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Because mentoring can change the world. Mentoring change mindsets. So
one of the things that our mentoring group is we
mentor youth. And we all know youth that will become
leaders of this world one day. And if we don't
show them by dropping seeds to help them see things

(25:43):
through a different lens, then we are part of the problem.
So what we do as to one hundred black men,
we bring our heart. We don't bring an agenda, because
is when you have an agenda, you putting people in
your program. But when you listen, you take that in

(26:09):
and then you come up with a strategy to help
them the best way they can. You got to allow
people to be themselves instead of telling people what you
want them to be. Lionel Richie once said, why do
everybody want to put chains on me? And I paid
my dues to make it. We paid our dues. Now

(26:31):
it's time for us to make a change. And my
big brother as Though always say you have leaders, but
kingdom leaders make a difference. We all say we leaders,
But are you a difference maker?

Speaker 12 (26:49):
Can you give us an example?

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Difference maker?

Speaker 13 (26:52):
Is this here?

Speaker 3 (26:55):
If you want to say no, and I know it's wrong,
I need to reach you in order for you to
see things on the right level. That's making a difference.
But if I allow you to continue down that past
of a crash crash, test dummy on more.

Speaker 12 (27:15):
At fault when you see them going down that path.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yes, because you know where it heads. We know where
it's head. We done grew up out there. We know
what that means.

Speaker 12 (27:24):
They still may head there, but you get it as
a mentor, you can still give them the seed. You
planning those seeds right, You.

Speaker 13 (27:31):
Planning to see up.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
You got to understand we're not saviors. We see planners,
then we water them, and that's what the neighborhood is
for too.

Speaker 13 (27:40):
We gotta warter.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
These things, but we're gonna continue drinking, dropping these seeds.
He may not get it today or she may not
get it today, but you may get it next year,
the year after that. You know, we always say our
parents used to tell us this, and then when we
got grown, all of a sudden, now we see you, understand, you.

Speaker 12 (28:00):
Understand, smash you right in the face.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
So what we're trying to do is give you these
gems we never had because we didn't know about resources.
Growing up. We knew about negativity, and we grew up
in negativity thinking it was we know, we know what's up.
It had no clue, had no clue. Now we understanding

(28:23):
that it's okay to be able to uh talk in
a sentence without stopping saying. You know what I'm saying,
you know what I mean, you know what I mean.
It's okay to be smart, it's okay to be different,
it's okay to be yourself.

Speaker 12 (28:42):
Is it to be a nerd?

Speaker 13 (28:45):
Yes, I'm a.

Speaker 17 (28:52):
Nerd.

Speaker 15 (28:52):
Core we're talking about earlier man.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
We we just did a video with Nips and he said,
don't let nobody dictate your agenda. But we do that
all the time. You know, I had I I was
a gifted student, but I was scared.

Speaker 13 (29:13):
To be smart. I was just talking about that because I.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Wanted to be accepted by the neighborhood instead of yes,
instead of understanding that these gifts that has been given
to me, I can walk on this on his faith
and make something more than what I what I think
I can do. But if I stay here uncomfortable because

(29:38):
I'm with everybody else, And someone said, uh, you know,
sometimes you gotta think outside the box. My mindset is
why you're in a box anyway.

Speaker 13 (29:57):
So I hear this craw in the what is it?
Crab in a barrel?

Speaker 12 (30:05):
Yeah, I'm trying to pull you down.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
But when have you ever seen a crab come in
a barrel? They're in the ocean. We put them in
that barrel, just like we put each other in on barrels.

Speaker 13 (30:16):
I love that.

Speaker 12 (30:17):
That's actually my favorite line in og Suicide's song. When
you're all the crabs in a bucket, like and they're
all average, try and pull you down, you know, it's
it's like that out there, but like sometimes you just
need one mentor to give you that hand up and
maybe get.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Out that bucket.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
And you do know that it's a saying sand up
at the top of his room for all, it's just
the bottom of crowded.

Speaker 12 (30:41):
That's why you got you're going down and got another
one getting melted out of the We're getting ever, We're
gonna create a ladder, get everybody out of here.

Speaker 14 (30:48):
And I always think about that exact thing when we
talk about crabs in a bucket, right about if the
crabs would just all grab each other's claw and push
one another out, and then it's eventually more out and
they'll just women will pull everybody up out of.

Speaker 13 (31:02):
There, you know what I mean.

