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Rushion interviews Dr. Walter Scott Metcalfe from Bravo TV’s Married to Medicine · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: an American decision business owner best known for his appearance
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  Speaker 1: on Bravo's TV's Marriage to Medicine series. With over twenty
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  Speaker 1: years of experience in the medical field and the community
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  Speaker 1: service and his growing popularity, has doctor metcalf been sought
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  Speaker 1: after for professional opinions and world health issues, lifestyle medicine, lectures,
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  Speaker 1: physical health, and preventive medicine, especially in the black community.
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  Speaker 1: We're discussing his motivation to pursue medicine, the jaws and
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  Speaker 1: pains in medicine, and his outlets to reduce stress, such
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  Speaker 1: as family time, physical fitness, cooking, writing, and live musical performances.
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  Speaker 1: The one and only Doctor Walter Scott Metcalf. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing, sir? I'm doing great, Doctors McDonald, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for having me. I appreciate that's not with the live
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  Speaker 1: musical performances. Doctor, We're gonna get right on the end
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  Speaker 1: to it. We'll get right on end to it. Will
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  Speaker 1: you be introduced as doctor Metcalf for the live performers
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  Speaker 1: down in Orlando on March two in the fifth or
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  Speaker 1: how is the introduction gonna be set up? I think
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  Speaker 1: the way because my wife is gonna introduce me, so
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  Speaker 1: I think she gonna introduced me to the world as
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  Speaker 1: Doc Scott. What Polly broke up a little bit that
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  Speaker 1: Doc what? You introduced you to the world as who
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  Speaker 1: Doc Scott? Doc Scott? I love that Doc Scott's now now? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Has this been something that I kind of like missed
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  Speaker 1: along the way in the series here because all it
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  Speaker 1: was just just you know, because we know you work out,
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  Speaker 1: can you shape? You know you you know you're motivated,
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  Speaker 1: you know your your entrepreneur? What the musical side of
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  Speaker 1: you start to say? You know something I gotta start
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  Speaker 1: showcasing this. I know it started with the song loss,
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  Speaker 1: which was dedicated to your wife, But how did that
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  Speaker 1: come about? You know? I think the musical side of
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  Speaker 1: me just woke back up. I had it. I always
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  Speaker 1: had it as a kid, you know, I was. I
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  Speaker 1: remember taking piano lessons as a child, and when I
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  Speaker 1: got in seventh grade, I remember over hearing my wife,
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  Speaker 1: my mom, talking to the leader of a church choir,
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  Speaker 1: and she was saying, his instructor said that he'll be
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  Speaker 1: ready to take over a church in about two years
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  Speaker 1: if if he keep on learning and playing like he did,
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  Speaker 1: and sir, I quit after that. I said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be playing piano in church. Yea. They take up
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  Speaker 1: too much of my time. So so you're trying to say,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to say the church kill your your musical dream.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say that. Don't say that. Don't say that. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I already was on the usher board, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: the junior choir, and I was, I was already in
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  Speaker 1: church two days a week, and I said, man, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have me in church three, four or five days
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  Speaker 1: a week, you know, in practicing with three different choirs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how it is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's really interesting because you know, as I always tell
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  Speaker 1: people that that, you know, between the ages of eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and twenty four, you know, we are kind of like, um,
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of like, uh, you know, ambitious, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we we we see so many opportunities and nobody
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  Speaker 1: can tell us anything. We'll we'll chase those dreams. And
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  Speaker 1: I always tell people what you do between eighteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, when you get your forties, fifteen and sixties,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you start really making your money off of.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those dreams, those desires, those early passions. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So when I when I when I read about this
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  Speaker 1: and I saw it, heard the song, and now this
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  Speaker 1: concert and we're going, I'm talking to doctor Scott Walter,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Mike Metcalf, he's one of the stars from Bravos
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  Speaker 1: TV's married to medicine, and we're talking about this singing
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  Speaker 1: career right now. And we're going to talk about this
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  Speaker 1: medical career and this entrepreneurship because that's important because part
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  Speaker 1: of your brand, it's part of your development. But when
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  Speaker 1: you see people break out of these sides that you
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  Speaker 1: don't see, it's important to know that that sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: have to follow your dreams. That's why always tell people,
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  Speaker 1: don't let nobody tell you what you can't do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because people will tell you that. So when you start
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  Speaker 1: pursuing this aspect, the naysayers came out, correct, doctor metcalm
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  Speaker 1: oh for sure, for sure they says came out family, friends,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and definitely social media. You know, the naysayers
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  Speaker 1: always waiting for you. They don't even have to come out.
