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your host, Manon Sabir, the grapevine, and you are tuning in and picking some grapes on the award-winning The Truth 1017.

Glad we're in this building today, man.

I'm glad we're in this building.

I hope y'all feel my energy from the weekend.

It was a long weekend, man.

It was long, long, long.

I hope y'all are enjoying your day.

I hope your day is going very fruitful and...

Hopefully you can get back to work doing what you doing what you need to do to support your family I'm glad we are all in the building because it is mindful motivation Monday and this whole week is black adventure week for me I've I've deemed it black adventure week, so we're gonna have adventure everything and before I say anything else I Want to ask you one big question I?

Want I want you to let it

Settle in real quick.

Don't answer too fast.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

When's the last time you did something for the first time?

I want to let's let that breathe a little bit.

When is the last time you did something for the first time?

Not a new shoulder binge.

Not a new restaurant down the street downtown Milwaukee on Water Street, wherever.

I mean, something that really, really stretched you.

Somewhere you like have never been.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Something that made your heart just beat different, right?

I've been pondering this thing, this question all weekend and.

I'm like, what did I, what have I done lately that really made my heart beat in a different drum?

Like, when was the last time I did something for the first time and felt a huge amount of excitement?

It's crazy.

Something that made your heart go, okay, man, like jump out of your chest.

I remember like my daddy having like, what I mean by that though?

I remember my father having trained us in this.

It was one day.

Man, it was the training was hard.

I mean, we probably ran a good 10, 12 miles and.

Oh, man, I was like, man, my heart is about to crash.

I mean, we already three hours into a workout, three fighting.

We entered the gym and.

He already says put the gloves on.

I was like, all right, this is not the way this is supposed to happen today.

I thought I was just going to be, you know how you get into the gym, you warm up, and boom.

But when's the last time, like that type of heartbeat, when's the last time you did something for the first time?

Like when's the last time you stood somewhere new and thought.

I can't believe I'm here.

I cannot believe I'm here for a lot of us.

The answer is I can't remember.

And by four o'clock today, I want to just go home.

I want to I want to change why?

Because all my sisters and all my brothers out there.

I need to start a confession.

I caught myself doing it really.

I really caught myself doing it this weekend.

You see somebody diving off a boat in the middle of nowhere, swimming.

Like, you know, I seen on this Red Bull, it was not a commercial, but like this Red Bull YouTube piece, this lady, she doled from like however many feet high into a net in the middle of the ocean.

Guess what this net was surrounded by?

Y'all couldn't guess.

Sharks.

Now, you know if she would have missed But that's what I'm saying like something that makes your heart just pound And she didn't she came out the water shoes like yeah Somebody on the side of a mountain 20,000 feet up Somebody backpacking through a country you can't even pronounce like somewhere in the middle of Mongolia

You know, on the side of like a country on the side of Mongolia, whatever country that is, Bhutan or something like that, right?

But there's it for black people.

There's this little voice that goes, that's a white people thing.

That's a them.

That's a them thing.

And not for us.

I'm killing that voice today.

I'm going to kill that voice today on this show live.

Because here's the truth.

Here's the truth.

We're gonna prove all afternoon We're gonna prove all afternoon To pull the explore we're gonna prove that we need to pull the explorer out of you Exploration is not handed out by race The mountain just doesn't check your color at the base camp

We're going to talk about base camp and mountain climbing and stuff like that.

The ocean doesn't ask where your people are from.

The air.

The air is not asking, man, this person Chinese.

Nah, they speak Mandarin.

The air doesn't.

There's no forgiveness for those things.

They all, they all are here to serve us.

And we're here to.

To work, work our, work our servitude, work our servitude off, work their servitude off.

So think about it.

And I mean, literally, I want you all to think about it because this is a real, this is a thinking show today.

This is a adventure show, but we're talking what I'm, what I'm aiming to do is we're going to not just discuss adventure.

But adventure is a part of real life mental health, expanding the mind to make the world feel small.

We got to do that.

And I mean, literally in hit, this is science.

This is science.

So we're going, we're going to, we're going to tackle this.

There's a gene called D R D four dash seven R.

And scientists nicknamed it.

And you want to think about this.

Scientists nicknamed this thing the wonderless gene.

It's a dopamine receptor gene that if you carry it, your brain pulls less feel good chemicals from sitting still.

So in order for you to feel alive, you have to go get it.

You got to go after something.

It's you, you, you.

Activate this gene through newness, through something being brand new, through movement, through feeling like you're alive, through seeing something you've never seen ever in your life.

And only scientists measure this gene, only one in five people on Earth carry it.

Only one in five people on Earth carry it.

And here's what stops me.

It dead in my tracks.

When research has mapped it.

The people who carried the most are descendant from the ones who migrated the furthest.

Y'all wanna guess?

Y'all wanna guess?

That's right.

The greatest human journey came out of, come on y'all, Africa.

Came out of Africa, across the entire planet.

Came out of Africa, expanded from one little, little area.

I mean, Africa's not little.

But think about the spot where we expanded from and we expanded everywhere.

Everywhere.

And that was through restlessness.

That was through knowing that we needed to be a wonder list.

But we had to, we had to find something else.

We had to find something new.

We had to find a place to go.

And how we did it, we moved.

We walked, we got out of our comfort zone.

I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure we was sitting there like, I don't know, the sun is kind of shining nice or whatever, but we had to go.

It was time.

So that itch that you felt, that you feel right now, there has got to be more than these same blocks type of feeling.

Like, man, I'm on the same block.

I'm in the same city.

I'm in this, I'm in here.

I'm, you know, where you, where you, where you're sitting right now, there has to be more than, than that.

And that's what we're exploring.

That's what we're thinking about.

So it's not a white thing.

