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Speaker 1: He started the BT comedy series Let's Stay Together Up

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Speaker 1: about this new b et plus First Wives Clubs. First

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Speaker 1: Wives Clubs, the hilarious new nine episode comedy series that

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Speaker 1: marriage trials and tribulations. Please work on the money making conversations.

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Speaker 1: I know it's called a little brother, good friend, men

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Speaker 1: up anyway. Please welcome to the show, Rico late oh

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Speaker 1: Man studio. Man, Man, you got me feeling old. Man

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Speaker 1: took it back to Gloria. Oh my goodness. Man, guy's

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Speaker 1: good man. I've been I've been in the game. I

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Speaker 1: That's true. And that's why I've been letting people know

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Speaker 1: but yes, you know, they're looking at your funds, they're

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Speaker 1: it looks at three different relationships, all in the midst

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Speaker 1: of a bit of a storm. But I like it

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Speaker 1: because it was a Martyn I yeah, you know the

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Speaker 1: fact that you could have done that script like when

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Speaker 1: you add the TMC little the musical ever and things

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Speaker 1: like that, the lifestyle elements and stuff like that, and

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Speaker 1: you guys looked to me and felt authentic. Now, interesting

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Speaker 1: thing about this is that it's on BT plus, the

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Speaker 1: streaming network. Now, that's what is that? That's that's kind

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Speaker 1: which means that the person can watch all episodes at

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Speaker 1: one time. Binget, Yes, how's that? That wasn't the take

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Speaker 1: on that? Well, it's new. And the thing about it

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Speaker 1: was when we when the show was conceived, it really

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Speaker 1: wasn't you know, it was kind of conceived that at

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Speaker 1: a sister network, Paramount Networks. We all signed on. We

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Speaker 1: were on Paramount Network, and then as we started to

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Speaker 1: shoot and BT was kind of finalizing their deal to

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Speaker 1: to kind of launch BT plus, they needed original content,

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Speaker 1: so they actually, you know, opted to kind of bring

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Speaker 1: it over to BT plus. It was all very new

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Speaker 1: to us. As they were kind of lining out the

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Speaker 1: details of BT Plus, we were learning on the fly.

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Speaker 1: But I can honestly say I got the app, uh

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Speaker 1: probably right when it right on the nineteen, and it's

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Speaker 1: a great app. And and I can honestly say after

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Speaker 1: going through it and checking out some of the stuff,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's really a lot of content. There'll be

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Speaker 1: more content to come. They got bigger uh, Tyler Pearis

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Speaker 1: but I'm sure they'll be offered on there at some point.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they got there, They got their Housewives

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Speaker 1: and Housewild. I mean, it's it's a lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of content. Because because I dialloaded

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Speaker 1: yeah you know, you know, yeah, you go support I know,

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Speaker 1: because of the fact that that's the brand, that's that's unique. BET.

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Speaker 1: If they can't stream, nobody can stream from an African

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Speaker 1: American perspective, and it's also be a place where you

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Speaker 1: And that's this is a signature show with original content

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Speaker 1: that's being launched on b G Plus, which letting them

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Speaker 1: know that we're not just bringing you old reruns of

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Speaker 1: old African American signals from the seventies and the eighties

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Speaker 1: and the nineties. That's really really wonderful, but it's still

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Speaker 1: for your brand. That's a that's a new law. It is.

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Speaker 1: It's different. Uh. You know, obviously we talked about that

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Speaker 1: social media game plays heavily. You know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: You gotta get it out there is you know, we

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Speaker 1: live in a digital but your handles the word double

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Speaker 1: ry across the board. I g Facebook, Twitter, all that

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Speaker 1: you hit me up and I'm trying to get better.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get better. But I did. We did

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Speaker 1: a lot of press in the last couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: and so I got some posts for that and I'm

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna continue. I'm continue the post. I know,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get better. You will get ready with the

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Speaker 1: thing about this is that man, some people that's what

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Speaker 1: they do and you one of those artists. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying from the standpoint of that you you

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Speaker 1: were just so worried about which well, I know eventually

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Speaker 1: you're going to be behindicing, You're gonna be directed, you

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Speaker 1: gonna be writing and all that because I met that guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, God is just giving you this path to

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Speaker 1: be in front of the camera because you're a good

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Speaker 1: looking God you understand your craft. But brother, I remember

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Speaker 1: nanty two with Steve Harvey asked me to come on

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Speaker 1: his show as a writer to sitcom. He said, man,

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Speaker 1: but you're so talented as a stand up. I said,

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Speaker 1: but I want to write. I want to produce because

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Speaker 1: that that that's the path. You know, God can give

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Speaker 1: you an option to be successful like something. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that's your ultimately gold. That's your path that you

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Speaker 1: emotionally driven to go there. So I know any opportunities

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Speaker 1: that I see that said, hey, man, coming director, coming

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Speaker 1: system direct, and you're available, I'm gonna call you because

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Speaker 1: because I read it now, I read it. Let me know, man,

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Speaker 1: let me know, and I like you said, even assistant directing, shadowing. Man, Listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to soak up knowledge. I shadowed a

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Speaker 1: couple of years back, man, And that's the thing I

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Speaker 1: continuously put it out there. It's like, I'm like a fit.

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Speaker 1: I'm a fisherman. I love to fish, ain't I tell you?

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Speaker 1: And I don't care where I go on set. I

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Speaker 1: like to let people know that I fished, because that's

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Speaker 1: how you meet other fisherman. Absolutely by that. By that ration, now,

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Speaker 1: I like to let people know. Man, I're writing directing

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Speaker 1: all of that, so that's how you meet people that say, oh,

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Speaker 1: were you trying to come on over? Let me? Sally

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Speaker 1: Richardson uh came and directed the episode. I'm all in

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Speaker 1: her here because she here's an actress. Dude, she's on fire.

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Speaker 1: You listen. I saw Andre last week. I said, we're

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Speaker 1: Sally now like where this week? Sitcom drama? And the

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Speaker 1: thing about it was, uh, survirus, and Morris was, maybe

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Speaker 1: I would just I should say her third or fourth

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Speaker 1: episode direct and she was still kind of getting her

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Speaker 1: feet with however, a pro like a pro and um.

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Speaker 1: And then from that, man, we started following each other

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Speaker 1: on IM before I knew. Every time I turned around,

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Speaker 1: she's prepping, she's you know, she's getting shot list together,

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Speaker 1: she's doing she's doing that, and I mean just to

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Speaker 1: watch her do her things that you brother. Man, Listen,

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Speaker 1: we're talking to roun Rico Lee. Check out this new

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Speaker 1: series Man on BT plus First Wive Club. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for coming into my world and come on man, forwarding

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Speaker 1: me on money making conversations. I love you, brother, say that.

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Speaker 1: I really say that, because Wow, this is a hard

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Speaker 1: interview for me to do personally, because it's like watching

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Speaker 1: the family member that that that I so cared about

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Speaker 1: and then then had to walk away and let you

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Speaker 1: do your thing and to come in the office, come

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Speaker 1: into this space and say, man, I love you, and

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Speaker 1: you see you love it back to it's a pleasure

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Speaker 1: being here at any time. Man. You just you ain't

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Speaker 1: gotta do nothing. Just called me. It cool. That might

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Speaker 1: make conversation, y'all