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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: people who have a music background. I've been in the

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Speaker 1: music Whenever they had their intro, they just go, like

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Speaker 1: Patton Labell, she went, can you play that beat back

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Speaker 1: for me? Please? Each money Making Conversation radio talk shows

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Speaker 1: about entrepreneurship and entertainment, I provide the consuming business owner

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Speaker 1: financial literacy, and how they lead their balance life. It's

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Speaker 1: something I was not able to accomplish. I feel I've

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Speaker 1: turned the corner and I'm doing a much better job

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Speaker 1: who am trying to live a much more comfortable life

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Speaker 1: than I did. My next guest is in the studio

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Speaker 1: with me. I would love it when you come in.

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Speaker 1: He's a husband, father, singer, songwriter, actor, and philanthropists he

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Speaker 1: has gathered. He has garnered many awards and honors since

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Speaker 1: entering the music business in including a Grammy Award, MTV

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Speaker 1: album and two go albums. He's in studio to talk

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Speaker 1: about Q Parker Productions, Q Parker Legacy Foundation, the Bridge Project,

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Speaker 1: and to shift into music with a purpose. Please work

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Speaker 1: with the money making conversation. Q Parker, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Thank you nephew before we got on air, and go

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Speaker 1: look at it man. I hope you don't think you

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Speaker 1: just just saw me for a short term. It's not

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Speaker 1: a one off. This is not a one off, and

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Speaker 1: that's important. I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm originally from there.

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Speaker 1: I moved here to Atlanta in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 1: to qualifying. I'm here, you know, one of us. Now,

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Speaker 1: I drove by the game on Sunday and I saw

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that many black people went to Atlanta

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Speaker 1: This is a black game. This is I feel like

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Speaker 1: I was an HBCU game black people, and so I

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Speaker 1: know about the Atlanta. Now let's talk about you, your career,

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Speaker 1: your brand. Now you say shifting music, talk about that first,

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Speaker 1: because that's that's that's that's really your base. Okay. Shifting

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Speaker 1: music simply means connecting with your purpose and understanding that, uh,

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Speaker 1: your gift will make room for you. And I've been

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Speaker 1: able to be in the music entertainment industry for over

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Speaker 1: to impact people in a more positive way, you know,

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Speaker 1: being a teenager myself with my group members, we made

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Speaker 1: songs that just we're you know, real life situations, um relationships,

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Speaker 1: one of the most influential pieces of information is music.

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Speaker 1: And so all the music that I make, I wanted

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Speaker 1: I would just corner as it. It's it's from my heart.

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Speaker 1: inspiring individuals. It's really interesting. I know that I'm still

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at a multitasking individual. When did that start

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Speaker 1: certain energy to come talk to you now based on

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Speaker 1: so know that the negativity is really tied to them

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a plus anti MICUs because you really

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Speaker 1: want your brand to be exposed. What people understand that

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Speaker 1: But when I was when I was just evaluating you

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Speaker 1: you ready to really accept the responsibility that God has

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Speaker 1: the gift, but what's really really inside a U Q,

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Speaker 1: what what is your legacy going to say? Is it

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Speaker 1: of who is this real? Q Parker? And see i've i've.

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Speaker 1: a philanthropy, is also an active He's also an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: He's also this, this, this, this, this, It makes you

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Speaker 1: We know what this is would really excites you. You

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Speaker 1: So the brunch is it's this father's son sand Cofa

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Speaker 1: can that bird? You can't. So it's it's an opportunity

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Speaker 1: know that my brother appreciates me, which is why Brothers

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Speaker 1: Because we want everybody to know every man. I had

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Speaker 1: in your in your portfolio, it's really amazing and it

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Speaker 1: we talked about the life leading up to Courier. What

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Speaker 1: an athlete. Okay, let's talk about lifestyle for the culture.

