Sept. 19, 2023
PipemanRadio Interviews Cure Violence Global at Riotfest 2023

On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Cure Violence Global at Riotfest. Cure Violence Global is guided by the understanding that violence is a health issue, that individuals and communities can transform...
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Cure Violence Global at Riotfest. Cure Violence Global is guided by the understanding that violence is a health issue, that individuals and communities can transform themselves, and that community partners and strategic partnerships are keys to success. The organization strives to help communities all over the world by decreasing gun violence and helping transform life for the underprivileged and incarcerated. The organization shares stories of helping communities firsthand and how some members went from part of the problem to part of the solution. You can donate to this important cause at CVG.org and check out more information about the organization at their website.
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I'm here with yes Quo. Violence is
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in the building CBG CVG nice.
I love what you're all about, Okay,
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because especially in two thousand and twenty
three, there is way too much
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violence going on in the world.
If we need people like you to help
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cure that problem, so to speak, tell us how they came about.
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What made you guys decide to start
this? So kure violence been around over
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twenty some years now. Me and
my brother right here sitting to the right
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of me, Demetrius, we ain't
started. We just a part of the
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movement. And there's something that we
came home to once, and we came
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home for prison. We wanted to
give at get into because we helped mess
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up the community where we grew up
at. We wanted to be able to
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get back to the community. And
he stop this madness all over the world.
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So me and him stop this madness
all over the world, in Chicago
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and all over We interrupt this transmission
every day, every day, changing community
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norms and let people know and there's
somebody out there who care about them and
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care about the violence and the community. That's pretty cool what you're saying,
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too, because you don't always hear
stories of people coming out of prison and
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doing good, because prison is not
a place that they rehabilitate you. Sometimes
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they make you work. In fact, most of times they make you worse.
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Yes, you know, and so
it's always good to hear somebody like
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you that comes out and takes that
experience and takes their own experience. It
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goes out there and tries to do
something great in the world, which is
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what you're doing. Yes, tell
us more about the organization, what it's
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about and how you do things.
So the good thing about the organization is
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that we community base. When I'm
in a community base, we really hire
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from the community. Everything that we
do with this work community is volument from
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the hiring process. We have community
members on the hiring pannel. We hire
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up people just like me and COVID
that's from the area where the violence is
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being escalated, things like that,
and we and we find those people who
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was closely connected to the violence.
That's how you've been those some relationships people
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from that block, don't. We
don't have somebody from New York to come
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to Chicago to work get people from
that block and we do. We train
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them up on mediation conflicts and how
to interrupt the transmission and the things that
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we already have been doing. We
was like locked up stopping fights even on
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the block. Now we just want
to bring it to the community. We've
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been doing it already. So just
because you have an argument, I don't
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mean you have to lead to a
shooting. And that's the message that we
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were trying to spread throughout the communities
that get involved in your community. Like
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now we're here trying to be a
super spread up, super spread up peace,
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super spread up hope, super spread
up the escalation just watch things.
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A lot of time, we can
see here and watch see how far it's
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gonna go. Nowadays we can't do
that because one argument gonna leads to a
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gunfight because a lot of guys not
fighting anymore. So you're really trying to
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get there to stop it from spreading
in the first place. Well, it's
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not like when we were kids,
you know, yet where you got in
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a fight, it was a fight
like now, in two seconds, you
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could be dead, yes, you
know, and that's terrible thing. Even
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somebody like me that was always a
big mouth, like I think to myself,
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Man, if I were growing up
in this world, I might be
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dead because I'd open my mouth and
somebody shoot my ass. And that's something
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like Demetrics that spoke about. You
know, it seem like every incident takes
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place, people got the lead to
violence. Yeah, And that's our whole
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thing is we want people to know
discuss they have a disagreement or have a
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personal altercation, you ain't got the
lead to shooting and killing nobody. Right.
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We understand that we ain't gonna see
out of eye that we are not
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gonna agree on the same thing.
But we ain't got to hurt each other
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though, right, we understand that
absolutely, and that's what's called by it.
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I like what you said too about
the community, because listen, we
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know how it is some certain communities. You're not gonna bring it outside her
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and he ain't gonna he or she's
not gonna help anything because they're not gonna
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listen. You don't know our neighborhood, our community. We don't. You
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don't know what we go through.
