KCAA: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa (Tue, 20 Oct, 2026)

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In just the time of day.
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An exhausting hamster wheel and into balanced living with Dr.
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Marissa.
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Promise you joy in the mystery.
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Dr.
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Marissa, also known as the Asian Oprah. Her mission, to
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be a beneficial presence on the planet. Her purpose, to
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be your personal advocate to live, laugh, love, learn. Her
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life motto, don't die wondering. Take back your life with Dr.
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Marissa Pei.
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Welcome. You are tuned into.
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My weekly syndicated talk radio TV.
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Show called Take My Advice. I'm not using it.
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Get happy with Dr. Marissa every Tuesday at naturally high
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noon here out of the UBN Go studios in Burbank, California,
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and then rebroadcasting on my CNBC NBC station, KCAA, on
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AM 1050, FM 102.3, FM 106.5, and on demand.
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Everywhere that iHeartRadio is.
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And this is a show about hope and happiness. So
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there's no gossip and no scandal and no K-words, no
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Kardashian talk at all. Instead, I want you to focus
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on your own reality show and how you can be
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happy 88% of the time.
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Why 88?
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Well, 100% of the time you'd be dead. We don't
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want that. Eight is a lucky number in Chinese. I
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know you thought I was Swedish. So double eight is a.
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Homonym for good fortune.
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So that is your birthright, and that's what this show
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is about. And I am so happy to tell you
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the most exciting news. Today marks seven years on the
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air and on camera for this show.
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So....
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That's 365 consecutive weeks on the air. And that means
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I've known my beloved Tony Sweet for that same time.
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And he's running the boards today. I'm so grateful for you.
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I'm so grateful for you, my listening and watching audience,
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who have been incredibly supportive of for these past seven years.
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And keep it up. I am back.
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I'll be coming back every other week while I'm on
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book tour and on my Think and Grow Rich tour,
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which we'll tell you about in the balance bar. But
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you know that this little baby went number one. And
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so that's why I have been on hiatus since the
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end of last year. But I had to come back
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because I have an amazing guest today. But I do
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want to just point out that piece in, piece out
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to Fox and Terry Tolliver on the East Coast who
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did an amazing job putting me on Women's History Month
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special when I was in D.C. last month. And because
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of that, the book hit the eighth bestseller list. It's
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now number one Amazon, number four Denver Post, and then
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six other bestseller lists. So I'm so grateful. Xie xie
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for that. So make sure you go to my pages
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to watch them again. if you would like, or watch
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them for the first time and just celebrate Eight Ways
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to Happiness from wherever you are. And that's my mission now.
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Eight million people happy. That's my span of control over
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the rest of my life. And I hope that you
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are one of them. Please do join my happy family.
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Go to drmarissa.life. But now, I couldn't think of a
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better way to come back on the air. I wasn't
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even planning on it. Didn't realize that I was going
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on my anniversary. And I got a beautiful email from
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Harlan who I love, and I just found out he
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also loves me, my.
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Favorite publicist.
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And he offered up someone who you're going to recognize
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and you're going to think you're going to be seeing ghosts,
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but he really does look like his father. But just
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a little bit of an introduction. You do remember Richard Pryor,
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and he could make me laugh so hard. And it
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does seem to... be true what they say about comedians.
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They come from a world of hurt generating the humor.
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Finding out how colorful his life was, married to a
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total of five women seven times and had seven kids
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with six women. So no wonder he's quoted with saying,
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I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend
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to keep trying until I.
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Get it right.
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Well, it appears that the apple does not fall far
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from the tree.
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Richard Pryor Jr.
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Is his number one firstborn son. And his life has
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paralleled in some way his famous father's. And we're about
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to hear how that is with survival from addiction, abuse.
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But I'm not going to give away your story. He
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was born in Peoria, Illinois. And on April 10th, 1962,
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at only six months of age, the firstborn son and
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his wife, Patricia Watts, had to stay in the hospital
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for several weeks until he reached five pounds.
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He was so small.
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So.
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He's come a long way.
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His new book, In a Prior Life, talks about the
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years since then. And welcome to the studio, Richard Pryor Jr.
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Thank you.
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For having me.
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It is my blessing.
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I'm so glad to be here.
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Yes, it is so wonderful to have you. And if
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you see him, there's no doubt.
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Yeah, I scare myself sometimes. Do you? Do you? If
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you go in a dark room at night and go
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to the bathroom and suddenly turn on the light, it's
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like sometimes, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do people mistake you for?
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Well, sometimes I'll get, especially I live in New York City,
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so I'll get the, where people on the subway or something,
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they'll just.
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Do this stare.
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They don't know what to say or what it is.
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They say, I know this person from somewhere. And they
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can't figure it out. It doesn't really click. Every once
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in a while, you get somebody that'll click.
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Oh, okay.
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Right, right, right.
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My name's Richard, isn't it?
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Right, right, right.
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So what was it like? Did you feel like you
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were growing up under a shadow?
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That's an interesting question.
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There were times in my life when I definitely felt that,
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without a doubt. It was more so when I became older.
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When I was younger, I didn't really feel that at all.
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I think it was when you tried to get your
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wings and also when my dad became more famous.
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Right.
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That intensified. Right.
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So definitely when I was older, I definitely felt that.
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under a shadow, under a microscope all the time. And
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that's part of my journey, though.
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Right, right, absolutely.
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Our past is definitely a little bit paralleled that way
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in reading about yours.
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So a little history lesson here.
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Your father, Richard Pryor, married your mother, Patricia Watts.
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Right.
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And they were married for a year or a little more.
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Well, they were married actually for quite a few years, contrary.
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To what Wikipedia says.
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Because they didn't actually really divorce until later on. I
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know my dad was going to get married, wanted to
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get married and things like that. So they actually divorced,
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but they weren't together very long. They were together maybe
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a year and he went on the road. He said
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he would be gone three months, and it was like
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three years later.
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Oh, wow.
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And by that time, he had already made it and
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established himself as an entertainer.
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How did they meet?
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They met in Peoria, Illinois.
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My mother moved to Peoria, Illinois when she was, I think,
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12 or 13 from a small town called Louisiana, Missouri.
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And they moved up.
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Her father and mother and siblings moved up to Peoria
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for a better.
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Opportunity because it was a big city from Louisiana to there. Right, right.
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She was there, and then she ran into my father.
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At a dance, at a school?
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No, I believe it was at a pool hall.
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My great-grandparents ran a pool hall.
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Cool.
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And they met and became friends.
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Fell in love.
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Fell in love. My mother had over heels. She always
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had a knack for picking the wrong guy. Uh-oh. But
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I wouldn't be here if they hadn't met.
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That's right. That's right.
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They did the best that they could. Right.
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Yeah.
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So so so wrong guy. So your dad's life. Very colorful.
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I I honestly I just I like the positive. My
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little name is Pollyanna.
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So I was kind of surprised.
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I also don't listen to the news because it depresses me.
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So I missed all of and I don't do gossip.
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But is what they say true?
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All of the drug.
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Abuse, the Marlon Brando affair, all of that?
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Except for the Marlon Brando thing. Okay.
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You know, I think that was exasperated through his wife.
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I call her a quote-unquote wife, but that's another story.
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But I feel that.
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A lot of things were said and pushed along just
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to keep someone relevant in the news and everything.
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So I think that was what that was. I don't
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believe that. But the other things.
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My dad has talked about, because he's always talked about
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his downfalls and his mishaps and good and bad.
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He's always shared those things. So there was nothing....
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That was out there that he said that you had
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to say, I wonder if it's true or not, because
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he truly told on himself.
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Okay, so he was honest about that.
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Oh yeah, he was totally honest.
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Did he ever have like a sit down with you
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and say, son, don't do what I did?
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Well, I think when you're in your addiction, you giving
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advice is not always the right advice.
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That you're giving.
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I think because you're caught up into your own mess
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and your own cesspool and everything, it's hard for you
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to tell someone else what's.
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Right from wrong.
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I know my dad at times did when I would
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reach out to him when I was struggling with the
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same things. His response was, you know, we'll get you
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help in a very calm manner, totally opposite of what
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I was expecting.
