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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: money making conversations, I'm your host, Rashawn McDonald. This is

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Speaker 1: what I do. Appearing on the show today is Wow.

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Speaker 1: It's a Wow show, A Wow show. The legendary singer, songwriter, actress,

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Speaker 1: and entrepreneur padded Label. He had a fourteen year NBA

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Speaker 1: college basketball NBA analyst Steve Smith. He's the pioneer of

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Speaker 1: the black stand up comedy movement and you heard his

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Speaker 1: voe in top animated family movies like Disney's Planes and

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Speaker 1: be Centric the Entertainer. And finally, he's a stand up comedian,

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Speaker 1: Smilet too old. Let's go. I'm ready, it's time. He's

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Speaker 1: My first guest is an original king of comedy. He's

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Speaker 1: a pioneer, like I said earlier, black stand up comedy

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Speaker 1: black comedy club. You know him from the Steve Harvest

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Speaker 1: sitcom Here's this was this one starts to take off

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Speaker 1: see him every week on the number one rated sitcom

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Speaker 1: on cable TV, the new TBS comedy The Last O J.

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Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation, Cedric the Entertainer,

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Speaker 1: what's up? Man? He said, I don't introduce you, got you.

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Speaker 1: there then you don't answer the last O G got

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Speaker 1: of your behind, the last O G. To do it

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Speaker 1: That's classic, man. You know where my head is, Man,

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Speaker 1: that's just hearing what you're doing, man, and the history

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Speaker 1: The Last O G on TVs. I've seen the show

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Speaker 1: and I just want to tell everybody that we started

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Speaker 1: doorg sitcom and television. While back it was just about

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Speaker 1: Neilsome ratings. But now you're in that multi media platform

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Speaker 1: and so when you when you don't understand that, how

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Speaker 1: do you promote your brand? It's very important that you

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Speaker 1: participate now, correct, Yeah, yeah, I mean it is the thing.

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Speaker 1: You do have to participate of course. Uh, social media

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Speaker 1: fan bases continue to grow, they get younger, and those

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Speaker 1: those moments where you are afraid, but you broke through.

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Speaker 1: Why you gotta try. I mean, that's the one thing

425
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Speaker 1: is you're not gonna succeed unless you try. And I

426
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 1: think always it's a wisdom going out there and talking

427
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Speaker 1: to people. Always say tell kids, seek wisdom, seek people

428
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 1: like yourself to get a chance to been there before

429
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 1: you ask people, ask questions. And I think more importantly

430
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Speaker 1: is when you define yourself. It's hard to mess up

431
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Speaker 1: being you if you just be yourself, whether it's good

432
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Speaker 1: or bad, as smiles as eyes. It's always gonna be

433
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Speaker 1: true to you. So I always, I guess probably myself

434
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Speaker 1: on being me. Well, the cool thing about it is

435
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Speaker 1: that and I guess the cool that that that the

436
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Speaker 1: I guess the all the part that you were playing

437
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Speaker 1: it out on a large stage. You know, I guess

438
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Speaker 1: you could say, you know when you were doing it

439
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,199
Speaker 1: for the Hawks when nobody watching, because it was so

440
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 1: that was good, good good, good training ground, great training ground.

441
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 1: But when you when when when the stage kept getting

442
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Speaker 1: bigger and having an opinion because you know, as an

443
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Speaker 1: analyst you have to have no you have to meet

444
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 1: these same players. You have the couch. You know, you

445
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: have to be relevant because you know, as as a fan,

446
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 1: we can see through a's saying nothing right. So so

447
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Speaker 1: as as an analyst, how do you gauge that maintaining

448
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 1: I got to tell the truth but also maintained the

449
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: relationship or doesn't matter? It does matter? I think first

450
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Speaker 1: of all, is I just love the game of basketball

451
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Speaker 1: since three or four years old, was always I've always

452
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Speaker 1: had a ball in my hand. Then I think I'm

453
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Speaker 1: gonna watch it at the high school level, I'm gonna

454
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Speaker 1: play it. I'm gonna coaching, and it doesn't have anything

455
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Speaker 1: to do with finances. I would have played this game

456
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Speaker 1: just because the love of it. I think the next

457
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Speaker 1: part about it is I'm always around it. I've been

458
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Speaker 1: around a U, I've been around kids. I keep in

459
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Speaker 1: touch with all my friends and faunily around the country

460
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Speaker 1: about kids in this game of basketball. And so for

461
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Speaker 1: me to get a chance to be on TV, I'm

462
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Speaker 1: just naturally talking like we would be talking we were

463
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Speaker 1: at home. Some of those words that you can't say

464
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Speaker 1: on their keeping keeping a lot of the pepper, I

465
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Speaker 1: keep it all and I just think, you know, being

466
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Speaker 1: able to break down the game from my eyes from

467
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Speaker 1: a guy that's seen it in so many different ways,

468
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: and obviously each year you get more experience, it helps.

