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Dr. Ian Smith Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host. Ros
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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald recognized that we all have different definitions of success,
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Speaker 1: for some and suscisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake
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Speaker 1: up and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live
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Speaker 1: their very best life. These are my passions and that's
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Speaker 1: what I'm going to do for you. I want you
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Speaker 1: to stop tripping over small challenges and prepare to rise
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Speaker 1: above the bigger obstacles that life will present to you.
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Speaker 1: That's what my guests do on this show. They bring
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Speaker 1: these nuggets of information that will motivate you. Take those
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Speaker 1: nuggets from these interviews and use apply them to your
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Speaker 1: life and keep winning. My next guest is a true winner,
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Speaker 1: longtime friend, Dr Ian Smith, who is the author of
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Speaker 1: many number one New York Times best selling books Shred,
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Speaker 1: The Revolutionary Diet, Super Shred, The Big Results, Died, Blast
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Speaker 1: to Sugar Out, The Clean Twenty, The Ancient Nine, Cleaning
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Speaker 1: Lean and Leving other books with mays of copies in print.
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Speaker 1: His newest book, The Unspoken That's by Ian K. Smith,
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Speaker 1: the first in stall his Ask Came Mr series. Will
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Speaker 1: we released in October one, but you can buy it
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Speaker 1: right now. He's currently the solo host This is the
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Speaker 1: Big News, The Big News. He's currently the solo host
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Speaker 1: of the nationally semicated Emmy Award winning television show The Doctors.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna be on stage by myself as a longtime
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Speaker 1: medical contributor to an Emmy Award winning show. He's been
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Speaker 1: on The Rachel Ray Show many times recently please working
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Speaker 1: the money making conversations. Dr Ian Smith. Wow, man, that's
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Speaker 1: that's quite an introduction. I was trying what you're talking about,
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Speaker 1: hey man, when you have a career, I didn't go
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Speaker 1: all the way back to the Jitny Jones days, Jenny
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Speaker 1: Jones days. Man, when I first saw your little skinny
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Speaker 1: behind on TV. Smile and look at alert now. Man. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know we've always crossed paths on TV. I remember
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Speaker 1: in New York when uh, Steve and I Steve Harman
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Speaker 1: I was up in two thousand and five. We crossed
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Speaker 1: paths back then and then came on the television show.
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Speaker 1: And we've always stayed in touch. And if you had
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Speaker 1: projects are the big State farm project, Pound Laws, that's
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Speaker 1: when that's when we really Reconnectedly, he seriously really created
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Speaker 1: our relationship. But it's always a bit about encouraging people
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Speaker 1: to do better, to be better. Talk about that as
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Speaker 1: part Why is that such a strong mantra in your life?
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Speaker 1: Dr N Smith, Well, you know, one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: why I wanted to become a physician so many years
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Speaker 1: ago was because as a young boy, I was really
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Speaker 1: um impressed and inspired by my own pediatrician. And I
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Speaker 1: felt like my own pediatrician really was trying to help
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Speaker 1: me and make me a better person and keep me
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Speaker 1: healthy and give me a great opportunity to maximize what
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Speaker 1: I couldn't life. And that really, that really kind of
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Speaker 1: um gave me the seed to want to help people
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Speaker 1: and to empower people. I just thought it was so
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Speaker 1: powerful that here was a guy who had the ability,
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Speaker 1: uh to really empower me and change my life. And
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Speaker 1: so I really wanted to do that in my career,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I've chosen different ways to do that,
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Speaker 1: because listen, let's think about this. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, it doesn't matter how famous you are, how
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Speaker 1: rich you are, how many oscars or Emmy's or Tony's
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Speaker 1: or houses or cars that stuff. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, it really doesn't matter. We all are going
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Speaker 1: to make our transitional journey. Um, and when you make
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Speaker 1: Before you make that transitional journey, you want to be
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Speaker 1: able to say to yourself that you fought the good fight,
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Speaker 1: you did the best that you could, and you try
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Speaker 1: to do something to leave a legacy to help others.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I believe. We're temporary custodians of this
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Speaker 1: great earth. And you know, greats before us, Maya Angelou, Winston, Churchill, Picasso,
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Speaker 1: I mean, great to the greats, they all have had
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Speaker 1: to take this journey. And so while we still have
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Speaker 1: breath in us and our life is still vibrant, my
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Speaker 1: recommendation for people is to do the same thing, which is,
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Speaker 1: you know, my recommendation is to try to figure out
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Speaker 1: what it is that you could do to help others
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Speaker 1: to make the world a better place and leave a legacy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's nice to make a paycheck, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: It's nice to have materialistic things, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not shunning those things. But what I'm
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Speaker 1: saying is when you form a priority list and you
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Speaker 1: take that landscape view of life, not the portrait view,
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Speaker 1: but the landscape view of life. When you do that
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Speaker 1: you'll realize that those material goods and those particular assets
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Speaker 1: are way less important than the asset of life and
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Speaker 1: giving an experience. You know, it's important that you said
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Speaker 1: that the way you speak and articulate, you know, because
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Speaker 1: my mom recently made a transition, and I bring that
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Speaker 1: up on the show because I always felt that you
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Speaker 1: are important in my life. Or You have a book
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Speaker 1: out at the time called Blast to Sugar Out, and
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Speaker 1: I interviewed you on the show and I went, Man,
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Speaker 1: I love this book. I loved this book and I
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Speaker 1: took it home and I lived in the land of
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Speaker 1: My mom was residing in Houston at the time. I said, Mom,
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Speaker 1: and I took the Carictankers. I said, I want you
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Speaker 1: to follow because a cookbook to it and not only
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Speaker 1: tells you what you should do, but it also gives
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Speaker 1: you recipes and what you should eat on a daily basis.