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Right.
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But then realizing, looking back, said, That's probably all he
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could do because he was suffering at the exact same time.
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What do you think his demons were? And then we'll
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get to your demons.
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I think his demons, I think a lot of it
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derived from his upbringing and the things that he went through.
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The sexual abuse, all those things that coupled along with
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the lifestyle that my dad's side of the family were in.
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My great-grandmother was a madam. his dad, my grandfather was
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a pimp, and his mom was a prostitute.
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And the whole family, they were bootleggers and all that.
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So I think all that contributed to who you are
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and what you're doing and also the career you chose.
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You're in that path and in the limelight and everything
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is easily.
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Accessible to you.
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It's hard to say no to a lot of things.
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And I think you get caught up in the things
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you're saying. let me just do this and ease the tension.
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But then you look back and eight years later, you're
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still in that same place, but worse than you were before.
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Right, right.
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Chasing the, yeah, chasing the happy.
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So is that what happened to you? Your upbringing too?
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Most definitely.
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I went through a period when I was really young,
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being molested. And in my book, I talk about, you know,
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uncle fingers and the things I had to endure with that.
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And it was the thing I think where it was,
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It was so hurtful for me when I got older.
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Because it was a thing no one did anything. Even
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though some of the people knew what had happened.
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Because you opened your mouth.
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Right. There was no repercussions.
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And then they even saw, you know, what was going
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on and still never said anything. So when you're that young,
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you think it's okay.
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Right.
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Those things are okay. And then I had several cousins
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that molested.
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Me as well. I went through that period during that time.
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I think when you get older in life, you try
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to find something, whether it's fitting in with peers or something,
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but then you try to numb what you've gone through.
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And then that takes a whole different direction, adds even
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more things onto you. Right.
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But then when you get older in life, when you're
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sitting there and you're still doing those.
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Same things, there comes a time when you have to
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look back and say, I can't blame them for what
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I'm doing right now because.
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I'm doing it to myself.
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They've gone on about their life and doing their own
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thing and they don't even realize how.
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They've affected you.
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Yes.
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What can you do to turn yourself around?
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Brilliant.
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Your life around. So that's the process I had to
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go through. Beautiful.
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Yeah, that is definitely, I think, the solution to the
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7 out of 10 of us that have gone through
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some kind of childhood trauma is that, you know, if
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it's the majority of us, that means... There's nothing wrong
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with us. If that's what the majority of us.
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Go through, there's nothing wrong with us.
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It's something that has chiseled us. But at that turning point,
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we at some point have to say, OK, it happened.
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They did the best that they could. Now, how am
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I doing this stuff to myself? And that's that turning
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point that gives us. You a life, me a life,
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and a brand new way of moving around in the world.
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Oh, totally.
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Right? Oh, definitely.
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It's not what happened to you. It's what happened for you.
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Right.
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And I loved it when I read that you realize
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that that's part of your work now.
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Yeah.
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It was really strange because when I first started the book,
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it meant one thing to me. By the time I
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was finishing the book, it was.
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A totally different direction. Because my spiritual.
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Journey had changed as far as the way I look
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on things and the things I wanted to do in
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life and the things I wanted to achieve in life
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and the people I wanted to reach in life and
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say things to about the struggle that you go through
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in life and how you don't allow that to dictate.
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Your life and how to get out of that. And
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a lot of it deals with self-love.
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Yes.
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Because if you don't do that, you can't love anyone else.
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You don't love yourself enough to even try to do better.
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True.
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And it's like taking old skin off and taking, shedding
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that old skin to become a new person and a
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better person.
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Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
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Well, I can tell from the look on your face
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that you've done, gone through a lot of alchemy is
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what I would call it. But it's kind of like
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the peeling of the Not the onion. I've never liked
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that saying. I do not understand what is so good
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about the inside of an onion. And it makes you cry.
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Exactly. So artichoke.
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We are peeling the artichoke because there's a heart in
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the middle.
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Right.
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And there's a little bit of goofy good stuff.
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On the way.
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Yes, I love that.
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Yeah.
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So, okay. So your mom.
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Still was in love with your dad.
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Yes.
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And then he kind of left.
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I saw some of the divorce papers and he actually
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wanted to take you.
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Yeah.
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According to the papers.
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Yeah.
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And said that she was an unfit mother.
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Yeah.
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It's like when you read that, you kind of cringe
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because you, especially when you.
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Know actually the truth.
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Right.
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What had actually happened was that my dad left. He
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said he would be gone three months later. And it
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was three years later.
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And it was almost like, well, I guess she's supposed
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to just sit here and wait for a phone call
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or something. So my mother went on with her life.
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And she ended up in another relationship. And she had
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my sister, got pregnant with my sister. And my father
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had a stepsister who worked in the hospital and got
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the records that my mother gave birth to a child.
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Okay.
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And then they use that saying that she committed adultery
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against her versus saying that, no, I'm not, haven't been
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here because we know, especially knowing my dad now, there's
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no way that he was going three years without being
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intimate with someone, you know, as far as the life's concerned.
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I don't think it was a thing so much of
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what he really wanted to do at the time. I
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think he was doing the things of family saying, you
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need to do this because you're becoming somebody now and
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they're going to take from you and they want this
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from you. And my mother was never like that. But
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what I think it was, was that his family, they
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were opportunists and they were all about money. You know,
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if you come out of line of prostitutes and bootleggers
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and all that, you're about the Benjamin, you know? And
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I think that's what they were seeing in their eyes,
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that someone could take something from us that should rightfully
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be ours. Right, right, right.
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That totally makes sense. And if you've just tuned in
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and you're wondering, Why I'm talking to someone that looks
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an awful lot like Richard Pryor is because I am
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talking to Richard Pryor Jr., the firstborn son of the
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late great comedian. And you're tuned in to Take My Advice.
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I'm not using it. Get happy with Dr.
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Marissa.
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And let's go back here to.
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So your relationship with your dad. Difficult, easy, changed... Did you,
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you went mad at them?
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I would say all of those things I went through
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at one point or another in my life.
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I think as we all do with our parents, there's,
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you know, there's a period where, you know, your parents
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are the best thing since sliced bread. I think you
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go through a period where, especially like the teen years where,
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you know, you think that you know everything and you're
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an adult. And when you're a young adult, you really
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think you know everything and no one can tell you anything.
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I know exactly what I'm doing because I'm grown now.
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Right.
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I've got two recovering teenage girls.
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So you go through that period of life. Yeah.
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And then you go through the thing where when you're
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becoming a man and you want to be your own person.
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So you go through those struggles with the father because
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sometimes a parent, Doesn't want to detach that fact that
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you're an adult and you go through those periods of life.
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So it was like a normal father-son.
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Normal father-son things.
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But, you know, I tell people, I said, my father
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wasn't a perfect father. But he was the best father
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he knew how to be. Because you had to look
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what he came out of.
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Yeah.
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You know, when you have a family that their appreciation
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for you or showing you gratitude and love was to
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give you monetary things versus... the hug affection the kiss
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and the affection so those are things my father had
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to learn and those are things we all have to learn.
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Through life and we've never had those things right sometimes
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we have to learn a new road and the direction of.
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Life as far as it goes so we had our
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ups and downs but it was never anything where he
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didn't want to be a part of my life where
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you know we would go years without speaking the only
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time we actually did that was when my Dad's wife
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separated us and didn't allow the children to have contact
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with him. So I went for six years without being
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able to see him his last six years of his life.
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I wasn't able to see him until 11 months before
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he passed. So that was a difficult period.
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That was the most difficult period I went through dealing
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with my dad because during that time period I lost
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my mother, who really loved my dad.
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And they talked all the time.
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So me having to see my dad after six years,
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having to tell him, that my mother had passed and
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this was going on in life and to see, because
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he didn't want to speak, but to see everything in
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his eyes, you know, his.
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Eyes were well up, you know, tears and all that.
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And, you know, letting him know how much I loved
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him and cared for him. But then knowing when I
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left there, I knew within my spirit it was the
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last time.
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I would see him alive.
