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The Album I Owe Myself · White Coat Black Sheep

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  Welcome to White Coat, Black Sheep, where science gets curious and dogma gets
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  uncomfortable. I'm Dr. Sevelli. We're here to talk physiology,
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  Hello.
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  Hey.
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  Hi.
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  Thanks for joining me.
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  No, thanks for having me.
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  So what's your name, and what do you do?
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  So my name is Brandon Benavidez, BBB.
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  My middle name's Benjamin. I'm sorry I'm a little nervous right now.
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  No, you're perfect.
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  I mean-
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  We're just chatting
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  ... I've been live like this a really long time.
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  I've done a lot of interviews before, but for some reason why your vibe is
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  pretty heavy.
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  But it's good.
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  In a good, happy way?
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  Yeah, a good happy way.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, so my name is Brandon Benjamin Benavidez.
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  Benjamin Benavidez.
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  And I go by B3, and
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  I'm a musician. I wouldn't just say I'm a rapper. I'm a musician.
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  I'm from Bakersfield, California, born and raised.
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  I have music out. I have albums out, mixtapes out.
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  I also do
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  shows. I've opened up for artists. I've done it pretty much all.
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  That is so cool.
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  I've been on every radio station here in Bakersfield, been on the news,
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  first rapper to ever be on the news.
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  I throw a toy drive. I'm the only rapper to throw a toy drive
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  during the holidays-
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  That's so nice
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  ... for Safe Haven. Yeah, so what I do is
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  I have a bunch of artists that come-
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  Yeah
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  ... and perform, and all the toys go to Safe Haven, and-
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  So you organize this?
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  A toy drive, so yeah. I do toy drives every...
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  Last year's my second one, third one, and I think I'm going to switch it up a
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  little bit. But yeah, no, I'm just-
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  That's cool
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  ... I hate it when people say that, "Oh, yeah, no, I
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  run the city. I do..."
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  Cool. What do you do for your community then?
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  You're so right.
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  You know what I mean? 10 out of 10 times you don't do anything but just rap.
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  You know what I mean?
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  So you care to make an impact-
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  Yeah
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  ... and to be a positive footprint.
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  I'm from here. I grew up here, but I live in Los Angeles.
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  Oh, like right now?
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  Yeah. I live in Burbank. I work for the movie industry. That's my job.
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  Okay.
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  But I still come here, you know what I mean?
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  Because I have friends here, and I still care
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  about this place, which is weird, because a lot of people are like, "Bro, why the
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  hell do you care? You moved out. Why are you-"
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  See, that's what I said on a few episodes ago is it just pulls people back.
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  Right. No, it's-
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  It has this charm
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  ... it's my home. This is where I'm from, and-
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  Yeah
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  ... if I could live here, I would, but the movie industry
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  isn't in Bakersfield. It's in-
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  Yeah
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  ... Los Angeles.
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  Well, they might use our desert, our oil rigs to-
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  Yeah
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  ... film.
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  There's been a couple shows. There's-
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  A few episodes
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  ... yeah, my dad, he got me in, and he did "The Cell,"
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  and the-- I don't know if you've ever seen that movie with Jennifer Lopez.
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  It's kind of dark, weird.
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  I don't think I have, but I'm also a really bad movie person.
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  Oh, okay. Yeah, they-
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  Yeah
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  ... shot out here in Bakersfield, so yeah.
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  No, they definitely use Bakersfield for- ... things.
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  But yeah.
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  Yeah. That's awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  So okay. I know you're in the music industry.
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  What initially took you into that whole
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  like, "I want to do this, for real. I just-
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  It's funny
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  ... I want to go all in"?
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  To be honest with you, when I was here, I wanted
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  to play football, right? That was my dream. I was really good.
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  I was really, really good.
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  But then I kind of just, it wasn't fun for me anymore.
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  And in high school, I would do music. You know what I mean?
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  I just remember it being fun. You know what I mean?
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  But I never really took it seriously till my senior year.
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  Then once I started taking it seriously, I was getting booked for
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  shows while I'm a senior, at 21 and over clubs.
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  That's fun.
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  So it was like, how-- Well, I'm still young. You know what I mean?
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  How am I supposed to... Oh, don't even worry about it.
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  And my dad was cool. He would come with me and make sure
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  everything was cool, and I like doing 18 and over clubs, too.
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  That was cool, and I was--
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  I didn't
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  really try to do that. It was more of a hobby until
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  I figured out that I was really good at it.
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  Yeah.
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  That's kind of when I was like, "Okay, I'm jumping in." You know what I mean?
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  That I've been-- The stories I could tell you, and every
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  man has his story.
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  Yeah.
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  And I
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  just--
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  It's
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  what I love doing, and it's something that I'm comfortable at
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  to where-
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  Yeah
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  ... I don't have any worries. You know what I mean?
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  Even my job, my-- With movie industry, dude, I deal with so many people.
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  I'm a labor foreman.
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  So I'd recently--
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  I just finished off a movie called "Sponsor" with John C.
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  Reilly, and that was stressful. Being a boss is
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  stressful in the movie industry.
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  It's so stressful.
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  Yeah.
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  And I'm sure, yeah, because the stakes are so high.
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  Dude, I did "Twisters" in Oklahoma-
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  ... and ran 30 guys, and I've-
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  Oh, gosh
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  ... never done that before in my life. The most I've ever ran was six.
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  Was that a fun set?
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  Oh my God, dude. Oklahoma was so much fun.
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  When they told us we were going to go out there, I'm thinking they have pastures,
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  cowboys, and-
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  That's how I pictured it
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  ... and a bunch of-- You know what I mean?
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  It's not that?
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  No.
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  What?
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  So where they put us was
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  in
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  Bricktown. So
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  in Bricktown, you have
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  all the things that a person would need, the bars, the
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  restaurants, the fun, the clubs,
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  the comedy clubs.
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  It was like-
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  It was like nightlife
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  ... Starbucks.
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  Yeah.
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  You know what I mean? So it was cool because
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  my dad's a construction coordinator,
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  so I have a wife and a child. So they
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  plugged it to where I had basically a one-room apartment, and my dad was like, "I'm
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  not going a whole year without seeing my granddaughter."
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  Oh.
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  So my wife and my child were out there with me the whole time, which was cool.
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  Yeah.
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  I got to do that.
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  Yeah.
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  And my wife got to-- Because she was still little.
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  My child was about three, so, no two-
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  Mm-hmm
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  ... two and a half, three.
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  Yeah.
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  So they would g-- Our apartment was right next to a waterfront.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So she would walk every day, go to Starbucks. And it was cool.
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  I saw the Lakers play at Paycom. I saw Paul George, and then the
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  Dodgers fan- ... so the Dodger
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  farm team plays there.
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  Then the Dodgers playing also in Texas, in Dallas, so-
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  Mm
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  ... we went to Dallas. It was like a two-hour drive past a Buc-ee's, which we stop
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  every time because-
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  ... Buc-ee's is fire. I don't know if you know what that isHave you ever
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  heard of Buc-ee's?
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  I've heard of Buc-ee's, but I don't know if I'm just like because you suggested it,
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  it sounds familiar. What's their-
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  It's like a gas station on steroids.
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  Okay.
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  It's like if Walmart had a gas station, it would be Buc-ee's.
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  I'm telling you. Like it is so-
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  Is there Buc-ee's here, like locally?
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  No, it's just Texas.
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  Okay.
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  I think there's a couple in other states, but not here.
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  I've got to look for a Buc-ee's.
