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Speaker 1: Conversation the author of Leader Farming, Zach Thomas. It's great

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Speaker 1: to be here. Great to be back. Absolutely, well, I'm

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Speaker 1: Will the Fall with the CEO of Sunwise Media, you know,

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Speaker 1: Bounds TV. And I always feel like, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: always getting educated on my show because of the fact

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Speaker 1: that when you say that, I really didn't realize that

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Speaker 1: was the case, because, like I said, I'm tied into

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Speaker 1: direct TV. I'm tied into either Warner Cable or Cox

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Speaker 1: or Infinity. So I've always just felt I was on cable.

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Speaker 1: But you're saying that Bounce TV. That was one of

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Speaker 1: the strong selling points is that, like you said, there's

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Speaker 1: the advantages in which enhanced the growth of the Bounced

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Speaker 1: TV network. Now, because you now have that relationship, does

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Speaker 1: that give you an end to be one of these

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Speaker 1: people you can take programming back to Bounce, to to

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Speaker 1: to to UH to get on their their network. Are

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Speaker 1: That's just one of the assets that you have in

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Speaker 1: your two box. Well, I mean over the over the years,

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Speaker 1: you know, I worked with BT, I worked with v

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Speaker 1: of a lot of different stations. And so will build

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Speaker 1: a network of I build the network of folks that

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Speaker 1: I can reach out to over the years for different

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Speaker 1: circumstances and that that that's one of my assets. But

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Speaker 1: ultimately the reason why I created this syndication UM. This

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Speaker 1: this uh the model that I'm doing now with with

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Speaker 1: the programming. You know, I'm not the first to do

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Speaker 1: it by far, but I feel like, you know, the

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Speaker 1: have to go to too many middlemen to get my

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Speaker 1: my content on television. You know, one of the one

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Speaker 1: of the things I'm doing now is more of a

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Speaker 1: business to business strategy where I'm offering value to these

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Speaker 1: stations for it with my content. And you know, in exchange,

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Speaker 1: you know, we get to share and split into in

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Speaker 1: the in the in the revenue of that content. So okay,

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Speaker 1: now you get into the business. You know, Rashan just

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Speaker 1: this is money making conversations Now call now, let's talk,

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Speaker 1: let's talk. Let's just tell everybody about this young man. Okay,

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Speaker 1: because when you when you become vice president of a

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Speaker 1: network like Bounce TV, everybody got a TV idea, everybody

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Speaker 1: pitching to you. Now you have a successful production company,

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Speaker 1: it's the same thing. How do how does an individual

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Speaker 1: who's listening to the show, who probably hear it on

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Speaker 1: podcasts or here on series exam or here their live

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Speaker 1: right now, how do they pitch shows to your production company?

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Speaker 1: And how do they get your production company? Sunwise the media? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can. Anybody can go to some wise media dot

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Speaker 1: send a note about what you're trying to do. We

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Speaker 1: we we typically um, you know, look to have agents

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Speaker 1: or you know, people that we know contact us to

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Speaker 1: solicit content um because you know it could be overwhelming.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people have ideas, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people got ideas, and they act like you stole

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Speaker 1: their idea if they pitch it to and not only

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Speaker 1: and not only that, though, I think that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people have you know, here's what happens. There's a

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Speaker 1: term in our industry called MP or MOM. Most often

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Speaker 1: pitched you know that there's a there's uh. You know

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have these ideas, these epiphanies in

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Speaker 1: their sleep. They wake up they're like, oh, this is

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Speaker 1: a great TV idea, but they miss they miss a step.

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Speaker 1: They don't research if it's been done before, or maybe

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Speaker 1: why it doesn't exist already. And there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: different reasons why certain shows don't exist. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you'd be surprised how often I get pitched the show

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Speaker 1: that's are either already on TV or was on TV

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Speaker 1: five years ago, um and um and and and and then,

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Speaker 1: or you know it's in development right now. You know,

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Speaker 1: you just gotta have the right sauce. So I would

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Speaker 1: say this to most people. If you have an idea,

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Speaker 1: you know, TV, selling TV shows is not just about

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Speaker 1: the idea. You have to package it. So you know,

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Speaker 1: packaging it means get you know, assigning a talent to it,

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Speaker 1: or a producer that's well known, or a u um

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Speaker 1: or some kind of unique access, especially in reality TV,

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Speaker 1: you know, some kind of unique assets that only you

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Speaker 1: have and that's your show. Those elements make up the show,

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Speaker 1: not the idea. Okay, So a guy like Roshan McDonald,

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Speaker 1: you know people always coming to me and I always

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Speaker 1: because I'm developing shows. Let's do a scenario, and how

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Speaker 1: would I come to your company and say, are you

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Speaker 1: looking for a certain type of TV show like you

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Speaker 1: did mention Doc Johns drop you here with your reality shows?

