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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald's here Atlanta, Georgia. You know I'm here every Monday,

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Speaker 1: uh doing what I do for you, bringing people on

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Speaker 1: the show. We got a lot of studio guests. We

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Speaker 1: will introduce him in a minute, but basically, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about you. Let's talk about being the best that you

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Speaker 1: balanced life, something I was not able to accomplish. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He's on the show today. Discussed hosting the tenth annual

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Speaker 1: welcome to money making Common versations Rodney Perry. I must

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Speaker 1: be making money, man. I love it. Man. First of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me on man. You you know,

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Speaker 1: And so now we we we we on the show

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Speaker 1: to day to talk about the tenth annual Bronze Lands

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Speaker 1: War you're hosting Saturday, Autist. Yeah, I'm excited, man. I've

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Speaker 1: And I've been living here in fourteen years. And living

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Speaker 1: You know, energize and energize because I'm gonna get you that.

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Speaker 1: Oh You're gonna get the energy because that's your that's

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Speaker 1: It's just that your mind thinks differently. I could never

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Speaker 1: probably you know, I'm probably sixty percent of myself as

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Speaker 1: So um, And that's where I had to remember, literally

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Speaker 1: in that audition, because I almost got deflated when I

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Speaker 1: sent me like I can't do this. I'm not even worthy.

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Speaker 1: And I had to remember, Sherry, you're bringing something you.

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Speaker 1: This is you, me is you. You You have a son

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Speaker 1: who could be Brian Banks. What would it be like

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Speaker 1: if they took Jeffrey from you? And that's when I

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Speaker 1: started doing my line. So that was all up underneath me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna tell y'all felt against the wall,

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Speaker 1: sliding down the wall. I was crying. I was screaming.

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Speaker 1: I think I scared Lely of Daniel's butler, leave Daniel's

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Speaker 1: sister who cast at the movie. It was so emotional

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Speaker 1: the audition that when I got into the elevator, I

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Speaker 1: still was in a fetal position because I went there

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Speaker 1: and because I said, you know what they want Viola.

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Speaker 1: I got nothing to lose, but I let me just

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Speaker 1: let me just go and do what I do, because

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Speaker 1: it's nothing like Viola. And um. I didn't hear from

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Speaker 1: the people for a few weeks, so I didn't think

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Speaker 1: I got it, but I knew I left everything on

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Speaker 1: the table, and that's why I think you gotta leave

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Speaker 1: everything on the table and go for it. And Tom

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Speaker 1: and he's directed Eddie Murphy and tons of movies. He's

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Speaker 1: he was used to working with stand up comics. So

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Speaker 1: I had a few face time auditions with Tom, and

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Speaker 1: I knew that I had gotten a job. When Tom

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Speaker 1: to sit on Jim. I think I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: sit on you too. And when I say sitting on people,

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Speaker 1: it's sitting on the comedic, bringing down the comedy and

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Speaker 1: bringing up the other side, the pain side. And you

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Speaker 1: know from working with stand up comics are your life.

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Speaker 1: We bring to the stage is pain. You take pain

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Speaker 1: And so he was able to bring that out. And

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Speaker 1: I'm and you know, it only takes one person to

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Speaker 1: important that you say that, because you know, when you get,

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Speaker 1: And no matter people will compliment you the on you great, great,

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Speaker 1: being out now, the fact that you're doing a tays

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Speaker 1: I mean not just a football player, five star football player.

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Speaker 1: because guess what, you got to see the movie realize

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Speaker 1: that through determination, through um having the right support system.

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Speaker 1: him the support system. But it's a constant battle. And

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Speaker 1: doing his his hiss, a dramatic role that he did,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's portioning that that movie went to a million dollars. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and this is your turn to say I can do more.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I love about your resume that I

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Speaker 1: currently see out there. I see an entrepreneur, I see

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Speaker 1: your mom, I see a radio person. Now I see

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Speaker 1: that your three sixty and I forgot also best selling

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Speaker 1: am very thankful that people uh still want to work

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Speaker 1: with me. I think that speaks to character and integrity, um,

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Speaker 1: chance with her because I've heard about you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of times. It's not who I've met, it's what

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Speaker 1: they've heard about me. Well, my friend, uh, you said

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do it? A money made conversation delivered. We

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Speaker 1: You can hear on the radio show every day or

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Speaker 1: Show every day at four pm. You can hear see

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Speaker 1: right here, I feel the timely Joe. When the middle

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Speaker 1: of summer, when box officers are exploding, that's when they

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Speaker 1: really make Summer and Cristmas, and then they have Martin

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Speaker 1: to become a money making period too, but the summer

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Speaker 1: has always been, you know, the beast of the box office.

