KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 25 Aug, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 25 Aug, 2025

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You know no matter what it is like, what's up?

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Team, This is Robert Porter and Ni be on you
locker with the I Love Samernardino County Radio Show on
Casey A NBC one O six point five ten fifty am.
We will talk to politics, culture, in history.

Speaker 14 (07:12):
What's up that beyond a.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
Yo yo? Brother dor well Man, blessed to be alive.

Speaker 15 (07:17):
Man, it looked like you had a wonderful time after
Bridge Cutt and bro Oh. That was a lot of fun.

Speaker 10 (07:21):
That was a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
But we'll get into that in one second. If we
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there in Muscow and it's actually a really cool spot
to have food distribution. So their feod distribution will be
on September second, from twelve to two pm. So next week,
be there and get some free food and you know,
maybe it can help supplement your food for the month.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Definitely, definitely.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
So that's that's awesome, and I want to thank all
the people that take part in that and helping our
people get food because sometimes it's hard to get food
and I've been in those food bank lines, so it's
good to have them.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
On that same tip.

Speaker 15 (08:53):
I was recently in a meeting with Todek with the
executive director Lose Gagos, and she was said saying that
with you know, with these ice raids and everything that
a lot of the immigrant community in the Low Desert
are facing food insecurities because people are fearful of leaving
their house, not going to their doctor's appointment. You know,
kids are not participating in after school sports and things

(09:15):
like that are out of fear, and they're having some
food insecurity. So I'm gonna be doing a really food
drive for tow Deck. They have a list of items
that you know, they can really stretch, like big bags
of beans, rice and you know, tortillas, some hygiene products
they need as well. They have a list that I'm
going to share out with the organizations that I work with,

(09:35):
but I wanted to extend this to the greater audience
the once go to my Facebook page and I'll put
the lists, and we're going to be doing the mini
prison pilgrimage on Saturday, October twenty fifth, and that's where
we will take the collections for the food drive.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
For tow Deck.

Speaker 15 (09:50):
So I just wanted to put that out there because
many of people are facing food insecurity, especially our migrant community,
our immigrant community, with with what's with the current state
of the happenings within our nation and state.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well, it seems like we got a lot of good
stuff coming up in the future. All right, Well, Samornadino
is being uplifted in so many ways. Tell us a
little bit about Black August real quick.

Speaker 15 (10:21):
Oh definitely, Well, thank you, brother Black August. We had
Black August yesterday at Fairmont Park. We had about ninety
people come out in one hundred degree weathers.

Speaker 12 (10:29):
I saw.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
You doing times, good time, good time.

Speaker 15 (10:34):
Good good times, but hot times, hot times summer in
the city.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
But it was a wonderful event.

Speaker 15 (10:41):
You had people from different religions, different ethnicities, different orientations.
There's so many differences, but yet we could come together
to uplift a cause. Thinking about uplifting and grieving, you know,
freedom fighters people had to sacrifice for the civil rights
and the rights that we have and as well as
trying to just address some of the injustices with some

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of our systems within this nation.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Right.

Speaker 15 (11:05):
So it was a beautiful gathering, nothing but positivity and love.
And it was beautiful and we're just going to continue
to grow. Next year's theme is going to be, yeah,
free barbecue and the food distribution. Pretty much everything got taken.
All the food got ach.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
All I have to say is that he mentioned the food,
but but he said it ended that too, and he
put the video up at six.

Speaker 15 (11:27):
And I was like, it was one the four right,
And and when I did put that video up, I
did I recorded it.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
I forgot that correct about that. But it was a
wonderful time.

Speaker 15 (11:44):
But you know, I just want to say thank you
to all, thank you to all the organizations and and
and people that blessed us with their presence and supported
that event. And shout out to Gennaro y he this
is his seven year leading it here in the Inland Empire.
So definitely want to give brother his flowers on the
vision of I'm bringing more awareness to our community about

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black August right.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
On, right on, And those are great pictures, dude.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Oh thank you brother.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
All your work is just substantially every single time it's better. Yeah,
you're really doing something. You're putting a lot of work
into that.

Speaker 12 (12:20):
Man.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
It's just shooting.

Speaker 15 (12:22):
Man, Like I tell people all the time, you just
got to shoot, you know, or whatever your industry is,
you have to do it on a regular basis to
improve if if not, if it's whatever you're using, if
it's just collecting dustin you shoot three times a month,
or you do whatever you want to do. You know,
three you're not you could grow. You're going to grow,
but it's going to be not as quick as you

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could grow.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
You know.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
I had an incredible week with the you know pictures
from the mountain, yeah Bridge, Yeah, and wow, like those
pictures really did no.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
I saw the views were going crazy.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
Bro.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
I was oppressed with the amount of people that came
to the event as well. You know, it was made
for five years to get this one of the most
expensive construction projects in San Bernardino history, all the history
associated with the bridge. So do you mind if I
read it Mount Vernon Avenue? And this is from a

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guidepost to history Origins of place and street names in
sam Bernardino County by Elizabeth W. Richards Mount Vernon Avenue.
It is always seems odd to this writer that Mount
Vernon should be chosen as a street name in the
town of sam Marenandino, where something pertaining to Indian or
Mexican heritage would have seemed so much more appropriate. However,