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Speaker 1: What what are you looking for? I hear the word

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Speaker 1: family friendly, I hear original content. What are you looking for?

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Speaker 1: Just to just to stop people just for just throwing

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Speaker 1: I got the next American idol. I got the because

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Speaker 1: because let's let's be real about it. Because he already

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Speaker 1: says that his successes baits on budgets, bringing in shows

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Speaker 1: as a certain cost factor, and also being able to

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Speaker 1: a timeline. It's a it's a it's something that you

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Speaker 1: know Byron Idline has mastered. It is something that that

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Speaker 1: uh that Tyler Perry has mastered and and people are

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Speaker 1: using that model consistently. Bounces mastered along with Bentley Evans

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Speaker 1: has mastered that and created some very successful sitcoms on

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Speaker 1: Bounce Network. If you don't know Bentley Evans, he created Martin,

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Speaker 1: he created Jamie Fox. So we're talking successful people in

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Speaker 1: his business who have who have been at one level

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Speaker 1: finance to the realize these models works at this this

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Speaker 1: model works at this level. Tell us how what do

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Speaker 1: we bring to you to get your attention media? Well,

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Speaker 1: I like things that aren't necessarily always on already on TV.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to do a version of

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Speaker 1: something else. So so if it hasn't been televised, if

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Speaker 1: it hasn't been exploited in a way where where no one,

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Speaker 1: you know, where there's an audience for it, but they

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to see it on TV, That's that's

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Speaker 1: what I wanna. That's what I want to talk about. UM.

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Speaker 1: In addition to that, you know, one of the one

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Speaker 1: of the things that we've done is, for instance, were

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Speaker 1: the Gospel Radio Awards and we shot that h this

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Speaker 1: past month in in Chicago and now will be coming

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Speaker 1: out in fourth quarter. And but that's a unique thing.

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Speaker 1: It's an event that already was happening, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we brought our cameras, we brought our know how to

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Speaker 1: get it produced. And now that's going to be something

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Speaker 1: that we do annually. You know, I'm using my influence

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Speaker 1: to help you be successful. And Ricarlo, I'm just great.

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Speaker 1: I'm just great that you're you're you're succeeded in the

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Speaker 1: field that you want to win in. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: back to more money making Conversations. Thank you again for

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Speaker 1: calling my show. Hey, this is Tasha Evans and I

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Speaker 1: I say it's popular because people coming video now. I

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Speaker 1: She's my good friend. She's been at my house dancing, Yes,

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Speaker 1: eating what you're fading me, But now I'm putting that's right.

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Speaker 1: But that's what you do with family, see, because family

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Speaker 1: me to go in one direction, but they never if

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Speaker 1: you if I give you a turkey leg, I want

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Speaker 1: You can't take what people don't have. I don't have

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Speaker 1: pie because I don't know how to make a pie.

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Speaker 1: But I'm here in your building and your nice studio,

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Speaker 1: here with the man with a good year to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm just like you know, they don't don't don't tell

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Speaker 1: want the ladies to know that Rushan has surrounded himself

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Speaker 1: with some really handsome men. Man with a good beer Adam.

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Speaker 1: I told him I canna be his eve. And this

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Speaker 1: University Houston Boy, not on ABC Good Morning in America.

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Speaker 1: And I believe that man is single. Now, well, I

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Speaker 1: trying to do a show called money Making Conversation and

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Speaker 1: you as a solo preneurs, which you stand up comedy

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Speaker 1: person is. But let's go back because she when I

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Speaker 1: when because I talked about this because my degree is

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Speaker 1: Houston and work with to work for IBM. So I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed that corporate experience. And I talked to a lot

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Speaker 1: of millennials and through my show, through my media social

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Speaker 1: media platforms, and so I always want to let them

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Speaker 1: know there's a journey to what you do, but also

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Speaker 1: let them know that just because you die in this

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Speaker 1: path don't mean you have to stay down this absolutely

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Speaker 1: So tell us about your academics and then your corporate experience.

