We need a mental revolution where we need to understand that we are still eating crap.

The disc crap is in the form of mental junk food.

And so we're feeding our kids and their eyeballs in their ears.

All of this mental crap, that is, is taking them further, further from understanding who they are as individuals

and therefore being able to bring what they have to offer to the table and their earth suits to be productive citizens that keep things civilized

and keep the world moving forward.

Those mechanisms are now eroded and gone.

So until you fix, you know, what we are feeding ourselves and our kids, all this mental junk food.

And yes, I do mean we need to probably put labels on crap that we are able to watch.

And they are as silly as it is in the cells, is that warning, this may cause severe depression is taken or consumed over a long period of time.

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Steve, welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Oh man, my pleasure. Thank you for having me here. I'm excited about this opportunity.

Yeah, so I found out about you by way of our mutual friend and one of your co-workers, Jesse, who actually is, you know, the now wife and, you know, was the girlfriend of a roommate that I lived with almost God knows how long ago, about a 10 or 11 years ago, at this point.

And I remember when she told me like two sentences about your story, I said, I don't even need to do an introduction. I'm like, just say yes. We'll have, we'll definitely have Steve on the show just based on that.

So I wanted to start asking you, where in the world did you grow up and what impacted where you grew up, end up having on the choices that you've made throughout your life in your career?

Oh, absolutely. Well, I started off in Compton, California, just around a corner, felt a very popular high school, class in a 10 year high school, you know, kind of the hard route where, you know, some of the hip hop, the wrappers of the 90s all grew up and stopping grounds around there.

In our area of Compton, but what's interesting about my experience in Compton is, is exact opposite of what everybody hears, Compton to be about my experience more about the educational system and what I was a part of there.

My parents started me off in private and also put me in public schools and in Compton.

I guess I must have been a super low achiever because I was always that kid in the back of the classroom in every situation.

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