1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by Marketing and 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. Indication didn't notice. I'm not broke. 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: decision makers. It's what he likes to do, It's what 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: he likes to share. Now it's time to hear from 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations give it. Welcome 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation. I'm your host, ras Sean McDonald. 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: I recognize that we all have different definitions of success. 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: For some exercisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake up 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their 13 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: very best life. These are my passions and that's what 14 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do for you. That's why I created Money 15 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: Making Conversations. I want you to stop tripping over small 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: challenges and prepare for the bigger, bigger obstacles that life 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: is going to present to you. And a lot of 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: people trip complain about things that are not even worth 19 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: your time. Because that holds you back. But guess what 20 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: my next guest, I've been knowing him a long time 21 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: in the business. We've cross path d c b Et. 22 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,839 Speaker 1: His name is Curtis Simmons. He launched HBCU go TV, 23 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: which is alive in streaming entertainment, educational, lifestyle and sports network. 24 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: HBCU go TV is divorce of African American Youth and 25 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: HBCU Community and currently airs on Roku and HBCU go 26 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 1: dot TV. Please work on the money making conversation, Curtis Simmons. Hello, 27 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: I'm right here. You can hear it. You can, I 28 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: can hear you. Now introduce you man, you just sat 29 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: down with girlis I don't know. I don't know if 30 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: I put the pup up screen on it and I see, 31 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: I see the picture in the background, all that good stuff, Curtis, 32 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: How you doing that? Sir, Mr HBCU, Mr b Et, 33 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: Mr Producer, A great weekend. I gotta tell you what, 34 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: shot is honored to be on your show. That I've 35 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: heard a lot about the show, and I know you 36 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: very well man, and I'm looking forward to diving into conversations. 37 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: See we come up with the day. Well, you know 38 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: the thing about it is that we've talked previously when 39 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: you we we sat down and talked about the brand 40 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: of HBCU and how I can come into you know, 41 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: help grow this brand. And it excites me because HBCUs. 42 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: I didn't go to then HBCU school. I graduated from 43 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: University of Houston right down the street from Texas Southern 44 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: University and Third War Texas. So I appreciate that. I 45 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: appreciate because my passion and what I'm trying to do 46 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: and what I want to use the skills that God 47 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: gave me is when I'm bringing to the table and 48 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: that's marketing in branding, that's something I do very naturally. 49 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: When I look at a brand like HBCU, which for 50 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: some reason and has exploded on the landscape, why do 51 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: you feel that you know it's been struggling that funding 52 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: every year? Compress do you want to fund it? Then? 53 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: And then you know President Donald Trumps is taking claim 54 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: for like resurrect in hbc USED. If it went to 55 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,799 Speaker 1: him in twenty eighteen in September, it wouldn't be an 56 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: HBC You find the program happening right now, hbc US 57 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: being so popularized in well, I think that you know, 58 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: with all the un wrestled we've had in this current time, 59 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: looking at where there should be some growth and where 60 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: there should be some responsible But I think it peels 61 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: back to the HBC circle. And I think when people 62 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: really dive in and really look at what HBC schools 63 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: have done over the years and creating some of the 64 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: great educational folks, political folks, and attain us UH sports athletes, 65 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: the hold nine yards has now become a better appreciation 66 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: across the board for what these schools have met. And 67 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: now you know, more people are looking at it. You know, 68 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: not one sided that it had been looked at for 69 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: a while because when you look at the great thing 70 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: about the HBC US in the sixties and seventies, that's 71 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: only where African Americans could go to PW. But many 72 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: white institutions got very smart and said, look appeally on 73 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: the athletics side, you know, we got to start incorporating 74 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: more of the African Americans into our schools. And because 75 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: they could provide the visibility that African American schools could not, 76 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 1: a lot of athletes jumped aboard. But now what's happening is, 77 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: you know people are understanding, look it ain't all about 78 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: the money, It's more about the experience. And then we 79 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: can start really you know, pushing more of the experience 80 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: of HBCUs and really show people who have come out 81 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: of there, who who have survived. You know, that I 82 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: think is really gonna be icing on the cake. And 83 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: I think now that it's become very apparent that these 84 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: schools are playing prominent role in educational African American kids. 85 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: You know, more more people now starting to pay attention 86 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: to saying we've got to have more HBCU stuff, and 87 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: we've got to spend more time in driving the value 88 