Latest / The Philip Ryan Deal Podcast / Interview with Mama SunFiyahh from Witchtok.
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- 0:06Welcome to the very first brujo Ryan podcast.
- 0:09My name is Ryan, and I'm going to be your host tonight.
- 0:12We're going to be talking to Mama Sunfire, who is the queen
- 0:16of who do on Tech top. I've become quite popular on
- 0:20Tick, Tock myself accruing, about 65 thousand followers, and
- 0:27it's been really great and I I decided that I wanted to
- 0:30interview other people on which talk that I find to have amazing
- 0:35content or amazing spiritual practitioners, who are very
- 0:40inspirational and Mama Sunfire is at the top of my list.
- 0:45So welcome. Welcome, welcome.
- 0:47And without further Ado, we are going to interview mamas on
- 0:53fire. Now, right after an
- 0:55announcement, Hello.
- 1:14Hello. Can you hear me?
- 1:17Okay, I can indeed, I think clear.
- 1:22Hey everybody! Its Bruno!
- 1:23Ryan on the first brujo Ryan podcast and we have got Mama
- 1:29Sunfire. Right here on the phone, she was
- 1:35your number one. Most requested Tick-Tock.
- 1:38ER, To be interviewed and we love you.
- 1:43That's the truth. Oh, I love you guys, too.
- 1:48So, yeah, I mean, you have such an amazing and interesting story
- 1:54and your content is always fresh and you bring so much
- 1:57information. But you also bring so much like
- 2:00entertainment move on to all of your tick-tocks.
- 2:04And I guess the big question is like, what, what made you get?
- 2:09Tick-Tock like what brought you to it.
- 2:12You want the truth. Okay?
- 2:14So the truth is a friend of mine from Facebook.
- 2:18I've I'm a Facebook person or I was a Facebook person and she
- 2:22was, she did a lot of tick-tocks, which I thought were
- 2:26really funny and she says, hey, what's your tribe Tick-Tock?
- 2:29There are a lot of herbalism spiritual people on there and I
- 2:33said, ah she sent a video, a tick tock and I followed it.
- 2:36I can't remember who it was. It was the most hilarious video
- 2:38I've seen in a long time. Long time.
- 2:40And because of that video, I tried my first Tick Tock and
- 2:46fell in love with it. Of course, it was doing covid
- 2:49time so you know stuck in the house and one Tick Tock is and
- 2:56was out of how many I have now, but 170,000 people later I'm
- 3:02stuck on. I'm stuck Tick-Tock.
- 3:05How does it feel to have such a huge following?
- 3:09It's Amazing. It's a it's a it's scary.
- 3:14I'm learning a lot because the personalities here on Tick-Tock
- 3:19are little different from some of the other social media
- 3:22platforms. I'm on, but it is very
- 3:26overwhelming, and I am really grateful and thankful for it.
- 3:30So I really appreciate everyone who's taking the time to follow
- 3:33me and comment and all that other stuff.
- 3:35I'm really honored. So what do you think are some of
- 3:40the pros of being on the app and some of the cons?
- 3:44Like what are your favorite parts of the app?
- 3:47Well, surely. I love the videos though.
- 3:51The songs thus lip-syncing. And that's my favorite part
- 3:58because I love music and and I don't know of any other platform
- 4:04that offers that well, I guess there are some But I like Tick
- 4:09Tock. And then the people here seem to
- 4:12be quite supportive of one another, depending on the number
- 4:18of people, I'll call it the common folk.
- 4:23Yeah. Pretty supportive, the cons, the
- 4:26cons to it. Is that the council Community to
- 4:31Camp cancel is pretty strong here.
- 4:36And then Some of the people I have I have run into some very,
- 4:41very mean-spirited people. And so it's kind of, you know,
- 4:49you have to weed through the negativity because they're quite
- 4:52a few people varying ages and some people can be really,
- 4:58really mean and so if they're you know good and bad to all
- 5:04things but overall I really love tick-tock.
- 5:07Odd. Me too, I agree with you.
- 5:11Yeah. So tell us about your life in
- 5:17the church so because that time I remember the time you posted
- 5:23that picture of you and you are in in your minister uniform and
- 5:29I was like no way Yahweh go. Tell us about your spiritual
- 5:35journey because you have all the time in the world here to tell
- 5:39us. About how you were raised, how
- 5:41you got involved in the church and then how you, you know,
- 5:45became who you are now. Yeah.
- 5:48Well, just like any other kind of initiated a religion, many of
- 5:55the times, you much of the time you are born into it.
- 6:01You know, of course, you know, there are those who come by it,
- 6:05come through it and and initiated into it, or became a
- 6:08member of it. But overall, in my family, we
- 6:14were born into Christianity. I come from a long line of
- 6:18ministers. On my father's side.
- 6:21My grandmother on my yeah, my grandmother was one of the
- 6:26founding members of Family church.
- 6:31And so there's a lot of history for for my father's side of the
- 6:36family as far as religion. And of course, my mother's side.
- 6:40We've always been Christian. So I was raised in a Christian
- 6:44household. Several Generations, grandmother
- 6:47took watched me and took care of me so I was always in church
- 6:50Vacation Bible School, Sunday school.
- 6:52I was in it all choir on various boards and so that was my entire
- 7:00And then, when I became a teenager, a young adult.
- 7:03I got saved, like, for real, yeah, I got saved and I started
- 7:11going to various churches. Well, actually my best friend at
- 7:15the time. Her mother and her family.
- 7:18They were Pentecostals. And I was Baptist so we didn't
- 7:21do that, Pentecostal stuff. But it was very interesting the
- 7:25experiences that I had in her church and as I got older is
- 7:28just church was Is not anything that I forgot and it just was a
- 7:33big part of my life, you know, starting from when you were in
- 7:36diapers, until well, starting from when I was in diapers until
- 7:41College, you know, that was all I ever did on Sundays where it
- 7:45was church. So, you know, just into
- 7:51adulthood, you know, you know how it goes into adulthood and
- 7:53still a part of the church. The thing about it though I have
- 7:58always been a bear. Quizzed of person and I like to
- 8:05study into research. So as I became an adult and then
- 8:09became part of a Ministry where I became a minister I would do
- 8:13the research and I found out a lot of things that he didn't
- 8:15teach that wasn't taught in church per se and I had
- 8:20questions, but I filed them in the back of my mind and the
- 8:25recesses of my mind so as the devil.
- 8:27So so that the devil wouldn't He tricked me and make me think
- 8:31things that aren't really true. You know you know.
- 8:38So it just was that that Journey that just about everybody has,
- 8:44you know? But when I became an adult, I
- 8:47became a Pentecostal, I put away my Baptist, my Missionary
- 8:50Baptist shirt and clothing and exchange it for a long
- 8:54Pentecostal skirt with socks and tennis shoes and a t-shirt with
- 8:59my head cut. The little bit, you know, a
- 9:00little here. I don't wear my head covered,
- 9:05but I wore my I wore the some of the little homely is looking
- 9:08clothes I've ever seen. I look back on my picture, I was
- 9:10like good. Ah, you can tell I would say,
- 9:15no. But what, what is the Song of
- 9:18Solomon? Say it said you were comely.
