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20 Years Later: The Accident That Woke Me Up · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, folks? And welcome to the Legendary Podcast.
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  My name is David, and I'm the legendary host of this legendary podcast,
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  We got an emotional little one because you know what?
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  I said on my previous or on previous podcast.
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  Not previously but other podcasts
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  and if you're following on my social i am
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  celebrating yes i am celebrating 20 years of
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  my car accident where i survived and i'm
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  here to tell that story and when i tell that story people ask me questions david
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  do you remember that day and i said yes and i will once again retell that story
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  in the upcoming because it was on a late september 20 get 20 But 2005.
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  That's correct, 2005.
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  But the one thing that I always remember is prior to the co-action.
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  And now I'm just going to tell this little story of where was I mentally,
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  spiritually, physically prior to my co-action because I remember that.
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  But what I want people, as they listen to this podcast, think about that time
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  that you say, wow, that's probably one of the worst, if not the worst thing
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  that ever happened to me. Excuse me.
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  Got a little, drink a little bit of agua, water.
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  Had a little bit of burp. You already know. And you already know water is essential.
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  Be like water, my friend. Great Bruce Lee.
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  But one of those things, I want people to close their eyes and remember that
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  time, if you have any, when you said, wow, this is the worst thing that ever happened to me.
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  Whether it's in a car accident Whether it's Some type of accident Whether it's
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  something That was beyond Your control Your.
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  But we're going to give it a little bit of a caveat because there are times
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  that there are things that are unpredictable in life.
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  And we're going to live a life where things are just unpredictable,
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  whether it's a car accident, whatever it is, where it kind of emotionally took
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  a toll on you physically, whatever it is.
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  Sometimes there's people that start to sense that there's something is about
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  to happen. Now, for those people out there that are trying to say,
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  but sometimes when you feel that way, you're manifesting negativity.
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  You could be right on that. Nobody, you know what? It's not even open for debate.
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  It is just me listening that that could be happening. That is true.
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  Sometimes when we start thinking negativity, sometimes things happen.
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  But sometimes in life, you got that premonition that, hey, I just got a bad
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  feeling about this. You know what I mean? Something's going on.
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  I want people, anybody, all my listeners, if I was listening to out there,
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  my beautiful, legendary folks, my legendary deconstructing topic,
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  family, if you went through a drama, if you went through something,
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  think about that time prior to that.
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  And I'm going to take you back to September of 2000. I keep saying 2000 because I'm looking at a clock.
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  Yeah, 2005, I apologize. I apologize. I'm looking at a clock on a calendar because
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  I'm just trying to think Because I do remember And where was I spiritually?
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  How do you even know? Spiritually, I'm going to say That prior to my car accident I was going to say,
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  I survived that story. I got three screws on my left foot. But we're here to
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  tell that story. That's for sure.
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  Prior to my own character spiritually, if I grabbed spiritually.
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  I was nowhere, you know, the best way to describe it is where you know there's something out there.
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  You know, being that I'm Christian, raising a Christian household,
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  and, you know, we all come from different works of life or different paths or
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  whatever the case might be.
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  And, you know, thank the good Lord that I'm here. Let's go. Amen. Woo, let's get it.
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  But I always listen to and observe. And at that time, I was,
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  how can I say? I was spiritually broken.
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  And it's like I was seeking for answers and all that good stuff.
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  Because somewhere what it was is this.
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  And this happened to a lot of people.
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  You know who you can be, damn it. You know you could do better.
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  You know you could be the best version of your life or whatever the case might
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  be, even if it takes a long time.
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  But there are times that there's things that trigger you And at that time I
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  was triggered to say I'm capable of doing so much But where I'm at spiritually It's nowhere to be found.
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  Emotionally, you know, I started to I remember I was working in this job Where,
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  you know, I was working What they would call the third shift Or whatever they
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  did, case You know, I leave that job And when I'm walking home We're talking
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  about, you know, 10, 10 o'clock Almost hitting 10 o'clock
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  And I remember there was a liquor store.
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  And for some reason, I do remember the liquor store on a weekday closing a little
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  early sometimes at 10. Now it's like 11, 12, depending.
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  And I remember there were times that I'd see the gay like half-weight and,
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  you know, sometimes I'd grab a little bit of bottle, you know, a little rum.
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  And then I'd drink and I'd kind of go to sleep. And I remember going to sleep
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  because at that time, and when it came to my profession, you know,
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  I'm a young cat. I'm a young lad.
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  I was nowhere. where I'm in this job, in a regular job. When I say a regular job, it's like.
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  How can I say it to you? You know, it was a job that just, a company that just was about to be sold.
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  So they were just about to shut down, in a sense. You know, you hear the rumors or whatever the case.
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  So I'm like, all right, then what?
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  But then, you know, I wanted, even at that time, I wanted, I was into the writing.
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  At that time, was podcasting, I believe, was a thing back then?
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  It was, if I'm not mistaken. because I've been listening to podcasts for a long
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  time, from the first days with the Apple, what do you call that?
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  Not the iTouch, the iPod. And I remember the Apple thing, the Apple Store, whatever.
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  There was like about 100 podcasters when I started listening to podcasts.
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  Maybe a thousand, maybe, maybe dollars.
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  But just the fact that I always thought about being in a platform so I could
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  talk to people, share my stories. But at that time, I didn't have those stories to share that much.
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  But I just know that I could touch people's life and help them.
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  And when I touch people's life, then they go there and then just pay it forward, whatever it is.
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  And during that time when I was emotionally broken, professionally, I was lost.
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  I was kind of felt like in a dead end kind of spot.
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  And I used to go to sleep and I used to close my eyes.