Speaker 14 (31:03):
But that takes having trust in one another, genuine communication,
put formulating a plan. And it's so key to have
a brilliant mind and be educated. Be proud about that
because those skill sets of having a gifted mind or
educated mind allow you to see the options that are
out there versus.

Speaker 13 (31:24):
Just oh, we're stuck in this bucket or whatever, and
what can we do.

Speaker 14 (31:26):
Your mind will allow you to see other options, see
the things that most people don't see because I just
did a video we're talking about. When I used to
substitute in the Rialto School District and Sanmordino School District
for about three years, I would often see the smart kids,
the brilliant kids, play stupid because once they're show that

(31:48):
they're gifted and are really smart, right, they're targeted. And
it's like, how we have to make some major changes
because how ignorant is that that we target the ones
that have.

Speaker 13 (31:59):
The gifts, that that that.

Speaker 14 (32:01):
See beyond our little pond right here and have beautiful
and brilliant visions and are capable of manifesting that right.

Speaker 13 (32:08):
Because I would tell all.

Speaker 14 (32:09):
The students, you guys are great, you can do it
right and you mean it for all, but you have
those students where it's like, you know, like waterboard, like
we can't do it without you.

Speaker 13 (32:18):
You know, you the babe, what you know what I mean?

Speaker 14 (32:20):
If you don't do it, you know, but you have
those students that are brilliant, and so we have to
change our thinking. As far as it's beautiful to be educated,
it's beautiful to be wise. And in the long run,
nerds and geeks make more money on average than any
other profession, right, so.

Speaker 12 (32:36):
Unless you're a real good jock right.

Speaker 14 (32:40):
Right, And some of them are nerve because some athletes
go to college, go to college, and some make more
money off the field than on the field, you know
what I mean, or on the court or whatever medium
they play on, right.

Speaker 12 (32:52):
Because yeah, that's just the business. And you can you
can start a side business. We all can start a
side business. We can all be entrepreneurs. Johnny, how do
we do it? You gotta go get a business license, right,
Just get your plan together kind of where you're going,
you know, do your baby steps, get everything your ducks
lined up, and eventually you'll have yourself a business. Now

(33:14):
you can. You do it under your own name for
the beginning. Just call it my business Robert Porter, right,
Yoannie's business, Yannie?

Speaker 9 (33:21):
Right?

Speaker 14 (33:22):
Yeah, yeah, missed of changing my business into LLC right now.
Definitely definitely before we jump over to the yoga, dude,
is there some upcoming events and happenings that you guys
coming down the pipeline?

Speaker 18 (33:36):
Man?

Speaker 13 (33:36):
You ready? You got you got time for all this?
You brother?

Speaker 15 (33:39):
Here, We're gonna first, we're gonna start off with this Saturday,
all right, we'll have our we adopted a street in
Riverside downtown uh at what's that Fifth and Market and
we go to fifth in line. So we get together
around seven thirty am.

Speaker 13 (33:54):
You was there last month. This is just a couple
of weeks ago, so we're back on.

Speaker 15 (33:58):
It is every thirty third Saritay, so we'll be there
at seven thirty am. We have a little light breakfast
don us coffee, orange juice. We start eight o'clock sharp
with our prayer and we also allow we invite all
community leaders, organizations, mentorships, Greek whomever, also larger business owners

(34:19):
and the purpose is is just to network and build relationships.

Speaker 13 (34:24):
Then we'll go.

Speaker 15 (34:25):
Last year we had what sixty people, so the more
the people, I think we were done by twenty five minutes.
Quicker goes and then afterwards we do a little fellowship
with our high school mentors. We take them out to
eat downtown somewhere house. But we have that coming up
this coming Saturday. We have our golf tournament coming up Monday.

(34:46):
It'll be at Victoria Country Club. But most importantly we
have the grand finale October twenty fifth, Ontario Convention Center.

Speaker 13 (34:58):
He that's how gala. There we go.

Speaker 15 (35:02):
You will never see one like this ever again.

Speaker 13 (35:05):
All Right, all right, okay.

Speaker 15 (35:07):
So please follow us on a hundred Black Men uh
in an Empire Facebook, one hundred Black Men ill an Empire.
I G Instagram, and you know it's probably the most
off talk. I don't really do a lot of talk
and all that my work show. So I'm always gonna
pub social media because you said it's really getting down

(35:27):
getting the.

