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Montel Williams Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Realty real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
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Speaker 1: Angela Ye, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club
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Speaker 1: special guests in the building. It's Montea Williams, Montell Williams.
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Speaker 1: First of all, Montell, I had to keep explaining to
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Speaker 1: him that you're not Montell Jordan No sixs. What is
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Speaker 1: six three? Yes? About fifteen years younger than me. That
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Speaker 1: was my joint. This is how we I'm just joking,
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Speaker 1: but why tell us here? What did you do for
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Speaker 1: four twenty Montell? Um, Let's see, And I was in
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Speaker 1: meetings half the day, flew across the country and had
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Speaker 1: a couple of meetings. You've been a big advocate of marijuana. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: but it's because of your MS though. Absolutely, And I've
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Speaker 1: been working out you know, literally a lot of people
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Speaker 1: don't know this, but I was involved in probably in
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Speaker 1: every single state that passed the medical marijuana law since
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Speaker 1: the year two thousand testified for a right. I currently
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Speaker 1: am involved in the state of Missouri, who is in
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Speaker 1: the process of passing probably would be one of the
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Speaker 1: most comprehensive medical maria want of laws in the country. So,
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Speaker 1: I mean, we kind of have to understand. Whatever anybody
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Speaker 1: wants to do all you want, I could care less.
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Speaker 1: From my perspective. This is a medication and it is
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people. And what we don't understand
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Speaker 1: is that just like you know, there's one medication that's
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Speaker 1: sold in this country right now today that it's sold
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Speaker 1: in seven eleven so in drug stores. It's not scheduled.
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Speaker 1: It's most deadly drug on a planet. It's been around
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Speaker 1: for one hundred years. Nicotine. No, we still don't we
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Speaker 1: still don't know what makes it work. Yet we sell it.
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Speaker 1: Let children could walk in and buy it, take it home,
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Speaker 1: and if they take too much of it, they will
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Speaker 1: be dead on your living room floor. Before you see aspirin,
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, made from willow bark. I can't take because
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Speaker 1: the caffeine and it makes me jittery. Well it's not, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but it's made from willow bark. And back at the
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Speaker 1: turn of the century, you know, they knew that it
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Speaker 1: was an analgesic. They knew a little bit about it.
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Speaker 1: People used to boil the willow bark in their pots,
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Speaker 1: so people end up dead on their floors. So now
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Speaker 1: you started turning into a pounder. But if you take
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Speaker 1: too much aspen, It'll kill you. We don't know exactly
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Speaker 1: all of the reasons why I aspen work. We do
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Speaker 1: know some of them, but not all of them. It's
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Speaker 1: the same thing when it comes to marijuana. Marijuana and
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Speaker 1: the plant itself is a plant based medicine. We don't
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Speaker 1: know everything that works about it's still tell today, but
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Speaker 1: we do know that it's efficacious for certain illnesses. So
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Speaker 1: for me, I don't care if they go recreational over
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Speaker 1: the country. I'm still going to fight in every state
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Speaker 1: to make sure that we produce a cannabis that for
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Speaker 1: persons who's ill it won't make us more sick. Do
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Speaker 1: you grow your own or do you actually go into growers.
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Speaker 1: I have some people who grow for me specifically, have
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Speaker 1: some people who do this. Have I have my own
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Speaker 1: compassionate care givers licensed in a couple of different states
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Speaker 1: that get to do that, and I'm taking care of
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Speaker 1: that now. Then you said recreational. What do you think
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Speaker 1: about recreational because you know so disenal, you know, like
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Speaker 1: you said, what does we'd hurt you? First of all, dude,
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Speaker 1: you know I was, I was I'm a child of
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Speaker 1: the sixties and the seventies, you know, So I mean
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Speaker 1: it broke huh at Bay back when I was when
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Speaker 1: I was younger. But then I went twenty five years,
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Speaker 1: we stopped. I was in the military and smoke it
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Speaker 1: at all. And I literally came back to marijuana after
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Speaker 1: I left the military, really because I started feeling some
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Speaker 1: pains in my legs and some things, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I just just kind of gravitated back. I got tired
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Speaker 1: of taking a lot of the serious medication I was on.
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Speaker 1: Then I got diagnosed with a MASS and then you know,
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Speaker 1: when I got diagnosed, I had gone through a bout.
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Speaker 1: So I suffered from some extreme neuropathic pain in my
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Speaker 1: lower strumities, my feet, my shins, my legs. It just
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Speaker 1: was a mess. So I was on all kinds of
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Speaker 1: prescription medications that took every opiate there is, and I
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Speaker 1: took them to the point at sometimes where I felt
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Speaker 1: like I was going to be shut down my kidneys.
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Speaker 1: I'll see my doctor. I couldn't continue to do this.
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Speaker 1: So I saw a very smart doctor who said, listen
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Speaker 1: to me. I know people who have MS and for them,
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Speaker 1: cannabis works to start suppressing that pain. Well, there's a
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Speaker 1: way you have to do it, and I do it,
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Speaker 1: and that suppresses me enough, along with some other things
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Speaker 1: and techniques that you used to take me off of
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Speaker 1: all the other strange you know, uh opia based medications
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Speaker 1: and the things that can shut down your kidneys and
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Speaker 1: have more side effects. In the law allows I just
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Speaker 1: use cannabis. When doctors was here, he actually used us
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Speaker 1: an example because he was saying that marijuana does have
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Speaker 1: such great medical benefits and he was like, use of
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Speaker 1: them from ms and can't even get up someone into
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Speaker 1: if if me tell you if I don't, if I
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Speaker 1: don't consume cannabis in the evenings before I go to sleep,
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Speaker 1: it drives my wife crazy because I will kick her
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Speaker 1: out of the bed. Have twitches, man, I have these
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Speaker 1: night twitches. Let start the twitch, you know, and you
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Speaker 1: know and you know I haven't been able to stop
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Speaker 1: going after chasing my youth. So I'm working out and training.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty strong, so I've lay in the bed. I
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Speaker 1: can kick her out of bed while I'm sleeping. My
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Speaker 1: legs will twitch that hard or they will lock up
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Speaker 1: into a what a call spasm. So like if you
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Speaker 1: had a cramp, think about this for a second. Either
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Speaker 1: cramp catch crampy, walking boom and get a cramp. Your
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Speaker 1: anchor you laid down, sit down, he start scratching out.
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Speaker 1: I can lay in bed and sleep for forty five
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Speaker 1: minutes through a cramp and my leg is locked out
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Speaker 1: the point that I buy step up real quick. I
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Speaker 1: can snap my knee, I can break my ankle. Get
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Speaker 1: up so that I'm telling you the only thing that
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Speaker 1: lets me sleep through the evening is cannabis. How many
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Speaker 1: dudes listen to this right now, then, dude, I can't.
