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Speaker 1: You're listening to Math and Magic, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Anything that you are trying to accomplish in life, just

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Speaker 2: know that if it's easy, it's going to go away fast.

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Speaker 2: Remember what comes quickly is quickly. But anything that you love,

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Speaker 2: anything that you got passionate for, anything that you believe in,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to fight for it.

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Speaker 3: I am Bob Pittman. Today is a special episode of

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Speaker 3: Math and Magic. So it might sound a little different.

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Speaker 3: Our guest is a worldwide phenomenon, a Grammy Award winning artist, entrepreneur,

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Speaker 3: and philanthropist, and we recorded it live on stage at

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Speaker 3: the Possible Conference at the Fountain Blue in Miami. I

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Speaker 3: hope you'll enjoy my conversation exploring math and Magic with

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Speaker 3: the one.

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Speaker 4: And only pit Ball.

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Speaker 5: Obviously you heard the intro. We have Armando Christian Perez,

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Speaker 5: mister worldwide Mayor of Miami, best known as Pitball, Grammy

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Speaker 5: Award winner, singer, saw entrepreneur, you've heard about it, philanthropists.

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Speaker 5: We're going to dig into that a little bit. He's

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Speaker 5: got a great story and he's got a trademark sound.

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Speaker 4: It's great to first.

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Speaker 2: Of all, everybody, welcome to Miami. In the three oh

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Speaker 2: five day County to Magic City. And with that said,

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Speaker 2: it's only right we go. Yeah, get ready for a

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Speaker 2: great conversation. And I need to get it right because

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Speaker 2: I'm making in trouble on the streets of Miami. See

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Speaker 2: I missed the three oh five. Lucas the King of Miami,

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Speaker 2: meaning Uncle Luke it Rosses, the Boss, Flow Riders, mister International,

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Speaker 2: and Trick Daddy is the mayor of Miami. He's got

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Speaker 2: to make that right because it's not absolutely.

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Speaker 5: Mayor there's anything to do with three oh five. He's

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Speaker 5: got it. Before we get started, I always do a

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Speaker 5: s feature called you in sixty seconds. We're going to

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Speaker 5: do a lightning round style and uh, give me the

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Speaker 5: first answer comes to your mind? Do you prefer cats

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Speaker 5: or dogs?

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Speaker 4: Neither?

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Speaker 6: To be honest with you, early or late night? Late

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Speaker 6: night city or country city coker PEPSI. I don't drink

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Speaker 6: any city or suburbs city or suburbs city, beach or.

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Speaker 7: Mountains, beach, Hip hop or pop Come on now, hip hop?

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Speaker 7: Coff of your tea at tea, cook or eat out.

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Speaker 7: You're asking the Miami boy that eat out comedy or drama, comedy,

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Speaker 7: call or text I'd rather call podcast streaming. Podcast is

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Speaker 7: streaming and you got me there, documentaries.

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Speaker 5: Touring a recording studio, turing salt or sweet mm hmm spicy. Okay,

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Speaker 5: we'll take that. It's about to get harder. Your all

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Speaker 5: time favorite artists.

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Speaker 2: My altern favorite artist hit me there. It's gonna have

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Speaker 2: to be too because remember it is English, Spanish, great,

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Speaker 2: all right, perfect, notorious, big, biggest, smalls.

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Speaker 4: And in Spanish Celia as uh favorite city. Come on, man,

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Speaker 4: Miami three or five day, Kenny.

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Speaker 5: And last one. When you were a kid, what did

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Speaker 5: you want to be when you grew up?

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Speaker 2: When I was a kid, what I want to be

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Speaker 2: when I grew up? To be honest with you, I

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Speaker 2: didn't even have that kind of vision at that point.

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Speaker 2: All I wanted to be was secure, stable and protected.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot going on at that time. And

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Speaker 5: We're going to dig into that. Let's jump into it,

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Speaker 5: and let's start with creativity. For you, where did it

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Speaker 5: come from? How do you develop your ideas? Do you

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Speaker 5: have a process. My ideas are developed around my life.

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Speaker 2: So if you listen to the records, I'm always telling

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Speaker 2: you you're reporting live from the tallest building in Tokyo,

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Speaker 2: or take advantage of the night because tomorrow I'm off

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Speaker 4: You know, these are all things that happened to me

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Speaker 2: So really what I'm doing is I'm reporting, or we

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Speaker 2: could call it journalism on a beat. As far as

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Speaker 2: the earlier records that if you heard, you know, there's

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Speaker 2: been evolution from Pitbull or mister three ZH five to

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Speaker 2: mister Worldwide. And if you listen to pit or you

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Speaker 2: listen to me back in the day, what I was

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Speaker 2: painting you was a picture of what my environment looked like,

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Speaker 2: a lot of artists, in general, people are very creative,

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Speaker 2: sometimes tend to overthink. That's one of my number one rules.

