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Honey, Hood & Health: Exposing Cheap Food's Hidden Costs · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, folks? What's going on, everybody?
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  My name is David, and welcome to the legendary, legendary podcast,
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  where we grab a little bit of topic, a little bit of all, a little bit of thing
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  about life and where we at, and
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  we just kind of deconstruct it so we could learn a little bit something.
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  person and that's your responsibility to tell those folks well I've been listening
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  what I think about the situation going on in Iran and all over the world.
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  I mean, I did mention that I'm back, that I kind of been out for like a couple
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  of weeks or so, you know, physically and then the flu or whatever,
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  the cold just hit me out of nowhere.
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  Let's have a little nice conversation, shall we?
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  Because I want to say is this. And one of the things about my podcast is that
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  I want people to get something good out of it.
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  That when you're done listening to my podcast, you could start to think on your
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  own and start doing the right thing. go at least at least because what's right
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  is wrong for me what's wrong is right for you right but at least.
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  Let's kind of separate from what's out there.
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  And one of the things that I always have emphasized and I say is the well-being of ours.
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  Now, with that said, we definitely got to take care of each other and we got
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  to take care of our body mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally,
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  whatever, whatever, whatever ends there.
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  You know what I mean? I'm just saying we definitely got to take care.
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  And one of the things that I definitely want to bring in my podcast is a conversation
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  about food and what we eat, because it's very endearing.
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  And I, for some reason, I, a couple of months ago, I was in Puerto Rico,
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  my beautiful island of Puerto Rico.
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  I love Puerto Rico. I love my people in Puerto Rico.
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  But sometimes I tend to kind of question some of the characters in Puerto Rico.
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  Sadly, you know, when it comes to crime in Puerto Rico, it's very high.
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  And, you know, let's see. But sometimes I like to think like,
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  you know, what drives people to that? And again, poverty and so on and so forth, right?
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  And one of the things is that.
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  What drives people, and again, we're all humans, so we all have,
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  you already know, we all have these traits and characteristics and so on,
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  and, you know, we could go and engage, but one of the things that I always have
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  said that food, and when you are not eating properly,
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  when you're eating junk food or something that's not good for the body,
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  especially if you did that in a young age, then your body's not,
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  you know, you're not going to develop as well as when you're eating good stuff.
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  You know, and when I say good stuff, you know, processed food,
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  canned food would be not, for the most part, not good versus,
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  let's say, something a little bit more open, more fruitful, more veggies.
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  You know what I mean? So I'm in Puerto Rico, and I'm looking at this beautiful,
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  in a town, this beautiful, beautiful mountain. Oh, my goodness, it's there.
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  You got the trees and all that. And I moved to the right, a couple of inches,
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  taking pictures, and there's Walmart. Wow, Walmart.
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  You already know for those in America. and in certain parts of Europe.
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  You know, hey, listen, I know Walmart, it's all over the place,
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  but Walmart is a big, big, big, big conglomerate. You already know.
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  So they're Puerto Rico as well. It looks like they, it looks like Puerto Rico
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  is a small island and it looks like the Walmarts, they are bigger than the island.
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  And I'm looking at Walmart, I'm like, okay, that's fine. I get it.
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  You know, that's people in Puerto Rico, for those who don't know,
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  Puerto Ricans in terms of the hourly rate and so on, it's not,
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  compared to the United States, different but the cost of life,
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  a little bit less in Puerto Rico, but the fact that I go to Walmart,
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  which is I guess is the only time that I've been to Walmart when I'm in Puerto Rico, such a sense of,
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  I don't know, irony, I guess that's the word, I'm not a big fan of Walmart, and I'll tell you why,
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  one of the things that, you know, Walmart, I get it, they sell things at a lesser
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  price, but to what cost that food that is, that you're eating,
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  just to save a couple of dollars, will,
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  hamper your, your, your health, you know what I mean, and when I went to Walmart there,
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  and I see a lot of my Puerto Rican folks, as this has always been a thing,
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  because we are, sadly, belong to the United States.
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  Hey, listen, we'll talk about that in another. But the thing is that they turn us into consumers.
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  And I see all these people eating these processed food, and I start to think, right?
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  We go back to the Bronx. I grew up in the Bronx. Where you grew up?
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  Where's that at? Whoever's listening, let me know where you grew up.
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  I like the kid. But if you live in an impoverished neighborhood,
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  again, even applies to a local basis in New York City, Bronx,
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  New York City, home of the New York Yankees, let's go baseball.
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  Around the corner, whoop, let's go Yankees. But yes, in the Bronx,
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  again, it's the same effect. you see people and you kind of question their decisions
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  and you kind of question certain things in their life.
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  And I'm like, damn, you know, I hate to be that dude, right?
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  To be like, damn, I can't believe that. So people are kind of dumb in these
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  days. You know what I mean?
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  I know that the educational system in New York City or in the United States,
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  the public educational system is highly questionable.
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  But sometimes you say to yourself, even if it is.
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  I've went to class, let's say, middle school.
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  And if you look at some of the smartest students in the class,
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  they, let's say, they came from parents that work, you know?