That's one of the oldest, most traveled pieces of cold in the human body.

And it, and it walked out, out of Africa.

It started with us.

When someone says adventure is in your blood, tell them scientists literally found it right there, that wonderless gene.

So if it's in our blood, if it's in our blood, why do we let somebody convince us that it wasn't?

Because when we come back, I want to talk about a man.

who, who's been to literally the ends of the earth and this, and he did it on camera and why a black man in his fifties decided that was the assignment.

Why?

That is the question.

That is the re one of the reasons why we do what we do is because of this gene.

So I want to make sure on this segment.

On these segments, right here on the truth, 1017, we answer this question.

Why are we pushed?

Why should we push ourselves beyond where we're sitting right now?

We're going to take a break.

We're going to come right back in three minutes.

You'll be amazed to find out who actually went to the ends of the earth.

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This is the great vine.

I'm your host, Manon Sabir.

And you're on the award winning the Truth 1017 radio.

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And we're answering the question, when's the last time you did something for the first time?

When is the last time you did something for the first time?

So we're back on the Black Adventure Week.

That's right.

I deem this week Black Adventure Week, you know, first week of August.

Before kids go back to school, you gotta have an adventure.

Either take them with you or do something by yourself.

But this is Black Adventure Week, unofficially.

For all the truth nation, all the hosts, y'all gotta go hard now.

I wanna talk about Will Smith on Black Adventure Week today.

Not all day.

And not the thing that you're thinking about.

Not, mm-mm, not.

I mean, I know it's August, but we're not talking about August.

Lead out to the side.

I want to talk about where this man has physically been, and it's pretty much staggering to me.

It's real staggering.

And because why he did it is the whole lesson here.

So it starts with National Geographic.

He has a series called.

Welcome to earth.

And in that one show, he crossed 34 countries and seven continents.

And let me actually list what this man did, because I want y'all to understand.

He, he repelled down into an active volcano in the South Pacific, Vanatu, uh, the South, in South Pacific.

So it was a country there, small, very small country, molten lava.

exploding around them to plant sensors inside the volcano with this volcanologist.

And then he wrote a deep water submersible 3300 feet to the bottom of the ocean.

A place that you a place so dark you can barely see in front of your face.

No human beings have been there.

He swam with Manta rays in the Maldives.

He walked in the Namibia Desert.

He got dropped by a helicopter onto a glacier in Iceland.

He ran water, white water rapids to teach himself to read the wild.

And then this year, season two, season two.

He did it again.

Bigger, bigger and better.

26,000 miles, 100 days from the South Pole to the North Pole, Antarctica, the Amazon, the Himalayas, African deserts, plant the Pacific islands, the Arctic ice.

I mean, this man did it.

Now, y'all can say what you want to say about Will Smith.

Honestly, let me sidebar this.

Y'all can say what you want to say about Will Smith.

He slapped.

Oh boy.

He's with.

You know, and he had it probably and y'all could fill in all the blanks.

But one thing he is not afraid to do is assign a sign that waiver form.

Like, man, you, this can be, this can be a little risky.

And a lot of the things he did was a little risky.

So and I want and he literally did everything did everything but Here's what here's what amazes me is that he has enough money as almost bang dang near being I'm not counting his pockets, but you know, he ain't got to work so he can live on a yacht You know 300 foot yacht for the rest of his life the rest of his natural life he can go and do red carpets

all over the world.

He can private everything, private chef, private this, him and his kids, do whatever you want.

Never be uncomfortable at all.

Private bunker, something goes wrong.

And he keeps choosing a volcano, the Amazon, the bottom of the ocean, glaciers.

And why?

Why?

You remember the question that I just asked you?

Why?

The question was, the question was,

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

So.

For him, here's why here's his why.

In his own words.

And this is the, I think, the mindful part of it.

This is the this is the part where mindful motivation Mondays really comes into in the play.

Is I know, I know you're listening like, man, why is he telling me this?

There's a reason there's a reason I think we gotta know God places it on our hearts to do this because I'm looking at Before I go into his reason.

I'm looking at a video on on One of the social media pages and I see some girls fighting I Mean they're scrapping

And it's like six o'clock in the morning and they're scrapping a lot.

And they're all in the construction barriers, barricades, and it's just going down.

What I realized and someone mentioned this to me is that we, we do these little things that we feel like mean something.

When the world is so big it's almost like we're taking these pebble and I'm gonna I'm gonna remind you about this pebble We take this energy and the energy is like a pebble It's as large as a pebble It's it's on a dirt road and we keep just kicking the pebble down the dirt road looking down at the pebble Rather than looking at the entire universe Now if you think about it

From the end of the universe to that pebble, how large is that universe?

That pebble is so insignificant.

And we're thinking about the pebble.

We keep and continue to think about the pebble.

It's foul the way that that video played out.

So back to Will Smith, I'm going to tell you.

He says he's uncomfortable with water.

He's afraid of it.

And he keeps going back to water, like all the places that he's been contain water outside of the, outside of the, the volcano and the volcano was liquid.

It's hot.

He had to quote his grandmother when someone asked him about why he continues to do that.

And he said, his grandmother told him, God placed the greatest things in life on the other side of your worst fears.

Y'all think about this God place the greatest things in life on the other side of your worst fears That is absolutely genius.

Cheers to his grandmother.

Whoever man.

Cheers to it.

Will Smith cheers to your grandmother I gotta say That's it.

That's the whole thing time to wrap up the show.

I'm just kidding He's not chasing danger.

He's not chasing danger

He's chasing what's behind the fear.

He's every single trip.

The fear was the door.

The fear was the door was the barrier for him.

He's chasing what is behind the fear.

I remember, um, I remember a soccer player tells me, Hey, um, don't, if you're, if you have a defender in front of you.