And sometimes those people may think they do,
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and even if they do, the
other person thinks they don't. And
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like he say, it's communities,
he base. So people are doing this
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work out from the community. They
are credible messages and they have the relationships.
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Exact relationships is everything. Like I
say, me and my brother Demitrius,
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we walked that life and we know
having point in us to have relationships.
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But we also know having pointed is
not to look down on people to
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judge them. We meet people where
they are because guess what, like I
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say, me and him both was
part of the problem. Now we were
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part of the solution. But one
thing we won't do is give up.
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Nobody gave up on us. And
look what we're doing now. It's never
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too late. Now. Never as
whether there's some moment in time for either
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one of you that it changed from
being part of the problem to trying to
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cure the problem. Right, I'm
gonna just say this an eternal Duali.
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But me and this brother right here
right, once upon the time we was
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at odds with each other because we
can't for different backgrounds but now look at
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us. We ain't at odds with
each other, but we're doing the right
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thing, giving back to the communities
here and all over the world, because,
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like you say, we start programs
all over the world. Cuified,
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it's Glover, it's an international movement. And one of the things that was
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turning the point for me is that
when I was locked up, I was
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on the yard, the prison yard. I was walking and it was like
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two seventeen year old guys talking about
me. They didn't even know me.
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It's like, man, when I
go home, I'm gonna be on the
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ship that he was on. Dude
was doing this and I'm looking like I
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didn't. I didn't infect it in
the generation. They don't even know me.
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So my mind click, like I
really got to get back to my
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community. So I started with my
own family. And once I was aid
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to get my family to stop the
none since the day was doing that,
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stopped like six percent of the shoots
in the community. So that's how I
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really was gotten involved in things.
I knew I had to do something,
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but I didn't know it was going
to be this work, right, And
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I've always said violence just breads more
violent, contagious spreads like a disease,
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its catagious breaks more of itself.
Yes, everybody, right now, I'll
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just give you, like your example, like Wally, give your example,
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like Wally might not like me.
Me and him don't see how that.
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So if I go in his neighborhood, his friends homies don't even got to
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know me. Now they know that
he don't like me. Now they don't
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like me. Dot's ask spread.
It's quick like that. I see it
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all the time. Oh yeah,
listen, I'm fifty six. I've seen
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alive in my lifetime. And you
know it's sad because I look back to
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like certain movies like Boys in the
Hood, like Hit Me Hard, because
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when he went, when he was
sitting in front of that billboard and talking
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to Trey and the other and dough
Boy, and they're sitting there and talking
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about how they're doing it to their
own neighborhood and their own community. And
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the key would be to stop all
that, which is what you guys are
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doing. And another thing I want
to see next year in July, I
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got a book coming out called Interrupting
Violence. So and talk about violence as
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its these has spreads and different things
like that. We try to make a
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difference every day when we wake up, because we know it's important not to
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get off with nobody. Yeah,
we're not gonna give up on everybody.
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We know we can't save everybody,
but we're not gonna give up. And
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that's the key. Like people,
you know, if they know somebody's not
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giving up, they have some hope
left. When they feel everybody's giving up
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on them, they have no hope
and then they have no care. Yes.
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Yes, So since you're doing this
all over the world, would you
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say, based on you know,
the media hype stuff. I want to
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hear the real stuff, would you
say that we have more of a problem
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here in the States than we do
other parts of the world. Well,
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I haven't been in the other parts
of the world, so maybe you can.
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I mean, guess what, we
have the same issues all over the
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world. Man. Yeah, I
saw some places that make Chicago look like
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it ain't nothing I'm talking about comparing
to violence. Yeah, Keston, Jamaica,
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different places, trend the Tobago,
we rants, Mexico, Hondarrant said
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different things like this. So what
I'm saying this, this violence is affecking
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the country as a whole and everywhere. So it affects everybody, so guess
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what, we got to do something
about it. That's why que Violence Global
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is taking the approach to deal with
this violence. We focus on stopping this
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shooting and killing on the front end
before it happened. Once it happened,
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then brothers like wilding myself, stopping
the back end where you stopping the retaliation.
