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Health is Wealth: Freeway's Life-Saving Revelation 🌟 | Phil-N-Healthier Freeway
Aug 29, 2024
Join Sway In The Morning for an exclusive first look into Philly Freeway's health journey, where he reveals the shocking truth about his battle with kidney failure and the transformative path to wellness.
This inaugural episode of “Phil-N-Healthier Freeway" is a deep dive into health and wellness, featuring heartfelt stories and vital information. Freeway, a legendary figure in the hip-hop world, shares his inspiring testimony and the importance of organ donation, including a touching account of his son's life-saving legacy.
Tune in as Freeway discusses the impact of lifestyle choices on health, with special contributions from Philadelphia's Mayor Charelle Parker and other notable voices. Discover the power of health advocacy and community support in a segment that promises to be both enlightening and empowering. Subscribe now for more exclusive interviews and insights from Sway’s Universe, where music meets positive change. Watch, learn, and be inspired to live a healthier life!
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Freeway Joins Sway In The Morning
01:29 - Freeway’s Health Journey
05:45 - Importance of Organ Donation in Health Journey
07:17 - Mayor Cheri Honors Freeway’s Health Advocacy
11:38 - Freeway’s Ongoing Health Journey
17:17 - Organ Donation & Transplants Explained
28:31 - What is Green Side Up?
29:35 - Final Thoughts on Health and Wellness
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congratulations and here we are to this
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day as a result of all that commitment
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and dedication in his faith and in
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himself my brother and he's here to
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share with us in the brand new segment I
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want to welcome him as the newest member
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of this show Sway in the Morning with
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Heather be and Tracy G with his brand
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new segment fing healthier with freeway
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Philadelphia's Zone give it up for
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freeway yep yep yep yep y thank you
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thank you thank you thank you thank you
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please please hold the Applause ladies
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and Gentlemen please get extending
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Ovation here no I appreciate it thank
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you brother well something we talked
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about citizens I'm going to let freeway
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break it down but I I just think it's so
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important that we tap into our resources
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and utilize them properly not just when
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it comes to making music or making money
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or making merchandise or making tours or
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or making Billboard charts or Spotify or
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you know Pandora charts um but really
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living healthy lives and this is a a
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component of our culture that I think
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should be talked about more we're losing
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a lot of people from our culture in the
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recent years we're losing a lot of
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people a lot of people are transitioning
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a lot of it has to do with ailments and
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health issues a lot of it has to do with
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how we LED Our Lives as younger hip
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hoppers exactly into now and just how we
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live our lives as a community as a whole
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so I want to say thank you freeway and
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welcome to the show give it up for
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freeway yeah thanks for having me man
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man talk about this man talk about this
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show uh feeling healthier freeway a Ru
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to a healthier better you is just
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something that I felt like is needed in
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the community so if you're not familiar
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with what I've been through September
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15th of 2015 I was diagnosed with
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instage renal failure a little while
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before that like some months before that
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I was just feeling like not myself like
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I would feel tired it came to a point
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where I got tired just walking to the
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car so I knew something wasn't right I
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was going back and forth to the doctors
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getting tests trying to figure out what
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was wrong but I didn't get blood work
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done that takes us to the beginning
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September I think it was probably
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September first made in America 2015 I
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had to perform with fabulous at made in
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America and this the first time that's
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ever happened to me in my life I looked
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out into the crowd and I had an anxiety
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attack I felt like I couldn't do it I
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couldn't perform I felt like if I went
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out there I would pass out in front of
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everybody so I um ped Lenny yes to the
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side like Lenny look I don't think I can
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do it like I think I'm going be able to
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do it he like what free you got to do it
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like it's everybody's waiting for you he
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had no clue what I was going through at
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the time neither did I so through the
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grace of God I made it through that