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Speaker 1: I can't sleep it out cannabis. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: And if that's where your mind's at, you got to
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Speaker 1: use me as an excuse to do it I think
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Speaker 1: you need to do then you know that that's on you.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that there are people suffer from cancer,
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Speaker 1: people suffer from turrets. There are multiple illnesses that we
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Speaker 1: now know for a fact. I didn't want to turn
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Speaker 1: this into a cannabis show, but let's go there, because
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Speaker 1: let's talk about a couple things real quick. One, most
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Speaker 1: people listeners do not know that the United States government
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Speaker 1: owns the pattern on THHC and CBD. We fund research
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Speaker 1: on cannabis on a regular basis. Outside of the United States.
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Speaker 1: The United States from America, let's see, has been distributing
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Speaker 1: marijuana for the last thirty eight years. Every single month,
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Speaker 1: a canister of marijuana cigarettes go out from the University
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Speaker 1: of Mississippi and has done so for thirty eight years.
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Speaker 1: Started with twenty patients. It's now down to four because
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Speaker 1: sixteen of them had passed away. The other four are
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Speaker 1: going to continue to get this until they die out. Now,
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Speaker 1: I got a question for it. This was started under
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Speaker 1: the first George Bush and when the program when he
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Speaker 1: started it, they were shocked at the number of people
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Speaker 1: who applied to get applications, so they shut it down
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Speaker 1: at these twenty people. But since they had started giving
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Speaker 1: twenty people marijuana, you can't stop now, right, and you
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Speaker 1: can't stop the research you've done for thirty eight years.
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Speaker 1: So how can we have a government that's supposed to
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Speaker 1: do no harm say that these four people can live
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Speaker 1: and a life that's paying free and a life where
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Speaker 1: we give them medication. But people like Montell, who served
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Speaker 1: twenty two years in the military, you know, boom, I
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Speaker 1: throw you the finger right to your face. No, I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna help you. And it's illegal. And if I
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Speaker 1: catch you, I'm gonna put you in jail. Are we crazy?
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Speaker 1: And we as a society sit back and let this happen.
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Speaker 1: It's just like you know, I know that that you guys,
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this for just a second,
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Speaker 1: but you know I'm on this, but I'm on a
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Speaker 1: mission right now because but it's like this is a
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Speaker 1: government and again, you know, look, I put a uniform
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Speaker 1: one for twenty two years. So some people may not
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Speaker 1: think that was a good idea or about it. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Appreciate it. We appreciate it, all right. I
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Speaker 1: feel like right now we have and most of people
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Speaker 1: who are listening to your show aren't paying attention to
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Speaker 1: the news. We have warships in the Persian Gulf that
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Speaker 1: are waiting for Iranian ships to approach the shoreline, so
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Speaker 1: that if in fact, we believe their weapons on board,
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Speaker 1: we are going to either board or allow an ally
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Speaker 1: to board. Things can go from bad to direct damned
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Speaker 1: nightmare in seconds in this kind of situation, when he
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Speaker 1: goes to a nightmare. Okay, let's think about this for
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Speaker 1: a second. We know for a fact that our military
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Speaker 1: is made up thirty three thirty four percent of its
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Speaker 1: minorities African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic human We have an
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Speaker 1: Iranian American who served in our military in Iraq, served
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Speaker 1: with honor, discharts, leaves and goes home to our ran
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Speaker 1: not home, goes back to our ran or goes to
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Speaker 1: our ranfas first time. I'm sorry, we get the straight.
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Speaker 1: Went to our ranfas first time to go see a
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Speaker 1: grandmother who was sick, who they thought was dying. It
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Speaker 1: was his duty to go back to see him because
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Speaker 1: his father was ill, couldn't go do so, it is
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Speaker 1: duty to go do it. He applies it to the application,
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Speaker 1: gets his visa, goes back to our ran, goes Uran.
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Speaker 1: They tell him yes, year, visa's okay. We get to
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Speaker 1: you served in the military. It's okay, come over here
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Speaker 1: hits the ground. Three days later, he's arrested, charged with treason,
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Speaker 1: sentenced to death for having served in our military in
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Speaker 1: Iraq and fought against them. They flipped the paradigm. Pressure
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Speaker 1: is put on. They take away the death penalty, but
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Speaker 1: then they convictim of treason or cooperating with the foreign government.
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Speaker 1: He's an American, they commit convict him of cooperating with
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Speaker 1: the foreign government put him in jail for ten years.
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Speaker 1: This showman has been tortured. He has been in prison
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Speaker 1: for one thousand, three hundred and thirty three days. I
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Speaker 1: want to remind your listeners, we started everything that happened
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East when the Iranians took our hostages
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Speaker 1: from the embassy and held them for less than what
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Speaker 1: it was a year, one hundred and thirty three, three
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Speaker 1: and a half years. He's been in prison and oh, girlfriend,
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Speaker 1: he's been tortured, he's been beaten, he's been locked up.
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Speaker 1: They acted him to lift them so that they can
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Speaker 1: put him through the withdrawal process to torture him more. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so I've been on this free a Mere Now campaign. Now,
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Speaker 1: why why why won't we do anything? It seems like
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Speaker 1: that's something that we send the troops and we go
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Speaker 1: get him. You know, I I I can't question a
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Speaker 1: lot of what this president does. I don't think that
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Speaker 1: that there are a lot of us at the right
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Speaker 1: that even even broke a question when you're not informed
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Speaker 1: enough for educated enough on the issue to understand why
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Speaker 1: he makes the decisions he does. I'm informed on this issue.
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Speaker 1: You sound like the president, by the way, well like
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Speaker 1: when you talk your voice. Well, I would think in
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Speaker 1: this case with him, he is the commander in chief.
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Speaker 1: Right now, let's separate two for a second. So you
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Speaker 1: guys like me, we wear uniforms. There's the president and
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Speaker 1: then there's the commander in chief. He has the authority
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Speaker 1: to put those ships on the battlefield and the persian golf,
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Speaker 1: to put the troops on the ground, and he has
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Speaker 1: a special duty to ensure that those guys are protected.
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Speaker 1: How many people listening would send their children off to
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Speaker 1: fight knowing that if something goes wrong weird, it's gonna say,
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Speaker 1: screw you on your own figure it out, get your
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Speaker 1: family to figure it out. It's a stupid question. But
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Speaker 1: I'm sure the president of the way it is right,
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Speaker 1: he's away of a mirror, he's aware, and you know, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: and I think this has been and if I haven't again,
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Speaker 1: I'm not here to blast the president. I'm just gonna
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Speaker 1: say that I think there's always been an optics problem
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Speaker 1: with this administration. Now, said you said this president like,
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Speaker 1: you don't rock with the president? Do you like what
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Speaker 1: Brocco has clearly didn't vote for president of brock Obama?
