Malcolm McFadden (Justice the Genius Child) welcomes the audience, shares his personal motivation for joining SYT — the suicide of a close friend — and introduces an upcoming video segment from Lieutenant Steve Thomas, a crisis intervention officer who contracted COVID-19 and transitioned from helper to someone needing help.
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[00:13:17] just taking off so i’m gonna give it up to justice the genius child malcolm what’s good everybody
[00:13:25] thanks thank you uh for having me once again i’m justice the genius child just a local mc slash
[00:13:32] producer and uh yeah i just got into doing this because i met tyler and i also had a friend that
[00:13:39] was dealing with uh mental illness who ended up committing suicide and so that’s what got me into
[00:13:44] this you know i wanted to help people before it gets to that point you know so i also would like i
[00:13:51] really would like to thank y’all for allowing me to be a part of this it uh really makes me feel
[00:13:57] good to do this like you know making a difference in the world somehow so yeah thank y’all and
[00:14:02] everybody that’s watching like you said if uh this brings out any emotions if you go to the comment
[00:14:08] not the comment the description you will see a number for a hotline you can call too and uh
[00:14:14] also a link to oh yeah number four hotline and also a link to the page so let us know how you
[00:14:21] feel and sign up for the open mic too hotline you can call too and uh also a link i definitely said
[00:14:28] open mic yeah uh so i i’m gonna tee up the next video here um i’ll just you know add a little bit
[00:14:36] this is by uh steve thomas lieutenant steve thomas who’s uh head of the crisis intervention team
[00:14:43] with um
[00:14:44] in rental county which um does a lot of work around this is mental health education and
[00:14:49] trying to uh you know have their officers and um of course respond to folks with mental health
[00:14:56] issues and kind of addiction issues with uh a little bit more work and he’s done a lot of great
[00:15:03] work but uh contracted coronavirus so he went from being somebody that was uh a helper to
[00:15:08] somebody that was needing some help and uh he sent a pretty good video on that so
[00:15:14] uh uh see this up real quick somebody that was malcolm if you wouldn’t mind that was
[00:15:20] needing some help and uh when you send other stuff
[00:15:23] steve thomas here we go