Gianno Caldwell: Turning Tragedy Into Purpose
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Welcome to the Jason in the House podcast. I happen to be Jason Chaffin, so you're in the right place at the right time. I really do appreciate you joining me and we got a good one for you today. There's lots happening into the news, you know. Here it is, July should be all nice and enjoying the weather and all that, but oh no, it's a presidential election year, so of course there's lots of stuff happening. We're going to

Highlight the news. We're going to highlight the stupid because there's always somebody doing something stupid somewhere. There's no end to that. And then, of course, we've got a great interview because I'm going to get on the horn. We're going to talk to my friend Giano Caldwell. He's got something new that's brewing that he's doing. You know him from Fox News. He had this tragic thing a couple years ago where his brother was killed in Chicago.

And we're going to talk in depth about that and what he's gone through. But what are we going to do about it? You know, it's one thing...

to deal with the sadness and the heartache which Giano certainly has. But then what do we do about it? Where do we go from here? So I'm going to learn a little bit more about Giano and his quest to actually be part of the solution too and take that tragedy and turn it into something that can be really productive and really helpful to a lot of people. But let's start with some of the stuff in the news. And you just cannot get away...

from what's going on with President Biden. Now, this story is moving fast when we record this podcast. It's prior to its release. And so things happen on a moment by moment basis. But as we sit here today,

The White House is lashing out. They've got this eight-point plan trying to distract everybody, saying don't take the bait, don't listen to the media, let's calm down our donors, let's show the president being vigorous, basically trying to snooker the American people. Don't believe your lying eyes, everybody. They've got a real problem on their hands.

But when you sit back and you look at it, there's a couple of things that I, I want you to understand. The people that are making and squawking so much from the democratic side of the aisle don't seem to be concerned about his cognitive and physical decline as much as they are about his ability, Joe Biden to be elected. That, and that's, I mean, heartless, dangerous, fruitless, and I'll go back to dangerous for the country. Um,

Look, you could see this coming and this happening with Joe Biden a long time ago. I wrote a book. The book was called The Puppeteers, the people who control the people who control America. The Puppeteers was all about if you think Joe Biden's actually controlling the White House, there are a lot of people behind the scenes that are actually doing this.

And this has been evident for some time. Now, if you were watching something other than, say, Fox News, you probably are, like, shocked at how bad Joe Biden was at the debate. I mean, just roll the tape, baby. That is just unfettered. I mean, that's just raw as you're seeing it. Now, remember, the president of the United States has to be on his game today.

24-7. There's no, hey, I can only do this between 10 and 4. That's just not the way it works as the President of the United States. You can take that call at 3 o'clock in the morning. You can get a call that says we have a plane headed to the Capitol. What are we going to do, Mr. President? Do we shoot or do we not shoot? I mean, they have to deal with incredibly hard, difficult things with snap judgment. And look, Joe Biden was elected in 1972.

Where were you in 1972? Many of you weren't even on this planet yet. This is four years before Jimmy Carter was elected. So he's been there for a long time. You could make the case, oh, well, if you haven't gotten it done since 1972, you probably don't need just four more years. Joe Biden is not the only person that can run this race and run this country and potentially beat Donald Trump. Now, at this point, I think Donald Trump is...

I just can't see anybody beating Donald Trump. But that being said, the Democrats created this nest, and they're going to have to live with it. They could have been...

doing what Joe Biden said at the beginning. He was going to be a transition president. He was going to help bridge the gap in essentially what is Barack Obama's third term. Many could make that case. I happen to be in that camp. You look at the staff and the senior staff. These are a lot of holdovers from Obama's time that are now in the Biden camp. And if he had said, hey, look,

After looking at this, my rich career, I'm going to pass the baton. And then they could have had a vigorous and rambunctious debate, discussion, and go through the primary caucuses and come up with a good candidate. But they chose not to do that for selfish reasons. They always want to stay and grasp onto power. They just cannot let go of it. But