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Speaker 1: Oh well, you know what, I will also say again,
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Speaker 1: because I did what a uniform I have to write
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Speaker 1: to vote and not say who I voted for. But
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this last time around, I did vote
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Speaker 1: for him. The first time around, I didn't. Okay about
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Speaker 1: that the first time around, I didn't. Last time around,
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Speaker 1: I did. He didn't do a good job. I am
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Speaker 1: confused by the optics of the job that he does,
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Speaker 1: and I'm confused by the methods in which he goes
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Speaker 1: about doing them. I think in some of the reasons
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Speaker 1: why he gets so much pushback is because he and
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Speaker 1: this administration as a method of communicating that may not
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Speaker 1: be what anybody and all of us want, but you know,
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Speaker 1: then we can all want. And so what do you
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Speaker 1: think he's more of a celebrity as with people? Oh no,
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Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, no, no. I don't believe this
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Speaker 1: is a celebrity president at all. I think it's a
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Speaker 1: really bad moniker to put on him. Though he may
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Speaker 1: have celebrity friends, you know what I mean. And because
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Speaker 1: he's the first black president want yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can put him that way. But but if you
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Speaker 1: dig down into the cerebral person that the guys, you
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Speaker 1: have a president who is is um. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to say that. If I said the smartest people
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Speaker 1: are going to come back and push back, I say
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Speaker 1: he's extremely area that the guy knows what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: He's a he's a master of of the legal business.
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Speaker 1: He knows the legal aspects of it, of what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: He also knows that he has his own plan and
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Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to articulate that to everyone else.
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Speaker 1: Give examples, where is he on this Baltimore issue? Where
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Speaker 1: is he on a lot of other issues that are
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Speaker 1: happening where you don't see him speak out as quickly
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Speaker 1: as you might like him to, especially police reform. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to police reform and other things. You know, he's
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Speaker 1: not speaking as quickly as we think. Are the things
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Speaker 1: going on to buy on the scenes, behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: that we don't know about? Of course there are. Is
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Speaker 1: it his responsibility to appease us and give us the
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Speaker 1: answers when we want them. No, but I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: let him talk you get an answer. Is that why
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Speaker 1: you said they have an optic issue? Yes, because I
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Speaker 1: think you know there there there are certain gatekeepers. There
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Speaker 1: are certain certain people who keep the picture they want
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Speaker 1: presented one way and you don't get him until they
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Speaker 1: approved the next picture you're going to get. And I
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Speaker 1: would rather get back to seeing the guy who just
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Speaker 1: came out, shut the door and said, Okay, look this
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Speaker 1: is what's up. And and I'm not saying that he
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Speaker 1: has to break it down in some you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: non articulate way. I don't want to be a straight
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Speaker 1: I want the president talk. No, you don't know, because
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Speaker 1: people to say, that's what I'm asking him. Dude, come
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Speaker 1: down and break it down. You know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: You can't either. You gotta watch every word you're saying.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that you just said, I feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm talking. I feel like a politician because I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to make sure that I don't tick people off. We
14:33
Speaker 1: were living in a society right now where you can't
14:35
Speaker 1: even express an opinion without feeling as if you better
14:42
Speaker 1: be ready for the shotgun blast coming back from the
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Speaker 1: twelve the twelve people who incite twenty people. But I
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Speaker 1: think it's via social media because it's hard to express
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Speaker 1: yourself over social mediacause it's only one hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: character and sometimes people will see you might put a
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Speaker 1: train of thought they might see one thought right and
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Speaker 1: take it out of context. No, you're absolutely right, You're
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Speaker 1: absolutely right. Now you're from Baltimore. From so he talked
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Speaker 1: about what it was was going on in Baltimore. How
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Speaker 1: do you feel about the police officers and police in Baltimore,
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Speaker 1: because here it's it's a little crazy at sometimes they
15:08
Speaker 1: will pull us over for no apparent reason. You know,
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Speaker 1: let's let's wow, this is a big one. I've been
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Speaker 1: wrestling with us. I'm gonna I'm wrestling with with a
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Speaker 1: whole series of thing. We're got a chance to talk
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Speaker 1: about some of the stuff that I'm working on. Is
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Speaker 1: I'm really working on a lot of different issues that
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Speaker 1: I think are earth changing, you know, socially changing issues.
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Speaker 1: But getting down just in the Baltimore I was not
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Speaker 1: gonna finaldi My father was a lifelong politician in the city.
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Speaker 1: My father was a commission of Transportation, the Commissioner of
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Speaker 1: Public Work, the first African American fire chief of a
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Speaker 1: major city in the country in Baltimore. Um, I was
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Speaker 1: just speaking. He's eighty three years old. He's paying attention,
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Speaker 1: very close to what's going on. But Baltimore, the incident
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Speaker 1: that we're all riled up about today is no different
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Speaker 1: than the incident that took place probably you know, six
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Speaker 1: months ago, four months ago, which incident, and so there's
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Speaker 1: a bigger issue that we've not yet gotten to because
16:02
Speaker 1: we're still havn't finished digging the line in the sand,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're still digging the trench so we can
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Speaker 1: put people on each side of it. And we haven't
16:12
Speaker 1: figured out the fact that until we fill in that
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Speaker 1: damn hole, we're never going to solve this problem. What
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Speaker 1: is the problem? Think about what I just talk about earlier.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the military. We do not allow soldiers
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Speaker 1: in the military to serve now more than three tours
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Speaker 1: of duty in the battle zone. You got to do
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Speaker 1: three in a row. You got to get them out
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Speaker 1: of the battle zone. We try to do that now
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Speaker 1: because we have such a limited and small military, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're forced to send them back and back and back.
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Speaker 1: But everybody gets it. You can't keep people in the
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Speaker 1: battle zone. Think about police departments across America. Think about
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Speaker 1: institutionalized organizations that have been nepotistic, have been closed societies
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Speaker 1: as just for twenty thirty years, okay, and you have
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Speaker 1: guys who've been there working for twenty thirty years, for
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Speaker 1: five six years, constantly in the battle zone. I'm not
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Speaker 1: trying to make excuses. Let me get this straight and
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Speaker 1: make your excuses for anybody. I just want to kind
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Speaker 1: of set a little different conversation. So let's just say
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Speaker 1: for a minute that we have a society of United
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Speaker 1: States built on police departments, that we allow people to
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Speaker 1: stay in a heightened on edge roll for ten fifteen
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Speaker 1: years in a row, constantly in the battle zone in
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Speaker 1: their minds. So when they react the way we see
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Speaker 1: them reacting now after nothing but a battle zone, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: you think that maybe we ought to start thinking about
17:45
Speaker 1: how we give people guns and how long we allow
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Speaker 1: them to interact these ways that they do. All the
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Speaker 1: police say they're frustrated, they're frustrated with the relationship they'reving
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Speaker 1: with the neighborhood. Well you addemic, because if you've been
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Speaker 1: walking down the street for the last five years yelling
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Speaker 1: at the same guy back and forth, back and forth,
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Speaker 1: you can see how anybody's level is gonna be up here.
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Speaker 1: You got rookies doing it too. You had the rookie
18:06
Speaker 1: who kills the guy in if who he travels with
18:13
Speaker 1: the first, your first day of work, you come in
18:15
Speaker 1: here and instead of this being like one of the
18:17
Speaker 1: fly cool places to be in every day people, uh,
18:21
Speaker 1: you end up being Fox News. I feel you're saying,
18:25
Speaker 1: if you if your partner's biter, you probably be within
18:28
Speaker 1: within two cups of coffee? Right, can you not be?