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: and exposure of these schools. That's one of the things 89 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: that I'm trying to do. HBC You Go TV. Now 90 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: you know the vision leading Media, eliminating divorced and the 91 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: experience of the hundred and seven is hundred and four 92 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: that accredited hbc US. And then the mission is to 93 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: increase brand awareness and support the sustainability of hbc USE 94 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: by making a meaningful financial contributions to the population of 95 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: these American institutions of higher learning. There are two days 96 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: of vision and the mission h HPC you Go TV. 97 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: How did they start though? Talk about your career, what 98 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: gives you credibility. You just hopped on the machine. First 99 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: of all, I know you with HC and I think 100 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: one of the one of the things that helped me 101 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: tremendously the shines. I grew up on the campus of 102 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: Subchial State University. My mother taught there before the year. 103 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: The father worked in for fifty years in the maintenance department, 104 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: So I had an opportunity to be in the bloodline. 105 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: I ended up my mother graduated from such a state 106 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: and I ended up graduating from such a state, and 107 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: also my sister graduated the Cuil State. So I had 108 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: the experience of you know, coming and living and being 109 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: part of that blood line of HBCUs. But then when 110 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: I got into the marketing side of the media business 111 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: and were for a cable system for for many years, 112 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: and I worked for ESPN, and then I got into 113 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: b T right, one of the biggest things I saw 114 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: was the lack of exposure for these universities because no 115 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: one really was really trying to help. In my old 116 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: days of BAT, when I came on the we really 117 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: were the anchors behind black college sports, and we did 118 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: that for almost ten years. But then, you know, we 119 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 1: were ahead of our time, and our guys didn't know 120 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: really how to sell it. And coming out of ESPN, 121 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: you know, and being a sports nutter, I was really 122 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: pushing black college sports like there was no no tomorrow. 123 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: Because when I first came on board and BT we 124 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: were we were doing a week long tip take de 125 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: lay on the game, and I found it for Bob 126 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: to do live gates, you know. And then finally we 127 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: just got out there where the advertising world couldn't really 128 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: understand black college sports and they didn't want to put money, 129 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 1: and so it didn't enable us to continue with it, 130 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: but we knew there was a value there and that's 131 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: where other services started to the devonnant and now ESPN 132 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: has jumped in it. But what ABC you Go is 133 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: gonna do is that we're gonna be a part of 134 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: that because you know, as I've told the HBC schools 135 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,239 Speaker 1: is like, you know, why are you letting just one 136 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,119 Speaker 1: network control your visibility when you look at the Power 137 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: fives and you look at you know, other conferences they 138 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: got two and three media partners. Absolutely, you know. Now 139 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: you know, the the commissioners are getting smarter. They're looking 140 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: at ways in which they can drive expose you're looking 141 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: at way more they ways they can you know, bring 142 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: revenue to the universities, to their presidents. And so the 143 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: doors starting to crack. And now with HBC, you starting 144 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: to pick up some top name recruits like Howard picked 145 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: up making the basketball players seven footer. Uh, there's others. 146 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: Other players have gone on different places that have been 147 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: top recruis. And now the doors starting to slide open, 148 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: and which is gonna make you know, these schools become 149 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: very very attractive now on the agency go, but to 150 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: other people because as they want to see these young 151 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: this young challenge, and they're also gonna get a chance 152 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: to really expose themselves to some great challenge. At the 153 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: end of the day, let's talk about this stay in 154 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: the sports lane because we talked about SEC Conference and 155 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: Power five. I'm a software swack guy, you know Texas 156 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: Southern Preview, Grammar's Southern or the whole area over there. 157 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: That's me. Then I find out that but Thune Cookman 158 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: is coming to the swap. Then I find out fair 159 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: Mute is coming to the swag. See that's that feels 160 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: like the Black SEC to me, and that's what you're 161 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: talking about. Then you know, I was just talking to 162 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: Charlom Cullen, who is the commissioner of the SWAG, and 163 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: I think you're right on point. I mean, I try 164 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 1: to convince the conferences almost eight years ago because I 165 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: was really the one that brought up black college sports 166 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: to ESPN because I was consulting with him at the time, 167 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: and I was the one behind the SWAG of the 168 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: me act. Charlote ended up in Florida. But one of 169 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: the things I was trying to convince the AFC schools 170 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: early on was to make a power conference, but they 171 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: just couldn't get it. But now you're right, I think 172 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: that SWACK is on something, man, And then I think 173 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: they're building something that's gonna make it very, very track. 