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To the ocean water podcast I have with me today

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Cory live a little bit of a background about my buddy Cory

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Cory's done warm-up and DJ work for over 15 years

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He's worked with Dancing with the Stars America's Got Talent

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American Idol he's done some stuff at the Super Bowl Cory's done a lot and

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That's kind of a professional background. I know Cory on a personal note

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I know Cory live as Cory and he's my friend and we've been a part of the same guys group

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For a couple of years now, and I just want to say thank you so much brother for

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Coming on and chatting with us today man. Absolutely, dude. Good to be here. Good to see you in the midst of this crazy time

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It's still good to connect as closely as we can. So thanks for having me man. I'm excited. Yeah, I meet you brother

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So when you're at home these days as we've all been and you go to order some food

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Where do you go and what do you get?

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Man, you know, it's crazy. I have been cooking

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non-stop

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Since I kind of have gone the opposite like there are a lot of people doing Postmates and Grubhub and Uber Eats and I am

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Uber Eats to my household. So so here's the deal. I got an instant pot, which is kind of cheating but

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I've become the master at the instant pot and and I've kind of really

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I've done chicken pad thai in the instant pot. I've done chicken tortilla soup. I've done baked potato soup

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but the ribs and

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the wings

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Wings are kind of my go-to

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comfort food

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Anywhere in the world like if I really need to feel good. I'm a wing guy. I'm from the East Coast

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So it's like that's what we do. We have wings and watch sports. So

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So yeah, but I've become an instant pot crazy person

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I've also been watching a lot of like Gordon Ramsay and kind of trying to trying to do what he does

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Which is nearly impossible, but I made a good fish and chips from scratch

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Which was pretty cool. So yes, I've actually probably cooked

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I think maybe one time we got like a Baja fresh burrito at one point

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But for the most part I've been stirring it up man, but wings are my go-to wings are for sure my go-to

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Well, we've been we've been we've been meaning to have a party at your house

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For a while, bro. So I'm gonna hold you up to those ribs, dude. Yeah, they're they fall off the bone, dude

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They fall off the bone. Just don't tell anybody they're instant pot

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I want dude. I want they sound so good. So so what do you um, what are you doing these days?

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And how did you get into it?

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BC before COVID. Yeah

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Exactly. So yeah, I you know what? I I

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I kind of always I've always been a performer so it's kind of always just been in my blood and and like I said

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I'm from the east coast. I went to college in

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Boston and then came out here and started working in a theme park as a dancer because I came out here with an acting degree

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Wanted to be a serious actor, but then I started doing I was just I love dance. I love music

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So I started dancing and I was a theme park

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Dancer for a Nickelodeon show then ended up hosting that show

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Took me a lot of cool spots got to do some really cool things threw a lot of pies in people's faces and slimed people

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And did all of that did the theme park circuit for a while

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and then that kind of transitioned to auditioning for a uh to host a tv show which I ended up booking

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For fox family and did 15 episodes of that one whole summer, which was really cool

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It's called the high-fi room. And um, I mean that was like I was interviewing christina

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Aguilera when she was genie in a bottle like it was like first days of these folks, which was crazy

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And getting to like interview boys to men which was nuts to me

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Just like grew up loving them and getting to interview them was insane

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So that show then got split because abc family bought fox family

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So they lost some of their newer shows that production team split up

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They started a new show called american idol called me and asked if I would want to come in and warm up a crowd

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And i'm not really a stand-up comic, but I love to talk and have fun

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I went and did this holiday special for idol with kelly clarkson and rubin and clay and justin and

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Then they were like we want to come on and do the season. So I started season three at idol

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and ended up doing

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Um idol for 14 seasons

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And then dancing with the star like so then once I started doing that other shows started to see me

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So like dancing with this I did 22 seasons of dancing with the stars because they did two a year

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Yeah, I did 22 seasons of dancing with stars america's got talent the boys smarter than a fifth grader

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Then it just kind of like became a crazy thing. So

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Then that transitioned to a lot of these companies who sponsored those shows like at&t ford coke

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They were like this guy's great. How do we get them at our national summit or our regional?

