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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations. Here

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Speaker 1: I talk. I talk a lot because I have a

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Speaker 1: to another episode of podcast, radio show, or talk show,

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Speaker 1: Rashwan McDonald. Right. Next guest is an award winning civil

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Speaker 1: rights attorney, autism advocate, bestselling author, TV host, and illegal

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Speaker 1: or Riva Martin. Hello, Rashean, how are you my friend? Good? Good?

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Speaker 1: Areva so you know the West coast? Correct, Yes, I

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Speaker 1: say Angeles time because you know I'm on the East coast.

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Speaker 1: And I, okay, what time I call a reva or

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Speaker 1: email her? She responds, So what time do you get

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Speaker 1: up on the West coast, Reriva? Well, I have a

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Speaker 1: because you'll respond back to you. That's what I love

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Speaker 1: about it, you know. So obviously the phone is always

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Speaker 1: breaking news or breaking political news for CNN. Correct. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And because my job is breaking news. You know, the

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Speaker 1: news breaks in this world we live in today two seven.

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Speaker 1: I'm always checking my news sites to see what's going on,

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Speaker 1: your thoughts? What are your you know, your your opinions.

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Speaker 1: And I'm a news junky. I love it, so I

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Speaker 1: I can't consume enough of it. Now you've seeing it

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Speaker 1: being an analysts on seeing it, you know, everybody wants jobs,

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Speaker 1: and how did that opportunity come to you? And how

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Speaker 1: do you, Like I said, you always told me you

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Speaker 1: Enjorgia News. You stay on top of it naturally. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: how did the opportunity to come to you? Well, that's

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Speaker 1: a good question. I get asked that question a lot,

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Speaker 1: and you're writing lots of people. He's a lawyer friend

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Speaker 1: I started guests appearing. You know, I made myself available

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Speaker 1: UH shows that are aired outside the country. No, as

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Speaker 1: you is, So, what you do, I think is is opinionated.

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Speaker 1: So I think I have a responsibility that someone who

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Speaker 1: that platform in a responsible way. Well, you've always been

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Speaker 1: responsible when I've spoken to you. Your background at the St.

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Speaker 1: Dr Lynn Richardson, Well, good morning is thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: what it's been. But the work is just beginning. That's

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Speaker 1: show before. You're brilliant, You are you are, You're entertaining you.

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Speaker 1: Mr McDonald, you haven't had me on before because I

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Speaker 1: two time Emmy Award winner, three time n double A

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Speaker 1: CP Image Award winner, sitcom writer, stand up comic, former

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald will use his business and celebrity relationships to

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Speaker 1: My next guest is a Billboard number one selling singer

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Speaker 1: songwriter recording artists from Dallas, Texas. See I'm from Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: so I know Dallas two and forty marls Oft North

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Speaker 1: Mercedes Bins in Dallas. Texts drove it that seven. The

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Speaker 1: Dallas Nabors has performed on the Smash NBC series. The Voice,

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Speaker 1: has recorded six acclaimed studio albums and a Christmas collection

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Speaker 1: released on the Acclaim in an acclaimed book, starting two films,

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Speaker 1: headline of concert and conference tours all over the world.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations. My man from Dallas, Texas,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Evans. Hey, I'm just hyped, man. I'm just hyped

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Speaker 1: because I you know, we've been trying to connect and

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Speaker 1: we finally connected on this interview today because I wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring your money making conversation, because you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a type of person. Every every Tuesday I meet with

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Speaker 1: my my, my producers, and they pitch out people. They

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Speaker 1: recommend people would be great for the show, who have

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Speaker 1: great stories. And I just when they told me your story,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just felt I wanted to hear it

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Speaker 1: from you and talk about what drives you. That's the

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Speaker 1: one first question I want to ask you, Anthony, what

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Speaker 1: drives you to be successful? You know what there are

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Speaker 1: there are a few things that drive me. The first

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Speaker 1: thing I think about is being able to excellence. Drives me.

