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Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive.
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Today we have another great show.
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I got Terry Carney Sr here.
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He is an accomplished filmmaker and author and founder of Platinum City, golden West Entertainment, and it's all about put these guns down with this show today.
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Put these guns down with this show today and he oh my gosh we're going to be like really diving into his story and everything and learning so much about him.
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So welcome to Keep Hope Alive.
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I'm so excited you're on today.
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So, but first, you know, as I always get started with my guests, I have one random, fun question for you.
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Okay, you ready for this?
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I'm ready.
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I'm ready, I'm ready, all right.
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So out of the past year, how many weddings have you been to?
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Actually zero, zero.
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What a good number.
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You know, yeah, sometimes I go, but I'm usually the photographer there, so I totally understand.
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All right, well, let's just say that you are going to your friend's wedding and that's, let's say, in a church, and you're walking in there is something you need to sign.
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What is that called?
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The guest book always.
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Always the guest book, Very good.
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Well, one of our biggest sponsors here is Name Life on Record and what they have?
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They have a vintage rotary phone.
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So when your guests are walking in, there's no book, it's a phone.
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They pick up and be like and you got one minute, five minutes, 20 minutes, but it's a wedding, let's say, and you can use it for really any event.
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But you pick up the phone and be like congratulations on your big day, we're so happy for you.
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Or maybe it's a groomsman saying dude, it was about time you put a ring on her finger.
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What were you thinking?
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So this makes it so fun to hear all these voices.
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I know there's always going to be a line, but what they do is they have this sign right next to it, the QR code, so you can take out your own mobile device, scan it and leave a message for them that way, before, after the event and stuff like that.
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So they will burn all these voice messages either on to a 12-inch vinyl record, which I think is so cute, and then they also have a little boom box speaker that you can choose and it's all personalized.
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It's a lot of fun.
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You can sit back on your one year anniversary and listen to all those messages.
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I think that would go good with wine and cake and funny messages, right.
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Yeah, really yeah.
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And their plans start at $99.
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You get the phone number for one year, which Good yeah, and their plans start at $99.
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You get the phone number for one year, which is amazing.
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But go and go check them out at wwwlifeonrecordcom.
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All right, Well, you know people are going to want to know who you are.
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So who is Terry?
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Well, let's start from the start, the very beginning.
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Well, I was born in Denver, colorado.
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I had some issues.
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My family was kind.
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Brothers got into some serious trouble.
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They had to do time.
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So I was back and forth from Los Angeles, you know, growing up, and I'm back in Los Angeles.
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I've been back in Los Angeles living here for over 40 years.
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So, yeah, so I live in South Central Los Angeles.
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I grew up well, ice-t and the rest of the family, they pretty much put me under their wings.
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When I was 17 years old, got into the music game.
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We put out a few rap records and things like that.
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Ice had signed a big deal with Warner Brothers and you know.
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So we was looking at it like this.
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You know, this is a way for us to get out the hood and come up and do some positive things, you know, instead of staying in the gang banging and all that kind of stuff.
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What was around us?
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So we got involved in the music game.
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I ended up started going to film school.
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I went to LA film school for like about six years.
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I graduated from there and I just kind of started looking around what was going on in the community and I was it?
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Just, I just wanted to make a difference with what was going on because we, you know, gangbanging is real in South Central LA.
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So I started, I called Ice up.
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I said, hey, man, look here, big bro, I really want to do this project and I'm going to need your support and your backing on it.
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And Ice is just like this.
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He's like no, bro, say no more.
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Whatever you want to do, let's do it.
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Just let me know what you need from me.
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And so I started filming.
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Filming this film put the Guns Down A World Epidemic.
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It took us about four years to actually complete this film.
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We took our time, we studied mental health.
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We just wanted to make sure the history of LA was accurate, with a lot of things that took place, because we felt like we had to bring it from what happened.
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Why is everything the way it is?
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So we took it from the ground and we, we went through the drugs, we went through everything that happened the riots, everything.
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I mean we did our homework and history on this film and it really came out well.
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And we touch issues from drugs you know, family members on drugs, suicide, mental health, gangbanging we have a lot of them.
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Health gangbanging.
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We have a lot of.
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We did something that's so a blessing and God had to bless us and pull us through this.
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We went to every community of our hoods out here in South Central.
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We was able to accomplish getting the real OGs that don't go on camera to actually speak to us without killing us for crossing enemy lines out here and that's very serious here in South Central.
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But we, yeah.
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So we actually got these guys to allow me they didn't want nobody but me to interview them, so I interviewed them and it's crazy, this is the first documentary where you're going to have the Crips, the Bloods.
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You got the Mexican Mafia, you got the Samoans, you got the Asians.
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We brought everybody together on this film, which we made history with doing this documentary.
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So this is a historical documentary that we're about to release.
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Ice did all the narrations on it.
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We have a lot of the OG hip hop artists that's in this film.