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  Speaker 1: They sitting there waiting to click dislike. So that's how
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  Speaker 1: that's how that goes with them. So how do you
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  Speaker 1: overcome that? How do you because that's what this show
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  Speaker 1: is about because of the fact that, you know, really
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  Speaker 1: social media. A lot of people do understand this about
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  Speaker 1: social media. You know, a like dislike, a dislike can
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  Speaker 1: be a form of bullying, especially when you tie negative
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  Speaker 1: comment to it, and then it's tied to people you
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  Speaker 1: don't even know. You know, that's the that's the wild
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  Speaker 1: part about social media. You know, you can get emotional
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  Speaker 1: highs from the likes, but then the negative comments and
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  Speaker 1: the dislikes or the ugly emojis can also be emotionally
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  Speaker 1: they're down for you. How do you in a person
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  Speaker 1: who is a professional. You're a professional. You you with
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  Speaker 1: the school you've earned, a professional were respected, respected degree.
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  Speaker 1: How do you deal with the fact that sometimes people
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  Speaker 1: kind of like disrespect you and actually sometimes don't even
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  Speaker 1: believe you're a real doctor, you know. I guess thick
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  Speaker 1: skin and intelligence hopefully keeps me away from all the negativity,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because one, you're not gonna scoop down. You're
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  Speaker 1: not the level that other people are. So stofe gives
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  Speaker 1: me a disrespectful comment, It's just easy to block, delete
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  Speaker 1: and move on with my life. And you know, say
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  Speaker 1: they never existed basically, So, so I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a level of having thick skin. You know, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: youngest of tenids and sticks and stones, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I you know, the battles that I've
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  Speaker 1: been through my life, negative words could never hurt me
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  Speaker 1: nothing from social media. And my wife already told me
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  Speaker 1: when we first got on the show. Don't you know
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  Speaker 1: she knew more about reality than me. I knew absolutely
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  Speaker 1: nothing about it, didn't care about you know, and actually
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  Speaker 1: you know, refused to participate, you know, the first year
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  Speaker 1: that they offered and so um so she basically told me, like,
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  Speaker 1: you just gotta not read the comments, you know, yeah
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah, Like I said that, that's the bully area.
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  Speaker 1: That's the area where they they attack you on your
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  Speaker 1: on your on your video of chill on your video
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  Speaker 1: when the comments there can like be depressing and demoralizing
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  Speaker 1: because all you're doing is living your dream and you're
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  Speaker 1: sharing it. And that's what you were doing when you
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  Speaker 1: posted your video about your song, your your lyrics and
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  Speaker 1: all that. It was just sharing your gift that God
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  Speaker 1: gave you. That's gonna be real about this. It's a gift.
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  Speaker 1: I can't sing, doctor Scott. I can't sing, so so
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  Speaker 1: you you ain't ever gonna get nothing negative from me.
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  Speaker 1: But there are people out there just like me who
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  Speaker 1: can't sing, but making comments though, oh yeah, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh yeah. And when you're dealing with that
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  Speaker 1: and you got the opportunity now on March twenty fair,
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  Speaker 1: how much gonna tell you'll look, it's so almost sold out, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because he's all olverays social media, Oh my god, he
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  Speaker 1: can't believe the tickets are moving that fast, but he
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  Speaker 1: don't if I'm if I'm correct, this is who you
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  Speaker 1: on the show with just some of the Stars, Goodye,
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  Speaker 1: mob correct, Fantasia correct, baby Face correct, Yes, Life, Jenny's correct, Life,
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  Speaker 1: Jenny's Yes. Okay, Now now the next question, I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: Are you nervous? You know what? Right now, I'm not nervous.