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upon discovering the background of the person responsible for this name,
it is indeed appropriate, and it serves to tie west
to east. The donor of the name Mount Vernon was
Uncle Joseph Hancock. His grandfather, Thomas Hancock, was brother of
the mortal John Hancock, first engineer of the Declaration of Independence,

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which honorable distinct distinction Uncle Joe has lived and born
with becoming modern. Okay, let me read that again. Was
brother a mortal John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration
of Independence, which honorable distinction Uncle Joe has lived and
bored with the becoming modesty. Hancock was born in Ohio

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in eighteen twenty two, the son of Solomon and Alta
Adams Hancock, he came to San Bernardino in eighteen fifty four. He,
together with John Garner and Joseph Thorn, became trustees of
the Mount Vernon School District, and it was he who
gave the name Mount Vernon to the school, in honor
of the home and burial place of Washington. Uncle Joe

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was still active and in good health when Brown and
Boyd published their history in nineteen twenty two, and at
that time he had attained the amazing age of one hundred.
According to his granddaughter Esther Hancock little Field, he lived
to be one hundred and two. He was active for
years in the Pioneer Society, and his portrait is prominent
in many places on the walls of the Pioneer Society

(15:11):
log Cabin in Pioneer Park, which burned down a long
time ago.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
That's very interesting.

Speaker 15 (15:18):
I think it's appropriate because that thoroughfare is Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon was a thoroughfare right and now.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
It is again. We could get from Sambandino to cult
It was.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Gone for five years, like you know, so many times,
and you know, I should really not say this because
all the people that dealt with it every day, but
it was just I would forget right and I'll be
heading down and I'm like, oh.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
Man, all right, And he did it for five years?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah, like we ever did that for five years every day?
You know, God bless you that that's over with, right,
I hear you.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Now you can make your way through.

Speaker 15 (15:54):
But I was wondering if the the Hancocks were related
to the foot balls ballfoot if there's any relationship there. Yeah,
definitely to the footballs.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yeah, more history.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
We got to look it up. They gotta look at it.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
We got this guy, he can google it for us. Eric,
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Speaker 5 (16:34):
Definitely, definitely.

Speaker 15 (16:35):
And then what's usually happening on Tuesday nights at seven pm?

Speaker 9 (16:39):
Well, I guess seven o'clock at case seems to be
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to tune in tomorrow, guys, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Who's a star host of that show?

Speaker 5 (16:53):
My little cousin.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
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Thank you money.

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Speaker 14 (17:03):
Thanks Eric.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
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Speaker 5 (17:20):
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Speaker 15 (17:21):
We're going to let our guests introduce ourselves briefly and
then we'll dive deeper.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
But I'm going to start with my guests and my
right Okay.

Speaker 16 (17:29):
Hello everybody. My name is Nico.

Speaker 17 (17:32):
I was homeless for a long time and through faith,
my life just did a complete one eighty and I'm
still to this day just.

Speaker 16 (17:42):
In astonishment of how God has moved my life.

Speaker 17 (17:47):
And I'm just grateful to be here and I hope
I can share something with you guys today that can
impact you and make a positive influence in your life.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
Amen.

Speaker 16 (17:56):
Thank you guys for having me here today.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
No problem brother. Thank you for being here, sirs.

Speaker 14 (18:00):
Run Hello everyone.

Speaker 18 (18:01):
I am Searon Lewis and I'm the executive director of
empower You Edertainment and I'm so blessed to be here
with you guys this evening.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
And she was hers.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
You know, at eddoors.

Speaker 14 (18:25):
I can take him off.

Speaker 15 (18:27):
No, No, that's with your sister. With that, B said,
We're going to start with Miss Sharan. I'm Miss Sharan.
Tell us a little about your your origin story because
I know you're the executive director of empower You Edutainment
and as well as a retired teacher as well, and
it also works with the Youth na A c P

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of Riverside County as well, So you have so many hasks.
Tell us how you how do you manage to wear
those mini hats and make that kind of impact.

Speaker 18 (18:58):
And I'm also human relation I'm a missioner for the
City of Riverside.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
All right.

Speaker 18 (19:07):
Basically, I just like to say that all my life
I have been a type of person that wanted to
make a difference in the community. I've always been a
community person. When I came to Riverside to go to college,
I instantly got involved with the community. And this is

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something I've been doing all my life. It's just natural
to me. And I spent thirty three years in the
classroom Alvarn that Unified School district. I am a performing
arts teacher and that's what I learn.

Speaker 14 (19:44):
Absolutely. I love my job. I love my students.

Speaker 18 (19:48):
And I say not in the past tense, because I've
still have relationship with our students. Because of the fact
that you have the Internet, you're able to like things
that they say, and that too. But also now I've
run into them like I do after school program Riverside

(20:10):
Unified School District, and some of my students now I
see their kids right and they say that was my teacher,
and that makes me feel really good. Or I go
to the bank and they say, are you missus Lewis
and used to teacher dance and know the visa?

Speaker 14 (20:25):
Yes I am.