18:32
Speaker 1: And Okay, so there's there's a couple. I mean there's
18:38
Speaker 1: a it's way up here. Let's go thirty thousand feet,
18:41
Speaker 1: twenty thousand feet, ten thirty thousand feet. Yeah, we need
18:43
Speaker 1: the president and and uh the Justice Department to issue
18:47
Speaker 1: some edicts, and some of those edicts should start to
18:49
Speaker 1: be in retraining. And I think we should start forcing
18:53
Speaker 1: police departments. And the police officers are gonna like this,
18:55
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you, I think you come off
18:58
Speaker 1: the off the street walking there. Look, there could be pathways.
19:02
Speaker 1: You can have a pathway for detectives. I get it.
19:04
Speaker 1: We need to have people who are criminologists who have
19:06
Speaker 1: been on the job for years to be able to
19:07
Speaker 1: understand patterns of crime. Okay, we got enough of them
19:11
Speaker 1: right now, So let's pick who those guys are, the
19:13
Speaker 1: new guys that we have out on the beat. Let's
19:15
Speaker 1: start saying, look, I'm sorry you're gonna get you know,
19:18
Speaker 1: a three month on, one month off, three month on,
19:21
Speaker 1: one month off, and I'm sorry you're off the street,
19:24
Speaker 1: in the car, on the desk. I don't care washing
19:27
Speaker 1: them do something other than getting people's faces, because the
19:30
Speaker 1: more you're in a person's face, that's all you want
19:33
Speaker 1: to do. And let's get something really straight. In the
19:36
Speaker 1: last two years, this country has also done just this,
19:41
Speaker 1: I think says it all. We looked at domestic violence, right,
19:46
Speaker 1: and we paint the picture of the biggest problem in
19:50
Speaker 1: America with domestic violence is the NFL. We pick a
19:56
Speaker 1: black man and another black man and say, say, prime
20:00
Speaker 1: examples America celebrity. That's why. Yeah, but you know what,
20:05
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the eight hundred thousand domestic violence charges
20:13
Speaker 1: every year are filed against police officers. Let me say
20:19
Speaker 1: that again, sixty percent, John, look up the number exactly.
20:24
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the exact number of the eight
20:27
Speaker 1: hundred thousand domestic violence charges filed in America are filed
20:35
Speaker 1: against police officers. But I can see that, okay, because again,
20:40
Speaker 1: let's push up that heightened sense. If I'm gonna beat up,
20:43
Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat my wife. Don't you think I'm gonna
20:46
Speaker 1: smack the crap out of you you do something wrong
20:48
Speaker 1: on the street. Absolutely, m I beat my mother. Oh,
20:55
Speaker 1: let's look at some of the charges against police officers
20:58
Speaker 1: and wait and do not for one second believe that's john,
21:03
Speaker 1: ladies and times more common in families, two to four
21:09
Speaker 1: times more common domestic violence charges in police families than
21:13
Speaker 1: any other group in a country. You're throwing the violence, Yes,
21:17
Speaker 1: but it's also because let's put let's cart, egg, apple,
21:20
Speaker 1: all that crap. You know, the egg before the chicken. Hey,
21:23
Speaker 1: what came first? You put the guy on the job
21:25
Speaker 1: all day long. Every day he just walk around, got
21:27
Speaker 1: a gun on his side, gotta go shoot this gun
21:30
Speaker 1: every fifth after dealing with stuff at home. Yeah, I
21:33
Speaker 1: love guns. I'm to make people. I own a lot
21:36
Speaker 1: of them. Sorry, you train me. Took twenty two years.
21:40
Speaker 1: You made me qualify every year. You love guns, you
21:42
Speaker 1: love I love guys. You should drop a rap album.
21:44
Speaker 1: I should about putting the police in the community. And
21:49
Speaker 1: the reason I say that is my dad's retired cop.
21:51
Speaker 1: But I know when this is a long time ago,
21:53
Speaker 1: thirty forty years ago, they gave they encouraged police officers
21:57
Speaker 1: to live in the community. They wanted you to live
21:59
Speaker 1: in the community and give you different rebates, to give
22:01
Speaker 1: you better loans because they wanted you in the community.
22:03
Speaker 1: They wanted you knowing the people and where these people
22:06
Speaker 1: were from, so you knew how to talk to people,
22:07
Speaker 1: you knew how to be around people. It doesn't seem
22:08
Speaker 1: like they do that anymore. But that's only one piece,
22:10
Speaker 1: because even if you live in the community home, I
22:12
Speaker 1: still don't want you walking that beat for eighteen months
22:16
Speaker 1: in a row. Don't think it's necessary. And all the
22:19
Speaker 1: police department are gonna say, oh, you're crazy. It's gonna
22:22
Speaker 1: cost this X y Z what it's costing everybody lives right,
22:25
Speaker 1: And I'm so sorry. See again, keep thinking about it.
22:29
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this because I'm a black man. I'm
22:31
Speaker 1: afraid I'm gonna be a black man. That's gonna be No.
22:33
Speaker 1: Let's remember sixty percent, eight hundred thousand, that's what five
22:40
Speaker 1: hundred and some thousand. It's Jonathan Franks, who's my ace
22:46
Speaker 1: who just when I asked for for numbers, jo say
22:49
Speaker 1: the number, I'm gonna give me a John in my life.
22:51
Speaker 1: Jonathan looked that up for me. I'm available for hire.
22:57
Speaker 1: Estimates of abuse by law enforce and personnel range from
23:01
Speaker 1: study not not agreed upon, but it's a real study. Again,
23:06
Speaker 1: so when you think about that though. Again, so guys,
23:08
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand I'm not in this and I
23:10
Speaker 1: don't want here in New York police officers. No, dude,
23:13
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I will stop and buy a police
23:15
Speaker 1: officer lunch dinner. I am. I am on their side,
23:19
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm hoping that maybe if we changed
23:22
Speaker 1: the conversation a little bit and stop saying everybody's a
23:25
Speaker 1: racist ass and no, no, no no, these are people I
23:28
Speaker 1: don't care black. And remember, let's also remember what I
23:30
Speaker 1: gave you the number. I'll give you a breakdown racially,
23:33
Speaker 1: but I will tell you that I believe what I
23:35
Speaker 1: did the first chearchialness. The numbers are identical, black, white,
23:40
Speaker 1: Hispanic police officers have issues. Guys. You know you do
23:44
Speaker 1: what you're saying. You don't think it's a race thing?
