Hey,
Cardi.
Hey
man, I'ma ask you to play this all the way through.
Okay.
Listen to the lyrics.
Turn it up a
little bit.
They got another lyrics now, girl.
Listen, listen, man,
listen.
listening to that song when since it first came out in 1971 and if you listen to the lyrics of it you can contrast it with what is happening today what's going on man you know there's so much going on in this in this nation and in the world that that song you know wherever I am whatever I'm doing
it's going to remain a part of me.
And so again, here it is.
I was 17 years old when it came out.
So, you know, here, here I am now 71 years old, soon to be 71 years old.
That's over, over 50, I don't know, do the math, 52, 53 years.
And it still sounds to me as, as great as it did the message.
when I was a 17 year old boy.
Anyway, now that we've got that behind us, I am excited as always to welcome my good friend, Dr. Omar the Pharmacist, the proprietor of Weltopia Pharmacy.
And I will say this, we're officially in the pharmacy.
We're Dr. Omar the Pharmacist.
Good morning to you, my friend.
How you doing?
Good morning, Earl.
I'm doing great.
I'm doing great.
How are you?
I'm doing fine, man.
It's great to see you.
It's always great to see you.
You've got a great message as always.
Thank you.
So listen, I said to you and for people who don't know, this is your my last time on in this environment on the airwaves in this environment.
It's not the last time you and I are going to be doing great things because in my podcast series Dr. Omar the pharmacist is going to be there because of what you have brought to the table and and what this means Since the first time you and I met dr. Omar and and started talking and I realized
that your voice needs to be heard because your voice is a voice of life and what you do is invaluable and so your voice should remain always on the airways in some way shape or form because people don't know.
We're not we're not doctors.
We don't know our physiology We don't know the importance of how we can preserve this the greatest gift a given and that's a human life We don't know anything about those things and we also don't know that there are entities out here who are looking to make money and Money has more value than the human life and and so we need
your guidance to help us understand and maintain this body that we have.
So with that having been said, man, thank you for all of what you've done.
But with you and I, it's only a beginning.
And we're going to make sure that people hear our voices at infinite.
Thank you, Earl.
Well, it's an honor to be in the business of helping to change people's lives.
because I believe if you offer someone good information that makes them take one step in their life to be better then you are a good person to this person and that's the environment we want to create.
We want to create good people around good people and by good I mean we're both we're all growing and the show has given me the opportunity to talk to an audience.
And it has been a privilege and an honor.
So thank you for that opportunity for sure.
Looking forward to the future things that we'll do together.
So Dr. Omar, you wanted to talk about a second brain.
And your imagination can kind of run away with what people may think the second brain is.
But let's talk a little bit about what a second brain is.
Yes.
Your gut is more than a digestive organ.
Your gut is your second brain.
And the conversation that's known as the gut-brain axis, this actually has scientific value because in the gut, we have something called enteric nervous system, ENS, that has over 500 million neurons.
Moving into the lining of the gut,
It's like a mini brain, so sophisticated.
It's dubbed the second brain.
It's got enough firepower to run digestive solo, digestion solo, but it doesn't stop there.
It's actually in constant contact with your brain via the vagus nerve.
So this like gut brain axis, think of it as a high speed highway linking a bustling city, which is your gut to the central headquarters, your brain.
When the city is thriving, signals are clear, and when it's in chaos, the whole system feels it.
So think of patients with brain fog and ADHD struggling with focus.
A 2022 nature study found gut bacteria turn out dopamine, the focus neurotransmitter, and imbalanced gut can stall production, leaving you foggy and scattered.
Think of anxiety and depression.
Feeling down, well, 85% to 90% of serotonin, your mood lifting chemicals is made in the gut.
Research in gut microbes in 2023 shows that gut dysbiosis, which imbalance in the bacteria and culture in the gut, doubles your odds of anxiety and depression.
And looking at the other way, which is the chronic gut conditions,
Ritval bowel syndrome and Crohn's and these conditions they actually patients with those conditions have more probability to develop depression and an anxiety.
So we cannot now isolate the gut from the brain.
Actually I was sitting yesterday with a psychiatrist who has an ADHD clinic and he was telling me that the patients that he uses
the fixation of the gut and treating patients with the medication in addition to probiotics and omega-3, and he just personalized the course for patients.
He realizes that after a few months looking at the cognitive scores and the development of their brain health, they thrive better, they do better, and the numbers are showing it.
So we have to respect our gut, think of it as the second brain.
and offer the love that it deserves.
So let me, having said those things, Dr. Amar, you make me think in this wise.
So science, the advancement of science is why you can talk about the things you're talking about now.
40 years ago, they weren't talking about the gut being the second brain.
They certainly weren't talking about it in a manner
in which you are talking about it.
What role does science play in the development, the further understanding of what you are talking about now?
Because they weren't talking about that 30, 40 years ago.
Awesome thing is like advancement of science in which having studies that come out to prove the concept gives the opportunity for
the clinical application to see the actual results.
And that's what we have been seeing in the pharmacy in terms of it's not just the pharmaceuticals that are used to get like the new antibiotic, the new GLP on agonist, the new semaglutide.