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Speaker 1: And we followed that, man, and it really improved her health. Man.
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Speaker 1: And and I want to thank you for for providing
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Speaker 1: that tool in my life for me. Give because you're
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Speaker 1: helpless it in your life, especially when your parents get older.
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Speaker 1: You don't either, there's no there's no miracle period to
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Speaker 1: get it right, But they are opportunities out there for
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Speaker 1: people like you to provide us with information or tools
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Speaker 1: that can make our lives better while we're still here.
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Speaker 1: And you did that for me, my brother, and I
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Speaker 1: want to say personally thank you well over something. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. I mean, you know, as a writer,
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Speaker 1: which I do every day of my life, as a
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Speaker 1: writer and a content creator, you know, I work often
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Speaker 1: in in isolation and a vacuum, meaning you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: at my computer, you know, at my desk at three
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Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning. You
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Speaker 1: know it's dark outside the families of sleep. I got
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Speaker 1: music on the radio, trying to keep up. But you know,
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Speaker 1: you work not really knowing whether or not what you're
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Speaker 1: creating is going to be impactful to someone. But I
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Speaker 1: work with the hope. I work with the hope that
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Speaker 1: even if one person can find a benefit or feel
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Speaker 1: like what I've written and created has changed uge their life,
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Speaker 1: whether it's in fiction or whether it's a nonfictional health books,
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Speaker 1: either one, if it can impact even just one life,
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Speaker 1: it makes me feel like all of the time and
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Speaker 1: the effort and the dedication was well worth it. So
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Speaker 1: you saying to me, and you told me this before,
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Speaker 1: but you're saying to me how that book impacted your mother.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly what my intention was. My intention is to
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Speaker 1: write things and to create things for people so they
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Speaker 1: can take it and immediately incorporated in their lives and
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Speaker 1: see a difference and hopefully, you know, live better and
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Speaker 1: live stronger, and live longer and live happier. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for you know, being who you are.
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Speaker 1: The reason I shared that story with you, because you're
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Speaker 1: about to become, you know, the solo host for the
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Speaker 1: thirteen twieson of the of the Doctors. And sometimes I
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Speaker 1: just want to let you know what you do, what
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Speaker 1: you've written, you know, and I'm sure you know. We've
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Speaker 1: been involved in other I feel life changing events, like
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Speaker 1: the events we did with Stay Farm. I felt that
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Speaker 1: was life changing. You come on Steve Harvey Show talking
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Speaker 1: about trade, and I've seen you on other shows, but
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Speaker 1: I just want to hear from one on one you
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Speaker 1: you you had a positive effect in my life, and
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Speaker 1: and it was so important that I tell you this
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Speaker 1: because I allowed your book to be part of my
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Speaker 1: mom My Mama. You know what I'm saying to my mama,
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Speaker 1: not anybody my mama. And uh and and and that's
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Speaker 1: important for you to hear it because you're about to
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Speaker 1: go to a platform now where it's a world stage,
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Speaker 1: and you can you can keep that little nugget in
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Speaker 1: your head and say what I do has relevancy because
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Speaker 1: television can kind of dilute that because it's television. It's entertainment,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And uh, but I want
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Speaker 1: to tell you something real fasts, I'm gonna tell you this. Listen,
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Speaker 1: when I got this opportunity, first of all, I'm very
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Speaker 1: honored and privileged and grateful for it first of all,
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Speaker 1: and I thank God for it. But I wasn't even
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Speaker 1: looking for and Rashan, you've been in business long enough
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Speaker 1: to know that sometimes when you're not looking for something
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Speaker 1: is when things come to you. So you know when
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Speaker 1: I got the call or the text actually to have
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Speaker 1: the conversation about it, I was on my knees in
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Speaker 1: my garden, sweat and dirty, weading we need my garden,
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Speaker 1: and I got this text message from a number I
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Speaker 1: didn't even recognize, saying to me, hey, dr Ian, we
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Speaker 1: think we have a great opportunity. We like to talk
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Speaker 1: to you about and it ended up being the executive
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Speaker 1: producer of The Doctors. And you know, after this conversation,
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Speaker 1: she's explained to me the kind of the changes they
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Speaker 1: want to make to the show, and they want to
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Speaker 1: revamp it. They want to get rid of the you know,
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Speaker 1: they typically had an ensemble cast of co host they
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Speaker 1: want to get rid of that. Make it one or
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Speaker 1: just two cost and Um, at the end of the conversation,
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Speaker 1: do you want to do it? Just like that? So
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Speaker 1: what do you think? Do you want to do it?
