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Speaker 1: currently starting in one of my favorite series on BT,

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation Karen More. Hello, thank you, yes, great,

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Speaker 1: E R dot Ai. My next guests left Wall Street

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Speaker 1: to keep up with the demand of a company where

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Speaker 1: she is the founder and CEO of The lip Bar,

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Speaker 1: a vegan beauty brand that exists to disrupt an outdated

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Speaker 1: beauty care industry. Please welcome to money making Conversation. The

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Speaker 1: CEO of the lip Bar, Melissa Butler. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for having me. That was such a warm intro

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Speaker 1: that we're warm, but but you're in Detroit, right Betray

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Speaker 1: the weather up there in Detroit. It's finally gotten nicer.

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Speaker 1: Crazy may may A may A was snowing. I gotta

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Speaker 1: get out of here, That's what I'm asking you'll. You

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Speaker 1: know I lived. I was like, I'm in the wrong place. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, used in New York doing working at

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Speaker 1: Wall Street. Correct, when I graduated, Yeah, I went to college.

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Speaker 1: I went to college at fam you a Ka, Florida

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Speaker 1: and m Universal when I was there exactly exactly, And

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Speaker 1: so I studied business finance. And I decided that in

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Speaker 1: college that if you're going to do finance, that you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no better place to do it than than in

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Speaker 1: New York. So I moved to New York. Was working

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Speaker 1: on Wall Street for about four years excuse me, and

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Speaker 1: the year too I quit my job. I quit my

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Speaker 1: job to focus on the lip bar Um, this cosmetic

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Speaker 1: company that I just felt super inspired and empowered to

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Speaker 1: start because I wanted to stop complaining about the industry

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Speaker 1: and instead of be the changes, we just stop complaining

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Speaker 1: about an industry. What do you mean? What what were

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Speaker 1: the complaints about the industry? So yeah, I started the

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Speaker 1: lit bar because I was completely frustrated with the beauty industry.

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Speaker 1: I hated it's lack of diversity, its excessive amounts the chemicals, um,

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Speaker 1: just this idea that that beauty looks like one particular

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Speaker 1: thing and like in one way. So I found, you know,

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Speaker 1: of a country full of women black and white that

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Speaker 1: was trying to fit into this very small beauty box

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Speaker 1: of like what's considered socially and societally accepted as beautiful.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, no, like, why are we all

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Speaker 1: trying to conform to be something that we're not in

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Speaker 1: terms of like that that beauty image. And it's like

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Speaker 1: I felt like we had been taught that you can

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Speaker 1: only be one thing in order to be beautiful. And

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Speaker 1: it's always been then my my understanding that everyone has baby,

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Speaker 1: you know, and everyone is beautiful. But the conditioning of

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Speaker 1: the media and the beauty companies, you know, it consistently

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Speaker 1: told this story in this linear LFE and so that

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Speaker 1: was my frustration. I hated that people were made to

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Speaker 1: feel like they were not enough, and so I decided

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Speaker 1: to create the lip far to remind women that they

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Speaker 1: don't have to transform and be beautiful. They're already beautiful. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now you degree was it? What? Now? Business finance? Okay,

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Speaker 1: business finance. And so I'm just reading your bio, so

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Speaker 1: you will created the formula or you mixed it, or

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Speaker 1: you made the brand or the lip bar in your

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn kitchen. To my understand that I've read that wrong. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, you read it right. So I did not

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Speaker 1: have experience in the chemistry. I was working on Wall Street,

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Speaker 1: like looking at stocks and bombs and still spreadsheets all day. Um,

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Speaker 1: but that's what happens when you when you're operating in

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Speaker 1: purpose and you're operating with determination. Like no, I didn't

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Speaker 1: know how to make lipstick, but I did everything in

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Speaker 1: my power to learn and I'm not going to say

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Speaker 1: it was easy. It took probably a thousand batches of lipstick,

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Speaker 1: you know, me making these products before I got to

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Speaker 1: a good one. It was a story of resilience, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's largely the lit Bar story. Now, the

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Speaker 1: real product is a vegan product. Correct. Every single thing

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Speaker 1: that we make is vegan and cruelty free. So that

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Speaker 1: means that we don't use any animal products, we don't

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Speaker 1: test on animals, and we try to be as natural

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Speaker 1: as possible without compromising the products. The brain what you're

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Speaker 1: saying that you do, which is really important now, you know,

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Speaker 1: I love your energy. First of all, um, I have

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Speaker 1: a newsletter there I had set out every Friday nine am.

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Speaker 1: And a good friend of mine I found out about you,

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Speaker 1: was and Simbowski Ward, she's the CEO of Yes. She

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Speaker 1: she texts me said, Shan, you got to put it

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Speaker 1: on your show. Who Melissa lip Bar. She's really good

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Speaker 1: because you know she lives in Detroit and she lives

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, and so that's how I found out about you.

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Speaker 1: Then I then every Tuesday I meet with my staff

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Speaker 1: and I said, uh, I've been recommended to interview a

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Speaker 1: young lady by the name of Melissa Butler as she

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Speaker 1: owns the lip Bar. And then my staff go, we've

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Speaker 1: already contacted her, so you're already on their radar. My

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Speaker 1: staff's radar people that I should bring on my show

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Speaker 1: is entrepreneurs. So the blessings are is that a good

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Speaker 1: friend of mine who was or I loved the death

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Speaker 1: and she's a fantastic smart person, and you know, a

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Speaker 1: good person to recommended you. And then my staff already

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Speaker 1: was greater to book you. So with that being I

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Speaker 1: love and to death, I love that woman. She has

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Speaker 1: been so hopeful in my journey. She she called your

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Speaker 1: boy right now, told me that this as a person

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Speaker 1: I should have on the show because you're a blessing.

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Speaker 1: You're gifted. And that's what I do on money making conversations,

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Speaker 1: I bring brands in and I use my brand free charge.

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Speaker 1: I'm not here to try to make money. I'm just

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Speaker 1: trying to give a platform to entrepreneurs that they can

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Speaker 1: talk to tell their story when no no, when no

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Speaker 1: hidden agendas. It's about so the nuggets that you share

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Speaker 1: on my show, hopefully other people hear it and go wow,

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Speaker 1: I can do it too. That's what this shows about.

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Speaker 1: Motivating people believe that they can do it too. Like

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Speaker 1: my degree. Just a little quick backstory, very short backstory.

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Speaker 1: My degree is in mathematics and computer and sociology. That's

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Speaker 1: my degree. I got into mathematics, and I went to

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Speaker 1: work for IBM and left IBM to pursue a career

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Speaker 1: as a stand up comedian and became a sitcom writer

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Speaker 1: and managed talent and marketing, branding gurgle for Fortune five

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Speaker 1: companies and producing television shows and film. That's my background. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't start out like that. I was a

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Speaker 1: math My degree is a mathematic Just like you said,

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Speaker 1: you know your your degree wasn't in chemistry. That didn't

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Speaker 1: stop you. So with that, I said, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: because but that's a that's a big swing. I just

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Speaker 1: went from telling from mathematic to telling jokes. That wasn't

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Speaker 1: that big of a jump. I just I just got

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Speaker 1: your jump is huge. Here. I'm I'm trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out how confident did you have to be? So could

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Speaker 1: you walk me through the steps? Not trying to reveal anything,

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Speaker 1: but that's pretty impressive, miss Butler. The fact that you

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Speaker 1: were confident enough, and I'm sure you were the guinea pig,

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Speaker 1: of your of all your stuff, maybe some close friends

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Speaker 1: and things like that. Once you got going there a

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Speaker 1: little bit because you wanted to try it on different

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Speaker 1: So when you thought of just talking about the time

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Speaker 1: that you said, Okay, I want to do this, what

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Speaker 1: did other people say to you? Oh? I mean, people

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Speaker 1: thought I was crazy. My mom thought I was crazy.

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Speaker 1: My mom was like, oh, wait, you're quitting your job

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Speaker 1: because and two years in, I quit my job not

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Speaker 1: I really believed in what I was doing, and I

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Speaker 1: could really impact to women across the country. Um So

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Speaker 1: when I quit my job, I wasn't even replacing my salary.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even gonna be able to pay myself a salary.

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Speaker 1: But I knew that that was the risk that I

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Speaker 1: not going after it. And so that was a decision

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I didn't know what I

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Speaker 1: was doing. I had no idea what I was doing

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Speaker 1: or you know, how big or how small it could get.

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Speaker 1: But I knew that what I was doing was important.

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00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: So you know, for all business owners, they they told

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Speaker 1: you to make sure you're starting with a problem, right.

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Speaker 1: So I very clearly knew that there was a problem

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Speaker 1: within the in the street. And I was like, you

643
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,959
Speaker 1: know what, I don't know. I don't know how this works.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the beauty industry. I don't

645
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Speaker 1: know anything about manufacturing. But I'm going to try because

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00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: I think this is a problem that's worth solving, and

647
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Speaker 1: you are and obviously people are reacted to it. Here's

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Speaker 1: there's something funny. I'm just let you know. I have

649
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Speaker 1: a newsletter that goes out every Friday at nine am,

650
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Speaker 1: goes out like to ninety thousand subscribers and so on.

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Speaker 1: And I told mar my staff, I said, trump one

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Speaker 1: of her and you know, one of your ads, uh

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Speaker 1: banners in there with the link and everything. It was

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Speaker 1: the most clicked link in my newsletter two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: That's how popular your brand is it? And I always

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Speaker 1: tell people, you know, wow, it was the most click link.

657
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Speaker 1: It was like it was crazy because you know, I

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Speaker 1: said it out on Fridays and on Mondays meet with

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Speaker 1: the staff and I go at eight am when I

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Speaker 1: go zoom because when the pandemic time. And I go,

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Speaker 1: They said, what, what's trying to give us a update

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Speaker 1: on newsletter? I said, all the most clicked link in

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Speaker 1: the newsletter was the lip box. And and you know

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Speaker 1: the reason, I just have to say that because it

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00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: wasn't tied to you a famous person. It wasn't. It

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Speaker 1: was just your product and either the name recognition or

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Speaker 1: your product of the first of all, the marketing it

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00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: looks so you have a beautiful looking product, first of all,

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Speaker 1: and and doing a tre minute job of marketing it

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Speaker 1: and so and so. So I didn't know what to

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Speaker 1: expect when I put in there. I just know that

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Speaker 1: I support, you know, African American entrepreneurs. That's the purpose

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Speaker 1: of where I created money making conversations. But I also

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Speaker 1: noticed that when people clicked, you have you know, you

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Speaker 1: have unique clicks and you have a total clicks, all right,

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Speaker 1: And people just kept going back to your ad. So

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00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: I always tell people that generally is a sign that

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Speaker 1: people were buying things when they keep going back, you know,

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00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: they go they go back to try and figure stuff out,

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00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: and go back and go back and go back. Usually

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Speaker 1: when people click one time, there could be some sales,

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Speaker 1: but usually, you know, because you rather do people click

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Speaker 1: and they just go through the process of buying unless

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Speaker 1: they really know what they're doing. So I just know

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Speaker 1: that you are doing a great job of marketing and

686
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 1: the story you're telling on the air with me right now,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive. Um, thank you. I'm not finished with

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Speaker 1: any I just want to thank you. How do you

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Speaker 1: want to thank you? You know what I'm I'll be

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Speaker 1: having celebrities in there. You know, Erica Campbell, you're learning

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Speaker 1: the Adams, Kelly Rowlands. You know, I have a superstar paddler,

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00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: but I have superstars being they're selling stuff in my

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Speaker 1: news letter. And then little lot ms clip bar click

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Speaker 1: click click click click, congratulations, We go back with my

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Speaker 1: friend like the little bar ceo. She moved from New

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Speaker 1: York to Detroit and may ain't there was snowing in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: She to know what she had gotten herself into, but

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Speaker 1: she's a happy person. There's a lot of cliches. You

699
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: hear a lot in this business of being successful. You know, gifts, passion, um,

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00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: don't sleep on who you should really be. A lot

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Speaker 1: of quotes on the phone as a person who um

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Speaker 1: got a degree, family, family, rattlers down there, will packer

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Speaker 1: down there. You know. My board did two movies with

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Speaker 1: him Thinking like a Man and Think Like a Man too,

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00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: and just a number of great things. Before we go

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Speaker 1: into further into your brand, I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: the HBCU experience. I always like to talk to the

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Speaker 1: individuals and I have that experience, that level of education,

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Speaker 1: and to reflect on the importance of HBCUs. Can you

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Speaker 1: can you talk to us about it? Melissa oh man, Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm gonna be honest, family changed my life,

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00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: Like honestly, it changed my life. I before I got

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Speaker 1: to fam you, I didn't know how culturally diverse Black

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Speaker 1: people are. Um, I didn't. I didn't really know how

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Speaker 1: to fill myself. I didn't know what made um a

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Speaker 1: special And like you know, when you grow up, you

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Speaker 1: always here that you know, we have to work prices hard,

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Speaker 1: and I think at an institution like FAMU and like

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Speaker 1: other HBCUs, you know, you're surrounded by black excellence, so

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Speaker 1: it doesn't become something that that you have to strive for,

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Speaker 1: it becomes your default. So FAM you taught fam You

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Speaker 1: taught me how to make excellence to my default. And

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Speaker 1: it taught me how to have just such such pride

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Speaker 1: in the diversity of black people. Now I'm from Detroit,

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Speaker 1: so Detroit is one of the blackest cities in America.

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Speaker 1: Is not the blackest city in America. So I've always had, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, the very strong racial pride. Like I've always

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Speaker 1: been a very proud black woman, but like going to

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Speaker 1: FAMU it really cemented that. And and I'm I'm just

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Speaker 1: really proud to have had merely black experiences because I've

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Speaker 1: never had the question who I am. I've never I've

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Speaker 1: never been in an environment where I felt the need

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Speaker 1: to assimilate, even when I was working on Wall Street

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Speaker 1: and I'm surrounded by you know, older white men. It

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Speaker 1: was my days at FAM YOU that prepared me for

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Speaker 1: those moments. So, like, I just really feel so blessed

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Speaker 1: to have have gone to that university. If I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be honest, well, I'm just telling you, congratulations also it

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Speaker 1: also taught you that that be fearless obviously in developing

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Speaker 1: this liber Yeah, let's talk about because I mentioned the

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Speaker 1: newsletter and I and how it was the most clicked

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Speaker 1: um a banner or link in my newsletter that week.