The red flags have been there for a long, long time. And shame on the people on the Democratic side of the aisle that just worried about the election as opposed to, let's also understand that this person is the current president of the United States and how bad it's been getting. And to get a lecture from the White House about deep fakes and cheap fake videos, that this is all an illusion, that he runs laps around people behind the scenes saying,

i mean the white house has been lying to us for so long right they told us the border is safe secure and they have operational control that's not true they said that inflation was transitory that wasn't true they said that the world was going to be a peaceful place and donald trump would start all these wars well that's not true all these wars and stuff have happened in the invasion into ukraine and everything happened under joe biden's watch

So, and then for Joe Biden to go up in the debate and say not a single man or woman in the military got killed while he was the president. There have been 18, 13 with Afghanistan, other deaths that have happened along the way. That was a flat out lie. And then to say the Border Patrol killed.

has endorsed him, the Border Patrol within minutes put out a tweet. I guess we call it a tweet. A tweet saying, that's not true. We would never endorse Joe Biden. So, you know, they got to get past this. America's got to deal with this. But it's a sad, sad thing. All right. Time to bring out the stupid because you know what? There's always somebody doing something stupid somewhere. And I got to go to Aaron Rodgers. I'm going to go to sports here.

Aaron Rodgers, one of the best quarterbacks there is in the NFL. They had a Jets minicamp, but he didn't show up at the mandatory minicamp. He was not present before the team broke for their summer rest period prior to the training camp. The Jets head coach noted that Rodgers let the team know he was not going to make the minicamp

but still went down as an unexcused absence. He's been recovering from this Achilles injury, but guess what? He had this long-time trip planned to go to Egypt. Oh, great. The Jets are really struggling. Doesn't show up at the minicamp. Has this...

planned trip to Egypt during his Achilles recovery and said he didn't know about the mini camp dates. That, my friend, is a little bit stupid. I don't know that we're totally buying it. All right, time to call up Giano Caldwell. Look forward to having a chat with him. So let's get Giano on the line. I've got Giano Caldwell. Thanks for joining us on the Jason House podcast. Thank you for having me. It's been a long time coming, but always appreciate your insight, your commentary, your wisdom.

well that's a good start i like this you can see why giano is getting prime time on the on the podcast now listen i've watched you from afar i've gotten to know you up close and personal we just did the big weekend show which is always fun to be together that way um and uh you

This is one of the great things about being part of the Fox family is getting to know people I probably wouldn't have otherwise. Yeah, I agree with you. Same for me. So I've already previewed that you've got this Caldwell Institute and that you're going – but I don't even know if I got the full name right.

And I want to talk about what it is you're doing, but then I want to be able to go back, talk about you growing up, you, your brother, what it was like growing up, and then get more in depth with this. So give people just a quick overview of what you're doing, and then we'll go back and talk about, you know, growing up and what life was like. Yeah, absolutely. So it was the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety. And it was started because on June 24th, 2022,

My life changed forever when my innocent teenage baby brother Christian was murdered. He was murdered on the south side of Chicago. Multiple people were shot that day, just in the scene of where he was that morning. In addition to on that same day, it was a six-month-old named baby Cecilia who was murdered also, which is heart-wrenching and just terrible because it's something that we consistently see out of Chicago.

So I started this institute because I had been fighting for my brother, as you know, and talking about him in interviews and looking for justice for him. But thanks be unto God for the place we work. People like our CEO allowed me to go out and interview families who had lost a loved one and help them raise money for funeral costs. And that's something that was really helpful for me as I've been processing my brother's

murder. I haven't necessarily fully grieved. I've been focusing my attention on what feels like justice for others. And that gives me a little bit of peace that I can help other people. And I've been asking God, what can I do to really take this to the next level? I really want to serve. And he dropped into my heart the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety. In it, we're going after the source of what I believe a lot of the chaos has been across our country, rooted by one man,

I believe, really and truly believe George Soros is the source of a lot of the chaos we've seen across our country, the lawlessness, the dangers that many people are facing. It should not be, Jason, that in 2021 and 2022, we saw 276 children, 16 and under, murdered in the streets of Chicago. It should not be that members of Congress are being attacked publicly.

robbed. You just never would expect that. It shouldn't be that people like Alvin Bragg, who has so much crime that he should be dealing with, violent crime in the city of New York and Manhattan, he, out of all the cases that he's actually taken a trial, only less than 7% of them have gone to jail. So you got all this crime that's going on in the city of New York, migrants killing, raping,

beating up cops, and only 7% of these folks that you prosecuted have gone to jail? These are unacceptable numbers, but it is by design. A man by the name of George Soros who's invested millions of dollars in reshaping our judicial system, he's destroying America from within. So what happened? I experienced a tragedy, but so does thousands of other families across the country every year.

