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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_EPISODE _44 _ HOST SHANETTE W JOHNSON · DA CREW Podcast

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another episode, and let's talk about it. I am your host, Shenette
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Johnson. How you guys are doing today? Today we're gonna be talking to
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Christopher Taylor again. Christopher is currently serving a life sentence plus sixty four year
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sentence. He was sentenced as a juvenile in the state of Denver. He
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is thirty eight years old and come June he will be incarcerated for nineteen years.
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So welcome Christopher. Hey, Chris, Hey, how you doing.
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It's a pleasure to be back. Oh I'm doing good. How you doing?
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I'm maintaining man, doing the best that I can. Absolutely, that's
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just so let's catch some of the dewers dealers up on the last time we
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had our discussion, our first discussion. Could you give them just a little
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brief inside uh the situation. Absolutely so, as you said, I've been
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incarcerated almost like teen years, and it was since I had just turned twenty.
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Growing up, I grew up in Northeast Rivers in the Marbello neighborhood,
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and you know, young African American mal I had all of the same lures
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that that most of us have, you know, just growing up in the
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in the hood basically, you know what I mean. Growing up, I
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had originally had both of my parents, but then ended up having a broken
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home and that affected me largely. But you know, looking outside in the
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early nineties and just seeing how gang culture had really cemented to itself in my
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neighborhood, and my dad family did the best that they could to protect me.
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However, just growing up poor, I found myself running to the streets,
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chasing money, learning how to hustle, and that eventually led me on
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the path to where I began game taking at a very young age. At
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the age of nineteen turning twenty, I had just been released from prison and
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you know, I did twenty two months in another state. I hadn't been
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home but less than a couple of months, and I found myself face to
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face with a rival gang member that I had a lot of animosity in different
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situations were growing up, and we ended up having an altercation where he shot
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my house up multiple times in a response that. A week later, I
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had another situation with him and I ended up shooting, unfortunately, shooting him
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in the mall, and I accidentally killed an innitid bystander. I did shoot
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him unfortunately, extremely unfortunately, and I accidentally shot and won't be another innocent
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bystander. And because of that, because of my actions, because of poor
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lifestyle, because of poor decision making, I ended up with a very poor
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result, and that in somebody losing their life and multiple families, my community,
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my family, and law affected dramatically, life changing effects. And that
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was something that I'm still living with, literally living in the consequence of and
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then also carrying that with me as I've just wanted to grow and to be
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better, to do better. I'm still living in the consequences of those poor
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decisions. So that's that's pretty much brings us from childhood to day. Yes,
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you did up real fast. Okay, So tell us about tell us
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who is Christopher Thomas? Who is he today compared to who he was years
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ago? Well, Christopher Taylor today is who understands. No, you're fine,
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You're fine. I'm a man who understands life just a whole lot differently
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than the boy that I was, you know, almost almost two decades ago.
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You Know, when I was young, I had a lot of emotions
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that I had no idea how to articulate. I didn't know how to process,
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I didn't know how to deal with. And life was presenting me with
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poor opportunities, and life was presenting me with a poor perspective and that I
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had just come to and I made poor decision as a poor decision, not
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really knowing and understanding that these were life decisions and these were gonna affect lize
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mind included. And today I understand the value of life like this, this
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thing is not it's not for play. Like what happens happened, and you
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have to room with that. And it's the trip. Because as I as
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I stand in this position today, I've earned an opportunity to talk to people
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black, white, young old men women like to really tell them and not
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just talk at them and say you need to do better or else, you
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know what I mean, Not to stand like I'm holaying now, but to
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really come down and be very very olden and transparent and vulnerable about who I
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am, how I got here, and how I'm no different than than anybody
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else in the room. And so that's that's who I am. And more
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specifically, I'm gonna tell you exactly how I've both earned and to gifted opportunity
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to do that right like I'm a part of the mentorship team. It's called
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the Search movement, the different complant surge movement. Search is an acronym.
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It stands for seeking, understanding, reaching goals every day. Now I often
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tell people, you know you think about it like, oh, it's cool,
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you got a program, Like, no, this isn't a program.
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Programs have beginnings and end. This is a lifestyle. This is not what
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I do. This is who I have become. And search that whole acronym
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that seeking understand the root from goal and every day it's like a formula to
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problem solving. It's really about decision making. We are accountable to four core
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pillars, and everything that we do as a team we filter through those four
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things. And primarily we want to repair citizenship and just think about that.