Don't look at the defender look behind the defender because it's so much space.

It's so much space in this world.

So we have to catch what he's modeling because this matters for us specifically.

Peace is not the absence of pressure.

It is not peace is not the absence of pressure.

Peace is what you earn on the far side of the thing that scared you.

This man is a literal billionaire, basically.

And he decided.

The assignment for the back half of his life, the, the, the he's basically at the end.

He's 50, some years old.

The back half is his life was to keep walking into fear, into purpose on camera.

Like, like a lot of this stuff, you could, if we could feel his, his, his legs, they were, they were shaking through the camera.

So for the rest of us, we had to watch him do it as a black man, as a black person.

And he did it in the very, the very most extreme places on earth.

He put himself in frame on purpose.

At 50, some years old, at 50, some years old, we're not in that frame.

And that's exactly where we're going next.

We're going to go there next because.

It's easy for a movie star to do it.

But let's talk about our kids.

Right here in Milwaukee.

And a number about passports.

We're going to talk about passports that made me put my hot chocolate down.

I got hot chocolate right here.

We're going to talk about this.

We're going to talk about our kids and passports when we come back in three minutes on the award winning truth.

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You've been gone Yeah, you welcome back you are welcome back To the truth the award-winning the truth one oh one seven radio and this is The grapevine.

I'm your host Manon severe.

We picking some grapes.

We are picking some grapes We are picking some grapes Okay, so

This segment I've been wanting to do all week and I need my working mothers, aunties, big sisters locked in because this one's actually for us to decide something.

Auntie's uncles, cousins, brothers.

This is something for us to decide.

Here's a number only about 34.

Black Americans hold a valid passport.

34 Black Americans hold a valid passport.

Compare that to 42 of white Americans, 55% of Hispanic Americans.

We are, we are last by a lot.

Only a third of us hold the single document that unlocks the rest of the entire planet.

And before anybody calls in, you call in mad.

This is not because we don't want to go.

A lot of the barriers are actually real.

The passport is $165 just to apply.

There's the fear, I think for us, there's the fear around racism abroad.

There's the fact that we rarely see ourselves in travel pictures.

rarely see our, our, so our brain, our brain kind of files it under like it's not for me.

Those are like, those are actually real.

And I'm not good vibing past all of that because, you know, like I'm an optimistic person, but those are real.

Absolutely real.

Man.

We talked to like prior.

We were taught to and have been prioritizing the fear over what we can change that week.

So let me, let me play before we go to the next thing.

Let me play.

Let me play something for you, Will Smith.

Let's

play.

So what exactly was that ceremony?

What does it signify?

Have you seen any fish run around now since you walked out?

You look at the corals, they're dead.

The whole reef area is closed until the fish return.

So this acts basically as a signal to anyone that might come around to not fish this area.

Yes.

This is our food source without healthy coral reefs.

We will have nothing.

Y'all see that?

I mean, yeah.

Listen, and Guru, you're right.

Mr. Bhati, whatever you want to say.

He had some demons to shake.

Yeah.

Everybody got him.

And he probably got a gang load of him.

And this is a way to do it.

But it's not about him.

It's about us.

Like, where are we going as a people?

And not only do we own.

certain categories because a lot of the adventure came from us.

But we also have sold those categories to other people.

So we have to do what we have to reclaim this genetic code that is intuitive, that is inherent inside of us.

That is that is looking is looking for us to say, all right, you know what, where are you going to go?

Like, for example,

Yes.

I've been to the, I've been to a, on a, on a mountain.

I've been a lot of mountains.

I've been to a mountain that was straight up a volcano and looked inside and went inside a little bit.

All that software.

Yes.

Been there.

It was scary.

It was completely scary.

Walking up the mountain at the, at the base of the mountain, you're like, okay, this is cool.

But then.

All of a sudden, you gotta put your mask on and then you start doing what?

You start feeling like you start feeling the atmosphere change and also the chemicals and the air change.

That is real life.

That is real life.

If you don't recognize that you have the opportunity on this

really large world on this really large world to operate in your.

Truth in this large vast land that our ancestors.

Traversed.

Then we're doing them and doing us a disservice if you haven't done it.

And I think we're going to talk about it later on.

We're really going to talk about like.

If, you know, yes, Will Smith, multi-millionaire, did his thing, whatever, got money to do it.

But you can do that right here in Wisconsin.

If you're from Wisconsin, from my people that are in Georgia or listening over in some of my folks in Somalia, whatever.

If you can do that right where you stand, right where you stand.

I was talking to one of my guys.

From Somalia and I asked miles like so you went back.

He said, yeah, I went back to Somalia and I was like, so what is it like there?

He was like, oh, it's nice.

I was like, okay, okay.

Like this, he said the city is nice and everything.

All right, cool.

So what was, what's city life like?

He was like, well, we have hyenas.

What?

Y'all have hyenas.

Yeah, it said they walk around and they're like, it's like open air in some areas, some parts of.

the cities that he city that he's from.

It's open.

It's open season.

Like they're there, not open season eating people, but, you know, they have hyenas.

And he said one day he was walking around and hyena was kind of following him.

Now they want to find whether or not they can trap you or not.

He just went to somebody's house knocking on the door.

They let him in.

I'm not going to say that that is the type of venture I'm looking for.

But I am going to tell you that that is a journey that is an adventure that happens.

So.

So now let me show you.

I got to show you the other side of the passport.

I have to show you the other side of the passport because this one will sit right here right on your chest and I'm not going to.

I'm not going to show you this video yet.

I'm just going to describe it.

There's a stretch of water between and if you've ever been to the bottom of Spain, there's a stretch of water between Morocco and this place called Sueta.

It's a little piece of Spanish territory on the coast of North Africa and people swim it.

