KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 21 Jul, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 21 Jul, 2025

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I have a lot of gratitude towards being able to
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No matter what it is life that you won't you
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Out there and get this still sleep drill, never given.

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Put your ghost.

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They focused on you.

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Won't focus of your succeed because I'm hoping you do.
Keep climbing up the letter because the key of success
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life expressed, but we got a deal with it to
the prayer to the man to put a seet only
what Gord for what you did?

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To appreciate what you've got.

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You can no ways to prove.

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Just don't stop going.

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When what's up?

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Robert Porter?

Speaker 15 (07:28):
And it be on the locker with the I Love
Sammonadino County Radio Show on casey A NBC one L
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Am I loud enough?

Speaker 8 (07:39):
Dude?

Speaker 11 (07:41):
Yeah?

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Like the most quiet intro we've ever happened?

Speaker 15 (07:44):
Yeah?

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Would that being said? He money? Where can they tune
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Speaker 7 (08:04):
Don't you have a show too?

Speaker 15 (08:06):
I see like all kinds of local stars like Lou
Dowdy and and the whole team on your shows.

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Speaker 15 (08:21):
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Speaker 15 (09:15):
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All right, So Pal Charter Academy over a Musco area
they off Blake Street. They got a nice little, uh
actually really big campus there that's just basically a foundation
to make your kids great.

Speaker 7 (09:36):
Right, So if you.

Speaker 15 (09:37):
Want to have your kids specialize in things like audio
visual maybe even weight training or sports. Yeah, just being
a good academic student, right, these are the things that
they specialize in. And also in making sure that children
who might have a rough day have a place to
relax during the day right in a at room with

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put their feet up if they've had a bad problem, right,
and then uh and then a personal counselor there as well.
So you know, I really like PAL Charter Academy from
what I've seen just showing up there and seeing all
the things they do for the kids and all the
people involved. I got to give them the deaf and
shout out thank you for helping us. They have a

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middle school as well a high school and uh poal
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Info at palcenter dot org or call nine on nine
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were we are going to have mister Radden on the
show coming up here in a few weeks and he's

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going to go over their their policies and stuff for
a safe school awesome, right, and to make sure that
everybody understands that the kids are safe at that.

Speaker 9 (10:52):
School, definitely, and and you know it's that's needed at
all schools, and sadly that's the time that we live
in where that that of safety has to be expressed
and shown to the parents and just even for the
students as well, right, just to make sure that they
know that they're in a safe learning environment.

Speaker 15 (11:09):
And and you know, I consider it a badge on
you know, if you if you have to stand up
in a subtle way, stand up in a subtle way
and do it right, stand up right.

Speaker 9 (11:22):
Or sometimes you got to be loud, yep.

Speaker 15 (11:24):
Sometimes loud yep, you got to be loud to But
if you can only be subtle right there you go.
You know, and that every little bit is going to
help make a United States a better place.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
That's the hope, because each one of us has a
role to play in bettering that. I really feel like
in the times that we're in currently in this nation,
that is going to force us to have to get
back to knowing your neighbor, loving your neighbor, supporting your community,
addressing the needs of your community collectively, so I think
that's one of the positives that are in the current

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state that is kind of forcing us to have to
be more communal. But I think that's a positive thing,
especially coming out of the pandemic. I think so many
are you have not gained those social skills, and maybe
some of us adults may have forgotten it as well.
So we need to all grow and get better and
support what it does.

Speaker 15 (12:17):
This is the perfect time too. I mean, your neighbor
is right next door, it's not too hot, it's just
barely getting dark, right, maybe you might want to meet
them when they're walking to the car. I often go
to meet my neighbors when they move in and with
a bag of avocados. Not everybody can do that, but
it obviously opens the door for me well, and you

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get tacos and ribs stuff coming back the other way.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
Definitely, right, So it's.

Speaker 15 (12:44):
Important to love your neighbors. And then if you've been
involved insert or anything like that, you understand that when
the emergency happens, you rely on your neighbors and they
might have to rely on you too.

Speaker 9 (12:55):
I say that all the time your neighbors in a
case of emergency, they'll be the the quicker than fire
department will be there or law enforcement will be there.
So it's so important to have a good relationship with
your neighbors, to look out for the block because you know,
we don't want anything bad to happen on the block.
No cars being broken in, no houses, and if we're
vigilant and mindful of one another, we also create a

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bigger safety net. And then to a school to know
your neighbors. And as you guys are growing in life
and new experiences. Some kids are graduating from high school,
some are graduating from college, the new baby has arrived,
so you get to share those moments as a neighborhood.
And I love the fact that you see grow up.

Speaker 15 (13:36):
I got to watch my neighbors grow up their kids
so total and like to just that doesn't always happen.
And I understand that some people live in apartments and
stuff like.

Speaker 9 (13:46):
That, but well you can still do you can still
be cordious.

Speaker 15 (13:48):
I would personally buy a plant and put my phone
number on it when I lived in an apartment and every
single person that was adjacent to me, I gave them
a plant with my phone number on it. Usually cactus
and die, but they usually kill them anyways. But like
the point was that, like like they could call me
instead of calling police when I got too loud, I.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
Had a reported be just called me. I'll turn He's.

Speaker 15 (14:12):
Got fifteen you know, you know, fra turnity boys and there.

Speaker 9 (14:16):
What's going on? I hear you, totally, Totally.

Speaker 15 (14:20):
I'd like to think motivational realizations for sponsoring the show today,
and I Pionny Lockert and with with any movement on
motivation realizations lately, the book and everything, you know.