There is the same way there is advancement in what is happening in the gut when it comes to the natural medicine.
What happened in the genomics, understanding the genes that affect metabolism, immunity, and aging.
The microbiome research, which we didn't know maybe 15 years ago, it was still growing, but we didn't know how the vital gut bacteria work.
We didn't know that back then.
Well, imaging and biomarkers, which we can see the inflammation, the neurotransmitter imbalances, nutrient depletion.
Then we have the computation science, the AI and data tracking and longitudinal studies and looking back and using this data that are collected over the years and making sense out of it.
That will allow us to have more than move from treating the symptom to understanding the system.
And when we understand the system, we can create a product that can help the body.
Because at the end of the day, we want to use this research to treat human beings.
You know, Dr. Omar, it is more than fascinating because as we are now in a period where they're working to kind of stop science.
This is just a waste of time.
This is a waste of money.
We don't need to deal with the science anymore, so we'll cut this, we'll cut that.
It really is the height of insanity when you can come on and talk about the impact of changes in people's lives that have been wrought by the scientific studies.
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Dr. Omar.
I wanted to ask you when you talk about the gut and you know, just the fact that the gut somehow has, you talked about microbes, what's a microbe and what's its purpose?
Microbe is a harmful bacteria that we need to get rid of.
And that was the focus of
antibiotics they get rid of the microbes but due to the need to have priorities in what we need to do you get the antibiotic it kills the good and the bad bugs so we have patients that develop diarrhea and got issues and actually mental issues after they take antibiotics and that's why we're always recommending after you take a course of
antibiotic to take a course of probiotics, but the catch is that it might take six months of taking probiotics to rebuild the healthy bacteria again in your gut.
So how about if someone is taking several multiple courses of antibiotic, like augmentin, then after that take another one, Z-Pak, and then get another infection, or let's try a stronger antibiotic for
for upper respiratory tract.
So within one or two years you would find one of us would be taking 3, 4, 5 or even more courses of antibiotics.
And I want to tell you many of the patients that come to the pharmacy suffering from long-term diarrhea would come and tell you this all started after I had this health condition and then I took those antibiotics and now I am my gut is messed up and I am
And then I checked the medication profile and I see an antidepressant.
When did you start it?
Link it towards the time that these medications have been started.
That's early what have caused companies to come up with great products to mix between probiotics and other things to support mental health.
I'm going to give you an example.
I have a product called the Zane Biome Sleep.
It's in biomesleep.
It's a probiotics product that has bifidobacterium longum 1714.
You see the name is long, bifidobacterium longum 1714.
That's what's called the psychotropic probiotics, psychobiotic.
That's a probiotics that helps to support and relaxes the brain, all right?
They found this in the research and they mix it with Lfianine.
which is an adaptogen that helps also to relax the brain and also helps ease focus and giving it also some lemon balm.
You take it before you go to bed so it will help you sleep better and helps your gut health.
So you see the linkage now is in products that would help with the brain health and the gut health.
So the microbes are bad.
Getting rid of the bad.
Guys need us to take some measures.
After that, we need to rebuild our flora and the gut.
And I want to tell you, when someone comes and picks up an antibiotic at Wiltopia, young or old, I take the time, I talk to them about probiotics, and I tell them, you know what, this is not paid by the insurance, but this is needed by your body.
You know, Dr. Omar, some of us, you know, have been dealing with this.
since the time we were young people, we've never had our gut health checked.
We're into our 60, 70 years of age, and nobody's ever said anything to us about the importance of our guts.
Have we done permanent damage to our guts, or can any of that be turned around?
It can be turned around, but according to the civility of the situation, some of the issues of like, let's say I have like transient diarrhea, I have some constipation.
We can treat it with some fiber and probiotics.
And other patients, we use what we call stool analysis.
And stool analysis is giving us a picture of the...
bacteria that's in the gut mapping out the DNA structure of the little creatures in the gut, so that give us more deeper insight what we need to do to help, but also there is gut sensitivity tests.
And then the patient would say and tell me, this is overwhelming, where do I start?
And he tell them start with a consultation or meeting a functional medicine practitioner who knows what they are doing, who can work with your current set of doctors and nurse practitioners, who can help you to translate the labs and whatever you've been doing over the previous time of your life to create a plan.
which looks at you as a human being, not as a high blood pressure patient or just a patient coming with constipation.
So you have to work with someone who understands what they are doing because we are a challenge with having too many sources of information.
And many people now are going for ShadGPT to get answers, and they give good answers.
Don't get me wrong.
But we need to use these answers to create a plan.
And that's why we need more credibility.
So Dr. Omar, before we, you know, if someone wanted to get in touch with you, how do they do that?
262-429-9429, call or text or go to the website with 2prx.com.
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Uh, again, we are officially back in the pharmacy with Dr. Omar, the pharmacist, Dr. Omar, um, gut health.
I asked you again because there are people who like myself.
knew nothing about gut health.
It didn't think anything about it.
There was nothing to point me in that direction that my gut health, that my gut had to bring, if you will.