- 9:20I will cover come, I was homely. That's what only yes, little
- 9:26sister. I was a, it was a running joke,
- 9:32you know, because in the churches that I went to, I'ma
- 9:36get to what you ask me, but in the churches that that I went to
- 9:41the women, I'll had this uniform way of looking, you know.
- 9:45So you know, of course, it was the very modest clothing which
- 9:49there's nothing wrong with that. We couldn't wear jewelry.
- 9:53No makeup. Very, you know, very plain.
- 9:56And there's nothing wrong with, you know, not wearing makeup.
- 9:58I'm just but very Why not to me not much thought was put into
- 10:03look at any kind of way, and then the hair was always the
- 10:06same. You know, you pulled back in a
- 10:08bun, French grow with some curls on the side of something, you
- 10:11know, something very plain anyway.
- 10:14So the running joke. Is that one of the sisters
- 10:19always, she was really extra. Holy, you know, she was
- 10:22Sanctified and she saw was talked about how people could
- 10:25see God on her and knew that she was a woman of God and new.
- 10:29By just knowing that the Holy Spirit rest on her, you know,
- 10:32all these kinds of things, they knew it, you know because she
- 10:34was a peculiar person in all these things that she talked
- 10:38about herself and the and the side joke was no they knew the
- 10:41shoes been accosted at Casa del homely as skirt, she had on a
- 10:44few things. Where you know, because of what
- 11:02we believe we should you know, a woman that God should look like
- 11:06and I fit into that mold into that stereotype but you know, as
- 11:11I got older I just I began to after studying, after going to
- 11:16through ministers training and getting my being ordained and
- 11:21all those things starting my own Ministry, and being having been
- 11:26a minister and lay Minister Sochi.
- 11:29It pastor of a church and all of that, good stuff.
- 11:35I had a tragedy to happen to me. And the person that I love
- 11:39dearly died, and I was already teetering in and out of church.
- 11:45Anyway. As a matter of fact, I had just
- 11:47come back to church because, you know, some years prior to that I
- 11:51had been kicked out of church, you know, at and out of the
- 11:54ministry that I was part of I was completely excommunicated
- 11:57from the ministry. Wow.
- 11:59Oh yeah, yeah, they kicked me out because I had dared to ask
- 12:02questions and to questions a man of God, so I obviously had a
- 12:06devil or demon and actually they prophesy told me that something
- 12:11terrible was going to happen to me because I dared to question
- 12:15the man of God. So they put me out.
- 12:18So, you know, it took a lot for me to go back to church, but I
- 12:21did and my, you know, the person that man that I was in love with
- 12:28Time he died and it made me ask the hard questions because of
- 12:34the circumstances around his death and the vision that I got
- 12:38and the experience that I had with him that at the time and I
- 12:43just asked God what was the truth and that I didn't care
- 12:50where the truth led me. I just wanted the truth and I
- 12:55heard plain as day, you know, people say there's you know, you
- 12:58do. Really hearing.
- 12:59I heard it within myself. I don't think I Heard a Voice
- 13:01external of myself, but I definitely heard within me.
- 13:05And when I said, I wanted the truth and myself said or God
- 13:12said, you sure? And I said, and I said, my
- 13:15answer was sponsor was yay. Lord, I'm sure wherever you,
- 13:19take me, I will go. And God said, even if I take you
- 13:25here and then I had a vision. And I said, ye Lord, I'll go.
- 13:30And so I woke up and May 15 and that day he died.
- 13:37And it took me a long time to adjust to him being gone and I
- 13:46ate myself into a heart attack. And I got very, and I got very
- 13:52sick and had a very I had a, what did I have myocardial
- 13:59infarction? Is that a spontaneous?
- 14:02Oh, wow. Yeah, at 47.
- 14:05Oh wow. Yeah, I was overweight.
- 14:08I was stressed. I work, third shift.
- 14:12I didn't get any sleep and so I was diagnosed with congestive
- 14:17heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea,
- 14:21chronic fatigue and obesity. And the Cardiologist told me at
- 14:26that time, you know, he said that everything that I had was
- 14:29diet-related and asked me if I wanted to live, or if I wanted
- 14:32to die. And he told me that if I didn't
- 14:36change my way, and what I was doing that, I'd be dead within
- 14:40that year. And so I made that change and
- 14:44because of that, what I call a near-death experience.
- 14:47Because, I mean, I'd have to tell you what happened to me,
- 14:50that brought me to this place, but I definitely had an
- 14:54experience. And when I, when I came to, I
- 14:59thought I wasn't sure if I was in heaven or where I was, you
- 15:03know, I had to look around for him in the ligate myself.
- 15:06Am I still here and so but, you know.
- 15:10So that was the, that was the, the final thing.
- 15:14You know, it's his death. And the final thing was, was,
- 15:18was my own personal near-death experience that pushed me to
- 15:24what I would consider. Her the truth and I haven't, I
- 15:29haven't gone back, you know, because I've learned in being on
- 15:34this road, now I realized that I've actually come 360 a full
- 15:39circle, and I've made my entire Revolution my entire cycle
- 15:44around and I'm in a place. Now where I realized that a lot
- 15:47of what I learned then, as a Christian, I'm doing right now
- 15:52is a root worker. It is the Bible.
- 15:55Teaches that is one and the selfsame spirit.
- 15:58And so you know this journey being a worker being a
- 16:04spiritualist, is it for me is the same Journey I'm doing this.
- 16:10When I tell you Ryan I'm doing the same exact thing.
- 16:13I'm doing the same exact thing preaching and teaching the
- 16:16gospel. I'm teaching the good news as an
- 16:18evangelist, I was ordained as an evangelist and Tick-Tock is the
- 16:22is the platform and social media platform.
- 16:25Are I evangelize? You know amen, hallelujah yes,
- 16:33yes. And you know you can see it you
- 16:35can see in someone's eyes and through to their soul when
- 16:40somebody has come around. Yeah and experienced the spirit
- 16:46and experience life. And yeah, I mean man to
- 16:51massively traumatic experiences for you to pull you around to
- 16:56that. And now At about.
- 16:57And so how did you start pulling yourself up with the diet and
- 17:02and all of that? Like where did you begin?
- 17:04Well to start that. I was when I when I tell you, I
- 17:07was terrified, I think I was afraid because it wasn't that I
- 17:11was afraid to die. I just didn't want to leave my
- 17:13new grandbaby. I just my daughter had just had
- 17:16her first child and I wanted to be around to be grandma.
- 17:21And so, my cardiologist told me to change my diet and I did
- 17:25within 7 days. I went raw vegan cold, turkey,
- 17:29from eating, you know, a whole chicken and I can eat.