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Speaker 1: My next guests are in the movie theater business. They're

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Speaker 1: the co founders of Next Act Cinema. Movie Theater in

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Speaker 1: the Pikes Field is near Bottomore Mary area. Next Act

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Speaker 1: Centema Theaters Stadium to see me, which I love just

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Speaker 1: usually a back to go seat, you know, leather recliners.

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Speaker 1: Remember the first time I went to the movie here

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Speaker 1: the Lettle of Crown, I saw the movie Frozen. Boy,

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Speaker 1: that was that was relaxing for me. In full service food,

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Speaker 1: which I love to eat, I love. I'm gonna ask

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Speaker 1: them do they have desserts because you know, I gotta

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Speaker 1: have my dessert when I'm in the movie theater, little

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Speaker 1: Sunday or something like that. Please welcome to Money Main

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Speaker 1: Conversations the co founders of Next Act Cinema, Anthony Fikes

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Speaker 1: and Rob but Right, Hey, thanks so much for having us.

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Speaker 1: How are you. I'm very good, Thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: on the show. Let's just before we didn't get into

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Speaker 1: the whole next act. Let's talk about that menu at

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Speaker 1: your movie theater. What are you serving? What are you

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Speaker 1: serving at the movie theater? And before we go, where

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Speaker 1: exactly you located. It's outside the Baltimore, Maryland area, correct, Pikes? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's correct. We're actually in Baltimore County writing

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Speaker 1: pipes still, so um pretty much right in the middle

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Speaker 1: between Bottomore City and Baltimore County was located. Absolutely. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that menu because you know you're bragg

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Speaker 1: about it and I when I go to movie theaters,

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Speaker 1: that changed my whole concept when you get a put

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Speaker 1: that little button and get some food. So let's talk

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Speaker 1: about that menu and what was the concept of putting

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Speaker 1: that particular menu to your theater. Yeah. So, so Maryland

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Speaker 1: is known for a couple of different um um select cuisines, right,

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Speaker 1: and one of the things that Maryland is known for

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Speaker 1: is craft and so we we we had to have crab,

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Speaker 1: the crab Sandward just some variations of crabs on that menu.

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Speaker 1: So we have a crab clout, um platter, we have

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Speaker 1: a seafood um, a balstore club that's kind of a

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Speaker 1: mix of like crab, meat, trimp and everything you know

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Speaker 1: that goes in between. Um and now when those those

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Speaker 1: menis are inspired really by the restaurant that we kind

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Speaker 1: of partner with as well. And so um Crab is

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Speaker 1: a staple and we know you're the pie guy, So

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Speaker 1: any inspiration that you have to help us out on

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Speaker 1: the dessert side, definitely give us a feedback. I'm coming

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Speaker 1: down there, man, and this is your place because like

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Speaker 1: I I'm always going up because I'll go to d

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Speaker 1: C every week, and I got officers up in uh talent,

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Speaker 1: let's give be talent represent the New York area. So

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Speaker 1: definitely we're going to connect after this call. So I

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Speaker 1: like to experience people to share some of some of

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Speaker 1: my advice when I go to there to their businesses.

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Speaker 1: You know that that I feel that can be relatable

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Speaker 1: and make you even more successful. Now we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the movie theater. Now, the box office pats came out

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Speaker 1: this weekend. They're saying that the box officers six percent

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Speaker 1: down from last year, which is always These numbers are

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Speaker 1: way incredible out there. So how does the box officer

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Speaker 1: of the week the week box office? How do you

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Speaker 1: plan for the movies they come to your theater? And

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Speaker 1: before I say that, tell us what's in your theater

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Speaker 1: right now this weekend? What box What movies are playing

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Speaker 1: in your theater this weekend? So Sean, internently, we have

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Speaker 1: um Hobbin shaw um, and we also have Brian Banks. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: Now what made the selection of those movies? So I

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Speaker 1: think you know, when we're making those decisions, we're looking

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Speaker 1: to see what movies are coming out, and we're also