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Speaker 1: Actually being able to find them a way to another way,

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Speaker 1: avenues to be excellent. That that drives me at what

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Speaker 1: I do when it comes to being on the stage

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Speaker 1: and off the stage, but when it comes to planning

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Speaker 1: tours and events. But also what driving me is is

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Speaker 1: feeling like I'm actually fulfilling what I was born to do,

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Speaker 1: what I was calling to do. That is a driving

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Speaker 1: force to me, so excellent and then being in the

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Speaker 1: center of what I I'm supposed to be doing um

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Speaker 1: and not settling that that those are those are the

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Speaker 1: driving factors for me. And then so when somebody tells you.

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Speaker 1: I would tell you about me, a little bit about me,

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Speaker 1: you know, like my degrees in mathematics. And so I

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Speaker 1: was just in college. I was doing stand up comic

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Speaker 1: at night, stand up comedy at night. And so, you know,

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Speaker 1: people just like telling you know you're not gonna be

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Speaker 1: a Eddie Murphy. You know, people really tell you, but

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Speaker 1: your friends and your family can actually hold you back.

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Speaker 1: I'm just let you know that, right, the people you understand,

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Speaker 1: the people who are so close to you, can actually

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Speaker 1: be the people put the nail in it. But are

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Speaker 1: you wasting your time? You're wasting your time and so

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Speaker 1: so and so when I left IBM do stand up comedy,

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Speaker 1: they really thought I was crazy. And so so when

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Speaker 1: I when I look at you, and because you know

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Speaker 1: you you're now living in the Los Angeles areas, so

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Speaker 1: you're you're transplant. So how did you undercome overcome people

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Speaker 1: telling you what you couldn't do versus achieving what you

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Speaker 1: are achieving? Well, I had a very great from my family,

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Speaker 1: but my they has always been very supportive of me.

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Speaker 1: Before I even knew what my ability was and what

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Speaker 1: I was going to actually end up doing, my parents

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Speaker 1: spotted it in me first, before I actually knew that

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Speaker 1: I had sang the way that I sing or knew

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Speaker 1: that I had the ability and music, they spotted it

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Speaker 1: and then they started to They started to cultivate that

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Speaker 1: before I was even wanting to do it. So I'm

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Speaker 1: very grateful and uh for that. But then I also

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Speaker 1: watched my dad, who was from both both my parents.

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Speaker 1: My mom is from South America, my dad is from

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Speaker 1: the inner City of Baltimore, and stats would say that

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Speaker 1: they aren't supposed to be who they are now, but

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Speaker 1: I watched them not operate upon what stats. But they

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Speaker 1: were not defined by what the statistics said they should be,

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Speaker 1: and they would step into situations where they were the

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Speaker 1: odd man out. They were different. They were like, where

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Speaker 1: are you from? You know that those kind of vibes

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Speaker 1: happened because they weren't the traditional person that was expected

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Speaker 1: to be where they were. But they walked in there

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Speaker 1: knowing what their ability was and let everybody's um knowledge

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Speaker 1: of let let everybody figure agree out what they already knew.

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Speaker 1: They would walk into a room and be like, eventually

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Speaker 1: y'all will figure out that we're supposed to be here,

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Speaker 1: but until then, we're gonna stay here. We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: leave because y'all think we're not supposed to be here.

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Speaker 1: So I watched that my whole life, and so now

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Speaker 1: it created us, and there it created a driving me

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Speaker 1: where I am from my nature likes to choose faith

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Speaker 1: over fear and courage overcomfort. That's that's just because I

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Speaker 1: know on the other side of that there is something bigger,

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Speaker 1: broader and better waiting for me. When I choose faith

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Speaker 1: over fear, our courage overcomfort. That that's how I've gotten

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Speaker 1: to the place I am. It's because of my my family.

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Speaker 1: Now now you you appeared on the Voice correct, Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to remember because I's also I would

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Speaker 1: look at some photos and I was and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm one of those surfers, you know. I look at

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Speaker 1: television and I just go from channel to channel. And

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Speaker 1: now that did you sing a moth and a song

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Speaker 1: on the Voice? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wasn't into that song.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't in that that that pan. I love our game,

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Speaker 1: but I wasn't. You know, you do down Anthony our

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Speaker 1: the Marvin game because people have told me I looked

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Speaker 1: like Martha Gage. I'm a Marvin gay fan, know, I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know that you put you

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Speaker 1: put me in the right angle, put me in the

