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they talk with your boy Charles Gregorand beautiful Lawrences and beautiful ladies play.
Lady Sparkle was definitely in the buildingand uh, if you watching the day,
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kind of good. Make sure everythingis great, and uh we gonna just

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get it popping. We have,uh, someone with my atremendous model respect
for in the building. Today.We gonna talk a little bit about some
politics. You know how we doit here when we talk weekly. You
know, it's a lot of herleadership changes that has happened in Philadelphia from
city council all the way to ournew mayor. We're going to talk a
little bit about that, but we'realso going to talk about change and what

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change has happened that you may notknow about that. Uh, this gentleman
is going to talk a little bitabout to make sure you stay informed.
But without further ado. You know, I got you, ladies, how
was you day? How was yourday? What was you doing? I
had a good day, even thoughit was like cold and snow last night.

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I had a good day. Hungout with my niece. Shout out
to my niece Natalie. I affectionatelycall her two D that's my two So
I hung out with her. Wedid breakfast at I hop that's what she
wanted for her birthday. So hungout with her and the family and then

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we just kind of chilled afterwards andthen now I'm here. So it was
a good day and my ice Cvoice today was a good day. Absolutely
absolutely as alright, spark, letme, how was your day? How
did your day? It was cool, not much not that's motion. But
I I'm ready to start taking everythingout of my closet. Like I don't

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know this because it's not getting darkas quick. I'm ready. Now I'm
on my whole resolution, Like I'mready to lose this weight. I'm ready.
So now i'm you know, motivatedto uh to transform. Yeah,
well, if you would have startedJawary first, you probably are quick by

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now. Yeah that's why I yeah, that's why I don't subscribe to them.
But it's time to you know,eat clean and get the get the
body tight, get the body tight, and right? What about you say?
Busy, busy, I'm coming fromNew York. I had to run
up New York real quick. Whatwas in New York? Uh? Some
little fashion stuff, some information andit's a couple of things that has been

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popping all THEO. Make sure,yes, sir, it's me. There
you go. So we have peoplealready tuning in, and you know,
we have a guest, and Iwant to jump right into the guests.
So, classy lady, who dowe have today? Who do we have
today? Allow me to introduce AlienHowell, a dedicated activist and advocate deeply
committed to fostering positive change in Philadelphia. Alem contributes to three impactful local nonprofit

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organizations, The Race for Peace,Committee, Urban Navigation, and Men of
Action. Brothers of Faith. Y'allalready know what to do. Let's give
a warm we talk weekly. Welcometo mister Eleam Howell. How wire you
my friend? How are you doingthat work? Thank you for having me?
He turns you up a little bit. Why don't you put your headphones
on so you could hear it waspopping off? You can hear yourself.

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So, how's house? How haveeverything been since you have been here the
last time, you know, youknow, last time I was here,
it was in the summer July,July twenty twenty three. Things have changed.
Jim Kenny is the former mayor or. Now it's Charrell Madam, Cherrell

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Park Adam, you know now wherethis is Black History Month when in February
and you know Philadelphia, it's stillthe same on the same. Oh,
it's still the gun violence is high, the crime is high. And sometimes
it feels like myself and other peoplecan probably attest to us too that you

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know, we try to do ourevents through our organizations and other activists advocates
out there, and you know,sometimes it feels like we're pushing the needle
a little bit, but we're notreally making real progress. You know.
Sometimes it feels like, you know, I have my meetings with local elected
officials and you know, I getit publicized and I'm on, you know,
I do what I have to do. But then you know, it's

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just if people ain't go act right, they ain't correct right. You know,
that's what the old different generations is. You know, if they don't
they don't act right. But wecan do all we can do. But
then one thing that's on the positivenote is what State Red Malcolm Kenyata did
and State Rep. Morgan Seafist died, is that house built seven seven to
seven through legislation and the Penns HouseBill. Correct. Yeah, And that's

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the band ghost guns and not getghost guns. So people who can't they
don't qualify to get a license fora gun, they can't get those parts
and those pieces for those ghost guns. And that's what we see out here
on the streets. You know whatI'm saying, that's all these gun violence
crime. Most of them they're probablyall ghost guns because some of them who
are committing to crimes, they don'thave a license to have a gun unless

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they got it from a family memberwho has a license. But they're probably
ghost guns. And you know,the tricky part and that we're all thinking
of, is that how do weget those guns off the streets. I
sound like a broken record. Isay the same thing and letters to the
editors and I repeat myself all thetime. But then how do we get
the ghost guns off the streets?And then I told a few elected officials

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and stuff, and the police officerwas saying, well, y'all can't just
knock on people's doors, you know, because that's like without a warrant.
So I said, that's the ignorantside to it, Like how do we
get the guns? I was aboutto ask you, So, how do
we do that? The House Billseven seven seven, That's the one thing
I thought of, But see,we can't do it. It's the elected
officials. And see Mayor Cheryl Parker, I respect her dearly and stuff,

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and I know you guys know herreal well and all that, but you
know, she's the first female mayor, you know, not the first black.
And I said the same thing onWord radio. You know, she's
the first female, not the firstblack. So you know, maybe she'll
put a mother's touch on our cityof Philadelphia, but then she has to
put more aggression on it, youknow. I don't know. For Mayor

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Ed Brown, I'm out in UpperDerby, you know, he said he
it's a five year plan, andI'm like, because Upper Derby and even
the counties they're getting worse too.But I'm just like a five year plan.
I'm just like that it has tostart. It starts. I was
just like, you know, theyMy thing is I think more of the
Philadelphia police districts. They have toget their patrol cars out on the streets
more like in every single neighborhood,like say the Market, FRANKLK Line L.

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You know, every single stop fromUpper Derby all the way down to
what Second Street or so, itjust seems to be a police car present
on every single block if they canafford the manpower. I was about to
say, how realistic is that actuallyto do it? I mean from sixty
pretty much Upper Derby, you knowthe station right there, the terminal all

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the way to Second Street, youknow the terminal down near Old City.
Can we truly afford every stop ofpolice cars squad cars in front of those
stops to maintain that? And isthat actually? You know of Philadelphia Police?

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What is fop job and not setthe police job, you know what
I mean? And so how howdo we manage that and execute on that
philosophy? You see, the thingis about the currency and the money part.
It seems like we do have themoney because look at what we're trying
to build, what our seventy sixers new stadium and stuff in Chinatown or

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something. You know. I'm like, it seems like there's a lot of
money in Philadelphia. It's that youget that vibe and stuff like coming here
to what do you call this marketStreet? You know what I'm saying.
I'm like all these fancy buildings.Fox twenty nine is right down the street.
It's just like it seems like there'sjust a lot millions of dollars in
Philly, and it seems like it'sgoing all towards the athletics, you know,

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the professional teams, you know,and then with the it seems like
the Philadelphia Police Department they do havethe money to do it. It's just
having one or two patrol cars atjust every single street in Philadelphia, and
then especially the certain neighborhood that theysee the most gun violence at. But
it's so NonStop and discombobulated where it'sgoing everywhere. That's the thing, like

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we don't know what's gonna happ andit's a shooting. Gilly the kid was
saying in an interview, and Ithink he was saying that what's his name,
Funny Marco, And then that wasan interview on YouTube. I watched
that last year. He was sayingthat he got it right too. He
said, Philly, it's just it'sjust it's tore up. I'm trying to
put sugar, it's tore up.It's it's a bunch of a bunch of

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a bunch of gun vines because helost his son. And then you know,
it's just a tore up city andthere's nothing, it's no progress being
involved with it. So funny Marcosaid that Orseilly right, so then and
I agree with him a little bit. He had passed because he lost his
son. Gilly could lost his sonin Philadelphia, you see what I'm saying.
And you would think that the gunvines would stop because his son was

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kind of a good example or abad example, but you know what I
mean, like a big example oflike doing that. You know, And
I felt for Gilly and stuff,and then you know, I'm a fan
of his and stuff, but youknow, I just you know, the
gun violence, it's just crazy.And then same with Meek Mills. Sometimes
he used to put on his Twitter. I don't know if he still has
it now, Khiladelphia. Who madeup that nickname? Kiladelphia? Was that

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him? Or was that that's beenthere? That's that's they always say Philadelphia.
But but see how we got thenickname in the eighties. You know
that I'm a nineties baby, youknow. I mean the president, former
president said everything bad happens in Philiateor Pennsylvania. What do you say bad,
right, And so I mean wedo have this, uh, I

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guess bad reputation of crime, everythingbad, but we have some great stuff
too, right. So I wouldlike to know then because again when it
comes to we talk weekly and Iwant to back up a little bit because
we have someone who gave a commentas you were talking. Uh, they
said, some parents need to bemade responsible to police their own kids.

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And I agree with that, right, I believe that, you know,
we can. And I'm not afan of the police. God knows that
that, you know, because I'mvery I'm very art on the Philadelphia police.
But we do have some great ones, right. But I do believe
that as parents, we have toknow where our children are. We can't

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be scared of the kids, andwe can't be scared the discipline of kids.
I think that the community unles's thecommunity, but the world has made
it this bad thing to discipline ourkids, so to speak, right with
a heavy hand, should I say, if we allow the blame to be

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put on police, that kind ofexepts us. Right, So do you
believe like this question, do youbelieve that the parents has a responsibility also,
and it's not just the city's jobto raise the kids. Oh right,
yeah, I remember I was watchinga Good Times episode in Florida.
Hell yeah, she was saying,she said, the parents have to parent

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their kids themselves. It's not upYeah, it's not up to the police
and stuff. And I know you'retalking about like the spankings. I don't
even know is that even illegal?Is that I legal to do the spanking
your kids. I'm not necessarily talkingabout spanking anymore. But yeah, you
can yell at your kids. Iremember my dad, he used to cust
me or not. He used toyell at me all the time about sports

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and stuff. And you know,you can yell at your kids all day
long. But then you know,if they don't get the message, they
don't get the message, and thenthey're going that sister juvenile system. But
then you're right, and then parentsthey got to be more on top of
their kids. But with this newgeneration and stuff, and I'm a part
of that millennial generation but not GenZ. And then with the gen zs

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you know with this TikTok and moreon Instagram and all that, you would
think they would be it would bemore positive and more fun like not doing
like trying to make some money offof the U two, trying to make
money off of streaming. You know, everyone's starting a podcast. You know
what I'm saying. It's just youknow, these kids and stuff. The
kids that are doing the gun violence. I don't know why they're doing it

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because they have a lot of lanesto go in besides the discrimination and all
that stuff with jobs and stuff.But besides that part, there's education,
and then there's there's a lot ofstreaming platforms. They can go to sports
as always. That's been there sincethe beginning of time sports before social media.
But I don't understand none of thesegen z kids because they have all
that on their iPhones and their Androidsmartphone device to do things that can make

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their voice heard and get attention,and they can also make money off of
it too. Like that, what'sthe kais not? You know what I'm
saying. There's a those young guysand Duke Dennis. You know that those
guys, you know making all thatmoney and doing positive things. I like
my one of my guys, Ilike Jdon too, you know those you
know, that's what all the kidsshould be looking up to, all these

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YouTubers basically influencers, YouTubers, youknow what I'm saying, Like they make
a good example out of them.And they said the problem, what do
you two? I think that thesekids are looking at it to say,
this is the life I want tolive. A lot of times the crime
is behind money. They're robbing,they're stealing, Like okay, so what
are we doing to increase the minimumwage? You know, like, what

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are we doing that's going to offerthem something that they're able to say,
Okay, you don't have to goout there and do that, because if
they were living in life with theseYouTubers, they wouldn't be doing what they're
doing. More than likely, they'retrying to live a life or you know,
to attain something that they're seeing onInstagram that really isn't even real because
half of these people is fronting forthe gram anyway, you know what I

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mean. So it's almost like youpull back the layers to see what byproducts
is it, But what's the coreof it? Where's the trunk in the
roof? But sparkle, see they'reputting on a show. You're right,
they're putting on a show. Iwouldn't I wouldn't say the word front and
that's just me my opinion. Butyou're right, you know, you're more
intelligent experience with that. But likeyou know, I wouldn't say fronting though

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they're put on a show. Butthen look what they they're putting on a
show. But then they're doing.They're not out there killing, robbing,
They're trying to making exit. They'retrying to be comedians. So would well
and when I say front and thensome of its fresh, but some it's
well, it's just like there's certainmusic where people are making gangs the music
and they not living against the life, but yet and still the people listening

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to it believe that these people whoare making this music are really living that
life and trying to act that lifeout. So it's almost as if they're
watching certain things and trying to attainthat lifestyle, and crime is behind it
because you're not driving the Bugatti,you're not wearing Balenciaga's You're not you know
what I mean. So that's Ithink a lot of it is. Sometimes

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it's it's so much attainable to seeoutside of Philadelphia, to you knows where
everybody's going and traveling, and youwant a part of that world. And
a lot of times that drives upcrime. I think, well, the
minimum ways, that's up to likepeople like Joanna McClinton, the House Speaker,
and that's up to Governor Josh,you know, that's up to That's

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up to the our local elected officialsfor the minimum wage, to get the
guns off the street, like housebilled seven seven seven, that's all up
to the elected officials. I'm justvoicing my concerns saying and try to keep
it a positive note. But thenthe last guest you guys had on here,
she's running for I forgot her name, Purple, yeahtside of Blackwell,

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right, she's running against Amen Brown, that's the tenth district. You know
that's great, But then you knowwhat she was saying. She was right
on the money. This is notold news. This has been happening since
the mayor from the nineteen sixties seventies. She said that, and then yeah,
she was right, She hit itright on the money. You know,
this isn't old news. But andour thing is I'm in the millennial.

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It's just like, why does itkeep cycling around and around and around?
Though? That's the thing is whyisn't it old news? She got
it right, you know, wecan do all we can do, and
she's actually running, you know.But and then the other guests, the
second gentleman you guys had on here, not I forget his name, We
had a few. It was thepurple who was the sec That guy.

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Yeah, but he wasn't running though. I think he ran for city.
He ran for city council. Emailright. But the things he was saying
he was correct. But then onething I disagree with him about is you
know, we can all we don't. We all not going to agree on
things. We're not all going toagree. But you can't go against the
elected officials that are in office.They didn't get voted in there for nothing,
because what are we gonna do?Just stay home and then none of

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us vote, you know what I'msaying. Then that's how they don't get
it. No, And I agreewith you, and I think that's one
of my things, like, uh, you know, it's if they are
elected to be in that leadership position, then it's up to us to hold
them accountable for the things that theyrun on right. And so if they
are telling you that they're going todo X, Y and Z, then

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we have to be very vocal whenthey don't do X, Y and Z
right. And so as we arehere with this platform, we always talk
about what are the solutions in thisstuff? Right? We always talk about
how can we do X, Yand Z. I believe you mentioned sides
to black Well. I believe shehas it. She she's been in the

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community and work. And one thingthat I always say, right, I
say that I'm with and I supportpeople who I actually see doing the work.
If you're running for a leadership position, how can I know that you
are going to do the work ifno one ever sees you doing the work
right? Unfortunately, we talk weekly. We can't say or take a side

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with anything right, but what wecan say is that we are for the
people who we know that are goingto do the work. So somewe is
back to you when it comes toour Madam mayor, do you believe that
she's going to stand up to theoccasion and rule I hate to use the
word rule, but you know,be the leader that we need to hold

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that position as mayor. Yeah,when I when I when I watched the
The Bait with Charrel Parker and JeffBrown and everyone on the panel, Helen
Game and a Men Brown, hewas up there, and you know that
was the one that Ernest Owens hostedwith Jamille Duncan and Yuki Washington. You
know that was that was a verygood debate. And the way Charrelle Parker

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spoke, I didn't even know ScharrelParker was going to win it. First,
I was like clueless. I thoughtit was gonna be Jeff Brown.
I really everything is like so trickywith politics. Then all of a sudden,
the way Charrell, Madam Cyrel mayorwhere she spoke at that uh the
conference, I was just like,wow, so she's gonna win there.
That was, you know, thatwas really impressive. It was just out

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the blue because I really thought itwas gonna be Jeff Brown who was gonna
be our next mayor. And Ithink maybe other people probably thought that too.
But yeah, you have to answeryour question of like Charrel Parker mayor
Sharrell, She's she has all thestrength and she has all the intelligence and
the tools to do it. Shewas the former counsel woman, you know
for Philly and stuff. So sheknows what she's doing. She gets like

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the logo and she's on the inside. She's been she's experiencing stuff. But
it goes back to what our oldergenerations are, like, our grandparents are
saying, like if y'all ain't goact right, y'alln't go act right.
You know, we can do allwe can do. And there's plenty of
people out there too. You know, I see stuff on the news and
stuff like Pastor Carl Day and PastorAaron Campbell from Level Level up Philly and

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these pastors and then Anton Moore.Anton came to with our Race for Peace
events back in twenty sixteen eighteen.He came to one of our events at
the Shepherd Recreation Center. You know, there's what I'm trying to do,
my dame, that's in my neighborhood, shout out to Shepherd. Yeah,
there's there's plenty of people out there. And then I just discovered your favorite

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trash man, what's his name,Terrell Hagler or some Yeah, there's plenty
of people out there that they're tryingso hard to, you know, make
Philly a better place, even outin the city of Chester, there's Nazera
Leech and Fred Green, and thenyou know there's so many people, and
then it's just if people ain't goact right, they ain't go act right.

