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M M want to be Oh, here we go, here we here we here we go. We talk weeklies after the talk on w P P m l P Philadelphia one o six point five. Let's when we talk weeklies after they talk with your boy Charles Gregor and beautiful Lawrences and beautiful ladies play. Lady Sparkle was definitely in the building and uh, if you watching the day, make sure you check in, let us know if you can hear what's kind of good. Make sure everything is great, and uh we gonna just get it popping. We have, uh, someone with my atremendous model respect for in the building. Today. We gonna talk a little bit about some politics. You know how we do it here when we talk weekly. You know, it's a lot of her leadership changes that has happened in Philadelphia from city council all the way to our new mayor. We're going to talk a little bit about that, but we're also going to talk about change and what change has happened that you may not know about that. Uh, this gentleman is going to talk a little bit about to make sure you stay informed. But without further ado. You know, I got you, ladies, how was you day? How was your day? What was you doing? I had a good day, even though it was like cold and snow last night. I had a good day. Hung out with my niece. Shout out to my niece Natalie. I affectionately call her two D that's my two So I hung out with her. We did breakfast at I hop that's what she wanted for her birthday. So hung out with her and the family and then we just kind of chilled afterwards and then now I'm here. So it was a good day and my ice C voice today was a good day. Absolutely absolutely as alright, spark, let me, how was your day? How did your day? It was cool, not much not that's motion. But I I'm ready to start taking everything out of my closet. Like I don't know this because it's not getting dark as quick. I'm ready. Now I'm on my whole resolution, Like I'm ready to lose this weight. I'm ready. So now i'm you know, motivated to uh to transform. Yeah, well, if you would have started Jawary first, you probably are quick by now. Yeah that's why I yeah, that's why I don't subscribe to them. But it's time to you know, eat clean and get the get the body tight, get the body tight, and right? What about you say? Busy, busy, I'm coming from New York. I had to run up New York real quick. What was in New York? Uh? Some little fashion stuff, some information and it's a couple of things that has been popping all THEO. Make sure, yes, sir, it's me. There you go. So we have people already tuning in, and you know, we have a guest, and I want to jump right into the guests. So, classy lady, who do we have today? Who do we have today? Allow me to introduce Alien Howell, a dedicated activist and advocate deeply committed to fostering positive change in Philadelphia. Alem contributes to three impactful local nonprofit organizations, The Race for Peace, Committee, Urban Navigation, and Men of Action. Brothers of Faith. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome to mister Eleam Howell. How wire you my friend? How are you doing that work? Thank you for having me? He turns you up a little bit. Why don't you put your headphones on so you could hear it was popping off? You can hear yourself. So, how's house? How have everything been since you have been here the last time, you know, you know, last time I was here, it was in the summer July, July twenty twenty three. Things have changed. Jim Kenny is the former mayor or. Now it's Charrell Madam, Cherrell Park Adam, you know now where this is Black History Month when in February and you know Philadelphia, it's still the same on the same. Oh, it's still the gun violence is high, the crime is high. And sometimes it feels like myself and other people can probably attest to us too that you know, we try to do our events through our organizations and other activists advocates out there, and you know, sometimes it feels like we're pushing the needle a little bit, but we're not really making real progress. You know. Sometimes it feels like, you know, I have my meetings with local elected officials and you know, I get it publicized and I'm on, you know, I do what I have to do. But then you know, it's just if people ain't go act right, they ain't correct right. You know, that's what the old different generations is. You know, if they don't they don't act right. But we can do all we can do. But then one thing that's on the positive note is what State Red Malcolm Kenyata did and State Rep. Morgan Seafist died, is that house built seven seven to seven through legislation and the Penns House Bill. Correct. Yeah, And that's the band ghost guns and not get ghost guns. So people who can't they don't qualify to get a license for a gun, they can't get those parts and those pieces for those ghost guns. And that's what we see out here on the streets. You know what I'm saying, that's all these gun violence crime. Most of them they're probably all ghost guns because some of them who are committing to crimes, they don't have a license to have a gun unless they got it from a family member who has a license. But they're probably ghost guns. And you know, the tricky part and that we're all thinking of, is that how do we get those guns off the streets. I sound like a broken record. I say the same thing and letters to the editors and I repeat myself all the time. But then how do we get the ghost guns off the streets? And then I told a few elected officials and stuff, and the police officer was saying, well, y'all can't just knock on people's doors, you know, because that's like without a warrant. So I said, that's the ignorant side to it, Like how do we get the guns? I was about to ask you, So, how do we do that? The House Bill seven seven seven, That's the one thing I thought of, But see, we can't do it. It's the elected officials. And see Mayor Cheryl Parker, I respect her dearly and stuff, and I know you guys know her real well and all that, but you know, she's the first female mayor, you know, not the first black. And I said the same thing on Word radio. You know, she's the first female, not the first black. So you know, maybe she'll put a mother's touch on our city of Philadelphia, but then she has to put more aggression on it, you know. I don't know. For Mayor Ed Brown, I'm out in Upper Derby, you know, he said he it's a five year plan, and I'm like, because Upper Derby and even the counties they're getting worse too. But I'm just like a five year plan. I'm just like that it has to start. It starts. I was just like, you know, they My thing is I think more of the Philadelphia police districts. They have to get their patrol cars out on the streets more like in every single neighborhood, like say the Market, FRANKLK Line L. You know, every single stop from Upper Derby all the way down to what Second Street or so, it just seems to be a police car present on every single block if they can afford the manpower. I was about to say, how realistic is that actually to do it? I mean from sixty pretty much Upper Derby, you know the station right there, the terminal all the way to Second Street, you know the terminal down near Old City. Can we truly afford every stop of police cars squad cars in front of those stops to maintain that? And is that actually? You know of Philadelphia Police? What is fop job and not set the police job, you know what I mean? And so how how do we manage that and execute on that philosophy? You see, the thing is about the currency and the money part. It seems like we do have the money because look at what we're trying to build, what our seventy six ers new stadium and stuff in Chinatown or something. You know. I'm like, it seems like there's a lot of money in Philadelphia. It's that you get that vibe and stuff like coming here to what do you call this market Street? You know what I'm saying. I'm like all these fancy buildings. Fox twenty nine is right down the street. It's just like it seems like there's just a lot millions of dollars in Philly, and it seems like it's going all towards the athletics, you know, the professional teams, you know, and then with the it seems like the Philadelphia Police Department they do have the money to do it. It's just having one or two patrol cars at just every single street in Philadelphia, and then especially the certain neighborhood that they see the most gun violence at. But it's so NonStop and discombobulated where it's going everywhere. That's the thing, like we don't know what's gonna happ and it's a shooting. Gilly the kid was saying in an interview, and I think he was saying that what's his name, Funny Marco, And then that was an interview on YouTube. I watched that last year. He was saying that he got it right too. He said, Philly, it's just it's just it's tore up. I'm trying to put sugar, it's tore up. It's it's a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of gun vines because he lost his son. And then you know, it's just a tore up city and there's nothing, it's no progress being involved with it. So funny Marco said that Orseilly right, so then and I agree with him a little bit. He had passed because he lost his son. Gilly could lost his son in Philadelphia, you see what I'm saying. And you would think that the gun vines would stop because his son was kind of a good example or a bad example, but you know what I mean, like a big example of like doing that. You know, And I felt for Gilly and stuff, and then you know, I'm a fan of his and stuff, but you know, I just you know, the gun violence, it's just crazy. And then same with Meek Mills. Sometimes he used to put on his Twitter. I don't know if he still has it now, Khiladelphia. Who made up that nickname? Kiladelphia? Was that him? Or was that that's been there? That's that's they always say Philadelphia. But but see how we got the nickname in the eighties. You know that I'm a nineties baby, you know. I mean the president, former president said everything bad happens in Philiate or Pennsylvania. What do you say bad, right, And so I mean we do have this, uh, I guess bad reputation of crime, everything bad, but we have some great stuff too, right. So I would like to know then because again when it comes to we talk weekly and I want to back up a little bit because we have someone who gave a comment as you were talking. Uh, they said, some parents need to be made responsible to police their own kids. And I agree with that, right, I believe that, you know, we can. And I'm not a fan of the police. God knows that that, you know, because I'm very I'm very art on the Philadelphia police. But we do have some great ones, right. But I do believe that as parents, we have to know where our children are. We can't be scared of the kids, and we can't be scared the discipline of kids. I think that the community unles's the community, but the world has made it this bad thing to discipline our kids, so to speak, right with a heavy hand, should I say, if we allow the blame to be put on police, that kind of exepts us. Right, So do you believe like this question, do you believe that the parents has a responsibility also, and it's not just the city's job to raise the kids. Oh right, yeah, I remember I was watching a Good Times episode in Florida. Hell yeah, she was saying, she said, the parents have to parent their kids themselves. It's not up Yeah, it's not up to the police and stuff. And I know you're talking about like the spankings. I don't even know is that even illegal? Is that I legal to do the spanking your kids. I'm not necessarily talking about spanking anymore. But yeah, you can yell at your kids. I remember my dad, he used to cust me or not. He used to yell at me all the time about sports and stuff. And you know, you can yell at your kids all day long. But then you know, if they don't get the message, they don't get the message, and then they're going that sister juvenile system. But then you're right, and then parents they got to be more on top of their kids. But with this new generation and stuff, and I'm a part of that millennial generation but not Gen Z. And then with the gen zs you know with this TikTok and more on Instagram and all that, you would think they would be it would be more positive and more fun like not doing like trying to make some money off of the U two, trying to make money off of streaming. You know, everyone's starting a podcast. You know what I'm saying. It's just you know, these kids and stuff. The kids that are doing the gun violence. I don't know why they're doing it because they have a lot of lanes to go in besides the discrimination and all that stuff with jobs and stuff. But besides that part, there's education, and then there's there's a lot of streaming platforms. They can go to sports as always. That's been there since the beginning of time sports before social media. But I don't understand none of these gen z kids because they have all that on their iPhones and their Android smartphone device to do things that can make their voice heard and get attention, and they can also make money off of it too. Like that, what's the kais not? You know what I'm saying. There's a those young guys and Duke Dennis. You know that those guys, you know making all that money and doing positive things. I like my one of my guys, I like Jdon too, you know those you know, that's what all the kids should be looking up to, all these YouTubers basically influencers, YouTubers, you know what I'm saying, Like they make a good example out of them. And they said the problem, what do you two? I think that these kids are looking at it to say, this is the life I want to live. A lot of times the crime is behind money. They're robbing, they're stealing, Like okay, so what are we doing to increase the minimum wage? You know, like, what are we doing that's going to offer them something that they're able to say, Okay, you don't have to go out there and do that, because if they were living in life with these YouTubers, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing. More than likely, they're trying to live a life or you know, to attain something that they're seeing on Instagram that really isn't even real because half of these people is fronting for the gram anyway, you know what I mean. So it's almost like you pull back the layers to see what byproducts is it, But what's the core of it? Where's the trunk in the roof? But sparkle, see they're putting on a show. You're right, they're putting on a show. I wouldn't I wouldn't say the word front and that's just me my opinion. But you're right, you know, you're more intelligent experience with that. But like you know, I wouldn't say fronting though they're put on a show. But then look what they they're putting on a show. But then they're doing. They're not out there killing, robbing, They're trying to making exit. They're trying to be comedians. So would well and when I say front and then some of its fresh, but some it's well, it's just like there's certain music where people are making gangs the music and they not living against the life, but yet and still the people listening to it believe that these people who are making this music are really living that life and trying to act that life out. So it's almost as if they're watching certain things and trying to attain that lifestyle, and crime is behind it because you're not driving the Bugatti, you're not wearing Balenciaga's You're not you know what I mean. So that's I think a lot of it is. Sometimes it's it's so much attainable to see outside of Philadelphia, to you knows where everybody's going and traveling, and you want a part of that world. And a lot of times that drives up crime. I think, well, the minimum ways, that's up to like people like Joanna McClinton, the House Speaker, and that's up to Governor Josh, you know, that's up to That's up to the our local elected officials for the minimum wage, to get the guns off the street, like house billed seven seven seven, that's all up to the elected officials. I'm just voicing my concerns saying and try to keep it a positive note. But then the last guest you guys had on here, she's running for I forgot her name, Purple, yeahtside of Blackwell, right, she's running against Amen Brown, that's the tenth district. You know that's great, But then you know what she was saying. She was right on the money. This is not old news. This has been happening since the mayor from the nineteen sixties seventies. She said that, and then yeah, she was right, She hit it right on the money. You know, this isn't old news. But and our thing is I'm in the millennial. It's just like, why does it keep cycling around and around and around? Though? That's the thing is why isn't it old news? She got it right, you know, we can do all we can do, and she's actually running, you know. But and then the other guests, the second gentleman you guys had on here, not I forget his name, We had a few. It was the purple who was the sec That guy. Yeah, but he wasn't running though. I think he ran for city. He ran for city council. Email right. But the things he was saying he was correct. But then one thing I disagree with him about is you know, we can all we don't. We all not going to agree on things. We're not all going to agree. But you can't go against the elected officials that are in office. They didn't get voted in there for nothing, because what are we gonna do? Just stay home and then none of us vote, you know what I'm saying. Then that's how they don't get it. No, And I agree with you, and I think that's one of my things, like, uh, you know, it's if they are elected to be in that leadership position, then it's up to us to hold them accountable for the things that they run on right. And so if they are telling you that they're going to do X, Y and Z, then we have to be very vocal when they don't do X, Y and Z right. And so as we are here with this platform, we always talk about what are the solutions in this stuff? Right? We always talk about how can we do X, Y and Z. I believe you mentioned sides to black Well. I believe she has it. She she's been in the community and work. And one thing that I always say, right, I say that I'm with and I support people who I actually see doing the work. If you're running for a leadership position, how can I know that you are going to do the work if no one ever sees you doing the work right? Unfortunately, we talk weekly. We can't say or take a side with anything right, but what we can say is that we are for the people who we know that are going to do the work. So somewe is back to you when it comes to our Madam mayor, do you believe that she's going to stand up to the occasion and rule I hate to use the word rule, but you know, be the leader that we need to hold that