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Speaker 1: And we're talking to Deandra Alex So. Lifestyle for the

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Speaker 1: culture is a lifestyle management and PR firm. And I

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Speaker 1: I have been a service to so many athletes. I've

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Speaker 1: I think the title means explains what is more than

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Speaker 1: an athlete? More than an athlete? And then and then

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Speaker 1: this representation of being more than an athlete is what

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Speaker 1: Magic Johnson says. All these people who go out there

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Speaker 1: having me. I truly appreciate it. Um. I could definitely

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Speaker 1: And uh and you have been, by the way, a

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Speaker 1: I've been in the up ending the position to talk

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Speaker 1: to friends of mine who have been successful in this business,

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Speaker 1: and also my next guest. I've always wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: to this guy because he's just so talented, and I

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Speaker 1: just want to get into his head and find out

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Speaker 1: when he found these natural gifts outside of athletics, which

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Speaker 1: is acting My next guess is a film and television actor, businessman,

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Speaker 1: retired basketball player, and e sports franchise owner. He played

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Speaker 1: in the NBA for the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers,

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Speaker 1: storied franchises, winning three NBA titles. You know you're doing

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Speaker 1: welcome to the money Making Conversations, Rick Fox, Hello, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for having me. Hey, Rick, this man.

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Speaker 1: You went to North Carolina, right, Okay, So Tarrya Tarya

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Speaker 1: baby doing your thing back then? Now where did where

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Speaker 1: did the acting? Papa? Would your degree? Would you do

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Speaker 1: academic training and drama or something? When did acting? Papa?

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Speaker 1: What would your degree? Player? Carolina? Yeah, I was in

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Speaker 1: college from seven to ninety one, and at that time

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Speaker 1: I started off as an econ major for a season

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Speaker 1: and it was very taxing and I did well enough

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Speaker 1: that semester, but I realized I didn't have between you know,

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Speaker 1: basketball practices under Dean Smith and academics at Carolina as

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Speaker 1: well as a social life. It was something that I

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Speaker 1: knew was gonna be hard to manage all three. At

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Speaker 1: the same time, I was starting to blossom as a

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Speaker 1: an NBA player potentially, so finding you know, what I

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Speaker 1: would do in my career after basketball. I knew I would.

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Speaker 1: I knew i'd be in the NBA, and so it

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Speaker 1: was an opportunity to look at what was that major

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Speaker 1: that I could take that I could transition out of

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Speaker 1: the career in sports in two So I figured, you know, look,

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Speaker 1: radio television emotional pictures was something from an entertainment standpoint

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Speaker 1: I'd be able to use as a broadcaster, as someone

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Speaker 1: in the future. So I studied radio television motion pictures

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Speaker 1: from the communication standpoint, and in my senior year it

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Speaker 1: was you know, you don't hear that a lot senior year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: years in college man graduated. Uh you know, I come

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Speaker 1: from the air where you didn't really leave school unless

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Speaker 1: you were Michael Jordan's and then you didn't even leave

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Speaker 1: until after your junior year. So I took a drama class,

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Speaker 1: which was a part of the elective as a radio

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Speaker 1: television and most picture I took an art class. And

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Speaker 1: it was in that moment when I took those two classes,

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Speaker 1: I realized that there was an artist in me, a

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Speaker 1: creative side that I didn't know existed. And if I

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Speaker 1: my degree probably would have been in drama. But I

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Speaker 1: finished and graduated, and I knew at that point I

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Speaker 1: wanted to explore it some more. And so, you know,

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Speaker 1: as I started my NBA career, about the second year

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Speaker 1: into my career, an opportunity to audition for a movie

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Speaker 1: and I made an attempt to try and be hired

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Speaker 1: as an actor. We have my friend, um, you know

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Speaker 1: I have. I'm speaking to Rick Fox. Uh uh, NBA champion.

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Speaker 1: We're not We're reformer. He's an NBA champion, three time

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Speaker 1: NBA champion. He's on the show to talk about one

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Speaker 1: more detail, you had a sweet jumper, a sweet jumper.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know you three point shooter just looking

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Speaker 1: at the game today, you know, because you know you

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Speaker 1: get slapped or hitting mid range jumpers nowadays it seems

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Speaker 1: you know about hit you in the back of your

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Speaker 1: heat and the coach might throw a basketball back of

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Speaker 1: your here nowadays, So what do you say to that?

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Speaker 1: Is that is that smart basketball? Or or is that

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Speaker 1: just the way the game is nowadays? It's the game today.