- 17:31I could put down some some holy bird went, you know, and so I
- 17:39went from, you know, it took me seven days to adjust to what the
- 17:42doctor told me. And then I just went cold turkey
- 17:45as a raw vegan and along my journey and I lost a lot of
- 17:50weight. It changed my outlook on, on
- 17:54life, eating healthy, became a lifestyle, and not something I
- 17:58did. And as a result of the foods
- 18:01that I was now, putting into my body, it raised my vibration and
- 18:06my awareness, a lot. You know, it I saw things in a
- 18:11different way and I still do even though I know I had
- 18:14something to eat that. I don't normally eat early
- 18:16today. But but a ring raise my
- 18:19vibration and it as say it healed my body because I, you
- 18:25know, I don't suffer with congestive heart failure.
- 18:29I don't have that anymore at all.
- 18:32I don't have sleep apnea anymore and I don't have chronic
- 18:36fatigue. I Irish Artery damage as a
- 18:42result of it. But I have worked on that to
- 18:44where the last doctor visit that I had they couldn't find the
- 18:47Artery damage. So I'm saying that is Fanta.
- 18:53Fantastic. What would we say?
- 18:56Look at God. Hallelujah, look at God.
- 19:00That's a miracle. It's a miracle.
- 19:03And miracles do happen. And sometimes it takes you to to
- 19:07actually put it into To place, you'll have to sit and wait for
- 19:11a miracle to happen to you, you become the miracle, you become
- 19:14that, that action, and that, that step of faith, that creates
- 19:18the miracle for yourself. But well, thereby saving
- 19:22yourself, you know, and so, you know, all of us are still going
- 19:25to die, you know, nobody's going to live forever.
- 19:28But at least I have now, from that one, little granddaughter,
- 19:32who was a micro preemie and a miracle of her own being born at
- 19:361 pound 6 ounces to now, All I have four grandchildren and one
- 19:40on the way and I've, you know, I'm still here.
- 19:43Thank God for that. And thank the ancestors.
- 19:48Well they say, faith without works is dead, right?
- 19:51And you have to have the works to work your faith and do you
- 19:57help other? I mean, our do you help other
- 19:59people on this path to get healthy?
- 20:01Tell us about your crap. Yeah, I do as a result of the
- 20:05things that I experienced with my health.
- 20:08I Started that journey of being a raw vegan.
- 20:12I'm now not raw but I would consider myself plant-based and
- 20:17I began to work in the health and wellness field working in
- 20:20health and wellness retail. Now worked and that setting for
- 20:24about 45 years and and of course, they're not.
- 20:30Then I became a certified herbalist and it has just been
- 20:36my desire because when I was in a church, you know, I was called
- 20:40not only to to carry the good news, but I was also called To
- 20:45Be A Healer and so that was some of the spiritual work I did in
- 20:49the church was what we called, Deliverance Ministry.
- 20:52What we would say here on the other side would be banishment
- 20:56spiritual malevolent, energy, Spirit ejectment exorcisms and
- 21:00healings, right? So I'm a Reiki practitioner, I'm
- 21:05a master energy worker. And I'm an herbalist.
- 21:10And so when I deal with people spiritually, I always touch on
- 21:16mind, body and spirit, you know, so if someone is asking for a
- 21:20money ritual, then I'm still going to deal with them on the
- 21:24money. I'm going to deal with them
- 21:25alone, money ritual that they want, but I'm also going to deal
- 21:28with their body. You know, what are you doing
- 21:31with your body? That's going to allow the
- 21:34abundance that you want to flow how, you know, Oh, and what are
- 21:39you doing for your mind? What are you eating?
- 21:41I mean, what are you thinking, you know, what are you watching?
- 21:44And so all those go, all of that goes into inconsistent goes in
- 21:51consideration with when someone asks for spell work.
- 21:54So it's just not just a spare. You don't just get a spell.
- 21:56Not for me, I didn't think so. I assure you they get more than
- 22:03their money's worth when they're dealing when they're working
- 22:06with you for real. So I mean it's just it's like
- 22:12when you talk about your practice and when we watch your
- 22:15videos and we see that you you live you live the life I mean
- 22:20this isn't something you do this isn't a cottage business for
- 22:23you. This being a who doest being a
- 22:26root worker being an evangelist, this is of a lifelong Mission
- 22:31and a full-time job. It's not just something you do
- 22:34for fun. Absolutely, absolutely P.
- 22:37I'm sorry. Well go ahead.
- 22:39You don't have to say you have a choice you know I hear all the
- 22:43time. God gives you a choice.
- 22:45I don't believe that necessarily.
- 22:48I didn't have a choice you know now true enough.
- 22:51I could have walked away. Yeah I do really walk away and
- 22:53not done it but the circumstances in my life made me
- 22:58choose this. Like I could not, I would refuse
- 23:01to go over those lessons again. You know, I don't want those
- 23:06lessons again so I decided to Follow what I believe was the
- 23:11path of that I was supposed to take and I read to me, I
- 23:16literally didn't have any choice in the matter.
- 23:19This is who I am. And what I, what I do.
- 23:22And to be honest, I believe I was told, you know, through a
- 23:26reading, but I've had visions and dreams about it that I've
- 23:29been a Medicine Woman, probably for about eight lifetimes.
- 23:32This is all I've ever done, is being a spiritualist and a
- 23:39Medicine Woman, a root worker. And so Ryan.
- 23:43I can't imagine doing anything else.
- 23:47I couldn't imagine you doing anything else.
- 23:50And I so that now that we're there, I would love to go down
- 23:57the conversation of who do. So could you please, I'm sure a
- 24:02lot of people are going to hear this podcast that don't know you
- 24:06on Tick Tock and they might have heard of the word who do and I
- 24:12would just love for you to Define who do And your practice
- 24:17and really what it is. Okay, let me first say being
- 24:21that I'm in North Carolina in the southern part of the United
- 24:25States Eastern, southern part of the United States who do is a,
- 24:33I'll say a diasporic African and Indigenous American practice of
- 24:41spirituality, there are various cultures that are Are mingled
- 24:47into the practice of who do H 0 0, D 0 0.
- 24:53But overall it is very it is based in people of color in a
- 25:02practice that of the oppressed, right?
- 25:04And so who do is not a religion who do is a spiritual practice,
- 25:12it is a way of For the depor, the oppressed to kind of even
- 25:21the playing field of the oppression to be able to deal
- 25:26with hard times. And so many people nowadays like
- 25:34to do a lot of the Spells and do a lot of The Conjuring without
- 25:41knowing the history and understanding how it came about.
- 25:46Out again who do does not have any deities that we pray to any
- 25:56deities that you see people utilizing and who do has been
- 25:59brought in by that personal practitioner will use answer,
- 26:05right? You guys say that?