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And that's the thing. It's justthere's no every time you know,
I do an interview or do somethinglike that, like they look at me
like, well that was really nothing. He said everything, said nothing,
did nothing at the same time,because I'm not an elected official, you
know, just like with Purple orSajab, you know, what is she
going to do differently against Amen Brown? What he's not doing? Basically,

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it just seems like the politicians,they talk a good game and they're respected
in the community. We all likethem, but then what are they going
to do differently really to really tryto combat the crime and gun violence?
You know what I'm saying. Itjust it just seems like a big you
know, the politics. I tellyou, sometimes you can trust them,
but then sometimes you can't trust them. Elene, do you know if cities

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get a grant for when they havea high crime rate, like do they
get revenue? Do cities get moneywhen you have high crime? The mayor
did declare a state of emergency.So she's getting funding for that. Okay,
so that is yes. I mean, but your thoughts though the money,

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you know, every time they putup the big check and stuff,
all this money millions, thousands,you know, but what is that?
Where is that money going? That'sstill not getting the guns off the streets.
It seems like all the money inthe world, you know what I'm
saying, the illegal guns are stillon the street. Well, I think
yeah, and that's true. ButI think the extra money can go to

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possibly organizations who will already have AndI think this is one of the questions
that we spoke about or spoke yeah, that we spoke to the now mayor
about, is why reinvent the will? If it's people organizations out there that's
doing good work, why wouldn't youjust support them in continuing doing the work

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that they're doing, right, Andthose particular funds or our finances from all
of the money quote unquote can goto those organizations instead of creating other programs
that essentially you don't even know theybecome case studies at this point, right,
And so that has happened, andyou know, I think twenty twenty

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one was the year that we sawthe historic number of homicides in the city
of Philadelphia, I believe, andI can't remember the timeline, but I
believe after that, they gave millionsof dollars to organizations that were basically geared
towards gun violence. And we haveseen each year there has been a decrease

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in gun violence, but not bigenough though, because the twenty twenty three
decrease, what was that under twentypercent? It needs to be more like
fifty percent or completely stop. Butthen under twenty percent, that's not good
at all. Well, I understandwhat you're saying. I would rather see
a ten percent decrease than to seefive hundred and sixty two homicides. And

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then then you know, each years, Yeah, so it changes from what
one hundred, just like the Purplewas saying on the it changes like one
hundred to not minus one hundred someyears up one hundred one years. You
know that it has to be onehundred or less. That's the only way
to really see if Philly's making privatehundred murders and killings are less none at

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all. That's really the real Iagree, but the reality of it is
idol ish. That happens, rightthat the best case scenario is one hundred
and less. Right, that's bestcase scenario. Realistically, watching a hundred
less murder says that it's something happeningthat's preventing the one hundred plus murders from

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happening, right, And so wehave to understand what was the catalyst that
caused the one hundred less murders tohappen. Once we know that, then
we can say, Okay, nowwe have two hundred less, right.
And so I do believe that thereis some merit to say that there are,

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because one hundred is a pretty bignumber. I mean, it's not
like, oh, we got fiftyless or twenty less than go ahead.
Well, I was just gonna saythat. In twenty twenty one, that
was when we saw the five sixtytwo, and twenty twenty two we saw
a nine percent decrease. It wasdown to five hundred and fourteen homicides,

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and then in twenty twenty three therewas a twenty percent decrease of four hundred
and ten homicides. That doesn't includethe non fatal shootings and all that,
because there were other shootings during thoseyears. People got mad, all because
of coronavirus though, once coronavirus happened, people everyone started to going singing in

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their own way too. So coronavirushas something to do with it. It
wasn't. It wasn't all the electedcorporate businesses, every everyone was losing their
mind when coronavirus happened. That's apart of the madness. But then now
coronavirus is over. Some people wearmasks, some people don't. You got
to get your shots and stuff.But you know, it's just like your

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last guests, Purple, what shewas saying. You know, this is
not new news. It's been thesame thing. People like Patty Jackson from
wdas, people like Will Smith.You know what I'm saying. No matter
all that drama in Hollywood whatever,Chris Rock and stuff, just people like
them need to do a little morepositive messaging, like making a video Meek

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Mill and stuff. Patty Jackson,Yes, what Patty Jackson, she does
good. Everyone respects Patty Jackson.Everyone don't respect Patty Jackson. And the
one in the people that the peoplewho were talking about even think about Patty
jack What is Patty Jackson going tochange? When it comes to someone a
brother, young brother in the street, they look at Patty Jackson, like

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court you, maybe even Will Smiththey like Will. I can't necessarily touch
Will if we start talking about maybeGilly, if we start talking about maybe
a meek Mill, we're talking aboutpeople that's that's their peers. Patty Jackson
don't have no peers that's in thestreet. Are you I'm ready, I'm
ready to I'm ready to retort.But debate didn't put the last guest Purple

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when she in an Instagram video orso, I looked her up after she
was on here, she was like, Patty Jackson was supporting her. I
don't know, it's business, butthen not get you. But that's right,
Patty Jackson supports right. But Iwould I would argue that even Sage
do have more of a uh kindof a communicative uh It's like, how

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can I put it? I believethat Sage the black well, he's more
of a not only more of activist, but I believe she can that that
that particular generation can be able toshe can touch that generation. She literally
does, and I feel like I'mcaping for her, which I'm not.
And I don't want that to appearto be because that's not what we do
on the show. But when wesee the people who's doing work. Size

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of Black Girld literally has a programthat invites young boys in women girls to
produce music that's nonviolent, to promotenonviolence literally directly to the community. Right,
she wants to pay a thousand dollarsa month. Exactly. Tell me
what Patty Jackson is doing the thingabout it is? That was a deep

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breath. No, it ain't nothing about it. This is something I
want you to be direct with.Tell me what Patty Jackson is doing for
the young community that would make themessentially stop shooting each other. And I
wait, no, no, you'removing a gold post. But I disclaim,
go ahead, go ahead, No, I I love, I love,

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I got you. But for therecord, right, we love she.
I mean she's she's she's an iconof Philadelphia. You see what I'm
saying. Right, No, No, but see that I understand because I
want to use their platform right hundredpercent. But what we want to do

(29:26):
is make change. We want tomake change. We want to stop.
We want that remember that one hundredor less, right, we want a
hundred or less shootings. Patty Jacksonain't doing anything that's in the streets talking
about or talking to the young folksto stop killing each other. I shouldn't.
I shouldn't say that. I'm gonnajust say that I would if she

(29:49):
is, I would like to seemore of that. But if we're talking
about truly affecting change, we needPatty Jackson, we need uh Quincy que
Harris, we need me, No, we need everybody. Mean to say,
what we need everybody is not justone particular person, not in DJ

(30:10):
Diamond Cuts. And I think theproblem is we get caught up with saying,
oh, this person is gonna snapand have a magic bullet, and
that's not accurate. We need theparents, we need people. We need
Uncle Bobby from the church. Weneed the barbershops, the estheticians, we
need the hairstylis, we need thedesigners. We need everybody talk about like

(30:30):
yo, yo, this is whatit is, right, And that's my
point. I'm saying that you're accurate. I'm saying that we need more.
We need everybody to stand out andeffect change. You're right, my brother.
People are already doing it though,just like barbershops are they doing it?
But then why is it a repeatedcycle? It's like we're all just

(30:53):
you know, stuff is so likedifferent nowadays everything, Yeah, stuff is
so different. But like especially Ilike the barbershop one and stuff. That's
the barbershops. But doing it right, forgive, but they can get more
resources to do it even more.Like literally barbershops, what they do is
by virtue of what they do.You have a young a young guy sitting

(31:17):
in their chair talking about life.You have for the most part a younger
or older gentleman. That's that's servingas a leadership position in that moment talking
to the young kid. I seeit up down from oh you know what,
I'm sorry, cut you, Igot it. But you know what
with Philadelphia needs more is like likeCharlemagne, the guy says on the Breakfast

(31:38):
Club, more mental health, themental health resources, because what makes people
want to take out a gun andshoot somebody. Everyone can get mad at
each other, women on women,girl on girl, you know they them,
he heard, But you know what, it's the mental health of someone
to pull a trigger and I wantto murder somebody. You know how much

(32:00):
mental you have to be to dothat and how much you know what I'm
saying, kahunas, you have tohave to kill somebody you know what I'm
saying. Let's you know, it'ssometimes it's self defense, you know what
I'm saying. If they're trying toattack your family or something, it's a
little different. But you know,besides, I got like, there's a
shooting in Upper Darby and stuff.These two guys were fighting over money.
That's the oldest trick, I mean, the oldest, you know, arguing

(32:22):
in the book about some money.I was just like, and then he
pulled out a gun and shot him, and I'm just like, you know,
stuff like that. It's people.We have to have more mental health
resources. And I only mentioned peoplelike Patty Jackson and all the celebrities and
stuff. Is because you know,they have that platform and stuff, but
sometimes they don't want to get tooinvolved. But then again they want to

(32:43):
get involved. They make a movieabout it or something. But I tell
you the person one of my favoritesis uh Will Smith. And no matter
the Chris Rock stuff, if hecame out here Will Smith and just did
a lot more ful Philly. Healready is probably doing a lot of stuff,
but if he just came out hereand just so you know what,
and actually, you know, takesa lot of Anonymous stuff. Right,

(33:04):
Anonymous does take some of these guyslike Meek milling them and Quincy. I
met Quincy Harris from Fox twenty ninetybefore cod and that's that's one of the
people who don't get acknowledged for thework that he does. Right, More
people got to be taken out ofPhilly and get more chances. Though it
seems like the last the more recentablewar was from Abbot Elementary Quincon Brunson.
You know what I'm saying, that'slike more rappers should be be signing more

(33:28):
rappers. That's the thing you haveyou need. And again I just want
to put this disclaimer out there.We love, we Love, I mean,
she is icon of Philadelphia the rapright. My point, well,
my position is the only way you'regoing to get to people who are doing
something is by way of their peers. Otherwise it's going to appear that oh

(33:52):
that's like my mom telling me Ican't do X, Y and Z.
But there is a train so Pattycan make that phone call to the like
people to say, hey, Ineed to support for you to come out
and do this, like what isit peace on the street or things like
that. But I get both ofyour points. But I think what you're

(34:12):
saying, see is that this generationis not the gen Z's. It's not
the word, it's the you know, it's the not the gen X,
it's the gen Z's and the millennials. It's a certain generation that they're not
going to even hear her because ofthe position of where she is as Auntie.
Does that make sense? So Isee, But I have a story

(34:34):
later on Saudia Shuler. Saudia Shuleris somebody who's always telling like, listen,
put down the guns, come downhere, and if you do what,
I'm gonna let you finish. Butif she in a position of like
say, for example, if shewas mentioned like Patty Jackson, if she

(34:55):
was mentioned little, she's in themstreets. She's in them streets. She
get all the hate in the world, but she's in them. I can't
remember. I can't even think ofone woman who has done more than she
has in the past couple of years. And I DeBow. I'll challenge anyone

(35:15):
to cut to prove me wrong.This woman hits the ground, running hard,
helping on community. What's the mistakethat Jim Kenny made. I don't
know, what is that I don'tknow. That's why. That's what's Cheryl
Parker grid you different from Jim Kenny. He got tired. Oh he did

(35:36):
get tired. Yeah, he gottired and real quick. I had when
you guys were talking about Purple SijaBlackwell, she mentioned about the guns and
saying, Okay, if we can'tget the guns, let's let's talk about
the bullets. Let's make it whereit's hard or accessible to get the bullets,
because you can't use a gun unlessyou have bullets. My question is,

(36:00):
why aren't they thinking of it thatway or putting tracking systems on these
guns or tracking systems on these bullets. I mean, you know what I
mean, Like, why isn't therea way to say who's doing straw purchases
or ghost purchases? Like there hasto be a plan. It's not just
it can't be just oh, weknow that this is a problem. It

(36:20):
has to be solution based to saythis is what we're going to do now.
They did have it where I thinkthe shot right browns or shot right
at one point where if you justbring in the gun, you bring it,
you get a hundred dollars gift card. But people were doing that now
I think you're onto something. Nowif you are, you well, first
of all, a gun on thestreet, you can get literally between one
hundred and fifty and two hundred dollarsa gun. If they offer a thousand

(36:43):
dollars a gun like a phone.That's exactly that's the way you want to
get people. If you mean totell me, I spent maybe my if
I'm young, I spent maybe mylast two hundred dollars sneaky money that I
didn't get a pair of sneakers,and I bought me a a disposable gun,
so to speak, right, twohundred dollars. If you tell me

(37:05):
that thousand dollars, one thousand dollars, no questions asked. That if you
bring me a gun, especially astraw purchase gun or whatever gun you bring
it to me, I'm going togive you a thought. You think I
want to turn a gun if you'regonna have about finally, exactly not only
that, I'm going in my mandraw, I'm giving you that's the way

(37:28):
that I'm gonna take a gun.Rob somebody to gun back programs. Right,
how much is it though, likeyou guys said, like one hundred
maybe more, But they got alot of money. It's Johnson, president
of council. He does that.He said, yeah, Kanta Johnson,
does that get those those old gunsand yeah, like the ones that haven't

(37:53):
been operable, revolvers that fifteen yearsold. No, we want but see
that's a thousand dollars go by timeframe, like you do cars. Anything
over a certain like a phone.Just like a phone, that's you get
generation this, you get money.That's the thing. We can even incorporate
safe example Sam Sung say, forexample, Apple to be a part of

(38:15):
this gun buy back pro if yougive a gun back now, not only
that they're giving back to the communitywhen they're saying that exactly Apple that if
you turn in a gun, youget a brand new phone. Who wouldn't
do that? Who would't do that? Just like you? And it's not
even money at this point because nowthey have the manufacturer that can produce phones.

(38:38):
It's not like you're producing money atthe mess point. And with all
these electric you know, electronics,that's what kids want. That's right,
that's right. I was gonna say. I feel like there has to be
like you know, it can't bea one, one size fits all approached.
It has to be like a conglomerateamount of things that are are done.

(39:00):
And especially like I've seen people andvictims who are suing the gun manufacturers.
That's something that you know people cando because it's like if you know
people are just able to get gunsand just get these ar Ak fifteens and

(39:20):
especially the ones that aren't even twentyone years old, it's like, come
on, like I definitely would dothat. Yeah, so I would just
say I would say this, Ione agree with you. It's going to
take different perspectives, different options.It's so many different variables. There's so
many different people who purchase guns.It's people who purchase guns the correct way.