They swim it in the dark, they swim it in the cold, some with nothing but an inner tube.

I mean, or plastic jug to stay afloat is the closest is the closest point between Africa and Spain.

And I think it's about 3.1 miles.

So you got the straight of Gibraltar, then you have like this little area.

It's like a little point and people swim it to get to Spain.

That's how far it is.

Not far at all.

So.

But people do it now.

because some of them are swimming with nothing but an inner tube or a plastic jug to stay afloat, fleeing what's behind them, swimming towards a fence, swimming towards rocks, towards a chance towards life that they cannot get any other way.

Let's play that video real quick.

I'm going to show you what this little, this young man was doing.

He wound up.

He wound up swimming with just I guess one other thing he had this little piece of device to hold his phone and he's showing you he's showing you Him swimming from between Morocco and Spain Yeah, he's literally showing you what he's doing now

That's a lot.

That's a lot of three miles.

That's a lot of swimming.

So now hold that next.

I'm gonna hold that next to us because here's the ache of it.

Those swimmers would have given anything for the document that we're talking about for our passport, for a passport that's unclaimed in America, unclaimed by our kids, unclaimed by you if you don't have one.

And we can just walk right into a passport office, pay the fee.

And legally, the whole world just opens up.

The whole world, they're swimming through the dark for what we won't drive 10 miles to apply for.

I'm not, I'm not coming down on anyone, but we have to think about our privilege.

Is that's the same muscle?

the wheel to move, to not stay put, to cross towards something better, to remember that wanderlust gene that's inside of us, that I described at the top of the show, that gene that walked out of Africa.

And that's it.

Some of us spend that drive on a coral reef, some spend it

just to survive the night.

Some use that gene to cross.

Africa in the Spain.

And some of us with the legal door standing wide open aren't spending it at all.

And I need y'all to let that be the last time that we find out that that's what we're going to do.

We got to chill out with that.

We're going to talk about the team takeovers and what we can do with the passport when we come back in three minutes on the award-winning Truth 1017.

Welcome back to the grapevine.

I'm your host, Milan Sabir.

And we're almost to the other side of the grape vines.

But we're picking some more grapes.

We're picking some more grapes.

And I got to talk about these teen takeovers, man, because they can continue to happen.

We just not publishing them.

But there's a few videos.

There's a few videos.

One came across my desk.

But y'all seen them.

They happen everywhere.

Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit.

Yes.

And our young folks are here too.

This, I mean, for real, our young folks are still doing it.

Donna Atlantic got so big, the city gave two young girls, two young girls, $50,000, a $50,000 grant to two 17 year olds, to two 17 year olds.

And God bless them.

God, please bless them because.

They're looking to use that 50 50 Gs to build safe spaces so teens can have some place to be $50,000 to give kids a room.

There's a lot to, there's a lot to say about that 50 because I know, I know a few dudes, few people in Atlanta that can, that have spent 50 on whatever.

on literally whatever.

So that's $50,000.

And let me do the math.

Let me do some math out loud because I want you to fill it.

I really want y'all to fill it.

Think about what gets spent in this city on a single month, in a single month on the scene.

Cigar Lounge on Friday, bottle service on Saturday.

Nice dinner, fit for the grand, fit for the gym, ticket to the show, the day party, you know, a good three days adds up.

Plus if you add up them three days times three weekends, grown folks turn up in Milwaukee.

It could, it could get serious because Milwaukee got a lot to do.

Now it does, but that number three weekends, just think about that number for three weekends.

So imagine you spending $400 a weekend.

Just, you know, let's give it, let's take a number.

$400 per weekend.

$400 is a plane ticket and a place for a teenager to go while they land in that city.

I'm talking about overseas.

It can be an overseas small sea or it can oversee large sea, but it's, it's a plane ticket.

For a teenager who's never left Wisconsin and I'm gonna tell you how how that fits in My brother my father God bless his soul Said one one day like a month before we were supposed to do this He said hey, hey, we're gonna we gotta start getting ready to go to London.

I was like London Yeah, right we're gonna London

Man, I'm 10 years old.

He's like, yeah, we're gonna go to London.

He, you know, we didn't have a whole lot of money, but he, he, he's dug up some money, worked for whatever he had to do.

And he got three plane tickets, bought us tickets to London, my brother and I. And June, school was out June 14th.

June 15th, we're on the plane to London for three months.

Now for, for two young kids who have never been on a plane at age 10 and 13, that is absolutely amazing.

And it opened up my eyes to the degree that I could not stop traveling.

It was like he turned on this, this gene and it was like, go, get out of here.

And I chased that, I chased that, that, that feeling every time I traveled, I can go to, I can go to the cattle, moraine, lamp on peak.

And that's out.

That is the fulfillment of that.

Wanderlust gene.

So there's a kid.

You know, that's looking for us.

That's looking for someone who has the means, the resources, organizations who have the means and the resources to do exactly that.

That's a kid standing on soil and Ghana in Mexico, in Canada, in Jamaica, Granada.

All them places.

Straight up.

Mexico City or just getting on the plane for the first time in a life and looking down at the clouds and realizing the world is bigger than their block.

I want to play a video real quick because this is this is this is exactly what a teen takeover is.

Exactly what a teen takeover is.

So imagine a hundred people got push I see mask on uniforms, whatever they, whatever they want to call it a uniform, you call it a uniform, whatever you want to do.

And if this is in the Dales, I guess it's in the Dales.

They had a whole big convention and it's probably it's something, whatever it is, it could, it could be something really good.

I mean, it's no, no doubt about it, but he's just some young people.

There's apparently, if I was.

Had a family, I wouldn't want to be out there in some, you know, in a parka.

I'm not going to do that.

And dressed up like my boys, sliding down the water slide.

