mean actress so finding work as an actor is it's hard it's not consistent and i just wanted to do something you know i wanted to be on camera song like you know let me produce my own video theory and you're  thanksgiving so i want to ask what you all do for thanksgiving tell us what let's go down the line or it doesn't i don't want to go parents i went to my grandmother's house and my family it was so much fine and everyone came down we just had know good vibes and great times with each other we had go food and everyone go to dish so it was really fine and i enjoyed it and then some people was like oh it's going to black friday i was just like oh ok it's ok don't worry about on that i really find so i enjoyed myself and i love my family so it couldn't get any better so for me i was actually in co op city went to go see my cousins we have food just great to k and then we went out to do a little still in the hospital after she fell after her fall and when she broke her rib and she's saying that she's staying strong all the way through the recovery and our hearts and prayers are with us so you know there's a lot going on here immediately and find someplace else to go all other has this this is serious this is this you know california has tri weather and they don't get much light precipitation or so and that's that here so one of the moment stat went explosive was the confrontation between the guy in the white house and see it jim acosta and just when you thought the relationship between the media and the white house couldn't get any wor was fasten your seatbelts because this is coming up on the right as you take a look at this challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in the terms that it is there we go well white why did you why did you characterize it as such and i consider it an invasion you and i have a difference of opinion do you think that you demonized immigrants you know this election oh no dr i want them i want them to come into the country but they have to come in legally you know you're just mean i felt you know i'm sorry for cutting you off i just felt like donald trump has the power to remove someone off his premises if pete doesn't want them there and of course he would use an excuse like he touched the woman inappropriately everyone is familiar with so to play that kind of song at that kind of rally is pretty upsetting and because she's not a fan of trump she was one hand to play and you kind of for music now yes trump is in a sense like a right he can play anyone's music but she just she's not  writing from a guy like him i mean i don't blame her i mean i get why she did that but i do think it's a little action because music is supposed to bring people together regardless of your view via skin color so i think her going out of her way to get a lawyer involved and have trump like big and strong and her music it's just a little like it was just a little extra you know i mean i remember but i understand she don't write it but i you put it also people play it but also because see where she's coming from where she doesn't like and she doesn't like the things that he do so she went on a plane i remember reading something on how she she called him anymore to be a quote unquote because she didn't like the fact that although not a u s citizen and she didn't like the fact that he was preventing muslims from entering the united states i don't know if you guys for me that issue when a lot of these people were trying to gain citizenship to be in the united states you know to live out the american dream who's preventing them taking them away from their kids i don't feel like donald trump is making a playlist you know play the music at his rally i feel like he and i love defending him i am not you know i do not support trump's views or anything that he's doing in this country but i do know this dude doesn't like his speeches i don't think because he doesn't do anything i feel like he's just being told what to do i know he damn sure is not picking out his music for whatever rallies a i think it's ok like what i do like is that these artists with big pop forms are taking a stand and showing their fans and the people that they do not support this man so i do think it's cool that they are using their power and their money to take action to show that they don't support this man so much that they are even want him planted to be associated with their music or any type of way i think that's a hole but then again it still is a little first several years he has been all over the place helping now and giving back to the disabled population and he has done counseling recovering heroin addicts and has a new book that highlights the visions of a true swimmer in addition to his hosting duties on evidence disability redefined so please welcome the author of aqua blue visions of a swimmer dr  discuss about your life in particular in what got you into modeling and that you're into like doing the show and then disability redefines the big jump how i got to be honest with you you guys are going to laugh about as i was i was modeling in my early thirty's i'm fifty and fifty now so in my early thirty's i had just graduated from my b a at hunter college and her a strong advocate of education i always like school i always thought i was very cool and help i was you know working in fashion and the whole nine yards but i always loved school so late twenty's i decided to go back and finish up with my first degree because early own in what we call traditional college age of such a thing exists these days and i left to go into europe because i did some work in fashion in europe in my late teens