Speaker 9 (14:35):
What, I'm working on a new set of poetry. That's
because you know, I have my I Am Living Dreams
motivational Poetry series. I still have about ten more books
left to pump out in that. But I am taking
off that restriction that or that box that I put
myself in, and I'm working on more raw poetry where
I'm being showing my true me right, the good, the bad,

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the ugly, my struggles, my vices, the depression that I
went through, alcoholism, that I battle right, you know, so
just being really real and I show all that to
say that regardless of whatever struggles one may have, that
you still can do positive things. You could still be
a light in the community. And we're all works in progress,
so it's one day at a time. So that's happening.

(15:19):
Engaging captures, caught my photography service that's been providing generating
good income for me, you know what I mean, and
looking for more gigs as well. I got a few.
I locked in a couple for the next few months
as well, but I would love to I had a
string of five weekends in a row where I had
a gig, so that's the record thus far. So I
want to get on another run where I could least

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stretch it out to ten, you know what I mean.
You know, so outside of that, man just just blessed
to be alive, and it's thankful and grateful to be alive.
You know.

Speaker 15 (15:49):
That sounds great and it sounds like you're moving along
nicely to get the pace that you want.

Speaker 9 (15:54):
You know what. One thing that come to mind. I'm
actually a part of a social justice symposium that's happening
this Wednesday at UCR with doctor Zavala, Professor doctor Zavala.
He's orchestrating this and it's going to be a really
good time. I'm orchestrating a workshop. You know, I've been
kind of doing the healing circle slash village talks. Well,

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they want me to orchestrate one of those. I told
him I could do it, but he connected to me
via my my day job, right, and my day job
doesn't do that. So I told him, I'm like, hey,
I'll come in there. I'll wear my day job hat.
But what I do as far as the workshop, that's
what I do under my own business name. So he
was kind of enough to put motivational realizations as one
of the sponsors on the So that was that was huge.

(16:40):
Shout out to doctor Zavala. Thank you brother, I appreciate you.
And the symposium is happening once again this Wednesday at
u See Riverside from nine am to four thirty. Tickets
are still available if you go to my page, you
could still purchase tickets.

Speaker 15 (16:56):
Right on the history tid Oh yeah, we got to
of the history tidbit this week. I'm just gonna do
a little bit of my own, like uh uh, it
looks like I'm, you know, a counsel. Willing will be
a commissioner with the Arts in Historical Preservation Commission next meeting.

Speaker 9 (17:14):
Awesome congratulations under Mayor Hill and Tran, awesome shout out
to the mayor. Thank you, mayor, you got the right one.

Speaker 15 (17:20):
Yeah, we appreciate it. As long as the council votes
me in. So I have to get my I have
to get my votes. But uh, you know, having two
council members on last week helps the lobby a little bit.

Speaker 9 (17:31):
You know, that's help a little bit, right, So that's
why you've been bringing.

Speaker 15 (17:34):
Them nust To be honest, Miss Weeks called me today
so awesome and h On another front, I've been doing
so I realized I don't have enough time to write
a book helping my moment. It's just really hard to
find all these time. But like so many people have
used chat GPT to do the the the form of

(17:58):
the book, right, I don't want it to do my information.
I just wanted to put the picture in there and
and the caption in the right way and make sure
it's lined up format. Yeah, okay, that's what I need
and like that, That's what I'm gonna start to learn
to do better. And so I'm gonna, you know, pay
for a script description and start using Jack TV Jack

(18:19):
g TP to do the mega art to get my
book out quicker. That's the third edition because I have
found some stuff in uh Baldwin Lake that just blow
my mind, incredible stuff.

Speaker 9 (18:31):
You know who you need to reach out to, and
you've had him on the show is I'm Schante. He's
a master with that AI stuff. He'll show you how to.
I'm gonna tap in with brother, because there's ways that
I could utilize a AI that could really help remove
some stuff on my plate, especially busy work that I
have to do with my job.

Speaker 15 (18:49):
Right and just because I am a little bit like,
I don't know, I don't want AI to take over
the world. I don't want to be the guy who
didn't go use the telephone when.

Speaker 9 (19:02):
The telephones that devil, you know, like.

Speaker 15 (19:06):
I'll never use a computer, man, I would have never
made it through school.

Speaker 9 (19:10):
There's a lot of people out there that are like
Bobby Bouchet's mama, you know. Well, definitely, definitely.

Speaker 15 (19:19):
And that's all I got for today.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
Man, Definitely definitely. Will you know, thank you Robert for
updating us, and congratulations once again on your soon lord
willing soon to be a new commissioner's position. We know
that you're passionate about the community and the history of
the community and the people of our community. So I
just want to say thank you. Brother. Hey, We're blessed
to be alive. And I'm born and raising the West

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side of Salmon, Adino. You know what I mean. I'm
in the biggest county in the country. I rep it
with pride and then the I E for the Empire.
You know what I'm saying. But with that being said, man,
we have some amazing guests today, I let them introduce
theirselfs starting with our right to my right.

Speaker 15 (20:00):
Hi, my name is.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
Irene Centia's doctor Sanchez. I'm an assistant professor of ethics
studies at Samardino Valley College.

Speaker 9 (20:05):
Awesome, Awesome.

Speaker 16 (20:07):
I am James Miller. I am the co founder of
the Walnut Tribe Support Group. We're a support group for
prostate cancer patients, survivors and their families. I'm also a
seven year prostate cancer survivor of stage four metastatic prostate.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
Cancer, definitely, and a veteran as well. Yes, I spent
eight years in the United States Army. Thank you for
your definitely, So thank you definitely. And you know, I
want to dedicate this show because many people have saw
the tragic news today that Malcolm Jamal Warner has transitioned.
And I know that, you know. So, I was just

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about to say so many of us grew up on
the cool.