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Speaker 1: right darkness. I'm Marvin Gaye, oh day know and so

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Speaker 1: and when you did that, Marvin, I said, wow, wow,

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Speaker 1: because you're a certain artists you just can't do. And

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Speaker 1: I remember, I remember because because because at the time,

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Speaker 1: Aguilara was still one of the judges. Correct, Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: she was. She was my coach on the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know you. I would dude, Hey, hey, that

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Speaker 1: might you might not have felt it, but you hit

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Speaker 1: it though, Okay, thank you. Which it's hard to feel

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Speaker 1: that scenario in general, where a quiet room and four backs,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, face you when you're saying

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Speaker 1: like you're trying to get people to turn around, it's

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Speaker 1: just a weird feeling. And I come from the church.

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Speaker 1: I come from church world, So like, what's going on? Right? Right?

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Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying because you used to people

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Speaker 1: giving it. It's being inspired by your voice, being inspired

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Speaker 1: by your movement, and you're looking at four chairs, you're

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Speaker 1: going okay, okay, and then then it's the song goes

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Speaker 1: along who it starts eating on you. Who's gonna turn rap,

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Speaker 1: who's gonna turn around? They're not gonna do me like this.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of emotions to run your head when

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Speaker 1: you're actually performing on the voice, because you have convinced

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Speaker 1: four chairs to turn around, and as you say and

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Speaker 1: then turn around, you go okay, really on National TV. Really,

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Speaker 1: and normally you convinced them, You convinced people to turn

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Speaker 1: around normally with intensity and kind of going off and

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Speaker 1: doing the most. But Marvin gay didn't do that. So

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Speaker 1: I was like, I was choosing in my head to

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Speaker 1: honor Marvin Gaye and sing the song the way he would,

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Speaker 1: which is chilled. But but the way you got those

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Speaker 1: chairs to turn around was by doing the most. And

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Speaker 1: so I was I'm conflicted in my head because it's

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Speaker 1: just a weird it's just a weird feeling to try

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Speaker 1: to you know, he is the antithesis of doing the most.

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Speaker 1: He just was him and everybody loved him, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. So I was trying to figure it

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Speaker 1: out anyway. I want to let you know I know

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Speaker 1: of your abilities from that time frame. Now, prior to that,

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Speaker 1: you had already dropped an album. Correct, Yeah, I actually

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Speaker 1: had to three I had three albums out before The Voice,

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Speaker 1: So that's why it was weird going to the show

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00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 1: because people were like, you already have a career, You're

641
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: doing it. And that goes back to what I was

642
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: saying a minute ago, which is choosing courage over comfort

643
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: and faith. I could have been comfortable and just stayed

644
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: where I was, but this was an opportunity to do

645
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: something broad. I knew people would have stuff to say,

646
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: like what are you doing on a topic like why

647
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: would you do? You know? People talk, but I ask

648
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: forward to what's going on in my life because of

649
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: that show and the people in that nineties seconds during

650
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: a battle round, I sang in front of fifteen million

651
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: people at that point. That's how many people were watching

652
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: the show. And what happened after the show, because I

653
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: chose to be to move to to push through that

654
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: moment of like, wy should I be here or not?

655
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: Has been amazing. Stuff has happened off camera that no,

656
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: y'all wouldn't know about unless I told you, But it's

657
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: it's major. If we mentioned the Voice, we mentioned the

658
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 1: albums everything. What is your message? What is your general purpose?

659
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: I always tell people that I'm constantly building uh content

660
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: so I could just push down my efforts so people

661
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: could look at understand I am, I'm a three sixty

662
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: brand and so yeah, so like you know, I mentioned

663
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: the VARs and before the Wars you had already dropped

664
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: three cs. You know what I'm saying. And you're about

665
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: to go on a fall tour with your sister. What

666
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: is what is the plan? You know you got that,

667
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: you got the turn key company, You're reaching masses. You

668
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: know you even knew the fact that, hey, when you

669
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: was on divorce, you were seen by fifteen million. You're

670
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: very calculated in your approach and your planner correct, right, Yes, yes,

671
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: I'm very calculated in my approach. And I can answer

672
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: your question on two sides. I'll inswo it first from

673
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: the business side, because that's obviously what we're here. We're