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That's tough.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I had another guest who had a similar experience. Do
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you remember Casey Kasem?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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His daughter, Carrie, was also.
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In that situation. I've been told the same thing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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It's tough.
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It is a horrible thing.
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But the good news is you did get to see
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him and his daughter. You know, one of my things
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is in my chapter two, Out of Loss into.
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Faith, is to remember the God.
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And there's a lot of him to remember. Was he
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ever surprised at the level of success.
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That's gone to?
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I think my father truly, especially even, it's going to
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sound weird, but even after his passing and he could
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look back, I think he would be shocked. at the accolades,
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how people thought about him, how people cared about him.
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Because deep down inside, he was still that little boy
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from Peoria, Illinois, who achieved greatness, but you're still that introvert,
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and that part of.
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You is still... He was an introvert?
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Yeah. Wow.
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That part of you is still that little boy. Right.
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And so I think a lot of times when we
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go through life, even though we're doing this and we're successful...
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those things still plague us are still part of us
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as far as who we are until we can shed those,
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learn how to shed.
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Those things off.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It sounds like you went through that too.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Yes.
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So your, your past career has been very multifaceted. Tell
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us some of the highlights or your favorites.
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Well, the military, I was in the military for a while.
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Before the don't ask, don't tell.
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Before the don't ask, don't tell. And that was a,
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a learning experience.
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When you're, you know, told, you know, you're out at
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sea and you're told to get your things together and,
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you know, you're being discharged, not dishonorably, but you're being discharged.
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And then really not knowing why you're being discharged. That
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was a thing that was like kind of baffling to
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me because.
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The only thing I was told through a friend of
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mine who was still in the service that I was told,
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they were told when I got back to the land
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on a base at land in Jacksonville that treat Richard
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prior with kid gloves. So it was something I think
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they were concerned about the way I was dismissed. And
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they didn't want to cause a media.
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Uproar or something like that. So it was like trying
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to keep it quiet.
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Do you think it was because of your social orientation?
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Oh yeah.
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I think without a doubt that we had a lot
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of people on our ship that were.
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We had our own little group and our own.
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Little clique, our own little newspaper with code words for everybody.
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So we would talk about all these things and somehow...
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we found out later through a guy that was in
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our group was actually feeding, worked for the military. So
514
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he was out in the open and he would do everything,
515
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but then share everything that everyone else did, you know?
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So he was doing what he was paid to do.
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00:23:04.190 --> 00:23:06.849
So I think those were the things, even though it
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00:23:06.890 --> 00:23:09.630
was a thing that was always a denial, once they
519
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had that.
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00:23:09.950 --> 00:23:13.329
Information, I think it was like, okay. Yeah.
521
00:23:13.410 --> 00:23:16.640
And then after that, um, Actually, when I was in
522
00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.240
the military, I started out doing lip syncing.
523
00:23:20.180 --> 00:23:22.339
And then I got back to Virginia. Then I ended
524
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up doing female impersonating.
525
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Who were you?
526
00:23:26.059 --> 00:23:29.319
Well, my stage name was Rainy McKnight. Wow.
527
00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:30.940
Who would you impersonate?
528
00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:31.839
I did.
529
00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:35.119
Back then when I first started, I was doing Dreamgirls.
530
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And I'm telling you, I'm not going from Jennifer Holliday
531
00:23:36.990 --> 00:23:39.789
from Dreamgirls. That was like my big thing. And I
532
00:23:39.829 --> 00:23:43.109
would do numbers, you know, like ballads. But I would
533
00:23:43.170 --> 00:23:45.450
twist things around. No one ever knew what I was
534
00:23:45.490 --> 00:23:48.730
going to do because I was very theatrical in everything
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00:23:48.779 --> 00:23:50.660
that I did. So you know you weren't going to
536
00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:52.519
get just a normal person standing up lip syncing.
537
00:23:52.579 --> 00:23:53.960
You were going to get a variety of things.
538
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Did your dad ever watch you?
539
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No, he never did.
540
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My mother saw me perform, but my dad never saw
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me perform.
542
00:23:59.420 --> 00:24:02.140
I did that, and then I was a four-day minister.
543
00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:06.210
Boy, that's going from one side to the other.
544
00:24:06.230 --> 00:24:08.289
I went back and was married and had my child
545
00:24:08.309 --> 00:24:10.329
and all that stuff. So I went through that period.
546
00:24:10.390 --> 00:24:10.690
Okay.
547
00:24:11.390 --> 00:24:13.049
Then I went to the period where I didn't want
548
00:24:13.130 --> 00:24:15.930
nothing to do with church at all or anything like that.
549
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And then, you know, working my regular jobs, telecommunications and
550
00:24:21.390 --> 00:24:24.599
all those things that I did throughout my years. And
551
00:24:24.660 --> 00:24:29.880
then after my mother and father died, I actually say
552
00:24:29.900 --> 00:24:32.400
this a lot, that my mother's death gave me life.
553
00:24:33.299 --> 00:24:35.319
Because if my mother was still around, I'd be laying
554
00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:39.859
underneath her being coddled instead of branching out and being
555
00:24:39.940 --> 00:24:42.519
what I wanted to do and Stepping outside of that fear.
556
00:24:42.539 --> 00:24:43.759
So you were a mama's boy.
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00:24:43.819 --> 00:24:47.420
Total mama's boy. So I moved to New York and
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00:24:47.660 --> 00:24:52.150
started performing. There were $ 300 to my name and said,
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I want to make it work.
560
00:24:53.009 --> 00:24:56.349
And I never stopped. Oh, that's so cool. And full circle.
561
00:24:56.750 --> 00:25:01.380
Now I'm back into ministry once again. And actually, which
562
00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:01.920
is a weird question.
563
00:25:01.940 --> 00:25:03.500
I tell people this and they're like kind of shocked
564
00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:06.180
is that my ex-wife is my pastor.
565
00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:09.509
And we're like extremely good friends. Okay.
566
00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:13.769
And it shows you how that you can think things
567
00:25:13.849 --> 00:25:16.009
are negative, but when you allow to move yourself out
568
00:25:16.029 --> 00:25:18.490
of the way with certain things that you can't control
569
00:25:18.509 --> 00:25:23.529
and situations how things can mend and things can come.
570
00:25:23.430 --> 00:25:25.970
Together that you thought would never come together.
571
00:25:26.029 --> 00:25:29.029
Yes. And then you can be prosperous in everything that
572
00:25:29.069 --> 00:25:31.029
you're doing in life, every facet of life that's in
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00:25:31.069 --> 00:25:32.130
your mind, body, and soul.
574
00:25:32.369 --> 00:25:32.950
Absolutely.
575
00:25:33.230 --> 00:25:36.289
Amen to that. I say a year knows what a
576
00:25:36.329 --> 00:25:36.869
day doesn't.
577
00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:38.849
That's true.
578
00:25:38.869 --> 00:25:40.470
I wish I made it up, but I didn't.
579
00:25:40.789 --> 00:25:41.150
That's okay.
580
00:25:41.170 --> 00:25:42.250
I don't know who did.
581
00:25:42.390 --> 00:25:47.089
So I'll take credit for that. Take credit. But that's wonderful.
582
00:25:47.329 --> 00:25:50.839
And you had a little stint in the business, right?
583
00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:51.960
Color Purple.
584
00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:54.759
Yeah, I did production on Color Purple and I've worked
585
00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:56.319
on production on some of my dad's films.
586
00:25:56.380 --> 00:25:59.039
And I've done in the last, what, nine.
587
00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:02.170
Ten years, I've done quite a few independent films and
588
00:26:02.190 --> 00:26:02.829
things like that.
589
00:26:03.210 --> 00:26:04.289
So I've always stayed in the mix.
590
00:26:05.690 --> 00:26:09.789
I'm a MAC-nominated cabaret performer out of New York City.
591
00:26:10.819 --> 00:26:13.079
So I do cabaret and sing and all those things
592
00:26:13.140 --> 00:26:17.319
and stage plays and all those things that complete us.