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  Bro, I'm telling you, the brisket sandwiches are crazy.
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  I have had Dallas or Houston brisket sandwiches.
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  Okay.
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  And I ordered ribs once, and it was like the largest rib I've ever seen in my life.
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  I was like,
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  "What do I do with this?"
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  You eat it.
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  That's what you do. But yeah, no, it's just I was comfortable
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  with music. I feel more at home and feel more at peace
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  and, yeah, just-
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  You're living your purpose. That's what that is.
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  Oh, no.
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  That's what you just described.
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  For real.
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  Yeah.
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  So yeah.
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  Right now, I'm working on another album. I recently released an album in August.
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  Yeah, I rushed that,
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  and there's reasons why I rushed that, which we won't get into.
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  But this time I'm kind of letting
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  God write this album.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  I'm not forcing anything anymore.
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  Because what I would do is every night I'd sit
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  down at my laptop or computer, put in the
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  headphones, "I'm not moving until this song is written."
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  I've done that before.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  I'm not doing this until this s**t is written. I'm sorry. I was like... I'm sorry.
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  No, you're good.
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  Okay.
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  You're good.
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  I'm not doing it till it's written.
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  Yeah.
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  And some of the stuff is good.
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  Right.
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  You know what I mean? But then I'm just like imagine if I took my time,
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  and that's what I'm doing right now. I'm taking my time now.
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  I'm not rushing anything.
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  What was the timeline of the first one that made you feel rushed?
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  Like start to finish.
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  What do you mean?
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  So the first one you said felt rushed.
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  Well, that would be my
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  third album, that was rushed.
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  Okay.
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  No, fourth. Ooh, fourth album.
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  Good job.
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  So yeah. It was my fourth album that was rushed.
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  I don't count my first one because my first one I'm not really proud of, and I
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  didn't really do much promotion for it, but it's still there, so whatever, still a
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  part of me. But,
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  last summer,
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  I wanted to drop in August,
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  and I want to say I made that decision
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  in June.
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  So I did that in two months. Which I had a couple joints
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  that, a couple songs that I was sitting on that weren't out yet.
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  Yeah.
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  So I released those-
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  Yeah
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  ... in that album, too. And a couple other songs by two that were out-
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  Yeah
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  ... and I used them as singles, which I put on the album, too.
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  So I was four deep, and I just went nine.
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  So I did five extra songs in the count of two months.
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  So that's unheard of. I
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  would never do that again.
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  Why?
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  Just because I
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  didn't take my time. It was a great album.
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  It's called Neapolitan, and there was no...
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  Okay, so you know Neapolitan ice cream?
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  Yes.
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  There's no
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  certain flavor to it. You got three different flavors.
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  So,
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  the three flavors is like there was no direction.
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  It was a lot of different stuff on this album that
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  I called it Neapolitan.
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  Yeah.
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  Because you get a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit, you know
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  what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  So that's why I called it Neapolitan. So there was no direction.
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  And this next one will have direction, and it'll
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  have... You give me time,
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  I'm good.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm really good. I'm very good. I'm sorry.
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  This is how I feel. This is how I'm supposed to feel.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm the best damn rapper in this city.
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  Yeah.
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  Straight up, period.
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  Yeah.
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  And I've proven that-
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  Yeah
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  ... over and over again.
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  Yeah.
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  But you give me time, and I will...
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  This album was rushed, and it was good.
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  Yeah.
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  You give me about a year.
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  Right now, I'm going to make it my classic, my Twisted Dark Fantasy,
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  my Carter III, my-
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  Yeah
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  ... my 36 Chambers, my you know what I mean?
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  It's going to be
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  just mm. You know what I mean?
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  Yeah. You can just feel it.
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  Yeah. No.
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  You know it in your soul, and your entire nervous system-
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  Yeah
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  ... that I'm going to just kill this.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm going to nail this.
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  Yeah. And I'm going back to where I started,
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  meaning where I recorded first at-
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  Yeah
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  ... to where I was hungry.
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  Yeah.
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  You know what I mean? I recorded at so many different studios, different nice
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  studios that are just nice. You know what I mean?
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  But now it's like, no,
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  I'm switching it up. I'm kind of trying to get out of my comfort zone, too, so
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  that way I can face adversity to put that in this project to
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  where... I have a couple names for the next album-
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  Yeah
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  ... but I haven't honed down on one, but it's-
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  How long have you been sitting on the three names?
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  About
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  we're in April.
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  February.
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  Okay.
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  So I've been sitting on three names and I don't know yet.
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  I'm still
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  in the writing process.
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  Yeah.
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  So once I finish and everything's mixed and mastered and done, and then, so it'll
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  come to me. It always does.
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  Yeah. So I'm just meeting you.
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  Yes.
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  And I already think I like the way that you contacted me.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  I
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  felt you're a very driven person.
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  Right.
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  And
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  you have something that you really
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  wanted to share, right?
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  Right.
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  So I admire anybody who-
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  Right
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  ...
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  resonates with that, who takes an action to do-
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  Yeah
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  ... something in a direction.
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  Right.
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  So you're doing everything already.
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  Yeah.
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  And everything you just described,
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  okay, so my takeaway already is that you're also a perfectionist.
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  Yes.
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  You're never going to feel,
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  I think, completely satisfied with any product-
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  Mm-hmm
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  ... even if you gave it a whole year.
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  Yeah.
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  So the fact that you're finishing something and you send
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  itThat-
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  Right
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  ... is everything.
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  Right.
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  I think you are successful.
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  Thank you. A lot of people, that's a first, man.
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  Thank you so much. I appreciate it-
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  You are successful
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  ... because a lot of people are so completely different from your attitude.
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  You finish something, send it. Perfection,
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  it doesn't exist.
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  Yeah.
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  Don't even put a timeline of something on it.
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  You keep doing what you're doing, and I'm going to
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  learn more about you.
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  Yeah.
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  But just in what I know already,
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  you're probably the hardest out of anybody around you on yourself.
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  Thank you. Yeah, I try to be, and
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  it's it's a gift and a curse.
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  It is.
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  You know what I mean?
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  It is. Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I think I have that, too.
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  I set standards for
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  myself and-
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  Yeah
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  ... yeah.
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  And it's never good enough.
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  No.
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  Ever.
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  No.
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  Ever.
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  And I have to because I'm married, too, so I have to
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  separate B3 from Brandon because my wife married Brandon.
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  And sometimes it's-
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  You know what I mean?
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  Is that how the conversation goes?
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  Sometimes. My wife's just like, "Okay, B3."
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  You know what I mean?
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  Feels like you're in trouble.
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  Yeah, well, sometimes.
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  Feels like B3 is in trouble.
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  I'm married to-
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  Brandon is fine.
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  Yeah. I'm married to a Latina, so I'm always in trouble.
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  You know what I mean? So.
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  Fire.
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  But yeah. No, tomorrow, it's actually our anniversary, so I'm pretty stoked about
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  it.
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  Aw.
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  Six years.
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  Congrats. That's awesome.
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  And I have a four-year-old little girl.
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  Aw.
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  Yeah.
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  Do you love it?
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  Yeah.
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  You're scared.
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  No, I'm not scared. I love being able to come
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  home to just girls.
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  Yeah.
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  You know what I mean? Because I'm around guys all day. You know what I mean?
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  Yes, I do.
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  And I just want to come home to girls, and just my daughter is just like, no
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  matter, even if she didn't see me 10 minutes before,
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  she acts like she's never seen me before every time she sees me.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  I encourage men to have girls
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  first because I was like, "Man, I want a boy.
