I'm Dr. Laura Schlesinger and you are listening and watching another special episode of this crazy idea I came up with talking to people about the backstory.

I mean we have wonderful sponsors. We only take sponsors

who have a wonderful service or product that's fabulous. So that goes without saying. But I just

find it fascinating to know how we got from a fertilized egg to a person who creates golden crest metals.

Rich Jacoby, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Dr. Laura.

And speaking of the backstory, how did you become a fertilized egg?

Tell me about your parents.

Where are they from?

What did they do?

So it's kind of interesting story.

My dad started out as a military policeman in the Army in Vietnam.

And my mother was a hairdresser.

So came up in a kind of an eclectic family upbringing.

But my dad kind of geared me towards going into the military

and I actually went into the police force.

I went into LAPD for a number of years and wanted to help people out.

You know, that was my main goal, you know, and I told my dad the same thing.

So when I did it for a couple of years,

I found out that I wasn't really making a difference.

You know, it's kind of a vicious cycle of, you know,

a lot of the calls were domestic violence,

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