593
00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:19.400
You know, a lot of people say, well, you know,
594
00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:21.700
they're not successful. And I think a lot of times
595
00:26:21.740 --> 00:26:25.279
success is what you're doing that you love. You know,
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00:26:25.299 --> 00:26:28.180
if you make $ 5 off of it or $ 5 million
597
00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:30.960
off of it, if it's something that you truly love,
598
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:34.910
you're satisfied. Regardless how it goes in the monetary sense.
599
00:26:34.970 --> 00:26:36.049
Yes, yes.
600
00:26:36.349 --> 00:26:40.650
I use Emerson's definition of success. To laugh often and much.
601
00:26:41.029 --> 00:26:41.329
Yes.
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00:26:41.349 --> 00:26:43.869
To know that one life has breathed easier because.
603
00:26:43.609 --> 00:26:44.230
We have lived.
604
00:26:44.329 --> 00:26:44.670
Yes.
605
00:26:44.730 --> 00:26:46.730
So you are successful. You've already laughed.
606
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:48.299
Yes, yes.
607
00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:49.339
Beautiful.
608
00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:55.299
So the animosity that I hear, which is another story, but.
609
00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.099
Just what would you.
610
00:26:59.339 --> 00:27:05.250
You have step-siblings and half-siblings, and then you have one
611
00:27:07.069 --> 00:27:10.190
wife that you said went like this for his wife.
612
00:27:10.869 --> 00:27:12.049
What's that all about?
613
00:27:12.329 --> 00:27:13.769
Well, I think it was the thing with, you know,
614
00:27:13.789 --> 00:27:17.559
if you have someone that keeps you from your parent
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00:27:18.190 --> 00:27:22.900
or child, I think it's really detrimental and it's really hurtful.
616
00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:25.259
You know, when you go into your father's home, and
617
00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:28.950
he used to have a mantle with his family, pictures
618
00:27:28.990 --> 00:27:31.049
of the kids and all those things and all of
619
00:27:31.069 --> 00:27:33.170
a sudden you see none of those things around anymore
620
00:27:33.190 --> 00:27:36.950
it was like we were removed from his life and
621
00:27:37.190 --> 00:27:39.930
uh and it was just a horrible thing it was
622
00:27:39.990 --> 00:27:42.650
power you got someone that you know wants power and
623
00:27:42.670 --> 00:27:43.369
wants control of.
624
00:27:43.390 --> 00:27:46.509
Everything is this the one that he married twice yeah
625
00:27:46.529 --> 00:27:46.930
i know.
626
00:27:46.769 --> 00:27:50.849
Two years yeah this is the jennifer lee okay um
627
00:27:50.950 --> 00:27:53.230
so it was a very difficult thing to go through
628
00:27:53.250 --> 00:27:58.130
and even after his death the things that um She
629
00:27:58.210 --> 00:28:00.990
wanted to do a biography of him, but not wanting
630
00:28:01.029 --> 00:28:03.349
the kids to be a part of that. How can
631
00:28:03.369 --> 00:28:05.730
you tell a story about his life without getting the
632
00:28:05.769 --> 00:28:08.670
input from his family when you're the only one doing it?
633
00:28:08.670 --> 00:28:10.369
So that's why I was like, well, it's not going
634
00:28:10.390 --> 00:28:11.910
to be an accurate story. It's going to be her
635
00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:16.640
story versus his story. But also in growing and learning
636
00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:20.819
and writing this book, a lot of times we keep
637
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:24.160
things that people do to us. We keep those things inside.
638
00:28:24.180 --> 00:28:27.589
We have that animosity and that hurt. And it stunts
639
00:28:27.750 --> 00:28:28.829
us from growing.
640
00:28:28.990 --> 00:28:29.529
Absolutely.
641
00:28:29.549 --> 00:28:33.009
It's like taking a vine and wrapping it around that plant.
642
00:28:33.470 --> 00:28:35.509
It starts to strangle that plant. And you have to
643
00:28:35.569 --> 00:28:37.509
cut that vine off in order for that plant to
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00:28:37.529 --> 00:28:38.190
nourish and grow.
645
00:28:39.049 --> 00:28:41.170
So you have a direction. You can either go in
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00:28:41.190 --> 00:28:42.319
the direction where.
647
00:28:42.380 --> 00:28:45.619
Someone else is controlling your journey or where you want
648
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.559
to control your journey. And I chose, after quite a
649
00:28:49.579 --> 00:28:52.119
few years, that I wanted to control my journey. I
650
00:28:52.140 --> 00:28:54.380
didn't want anyone else to be able to dictate how
651
00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:56.650
I live my life and how I move forward. So
652
00:28:56.710 --> 00:29:00.269
I had to release a lot of that. Whether or
653
00:29:00.309 --> 00:29:03.470
not she received it or not, I had to do
654
00:29:03.490 --> 00:29:05.450
it for my sanity to go on with my life.
655
00:29:05.769 --> 00:29:06.029
Sure.
656
00:29:06.049 --> 00:29:07.740
You know, I don't agree with everything she does and
657
00:29:07.779 --> 00:29:09.500
the way she does it, but I'm no longer allowing
658
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:13.960
that to motivate my mind and to dictate my mind
659
00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:15.279
on what I do and my actions.
660
00:29:15.420 --> 00:29:15.759
Good.
661
00:29:15.859 --> 00:29:16.059
Yeah.
662
00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:16.440
Good.
663
00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:19.460
Anger and hostility are the two things that'll keep your
664
00:29:19.529 --> 00:29:20.269
body sick.
665
00:29:20.309 --> 00:29:20.529
Right.
666
00:29:20.549 --> 00:29:20.609
So.
667
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.819
I'm getting the signal.
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00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.029
It is time to go and thank the sponsors who
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00:29:26.109 --> 00:29:27.549
make this show possible.
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00:29:27.609 --> 00:29:29.990
We'll be back in two and two. This is Dr.
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00:29:30.029 --> 00:29:33.210
Marissa with Richard Pryor Jr. on Take My Advice.
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00:29:33.269 --> 00:29:35.849
I'm not using it. Get balanced or get happy.
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00:29:36.369 --> 00:29:37.490
We'll be back in two and two.
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00:29:37.569 --> 00:29:40.619
Peace in, peace out. That's world peace. through inner peace.
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00:29:53.109 --> 00:29:53.630
Thank you.
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00:30:21.130 --> 00:30:23.640
Thank you.
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Marissa. We'll be introducing the Chinese spotlight film May 1st
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Marissa every Tuesday at naturally high noon at UBN Go Burbank,
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as well as all of the past guests on my
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show from Layla Ali, Muhammad Ali's daughter to Marianne Williamson
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to Marianne from Gilligan's Island. And excited also to announce
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00:32:25.809 --> 00:32:29.049
that I just won another award for this show, for
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00:32:29.109 --> 00:32:34.799
the specific, thank you, the 200th show with Michael Bernard Beckwith,
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00:32:35.059 --> 00:32:39.220
Neil Donald Walsh, and Bishop Carlton. We won a Visionary
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00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.920
Cover Award, which will be awarded in Denver. So thank
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00:32:42.940 --> 00:32:46.519
you so much for the vote. Xie xie. And peace in,
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00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:50.680
peace out. Also to my students, my Power Chief students,
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00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:54.589
I just came from an agape school. International Spiritual Center
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00:32:54.690 --> 00:32:59.170
Spring Retreat where we got to do forms of a
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00:32:59.210 --> 00:33:02.210
moving meditation that promotes inner peace one breath at a
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00:33:02.250 --> 00:33:04.630
time and a special thank you to my big brother
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00:33:04.970 --> 00:33:09.710
Michael Bernard Beckwith who changed the trajectory of my life
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00:33:09.710 --> 00:33:12.359
10 years ago and as a result this is the
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00:33:12.390 --> 00:33:16.039
show and Neil Donald Walsh for predicting this little book
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00:33:16.539 --> 00:33:20.920
on the 200th show so we are here with a
716
00:33:20.980 --> 00:33:23.799
guest that brought me back onto the air, and his
717
00:33:23.859 --> 00:33:27.259
name is Richard Pryor Jr., and he has been telling
718
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.400
us a fascinating true story about his life and what
719
00:33:31.420 --> 00:33:34.720
it was like growing up with his dad and without
720
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:39.809
his dad and being a mama's boy and finding himself
721
00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:41.630
through all kinds of things.
