Charlamagne tha God
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The Megyn Kelly Show
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Um, simply because I'm, you know, I'm not, I'm not a fan. And, you know, I don't think that, uh, you know, an endorsement, like people think that me not wanting to endorse means that I'm not voting, which I think is the strangest, strangest thing ever. There was another moment in that conversation where I even said, hey, that's third party candidates.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Whoopi told me she'll beat my behind if I bring up, you know. third party candidate. So I just think it's kind of strange where we are as a culture and as a society, where it's almost like there's either one of two extremes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And if you're a person who just, you know, simply chooses to be objective, simply, you know, chooses to look at, you know, both candidates and say, Hey, I think there's some right things here. There's some wrong things there. There's some good things here. There's some, you know, good things over here. Like just me being able to explore, uh, Both options are all options that are out there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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For some reason, it bothers people. And I don't understand why.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, I've looked at all of them. I've looked at RFK. I've looked at Marianne Williamson. I've looked at Cornel West. Like, I've looked at all of them. I've been looking at third parties since, you know, 2016. Like, you know, like 2016, people would say we didn't have the best options, right? But I felt like Hillary Clinton was, you know, overly qualified to be president.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But it's not like I didn't explore everything. I explored everything. After President Obama, I explored everything. I explored conservatives. I explored the Green Party. I explored Democrats. I feel like that's what you should do as an American citizen. I don't think the two-party system has been the best thing for us here in America.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I don't think there's anything wrong with exploring everything. I'm actually shocked that there hasn't been a third-party candidate that's been able to come along and like... really galvanize people, especially being that America seems to be, you know, so disappointed in the choices that we have now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think people, I don't know if people are necessarily, and I see the numbers, like I think I said, what, 22% of people, 22% of black people may vote for Donald Trump. I think that number's overstated a little bit, but my guy, Tim Ryan, you know, who used to be a congressman in Ohio, Tim Ryan always, well, senator in Ohio, I'm sorry. Tim Ryan used to always, he talks about the exhausted majority.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I think that's what most people are in this country. We're the exhausted majority. So it's not even just about being tired of, you know, Democrats or being tired of Republicans. People are just tired of politics, period. You know, and I think that's what you're seeing a lot of now. Like even, you know, having the conversation about, you know, who I'm choosing to vote for.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Listen, I've said it over and over what I think about both candidates. Right. And it's it's only me. I don't know what's going to happen between now and November. I don't think much is going to change. But if these people want people to be if these parties want people to be more energized about their candidates, maybe they should just run better candidates. I don't think it's rocket science.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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No, not on that aspect. I always knew that I was... you know, here to do something. I always felt that in my spirit. I used to be in my grandmother's yard in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, and the field, like, there used to be a field in front of her yard that used to separate my grandmother's house and, like, my cousin Gloria's house.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Back when I was smaller, the field seemed so big, but it's actually not that big. But I used to always be acting like I was on a stage, and I used to be acting like, you know, I was performing. And it was always like I was in a rock band. And then as I got older, it was like I was a rapper. So I always knew that I was... supposed to be delivering some kind of message.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And this is, might sound kind of crazy to some people, but I remember meeting a medium back in 2006. And, you know, he, he said to me, he goes, you know, he was just talking to me and he said, you know, you're going to achieve a lot of your goals relatively easy, but I just want you to know that, you know, when you get the way you're supposed to go, you're here to deliver a message.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that same medium told me that he saw like a microphone in my future. And he was talking about radio and he said, he, He was naming different radio personalities. And it was not spooky at the time, but it was just like, hmm. He even told me I was going to have a daughter. And that was in 2006. I didn't have my first daughter until 2008. So long story short, I always knew.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't know if you call it brave. I think that we lack self-awareness, man. And I think that one of the main reasons that, you know, a lot of people just aren't being honest with themselves, which is why the book is called Get Honest or Die Lying, is because it's so easy to be real with other people, but it's so hard to be real with yourself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And, you know, they have all of these cliche terms, like, I keep it real. But usually, the people who keep it real can only do that with others. But man, when that mirror gets in front of them, it's very hard for them to have those super honest conversations with they self. And my whole life, that's what I've challenged myself to be, just honest.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Because my dad used to always tell me something when I was young. He was like, man, when you lie to me, you're not lying to me. You're lying to yourself. And that's something that just always stuck with me. And you can kind of tell the people who are lying to their self in our society. And I went away on a spiritual retreat earlier this year, me and my wife.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And one of the things that came up for me during that time away was stop lying to yourself and stop volunteering those lies to other people. And that's literally what I wrote this book for. I wrote this book for people to stop lying to themselves and stop volunteering those lies to other people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Powerful words. Whoever that was who wrote that, they remixed Michael Jackson, Man in the Mirror. I just want you to know I'm talking about the man in the mirror.