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Tell me your viewpoints on that.
Okay, So I have a viewpoint
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that I think guns make people more
fearful than what they they think. It
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protects them and they feel secure.
But I remember I had a gun at
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one time. I don't know a
gun now. I don't like guns,
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but I remember normal things I would
do I wouldn't worry about when't think about
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now all of a sudden I had
a gun, like this, fear went
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into my head and then all of
a sudden, I'm like looking for that
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for protection and really ain't protection.
The only thing I'll say on that,
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you know, you know everybody got
thoughts about this, thoughts about that.
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Yeah, but that's what makes use
you need we stay in our lane.
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We just focus on what we're doing
to make a difference every day, and
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uh, you know it's you know, it's it's a big it's a big
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fight out here. And when I
say that, it's a big fight where
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we're doing what we can to do
our part, so we can't too much
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what this person should be doing with
that person been doing all that. But
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we want to be super spread us
as pure violence workers to spread the message
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that violence affects everybody and everybody got
to do something to have stopped this madness.
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Do you have a story of somebody
that was probably a very violent person
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that things differently now because of you
guys, Oh of course, uh huh.
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Well, like when they say,
we trained all over the United States,
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And I was just talking to one
of the sites the other day.
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I was talking about a young man. He used to be a participant,
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meaning he was a high risk individual. He was allegedly involved in the street
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level activities and things like that,
and the guys was able to grab holts
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on him and talk to him about
CONFI mediation and change and stops behavior about
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shooting in the first place. So
he was on the caselow for a minute.
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Then he became a volunteer. Then
from the volunteer became a violuce interrupter,
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and now he runs his own site
in DC Wow, his own site
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because he was part of the problem. But now he's have his own Votus
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Perventions site and he's doing good.
What do you think is it that changed
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that for him? The person who
was talking to him. Influence. We
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have influence. We just got to
know how to use it. And that
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influence, of course, like you
said before, it comes from listen.
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They're gonna listen to you big or
somebody like you in their community because they
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feel they can understand. Like if
I were just good somebody here in the
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intern City in Chicago and say hey, you shouldn't do that, They're gonna
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be like, you don't know what
the hell you're talking about, and for
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no other reason, but I'm not
from there. Plus, we don't,
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like Koby said, we don't use
We don't use a judgment or approach.
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Right. We don't look at it
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its behaviors. We know that behaviors
can be changed, and behaviors can be
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changed by obtaining new information and new
skill sets and a lot of young means
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we deal with. They have skill
sets. They just need somebody who they
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can trust and they can be with
to pull it up out of them,
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just to show them their potential,
put them in that space where they can
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excel. And that's what we do. That's what we do. And to
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your point, a lot of hate
violence is taught, you know, and
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it's not like the people are born
that way. They're taught. And whether
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that's taught from the environment or in
or from somebody else or from experiences they
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had. And so that I think
it's cool that you guys do what you
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do because that can be untaught.
Yes, and when we say definitely,
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and I'm glad you said that,
but we know violence is a learned behavior.
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Yeah, you early at the early
age. This is what you see
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every day when people see stuff in
their household. Every day you see violence
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your big brother, your father,
your cousin, your sister and all like,
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this is what you see every day. So sometimes this is what you
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become sometimes. So then that's why
I say that judge mental approach. That's
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why we don't judge nobody, because
we never know what people have been through
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or what they're going through. All
my life, I wanted to be like
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my father. He was selling drugs. Here's a street organization. He went
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to jail for a murder. I
wanted to be like him as a kid.
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been taught. We learned a lot
of this at the early age. And
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that's why we do what we do
because most of us was part of that
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problem, right And sometimes what I've
known this is you don't see any anything
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else but that you know, Yes, when you walk out your door,
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this is what you see exactly.
People think't like his normal to hear a
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gunshot. You usually growing up as
a kid, we used to hit gunshots.
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We used to hit the floor,
we used to try to hid,
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take cover. Now it's just a
normal thing. So we wanted to get
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unnormal door. Yeah, I love
that. Tell people how they can reach
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out to your organization, how they
can help. We definitely needed all the
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supportive help. We definitely need people
to fund this movement. We definitely need
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help. We need people to get
the word word out every day. Cure
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Violence Global dot Org CVG dot org. We need everybody to do. We
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need anybody to be super spread us
or spreading this message, to reach out
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to cure violences and support us anyway
they can. We're here to fight this
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problem and we don't continue to be
here, We'll continue to make a difference
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in the community and all over.