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  Oh, yeah, I want a boy."
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  Yeah.
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  Bro, having a girl is the best. You know what I mean?
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  Did it soften you a little bit?
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  Bro, I became a little b***h.
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  Period.
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  Like you're done.
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  I start crying for little dumb s**t, dumb things that like, "Why am I
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  crying right now?"
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  I feel like that's just being a mommy-
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  And then also, it's like parents-wise, like being a parent, too, now that I'm a
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  parent-
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  Yeah
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  ... I watched Willy Wonka, the one with Shia LaBeouf, I guess.
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  It's just like-
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  Uh-huh
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  ... and when the little girl reunited back with her
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  mom, bro, I was crying. I'm like, "Oh my God,"
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  because I have a girl, and I would hate...
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  And then also, I don't know if you watch Baylen Out Loud, the girl
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  Baylen. Have you ever heard of her?
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  No, but I'll look her up.
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  So she has Tourette syndrome. So every five
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  seconds is crazy.
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  So,
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  she went to London and strapped this thing on to where it's supposed to control her
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  Tourette's. And she strapped it on, and her Tourette's went
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  away.
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  And that made me emotional because I'm a-
• 15:32
  Was this a real thing or it's like a show?
• 15:34
  It's a real thing.
• 15:35
  Okay. Oh my gosh.
• 15:35
  Yeah, it's called Baylen Out Loud. Look it up.
• 15:37
  Okay, I will.
• 15:38
  Yeah. And that made me emotional because her parents were there fighting,
• 15:42
  and my daughter has autism.
• 15:44
  Okay.
• 15:44
  So I'm fighting every day with that.
• 15:47
  It's a
• 15:49
  struggle and a blessing at the same time, because not only is it teaching me
• 15:53
  patience, but it's also teaching me, I'm learning more
• 15:56
  about her. You know what I mean? So I love my
• 16:00
  daughter, bro. My daughter is the best, but yeah, having a girl
• 16:04
  is
• 16:05
  the best. I couldn't even-
• 16:07
  Life-changing.
• 16:08
  Yeah, dude.
• 16:08
  Just a small thing which is life-changing.
• 16:11
  I was stoked when she came out because it was like, "Oh, my God." And we're at the
• 16:14
  point now where it's if I'm in bed with her, and my wife's laying next to me,
• 16:18
  and she tries to touch me, and she says, "My daddy." "My
• 16:22
  daddy."
• 16:22
  She's territorial.
• 16:23
  Yeah, straight up. So that's the best.
• 16:25
  Aw.
• 16:26
  So, yeah.
• 16:27
  I love that.
• 16:27
  Yeah.
• 16:28
  Has anybody ever
• 16:31
  mentioned that autism has...
• 16:35
  Okay, so being in Bakersfield,
• 16:38
  I'm really, I guess, familiar with the landscape, and I trained here in
• 16:41
  medicine, current medical, Clinica Sierra Vista, Rio
• 16:45
  Grande.
• 16:46
  You from there?
• 16:47
  No, Florida.
• 16:48
  What part?
• 16:48
  Pensacola, Florida.
• 16:49
  Pensacola.
• 16:51
  Yeah.
• 16:51
  Nice.
• 16:51
  It's a military town.
• 16:53
  Yep.
• 16:53
  So, but I'm out here, right? And so just knowing what
• 16:57
  medicine has to offer. So when it comes to autism, do
• 17:00
  you feel like
• 17:04
  you're getting
• 17:06
  good support, feel like-
• 17:07
  Yeah, my daughter has ABA.
• 17:09
  Mm-hmm.
• 17:09
  She also has speech therapy.
• 17:11
  Okay.
• 17:11
  And she also has
• 17:13
  this full schedule, and she has school in the mornings.
• 17:15
  See, that's what it should sound like, a full schedule.
• 17:17
  Yeah.
• 17:17
  Because the people who don't have anything, it's like, "Well, I'm so sorry you
• 17:21
  weren't plugged in."
• 17:22
  It's good for her, but then I feel bad because she can't be a
• 17:25
  child. So any time she gets the chance to be a kid-
• 17:29
  Yeah
• 17:29
  ... I let her be a kid. You know what I mean?
• 17:31
  Because she's always in class, or she's always-
• 17:34
  Training
• 17:34
  ... at the school or at-
• 17:35
  That's true
• 17:36
  ... we have somebody that comes to our house and does ABA therapy-
• 17:40
  Yeah
• 17:40
  ... and then speech therapy, and-
• 17:41
  Yes
• 17:42
  ... so she's getting what she needs.
• 17:44
  Yes.
• 17:44
  So we're doing that as parents, but I also feel bad because
• 17:48
  her whole day is...
• 17:51
  So any time somebody calls off, or if I can't come, dude, I'm taking her
• 17:55
  to the park, or I'm taking her to Chuck E.
• 17:56
  Cheese, or I'm taking her-
• 17:57
  Yeah.
• 17:57
  I let her go be a kid. You know what I mean? Because I feel like she needs that.
• 18:01
  I need that.
• 18:02
  I think everyone needs that.
• 18:05
  So.
• 18:05
  Pick me up. Yeah.
• 18:08
  There's a doctor that I just met here, and I'm
• 18:12
  so impressed. I'm so impressed with her, and I am also
• 18:16
  going to just try the entire experience
• 18:20
  as a patient. But she does functional medicine.
• 18:23
  Mm-hmm.
• 18:23
  I'm functional medicine.
• 18:25
  She has a GI, a gastroenterology background.
• 18:30
  ButProfound outcomes when it comes
• 18:34
  to autism, for asthma, allergies,
• 18:37
  psoriasis, a whole array of things that are connected to the
• 18:41
  gut, which is also the brain
• 18:43
  Yeah.
• 18:44
  It's funny you mention that. They said that autism starts with the gut.
• 18:48
  Yes.
• 18:49
  And what they eat.
• 18:50
  Yes.
• 18:50
  And-
• 18:51
  The good and bad bacteria
• 18:53
  ... I don't care what you say,
• 18:54
  I don't care how stern you are, dude,
• 18:58
  they're not going to eat what they don't want to eat.
• 19:00
  No.
• 19:01
  Period.
• 19:01
  No. Have you heard of gut transplants?
• 19:03
  No, I haven't.
• 19:05
  Okay. There's so much, I don't want to focus on
• 19:08
  that because there's so much.
• 19:10
  Mm-hmm.
• 19:11
  But
• 19:12
  I think anybody who has any of those
• 19:15
  issues that are connected to the brain and the gut, and the
• 19:20
  skin-
• 19:20
  Mm-hmm
• 19:21
  ... allergies, lungs.
• 19:24
  Really, it's pretty much everything. Okay?
• 19:26
  But that in particular, she's probably the
• 19:30
  smartest person that I've ever met.
• 19:31
  Yes.
• 19:31
  And I just met this person. And talk about the science, the
• 19:35
  diagnostics, the treatment options.
• 19:37
  And I've traveled the world learning how to treat these things and-
• 19:42
  Right
• 19:42
  ... to not just do wellness and how to
• 19:46
  prevent disease-
• 19:47
  Mm-hmm
• 19:48
  ... but people who already have certain things, they're otherwise normal, their
• 19:52
  families are normal, but they're experiencing
• 19:55
  something, like autism.
• 19:59
  Yeah.
• 19:59
  There's
• 20:01
  all kind of different principles we could go into.
• 20:03
  Yeah.