And now that you're telling me and now that I know that the key to a healthy life is through the gut.
And here I live.
over 70 years haven't paid any attention or any focus to it.
You say that it's never too late.
Is it safe to say that?
Never too late.
We can start by visiting the department stores and shopping from the sides of the store, staying away from the metal and try to, when you buy a product, try to make it less than five ingredients.
eat more vegetables, salads, eat a healthy breakfast because the return and happy hormone happens and gets created in the gut.
And when you wake up, your gut wakes up and you go running and you go like being hunted by this lion, the Kourtizul production in the body is at the peak in the early morning.
So I tell people, like, if you want to eat meat and you can make part of it in the morning with breakfast, do it.
I start my day by a very healthy meal or a rich meal, because I know that I am going to crunch it through the day.
By one or two PM, you're already most of the planning of the day has finished.
But people drink coffee and just say, I'm not hungry until it's 12 or 1 PM when I'm super hungry.
anxious, nervous.
And then we wait five, 10 years living this lifestyle.
We get type two diabetes.
We have problems sleeping.
We are eating the largest meal before we go to bed, before we go to bed by one or two hours.
And we have indigestion.
We start to take omeprazole, pentoprazole for gut health, for acid reflux, that also destroys the healthy bacteria in the gut.
So if we've done something wrong or didn't eat and live healthy most of our lives and we want to change things today, it's gonna take a while.
You're not going to take a magic supplement or a magic drug or you're not going to take something for the constipation that you have and the doctor writes it on the prescription pad and you find out, okay, I am fine by taking this pill or capsule.
Living healthy is an investment in your best health and I really Support anyone who starts today because there's no better time than now Customers going to be better when you do that.
You know Dr. Omar it is again.
I've been in radio for a little while now And I've had many different segments On the airways that I've been on but none as important as our segment and
You know, that's why I know, man, wherever I go, I gotta make sure that there's gonna be an end to pharmacy with Dr. Omar, the pharmacist, because, I mean, just listening to this today, right?
Let's go to the phone line.
Let's go to Lee.
Good morning to you, Lee.
Thank you very much for the call.
You have a question to comment for Dr. Omar.
Yeah, good morning, Earl.
Dr. Omar, I have a friend that recently is touting a, what?
seems to me to be a new product.
He calls it H2 tablets.
And hydrogen oxygen, it's confusing to me, but he gives it all kinds of benefits.
I'll disconnect.
And do you know anything about this so-called product?
Thank you.
Well, thank you very much for the question.
So these are products that help to deliver what we say molecular hydrogen.
H2 to the body and these molecular hydrogen they are small non-polar which means it can easily diffuse or come to the tissues and the cells and they are used for the there are studies that show that these H2 tablets
are helping to improve glucose metabolism, helps to protect against oxidation, high LDL, lowers inflammation, can help with also respiratory health, so they can help some patients with COPD.
Just kind of think of it as a way to decrease oxidative stress or to help with detoxification in the body and helps the cells.
be more sharpened.
So it's one of the trends that come out and can be added to someone's supplements that they take.
Unfortunately, I like that because we have an excellent H2 product and I have some very specific patients that come ask for it.
You know, Dr. Oma, I mean, what do you get?
That millions of supplements, millions of
and so there's an endless supply of things to address your body and where your body is.
How do you know?
How do you know which ones to take?
How do you know if I'm mixing the wrong things and I'm going by what somebody told me a friend in the bar said, oh, by the way, I can tell you about some of the greatest.
Do you just go by what you're hearing or clearly that's not reasonable enough today, is it?
The challenge is like we are collecting pills and capsules and supplements of bottles that can be sometimes very expensive over the years.
So I always say we're going to start with the organization of your medication cabinet, making sure that we are prioritizing the medicine.
and we are supporting the supplements that you're with.
A good multivitamin, would be complex, good fish oil omega-3.
And then we see if you're taking certain medications, you might need CoQ10.
I see it needed for most people above 40 years old.
Many people take statins, so CoQ10 gets to be very important.
Probiotics six months in one year would cut the chase of meds and supplements and stress and all of that.
So probiotics six months in one year and there are some probiotics for different cases.
And we go from there.
We try to build on the bulk on the basic thing.
If you're a patient who's taking an ADHD medication like Vibans or Adderall, it would be great if you take omega-3 fish oil because that will help to decrease the neuroinflammation, supports brain health, improves the memory, and gives you the empowerment that you can do without taking the medication every single day.
So brain health supplements are also... You look at the bulk, the main thing, I want to be strong.
I want to have the micronutrients that's in a good multivitamin.
And I'm not talking about the cheap multivitamin that you can get for $3-4.
I'm talking about multivitamin that maybe will cost you $1 a day for a pill or a capsule, but it will be empowered with 10 times better micronutrients.
think of things from orthomolecular, from designs for health.
We have active life that has the D, the C, the vitamin Bs, the I health supplements.
That's one of the supplements that you take early.
And I think we've been talking about it a little bit, right?
I take it every day.
And it certainly has been an elixir.
for me and my health and keeping me strong amongst other things.
