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Yes, I do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=10.0,13.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Great. This is Daniela Trapani with Charles McCoy, PlantHero. We are recording on March 10, 2022 for the Queens Memory Project. Uh, could you say your full name and spell it please?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=13.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: My full name is Charles McCoy. That's C H a R L E S M C C O Y, but I'm affectionately known that's AKA as PlantHero.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=26.0,39.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Wonderful. Okay. My first question for you, um, was what got you interested in environmental efforts?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=39.0,48.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Oh, well, uh, in all actuality, um, I grew up outta Harlem and I was a very, um, trouble kid and, uh, and because of me being a trouble kid, when I got home, I was always punished, but I found out my mother like flowers. And what happened was they had a flower shop that was not far from where I lived at. And, um, I used to take flowers from there, uh, you know, sneak it, literally steal them and, and take them home. Especially when I know I had a bad report card and my mother was, she would just melt to seeing flowers. And, uh, and then one day the guy who seen me since I was such a bad guy, he was a trouble kid. I would say trouble kid. Uh, he, he stopped me. He says, listen, I'll give you the flowers. Cause since you are doing this, other kids are doing it, but unlike you, it don't seem as though they're, they're taking them home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=48.0,98.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: They're just throwing 'em all over the place, a form of vandalism. And, uh, and so, but because I was a trouble kid or know a lot of the bad guys, the bad kids after school, I would go to the flower shop and I would hang out there and, you know, make those small errands. But then it start being known that I was there and that offset the other kids taking flowers or, or plants doing all that kind of stuff with it. So, uh, by and large, what really got me involved with, um, horticulture or with plants itself was my mother because of her affection and love for them. And, um, and I just started making sure that I always provided her with plants or flowers. And I went to school for horticulture, floral culture and floral design. I eventually went to school for that. Of course that's much later because the ages, uh, time I'm talking to, to you about it's eight to 10 when I was a trouble kid and, you know, doing reckless things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=98.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Oh, that's so sweet. Um, could you talk about your personal relationship with Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=150.0,158.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Oh, my personal relationship is, um, is one where I actually, well, my wife is from Brooklyn. Her family live in, in Queens. Uh, my wife is her name is Keisha, Keisha McCoy now, but Keisha Badge originally. And, um, with me being from Harlem, uh, most of the time, most of the things I was doing was in Harlem or in, in the Bronx. Uh, I didn't, I didn't really, I didn't really come out to Queens too often or to Brooklyn. Uh, but what happened was she with her being in Queens, uh, by way of Brooklyn, her parents bought a home, I'm coming out to see her and doing things like that. And, uh, what happened was I got a, a job with, uh, well care doing events and, and doing these events, there were, uh, as PlantHero, this character that created probably eventually you asked me about how that got started, but this is what happened with Queens, because what happened was, as I'm doing this work with, um, Wellcare and doing, uh, horticultural therapy classes, my wife who lived in Queens at that point, I started saying, well, you know what, let me just see if we can find a place in Queens, which we did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=158.0,226.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And also that made me more accessible to other locations that wanted the work that I was doing as a horticultural therapist. And one of those people was Lynn Cole, who I, I am deeply indebted to because, uh, I never forget it when I first, when I first came to her, uh, you know, she works for children. And, uh, so she started asking me about the mechanics and what I was going to do and talking to the kids about plants and, and things like that. And, uh, everything was, nah, nah. And then, uh, I asked her, I said, well, what do I need to, to become better? And, uh, the more efficient at talking to children or other people in general. And, uh, so she told me what to do. Uh, she took her time. She was very patient with me, but very stern and, um, stoic as well, if you know, Lynn Cole.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=226.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And, uh, but I left, I left from there, actually with an education and that education, uh, permeated where I ended up studying more and watching, I was handling myself, uh, with other people and actually going volunteer, work with other children. And then I went back to her and when I went back to her, she, you know, she was like, she gave me this look, cause it was like two months later. Like of all the nerve I thought, I, I kinda like got you straight before. I didn't expect to see this soon. That's the look she had. Uh, but I, um, I satisfied her, uh, and, um, and our relationship lasted has been lasting, uh, for the past 13, 14 years. Uh, so that's how I end up Queens and I'm still in Queens and I'm, I'm, I'm happy here in Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=270.0,316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: That's great. Um, as you, as you alluded to, um, could you talk about PlantHero and how it started?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=316.0,326.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Okay. Well, what, what happened? I already told you initially about how I got involved with plants and flowers. Uh, but then what ended up going on was that at one point, you know, it's just a, it was a natural progression of me wanting to learn more about the flowers and plants itself. Uh, you know, about the whole part, not just with, uh, something that's nice looking, but like, what else is it behind it? And, uh, you know, plants actually clean the air. You know, a lot of people don't consider that, uh, what it does also, uh, it is the story that we always say is that if your person see green then, and I don't mean green, like in money. I mean, but if you see green then also does things for your soul and your temperance, you know? So when people walk out, they door and they see these buildings and gray and concrete, then they would have a propensity to, to not, uh, feel neighborly or, you know, or things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=326.0,380.