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00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: How did the marketing starts talking? You talked about the product, okay,

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00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: and how you developed that. Let's talk about the marketing

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00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: and the art work. How did that come about and

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00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: who did you work with? So it's a couple of

747
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: different facets of the lit bar as a company. So

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Speaker 1: number one, I always say that that we don't like

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Speaker 1: the product is just something that we happen to sell,

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Speaker 1: But what we do is empower women. So like what

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Speaker 1: we do as a company is empower women and remind

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Speaker 1: them that they are enough. And then what we happen

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00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: to sell the byproduct of that is you know, these

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00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: vegan and cruelty free and high quality makeup products that

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00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 1: we actually sail on the website. So just understanding that

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00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: our goal is always to remind people that they are

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Speaker 1: enough and to allow themselves to be seen within the

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Speaker 1: beauty industry, that then dictated the rest of the marketing.

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00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: So if our goal is like okay, we're gonna increase

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Speaker 1: representation within the beauty industry, then that automatically decides what

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Speaker 1: models we use. So we're not going to use the

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Speaker 1: same models that you see in every single and and

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00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: every other ad because that is that is the default.

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Speaker 1: And we're trying to expand the minds of our customers

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Speaker 1: and show them that they are enough. So so it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of storytelling, and that storytelling really comes from,

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00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: you know, who we are as a company and who

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00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: we who we're trying to serve as a company. So

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Speaker 1: you know, we make sure that we're using you know,

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Speaker 1: women of all complexions, deep deep skin tone, um women

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Speaker 1: with no hair, women who are plus sized, the women

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Speaker 1: who um are Muslim. We're we're using all sorts of

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Speaker 1: women just to show that again, beauty doesn't come in

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00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: one shape or size, or one hair texture or one complexion.

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00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: Beauty isn't all of us. And so that really dictates

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00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: the marketing and it's just constantly telling the stories of

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00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: those women because ultimately, that's that's what it's about. It's

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00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: not about the product. It's about how this product makes

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00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: that woman feel and where this woman uses the product.

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00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: You know, where is this product accompanying her in her life. Um,

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00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: and that's that's really like what dictates all of our marketing.

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00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: Well he's done with it? Well, yeah do I'm on

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00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 1: the website now and seeing this as six products seven

784
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: minutes your full faith? What exactly is that? Yeah? I'm

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00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,760
Speaker 1: so have you asked? So we just launched our fast

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00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: face system. It's called fast Face System, right yet, fast face? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Slow down? You know, I got six sisters. But you

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00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: you know, just a world. I gotta stay, stay in

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Speaker 1: the loop with you. Don't you just race out there

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00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: like your boy. Know what you're talking about here? Okay,

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00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: I feel you. I feel so. So it's called the

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Speaker 1: fast Face. I found is that a lot of women

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00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: buy makeup and wear makeup, but they don't really know

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00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: how to use it, and they all really know what

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Speaker 1: works for them. It's kind of like when you go

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Speaker 1: to the grocery store if you don't know how to cook,

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00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: and you're just buying a bunch of seasonings, but you

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Speaker 1: still don't know how to put them in youth. It's

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Speaker 1: very it's a very funny analogy. It's very funny. I

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Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, you can't cook, then you can't cook.

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Speaker 1: You get buy every easy thing in the store, don't

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Speaker 1: make it mean that addition, don't turn off better. And

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00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: so we've we've found that a lot of women were

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Speaker 1: buying makeup products but didn't really know what worked for them,

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Speaker 1: what worked for their complexion, how to use the product

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00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: um And so we were like, we need to solve

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Speaker 1: the problem of the lack of education around makeup because

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Speaker 1: makeup is one of those things that that's been around

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Speaker 1: for a really long time. You just automatically expect that

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00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: people know what they're doing, but they don't. Like my

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Speaker 1: my customers are not makeup artists. They're not the people

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00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: who are watching YouTube videos. They don't have time, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're raising kids, or they're they're growing in their careers,

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Speaker 1: or they're just spending time more time on what actually matters.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be honest, we've we've never believed that

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Speaker 1: makeup was the most important thing, and it should never be.

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00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: So we were like, okay, well, how do we allow

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Speaker 1: our customers to show up there as their best selves

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Speaker 1: without having to spend so much time trying to learn it.

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Speaker 1: So we launched our Face, our fast Faced system, which

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Speaker 1: is basically like the proactive of makeup where in six

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Speaker 1: products and it's designed to give you your full makeup

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Speaker 1: look in seven minutes or less. And we tell you exactly,

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Speaker 1: you know how to use the products, and we curate

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00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: what works for your complexion for you. So once we

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Speaker 1: know your foundation, we select all the rest of the

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Speaker 1: products for you, so you don't have to think about

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Speaker 1: what Blessed works from my complection, what likst it works

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Speaker 1: for me. If we know your skin tone, then we

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Speaker 1: select every single item in that fast Face kid, this

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Speaker 1: is awesome. Um so I'm just looking at your sight here,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at her site as uh, the lip bar

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Speaker 1: dot com. That's why I got the information about the

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Speaker 1: six products, seven minute minutes your full face, which is

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Speaker 1: the fast faced system that she was talking about. And

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Speaker 1: then you have then then I clicked tutorials and then

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Speaker 1: you have the was that the fast Faced challenge right there? Yeah,

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00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: that's that's that's so much fun. That's like the content out.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just going through your site having fun.

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Speaker 1: I'm just always just clicking just but you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: very complimentary of you because of the fact that, uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a you know, everything I love walking in I

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00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: love branding I love trying to figure out what white

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Speaker 1: people relate to anything. First of all, your your lines

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Speaker 1: and your artwork clean. They're very clean, and and and

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Speaker 1: and everything's very it's it's just it's just almost like

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966
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Speaker 1: wind up, Braxton, thank you for having you. Know, Tota,

971
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Speaker 1: I want to just tell you, thank you for doing

972
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Speaker 1: the show. And the first time I want I was

973
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974
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975
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Speaker 1: a good friend of my Sharon Tomlinson. It's a very

976
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Speaker 1: good friend of mine. Pray for her every day. And

977
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Speaker 1: uh and so and I said, who's that? Who's that?

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Speaker 1: She says, Because I don't want look at reality shows

979
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Speaker 1: all the time, I said, Now, I formerly managed Steve Harvey,

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981
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982
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Speaker 1: all stacked up, some of y'all in front, I'm all

983
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984
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Speaker 1: and so we have a little physical history of meeting

985
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Speaker 1: you and I go. I know I told her that.

986
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Speaker 1: I know, I told her, just an acting debut. You

987
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Speaker 1: need me on the stage doing your thing and there. So,

988
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Speaker 1: so you talk about that, that's a love that I

989
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990
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Speaker 1: surprised me. And and you know, I'm a guy always

991
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Speaker 1: looking for new talent, always looking for different ways to

992
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Speaker 1: to bring people to the forefront of their their dreams.

993
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Speaker 1: That's all I'm assuming acting, there's a dream of yours.

994
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Speaker 1: Talk about that the whole acting background, because you get

995
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Speaker 1: caught up in the reality the world and people think

996
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Speaker 1: that's all you want to do, that's all you can't

997
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Speaker 1: do because you're already known as a notable singer. But

998
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Speaker 1: just talk about their love for acting to wander. Okay,

999
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Speaker 1: So like back in the day when I was a child,

1000
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Speaker 1: I used to always be in all the elementary school plays.

1001
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Speaker 1: And then when I got to h Junior high school,

1002
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Speaker 1: I was in all the plays then. Um and then

1003
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Speaker 1: you know, I always made sure I went I didn't

1004
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Speaker 1: go against the grain when it came to my family

1005
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Speaker 1: because singing with the family's business. Um. So when when

1006
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Speaker 1: I went to college, I um we did when we

1007
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Speaker 1: said university, you talk about that? So um And we

1008
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Speaker 1: did off Broadway show called String Girls and I played

1009
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Speaker 1: Larrell Um and this was in Maryland. And then the

1010
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Speaker 1: director was also a professor at Howard University UM, and

1011
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Speaker 1: he was also a personal friend of the families. And

1012
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Speaker 1: he never knew that I really wanted to act. So

1013
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Speaker 1: when you know, he as the director, he always called

1014
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Speaker 1: me about my character named Mourel. Did you did you've

1015
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: ever take any acting classes? And I was like, al Sir,

1016
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Speaker 1: I never took any. He was like, are you kidding me?

1017
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Speaker 1: And I'd be like, al sir. And all the actors

1018
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Speaker 1: that he had in the play outside of me and

1019
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Speaker 1: my sisters were from Howard University UM, and they were

1020
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Speaker 1: just amaze that I never took any classes. He was like,

1021
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Speaker 1: you have a raw talent. He said, Um, I want

1022
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Speaker 1: to give you a theater scholarship at Howard University. And

1023
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Speaker 1: I didn't take it. I turned it down because for one,

1024
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Speaker 1: like I said, I was in the family's business and

1025
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Speaker 1: the family's business of singing, although my passion and my

1026
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Speaker 1: love was acting always, and you have a talent for

1027
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. So I went ahead

1028
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Speaker 1: and did the family thing. You know, we me, Tamar

1029
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Speaker 1: and Trina signed with air Aris I'm sorry, I'm Atlantic Records.

1030
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Speaker 1: And we tried. We we toured with muth of van

1031
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Speaker 1: Ross in al sitter Tony. So, I mean we had

1032
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Speaker 1: some moderate success that the overseas. UM, but I still

1033
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Speaker 1: really wanted to add so I took some I started

1034
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Speaker 1: taking some acting classes um in Atlanta. I mean, I

1035
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Speaker 1: was really trying to own into my craft. Um. And

1036
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Speaker 1: then I was accepted into a Lee Straussburg acting classes

1037
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Speaker 1: in l A. Um, you can active there, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: act the rest that dude right there for a person

1039
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Speaker 1: and that right. So I was really I was so

1040
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Speaker 1: excited that I was accepted into that school. So I'm

1041
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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. He's like a brother. He's

1042
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Speaker 1: like one of my male best friends in the business.

1043
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Speaker 1: Carl Payne, he said yes, she said, come on, tee,

1044
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Speaker 1: I got this movie. I want you to be in

1045
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Speaker 1: this movie. And um, I was like cool. And then

1046
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Speaker 1: and then what I love about having friends like like

1047
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: Carl is he didn't just have me in the movie

1048
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Speaker 1: just because I was his friends. You know what I

1049
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Speaker 1: mean I had I mean, I had to work towards

1050
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Speaker 1: you know because me being his friend. If he was

1051
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Speaker 1: just doing it as my friend, he would have made

1052
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Speaker 1: me in the least. And he was like, no, this

1053
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Speaker 1: is what you're gonna do. So he gave me a

1054
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Speaker 1: part in the movie. U. I earned a part in

1055
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Speaker 1: the movie Get the Time, right, earned right. I earned

1056
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Speaker 1: a part in the movie. And I was so super

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Speaker 1: super happy. Um, that was my That was the first

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01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 1: time that I really got my feat wet um as

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01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: being an actor in the in the movie. When I

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01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: when I always talk about people on the show about entertainment, entrepreneurship,

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Speaker 1: and I always tell people to value and the importance

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Speaker 1: of relationships. Okay, this is this is what I speak

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01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: of when I say relationships because again, you know, we

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Speaker 1: were talented, we'll get you so far. I would tell

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Speaker 1: relationships will keep you in the game. Okay, yeah, And

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Speaker 1: this is what you could talk about the value relationship

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01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 1: not only just the opportunity you got with you know,

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01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: calling this movie, but also in the industry overall. How

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01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: to help you having been having a relationship of having

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01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: talent and extending you and giving you a career in

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01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 1: this business. Absolutely, yes, So you know what, it's one

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01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: thing about just having the the UM. I guess the

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01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: gift of whether it's singing, act and producing is one thing.

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01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 1: Just to have that gift of being able to do

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01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: those things is another thing. Of how you perceive yourself

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01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: in front of individuals. And I always say that the

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Speaker 1: st the toes that you step on today may be

1078
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: connected to the ask you have to kiss tomorrow. So

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01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 1: you have to be extremely careful with how you treat people.

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01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: You just have to, you know, I know in in

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01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: the entertainment industry, people get on your nerves. Everybody isn't

1082
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: always on the up and up and people there are

1083
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: a lot of users, not just an entertainment industry but

1084
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: across the board in the world. UM. So you have

1085
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 1: to be careful UM. And you have to be sharp

1086
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: as well. So it's very important to maintain relationships. Just

1087
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 1: be nice to people. It doesn't take nothing, just to

1088
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: smile and just to say thank you, um and and

1089
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: those things will take you a long way. Like um

1090
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: and it took me to another situation where I've been.

1091
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm very close friends with Terry Vaughan and Cast Figgers,

1092
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 1: who who's an incredible writer. She's written Yes, Yes and

1093
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: she and and Terry is she's an incredible or phenomenal

1094
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: actor and she's a phenomenal director. Um so I was able.

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01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: I was able to um have an opportunity to be

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01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: in another movie and it was a Christmas movie with

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01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 1: David and Tamela. Man keep braggingly embracing the fact that

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Speaker 1: this is something that I love, so I get excited about,

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01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: you know. I mean I talked about my music and

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01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 1: I talked about singing with my family. But that's to me,

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01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: that's like second nature. That's like greeting, you know, And

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01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: that's something that was the family, which is important, Which

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01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: is important. It's so important, and that's why that's that's

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01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: why I wanted to bring that out because a lot

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01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 1: of a lot of times people they want to just

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01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 1: label you on what they know about you. And when

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01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: I try to get money making conversations allow my guests

1108
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: to have a conversation and also to talk about the

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01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 1: things that excite them. Because like you know, I got

1110
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: my degree in mathematics, I wanted to work for EEL.

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01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: It's just like you said, you know, you know, family

1112
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: bears a singing, but that doesn't necessarily make I was

1113
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: going to be working at ibing for the rest of

1114
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 1: my life. So now it's time to explore what makes

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Speaker 1: me happy, what motivates me to get out of bed,

1116
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: and you have to take rest. They're no, they're no guarantees.