But I would ask you, Dr. Oma, statins.
People, I prescribe statins, statins are one of the most prescribed medications that there is.
But statins break down your muscle.
Do they break down the muscle or what?
They certainly take something away from you because before I met you I I never took the cock cock you tan or what whatever that's called and And so why am I taking the cock you how do you pronounce that?
Okay, cock you tan.
Why am I taking that?
I've been taking statins for 20 years and never knew that the statins had
a side effect to them.
Why don't we know about those things early on before we've taken them for 20 years?
And then I remember the first time I saw you, first thing you said was you need cocky tin.
I'm like, what's cocky tin?
I take cocky tin every day now.
But how?
Was it because of my
age or what?
So the statins are very important medications.
They help to lower the bad cholesterol, the LDL, by 18 to 55%.
Some statins like crossover statin have proven to actually decrease inflammation of the cardiac muscle.
they are helpful and for many people we need to get the numbers under a certain threshold to make sure that they don't have a stroke or a heart attack and the studies are proving and showing it and that's why we have like more than 40-50% of people that take heart medications are taking statins.
So it's cost effective, it helps to reduce cardiovascular health,
but it has side effects, which is muscle related.
People can experience muscle pain, cramps, and weakness.
Part of the problem is that statins prevent the production of CoQ10, which is a very important coenzyme, in which it helps with the production of energy inside the cells, inside the mitochondria, inside the cells, which is the brain of the cell.
And people
without statins after 40 years of age already produced less CoQ10.
So many people will tell you after 40 years of age we have, we feel low energy, we have muscle pains and that can be attributed to low CoQ10.
And it's actually in the literature, in the drug pamphlet of any statin that they would affect the production of CoQ10.
And that's why it's an easy solution.
drug-induced nutrition depletion, let's replace it.
Let's take CoQ10.
But the challenge that comes also is what kind of CoQ10?
Because we need that CoQ10 to go deep into the cells, and that's why we try to find the right CoQ10 that's absorbed by the body.
We have an excellent product called CoQ-Nol 200 that mixes between giving CoQ10
and also helping the body produce its own CoQ10.
People take this couple of months, they have had muscle pain while taking a statin, it goes away, less brain fog and lower blood pressure and so many health benefits as a longevity supplement I would say.
Well,
I'll tell you, that's one
of the first options for
you.
It was one of the first things you prescribed for me was cocky tan.
I'm still taking it now.
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You may have, Dr. Omar, how can people get in touch with you?
People can always call at 262-429-9429 or go to willtopiarx.com.
And Cardi, if people want to be able to now capture
all of this great information that we've been able to gather with Dr. Omar the pharmacist over the last year.
So how can they do that?
Well, Earl, they can always log into civicmedia.us, check out the podcast on that episode by clicking on the Earl Ingram show, and also check out the YouTube page at Civic Media and click on Earl Ingram, and you'll be able to see every episode from day one until today.
Oh, that's great.
That's great news.
Let's go to Mark.
Good morning to you, Mark.
Thank you very much for the call.
You say what?
Hello?
First, a quick question, Earl.
On Mondays, is Reggie Jackson your frequent guest?
Yes, he has been.
Okay.
The comment I have in terms of health, I just wanted to recommend a book by Jane Roberts called The Way toward Health.
That's all.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you very much for the call.
You know, Dr. Omar, when you talk about
health.
And I was talking to you earlier before we came on the air and I was saying, you know, I mean, I've cut back a lot on meat, man.
It used to be a carnival, man.
They just give me some meat, right?
Um, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat on the plate.
It's got to be meat, you know?
And as I've gotten older, my body doesn't agree with meat, uh, as much as it once did.
And so I was telling you about watching horses and rhinoceroses and elephants and the largest animals, land animals on earth, buffaloes, they don't eat meat.
And so when we talk about muscle development, those animals have tremendous muscles and they don't eat meat.
And and so you are telling me the difference between their bodies and our bodies and the difference of you if you please
Yeah, so the the horse well actually yeah, it's weird that we see that animal kingdom has animals that have like awesome muscles But they don't eat me like the horses, but they have kind of digestive system adaptations Well, they have this kind of they can ferment in their colons
very efficiently extract the nutrients from the fibrous plant materials and also they have continuous grazing activity.
They graze for many hours daily and are naturally active, promoting consistent muscle engagement and development.
There is also different muscle fiber composition.
In us humans, when we go plant-based the diet, the challenge is like there is incomplete amino acid profiles in many plant proteins.
And it's hard for us to absorb these kind of proteins in the beans, in the seeds and the nuts.
And that's why replacing with branched chain amino acids and taking protein shakes for plant-based diet people is important.
Okay, so this need to be careful dietary planning because not everyone can be vegetarian.
based on I want to be as strong as this athlete who is also vegetarian.
You have to calculate it, make sure that you get your proteins, you get your vitamin B12, you have healthy gut because unfortunately I see many vegetarian human beings live with us that eat many processed foods thinking that
this is healthy and it is not.
So meat is not the enemy.
Vegetarians is a good and great concept and great way of life.
We just have to calculate it perfectly and be realistic.