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We afforfeited our citizenship because of committing clients right, right, and so in
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repairing it, what does that even look like? First of all, we
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have to understand what citizenship is. It's a relationship. It's all right to
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the law, to our community primarily our community is our family, right,
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right, and we've broken we've broken that relationship. I don't care if you
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if you just I don't care if you're just abandoned and just made a decision
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that takes you away from your kids like you abandoned. You've broken that relation.
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You hurt that relationship, You've damaged it, right, And so from
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from substance abuse to the game bang into locked into domestic point, whatever it
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is, you're damaging your relationship with your community, right, and you forfeit
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citizenship because of it. We want to promote that you can repair that citizenship.
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And if you think about that, that line that lines up with what
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I think I believe a public right, our communities, the public right.
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You want people to come in here and repair their citizenship unless I mean,
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in essence, learn how to be a citizen right like right deals, your
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relationship, earn your role, Understand that you have to take care of your
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environment, to people around you, Understand that you make decisions that have ripple
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of sex on people like Looly. That's what we want to do when we
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promote that by encouraging our population, first of all, to predeem the space
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and time to the proper use of energy. Then it don't come up here
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here playing cards and playing dominos all day passing your time. I put a
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new value on it. Write and use your time. Read the books you
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should read, have the conversations you should have, address the issues that have
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been bringing you back. You want to redeem the space and time even sentenced
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to due time. We promote using it to your benefit right and to your
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family. We also improve our community to empowerment, meaning that any and everything
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that I do, I offer myself as a resource to not just you know,
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not just staff because sometimes they call on us and say, hey,
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now I need you to talk to a guy, but to my peers like,
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hey, I'm here, and if I know something that you need young
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withy, there you go, right, I got you whatever you need.
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If I know somebody that can help you, and there you go. I
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offer myself as a resource, and then I also uh you know, kind
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of pouring into people so that they can learn how to be resourceful and few
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each other as resources, and that just puts value on people and I don't
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even want to be a better people instead of better prisoners. I know,
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a kind of uh yeah, because you you you off to the horses.
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I'm like, I need to jump in. Oh yeah, you you you
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really just don't see you man, you speaking the zales. But anyway,
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do you have a chance to mentor young people that come in there? Do
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you have a chance to get when they come in there, have a chance
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to sit down one on one and talk to them? Absolutely? Absolutely?
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You know. That's that's one of the things that that is so attractive about
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uh mentorship and being at an intax facility is that you can catch people when
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they're young and impressionable and make a good impression on them, right, And
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so being able to sit down with people who are eighteen nineteen with long and
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short sentences and then maybe plan to see that that may grow into a treat
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right, instead of sitting down with them and teaching them how to be a
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better hustler, game ever player or pimps, like let's let's talk about the
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kids us, like what his fatherhood look like like? Really pour into people
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and talk about you know you, oh you got a baby, mama,
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Is that right? What did you how did you treat her? How valuable
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is you now that you locked up? Well? Come, you can't demonstrate
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that same value for you know? All right? We so important. We
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have a I don't mean to cut you off, but we have a question.
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Do you think that these programs are in play, like in school or
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you know, like the after school program or something. If these programs like
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the service program are in place, do you think that will kind of keep
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the young men and the young women from intern into the prison system. You
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know, I definitely believe so, because because if you think about what's being
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taught in schools, it's it's general education. It's not necessarily character development,
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you know what I mean? And a lot of times, a lot of
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times, like there's not very many curriculums for grade school level for fifth,
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sixth, seventh, eighth grade that's gonna teach people about character that focuses on
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character development. And a lot of times it's not until kids begin to show
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bad behavior that now they need some attention. But if we if we make
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if we make character development right, if we make that care element general education,
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then what happens? What happens then, is is kids grow up and
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learn how to care for each other. We wouldn't have so many people who
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don't who lack care, right, Like, I think it's simple. It's
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unfortunate that it takes people. It's taking so many of us right to lose
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so much to realize it's importance. And it feels as if there's too late.