position as mayor. Yeah, when I when I when I watched the The Bait with Charrel Parker and Jeff Brown and everyone on the panel, Helen Game and a Men Brown, he was up there, and you know that was the one that Ernest Owens hosted with Jamille Duncan and Yuki Washington. You know that was that was a very good debate. And the way Charrelle Parker spoke, I didn't even know Scharrel Parker was going to win it. First, I was like clueless. I thought it was gonna be Jeff Brown. I really everything is like so tricky with politics. Then all of a sudden, the way Charrell, Madam Cyrel mayor where she spoke at that uh the conference, I was just like, wow, so she's gonna win there. That was, you know, that was really impressive. It was just out the blue because I really thought it was gonna be Jeff Brown who was gonna be our next mayor. And I think maybe other people probably thought that too. But yeah, you have to answer your question of like Charrel Parker mayor Sharrell, She's she has all the strength and she has all the intelligence and the tools to do it. She was the former counsel woman, you know for Philly and stuff. So she knows what she's doing. She gets like the logo and she's on the inside. She's been she's experiencing stuff. But it goes back to what our older generations are, like, our grandparents are saying, like if y'all ain't go act right, y'alln't go act right. You know, we can do all we can do. And there's plenty of people out there too. You know, I see stuff on the news and stuff like Pastor Carl Day and Pastor Aaron Campbell from Level Level up Philly and these pastors and then Anton Moore. Anton came to with our Race for Peace events back in twenty sixteen eighteen. He came to one of our events at the Shepherd Recreation Center. You know, there's what I'm trying to do, my dame, that's in my neighborhood, shout out to Shepherd. Yeah, there's there's plenty of people out there. And then I just discovered your favorite trash man, what's his name, Terrell Hagler or some Yeah, there's plenty of people out there that they're trying so hard to, you know, make Philly a better place, even out in the city of Chester, there's Nazera Leech and Fred Green, and then you know there's so many people, and then it's just if people ain't go act right, they ain't go act right. And that's the thing. It's just there's no every time you know, I do an interview or do something like that, like they look at me like, well that was really nothing. He said everything, said nothing, did nothing at the same time, because I'm not an elected official, you know, just like with Purple or Sajab, you know, what is she going to do differently against Amen Brown? What he's not doing? Basically, it just seems like the politicians, they talk a good game and they're respected in the community. We all like them, but then what are they going to do differently really to really try to combat the crime and gun violence? You know what I'm saying. It just it just seems like a big you know, the politics. I tell you, sometimes you can trust them, but then sometimes you can't trust them. Elene, do you know if cities get a grant for when they have a high crime rate, like do they get revenue? Do cities get money when you have high crime? The mayor did declare a state of emergency. So she's getting funding for that. Okay, so that is yes. I mean, but your thoughts though the money, you know, every time they put up the big check and stuff, all this money millions, thousands, you know, but what is that? Where is that money going? That's still not getting the guns off the streets. It seems like all the money in the world, you know what I'm saying, the illegal guns are still on the street. Well, I think yeah, and that's true. But I think the extra money can go to possibly organizations who will already have And I think this is one of the questions that we spoke about or spoke yeah, that we spoke to the now mayor about, is why reinvent the will? If it's people organizations out there that's doing good work, why wouldn't you just support them in continuing doing the work that they're doing, right, And those particular funds or our finances from all of the money quote unquote can go to those organizations instead of creating other programs that essentially you don't even know they become case studies at this point, right, And so that has happened, and you know, I think twenty twenty one was the year that we saw the historic number of homicides in the city of Philadelphia, I believe, and I can't remember the timeline, but I believe after that, they gave millions of dollars to organizations that were basically geared towards gun violence. And we have seen each year there has been a decrease in gun violence, but not big enough though, because the twenty twenty three decrease, what was that under twenty percent? It needs to be more like fifty percent or completely stop. But then under twenty percent, that's not good at all. Well, I understand what you're saying. I would rather see a ten percent decrease than to see five hundred and sixty two homicides. And then then you know, each years, Yeah, so it changes from what one hundred, just like the Purple was saying on the it changes like one hundred to not minus one hundred some years up one hundred one years. You know that it has to be one hundred or less. That's the only way to really see if Philly's making private hundred murders and killings are less none at all. That's really the real I agree, but the reality of it is idol ish. That happens, right that the best case scenario is one hundred and less. Right, that's best case scenario. Realistically, watching a hundred less murder says that it's something happening that's preventing the one hundred plus murders from happening, right, And so we have to understand what was the catalyst that caused the one hundred less murders to happen. Once we know that, then we can say, Okay, now we have two hundred less, right. And so I do believe that there is some merit to say that there are, because one hundred is a pretty big number. I mean, it's not like, oh, we got fifty less or twenty less than go ahead. Well, I was just gonna say that. In twenty twenty one, that was when we saw the five sixty two, and twenty twenty two we saw a nine percent decrease. It was down to five hundred and fourteen homicides, and then in twenty twenty three there was a twenty percent decrease of four hundred and ten homicides. That doesn't include the non fatal shootings and all that, because there were other shootings during those years. People got mad, all because of coronavirus though, once coronavirus happened, people everyone started to going singing in their own way too. So coronavirus has something to do with it. It wasn't. It wasn't all the elected corporate businesses, every everyone was losing their mind when coronavirus happened. That's a part of the madness. But then now coronavirus is over. Some people wear masks, some people don't. You got to get your shots and stuff. But you know, it's just like your last guests, Purple, what she was saying. You know, this is not new news. It's been the same thing. People like Patty Jackson from wdas, people like Will Smith. You know what I'm saying. No matter all that drama in Hollywood whatever, Chris Rock and stuff, just people like them need to do a little more positive messaging, like making a video Meek Mill and stuff. Patty Jackson, Yes, what Patty Jackson, she does good. Everyone respects Patty Jackson. Everyone don't respect Patty Jackson. And the one in the people that the people who were talking about even think about Patty jack What is Patty Jackson going to change? When it comes to someone a brother, young brother in the street, they look at Patty Jackson, like court you, maybe even Will Smith they like Will. I can't necessarily touch Will if we start talking about maybe Gilly, if we start talking about maybe a meek Mill, we're talking about people that's that's their peers. Patty Jackson don't have no peers that's in the street. Are you I'm ready, I'm ready to I'm ready to retort. But debate didn't put the last guest Purple when she in an Instagram video or so, I looked her up after she was on here, she was like, Patty Jackson was supporting her. I don't know, it's business, but then not get you. But that's right, Patty Jackson supports right. But I would I would argue that even Sage do have more of a uh kind of a communicative uh It's like, how can I put it? I believe that Sage the black well, he's more of a not only more of activist, but I believe she can that that that particular generation can be able to she can touch that generation. She literally does, and I feel like I'm caping for her, which I'm not. And I don't want that to appear to be because that's not what we do on the show. But when we see the people who's doing work. Size of Black Girld literally has a program that invites young boys in women girls to produce music that's nonviolent, to promote nonviolence literally directly to the community. Right, she wants to pay a thousand dollars a month. Exactly. Tell me what Patty Jackson is doing the thing about it is? That was a deep breath. No, it ain't no thing about it. This is something I want you to be direct with. Tell me what Patty Jackson is doing for the young community that would make them essentially stop shooting each other. And I wait, no, no, you're moving a gold post. But I disclaim, go ahead, go ahead, No, I I love, I love, I got you. But for the record, right, we love she. I mean she's she's she's an icon of Philadelphia. You see what I'm saying. Right, No, No, but see that I understand because I want to use their platform right hundred percent. But what we want to do is make change. We want to make change. We want to stop. We want that remember that one hundred or less, right, we want a hundred or less shootings. Patty Jackson ain't doing anything that's in the streets talking about or talking to the young folks to stop killing each other. I shouldn't. I shouldn't say that. I'm gonna just say that I would if she is, I would like to see more of that. But if we're talking about truly affecting change, we need Patty Jackson, we need uh Quincy que Harris, we need me, No, we need everybody. Mean to say, what we need everybody is not just one particular person, not in DJ Diamond Cuts. And I think the problem is we get caught up with saying, oh, this person is gonna snap and have a magic bullet, and that's not accurate. We need the parents, we need people. We need Uncle Bobby from the church. We need the barbershops, the estheticians, we need the hairstylis, we need the designers. We need everybody talk about like yo, yo, this is what it is, right, And that's my point. I'm saying that you're accurate. I'm saying that we need more. We need everybody to stand out and effect change. You're right, my brother. People are already doing it though, just like barbershops are they doing it? But then why is it a repeated cycle? It's like we're all just you know, stuff is so like different nowadays everything, Yeah, stuff is so different. But like especially I like the barbershop one and stuff. That's the barbershops. But doing it right, forgive, but they can get more resources to do it even more. Like literally barbershops, what they do is by virtue of what they do. You have a young a young guy sitting in their chair talking about life. You have for the most part a younger or older gentleman. That's that's serving as a leadership position in that moment talking to the young kid. I see it up down from oh you know what, I'm sorry, cut you, I got it. But you know what with Philadelphia needs more is like like Charlemagne, the guy says on the Breakfast Club, more mental health, the mental health resources, because what makes people want to take out a gun and shoot somebody. Everyone can get mad at each other, women on women, girl on girl, you know they them, he heard, But you know what, it's the mental health of someone to pull a trigger and I want to murder somebody. You know how much mental you have to be to do that and how much you know what I'm saying, kahunas, you have to have to kill somebody you know what I'm saying. Let's you know, it's sometimes it's self defense, you know what I'm saying. If they're trying to attack your family or something, it's a little different. But you know, besides, I got like, there's a shooting in Upper Darby and stuff. These two guys were fighting over money. That's the oldest trick, I mean, the oldest, you know, arguing in the book about some money. I was just like, and then he pulled out a gun and shot him, and I'm just like, you know, stuff like that. It's people. We have to have more mental health resources. And I only mentioned people like Patty Jackson and all the celebrities and stuff. Is because you know, they have that platform and stuff, but sometimes they don't want to get too involved. But then again they want to get involved. They make a movie about it or something. But I tell you the person one of my favorites is uh Will Smith. And no matter the Chris Rock stuff, if he came out here Will Smith and just did a lot more ful Philly. He already is probably doing a lot of stuff, but if he just came out here and just so you know what, and actually, you know, takes a lot of Anonymous stuff. Right, Anonymous does take some of these guys like Meek milling them and Quincy. I met Quincy Harris from Fox twenty ninety before cod and that's that's one of the people who don't get acknowledged for the work that he does. Right, More people got to be taken out of Philly and get more chances. Though it seems like the last the more recentable war was from Abbot Elementary Quincon Brunson. You know what I'm saying, that's like more rappers should be be signing more rappers. That's the thing you have you need. And again I just want to put this disclaimer out there. We love, we Love, I mean, she is icon of Philadelphia the rap right. My point, well, my position is the only way you're going to get to people who are doing something is by way of their peers. Otherwise it's going to appear that oh that's like my mom telling me I can't do X, Y and Z. But there is a train so Patty can make that phone call to the like people to say, hey, I need to support for you to come out and do this, like what is it peace on the street or things like that. But I get both of your points. But I think what you're saying, see is that this generation is not the gen Z's. It's not the word, it's the you know, it's the not the gen X, it's the gen Z's and the millennials. It's a certain generation that they're not going to even hear her because of the position of where she is as Auntie. Does that make sense? So I see, But I have a story later on Saudia Shuler. Saudia Shuler is somebody who's always telling like, listen, put down the guns, come down here, and if you do what, I'm gonna let you finish. But if she in a position of like say, for example, if she was mentioned like Patty Jackson, if she was mentioned little, she's in them streets. She's in them streets. She get all the hate in the world, but she's in them. I can't remember. I can't even think of one woman who has done more than she has in the past couple of years. And I DeBow. I'll challenge anyone to cut to prove me wrong. This woman hits the ground, running hard, helping on community. What's the mistake that Jim Kenny made. I don't know, what is that I don't know. That's why. That's what's Cheryl Parker grid you different from Jim Kenny. He got tired. Oh he did get tired. Yeah, he got tired and real quick. I had when you guys were talking about Purple Sija Blackwell, she mentioned about the guns and saying, Okay, if we can't get the guns, let's let's talk about the bullets. Let's make it where it's hard or accessible to get the bullets, because you can't use a gun unless you have bullets. My question is, why aren't they thinking of it that way or putting tracking systems on these guns or tracking systems on these bullets. I mean, you know what I mean, Like, why isn't there a way to say who's doing straw purchases or ghost purchases? Like there has to be a plan. It's not just it can't be just oh, we know that this is a problem. It has to be solution based to say this is what we're going to do now. They did have it where I think the shot right browns or shot right at one point where if you just bring in the gun, you bring it, you get a hundred dollars gift card. But people were doing that now I think you're onto something. Now if you are, you well, first of all, a gun on the street, you can get literally between one hundred and fifty and two hundred dollars a gun. If they offer a thousand dollars a gun like a phone. That's exactly that's the way you want to get people. If you mean to tell me, I spent maybe my if I'm young, I spent maybe my last two hundred dollars sneaky money that I didn't get a pair of sneakers, and I bought me a a disposable gun, so to speak, right, two hundred dollars. If you tell me that thousand dollars, one thousand dollars, no questions asked. That if you bring me a gun, especially a straw purchase gun or whatever gun you bring it to me, I'm going to give you a thought. You think I want to turn a gun if you're gonna have about finally, exactly not only that, I'm going in my man draw, I'm giving you that's the way that I'm gonna take a gun. Rob somebody to gun back programs. Right, how much is it though, like you guys said, like one hundred maybe more, But they got a lot of money. It's Johnson, president of council. He does that. He said, yeah, Kanta Johnson, does that get those those old guns and yeah, like the ones that haven't been operable, revolvers that fifteen years old. No, we want but see that's a thousand dollars go by time frame, like you do cars. Anything over a certain like a phone. Just like a phone, that's you get generation this, you get money. That's the thing. We can even incorporate safe example Sam Sung say, for example, Apple to be a part of this gun buy back pro if you give a gun back now, not only that they're giving back to the community when they're saying that exactly Apple that if you turn in a gun, you get a brand new phone. Who wouldn't do that? Who would't do that? Just like you? And it's not even money at this point because now they have the manufacturer that can produce phones. It's not like you're producing money at the mess point. And with all these electric you know, electronics, that's what kids want. That's right, that's right. I was gonna say. I feel like there has to be like you know, it can't be a one, one size fits all approached. It has to be like a conglomerate amount of things that are are done. And especially like I've seen people and victims who are suing the gun manufacturers. That's