That's not, that's not me.

But it could be you.

It's all good.

But just think about it.

We have the time.

We have the money.

I imagine we're spending it every weekend on experiences that are going to evaporate.

There are, they ex these experiences are going to evaporate by Monday, but and that's no problem.

It is an experience, but within, but in, in terms of culture, in terms of culture, how are you handing that experience that life to someone as legacy?

So the takeover isn't a money problem.

It's a direction problem.

It's that little pebble that we're putting our energy into.

Those kids have energy and they have nowhere to put it.

We got resources and we've been taught to point them at the lounge instead of the launch pad.

We've been taught to, yo, you know what?

Let's go to the cigar bar.

Cool.

Let's go to the the club over here.

That's cool.

Nope.

No doubt about it.

I mean, everybody has their own thing.

They should be able to experience their own experiences.

But from a from a people's perspective, from a people's perspective, we have to think there has to be some type of different type of thinking.

a different way to make things happen.

We have to allow ourselves to work with our teens in terms of the teen takeovers and show them something completely different.

Now, why do we think this way?

Why is the individual weekend, the default and the passport, the fantasy?

Why does the passport have to be the fantasy?

It's not an accident either.

It's not an accident that there's barriers to purchasing a passport.

The barriers are made for people who are of color, not to receive a passport.

And it's the craziest thing in the world.

I remember at the juice case.

I used to ask I used to ask kids all the time.

And do you have a passport?

All right.

Look, here's what you do.

Go down to the go down to the to the post office.

Grab get a passport application.

Let's fill it out together with your parents.

Fill it out.

Get your picture.

Turn it in.

I mean, get the supporting documents.

Very simple.

Very simple.

So, but none of this is an accident.

It's not an accident.

I'm not going to necessarily blame it on the system, but there's a system that play to keep certain people out.

That's something we're taught and it goes deeper.

It goes way deeper than money.

It goes all the way to how we were told to raise our children.

And that's next.

I don't want anybody to go anywhere.

We'll be back in three minutes on the war winning the truth 1017

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It's three o'clock.

It's Black Adventure Week.

Mindful motivation Monday.

And now we got to get practical because I don't do inspiration without instruction.

I can't do inspiration without instructions.

I already hear the excuse.

That's beautiful.

Will Smith.

We talking about Will Smith.

I'm not Will Smith.

We talking about how he went to different parts of the world, did his thing, came back to his home, his home life, his mansion and all that stuff.

But you're thinking, I got a job, I got kids, a car note, and that's good.

That's perfect because adventure was never about the size.

Adventure is a decision, not a budget.

It's not a mountain.

It's a direction.

It's a direction.

And that's what I'm aiming to give you.

We are a people who came out of a place.

We're a people who came out of a place, Africa.

And we decided to

Populate the earth, explore, but within that population, within that populating the earth, we were, we decided to explore.

We did things that were unknown, unreachable by a whole lot of people.

So, and your brain proves it, novelty.

Anything genuinely new fires the same dopamine reward, whether it's in the Himalayas or a new neighborhood.

In this city, you.

especially in this city that you've never even driven through.

The hit comes from newness, not the attitude, the altitude.

It comes from being in a place that's new.

There's even something, there's even a reason summers felt endless when you were, you know, nine, 10 years old.

Now, a whole new year later, everything vanishes.

When everything's familiar,

Your brain just compresses it and barely records it.

Newness is like, what newness is, what makes time feel full again.

So adventure at your size isn't second place.

It's literally how you get more out of your life out of the same number of days that you're living.

Think about it.

What it looks like

for if I'm, if you're a woman, what, what does it look like for you in Milwaukee solo dinner, whatever, phone down on purpose.

The first flight by yourself road trip to a town you've never seen with no plan.

And for the, and the big one for us is the passport.

Just apply is step one.

You don't need.

The trip book you need the document that says I'm the kind of person of the world.

I'm the kind of person that the world is going to open up to.

So get yours, get your teenagers, get your kids, passports and make it a family project instead of a family fantasy.

Allow yourself.

Allow yourself to do things that you're you're looking to that you you look on social media.

and think that I'm not going to make it.

I'm not going to get there.

Get off of social media and get on with your life.

So it's a very interesting video I ran across.

It's about this plane swap.

And it was a Red Bull plane swap.

And there's a reason why I'm bringing this up because for these two people, they're cousins and they decided to get into, you know, get into this stunt.

They've done a number of jumps, but they decided to advertise Red Bull and then also do a plane swap in midair.

Now, you know, it's a little far.

You know, that's a little far fetched, but they decided to knock this out.

Same idea.

Because when you push the, when you push your extreme, the whole world becomes an oyster.

I mean, I mean that literally you have, we, we, we are at this place in our lives, especially in Milwaukee where pushing the extreme is a possibility.

So Red Bull put up this one, this, this stunt is called plane swap.

They took two cousins, Luke and Andy.

They're lifelong pilots, lifelong skydivers.

They flew up, they flew up in these, these twin engine assessments, 14,000 feet, put both planes into a straight nose dive.

They jumped out of midair in the plan, skydive down and land in each other's plane.

So skydive switch.

In midair, switch planes in midair, nobody in human history has ever done it.

And here's the part.

Here's the honest part that matters.

It only have worked.

One of the cousins skydived into the other plane, took the controls, basically landed it clean in Arizona, but the other cousins playing, he couldn't get in.

So he had to pull this parachute and he floated down.

And the plane crashed.

Nobody was hurt.

But here's the lesson.

Because this is the whole point of adventure at any size.

That plane swap started as a like as a little sketch on a on on a piece of paper, literally on a piece of paper.

So.

And it made like a magazine cover.

Like this is this is a part of.

This is a part of adventure that I think we as a people are missing.

Imagine it.