- 26:06Yeah I was going to say that you know, it's interesting that it's
- 26:13really the people who practice who do work In Christians,
- 26:17right? So the Bible played an important
- 26:19role in the prodigious that absolutely, it played an
- 26:22important role in the practice. However, the practice in and of
- 26:27itself does not have deities, which means that you can
- 26:32practice, who do and not be of any religious affiliation, or
- 26:37you can practice hoodoo and be a non-Christian, but the spiritual
- 26:45spirituality that That is used for who do would be a Christian
- 26:52base again. You don't have to believe in
- 26:54Jesus and you don't have to believe in God to practice who
- 26:58do here is, why, who do I use as an umbrella term, or, or the
- 27:05overall. Like, if you think of
- 27:06Christianity, right? Christianity can be Catholic,
- 27:11you can be Protestant, you can be you.
- 27:16Lutheran, you can be Pentecostal.
- 27:18You can be just quite, you know, any of those denominations,
- 27:20right? So the umbrella is who do and
- 27:25under, who do you'll find root work and then you'll have
- 27:29conjuration or Conjuring, right? So you use the term, many people
- 27:35use the term root work and who do as some synonymous terms and
- 27:39they kind of are, but if you just want to look at it, just
- 27:41just plainly root work. Is the practice of Of healing
- 27:47with roots and herbs and, and things like that.
- 27:50Alright, so it's a medicine work.
- 27:52So you can be a hoodoo practitioner and never do
- 27:56Conjuring and spells. Your whole premise would be
- 28:00healing people by using herbs roots and berries as a herbalism
- 28:04right now. See I now here's the thing.
- 28:09Mama, you know, I really don't know a lot about it so I'm
- 28:13probably going to ask some of those stupid questions that
- 28:15people do. No are going to ask so stupid
- 28:17questions, they're not stupid at all, you know, so basically what
- 28:24you're saying is that, who do as a term can be used as an
- 28:30umbrella to express the idea for a lot of different practitioners
- 28:36with individualistic ideas and concepts of God, to practice to
- 28:41practice, who do. But I just want to clarify that
- 28:43route work is about ins and working with herbs and working
- 28:48with roots. And now I'm going to ask you a
- 28:49question who do and root work are both black American African
- 28:58American traditions, right? So white people would not be
- 29:03root. Well, I do.
- 29:05Now, this is The Gospel According to Sofia.
- 29:08Okay. So I would say that the practice
- 29:13of Route, well, not real work but a Conjuring.
- 29:16Yeah, the practice of voodoo is really a practice that should be
- 29:20done by those people whose ancestors dealt with the
- 29:25repression of that day of this time that time.
- 29:28So you're born really born into root work.
- 29:31And let me also say who do. Let me also say that many people
- 29:36and in our families and in my family we didn't call it who do
- 29:41or anything. It just was the way a life so
- 29:45you wouldn't go to the hospital. How to say oh I see you agree
- 29:47work. Oh, I see you practice.
- 29:48Who do we didn't ever talk about it?
- 29:51We just know you went over to Big Mama's house and you got
- 29:54something wrong with your foot Big.
- 29:55Mama, go outside. Get something out, the backyard,
- 29:59come back in. Chew it up in her mouth.
- 30:00Spit on it, and they put it on your foot, route work, right?
- 30:06Okay, so you go to, you know, something happened to Big Mama's
- 30:09great grandbaby and big momma. Go back in the back room and she
- 30:15pulled out her Bible, and then she reads recites the scripture
- 30:20and they she go to her. Kitchen, and she get some herbs
- 30:23and then she sings over those herbs and that she prays and ask
- 30:27the Lord or who. However, she's praying to, to
- 30:32fix the situation then that becomes conjuration.
- 30:36You see I'm saying you still using the roots but the whole
- 30:39premise is to change a situation, whatever that
- 30:43situation is right. Okay, right?
- 30:49And and I think that's a crucial key as what I'm trying to point
- 30:53out and get the point across to people is that these practices
- 30:58are based in your ancestry and they're based on an ethnicity
- 31:05and a tradition of practices that come down through a people.
- 31:09Yeah, their culture. This is a cultural heritage and
- 31:12it is not. Okay.
- 31:14And I'm saying this, I'm not trying.
- 31:16To get you to say this, I'm going to say it.
- 31:17It is not okay for people to feel that they can colonize the
- 31:23spiritual world and start doing practices that are outside of
- 31:29their ancestry. Like, people shouldn't be trying
- 31:31to conjure the Dead who are not in their own ancestors.
- 31:35Yeah, I agree with that and the only reason why if you're
- 31:39Conjuring, the dad is this that you were late.
- 31:41And I understand people are led to do a particular work.
- 31:44You know, he's kind of hard to create.
- 31:46Line of demarcation between what's, you know, what you
- 31:49believe is spiritual or what you were led to do.
- 31:51And what you believe you supposed to do within your own
- 31:53self, like I feel like this is right, you could be wrong.
- 31:56It just could be you, right? But when we, we do a lot of
- 32:02Brave yard work because we work with spirits of the data.
- 32:05Not. And I'm told there are other
- 32:07diasporic religions and practices that work with the
- 32:10dead too. And there are other folk magic,
- 32:13you know, folk practitioners, From other places even European
- 32:17places that work with the dead as well, you know, but in the
- 32:23way it's done, is what makes it a cultural, you know, said,
- 32:29because everybody's got ancestor, you know, right?
- 32:33And so you have your direct ancestors.
- 32:36Ancestors, you have your higher ancestors, like maybe and people
- 32:40who have died, who are part of the community.
- 32:42You let me so many Martin Luther King jr.
- 32:45And, you know, Malcolm X. Those are elevated ancestors.
- 32:48You have your direct bloodline lineage like your mom, your
- 32:52grandma, your mother your great-grandfather.
- 32:54Got you direct bloodline lineage and then you have your bloodline
- 32:57your bloodline Uncle Bobo, cousin, Leroy, you know, sister,
- 33:01Sue Mi, whatever, you know. So there's a lot of people and
- 33:06then, you know, with me, I go to the graveyard a lot.
- 33:09I don't know. Those people in their yard, You
- 33:12know, at in the graveyard that I go to, and I don't know them, I
- 33:15know that the graveyard that I like to visit that people see me
- 33:19visit on Tick-Tock a lot that the graveyard was for, for this
- 33:24church. That's in a local church.
- 33:27Many of the African American members of were buried there and
- 33:31that almost forgotten graveyard there.
- 33:36And so, I go and I sit and I commune with the, with their
- 33:40energies that are there As we know after 18:8, you know, from
- 33:441892 until today, I don't think anybody's bone sitting in there
- 33:52in that respect, you know what the energy we talked about the
- 33:55energy of it all and the vibration and there are places
- 34:00that have more Texas and portals and openings.
- 34:04And so a graveyard is one of those places is a great
- 34:07concentration of energy. And so You know, I have a thing
- 34:13about people buying graveyard dirt, and written graveyard
- 34:17dirt, and using it in their spiritual practice.
- 34:20And, and it's not part of, it's not in, and of itself is just
- 34:25not part of their cultural practice.
- 34:28Not what you do. You know, it's not culturally
- 34:30what you do. So I know, I don't think people
- 34:34who are not part of the culture, should really be practicing
- 34:38Voodoo. There are a whole lot of other
- 34:40things that they can practice with.