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performance yeah and then I went to the
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hospital you know and uh I got blood
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work done a few days later the doctor
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called me and told me to get into the
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emergency room you know he said my uh
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creatin levels was out of whack uh my
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electrolytes was out of whack so me
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being Muslim the first thing I did was I
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went to the manid I prayed I asked God
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to help me deal with with whatever the
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situation is I went to the hospital I
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was diagnosed with inst stage renal
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failure what happened to me is a phrase
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that people use it's called crashing on
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to dialysis I had to immediately get put
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on dialysis so they cut my chest open
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they put a perac CAF in my chest then
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the next day I started doing dialysis I
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did two hours of dialysis hemo dialysis
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to get my body used to it then ever
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since then I had to do dialysis three
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times a week four hours a day all the
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way up to February 5th 2019 when I
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received my gift of life I received my
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new kidney you know and um wow wow
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instead of hiding what I was going
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through from the world we decided to
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stand in front of it you know I share my
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journey with everybody and surprisingly
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so many people in the music business
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some people that you probably know yeah
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would would hit me like free listen I'm
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going through the same thing you going
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through don't tell nobody like you know
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but I feel you I'm going through what
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you're going through not only people in
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the industry but people in the community
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everybody has a family member or
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relative that has high blood pressure
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diabetes or maybe went through kidney
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failure you know it's something that's
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prevalent in our community so I feel
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like it's important for us to address it
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address it and um you know uh I have
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Partnerships I got a partnership with
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Gift of Life Donate Life they're both
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organ procurement places you know not
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only am I a kidney transplant recipient
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but I'm a donor dad also wow you know
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people that follow my career yall know I
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lost my son in 2020 and I lost my
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daughter in 2021 so when my son passed
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away in 2020 he was in a position where
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we knew that we couldn't bring him back
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you know but his organs was still
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functioning so in the middle of me going
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through all this in the hospital with my
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family someone approached me like listen
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I know it's a rough time for you and
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your family but your son can save some
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lives you know and being as though I've
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been through it already it was no choice
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but for me and my family to let it
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happen and my son saved four lives wow
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two people got his kidneys one person
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got his liver and one person got his
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lungs wow you know um the importance of
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uh
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transplantation is is everything like
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you know it's it's a lot of
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misconceptions about you know being on
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an organ donor list a lot of people
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think if you got that on your license
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that soon as something happened to you
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they going to kill you and take your
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organs and that's the furthest thing
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from the truth yeah you know uh and you
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know this firsthand I know it firsthand
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you know a lot of times when you in when
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you're in a situation where you need
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medical attention
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fast their number one priority is to
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take care of you take care of the
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patient in front of them a lot of times
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they don't even know if you're organ
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doing or if it's on your license like
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their first priority is taking care of
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the patient that's in front of them you
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know freeway is here uh this is what
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this is about this is what fueled this