(39:43):
So are you saying that you're gonnauh fault me or you gonna you
know, you know, reprimand mebecause I want to purchase bullets now,
I want to purchasesels now, soyou're gonna make it harder for me.
And I got my gun legally right, And so it's a lot of different
variables that you have to go throughto say, Okay, this is the

(40:04):
way we believe that it's going tosuit the best for the community, for
the society, and this is theway that we can potentially do it,
but everyone has to have And here'sanother idea. Maybe some people won't agree
with this, but why don't youoffer gun safety in schools if you educate
people, because a lot of timesthese guns that they shooting, they shooting

(40:25):
the wrong people because they don't evenknow how to shoot the gun, you
know what I mean. So whyis it that if you can't beat them,
join them approach to say, okay, these are certain classes at a
certain timeframe that you can teach themabout gun safety, how to empty the
magazine, or even offer it whereyou can take them the classes, because
now they going to find a wayto shoot this gun with a friend,

(40:49):
versus if you went to a coursewith an instructor to show you proper handlement
of a gun. Because that's becauseeveryone is in on the same page.
You got the right wing saying,you know, guns don't kill people.
People kill people. Then you gotthe left wing conservatives you don't need a
gun, period, don't use agun. No one, exactly, no

(41:14):
one is willing to meet in themiddle and say, hey, we see
that this is a pretty much apandemic. We see that this is a
virus going through the city especially inPhiladelphia. People murdering each other like they
got COVID is something right, andso we need to come to a decision
and say, hey, we knowthat there's an issue. This is how

(41:36):
we fix it, or we don'thave them fixed. But we can have
people to sit at the table andsay what are the fixes? Go ahead?
And thenis yeah, I was gonnasay, I know too. You
know, to Sparkle's point, Iknow two firearm instructors. They both have
taught their children how to shoot guns, how to take them apart, clean
them, put them back together,all that because they don't want them to

(41:59):
get older and then try to figureit out on their own. I want
to I want to say this commentbecause this is a great comment. Chanelle
said. What such Chanel? Shesaid, the plan is possibly to allow
the city to get so bad thatleave many parts of the city will see
urban renewal is interesting, Yeah,renewal, and then yep are moved back

(42:20):
in. Then the people wow,yeah, I didn't think it is then
the people that left will not beable to afford to come back. There's
not see and I'm gonna i'mnna justgive you context of her in a minute
Uh, there's not way. Thisis not a way that the city falls
into disay, disarray with no signsof getting better without it being a concerted
effort to allow it to happen.Now, the reason why I say that

(42:44):
she's really onto something. This issomeone who was in the real estate and
she's very acclimated with what was goingon in terms of the things in the
city, the development in the city. And I didn't even think about this,
but I leave, she's onto something. Shout out this good stuff.
I mean, that's again, it'snothing new, like even in the housing

(43:09):
market when it was just what itwas, the red zone where certain black
people weren't allowed to live at certaintimes, redline. So it's similar,
you know what I mean, it'snothing new under the sun. It's like,
okay, move them out. Likeeverybody used to live suburban and every
all the black people was in thecity. Well guess what's flipping, no

(43:30):
doubt. Well we could talk aboutthis all, but we went so much
past the time. This was agreat This was a great topic. My
brother. How can they get incontact with you and find out all the
good things about you? And ofcourse you know you're a friend to the
social You're definitely coming back, buthow can people find out more about you,
listen to you and all that goodof stuff. The main website is
Race for Peace dot org and ourFacebook pages at RFPC social Media where we

(43:51):
have events yearly events and stuff.And then that's that's the best way is
RFPC Social Media and then Race forPeace dot Org. And then my last
comment is I want to get personallyand my opinion is I want to get
guns permanent off the streets permanently.But I understand the gun education. That's
where urban navigation. You know,a co founder of Philly Technician Training to
Don Jackson, he agrees with y'allon that is that gun education, especially

(44:15):
in the Philly school district and stuff. But it's the gun violence and it's
happening throughout the counties too. Andthat's the thing that's happening all over Pennsylvania,
the whole state. It used tobe just Philly and kill it off
and all that, but it's happeningin the counties too, So you know,
it's everywhere now, the whole stateof per My brother, my brother,
all right, y'all want you togo anywhere when we come back,
You're gonna do a little sizzles.We're gonna go back into the sizzle before

(44:37):
we go. I wanna get somenews. This is real funny. Sometimes
I get these alerts, and Ithought this was super funny. Trump announces
official sneakers selling for three hundred andninety nine dollars a pair in surprise of
parents, following three hundred and fiftyfive million in while civil fraud trial outcome.
You can find this on the NewYork Post by Rich Calder. Hold

(44:59):
On, hold On, it justwent out. It says Donald Trump is
literally trying to be the Bigfoot hisway back to the White House. The
Republican front runner on Sunday launch anew sneaker line, including Golden Never Surrender
high tops during the surprise appearance thatsneaker kind in Philadelphia that was actually the
day. President Trump's official sneaker,which is also adorned with American flag logos,

(45:22):
run three hundred and ninety nine apop and is available in limited supply.
According to the website Hawking Them Trump. That's a low top style is
also offered an either t Red orpolice white, both with a golden forty
five on the side. The slipon sales for one hundred and ninety nine
dollars. That is hillarious. Flightchange happened, that's funny. Before you

(45:49):
leave, someone Chanelle said this,She said, what are your thoughts about
stopping frist just for gunning? Ohright, see that's the thing we could
go go ahead, I'll let youtalk about the gohead. Yeah, stopping
frist part. I forgot to mentionthat that it's always it always comes down
to our black and brown people wherethey don't want it to be a race
thing, like you stop in blacka young black man, a young brown
boy or something the police. Seethat's the thing. I wasn't gonna say

(46:13):
this, but sometimes that the newcommissioner, Kevin Bethel, he might need
to start doing old school tactics,but not do it illegally. You know
what I'm saying. Old school,You know what I'm saying. But like
you know, the stopping frist isit's very controversial because if they're stopping black
or brown boys and stuff in thestreet or whatever, it's just it's it's
illegal because it's not they're not lookingfor him unless they're out looking for him

(46:35):
or something. They didn't commit acrime. Yeah, they'll stop and frists.
That's the thing, you know,it's almost like it's illegal. Well
that's already come into question with thatguy that was killed in the poppy store.
Yeah. Yeah, they call itterry stopps. They don't call it.
Who calls it terry stops. Let'sbe specific. Our mayor refers to
it as Terry stopps. Correct,And she spoke. If you look back

(46:58):
at our other interviews when we spokewith her, she explains the difference that
she feels as though a stopping FRISversus a terry stop. And David,
oh, yeah, so explained it. They don't explain it. He refuted
that absolutely is still to stop infirst. I don't care how you put
it. To stop in first.And the problem is is that no matter

(47:19):
what good intention that you have andyou give people the authority are boys in
blue authority, you still have somebad cops out there. And it doesn't
matter the intention. You have badcops that feels that they automatically target you,
systemically target you black and brown folkas someone who may be doing something

(47:42):
so allegedly they have a reason topotentially pull you up stopping first. And
that's the problem with it. Itdoesn't matter what you call it. It's
mill intentions of certain bad apples that'sgoing to get highlighted for doing something wrong.
And then you have people that's beingshot and killed, like the person
that was in the bodega, andthat's the problem. Stopping risus bad period.

(48:05):
It's bad period. I just havea hard time under trying to understand
how there's an initiative world push forcommunity policing and then you have stopping frists.
It's just like it's like an oxymoron, I mean to me, because
you know, there's already a strainedrelationship between the black community and police,

(48:29):
and to fix that, I justcan't see that happening with stopping That's what
organizations racial peace. We try todo events promote positivity with police officers and
citizens of black and brown community,and that's what's needed. That's that's exactly
what's needed. But then why isgun violence still rising every year and repeatedly?
Why is it always so high?But don't I don't blame the I

(48:49):
don't blame police for that though,right, and so I think that's the
problem. We have to start disconnecting, uh, the ideals on what causes
what the police don't cause the gunviolence in the city, at least in
my opinion, it's not the police, right, I think it's other causes.
So we need to address what thatparticular cause is. And in order
to address that particular cause, wehave to pinpoint what that cause is and

(49:13):
then address it, right, whichwe don't know what that is at this
point. And the conversation and builton solutions is having more people at the
table instead of people pontificating because theygot degrees on this is what's going to
stop, and and they not eventhe ones that's in the street. If
they take the guns, if theytake the guns off the streets period,
the gun education, I partially agreewith all y'all about. But if they

(49:36):
take the guns off the street andmake it extremely hard to buy guns,
ghost guns unless you literally have alicense, you can get a license to
carry it, and you're approved toget a license to carry a gun,
they got to make it harder thatlike that housepill of Malcolm Chanyata and State
Red Morgan Seifa, that House pillseven seven seven was a perfect example what
they did on January seventeenth in thePenny. So I just want to give

(49:57):
a little clarity on that if theymake it harder to about ghost guns,
because if they make it harder topurchase guns legally, all you're gonna have
is people who are trying to purchaseguns illegally, which is the problem if
you ask me, if I'm beinghonest, they need to make it a
little easier to purchase guns and trackthe people who there who's buying those guns,

(50:20):
so you know who's actually buying theguns and you can go back to
the people who that to me,but it's too easy, it makes too
much sense. Real quick, quickquestion what country is it that they can't
have guns but they went and inclinedwith knives with Oh, I don't know,
there's somewhere. Yeah, it's somewhere. If somebody in the comments could

(50:40):
tell me it's somewhere where they don'thave guns but they have knives. And
the reason I mentioned that is thatyou get rid of the not the guns.
Does the crime rates still is thecrime rates still gonna go up?
The crime rate will decrease. Ifyou get rid of the guns, the
crime will decrease all because of gunviolence. Yes, yes, I was

(51:01):
going to say, but his positionis accurate, But it's not. It's
a mute point because we already havethe gun. So if we have the
n r A is running this country, there is no way, all right,
So we're gonna have to address allbecause we're going to keep talking about
that, I know, right.But to his point, he did say,

(51:23):
how do you decrease gun violence?And you mentioned mental health, Dealing
with mental health, dealing with poverty, dealing with the minimum wage, dealing
you know, increasing that in dealingwith drug drug addiction and things like that.
Those things will help, all right, So we gotta go. Ladies

(51:44):
and gentlemen, give them, uh, I give you, yeah, good
job on the conversation. Why don'tyou tell him how they can get in
contact with you and all that littlestuff one more time? Race Race for
Peace dot org at r f PC, social media on Facebook and that crazy
thing. I'm gon sneak you collecting. I'm like, just grab these pics,
but I don't want to contribute toget a pair of yeez. Dude,

(52:07):
Yeah, I get I get thesocks, the socks, socks,
sock walkers. You know that's funny. But I don't want you guys to
go anywhere. When we come back, We're gonna go right into the sizzle.
Don't go to where We'll be rightback, y'all. Stuns up,
sluns up, knock up, sucksuck up, suck suck suck up,

(52:53):
suck suck LP Philadelphia one on sixpoint five film. We talked after and

(53:15):
talk with your boy Charlesburg and thebeautiful Laurence is beautiful, Hold on your
mic is off one more again,classy lady Sparkle. Sparkle is definitely in
the building. And you know whatwe got coming up next. We got
the sizzle. We got the sizelLadies and gentlemen, give it to me
early, all right. So thisstory is what in the name of black

(53:37):
history is this kind of foolishness?So Rachel dolazou Uh, the former local
NAACP chapter president who went viral formasquerading as a black woman, is now
in the spotlight after being fired forher only fans account. So for those
of you who do not know whatonly fans, I'm sure everybody knows,
but for those who don't. It'san app that was created in twenty sixteen

(54:00):
as a way for creators, specificallythose creating adult rated radedar content, to
make money. They offer subscriptions,dms, pay per view tips and more
to their fans in exchange for servicesor whatever they do well. Rachel Dolazou,
who now legally goes by the nameof in Kichi Diallo, was fired

(54:24):
from her job at Catalina Foothills UnifiedSchool District in Arizona after they learned about
her OnlyFans account. So a spokespersonfrom the school said, her posts are
a contrary to our district's use ofsocial media by district employee policy. Back
in twenty twenty two, Rachel Dolazouwent viral again after some photos from her

(54:47):
photos were leaked of her in lingeriefrom her OnlyFans account. So, although
she started employment with the school districtlast year as an after school instructor and
substance teacher, they never learned ofher only only Fans account until recently prompting
them to relieve her of her duties. So in twenty fifteen, Rachel was

(55:09):
outsted from her position as a localand NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Washington
after pictures of her as a fullfledged white woman surfacing the Internet. She
was forced to admit to being bornwhite despite identifying as black and then shortly
after that hashtag Rachel Dolazo became apermanent fixture to describe a transracial person.

(55:36):
So she is out of a jobagain because of her only fans. What
is the fascination with these only fans? She? First of all, from
my understanding, she was a reallygood teacher, like a really like a
great teacher, instructor whatever you wouldlike to call her. Like, why

(55:57):
do you have an only fans?What's the fascinating I guess it's a question
for all the leaders, but Idon't. I don't. I just don't
get it because it's don't she isshe getting paid? Yeah, that's where
this the money. Yeah, that'swhere that's where. That's where to answer
your question. See it's the moneythe bag. Yeah. She was kind

(56:17):
of saying, like this page,this account is just for people to get
to know me. But you know, a lot of the stuff she was
posting was racy, so no punintended. It was racy. It's gonna
happen, it's gonna be messing alot of folks up. Yeah, And
then they were saying a lot ofteachers were laid off because they had only

(56:42):
fans accounts and they were kind ofdoing stuff that didn't go along with the
school's policies. So it's it's it'scrazy because you can't really make any money,
Like that's crazy. Yeah, allright, So at the twenty twenty
fourth Super Bowl, Usher showed Americawhile he's still the king of R and

(57:05):
B. Shout out to Usher.Uh. He managed to cram a huge
portion of his catalog into a thirteenminute performance while sharing the stage with so
many of the grades. So here'sa little breakdown of Usher's halftime performance.
So Usher opened up with songs caughtUp, you Don't Have to Call Superstar

(57:28):
before he moon walked on into Loveand the Club. So next up,
Usher brought out Alicia Keys for whatcritics called the epic vocal fail, which
she opened up with her hit songif I Ain't Got You. As she
hit her first note, whoop,her voice cracked, but she kept on
singing. But the NFL shout outto the NFL. They jumped in instantaneously,

(57:51):
and they edited that crack out andaired the edited version just that quick.
So well, people quickly took noticeof the switch, and some tweeted
out the unedited version like here yougo, I don't know how they did
that that quick, but they werecoming at her next saying Alicia forgot her
keys. Yeah, but you know, the internet just didn't rest like many

(58:14):
complaints about Usher's performance with Alicia Keys. People complained about him hugging and caressing
Alicia and she's a married woman,but shout out to Swiss Beats and he
came to the rescue. Rescue whenhe leader posted a photo of Usher and
Alisha along with the caption saying,y'all worried about the wrong thing. Y'all
worried about the wrong thing. Soa lot of questions about Jermaine dupries attire.

(58:39):
He had on a suit with shortsand he had on what appeared to
be some ruffle socks. Charles c. Maybe you can explain Jermaine Dupriez.
Look, but a lot of peoplejust weren't happy with it, like what
what what was what was that?What was it? They were actually and
they didn't have rulph was on them. I mean it was kind of the

(59:05):
little little kid like I forgot thename of those, but I mean,
you know, it's one of hewas trying to be fashionable. I think
the problem is is people forget thateven when you're trying to be fashionable,
right, Uh, there's still somerules. There's still rules to the game.
And it's if you don't follow therules no matter what you put on,

(59:27):
whether it be name brand or not, you're gonna look crazy. If
you remember some of the rules,then you probably not black black shoes and
white sox only, Michael J.But it was, it was, it
was amplified. The visual was amplifiedbecause how long the shorts were. Yeah,
and you're you're you're a fashion expert. Hm, so so, but

(59:53):
that's but that's the thing in yourexpertise. Yes, So in my expertise,
he wanted the rules that you don'tdo is wear when you're that short,
you wear those long shorts, rightbecause because then you be looking like
and that's the problem. Right,So you still have to remember some rules

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when you're when you're wearing certain things. And I would advise him one is
probably change the color. But Idon't I didn't do the homework on what
the actual wear was. I knowthe socks I believe was Louis for time.
It was something that's out of theParrail news line. But what I
will say is you know these theseentertainers are starting to wear clothes that's pushing

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off on guard right and trying tomake a statement and at the same time
calling it ready to wear and it'snot. It's just not. And so
I would just say that Jermaine duPrix, you that was a fascial faux
pas and he get five thumbs downif that's even a thing. But go

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ahead, just like the soup jacketswith the kilts, like just to stop.
Hers electric guitar solo was phenomenal.So shout out to Usher and for
putting her on the stage because sheliterally blue well blue, I was gonna
say blue a roof off of thatplace with the with that that was amazing.
I love that part. Rapper Willi Am hit the stage to co

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perform OMG with Usher. People keptsaying they thought he was Kanye. That
was crazy. The skates segment,the skate segment was dual. The skates
he came he didn't he come hereand skate? Did he come to Philly
and skate? Yeah? I don'tknow. Did he come back to Philly?