Speaker 17 (20:45):
He made me feel cool.

Speaker 9 (20:47):
Totally, and you are cool, bro. It's not a feeling
more than a feel. But no, brother, a great man.
What the Cosby Show did for so many communities of
color is oh the it helped us inspire to be
better than what our current surroundings may have been. Right,
so we we thank brother for his he was first

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a poet. Initially he was a poet, right, So for
his poetry, for his presence on the on the screen
and on the television show, television series, and just a
good brother, rock solid man and and to me American icon.

Speaker 15 (21:24):
Tragic losses.

Speaker 9 (21:26):
So young, only fifty four years. Yeah, and I don't
know what the causes are, but to me, every time
I see young men that are, you know, fifty or
younger or sixty year younger, it's like we have to
prioritize our health, We really have to.

Speaker 15 (21:39):
I don't know if it was a medical condition, but
I don't know what it is. He got caught in
a riptide, that's what I heard. But but that sometimes
coincides with some medical ailment. Too, so we're like where
they were gonna waste but still so yeah, no, totally
be careful at the beach and the Yeah, I.

Speaker 9 (21:56):
Really know how to swim, they said, swim sideways. Don't
try to swim right back to the shore. You want
to swe.

Speaker 15 (22:01):
Scary when it happens too, totally.

Speaker 9 (22:03):
Yeah, probably panic. But with that being said, on the
mindset of health, I'm brother Im Miller. What made you
want to create the Walnut tribe? Well, it's like this.

Speaker 16 (22:14):
I was diagnosed in August of twenty eighteen. I was
working as an airport security screener in San Francisco International Airport.

Speaker 15 (22:24):
You're one of those guys.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
Yep, A whole show man, that's whole show.

Speaker 9 (22:31):
Another show, that's another show.

Speaker 15 (22:34):
A few questions.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
Anyway, what I worked a swing shift at the time,
and I was having chest pains one night, so they
took me to the hospital, the nearby hospital, and they
were doing it. I was in the er.

Speaker 16 (22:53):
They were doing tests on me, and they contacted my
regular physician and she she had had experienience with prostate
cancer because she used to be she's being an oncologist
in on the East Course, East Coast, New York I
think yes, and she said, why don't you give them

(23:15):
a PSA test two? And I had no idea what
a PSA test was. For those of you who don't know,
the actual name is prostate specific antigen. It took me
a while to learn that too, so they gave me
that test. It's just a simple blood test. They draw

(23:37):
some blood and they send it to the lab. Now,
the average healthy males PSA level is at least four
point five. My initial PSA level was one hundred and
thirty five. So after that I.

Speaker 9 (23:57):
Got the UH.

Speaker 16 (24:00):
I got the biopsy and the cat scans and the
bone density scans and so on and so on, and
finally I was told, you have stage four metastatic prostate cans.
And when you get news like that, the natural thing
to ask, no matter what, is how much time will
I have? And one of my first on cologists said, well,

(24:26):
maybe we can push it to seven years. Then I
looked online and all the websites were talking about five years.
You have less than a thirty thirty percent chance of surviving.
And my options at the time were the regular chemotherapy

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the doctor tell I think it was back then, and
ADT hormone therapy, which is entrogen deprivation therapy. See you
all have learned something today. Anyway, it's a hormone therapy. Now.
I was living alone at the time up in northern California.

Speaker 9 (25:11):
Yes, so I didn't know.

Speaker 16 (25:14):
I didn't have have any body that would that could
take me back and forth to the hospital for chemo.

Speaker 9 (25:20):
I mean, you have work friends, you know people, but
now you need a compadre, you need a conrad during
this time, and I really didn't have that. And I'm
I'm a bit of a loner in some ways. Anyway.

Speaker 16 (25:35):
So after a while, I decided to move back to
southern California because I was raised in southern California and
I come from Rialto and a lot of my family
lives lives around here. So I moved down here and
while I was in the While I was in the

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Bay Area, my doctors refer me to a social worker
who referred me to support group. Yes, and there were
two support groups, one for prostate cancer and one for
terminal cancer stage four, you think terminal. So I went
to that one and that turned out to be a

(26:17):
blessing because I met people who have been living with
cancer for up to ten or fifteen years or more.

Speaker 9 (26:23):
Amen. So that gave me hopemen.

Speaker 15 (26:27):
That's a that's a lifetime in itself right there. You
can do a lot of good.

Speaker 9 (26:30):
Things, totally. Yeah, and you're seven years removed thus far.
You were saying, Yeah, well, I'm not in remission or anything.
The medicine I take keeps the cancer at bay where
it is to make sure it doesn't get worse. It
still might, I mean, cancer cells grow all the time,

(26:52):
so it's still I still might, it still might come up.
But I'm at the I'm at them at the doctor set,
and I think I'm going to go past that limit.

Speaker 15 (27:03):
You will well, and thank you for you know this.
I can hear your voice crack. This isn't easy to
talk about, and we appreciate you sharing.

Speaker 16 (27:12):
And most men it's hard for them to talk about
things like this. Women are better at it, Yes they are,
you know, they tell you what's wrong with.

Speaker 15 (27:25):
Them, but still they have problem looking at their boobies
showing them to check on them too.

Speaker 9 (27:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (27:33):
But anyway, back to what I was talking about. I
was looking for a support group when I moved here, Yes,
but there wasn't anything. And then a little bit after
I moved here. COVID hit. It means everything.

Speaker 9 (27:49):
Shut down.