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new segment feeling healthier with
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freeway and right now you you just in
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that 4minute you know dissertation right
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there you you gave us at least five
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topics we could speak on right not all
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today but this is just indicative of
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what this segment is going to be most
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definitely that's why I feel like it's
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important for us to be up here every
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month like you know and not only am I
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going to share my experiences um I'mma
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have other artists come up here I'm
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going have other artists call not only
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artists but doctors like you know people
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in general like you know and I want
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everybody all the citizens you know to
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to call up share your story like uh
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share your triumphs share your struggles
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you know we're all in this together and
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health is truly wealth when I was at my
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worst point I would have traded
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everything the fame the money the curs
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the jewelry everything just to be
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healthy yeah you know like your health
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if you don't have your health you don't
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have anything you know so it's important
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for us to maintain our health and the
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main thing that I do is preach
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prevention so people don't get to the
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point where I was at where I had to get
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a life sustain and Transplant you know
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uh my lifestyle being an artist
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you know on a road 24/7 being in the
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studio 2 3 in the morning eating
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whatever I wanted pizzas Burgers like
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you know a lot of artists live this
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lifestyle and if you're not taking care
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of yourself it can take you down a wrong
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path that you don't want to go down
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freeway is with us man we're going to
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open up the phone lines 888 742 3345 he
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has a whole Community behind him in fact
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man one of the most important ver voices
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to come out of Philadelphia um a Parkway
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high school graduate who's dedicated her
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life to the betterment of the community
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of Philadelphia U representing Northwest
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Philly we got the mayor of Philadelphia
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the first africanamerican woman mayor
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the 100th consecutive mayor the one and
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only mayor Charelle Parker is on the
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line mayor Parker nice to have you good
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morning to the sway F it's an honor and
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a privilege to join you all but I can
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tell you that I am feel proud listening
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to our own freeway share his testimony
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today freeway we love you baby and we're
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so proud of what you're doing to help so
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many other people along their Journey
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we're proud of you madam Mir thank you I
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appreciate you and I'm proud of you too
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like I I witness firsthand all the work
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that you've been putting in the city and
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slowly but surely you're you're
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Transforming Our Community like you know
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the thing that you got going on with the
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green environments and how you've been
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helping clean up so many communities
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starting with Kensington you know I went
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to Kensington high school so I seen a
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transformation from like when it was
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cool to be down there to where it was at
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before you came into office and I still
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visit I have a studio that's down there
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right in the middle of everything so I
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noticed the difference when I come
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through it's way cleaner it's way more
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calmer so I take my hat off to you and I
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salute you for the work you putting in
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in the city oh listen thank you and to
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sway and the entire team uh thank you so
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very much for for having our good
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brother freeway to be a part of your
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team and to focus on feeling healthier
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it's so important for all of our people
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my grandmother passed away uh she had
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renal failure uh as well and no this was
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not something particularly in the black