Sketching something out and then doing it is a part of manifestation.

So the rest of the rest of their story, they jumped out of planes 21,000 times and.

You know, I'm sure they didn't wake up and think, man, this is impossible.

They woke up and was like, man, we need to push this, this, we need to push this bar a little further.

And so until the idea became a little oyster that they carried around.

So is, is the danger, is danger to go now?

It's that every time you, every time you go one notch past what you, what scared you.

the whole map of what's possible for you gets larger and larger.

They pushed, they pushed swapping planes to the, to the max until the, until the sky was on the table.

You push until the solo flight is on the table, then the passport, then the country you never thought you'd stand in.

Some law of nature is just your altitude.

That's it the world opens up the world actually opens up as wide as you're willing to push the edge I think honestly if we had to if we had to think about this entire This entire thing this What we're supposed to do as a people as many times as we had

We have car chases in Milwaukee and people, you know, putting their lives in danger and, you know, fights on the street and you name it.

If we're able to understand where to put our energy, then we would be conquering these and not not saying that these people are our role models.

But if we're looking at the level of adventure, we can not only do the same thing, but we can do things and push things further than everyone else in the world.

We look at basketball, you look at baseball, we look at football.

Football has never been more athletic than it is now.

Basketball has never been more athletic

and more record-breaking than it is now.

Baseball has never been athletic and more record-breaking than it is now.

We're looking at hockey, track, all these places where human desire, passion has blown up to superhuman extent.

We were always the people in the...

forefront, jazz, in terms of music, looking at jazz, all levels of instruments, every instrument you can think of, every instrument you can think of, you'll find a person of color in front of that particular instrument.

And this is what is possible for us.

This may not be the best topic.

for us to listen to today.

But I think it's one of the most important topics that we need to address as a people, especially here in Milwaukee, is we have so much potential.

We have people, if you ride up and down certain streets or up and down certain streets, you'll find bar, church, fast food.

bar, church, fast food, bar, church, fast food, bar, church, fast food.

And why?

Why?

Because the goal, the goal of each of those places is to keep you in the box.

That is the goal.

But then the person thinking out of the box will do something completely different to change the norm of the, of, of the.

the topography, the environment that they live in, that everybody in that place around that area lives in.

Because we know what's possible for us and we've got the receipts, names, numbers, black folks standing on top of the exact places they told weren't ours.

Our hours.

And I'm going to, I'm going to prove it to you.

There's some names that I'm gonna mention in the next three minutes.

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This is black adventure week and you know I've got a little science and history for you Now we got the proof real people real names Because it's it's it's for us to it's not just a hope It's a fact with a little bit of roll call.

So we got

This lady got by the name of Sophia Denenberg, first black woman to stand on top of Mount Everest.

Matthew Henson, North Pole, 1909, arguably the first end of the history books.

Manoa Anu and the full circle Everest team, the first all black team to take on Everest, Mount Everest, together, a team, a whole team.

Barrington Irving, Barrington Irving straight out of Miami, straight out of Miami.

kid flew a solo, flew solo around the world.

One of the youngest ever do it, did it to show kids in Miami in the neighborhood that the sky was theirs.

These people are not exceptions to the rule.

They are the rule.

They are the rule.

They're just what normal looks like.

Once the gate is locked, once the gate is unlocked, the only thing they did.

was refused, they refused other people's scripts.

They tossed everybody else's script away and they did what they had to do.

I'm gonna tell you about Tara Roberts.

We're gonna talk about Tara.

Look, we got that video played up.

Let's let's Robert's we first met her when her underwater journeys to find lost slave ships made the cover of National Geographic where she is an explorer in residence.

Now she's sharing more about her experiences in her new book out this morning.

It is called written in the water.

I appreciate it.

We can cut it right there.

Think about it.

Think about it.

And I saved this one for you because specifically

For for my for my sisters out there specifically for y'all Because everybody else I named climbed up or flew out this woman went this woman went into the ocean and What she's bringing back is gonna it's like we are we see you see what she's bringing back is wrecking everybody else's thought in The best way her name Tara Roberts

Not a real life national geographic explorer first black woman on the cover of that magazine as an explorer the first black woman a S of an explorer a storyteller a scholar This and this is the part I need y'all to hear how it happened because I'm not we can I can give you I can I can sit here and honestly give you news about her, but it'll behoove me

Not to do it.

We get we got to give you what she's about living in DC 2020 2016.

She walks to the National Museum of African American history and culture and sees one photograph.

A group of scuba diver scuba divers on a boat, mostly black women smiling.

So it was just a photo and just stopped her right right there in her tracks.

So she finds out who these women are.

They're part of a group called diving with purpose.

Black divers who go down search for wrecks of slave ships because here's the history that nobody status down and told over.

The 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade and estimated very prior loose 1000 ships carrying our ancestors sank.

They went to the bottom of the ocean.

More than.

1.8 million African people.

No grave markers in the water.

Most of them never named, never mourned and never found.

Tara Roberts, a journalist with a great job, NDC quit, learned to scuba dive and from scratch gave her life.

to going down into the deep to find these lost slave ships.

To document the wrecks to raise their names and their stories back up into light with love.

With honor, with respect.

That's how you supposed to do it.

That's how you supposed to do it.

Now put that up against everything I said today.

We talked about the will to move being in our blood She this lady dives Into the same oceans our ancestors were dragged across in chains on and she does it as a free black woman by choice With this little tube on her back the same water that

was the sight of the worst thing that ever happened to us.

She turned it into a place to reclaim people's lives.

Straight up.

So this is not an adventure.

That's adventure as healing.

To quit her job and to do what she's doing now is absolutely healing.

And that's going deep.

That's going deep, deep, deep to bring your people home.

If you stand here and here's the thing.