Speaker 16 (27:52):
And all the only support groups they had to offer
were virtual and the only one I could find it
was based in New Jersey. It's called the Fighting Man
Fighting Cancer. They're still around there, a great group of guys.
And when the pandemic ended, I looked around for the

(28:15):
same thing. There wasn't any yes, particularly for black and
brown men, because it affects us to totally. You know,
we we are diagnosed at the highest rate, and we
die at the highest rate. We like have a fifty
greater rate of mortality when when this is detective.

Speaker 9 (28:35):
Yes, So.

Speaker 16 (28:38):
My sister Robin Caliver and I we decided we founded
the Walnut Tribe Support Group. We named it that because
prostate is the size of a walnut. And we use
the word tribe because when men are diagnosed with prostate cancer,

(29:01):
they think they're alone. You know, any condition, in any condition, anything,
you know, there's nobody else's that's that's got it like me, And.

Speaker 9 (29:14):
That's not true. Word up many there are many of us.
Word up, you know. And we we wanted a place
where people could come and feel comfortable talking about what's
what's going on with them.

Speaker 15 (29:27):
You shouldn't have to do it alone.

Speaker 9 (29:29):
Right, you shouldn't. It's scary to be alone with it.
I know that firsthand. And well you're changing that. Yeah,
I have a tribe now. Yeah, that's what we're that's
what we're aiming for. That's what you're doing. Yep.

Speaker 16 (29:48):
And we have we now have two locations where we
have in person meetings and we have a zoom meeting also.

Speaker 9 (29:57):
Could you please share those.

Speaker 16 (29:58):
Yes, On the first Wednesday of every month, we have
in person and zoom meetings on the first Wednesday from
six to seven pm at the Pink Ribbon Place in Riverside.
The address is forty two seventy five Lemon Street, Riverside, California.

(30:19):
Should say the zip code, Yeah, zip code is nine
two five zero one.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
Totally, totally and uh when does that one meet? The
Riverside one the first first Wednesday, first Wednesday Wednesday of
the month, right, and in we have one in Rialto
on the third Tuesday of every month, same time, six
pm to seven pm. And it's at the Greater Faith

(30:47):
Bible Church that's at two forty nine East Randall Avenue, Rialto, California,
nine two three seven six.

Speaker 16 (30:58):
And I'd like to thank two women for that who
took a chance on us.

Speaker 9 (31:03):
It was just me and my sister. One is Terry Aikins.
She's one of the heads of the Pink Ribbon Place. Okay,
so she heard about us and she gave us space
to have our meetings.

Speaker 16 (31:16):
Awesome, God bless her. And another one is Erlinda Patterson.
She she's one of the people at the Greater Faith
Bible Church. And I met her at a health of
wellness fair in Rialto they have it every year, and
we had set up a table with information and flyers

(31:36):
and everything, and she came to our table, introduced herself
and asked us what we were doing, and we told
her and she's she's she found that very interesting. And
she had run a prostate cancer group for Kaiser in Fontana.

Speaker 9 (31:54):
For about thirty years, so it was kind of divine. Yeah,
it was kind of divine.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
And uh and she's she just.

Speaker 15 (32:01):
Stopped doing that one and then you came along.

Speaker 16 (32:03):
With the with a new one.

Speaker 9 (32:05):
Yeah. Well she retired retired.

Speaker 15 (32:06):
Okay, Well that's I mean, that's exactly what needed to happen, right, Yeah,
I mean, because unfortunately I can imagine that the leaders
of these organizations often expire eventually, right, so you need
to have someone to replace you.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
Yeah, definitely if you want to see the legacy go on.

Speaker 15 (32:24):
And because this is a big thing, people constantly needn't
help and you know it. I've unfortunately, I know a
lot of men that have gone through that and some
of them aren't around anymore.

Speaker 16 (32:36):
Yeah, and it's not it's not easy to get checked,
and there's no there's no education on it.

Speaker 9 (32:46):
Definitely.

Speaker 16 (32:47):
I mean, like I said, I didn't know what a
p s A was until I was diagnosed, and before
that they used the old digital tests. Should I really
describe it?

Speaker 9 (33:00):
We know what you mean? I hear you.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
Yeah, that one, that one that says everything.

Speaker 16 (33:08):
You know, that one and that makes most men shy
away from it totally.

Speaker 9 (33:14):
I mean we all grew up hearing about that, and
no man wants I'm not going to tell the stories later.

Speaker 15 (33:22):
These stories stay there, but.

Speaker 9 (33:25):
No, I hear you. So it's it's so important you
were saying about the p s A. So I know
one of your recommendations when you do your presentation is
you encourage brothers once they get I guess the forty
year old threshold to ask and request for a PSA test.

Speaker 16 (33:41):
Yes, because not not all doctors will bring it up.
And that speaks towards that speaks you have to advocate.
You have to advocate for yourself. And I think they
should start having the pst BSA test earlier. Have do

(34:05):
it as early as possible, so it.

Speaker 15 (34:08):
Should be automatic when you go. But they just choose
not to because they want to charge us for.

Speaker 9 (34:14):
Them, all right, sadly. Right, And I can tell you
one thing I did zero. Oh, I had to go
to DC a few months ago. Yes, they have a
prostate cancer convention and you get to meet You go
to Capitol Hill and you meet the Senators and the

(34:37):
representatives from your districted and there's a there's a bill
going up now called it's called the PSA for Him Act,
And the actual number is h R eighteen.

Speaker 16 (34:50):
Twenty six House eight. Yeah, if you want to look
it up, it's easier to look up online.

Speaker 9 (34:56):
Totally. That's beautiful. With that being said, how is it
that if people want to connect with the wallnut tribes,
do you have a website or how can people get.

