World Peace Gets 0% Funding — And Nobody’s Talking About It

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Welcome to this episode of your ultimate life, the podcast that I created to help people learn how to create their life. To have a life of purpose, prosperity and joy by loving and serving with your gifts, your life experience and your talents.And I'm excited to have special guest today, Rick Del, who is unique in many ways as every guest is. But Rick, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Kell. I'm delighted to be here.

You're just welcome. And I don't do intros. And so because I want it all to sort of come out in the show just because I think that's more fun.So a question I like to ask to start with not always, but often is. So tell me. And I don't want you to be modest. I just like you to tell me, tell the listeners how Rick chooses to add good to the world.

Well, the first thing I do is try to be as humble as possible when I wake up in the morning. That's like step one.And realize that all of us are very unique, very special and all of us have something equally as important to bring to this experience is probably why we're all here.And then I think, how can I ignite or play a role in helping someone get their what is already in their potential, just out there, move them further or assist them further in their journey. And so one of the ways was a poem that I wrote on 9 11.Watching the events from less than a quarter of a mile away from a rooftop and trying to live up to the words of that poem. And in living up to the words of that poem, I found myself in a lot of wild situations, almost like I walked into the screen of a movie.I mean, I found myself reciting that poem at a jazz festival in Savannah, Georgia, for over 8,500 people, putting it to music and playing what became the first ever Jazz for Peace concert in upstate New York, still less than a month after 9 11. And then, you know, finagling my way into the United nations where I brought led a band of Israeli, Palestinian and American jazz musicians.And the more that got ignored, the more relevant it became to the point now where people feel it was one of the most significant cultural events of our time. But I feel what made it significant is a benefit concert series and that gets To. Back to what I said, helping realize their potential.I try to help nonprofits and outstanding causes and anyone with a dream get from where they are now to where they need to be, closer to where. And that's what that does. It's something called. It's a model called an empowerment tree, and it has seven different branches.Only one of them is funding as only one of them should be. That should just be one piece of your puzzle. And we have, you know, I showed you a page. It's an archive page. And it's. It's a big long.You know, it's a big long, like, you know, jazz repeats.WordPress.com forward slash, about. Because we didn't think that we'd ever need it, but now we want to show people what we've done at zero percent. There it is. Scroll down.You'll see stuff like, well, there's the tree. That's the empowerment tree. Okay? So that. That's what I said when I said seven different ways to fund an outstanding cause.Those are seven different ways. We try to make them more publicized.We try to make them more sponsored, more befriended, more prestigious, better funded, all of those different branches. And that's what the event does. And the proof of it is in the testimonials. As you scroll down.Those are real famous names there that have talked about jazz for peace. I mean, from Professor Noam Chomsky to Michael Bloomberg, Barack Obama, et cetera, et cetera. Those are some famous names.But as you go down, you actually hear from the actual grant recipients themselves about the event and what a difference it made for them. Let's just. That that's from where the Clinton's hometown is that. That video is in Arkansas. Little Rock, Arkansas.But as you keep scrolling, then you see the horse. Yeah, the horse's mouth. So as you keep going and going and it goes on forever, no one's ever made it to the bottom. I wouldn't even try.It's as you see, on and on.

But right here's the little thing. So. Right. Yeah, the tiny little thing. So there's lots of page left.

That's what I'm saying. That's where the thing is. Scroll. Yeah, you're not even. You're not even an eighth of the way down that page.Yeah, it just goes on forever and ever and ever. And see, every single one of them is absolute proof in their words, not mine.And that's why they're all unique, and that's why every tree in the world is unique. We. We, our fundraising Model is patent. It's patterned after the model of a tree, and it does the same thing.It does something completely unique for every single outstanding cause, but again, helping them forward.And now we're in the 25th anniversary of all of this, and we think because we did all that at zero, that's what you're looking at, was at zero percent funding for world peace. We think that.

Tell me what that means, because when you said it earlier, and I don't really know for sure what that means, and so I'm sure somebody listening. When you say 0% funding for world peace, what does that mean?

Well, what I mean is, if you compare it to funding for war, you know, we.We did just since we played at the United nations, and I brought Israeli, Palestinians and Americans together, and Israel, Palestine and America all said, we don't want this war. We want peace. We want you to redirect the funds actually to. To. To us for. For outstanding causes to heal our world. Since that day, just on that war.Just that, Kellen, over $3 trillion has been spent of taxpayer money, according to all of these, you know, reports, articles that have been written that we've just, you know, that we are happily to provide. We have a website for that. We have a webpage for that. But my point is that's 3 trillion right there. So, I mean, you know, zero.I mean, we're not even close to 1%, is my point. We're way deep in the zero range.

So when you say 1%, are you talking about of. Of some countries, GDP or of.