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Uh, and so once I start learning that I gravitated more and more to that. And actually Daniela, if I was to come to your house and you got trees in your neighborhood, I probably would remember more about those trees or that tree that's in front of your building would help me to know where you live, that as opposed you said the building, you know what I mean? So I, I would more than likely describe that. But, um, so, so I, I went to school and, uh, I studied floral culture and, um, it was Queens College. I studied floral culture and floral design. And, and then from there, everything was like, uh, you know, a graduation type process. I, I wanted to know more and more from there. I went to horticulture and when I went to horticulture, I, uh, ended up getting some really nice jobs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=380.0,424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Uh, I got a college degree in horticulture, floral culture and landscape design. And that enabled me to work on a lot of, uh, multi-million dollar properties up in Connecticut. Uh, some very famous names, Keith Richards, uh, Donna Summer, Luther Vandross. And I had got a nice name for myself. So when I ended up working at the Hyatt, I did so work with one of the managers, uh, Matt figures, a GM not manager. Uh, and he, um, he requested me to actually, because my work, uh, that basically was doing the, his other location was seasonal. And he had guaranteed me that if I came to work at the Hyatt, then my work there would be not just, you know, seasonal outdoors, but they wanted plants in the hotel rooms. And they also had a green roof engineer program. They wanted to start. And they had offered me that opportunity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=424.0,475.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: They wanted really started up, uh, cuz they had a lot of leaks on the roof and I was talking to him about that. Cause I just see people in this nice hotel with buckets, trying to catch the water pulling from the roof. And I said, well, you know what? And he was telling me, he says, well look, that's a capital project. I said, well look, if you wanna slow that down, why would you just put some greens up there? You know, you could put some pachysandra , you know, put things like that. It, when it rains, it would actually be absorbed. It would, uh, lessen the runoff, uh, which would end up going down into the other parts of the building. And uh, he did that and he was very excited about it. So excited that, um, he was talking about some people at the Hyatt, the Grand Hyatt in New York and they call that the big show by the way, the Hyatt on 42nd Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=475.0,515.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And then they requested me to come down to the big show. You know, I was up in Connecticut and Greenwich they said, no, we want this guy down there, the big show. And uh, I still hadn't made my name yet as PlantHero. I wasn't called PlantHero yet. But what happened was, uh, they had a recession, uh that's when Obama became president, they had this recession, it was letting a lot of people go and quite naturally the business I was in, which was greenery that's one of the first things they cut, they call that cutting in the fat, you know, we don't need plants, we don't need somebody to take care of them. You know, I was very dismayed. And um, so I was doing light bulbs doing toilets, you know, green. I was a green roof engineer and now I got demoted, in my opinion, to being just an, an engineer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=515.0,558.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And since I was a trained engineer, I was doing other things like doing bulbs, toilets. It was called preventive maintenance in the rooms, you know, doing tech torch for squeaks faucets and stuff like that. And then it got so bad that they actually laid me off and a couple of other guys. Once, again, because recession was there and it was just trying to cut the fat. It wasn't nothing personal, nothing about my work ethic. And while I was laid off my little daughter, Maya, um, she got stung in the eye with a bee, when she got stung in the eye with a bee, I had ended up telling her she was going to school. She got stung in the eye. And um, she said, had to stay home for about a week. Eye really blew up really big. And um, I had to end up educating her about when you're outside, we're in their neighborhood, we're in their home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=558.0,606.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Now, if it's a bee inside, then you could do your Kung Fu fighting and all that kind of, but when, cause this is your house, you know, but, but when you're outside, you know, you don't wanna be fighting and stuff. Cause they think they, you want fight. Plus they, they, they got the ban. They could swarm you or they could do things like that. And in doing so that helped me to educate about this. I was reading these books for various books, you know, about the environment about plants, trees, the bees. I like to say birds and the bees, but it didn't have a sexual context. As normally we hear about the birds and the bees. And uh, when they, when she went to school one day, uh, and I was taking her cause I would drop her off. One of the teachers also, she was kind of fighty.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=606.0,646.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: I missed that part. She was kind of fighty anyway. And when I dropped her off to school, one of the teachers ran behind me and she still had her face a little swollen. And I said, oh my God. I wonder if my daughter didn't sock somebody because they talked about her having her eyes, those little, it looked like a thought was on her eye, but you know, kids could be very mean. And uh, she ran, she ran behind me and she actually told me when I asked am, my brain was like, okay, what did Maya do? And they said to me, no, but what she did and reference that harm, what did was very enlightening to the class. She had a whole conversation about, uh, the bees and about the environment. And it was so enlightening and we know that you taught her, we wanna know, could you come into the class and read to the kids?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=646.0,689.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And so now, and so when I, when I went to the school, before I went to the school, I was like saying, okay, what books I'm gonna take. And when I took the books and sat and talked and I'm very passionate about what I do and I'm talking to the kids and they was very excited, the teacher was very excited. And when I left the teacher called me that evening and said, other teachers want me to come there and do the same thing and speak to the classes, but in a group forum. So I said, well, I can't going in this regular. So then I came up this name who was PlantHero and, and, um, I went to on 42nd Street at that time they used to do, uh, caricatures. They probably still do 'em. So I went down there and I had the guy make a caricature of me, and then I went and made up a suit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=689.0,731.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: I had a little suit made up and everything. And, um, and that's how PlantHero began. So I went over to the school. I had a head dress on with plants. I had green on, it said PlantHero had the big belt on. I had some other little things, you know, to help the facilitate that image that I was trying to project. And, uh, and I read for them and we had a great time. Um, they actually offered me a job there, which I did undertake doing some grounds work there because they had a lot of areas that trees and plants that died, but they didn't know what to do. And so then I actually had them to make some raised beds for the kids that was in the kindergarten. Then I went to the first grade and second, and then my life go, my job called me and asked me to come back to work. And they asked me to come back to work. I wasn't happy I was there, but I wasn't there. I wanted to be back outside. I wanted to, I wanted to expand more on, um, on this PlantHero brand that I created, even though I didn't look at it like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=731.0,787.