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Speaker 1: It's time to stop reading other people's success stores and

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Speaker 1: or know someone who knows us, right, because it's all

429
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Speaker 1: always about who you know. In the very beginning, when

430
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Speaker 1: I produced my very first movie, nobody knew who we were,

431
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Speaker 1: so it was very difficult to get talent. But once

432
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Speaker 1: they saw secrets, UH centers wanted some of the movies

433
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 1: that I did first, they then said, oh this is

434
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 1: this is a great you know, a great company to

435
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: go and work for. I know they're gonna be treated well,

436
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna look good on screen and so

437
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: from there has become very easy. So now, for example,

438
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm casting for a new movie as we speak. You know,

439
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: when when we're being introduced to certain agents, we're just

440
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: really send it over are real and saying, hey, here's

441
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Speaker 1: a new movie that we're doing. Here is the script,

442
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 1: and and it's it's much easier now. Um, and our budgets,

443
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: like you said, we don't have the mega budgets, but

444
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,640
Speaker 1: at our budget level, talent knows that, oh we're gonna

445
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Speaker 1: be seen in a good light. And this is something

446
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Speaker 1: I want to be a part of. Absolutely, Because now

447
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: when you can, would you consider your movies independent productions

448
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 1: or how how how is that featured? Yeah, we're we're

449
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Speaker 1: considered independent filmmakers. Okay, Now that's that's the beauty of

450
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Speaker 1: your industry because of the fact that now when I

451
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Speaker 1: when I have to reference all In because that's a

452
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,439
Speaker 1: movie I saw and that I fell in love with

453
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: your talent. I fell in love with the concept and

454
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: it was a feel good story and it goes back

455
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: to me. And that's why I relate to your a lot,

456
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: because I wrote Sitcom's Sister Sister, you know, Jamie foxx

457
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Speaker 1: the Parkers, and it was all about you know, heavy

458
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Speaker 1: said women feeling good about themselves. That was the Parkers.

459
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Speaker 1: Jamie Foxx was an entrepreneur, young man finding themselves. And

460
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Speaker 1: when when I went to the series in the last

461
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Speaker 1: two years, we took him out of the hotel and

462
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Speaker 1: made him, made him a business, put him in a

463
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Speaker 1: professional business world. And then Sister sister. That was two

464
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Speaker 1: twin teenagers coming of age because we took him from

465
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Speaker 1: high school to college. And I always feel good about that.

466
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Speaker 1: And if my whole brand, if you look at what

467
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 1: we did with Steve Harvey, it was always about uplifting

468
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Speaker 1: black people. Same thing I'm doing with stephen A. Smith.

469
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Speaker 1: So it's about the positive image that you create that

470
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Speaker 1: we are now giddy now. You know when you started

471
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Speaker 1: way back in the early two thousands, you know, when

472
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Speaker 1: nobody out there wanted black content. Nobody was looking for us.

473
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Speaker 1: What do I want to feel us? You know? And

474
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Speaker 1: then you battle with TV want you battle with Open Network,

475
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: You bad littld be teacher to try to get a

476
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: little little meaty with your stuff. How is the reaction

477
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 1: been to your brand now that suddenly people want black content.

478
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Speaker 1: We got the Netflix out there, the Amazon, the Hulus,

479
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Speaker 1: on next a new network coming out of this time

480
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Speaker 1: to the oh Hulu relationship. What is happening with your brain? Girl,

481
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: You gotta be feeling good about yourself. Your faith is

482
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: paying off. Yeah, yeah, hard work pays off, I'm telling you.

483
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Speaker 1: And so when I think about it, I'm so glad

484
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Speaker 1: that you brought that up, because I always tell people

485
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Speaker 1: it's a part of staying through it all, like saying

486
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Speaker 1: the course. When when I first did Secrets in sixteen,

487
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Speaker 1: we took it to a b FF, very first time

488
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Speaker 1: doing any of this, I remember being in the movie

489
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Speaker 1: theater for the screening and actually looking around going, wait

490
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Speaker 1: a minute, this is real. This is really real. Now

491
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Speaker 1: people are in here watching this movie. And so God

492
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Speaker 1: bless me big time because right after the screening, I

493
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Speaker 1: met some one from BT and they said, hey, you

494
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: need to meet such and such. They're gonna call you

495
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Speaker 1: next week. And that happened. Um got a call from

496
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Speaker 1: BC the very next week and said, hey, we want

497
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: to license this movie. So staying the course, staying committed.