174 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 1: And I think what's gonna happen is SWACK is gonna 175 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: be decoference that everybody's gonna look at it, you know, 176 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: as far as really doing sports with and see if 177 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: they become one of the power you know, it's within 178 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: black houge sports. And I think they will. I'm thin 179 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: because they picked up, like you just said, the film 180 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: come with Fami, you you know, and I think there's 181 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: gonna be others that's gonna sprinkle over with powerhouse, even 182 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: in in in the middle level compass who are doing well, 183 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: who're gonna try to sneak in and really try to 184 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: make it a strong conference before it's all over. We're 185 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: talking about I think it. I think that's that's opportunity there. 186 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: We're talking about legacy football program, athletic program, band program, 187 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: were talking about band Bam, Mute what I'm saying. We're 188 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: already knowing the Squack is always had the gramblin Southern game. 189 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: There has been broadcast for years on NBC. So that's 190 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: what happened. That's always been like the Notre Dame game 191 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,119 Speaker 1: on NBC for black sports. And so there's already media heritage, 192 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: media media lineage for the Squack program. And I look 193 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: like it because we have to start being smart and 194 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: realize we have economic dollars. If you want to get 195 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: the recruits, then you have to generate energy. If you're saying, man, 196 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: the Swack is the best place to come or you're 197 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: gonna be the best athletes, that's what's happening right now, 198 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: Jackson State. That's come on. Now, that's all I'm saying. 199 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: That's swack. That's that's spark ability right there. I mean 200 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: that spark ability. So you can talk to both Champ 201 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:53,839 Speaker 1: coaching his son, his same his son, his son who 202 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: was a four star recruit was just d D A 203 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: D committed from the Florida school not going to act 204 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: in state exactly, and he was incredible and that and 205 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: I think that's the train you're gonna see on on 206 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: that astronomy. I think that you know, they're gonna be 207 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: it's gonna be many more like that. They're gonna start, 208 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: you know, drifting into because look, the bottom line is, man, 209 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: these young folks in football and basketball, they want to 210 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: get to the next level right right right now, that's 211 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: the whole thing. And and if we're able to begin 212 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: to start showing them through HBCU that you can get there, 213 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: right I think that's gonna be the doing. And I 214 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: think now the where the direction is moving, you know, 215 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: more and more kids will realized. And look, you know, 216 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: I asked the question too, Jalen Rose years ago when 217 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: when the Fat five you know, uh tape came out, 218 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: when they did the Fat five taket, and I said, Jayden, 219 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: if you would have took the Fat five to an HBCU, 220 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 1: do you think there have been different to taken it 221 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: to Michigan. He said, mancurse, I never thought about it 222 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: like that. I said, yeah, because all you wanna do 223 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: is it to the next level. And I want before 224 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: what it does that was before one and does. So 225 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: now you take that same model and move that into 226 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: an HBCU, everybody would want to come televise them, right, 227 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: everybody would follow them, right, and they would they would 228 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: become the team and the HBCUs and everybody w jumped 229 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: on right, you know the new question. So with the 230 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: the the the rays of awareness of Jackson State with 231 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: with a dion for example, right, only opens up more 232 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: doors to HBCUs and and that and that's what we 233 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: gotta start taking advantage of it. The biggest thing that 234 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: we've got to take advantage of, Sean is Dad, We've 235 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: got to move HBCUs schools into thinking business and not 236 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: just education. Right. That's one of the biggest things that 237 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm trying to work come into hbc goach. I'm trying 238 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: to constantly bring them ideas of how to grow their 239 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: enrollment through bringing in some businesses that will support them 240 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: in order to grow the enrollment, because that's not the 241 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: way they think going in the door. Well his appears 242 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: and you're absolutely right, Uh, Notre Dame football is what 243 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: drives there, Rollman, Penn State, Alabama, University of Texas, these 244 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: are usc all, these are prominent programs. The drive enrollment 245 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: and it's it's really it's interesting because the academic success 246 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: of HBCUs is unquestionably an amazing story in itself, that 247 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: they're not even recognized because what because the athletic program, 248 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: which were the dominant voice in the sixties before integration happened. 