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Speaker 1: Oh lord. So, first of all, I went to Georgia

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Speaker 1: Southern University. I went on a scholarship, and I will

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Speaker 1: tell you when I went to Georgia Southern University, I

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Speaker 1: had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.

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Speaker 1: I did get accepted to Clark Atlanta. My mother, in

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Speaker 1: If I could be very frank, and I know it's

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Speaker 1: my mother was like, baby, you already black. I need

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Speaker 1: you guys. And then she said, if you don't go

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Speaker 1: buy your car. So where did I go? Georgia Southern

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Speaker 1: University with that car, brand new car, I put the

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Speaker 1: with so many different, you know, majors. I was a

641
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: c I S major, thinking I wanted to, you know,

642
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: write culture, computer information system. Let's take well I found

643
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: not real wick. Then my mind don't work like that.

644
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like I'm not a programmer,

645
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: Like I'm not that person that could sit in the

646
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: dark and write cold. And half the time I didn't

647
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: know it. Look, I went to my teacher. I was like,

648
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: this is not for me, and my teacher said, your grade,

649
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: say so my degree? And then, you know, I went

650
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: through so many things. I just knew that I wanted

651
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: a business degree. So to be honest with you, I

652
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: ended up graduating with a marketing degree. And at first

653
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: I was kind of feeling some kind of way about

654
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: it because I thought a marketing degree was too soft

655
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: in skills. But I used my marketing marketing degree every

656
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: day since I've graduated from college. And when I graduated

657
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: from college, I got a and I must say this

658
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: everybody just listening, I actually took the L SAD. I

659
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: took the L SADE and decided that I did not

660
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: want to go to law school just because you know,

661
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: it just wasn't again, I have not some of the

662
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: lawyer's gonna out there, like what you mean, I have

663
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: a big personality. I didn't want to be into in

664
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: a courtroom, nor did I have the desire to go

665
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: to law school. After I took the L side, I

666
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: was like, this ain't me either. So what I did

667
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: is I took a job. I went to work with

668
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: Sony via the computers, and I was trained people. I

669
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: was in front of people, you know, upper lower, management, sales, rests,

670
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: all different type of people, even consumers. I trained people

671
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 1: on the viol computers. I was in charge of launching

672
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: new products and in certain in the market Atlanta specifically,

673
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: and then eventually I moved to Houston with Samsung. Now

674
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: Samsung Telecommunications was an amazing opportunity for me because I

675
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: ran I managed the team. I managed to jokes managed

676
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: the fourth largest territory in the United States, Yes, Kiana dancing.

677
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: Those are my receipts. So when I went to UM Houston,

678
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: I had no idea again that I was even funny. Now, Rashan,

679
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. People used to tell me all

680
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: the time, you are so funny. Oh my god, Oh

681
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: my god, you should, Oh my god, it happened to

682
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: me too. Oh my crying. One lady actually peter their

683
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: pants because I was telling her. I was telling jokes.

684
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I was like that girl, your

685
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: pass off, this little Joe. So what I did, I'm

686
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. I was working in the Houston market.

687
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: I was, and I started doing stand up because I

688
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: was going through a breakup and anybody's listening to me,

689
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: I want you to hear me clearly. I used comedy

690
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: to heal myself. Hole I went through it. I was

691
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: in a relationship for ten years from nineteen and twenty nine,

692
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: and that man, although I loved him. I loved that

693
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: man so much. I would have married him on the bike.

694
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: But he couldn't keep a job, so he couldn't feed me.

695
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 1: So mama had to go some money. So from there

696
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: money I chowed money. So I actually when I my

697
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: first time on stage. Um, I started doing stand up

698
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: just like Open Mike, you know, high Goes, you know,

699
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: but you also doing real estate and Texas too. I

700
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 1: got my real estate license in two thousand six. S actually,

701
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: I got my real estate license in two thousand six

702
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: so that I could sell myself my own home. Um,

703
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: I was in Houston. I was renting, and that's not

704
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: okay with my mother. My mother always told me to

705
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: have your own. Mom, there's a real estate agent. Also,

706
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: we're partners, so she was like, hey, baby, let's say something.