- 34:41In their own ethnicity and culture, you know.
- 34:47Yeah. Actually, there were Germans
- 34:52that were German, German and Irish people that came over to
- 34:56the new world who got pushed down into Pennsylvania, because
- 34:59in New England, the people were very there.
- 35:04Puritans New England was very puritanical and a lot of these
- 35:08people that came over from Germany and from Ireland, many
- 35:11different Christian backgrounds, they were Christian to And
- 35:18basically, there are, there are traditions of Catholic folk
- 35:21magic and other Protestant folk magic Traditions that were
- 35:24brought over here by Germans and Irish people that that if
- 35:28anybody who has a European or a Western European Heritage can
- 35:32just look right to the Appalachian Mountains and
- 35:35Appalachia for these Conger Traditions that were practiced
- 35:38by these immigrants of Ireland, and immigrants of German.
- 35:42So that's why I never understand why someone.
- 35:46Has to be so adamant. They have to be so adamant.
- 35:50Do I have the right to be able to do something?
- 35:54Especially in. This is my favorite one because
- 35:57as long as you do it, respectfully.
- 35:59Girl, if I heard, if I had a nickel for every time I heard
- 36:04someone say, well, as long as you do something respectfully,
- 36:08you can do whatever you want. And it's like, whoa, back up
- 36:14with that level of entitlement. You know that but that's like
- 36:17saying you know you invite me over to your house and I'm
- 36:21really nice and I really appreciate it but you know what,
- 36:24I'd like your I like your your wallet, it's sitting right there
- 36:29and I just said, you know, I like your wallet and I'm going
- 36:32to treat your wallet very good and you know, just let me have
- 36:35it. I'm just going to take it you
- 36:37know, no harm no foul and walk out with it.
- 36:40How would you feel about that? Exactly.
- 36:47And I mean, I have I have Heritage that comes from the
- 36:50Caribbean and everybody who follows me on Tick Tock nose and
- 36:53I'm really into the spiritism that comes out of Puerto Rico,
- 36:57which is where my, my family comes from and it's the same
- 37:02thing. Like we have something called
- 37:04simi's, they were the They were the items, the that the Taino
- 37:10Indians saw as to be sacred objects or things that housed
- 37:16the ancestors. It was a form of ancestral
- 37:18veneration. And if I saw somebody, you know,
- 37:22who you know, has no idea what they're doing, putting Sydney's
- 37:27on their altar, trying to work with these indigenous Spirits
- 37:32from the Caribbean, not even knowing anything about them and
- 37:35being completely removed from the culture.
- 37:37I'd be pissed. I'm not gonna lie, I would I
- 37:39would be uncomfortable to see someone else doing these things
- 37:44and I will say Ryan that because people are so ethnically diverse
- 37:51diverse there that it is sometimes hard to pinpoint, you
- 37:57know. So here's why I say this.
- 38:00So I am 87 is 89 percent, African West.
- 38:07Can specifically Congolese and Nigeria.
- 38:12Okay. And you know, all of the other
- 38:17countries, there, that's a few other ones.
- 38:19I'm also 11 percent, European Scandinavian and finish.
- 38:28So and then the 2% I am South Asian which would be I think
- 38:38maybe Hindu you know, something like that.
- 38:41So now technically that's what they say but I know that it I'm
- 38:47Native American I got to do have Native Americans, we found the
- 38:49information on the training room, father's family,
- 38:52historians documented. But anyway with that being said,
- 38:58I I could within my own ethnic background, genetic makeup.
- 39:03If I wanted to, I could participate in something that
- 39:08belonged what people would say would be traditionally European
- 39:12because there is 11% of me that is European.
- 39:17However, the the dominant part of me is not And so as a result
- 39:24of that, what I did was a divination or what I had done
- 39:28was a divination to find out what and where I'm supposed to
- 39:32be placed and what I'm supposed to practice hits, I'm a good
- 39:38worker hoodoo practitioner. I could have done African
- 39:42traditional religion but that's not what I was called to.
- 39:46I am called to this this particular practice and so I
- 39:51would say To people who are trying, you know, trying to
- 39:54figure out what they fit, where they fit, or if they want to do,
- 39:56who do and they're not a part of the culture, find out where you
- 40:00are, not just feeling title. Well, you know what, nobody can,
- 40:04you know, Corner, the market on spirit.
- 40:06And spirit told me I can do this.
- 40:09No, you liked it. You saw what it was.
- 40:11It was being done. You like the way it look and now
- 40:14you identify with it. Do a divination.
- 40:20Right, and so right there with you, in the Traditions like
- 40:27Voodoo Haitian, Voodoo Santeria Palo mayombe, and a lot of other
- 40:34Traditions, most Traditions that come out of the Caribbean.
- 40:38In order to get started on that path, you have to go to a
- 40:41babalao, are you have to go to a mambo or someone who was a
- 40:45priest or Priestess in these traditions and get a reading to
- 40:49find out whether Not those Spirits have, yeah, even invited
- 40:53you to come and be a part. And so traditionally, the first
- 40:59place to start is to get a reading from someone who is
- 41:01actually in the tradition who practices, who can tell you
- 41:06whether or not there's a place for you in the religion.
- 41:10And and that's pretty much a lot of the Traditions that come out
- 41:15of the Caribbean, our initiation base.
- 41:17So they're not closed after their ethnically.
- 41:21Many different kinds of people can get initiated if they feel
- 41:24like the spirit has called them, and if the priest and the
- 41:27tradition have said, yes, this is something for you.
- 41:31But once again it's about taking the proper steps to know whether
- 41:36or not you know the right because it's a license.
- 41:41It's a license that you receive you know, when you when you get
- 41:44initiated or when you grow up in these Traditions.
- 41:47Now let me give you We give you an example of that today in
- 41:55Christianity. You know, I was ordained
- 41:58ordained minister in Christianity.
- 42:00Before you became an ordained minister.
- 42:02You had to go through ministers training, Seminary, theater,
- 42:06Theological, Seminary or something, right before you
- 42:09could to get you where you can get your call and say that you
- 42:12are a minister, you have to go through the process of
- 42:15initiation right now. There are many people who Who
- 42:21don't do that and they feel as though they're called, right?
- 42:24And they teach the gospel, right?
- 42:26They just teach it. Those are the ones.
- 42:29You wind up. Finding that they are
- 42:32misinterpreting scripture. Because they don't have any
- 42:36education on it. You see them saying.
- 42:41So before there's a saying that we used to say in church, some
- 42:44are called the Bible. Talk about you, I'll call some
- 42:47are called but few are chosen. We used to say some are called
- 42:51some are sent, and some just went.
- 42:54And so, you know, I'm still so. So the we're talking about the
- 42:59just went people. So the people who are
- 43:01practicing, who do, who just feel as though, you know, I you
- 43:04can't tell me if I can't do a Honey Jar.
- 43:07You can tell me, Allah Allah whatever they going to say.