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community I liken it to like mental and
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Behavioral Health this was not something
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that we would talk about out loud but
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because free has been empowered
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through his own personal journey and has
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been willing to share his testimony with
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others it is helping other people along
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so that they don't have to fear or be
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ashamed of saying wait I need to go and
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get this checked out I don't know what
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this is fre thank you so very much and
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I'm going to be listening yes thank you
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and and then Madam mayor you got to come
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make your way down here sometime come
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join us on the show definitely we need
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you in the building well listen you
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freeway work it out and I want to come
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up and hang out I want y'all to know I
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was born in 72 so I grew up on hip hop
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hip hop all the way come on work it out
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so I can come up and come visit the show
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I got you I'm G make it happen oh M May
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hey we're schoolmates we High we're high
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schoolers listen listen I I I I had the
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pleasure to perform at her inauguration
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party yeah and we had Rock him in the
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building wow and she spit some of his
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bars to him blew his mind really which
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ones uh which ones did you spit mayor
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Parker I'll take seven MC's and put them
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in a line and add seven more brothers
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who think they can rhyme I'll add seven
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more before I go for mine now that's 21
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MC's up at the same
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time that's crazy that's when the MC
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matter y'all remember the MC was the
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poet the she told the story and you can
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hear every single word that they said
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I'm an English teacher by profession so
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it's you that's where my love of
11:08
language and English and poetry comes
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from so I'll come up and visit free you
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have me up Sway and team thank you again
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so very much for all of the work you do
11:18
keep the culture going the Philly loves
11:19
you
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freeway give it up for mayor Shel Parker
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that's dop wow this is big we're hanging
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out with freeway we want to hear your
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stories discuss them with freeway
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get some feedback get some information
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888
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742
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3345 we feeling healthier with freeway
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j45 brand new segment alert brand new
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segment alert this is the
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inaugural presentation of
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freeways feeling healthier with freeway
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hea the B what are your thoughts I
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absolutely love it and I think that
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coming from freeway I think um
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it will make a lot more people
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comfortable with speaking about some of
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the things that they're going through
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you know absolutely the doctor's office
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ain't always the most comfortable place
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to be in the world most definitely and
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you know sometimes when we sitting
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around family and friends you don't want
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to bring up any health issues or health
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scares you know but if somebody opens
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that door for you and makes it
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comfortable and can speak your language
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and know what you're talking about and
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know the feeling know the hours the
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studio time the ripping the running all
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of that it makes it a little easier to
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have the conversation or to at least
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listen and say you know what maybe I
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should go get checked out cuz like he
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said it came down to blood work and it's
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something that we have to do whether we
12:39
like it or not so I appreciate it
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because I know people in our age bracket
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would take heed to it personally most
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definitely that's why I tell people one
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of the most important things you can do
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is get your blood work done at least
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once a year cuz your blood work is like
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the only thing that can let you know
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exactly what's going on in your body and
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to what you were saying before that I
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was just telling sway during the break