23:47
Speaker 1: Is Oh no, there's race hit it, yes, sir, No, yeah,
23:51
Speaker 1: but you gotta add to put them all together. And
23:54
Speaker 1: I can't say which percentage is which I'm gonna do
23:56
Speaker 1: some conference. I'm gonna have some meetings with a couple
23:58
Speaker 1: of prominent psychiatrists that I know in the country in
24:01
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. I'm working with a few
24:03
Speaker 1: of them on some different issues. Because people don't don't know,
24:06
Speaker 1: it's like I just I'm not just walking around spending
24:09
Speaker 1: in the circle. I've been involved in the last four years,
24:12
Speaker 1: and I think one of the things that's going to
24:13
Speaker 1: be one of the most brown breaking breaking initiatives in
24:19
Speaker 1: brain science that this world has seen as whenever we
24:22
Speaker 1: know it now because I'm involved in the study, I'm involved.
24:25
Speaker 1: I was the founder of a company that's called Helious
24:27
Speaker 1: Medical Technologies is working on a medical device. It's called
24:30
Speaker 1: the Pond's Device that's say, you know, a portable neuro
24:33
Speaker 1: stimulator that literally helps the brain find pathways around damage
24:39
Speaker 1: by putting the brain in plastic states. So we're currently
24:42
Speaker 1: this company is doing one of the most comprehensive traumatic
24:45
Speaker 1: brain injury studies that this country's scene in the last
24:48
Speaker 1: ten years at three different centers of excellence right now
24:51
Speaker 1: University of Montreal, University of Atlanta, Florida, University of Portland, Oregon.
24:55
Speaker 1: I'm doing traumatic brain injury. And then I'm also doing
24:58
Speaker 1: MS the University of Montreal. So I'm involved in a
25:02
Speaker 1: project that were most are involved in a biofuel project,
25:05
Speaker 1: which is one of the leading technologies in waste to energy.
25:09
Speaker 1: And I've been involved in this now for four years
25:12
Speaker 1: and I'm about to take another coup. I just had
25:14
Speaker 1: meetings with the Secretary of Energy's office. I'm taking meetings
25:17
Speaker 1: with different countries around the world because I have a
25:20
Speaker 1: technology that literally can take everything from human waste too
25:24
Speaker 1: used engine Greece and turn it into ten megast Oh yeah, okay,
25:32
Speaker 1: Oh so we need to talk you should you should
25:34
Speaker 1: take a look. I should say to you that that
25:36
Speaker 1: you know, Helius went public in Canada. We just got
25:40
Speaker 1: on the otc QB here in the United States and
25:44
Speaker 1: it's the one very well. You should be in that
25:46
Speaker 1: one too. God Like, I'm intrigue me, man, because it's
25:48
Speaker 1: like you've lived like four different lives. You was in
25:50
Speaker 1: the military, you was a super successful daytime talk to
25:54
Speaker 1: your host. Now you involved in the you know, new
25:56
Speaker 1: energy resources and stuff like that. Like how like what's
25:59
Speaker 1: just thought process? Like some people can only do one
26:01
Speaker 1: thing at a time their whole life. But let's start
26:04
Speaker 1: from the talk show you kind of a military explain
26:06
Speaker 1: that from out of the military marine, a naval guy
26:10
Speaker 1: go to become a huge daytime talk show. Hope. All
26:13
Speaker 1: right here, I'll give you. I'm gonna give you. I'll
26:14
Speaker 1: try to give you the two minute montel. First of all,
26:18
Speaker 1: I'm a product of bussing. So I'm gonna go back
26:20
Speaker 1: to to my whole life led me to where I am.
26:24
Speaker 1: That's fred to you. I got a father again, who's
26:26
Speaker 1: eighty three, my mother's eighty two. They're aligned right now today.
26:30
Speaker 1: My mom uh never graduated from college, but ended up
26:34
Speaker 1: being a former foreman at Westinghouse. Back then it was
26:37
Speaker 1: called Bendex. My dad, uh worked four jobs. Man. He
26:41
Speaker 1: was a musician, He was a carpenter, he was a firefighter.
26:47
Speaker 1: He also drove a camp a little bit make it.
26:49
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, I got a little what you think
26:53
Speaker 1: it's going on right now? That's my problem. Man. You know,
26:55
Speaker 1: we gave him to have enough jobs. I'm still trying
26:58
Speaker 1: to give another one. Man. Yeah, I keep telling the
27:00
Speaker 1: man you did this to me. We just stop it.
27:02
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I mean very early on, my
27:06
Speaker 1: father just beat it into us. You know, back in
27:08
Speaker 1: the day, it was Okay, so you beat it into us,
27:10
Speaker 1: you know, education, education, education. So I followed that path
27:14
Speaker 1: and I did pretty well. And I did very well
27:16
Speaker 1: when I was in school, you know, I was in
27:18
Speaker 1: all of the things that you're you're supposed to be in.
27:21
Speaker 1: I had enlisted in the Marine Corps first, but then
27:23
Speaker 1: I got picked to go to the Naval Academy. I
27:24
Speaker 1: graduated from the Naval Academy. I got a degree in engineering.
27:27
Speaker 1: I got a minor international security affairs. I went on
27:29
Speaker 1: from there to go to to the Defense Language Institute.
27:32
Speaker 1: I got a degree in Russian Ya got pad, got
27:36
Speaker 1: a degree in Russian. I went onto the National Cryptologic School.
27:38
Speaker 1: I got agree in uh cryptology. So I'm one of
27:41
Speaker 1: those people, man, I mean, I like to fill this
27:43
Speaker 1: brain with as much as I can fill it with.
27:44
Speaker 1: How you go from Gi Joe to Oprah? Okay, okay,
27:48
Speaker 1: so all right, I'm on active duty. I was stationed
27:50
Speaker 1: at the National Security Agency in outside of Baltimore. Okay,
27:54
Speaker 1: I was running the office there where before it was
27:57
Speaker 1: against the law. It was against the law back then
27:59
Speaker 1: to run troops and have them deployed for more than
28:01
Speaker 1: one hundred and one hundred days at a time, I
28:04
Speaker 1: was running guys because I ran all the Persian, Hebrew
28:07
Speaker 1: and varsity linguists in the military out of an office
28:09
Speaker 1: at the National Scurity Agency. These guys were spending one
28:12
Speaker 1: hundred eighty days one hundred ninety days at sea at
28:15
Speaker 1: a time. While they were gone, their families were running
28:18
Speaker 1: the market. So I started a program where I bought
28:20
Speaker 1: all the families that of my guys under the base,
28:22
Speaker 1: made them live on a base. Then I bought this
28:24
Speaker 1: family together. Once a week we would have these seminars.
28:26
Speaker 1: So I started working with the families with the kids.
28:28
Speaker 1: I mean, we have some of the younger kids. We
28:29
Speaker 1: don't have problem with the ones that were in high school.
28:31
Speaker 1: We have dropouts and all this stuff. So I was
28:33
Speaker 1: working on this project. Another friend of mine, officer who
28:37
Speaker 1: was in the military, knew about that asked me to
28:40
Speaker 1: come and speak at a seminar. It was at the
28:42
Speaker 1: Big eight Black Student Union Conference nineteen eighty eight in
28:45
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Missouri. I spoke at that conference one speaking engagement.