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You know from Spice One, ice-t Compton's Most Wanted Quicksilver we got a whole list.
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Big LV from Gangster's Paradise he's in the film.
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We have a big cast of celebrities that's in the film and family members that their loved ones was taken away from them.
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We don't say, lost their loved ones.
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We say that their loved ones was taken away because that's where actually, you know, these mothers are sensitive.
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So, I mean, the film just came out.
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Wonderful.
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We actually we're having a film festival with the Culver City Film Festival, which is going to be December 14th at LA Regal Center, down by the Staples Center, which is beautiful down there, and December 14th Christmas time, which is beautiful down there, and December 14th Christmas time, we're planning on setting up a press conference, ice and Ice Cube and everybody is coming to the festival.
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So we're telling you guys, come on out, be a part of this movement.
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We're going to be coming to your city soon because our game plan is to launch a tour with this as well as the release of the film.
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Which the film should be released, uh, february 1st 2025, on platforms like um, amazon, prime tv, to be google tv, hoodoo, it's it's a lot of different networks that they're releasing the film on.
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February 1st is the due date, so you're getting it here first.
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So just want to know.
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Nobody else knows about this information that I'm releasing to you right now, you know.
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So my whole team won't want you guys to come out and support and embrace these mothers and family members that lost their loved ones and they have to celebrate the holidays without their loved ones, which is very sad, and you know.
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So I just think you guys should come out, hug them, you know, let them know that you know, you praying for them.
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That'll mean a lot, you know, and be a part of the press conference, really.
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Exactly.
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I hear you and I know I could be there in spirit and I'm happy that you know you're coming through.
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Keep hope alive, because that was the one thing that reading about you and it's like I'm bringing hope and I love that that I saw those words because that is really what it's about.
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So the word taken, that is accurate and that is scary because it goes through so many different emotions too when you're that family member.
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So losing versus taking, and the taking is very hard and it's a grief process for them.
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So you know, of course they are going to be going through the holidays.
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Like you said, those are the hardest moments, even birthdays and learning.
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You said those are the hardest moments, even birthdays and learning.
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They have to learn how to move on and be at peace and know their loved one.
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They're in a safe place right now but watching over them, so getting the stories, I am so proud of you.
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You know I was at church today and I was listening and we're doing a sermon called the Gift.
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Okay, but being able to go out into territories that you cannot even imagine, they didn't want you there, but being the voice and being heard.
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Look at you, they only want you Amazing.
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Well, I have history.
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I have history.
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I grew.
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You know, I'm from the hood.
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For real.
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I'm not scared to go in any territory, I don't care what state it is or whatever, and that's my game plan is to come to different cities, one part of a 12-part series that we want to finish up by going to other states, other cities, and show what's going on in your town, your city, and we want to come and work with your programs and help to try to save lives.
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We are doing God's work, that's what we're really doing, and we can't have no fear from evil.
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You know, we have to believe in the Lord, jesus Christ.
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That's who I got Christ's blood all over me.
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So, whatever you want to do to me, let's do it.
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Bring it.
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That's where, that's how I am and my whole team would tell you that's what I stand on.
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I stand on the blood of Christ and I'm coming to your town.
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We want everybody to support this movie, support the movement, send your prayers to us.
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We need all prayers and blessings and healings for these mothers and family members that family members have been taken from them and worldwide.
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You know, we got to stop this madness and that's what it's all about and I'm trying to give those family members the platform that they need.
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And we need to call up these networks and demand more type of programs and movies and stuff on this level of the game, instead of our kids out here holding up pistols and shaking their butts and you know, and don't have clothes on and stuff like that.
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We got to change the narrative of what we are, what we are paying for subscriptions and everybody that's listening to this podcast.
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You have Netflix, you have Peacock, you have, but you are in control of what they show on these networks.
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You are a voice because you pay for those subscriptions.
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Stop paying those subscriptions and watch how quickly they change that narrative and start putting on the proper program, because we have kids.
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If you don't have kids, you have grandkids.
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If you don't have grandkids, you got nieces, you have nephews, you have you know, and if you love them, you want to change the narrative.
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Do you want your grandkids or your kids to go to the gas station?
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And I trust people, people.
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The biggest problem is people say, oh, that had never happened to me because I live over here, guess what.
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Pull up at that gas pump at the wrong time at the wrong place and and watch what happens.
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You'll be on one of my movies and stuff and then you want everybody to drop everything down and tend to you.
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So what about other people?
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What about?
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You know, if we Christ-like and fulfilled with Christ, what are we supposed to do?
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We're supposed to pray for each other.
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We're supposed to start really being a voice.
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It takes a village to save a kid and to raise a kid.
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So we have to change narratives.
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And it's in the communities I work over in the city of Beverly Hills.
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And guess what?
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These kids have been coming up robbing, murdering people all over LA.
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I mean, there is no safe zone anymore, like people used to think.
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You know, they, they doing home invasions at 10 o'clock in the morning.