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Yeah. So, uh, that's a wonderful story. Thank you. Um, from, so from when you started giving, um, you know, presentations in schools, um, how has PlantHero kind of evolved and what are your hopes for the future of PlantHero?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=787.0,808.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Okay. Uh, the way it evolved, uh, was because, uh, when I was, when I was doing this and I was still at the Hyatt, by the way, but I wasn't happy. I was speaking to a couple of friends of mine and, uh, they was in a, in, um, the healthcare industry and they was talking about how Obama was creating this program. Uh, sort of like Eric Adams is doing now with food. Cause you know, he's vegan, he's doing this big thing in school. Well, Michelle Obama, she loved plants and loved growing things. And so Obama because of that was starting a green program. So he had said that he was gonna put all of this money into, uh, healthcare systems that wasn't just talking about, uh, helping people with medicine, but helping people to know more about plants and about the environment and, and like that. So the guy was I talking about how I was unhappy and, and he said, well, listen, Obama just released this money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=808.0,861.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: No, he's made this money available for health programs that will end up having this horticulture program, horticulture therapist. And I said, okay, well, that's great. I never even thought about that. And so I gave the people at the Hyatt two weeks notice, and they said, okay, but really it was like a leave of absence. They wanted to leave the door open because they, they did love my work. Uh, even though I was doing other things now my attitude, my attendance, they loved that. So I had like a, I think it was 10 months, uh, 10 month, uh, leave of absence. So to speak. As long as you come back in 10 months, you still got your job. I never did go back though, because everything kept going another direction. I was very happy doing what I loved to do. And that's what I also found out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=861.0,902.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: That if you find what you really love to do, it's not work. You know, if you really passionate about something and you're doing it. And even at night, when you're trying to sleep, you still thinking about your work and you can't wait to get back at doing it the next morning. And that's where I'm at right now. I'm in a happy place in reference to that. Uh, but to close that other part on it is, um, so he, he had worked him and his wife was working for WellCare. And so they had told me to come in for an interview and you are really going to like this story. So what happened was when I went to remember, I told you about that costume that I made and everything called PlantHero. Uh, so what I did, I had that in a trunk of my car, I always had it in the trunk of my car for no particular reason, just left it in the trunk of my car.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=902.0,942.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Uh, so when I went to the interview, it was a, a lot of people there maybe about 20, 25 people. And I'm an elderly guy. I'm a, I was an elderly guy then as well. And uh, most of these guys was young and they looked at very vibrant. It was all sharp, but everybody seemed to look same. They had on suits and tie, including me, you know, I'm ready to go there and make the good first impress suit and tie. And, uh, as I'm sitting there, I'm thinking, wow, these guys might have all kind of extra degrees. They looked and the way they was talking, you know, communicating, you know, I know the language I was speaking, but it was something else that I just felt as though I didn't have, or they didn't have. So what I did is I went back to my car and I put on my PlantHero costume with the cape and everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=942.0,988.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And I went back into the place and I went in there. The guys who knew it was me, was laughing, but this young lady was calling people. My name wasn't supposed to be next. She thought I was making a delivery or with some kind of like singing gram to put out some kind of singing gram or, or something like that. And when I told her who I was, and I was on the list and you could see on the list, I was lower than the people and she did say, oh, they gonna get a, they real kick outta here. We're gonna let you go in there right now. But I know that when she said that she said that because she thought I was gonna get the boot. Well, guess what? Everybody else got the boot. Cause when I went in there, everybody looked at me and they said, first of all, if you got the quote unquote \"balls\" to come in here like that, you are our guy, you know, that's the kind of the thing that they had look.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=988.0,1033.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And the few that they gave me, I hope I say that wrong by saying \"balls\" guts. I say guts. And you, you can edit it. I'm letting you know, you can edit it. You know what I'm saying? They had that look. So they, they gave me the look and they asked me questions and I was able to answer those questions. And most of those questions really based on, you know, how I felt about being communicative with, um, you know, with people. Uh, and this was for seniors, by the way, I was gonna be working senior citizen, um, uh, homes, residences, and going to, uh, senior center, community centers and things like that, you know? And, um, so, so they was very satisfied with everything. I said, as a matter of fact, they asked me what I, what I was looking for. And at the job I had prior, which was at the Hyatt, I was getting $35 an hour.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1033.0,1077.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And I never forget it because I always said, when I go there, how much am I telling these people? But you gotta know your worth. So when I went there and I said, I want $200 an hour and they looked at me and they said, okay, you got it. You start next week. And I said, okay, I gotta, I gotta put in, I gotta put in my, uh, you know, my, my, my request about me two weeks events notice they had also like I was doing that. So, uh, two weeks from that day, I started with, Wellcare. And from there I started working for other, um, how healthcare companies and for various reasons, it was all progressive. I left from one to the other, just different things. You know, I don't wanna get up to all of that, but everything was amicable my leave and then moving on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1077.0,1120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And I'm still in that business now. Uh, it's just a little bit larger now. Uh, I'm, I'm meeting with more groups and bigger groups. Uh, let me see if I answer your whole question there. Yes. So that's how PlantHero really got started. And that my future right now is, um, I just beat cancer. Uh, I had 18, they gave me, they had told me I had 18 months to live and, and telling me that I had 18 months to live. You know, whenever you hear that you got cancer, um, you know, it's like a death sentence. You know, so here was PlantHero and they're telling me I'm gonna die. And they said, 18 months, I was stage four prostate cancer. Uh, the GC score was nine plus, I don't know if you know what those numbers mean. The cancer was eating at my ribs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1120.0,1163.