And that's why I love pharmacy because it gives us the tools to look at the science and help empower people with lifestyle changes, change in their medications and supplements to create a better health.
Dr. Oma's fate would have it.
but my better half is on the line.
She doesn't call, but this is my wife, Allie.
You have a question to comment for the doctor.
Of course, a comment.
Thank you so much, and Cardi, I love the look on your face when you're looking at this green light, Earl.
Yes.
Hi, doctor.
Omar.
Sorry, how are
you?
I'm limited, I already know.
But you're, oh my God, you're pills.
You're vitamin B, first of all.
off the chain i mean it was so perfect i had those little tremors and you said vitamin b and ever since no problem your coq 10 awesome uh your calcium you know okay i'm old so i needed everything and you have it there at your pharmacy and your knowledge is wow i'm just i'm just overwhelmed i should have
talked
earlier but thank you thank you so much
All right, you know, Dr. Omar is not the end because you and I will certainly continue to give the life-changing information and knowledge that you provide.
I'll continue to tell people about Weltopia Pharmacy.
I'll continue to make my treks back and forth to the pharmacy to see you until we meet again on the podcast.
It's always been great.
And it's not so long.
It's not goodbye.
It's a respite.
But we'll be back together soon.
We'll be back.
Thank you, Earl.
I appreciate it.
Thank you as well.
Thank you, Allie.
That's Dr. Omar the Pharmacist.
Dr. Omar the Pharmacist.
Love you, man.
We'll talk soon.
All right.
Up next on The Earl Ingram Show, I'm going to give you a chance to get to know who I really am.
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So here's what I'm going to do as, Cardiff, you'll cut the music, please.
I thought about this, and so next Tuesday is gonna be my last show on the air.
On the Earl Ingram show as it's presently constituted and so as the days wind down and a Mondays show is is tomorrow shows my good friend Sandy Williams and Monday show is solely for You know giving you the listening audience an opportunity to talk about what the show meant to you and
And those things and how on it I am that whatever we were able to do with the show It was because of the audience not because of me and and so Monday show is clearly I slated for that Tuesday.
I've got a a wonderful man who It's gonna be in the studio who is has built some wealth
And as he ages, he has realized that having all the money in the world, having all his wealth, as he ages, he's giving it away.
And he's talking to other people who are doing well to the importance of that.
So let me give you a little background on Earl Ingram.
First off, I was born in 1954.
I was the seventh of 13 children to Earl Ingram, senior in Georgia, my mother.
They migrated here from Warren and Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
And, um, that's from my dad's room.
And so, and so I lived.
We grew up and we lived in a community That was safe We didn't have money a whole lot of money But what we had was family and my parents who were married for 66 years before the evil consequences of time You know claim my mother I had a
You know a mother and father in my life For 60 Years of my life And I learned so much in coming from a family of 13 I Learned the important things in life Weren't money
Weren't monetary because we didn't have that We lived in a community that was intact Where where families Were intact Father went to work mother stayed home It was at a time when a father could go to work and a mother with 13 children could stay home and rear those children and you know
and keep a roof over our heads.
I was never hungry, never felt unsafe, always had clothes on my back, food to eat, and direction in my life.
And so as I wound up going to, when I went to high school, I actually grew up in a segregated community.
and all black community in Milwaukee.
Because back in those days, there was no such thing as integration.
And so 1968 changed all of that, 67, when the civil rights bill was passed.
And finally in this nation, people were able to move into communities that were forbidden.
I've lived through that in my lifetime.
So from kindergarten through sixth grade, I went to an all black reality.
I lived in an all black reality.
From seventh grade, one year between sixth and seventh grade, I wound up because of the civil rights bills that were passed.
And my father was able to move us into a different community.
I moved into a...
predominantly white community and where it was 98% white.
We were one of the first families to move in.
And when you're a black family in 1968 and you move into a white, all white community with 13 children that didn't take long before that community changed into an all black community.
But I went to a 99% white middle school from a 100%
black grade school, a 99% white middle school, and then a 98% white Jewish high school.
And so I learned some valuable lessons in my life about race at an early age.
Well, once I left the high school, and, you know, my father worked at a place called A.L.
Smith.
And so I was...
scheduled to go to University of Stout University.
And because I was from a family of such a large family, I said I was gonna wind up going to work where my father was during the summer before I would go on to a university.
And my father warned me, he said, don't come out here.
But he couldn't tell me.
why I shouldn't come there.
So I walked into, I graduated from Washington High School in 1972 in June.
In October, in September, I walked into a place called A.L.
Smith, an automobile manufacturing plant.
Well, 34 years later, I walked out of that plant.
So I spent 34 years in that plant Needless to say I never wound up going to college I Got a high school diploma in 1972 and I've never had any other formal education In my life None my high school diploma
was it as far as organized education?
My wife has known me since I was 14 years old.
I'm 70.
I'll be 71.
My wife has known me that long.
So nobody knows me better, you know, than her.
And we'll be celebrating a 43rd anniversary on.
Let me get it wrong, April 26th.
And so we've been together that long.