Speaker 18 (20:26):
And so I see them in the community, even some
that are teachers themselves. And when I retired, I retired
early because I wanted to do something that was in
my heart, and that was to bring free And when

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I say free, I have to say that with understanding
there's nothing free, but with grants, you can make the
costs not be for the young kids or their parents
who cannot afford the arts, that they could come and
participate without that cost. And I think that that was

(21:09):
so important because when I was teaching, many kids did
not take a dance class until they became high school,
not because they didn't have a desire, but sometimes you know,
when you're dealing with the food that you got to
put on the table, the light to those kinds of things.
I get this thing back to when I was young,
and soul trained was my role model, you know, cause

(21:31):
I loved dancing and I you.

Speaker 14 (21:34):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, but you too, I remember.

Speaker 14 (21:44):
But you know, the deal is this.

Speaker 18 (21:47):
I often think about it if I would have had
that opportunity to have dance classes or theater classes, those things,
rather than waiting till I was seventeen years old when
I rode in college and took my first you know
class and dance and.

Speaker 16 (22:03):
Then later at the well.

Speaker 18 (22:06):
Yeah, because my birthday is in September, you know, when
school started.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 14 (22:14):
Yes. But the thing is, for me, the arts open
up so much, you know.

Speaker 18 (22:22):
And my background is my father was a jazz musician,
and so when I grew up, I grew up hearing
jazz hearing music, but not understanding the value of that
because people are like my grandfather and various people would say,
you know, you need to get a real job, take
care of your.

Speaker 14 (22:42):
Family, you know.

Speaker 18 (22:44):
But as I grew and to love the arts, I
would understanding that this is a real job, this is
your heartbeat, this is what the community needs in order
to value who they are. Because my father would play
jazz at night and the people in our neighborhood would

(23:06):
have their windows open and they would be listening, so
they got that concert right then he would just play.
That was his thing, that was his gift to the community.
And so that is why we have.

Speaker 14 (23:19):
Empower You Entertainment. You know.

Speaker 18 (23:22):
It was co founder. I'm a co founder with Marty Wilson,
who was another teacher we met in college. Yes and
a beautiful singer. She sing jazz, gospel all.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
The beautiful singer.

Speaker 14 (23:37):
Yes you do, Yes, you do.

Speaker 18 (23:39):
And so what happened when we met in college we
started doing what came nephew to us, sharing our talent
with the young kids in the community. And then we
started off of it was a Rainbow performing arts group,
and then from there we.

Speaker 14 (23:59):
One of our dear friends shared with us.

Speaker 18 (24:02):
She called us on the phone and said, you know,
you guys doing so much in community. I've already decided
I'm gonna bless you. I'm going to pay for your nonprofit.
And at the time, I'm like, you know, I didn't
know that much about nonprofits, to be honest with you,
I was just a person doing arts. And she said, no,
you need to be established as a non profit. And

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that was in twenty sixteen, and so she paid for
that and we were able to get it, and we
got our paper work completed in twenty seventeen and gratulation,
thank you, thank you. And from there became the work,
the real work. Because someone blessed me with that. I

(24:47):
decided that I want to make sure I do good
with this, yes, indeed, and be able to serve the
community even better than what we were doing, you know,
by just hitting miss. And so now we're established on
Brockton Avenue and downtown Riverside. We have our location, you know,
we pay rent, so we have a space, and we

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we're in the schools. We do plays, we do partnerships,
we do workshops. We're just there to serve our community
and help them use art to tell their stories. And
for example, right now, the play Nelly's Story, Yes, is

(25:35):
about domestic violence. But let me just say this to
everyone when you talk about domestic violence, but if you
don't have a solution, if you don't have something that's
gonna bring to the table, how can we move forward
in our families without talking to each other? You know

(25:56):
in a way that we are not dignifying who we are,
that we be yelling and screaming. Okay, how can we
make sure that violence don't take place? Because that's when
that takes place and we see it, what happens, It
continues out in the community in a way that that's
normal to you. So you're out of control. So somebody

(26:19):
says something to you, it hurts you. You want to
hurt them back, and that's where the violence come in.
And so what we like doing with empower you entertainment
in this play, we have real life people who have
dealt with this, dealt with the domestic violence situation. So
when I write my play, these people gravitates to that

(26:42):
that give them a chance to express their story. And
then I'm able to say, hey, your story is so
so detailed because that's your experience. Here's a chance to
add to what I write so you can tell your
story and have that breakthrough. And so what we decided
to do with Nellie's story was to use the seven

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Principles of Kwansa. Why aren't we just using those principles
just in December to January seven days when they're so practical,
we should be using them all the time. So Nelly
is a young nine year old that is just trying

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to bring mom and grandma together because there's no men
in the family, and the mothers and the and the
grandmother of fighting constantly fighting because really they they're they're
seeing each other in the mirror, so seeing each other
in the mirror, they don't know how to respect to

(27:48):
see the queens that they are okay. But in the
Koumba Center, we have Queen Mother Pearl, powerful sister that
who's been through some stuff, but when you see her,
she seemed like she's all together. But she is that

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because she is that role model for the others. And
so that's what we want to do. So through the
Koumba Center, we're able to to get to the point
that we can make it because we get the true
sense of community, and that's what's lacking what I grew up.

(28:32):
That true sense of community was there. They used to
have something called teen post. Oh good, and then you
you were you were able to go there after school.
But they were like cultural center and what the Black
Panthers did, they modeled that kind of thing and they
had those cultural centers that you went to. It was
safe for the kids and they were able to learn.