469
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: And also staying relevant. You gotta talk to the young

470
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Speaker 1: group about the game of basketball. Then obviously going to

471
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Speaker 1: guys like George Gerband, Spencer Haywood, guys that taught me

472
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: the game from the city of Trading, the state of Michigan.

473
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Speaker 1: You keep those two together and you're somewhere in the middle.

474
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,919
Speaker 1: You always got to talk to older guys who've done

475
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Speaker 1: it because they have their vision. And then my youngsters.

476
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Speaker 1: The youngsters telling me about the crossovers and different things

477
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Speaker 1: real estate. Tell us how you got started, how you

478
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: got started in there? Well, my guys, when I left

479
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Speaker 1: Michigan State, I was UH standing apartment uh and the

480
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 1: management companies called DTM Management, And then my business guys

481
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 1: always told me that there's a few things that you know.

482
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's not going anywhere. You've never seen pretty much

483
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Speaker 1: a university closed down. You ever seen casinos closed down

484
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: or hospitals? So put your money? Which one would you

485
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Speaker 1: want to do? Steve? And I said university. That makes

486
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: more sense to me. Your brand when you look at it,

487
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: there's always a kid wants to have his wants to

488
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Speaker 1: be at a university. They're all from Michigan State is

489
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: fifty some thousand. It's gonna go to forty eight, but

490
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: it's gonna be within forty eight to fifty two thousand

491
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 1: since I've been around. And if you can have real

492
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 1: estate around a university or hospital or a casino, those

493
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: industries are pretty much not going anywhere. So I bought

494
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: my one unit right thirty three thousand in n and

495
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 1: ever since then, I've been blind box of a hundred

496
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 1: units now every since then and you know, we've we've

497
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Speaker 1: done pretty good and it's still going. So so you

498
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: have a management company that handles that, the DT in

499
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Speaker 1: management and that's how that's how it works. So that's

500
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Speaker 1: how you're you're for raid, that's all. So you're making

501
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: money while you sleep. That's that's what I want to do.

502
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: So anyway, so you into the multiple streams of income

503
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: while sleeping, I want to work too hard. That's another job.

504
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: I want to keep. These jobs were The beauty of

505
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: what I was telling people is that you know, when

506
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Speaker 1: you when you show up for a basketball game or

507
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: you're shore for an end of you that's called working wealthy.

508
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: You know, the wealth you're trying to get. This what

509
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: you're talking about with this real estate or anything that

510
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: you have about to always tell people that that multiple

511
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: stream of income makes you sleep comfortably and also tells

512
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: you you can say no yes comfortably and say I

513
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: don't feel like doing that comfortable. It was my time.

514
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 1: I love my time, your time, and you can't. You

515
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: haven't used it on your golf game. I don't think

516
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: you said that, so I don't. So why are you

517
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: spending your time up here? Because I reasonally asked that

518
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: is that what's the next stage in life for a successful,

519
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Speaker 1: a good looking guy. I appreciate that made some glasses,

520
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: but I cast people for a living. Okay, So where

521
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: you go? People approached you about hosting shows or producing, uh,

522
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: you know any type of mediums today or you want

523
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: to go with your brain? You know what I haven't.

524
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure people would. I just haven't opened that door

525
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: to him. I think for me is I've had that

526
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: door closed to a lot of different absolutes just because

527
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: my focus has been my kids. Focus has been my

528
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: family right, and like you said, I've been comfortable, so

529
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 1: I've been able to I wouldn't say say no, I

530
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: haven't been out there searching and reaching and then the

531
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: money doesn't drive me. That's one thing is I signed

532
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: my first rebound contract was more than what my dad made. Absolutely,

533
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: and I'm not measuring myself to my dad. But I

534
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: always said, never chase it, Never chase it organically, let

535
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: it come and obviously put in hard work. And that's

536
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: what it's happening with your whole life. That's why you

537
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: look so comfortable. Next for me, though, entrepreneur, I want

538
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: to get more real estate for me and also kids

539
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: who want to do camps all over the country for

540
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 1: kids and obviously UM provide some where. Can you say

541
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: camps all over the country that basketball camps, whether it's

542
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: education camps, love reading one of them, definitely. I want

543
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: to have one of those large book clubs where everybody understand. Kids,

544
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: if you can read, you almost can read yourself out

545
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: of poverty. You can read yourself out of problems. And

546
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: that's why I think Pete kids can do well. You

547
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: know something, Are those in all those still in the

548
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: planning stages? Are you always in the planning stages? Okay,

549
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: we gotta moving from planning to action. There you go,

550
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: you got the goals you've never been Let them tell

551
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: you someone. When you're sitting next to a successful person, Steve,

552
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: you realize that that's what they're gonna do. Surrounding yourself

553
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: with the right people that will create that at the

554
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: next step. Because you've said that constantly that you've never

555
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: done any think about yourself, never and that's so moving

556
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: forward to shooting, you know, shout the best ball. Yeah,

557
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: from from the baseline, from the corner, Yeah, from the

558
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: from the elbow. You're very good man. I want to

559
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: thank you Steve Spith for coming on my show. I

560
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: just said, just sharing your story, I appreciate you amazing. Well,

561
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: you know, you're amazing guy. And uh, I think that

562
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: when people see this side of you, it's a big

563
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: blessing for them because they need to know that there's

564
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: an evolution and in the athletes life and their evolutions

565
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: are now affecting people in a positive way. And I

566
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: thought in the story about your son being in your

567
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: his grandmother's building, that's um, I'm gonna take that with

568
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: me a long time. Thank you, sir, Thank you, thank you.