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However, it's programs like this, and there are a lot of beautiful
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programs that really you know, noble, there are a lot of beautiful programs
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that pour it to the young people. But if if was like mandate that
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you have to have something that's going to teach young people how to care for
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other people and teach young people just just how far their decision making will affect
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their future and other people, you know what I mean, Like, I
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think that's super beneficial. We start talking about predisions. Yeah, because right
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now I was reading where Denver is actually funding more money into the prison system
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instead into education, and you know, and I think that's kind of crazy
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because I would think that the money would want to go you would want to
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put your money, the money into education instead into the prison system. You're
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gonna put the money into education to prevent them from coming there, you know,
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to you know, just educate them on on life in general. If
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they're not getting it at home, if their parents is not you know,
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around to teach them anything, maybe they can get it from a teacher.
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You know, that's spot on. That's about just what message does that send
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If I'm more focused on, uh, people up for their poor decision than
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I am on educating and the form of their decision making, right, it's
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a very clear message of where uh, you know, whoever's doing the Sunday
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like, whoever we're not going to, whoever's saying, hey, let's put
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some money into this. It's telling me what you think is important, right
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right, holding people accountable instead of preventing poor decisions, and that is extremely
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backward. So I agree with you wholeheartedly. Yeah. So also, you
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know, we talked about the Surge. You let us know about the Surge
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program, and you are with the Catch Project. What is with the what's
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the Catch project? Is that still? Is that something like the Surge movement?
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It's actually something that's closely connected to it. It actually lives up under
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our umbrella. The Catch Project is something that I created some years ago,
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like twenty nineteen, and it stands for changing attitudes through cognitive healing. And
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what we do is we focus on some things that I personally missed out on
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when I was incarcerated at a very young age, and they are relationship building
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and understanding, Like how important is that a lot of times we just don't
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know how to relate, We don't know how to be in relationship, We
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don't know how to value things and how does it benefit me instead of mutual
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reciprocity. So it's just important that we talk about that, I believe,
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especially at a young age and group dynamics from prison, right, Like how
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easy is it's solved victim to something because you don't understand the messages you're sending
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and you don't understand how to control or influence your dynamic. And you know,
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it's something that I believe that people are only going to treat you how
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you allow them to. Right. Definitely, type of strong focal point on
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understanding and establishing boundaries. You also talk about knowing yourself, and that not
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just knowing my life and my dislikes, but knowing my traumas, know of
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my tuggers, knowing where they come from. And then having to develop the
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toolkits to address core issues. That that's where change comes from at its core
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is being able to notice that, hey, man, I got some things
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I need to work on, and then learning how to work on them,
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and being implementing what you've learned. And finally we talk a little bit about
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credit repair and savings and budgetings because financial literacy is extremely important. It's it's
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always taught at the grade level, but it's it's something that every human being
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in order to really manage your money correctly right to be successful in that endeavor,
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you need to know and everybody has to have credit, good credit if
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you want to be able to avoid high interest rates and if you want to
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purchase a core get you an apartment, that's important. So I think about
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a person who gets out of Prinson doesn't know how to build credit or maintain
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the credit, then how do you get to replace if you don't understand this
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basic principle and all people should know, but most of us don't. So
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those are the fo ormes that we talk about in the catch project is divined
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to to catch a person right, whether or at and have one more right
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to catch a person right where they're at. And not leave them there.
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Okay, So what we're going to do right now? I want you to
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call me back because you have a book, and I want to get into
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your book. I want to talk about your book a little, a little,
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We welcome back, Chris, Welcome back. I'm glad to be here.
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Yes. Yes, So when we don't talked about the surge, we
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talked about catch the Catch program. You gave us a brief description of what
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happened that got that got you that sentence I just have. But I know
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we talked about this the other day and I just wanted to know, do
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you before we get into your book, do you think the sentence that they
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gave you as a juvenile, what's excessive? Well, let let me be
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like one and affair. I believe that while while technically like legally in the
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state at that time, I was not a juvenile. However, new legislation
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just supports what we all know that at nineteen twenty twenty one, you are
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just as young, underdeveloped an imagery tour as a juvenile. And so to
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answer that question, I think that it was excessive. It's very hard.