We know the majority of those ships that travel.

If you ever been on the Atlantic or around the Atlantic, if you stand on the coast of Florida, you'll find that the trade winds hit you in the face all the time.

So the transatlantic.

slave ships, those ships didn't even have to put up a sale if they didn't want to because the current will take them there.

The wind will blow behind the ships.

Very, very simple.

A lot of times you can stand on the coast of Florida and Georgia, on the coast of Georgia and find what?

You'll find that the sand, even the sand would hit you, they would hit you in the face from the Sahara.

The sub-Saharan sand would hit you in the face at certain times of the summer in Georgia and also Florida.

For real, that's exactly what happens.

So diving with purpose, these people.

train every single day.

Kids as young as 16, they do this work.

So this isn't a superhero story that you have to watch.

You can actually join.

It's a real life invitation.

Somebody's teenager in this city who thinks the water is not for them.

Could grow up to be the one who finds the ship and names the ancestors on it.

We have a lake.

We have a lake.

right next to us, right next to us, that where people do scuba dive, you can learn the scuba dive at a local gym with a pool and then go out and learn the scuba dive and then take it even further to take your talents to the oceans and do the same exact thing.

But this is the part of us being able to take adventure adventure.

and or take our skill sets and push them as further far as we possibly can.

There's there's something in adventure that allows people to see what even if even in their daily job, that allows you to use the skill set of being adventurous, using that skill set to push your life further to have purpose, have meaning.

A lot.

We see.

We sit and we wait.

There's no, there's no waiting.

There's no waiting with adventure because you're always chasing something.

So I got to honor this honestly.

Um, when we come back, I want to talk about, I want to talk about a, a story that I ran across a couple of days ago and it was about some, some climbers.

And if you guys could probably hear like I'm I'm the I'm that outdoors person.

I like out the outdoors.

I like being outdoors and being in the woods and being being on the mountain and in all of that and.

You know, to there's a certain respect you have to have with nature and for nature in order to be in that place.

So.

Yes, this next story is not as sad.

It's sad, but there's a place, there's a time and place to really tell this story and I think this story really is gonna hit home because it's a story about a Nepalese Sharpa and he took his team to this...

place called broad peak in Pakistan and they wound up encountering avalanche and There was about 10 climbers in this group of individuals that were climbing up this this peak very very experienced Climbers, you know before you climb up you do go through training a lot of training before you are able to climb

Uh, the, the various peaks on, on mountains.

So when I come back, I'm going to tell you the rest of the story.

We'll be back in three.

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So today we're talking about adventure.

This is the Black Adventure Week.

We got a lot of stuff to talk about.

I got news for you tomorrow also, but you know, something was on my mind and I decided to really give everybody a kind of a look at what adventure for black people is, what it's about.

This is Mindful Motivation Mondays.

And if you're listening, remind yourself to push the ticket.

I may be a, it may be a Monday, but you're already planning what to do on the, on for next week or this weekend.

You're already planning.

Oh man, you know, I need to go somewhere.

Let's, let's, let's get, let's get out of here.

I'm at work.

You know, it's work, work is work.

I got to get out.

Time to go.

All right.

Cool.

Get out of here.

Bounce.

Make it happen.

But planet adventure.

We got a lot of stuff in Wisconsin that you can do for yourself.

A lot of adventures around here.

So before I went to break, I was discussing about a Nepalese guy from Nepal.

He was a Sherpa, but a very, very world famous Sherpa.

He led a group of 10 people, 10 climbers in this place called, uh, in Pakistan on, on a mountain called broad peak.

So it was like one of the areas in, in, uh, on a mountain and all 10 died.

Yep.

including the guy, the guy's name was Norma, Norma.

He was one of the greatest Sherpas ever to live, one of the greatest guys, I should say.

And he wrote together, all these people were wrote together, a Nepali one, Nepali person, a Omani person, American, a Chinese, every color, every faith going up together.

And they died exploring the unknown.

So let's, let's roll that, let's roll that clip real quick.

This is the team near Base Camp at the bottom of Broad Peak, days before they set out on what would be their final ascent.

The expedition was led by celebrated Nepali-born climber Nimra Alpujo, known as Nims, who rose to fame after scaling all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter-plus mountains in just over six months.

The last record took nearly eight years.

Broad peak is in the Karakoma range, straddling the border between Pakistan and China.

The mountain is regarded as one of the more challenging for climbers and is the 12th highest summit in the world.

On the morning of July 30th, the team was on the western ridge of Brawl Peak between Camp 2 and 3 at around 6,600 meters.

GPS tracking data indicated the avalanche struck shortly after 9am local time, sweeping the 10 climbers down the mountain's west-facing gully.

These pictures were filmed from base camp.

Search and rescue operations began.

Pakistan's military deployed helicopters and ground teams scrambled to respond.

On Friday, rescuers said four bodies had been found.

Heavy snowfall temporarily suspended rescue operations before they resumed.

The global climbing community held its breath waiting for news of NIMS and the other climbers.

Then, on Saturday, the news they had been dreading.

In a statement posted on social media, NIMS' company, Elite Expeditions, confirmed all 10 of the climbers had died.

It's with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm Nirmal Nimzeday Pooja tragically lost his life following the avalanche on broad peak.

For Fida Ali, it was a narrow escape.

The Pakistani guide had set out with the team, but returned to base camp early after a Russian climber was taken ill.

The international mountaineering community is mourning the loss of a man who conquered the world's highest peaks and bought the importance of Sherpas to the forefront of the mountaineering world.

So that's the unknown.

And we can we can complain and talk about what's going on in our little city.

We can talk about.

how things are, how things are, you know, we could talk about the, the teen takeover, we could talk about, you know, the violence over here and all that stuff.