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I thought somebody had a video onhim and he was skating and he
fell or something. Man, Imean Philly. We got some skated here
in Philly. I'm I'm trying totell you, like we shot off to
the skater shout off to Millennium skatingring, shout out to my old g's
that went to you know right,oh like Southwest you we know Yeah,

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And the finale of Usher's song Yeahwas the perfect close out with little John
Ludacris the marching band. Usher reallyput atl on the map with this halftime
performance. Overall, I thought itwas a great performance. Usher still had
the moves of his twenty one yearold self. How old is Usher?
He's forty five? Right, Wow? I think he's forty five. But

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he still had those moves, vocalswere on point. He had several outfit
changes and I love them all.He even went shirtless during his uh you
got a bad performance? So itjust was. It was a great performance,
even though, like I did seemixed reviews about it. Of course,
you had, you know, somepeople just like it was just okay.

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Some people said it was subpar.A lot of people said it was
great. I thought it was great. Go ahead, Uh sure, oh
sure, yes, yes, yeah. So next year Super Bowl is twenty
twenty four. People are saying like, Lol, Wayne, what y'all think

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it was? Like, if LilWayne come, he gonna bring out the
friends, he gonna bring out everybody, Drake, Nicki Minaj, you know
the crew that's gonna be hot.I like how they do that though,
it's like almost like a camaraderie typeexactly. Instead of just one performance,
they started to bring people out.Yes, now do they get paid for

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Super Bowl? No? So becausethey were talking about he made like less
than seven hundred dollars from the oldthing after he paide everything off. But
you know, it's kind of likewhen you when you host the Oscars or
or the Emmy Awards, that thatyour career is slated to take off after
that. But the Celebrity Sizzle Awardof the Week goes to Travis Scott.

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Travis Scott, in partnership with hisCactus Jock Cactus Jack found Foundation, hosted
the twenty twenty four Cactus Jack FoundationHBCU Celebrity Softball Classic Game at Houston's Minute
May Park. The Star Study eventfeatures celebrities like Tianna Taylor, Scarface,
Neo, Anthony Mackie, Jose Conseco, and many others who came out to

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show their support. So according tothe Cactus Jack Foundation website, proceeds from
the event will go directly to WaymanWebster's Scholarship Fund, Travis Scott's Jack Cactus
Jack Foundation, and Project Heel Initiative. The Wayman Webster Scholarship Fund has granted
one hundred ten thousand dollars scholarships tograduating seniors at HBCUs. In twenty twenty

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two, the Waymen Webster Scholarship Fundprovided one million dollars in scholarships to one
hundred seniors at historically back black collegesand universities to apply towards their tuition fees.
So I am Lawrence Sizzle and wasa sizzle, and that was a
sistan. Ladies and gentlemen, I'myour boy. Charles Gerg with the beautiful
Lawrence, beautiful classic Lady Sparkle.We talked week these after they're talking WPP

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MLP Philadelphia one o six point fiveFM. We talked weeklies after the talk.
Uh, we have another interview that'scoming on shortly. I think that,
uh who I like these. I'mlooking at some more sneakers. After
Trump sneakers popped up, I startedlooking at other sneakers. Uh you know,
yeah right, so, uh,I'm excited for this next interview.

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This is someone with my a tremendousamount of respect for beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful. So, without further ado, classic lady ready for me? Yeah,
all right, why don't you tellus? Who do we have today?
Who do we have to day?Sure? Today we're gonna meet Kodiza
Lyley, a multi lingual, dynamicentrepreneur whose journey from Morocco to France and
finally to the United States is atestament to her resilience and their determination will

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delve into her rich cultural roots,her family upbringing, her educational pursuit,
and her remarkable rise as a CEOof three successful companies in the construction industry.
Y'all already know what to do.Let's give a warm we talk weekly.
Welcome to Cadija Lightly Hello, Hello, Hello, Hi everybody, thank

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you, thank you? Wow?How are you? I am overwhelmed,
overwhelmed. I am so glad tomeet you all, and thank you for
having me on the show. Thisis a blessing. Very You're beautiful.
Thank you. I tried to havea different look today, you know,

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Oh we love it. Thank youso let's talk since since it's standing out
first of all. First of all, first of all, I love the
color that's on look amazing. Thanksgreat on your skin. I love it.
Let's talk about the sash. Whatdoes the sash say? We can't
quite see it, so why don'tyou let us know, talk to us
a little bit about that. Okay, this one in the bag Missus Georgia

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globose look Chi flexing. Which onewould you like to see? First,
let's talk about the one on theback, and then let's talk about the
one that you have one right now? Okay, So the one on the
back, Missus Georgia Globe. SoI was crown Missus Georgia Glow twenty twenty
three all year last year, andthis was a blessing, you know,

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being Crome Missus Georgia Globe. Eventhough if you guys know my story what
happened. I was supposed to dothe Missus USA, but my daughter broke
a calibond, so I had tobe a mother obviously, you know,
and took care of her. SoI had to resign from the competition.
But me having a good faith,you know, I'm teaching my kids that

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pageant is every year, and Godmay have something bigger for me, you
know, me being Moroccan. Youknow, I grew up in France,
but I was born in Morocco.I always said that I felt like I
wanted to represent my country, youknow. Anyhow, so that was in
the back of my head anyways.So that's what I have. One thing
led to another, you know,and stumble into the Missus Universe UAE in

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Dubai and they wanted me to bepart of the pageantry. And I was
like, this is perfect because Iam Moroccan and they wanted me to represent
my country. And I was crownedthen Missus Morocco Universe this time, so
this was even better for me,and it was most suiting for me as

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being Moroccan, you know, andall the things that I do, I
want. I'm representing other women inMorocco and the life that they go through
as a woman. You know,it's not easy. You know me myself,
you know my story. You know, I grew up in a very
strict family. You know, Iwas raised you got to go to the
school and then come home. Ididn't have the right to go out really,

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and having three brothers, it waslike having three dads on top of
it. So being Missus Morocco meansa lot to me. It's not just
beauty. It is really to me, it's not beauty, it's beyond the
beauty. It's beyond it's it's standingfor ourselves as women, you know,
and especially in the country where womenare not very well respected. Now taking

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it down now to the Middle East. You know, women are the same,
you know. So this is whatI'm plodding for with this sash,
is to represent women and in myindustry that I am taking over a male
dominated industry construction me and my husband, you know, as you can see
in the in the court Dreams page. You know, with my husband,

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I'm the only woman, you know. Then I created my own company,
Manufeit pools the same thing as amale dominated industry, and I'm just loving
it. I am here to thriveand represent women all the countries. It's
not just Morocco itself or Dubai orMiddle East. Is the whole world.
You know that women we can doa man job. You know. Interesting,

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What are some of the things andthank you for sharing that. What
are some of the things I knowthat you said? You know, living
in Morocco as far as with youknow, as women. What are some
of the things that women are stilloppressed in Dubai or Morocco than they are
differently here in the US. Greatquestion being a woman in Morocco in Africa

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is the woman has to stay athome to take care of the children.
The women that cannot dress up good, if they dress up some kind of
way, they look at us likewe are prostitute, like we are meat
if you will, you know,And that's that's bothering us. I just
had a talk with my cousin yesterdayand she was saying the same thing with

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a woman is regardless if we candress up good, even with a nice
suit, we are seen as norespect, you know, still to this
day. And that's what I'm tryingto break this with my own experience,
you know, in my own lifethat no, we're not, you know,

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prostitute just because we have a job, or because we dress up you
know a certain way, you know, all these things, you know,
and this is still going on rightnow, especially in the villages in my
country. In Morocco, women staysat home cocaine and cleaning while the man
is going to take care of thefamily twenty twenty four is still this way,
you know, wow, and thatsounds that's such a stark difference between

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here in the US feels though,the empowerment of women is on the rise,
where men are saying that they areactually one in women to do a
lot of the domestic stuff, wherewomen are taking on more of the masculine
roles they do, they do andus as women and I always bring God

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into the mix because we birth human, you know, we are we can
manage everything with a child number one. So to me, all women are
all CEOs regardless, you know.That's why we can do anything, and
we can juggle, you know,taking care of the baby, dropping us
cool, cleaning and cooking and aschildrun in a business. You know,

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that's what God wanted us to be. We all CEOs, all women mothers,
you know. So what do youwhat do you feel needs to happen,
whether it be legislation, whether itbe more entrepreneurial opportunities for women.
What needs to happen for us tobe able to because you do see women

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doing things now Black women are thefastest grossing entrepreneurs. Absolutely, What needs
to happen to continue to support themthat, you know, so so that
momentum continues. Well, legislation aregoing ongoing right now in Morocco. Definitely

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trying to put the women on top, you know, and break the barriers,
definitely, and it's just a matterof really pushing women to become owners
and literally just stand up for themselves. That's what we are now, is
to help one another, you know, that little push the inspiration, you
know, That's where I'm at rightnow. You know, you mentioned that

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you're in like a male dominated world. Tell us more about some of those
challenging moments that you face and howdo you overcome and what you're doing now
in the construction industry. Being awoman in a male dominated field is not
easy and you have to prove alot, you know, me coming into
this pool company and doing the jobthat I do, and I do it

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well. See that's the thing whenyou come in in this kind of interesting
in any job, to be honest, just because you're a woman, you
have to prove yourself ten times more. Right, So I take things very
seriously. When I do something,I do it all the way and I
have to do it the right way, you know, so I push myself.

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You know, to prove I see, that's part of my life.
You know. I had to provemyself that I can't do it all my
life. You know, if Iwanted to go out, for example,
and I had to cook and cleana little bit more. Yeah, you
know, for my parents to letme go out here, same thing,
this dominated field, like, Igot to go above and beyond to show

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them that I'm a woman. I'mthis size, I'm petite or whatever,
but I have knowledge, you know. And I treat them the right way
too. That's what I do.I don't treat them as though they are
my employees so much, but II the human comes out. You know.
I'm not just a seio that youknow, you gotta do this,

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you got to do that. ButI treat them like the human. And
I tell my employees all the time, I say, you guys are really
like artists because what I do isnot just concrete and they used to concrete
in the pool industry and stuff likethat. But I tell them all because
I do design, you know,I find a niche in that industry that's
blowing my mind, like wow,nobody has done it the way I'm doing

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it. So I'm taking it seriously. But then again I push my employees
to let them. I empower them, even their men, you know,
but they used to do like drivewaysand stuff like that, and they see
my design with the concrete and theyare they're like filled with joy, like
this is something different, you know, And that's what I like. I

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want them to go to work knowingthat it's a good thing. I don't
want anybody to wake up and say, I don't want to go to this
kind of job. I don't wantto do this, get up and that's
what I don't want. I pushthem to have a happy life knowing that
you're doing something that is different everyday, because with my design is always

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different. It's not like the concretedriver that they do, you know.
And empower them, you know,empower women, but I also empower my
employee as man too, you know. There you go. One of the
things that I want to back upwith is the love and dedication that you
have from your father. Right youtalked a lot about construction and kind of

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like what inspired you. I wantto talk a little bit about daddy right
now. How uh how active ishe in your your your endeavors now you
know, and was he excited foryou know, your miss Morocco and all
of your achievements and things that youhave been doing. Absolutely and to say

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the list again, I wanted toprove myself to my dad, you know,
that I can't do it that whathe did. So he was just
the construction worker, you know.And I've seen him all my life,
you know, being building houses inthe rain, in the hold during Ramadan

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and fasting, you know, becausewe're Muslim, and I saw him,
you know, struggle, and Iwas like wow, and to me,
I'm the little girl. I'm stillhis little girl, you know, and
I now that I am the CEOof a company, and I show him.
I was like, look, lookthat I'm building Shack's pool, Like
wow, the people are working forme. Like I don't do this what

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you used to do. I don'thave to put my hands to it,
but I have to put my mind, my intelligence, you know, and
the management towards it. And I'mjust like it's a proud moment for me
to prove my to show my dadlike that little girl is not a little
girl anymore and she's taking over yourfield, you know. So it's very

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proud, very proud, and mebeing a woman, like I said,
and we are Moroccan. It's anotherlayer to it, you know. And
I'm the only daughter in the family. I'm the last one. I'm the
baby taking on the big thing.You know. It was a proud moment,
you know, very proud, nodoubt. Daddy's little girl. Daddy's

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yeah. Absolutely. So let's talka little bit about the love story twenty
thirteen, and we talked about that. Now, let's talk about the other
man in your life. The beautifulman is now your husband. You had
one man, got one man andhe's watching right now, so you better

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watched out, that's right. Butyou have two beautiful children, right,
It's like, let's talk about wherethe love story began and children and let's
let's let's talk a little bit aboutthat. That's funny, the little love
story. So I came in herein the US, you know, if
you know my backstory, I dodgeddomestic violence in France, a relationship for

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five years, and again I mustfind ways to escape. But also that's
going to benefit me, you know, not just to live, just to
live, right, So you know, I study five languages, but studying
at school, Sitting at school isone thing, but practice is another.
So what I did was I appliedfor a job in the US, you

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know, as a exchange program.So when I came, I was I
was linked with this family in Atlanta. So I had a choice to go
to another city or whatever, anotherstate I can't even remember, but God
led me to Atlanta for some reason. It was Atlanta, so I came
in here. So I worked withthis family. And so the dad,

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the father or whatever, the kids, he is the one who actually links
with my husband Jay. He toldmy husband saying, you have to stay
right now because this girl she's comingright now. You're gonna love her,
and you don't come right now,somebody is going to take her away.
And at this point I can donothing. So that's what happened. It

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was like a football super Bowl.I don't even know. I don't really
follow all these things, but itwas a super Bowl kind of thing on
Sunday. And then he came andmy husband came sorry, and then literally
the rest is history. After that, got married. Two years after I
think, okay, baby, Iknow you're watching, you know follow that

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that stopped, you know, counting. It's been thirteen years now that we're
together. So like he tells everybody, you know what he says, he
said, he scooped me from theboat or whatever. I said. No,
I had a playing ticket. Okay, I flew to America. Okay,
baby, stop saying put me rightof the But yeah, two months

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I was in America about what threemonths? And I met him and then
the rest is history. You know, we got married kids. I was
a stay at home mom after that. You know, I quit my job
because I was pregnant. I wason my feet a lot. I was
actually a manager at expressed. Ilove that job. Working. I love
I love working, you know,anything with me, I love working any

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kind of job, and I wouldtake it to the next level. You
know. I never stay at thebottom. I always aim for the top,
you know. But I'm good atthe bottom two because that's what that's
what the CEO is about, youknow, to learn the bottom and then
God layers all the way to thetop, you know. And being a

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stay at home mom for years,seeing my husband building up core dreams and
I don't know if you know aboutbeing an EmPATH, but I'm an EmPATH,
meaning that I watched my husband builda company and then I soaked in
all his knowledge and then I makingI made it better then. My husband
always said, you know, ManufePool's going to run circle around Quadron.