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It's very hard to say what's writing was fair when you're responsible to somebody not
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having any opportunity that will live right. He's very hard to sit there and
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say, oh, I don't think this is fair, or hey, this
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is excessive. You know, it's just hard. You know. The young
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lady, her name was christmaher Martine. She was nineteen and she hasn't had
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an opportunity to live, so it's so hard to say it. At the
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very same time, my prayer is that God, the universe, whoever that
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makes the decision, can understand that that I am a different person completely like
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I was a boy, right, and I don't deserve anything. But I
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feel that could be sentenced to die in prison to say that I just don't
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I don't fit in society, that I'm a thread, I'm a danger to
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public safety. I feel that that is unfair. I'm not saying I shouldn't
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be held accountable. I definitely feel right. I'm supposed to be a You
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make a poor decision, you cast somebody that you got to pay the price.
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Bottom line, I just don't believe that you honor a life by taking
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a life, especially if that person shows that they can't be rehabilitated and has
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value in this society of bad society. I feel like that person, hopefully
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with get another opportunity to get things right. That's fair, That's quite fair.
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And you know Pete Lee did said that, you know, certain age
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groups wasn't redeemable, but we all know, you know what the Bible that
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that Jesus died for us, and how can man say we're not redeemable?
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But Jesus said that we are redeemable. But you know that's a whole nother
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subject. And but as long as you believe, believe, believe his word,
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you know you're a forgiven and he all we have to do is ask
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for forgiveness. So let's let's get into your book, Chris. And your
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book is called change the Uh you know I've been having a herdor. Go
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ahead. Uh, this book is called Change the Inhabitable. Yeah, yeah,
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okay, yeah, and you guys can find it on Amazon. Is
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on Amazon. So all right, let's let's talk about it. You know,
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I did order it, but it haven't got here. It haven't reached
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me as a today, so I am going to I am going to read
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it, and but just to let you know, I did order it.
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So let's talk about your book. Give us my outline of what your book
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is about. Well, what's to day. Let me first say thank you
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for your support. I want I want everybody to know. I want everybody
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to know that what I what I've done with this with this project is I've
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donated. I'm honored. I've committed to donating uh ten percent of each book
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to nonprofit organizations in honor of and in the names of the three individuals that
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that are harmed and their families. Right. So, uh, that's just
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it's important. It's important to note that and the percentage of this book goes
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to those go to organizations in the honor of those people. Right. No,
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people, Crystal Market, cow Boards and system holds Field. I just
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think it's important that you know that as you support me. It's not just
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like, hey, we line in Christmas, but no, this is a
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project where we're also doing our best to give back, to maintain restern processing
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and discipline and so change the inevitable. It's it's about so what I want
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to you know, I think that that's amazing. You know you you you
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took a kind of ability for your actions and now you've given ten percent of
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your book sells to a nonprofit in the three names of the of the victim.
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I commend you. My hat's off to you. I appreciate it.
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And you know, there's nothing that I can do that's gonna make things better.
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But I've committed my life to living a little bit differently, and it's
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public service from here on out. That's just the way it has to be.
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And that's how I feel what happens when you take from society, you
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have to learn how to give back. And so whatever I do is it's
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gonna always, in one way or another, be for somebody else's benefit and
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support. And I just think that destinate like you just talked about with Jesus
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did he was the number one servant people certain and these serves the people that
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needed it. And so anything that I can do when you find an organization
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that give my first world you check out. I didn't get a lot of
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money I gave. I gave fifty dollars of one hundred dollars check to kids,
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these causes out here in Colorado. And what she does is she gives
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to kids, school supplies for kids, toy dorage for kids, and a
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sponsorship for kids. Right. And so while here you are with somebody who's
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just giving doing organizing a system that's gonna support at risk kids locally. So
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while would I, hey, let me let me see if I can give
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you something to you know what I mean? And that's the way I think
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that we have to live. And if you if you're familiar with her story.
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It comes from a position of trauma. She went through something and that's
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what put her on that path. And so I think that that's the motto,
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like if you go through something, if you're responsible to something, when
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you do something, and those are the those are those uncomfortable moments that start
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change and good to develop its change be inevitable, which, if you think
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about it, change is inevitable. What's gonna happen. That's universe wealth.
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So you might as well change what's inevitable, meaning you might as well get
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behind your own change, embrace your own comfort, right and coach your own
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growth, and from from my perspectives, from my experiences and from having to
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grow up in prison and watch people come in here and continue making poor decisions
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right. Continue in an addition, continue in game band, stay and committed
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to the old lifestyle, and all they do is create a worse life than
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they had hopeless poor uh sad you know, wrongly destructure that they just continue
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on doing exactly what they've been doing, and they do it in comfort.