Speaker 13 (35:27):
Business, all right. Definitely, definitely thank you.

Speaker 14 (35:30):
Thank you brothers for blessing us with what you do
in our community, helping provide a positive light and positive
example to our young men, brothers and sistors because everyone
comes out and everyone's watching. So this showing that there's
more to life than just the streets or the little
ponds that people dwell in.

Speaker 13 (35:50):
I like what you just said.

Speaker 15 (35:51):
Man. I lost the real close friend minte of mine
named Tim Fowler because our district parole administrator played a
lot of golf. In fact, tomorrow morning we're playing golf
in his honor. We just started back. For the last
three years. We'll play every Tuesday. So the family wanted
us to do this. So he used to always toil

(36:13):
me al. It don't matter how it come out. Your mouth.
Just get it done, he said. But remember one thing.
You always on stage, there's always somebody watch.

Speaker 12 (36:25):
Let's dedicate this show to him.

Speaker 13 (36:27):
Absolutely.

Speaker 15 (36:28):
I appreciate right now, name tim Timothy Fowler, Timothy Fouler.

Speaker 14 (36:33):
So the Foler family, this show is dedicated to Timothy Fowler,
and we thank brother for his leadership and the impact
that he's made in our community because he was a
true leader, because he made change, he made the impact,
he made a difference. So thank you to the Filer fan.

Speaker 13 (36:45):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 18 (36:45):
Appreciate that the yoga dude, you could have a whole
I love the word too, But the yoga dude like
that is that on your card or did he just
come up with that?

Speaker 13 (37:00):
My car, my LLC is that yoga dude?

Speaker 10 (37:03):
Everything is that yoga dude.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
So I didn't become that yoga dude because I'm just
that cool dude. I let the kids call me that
yoga dude. I come on the campuses and the kids
don't remember my name James. What they remember I'm that
dude that does yoga.

Speaker 12 (37:20):
As teacher and not a teacher.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
I understand, right, right right, So, like brother Antonio was saying, man,
you listen. You listen with your whole heart, and you
see and understand what the kids need, and you provide
it for them. You bring it to them, and you
bring it to them in a way that they understand.
Yoga is an ancient practice. Yoga is a practice with
you know, a whole lot of stuff around it. But
if you could put it in their hands where they

(37:43):
understand it and they're actually able to use it when
they're about to take a test and they stressed out,
if they could use it to take a break before
taking a swing, what is yoga? Yoga is a practice.
So Yoga is a practice actually based in ancient Egypt.
They came down into Yoga into India. Is a practice
on the mind and the body, bringing the mind in
the body together. It's a word, a Sanscript word that

(38:06):
means to unite, to yolk, to bring together. What are
you bringing together your mind and your body? And you
bring your mind and your body through breathing practices, through
focusing practices, and through physical practices. Because when your mind
and your body are together, you can make a real decision.
You can be conscious, you can be aware, you're not
letting your emotions, you're not letting your feelings and your
thoughts just drive you crazy. You present you in the moment.

(38:29):
You're seeing things for what it is. You in those mountains,
you at the beach, you calm, you peaceful, So you're
not going off on the teacher, you're not going off
on your classmate because of what your mama said to
you earlier, or because of what your dad didn't say
to you. Because you're not there at home. So you
have these tools that can go around with you to
be able to handle the stressors of life and a

(38:49):
lot of kids.

Speaker 12 (38:52):
Would you would you call it a religion?

Speaker 13 (38:55):
No?

Speaker 12 (38:55):
Or is it close to that? Or like it seems
like something that you do a church too.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
So like in any religion, you go and you have
a place to gather, right whether it's the mosque, the temple,
the cathedral, the church house, whatever, all those religion has
those different places where people gather. So with yoga, it's
not a religion, but you have a place to gather
within yourself. You got your mind, you got your breath,

(39:24):
and it has those elements in it.

Speaker 13 (39:26):
Now it.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Has ties to the Hindu religion because, like I said,
as it came down into the Indus, valley and landed
in India. It was put together with the Hindu the
people who practice the Hindu religion, and it's a part
of their way to be able to have their spiritual
ascension and relaxing and release. But it's also the physical

(39:48):
part that came later. So the mental part is the
main part of yoga, and then people added religion and
other things around it. But it's all about the mental
part the whole idea. The deal is for you to
be able to sit down with yourself and let all
the emotions, the thoughts, the feelings come.