No, I'm actually. I'm actually talking about $10 billion.Instead of being funded for bombs and military type of things and, you know, kinds of low, basically low human consciousness behavior, funded for high human consciousness behavior, such as helping outstanding causes through the art form of jazz and all kinds of other things that we do. And that's why I was even telling you off for our podcast, which I told you already.I'll tell your audience you qualify in spades because your story is amazing. I almost wanted to hear you talk. I almost want to be quiet and hear your story.

Yeah, no, another episode.

Another episode. But hopefully our episode. But what we do is we try to do whatever we can to push that forward. And here's the thing.If the world wants to do this, we provide the way for those who have the will, if the world has the will to go from 0% funding where we are now to 1% funding, where. Which I would say is about $10 billion for. For peaceful things. They could do it for free. Because on our little page, we have free ways.Like you could take a, a letter that we have that shows we're celebrating the 25th anniversary of our nature, and you could show it to an outstanding cause. We have another letter that. Well, we have one letter for outstanding causes. You could show it to them so they can contact us and we can help them.We have another letter that you could show.

So I want you to, I want you to, I want you to slow down, okay? Because I want this to sink in to the opportunity.Because I looked at, I looked at this other site that you directed me to, another one, which is fine, but here's a bigger picture of this tree. And I looked at this site and went down the pages here to see about your process for, quote, funding things.

And I want to give you a page for that. I want to give you an exact page. You put it on your screen. We can look at it together.

Okay, go ahead. What is that?

All right, that would be jazz for peace.org which you have up already, but you would add a forward slash. So jazz for peace.org this is for outstanding causes. Now, jazz for peace.org forward/payit forward.PDF pay it forward PDF. Okay, see if that comes up.Pay it forward PDF.

Well, I might have misspelled something. Yeah, I did. I spelled peace P E A C E S E. So yeah, I did that wrong. All right, so let's try that there.

No. Well, yeah, Is that. No, no, that's not it. Jazz for Peace.org forward slash pay it forward.Let me put it up on my screen on my thing-reats.org pay P A Y I T forward.PDF and I did it. It came up. I'm looking at it.

Okay, so why don't you share your screen?

Oh, okay. Let's see. All right, so I'll put share. Share is not turned down. Send.

It is. It is.

All right, now, now let's see how I can share that. Share. Okay. Oh, I will share it. Okay, so that would be. Is that this one? I think it's this one. Okay, let's do it.All right, so now this is, for example, how One of over 850 outstanding causes was able to benefit from Jazz for Peace. Below is a true story told to me by our founders. This is a conversation between a board member.The board member happens to be from a well known charity called the Red Cross, was our first event ever for them. And this board member said, you know, we want, we want to talk to Rick Delrat about this thing. We've heard about it and we want to talk to about it.So I go to this meeting, says, hi, Rick. After careful review of information our team has provided. So they reviewed the information. We would like to start out with an opening statement.I said, great. So the board member said, this is from us to you.Partnering with Jazz for Peace is an opportunity for the community to experience world class music while raising much needed funds. I said, that's incredible. I said, how would you like our team because we grow a tree from a seedling? The seedling is a comment.You just gave me a comment. How would you like me to grow that into much needed sustainable funds for your amazing services? Okay.Because that is the seedling foreign empowerment tree, that statement that he made. So he already completed letter A of the ABC steps for, you know, for event confirmation.And he said, actually, we've already reviewed the material your team provided that reveals the secret of your success, which is to start out with an already successful event via an easy three step process that each outstanding cost completes, enabling each event to be confirmed at no cost to us and in the best instances, ultimately with funds already raised for us and in our bank account before we even start the fundraising process. True. All he said was true. So I said, wow, Again I said, that is so correct. Would you like me to show you that process? And here's what he said.Now he said, actually sitting across and on either side of me are my eight board members, all of whom have received enough positive feedback about this opportunity to be able to pledge X amount of pairs of VIP tickets each. In other words, we, we make certain people VIP guests of honor. They're invited by the board members.And each of the board members had already had a VIP list. So they said, this is more than enough to be able to confirm our Jazz repeat event immediately at the meeting, he confirmed the event.Okay, at no cost to us. Also with funds already raised and in their account. So in other words, they, they had pledged this amount of money.Part of that was going to go to us to offset our expenses, keep our donors happy and keep our autonomy. The rest of it was going to go in their bank account as funds already raised. Even though we haven't even started raising funds.We already raised funds. So that's why those testimonials are so ecstatic. Kellen.That's why I'm telling you why when you read those testimonials, you're like, I guess, sounds too good to be true. But this is what we do. And he said, for Us, we can already start the fundraising process. Is that correct? I said, yes.He said, okay, our secretary will be sending over to you the required information once received by you, which is the roots planted so the tree can grow. If it's okay, we would like to begin our empowerment tree fundraising steps today. We want to start fundraising today. That's what the guy told me.I said, absolutely. And then I just said, I have one question. How did you guys become so amazing?And he said, by always staying humble, always being open to criticism, and eliminating the red tape that sometimes slows nonprofits down so that they can react quickly when they see. That's what he said. A golden opportunity. The bottom line is they were able to start raising funds immediately with that, with our model. It's a.It's a. It's a tree. It's based on. It's so simple that it's based on a tree. So if you. Everyone understands a tree.