And now this is the ability, considering that I have, you know, I'm a former lobbyist. I work at the news channel. I know a lot of really good people. And I have the ability to talk about this issue in a way that not many have.

And not many will be able to speak about. So in this case, I decided, listen, let me go with God. And I know it's a very big mission is honestly too big for me. But that's what a God vision is. It's too big for you. It's him connecting the dots and you just follow on the path. And that's when I decided to build this thing out on the two year mark of my brother's murder. So it's been open for a week now.

And, you know, I'm grateful to say that the viewers have really responded. And, you know, I'm looking forward to continuing to build and help a lot of people. CaldwellInstitute.org. So, you know, it really is like mystifying to me. Why would a George Soros...

want to invest millions into this effort because he's got something else in mind. It's not his love of law and justice in America. What's your best take on that? Well, we know that George Soros has been investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the Democratic Party for years. That's no secret. He's now funded over 75 soft-dial crime prosecutors. And I think what he saw is...

Generally speaking, people try to go at the presidential level or the state level to affect change in policy. But in a prosecutor race, which have usually been mundane, you know, whether you were a Democrat or a Republican, the idea was, you know, you're going to enforce the law like that was really it. This was a low dollar investment for him.

To create no bail laws to say have prosecutors say things like, look, you can still up to 75 or $750, $1,000 worth of product. No, no accountability. The police can't do anything to you. We're not going to do anything if you do that.

And then it's the idea that people can commit these more severe crimes and whether they're caught, they go in and get processed and they're out the same day to commit more crimes.

You're really causing great upheaval in communities. You're really changing the law, the system of justice, which in that case for him, it gives him even more power because locally things that happen locally ends up happening statewide and sometimes nationally. It's a seed for him.

And I really do believe he wants to destroy the country. Like, that's really my belief. So I don't know what other nefarious or sinister goals he had in mind. But to be honest with you, Jason, it hurts me to say it. He's been successful. He really has been successful. And there's folks like us at Fox News.

who have been talking about this for years and been saying to people, look, we got to stop George Soros. We got to look at these particular races because things are happening. And what does the mainstream media say? Oh, it's Fox News with the boogeyman again. They're just saying this stuff. They're trying to scare people. None of these things are true, which is what they mostly say about everything, whether it be about the transgender issues with the children, teaching them in schools, which...

Again, Fox News was one of the first to report on this, and people said, oh, none of that stuff is happening. Fox News is lying to you. Absolutely, Fox News was true.

This is what we must do. Use our voices for good, and we have to push back in a way that's going to be not just verbally but meaningful in a policy way that's actually going to shift the agenda that George Soros set out to do. Yeah, the nefarious intent here, I continue to question because I'm in the camp with you at this point.

I really do think that he hates the country. And, you know, now he's empowered his, I believe it's his son, and upped the ante in terms of the amount of money that's going in here. And Democrats have just been lapping it up. But, you know, ultimately the citizens have got to be able to be smart enough to root this out and say, wait a sec, cashless bail, the idea that we're not going to prosecute these heinous crimes, right?

You know, George Gascon in Los Angeles there and what's going on in Chicago and other places. Mary Chrysler, Philadelphia. Ultimately, the voters can't be snookered into, well, that person, boy, I see the most ads. You know, people got to pay attention to some of these things.

these down ballot issues if they really want to make a difference in their community. So... That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And a part of that reason is people kind of got lost in this idea that, oh, we're going to be doing these things for some criminal justice reform. That was the argument. But what we're seeing is justice for the criminal. Plain and simple. That's what it is. It is justice for the criminal. We

We have to be about law and order. There's no choice. And I know there's African-Americans who have said like, yeah, we need to change, change the justice system because it's not fair to African-Americans. Well, the changes that people like George Soros and George S. Cascone and others have

have implemented, have made communities that African Americans live in more lawless, more dangerous, and now our families are being murdered and there's no accountability, no consequences for it. So you tell me, was it worth it?