- 43:09Right? You can you don't you can't tell
- 43:11Spirit what to do know that chose the oh whatever they say,
- 43:15right? You are one of those who just
- 43:17went because I can't or I'm about to go down that road.
- 43:24Go down that road girl cuz that's why I let me tell you
- 43:27something, right? I had a had a person who who
- 43:31wanted to to learn Hootie and and she wanted to learn who do
- 43:38she felt that she was called to do?
- 43:39Who do, and she did all her little magickal workings and had
- 43:42her little jars, and we'll crystals.
- 43:45And she just had her little cards, and it was so cute.
- 43:48I've sent what about to cuss. I sent her out to the graveyard.
- 43:54To go and stand out in a graveyard.
- 43:56You know, we go at night, you go to the graveyard and I'm gonna
- 43:59need you to stand right there in the graveyard and then be led to
- 44:03which grave that you going to use because you need to go ahead
- 44:05and get some dirt and I all the things I told her do the first
- 44:08thing she said well I don't think I should go to the
- 44:11graveyard at night girl you say I got off, I'll sit in the car.
- 44:15We wait for not take a you know what have we need to take a bad,
- 44:18a gun or whatever you feel like somebody's gonna jump out the
- 44:20bushes but IMA need you to go. She couldn't do it.
- 44:24This is part of the practice. This is, this is part of what
- 44:29you do. And so, you know, as long as
- 44:32there's love and light and logs this cute little jars.
- 44:36They're okay. But when you tell someone to go
- 44:39down there and get that chicken down the road and I'm gonna need
- 44:42you to cut the chickens throat and put the blood on the thing.
- 44:44Then they're like, oh my God, I can't do that.
- 44:50Do you think I'm saying, I absolutely know 100% what you're
- 44:57saying. So yeah, not I I know that who
- 45:00do does not have an initiation process and and I don't think it
- 45:05should, but daggumit, before you become a hoodoo practitioner
- 45:09some you need to set up under somebody and learn how to do it.
- 45:14You know, it's because it's you could really hurt somebody and
- 45:18you can hurt yourself. Yeah, yeah, I'ma tell you
- 45:23something funny. I know, I didn't mean to cut you
- 45:24off and tell you something fun, you know, had a student.
- 45:28Well, she was kind of my student with one of my daughters
- 45:31friends, and she watched me on Facebook, and you watching on
- 45:34YouTube and she calls me, my mom, or this guy is bothering
- 45:37me. And he's done all these things
- 45:38and I'm going to do a jar. I'm sorry.
- 45:41I'm kind, you know how to do them.
- 45:42Yeah, I know how to do. Okay, so she did her jar and she
- 45:47put all his belongings, whatever she wants to put in the jar.
- 45:50What? So I don't know, maybe a couple
- 45:54of days later might even been a week later.
- 45:56She calls me in a panic. Mama mama mama something's going
- 45:58on. She says I think my jar is
- 46:00really working. She says but it looks weird and
- 46:03I say well what did you do? She said well I put his things
- 46:06in there and I put some herbs in there.
- 46:08What? Bla la la I put some Clorox in
- 46:10there and she said and I put some pee in there.
- 46:15I peed in it and I was shaking three day.
- 46:18I said you did what she said. I peed in It.
- 46:22And I said, what did your jar and look like she says, well as
- 46:25smoking I said, it's the top bubbled up.
- 46:29She says, yes, and your jar is about to explode.
- 46:30You got to have pee everywhere about to have a piss bomb.
- 46:33She's leaving you me because she puts crying
- 47:01It makes a volatile mixture and you bout to blow up stuff well
- 47:06at least explode the jar. Wow.
- 47:13Is this a quick but that shit under his cars?
- 47:18Gonna blow something up, you better take a quick clip
- 47:21somewhere. It's going to blow up on the
- 47:22motherfucker, Okay, bomb. Are you kidding me?
- 47:27It's so you know and that's the thing that most people don't
- 47:31understand that. The truth is this is chemistry.
- 47:36That's why I'm big on science. You know, there's a meaning
- 47:41behind certain herbs that you use, and if you don't have the
- 47:44training, you're going to mix things together.
- 47:46That's can not only harm you, it could harm somebody.
- 47:48You give it to Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
- 47:54We're talking about real substances that do real things.
- 47:57When I'm telling people, I tell them, I say, look, if you're
- 48:02going to use an herb, you need to know how it works medicinally
- 48:06as well as magically. Like, if you're going to use an
- 48:09urban magic, you need to know what that thing does, you know,
- 48:13period? And there's so many people.
- 48:14I see practicing, I'd say in quotations, magical herbalism,
- 48:19that don't know. Absolutely, Anything about the
- 48:21actual medicinal uses of the plants.
- 48:24And so I'm a real big stickler for that.
- 48:27But when you were telling me about that, girl, who just
- 48:29couldn't go to the cemetery, it makes me, it makes me say, you
- 48:33know what? Her spirits would not let her,
- 48:37That's that's that's what I would say for my tradition.
- 48:39I would say her spirits wouldn't let her.
- 48:42They just would not let her do it because, you know, they know.
- 48:47Yeah, they knew she didn't know. Yeah, but it could have been any
- 48:50of those fail. I mean, she did shit.
- 48:53It just could have been. She was scared as hell.
- 48:54I mean, but it could be just what you said, Ryan her spirits
- 48:57wouldn't let her, and that's why she was afraid, you know?
- 49:01So it manifests, however, I Spirits manifest.
- 49:04I mean, our Spirits manifest differently in each, Person.
- 49:07So you're absolutely, you can be absolutely correct about that
- 49:10and but people are not aware, they just want the cute stuff.
- 49:16You know. They just want the part that
- 49:18looks so nice. You know, if Sephora can sell
- 49:21Sage, then I know we're in trouble.
- 49:26You know what I'm saying? If they can sell white things, I
- 49:28know we're in trouble and we're talking about beauty products.
- 49:31If you decide to go to the dollar store in the we have a
- 49:34Five Below store, Five Below store, they sell smudge sticks.
- 49:40And I'm looking at this, like, are you serious?
- 49:45The dollar store sells smudged. It's, you know, that everywhere.
- 49:51Oh, I see a mineral and I don't even want to get on the tangent
- 49:53about using what, you know, who should use, why Sage or not.
- 49:56We, I'm not even going to get on that.
- 49:58I'm just going to say, as an herbalist.
- 50:00It has various medicinal qualities and of those medicinal
- 50:03qualities, that it has the therapeutic value of it.
- 50:07It is an antiviral antifungal antimicrobial, Microbial.
- 50:11And it's another one viral fungal bacterial.
- 50:16So if it's going to heal or prohibit the growing of bacteria
- 50:22that prohibit the growing of fungus is going to clear cleanse
- 50:26and all this other kind of stuff, you need to know how to
- 50:28use it. You just don't burn it.