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  Speaker 1: One nephew was on the song with me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's been an entertainment since he was probably eight years old.
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  Speaker 1: He traveled the country, how yar devion, He traveled the
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  Speaker 1: country playing young Marvin Gay and my brother Marvin, uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: This young man and he went to Berkeley School of Music.
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  Speaker 1: So this young man literally has me practicing with them.
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  Speaker 1: We got a video this. I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: very interesting to see this whole journey, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the near future. But so we're we're documenting everything.
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  Speaker 1: But this young man has me in there with them
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  Speaker 1: while they're doing dance routines, and I'm I'm like, goody,
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  Speaker 1: move on this one. No, I don't dance no more.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay to the side and you know, hype
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  Speaker 1: up the crowd and maybe maybe move side to side,
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  Speaker 1: you know what. But you know, far as the movements
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  Speaker 1: the new young guys are doing, they got they got
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  Speaker 1: a routine together. Okay, so you said that you you
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  Speaker 1: don't have no steps, that's what your no no spo steps.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now you Oh you're gonna be old school.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're gonna be old school. Just stand in one place.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna break out with no
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  Speaker 1: four tops, no temptation moves, none of that. Nope, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be some side to side. No not. I'm
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  Speaker 1: giv I'm gonna give him something. Okay, I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: doctor Walter Scott, and they're gonna be a little bit surprised. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Walter. Doctor Walter Scott Metcalf from Bravos
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  Speaker 1: TV's Marriage to Medicine. He'd be introduced by Doctor Contessa,
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  Speaker 1: his wife as doctor Scott because he will be performing.
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  Speaker 1: Just in case you just tuned in, he will be
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  Speaker 1: before mean it March March twenty fifth at the Music
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  Speaker 1: Festival Orlando Movie Music Festival. So let's talk about you
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  Speaker 1: know the song you dropped. I think the song or
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  Speaker 1: dropped in September of last year, correct, yes, okay, cool. So,
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  Speaker 1: so when it was put out there, what was the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of you releasing the song to the general public?
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  Speaker 1: The song is called Lost. I think the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: the song was really like redemption, you know, because it
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  Speaker 1: with real reality TV. You know, they you if you
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  Speaker 1: make the wrong slips, say the wrong thing, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: run with it. They're gonna run with it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care like you know, you know, or someone
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  Speaker 1: else says something about it, They're gonna run with it.
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  Speaker 1: So Reality TV wanted to run with a narrative like
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  Speaker 1: you know, like me and my wife. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: every marriage has problems, but they wanted to act like
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  Speaker 1: we had more problems than we did. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: create more problems for us, and so you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think when I wrote lost, I was just saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well let me um, you know, as opposed to getting
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  Speaker 1: on TV arguing and talking and repeat, let me make
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  Speaker 1: a song, and then if they choose to play it,
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  Speaker 1: they'll play it. And fortunately, you know, Andy Cohen, they
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  Speaker 1: chose them. They chose and played from the season finale.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess they understood what I wrote, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess it was good enough because they chose it from
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  Speaker 1: the season finale, right wow. As opposed as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: women screaming, yelling, and hollering at each other. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they did that first, and then the absolutely well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the interesting thing about it was that when I when
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  Speaker 1: I look at my life, you know, I always look
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  Speaker 1: at the things that people have told me what I
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  Speaker 1: should do. You know, I just worked for IBM, and
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  Speaker 1: when I told people I wanted to pursue a career
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  Speaker 1: as a Steve a comedian, they looked at me like why.
