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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to another episode of Strictly Business, where

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Speaker 1: we talked to some of the brightest minds working in

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Speaker 1: media today. I'm Andrew Wallenstein with Variety. As long time

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Speaker 1: listeners know, every now and then, this podcast skips over

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Speaker 1: the usual executives to talk about business with performers, as

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Speaker 1: we've done in the past with the likes of Kevin

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Speaker 1: Hart and Tyra Banks. This week we're checking in with

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, who you know from his many TV gigs,

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Speaker 1: from Family Feud to his own daytime talk show. But

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Speaker 1: what you don't know is that there's a lot more

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Speaker 1: to his sprawling business interests. I caught up with him

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Speaker 1: last month in Las Vegas to talk about it all

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Speaker 1: at Variety's annual conference at CES. I just learned from

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Speaker 1: you backstage, this is your first c E S. What

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Speaker 1: what brought you out here? I mean, you know, I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know what existed. I'm sixty woman. I just

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Speaker 1: stopped putting stuff on index cards, so you know, I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know. Uh, my son's I have all of

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Speaker 1: my children on Millennials and my oldest son is twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: and uh, he said, Dad, you gotta go. It's the

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Speaker 1: cutting edge is where everything is that's moving forward. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've had to do a lot in terms of technology

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Speaker 1: that to keep my business in the forefront. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not just a television guy. You know, I'm a businessman.

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Speaker 1: So I've had to do a lot to learn about

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Speaker 1: technology to keep myself in the forefront. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not happy with every aspect of technology, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting there. But the key for me is I

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Speaker 1: surround myself with a lot of young people, you know,

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Speaker 1: who are more used to this. You know, So what

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Speaker 1: what kind of technology trends or things are catching your

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Speaker 1: eye out here? You know, the apps, the apps are

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Speaker 1: crazy right now. You know, I've got a couple of

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Speaker 1: fintemp investments in a couple of apps out there now

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Speaker 1: with finance and things like that. Harvey's Hundreds is doing

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Speaker 1: good in the app world right now, which is a

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Speaker 1: game that I do on my talk show that I

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Speaker 1: turned into an app that's doing really well. And I

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Speaker 1: just look for right now, and I just I just

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Speaker 1: look for cutting edge opportunities. You know, things is out there.

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Speaker 1: You know, because as as a businessman, you know, I've

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Speaker 1: made the majority of my money making appearances. You know

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Speaker 1: that's all. That's a tough way to make a living,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you always got to be on something.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm probably on TV more than anybody in the country.

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Speaker 1: I have more television appearances right now than anybody. But

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Speaker 1: that's a tough way to make a living. Why is

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Speaker 1: that because people would assume, all, you're the star of

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Speaker 1: the show, You're making millions. I mean, you know you

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Speaker 1: should ask your accounting maybe, yeah. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that people understand the grind that that is.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a difficult job. You know. When

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Speaker 1: I go to work, I don't have the luxury that

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Speaker 1: I can't lay back on the phone, I can't go No.

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Speaker 1: When I come to work, I'm on I'm on the

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Speaker 1: radio every single day, talking to seven and a half

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Speaker 1: to nine million people a week. Then I turned around

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Speaker 1: and I do my talk show two to three shows

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Speaker 1: Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, Little Big Shots, Show Time

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Speaker 1: with the Apollo, Oh Miss Universe that they didn't think

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Speaker 1: i'd ever be back on that now. Whatever do you mean?

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Speaker 1: Little little accident happened one year. You know, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: that one. You know, I read the teleprompter. I read

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Speaker 1: exactly what the teleprompter said. They said and the new

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Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen Miss Universe is it said it. And

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Speaker 1: the dude in my ear said, read the next name, Ms. Columbia,

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Speaker 1: and I said, Miss Columbia, great job, Steve, go to

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Speaker 1: the back and I went to the back. Everything was cool,

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Speaker 1: and then some dude came out and said, you said

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Speaker 1: the wrong name. I said, I didn't say wrong. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to cuss. And that was you know,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I do a lot, man, and so

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Speaker 1: you know, being on it is difficult, but I don't

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Speaker 1: when you work like that, man, I've already proven myself

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Speaker 1: to be the hardest working man, and show business is

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Speaker 1: now with my global business opportunities and things like that,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to work a lot smarter instead are harder

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Speaker 1: so much, you know, I get it, But you know,

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Speaker 1: because you've got so much going on in daytime in particular,

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Speaker 1: people might be thinking, all right, he'll just do that

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Speaker 1: the kind of show, for instance, your talk show right now?