1117
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 1: Now it's guarantee you can go on that stage and

1118
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 1: hit the note not to wander. There's no guarantee. You

1119
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Nothing that's that's doesn't But a gift doesn't necessarily mean

1121
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: that's your passion, right, You got to speak on that come.

1122
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: That's that's why I brought you on the show. You

1123
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: didn't know why he was coming on this show. You said, Okay,

1124
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,439
Speaker 1: I hear by RuSHA. They got me schedule for this show.

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Speaker 1: Money make comes in. I'm gonna make this phone call

1126
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 1: and see what's going on, you know, just the promotion.

1127
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: But I can't tell everybody but your story, your story

1128
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:28,919
Speaker 1: of a motivation, story about following your truths. And that's

1129
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: where law is about your truths. But you know, when

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01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: the business making money, so we'll do some things to

1131
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: make money to pay the bills. But remember, in the end,

1132
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: before you die, before you before you give up hope,

1133
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: at least try to participating what you really wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: And so so when I saw you a miss guy

1135
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: to behave, I started smile and I said, yeah, I

1136
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 1: remember she came. She came with Steve Harvey. She I

1137
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 1: had a booked on our show, and that the first

1138
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Speaker 1: time I mentioned it was a casual meeting. And to

1139
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: see you there because because to me, reality shows it

1140
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 1: what they are there their reality. You know what I'm

1141
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: saying there there, and some of the ways are improvised

1142
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 1: in some of them over arched. I'm not saying your show,

1143
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: but in general and so so, but that's not acting.

1144
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: And so when I say a naturally talented person skilled

1145
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: look comfortable, because I know the difficultures of acting. When

1146
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: I look at acting, I go wow. I really appreciate

1147
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 1: people who can translate words because I did Tom come

1148
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: from Jamie Foxx, the Parkers Sister sister. So I've seen

1149
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: my words come to life a lot, and so to

1150
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: see you do that, to want to don't stop, please,

1151
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 1: don't stop. Thank you, Thank you, thank you for saying that.

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01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 1: Thank you. Be right back on, lady. I'm gonna go

1153
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 1: to this break. We're gonna go to this break. I

1154
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 1: gotta talk about your entrepreneur career and also just talk

1155
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: about you though, what did you gain and the lessons

1156
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: you learned of doing a reality series and things like that,

1157
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: But just to just to understand point of its just

1158
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: a career, because we all know that's a stepping stone

1159
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: and you want to bigger steps and higher steps on

1160
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: that ladder. I would like to stop the show for

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01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: a minute because I'm an advocate. I did not go

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01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 1: to an hbc U, but that doesn't stop me from

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01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 1: being an advocate and promoting HBCU is because of the

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01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: fact that the contributions that they bring to us that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't recognize on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: Please tell us about attending HBCU. Why you recommend, you know,

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Speaker 1: individuals to go to black and white male female to

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Speaker 1: go to HBCUs. Well, you know what, First of all, UM,

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Speaker 1: when I was growing up and I went to my

1170
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Speaker 1: secondary schools, it was predominantly white. And I have to

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Speaker 1: say that, UM, I know this is gonna sound bad

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01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: to say, but culturally, Um, it was a cultural shock

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01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 1: for me to even go to Booty State University because

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01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: I saw so many of my people. But I think

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Speaker 1: it's so important, Um, for us to embrace HBCUs, to

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01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: support hbc USED because that's how we learn. We learned

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01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: from other individuals, that's in our own culture, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I learned so much stuff that I didn't learn

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01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: when I was in school because of course they don't

1180
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: teach everything, and you know your secondary schools. I mean,

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01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: I learned about the isis paper. I learned. I mean

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01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 1: I just started reading stuff. I had no idea about UM.

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01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:27,559
Speaker 1: And then just culturally, wed black Black people were party

1184
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 1: different we speak differently, we support differently, and I just

1185
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:34,480
Speaker 1: think that that's so important to go to an HBCU

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01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:37,639
Speaker 1: and I pledged. I'm a zata and I'm a sick

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01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:44,720
Speaker 1: a sweetheart nine member. Okay, you're talking to a man

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01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 1: right now, right, so right, I think we're going for

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01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 1: and then and then the reason that I even pledge

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: data UM is because I went to this UM. I

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01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,679
Speaker 1: went to this nonprofit dinner and I had no idea

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01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 1: that we was sponsored by the Blue and White Family

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01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:11,640
Speaker 1: and UM Mayor Barry was there. I mean, there was

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Speaker 1: so many prominent people there because I'm from the the

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Speaker 1: DNB area, UM and the dinner was NBC and baby Faces.

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Speaker 1: But he just went because the baby Face was performing.

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01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 1: I got tickets, you know, and he get to the table,

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01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 1: So maybe Face was performing. After seven was there Cavan

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Speaker 1: and El DeBarge there was performing. And then they started

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01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:32,080
Speaker 1: talking about a lot of a lot of men with

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01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: high pitched voices were performing. That's that's really really sick

1202
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 1: talking about or you know how Laskey kids in the

1203
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:45,840
Speaker 1: board of Babies and all of that. And I had

1204
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 1: no idea that the Blue and White Family was connected

1205
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: to those organizations. And I was like, wow. And I'm

1206
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:54,920
Speaker 1: not a person who really brags about everything that I

1207
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 1: do or you know, I don't always want to paddle

1208
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: my back for supporting or helping some one, and that

1209
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:03,720
Speaker 1: was more of my personality. So I was like, oh

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01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 1: my god, I want to join the organization. And I

1211
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: became Zeta and the single sweetheart. Congratulations. I always tell people,

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01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 1: you know, when I talk about HBC overbcus across the

1213
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:16,759
Speaker 1: country and the only a role of the African American

1214
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 1: student and despite constitute only three percent for your colleges

1215
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 1: in the country, HBC used produced eight percent of the

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Speaker 1: black judges, of the black lawyers, of the black doctors,

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Speaker 1: forty of the black engineers of the Black members of converences,

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Speaker 1: percent of all Black STEM graduates and of the black

1219
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: CEOs in America. That is why I needed to hear

1220
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 1: your story of Towanda, because it's in that mix that

1221
01:10:45,320 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: we need to keep telling people when every year talking

1222
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Speaker 1: about we need to why we funding HBCUs? Do you

1223
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: know how you have to? What else do we have? Really? Um?

1224
01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 1: And then another thing is I don't agree with like

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01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 1: some of these EPCs. You It's like, why are they

1226
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: falling apart? Why are they falling by the wayside? Because

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01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: even State University, who was the first teacher's college in

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01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: Maryland might add black, sorry the first black because college

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01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: now it's under the University of Maryland system, And I'm

1230
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 1: like how it happens? Right? Well, you know I think

1231
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: that that's why I'm really promoting and I got some

1232
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: things under the work said I'm gonna be announcing in

1233
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 1: the month of August just to shine more light. And

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01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: it's like anything you know, you don't know about Ohio State,

1235
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: you don't know about Maryland. Because people's promoted and this

1236
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 1: brand has to be promoted and signed the light of success.

1237
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: Like those numbers that I'm talking about, they need to

1238
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,760
Speaker 1: be shined on a regular basis, not only just the

1239
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,599
Speaker 1: African Americans, but to the world, and people go, really,

1240
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: what kind of education that they're doing over there, education

1241
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: that your kids can go to, your kids can go to,

1242
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 1: because it's it's the it's HBCUs are tied to diversity,

1243
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: and that's something that a lot of people don't admit

1244
01:11:56,320 --> 01:12:00,200
Speaker 1: to happening. And so and so in twenty eleven when

1245
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:04,560
Speaker 1: they was like a really strategized campaign to try to

1246
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 1: diminish the accomplishments of HBCUs and hurt HBCUs. And so

1247
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: my motivation now is like, okay with Sean, you know

1248
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 1: this is what you do. You're marking in brain. And

1249
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: so whenever I have a fantastic person who's attending an

1250
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 1: HPCU like you, I always just like carve out a

1251
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: moment in the show. Do you think you're tap dance boy?

1252
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:26,720
Speaker 1: Come on, do you think they're th HBC moment? What's

1253
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: about to do with that? I'm gonna set aside my

1254
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: time for h b c U s and it's gonna

1255
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:34,280
Speaker 1: get bigg to wander. Now. Did I know now that

1256
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: I know blue and white, blue white, you can be

1257
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 1: here from your boy, But before we get out here,

1258
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 1: I'll be remiss. But I if I don't talk about

1259
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:49,360
Speaker 1: your entrepreneurship and if let's let's let's talk about first

1260
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 1: of all, Um, you know we talked about acting. Now

1261
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Ladybug skincare. Yea, let's let's let's

1262
01:12:57,360 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: set to to Wanda's deemed itself as responsible for you know, okay, acne,

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Speaker 1: dull skin and other skin impurities. It's a new cosmetic

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Speaker 1: cosmetic line. What inspired you to do this? Because you're

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Speaker 1: naturally attractive. You got good skin, Like I said, God

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Speaker 1: gave it to you. Okay, I didn't have to work hard.

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Speaker 1: You're the women that don't have to work hard for

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Speaker 1: our face. Okay with her face all good? Okay, But

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Speaker 1: everybody's not like you, Okay, Tamantha, right exactly exactly. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I've always been a person who didn't

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Speaker 1: really drink water. I don't like drinking. I love, Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, unless your heart it tastes like askering to.

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Speaker 1: But I always wanted my skin to look amazing, right. Um.

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Speaker 1: So I met with Miss Charlotte Wilson, who is the

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Speaker 1: skin god like. She's incredible with skin like she does

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Speaker 1: Porsche skin she does um, um wasn't a black China

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Speaker 1: skin Who's entre skin is impeccable. Um, she does Lisa

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Speaker 1: raised skin. Her skin is most tawless, uh, Cynthia Bailly.

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Speaker 1: I mean she does everybody's skin. And then I met

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Speaker 1: up with Miss Charlotte and I was like, I want

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Speaker 1: my skin to look like like I don't have any

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Speaker 1: makeup and I don't want to wear makeup like that anymore.

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Speaker 1: And she was like, I got you. Um and she

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Speaker 1: was like, Twanta, you have good skin because all like

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Speaker 1: I said, I've always been into skin and I have

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Speaker 1: when you see a woman who has beautiful skin, you

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Speaker 1: always compliment her like, oh my god, you skin is beautiful. Um.

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Speaker 1: So she said let's do a line together, and I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh my god. I felt so honored that

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Speaker 1: she was willing to do a line with me because,

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Speaker 1: like I said, she's a skin guy. Like that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Everybody wants to do a line with Miss Charlotte. Um

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Speaker 1: so um. She sent me some samples of different soaps

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Speaker 1: and different combinations of things, and um we we came

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Speaker 1: up with um ages timeless so it's a it's an

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Speaker 1: anti aging um skin care line. And I'm I'm a

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Speaker 1: woman of a particular age now I'm past forty. So

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Speaker 1: I used to have I used to I used to

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Speaker 1: look like a panda bear like without bake up. I

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Speaker 1: used to have dark circles gonna make my eyes. And

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Speaker 1: I thought it was because I wasn't drinctly enough water,

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Speaker 1: wasn't enough rest. But it was because my pigmentation and

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Speaker 1: a little of it is that hereditary. So my dad

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Speaker 1: used to have it. When he started using Ladybugs. Seme here,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have dark circles anymore. Okay, okay, stop it.

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Speaker 1: That's my that's my curse right there, dark circle, you're

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Speaker 1: telling me, don't get mad at you because you're boy,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna gonna make a purchase. That I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: a purchase. You said that ladybugs can't care, can give

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Speaker 1: and then it get rid of some of the fine

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Speaker 1: you become a particular age um. And then it reju

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Speaker 1: and ate and it restores, and it takes away a

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Speaker 1: layer of the dead skin that you've bring caring around

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Speaker 1: for so long that you did not know that you

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Speaker 1: were carrying around because you you know, you were exfoliating,

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Speaker 1: but you weren't exfoliating properly with the right ingredients. Again,

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Speaker 1: the ladybugs in't here is all natural? Yeah, because you

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Speaker 1: know I used mirror. I used mirror, and you know

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Speaker 1: when I used you know, and so you know, and

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Speaker 1: not a question of money with me. It's right getting

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Speaker 1: the right product that that you know, just kind of

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Speaker 1: hold back some days, not years, just hold back some

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Speaker 1: days off my face. That's all. I'm just trying to

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Speaker 1: hold back some days. That's all to want. Okay. And

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Speaker 1: you're telling me I'm talking to the ladybugs. Can just

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Speaker 1: talking just we're gonna do. First of all, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: make an order. But but I got to get the

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Speaker 1: word out. I'm not saying you don't have the word. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I do news for every Friday, goes out at nine

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Speaker 1: a m. Every Friday to ninety thousand of my fans.

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Speaker 1: Let's just later, and I feature four entrepreneurs. That's for

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Speaker 1: and so. I thought it would be cool to put

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Speaker 1: But your product is worth being it's the story being

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Speaker 1: want to drive it to, if you want to do,

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Speaker 1: if you want to say, or whatever you want to do,

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Speaker 1: I would put it in my newsletter. No charge has

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Speaker 1: never been a charge. It's not tied to a charge

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Speaker 1: because Ladybucks can't care. First of all, has me as

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Speaker 1: a customer right now, okay, And I want to just

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Speaker 1: change them to wander. I want them foolish people. Okay.

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Speaker 1: When I like something, I go my wife forgo cool boy.

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Speaker 1: We just stopped buying stuff. Hey, I like what I like? Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna love it. I'm telling you I have so

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Speaker 1: many success stories and it makes me smile because that's

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Speaker 1: just doing your skin. That's one thing that you can

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Speaker 1: take by yourself and what you're being the largest organ

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Speaker 1: the outside of your body. Why not make that one

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Speaker 1: organ beautiful? You know, I'm so excited about Ladybugs skincare um.

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Speaker 1: I use it, my family uses it. Tamar uses it,

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Speaker 1: you know, right, and you already know Tamar the type

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Speaker 1: of person. Let me think country behind. Everybody don't know

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Speaker 1: how country is. Well, I'm gonna tell you this to one.

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Speaker 1: You owe me a banner. You got me as a customer.

