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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: we go. Welcome to money Making Conversation. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. I tell everybody every week is my mantra

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Speaker 1: to stop reading other people's success stories and start writing

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Speaker 1: On my show, interview for consumers as well as business

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Speaker 1: My next guest is Dr Simone Whitmore. She's a boy

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Speaker 1: Certified O b G y N and star on Bravo's

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Speaker 1: Married to Medicine, returning for his eighth season with guests well.

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Speaker 1: Some of the co stars are stars or Dr Jacqueline

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Speaker 1: of course of miss Dr Whitmore, Dr Heavily who's a

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Speaker 1: Well and Carrie Welles. New cast member this season, Anila

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Speaker 1: Whitmore is on my show to talk about COVID eight

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Speaker 1: of marriage, which is the eighth seed, the marriage to

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Speaker 1: the show. Dr Simone Whitmore, how are you doing. I'm

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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, the reality shows at one time

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Speaker 1: you decided to a being a certified doctor into this room.

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Speaker 1: What what drove you or what was the motivation behind

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Speaker 1: I've watched I've watched the show offered on over the years,

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Speaker 1: Conversations with your host, Rashan McDonald. My next guest, I've

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Speaker 1: As the host of the syndicated television show The Doctors,

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Speaker 1: Please welcome back again, A dear friend and inspiration and

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Speaker 1: money Making Comfortation. Dr Ian Smith, How you doing, my

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Speaker 1: brother and Vershano great, great to join you. How you

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Speaker 1: feeling really good? Man? You just still look at Trie.

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Speaker 1: You're still looking at good you know. You know, I

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Speaker 1: Jones days. Right. Yeah, it's been a long time. And

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Speaker 1: I you know, I was saying to you before we

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Speaker 1: started the broadcast that you know, I'm getting old like

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Speaker 1: everybody else. However, I'm in the fight. I think that

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Speaker 1: gonna be convicted and determined um to make a way

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Speaker 1: all the time is and I'm not always successful, but

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Speaker 1: I try every day to be a better me when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the physical aspect. You know, I work

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Speaker 1: I'm not perfect in my eating, but I try to

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Speaker 1: be better in my physical movement better and my nutritional intake.

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Speaker 1: I think people be happier and look better and feel

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Speaker 1: but you don't look like you eat habits because I

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Speaker 1: You know, when when when it gets bad, Doc, I

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Speaker 1: but it allows me a system of of direction. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's what we're trying to talk about here,

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Speaker 1: also a direction that's uh. I think it's tied to

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Speaker 1: common sense. And that's what I've always felt that your

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Speaker 1: books are tied to common sense. Correct. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: it's interesting you say that because so many people will

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Speaker 1: say to me, well on Instagram or Facebook with dr Ian,

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Speaker 1: But the problem is it's not that people don't often

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Speaker 1: that they don't have structure. Right. You gotta have structure.

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Speaker 1: You just can't say I'm gonna eat better, but what

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Speaker 1: does that mean? I'm going to exercise better? What does

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Speaker 1: that mean? And so I tell people all the time, yeah,

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Speaker 1: It sounds good, but it's not working well because we

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Speaker 1: need structures in our in our life, and with fast burn,

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Speaker 1: the structure is very simple. It's nine weeks um. It's

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Speaker 1: based on affordable, regular, accessible food. You have to go

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Speaker 1: to five different grocery stores to buy it. But it's realistic.

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Speaker 1: That's the key. Rashan. A plan is not going to

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Speaker 1: work for people if it's not sustainable and realistic. And

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Speaker 1: so I wrote this plan from the standpoint of the

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Speaker 1: use of What I mean by that, I mean I

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Speaker 1: you their feedback. What they liked, but they didn't lie

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Speaker 1: would work. What didn't work? Uh, The average weight loss

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Speaker 1: much as I helped them, they helped me because I

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Speaker 1: for example, things that people took me complain about in

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Speaker 1: the program I took care of. You can have alcohol

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Speaker 1: on the program. There's pasta, there's bread, there's stay, there's pizza.

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Speaker 1: I mean all these things, uh that programs say you

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Speaker 1: cannot have. I said, you can still have it, but

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Speaker 1: let's do it in a way where we have in

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Speaker 1: a healthier manner, but equally tasty. Right, you can't go

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Speaker 1: healthy and still not be tasty. So I try to

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Speaker 1: do both and fast and fast burned. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's why people like it. Well, it's it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: proved to be my favorite now because you know, as

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Speaker 1: I stated earlier, I am not the best patient. You know,

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Speaker 1: if if if Dr his was my was my doctor officially, Rashan,

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Speaker 1: come on that stop you really really really tripping that.

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Speaker 1: But in your book you you allow me to. I

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Speaker 1: think eat in proportion, which is really always the key too,

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Speaker 1: and when you eat is the key as well. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, it's also knowing your body, because you

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about that, because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people don't listen to their body. They don't listen to

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Speaker 1: that's why I always heeds the story about people talking about,

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Speaker 1: oh he looks so healthy, Well, I bet you if

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Speaker 1: you don't went to a doctor. The doctor they ever

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Speaker 1: told me how to high blood pressure, high cholesterol level,

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Speaker 1: talk about that whole process. Because your book is, like

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Speaker 1: I said, it's a true guide, but there are all

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Speaker 1: steps that they have to take to go along with

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Speaker 1: your book to be successful. Yeah, you know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I think that. Um, what people have to understand is

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Speaker 1: that these books are blueprints. Yes, folks, are not the Bible.

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Speaker 1: This book says, this is a guide for you. And

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Speaker 1: the reason why people really like fast Burn is because

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Speaker 1: it's so customizable. Like when you think about it, you know,

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Speaker 1: no one wants to be dictated to what they have

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Speaker 1: to eat every day, but they don't want to have options.

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Speaker 1: So there are options in the book. Every day, every

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You can make it work for you. So

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Speaker 1: you have you have lots of options. Then the other

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Speaker 1: part of it is some people say, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: like to go to a gym. I said, no, chapter thirteen.

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Speaker 1: These are all at home exercises you can do without

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Speaker 1: you can break it up fifteen minutes in the morning,

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Speaker 1: are looking for plans that are allowing them not just

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Speaker 1: to diet rashan for the short term, but to make

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Speaker 1: lifestyle changes. That's why I'm interested. I'm interested in you

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Speaker 1: making a lifestyle change that you can live with. And

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Speaker 1: so do I want you to be perfect? No? Do

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Speaker 1: I expect you to be perfect? Absolutely not. But let

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Speaker 1: me give an example. If you know you're going out

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Speaker 1: We're eating at so and so restaurant where it's not

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Speaker 1: a lot of great choices. So for breakfast and lunch,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be really good. I'm gonna really make sure

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Speaker 1: that I make smart decisions. So when dinner time comes

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Speaker 1: and I have whatever I'm gonna have, I don't feel guilty.

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Speaker 1: Number One and number two, it's not gonna really hurt

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Speaker 1: me because I ate so well early the day that

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00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: to me is the better way to live life. You

642
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: don't want to always be on a restricted, you know,

643
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: heavily specified program. I want you to do a fast

644
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: burn for nine weeks, then I want you to put

645
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: it on the shelf and say, okay, now I am

646
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Speaker 1: prepared in all the situations that come at me to

647
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 1: make better decisions. Whether the better decision part comes into

648
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. Your career has always been tied

649
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: to I'm not gonna I'm lead a book a little

650
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: bit because your role as host of the Doctors, which

651
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: was a groundbreaking to me. Also it was groundbreaking because

652
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: it happened during COVID and you are a real doctor.

653
00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: It affected African Americans overtly people of color over lead.

654
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: And so with that being said, your role as as

655
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: happy as we were because you came on my show,

656
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: we talked about it, what you're gonna do, but we

657
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: all we all thought that COVID would kind of like

658
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: come and go, and now we see it's not gonna

659
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: go at all. It's kind of like going to be

660
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: like the flu. We're gonna have seasonal uh COVID eighteen shots. Look,

661
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 1: we talk two questions. The first question is coming into

662
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: perspective your role in what you had to play as

663
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Speaker 1: the host of The Doctors and COVID eighteen. And then

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Speaker 1: the long term would be my second of us living

665
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 1: with COVID. Yeah, two great questions. So the reason why

666
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: I agreed to host the show this year was because

667
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: if you think back before this year, there was a

668
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: lot of misinformation, a lot of you know, incredible discredible

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Speaker 1: information that was being disseminated from the White House on down,

670
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: and I thought like the country was confused and that

671
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: doctors and scientists were not leading the conversation. If you're

672
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Speaker 1: in a health crisis, the doctors and scientists need to

673
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: lead the discussion. If you're in a financial crisis, the

674
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: economists need to need a discussion. I mean, this is

675
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: just how it works. And so I felt like we

676
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: had spent a year spinning our wheels listening to all

677
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: kinds of nonsense, and so this to me personally, it

678
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: was a great opportunity to be on a big show

679
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: with a big flat platform, to bring in experts to

680
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: talk about the issues. And I also wanted to bring

681
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: in diverse experts, because experts come in all shapes and

682
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: sizes and all colors and background So I wanted to

683
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: bring people from all walks of life and all experts

684
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 1: from all different voices to come in on the show.

685
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: So that, to me, person was very important, and I

686
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: think we did a great job of being able to

687
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: communicate to the rest of the country all things related

688
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: to COVID, whether it was vaccines, treatment, people who are

689
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: long haulers, how do you raise kids during COVID, how

690
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: do you date during COVID? All these topics were important

691
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: and I think that when I look back at my career,

692
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: this will have been a very important year because I

693
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: had some small say in shaping the conversation around COVID

694
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: and and and dealing with COVID and also trying to

695
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: get people on air to talk about it an incredible way. Now,

696
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: when you look at the long term of COVID, however, uh,

697
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: we're at We're at a very critical point here because

698
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Speaker 1: people who have not gotten the vaccine, a lot of

699
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: them don't want to get the vaccine, and we need

700
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Speaker 1: to still reach what's called herd immunity, which basically says

701
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Speaker 1: that enough people have either gotten vaccinated or been infected,

702
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: that the vast majority of the population is immune to

703
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: getting sick and infected again herd immunity. Now, there are

704
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Speaker 1: two ways to get to hurt immunity. You can get

705
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: there by vaccinating everybody. That's the fastest way to do it,

706
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: that's the less costly way to do as far as life.

707
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: If you vaccinate everybody, we save lives. We get hurt immunity.

708
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: But some people won't take the vaccine. So what does

709
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Speaker 1: that mean? We can still return immunity. But what that

710
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: means is the people who do not want to take

711
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: the vaccine, eventually we'll get infected because the virus is

712
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: like the cold virus, It's just gonna stay there and

713
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: so those who don't. So imagine a hundred people, imagine

714
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Speaker 1: eighty people get the vaccine. That means those eight people

715
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Speaker 1: are protected. Now you've got twenty people. Okay, these twenty

716
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: people who do not want the vaccine, the virus is

717
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: gonna circulate within them. And then once you get infected,

718
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 1: then you will have some type of immunity. That's what happens, right,

719
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: They'll get infected, If they survive, they will have some immunity.

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Speaker 1: We don't know how long that immunity lasts. We don't

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Speaker 1: know how long, how good it is. But they will

722
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Speaker 1: have some immunity. But what about the people who get

723
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: it and will die from So you're gonna reach her

724
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Speaker 1: immunity one way or the other. I just think we

725
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: should do it without losing a lot more loss of life. Well,

726
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: we're all losing lives. And I'm gonna tell you I

727
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: never took the flu vaccine. I have been. I've told

728
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Speaker 1: about my visor to both of my vaccination shots. In

729
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: the time of the man, I feel comfortable. It kind

730
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: of gave me my life back. I'm not gonna lie

731
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Speaker 1: to you doctors. I was like, you know, I was

732
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Speaker 1: a high degree. I was paring or I'm not gonna

733
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Speaker 1: lie to you. First, when the first hit, I didn't

734
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Speaker 1: know how to go out the store. Let loan Phillip

735
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Speaker 1: put gas in my car. What do I touch? What

736
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Speaker 1: I don't touch? What? How well? How do I do

737
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Speaker 1: touch with string? Will when they get back in the car?

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Speaker 1: Door A touch the door, doll went open? The door,

739
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Speaker 1: the door went open, my car door. So so when

740
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Speaker 1: I got fascinated, I developed a I still wear my

741
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: mask when I go out in public. You know, I

742
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: sit down, I take it off from a eating but

743
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: I really I think that I really want you to

744
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: tell my um my audience about that comfort zone that

745
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: you would get. And I've said it many times, but

746
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 1: I would just let you know this man, how important

747
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: you are. Sometimes you know, you do stuffing on the

748
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: regular basis. Dr Smith, there are no other black voices,

749
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: of voices of your color on TV talking to us.