707
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: You can't continue to pay somebody else's mortgage. You need

708
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: to own your own and pay and pay into yourself.

709
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: Because the best thing for a woman specifically is to

710
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: have to build wealth by real estate because they're not

711
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: creating any more land. So once you buy the land,

712
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: even if you got a nice, old raggedy house, you

713
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: can tear the house down, but that's land, because that's

714
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: what they'd come on now. So I literally I studied

715
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: the took the real estate test. I told myself the

716
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: house me and then that was my commission. And then

717
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: from there, you know, I started talking to young women

718
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: like you need to buy a house. Stop stop on

719
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: you know, renting on your own, okay, And then I

720
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: started doing stand up. I was in the open mics,

721
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: and then you know, Monique, Monique was at the improv

722
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: the Good Improv Oscar winning. Monique was in the improv

723
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,959
Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. Long story short, I was making people

724
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: laughing out in her line and her show, and she

725
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: told me, hey, lady, do you tell jokes? I said no,

726
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: I never have. She said, well, next time I see you,

727
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: I want you to have told me that you've been

728
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: on stage. She wrote her number down and on that

729
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: day I started doing stand up, but I never called her.

730
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: The co host of TV one, which has been renewed

731
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: for a second seasons. Tell us about that because it

732
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: was your biggest um um entertainment moment, yes, in your

733
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: career so far, and there would be other big ones.

734
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: What were the changes first when you when you were selected,

735
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: and what have been the changes with popularity? Because you

736
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: know you do lease a degree of privacy, you do

737
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: you do that so I have to balance life. That's

738
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: a heavy question. Okay. Well, first of all, I just

739
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: want to say this that I would not be here

740
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: if it was not for God, and thank you Jesus

741
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: that he saw me worthy, and I will tell you

742
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: anything that you want you can absolutely put. You know,

743
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: you can bake some plans, but if it's not meant

744
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: for you, God gonna change some plans for you. You You understand.

745
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 1: But my my work life balance has changed in that.

746
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: Um I'm not naturally a morning person. So for me

747
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: as a stand up comedian, honey, I'm going to bed

748
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: at four. Now I'm waking up at four. I have

749
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: to be up in hair and make up. I have

750
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: to be ready. I have to be perfect, to be alert,

751
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: and the people want you to talk, so you got

752
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: to make your mouth work. I've got to be open,

753
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So at the end of

754
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: the day, if at the very least, that's the biggest

755
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: thing that I've had to change is my lifestyle. You know,

756
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: I'm eating. You have to eat properly because you gotta

757
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: look pretty when you're on TV. You gotta make sure, yes,

758
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 1: she is pretty, honey. But you know, you gotta make

759
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: sure you look good. It feel good inside so you

760
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: can look good outside. Um. I also will say that,

761
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: you know, people do recognize me. I was in the

762
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: airport last night and then someone I felt him looking

763
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: at me and I didn't, you know. It was so awkward.

764
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: I was just like, do you know me? He was like,

765
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: I do, and I want to ask you for an autograph,

766
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: but I'm shine And I was like, well you just

767
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: said what you won't wear the paper And I'm walking

768
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: through the airport and I would tell you I don't

769
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,959
Speaker 1: look at myself as a celebrity. I love when people

770
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: approach me. I have no qualms with that. I want

771
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: you to know that I'm a real person. So people,

772
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: you've always been like I always have been like even

773
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: when I wasn't talking to you, but you was gonna

774
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: talk to me, you know. And I said, listen, let

775
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I know you don't know who

776
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: I am, but you're gonna listen. My mama area told

777
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: me I'm somebody. Now you don't need to get on board.

778
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: That so true, so true. But it was a good time.

779
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: It's a good time, a good place to be here.

780
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: I'm right, like you said, this has been one of

781
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: the biggest accomplishments in my career. But I've done a

782
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: lot of things. I was the first as for the

783
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: first female celebrity remaster for for the Universe that no, no, no, no,

784
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: you don't ever don't. I love universal. In fact, that

785
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: was going. I had to bring that up because you

786
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: have to be challenged to control those like because they

787
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: weren't they weren't coming that for the elephant. I didn't

788
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: know what to expects for the circus because I was

789
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: like a black circus when they're gonna have chickens. I'm

790
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: being a real patty. But then tell you that circus

791
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: is amazing. And if you never see that, you better

792
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: now that because that really is a traveling event because

793
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: you as family. They come in there and you know

794
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: there's not a big dollars not the road with him,

795
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: I ain't to leave home and go No, I did

796
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: a guest spot. Oh my goodness, girl, we just stopped

797
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: talking to you because I'm about to get involved with

798
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: that on the road. You're in a little bit of

799
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: trailer back there with that big coming up to your

800
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: hip level with me. I was there though, I was there,

801
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: Okay you first. Now you're you're touring stand up comedy.