722
00:33:42.029 --> 00:33:46.910
Are you still connected to your half-siblings?
723
00:33:47.309 --> 00:33:48.630
Oh, yeah.
724
00:33:48.650 --> 00:33:54.109
I know in the African-American community, We, you don't usually
725
00:33:54.130 --> 00:33:57.170
hear the words have siblings or step or anything like that.
726
00:33:57.210 --> 00:33:59.880
If they're in your family, they're your brothers and sisters.
727
00:33:59.910 --> 00:34:03.220
So that's the way I've always looked at my siblings.
728
00:34:03.779 --> 00:34:06.660
I've never looked at, you know, my, I have five brothers.
729
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:07.839
And sisters on my dad's side.
730
00:34:07.900 --> 00:34:10.360
Then I have three sisters on my mother's side and
731
00:34:10.380 --> 00:34:12.900
they're all just my sisters and brothers. But yeah, I'm
732
00:34:12.980 --> 00:34:14.800
close to all of them and speak to them. I'm
733
00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:17.639
extremely close to my sister, Rain, on my dad's side.
734
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:20.199
I'm really, really close to her. We speak on a
735
00:34:20.219 --> 00:34:22.760
daily basis and things like that. And She's been in
736
00:34:22.780 --> 00:34:25.829
the business for years, so it's a good thing to
737
00:34:25.849 --> 00:34:27.329
be able to talk to her and bounce things back
738
00:34:27.429 --> 00:34:29.210
off and expect.
739
00:34:28.909 --> 00:34:30.989
And all those kind of things. Because my journey is
740
00:34:31.050 --> 00:34:33.510
new for me. Right, right, right.
741
00:34:33.789 --> 00:34:37.940
Now, did you all try to figure out how to
742
00:34:37.980 --> 00:34:39.920
get past Jennifer?
743
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:42.920
Well, we've tried those things, but nothing's been successful when
744
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:46.389
you have that the person is using your father's wealth.
745
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:49.619
To, you know, fight against you for anything.
746
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:51.940
You know, there's things that we can't do when we
747
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:53.429
don't have the funds to do it.
748
00:34:53.619 --> 00:34:53.920
Right.
749
00:34:54.139 --> 00:34:56.380
And you can't fight against things like that. Yeah. But
750
00:34:56.440 --> 00:34:58.860
it's sad that, you know, you have a woman who
751
00:34:58.980 --> 00:35:01.099
is with him that, you know, has rights to his
752
00:35:01.139 --> 00:35:04.400
name and likeness and knowing that if she really wanted to,
753
00:35:04.460 --> 00:35:07.300
she could stop anything that you did in regards to
754
00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:10.119
your father. It's kind of hurtful. And, you know, but
755
00:35:10.139 --> 00:35:11.300
you still have to do your own thing.
756
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:11.510
Yeah.
757
00:35:11.530 --> 00:35:13.280
That's the thing of me even writing the book. It
758
00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:15.730
was like, I had to speak my truth. Yeah.
759
00:35:16.190 --> 00:35:16.929
It's my truth.
760
00:35:17.070 --> 00:35:17.289
Right.
761
00:35:17.349 --> 00:35:19.590
And that's something that no one can ever take away.
762
00:35:19.610 --> 00:35:19.849
Right.
763
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It's my truth.
764
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Absolutely.
765
00:35:21.610 --> 00:35:25.380
And you discovered that, you know, resentment is that, like
766
00:35:25.420 --> 00:35:27.900
they say, drinking the poison and expecting the other person.
767
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.679
My version of that is, I hate you so much
768
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:31.739
I don't want to look at you, so I'm going
769
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:32.869
to poke out my own eye.
770
00:35:33.010 --> 00:35:33.110
Yeah.
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00:35:33.389 --> 00:35:35.679
Which is kind of silly. So let's not do that.
772
00:35:35.739 --> 00:35:38.199
But that's good. She's going to have to bump into
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00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:41.039
herself at some point, but you don't have to make
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00:35:41.099 --> 00:35:43.579
her do it. And you definitely have to.
775
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:46.179
Yeah, no longer have dreams of taking a radar out
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00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:50.369
to L.A. That's a good thing.
777
00:35:50.710 --> 00:35:53.110
That's a good thing. It's all gone. It's all gone.
778
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And it was a dream.
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It was a dream.
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00:35:55.250 --> 00:35:57.130
Let's be clarified.
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00:35:57.170 --> 00:35:58.869
Yeah, God forbid something actually happens.
782
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Yeah, yeah.
783
00:35:59.289 --> 00:36:02.599
Don't let's not go there. You did not hear that here.
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Yeah.
785
00:36:05.019 --> 00:36:07.570
Where can people pick up this book?
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My book can be, you can go to my website, inapriorlife.com.
787
00:36:11.230 --> 00:36:13.449
It'll have all the links as far as where to
788
00:36:13.489 --> 00:36:15.730
purchase a book and my interviews. You can also go
789
00:36:15.769 --> 00:36:19.630
to Amazon or to the publisher, baremannermedia.com, as.
790
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Far as looking for the book. Beautiful.
791
00:36:21.949 --> 00:36:24.000
And it went, when did it get released?
792
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:27.679
It was released, we had a first release on March
793
00:36:27.739 --> 00:36:29.980
the 3rd. Okay, very recently. And it was officially released
794
00:36:30.059 --> 00:36:32.800
on April the 10th. through Amazon. Oh, great.
795
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:36.179
So it's doing quite well from what I'm understanding. So
796
00:36:36.699 --> 00:36:38.699
I'm just excited about it. I'm excited about the next
797
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chapter of my life after this book.
798
00:36:40.539 --> 00:36:41.059
Yeah.
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00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:43.059
So that's what's really exciting.
800
00:36:43.460 --> 00:36:46.760
So, and your wife is now your pastor.
801
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My ex-wife.
802
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:48.679
Your ex-wife is now your pastor.
803
00:36:48.699 --> 00:36:48.840
Yeah.
804
00:36:49.300 --> 00:36:50.639
And I see a wedding ring.
805
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:51.880
No, actually this.
806
00:36:51.900 --> 00:36:52.739
Oh, that's not a wedding ring.
807
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:54.300
Actually, this ring was my mother's.
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Oh.
809
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:57.039
This was my mother's wedding band. Still a mama's boy.
810
00:36:57.099 --> 00:37:00.780
And it was, yeah, it was my great-grandmother, my dad's grandmother...
811
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gave this.
812
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To my mother and it was her ring so this
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00:37:03.969 --> 00:37:06.969
ring was my great grandma so it's extremely old but
814
00:37:07.010 --> 00:37:08.730
when my mother passed away i received it.
815
00:37:08.949 --> 00:37:12.650
It's a beautiful ring yeah thank you yeah absolutely so
816
00:37:13.050 --> 00:37:18.949
um what would you tell people who are maybe struggling
817
00:37:19.010 --> 00:37:22.199
with some of the demons from their past what their
818
00:37:22.260 --> 00:37:26.820
parents or their uncle or their cousins did with them um.
819
00:37:28.510 --> 00:37:30.030
What your dad.
820
00:37:29.789 --> 00:37:33.789
Went through as well, people doing the best that they
821
00:37:33.869 --> 00:37:35.989
could but not really great stuff.
822
00:37:36.530 --> 00:37:37.610
How would you say.
823
00:37:37.469 --> 00:37:41.829
Someone who's listening right now can start the healing process?
824
00:37:42.769 --> 00:37:47.949
Well, I think one of the things is surrounding yourself
825
00:37:48.030 --> 00:37:55.110
with people who are positive, who want the better goals
826
00:37:55.179 --> 00:37:58.400
in life and the better things in life, not monetary,
827
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:00.909
but I'm talking about just their journey as far as
828
00:38:00.929 --> 00:38:03.949
the way they walk and think about themselves. I think
829
00:38:03.989 --> 00:38:08.230
you have to do an internal investigation of yourself to
830
00:38:08.289 --> 00:38:10.530
try to pinpoint and find out why you're doing the
831
00:38:10.570 --> 00:38:13.630
things that you did and what made you do this,
832
00:38:13.750 --> 00:38:15.050
what made those things.
