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Speaker 1: Welcome to money making Conversations. I am your host, Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: be seen every Saturday night starring and Owns Love in

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Speaker 1: Kimmy Scott is an entrepreneur, real estate agent, a registered

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Speaker 1: He's the older brother of mar Saul Scott, who I've

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Speaker 1: They're coming on the show to talk about the new

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Speaker 1: Kimmy Scott and Maury Scott. Everybody, well, thank you for

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, he ain't done nothing. You know, when when

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Speaker 1: I when I when I when I look at the

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Speaker 1: show and I'm just shifting gears a little bit here

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Speaker 1: because I want to know, what do you know Tiffany

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Speaker 1: and also Maurice and some of these storylines, because you know,

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Speaker 1: like you know, especially recently when you had the little

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Speaker 1: dinner with It and then then you were shocked by

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Speaker 1: this new I call a shady character, Tiffany who's been

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Speaker 1: added to the show. She just run around the just

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Speaker 1: dropping dimes on everybody, and then you have to react

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Speaker 1: to that, Like the last time was in the Luncheon

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Speaker 1: when she dropped the dime on on Destiny and then

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Speaker 1: she and then the previous episode she told, she told,

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Speaker 1: she told Meller did she even know who Destiny was?

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Speaker 1: And then she shared some information about monster and vaping

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Speaker 1: and that shocked you because she revealed information by the kid.

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Speaker 1: So how does these story lines work for my fans?

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Speaker 1: As far as how do y'all walk into these scenes?

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Speaker 1: Are y'all produced to up to a point or they

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Speaker 1: just set scenarios? How does that work? Starting with you,

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Speaker 1: Kimmy Den, I'm going to you because we need to

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Speaker 1: get the men side of the story because that Martel,

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Speaker 1: he's just a disaster. Okay, So as far as the

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Speaker 1: production of the show UM, and all fairness, we have

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Speaker 1: different um Field producers that are assigned to us, and

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Speaker 1: they communicate with us on a very recular basis UM

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Speaker 1: either phone in person just to know what's going on

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Speaker 1: in our world each week, UM, what's coming up, events

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Speaker 1: that are coming up, things that we have planned as

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Speaker 1: far as our businesses or children, UM. And so they

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Speaker 1: don't produce the situation. However, they do try to help

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Speaker 1: us see different avenues of getting it filmed, like getting

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Speaker 1: it on TV UM and the things that are actually

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Speaker 1: I guess TV worthy, you know, because you might tell

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Speaker 1: them ten different things you got going on this week,

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Speaker 1: and they only interested in one UM, and that happens

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Speaker 1: fairly often. The one thing I will say about the

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Speaker 1: show that I say a lot actually is they force

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Speaker 1: us to have some conversations that we might not normally have.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is because there are

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Speaker 1: times like for me, especially when I have an alter

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Speaker 1: case with someone, I kind of distanced myself UM because

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy my peace, and my peace is more

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Speaker 1: important than non piece UM. And so on the show,

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Speaker 1: they have put us in situations where we're encouraged to

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Speaker 1: talk it out instead of just even it be UM

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Speaker 1: and and that is where production I think takes a

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Speaker 1: maybe otherwise we wouldn't get over. UM And to be fair,

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Speaker 1: it also produces some hurdles, produces some hurdles UM, But

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Speaker 1: more often than not, it's just strict conversation that we've

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Speaker 1: best day, the best time for us to kind of

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Speaker 1: blossom that conversation into something that the nation can relate to. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, your brother's on the show, and he has

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Speaker 1: kind of like a Lucy goosey personality, you know, versus

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Speaker 1: your person Your personality is pretty straightforward. You know you

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Speaker 1: you know, you truly are professional. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: You know, he kind of jokes around a lot a

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Speaker 1: lot of situations. Even though she slapped your hand when

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Speaker 1: Kimmy said that there ain't no time to joke. Now, okay,

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Speaker 1: you stop all that joking now, you ain't no comedian.