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Speaker 1: Is that something that could just go on infinitely or

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Speaker 1: are we different? Are we dealing with a different kind

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Speaker 1: of Hollywood these days? We're dealing definitely different. Television is dying.

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Speaker 1: Daytime television is dying. My show, uh, Steve is the

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Speaker 1: only show over the past seven years that came into

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Speaker 1: syndication and stuck. Nothing else has stuck. There has been

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Speaker 1: Queen Got Out, Ricky Lake got out, Mardi Vera got out,

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Speaker 1: Bethany got out. Everything that launched failed. It's a very

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Speaker 1: tough space right now. Plus, because of technology, people watch

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Speaker 1: TV when they want to. Now, nobody's sitting at the

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Speaker 1: house at one thirty Steve coming on. Now, y'all tape

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Speaker 1: it and then I don't get the credit for it.

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Speaker 1: And the Nielsen's system has sucked from day one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know who thought this was a great ass

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Speaker 1: the most archaic thing ever created. That's why Facebook and

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Speaker 1: YouTube now prove out so much different. You know, exactly

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Speaker 1: So what do you what what becomes the next step?

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Speaker 1: Do you look at the facebooks of the world and say,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's where my show's got to be. Okay, you're

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Speaker 1: trying to corner me now, because corner is such a

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Speaker 1: I gotta think about it because that's where it's headed.

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Speaker 1: It's not it's not in network television anymore. Syndication is dead.

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Speaker 1: They didn't even they didn't even present a show last year.

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Speaker 1: Nothing was presented. No new shows came in. Is that

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. Nothing was at Napty where they launched

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Speaker 1: and that was that was a clear sign to me,

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Speaker 1: you know, an NBC university who I'm with, you know,

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Speaker 1: is they're making other decisions, you know, because oh, well,

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Speaker 1: I thought I was until they made an announcement a

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Speaker 1: Uh it didn't. I don't know if it's sold. It's

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Speaker 1: not selling like they thought. But you know, I thought

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Speaker 1: it would have been nice of them to come to me,

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Speaker 1: has been the only dude that survived for them for

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Speaker 1: seven years, and say, Steve, we're thinking about doing this.

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Speaker 1: But no, they just made an announcement. So when you

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Speaker 1: the public demands it. You know, we can't all just here.

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Speaker 1: You can't make announcements that don't expect they have to

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Speaker 1: hear one yourself. And so I'm I'm working it'll it'll

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Speaker 1: be something real cute. Um, I don't you know, I

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Speaker 1: I'm just an old school guy. Man. I just thought

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Speaker 1: that you're supposed to talk to people and go, look,

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Speaker 1: you've been good business for us. This is what we're

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Speaker 1: thinking of doing. Are you okay with that? Now? You

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this move right here, because it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: And you look at the numbers on my show as

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Speaker 1: gotta hit so somebody's gonna recognize that. Yeah. Well, also

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Speaker 1: you you might be in good company recently, Ellen degenerous

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Speaker 1: even indicated and everything. Who are this is my I'm

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Speaker 1: I just did a show two weeks ago, and Ellen

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Speaker 1: Her brother wants her to stay. A girl says, go,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what she's gonna do. She's like the

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Speaker 1: I'm second take him seriously. I hope she do leave

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Speaker 1: it's stressful and you're doing so many different My doctors

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna do this? And I said, well, you know, hell,

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Speaker 1: I ain't digging ditches. And I worked at Ford Motor Company. Man,

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Speaker 1: The biggest joggonnaut for me is family. Few Nothing is

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Speaker 1: bigger than that. It's such a huge, huge, and the

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Speaker 1: the money that's generated off social media from the clips,

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Speaker 1: just starts you to thinking, Man, that world over there,

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Speaker 1: that YouTube, that Facebook world is intriguing. It's money right now.

