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All of this is a blur to me. Most of it I was from the police report,

but I put him in a chokehold for my martial art stays. The L.I.P.D. recognized the chokehold I put him in.

Was a deadly chokehold, so they charged me with attempted murder. That's where that's where straight pepper diet my book begins.

Well, this episode goes all over the place. I think you guys are going to love it. We talk about addiction.

We talk about alcoholism. We talk about an addiction to massage parlors.

We talk about prison, prison reforms. Prison prison reform. It goes all over the place.

I am such a big fan of this guest today. Joseph Noss. He wrote the book Straight Pepper Diet.

I found it through Amy Dresner who's been on the show. She writes so candidly about her addiction story in my fair junkie.

And she told me to read this book. I fell in love with it. I just thought it was so real, but also so hopeful.

And he was truly so honest. Joseph talks about how he was raised by his mother who was a heroin addict turned shut in depressive.

And he talks about crime, poverty, like Michael said, jail. We kind of go all over the place.

And this interview is candid. He also happens to have graduated from Pepperdine. He is a lawyer.

He's an author of two books, The Straight Pepper Diet, and the Paul's Graph Revelation.

What I really love about his stories, there's a real arc to it. Obviously it follows somebody who

grew up in very hard circumstances who had to overcome those circumstances who along the way dealt with addiction, prison, all sorts of problems.

But really, if you look at Joseph's life now, successful author, successful marriage, really turned his life around.

And I think these are the type of stories people need to hear.

If you're in a dark place and you're looking for that bright light at the end of the tunnel,

stories like Joseph are really powerful because it shows somebody who really was struggling and who came out the other side.

So I hope everybody enjoys this episode.

And just to tease it a little bit, he was a lawyer. He went out for a couple of drinks.

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