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Speaker 1: I come from a different era. We you know, we

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Speaker 1: did that. We shot threes, but we didn't shoot you know,

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Speaker 1: fifty four threes in the game. Yeah, strategic three, strategic three. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: today's today's game is just a different brand of basketball.

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Speaker 1: And it's not to say that it's not, um the

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Speaker 1: way to play the game. I don't. I choose not

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Speaker 1: to really judge this error's basketball or something. That's not

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Speaker 1: what I'm judging it. Rick, I'm judging r Sean McDonald

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Speaker 1: judging it. Man. If you do see these guys, Man,

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Speaker 1: come on, I see these guys. He's definitely behind this

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Speaker 1: back together a nice lottle eighteen seventy foot jumper step back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know it's it's put it this way.

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Speaker 1: Taken me a lot of years to to to tune in,

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Speaker 1: uh and accept that as as you know, the brand

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Speaker 1: of basketball that I would I would coach or I

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Speaker 1: would I would want to play. Um, it must be fun,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, and very rewarding financially two guys, because statistically

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Speaker 1: you can see that they can put up a lot

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Speaker 1: of statistics volume volume. But is it winning? Is it winning?

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Speaker 1: Is it winning basketball? In some cases it's been winning

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Speaker 1: basketball for some teams. But I think when you have

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Speaker 1: thirty teams trying to do the same thing, not every

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Speaker 1: player is capable of shooting from the range that we

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Speaker 1: see step shooting from now, or that we even see

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Speaker 1: one or two big men shooting from. But everyone he like,

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Speaker 1: you're passing the ball on the other side of the

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Speaker 1: shooting Yeah, trade king, you get the ball my error

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Speaker 1: in my area, you could take the shot from that distance.

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Speaker 1: They don't miss. You were sitting on the bench the

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Speaker 1: rest of the game. I mean, I mean, y'all crazy.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm based in Atlanta, basic uson, So I

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Speaker 1: always have interesting stories because I always remember Game seven

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Speaker 1: when I used to lost the Golden State. They missed

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Speaker 1: like twenty seven three pointers in a row. Something like

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Speaker 1: it something incredible, you know all that you just drive

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Speaker 1: it to go, just driveing to go later, just just

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Speaker 1: determined to hit three points in law. It was just

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Speaker 1: the most most tragic thing I ever saw in my life,

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Speaker 1: because you know that was that was a series where

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Speaker 1: you know, Charles Brock to tell you, you know, and

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Speaker 1: live and die by the by the by the jump shot,

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Speaker 1: the teams. I've seen teams that have the teams assistently

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Speaker 1: and it really is. And so so now let's go

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Speaker 1: over to the active because I wanted to talk about

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Speaker 1: that a little bit because I became a fan and

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Speaker 1: you know, when you look at people, you you see

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Speaker 1: the talents and you're a good looking guy and then

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Speaker 1: you a talent athlete when you made your you know,

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Speaker 1: I know the first appearance in acting, it really caught

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Speaker 1: my eye was Oz you know use the show. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, you I was like you, you

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Speaker 1: look like you look like a basketball player that needed

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Speaker 1: to be in jail, right, you know what I'm saying

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Speaker 1: because you know, Antana a great cast of actors in

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Speaker 1: that in that TV series that kind of broke the

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Speaker 1: cable mode, unlocked cable television for its grittiness. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's nudities, language, the graphic content, and they pushed,

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Speaker 1: they pushed the boundaries and odds was pretty much that

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Speaker 1: first show some twenty something years ago that did that.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I didn't know it at the time, but

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Speaker 1: and it was it was. It was amazing to work

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Speaker 1: with the talent, talented actors that if you look at

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Speaker 1: the roster they that went on to man today there

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Speaker 1: they start in some of the top movies and TV

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Speaker 1: shows out there. Tell us what the movie exactly is about?

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Speaker 1: One Fine Christmas was premier is Friday the Women fifteen

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Speaker 1: NAPM Eastern and Pacific on O tell us what the

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Speaker 1: movie is about? Well, it's all the movies and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know at this time of the year, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't get I personally can't get enough of them.