802
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: I am. You have a tour that goes out it's

803
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: called Single in the City. And many people kept asking me,

804
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: or keep asking me, why did you name your tour

805
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 1: single in the city. First of all, I am a single,

806
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: independent woman. I remind people of that am. Eventually, I

807
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: would love to get married one day. But I'll tell

808
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: you I love and I own my singleness, and I

809
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: think that that is something that a lot of women

810
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: should do. I don't think that you should look at

811
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,280
Speaker 1: being single as a badge of you know, the distress.

812
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: You should look at it like it's it's an honor

813
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: if you choose, and I have chosen to be single.

814
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: I love who I am. I take myself on weekly days.

815
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: Single ladies, if you're out there, you're listening to my voice.

816
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: I want you to know that it's okay to do

817
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: you take yourself out on the day, take yourself on

818
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: the very expensive you know day order you know, make reservations,

819
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: get you a nice glass of wine, get the best

820
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: meal on the menu. Because you need to know how

821
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: to be treated. Whether you're doing that for yourself or

822
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: someone that's gonna do that, you'll know open, you know,

823
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: pull up to the valet, put on a nice dress,

824
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: take care of you and then where you have. If

825
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: you have standards, the guy's not meeting your standards, you

826
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: know how to kick into the curve. Come on now, somebody,

827
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna do this for myself and you can't

828
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: do it boy by, because that's important because I have

829
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: six sisters, okay, so I understand the value. I have

830
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: a single daughter. So I have a value system that

831
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: you have to put in place. And one of the

832
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: reasons that Steve Harvey's book Likely to Think Like a

833
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: Man was so popular sold three million copies, was translating

834
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 1: thirty different foreign languages. We made two very success for

835
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: what we should generated almost two million dollars. I would

836
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: say my credit because we told women in that book

837
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: the value yourself. You are a point that you are

838
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: the queen. We're the reason men wake up in the morning,

839
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: with the reason we dressed with the reason we buy

840
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: cars we call my hat right, you know, we're the

841
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: reason that there is wards, there is this. Listen. I'm

842
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: gonna tell you if the women just stop, if you

843
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: hold the sugar, ladies, I promise you, things will change. Yes,

844
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: I'm down to them, down to the let's listen and

845
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: we just hold back the sugar. I promise you that

846
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: will be peace. You know what I'm saying. The gas

847
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 1: prices will go down, you know, he might even grow

848
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: hair on his hand away. It's but I'm telling you,

849
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: I just really want people to women to specifically embrace

850
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: the fact that they're single. You don't have to feel less.

851
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Speaker 1: Then you don't have to feel like this, you know

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Speaker 1: you're not worthy at the end of the day, when

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Speaker 1: you're meant to be in a relationship or when you're ready,

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Speaker 1: you will be because that's in portant because of the

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Speaker 1: fact that when you're own the road. I've been a

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Speaker 1: stand up comic tour and stand up comic since okay,

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Speaker 1: before my time, but absolutely, absolutely and proud of it.

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Speaker 1: Done death comedy, Jam, I've done. You know that women

859
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Speaker 1: are women, especially African American women, and that's why you

860
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Speaker 1: look at what this happened to Tiffany Hattish. I'm applauded,

861
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Speaker 1: she's exploded, and I wish your all the opportunities. But

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Speaker 1: again she's one, yes, and there's and it should be room.

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Speaker 1: There should be more, and there's absolutely room for more

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Speaker 1: than one. And I'm not gonna forget Monique here about

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Speaker 1: the side that's so many talented African so many talented

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Speaker 1: African American women. So there's room for us all. But

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Speaker 1: I just I really remind people that. So the point

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Speaker 1: the question was why did I name the tour single

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Speaker 1: in the city, And it's just when I get there.