Speaker 16 (35:05):
Well, we don't have a web website ready yet. We're
we're a small group we're starting out.

Speaker 9 (35:10):
How can one connect with you?

Speaker 16 (35:11):
Well, I can give you my phone number and email.
The phone number is Erey code nine O nine six
three seven zero three eight four and my email is
Miller time two. That's uh time spelled t y m

(35:33):
E two at hotmail dot com. And the person that
helps us in rialto er Linda Patterson. I can give
you her information, okay. Her phone number is nine O
nine seven five four eight three nine to two and

(35:55):
her email is E R L Y P one two
at gmail dot com.

Speaker 9 (36:04):
Definitely, definitely, you know, I just want to say, you know,
thank you, brother Miller for telling your story.

Speaker 7 (36:09):
And out there.

Speaker 15 (36:10):
If you're not alone, He's right here.

Speaker 9 (36:12):
Totally, totally. You don't have to battle this alone. I
want to definitely shout out the Brother the Brother Fellowship
because you recently attended one of the last meetings that
they had, or meeting prior to the last one. I
just say, and it's good to see you. I saw
you also at Mayor Deborah Robertson's foundation or men's wellness event,
you know what I mean. Shout out to Vicky Davis

(36:33):
as well as well as the mayor former mayor of
rialto so continue to do the great work. And and
one thing that I've said about brother, he says, oh, oh,
I'm shy, but he gets up there and he speaks
and he tells his story and I tell him, not though,
don't speak that over yourself, because you're doing a great
job advocating, you're raising awareness, and you're doing a great brother.
Thank you, definitely, definitely. With that being said, we're going

(36:53):
to transfer over to our second guests of the evening.
I'm doctor Sanchez. How you doing today. I'm good.

Speaker 8 (36:59):
I just want to say it's really inspiring what you're
doing because I know people personally who've been impacted to
by prostate cancer, and like you.

Speaker 9 (37:06):
Said, it is an issue, a big issue.

Speaker 8 (37:08):
For mental color and you know, health, equity, all of
those things equality, and so I'm just really happy about
the work you're doing because I have no family members
too have been impacted by that. So it's just it's
just amazing that you're doing that. So thank you.

Speaker 9 (37:23):
Might be it could be an upcoming seventy.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
Of our college who knows it intersects with health, You
know it, and I think that's important to remember about,
you know, when we talk about equality, about all these
different things like we're fighting for you know, and that's
what we talk about in ethic studies too. So one
of the things in my class that we focus on
at Valley. And there's multiple teachers professors at Valley who

(37:46):
do ethnic studies on the first Yes, I am the
first full time tenure track there though, so you know,
I feel responsibility to to make sure because I was
raised here in the Inland Empire. I lived here are
in Muscoy and sanm Maardino two at one point, so
you know, I care a lot about the IE and

(38:07):
about our community and how it's impacted by you know,
a lot of things. Education, equality, health is a big one. Environment,
all these different issues, labor issues, right, fighting for equal
rights and all these areas, and I feel like a
lot of them are you know, they're connected.

Speaker 9 (38:21):
So do you fine?

Speaker 15 (38:22):
Have you felt targeted lately.

Speaker 8 (38:26):
Because you're you know, I've been teaching ethnic studies for
over fifteen.

Speaker 15 (38:30):
Years, like an expectation that you shouldn't be teaching that
or something like.

Speaker 8 (38:35):
No, there's always been a tax on it, so I've
always had backlash or if you tell people sometimes like
you know, when I went for a check up at
you know the doctor. You know, you meet people in
waiting rooms or just at checkout lines, and I'm the
type of person else I say hello to people, people
ask me, are you from here? It was funny when

(38:56):
I moved back because I lived out of the area
in Santa Cruz in Seattle for a while and they're like,
are you from here? Because they said, I said, why
are you asking me that? And they're like, you're too friendly.
So I'll stay hi to people, and then a lot
of times, you know, they'll ask Usually they'll ask what
you do right, And depending on who's asking them, I
just have to be a little cautious just because I

(39:16):
have to gauge my energy and if this is if
this is gonna drain me, or if I have to
explain stuff too much that I remember when I went
to the doctor, I was waiting in this waiting room
with other women for a checkup, and you know, they
asked me what I do, And sometimes it's just not
worth engaging if you know it, especially right now. So
I'm a little more careful at least when it comes
to those interactions. But in general, I've always felt that

(39:41):
teaching ethnic studies, even when I was learning time advocating
for it. People have always resisted, and you still get
some of that with students, But it just depends. I
think a lot of times students don't know a lot
of this stuff and they believe what they hear out
there about CRT critical racer, which is not a bad thing.

(40:02):
Or they'll you know, they want to debate, you know,
what they heard on some blog somewhere, and I have
to explain to them, well, that's that's not really incredible source.
So a lot of times at the beginning, I'm okay
with you know, if you disagree, but you know, you
have to bring me facts and sources. You can't just
say I disagree. And because of her, I heard from

(40:24):
somebody over there and their cousins mom said, you know
it's not or something like that, you know, and it's
so you have.

Speaker 15 (40:33):
To kind of read it on the internet.

Speaker 8 (40:35):
You're you're you're combating misinformation and.

Speaker 9 (40:38):
So it all challenging and doesn't work.

Speaker 15 (40:41):
But I was like, you're a teacher, right, so like
you have to really have students, like, like do you
ever have that.

Speaker 8 (40:49):
Like with students? Sometimes not really though I would say
not at Valley, And only I know how to approach
those situations that are different, going to have those conversations.
I would say I experienced more pushback before I came
to Valley, and Valley being there is such a blessing
for me because again I'm from here the Ie in general,

(41:10):
I grew up in Herpa Valley. I live in Rivers
right now, but you know, in Matt Valley, I used
to live in Mescoy.