• 20:03
  But I think it's not forever.
• 20:06
  Well, but then also, my child,
• 20:10
  she has febrile seizures. So honestly, I
• 20:13
  feel because... Okay, so this started when she was two.
• 20:18
  I feel like she was on the right track.
• 20:21
  You know what I mean?
• 20:22
  Yeah.
• 20:22
  To be normal, which I'm not saying autism isn't normal, but-
• 20:26
  It's not normal
• 20:27
  ...
• 20:28
  well, I mean-
• 20:29
  It's just she didn't start there, right?
• 20:31
  So I feel like after those seizures, she's had 16 of them when
• 20:35
  she's four.
• 20:36
  Mm-hmm.
• 20:37
  Which is wild.
• 20:39
  Yeah.
• 20:40
  It sucks when your child's seizing and you can do nothing about it.
• 20:44
  Horrible.
• 20:44
  No matter that you're here.
• 20:45
  Yeah.
• 20:45
  But we definitely felt a decrease
• 20:50
  after the seizures.
• 20:51
  Mm-hmm.
• 20:52
  And we kind of feel like that had something to do with her autism,
• 20:55
  her having... You know what I mean?
• 20:57
  Yeah.
• 20:57
  So I mean, the doctors say, "Oh, no, it's normal.
• 21:00
  It's healthy."
• 21:03
  No, I don't believe that. I believe that any seizure is bad.
• 21:06
  You know what I mean? And they said it's like unplugging
• 21:10
  a cable and plugging it back in. And it's like, well-
• 21:14
  Yeah
• 21:14
  ... there's a remote where you could turn it. You know what I mean?
• 21:16
  I
• 21:18
  just feel like her seizures is
• 21:20
  what made her autistic because she was on the right track. She was talkative.
• 21:25
  Now she's verbal, but not much. You know what I mean?
• 21:28
  Yeah.
• 21:29
  So I could be wrong. You could be like, "Dude, you're totally
• 21:32
  wrong."
• 21:33
  No. No, you're not totally wrong.
• 21:34
  But-
• 21:34
  By normal medicine training, we all start with the same
• 21:38
  training. That's the standard of care, right?
• 21:41
  Yeah.
• 21:41
  So that the medical boards and the boards that we answer to, like primary
• 21:45
  care for me.
• 21:46
  Mm-hmm.
• 21:46
  He's cute, right?
• 21:47
  Yeah, he's a dope.
• 21:51
  And
• 21:52
  the subspecialty board for me, functional medicine with
• 21:56
  AFRM. So all of those entities, they
• 22:00
  standardize our language.
• 22:01
  Mm-hmm.
• 22:01
  They standardize our reference ranges.
• 22:03
  Yeah.
• 22:05
  That's how we talk.
• 22:08
  Yeah.
• 22:08
  So
• 22:10
  you, though, noticed when at this point they
• 22:14
  were fine, and then this happened, and then this was the outcome, right?
• 22:17
  Right. Yeah.
• 22:19
  So yeah. The doctor said the right
• 22:23
  things according to the books. They said the right
• 22:26
  script, right? But the reality is the questions that
• 22:30
  I want to ask as a black sheep, okay, is like, "Well, why did the
• 22:34
  seizures happen?"
• 22:35
  Right.
• 22:36
  Why are we unplugging and replugging in, right?
• 22:39
  They try to tell me it's normal, that most toddlers have
• 22:43
  febrile seizures, but then I found out that my wife
• 22:47
  had epilepsy.
• 22:49
  So I'm like, "Is that
• 22:53
  coming down to her?" You know what I mean?
• 22:56
  Yeah.
• 22:57
  And I don't want to blame my wife for that because it's not fair, and I
• 23:01
  would never do that. But-
• 23:02
  Yeah
• 23:02
  ... it is in the back of my mind like, okay, she had
• 23:06
  epilepsy-
• 23:08
  Yeah
• 23:08
  ... she had seizures, so maybe it's hereditary.
• 23:11
  And it's gotten to a point where we want to have another one, but we're scared.
• 23:15
  I don't know if I want to have another one because not only is my child's
• 23:19
  not self-sufficient yet, my wife's 40, and
• 23:23
  I don't
• 23:25
  feel like it would be fair to bring another kid in this world
• 23:28
  that's gone through the same things that my daughter has.
• 23:32
  You know what I mean?
• 23:33
  Yeah.
• 23:33
  And then my wife's like, "Well, we never know till you try.
• 23:36
  The doctors say that it's unlikely, da, da, da." I'm just like, "Dude, I-"
• 23:40
  Yeah.
• 23:41
  I'm
• 23:44
  grateful
• 23:46
  for what I have now-
• 23:47
  Yeah
• 23:47
  ... but I don't want to... If that's going to be the outcome,
• 23:51
  I'd say keep it. I wouldn't put
• 23:55
  another child of mine through what my...
• 23:57
  She's had 16 at four.
• 23:59
  Yeah.
• 23:59
  That's a lot of freaking seizures.
• 24:02
  Yeah. And you know what I think another question-
• 24:04
  You know what I mean? And it's like... I'm sorry, not to cut you off.
• 24:05
  No, you're good.
• 24:06
  When she's hot, we have a matter of seconds to cool
• 24:10
  her down.
• 24:10
  Yeah.
• 24:11
  If we don't cool her down in those seconds-
• 24:14
  Seizure
• 24:14
  ... done. And then also, she'll seize more than
• 24:18
  five minutes-
• 24:19
  Mm-hmm
• 24:19
  ... we got to stick something up her rectum.
• 24:21
  No, I would-
• 24:22
  Yeah.
• 24:22
  No.
• 24:23
  Yeah.
• 24:23
  It sucks.
• 24:24
  Yeah.
• 24:24
  And I don't-
• 24:25
  A cat scan?
• 24:26
  Yeah.
• 24:27
  Yeah.
• 24:27
  And I don't want to do that.
• 24:28
  Yeah.
• 24:29
  You know what I mean? So it's
• 24:30
  It's-
• 24:31
  We just feel like-
• 24:31
  Horrible
• 24:32
  ... the decrease wasAfter she had it.
• 24:35
  There's a nasal spray option now that's available.
• 24:39
  It comes down to,
• 24:41
  okay, so the symptom of seizures is happening.
• 24:44
  Yeah.
• 24:44
  Right? The why remains unanswered, and even though it
• 24:48
  started years ago, it's still happening.
• 24:51
  And maybe there was a virus that she had at that time that
• 24:55
  started it. The best that medicine can do, you're experiencing it, and
• 24:59
  it's like, okay.
• 25:00
  I would say the first one she had was COVID.
• 25:04
  When she had COVID, that's when it was. We were in Denver.
• 25:07
  I was doing a movie with Anthony Mackie-
• 25:09
  Mm-hmm
• 25:09
  ... called "Elevation." I don't know if you've seen it.
• 25:11
  Mm-hmm.
• 25:12
  I was in-
• 25:12
  I have it
• 25:12
  ... oh, I'm sorry, I was in Boulder.
• 25:14
  Okay.
• 25:15
  And the movie was over. My wife stayed behind with the baby.
• 25:18
  So I'm tired, I'm just going to kick it here. It was snowing anyway.
• 25:21
  Yeah.
• 25:21
  Me and my dad, we went to the wrap party,
• 25:25
  and all of a sudden, I get a call from my wife, frantic, just
• 25:28
  freaking out, crying. And I'm thinking,
• 25:32
  I was scared I was going to lose my child.
• 25:34
  Absolutely.