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You know what I'm saying.
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So your father's house, that they, you know, and then you'll be calling me uh, they call me big T on the streets.
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Big T, will you please come and help out and bring your organization?
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Yeah, we'll come, but you should have been with us from day one.
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You know, support it, support the movement.
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Call up your local theaters, call up your subscribers and tell them, say, hey, we want this movie.
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Put the guns down, a world epidemic we want you to have this on your platform because this is what I want my kids to see.
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I want my kids look at these university killings and things like that.
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We got to stop that.
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We want to come to every university and contact us and let us know if you, if you attend a high school, if you attend a college, hit uh, contact rachel and say, hey, we want to book you guys at this high school, we want to book you at this college.
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We're available.
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Myself, ice, all of us are available.
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We out here for real trying to save lives.
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People have no idea.
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We serious about what we're doing, you know, and the contents of films that Platinum City will put out is going to be stuff for you and your family to learn from and to see what's really going on and to help your kids stay alive.
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See, and that's really good because it's a visual.
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Now, like you know, people always say what's your podcast?
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I go anybody who needs to be heard, but I remember my sponsors are like we want you to be on the video and I was like, hmm, seeing me talk, I was like, okay, well, I'll try it.
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But it's more of a visual too.
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So you know, it's great knowledge to know how and what to look for when there is violence going on, because you know, I can't believe I'm going to admit this, not violence per se, but let's just say somebody was very upset that God gave me a gift to do podcasts and let people be heard.
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At first, going through what I had to go through, I was like, oh my gosh, I was in so much shock.
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How could somebody be so evil to me?
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And here it is, a year later and I was like you know what?
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What happened?
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I'm not over.
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This is not fair.
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Like, how can somebody be that mad that God would actually want you to share the word?
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And it's not only like you and me we are going out there sharing the word, but maybe that person needs to learn how to share the word, you know, and look back at what they were doing.
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So I mean, but you know, helping other people around the world be heard, and it could be stories of being in here.
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I did interview somebody that did talk about gangs and they were scared for their life.
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I mean, they would just be on a walk at night and there's somebody behind the bushes trying to shoot at them and I can only imagine that is very scary stuff.
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And I mean, bringing this movie is going to be great.
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I know I'm going to be watching it a hundred percent.
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So but you know, I kind of want to dive into, because what you said earlier was kind of intriguing to me because I always thought I wanted to go to film school.
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But I feel like a big dork.
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I am a big soap opera fan.
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So I watched Young and the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful and I was out there in 2017.
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It was funny.
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I knew I was staying in Pasadena, but I went to Hollywood, jumped on the tour bus and we drove by where they filmed and I'm like do I just jump off the bus?
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I go.
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I don't even know what hotel I'm staying at.
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How would I ever get back?
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But I always thought I wanted to be an actress in one of the soap operas, to be an actress in one of the soap operas.
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But that process of going to school did you know you were going to do this even before it happened?
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You wanted to look into this Because you did talk about a lot of studying.
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Well, I'm going to be honest with you.
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What you just said about you coming into this podcast and I listen to a lot of Joel Osteen too and I had no idea that I was going to be a film director, writer, producer.
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I had no idea, I didn't even think that I could pull something off like that.
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But God pushes you and says no, you're going to do this.
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Why, God?
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Why You're battling with God, why?
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Why do I have to do this?
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Because it's a mission.
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It's a mission.
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He already has the plan laid out for you.
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You just have to continue to walk through it.
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Same thing, Joel said Joel was a nerdy little kid that's very shy and this and that.
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But God you know, his father was taken from him, but he would never been pushed to become a pastor if his father wasn't removed from the situation, if his father wasn't removed from the situation.
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So it's the same thing with you.
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We was doing music and anybody that knows Ice-T music and stuff like that.
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We do hardcore gangster rap music.
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Now God then took these guys out the streets from gangbanging and stuff like that in South Central LA.
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We started off with music and then he pulled me from the music with Ice Nym and put me in a film school.
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But it's the plan, it was already laid out and I'm like, why am I going doing this?
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And then I start thinking you know I was into gang banging and this and that, and I'm from a hood.
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But how in the world am I going to go to these other hoods and tell them what you're telling me?
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Girl, I can't go here, I'm going to get killed.
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No, you're not.
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You're not going to get killed.
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I got you, son, I got you.
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I'm like I can't believe what I pulled off.
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Now let me tell you about these guys that's in the film.
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Now, the guys that you're going to see in this film.
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That's interviewing.
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I went to their territory and interviewed.
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Now, just about most of these guys have did over 40 years in maximum security state penitentiary.
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All of them are for gang bangers.
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They each one of the ones I have on this film they killed each other's family members.
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Now I don't, I don't win in these.
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I'm in me.
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I'm going to these territories with a camera and I'm interviewing you and I'm letting you know.
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Yeah, such and such is going to be on this film too.