Speaker 10 (40:07):
Up, but you still be okay with it.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
And as you see now, that's probably one of the
hardest things for kids to do, for people to do,
because instead of sitting with yourself, you're pulling your phone out.
Instead of sitting with yourself, you're worrying about who's liking
and subscribing, who's looking at you a car you're driving
or doing it. But when you're able to sit with yourself,
who you really are in that moment, once again, it
comes back to you making those positive decisions. As we said,

(40:29):
are you gonna make a left or make it right?

Speaker 12 (40:31):
With meditation and stretching like and all those things.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Together meditation, mindfulness, and movement. So you got these three
things that you put together, the three ms, meditation, mindfulness,
and movement. When you're meditating, you're focusing on one thing
at a time. Attention is the most valuable commodity that's
out there now. Everybody's fighting for your attention. But if

(40:59):
you are to control your attention by either putting on
your breath or putting it on some affirmations or putting
on something positive, you're doing something, you're able to gain
your attention and your focus back and control yourself.

Speaker 10 (41:11):
Mindfulness.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Where is your mind at when you are doing these things?
Where was your mind at when you got suspended for fighting?
Where's your mind at when you went off on your
coworker because you were thinking about the argument you had
with your partner. So being able to be mindful and
present in what you're doing and where you are is
an amazing tool. And movement. So I got started into
this yoga thing mainly based on the movement. So I

(41:34):
was an outside linebacker. I wasn't inside. I was on
the outside. I was outside. I wasn't you know, big
enough to be inside. And I thought yoga was all
about Okay, if I can just stretch a little bit better,
if I can finally touch my toes and stretch my back,
and all these kind of things. I thought I was
That's what I was getting into it for that. And

(41:55):
you know, you go into yoga class and you see
some other things. But I was getting into the yoga
class for the wrong or for not the Wrong's.

Speaker 12 (42:05):
Second, I would be remiss if I didn't ask what
these other things are.

Speaker 6 (42:10):
That's for a different show.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
So yoga yoga my background, my educational background. I have
my master's in family therapy, so as a clinical counselor,
and I was doing my internships and everything, and I
met one of at one of the internships, I met
somebody that was doing the yoga thing.

Speaker 10 (42:31):
Said all right, I'm gonna give it a try, stretch,
get it good, whatever.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
And I started going to the class, started going and
doing a practice on a regular basis, and I noticed
I was more calmer even outside of the class. I
noticed I was able to handle more of what the patients,
the clients.

Speaker 10 (42:45):
Was given to me.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
I was able to handle more with my supervisor and
all these things giving me your significant other, there was
a lot more yoga for that.

Speaker 12 (42:56):
Lover.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
I got to man so I saw the these changes
were happening to me and I loved it. I was
really get into it. Also, at the same time, I
wasn't feeling being a therapist within the system that I
was doing it then working for you know, different entities
and different systems. Like y'all said, I was there with
my heart and at the same time they got to

(43:18):
pay their bills and everything like that.

Speaker 10 (43:20):
I understand it is what it is.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
I got disillusioned with the therapy thing and I needed
something else. I get into this yoga thing and it
really had a huge impact on my life.

Speaker 12 (43:31):
That is a critical moment in his life. Team and
a lot of people they missed that moment. Yeah, they're like, right,
too much.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
And that's a big part of what we do now
because we work with the children. As I said, they
get to have these tools to be able to utilize.
But one of the biggest aspects of what we do,
as all said, we saved the people that saved the children.
We know people who work for CBOs, nonprofits organizations. Burnout
is real. And if you put in your heart in

(44:06):
something on a daily basis and you don't have the
skills and tools to be able to manage the stress,
the anxiety, the care that comes up for you. You're
going to burn out and you're not going to be
able to be there to support the kids. Yes, the
kids are a future generation, but they need somebody right
there in their corner now.

Speaker 12 (44:23):
No, no, I don't. I'm not yoga, but I'm not
against it or anything. But like I do walk every day,
and I try to do my pushups and stretching, but
I'm sure that I need technique. Of course, maybe I'll
watch some of your videos.

Speaker 14 (44:36):
And maybe with that being said, if you don't mind,
maybe if you could give us an example and maybe
we can participate if you if you would like. I'm
in a breathing exercise.

Speaker 13 (44:44):
I know that.