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And, um, at that point I had been studying nutrition. So I became, I had became a certified nutritionist. And so my circle had evolved the same people that was like-minded. And they started telling me about this plot called C B D oil. I didn't know nothing about it. And so I started taking the CBD oil, and now I'm 100% cancer free and I take no medications at all. So now the new PlantHero is cannabis or marijuana, and that's what I'm doing now. I'm I'm going around. So this is the future now. So we talked about the beginning and then I talked to you about the middle part. So now this is not the end. This is part of a new beginning now. And what I'm doing now is I'm going to public schools, city centers, community centers. And I'm talking about, uh, marijuana, CBD, hemp.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1163.0,1212.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And, uh, because it's something that's okay for a conversation now, but everybody need to know about the benefits. And then also the children need to know about the, uh, the side effects and the disadvantage of overindulgence, because I've found out a lot with the teenagers and people who's even just, you know, then in their twenties, but they're smoking every day. So, and then you got this seniors who are smoking, what they call on the down low, you know what I mean? So, so, so I'm, I'm educating the people. And, um, and, and so once again, it's a joy, you know, there's a lot of new legislation that's opening up. There's a lot of things that's going on. Expungement. I'm helping people get, uh, their criminal record erased, uh, who was arrested for, uh, marijuana charges. Uh, you know, so it's just a lot of stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1212.0,1254.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: So that's when I'm going for the future, you know? And, um, I still do landscaping cuz people call me, but I don't do the landscaping per se. I normally oversee the work. So I'm a consultant at that point or give people advice and uh, I'm still doing nutrition work. They call me all the time to do those kind of events. And I saying people it's okay for me to come into their locations and, and speak to everybody about, um, CBD oil, hemp, uh, and, and cannabis itself. You knows a lot of people don't know they want to do it. They want know more, but they don't know what they do. Cause it is it's, it's so much stuff they're being hit with. So I'm that guy, you know, I, I, I made myself that guy to go out and then there's another thing called an endocannabinoid system that everybody's not conscious of that. Are you conscious of the endocannabinoid system?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1254.0,1303.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: No, I'm not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1303.0,1304.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Well, the endocannabinoid system, we all got it. Everybody it who's alive, all animals have it. And what happens is this is one of the things that's one of the big secrets is that this, if you could get that, it's like a safe, it is protecting you. But if, if you have an ailment, then what happens is when people give you a prescription or you take medicine, it's not able to get through the endocannabinoid system because it's a vault, but cannabis, CBD oil, hemp is able to open up that safe for you that any prescription, anything that you're going to take, it will work. It now will work. And that will make you, uh, you know, now you could become healthy. And then I don't mean you gotta keep on using cannabis. Cause like now I don't take anything at all. And they exercise.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1304.0,1347.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: I was gonna be taking medication for the, the rest of my life. I take nothing at all. I go to the doctor again this week for another, uh, exam. The last one was three months ago. And um, up to that point for about eight months, I was going every month and they, they couldn't believe it. They said, you actually annihilated it. You obliviated the cancer, whatever you're doing, keep on doing it. So, um, to get back to the main point here now, so that's another word that I would just like to throw out there for the public - endocannabinoid system. We all have it. It was just discovered you have, you have 13, you have 12 systems, but now they found that it's 13 systems. You know, you got the skeletal system, the [unclear] system, the digestive system, you know, it, it is 12 originally. And, and that it has discovered the 13th one. And that was in 19, 1971. Israeli doctor had discovered it. Okay. I'm done. I'm ready for next question. I hope I'm okay. Am I doing okay here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1347.0,1399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Yeah. No, you're, you're great. You're great. Thank you for all the information, um, and sharing your story. Um, we're very glad you're with us and doing this interview with us today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1399.0,1407.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1407.0,1408.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Um, going back to nutrition a little bit, I wanted to ask you, um, you know, what is you, what do you see as the connection between plant-based eating and the environment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1408.0,1419.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Oh, that's a good question. Uh, and the reason that's, that's a good question. I gotta answer by saying this to you. A lot of people think that, uh, when they say, well, for example, I call myself a vegan, but I'm not a vegan. I'm a plant based eater because there's no such thing as being a vegan eater. It's no such thing as a vegan food. You know what I mean? Uh, there's no such thing. Uh, and the reason I'm saying that is because vegan is a, is a lifestyle, you know, and that's my answer for you that, um, the way it all goes is this it's all encompass. It is love of fellow man, uh, uh, animals, um, the environment, uh, I separate the bottles, the plastic, uh, I'm doing, I do that kind of stuff. Uh, you know, it really gets me when I see somebody, you know, this is real funny.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1419.0,1467.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: You know, they, they, they love their pets, you know, the dog, the cats, but then they'll sit down and eat chicken or they'll, you know, they'll eat a chicken or they'll eat a pig or they'll, they'll eat a cow, you know, eat beef. I'm not knocking anybody. I don't do no judgment, but it just really gets me because the reason it gets me is because if you got, if you love a dog or your cat, which is animals at that point, why don't you just have that same love for all animals? You know? And then even if you, if, even if you think like a lot of, a lot of people they tell, oh, no, I gotta eat my meat. I gotta eat my meat. I gotta have my steak. Well, you know, why don't you just make it less of an amount or want you to do some alternative meat?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1467.0,1505.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: I, I work for this company called Beyond Meat. I got the shirt on here, so I'm one of they brand ambassadors and shift. And I go around and I talk to people. As a matter of fact, I've been working at PLNT Burger, uh, making announcements and, uh, doing rollouts for foods for them. And I wonder the questions that people always say to me is they say, oh, that ain't healthy. Well, well, well, well, nothing is healthy if you're gonna eat it all the time, you know, let's get that straight as well. If you want to drink an occasion, if you wanna have an occasional drink, that's not bad. It's just that when you don't go with the moderation, you're starting to overdo it. Uh, even water, you can't just go crazy drinking water because then you'll flood your system, you know, there is certain things you just can't do, but getting back to the facts again, and, uh, alternate meat is actually, a transitory food.