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There were males there, so if they didn't have a father,
they had that far father figure there.

Speaker 14 (29:01):
They had also the.

Speaker 18 (29:02):
Teaching of our history, which is so key because if
you don't.

Speaker 14 (29:07):
Know who you are.

Speaker 18 (29:08):
Marcus Godfert said, hey, wait a minute, how can a
tree without roots make it?

Speaker 14 (29:15):
It cannot happen.

Speaker 15 (29:18):
That's right, you know, powerful statement. When is Nellie's story?
When is that play happening?

Speaker 18 (29:26):
It's happening September twelfth, And you know, Timery twelfth is
significant to me because it's my birthday and I did
when it came about, I did not, you know, like
my birthday.

Speaker 14 (29:39):
That was the only date that was available.

Speaker 18 (29:41):
I was like, okay, but then maybe that really shows
my commitment to what.

Speaker 14 (29:47):
I believe in. You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 18 (29:49):
So this partnership came about I am the visor for
Riverside County INNAACP Youth Council, and these remarkable you people.
They're in the fight, they're they're excited about being an
advocate and and and and.

Speaker 14 (30:09):
They're change makers.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Yes, and so.

Speaker 18 (30:13):
I want them to be able to have the funds
that is needed so that they could go for training,
they could do the things they need to do. The
national in a a convention, one of of these youth
leaders won a national recognition or Organizer of the Year

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also for the region the region I want, which included Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, California.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
All of that.

Speaker 14 (30:45):
Yes, yes, right, yes, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 18 (30:48):
Because of the work and you know about some of
the things she's done, which is the unity basketball game
and the breaking bread with the police department in Riverside,
she made sure that that is carrying on as a
tradition and she's been doing it for three years as
she was student at u c l A. At the

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same time just graduating, but keeping.

Speaker 14 (31:11):
That that that.

Speaker 18 (31:13):
That movement going, keeping the things going, for example, if
something is needed, they're there, like for example, just recently
at the Riverside County Supervisor meeting. They were one of
the eighty people that they stayed that long to speak

(31:33):
and so they wanted.

Speaker 14 (31:37):
Absolutely and they were there.

Speaker 18 (31:39):
And you know the cool thing about it, I don't
have to be in the space with them.

Speaker 14 (31:44):
You know, they just do what they need to do.

Speaker 18 (31:47):
And so because of that, I went to our board
and say, you know what, why don't we could Usually
we are trying to make our play no cost for people,
but I said, let this be a twenty dollars fee
that people pay and then they would have that money
to help them go to their leadership conference.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
So in this production is a fundraiser for them? Yes, indeed, Yes.

Speaker 18 (32:11):
Indeed, absolutely, and so we hope that and I know
it's hard, and let me just say this. If you
don't have any money, please just contact me. We still
would open up the door for you ten if you
want your family to come and your because that's what
we' that's what we do. And already talked to the
U concert they said yes, they said yes to that.

Speaker 14 (32:33):
So you know, if.

Speaker 18 (32:35):
We whatever we make there would go to them, But
we don't want to have it so people can't come.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
We don't want to have a cost barrier.

Speaker 15 (32:44):
No, never and I will say how can people contact you?
Because it might be someone one of our listeners might
be like, hey, I have five hundred dollars that I
want to donate to pay for X amount of tickets
for people that may not have the means or the
resources to come. How can they contact you if they
would like to bless you in that regard, because you
seem to receive blessings from the start the conception of this.

Speaker 18 (33:06):
I would love that to happen. That's why I'm here.
I'll give you my number. I hear it's all over
Facebook and Instagram and everywhere. So my number is two
one three three five nine two one three three five
nine eight six three nine. Please text me because I

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do get a lot of phone calls. Every time I
clear out the voice messages, it's back like that again.
And that's okay because we're an active group and I
would appreciate you texting me and then we make it happen.
I do have young people that will call you back
if I can't call you, but we will reach out
to you. But we would love to have donations and
what the young people are doing. First of all, you

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could find us about the play Nelly's Story. Its original
play and something I just want to share with you.
Ever since I was a young girl, I used to
walk on the house talking to myself. But I used
to try to create my own soap operas because during
that time, my grandmother she loved the soap operas, and
so I would just look what they were doing.

Speaker 15 (34:12):
But it wasn't funeral hospital.

Speaker 14 (34:26):
One like to live.

Speaker 18 (34:30):
Yeah, but you know, I didn't see people that looked
like us back to there when I'm talking about when
I was little.

Speaker 14 (34:37):
You just didn't see that. As the world turned and stuff.

Speaker 18 (34:40):
So I walked around and I was just talking and
making up I see what they were doing that I
made a black version in my mind. So when I
started college and stuff, I started, well, this is a
two story lengths and news.

Speaker 14 (34:57):
I got introduced to blanks and youth class.

Speaker 18 (35:00):
Yeah, and then so from that I was able to
write my first poem, and then I discovered I could write.
And so this is one of the plays that I
have written in Nellie's.

Speaker 15 (35:12):
Story, Beautiful, Beautiful. I love it, and it's going to
be taking place at the Box Theater. I believe Box Theater.

Speaker 18 (35:17):
Please come out September twelfth, seven o'clock. Get your ticket
right Nellie's story.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
And you guys have an Instagram as well as empower you.