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Speaker 1: I was singing in the city in Birmingham. I was

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Speaker 1: singing in the city in Memphis. But if I meet

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Speaker 1: I need all the things that makes money. Said you,

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Speaker 1: you're very popular on the road, and that's what people say.

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Speaker 1: They what they make a commitment tickets. You host a

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Speaker 1: comedy night and it last, Yes, I do. I host

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Comedy Theater every Friday here in North Across when

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Speaker 1: I'm in town, which is you know, thank god, it's

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Speaker 1: been half and half. But you're like the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, moment is working. Okay, let me ask you,

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Speaker 1: can I work with you? You could? Or what I

890
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Speaker 1: gotta do to get into Miss Danc's life? How you

891
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Speaker 1: trying to get into I just see such popularity. I'll

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Speaker 1: see my over here. I see money making conversations over here.

893
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Speaker 1: I just feel that, you know, you know, you know.

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Speaker 1: What I do, I take, I formulate, I create, build

895
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Speaker 1: a beast. But I'm gonna say that I'm saying this.

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Speaker 1: I'm already a beast. But what I do need you

897
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Speaker 1: to do is take it up to not you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, come on now, but you're saying this

899
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Speaker 1: now When you saying can I get in your life? Now,

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Speaker 1: that sounds different. I know you got a good wife

901
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Speaker 1: at home. I'm saying. I'm saying, so I had to

902
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Speaker 1: kind of step back like you because she listened to

903
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Speaker 1: the show, and my mom's in town. She listened to

904
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Speaker 1: the show. So this is all of my business. I'm

905
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Speaker 1: just telling you because I look at you and I

906
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Speaker 1: wanted to bring you on the show because sometimes people

907
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Speaker 1: see such a small picture and I want you to

908
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Speaker 1: come back because because I just want people to just

909
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Speaker 1: build ammunition on you just started putting it in that

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Speaker 1: place that you are something special and girl, this this

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Speaker 1: this went by so fast, and we're gonna talk a

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Speaker 1: lot after the show. And I just want everybody to

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Speaker 1: And I got to say I love you Mrs McDonald.

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Speaker 1: We ain't trying to start no trouble. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: with more money making conversations right back. More from Rashan

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Speaker 1: me tell you about the host of Money Making Conversation,

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Speaker 1: Rashaan McDonald. He's a social media influencer. Of his seven

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand plus social media followers are female. He's a

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Speaker 1: two time Emmy Award winner, three time n double a

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Speaker 1: c P Image Award winner, sitcom writer, stand up comic,

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Speaker 1: former IBM executive, and has a degree in mathematics. More importantly,

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald will use his business and celebrity relationships to

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Speaker 1: McDonald another great show, The Making Conversation. That's what we do, entertainment, entrepreneurship.

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Speaker 1: We deliver the message, the unwritten rule that you can

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942
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Speaker 1: what you do or what you're known for. Let me

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Speaker 1: just tell you by my next guest. He's on the

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Speaker 1: phone right now. My next is an NFL fan favorite.

945
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Speaker 1: He ended. He entered the NFL as the first overall

946
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Speaker 1: pick in two thousand one with the Atlanta Falcons and

947
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Speaker 1: just five years with the Falcon victory three pro bos

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Speaker 1: two thousand, two thousand to two thousand four or two

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Speaker 1: thousand five, and led the team to to playoff parents,

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Speaker 1: including the NFC Championship in two thousand four. I remember

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Speaker 1: that game. I remember that. During his final season in

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Speaker 1: the Latta, he put on one of the best performances,

953
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Speaker 1: breaking the single season Russian record for a quarterback and

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Speaker 1: becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for

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Speaker 1: one thousand yards in the season. Please walk on the

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Speaker 1: money making conversation, the incredible Michael Vick. Oh, thank you, Hey, Mike,

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Speaker 1: Mike wil Come on, Mike, that was Mike. I laid

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Speaker 1: you out, Mande, I laid you out working out here

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Speaker 1: at home for putting all these words together. Man, to

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Speaker 1: make sure up for my board where he's old to

961
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Speaker 1: be alleged. Man, I'm something, man, Mike, you I'm a

962
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Speaker 1: fan of you are not only as an athlete but

963
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Speaker 1: a business person. Uh. Game changer. Now when you got

964
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to hear to be an analyst Fox Sports

965
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Speaker 1: NFL Kickoff show on Fox. Okay, here you are you

966
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Speaker 1: you're you're You're an extremely talented athlete. But everybody is

967
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Speaker 1: not extremely talented in the words, you have natural guard gifts,

968
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of players who have to work

969
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: hard to achieve the same opportunity that you get. What

970
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: are you in preparation for? You know, you don't want

971
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Speaker 1: to be critical players because you have to meet these players.