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President president's club so then then they found out I was a dj so that it was a two for one

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I would come in and host their summits. I would get their

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1500 2000 summit winners fired up I dj their big

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Events and then started touring the world doing a lot of djing for

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artists I would open for non-ticket headliners, so a company like bmw or

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Porsche they would they would do a an event for their company and hire maroon five

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But they would need a dj to warm up and kind of be their kind of opener

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So they'd hire me on as the opener

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so that's how I got to open for some great acts like john mayer and maroon five and just some cool cats and some

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Really really good people and now the transition is taking another turn and I'm taking all of that the 15 years of warm-up

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putting it in a book turning that into a motivational speaking platform and

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That's what I've kind of like, you know

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Post covid or during covid i've been in it

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Kind of creating my vlogs and creating material and just coming up with content for writing the book and

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Just this motivational speaking platform that I want to take virtual now and because I I lost every gig through the end of the year

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Yep, so every gig went away

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So, you know, it's all about the pivot and how you do it

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So sorry that was a little bit long, but that's kind of the story in a nutshell

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I love it, man

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I've been friends with you for a long time now and i'm really excited to read

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What you're going to put out and I do think you have something to say and I think you're going to do

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extremely

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Extremely well, i'm really excited. I'm really excited to see this this next chapter for you bro

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I think it's going to be really cool. So like if if current if current corey could talk to like

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20 year old corey, what are what are the things what are a few things you might say?

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I think the biggest thing that uh

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Uh current corey would say to past corey is that you're not going to perfect anything

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I'm a perfectionist

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on doing things

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I gotta wait till it's just right

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You know, um, and I was listening to a speaker. I forget who it was

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but um

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You know, they they said start now like don't wait till you're ready start now

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Uh, so I think that would kind of be it and honestly when I look back at the trajectory of my life. I know that

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God purposed it for a reason. I know

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That the 15 years of warm-up. I I mean

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You know, it's really hard being the second person being the person that nobody sees but everybody kind of feels

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Your work because I'm getting 800 people 1500 people fired up and then ccrest comes on stage or carlson daily or tom burgeon

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And they get all the credit

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Everyone knows my work. So i'm probably you know, the most popular person that nobody knows

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Um, because they know everyone else's work. That's a that's a great life goal. Yeah

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So it's it's which is okay because you know, there's a lot of pressure that comes along with sure, you know

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Being in everyone's feet 24 7. So it's okay with me. Um

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I think yeah, that's what I would tell my younger self is it's okay to to just dive in and don't worry

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Don't let don't wait for everything to be perfect

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There's not really any anything good that can come if you have something completely perfect that the the real work and the real

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uh satisfaction comes in the process of trying to perfect something and as you know

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so a lot of a lot of uh growing and

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It's like one of my favorite questions to ask, you know, what are you what are you interested in these days?

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What are you what are you curious about?

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I'm reading teleprompter all the time

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legacy builders in the world, so i've already i've read five books during quarantine and

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You know, i'm not a reader, but I can't get enough of it and and part of that is also

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My time with god. I I I have really I have really you know, uh

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I've dove into scripture really i'm not the best at my script my scripture

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So I really want to you know, just have that time with god and what does god want in my life?

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Especially because i'm at the point where I want to build legacy. I want to build my own legacy

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So where where does god how do I fit in?

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With that what does god's plan look like in my legacy building?

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So that is that has got me like on a whole other trip. I i've really like i've picked up

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I've spent hours just trying to again

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Like that was one of the things that was like no this this vlog is not perfect

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But i'm going to publish it anyways

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It's like because i because i'll look back after 100 vlogs and i'll be like wow

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I was really bad when I started but you see how far you've come, you know

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So yeah, so those are the things that really piqued my curiosity or what are leaders doing right now?

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How are leaders still influencing the world?

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I listened to a great sermon this weekend and it was you know, and he said practice doesn't make perfect practice makes permanent

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What are we trying to make permanent in our life?