249 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: And you know that, Kurt, you know that the way 250 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: they are black athletes and hall of fame. I think 251 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: it's over thirty two hbc U UH players who are 252 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: in the Professional Football Hall of Fame and so so 253 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: now let's look at that. Now. That's why I think 254 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: it's important that the Dion Sanders is at Jackson State 255 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: because then he's gonna he's gonna bring in athletes, which 256 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 1: means that a fan base and the alumni base will 257 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,199 Speaker 1: get re e generally re energized. And that's what we're 258 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: which is needed, which is needed because right now, let's 259 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: talk about let's talk about a spc U s they 260 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: known for the band and if they got a good 261 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: football team, and then the academics is third. And I 262 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: think what happens is as black people, we always fight 263 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: that monica that we're more than just athletes, were just 264 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: more than physical objects. And so that's the fight that 265 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: you were talking about right now, is exactly we want 266 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: to be able to recognize for our intellect and not 267 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: because we can entertained and not because we can perform 268 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: on an athletic platform. And so that's the dream, that's 269 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: the right on point. Yea, that's that's what yours right 270 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: with my my personal myself. You know, I've been trying 271 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: to show young man and young ladies like listen, I 272 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: came out of the state with a physical education major, 273 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: PE major. Right, I've been the marketing guy since I've 274 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: been in the busines US thirty some plus years. You know, 275 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: I'm going into the biggest hall of fame of the 276 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: media industry, broadcasting and cable next years, going into a 277 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: Hall of fame major. Let me bring that up. Don't 278 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: be just just throwing out that information. That's valuable information. 279 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: They're one of my questions. Let me set that up. 280 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: You're just jumping out there just casually throwing it out. Now, 281 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: I stand interview with people that know more information and 282 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: just be putting it out ahead of time. We're stealing 283 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: eight PCU. Now you have jumped into this legendary honor 284 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: that you're getting in twenty twenty one. Well since year, 285 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: open your mouth, Curtis, tell us about this honor that 286 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: you're getting in twenty twenty one. That's one of the 287 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: biggest the opportunities you can get in media. Talk about 288 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: that broadcasting. You know, I appreciate that. I mean, you know, 289 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's always an honor when you 290 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: have your colleagues, you know, nominates you as one of 291 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: the best in the business. And I really of a 292 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: one of the things that has been my my real 293 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: headache over my years is that I never really taken 294 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: advantage of my network like I should have. I've had 295 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: more people always say to me, hey man, I don't 296 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: think you realize how much you bring to the table, 297 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: and you undervalue yourself a lot. Well, this honor Rashane 298 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: next year is one that I've been seeking for like 299 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: the last twenty years because I thought that I gave 300 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: a lot to the industry. And one of the things 301 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: that I wrote a part of a book I wrote 302 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: a while a couple of years back called as a 303 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: Gamble and a HBCUs are shure back within that I 304 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: talked a lot about during that time, Rashan. One of 305 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: the things that I think we all get, we all 306 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: have overside us is not recognizing and dealing with our 307 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: family the way it is because your family is all 308 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: you have. Man, at the end of the day, somebody have, man, 309 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: and my family went and fought with me thinking thin. 310 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: You know, I put my family at times, and it's 311 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: a rough box because I'm working night and day, traveling 312 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: all the time, missing things, you know, And you know 313 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: that's a big thing now to me. And so to 314 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: be honored and see all the sacrifice of my family 315 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: went through in order for me to obtain hon't like 316 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,360 Speaker 1: this next year. It's big for me, man, It's very 317 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: big for me. And also too, you know, have many 318 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: of my peers who have now called me and saying, man, 319 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: this is over to man, you should have got this 320 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: thing a long time ago. Man. You know, I'm just 321 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: shocked that it's taking this long. Begin And I give 322 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: him you know, the I forgot it was uh in 323 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: the NFL who it took him a long time. You know, 324 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: I just said, listen, you know, the whole thing is 325 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: I taught I was talking to be patients. You know, 326 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: patients is the world of life. 