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Speaker 1: Now Mr Morris, Okay, now we look over that Bartel,

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Speaker 1: his life a disaster is just being played out on

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Speaker 1: social media, is being played out on TV. When you

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Speaker 1: look at that and you're dealing with all of the situations,

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Speaker 1: how do you how do you deal with that? How

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Speaker 1: do you make sure that your brand, your family, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't become a victim of this show or any type

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Speaker 1: of show, that they can be exposed in a negative

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Speaker 1: light because right now it has happened to them. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying, like even Destiny she got a divorce

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Speaker 1: on the show, and I'm not sure to turn this

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Speaker 1: into a negative conversation, but it is a certain responsibility

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Speaker 1: that you have to hope the hold both as a couple,

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Speaker 1: to understand what you involved in and making sure that

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Speaker 1: it doesn't impact your home. Yeah. I think that there's

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Speaker 1: a level of emotional intelligence that's important when you're getting

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Speaker 1: on a reality television show. Um, And there's a level

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Speaker 1: of character that I'm not I'm not gonna play a

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Speaker 1: certain character in life, and that's just being true to myself,

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Speaker 1: true to my family, true to my braind um. And

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think that there's

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Speaker 1: not enough. There's not enough game from television, UM or

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Speaker 1: reality television to lose my family. UM, and I personally

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Speaker 1: think that even in certain certain situations that they're dealing with, UM,

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Speaker 1: it's difficult because the world has an idea about how

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Speaker 1: their relationships should go when they see just snippets of

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Speaker 1: for a lot of fans to get. Martell is not

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Speaker 1: in all the time, right, there's no way in the

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Speaker 1: would have been with him for ten years, right. So

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Speaker 1: that's just a portion of his personality. On the flip side,

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Speaker 1: Martell is probably one of the nicest people you've ever meet.

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Speaker 1: And he's awful. He's carrying, He's a kind of individual

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Speaker 1: that will call you about, you know, something that you

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Speaker 1: side to Mark Telle that you don't get a chance

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Speaker 1: to pretty much all of us. UM. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: reserved for the most part on the show, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not always reserved. There's things that you know call spirited conversation.

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Speaker 1: Um usually when you involve children, my family, you know

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Speaker 1: the things you know definitely, will you know, turn up

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Speaker 1: to thank you both for coming on the show. I've

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Money Making Conversations with your host, Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: My next guest is an industry decision maker. His name

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Speaker 1: is Carlos King. One of my favorite people and we've

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Speaker 1: never met He's an executive producer and found of Kingdom Rain,

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Speaker 1: Kingdom Rain, Rain Rain, King of Rain Entertainment. He is

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Speaker 1: one of the most sought after executive producers and reality TV.

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Speaker 1: With over ten years under his production belt, King as

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Speaker 1: how please work with your money making conversation a return

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Speaker 1: visit for the time of the brilliant one. Mr callins King,

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Speaker 1: call us, you know, um, watching your work is uh

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Speaker 1: is my introduction to the world because of the fact

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Speaker 1: that we get for the first time we see it.

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Speaker 1: Now we can talk and find out how does that

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Speaker 1: mind work putting any other these projects because you're dealing

645
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Speaker 1: with people's lives and it's really impactful in some ways.

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Speaker 1: These are unscripted and so you have to kind of

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Speaker 1: like set the same like I think, uh, Larry David

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Speaker 1: or HBO kind of has an unscriptive show where people

649
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Speaker 1: walk in the kind of set up the scene, but

650
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Speaker 1: it's from a comedy perspective, so you know that direction.

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Speaker 1: So you could be throwing some curves when you're developing

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Speaker 1: these shows. So talk about the process to my viewers

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Speaker 1: and listeners in the world of reality. Yeah, well again,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. And no, it is true when

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Speaker 1: you're dealing with real people and you're producing a reality show.