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You know, and so I I kind of had to shift priorities a little bit in that but

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Yeah, i'm that's that's kind of where i'm at is is telling a different story here in the second half of my life

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That I told in the first half of my life. I think the first half of my life the story was all about me

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I was the main character, you know, I think we all get kind of caught up in that we tell we want because

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You spend that part of your life trying to accomplish these goals. You want to check mark those boxes for you?

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But now i'm at the point where i'm like

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I've i've checked off enough boxes who who can I help check off their boxes?

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So that's the second half and that's kind of where my focus is now

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That's great, man, I mean just listen to you talk I can you got a lot to say dude

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And it's good, you know, there's a difference between

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saying something

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Yeah, I agree, you know and you've got something to say so it's cool. It's cool to watch it come out. This is like

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This is no, this is great, man

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So good, uh, so

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You know, what are what are one or two things that that you've you know, maybe failed out along the way that stand out?

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You're like, whoa, I wish I wish that hadn't happened any anything big, you know a lot of

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Passing on, you know, like advice is is sharing things we we blew it at

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I would say you didn't stand out

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I would say I mean everything i'm successful at I failed at so like I like that's the thing is that

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Put it this way if you end up becoming successful at something chances are you fail at something

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Successful at something chances are you failed at it?

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But you were passionate enough about it to learn from that failure and to move on so like for me

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Like there were times I got caught

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Going like this telling an audience to make like just waving my arms like a crazy person to get people to clap

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And i've had, you know directors yell at me. Um

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Actually, I could I could give you a specific

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Uh rock star it was rock star in excess. So dave navarro was the host

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It's a crowd like, you know that would

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Like underground like you're talking about the whiskey a go-go or I can't think of the other place on um

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Rock people, you know what I mean? You've got like in excess dave navarro like stone temple pilots like these folks

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So first of all when I came out on stage the the smell of alcohol in the room

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Because of the hangovers that were happening. This was sunday morning. I swear some of those people in the audience did not go home

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After their saturday night, they went straight to the studio. So now i've got to get a studio to scream

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At nine thirty ten in the morning after they're been out all night going crazy. So

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This is my first day doing this doing the show for my friend and i'm filling in for my friend

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Um, it was I was trying to a lot of these shows are shot 360. So it's almost impossible

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For you to not be in the shot

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But I have to be in the shot

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I have to be in eyesight of the audience so then for them to see me get them going

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So they know when to clap and when to bring it down and all that stuff

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And then not in the eyesight of the camera so they don't see me manipulating the audience in any way

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And so i'm trying to hide in the crowd. I'm trying to get them going and it was just a tough crowd

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And at one point i'm i'm running through the through it and one of the producers came up to up to me during the show

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And just he just laid into me like what the hell are you doing? You are the worst

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You're absolutely terrible like like letting me have it like I can't I mean he was swearing at me and I mean, I'm like

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Nice to meet you. Like i'm corey. This isn't even my real name

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This isn't even my regular gig like to the point where if it was my gig, I would have walked out

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I would have walked out right there because no one deserves to be treated like that and i'm working my butt off to make your show work

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um

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But it was my buddy's show

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And I didn't want to to walk. I was like, you know what? I gotta stay here

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I gotta just you know, I gotta take it on the chin. I gotta be I gotta

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So that was at the beginning of the show so that I had to do two hours of a show after I just got ripped

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By the producer of the show completely annihilated and it was a mark bernett show

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So it's it's his whole crew his whole team and mark bernett does everything

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um, so I you know what I just I went and I did it I did it the best I could and

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You know, I just turned it around. I'm like I can't

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And so my buddy went to the show

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It really that one threw me off because then I was like, I don't why am I even here?

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I'm trying to get your people excited and I should be on stage hosting this show

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Like i'm a better host than dave navarro. You know what I mean? I could be up there hosting the show

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So it was a lot of pride involved and that kind of rocked me for a few months

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My buddy went back to do the show and even like one of the producers came up and said what was up with your buddy?