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And from me, my growth is so uncomfortable, like having conversations with people
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when I thought I was a good dude, because I had to compromise certain
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morals and then to have somebody say, no, you shot three people.
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You think because you didn't do A, B and C that you're good And
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having those conversations when I was young, like whoa, I've been looking at
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this thing different right when you when you sit in here, I mean,
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it's just it's it's so much that goes into it. However, let me
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back up what it is. This book right here is more or less about
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a personal journey through the thing we go through. Right We utilize hindsight to
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learn our lesson sides, gentify trauma, to figure out what our traders got,
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to figure out why we are the way we are, while we responding
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people to respond to people, we utilize foresight foresight to say, hey,
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if I can, if I can learn from what I did before and how
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I respond to reacted before. But then when I see a situation similar to
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it, I can make them to you educated guess and on how this thing
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is going to turn out, and I can make an informed decision because my
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experience it's an important Then we talk a little bit about insight, where you
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begin to have this I don't know if the right world is clairvoyance, but
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it's just being able to be in the moment and understand what's at play,
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understand what's at stake, and understand that, hey, if I make this
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type of decision to get this type of result, because let me make my
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next move my best move. And then I elaborate once we once we walk
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through that past, like that personal journey of like identifying and learning and become
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a self aware and then figuring out what the next step is. I think
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it's important that we talk about dreams and vision because we all have, right
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when we're young, we have dreams, and if you think about it,
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when you were young, probably like, oh, I want to be a
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firefighter, I want to be an astronaut, I want to be superman,
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a superwoman, and then you know, you realize that life might got something
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a little bit different for you, right, so your dreams don't necessarily become
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your reality become older. And I believe that, you know, dreams are
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one of those things that come from young people. And I think their vision,
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like men, women, like adults, like people who are mature and
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understand who they are on this planet. They walk in vision because vision is
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who you know you can be if you'll das either go after it, it's
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not understanding if reality can hold it right. The difference between the dream and
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the vision is the work you put into it. It's just one of those
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things. And so in the book I outlined on a few people that have
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demonstrated is whether they do it or not. They demonstrated exactly what it looks
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like to go after what you believe is coming to you and then to be
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successful. That's for lentit and then you can you can look at the opposite
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of that. You can see people who know big for anybody, but it
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is just the truth. Some people go and get a student law. I
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mean, some people go and do things that they think are uh what they
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want to do early on, and then they end up, you know,
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not following through and now you've made some decisions that you've gotten off of your
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task and you still are dealing with those consequences. So I was just going
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to encourage people to clearly identify what you want to do, who you are,
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operate on passion, but what's real to you, and then have discipline
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commitment to see you do Because if if if Bill Gates is Beyonce, if
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anybody successful can attain it right, and they are just as humans as we
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are. That we can have when we're after we just have to follow us.
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Yeah, follow a few flipsteps, so to speak, right, follow
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a few examples, and we can have things just like just like you know
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we can. So anyway, I think it's important. I think this book
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is important. I wrote it because again, I just found myself serving and
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a large part of what I do day in day out, A lot of
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who I am is really speaking to people and just trying to redirectly say reform
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at perspective. So if I can articulate my way, if I can articulate
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my experiences, if I could say something that you've probably heard before but I
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ain't heard it like I said it, then maybe you know, we can
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we can say somebody so I can get the decision or life change and decisions
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start making something. So Yeah, it's a it's a you know, if
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you ask me, it's a much read. Please go out and get this
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Brook. Yeah, that's not for me, for you, for just to
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your daughters or anybody that makes struggling to get to that next step. It
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may be something in here for them. Yes, And you know what Chris,
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uh, you know what I'm just said in awe and what you do
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every time I see you, you have this big old smile on your face.
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You had a big old smile on your face and all that you dealing
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with just to see and then here here your you know, what advice would
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you give to you if you had children, or even your nephews or nieces
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or what advice would you give to them. That's a good question. That's
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a good question. I would definitely tell them first and foremost, begin with
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the end in mind. If you make a decision and think about what it's
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going to do for you, and what it's going to do for your family,
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what it's going to do to somebody else. You know, always exercise
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hympathies. Might put yourself in somebody else's shoes. And if you don't want
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nobody still in your tennis shoes, better not still nobody's shoes. Right,
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If you want somebody to help your mom carry the groceries, you need to
37:04
help somebody else's mom, like exer so, I operate from some sencere laws,
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and for the for the life of me, right, don't follow what
37:15
what pop culture? Don't follow what rap video don't follow with social media,
37:22
don't follow with your friends going on, don't follow those trends, because as
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long as you are focusing on what God is doing for somebody else, you're
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gonna miss what God is gonna do for you. You have to focus on
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your blessing, and your blessing is gonna look fundamentally different than everybody else's.