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Speaker 2: Don't ever overthink. You can think ahead, but don't overthink.

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Speaker 2: And what I mean by it is when they start

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Speaker 2: Oh that's not this, or it's not that, And everybody

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Speaker 2: has a creative process. I'm not knocking it for me.

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Speaker 2: I just let it flow. So whatever the first line is,

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the record, it may not even

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Speaker 2: it opened the pipeline to creativity and allows it to flow.

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Speaker 2: So that's basically my number one rule when we're recording,

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Speaker 2: as far as like, hey, whatever you feel, write it down,

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Speaker 2: and you just you just never know where that idea

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Speaker 2: to somebody. I'll give you an example. I was with

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Speaker 2: he hears me having a conversation about somebody that was

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Speaker 2: a very jealous person. And I was telling this person

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Speaker 2: on the phone. I said, oh no, double a goops,

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Speaker 2: A's episode. You don't need that in your life. That's

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Speaker 2: a very jealous person. You don't need an your life.

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Speaker 2: And Forrell turns to me and says, what's that that

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Speaker 2: word you just said? I said, Celoso. He goes, what

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Speaker 2: a seloso mean? I said, jealous? He said, that's a

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Speaker 2: called Geloso. And it's about making you know, other people

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Speaker 4: Either. Or you see how the idea came about.

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Speaker 3: I was I think it was at the iHeart Radio

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Speaker 3: Music Festival and I was backstage and you and Calvin

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Speaker 3: Harris got into this whole like collaboration thing, like on

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Speaker 5: How do you think about collaboration.

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Speaker 2: Well, collaboration to me is key, right, because there's nothing

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Speaker 2: like being able to tap into someone else's audience and

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Speaker 4: Music unites, it doesn't divide.

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Speaker 2: And example, like speaking to a Calvin Harrison iHeart and

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Speaker 2: it was the first iHeart actually and we were in Vegas,

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Speaker 2: you to close After Errol Smith, I said, oh, sh

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Speaker 2: so give me a little bit more voculate, let me

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Speaker 4: But no worry, we got this.

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Speaker 2: But that's exactly with that story I just told you briefly,

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Speaker 2: that's exactly what collaboration is about. You can't be afraid,

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Speaker 2: you can't be scared, you can't be fearful. And a

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Speaker 2: lot of people don't collaborate with other artists or genres

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Speaker 2: or cultures or countries because they feel it'll hurt their

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Speaker 2: I've always told people, if you ever worry about your credibilities,

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Speaker 2: because you were never credible in the first place, And

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Speaker 2: that just shows us a sign of insecurity. Growing up

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Speaker 4: It got me ready to be able to collaborate.

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Speaker 2: With anybody anywhere about anything, which has been key and monumental.

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Speaker 2: And it allows you to learn other cultures, which is

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Speaker 5: You have a wildly passionate fan base. How do you

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Speaker 2: That we're living in a society where I feel that

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Speaker 4: It's an instant gratification.

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Speaker 2: It's not now, it's right now, now, now, right. So

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Speaker 2: I feel that the connection stays with the fans for

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Speaker 2: and through everything that we do for other things other

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Speaker 2: than music. But music has created that avenue and those opportunities.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing is that I check in with

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to hear nothing from Pitt. But if

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Speaker 2: then for things that we got going on, now, it's different.

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Speaker 2: Now they're out there fighting for you, acknowledging you, being

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Speaker 2: I would say, empowered by you, motivated and inspired by you,

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Speaker 2: And that to me is priceless because at the end

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Speaker 4: I'm a fan first.

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Speaker 2: I'm a person that acknowledges and really appreciate when someone

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Speaker 5: So radio, you've been a part of it for as

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Speaker 5: long as I've been around this company, been a major

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, radio is something that's been a major

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Speaker 2: how to utilize it. And as far as that is,

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Speaker 2: when you create an amazing partnership, which we have throughout

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Speaker 2: a partnership, well you know that I'm gonna when I

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Speaker 2: say I mean we, I mean us. I don't do

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Speaker 2: and things of that nature. Is quality over quantity. So

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Speaker 2: and you guys are gonna give me quality opportunities.