Do you tell me that defunding the police was worth it? Tell me. No one can tell you. They cannot make that argument. It used to be that you can go downtown Chicago and be safe. Now you got a family of two, a husband and wife just recently, husband and wife downtown Chicago and a group of kids beat them up, kicked the lady in the stomach. She lost her baby. And you know what Kim Fox did? Two misdemeanors.

Meanwhile, someone threw some drink on her. She gave him two felonies. Yeah. The contrast on that case is unbelievable. It really is amazing. Gianno, let's do this. Let's go back to little Gianno. Tell us about growing up, where were you at?

What was life like? I mean, start like I was born in, and I'm not talking about the year, but talk about like where and what was growing up like. I grew up on the south side of Chicago, extremely poor. Lights, gas, and water off at the same time, at times. Mom addicted to drugs. My grandmother saved us at the time. She was a private duty nurse.

And until one day, after we moved in with her and my mom went into rehab, she pulls out the garage one day to go to work and the drunk driver hit her. Injures her back, she could no longer work. And although we were rescued from very dire set of circumstances, we lived in a project.

She could no longer work. How many kids? Me and my siblings. So it was nine of us. I grew up with nine siblings. Wow. Two sisters, the rest brothers. And we're all living with my grandmother at the time. And she gets injured. She can no longer work. So now we're back to that same place, if you will, welfare. She lost her house to foreclosure because our option was either take care of your grandchildren or keep them.

your home. And she chose to take care of us instead. And I got involved in politics when I was 14 because my grandfather, a small business owner, plumbing and construction on my dad's side, on a Saturday, we were riding through this area of Chicago called Englewood, one of the hardest hit areas in terms of the drugs and violence. And as we were driving through this area, I saw a

a lady and it began to bring tears to my eyes because I thought it was my mom looking drugged up and beat down. And as we're riding by, I realized it wasn't her. And, you know, I didn't want to cry in front of my grandfather, strong alpha male, but he noticed. And I said, what can I do to prevent this from happening?

He started talking about the elected officials, the power they have, the increased penalty of law for those who sell and distribute drugs, and how they can provide grant funding for those who wanted to be rehabilitated. So I said I wanted to be an elected official. So at 14, I started volunteering for my local alderman's office every day after school like it was a job. That then led to an internship with her and then a part-time job with the federal government at 16.

And from there, I worked every day after school, 25 hours a week, 40 hours in the summers and winters. And eventually, I graduated high school. I was so interested in real estate because of this church. I started attending Bill Winston Ministry. It's a church called Living Word Christian Center in Forest Park, Illinois. I had this desire to get involved in real estate. So at 19 years old, without any family assistance, help, or their knowledge, I bought a multi-unit apartment building.

And that really put me on my journey. How'd you do that? How did you do that? I was working part-time for the federal government. I was saving my money. I had good credit. And I got a realtor. And I'm really listening to what I'm being taught at my church. And the church that I started going to had been in church all my life. But this was the first church I went to as an adult. And this pastor, he would say...

Listen, you shouldn't be relying on the government to take care of you. God is supposed to take care of you. He'll give you ideas. He'll introduce you to people. He'll create your network for you. And he was preaching a message that I had never heard before. And it really inspired me to dig real deep inside myself.

to do something that I had never seen done in my community before. And I think, you know, my faith in God is really the leading and guiding light to the majority of my life decisions that have been far bigger than me. Me at 19 buying a multi-unit apartment building was too big for me. That was something bigger than me. The Caldwell Institute for Public Safety is something that's bigger than me, it's larger than me, and it's intended to be so.

Because you shouldn't just rely on your skill sets and gifts. God will provide the network that you can depend on that will help establish something that's for the greater good. And that's how I got started, Jason. I got to tell you, it's been a long journey.

A long journey from there. I went on to Washington, D.C. on the Mitt Romney campaign in 2012. Worked for John Schimpkis on Capitol Hill for a little bit. And then I started a firm doing some government relations work because I was a lobbyist in Illinois.