569
00:27:42,680 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: We're right back more money making conversations. Hi, this Rashwan

570
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: McDonald of laughing because he's on the phone and he's

571
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: been driving me nuts because he knows I know him.

572
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: He's my fraternity brother. You're listening to money making Conversations.

573
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: He's a nationally syndicated radio host, a reality TV star,

574
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: a TV personality, an incredible stand up comedian and author

575
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: book drop last October from Simon and Schuster, actor and businessman.

576
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation. Ricky Smiley, Hey, Hey,

577
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: resn also do landscape like real PLoP? No no no, no,

578
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: no no, no, I know you can bobecue. I know

579
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: you can bobecue. Now, I know you can bobecue. What's

580
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: your landscaping? Me and my granddad that used to have

581
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: a landscaping business. I still do it on the slide

582
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: because I slipped houses. So I go in and get

583
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: the property main so I keep properties, maintain that our own.

584
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: Uh huh. So you're flipping houses and you're don't landscaping. Yeah, Rash,

585
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: I just put out some scotts I just put out

586
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: some scott weed and feed. We need to feed this morning.

587
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: He knows. He tell us the truth. He tells the truth.

588
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: So so so if I'm if I'm named, if I'm

589
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: in the movement, come keep me, keep run there with

590
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: the funds I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm doing landscaping right

591
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: now while I'm doing it. Mess of Alash. I I

592
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: would go to a house, I would, I would sit

593
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: up there and I get it. I get that work in. Man,

594
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: I believe in landscaping. The thing about it is, I

595
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: don't care how big a celebrity you are. You're still

596
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: a man. I still fixed cars, I still cut grands.

597
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: I still kill me. You know, cars you're fixing, no

598
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: Rickie smiling that anything American maid rasch. I don't know

599
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: how to fix uh yet. Uh I can fix anything, American.

600
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: May I know how to pull h put an alternator off?

601
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: I started votage regulator, you know, all of that little

602
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: tow stuff. But what I can't do. I can't cool

603
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: a transmission color. I don't have to that transmission. That's

604
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: a real job there. See. I can do the starter,

605
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: you can do the radiator, you can do the battery.

606
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: The battery. I'm I'm, I'm a whole battery for I

607
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: can do it like I can do it like it

608
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:19,479
Speaker 1: ain't nothing. Yeah, so so so so that's so. That's

609
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 1: what I should add that to your intro or anybody

610
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: should add that to intro landscaping, to the intro now

611
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: land escaping. And I don't know what you call people

612
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: that slip houses houses, that's what you call them, house flippers,

613
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: house flippers. House. Okay, let's talk about And I don't

614
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: slip on the set and set them up for session.

615
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: They I get people that's gonna pay some real rent,

616
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: real rent, real money, real real money. You don't have

617
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: to go find them. They don't have that sad story

618
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: because you know, they know you're on TV, they know

619
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: you're on the radio, so they're doing They're gonna have

620
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: a sad story for you. Look at how I'm doing.

621
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: So you you have to worry about that. You'll get

622
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: the people with the money so they won't have to

623
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: worry about that saster. I'm wanting, not Ricky. I'm not

624
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: running from you. I'm not running back. So is that

625
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: another teeth of money? Right? Is that another team? You

626
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: get them right out of medical school? You know how's

627
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: already got furniture in it, already decorating, and you get

628
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: the stuff and you you left that. They walk in

629
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: the house and the only thing they have to do

630
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: is by their clothes. Their parents got money, they write

631
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: your big check and they move in and you're happy,

632
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: and you're very happy. I am happy to day. Has

633
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: been a good two days. Man. I used the weed either,

634
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: I used the line more. I put on some scott

635
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Speaker 1: weed and feed got my spreader, I got the sprinklers

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Speaker 1: out and stuff to make sure. You know, uh that

637
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Speaker 1: that fertile lines to get into that grass to kill

638
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Speaker 1: that craft grass. But uh, I got bermuda grass. I

639
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: got fescue grass. I got sixty four grass in some

640
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Speaker 1: of the yards. So seeing the hide and all of

641
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Speaker 1: that stuff. Well, you know the thing about it is

642
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Speaker 1: that I cannot argue with you because I do the

643
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Speaker 1: same thing you said everything you know, I'm looking for

644
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for you to slip up. You know what

645
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. But he didn't slip up at all, because

646
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Speaker 1: you know you do. Do you do your weeding feed

647
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: between February and May. That's when you do your weeding

648
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Speaker 1: feed because you're gonna come back and later all with

649
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: the fool with the fool, so you can you can

650
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Speaker 1: build that that that that good green look. But you

651
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: gotta get rid of the weeds here, get rid. Now

652
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Speaker 1: do you drop down in the ant killer? Do you

653
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: put in the ant killer out there for those fire ants?