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Speaker 1: U big fan here, big fan, big fan. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: setting the tone of family being the most important thing

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Speaker 1: and as you know, you know, getting together at the

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Speaker 1: holidays is not always the easiest thing to do. It

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Speaker 1: brings brings families together, but it brings up a lot

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Speaker 1: of a lot of feelings and emotions amongst and around yourselves. Um,

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Speaker 1: in this case, you know, if you stop and really

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Speaker 1: just you know, take in those that are loved and

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Speaker 1: those that are around you. I play a character Roger,

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Speaker 1: who gets stuck in in in the city who's who's

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Speaker 1: doing it, has business relationship with Susan, the character that

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Speaker 1: is the mother of Sasha's character Haley, Haley's home for

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Speaker 1: the holidays. Her mom is one of those go getting,

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Speaker 1: NonStop working individuals that isn't is watching the Holly season

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Speaker 1: and and be present with her family, and because three

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Speaker 1: storylines and my storyline with Susan and Haley are just

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Speaker 1: just the element of the romantic potential relationship during the

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Speaker 1: holidays that comes together and played by Vanessa Williams, not

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Speaker 1: my wife, former wife, but the other Vannessa Williams that

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Speaker 1: she's always had to explain that throughout her acting career.

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Speaker 1: By the way, both bad, yeah and uh. But it

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Speaker 1: was nice to meet her and work with her, I

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Speaker 1: thin because that obviously followed her from her work as well,

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Speaker 1: and it was it was a bit of an inside

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Speaker 1: joke for us all be on set and at the

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Speaker 1: same time, you know, be working with uh. Sasha's other moms.

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Speaker 1: It's really interested in looking at your brand. Now, E

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Speaker 1: franchise owner. I was looking at the Bowlers, which is

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Speaker 1: on HBO, and they had one of the characters was

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Speaker 1: doing in that direction being an E franchise the owner,

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Speaker 1: what exactly is that rick? Professional sports owner. I think

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Speaker 1: of owners that own the Lakers or Celtics, UM level

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Speaker 1: protein traditional sporting team. You you you may be a

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Speaker 1: fan of UM. This generation is it's grown to a

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Speaker 1: level where the technology is unlocked, the opportunity for a

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Speaker 1: global a global presence around video games, whether it's the

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Speaker 1: viewing of them and the introgon of watching them and

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Speaker 1: watching people playing them, or the your desire to actually

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Speaker 1: compete at the highest level of making a career yourself. Now,

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Speaker 1: because I saw this special over six minutes they was

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Speaker 1: talking about you know, they got a it's like a

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Speaker 1: little team. You know, they're in the house. They gotta practice,

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Speaker 1: they gotta you know, they gotta train over and over

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Speaker 1: and you gotta try to recruit the best players for

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Speaker 1: your team. Is that's high set up for you as well?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, this is this is pro pro sports

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know I got into the five years

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Speaker 1: was a million dollars and it was in a short

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Speaker 1: for from just you have these sports brands uh and

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Speaker 1: teams that are valued at for under million dollars. You

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Speaker 1: know ours hasn't reached out. Would you what you say,

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Speaker 1: I need to slappy Rick Fox? What do you just say? Man? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, yeah, I know they get what did you

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Speaker 1: call money making conversations four or five years ago? You know,

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Speaker 1: did not be happy with your brother, And I knew

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Speaker 1: I could have got us a Ford million dollar franchise tag,

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Speaker 1: because that's what I do, brother, That's what I do.

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Speaker 1: But well, let me tell you the gaming industry at

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Speaker 1: large a massive industry. It's it's larger than the end

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Speaker 1: of it's the largest, you know industry entertainment. It's it's

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Speaker 1: quite doubles music and TV and movies. So so when

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Speaker 1: you think of the opportunities in the sports community around

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Speaker 1: video games in general at large, you know, the possibilities

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Speaker 1: are endless. And so we grew up, as you know,

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Speaker 1: You tell, you tell a kid died in this generation,

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Speaker 1: he'll just leave the house and go to his phone

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Speaker 1: and play video games on his phone. Because my daughter,

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Speaker 1: she's in game design. She's in game design. She said,

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Speaker 1: she's a she's a national honorst side the deans of