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Speaker 1: I just want to first of all, thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on my show, because thank you for having everybody's

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Speaker 1: doing my show. I feel so blest that I get

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Speaker 1: a person like you on my show and other other

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Speaker 1: talent that's coming on my show and hearing about my

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Speaker 1: brand and hearing how I want to just tell that story,

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Speaker 1: but but I was to promote their brands and promote

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Speaker 1: what they're doing with their life. Besides the story that

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Speaker 1: And you are an entrepreneur, lady books can't care, and

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Speaker 1: more importantly, you are an actress. And thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming to my show to Wander Braxton. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: this amazing I mean by so fast like I'm well,

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Speaker 1: your state Forrester, and the AD Council. My next guest.

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Speaker 1: He's an h B c U graduate of Hampton University.

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Speaker 1: He obtained his bachelor's degree in two thousand four, master's

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Speaker 1: degree in two thousand five, followed by his PhD. He's

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Speaker 1: a doctor, y'all. He has dedicated his professional career to education,

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Speaker 1: specializing in serving schools and organizations that serve urban and

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Speaker 1: culturally diverse communities. Teach, hustle, Inspire offers driven and passionate

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Speaker 1: educators a transformatal a transformational experience in a way that

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Speaker 1: is fun, engaging in life changing. Please work for the

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Speaker 1: money made conversation for the very first time, Dr Sean Woodley,

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Speaker 1: thank you so so much for having me. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to be here. I'm I tell you that. Yeah, everything

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Speaker 1: right though, you know, you know I how to make

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Speaker 1: sure I brought you, brought you the forefront, right doctor,

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Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. Man, very much appreciate that. Thank you, sir. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're we're we're are yet right now in this in

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Speaker 1: this in this country of America. We're yet right now, sir.

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Speaker 1: I'm not too far from you here in Atlanta, Okay, great? Great? Um.

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Speaker 1: You know education, I know I come from Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: born in fifth ward. Uh. My degrees in the mathematics

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Speaker 1: and my money and sociology, so I know they important

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Speaker 1: of continued education. I always tell people who always tell

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Speaker 1: young people just go to college and just just see

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Speaker 1: what college has to offer to you. How it changed

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Speaker 1: my life. Education changed my life. I would not be

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Speaker 1: talking to you because when I came out of high school, Sean,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be a forklift driver and got a

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Speaker 1: job as a forklif driver. That was my dream because

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Speaker 1: that was those were my mentors. My mentors were guys

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Speaker 1: who don't load the trucks. From I was fifteen, sixteen

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Speaker 1: years old, I saw it. I went, wow, this is cool,

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Speaker 1: and that stayed in my mind. Despite having my best friend,

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Speaker 1: she Gret she went to Rice and graduated. My other

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Speaker 1: best friends she went to Purdue and graduate. So it

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Speaker 1: wasn't like I was. I was surrounded by a bunch

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Speaker 1: of dummies. My whole little crew was smart and I

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Speaker 1: was smart too, But I wanted to take the easy

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Speaker 1: way out, a comfortable way out. I felt, you know,

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Speaker 1: get to that, get to that finish line real quick.

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Speaker 1: But but what But that wasn't the right finish line

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Speaker 1: for me. So when we were talking about education, that's

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Speaker 1: your passion, I just wanted to tee it up for

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Speaker 1: how the type of conversation I'm gonna have with you

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go into a lot of things and

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Speaker 1: these UH in this call we have today. But I

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Speaker 1: want to let you know the guy you're talking to

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Speaker 1: was the guy who who was was was not there.

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Speaker 1: I was not that was not motivated to pursue a

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Speaker 1: four year opportunity and academics and and and it changed

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Speaker 1: my life. So talk to us about UH. Education and

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Speaker 1: from your standpoint, I firmly believe that education and is

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Speaker 1: just really it's a key that can unlock so many

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Speaker 1: doors in so many different directions. One of the limiting

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Speaker 1: things that I'm working very very hard for, particularly in

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Speaker 1: urban and culturally diverse schools, as you mentioned, is exposure.

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01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:13,439
Speaker 1: We need to be sure that we the bright young

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01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,800
Speaker 1: scholars in these four walls, in the four walls of

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01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: these classrooms across this country are being exposed so that

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01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:23,760
Speaker 1: they have something to shoot for, and education can do that.

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01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: What are we exposing them to? What are we allowing

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01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: them to see? And more importantly, what are we allowing

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01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 1: them to see and how they think into that as

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01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:37,320
Speaker 1: it can be a contributing member to society. What are

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01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: we showing them, what are we putting them and how

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01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: does it connect to their everyday lives. Whether we understand

1478
01:24:45,160 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: the value and importance of that or not, it is

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01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:50,800
Speaker 1: absolutely critical. We need to make sure that we are

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01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: showing these students what is possible. And that's why I

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01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: work so hard so that they can see something to

1482
01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 1: shoot for. Let that service the engine that rides them,

1483
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: whether it is that four year degree, whether it is

1484
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,639
Speaker 1: that a two year degree, whether it is a trade,

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01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: something beyond just going to do the quote unquote their minimum.

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01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: And I making sense absolutely because I always tell people that,

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01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, you can't readport or degree. Okay, my degree

1488
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: in that wall. Nobody's gonna come back and say, hey man,

1489
01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: you know some I'm gonna take that back. They can't

1490
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:25,439
Speaker 1: do that. I earned that. You know you can. You

1491
01:25:25,520 --> 01:25:27,559
Speaker 1: can't call me stupid, you can't call me a dummy.

1492
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:30,640
Speaker 1: It's right there. Okay, what story are you telling that?

1493
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 1: I've been recognized as a person who knows how to

1494
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:37,120
Speaker 1: apply himself. I'm goal oriented, okay, and I know how

1495
01:25:37,200 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: to finish what I start. That's what the degree means

1496
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 1: to me. And when I talk about when listen to

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01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 1: your passion is a passion that I didn't have because

1498
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: I did not understand And so and we know that

1499
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: the stop gap or the the or the jump off

1500
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: point in this game of competition that we call in

1501
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:58,400
Speaker 1: this country we call America is education because it's not equal.

1502
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 1: Education not equal, and so which leads to a different story.

1503
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: And I think that private sect, private sector should come

1504
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,680
Speaker 1: in and stop trying that we should stop trying to

1505
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,439
Speaker 1: get the government to fix the situation. I feel, I

1506
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:13,840
Speaker 1: believe the sexual sector come in because they're the ones

1507
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 1: who seek our money in movies, seek our money, android

1508
01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:21,559
Speaker 1: phones they seek our money, and technology they seek our money,

1509
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: and grocery stores they seek our money in so many

1510
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: different ways. But they don't return that money to us

1511
01:26:27,479 --> 01:26:30,639
Speaker 1: when it comes to lifestyle, when it comes to education

1512
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: making a difference in our community, because they they've they've, they've, they've,

1513
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 1: they've they've, they've developed a nice system, they keep the money.

1514
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 1: They don't help out anybody but themselves, okay, And then

1515
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: they said the government is supposed to do that. So

1516
01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:47,519
Speaker 1: so that's one of the things that we know when

1517
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 1: I look at this change in our community is civil unrest,

1518
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:53,679
Speaker 1: the pandemic. You know, I'm sitting down trying to create

1519
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:57,000
Speaker 1: an agenda, a plan of action, and the plan of

1520
01:26:57,080 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 1: action is the old way ain't gonna work for the

1521
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 1: new way. So we have to hit a new plan

1522
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,160
Speaker 1: in place for the new way to even have a

1523
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:09,519
Speaker 1: shot at working. And it has to include the private sector.

1524
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:12,600
Speaker 1: And that's that's a that's a statement from me. And

1525
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 1: when I talked to me, to worldly people like you,

1526
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:17,639
Speaker 1: educated people like you, who know what I'm talking about

1527
01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: when I say education is not equal because it's tied

1528
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 1: to it's tied to property tax. You know, it's tied

1529
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: to the lot of program in each state, which doesn't

1530
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,519
Speaker 1: really do anything for education, like they say, because most

1531
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 1: of the program goes most of the money goes to

1532
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:34,600
Speaker 1: the company that sets up a lot of and so

1533
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 1: and so these things drive me. I've been fortunate. Man.

1534
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:40,840
Speaker 1: You can google my name and there's a lot of

1535
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 1: things come up about me, and so you have you

1536
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 1: have an image of who I am or idea who

1537
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 1: I am? Who is Dr Shaun Woodley? Let me tell

1538
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: you something, Dr Sean Woodley is. I'm a husband, i

1539
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: am a father, I am a believer, and I am

1540
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:01,680
Speaker 1: an educator. I do a lot of things under that

1541
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:05,560
Speaker 1: education umbrella, but it all boils that back down to

1542
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 1: being an educator. I get to leverage my creativity um

1543
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:14,960
Speaker 1: in what I do, and that has that fuels my

1544
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: passion for entrepreneurship. I've been able to uniquely combine the

1545
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:24,360
Speaker 1: field of education and entrepreneurship to not only do what

1546
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:28,640
Speaker 1: I love, but serve others while doing it. It's like

1547
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 1: the it's it's like a beautiful mix that allows me

1548
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: to be who I authentically am at this while at

1549
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:40,719
Speaker 1: the same time giving back and contributing to society, making

1550
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 1: a difference in the lives of teachers who evidently make

1551
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 1: a difference in the lives of their students. That that

1552
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 1: is who I am, and that is how I think.

1553
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:52,800
Speaker 1: That is what I believe God to give to me

1554
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:55,720
Speaker 1: is to give to the world. Right. You know, when

1555
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:58,120
Speaker 1: I when I look at your HBCU grad I said

1556
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 1: that your curtis Hampton State University. You know, just tell

1557
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 1: you this, doctor, Dr Sean. I get a lot of

1558
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: HBCU Hampton guests on my show. I think it because

1559
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,960
Speaker 1: of the executive producer of the show. She graduated from

1560
01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:15,120
Speaker 1: Hampton University. I think, really she graduated and I seem

1561
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:20,200
Speaker 1: to get a lot of I'm not disappointed. At end

1562
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:22,879
Speaker 1: of the guests I'm just telling you straight out standing

1563
01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 1: guests like you come on my show from Happy University.

1564
01:29:25,439 --> 01:29:29,960
Speaker 1: But I think I think she's using my brand to

1565
01:29:30,120 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 1: promote the brand of Hampton University, which is an outstand

1566
01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:37,240
Speaker 1: at HBCU school. So tell us about your HBCU experience

1567
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:41,080
Speaker 1: and the value of attending a school like HBCU, school

1568
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: like Hampton University. Let me tell you something. Hampton University

1569
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:48,560
Speaker 1: is my family. I stand by it, and it was

1570
01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:52,040
Speaker 1: absolutely one of the best decisions I've ever made. The

1571
01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 1: reason that I ended up at Hampton or I grew

1572
01:29:56,080 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 1: up in New York and my father uh raising us

1573
01:30:01,080 --> 01:30:04,560
Speaker 1: in the church. He was a musician to Hampton University

1574
01:30:04,640 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 1: every year during the summer has Ministers and Musicians conference

1575
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 1: that my father attends all the time. He's the one

1576
01:30:11,479 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 1: that told me about Hampton University. And this goes back

1577
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 1: to what you mentioned earlier about kind of why how

1578
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 1: we can promote the idea of education to the youth.

1579
01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 1: I was never told in high school about HBCUs, about

1580
01:30:29,160 --> 01:30:33,320
Speaker 1: what schools like Hampton A and t Spellman Morehouse. I

1581
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:36,640
Speaker 1: would never exposed to those things other than what my

1582
01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:39,920
Speaker 1: family told me. And I'm so glad that my dad

1583
01:30:40,040 --> 01:30:42,719
Speaker 1: put that battery in my back at a young age

1584
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 1: to be aware of what Hampton was doing and how

1585
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:49,000
Speaker 1: it could benefit me. Uh. He took me down there

1586
01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:51,040
Speaker 1: to take the tour of the campus. We went as

1587
01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:54,200
Speaker 1: a family, my mom, my brothers, and after that we

1588
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,800
Speaker 1: you know, I have two uh younger siblings actually three

1589
01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:01,160
Speaker 1: excuse me, in that far HBCU attend and or graduates.

1590
01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 1: So like, this is something that I feel I was

1591
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 1: able to set an example for them because of what

1592
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: my dad and my mom showed me and my as

1593
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 1: we like to say, my matriculation that wonderful, you know,

1594
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 1: it was. It was life altering for me, if I

1595
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:24,000
Speaker 1: could say, because I mean what I've learned there, who

1596
01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:28,560
Speaker 1: I met, it was it was a microcosm of just

1597
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:35,080
Speaker 1: really love and education, um that you yearn for that

1598
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 1: you cannot get at another p w Y you can't

1599
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:43,519
Speaker 1: get that. I ask any HBCU crab and they'll tell

1600
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:46,639
Speaker 1: you about that family element that you just you can

1601
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:51,000
Speaker 1: you can imitate, but you can't duplicate that. I love it.

1602
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:54,360
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm talking to my man, Dr Sean Woodley.

1603
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:58,720
Speaker 1: He is a half the universe. The hbc U two

1604
01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:04,559
Speaker 1: thousand four bachelor is good. Huh. Two thousand four bachelor's degree,

1605
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 1: two thousand five master's degree, then followed up with his PhD.

1606
01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:10,639
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back and more, talking about his brand

1607
01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:13,400
Speaker 1: of education, his books, all those great things, and first

1608
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 1: of all, he know now about money main covers. You

1609
01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 1: know a lot of people call my show. They call,

1610
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 1: you know, people tell them it's to show the call.

1611
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:23,160
Speaker 1: But once they get here, I talked, they hear my past.

1612
01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 1: His brother right here, he's on my list now. So

1613
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:29,200
Speaker 1: when I called, when he when he called me to

1614
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:34,640
Speaker 1: be on this show, our absolutely with a Okay. They

1615
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: took me seven years to get my degree. Uh, I

1616
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:39,040
Speaker 1: was arrogant. I thought I'd be in and out. But

1617
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 1: what I did when I went to college, I was

1618
01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 1: just trying. I'm gonna tell you something, Dr Sean. I

1619
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:44,760
Speaker 1: was just trying to go to I was trying to

1620
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:48,120
Speaker 1: find an easy degree. Okay, the first four and a

1621
01:32:48,120 --> 01:32:50,360
Speaker 1: half yield. I was looking for the easy degree. My

1622
01:32:50,479 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: friends go, he's an easy teacher. He's an easy teacher.