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Speaker 1: And Uh? I was like, yeah, of course I want
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Speaker 1: to do it. Uh. You know, but but that being said, um,
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Speaker 1: and thanks to Dr Phil and Jay McGraw, his son,
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Speaker 1: they're the ones who owned the show. Um. But you
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Speaker 1: know what's interesting is this. I tell you all that
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Speaker 1: to say that we are given opportunities in life, and
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Speaker 1: those opportunities are not sometimes frequent opportunities. And I think
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Speaker 1: that people have to recognize opportunities when they're given to
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Speaker 1: them because opper cotunities don't always come and the way
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Speaker 1: that you want them to come, or that the way
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Speaker 1: you immediately recognize. I'll never forget sitting when we're doing
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Speaker 1: fifty million pound challenge. We were in TEDD. Jake's Powder's house,
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Speaker 1: we were in TEDD. Jake's church and yep, and I'll
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Speaker 1: never forget the part of the sermon that he said.
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Speaker 1: It has stuck with me every sense, and this is
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Speaker 1: years now. He said, God gives us blessings, but unfortunately
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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't recognize the blessings because they
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Speaker 1: don't come in the form that they prayed for them
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Speaker 1: to come into. But God has still sent them a blessing.
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Speaker 1: They don't and they don't recognize it. That was so
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Speaker 1: powerful to me. And I've told my family this many
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Speaker 1: many times that you ask for things and that things
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Speaker 1: may come to you, but just because they don't come
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Speaker 1: to you and the perfect way that you asked for them,
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Speaker 1: you're missing out. Well, the same thing with opportunities. Opportunities
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Speaker 1: come to you and many shapes and sizes and fashions,
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Speaker 1: and you have to have your eyes open, your ears alert,
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Speaker 1: and your sense is ready to be able to take
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Speaker 1: advantage of it. This is a great opportunity for me.
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Speaker 1: It's a national stage. Um, it's the first time they've
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Speaker 1: ever had a single host. It's obviously I'm African American,
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Speaker 1: right so now I'll be the only African American male
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Speaker 1: in daytime television hosting a show. And I say that
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Speaker 1: because the opportunities we get are not very often. But
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Speaker 1: when we get these opportunities, we have to do the
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Speaker 1: best we can to show and put our best foot
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Speaker 1: forward and basically represent. So I gotta get on this
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Speaker 1: stage and in this studio, and I got to represent
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Speaker 1: and let people know that we can do this, that
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Speaker 1: I can do it. And I just think it's very important.
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Speaker 1: You know, let let me explain a little bit more
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Speaker 1: about when the blessing doesn't come the way you may
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Speaker 1: have wanted it, because you we all want our talk shows.
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Speaker 1: You've always said that, you said in my offices, your
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Speaker 1: want show. So you get this call, but you get
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Speaker 1: it doing the middle of a pandemic. You don't know
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Speaker 1: if Hollywood gonna re kick off promotion, color production, you
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Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to be an audience. And
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Speaker 1: this is what he's saying when he's gotten this opportunity,
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Speaker 1: but it is not coming to him in the form
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Speaker 1: that he's prayed for. It's coming in a very uh
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Speaker 1: remote but unsure time, and so you have to make
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Speaker 1: a decision to realize this is a blessing. Let me
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Speaker 1: take advantage of let me say yes and not walk
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Speaker 1: away annoyed. That is happening right now, that's what you're
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Speaker 1: talking about, right Dr Smith. You know this requires We
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Speaker 1: moved the set from l A, so the set is
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Speaker 1: on the Paramount lot. Typically the show has been there
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Speaker 1: for twelve seasons. It's now gonna be in Stanford. We
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Speaker 1: have a brand new set that's beautiful, it's awesome looking.
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Speaker 1: But now it requires me now to travel um to
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Speaker 1: go shoot the shows. And you know, listen, I'm the
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Speaker 1: first one talking about safety and dangers during the pandemic.