674
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: here to talk about. Um. The business side is I

675
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,919
Speaker 1: want to work hard. Basically, I want to work hard

676
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: in these years of creating new concepts and ideas so

677
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: that I'm diversified. And that's just a basic you know that,

678
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: that's just basic. That's released the money business. I want

679
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: to be diversified because I'm also aware of the fact

680
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: that in entertainment, especially or in I do gospel, but

681
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: in entertainment in general, I have to be aware that

682
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: there's always some new talent coming and eventually the road,

683
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: I'll be fifty five years old and there will be

684
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 1: some other year old that that is doing. I don't

685
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: let you have to go out and sing. I don't

686
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: want to feel like, you know, anybody need me to

687
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 1: come saying because I gotta pay them more. I don't

688
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: want that. Maybe it made me think of what are

689
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: other ways I can be intuitive about what um using

690
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: branches of this ability not not going way off. And

691
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: that was starting the production company. And that's also the

692
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 1: vocal vocal arranging and contracting, which started because of the voice.

693
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: Like we didn't talk about that, but I've vocal arranged

694
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: and contracted for Kanye and to Chains and Tyler the

695
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: creatives Last Album and Blackish and all these different TVs

696
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: because of the chance I took on myself going to

697
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: the voice. So it started to diversify me. So the

698
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: goal on the business side is to be diversified to

699
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: what I don't have to I get to do what

700
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: I want to do. I'm doing what I'm living kind

701
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: of in a state of um of of developing that

702
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: so that later on I don't have a lot of

703
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: half to I can. I can operate from a place

704
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: of want to not have to. And then sir, yes,

705
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: you know I call that. I call that multiple streams

706
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: of income on this show that you just talked about,

707
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: called multiple streams of income. Like you said, Hey, man,

708
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: when I wake up, if somebody tell me no, I go,

709
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: I just go back to sleep. That's just one, you know.

710
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: Oh oh that's overweight. Okay, cool, okay, cool, my wife

711
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: look at me. You know, I don't stress. I don't.

712
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not gonna put myself in a position

713
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: where somebody tells one person tells me my my, my

714
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: gigs over with, my life's over, my last checks over.

715
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: That can't happen with me. I've learned that. I've learned that.

716
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: And that's all you're telling that my listeners in our

717
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: viewer exactly exactly. And then the other point, it's real quick.

718
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: I was gonna touch on it that my purpose also

719
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: is not just to be um about not well. Because

720
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm a gospel singer. I'm not just trying to be

721
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: about the bottom line, which is very important. But I

722
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: also want to make sure that the work I'm doing

723
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: is resonating in people's hearts and their souls. And I

724
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: there's don't be a story to tell above and beyond

725
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: money or number one, because those can come and go.

726
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: But but what happens in the lives of the people

727
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: that you're impacting, whatever field you're in. It's a happens

728
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: to be more obvious with me because of what I do.

729
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: But I think that that the peace and the emotional

730
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: health and spiritual health that comes from Matt's also has

731
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: a value. May not be a monetary value, but there

732
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: is something to be said about making a good living

733
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: and being excited about what's happening in you and others

734
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: emotionally and spiritually. I believe it's all tied together. That's

735
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: all prosperities to me, that's all being wealthy to me,

736
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: It goes beyond just the bank account. I love this dude.

737
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: You from Dallas, Texas. I'm from Houston, Texas. Uh, I'm

738
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: a foodie. I'm a foodie. I got I got nanny

739
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: seconds left in this show. Um, I'm gonna just tell

740
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: you this. Uh, you know how the best food in

741
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: the world is in Houston, Texas. Now I'm just gonna

742
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: let y'all know Dallas, Houston, Texas is generally. I know

743
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: you've been in Houston. Now, what where do you ate

744
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: toward you? Is where we live in Houston. Loopy, he's

745
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: not lying. Looping is you get the Pento beans? They listen,

746
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: I get to everything. I'm telling something. I would tell

747
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: my wife Chico, I come home because I live in Houston.

748
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: I live in Atlanta. She said, what you want say,

749
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: let's go by loope because they staying breakfast. They say breakfast.