28:51
Speaker 1: I got thirty five speech speaking request. Those thirty five
28:55
Speaker 1: turned into two hundred by the time I woke up.
28:58
Speaker 1: This was January of nineteen eighty eight. June of nineteen
29:01
Speaker 1: eighty eight, I was on Today Show. I had spoken
29:03
Speaker 1: a seventy thousand kids across the country in twenty five schools.
29:07
Speaker 1: I dropped. I just got out of the military and
29:09
Speaker 1: I started a nonprofit organization called Reached the Americans Dream,
29:12
Speaker 1: and I spoke around a country from nineteen eight to
29:14
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one in high schools all over America. And
29:19
Speaker 1: I was walking into schools. This was back before there
29:21
Speaker 1: was anybody in a school in this entire country. There
29:23
Speaker 1: was only one guy that spoke in school before me,
29:25
Speaker 1: was a guy a by the name of Thoma. So
29:27
Speaker 1: from eighty eight to ninety one, think about this, I'm
29:30
Speaker 1: in all these high schools. Everywhere I went. It became
29:32
Speaker 1: a media event. I was on everything from Incredible Sundays
29:35
Speaker 1: to you know, every new show kind of covered me
29:38
Speaker 1: and every market I was in. So I had an
29:40
Speaker 1: audience from eighty eight to ninety one. There comes to
29:43
Speaker 1: ninety one, I ended up meeting somebody. I literally went
29:47
Speaker 1: to Hollywood, had one meeting without an agent or manager.
29:50
Speaker 1: I got the packaging fee for my show, so I
29:53
Speaker 1: packed my show, sold my show to myself. January ninety one,
29:57
Speaker 1: went on the air for three years. Those people I
30:00
Speaker 1: spoke to it In a three year period of time
30:01
Speaker 1: from eight eight and ninety one, I spoken to about
30:04
Speaker 1: about a million kids across the country. I went on
30:07
Speaker 1: the air. All those kids now are twenty two, twenty three.
30:13
Speaker 1: They went, Hey, that was that dude that was at
30:15
Speaker 1: my school. Yeah, bang, next thing. The show just took off,
30:18
Speaker 1: and it's really under selling this thing. You was on
30:20
Speaker 1: the air for seventeen years. Seventeen years at daytime talk.
30:24
Speaker 1: You see shows come and going. Well, when I was
30:27
Speaker 1: on the air, one hundred and seven shows came and went.
30:32
Speaker 1: I started up when I was on the air, and
30:34
Speaker 1: we stayed on and I stopped the show. It was
30:38
Speaker 1: eighty seven that went for another year and reruns eighty
30:41
Speaker 1: eight And why do you stop? Well, you know, after
30:43
Speaker 1: seventeen years. Honestly, I had sixteen addendums to my contract
30:48
Speaker 1: and number seventeen wasn't working out the right way, so
30:52
Speaker 1: they wasn't it wasn't paying you that money, you know,
30:55
Speaker 1: And it was also a time, you know, I mean
30:57
Speaker 1: after that period of time, I literally I want to emmy.
30:59
Speaker 1: I've been nominated for one each year after day I
31:01
Speaker 1: was like, you know, what am I doing? And I
31:02
Speaker 1: wanted to move on there with other things I wanted
31:04
Speaker 1: to do. Why do you think your show was so successful?
31:06
Speaker 1: I think is one of the things we did from
31:10
Speaker 1: day one is I put this as a moniker on
31:13
Speaker 1: every producer's desk that we had. We didn't belabor what happened.
31:16
Speaker 1: We tried to figure out why things happened and we
31:18
Speaker 1: would come up with solutions. That's what every single show
31:21
Speaker 1: that I did had. I would tell you what happened.
31:23
Speaker 1: We would stay on that from when the segment had happened,
31:25
Speaker 1: and we would dig deep into what why it took place.
31:28
Speaker 1: And I was one of the shows I think that
31:30
Speaker 1: you know, for that seventeen year period of time. You know,
31:33
Speaker 1: I respected the living rooms we were invited into. Um,
31:35
Speaker 1: you know, I we you know, I did the same
31:37
Speaker 1: Solaios stuff that everybody else did, maybe the first year
31:40
Speaker 1: that we were on, but we turned it into you know,
31:42
Speaker 1: I think, a pretty conflict driven and not just necessary conflict,
31:45
Speaker 1: but solution driven show. I'm reached by people all time.
31:49
Speaker 1: Now I'll come up but telling me, you know, they'll
31:51
Speaker 1: come during the mid twenties, early thirties and say, you
31:53
Speaker 1: know you were the only person my mom would let
31:56
Speaker 1: me watch when I came over from school, and I think,
31:58
Speaker 1: you know, I was a testament to to the value
32:01
Speaker 1: of what our producers put in the world. What do
32:02
Speaker 1: you think about those other shows that were always on
32:04
Speaker 1: the air, like you said, because the same thing, my
32:06
Speaker 1: mom would almost let me watch a certain type of show,
32:08
Speaker 1: like your Mares or your Jerry Springs. What do you
32:10
Speaker 1: think about those type of shows? You know, I mean unfortunately,
32:12
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, you know, it's like a smorgers board,
32:15
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You walk into a restaurant
32:18
Speaker 1: and you know, they got a big old smoger board
32:20
Speaker 1: laid out there. You got apples and candy on one end,
32:23
Speaker 1: and all the fruit and all the dessert over there,
32:25
Speaker 1: and you have substance of stuff over here. Well, you know,
32:28
Speaker 1: you take a look at who gravitates the witch and
32:31
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, you can't make a person eat what
32:33
Speaker 1: they're not gonna want to eat. And I think as
32:35
Speaker 1: long as you offer people a cross section of some
32:38
Speaker 1: valuable information, they can come up with some decent decisions.
32:41
Speaker 1: You know, I'm and I go back and forth almost
32:46
Speaker 1: every couple of months. Now. I think I'm gonna go
32:48
Speaker 1: back on a let me go talk to song and
32:51
Speaker 1: then we should down and we have a conversation. And
32:52
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I've talked to everyone in the industry,
32:56
Speaker 1: and most of what's going on right now, I really
33:01
Speaker 1: you're getting ready to see what's gonna happen in the
33:03
Speaker 1: next year and a half. We are going to be
33:04
Speaker 1: the most divisive society we've ever seen. The next it's
33:08
Speaker 1: gonna be over a billion dollars spent each party to
33:12
Speaker 1: put a person in the White House, and it's all
33:13
Speaker 1: gonna be garbage, trash conversations. And I don't want to
33:17
Speaker 1: be a participant in that. If I have to, don't.
33:19
Speaker 1: You don't feel like you need to be, though, because
33:20
Speaker 1: like you said, you got you gotta put something out
33:22
Speaker 1: there that you know, counters all of that. On what
33:24
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is I probably will do it on
33:25
Speaker 1: my own like a podcast. Yeah, we're working out. I mean,
33:28
Speaker 1: I'm there's a couple of things, but I just have
33:32
Speaker 1: to figure out if I riffed. I want to go
33:33
Speaker 1: through the whole thing. A building the side the studio nine.