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Speaker 1: So I had to make a decision with my family
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Speaker 1: about whether or not this is something I should do,
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Speaker 1: given that I would have to travel for this, and
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Speaker 1: I've been living in a bubble for the last six months,
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Speaker 1: so I've been at home, i haven't traveled, i haven't
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Speaker 1: been on anything public for the last six months to
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Speaker 1: protect myself, my family and others. So so yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 1: It came at a time that was not ideal given
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Speaker 1: all that's going on. But my wife said to me,
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Speaker 1: you have to do this because it's it's too big
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Speaker 1: of an opportunity and too big of a platform for
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Speaker 1: you to say no to. And yes there is some
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Speaker 1: risk to us personally, but the positive side of it
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Speaker 1: you being able to give a voice to America, a calming,
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Speaker 1: scientifically based voice about the facts of the pandemic, what
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Speaker 1: people can do, how you can inspire people. She said,
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Speaker 1: you have to do it, So you know that's the decision. Yes,
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Speaker 1: this is a blessing, and I'm going to take the
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Speaker 1: blessing in the form that it came to me. There
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Speaker 1: you go, there you go. Now in the medial conversation,
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Speaker 1: you stuck out a little thing that a boy guard
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Speaker 1: me now doing it. I'm tell you something, And just
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Speaker 1: to share a personal story for me, I broke free
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Speaker 1: of it a little garden to doctor tomatoes, sage man
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Speaker 1: I got. I got photos of tomatoes and uh halapenia
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Speaker 1: peppers and it's it is and it's gonna become an
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Speaker 1: annual thing. Tell us about your garden that you talked about.
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Speaker 1: Obviously you're living in this bubble and what benefits did
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Speaker 1: it give to you And why would you recommend people
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Speaker 1: to do their own organic layout their own gardens. Well,
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something. I love yard work. I mean,
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Speaker 1: and people say to me, wait, you do your own yard. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I do my own yard. I find it to be
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Speaker 1: very meditative. Um, I'm by myself, I can think through things.
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Speaker 1: I'm engaged. It's physical, by the way, when you really
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Speaker 1: get down to it. You know, cutting your grass, weeding
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Speaker 1: your garden, planting, digging, very physical work by the way. Um,
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Speaker 1: and I really enjoy doing it. And um, the pandemic
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Speaker 1: really said to me. And I've had landscapers. Don't get
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Speaker 1: me wrong, but I said, during the pandemic, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this myself. Actually, you know, why can't
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Speaker 1: I do it? I did it as a kid. I
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Speaker 1: enjoyed cutting grass as a kid, right, making my five
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Speaker 1: hours a cut. Uh, So why can't I do it?
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Speaker 1: I'm physically able to do it. And I gotta tell
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Speaker 1: you it's one of the best decisions I made because
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Speaker 1: it really gave me an outlet. It gave me a
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Speaker 1: way to be physical without you know, I work out
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Speaker 1: all the time, but it gave me another way to
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Speaker 1: be physical without it being a mandatory workout. So I
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Speaker 1: have more of a I used to have a more
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Speaker 1: of a vegetable garden. I have more of a flower garden,
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Speaker 1: so I have a lot of different types of flowers
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Speaker 1: um and the weeds have just the weeds said, listen,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna take advantage of the pandemic because they just
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Speaker 1: went crazy for some reason this year. So I literally, Rashan,
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Speaker 1: I have spent hour, not one hour, I have spent
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Speaker 1: hours pulling up and here's the thing. They look like plants,
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Speaker 1: by the way, that yeah, we're not talking about weed
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Speaker 1: at like straw. These looks they look like nice plants,
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Speaker 1: but they're not. They're really weeds and deep deeply that's right, right,
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Speaker 1: So so yes, I've been doing a lot of products, Rashan,
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Speaker 1: I've been writing a lot. I told people to begin
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Speaker 1: in pandemic on Instagram and if you're on Instagram, follow
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Speaker 1: me at dr Ian Smith spelled the doctor out Ian Smith.
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Speaker 1: I told people in the very beginning, I said, guys,
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Speaker 1: here's the deal. We don't know how long this is
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Speaker 1: going to be, we don't know how severe this is
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Speaker 1: going to be. But one thing you can do is
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Speaker 1: be productive. Fine projects. Thing that you always said you
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Speaker 1: wanted to do, do these things that you've always said.
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Speaker 1: If I had more time, if I hadn't. Well, now
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Speaker 1: we got the time. So I've been extremely productive. I've
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Speaker 1: been writing like crazy. I wrote my book for twenty one.
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Speaker 1: I've already finished two of those books. I got two
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Speaker 1: books come up. Then my new book is coming out
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Speaker 1: or yeah, in October. First The Unspoken. Let's go and
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Speaker 1: talk about it right now, Let's let's set it up.
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Speaker 1: Let's go and set it up right. You know your
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Speaker 1: new good doctor Ian Kate Smith. It's written under that name,
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Speaker 1: not under doctor Ian Smith. Correct, And it's about a
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Speaker 1: former Chicago detective, Ashcane's desperate for redemption after refusing to
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Speaker 1: participating the police department cover up involving the death of
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Speaker 1: a young black man. Sounds very current, don't it? Pushing out?
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Speaker 1: Push it out of the fourth. But he won't sit
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Speaker 1: quietly on the sideline. He's compelled to fight for justice
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Speaker 1: as a private investigator, even if it means putting himself
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Speaker 1: in jeopardy. What a timely book. Come on that Unspoken.
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Speaker 1: I tell you something, see, this is this is the
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Speaker 1: crazy thing. Rich. I started writing this book two years ago,
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Speaker 1: so before everyone thinks that I wrote this book to
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Speaker 1: mattch the time that we're now had nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with this. Let me tell you why I wrote this book.