• 25:34
  So I was like, "No."
• 25:36
  So then we rushed out of there, went to the hospital, and then they explained,
• 25:39
  "Okay, so it was a febrile seizure.
• 25:40
  It's somewhat kind of healthy." I'm like, "Somewhat kind of what?"
• 25:44
  Because it was less than 15 minutes-
• 25:45
  Yeah
• 25:45
  ... I'm sure.
• 25:46
  Yeah.
• 25:47
  That's what I'm hearing.
• 25:49
  Yeah, man. But yeah, we definitely feel like there was a decrease,
• 25:52
  but yeah.
• 25:53
  To feel helpless.
• 25:55
  Yeah.
• 25:55
  And-
• 25:55
  I feel helpless now still.
• 25:57
  Yeah
• 25:57
  Because there's nothing I can do about it.
• 25:59
  Well, you're in the right place.
• 26:00
  But give her what she needs and what we feel...
• 26:03
  You know what I mean? But back to autism,
• 26:07
  it's the gut thing,
• 26:11
  yeah, that could be right. I also heard that some actress has, that
• 26:15
  girl from...
• 26:18
  The bigger girl, she's a comedian, she's funny. I forget her name.
• 26:22
  She had a child, and he had autism. But apparently, she switched his
• 26:26
  diet to organic-
• 26:28
  Keto
• 26:29
  ... oh, keto.
• 26:30
  Keto.
• 26:30
  So you know what I'm talking about.
• 26:31
  Yes, I know exactly.
• 26:32
  Yeah.
• 26:32
  Yeah.
• 26:32
  And I guess it
• 26:34
  helped him.
• 26:35
  A ketogenic diet is incredibly,
• 26:38
  incredibly impactful to eliminating-
• 26:42
  Right
• 26:42
  ... seizures. Eliminating. So a stable glucose
• 26:46
  is pivotal for management of seizures.
• 26:49
  Not all seizures, but for unprovoked
• 26:52
  seizures that, it sounds like it fits at least the profile that you're
• 26:56
  describing.
• 26:57
  Right.
• 26:58
  It's super helpful.
• 26:59
  Right.
• 26:59
  And so, yeah, we don't know all the triggers, and
• 27:04
  it's so frustrating.
• 27:05
  Right.
• 27:06
  And I can't even imagine years of dealing with that is
• 27:10
  hopeless.
• 27:10
  She hasn't had one though in about a year.
• 27:13
  Okay.
• 27:13
  And they say that they grow out of those after four.
• 27:16
  They can.
• 27:17
  So we're hoping.
• 27:18
  Yeah.
• 27:19
  We're hoping that it's-
• 27:21
  Yeah
• 27:21
  ... it's over with.
• 27:22
  Is she on any medications like-
• 27:23
  No
• 27:23
  ... Keppra? Okay.
• 27:24
  No. We didn't want to put her on any medications.
• 27:27
  Mm-hmm.
• 27:27
  So.
• 27:28
  It's really awful, I think, when that happens, because
• 27:31
  not only are you dealing with seizures, but then the Keppra or
• 27:35
  the treatment of it and prevention of it-
• 27:38
  Mm-hmm
• 27:38
  ... delays the learning phases of the
• 27:42
  child.
• 27:42
  Right.
• 27:43
  So it delays them, so now they're special needs,
• 27:46
  trying to catch up later.
• 27:47
  Yeah. And that's even harder, knowing that-
• 27:49
  Yeah
• 27:49
  ... my child's special needs. And it's like, okay,
• 27:51
  do I let her go to school where kids are cruel?
• 27:54
  But then if I don't let her go to school, then I'm taking her, she's going to
• 27:58
  be, "Oh, so weird." You know? And we homeschool.
• 28:02
  It's like a lot of s**t goes in my head, it's like, okay, so-
• 28:05
  That's the rabbit hole. I call that the rabbit hole.
• 28:07
  Yeah.
• 28:07
  So I think playing out all of that, I would just throw it away
• 28:11
  because you have to stay solid.
• 28:13
  Right.
• 28:13
  You can't do what you're meant to do if you're even thinking of all of those
• 28:17
  things. So, and this is what I counsel my patients and clients on
• 28:21
  is
• 28:22
  you can't
• 28:24
  even imagine those different situations-
• 28:26
  Right
• 28:26
  ... because there's no end.
• 28:27
  Right.
• 28:28
  That's not a good place. That's worry, that's fear.
• 28:32
  You can't do anything with it, right?
• 28:34
  Just when you... Are you a mom?
• 28:36
  No.
• 28:37
  When you're a parent, it's automatic.
• 28:40
  Yeah.
• 28:40
  And I get what you're saying.
• 28:41
  Yeah.
• 28:42
  You are right.
• 28:44
  Yeah.
• 28:45
  But, I still just want the
• 28:49
  best-
• 28:49
  Yeah
• 28:49
  ... for her. I don't want her to
• 28:52
  feel bullied because she's different.
• 28:54
  I don't want her-
• 28:54
  Yeah
• 28:55
  ... to come home crying saying, "Oh, they told me this and why.
• 28:58
  Why am I like this, Dad?" You know what I mean?
• 29:00
  Yeah.
• 29:00
  So it's like, dude, kids are cruel nowadays.
• 29:03
  Yeah.
• 29:03
  You know what I mean? And I don't
• 29:06
  want that for her.
• 29:06
  Yeah.
• 29:07
  So, it's just, yeah, you're right.
• 29:09
  It is
• 29:11
  a bad place to be, but-
• 29:13
  And we're in the right era. So I think, if this were the
• 29:17
  situation with
• 29:18
  maybe whenever we were born and all, and even, or our parents' generations,
• 29:22
  that's different. But today, whenever people say, "This is there forever," I'm
• 29:26
  like, "No, it's not."
• 29:28
  Right.
• 29:29
  Look at AI. We're tremendously advancing.
• 29:32
  The US, I can tell you, is 20 years behind.
• 29:35
  In Europe, autism, it's not looking like it is in the US.
• 29:40
  Wow.
• 29:40
  And there are people who are getting their lives back.
• 29:43
  There's tremendous things that are happening.
• 29:45
  So I will tell you about it off air.
• 29:47
  Okay.
• 29:48
  Yeah. There's a lot.
• 29:49
  Cool.
• 29:50
  And even here locally, Bakersfield has an incredible doctor that I want to connect
• 29:53
  you with. I need to find out if she does see people under
• 29:57
  18. I didn't ask her that. But, I mean-
• 30:01
  Do you watch "Love on the Spectrum"?
• 30:03
  No.
• 30:03
  It's great.
• 30:04
  No, but I als-- Oh, I should watch.
• 30:06
  Well, it made me think about it because you said people over 18.
• 30:08
  Yeah.
• 30:09
  But yeah, "The Spectrum," the, "Love on the Spectrum,"
• 30:12
  that's-
• 30:13
  I'll check it out
• 30:14
  ... it's really cool. It's actually really funny. So.
• 30:17
  Yeah. Okay, so whenever it comes to brain conditions,
• 30:21
  if you think about ADHD, that's something that personally affected me for
• 30:25
  years.
• 30:26
  Right.
• 30:26
  And it's so frustrating because it's like, I know that I'm smart, I
• 30:30
  know that I can do really challenging things, and I can remember and
• 30:34
  learn things and whatever, right?
• 30:36
  But then the fact that like-I'm supposed to be in this
• 30:38
  environment where there's a time test and there's
• 30:42
  the pencil tapper and
• 30:46
  people talking to each other. I'm like: "Can you not?"