33:37
Speaker 1: You know. But I talked to some brothers like me
33:39
Speaker 1: who feel like you know, when it comes to the
33:41
Speaker 1: presidential election, I look for a novelty and my president. Now,
33:45
Speaker 1: the Brock was the first president I would voted for sure,
33:47
Speaker 1: not just because he was a black man, because I
33:48
Speaker 1: believed in the change that he said he was offering.
33:50
Speaker 1: And now I'm looking at Hillary. She seems like she
33:52
Speaker 1: has a lot of white House experience, and she seems
33:54
Speaker 1: like the sexy pick when the first female president and
33:59
Speaker 1: you want to whatever, she seems like the sexy pick,
34:01
Speaker 1: like that's the that's the popular pick for like the
34:04
Speaker 1: people who may not know a lot about politics and
34:07
Speaker 1: who to vote for. I have, you know, I have
34:11
Speaker 1: MYO for me. The jury is definitely out. There's nobody
34:14
Speaker 1: on the Republican side right now. And you know, I
34:16
Speaker 1: was a Republican the straight I was a Republican form
34:18
Speaker 1: for fourteen fifteen years of my life when I was
34:21
Speaker 1: in the military. Then I got out of I switched
34:23
Speaker 1: parties become a Democrat. Now I'm literally as independent as
34:27
Speaker 1: you could possibly be because I just don't believe in
34:29
Speaker 1: the money. I mean, this is just gonna be about
34:31
Speaker 1: who puts up the most money to get elected that
34:34
Speaker 1: she's gonna go in office, period, and let's make sure
34:37
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm sick of you're gonna see nothing
34:40
Speaker 1: but point fingerpointing of where the money is coming from.
34:43
Speaker 1: Everybody's taking dirty money. You can't have a fundraiser to
34:46
Speaker 1: be president. You can't have a fundraising right right now,
34:49
Speaker 1: it's the candidates aren't even gonna have to do fundraising
34:54
Speaker 1: themselves in that traditional sense. Said, the individuals are already
34:57
Speaker 1: building money. Huh you said everybody gets dirty money. Yeah,
35:00
Speaker 1: everybody foreign money. Dirty money is all they're all gonna
35:03
Speaker 1: get it. So now what do we do? So I'm
35:06
Speaker 1: trying to find a candidate that believes in some of
35:09
Speaker 1: the things that I believe in. So far, I haven't
35:10
Speaker 1: filed one. Yeah, I need. I need the candidate I
35:13
Speaker 1: started talking about police reform on a major level in
35:16
Speaker 1: America's probably gonna get my attention. Um, you know, I
35:20
Speaker 1: need police reform, I need immigration reform, I need medical reform.
35:23
Speaker 1: I need I need a lot. I need, I need,
35:26
Speaker 1: I need. I need to hear what a person is
35:29
Speaker 1: going to do for the least of us, you know,
35:31
Speaker 1: like write this minute again. There are ships in a
35:35
Speaker 1: line in the Persian golf and you know, one missile
35:39
Speaker 1: we are in a bad state of hurt, and you know,
35:42
Speaker 1: I mean it's bets that hurt that you know may
35:46
Speaker 1: not be one that we can pull back from very quickly,
35:49
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a lot of people hurt, a
35:50
Speaker 1: lot of people killed. Now. Unfortunately, we live in a
35:53
Speaker 1: society where less than point zero eight percent of the
35:59
Speaker 1: society has to put on a uniform to protect the
36:03
Speaker 1: democracy that you're asking for. And I happen to be
36:07
Speaker 1: one of people that people. Most people are not gonna
36:10
Speaker 1: like me this year, but if I'm running, I want
36:11
Speaker 1: to candidate to step up and say, damn it, it
36:13
Speaker 1: is time. This country needs to stop all the divisiveness.
36:17
Speaker 1: Let's come back together and recognize that step outside of here,
36:21
Speaker 1: that green passport that we carry. Brother, go over to
36:25
Speaker 1: to Abu Dhabi right now and see when somebody says, oh,
36:30
Speaker 1: that's a medica about that, you can get the same
36:34
Speaker 1: look that the guy who's got blond hair and blue
36:37
Speaker 1: eye is gonna get and the guy who's got brown
36:40
Speaker 1: hair is gonna get. They don't care about that at all.
36:43
Speaker 1: So target is on your chest, right. So if that's
36:47
Speaker 1: the case, and we have forces that are figuring this
36:49
Speaker 1: out right now, very quickly, I say that more of
36:52
Speaker 1: the society needs to pay a price for defending this democracy.
36:56
Speaker 1: I'm for a draft. I'm for a draft. Out a draft.
37:00
Speaker 1: Come on, when I said draft, When I said draft,
37:03
Speaker 1: I mean it this way. I'm for public service. You
37:06
Speaker 1: graduate from high school that you didn't have to pay
37:09
Speaker 1: to go to. You have a driver's license, you didn't
37:12
Speaker 1: have to pay anything extra for other than training you
37:15
Speaker 1: get you're driving on roads that need infrastructure. We haven't
37:18
Speaker 1: even figured out how to educate enough people. Do you
37:22
Speaker 1: know one of the highest pay professions in the city
37:24
Speaker 1: right now is plumbing and electricity because we're not educating
37:27
Speaker 1: enough kids to getting into the marketplace. So you got
37:29
Speaker 1: guys here. Okay, so let's get back to that in
37:30
Speaker 1: a minute. But why is it that we aren't making
37:35
Speaker 1: all of us do something in the society. So when
37:39
Speaker 1: I say draft, I mean a national service. You know
37:42
Speaker 1: there's a lot of every other country on this planet
37:46
Speaker 1: requires some form of give back for what you get
37:49
Speaker 1: for free. You don't mean military though, you don't mean well,
37:51
Speaker 1: let's take your pick. Let's have national service. If you
37:54
Speaker 1: choose you don't want to serve in the military, then okay,
37:57
Speaker 1: then you will be part of the fire crew or
38:00
Speaker 1: because you know we got fires, you are going to
38:03
Speaker 1: do something to give back to the society, and I'm
38:06
Speaker 1: gonna pay you WHOA, I don't want to say free.