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  So that means more money. That means that you're going to eat better.
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  If you look at the kids that would have been a hard time, either a lot of them
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  came from single mothers, so it's a struggle.
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  Single mothers that worked. There was those who came from a household where
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  they were struggling, public assistance.
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  When you get public assistance, look, people were going to struggle.
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  Let's say you could live in a household of a family and a mother and a father,
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  and let's say they both went on disability in New York. Hey, disability.
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  I don't wish that people go on disability. I mean, all I just say,
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  I hope people don't get hurt outside of the workplace. Disability is really peanuts.
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  But then let's say if you get a public assistance, it's not enough for one to
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  get some good food. So what to do? You buy junk.
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  You buy food that is just malnutritious.
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  Or it's not good food that's going to nourish the brain for you to develop.
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  And I've always said that, and I'm like, wow.
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  Now, if you live, you know, and this is true, if you live in a hood,
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  again, the hood is beautiful. The hood is full of different people.
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  But for the most part, the hood leads towards, how can I say,
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  more off to the poverty line, more than anything.
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  But again, there's a lot of hardworking people.
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  Sometimes there's hardworking people that just happen to just have a family,
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  just continue to live in a hood.
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  But it doesn't mean that they don't have money. But, you know,
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  for the most part, people in the hood do struggle.
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  Now, if I go, let's say in the Bronx, these certain sections in the Bronx where
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  they got these clusters of stores, clothes, food, all that.
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  If you look a lot of these places and listen, I love my chicken spot places,
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  my fried chicken, my Kennedy's.
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  You already know who I'm talking about. So, yo, I'm supposed to say if you know, you know.
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  But, hey, listen, if you're in New York City, stop by a chicken spot.
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  And it's not KFC. It's something about Kennedy and crown chicken and all that.
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  You already know. You already know what I'm talking about. But the fact is this.
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  Not a good, you know, fried chicken and a lot of stuff there.
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  But if you look at the junk that's been offered to us, again,
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  and I'm not saying don't eat that fried chicken or anything like that, but what is the balance?
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  The other day, you know, I love my brother. My brother hit me up.
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  He's like, yo, you know, a little hungry.
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  You know, they're saying to make, to eat, you know, whatever. I'm a little tired.
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  Can you get something to eat? And I'll give you the money. And I'm like, okay.
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  Like, you know what? I'll go to the chicken spot. I'll go to the chicken spot.
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  I got to do a podcast on chicken spot. I love me the chicken spot.
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  But the fact I go to this chicken spot, five-piece chicken with french fries,
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  in a soda, right? In a can of soda.
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  All right, $12, $13. All right, not bad. $6.50 for person.
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  Not bad. But again, I want people to look at it here. And one of the points
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  that I'm trying to make when it comes to food is,
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  You see, the chicken spot is a spot that we go to to get food that's affordable.
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  But sadly, many of those menus in the chicken spot, it's not necessarily food that are good for us.
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  You understand what I'm saying here? Even, you know, let's say I love my Chinese food.
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  But the stuff in those Chinese food, you know, especially the fried stuff and
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  all that good stuff, you know, they use a lot of good stuff.
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  Again, shout out to my Chinese people.
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  You know, they make that good food.
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  I love it but the fact is this you know we just tend to just eat a lot of junk
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  and I'm trying to do these episodes or I'm trying to bring episodes because
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  not only is there junk in our neighborhood but when we go to the supermarket
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  and the other you know a couple of weeks ago I was sick like,
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  you know the fever the runny nose stuffy,
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  and common sense would be let's go with an old remedy good old honey with some lemon,
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  And let's get it. Man, that's a beautiful remedy.
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  It's the Puerto Rican in me. I'm like, remedy, remedy. It's remedy,
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  right? But the fact is this.
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  How is it? And again, this is a, I think this is a United States thing, but this is what they do.
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  Is that right now, if you go to the supermarket, you look for honey.
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  But it's 80% of the honey that's on the shelf. It's not real. It might say honey.
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  But I don't mean anything. But you see, if you look at honey that is $3 compared
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  to one that's $10, the $10, there's a good chance that it's real, 100% honey.
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  I'm going to lean that the one that costs $10, same size, is the one that's real honey.
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  But you see us in the hood, we look at it as, oh, $3.
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  You know, I'm going to use honey for that. But then that honey is just garbage.
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  Again, this is what happens. You know, it's like a domino effect.
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  And I want to say it's this.
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  You know, we look when it comes to a food stamp. Hey, listen,
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  I'm for food stamp for those who are in need. And there's many people that are in need.
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  Even people that work are still in need of food stamp.
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  And that's why I said, you know what? We need to raise the food stamp a little
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  bit, depending on how much your household income is.
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  Because there are those people in the hood that's trying to get out,
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  you know, get out, you know, get a good job.
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  But sometimes like you live in New York City, but things, you know,
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  with the rent, with bills and so on, you know, you still got to call only a
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  couple of hundred dollars to spend on food, you know, get that little public
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  assistance by all means.
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  But I always said, if the government gives you more money for public assistance,
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  we got to have a better system, how to educate people on how to spend that money
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  or those food stamps on something that's more nutritious for your body, for your kids.