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Speaker 1: I'mderstand that now you know there's some great for Dr

751
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: Varci is great. Dr George great, I love him, go

752
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: he's great, but he's not you. And so and that's

753
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: important that you understand that because you just doing your job,

754
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: You're you're brillied at what you do. You you're saving

755
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: lives on the regular basis. Sometimes you don't know that

756
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: you are seven. You just somethings, just doing your job

757
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: like any doctor will do. When you go into the hospital,

758
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: I just feel your hospitals is the TV. Your hospital

759
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: is social media. Your hospital is a public medium, and

760
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: so you don't immediately see the results because you're not

761
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: there checking on us once a week, or we're not

762
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: coming in and and checking on with you. But your voice

763
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: as an African American talking to us. It's so important

764
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 1: that at this point for me to get you back

765
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: on my show, not only to promote your incredible book,

766
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: because you've never failed me with your diet planes. I've

767
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: used them many times. And I've told you many times

768
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: when the book that I recommend my mother to use

769
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: your book and used just roll. I said, yes, he's

770
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: using it right now. Okay, and happen. And so what

771
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: is your role is? And I am I putting too

772
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: much on your plate? No, no, you're not. You know it. Actually,

773
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: While I am happy on one hand, UM to hear

774
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: you being laudatory and complimentary about what I do and

775
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: it's impact on people, it's also very sad to me.

776
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: It's sad to me because there are a lot of

777
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: other undiscovered doctor Ian's out there who are going to

778
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: be better than me at what I do, who are

779
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: equally educated, equally articulate, equally informative, and equally helpful. Uh.

780
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: And they're out there, brothers and sisters. Uh. And you

781
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: know it's lonely being the only UM and it shouldn't

782
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: be that way. We need to have more of our

783
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: young brothers and sisters be given the opportunity not to

784
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: become dr even to be better than Dr Ian. Uh.

785
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: You know, I'll accept that I'm a pioneer in a

786
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: way and I but my hope is I've paved away

787
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: for more. I'm not one of those people who become

788
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: successful and then don't turn around, uh and and not

789
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: try to help other people to get through the gates.

790
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: I want as many of us to get through the

791
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: gates as possible. And I'm just hoping that in this,

792
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: in this this time, this moment of racial awakening and awareness,

793
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: that people will reevaluate all aspects of our society and

794
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: look at TV and look at the people who we

795
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: bring on to talk about education and law and politics

796
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,760
Speaker 1: and medicine, and realize we gotta have diverse voices talking.

797
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: It just can't be the same people all the time.

798
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: So while I've been very blessed to have my platform,

799
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: and you guys invite me always to be on your platforms,

800
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: there are a lot of younger brothers and sisters who

801
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: can do the same thing, and I want them to

802
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: have a chance. As I said to you before the

803
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: show started, listen, man, I'm getting older. I've been doing

804
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: this for almost twenty five years. This time for me

805
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: to go out and play more golf and be with

806
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: my family, and I still write books, but but I

807
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: want to leave the stage and hand it off to

808
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: somebody else. Um. But people who are in charge of

809
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: who gets on the stage need to have the awareness,

810
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: um and the open mindedness to bring others in. And

811
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: that's that's what's important to me, Rashan, is that other

812
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: people get a chance to voice. I am not uniquely intelligent.

813
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: There are other intelligent people who have gone to eight schools,

814
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: who have great information, who can say the same thing,

815
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: if not saying in a better way than I said.

816
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: I want them to have a voice and have an artist.

817
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping, um that when people look back on

818
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: my career, they will say not how many bestsellers that

819
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: I have in books, but that they'll say, you know what,

820
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: Dr Ian Smith was a pioneer, and he opened the

821
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 1: doors for all these people to be able to come

822
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: out and talk to the world, uh and represent us

823
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: as African Americans and a respectful, proud um and professional manner. Okay, cool,

824
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, as they said, you know you said some

825
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: great things, sir, thank you. You know, you know you know,

826
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: but I gotta I gotta as rebuttle on you. Those

827
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: books that you write are important because you're in African American.

828
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: And guess what books are a number one because they

829
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: were bought by black people. So that means that you

830
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: have you have, you have cleared the way as a

831
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: pioneer for people to respect medical advice, die advice, life

832
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: advice from a person that doesn't look like that. That's

833
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: why you're important. That's why I can't push you aside

834
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: as you say, I'm ready to go play golf, spend

835
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: time kind all that. That's what vacations are far. Okay,

836
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: we're talking about We're talking about legacy creates a path.

837
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm talking about when I'm

838
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: in trouble, I need my voice. You know, when I

839
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: was growing up man before the foul cheese and all

840
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: the world. Dr Welby m D. You know my man,

841
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: all right, And so these are the things that we

842
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: grow up on. I'm just saying is that you have

843
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: become an institution. And I'm just telling you just slow down, doc, okay,

844
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: and realized be appreciated with what I'm saying about. I

845
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: know you are. I know men, you go way back,

846
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: but twenty five years is just twenty five years now? Uh? Now,

847
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: if you come on the show with show and come

848
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: on the show with the Pope barely gray beard and

849
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 1: you're looking, I'm saying it might be our last interview

850
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: with Dr Smith. He looked back. Can you find his

851
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: twin brothers? Does the Twain brother look like that twin brothers?

852
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: We really got problems. But you're not doing that. You're

853
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: stabilizing yourself. And this is why I said you can't

854
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Speaker 1: go away because see now we're battling age, because see

855
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: what happens is people stop dreaming when they hit a

856
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: certain age. They started fifty go oh, I can't do

857
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: that sixth decade. See I know it's seventy eight and eighty.

858
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: You're still gonna be Dr Ian Smith. We might be

859
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Speaker 1: on book thirty by the end, you might be you.

860
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: You're gonna be on another council. You're still telling us

861
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Speaker 1: the direction. And the reason I look at you this way,

862
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: the reason I have to talk to you is this way.

863
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: And I know you're gonna have a comment about this,

864
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: and I wanted is that the next battle where you

865
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: at right now is letting people know age should not

866
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: define your dream. Am I correct about that? Let me

867
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Speaker 1: tell you something uh statement I came up with recently

868
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Speaker 1: that I'm starting to like, and I say it more

869
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: and more. Even if you live to be a hundred,

870
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Speaker 1: life is still short. And by that I mean is

871
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Speaker 1: that you are never too old uh to dream, to

872
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: chase dreams, to deform new dreams. Think about it. Life

873
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: is so short you should spend the entirety of your

874
00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: life in the pursuit of fun and happiness and your dreams.

875
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: And it's not just about checking things off of a list,

876
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: by the way, because when I check some awful list,

877
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: I add something else because that is what keeps me going.

878
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: You want to you want to keep going. So I

879
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: agree with you that you know, as we age, we

880
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: tend to think, well, you know it's a different season

881
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: of your life. Well, yeah, life is seasons. But that

882
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: does not mean, Rashan, that you stop the pursuit, that

883
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 1: you stop the dreaming, that you stopped looking up at

884
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 1: the stars and thinking and wondering those things I think

885
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: are the true texture and magic and beauty of our life.

886
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: Absolutely now the book fast Burn Let's Listen Now week

887
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: program in the program and broken down into the three parts.

888
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about ignition into mission and acceleration. Now,

889
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: before we go there, when you say that the power

890
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: of negative energy balance, what exactly does that mean? Yeah,

891
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: before I explain that, let me just say two people listening,

892
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: go to my Facebook group. We've got twelve thousand people

893
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: doing fast burned together. The Facebook group's name is called

894
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: fast burn Challenge fast burn Challenge, and if you're not

895
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: on Facebook, you can do it through my Instagram which

896
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: is at dr Ian Smith spell the Doctor out I

897
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: A and Smith. Let me explain to the subtitle the

898
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: power of negative energy balance in life, we want positive energy.

899
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: That's calm ex spiritual energy. This is different. This is

900
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: food energy. So food, when we say calories in the food,

901
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: that's measurement of food. Energy in the food. Food is energy.

902
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: And so when you eat more calories than you burn

903
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: off for sean, you end up having what's called positive

904
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: energy balance. You have more calories than you burned off.

905
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: The body has to do something with that energy. Energy

906
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: just doesn't disappear. That's not how it works. What does

907
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: the body do with that extra energy? It stores it

908
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: as fat. Fat is the storage form of energy. Okay,

909
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: why do bears uh you know, gouge uh sorry, gorge

910
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: on food before winter comes, before hibernation. They do that

911
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: because they're eating, eating, eating, eating, and they're getting fatter

912
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: and fatter and fatter the blubber because they're gonna eat

913
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: that blubber during the winter when their food source is

914
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: very scarce. Well, same thing with our body. Our body

915
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: will take the extra energy and put it as fat.

916
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: Now that's positive energy balance. What you want to be, however,

917
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: is the negative energy value then bounced just the opposite,

918
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 1: so and fast burn. You're still gonna have all your

919
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: meals and all your snacks, However, the amount of energy

920
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: you get from them will not be enough to meet

921
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 1: the demands of your body's energy needs. So your body

922
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: has to find the energy from somewhere. It says, where

923
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: do I go to get energy? Oh? There I go.

924
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: It goes into the fat stores. It takes the fat,

925
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: it melts it or breaks it down, it converts it

926
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: into fuel that your body can use. So when you're

927
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: in a negative energy balance state, that is when you

928
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: drive into those fat stores and break that fat down.

929
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm fast burned. Not only are people

930
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: losing fifteen and seventeen pounds on average and nine weeks.

931
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: But they're noticing six seven eight inches gone around their

932
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: mid section because the book is putting them into this

933
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: negative energy balanced state. Now that's that's great. Now, But

934
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: you broke the book down into three parts, and we

935
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Speaker 1: know it's nine weeks, it's four one week that is

936
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Speaker 1: the middle week is one and it's for the closest eye.

937
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: It's called ignition, intermission, and acceleration. Why are these keywords

938
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: in the whole process of the nine week diet program. Well,

939
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: because the idea is imagining the analogy of a car.

940
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: So the first four weeks are the ignition. You're just starting,

941
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: you're just getting going, and so people slowly make changes.

942
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: Remember this is not about being a diet this is

943
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: about teaching you lifestyle changes. So people for the first

944
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: four weeks are just learning how to eat differently, how

945
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: to move differently. So it slowly takes you in there

946
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: so that it sticks. When you do things too fast

947
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: and too dramatic, people tend not to hold onto it.

948
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: But I slowly do it for the first four weeks,

949
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Speaker 1: and by the way, people lose about of their total

950
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Speaker 1: weight loss for the nine weeks in those first four

951
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: weeks right then the middle is intermission. It is what

952
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: it says. It's a break. You take a week, you

953
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: relax a little bit, reassess where things are, trying to

954
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: put into practice some things you've learned over the first

955
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: four weeks, and you're good to go. Now. The last

956
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: four weeks is acceleration, pedal to the metal. That's what

957
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: we're really driving into our fat stores, really melting that fat,

958
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: really losing the weight, really getting into that that nice

959
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: sculpted look, that change in appearance, and the change and

960
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: how we feel situation, and so that's what the acceleration is.

961
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: Those are the nine weeks. If you hit your target,

962
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: you put the book up, and now you learn how

963
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: to make the right decisions. If you haven't hit your target,

964
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,479
Speaker 1: you do another cycle until you need to get until

965
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: you've gotten all the way off that you wanted. But

966
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: that is how the built the book is built. Well,

967
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: this is your twenty book. I just gotta ask this question,

968
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: what have you learned in each book? Because each point

969
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 1: has a different take, a different chemical makeup, of different

970
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: reason why you're attacking. They're never the same book. I

971
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: can attest to that they all have a different scope

972
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: of knowledge that you're providing us about our bodies. What

973
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: have you learned from from book to book? This book?

974
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: I learned that number one, that people are able to

975
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: do different types of intermittent fasting. That even though the

976
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: science may say that time restricted feeding is the best

977
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: type of intimat and fasting for results, that that doesn't

978
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: work for everyone. Everyone can't necessarily follow that plan. That's

979
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: why I use the five two method in the book also,

980
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: so I learned that people need to choose an intimitt

981
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: and fasting strategy that works for best with them. The

982
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: other thing I learned is that you actually can keep

983
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: into a program some of them. I wouldn't call them

984
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: cheap foods, but some of the fun foods that people enjoy.