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like before I was diagnosed with high
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blood pressure and diabetes those are
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two of the leading risk factors for
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kidney failure another one is being
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African-American so I had three risk
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factors one soon as I was born being
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African-American another one is
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hypertension another one is diabetes so
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when I was diagnosed with high blood
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pressure and diabetes I remember Dame
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Dame Dash yeah he has diabetes we got to
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get him up either get him to come up
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here and call so we would be like around
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the studio recording and working and I
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would see him like you know tend to his
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diabetes like whatever it is if it's
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like taking his insulin or you know
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checking his sugar so I'm like yo what
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you doing what's going on he like yeah I
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got diabetes like I'm not ashamed of it
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like you know so when I was diagnosed
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with diabetes one of my mentors somebody
13:46
that I looked up to carried it well so
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I'm like I'm not ashamed of it you know
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so that helped me you know with my
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decision with coming out to the world
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with what I was going through you know
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so that's one of the reasons why we up
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here today too you know absolutely man
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feeling healthier with freeway make sure
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y'all follow freeway too because we'll
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be posting a lot of uh footage from this
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interview but other work that freeway is
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doing outside of this studio we'll be
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repurposing as well Tracy you want to
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jump in yeah what do you think free
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contributes to the stigma that makes
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folks not want to talk about it or to
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feel weaker even though we all know that
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we're human which means that you have
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imperfection ofing levels what is the
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stigma specifically you would say I feel
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like um coming from my community like
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you know being a African-American male
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soon as we wake up we face with
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challenges you know soon as we walk out
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the door we got issues we got challenges
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we got things that we got to overcome
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and I feel like we don't want to feel
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weak we don't want to look weak even
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when it comes down to going to the
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doctors like you know we like man we
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going to sleep on it do some robot
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tusting drink some ginger ale you know
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put some peroxide on it and we going be
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cool M and you know um a lot of times
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especially with what what I was going
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through with kidney failure like a lot
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of times you can't even tell until it's
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too late like you know until you crash
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on to dialysis what I had what I did I
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crashed onto dialysis you know that's
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why it's so important to get your blood
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work done keep up with your routine
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physicals because something wrong with
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your car you going to make sure you go
15:23
get your car tuned up you know you going
15:25
to make sure you keep it clean you going
15:26
to make sure you put gas in it your body
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body is way more important than your
15:31
vehicle and trust me take it from
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somebody who was down when I first
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walked into the dialysis unit let me
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show you tell you what a dialysis unit
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is like hemo dialysis that's the the
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form of dialysis that I did so it's rows
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of people and we sit in these chairs
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where they plug you up to the the diyer
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they stick you with two needles one is
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called the Venus and one is called the
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arterial one of the needles drains the
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blood out your body it puts the blood
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into the dialyser so the dialyser could
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clean your blood and the other needle
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pumps the blood back into your body the
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process takes four hours it's 15 gauge
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needle so the needle like this big so
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you got to put big is that like you got
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to uh pause you got no no we ain't going
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to do that on this second you got you
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got to put lat cane on your arm just so