972
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Speaker 1: How do you how do you approach you prepping for

973
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: those shows? Well, you know, it's it's it's kind of tricky. Um.

974
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Speaker 1: You know, I think you know, to my advantage, I

975
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Speaker 1: played the game, so I know players feelings and emotions

976
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Speaker 1: after win or loss, and just I'm just saying that

977
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Speaker 1: just to keep it simple. So when I when I

978
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Speaker 1: go on TV and I'm able to talk about it,

979
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Speaker 1: I'm such a fan of the game, I know how

980
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Speaker 1: to bring it out in a positive and negative way,

981
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Speaker 1: but in a way where where it's you know, constructive criticism,

982
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Speaker 1: you know, And I'm trying to help you see that. Listen,

983
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Speaker 1: there's a problem and needs to be fixed. Um, if

984
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Speaker 1: this problem don't be fixed, to become bigger, and you know,

985
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Speaker 1: you kind of lead it up, lead up to a

986
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Speaker 1: week by week based on you know, every player storyline.

987
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Speaker 1: Every player in the NFL has a storyline. You know,

988
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Speaker 1: if you're playing you know, guys you know, playing the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, they're not. It's visible. So you know, if

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Speaker 1: when guys giving up ten sacks the game again, he'll

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Speaker 1: be a story do that. But you know guys like

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Speaker 1: Godell Beckham, we watches every move you know, Drew Breeze,

993
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Speaker 1: he watches every move round. You know, the premier players

994
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Speaker 1: in the game. You know, give us something to talk

995
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Speaker 1: about weekend and week out based on performance. And I

996
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Speaker 1: know what it should look like. So it helps me

997
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Speaker 1: when I get on set. Now, what it also helps

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Speaker 1: is the fact that you still maintain this high profile

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Speaker 1: television parents and then you're launching a clothing brand called

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Speaker 1: V seven. Tell us about that high performance active where yeah,

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Speaker 1: well V seven was low, you know it was in

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Speaker 1: V seven, you know from two thousands three to two

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Speaker 1: thousand and seven. You know, uh, permount deal with Nike,

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Speaker 1: and you know is Nike has been graces to me.

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Speaker 1: You know though throughout the course of my career, man

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Speaker 1: have been so loyal and you know we've had, you know,

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Speaker 1: such good times. You know, they they gave me permission,

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Speaker 1: they kind of redo it again on my own, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just you know, go out, you know, still represent Nike.

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Speaker 1: Still I never leave the Nike BRANDO Nike branded for life. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know I I you know, chant that relationship to

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Speaker 1: you know, to the day I that So you know,

1013
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Speaker 1: I still do work with Nike. I'm still there for them.

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Speaker 1: I still and they allowed me to have V seven

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Speaker 1: and you know V seven is just um, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing you know, crazy about it. It's like any

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Speaker 1: other colding lie grow with the trends and you know, um,

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Speaker 1: we're we're excited because you know, at some point we

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Speaker 1: you know, we were pushed to get into big retail

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Speaker 1: stores and we feel like we're ready. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to rush it, but I just got you know, my

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Speaker 1: codes approved it Man the bookstores at Virginia Tech, you know,

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Speaker 1: in three different UM locations and online, And as long

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Speaker 1: as we continue to produce good products and we get

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Speaker 1: the fans of Portman, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Michael Vick,

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Speaker 1: V seven always be able to you know, say that

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Speaker 1: able to co brand and exist exist on campus. W

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Speaker 1: we make where I made history. And it's great to

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Speaker 1: have your colding line in a place where you know,

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Speaker 1: kids for generations to come. You know, I can always

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Speaker 1: feel like they're part of the V seven tradition and

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Speaker 1: the things that happened at a text so along with

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Speaker 1: making it look good. Man. It's just it's funny to

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Speaker 1: have cloth. I th that's right, hey, Mike guest Dan

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Speaker 1: shape not Mike got stand. Can't rock your cloth with

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Speaker 1: a little part bairey you know that? Not come Yeah,