498
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't even know that that was going

499
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Speaker 1: to happen to me. I honestly was going there saying

500
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a chance on myself. I'm gonna market

501
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Speaker 1: this film like crazy. See who shows up at my screening,

502
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: and if nothing happens, I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna

503
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Speaker 1: figure it out. I'm gonna get it on somebody's network.

504
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Speaker 1: But it happened very quickly, and from there the train

505
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Speaker 1: has not stopped moving. Well that's a good train. Now

506
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,479
Speaker 1: that now you have some project coming out on up

507
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Speaker 1: on bt HER tell us about the tell us about

508
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Speaker 1: the the process that Megamind of of taking these books

509
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Speaker 1: and adapting them for film. You know, we all know

510
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Speaker 1: you the brain child. You know you are the Megamind.

511
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Speaker 1: Talk to us about that dressing. Yes, yes, so so

512
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: obviously with Megamond, our primary goal is to take the

513
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Speaker 1: books that are in the book catalog, from life changing

514
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: books and adapt those into the movies. So that's the

515
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Speaker 1: primary goal. However, along the way, when people see that

516
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Speaker 1: you can produce um, that you're putting out good content,

517
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Speaker 1: of course they're going to tap into you to do

518
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Speaker 1: projects with them as well. So the partnership with bec

519
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Speaker 1: her Um with these health initiatives came with UM. One

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Speaker 1: of the executives over there, Loisa bates Um, she was

521
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Speaker 1: looking for someone to UM partner with them on the

522
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Speaker 1: health initiatives. So they have a series called The Waiting Room,

523
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Speaker 1: the Couch, and now the Hotline. All of these series,

524
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Speaker 1: UM are projects that highlight health issues or some type

525
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Speaker 1: of issue that African American women face. So for example,

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Speaker 1: The Couch touches on mental health. UH, the Waiting Room

527
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: touches on breast cancer awareness, and now the Hotline touches

528
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Speaker 1: on domestic violence. And so this is a series that UM,

529
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Speaker 1: you know obviously you know bt Her feels really strongly

530
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Speaker 1: about and I am actually the producer for for that series.

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Speaker 1: And so we bring in celebrity directors. We've had Vivica Fox,

532
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Speaker 1: Mona Scott, Young, Victoria Raoul and that's a bell callaway. Uh.

533
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: The list goes on, but they basically come in, they

534
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: take us an episode and they direct that episode. And

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Speaker 1: the reason why we tapped into uh celebrities to do

536
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Speaker 1: this is because we know when they speak. People listen

537
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: when you have a Shirlelee Ralph talking to you about

538
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: why you should go and get a mammogram early uh

539
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: and why she decided to direct a an episode about

540
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Speaker 1: breast cancer awareness. UM. So these these short films episodes

541
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: are very very powerful. Um. We have a set of

542
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: them coming out in July for The Couch, which are

543
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Speaker 1: the mental health UM series on the Vivigate Fox movie

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Speaker 1: that she directed, was that shot d C Area. Yes,

545
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Speaker 1: we shoot all of our movies in DC. It was

546
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: so funny because I would just tell you a little

547
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: funny story because one of the locations that she chose

548
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Speaker 1: was a very good friend of mine. Did you guys

549
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: use Laura Foods? It was her. So so we are

550
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: so I on the phone, We're talking to Laura and

551
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: then she walked the Foxes in my office directing. It

552
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: was so funny that you're saying that because I knew

553
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Speaker 1: exactly the project that you were talking about that was

554
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: recently shot, by the way, it was shot this year. Yeah,

555
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: and we actually shot two series at Laura's UM facility.

556
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Speaker 1: We did one with Dandy Smith and Mona Scott Young.

557
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: Her film was shot there as well. Um. And you know,

558
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: obviously I know Laura just because she's amazing when it

559
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: comes to money. Yes, and she talked about you to

560
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: me before, Rashawn, but I actually did not make the connection.

