Dereck Jackson

And then I started hitting up all these contractor sites on Facebook.

I'm finding jobs.

So to this day, like, I think I've been self-employed for like three years with him.

And then I won't get too much into it because I got a long drive.

So I'm hooking up with all these big companies, right?

And it's crazy.

And I tell all these big companies my story because I tell them I'm doing podcasts because I want to help kids out.

I want to be successful so I could get back to Stockton, you know, because if you go to Stockton right now, it looks like some parts looks like freaking Mad Max.

It's just homeless people everywhere.

It's really bad.

And it just broke my heart to see my city like that.

So, um,

I'm just trying my damnness, you know.

And then me and my wife, we got a call.

My grandson got beaten to death, my six-year-old grandson.

And we didn't know what the fuck happened.

So the detective called us in, and he got me in a room by myself, and we're talking because my daughter ended up moving out so me and her mom could focus on a relationship, which was cool of her, you know.

And she's been through a lot of shit.

And so they're like, yeah, your grandson's in the hospital.

He's not going to make it.