750
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: You know I'm telling the true And though I'm telling something,

751
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: those beans with what they look through the chip, Oh lord,

752
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: and that's where it starts to me. They got so

753
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: much going on in there. So yes, I I actually

754
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: had my account on one time called me and go,

755
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: what is this loope to a place? You need to

756
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: slow it out? Like that's that's how much you need

757
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: to start. Family means it to Rushaw and my wife.

758
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: I'm going to town Saturday. I kid you not, I'll

759
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: be leading a loope is told to you because I

760
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:46,760
Speaker 1: go to the the one right on our tennis right around

761
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: my house. So Anthony, next time you come to Houston,

762
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: know that you eat right around my house. You need

763
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: to call me boy gay perfect. I gotta listen. I

764
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: will hit you up at two seconds. All right, but man,

765
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: you stay strong. I love you, brother. You keep winning

766
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: and always know this is family. Come to me. We

767
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: need to promote something. Okay, thank you, Thank you for

768
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: your time. I appreciate it. I was looking for a

769
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: better way to check in on our house while I

770
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: was at work, and a friend recommended Blink. I was skeptical,

771
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Speaker 1: but decided to give it a shot, and I bought

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Speaker 1: a Blink camera system. With our last security system, false alarms,

773
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Speaker 1: wires everywhere, and monthly fees, we couldn't get out of

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Speaker 1: my bad But our Blink system is different. Their motion

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Speaker 1: batteries that last up to two years. Total peace of

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Speaker 1: learn of my smartphone that motion was detected at our

781
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Speaker 1: front door. I checked my Blink app and I saw

782
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: it was just my cool new device being delivered. Hey,

783
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,920
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784
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Speaker 1: Com slash Secure. Blink is an Amazon company and it

788
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Speaker 1: works with Alexa Wow. Money making conversations. Well, I've heard

789
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: a great day. I always have a great day. The

790
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: staff told me I came here looking sluggish, but said

791
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: that I picked up the pace, which is always good

792
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 1: to know that they have approved of my energy level

793
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: home money making conversations, Sam, I good, Sam thumbs up,

794
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: Slams gives me the thumbs up. But next year I

795
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 1: saw our power couple. Hadn't had them on short a

796
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: long time, but they are fantastic. Last time I in

797
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: in season three of Black Love and when I had

798
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: them own the season one at Premier and it was

799
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 1: two great numbers. They are the creators of the popular

800
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 1: series Black Love that airs on the own network UM

801
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 1: two great numbers uh in season three. Like I stated earlier,

802
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 1: the goal is to become the hub for black couples

803
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: and singles looking to build community and conversation around healthy relationships.

804
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: A free stage of life. Please welcome back to money

805
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: making Conversation. My favorite couple, Cody and Tommy Oliver. Hello,

806
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: your favorite couple. You gotta to you know, because y'all

807
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: y'all doing what so many people have said. It is

808
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: a problem in the in the black community, not understanding

809
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: relationships amongst each other, not communicating with each other. And

810
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: it also you know, I don't know, are you helping

811
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 1: to find what black relationships can be? And they and

812
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: when I say that, I mean they could be so

813
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: many different levels and so sometimes you know, I come

814
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: from a traditional black family, you know, more from the South.

815
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: My mom didn't work, she stayed at home and and

816
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: a lot of African American's my age have that experience

817
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: like that. But technology has changed so many things. So

818
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: the experience of what black love is is being communicated

819
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: differently to so many people. And that's why you are

820
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 1: my favorite. Tommy favorite is incredibly kind and we appreciate

821
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: that a lot. Absolutely tell me what's going on? Season three? Brother?

822
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: Come on now? Season three? There was the season three Yeah,

823
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: you you seem to have the scoop. I have to

824
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: scoop that I'm gonna have some information. But to me,

825
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: about it that you guys created this project, which which

826
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: I think is really let's go let's go back to

827
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: getting started. The first started because it was just an idea.