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Speaker 1: taking into consideration our audience. Right, Um, So for example,

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Speaker 1: you know Lion King. Um, Tony, Now, we had a

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Speaker 1: conversation like Rob, Rob and Tony do do we get

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Speaker 1: Lion King? Because it's it's really a kids movie. But

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Speaker 1: Tony said, you know, Rob, I think everybody kind of

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Speaker 1: wants to see Lion King. And he was absolutely right because,

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Speaker 1: like one of our policies is at the seven PM

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Speaker 1: there's no one under the age of anyone, right, we're

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Speaker 1: really trying to cater to that date night adults type

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Speaker 1: of atmosphere and things of that nature. Um, but that's

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Speaker 1: pretty much like how we're making those decisions around which movies. Um,

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Speaker 1: we're we're gonna select. Now here's I'm going down to

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Speaker 1: domestic box office so far this year. The number one movie,

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Speaker 1: of course is Avengers End Game Beast almost a billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in sales. The second one domestically The Line King

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Speaker 1: almost five hundred, you know, million dollars in box office.

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Speaker 1: Seat that's in that's in the United States. Then you

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Speaker 1: have Captain Marvels number three, tars Story number four, he

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Speaker 1: has Spider Man number five, and The Laddin is number six.

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Speaker 1: These are all Disney movies, right right, right, Yeah, So

641
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Speaker 1: I think and earlier when we kind of explored, you know,

642
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Speaker 1: what movies we were going to get. We also, um,

643
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: you have to be willing to be extremely disciplined on

644
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Speaker 1: which which movies. And that's just in business in general, right.

645
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Speaker 1: You know, you can experiment, but you have to be

646
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Speaker 1: highly disciplined. And so for us, you know, we wanted

647
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: to make sure that thinks to Robert's point, Um, we

648
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: needed to cater to our audience. And that's kind of

649
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: how we select these movies. I mean, you have these

650
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Speaker 1: these domestic box office ticket sales that are doing well,

651
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Speaker 1: I think, especially in the early part of the year,

652
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Speaker 1: especially like for example, with US coming out, US did

653
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Speaker 1: extremely well at our theater. We also did, you know,

654
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Speaker 1: obviously The Avengers and Lion King. But then you know

655
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Speaker 1: there's other movies as well that that perform well. For example,

656
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: Shaft did extremely well with US is um and resonated

657
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Speaker 1: with our audience. So so we're pretty disciplined when we

658
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Speaker 1: you know, every week when we try to select some

659
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: of these movies, sometimes you know, you don't necessarily get

660
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Speaker 1: it right, especially because you know we're we're still kind

661
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Speaker 1: of new in this game. Um, but you know, we learn,

662
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Speaker 1: we learned each and every month kind of how we

663
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Speaker 1: select our our our choices. We try to look at,

664
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Speaker 1: you know, what's gonna trend well with our audience, in

665
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Speaker 1: addition to what we think will perform well depending point

666
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Speaker 1: you know, which actor and the actresses are in certain movies.

667
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Speaker 1: So it's a couple of different metrics that we look

668
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Speaker 1: at when we consider what we're gonna launch. It really

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Speaker 1: is because im in fifteen years in Los Angeles, a

670
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Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Magic Johnson, when he launched the

671
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Speaker 1: Magic Johnson theaters, you know, the hill the same thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, his his menu was a little bit diffrecated

673
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Speaker 1: to that audience. The movies that he came were more

674
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Speaker 1: catered to the audience appeal. And but one thing he

675
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: always sold what you sell, you know, quality of service,

676
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Speaker 1: cleaningness because you know, we gotta be real a lot

677
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: of things. When you launched into an African American audience,

678
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Speaker 1: sometimes the facilities aren't up to the standards of the

679
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Speaker 1: general market, and it really is disappointing when a person

680
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Speaker 1: like me would come in and go, wow, why the

681
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Speaker 1: bathrooms are right, and you sell the fact that our

682
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Speaker 1: menus outstanding, our facility looks, you know, nice chairs, the stadium,

683
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: CD you're selling your brand and say, hey, we're on

684
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Speaker 1: par with the general market theaters that you go out

685
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Speaker 1: to come to us because you're you will get the

686
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: same level of entertainment expectations on the big screen as

687
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Speaker 1: well as the confort as well as the food. That's

688
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: a really big selling point for you guys that you