1623
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:55,840
Speaker 1: I went to and when they had no symbtoms of

1624
01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:57,560
Speaker 1: what they had to do with my degree plan, I

1625
01:32:57,640 --> 01:33:00,720
Speaker 1: was trying to find easy teachers. I found them all,

1626
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 1: and then I found one easy teaching in physics that

1627
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 1: gave me an elf that woked me up. That woked

1628
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: me up because they realized that you have to work.

1629
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:12,479
Speaker 1: Life is about working hard and being consistent. And when

1630
01:33:12,479 --> 01:33:15,280
Speaker 1: I look at your brand, when you talk about education,

1631
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,760
Speaker 1: you have to be consistent and you have to create

1632
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 1: a model that people can believe it and can use

1633
01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:23,640
Speaker 1: to teach other people. Talk about your brain a little bit.

1634
01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:30,080
Speaker 1: Dr Sean Sure, Sure, I'm I am preach and teach, teach, hustle,

1635
01:33:30,160 --> 01:33:33,599
Speaker 1: inspire and and here's what it means. Teach, hustle, inspire

1636
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:37,519
Speaker 1: is not just three particular words that I randomly put

1637
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:40,479
Speaker 1: together and threw it up as a logo. They have

1638
01:33:41,200 --> 01:33:44,719
Speaker 1: intention behind each of those. When I talk about teach,

1639
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 1: it's about how we unlock our students and our own

1640
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:52,759
Speaker 1: intellectual treasure. That's what it means. How can we create

1641
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:57,880
Speaker 1: transformative learning experiences for ourselves, for our students in our classroom.

1642
01:33:58,280 --> 01:34:01,559
Speaker 1: That hustle park, That's that's my Favorit reports that hustle

1643
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:03,800
Speaker 1: is about how we can't stop that won't stop learning.

1644
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:06,680
Speaker 1: Mr McDonald see here, and it kind of has that

1645
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:10,640
Speaker 1: nineties dd bad boy vibe twins to it just a

1646
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 1: little bit. That's that's my personality in there, in there

1647
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:16,519
Speaker 1: a little bit. But how do we keep how do

1648
01:34:16,640 --> 01:34:18,800
Speaker 1: we stay on top of the current research, How do

1649
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:20,960
Speaker 1: we stay on top of what we need to know

1650
01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:26,759
Speaker 1: to continue because see, education don't stop, Education does not stop.

1651
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:29,600
Speaker 1: How do we continue to learn to be that the

1652
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:32,320
Speaker 1: best we can for ourselves and our students and that

1653
01:34:32,479 --> 01:34:36,760
Speaker 1: inspire it means to spread love and likely what we

1654
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 1: do with educators, that can be a thankless profession. Sometimes

1655
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:43,760
Speaker 1: with the inequities in the curriculums that we see, with

1656
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 1: the inequities and distribution of funds, we sometimes we feel

1657
01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 1: like we're all we have. So we have to be

1658
01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:53,280
Speaker 1: sure that we're spreading that love and like to one another,

1659
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:56,600
Speaker 1: pouring back into ourselves and taking care of ourselves so

1660
01:34:56,720 --> 01:34:58,840
Speaker 1: that we can take care of our families. You can't

1661
01:34:58,960 --> 01:35:02,840
Speaker 1: give from what out that. It's really amazing when I

1662
01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: when I think about it, you know, when we still

1663
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 1: talk about unequal education and we still talk about, you know,

1664
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:16,000
Speaker 1: denying people an opportunity to get an equal education, and

1665
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 1: that's usually tied to the community that you grow up

1666
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:21,519
Speaker 1: in and you're in Atlanta in the South, and you

1667
01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 1: know that that what you really was the reason we

1668
01:35:24,439 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: have HBCUs because it was a time where the southern

1669
01:35:28,360 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 1: schools wouldn't let a black person in the school and

1670
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:34,600
Speaker 1: then the northern school headquarters or limitations. So it was

1671
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 1: out of necessity that we had to create these hbc

1672
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 1: used which are now the backbone of education, especially for

1673
01:35:41,160 --> 01:35:44,280
Speaker 1: African American success stores in this country today. That's one

1674
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:47,280
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I take the time to be

1675
01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:51,400
Speaker 1: able to articulate the value and the need. Now when

1676
01:35:51,439 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 1: you talk about education and you you you broke down

1677
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,479
Speaker 1: the whole teach, hustle, inspiral, what is it all about?

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01:35:56,720 --> 01:35:58,960
Speaker 1: But how did they come about? You know what? What

1679
01:35:59,120 --> 01:36:02,280
Speaker 1: the what? What? What Launch did? Though? Dr Sean? What

1680
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:07,040
Speaker 1: Launch did? That came from a need for me to

1681
01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:11,519
Speaker 1: try and find a unique and creative way to pour

1682
01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 1: into the lives of educators and give back. I am.

1683
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm a speaker and consultant and you know all in

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01:36:21,040 --> 01:36:23,920
Speaker 1: the under the umbrella of educating that is that is

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01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:28,439
Speaker 1: what I do. I wanted to find something that could

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01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:32,519
Speaker 1: connect us in the education world, something especially those of

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01:36:32,640 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 1: us that serve in urban and culturally diverse communities because

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01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:39,760
Speaker 1: there are specific challenges that we are simply at a

1689
01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 1: fundamental level not prepared to deal with. And again it's

1690
01:36:44,439 --> 01:36:47,080
Speaker 1: not because something is wrong, it's just that we are

1691
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:51,720
Speaker 1: not prepared. So I created this with the mind with

1692
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 1: the mindset of how can I help prepare dedicated and

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01:36:56,560 --> 01:37:01,760
Speaker 1: talented educators to face the lenges that can arise in

1694
01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 1: urban and culturally diverse communities so that we can now

1695
01:37:06,160 --> 01:37:09,800
Speaker 1: move this agenda forward and balance these scales a little bit.

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01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:14,280
Speaker 1: But it really just came from my desire to what

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01:37:14,520 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 1: to serve, to want to unite and start a movement,

1698
01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: and I just it's it's not something that I just

1699
01:37:21,080 --> 01:37:24,479
Speaker 1: thought of one particular day to teach hustle inspire kind

1700
01:37:24,479 --> 01:37:28,000
Speaker 1: of it seems like it came out of nowhere. But

1701
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:32,679
Speaker 1: what you're seeing are the results of years, years of research,

1702
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:39,479
Speaker 1: years of practice, and years of trial error, failing, fail again,

1703
01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:42,960
Speaker 1: fail forward, fail some more, try it again. That's what

1704
01:37:43,120 --> 01:37:46,040
Speaker 1: you're seeing now are the results of that. And this

1705
01:37:46,240 --> 01:37:49,280
Speaker 1: is just the beginning. That's that's powerful words UM and

1706
01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:52,120
Speaker 1: so those are some of the when you say obstacles,

1707
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:54,200
Speaker 1: you know it's one of the course over to me,

1708
01:37:54,880 --> 01:38:01,759
Speaker 1: ums are the obstacles, Uh, disbelievers are obstacles yourself, sometimes

1709
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:05,799
Speaker 1: doubting whether it is this will be received. What exactly

1710
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:10,480
Speaker 1: are the obstacles that you're talking about. Some of the obstacles,

1711
01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 1: UM definitely do come in the form of self sabotage

1712
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:22,120
Speaker 1: and questioning whether or not you are the one that

1713
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:25,280
Speaker 1: should be doing this. As far as t hustle inspire,

1714
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:30,240
Speaker 1: inspire is concerned that that can the obstacles can start

1715
01:38:30,360 --> 01:38:33,320
Speaker 1: from within. And if I am not careful, if I

1716
01:38:33,400 --> 01:38:36,960
Speaker 1: am not emotionally aware enough to examine that it is

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01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:41,320
Speaker 1: nothing more than just self sabotage and that I can overcome,

1718
01:38:41,400 --> 01:38:45,360
Speaker 1: that it can be something that consumes me. But my

1719
01:38:45,640 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: passion and desire and understanding to know that I'm called

1720
01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 1: to do this outweighs those obstacles and makes them speed

1721
01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:57,519
Speaker 1: bumps at the post hurdles. So now what I can

1722
01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:00,880
Speaker 1: do is with the understand thing that and not to

1723
01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:04,160
Speaker 1: get churchy on you. But God doesn't call to qualify,

1724
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:07,840
Speaker 1: He qualifies the call. I understand that this is a

1725
01:39:07,960 --> 01:39:10,920
Speaker 1: mission for me, and now I'm growing, and that as

1726
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:12,680
Speaker 1: long as I stay true to who I am and

1727
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 1: what the Good Lord has for me, I can't tell us,

1728
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: Oh no, you won't, you won't. That's why I set

1729
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:20,720
Speaker 1: up this show. My friend is passionate driven, and the

1730
01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:24,120
Speaker 1: information that I give through my faith and through my passion,

1731
01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:27,280
Speaker 1: I educate people who listen and follow my brand. So

1732
01:39:27,439 --> 01:39:29,680
Speaker 1: we're on the same page. Now, tell us about your

1733
01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:34,760
Speaker 1: art coming um conference for urban educators. Sure. Sure. I

1734
01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 1: wanted to create a unique experience called the super Teachers Summit.

1735
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:43,800
Speaker 1: And what happens is this is going to be a

1736
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:47,560
Speaker 1: unique online virtual event. We we you know, we have

1737
01:39:47,720 --> 01:39:53,120
Speaker 1: to be cautious with everything happening coronavirus wise, about large

1738
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:56,800
Speaker 1: gatherings and so forth, but that still doesn't put a

1739
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:58,840
Speaker 1: stop on the work that needs to be done because

1740
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:02,000
Speaker 1: come August, except Timber, there are still children that are

1741
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:04,479
Speaker 1: going to need to be educated. So I wanted to

1742
01:40:04,600 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 1: come up with a unique way to garner educators attention

1743
01:40:09,400 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 1: to help solve some of the problems that they will

1744
01:40:12,360 --> 01:40:15,680
Speaker 1: inevitably face. And I created this unique event to be

1745
01:40:15,760 --> 01:40:22,240
Speaker 1: an online, interactive, virtual experience, more than just someone sitting

1746
01:40:22,280 --> 01:40:25,679
Speaker 1: in front of a screen and then now alright, everything

1747
01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:27,880
Speaker 1: is going in one ear and out of the other.

1748
01:40:28,360 --> 01:40:31,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to make this a little bit more than

1749
01:40:31,320 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 1: simply just your average teacher conference, if you will, And

1750
01:40:36,439 --> 01:40:40,160
Speaker 1: so I I gave it a theme. I embedded some

1751
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 1: of the research and some phenomenal speakers that I know

1752
01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:46,080
Speaker 1: of that are really doing the work in this field.

1753
01:40:46,479 --> 01:40:48,880
Speaker 1: And I'm putting together what I know will be a

1754
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:54,559
Speaker 1: Dynamites event in August. So is there a set date

1755
01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 1: for August yet or just August? Still planning, still planning.

1756
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 1: It's going to be the first weekend in Orgust. Do

1757
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:01,960
Speaker 1: you want to make sure I want to be a

1758
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:04,040
Speaker 1: part of that. Whatever I can do to promote it

1759
01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:06,880
Speaker 1: through my social or my newsletter goes a weekly every

1760
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:10,160
Speaker 1: Friday at nine am, I'll make you're part of that conversation.

1761
01:41:10,439 --> 01:41:11,639
Speaker 1: Before I was a couple of things. But I want

1762
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:13,600
Speaker 1: to talk to about before we leaves. I wanted I

1763
01:41:13,760 --> 01:41:16,559
Speaker 1: did not read your best selling book MC means Move

1764
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:19,559
Speaker 1: the class, How the spark engagement and motivation and urban

1765
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:22,559
Speaker 1: and culturally diverse classroom? Tell us about that? And then

1766
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:25,000
Speaker 1: I also want to close and response from you about

1767
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:29,120
Speaker 1: what's going on in America right now. Okay, absolutely, the

1768
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:33,360
Speaker 1: book for me came from my experiences teaching. I spent

1769
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:38,640
Speaker 1: ten years teaching in urban schools, and while doing that,

1770
01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:42,560
Speaker 1: because I was I knew that there were things that

1771
01:41:42,600 --> 01:41:44,880
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. I had a side hustle at

1772
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:48,160
Speaker 1: the DJ. So literally Ms McDonald, I would pull up

1773
01:41:48,200 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: to the schoolyard and teach during the day and being

1774
01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:52,920
Speaker 1: the club at night with my turn tables in the

1775
01:41:53,320 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 1: literally and it was it was so fun. Yeah, I mean,

1776
01:41:57,400 --> 01:42:02,240
Speaker 1: you talk about parties, club weddings, bar miths was barbecues.

1777
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:04,880
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if they had if they were paying

1778
01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:08,800
Speaker 1: and needed music services. I was in there. And so

1779
01:42:09,479 --> 01:42:12,240
Speaker 1: what I began to notice is that I was growing

1780
01:42:12,960 --> 01:42:17,800
Speaker 1: as a DJ and growing as an educator simultaneously, and

1781
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:25,680
Speaker 1: some coincidental not my coincidental, some emerging commonalities started to

1782
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:29,719
Speaker 1: really make a way about both professions, about being a teacher,

1783
01:42:30,160 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: about being in DJ, and so really that that mc see,

1784
01:42:34,400 --> 01:42:36,519
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day when I grew, I

1785
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:39,000
Speaker 1: grew up on Long Island and Eric being rock camp

1786
01:42:40,040 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 1: had from Eric B as president the song um excuse

1787
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:47,360
Speaker 1: me um, Eric B as president, not second verse where

1788
01:42:47,400 --> 01:42:51,040
Speaker 1: our cam talks about Eric B on the cut scratching

1789
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:54,920
Speaker 1: the medicine no mistakes allowed, because to me MC means

1790
01:42:55,120 --> 01:42:58,840
Speaker 1: moved the crowd and that line always stuck to me.