828
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: It was a concept where you called what I say,

829
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: called on favors to get people to reveal themselves in

830
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: an emotional manner as a couple. And then it and

831
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: then it aired and wail right, so we um, you know,

832
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: not quite that simple, but it felt like Hollywood's magic

833
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: happened for several years before there. But yeah, we we

834
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: certainly called on favors in terms of relationships with with

835
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: some friends and friends of friends and parents, friends to

836
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: sit down and have honest conversations. And Tommy and I

837
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: have kept it just the four of us in a room,

838
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: met him and the couple. So there's no gaffer, there's

839
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: no p a, there's no you know, there's yeah, the

840
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: four of us. Tommy does all the production and I

841
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: just asked the question, and and so we keep it

842
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: really intimate. And then and we've and we've tried to

843
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:29,280
Speaker 1: maintain that um through season one, season two and what's

844
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: to come. And you know what, I think you move

845
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: inspired us. I think we should probably make an anouncement

846
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: sometimes here's the deal. Here's the deal, Tommy, you inspire me. Okay,

847
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a little bit about the things

848
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: that you guys do outside of UH, outside of UH,

849
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, black love because of the fact that this

850
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 1: is so important because of the fact that black people

851
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Speaker 1: were interesting group of people were interesting people. You know,

852
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: we don't talk about situation. When it comes to health issues,

853
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't lad to talk about mental issues,

854
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to talk about I definitely

855
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: want to talk about these sexual issues. Okay, So, so

856
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: we we we were live in this little boxed world

857
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 1: of bad information, you know, and so and that bad

858
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: information really doesn't help because guess what if you're passing

859
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: along bad information leads to more ignorance, and so socially

860
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: and emotionally within our community we live. We live in

861
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: a box of lies, I believe, and your show, I

862
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: feel starts to peel back the truth and allow people

863
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: to be honest. That's why that's why I'm I'm fans

864
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: because of the fact that, you know, it's an idea

865
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: that that that only YouTube could have thought of, because

866
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: of the fact that it was derived through through a

867
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: trail of emotions through an idea of that this is

868
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: the truth and this is what's really happening, and we

869
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: want to reveal it. That's why when I watched an episode,

870
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's really intimate to me. And you know,

871
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: I see him sitting here close to each other on

872
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: the sofa. You know, nobody's you know, nobody's worried about

873
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: the shirt being buttoned up right on the pants. Talk

874
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: to time. They just you know, I'll be going, Okay,

875
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: they could have fixed their shirt right there, but this

876
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 1: is but this is, this is the moment. You know,

877
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: I'm being a producer, you know what I'm saying exactly.

878
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: Trust me, sometimes I'm thinking it too. But I'm also like,

879
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want to stop right what's

880
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 1: what's happening right now? I don't want to stop someone

881
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 1: from sharing something by making themselves conscious. And so much

882
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: of it is, you know, like Cody said, it's the

883
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: four of his interroment. And so when you're sitting down

884
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: with your friends or with your marriage mentors, if you

885
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: are fortunate enough to have them and somebody's shirt has

886
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: had something, you're not gonna be like, yo, bro, what's

887
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: up with your shirt? Right? Right right, right, right right,

888
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: because it will it will break the moment because it's

889
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: like it's about our story about how we should look

890
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: you feel me, yeah, and then that's what that's what

891
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: you know. I feel that that stops communication within the

892
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: within the our black families. And that's why when I

893
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: look at the show, when you first came on the

894
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 1: show and they sent me some of take to review

895
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: the show and really get a clue understand of the show,

896
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,720
Speaker 1: my big takeaway was thank you, thank you for allowing

897
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: us to talk and what what and hear me speak

898
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: like this, What has been the most satisfied takeaway from

899
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: you guys with your show? I think it's been twofold one.

900
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: There is a sense of selfishness and so we started

901
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: the show because there are a couple of reasons. The

902
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: one was because we didn't have the examples that we

903
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: felt we needed in order to be properly equipped and

904
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: to be able to have a marriage back into this

905
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: name until we wanted to talk to people who had

906
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: done it. And so I think we've learned a lot

907
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: and we're still struggling and working through things, but having

908
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: gone through these couples in these interviews and this experience

909
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: has certainly given us tools that helps us day to day.

910
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: But beyond that, like you said, the idea of there

911
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: are two things, we don't see ourselves. So before this

912
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen ourselves much in the right way. We

913
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 1: were always categorized or misrepresented on TV or on social media.