Speaker 15 (41:15):
My Momino is the place to start ethnic studies. Man,
we are you know, we are the melting pod.

Speaker 8 (41:22):
My Tresser is almost twenty years an elementary school teacher
over in rialto my mom, she became a teacher when
she was in her fifties. So I always tell my
students this because I want them to know it's never
too late to do your goals. So my mom became
a teacher when she was fifty. She just retired from
Colton Joint Beautified School District last year. So you know,

(41:43):
it's it's really interesting to see momentum behind people trying
to push for ethnic studies more. And when I moved
back in twenty fifteen, I did see that. But it
is a lot different now, but I feel like it's
strong too. So even though we're in challenging times. I
feel like being back here though, I really feel like
I found a community. And previous to Valley two years

(42:04):
ago before they hired this position that I have, you know,
I was teaching for six years in Azusa, in La County,
and I was teaching ethnic studies out there, and specifically
Chicano Latino studies. And to be honest, the most pushback
sometimes you get is from your so called colleagues or peers,
so the teachers actually, and I was really shocked, you know,

(42:25):
when I was in that experience, and I don't have
that at Valley, but when I was teaching that high
school class at these three different high schools in Azusa,
every day it was the other teachers and sometimes it
was teachers from my own background who were opposed. Why
are you teaching these students this? And this was a
majority of Chiicano Latino district and I was really like,

(42:48):
not here, and I would borrow that because it applies, right,
and it was really hostile. And so when I finally
decided to look for work out here, you know, it
was after having my second son. He's going to be
three tomorrow, and it's it's just such a blessing though,

(43:12):
to be able to live and work here and just
feel like meeting folks in the community, you know, just
being grounded and centered here.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
That's that's so awesome. And I want people to know
that your an amazing poet. And that's how we initially
met was via poetry.

Speaker 8 (43:27):
We're talking about it. I used to run an open
mic in Pomona, and I told folks the other day
when I presented it at the cheach for this leadership
program at Pomona.

Speaker 14 (43:37):
It's debatable whether it's I E.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
But we're not going to get into all that they are.

Speaker 8 (43:48):
And so I did run an open mic before COVID
in in Pomona for a few.

Speaker 9 (43:53):
Years at I knew it was there so many people.

Speaker 8 (43:59):
When COVID happened, of has just changed a.

Speaker 15 (44:01):
Lot for yes, change everybody.

Speaker 8 (44:03):
So I have a poem and I'll probably read one
because we probably are limited on some time, but.

Speaker 9 (44:10):
I will point out you can share it.

Speaker 8 (44:12):
Okay, let's stew both of them then. So this one
I actually have never read out loud. This is from
a book that came out in twenty twenty during COVID.
It's called San Bordino.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Singing.

Speaker 8 (44:22):
So I wrote some it's poems in here, but it
feels like they're short stories.

Speaker 14 (44:26):
In a way.

Speaker 8 (44:27):
So I called it poems from Muskoy because I was
living there before I left for school in other areas,
So poems from Muskoy. And it's like a few little parts.
So I'll see a fight, read at least the first one.

Speaker 9 (44:40):
Here.

Speaker 8 (44:42):
I remember the days I woke up to taste the
dusty air. Sometimes I almost choked sip of water from
the night stand, and I rolled over to seafoil on
the windows that never kept the heat out. The sun sings,
but I don't feel it. Fire has raised me here,
a grown woman who isn't grown. I spent my early
twenties being raised in Muskoy. I think about how perhaps
I still haven't learned to use what this land has

(45:03):
taught me. Perhaps I have been afraid, knowing that if
I want to, I can rise gradually and gracefully, like
the hawks overhead, circling the places. These places I will
always fly back to to rest, to call home.

Speaker 12 (45:16):
And yeah.

Speaker 14 (45:19):
So when I read this again.

Speaker 8 (45:20):
I was like, oh, and in here it's a longer piece,
but I'm gonna get to the other one. You know,
it talks about living in Muscoy and about how you
don't really know a community from what you see in
the media, either newspapers or what you hear from other folks.
So I feel like the ie but when I was
living in San Bardino back then and even now, you know,

(45:41):
it gets this bad reputation, but you don't know the beauty.

Speaker 12 (45:44):
Of it unless you're here.

Speaker 8 (45:45):
And I feel like even when I left here and
then you try to explain to people where you're from,
they don't really understand. And so I'm really proud to
be from here, and I feel like a lot of
us are who are from here, and I think we
need to be And so sometimes I encourage my students
to be too, because I think you hear over time
like it's bad, everything's bad, but there's also a lot

(46:06):
of good things and good people here.

Speaker 9 (46:07):
Oh, amazing, amazing. I also just want to shout out
in Landia. I'm Katie Porter and amazing organization and publishing.
So many local people throughout the Inland.

Speaker 8 (46:17):
Empires great And this was the anthology they did on
Sam Burndino, and so I was really honored to be
a part of this. This was twenty twenty.

Speaker 6 (46:26):
This is a more.

Speaker 8 (46:27):
Recent anthology I'm in and this is published by Riot
of Roses Press. It's a small press, but this was
like a nationwide call for you know, women people who
identify as Chicanas and so Chicana's that's what I identify as.
And there's a few folks in here that are from
the IE. So I'm actually working right now trying to

(46:47):
figure out how to plan a reading of the IE
poets that are in this book called So Almost Chikhanas.
This came out in December twenty twenty four, and so
in this book and the poem that was in here,
it's a little bit longer, but I will read it
for you. It shouldn't take too long. But I called

(47:09):
it Empire, So this is actually my empire has multiple meetings,
right and we know that. And I wrote this poem
probably one of my first ones before I started sharing
them publicly, because I don't consider myself necessary performance poet
all that. I just I feel like poems are stories
and we're just sharing our stories with each other in
a different format and connection.