something that you know people can do because it's like if you know people are just able to get guns and just get these ar Ak fifteens and especially the ones that aren't even twenty one years old, it's like, come on, like I definitely would do that. Yeah, so I would just say I would say this, I one agree with you. It's going to take different perspectives, different options. It's so many different variables. There's so many different people who purchase guns. It's people who purchase guns the correct way. So are you saying that you're gonna uh fault me or you gonna you know, you know, reprimand me because I want to purchase bullets now, I want to purchasesels now, so you're gonna make it harder for me. And I got my gun legally right, And so it's a lot of different variables that you have to go through to say, Okay, this is the way we believe that it's going to suit the best for the community, for the society, and this is the way that we can potentially do it, but everyone has to have And here's another idea. Maybe some people won't agree with this, but why don't you offer gun safety in schools if you educate people, because a lot of times these guns that they shooting, they shooting the wrong people because they don't even know how to shoot the gun, you know what I mean. So why is it that if you can't beat them, join them approach to say, okay, these are certain classes at a certain timeframe that you can teach them about gun safety, how to empty the magazine, or even offer it where you can take them the classes, because now they going to find a way to shoot this gun with a friend, versus if you went to a course with an instructor to show you proper handlement of a gun. Because that's because everyone is in on the same page. You got the right wing saying, you know, guns don't kill people. People kill people. Then you got the left wing conservatives you don't need a gun, period, don't use a gun. No one, exactly, no one is willing to meet in the middle and say, hey, we see that this is a pretty much a pandemic. We see that this is a virus going through the city especially in Philadelphia. People murdering each other like they got COVID is something right, and so we need to come to a decision and say, hey, we know that there's an issue. This is how we fix it, or we don't have them fixed. But we can have people to sit at the table and say what are the fixes? Go ahead? And thenis yeah, I was gonna say, I know too. You know, to Sparkle's point, I know two firearm instructors. They both have taught their children how to shoot guns, how to take them apart, clean them, put them back together, all that because they don't want them to get older and then try to figure it out on their own. I want to I want to say this comment because this is a great comment. Chanelle said. What such Chanel? She said, the plan is possibly to allow the city to get so bad that leave many parts of the city will see urban renewal is interesting, Yeah, renewal, and then yep are moved back in. Then the people wow, yeah, I didn't think it is then the people that left will not be able to afford to come back. There's not see and I'm gonna i'mnna just give you context of her in a minute Uh, there's not way. This is not a way that the city falls into disay, disarray with no signs of getting better without it being a concerted effort to allow it to happen. Now, the reason why I say that she's really onto something. This is someone who was in the real estate and she's very acclimated with what was going on in terms of the things in the city, the development in the city. And I didn't even think about this, but I leave, she's onto something. Shout out this good stuff. I mean, that's again, it's nothing new, like even in the housing market when it was just what it was, the red zone where certain black people weren't allowed to live at certain times, redline. So it's similar, you know what I mean, it's nothing new under the sun. It's like, okay, move them out. Like everybody used to live suburban and every all the black people was in the city. Well guess what's flipping, no doubt. Well we could talk about this all, but we went so much past the time. This was a great This was a great topic. My brother. How can they get in contact with you and find out all the good things about you? And of course you know you're a friend to the social You're definitely coming back, but how can people find out more about you, listen to you and all that good of stuff. The main website is Race for Peace dot org and our Facebook pages at RFPC social Media where we have events yearly events and stuff. And then that's that's the best way is RFPC Social Media and then Race for Peace dot Org. And then my last comment is I want to get personally and my opinion is I want to get guns permanent off the streets permanently. But I understand the gun education. That's where urban navigation. You know, a co founder of Philly Technician Training to Don Jackson, he agrees with y'all on that is that gun education, especially in the Philly school district and stuff. But it's the gun violence and it's happening throughout the counties too. And that's the thing that's happening all over Pennsylvania, the whole state. It used to be just Philly and kill it off and all that, but it's happening in the counties too, So you know, it's everywhere now, the whole state of per My brother, my brother, all right, y'all want you to go anywhere when we come back, You're gonna do a little sizzles. We're gonna go back into the sizzle before we go. I wanna get some news. This is real funny. Sometimes I get these alerts, and I thought this was super funny. Trump announces official sneakers selling for three hundred and ninety nine dollars a pair in surprise of parents, following three hundred and fifty five million in while civil fraud trial outcome. You can find this on the New York Post by Rich Calder. Hold On, hold On, it just went out. It says Donald Trump is literally trying to be the Bigfoot his way back to the White House. The Republican front runner on Sunday launch a new sneaker line, including Golden Never Surrender high tops during the surprise appearance that sneaker kind in Philadelphia that was actually the day. President Trump's official sneaker, which is also adorned with American flag logos, run three hundred and ninety nine a pop and is available in limited supply. According to the website Hawking Them Trump. That's a low top style is also offered an either t Red or police white, both with a golden forty five on the side. The slip on sales for one hundred and ninety nine dollars. That is hillarious. Flight change happened, that's funny. Before you leave, someone Chanelle said this, She said, what are your thoughts about stopping frist just for gunning? Oh right, see that's the thing we could go go ahead, I'll let you talk about the gohead. Yeah, stopping frist part. I forgot to mention that that it's always it always comes down to our black and brown people where they don't want it to be a race thing, like you stop in black a young black man, a young brown boy or something the police. See that's the thing. I wasn't gonna say this, but sometimes that the new commissioner, Kevin Bethel, he might need to start doing old school tactics, but not do it illegally. You know what I'm saying. Old school, You know what I'm saying. But like you know, the stopping frist is it's very controversial because if they're stopping black or brown boys and stuff in the street or whatever, it's just it's it's illegal because it's not they're not looking for him unless they're out looking for him or something. They didn't commit a crime. Yeah, they'll stop and frists. That's the thing, you know, it's almost like it's illegal. Well that's already come into question with that guy that was killed in the poppy store. Yeah. Yeah, they call it terry stopps. They don't call it. Who calls it terry stops. Let's be specific. Our mayor refers to it as Terry stopps. Correct, And she spoke. If you look back at our other interviews when we spoke with her, she explains the difference that she feels as though a stopping FRIS versus a terry stop. And David, oh, yeah, so explained it. They don't explain it. He refuted that absolutely is still to stop in first. I don't care how you put it. To stop in first. And the problem is is that no matter what good intention that you have and you give people the authority are boys in blue authority, you still have some bad cops out there. And it doesn't matter the intention. You have bad cops that feels that they automatically target you, systemically target you black and brown folk as someone who may be doing something so allegedly they have a reason to potentially pull you up stopping first. And that's the problem with it. It doesn't matter what you call it. It's mill intentions of certain bad apples that's going to get highlighted for doing something wrong. And then you have people that's being shot and killed, like the person that was in the bodega, and that's the problem. Stopping risus bad period. It's bad period. I just have a hard time under trying to understand how there's an initiative world push for community policing and then you have stopping frists. It's just like it's like an oxymoron, I mean to me, because you know, there's already a strained relationship between the black community and police, and to fix that, I just can't see that happening with stopping That's what organizations racial peace. We try to do events promote positivity with police officers and citizens of black and brown community, and that's what's needed. That's that's exactly what's needed. But then why is gun violence still rising every year and repeatedly? Why is it always so high? But don't I don't blame the I don't blame police for that though, right, and so I think that's the problem. We have to start disconnecting, uh, the ideals on what causes what the police don't cause the gun violence in the city, at least in my opinion, it's not the police, right, I think it's other causes. So we need to address what that particular cause is. And in order to address that particular cause, we have to pinpoint what that cause is and then address it, right, which we don't know what that is at this point. And the conversation and built on solutions is having more people at the table instead of people pontificating because they got degrees on this is what's going to stop, and and they not even the ones that's in the street. If they take the guns, if they take the guns off the streets period, the gun education, I partially agree with all y'all about. But if they take the guns off the street and make it extremely hard to buy guns, ghost guns unless you literally have a license, you can get a license to carry it, and you're approved to get a license to carry a gun, they got to make it harder that like that housepill of Malcolm Chanyata and State Red Morgan Seifa, that House pill seven seven seven was a perfect example what they did on January seventeenth in the Penny. So I just want to give a little clarity on that if they make it harder to about ghost guns, because if they make it harder to purchase guns legally, all you're gonna have is people who are trying to purchase guns illegally, which is the problem if you ask me, if I'm being honest, they need to make it a little easier to purchase guns and track the people who there who's buying those guns, so you know who's actually buying the guns and you can go back to the people who that to me, but it's too easy, it makes too much sense. Real quick, quick question what country is it that they can't have guns but they went and inclined with knives with Oh, I don't know, there's somewhere. Yeah, it's somewhere. If somebody in the comments could tell me it's somewhere where they don't have guns but they have knives. And the reason I mentioned that is that you get rid of the not the guns. Does the crime rates still is the crime rates still gonna go up? The crime rate will decrease. If you get rid of the guns, the crime will decrease all because of gun violence. Yes, yes, I was going to say, but his position is accurate, But it's not. It's a mute point because we already have the gun. So if we have the n r A is running this country, there is no way, all right, So we're gonna have to address all because we're going to keep talking about that, I know, right. But to his point, he did say, how do you decrease gun violence? And you mentioned mental health, Dealing with mental health, dealing with poverty, dealing with the minimum wage, dealing you know, increasing that in dealing with drug drug addiction and things like that. Those things will help, all right, So we gotta go. Ladies and gentlemen, give them, uh, I give you, yeah, good job on the conversation. Why don't you tell him how they can get in contact with you and all that little stuff one more time? Race Race for Peace dot org at r f PC, social media on Facebook and that crazy thing. I'm gon sneak you collecting. I'm like, just grab these pics, but I don't want to contribute to get a pair of yeez. Dude, Yeah, I get I get the socks, the socks, socks, sock walkers. You know that's funny. But I don't want you guys to go anywhere. When we come back, We're gonna go right into the sizzle. Don't go to where We'll be right back, y'all. Stuns up, sluns up, knock up, suck suck up, suck suck suck up, suck suck LP Philadelphia one on six point five film. We talked after and talk with your boy Charlesburg and the beautiful Laurence is beautiful, Hold on your mic is off one more again, classy lady Sparkle. Sparkle is definitely in the building. And you know what we got coming up next. We got the sizzle. We got the sizel Ladies and gentlemen, give it to me early, all right. So this story is what in the name of black history is this kind of foolishness? So Rachel dolazou Uh, the former local NAACP chapter president who went viral for masquerading as a black woman, is now in the spotlight after being fired for her only fans account. So for those of you who do not know what only fans, I'm sure everybody knows, but for those who don't. It's an app that was created in twenty sixteen as a way for creators, specifically those creating adult rated radedar content, to make money. They offer subscriptions, dms, pay per view tips and more to their fans in exchange for services or whatever they do well. Rachel Dolazou, who now legally goes by the name of in Kichi Diallo, was fired from her job at Catalina Foothills Unified School District in Arizona after they learned about her OnlyFans account. So a spokesperson from the school said, her posts are a contrary to our district's use of social media by district employee policy. Back in twenty twenty two, Rachel Dolazou went viral again after some photos from her photos were leaked of her in lingerie from her OnlyFans account. So, although she started employment with the school district last year as an after school instructor and substance teacher, they never learned of her only only Fans account until recently prompting them to relieve her of her duties. So in twenty fifteen, Rachel was outsted from her position as a local and NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Washington after pictures of her as a full fledged white woman surfacing the Internet. She was forced to admit to being born white despite identifying as black and then shortly after that hashtag Rachel Dolazo became a permanent fixture to describe a transracial person. So she is out of a job again because of her only fans. What is the fascination with these only fans? She? First of all, from my understanding, she was a really good teacher, like a really like a great teacher, instructor whatever you would like to call her. Like, why do you have an only fans? What's the fascinating I guess it's a question for all the leaders, but I don't. I don't. I just don't get it because it's don't she is she getting paid? Yeah, that's where this the money. Yeah, that's where that's where. That's where to answer your question. See it's the money the bag. Yeah. She was kind of saying, like this page, this account is just for people to get to know me. But you know, a lot of the stuff she was posting was racy, so no pun intended. It was racy. It's gonna happen, it's gonna be messing a lot of folks up. Yeah, And then they were saying a lot of teachers were laid off because they had only fans accounts and they were kind of doing stuff that didn't go along with the school's policies. So it's it's it's crazy because you can't really make any money, Like that's crazy. Yeah, all right, So at the twenty twenty fourth Super Bowl, Usher showed America while he's still the king of R and B. Shout out to Usher. Uh. He managed to cram a huge portion of his catalog into a thirteen minute performance while sharing the stage with so many of the grades. So here's a little breakdown of Usher's halftime performance. So Usher opened up with songs caught Up, you Don't Have to Call Superstar before he moon walked on into Love and the Club. So next up, Usher brought out Alicia Keys for what critics called the epic vocal fail, which she opened up with her hit song if I Ain't Got You. As she hit her first note, whoop, her voice cracked, but she kept on singing. But the NFL shout out to the NFL. They jumped in instantaneously, and they edited that crack out and aired the edited version just that quick. So well, people quickly took notice of the switch, and some tweeted out the unedited version like here you go, I don't know how they did that that quick, but they were coming at her next saying Alicia forgot her keys. Yeah, but you know, the internet just didn't rest like many complaints about Usher's performance with Alicia Keys. People complained about him hugging and caressing Alicia and she's a married woman, but shout out to Swiss Beats and he came to the rescue. Rescue when he leader posted a photo of Usher and Alisha along with the caption saying, y'all worried about the wrong thing. Y'all worried about the wrong thing. So a lot of questions about Jermaine dupries attire. He had on a suit with shorts and he had on what appeared to be some ruffle socks. Charles c. Maybe you can explain Jermaine Dupriez. Look, but a lot of people just weren't happy with it, like what what what was what was that? What was it? They were actually and they didn't have rulph was on them. I mean it was kind of the little little kid like I forgot the name of those, but I mean, you know, it's one of he was trying to be fashionable. I think the problem is is people forget that even when you're trying to be fashionable, right, Uh, there's still some rules. There's still rules to the game. And it's if you don't follow the rules no matter what you put on, whether