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Speaker 2: the Blurred That's b Lerd Academy That's Black Nerds. It's

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Speaker 2: a wealth building program that helps high achieving Black American

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Speaker 2: youth get scholarships to attend HBCUs. They have secured over

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Speaker 2: eight million dollars. That's since twenty sixteen. I believe eight

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Speaker 2: Conversation Masterclass Douglas Fort Douglas.

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Speaker 1: Is that number correct? I don't want to underserve you

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Speaker 1: with a number that's incorrect, sir.

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Speaker 3: No, the number is correct, and I'm proud of Yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know something I'm telling you this week, I

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Speaker 1: am taking nine students who have a sickle sale trade

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Speaker 1: or cickle Selle. Disney worked out a deal with them

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Speaker 1: and they're going to go to a college fair that's

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Speaker 1: in Orlando. It'll be about forty HBCUs there and it'll

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Speaker 1: be h All they got to do is bringing their

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Speaker 1: you know, the rope SAT scores or ACT scores and

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Speaker 1: high school transcript and they can enroll on the spot

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Speaker 1: and they can qualify for scholarships full half of tuition.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a fan of what you're doing. I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to get that little out the way because that's

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Speaker 1: a proud moment for me, man, because be able to

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Speaker 1: playing that out. So tell us how you got involved, sir.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm a blurred myself. I'm a black nerd, but

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Speaker 3: I didn't know no better growing up in the hood.

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Speaker 3: It was just you know, you had to mask. You know,

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Speaker 3: you had to compete with tupacs and the snoop dogs

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Speaker 3: at the time. So, you know, when I got of

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Speaker 3: age and got into an argument with my actually one

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Speaker 3: of my best friends about our condition of our community

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Speaker 3: and what we was talking about. We in our community,

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Speaker 3: we highlight the entertainer, the athlete, and the misbehaved, but

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Speaker 3: all of those nerds, they don't pay no attention to us.

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Speaker 3: And so we was talking amongst ourselves. If we created

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Speaker 3: we had this type of insight and information, how much

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Speaker 3: further will be as young men being black nerds in

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Speaker 3: this environment. So we created it and there are to

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Speaker 3: both graduates from HBCUs. He went to Howard University. I

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Speaker 3: graduated from Jackson State University. And we started off just

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Speaker 3: trying to you know, hey, where is the money at right,

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Speaker 3: And we went from there and we was able to

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Speaker 3: build relationships with these sbcus and get these kids in.

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Speaker 3: So that's how it started.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I want to say I'm a nerd

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Speaker 1: to my degree is in mathematics. Okay, I'm a black nerd.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna claim it. I'm gonna claim it. Douglas.

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Speaker 1: I'm claiming it. Douglas with two esses. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Douglas with two s's Douglas for you know, but the

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Speaker 1: journey man. You know when I look at the you know,

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Speaker 1: the creating change in young people. You know, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think your sister, she's went through this program, correct,

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Speaker 1: my sister, the relative of yours? Does anybody went through

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Speaker 1: this program? My niece, your niece, I apologize your niece

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Speaker 1: went through this program. And when you first started out,

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody has doubts. Everybody go, how can you

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Speaker 1: overcome that part of a Douglas out comes?

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Speaker 3: You know what I've learned about working in our community is,

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Speaker 3: you know, we got to just put out outcomes. So

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Speaker 3: what we did was have that conversation, an intellectual conversation

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Speaker 3: with the parent and the child, saying, hey, if you

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Speaker 3: get these certain numbers, we've got a relationship with Prayer

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Speaker 3: of You and you can leave you're debt free. Also,

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Speaker 3: Prayer View offers a one year master's degree in engineering,

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Speaker 3: so you can leave here debt free with a master's

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Speaker 3: By the time you're twenty five, you can buy your

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Speaker 1: And so what we've got some great timelines there, Douglas,

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Speaker 1: there's a great timelines.

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Speaker 3: But what it is is that if you have the plan,

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Speaker 3: if you have the schedule in place, instead of we

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Speaker 3: then you'll be like, oh, okay, that's how you beat

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Speaker 3: we really don't do a lot of talking. It's like

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Speaker 3: So that's how I got rid of them, got rid

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Speaker 3: of the next sairers were it's simply putting out great outcomes.

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Speaker 1: And that's really important because they sayers, you know, they

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Speaker 1: they have no plan, brother, They says don't have plans, man,

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Speaker 1: they just have negative They have negativity rules, you know,

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Speaker 1: and their fingerpoinners. And I told you so that's their quote.

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Speaker 1: I told you so. And uh, when I look at

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Speaker 1: organizations like yours, you know, because their bootstep organizations, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're start with an idea, you have a vision,

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Speaker 1: on you know, started the Mentoring cap with Steve Harvey

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, and and and and and and and then

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Speaker 1: doing these HBCUs and working with Steven A. Smith with

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Speaker 1: his uh HBCU week, you know, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: don't know how can we can we help them because

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Speaker 1: they don't know, you know. And but these HBCUs are

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Speaker 1: And you look over the University of Nebraska, their endowment

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Speaker 3: I've heard about it, naturally, when I heard.