656
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Speaker 1: It's very challenging because you really are following the reality

657
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Speaker 1: of their life and off the time. That means the good,

658
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Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly. And that's the reason why

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Speaker 1: my shows are so relatable is because we don't orchestrate

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Speaker 1: anything out of drama sake. We do such a fantastic

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Speaker 1: job at the company to where we truly immerse ourselves

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Speaker 1: into the lives of our talent, and because it's such

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Speaker 1: bravery encourage for anybody to say, I want to let

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Speaker 1: cameras inside my household and into my life. That's the

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Speaker 1: privilege I don't take for granted. So because we have

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Speaker 1: to constantly make sure that the mental health of these

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Speaker 1: people are stable enough to really handle the conversation they're

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Speaker 1: having on camera and then deal with the after effects

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Speaker 1: of it when social media involved himself. So it is

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Speaker 1: very challenging to produce. When you're doing a scripted show,

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Speaker 1: you have an actor, they're playing character. They get paid

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Speaker 1: to to to say what you wrote, and they get

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Speaker 1: paid to do the action that you directed. So it's

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Speaker 1: much easier in that sense, where in my case, I

675
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Speaker 1: have to follow real people who have real issues and

676
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Speaker 1: real story and because I'm so sensitive to them, I

677
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Speaker 1: make sure that we all work together to put on

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Speaker 1: a good show. Well, one of the bigger storylines was

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Speaker 1: out of the love and marriage hunt Field. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: when you're talking about your scripted and you're talking about

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Speaker 1: this is not part of you know, you know, because

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Speaker 1: all these when the when the story. Because I just

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Speaker 1: recently interviewed that Kimmy and Maury Scott fantastic couple. First

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Speaker 1: time I interviewed them, and and they were just saying

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Speaker 1: they were all friends. And that's how you know, Melody

686
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: came to them with this great idea about the show

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00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: and Martel and they all got together and they shot

688
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Speaker 1: about three pilots with you before it was finally picked up.

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Speaker 1: And along the way, this success, you know, this unexpected

690
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Speaker 1: drama comes out. It was this reality your reality shows.

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Speaker 1: Guess what you can't change what happens because it's real.

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Speaker 1: And that was the relationship breakup of Melody and Martel

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Speaker 1: from a crisis management. How do you look at that

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Speaker 1: and how did you kind of like hold it together

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Speaker 1: respectfully and not try to explore it. Great question because

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Speaker 1: there's a fine line within that and The main thing

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Speaker 1: that I did that a lot of other reality reality

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Speaker 1: producers don't do, is I ask permission. First. I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: because you're telling you this is what you're going through,

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Speaker 1: are you comfortable sharing that on camera? Because my job

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Speaker 1: is to follow the reel. And what would be so

702
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: unfortunate is if the entire town knows about this infidelity

703
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Speaker 1: and you're on TV pretending you're in a great marriage,

704
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Speaker 1: you are going to lose in the end because when

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Speaker 1: people watch reality TV, they want to see authenticity. So

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Speaker 1: the permission that I asked Melody and Martell was, if

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Speaker 1: you trust me to handle this story, will tend to

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00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: love and care. I promise you you would come out

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Speaker 1: of this never feeling exploited. And at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, you, courtesy of being transparent, you're going to

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Speaker 1: affect a lot of black households who are dealing with

712
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: this issue, and they will look to you as to

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Speaker 1: what to do right and what to do wrong, And

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're going to become the voice

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Speaker 1: of this topic and the voice of this topic because

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Speaker 1: you know Melody, you know she's come out of this

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Speaker 1: as a uh mom entrepreneur, you know, powerful, strong, uh

718
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Speaker 1: look fantastic and uh. And sometimes when I look at

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Speaker 1: the show, I look at Martel confused, this is my

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Speaker 1: this is me talking um angry, don't know the direction

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Speaker 1: he wants to go with his life. And so you,

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Speaker 1: as a producer, you see these things happening, do you

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Speaker 1: give advice or do you just let it play off

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Speaker 1: and say, this is what we're gonna do. Are you

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Speaker 1: comfortable what we're gonna do? Or do you ever offer

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Speaker 1: advice to the individuals who are playing out these real

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Speaker 1: life characters Carlos, Yeah, I do live in a boat.