Speaker 12 (44:45):
No, I heard that you can expel gas very easily.
If this happens in here.

Speaker 13 (44:54):
Don't relax that.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
I'm trying to clear the place out now. But that's true, right,
you know, that's more different show.

Speaker 10 (45:06):
All right, that's how much Chubby is the g.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
But it's true.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
If you are able to relax, you able to expel
some of that stuff. And a lot of folks coming
into these positions where we are serving children, and we
still have a lot of stuff we haven't expelled yet.
We're still dealing with things we haven't dealt with the neighborhood.
And now mental stuff, and then that becomes physical stuff
as well.

Speaker 12 (45:31):
Because you're letting the physical.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
You're letting your mind create even more heaviness within your
body because you've been running around taking care of these kids,
but you haven't been taking care of yourself. Instead of
being able to take that walk, you know, I'm stressed out.
Let me eat another burger. I can't get up to
I can't get up to do my exercises, I can't
stay in shape. My mind is always running because I

(45:54):
got to take care of all these other kids and
people and responsibilities. This is a position and that a
lot of people are in that we see.

Speaker 10 (46:04):
Things fall, things not healthy. It's not healthy.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
And these are the positions and things that children are
looking at. Before I was one hundred black men, because
I'm a hundred black men. I came on but about
ten years ago, and before I became a hundred black men,
I was always an admirer of a hundred black men.
And I still to this day, sitting here in this seat,
these brothers are amazing and to see this is critical

(46:32):
for a young person, to see black men standing up
for the community is critical. So it's important I take
on the position, the opportunity to job to make sure
these black men are healthy, to make sure they are
still around.

Speaker 12 (46:45):
I'll take it a bit further for any men, especially
for our community and our kids, man, because we need
to stand up, you know, like we don't just get
to go to work anymore. Man, that those days are over.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
So as I was developing this yoga thing, I realized
that a lot of people were in this place of
just needing to yell, needed to scream, needed to get
it out, because that's where I was. I wanted to
scream and yell about the system, about the job and stuff, and.

Speaker 10 (47:16):
You need to do this yoga thing and you need
to do this.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
But I learned and develop this process of going from
yelling to yoga, and we go from yelling to yoga.
I like that we're incorporating our systems and our process
to help people relax, calm down, help you deal with
that stress of being the only person in your family
taking care of business, to deal with the stress of
helping the community go in the right direction. So one

(47:40):
of the biggest elements of going from yelling to yoga
is being able to breathe. So we're gonna all breathe here.

Speaker 10 (47:45):
If that's all right, Okay, What.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
We're gonna do is were gonna sit up nice and
tall so we can get our whole breathing apparatus together.
And if you listening or watching, please do the same thing.
You can close your eyes unless you're driving, keep your
eyes open. You're gonna relax your shoulders here you go
take that stress out. Even relax the face, Relax the jaw,
Relax the chest, Relax the stomach. These are all centers

(48:08):
of stress, and we're gonna fill them with oxygen. Oxygen
is that key that helps us to be able to release.
Oxygen is that key that helps students bring their mind
back to focus and help leaders to bring.

Speaker 10 (48:20):
Their heart back to kindness.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
On a counter three, we're gonna just take a deep
in hell, we're gonna breathe in through the nose and
out of the mouth. On a counter three, we start one, relax,
two let it go, and three everybody breathe in and
breathe out. Let's take two more of those deep breath
in and breathe out. One more, breath in and breathe out. Yes,

(48:55):
so hopefully I hope you feel that transition is just
going from That's right, that's your body telling you need
to rest. We do so much running around. We don't
listen to our body, and sometimes we ten minutes that's
all you need. Yes, yes, So sometimes our body is
yelling at us.

Speaker 12 (49:14):
And people don't even give a minute. I mean even
a minute of relaxing breathing can help you.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
That's it, Yes, just a minute and just a minute
of that mindfulness, that awareness to understand that you are
not breathing. Why aren't you breathing because you're stressed, because
that report due, because that bully over there.

Speaker 10 (49:31):
So being able to be.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Aware of those things is huge, and that's what we're doing.
We have our summer school programs. We've been in rialto
School District San Bernardino, San Bernard's, Dino City, Marino Valley, Riverside,
make videos, make.

Speaker 12 (49:44):
Videos on how do we watch this? I can't wait?