We know violence affects everybody, yeah,
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and they hit everybody's doorsteps, it
does. Yeah. And I love that
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you tell your real story because not
everybody does you know, and like like
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you said, we all go through
stuf if we've all lived certain things.
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And I think that's the only way
these kids or anybody else that's gonna relate
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is if they know that you've walked
in Their shoes are similar shoes. The
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reason, man, will he be
able to be able to I say,
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demitrians, but his nickname Wiley.
Only reason we can stop violence only because
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we've been there. Yeah, we
had that relationship. But we're not judging
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them though, right. They know
we ain't looking down on them. They
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know we ain't talking bad down on
them, and we ain't glory finding our
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past though we ain't just saying oh
we did it, that's a good point.
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We ain't bragging on that. We
just want to know. Man,
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you can't change brother's sister. And
that's why we're here to be not no
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role model to him, but a
real mother to him. I love that
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that's that's a great way to put
it. Yes, what else would you
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like the lands know that and to
know that we haven't covered already, just
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to re animate, like Kobe said
Man CVG dot org. It's bunch of
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information on there on how you can
support. I really want you to get
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involved. Become a super spreader.
I'm a super spire to find out how
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you can get involved. Sometimes we
might need your time. You never know
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who's your story can touch. Yeah, be involved, Just get involved.
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I mean, if you don't know
what to do, go to the website
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and guarantee you we've had something for
you to do. Well. I love
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what you guys are doing. I
thank you for what you're doing because I
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have eight grandchildren. I have to
grow up in this stuff, you know,
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and like you, why my grandchildren? His father, you know,
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did things that he could model himself
after, and I'd rather him model himself
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after people like you. And that's
what it is. It's seeing an example
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and seeing somebody that understands you instead
of judging you. Because we've all done
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stuff, we've all been involved in
stuff, and sometimes it would have been
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great to have somebody like you guys
for us when we were younger and the
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last thing I'll say, always remember
this. It ain't how you start,
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it's how you finish. That's right. I love it well. Thanks for
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all you do. Thanks for being
here at rian Fest, and thanks for
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I'm here with yes Quo. Violence is
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in the building CBG CVG nice.
I love what you're all about, Okay,
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because especially in two thousand and twenty
three, there is way too much
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violence going on in the world.
If we need people like you to help
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cure that problem, so to speak, tell us how they came about.
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What made you guys decide to start
this? So kure violence been around over
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twenty some years now. Me and
my brother right here sitting to the right
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of me, Demetrius, we ain't
started. We just a part of the
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movement. And there's something that we
came home to once, and we came
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home for prison. We wanted to
give at get into because we helped mess
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up the community where we grew up
at. We wanted to be able to
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get back to the community. And
he stop this madness all over the world.
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So me and him stop this madness
all over the world, in Chicago
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and all over We interrupt this transmission
every day, every day, changing community
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norms and let people know and there's
somebody out there who care about them and
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care about the violence and the community. That's pretty cool what you're saying,
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too, because you don't always hear
stories of people coming out of prison and
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doing good, because prison is not
a place that they rehabilitate you. Sometimes
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they make you work. In fact, most of times they make you worse.
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Yes, you know, and so
it's always good to hear somebody like
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you that comes out and takes that
experience and takes their own experience. It
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goes out there and tries to do
something great in the world, which is
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what you're doing. Yes, tell
us more about the organization, what it's
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about and how you do things.
So the good thing about the organization is
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that we community base. When I'm
in a community base, we really hire
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from the community. Everything that we
do with this work community is volument from
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the hiring process. We have community
members on the hiring pannel. We hire
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up people just like me and COVID
that's from the area where the violence is
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being escalated, things like that,
and we and we find those people who
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was closely connected to the violence.