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Was he high on drugs? Was he drunk?

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And my friend was was like that's funny that you would say that because he's never done a drug in his life

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And I I know he didn't show up drunk and then all of a sudden

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Like the cameraman that knew me from idol the cameraman that knew me from so you think you could dance

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The the sound guy they all were like no, that's no cori doesn't so immediately like they were all on my side

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I didn't even know that I just was like

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That's you know what I mean, but

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That is a long story to say that like there's sometimes even in the midst of your failure. You have to just continue

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to trudge through it because it's icky and disgusting

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But man, I I mean after that mark bernett called me to do the voice mark bernett like it's crazy the turnaround on that

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When all of a sudden he's calling you to do shows and i'm like, yeah, i'm the guy you thought was high and drunk

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But you can't hold on to that right if you it's just like it's like a quarterback

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You have to you have to have amnesia because the second you throw a throw a pick

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You've got to be thinking about the next touchdown you're going to throw you think about the pick you're going to throw another one

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You're going to throw another one. So that's the quickest thing you can do is assess the failure. Why did it happen?

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How can you prevent it from happening in the future? Should you want to continue down this path and then hit the delete button?

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Right get rid of it. So you pull those pull the nuggets and get the get rid of the rest you sift through it

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You know you sift it you grab the gold you get rid of the rest and it it'll apply

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It applies to anywhere if you're in corporate america if you're in the entertainment industry sports

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It's just it you sift for the gold and you get rid of the rest

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I love it, man. It's so good

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Yeah, we've all gotten our butt kicked a few times. Let's get the look back and

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Yeah, try to figure it out. Oh, it's it's good. I haven't thought of that one in a minute, man. It's been a couple

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Yes, we've all you know, we've all been I like what you said about being thrown off. I've had that

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I've had that happen to me many times. It's like you're yeah

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So it's uh, it's good to be reminded that we can um, we can get thrown off and not but not thrown out. It's good

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely

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We want to hang out like a little bit of a little bit of a right and um

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Let's talk a little bit about kind of the world of water for a minute and yeah, what's your

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Thank you so much by the way for sharing a lot of your background. So interesting

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Absolutely all the different people you've met along the way and all the different

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Circles, you've had a chance to interact with it's really really fun to listen to

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So what what would be kind of your understanding of like what's

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What's happening in the world in in with with regards to water would be like your understanding of that

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Well, I know that like I mean, obviously we've chatted since you know

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We're friends we hang. I mean, we haven't talked

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into super crazy depths about it. So um, it's not that so my opinion isn't

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like a like supersuade by our conversations, but just knowing that

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Water takes up the majority of our globe

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right, so

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And and i'm sure you could speak to this but

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There's a large percentage of that

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That is inadequate for people. Um, it's not it's not adequate inadequate water supply

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So while it makes up the majority of our planet

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um lacks

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Uh, you know the health element that it needs all over the world

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I know that there are spots all over the globe that are struggling and

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to me

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especially like I mean, I love working out and I love staying fit and that that kind of thing, but

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In the middle of all of this water is the water is the great reset button

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Right water is the ultimate reset button

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Like if you're it it'll you're not sleeping at night drink more water

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You're sleeping too much drink more water your I mean water is the great reset button and and there are so many

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countries that don't have access

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to

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Water that will reset their body the water that they have access to actually makes it worse. So

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And I think it's hard. I think it's hard because

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Obviously, what do you see on tv? You see people starving. They don't have enough food. You see disease outbreak, but

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Water you can you can you can survive on water

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But for some reason it doesn't get the headlines

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Like, you know, let's feed the homeless. Let's shelter these it and all of it's important

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But I feel like water doesn't get the headlines it deserves

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Yeah, if that makes sense

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Yeah, it does make sense and you hit you hit the nail on the head. You know, the the earth is covered with three

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three quarters of water and

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You know and also the

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Water that we have in the world is

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Only about three percent of it's what we call potable and what that means is that it's

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In the state that it exists in

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and so and for the most part those those

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The places in the world where that water is available. It's it's what it's already tapped as we can say