985
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: You can still keep them in a program, but keep

986
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: them in a way that people do not feel deprived,

987
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: but they also are not over indulging, and you can

988
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: still help them lose weight with the whole process of

989
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: this just a little little little publicity here, I know

990
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: you said the word listening. Now I'm now only television.

991
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:01,720
Speaker 1: I have my own network. Then I'm own in the Atlanta, Georgia,

992
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 1: So hopefully I get more sales for years on the

993
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: A I B t V two million homes in northern Georgia.

994
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: And so I just love the fact that I'm talking

995
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: to a friend, and I tease you when you talk

996
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 1: about that old talk, I get tired. You know, man,

997
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 1: We're gonna be interviewing each other and helping each other,

998
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: supporting each other, because when I talk to you, man,

999
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: and and we both have seen our journeys, and and

1000
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: I just smile when I see your journey every time

1001
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: because it's tied to hard work. And I just like

1002
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: for you to close and to let everybody know that

1003
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,720
Speaker 1: you know, we all have dreams and all this seems

1004
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: like you were saying there are other dr Ian Smith's

1005
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: out there, but guess what, There's only one dr Ian Smith.

1006
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: And that's what allows me to say that you are

1007
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: a blessing and you have to continue to win. With

1008
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: that being said, what are your closing thoughts? My closing

1009
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: thoughts are very simple, that life is very fragile and

1010
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: very precious, and when you value life, your own life,

1011
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: that means you automatically value the life of others. That

1012
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: we have to live and and comport our selves in

1013
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: a way where we're respectful to our other lives and

1014
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: to the environment, but also that we are always chasing.

1015
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 1: We're chasing to be better, we're chasing to be happy,

1016
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: we're chasing to fulfill our dreams. When you have that

1017
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,439
Speaker 1: type of drive in your life, every day, you get

1018
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: up like I did, and you say to yourself, I'm

1019
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: gonna squeeze the most out of this day because tomorrow

1020
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: is not promised to any of us. So I thank

1021
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: you for being your friend. I thank you for always

1022
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 1: having me on your show, and I encourage others out

1023
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,839
Speaker 1: there who I may never meet that you can do

1024
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: it too. Absolutely. Thank you Dran Smith for coming in

1025
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: my book on my show fast Burn, The Power of

1026
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: negative energy to balance right now. Get it right now,

1027
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: not just because I'm saying it, because it's gonna change

1028
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: your life. And I'll tell you five pounds. When you

1029
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: said the word sculpture, I thought about myself because I

1030
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: saw something a little real cage like I kind of

1031
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: saw it again. Dog, I saw it again in my

1032
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: old age. Okay, so life is good man. You'd be

1033
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: safe out there. Okay, you too, love man, I appreciate hi.

1034
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: Everyone here is a guy with his own catchphrase. I

1035
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:06,240
Speaker 1: appreciate that Smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires,

1036
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: But I'm filling in because there's a lot more to report,

1037
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Speaker 1: like when they're parched or windy conditions out there. You've

1038
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: gotta be extra careful with things like burning yard waist.

1039
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Speaker 1: After all, wildfires can start anywhere, even in your neck

1040
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1041
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1043
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Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families,

1052
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Speaker 1: and the ad Council. And we're live here or outside

1053
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Speaker 1: the Perez family Home, just waiting for the and there

1054
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: they go almost on time. This morning, Mom is coming

1055
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: out the front door, strong with a double arm kid carry.

1056
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: Looks like Dad has the bags. Daughter is bringing up

1057
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: the rear. Oh but the diaper bag wasn't closed. Diapers

1058
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: and toys are everywhere. Oh but mom has just nailed

1059
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: the perfect car seat buckle for the toddler. And now

1060
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: the eldest daughter, who looks to be about nine or ten,

1061
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: has secured herself in the booster seat. Dad SIPs the

1062
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 1: bag clothes and they're off. Ah, but looks like Mom

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Speaker 1: doesn't realize her coffee cup is still on the roof

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Speaker 1: of the car and there it goes. Ah. That's a

1065
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: shame that mug was a fan favorite. Don't sweat the

1066
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: small stuff. Just nailed the big stuff, like making sure

1067
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 1: your kids are buckled correctly in the right seat for

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00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 1: their agent's eyes. Learn more n h t s A

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Speaker 1: dot gov slash the Right Seat visits n h s

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Speaker 1: A dot Gov Slash The Right Seat brought to you

1071
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: by Mitza and the Ad Council. My next cass is

1072
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: all about out that watching living the dream, watching him grow,

1073
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: and I was so excited when they first booked him

1074
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: on the show. On this new show, flat Bush Misdemeanor.

1075
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: This Aaron on Showtime. I said, no, no, no, no no,

1076
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: I got to see the episode before I interview him,

1077
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: Lord and Mercy. I'm glad. I wait, I'm glad I

1078
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: pushed forward before he is breaking out funny. But see,

1079
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 1: here's the cool thing, because I gotta give his credit,

1080
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: because I just want to give him from love before

1081
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: we get started. Because his name is Hassan Johnson. Hassan

1082
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: has been seen in many rows from the Wire Brooklyn Finals.

1083
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: Now hear what I'm saying that that has nothing to

1084
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: do with funny them two roles. That has nothing to

1085
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: do with being a comedian. He recently wrapped a recurrent

1086
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: role and they hit ABC Drama for Life. No comedy there, Okay,

1087
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: just setting you up for where we're going with this

1088
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: journey with her soup. But he's recently seen in the

1089
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: comedic Chops okay, Tracy Morgan in the Last o G.

1090
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: You might have saw him in Top Five, Okay. Now

1091
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: he's in this new show, flat Bush Misdemeanor, which premiers

1092
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: May twenty three at ten thirty pm on Eastern Standard

1093
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: Time and on Showtime. You know his characters drew a bold,

1094
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: direct man who's extremely protective of his loved one, in

1095
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: particularly his niece. His The man is coming comflict with

1096
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,919
Speaker 1: his livelihood of both Kevin and my man. Damn them

1097
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: two brothers. They lead character, they wrote it, they directed,

1098
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: they executive produced the whole series. Are fantastic. Please work

1099
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: with the money, make conversation for the first time, the

1100
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: very funny I'm gonna say, y'all, the very funny and

1101
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: talented Hassan Johnson, how you knowing man? They want to introduction.

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00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: Thank you, ras Sean. I'm glad they definitely showed you

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00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:39,479
Speaker 1: the episode first man. You know, the bonus says, because

1104
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: you know I wanted the book, you too, that's a

1105
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: pot And I went, hold on, he got a new

1106
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: show because you know, because I hate coming on there

1107
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: talking about something I don't know nothing about, and you

1108
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: know it would be just a lot of air hot

1109
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: air getting blown around. I understand. Yeah, And also I

1110
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: respected with you'all do the don't want me coming on

1111
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: the show, just revealing the pallet and don't matter nobody watches.

1112
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: We want mena tell you all this. We're gonna talk

1113
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: in like you know in evergreen term generic terms about

1114
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: the pilot, but the pilot his historical and this boy

1115
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: right here, this ball right here I'm talking to right here,

1116
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: is uh he played. He stayed in the little genre

1117
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: little thug look thugging, you know, but boy, he funny

1118
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 1: man talk about man. Let's talk about the series, and

1119
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: then we're gonna go back to when I first encountered

1120
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: you on the wire. And it's been a journeyman long

1121
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: journey of excellent opportunities. But you can get, like it says,

1122
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: stereotyped into certain roles and we won't talk about you

1123
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: coming out of that and and just being uh, just

1124
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 1: super funny. I'm hoping this is the character that you're doing.

1125
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: It becomes a hit serious, so you can really really

1126
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: show people your range. Talk about flash bush misdemeanor and

1127
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,400
Speaker 1: your character Drew, well, she drew Uncle Drew. As you'll

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00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: get to know, he is the uncle to the little

1129
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: girls ain't and not so little girls ain't on this

1130
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: show because she had a mean punch boy. So anyway,

1131
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: uncle Drew bring I like to say this balance to

1132
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,479
Speaker 1: an array of this like dysfunctional characters, right because then

1133
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,479
Speaker 1: while he's so overprotective of Zana, he's this tough guy

1134
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: that's put the center. Tough god, mean god. He here

1135
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 1: is a fairness in him that that we're gonna explore that,

1136
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And he encounters Kevin again

1137
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: and they start to appreciate the fairness that is who

1138
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: who Drew is. But he brings this this balance to

1139
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: this dysfunction, and then vary Lie his own dysfunction because

1140
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: he's so over protective of Zana and he's about his education.

1141
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 1: And you'll get to discover why. Well, you know, the

1142
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: beauty of the characters is written by Kevin and Dan.

1143
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: You know it really Uh, it's it's a it's it's

1144
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 1: shot a certain way. The comedy is real. You know

1145
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: if they say street like what they say the N word,

1146
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: you know they right, they go there with the with

1147
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: the with the regular vernacular, you know, sagging pains. Oh,

1148
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: it's the look of the street. And it's enjoyable because

1149
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: of the fact that I was not offended by anything

1150
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: I saw. I felt it was some of the things

1151
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: were very relatable. But then the characters. You love the

1152
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 1: characters and you're engaged by the realness of it. Now

1153
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: your characters real. Now let's talk about you know that

1154
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: the character Drew uncle Drew. Now, I it was as

1155
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: a scene and it kind of reminded me and training day.

1156
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's a training date moment. Remember when he

1157
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 1: was about to do homeboard bad in the in the

1158
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: in the bathtub and then it came around and found

1159
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: out he saved my niece. That was a train You're

1160
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: a good one, Rashaun. So I'm really glad watching because

1161
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: in the moment in time and on the day up,

1162
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm not even understanding or putting the correlation with that

1163
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: scene with that that's exactly what that was. That was

1164
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 1: training down. But I guess what, I wasn't mad at

1165
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: it because I was like, we're doing a comedy here,

1166
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: and I was affacing. It wasn't such an a parody

1167
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: where you like you just understood, like you know what,

1168
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: that's the same you saw the parallel order because because

1169
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: believe me, it wasn't funny. It wasn't even close to

1170
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: being funny. And training day, but yeah, here it was funny.

1171
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: I was I was followed out my chair. I was going,

1172
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: this boy food, this is ignorant. Then you then your

1173
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: other boy. All he do is play video game in

1174
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 1: the right and then the other boy. He just opened

1175
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: the door, laid anybody in, you know sebody. So so

1176
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: you you got your niece in there, she popping boomerang

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01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: photos on and you get to the theater. Body man,

1178
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: is that this is just that setting because Kevin is

1179
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 1: a delivery man, Dane is a school teacher, if you

1180
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: want to call it. Because Kevin ain't really a good

1181
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: delivery man and Dad is not really a good school teacher.

1182
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: He ain't neither one of them, right and so and

1183
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: so that's what we have been laughing about. This series

1184
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: of premiers on Showtime. It's called Flatbush. Mr Meet Him

1185
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 1: starts Man. I would say stars by Man her Son

1186
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 1: Johnson because he's a pivovogual character, because he's a community character.

1187
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: He's in the neighborhood. He's that guy that you know

1188
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: if he walks by you, by you you know, you

1189
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: probably clutch your bag if you if you goes by

1190
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: your car, don You're probably push press lock on your door.

1191
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: You know you're going this door. You might see him

1192
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: and went back back out the door, you know. But

1193
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: all those things because you got that look man. But

1194
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: in the end, you have a heart when you get

1195
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: the main thing. He has a heart. Like I said,

1196
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: there's a level of fanness that comes with Nut Drew.

1197
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 1: You what you see is what you get. He you know,

1198
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: he wears hard on his sleeve. You're not gonna get

1199
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: no b as. You ain't gonna sugar coat and water

1200
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: nothing down for you. And that's what you could appreciate.

1201
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: And that's what you see. The characters Dan and Kevin,

1202
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: they start to appreciate that. I think about Drew more

1203
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: than anything because everything and everywhere else and so if

1204
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 1: he had wish washy and they're surroundings, they're so uncertain

1205
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: he did these uncertain characters that they could appreciate that

1206
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: Drew is soul, you know, just add of me. Well,

1207
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: I think I think let's let's just be real about

1208
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: that character, because good writing has a way of telling

1209
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: a person's role, and your role is about rules. You know.

1210
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: It's like we all have rules. You know, Like I said, somebody,

1211
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: the speeding of it might be thirty five miles now

1212
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: you drive forward it, but it's thirty five miles now,

1213
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: and that's you. You know what I'm saying. If you

1214
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 1: make a mistake, you hold people accountable for that. Mistake

1215
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: based on Drew Uncle Drew's rules. You know what I'm saying.