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Speaker 4: So to me.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to radio being as powerful as it is,

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Speaker 2: and it's been throughout the years, obviously times are changing

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Speaker 2: and things of that nature, but that's something that will

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Speaker 4: It's about partnership.

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Speaker 3: I feel more of math and magic right after this

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Speaker 3: quick break. Welcome back to math and magic. Let's hear

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Speaker 3: more from my conversation with Pitball.

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Speaker 5: Let's go back in time. Your Cuban roots very important

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Speaker 5: to you. You grew up in little Tavana, and can

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Speaker 5: you paint a picture of that time and place when

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Speaker 2: Well, First of all, I grew up on little Havanah's

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Speaker 4: Let's call it a gift in the curve.

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Speaker 2: A lot of them that came over were looking for

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Speaker 4: And you know what, how can I can put it

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Speaker 2: I grew up at an early age around entrepreneurs that

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Speaker 4: If you know what I mean, I do know what you.

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Speaker 5: What lessons did you take from that that you used

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Speaker 2: The lessons that I've learned growing up, I think the

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Speaker 2: Someone that's always showing off, speaks loud, a lot of jewelry,

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Speaker 2: So in the streets there was cocaine, crack, heroin, obviously, weed, pills,

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Speaker 2: It all depends on what lane you want to take, right.

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Speaker 4: They're not going to be here that long with us.

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Speaker 2: So those are the things that I have captured, found

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Speaker 5: One of the things you do is you help other people.

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Speaker 5: And one of the things that sort of fits in

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Speaker 5: here is you've started SLAM in Miami. It is a

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Speaker 5: charter school K through twelve tuition free. Tell us a

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Speaker 2: So SLAM Sports, Leadership, Arts and Management. It's a public

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Speaker 2: So we pull them out of Liberty City, Alapado, Wywood,

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Speaker 2: It's been up for ten years. Now, why do I

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Speaker 2: get into education? I didn't graduate high school. I went

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Speaker 2: twenty five. Never been in trouble maker, just always around

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Speaker 2: I said, if I could do the same, And when

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Speaker 2: I again, when I say I mean we, I mean

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Speaker 2: ustis administration behind this principles teachers parents that believe in us,

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Speaker 4: And all you need is one. You know, Tupac has

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Speaker 2: Tupac says, I'm not the one that's gonna change the world,

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Speaker 2: what Slam is all about. It's one of my neighborhoods

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Speaker 2: In education, now we're up to twelve schools, ten thousand

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Speaker 2: thank you. So we have Miami, Tampa, Boca, Palm Beach, Oceola, Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: It's you know what they say, well comes quickly quicker, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, I learned that in the streets as well.

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Speaker 4: So I made up a slogan called it's a slow

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Speaker 2: And I think that education is the real revolution because

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Speaker 4: So we're able to teach these kids through sports.

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Speaker 2: So example, I don't know how many of y'all really

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Speaker 2: So that's the reason that I got involved with SLAM

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Speaker 5: A couple of quick things. Pitball, where'd the name come prop?

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Speaker 4: I said, all right, what is it? Peobull? B Bull?

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Speaker 4: And I'm like pitbull said shit, that got a little

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Speaker 2: I like that pit all right, And then as I

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Speaker 2: Then they became fighters. But what happened It's all about

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Speaker 2: So being a pitbull in Miami, by the way, which

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Speaker 2: they ride to the death, they bite, they lock, they

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Speaker 2: while you're trying that. Yeah, so I flipped it. I

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Speaker 2: So I had to figure out ways to go. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: By that means you're moving forward, move up, don't look back,

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Speaker 2: and the word don't just do, and the word impossible

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Speaker 4: And take it to the next level is put that

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Speaker 2: And when you can rewire your brain like that, then

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Speaker 5: And here you are as possible possible right here.

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Speaker 4: Wow. And then by bad, I gotta tell you this one.

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Speaker 2: So mister three oh five, by the way, came about

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Speaker 4: From the mayor of Day County, Trick Daddy, because.

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Speaker 2: We were in the studio together and we figured out

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Speaker 2: Mister three oh five said, bet that up.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. I'm taking that right there.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it, so, Trick Daddy, TBD, I appreciate you, Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 5: AI. We can't do a discussion we talking about AI. Hey,

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Speaker 5: it is a very hot topic in the music business.

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Speaker 5: How do you think about it?

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Speaker 2: It's funny because I was having a conversation about artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 2: There's AI artificial intelligence, and then there's AI damundo intelligence.

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Speaker 2: What do I think about artificial intelligence? Just like I

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Speaker 2: As long as you utilize it and it doesn't use you,

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Speaker 2: then you're in the green. But they're going to have

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Speaker 2: to get ahead of it the same way that social

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Speaker 2: it's done to society one way or another. There's things

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Speaker 4: Right the same way that I think we kind of.