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It's it's already sort of tapped and taken

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The problem is is so right now in the world, you know, there's about eight billion people

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Right now the the water problems that about a billion person problem

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If you look at population projections, so like in the next 30 years

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We're going to add another another billion people supposed to be at nine billion people by

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By 2015 and the majority of the population

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Growth is going to occur in the areas of the world where right now we have the most of the

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Water problems, so

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for for for example, I was I was contacted, uh

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Just a few days ago from a girl in singapore

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My wife and I set up a zoom call with her and we interviewed her. She's a girl named Candice

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She's 25 and she had taken a trip to Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea

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Few people know this actually has the greatest kind of water

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Access problem on the planet right now. Wow little known fact

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So we're kind of working with her and her about how we can be a part of that

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solution because

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Kind of the paradox or kind of the big problem water is that

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The people who need it the most

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Actually pay the most money for it

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Mm-hmm. So and it's yeah, you know it as someone who

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Loves god and is trying to love people

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You know, we're trying to love people

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you know, we're really excited to step into

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Uh places and problems where we can solve people's, you know access to water

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Yeah

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as a surfer

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Right my dad started me surfing when I was 12 and then as I started to do my

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My doctoral work. I started to understand. Wait a second. We actually have all the water that we need in the world. It's in the ocean

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So how can we make

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that water available to

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To people that need it

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And then and then as you start to study water, there's really two schools of thought there's there's people that believe you should you should charge

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Uh money for water. We want to people view water as a commodity

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Yeah, and uh, and then there's other people that view water as a fundamental human right. That's kind of my view

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Yeah, so

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One of the exciting things, uh

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One of the reasons i'm so committed to these conversations is because

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Water is something that that's a solvable problem. It's also something people understand

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You know, and it's really easy for people to understand. Oh, wow. We actually have all the water we need in the ocean

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How do we how do we do projects that can make ocean water available to people where they need it?

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Thank you for like chatting with this because you know

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Change happens when we change the way that we think yeah and and first

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First we have to raise minds. We have to change the way that we think about things and

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Helping people to understand that you know water is a human right helping people to

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To understand we actually have all the water we need it's in the ocean and then helping people to understand

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How do we view water is it not as a commodity?

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But as a but as a human right? Yeah, and then and then how do we view water?

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Yeah, and then and then how do we you know, so for example in El Salvador, we've installed a system

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That turns 360 gallons of ocean water every day into into clean drinking water and what that does that system provides

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water for 38 families

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In palmercito and as you start to do the research in the world

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You start to understand that really the people in the cities in the suburbs are doing well

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But it's but it's kind of these pockets of the forgotten

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It's like these rural areas and these these villages and these beach towns that are kind of off the track that

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That really need our help. Yeah. Yeah, that's so it's really really

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Interesting when you start to look at it's amazing. Yeah

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That's amazing

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Yeah, it's cool. It's cool, too

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How I love having these conversations because every every good thing that's happened in my life has always come out of a relationship

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With someone and it's always come out of a conversation. Yeah, you know and and I I

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Really passionate

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Passionate about that and I love god because god always gives us a perspective for others. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, dude

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Yeah, that's cool

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It's really awesome. That is awesome. Yeah, thank you, dude

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It's really fun to have these conversations and I appreciate um, you just taking a little bit of time with us today, dude

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You've um, you've

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Done a lot. Um, i'm i'm excited about

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Your your next chapter

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You you you at some point told me that I could call in a favor and you'd come dj something for uh,

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So as soon as I find um, dude, i'm on it. I think I know I know I know you are you're you're bro

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And as soon as we can find a date

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For our for our one year party for ocean water. Yeah, i'm in the dj. That'll be a lot of fun

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We'll get jesson who's whose photo you left up there in the background. We'll get him down

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Yeah, exactly

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Um, yeah, you know and and yeah fundraisers whatever, you know, it's it's it's however I could contribute and you know, hopefully

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You know some people start

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Getting on the uh the track to wellness and getting healthier so that we could start bringing groups together because