1216
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: If you respect the rules, you're gonna walk out of

1217
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: the house a lot. Respect the rule. You might walk

1218
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: out of the house. He kind of alive, but you're

1219
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 1: gonna remember you broke that rule, right exactly. There you go.

1220
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a learning lesson and that's what I

1221
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: love about it. So but then again, we talked a

1222
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 1: little bit off air before we got on there because

1223
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: you can stereotype, you know, people, people see your photo.

1224
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: He's gonna play a thug. Oh, he's gonna play a criminal,

1225
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 1: or he can play this. And you know, and I

1226
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: first fell in love with your acting man way back

1227
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: on the Wire, which was to the novel. When you

1228
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: look at all the people, man, they were casting that serious.

1229
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: Oh y'all working, Oh y'all doing big things. Man, through

1230
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 1: the grace of God. That's right, though, you know what

1231
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So so you said, why with that serious,

1232
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: so brilliant the cast? You now you get to understand

1233
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: why that, see, because that's the favorite. When we were

1234
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 1: shooting the Wire, we don't know we're making history, not

1235
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 1: not not not you. I swear to God, any one

1236
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: of us telling you that we knew that show was

1237
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: gonna be a head, we'd be talking about it double

1238
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: the time later than it was on. Right, you couldn't

1239
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: have pay no no one. I'd say they delned if

1240
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 1: they said that they knew that We didn't know, you

1241
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 1: know what I mean that it was the writing that cast.

1242
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: Now you start to understand as everyone's careers, Blosslman came

1243
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 1: into fruition that no wonder that that was such a

1244
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 1: great show. Absolutely, there's your character with way we Bay.

1245
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: That's right, he's steal. In my mind, he's two characters

1246
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: state of my you know, stringer bowl and Bay. Alright, alright,

1247
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: string strings. But when he got killed, I was hurt.

1248
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: I said, oh my god, he know he went out

1249
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 1: like oh so. But when you look at that, that

1250
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: that was that was really your first really m consistent

1251
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 1: acting role, you know, like sure, yes, that was my

1252
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: first recurring role on the television show for sure. Everything

1253
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 1: else before that was either a one off in the film,

1254
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, like a co star role or a co

1255
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:34,840
Speaker 1: star you absidy, Right, So let's let's talk about that.

1256
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: When you when you get that opportunity to you finally

1257
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: because you work hard for these opportunities and then you

1258
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: trying to get that regular check and you know, like

1259
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: and and so you're on all these challenges people because

1260
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: all you guys were young stars at the time, young

1261
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: young up and comers. I'm gonna say that word up

1262
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: in conners because we can turn any streaming network, any movie,

1263
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: any network television show, and one of you guys are

1264
01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 1: on it, what I'm saying, and some of them two

1265
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 1: or three y'all in the same series. Yeah, let's not

1266
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 1: play with you. I mean, I don't just popped up

1267
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: in a few shows or you know, movies with my

1268
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: fellow cast meet from the show. Yeah, we don't go

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Speaker 1: on skate now. So so with that being said, what

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01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: were your thoughts man when you when you when you

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01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 1: were brought on the Wire? Was it just a paycheck

1272
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: or was it just hey man, finally and finally seeing

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01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: my craft being appreciated, my skills being appreciated, talk to

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01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: us about that. I think it was a mixture of both,

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01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: but overall and ultimately it was my my my craft

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01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: being appreciated because I remember audition and right auditioning for

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01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: the Wire was pre notin eleven. Then we shot postion

1278
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: on the Levin. So you gotta understand that a lot

1279
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: goes on in between the time that it was first

1280
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: very introduced to me and then it came into reality,

1281
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 1: right because the world stopped. The world stopped in between

1282
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: that time and then resumed again, and I had to

1283
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 1: come back with that energy. And I got the call back.

1284
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm like why. I almost didn't even remember what it was,

1285
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 1: but Sham like, oh that show, okay, let's go. I

1286
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 1: got got back you focused. I went out there Alexa

1287
01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 1: Photos Office, our audition. I remember now in the middle

1288
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 1: of the audition, I'm doing my thing right, and the

1289
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: creator it was David Simon in there, and then it

1290
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:23,600
Speaker 1: was Clauk Johnson, who was one of the director for

1291
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 1: the pilot and a few of the first season episodes.

1292
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: You know from COMMI Side Life on the Street, Clark Johnson,

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01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: O g pick up the Clark john One of them

1294
01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: leaned over to the other one in the audition, Rashawn,

1295
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:39,640
Speaker 1: and said, we bay. So that's when that was my

1296
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 1: first incland nation of something like tangible because I'm auditioning

1297
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: for DiAngelo, by the way, right, So I don't know

1298
01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:49,880
Speaker 1: if anybody could even imagine that because Larry Gilliat did

1299
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: such a phenomenal job. When that that, who could imagine

1300
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: me playing DeAngelo with him doing you know what I'm saying.

1301
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: So when they said that, I kind of lost my

1302
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 1: beat for a minute, but then I got back on.

1303
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: I finished up, But that lingered on with me for

1304
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,759
Speaker 1: some reason until I got that call from my agent

1305
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: that I booked it, like who is this? We make

1306
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 1: Cavic And then even then I still didn't know because

1307
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 1: they said, oh, we made here. He'll be around for

1308
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 1: two or three episodes and you already know the rest.

1309
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: You know, Let's let's talk about you, man, because really,

1310
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, bringing you on the show man because a

1311
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:28,600
Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, uh, you do interviews, they

1312
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:30,400
Speaker 1: don't give a chance to tell your story, get to

1313
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: tell the journey. And this is about my many conversations

1314
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 1: about that journey because so many people need to hear that.

1315
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, you took something that was

1316
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 1: short and then you turned it into a career. And

1317
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: that's really what's happening because you you know, it's like

1318
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: it's like a good like let's gonna say that Chicago Bulls.

1319
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 1: If you made the Chicago bulls. Guess when you're a champion,

1320
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:53,120
Speaker 1: all right, You when we look at it back now,

1321
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: we didn't realize, you know, the last dance shoulders the

1322
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:59,680
Speaker 1: greatness of the Chicago Bulls Run. Now when we look

1323
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:04,879
Speaker 1: back the hy you go, wow, look at all those

1324
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 1: people who came out of the wire. So really when

1325
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 1: you look at her, Sorry, you were being pushed by

1326
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,600
Speaker 1: the best every day. Talk to us about that's a

1327
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: that's a that that's surrounding, Talk about the rehearsals, talk

1328
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: about the you know, being pushed and being mentored as

1329
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:25,720
Speaker 1: well to be your best during that time. I mean,

1330
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: you're Shaun, one of the greatest experiences of my life.

1331
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: We're talking about when dupis son, your son, Lance Reddy,

1332
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 1: Claude Peters. I mean, it keeps going with Joe John

1333
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,720
Speaker 1: done Ma and uh Andre boy your Michael K. Williams.

1334
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's just it's just it

1335
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: goes down the rabbit hole so crazy. And then whether

1336
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 1: you knew who those people were or not, by the

1337
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: end of the day's rat you knew who they was.

1338
01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying to Michael Kay, Well, come

1339
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 1: on now, if you didn't know now you know. And

1340
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 1: so that's when I knew I was being brought with

1341
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: the best and I said, oh, okay, this is this

1342
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: is turning into something. Now I can see where this

1343
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: is really going. Now I have a career in a yeah,

1344
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 1: that uncertainty with you know, being rejected. I mean, I'm

1345
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:14,640
Speaker 1: in a line of work where I get rejected or

1346
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:17,720
Speaker 1: a living. People don't really understand what that feel like.

1347
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:20,519
Speaker 1: You go home after these auditions and you're not the

1348
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: best man right right right, and then because you know

1349
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's what it really is, because rejection

1350
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: is so high in Hollywood. You know, this is just

1351
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 1: imagine just going on auditions, auditions, auditions just didn't gonna

1352
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: job interviews, job interview, job interviews, and then they're just

1353
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 1: telling you you're not the one based on you and

1354
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: you're not the one, and you know you are. But

1355
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: then you gotta eat that. You have to accept that,

1356
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:50,240
Speaker 1: dig down, regroup, re van, and say I'm gonna come

1357
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 1: out and do better. Like listen, for instance, I'm gonna

1358
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: tell you this is what happened for me. This is

1359
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 1: how I learned the code. With this rejection, I figured

1360
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:00,680
Speaker 1: it like this, the more or this is you going

1361
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: on the better your chances, you're booking something, right, So

1362
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: as long as you're going on auditions, you're working, you're

1363
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 1: shopping in your blade, you're getting better, trust me, right,

1364
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: and then and then it's supposed to be fun. But

1365
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 1: then when you don't get the job, I mean, you know,

1366
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 1: there's no gratification and you're like, what's so fun about that?

1367
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 1: But what this is what I did for myself. I

1368
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: built the system up that for every ten auditions, I'm

1369
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: gonna get one, that one, that temper sent ratio out

1370
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 1: of ten, I'm gonna get one. I was able to

1371
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: live and come to grips and terms with that. And

1372
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 1: it was happening every eight, every six, and then lower

1373
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 1: and lower and lower every other audition our book a roll.

1374
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: And then that's when you start to you elevate in

1375
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: your mind, and then you start to believe in yourself

1376
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 1: because it's a relief system you got. You have to

1377
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 1: have to keep going. Wow, So how did you get

1378
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: into acting? Let's get that outfre let's hear the fans

1379
01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 1: here about that. How did how did Hasan Johnson get

1380
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: into acting? Oh Man all praise due to Spike Lee

1381
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:04,759
Speaker 1: low to save your spightly love. He had an open

1382
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: call for a movie called Clockers, and a girl at

1383
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 1: school dared me to go to the open audition because

1384
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: I was just this like boisterous young boy. I played ball.

1385
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 1: I played football. I thought I was gonna be a

1386
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 1: ball up and I was pretty smart, you know. I

1387
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: was in the academic classes, like the student athlete whatnot.

1388
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: And everybody tried to get me to be more proactive

1389
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: with the academic stuff, you know, the glee club, the

1390
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: African Culture Club, the math club. I didn't want to

1391
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: do it. I just wanted to play ball, and you

1392
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: know that's it. So she did me because I always

1393
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: said I wanted to be on television. Oh well, why

1394
01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 1: don't you go to this spight me ord, mr, I

1395
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:46,760
Speaker 1: want to be on TV. And dared me in front

1396
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:49,840
Speaker 1: of like the whole lunch room. Right, I'm holding court

1397
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,080
Speaker 1: at lunch doing what I do, and she dared me

1398
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: in front. So I did one of those all right,

1399
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: who's going with me? And then everybody did one of

1400
01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 1: these here and I went. It was like the dare

1401
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 1: I went. I got up that Saturday it was poured

1402
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: down rain and it was in hall and at the

1403
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: school he had at a public school in Hall and

1404
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 1: I went up theory Sean and the rest is history.

1405
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 1: I went to one audition turning the seven callbacks, and

1406
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: I got a principal role in Spike lee film thirty

1407
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:21,639
Speaker 1: million dollar Budget Out the Gate, Love It, Love It. Now.

1408
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:24,719
Speaker 1: Now we're making the transition. Top five. You know that

1409
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: that I think Top five was the first time I

1410
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: saw you in funny scenarios. You know what I'm saying.

1411
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 1: But you yeah, I'll say that was the first. It

1412
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 1: might be something we're missing before that, but let's just

1413
01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:39,679
Speaker 1: say with that. You know, this is Rashawn's career path

1414
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 1: for HASA. You know what I'm saying, I'm tracking. I'm tracking,

1415
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: you know. So top five, Top five was was the

1416
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,639
Speaker 1: one for me. Just started looking at you because because

1417
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:50,799
Speaker 1: I always, like, you know, I've been fortunate in Hollywood,

1418
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: the cast a lot of people, you know, to see

1419
01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: African American talent get pigeonholes. And when I saw you

1420
01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:58,560
Speaker 1: in Top five, but you were still being yourself, but

1421
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:02,639
Speaker 1: the but the spin on your words were funny. I said,

1422
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:05,760
Speaker 1: this guy is funny. So talk about that experience, and

1423
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: then we're gonna go to the last o G with

1424
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:11,599
Speaker 1: Tracy and Tiffany Hatters where you really started showing your

1425
01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 1: comedy chops right and and and and Top five birth

1426
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: Meet even being able to have an opportunity and a

1427
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:21,440
Speaker 1: shot to get on Last O G with Tracy Activity

1428
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: which was a blessing as well. But it all started

1429
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: with you know, me telling my uh my manager, Adam

1430
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: Adam Robinson, like, you know, I gotta get out of

1431
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 1: this this pigeonhole that seemingly a pigeon hole, it's not

1432
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,559
Speaker 1: quite one. Because Adam used to always say, how's time,

1433
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 1: come on now? If you do something good, that's what

1434
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: they call you for your great at what you do.