Speaker 9 (47:32):
It's a little bit of all different to me. There's
different genres in the poetry genres where you have spoken
word words and.

Speaker 8 (47:39):
Then there's like competitive yeah everything, And I love all
forms of expression. So for me, I feel like writing
has spoken to me a lot over my life and
gotten me through difficult times. And so when I wrote
this piece, I remember I didn't even know how to
finish it. So I actually didn't finish it until I
moved back here in twenty fifteen, and I think sometimes

(47:59):
and it has like you know, the.

Speaker 9 (48:00):
Dots at the end.

Speaker 8 (48:01):
Yeah, you don't even know how to end it sometimes, Okay,
thank you. So this is Empire and again it's ins
almost chicanas that came out last year. Life in the
Empire is made up of concrete dreams, smog, horizons, and dirt.
This is not the USA, sing of o say, can
you see pastures of plenty? I remember when it was green,

(48:23):
but I saw how dairy farms and citrus grows became
warehouses and free trade zones, creating pollution and the most
colorful sunsets that are among the most beautiful I've ever seen.
To this day, living in the Empire will confuse you,
like when you moved there, and white boys in big
white trucks and Confederate flags drive down your street as
you watch them from the bigger house your parents you
never see because they work so much moved you to

(48:44):
Bigger doesn't always mean better, but you try to convince
yourself it is like they told you, don't be ungrateful.
Living in the empire will consume you. I remember how
my friends were pushed out of school, never to be
seen or heard from until years later, and how the
air wasn't the only thing polluting us. Holding the secrets
and self medicating them was killing us. Even as we
did our best to travel straight lines, we are still

(49:05):
called lesson. We began to believe it as we leak
out of pipelines that were cracked to begin with, and
the only pipelines that weren't crack led directly from school
to prison. Or told us we couldn't be successful unless
we sign our names on dotted line so we could
be all we could be. I remember my friend who
wanted to go to college. He signed his name and
years later, aside a dusty road, we ate tacos in Texas,

(49:27):
one of my first loves, brown and beautiful. He told
me he had a family and wanted out. He only
joined to go to college two years later he was killed.
Why is it then that we allow them to continue
to tell our youth to be all you can be?
But how you can you be all you can be
if you're dead. From Vietnam to the wars of today,
Giganos die on the front line abroad and at home,
and we are still marching like our ancestors did, Chicano

(49:48):
moratoriums and dodging tear gas cans, fighting for our brilliants,
brilliance we already had before they told us they would
make something out of us, as if we were nothing,
and no one without a history to begin with. Living
in the empire will confuse you until you remember where
you came from. I remember when I walked out for
Prop One eighty seven. We demanded our rights because they
hated us Mexicans. These rights we've been trying to get
since Mexican schools. We've been trying to get, since walkouts,

(50:10):
we've been trying to get since they took our land
and made us foreigners on it and called our grandparents' names.
I remember my parents growing up in East LA and
the pain they didn't want to talk about, and how
they believe the American dream met they wanted to give
us better than where we were from, as if where
we were from wasn't good enough, But I learned it
was good enough. We just couldn't afford to live there.
And my parents thought bigger was better because it costlet,
but it really costs everything. When you cover up generational

(50:33):
trauma with things in the empire, they say, you don't
have a choice. This is the way it is and
always will be just accepted. But you can't because living
in the empire teaches you that the empire is everywhere,
and it must be changed before we lose another child
to the lives of the school system. That they tell
us our communities have had learning loss, not just in
a pandemic, but for generations, and it's our time now

(50:54):
to rise up and change for our children and all
those who will come next.

Speaker 9 (51:00):
Powerful.

Speaker 8 (51:01):
Probably the first time I read a poem a while out.

Speaker 9 (51:04):
You did excellent, You did excellent, and thank you for
for blessing us with that. There's so many, so many
players to it and the school to prison pipeline. As
if my culture didn't bring like your, you can make
us better. We already have so much greatness within this
right like that's keep doing your thing. I hope you.

(51:24):
I hope you still right.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
I am still writing.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
I actually have poems coming out in a book. It's
another small press. I think it's out of Texas. It's
called Anger Is a Gift. It was poems responding poems
responding to the recent uh November elections. And so there's
two poems in there that are you know, a lot
of people they're saying anger is a gift because we
have to also express our all of our emotions. I

(51:47):
feel like we should express because at the same time,
if we bottle them up, it's not good for our
mental healths.

Speaker 9 (51:53):
I especially say that to our men that you know,
we have to fill the whole range of emotions. That
shows you're alive, yes, you know, like you for the living.
If not, are you even alive? Are you just existing?
Are you a zombie with no feeling? No, it's that's
not the way to live.

Speaker 15 (52:12):
Or are you just looking out for yourself?

Speaker 9 (52:14):
I mean it could be in a selfish way, but
that could be a selfish way that leads to detriment
to self, you know what I mean? Usually yeah, in
most cases. That's why it's so important for all people
to express themselves. But especially for me being a man myself,
but knowing that many men struggle expressing themself for asking

(52:34):
for help when they need help or assistance, because as
brother Miller said, it's we all fall prey to this
mindset of that we're the only one. There's eight billion
lives on this planet, and it's so much intersectionality. Now
it's aspects that makes us each unique, but the live
experience has so much overlap, you know, and never you're

(52:55):
never the only one.