Unshare the screen so I can see you because I have some. Some questions about. I. I see this, and I see. Okay, you know, the idea of just hit. There's a little red bar that says stop, Share.

Oh, okay.

There you go. Got it. Okay, cool. So thank you for sharing that. And I have a. Well, we'll talk afterwards.I have an interesting thought that belongs not in the recording. So how did you get. How did you get started in this? What. What made it him so important? You saw that at 9 11, you wrote a poem.But, like, lots of people saw it. I remember where I was when I had the radio on and heard it. In fact, I didn't have the radio on. Somebody said, turn the radio on.And I was driving to work, actually, because I lived in California at the time, so it was a lot earlier in the day. But what is it that drives Rick to create this fundraising model, to create events to support good things in the world? Like why.Why is that important to you?

Because I think we're underachieving with. When it comes to the arts and culture in general. And that has been confirmed ad nauseam since I began this process.In fact, I recently had a human consciousness expert on my podcast, Human consciousness Expert. And she told her first statement to me is, we are living way below our abilities. Human consciousness. She said, it's mostly through. From.From 20 to 200 is where we are 90% of the time. We shouldn't even be 200 to 400. We should be 400 and above. So I said to her, I said, okay, listen, we're on live on air.I Could fall on my face right now. But if I play something for you, will you rate it on a human consciousness? She said, yes, I'll give you my honest opinion.You, you know, if it's a 20, she'll give me a 20. She rated a 540. She rated the music of 540.Now, music, as you know, Kellen, I know you know more as well as I do, it has the ability to have a profoundly positive effect on human beings. So why aren't we making more of that?Why aren't we doing everything we can to elevate us to the, to the 400 and above level of human consciousness that we have the potential?

So, so what I want to say for listeners is if you don't know what the human consciousness scale is, look it up. You'll see a Google images. It goes from zero to a thousand, and they're arbitrarily assigned.But, you know, fear and hatred and jealousy and negative.Are those low numbers that he talked about and above, you know, 400, 500, joy and creativity and love and universal, you know, those are up in the high hundreds and goes way up to the top. So that's what he was talking about.In case you're not familiar with the consciousness scale, I want you to be able to look at that and have a reference for that. And I so agree. We were chatting in the green room before that. I have written in some of the books that I've written, three of them.I wrote an album for each book and told stories through the music in the book, you know, from the book. And so we share that passion. And I love the fact that you're doing that. But I want to know what.So I'm asking the same question again, but I want to dig in a layer deeper.What happened or what series of things happened in your life that made you so aware of and so committed to using this power of music to elevate people? You know, to fundraise, to fund good things, to do that stuff.Because a person could sit around and have cool music and raise their own consciousness, but you decided, I'm going to do that for everybody else. So help me understand, help our listeners understand what happened. What series of things is in you that makes this, like, the passion in your heart?

Well, one was the fact that even before 9 11, I used to tell people, you know, what, hey, what did you. What did you do today? You know, we'd be at a dinner party or something, and people would tell me about their jobs or. And they say, what did you do?I said, well, I was in the house today playing music with Israeli and Palestinian musicians. And they say, what did you just say?And I say, yeah, they come here to play jazz, and I just happen to be, you know, or Russians or whatever, people from all over the world. And, you know, they. They're like, wow, you. You know something that most people don't know. Like, the news doesn't tell me that.Like, I would never know that these people get along so incredibly well if you weren't here sitting in front of me telling me, I wonder what else, you know, that nobody knows, you know? And I just found that musicians know a lot of stuff about, you know, bringing people together in a positive way.They, you know, and especially the American art form of jazz is a great way to do it because it. It's a melting pot of from, you know, the contributions to jazz are from all over the world. So I. I knew this stuff.And then when I watched those events from that rooftop live right in front of me, words started coming out. And my only response was to write the words down on a piece of paper so.So that I could think something else, because otherwise the words would keep spinning around. And when I read the words, I was like, wow, I do believe that.But, you know, a lot of people probably believe that, but we don't get to do who we don't get to be who we really are on this planet. Like, we really are that, but we're this. We're, you know, we're really this, but we're really that.You know, it's strange because a lot of people, I say some stuff is just common sense. So then I thought, why? What if I just. Listen, if I'm not going to walk the walk, when am I going to?So why don't I try to, you know, live up to these words for a few days? And here I am today.