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1505.0,1551.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Is this as you can see that, look, there's something else out there that could satisfy your pallet, just like the beef did. And this, if you put off eating beef or chicken once a week, and if everybody did that, then that would mean more chickens or more pigs or more, more cows would, would have another day or another month to live. You know, you see, uh, you know, maybe I'm going a little bit too far on a, on a thing here, but I, that that's my feel for that. And, um, overall, um, as PlantHero and about plant base is that the combination of the two is because being a plant, person, uh, chef, and, um, and, and, you know, chef and eating that way. I found that I feel that every time I take that under I go into that undertaking, I'm saving lives. And so that's like a big plus for me. And then that's, that's the other thing I was doing. And I still currently doing, I'm not gonna say it like so far in the past, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1551.0,1610.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Yeah absolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1610.0,1610.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: I could go, I could go a little bit deeper. I don't wanna do that. Cause I could start getting into the nutritional value I could get into about, uh, toxic toxicity of different foods that you might eat. Uh, but to be quite frank with you, um, almost anything that you eat, if you don't cook it, right. If, uh, if you don't have the, the right mental attitude, when you're eating, it could, uh, it could make you upset or ding to do it to you, you know, with your body, you know, cause it is a little bit more to that. It's a, it's a symbiotic relationship, you know, when you're eating, you know, could you just imagine this, that same food that you eat that's supposed to be healthy for? You could also kill you, you know, people could die from and they are dying from it. You know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1610.0,1654.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: So, um, yeah. And then also spirituality, it's just like I talked about CBD oil, but also even though I was taking it, you gotta be in a happy place in, in your mind, you gotta in your mind say this is going to work. This is going to work. You can't, oh, I don't think this is going to work. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta go with it. You gotta, no, you gotta put yourself in that position. And I think that if more people did that overall, uh, when it comes to animals or environment than, um, this would be a happier place, not just to live, you know, but just to, um, just to do things in, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1654.0,1689.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Yes, absolutely. Um, thank you for, for that answer in talking about, you know, the plant-based eating and environment. Um, my next question is also in the, about the environment. Um, I was wondering, um, how did you, how do you think about the environment in Queens and in New York City and how do you think it's changed over the years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1689.0,1711.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Okay. That's really weird that you asked me that and the reason I use the word weird first, let me answer your question. Then I gotta give you a backstory that is PlantHero I found out and, uh, it's kind of crazy because a lot of times know you think people is doing something that's good. And then you only find out, let, just tell it here. Lemme do this here real quick. Uh, there we go right here. Sorry, I can't talk right now. Okay. So, so first let me, let me tell you this part here that, um, I I'm, so anxious to tell you about the backstory answer, ask me that question again. Ask me the question again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1711.0,1746.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Um, the question is how has the environment in Queens or New York City changed over the years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1746.0,1752.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Okay, well, this is the part, uh, we had Mayor Bloomberg that did the million tree project. I also used to work for the Parks Department. Uh, I worked there for two years and, uh, I didn't mention that earlier. I just kind of skipped over it, but worked there for two years as well. And, uh, I loved it, I just loved always being out, you know, in the parks, the winter even landscaping up in Connecticut, always loved it. And, uh, the, the quick answer or the Reader's Digest, uh, version of what you asked me as far as the answer's concerned is that New York City, all five borough it's, it's, they're becoming more green. You know, I, I see it. I see a lot of construction. Uh, I forgot the name, they call it, you know, the divider, a lot of dividers are being built now that's actually could put, they got plants and all that kind of stuff in it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1752.0,1803.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Uh, and they put the hardy plants, they put in like taxes and stuff like that. Uh, so, so, so from that perspective, yes. And they're also putting us some nice trees, some pears, uh, and that just sycamores and every, that was all over the place at one time. Uh, so, so they, they putting in some good stuff. I found out something, and this is where we might have a problem. Cause when I tell you this, I'm getting to expose somebody and what is this? My, my wife has allergies. And in, in the, in the spring, she has allergies from the pollination of the plant, the trees pollen in the air. All right. So I found out this, that million tree project was not a good deal because that million tree project means it's gonna be more pollen released in the air. But when you follow the money, you'll find out that they have people, uh, I think is miles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1803.0,1858.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Uh, oh my God, miles I miles I keep saying is the name of the company that runs, um, Claritin is it a miles Clavin? They actually had gave, uh, Bloomberg all of this money. Uh, well, like here's a big check, go get some trees, put some trees in. Here's a big check. You know, here's, here's two, $3 million, but you know, we are the good guys. We putting trees in for New York, but listen, they're making money because when they put those trees in, when they start growing and they pollinating, they gonna get that money back because now you gotta go buy these allergy pills and stuff like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1858.0,1896.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Mm oh wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1896.0,1898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Oh, wow. I rest my case on that one. Oh wow. You see how that, I'm the good guy I'm putting in trees. But in the meantime you got teary eyes. I do a whole show on people who, um, is suffering from allergies when the spring come. And I gotta tell 'em simple things. For example, wear a head wrap, make sure that head wrap you, leave it at the door. When you come to the house, if you got your hair out, the pollen, the, the particles is still in your hair. That's why you got the runny nose. That's why you're sneezing. And you messed up for days and even nights, then you take it. And um, if, if you're not making sure you get outta your hair, but why do that? You just gotta wrap your hair. You gotta wrap it until get past that. Also, you close your jacket.