561
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: So now, well good because now you know because of

562
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: the fact that it was so funny, I said, I

563
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: gotta ask what difficult shoot that in DC because it

564
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: was recently done. But when I look at these projects

565
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: and pop, you're evolving as a brand. You are a

566
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: brand now, so you know, you may have when out

567
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: on faith, you may have. You know, God told you

568
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: you need to send up bed for six months and

569
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: get you a little re ring bell, and you wrote

570
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: a book, but you are a brand. What responsibility comes

571
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Speaker 1: with you being a brand tresser as a real small

572
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Speaker 1: wood Yeah? I think for me, Um, the responsibility that

573
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Speaker 1: I take is number one. I said before, I get

574
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Speaker 1: to control the narrative, right, because we are we have

575
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Speaker 1: a lot of eyeballs on us now. So even if

576
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Speaker 1: I wanted to act crazy, I can't, right because there's

577
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: too many people watching me. Um. I take the fact

578
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Speaker 1: that although I don't teach in the classroom, I'm still

579
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: an educator and there are a lot of young people

580
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Speaker 1: watching me, following me, wanting to duplicate my success, and

581
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: so I don't take that lightly. UM. So responsibility for

582
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: me is that I watch what I do. I make

583
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: sure that I am pulling other people up and showing

584
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: them what to do. UM. And I am encouraging people

585
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: all the time to go for it, but go for

586
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: it with a plan, right right, and then then the

587
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: plan is that you know it can that's be just faith.

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00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: It has to have a plan tied to I always

589
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: tell people you go out on faith, but somewhere along

590
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: life you better have some reason or budget tied to that.

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00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: That that that faith. And when I when I look

592
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: at what you're doing, what you I gotta ask this

593
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: question because we said, you know, your your books are

594
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: female centric, because people come to me all the time.

595
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: You know, I can't get everybody at Simon Schuster or

596
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: Harper College or some of the major labels out there.

597
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: Do do you how do you? How do you? I

598
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: guess screen people who want to bring novels or memoirs

599
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: to your to your your book label LCB. Yeah, we

600
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: have a screening process, so pretty much we send all

601
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: traffic to um trust the ozareil dot com and from

602
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: there people who want to go to casting they can

603
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: figure it out, you know, once they get to the

604
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Speaker 1: site if they want to, you know, submit a project.

605
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: It's an easy way for me to streamline everything, all

606
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: questions straight to that site. Because of course, if I'm

607
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: doing radio interviews and all these different things. I can't

608
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: always try to figure out how to help somebody answer

609
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: each individual question. So we send everybody right there and

610
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: they can get all the answers that they need in

611
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: terms of um, you know, us looking at projects, whether

612
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Speaker 1: it's a screenplay, it's a novel or whatever, it is,

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00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: okay cool. So so if someone because I'm I'm gonna

614
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Speaker 1: sending some people, you're way now because I am no,

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Speaker 1: I'm d I have no clue as to what to

616
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Speaker 1: do because I'm not familiar with because Amazon takes a

617
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Speaker 1: lot of your money. To my understanding, you know, when

618
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Speaker 1: you do self publishing, and so when you talk about

619
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Speaker 1: self publish, are you going through Amazon? How how does

620
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: your self publishing system work for you? Yeah, we still

621
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: utilize Amazon. It's obviously not the only outlet that we have,

622
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: but you know, we use Baker and Taylor, we use Ingram.

623
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Speaker 1: Amazon is just easy for everyone. You know, whether I

624
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: think I'm always in this love hate relationship with Amazon,

625
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, it's easy access.

626
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Speaker 1: And because America loves Amazon, they go there for my films,

627
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: they go there to buy my books. But ultimately we

628
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Speaker 1: get a chance to disseminate the information when they come

629
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Speaker 1: to trust at ozarel dot com. So it's just easy.

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Speaker 1: I love it. First of all, let's not just say America,

631
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Speaker 1: but the world loves Amazons. You. You know, they can

632
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: be buying your books in Africa and the Caribbean, in Spain,

633
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: in Europe and Russia because they're watching my movies over there.

634
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Speaker 1: Toober Shot, I get d m s all the time.

635
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Speaker 1: But that's what that That's what I'm saying is that

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Speaker 1: you are brand down and so you know, I know

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Speaker 1: I'm going to continuous conversation because you know, you're soing

638
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Speaker 1: chanting and from the standpoint of you know, when I

639
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: when I when I come across people like you who

640
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Speaker 1: are naturally talented, you know, it's it's always the next

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