• 30:50
  Right.
• 30:51
  "I need to focus."
• 30:52
  Right.
• 30:52
  But no one else is bothered by it.
• 30:54
  Right.
• 30:54
  So, I don't know, just little things that you can see how the
• 30:58
  world requires you to be.
• 31:00
  Yeah.
• 31:00
  And then how I don't fit that mold or you're worried
• 31:04
  that someone might not fit the mold. That's okay.
• 31:07
  Right.
• 31:08
  It makes you... I don't know. I'm fine with it.
• 31:12
  I'll ask my nurse, Sarah, if she's fine with it.
• 31:14
  It works.
• 31:15
  Yeah.
• 31:17
  But yeah, I think we all have our challenges and our gifts in life, and so-
• 31:20
  Yes
• 31:21
  ... you can't change it, don't change it. Don't need to change it.
• 31:24
  Yeah. I agree.
• 31:26
  Yeah.
• 31:26
  I've got to ask you, a Florida girl-
• 31:28
  Yeah
• 31:28
  ... how do you like Bakersfield?
• 31:30
  I love it.
• 31:30
  You love it?
• 31:31
  Yeah.
• 31:31
  You love it? That's great.
• 31:33
  I've been here since 2015.
• 31:34
  Oh, okay.
• 31:35
  People are so nice.
• 31:36
  Yeah.
• 31:37
  They're so nice and just warm and
• 31:41
  inviting, and I was just like, I just haven't been many...
• 31:44
  I lived in Miami, Chicago. People say, "Hi, hello," and over-
• 31:48
  Yeah
• 31:48
  ... in a lot of these bigger cities, like, "Why are you talking to me?"
• 31:52
  Right.
• 31:53
  Like, "What was that?"
• 31:54
  Right. I loved it, too. A
• 31:58
  Florida girl, I'm thinking most Florida people
• 32:02
  that I know want to be by the beach. They want to constantly either be in their
• 32:05
  bathing suit. You know what I mean? I spent time in Miami, I spent time in Panama.
• 32:09
  Yeah.
• 32:10
  And I would never live in Miami. I would visit. It's nice.
• 32:13
  It was hard.
• 32:14
  I've been there.
• 32:14
  Yeah.
• 32:15
  It's-
• 32:15
  It's hard to live there.
• 32:16
  Yeah. It's not easy.
• 32:17
  I've been to Smashing.
• 32:18
  Yeah. It's not. It's beautiful-
• 32:22
  Yeah
• 32:23
  ... but I could never live there. Panama City was cool.
• 32:27
  The-
• 32:27
  Yeah
• 32:28
  ... that was nice. But
• 32:30
  Bakersfield, if I could
• 32:34
  live here, I would again, but my
• 32:38
  family's in LA.
• 32:39
  Mm-hmm.
• 32:39
  My wife's family is in LA, so you've got to...
• 32:42
  And it's so much cheaper here.
• 32:44
  It is.
• 32:45
  I live in Burbank and have a back house I pay $1,600 for.
• 32:48
  Oh my gosh.
• 32:49
  You know what I mean?
• 32:50
  Yeah.
• 32:50
  To where I can live here for a three bedroom-
• 32:54
  Yeah
• 32:54
  ... and I have a one bedroom. A three bedroom for
• 32:57
  1,200.
• 32:58
  You're closer to the airport, though.
• 32:59
  Right.
• 33:00
  You can fly anywhere.
• 33:01
  Right.
• 33:02
  For a better price.
• 33:03
  I love Burbank Airport.
• 33:04
  Yeah.
• 33:05
  It's so good.
• 33:05
  It really is.
• 33:06
  But yeah.
• 33:07
  Oh, gosh. So, okay, let me ask you this.
• 33:10
  When it comes to your health and the things that, the
• 33:13
  demands that are required of you, in your industry
• 33:17
  as being a rapper, I imagine you have to travel and
• 33:21
  even working on set, you're managing people, you have to stay organized,
• 33:25
  mental clarity.
• 33:26
  There's a lot of demands. You need your voice.
• 33:30
  You can't be sick.
• 33:32
  No.
• 33:33
  You don't get to be.
• 33:34
  No, I don't get to be sick.
• 33:36
  Yeah.
• 33:37
  I get looked down upon if I'm sick.
• 33:39
  Yeah.
• 33:39
  You use rain, shine.
• 33:41
  Yeah.
• 33:42
  A lot of people in the industry, because my dad is
• 33:46
  who got me in, and my dad made me a boss, so
• 33:50
  I was forged in fire to where, okay, this is what's expected out
• 33:54
  of you.
• 33:54
  I love forged in fire.
• 33:54
  You know what I mean?
• 33:55
  Yeah.
• 33:56
  This is what's expected out of you, do it. And I'm not the best at it.
• 34:00
  I'm still learning. You know what I mean?
• 34:02
  And I love working with my dad, but I hate working with my dad
• 34:06
  because he's such an a*****e to me sometimes.
• 34:09
  But I love-
• 34:09
  He's telling you this is fair
• 34:10
  ... but it's like he's supposed to be that to me because-
• 34:12
  Yeah
• 34:13
  ... it's like, bro, you need to learn. You need to learn.
• 34:15
  Yeah.
• 34:16
  And I do need to learn more.
• 34:17
  Yeah.
• 34:18
  And I see my... My
• 34:22
  mom is my dad's secretary,
• 34:24
  and my sister's a sculptor, so I see them every day, and I hate
• 34:28
  it. I hate it because there's times where it's just like, dude, I don't want to see
• 34:32
  you guys today.
• 34:33
  That's a lot of family time.
• 34:34
  Yeah, it's a lot.
• 34:35
  That's a lot.
• 34:36
  We're close.
• 34:37
  I think of family in doses.
• 34:38
  And even the dog comes. My dad has a Doberman.
• 34:42
  Her name is Gracie, and that's his emotional support pet.
• 34:46
  Of course.
• 34:47
  So, there's nothing trainable about that dog, but it still
• 34:50
  comes.
• 34:51
  Oh, gosh.
• 34:52
  You know what I mean? It's
• 34:53
  cool.
• 34:55
  As far as health wise, I could care less
• 34:59
  about that. I came to the realization to
• 35:02
  where... Because I was fit, dude. I promise I wasn't this fat.
• 35:07
  I used to be fit. I played football.
• 35:09
  I went to the gym religiously for eight years, just going
• 35:13
  hard. Knowing I want to go to the next level.
• 35:15
  And then once it wasn't fun anymore and I got hurt, it was like, "Man, I
• 35:19
  don't want to f*****g do this."
• 35:20
  Wait, how did you get hurt?
• 35:22
  Oh, I had an ankle problem that I couldn't...
• 35:25
  Okay, so
• 35:27
  imagine just being a foot, right?
• 35:28
  Yeah.
• 35:29
  So, you know that little spot right there in the crease?
• 35:31
  Yes. Yeah.
• 35:32
  That, it just, it hurt.
• 35:34
  It's a really bad spot.
• 35:34
  Yeah.
• 35:34
  I wish you didn't do that.
• 35:36
  It
• 35:37
  hurt. I rehabbed it. I did the most and I-
• 35:40
  Did you fracture it?
• 35:41
  I don't know what I did to it.
• 35:42
  Yeah.
• 35:43
  It wasn't fractured.
• 35:44
  Lick a minute.
• 35:46
  I don't know what happened.
• 35:47
  Yeah.