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So it's like a competition me andhim. Now you know, our company,
his company. But at the endof the day, we're a couple
and together, you know, it'sabout unity at the end of the day.
That's so beautiful. I love,I love like a beautiful love story.
That's so beautiful. Can you talka little bit about your ambassadorship for

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Sharing Ringo Foundation. Can you tellus a little bit about that. Definitely
was a blessing that came actually atthe moment with my daughter Rocket Carbon and
I couldn't compete for Missus USA.So again having faith, when you have
faith, that would lend something inyour lap, you know, And that
that's when it lit my eyes up. When I was like this, This

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friend of mine introduced me to theSharon Ringo Foundation and told me that I
would be a great ambassador, andI said great. I was missing Georgia
Globe that at that time, eventhough I didn't compete for Missus USA,
I'm still holding the title, youknow, as Missus Georgia, and I
still have a job. Well job, I've called the job, but you
know, I call it again tohelp others, you know, I'm sorry,

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but yeah. So I became MissusGeorgia Globe. I got introduced to
the Sharon Foundation in Tanzania, andI was like, that's perfect because she's
in Africa and I'm Moroccan. I'mAfrican too, That's what I was like,
God is amazing, you know.So this little girl is doing so
many good things in her country,you know, and that she inspired me.

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And I'm like if she's she can'tdo that, you know, all
women, not just me, Likeshe inspired me to do more in my
own country. This is why Iwent and I took the title of Missus
Morocco. So then we can alldo even bigger things. You know.
The Missus Georgia was good at thattime, and now you know she's doing
a lot of changes in climate changes. So she planting trees because you know,

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in construction, we gotta take thosetrees, but really those trees are
really important for us, you know. So what she's doing is really good
for her country and also with tourism. You know, Africa is a beautiful
country, you know, and wetend to kind of forget about Africa,
and even me, I was amazedthat I didn't even know that Zanzibar had

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so many beautiful beaches like that.You know, I myself was amazed.
And I tell everybody, I say, hey, y'all need to start booking
flights to Tulum, Puerto Rico andall this stuff. Y'all need to really
put your money in the motherland Africa. Everybody talking about African American The motherland
is Africa, but everybody go toToulum. I don't get it, you

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know, don't put your money inAfrica because we need money Africans, and
you know, in my country,they really read their lives trying to escape
because they don't get paid much,you know, And that's not fault,
that's just how it is. Sowhat can we That's what I'm coming in
with the other ambassador as my husbandtoo, with his his knowledge and who

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he knows, trying to bring peopleto Africa. You know that tourism is
the economy, so it makes peoplework. Okay, So since we're talking
about that, right, you know, and why don't we go ahead and
amplify that. What's some of them? Because most of us do go to
safe example, the Dominican Republic orToulon. We go to these places because

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it's closer, right, or it'syou know, we don't feel like we're
too far away from home, butwe do travel a little bit, you
know. And so what are someof the I guess places that people like
us can travel to where you know, will feel you know, embraced and
will have a great time because youknow the landscape, right. And so

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what's some of the places that youwould recommend for Americans to go ahead and
travel to. Well, Africa definitely, so dense Bar, you know,
Okay, So Tanzania. I wentthere. You know it's beautiful. So
Dansey Bar has beautiful beaches. Thengo to Morocco. You have Robot,
you have Agadir. Agadir is beautiful. You know the beach is too.

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It's a mixed I called Agadir.It's a mix of California Calabases, to
be honest, uh, mixed withSpain and friends. You know, Agada
is beautiful. You know. Uh, you have a friend for who for
the ones who wants to ski,you know, a friend is beautiful.

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We have a lot of monkshift Shewan, the beautiful city Casablanca. You know,
uh, so many, so many. I mean, there you go,
where you go, gentlemen, youknow where to go. And it's
the thing too, it makes you, guys, feel good about yourself knowing

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that the money you have spend inAfrica helps another family. If we can
just think like that instead of goingto Tulum, save them that money.
I know it's cheaper, you know, and I know the flights. You
can get a flight for literally sixhundred dollars, you know, to go
to Morocco. Same for Tanzania,like maybe eight hundred if you get at

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a good time. And I'm like, save your money. Just put some
money on the side every time,you know, and the mere fact you
can help another family, that's goodfor us, good for another person that
wants to travel, you know.Mix like you're doing something. And I'm
not saying that they don't do somethingin Dominant Republic. Definitely need the money

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there too. Okay, But weI want to promote Africa. I feel
like we don't promote Africa. Andnow we talk about Africa, but we
don't promote I don't see. Ijust started seeing people not going to Tanzania.
But what about the other countries.It's a lot Nesia, Egypt and
then the other one like so manyNigeria, you know, Ghana. I

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mean, it's a lot. FantasticCadeza. You've done so much. What's
next? What is it? Imean, you know when you when you
reach so many goals, it's likedo you have more goals to go?
What's next for you? I haveother goals. So what I did last
time last summer, I donated awell for my village because again, climate

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change is very important, like theShark Foundation made it clear, you know,
yes, so climate change is verydestructive to families, you know,
for lives. You know, inmy own village was one of them.
Like it was no rain, youknow, it was sunny all the time,
like a lot of the sun.But they needed running because rain generate

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water, you know, from theground. They don't have water running from
the city, they don't. Everythingcomes from God. So when it does
not rain, they don't have enoughwater. So they'll ask somebody else that
has the well and it's just likebegging for water, you know. So
I came in in my village andI donated this well. We build a

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well, as you can see myInstagram page. It was a whole build
out, we dig down and allthat good stuff. But again it's one
well, it's a blessing. They'revery happy. But again, you tell
me what's next. What's next forme is literally to bring in the water
from the city through the village tothe houses right now, so they can
have facets in their homes right now. They have to take donkeys and and

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and and walk miles to get tothe to the well. Right now,
my right now, my goal isto literally bring water pipes, running pipes
to their homes right now. Unbelievable, unbelievable, speaking of running water,
and kudos to you, and kudosyou do speaking of water. Yeah,

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you, my friend, are atalented constructionist I like to call but uh
interiors. And you designed a pool, a dynamic pool, oh ass for
the incredible Shaquille on them. Iwant you to talk a little bit about
that, that experience and what gotyou into, you know, designing pools.

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You know, I always see these, you know what they call it,
the endless pool, what they callit the uh uh I forgot.
I got it to infinity pool.Infinity pool, Yeah, infinity pools.
And I see them at these exoticlocations and it's just gosh, I had
to do that one day, right, I got you into designing pools.

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And let's talk a little bit aboutthe Shaquillo Onell situation. Well, what
got it mean to this industry wasliterally building my own pool, you know.
I, like I said, Iwas just working with my husband building
basketball courts, right and building ourown pool. You know, this company
we hired, they started the job, but then they didn't do a good
job at the end, so wewere literally behind them a lot. And

(01:31:06):
I told my husband, I waslike, so if we're going to be
behind them at this point, andI'm like, we can do it,
you know. I mean, what'sthe difference with you building a court?
You have to dig in four inchdown get the rebar. And I'm like,
building the pool is adding pipes,water, you know, electrical and
I'm like, there's nothing for us. And I'm looking at my husband like

(01:31:28):
we can do it, and he'slooking at me like, no, we
cannot, you can have it.I'm sticking to the court. I'm like,
okay, Well that was another notein my life. And I had
to prove my husband wrong, youknow, and I did, so he
was sleeping, and I was workingall night LLC the website insurance, and
I started designing. And actually myfirst client so I designed for her,

(01:31:51):
was Charred. She was my client. I started designing for her. She's
a good friend of mine and sheneeded a pool and stuff you already get
other pool companies. And I said, you know what, let me just
play with the pool. Just itwas a start. It was something for
me to do, you know,and I did it. Who did she
mention s Field the Real housewife.But that's why I thought you were yeah

(01:32:15):
people, okay, from real houseYes, So I designed. I did
a three D rendering for her,you know, and uh, and I
started doing all the good stuff,you know, and then I started designing.
So what I do. I startedjust designing, you know. I
take pool and I just go withthe flow. I did in the turf
because we own a turf company,Turf Dreams, you know, and I

(01:32:35):
said, let me mix the turfbecause the way they're doing it in LA,
I didn't like it. The vibe, the way they're doing the square
papers turf. It is either toomuch or not too much. And I
am very big on vibe, youknow, balance, you know, I
like to balance. I like tosee the house I look. Then I
designed to make it flow, youknow. And so my husband did shack

(01:33:00):
basketball court, you know, andwe always go buy his pool. When
we go to see check in hiskitchen, you know, we always go
by the pool. We walk aroundthe pool. But nobody paid attention to
the pool. And I'm like,the pool should be the main focus right
when you especially it's a lot ofmoney, but this one was. It's
concrete pool, like any pool,to be honest, it's just concrete decking,

(01:33:23):
right. So I started designing atnight, right, I got home,
take care of the kids and allthat god stuff, and at night
I started designing. And I havemy team overseas, you know, so
while they are they're working for me. I am sleeping and they're working,
you know. So I send allthe designing things and they're working for me,
and then I just send it tomy husband. I said, look,

(01:33:45):
babe, I did the checks thispool. I'm like, okay,
cool, Well I'm going to sendthat to him just in case he does
not. He didn't want anything,you know what I mean, he has
a pool. You just focused onmaking money. And I don't blame him.
You know. And then somehow oneday May before, five months later,
my husband tells me, I gota call and Shaq wants you to
do his pool. I said,wait a minute, this was not like

(01:34:08):
it was just for me. Itwas fun for me to do. You're
not the designing. I didn't knowit's going to be like next level.
So I was like, I alreadyhad all the LLC done, I have
Manufa pools, LLC all of that. I'm like, okay, well let's
go. And then we started itand my husband did the kitchen area,
so he didn't want to do akitchen. They were just it's always like

(01:34:30):
this with our client, to behonest, they don't want something until they
see our work. And when itgets to the mister, they're like,
oh my gosh, can you addthat? Can you can you add that?
Can you add that? I justsaw this? Can you go ahead?
Just add it on? Bring itin, let's start. If we
got this. We never like tosay no to the client. We have
to perform, you know, andthat's what we did. You know,

(01:34:51):
he has a beautiful kitchen area.Now you know. We brought up the
turf coach and the turf animals hugelion. You know, it's a masterpiece
now and when I go there,it's a completely change. It's your paradise
and that's what it's supposed to be, you know, you know it has

(01:35:13):
to be absolutely Uh this this timewent way too fast, you know.
And one thing we say is onceyou come to the show, you a
friend to the show, so you'realways welcome to come back. This was
an absolute pleasure you have people come. They said, this is a great
conversation, you know, people sayingyou're a true superstar. That's my husband.

(01:35:38):
You're my number one fan. Ilove it. Shout out to Jay.
I wish she was here. Wewould talk to him a little bit,
you know, how to get thefamily the kudos, uh, kudos
to you j for support and holdingholding a wife feet down as a team
at So one of the things thatbefore I you go, right, I

(01:36:00):
want to know what's the legacy thatyou want to leave. That's a very
good question to me is helping others, you know. And I'm teaching my
kids that the money that we're makingin this earth, we're not going to
take it with us when we dieand when you're going to meet with God,

(01:36:20):
God is going to say, well, what have you done with the
man that I gave you? Isto help others, the ones that are
in need. That's the legacy Iwant to leave is make money to be
a blessing to others, you know. Always fantastic. The hobby said,
thanks for supporting Gods much appreciated,one hundred. So, you know,

(01:36:44):
I just want to say that itwas an absolute pleasure to have you on.
And it's a pleasure, you know. One of the things we say
is you know, you know,and me being Muslim, you know,
I pray you know, the creativeto protect you continue to you know,
become fruitful, and your service becomeyou know, continue to do the things
that you're doing, and continue tohave a successful marriage, and and I

(01:37:05):
pray that you continue to do theservice and support in the community like you
have been doing. I mean,And so once you come to the show,
your friend to the show, beforeyou leave, why don't you let
everyone know how they can get incontact with you follow some of the things
you're doing. See some of thesebeautiful I'm gonna pull this beautiful picture back

(01:37:26):
up with this bright little young ladythat you were standing with. I just
had it up not too long ago. I passed Sharon right here we go,
there you go. Yes, she'sso powerful. See that's why we
are women. We're so little,tiny, but we are powerful with dynamite,

(01:37:48):
like we can change the world,you know. And I'm proud of
her. So this is Sharon.So you guys want to donate, definitely,
come DM me, you know,or go to her page at Sharon
Ringo Foundation. You know, thefather is amazing. They do so many
good things, meeting with the Ministerof Tourism and and just I mean it's

(01:38:09):
she's mind blowing. She inspires me, like this is my little inspiration right
there, So go to her pageSharon Ringo Foundation. Then DM me for
any donation for Morocco as well.I'm going to start. I've been so
busy left and right with my husbandand I. We just started a new
business or Dreams International in Dubai withour partner, your Sree Sharing and I'm

(01:38:35):
like, this is another it's anotherendview right there. You know, it's
going to be very beautiful. Sohow do we get in contact with you?
Found your stuff for more times?Yes, So my pace is missus
Georgia Globe twenty twenty three to dmme for any donation for now and then
the Sharon Ringo Foundation for Tanzania.So anything for Tanzania is going to be

(01:38:59):
sh Sharon Ringo Foundation. Anything fromMorocco, you guys can just DM me
missus Georgia. Three fantastic, fantastic. Well, everyone in Philadelphia knows you
now, they knows what's going on. You know what, Philly. I
love steak. Oh, okay,I do next time you come cheese steak

(01:39:21):
on us? Thank Morocco. Who'son me? Oh that sounds good?
I have I have one last request, so you speak this said to speak
five languages. We have listeners thatare all even in Africa, all over
the globe with So say your nameand do a drop for us. Say

(01:39:43):
your name and then say this iswe talk weekly or you know something like
that. Okay, he in anotherlanguage too, are another language English?
And then another language? Okay,hey guys, this is miss this is
Morocco universe and I am at theweek talk weekly all right? Said in

(01:40:06):
French? Okayment save Madame moroc MoroccoUni show we talked weekly direct in Moroccan
Alan was alen viki Andadia really anda miss Morocco MAREV and a fil radio.

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We talked with American Allan, soall of our all of our audience,
they can hear it in there.Thank you so much. Has been
amazing. Thank you that was amazingbecause all of the places you named they

(01:40:51):
watch watch absolutely summer. Thank youfriends. Now you more than welcome.
We love Leslie anyway, and soyes, connect you with us. Yes,
and you know you you're part ofthe show now. And so I
like to thank you for coming out. But I don't want you, guys

(01:41:12):
go anywhere when we come back,man, we got some more to come.
Uh. We talked weekly after thetalk on w p P M l
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We're back, y'all. We talkedweekly after the talking w p P
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the talk with your boy Charles Bergand a beautiful and beautiful she's talking right
now, running her little mouth fastlads Burk want to building. So listen,
we have someone with my have atremendous amount of respect for you already
know this is he already like ahe's a friend to the show, he's

(01:42:48):
part of the show already. Youknow, we're gonna talk a lot,
a lot about some things, uh, some of the things that's going on.
We have a special guest in theshow today. So you know,
once we get to that poor scheand we're gonna bring him up and you
know, a highlight and amplify him. But I'm super excited about this because
this gentleman, I mean, webecame like this is like family now.

(01:43:10):
You know, this is this isone of the things. This is like
family now. And so when hecomes to the show, he talks about
a lot of the things that's goingon, not only with h celebrity boxing,
but also some of the talent thathe's been working with right some of
the moves that they've been making,some of the partnerships. And you know,
I'm excited because you know, wetalk weekly, got something in store
soon. You know, we don'twant to say nothing too much well you

(01:43:31):
know, but we will like tosay that we're excited to be, you
know, working alongside of some ofthe you know, the great minds that
are putting this dynamic information together.So without further ado, uh, why
don't you give him a little introso he you put me on the spot.
He looks like you get that brainfreeze. But he's it's just so

(01:43:55):
many different words running through my mindright now. But we have the amazing
multi talent mister Damon Feldman here withus. He's he's a celebrity boxing CEO.
You're he's doing so much. I'mtrying not to right place. Yeah,
he's just amazing. I appreciate younow internationally know international, Yes,

(01:44:19):
yes, absolutely, he's doing somuch. Author, yeah, author sixty
movie everything, everything. So let'slook first of all, let's jump right
into it man and talk about howare you feeling? You know, I
like to start there, how areyou How are you feeling off front?