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Speaker 1: gotta keep that slam now. But you're looking good. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling good right now. But there you go. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you want to look at this clothing long go

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Speaker 1: dot V seven clothing dot com dot Michael offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: for the new Professional Spring Football League Alliance of American

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Speaker 1: Football Atlanta team. Tell us about that head coach is

1046
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Speaker 1: former Super Bowl UH coach correct Brad Childress Brad Brad

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Speaker 1: Shoulders the head coach you know on the offensive coordinator, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm excited, man. It's just this is

1049
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Speaker 1: a great opportunity to you know, connect with the you know,

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Speaker 1: a league that's you know on a rise and look

1051
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Speaker 1: it's looking to you know, be around for a long

1052
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Speaker 1: time and help you know, get plays, you know, another

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Speaker 1: opportunity to continue their careers and further their careazy, get

1054
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Speaker 1: good teaching and coaching and maybe go on and and

1055
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Speaker 1: do greater things. So that's what that's what they're set

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Speaker 1: up for. So, um, well, we know we needed, we

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Speaker 1: need to go ahead and I'm I'm gonna be marking.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna take on a little subtle V seven marketing.

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Speaker 1: Let's get this V seven tied to this league here. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: I think those are conversations that Camp could be had there.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna Mike there, you gonna make conversation, Mike conversation

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Speaker 1: and it. Yeah, that's a little by making conversation, what

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Speaker 1: what whatever? What I was and what I was mentioned,

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Speaker 1: because we're having a plenty baking conversations. You know, bring

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Speaker 1: my cleep back and let my cleep be there. Uh

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Speaker 1: you know, Flagship you now you're gon and be seven.

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Speaker 1: Look we can, but it will only be the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Alliance to absolutely, absolutely only get it absolutely you know,

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Speaker 1: it's what makes us special. Let's set us apart. So

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Speaker 1: you know those conversations that the project you had at

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Speaker 1: some point, you know, as the relationship continues to bro um.

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Speaker 1: You know, if we're working with a great growth of

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Speaker 1: people from Charlie episode to um you know, j K McKay,

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Speaker 1: um Solver down to brad Children. So I mean the

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Speaker 1: league is going to be very successful. We're gonna make

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Speaker 1: sure that it's successful and it's just good for us,

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Speaker 1: just more football for people to watch. I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you something. I'm telling something. First of all, it's not

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Speaker 1: competing with the NFL. Okay, that's why I love That's

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Speaker 1: why I love it because see that I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: a withdrawal. No one can get people to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Let's go and get that true now. But I'm just

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00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: saying that all all I'm being hit with is for

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Speaker 1: draft picks to combine leading up to the draft. If

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Speaker 1: I can get some some good football that I can

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Speaker 1: watch and go go a tend game, I'm there. I'm there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely inspective. If it's in your city, why not support um?

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Speaker 1: You know, like I said, when you got you know,

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Speaker 1: some of the best of the best food has been

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Speaker 1: around the game. Yes, sir, you know other you know

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Speaker 1: this is in Atlanta, y'all, we're talking about Atlanta. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be inta. Michael Vick is coming back on the

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Speaker 1: side of Atlanta, and I'm glad that they gave an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to come home. But they will have a team

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Speaker 1: in the Lando coach by us so already, so that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be is gonna be good football at me here, Mike.

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Speaker 1: You know there's might be some shootouts offenses there too. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's the deal, man, I'm on the phone. Whatever I'm

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Speaker 1: talking to, Michael Vick. This is the man is multiple

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Speaker 1: streams of income. Michael Vick Okay, Fox Sports analysts. He

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Speaker 1: the v found that the VIC Foundation is being reinvigorated,

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Speaker 1: but he never stopped giving back to the community clothing brand.

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Speaker 1: He's seven is a Virginia Tech. We already had a

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Speaker 1: money made conversation. They're gonna be on the Atlanta team here.

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Speaker 1: He's an offensive coordinator for the football team that will

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Speaker 1: not be competing against the NFL. It will be starting

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Speaker 1: right after February nine, the next year, after the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: This man special and Michael Vick, Man, I'm glad I

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Speaker 1: got I'm we finally got to talk man. You special, dude,

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Speaker 1: gotta I gotta tell you start brother, because you're a superstar.

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Speaker 1: Oh and off the field, okay, talking cheap, winning my brother,

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