689
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Speaker 1: and that's why I brought you on the show to

690
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Speaker 1: talk about the business side of selling your brand in

691
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Speaker 1: this very competitive movie theater market. Yeah, yeah, no, I

692
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Speaker 1: think I think to your point to you know, it

693
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Speaker 1: was extremely important for Robin and when we launched this

694
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Speaker 1: to remember that with any organization, you personally have to

695
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Speaker 1: be held accountable for the decisions that you make as

696
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 1: well as for your people. Right. So, you know, any

697
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Speaker 1: good leader or manager obviously you know, UM encourage his

698
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Speaker 1: accountability and the things that we do, you know, when

699
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Speaker 1: we're even when we're you know here UM and we'll

700
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: talking to our staff, we make sure that we are

701
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: part of the team. Right. So it's not that you know,

702
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: we try to lead from you know, necessarily you know,

703
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: behind the podium, right, we leave from the side, and

704
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: we encourage them to constantly make sure that we're catering

705
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: to our guests always and that's from as soon as

706
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Speaker 1: they walk in the door, they get greeted. As soon

707
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Speaker 1: as they you're ready to go into the theater, they

708
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Speaker 1: get the the door held open for them. And let's

709
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Speaker 1: talk about you going into the fall, going into the

710
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: Christmas what movies do we can we expect to see

711
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Speaker 1: our projecting to be uh brought to your theater uh

712
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Speaker 1: in the fall and also that that that amazing Christmas

713
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Speaker 1: run that you have to do. What movies are we

714
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Speaker 1: looking at? So so we're actually and and rocking us

715
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Speaker 1: also talking on this. We also are now I can

716
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Speaker 1: thinking about kind of what are the next election is

717
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Speaker 1: going to be, right because there's a there's also a

718
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Speaker 1: period of time right when a lot of movie theaters

719
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: there's not a big blockbuster that's gonna launch, and so

720
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Speaker 1: we have to be very thoughtful in how do we

721
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Speaker 1: prepare for those times And so we're thinking about different

722
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Speaker 1: you know, everything that's happened around Baltimore. For example, right now,

723
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Speaker 1: one of the things that we're trying to do this

724
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Speaker 1: launched kind of a week or two of like Baltimore

725
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: based movies, absolutely Baltimore based actresses and actors for example,

726
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Speaker 1: Jada Pinkett Smith right, um, and so you know we're

727
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Speaker 1: going to make a theme it around kind of Baltimore proud,

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Speaker 1: right and then in the in the in the lot

729
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: of part of the month. I mean, the one movie

730
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Speaker 1: that we cannot wait to get is Harriet, for example,

731
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Speaker 1: because we know that that's going to resonate with our

732
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Speaker 1: audience as well as the message behind it. So and

733
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Speaker 1: Rob can speak a little bit more about, you know,

734
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: other options that we're that we're considering. So Star Wars

735
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: is coming out in UM around the Cristians Holiday. UM.

736
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: I would imagine that's going to be another blockbuster. It's

737
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: going to probably be added to that list that you

738
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: kind of went down one of the top movies that's

739
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: going to be out for this UM for this year,

740
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Speaker 1: you know. And then you um, you also have a

741
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: lot of other African American movies that are coming out

742
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: with American UM, African American actors that are gonna be

743
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,959
Speaker 1: um be in and we're definitely targeting those those movies

744
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,919
Speaker 1: as well. Well. That's important. Like the Harriet's talking about

745
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: the movie Harriet Tubman that's coming out. I definitely will

746
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: uh you know, I tell you what we're gonna do.

747
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: We're going to create relationship because important movies like that,

748
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: I want to use my national bars. In fact, I'm

749
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: syndicating this show and it's probably is going to be

750
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: coming on in Baltimore in the fall to be able

751
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: to bring you guys on regular because I know what

752
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: you're trying to do. You're trying to build your brand,

753
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: promote your brand. And the way you get there is

754
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: why through relationships. And consider my relationships. As you know,

755
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: as I talk, I understand what you're going through. You

756
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: know you can't bring every movie there. You know you

757
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: can't bring Frozen there. You might not get the reactually,

758
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: so you gotta you gotta empty theater. Even though Frozen

759
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: gonna make it's gonna make a billion dollars, but it

760
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: might not make a billion dollars at your theater. And

761
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: so you have to be small. You have to be

762
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: able to, like you said, get the local local. First

763
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: of all, you have to make your their awareness to

764
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: the local community that you're there. What better way to

765
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: do that by featuring local successful or Baltimore or residents

766
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Speaker 1: who are now thriving in the movie and television industry.