early twenty's so i never finished that degree and ended up in new york and then twenty five twenty six i was kind of eager to go back to school again it has nothing to do  not being cool whatever i want to contrast school is a very very cool and yes and had been bored so i went back to hunter i did a double major in creative writing education and when i graduated i wanted to write the great novel but i did not want to go to work in a nine to five it just wasn't in the cards forget that so i went to a modeling agency and they took me and about two weeks later i was doing some extra about ground work own law and order s fun but soon becomes boring you know what it does it really does become one of my one time my family came to see me and i could hardly speak because i had just done a car show and actually done some work for a t and t had done a samsung commercial which lasted about eighteen hours and i really was super exhausted and they were like you know what take a take a tiger take a few weeks off and i did so then at the end of that few week time period i got called to do a commercial in central park that was going to be seen in  mexico because we were it was about sixteen bold models and we were standing beside a very cute young mexican teenager and  anyway i was getting sunburned and they would not let me go to the trailer to put on my yes and about three hours later i was mean honestly you could put it together like that it was so rare and so i left the shoot i was a trooper i  stayed own set i ate because they always feed you very well and as a model you know sometimes you don't always have money to eat so i did eat and i won't across the park as it was on the upper west side i live on the upper east side which is also where hunter college is and i want straight into a hundred college got enough location this is back in the archaic days before we had the internet because again i'm fifteen yeah exactly i filled out the application and i went in the next morning and i'm like here you go and a few months later i got a call saying congratulations you've been accepted that lead into an internal shipping degree got sponsored to again i was a good student i got sponsored by oasis the office of alcoholism substance abuse services and from there that job led to the city university of new york which led to county leads which led to where i am now throughout the time or well it was somewhat of a pattern in the pattern would be i would leave school go go work in my background modeling and acting and then go back to school so i have three degrees i am a doctor and you all said i was a doctor i'm a doctor  the educational doctorate degree i don't don't don't bring medicine in front of me ok so innocuous but you absolutely have to be honest with you when i had to choose to go into my doctorate degree because my master's degree is in counseling i did not even want to do psychology so i my doctorate is an educational doctorate which is very interdisciplinary so caring for other people as most counselors will let you know is a very taxing thing i love my job but at this time i'm more in career counseling and career counseling within the my experience in fashion and modeling and the whole nine yards of it i always had one rule to live by and that was whatever job they gave you took it i don't care if it was doing a  chances are people don't really make it you know and that was the advice that that was brutal but as a teenager when i first started way down south as a teen model i was told early own chances are you're not going to make it so whatever job you can  take it yes and that was the best advice i ever got because i did it and my income tax from thirty to thirty four years old model actor yes not waiter not busboy not you know another you above that was a model actor you do have a question like you said you stopped acting at thirty or you started i started back at thirty i think there were two other times before yet i just feel like people at that age it's  working individual you've got to work out i have a paycheck i want to know like is this is going to be an inspirational story thus far at the moment but you know you have an amazing background in getting involved or helping out the disabled population what got you inspire into doing yes that is a good good question but that's a very good question i grew up with two of my cousins were disabled one of which i was extremely close but the book is actually dedicated to my cousin who was blind who grew up with an extremely close and she actually had another development on disorder and died in her late teens and she died when i was over in england so  s that was the reason why but listen we don't have to have any experiences to be hearing you know we don't lot of people get into social work and the psychologist and psychiatrist and home health aide attendants just because they just need to care for people you know so we don't need that and that was the case with me that i had that experience but you know what there were other cousins because my dad is what one of ten that didn't that was not drawn to help this individual you know so i was it shows a lot about that that was what i you know always probably would end up doing right yeah and it's not like any different from any other job you know it is what it is and i like it and i  do appreciate it one thing i will say though again while we're here and talking about work when you like your job you will always do the best you can do ok but the modeling acting and music and talk show host or whatever when you like it you want to do it when you get to the point where you know this is the career