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1898.0,1940.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: You can't go in your house with it. You gotta leave it at the door. You see also, you gotta watch up for your pillar, the rugs. Some people still got rugs or throw rugs, but when it's that time of the season, you can't have that stuff around. You gotta take, you gotta literally get ready to take all your clothes off at the door and then put on something else. You know, when you're going through your house, because that's, what you're gonna do now is contaminate the rest of your house. And this is why you're talking on the phone and you've been home for work two or three hours, but your eyes is, is red and your nose is running. And as you're talking, you make these excuses. I say, oh, what, Daniela, you got cold. Oh no, my allergies they're really working up, you know, but I, but you're looking outside your window and you see all these nice trees that Mayor Bloomberg, uh, that, uh, okayed putting them in the ground.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1940.0,1986.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And he didn't have to use, uh, no money, uh, from the fund because, uh, the people who own Claritin and other allergy, uh, companies that makers, they have also just gave them a check and they stood there with that big check. Oh yeah. Yeah. Get, get, um, get a hundred thousand trees and put 'em in all over the place. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. How about now? So now this is not gonna get better. It's gonna get worse. So what is the answer to this, Daniela? Because we got trees and we want the green, but what is the cultivar? It's the cultivar of the trees that they planted. You see? So if they used the wrong cultivars, it's going show you right there. That it, it had to be some kind of issue there because there nobody to sit there on the board and say, look, we don't want those because the pollen, the pollen count would rise. And that's what a lot of news stations don't do during the spring. They tell you what the temperature is. But a lot of 'em, don't tell you about the, with the pollen count it's going to be for that day or for the week, you know? So you could prepare better for it. I, I'm sorry. I'm probably getting a little bit too, um, excited here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=1986.0,2054.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: No, no, no. It it's all related. Um, yeah, it's unfortunate. There's this negative side effect to trees with, you know, the pollen and allergies. Um, I wanted to ask you another environmental question. Um, you know, so we talked about something good. The trees also it's something bad at the same time. Um,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2054.0,2073.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Well I gotta interrupt you. It's not that it's something good, something bad. It's the cultivar, if they put the right trees in, you could still get the green, but they wanna put the flowering keys in and that's by design. And then the flowering trees, what it is, you're gonna get the pollen. So they look good. They look nice, which is only like for a 30 day run, you know, you got 30 days, 60 days max. And then also, uh, it's also what, what stage of maturity, which also let you know that. So, um, so, so I just wanted to throw that this is not trees per se. It's the cultivar. Is it that type of tree? Yes. So please go on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2073.0,2109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Okay. Um, and thinking about the environment, um, what do you think is the most pressing environmental concern facing Queens today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2109.0,2121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Well, well, first hand, I, I have a problem with water. I, I have with, I have problem with water. So the reason I'm saying that, and I'm very strong in that, and I know you asked about Queens, but I found this out to be like, most of the places that I go to, uh, in the city, you know, that, to me, that's a big issue. Um, what could they do? I, I think they're doing the best they can do by. Cause I see it all the time where they're changing a lot of the, the, um, the, the pipes, you know, that that's running through the city, they think getting up a lot of stuff and I stop and ask, what are you doing? And you know, oh yeah, we're doing electrical wiring under here. Okay, good. Oh, what are you doing? We're doing more, um, pipes for the run, the water through, we've got more residents coming in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2121.0,2168.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: And when you look at it as PVC, uh, and so the PVC is, is better choice than a lot of those other pipes. They used to have, um, run with the water, running through our system. When my daughter yelled Dad, the water is black. You know, my wife calls me, babe, make sure when you cook, don't use no water from the faucet with that Don [unclear] anyway, but she's always checking, trying to make sure because that that's makes you like shell shocked, you know, like, like I can't use the water from the faucet. And then I try and let them know, well, look, um, we have to change the system in the house also, uh, for when we taking baths, because remember your, your skin is, is porous and the organ and it's breathing. So you take a shower, you know, forget about sitting in the tub. You know, it's the water that we don't wanna drink, where getting in, in our body other ways. So what do you do? Uh, so you just gotta trial now down [unclear], but the answer to your question, I think the major issue is the water and what could be done about it. I, I think that, I think in all actuality, they're doing the best they can do, you know, this is, this is a major undertaking specialists start talking about New York City or just primarily Queens. So, so I just think that's the biggest issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2168.0,2242.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: So you're talking about ways to keep the water clean or make the water cleaner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2242.0,2246.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Yeah, that's correct. And I could go into other things. Uh, I got a, but it's related, but it's not really on point with questions asking me. I also got a problem with fluoridation of the water. Uh, they'd say that it it's good for you to do for your teeth, but it's been proven to be other issues. I'm not gonna go take you all the way down that area, but that's, that's another issue altogether. But so when I start thinking about it, talking about the color, the water, then also I start thinking about other things as well about the water system itself, you know, because fluoridation of water is almost like a form of a medication and nobody knocked on my door. Like when they take the census and say, would you please check here to let me know if it's okay. If we fluoridate your water, uh, nobody sent me a form. Nobody's asking anything they just put it in the water. And they're saying that, uh, the reason being is because it helps to, uh, to cut down the bacteria, but in the meantime, the same water's going through treatment plants before it's actually supposed to come this way. But you know, like I said, I'm still going through problems with the water. So my major issue is, is water. You know, I can't think of anything else off the top.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2246.0,2316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Yeah. Okay. Thank you for your answer. Um, and another question I had, you know, you were talking about, um, working outside a lot and working, you know, in the, in the environment of, uh, New York City and Queens, um, in your work, um, outside or, you know, inside, with the environment, um, do you see that there are any, um, is there any intersection or effects from climate change? And if so, what are they?