And so I want to say to people, I'm a servant at the root of who I am as a servant.
So my wife and I took in, I've said this story before, disabled young man at the age of two.
who requires 24-hour care.
He required 24-hour care at the time we took him in.
That young man is now 23 years old.
You're a 23-year-old man who still requires 24-hour care.
And we still have him.
And we're going to have him because I realized and learned some valuable lessons in life early in life.
I haven't lived my life.
trying to acquire things.
Man, I've never owned a new car.
I've certainly made enough money.
To buy a new car, but new cars don't tickle my fancy.
Right.
I learned how to be happy without a lot of money.
I was happy as a young boy.
Because what we had was family and communion, community.
And so I learned that throughout my life.
There was one man in particular who I saw outside of my father and marveled at and patterned myself after.
And that was Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.
I saw him give of himself.
I saw him sacrifice.
his life.
And it was at a very young age that I realized that I was a servant and that what I was going to do with my life is serve.
And so I'm going to tell you a little bit about some of the service that I've been doing in my life, not to brag, because I'm way beyond that.
That is not the purpose for what I'm going to reveal to you in the next, you know, few minutes before, you know, the end of the show.
It is because I realized the value of serving.
That is really kind of, you know, the fact that I'm doing what I'm doing now.
Nobody could have ever predicted.
That a guy who worked in the factory for 34 years Where nobody cared what I had to say From 18 to 54 Go do your job I Did my job sometimes eight hours a day sometimes 12 hours a day sometimes seven days a week I Was a laborer And eventually wound up doing some other things
But I'm going to continue this as we move forward.
Our phone lines are always open at eight five five seven five two forty eight forty two.
But I thought on this and I said it's important.
That before I leave these airways.
That people really get to know who I really am.
And so we're going to get that.
You don't get that opportunity.
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Mysteries do.
And so...
Everything must change.
Nothing stays the same.
No, no.
Everyone must change.
Nothing stays the same.
Young become the whole.
and everything must change.
Nothing and no one goes on change.
And so it is with the Earl Ingham and the Earl Ingham show.
Let me say, I was saying before the break that after spending 34 years in the factory, I used to listen to conservative talk radio, I used to listen to talk radio all the time.
And so I just kept listening to talk radio.
Nobody ever told me I could be somebody in my life And so and so I didn't have aspirations And and so after spending 34 years Doing my job I would call conservative talk radio And they would be talking about my community
in a not so good way.
And I began to push back because I found my voice.
I found my voice in fighting for my union members.
And Adele Smith.
The injustice.
And so my entire life I fought for injustice.
people who were mistreated, people who couldn't fight for themselves, if for no other reason, the marginalized, the people who are human beings and yet people in such a cruel, cold world don't think that those people have any value.
This is this wealth is nation on earth, but it's cruel and cold Because people value things and money Over human beings.
I've never understood that in my life And even at this point in my life, I don't understand a world that people value things and accomplishments
Over human beings man.
I just I'll go to my grave never understanding that so anyway So I've been a servant and so I began to serve I Spent 20 years as former mayor of the city Milwaukee said the other day running the largest youth tackle football program in the state Tens of thousands of boys
ages six to 14 years old.
Five months, six months out of a year dedicating my time as the president of the Neighborhood Children's Sports League, serving and improving the lives, lives of children and their families, 20 years.
Five days six days week and my wife allowed me to do that.
I couldn't have done any of that without her because I Was working six seven days a week And so we had a major impact on their lives and Many of those boys at that time are now men Some of them middle-aged men they come to me and they say
Mr. Ingram, do you remember me?
And I look up at them and they're six foot four and they weigh 300 pounds and they say, man, man, I play football for Michigan State.
Or I play football at Ohio State.
And man, you don't know what you did for me.
Or I'm an attorney.
Or I'm this or I'm that.
or I have a family man and I work every day and it started with you.
But guess what?
That league is still running today.
And same thing, many children's lives being changed.
But that wasn't the end.
Somehow, Willie Davis, the former Hall of Fame Green Bay Packer, heard me.
talking and challenging conservative talk radio and he put me on the air without any background and I did my show from Capitol Hill four years in a row the only non syndicated talk show host in the United States of America who was given an opportunity to to interview congressmen senators entertainers to do my show from
from the United States Supreme Court.
This is all true.
A young man with no educational background, formal.
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you
All right.
All right.
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
And before I go to the phone lines, let me finish this up quickly.
And so I, um, after, after I wound up having the opportunity of a lifetime to do radio, uh, and to be able to get all, do all those things that I did.
I also wound up with national recognition because at the time the top black talk show host in the nation gave me an opportunity to fill in for him at least 25, 30 times.
I used to do six hours of radio a day.
I did.
I did that for a long time.
And then when I thought my 15 minutes of fame was over, I got a call.
from a guy named Mike Crute.
And and he resurrected my radio career, took me off the scrap heat.
That wound up catapulting me into civic media.
And so I'm thankful and forever, forever thankful civic media for giving me a chance to, you know, get back on the airways.
But I know nothing lasts forever.
And so I'm thankful.
for the time I had with you, this listening audience, I'm not, I'm not, it's not the end.