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Speaker 1: I've always wanted to write a character, a strong African
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Speaker 1: American male character. I felt like, when you look at
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Speaker 1: the landscape of TV and you look at fiction, we
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Speaker 1: don't really have that character. We don't have it, I mean,
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Speaker 1: And so I said, and in my desire to have one,
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Speaker 1: I said, I'll just write it. I said, you know,
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Speaker 1: no one's written it like I'm gonna write this character.
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Speaker 1: So I had this idea for this character. He's tough,
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Speaker 1: he's um uh, he's a great athlete, former athlete. He's smart,
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Speaker 1: he's good looking, he likes golf, he likes classic cars.
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Speaker 1: He's a fun guy. He's had some some troubles in
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Speaker 1: his romantic life. He basically got stood up by his fiance.
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Speaker 1: So he's not perfect. He's imperfect. He's perfectly imperfect, right,
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Speaker 1: which is he's a real person. But here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: I was watching the news one night and I saw
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Speaker 1: about the shooting of Laquam McDonald in Chicago. And I
17:20
Speaker 1: was watching the video of this young black guy walking
17:23
Speaker 1: away from police officers and getting shot and with no
17:28
Speaker 1: he had no no, no, it was unarmed, he was
17:31
Speaker 1: no threat. He was just walking away from them. Now
17:33
Speaker 1: they told him to stop, but he kept walking and
17:35
Speaker 1: they killed him. And as I'm sitting there looking at
17:37
Speaker 1: the video and reading the stories, what really what I realized,
17:41
Speaker 1: Rashaan was my goodness, God's amazing. Thank goodness, someone had
17:46
Speaker 1: bodycam video. Number one, right, number one, thank goodness for
17:49
Speaker 1: bodycam video. But number two, they suppressed it for over
17:53
Speaker 1: a year and they settled with the family. That's right,
17:59
Speaker 1: that's right. They oppressive video. Someone leaked the video to
18:02
Speaker 1: the media and that's when the firestorms started. But that
18:05
Speaker 1: was a year after it happened. So thank goodness someone
18:09
Speaker 1: leaked the video because they had already settled with the
18:11
Speaker 1: family and thought he was all under the copet. It
18:14
Speaker 1: was yeah, yeah, yeah, So I said, Wow, what a
18:17
Speaker 1: great entree for my character. I'm gonna make this guy
18:21
Speaker 1: be a farmer detective with the Chicago Police Department who
18:24
Speaker 1: leaves because he won't participate in the cover up of
18:27
Speaker 1: what they police call a bad shooting. Um and then
18:29
Speaker 1: he hangs up his own shingle and starts taking on
18:32
Speaker 1: very select cases around the city of Chicago. It takes
18:35
Speaker 1: them all the way to the wealthy North Shore, all
18:37
Speaker 1: the way to the south Side and in between. So
18:39
Speaker 1: that is what the unspoken is about. People love it
18:41
Speaker 1: and already got option to be a TV series, so
18:43
Speaker 1: fingers crossed. Um, they're gonna start shopping it in a
18:46
Speaker 1: couple of weeks because the producers want to make a
18:48
Speaker 1: TV show. But you know that's this is another passion
18:51
Speaker 1: of mine. You know, I'd say to people, guys, listen,
18:54
Speaker 1: follow your passion. When you follow your passion, you're not working.
18:58
Speaker 1: It's not work for me. It's just me having fun
19:00
Speaker 1: and and and doing what I love to do. And
19:02
Speaker 1: that makes it much easier if the beauty of you
19:07
Speaker 1: has been always yourself motivator. But when I look at
19:10
Speaker 1: this book, and you know, if you're online, it got
19:13
Speaker 1: four and a half out of five stars, and reviews
19:16
Speaker 1: all been uh, brilliantly received, and uh and this is
19:21
Speaker 1: a great compeller. It's this is another part of your layer.
19:24
Speaker 1: And the reason I always like about you, liked about you,
19:26
Speaker 1: and still like about you is the fact that you
19:29
Speaker 1: are willing to let that journey taking that direction. And
19:32
Speaker 1: when you when you see the opportunity, like you said
19:34
Speaker 1: that blessing, you didn't know it was gonna happen. You know,
19:37
Speaker 1: this is something you're watching TV and it just dawned
19:39
Speaker 1: on you creatively. Wow, this this is something this, this
19:43
Speaker 1: that that that that next key that allowed me to
19:45
Speaker 1: be creative. And that is what this book is about.
19:47
Speaker 1: The Unspoken you can buy right now. It comes out
19:50
Speaker 1: officially out October one. Give us a little juicy what
19:54
Speaker 1: is this particular storyline about? Now, I hey, you tell me,
19:58
Speaker 1: because I don't want to give away too much of so. Um,
20:03
Speaker 1: the book opens up with a very wealthy white woman,
20:07
Speaker 1: aristocratic from the North Shore of Chicago. She goes down
20:10
Speaker 1: to the South Loop and she's going to asking Yes.