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That's O T T 370 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: E R. Dot ai. Now it takes a big of 371 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: the knowledge because I want to slide back to getting 372 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: on the real Ku platform. Yep, getting the streaming because 373 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 1: let's look at BT. BT is a traditional cable network, 374 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: which means they have to have twenty four hours of programming, 375 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: seven days a week. And that's why sometimes you look 376 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: at the network like a BT and they got paid 377 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 1: program and it has nothing to do with BT coming 378 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: around in early out. What advantages is it streaming and 379 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: expenses of money financially versus doing a cable network launch 380 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: versus doing extreaming network launch. Well, one of the things 381 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: that everyone's finding out is that the world of media 382 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: is changing. Shine as we all know, you know, one 383 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: is really watching and you know our kids are not 384 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: watching television anymore. Our kids are watching their phones. The 385 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: iPads and the computers and the digital world really allows 386 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: them to get a faster hit than just watching line 387 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 1: your TV. Right, And so the digital over the OLDT 388 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: T platforms that we're on over what they called over 389 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: the top digital platforms, which is faster. And the fact 390 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 1: that you can get information, you know, more Bible information 391 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: at a timely basis is just the way of the world, man, 392 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: and the way that you know, in my audience that 393 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: I'm trying to reach out to, which is the HBC 394 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: students and alumni, and we're trying to get the you know, 395 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: must coutural audiences to be involved with it. You know, 396 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: a lot of this world is watching everything on the computer, 397 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: the phone and the iPad. So less cost. You know, 398 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: I don't have to buy Big dishan to get my 399 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: network up. You know, I could just do it technology. 400 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 1: But it was a lot less cost. And that's really 401 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: what it boils down to you. I mean, today's to 402 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: build a linear network like a BT, it's cost you 403 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars. Where to do a digital network. 404 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: You know, I don't need a million dollars like to 405 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: have it, but I can get it up without having 406 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: to spend a ton of money to get it up 407 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: and going and keep and keep productive. So and that's 408 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: really what it's all about, you know. And so if 409 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 1: you can make your program, you can grow your content 410 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: as you're building it. That's really kind of the theme 411 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: where you want to go with. So what is your 412 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: content or is it categorize? How is it? Because it's 413 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,959 Speaker 1: gonna be honest. You know, HPCUS recognized for the athleticism, 414 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 1: that sports program, recognized for those bands, those marching bands 415 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: at halftime, dominant the landscape. And then academics. So what 416 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: is consist of educational program And we're doing that. We're 417 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:56,239 Speaker 1: doing a masterclass program with UH Tennessee State. UH. That's 418 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: that's been one of our charter schools that we've been 419 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,400 Speaker 1: working very closely with because really the programming that we're 420 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: trying to create is they have the students create programming 421 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: for the network and then we're doing some lifestyle programming. 422 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: We've created a show with Charlotte Neil called What's Next 423 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: with Charlie Neil and doing very similar things you're doing 424 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: here with your podcast of interviewing people in the ABC circle, 425 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: around the HBC circle or you know, graduated from an 426 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,199 Speaker 1: HBCU who are doing things in the community or in 427 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: business who can help enlighten us on how to move forward. 428 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: And of course, like you said, you know, we're doing 429 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: we're doing HBC Sports right now. We're doing it on 430 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: a lot of tape stuff material that we're getting. We 431 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: hope to try to have some large sports in one 432 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: and we'll see what what comes about, you know, in 433 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: regards to that. And then we're trying to create other 434 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: programming around um, you know HBCUs that people would really 435 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: relate to, Like we have a black quiz show, uh 436 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: that we got from Don Jackson and the Chicogogmy. He 437 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: gave us twenty six episodes, uh that we're working with 438 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 1: uh that I think it's all around HBC is good. 439 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: So but the questions are really tough. You know. I'm 440 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: about shut a couple of times, and I'm trying to 441 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: figure out the answers to some of these questions. Is 442 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: that the version hosted by Nephew Tommy, Yes, yes, exactly 443 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: exactly a nephew times, you know, and they're doing well 444 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,199 Speaker 1: for us. And then we have another another show that 445 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,919 Speaker 1: we picked up with Zenni Garrison and uh Jannon Rubin, 446 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: which is really all about social justice, but it's it's 447 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: UH game set shot is what it's called. And they 448 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: talked to a lot of tennis professionals about the whole 449 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 1: thing about injustice and dealing in the black and white world. 450 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: You know. So it's slowly but surely picking up program 451 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: Our goal in one is the least be able to 452 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: do two hours of original programming, and then we'll start 453 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: adding more as we go. Okay, cool, So here's another program, 454 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: money Making Conversations. You know, we want that you want 455 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: You're on the docketing, You're on the doc top show 456 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 1: because he's right now. He's the thing that I love 457 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: about what's happening with money Making Conversation and the interviews. 