(01:44:42):
Honestly? Man, First of all, I got to say about thank you
for having me on. I loveyou guys. Is you know it really
is like family. Man. Itwas just I all these other shows and
it's like, all right, whatever, But I don't know something about coming
Like the first time I came toa show. I was like nervous.
Second and next last time I camecome months, I was like, man,
what am I going to do?I still was a little nervous.

(01:45:03):
Now and now I'm like, damn, it's Michelle. I'm just coming in.
Now we're bringing other guests that arefighting on the card, and you
know, I'm really excited, andyou know, just just I'm excited about
you and your whole the whole showand everything you guys have created. Like
it's just this is like a nationalshow. To me, I think this
is like going to be the hottestshow in the country. Yeah, I

(01:45:25):
believe it so too, man.But I think what you're doing is the
hottest thing in the country and thehottest thing internationally too. You know,
you have people now that's flying inand want to be a part of this
and and want to do some ofthe things that you know that you guys
are a part of. But youknow, I think in order to set
that up right, in order toset up the success, I want to

(01:45:46):
circle back because I don't think peopleknow where that came from, you know
what I mean, And some ofthe humble beginnings and a hard work I
can give you your flowers all day. But I think this stuff like that
that need to be acknowledged and amplified. Absolutely, And so let's let's start
from the beginning, because it waschallenging for you at first, you know,

(01:46:08):
with some of the you know,the issues that you went through but
have remedied and now you're giving backand supporting people. People need to take
your blueprints, so to speak.So let's talk about some of those challenges.
You know. Yeah, now youknow the challenges and all is like
everybody, I was always wanting tojust take anybody you want to. You
want to hit the big overnight,you're starting something you want to. I

(01:46:30):
want to have all the money.I want to be a superstar overnight.
Unfortunately, you're hitting a brick wall. If you don't hit the brick wall,
you're not gonna make it. That'sthe way I always feel, you
know, And no matter how badyou want something, you gotta fight for
it. And it's going to takestep by start. It's gonna take you
looking in the mirror crying tears.What am I doing wrong? But you

(01:46:54):
got to keep fighting for it andmake yourself push and push, and that's
how you become an inspiration yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah. And part
of that is being able to,you know, outside of inspiring people,
not judging some of the mistakes thatthey have made. And let's talk a
little bit about, you know,the judgments and coming from that and making

(01:47:17):
making a pivot and building up andamplifying people. What's your take on that
and making sure that you know,people need to think of first before judging
because essentially they could have been thereand misstep. Also, oh absolutely,
you know, like people you know, say you're going after money people or
trying to get people on board manto believe in it or money and because

(01:47:39):
everything money, you know, youneed money for everything to get to where
you want to be. I don'tI don't love money, but I know
I need it, you know,so, but you have to, like
it's just you just got to knowwhat you have to do. Like and
you know, you can't jug ifyou're looking at someone and be like the

(01:48:00):
guys you know, overdoing and trying. But then I'm like, do I
want to just forget him or doI got to give me a shock?
Maybe it happens because probably three outof five times I gave that person a
shot and it succeeded. For me. And if I would have said I
forget that guy, I probably wouldn'tbe sitting here right now. You know
what I mean. And you can't. You never can overlook someone. You

(01:48:21):
know. You have your dedication,your determination, your focus. But I
always do believe in giving people chance. That's what my platform is all about.
I have a massive platform and ithas to pay the play platform.
But they get their chance and maybeI find the next superstar, then I
sign them and go there. It'sjust like you know David Kurrz always have
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he'shere today and we want to talk a

(01:48:43):
little bit about him. I wantto talk a little bit about motivation,
right What motivates you to continue topush down those doors, continue going through
those barriers and doing what you do, especially with celebrity box. I'll be
honestly, man, it's a perfectquestion because it is my children. Man,
you know it's my I wake upand I just look at my son's

(01:49:05):
eyes and my daughter text me Dad. I'm like, man, that's just
motivation. I don't need anything else, Like like all these girls are friends
of what they're like, are youwe're gonna go out? I just I
have no interest right now. Youknow what I mean. I'm so tunnel
vision and so I'm motivated on mylife right now. I'm motivated. I
got to think about me. Igotta be the better version of me,

(01:49:28):
and I just want to be I'mso motivated because timing is everything in life.
Now's my time. And if Idon't put my foot on the gas
pedal now, I'm gonna hit abrick wall. You know. So now's
the time to make it happen.And you just got to be tunnel vision
to go after what you want andmotivation. And when you wake up in
the morning and it's and you're like, oh, man, I don't feel

(01:49:50):
like, man, what a weirdday is? We can sleep. Then
I then all of a sudden,my eyes go, get your ass out
of bed. Come on, yougot to get up. I gotta go.
And I still might be depressor,feeling weird. I'm like, man,
what is going on with me?Then I keep fighting through the day,
keep trucking through it, pushing it, and at the end of the

(01:50:10):
day, I'm like, damn,things really work today. Man, this
is great. So you just gotto never quit, never surrender. You
know what you always talked about thatnever quit, never surrendered. Where did
that saying coming from? Because youmentioned that before that said I will never
forget, never quit, never surrender. So perfect. Perfect thing is like
I was laying in bed, man. I was just you know, getting

(01:50:31):
out of my crazy situation, gettingout of jail. Stupid thing. I
didn't do your show yet, butI was laying there and I was trying
hard. My goal was just toget this film and book out right,
and I finally got it out.But it was I was laying there and
the owner of the Showboot Hotel andhe's a big real estate guy here in
Philadelphia, Barb Bladstein, texted me. He's like, man, I read

(01:50:55):
your story in the paper. AndI was like, I didn't even know
you know, out my paper.I was like what. I was like,
oh my god. Really, Iwas just like Texting's like, man,
your story really meant a lot tome. It's like, man,
keep going, never quit, neversurrender. You're gonna make it. Man.
I got my ass out of bed. I went right to the gym
and it was like eight o'clock atnight. I just got motivated, man.

(01:51:15):
And that's just and he like he'sa great guy. Man, he's
like, you know, rich guyon that, but he's one of those
guys I would never ask a pennyfrom him. Yeah. He takes care
of me, helps me, hemotivates me, and it was just it
was just life changer when I gotthat thing. Never quit, never surrender.
It's part of my post anytime Itell someone, I don't want to
be boring to people, but Iwant people to know you're gonna feel down.

(01:51:40):
There's people feeling down every day andthey don't know how to get charged
up. They don't know how tomake that step. Just fight, fight,
take that chance. I promise it'sgonna work. Yeah, And you
know we always say that, Wealways say we talk He's a safe space,
right, and you know, wetry our best to humanized you know

(01:52:00):
the people that's on here. Youcame on to show prior and you talked
a little bit about drinking right,and you talked a little bit about that
as being probably one of the hardestfights. Yeah, you know literally that
you had to go through. Right, let's talk a little bit about that.
And you know, since we talkedabout motivation, what motivated you to

(01:52:21):
say, you know what, I'mkicking at X and I'm someone different now.
Well, you know, I hitthat brick wall. It was in
jail, and I got a picturesent to me from my son's grandmam.
I was like, damn, I'mnot at his sports award dinner. I
was like, what man? Istarted? Honestly, man, I just

(01:52:42):
I cried that whole day and Icouldn't. I was like, because there's
no joke. I couldn't get out, You're not going to be able to
get out. I was like,drinking did this. I chose drinking to
do this, and then it justwoke out. I prayed to God,
I said, I swear I willnever have a drink again. That was
eight years ago and I haven't hada drink and I never will again.
Let me for that one right there. I love you, man, but

(01:53:06):
I'll be honestly, I don't needapplause. Everybody is like when I say
that, they're oh, please don'tclat pants. Just do that for yourself.
For I don't need to be applauded. I'm not where I want to
be yet, you know what Imean. So when I get there,
then you get applaud me. II just want to I really want to
inspire people because if you've been throughthe life I've been through, you want

(01:53:28):
to inspire people, you know whatI mean. And the drinking, it
might taste good and feel good fora few minutes, then the next day
you wake up, what the helldid I do? Why did I drink?
And that's going to happen every time. And then when you overdo it
that time and make that mistake andget a god from an accident or kill
someone, then you can't change anything. It doesn't matter if you drink or

(01:53:51):
you don't drink. You already madethe mistake. So think before you act,
right, for sure? For sure? Wow, man, I think
it warrants applause because that's something literallythat's going to help someone else that's hearing
your story. Sure, and Ithink oftentimes is we don't necessarily and I

(01:54:15):
use the word get flowers, butwe lost that. What's the word I'm
looking for. I believe that's aspecial kind of like idea concept that we
lost. We don't do it anymore, right, We just kind of say
or have this expectation or just expectthat someone does this, and that's fine.

(01:54:38):
No, no, it needs tobe acknowledged. Let's pause for a
minutely and acknowledge it, and that'swhat I would like to do for you.
So kudos to you, my friend, for all the work that you
was doing. And I know thatit's someone that's listening to this that your
story will help them, and it'svery important. You know, it's right
here. We would talk with us. This is why it's we talk weekly
because honestly, I just did howwe're starting show the other day. It

(01:55:00):
was crazy because there's different modes Ihave to do. I have to be
this way and this when I comehere on me when I'm want to start
and I'm going to be something Idon't want to really be, I'll be
honest with me. You know,he only doesn't break my balls the whole
time. I mean so, buthere I'm able to talk and like it's
like what I want to do.I really wanted people to in this show
helps inspire me to want to becausewhen I get done this show, I'm

(01:55:25):
gonna go out. I can't waitto see the clips and don't put together
and I'm like, damn, manand me start posting our trials. I'm
sorry but post this, but wewant to post this stuff and be like
I want these people to see whynever, quitting, never surrendering will change
your life. Don't drink. Haveokay, little bit of wine, that's

(01:55:45):
it you. But see that littlebit of wine turns into a second glass,
third glass, and all of asudden you're so drunk walking around and
you're like, why is it?Why are you drink that much? And
then they're saying, yeah, you'reright, you should you I can't even
speak to me. Don't talk tome, you know what I mean?
People have to understand drinking is there'sno sense of oh, go celebrate.

(01:56:10):
Celebrating is going to getting drunk.You don't even remember what you're doing.
If you celebrated, go enjoy andjust be like with your family and friends,
your girlfriend, whatever, and justenjoy it. You know what.
One of the questions that I don'tthink I've ever asked you, and I
want you to think about it nowis who is If someone was to say
who is Damon Feldtman, what wouldyou say? I'm a guy. Honestly,

(01:56:33):
I'm a broken guy. I'm aguy that you know. It took
a lot. I mean, theGod gave me this chance, man,
God really gave me the second chanceto you know, from day one.
My mom is quadchi polegic in awheelchair. You know, I already went

(01:56:54):
through the whole thing with you allthe time, the people to raise me
like I didn't have a normal life, you know what I mean. I'm
a guy who's very grateful of life. I appreciate life, and I want
to pass on things to people togive them different steps and how they can
do it, how they can makeit, and how not to have anxiety

(01:57:15):
thinking, oh, it's not goingto happen. Because if you foul your
plan and stay relaxed not have anxiety, you understand. Yes, it might
be dark days, but there islight at the end of the tunnel,
and stay tunnel vision, on yourfocus and your vision and things will work.
I like that you said that I'mbroken, because when it comes to

(01:57:41):
religion, you have to be brokenfor God to put you back together again.
Learn. Yeah, yeah, Ilove that you said that. What
do you feel is I guess thebiggest misconception that people get about you or
your brand or you know, thingslike that, I have a tough time
dating. You know, it's it'sweird because dating is so well, No,

(01:58:08):
no, I know, it's justI don't know, like dating,
sir, I'm very picky who Idate because I just I've been married all
that, and you know, Ihave kids, and I just I made
it after having all this, youknow what I mean, and I finally
made it, and so the datingpart is like tough for me right now,
because it's like some girls are nervousto come up to me, and

(01:58:31):
then I find out later they're like, oh, that girl late and she
didn't you were talking to her.I was like, damn, man,
I don't know how to I don'tknow how to take that step, you
know what I mean. But Idon't know. I just I guess maybe
it's me just being a little shytoo. We won't have to do our
own little like celebrity kind of likeboxing, where we have maybe ten women

(01:58:54):
who just come in and we'll finda date for Dame, find a date
for Damon, righting all that,you know, front of day for Dame.
We got to put that together.That's awesome. Well, David bought
a team winning today. Yeah yeah, yeah, so Damon the team that
you brought in with you today,tell us who who that those team members

(01:59:16):
are. I'm really excited because Imet the guy I was like, you
know, watching one of his films, this guy's I was like, damn,
man, this guy was like thenext John Codman. Damn. And
you're like a lot of people talkin this business and stuff. This is
a guy that makes things happen likehim and his guy Brian, David Curzol
and Brian, his manager make ithappen like they go out the guys selling

(01:59:42):
tickets. He knows how to bringsponsors, and he knows how to interr
to act with people. Because hewas like, yeah, I'm gonna have
Steven C. Cow was all right, sounds good. Right. Two weeks
later, he has an interview withthe Stephen C. Cow indoors see on
how he wants to come watch himfight. Now he has Don the Dragon
Wilson, who's a legendary MMA guy, marsha Ur guy gonna train him for

(02:00:06):
this fight sore. He's fighting themain event March ninth at the Shoboo Hotel
in Atlantic City and it's his firstever fight. So yeah, first ever
celebrity boxing match. I'm coming.Yeah, we're going to but let me
just finish this up real fast.So who he is is a really cool

(02:00:29):
guy, business guy, can fightand after this fight, if he has
to win the fight, and ifhe wins his fight, you're gonna see
the Jake Paul version of a martialartist because he's going to be challenging all
the UFC guys and Mike Perry.If you're listening to this, you're gonna
see something that's right. A couplemore questions because I'm going to talk to

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this brother over here. Very verytalented brother, very pleasant brother. It's
great to have him here. ButI want to talk. I got a
couple more questions for you because sincewhile we're on the topic of kind of
like the celebrity boxing thing and inhim making his debut, Uh, a
lot of people don't know about youwith the legendary now god rested dead,

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rest in peace. I want youto talk a little bit about the Rodney
King. Oh yeah, yeah,right, and you know that about with
him, man, how much hewas pretty much an influence because I think
what happens, Yeah, I thinkwhat happens is people on the peripheral only
see what happened, and that carriesa negative piece to it. But you

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have another side of that, well, I have I have a because there's
a positive piece that Roddy Rodney King. There was no negative again, the
media made it look that way.Right. Let me ask you this question.
When you see right here Rodney King, what do you think of him?
I already think of the beaten inl as the first use, the
first thing I think, and that'sanybody. But then they look at oh,
he was doing drugs and that it'snot true. It's not true.