• 35:47
  I wasn't the same anymore.
• 35:49
  Yeah.
• 35:49
  You know what I mean? And then also my knee.
• 35:52
  Yeah.
• 35:52
  If you feel my knee-
• 35:53
  Same side
• 35:53
  ... it's still, it's-
• 35:54
  Same side.
• 35:56
  Yeah.
• 35:56
  Yeah.
• 35:57
  So it's like, it wasn't fun anymore, and I wasn't the same.
• 36:00
  Mm-hmm.
• 36:00
  Because I used to be explosive. I was really good.
• 36:04
  Yeah.
• 36:04
  You know what I mean?
• 36:05
  Yeah.
• 36:05
  And I relied on my talent to go to college-
• 36:09
  Yeah
• 36:09
  ... which was horrible at the time, but now-
• 36:11
  Why?
• 36:12
  ... you could do that.
• 36:13
  What do you mean?
• 36:13
  Because I didn't give a damn about school. I didn't care.
• 36:16
  Oh, okay. Like the academics.
• 36:18
  I could do the academics. I would do just enough to be eligible.
• 36:21
  Yeah.
• 36:22
  Just enough.
• 36:22
  But your foot, you had other, it wasn't your-
• 36:25
  Yeah, in high school, yes, it wasn't like that.
• 36:27
  Yeah.
• 36:27
  What I was trying to tell you is if I would've put my mind to it, I
• 36:31
  could've probably played D1 and been good, but I
• 36:35
  went to BC, and after that it was, I'm good. You know what I mean?
• 36:38
  Yeah.
• 36:39
  I
• 36:41
  know now that-Because I thought about it the other day,
• 36:45
  a couple of weeks ago, not the other day. I have to be here for my kid.
• 36:49
  Yep.
• 36:50
  Especially with autism.
• 36:51
  Mm-hmm.
• 36:52
  So I need to switch a lot of things about me.
• 36:55
  I haven't done it yet. I need to.
• 36:57
  Yeah.
• 36:57
  I'm a beer... I love drinking beer.
• 37:01
  I'm a beer connoisseur. That's my only downfall.
• 37:04
  Other than that, I'm learning. I've been eating only when I'm
• 37:08
  hungry,
• 37:09
  not religiously morning.
• 37:12
  You know what I mean?
• 37:13
  Yeah.
• 37:13
  And honestly, I'll cut it down to two a day.
• 37:16
  Yeah.
• 37:16
  And I'd even cut it down because my wife, she loves having late-night cereal.
• 37:20
  And I don't. I used to, but not anymore.
• 37:23
  Yeah.
• 37:23
  You know what I mean? And I'm trying my hardest to get down to where I want to be.
• 37:27
  Yeah.
• 37:28
  And I need to get healthy again because
• 37:31
  I have to be here for my child. So that's really my main...
• 37:35
  F**k my job. Whatever.
• 37:36
  Yeah.
• 37:36
  I got-
• 37:37
  What's your age?
• 37:38
  I'm 36.
• 37:39
  Okay.
• 37:41
  And
• 37:42
  I usually have a beard.
• 37:44
  Okay.
• 37:44
  But it's gray.
• 37:46
  You have a gray beard?
• 37:47
  Yeah. And I'm just like-
• 37:48
  When did it turn gray?
• 37:50
  It started turning gray when I did twisters.
• 37:53
  No, because I never used to roll out of my bed.
• 37:57
  Never used to roll out of my bed.
• 37:59
  What do you mean?
• 38:00
  I was so stressed and so overwhelmed to where I used to roll out of
• 38:04
  my bed. And I still roll out of my bed now-
• 38:07
  With-
• 38:07
  ... because I'm stressed all the time with work and-
• 38:09
  Yeah
• 38:10
  ... I'm a soul-- I'm the only provider in my family, dude.
• 38:14
  My wife doesn't work.
• 38:15
  Okay. That's a huge, that's a lot.
• 38:17
  Yeah. Dude, I have so much on me.
• 38:19
  Yeah.
• 38:19
  It's ridiculous.
• 38:20
  Yeah.
• 38:21
  You know what I mean? But I don't want my wife to work because
• 38:25
  I need her to be the-
• 38:28
  Yeah
• 38:29
  ... stay-at-home mom.
• 38:29
  Yeah.
• 38:29
  Especially for her.
• 38:30
  Yeah.
• 38:31
  Which is fine. You know what I mean?
• 38:32
  But it's-
• 38:33
  Is she-
• 38:33
  It's like-
• 38:34
  Yeah. She's good with that.
• 38:36
  Yeah.
• 38:36
  Yeah.
• 38:36
  She's perfect with that.
• 38:37
  Yeah.
• 38:37
  She's the best.
• 38:38
  So you have love and support-
• 38:40
  Yeah
• 38:40
  ... and you have a lot of boxes checked.
• 38:42
  So the next-
• 38:43
  And here's the thing, though. Listen.
• 38:44
  Yeah.
• 38:45
  So, I'm doing all this, I have boxes checked, but
• 38:48
  sometimes I need something to make me feel
• 38:52
  at ease.
• 38:53
  Totally.
• 38:54
  You know what I mean?
• 38:55
  Yeah.
• 38:55
  So that's where
• 38:56
  talk comes in. And I know it's horrible.
• 39:00
  I shouldn't. I should find another hobby, something else other than
• 39:04
  music. Music helps, but I'm so tired
• 39:07
  sometimes, whereas I'm not trying to go to the studio.
• 39:10
  Yeah.
• 39:11
  I'm chilling at home. You know?
• 39:12
  Yeah.
• 39:13
  But it's just
• 39:14
  I need to get more healthy, especially just for my kid.
• 39:18
  She needs me here.
• 39:19
  Yeah.
• 39:20
  You know what I mean?
• 39:20
  Yeah.
• 39:21
  And I definitely feel like I
• 39:24
  live longer doing... I get what you're saying.
• 39:28
  Yeah. Okay, so
• 39:31
  when I have this conversation with my
• 39:34
  clients in the clinic-
• 39:36
  Mm-hmm
• 39:36
  ... it's really
• 39:38
  lifestyle, logistics,
• 39:41
  what can we do exactly where you're at.
• 39:43
  Because sometimes you can't go hardcore and
• 39:46
  do maximal all these supplements.
• 39:50
  I just need to be disciplined again. That's it.
• 39:52
  There's-
• 39:53
  I need to find that dis-
• 39:54
  ... interest there
• 39:54
  ... I need to... No, if I'm disciplined like I used to be-
• 39:56
  Yeah
• 39:57
  ... I can get back to where I needed to.
• 39:59
  It's just, again, I spent so many years in the gym to where I was just burnt
• 40:02
  out.
• 40:03
  Yeah.
• 40:03
  You know what I mean?
• 40:04
  Yeah.
• 40:04
  It's like, dude, if I can... You know what's funny, too, is when I'm sweaty, when
• 40:07
  I'm actually doing something-
• 40:09
  Yeah
• 40:09
  ... I start feeling good. You know what I mean?
• 40:12
  I love that.
• 40:12
  So-
• 40:12
  You detox.
• 40:13
  Yeah.
• 40:13
  Your mitochondria are activated.
• 40:16
  I'll start feeling good, and it's like, I should-
• 40:17
  Yeah
• 40:17
  ... do this more often.
• 40:19
  Yeah.
• 40:19
  But then I...
• 40:21
  Yeah. Okay, do you have anybody accountable in your life that would be like,
• 40:25
  "Hey, you didn't show up to this?"