458 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,959 Speaker 1: I got an interview Kenny Lord, you know, at the 459 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,959 Speaker 1: top of Lifestyles out of using texts, Heath from Tennessee 460 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: State University just interview the UH last week. The people 461 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: who created Christmas Clause, Clarence Clause. You know, young black couple, 462 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: black couple, you know, both of them graduate from HBCUs. 463 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: And so it's really interesting how granular the relationship has 464 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: been so me being able to provide content and so 465 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: now I built I bought my new office building in Atlanta. 466 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 1: So and so, now now I'm doing video like I 467 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 1: told you I would, and so this is this, this 468 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: is the program, and I'll be able to bring I'm 469 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: building out a video wall to the right of me 470 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: and so, which means that I'll be able to get 471 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: even bigger talent, even bigger relationships, but more important, exposing 472 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: the entrepreneurial value of HBCUs and also being able to 473 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: give you quality programming because that's what sales. Even though 474 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: if I can get to celebrity HBCU people on my 475 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: show and get them on your network, then guess what 476 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: you be able to marketing brand. They become the face. 477 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: And that's what we're gonna do. That's how that's well. 478 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm for anyone listening to the Sean Show 479 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: right now, let me just say this, I am very, 480 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: very very excited to have building relationship with one of 481 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: the great brand masters in the business, with Sean McDonald. 482 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: I think that having him part of HBCU goal is 483 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: going to be explosion for us one and I'm looking 484 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: forward to marketing, building the brand and really working side 485 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: by side with him to really grow you know, his 486 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: show and really grow our partnership to show number one, 487 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: to show people we can work together. Number two, to 488 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: take advantage of this networking, the building of all the 489 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: people in the ABCY circle so that, as the earlier mentioned, 490 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: we can build something that everybody can be proud of 491 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: down the road. That's really the goal, right, that's really 492 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: the goal, and that's really what we're trying to do, 493 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's amazing. We gotta you know, 494 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: our president and vice president elect, which is a amazing 495 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: how Howard University a k A member question. You know, 496 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: people go where she really black with the Howard She 497 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: got enough black going on in our life. He's ad 498 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: a k for Gerardi. She went to Howard University, she 499 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: grew up in Oakland. We just stopped. We just stopped 500 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: right there. That's that's that's enough. That's three black powerful 501 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: relationships that we can stop talking about. You got you 502 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,719 Speaker 1: got that right, You got that right, And that's that's 503 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: gonna be very powerful. And I think that you know, 504 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: she's gonna jump on. We're gonna get her one day 505 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: on your show because she's gonna understand how powerful you 506 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: are in the market. And when she bring to the 507 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: table and she going on, everybody, let's to your message. 508 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: Some Moore we go, I can see you grabbing her. 509 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: Very show when we have an earball, we're talking about Powell, 510 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: you know, Walter Payton, you know, rest is so greatest 511 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: running back in the history of football, professional football, Steve McNair, 512 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: you know, Jared right, the greatest wide receiver all the time, Qualifiber, 513 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: Michael stray Hand, you know, it's Oprah Winfrey to Roger P. Hanson, 514 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: Anthony Annas and Stephen A. Smith. The list goes on 515 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: and on common you knows, tremendous, house, tremendous. And I 516 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: said that, and that's the kind of thing the Sean 517 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: that you're talking about that are young people are totally 518 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: unaware of, totally unaware of. I was of a group 519 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: of young folks will back right before about a year ago, 520 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: right for the virus hip, and was talking to them 521 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: about black media and mentioned Earl Graves's name, right, and 522 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: no one in the room knew who Earl Graves was. 523 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: No one, And I said, how can you be in 524 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 1: a communication journalism department and not know who Earl Graves is? 525 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: But that's because and this is one of the things 526 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: that I'm getting on a lot of the communications partners 527 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: in the HBC circles saying, listen, you gotta quit preachings 528 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: from the book and start educating these people on the history, 529 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: right so they understand when they stepped by the door, 530 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: who they are and who created the landscape for them, right. Well, 531 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: you know that even who really created it is sad 532 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: to see how the Johnson publication Brandy without Jet. You know, 533 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: you and I both know we grew up with Jet, 534 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: No question, j Beauty, JEF Beauty was a black man's dream, 535 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: come on now, you know. But you know what's what 536 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: what's saving behind that that was shown is that I 537 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: said it a lot of Bob meetings, Bob and I 538 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: had to get Bob piece of credit that back in 539 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: the early days and BT Bob went through a lot 540 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: of those folks like the john Agents of the world. 