833
00:38:16.349 --> 00:38:19.610
Get a grip onto you. And then working on trying
834
00:38:19.650 --> 00:38:22.889
to shed those things, whether it's spiritually.
835
00:38:22.909 --> 00:38:27.599
Whether it's through a religious organization, whether it's through therapy
836
00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:29.719
or whatever it takes for you to be able to
837
00:38:29.780 --> 00:38:32.429
get those things out, those things that hurt you, those
838
00:38:32.469 --> 00:38:35.489
things that harmed you in order to start to heal yourself.
839
00:38:35.969 --> 00:38:38.309
Because if you don't heal yourself, you can't love yourself.
840
00:38:38.869 --> 00:38:40.769
And if you don't love yourself, you're never going to
841
00:38:41.110 --> 00:38:42.530
do what you need to do in order to be
842
00:38:42.570 --> 00:38:45.449
a better person in your life for yourself. And I
843
00:38:45.510 --> 00:38:47.869
think we need to learn to do that and be
844
00:38:47.889 --> 00:38:50.340
able to share about mental illness, those things that we
845
00:38:50.380 --> 00:38:52.119
go through and the hurt and the pain and the
846
00:38:52.139 --> 00:38:53.019
struggles we go through.
847
00:38:53.550 --> 00:38:56.769
Get little things off your mind. Talking about those things.
848
00:38:56.949 --> 00:38:57.170
Right.
849
00:38:57.349 --> 00:38:59.869
Those, you start to have the weight fall off after that.
850
00:39:00.090 --> 00:39:00.389
Yeah.
851
00:39:00.630 --> 00:39:02.510
And then you say, wait, I am a good person.
852
00:39:02.530 --> 00:39:03.610
I can love myself.
853
00:39:03.769 --> 00:39:04.070
Yeah.
854
00:39:04.130 --> 00:39:05.349
And once you do that, I.
855
00:39:05.309 --> 00:39:07.530
Think a lot of things open up that you've never seen.
856
00:39:07.590 --> 00:39:10.389
It's like walking out, getting blind and walking out. And
857
00:39:10.409 --> 00:39:11.949
also you can see colors here.
858
00:39:11.829 --> 00:39:12.710
For the first time.
859
00:39:13.010 --> 00:39:13.250
Right.
860
00:39:13.469 --> 00:39:15.610
And becoming a better person in life. And then you
861
00:39:15.650 --> 00:39:19.260
can show love for someone else truly. And that's when
862
00:39:19.530 --> 00:39:22.599
that right person you connect with will be there until then.
863
00:39:23.260 --> 00:39:24.969
It's not going to happen in your life. But I
864
00:39:24.989 --> 00:39:27.610
think that's the journey. And also a journal, if you're
865
00:39:27.650 --> 00:39:30.940
into that. You know, writing down things. writing down your feelings,
866
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:34.400
doing something creative that you like in life that makes
867
00:39:34.420 --> 00:39:35.079
you feel good.
868
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:36.139
Beautiful.
869
00:39:36.179 --> 00:39:36.340
Yeah.
870
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:36.960
Beautiful.
871
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.639
Actually, Deepak Chopra says that the three things that make
872
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:45.000
our bodies healthy are love, peace, and creativity.
873
00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:45.360
Hmm.
874
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.920
So isn't that interesting? The third one is a surprise
875
00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:49.320
to me.
876
00:39:49.340 --> 00:39:49.420
Yeah.
877
00:39:50.019 --> 00:39:51.980
What you're talking about doing something.
878
00:39:51.699 --> 00:39:53.159
That you love doing.
879
00:39:53.619 --> 00:39:57.440
In your case, your cabaret and your acting and singing.
880
00:39:57.699 --> 00:39:57.960
Right.
881
00:39:58.079 --> 00:39:59.980
It's for you. It's not for anybody else.
882
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:00.199
Right.
883
00:40:00.219 --> 00:40:01.050
It's definitely for me.
884
00:40:01.099 --> 00:40:01.340
Right.
885
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:06.579
That's beautiful. So I usually ask my guests one last
886
00:40:06.659 --> 00:40:09.039
question so you can take a breath.
887
00:40:09.260 --> 00:40:09.519
Okay.
888
00:40:10.219 --> 00:40:12.699
And I didn't tell you ahead of time because I just.
889
00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:18.530
Like doing that. Yeah, so what's the meaning of life? No,
890
00:40:18.550 --> 00:40:18.909
I'm kidding.
891
00:40:20.269 --> 00:40:28.480
What or who are you most grateful to or for?
892
00:40:29.460 --> 00:40:34.039
What or who are you most grateful to or for?
893
00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:35.579
My mother.
894
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:38.260
I had a feeling I should have taken a bet
895
00:40:38.340 --> 00:40:38.739
on that.
896
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:39.610
Yeah, my mother and.
897
00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:44.320
It's because my mother, through all the things I've gone
898
00:40:44.340 --> 00:40:47.260
through in life, she's always been there. But also, my
899
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.800
mother kept me grounded. The times when I would go
900
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:54.710
to Hollywood and have housekeepers and maids and all those
901
00:40:54.769 --> 00:40:57.809
things that were around, coming home to a mom that
902
00:40:57.849 --> 00:41:00.389
makes you take out the garbage, makes you wash dishes
903
00:41:00.489 --> 00:41:04.570
and do those things and keeping me humble. I love
904
00:41:04.610 --> 00:41:07.210
the fact that I could have a meal with anybody,
905
00:41:07.530 --> 00:41:09.389
with a dignitary, or I can have a meal with
906
00:41:09.429 --> 00:41:13.369
someone who doesn't have anything and I can treat them
907
00:41:13.409 --> 00:41:16.389
the exact same way. So I thank my mother for
908
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:19.800
giving me that part of her, that gift that was
909
00:41:19.820 --> 00:41:21.440
a part of her for myself.
910
00:41:21.500 --> 00:41:28.659
Beautiful. And your dad, anything, what do you, what could
911
00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:29.760
you thank him for?
912
00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:34.139
I could thank my dad for telling me to always
913
00:41:34.179 --> 00:41:38.159
treat people with respect. I never heard, other than his
914
00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:41.199
drug use, You never hear on a movie set or
915
00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:43.559
anything like that where he was rude to people, where
916
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:46.739
he was nasty, where he was a horrible human being.
917
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:49.659
And I think I learned that from him. Always treating
918
00:41:49.699 --> 00:41:52.030
people with respect and the way you want to be treated.
919
00:41:53.150 --> 00:41:57.349
And just showing love to people. Yeah. You know, no
920
00:41:57.369 --> 00:41:59.130
matter what your love is at that time, but being
921
00:41:59.190 --> 00:42:00.349
able to show love to people.
922
00:42:01.050 --> 00:42:02.929
And being able to admit your faults and your mistakes.
923
00:42:03.730 --> 00:42:06.110
I think that's an important thing I learned from my father.
924
00:42:06.130 --> 00:42:06.829
You did learn that.
925
00:42:06.869 --> 00:42:06.989
Yeah.
926
00:42:07.630 --> 00:42:10.130
So he was a good example of that.
927
00:42:10.150 --> 00:42:11.989
A good example of that, yeah, because he always spoke
928
00:42:12.030 --> 00:42:12.440
his truth.
929
00:42:12.820 --> 00:42:13.960
Right, right.
930
00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:17.519
What would you say to him if he were in
931
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:18.260
the room right now?
932
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:23.380
I would first tell him how much I love him
933
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:28.199
and that, Dad, you were the best dad you know
934
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:30.610
how to be. You did the best you could. I
935
00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:34.630
don't fault you for anything. I love you more than life.
936
00:42:36.340 --> 00:42:38.690
And we all, at the end, just wanted to be
937
00:42:38.730 --> 00:42:41.010
around you and be a part of you. And I'm
938
00:42:41.030 --> 00:42:42.190
sorry we weren't able to do that.