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  Speaker 1: They looked at me like who who? You can't make
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  Speaker 1: no money, you can't do that. And when I hear people,
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  Speaker 1: they're not. So when I hear the word haters, people,
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  Speaker 1: haters is not a term that's just been around recently.
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  Speaker 1: People are always been discouragers or people are always told
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  Speaker 1: you what you can't do because people have put you
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  Speaker 1: in a box. Now people call them naysayers. If Bible
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  Speaker 1: call him Nay says, Nay says, they're saying right, right,
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  Speaker 1: and and and and that's the part of this whole conversation,
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  Speaker 1: because it's a it's a two part conversation. I'm having
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  Speaker 1: with you today. Because of the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 1: as an artist and I'm calling your artists, because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you're going on stage. People have told you,
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  Speaker 1: based on your celebrity status, based on your your your
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  Speaker 1: your talent. It's saying that they're gonna put you on
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  Speaker 1: stage with a baby Face, on that same stage with
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  Speaker 1: Good Emove, on that same stage with Fantasia, on that
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  Speaker 1: same stage with Life Jen. And I know all these people,
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  Speaker 1: all these people are just you know, they got they
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  Speaker 1: got an audience. And guess what, you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a fan base coming to see you too, Doctor Scott,
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about all this? You know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited that this part of my life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I said, I love and enjoy being
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  Speaker 1: a doctor, and um, but I'm just happy that my
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  Speaker 1: love for music woke back up inning you know. And
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  Speaker 1: how would you say walk back? How did they wake
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  Speaker 1: back up at your house? Well, I had, um, I
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  Speaker 1: had my nephew, Javier, and doing piano lessons for my kids.
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  Speaker 1: Okay here at my home, and um they be in there.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, we did them on Sunday. So
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  Speaker 1: after after they finished the lessons, we go in there
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  Speaker 1: and you know, get on the piano and we start
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  Speaker 1: singing old church songs because my kids have never heard
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  Speaker 1: the old good Baptist church song absolutely and and so
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  Speaker 1: we get in there, we start singing some old Johns
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  Speaker 1: acting silly and then um, another friend sent me a
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  Speaker 1: beat and it just captivated me. And when Javier was
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  Speaker 1: leaving out, I had my phone. I had recorded the
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  Speaker 1: beat on my phone and I did a little voice
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  Speaker 1: memo and I said, Javier, I like this and can
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  Speaker 1: you can you like go home and singing hook to me?
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  Speaker 1: Can you just go like lost lost, so lost without you?
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  Speaker 1: And you know? And I said, can you do that
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  Speaker 1: hook for me? And then he came back to the
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  Speaker 1: neighbor the amazing hook, and I said, oh, okay, well
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  Speaker 1: let me let me, let me get on the hook
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  Speaker 1: and let me write some rhymes with this and uh
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  Speaker 1: and there you go. Next thing you know, called a
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  Speaker 1: friend and we were up in the network studios, all
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  Speaker 1: based on just a beat. And then you had the
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  Speaker 1: talent to come in and create the hook, because you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have a hook in the song, like you got
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  Speaker 1: you know that hook, you know, great song. I always
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  Speaker 1: remember that, the famous of Harold mel winning the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Notes miss you come on, Teddy Pendegrad. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: Teddy Pendegrass wasn't in the background singing that hook to
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  Speaker 1: Miss You and it's not a song. Oh no, you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely correct, absolutely correct, And that's why it's the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of doing these things and doing these things with a
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  Speaker 1: with a dream. And we're talking about a dreamer. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the person who who sits around and has
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  Speaker 1: looked at his life like saying, we're referencing here, doctor Scott,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Walter Scott Metcalf. You know, youngers of ten kids,
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  Speaker 1: you're born and raised into Michigan. Correct, yes, sir, And
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  Speaker 1: as they say that the cold state at Michigan State
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  Speaker 1: grad When we come back, we're gonna continue this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to start this whole opening half of
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  Speaker 1: the show about his career as a as a live
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  Speaker 1: musical performers. When we come back, we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: why did he get into medicine, what did the entrepreneurial side,
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  Speaker 1: why did he move to Atlanta this side of the business,
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  Speaker 1: and how has been one of the stars on marriage
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  Speaker 1: to the medicine affected him professionally, and how he's had
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  Speaker 1: to live and deal with this new fame notoriety because
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  Speaker 1: there's a difference in being a doctor who's unknown and