654
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Speaker 1: I mix it in with the weed and feed country.

655
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Speaker 1: He's straight country man, straight count And your point, your point,

656
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Speaker 1: a man, I'm a Houston, Texas board talk to a

657
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Speaker 1: Burminham boy to Southern boards. I can I can't argue

658
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: no more about you don't know what you're doing. Remember

659
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: earlier I said really landscaping, really, but when you talk

660
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Speaker 1: about you mixing fine at killer and we eat and

661
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Speaker 1: feed together and rolling out there? Whoa brother? You don't

662
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: point with your game? So Rick, how you how you're

663
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: trying to do all this extra stuff. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: that morning show before we get the dish nation, before

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Speaker 1: we get to the tour this morning show man, I

666
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: just want to I want to back back a little

667
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: bit about You're a funny guy. You're known for for

668
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: incredible characters. You're humanitarian, but you're really a social activist.

669
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Speaker 1: And that's a major, a major desire for people to

670
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Speaker 1: understand that you care and you will put the side

671
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Speaker 1: a step aside, step pass a joke to make people

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Speaker 1: understand that we have to take this serious. Why is

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Speaker 1: that so important? You rickey smiling? Well, you don't want

674
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Speaker 1: people walking up to you? Do you live down? Make

675
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: me land? People ain't gonna have no respect for you

676
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: as a president if you don't stand for something. And

677
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Speaker 1: people don't celebrate Mohammed I leave because he knocked that beat,

678
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: Joe Frasier. People celebrate Mohammad. I leave because the way

679
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,959
Speaker 1: he stood for Mohammad. I leave. Put it all on

680
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Speaker 1: the line when you make I don't care how much

681
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: money you make. I don't care how successful you are.

682
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Speaker 1: If you don't stand for something, what what what what

683
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Speaker 1: if if if you if if you ain't women to

684
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Speaker 1: die for something, you're not fit to live right right right?

685
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Speaker 1: And that's what But would you say that with passion? Though?

686
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: You know that I say that. It's not a it's

687
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: not something you're saying that just in the Cavalier. And

688
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: I've always known that about you because because you know,

689
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: because you you are really you know, like I said,

690
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: God has blessed us all because we're talking right here

691
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: on the phone, on the phone, on the radio podcast,

692
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: all series x M, all these formats. But the thing

693
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: about it is that it's more important that you understand

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Speaker 1: that you have a strong community involvement, and there is

695
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: the joke is not bigger than than the community and

696
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: and and delivering the right message. And that's that's consistent

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Speaker 1: with you want was that? I mean, I mean, sure,

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Speaker 1: you know God has been good that you God give

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Speaker 1: your responsibility, sir. You know, uh reached one teach one man.

700
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: You gotta get out of here. You know how to

701
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: help people. You got you a nice house, you got

702
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: you a couple of cars. So it ain't about you.

703
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: In my book, I talked about. You know, when my

704
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: grandmoma died, they left the cemetery and got on plane

705
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 1: and when and did the show that night. I did

706
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: a show with the same suit with tears and snot

707
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: in it that that I wore to my grandmama's funeral.

708
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: Because gifts Worth Sean, their grandmama died too, and their

709
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: mama died, and their daddy died, and their kids died,

710
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: and they got cancer, and they got Luke Kenyan, who

711
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Speaker 1: are you the counselor show as much as give as

712
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: much as required. You gotta go out here and do

713
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: God's well. You know what I do on my birthday.

714
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: I don't walk around all months with money tent to

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Speaker 1: me thinking everybody's to stop and turned back with somersaults

716
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Speaker 1: for my little stinking birthday. You know what I do

717
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: on my birthday every sun. The lady that gave birth

718
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: to me, I go pick her up, and we go

719
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Speaker 1: to the Salvation Army and we put on aprons, and

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00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: I'm buy a birthday cake and cut it up and

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Speaker 1: feed it to the homeless and have my birthday every

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Speaker 1: year with the homeless. Because Jesus Christ said, what about

723
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Speaker 1: the least of these? You understand what I'm saying, that's

724
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about, you know, because in this

725
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: year now, that's important. I just don't want to say

726
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: that that I've never heard that story and I'm saying

727
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: it's not true because of the fact that you're not

728
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 1: trying to publicize that story. Correct. You know, it's about

729
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: it's a personal thing that you realize that it's kind

730
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: of like humanizes you. You know, it brings you back

731
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: to reality that where you could be if things didn't

732
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: go right in your life. Right right right, I'm telling you, man,

733
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Speaker 1: you know you look and you see people suffer. Man,

734
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: God give you a spirit of discernment as a comedian,

735
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: because when you walk up on stage and you're looking

736
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Speaker 1: at them, people in the eyes, and people in the

737
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: work they asked on to put together fifty dollars to

738
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Speaker 1: come see you perform. You look at their shoes, they

739
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: jury they close. You can look at their eyes and

740
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: tell that they were to run away, that they're sick,

741
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 1: you know, the hair coming out because they got cancer.

