WEBVTT - Clutch Time 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.639 My League Buns has how the knowledge you want. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.600 My League bus has here the knowledge you need. My 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:06.120 league but. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.000 Yet they have out the books that the whole wild 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.720 world onner read My League Bus. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.560 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.880 To Malik's Book Show, Bringing a world together with books, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.120 culture and community. Hi, my name is Malik, your host 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.200 of Malik's Book Show, Changing the world with one Book 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:28.120 at a time. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.279 Well, I'm glad you tuned in because this is a 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:33.600 hot episode. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.200 I was able to get a few interviews I'm gonna 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.920 air on this episode. I was able to interview Koran Butler, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:47.320 who is a two time NBA All Star and won 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:52.440 the NBA Championship with the Minnesota Timberwoods fourteen years in 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:57.600 the league, NBA phenomenal player. I gotta interview him and 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:58.360 Justin A. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:00:59.400 Reynolds. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.520 They collapse on a book called Clutch Time, So I 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:03.720 interviewed them. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.280 They're out here trying to help the next generation. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:12.520 Of youth to read, to achieve, and understand the importance 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:18.400 of being there during clutch time to excel. So that 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.800 book Shot Clock was the first book they wrote. Then 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.160 the sequels Clutch Time is out Guy. That Malik's where 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.720 all books are sold as well, but I'm going to 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:33.319 air that interview. Classic also was able to interview Teresa Thomas, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:38.200 who wrote a book called Napoli Ever After. They turned 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.360 into a movie. But her latest book is out called 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.399 The Secret Keeper on Main Street. She used to own 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.840 a dress shop. She's a former entrepreneur now a full 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.720 time author. I was able to interview her and her 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.400 new book and the book that paved the way of 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.920 her success as an author, Napoly ever After. So I'm 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.640 a feature that interview as well, So stay tuned for 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.880 the upcoming episode. But before I get to the episode, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.840 I had a question what's more likely to end this world? 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:16.440 Climate change or WARLD War three a nuclear war? Which 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:23.560 one is likely to end this world? This civilization? Ay, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.360 that's just a question for the audience here on Malice, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.800 Folks show me personally, I think nuclear war. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:33.320 Climate change. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.960 I think is gonna take a whole lot longer to 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.040 destroy the earth than how. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.120 Close we are to a nuclear war. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:48.480 People having such major disagreements and think that violence is 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:57.280 the answer. You know, technology and science has evolved humanity 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:58.760 and civilization rapidly. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.040 Violence might have worked in the past to. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.280 Solve a lot of problems in cr and in wars 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:15.000 that were devastating and the violence of power change. But nowadays, 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.600 because of technology and the advancement of nuclear weapons, it's 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.840 a lot more serious and the consequences could be a 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.040 lot more devastating. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.000 So this just violence needs to end. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:34.440 This violence needs to stop because technology is able to 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.960 kill a million people more so in a much more 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:42.080 quicker pace than traditional methods of war. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.680 And no one wins. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.880 That people can s I can look at it and 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.280 and analyze it and dissect it, but no one when 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:58.480 everyone loses. We have to find a some civility to 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.160 talk out the deal differences and be fair and equitable. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.280 There's a lot of in unjust injustice occurring because of 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:12.560 inequities and social injustice. We have to be fair. We 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:19.279 have to understand that there's opportunity in space for all 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.200 of us to exist and to have what we need 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:27.280 to be happy. And we cannot keep thinking that a 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.960 small group of people should own all the resources, all 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.360 the power, and all the wealth. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.320 This is is strangling humanity and creating a bubble that's 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:35.960 going to bust. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:42.680 We add the closest than ever for a nuclear war. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.000 And no one wins. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.200 No one wins, so we have time to to make 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.359 a change. We should do it, and we should do 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:56.919 it now. As far as this uh climate can ch change. Okay, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.000 well that's gonna take a long time for the Earth 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:05.920 is destroyed. But they are wars right now going on, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.280 just escalate not de escalating, and people are are are 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.560 being obliterated. So we a m I my opinion is 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.760 more likely that a nuclear war would kill the planet 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.760 before climate can change, and more emphasis should be on 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.719 that issue than any other issue because of the t 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.400 the the fractions, I mean, hell, we in America they 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.880 had two attempted assassinations on a presidential candidate, Donald Trump, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.400 another attempted assassination so one because they don't like what 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.120 he says, they don't agree with his policy, They wanna 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:52.400 blow his head off. That's crazy, that's crazy, and we 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.760 need to find a different path to deal with our 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.839 differences because killing and murdering and assassinating I don't think 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.440 it's the answer, and I hope you don't either. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.720 Anyway, if you want. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:11.080 To give me your feedback on terms of their question 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.360 I asked, you can email Real Malik Muhammad at gmail 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.760 dot com. Realmlik Muhammad at gmail dot com to give 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.880 me your answer on what's likely to destroy our planet 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.040 nuclear weapon or climate change? 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.520 All right, thank you. Now here come the episode. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.040 I'm sitting here at forty second Street School. Were about 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.720 to put an event together with Karan Butler justin a Reynolds. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.760 They got to brook out called shot Clock is the 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.039 first book of the series, and we out here with Clutchtime, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.440 the new release. But more importantly I got an opportunity 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.919 to talk to them from my fans on Malik's bookshelf 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.320 bringing the world together with books, culture and community. Welcome 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.800 Kuran Butter, Welcome, justin a real we out here chopping 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.119 up entrepreneurship. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.560 We ain't even talking about books. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.279 I'm I'm so impressed with Karan Butler's moved in from 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.120 basketball to entrepreneurship. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:13.640 Tell me all about that, man. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.040 I'm extremely blessed the monitor to you know, be able 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.800 to pivot into another space and different verticals. The hospitality 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.880 business with the Graduate hotels. We just iPod we sold 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.880 to the Hilton and uh it was a significant number. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.640 And it's still doing other stuff in the community as 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.080 far as like franchising with the Starbucks, the O n 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.680 H Bakery and just trying to employ people that look 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.680 like me, but also just try to inspire young people 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.840 that you know, it ain't just basketball, is not just 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.800 just a sport. But we could pivot in other things 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.880 and be successful in and it's still be clutch time 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.400 and still be up against the shot clock, a hit 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:50.040 game winners. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.400 That's like a cliche, clutch time. We in the clutch time, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.480 justin riddles, Come on you brother. One of the books 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.560 that we constantly sell all the time is the Mom 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.360 Spider Man series. Tell us all about that man, because 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.880 that book is man touching people. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.360 Yeah, no, it's a it's been. It's been wild to 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.760 see the way that the books impacted young people. I think, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.560 uh the best part about it is I think about 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.040 growing up and loving uh Spider Man myself. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.480 But we had Peter Parker, right, and now. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.400 We get to give kids a new Spider Man, Miles 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.960 Morales from Brooklyn, and so just to see him the 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:27.760 way he moves. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:28.320 You know. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.760 The crazy thing about Miles Morales is like when I'm 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.520 trying to figure out the villain that he's gonna go against, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.400 he's so powerful. It's like I have to set up 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.000 extra stuff just to make him slow down, Like, how 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.640 can we slow him down? How can we slow that? 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.000 That's that's actually real, Like actually he would just use 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.800 his camouflage in that situation. I was like, man, this 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:50.040 guy is too powerful. This wi so so it's it's great. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.400 The only thing that the only challenge I thought that 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.600 we could actually give him to show his connection to 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.280 the community, because that's what he's about, the friendly neighborhood Spider. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.320 He's about the community first and foremost, even more than 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.320 saving the world. It's about saving the people, you know, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.440 save your family, your friends, the people on the corner, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.199 people at the corner store, like all that. And so 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.439 I had to I had to give him an earthquake 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.240 because we see that happen and the devastation it causes, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.480 especially to the beautiful people of Puerto Rico, and being 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.480 half Puerto Rican, right, that would impact them deepley family 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.240 and friends over there seeing his mom and the distress 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.200 it causes her, and that's something that even Spider Man 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.160 can't change, right, but he can impact in the aftermath. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.040 He can rally the community together to bring to bring 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.199 resources and make sure that they get in the right 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.640 hands and so yeah, it's it's been a blessing to 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.320 be able to write those stories. We got another one 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.360 coming out with April. We just announced it, so we'll 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:42.200 be happy about that. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:43.400 Wonderful wonder them. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.959 Well, when you go on your tour, tell them the 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:46.640 Leak books. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:48.720 Hey, we out here. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.320 They're about to speak to the students at forty second 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.520 Street Elementary. So you're gonna be talking about the book 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.040 Clutch Time that just came out. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.439 So just touch on, you know, up this series about 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:02.480 how it came about. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.400 Let's star what you corone. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.439 You know, basically, we're gonna be talking about life because 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.600 that's what Shot Clock and Clutch Time is really about. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.400 It's about young people in a nutshell getting the experience 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.760 of going out the confines of a seven mile radius 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:21.599 north southeast west Oasis Springs and just being able to 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.880 see the world, and also talking about just the trauma 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.040 that they carry and the adversity that all these individuals 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.679 are going through different channels of adversity. But they go 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.480 outside the confines of that that seven of myle radius 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.000 and they see different things, they get exposed to different things, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.400 and then the village of all these individuals, the love 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.640 and the empathy that so many people just rally around them, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:53.160 the mentorship, the subtraction of lives and what they experience, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.680 and then also the healing of it. And then you 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.400 see so much growth from the young people and they 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.440 become solution based instead of being and you know, in 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.040 the dark space, and they're controlling their own narratives. And 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.080 I think that's the real game changer and all of 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.760 this because we have to stay solution based to move 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.880 forward in life. You just talked about it. Life be 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.440 life and all the time. So you gotta, you know, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.920 either you deal or you get left behind. And we're 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.640 teaching young people at a young age to understand that. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.320 Absolutely right time is not gonna wait for nobody use it. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:25.079 Why is it now? 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.840 Justin let's let you talk about the book and just 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.880 how y'all too connected, man, because y'all dynamic dual? 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.280 Yeah, yeah, we like to say we like the perfect 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.760 pick and roll. You know, you can't you got to 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.959 pick your poison. You know, you stop you try to 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.200 stop hiling me. Okay, I got you try to stop me. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.280 He already got the rack, right, So it's like it's 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.760 been like that from the very beginning. Honestly, our first conversation. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.840 This is not even a joke. My editor, he hit 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.240 me up and he said, he said, I know how 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.800 much you love basketball. We should talk about Koran and 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.400 everything I tell I tell Karan. I grew up. Me 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.360 and my dad used to go to Cavs games all time. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.840 And when he came out to be drafted with the 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.040 tenth pick. We had the tenth pick, we thought one 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.160 thousand percent, We're like, oh, we about to definitely take 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.720 Kron Butler. And then we took no offense to mister Wagner, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.120 somebody named Dwan Wagner who didn't pan out, and so 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.959 now have the chance to kind of come full circle 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.760 and be able to partner up with him and be 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.319 able to tell these stories. It's been amazing. The reason 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.160 why we even chose those titles is because you know, 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.120 we don't know how much time we have, right, and 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.280 so we got to make the most with every possession. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.520 You can't afford to turn over the ball and then 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.839 clutch time. That's winning time. Right when your backs against 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.839 the wall, the seconds are are taken down, are you 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.360 gonna be able to have the afforded you to take 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.920 the shot? Are you gonna be able to have the 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.240 understanding of I need to make this pass right here? 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.440 Do you understand the game well enough to make the 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.199 right decision when it counts the most? And so that's 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.160 what it is about about winning. And the thing about 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.320 winners they know that whether that ball goes in or not, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.680 there's always the next shot, and they're gonna be ready 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.640 for that, right And so it's about preparation. You're not 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.560 taking a shot in a game that you didn't take 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.160 a million times before in practice. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.680 Right. Absolutely, that book is life and all the keys 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.400 to be successful is what you described. You know, put 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:16.240 up a shed up. The most critical time is when 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:17.079 you're under pressure. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:18.959 How do you perform? You know? 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.440 I mean I was a track ad the leader, so 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:22.920 I know about the pressure. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:23.480 You know. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.599 I ran in the Olympics, so I know about it. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.560 I ran for Puerto Rico. So but that was one 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.199 of the highest achievements in my life. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:35.760 So sports have helped me, especially individual sports has helped 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.480 me to and I carry in every industry of my life, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.079 every endeavor in my life because of what I've learned. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.320 Team sports teaching certain things, individual sports teacher certain things. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:47.720 You know. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.920 So finally, what's the takeaway you want readers to get 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:53.520 from your book? 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.480 You could be anything. We're trying to unlock the realness 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.880 in the most authentic way. We have a cliche that 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.960 we're just trying to unlock the magic inside of you, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.160 but you know, it really is what it is. You know, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.240 we're just trying to open your mind to something different. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.240 We're trying to let you know that there is no 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.600 seelings to the possibilities. Stay dreaming. I'm forty four years 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.320 old and I still dream when I sit down and 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.320 think about characters and share my ideas, and we write 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:25.240 these books, we're dreaming. It's a little bit of all 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.480 of us in this book. And we just want everybody 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.200 to be able to connect identify with the visual that 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.480 you see on the covers, that is black and brown 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.560 boys and girls. And you can see yourself in this 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.760 book and you can be inspired by this book. And 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.240 not only that, the true legacy is, you know, impacting lives. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.800 You know, the money and the material stuff that's nothing. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.360 But if you could change someone life, you could change 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.280 their direction and their trajectory. That's that's so impactful, and 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.080 that's beyond best. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:54.520 Any final thoughts about it. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.000 Just The only thing I'll say is he mentioned something 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.480 about having black and brown kids on the cover, and 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.400 Crina and I talk about this all the time. We 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.040 could have put a basketball on the cover and so 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.160 three times more copies, right, but we were insistent that 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.960 we wanted black and brown faces. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.400 To be representative. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.440 Because the most powerful thing you can see is your 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.200 own image reflected back to you. It gives validation, right, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.720 It says that you belong to you belong here. Not 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.440 only do we see you and hear you, but you 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:23.359 are invaluable. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:23.880 Right. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:25.800 You deserve to be the hero of a story. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.160 Every child deserves to see themselves reflected in the story, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.560 especially as the hero, not the sidekick, not the comedic relief. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:33.240 Right. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.800 We're done with that being at the forefront of the story. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.600 And so we're just proud to be a part of this. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.160 We probably bring the stories together and you know, we 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.120 just keep making the magic happen hopefully. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.480 So intentional intention and intention. Thank you, My brothers appreciate you. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.160 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's bookshelf, bringing a world together 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.200 with books, culture. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.560 And community. We did an event tonight with. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.560 Tricia are To, the author of the secret Keeper of 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.360 main Street. But she hit it big and hit it 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.160 out the park and had made a home run with 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:10.720 the Napolis series. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.000 So that's you know, they didn't make movies. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.760 They didn't, you know, she didn't want it was the 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.560 Monapoli Ever After series. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.680 So but I got it right here. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:24.760 And as I always say. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.960 No one can tell you about the book more than 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.320 the author and her new book, The Secret Keeper of 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:35.160 main Street. She just did a book designing and discussion 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.120 with Jay Allen as the moderator. But I had to, 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.200 you know, for my audience at Malik Bookshelf, we do 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.160 book reviews and author interviews, and we need you. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.680 To tell us about this wonderful new release. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.880 The Secret Keeper of main Street is a historical novel 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.240 set in nineteen fifty at dressmaker has the ability to 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.320 touch a bride and know if she's marrying her true 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.680 love or if there's someone else out there who might 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:09.960 be her soulmate. She particularly helps one bride who has 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.960 a secret. When she touches her, she finds out there 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:17.320 was a crime committed, and a body turns up and 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.760 that bride is arrested, and only the dressmaker knows what 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:21.800 truly happened. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.640 So describe this book in three words. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.080 Oil, love, and scandal. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.040 Oh we like drama, don't we? 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:32.840 We like drama. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.800 Now, now, apparently you're a maginative. So how did you 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.120 come up with this idea? 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.040 I actually owned a bridal salon for ten years, and 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.000 I was a dressmaker, and I had so much time 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.639 with the brides, and they had so much heartache and 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.240 so many things that they wanted to talk about, and 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.399 I was there for it, and so I just poured 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:55.680 it all into the story. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.440 Wow wow, Wow. 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.359 So you wrote a little bit from some experience and 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.400 people that you met over those ten years owning. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.400 A bridle shop. Now tell us a little bit about that. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.919 You've been an entrepreneur, that's right, you know, not just 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:16.080 the author, you know what I'm saying. Wow wow, So, 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.400 so what made you get into bridle. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.200 My father was a dressmaker. My grandmother was a dressmaker. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.160 I learned how to sew when I was really young, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:26.960 and it was just the thing I knew how to do. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.199 I used the money to put myself through college and 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.520 eventually just got a shop and opened up and started 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.280 paying rent. But it was it was a big undertaking, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.679 and it was profitable and it was fun. And so 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.359 by the time I was done doing the job, I 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.040 sold the business and started writing, became. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.200 A full time writer. That's right. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:54.919 But now here you work owned a bridle shop, worked 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.919 in a bridle shop. But years later you write a 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.520 book about the bridle shop. Why not early in your career, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.320 because you came out with Nappy ever After. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.359 That was first, and that was really a story that 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.439 was on my heart at the time. And so I 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.160 think everything comes when it's supposed to come. I mean, 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.879 Napoli ever After was really the story that needed to 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.240 be told at that time. It was a big deal 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.280 for natural hair at that moment, and it just needed 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:25.959 to be told. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.080 And it still needed to be told. 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.400 You know, you got kids running up the black kids rubbing. 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:33.640 In their hair. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.960 You know, adults doing it too. So but yeah, we 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.840 need to love our napoly hair. We need to fall 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.200 in love. So that was your inspiration as you experienced something. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.920 Well, I was going through this time where I was 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.960 being a teacher and you know when after I sold 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.520 the salon, I finally used my degree and started teaching, 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.359 and so I was with the seventh grade and they 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.359 were so mean to each other and they were calling 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.520 each other nabyhead this and nabyhead of that, and it 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:07.840 just it just broke my heart that we were still 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:12.840 experiencing that, and it just really just triggered something. And 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.159 I started that story just remembering what it's like, you know, 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:18.480 when your hair is not perfect. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:20.960 Well, those are two things that you know being in 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:21.800 bookstore owner. 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.879 You know a lot of books have come out on identity, 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.879 about loving self, about accepting who you are to be 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.800 who you are, the skin color, the hair texture, all 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:37.320 of these things matter because these two big important things. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.359 Why a lot of black kids grow up, boys and girls, 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.560 you know, not loving themselves, not looking in the mirror 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:48.199 and appreciating themselves, believing in themselves, all based upon the 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.360 color of their skin and the texture of their hair. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:51.920 And a lot of it. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:57.280 Is just inflicted by other kids, really and it's sad. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.880 So it was just something that inspired me to tell 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.720 that story and it became a film. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.360