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Speaker 1: So primarily I follow the reality of what they're going

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Speaker 1: through because because what I like for my audience to

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Speaker 1: see again is the authenticity of someone dealing with pain

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Speaker 1: and joy. Right, So when Martell, when you watch the

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Speaker 1: show and you see Martell struggling with light after divorce,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of black men, specifically black men,

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Speaker 1: and they may have steps outside of their marriage and

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Speaker 1: their wives leave them. They struggle with the realization that

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Speaker 1: my infidelity ruined this this relationship that I adored and

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Speaker 1: and and who am I outside of being married to

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Speaker 1: this woman who we were a partner in all of this?

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Speaker 1: And I think you're seeing some regret or Martell's behalf,

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Speaker 1: and as a black man producing this show, I cannot

741
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Speaker 1: sit back watch this man go through this pain and

742
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Speaker 1: not offer some sort of advice to hell. So I

743
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: definitely have had numerous conversations mal, most recently two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: because I love them all and I want to make

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Speaker 1: sure that at the end of the day they're okay. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is that you said

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Speaker 1: it earlier about social media, because that's one of the

748
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Speaker 1: biggest churches and benefits of modern day success, you know,

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Speaker 1: But in reality TV it can be even worse because,

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Speaker 1: unlike a script, you're just playing a character and that's

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Speaker 1: my character told me to write that, you know where

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00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: reality show? How does social media work for you? And

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Speaker 1: how do you tell a talent because they are talents,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether they playing themselves or not, they are

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Speaker 1: they are talent. How do you recommend to talent that's

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Speaker 1: playing out a life that they can go to the

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Speaker 1: grocery store and she really is a Mortel, you know,

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Speaker 1: he she really is Kimmy, he really is more Ree,

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Speaker 1: she really is a tissue teacher. All these people are

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Speaker 1: going to the grocery store being the sales. So social

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Speaker 1: media can be very painful in the world of social media.

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Speaker 1: Do you encourage them to do social media or that's

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Speaker 1: that's their own thing. You walk away. They grown people,

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Speaker 1: They deal with it what they have to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: I discourage them for reading the comments on soccial media.

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Speaker 1: I think you have to use social media what it's for,

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00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: and that's engagement, and that is promoting whatever vehicle you

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Speaker 1: have to to get the word out. And once you post,

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Speaker 1: you leave right. You don't stay on them. Read the

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Speaker 1: comments because the number one to say I can make

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Speaker 1: is read comments of what other people are saying about them.

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Speaker 1: Because what I've learned through social media, and I love

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Speaker 1: social media, but I learned this, the meanest comments get

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Speaker 1: the most reaction. So if a game that people on

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Speaker 1: social media are playing in terms of how can I

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Speaker 1: trump this comment so that mind can get the most traction,

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00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: in order to do that, you have to get meaner

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Speaker 1: and nastier, and that can really affect so much's mental health.

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Speaker 1: So I tell my reality stars, do not read the

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Speaker 1: comment because it will ruin your day. Yes, that will

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00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: remain your life if you just keep reading that feed

782
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: on the daily basis but it's all started somewhere else

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00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: for you, not on We just talked about the current success.

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Speaker 1: When did you realize how did you get into the game.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've had this conversation before. We have new

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Speaker 1: listeners and new views. But I want to talk because

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Speaker 1: I want everybody wants to do what you do. Call

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Speaker 1: us okay, But again, you have a gift and I

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Speaker 1: tell people, you know, I was a sitcom writer, and

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00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: believe it, there were more talented sitcom writers than me,

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00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: and I could tell there was a difference between just

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00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: like there's a difference between the Michael Jordan's and a

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00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: player who was drafted in the first round. Their talents,

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Speaker 1: and you have that special gift, that that certain I

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Speaker 1: what makes you so special, And I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: in a negative way, but obviously you see things different.

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Speaker 1: Call os why and how did that? How was it

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Speaker 1: introduced to you when you first got into reality television.