767
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: That's smart because you gotta be able to have a base,

768
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Speaker 1: and the base has to know you exist. And so

769
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Speaker 1: that's what you're doing right now. Because the thing about

770
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Speaker 1: it you you you you you went to the bank.

771
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Speaker 1: The bank said, no, what they generally do because you know,

772
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Speaker 1: you put out a business mall. They look at you

773
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Speaker 1: and they go, okay, tree, black dude about to open

774
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Speaker 1: a movie theater. Okay, okay, uh key, you keep back

775
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Speaker 1: with us next year. And and it's in it's tragic.

776
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Speaker 1: It's tragic, you know. And and that because of the

777
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Speaker 1: fact that because of the fact that it's not enough

778
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Speaker 1: of us out there to say that this model will

779
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Speaker 1: work and I have the expertise to do it. Don't

780
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Speaker 1: look at my background, don't look at my color, look

781
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Speaker 1: at my plan, and look at the fact that my my,

782
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Speaker 1: my experience, this is what I do. And so that's

783
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Speaker 1: why then you know that when when that you're probably

784
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: gonna talk to me maybe a couple of times on

785
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: this show. Each time, the goal is to promote your brand.

786
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Speaker 1: Each time is to localize your brand, because in the end,

787
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Speaker 1: you know, people are hearing this show in Los Angeles,

788
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: hearing the show in Chicago. It's important that they're here

789
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Speaker 1: to show where they can drive through your movie theater.

790
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Speaker 1: And that's and that's why I really appreciate what you're doing.

791
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Speaker 1: And well, I just want to say this one thing

792
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Speaker 1: about this the trade off of what you joined. What

793
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Speaker 1: will tell anybody who's listening, what's separate you from the

794
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Speaker 1: normal movie theater experience. UM. I think it's one of

795
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Speaker 1: the things that that that you talked about is that

796
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Speaker 1: customer service based. I mean, that's one of the things

797
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Speaker 1: that we're always driving home with our employees. And the

798
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Speaker 1: good thing is we're seeing it interviews, Like if you've

799
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Speaker 1: read some of the reviews, a lot of them are

800
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Speaker 1: talking about the level of customer service that we're giving. Yeah,

801
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Speaker 1: we we we serve food, we have for reclining seats, um,

802
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Speaker 1: you know, nice picture quality. But they're also noticing, you know,

803
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Speaker 1: the effort that we're putting into into customer service. And

804
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Speaker 1: also I like the fact you said rushan A's after

805
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Speaker 1: seven o'clock is an adult couple driven theater, because the

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808
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Speaker 1: why are you in here watching us with your four

809
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Speaker 1: year old kids? What's going on? The kids, trauma, Tiz,

810
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Speaker 1: Roshan McDonald. You got a home. I'm here to promote

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Speaker 1: show should still be on on w g N Hidden Figures,

852
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: City on the Hill. He now plays the title character

853
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: on the movie. I just saw it last week at

854
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: a at a screening in Atlanta, Georgia called the Brian

855
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: Banks movie has been It's being promoted heavily everywhere. Please

856
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: welcome to money making conversations. All this hodge. How are

857
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: you doing? Okay, go come with that board? How are

858
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: you doing? How are you doing this? Sir? It's really

859
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: good watching your career. Man. Just just grow when you

860
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: when you when you We're gonna talk about the movie.

861
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about the testament of what

862
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: it takes to continually work as consistently as you work.

863
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: Can you give any of my listeners some advice or

864
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: some pointers on what you do to continually reach your dreams?

865
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: And I would tell people you always reaching every day.

866
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: I walk out of the house every day with a

867
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: new goal. Cool. Can you can you? Can you share

868
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: some I'll try to drop this quickly because I can

869
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: go off forever on this stuffs go forever important. I've

870
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: been in this business for thirty years, so where people

871
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: are possibly discovering me now. They don't realize that it

872
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: takes years of sacrifice and dedication to get to this place.