Speaker 4 (49:46):
So I got a whole thirty days worth of videos
for you, and they cook and they're easy and accessible
mentally and physically.

Speaker 10 (49:55):
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(50:19):
of Yoga, thirty thirty day Yoga.

Speaker 14 (50:22):
The question I have for you, James, is when did
you have that epiphany of, like, I am the yoga dude,
and I want to put together this program and I
see this need that I want to create this entity.
I want people to feel good, to feel good. How
did you come to that that place, that conception of
that idea and the steps you took to manifest.

Speaker 12 (50:41):
That, and was there any inspiration.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
I tried to run away from it. I tried to
run away from my responsibility that I've taken on in
this earth where I thought I was going, Okay, I'm
gonna quit this, quit the therapy thing. I'm just do
yoga and I'm just travel around the world. On beaches,
doing yoga with class is nice resorts and all that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 10 (51:02):
Have a nice clientele.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
That's what I was gonna do. And I made it
to about Atlanta, Georgia. I took honestly, I took a
great hound because I was getting I was getting ready
to go, and I made it to New York and
I was saying, peace out to my friends.

Speaker 10 (51:15):
I'm about to leave.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
I made it to Atlanta, Georgian and I'm sitting in
cafe with one of my mentors, telling you this mentorship
the thing is important. And he was like, nah, man,
you can't go. You got something here, You really got
some here. And he pulled out a napkin and he said,
you keep saying this thing about freedom, and he wrote
on this napkin, I got it today. He said, feel
free to feel free. And what feel free to feel

(51:38):
free means, and it still means to me is as
they said, be yourself, your authentic self, your real self,
the self that's stressed out, that's burned out, that's going
through it, that's not you. Let's take some breaths, let's
take some stretches, let's be mindful. He back to your
free self because that's the self that we need to
build these communities, to build these schools. That's just the
self that we need to write the wrongs that's going

(51:59):
on in so I saw that napkin and I took it,
and I took me a flight back here to Corona, California,
where I'm from, Riverside Sam Bernardino, and I said, I'm
gonna turn it out and shout out to San Bernardino City.
Schools gave me my first opportunity to be able to
teach yoga in the schools and work with the students there.

Speaker 14 (52:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (52:22):
You know those kids, those.

Speaker 12 (52:23):
Kids school man, Yeah, man, though, yeah, they get exercises
and okay, do the girls like get better of the boys?

Speaker 10 (52:31):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (52:32):
Initially the girls liked it, but then the boys said, hey, man,
I get to do something with my body and positively
in school. I remember it was this one man I
know short on time. His name was Tank. They called
him Tank. He looked like a tank.

Speaker 12 (52:46):
He was as mad as he.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
And he was from some hood, some Mexican gang I
can't even remember. But he had the school on lock,
because this was a continuation school. He had a school
on lock. Everything had to go through him. And we
was in session one day and it was being rowdy
and stuff like that, and he said, Hey, I need
all y'all to shut up. This is the only time
of day I get to relax. It's the only time

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of day I don't hear gunshots. I ain't gotta fight nobody,
I ain't gotta do this. This is my only time
of day I get to relax and be myself. Y'all
gonna have to shut up and be quiet. Whole class
is calm down, and everybody was into it. So when
they see the value of it, and it's quick to
see the value of it, because when you take a breath,
you see the value of it.

Speaker 10 (53:28):
You had that physical when.

Speaker 12 (53:30):
You were doing it with. Where I really felt is
when you told me to release my jaw.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
You don't even know you've been walking around all day
with a tight y'all, walking around all day with your
shoulders by your ears, while your back hurt all day,
while your stomach upset all day, while you got a
headache at the end of the day.

Speaker 13 (53:46):
Talking about that, let us up there those toxes.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
So hey, you know, we all got our thing and everything,
but I just want to give another tool, and especially
as the Jennifer, Like we said, a lot of these
things we didn't have coming up as kids. We didn't
even have a place to put our emotions to share.
We didn't have no therapists, we didn't have no counsel
like that. You know, were getting information and stuff from

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the homeboys. Okay, they tell us what to do. But
if you got a tool that you can a little
bit of, yeah, right, to carry it all right, but
then when it comes back what you got, you know
when it when it when it's not all done. If
you can have a practice for yourself that you could
do on a daily basis a couple of minutes just

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to slow your mind down, and you can put it with.