1791
01:42:59,320 --> 01:43:01,800
Speaker 1: It really because what stands out about that is what

1792
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 1: rock Him was telling us is that his his role

1793
01:43:05,760 --> 01:43:08,240
Speaker 1: as an m C it's it's not just a position,

1794
01:43:08,280 --> 01:43:12,640
Speaker 1: it's a responsibility. Mr McDonald. That's that's my responsibility to

1795
01:43:12,720 --> 01:43:15,280
Speaker 1: move this crowd. So I took that and and with

1796
01:43:15,560 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 1: that same mindset, it's my responsibility to move this class

1797
01:43:19,960 --> 01:43:23,519
Speaker 1: and as a DJ, as a as a teacher. You know,

1798
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:27,000
Speaker 1: in both roles, I'm a motivator. I am the reason

1799
01:43:27,320 --> 01:43:29,640
Speaker 1: that you're going to in this club dance, or I'm

1800
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:32,760
Speaker 1: the reason in this classroom you're going to learn. In

1801
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:37,600
Speaker 1: both roles, I curate specific content so that when in

1802
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:40,440
Speaker 1: the timing of winning his place to create an absolute

1803
01:43:40,600 --> 01:43:44,040
Speaker 1: experience for either the people in the club or the

1804
01:43:44,120 --> 01:43:48,599
Speaker 1: students in my classroom, making real time decisions, making sure

1805
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:51,439
Speaker 1: that I am on top of everything, and making sure

1806
01:43:51,520 --> 01:43:56,640
Speaker 1: that I can change when needed, making those adjustments to

1807
01:43:56,840 --> 01:43:59,719
Speaker 1: really read the crowd and feed off of that energy.

1808
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:06,200
Speaker 1: It becomes sick. Wow, that's hot. You know that's hot

1809
01:44:06,280 --> 01:44:09,280
Speaker 1: because I hear the passion, I hear the planning out here.

1810
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:11,920
Speaker 1: It's a it's authentic, that's what I hear the most doctor,

1811
01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:15,639
Speaker 1: and that's why, that's why, that's why it works, because

1812
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:18,599
Speaker 1: it's not something you made up. It's tied to a journey.

1813
01:44:19,160 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 1: You know. The journey in the world that we're living

1814
01:44:21,400 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 1: in right now is um I did an interview this

1815
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:27,240
Speaker 1: morning and I was telling them that one out of

1816
01:44:27,360 --> 01:44:31,599
Speaker 1: one thousand black men and boys will be killed by

1817
01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:35,519
Speaker 1: a police officer. That's one out of one thousand. That's

1818
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:38,639
Speaker 1: two point five times higher than white men and white boys.

1819
01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:43,760
Speaker 1: And when people ask us, why, why the unrest, why

1820
01:44:43,840 --> 01:44:55,679
Speaker 1: the protests, what is your response? Dr Shaun Woodley? Hello,

1821
01:45:00,040 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 1: do you cannot tell the oppressed? Essentially, It's been quoted

1822
01:45:04,240 --> 01:45:06,080
Speaker 1: and said so many times, but you can't tell the

1823
01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:10,320
Speaker 1: oppressed how to respond to their oppression. You can't do that.

1824
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 1: What you're seeing are the results of years of years

1825
01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 1: and years, hundreds of years of outcries, hundreds of years

1826
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:22,760
Speaker 1: of just simply making a plea not to be treated better,

1827
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 1: Mr McDonald, for being treated the same. That's all we want, Yes,

1828
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:28,960
Speaker 1: that's that's at the end of the day. We just

1829
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:31,760
Speaker 1: wanted to be treated the same. And so now what

1830
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:37,479
Speaker 1: has resulted from that is the the emotional outburst of

1831
01:45:37,560 --> 01:45:40,720
Speaker 1: the people that has been held down far too long. Absolutely,

1832
01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:42,760
Speaker 1: I always tell people I just want my child to

1833
01:45:42,800 --> 01:45:44,960
Speaker 1: have a better life than our hands. And I think

1834
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:47,439
Speaker 1: that anybody who's not my color wants the same thing.

1835
01:45:47,840 --> 01:45:50,160
Speaker 1: So just give me my shot. But when I'm stopped by,

1836
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:53,360
Speaker 1: at least don't allow a lobby not to be afraid. Now,

1837
01:45:53,400 --> 01:45:55,519
Speaker 1: allow me to not believe that this might be a

1838
01:45:55,560 --> 01:45:58,439
Speaker 1: stop I might not drive away from. That's all I'm asking.

1839
01:45:59,080 --> 01:46:01,320
Speaker 1: And when I say one out of one thousand, that's

1840
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: an incredible number. Two publicly say this documented story came

1841
01:46:06,240 --> 01:46:08,120
Speaker 1: out of the Los Angeles time. I read it and

1842
01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:11,559
Speaker 1: been have and I've been horrified ever since. Dr Sean

1843
01:46:11,600 --> 01:46:13,639
Speaker 1: would let I hope you enjoyed coming on my show.

1844
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:16,360
Speaker 1: It's a it's a journey. It's a journey about it's

1845
01:46:16,360 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: your journey. I wanted to share with my listeners on

1846
01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 1: money making conversations and no, you have a friend and

1847
01:46:21,520 --> 01:46:23,479
Speaker 1: uh and when the when the conference comes out, the

1848
01:46:23,640 --> 01:46:26,639
Speaker 1: Urban Educator's Conference comes out in August, if you want

1849
01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:28,600
Speaker 1: to come back, the doors open, if you want to

1850
01:46:28,680 --> 01:46:31,519
Speaker 1: just send banners, the doors open. And I would promise you.

1851
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:33,960
Speaker 1: I promoted in my news letter which goes out to

1852
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:37,240
Speaker 1: ninety thousand people every Friday at nine am, and I

1853
01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:39,759
Speaker 1: put it on my social media for money making conversations.

1854
01:46:39,760 --> 01:46:43,000
Speaker 1: I would love that. Thank you so much, Thank you

1855
01:46:43,040 --> 01:46:46,960
Speaker 1: for coming to my show. What grows in the Forest trees?

1856
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Speaker 1: Sure you know what else? Girls in the forest? Our imagination,

1857
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Speaker 1: our sense of wonder, and our family bonds grow too,

1858
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Speaker 1: because when we disconnect from this and connect with this,

1859
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Speaker 1: we reconnect with each other. The forest is closer than

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Speaker 1: you think. Find a forest near you and start exploring.

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Speaker 1: and see a tree. They see the wrinkled face of

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Speaker 1: a wizard with arms outstretched to the sky. They see

1867
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Speaker 1: treasure in pebbles, They see a windy path that could

1868
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Speaker 1: is a comedy legend. I could only put it like that.

1881
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Speaker 1: He is a legend. I had a good fortune of

1882
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Speaker 1: meeting him several times when I managed Steve Harvey, and

1883
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Speaker 1: he made a surprise visit on stage when I was

1884
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Speaker 1: producing BT's Comic Views, so I know him well. He

1885
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Speaker 1: It for Half, I saw twice as brilliantly funny. He's

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur with restaurants based on authentic Mexican cuisine from

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Speaker 1: his grandmother's traditional recipes. He has toured with some of

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Speaker 1: my favorite comedians like Adie Griffin, D. L. Hugley and

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Speaker 1: Cedric the Entertainer, And mostly importantly, he is a trailblazer.

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Speaker 1: When he's started his self produced ABC sitcom, he stand

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Speaker 1: up comedy specials, examins race, ethnic relations, and especially the

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Speaker 1: Mexican American culture. Please welcome to money making Conversations, my man,

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Speaker 1: George Lopez. How are your voice? Man? You know? Uh,

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Speaker 1: I saw this specially to me a little links so

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Speaker 1: I can see it early. Is I want to make

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Speaker 1: sure I saw it before I interviewed you. And uh,

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Speaker 1: how you did to Joe it? Okay? First of all,

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Speaker 1: what somebody calls you a comedy legend? What is that?

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Speaker 1: How do you feel with somebody says that about you?

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean it's it's so if they were

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Speaker 1: if there were doctors, you know, there's so many different

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Speaker 1: doctors and different in different variety of fields. You know,

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Speaker 1: so someone would say, you know, he's a scientist, he's

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Speaker 1: a biotech science, he's a heart doctor, he's a brain surgeony,

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Speaker 1: this guy's a dentist. This guy's a general practitioner O B.

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Speaker 1: G y N you know, oncologist. So I look at

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Speaker 1: myself as almost a bit of a multi faceted doctor.

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Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that on this sporting

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Speaker 1: one year journey that I did. You know, I grew

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Speaker 1: up very alone. I grew up without a male figure.

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Speaker 1: I never knew my father, I didn't know my mother.

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Speaker 1: My grandparents were very you know, removed from me, and

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Speaker 1: you know, there was just something growing up that made

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Speaker 1: me feel like I was different than everybody else, not better,

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Speaker 1: just different. And I couldn't put my finger on it,

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Speaker 1: but it was that feeling of being different or having

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Speaker 1: a better instinct than everybody that surrounded me that made

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Speaker 1: me do something that was probably the most terrifying thing

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Speaker 1: anybody could ever do, and do it for years without

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Speaker 1: ever seeing any improvement. So legend in the mind of

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Speaker 1: of of the people, but just somebody who you know,

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Speaker 1: worked hard to create a different narrative than the narrative

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Speaker 1: that I saw. I let me tell you some being

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Speaker 1: a former stand up comic, did they have comedy jam

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Speaker 1: did all the all the comedy specials? Myself, I've been

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Speaker 1: blessed like that. So when I saw your special, and

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Speaker 1: I've seen your specials in the in the past, where

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Speaker 1: one of your funny, but all these specials are funny,

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Speaker 1: one of them that really made me laugh with when you,

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Speaker 1: I think Cedric entertained was backstage and when you ended

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Speaker 1: this show, you crawled through your your name to get

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Speaker 1: off stage. Man, that last so hard on that with

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Speaker 1: Joe Hodge. What was running through your mind? That was funny, dude? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know we that that one. We did live at

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Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center. I was there for Eddie Murphy's March Twain.

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Speaker 1: And then as I stood there and I got a

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Speaker 1: couple of jokes off and I got a huge response,

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, if I'm gonna do my HBO,

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Speaker 1: specially they wanted to do it and broad Away you

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Speaker 1: couldn't find a theater. But then being there at Eddie Place,

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, like this room, it's a perfect size,

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Speaker 1: it's a great place. You know. Politically where we were

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Speaker 1: with the wall and then everybody was a shade of

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Speaker 1: having the American flag upside down because upside down means distress.

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Speaker 1: And as we had a meeting months before the production,

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Speaker 1: because I had to start to build the set, we

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Speaker 1: were under an agreement that the director, Troy Miller, who's

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Speaker 1: an incredible director, to the arrest of development crazy stuff,

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Speaker 1: that we told him that we weren't gonna put the

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Speaker 1: flag upside down, but he said, hell, no, man, We're

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Speaker 1: putting the flag upside down. So it wasn't until I

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Speaker 1: got there that day to rehearse that. We noticed that

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Speaker 1: the flag was upside down, and then he said, hey, Jean,

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Speaker 1: you know at the end of your show, you should

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Speaker 1: crawl under the wall here. I said, under that, yeah said,

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Speaker 1: and and I did it about it, man, I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you so. Man, I laughed so I wouldn't grab my

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Speaker 1: wife and played that back to look at this food.

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Speaker 1: He he crawled under his name under the wall, and

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Speaker 1: then backstage said he was laughing bad. That was just

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, legendary stuff, man, because that's

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Speaker 1: a stand up you know. I know the pressure it

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Speaker 1: takes to be able to go on stage be original.

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Speaker 1: And when I look at you, when I watched this special, man,

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Speaker 1: this is my This is what I say about stand up.

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Speaker 1: When I look at a special, I go wow, I

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Speaker 1: would never thought of that joke. I wouldn't never thought

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Speaker 1: that joke. And that that's your special, man, and in

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Speaker 1: its own Netflix, and it's your very first one on

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Speaker 1: them Netflix. And we'll do it for half and and

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Speaker 1: just tell us about the whole process of getting it

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Speaker 1: over to Netflix and and taping it in San Francisco. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, let me say, let me say this before

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Speaker 1: you because you just stand up. So one thing I

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Speaker 1: think inherited and everyone is some people everybody has a

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Speaker 1: sense of humor, whether they take themselves too serious, or

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Speaker 1: they need to lighten up, or they're dry. One of

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Speaker 1: the things about about comedy and comedians is even the

1980
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Speaker 1: odds of even getting a little bit of light shown

1981
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Speaker 1: on you is so nearly impossible. But you know, there's

1982
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Speaker 1: so many guys that I saw growing up, and that

1983
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Speaker 1: I saw in the clubs in the eighties, nineties, in

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Speaker 1: the last twenty years that were so good, that we're

1985
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Speaker 1: so clever, that we're great writers, and whatever fortune, whatever fate,

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Speaker 1: didn't let anything shine on those guys. And as as

1987
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Speaker 1: much as the world needs drafter, there's a whole group

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Speaker 1: of idiots who are incredibly funny that no one will

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Speaker 1: ever hear of. That's why whatever you do, do it

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Speaker 1: because you love it. Because you know there's no guarantee

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Speaker 1: that you're not gonna be one of those cats that

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Speaker 1: gets any love. But if you feel good about what

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Speaker 1: you do, then that's already becoming a success. You know successes,

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Speaker 1: and like everybody knows your name, people see you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that's great. But the one thing is that you

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Speaker 1: never loosen You're never loosening your grip on something that

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Speaker 1: you can't really get a grip on, Like I think

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Speaker 1: you work harder when you get a little love and

1999
01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:36,960
Speaker 1: you start to do theaters and you start to do

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Speaker 1: arena and you start to meet the people that you

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Speaker 1: started to to meet on the way up. I've seen

2002
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys stayed out, but I always work

2003
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Speaker 1: the hardest when I had my show, when I had

2004
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Speaker 1: my top show, when I had the specials. So it's

2005
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Speaker 1: just been something that I've never been able to relinquish.