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I'm asking him to change his way. That's all that is. But whoever wrote that is absolutely positively true. The hardest thing for us to do is look in the mirror every day and be honest with ourselves. And I literally challenge myself every day. I wake up every day. And before I'm honest with anybody else,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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before I'm telling anybody else about, you know, what I think they may be doing wrong, or if I give them compliments on what they're doing right, I talk to myself first. Like, you know, that inner voice in your head, the things you tell yourself are really the most important. And that's what I do every morning.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, it's a chapter called Tree Hug the Block.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And, you know, I just talk about the benefits of, you know, doing things like forest bathing, you know, walking around in your yard with your shoes off and your socks off and just doing grounding exercises, you know, going up to trees, putting both hands on the trees, putting your forehead on the tree, taking a few deep breaths, you know, saying a prayer, you know, sometimes, you know, just sitting shirtless with your back
The Megyn Kelly Show
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to the tree, you know? Me and one of my spiritual advisors, her name is Yadi Alba, we laugh because, you know, she always says, you know, lay down in the ground, face down, ass up, right? And just let the earth, just feel the earth.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And man, you'd be surprised how when you're stressed out or if, you know, you're battling like a bout of depression or your anxiety levels are high, you'd be surprised how that just brings you right back to center. And, you know, we used to laugh, you know, back in the day at the people who used to consider themselves You know, tree huggers, you'd be like, oh, man, they just high.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Everything is great when you're high. And guess what? Megan, they right. You know, when you're walking around doing some grounding in the backyard, or even when you're not high, it really does feel great, and it really does bring you back to center in a real way. I like the beach, too. I like walking barefoot on the beach. I would hope I'm...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I would hope the only time you're walking on the beach is barefoot, but walking on the beach barefoot, going in the ocean, you know, you know, being in the ocean, looking right up at the sun, saying a prayer directly from the water to the sun, man, all of that brings you back to center in such real ways.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, absolutely. You know, I'm not against, you know, anybody who needs medication, you know, for certain things. But, you know, personally, I've never had to use it. I remember my father, even when I was young, when they were trying to put me on like Ritalin as a child, you know, my father was like, no.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, back then, though, it wasn't, you know, he don't need Ritalin because he don't need to just be on medication. It was he don't need no Ritalin. He needs Asbeat. Right. But even now, it's like I don't we don't we don't necessarily medicine shouldn't be the first thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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option all the time you know i feel like you know this is a glorious earth that we that we're on and like there's a lot of natural remedies and holistic remedies that we could be you know tapping into that bring us a those same results a lot of those uh things in the pharmaceutical pharmaceutical world do
The Megyn Kelly Show
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That's the strangest thing about anxiety, right? Like anxiety creeps up on you at weird times. It's those times when you're just literally laying on your couch at home and then all of a sudden you get up and you start checking to see if all the doors are locked, right? Or, you know...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like, you can be laying on the couch and there's a ceiling fan going and you just start thinking to yourself, what if that ceiling fan, you know, flies off and, like, cuts my head off? Like, it's just the stupidest, strangest things. But when it comes to, like, getting in front of a microphone and talking to millions of people, yes, there's a level of anxiety there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But for some reason, it doesn't give you, you know... those same panic attacks of just going through regular everyday life.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I have no idea why I'm able to get in front of a microphone and talk to millions of people effortlessly, but I can't be in a party with 50 people without wanting to go home, because I'm already having a panic attack, because I'm thinking about the worst possible scenarios happening.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh God, I don't want to deal with him. That is actually another reason I wrote this book. That's why I think small talk sucks because I don't think they understand when you're a person who's already dealing with anxiety and you've had to say prayers and do breathing exercises and put your beads on, right? And all your other things just to show up in the world.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The last thing I want to do is have a meaningless, conversation with a stranger. At least come into my life or come up to me and bring me a conversation of value that may ease whatever it is I got going on. I tell a story in the book about I tell a story in the book how I was at the airport and, you know, I'm a person who's been attacked in the street a couple of times, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like right here, right here in New York City, you know, just for things that I've said on the radio. Like, you know, back in the day, though, not anything recently, but like over a decade ago. But you still have that PTSD from things like that. So I'm at the airport and this guy comes up to me and he's trying to talk, but he's like... not really saying anything, so automatically I'm on alert.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then he finally goes... He's stuttering, and he's telling me that he has a speech impediment. So he's asking me to bear with him while he gets out what it is he's trying to get out. he cut the small talk, you know? And he told me exactly what it was from the beginning. So that one little moment eases my anxiety and lets me know, okay, this person isn't a foe.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's not any type of opposition in any way, shape, or form. He just has something he wants to say to me, and it's hard for him to get out. And if that individual who has a speech impediment can let me know that, we can do the same thing. We should be able to tell people, hey, man, I don't want to talk about that right now.