it be name brand or not, you're gonna look crazy. If you remember some of the rules, then you probably not black black shoes and white sox only, Michael J. But it was, it was, it was amplified. The visual was amplified because how long the shorts were. Yeah, and you're you're you're a fashion expert. Hm, so so, but that's but that's the thing in your expertise. Yes, So in my expertise, he wanted the rules that you don't do is wear when you're that short, you wear those long shorts, right because because then you be looking like and that's the problem. Right, So you still have to remember some rules when you're when you're wearing certain things. And I would advise him one is probably change the color. But I don't I didn't do the homework on what the actual wear was. I know the socks I believe was Louis for time. It was something that's out of the Parrail news line. But what I will say is you know these these entertainers are starting to wear clothes that's pushing off on guard right and trying to make a statement and at the same time calling it ready to wear and it's not. It's just not. And so I would just say that Jermaine du Prix, you that was a fascial faux pas and he get five thumbs down if that's even a thing. But go ahead, just like the soup jackets with the kilts, like just to stop. Hers electric guitar solo was phenomenal. So shout out to Usher and for putting her on the stage because she literally blue well blue, I was gonna say blue a roof off of that place with the with that that was amazing. I love that part. Rapper Will i Am hit the stage to co perform OMG with Usher. People kept saying they thought he was Kanye. That was crazy. The skates segment, the skate segment was dual. The skates he came he didn't he come here and skate? Did he come to Philly and skate? Yeah? I don't know. Did he come back to Philly? I thought somebody had a video on him and he was skating and he fell or something. Man, I mean Philly. We got some skated here in Philly. I'm I'm trying to tell you, like we shot off to the skater shout off to Millennium skating ring, shout out to my old g's that went to you know right, oh like Southwest you we know Yeah, And the finale of Usher's song Yeah was the perfect close out with little John Ludacris the marching band. Usher really put atl on the map with this halftime performance. Overall, I thought it was a great performance. Usher still had the moves of his twenty one year old self. How old is Usher? He's forty five? Right, Wow? I think he's forty five. But he still had those moves, vocals were on point. He had several outfit changes and I love them all. He even went shirtless during his uh you got a bad performance? So it just was. It was a great performance, even though, like I did see mixed reviews about it. Of course, you had, you know, some people just like it was just okay. Some people said it was subpar. A lot of people said it was great. I thought it was great. Go ahead, Uh sure, oh sure, yes, yes, yeah. So next year Super Bowl is twenty twenty four. People are saying like, Lol, Wayne, what y'all think it was? Like, if Lil Wayne come, he gonna bring out the friends, he gonna bring out everybody, Drake, Nicki Minaj, you know the crew that's gonna be hot. I like how they do that though, it's like almost like a camaraderie type exactly. Instead of just one performance, they started to bring people out. Yes, now do they get paid for Super Bowl? No? So because they were talking about he made like less than seven hundred dollars from the old thing after he paide everything off. But you know, it's kind of like when you when you host the Oscars or or the Emmy Awards, that that your career is slated to take off after that. But the Celebrity Sizzle Award of the Week goes to Travis Scott. Travis Scott, in partnership with his Cactus Jock Cactus Jack found Foundation, hosted the twenty twenty four Cactus Jack Foundation HBCU Celebrity Softball Classic Game at Houston's Minute May Park. The Star Study event features celebrities like Tianna Taylor, Scarface, Neo, Anthony Mackie, Jose Conseco, and many others who came out to show their support. So according to the Cactus Jack Foundation website, proceeds from the event will go directly to Wayman Webster's Scholarship Fund, Travis Scott's Jack Cactus Jack Foundation, and Project Heel Initiative. The Wayman Webster Scholarship Fund has granted one hundred ten thousand dollars scholarships to graduating seniors at HBCUs. In twenty twenty two, the Waymen Webster Scholarship Fund provided one million dollars in scholarships to one hundred seniors at historically back black colleges and universities to apply towards their tuition fees. So I am Lawrence Sizzle and was a sizzle, and that was a sistan. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm your boy. Charles Gerg with the beautiful Lawrence, beautiful classic Lady Sparkle. We talked week these after they're talking WPP MLP Philadelphia one o six point five FM. We talked weeklies after the talk. Uh, we have another interview that's coming on shortly. I think that, uh who I like these. I'm looking at some more sneakers. After Trump sneakers popped up, I started looking at other sneakers. Uh you know, yeah right, so, uh, I'm excited for this next interview. This is someone with my a tremendous amount of respect for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So, without further ado, classic lady ready for me? Yeah, all right, why don't you tell us? Who do we have today? Who do we have to day? Sure? Today we're gonna meet Kodiza Lyley, a multi lingual, dynamic entrepreneur whose journey from Morocco to France and finally to the United States is a testament to her resilience and their determination will delve into her rich cultural roots, her family upbringing, her educational pursuit, and her remarkable rise as a CEO of three successful companies in the construction industry. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome to Cadija Lightly Hello, Hello, Hello, Hi everybody, thank you, thank you? Wow? How are you? I am overwhelmed, overwhelmed. I am so glad to meet you all, and thank you for having me on the show. This is a blessing. Very You're beautiful. Thank you. I tried to have a different look today, you know, Oh we love it. Thank you so let's talk since since it's standing out first of all. First of all, first of all, I love the color that's on look amazing. Thanks great on your skin. I love it. Let's talk about the sash. What does the sash say? We can't quite see it, so why don't you let us know, talk to us a little bit about that. Okay, this one in the bag Missus Georgia globose look Chi flexing. Which one would you like to see? First, let's talk about the one on the back, and then let's talk about the one that you have one right now? Okay, So the one on the back, Missus Georgia Globe. So I was crown Missus Georgia Glow twenty twenty three all year last year, and this was a blessing, you know, being Crome Missus Georgia Globe. Even though if you guys know my story what happened. I was supposed to do the Missus USA, but my daughter broke a calibond, so I had to be a mother obviously, you know, and took care of her. So I had to resign from the competition. But me having a good faith, you know, I'm teaching my kids that pageant is every year, and God may have something bigger for me, you know, me being Moroccan. You know, I grew up in France, but I was born in Morocco. I always said that I felt like I wanted to represent my country, you know. Anyhow, so that was in the back of my head anyways. So that's what I have. One thing led to another, you know, and stumble into the Missus Universe UAE in Dubai and they wanted me to be part of the pageantry. And I was like, this is perfect because I am Moroccan and they wanted me to represent my country. And I was crowned then Missus Morocco Universe this time, so this was even better for me, and it was most suiting for me as being Moroccan, you know, and all the things that I do, I want. I'm representing other women in Morocco and the life that they go through as a woman. You know, it's not easy. You know me myself, you know my story. You know, I grew up in a very strict family. You know, I was raised you got to go to the school and then come home. I didn't have the right to go out really, and having three brothers, it was like having three dads on top of it. So being Missus Morocco means a lot to me. It's not just beauty. It is really to me, it's not beauty, it's beyond the beauty. It's beyond it's it's standing for ourselves as women, you know, and especially in the country where women are not very well respected. Now taking it down now to the Middle East. You know, women are the same, you know. So this is what I'm plodding for with this sash, is to represent women and in my industry that I am taking over a male dominated industry construction me and my husband, you know, as you can see in the in the court Dreams page. You know, with my husband, I'm the only woman, you know. Then I created my own company, Manufeit pools the same thing as a male dominated industry, and I'm just loving it. I am here to thrive and represent women all the countries. It's not just Morocco itself or Dubai or Middle East. Is the whole world. You know that women we can do a man job. You know. Interesting, What are some of the things and thank you for sharing that. What are some of the things I know that you said? You know, living in Morocco as far as with you know, as women. What are some of the things that women are still oppressed in Dubai or Morocco than they are differently here in the US. Great question being a woman in Morocco in Africa is the woman has to stay at home to take care of the children. The women that cannot dress up good, if they dress up some kind of way, they look at us like we are prostitute, like we are meat if you will, you know, And that's that's bothering us. I just had a talk with my cousin yesterday and she was saying the same thing with a woman is regardless if we can dress up good, even with a nice suit, we are seen as no respect, you know, still to this day. And that's what I'm trying to break this with my own experience, you know, in my own life that no, we're not, you know, prostitute just because we have a job, or because we dress up you know a certain way, you know, all these things, you know, and this is still going on right now, especially in the villages in my country. In Morocco, women stays at home cocaine and cleaning while the man is going to take care of the family twenty twenty four is still this way, you know, wow, and that sounds that's such a stark difference between here in the US feels though, the empowerment of women is on the rise, where men are saying that they are actually one in women to do a lot of the domestic stuff, where women are taking on more of the masculine roles they do, they do and us as women and I always bring God into the mix because we birth human, you know, we are we can manage everything with a child number one. So to me, all women are all CEOs regardless, you know. That's why we can do anything, and we can juggle, you know, taking care of the baby, dropping us cool, cleaning and cooking and as childrun in a business. You know, that's what God wanted us to be. We all CEOs, all women mothers, you know. So what do you what do you feel needs to happen, whether it be legislation, whether it be more entrepreneurial opportunities for women. What needs to happen for us to be able to because you do see women doing things now Black women are the fastest grossing entrepreneurs. Absolutely, What needs to happen to continue to support them that, you know, so so that momentum continues. Well, legislation are going ongoing right now in Morocco. Definitely trying to put the women on top, you know, and break the barriers, definitely, and it's just a matter of really pushing women to become owners and literally just stand up for themselves. That's what we are now, is to help one another, you know, that little push the inspiration, you know, That's where I'm at right now. You know, you mentioned that you're in like a male dominated world. Tell us more about some of those challenging moments that you face and how do you overcome and what you're doing now in the construction industry. Being a woman in a male dominated field is not easy and you have to prove a lot, you know, me coming into this pool company and doing the job that I do, and I do it well. See that's the thing when you come in in this kind of interesting in any job, to be honest, just because you're a woman, you have to prove yourself ten times more. Right, So I take things very seriously. When I do something, I do it all the way and I have to do it the right way, you know, so I push myself. You know, to prove I see, that's part of my life. You know. I had to prove myself that I can't do it all my life. You know, if I wanted to go out, for example, and I had to cook and clean a little bit more. Yeah, you know, for my parents to let me go out here, same thing, this dominated field, like, I got to go above and beyond to show them that I'm a woman. I'm this size, I'm petite or whatever, but I have knowledge, you know. And I treat them the right way too. That's what I do. I don't treat them as though they are my employees so much, but I I the human comes out. You know. I'm not just a seio that you know, you gotta do this, you got to do that. But I treat them like the human. And I tell my employees all the time, I say, you guys are really like artists because what I do is not just concrete and they used to concrete in the pool industry and stuff like that. But I tell them all because I do design, you know, I find a niche in that industry that's blowing my mind, like wow, nobody has done it the way I'm doing it. So I'm taking it seriously. But then again I push my employees to let them. I empower them, even their men, you know, but they used to do like driveways and stuff like that, and they see my design with the concrete and they are they're like filled with joy, like this is something different, you know, And that's what I like. I want them to go to work knowing that it's a good thing. I don't want anybody to wake up and say, I don't want to go to this kind of job. I don't want to do this, get up and that's what I don't want. I push them to have a happy life knowing that you're doing something that is different every day, because with my design is always different. It's not like the concrete driver that they do, you know. And empower them, you know, empower women, but I also empower my employee as man too, you know. There you go. One of the things that I want to back up with is the love and dedication that you have from your father. Right you talked a lot about construction and kind of like what inspired you. I want to talk a little bit about daddy right now. How uh how active is he in your your your endeavors now you know, and was he excited for you know, your miss Morocco and all of your achievements and things that you have been doing. Absolutely and to say the list again, I wanted to prove myself to my dad, you know, that I can't do it that what he did. So he was just the construction worker, you know. And I've seen him all my life, you know, being building houses in the rain, in the hold during Ramadan and fasting, you know, because we're Muslim, and I saw him, you know, struggle, and I was like wow, and to me, I'm the little girl. I'm still his little girl, you know, and I now that I am the CEO of a company, and I show him. I was like, look, look that I'm building Shack's pool, Like wow, the people are working for me. Like I don't do this what you used to do. I don't have to put my hands to it, but I have to put my mind, my intelligence, you know, and the management towards it. And I'm just like it's a proud moment for me to prove my to show my dad like that little girl is not a little girl anymore and she's taking over your field, you know. So it's very proud, very proud, and me being a woman, like I said, and we are Moroccan. It's another layer to it, you know. And I'm the only daughter in the family. I'm the last one. I'm the baby taking on the big thing. You know. It was a proud moment, you know, very proud, no doubt. Daddy's little girl. Daddy's yeah. Absolutely. So let's talk a little bit about the love story twenty thirteen, and we talked about that. Now, let's talk about the other man in your life. The beautiful man is now your husband. You had one man, got one man and he's watching right now, so you better watched out, that's right. But you have two beautiful children, right, It's like, let's talk about where the love story began and children and let's let's let's talk a little bit about that. That's funny, the little love story. So I came in here in the US, you know, if you know my backstory, I dodged domestic violence in France, a relationship for five years, and again I must find ways to escape. But also that's going to benefit me, you know, not just to live, just to live, right, So you know, I study five languages, but studying at school, Sitting at school is one thing, but practice is another. So what I did was I applied for a job in the US, you know, as a exchange program. So when I came, I was I was linked with this family in Atlanta. So I had a choice to go to another city or whatever, another state I can't even remember, but God led me to Atlanta for some reason. It was Atlanta, so I came in here. So I worked with this family. And so the dad, the father or whatever, the kids, he is the one who actually links with my husband Jay. He told my husband saying, you have to stay right now because this girl she's coming right now. You're gonna love her, and you don't come right now, somebody is going to take her away. And at this point I can do nothing. So that's what happened. It was like a football super Bowl. I don't even know. I don't really follow all these things, but it was a super Bowl kind of thing on Sunday. And then he came and my husband came sorry, and then literally the rest is history. After that, got married. Two years after I think, okay, baby, I know you're watching, you know follow that that stopped, you know, counting. It's been thirteen years now that we're together. So like he tells everybody, you know what he says, he said, he scooped me from the boat or whatever. I said. No, I had a playing ticket. Okay, I flew to America. Okay, baby, stop saying put me right of the But yeah, two months I was in America about what three months? And I met him and then the rest is history. You know, we got married kids. I was a stay at home mom after that. You know, I quit my job because I was pregnant. I was on my feet a lot. I was actually a manager at expressed. I love that