Speaker 18 (35:28):
Okay, yeah, we are empower you Edutainment E D U
T A I N M E N T. That's who
we are, empower you edutainment. Our website is empower You
edutainment dot org. So you know, look us up when
you put that in there at Google, we show.

Speaker 14 (35:49):
Up, you know. So we're not We're not a mystery.

Speaker 18 (35:52):
Please visit us, call me, connect with me, love love
to connect with you.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
We're not a mystery. We're making history there.

Speaker 14 (36:00):
I love it.

Speaker 15 (36:01):
I love definitely, Thank you, Thank you, mister Ron. Definitely,
definitely definitely. We're gonna turn to our next guest right now.
Nico and I want to give a little framing with Brother.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Nico.

Speaker 15 (36:13):
I ran into Brother at Multifaceted Michael Michael's event. He's
a hip hop artist. We had Michael on here. The
song he performed Gods via Multifaceted Monster Push God's Violin.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
He did three songs.

Speaker 15 (36:27):
Can't think of the third one, but anyways, he was
a part of a band. Well, he's working with a
group called Adolescents Your Young Dose of adolescence. Thank you,
thank you, brother. And they're kind of like a rock
a rock band, right, and so that he has a
song that he's collaborated with them, and then so they
let him do a set and everything. So he was

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performing and brother had brother Nico come out and do
the video for him, the videography for him. But what
caught my attention is brother Nico got four cameras, three
different angles, then got this top end tripod with his
top end camera.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
People all miked up, like.

Speaker 15 (37:06):
I mean, very professional, very easily fifteen to twenty thousand
dollars set up, if not more right, And I was
just I was so impressed because often they say when
you do productions, you definitely want three shots, right, you
want the audience, you want the stage, then you want
that roaming shot.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
Right. But brother got four shots, he got four angles.
You had me. So he's like doing real production. So
that caught my attention to him. Talking with Brother, he
kind of.

Speaker 15 (37:30):
Shared a little of his story because he was like,
you know, I give it all to God, And I said,
with God, you know, because you know I work in
the interface space, right, so you know I always like
to get a clearer understanding of when people are referencing,
when they're referencing their faith, right, So he said Jesus Christ,
and then he kind of told me his story and
I was like, bro, would you be comfortable sharing that

(37:51):
on the radio station because it was so inspiring? Right,
So that's how we connected, you know, And I've been
looking at his content. He does amazing potography as well
as videoography. Seems like videography is like your yo yo
yo super But you also seen you also are a
fitness guy as well, So tell us a little about you,
brother Nico.

Speaker 17 (38:12):
About me, huh okay, Well, I think the most important
thing about me is that it's not about me.

Speaker 16 (38:19):
It's about It's about we, you know.

Speaker 17 (38:21):
And I feel that God has given all of us
a lot of gifts, and that's and our gifts become
gifts when we share them. So all the gifts that
you have or that you have are not for you
or for others, you know. And so I mean, on
that note, I guess one of the gifts that I
was given, I guess I'll go into the story that

(38:44):
I was sharing with you through building my production company.
So I have a production company. I do photo video lighting,
drone three sixty all that. But anyways, I was living
with an next girlfriend much respect to her, were not
together anymore, but there was a time where she was going.

Speaker 16 (39:03):
Through a really difficult time.

Speaker 17 (39:06):
She did start drinking and perhaps some other things on
a daily that I didn't realize. And then one day
when I was in my studio, let's just s she
was basically black out drunk. She doesn't remember what she
was saying or doing, and she started destroying my things
like I like he said, I have liked probably like
thirty thousand dollars worth of equipment now, and she was

(39:29):
like throwing him on the floor and everything. So then
I was trying to hold her down, and as I
did that, she actually ended up biding, you know, and
as the blood started dripping down from my arm, right
she saw that and like.

Speaker 16 (39:46):
Woke up and she was she was just like shaking,
like what am I doing?

Speaker 12 (39:50):
You know?

Speaker 17 (39:50):
Oh I actually mind you Actually, after I started to
hold my arm, she was hitting me in the face,
so she she she actually gave me a corneal abrasion.
I had to wear an eye patch for two weeks,
you know. But but anyways, when that happened, when she saw
the blood. She woke up and she was like, I'm
so sorry, Like, if you could forgive me, I promise

(40:14):
I will stop drinking right And in that moment, after
bleeding and like having like you know, bruised face, there
was nothing in my heart other than compassion, other than forgiveness,
other than like and immediately what I told her was
I already forgive you.

Speaker 16 (40:36):
I already forgive you.

Speaker 17 (40:38):
And I told her if if if you need help,
if you want help to stop drinking, I'm gonna be
here for you. If it's going to take you time
and you fall short, I'm gonna be here for you, you know.
And And the only reason I was able to have
that kind of experience on is because of Jesus, Because

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of God and Jesus and how God's grace that He's
given all of us that is unworthy and undeserving of
his love, like he gives it to us freely.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
You know.

Speaker 17 (41:13):
I experienced that type of love with my mom. Fortunately
I've experienced that with with.

Speaker 16 (41:19):
God and Jesus.