742
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: And you point them out and you're tell them to

743
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: come to the funding the stage and you tell them

744
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: to come backstage. I can't even tell you how many

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00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: bit your areas all over the country where my pictures

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00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: inside there. Bitture Wind took a picture with the loved

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00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: one because God let me see it. He let me

748
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Speaker 1: love on them people. And the people be like, wow,

749
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: and here you are. And I'm gonna do this. Man,

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00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry. I got

751
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: on playing. I think about miss Mary Anne and and

752
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: MMR James, you know, and Miss Andrews, all these people

753
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: that inter wrote me who got dancer. I went on

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00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: the plane and walked in their living room and how happy.

755
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: And they're excited that they was now here, gonna here.

756
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: I am wake up and do a morning show. I

757
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: get the perform in front of millions every morning, and

758
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: then here go these other folks wake up every day

759
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: facing death and and and and I have a responsibility

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00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: to go see about him, even if I go and

761
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: take pictures. I went and hugo hood that man. That

762
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: man gripped me up and stood up with one leg

763
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: to take a picture with me. I said, I said,

764
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna stand up? He said, man, he said something

765
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: to take stand up and take this picture to you,

766
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: because I can't glee to you in my different room.

767
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: So that's like for mad that's what's making wishes come true. Man, man,

768
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, And in two weeks he was gone, you know,

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00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: Reverend Reverend pars he's going, man. And and and he

770
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: taught school and and then helped people and and did

771
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: all these wonderful things and stuff for people. And then

772
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: he got cancer. You know, we buried him last week,

773
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: but just able to make people smile. And we bought

774
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: him a church man. We fixed up his stellarship, halling

775
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: in his church and stuff. You know, man, that's why

776
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: I used the brand in order to do good. You understand,

777
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: I could have been been by the bigger the star

778
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: if I wouldn't went to l A and pursuit it.

779
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: You're a big star. Now there's two tours are coming

780
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: up which I've never heard of my life. A talent

781
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: as big as you been on two significant uh tours,

782
00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: one with Martin Lawrence and one with Mike Epps. Um okay,

783
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: now let's just break down the date so people can

784
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: know you can go to the the ticket match or March third,

785
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: here be in St. Louis. May, I mean May May third,

786
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: he'd be in St. Louis. May tenth, here be in

787
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: Tampa May twenty six. I gotta come see you because

788
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: you've been in Houston, Texas. Made June eighth, you made

789
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: Chicago June nine, a Capital One Center. That's in Washington,

790
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: d C. That's the Martin Lawrence Tour. That's the Martin

791
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: Lawrence Tour. In June fifteenth at the Bridge Stone in Nashville,

792
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: that's the Martin Lawrence Tour. And you know, we're gonna

793
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 1: tell you who's all on the tour. The next tour

794
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: is the Mike Epps Platinum Comedy Tour. That's made four.

795
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: That's in uh, Mississippi, that wire just right outside of Memphis.

796
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: And then that's that's May Feel. He's in Dallas, Texas,

797
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: you know, at the Verizons and everybody know what that's at.

798
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: And then made thirte he's in Steve Harvey's hometown of

799
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Speaker 1: cleaveand Ohio. Okay, now that means you're busy. That means

800
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: you you're gonna be able to put some kids through college.

801
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: You can do some landscaping, you can do some more

802
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: flipping houses, you can do all that stuff. Who on

803
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: the show with you? Who's what fools are sharing the

804
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: stay with you? I know Tony Rock. I heard he's

805
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: out there with you, d Ray Oh yeah. Uh Michael

806
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: Blackston black a blackster. Yeah? Is he still is he

807
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: still showing his butt? No, he stayed dressed. Okay, but

808
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: but he's funny. But they all are on the tour, man,

809
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: are they all giving? Uh? And the tour is absolutely hilarious.

810
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: And when I tell you we're have a good time,

811
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: we have a good time now to be on this too,

812
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: because it's like, you know, because you know, you have

813
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: a certain energy. We're talking about the energy of Martin

814
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: Lawrence energy and then you have Mike's energy is more

815
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: lying I think with your energy. Is the difference is

816
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: that Martin Lawrence to it like personally as a comedian

817
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: is really really laid back and professional. It's just it's professional,

818
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, you want to tour with

819
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence. With Mike is a little bit more laid

820
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: back because it's Mike, you know, and uh you know,

821
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: so that that's the difference, you know. But but with

822
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: Mark Lawrence tool, you know, you get butterflies in your

823
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: stomic and you want to do everything right because you're

824
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: working with a comedic icon. Yes sir, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,

825
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: it's real. I can are you working with a Richard Brown,

826
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: Flip Wilson, Eddie Murphy, it's Martin Lawrence. So you have

827
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: that opportunity to do that tour with him, so you

828
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: try to do everything right. That's that's that's the that's

829
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 1: the only that. That's the first time in twenty years

830
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: that I lost sleep over a comedy show. My man,

831
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: and you make me happy because your but I love you, man.