1435
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: That's not your fault. You can't beat yourself down about that.

1436
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 1: So if it's time to be the thug and this

1437
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:49,600
Speaker 1: you know, depending on what's going on and what the

1438
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: criteria is, then go out and be the best damn

1439
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:54,640
Speaker 1: thug you can be. Ain't nothing wrong with it. And

1440
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: then um, I said, you all right, until we get

1441
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 1: to that bridge and we could cross that bridge into

1442
01:15:59,880 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: the light or heart and funny stuff, that's what we're

1443
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:05,200
Speaker 1: gonna do. So what happens is when Top five comes along,

1444
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 1: it's this character that's kind of just played meant to

1445
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: play be played straight. And and and in the world

1446
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: of all these comedians and funny people, naturally funny people

1447
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: because you know, when Jay Farrell talk, he's just funny.

1448
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 1: But Sherry Sfard talk, she's just funny. When trades Me talk,

1449
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:25,840
Speaker 1: that just funny. You know, Chris, when they talk, they're

1450
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: just funny. That tonality, that dick chance delivery is just funny.

1451
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 1: So they ain't gotta do much because they're established, you

1452
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 1: know that. But then here I go. So I'm not

1453
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 1: gonna go above and beyond either my best My best

1454
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: bet is to stand my lane and go straight. And

1455
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: that's what I did because I was fortunate enough to

1456
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: get I was privy to some info and their casting process.

1457
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: That's a hospital. Will say no names, but it was

1458
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 1: a couple of dudes came through here, a few heavy heaters.

1459
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 1: It just wasn't giving it up like you was doing it.

1460
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 1: We're just gonna leave it at that, right, right, right,

1461
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 1: And it was understood, got to be explained, right, absolutely,

1462
01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:04,760
Speaker 1: And that's what we're talking about. Over tell you a

1463
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: couple of things about your manager, your managers, right, And

1464
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 1: you were right because if you don't fight for change, Hussan,

1465
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 1: then people will settle for what you get. And by fighting,

1466
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 1: you know, let's talking what we're talking to. Anybody who's

1467
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 1: watching the show and listen to the show. Your brand,

1468
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 1: because you have a brand and you fought for you know,

1469
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm not satisfied. It's like, you know, it's like this,

1470
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: because you have a nice house, why can't you ask

1471
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 1: for a bigger house, a better car, or more groceries

1472
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:33,600
Speaker 1: in the refrigerator. People like, well you got food in refrigerator.

1473
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 1: I want more And that's how I want more, right,

1474
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:41,679
Speaker 1: I'm not content And and so that push enabled this

1475
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: conversation we're having right now because when you got on

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Speaker 1: to the last O g and like I said, man,

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01:17:47,479 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: you know I really went he funny man. But I'm

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01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:53,040
Speaker 1: gonna just tell you about your funny Hussan. You know,

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01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: like you said, you mentioned you know Sherry Shepard, Tracy Ferrell,

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01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 1: you mentioned of course Chris Rock. They have built a legacy. There's,

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01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:03,800
Speaker 1: like I always tell people, stand up comedy just like math.

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01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:06,000
Speaker 1: If you know what two plus two equal fourth, then

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01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: you know how to get there. Your style of comedy

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01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 1: is that you're just natural. But you don't even understand

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01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: you funny, and I think that's you know what I'm saying,

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01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: that's the gift because all those people have walked on

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01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: stage in front of hundreds of thousands of people and

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01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 1: made them laugh. And so you are just one of

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01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: those guys who just naturally funny. If you get around

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01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 1: your family, you crack them up. I don't give it you.

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01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:31,959
Speaker 1: Your family go ico you, but see what a comedian

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01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: has done. He's taking his funny from in front of

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01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: his family to strangers. And so because you've not done that,

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01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 1: it questions your ability. For Brother. In the last o

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01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: g that stepped you up, and then you went back

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Speaker 1: to the life for life on ABC. Nice check. Wasn't

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01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: supposed to be funny. You're supposed to be who you

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01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 1: supposed to be incarcerated. Then in back of your mind

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01:18:54,640 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: you set these templates, templates or being able to do

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01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 1: something more than just be a stereotypical black thug. The

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01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 1: Flatbush Mr Meaner comes along, tell us about that whole process.

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01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 1: I know we talked about it earlier, but I gotta

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01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:11,800
Speaker 1: close the show because brother, I can't I can't wait

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01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 1: to ei. This is what it is. The Sean, This

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01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: like you said earlier, this is the most tangible opportunity

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01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:23,840
Speaker 1: to really show my range because then you're gonna see

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01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about the first episode. You got

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01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 1: eight nine more to you got eight nine more and

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01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: they let me go. Man, I'm telling you Kevin and

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01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: Dan Man that the two of the greatest guys around

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01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 1: right now that they are soon to leave a deep

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01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,439
Speaker 1: footprint in this game. I'm telling you what this one

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01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:47,000
Speaker 1: and it's all there for you and they and they

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01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 1: really let me go. They just let me go like

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01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:51,800
Speaker 1: how they tell a box and let your hands go

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01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: right right, right right right. Yeah, that's the best, the

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01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: best analyty with this character I could come up with.

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01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna be in for it's a roller.

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01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: There's so much emotion because you see here you talking

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01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:07,720
Speaker 1: about this this comedic stuff, this funny stuff. But then

1521
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna be so emotional. You're gonna be stressed out

1522
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 1: a little bit, right well, you know the thing about it,

1523
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: but in a in a good way. Because Kevin's life

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01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:19,840
Speaker 1: is stressed. Its stressed because and he's relatable. Here's a

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01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: guy that their lives are not moving forward, y'all. I'm

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01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with their lives are in a stand still.

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01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:28,519
Speaker 1: They got jobs that don't have career opportunities. They don't

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01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 1: even see the career in the opportunity. All they are

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01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: trying to do is get by. And I think we

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01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:34,800
Speaker 1: know a lot of people who are just trying to

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01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:37,640
Speaker 1: get by. That's why their characters are relatable. But what

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01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: happens is when they try to move ahead and they

1533
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:44,639
Speaker 1: start making mistakes, and that's when they wrote the mistakes

1534
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:47,839
Speaker 1: start to come in. That makes you so humanizes everything

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01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: because the way I can, I can say this the

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01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: way Kevin encounters Uncle Drew as a delivery and when

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01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:59,040
Speaker 1: he comes into his place, he makes a mistake. The

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01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: consequence stuff that mistake drives the first episode and the

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01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: long term relationship. Am I right? Yes, it does that

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01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:10,840
Speaker 1: one mistake And you know I always say, Rashaan in

1541
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:14,719
Speaker 1: real life, I always tell people you can't be upset

1542
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: about what is and what's not at the moment in time,

1543
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:21,640
Speaker 1: because what you have to realize is every decision you

1544
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:25,320
Speaker 1: made from out the wound to this day right now

1545
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: and in May, is that every direct decision led you

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01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 1: the way you are, whether you're currently happy, sad, whatever

1547
01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:39,720
Speaker 1: the case says, right et cetera. Every decision you may

1548
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 1: lead you up to right now, and guess what is

1549
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: a beautiful right now? He's I'm telling man. The blessing

1550
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:50,280
Speaker 1: in this interview, man, was that I'm always been a

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01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:52,920
Speaker 1: fan of Hussal. I've always been a fan. And then

1552
01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: and then going to showtime say I want to interview

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01:21:55,520 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: my bar but I got to see the pilot. I

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01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:02,599
Speaker 1: saw the pilot, Man, I am recommended. I'm mad because

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01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 1: it's several weeks away before it premieres, so no listen.

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01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 1: But you made my whole month the rest of my

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01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: year is sean, because you know, we we don't know

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01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: what we're in for. So you're telling me it's rest

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01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 1: assurance that we're doing something right. I'm changing herself. I

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01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: I you know, I ain't got time to be lying

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01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: to you, okay, brother yo, I'm just saying like that.

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01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 1: It's funny. Okay. They are straight funny, man, and you

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01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 1: and you deliver it on a high level of opportunity

1564
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 1: because you're a regular guy. Man started out on a dare,

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01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: but you saw it through. And that's what people understand

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01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:39,439
Speaker 1: is that is that whether you see it through, you

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01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: know if people tell you or challenge you, then don't don't.

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01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: Don't cower down to the challenge. See it through and

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01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 1: see what the opportunity barrass itself. And that's what you're

1570
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 1: is half the battle. Gotta show up. But my man,

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01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:53,479
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on money and

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01:22:53,479 --> 01:23:00,600
Speaker 1: make conversation. Hassan. You know we're gonna catch back. You

1573
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 1: know I gotta come back to you. Flatfish mrmean A

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01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: premiers May third, Eastern Pacific time on Showtime. Oh Man,

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01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: Hassan Jawnson plays Uncle Drew again. There's no character like

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01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: it on TV right now. He's gonna change the game

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01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 1: and they do what I think. That's an Emmy that's

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01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: an Emmy winning character. You'd took it. I'm not even

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01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 1: gonna say nothing. Damn talk to you later, brother, Don't

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01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 1: say nothing. We will be right back with more money

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Speaker 1: making conversations with your host or Seawan McDonald. What grows

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Speaker 1: in the forest trees? Sure you know what else grows

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Speaker 1: in the forest, Our imagination, our sense of wonder, and

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Speaker 1: our family bonds grow too, because when we disconnect from

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Speaker 1: this and connect with this, we reconnect with each other.

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Speaker 1: for them. You look and see a tree. They see

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Speaker 1: the wrinkled face of a wizard with arms outstretched to

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Speaker 1: the sky. They see treasure in pebbles, They see a

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Speaker 1: and the AD Council. What grows in the forest trees?

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Speaker 1: Sure No. What else grows in the forest, Our imagination,

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Speaker 1: our sense of wonder, and our family bonds grow too,

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Speaker 1: because when we disconnect from this and connect with this,

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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: I am ra Sean McDonald hosting Money Making Conversation dot com.

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Speaker 1: The cafe MARKA Swag Award is a celebration of black

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Speaker 1: men making a difference in our community by empowering others

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Speaker 1: dedicated himself to sharing his failures and successes in life

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Speaker 1: and business as well to empower the next generation of

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and Operation Hope and Shopify have partner to create

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Speaker 1: one million new Black owned business. You need to be

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Speaker 1: build building well. You can't build wealth with our compound

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Speaker 1: and can't compound without so many other than years in

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Speaker 1: this case employee technology infrastructure system. So I decided not

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Speaker 1: just complained about it to try to do something about it.

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Speaker 1: men who have strength, whose wisdom is assertive, and who

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Speaker 1: is genuine in their spirit. Welcome back to money making

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Speaker 1: conversations with your host Rashan McDonald. Welcome to Money Making Conversations.

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01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,599
Speaker 1: I am your host for Sean McDonald. I always tell

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Speaker 1: people it's time to stop reading other people's success stories

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01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:18,479
Speaker 1: and start writing your own. And I always tell people

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01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:21,599
Speaker 1: to leave with your gifts and don't let your age, friends, family,

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Speaker 1: or coworkers stop you from planning or living your dreams.

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Speaker 1: My interviews I have on money making conversations with celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 1: and industry decision makers. Not today will include love match makers.

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Speaker 1: My next guest is Spicy Marty. She's a magnetic matchmaker

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Speaker 1: and relationship expert who's focused on encouraging individuals and couples

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01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: to unlock the power of their passion in order to

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Speaker 1: attract their purpose mate. She is the founder of the

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Speaker 1: Spicy Life and we'll discuss Spicy Marty's career journey and

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Speaker 1: the Spicy as sp i c Y fundamentals. Please Welcome

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01:26:57,640 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations. Spicy Marty. How you doing. I'm

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01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:05,040
Speaker 1: doing amazing. Thank you for having me well great, great

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01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 1: for coming on the show. You know my relationships and

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01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:11,759
Speaker 1: we come out of COVID. You know, I remember doing COVID.