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Speaker 1: student in game design. So I, my man, I know

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Speaker 1: what you're doing is is not only cutting age with

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Speaker 1: the call. First of all, tell you I'm a fan

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Speaker 1: of your your skill, you're You're a fan of you

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Speaker 1: what you've done with your career and what you are

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Speaker 1: doing with your career, not only from an acting education,

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Speaker 1: So I know where you're coming from. I know the

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Speaker 1: around my neck, I knew that was a proud moment

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Speaker 1: for me. So again, one fine Christmas premieres Friday, you

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Speaker 1: Pacific Own network. My man, I appreciate you calling the

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Speaker 1: be there for you from anything that you do. You

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Speaker 1: need me to promote your franchise, just let me know.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it for you. Okay, thank you, AP appreciate it. Hi,

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Speaker 1: Of course, Rasha McDonald. I am the host of this

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Speaker 1: just general questions because it's very curious. My next guest,

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Speaker 1: UH career has been compromised primarily of comprise. Excuse me, UH, compromise.

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Speaker 1: My next career has been comprised primarily playing key roles

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Speaker 1: and startups, aiding the evolution to be to be social

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Speaker 1: life that he developed his cific accountability and political awareness.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversation, Horace Williams. And how

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Speaker 1: you doing? My friend here? Right, I can't complain and blessed,

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Speaker 1: I know that's right. Come on now we woke up

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Speaker 1: and I wish you people. Wasn't that a long clock

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Speaker 1: that woke you up? Either? Okay? Yeah, absolutely cool. Now

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Speaker 1: let's talk about your career, your life. You're an HBCU

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Speaker 1: grad correct an Absolutely, I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Let let's talk about that. Because a lot of my

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Speaker 1: a lot of my stations that care of my show

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Speaker 1: HBCU schools, and so whenever I identified guests who is

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Speaker 1: significance of what hbcuh an attending an HBCU school shaped

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Speaker 1: your life academically and socially. Can you expound on that?

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Speaker 1: It's becub of the easiest question you can ask me. UM,

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Speaker 1: don't tell on the anti in particular. UM, I actually

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Speaker 1: is very interesting scenario. I got in there, umption because

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Speaker 1: I'm still that of high school in New York, and UM,

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Speaker 1: I had teachers who are extreme we proactive, UH. In

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Speaker 1: the process of me, you know, coming into the school

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Speaker 1: and realizing things like you know, they called me out,

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Speaker 1: they said, hey, hard you answer all my questions and

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Speaker 1: and they took the time out to study with me

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Speaker 1: and work with me. They were very intentional about my success,

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Speaker 1: and I was not accustomed to that um and the

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Speaker 1: high school. I went to New York too, and as

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Speaker 1: a result, I waited in three years with honors after

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Speaker 1: coming in on academic location, And that was completely a

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Speaker 1: by product of the faculty. They're seeing my potential and

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Speaker 1: then on addition to that giving me opportunities, giving me,

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Speaker 1: giving me opportunity, money, you know everything. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I will Amy will hold the special places my off forever.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure a lot of people feel the same

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Speaker 1: about their HBCUs. You know, HPC user known for their

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Speaker 1: their mighty bands and the athletics and athletic programs and

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Speaker 1: from the academic side that they're not getting credit for that.

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Speaker 1: And when I think of programs like you know, empowered,

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Speaker 1: because it's based on information and when you provide people

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Speaker 1: with information, you're educating them. And so tell us about

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Speaker 1: what is Empowered. Interestingly enough, like I said, it's just

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Speaker 1: it's great that you framed it almost is an educational offering,

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Speaker 1: because this is our segue into how I believe we

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Speaker 1: what it does is it allows you to partake and

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Speaker 1: engaging elected officials by having one access to them, but

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Speaker 1: then to understanding what they do. Um what we try

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of time and effort is a

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Speaker 1: I think we want to get the right people elected

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Speaker 1: to represent us and invest in that. But what they

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Speaker 1: do in office, the things that we complain about lobbyists doing,

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Speaker 1: and you know, large companies and organizations controlling our government,

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Speaker 1: that's the advocacy component. And we really need to play

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Speaker 1: a stronger role of the society and engaging officials while

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Speaker 1: they're in office in order to change our economic circumstances

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Speaker 1: in many cases, so that's where power plays a role

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Speaker 1: engagement between constituents and elected officials. Elected officials. Now let's

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Speaker 1: go back a little bit here, because I got it.