That's how you've been those some relationships people
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from that block, don't. We
don't have somebody from New York to come
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to Chicago to work get people from
that block and we do. We train
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them up on mediation conflicts and how
to interrupt the transmission and the things that
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we already have been doing. We
was like locked up stopping fights even on
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the block. Now we just want
to bring it to the community. We've
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been doing it already. So just
because you have an argument, I don't
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mean you have to lead to a
shooting. And that's the message that we
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were trying to spread throughout the communities
that get involved in your community. Like
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now we're here trying to be a
super spread up, super spread up peace,
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super spread up hope, super spread
up the escalation just watch things.
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A lot of time, we can
see here and watch see how far it's
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gonna go. Nowadays we can't do
that because one argument gonna leads to a
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gunfight because a lot of guys not
fighting anymore. So you're really trying to
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get there to stop it from spreading
in the first place. Well, it's
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not like when we were kids,
you know, yet where you got in
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a fight, it was a fight
like now, in two seconds, you
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could be dead, yes, you
know, and that's terrible thing. Even
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somebody like me that was always a
big mouth, like I think to myself,
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Man, if I were growing up
in this world, I might be
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dead because I'd open my mouth and
somebody shoot my ass. And that's something
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like Demetrics that spoke about. You
know, it seem like every incident takes
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place, people got the lead to
violence. Yeah, And that's our whole
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thing is we want people to know
discuss they have a disagreement or have a
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personal altercation, you ain't got the
lead to shooting and killing nobody. Right.
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We understand that we ain't gonna see
out of eye that we are not
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gonna agree on the same thing.
But we ain't got to hurt each other
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though, right, we understand that
absolutely, and that's what's called by it.
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I like what you said too about
the community, because listen, we
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know how it is some certain communities. You're not gonna bring it outside her
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and he ain't gonna he or she's
not gonna help anything because they're not gonna
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listen. You don't know our neighborhood, our community. We don't. You
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don't know what we go through.
And sometimes those people may think they do,
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and even if they do, the
other person thinks they don't. And
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like he say, it's communities,
he base. So people are doing this
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work out from the community. They
are credible messages and they have the relationships.
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Exact relationships is everything. Like I
say, me and my brother Demitrius,
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we walked that life and we know
having point in us to have relationships.
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But we also know having pointed is
not to look down on people to
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judge them. We meet people where
they are because guess what, like I
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say, me and him both was
part of the problem. Now we were
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part of the solution. But one
thing we won't do is give up.
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Nobody gave up on us. And
look what we're doing now. It's never
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too late. Now. Never as
whether there's some moment in time for either
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one of you that it changed from
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cure the problem. Right, I'm
gonna just say this an eternal Duali.
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But me and this brother right here
right, once upon the time we was
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at odds with each other because we
can't for different backgrounds but now look at
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us. We ain't at odds with
each other, but we're doing the right
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thing, giving back to the communities
here and all over the world, because,
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like you say, we start programs
all over the world. Cuified,
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it's Glover, it's an international movement. And one of the things that was
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turning the point for me is that
when I was locked up, I was
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on the yard, the prison yard. I was walking and it was like
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two seventeen year old guys talking about
me. They didn't even know me.
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It's like, man, when I
go home, I'm gonna be on the
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ship that he was on. Dude
was doing this and I'm looking like I
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didn't. I didn't infect it in
the generation. They don't even know me.
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So my mind click, like I
really got to get back to my
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community. So I started with my
own family. And once I was aid
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to get my family to stop the
none since the day was doing that,
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stopped like six percent of the shoots
in the community. So that's how I
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really was gotten involved in things.
I knew I had to do something,
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but I didn't know it was going
to be this work, right, And
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I've always said violence just breads more
violent, contagious spreads like a disease,
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its catagious breaks more of itself.
Yes, everybody, right now, I'll
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just give you, like your example, like Wally, give your example,
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like Wally might not like me.
Me and him don't see how that.
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So if I go in his neighborhood, his friends homies don't even got to
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know me. Now they know that
he don't like me. Now they don't
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like me. Dot's ask spread.