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  Speaker 1: then a doctor who's famous. Be right back with more
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  Speaker 1: we just you've just heard it live Performers Music Festival
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  Speaker 1: in the Lando, Florida, March twenty fifth. He'd be sharing
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  Speaker 1: the stage with baby Face. He'd be sharing the stage
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  Speaker 1: with Fantasia. He'd be sharing the stage with Goodym. He'd
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  Speaker 1: be sharing the stage with Life Jennings. He'd be introduced
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  Speaker 1: by the One day Only Doctor Contessa. She'd be calling
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  Speaker 1: him doctor Scott, the one and only Doctor Walter Scott
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  Speaker 1: metcal as we move in your life. Being a person
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  Speaker 1: who the youngest of ten kids, can I ask you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know what type of careers are lifestyle that your
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  Speaker 1: other siblings have. Did they motivate you to pursue a
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  Speaker 1: career an educational career, sir? You know, being the youngest,
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  Speaker 1: they motivated me. I had a very supportive family. They
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  Speaker 1: motivated me and supported me and everything that I've done.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm the only one that chose medicine, but
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: you know we have I haven't an educator and counselor
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: both for phdsh I have a flight sister that was
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: a flight attendant, to have a brother that's an engineer. Uh,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: two brothers that retired from the factory. You know, we
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: were in Flint, Michigan, so that was that was you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: they were in the factories. McDonald dared one sister that
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: retired from the factory, one sister that got an advanced
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: degree as well and went into business and worked for Jim. So,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you know, pretty much, my mother's stressed the education. She's
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: you know, and uh she's she's definitely stressed excellent in us.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And she was in that era where you know, she
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: moved that moved up here from the South. You know,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: she was a valedictorian of her class and so she
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't on me, and so she made sure her kids
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: wasn't no dummies. And and she hurt her she she said,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: because of having ten kids that that kind of killed
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: her dreams and of going to law school. And so
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: she never she never finished her undergraduate degree herself. But
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: you know, was super successful as a mom and just
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: just overall great, beautiful woman. Well you know that like
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: my mom, Like I come a big family too, you know,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: six sisters and two brothers. So I came, I came,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and my mom was just like your mom. You know,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: she graded away from my high school very smart, but
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: high school, you know, high school was the highest level
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: of education that she achieved. But you know I myself,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I just knew I just wanted to be pursue a
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: life that was different from where I was living because
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I lived in the neighborhood um you know, well, you know,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: my parents was in the hood Fifth Ward and used
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to Texas, and then we moved to the northeast side
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: of Houston, Texas. Basically, I just moved from black people
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: who were struggling to black people who weren't struggling as much. Okay, So,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and I knew I didn't like either lifestyle, and so
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I was motivated to see what was out there because
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: basically my whole life doctor Metcalf, all I saw was
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: black people my whole life, and so I didn't even
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: know from a standpoint of what that white world looked
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: like until I went to college, and that opened my eyes.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: When you start making that transition, tell us your background
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and then also transitioning from that high school world into college. Okay, Well, mom,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: after my father passed when I was five, my mother,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it was six kids left at home, and so my
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: mother actually decided to leave the city of Flint and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: we moved. We moved to a place where her and
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: my dad used to vacation, which used to be called
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the even of the North if you ever heard of Idawa, Michigan.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So we moved and grew up in Ottawa, Iawall, Michigan
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: bad with Michigan and uh so that was a pretty
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: diverse community. But it was probably second to been Harvard
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and Forest community in Mission uh and uh. But but
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you know, but nonetheless, like I said, great mom, she
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: always worked, she always provided, which was awesome. And so
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I was. I had a really diverse education and diverse
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: friend group growing up. And so when I went to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Michigan State, there was still a culture shock of coming
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: into a classroom of three hundred people, but but none
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of us. But but there was there was you know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the diversity was was not anything that I had to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: get you know, adjusted to, you know, if I right.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: So so basically you're saying, like, okay, Rashan, I was,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I had that diverse education. If I stayed in Flint