Speaker 17 (41:21):
And I do want to say, like this is also
important too, because I would have done this if I
didn't see this too. So we're gonna take a little sidetrack, right, sidetrack.
I literally saw this event happen. It was a courtroom
and there was a young black man, he was I
think eighteen nineteen, tried for first degree murder of I

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think it was a young female. I think she was
either wide or hispanic, seventeen eighteen years old.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
Right.

Speaker 17 (41:50):
So it's a little riky nikki camera in the court room,
you see, and they're about to call the verdict, right,
and the judge said, you know, we find the defendant
guilty of all charges.

Speaker 16 (42:06):
The young man starts.

Speaker 17 (42:08):
You can see he's just crying, just all emotional, you know,
And the father of the daughter was there, right, And
what happened next was just so mind blowing that I
was just like, wow, that's possible. So anyways, after the

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man gets convicted, the father goes.

Speaker 16 (42:31):
Up to the man and says, I forgive you. He
gives him a hug and just hugs him, you know.

Speaker 17 (42:42):
And like for me, learning about Jesus or forgiveness and
compassion and all that good stuff. You know, like it's
a lot easier when it comes to day to day things.

Speaker 16 (42:51):
You know, if someone.

Speaker 17 (42:52):
Cuts you off, you know, if it gets you your
order wrong at Starbucks or whatever, you know, but if
someone kills your daughter, if someone kills your your son, you.

Speaker 16 (43:02):
Know, first degree murder.

Speaker 17 (43:04):
Like to have that kind of compassion and just forgiveness instantly,
I'm just like you. And so I remember that, you know,
and I remember, you know, all the stories about God
and Jesus, and so in that moment when I was
bleeding and that happened to me, I knew that I

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had the only spirit with me, you know, And I'm
just so grateful for that opportunity.

Speaker 16 (43:30):
That was an opportunity, you know. And see I will
tell you that.

Speaker 17 (43:35):
The thing though, after that, after that two weeks, I
found out that this was the thing that was heartbreaking
for me. She was telling people that that I broke her.
Oh so she ended up breaking her hand, hitting me right,
and she was telling people that I broke her hand.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
That's it.

Speaker 16 (43:54):
And so that's when I started sleeping in my car.

Speaker 17 (43:58):
So that's when I started I was like, you know what, like,
I'm trying to love this girl, and this is happening.
I give her grace, I give her love, you know,
but I just got to just stay in my car.
And I was literally homeless for like a thing, over
a year.

Speaker 15 (44:10):
You know, it's very interesting that this play Nelly's story
is around domestical violence and we often don't talk about.
I remember shout out to William Long that used to
work for Option House. He was saying, one out of
five men are victims of the Mexic violence. But this
is things that we don't talk about, just like in general,

(44:31):
men we don't talk about our mental health. Right and
these display your story are helping to get rid of
that stigma and bring awareness to these happenings. Right because
there's people, no matter how the relationship is they or
whatever what each ascribes to, right there is violence is happening,
and we have to ask humanity. We have to find

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the tools to be able to communicate and express ourself
without relied on the violence or yelling, the ego trips,
the prize and all that where we're trying to best
one another. Tit for tap that kind of mindset, tapping
into that compassion, that forgiveness, that grace that you're mentioning.
But you know, it's such a such a powerful story.

(45:14):
You're a singer as well, so what kind of what
kind of song? What do you do in that regard?
Because I saw when I saw your bio. You know,
I didn't know that. And and and tell us a
little about the singing, about your singing.

Speaker 10 (45:26):
You know.

Speaker 17 (45:26):
Okay, so this is all the comfull circle. So when
it comes to singing, right and being homeless. During that time,
before all that episode of my ex happened, I was

(45:46):
going through depression and suicidal thoughts. And I actually been
battling suicide my entire life. That needs to be completely
honest with you, you know, thank you for your and so
so I was raised Catholic, and I really believed in
Jesus when I was a kid. And somewhere along the
way durns my teens and my early adult life, I

(46:09):
lost my way and I started to believe that God
wasn't even real. And it was during that my relationship
with her that so I do play guitar and I
sing and for some reason, right like five songs in
a row that I feel compelled to learn all had
God in it. And mind you, at this time, I

(46:31):
wasn't even going to church. I believe that God was fake,
that God was made up, that God was just used.

Speaker 16 (46:37):
For money and power, you know.

Speaker 17 (46:40):
And then so through music and just like these songs
fighting me and I feel compelled to learn them.

Speaker 16 (46:46):
They had God in and I'm like, is God trying
to talk to me?

Speaker 1 (46:49):
You know?

Speaker 16 (46:50):
And so I literally went on you on Google.

Speaker 17 (46:53):
I said churches around me, you know, and I found
one literally just like eaty meanie, miney moo. And I
went to church for the first time in like six
years by myself on a Sunday. And that's when I
knew that, like, man, I think he's been trying to
call me back. I knew I needed to be there exactly,

(47:16):
you know. And so going back to the whole music
and singing, I feel that God wants me to do music,
and I've been learning a lot of Christian music recently,
and so I play, you know, a lot of acoustic
stuff to sing that we could sing too, you know,
but singing has it's it's an art.

Speaker 16 (47:36):
That yeah, it's sweet.

Speaker 17 (47:39):
There's so much love and passion and and life that's
that you can express through it, you know. And singing
is just one of my things that that I love.
I want not the very best, I'm kind of you know,
but but it's something that I love and I feel

(47:59):
that has the power to move and change, like lives,
you know, a positive.