It's quick like that. I see it
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all the time. Oh yeah,
listen, I'm fifty six. I've seen
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alive in my lifetime. And you
know it's sad because I look back to
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like certain movies like Boys in the
Hood, like Hit Me Hard, because
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when he went, when he was
sitting in front of that billboard and talking
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to Trey and the other and dough
Boy, and they're sitting there and talking
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about how they're doing it to their
own neighborhood and their own community. And
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the key would be to stop all
that, which is what you guys are
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doing. And another thing I want
to see next year in July, I
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got a book coming out called Interrupting
Violence. So and talk about violence as
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its these has spreads and different things
like that. We try to make a
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difference every day when we wake up, because we know it's important not to
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get off with nobody. Yeah,
we're not gonna give up on everybody.
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We know we can't save everybody,
but we're not gonna give up. And
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that's the key. Like people,
you know, if they know somebody's not
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giving up, they have some hope
left. When they feel everybody's giving up
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on them, they have no hope
and then they have no care. Yes.
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Yes, So since you're doing this
all over the world, would you
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say, based on you know,
the media hype stuff. I want to
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hear the real stuff, would you
say that we have more of a problem
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here in the States than we do
other parts of the world. Well,
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I haven't been in the other parts
of the world, so maybe you can.
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I mean, guess what, we
have the same issues all over the
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world. Man. Yeah, I
saw some places that make Chicago look like
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it ain't nothing I'm talking about comparing
to violence. Yeah, Keston, Jamaica,
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different places, trend the Tobago,
we rants, Mexico, Hondarrant said
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different things like this. So what
I'm saying this, this violence is affecking
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the country as a whole and everywhere. So it affects everybody, so guess
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what, we got to do something
about it. That's why que Violence Global
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is taking the approach to deal with
this violence. We focus on stopping this
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shooting and killing on the front end
before it happened. Once it happened,
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then brothers like wilding myself, stopping
the back end where you stopping the retaliation.
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Tell me your viewpoints on that.
Okay, So I have a viewpoint
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that I think guns make people more
fearful than what they they think. It
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protects them and they feel secure.
But I remember I had a gun at
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one time. I don't know a
gun now. I don't like guns,
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but I remember normal things I would
do I wouldn't worry about when't think about
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now all of a sudden I had
a gun, like this, fear went
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into my head and then all of
a sudden, I'm like looking for that
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for protection and really ain't protection.
The only thing I'll say on that,
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you know, you know everybody got
thoughts about this, thoughts about that.
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Yeah, but that's what makes use
you need we stay in our lane.
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We just focus on what we're doing
to make a difference every day, and
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uh, you know it's you know, it's it's a big it's a big
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fight out here. And when I
say that, it's a big fight where
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we're doing what we can to do
our part, so we can't too much
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what this person should be doing with
that person been doing all that. But
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we want to be super spread us
as pure violence workers to spread the message
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that violence affects everybody and everybody got
to do something to have stopped this madness.
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Do you have a story of somebody
that was probably a very violent person
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that things differently now because of you
guys, Oh of course, uh huh.
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Well, like when they say,
we trained all over the United States,
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And I was just talking to one
of the sites the other day.
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I was talking about a young man. He used to be a participant,
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meaning he was a high risk individual. He was allegedly involved in the street
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level activities and things like that,
and the guys was able to grab holts
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on him and talk to him about
CONFI mediation and change and stops behavior about
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shooting in the first place. So
he was on the caselow for a minute.
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Then he became a volunteer. Then
from the volunteer became a violuce interrupter,
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and now he runs his own site
in DC Wow, his own site
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because he was part of the problem. But now he's have his own Votus
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Perventions site and he's doing good.
What do you think is it that changed
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that for him? The person who
was talking to him. Influence. We
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have influence. We just got to
know how to use it. And that
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influence, of course, like you
said before, it comes from listen.
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They're gonna listen to you big or
somebody like you in their community because they
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feel they can understand. Like if
I were just good somebody here in the
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intern City in Chicago and say hey, you shouldn't do that, They're gonna
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be like, you don't know what
the hell you're talking about, and for
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no other reason, but I'm not
from there. Plus, we don't,
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like Koby said, we don't use
We don't use a judgment or approach.