job. Working. I love I love working, you know, anything with me, I love working any kind of job, and I would take it to the next level. You know. I never stay at the bottom. I always aim for the top, you know. But I'm good at the bottom two because that's what that's what the CEO is about, you know, to learn the bottom and then God layers all the way to the top, you know. And being a stay at home mom for years, seeing my husband building up core dreams and I don't know if you know about being an EmPATH, but I'm an EmPATH, meaning that I watched my husband build a company and then I soaked in all his knowledge and then I making I made it better then. My husband always said, you know, Manufe Pool's going to run circle around Quadron. So it's like a competition me and him. Now you know, our company, his company. But at the end of the day, we're a couple and together, you know, it's about unity at the end of the day. That's so beautiful. I love, I love like a beautiful love story. That's so beautiful. Can you talk a little bit about your ambassadorship for Sharing Ringo Foundation. Can you tell us a little bit about that. Definitely was a blessing that came actually at the moment with my daughter Rocket Carbon and I couldn't compete for Missus USA. So again having faith, when you have faith, that would lend something in your lap, you know, And that that's when it lit my eyes up. When I was like this, This friend of mine introduced me to the Sharon Ringo Foundation and told me that I would be a great ambassador, and I said great. I was missing Georgia Globe that at that time, even though I didn't compete for Missus USA, I'm still holding the title, you know, as Missus Georgia, and I still have a job. Well job, I've called the job, but you know, I call it again to help others, you know, I'm sorry, but yeah. So I became Missus Georgia Globe. I got introduced to the Sharon Foundation in Tanzania, and I was like, that's perfect because she's in Africa and I'm Moroccan. I'm African too, That's what I was like, God is amazing, you know. So this little girl is doing so many good things in her country, you know, and that she inspired me. And I'm like if she's she can't do that, you know, all women, not just me, Like she inspired me to do more in my own country. This is why I went and I took the title of Missus Morocco. So then we can all do even bigger things. You know. The Missus Georgia was good at that time, and now you know she's doing a lot of changes in climate changes. So she planting trees because you know, in construction, we gotta take those trees, but really those trees are really important for us, you know. So what she's doing is really good for her country and also with tourism. You know, Africa is a beautiful country, you know, and we tend to kind of forget about Africa, and even me, I was amazed that I didn't even know that Zanzibar had so many beautiful beaches like that. You know, I myself was amazed. And I tell everybody, I say, hey, y'all need to start booking flights to Tulum, Puerto Rico and all this stuff. Y'all need to really put your money in the motherland Africa. Everybody talking about African American The motherland is Africa, but everybody go to Toulum. I don't get it, you know, don't put your money in Africa because we need money Africans, and you know, in my country, they really read their lives trying to escape because they don't get paid much, you know, And that's not fault, that's just how it is. So what can we That's what I'm coming in with the other ambassador as my husband too, with his his knowledge and who he knows, trying to bring people to Africa. You know that tourism is the economy, so it makes people work. Okay, So since we're talking about that, right, you know, and why don't we go ahead and amplify that. What's some of them? Because most of us do go to safe example, the Dominican Republic or Toulon. We go to these places because it's closer, right, or it's you know, we don't feel like we're too far away from home, but we do travel a little bit, you know. And so what are some of the I guess places that people like us can travel to where you know, will feel you know, embraced and will have a great time because you know the landscape, right. And so what's some of the places that you would recommend for Americans to go ahead and travel to. Well, Africa definitely, so dense Bar, you know, Okay, So Tanzania. I went there. You know it's beautiful. So Dansey Bar has beautiful beaches. Then go to Morocco. You have Robot, you have Agadir. Agadir is beautiful. You know the beach is too. It's a mixed I called Agadir. It's a mix of California Calabases, to be honest, uh, mixed with Spain and friends. You know, Agada is beautiful. You know. Uh, you have a friend for who for the ones who wants to ski, you know, a friend is beautiful. We have a lot of monkshift Shewan, the beautiful city Casablanca. You know, uh, so many, so many. I mean, there you go, where you go, gentlemen, you know where to go. And it's the thing too, it makes you, guys, feel good about yourself knowing that the money you have spend in Africa helps another family. If we can just think like that instead of going to Tulum, save them that money. I know it's cheaper, you know, and I know the flights. You can get a flight for literally six hundred dollars, you know, to go to Morocco. Same for Tanzania, like maybe eight hundred if you get at a good time. And I'm like, save your money. Just put some money on the side every time, you know, and the mere fact you can help another family, that's good for us, good for another person that wants to travel, you know. Mix like you're doing something. And I'm not saying that they don't do something in Dominant Republic. Definitely need the money there too. Okay, But we I want to promote Africa. I feel like we don't promote Africa. And now we talk about Africa, but we don't promote I don't see. I just started seeing people not going to Tanzania. But what about the other countries. It's a lot Nesia, Egypt and then the other one like so many Nigeria, you know, Ghana. I mean, it's a lot. Fantastic Cadeza. You've done so much. What's next? What is it? I mean, you know when you when you reach so many goals, it's like do you have more goals to go? What's next for you? I have other goals. So what I did last time last summer, I donated a well for my village because again, climate change is very important, like the Shark Foundation made it clear, you know, yes, so climate change is very destructive to families, you know, for lives. You know, in my own village was one of them. Like it was no rain, you know, it was sunny all the time, like a lot of the sun. But they needed running because rain generate water, you know, from the ground. They don't have water running from the city, they don't. Everything comes from God. So when it does not rain, they don't have enough water. So they'll ask somebody else that has the well and it's just like begging for water, you know. So I came in in my village and I donated this well. We build a well, as you can see my Instagram page. It was a whole build out, we dig down and all that good stuff. But again it's one well, it's a blessing. They're very happy. But again, you tell me what's next. What's next for me is literally to bring in the water from the city through the village to the houses right now, so they can have facets in their homes right now. They have to take donkeys and and and and walk miles to get to the to the well. Right now, my right now, my goal is to literally bring water pipes, running pipes to their homes right now. Unbelievable, unbelievable, speaking of running water, and kudos to you, and kudos you do speaking of water. Yeah, you, my friend, are a talented constructionist I like to call but uh interiors. And you designed a pool, a dynamic pool, oh ass for the incredible Shaquille on them. I want you to talk a little bit about that, that experience and what got you into, you know, designing pools. You know, I always see these, you know what they call it, the endless pool, what they call it the uh uh I forgot. I got it to infinity pool. Infinity pool, Yeah, infinity pools. And I see them at these exotic locations and it's just gosh, I had to do that one day, right, I got you into designing pools. And let's talk a little bit about the Shaquillo Onell situation. Well, what got it mean to this industry was literally building my own pool, you know. I, like I said, I was just working with my husband building basketball courts, right and building our own pool. You know, this company we hired, they started the job, but then they didn't do a good job at the end, so we were literally behind them a lot. And I told my husband, I was like, so if we're going to be behind them at this point, and I'm like, we can do it, you know. I mean, what's the difference with you building a court? You have to dig in four inch down get the rebar. And I'm like, building the pool is adding pipes, water, you know, electrical and I'm like, there's nothing for us. And I'm looking at my husband like we can do it, and he's looking at me like, no, we cannot, you can have it. I'm sticking to the court. I'm like, okay, Well that was another note in my life. And I had to prove my husband wrong, you know, and I did, so he was sleeping, and I was working all night LLC the website insurance, and I started designing. And actually my first client so I designed for her, was Charred. She was my client. I started designing for her. She's a good friend of mine and she needed a pool and stuff you already get other pool companies. And I said, you know what, let me just play with the pool. Just it was a start. It was something for me to do, you know, and I did it. Who did she mention s Field the Real housewife. But that's why I thought you were yeah people, okay, from real house Yes, So I designed. I did a three D rendering for her, you know, and uh, and I started doing all the good stuff, you know, and then I started designing. So what I do. I started just designing, you know. I take pool and I just go with the flow. I did in the turf because we own a turf company, Turf Dreams, you know, and I said, let me mix the turf because the way they're doing it in LA, I didn't like it. The vibe, the way they're doing the square papers turf. It is either too much or not too much. And I am very big on vibe, you know, balance, you know, I like to balance. I like to see the house I look. Then I designed to make it flow, you know. And so my husband did shack basketball court, you know, and we always go buy his pool. When we go to see check in his kitchen, you know, we always go by the pool. We walk around the pool. But nobody paid attention to the pool. And I'm like, the pool should be the main focus right when you especially it's a lot of money, but this one was. It's concrete pool, like any pool, to be honest, it's just concrete decking, right. So I started designing at night, right, I got home, take care of the kids and all that god stuff, and at night I started designing. And I have my team overseas, you know, so while they are they're working for me. I am sleeping and they're working, you know. So I send all the designing things and they're working for me, and then I just send it to my husband. I said, look, babe, I did the checks this pool. I'm like, okay, cool, Well I'm going to send that to him just in case he does not. He didn't want anything, you know what I mean, he has a pool. You just focused on making money. And I don't blame him. You know. And then somehow one day May before, five months later, my husband tells me, I got a call and Shaq wants you to do his pool. I said, wait a minute, this was not like it was just for me. It was fun for me to do. You're not the designing. I didn't know it's going to be like next level. So I was like, I already had all the LLC done, I have Manufa pools, LLC all of that. I'm like, okay, well let's go. And then we started it and my husband did the kitchen area, so he didn't want to do a kitchen. They were just it's always like this with our client, to be honest, they don't want something until they see our work. And when it gets to the mister, they're like, oh my gosh, can you add that? Can you can you add that? Can you add that? I just saw this? Can you go ahead? Just add it on? Bring it in, let's start. If we got this. We never like to say no to the client. We have to perform, you know, and that's what we did. You know, he has a beautiful kitchen area. Now you know. We brought up the turf coach and the turf animals huge lion. You know, it's a masterpiece now and when I go there, it's a completely change. It's your paradise and that's what it's supposed to be, you know, you know it has to be absolutely Uh this this time went way too fast, you know. And one thing we say is once you come to the show, you a friend to the show, so you're always welcome to come back. This was an absolute pleasure you have people come. They said, this is a great conversation, you know, people saying you're a true superstar. That's my husband. You're my number one fan. I love it. Shout out to Jay. I wish she was here. We would talk to him a little bit, you know, how to get the family the kudos, uh, kudos to you j for support and holding holding a wife feet down as a team at So one of the things that before I you go, right, I want to know what's the legacy that you want to leave. That's a very good question to me is helping others, you know. And I'm teaching my kids that the money that we're making in this earth, we're not going to take it with us when we die and when you're going to meet with God, God is going to say, well, what have you done with the man that I gave you? Is to help others, the ones that are in need. That's the legacy I want to leave is make money to be a blessing to others, you know. Always fantastic. The hobby said, thanks for supporting Gods much appreciated, one hundred. So, you know, I just want to say that it was an absolute pleasure to have you on. And it's a pleasure, you know. One of the things we say is you know, you know, and me being Muslim, you know, I pray you know, the creative to protect you continue to you know, become fruitful, and your service become you know, continue to do the things that you're doing, and continue to have a successful marriage, and and I pray that you continue to do the service and support in the community like you have been doing. I mean, And so once you come to the show, your friend to the show, before you leave, why don't you let everyone know how they can get in contact with you follow some of the things you're doing. See some of these beautiful I'm gonna pull this beautiful picture back up with this bright little young lady that you were standing with. I just had it up not too long ago. I passed Sharon right here we go, there you go. Yes, she's so powerful. See that's why we are women. We're so little, tiny, but we are powerful with dynamite, like we can change the world, you know. And I'm proud of her. So this is Sharon. So you guys want to donate, definitely, come DM me, you know, or go to her page at Sharon Ringo Foundation. You know, the father is amazing. They do so many good things, meeting with the Minister of Tourism and and just I mean it's she's mind blowing. She inspires me, like this is my little inspiration right there, So go to her page Sharon Ringo Foundation. Then DM me for any donation for Morocco as well. I'm going to start. I've been so busy left and right with my husband and I. We just started a new business or Dreams International in Dubai with our partner, your Sree Sharing and I'm like, this is another it's another endview right there. You know, it's going to be very beautiful. So how do we get in contact with you? Found your stuff for more times? Yes, So my pace is missus Georgia Globe twenty twenty three to dm me for any donation for now and then the Sharon Ringo Foundation for Tanzania. So anything for Tanzania is going to be sh Sharon Ringo Foundation. Anything from Morocco, you guys can just DM me missus Georgia. Three fantastic, fantastic. Well, everyone in Philadelphia knows you now, they knows what's going on. You know what, Philly. I love steak. Oh, okay, I do next time you come cheese steak on us? Thank Morocco. Who's on me? Oh that sounds good? I have I have one last request, so you speak this said to speak five languages. We have listeners that are all even in Africa, all over the globe with So say your name and do a drop for us. Say your name and then say this is we talk weekly or you know something like that. Okay, he in another language too, are another language English? And then another language? Okay, hey guys, this is miss this is Morocco universe and I am at the week talk weekly all right? Said in French? Okayment save Madame moroc Morocco Uni show we talked weekly direct in Moroccan Alan was alen viki Andadia really and a miss Morocco MAREV and a fil radio. We talked with American Allan, so all of our all of our audience, they can hear it in there. Thank you so much. Has been amazing. Thank you that was amazing because all of the places you named they watch watch absolutely summer. Thank you friends. Now you more than welcome. We love Leslie anyway, and so yes, connect you with us. Yes, and you know you you're part of the show now. And so I like to thank you for coming out. But I don't want you, guys go anywhere when we come back, man, we got some more to come. Uh. We talked weekly after the talk on w p P M l P Philadelphia one six point five when we talked weekly after talk with your boy Greg and beautiful Lawrence and beautiful and a beautiful There you go, So we'll be back, y'all. Holler knock nice and meet you nice and meets you. We're back, y'all. We talked weekly after the talking w p P M l P Philadelphia one O six point five FM. We talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Berg and a beautiful and beautiful she's talking right now, running her little mouth fast lads Burk want to building. So listen, we have someone with my have a tremendous amount of respect for you already know this is he already like a he's a friend to the show, he's part of the show already. You know, we're gonna talk a lot, a lot about some things, uh, some of the things that's going on. We have a special guest in the show today. So you know, once we get to that poor sche and we're gonna bring him up and you know, a highlight and amplify him. But I'm super excited about this because this gentleman, I mean, we became like this is like family now. You know, this is this is one of the things. This is like family now. And so when he comes to the show, he talks about a lot of the things that's going on, not only with h celebrity boxing, but also some of the talent