And then I got to meet a guy by the name of Armstrong Williams, who's Dr. Ben Carson's business manager. And he wanted me to write for The Washington Times, which led me into media. You're listening to Jason in the House. We'll be right back.

Hi everybody, it's Brian Kilmeade. I want you to join me weekdays at 9 a.m. East as we break down the biggest stories of the day with some of the biggest newsmakers and of course, what you think. Listen live or get the podcast now at BrianKilmeadeShow.com Wow, that's quite the journey. And it continues, Jason. Yeah. It continues. All right, so, but tell me, tell me some more about, again, life growing up because you had a lot of brothers and sisters. Yeah.

Were you playing sports? Were you, I mean, I'm talking about when you're young, you know, family life sounds like maybe a little different than perhaps my growing up. Um, yeah, I imagine it's quite different. And I'm gonna tell you, I, um, you know, the blessing for me was, although my mom and dad were never married, my dad would pick me up every Friday, uh,

He would take me to my grandparents' house. And I told you in the green room just this weekend, we were talking about the cooking with friends segment for Fox and Friends. My grandparents would make catfish and spaghetti every Friday. And that's what we would eat. And this is such a delicious food. I know some people don't like catfish. I love it. But it was such a, you know, something. Explain to people why my hesitation on catfish and ketchup.

Because you were having it for breakfast.

Catfish and spaghetti. Yeah, it was. But that was saying, what is your favorite dish? So people, you know, they may have salmon and rice. I think Kat Timp was telling me one time that she cooked for Cooking with Friends, her segment. She had Pop-Tarts and something else. I don't know how that's your favorite dish. But, you know, the people just pick whatever they really like to eat. My wife and I, we did Swedish pancakes once.

And I was brave enough to try to flip it live on the air, and I nailed it. Steve Doocy couldn't even believe it. I couldn't believe it, but I nailed it. And, no, what I was smiling about was the catfish and spaghetti for breakfast. Yeah, it was. I bet it's pretty tasty. I don't know. Maybe my taste buds are too attuned to the time of day, but I just wouldn't necessarily go there for breakfast. Dinner? No.

Yeah, afternoon, I'd probably go there. But breakfast? Yeah, but they didn't tell me, hey, we're going to do breakfast-only dishes. They said, whatever you want to cook. I said, okay, let's do it. You know, it's a comfort food for me. It really reminds me of a really peaceful time. My grandfather's house was always less chaotic. And, you know, he taught me the value of hard work when I was just a kid.

Just maybe eight years old, nine years old. How did he do that? So he would take me to job sites with him. So when my dad would pick me up, we'd do catfish and spaghetti on Fridays. And on Saturdays, my grandfather would wake me up at 7 a.m., 6 a.m. And he'd get me ready, and I would go to work with him. His plumbing construction business, he would pay me $10 a day to hold the flashlight hand tools.

He always would keep a wad of cash in his pocket and he wanted me to see, you know, from point A to point B, how I was earned. You know, we're going to this customer's house. We're doing this work. They pay me via check or cash and I take it to the bank and here's the money. And, you know, I thought that was extraordinarily important to me and it really gave me the desire to work.

I wanted it so badly. Him just simply demonstrating that gave me a work ethic like no other. So it put me on a really early path. So when he tells me at 14 about these elected officials and the power they have to implement positive change, of course I want that because he started me off so early that my mind had already began to take shape.

around some of these activities that kids usually don't do until they're, you know, teenage or way well beyond. So I didn't have a regular upbringing like many of our peers. I didn't have my first drink until my 21st birthday on the night of because I know you don't drink at all, Jason, but I didn't do that because I thought I was going to run for public office and I wanted to make sure that I did everything in the right way.

So that was really, really important to me.

Well, yeah, I mean, I'm thankful for that. Yeah, and I think for a lot of young people, it's got to be either a quest for something or a fear of something that keeps them on the straight and narrow. For me, I was just buried in sport. I didn't have time to go do stuff. I was tired. I either had a game early in the morning or a game late at night, and my friends were on my soccer team together.

or on the football team. And, you know, it just wasn't part of, part of my life, but certainly the temptations for that kind of thing had to be prevalent, right? In South side of Chicago. Yeah.