But if we're not doing the work, if we're not doing what we're supposed to do for the next person, if we're not looking to get, if not looking to extend legacy, then.

We're we're just we're we're working against it.

We're hustling backwards And that's the that's what we shouldn't be doing.

We shouldn't be hustling backwards We should be moving forward.

We got I mean mad parties a Lot of parties not complaining because I think there's a there's a reason in the way for it But we got the this party and that party needs I mean bring together thousands of people

But imagine if we had a party for our kids Imagine if we had because rather than this the rather than a vain response Our kids would know it's actually for them Our kids would know it's a it's for them It's real We do it a lot we do it a lot in the city

in Milwaukee.

And when there's an example of individuals dying for pushing the ticket, pushing their lives to the very edge, our thought, my thought, is that if we're able to push our lives to the very edge, to the very edge of...

legacy building of extending our our.

Compassion, empathy and love.

To the to our community.

We can we can we can overcome all of this.

And I had mentioned just the team takeover is one as one thing.

As one thing, imagine those two young kids in Atlanta receiving $50,000.

And we know that some of our, I'm daring to say this, but some of our hip hop artists proclaim that on record, on record that they spend 50 in a weekend, 50 in a day.

That's crazy.

That's wild to me.

To spend that amount of money.

But then these kids got a got a right for 50 Gs to have a place for young kids to harness their energy Yep, it's that's what that's what that's what you call hustling backwards.

That's exactly what you call it We got it.

We have to do better straight up.

So These people died

exploring the unknown and in the grief of it, they died actually living, living fully, fully awake.

But here's a question that ties ties it to everything.

How many people die the other way, never having left the block, never having left base camp, their base, their foundation, because somebody convinced them that.

Having that adventure was for other people going to the lake down down Center Street down North Avenue down capital down Hampton down Silver Spring down Lisbon and whatever other street down Burnham and Mitchell and all these other places going east to the lake How many

People have convinced other folks that it wasn't necessary.

It wasn't necessary.

And to explore just one part of the lake.

To explore one part of the lake.

You know how many beaches are on Lake Michigan?

Between the border of Wisconsin and Chicago and back up north, hundreds, hundreds of beaches.

hundreds of beaches.

You can explore all of them.

You don't have to just go to Bradford Beach for the people that actually venture to the beach.

You don't have to just go to whatever part of the lake that you see off the off the hill, off the snake hill.

You don't have to do that.

Go to different places.

You can leave.

Somebody, but somebody convinced somebody that that was the place to be.

And that's the, that's the quiet tragedy.

That's the quiet trauma.

And it's one we can actually prevent for ourselves and for our kids.

So these people that died on this mountain refused the script.

The story that they were told, they threw it out and they decided to live their own way.

And you, we all.

have the ability to live our own way.

And that's the point of today.

That's it.

We can live however we want to live.

So y'all live how y'all want to live.

And it's it'll it'll work out.

Of course it will.

But if you want to go beyond, if you want to go beyond, throw the script away and do what you feel is out of your mind.

When someone says it's impossible, go do it and you'll find out.

We're going to come back in three minutes.

We're going to continue to discuss mindful motivation Mondays and why this is Adventure Week for me.

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This is my adventure because I'm about to, I like when a group gets paid back, paid black as Homer Blossom paid black.

This is

What if I told you that one of the biggest genres in the world may all.

What a homer.

Oh man, a homers in the studio.

Look, I literally just man.

I remember reading it today and I was like, OK, I should.

He's coming at four, but I didn't even recognize that he was here.

Thanks, Homer.

Appreciate it.

But I'm sure I don't know if you heard this, Homer, but one of the biggest genres in the world may owe its full success to Jamaicans.

Watch this.

Two Jamaican producers and now to ask the jury one simple question.

Did y'all build a billion dollar industry on our beat without paying us?

So this isn't about rag a tone.

This is about black creativity, intellectual property and who profits when culture really goes global.

So real quick, a federal judge refused to throw out a copyright lawsuit bought by legendary Jamaican producers.

Everybody know.

Know who these people are.

Steely and Clevy Cleveland Brown and the state of Wyclef Johnson.

The producers argued that the foundational drum pattern from their 1989 instrumental fish market became the backbone of thousands of reggaeton songs without permission.

Very deep.

So both sides presented very credible expert testimony about whether the rhythm is original.

enough for copyright protection, the judge ruled that the dispute should continue rather than deciding it for himself.

So he did not.

He continued on.

So artists and companies named and then named include major ragged tone figures such as bad bunny, J Balvin and a whole lot of other people.

They argued that the rhythm evolved from.

multiple dance hall sources and it's too common to belong to any one creator.

Very, very deep.

So meaning that if they win, if they win this, this argument, that's millions upon almost billion, a billion dollars worth of success.

Very, very interesting.

And this is the type of, this is the type of adventure that I'm talking about.

that if we are adventurous individuals, if we tune into our Wanderlust gene, our DRDC7R gene, the gene that got us out of Africa, if we're able to tune into that, if we're able to flip that gene on, then this is the type of thing that helps us

Become or look at adventure as something that's possible This is this is adventurous for mentally.

This is highly adventurous to To look at your your as Jamaican producers not having anything to lose Argue that the foundational drum pattern From an album

They're out there instrumental fish market.

To become that, to become the backbone to reggae tone.

That's they said there's over 2000 reggae reggae tone songs.

So whenever if they win this, then all of those.

Songs all a percentage to.

These individuals still in Cleveland.

Very, very interesting.

And this is, I think the, this isn't really about ragged tone.

We can't, we're not going to come down and tap down on ragged tone.

It's about who owns the culture.

Who owns the culture?

Because we know all rhythms are African.

We all know all rhythms are African, but it's about also can a rhythm be intellectual property?