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that I I mean

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Like with everything this this this only hurts the progress of your clean water project because

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Yeah, without having the opportunity to come together with groups to to to brainstorm to build to create to produce to brand it

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You know, I mean zoom is cool, but you you need physical you need to physically put these things in places

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Yeah, you're right. I've already had to cancel two trips to el salvador

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I might have to cancel. I don't know. We're we have a trip to bangladesh. We want to do in december

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We have a site we have a group of people we want to install a system. We want to help people

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Start a church there. So, you know, yeah, i'm i'm along with you man. I hope that we're able to get together soon and um,

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But dude, are there any um, there any last words we need to hear from hear from corey today brother? What do you got for us?

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What do we need to hear? What do we need to hear on the way out dude?

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Well, you know what it's it's been a uh, it's it's been an interesting time since march

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But I really feel that the past couple weeks have been a little more

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Taxing on people I think in march people were like, okay, this isn't fun. But by july will be good

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And now it's like

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Yeah, we're we're not even done with wave one and we're going backwards again

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So there's a lot of that. Um, just that unrest that's beneath the surface and that's just

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I'm i'm just talking about covet. I'm not even talking about

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Race relations. I'm not even talking about an election. I'm not even like that like

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So to me, especially like what i've been thinking on like for this week is

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Um, don't talk about it be about it

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Right. So that's kind of my that's kind of my mantra for the week right now. It's kind of what i'm i'm kind of marinating on which is

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Uh, it's okay to talk about it. But you know

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We all know action speaks louder than words. So it's it's

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It's it's okay to talk about it, but don't just talk about it be about it. How can you be about it? So

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Um, don't just talk about change be about change. Don't just talk about

444
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You know

445
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Living a healthy lifestyle be about a healthy lifestyle, you know

446
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If it means that you have to abide by certain rules if it means you got to put a mask on if it means you have to stay six feet apart

447
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If it means

448
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,760
You know, you can't hang out with people for another month

449
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,280
You can't do it, but don't talk about being healthy if you're not trying to be

450
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,680
That that way so that's it man, you know, and it's for everything

451
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,000
It's for everything you want to do right for all of your goals

452
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,040
It's for everything you want to do right for all of your goals

453
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:41,560
It's like you could talk about your goals and it's good and vision boards are great, but it's it's not until you start being

454
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:47,640
About it that they start to all of a sudden become tangible and you can you know, you can touch them

455
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,240
You can feel them you can hold on to them. So that's it man. Don't just be about it

456
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:55,240
Don't just talk about it be about it and and you're like a you're a huge example of that

457
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Because this was this was the brainchild that you had years ago and you said you know what?

458
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,520
I'm good, man. I I got a chill gig here. I'm like i'm in a good spot

459
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I'm at one of the best places in the world

460
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um

461
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,840
But you know what like you it wasn't for you. You're you had to be about it

462
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,240
You had to be about this water movement

463
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:23,000
So you left that dude and you got into a super uncomfortable place where nothing is guaranteed

464
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,840
Nothing is guaranteed and going to these places these spots that don't have water

465
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:33,240
They don't have a lot of things so you're going to places that yeah, you're bringing water

466
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:39,560
But like the resources to be able to build these these filters and these divide like you don't have a lot of that

467
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So you have to really rely on god. So for you

468
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Like you are an example of being about it. So um, so just keep doing what you're doing

469
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:54,360
And for those those who are watching, you know jump in and be a part of this because all of this stuff

470
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:59,160
all of it needs to be addressed and you know, we need to we need to

471
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:05,560
Start start remembering our neighbors and lifting up humanity instead of just you know, one-upping our

472
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:10,840
You know our garage and in the cars in our driveway and that kind of stuff. So

473
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,840
So there you go. That's it. Don't talk about it be about it

474
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:21,400
Thank you brother. Hey, Cory. Love you brother. Thank you, man. Love you too, man

475
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:26,460
Okay. Have a good one, bro. All right. Thanks, man. Take care. Thank you, too