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you could like a half hour before just
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so you can take the needle because pause
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it hurts wow one day I had a show and I
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I uh came back the next morning and I'm
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like man I'm just going to go in there
16:28
I'm not going to get the D came I had
16:29
time to stop at my house worst decision
16:32
I ever made really what that pain like
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excruciating excruciating pain for four
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hours straight oh so I'm going to paint
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a picture for you it's probably like
16:41
four to six rows of people one facing
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this way one facing this way one facing
16:45
this way one facing this way and
16:48
everybody is you know getting their
16:49
blood clean when I first walked into
16:51
that dialysis room I'm like wow this is
16:54
my life like you know what I mean I went
16:56
from toring running around the world do
16:58
whatever I want shutting shows down
17:00
doing everything that I can you know
17:02
what I mean to this three times a week
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four hours a day like you know was a
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huge adjustment for my lifestyle yeah
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you know but through the grace of God I
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got through it I'm on the other side and
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then looking then now you're educating U
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we got a lot of callers Mike I'm going
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let you jump in real quick go for yeah I
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wonder if you can talk a little bit more
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about the the donor process I I feel
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like as of recently I've had a lot of
17:24
conversation around that we had a Lov
17:25
one in our family passed away about a
17:28
couple weeks ago and he was an organ
17:30
donor and they did The Walk For Life
17:33
where they donated his organs and then
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recently last week I met an individual
17:37
um where he donated his kidney to one of
17:39
his loved ones and so I feel like this
17:41
conversation amongst even the black
17:42
community is starting to start so if you
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can paint us a picture of where we are
17:47
with the donors and sense of do you see
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that mindset changing of people wanting
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to be donors do you see increase in that
17:54
are the conversations you're having with
17:55
the organizations you work with getting
17:57
easier y God willing it it gets easier
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like that's that's why we here right now
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like I have an amazing partnership with
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gift of life and in the Philadelphia
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area we started with a uh we were trying
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to get 5,000 people to register to be
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organ donors that's one person for
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everyone in our area that's on a
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transplant list but we raised it to
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50,000 wow that's how serious it is you
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know and we're trying to you know get
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rid of all the misconceptions you know
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because we they're they're doing more
18:27
things like you know where like some
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people feel like they don't want to have
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it on their license you know some people
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feel a lot of different ways about it so
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we're trying to come up with different
18:36
ways for people to feel comfortable with
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being organ donors you know like I said
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I'm a transplant recipient and I'm a
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donor dad so I've been on both sides I
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know what it feels like to be waiting
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for a life sustaining transplant and I
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know what it feels like to be able to
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save lives and it's like you know that's
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four people
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I lost my son but he saved four lives
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that's four lives that lived on through
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him and you know that's amazing that's
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serious like if I wouldn't have got the
19:09
transplant I could still be on the
19:10
transplant list or something worse like
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when you on dialysis a lot of other
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things happen like you know a lot of
19:18
people die on a trans waiting for
19:20
transplants it it's a strain on your
19:22
heart so a lot of people have a lot of
19:24
cardiovascular issues shout out to my
19:26
brother Scarface like you know that's my
19:28
brother
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aldah he from his
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son heed out to me and shared as
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information his journey you know and I'm
19:38
praying for him and I pray that he gets
19:39
better I don't know what the situation
19:42
is with what he's going what he's going
19:44
through right now but from the picture
19:46
and from what I seen I can take an
19:48
educated guess it might have something
19:50
to do with his cardiovascular yeah you
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know because being on a Tren being on
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dialysis is a strain on your heart like
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you know so they told me before if I
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would have if I wouldn't wouldn't have
20:02
got the transplant in the next six
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months I might have had to get some work
20:05
done on my heart you know so H was able
20:07
to get the transplant but some of those
20:09
things go together yeah like you know so
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it's so much there so many areas and so
20:15
much things that we need to cover man
20:16
and so much information that we need to
20:17
cover that's why we going to do this
20:19
consistently once a month man filling
20:21
healthier with freeway all right 888 742
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3345 we'll come back and take these
20:26
callers nice all right uh shave 45
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freeway is here Shade 45 we're in the