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01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:13,479
Speaker 1: I was like, bo, I'm so glad I'm not in

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01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:16,640
Speaker 1: the game boy. You know you couldn't you know, you know,

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01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:20,160
Speaker 1: if you kiss somebody, you gonna get COVID. Relationships are

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01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:23,320
Speaker 1: like covid, you know, you know, the online and apps

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01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 1: was just exploding the relationship you swapping right, left, wipe

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Speaker 1: covid left, wipe covid right. It was just, uh, it

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01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: was just really crazy in and now you you said

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01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:40,720
Speaker 1: during that period your business flourished. Yeah, I almost. There's

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01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:45,040
Speaker 1: a little bit of um guilt when I say like this,

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01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,080
Speaker 1: this was amazing for me, right because there was so

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01:27:47,120 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 1: many charnship going on, um, from a financial level to

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01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: a romantic level for you know, the entire world. But

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01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: being in an industry that focuses on helping you find

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01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 1: love and your purpose made actually it was opening, awakening

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01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: experience for a lot of folks. I think, Um deciding like, hey,

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01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:09,640
Speaker 1: this is time for me to get serious. Who knows

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01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 1: if I'm going to spend another year in quarantine isolated,

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01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 1: I really shouldn't, you know, take my companionship and relationship

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01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 1: growth serious. So because our fundamental elements are based off

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01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:25,599
Speaker 1: of self passion, intimacy, communication, and learning to say yes.

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01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 1: A lot of people decided that they were going to

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Speaker 1: invest in themselves, uh and make sure that they don't

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01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 1: spend alone. And so business has been amazing. What we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about your business and the model in a minute,

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Speaker 1: which is love. Well, I want to go back to

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01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: you know, we don't always start there. You know, you

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01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 1: was at I Heart Media, which I'm vary from me

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01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: with because Steve Harvey and I did a syndication contract

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01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:53,160
Speaker 1: with I Hard and two thousand five he's still with

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Speaker 1: our heard medium for in fact, my podcast Moneymaking Conversation

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Speaker 1: is on the I Heart Media platform. And then you

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01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:03,240
Speaker 1: did work with HBO and uh talk about that thought

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01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 1: in that area. And then we're gonna go back to college.

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01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:06,760
Speaker 1: We're gonna kind of like go there and then go

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01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 1: back to college. Then we're gonna come back. Understand how

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01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:14,759
Speaker 1: you into this love making spicy zone. So my career

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01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:19,519
Speaker 1: journey has definitely been diverse, right, but everything that I've

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01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:22,679
Speaker 1: done has led me to this point. So I realized

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01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 1: at an early age then my purpose of my calling

1682
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: was to connect people, and understanding that that was a

1683
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:31,479
Speaker 1: part of my spiritual gifts, made sure that I went

1684
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:34,640
Speaker 1: to you know, undergrad and got my Master's in Communication

1685
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:37,360
Speaker 1: since that's the number one breakdown in relationships, but all

1686
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:42,479
Speaker 1: the while gaining experience as a relationship expert UM in

1687
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:47,639
Speaker 1: media platforms from radio to television and so starting off

1688
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:52,400
Speaker 1: at actually kJ L h early on UM with Steve Harvey, UM,

1689
01:29:52,400 --> 01:29:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Steve Harvey actually was a kid, but with

1690
01:29:54,800 --> 01:30:00,120
Speaker 1: um CEV Wonder and then going from kJ A to

1691
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:03,320
Speaker 1: NAINI two point three after having built like credibility in

1692
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:06,760
Speaker 1: the radio industry, UM definitely helped me with my on

1693
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: air experience and doing a relationship radio show where it

1694
01:30:10,160 --> 01:30:13,719
Speaker 1: gave spicy tips and so all the meanwhile juggling media

1695
01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 1: plus doing a sales executive position at HBO and making

1696
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 1: sure that like I also knew how to pitch myself

1697
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 1: and market and brands, so I was able to understand

1698
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 1: operations of business. At the same time, we'll understanding have

1699
01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:27,880
Speaker 1: to be like in front of the camera. Well, you know,

1700
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: articulation is the key. You know what you can't do.

1701
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:33,720
Speaker 1: You can't start a trying to tell peop about love.

1702
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:35,760
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You can do you know

1703
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Spicy, you can't mess around looking like

1704
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:40,160
Speaker 1: you confused. You know what I'm saying, so so so,

1705
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 1: and also let's go be real. You have to look

1706
01:30:43,040 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: attractive or attractive people. You don't want all the ugly

1707
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:47,400
Speaker 1: person telling you how to find love. You know, so

1708
01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:50,520
Speaker 1: you are attractive, and then you have the word spicy.

1709
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: Thank you this money? You know what? You know? If

1710
01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:58,000
Speaker 1: I saw you pict yourself, she's relationship. I don't think

1711
01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:02,200
Speaker 1: she's that busy if he's ugly, but you're not, so

1712
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:05,160
Speaker 1: fortunately for this interview. But then you then, also you

1713
01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: have the word spicy and you're attractive. Did that ever

1714
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 1: bother you that? Hey, you know, people might get the

1715
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:12,960
Speaker 1: wrong idea about your brand, that you might get the

1716
01:31:12,960 --> 01:31:16,639
Speaker 1: wrong idea about you because you are serious professional. Okay,

1717
01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:21,599
Speaker 1: that's a great question. So I love the fact that um,

1718
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:25,080
Speaker 1: spicy has become this word that we're like, oh what

1719
01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 1: does that mean? You know there's this passion, um and

1720
01:31:28,200 --> 01:31:31,840
Speaker 1: desire that's associated with the word spicy, right, And so

1721
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:34,959
Speaker 1: I love being able to have an opportunity to describe,

1722
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: even with questions like this, what spicy actually stands for.

1723
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:41,000
Speaker 1: So I've always embraced it. Um. I coined the name

1724
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 1: actually in radio because I've always you know, pushed my

1725
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:47,479
Speaker 1: business and my company and my expertise the spicy life.

1726
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 1: So when I coined the name Spicy Matty, it was

1727
01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:51,599
Speaker 1: because you know, the CEO of this company. But I'm

1728
01:31:51,640 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 1: always giving spicy tips. So when people ask me, like,

1729
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:56,760
Speaker 1: you know, what does that mean? Like why do they

1730
01:31:56,800 --> 01:31:59,080
Speaker 1: call you spicy? You know, they always think it's because

1731
01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm this, you know, fiery, you know speces um, you

1732
01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:07,599
Speaker 1: know black in Mexican Latina, and so, uh, I get

1733
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:09,640
Speaker 1: the opportunity to explain to them, no, I'm mixed. I

1734
01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to explain to them, um that spically

1735
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:17,080
Speaker 1: actually stands for you know, self, passion, intimacy, communication and

1736
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:19,400
Speaker 1: learning to say yes. And then I coined it in

1737
01:32:19,439 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 1: my company, so I embrace it and it's it's a

1738
01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:25,280
Speaker 1: catchy name that people get to remember. You know, they're

1739
01:32:25,640 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: they sometimes forget May, but they never forget spicy. You know,

1740
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:31,559
Speaker 1: you have the corporate experience, now you're taking it to

1741
01:32:31,600 --> 01:32:34,920
Speaker 1: a personal level. How were you able to avoid pushback

1742
01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:37,760
Speaker 1: when you started defining your voice? And I know you

1743
01:32:37,840 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 1: have history now, but in the beginning you have to

1744
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:43,600
Speaker 1: develop that history. Talk about the in the beginning and

1745
01:32:43,640 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: then the journey to where we are at being interviewed

1746
01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:51,639
Speaker 1: with a resume of legitimacy tied to your brand. Yeah.

1747
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:56,400
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to branding, um and credibility, right,

1748
01:32:56,479 --> 01:32:59,599
Speaker 1: people fall in love with the person right before they

1749
01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:01,240
Speaker 1: fall in the with the brand. They want to know

1750
01:33:01,280 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 1: who's behind that. So when I explained my story of

1751
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 1: making sure that you know, I elaborate on the fact

1752
01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:08,679
Speaker 1: that I've been doing this since I was a child,

1753
01:33:09,120 --> 01:33:12,839
Speaker 1: really connecting people. My mother was married three times single parents.

1754
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:16,160
Speaker 1: Each time that she was married, I was set her up.

1755
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:19,200
Speaker 1: I was going up to men in the grocery store

1756
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:22,679
Speaker 1: at the gas station pitching my mother to them because

1757
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: I wanted a dad so bad. And so I felt

1758
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 1: really good at marketing at a very young age. You know,

1759
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:32,559
Speaker 1: mas been you know number four now, So like it's

1760
01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: safe to say I'm really good at what I do,

1761
01:33:34,920 --> 01:33:37,880
Speaker 1: but understanding that you need the education and the credibility

1762
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:41,080
Speaker 1: behind that, right. I went to school mastered in communication

1763
01:33:41,160 --> 01:33:43,960
Speaker 1: and really developed my method there. So all of the

1764
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 1: information that I have is based on true research, try

1765
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:50,000
Speaker 1: tested and proven. So when anyone comes from me and

1766
01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:51,559
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, what makes you an expert?

1767
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 1: You just get to go around saying you're expert. I'm like, yes, actually,

1768
01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: I have even more than ten years of experience. I've

1769
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,959
Speaker 1: been doing this my entire life, setting up over multiple

1770
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 1: couples where they've actually walked down the aisle, had children

1771
01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 1: based off of my you know connection, and then have

1772
01:34:07,439 --> 01:34:10,479
Speaker 1: relationships right now that are flourishing, that are getting you know,

1773
01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:13,080
Speaker 1: getting to the point of the proposal, and coaching my

1774
01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:15,840
Speaker 1: clients and seeing them all the way through. So I

1775
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:18,960
Speaker 1: love when people question, you know, what makes you an

1776
01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 1: expert or what makes you a gur guru because it

1777
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:24,600
Speaker 1: gives the opportunity to really explain all of the investment

1778
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:27,559
Speaker 1: and time that I put into this. And when people

1779
01:34:27,600 --> 01:34:30,679
Speaker 1: hear your story from a branding perspective, like they want

1780
01:34:30,720 --> 01:34:33,760
Speaker 1: to not just believe you, but they want a relationship

1781
01:34:33,800 --> 01:34:37,680
Speaker 1: with you. And being in a relationship industry, I understand

1782
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 1: that you need self awareness, You need to bring that

1783
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:43,559
Speaker 1: passion and fire. You need to have intimacy to create

1784
01:34:43,600 --> 01:34:46,720
Speaker 1: a bond with your audience, and you need to have

1785
01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:50,240
Speaker 1: amazing communication and deciding how you deliver that message. And

1786
01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: you also need to be willing to say yes to

1787
01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:55,120
Speaker 1: the risk, yes to the unknown, understanding you know that

1788
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 1: not everybody's gonna believe you. But that's okay. If you

1789
01:34:57,520 --> 01:35:00,400
Speaker 1: believe you, you're going to push that message anyways. So

1790
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:03,160
Speaker 1: s p I c why it applies to everything absolutely,

1791
01:35:03,160 --> 01:35:06,320
Speaker 1: and so now you're the founder of the Spicy life.

1792
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:10,959
Speaker 1: Okay again, caring a brand spicy learning from a standpoint.

1793
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:13,439
Speaker 1: Using the word that's very popularly used for a lot

1794
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:16,559
Speaker 1: of describes a lot of different things, but in this case,

1795
01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: it describes romance. You're trying to trying to find that

1796
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:23,720
Speaker 1: purpose mate? Now what is the purpose mate? So I

1797
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: love the purpose made term right because it makes you wonder.

1798
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 1: It's not something that we hear often. Most people think

1799
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 1: of soul mate. They've gotten familiar with that word, and

1800
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:36,920
Speaker 1: that is when you have deep affection and romantic feelings

1801
01:35:37,280 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 1: for somewhat amazing chemistry I speak to purpose mate. What

1802
01:35:41,560 --> 01:35:45,000
Speaker 1: I'm talking about is having chemistry and compatibility. So you

1803
01:35:45,040 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: need both of those elements. You can't just have the

1804
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:49,080
Speaker 1: fire and desire. You also have to have the compat

1805
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:52,519
Speaker 1: compatibility element. And then in addition to that, you have

1806
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 1: to be someone who understands and knows your purpose in

1807
01:35:55,439 --> 01:35:58,320
Speaker 1: life and then wants to be with someone who understands

1808
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:02,120
Speaker 1: their purpose and then you eyes merged two purposes together

1809
01:36:02,320 --> 01:36:05,840
Speaker 1: to help one another form or build your empire the

1810
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,439
Speaker 1: mission that you were put on here to do. You're

1811
01:36:08,560 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 1: very clear on that, and you understand your role in

1812
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:14,160
Speaker 1: that person's life and you're there to support them, uplift them,

1813
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:17,400
Speaker 1: use their talents and gifts on another level and help

1814
01:36:17,479 --> 01:36:20,000
Speaker 1: lift them up. So your purpose mate is way bigger

1815
01:36:20,040 --> 01:36:23,600
Speaker 1: than just like, oh, you know, he's fine, I love him. No,

1816
01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 1: your purpose mate is like, how do I get you

1817
01:36:26,040 --> 01:36:28,519
Speaker 1: to where God intended for you to be? And it's

1818
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:31,519
Speaker 1: by any means necessary, no matter what comes against us

1819
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: to try to destroy us. I'm pushing you, but I

1820
01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:37,400
Speaker 1: love money. Who are you fine? Which is very true.