And that was 15 minutes ago, right?

Yeah. I mean, I've been trying to live up to the words of a poem since that day.

Yeah. Yeah. 25. 25 years. No, I totally get it.

And see, it's the 25th anniversary, so that's why I feel like I have a reason to ask everyone to participate. And like I said, I have free ways to participate. So there's no. Nobody can have any excuses if they want to.

So. So tell us, if you didn't already, what are the three ways to participate?

Okay, so I just told you. One, you can give that to an outstanding cause because, see, the. The news that that mainstream News. We all call it mainstream news.I bought into that too. I think it's billionaire news. Because if it was mainstream, why wouldn't they tell us that Jazz for Peace can help any non profit anywhere?You know, they don't say that. But. But you can say it. You have that piece of paper, you can show it to an outstanding cause.I'm going to share my screen and show you one more right now. So let me see. I think you have to give me that thing to click on to share screen.

No, I already did. You should be able to just share screen now.

Oh, I click on this. Okay. Okay, so here's another one. Okay, now I have to.

You have to pick this.

I picked it. And now I have to.

Oh, share.

Here it is. Here it is. My bad. Yeah, here we go. Share. So I'm sharing. So now I'm look, I should be looking at that and that one. Oh, it's not sharing.Let me see why it's not. Oh, I have to do your sharing. You are screen sharing. I wonder why that's not sharing. I want. I chose it and I clicked share. All right.But you're not able to see it.

Huh? I'm seeing a letter. One of the world's great Jaspers.

Beautiful. Okay, so this is a letter basically, probably should say, one of the world's most acclaimed jazz musicians. Whatever.One of the world's most acclaimed jazz musicians celebrating the most significant cultural event of our time while raising $10 billion for world peace in just one year. Are you in? Does that sound like a good idea?

Okay, yes, of course.

Maybe it does.Okay, so now if that sounds a good idea, make history by including your city or venue in the 25th anniversary celebration of what is now considered worldwide to be the most significant cultural event of our time. Now you can click here to see me doing the very first one live in Times Square in New York City.You can see me actually doing the very first performance and then you can read on. World events have conspired to make the benevolent jazz musician of Rick Delorata more pertinent with each day's newspaper headlines.Cadence magazine.Funny, because someone from Cadence magazine is going to be coming on the legacy series pretty soon that I just found out about above is the first performance to kick off the 25th anniversary celebration of Rick Delrode's Jazz Repeats, which which took place September 29th in Times Square. Now here's the sentence with the links to back it up.Rick Del concert at the United nations on September 25, 22,002 uniting Israeli, Palestinian and American jazz musicians is now considered by such luminaries. Not by me, by such luminaries. Barack Obama. And there's his letter. Herbie Hancock. And there's his letter and countless others.And there are a zillion letters. Okay. To be the most significant cultural event of our time. So great. The most significant. This is a cost for celebration.We have only one year to do it. And can we change world funding for world peace from zero to one? I think we can because there's 8.6 billion of us if we want to.So we invite you to take advantage of this once a lifetime journey to celebrate sore event in your city, town, state or country. So I don't know to know what city, town or town you're in. Kellen. I mean, where are you located? Just out of curiosity.

So unshare the screen because I want to look at you. What I want to do is I want everybody to hear the URL.That's jazzforpeace.org easyletter.PDF easyletter PDF so if you feel called, I'm in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which is straight north of Montana, by the way.

Right.

So just wherever you ask, so I'm answering, but I want to go there.

With Wayne Gretzky or something.

Well, yeah, he lived, he was the Edmonton Oilers main dudes for a long time. He's now, you know, nobody in terms of retired and everything. Long, slow.

I know, but I want to get him in there. If I come to Edmonton, I want to tell Gretzky, hey, I'm coming to Edmonton.I want you to do something for this guy's event, whether it's your event or somebody else's event. But I've never been to Edmonton is my point. You see what I mean?

Yeah.

Why Edmond, Edmonton should be included.

You know what? Edmonton has the biggest fringe festival in the world outside of Edinburgh, Scotland.Every August we have a fringe festival with the, you know, the, the plays and the readings and the weirdness and, you know, the fringe. Right, the fringe festival. Biggest in the world, except the one in Edinburgh. So we already have a lot of that kind of stuff.Meaning it's a prime place to do it. It's, it's an absolute prime place to do that. So we'll talk more about that offline. So I, I, I, I love, I love what you're doing.We're going to raise $10 billion to spend on world peace instead of world bombs. And we're going to do it. And my demonstration is hundreds and hundreds of, excuse me, Testimonials for places that.I've already done this with this fundraising model to raise money for all kinds of nonprofits to do good stuff. What I'm hearing you say now is, and we. We need to take this up two notches, meaning add two zeros to it to get a monumental amount this. This.This season, this 25th anniversary season, that.