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middle of a brand new segment it's
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called filling healthier with freeway
20:35
you know freeway one of the world's
20:37
Greatest lyricists R with one of the
20:39
world's greatest teams right from one of
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the world's greatest cities he's one of
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the world's greatest people giving back
20:45
feeling healthier with freeway we've
20:47
heard a lot about your thank you my
20:48
brother oh absolutely man I figure at
20:50
one point I keep complimenting you you
20:52
let me wear one of those pieces of ice
20:53
on your wrist oh man say no more brother
20:55
okay man thank you man it's a good guy
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right here U we're going to take PA and
20:59
this is a segment we're going to do it's
21:00
about health and wellness and freeway
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has just really generously shared with
21:04
us his trials and and challenges that
21:07
he's gone through with health and
21:09
there's going to be a message at the end
21:10
of all of this but first let's take
21:12
these calls we got Thomas who is the
21:14
president and CEO of the World Trade
21:17
Center in Philly Thomas welcome to the
21:19
show man hey T give it up for Thomas
21:21
what's up Thomas hey hey thank you all
21:24
for having me on today I greatly
21:25
appreciate it absolutely Thomas are y
21:28
familiar with each other yes I'm I'm
21:30
very familiar with Thomas man he's he's
21:32
a great brother that does a lot of great
21:35
work in in the community he's not only
21:39
in our city of Philadelphia but he's
21:40
tying countries together like he got
21:42
some good work that he's doing you know
21:44
wow Thomas what are your thoughts that
21:45
you hear on freeway during this brand
21:47
new
21:48
segment listen first and foremost I just
21:51
want to say thank you freeway for doing
21:53
this segment and really putting on for
21:54
our city uh as sway said you know we
21:58
have such a great City and we have some
22:00
people that's doing some positive things
22:01
coming out of the city and you know I'm
22:03
37 years old and coming up as a
22:05
millennial Rockefeller was like my my
22:07
dying thing like I'm a die hard loyalist
22:10
and to see what you're doing today and
22:12
to see how you're impacting lives today
22:14
man I just want to say Kudos I want to
22:16
say that I'm here to support and I want
22:18
to say that you know with 323 World
22:20
Trade Centers on my back I want to make
22:22
sure that we spread in your message as
22:23
well which is the positive and love that
22:25
we trying to spread to our people most
22:27
definitely bro I appreciate appreciate
22:28
you man you keep up the great work that
22:30
you doing hey Thomas Thanks for your
22:32
call thanks for your support and the
22:33
work that you do brother you're a super
22:35
citizen man get that up for Thomas man
22:37
my man Thomas he 10 Tes down cl's on the
22:41
line what
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up oh my
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God what's up
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girl she
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hyp always hype I love y'all y'all my
22:54
family and then y'all got my other
22:56
family freeway from phly like y
23:00
hey love the energy love the energy what
23:03
do you think of this new segment
23:05
clita TW I am so excited about this new
23:08
segment let me tell youall first of all
23:10
shout out to free and shout out to my
23:12
mayor uh cherelle Parker like Philly
23:16
let's go Philly stand
23:18
up y'all Philly
23:21
Philly yes the day before Thanksgiving
23:23
2019 I woke up with a pain in my side
23:26
didn't know what it was I'm like oh
23:28
that's feels strange but I'm going to
23:30
work I gotta go to work as the day
23:31
progressed the pain got worse my manager
23:34
was like go to the doctor so I went and
23:37
they was like you know they ain't really
23:39
no but this pain just got worse I
23:41
remember that Thanksgiving I was home on
23:43
my sofa couldn't move ended up getting
23:47
hospitalized they ran tests tests tests
23:50
like oh my god with so many tests for
23:53
years and I lost like 80 pounds like the
23:56
the weight was just pouring off for me
23:59
like the doctor couldn't figure out what
24:01
the heck was going on I thank God for my
24:02
doctor Rene bet Court like pen medicine
24:06
like she kept going she was just like C
24:09
we gonna figure this out but we couldn't
24:11
figure it out long story
24:13
short January this year I'mma just say
24:16
God healed me I just thank God that he
24:18
healed me I don't have no more pain like
24:20
the pain is going through a surgery that
24:23
the doctor like they they sent me all
24:25
these different Specialists but this one
24:27
lady she was like I really think I know
24:29
what's going on with you um and
24:32
explained everything it was like so I
24:33
just wanted once you had a surgery and
24:36
you should be good after that and I've
24:38
been good after that I thank God for
24:39
connections I thank God for like going
24:42
to the doctors and and being on top of
24:44
that stuff um but it since 2019 and now
24:47
it's 2024 and that pain is going so this
24:51
segment like you have to take care of
24:53
yourself like you got to go to doctor
24:55
yeah if you feeling pain like because a
24:57
lot of times people just be like yes
25:00
okay I just got to keep pushing I got
25:02
stuff to do no because if you're not
25:04
here what you gonna do you can't do
25:06
nothing stuff you need to do if you're
25:07
not here so man and you ain't that's a
25:10
fendy fact that's a what that's a fendy
25:12
fact when I uh they like people was
25:15
coming into my room when I first was
25:16
diagnosed with Kenny failure like
25:18
looking at me like yo we can't you
25:19
walked in here like my levels was so
25:21
high shout out to Dr Freeman that was my
25:23
nephologist at the time he he said I've
25:26
been doing this for 30 years I never
25:27
seen level was this high they said they
25:30
can't believe that I walked in there he
25:31
said if I have waited a week or two I
25:32
wouldn't be here they would call me the
25:34
lucky star wow the doctor was calling
25:37
you that yes if IID have sat around the
25:39
house like I'm cool like I'm I would
25:41
have died like you know so it's very
25:43
important that we get to that doctor you
25:46
got to look out for the signs like when
25:47
you you feel something different in your
25:49
body you got to be proactive yeah but
25:52
the most important thing is keeping up
25:53
with them routine physicals and getting
25:55
your blood work done at least once a
25:56
year clita thank you for your
25:58
and and thank you love you too thanks
26:01
for sharing your story you're a super
26:03
citizen all right
26:07
okay DJ yeah let's take him to Vegas my
26:11
man Al is in Vegas right now Al welcome
26:13
to the
26:14
show hey good
26:17
morning morning bro absolutely early on
26:21
that West he hey I'm a farmer brother
26:25
yes sir oh wow so so here's so here's
26:27
the thing but our whole program that we
26:30
do man is food is your medicine I have a
26:31
brother who has type two diabetes man he
26:34
in the process of getting ready to get
26:35
his feet and stuff cut off oh man right
26:37
and a lot of this man comes back to our
26:39
communities and where we've been trained
26:41
to eat in our communities right so we've
26:43
been eating a certain way that's kind of
26:44
created these problems so all this stuff
26:47
that's going around about food Des and
26:48
floods insecurity I started doing this
26:50
because I started to see that most of
26:53
those problems were concentrated in
26:54
these black and brown communities that
26:56
didn't normally have access to healthy
26:57
food so true so part of it is that we
27:00