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Speaker 1: About your program, you know, I want to be able

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Speaker 1: to help you have a voice. And so let's talk

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Speaker 1: about how can people get in touch with your organization.

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Speaker 1: And then we're gonna talk about the qualification because everybody goes,

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Speaker 3: Every kid Camp, Yeah, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk aboutainst college, trying to get your kid

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Speaker 3: So there's two things. I'm glad you spoke about all that,

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Speaker 3: let's break it down in all those categories. So first off,

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Speaker 3: page and that's just the blurd Academy or Black Nerds,

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Speaker 3: and you'll see all the work there. All are blurts there.

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Speaker 3: You can need to follow us follow us on LinkedIn

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Speaker 3: that you can see the work being done there all right. Now,

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Speaker 3: when it comes to funding, we don't We're not an

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Speaker 3: we wanted to be underni I will leave and unequivocally

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Speaker 3: saying we don't take any. But that was one of

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Speaker 1: This is what we're going to do it this way, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah. Because then then then we created something

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Speaker 3: where we always tell our blurs, just create a small

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Speaker 3: business to help fund your other business. So we create

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Speaker 3: a small business called Proud Black Nerds where you can

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Speaker 3: to us. It's through creating companies and small businesses, and

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Speaker 3: then we're showing our blurs. We're not talking about it,

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Speaker 3: we're being abided by creating a small business. So that's

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Speaker 3: how your listeners anybody else can support the BLURD Academy

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Speaker 3: how you help us. And so just to just to

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Speaker 3: go right into what you're saying about getting them qualified.

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Speaker 3: So let's use an example. I'm gonna give you primise.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna use my alma mater for an example. Is

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Speaker 3: that Okay University State right? Yes? Jackson State?

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Speaker 3: Uh so at Jackson State University, your baby, I'm talking

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Speaker 3: So these are things that when you partnership with these

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Speaker 3: Georgia University of Georgia, because it just stops you from

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Speaker 3: an example of how do you get money at HBCUs.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting now, Douglas, you got it

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Speaker 1: called with that? Dougie, Hey, Dougie, what's up?

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Speaker 4: What's that? What's that?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Now? You know you man, your your your story,

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Speaker 1: your backstory? Now you was you got the streets won

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Speaker 1: I look back on my life and uh, I grew

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Speaker 3: And and I, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, my school, and and I didn't get the HBCUs

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Speaker 1: Douglas with two S is a dougie. Like he likes

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Speaker 1: Na Douglas Fort come back, man, this is great. The

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Speaker 3: Go.

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Speaker 1: Hear about how those streets almost swallow them up, but

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Speaker 1: I am a black nerd. I am not a member

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Speaker 3: Well, two things. I'm born and raised in the city

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Speaker 1: You know. The sad part of that story is he knew.

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Speaker 1: I want to have a quote that I have of yours, Douglas,

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Speaker 1: We exist as an organization to build a healthy community

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Speaker 1: It's like they moved out and I don't know where

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Speaker 1: no more. Okay, you know, and uh and so but

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Speaker 1: but I but I won't stop, man, I won't stop, Dougs,

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Speaker 1: I can't stop. But I love the fact that you

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Speaker 1: encourage your students to buy property. I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that you tell them to secure that bag of money

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Speaker 1: through graduate school. There's not there's more to your academy

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Speaker 1: than just education. It's a story about life. As we

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Speaker 1: wrap up, just tell everybody what drives you. What's your

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Speaker 3: Calling, you know, to rebuild our community, one blurred at

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Speaker 3: I've seen it growing up in these palanza before crack hit.

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Speaker 3: so for me, that's my mission is to see black

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Speaker 3: uh to the next next to the next day. So

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Speaker 3: that's my mission.

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Speaker 1: Well, bro, brother, if you don't have my cell numb,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you. And if you ever

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Speaker 3: Proud black Just go to Look you can, like I said,

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Speaker 2: Buy some of that, Buy some of that swag, some

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Speaker 1: And also, man, I want to sit down. Man if

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Speaker 1: I can help you with a sponsor, you know that

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Speaker 1: understands what you're trying to do, because you got history,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And uh, there are a

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Speaker 1: And so I want to sit down and talk to

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Speaker 1: you about it. So yeah, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: that's the game. But more importantly, Man, I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: took the time to call in my show so we

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Speaker 1: can hear the story of Douglas Ford. Man, you're a

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Speaker 1: powerful brother, and I'm happy I'm able to share my

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Speaker 3: Uh, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: And again thank you for calling money Making Conversations massic class.

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Speaker 1: My brother, We talked soon, all right. This has been

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