20:16
Speaker 1: She goes down to the South Loop and she finds Ashcane,
20:19
Speaker 1: our man, and she says to him, I want you
20:22
Speaker 1: to find my missing daughter. And he doesn't want to
20:25
Speaker 1: do it at first, and just something she says to
20:28
Speaker 1: him that he piques his interest because money is not
20:31
Speaker 1: an issue for him. He's fine. He got a big
20:34
Speaker 1: selling from the city. So he doesn't take cases because
20:36
Speaker 1: of the money. He takes cases only when it it tingles,
20:40
Speaker 1: something tingles inside of him and says, I gotta look
20:42
Speaker 1: into this. And um, that's the opening book. And so
20:45
Speaker 1: he's The book is him trying to find this wealthy
20:48
Speaker 1: white girl who disappeared. And the ride starts is twisting
20:53
Speaker 1: and turning. It's up and down. You go to the
20:56
Speaker 1: tough streets of Englewood, Um all the way up to
20:59
Speaker 1: the North Shore, or in the wealthy coast of Downtown
21:01
Speaker 1: to the go. It's just you know, Chicago. He goes
21:04
Speaker 1: everywhere in Chicago, by the way, is a character in
21:06
Speaker 1: the book Chicago. Chicago is I think a very misunderstood
21:10
Speaker 1: city and it's but it's an important city. It's the
21:13
Speaker 1: third country's third largest city. But it's a flyover city.
21:15
Speaker 1: Everyone talks about l A and New York and you
21:17
Speaker 1: fly over Chicago. And so I really want to Chicago
21:20
Speaker 1: itself to be a character. I want you to understand
21:23
Speaker 1: the post of the city, the grid of the city,
21:25
Speaker 1: of the fashion of the city, so the every everything,
21:29
Speaker 1: all parts of the city. It's a corrupt city. Chicago
21:32
Speaker 1: is a corrupt city, you know. It's it's the foundation
21:34
Speaker 1: of this city. It's corruption. And I don't say that
21:36
Speaker 1: in a negative Maejoritan way, but that's the truth. If
21:39
Speaker 1: you look at the history of Chicago, it's about back
21:41
Speaker 1: room deals, it's about connections and who knows who and
21:45
Speaker 1: aldermen and and and the Cook County President. So I
21:48
Speaker 1: felt like, what a great place to put a private
21:52
Speaker 1: investigator series in the city that has so many different
21:55
Speaker 1: faces to it. Well, you know what I'm telling you,
21:57
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. Chicago was one of that favorite cities
22:00
Speaker 1: great food. By the way, if you ever want to
22:03
Speaker 1: traveling around where I want to eat great food, go
22:05
Speaker 1: to Chicago. They got it, they got it. But you know,
22:08
Speaker 1: you know, let's shift gears a little bit because you
22:10
Speaker 1: are on the Doctor and we're the middle of a pandemic.
22:13
Speaker 1: H When you read an articles the stags that aint
22:15
Speaker 1: four percent of the people who actually die from COVID
22:18
Speaker 1: ninteen have pretty sixteen medical conditions. When you realize that,
22:23
Speaker 1: you know, African Americans are people of color or overtly
22:26
Speaker 1: affected by the covidnighteen virus. What is your role in
22:30
Speaker 1: all of this, just from an informational standpoint, doctor, Well,
22:34
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think that it's been very
22:36
Speaker 1: unfortunate what has happened in our country. And I say
22:39
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to be calm about it because it
22:41
Speaker 1: really roused my blood pressure. The fact that the medical experts,
22:47
Speaker 1: the scientists, the doctors, the nurses, the public health advocates,
22:50
Speaker 1: the fact that they were not the leading voice of
22:54
Speaker 1: this pandemic and and guiding the country and how to
22:57
Speaker 1: fight it, And that the politicians made it a political
23:01
Speaker 1: issue and therefore stripped the true a political nature of
23:07
Speaker 1: the pandemic. It's science. Science and medicine are not political.
23:11
Speaker 1: People make it political. Viruses and political of virus infects.