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  To learn, to find out, the UCLA School, University of Los Angeles Health,
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  they did studies years ago where bread, many of the breads that's out there,
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  and for those parents out there, especially in the 80s, 90s, 2000,
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  who would, let's say, get a little kid that's a little bit hyper,
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  here's a piece of bread, a sliced bread.
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  A lot of these sliced bread, especially the cheap ones from these,
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  and the other ones from these corporations, they actually amplify,
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  let's say, the case of ADD.
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  So there's a lot of stuff out there that even claims to be good and is good
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  for us, but it's not. And there's a lot of junk out there. You know what I mean?
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  So I'm trying to see if what can we do.
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  And I want to do more episodes where I could just do a list of,
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  based on my little research there, you know, from my understanding,
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  there are these five, let's say, nutritionists, doctors, whatever,
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  scientists that need these tests.
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  And these are the real honey to get. And again, I tell people this, and I understand.
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  And if you're listening to my podcast, you live in a hood, I live in a hood
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  too. Trust me, I know what it is.
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  You want to get that good food, but you only got $5.
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  And with $5, you want to get breakfast, lunch, and dinner. What are you going to buy? Exactly that.
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  Exactly something that we will say junk. And again, junk, it's something that
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  it's in America, it's like it's an option.
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  And it's, for the most part, a lot of people, it's an option,
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  and it's the number one option. Look, they turn us to consumers.
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  And we already know. We got these big corporations. We already know.
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  I don't have to tell you twice.
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  I would love for you to subscribe to my channel so that I could do.
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  I will be doing a ketchup.
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  I said ketchup. For some reason, I'm thinking ketchup and honey.
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  Whatever. Hey, listen, I ain't crazy. No funny stuff. What I'm saying is this.
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  I'm going to do an episode, you know, when it comes to honey,
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  to provide you which is the real honey.
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  Which is not and i know that we want to squeeze and i know we want to squeeze and i want to say,
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  just because you have this doesn't mean
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  that you have to get this junk because it's going to be a cycle and it affects
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  across the board it affects all type of races white black latinos so on and
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  so forth we got a lot of uh you know people out there not living that healthy
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  because they don't consume that healthy, that healthy food.
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  Because I say it's this, if you don't have time to do physical stuff,
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  to go to the gym, maybe you don't have the means, maybe you don't have the space,
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  maybe, you know, the stress.
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  I mean, we could go on and on and on and on. And I get it again,
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  I've been there, been there, done that, trust me.
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  But the fact is that if we continue to consume junk, and there's always a saying, you become who you eat.
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  And when you eat a lot of stuff that is not good, and again,
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  it's not, honey would be the perfect example.
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  You're going to be like, oh, yeah, I'll be drinking a cup of lemon with honey
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  and all that to come and find out that honey that you bought is maple syrup,
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  90% maple syrup, which is something that's happening.
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  And that's what I mean where it's junk and not junk.
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  I'm not trying to assert myself to say that junk as in potato shaves and all this nonsense.
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  No, it's a lot of stuff. It's a lot of food, pasta, olive oil.
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  Hey, give me an amen if you love olive oil. I love olive oils.
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  You know, come in handy. One of the best superfood, super oils.
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  But to find out, studies have shown that many of those olive oil in the shelf
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  are just not truly olive oil.
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  They're mixed with soy oil to make it look like whatever oil, that's olive oil.
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  Ha ha ha, Popeye, the sailor, man. Ha ha, let's go. But that's the true facts.
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  That's the true facts. And when I open up in the future, please follow me.
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  I'm going to talk about if you have a food that you'd like to know more.
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  Is this real? What's real? What's fake?
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  I put in that work. But I'm doing this episode because I want people to understand
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  how important food is and how important it is that if we feed our junk,
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  then we feed our mind and our mind is going to be distorted.
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  And trust me, I know a lot of people that got even money and they consume junk.
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  And I have not met one person with a good attitude I'd be straight up People
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  that consume junk is just you become that.
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  And it comes to a point that remember As we get older or
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  let's say As we get more experience in this world
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  The more our body is a little bit different It's not going to digest the food
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  the same way So we got to take care of each other Well once again I'm just giving
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  you a little summary of what's to come Must love out there Make sure that you
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  think of what to eat Don't go out there and just buy food just because you could only afford it.
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  Remember, sometimes there's a price to pay.
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  And I always have said, and I always have said that sometimes when we try to
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  save money, when we can, absolutely, we love it.
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  But when sometimes you do something where you're trying to save money,
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  but yet you decide to buy junk, you'll pay the price for it because there's
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  a lot of people out there that get sick, sick.
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  Not because of the virus, but because of
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  the junk that we eat attacks our immune system get that
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  honey let's go get that real honey 100% honey stay
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  local buy something local make it happen put
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  that I'll heat up with some hot water put some lemon
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  do all that good stuff take care of your body because once again wherever your
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  mind goes your body follows and wherever your body is at your mind will be going
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  forward if not backwards let's make it happen much love you already know the
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  deconstructing topic podcast and i'm out of here peace i'm out peace.