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: has been a different story. But when she moved me
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and allowed me to adjust, and I would understand another
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: side of life and how to communicate with another side
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of life. So Winter Michigan State, other than massive campus
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: of over thirty five thousand students, you know, that's my adjustment, correct, right, correct,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you know and coming and you know, like I grew
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: up in the like the small town. It was not
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: even the McDonald's there, not even a traffic light. So good. Yeah,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: big adjustment, big adjustment in that man. So how white medicine? Though?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: But why medicine? You know, I was I would like
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: to share personal stories where I talk to people because
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I know I can't cut on nobody. I know, I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: can't tell nobody that they're sick. I know that, But
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: why medicine, sir? I think the power of positive reinforcement.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: My mother has been calling me. My mother and siblings
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: have been calling me doctor since I was probably since
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I was walking. Wow, I've been saying I was going
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to be a doctor myself since I was five years old.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And I remember in seventh grade I said, I really,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I really made the decisions that I'm really going to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: be a doctor, you know, and I'm really gonna try
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to get all eggs. I made that decision myself in
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: seventh grade, and like I said, my mother, and I'm
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: sure my mother, you know, she she said, I know
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: what you're capable of. You know, you really don't need
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to bring me nothing home more than they. You don't
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: need to bring nothing less home, you know. She she
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: just basically said that to me. And uh, I think
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: how passing with my father dying, you know, of a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: preventable illness was definitely one of the deciding factors in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: my mind. He died of a metastatic colon campcon to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the brain, and uh, just like just like a lot
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of black man, you know, he knew he was sick.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: He waited till after Christmas to go in, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and that was our last Christmas with so uh yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and that was you know, five years old, almost six
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: when he passed away, you know. So all that had
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: all that, I'm sure just in that upbringing, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and then I had believe it not. I even had
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: a black doctor growing up in that in that small town,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and he was a World War two veteran with my
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: father and my father was a medic in World War two. Wow,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: So that was that was that was kind of andage there.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you this because you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you said that about black men, and we hear that
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a lot in the black community. You know, before we
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: hear two things in the black community, you know, not
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: enough quality healthcare. But then we hear the story by
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: black men who are don't want to acknowledge they need
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to go to doctors or don't want to go to doctors.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: What what's creates that doctor medcalf in our male community. Well,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I think one lack lack of knowledge, you know, of
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of of medicine. That's that's that's definitely one, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and we know the main thing would be our our
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: healthcare disparities and a lot of those are created by
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you know, lack of access, you know, lack of having
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: representation of having an African American physician. Um, you know, um,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: we as African Americans make up what almost what twelve
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: percent of the population, but yet less than four percent
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: of us are doctors. So that's that's definitely showing that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: we don't have the representation that's needed. And you know,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: ultimately with black man we know, h it stems from
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the mistrust of the medical system in general, and we
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: can't hire the fact that the interesting there should be mistrust,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: you know, but a lot along with that mistrust is
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of misinformation. So you know, I tell people
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: like we know about the Tuskegee Experiment, we know the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: trocities that they committed against our black men and black
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: women and black babies. Because if black men are affected,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the wives are affected. So it's not like the men
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: would just walk around with syphilist you know, the women
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: were catching it too. The babies were catching it and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: having complications of you know, pregnancy and and and giving
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: birth to baby with cyphilis. So all those health care
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: disparities kind of kind of mound up, and that adds
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: up the apprehension of a black man, you know, seeking
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you know, to get medical attention. Cool that mistrust. Can
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you know, if you don't trust somebody, you're not gonna
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna show up. That's absolutely true, because you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: we walk in there afraid anyway. I know, I've never