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2316.0,2348.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: That's a tough call. Uh, in my life I've always found that, um, you know, certain things that go in life, you don't have any control over. You could, you could try to, but it's such a bigger picture. And then when we start talking about climate itself, I put that in that area because I'mma tell you something Daniela and anybody else who hear this, this part, this whole issue about our climate change. It's bigger. It's bigger than, um, what we might think of this right now, because this issue is really what started with seeding [unclear] of the clouds and weather control. Um, no, 20 years ago, um, 15 years ago when they first started, you know, they could actually start a war based on trying to make the, you know, like certain places were supposed to be warm. They could change the climate and then make it where it's cold there by seating clouds, it would block the sunlight. It's a certain thing. So, so we are, we're a little bit, we're a little bit, we're kind of deep in that. I, I, I really don't have a direct answer because gonna sound like I'm like a crazy man. If I just went on to what my theory is, because that's what it is, because this thing is so big.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2348.0,2421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: I don't have all the facts in front of me. And when I did, I was going crazy because also like, uh, like, uh, Donald Trump used to say, fake news, fake news. So you, you read one thing and then it sounds really good. And then you read something else and it goes against that. And then you read something else. So you don't know what it's real or what, it's not. So it's one of those things where I'm like sheeple at least, I feel as what I am when it comes to the weather itself. So I, I don't have a straight answer for you. Um, I just know that it's not like it used to be before. I'm quite sure everybody's aware that who's over 20 years old. Uh, so places that you to say you could go to for the summer, all of a sudden you get there and it's freezing, you know, cause it's, it's so it's so cold, it's cold. Not like it was before or you getting more snow, are you getting more rain? It's a whole change. And sometimes I think it's because of the, the Earth moving on its axis, it's a switch. You know what I mean? So, yeah. So that's another thing that came up with by reading. Uh, but it's really a tough call, Daniela. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's a tough one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2421.0,2486.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Yeah, I understand that. Um, okay. Pivoting to, um, another thing that, um, we've, we've all been dealing with. Um, I wanted to know, um, how you thought, um, COVID 19 has affected environmental efforts, whether positively or negatively.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2486.0,2506.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Yeah. You said how it affect the environment. All right. The biggest thing that I see and I follow when this is mask, the mask they're ending up in our waterways. This is the big issue nobody's talking about. It's ending up in our sewers. I don't see nobody addressing this. They gotta clean cause people taking the mask. So if they're all over the place on the ground everywhere, you know, they just, they just everywhere they fall, people pick 'em up. Why? Cause the mask hit the ground. It goes to the face. They, they don't want to, uh, I think that's gonna be the new plastic, you know, just like everybody's now doing the recycling. They're gonna have to try to figure out some kind of way to get people to know, do not take the, take the, uh, the mask and this, this, if it falls on the ground, picking up and pick it somewhere or do something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2506.0,2551.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Uh, but that is a major issue. And nobody's talking about it. That should be addressed. So that, that's my, that's my answer in reference to COVID once again, the COVID part itself. I was, I, I, I wasn't for the vaccine, uh, vaccination, but I had to do it cuz of my work. I'm not gonna get into all the particular areas of why and why not. Uh, but I, I got it. Uh, I got both vaccinations. I didn't get the booster yet. Um, because I go into these centers, I had to really get it because they would've stopped my livelihood and I wanted to get my message out. Especially after I had beat cancer, I wanted to get in these places. They wanted me to come, but I had to be vaccinated. Um, so, uh, so, so overall, uh, I look at the COVID issue itself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2551.0,2597.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Like I look at when you ask me about the weather, but then when you start thinking about stuff like black death and, um, the, the plague of, um, the 18th century in France, Marseille, France, uh, I think that's where you pronounce it. Uh, you'll see that these pandemics, uh, they do come up and they normally land three to four years. And once again, it's just something that's, it's out of they control once it gets, once it gets traction, you know, you just gotta be one of the sheeple, you just gotta go along with it. But it's other little things that go on that you need to try to address, you know, like building your immunity, you know, build, build your immunity, know what foods to eat such. You could be, you can strengthen yourself. But as far as the environment is concerned and masks, they need to figure out something to do with the masks that the people is just letting them, letting them fall and stay out on the street. You know, I, um, I've put an informal count and I've took an informal survey of how many masks that as an individual, if you don't mind me putting you on the spot, how many masks do you go through the week or have you worked through the week? Do you have a number? You never thought about it like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2597.0,2663.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Mm um, maybe one to two a week.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2663.0,2668.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: One, one to two through the week. And uh, and if a mask fall on the ground, oh, you know, put it on the spot. I'm not gonna do that to you. Let me do it this way. Most people for masks fall on the ground. They're not gonna pick it up because at that point it's useless, you know, but if they drop a bottle or a cup on the ground, they will pick it up. But for some reason, when they pick up the cup, they, they will do it. If, if, if nobody's looking, they, they would do it. You know, a lot of times I try to tell my kids that it's not what you do when people's looking, it's what you're doing when nobody's around. And not looking that you think is looking, you see, uh, but that's the same thing with the mask, whether people's looking or not, if your mask fall on the ground, you don't pick it up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2668.0,2708.