873
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: Wherever you're building up different canid opportunities, and it all

874
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: is sort of based on your preparation. You know, a

875
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: lot of people get opportunities come their way, but they

876
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: may not be prepared to handle it, so may pass by,

877
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: or they may squander the actual opportunity. So you have

878
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: to understand who you are and what you want out

879
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: of it. Um when it comes to being an actor,

880
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time forget trying to be famous,

881
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: trying to get money, and if that's what you want,

882
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: go do something else. If you want to be an actor, entertainment,

883
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: anything you want to do as a real artist at

884
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: your craft, you should always seek to put more into

885
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: it than you get out of it because at the

886
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: end of the day, you'll get something out of it. Now,

887
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: granted you can do a movie, you can get twenty

888
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: million dollars, you should put fifty million dollars worth of

889
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: value into that film because what's gonna be on that

890
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: film is gonna last forever. People will always watch your

891
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: legacy and be able to learn from it. You should

892
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: want to continue to grow and elevate, and for me,

893
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: I stand over the place of trying to do effective art. Hence,

894
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: you know projects like on the Ground and Brian Banks

895
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: I hate and figure it's like this is effective art

896
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: that moves to culture in a different way because it

897
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: shows and exhibits the beauty of black people, of black

898
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: culture and just people in general to a degree of

899
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: normal sing and gives us a voice in a different way. Now,

900
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: like I said, I've been doing this thirty years. I

901
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: have a firm foundation with my family, my mom, my brother,

902
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: and my sister that helps immensely, especially in the dark

903
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 1: times when the business is telling you you're not enough.

904
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: I've been in rooms before as a child where you know,

905
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: I've been twenty years old and audition with it like hey,

906
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: you're not black enough. I'm like, what does that mean?

907
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: You have to fully know your value when you're challenging

908
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: a business like this that wants to strip everything about

909
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: you away and replace it with something artificial. You have

910
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: to demand attention for who and what you are and

911
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: maintain everything that makes you special, which is already there.

912
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: You don't have to fabricate it, but understand what your

913
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: goal is you know, what kind of projects do you

914
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: want to be a part of them? And why? You know? Really,

915
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: the big question is why, why do you want to

916
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: be here? Why do you want to do this? And

917
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: are you prepared to make the sacrifice. There are times

918
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: where I didn't work for months on end, almost a

919
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: whole year, or times where I got fired for real,

920
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: really awkward reasons like being uh to too popular character

921
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: on the show. Um. But you can't let that beat

922
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: you down because you know your why. It's substantial. Your

923
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: why is what's going to carry you through, and a

924
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: good reputation. Treat everyone with fairness along the way is

925
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: what kind of pushes you down longevity because people will

926
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: understand that, they will notice that. They will then also

927
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: respect that they don't want to work yet. So understand

928
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: why you're doing it, what you want to get out

929
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: of it, Understand what you're trying to put into it,

930
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: and keep yourself level headed and always hungry. You know,

931
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: as an artist, the moment you become complacent or stop moving,

932
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 1: you die. Your art dies because you think, well, there's

933
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: no more room to grow. There's always room to grow,

934
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: always something new to learn, So always be a humble

935
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: student of the craft at all times. You can learn

936
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: so much from a producer, from a director, you can

937
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: also learn a lot from a background artist. Uh. You

938
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: just have to be open and humble about how you

939
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: approach everybody's positioning with respect. It's powerful, my friend, because

940
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: the person who's who's been in a position to do

941
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: the things you've done, the humble part really leads to

942
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: your greatness. And a lot of people understand that. And

943
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: the thing about when I was watching the movie, a

944
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: little history about me and this project Brian Banks project,

945
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: is that civil rights attorney Benjamin Cruff and I several

946
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: years ago, was doing this TV show called u UH

947
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: for TV Wonder that aired and we reached out to

948
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: the Brian Banks people and he said, no, we got

949
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: a movie project we're working on. We won't do your

950
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: TV show. Okay, cool, so fast, you know as fast

951
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: forward and you know fast. So I knew it a

952
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: little bit about this history because the TV show is

953
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: about wrongfully incarcerated people, you know, and uh, people have

954
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 1: been in jail for no reason at all got out

955
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: some sometimes they gotta check, sometimes they just gotta I'm sorry, okay.

956
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: And when I was when I was invited to see

957
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: this movie, so that was a kind of a personal

958
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: history to the movie. When I sat down, I was

959
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: and I was overjoyed to know that you were the

960
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: lead character in it. Now absolutely, you know, because because

961
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: I'm sitting down there and looking at them arms and

962
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, now he's been in the gym

963
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 1: doing his thing. You know, it would be authentic and everything.