Speaker 15 (52:56):
Yeah, we always have something calm with somebody.

Speaker 8 (53:00):
Like you're saying, I think people right now especially need
to feel like they're in community with one another. And
whatever way we can bring people together right to make
them feel like they belong, like they're welcome, that they
have a space, it is just so important, you know,
And wherever we're at, whoever we're around, like you're saying,

(53:21):
you know, I think that and food. No.

Speaker 9 (53:28):
I I want to say thank you for for what
you do in our community, the poetry that you bring,
the light and the education and wisdom that you're seeding
and cultivating at Samardino Valley College and all the places
you have trade And I'm happy that your journey has
brought you back home, and and now you're you're raising

(53:48):
the next generation. You're encouraging the next generation of leaders,
of poets, of of of change agents, you know. So
I greatly appreciate that. Is there anything coming down the
pipeline at Samardino Valley College that you would like our
audience know, new programs or new programming or new courses.

Speaker 8 (54:08):
I would say, stay connected to our social media for
the best information. So we have like two Instagram pages,
which is really great. We have a new president this
past year, he started doctor Condredras, and we have we
have our SB Valley College Instagram, but there's also Colegio
sbs VC, so we have a Spanish Instagram page to

(54:29):
reach the community that speaks Spanish. And I think that's
a really great thing because I think we're one of
the first colleges around here that are doing that high
red institutions using you know, social media to kind of
branch out and reach more people and just let them
know you have a place here at Valley College. And
there is a lot of stuff upcoming. We have our

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hundred year anniversary for the college celebration.

Speaker 15 (54:54):
Yes, so if you are.

Speaker 8 (54:55):
Valley College alumna, I would suggest you look at the
social media to find out ways to get connected, to
share stories, all of that stuff. They have these call outs,
So yeah, we're doing stuff. And as for Ethnic Studies
or we're planning to expand right we're going to have
We expanded last year with more classes, hopefully hiring soon
another faculty member that's full time, and also you know,

(55:19):
developing more classes later down the pipeline. It takes a
little while to do that, but we were really happy
to expand this year to having more classes as well
besides our introduction class, which is really great. So we're
trying to build partnerships too. So totally love connecting with community.

Speaker 9 (55:34):
Awesome, awesome, and I definitely encourage I know, you know
Mary valdem Or, and I know she has her John
Trudeau poetry.

Speaker 8 (55:41):
Of it that comes up in the fall.

Speaker 9 (55:43):
I would love to hear the Empire read there. That
would be awesome. And then I also want to say
thank you for your amazing, the amazing Ethnic Studies symposium
that you guys had orchestrated about a month or so ago.
That was beautiful and meeting Olympian for the Carlos, John Carlos,
I want John you got it. That was That was

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a beautiful experience. And I love how we could bring
the community together, especially when we speak about the communities
of color, right and and and to me white as
a color as well. So all of us right, all
of us right, because we're all here and.

Speaker 8 (56:19):
We all got to learn about all these different stories.

Speaker 9 (56:21):
Oh, we all have something to bring. We all have
a history of positive and pretty much everyone in this question,
let me finish this, pretty much everybody in this country
outside of our indigenous community is an immigrant. So it's
sad that many people have forgotten that go ahead.

Speaker 15 (56:38):
The introduction of DNA and ethnic studies as it helped
or hinder it. Introduction of DNA and the ethnic studies.

Speaker 9 (56:46):
That seems like more of the scientist side of.

Speaker 15 (56:48):
The DNA like, because you know, it's starting to they're
starting to realize that we have different ancestors from the past.

Speaker 8 (56:58):
I don't think we've had those discuss since necessarily. It's
more because it's focused on the four groups that have
been historically and deliberately excluded from you know, history, which
in the stories of the present too. So we're talking
about the black community, the Chicago, Latino community in.

Speaker 15 (57:15):
Asia, America some kind of purity, like you look at
the DNA, your DNA has this little bit of neandithal,
then you no longer are this. So that's what this
new weird racism that's starting to build. And I was
just wondering if there's any.

Speaker 8 (57:28):
I don't think I've heard those conversations, but I.

Speaker 15 (57:31):
Maybe need an a counter to it early before it
does get to a point where people's like, this person
has more DNA from a the NFL than we do.
They can't beat this or whatever, or they don't have
any NEANFL DNA so they're this or whatever.

Speaker 8 (57:43):
So maybe that's getting more anthro in like world history.
But I was just thinking because we're talking about, you know,
the formation of it in the sixties civil rights, So I.

Speaker 15 (57:54):
Basically study ancient ethnic groups, right, and DNA is all
the rage and all that here, right, because they some
don't know where they stand designated right, and then they
find out that they're related to this person, or they've been.

Speaker 17 (58:07):
There all along, or they moved there this time.

Speaker 15 (58:09):
You know, it's all kind of a cool stamps.

Speaker 9 (58:11):
At the end of the day, regardless of the DNA,
were all related because we're part of humanity.

Speaker 15 (58:15):
Yeah, we're we all came from the first ones, right.

Speaker 9 (58:17):
You know, and and the home of humanity is Africa,
you know. So we've all come from this land, and
we all will go back into this land. But until
that day, we should continue to celebrate and love one another,
you know.

Speaker 8 (58:30):
And that's what we're missing right now because there's a
lot of dehumanization going on. So I'm glad you said that.
It's about, you know, humanizing our experience and listeners to
each other.

Speaker 15 (58:38):
I always say there's one race, the human right, that's it.

Speaker 9 (58:40):
That's it, brother, Well, definitely we're down to our final minute.

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