that he's been working with right some of the moves that they've been making, some of the partnerships. And you know, I'm excited because you know, we talk weekly, got something in store soon. You know, we don't want to say nothing too much well you know, but we will like to say that we're excited to be, you know, working alongside of some of the you know, the great minds that are putting this dynamic information together. So without further ado, uh, why don't you give him a little intro so he you put me on the spot. He looks like you get that brain freeze. But he's it's just so many different words running through my mind right now. But we have the amazing multi talent mister Damon Feldman here with us. He's he's a celebrity boxing CEO. You're he's doing so much. I'm trying not to right place. Yeah, he's just amazing. I appreciate you now internationally know international, Yes, yes, absolutely, he's doing so much. Author, yeah, author sixty movie everything, everything. So let's look first of all, let's jump right into it man and talk about how are you feeling? You know, I like to start there, how are you How are you feeling off front? Honestly? Man, First of all, I got to say about thank you for having me on. I love you guys. Is you know it really is like family. Man. It was just I all these other shows and it's like, all right, whatever, But I don't know something about coming Like the first time I came to a show. I was like nervous. Second and next last time I came come months, I was like, man, what am I going to do? I still was a little nervous. Now and now I'm like, damn, it's Michelle. I'm just coming in. Now we're bringing other guests that are fighting on the card, and you know, I'm really excited, and you know, just just I'm excited about you and your whole the whole show and everything you guys have created. Like it's just this is like a national show. To me, I think this is like going to be the hottest show in the country. Yeah, I believe it so too, man. But I think what you're doing is the hottest thing in the country and the hottest thing internationally too. You know, you have people now that's flying in and want to be a part of this and and want to do some of the things that you know that you guys are a part of. But you know, I think in order to set that up right, in order to set up the success, I want to circle back because I don't think people know where that came from, you know what I mean, And some of the humble beginnings and a hard work I can give you your flowers all day. But I think this stuff like that that need to be acknowledged and amplified. Absolutely, And so let's let's start from the beginning, because it was challenging for you at first, you know, with some of the you know, the issues that you went through but have remedied and now you're giving back and supporting people. People need to take your blueprints, so to speak. So let's talk about some of those challenges. You know. Yeah, now you know the challenges and all is like everybody, I was always wanting to just take anybody you want to. You want to hit the big overnight, you're starting something you want to. I want to have all the money. I want to be a superstar overnight. Unfortunately, you're hitting a brick wall. If you don't hit the brick wall, you're not gonna make it. That's the way I always feel, you know, And no matter how bad you want something, you gotta fight for it. And it's going to take step by start. It's gonna take you looking in the mirror crying tears. What am I doing wrong? But you got to keep fighting for it and make yourself push and push, and that's how you become an inspiration yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And part of that is being able to, you know, outside of inspiring people, not judging some of the mistakes that they have made. And let's talk a little bit about, you know, the judgments and coming from that and making making a pivot and building up and amplifying people. What's your take on that and making sure that you know, people need to think of first before judging because essentially they could have been there and misstep. Also, oh absolutely, you know, like people you know, say you're going after money people or trying to get people on board man to believe in it or money and because everything money, you know, you need money for everything to get to where you want to be. I don't I don't love money, but I know I need it, you know, so, but you have to, like it's just you just got to know what you have to do. Like and you know, you can't jug if you're looking at someone and be like the guys you know, overdoing and trying. But then I'm like, do I want to just forget him or do I got to give me a shock? Maybe it happens because probably three out of five times I gave that person a shot and it succeeded. For me. And if I would have said I forget that guy, I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now. You know what I mean. And you can't. You never can overlook someone. You know. You have your dedication, your determination, your focus. But I always do believe in giving people chance. That's what my platform is all about. I have a massive platform and it has to pay the play platform. But they get their chance and maybe I find the next superstar, then I sign them and go there. It's just like you know David Kurrz always have Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's here today and we want to talk a little bit about him. I want to talk a little bit about motivation, right What motivates you to continue to push down those doors, continue going through those barriers and doing what you do, especially with celebrity box. I'll be honestly, man, it's a perfect question because it is my children. Man, you know it's my I wake up and I just look at my son's eyes and my daughter text me Dad. I'm like, man, that's just motivation. I don't need anything else, Like like all these girls are friends of what they're like, are you we're gonna go out? I just I have no interest right now. You know what I mean. I'm so tunnel vision and so I'm motivated on my life right now. I'm motivated. I got to think about me. I gotta be the better version of me, and I just want to be I'm so motivated because timing is everything in life. Now's my time. And if I don't put my foot on the gas pedal now, I'm gonna hit a brick wall. You know. So now's the time to make it happen. And you just got to be tunnel vision to go after what you want and motivation. And when you wake up in the morning and it's and you're like, oh, man, I don't feel like, man, what a weird day is? We can sleep. Then I then all of a sudden, my eyes go, get your ass out of bed. Come on, you got to get up. I gotta go. And I still might be depressor, feeling weird. I'm like, man, what is going on with me? Then I keep fighting through the day, keep trucking through it, pushing it, and at the end of the day, I'm like, damn, things really work today. Man, this is great. So you just got to never quit, never surrender. You know what you always talked about that never quit, never surrendered. Where did that saying coming from? Because you mentioned that before that said I will never forget, never quit, never surrender. So perfect. Perfect thing is like I was laying in bed, man. I was just you know, getting out of my crazy situation, getting out of jail. Stupid thing. I didn't do your show yet, but I was laying there and I was trying hard. My goal was just to get this film and book out right, and I finally got it out. But it was I was laying there and the owner of the Showboot Hotel and he's a big real estate guy here in Philadelphia, Barb Bladstein, texted me. He's like, man, I read your story in the paper. And I was like, I didn't even know you know, out my paper. I was like what. I was like, oh my god. Really, I was just like Texting's like, man, your story really meant a lot to me. It's like, man, keep going, never quit, never surrender. You're gonna make it. Man. I got my ass out of bed. I went right to the gym and it was like eight o'clock at night. I just got motivated, man. And that's just and he like he's a great guy. Man, he's like, you know, rich guy on that, but he's one of those guys I would never ask a penny from him. Yeah. He takes care of me, helps me, he motivates me, and it was just it was just life changer when I got that thing. Never quit, never surrender. It's part of my post anytime I tell someone, I don't want to be boring to people, but I want people to know you're gonna feel down. There's people feeling down every day and they don't know how to get charged up. They don't know how to make that step. Just fight, fight, take that chance. I promise it's gonna work. Yeah, And you know we always say that, We always say we talk He's a safe space, right, and you know, we try our best to humanized you know the people that's on here. You came on to show prior and you talked a little bit about drinking right, and you talked a little bit about that as being probably one of the hardest fights. Yeah, you know literally that you had to go through. Right, let's talk a little bit about that. And you know, since we talked about motivation, what motivated you to say, you know what, I'm kicking at X and I'm someone different now. Well, you know, I hit that brick wall. It was in jail, and I got a picture sent to me from my son's grandmam. I was like, damn, I'm not at his sports award dinner. I was like, what man? I started? Honestly, man, I just I cried that whole day and I couldn't. I was like, because there's no joke. I couldn't get out, You're not going to be able to get out. I was like, drinking did this. I chose drinking to do this, and then it just woke out. I prayed to God, I said, I swear I will never have a drink again. That was eight years ago and I haven't had a drink and I never will again. Let me for that one right there. I love you, man, but I'll be honestly, I don't need applause. Everybody is like when I say that, they're oh, please don't clat pants. Just do that for yourself. For I don't need to be applauded. I'm not where I want to be yet, you know what I mean. So when I get there, then you get applaud me. I I just want to I really want to inspire people because if you've been through the life I've been through, you want to inspire people, you know what I mean. And the drinking, it might taste good and feel good for a few minutes, then the next day you wake up, what the hell did I do? Why did I drink? And that's going to happen every time. And then when you overdo it that time and make that mistake and get a god from an accident or kill someone, then you can't change anything. It doesn't matter if you drink or you don't drink. You already made the mistake. So think before you act, right, for sure? For sure? Wow, man, I think it warrants applause because that's something literally that's going to help someone else that's hearing your story. Sure, and I think oftentimes is we don't necessarily and I use the word get flowers, but we lost that. What's the word I'm looking for. I believe that's a special kind of like idea concept that we lost. We don't do it anymore, right, We just kind of say or have this expectation or just expect that someone does this, and that's fine. No, no, it needs to be acknowledged. Let's pause for a minutely and acknowledge it, and that's what I would like to do for you. So kudos to you, my friend, for all the work that you was doing. And I know that it's someone that's listening to this that your story will help them, and it's very important. You know, it's right here. We would talk with us. This is why it's we talk weekly because honestly, I just did how we're starting show the other day. It was crazy because there's different modes I have to do. I have to be this way and this when I come here on me when I'm want to start and I'm going to be something I don't want to really be, I'll be honest with me. You know, he only doesn't break my balls the whole time. I mean so, but here I'm able to talk and like it's like what I want to do. I really wanted people to in this show helps inspire me to want to because when I get done this show, I'm gonna go out. I can't wait to see the clips and don't put together and I'm like, damn, man and me start posting our trials. I'm sorry but post this, but we want to post this stuff and be like I want these people to see why never, quitting, never surrendering will change your life. Don't drink. Have okay, little bit of wine, that's it you. But see that little bit of wine turns into a second glass, third glass, and all of a sudden you're so drunk walking around and you're like, why is it? Why are you drink that much? And then they're saying, yeah, you're right, you should you I can't even speak to me. Don't talk to me, you know what I mean? People have to understand drinking is there's no sense of oh, go celebrate. Celebrating is going to getting drunk. You don't even remember what you're doing. If you celebrated, go enjoy and just be like with your family and friends, your girlfriend, whatever, and just enjoy it. You know what. One of the questions that I don't think I've ever asked you, and I want you to think about it now is who is If someone was to say who is Damon Feldtman, what would you say? I'm a guy. Honestly, I'm a broken guy. I'm a guy that you know. It took a lot. I mean, the God gave me this chance, man, God really gave me the second chance to you know, from day one. My mom is quadchi polegic in a wheelchair. You know, I already went through the whole thing with you all the time, the people to raise me like I didn't have a normal life, you know what I mean. I'm a guy who's very grateful of life. I appreciate life, and I want to pass on things to people to give them different steps and how they can do it, how they can make it, and how not to have anxiety thinking, oh, it's not going to happen. Because if you foul your plan and stay relaxed not have anxiety, you understand. Yes, it might be dark days, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, and stay tunnel vision, on your focus and your vision and things will work. I like that you said that I'm broken, because when it comes to religion, you have to be broken for God to put you back together again. Learn. Yeah, yeah, I love that you said that. What do you feel is I guess the biggest misconception that people get about you or your brand or you know, things like that, I have a tough time dating. You know, it's it's weird because dating is so well, No, no, I know, it's just I don't know, like dating, sir, I'm very picky who I date because I just I've been married all that, and you know, I have kids, and I just I made it after having all this, you know what I mean, and I finally made it, and so the dating part is like tough for me right now, because it's like some girls are nervous to come up to me, and then I find out later they're like, oh, that girl late and she didn't you were talking to her. I was like, damn, man, I don't know how to I don't know how to take that step, you know what I mean. But I don't know. I just I guess maybe it's me just being a little shy too. We won't have to do our own little like celebrity kind of like boxing, where we have maybe ten women who just come in and we'll find a date for Dame, find a date for Damon, righting all that, you know, front of day for Dame. We got to put that together. That's awesome. Well, David bought a team winning today. Yeah yeah, yeah, so Damon the team that you brought in with you today, tell us who who that those team members are. I'm really excited because I met the guy I was like, you know, watching one of his films, this guy's I was like, damn, man, this guy was like the next John Codman. Damn. And you're like a lot of people talk in this business and stuff. This is a guy that makes things happen like him and his guy Brian, David Curzol and Brian, his manager make it happen like they go out the guys selling tickets. He knows how to bring sponsors, and he knows how to interr to act with people. Because he was like, yeah, I'm gonna have Steven C. Cow was all right, sounds good. Right. Two weeks later, he has an interview with the Stephen C. Cow indoors see on how he wants to come watch him fight. Now he has Don the Dragon Wilson, who's a legendary MMA guy, marsha Ur guy gonna train him for this fight sore. He's fighting the main event March ninth at the Shoboo Hotel in Atlantic City and it's his first ever fight. So yeah, first ever celebrity boxing match. I'm coming. Yeah, we're going to but let me just finish this up real fast. So who he is is a really cool guy, business guy, can fight and after this fight, if he has to win the fight, and if he wins his fight, you're gonna see the Jake Paul version of a martial artist because he's going to be challenging all the UFC guys and Mike Perry. If you're listening to this, you're gonna see something that's right. A couple more questions because I'm going to talk to this brother over here. Very very talented brother, very pleasant brother. It's great to have him here. But I want to talk. I got a couple more questions for you because since while we're on the topic of kind of like the celebrity boxing thing and in him making his debut, Uh, a lot of people don't know about you with the legendary now god rested dead, rest in peace. I want you to talk a little bit about the Rodney King. Oh yeah, yeah, right, and you know that about with him, man, how much he was pretty much an influence because I think what happens, Yeah, I think what happens is people on the peripheral only see what happened, and that carries a negative piece to it. But you have another side of that, well, I have I have a because there's a positive piece that Roddy Rodney King. There was no negative again, the media made it look that way. Right. Let me ask you this question. When you see right here Rodney King, what do you think of him? I already think of the beaten in l as the first use, the first thing I think, and that's anybody. But then they look at oh, he was doing drugs and that it's not true. It's not true. Me and Rodney hooked up through an age in LA and when they said, because Rodney just got done doing some show in VH one, and they were like, he wants the box and I was like, Rodney King was the box early, and it was like, man, this would be awesome for the company. Long story short, I hooked it up and we signed them and we put put it on the take on Rodney King in the celebrity boxing match, right I got Honestly, I think there was like thirty thousand people. It was so crazy, it was insane. This is when I wasn't really a big company, like a company, you know what I mean. And then I was like Rodney King. Then I finally he came here. He came we did a press conference, did