964
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: So to me about the preparation. And then I didn't

965
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: get a chance to physically meet Brian, but he did

966
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: come out and talk a little bit about it, so

967
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: I know that to overcome incarceration and and some of

968
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,919
Speaker 1: this and some of the plot storytelling of his dream

969
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 1: kept getting knocked back, knocked back, knocked back, knocked back.

970
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: How did you How were you able to sustain the

971
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: reality and bring it or make it authentic to his

972
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: situation and bring it on the screen. That made me

973
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: not only cheer for the results even though I knew

974
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 1: the results, I still a cheer for the results in

975
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: the outcome. Thank you. Um well, it was really just Brian.

976
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: He was every day. Um We talked every day, We

977
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: were at the gym most days, trained for about a month,

978
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: almost every single day before even got down the set

979
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: start shooting, and uh, you know, we were with each

980
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: other every single day throughout the shooting and you know, talking, kicking,

981
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,439
Speaker 1: hanging out before every scene. I would talking him about

982
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: the scenario and asked me where his mindset was as

983
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: he went through it. And he was just brave and

984
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: vulnerable enough to go back down that dark road, that

985
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: dark memory road, memory laying I mean to take me

986
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: through it, and just being able to observe him and

987
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: pull the honesty out of him. It's what I wanted

988
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: to transform your own screen because I'm not playing a

989
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: character or a characulture of him. It's a really thing,

990
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: my interpretation of him. But I want to give the

991
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: audience the vision of him that's most honest, given what

992
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: I've seen from him personally, what he's shown me, what

993
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: I've seen of him, asked he's interacted with other people.

994
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: There's a light there, there's a a positivity there. There's

995
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: a different sort of strengthen there that comes from having

996
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: been through something and coming through the other side of impossibility.

997
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: That that's hard to fabricate if you don't understand struggle.

998
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: So we just had a lot of fellowship. Man and

999
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: I was lucky because of the fact that he was

1000
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 1: right there and I really didn't have to figure it out,

1001
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: uh too much, that he was just available, you know,

1002
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: a sound board, and you know we connected on hardships

1003
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: that we both went through in our lives. That's kind

1004
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: of where we found synergy, you know, in our mindsets

1005
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: to how to try to deal with things. You know,

1006
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 1: whenever we're attacked, we feel as a whole I think

1007
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: we feel it as as a whole culture. So it's

1008
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: easy to happen to that thing because we see it

1009
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: all too often. And when it came to that, it

1010
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: was just the idea of yet again, because of what

1011
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: I am, everything that I am, everything that makes me

1012
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: naturally beautiful, it makes me meet, is being taken away

1013
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: simply because the world that I live in needs me,

1014
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: warrants me to be less than the world that I'm

1015
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: living in. I'm not saying that everybody and is what

1016
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm saying in his reality dealing with you know,

1017
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: the police that and and and the statistics that go

1018
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: against in the world that he's living in pointing against

1019
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 1: him and his success um and it's to him then

1020
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: at that point to change it because we control our destiny,

1021
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: we command our value, we command our steps, and we

1022
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: have to actively participate in our in the potential of

1023
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: our future. So with that said, I just wanted to

1024
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: express the full range of him, from the darkest times

1025
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: all the way to this the most enlightened times. And

1026
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: in that moment, it was how much pain can want bear?

1027
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: How much pain can we bear as a culture? How

1028
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 1: how does that fear look when you can't do anything

1029
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: about the fact that you're life, your freedom, you're everything

1030
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: is being snatched away. We've seen the time and time

1031
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,319
Speaker 1: and again on the news or heard from families that

1032
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: we may have experienced a little bit of ourselves. But

1033
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 1: it's simply was digging deep into the history that I

1034
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: understood as I've seen, as I've seen my culture being

1035
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: treated over the years. Well, gonna let you go to

1036
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: my brother. Thank you all this Hodge in the great

1037
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: movie I saw myself. Um cried up in the end,

1038
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: cheer standing ovation. Brian Banks is the movie. He's out there,

1039
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: y'all support him. I'm gonna support him. Keep winning, my man,

1040
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:27,560
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1041
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1046
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1047
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1048
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1049
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1050
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