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Me and Rodney hooked up through anage in LA and when they said,
because Rodney just got done doing someshow in VH one, and they were
like, he wants the box andI was like, Rodney King was the
box early, and it was like, man, this would be awesome for
the company. Long story short,I hooked it up and we signed them
and we put put it on thetake on Rodney King in the celebrity boxing

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match, right I got Honestly,I think there was like thirty thousand people.
It was so crazy, it wasinsane. This is when I wasn't
really a big company, like acompany, you know what I mean.
And then I was like Rodney King. Then I finally he came here.
He came we did a press conference, did the fight, and well,

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we did a press conference, announcingthe fight. Then we're like, who's
the opponent going to be? Soa lot of different personalities said because they
see the value in it. ThenI had a bunch of police officers want
to do this, right, Some and Rodney had our talk this and
that, and so we picked thisex police officer out of Chester, Pennsylvania

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to take the match. So hewas sort of like a bad copy.
He had issues with the and heended up not being on the police sports
anymore. So he announced Rodney King'staking on an x cop and went by,
I mean it crazy. Of courseit was social media. It was
even that crazy back in twenty tenwhatever it was, but it was just
all the media was covering it.It was unbelievable. He meets up my

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dad and all of a sudden,man, my dad's like his dad now,
it's crazy, right. So becauseRonnie, my dad ended up training
Rodney. My dad was a formerboxing trainer. So my dad goes,
yeah, you just stay here withus. So we ended up living with
me because I was with my dadat the time. So we lived together,

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him and his girlfriend. And itwas crazy, man, just living
with him. I was like,to my son, is this real?
Rodney King's really lived with me.I was like, and Ronnie was like
family. He baby sat my kidsthat were like I trusted to do so
much, and this is Rodney Kingand nobody else probably want to. He

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watched my kids. He was themost humblest, nicest guy. We became
brothers. Man. That's all therewas. Thank you for saying that.
Thank you for saying that, becauseI think his legacy was tarnished and I
think people really didn't know him,and I think it was an agenda to
mark him as someone who was unbecomingof being a human being. And I

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appreciate you humanism. I listened toRonnie and his daughter is His daughter is
a great girl. She put togetherthe Rodney Kinney voundation. We're gonna end
up doing something together, you know. And Ronnie, it's tough. I
can't believe I'm saying it. LikeRodney brought my dad's life back. Is
that because my dad was out ofboxing trading. My dad was like seventy

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some years old. He ended upstarting trading Rodney again. It was like,
and this is my my dad's likehe didn't really know what Rodney King
who he was. I was likethe older guy, right, he was
training when he's fighting for the worldtitle, he's running him. At four
am, he's at the gym.He's yelling at Ronniehi. I was like,

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what's my dad doing? The like, and he's like, Rodney's like
love and he's like, man,I love your dad, man like,
because he showed he cared. Youknow what I mean, when you're yellow,
so he it means you care,and it was it was just then
unbelievable thing. Rodney ended up takinghim on Funny Stories and I just signed
and I signed James. Buster Douglasknocked down Mike Tyson, right, so

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they were going to fight on thesame car. So Ronnie was living in
the house. Buster Douglas came byand you know, he wanted to say
love in Broomall, Pennsylvania suburb ofPhiladelphia. They don't no one would expect
any of these guys even walking inthe area at all, you know what
I mean, like celebrities like that. So Rodney goes, damn, man,
that's Buster Dougle. Then he askedme afterwards, like I think I

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can handle it. Rodney sabbing,man sobbing. But it was cool because
they both fought on the same cardin Philadelphia, and it was really really,
just really interesting. If I knewthen what I know now, Oh
we cry, would have been somuch bigger. But Rodney was honestly,
he loved his kids, love people. Then when the police the way he

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was here, I was like,where's Rodney at here? He was down
at a restaurant. The police alltook him out the Center City. It's
funny, I said, what's Isaid, Yo, guys, make sure
Rodney's all right? Man? WhenI was yelling at my guys, how
you let the Rodney go to thecops? I mean, you know,
he sued a cop. Now thenext thing, these cops are gonna jump.

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Yeah. Yeah. But the copsloved them, and Rodney loved the
cops and Rodney. There's nobody Rodneydidn't like. I will say one thing.
I gotta say this on the air, So Charmela Malley or Charglemane and
got you I could talk about himreal fast. So he was doing a
show here in Philadelphia, right,So we're on the show. Rodney,

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He's like, so he was reallyhe's the same guy then, and he
goes that like he was really onRodney He's like, so how you trade,
man, You're not gonna train it, you know, you use any
of this. So Roddie Rodney hegoes, man, this is bulls.
You know. Roddy got up andwalked down. Roddy was still piss excuse

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but that was it. But thatwas It was a great in my I'm
in Rodney's book and my dad,my dad's in it, and it was
just amazing because he was about todo his movie was coming out and he
was doing his book tour. Thelast time I saw him here in Philadelphia.
Then I was trying to put togetherhim versus those kids sake, and

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we're gonna do the l a rumble. Interesting and that's him. Man,
he died. Sorry, real longstory, but it's really people need to
hear this. Yeah, that's agreat story. I think that that clip
can kind of live on his own, just talking about the you know,
the what what the legacy that youknow, Rodney King left that a lot
of people don't know. So Ithink that's that's going to be a great

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piece. One last question that Ihave for you before we bring up my
brother. You know, we talkedabout boxing, and boxing is a huge
part of your life. Why isthat such an important piece of your life?
But also why is boxing period justyou know, in in this ego
the ecosystem of what it does forthe body. But why is boxing so

(02:08:37):
important? Yeah? Boxing, Ibelieve every like do you have to go
to school, they should learn howto box. The bullying, the problems,
the drugs, the kids doing messingin their kids. Why boxing should
be because you don't have to getpunched in the face to learn how to
box. Just learning the moves andstuff like that gives you the confidence.
Boxing has to be important. WhyI do live my life and I'm not

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a regular white guy, I'll behost you, it's because I was around
the African American the culture from dayone, from five years old till I
am right now, and the cultureraised me. That's why. See,
because boxing and boxing made me bepart of the black African American community.

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And that's why I think most ofmy people I work with are African American,
you know what I mean. AndI just I think it's important for
everyone to do boxing because it's gonnahumble you. And if you do have
to get punched in the face,you get punch in the face. It's
gonna humble you, and you're gonnaunderstand that. You know, boxing just

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gives you a confidence to know howto walk in a room. A lot
of people are intimidated and they actstupid or not knowing. They don't have
the confidence to do things. Boxingwill do it. And me walking up
the steps in North Philadelphia and thatchanged my life. For those who are
watching you right now, this isthe camera, this is you know,

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all of your people, all ofyour fans, the people who've been following
your journey, the fans of youknow, celebrity boxing, the people that
you inspire. For all of thosepeople who are watching right now, what
would be that word that saying thatyou know? What would you say to
them right now? Just if youhave a dream, just know right off

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the bat, it's not going tohappen overnight. If you have a goal,
it's not going to happen overnight.Stick with it. When you wake
up tired, weak, get up. You want to get to a gym,
you don't feel like it, gowell, you don't feel like doing
anything, Just keep pushing yourself.I promise you there's late that in the

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tunnel. No matter how many sayyou get in a breakup or you're hurt.
Timing is gonna change that. Justkeep fighting for yourself. You're the
only one that's gonna make it happen. You're the only one that can make
it happen. No one else cando it, No one's gonna give you
anything. Just keep fighting for youand just know there's gonna be right at

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that end of that tunnel and thingsare gonna be worked for you. So
don't quit again. Never quit,never surrender, And I promise you it's
gonna make it happen for you.There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Mister David Founman, my friend,my brother. You know, I don't
want you guys to go anywhere becausewhen we come back, we got my

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guy. We're gonna talk a littlebit about his debut. When we want
you to come and see what's goingon here. So don't go nowhere.
We'll be right back, y'all.What's going on you guys? This is
Bridge Kelly and you are locked answersand talk weekly. We talked weeklies after

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the talk with w P P Ml P Philadelphia one on six point five
film. We talked weeklies after theTalk with your boy, Charles Gregory and
a beautiful and a beautiful Oh mo, I'm sorry, sparkd one more thing
more? There she go and withoutfurther ado, we have someone with have
a tremendous amount of respect for.I'm excited for this guy, mister David

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Curzol Did I say right? Crizonalsh, There you go. I'm excited for
you. Uh, this is yourdebut, my brother. So how are
you feeling right now? Let's talka little bit about one. I like
to start with asking how are youfeeling? You know, how your health
and all that good old stuff.Yeah, oh man, I'm healthy,
I feel great. I feel amazing. My buddy Brian the Beast Robinson knows

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I'm always a glass half full.I'm optimistic man, like I'm either in
a good mood or like a reallygood mood. Okay, so yeah,
things are great. I feel greatman. I'm full of life, full
of energy. Fantastic, fantastic.Now let's talk a little bit about I
mean, they call you the VikingSamurai. Where does that come from?
Where does that come from? It'sa name I made up a few years

(02:13:28):
ago because I started a YouTube channeland I needed something that was original,
something that was like really cool,and it has ancestral ties because I'm mixed
heritage, so it just made sense, right because I'm a warrior too,
so Viking samurai it's kind of gota yin yang element too, because when
people think about Vikings, they thinkthey have a certain image compared to the
samurai. Right. Yeah, SoI feel like I'm a good combination of

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the two. So where let's talkabout your lineage then, like where let's
talk about you, you know,your beginnings, Where did you come from?
You know, where were you bornand what got you hair? Right
in Philadelphia, Let's talk a littlebit about that. Yeah, yeah,
sure, man, I'm an armyBrett, so I okay, okay,
yeah man. Like I went toI think I went to four different high

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schools in three different states, soI was like all over, you know,
and it was hard to I wasalways like the new kid, right,
like I literally was, man.But yeah, man, so I've
just been all over and then Iwent to film school in southern California,
and then I eventually moved to theMidwest and got into the financial industry as
a stockbroker in Philadelphia. It's kindof funny I met my buddy Brian,

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who lives out here in Philly,and just for whatever reason, there's a
lot of people that I know inPhilly now. In fact, one of
my friends that we just had dinnerwith tonight. This is a crazy story,
man. This is a guy namedNick Vohene who I kind of grew
up with in a way, Likewe were both living on Ford or California
on the Army base. I didn'treally know him too much. We ran

(02:14:58):
in different circles, but for whateverreason, we both ended up in Fort
Lewis, Washington, and then weconnected and became really good friends. And
I haven't seen the dude since likenineteen ninety four, Like he just disappeared
one day. He disappeared one day, and I never knew what happened to
him. But he found me becauseof my YouTube channel, Like he was

(02:15:18):
watching stuff on Frank Duke's and bloodSport and see me interviewing Frank Dukes and
was like, I think I recognizethis guy. And then you know,
he had commented on the video andshot me an email and we kind of
got chatted back and forth and youknow, eventually got on the phone and
yeah, I just met up withthem literally tonight earlier, and it was
really cool. Man. And helooks obviously older just like I do,

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but like he dresses the same.He's got like his nineties look, he's
got his dickies, his sweatshirt,you know. The dude. They literally
got the same outfit. Man.It's actually kind of funny. But yeah,
man, it's crazy that he livesout here. Obviously he's going to
be at the fight on March ninth. Everybody listening needs to be at the
fight on March ninth, Lantic City, the show about It's gonna be amazing.
And the cool thing is that therapper that I got walking me out

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performing lives a guy named Sermon,local talent, really good guy, great
guy, great rapper, very talented. But he's one of Nick's friends.
So it's just funny how it allgot connected because then then I asked Damon,
I said, hey, can Iactually have a guy that I know
walk me out? And he madea song about me like the Viking Samarai.
This all happened before I ever metDamon, by the way, so
it's all very like coincidental and weirdhow everything lined up, for sure.

(02:16:28):
Yeah, amazing, amazing, I'mpulling your marketing piece up. You know.
You when we talk about action,right, you got action Starr MMA
specialists. Let's talk a little bitabout that, especially the MMA side.
You know, so you have thiskind of like mixed martial art D specialists

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that helps you kind of prepare youknow, how did you get into all
of these crafts, all of thesearts as it relates to you know,
physicality so to speak. Yeah,Actually he starts back in the nineties and
I started in tekwondo, did thatfor years. Then I moved on to
kempo, karate, you know,did a lot of different martial arts,
and then more recently like form Thisis all formal training because any great martial

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arts they're gonna go to their dojo, they're gonna train, but they're gonna
train even more by themselves. That'show you get really good. And then
when you go back to the dojo, then it's like, you know,
they're gonna be that much better thanthe guys that only go you know,
an hour three times a week forexample, They're not gonna get that good,
to be honest. So but yeah, man, like the more recent
training was like krab my guy,very like street based Israeli military size.

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Yeah, so I just combined itall man. Okay, okay, okay,
So March nine, if you ready, Yeah, I'm ready. I
mean, I do not have aboxing background, but I'm in really good
shape. I'm really disciplined. I'mworking with like some of the top guys
Damon and mentioned. I'm gonna beworking with Don the Dragon Wilson, eleven
time world kickboxing champion. My buddyBrian recently hooked me up with Slim Perkins

(02:17:56):
boxing legend. He's like the Yodaof the boxing world because he trained all
these amazing legends highly respect anytime youmentioned his name, like oh wow with
Slim Perkins, you know, butthey'll say I didn't know he was still
around. So he's kind of likeYoda, where he's like living on that
planet by himself and forgotten about.And I'm Luke Skywalker, like you know,
it's gonna be some very specialist turnthat mic around for him. I
want to that one, not theother one, outher one, Yeah,

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because I want to. I wantto talk to you know, because you
get you keep getting shout out.He's shouting you out a lot, you
know, and so I want toknow you know, what's how you get
in your friend prepared, your manprepared to you know what's going to happen,
like, you know, to addto his you know, his excitement.
Yeah. I think the most importantthing is getting the right training,

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the right people like seeking out SlimPerkins and a man who has amazing secrets
of the past. You know,we have a boxing tour together. People
don't know. It's called the Circleof Legends. It's based around all the
boxing legends. Tim Witherspoon is oneof the two time everyweight champions where he
and Philly is one of the cofounders. Right, So yeah, it's

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seeking out the knowledge that's been forgotten. We're also going to be going up
and seeing Marlon Starling Master the HighGuard up in Hartford, Connecticut, another
man who's when his he passes,all them secrets will be going, they'll
be forgotten and they even wants tokind of encapsulate those. So he's also
a student of the art, whichI really appreciate about him. Yeah,

(02:19:26):
yeah, yeah, So how whatwhat do you think the biggest challenge is
for you? Coming from the mM A karate all of that to you
know, just straight boxing, brawling, the you know orthodox you know what
what what do you think the biggestchallenge for you was, well, or

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if there is any you know,you know, the biggest challenge would be
head movement because like if you're talkingabout taikuando and karate, you don't punge
to the face. Like even inKyoki shin karate, which is very hardcore,
people get knocked out all the timefrom like headk et cetera. But
you don't punch to the face,so you never work on your head movement.
So, you know, it waskind of humbling when I started sparring

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more taking shots, like at thispoint, used to get and punch in
the face. But I'm tough,I'm durable, I'm rugged, so I
take them. I don't like it, but I could take them. I
could eat them, you know.But I'm gonna start you know, God,
I mean it's only but so muchyou could take. Yeah, yeah,
I'll start moving a little bit,just a little get this face pretty

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right. Yeah, there you go, there you go. Have you found
it interesting? Do you feel likethere's more skills that you have learned from
the already thousands of skills that youalready have. You know, I'm always
constantly learning, Like because I havea white belt mentality, you know,
you got to have that that emptycup. And somebody had mentioned to me
the other day it's like, youknow, you could fill your cup up,

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get as much knowledge and training forthe day, but then you got
to empty it and be ready forfor more, you know, to fill
it up the next day. Absolutely. Absolutely. If if there was one
thing that you believe is uh acraft within boxing that stands out more than
all the other crafts, what wouldthat be? You mean, just like

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a style of boxing or a stylar. I guess, yeah, I guess
you could say style of boxing.You know, it's it's one of those
things where I believe each craft ofyou know, fighting, right, whether
it's m MA, whether it's Crimeof God, street boxing, it's always
something that stands out that's specific tothat particular craft. What do you think

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that is that makes well, Ithink the thing that would benefit me the
mostion and what I'm impressed with.And you know, because I'm in Philadelphia,
of course, the Philly Shed.I'm about to say, right,
people don't know about this. FloydMayweather's father kind of like, you know,
I don't want to say took thatfrom Philly. But yeah, that's
where Floyd Mayweather got his thing toPhilly. But go ahead. I'm sorry,

(02:21:54):
I just want to Yeah, that'sgreat, but that's what I gotta
get, especially while I'm here representingand doing a lot of training here.
Yeah, for sure, for sure. Okay, okay, Well, if
you're not gonna move ahead, thatmight protect you a little bit. I'll
move ahead, don't. It's gettingbetter, absolutely. So what are you
most excited for now coming into MarchKnife? What are you most excited about?