23:14
Speaker 1: What's called a host and that's just a body. It
23:18
Speaker 1: could be a rich person, a poor person, a black person, white, Jewish,
23:21
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, Muslim, it doesn't matter. And and the
23:24
Speaker 1: fact that the government, that some certain leaders in the government,
23:28
Speaker 1: quote unquote leaders in the government, the fact that they
23:31
Speaker 1: made this a political issue is really really disgusting and
23:36
Speaker 1: it has compromised the entire country. The number of deaths
23:40
Speaker 1: would not be where it is, the number of injuries
23:43
Speaker 1: would not be where it is. The loss not listen
23:45
Speaker 1: to this, No one talks about really the loss of
23:48
Speaker 1: life experience. Kids not being able to go back to school,
23:52
Speaker 1: sports being canceled for kids their seniors, the last chance
23:55
Speaker 1: of being able to win the state title, um, kids
23:58
Speaker 1: not being recruited because they didn't were able to play
24:01
Speaker 1: a whole season and recruiters couldn't see them. People not
24:04
Speaker 1: being able to tend their children's graduation a whole class,
24:07
Speaker 1: not being able to walk up on the stage in
24:09
Speaker 1: front of hundreds of people, thousands of people cheering them
24:11
Speaker 1: out after four years of hard work. Rashan, think about
24:14
Speaker 1: the loss of life experience all because all because some
24:19
Speaker 1: quote unquote leaders in Washington wanted to politicize this and
24:24
Speaker 1: not take it seriously. And now this is the damage,
24:27
Speaker 1: this is the carnage. So as a physician, as an American,
24:31
Speaker 1: as a as a lover of human life, this has
24:34
Speaker 1: been a really, really tough time for me to see
24:38
Speaker 1: what has happened, because I'm telling you. You ask anybody
24:40
Speaker 1: who's been to med school and they will tell you, Rashan,
24:43
Speaker 1: this isn't complicated. Scientists and doctors know what to do,
24:47
Speaker 1: but weren't allowed to guide the country and how to
24:52
Speaker 1: minimize its effect. And that's why this is very sad.
24:54
Speaker 1: In history will not look very kindly on this period
24:57
Speaker 1: of American life because it will show how in cape
25:00
Speaker 1: Fable when we weren't not I should thinking we were
25:01
Speaker 1: very capable. It will show how an effective and in
25:04
Speaker 1: aft we were when we had tons of capability that
25:07
Speaker 1: we ignored it absolutely and let cliticizing it, trying to
25:11
Speaker 1: keep the stock market open, trying to keep the country open,
25:14
Speaker 1: when when it can be a layer with simple decision
25:16
Speaker 1: where I'm at social distance and be and using political
25:20
Speaker 1: intimidation too. That's what you're saying by not allowing the
25:23
Speaker 1: doctors be doctors and scientists be scientists and be guided
25:26
Speaker 1: by their decision making. No, we're going to change the rules.
25:29
Speaker 1: You can't change the We're not listen, we're s You
25:32
Speaker 1: don't want me to talk to you about the ins
25:36
Speaker 1: and out, the exit and o's of the economy. I'm
25:38
Speaker 1: not an economist. You don't want me leave that conversation.
25:41
Speaker 1: I'm serious, right, You don't want me to tell you
25:44
Speaker 1: the excess and ohs of how to drill for oil.
25:47
Speaker 1: That's not what I do. I've I've never never done it,
25:49
Speaker 1: haven't trained in it. But here we have people who
25:52
Speaker 1: have never never done anything in the scientific community are
25:57
Speaker 1: gonna tell the country what is a good vaccine? What
26:01
Speaker 1: is the proper medication when a vaccine should be available?
26:05
Speaker 1: How can you say that? That's like me saying you, hey,
26:07
Speaker 1: Ra Sean, you know what in six months, I want
26:09
Speaker 1: the stock market to be over said not what, Well,
26:12
Speaker 1: because I said that we should be at for It
26:15
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. Science doesn't work because you've got
26:18
Speaker 1: some deadline sciences. Science science happens on its own. And
26:21
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, it's just been horrible in
26:23
Speaker 1: this country, just very sad. And the classic example what
26:26
Speaker 1: you just said. The CEO of Astra Zeneca say it
26:29
Speaker 1: in April that he would have a vaccine in September.
26:31
Speaker 1: I guess who paused in September, Astra Zeneca. So that's
26:36
Speaker 1: what you're saying. You cannot predict science. You're just like
26:39
Speaker 1: you cannot predict your stock market, That's right, And you
26:41
Speaker 1: can't give into political pressure. My feeling, and I'm public
26:44
Speaker 1: about this, My feeling is had the country shut down
26:48
Speaker 1: for four to six weeks like the other countries had done,
26:51
Speaker 1: I mean shut down, no air traffic, no interstate travel
26:55
Speaker 1: with trains and buses. Had we all shelton in place together,
26:59
Speaker 1: all of us care where you live, from South Dakota
27:02
Speaker 1: to Louisiana to Boston to l It doesn't matter if
27:05
Speaker 1: we all just sat at home, and our small communities
27:08
Speaker 1: and let this thing die down. Let it die down.
27:11
Speaker 1: We be in a much different world right now. But
27:13
Speaker 1: because people didn't want to do it, Rashan, in a
27:16
Speaker 1: uniform way, everyone said, well, I got rights, I got right.
27:19
Speaker 1: This wasn't about rights. This was about how do you
27:21
Speaker 1: attack a global pandemic? And then you look at the data.