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Speaker 1: Because I was a kid who was sort of a

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Speaker 1: nerd going up to Detroit. I would watch endless hours

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Speaker 1: of television, which included everything from the Oprah Winfrey Show

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Speaker 1: to the local news too. I'm a kid watching the

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Speaker 1: Datelin NBC like I was a student of people. I

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Speaker 1: was a student of character, I was a student of knowledge,

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Speaker 1: and because of that, I thought I would become a

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Speaker 1: psychologist because I just love to get in the minds

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Speaker 1: of people and and really understand their behavior. Because I

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Speaker 1: had all of that education growing up. When I decided

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Speaker 1: to major and journalism in college and minor psychology, I

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Speaker 1: took both um gifts that I had a journalism and

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Speaker 1: when I got an internship at BT, I just started

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Speaker 1: to really climb the ladder and I got a job there,

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Speaker 1: and I got offered to do a reality show because

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Speaker 1: my friends and the business knew that I loved reality TV.

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Speaker 1: And the first reality show I was offered, funny enough,

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Speaker 1: was The Real Housewives of Atlanta. It was a brand

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Speaker 1: my first pay into reality. So when you talk about

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Speaker 1: a gift, I think it's the gift of the fact

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853
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Speaker 1: of the a lot of the shows were really aggressive.

854
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: Also show black women in a very negative light. So

855
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: how did you, being a guy who's a fan of

856
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: reality TV, how did you say, did you have a

857
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: vision call us when you came on board to say

858
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that type of reality TV? This

859
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: is where I want to approach you. Talk about that

860
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,879
Speaker 1: whole approach of organizing, that thought process of you coming

861
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: into the reality game. Okay, cool, I'm with you, Okay cool.

862
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: So when I got my start in reality TV again,

863
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: my first show was The Real Housewife in Atlanta, And

864
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: obviously that was a very entertaining show that had a

865
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: lot of arguments and big fights and things like that,

866
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: because that show wasn't produced by a company that I started.

867
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: I was a worker b who followed the guidelines of

868
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: how to produce that particular show, and the moment I

869
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: became the executive producer of that show, a ship happened

870
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: in my thought of let's make it less about these

871
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: cat fights and more about what's happening inside the households

872
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 1: of these people, so that the season that I became

873
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: the executive producer is the highest rated season of that

874
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: show to date. The moment that happened is when I

875
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: decided to start my company, Kingdom Right Entertainment, because I

876
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: did have a consciousness of saying I know a lot

877
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: of black people who wanted the reality TV, but they

878
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: think they have to sell their soul and have a

879
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: physical altercation to make that happen, and I wanted to

880
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: be the alternative to that. So when you watch Love

881
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: and Marriage Hunts Bill, for example, you see these beautiful

882
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: black people who are successful. That's only showing you what

883
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: really is happening in their lives, in their households. And

884
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: that show has become the number one show on the network,

885
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: and there has not been a physical altercation on that show.

886
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: So that proves of people. When you build something that

887
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: is true to you, people will come. Well it was

888
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: it was one that came close well, I believe when

889
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:04,800
Speaker 1: where all Tail was on the patio with with Melody

890
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: and he told her why she why he cheated on

891
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: her because she blah blah blah blah, and she threw

892
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: some man, m come on, call us, call them. I

893
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: had to shot out that scared y'all. Call that scared y'all. No,

894
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:25,760
Speaker 1: you are accurate. So was what was very tally about

895
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: that bump man call listen. You don't tell no black

896
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: woman come on now, another woman does better. That's where

897
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: I got from it, and I think a lot of

898
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: men watch that show and said I'm gonna keep my

899
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: mouth shut, dude to call us. When he said that,

900
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: I was like, are you kidding me? Dude? Are you

901
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:53,760
Speaker 1: really kidding me? In front of friends, cameras are rolling

902
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see this to Melody and she's not

903
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: going to react on this show. I saw that bad

904
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: when if I if I you know, you know when

905
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: you growing up calls you your your your parents are

906
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: popping in the back of the head. They should have popped.

907
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: So one of you should have came out of the audience.

908
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: You should came out from the can and say, I'm

909
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: gonna tell them about do something that your parents did

910
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 1: to you when you was a kid. I'm a pop

911
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: you in the back of your big dumbhead. I laughed

912
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: so but I also felt so bad because I went, dude,

913
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 1: you know that was that was uncalled for. But that

914
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: that's the closest you've come on that show. Because she

915
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: threw something. I swear to you, she threw it for real.