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Speaker 1: this is a little bit more detailed, maybe and maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm stepping too far in this conversation base about you know,

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Speaker 1: the way the Russians played a role in in the

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Speaker 1: political election of twenty sixteen. How they were able to,

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Speaker 1: you know, get information on certain people, the way they thought,

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Speaker 1: the way they walked, where they talked. They would just

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Speaker 1: swayed there through through campaign campaign information, you know, by saying,

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Speaker 1: if you this person walks and talks this way, where

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Speaker 1: we keep walking and talking this way, we can lead

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Speaker 1: them down his path? What is different from what you're

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Speaker 1: trying to do. Well, So here's an interesting thing when

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Speaker 1: we talk about the Russian piece, right, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: and I come from a like a social media technology

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Speaker 1: listening background, we're talking about. What we're talking about is

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Speaker 1: is that they've basically leveraged the the fault of digital

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Speaker 1: advertising and use it against us to create these little

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Speaker 1: small bubbles in the social social ecosystem where everything someone

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Speaker 1: believes is validated by something that is essentially invalid. And

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Speaker 1: what they've done is is that you know, and they

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Speaker 1: use that two you know one exposed. You know, you

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Speaker 1: know our societies, you know, are are deeper inner troubles.

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Speaker 1: But you know what happened there is is that they

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Speaker 1: we're trying to change how people think by you know,

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Speaker 1: using the same models that are used by you know,

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Speaker 1: Nike to help people by parents sneakers, right like showing

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Speaker 1: you a bunch of sneakers and saying choose one. They're

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Speaker 1: learning about you and trying to put the sneakers in

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Speaker 1: front of you that they believe you're actually going to purchase.

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Speaker 1: And that is not the way to handle politics. So

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Speaker 1: when you look at Empowered, what we try to do

881
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Speaker 1: is we try to disseminate objective information. Of course, the

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Speaker 1: board relative to your representation, right like, we're not telling

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Speaker 1: you to go one way or another. We're saying, what

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Speaker 1: are the issues that you're having. We call those clauses,

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Speaker 1: and then we use those to connect you to organizations

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Speaker 1: that you can align with for advocacy purposes or if

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Speaker 1: you have a little bit more experience, you can directly

888
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Speaker 1: engage elect officials on your own to the application. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is about maintaining your own quality of life. It's

890
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Speaker 1: not a social network. It's not if you go to

891
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Speaker 1: the app, you're not talking to a bunch of other

892
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 1: people and having a bunch of you know, communication sessions

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Speaker 1: around things that you know are you know that you

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Speaker 1: believe are important to you. This is a action driven

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Speaker 1: application and it is focused on an objective, non party bias,

896
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Speaker 1: ability to create relationships with elected officials and organizations that

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Speaker 1: allow you to you know, have the quality of life

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Speaker 1: you deserve and make that accessible to everybody. So we

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Speaker 1: are not trying to steer people one way or another

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Speaker 1: or trying to facilitate people's ability to be effectively engaged.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what you're saying. You're saying that that campaign

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Speaker 1: was specifically driven the character graph or a single mind

903
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Speaker 1: and then mark that mind mind with that single thought

904
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Speaker 1: down this lane. And you're saying, we're creating giving you

905
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Speaker 1: information about the options, the overall portal of information you

906
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Speaker 1: you with with empowered. That's an app that's free that

907
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Speaker 1: you can dialoade and when you go on that, how

908
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Speaker 1: does that walk us through the steps of how you

909
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Speaker 1: use it. How what information do you because do you

910
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Speaker 1: have to do you have to supply information into Empowered? Yes.