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So I would I would stress that, and of course I would say it
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in a way that I that they can comprehend it, of course, but
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that would be the gist of like the advice I would give. It's like
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the authentical with yourself. Find confidence that you know what I mean, who
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you are, so that God got something good for you and it raised your
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own comfort. Yeah, when it gets uncomfortable, know you all, you're
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on the custom change. Notice you're on the custom change, So they break
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your own comfort. Yes, yes, definitely. So you know our time
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is is winding down. I don't know how much time time you have on
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your end, and I know that you've written a poem. I have,
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so I want you to go ahead and go ahead and read your poem because
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this month is National Poet Treatment. So on Friday, if you guys missed
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it. Please go back and watch the the read there. I believe that
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the read the relay. Go back and watch the the podcast on Friday.
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You will be blessed. You damn women really really brong it. Go Please
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go back and watch the replay on the Crew podcast. Go ahead, Chris
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Well, I definitely appreciate the poems is untitled, and I'm gonna just express
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it. I said, there's levels to be mentioned when you speak of my
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ascension. Royalty is born with kings truly built within this value of adversity,
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a love of call that hurts to be transm to the diamonds and impression so
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perfectly. I'm purposeful be pushed past my limits. Glam God sin the Atlantic,
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back to the land of Kimmids. We are descended to teams. They
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should bow in our presences. There may be just down in oppress us.
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We're getting reckless. I'm tired of stilling selfless, like I lost myself,
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Like I'm marching to the beat and I'm off one step, stepped off of
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this Porsche, off in the streets where the homies is harboring beats and officers
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office with heaths. Said that obvious that the lack of knowledge is holding a
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stagnant. Remember, we would do the meding over this planet. You've been
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hand in the gampit to take advantage or forever stranded wherever you stand and stand
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tall like Marcus can't be, but don't stand it all. Then you got
40:14
the juice. Now if you can't handle it, hand it off. It's
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nothing to prove. Now to whom much is given, much is expected,
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much as invested. So we move the noose from the next and the next
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generations, the blessed generation, young and ext on. They come first,
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women and children into the middle, will fight to the destiny, herbs and
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fighting. But every rest that's my sect section. So homey, it ain't
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no questions. Well, I'm reaping my section. It's a blessing just to
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be standing. So I stand on my square in one hand across my off
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chest, the other raised in the air. I solemnly swear that's that's the
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end of it. I have to go. We're running very low. They're
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doing the merchant account. Okay, situation for the man, thank you.
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I have to go. Okay, okay, the caller has hould up.
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That was Christopher Taylor. He's currently in Denver, Colorado. He had to
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get off the phone because they had to do an emergency count. Wow.
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While every time I see him, he just had this big old smile on
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his face and he's doing Life plus sixty four years. There's life plus sixty
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four years and he still smiles. Thank you guys for joining in with me
41:34
tonight. Like I said, if you guys didn't, if you miss Friday
41:42
the Poetry, please go back and watch the replay on the Crew podcast.
41:51
Them women, those queens, they really, I mean, they really put
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it out there and they all touched my heart. They are they The first
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three had me over here crying. Trebda she's on the podcast. She's a
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I forgot the name of her her podcast, but she really had me crying.
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And man, your tributa you touched touched my heart. But I'm going
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to end. I'm in. I'm gonna end this. I'm gonna show you
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a picture of Chris. He sent me a picture and I was going to
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put it up while he was doing his his poem. This is Christopher Thomas
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Taylor. This is Christopher that big. He has that big old smile and
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this is how he is. Every time I seen you guys, you can
42:50
catch me here on the first and third Monday of the month. Thank you
42:54
for joining me. Have a blessed week, Drink your water and stay out
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of people's business. Love you, have a good night. Ah mercy nursing
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me. All things ain't what they do stupid Where in all the blue sky's
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book boys and the thought blows from the north