832
00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: I gotta say that to the world, and I hope

833
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: everybody understand that you're beyond the jokes. And that's another time.

834
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Speaker 1: I want you to do an uncensored I want you're

835
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: doing uncensored man on TV one. I want the people

836
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: to hear you. I'm gonna call him and say, hey,

837
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: you need to do an uncensored man on TV one.

838
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna called d'angelo's and tell her make sure we

839
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: get Rickey smiling an uncensored in eighteen. Okay, keep winning, brother,

840
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: Thank you for let me be on your show. Thank

841
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: you for the opportunity. You're the best man. We owe

842
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: each other lunch and dinner soon soon we'll be right back.

843
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: More from Marsha McDonald and money Making Conversations don't touch

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Speaker 1: that down. As host of money Making Conversations, Rashan McDonald

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Speaker 1: is uniquely positioned to provide a step by step, easy

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Speaker 1: to understand blueprint that drives listeners to realize their dreams

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Speaker 1: and aspirations. Until you do the business plan or incorporate

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Speaker 1: or actually create that product or start selling products, the

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Speaker 1: universe doesn't have to deal with money Making Conversations is

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Speaker 1: an innovative platform that delivers financial literacy to help everyone

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Speaker 1: with their brand success. You're good to have a money

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Speaker 1: making conversation with somebody that makes money. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you about the Host of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: He's a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: plus social media followers are female. He's a two time

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Speaker 1: Emmy Award winner, three time n double A CP Image

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Speaker 1: Award winner, sitcom writer, stand Up comic, former IBM executive,

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Speaker 1: and has a degree in mathematics. More importantly, Rashan McDonald

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Speaker 1: will use his business and celebrity relationships to empower small

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Speaker 1: businesses with information to succeed. Hi Just Rashan McDonald. Rashan

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Speaker 1: McDonald celebrating one year on the air, Money Making Conversation

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Speaker 1: has been amazing. Um, when you when you're start an idea,

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Speaker 1: when you're start an idea about changing people's lives, and

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Speaker 1: that's what this show is all about. It's a free

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Speaker 1: for free I'm not up here trying to charge people's

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Speaker 1: nothing pops up immediately since you owe me some money.

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Speaker 1: But you have to help you do that. To change

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Speaker 1: people life, you have to have guests that that open

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Speaker 1: people's mind. My next guest is one of those special people. Um.

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Speaker 1: She was my very first guest when I launched Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation a year ago. That's how special she is.

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Speaker 1: I will just resting on McDonald. She you know where

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Speaker 1: it's being broadcast. She's an incredible entertainer, arthur and entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: She is a force on the stage, screen and kitchen.

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Speaker 1: Her website is Patti la Belle, her Facebook is Patti

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Speaker 1: la Belle, her Instagram is Miss Patti La Belle, and

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Speaker 1: her Twitter count is miss Patty Patty please welcome the

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Miss Patti La Belle. Girl, you are

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Speaker 1: a brand. You are a brand, and I had to

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Speaker 1: put it out there everybody to know. You know, you

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Speaker 1: didn't control of your name, you know, because some people

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Speaker 1: that go, I am the real I am this the

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Speaker 1: one and only. No, no, no no, I missed Patty

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Speaker 1: one night only. That's who I am. And that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's a great uh. Congratulations and all your success

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Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur. But I want before we get into

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Speaker 1: that part, I want to talk about you being on

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Speaker 1: VICH one's Mother's Day Special, which airs tonight. Dear Mama,

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Speaker 1: A love Letter to Mom's premiering again on VICH one tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's nine pm Eastern Standard Time, hosted by my good

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Speaker 1: friend Lola Anthony and my boy Anthony. And tell us

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Speaker 1: about what you're doing on the show tonight. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: surprising Puff Daddy's mother with one of her sons of

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Speaker 1: Patty labels that she loves. You are my friends, and

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Speaker 1: I just I mean, I was so happy to have

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Speaker 1: been asked to do this, you know, and I've known

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Speaker 1: Puffy and his mother for a long time and they're

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Speaker 1: so genuine And how do you say no to something

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Speaker 1: like that? Well, you know you, you know you're a

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Speaker 1: conversationalist in concert because I've seen you many times and

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Speaker 1: you are you move people and you motivate people through

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Speaker 1: your music. I've seen people, I've seen people cry, I've

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Speaker 1: seen people go to church in your concerts. That that

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Speaker 1: that that carrits a lot of responsibility when you do

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Speaker 1: a show, doesn't it, Patty? Yeah, of course does because

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Speaker 1: once I, uh, before we go on stage and then

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Speaker 1: my musical director and are we go over the list,

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Speaker 1: it's like twenty songs for an hour and uh thirty

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Speaker 1: minutes or ever how long I can be on stage.

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Speaker 1: But whenever I go out and see the audience, that

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Speaker 1: list change every day. And never saw five shows every night.

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Speaker 1: The same song will be different because I sing it differently.

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Speaker 1: I interpret things differently every time I get on stage.