Cause, you know, I'm going to still be connected and doing some things, the civic media, but, but the last thing I'll say is after, you know, I did those 20 years in my football league, I then spent 12 years volunteering in Milwaukee public schools.
And then when I figured, and it's finally over, I don't need to do any more of this.
There was such a horrific situation that was occurring in my community.
Young boys dying in stolen cars, 10, 12 years old.
And I waited for people to do something.
I said, somebody's got to do something.
And I said, well, I've done my job.
And God kept talking to me and kept working with me.
And so three years ago, I created a nonprofit called Voices of the Elders.
And so that's a bunch of men 60 and above.
And what we do is we mentor young boys 10 to 13 years of age.
And what we do is make sure they get what I never got.
Hey, you can be somebody.
You are somebody.
Your life has value.
Doesn't matter where you came from don't ever let anybody tell you that your life doesn't have value Because we live in a world that crushes the weak And so as as you know, whatever time I have left It's gonna be spent with making sure that young boys never hear That they can't be somebody or they can't be something
All right, let's go to the phone lines Jojo your first up man.
Thank you very much.
You say what
the world the world has need of you and I'm in my early 80s.
I'm on my third childhood I didn't enjoy the other two in particular, but you are you are just getting rolling and you can think of being 71 as retro 18 and then you can go retro 18 and this is so much
this you have so much to offer and
I'm not leaving Jojo support you Jojo I'm not leaving you're
right you're not
no
you're not
no
you're not
thank you thank
you bless to be the blessing that you are thank
thank you thank you very much
thank
you very much
okay
I'm only I'm only four on call away thank you very much I appreciate hey Mike from Kenosha you're up next man you say what
good morning Earl you know
listening to your show this morning, I think certainly me, but I would have to speak for most of us out there in your audience.
The joy and love of community that you have within your soul.
You know, you're a proud Jesus, you're a proud American.
And what do you, you know, your story about, you know, how you listen to, to sort of talk radio and then after a while listening,
to it um you know you you push back because um nobody was that's exactly my story too that's funny you and i have walked uh in in these steps together uh throughout you know the last 20 25 years we listened to right wing conservative media just take over the airways with hate speech yes um uh disrespecting
human beings in one another, our communities, at all costs.
I mean, that was their whole mantra.
So, you know, we watched it morph into really something completely different.
And what you did is you stepped up.
You did public involvement in the community service.
You know, that's what I want to applaud you.
You know, you saw, just like I did 20 years ago, in listening to the hate speech haters of America, tearing America apart at every opportunity, creating division and divide and conquer.
So, you know, we have both of us, you and I both have a great... Hey, Mike, let me say this to you.
I promise.
You and I are going to stay in contact because there's some things that I want to do with you.
So for now, I bid you adieu, but you and I are going to stay in contact.
Thank you very much.
Al, you're up next.
Where the
party at?
Hey, I said it's not the end.
It's not the
end.
It's supposed to be a repass or something.
Yeah.
I've been at a funeral all morning.
Oh, man.
If you know me, if you know me and you do know me and you know I'm not done.
That's what I'm trying to tell you where the party at.
It's time to get off that horse.
It's boogie time, man.
Come on.
Look, when I
leave here today, I'll be working, doing what I've been doing for the last 40 years.
And I'm still 29.
Yeah.
All
right, I get back with you.
Thank you very much for the call.
Rich, you're up next.
Bye.
Bye.
Rich, yes, sir.
I want to salute you.
And also, I'd like to just say that there was a song that I used to listen to when I was younger, really hard to.
called downtown.
Back in the 60s and 70s.
When lights are
bright and things are making you lonely, you can always go downtown.
Listen to the rhythm
of it.
Yeah,
yeah.
I salute you and have a great one.
The lights are much brighter there.
You can forget all your troubles to get all your cares and go downtown.
Thank you very much, Rich.
I remember that song as well.
Bye.
All right.
My good friend and Sharky.
Hey Sharky, how you doing, man?
Good morning.
And I have to tell you that I was a little sad when I was thinking you were going to be gone, but I'm so glad you stand.
And I tell you what, I want to thank you for allowing me in your life because it's made a difference.
You know, Sharky, you and I aren't done either, because I have your number, you have mine.
And, uh, and you know, the work that I'm doing in the city, you came and supported us and my elders, and we haven't forgotten, and there's room for you at the end.
So, um, you know, I'm still going to be around.
I'm just talking
about
this show in the format that is in.
Absolutely.
I had one of the best days of my life is when we were throwing turkeys around around Thanksgiving last year.
Your people were there.
Everybody worked hard.
Everyone worked with each other in the smiles and the
up.
Turkey call that was a lot of Well, what's sharky, you know, it just means we're gonna have more time you and I to commensurate together and so This is not the end.
So I listen.
I'm not I'm not crying crack it out tears I just wanted to reminisce and that's what I just did in this last 40 minutes or so, but I'm not done Okay, I don't want anybody to think I'm done.
I'm gonna still be around civic media
and in a different format.