939
00:42:42.650 --> 00:42:43.349
But you were.
940
00:42:43.449 --> 00:42:43.909
But we were.
941
00:42:44.250 --> 00:42:45.130
But you were.
942
00:42:45.150 --> 00:42:45.789
Right.
943
00:42:45.869 --> 00:42:46.630
But you were.
944
00:42:47.170 --> 00:42:50.050
And I'll give you a little visual that I got
945
00:42:50.110 --> 00:42:52.800
with my dad, who's with him right now. And they're
946
00:42:52.820 --> 00:42:56.920
probably doing this right now. They're around a big screen TV.
947
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:01.440
And they're watching us right now and cheering us on
948
00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:07.349
from there and watching us live our lives together. and
949
00:43:08.269 --> 00:43:11.690
I know he's so proud of you and what you're doing.
950
00:43:11.449 --> 00:43:16.769
I know that yes thank you thank you and that
951
00:43:16.969 --> 00:43:20.469
is all the time we have I'm so glad that
952
00:43:21.030 --> 00:43:24.230
I got to get to know you here in studio
953
00:43:24.349 --> 00:43:26.070
live thank you for coming.
954
00:43:25.909 --> 00:43:28.489
Thank you a great moment absolutely this is.
955
00:43:28.489 --> 00:43:30.190
Richard Pryor Jr.
956
00:43:32.690 --> 00:43:36.489
My celebration of seven.
957
00:43:36.110 --> 00:43:38.849
Years on the air, on camera.
958
00:43:39.030 --> 00:43:41.409
And I'm so grateful that he was able to come
959
00:43:41.489 --> 00:43:46.139
and celebrate that with me. And as usual, at the
960
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:48.639
end of a show, I like to invite you all
961
00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:54.659
to come step up to my balance bar. Thank you, Tony.
962
00:43:55.239 --> 00:43:58.860
It sounds more like Tinkle, Tinkler, whatever her name is.
963
00:43:59.340 --> 00:44:02.380
So anyways, All right.
964
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:08.630
Let's just end that part here. Sometimes I can get
965
00:44:08.670 --> 00:44:09.469
a little bit weird.
966
00:44:10.710 --> 00:44:13.989
Welcome. Take my advice. I'm not using it. Get balanced
967
00:44:14.010 --> 00:44:14.869
with Dr. Marissa.
968
00:44:14.889 --> 00:44:19.219
You just heard a Throwback Tuesday episode. I don't think
969
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.719
I've played that one as a throwback. It was a
970
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:25.940
surprise because I got in yesterday after an 11-hour flight,
971
00:44:26.340 --> 00:44:28.820
and I was like, I don't have the brain power.
972
00:44:30.150 --> 00:44:35.190
the wavelengths to pick a Throwback Tuesday show. So that
973
00:44:35.230 --> 00:44:37.750
happened this morning and I'm really glad I'm going to
974
00:44:37.809 --> 00:44:39.530
reach out to him and see if he can't come
975
00:44:40.130 --> 00:44:45.039
back into studio. That was Richard Pryor Jr. And what
976
00:44:45.059 --> 00:44:50.500
a wonderful inside true story of his life and his
977
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:55.590
father's life as it related to his relationship with him
978
00:44:55.670 --> 00:44:59.829
and I just crack myself up sometimes. I don't remember
979
00:44:59.909 --> 00:45:04.409
a lot of what I ask and or react as,
980
00:45:04.550 --> 00:45:06.690
but that was a good show, if I do say
981
00:45:06.750 --> 00:45:07.449
so myself.
982
00:45:07.929 --> 00:45:16.639
Give myself a little love there. Certainly glad to.
983
00:45:17.809 --> 00:45:22.070
play that and be backstage watching that with you. Hopefully
984
00:45:22.110 --> 00:45:25.059
you enjoyed that as much as I did. And we're
985
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:28.880
going to go to the top of the show because throwbacks.
986
00:45:29.179 --> 00:45:31.800
I don't do the gratitude sandwich at the top of
987
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:36.090
the show to make sure you get the entire interview
988
00:45:36.250 --> 00:45:40.269
series that we, I'm so glad that I thought to
989
00:45:40.309 --> 00:45:45.199
go back to my 1,750 50 some odd shows and
990
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:46.559
dedicate one.
991
00:45:46.500 --> 00:45:48.519
Day a week, either Tuesday or Thursday.
992
00:45:48.579 --> 00:45:55.000
Depending on live guest schedules, to go throwback. And, you know,
993
00:45:55.420 --> 00:45:57.739
a lot of them, if not all of them, well,
994
00:45:57.780 --> 00:46:00.079
some of them, it's great because they're all on the
995
00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:05.150
other side now, but their words are here forever. My
996
00:46:05.250 --> 00:46:09.030
YouTube TV channel, which I'm so grateful, is now over
997
00:46:09.030 --> 00:46:10.010
1 point.
998
00:46:10.530 --> 00:46:11.429
Sorry, 5.2 million.
999
00:46:13.630 --> 00:46:18.230
I didn't get a chance to fix that impressions and
1000
00:46:18.309 --> 00:46:23.639
houses all 1700 plus podcast shows. I am the number
1001
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:26.340
one Asian woman.
1002
00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:28.940
Podcast has lasted.
1003
00:46:28.380 --> 00:46:32.860
14 more years than they said I would. When I
1004
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.119
told them I wasn't doing any gossip scandal, no K words,
1005
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:40.179
no Kardashian talk and no headlines, no current events. And
1006
00:46:40.260 --> 00:46:43.230
that is because I don't want you waking up with
1007
00:46:43.269 --> 00:46:48.869
a case of the four A's, angry, anxious, afraid, or aggravated, which.
1008
00:46:49.010 --> 00:46:50.150
If it bleeds, it leads.
1009
00:46:50.269 --> 00:46:53.110
That's the news, but we don't do that here. But
1010
00:46:53.150 --> 00:46:56.940
we do start every show and or end for throwbacks
1011
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:01.179
with an exercise called breakfast with Dr. Marissa, which is
1012
00:47:01.219 --> 00:47:03.699
a bite of my gratitude sandwich.
1013
00:47:04.190 --> 00:47:06.150
Top of the bun. We look around us and say,
1014
00:47:06.210 --> 00:47:07.570
what are we grateful for?
1015
00:47:08.349 --> 00:47:10.750
When we look outside of ourselves, bottom of the bun,
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before you go to bed tonight, I'd like you to
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look inside yourself and say, what do I like about myself?
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What am I grateful for about me so that I
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don't fall asleep thinking about all the things I didn't
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get done or all the things that I shouldn't have said.
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Or all the people who done me wrong.
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That's not a good way to get a good night's sleep.
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So instead, I want you to think about how great
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you are because you are loving, lovable, and loved.
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So top of the bun, what am I grateful for?
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So many things. I just got back.
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And, you know, for those of you who follow my
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story around the blood clots, I had originally thought I
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would never fly again.
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The doctors always said I could do.
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One international, one to two international a year and one
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domestic a quarter. but my daughters who loved me beyond
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and beyond, uh, were not comfortable with the percent possibility
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of me not surviving a flight.
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So they put a kibosh on all flights and, uh.
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I managed to do that for a year and a
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half and then was so miserable because I do love
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flying so much. So, uh, circumstances came.
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Where it was like a weird, um, you know, just
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everything fell into place.
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Uh, TV taping, all expense paid to Belgium, followed directly
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by a book fair in Frankfurt that, you know, my
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book had been selected to highlight. So it was one
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of those, you know, this has got to be a
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sign for me to go. And I did go and
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I'm alive.
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I'm here.
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I'm definitely, I'm not worse for wear, but approaching death.
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My body definitely doesn't do flying and traveling like it
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used to with the Hashimoto's and the blood clots and
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all of that.
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So I.
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Learned that I call myself limitless. I don't know if
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I could do that anymore. I still am limitless in
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my heart and in my mind, but my body's like, girls!
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You better get off your feet.
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Because we're going to swell up so you can't walk.