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Speaker 1: So you can never predict what Patty's going to sing

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Speaker 1: or say. And I believe that. Now you've got a

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Speaker 1: big concert Mother's Day concert coming up mate at the

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Speaker 1: James L. Man Night Center, which I've been that many

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Speaker 1: times with Steve Harvey. That's a great facility in Miami, Florida.

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Speaker 1: And if you want any additional day, go to Patti

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Speaker 1: LaBelle dot com and you can get to tickets. Now

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Speaker 1: let's let's go to this acting. This acting that you're doing. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know you on you on the Star Fox TV

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Speaker 1: show Star. You're playing Queen Latifa's mother. Christine tell us

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Speaker 1: about that role, Well, Paintlestifa is one of my best

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Speaker 1: friends from back in the day, and she always would

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Speaker 1: call me sort of like mom. And you know, since

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Speaker 1: the guy, it's like I said to the mother's I

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Speaker 1: I accepted Queen the ward in Philadelphia about a week

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Speaker 1: after her mother past because she couldn't accept it. And

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Speaker 1: when I heard I was going to play her mother,

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Speaker 1: I said, this is just perfect. But then when I

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Speaker 1: heard I was playing a gangster mom, a stretch. But

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Speaker 1: most of my friends, thank you, thank you, thank you

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Speaker 1: who you did. And I am that woman. And Brandy

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Speaker 1: Brandy is also my daughter on the Ster. And I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go back and do some more episode mis Lee

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Speaker 1: Daniels and I mean, I'm happy to do that, soho.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm on the show Green Leaf Opra Winfrey's

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Speaker 1: on the own network. I'm playing a minister. I'm a pastor. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you playing a gangster, playing a gangster mom on

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Speaker 1: the Star and you're playing a minister, A minister. That's

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Speaker 1: diversity there, girl, that's diversity. And then on a Netflix

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Speaker 1: I'm playing Patty LaBelle I am h Alan Arkin's wife

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Speaker 1: dies and it's with Jay Leno and Michael Douglas and

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Speaker 1: I'm playing Patty Labell singing Lady Marmalade at half funeral,

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Speaker 1: and you know that's that's a stretch to sing that

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Speaker 1: kind of thung out a funeral. I've offered things and

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Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be in the position not I

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Speaker 1: am ex send me three. Because usually when you age

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Speaker 1: you things don't come to you as much. You know,

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Speaker 1: you you you disappear, right, and I've not. I've not

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Speaker 1: been you know, disappearing with both and it's just a blessing.

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Speaker 1: You know. I know that it could happen the other

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Speaker 1: way totally for me, but it's happening in a great way.

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Speaker 1: Well you know that's why. That's why I mentioned social

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Speaker 1: media to you, because you are relevant and that's that's

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Speaker 1: really the difference in being seventy three twenty years ago

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Speaker 1: and being seventy three today, because you're relevant on Facebook,

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Speaker 1: you're relevant on Twitter, you're relevant on Instagram. And it

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Speaker 1: used to be just having a website and the fan club.

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Speaker 1: So don't don't underseil yourself because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: you made yourself a topical brand. And I always tell

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Speaker 1: people about that, especially as an entrepreneur. You being so topical,

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Speaker 1: it means that we can follow you as fans. You

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Speaker 1: your engagement or whatever you post something on your social

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Speaker 1: media is powerful and relevant. And also you post inspirational

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Speaker 1: quotes too that inspire us to realize that you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no age when you cannot be successful. That's what

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Speaker 1: your vision is for me. And you know what also

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Speaker 1: that made me feel so great is when I did

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Speaker 1: dance when the starts at one and after that at

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Speaker 1: the airport closing orcase, people say you did that at

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Speaker 1: certainly once a we can do anything more? I said,

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Speaker 1: any of you put your heart to sister numbers, not stop. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this. Let's talk about this, this cooking show.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm tired of people I would tell I don't

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Speaker 1: know how word got out that I was bringing you

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Speaker 1: on my show, but I've had at least three celebrities

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Speaker 1: called me go how can I gives? Just asked Patty

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Speaker 1: how can I get booked on her cooking show? So

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Speaker 1: please tell the world, Patty, how do you get your

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Speaker 1: guests for your show? Because I'm tiring. I'm talking driving

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Speaker 1: up here to day. I got two texts. Please tell

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Speaker 1: Patty show, Please tell Patty. So how do you get

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Speaker 1: on your Well, first of all, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: be at Oka. You can do just an everyday woman

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Speaker 1: or man or whatever. Uh. And I have a lot

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Speaker 1: of of yours been on the shows because that's just

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Speaker 1: come out and ask them. And so if there are

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Speaker 1: any celebrities that want to ask me, can they be on?

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Speaker 1: Just go to Patty dot com and put it out

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Speaker 1: there and I'll let you know if you're worthy. But

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Speaker 1: I'm only joking the gangster side you. That was the

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Speaker 1: gangster sidey. I love waking your show because because you

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Speaker 1: know you you you know you pick stuff over your hands,

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00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: you put your hands are clean because you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of cooking shows everything everything is with fargs and everything.