914
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: And but we knew sort of like privately, we knew

915
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: that there were couples that made our work. We knew

916
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: that you know, there was a neighbor, the neighbor across

917
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: the street, or that you know a couple from the

918
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: church or whatever has been but they just never got

919
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: any shine. And so we wanted to be able to

920
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: show people no, no, no, we are out there. It's

921
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: happy love and couples. And then we wanted to be

922
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: able to normalize the this understanding of marriage and how

923
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 1: things actually worked, which is very different than if you

924
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: take your cues from TV or film. Now, when you

925
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: say when I was when I was reading some of

926
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: your credits, it was saying, uh, the goal is to

927
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: become the hub, which means that you want to be

928
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: a creative content of black couples and singles looking to

929
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 1: build community and conversation around healthy relationships at every stage

930
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: of your life. Explain that man, explain that format. So

931
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: with with some Black Love, the series that is on own, UM,

932
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: we were able to show couples, married couples making it

933
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: work and what that requires, right UM. But one of

934
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: the things that we noticed is that in order to

935
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Speaker 1: have a healthy, happy relationship, a lot of the times

936
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: the relationships of your past and not you know, boyfriend's

937
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: girlfriends exclusively, but your parents, your siblings, your best friends,

938
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: those relationships being fractured, those relationships having trauma, those relationships

939
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: being uncomfortable or as you mentioned, you know, not talking

940
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: about what's real. UM play a role in your marriage

941
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Speaker 1: because they play a role in your expectations and UM

942
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: and how you operate in your patterns. And so we

943
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: actually launched black love dot com to expand the conversation

944
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: past marriage. You know, we felt like it was important

945
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: to keep talking about marriage and partnership, but also to

946
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: talk about those other I guess tenants of one's life

947
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: and how important it is when we're trying to like

948
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: build a relationship for decades UM, to make sure that

949
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: those other areas are healthy as well. This is a

950
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: passion project that I love talking to you too. About

951
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: because it's started with love. It's gonna be built on love,

952
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be you guys are going to become

953
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: you know, content creators, content builders, holders of this information,

954
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: and distributors of this information. And I think that's amazing

955
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Speaker 1: that you've been able to find this level of balance

956
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: in your personal life and your professional life and something

957
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: that's a passion driven project that can make money. Rache.

958
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: And we didn't say we had any balance in our

959
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: personal life. What did you say? I said we we

960
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: didn't say we have any balance in our personal life.

961
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: You do have about three kids were under three. You're

962
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: talking to me on this radio show right now. There's

963
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: part there that's balance because the kids somewhere else, somebody,

964
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: somebody else take care. I know what balance is. I

965
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 1: got a kid, Okay, they in the interview of my life.

966
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: There is balanced, So somebody's take care. That's the balance

967
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But but I do We have two

968
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: minutes left and I wanted to uh comment up Tommy

969
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: coming a little bit on uh Flint, Michigan and what's

970
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: going on there. If you can update us on what's

971
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: going on up there, I really appreciate it. Uh It

972
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: made the news real big and you knows and it

973
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: just dropped off. What is that's going up there? If

974
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: you can help us out a little bit before we

975
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: wrap up the interview, because I need one minute left

976
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: for you guys to give me the dramatic tease. So

977
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,240
Speaker 1: we are doing a project cost Flint and really talent

978
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: to writer director named Milchael May is directing it and

979
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: in partner with Overbrook on it and we're shooting it

980
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: input and it's a's a story where it's not about

981
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: the Flint water crisis, but the Flint water crisis is

982
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: the back dropped and as such we wanted to try

983
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: to continue to make sure that people are thinking about

984
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: it and pushing the narrative because they are still struggling

985
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 1: out there and people just it's out of sight, out

986
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: of mind, and so as such, where the movie is

987
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: going to be shot in Flint, we're gonna use Flint arties,

988
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: and for us, that was the only thing that we

989
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: were ever going to do. So we we don't we're

990
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: not we don't have dates that yet, but it'll probably

991
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: shoot either later this year or easy the topic next year.

992
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: But we're still figuring out everything and we got to

993
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: really awesome talent on word and it's a it's a

994
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Speaker 1: meaningful and really cool project. You gods give me that

995
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: big tea soon. Three. Okay, so you alluded to it.

996
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: The Three of Black Love will return. And you heard

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