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Speaker 1: So going to San Francisco and go into the war

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Speaker 1: Field and knowing the history of it, knowing that Jimmy

2008
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Speaker 1: Henders lay there, Janni's, Joplin, Santana, the Ravana, the gates,

2009
01:55:03,720 --> 01:55:07,560
Speaker 1: your bed, everybody that's anybody's been in there, and you

2010
01:55:07,640 --> 01:55:10,960
Speaker 1: know you can do it anywhere, but when you do

2011
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Speaker 1: it in a place that has historical significant. Going to

2012
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Speaker 1: be Apollo. Chris Spencer asked me to do this thing

2013
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Speaker 1: at the Apollo, and going there. It may not mean

2014
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Speaker 1: anything to anybody else, that's not for me to decide,

2015
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Speaker 1: But what it meant to me to be on stage

2016
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Speaker 1: with the Apollo to go to the road thill to

2017
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Speaker 1: go do Radio City is beyond you know, anybody's true

2018
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Speaker 1: imagination or level of appreciation. I'm just I'm just kind

2019
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Speaker 1: of honored to be able to do the things that

2020
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Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do, you know, And and and

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Speaker 1: thank you for explaining that, because I remember I was

2022
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Speaker 1: producing bats Comic View and you may not even remember this,

2023
01:55:50,240 --> 01:55:53,120
Speaker 1: and the Anthony Brown was hosting that that run Betis

2024
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Speaker 1: Comic View and you came and uh, and we're trying

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Speaker 1: to get you to go on stage. Oh no, it's

2026
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Speaker 1: not my thing. It's not my thing, you know, as y'all.

2027
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Speaker 1: I'm just here to watch and just wash everybody good luck.

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Speaker 1: And I remember we got you to go on stage,

2029
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Speaker 1: and you walked on stage, we introduced you, and the

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Speaker 1: whole room of black people stood up and gave you

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Speaker 1: a standard ovation. And that to me, you know, because

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Speaker 1: you know, you're always famous with your group, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you know, like jeffs I felt he famous with

2034
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Speaker 1: his crowd, and you know, and you you established your

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Speaker 1: brand of just being a funny guy. But in my mind,

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Speaker 1: the mex American culture was your was your was your

2037
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Speaker 1: home rock. And when I walked when I saw you

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Speaker 1: walk out that charge, and these black people stood off

2039
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Speaker 1: because you know, black people just like Hispanics, you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't they don't give it up unless they respect it, okay.

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Speaker 1: And when they walked out there and gave you a

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Speaker 1: standard ovation, man, I went, this dude got it, man,

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Speaker 1: he got something extra going on in his life. And

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Speaker 1: I just I just That's why I called you a legend, man,

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Speaker 1: because when you cross all these different lanes man with respect,

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Speaker 1: that's beautiful, dude, that's beautiful. You know. You know I

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Speaker 1: was my grandmother raised me. My grandmother was in my

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Speaker 1: that would say, you know, my grandmother was was actually insensitive,

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01:57:03,200 --> 01:57:06,960
Speaker 1: like like your grandmother's and everybody's grandmothers recially insensitive. So

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Speaker 1: part of my material is about her relationship with African

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Speaker 1: American people and then coming to the door, not opening

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01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:18,520
Speaker 1: the door, her relationship with black people, saying you know what,

2053
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Speaker 1: Like I said, I said, my first girlfriend, here's a

2054
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Speaker 1: here's a true story. And it hurts and it's still

2055
01:57:26,440 --> 01:57:29,200
Speaker 1: funny to this day. Like when I was in seventh grade,

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Speaker 1: there was this girl that looked like get Christie Love.

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Speaker 1: She was in seventh grade. Her name was Christina Husky fro,

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Speaker 1: light skinned, tall, beautiful, and she liked me, and all

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Speaker 1: my friends gave me a hard time, and I would

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Speaker 1: walk with her to class and and I, you know,

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Speaker 1: I dug her and she was cool. She lived on

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Speaker 1: the other side of the street from where I lived,

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Speaker 1: the main street, And one day I was walking home

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Speaker 1: with her and my grandmother, I guess must have got

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Speaker 1: off work early and saw me and roll the one

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Speaker 1: down and hunkle horn and did a U turn on

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Speaker 1: San Frando mission, roll the window down and said, hey, shat,

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Speaker 1: which your ass home? To call me shat? When I

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01:58:11,120 --> 01:58:14,240
Speaker 1: was walking with this African American girl, i' how to funk? You?

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01:58:14,320 --> 01:58:16,840
Speaker 1: You what? Who shaft was? But she's like a shot

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Speaker 1: get home, you know? And she fripped out. So I said,

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Speaker 1: so what what if I like the black girl? So oh,

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Speaker 1: I no, No, I said, what what? What? Why? Why

2074
01:58:25,840 --> 01:58:28,760
Speaker 1: is it your concerned? She goes, because I don't like her?

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01:58:28,880 --> 01:58:30,880
Speaker 1: And if you do, they're gonna see me with you,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna think I like him and I don't.

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01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:35,760
Speaker 1: I mean That's how she thought. And then and then

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Speaker 1: and then in school, Christina came over to me one

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01:58:39,680 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 1: day and said she didn't feel that I should spend

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Speaker 1: any more time with her because people wouldn't get it,

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01:58:45,200 --> 01:58:48,200
Speaker 1: and it was just becoming an issue, and and and

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Speaker 1: we I never walked her to class. I never walked

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Speaker 1: her home from school after that. And you know, when

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01:58:53,840 --> 01:58:56,400
Speaker 1: I was a young kid, still made quite an impression

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01:58:56,480 --> 01:58:59,600
Speaker 1: on me. But um, you know, in order to look

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Speaker 1: at end up as all of the stand up, being

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01:59:03,680 --> 01:59:07,600
Speaker 1: racially insensitive to different groups, especially Latinos, was part of

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01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:11,280
Speaker 1: my mix. So you can't pull one thing out and say,

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01:59:11,360 --> 01:59:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, he's racist towards African American people when I've

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01:59:14,040 --> 01:59:16,840
Speaker 1: said worst things about everybody else. One of the things

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01:59:16,960 --> 01:59:20,760
Speaker 1: that made Richard Pryor, or did Gregory or you know,

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Speaker 1: George Carlin, or made anybody you Steve Cedric d l

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01:59:26,280 --> 01:59:30,160
Speaker 1: Eddie Griffin, who makes anybody anything is not if you're

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01:59:30,160 --> 01:59:33,480
Speaker 1: gonna shoot the gun, shoot the gun. Don't hold the

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Speaker 1: gun and not shoot it. Then put the gun down.

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01:59:36,280 --> 01:59:39,400
Speaker 1: So in comedy, if you're gonna take the shot, take

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01:59:39,480 --> 01:59:43,120
Speaker 1: the shot. Don't dance around the shot. Don't don't don't

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01:59:43,280 --> 01:59:46,160
Speaker 1: don't hamm and hall. Don't look at an audience and

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01:59:46,240 --> 01:59:48,680
Speaker 1: say I can't do that. You know, there's so many

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01:59:48,720 --> 01:59:51,320
Speaker 1: people that I can't do that. The honesty is who

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01:59:51,400 --> 01:59:54,920
Speaker 1: gets the respect and and the legacy is somebody never

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Speaker 1: pulling a punch. Now I'm talking to George Lopez, the

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01:59:58,240 --> 02:00:01,400
Speaker 1: brilliant George lopayers. He has a Netflix special that's coming

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02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:04,960
Speaker 1: out of June Tuesday, June thirtie. It's called We'll Do

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02:00:05,080 --> 02:00:08,040
Speaker 1: It for Half. We'll Do It for Half. When I

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02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:10,000
Speaker 1: started your interview, George, I told you I watched your

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Speaker 1: special twice, okay, and this is why I watched this.

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Speaker 1: But first of all, I enjoyed it. And then I remember,

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Speaker 1: you know, as we all were in the beginning, we

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02:00:18,360 --> 02:00:20,240
Speaker 1: just won't get a stage, so we tell some jokes

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02:00:20,280 --> 02:00:22,120
Speaker 1: so we could be funny. That's the goal, just to

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Speaker 1: be funny. Go from the opener to a middle act

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02:00:24,880 --> 02:00:27,080
Speaker 1: to a headline, to get that get that first class

2114
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:29,480
Speaker 1: ticket and you you're traveling, and all that good stuff

2115
02:00:29,480 --> 02:00:32,000
Speaker 1: and anything else that comes along is a blessing. Okay,

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02:00:32,080 --> 02:00:33,760
Speaker 1: that's stuff that's the life of a stand up of

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02:00:34,080 --> 02:00:37,360
Speaker 1: the average stand up comic in this country right now. Now,

2118
02:00:38,240 --> 02:00:41,920
Speaker 1: then I want your website, and I saw your brand,

2119
02:00:42,280 --> 02:00:48,320
Speaker 1: I saw restaurants, I saw blue halls, I saw your foundation,

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02:00:49,000 --> 02:00:52,920
Speaker 1: I saw COVID nineteen face mask. I so we can't

2121
02:00:52,960 --> 02:00:56,360
Speaker 1: breathe T shirts and so so now when I look

2122
02:00:56,400 --> 02:00:58,120
Speaker 1: and I said, then, then I looked at your special

2123
02:00:58,200 --> 02:01:01,800
Speaker 1: again and I put into perspective all that weight that

2124
02:01:01,920 --> 02:01:05,600
Speaker 1: you're now carrying on stage with you now when you're performing.

2125
02:01:05,840 --> 02:01:07,880
Speaker 1: So in the beginning, you didn't carry all that weight.

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02:01:08,000 --> 02:01:12,560
Speaker 1: Employees and COVID and eighteen and all that stuff. All

2127
02:01:12,640 --> 02:01:15,600
Speaker 1: that's going on stage with you now, and that's a

2128
02:01:15,640 --> 02:01:18,000
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand that. To be funny man

2129
02:01:18,160 --> 02:01:22,480
Speaker 1: under that amount of global understanding. Gave me a truly

2130
02:01:22,600 --> 02:01:26,040
Speaker 1: different perspective and appreciated your comment even more when I

2131
02:01:26,080 --> 02:01:28,160
Speaker 1: saw it the second time. You understand where I'm coming from.

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02:01:29,840 --> 02:01:35,400
Speaker 1: It's absolutely you know, um uh, I think everybody like me.

2133
02:01:35,720 --> 02:01:38,240
Speaker 1: When my show started. You know, my show wasn't a

2134
02:01:38,480 --> 02:01:41,400
Speaker 1: huge shit, but it did a hundred and twenty episodes.

2135
02:01:41,480 --> 02:01:43,560
Speaker 1: That did you know five and a half years on ABC,

2136
02:01:44,280 --> 02:01:46,320
Speaker 1: which I had a company, But that was the family

2137
02:01:46,440 --> 02:01:49,000
Speaker 1: show with an edge. But I'm gonna tell you right

2138
02:01:49,040 --> 02:01:52,640
Speaker 1: now that I lost a lot of people, including people

2139
02:01:52,960 --> 02:01:56,160
Speaker 1: when I started to vocalize and I started to have

2140
02:01:56,360 --> 02:01:59,840
Speaker 1: my opinion on issues, but also at the Grammys and

2141
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:02,640
Speaker 1: two thousand eight Senator two thousand and eight. The election

2142
02:02:02,760 --> 02:02:05,960
Speaker 1: was in November of eight. Chris Rock called me on

2143
02:02:06,080 --> 02:02:09,000
Speaker 1: a Monday after the Grammars had said, can I give

2144
02:02:09,040 --> 02:02:13,040
Speaker 1: Barack Obama your telephone number because he wants to ask you,

2145
02:02:13,680 --> 02:02:16,920
Speaker 1: you know, something about your support Hillary Clinton's office had

2146
02:02:16,960 --> 02:02:23,720
Speaker 1: sent a fact to the office, very impersonal, and I said, sure.

2147
02:02:24,320 --> 02:02:29,800
Speaker 1: So I'm watching CNN at one fifty two. Barack Obama's campaigning,

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Speaker 1: he's a senator, and it's a one fifty five and

2149
02:02:32,720 --> 02:02:35,760
Speaker 1: he's leaving. And I said, there's no way that this

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02:02:35,960 --> 02:02:38,560
Speaker 1: guy is gonna call me at two o'clock. If I'm

2151
02:02:38,600 --> 02:02:42,200
Speaker 1: watching CNN and he's leaving an event, there's no way

2152
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Speaker 1: call call at two thirty or three two o'clock. Phone

2153
02:02:46,560 --> 02:02:51,480
Speaker 1: rings low, Uh, George Alta, Yes, hold for the Senator.

2154
02:02:51,680 --> 02:02:55,080
Speaker 1: Garri's Barack Obama. Hey, I saw the Yeah, yeah, I said.

2155
02:02:55,120 --> 02:02:57,040
Speaker 1: He said, listen, I don't know where you are politically,

2156
02:02:57,880 --> 02:02:59,680
Speaker 1: but you know Latino vote means a lot to me.