Speaker 15 (48:04):
Yes, in a positive way you beginning of time. Yeah, yes, indeed, yes,
indeed one of us I listened. I listened to a
wide breath of all kinds of music, but one of
when I'm in my little gospel phase, right, I rebuke.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
You, Oh that was Eric, all right, I'm sorry.

Speaker 15 (48:30):
But now nevertheless, one of the songs that I really
enjoyed because I used to sing in the choir at Sunrise,
was the hill song Oceans Leave Me. That is that
one of the five songs. I was wondering if that
was one of the five songs. That's so crazy. That
was like one of the most influential songs. It's a
powerful song, man, It's a powerful well done. We used

(48:53):
to sing it up there, you know. And I'm not
the greatest either, but it's a joyful noise. You know,
we're singing unto you know, to the to the you
know what I mean.

Speaker 17 (49:01):
Yeah, So so about that song in particular, And this
is when I was going through my homelessness. Right, my
sister in law, who's all a Christian, who's been trying
to convert me to Christianity forever, and there was a
time where I actually absolutely hated Christian music. I believe
I hated it. Like then, they would always listen to it.

(49:21):
I always wanted to turn them off. But anyway, she
was talking about the song Oceans and a boy who
was kidnapped. I forget how old she was saying he was.
I think he was like like even single digits, like nine,
eight years old perhaps, but he was. He was kidnapped
and he was gone for like, I don't know, like

(49:43):
a month or so. But as he was in captive,
he was singing that song Oceans. He just kept singing
that song, you.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
Know, singing for his life.

Speaker 12 (49:54):
You know.

Speaker 14 (49:55):
I just saw that today on Instagram.

Speaker 16 (50:00):
Us about it.

Speaker 18 (50:01):
They showed a little boy and they said that this
saved his life by you know, singing the song over
and over and over again.

Speaker 14 (50:11):
I just saw that, and you're talking about it.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
We need to go and play that lotto after this.

Speaker 15 (50:19):
But no, that's that's that's such a such a a's
first of all, the divine alignment, right, I believe in that,
you know, and and and it's so important for us
to tell our stories, right because I have my own struggles.
I struggle with alcoholism, right, and and I tell people
all the time. Even though you may have struggles, you

(50:39):
can still do positive things. There's things that we have
to address in our life, and it's not gonna happen overnight, right,
But you could allow that advice to keep you restrained, right,
or you can be working your way out of the
straight jacket and doing positive things, modeling positive things, speaking
life into your life.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
You know what I mean? When what church if you
don't mind sharing it, what church did you go into?

Speaker 15 (51:03):
Because and I imagine are you still I'm a member
of that congregation?

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (51:08):
Yeah, actually so at the time, it was called al
A l f C. Which is Abundant Living Family Church.
Uh they recent yeah, so they recently rebranded to Patrio.
You know, so Patria and the crazy thing. While I
was homeless, I was serving in the church and like

(51:28):
like nobody knew, like nobody knew. I guess I was
too embarrassed to tell people.

Speaker 16 (51:33):
You know, our.

Speaker 15 (51:35):
Pride, you know, sometimes our probably could block the blessings,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (51:39):
But you made it through and that's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 17 (51:41):
But so so so during that time, even going back
to that song, like there were times where man like
I just wanted to die to be honest with you,
and I was like alone in my car and I
would just sing. I would just sing some of these
songs that literally just saved my life.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
Amen. Yeah, God bless you man. Love you brother. I
love you too, Love you definitely. Man.

Speaker 16 (52:01):
So I have to ask how you're doing with the
alcoholism today.

Speaker 15 (52:05):
You know what it's it's still I'm a I am,
I'm a work in progress.

Speaker 16 (52:10):
Progress.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
I'm a work in progress, right.

Speaker 15 (52:12):
I had four hundred and six days of upstaining from
from alcohol.

Speaker 16 (52:18):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 15 (52:19):
Yes, yes, And I'm working my way there, weaning myself
off slowly but surely because I have to prioritize my health.
I'm getting older now, and as you get.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Older, it's kind of still California.

Speaker 16 (52:30):
So are.

Speaker 15 (52:37):
Definitely definitely, because you know, I'm I'm you know, I'm
for holistic right.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
If the Lord made it, I'm not tripping, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 15 (52:45):
It's made by the If it was created by the Creator,
I'm fine with it. But if it's man made, then
you know that's where the problems the struggles could come from,
you know.

Speaker 5 (52:55):
But definitely, no, thank you.

Speaker 14 (52:56):
For answering answer.

Speaker 16 (52:57):
Question, and we all have struggles.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Yes, indeed, fifteen years free myself of alcohol or a
little more. But it just it gets easier as your
time goes on. But like I kind of switched to
other things like too much internet or.

Speaker 5 (53:12):
Yes, yeah, it could be many a ways, eating too
much food.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
So do you have to spread it out? You got
to make sure you do things for yourself. You got
to make sure there's you time, time for your family,
balance your balance, yeah, and be motivating.

Speaker 18 (53:26):
Yeah, but alcoholism is a disease and it's hard to
balance when you have that addiction situation. So it's good
to surround yourself around people that are not drinking because
sometimes that triggers, you know, trigger that thing to come.
But I really like you guys, both of you guys energy,

(53:48):
everybody energy in this room today, and I think the
common thread is that we are community and it's up
to us to take care of each other.