Would take us to 1%. Listen, world peace should be at 100%. I probably. War should be at zero. If anybody should be at zero, should be war. But world peace should be at 100%.Yeah. So we got it all backwards. I don't know how we got this all so screwed up. I really don't. I have some.I have a suspicion that it's because of something within us. We have an inherent interest to not have to think for ourselves and be taken care of.And so sometimes we give governments and churches the ability to do all that for us. And the next thing you know, they're like. Well, they're not.You know, all of a sudden, they're raiding the cookie jar and they're funding wars funded at 100 when we wanted piece of. Funded at 100. But anyway, uh, those are two free things. Completely free. So somebody says, oh, my God, I'm so broke, I have nothing.You can darn well take that letter. Either one. You can show one letter to a nonprofit. You can show another letter to a venue or a. Or like I said, the Fringe Festival.You could go down the Fring Fence Festival tomorrow. Somebody in Edinburgh want to take that letter down there and show that to them and tell them to call me, and I will work with them from there.That's all you have to do. I just need the Baton to go 4 inches and then hand it off. You see what I mean? 4 inches to hand it off to him, and then I take it. I'll take it.We will take it the rest of the way, just like we've done 850 others. But we need that because. I don't know. I don't like. Look, I don't know what you told me I'm hearing for the first time about.I know anything about Eden besides Wayne Gretzky, which is pathetic, and he doesn't.

Even live here anymore.

So my point is, I want to know about. I want to get in. And we need to include. By including Edinburgh, Edmonton and Edinburgh. You know, we're. This is. This is.Listen, I love a long way to go here.

We do. We do. And I love your enthusiasm, so. And then the commitment you have to this, if somebody wants to hear some.Some you said, I asked you earlier, maybe it was off camera, maybe it was on about having recordings and albums and things that you've done. You said you've done a number of those and had zillions of recordings, right?Do you have like a YouTube channel or places where someone could go and hear yourself?

I'll tell you something so easy because there is stuff all over the place. I mean, someone contacted me yesterday and he said, I'm from Nigeria and we have a. We have, we saw on YouTube. We. Nigeria is huge.People even know how big Africa is. Except for me, because I've been there nine times, but I'm from another part.You came to Abuja and we saw you talking and telling the people, if they don't do, if they keep Assange arrested, all these innocent civilians are going to die. And look what happened.You were right, you know, so stuff like that all over the world, you can see me performing, but you can go into YouTube and just put this into the. That little search bar, JFP25. So J for JFP Jazz for piece 25, JFP25.And some things will come up and that will enable you to find out about the 25th anniversary, you know, thing. You can also see these links in those description boxes. Just a few things for that. And then that'll get you down the rabbit hole.Another thing you could do is go to Google and put Rick Delous quote, and that'll start you rolling.Because I actually have a famous quote from the very first time someone interviewed me where I recited the jazz repeats poem into his, you know, tape recorder because he was a record, a media guy.And I said something else off the top of my head, which became a famous quote, which is if we fill our souls up with our greatest qualities, creativity, artistry, humanity, intellectuality, we will have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction. And it just got lifted on all those famous quotes websites.But my point is all you need is a starting place and then who the hell knows where it's going to end? You know, a lot of stuff even I don't know about is on there.

That's fabulous. So what is. Is 26, 2026 fully dedicated to this 25th anniversary or if you got something else cooking?

Well, there's always everything that we normally do. But like I said, 10 billion is a lot. And I've. It is for me to do it. I'm gonna. We're all gonna have to focus, folks. All 8.6 billion of us.And like I said, you can do a lot for absolutely no money whatsoever. You know, and of course, if you're like, hey, look, you know, I gotta.I'm a busy guy, but I have a pension, I have a house, I have a boat, I have this, I have that. Let me just send you a donation. You can do that. I. But I'm just saying you can do a lot for absolutely nothing and make a profoundly positive.Because who knows who you're helping and how much we're going to be able to help them. When you give that letter to the appropriate thing, you know, there's. It's the same with the arts and culture.Listen, this book, this is a systemic problem. This book here, Paving the Path for Peace Through Music.The Amazing Story of Rick Delorata and Jazz for Peace by Deborah R. Serratelli, has a foreword by me. That forward is about Mozart. And in that forward, I talk about how nobody knew about Mozart when he was alive. He died. He was buried in a pine basket.We never hear about these artists when they're alive. You know what I mean? And let me tell you something.If you wait until somebody's dead, you're hearing a derivative because what you're, you're in a different. I can't tell you what notes he wrote that would have pissed off the Archbishop, because I'm not living in the 1700s. You see what I'm saying?