2157
02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:02,400
Speaker 1: I think the communities have a lot in common. I said, listen, man,

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02:03:02,480 --> 02:03:05,920
Speaker 1: you know I will help you. And then I did

2159
02:03:06,160 --> 02:03:11,320
Speaker 1: what maybe was the most difficult thing to do in Texas,

2160
02:03:11,440 --> 02:03:14,200
Speaker 1: in South Texas is I would go to these theaters

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02:03:14,560 --> 02:03:16,720
Speaker 1: and people would be lined up to see me twice

2162
02:03:16,760 --> 02:03:19,200
Speaker 1: in an afternoon. I would talk about half an hour

2163
02:03:19,320 --> 02:03:21,520
Speaker 1: to be a political to mayor, and they'd be some

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02:03:21,600 --> 02:03:24,280
Speaker 1: political speeches, and I would go to a half hour,

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Speaker 1: maybe four or five minutes, and then I would say

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Speaker 1: that I'm gonna support a Barack Obama. And they would

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02:03:30,280 --> 02:03:34,240
Speaker 1: boo and they would yell and they would hiss, and

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Speaker 1: I would be like, listen, listen, listen this, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: hang out a second. They would walk out on me,

2170
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Speaker 1: and and I kept on the message. I stayed and

2171
02:03:42,760 --> 02:03:44,880
Speaker 1: I started to say, listen, you know, I will vote

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Speaker 1: for somebody just because she's not African American. And that's

2173
02:03:48,800 --> 02:03:50,920
Speaker 1: how you go by the same beer every time because

2174
02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:53,760
Speaker 1: your dad brought it, bought it, by the same soup

2175
02:03:53,800 --> 02:03:56,200
Speaker 1: because your mom bought it. I said, there's choices, and

2176
02:03:56,280 --> 02:03:59,320
Speaker 1: we shouldn't just follow it. Man. It was the most

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02:03:59,600 --> 02:04:04,360
Speaker 1: deaf called to have your own people turn on you

2178
02:04:05,000 --> 02:04:09,880
Speaker 1: for your political stance of getting someone who's different, who's

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Speaker 1: African American. A lot of there's a lot of racial

2180
02:04:12,320 --> 02:04:16,240
Speaker 1: division between our cultures as well, and they just they

2181
02:04:16,400 --> 02:04:19,640
Speaker 1: just didn't get it until I kept doing it and

2182
02:04:19,760 --> 02:04:21,640
Speaker 1: he started to do it. But at one time in

2183
02:04:21,720 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 1: New Mexico, we had a rally out there about you

2184
02:04:24,280 --> 02:04:27,560
Speaker 1: of them, and they tore the gates down trying to

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02:04:27,600 --> 02:04:30,400
Speaker 1: get and they expected twenty thou people. That's fifty thou

2186
02:04:30,600 --> 02:04:35,440
Speaker 1: people out there. Wow, you know they're learning around. It's

2187
02:04:35,440 --> 02:04:38,000
Speaker 1: amazing thing. And when I'm talking to you, I'm talking

2188
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:41,080
Speaker 1: to I'm almost talking to a historian. Okay, that's a

2189
02:04:41,120 --> 02:04:44,360
Speaker 1: compliment right there, because when you said forty one years

2190
02:04:44,400 --> 02:04:47,200
Speaker 1: of comedy, man, because we are people. People understand by

2191
02:04:47,440 --> 02:04:50,880
Speaker 1: comedy community is good comedians. We really just document things

2192
02:04:50,960 --> 02:04:52,880
Speaker 1: and did we twist them on stage, But we really

2193
02:04:52,880 --> 02:04:55,040
Speaker 1: are telling the truth in a way if you just

2194
02:04:55,480 --> 02:04:57,560
Speaker 1: really broke down what we were saying, we just making

2195
02:04:57,680 --> 02:04:59,600
Speaker 1: just make it, make it funny because we made real

2196
02:04:59,680 --> 02:05:01,800
Speaker 1: short left the right turns, and that's where the humor

2197
02:05:01,880 --> 02:05:04,160
Speaker 1: comes from. But we're really just telling you the truth.

2198
02:05:04,520 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 1: And when I when I look at COVID nineteen, if

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02:05:06,880 --> 02:05:09,720
Speaker 1: you don't mind me talking about right quick, it's affecting

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02:05:09,840 --> 02:05:13,280
Speaker 1: the Hispanic community of Latino community and the black community

2201
02:05:13,360 --> 02:05:15,560
Speaker 1: is being devastated by the COVID nineteen and then I

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02:05:15,560 --> 02:05:17,720
Speaker 1: went on the website and I was so happy to

2203
02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:21,080
Speaker 1: see that you are doing your part providing COVID nineteen

2204
02:05:21,160 --> 02:05:23,120
Speaker 1: face masks. How did you get into that and what

2205
02:05:23,280 --> 02:05:27,120
Speaker 1: motivated you to participate at that level. Well, first of all,

2206
02:05:27,240 --> 02:05:30,040
Speaker 1: you know we're not and and let's not even go

2207
02:05:30,200 --> 02:05:33,680
Speaker 1: in to talk about medical and our medical conditions. So

2208
02:05:34,240 --> 02:05:37,480
Speaker 1: I had a kidney transplant in two thousands five from

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Speaker 1: when I was married by my wife An gave it

2210
02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,880
Speaker 1: to me. But this was stuff that should have been

2211
02:05:41,920 --> 02:05:44,040
Speaker 1: detected when I was a child. I went to bed,

2212
02:05:44,440 --> 02:05:47,120
Speaker 1: you know, kids went the bed, you know, And instead

2213
02:05:47,160 --> 02:05:49,320
Speaker 1: of saying that maybe there's something wrong, because there was

2214
02:05:49,400 --> 02:05:51,560
Speaker 1: something wrong, I just didn't do it because I drank

2215
02:05:51,640 --> 02:05:53,560
Speaker 1: so much water I couldn't keep that in. And I

2216
02:05:53,600 --> 02:05:56,120
Speaker 1: mean I had a narrow year. I was born early,

2217
02:05:56,920 --> 02:06:00,440
Speaker 1: went undetected. I could have had both my original kidneys.

2218
02:06:00,640 --> 02:06:03,440
Speaker 1: If I had come from a culture where when somebody

2219
02:06:03,480 --> 02:06:05,920
Speaker 1: went to bed, you take him to the doctor. If

2220
02:06:05,960 --> 02:06:07,720
Speaker 1: I would have had a bottle, I had an m

2221
02:06:07,840 --> 02:06:10,600
Speaker 1: R I or something, I could have saved myself. So

2222
02:06:11,000 --> 02:06:14,040
Speaker 1: so the fact that we ignore situations of our health

2223
02:06:14,400 --> 02:06:17,440
Speaker 1: until clearly we can't get out of bed. I knew

2224
02:06:17,520 --> 02:06:20,640
Speaker 1: something was wrong. So so with colvid and and and

2225
02:06:21,080 --> 02:06:25,360
Speaker 1: uh compromise immune system, and knowing that that it could

2226
02:06:25,400 --> 02:06:28,120
Speaker 1: spread the family and that it's invisible, then that you

2227
02:06:28,200 --> 02:06:30,560
Speaker 1: had to take it serious. It was a no brainer, man,

2228
02:06:30,680 --> 02:06:33,160
Speaker 1: to to get involved in the mass, to donate money

2229
02:06:33,200 --> 02:06:36,760
Speaker 1: to charity, to try to get people the mass as well.

2230
02:06:37,120 --> 02:06:39,200
Speaker 1: But also, you know, let's talk about D. L. Hugley,

2231
02:06:39,480 --> 02:06:44,840
Speaker 1: who uh go ahead, uh asymptomatic, So you look at

2232
02:06:45,000 --> 02:06:47,920
Speaker 1: pre existing conditions. But also I said this, you know,

2233
02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:50,240
Speaker 1: and I haven't talked to him about this, but I

2234
02:06:50,400 --> 02:06:54,600
Speaker 1: just feel like, as as you never want to fall

2235
02:06:54,680 --> 02:06:56,640
Speaker 1: out on stage, you never want to fall out anywhere.

2236
02:06:56,640 --> 02:06:59,280
Speaker 1: Could have been driving, could have been anywhere. That may

2237
02:06:59,360 --> 02:07:03,040
Speaker 1: have been the best thing for him personally, because if

2238
02:07:03,080 --> 02:07:05,600
Speaker 1: it had happened in the hotel room, he probably would

2239
02:07:05,600 --> 02:07:08,879
Speaker 1: have thought, I'm fatigued, I didn't eat. I've been traveling

2240
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:13,280
Speaker 1: and and and look past the COVID until maybe it

2241
02:07:13,480 --> 02:07:17,000
Speaker 1: was further along and now it was more serious. So

2242
02:07:17,240 --> 02:07:20,800
Speaker 1: he raises the fact that he sat out in Nashville.

2243
02:07:21,240 --> 02:07:24,560
Speaker 1: A larger issue is that maybe we shouldn't be rushing

2244
02:07:24,640 --> 02:07:27,600
Speaker 1: back to the clubs as comedians and as an audience

2245
02:07:27,880 --> 02:07:32,240
Speaker 1: because this is a real, real thing and as hard

2246
02:07:32,240 --> 02:07:33,760
Speaker 1: as it is to get by because a lot of

2247
02:07:33,880 --> 02:07:37,000
Speaker 1: us don't have disposed income. You only have one life,

2248
02:07:37,120 --> 02:07:39,160
Speaker 1: and that's the life that you need to protect. I

2249
02:07:39,280 --> 02:07:42,760
Speaker 1: was right talking to George Lopez. Is Comedy Special examines

2250
02:07:42,880 --> 02:07:46,640
Speaker 1: race ethnic relations, especially they have Mexican American culture. Anything

2251
02:07:46,720 --> 02:07:48,960
Speaker 1: different than this special there's air and on Netflix up

2252
02:07:49,040 --> 02:07:52,440
Speaker 1: on June. George Lopez, you know, I think just being

2253
02:07:52,480 --> 02:07:54,800
Speaker 1: incredibly funny. You're being funny in that, dude, you and

2254
02:07:55,040 --> 02:07:57,240
Speaker 1: I want to take you too special. You do one

2255
02:07:57,280 --> 02:07:59,560
Speaker 1: in English and you do one in Spanish. You know that, right,

2256
02:08:00,680 --> 02:08:02,480
Speaker 1: that's true? What yea? So? So I think I think

2257
02:08:03,000 --> 02:08:06,120
Speaker 1: creating the narrative of the uncle that was like going

2258
02:08:06,200 --> 02:08:09,120
Speaker 1: to the doctor at Gangerine and Astralia commune disease and

2259
02:08:09,200 --> 02:08:14,080
Speaker 1: our disease, creating a also ego also, you know, using

2260
02:08:15,000 --> 02:08:18,320
Speaker 1: wanting to know where all the food comes from, uh,

2261
02:08:18,800 --> 02:08:22,200
Speaker 1: wanting to be in other people's business. All this whole

2262
02:08:22,280 --> 02:08:25,080
Speaker 1: thing about parents and all these people, if they have

2263
02:08:25,360 --> 02:08:30,120
Speaker 1: one thing consistently is they're all older white women. Because

2264
02:08:30,200 --> 02:08:33,400
Speaker 1: everybody else has found a way to mind your own business.

2265
02:08:33,440 --> 02:08:35,080
Speaker 1: When I was married. I was married to a woman

2266
02:08:35,160 --> 02:08:39,280
Speaker 1: that if she saw a kid without a parent and

2267
02:08:39,400 --> 02:08:41,680
Speaker 1: the parent was sitting down two feet away, She's like,

2268
02:08:41,800 --> 02:08:44,080
Speaker 1: you shouldn't leave your kid unattended, usaid, and you're gonna

2269
02:08:44,120 --> 02:08:47,000
Speaker 1: get knocked out, you know, minding your own business. So

2270
02:08:47,320 --> 02:08:50,480
Speaker 1: we as a culture mind our own business. But when

2271
02:08:50,560 --> 02:08:53,040
Speaker 1: someone thinks they're superior to you, they don't have a

2272
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:55,120
Speaker 1: problem walking up to you in a restaurant when you're

2273
02:08:55,160 --> 02:08:57,640
Speaker 1: eating asking why you're not wearing a mask. But if

2274
02:08:57,680 --> 02:09:00,800
Speaker 1: someone sees me, or sees any buddy of color and

2275
02:09:00,880 --> 02:09:04,720
Speaker 1: a convenience store and you're starting to throw a word around,

2276
02:09:04,760 --> 02:09:07,800
Speaker 1: you started to throw some disrespect, you're gonna take. You're

2277
02:09:07,800 --> 02:09:10,520
Speaker 1: gonna take a twoth piece combo right by the five

2278
02:09:10,600 --> 02:09:13,160
Speaker 1: hour energy drinks and those vitamins that can stop your heart.

2279
02:09:18,000 --> 02:09:21,680
Speaker 1: You're too much, man, too much, You're too much. Everyone,

2280
02:09:21,920 --> 02:09:25,160
Speaker 1: every one of those leagues has taken what they deserved.

2281
02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:30,160
Speaker 1: They go back to your taking floss like a like

2282
02:09:30,240 --> 02:09:34,640
Speaker 1: a heavy bag. Yes, yes, yes, my man, I appreciate you.

2283
02:09:35,120 --> 02:09:37,800
Speaker 1: George Lopez, man uh, I just wanted to talk to

2284
02:09:37,880 --> 02:09:40,080
Speaker 1: you man on this on my show, and UH can

2285
02:09:40,240 --> 02:09:46,840
Speaker 1: come from a different It is the fastest whatever I think. Yeah,

2286
02:09:47,040 --> 02:09:48,920
Speaker 1: it really is. It's like twenty three minutes right now.

2287
02:09:49,040 --> 02:09:50,560
Speaker 1: But I just want to let you know, just when

2288
02:09:50,600 --> 02:09:52,360
Speaker 1: people come on money, make a conversation. Man, I have

2289
02:09:52,480 --> 02:09:55,080
Speaker 1: no agenda, but your greatness need to be discussed. I

2290
02:09:55,160 --> 02:09:57,280
Speaker 1: just want to let people hear a little bit of you.

2291
02:09:57,560 --> 02:10:01,440
Speaker 1: You because there's a man behind those shakes. Let me

2292
02:10:01,520 --> 02:10:03,920
Speaker 1: say that. Let me say that, you know, the restaurants

2293
02:10:03,960 --> 02:10:05,480
Speaker 1: and the beer and all that stuff came to me

2294
02:10:05,520 --> 02:10:07,880
Speaker 1: as an opportunity. You know. If there's one thing that

2295
02:10:08,000 --> 02:10:11,080
Speaker 1: we have is we have an imaginative mind. You can

2296
02:10:11,200 --> 02:10:13,720
Speaker 1: be an inventor and come from no place. Everybody who's

2297
02:10:13,720 --> 02:10:16,480
Speaker 1: an in mentor has come from from not from wealth.

2298
02:10:16,520 --> 02:10:18,600
Speaker 1: They come from their own idea. If you have an

2299
02:10:18,680 --> 02:10:21,840
Speaker 1: idea for an invention or something you think is different,

2300
02:10:22,080 --> 02:10:25,280
Speaker 1: don't just live with that idea. Look online, look for

2301
02:10:25,400 --> 02:10:29,720
Speaker 1: these places. Look for a place, because listen, the strangest

2302
02:10:29,760 --> 02:10:32,160
Speaker 1: things can happen to you. Nothing is impossible. And if

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