counseling coming out right here on t v in new york city when you get to the point where you say i don't want to go to my job or you're in a major in school or any of you in school up here and here and you're trying to find a way to get out i'm taking your major classes your chances are you're in the wrong major would see people running literally running to the professor's door to sign up so my overall advice is when you're not running to your job and you're not running to your major  so i have a question though what really inspired you to get really into being and also put a modeling in then also what really made you decide to get into becoming a doctor like changing it up and just becoming a doctor why you look at me like that oh well a lot of it had to do with what we spoke about in the beginning of the process yes you know that the modeling out thing is great and you can get really distressed nobody no major company was not knocking down my door anything of that nature i worked i put model actor on the income tax but it was talk about it all the time on my talk show you know that's a double edged sword it really is you know there are twenty percent to twenty percent of americans are disabled and yet many of us can name two out of all the recognizable actors two percent to have an actor that's not disable play a disabled character that like for example leonardo di caprio eating gilbert's great right now the beautiful performance but now the perform well i am going to side with the disabled community on this matter for one reason well for a number of reasons but the most important reason is because if you're disabled you more often than not cannot play a able bodied character ok so that kind of makes the playing field somewhat limited on the other hand if you are able bodied and go out for a disabled role then you have a e and we actors can get in there sink their teeth into it especially actors who follow a technique or are followed you know and really bring something to that role whether they disabled or not on the other hand we do nineteen hour days here so we have to have that in mind we have to can that be done with someone you know a disabled person can they do that i don't know what the answer is i think what i would start with to be exactly yes yes so in that respect i'm really pushing for more reality t v shows and of course i am encouraging all disabled artist of any county to pursue their careers as well what  have to quickly get into it because what we need is we need disabled individuals who are showcasing their careers who are showcased and their ability who are showcasing their successes a lot of those shows like drama like six hundred pound life or something that's featuring their disability so what we need is disabled care disabled individuals yes just putting it in realistic like we have in the positive you know if you have what i would love to do is put together a so we're going through a process now of trying to find the models and we have to find photographers and we have to so what i would like is defined a reality show that's going to follow a project from zero to one hundred and then along the way get to know the you see you know people of the ability i think it was ten years from now we will have what we are working for today and then probably twenty years from now we'll have where you know this guy this guy he's everywhere from harlem to brooklyn to everywhere let's just say that he's a journalist he's he's everything i'll tell you that for sure he inst the host of the ever popular show that is on and and and every week and best yet they're on their way to their third season and this is one of the reasons why we want to give an opportunity to tell us more about  please welcome one of the most handsome guys carpets and and been interviewing a lot of artist and sat want to one with them and i always had these moments where i thought you know i rather my audience be able to like have this conversation with me to be a part of the conversation as opposed to having to see me you know see it in post and  ask questions and comments how can i make them a part of this experience so i thought interaction and interaction so how about i build a show where we have a studio audience and all the people that you may aspire to be like that maybe maybe doing things that you want to do you can actually interact with  start writing the work for publication you create your own platform you can come out of it and then build from there so there's so many different way that i think that the story just people because it's kind of a it's not certain you don't really know what's going to be your brickell what's going to be the thing that takes you to be able so i want to talk to you about the guess that you had on your show and the moment section hats like tell us more about that like who can the highlights of the show like who has been like the best inspirational guessed it you've had on your show that's that's the interaction part that's the crux of the show right so we have a studio audience but you know any show has to be on every show in the studio audience so why or rather what's going to make our actual special which is going to take that interaction to the next level so there's a part of the show where we have a roundtable if you can't get enough of the spotlight we got all coverage to see more clips from today's episode or from previous episodes going to log onto w w w tiny u r l dot com slash the sixteen of december there's going to be movies from all over latin america south america central america in the course latinos from the united states i hope to see you there