• 40:27
  No.
• 40:29
  So I think that helps a lot.
• 40:30
  Right. It's finding-
• 40:31
  Checking labs. Right? To see, looking at your own data,
• 40:35
  something.
• 40:36
  Right. And you know what's wild, though, too?
• 40:38
  What?
• 40:38
  What's crazy is everybody's diabetic but me. It's weird.
• 40:42
  I'm not diabetic. It's wild.
• 40:44
  Did you check your labs?
• 40:45
  Yeah.
• 40:45
  When?
• 40:45
  I'm not diabetic. I-
• 40:47
  That's weird
• 40:47
  ... had a checkup a month ago.
• 40:49
  Okay.
• 40:50
  And I asked, "Can I be tested for diabetes?"
• 40:53
  Mm-mm.
• 40:54
  Did they tell you your numbers?
• 40:55
  Mm-mm.
• 40:56
  Okay. Please feel free to text them to me-
• 40:58
  Okay
• 40:58
  ... if you want.
• 40:59
  Yeah.
• 41:00
  But yeah.
• 41:00
  Yeah. But my dad's diabetic. And it's weird because
• 41:05
  we have our own
• 41:07
  medic. Her name is Veronica.
• 41:09
  Okay.
• 41:09
  She's family. So any show that we're on, she's with us.
• 41:13
  Yeah.
• 41:13
  And she's just like, when I have eaten something, she goes, "Let me check your
• 41:17
  blood sugar. Let me check your blood sugar."
• 41:18
  She'll just finger p***k you?
• 41:20
  She'll just p***k it, and she's like, "You're good." Like, "Your oxygen level is
• 41:24
  perfect." You know what I mean?
• 41:25
  Oh my gosh.
• 41:25
  And my dad hates it because he can't do it.
• 41:28
  Yeah.
• 41:28
  But it's wild that I-
• 41:29
  Yeah.
• 41:30
  Knock on wood, because it still could happen.
• 41:32
  But-
• 41:33
  Yeah
• 41:33
  ... right now, I'm not diabetic, which is thank God.
• 41:36
  Yeah.
• 41:36
  But, yeah, no, I
• 41:39
  definitely need
• 41:41
  to hone down. I need to-
• 41:42
  Let's do it.
• 41:43
  Yeah.
• 41:44
  Let's do it.
• 41:45
  Would you want me to be a part of that? I can.
• 41:47
  I live in Burbank. What are you going to do?
• 41:49
  I do Tele.
• 41:50
  Tele.
• 41:50
  That means there is no boundary that exists for me to take care of
• 41:55
  everybody.
• 41:56
  You're going to call me and say, "Get your a*s up?" I'm going to be like, "Okay."
• 42:00
  No, you'll be in boot camp. I'm enrolling you.
• 42:06
  And I'm going to learn, whoever's Veronica, I'm going to know her.
• 42:09
  Yeah.
• 42:09
  And
• 42:11
  Veronica, tell me his vitals right now.
• 42:13
  Right.
• 42:15
  No, it's accountability, right? And so I'm all about matching somebody
• 42:19
  where they're at, and it doesn't mean that you can fix
• 42:22
  everything-
• 42:23
  Right
• 42:23
  ... from years of a certain lifestyle, whatever it
• 42:27
  is.
• 42:27
  Right.
• 42:28
  Or if you have a ton of stress on you, you can't change everything and expect to
• 42:32
  be successful.
• 42:33
  Right.
• 42:33
  So just
• 42:35
  starting a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or just a Monday, or
• 42:39
  maybe just a Friday.
• 42:41
  Right.
• 42:41
  Something's better than nothing.
• 42:43
  And then dropping in exactly where you are and not being a perfectionist.
• 42:46
  Right.
• 42:48
  Yeah.
• 42:49
  Sounds like a lot.
• 42:52
  Yeah. So make it simple.
• 42:55
  Yes, ma'am.
• 42:56
  Start with blood work, which you did regular blood work.
• 43:00
  And I say regular because you've already
• 43:04
  experienced what it's like with traditional medicine.
• 43:08
  Right.
• 43:09
  Do you want more?
• 43:10
  When?
• 43:11
  Okay. So
• 43:13
  when, it could be whenever you want, but really by more, I mean there's
• 43:17
  more testings you can do. There's always
• 43:20
  more customized plans that you can get.
• 43:23
  Just-
• 43:23
  When I went on a whole wellness, kind of just check myself, I
• 43:27
  even got a colonoscopy.
• 43:28
  Yeah. Good. I love that.
• 43:29
  You know what I mean? Just-
• 43:30
  Yeah
• 43:30
  ... check to make sure that I... You know what I mean?
• 43:32
  Yeah.
• 43:33
  And I was fine. You know what I mean?
• 43:34
  Yeah.
• 43:34
  So I do care about my health. I just-
• 43:36
  Yeah
• 43:36
  ... need to do a little better job.
• 43:38
  Yeah. It's all about how do you feel, and then what are your genetics?
• 43:42
  You know your dad's history.
• 43:43
  Yeah.
• 43:43
  You know your mom's history.
• 43:44
  Mm-hmm.
• 43:45
  So they are predictions for you. And
• 43:49
  typically in medicine, we speak with 40 and over, 65 and over.
• 43:53
  Right.
• 43:53
  Those are the categories that you really start to see things present.
• 43:57
  So-
• 43:58
  Yeah
• 43:58
  ... yeah.
• 43:59
  No, I hear you.
• 44:00
  Yeah.
• 44:00
  Listen to me.
• 44:01
  If there's anything I can do, I'm around.
• 44:02
  For sure.
• 44:03
  Just
• 44:05
  message me. I don't mind.
• 44:06
  Am I the first local rapper you've ever interviewed?
• 44:09
  Yes.
• 44:10
  Wow.
• 44:11
  Yeah. Do you have anything fun?
• 44:13
  What do you mean?
• 44:14
  Did you want...
• 44:16
  Would we be able to do anything, like hear your latest
• 44:20
  album possibly, or-
• 44:21
  You want to listen to my latest album?
• 44:23
  Or you could do some short, what do you call
• 44:26
  it?
• 44:28
  You want me to freestyle is what you're asking me to do.
• 44:31
  Thanks.
• 44:35
  Can you please make it cool?
• 44:36
  Make it cool.
• 44:37
  I don't know how to. Yeah, freestyle.
• 44:40
  Putting me on the spot.
• 44:40
  That's hilarious. No, I didn't even know what to call it.
• 44:43
  It's called freestyle.
• 44:45
  Now I know.
• 44:47
  Okay. Give me a second. Your name is what? Dr. Savelli, right?
• 44:51
  Yeah. And actually, it's right on time because it's 3:20.
• 44:54
  And the plan of the podcast is Black Sheep.
• 44:55
  So we can end on this. Yeah.
• 44:56
  Black Sheep. All right, I'll give you a couple.
• 45:03
  I enjoyed this conversation, and yes, we got deep.
• 45:06
  Anytime you need me, I'm down to get on the Black Sheep.
• 45:11
  You can hit me on Instagram or hit me on the telly.
• 45:16
  Just know anytime you answer, I'm going to answer with Miss Dr. Savelli.
• 45:20
  Oh my gosh, you just checkmated me. Checkmate.
• 45:24
  Check. Checkmate. That was-
• 45:25
  Boom. Done
• 45:26
  ... that was amazing.
• 45:27
  Hang on.
• 45:27
  Thank you so much.
• 45:28
  You're welcome. Anytime