It was. It was, you know, often people doing drugs, drinking, and even when I was in, I mean, grade school, they were doing it in high school. But my only connection with the guys that kind of established friendships was my ability to be able to talk to girls. That was literally it. Because I didn't get involved in the more nefarious activities. And I had never had an interest because I had goals in life. And considering the fact that

You know, when I would come from my dad's house and, you know, my dad would give me a little pocket change when I would walk in the house, it would be asked of me that whatever money I had or earned, we may need it for necessities. And that might be 30 or 40 bucks. But that's how dire the set of circumstances was that I grew up in. So, you know, people are typically shocked when I tell them about, you know, some of the things I've done at such a young age.

But I've done them because I've honestly felt like I didn't have a choice. When you're in a bad set of circumstances, you got to try to dig your way out. You have to try to do some form of good, no matter what age you are, because you're already coming up from behind. You know, some people have two parent households and middle class families and they're better prepared for what life is.

may have for them because their parents have prepared them for later on, like college expenses, et cetera. But sometimes you've got to kind of build on your own. Yeah. Yeah. But that's inspirational because that is not necessarily the norm. As you look back, you don't live there now, but you look at the places like the south side of Chicago and other places. Yeah.

If they're going to affect the change and make the change, it's going to be bigger than just one person. There's generations now that have gone through and just kind of that's what they've grown up with. They don't necessarily know any different. Like if you could wave your magic wand, be the king of South Side of Chicago, like what needs to happen there to get that place so that it's productive and safe?

Well, oftentimes movements start with one person. We know that. We can look throughout our history with the one person that leads a charge and it impacts everyone.

And I'll tell you, there's many things that need to happen in Chicago, but we gotta also recognize what has gone wrong with Chicago is the breakdown of the family. You cannot ignore the fact that when you take fathers out of homes,

Oftentimes there's no discipline, there's no accountability, and young people feel that they're not responsible to anyone. That's why they go out and they join gangs, because of the sense of belonging and family. And honestly, many times with the gangs, they're structure.

You know, there's leadership. There's accountability. If you don't do X, Y and Z, then this may happen to you. So they end up going a more sinister route. And it's unfortunate. But that's what ends up happening. That's when the criminal justice system is supposed to step in.

But unfortunately, that system is broken. So these kids know that in Chicago, there's this thing called a no chase policy where police officers, whether they be on foot or they are driving in their cars chasing a suspect, they have to call their supervisors to get permission before they do that. So which means the person who commits the crime gets away. Yeah.

largely. So, you know, there's multiple things wrong with the city of Chicago, but more importantly, you're going to have to fix that justice system right away. If you don't have these folks feeling accountable, then, you know, you're going to continue to see more and more lawlessness. And then the family is the, I think the most important structure there. So if I can wave a magic wand, I would say law and order and get those families back together.

And you're not going to be able to fix everybody, you know, or every situation. Some people have to go to jail forever. I mean, that's just, you know, you got to go to jail for life. Like some people are irredeemable. And I know that's hard to say because I am a believer in God and what he can do with some of the worst cases around. But, you know, sometimes that irredeemable person can go to jail. Life can change and they can help people that are in jail, even though they may be there for the rest of their lives.

So, you know, that's my take on it, Jason. Well, but I think you're right there because I was involved and engaged in the criminal justice reform. But we were focused on what we could do to reduce the rate of recidivism. Yes. And for the hardened criminals, people are using guns in crimes, people that were sexual predators. That's not who we're talking about. Those people were off the table like no.

You commit such a heinous, violent crime, that's not who we're talking about. But there are a lot of people that are in prison that are dealing with drug addiction. And, you know, one of the stats that I was just stunned to learn, and I learned this through Brett Tolman, the Right on Crime effort, 95% of the people that go to prison, they're coming back out. And I think the big question is, are they going to be better criminals or are they going to be better members of society?

And so if you get them to actually reenter society and be a productive member, that is far better for the community and our way and quality of life than it is if somebody were to, "Hey, now I've made contact. Now I know how to do these crimes even better." And that's what I fear is happening. And that's just one sliver of it.