38:10
Speaker 1: There have been several times along the way. You go
38:13
Speaker 1: back for the last forty years. Every five to ten
38:16
Speaker 1: years there's been a president who has proffered this idea
38:19
Speaker 1: of national service, and we as citizens fight that because
38:22
Speaker 1: we just would like to still get something for free. Well,
38:25
Speaker 1: you're getting it for free, and you want to pay
38:26
Speaker 1: the price to protect it. And that's why you have
38:29
Speaker 1: so many young people in this country were walking around
38:32
Speaker 1: so disfigured. We've gone back multiple times to pay the
38:34
Speaker 1: price to protect us for all of us. So I
38:37
Speaker 1: want some form of national service. So park service, fire department,
38:41
Speaker 1: police department. I want you up, but coming out of
38:44
Speaker 1: high school, give me something back. I agree. You don't
38:47
Speaker 1: think that that taking as much tax as they do
38:49
Speaker 1: with some type of service. Now, I agree with the
38:51
Speaker 1: draft to a certain extent. A lot of kids out
38:54
Speaker 1: there that are doing nothing, that don't that drop out,
38:56
Speaker 1: that just sit on the street corner. Those kids, Yeah,
38:58
Speaker 1: but not military, because you got a lot of black
39:00
Speaker 1: kids who feel like and I don't blame them for
39:01
Speaker 1: feeling that way. Why would I go fight for a
39:03
Speaker 1: country that I feel like it's oppressing me? Well, you
39:05
Speaker 1: know what? Hell cool? So I tell you what I
39:07
Speaker 1: what I want to do. I'll put together National Service.
39:09
Speaker 1: It's things in every city. How about I need some
39:11
Speaker 1: daycare man so that some young black mothers can go
39:14
Speaker 1: back to school and get a degree to treat the
39:18
Speaker 1: mothers and fathers. Let's put together National service. Guy, you
39:22
Speaker 1: pick what you want to do. You don't like the
39:25
Speaker 1: policing going on in the neighborhood, then for two years
39:28
Speaker 1: you come out of high school, you go to the academy,
39:30
Speaker 1: the police academy for your community like that. Look, I'm
39:33
Speaker 1: talking about National Service. I mean and and you know
39:38
Speaker 1: I get smacked ups out ahead of every cocktail party
39:41
Speaker 1: I'm at. And believe me, brother says, it's not just
39:44
Speaker 1: young Afrimerican males who said I don't want to do
39:46
Speaker 1: this because I don't feel like I'm respected. There's also
39:48
Speaker 1: there's some very privileged, wealthy African Americans, Whites, Caucasians, Asians
39:54
Speaker 1: who feel can me, that's what y'all need to do
39:59
Speaker 1: for me? Oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no,
40:03
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It is time to stop this stupid that missile.
40:07
Speaker 1: Let's get ready hit the eyes and how or whatever.
40:10
Speaker 1: Don't care what your classes. I'm so I'm sorry and
40:14
Speaker 1: people don't like that, but you know that's our roll.
40:17
Speaker 1: Where can they hear more of montel every day? Because
40:19
Speaker 1: some people need to hear some of this. And you
40:21
Speaker 1: are you running for some type of office in anything,
40:22
Speaker 1: you gotta start coming up bit some more, man. Yeah,
40:25
Speaker 1: especially now over the next year and a half with
40:26
Speaker 1: the elections and stuff going on, we would you know,
40:28
Speaker 1: we gotta do that, you know what, because here's one
40:30
Speaker 1: of one of the things that I tell you what
40:32
Speaker 1: I'm really happy about, man, and it's experiencing. Let's I
40:34
Speaker 1: set a little thing on your podcast about the experience
40:38
Speaker 1: here is and I've been running my mouth a lot.
40:40
Speaker 1: But what I like as a fact that there are
40:43
Speaker 1: questions coming back or questions just of interest in getting
40:47
Speaker 1: more knowledge. And what I like to do is try
40:50
Speaker 1: to give out what I think is now that I
40:51
Speaker 1: applaud an opportunity to debate. To toss, Let's let's do
40:55
Speaker 1: a farm here. I'll come hang on with you, especially
40:59
Speaker 1: on you know What'll I go out a couple of
41:01
Speaker 1: if I'm in town, I'll come hang on. We'll uh
41:03
Speaker 1: CON's role on the politics, and well I'll be a
41:06
Speaker 1: little psychkick reporter. I'll take me on phone around if
41:08
Speaker 1: I find something gonna go. Yeah, when we're reaching a
41:12
Speaker 1: week for you every morning, please dot but you know
41:15
Speaker 1: you want now let's talk about that, because here's here's
41:17
Speaker 1: something we got to do about this, because right now
41:19
Speaker 1: I'm working in Missouri. Because let's say tomorrow, this is
41:22
Speaker 1: gonna sound crazy and you guys are gonna say, oh,
41:24
Speaker 1: why are you doing this? If tomorrow, if the President decided,
41:28
Speaker 1: I'm going to change the schedule from schedule on the
41:30
Speaker 1: schedule too. And as a matter of fact, I'm gonna
41:32
Speaker 1: allow every state in the Union to make its own
41:34
Speaker 1: determination whether or that wants to be recreational or medical.
41:37
Speaker 1: You do your thing. I'm still gonna come here and
41:39
Speaker 1: ask you to do shows on fighting for ordinances in
41:43
Speaker 1: every state for medical cannabis. Many duke, so many extraction
41:50
Speaker 1: techniques that are used and some of the ways that
41:52
Speaker 1: we process and some of the things that they grow
41:53
Speaker 1: it in, you know, could in certain maladies cause of
41:57
Speaker 1: seizure could ascerbate symptoms of some illnesses. And so what
42:03
Speaker 1: we need to do is we need to have somebody
42:05
Speaker 1: out here growing not just weed. We need to have
42:07
Speaker 1: somebody growing marijuana at a medical level. Now I got
42:11
Speaker 1: some growers out here who are doing that right now.
42:12
Speaker 1: So I would say to you, it's like the paradigm's
42:17
Speaker 1: got a change at some point in time, we really
42:19
Speaker 1: do it. And I would say this to all those
42:21
Speaker 1: people out there who are recreational smokers. May ask you
42:24
Speaker 1: a question. Do you still take logs out back, put
42:29
Speaker 1: it in the ground, pour something on it, lighter on fire,
42:32
Speaker 1: and hold your food on a stick and cook it?
42:36
Speaker 1: Or do you go to a nice stove? Yeah, or
42:39
Speaker 1: do you go to a microwave? Did you not jump
42:42
Speaker 1: from the caveman time to this era? So let me
42:47
Speaker 1: just explain something to it. They're so as as great
42:50
Speaker 1: as the plant is, the plane is filled with some
42:52
Speaker 1: carcinogenic material, and isn't it time do we process that
42:57
Speaker 1: plant in a way that makes it much moreificationous for
43:00
Speaker 1: us to be able to consume it's not so carcinogenic
43:03
Speaker 1: and it gives you the benefits that you want. I'm
43:04
Speaker 1: gonna say that leading the way down a medical path
43:07
Speaker 1: for those who who are gonna end up becoming recreational
43:12
Speaker 1: user connoisseurs in that area. This research is going to
43:16
Speaker 1: help the other So we got to try to upgrade this.
43:19
Speaker 1: The blunt things are over and closing. Let me translate
43:21
Speaker 1: Montesta about smoking that bullsh This is why, this is
43:29
Speaker 1: why we've got to do this this political season. Okay,
43:32
Speaker 1: you can translate everything. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Montell Williams,
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Speaker 1: it's the breakfast Club. Good Marti