(02:22:18):
Just the spectacle, like just justfeeding off that audience energy, putting
on a show, because celebrity boxing, it's it's bigger than boxing in a
lot of ways because it's more showy. It's it's just gonna be a lot
of fun. So I'm really excited, kind of like the Spotlights, honest
man, no doubt. Well,we talked weekly. We're gonna be there,
We're gonna do our show, We'regonna uh broadcast our show from there,

(02:22:43):
and just kind of supplumbing. We'reexcited about the things that you guys
are doing. I'm excited about you. I'm going to support you, I'm
gonna I'm gonna put some I don'twant to talk about betting now, but
I'm putting my money on you rightnow. No, Betty, we're not
doing any Betty. We're not doingany Betty. And so but yeah,
I'm really excited for you. Isthere you know, for all of your
fans, all of your new fansthat's watched you kind of like make this

(02:23:07):
transition, what would you like tosay to them? You know, I
like to say, just talk aboutthe power of self belief, like it's
so right, Yeah, a littlebit maybe, man, but you know,
great minds think alike. So Ialways tell people, if you don't
believe in yourself, nobody else will. So you really, but it's more
than just self belief, because yougot to have self belief. You gotta

(02:23:28):
believe you're the one that's going tobe able to do it when the odds
are against you, and the oddsare always going to be against you in
life, especially if you're trying todo something big. So once you've got
that self belief, then it's like, okay, now come up with the
plan, like you know, comeup. You got the goals and the
dream, but then you got tobreak it down in steps. And you
gotta work on that consistently. Soyou just have to be disciplined in life,
and you get that from the martialarts. You get that because I'm

(02:23:52):
also a fitness dude, Like I'vebeen into natural bodybuilding since pretty much when
I started martial arts in the earlynineties. So, you know, these
are just things that are great foranybody. Like Damon was mentioning how boxing
is just great for anybody to getinto, you know, because it does
build that discipline and as long asyou're consistent, you can utilize that to
pretty much achieve whatever you want life. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're
back there shaking your hair. You'relike, yes, yes, what stands

(02:24:15):
out for David that you see?And as you've been working with him and
seeing his growth and him making histransition, what's some of the things that
stands out? I think if peoplecould learn something from David. I've been
around that. I've been around alot of people, but David has an
incredible self belief on where he wantsto be. He's certain and it's interesting

(02:24:35):
because we're kind of ying and Yang. I'm the one who looks at the
cons of things. He's always lookingat the pros and we make a great
I blend that way, but it'sjust, you know, we talk about
it. This is like a simgame and what you're trying to be as
a main character. In order tobe a main character, you have to
think of your quests and everything.We do always kind of joke about it.

(02:24:56):
You're on a quest and you're tryingto level up, so you're always
trying to achieve that next step ifyou if you're complacent and you don't,
then you fall on the zone ofan endpiece that you're just going about the
same exact you know, every dayit's like that movie Groundhog Day. You
wake up the same day all overagain. But he has an ability to

(02:25:18):
mold his future. It's quite fascinatingto watch him because we've been doing some
other work together. He's an extraordinarysalesperson in influence and he has a way
to excite everybody around him, sofantastic. Well, you make sure you
excite them about the things that you'redoing, and I'm excited about the things
that you're doing. Uh, beforewe let you go, why don't you

(02:25:43):
tell everyone who's watching right why theyshould tune into you. On March ninth
and you know, just kind ofsupport the things that you're doing for sure.
So I think it's important to nevergive up on your dreams. You
know, they may come way laterin life. They say luck is when
preparation meets opportunities. So you gottaalways prepare and you gotta stay prepared because

(02:26:09):
you never know when or if thatopportunity is gonna come. And the worst
thing that could happen is the opportunitycomes but you're not prepared, so you
can't take advantage of it, andyou're gonna kick yourself and you're gonna just
regret that your entire life. Youknow, what's gonna haunt you. So
my story is kind of interesting becausethe stuff that I'm involved with in what
I'm doing now is something that Ireally sought out, like twenty years ago

(02:26:30):
when I went to film school.It's funny because I mentioned my buddy Nick
from back in the day, andhe sees everything I'm doing now. You
know, he knows I'm gonna bein this movie called The Last Kumute coming
out in a few months. Gota really nice role. That's an amazing
film. Got all the martial artlegends in there, like Billy blanks from
Tybo. Oh so we shot thatin Germany. Oh yeah, we already
shot that in Germany. And it'sactually it turned out amazing, Like the

(02:26:52):
distributor, it turned out better thanthey thought, so they're actually pumping more
money into it for the marketing becausethey really believe in it. So that's
great. And I got another filmcoming out where I'm the lead called Bloodstorm.
This is kind of like a throwbackto the eighties nineties action type movies,
you know. It's kind of likesomething that Chuck Norris or Just Loan
or Van Dam would have done backin the day. So it's really kind
of a throwback. But I mentionedthat because the guy that I had dinner

(02:27:13):
with earlier, the old friend,you know he had, he had sent
me an email and he said,I remember when we were in the back
of your dad's pickup truck with Tom, who was a mutual friend, and
you were telling us how you wantedto be a martial arts movie star.
And he's like, dude, you'reactually doing it, like you've done it
now, and it just took waylonger than anticipated and planned. But I
think there's a reason for that.Like, you know, I recently became

(02:27:35):
a Christian on the summer nineteenth oflast year. So I'm kind of new
to this thing, you know,but it's exciting. You know. I
got a new relationship, very importantrelationship in my life. But there was
a lot of things going on lastyear, you know, because I was
shooting these movies, but I hadalso recently gotten divorced, and I was
separated, you know, since likeJune. There's a long story behind that.

(02:27:56):
But the thing is, you know, like you just got to keep
going. You know. This wassomebody in my life who I could understand
her perspective, but the stuff Iwas pursuing, she said, that's a
stupid childhood dream. It's never gonnahappen. You're too old, you know.
I mean I could understand, likethe odds were against me, but
you know, it kind of brokeme down, and I almost quit everything

(02:28:18):
I was doing because I was pursuingthis dream again like three years ago,
something that i'll admit that I failedat before, you know, and I
kind of put it to the side. And then people become complacent and they
just you know, regular life getsin the way, and you get your
career, you get your regular job, and you know, like after you
realize so much time has gone by. But what I realized is I'm still

(02:28:41):
young enough to do everything that Iwanted to do, and that's what I'm
doing now and it's working out.But like people don't a lot of people
don't realize how much effort it takes. You know, it just it almost
seems impossible sometimes because you're like,I'm doing everything I feel like I need
to do. I'm networking, I'mtalking to people, I'm putting the work
in, but it's like you're notgetting closer to the goal. At least

(02:29:03):
it doesn't seem like it. Andthen all of a sudden, it's like
the dam burst. And then onething happened after another. Literally about two
months after, I had a daggergeto my heart from my ex, and
I you know, I still likeher, I'll still be her friend.
I'm civil with her. We hadlike what I would say, a nice
divorce, right, But you know, women are different. No, no
offense to any women, Listen,I don't think they're as ambitious as guys.

(02:29:28):
I feel like we have to conck. No, I'm just saying I
feel like we have to conquer,we have to achieve really big. Well,

(02:29:48):
you know what, to his defense, he may be thinking that because
of the partner that he had forme. As a partner, I would
never tell my partner that that isa childhood dream. Why are you?
I would I would be behind themone hundred percent. I would No.

(02:30:11):
I know what David's saying. Andthis is how this is kind of how
it is if you went back likefour thousand years ago. Right, the
guys are always sitting around the firelooking out a hill and saying, I
wonder what's over there? Right,And you know, they say, like,
hooth, guy went over that mountain. Member he came back half dead.
You look like you got tore up. And the guys will say,

(02:30:35):
well, we'll just get four moremen and go over that hill, whereas
women be like, you know what, we're pretty good here. We got
a lot of It's just what Ithink what he's saying is men are sometimes
of this overconquering mind, and that'sI think it's a little bit. Women
are a little bit more logical aboutsomething, and sometimes guys can to jump

(02:31:00):
into something headlong without knowing all thenow. I agree, we don't think
we just do we don't think theyI mean, are you know our feminine
counterparts they think a little bit more, maybe a little too much, but
they think a little bit more.We don't think. We just do it.
And so no, I get itthough, but that's that's right and

(02:31:24):
so but no, it's it's aninteresting thing, you know, it's exciting
to you know, see how excitedyou are and how positive. That's amazing.
You talked about the action stuff,and I only got a couple more
questions, but you talked about theaction stuff. If I was to say
to Golf Van Damn, who wouldyou pick in an actual real fight,
or just like who whatever you wouldchoose to go vandam or if you like

(02:31:46):
to qualify it you can. It'shard to say, man, because obviously
I'm gonna be a little biased becauseI actually know Steven Saga, you know.
But growing up, I kind ofmodeled myself more after Van dam like
he was a bigger inspiration because Iwas built more like him, Like Sigull
is huge, he's like six footfive. I'm more like, really,

(02:32:07):
oh yeah, he's a big guy, and Van Dam's more of an average
sized guy. And I was alwaysmore impressed cinematically, like with his kicks.
That's why I started in Taekwanda,so, you know, as like
a martial arts influence. At leastgrowing up, I was more in the
Van Dam though. I love thestuff that Steven Sagull does, especially the
tensioniketo, and I've even worked withhis top student in Saint Louis since Eliot

(02:32:28):
Freeman, so like that stuff works, even though something from some people like
Hito gets a bad reputation because theydon't understand it, or maybe they went
to a school that was doing allthat flowery water down stuff and it's like
you can't do that in real fight. It's like, well, those guys
probably can't, but I guarantee StevenSkull can. So as far as like,
I love both guys though, Ireally do. Michael right, I

(02:32:50):
have a history with Michael Jaid.Look, I liked the guy. I've
always respected him as a martial artistand fitness guy because that's what I am,
a martial artist and the fitness guy. I like some of his movies,
I don't like all of them,and I've been honest about that.
You know, I'm not just ayes man. Say oh, Michael,
all of your movies are great andyou're so amazing. I'll just say no,

(02:33:11):
I think welcome son death sucked.I told him that in the interview.
Actually good, you know, butlike I mean, I look,
I ran into him recently at AlanGoldberg's Mega Action weekend that was late January,
and he didn't want to talk tome at first, but then I
kind of explained and it just reallyhad a heart to heart, looked him
in the eye, explained everything myperspective, because I had people on the

(02:33:33):
channel before who bad mouthed him,but I had people talk good about him
too, because on my channel,I try to get like all sides right
and everyone like is gonna tell thestory a little bit different and have their
own opinions, but I have peoplejust say what they want, you know,
kind of. But so he didn'treally appreciate it before, but then
he kind of, I think,understood better and we shook hands and you

(02:33:54):
know, I think we're cool.Here's what I would like to happen though,
man, And this kind of tiesback to Mike Perry, by the
way, man, which I thinkwould be the ultimate fights. Uh oh,
so hold up, hold the holdthe hold the hold on, hold
on. That's gonna get cool man. This is my idea and I'm gonna
try to manifest this in reality.So I don't think it's I think it's

(02:34:16):
destiny. So Dave Feldman is Damon'sbrother. Dave Feldman runs the BKFC.
Mike Perry was an above average UFCfighter, durable, tough, fun to
watch, but just above average.I don't even think he was a top
ten guy. He is dominating inthe BKFC though, he's he's beating all
like the ex UFC champions who transitionto BKFC, so he's he's doing great.

(02:34:37):
And what I propose it look rightnow, like Mike Perry knows who
I am by the way he does. He is aware of me. He
ain't gonna take me serious yet becauseI haven't done a real fight. You
know, I do movie fights.I've done Taekwano tournaments in the past,
but nobody counts that, you know, they don't count point fighting. So
I propose a bare knuckle kickboxing matched. Yeah, yeah, because people want

(02:34:58):
to see my kicks, you know, because again I said Van Dam was
a big influence, and people knowI kick like Van Dam. You know,
there's similarities there. I think VanDam is the best, and I
would never put myself above him,but I wouldn't put anyone else above him
either, because I respect the guy. That's like, if you're playing basketball,
you're not. Nobody should be sayingthey're better than Michael Jordan. Well,
for one, they're probably not.And for two, if somebody else

(02:35:20):
should say that, if they thinkthat, but nobody should say that themselves
because they they those people achieved sucha high level, you know, Bucele
Van Dam, you know Michael Jordan'slike, you don't say you're better than
them, you know, you justdon't, even if you think you are.
If other people think you are,then fine, let them say it.
But the reason I bring up MikePerry and Michael Jai White, they
had a big beef back in theday and they I think they were going

(02:35:41):
to fight. You know, MichaelJai White never took the fight. A
lot of the Marshal Art movie starsyou never seen do a real fight.
You never seen Bruce Lee do areal fight, John clud Van Dam,
Stephen Skill, Mark Jai White.I think they would all do great,
but you never know because we neverseen it. So that's also something that
I'm doing and how I'm marketing myselfis the marsh Art movie star is gonna
do a real fight, and I'mnot gonna discount the opponent on March ninth,

(02:36:03):
real stronghold. The guy's fit.I mean, he's a fitness model,
he looks good, he moves good, he's a martial art he's done
boxing for a while. But I'mgonna knock him out. I'm gonna knock
him. I'm making it on predictionright now. So and then and then
Mike Perry he'll pay more attention becauseit's all about momentum. Then the movies
come out, like I said,last Kumite comes out after that than Bloodstorm.
Then it's like, Okay, thisguy's kind of interesting, like he

(02:36:26):
just you know, knock this dudeout. We'll see. I'm just making
the prediction here. And then he'slooking really good in the movies and he's
kind of building his name up.And I would like to train with Michael
Jai White because he has that beefwith Mike Perry, and I do think
he has something really good to teach. Yeah. Yeah, so we'll see
what happens with all this. Wow, amazing, amazing. Yeah, I
can see you have a channel.I can see why you have a channel.

(02:36:46):
Amazing, my brother, I'm ahuge fan of Michael joh Wright.
You know, I think when itcomes to especially people in African American community,
we don't necessarily have like certain starswithin different genres of like action.
Right. He's one of them,right that we can kind of look and
see ourselves in. And I thinkthat's what made me a huge, huge

(02:37:09):
fan of his. Uh. Itwas a lot of conversation based around him
playing uh spawn, right should hebe the next Spawn? And I think
he would have been an excellent spawn, you know. Shout out to Wesley
though, but yeah, so kudosto you. I'm excited you must be
talking about Blade because he I'm sorry, I'm sorry Blade. That's correct me,

(02:37:31):
Blade, That's what I mean.But it was a lot of uh,
it was a lot of talk aroundhim being the next Blade, you
know. And I don't know whathappened with that, but uh, I
think he said something he didn't wantto do with it or something like that.
I can't remember, but I thinkwhen it comes to him, he's
probably the closest to a Bruce Leethat we would get right or something along

(02:37:52):
the line, because when you thinkBruce Lee, he's in that. You
talk about Michael Jackson of Marshall,and you know, it was cool to
see other artists like the gentleman whoplayed it, man ip Man, you
know, a huge fan of his, you know, and just the arts
period when it comes to the martialarts. I mean, it's just a
wonderful thing. And it's good tosee that you're you have that background and

(02:38:16):
you're you're you're expounding that and you'reshowing you you're testing, you're testing your
you know, your your grit,you know, and I'm glad to see
that, and I'm anticipating seeing it. Is anything else you would like to
tell everyone before before you, youknow, sign off and let everyone know
how to get get in contact withyou and all of that little stuff.
Yeah, make sure to check outthe Viking Sermari YouTube channel. You can

(02:38:37):
check me out on Instagram and TikTokReal Viking Samurai and make sure to watch
the fight March ninth, Atlantic Cityat the Showboat. There you go,
Well, then you have it,ladies and gentlemen. I don't want you
to go anywhere when we come back. You still want to do you?
Ready? She's like you're tired.Yeah, well we'll do it for the
next time. All right, We'llall right. I've wore them out to

(02:38:58):
day. We had a dynamics y'all. I'm super excited about that. This
is Charles Gregory. We talked weeklyafter the talk with w P P m
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