Speaker 12 (54:40):
Your real quick they taught us in grad school and
holistic education was fill your breath, then move to fill
your feet on the ground, then move to fill your heart,
and then just repeat that and you can usually get
yourself calm within a few seconds and then go back
on whatever you're doing.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
And you can do that while you doing your practic,
just reading the Bible, reading the Koran, the tour, whatever
spiritual religious practice.

Speaker 12 (55:03):
After you're super mad at someone, it helps because then
you don't say something stupid. I try not to stay
stupid stuff.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
As you realize that you're getting mad, you realize, oh
my hands is balling up, Oh my jaw is tight,
oh my chest is my heart is being beaten crazy.
You have these skills and tools to be aware of yourself.
And when you have that sense of awareness, you have
something that nobody can take away from you. One of
the most powerful tools you can have is yourself myself.
So to be able to have that. So that's what

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I'm offering to y'all. If you are an educator or
if you lead an organization and you want some for
your kids and for your staff, just go to that
yoga dude dot com backslast thirty day Yoga and we
have some videos and some mindfulness practices for you to use.
And it is with all gratitude and love. And at
the end of every yoga class we say this word,

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not my stay, and it really means the real in me,
recognize the reeling you, I thank you, and I honor you.

Speaker 10 (55:57):
So not gonna stay, y'all, not my.

Speaker 14 (55:59):
Stayle other that get that, like subcribe, subscribe, get some classes, participate.
I know we're circling around to our last four minutes,
and I would just like to take this opportunity to
go down the line and and and have us speak
positive affirmation or hopes upon the community, because I just
think that it's it's so powerful, as brother James had

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pointed out, just seeing men first and foremost men, but
specifically African American men, knowing the hurdles and the.

Speaker 13 (56:30):
The hurdles and the struggles of this nation.

Speaker 14 (56:32):
This nation is a beautiful nation and it's still the
land of opportunity, but there are issues and we're we're
not glossing over that, but knowing that brothers here have
navigated a lot of those hurdles and we still have
hurdles that navigator as well. If you could just speak
some life into our listeners, no matter what their ethnicity is,
but coming from a person of color, and to speak

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life into them. And for me, I'm just I'll start
it off and will pass it to the right. It's
just no so that you are divinely and uniquely created,
and you have unique talents and gifts and blessings that
only you can manifest. Find that courage and strength to
render the effort to manifest these things, and know most importantly,
to love yourself.

Speaker 10 (57:17):
You're not alone.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
You have a group of men at this table right
now that care about you and love you. And keep
going whatever it is you are focused on, whatever it
is you're experiencing, just keep going. And as you keep going,
you and experience all the tools and information and the
people you need to make the changes you want for
your life.

Speaker 10 (57:37):
I mustay, honestly, I.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Just have one thing to say, is that consistency build monuments.

Speaker 10 (57:48):
Who'll see, We'll see.

Speaker 8 (57:52):
You are somebody, you are special, but most of all
you are somebody.

Speaker 14 (57:59):
Amen, Robert Clothes, and then we'll have eat money bless
us as well.

Speaker 15 (58:06):
I just say this, be true to you, be true
to you.

Speaker 12 (58:12):
Yeah, that that's super important, definitely. And minus, don't forget
where we came from. Team. We all came from farmers.
We all came from people who just tilled the land,
lived off the land. So uh, you know, try to
get back to that as much as you can, Amen.

Speaker 13 (58:29):
Eat money. If you could bless us with a few words.

Speaker 16 (58:34):
Uh, you could pick your friends, and you can pick
your nose, but you can't pick your friend's notes.

Speaker 12 (58:40):
And with that, this is Robert Porter and Nippy on
your locker with the I Love Sannion County Radio show
and we all.

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M hm.

Speaker 10 (59:03):
Now I'm the man who loads the blues.

Speaker 13 (59:07):
He you'rened.

Speaker 11 (59:08):
I'm live in the blues, load the musing, deep do so,
I'm balking the talking, Live.

Speaker 10 (59:17):
In the blues. I'm the blues.

Speaker 13 (59:20):
Loading made from my soul into joy.

Speaker 10 (59:27):
Music makes you.

Speaker 13 (59:28):
Want a days.

Speaker 11 (59:31):
I'm the blues loaving made.

Speaker 17 (59:44):
I'm the sinner.

Speaker 15 (59:46):
I'm a saint.

Speaker 6 (59:48):
I'm the preacher.

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