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: walked into doctor's offers confident because I don't know, because
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they might find out about me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know for a high blood pressure, I don't know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: cholesterol level, I don't know. You know, I've been I
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you know, I've had a numal thraxx in my life,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: which means that my long collapse while I was just
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: watching TV. I've been diagnosed with cancer throd cancer. So
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: you know, once you're diagnosed, as they might say that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you in remission, but it means that it can't come back.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I've been I've had my gall bladder removed, and so
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: these are things you know, that have happened to me
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: just in my daily life, my daily my daily process.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: And you know, the cancer was discovered basically through going
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: in there doing exams. If I didn't have these exams,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Lord knows, I may not be talking to you right
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: now because I didn't. Nobody wouldn't have had that preventive
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: medicine treatment because I wanted to talk about that as
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: we close out your interview about what as black people,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: black men, black families can do in the value of
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: preventative medicine. Um be advocates for one another, you know,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: every everyone in the family should be advocates for one another,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: because like to say, for instance, my father died of
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: colon cancer, so I made sure that all my brothers
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: had their colon cancer screening, not at fifty you know,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: nine at forty five, but I made sure, I say,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: we had a higher risk. You know, our dad died
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of it, uncle died of it. So we getting our
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: we all getting our colon ospies. By the age of forty.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: All my brother's done it. Two of us had two
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: of us had polyps. You know that. You know, they
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: say a polyp If it's one of the specific polyps,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that's the type of polop that can take about eight
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: years to turn into cancer. So you know, So having
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: those colon oscaries at age forty, getting those polops removed,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: having to follow up colon ospy five years later, being clear,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that's what you do. You know, that's what you do.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You prevent that that that polyp from from growing over
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a period of eight you know, up to eight years
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and turning into cancer. So advocates for one another, educating
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: one another, and one we just you know, you you
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you gotta find a doctor that you trust. And you
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: paying all this money for your healthcare. All you guys
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: out there with those jobs and benefits, everyone, every every
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: ployer he covers UH one year or your your annual
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: physical exam. So the minimum you need to do is
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: go get your physical exam every year and your doctor
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: should know what is age appropriate for you. So I
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: have an age appropriate physical exam for my males that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: are under under twelve from twelve twelve to eighteen eighteen
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five to thirty five. You know, so I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: know what needs to be done, what type of tests
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: need to be done? When when we need to start
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: screening for this, When we screen for test kick cancer,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: when we screen for prostate cancer, you know, and more
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: importantly now you know, if we start screening for depression,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you know, we gotta we gotta recognize that this is
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: humongous in our black community, and we got to start
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: screening these kids between age eleven and thirteen for depression. Absolutely.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to doctor Walter Scott Metcalf, Doctor Walter Scott,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: how can we reach out to you? How to think
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: out people who are listening to the show? Uh, you know,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: out to you and guard you your business. You know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to be able to schedule in the potential like uh
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: sessions with you at your at your at your various
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: business locations. They can catch me and me or my
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: wife virtually or in person at chat same medicine dot com. Uh.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: The link is right there. You can check that. All
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you have to do is get on the computer check
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: go to chat same medicine dot com. You can schedule
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: appointment virtual visit with myself or my wife. Doctor Contesta metcalf. UM.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I'm available on all social media platforms, pretty active on
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Instagram and I would love for you guys to join
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: me on Instagram at doctor Scott Metcalf and UH and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook is just Walter Scott Metcalf which is
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: my name or Scott Metcalf MD. I appreciate you so much, sir,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Rachelle. I really appreciate you.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk toon Okay, all right, I appreciate it,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: thanks a lot, Bye bye, there you go again. I
• 27:56
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• 27:58
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• 28:01
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