the fight, and well, we did a press conference, announcing the fight. Then we're like, who's the opponent going to be? So a lot of different personalities said because they see the value in it. Then I had a bunch of police officers want to do this, right, So me and Rodney had our talk this and that, and so we picked this ex police officer out of Chester, Pennsylvania to take the match. So he was sort of like a bad copy. He had issues with the and he ended up not being on the police sports anymore. So he announced Rodney King's taking on an x cop and went by, I mean it crazy. Of course it was social media. It was even that crazy back in twenty ten whatever it was, but it was just all the media was covering it. It was unbelievable. He meets up my dad and all of a sudden, man, my dad's like his dad now, it's crazy, right. So because Ronnie, my dad ended up training Rodney. My dad was a former boxing trainer. So my dad goes, yeah, you just stay here with us. So we ended up living with me because I was with my dad at the time. So we lived together, him and his girlfriend. And it was crazy, man, just living with him. I was like, to my son, is this real? Rodney King's really lived with me. I was like, and Ronnie was like family. He baby sat my kids that were like I trusted to do so much, and this is Rodney King and nobody else probably want to. He watched my kids. He was the most humblest, nicest guy. We became brothers. Man. That's all there was. Thank you for saying that. Thank you for saying that, because I think his legacy was tarnished and I think people really didn't know him, and I think it was an agenda to mark him as someone who was unbecoming of being a human being. And I appreciate you humanism. I listened to Ronnie and his daughter is His daughter is a great girl. She put together the Rodney Kinney voundation. We're gonna end up doing something together, you know. And Ronnie, it's tough. I can't believe I'm saying it. Like Rodney brought my dad's life back. Is that because my dad was out of boxing trading. My dad was like seventy some years old. He ended up starting trading Rodney again. It was like, and this is my my dad's like he didn't really know what Rodney King who he was. I was like the older guy, right, he was training when he's fighting for the world title, he's running him. At four am, he's at the gym. He's yelling at Ronniehi. I was like, what's my dad doing? The like, and he's like, Rodney's like love and he's like, man, I love your dad, man like, because he showed he cared. You know what I mean, when you're yellow, so he it means you care, and it was it was just then unbelievable thing. Rodney ended up taking him on Funny Stories and I just signed and I signed James. Buster Douglas knocked down Mike Tyson, right, so they were going to fight on the same car. So Ronnie was living in the house. Buster Douglas came by and you know, he wanted to say love in Broomall, Pennsylvania suburb of Philadelphia. They don't no one would expect any of these guys even walking in the area at all, you know what I mean, like celebrities like that. So Rodney goes, damn, man, that's Buster Dougle. Then he asked me afterwards, like I think I can handle it. Rodney sabbing, man sobbing. But it was cool because they both fought on the same card in Philadelphia, and it was really really, just really interesting. If I knew then what I know now, Oh we cry, would have been so much bigger. But Rodney was honestly, he loved his kids, love people. Then when the police the way he was here, I was like, where's Rodney at here? He was down at a restaurant. The police all took him out the Center City. It's funny, I said, what's I said, Yo, guys, make sure Rodney's all right? Man? When I was yelling at my guys, how you let the Rodney go to the cops? I mean, you know, he sued a cop. Now the next thing, these cops are gonna jump. Yeah. Yeah. But the cops loved them, and Rodney loved the cops and Rodney. There's nobody Rodney didn't like. I will say one thing. I gotta say this on the air, So Charmela Malley or Charglemane and got you I could talk about him real fast. So he was doing a show here in Philadelphia, right, So we're on the show. Rodney, He's like, so he was really he's the same guy then, and he goes that like he was really on Rodney He's like, so how you trade, man, You're not gonna train it, you know, you use any of this. So Roddie Rodney he goes, man, this is bulls. You know. Roddy got up and walked down. Roddy was still piss excuse but that was it. But that was It was a great in my I'm in Rodney's book and my dad, my dad's in it, and it was just amazing because he was about to do his movie was coming out and he was doing his book tour. The last time I saw him here in Philadelphia. Then I was trying to put together him versus those kids sake, and we're gonna do the l a rumble. Interesting and that's him. Man, he died. Sorry, real long story, but it's really people need to hear this. Yeah, that's a great story. I think that that clip can kind of live on his own, just talking about the you know, the what what the legacy that you know, Rodney King left that a lot of people don't know. So I think that's that's going to be a great piece. One last question that I have for you before we bring up my brother. You know, we talked about boxing, and boxing is a huge part of your life. Why is that such an important piece of your life? But also why is boxing period just you know, in in this ego the ecosystem of what it does for the body. But why is boxing so important? Yeah? Boxing, I believe every like do you have to go to school, they should learn how to box. The bullying, the problems, the drugs, the kids doing messing in their kids. Why boxing should be because you don't have to get punched in the face to learn how to box. Just learning the moves and stuff like that gives you the confidence. Boxing has to be important. Why I do live my life and I'm not a regular white guy, I'll be host you, it's because I was around the African American the culture from day one, from five years old till I am right now, and the culture raised me. That's why. See, because boxing and boxing made me be part of the black African American community. And that's why I think most of my people I work with are African American, you know what I mean. And I just I think it's important for everyone to do boxing because it's gonna humble you. And if you do have to get punched in the face, you get punch in the face. It's gonna humble you, and you're gonna understand that. You know, boxing just gives you a confidence to know how to walk in a room. A lot of people are intimidated and they act stupid or not knowing. They don't have the confidence to do things. Boxing will do it. And me walking up the steps in North Philadelphia and that changed my life. For those who are watching you right now, this is the camera, this is you know, all of your people, all of your fans, the people who've been following your journey, the fans of you know, celebrity boxing, the people that you inspire. For all of those people who are watching right now, what would be that word that saying that you know? What would you say to them right now? Just if you have a dream, just know right off the bat, it's not going to happen overnight. If you have a goal, it's not going to happen overnight. Stick with it. When you wake up tired, weak, get up. You want to get to a gym, you don't feel like it, go well, you don't feel like doing anything, Just keep pushing yourself. I promise you there's late that in the tunnel. No matter how many say you get in a breakup or you're hurt. Timing is gonna change that. Just keep fighting for yourself. You're the only one that's gonna make it happen. You're the only one that can make it happen. No one else can do it, No one's gonna give you anything. Just keep fighting for you and just know there's gonna be right at that end of that tunnel and things are gonna be worked for you. So don't quit again. Never quit, never surrender, And I promise you it's gonna make it happen for you. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. Mister David Founman, my friend, my brother. You know, I don't want you guys to go anywhere because when we come back, we got my guy. We're gonna talk a little bit about his debut. When we want you to come and see what's going on here. So don't go nowhere. We'll be right back, y'all. What's going on you guys? This is Bridge Kelly and you are locked answers and talk weekly. We talked weeklies after the talk with w P P M l P Philadelphia one on six point five film. We talked weeklies after the Talk with your boy, Charles Gregory and a beautiful and a beautiful Oh mo, I'm sorry, sparkd one more thing more? There she go and without further ado, we have someone with have a tremendous amount of respect for. I'm excited for this guy, mister David Curzol Did I say right? Crizonalsh, There you go. I'm excited for you. Uh, this is your debut, my brother. So how are you feeling right now? Let's talk a little bit about one. I like to start with asking how are you feeling? You know, how your health and all that good old stuff. Yeah, oh man, I'm healthy, I feel great. I feel amazing. My buddy Brian the Beast Robinson knows I'm always a glass half full. I'm optimistic man, like I'm either in a good mood or like a really good mood. Okay, so yeah, things are great. I feel great man. I'm full of life, full of energy. Fantastic, fantastic. Now let's talk a little bit about I mean, they call you the Viking Samurai. Where does that come from? Where does that come from? It's a name I made up a few years ago because I started a YouTube channel and I needed something that was original, something that was like really cool, and it has ancestral ties because I'm mixed heritage, so it just made sense, right because I'm a warrior too, so Viking samurai it's kind of got a yin yang element too, because when people think about Vikings, they think they have a certain image compared to the samurai. Right. Yeah, So I feel like I'm a good combination of the two. So where let's talk about your lineage then, like where let's talk about you, you know, your beginnings, Where did you come from? You know, where were you born and what got you hair? Right in Philadelphia, Let's talk a little bit about that. Yeah, yeah, sure, man, I'm an army Brett, so I okay, okay, yeah man. Like I went to I think I went to four different high schools in three different states, so I was like all over, you know, and it was hard to I was always like the new kid, right, like I literally was, man. But yeah, man, so I've just been all over and then I went to film school in southern California, and then I eventually moved to the Midwest and got into the financial industry as a stockbroker in Philadelphia. It's kind of funny I met my buddy Brian, who lives out here in Philly, and just for whatever reason, there's a lot of people that I know in Philly now. In fact, one of my friends that we just had dinner with tonight. This is a crazy story, man. This is a guy named Nick Vohene who I kind of grew up with in a way, Like we were both living on Ford or California on the Army base. I didn't really know him too much. We ran in different circles, but for whatever reason, we both ended up in Fort Lewis, Washington, and then we connected and became really good friends. And I haven't seen the dude since like nineteen ninety four, Like he just disappeared one day. He disappeared one day, and I never knew what happened to him. But he found me because of my YouTube channel, Like he was watching stuff on Frank Duke's and blood Sport and see me interviewing Frank Dukes and was like, I think I recognize this guy. And then you know, he had commented on the video and shot me an email and we kind of got chatted back and forth and you know, eventually got on the phone and yeah, I just met up with them literally tonight earlier, and it was really cool. Man. And he looks obviously older just like I do, but like he dresses the same. He's got like his nineties look, he's got his dickies, his sweatshirt, you know. The dude. They literally got the same outfit. Man. It's actually kind of funny. But yeah, man, it's crazy that he lives out here. Obviously he's going to be at the fight on March ninth. Everybody listening needs to be at the fight on March ninth, Lantic City, the show about It's gonna be amazing. And the cool thing is that the rapper that I got walking me out performing lives a guy named Sermon, local talent, really good guy, great guy, great rapper, very talented. But he's one of Nick's friends. So it's just funny how it all got connected because then then I asked Damon, I said, hey, can I actually have a guy that I know walk me out? And he made a song about me like the Viking Samarai. This all happened before I ever met Damon, by the way, so it's all very like coincidental and weird how everything lined up, for sure. Yeah, amazing, amazing, I'm pulling your marketing piece up. You know. You when we talk about action, right, you got action Starr MMA specialists. Let's talk a little bit about that, especially the MMA side. You know, so you have this kind of like mixed martial art D specialists that helps you kind of prepare you know, how did you get into all of these crafts, all of these arts as it relates to you know, physicality so to speak. Yeah, Actually he starts back in the nineties and I started in tekwondo, did that for years. Then I moved on to kempo, karate, you know, did a lot of different martial arts, and then more recently like form This is all formal training because any great martial arts they're gonna go to their dojo, they're gonna train, but they're gonna train even more by themselves. That's how you get really good. And then when you go back to the dojo, then it's like, you know, they're gonna be that much better than the guys that only go you know, an hour three times a week for example, They're not gonna get that good, to be honest. So but yeah, man, like the more recent training was like krab my guy, very like street based Israeli military size. Yeah, so I just combined it all man. Okay, okay, okay, So March nine, if you ready, Yeah, I'm ready. I mean, I do not have a boxing background, but I'm in really good shape. I'm really disciplined. I'm working with like some of the top guys Damon and mentioned. I'm gonna be working with Don the Dragon Wilson, eleven time world kickboxing champion. My buddy Brian recently hooked me up with Slim Perkins boxing legend. He's like the Yoda of the boxing world because he trained all these amazing legends highly respect anytime you mentioned his name, like oh wow with Slim Perkins, you know, but they'll say I didn't know he was still around. So he's kind of like Yoda, where he's like living on that planet by himself and forgotten about. And I'm Luke Skywalker, like you know, it's gonna be some very specialist turn that mic around for him. I want to that one, not the other one, outher one, Yeah, because I want to. I want to talk to you know, because you get you keep getting shout out. He's shouting you out a lot, you know, and so I want to know you know, what's how you get in your friend prepared, your man prepared to you know what's going to happen, like, you know, to add to his you know, his excitement. Yeah. I think the most important thing is getting the right training, the right people like seeking out Slim Perkins and a man who has amazing secrets of the past. You know, we have a boxing tour together. People don't know. It's called the Circle of Legends. It's based around all the boxing legends. Tim Witherspoon is one of the two time everyweight champions where he and Philly is one of the co founders. Right, So yeah, it's seeking out the knowledge that's been forgotten. We're also going to be going up and seeing Marlon Starling Master the High Guard up in Hartford, Connecticut, another man who's when his he passes, all them secrets will be going, they'll be forgotten and they even wants to kind of encapsulate those. So he's also a student of the art, which I really appreciate about him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So how what what do you think the biggest challenge is for you? Coming from the m M A karate all of that to you know, just straight boxing, brawling, the you know orthodox you know what what what do you think the biggest challenge for you was, well, or if there is any you know, you know, the biggest challenge would be head movement because like if you're talking about taikuando and karate, you don't punge to the face. Like even in Kyoki shin karate, which is very hardcore, people get knocked out all the time from like headk et cetera. But you don't punch to the face, so you never work on your head movement. So, you know, it was kind of humbling when I started sparring more taking shots, like at this point, used to get and punch in the face. But I'm tough, I'm durable, I'm rugged, so I take them. I don't like it, but I could take them. I could eat them, you know. But I'm gonna start you know, God, I mean it's only but so much you could take. Yeah, yeah, I'll start moving a little bit, just a little get this face pretty right. Yeah, there you go, there you go. Have you found it interesting? Do you feel like there's more skills that you have learned from the already thousands of skills that you already have. You know, I'm always constantly learning, Like because I have a white belt mentality, you know, you got to have that that empty cup. And somebody had mentioned to me the other day it's like, you know, you could fill your cup up, get as much knowledge and training for the day, but then you got to empty it and be ready for for more, you know, to fill it up the next day. Absolutely. Absolutely. If if there was one thing that you believe is uh a craft within boxing that stands out more than all the other crafts, what would that be? You mean, just like a style of boxing or a stylar. I guess, yeah, I guess you could say style of boxing. You know, it's it's one of those things where I believe each craft of you know, fighting, right, whether it's m MA, whether it's Crime of God, street boxing, it's always something that stands out that's specific to that particular craft. What do you think that is that makes well, I think the thing that would benefit me the mostion and what I'm impressed with. And you know, because I'm in Philadelphia, of course, the Philly Shed. I'm about to say, right, people don't know about this. Floyd Mayweather's father kind of like, you know, I don't want to say took that from Philly. But yeah, that's where Floyd Mayweather got his thing to Philly. But go ahead. I'm sorry, I just want to Yeah, that's great, but that's what I gotta get, especially while I'm here representing and doing a lot of training here. Yeah, for sure, for sure. Okay, okay, Well, if you're not gonna move ahead, that might protect you a little bit. I'll move ahead, don't. It's getting better, absolutely. So what are you most excited for now coming into March Knife? What are you most excited about? Just the spectacle, like just just feeding off that audience energy, putting on a show, because celebrity boxing, it's it's bigger than boxing in a lot of ways because it's more showy. It's it's just gonna be a lot of fun. So I'm really excited, kind of like the Spotlights, honest man, no doubt. Well, we talked weekly. We're gonna be there, We're gonna do our show, We're gonna uh broadcast our show from there, and just kind of supplumbing. We're excited about the things that you guys are doing. I'm excited about you. I'm going to support you, I'm gonna I'm gonna put some I don't want to talk about betting now, but I'm putting my money on you right now. No, Betty, we're not doing any Betty. We're not doing any Betty. And so but yeah, I'm really excited for you. Is there you know, for all of your fans, all of your new fans that's watched you kind of like make this transition, what would you like to say to them? You know, I like to say, just talk about the power of self belief, like it's so right, Yeah, a little bit maybe, man, but you know, great minds think alike. So I always tell people, if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. So you really, but it's more than just self belief, because you got to have self belief. You gotta believe you're the one that's going to be able to do it when the odds are against you, and the odds are always going to be against you in life, especially if you're trying to do something big. So once you've got that self belief, then it's like, okay, now come up with the plan, like you know, come up. You got the goals and the dream, but then you got to break it down in steps. And you gotta work on that consistently. So you just have to be disciplined in life, and you get that from the martial arts. You get that because I'm also a fitness dude, Like I've been into natural bodybuilding since pretty much when I started martial arts in the early nineties. So, you know, these are just things that are great for anybody. Like Damon was mentioning how boxing is just great for anybody to get into, you know, because it does build that discipline and as long as you're consistent, you can utilize that to pretty much achieve whatever you want life. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're back there shaking your hair. You're like, yes, yes, what stands out for David that you see? And as you've been working with him and seeing his growth and him making his transition, what's some of the things that stands out? I think if people could learn something from David. I've been around that. I've been around a lot of people, but David has an incredible self belief on where he wants to be. He's certain and it's interesting because we're kind of ying and Yang. I'm the one who looks at the cons of things. He's always looking at the pros and we make a great I blend that way, but it's just, you know, we talk about it. This is like a sim game and what you're trying to be as a main character. In order to be a main character, you have to think of your quests and everything. We do always kind of joke about it. You're on a quest and you're trying to level up, so you're always trying to achieve that next step if you if you're complacent and you don't, then you fall on the zone of an endpiece that you're just going about the same exact you know, every day it's like that movie Groundhog Day. You wake up the same day all over again. But he has an ability to mold his future. It's quite fascinating to watch him because we've been doing some other work together. He's an extraordinary salesperson in influence and he has a way to excite everybody around him, so fantastic. Well, you make sure you excite them about the things that you're doing, and I'm excited about the things that you're doing. Uh, before we let you go, why don't you tell everyone who's watching right why they should tune into you. On March ninth and you know, just kind of support the things that you're doing for sure. So I think it's important to never give up on your dreams. You know, they may come way later in life. They say luck is when preparation meets opportunities. So you gotta always prepare and you gotta stay prepared because you never know when or if that opportunity is gonna come. And the worst thing that could happen is the opportunity comes but you're not prepared, so you can't take advantage of it, and you're gonna kick yourself and you're gonna just regret that your entire life. You know, what's gonna haunt you. So my story is kind of interesting because the stuff that I'm involved with in what I'm doing now is something that I really sought out, like twenty years ago when I went to film school. It's funny because I mentioned my buddy Nick from back in the day, and he sees everything I'm doing now. You know, he knows I'm gonna be in this movie called The Last Kumute coming out in a few months. Got a really nice role. That's an amazing film. Got all the martial art legends in there, like Billy blanks from Tybo. Oh so we shot that in Germany. Oh yeah, we already shot that in Germany. And it's actually it turned out amazing, Like the distributor, it turned out better than they thought, so they're actually pumping more money into it for the marketing because they really believe in it. So that's great. And I got another film coming out where I'm the lead called Bloodstorm. This is kind of like a throwback to the eighties nineties action type movies, you know. It's kind of like something that Chuck Norris or Just Loan or Van Dam would have done back in the day. So it's really kind of a throwback. But I mentioned that because the guy that I had dinner with earlier, the old friend, you know he had, he had sent me an email and he said, I remember when we were in the back of your dad's pickup truck with Tom, who was a mutual friend, and you were telling us how you wanted to be a martial arts movie star. And he's like, dude, you're actually doing it, like you've done it now, and it just took way longer than anticipated and planned. But I think there's a reason for that. Like, you know, I recently became a Christian on the summer nineteenth of last year. So I'm kind of new to this thing, you know, but it's exciting. You know. I got a new relationship, very important relationship in my life. But there was a lot of things going on last year, you know, because I was shooting these movies, but I had also recently gotten divorced, and I was separated, you know, since like June. There's a long story behind that. But the thing is, you know, like you just got to keep going. You know. This was somebody in my life who I could understand her perspective, but the stuff I was pursuing, she said, that's a stupid childhood dream. It's never gonna happen. You're too old, you know. I mean I could understand, like the odds were against me, but you know, it kind of broke me down, and I almost quit everything I was doing because I was pursuing this dream again like three years ago, something that i'll admit that I failed at before, you know, and I kind of put it to the side. And then people become complacent and they just you know, regular life gets in the way, and you get your career, you get your regular job, and you know, like after you realize so much time has gone by. But what I realized is I'm still young enough to do everything that I wanted to do, and that's what I'm doing now and it's working out. But like people don't a lot of people don't realize how much effort it takes. You know, it just it almost seems impossible sometimes because you're like, I'm doing everything I feel like I need to do. I'm networking, I'm talking to people, I'm putting the work in, but it's like you're not getting closer to the goal. At least it doesn't seem like it. And then all of a sudden, it's like the dam burst. And then one thing happened after another. Literally about two months after, I had a daggerge to my heart from my ex, and I you know, I still like her, I'll still be her friend. I'm civil with her. We had like what I would say, a nice divorce, right, But you know, women are different. No, no offense to any women, Listen, I don't think they're as ambitious as guys. I feel like we have to conck. No, I'm just saying I feel like we have to conquer, we have to achieve really big. Well, you know what, to his defense, he may be thinking that because of the partner that he had for me. As a partner, I would never tell my partner that that is a childhood dream. Why are you? I would I would be behind them one hundred percent. I would No. I know what David's saying. And this is how this is kind of how it is if you went back like four thousand years ago. Right, the guys are always sitting around the fire looking out a hill and saying, I wonder what's over there? Right, And you know, they say, like, hooth, guy went over that mountain. Member he came back half dead. You look like you got tore up. And the guys will say, well, we'll just get four more men and go over that hill, whereas women be like, you know what, we're pretty good here. We got a lot of It's just what I think what he's saying is men are sometimes of this overconquering mind, and that's I think it's a little bit. Women are a little bit more logical about something, and sometimes guys can to jump into something headlong without knowing all the now. I agree, we don't think we just do we don't think they I mean, are you know our feminine counterparts they think a little bit more, maybe a little too much, but they think a little bit more. We don't think. We just do it. And so no, I get it though, but that's that's right and so but no, it's it's an interesting thing, you know, it's exciting to you know, see how excited you are and how positive. That's amazing. You talked about the action stuff, and I only got a couple more questions, but you talked about the action stuff. If I was to say to Golf Van Damn, who would you pick in an actual real fight, or just like who whatever you would choose to go vandam or if you like to qualify it you can. It's hard to say, man, because obviously I'm gonna be a little biased because I actually know Steven Saga, you know. But growing up, I kind of modeled myself more after Van dam like he was a bigger inspiration because I was built more like him, Like Sigull is huge, he's like six foot five. I'm more like, really, oh yeah, he's a big guy, and Van Dam's more of an average sized guy. And I was always more impressed cinematically, like with his kicks. That's why I started in Taekwanda, so, you know, as like a martial arts influence. At least growing up, I was more in the Van Dam though. I love the stuff that Steven Sagull does, especially the tensioniketo, and I've even worked with his top student in Saint Louis since Eliot Freeman, so like that stuff works, even though something from some people like Hito gets a bad reputation because they don't understand it, or maybe they went to a school that was doing all that flowery water down stuff and it's like you can't do that in real fight. It's like, well, those guys probably can't, but I guarantee Steven Skull can. So as far as like, I love both guys though, I really do. Michael right, I have a history with Michael Jaid. Look, I liked the guy. I've always respected him as a martial artist and fitness guy because that's what I am, a martial artist and the fitness guy. I like some of his movies, I don't like all of them, and I've been honest about that. You know, I'm not just a yes man. Say oh, Michael, all of your movies are great and you're so amazing. I'll just say no, I think welcome son death sucked. I told him that in the interview. Actually good, you know, but like I mean, I look, I ran into him recently at Alan Goldberg's Mega Action weekend that was late January, and he didn't want to talk to me at first, but then I kind of explained and it just really had a heart to heart, looked him in the eye, explained everything my perspective, because I had people on the channel before who bad mouthed him, but I had people talk good about him too, because on my channel, I try to get like all sides right and everyone like is gonna tell the story a little bit different and have their own opinions, but I have people just say what they want, you know, kind of. But so he didn't really appreciate it before, but then he kind of, I think, understood better and we shook hands and you know, I think we're cool. Here's what I would like to happen though, man, And this kind of ties back to Mike Perry, by the way, man, which I think would be the ultimate fights. Uh oh, so hold up, hold the hold the hold the hold on, hold on. That's gonna get cool man. This is my idea and I'm gonna try to manifest this in reality. So I don't think it's I think it's destiny. So Dave Feldman is Damon's brother. Dave Feldman runs the BKFC. Mike Perry was an above average UFC fighter, durable, tough, fun to watch, but just above average. I don't even think he was a top ten guy. He is dominating in the BKFC though, he's he's beating all like the ex UFC champions who transition to BKFC, so he's he's doing great. And what I propose it look right now, like Mike Perry knows who I am by the way he does. He is aware of me. He ain't gonna take me serious yet because I haven't done a real fight. You know, I do movie fights. I've done Taekwano tournaments in the past, but nobody counts that, you know, they don't count point fighting. So I propose a bare knuckle kickboxing matched. Yeah, yeah, because people want to see my kicks, you know, because again I said Van Dam was a big influence, and people know I kick like Van Dam. You know, there's similarities there. I think Van Dam is the best, and I would never put myself above him, but I wouldn't put anyone else above him either, because I respect the guy. That's like, if you're playing basketball, you're not. Nobody should be saying they're better than Michael Jordan. Well, for one, they're probably not. And for two, if somebody else should say that, if they think that, but nobody should say that themselves because they they those people achieved such a high level, you know, Bucele Van Dam, you know Michael Jordan's like, you don't say you're better than them, you know, you just don't, even if you think you are. If other people think you are, then fine, let them say it. But the reason I bring up Mike Perry and Michael Jai White, they had a big beef back in the day and they I think they were going to fight. You know, Michael Jai White never took the fight. A lot of the Marshal Art movie stars you never seen do a real fight. You never seen Bruce Lee do a real fight, John clud Van Dam, Stephen Skill, Mark Jai White. I think they would all do great, but you never know because we never seen it. So that's also something that I'm doing and how I'm marketing myself is the marsh Art movie star is gonna do a real fight, and I'm not gonna discount the opponent on March ninth, real stronghold. The guy's fit. I mean, he's a fitness model, he looks good, he moves good, he's a martial art he's done boxing for a while. But I'm gonna knock him out. I'm gonna knock him. I'm making it on prediction right now. So and then and then Mike Perry he'll pay more attention because it's all about momentum. Then the movies come out, like I said, last Kumite comes out after that than Bloodstorm. Then it's like, Okay, this guy's kind of interesting, like he just you know, knock this dude out. We'll see. I'm just making the prediction here. And then he's looking really good in the movies and he's kind of building his name up. And I would like to train with Michael Jai White because he has that beef with Mike Perry, and I do think he has something really good to teach. Yeah. Yeah, so we'll see what happens with all this. Wow, amazing, amazing. Yeah, I can see you have a channel. I can see why you have a channel. Amazing, my brother, I'm a huge fan of Michael joh Wright. You know, I think when it comes to especially people in African American community, we don't necessarily have like certain stars within different genres of like action. Right. He's one of them, right that we can kind of look and see ourselves in. And I think that's what made me a huge, huge fan of his. Uh. It was a lot of conversation based around him playing uh spawn, right should he be the next Spawn? And I think he would have been an excellent spawn, you know. Shout out to Wesley though, but yeah, so kudos to you. I'm excited you must be talking about Blade because he I'm sorry, I'm sorry Blade. That's correct me, Blade, That's what I mean. But it was a lot of uh, it was a lot of talk around him being the next Blade, you know. And I don't know what happened with that, but uh, I think he said something he didn't want to do with it or something like that. I can't remember, but I think when it comes to him, he's probably the closest to a Bruce Lee that we would get right or something along the line, because when you think Bruce Lee, he's in that. You talk about Michael Jackson of Marshall, and you know, it was cool to see other artists like the gentleman who played it, man ip Man, you know, a huge fan of his, you know, and just the arts period when it comes to the martial arts. I mean, it's just a wonderful thing. And it's good to see that you're you have that background and you're you're you're expounding that and you're showing you you're testing, you're testing your you know, your your grit, you know, and I'm glad to see that, and I'm anticipating seeing it. Is anything else you would like to tell everyone before before you, you know, sign off and let everyone know how to get get in contact with you and all of that little stuff. Yeah, make sure to check out the Viking Sermari YouTube channel. You can check me out on Instagram and TikTok Real Viking Samurai and make sure to watch the fight March ninth, Atlantic City at the Showboat. There you go, Well, then you have it, ladies and gentlemen. I don't want you to go anywhere when we come back. You still want to do you? Ready? She's like you're tired. Yeah, well we'll do it for the next time. All right, We'll all right. I've wore them out to day. We had a dynamics y'all. I'm super excited about that. This is Charles Gregory. We talked weekly after the talk with w P P m l P Philadelphia, one of six point five, and we talked weekly after talk with your boy Charles Gregor and beautiful and beautiful, and this is We talked weekly with my guy David. We got damon. 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