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00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: But when you're cooking in your kitchen, come on, now,

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Speaker 1: you're handed clean. I remember when j hard you know,

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Speaker 1: and take off those range You can't be mixing hands

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Speaker 1: rings on. There you go, there you go, there you go.

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Speaker 1: Now I've done some things with the rings on, but

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Speaker 1: if not with mixing. You can't mix stuff with dirty

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00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: fingernails and rings. You cannot do that. You cannot do that.

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Speaker 1: You absolutely tell them. Let mesk you this about the

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Speaker 1: Patty's Good Lifeline, which is currently included pies, cobblers. Just

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Speaker 1: the entrepreneurship side though. What I want to just keep

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00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 1: at seventy three that you're becoming a brand with banana

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Speaker 1: putting in fancy kicks all available with Walmart. Where is

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00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: that that right now? Tell us how I know it's exploding,

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00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: tell us about it. It's exploding. And I'm also, uh,

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Speaker 1: I have betting you know at Macy. I have betting

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Speaker 1: at um Walmart also, and I have I have so

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Speaker 1: many other things like twenty eight items about to appear,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh my brand, and we're just moving right

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Speaker 1: along with quality. Uh nothing that so better taste, so

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Speaker 1: naty you don't want to eat, or something not so

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00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: soft that you don't want to put it in your bed.

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00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: So I'm doing the best I can with what I have.

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Speaker 1: And what I have is my son who is my manager,

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Speaker 1: and friends Alex you know, who pushed me like crazy

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Speaker 1: and for years they've been working for this Good Life brand.

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Speaker 1: And the Sweet Potato pies were the first thing that

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Speaker 1: you know, we put out there and they did quite

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Speaker 1: quite well and they're still doing more. We know the

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Speaker 1: thing I just want to tell everybody about you know,

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Speaker 1: you be on VH one to night on the Dear

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Speaker 1: Mama Special and you're being concerned made thirteenth to James L.

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Speaker 1: Knight in Miami, Florida. But you're such a brand and

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00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: you're such a topical inspiration and the fact that when

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00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, you seem so happy because you're

1032
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: so happy because the variety that multiple streams of income

1033
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: is surrounding your life. Did you see this coming? I

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Speaker 1: know your son, you know, I know him very well,

1035
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: and he was always we can do more, we can

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Speaker 1: do more, and to see it coming into fruition. What

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that? Patty? My thoughts would be

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00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 1: on that that it should have happened because my it's quality,

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Speaker 1: you know. And then I knew too that being the

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Speaker 1: black woman who wouldn't be accepted as quickly as maybe

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Speaker 1: Betty Crocker or Paula Dean or anything. So they worked

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Speaker 1: so hard and I worked for her in perfecting the

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Speaker 1: recipes for the that I knew it had to do

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Speaker 1: something because I know it's great, not good, it's great,

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Speaker 1: and I can't put my name on anything. I know

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Speaker 1: you can't. I know that's absolutely true. And I'm gonna

1047
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Speaker 1: just tell everybody before we're in this interview about you

1048
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Speaker 1: as an individual. And I mentioned it earlier in my

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Speaker 1: intro Dad when I launched Money Making Conversations. You know,

1050
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of friendship. A lot of people say

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Speaker 1: you called rashaan show and you called me. And at

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Speaker 1: the time, you know, I just had one station in Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: and you trusted the instincts of supporting me. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna let you know now you know U on

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Speaker 1: my heart radio podcast, I get two and fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: download today. I'm on Serious XM Channel one for the

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Speaker 1: one that's h U Rtist Howard University. I'm on Serious

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Speaker 1: Channel XM that's channeling one for the two that's all

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Speaker 1: HBCU campuses. I have a fan club over two two thousand.

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Speaker 1: I've almost a million social media followers, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: just tell you that a lot of it was due

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Speaker 1: to the fact that you you branded me MS LaBelle,

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Speaker 1: you branded me and you supported me. And I want

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Speaker 1: to say thank you on this day. My mom is

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Speaker 1: living today and you're my mom right now. MS LaBelle,

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Speaker 1: thank you for supporting me. Okay when later, thank you

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Speaker 1: and you're worthy of everything that's coming to you in

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Speaker 1: that world. Continue to come and uh and and you

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Speaker 1: know I'm gonna keep it supporting those pies. And I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody just go to you. Go your website,

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Speaker 1: Pad Labell dot com. You want to be on be

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Speaker 1: on the show. And she doesn't do just celebrities. You

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Speaker 1: keep winning, You have anything else you want to say?

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Speaker 1: No is this holler at me everyone who wants to

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Speaker 1: deal with And just thank you for all the support

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Speaker 1: that I've gotten for the last fifty four years. People

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Speaker 1: who like Patty Labell and I I don't think it

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Speaker 1: for so thank you so much. I appreciate you cool

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Speaker 1: and thank you for for supporting me. One year later,

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Speaker 1: Pad LaBelle, y'all miss Patty. Patty