1821
01:36:37,439 --> 01:36:39,599
Speaker 1: Now that's why I like what you just said. First

1822
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:42,439
Speaker 1: of all, soul mate really has not been working in

1823
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:45,240
Speaker 1: the marriage world because of the marriage is and in divorce.

1824
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:47,680
Speaker 1: Now when you ask somebody what your soul mate, they

1825
01:36:47,720 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: really can't explain to what that is a soul mate. Now,

1826
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:54,400
Speaker 1: when you a purpose mate, you actually had a point

1827
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:58,080
Speaker 1: of view. They had credibility. I understood it and I

1828
01:36:58,200 --> 01:37:01,960
Speaker 1: brought value. So up to me, this whole purpose made.

1829
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 1: If you find a purpose made, the percentages of successful

1830
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:08,599
Speaker 1: marriages may go up because soul mate is not working.

1831
01:37:08,720 --> 01:37:11,759
Speaker 1: I'm just sorry it's not working and falling its failed

1832
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:14,720
Speaker 1: because can nobody explain what the soul mate is. I

1833
01:37:14,760 --> 01:37:16,960
Speaker 1: can't tell you. I've never used the word soul mate,

1834
01:37:17,280 --> 01:37:20,720
Speaker 1: but purpose made I could use because it has you know,

1835
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: It's like anything you're do in life, like a good job,

1836
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 1: you have to know it's a contract. If you pretending

1837
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:28,280
Speaker 1: to forget that, marriage is a contract, you know, and

1838
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: you have the right to break it if it's not

1839
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:32,920
Speaker 1: working for you. Now in this situation, your purpose made

1840
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:36,839
Speaker 1: that is turned to that person's purpose, that person's purpose

1841
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:39,519
Speaker 1: or what they want to do with their lives, and

1842
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:41,880
Speaker 1: that never comes up. And being a soul mate. I

1843
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:44,519
Speaker 1: really like that concept that you really have honed on

1844
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,519
Speaker 1: to because it makes me, made me think, It made

1845
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: me get a clear understanding of Okay, when I look

1846
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:53,320
Speaker 1: at somebody, I always tell people like you know when

1847
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:55,920
Speaker 1: you when you can marry for money, you can marry

1848
01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:58,080
Speaker 1: from somebody who's educated. You can marry with somebody because

1849
01:37:58,080 --> 01:38:00,800
Speaker 1: they But if you're marryed for fineness, you're married because

1850
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,880
Speaker 1: he or he made me laugh. I'm gonna tell you,

1851
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:06,760
Speaker 1: right now that's gonna be a short relationship. It might

1852
01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:09,080
Speaker 1: you lead the marriage and the sex gonna get old.

1853
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: He and when the sex get old, you're won't be

1854
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:14,120
Speaker 1: laughing as much. But if you're married based on a plan,

1855
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: and that's what purpose made is it's a plan. Correct

1856
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,760
Speaker 1: talk to me. I think I'm into this spicy like

1857
01:38:19,880 --> 01:38:25,240
Speaker 1: you having said a mighty to hire. You know, I'm

1858
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:27,439
Speaker 1: just saying, but you you're leading me down the right

1859
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 1: path because, like I said, I did the book act

1860
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 1: like a lady to think like a man with Steve Harder.

1861
01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:34,760
Speaker 1: The reason that book was so successful, one of the

1862
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:39,320
Speaker 1: things was the naty Day the naty day uh period

1863
01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:41,800
Speaker 1: that that you had in there, because it was like,

1864
01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:44,240
Speaker 1: if a job could put your probation for ninety days,

1865
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: why can't you put your relationship on probation for ninety days?

1866
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:49,240
Speaker 1: And so this is the same thing. It was tied

1867
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:52,360
Speaker 1: to making the decision not so much on emotion, but

1868
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:54,559
Speaker 1: is this the right person for you? And when I

1869
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:57,600
Speaker 1: hear the word soul mate, and we've all heard that

1870
01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:00,800
Speaker 1: and we all used I've used that in some form,

1871
01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but I knew with

1872
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 1: Naty Day probation man does in job and in a relationship.

1873
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 1: Also know what purpose made me? Once you explain to me,

1874
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:12,639
Speaker 1: and once you explain it to any of your clients,

1875
01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:15,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure they go, Wow, I never thought like that.

1876
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. You're absolutely hidden on the money. And the

1877
01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:21,879
Speaker 1: thing is is one thing that I do love about

1878
01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:24,439
Speaker 1: Act like the Lady, things like a man, you know,

1879
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:27,920
Speaker 1: and I give you crazy insane props um for everything

1880
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:30,320
Speaker 1: that you did for publishing that book and getting it

1881
01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:35,840
Speaker 1: out there. UM is that it speaks to UM strategy,

1882
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:38,519
Speaker 1: which I speak to as well. Right what you're saying

1883
01:39:38,600 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: right now is that we have to operate less in

1884
01:39:41,640 --> 01:39:44,679
Speaker 1: emotion and how someone makes us feel and more in logic,

1885
01:39:44,760 --> 01:39:47,280
Speaker 1: which is totally what I'm in support of. I once

1886
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:50,000
Speaker 1: you have books, and once you have the chemistry and compatibility,

1887
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:52,360
Speaker 1: but what does that look like? How do we create

1888
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:55,760
Speaker 1: a strategic action plan for what your relationship goal is?

1889
01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:57,920
Speaker 1: And that's what I get to the root of because

1890
01:39:57,920 --> 01:39:59,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people are just out here floating around

1891
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:02,320
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. And one thing that I

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01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:04,320
Speaker 1: do support in Act like the Lady, thinks like a

1893
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:07,639
Speaker 1: man as well is that ninety day rule. Now can

1894
01:40:07,720 --> 01:40:11,479
Speaker 1: most people follow it when they come into my program.

1895
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:14,559
Speaker 1: That's a whole. That's a whole, another whole, another topic. Right,

1896
01:40:14,560 --> 01:40:17,120
Speaker 1: they require a lot of strength when it comes to

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01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:20,080
Speaker 1: being absinent for those ninety days. But I fully support that,

1898
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:24,160
Speaker 1: actually implement that in my Spicy program because I need

1899
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:27,160
Speaker 1: people to have clarity of thoughts. I don't want them

1900
01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:30,160
Speaker 1: emotionally attached to someone who hasn't earned all of the

1901
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:31,880
Speaker 1: things that need to show up when it comes to

1902
01:40:31,880 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 1: their core values, their deal breakers, consistency, and when we

1903
01:40:35,280 --> 01:40:37,880
Speaker 1: speak to your purpose mate, your purpose mate has to

1904
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:41,200
Speaker 1: show the compatibility element before we give our bodies to them.

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01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:44,320
Speaker 1: And what I mean by compatibility is I'm talking amazing

1906
01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:47,800
Speaker 1: communication that's an alignment with your definition of communication. I'm

1907
01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:51,840
Speaker 1: talking shared activities and interests, and I'm talking about being

1908
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: at the same place and your guys time and intention

1909
01:40:55,360 --> 01:40:57,680
Speaker 1: of what you guys want from the relationship. Right, can

1910
01:40:57,720 --> 01:40:59,840
Speaker 1: I merge my life with this person and are we

1911
01:40:59,880 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 1: have the same place in our lives in knowing what

1912
01:41:02,240 --> 01:41:04,960
Speaker 1: our purpose is and what's the game plans to fulfilling that.

1913
01:41:05,360 --> 01:41:08,400
Speaker 1: So I'm huge on strategy and it's something that I've

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01:41:08,439 --> 01:41:11,240
Speaker 1: created my whole method around when it comes to manifesting

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01:41:11,280 --> 01:41:14,640
Speaker 1: what you truly want. I'm not just about words and emotions.

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01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm about I'm about yes, manifestation. But we do that

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01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:21,439
Speaker 1: through behavioral changes and actions. What's this game plan look like? Well?

1918
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:24,519
Speaker 1: It really interesting. So when one because you know a

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01:41:24,560 --> 01:41:28,160
Speaker 1: lot of the big companies out there making money of matchmaking,

1920
01:41:28,320 --> 01:41:31,799
Speaker 1: and then you just you know, you just ficy body. Okay,

1921
01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:35,160
Speaker 1: So how do you compete with the big ballers out there?

1922
01:41:35,240 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: They got the million dollar commercial brands, you know, they

1923
01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:42,160
Speaker 1: on social media, they do geofencing on couples, you know,

1924
01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:45,920
Speaker 1: and it's credibility. How how did you manage to, you know,

1925
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:49,599
Speaker 1: start defining your lane and being on major talk shows

1926
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 1: and being an advice person? How did that happen? I

1927
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:56,840
Speaker 1: think a part of my success has been driven not

1928
01:41:56,920 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: just from the branding component of understanding what my brand is,

1929
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:02,360
Speaker 1: but also, and I'll tell this to my datas to

1930
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:05,680
Speaker 1: what's your product differentiator? Right? What makes you different or

1931
01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 1: sets you apart from what else is on the market.

1932
01:42:08,439 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 1: And so when we speak in business terms, there's tons

1933
01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:15,040
Speaker 1: of other matchmaking companies, there's tons of competitors completely understand that,

1934
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 1: but what they're not doing is giving you the personal

1935
01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:21,240
Speaker 1: relationship coaching that comes with the matchmaking. I can introduce

1936
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:24,680
Speaker 1: you to a hundred people, but if I don't know

1937
01:42:24,720 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: how to raise your vibration, if I don't know your strengths,

1938
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:31,200
Speaker 1: your weaknesses, opportunities and threats um which is what I

1939
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:34,120
Speaker 1: do for my clients a squat analysis, right, really understanding

1940
01:42:34,120 --> 01:42:37,080
Speaker 1: their character, what their beliefs are, you know what's there,

1941
01:42:37,160 --> 01:42:40,320
Speaker 1: what's holding them back, what's their limiting beliefs, Really understanding

1942
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:43,120
Speaker 1: who they are as a person and developing that personal tension.

1943
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:45,360
Speaker 1: How am I going to set you up with your

1944
01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:48,200
Speaker 1: purpose mate when we haven't even gotten to the root

1945
01:42:48,360 --> 01:42:50,799
Speaker 1: of you know who you are, some of your childhood traumas.

1946
01:42:50,920 --> 01:42:53,840
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of coaching that comes with my program.

1947
01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:56,320
Speaker 1: In addition to the weekly coaching, you also get an

1948
01:42:56,320 --> 01:43:00,479
Speaker 1: image consultant, I redo your look. You also get a

1949
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:03,120
Speaker 1: professional astrologist as someone who's telling me what are the

1950
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:05,560
Speaker 1: best zodiac signs are for you. I also have a

1951
01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:08,120
Speaker 1: marriage and damn family therapists on staff. And then I

1952
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 1: also redo your online dating profile. So everything that we're

1953
01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:14,719
Speaker 1: doing is transformational. And we even have a fitness coach

1954
01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:18,040
Speaker 1: should we need to like help you from a health standpoint.

1955
01:43:18,439 --> 01:43:22,839
Speaker 1: So it's full, full encompassing and very hands on, whereas

1956
01:43:22,840 --> 01:43:26,160
Speaker 1: other matchmaking companies are just setting you up and they're

1957
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 1: like good luck, now pay my tin kkay, my twenty k,

1958
01:43:29,760 --> 01:43:32,120
Speaker 1: and they're not really working on who you are as

1959
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:35,720
Speaker 1: a person and getting to the root of relationship development.

1960
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:38,440
Speaker 1: And I think that's what you know, my main emphasis

1961
01:43:38,520 --> 01:43:40,880
Speaker 1: is is that interpersonal development and how do I help

1962
01:43:40,920 --> 01:43:43,360
Speaker 1: you become the best version of yourself so that you

1963
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: can reach relationship actualization. Uh, hopefully you've trade bok purpose

1964
01:43:49,040 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 1: made have you You're just giving, You're giving, You're giving

1965
01:43:53,120 --> 01:43:54,840
Speaker 1: me a bar right there. We're working on it right now.

1966
01:43:56,760 --> 01:43:59,240
Speaker 1: Things that have to trade market addition to it, to

1967
01:43:59,360 --> 01:44:01,439
Speaker 1: the spicy life which you already have and spicy money.