If you're going to have prosecutors that aren't prosecuting the hardened crimes, and you're right, throwing a drink at somebody is going to be the felony just because it's personal, that's just the wrong direction. It absolutely is the wrong direction. And I think many folks have gotten tired of it, even progressive. Well, I don't want to say progressives because progressives seem like they're just...

just continuing down a lane of crazy. You know, some liberals, if you will, some at least moderate Democrats have seen that this, what they believe to be, you know, some good cause and to help people. And I know some people have really put their heart into it. Like, well, maybe we should be helping and we should be doing these particular things. I think they've realized that that was wrong and not the direction. You can have compassion for people, but still be tough.

And I think it's important to have compassion for people. We all come from different set of circumstances. And no matter if you're black, you're white, you're Hispanic or Asian, we all have our own issues and problems to deal with. You know, that's just a matter of life. So, you know, with respect to what that looks like, we got to we got to do better and we got to be tougher on crime. One hundred percent. And one last pitch, because I know we're running out of time here.

But for the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety, I encourage people to go to the website, caldwellinstitute.org. We need your help. We need your support. But if you know someone who's been a victim of violent crime or their family member was and they're trying to

navigate this system. I created this website because I wanted to replicate some of the experiences that I had to the betterment of other people. So you can go to our website, Caldwell Institute dot org. Look at the resources tab there. I have a number of resources, a manual on mental health and trauma written by Dr. Drew Caldwell.

and Dr. Hines, who's a PhD clinician. She's also a family member of mine. Or how to work with prosecutors and the police written by Joelle Fitzgerald, a current police chief

who's also the father of that Temple University police officer who was murdered a year ago, and a guy named Dan Kirk, who was a former number two at the Cook County Prosecutor's Office. And then I have a tab on there. I have a picture story to the press. You know, with so many different crimes going on, I know people fight for their airtime. Maybe, you know, there's a chance that the person who did the crime could be caught, but they don't know how to get to the press. I have a manual there.

that I've written that gives people a step-by-step guide of how to get to the press, your local press, whether it be newspaper, local TV, et cetera. So please join us. And you know, Dr. Pam Bond, Pam Bonnie's involved attorney general of Florida, former attorney general, Dr. Drew Penske, a lot of good people. Thank you so much.

Oh, that's great. Hey, Gianna, I have a few rapid questions I got to ask you though. Okay. We're going to go fast, you know, but we ask everybody these questions. So I got to ask them. You ready? Let's go. All right. First concert you attended. I think it was a Kanye West concert. There you go. Uh, what was your high school mascot? Ah, man, I forgot. No problem. No problem. Um,

What, did you have a pet growing up? Yeah, we had a little poodle. Little poodle? All right. Yeah, a little small dog. All right, other than a religious figure, if you could meet anybody, like anybody in the history of time, and you could have that person over, make them some of that catfish and spaghetti, who would that person be that you'd want to sit down and have dinner with? Thomas Edison. Really? Why? Yeah.

I mean, I'm obviously a brilliant thinker, but I'm just reminded of a quote. I've not failed. I found 10,000 ways that didn't work. So a guy who can think that deeply on an issue and continue to give himself the opportunity to do better is somebody that I would want to have a conversation with because he's affected the world in a way that not many even thought was possible. So yeah, he would be pretty brilliant. Pineapple on pizza?

No. No way. Good answer. We knew Gianna would do well on this test because you'd be surprised. No mascot. I don't know. There's no way pineapple on pizza. I totally get that. All right. Last question. Best advice you ever got? Never give up. That's good.

It's good. It makes sense. Short, sweet, simple. Yeah, no, it makes sense. So listen, Gianno Caldwell, thanks for joining us on Jason House Podcast. I appreciate your friendship. Appreciate what you're doing. Sad that you had to go through this with your younger brother. Nobody should have to go through that. But I appreciate you giving us some perspective and sharing some time with us.

Well, thank you so much for having me. And please follow me on, guys, on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok at Giano Caldwell, G-I-A-N-O Caldwell, C-A-L-D-W-E-L-L. Thank you, Jason. There you go. All right. Giano, thank you. All right. So, Giano Caldwell, you can tell, you know, he's got his head screwed on straight doing good things, making the world a better place. That's what it's going to take. It's going to take people like that.

gone through some hardship to make, uh, make the world a better place in, in hard places. And, uh,

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