916
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: She threw that in for real. She she has good aim.

917
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: I'll say that. Well, the beauty of you callers is that,

918
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: you know, Oprah Winfred you said early in your conversation

919
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: that you watched The Growing Up and I'm gonna just

920
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: share an example of me. Sometimes when you get in

921
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: the position you meet stars or you and you kind

922
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: of like pull back a little bit. You feel like

923
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: in the rain though I don't really belong here, just

924
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: really happening to me. And then you realize, hey, this stop, stop,

925
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: stop all that ignorance. It's happening to you because your

926
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: work has put you there. Just happen to you because

927
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: the respect has put you there. It's happening to you

928
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: because you're supposed to be there. When did all that

929
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: coming to you? Because because I know you, we share

930
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: similar qualities, so we both are humble, you know. I

931
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: come from a nerdy background, you know, and and uh

932
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: some people I tell people I was shot and you

933
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: never shot. Where it's yes I was, you know, Yes

934
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: I was, Yes I was, you know, And so I

935
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: just had to fight through it and then realized that

936
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: my opinion mattered. In my opinion matters, then you have

937
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: to tell people what your opinion is. And that's who

938
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: you are. So when you elevate yourself to do this

939
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: behind the scenes for Oprah, when were your thought process

940
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: and where did you come to coming to to introspective

941
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: about yourself as a talent and where you are at

942
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: in that point of your career. You know what was

943
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: so interesting is I'm a man of faith, and I

944
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: believe in prayer, and I believe and and and just

945
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: you know, believing in God and praying to him. So

946
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: to be a kid watching Oprah Winfrey show, and then

947
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: that gave later having the opportunity to I tell people

948
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: all the time, I got paid to follow her around. Right,

949
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 1: That's that's that's a good job. I So the moment

950
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: I was around her to me gave me the the

951
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: confirmation that God was saying to me, I want you

952
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 1: to see what's possible and and I want you to

953
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: shadow a woman you look up to a black billionaire

954
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: because I am seeding the steps in terms of how

955
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: I see you being. And I took that as a

956
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: way of saying, I now know what I have to do,

957
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: and that truly, truly, truly, truly gave me the permission

958
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: that I needed from my internal self to say I

959
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: can do this because I saw someone else do it.

960
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: And then a couple of years after that, I had

961
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: to um follow Tyler Perry in the same way when

962
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 1: he got to the own network and I had that

963
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: same conference, Uh we need your Carlos can say they

964
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: follow Open len Frey and Tyler Perry like not everyone

965
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: can say that. So I use that as the way

966
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: of saying, you have a gift and God is preparing

967
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: you for something bigger. Well, you know the interesting thing

968
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: when I when I listened to you talk and well,

969
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: if everything is a journey, and you know that call

970
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,879
Speaker 1: us you know, because we all dream, we all hope,

971
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: we pray and but it's the work ethic and then

972
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: it's what you've been given because each network has a

973
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 1: different budget. A lot of people you would love to

974
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: think you work with the same budget on TV one,

975
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: a Netflix or own, a BT they all have different budget,

976
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 1: but you have you still have to deliver a first

977
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: class prob jack. So how do you work with the

978
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: budgets on that the that are given to you? And

979
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: then how do you assess? How do your staff and

980
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: you know, do you call in favors? Sometimes you don't

981
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: take care of you on this and come come take

982
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: care of me on this? How does that work? Because Bill,

983
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: in your brain is about relationships. I know that for

984
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: a fact, and relationships have helped me when I when

985
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: when I've transitioned in my career. Relationship about helping you.

986
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: But now you're the guy who who you. You're the

987
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: hip maker. Now you're the HP maker. So people expect

988
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: you to get when they come to you, to get paid.