1968
01:44:01,800 --> 01:44:03,800
Speaker 1: But I have five things in the in the queue

1969
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:06,479
Speaker 1: right now, right because I know I'm just sitting there

1970
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:08,559
Speaker 1: there just looking at you because you know you got it,

1971
01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:11,479
Speaker 1: you know, and I like a talent all the time.

1972
01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:13,240
Speaker 1: I'll be coming for you when I get my book.

1973
01:44:13,280 --> 01:44:17,080
Speaker 1: I need your help problems. I've developed money making conversation

1974
01:44:17,120 --> 01:44:18,639
Speaker 1: as a voice. You know, a lot of people wanted

1975
01:44:18,640 --> 01:44:21,200
Speaker 1: me to mentor them and also give them advice where

1976
01:44:21,200 --> 01:44:23,000
Speaker 1: I can do that in interviews. And also if you

1977
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:25,639
Speaker 1: listen to the interviews that I do with talented people

1978
01:44:25,680 --> 01:44:28,400
Speaker 1: like you, maybe you can take those little moments of

1979
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:34,200
Speaker 1: enthusiasm or information because it's tied to both, because successful

1980
01:44:34,200 --> 01:44:38,360
Speaker 1: people are driven by their hard work also by their excitement,

1981
01:44:38,600 --> 01:44:40,640
Speaker 1: like you're excited about what you do. I don't know

1982
01:44:40,720 --> 01:44:43,919
Speaker 1: anybody who who makes a lot of money and unhappy

1983
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:46,839
Speaker 1: they're gonna change the game. You know, I'm not unhappy

1984
01:44:46,920 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 1: or anything I do. I wake up happy. That gets

1985
01:44:49,120 --> 01:44:50,920
Speaker 1: me out of bed, That gets me out the front door,

1986
01:44:51,240 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 1: and it also causes me to return home so I

1987
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:56,200
Speaker 1: can rest up and do it again the next day. Now, Spicy,

1988
01:44:56,240 --> 01:44:58,799
Speaker 1: you know it said yes it's important in the learning

1989
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:02,640
Speaker 1: of say yes now in relationships. You've always heard the

1990
01:45:02,640 --> 01:45:06,880
Speaker 1: word now to say no now, and you is learning

1991
01:45:06,920 --> 01:45:09,679
Speaker 1: how to say yes because that's the last of the

1992
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:13,360
Speaker 1: terms with spices s P I C Y Y stands

1993
01:45:13,400 --> 01:45:17,880
Speaker 1: for yes. So talk about that. So the reason why

1994
01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:20,880
Speaker 1: yes it's so important is um exactly for what you said,

1995
01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:24,680
Speaker 1: right society and what's going on culturally right now is

1996
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:29,760
Speaker 1: that the you know, rate of marriage for millennial age

1997
01:45:29,760 --> 01:45:33,320
Speaker 1: groups is slowing down as far as like the time

1998
01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:36,160
Speaker 1: that we're choosing to get married in our lives. Right,

1999
01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 1: So there's all of this um fear based around why

2000
01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:41,920
Speaker 1: we need to wait, why we need to be making

2001
01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:44,839
Speaker 1: slower decisions, because you know, we saw what our parents

2002
01:45:44,840 --> 01:45:47,479
Speaker 1: did and our parents parents, and because the divorce rate

2003
01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:50,719
Speaker 1: is so high, we're now dating from a place of fear.

2004
01:45:51,240 --> 01:45:52,880
Speaker 1: And so when you date from a place of fear,

2005
01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:55,920
Speaker 1: that's a scarcity mindset. You're going to be limited in

2006
01:45:56,120 --> 01:45:58,360
Speaker 1: what you believe your options are. You're gonna be limited

2007
01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:01,280
Speaker 1: and what you believe that you can tract. So when

2008
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:03,760
Speaker 1: I hear limiting beliefs, I have to help you with

2009
01:46:03,920 --> 01:46:07,400
Speaker 1: raising your vibration and having not a scarcity mindset but

2010
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:10,360
Speaker 1: an abundance mindset. And when we have an abundance mindset,

2011
01:46:10,400 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 1: it means that we don't have to be afraid of

2012
01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:15,120
Speaker 1: the unknown. It means that we can take risks and

2013
01:46:15,200 --> 01:46:18,160
Speaker 1: step into them with strategy, right, Because I believe in risk,

2014
01:46:18,320 --> 01:46:21,400
Speaker 1: but I believe in calculating risks. So when you're dating,

2015
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: you're going through the process, or even when you're in partnership,

2016
01:46:24,600 --> 01:46:28,520
Speaker 1: really evaluating you know, the choices that you're making researching

2017
01:46:28,680 --> 01:46:30,840
Speaker 1: you know why you want this relationship and what's that

2018
01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:33,759
Speaker 1: looks like, but also what's holding you back, what's stopping

2019
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:36,639
Speaker 1: you from being in a healthy, loving relationship, And when

2020
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:40,320
Speaker 1: it comes to partnership, really understanding that, yes, you want

2021
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:44,920
Speaker 1: those bubble going, warm butterfly feelings, but you really want

2022
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:47,840
Speaker 1: the person who's going to submit. And when I say submit,

2023
01:46:48,720 --> 01:46:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the person who says yes to what's

2024
01:46:52,200 --> 01:46:54,760
Speaker 1: healthiest for the relationship. I'm not talking about, you know,

2025
01:46:55,040 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: bending down on one knee or doing whatever your partner says.

2026
01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:01,920
Speaker 1: When I talk submission, I'm saying about what am I

2027
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:05,320
Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice in this relationship to have what I want?

2028
01:47:05,439 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 1: Because you're not going to get percent of the person, right,

2029
01:47:08,160 --> 01:47:10,719
Speaker 1: I definitely believe in the So what are you willing

2030
01:47:10,760 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 1: to sacrifice about you? Your personality that's not serving you,

2031
01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:15,559
Speaker 1: that's holding you back? And then what are you willing

2032
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:18,280
Speaker 1: to sacrifice from a behavioral standpoint and making sure that

2033
01:47:18,320 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 1: your partner's love language is fed. And oftentimes we want

2034
01:47:21,560 --> 01:47:23,320
Speaker 1: to you know, I want to put these boundaries up,

2035
01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:24,720
Speaker 1: I want to put these walls up. And we're so

2036
01:47:24,800 --> 01:47:28,480
Speaker 1: guarded because we're afraid to love. So my whole emphasis

2037
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:32,640
Speaker 1: around yes is like, okay, let's pushack past these boundaries.

2038
01:47:32,800 --> 01:47:34,680
Speaker 1: And if we believe that we can actually have what

2039
01:47:34,720 --> 01:47:36,640
Speaker 1: we want, what are we afraid of? We just have

2040
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:40,040
Speaker 1: to step into our future self and go get it. Wow.

2041
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:46,080
Speaker 1: Communication heavy, It's heavy, right degree in communication communicate because

2042
01:47:46,120 --> 01:47:48,479
Speaker 1: you girl, I can talk that now. I know. I

2043
01:47:48,520 --> 01:47:50,200
Speaker 1: gotta I at least gott to bring this up. You know,

2044
01:47:50,640 --> 01:47:54,680
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris was named what they liked it

2045
01:47:55,360 --> 01:48:02,200
Speaker 1: and so you getting ready let me you know, and

2046
01:48:02,240 --> 01:48:05,720
Speaker 1: she's she's she's a member of I think, I think

2047
01:48:05,760 --> 01:48:09,240
Speaker 1: I remember that you remember of So just talk about

2048
01:48:09,280 --> 01:48:13,920
Speaker 1: the pride of being the sisterhood of A K S

2049
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:16,439
Speaker 1: and being her being a member of the A k

2050
01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:21,639
Speaker 1: R A k sorority. Absolutely, I think that it's very

2051
01:48:21,680 --> 01:48:24,240
Speaker 1: well known that, right, we pride ourselves on you know,

2052
01:48:24,400 --> 01:48:27,920
Speaker 1: high morals and ethical standards, and so being able to

2053
01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:31,439
Speaker 1: see you know, us represented now um not just in

2054
01:48:31,439 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 1: the White House, also making history and also being you know,

2055
01:48:35,320 --> 01:48:39,320
Speaker 1: connected to my sorority of Alpha cupa Alpha. I have

2056
01:48:39,800 --> 01:48:43,360
Speaker 1: so much pride in the fact that like, we did

2057
01:48:43,400 --> 01:48:45,960
Speaker 1: it right. And when I say we did it as

2058
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:50,080
Speaker 1: as a community, um as you know, Greek organizations all around.

2059
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:51,840
Speaker 1: She represents all of us. I don't want to, you know,

2060
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:54,439
Speaker 1: just exclude. She just happens to be you know, an

2061
01:48:54,479 --> 01:48:58,240
Speaker 1: a k A. The first and finest. But I take

2062
01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:01,040
Speaker 1: I take pride on behalf of all of my brothers

2063
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 1: and sisters. When you know, we see her up there,

2064
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:07,599
Speaker 1: you know, on the podium or next to the president, knowing,

2065
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:11,880
Speaker 1: understanding the responsibility that she has, and knowing because her

2066
01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:13,880
Speaker 1: core values and what she stands for and what she

2067
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:15,640
Speaker 1: believes in, that she's going to make sure that she

2068
01:49:15,680 --> 01:49:18,479
Speaker 1: takes care of us and represents us um you know,

2069
01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:21,040
Speaker 1: to the best of her ability. So there's you know,

2070
01:49:21,120 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 1: there was that moment when I cried um when she

2071
01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:29,200
Speaker 1: got elected. But definitely, you know, was was huge and

2072
01:49:29,240 --> 01:49:31,040
Speaker 1: excited when I even first heard that she was on

2073
01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:33,600
Speaker 1: the ballot, and then to see her make history on

2074
01:49:33,800 --> 01:49:37,760
Speaker 1: multiple things, on multiple levels, even you know, me being biracial,

2075
01:49:37,840 --> 01:49:40,120
Speaker 1: seeing a biracial woman up there, like, there's so many

2076
01:49:40,160 --> 01:49:43,519
Speaker 1: things that I connect with her on that I'm you're

2077
01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 1: gonna get the emotional right now, but but just the

2078
01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:50,800
Speaker 1: joy in my heart right my spirit was uplifted and

2079
01:49:50,840 --> 01:49:53,479
Speaker 1: super excited for my future offspring to be able to

2080
01:49:53,520 --> 01:49:56,680
Speaker 1: see her in there, you know, and and what she represents.

2081
01:49:56,720 --> 01:49:58,960
Speaker 1: It means a lot to me and to my community. Well,

2082
01:49:58,960 --> 01:50:02,200
Speaker 1: you know, you're of money making. Money making conversation is

2083
01:50:02,280 --> 01:50:05,600
Speaker 1: business money and that is. But also you know, a

2084
01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:11,479
Speaker 1: weekly uh clubhouse you know, so I don't you know,

2085
01:50:11,600 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 1: you know you're willing to have people for free to

2086
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:18,639
Speaker 1: talk about that and we're wrapping up. Yeah, so I

2087
01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:21,080
Speaker 1: love um. I love clubhouse because it gives me an

2088
01:50:21,080 --> 01:50:24,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to give relationship advice. Weekly on Sundays, I usually

2089
01:50:24,960 --> 01:50:29,320
Speaker 1: hold a forum where I'm giving relationship coaching and giving

2090
01:50:29,360 --> 01:50:31,960
Speaker 1: spicy tips out there. It's not as full hands on

2091
01:50:32,040 --> 01:50:34,760
Speaker 1: as of course my program or my E course that

2092
01:50:34,840 --> 01:50:37,760
Speaker 1: I just rolled out, which is UM six weeks that

2093
01:50:37,800 --> 01:50:41,719
Speaker 1: I'm doing giving the spicy relationship coaching and helping people

2094
01:50:41,840 --> 01:50:45,440
Speaker 1: attract their purpose mate, but it does provide an opportunity

2095
01:50:45,479 --> 01:50:47,000
Speaker 1: for these people to get a taste to fill up

2096
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:49,600
Speaker 1: their cup, kind of like Sunday Church. When I do

2097
01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:53,439
Speaker 1: my clubhouse events, it gives people an opportunity to ask

2098
01:50:53,439 --> 01:50:56,479
Speaker 1: me questions and just get some clarity around what they

2099
01:50:56,520 --> 01:50:59,400
Speaker 1: may be experiencing. And then I also provide if they

2100
01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:01,360
Speaker 1: need to feel their come up even more so that

2101
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 1: they have an abundant supporting to others. Also provide my

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