Spring morning in West New York. And kids are walking to school
at 50/6 in Hudson. Come
on, Eddie Pabon
is waiting to greet him. Ah, that's what I'm talking about for the next hour.
This is one of my regular. They come alone. God bless you. Have a wonderful day.
They come in bunches.
There are big kids. Ah,
ah, there are little kids. Hey, Eddie is there for them all.
Oh,
wait a second. He's a blur of motion.
Rushing from corner to corner bam high, even hopping on school buses.
Have a wonderful day trying to high five
every awesome single
one.
you high five him, like, every morning,
every morning. Yeah. Got,
man.
He's a perfect and he starts you with a high five. Yeah, he's a good man.
What's his favorite day?
Give me
beautiful school day. That's power. I strongly believe
when you do this and they do this
and you put your positive energy into them,
you give them that boost, positive. Yes,
a
positive, take this energy with you into the school,
make it through your school day and
this is what it's all about. It started over a year ago. You know how we do.
Last September,
he began live streaming the high five routine on Facebook first
contested for a high five for a beautiful school day.
Awesome, good morning. I love your outfit. High five everybody have a blessed day.
Rolando Felis
Madu has been with him all along in the grand scheme of things.
It's probably something small but like I see how high 54
a beautiful school day is it full of black baby?
It transforms their day, beautiful smile. God bless you. My love.
Have a beautiful school day. Even for that, just that moment,
they're smiling. Oh, look at that smile. It's true.
The kids hit this intersection with a smile. Awesome
and walk away in a better mood.
I've actually had like two teachers come up and tell me
like I love what you do when I see my students,
damn,
they're literally still full of energy after they saw
you come on and when I hear that,
like that's, that's ball game.
But for Eddie, it easily could have been game over years ago
at 52.
He has spent a third of his life behind bars, stealing cars,
selling drugs and then drugs got to him.
Heroin. I had no willpower. I had hopes
out the window.
You know, like I thought I was going to die in an active addict four years ago.
He spoke to one. He says,
I'm just waiting to die. And soon
that man did.
It changed my whole life, it changed my whole life.
I finally got
will power.
Ah, now, instead of being addicted to garbage,
to love, I find an addiction and look at them smiling like that's AAA,
beautiful high.
Put it right there. You guys are awesome. Hey, that's what I'm talking about.
Oh, the amazing thing about a high five, it can alter the morning
with a smile.
Awesome.
It's altering a life, dear boy. I'm giving back to the world.
My dude to the world also. Come on.
Affect a life in a good way
is sort of like compensation
for all the damage that I did to my life and to my surroundings
as much as in my dark I took now I'm giving back and
I love it.
Awesome.