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But anyways, I'm just grateful that I got to go
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and it was a wonderful travel. I love the magic
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of flying. So I'm grateful that Oroville think it was
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orville right which one of the brothers um discovered they
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both did it together through trial and error and maybe
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00:49:48.659 --> 00:49:51.059
there was even someone before that but the magic of
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flying will never get old to me love love love
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takeoff game landing game met a lot of great people
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so i'm grateful for that i'm also grateful that i
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am uh currently third in the top post let's see
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if i.
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Can fill the pull this up um.
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I've just been doing it on my phone, everything on
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00:50:14.500 --> 00:50:17.340
my phone. So let's see if there's a way to
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show my current status. As far as I know, I
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was third. And let's see if I'm still third. It's
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double voting today. I'm usually not crazy about voting things.
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That's not even taking my email. So let's go to
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my Instagram so you can see it. It's the Ryan
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Seacrest top host search.
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And here we go.
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I'm going to share with you my Instagram, which is
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Doc Balance. And Doc Balance... will house the link with you. Uh,
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if you just go top post with Dr. Marissa, hopefully
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you can see this.
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Let's see. I'm just getting out as a look. Um, yeah,
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there you go.
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That is my Instagram and I'm going to go right
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00:51:20.699 --> 00:51:22.320
to the, let's.
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See, this is the, um.
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I'm not going to put the audio on.
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Just for copyright stuff.
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But this is, you know, just a little summary of
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why I got chosen to be in the finalists of
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00:51:43.130 --> 00:51:45.969
the top hosts, not the finalists or the semi finalists
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or whatever it is.
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But I'm part of the competitive competition. So you can.
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Vote for me those of you who have supported me
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all these years.
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00:51:56.050 --> 00:51:58.869
Now you can put your finger where.
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00:51:58.730 --> 00:52:03.360
Your support is and give me a a vote it's
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a one free vote every day if you want a
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00:52:07.889 --> 00:52:12.889
reminder to vote for me please do this is me
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00:52:13.050 --> 00:52:19.320
backstage in Belgium waiting to go into the taping and
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giving you let's see Belgium and I have a special
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00:52:25.619 --> 00:52:32.070
we're not going to do that today Um, so that's
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what I would love for you to help me out.
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Top host, Ryan Seacrest.
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I think the winning, the winner gets $ 25, 000 contract with
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Ryan Seacrest.
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Productions, I believe.
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00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:50.840
And so that would be kind of cool and, uh,
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get my, my show on.
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00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:56.969
Even bigger platforms, which is always good because, you know,
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I'm on.
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A happy 88 mission, 88 million more happy people in
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the next eight years. So that's I'm grateful for that.
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Let's go to the bottom of the bun, which is
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what do I like about myself? Those of you who
1117
00:53:10.269 --> 00:53:13.289
play along know how important it is to fall asleep,
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00:53:13.869 --> 00:53:16.989
feeling good about yourself. But if you're a perfectionist and
1119
00:53:17.210 --> 00:53:19.989
nothing is ever good enough, including yourself, you're your own
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00:53:20.030 --> 00:53:20.750
worst enemy.
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You're your own worst critic.
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I'm going to appeal to your balance-centered.
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Self and say, stop it. Two words.
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00:53:29.250 --> 00:53:34.969
Because it's never a good idea to put yourself down.
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Because frankly, my dear, if you can't like yourself, if
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00:53:39.510 --> 00:53:42.809
you can't soothe yourself, if you can't care about yourself,
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00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:45.840
how the fork do you expect anybody else to? So
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that's why we do this weight training. What do you
1129
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.269
like about yourself? I like the fact that I.
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00:53:53.289 --> 00:53:56.170
I am imperfectly perfect.
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00:53:56.170 --> 00:53:59.679
88% of the time I'm fabulous. 12% of the time
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00:53:59.739 --> 00:54:03.039
I step in it and I know that I'm not perfect.
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And I'm really glad that I don't have the dis-ease
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00:54:06.500 --> 00:54:10.599
of perfectionism quite as much as I did before. Because
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00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:15.949
we will fall down with perfectionism, procrastination, and then paralysis.
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And it's not a pretty place to be.
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If you'd like any more information about that or work
1138
00:54:20.989 --> 00:54:24.320
with me, on how you can be happy 88% of
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00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:26.440
the time. You know how to find me. Just Google
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00:54:26.539 --> 00:54:30.320
Asian Oprah, and I pop up everywhere. Thank you to Google.
1141
00:54:30.619 --> 00:54:33.920
Never paid them, but they're very nice to me. All right,
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00:54:33.980 --> 00:54:37.530
that's it for today. It's all about balance, folks.
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Peace in, peace out, world. Peace through, inner peace.
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00:54:40.750 --> 00:54:44.670
Happy to be back tomorrow live on Wednesdays as usual.
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00:54:45.130 --> 00:54:50.809
My very special series called Doctors in the House with myself, Ph.D.,
1146
00:54:50.949 --> 00:54:51.389
and Dr.
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00:54:51.449 --> 00:54:55.110
Tiffany Tate, M.D. That's tomorrow. Now go.
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00:54:55.710 --> 00:54:59.730
In the meantime, have the best day ever.
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00:55:00.329 --> 00:55:01.130
I'll see you tomorrow.
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00:55:11.500 --> 00:55:17.780
KCAA, where every day is a great day. KCAA, Loma Linda.
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NBC News Radio. I'm Scott Carr. The Department of Justice
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says they've charged 28 foreign nationals related to alleged non-citizen
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00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:49.420
voting in California. DOJ officials say all of the suspects
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are on a list of 20,000 illegal voters. with some
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violations in common. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Assele says
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any election official in California who allowed a non-citizen to
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vote could be prosecuted. Not only is it a civil violation,
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but they could also face criminal consequences for that conduct.
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If they knowingly process ballots from non-citizens.
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As the Attorney General in California, Rob Bonda says there
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00:56:13.389 --> 00:56:17.269
are sometimes one-off isolated incidents of voter fraud. and says
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00:56:17.289 --> 00:56:19.769
those responsible should be held accountable.
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28 out of 23 million registered voters in California.
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It's just a, obviously, it's a drop in the bucket numerically.
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It's 0.0001%.
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Today, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the alleged
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masterminds of the September 11th attacks. Lizzie Radabali's in New York.
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00:56:36.969 --> 00:56:40.670
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other alleged co-conspirators were seeking
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to hold the American government accountable to a plea deal
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00:56:43.389 --> 00:56:46.789
that was later withdrawn by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
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The deal would have resulted in life sentences for the
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suspects who are currently detained at Guantanamo Bay. Following the
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00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:56.590
high court's decision, the three defendants will stand for a
1176
00:56:56.610 --> 00:57:01.110
military trial in 2028. The death penalty remains a possible outcome.
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In New York, I'm Lizzie Radaballi.
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00:57:03.650 --> 00:57:06.849
President Trump is saying the violent riots in France are
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00:57:06.889 --> 00:57:10.690
the result of immigration, telling reporters today he'd warned French
1180
00:57:10.750 --> 00:57:14.449
President Emmanuel Macron to close his borders. Trump says he
1181
00:57:14.489 --> 00:57:17.469
told Macron, your country's being overrun with people that don't
1182
00:57:17.550 --> 00:57:21.139
like your way of life and hate France. Those demonstrations
1183
00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:25.119
started earlier this month with students protesting school conditions and
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00:57:25.139 --> 00:57:28.079
the rising cost of living, but have been influenced by
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00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:32.760
outsiders to include more grievances against the French government. Scott Carr,
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NBC News Radio.
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Bad decisions limit future options. Make enough bad decisions and
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you'll destroy your life. Listen to The Flatline with your
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Sunday for 30 minutes of inspiration, motivation, education, all without manipulation.
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That's The Flatline with Rick Hughes, heard here on KCAA
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every Sunday at 11 a.m.
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Hey, everybody.
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This is Robert Manning, host of Guys, Guys Radio, with
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a special announcement. Beginning in July, Guys, Guys Radio will
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Same great show. Same great guests, same great content. Guys
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Listen live, stream, download. Guys Guys Radio, we're here for
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