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  And there was this one person That I was kind of Full of connection for And
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  I remember I used to tell that person You know, help me, help me.
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  Help me here. I know who I could become, but just help me.
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  And I was just up to no good. I think prior to that, even a year prior to that,
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  I lost my apartment because I lost my job, couldn't pay. I mean,
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  I was just, you know, living with my family.
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  I was just a disaster waiting to happen, basically.
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  And I felt kind of like that, like there was something, you know what I mean?
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  There was something, and you start to kind of learn a couple of things in life.
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  You know, you go to history. You start learning history.
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  You start picking a little bit of everything, you say, come on.
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  You know, I got these beautiful stories that if you're talking about 20 years
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  ago, if I go back to 30 years ago, I was a homeless teenager.
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  So basically it's like, I got the story. I know who I could be.
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  Keep in mind, even 20 years ago, because 10 years prior to that,
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  I woke up one day in the street. I said, I want to be the mayor of New York City.
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  But how can you become something when you're
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  here in the bottom of the bottom yeah but you ever felt that
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  way that you know you could be it's like you
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  know and and i'm trying to be realistic but let's say at one
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  point in your life if somebody decided they want to be an astronaut
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  but yet they're afraid of heights you
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  know or they want to be an astronaut
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  but they just window one you know window cleaning nothing wrong with
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  that i'm just saying like wait how can
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  you think of wanting to be this when you over here in
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  the bottom like bottom bottom bottom like bottom
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  of the barrel like the matter of fact if he was a drink you'll be
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  a 40 ounce and that's that type of bottom bottom of the barrel and that's how
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  i felt it's like how can i get there and you come across people and you start
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  telling people's story and people they gravitate to you there's a good guy this
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  is i like this guy this person is this this person is that you know what i'm saying.
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  And that's how you start to think, like, prior to my accident,
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  it's like there was something there, and I know I wanted to do,
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  but every single day, I kept on struggling and struggling and struggling,
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  struggling with my emotions,
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  struggling physically, and I was just drinking a little bit extra, you know what I mean?
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  But it was more like, okay, I really was not doing anything.
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  A little party here, a party there. You know, it was just, it's like wherever
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  the wind, you know, there's that thing.
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  I go wherever the wind takes me, basically. And it's that, you know,
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  kind of thing where if you're in a sailboat, and if you're a sailboat,
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  and if you put the sails, if you don't touch the sails, and you just leave it
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  at us, then you're going to go wherever the wind pushes you.
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  And that's where I was at.
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  I had my little, believe it or not, you know, if you look at my podcast,
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  my profile, whatever it is, handsome guy there.
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  20 years ago, I had a little, you know, Puerto Rican alpha, you know what I mean, with the curlies.
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  Then I did the cornrows. I had somebody do the cornrows, all that good stuff, you know.
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  Living it up, I guess. I don't know. But that's what was happening during this
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  time before my car accident.
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  You start to ask yourself, what do you want to do?
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  How can you?
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  You got the power in your fingertips It's there You can do things But where
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  to start if sometimes And I'm not even going to say Sometimes this happens to
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  a lot of people Man and woman Those in between,
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  Is that we kind of Because let's just say in my household And this happened
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  in every household We got the togetherness But not the togetherness You know,
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  you got You know, growing up in a household where you don't have mentors.
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  And it's nobody's fault. It's just that, you know, things happen when,
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  hey, listen, when you migrate to this country, you leave your family over there
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  and whatever country you're in, you come here, you start fresh,
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  and you go to these neighborhoods where there's violence and drugs and so on,
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  and you kind of say, damn, where's the mentor at?
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  Where's those elders that you can pick the brain in? There were elders out there,
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  and there's some elders in the hood that, Yeah, listen, you learn a lot, and I have.
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  But you sometimes kind of wish, and this is why I created a podcast,
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  because I want some people.
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  And I know there's going to be a lot of people, but people, you know,
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  the young youth, the ill youth, the oldest.
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  Regardless of anything, it's never too late to gravitate to a mentor.
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  That's why I created this podcast. Let me be your mentor.
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  Because at that time, I was in need of something, and I had people,
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  I had some friends, I had people that I worked with, But still,
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  there was this thing, there was this drive, like, damn.
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  Who can I pick the brain, as they say?
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  And that's where my mind was at. That's where I was at prior to my car accident.
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  And like I said, just close your eyes and just think about where were you prior
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  to that thing that happened to you?
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  Kind of like that wake-up call. You might say, hey, that car accident was a
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  little wake-up. Wake-up.
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  And that's where I was at. That's where I was at.
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  You're going to do more podcasts as time goes by in terms of where I was at.
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  Because, again, as I'm getting closer to my car accident, it was getting worse.
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  Very, very worse. And at this point, 20 years ago, you feel a little gleam that
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  that's something that's out there that you know you're about to happen.
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  And it's out there. But you just don't know what it is.
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  But it's out there. And I find myself 20 years later, not too far from what
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  I was feeling 20 years ago.
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  I'm in the cubs. I'm doing this. But I'm in the cusp, doing something incredible.
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  But it's something that I'm missing that I need to address.
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  Because I always said, if I'm going to do this and run for mayor of New York City in four years,
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  whatever it is, the universe needs to know who
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  I am it needs to acknowledge me and know who I am because there's a lot of people
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  out there that are just waiting for something good to be like let's go because
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  sometimes in life there's a
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  lot of people that just gotta grab their hands and be like let's effing go.
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  That's why I'm doing this podcast because 20 years ago I was that person that
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  needed a hand for someone to say effing go But let's make it happen.
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  We out of here. Much love. Once again, hit that like.
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  I'm out of here. Peace. I'm out.