541 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: I was in those meetings and asked them to partner 542 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: with him so that we could create a conglomerate, right, 543 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: And everybody was caught up in their own silos. Man, 544 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: they were like, oh no, I don't need you. It's like, 545 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: are you serious? You know, But that's the thing that 546 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: we have to un uncapped. I mean, we gotta start 547 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: showing how we can work together, how we can drive 548 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: business and get more people involved in the circle so 549 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: that we can have a conglomerate that can grow and 550 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: people say, oh wow, they're doing something out there that 551 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: that's powerful out there. So the message out there, right, 552 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: and they're working together to make that happen. And so 553 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: let's let's go back to why we got on this call. 554 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: HBC you go dot tv is the website, ABC, you 555 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: go on Real Coup Now, Now you gotta have real 556 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: Coup to get to it, right, Yes, yes, but we 557 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: will have it. We will have a new app out 558 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: very soon, within the next three weeks that you'll be 559 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: able to pick us up right on your phone and 560 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: the app will be mainly connected to our website, right, 561 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: so you're really be able to follow us closer. Well, 562 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: that's the key because you if you start downloading and 563 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: then if people start rating your app on your download 564 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: the experience, then that's when you win. And that's what 565 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: I'm talking about right now. Now, let's go to the 566 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: target audience for we wrap up their primary at the 567 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: millennials eighteen to twenty four. The secondary is the alumni 568 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: which is forty nine and right. So the alumni is 569 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: what we're talking about because I was there. The influencers 570 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: for the young people, because of course we build a 571 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: brand of agents. I'm gonna say it the word week 572 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: because I can't get into the conversation, act like I'm 573 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: outside if right, you're directed it right, because we're influencers. 574 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: Because influencers are key. That's what that twenty five for 575 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: the night, and it really is for the nine to 576 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: seventy and beyond because the grandparents and the legacy influencers. 577 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: That that's the part of it, man. I mean, we 578 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: put together a football game years ago in the Bahamas, 579 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: were the first ever to do it. We put together 580 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: Bahama HBCU Go Bahama Football Classy. We bought Tennessee State, 581 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: I mean Texas Southern in the play Central State. And 582 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: what was amazing was we put ten thousand people in 583 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: the fourteen Arena within the within two weeks. Because they 584 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: wouldn't they wouldn't give us the rent TI a week before. 585 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. But anyway, my point is to your point. 586 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: When we started interviewing some of the people who attended 587 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,479 Speaker 1: the generations that were tied together, was amazing. I mean 588 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,239 Speaker 1: people say, when my grandfather went to my grandmother went 589 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: there to my father. I mean, the generations was unbelievable. 590 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: And that's what makes hbc so strong. But a lot 591 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: of people don't know that right then. That's why I'm 592 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: excited about. I'm excited about when we got the call 593 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: and talked about what you're trying to do because I 594 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: see it. And I'm not saying a visionary, but I 595 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: know that when I see what's happening with the squack 596 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: becoming my my my field, the football version of the SEC. 597 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: When I'm when I see Adon Sanders his brand going 598 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: down to Jackson State, when I see young recruits, when 599 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: I see the Vice president elect being an HBCU grad 600 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: of Howard University, which we have to consider to be 601 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: the Ivy League level of a black HBCU schools, And 602 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: that's where we're at now. We're at a We're at 603 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: an interesting point right now in life where the funding 604 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: should come through. You know, we should also stay on 605 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: the top of corporate of mayor A. She's continue you 606 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: to contribute like they contributed in one twenty and twenty 607 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: one and move forward. Let's don't make this to be 608 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: a guilt donation. Let's make this an annual donation. And 609 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: that's what should you should The magic word that needs 610 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: to be appreciated on a regular basis not a guilt situation. 611 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: This way, it should be at the end of the day. 612 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: But curse you got me brother. Like I said, I'm 613 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 1: on video. Now I'm on video. Appreciated, man, I appreciate 614 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: Sean blad to Appy man and thank you very much, 615 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: you and Samantha and the crew man. Thank you very 616 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: much for having me today. Well again, you know when 617 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: the app drops, you gotta let us know. So we're 618 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: putting letter, putting on social media. It's it's momentum again. 619 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: Congratulations for your one honor that you're gonna be for 620 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: business and cable or broadcasting cable award that you so 621 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: deeply deserved. A legacy is tied to experience and tied 622 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: to relationships, man. 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