27:25
Speaker 1: On the show The Doctors, we're gonna talk about this
27:27
Speaker 1: September twenty one, wee premiere. We're gonna talk about what
27:30
Speaker 1: did other countries do? Why is it that they had
27:32
Speaker 1: a hundred days of no infections? And we're gonna compare
27:35
Speaker 1: what they did and what the best lessons are. But
27:38
Speaker 1: we just didn't do it right, Rashan. People talk about
27:40
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta open the economy. Well, listen, what
27:43
Speaker 1: good is opening the economy if people end up getting
27:46
Speaker 1: sick and you gotta close the businesses again, you want
27:49
Speaker 1: to have a ping pong relationship. Open clothes, open clothe,
27:51
Speaker 1: And now look where we are. I called it, you
27:55
Speaker 1: called it. That's the perfect theme for the new season.
27:58
Speaker 1: Take your power back. Tell us the background of why
28:01
Speaker 1: that's important. Just listen to see. I'm gonna man, I'm
28:04
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy. If I can't see it, I'm recording it
28:08
Speaker 1: because you're already on fire by the pod that you're
28:11
Speaker 1: on fire. But the thing about our relationship, we just
28:15
Speaker 1: get the talking doctor, We just get the talking and
28:17
Speaker 1: next thing you know, it's thirty minutes later. We gotta
28:19
Speaker 1: go ahead. I gotta stop talking to you you, brother. I
28:20
Speaker 1: can't take it all your talk. But the theme is
28:22
Speaker 1: take your Power Back. Tell us about the new season.
28:25
Speaker 1: You kind of hitting on it on the premiere episode,
28:27
Speaker 1: but what is that arc of the season. Take your
28:29
Speaker 1: power back? Very succinctly, Take your power back means that
28:33
Speaker 1: we have been living in times that we have felt powerless.
28:36
Speaker 1: These are uncertain times, these are dangerous times. People are
28:38
Speaker 1: scared and nervous, understandably, so we want to show people
28:43
Speaker 1: that there are things that you can do to take
28:45
Speaker 1: some of that power back, not all of it, because
28:47
Speaker 1: some of this is out of our control, like the vaccines,
28:49
Speaker 1: out of our control. But there are things that you
28:51
Speaker 1: can do within your own homes, within your own life
28:54
Speaker 1: to take some of that power and stability back. And
28:56
Speaker 1: so we're gonna inspire people, We're gonna challenge people, We're
28:59
Speaker 1: gonna give you the best answers that we can find
29:01
Speaker 1: that are scientifically based and not politically based. And my
29:04
Speaker 1: my mission to my team was this. In the very beginning,
29:07
Speaker 1: I said, guys, every day I want to do something
29:10
Speaker 1: that every person watching can make a change in their
29:13
Speaker 1: life to improve it. And that's our mission. We wanted.
29:16
Speaker 1: This is a show for the people. It's about the
29:18
Speaker 1: People's not about what dr Ian thinks, what my producers think.
29:21
Speaker 1: It's about what people need. So we want to put
29:23
Speaker 1: this show forward. You also send me a d M
29:26
Speaker 1: on Instagram at dr Ian Smith. Uh spell the doctor
29:29
Speaker 1: out and let me know what you want us to
29:30
Speaker 1: talk about. Uh, let me know about your experts. We
29:33
Speaker 1: want different experts from all walks of life to give
29:35
Speaker 1: us different experiences. This is gonna be a show for
29:38
Speaker 1: all of us. It is let me a diverse show
29:40
Speaker 1: tackling issues that we all care about. And you know
29:42
Speaker 1: I post about you, so you know when people react
29:45
Speaker 1: very good when I post about dr Ian Smith on
29:47
Speaker 1: my Time life. And so if you've got a banner,
29:49
Speaker 1: they say, it's what you just say. Please tell you
29:51
Speaker 1: people to get it to me so I can post
29:53
Speaker 1: and let people know that this show is about the people.
29:56
Speaker 1: Is not so much about the producers, is about the
29:58
Speaker 1: people in the voices. They want to be a part
30:00
Speaker 1: of the show. You're engaging them. But more importantly, his
30:02
Speaker 1: book They Unspoken To Coming Out is already out officially
30:05
Speaker 1: out October first. You're premiering your new episode of the
30:08
Speaker 1: thirteen season. He's the solo host. Dr Ian Smith is
30:12
Speaker 1: who's the solo host of The Doctors, the author Ian
30:17
Speaker 1: Kate Smith is the same person, same person doing this
30:21
Speaker 1: thing and multiple levels. Like I said, he's been a
30:23
Speaker 1: blessing in my life. He's a blessing to my mom.
30:26
Speaker 1: I appreciate you and my last sting. If you ever
30:28
Speaker 1: do an episode, brother by Bacon col Man man, I
30:32
Speaker 1: show up, I show up and do it, but do
30:34
Speaker 1: some baking on the show. Just let people live right.
30:37
Speaker 1: I'll take care. I'll take you and I appreciate your
30:40
Speaker 1: friendship to the years and we've had a lot of
30:42
Speaker 1: experiences together and the road in over yet, so let's
30:45
Speaker 1: keep goingout again. Thank you for coming on the show,
30:47
Speaker 1: and get their banners to me about your show so
30:49
Speaker 1: I can get them posted before the show premieres. Thank you,
30:51
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