989
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: So those little requests they obticually won't. Hey, man, I

990
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: remember remember me when I took care of you? So

991
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: how does that work with you? Because now you ever

992
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: first look deal with own and that qualifies you as uh,

993
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: that's the ultimate man when somebody say, look, we're just

994
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: gonna give you a deal to create shows, and that's

995
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: the blessing of your journey. And so talk about that

996
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: when you when it was approached to you, and what

997
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: were the first thoughts that ran through your mind when

998
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: owned said here's the first look, first look deal for

999
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: you and your company. Kingdom Rain entertained it was. It

1000
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: was magical because my company became what we call him

1001
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: the business, a full service production company, which means that

1002
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: the buck stops here. We don't we don't have a

1003
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: co production with another like everything begins and ends with

1004
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: Kingdom Rank Entertainment. So to have that within the first

1005
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: year of launching the company is nothing but God's favor

1006
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: on my life. So I needed that in order to

1007
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: show the marketplace right that I am the little engine

1008
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: that could. This black man who owns his own company,

1009
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: has the has the respect of Oprah. Winfrey was saying,

1010
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 1: I want you Tobe create shows for my network. So

1011
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: when you talk about budgets with other networks, yeah, you

1012
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: have to definitely, you know Rob Peter, you know, Getting

1013
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: Paul and all those things, because you know you have

1014
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: to use what's given to you. And that can be challenging.

1015
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: And yes, you have a call in favors from people

1016
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: who you kind of grew up with in the business.

1017
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: Like you said, relationships are key, so I have Well,

1018
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: the beauty of you, my friend, is this. You know

1019
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: you You're You're master the world. I can't do you know.

1020
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: And and that's a good thing because like I said,

1021
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: you know, it means you're you're creating a brand. And

1022
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: all the years of working with different projects, which one

1023
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: challenge you the most. I'm talking about not a negative challenge,

1024
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: but production wires and creatively And you went, Wow, that

1025
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: was a lot of work, man, But I'm glad I

1026
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: got it done. Which project of all the projects you've

1027
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: done that really pushed you creatively and really test your

1028
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: personality and your sanity. I think I said that right.

1029
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: I think I got it really right. So you can

1030
00:59:54,160 --> 01:00:01,479
Speaker 1: say a good response, okay U. I had a show

1031
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: a BT called BT persentson Encore last week. We had

1032
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: Our Sees the Finality absolutely and that was the most

1033
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: challenging show to date of my career because I had

1034
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: to it was a house reality show and we had

1035
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: thirty days to shoot a show twenty four seven for

1036
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: thirty days of these former girl group members living in

1037
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: a house together to form a supergroup, and you're dealing

1038
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: with personalities and music and again it's around the clock

1039
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: for thirty days. And that pushed me to a place

1040
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: that I didn't know existed in terms of my brain

1041
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: having the capacity to handle this. And and it was

1042
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 1: such a good gift to to have UM because it

1043
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: allowed me to want to push things further. And the

1044
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: shows I'm producing wells interesting thing about it, because you

1045
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: were dealing with some level of frustration with talent, you know,

1046
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 1: who felt that they should be bigger or felt that

1047
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: they were wrong. And they see this and some of

1048
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: them say yes to doing things, But then I don't

1049
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: want to do the work, you know, you know, you know,

1050
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: if that's the point that frustrate you, why are you here?

1051
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: Then well, you know, why why are you wasting my time?

1052
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna curry, but why are you wasting my time?

1053
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: That's the part that makes you mad. Okay, you knew

1054
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: what you were signing up for, now you now you

1055
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: got the attitude, okay, But the thing that really came

1056
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,919
Speaker 1: into players is COVID. You had to produce all these

1057
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: shows under these conditions of testing and multiple testing and

1058
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: the beauty of saying what Tyler Perry did, He he

1059
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: kind of like wrote the template by compile and put

1060
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: a hotel on it, you know, saying and then imprison

1061
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: your cast for two weeks and then send them off

1062
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: working Twitter four hour day and set them all wrap

1063
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: twenty four episodes. And so with that being the case,

1064
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: how did it affect your production and how and what

1065
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: did you what did you gain from it as a producer?

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Speaker 1: you know. Thankfully everyone was negative and we were able

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Speaker 1: as well. But no, it allowed everybody to know that

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Speaker 1: there is a necessity for unscripted in this business because

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Speaker 1: So unscripted we did. Now with that been saying, my friend,

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