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Speaker 1: So what we call it especifically, what we consider internally

912
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Speaker 1: a a data exchange. Right So, Empowered manages uh data

913
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Speaker 1: for about thirty tho elected official offices. And what we

914
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Speaker 1: do that we tie those elected leader roles to your

915
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Speaker 1: jurisdiction boundaries. And then we also have partnerships with advocacy

916
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Speaker 1: groups and organizations, and we tie those groups to the

917
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Speaker 1: causes that you care about in our application. So when

918
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Speaker 1: you're giving us information about like your location or causes

919
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: you care about and other demographic pieces, we're using that

920
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Speaker 1: to align you with both your elected representation relative to

921
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Speaker 1: you know, your location in your region, from your local

922
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Speaker 1: city council in the President of the United States, and

923
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Speaker 1: we're also using it to align you with news and

924
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Speaker 1: information and organizations that are directly tied to the things

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Speaker 1: that you care about in your life. Right So, and

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Speaker 1: so that is how you know, uh, you know, we

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Speaker 1: function in terms of like a use case. For instance, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know right now we've just partnered with Partnership for

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Speaker 1: Southern Equity, which is an organization here in Atlanta that's

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Speaker 1: getting ready to you know, push the fight against Georgia

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Speaker 1: Power's increasing energy prices. So if you follow you know

932
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Speaker 1: public you know, partnership of Southern Equity in our app

933
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Speaker 1: or or any of the causes us that are tied

934
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Speaker 1: to their mission, like they will work with you in

935
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Speaker 1: our application to help lobby your public service commissioners, the

936
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Speaker 1: local elected officials they're in Georgia UM to help convince

937
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Speaker 1: them that they should fight against Georgia Power to lower

938
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Speaker 1: the energy prices. You know, these are things that people

939
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Speaker 1: don't think about when they think about political engagement in

940
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Speaker 1: many times. But our political system is is a real

941
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Speaker 1: democratic system, and it is one that is influenced either

942
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Speaker 1: directly or indirectly by your participation. So we try to

943
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Speaker 1: enable that participation through our partners, through our user based

944
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Speaker 1: in through our data. It really is interesting here you

945
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Speaker 1: talk about the whole set up with the Really you've

946
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Speaker 1: given a voice because we have lobbyists, and lobbyists are powerful,

947
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Speaker 1: and you're letting people know with social media, you can

948
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Speaker 1: now compete with the lobbies who sit in the hallways,

949
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Speaker 1: who have offices in the in the local every capital,

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Speaker 1: in every state. They have lobbyists in d C. And

951
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Speaker 1: so you're saying, through your software that just connected to

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand you said thirty correct, and now gives you Yeah,

953
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Speaker 1: it now gives you a voice to be able to

954
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Speaker 1: communicate through social media that's never been that has not

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Speaker 1: been there before. That's pretty powerful? Or is that's really powerful? Man?

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Speaker 1: You know, you you start to impress me, sir, really

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Speaker 1: really seriously, you know, but you know the thing about

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Speaker 1: it because of the fact that really, you know, because

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Speaker 1: it's so many ways social media can bring value to

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Speaker 1: the individual. You know, It's made entrepreneurs wealthy through social media,

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Speaker 1: is made athletes and stars have a voice outside of

962
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Speaker 1: outside of the craft. And then now you're saying, there's

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Speaker 1: an individual, you know, if you're having problems with the

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Speaker 1: with the local local power company, wanted to raise your fees,

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Speaker 1: then you can do it through social media and you

966
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Speaker 1: can go through this app and we can create into

967
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Speaker 1: Because ever tell you something, you used to be used

968
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Speaker 1: to write a letter to uh the general mills or

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Speaker 1: forward and complaint a letter. So they said one letter

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Speaker 1: used to be like ten thousand people. Now social media

971
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Speaker 1: is worse because now it's it's in the public's view

972
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Speaker 1: and comments get shared and it could create a mass

973
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Speaker 1: a lot of momentum. So I appreciate you, I really do,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate you coming on my show. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I created this show so lanes of information like

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Speaker 1: this can be made public because a lot of people

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Speaker 1: don't understand why this should be made public, because you

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Speaker 1: spread the words strong with more people know, more people know,

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Speaker 1: more people are educated. And that's why I considered a

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Speaker 1: UH an app for academia and education meets in a

981
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Speaker 1: political arena where you can empower people to be to

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Speaker 1: control their lives and especially in the world of social media.

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