Speaker 5 (53:57):
Amen.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Amen, Well, I'm just trying to match Eric's energy.

Speaker 15 (54:03):
Well, I don't know if it's energy, but maybe altitude California.

Speaker 12 (54:09):
So.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
Definitely definitely.

Speaker 15 (54:13):
So how can people connect with your video service or
your photography service or bring out the three sixty camera
for an event and all that. How can people connect
with your production company?

Speaker 17 (54:24):
Yeah, you guys can find me on Instagram. I go
buy a shot by Nico. So that's s h O
T Underscore, b Y Underscore, n I KKO shot.

Speaker 16 (54:38):
By shot by.

Speaker 15 (54:40):
And I'm going to pose a question for misch Ron,
but we'll start with you. For someone, for you or
a person that's looking to start start doin videography creating content,
what would be a good entry point or how would
you and say, if their resources are limited, how would
what would be a good entry point to trying to
get into this field or this industry.

Speaker 17 (55:02):
One is use what you got, you know, which is
oftentimes is your phone. If you don't got a phone,
then you can borrow someone else's phone. But the best thing,
the easiest thing, is just with your phone. The thing,
the thing that holds true in photography and videography essentially
is light, you know, understanding light, understanding composition, understanding like

(55:24):
the basics.

Speaker 16 (55:25):
You know. So I would just say, use your phone, and.

Speaker 17 (55:28):
So yeah, have fun, you know, just have fun, use
your phone, go out and have fun.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
When I was learning, I would pick different different genres.
I'd be like, one day I'm gonna do animals next thing.
I do plants, you know, close up, you know, insects,
you know, and then eventually you're like, oh, I like people.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
Definitely, they're the hardest.

Speaker 16 (55:48):
So you're a photographer too, yes, he is.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
I love it all self taught, but yeah, I don't
need to pull it out as much anymore because you're
using your phone.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
But alls are really good nowadays.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
And also if you once you get a significant other
number one, no longer phone is important.

Speaker 15 (56:05):
I hear you, unless you're watching certain videos. But we'll
leave it at that. But with that being said, thank you,
brother Nico, for for being here and sharing your testimony. Brother,
I'm gonna definitely be watching you and definitely would love
to have you come back on if you're comfortable with
playing the guitar and.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
Singing, you know, next time.

Speaker 15 (56:23):
Definitely we'll definitely make that happen. And to miss Searan
as you got blessed with your nonprofit. But if someone
out there that is doing those positive works in the community,
how would you encourage them to get started to follow
their vision If their vision is a nonprofit.

Speaker 18 (56:38):
I think it's very important to connect with nonprofits that
you believe in like and let them mentor you. That's
what happened to me is several groups like Black Equity
collectives that mentored me and that was very very important
for my growth.

Speaker 14 (56:58):
You can't do it alone.

Speaker 18 (57:00):
I think nonprofit work is busy work, and sometime you
could feel isolated if you allow yourself to try.

Speaker 14 (57:09):
To go along.

Speaker 18 (57:10):
But I think it's very important to find that community
and work together. Because I was thinking, like I wanted
to connect with you. There you go, you know, because
of the work that you're doing. Is I could see
you because I don't know if I didn't mention this,
but be very quick in seeing this. We do summer
camps and we teach kids, you know, acting with the
camera and things like that.

Speaker 14 (57:29):
I can see a space for you.

Speaker 16 (57:32):
For four years.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (57:33):
So so I want to service both.

Speaker 14 (57:37):
Yeah, I want to get your information. Okay, that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (57:41):
That's awesome.

Speaker 15 (57:42):
With that being said Robert Porter, I know we have
less than two minutes. But if someone has a dream
of being a radio host, or being a commissioner, or
being involved heavily involved in the community, such as yourself,
how would you encourage someone that has that desire to
make change and uplift their community in a positive light.
How would you instruct them or what wisdom would you

(58:04):
share with them? And getting started?

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Same wisdom that I gave these two young kids about
eight and twelve that came to my door today and
asked for work to do around the front yard to
make some money. I went inside and I got five
dollars for each of them. Came out and I said,
pick up that piece of trash right there, and then
you picked it up.

Speaker 16 (58:24):
He said, what do you want to do with it?

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Anything you want for five dollars. The lesson is you asked.
I'm not giving you a lot of work here. I
just want you to understand. The lesson is you came
up and asked, right, that's what you got to do.
That's how you make a business. You got to be willing.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
Can I provide this service for you?

Speaker 16 (58:44):
You got to ask right.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
If you learned too write, you know you can't keep
everything hidden, right, We're not a one man army.

Speaker 15 (58:51):
Totally, totally, totally well, definitely definitely, Robert Nico, Miss Searon,
I greatly appreciate this show, and I hope that everything
is a great success. At appoint each of your individual journeys,
and I know it will be because you both are
doing great and positive things and are lights in our world.
So thank you for being who you are.

Speaker 16 (59:10):
So are both of you guys.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
Thank you, yeah, well, thank you for you're on your locker.
Thank you team. And this is Robert Porter with the
I Love Semonio County Video Show, and we all all.

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