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Right. We don't look at it
as good and bad. We look at
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its behaviors. We know that behaviors
can be changed, and behaviors can be
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changed by obtaining new information and new
skill sets and a lot of young means
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we deal with. They have skill
sets. They just need somebody who they
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can trust and they can be with
to pull it up out of them,
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just to show them their potential,
put them in that space where they can
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excel. And that's what we do. That's what we do. And to
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your point, a lot of hate
violence is taught, you know, and
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it's not like the people are born
that way. They're taught. And whether
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that's taught from the environment or in
or from somebody else or from experiences they
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had. And so that I think
it's cool that you guys do what you
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do because that can be untaught.
Yes, and when we say definitely,
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and I'm glad you said that,
but we know violence is a learned behavior.
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Yeah, you early at the early
age. This is what you see
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every day when people see stuff in
their household. Every day you see violence
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your big brother, your father,
your cousin, your sister and all like,
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this is what you see every day. So sometimes this is what you
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become sometimes. So then that's why
I say that judge mental approach. That's
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why we don't judge nobody, because
we never know what people have been through
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or what they're going through. All
my life, I wanted to be like
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my father. He was selling drugs. Here's a street organization. He went
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to jail for a murder. I
wanted to be like him as a kid.
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So I mean a lot of times, like you say, this stuff
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been taught. We learned a lot
of this at the early age. And
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that's why we do what we do
because most of us was part of that
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problem, right And sometimes what I've
known this is you don't see any anything
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else but that you know, Yes, when you walk out your door,
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this is what you see exactly.
People think't like his normal to hear a
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gunshot. You usually growing up as
a kid, we used to hit gunshots.
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We used to hit the floor,
we used to try to hid,
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take cover. Now it's just a
normal thing. So we wanted to get
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unnormal door. Yeah, I love
that. Tell people how they can reach
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out to your organization, how they
can help. We definitely needed all the
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supportive help. We definitely need people
to fund this movement. We definitely need
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help. We need people to get
the word word out every day. Cure
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Violence Global dot Org CVG dot org. We need everybody to do. We
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need anybody to be super spread us
or spreading this message, to reach out
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to cure violences and support us anyway
they can. We're here to fight this
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problem and we don't continue to be
here, We'll continue to make a difference
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in the community and all over.
We know violence affects everybody, yeah,
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and they hit everybody's doorsteps, it
does. Yeah. And I love that
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you tell your real story because not
everybody does you know, and like like
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you said, we all go through
stuf if we've all lived certain things.
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And I think that's the only way
these kids or anybody else that's gonna relate
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is if they know that you've walked
in Their shoes are similar shoes. The
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reason, man, will he be
able to be able to I say,
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demitrians, but his nickname Wiley.
Only reason we can stop violence only because
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we've been there. Yeah, we
had that relationship. But we're not judging
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them though, right. They know
we ain't looking down on them. They
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know we ain't talking bad down on
them, and we ain't glory finding our
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past though we ain't just saying oh
we did it, that's a good point.
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We ain't bragging on that. We
just want to know. Man,
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you can't change brother's sister. And
that's why we're here to be not no
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role model to him, but a
real mother to him. I love that
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that's that's a great way to put
it. Yes, what else would you
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like the lands know that and to
know that we haven't covered already, just
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to re animate, like Kobe said
Man CVG dot org. It's bunch of
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information on there on how you can
support. I really want you to get
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involved. Become a super spreader.
I'm a super spire to find out how
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you can get involved. Sometimes we
might need your time. You never know
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who's your story can touch. Yeah, be involved, Just get involved.
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I mean, if you don't know
what to do, go to the website
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and guarantee you we've had something for
you to do. Well. I love
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what you guys are doing. I
thank you for what you're doing because I
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have eight grandchildren. I have to
grow up in this stuff, you know,
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and like you, why my grandchildren? His father, you know,
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did things that he could model himself
after, and I'd rather him model himself
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after people like you. And that's
what it is. It's seeing an example
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and seeing somebody that understands you instead
of judging you. Because we've all done
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stuff, we've all been involved in
stuff, and sometimes it would have been
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great to have somebody like you guys
for us when we were younger and the
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last thing I'll say, always remember
this. It ain't how you start,
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it's how you finish. That's right. I love it well. Thanks for
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all you do. Thanks for being
here at rian Fest, and thanks for
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being on the Adventures for Ryan Fest. For having you buy this globe,
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William Nice. Thank you for listening
to the Adventures of plate Man. I'm
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