It's gonna afford me the opportunity to work with this young man that we've dedicated our lives to who is now 23 years old and who probably needs me more now than he ever did before.
Because one of the most difficult things in the world to do, Sharky, and I know you will attest to it, is to become a man.
And if you
have,
and if you have disabilities and you struggle to become, it's tough enough if you don't have any disabilities, but if you have disabilities and, and, and trying to become a man, it's very difficult.
So I will have more opportunity.
You know, charity starts at home and then it's spread abroad.
So, you know,
I don't see it.
Our home is your home.
Yes, sir.
Our home here in Racine is your home.
It's shocking.
You
belong there too.
Shocking.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'll be coming back and forth to the studio.
So thank you very much.
Thank you.
We'll talk soon.
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You know, it's not the end.
It's the beginning.
You must be special lady
You
gotta be special lady
To change my grey skies to blue And it was strange when you called my name Ever since that day I haven't been the same Ooh, before I met you I soon didn't want to shine But all of a sudden
show.
I just wanted to play that for my wife Allie of 43 years as we head towards our 44th anniversary.
You know, very special lady who changed my life.
Let's go back to the phone lines.
Mary, how you doing, Mary?
Thank you very much for calling.
Good morning.
started well before Monday as they should.
I'm not gonna be available to call in Monday, I'll be listening.
But it's been a pleasure to know you as a neighbor and the guiding force that you've been in my life.
And then regarding guiding force, which I'll name as the universe, some people call it God, it's definitely been there for you.
And lastly, in my life experience, and I've got nine years on you, I always look for the positives in any change.
And I think that the best is yet to come for you.
I wish you well.
Thank you very much.
I'm not going anywhere.
OK.
Thank you very much, Mary.
Love you.
Let's go to Jim from Brookfield.
Good morning to you, Jim.
You say what?
I say, good morning.
We're all looking forward to the new chapter, listening to the podcast and whatnot.
I just want to let you know the small world.
part of things.
My brother, same age as you, worked at A. O. Smith.
It's almost the same exact time period, almost 30-some years.
Buildings one and 65 is where he worked.
John and Buildings one and 65.
I'll text you more information on them.
But
you
seem to think that he ran across you a few times and you might have met.
Yeah, I was a troublemaker, man.
When it was injustice, I was out.
When I was in justice, I was there fighting.
I wish I had one more time, Jim.
We can do it on Monday.
Thank you very much for the call.
Let's go to Rocky.
Good morning to Rocky.
You say what?
Good morning, Earl.
Yes, sir.
I feel like I'm in the kitchen when I hear you talk.
Fight Stubblefield, the funky drummer from Madison, his songs, parties in the kitchen.
I
don't know if
you know that or not.
One of his songs, I should say, he's, you know, he's in the hall of blues, I believe, or if he isn't, he will be.
Anyway, he's deceased, but he makes me think of you too, Earl.
You're wonderful.
Hey, man, thank you.
I'm just an average guy, man.
That's all I am.
I'm nobody special.
No, you're a
bright light, man.
You're a bright light.
You're going to go coast to coast.
What's next for you?
Well, listen man,
you are now you're gonna be heard heard wider wider and wider
I don't I don't go anywhere man.
I just want to be your neighbor.
Thank you very much for the car CJ.
What's happening there?
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you CJ.
What's happening?
Hey, Earl Good morning to you.
I appreciate your story and I appreciate your show As you know, I don't agree with you quite often
But occasionally you'll take my call and let me get a couple of sentences out
but
really I like listening to your show I guess the direction that you want to take the country or The people we probably want to get to the same place but a different direction or a different route
And yeah, I just wanted to let you know.
Well, thank you, man.
It's been a pleasure.
But you and I are done as well.
Talk to you soon.
Hey, Cassandra, what's happening?
Hi, Earl.
I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your show.
It was just something I'd look forward to on my days off or between grading and everything.
And so I just want you to know how much I've appreciated you and your wisdom and the knowledge that you've imparted over the years.
I did learn a lot from you.
So I just wish you success and peace and happiness wherever you might land.
You know, Cassandra, thank you very much.
And I know that I'll always have success and peace as long as I understand the importance of serving.
Because I know that's the key and all of us have the ability to serve you don't need letters behind your name You don't need to have the biggest bank account You don't need to be the smartest person in the world if you look around you there people who need to be supported and And that's the key to being happy.
Thank you very much.
Let's bring line one on quickly We'll end it with line one.
Who do we have just go ahead?
Are you talking to me?
Yes.
Yes, ma'am.
Oh my goodness.
Well, today I'm not a chicken.
Today I am actually calling and talking on the phone.
Earl, when you and Gilbert Brown were on, I laughed so hard that that was the beginning of me talking to you.
Yeah.
And like everybody who's listening today, whatever you do, I know your path is being led in the right direction as always.
Hey, hey, Sandra.
Thank you very much.
Thank you everybody who made the show go as always for Al.
It's not a morning now.
It's a new beginning.
And so Monday, we'll really get down into it.
But thank everybody who made the show go.
I'll be back on tomorrow.
You've been tuned into the Earl Ingram show.