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Speaker 2: Missed the ball with social media, we should utilize that

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Speaker 4: And it's the same thing. We look at traffic.

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Speaker 2: What I mean by it is you get on the road,

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Speaker 4: Lights, there's exits, there's ways that it directs you.

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Speaker 2: But if everybody were running red lights, running stop signs,

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Speaker 2: everybody's running into each other. Now we see what social

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Speaker 2: about it. Is it powerful? Can it be utilized to

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Speaker 2: help society? Yes, it can, But again I think that

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Speaker 2: they're going to they have to get in front of it,

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Speaker 2: which we're actually dealing with with certain companies about artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 2: But it's all for ways to prevent things. Again, utilize it,

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Speaker 2: don't let it use you. And with being involved with education,

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Speaker 2: we see what it does to students when they're not

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Speaker 2: So one time a friend of mine had a conversation

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Speaker 2: how many of y'all got tattoos? And let's say a

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Speaker 2: quarter of the room raised their hand, and he said, no, no,

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Speaker 2: what are you talking about? He said, because I'm sure

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Speaker 2: with you for life. So just imagine that with social media,

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Speaker 2: you can take it to deep fakes, you can do

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Speaker 2: real crazy things with it. So that to me is

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Speaker 2: the part that I look at it and go there's

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Speaker 2: gotta be rules, laws, regulations on creating that barrier.

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Speaker 4: Now. Musically, shit, we gotta protect ourselves.

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Speaker 2: I mean, somebody can give you a record that sounds

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Speaker 2: just like me right now, all I has to do

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Speaker 2: is talk to whatever platform they want to go on

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Speaker 2: and make that happen. Can it be utilized where a

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Speaker 2: producer sends it to me and I'm like, oh, I

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Speaker 2: see where you're taking it, and then we take it

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Speaker 2: to the next level.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it can be.

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Speaker 2: But do we need to find ways to protect that absolutely,

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Speaker 2: whether it be from music side or entertainment as a whole.

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Speaker 2: And even the politicians they need to watch out. I

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Speaker 2: always say politics. I call it politrics where AI is

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Speaker 2: about to become poly tricky about out there.

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Speaker 5: Rmando, you inspire us with your music and your life.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for ring with us today and sharing your insights.

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Speaker 2: It's truly my pleasure it Snana. I appreciate you all

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Speaker 2: for having me. Thank you, Pitman, Pitbull, and Pitman.

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Speaker 3: Here are a few things I picked up in my

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Speaker 3: conversation with pit Bull. One draw from your life, from

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Speaker 3: putting his real experiences into lyrics to starting slam charter schools.

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Speaker 3: Pitbull has built a career steeped in his own personal history.

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Speaker 3: He's proof that you don't have to look far when

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Speaker 3: seeking inspiration, whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur, or both.

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Speaker 3: Pursue projects that feel true to yourself to create something

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Speaker 3: meaningful and authentic. Two, don't overthink it. Let your ideas

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Speaker 3: flow without giving it too much thought. Pit Bull says

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Speaker 3: he writes down the first lines that come into his head,

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Speaker 3: whether or not they make the final cut. It's valuable

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Speaker 3: to experiment with your idea because you never know where

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Speaker 3: they'll take you. Three. Utilize your platforms. Pit Bull has

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Speaker 3: been on the radio for his entire career and knows

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Speaker 3: how to leverage its springs to help his career. These days,

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Speaker 3: there are new platforms popping up every day. Pitbull still

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Speaker 3: looks out for new tools and technologies like AI and

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Speaker 3: tries to understand them so he can be in control

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Speaker 3: of it, creating quality products that he can use to

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Speaker 3: his advantage. I'm Bob Pittman, Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: That's it for today's episode. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to Math and Magic, a production of iHeart Podcasts. The

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Speaker 1: show is hosted by Bob Pittman. Special thank to Sydney

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Speaker 1: Rosenbloom for booking and wrangling our wonderful talent, which is

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Speaker 1: no small feat. Mathemagic's producers are Emily Meronoff and Jessica Crimechitch.

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Speaker 1: It is mixed and mastered by Baheed Fraser. Our executive

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Speaker 1: producers are Nikki Etoor and Ali Perry, and of course,

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Speaker 1: of big thanks to Gail Raoul, Eric Angel Noel and

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Speaker 1: everyone who helped bring this show to your ears. Until

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Speaker 1: next time,