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":": And, and the other people don't frow on you. Not because they think that, oh yeah, right. Don't pick that thing up because it could be thought of that. You gonna use the mask, you're gonna use the mask so that they don't want that feeling. And, and nobody else does. And who knows, you might pick it up, put it in your pocket to dispose of it. And then later on you end up putting it on your face, then you got another issue, you know, and you won't immediately address it to the fact that you pick up mask that hit the ground and some bacteria, something that's now on it and makes you break out on your face. Okay. But, uh, but to close out on that, uh, my biggest issue I see with the COVID is not COVID itself, but, um, the repercussions from all these masks being all over the place and nobody's addressing it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2708.0,2749.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Right, right. I thank- I appreciate the answer. I get what you're saying. Um, my second to last question for you is I wanted to, you know, more on a more positive note and you know, how we can be more active. Um, I wanted to know what you thought, um, are some things that people can do now to create a better environment in their communities?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2749.0,2772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Well, one of the biggest things is, um, caring, you know, you got it all is based about caring, you know, um, you know, I know that sound like a bailout, but that's, that's what it really stems to because I, I don't do judgment calls. I don't try to, when I do my events, that's one of the best things I always talk to people about. I'm not here to force you to become vegan. I'm not here to tell, you know, don't eat this, don't do this, don't do that. I'm just here to inform you, uh, about other things, other options. So, um, you know, so, so, so when you start talking, uh, with the question that you just asked me, if people just start caring a little bit more, you know, about theirself, you know, um, you know, oh, once again, like the mask issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2772.0,2818.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Oh, here's a good one. This is a good one. A person has a dog, they have a dog. So now people are conditioned to pick up behind their dog. Yeah. You see, they, they conditioned now, this is the thing to do. It's the right thing to do. So I think that I don't have a pet at this time, but I used to have a pet, uh, uh, pets over the years. And I would feel bad if I forgot my little plastic bag or something, you know what I mean? To have with me to pick up the, the dog poop, I would feel bad. I would stand there and I would ask, oh, could you get me a bag? Or could you do that? And sometimes I might have went to a little bodega and they came back and just scooped it up. Cause I would feel bad.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2818.0,2859.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: My conscience wouldn't let me just leave it there like that. You know? And maybe it's also because there was a bunch of times that I got outta my car, stepped in some and said, oh man, you know, oh, the people left, left the dog poop. And so I'm thinking that, oh, you know, they gotta think like karma, you know what I mean? So maybe it used to come back to me when I didn't do it. So, but once again, you just gotta care. And then I found that if you care and people around you, it's caring. I mean, if people around that is not caring, you went over now, I'm gonna sound kind of corny here, love, overtakes it all. And that love don't have to be love necessarily for everybody around you, but by you loving yourself. And some people may see you doing the right thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2859.0,2901.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: They will fall in line. They will, they will just fall in line, regardless if they doing the right thing or not, you just keep on doing it. And then if they do ask the question, Hey man, why you do that? It's a waste of time. You let 'em know when I'm doing, if you did the same thing and somebody seen you do it and did two or three more people do it, then everybody be doing the right thing. So I'm never really doing it for you. I'm doing it cuz it gives me a feel good moment. You know what I mean? I know I'm doing the right thing and it becomes so habitual that it's not about making me feel good. It's just the right thing to do, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2901.0,2932.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Right. And hopefully it becomes a domino effect that other people -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2932.0,2935.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: That's correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2935.0,2935.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: -also care.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2935.0,2937.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: I, I like that. I like that. And that goes, that goes all the way around. That goes all the way around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2937.0,2941.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Right. Wonderful. Um, okay. My last question for you was, um, what are your hopes for the future regarding our environment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2941.0,2954.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: My hope, uh, no, I try not to sound corny when I do these and uh, what it is, is this my hope is that everybody understand that we, we, we are all in this. It's gonna sound similar to what we just talked about, but that we are all in this together. And um, you know, like I'm gonna talk about planting trees. Um, what I mentioned earlier about the cultivar that not withstanding, but you know, go, go, go, go, go plant a tree. Um, go, um, you know, read a book. Um, do, um, you know, do do healthy stuff. Not just, not just for you, but for the environment, you know, like make a conscious effort to do volunteer that right there, volunteer, volunteer to clean up your neighborhood, the lots. Don't depend upon, um, the sanitation department to come through the area and shovel up and clean up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=2954.0,3015.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Cause they only gonna come about once a year, once every six months. But how about that in between time? And what you do is walk around, they'll get yourself some kind of some group together to help, to clean the stuff up, you know, and if, and if they, they don't have a group, then create one or maybe it could just be you and your family, you know, you go out and you do this kind of stuff, you know, or maybe you start some kind, something in your building and then, and then hopefully it it'll go further or contact, um, some other people in the neighborhood that's like-minded by having a meeting, you know, there's making some flyers or just talking to people, um, who go to the same store you go to and you see them. So, so, so I, I think really the future, uh, and for the environment, uh, would be much more better if, if everybody moving together at the same pace and whoever's not moving the same pace, it would have to just have to catch up. Cause they gonna want to catch up. You don't want to be part of it, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=3015.0,3069.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Right. Right. Well, I think those are wonderful sentiments. Um, I'm gonna end our broadcast. Um, thank you so much, Charles, for your time and this interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=3069.0,3080.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charles McCoy: Thank you. Thanks for having me Daniela. You did a good job. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=3080.0,3083.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882/transcript/39927/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daniela Trapani: Thank you. All right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/74876/file/160882#t=3083.0,3085.267"}]}]}]}