I do.

And let me. And here's another problem. Every day I go.If I go to Vienna right now, I will see some, some, some venue featuring his music that he qualified for back in 1731, and he didn't get the gig. And now it's a Graceland of guilt.

You know, we don't have.

It doesn't have to be that way. We could reverse it with the, this celebration. If we all celebrate it.Because if you, if you, if, listen, if I blow these 365 days, then we're going to be like, okay, guess what, folks? Last year was the 25th anniversary of the. You know, why don't we celebrate it? Because we missed it.So it'd be nice to try to get, get it in within that, you know, within that window.

So, so is your year start 911 and go to the next 9 11.

What happened was I was asked to do something in Times Square that was in September. And this was like. Yeah, exactly.

And I saw the data on the video. Yeah, yeah.

And then people sent me little things that they had captured of the performance. So I put that on There. And I said, look, this is the first one, folks. You wanna. You know, we can do this in your town, your state.We can do it in Edinburgh. We can do it in Edmonton. We can do it in Eddie's. You know what I mean? Wherever.

Yeah. So your year starts September 29th.

Well, I said that's the first performance. Because it is technically.

No, it's okay. The reason I said that is because my year starts October 14th.

Oh, wow.

And the reason my year starts October 14th is a story that we're not going to do today, but we'll do it on your show. Okay. And so I. When you said that, I'm thinking, oh, this is another guy that has a year that starts. That starts because of an event in his life. Yeah.

But not every year. Every year for you starts on the 14th, right?

New Year's for me is October 14th.

Yeah. That's a whole nother world. This is only one year that I'm starting differently.

Yeah. Okay, cool. So I hear. I see I got those two letters called up, and I get a sense of, one, your commitment and your desire to do this.And it's so exciting. What else didn't I ask you? Tell me more that I haven't asked you.

Well, you know, another thing that's. I'll tell you something.The excitement that I have about Jazz for Peace, I. I first saw in my grandparents when I wanted to interview them about their lives. I said I was. I was with my grandparents, you know, and they. They were Italian. My grandfather didn't even speak English.And I. I started asking my grandma, hey, can you ask Grandpa what it was like in the blah, blah? And his eyes lit up like, this kind of enthusiasm and passion.And that's why I have this thing now called the Legacy Series, because, you know, I would have loved for all of my family members to have that. Have that interview. It was a fake interview because I had a fake microphone. I was just a little kid playing.But if it was a real interview, it would have been great for our family to have that in our. You know what I mean? In heirloom. You see what I mean? And so. And here's the thing. Not only would I be getting.Let's say, I'm going to say you, because you're such a great candidate for the series, but not only would it be. It'd be something for your immediate family. I don't know if you have grandchildren, but for them and for future generations.But it's going to get out to the public. You see what I mean, and you can bypass the wait list again for free if you want to. I just showed you two ways absolutely for free.And of course Jasper Pete is worthy of a donation. I mean, listen, we did it all at zero and I don't know how long we can do it at zero. But yes, you can make a donation to and bypass if you prefer.But I listen, the free things are better for me because I we're going to do a lot more for an outstanding cause if someone chooses the free. And so I really don't like it when someone says, oh, I can't afford it. No, no, no, you can choose a free option that's even better.

So what did you learn? And doing these legacy.Because I did look at your website and I looked down there and saw podcast episodes and I didn't have enough time to listen to any of them. But I looked at the other website over thoroughly today because I'm always very interested in my guests.Tell me what you feel like is important for people to know about this legacy business. Because I agree. I happen to have 10 kids and I have 25 grandkids and counting. And so the.When you said that and you didn't know that and so I'm saying that to you and you're going, what? And so. But why is it so important? Because. Because I believe you. I agree with you.Why is it so important to create those connections and that legacy piece?

I'll tell you why.Because when I was doing those concerts in New York City, I started the benefit concert series in New York City because there were over 80,000 nonprofits. I thought maybe there'd be 12 or 13 charities I could help out. I had no idea there were registered nonprofits were in the tens of thousands.Not that they're all legitimate, but just I'm just saying, you know, there's all these, there's all these causes in. In this metropolis.I found myself doing concerts for an organization that was working with Holocaust survivors and expanding their services to other elderly people. And I learned that the Holocaust survivors were very, very against what Pro Israel. These people calling themselves Pro Israel were saying.And they said they'd say to me, I don't even know how they got our. How they even call themselves Israeli. I don't even know how that, you know, they're like this. It's like they hijacked. They, hi, this is us.I'm like, yes, that is you. And what they said was the truth. It was the real thing. It was coming from the source.And that's what I'm telling you, I don't know what this media is. They call it mainstream media. But you know what? We need to hear from our elders.I want to hear from the elders because they're speaking something much. There's no bias. You know what? There isn't. There isn't an agenda. When, When. When these people speak, they're at the. They're at.They're at a late enough stage at life that they want to be authentic and sincere, and there's no penalty. Society's not going to. You know what I mean? They're at the point where they can say what they want.And I learned so much myself, and I just think it's an incredible thing, like I said, for their family, for their grandchildren, for future generations. But also, let's get them out to the public. These are great messages.