have to have access to healthy food
27:02
because those things that we need that's
27:04
where we get it from the nutrition and
27:05
all that but like you said you know you
27:07
get into the habit of eating know Burger
27:09
Kings and all these different fast food
27:11
places in this processed food and these
27:13
are the things that we saw to started
27:14
causing problems in our bodies so what
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we did is that know I'm a vertical
27:17
farmer so I farm indoors I don't use
27:19
soil we use a new Innovative Innovative
27:21
way of growing food and the reason that
27:24
we do this to give more access to the
27:25
people in the community so they have
27:27
better choices on what they have when it
27:28
comes to their food and their health um
27:31
so we started a type two diabetes
27:32
program where food is your medicine so
27:34
it's a produce prescription program so
27:36
we now grow food and we get these
27:38
doctors to actually prescribe the
27:40
produce to these to these patients and
27:42
we've been able to show that by eating
27:44
healthier by changing the way we eat our
27:45
Foods we're able to bring down those A1
27:47
seeds most definitely my Kudos is out to
27:49
you brother but at the same time what we
27:51
need to do it really start to control
27:53
our food definitely we don't have any we
27:55
ask no where our food comes from we have
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no control
27:58
over where our food comes from and we're
28:00
the ones we having the biggest problem
28:01
in this country when it comes to our
28:03
health you be we can't get control of
28:05
where our food comes from we never
28:07
really going to get control of our
28:08
health and when you see who are some of
28:10
the people who own the food companies
28:13
like craft and others and you know and
28:17
where they um where where they're before
28:20
they own food companies what was it that
28:22
they own whether it was um yeah tobacco
28:25
companies or otherwise you kind of
28:27
understand a little deeper why it's
28:30
important you know where your food come
28:31
from you do a food subscription model is
28:35
what you said it's aood it's a food
28:37
prescription program prescription what
28:39
we do is that yeah so we get we have
28:41
like right now we're doing a pilot
28:42
program out here we have like 50 type
28:45
two diabetes patients and so over the
28:47
next year what we're going to do is pro
28:49
provide them locally grown produce that
28:51
we grow and that we sore from other
28:53
local farmers and then we work with
28:54
local chefs to tell them and teach them
28:56
how to prepare these different types
28:58
meal wow and then we have the medical
29:00
industry come in and test their a1c's
29:02
every month and so by doing that now
29:04
we're being able to see and kind of
29:05
track how food is really your medicine
29:08
because that's really what it is your
29:09
food is supposed to be your medicine
29:10
definitely wow how can people find out
29:13
more about your platform if they want to
29:15
get food from
29:16
you man check us out it's our our
29:19
website and social media is green tied
29:22
up.arm green say it slow green green
29:26
side up
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Farm I like that green Side Green side
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up that's that's hard bro
29:35
Farm before you hang
29:37
up before you hang up make sure we get
29:39
your information too we got to connect
29:41
bro is amazing absolutely absolutely
29:44
brother most man I thank you guys sway
29:46
bro I've been listening to you guys for
29:47
know for years man and it's lovely to
29:50
finally see us getting to a point where
29:52
we understand that we can't keep going
29:54
down the same road and expecting
29:55
different results exactly hold up hold
29:57
up we have to start changing yeah we got
30:00
to change yes absolutely brother I I
30:02
agree with you Mike Muse hey Al what's
30:04
up man really wonderful program that
30:06
we're all learning about I just before
30:08
we conclude if you can hit me up in my
30:09
DMs Mike Muse mu Sam
30:13
Eve there are some things I want to talk
30:15
to you about but before I do that a
30:17
question for you with this pilot program
30:19
is that funded by the state or is this
30:22
through a public private
30:26
partnership
30:29
Al oh his phone is his sub his uh his
30:33
connection is bad wait Al you there yes
30:35
sir okay yeah I'm here Mike ask that
30:37
question hey I don't know if you heard
30:39
me but I'll say as great information
30:41
that you are just giving now to the
30:42
citizens over the air and I just asked
30:44
if you could DM me at I am Mike Muse
30:46
mnam there's a couple things I want to
30:48
talk with you further about but uh one
30:51
question that I have for you is this
30:53
pilot program of your subscription is it
30:55
funded by the state or is this through a
30:58
public private partnership is this
31:00
something in conjunction with the health
31:01
and human services I think it's a
31:03
wonderful program we so what we did is
31:06
that we so we because we're a for-profit
31:09
and so what I did is that I partnered up
31:10
with a nonprofit and got a grant then I
31:13
created the program out of that Grant to
31:15
create a pilot program so the USDA has a
31:18
larger program called the gut shoe marer
31:20
produ prescription program so even
31:22
through the USDA there's funding that's
31:24
now kind of pushing this project to
31:26
where the the the whole goal is to get
31:29
more homeopathic doctors that start to
31:30
prescribe more healthy food as options
31:32
as opposed to
31:34
medications okay hey Al thank you
31:36
brother this is a very valuable call
31:39
thank you for participating in this
31:40
segment appreciate you brother in your
31:41
work you're a super citizen bro i s in
31:44
morning absolutely freeway I think the
31:46
guys I think everybody agreed this
31:48
inaugural broadcasting of this segment
31:52
feeling healthier with freeway damnn it
31:54
it was a hit let's go out the park come
31:57
on I like let's do it
31:59
again I think in closing what do you
32:01
want to leave the listeners with man
32:04
listen we going we going to do this once
32:06
a month for now unless y'all request for
32:09
us to do it more than that but you know
32:11
it's a safe space for y'all to come to
32:13
share your stories you know to get
32:15
information and what I want everybody
32:18
that's listening right now to know
32:20
that's very important if I if y'all
32:22
don't remember nothing that I said to
32:23
y'all make sure y'all keep up with them
32:25
routine physicals get that blood work
32:27
done at Le once a year cuz your blood
32:29
work is the only thing that can tell you
32:31
what's going on in your body like Dr
32:33
Freeman told me if I would have waited a
32:36
couple more weeks I might not be here
32:38
talking to y'all right now that's how
32:39
serious it is so make sure y'all keep up
32:41
with them routine physicals get that
32:43
blood work done at least once a year and
32:46
we'll see y'all next month there it is
32:48
feeling healthier with freeway man I
32:51
like saying that all right man give a
32:52
big round of applause man y'all hit up
32:54
freeway a lot of people on the phone
32:55
lines I wasn't able to get to um and
32:58
Indiana Alabama South Carolina
33:01
Philadelphia hit up freeway directly
33:03
citizens let them know what you think of
33:04
the segment and if you want to talk
33:06
about your story hit them up where
33:07
freeway my Instagram is @ Philly freeway
33:11
and my uh Facebook is Philadelphia
33:13
freeway and my ex is Philly frezer there
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it is man tell Dame to come up man we
33:17
love to have him tell tell this story
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okay all right man love you brother I
33:21
love what you doing man okay
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