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Speaker 1: There's no delayed gratification out there in this space that

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Speaker 1: dance off every day. Well, my guess is when you

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Speaker 1: I missed that. You know, my deal is it's nine

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Speaker 1: it's so tied up in ownership and who created it

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Speaker 1: the host of the show. And I'm choking him, I'm

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Speaker 1: I get more positive that I do negative. The only

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Speaker 1: You know, when somebody hating, it's just so loud. People

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Speaker 1: who love you, they just love you. You You know, we

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Speaker 1: my man, that's my girl. I love their boom. They

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Speaker 1: may not post it, but when they hate you taters post.

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Speaker 1: So do you I mean, between all the social media,

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Speaker 1: not me, as long as they'll have you. I'm in

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Speaker 1: sixty six percent of all American households on one of

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Speaker 1: But the world is almost eight billion people. And here's

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Speaker 1: what I tell people all the time, because some people say, Steve,

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Speaker 1: what about overexposure? Everywhere I go, I see the Nike swoosh.

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Speaker 1: I don't care where I go I see the Nike swoosh.

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Speaker 1: They ain't stopped making tennis shoes. They ain't stopped making

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Speaker 1: jogging suits. They ain't stopped making basketballs. That Nike swooshes everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I saw it in Thailand, I've seen it in the Philippines,

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Speaker 1: Africa to UAE, and they keep on making shoes. You

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Speaker 1: don't think it's enough Nike out here? No, But Nike

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Speaker 1: just keep on because no matter how popular you are,

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Speaker 1: that are far more people who have no idea who

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Speaker 1: That don't mean they know me. That don't mean they

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Speaker 1: know my name. My face recognition is really really high,

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Speaker 1: and name recognition I get all get good ratings with

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Speaker 1: all of that. But man, I can't worry about that

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Speaker 1: because it's it's crazy. It's new people boring every day.

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Speaker 1: Like for example, little big shots introduced me to a

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Speaker 1: they just see you. They don't reason. I was in

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Speaker 1: Like I forgot that they hear pig feet in a jar.

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Speaker 1: I forgot that ship because I got money now, so

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Speaker 1: I forgot. So I go to Walmart and I stay

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Speaker 1: and the little boy goes, Mommy, that's Steve Harvey's right there. Boy,

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Speaker 1: ain't no Steve Harvey in no Walmart. The little boy

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Speaker 1: went around the corner and he goes, Mommy, I want

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Speaker 1: to go and say hi to Steve Harvey. If you

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Speaker 1: don't shut up talking about Steve Harvey. He ain't in

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Speaker 1: no damn Walmart. Why would he be in a Walmart.

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Speaker 1: I had to go around the corner because a little

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Speaker 1: So I went around the corner and said, ma'am, your

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Speaker 1: son is absolutely right it ste because you know, kids

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Speaker 1: just see what they see. They don't rationalize it the

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Speaker 1: way like adult stud So little bit shots introduced me

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Speaker 1: to a whole another group of people. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: have fans that six years old and then family feud.

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Speaker 1: It's old people. The old people loved me, and then

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Speaker 1: middle aged people love me because family feud covers the basis.

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Speaker 1: So I'm pretty good. From four to a hundred and sixteen,

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Speaker 1: pretty nice sweet spot for the down. Well, Steve, wish

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Speaker 1: you the best of luck in nineteen with everything that

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Speaker 1: you're doing. We're all watching and thanks for coming out

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Speaker 1: to that. Hey man. It was one of the one

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Speaker 1: of the queens interviews I had. Thank you all, really good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for thanks for tuning into another episode of

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Speaker 1: strictly Business. Come back next week for another podcast and

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Speaker 1: we sit down with some of the brightest minds and

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Speaker 1: entertainment