- 50:31I just you know, I just got out I just got a baronet cut the
- 50:33stuff, uh, good now. Okay, Karen, okay, little Karen,
- 50:43which Taryn witchcraft, that's what we call you know people do
- 50:46it all over couldn't you know Rishi Kapoor where she could do
- 50:49it too. You know I'm saying?
- 50:52I just know I just like to say and I'm telling people you know,
- 50:56if you're going to cleanse someone, why are you saying?
- 51:00Everybody. Why you smudging everybody with
- 51:02sage? You can smudge with other things
- 51:05and these are the things that people do not study, don't take
- 51:08the time to study. They like what's trending And
- 51:12so, right? So your spiritual practice, you
- 51:15know, you being at what you call it experience, what you call it,
- 51:19what it is. A series of tea, set of spirit
- 51:23at what you practice, that should not be trending.
- 51:28You know, the practices that you do with getting your spiritual
- 51:32experience, you should not be trendy and people should not be
- 51:35jumping on the bandwagon. Oh, that's not really like that.
- 51:38So I'm going to do that. No, absolutely not.
- 51:43So that's my own soap box. I'ma leave that alone.
- 51:45Yeah, they're all know I've had so boxes is great.
- 51:51I got my own soap box over here. I jump on it all the time and
- 51:56it's true. I mean I and it's tick tock is
- 52:01miraculously fast at manifesting and also getting rid of Trends
- 52:06very quick. Like, I can't even tell you how
- 52:08many magical Trends I've seen pop up in the I don't know. 90
- 52:13Days that I've been on Tick-Tock it was it was a honey cross on
- 52:18the tongue. Then it was some making putting
- 52:22razor blades in jars. And I mean, I and I saw the
- 52:25girl, I like the girl that did the razor blades in the jars and
- 52:27all of that. But the thing that I'm saying is
- 52:30I've what I'm saying, is that things come so fast and they go
- 52:33so fast on Tick-Tock and they Trend.
- 52:37And then, what, what grills me is that will people will come to
- 52:40me and they'll say, you know, No mama mama Sunfire said to do
- 52:46this blah blah blah our which foot told me to do this glob La,
- 52:49what do you think? And it's like, you know, don't
- 52:51ask me you know, don't ask me what I think of other
- 52:54practitioners practices. Because yeah, I you know it's
- 52:59not my business. What other practitioners do?
- 53:02It's not. I agree with you, 100%.
- 53:08And it's those people who are coming around, like, they're
- 53:10constantly asking for permission.
- 53:12It's like, can I do this? Can I do that?
- 53:14Can I do this, is it okay? If I do this, is it okay, if I
- 53:17do that and I that's just one thing that is tired for me,
- 53:21really tired is to asking for permission to do things.
- 53:27But you know what? At the same time there are is a
- 53:29lot of kids, there's a lot of kids on tick tock, And this is
- 53:37one of the only Outlets that they have in order to learn
- 53:39about this stuff. I mean, it's amazing to me that
- 53:41any parent I love all my baby which is out there, but it's
- 53:46amazing to me that any parent is going to hand, you know, a
- 53:50child. And I say, child like 10, 13, 11
- 53:53years old, 12 years old, 14, whatever phone and allow them to
- 53:57download tick-tocking get on and just leave them completely
- 54:00unsupervised on the app because there's a lot of stuff, there's
- 54:05a lot of stuff with They're like a bad stuff on there, you know.
- 54:10But if this is the only way that the little witches are able to
- 54:15learn something. Then the people who are actually
- 54:18adults have to act responsible and that's the problem.
- 54:23I don't see adults in there, I'd say 30s, 40s, 50s, even older
- 54:28than that. Acting very responsible.
- 54:31As far as putting out information is concerned and let
- 54:35me show you how much I agree with that.
- 54:36When I first started I was, you know, putting videos videos out
- 54:42and I would show you know, how to do spells and things like
- 54:46that and I would always know. I always try to do a disclaimer
- 54:49and then I started thinking I did will not too terribly long
- 54:52ago to start thinking. You know, what really I don't
- 54:55want anybody doing this. I don't want anybody doing this.
- 54:57If you don't understand, understand It.
- 55:01So, I stopped putting ingredients, you know, I stopped
- 55:05eating so much information on it just show you certain things but
- 55:09not everything and not all things, you know?
- 55:12And and and then I get I've gotten quite a few young.
- 55:17People wanting to wanting me to help them.
- 55:21And I have one young lady. I think she was like 16.
- 55:25And the answer was absolutely not.
- 55:29Not let you get your parents. A permit.
- 55:31I get your parents permission and I don't know how you're
- 55:33going to do that. I'm not getting ready to get.
- 55:35Tell you what to do. I'm not doing it.
- 55:37And only reason I say that because I really wouldn't want
- 55:39the child to go and get it from anywhere else, you know, a non
- 55:44reputable place. However, there's there, there
- 55:48has to be a line where you give information to children.
- 55:53I mean, I don't feel comfortable giving information to anybody's
- 55:56child really, you know? So, It's kind of yeah, I'm not
- 56:03sure where to place that but we definitely have to be aware and
- 56:09concerned and careful about what kind of information we put out.
- 56:14This is true. So I do fall into that trap and
- 56:17I'm going to moving forward. I think I'm gonna do a little
- 56:21bit better, be a little bit more conscientious and diligent about
- 56:25not arming people with information or not giving them
- 56:29enough information. For them to make it correct,
- 56:32it's not getting them information.
- 56:33It's just it's too risky, you know.
- 56:40I 100% agree with you because when I first got on The Tick
- 56:44Tock app, I kind of had that same perception.
- 56:47Oh this is going to be really nice.
- 56:48I'm going to be able to show people how to cast spells.
- 56:50I'm going to be able to show people how to do this and do
- 56:53that with these ingredients and this and that and then I also
- 56:56realized really fast, wait a minute this is not the kind of
- 56:59information that You know, I really want to be putting out
- 57:03there because for one thing, it's your secrets, it's your
- 57:07Mysteries. It's your secrets that you
- 57:09working with your spirits in your spirits guide.
- 57:11You, you know, why would you put that out there for everyone in
- 57:16the world to see one and then number two, right?
- 57:20The any information you put online is going to be used to
- 57:24weaponize somebody in order to act.
- 57:28So I get it. I think the biggest problem is
- 57:31that At the kids are going to be there regardless of whether you
- 57:33want them to or not. It is hot.
- 57:35It's hard to, you know, it's a fine line and in some time and I
- 57:41just don't know where it is on which side of the line to stand.
- 57:45So, you know, just each day, it's something different.
- 57:51And so today I may say no, you know, I absolutely not going to
- 57:55do it and then somewhere, you know, in a day or two, I feel
- 57:58like, you know, I feel really okay with that somewhere.
- 58:04And you know, what's that smell right?
- 58:06Going back to what you asked me before about the pros and cons
- 58:10of tick. Tock, one of the cons is that
- 58:14people are so and I said this, that are so mean sometimes that
- 58:21that anything that you do or say they like to pit one person
- 58:27against the other because some people just so hungry for drama.