It reminds me of an Einstein quote.I have a great big framed poster on my wall and Feinstein quotes, and one of them said, I am of an age where if someone tells me I have to wear socks, I don't have to listen. Yeah, that reminds me of what you said. They're old enough that it's like I. I, you know, I live like. I mean to, like, I want to authentically.And he used, you know, wearing socks to be funny. But it's the same thing, right?

Yes, it is. And it's too bad I don't have this picture. Yeah, I do have it. All right, check this out. I wonder if I can share this picture. Can I share?I think I can share a picture. Wait a minute.

You can share anything you want.

I. I'm gonna share a picture. I'm gonna share the. Yeah, I'm gonna share the picture that I was just talking about. And let's wait till you see this. Okay, so now I push share.I mean, this is crazy, this picture. It's absolutely crazy. Okay, here it is. I'm gonna share this.

Okay.

All right, so this is. This is the. This is three generations affected from our elder series. Now, is that sharing? Is that. Can you see that?

Yeah, I can see it.

All right. All right, so look at that. There's the man. There's the man. He's holding a sign, and he says, I am a Holocaust survivor. I wish I could see it, but.

Yeah, I can see it.

Yeah. And there's his daughter, and she's saying, I'm the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. And this is what I have to say from my father.And that woman is saying, I'm the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. And I don't care what you tell me on tv, my grandfather says this.

Right.

You see what I mean?

I do.

There you go. That's three generations profoundly, positively affected, influenced in a profoundly positive way by one elder. And that's the kind of.That's what I want to do as, as my grandfather profoundly, positively influenced me. When he talked in Italian to my grandmother and my grandmother translated what he said, I was blown away.I was so glad I was asking these questions, but he was so glad too. So I was like, wow, I can't believe I'm this little.I'm this, you know, this little kid here who's kind of a degenerate little kid, and I'm giving my grandmother, grandfather all this joy, you know?

Yeah, you got to push. Stop. Share too.

Okay, stop.

So we come till we come back.

Yeah, there we go. Let's get back.

All right, Perfect. All right.So this is a fabulous bunch of information and, and not just information, but enthusiastic communication, which I love and very appropriate for encouraging people because the, the, the premise of my now five and a half year Journey in a Thousand Something episodes, and I have no intention of quitting, is to help people, each individual, understand you create your own life. You can have a life of purpose, prosperity and joy if you want it. And you can start from zero, as you've talked about in, with a particular meaning.You don't have to have this or that given to you. You can create a life of peace and joy. And your enthusiasm and excitement around creating peace and using the art form music that I love.I picked this background especially for you today because I knew, I thought, oh, yeah, Jasper, peace. Where's that piano picture? Boom. Because I knew I could do that. So this was up here for you. But anyway, so what.Haven't I asked you what else you want to say before we get.

The last thing I would say is that there's something interesting. You know, the world is made up of these fractals, you know, these geometric things. You see them repeat over and over and over again.And there's one I was thinking about recently. It's the wave fractal. You know, we ever go to the ocean, you make a little sandcastle, right?And that sandcastle will sit there and look so beautiful. And then all of a sudden a wave comes. Whoosh. And then knocks it one flat and then whoosh comes out and flattens it. Do you know what I mean?

Right. Yep.

And that's kind of what, you know, happens all the time because I'll give you an example, that fundraising model that ABC steps, where I told you, the guy gives a comment and the board members give a comment, and then they get all their VIPs and confirm the event. I showed up once in Uganda, Africa, and I was, like, meeting these people, and I said, you know, who. Who brought me here?Who's responsible for bringing me all the way to Uganda? And they brought this little kid over, and they said, here he is. Moses. Moses, come over here. Yeah, little kid. He said, yeah, you.I remember someone telling me what to do. He didn't seem like he was very old. I was a little kid. He just followed the three steps.So my point is, Kellen, we talk ourselves out of a lot of crazy stuff. I mean, you can do so much with so little. And I'm giving you free opportunities to make a profoundly positive difference.You know, you take that letter, that one letter, easy letter, and you go to the jazz festival. And he says, wow, Rick Dillon, bro, never even played once at my festival. Well, he's on a trip. He's on the Mozart trajectory, right?Because Mozart never played nowhere, and you know what I mean? And I never play in his thing. He can change that now and celebrate the 25th anniversary and wake up some not. You know what I mean?All kinds of things that happen. Just from somebody saying, you know, going over there and giving that guy that. He has to have that letter. He's got to have it.He's got to see it, because there were. We live in this kind of wave thing, where the wave came, it blew it over, and now it doesn't exist anymore.You know, so everyone's going on their own normal way, and we need to, you know, we need these little sparks. And that's what a person who participates is. He's a spark.He can participate in freeways, or there's, you know, like I said, there's numerous ways that you can participate. But if everyone participates, we will, mark my words, we will go from zero to one.