- 58:31And problems and I am purposing in my heart to be not part of
- 58:37the drama. You know, are you?
- 58:39Sometimes you get attacked, you know, and add of Being Human at
- 58:43a of your Humanity, you know, you want to respond and you say
- 58:47what you have to say or you defend yourself or whatever.
- 58:51But moving forward, I just I'm feeling I feel like if someone
- 58:55gives misinformation I'ma do my best to share the information
- 58:59that I know about it. And we don't have to argue, I
- 59:03don't have to cuss you out if you don't make me and then you
- 59:06don't have to custom. Yeah, I don't want to, I don't
- 59:09want to make you, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to
- 59:12create that energy. And that is definitely, you
- 59:14know, bad energy. And sometimes people just sit at
- 59:18Ryan. Sometimes people just sit around
- 59:21looking and waiting for something to pop off so that
- 59:26they can leech off of that energy and create more drama.
- 59:30And really At my age. I'm 55 years old.
- 59:33I ain't I got time for it. I'm you know I'm playing my
- 59:38grandbaby, you know. Well, I just hit 40 that looks
- 59:49like that. Looks like maybe sometimes my
- 59:57spirits like to fight. Yeah, not gonna let it sometimes
- 59:59they like, absolutely. I do too.
- 1:00:01I used to, when I was young Ryan, I used to, you know, I
- 1:00:04used to be a fighter. I used to fight, you know, for
- 1:00:07real like fight boys fight girls.
- 1:00:09I mean, I had those hands and one time, you know, so, so
- 1:00:14fighting is not in far far from Sorry, but I have to remember,
- 1:00:19you know. Okay, so let's not, you know,
- 1:00:22let's not So what I'm going to do is because I was going to
- 1:00:32keep okay my interviews to about an hour and we are on an hour
- 1:00:37but I guess I want to end on a light note.
- 1:00:39So I would just want to kind of rapidly.
- 1:00:41Ask you some questions and you can just answer them.
- 1:00:46Well, I have a couple. What's your favorite color?
- 1:00:47So warm colors are my favorite, red, orange or yellow.
- 1:00:55Okay, what's your favorite dessert?
- 1:01:02My favorite is sweet, potato pie.
- 1:01:07Oh, you're kidding me. I love me cuz I love sweet.
- 1:01:11Potato pie. So what would be like, soul food
- 1:01:18for you? Something that you love to eat?
- 1:01:20It's like your comfort food. Your meal is the meal that you
- 1:01:23need when you need? So refreshing, leave or not?
- 1:01:26You might comfort food. If it's cooked, will be like
- 1:01:30cabbage, collard greens beans and maybe some cornbread.
- 1:01:34Not me anymore would be. Yeah, something like that.
- 1:01:42And I do like, however, I do like chocolate.
- 1:01:47Sometimes chocolate comes up, and I have to have me a piece of
- 1:01:51chocolate, but not a fun. I do drink generally, I drink
- 1:01:58coffee when I'm out so but I don't drink it at home anymore.
- 1:02:03So I drink tea. So what is the color?
- 1:02:11Purple favorite movies of all time?
- 1:02:16Harlem Nights. Because there's another one and
- 1:02:20I know To Sir with Love with Sidney Poitier.
- 1:02:25Yeah, those are my all-time favorite.
- 1:02:29Yeah, that's great. This is what kind of music you
- 1:02:35like? But my on the top of my list, I
- 1:02:40like Funk. So I love old bands, funk music,
- 1:02:45Parliament-Funkadelic the average, right?
- 1:02:50I like it out. I like Punk.
- 1:02:53And then, you know, I like old R&B, the old rhythm and blues
- 1:02:59from the from, from back in the 70s and 60s and 70s.
- 1:03:03I like that. Yeah.
- 1:03:06Old old old school, that's great.
- 1:03:10Yeah, that is so great. What are you?
- 1:03:16What are you currently reading? Like do you have a book Look, do
- 1:03:19you have like a? I'm sure like you have tons of
- 1:03:21books that you always want to read all the time.
- 1:03:23But you know what what do you have?
- 1:03:25Don't have anything open right now.
- 1:03:27I've read all the books and it's so funny because I can't right
- 1:03:31now I'm having a brain fart and I can't think of one title.
- 1:03:38Okay well I tell you what I'll tell you my favorite one.
- 1:03:46My favorite book was The Alchemist.
- 1:03:48Okay. Okay.
- 1:03:50But was that Paolo sale? Whatever.
- 1:03:54I don't know how the Alchemist was my favorite book.
- 1:04:00Okay. All right.
- 1:04:01I didn't if it wasn't very good luck to very good.
- 1:04:09And are you a, are you watching any particular series on Netflix
- 1:04:15or anything specific? You're following on?
- 1:04:18I don't really watch TV but, you know, I watched the internet but
- 1:04:22the last thing I watched on Netflix was Lovecraft country.
- 1:04:28I watch. Okay.
- 1:04:30Yeah, I saw the car and see the rest of it.
- 1:04:33I was up there. Yeah, that's the last thing I
- 1:04:40saw. So if you could give like, you
- 1:04:47know, a few words of advice to the people who look up to you,
- 1:04:52who, you know, are just looking for some kind of some advice for
- 1:04:56you from you, about how to continue on going on last night.
- 1:05:01Wise, what would you say for four people on the spiritual
- 1:05:04path as well as my advice for anybody.
- 1:05:07Anybody on any path for any reason is research?
- 1:05:13Don't believe nothing, anyone tells you you look it up for
- 1:05:17yourself and then when you look it up you better.
- 1:05:21Make sure that whatever you're looking up you always look up
- 1:05:25the counter argument of that thing, I just did a tick tock
- 1:05:29about it, please do not believe what people tell you, research
- 1:05:35it for yourself, then come to your own conclusion based on the
- 1:05:40evidence that you have found. Security.
- 1:05:48And that's another thing that I really love about you because
- 1:05:50you have respect for science, science is Magic.
- 1:05:54Yeah, absolutely. Well Mama send fire.
- 1:06:01Thank you so much for doing this interview.
- 1:06:05Very, very exciting. I'm sure everyone's going to
- 1:06:08really love this and that's really, yeah, you're a
- 1:06:12fantastic. And I follow you and love
- 1:06:15everything you do and I hope that everything continues to go
- 1:06:21along. Just find and Tick-Tock and
- 1:06:24you're in that, it's very applicable.
- 1:06:29Peace. All right.
- 1:06:32Bye-bye. Well everybody that was our
- 1:06:54interview. I hope you enjoyed it.
- 1:06:57I hope you subscribe to this podcast, if you're on Tick Tock
- 1:07:02you can actually go to my website which is brujo Ryan.com.
- 1:07:06And you'll find my linked read all my social platforms.
- 1:07:10So, next time, we are going to be interviewing the one and only
- 1:07:18which foot. So you best subscribe so that
- 1:07:22you can find out when that interview hits the streets.
- 1:07:26Peace out y'all