I love it. I love it. Thank you. I really appreciate your enthusiasm, your excitement, and all that you've shared and the model. It's easy.It's easy for people to sit around and tell people what to do and encourage them. But you've built a model, a practice, a process that can successfully allow someone to have an impact beyond what they imagine that they can have.And I love that. And so I want to really appreciate your energy and your contribution in that way to help people create the kind of impact they want to.

Well, the only thing I haven't done at this point, I guess you say is actually demonstrated it. Yeah, I can do.

Okay. Do you want to play something? We set that up.

Yeah. Right.

So I will hit admit for the.

People who've been watching this long. They should.

Yeah. And so let me get you here. And you'll have to turn your video.

Oh, yeah.

Back on. Yeah.

Okay.

There you go. All right, so click that thing you said you had to click so we can hear the music and go for it.

Yes, you're right. All right, so I'll just tell you I'm gonna do like a little bit of a medley because it's a hot. It's a Christmas season now.I know this thing won't come out till January, but, you know, I once played in Pakistan, and when I got back there again, there was this letter from the people in Pakistan, how much they enjoyed it. And people read the letter and they said, Pakistan, they don't know anything about, you know, they. They. Their YouTube is blocked. How did. How did you.How are you able to, like, reach these people?I said, well, I looked up their, know, history and stuff and they had access to very old Christian related or, you know what I mean, like Christmas tunes. They had old, you know, what child is this? Things like that, you know, from 1600s. So I would.I started playing Christmas songs for them until I had them. Had them, you know, and then they would like. Then they. Then they followed me wherever I played.So I'm gonna do a little something with this little Drummer boy thing from a CD called Live. It's from this movie. Oops. I'm so sorry. Let me just show the CD from this cd, Jazz at Christmas Time. Okay. That's called Drummer Boy.And then I'm gonna segue into a little jazz version of a song by a rock band called Queen. What is a jazz. Little jazz version of a rock song.

All right.

See how it all goes? All right. Like I said, it's not something. I never do anything twice. So I. I've never done this before.

How about it?

Yeah. All right, Here we go.

Sam. Bubba bum bum.

Our newborn came to see.

The finest gifts we bring. To lay before the king Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum.

Shall I play for you? Me and my drum. Me and my drum.

I just can't handle it.

The.

This thing, the cold love I must get around to it I ready praise a little thing called love.

This thing.

Called love it cries in a cradle at night it swings, it shines cheeks all over like jellyfish I kind of like it crazy Little thing on.

There.

Goes my baby she knows how to rock and roll she drives me crazy she gets mad and cold Keep me.

In a cool, cool sweat.

Gotta be cool, relax get hit, get on my track Take a back seat hitchhike and take a long ride on my motorbikes alone Ready, Raise a little. Sam. Drives me crazy she get behind cold fever and she keeps me in a cuckoo step.Got to be cool, relax get hip get on my track Take a back seat hitchhiker Zip it on side on my motorbike and get ready Raise a little thing on love Raise a little thing on love Raise a little thing called love.

Okay, turn this off. All right, I don't hear you now. I think you're muted.

I did. I muted it so I wouldn't have any good. I didn't want to have any noise from this sign get in the way of the music, and I forgot to turn me back on.All right, well, I really appreciate you. I appreciate what you did, your performance, your model, the things that you're trying to do. And I just. Absolutely. I'm gonna look at this and.And I have some ideas that I'll talk to you about after we get done recording.

Okay?

So thanks for being here today.

Hey, thank you, Kellen. Appreciate the invite.

You bet you. All right, listeners, I want you to take. This is a. Interesting.I want you to listen, look at those pages up that we talked about and see, because if you have. If a little. A kid from Uganda can create something that causes a concert and causes some funds to get raised for a good cause, you can, too.Yeah, it takes a little doing, but he's made it as simple as possible.And the point of all this is that you, no matter what your gifts and talents are, you have the ability to make a difference, and you have the ability to create for yourself. Starting right now, your ultimate life.

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