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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 2: It's to show that she is the secrets of success

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Speaker 2: experience firsthand by marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I

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Speaker 2: will know he's giving me advice on many occasions. And

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Speaker 2: in case you didn't notice, I'm not broke. You know

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Speaker 2: he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry.

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Speaker 1: Decision make because it's what he likes to do. It's

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Speaker 2: Now it's time to hear from my man, Rashaan McDonald

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Speaker 2: money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. This is Rashan McDonald had to grab

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Speaker 1: the mic because I was in there dancing because you know,

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Speaker 1: we're about to talk about some great music. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, but I'm about to mention some

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Speaker 1: song gonna bring back some memories today because next month

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Speaker 1: is that's June is a Black music month, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk to music. But let me let me get

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Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversation master Class. As you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm your whole Rashaan McDonald. Our theme is that there

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Speaker 1: is no perfect time to start following your dreams. I

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Speaker 1: recognize that we all have different definitions of success. For you,

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Speaker 1: it may be the size of your paycheck. Mine is

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Speaker 1: inspiring you. That's right, you who are listening, You who

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Speaker 1: are driving, you, who are streaming this show nationwide? To

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Speaker 1: accomplish your goals and live your very best life, It's

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Speaker 1: time to start reading other people's success stories and start

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Speaker 1: living your own. The reality is is that when I

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Speaker 1: do this show and I look at myself, cause I

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Speaker 1: get up every morning at four thirty Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 1: I get up and I tell people when I get up,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a happy It's not about a happy get

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Speaker 1: up at four thirty in the morning. But to achieve

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Speaker 1: my dream, to achieve my goals, I have to get up.

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Speaker 1: I can't hit this snooze button. I can't think about

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Speaker 1: what if somebody else did what I needed them to

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Speaker 1: do so I can be successful. In the end, your

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Speaker 1: dream is your dream. To achieve your dream, to make

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Speaker 1: your dream happen, you have to make it happen. And

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Speaker 1: I always tell people this. Everybody has a gift, not gifts.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that gift. Let's hone in and that

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Speaker 1: one town, that one skill, that God has given you.

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Speaker 1: Lead with that gift, and don't let your friend's family

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Speaker 1: or coworker stop you from planning or living your dreams.

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Speaker 1: I will tell people this, between the ages of eighteen

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Speaker 1: and twenty four, you are invincible, You're immortal, You're a dreamer.

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Speaker 1: Can't nobody tell you nothing. When you get forty, fifty, sixty, seventy,

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Speaker 1: get that same attitude back that can't nobody stop you,

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Speaker 1: that you're invincible, that you're gonna live forever. Because even

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Speaker 1: at eighteen, there was no guarantee that you would live forever.

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Speaker 1: So why should you not have the same mentality when

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Speaker 1: to live forever. Because your dreams, your legacy you create,

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Speaker 1: can make you a legend, can make you a memory,

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Speaker 1: can make you a person that has changed other people's life.

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was diagnosed for cancer, and when

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Speaker 1: that your light flashes before your eyes, and all I

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Speaker 1: it has not. So you have to live each day

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Speaker 1: with a goal, with a desire to understand that when

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Speaker 1: you wake up, have a sense of purpose when you

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Speaker 1: wake up, have a goal. When you have that goal,

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Speaker 1: of that and don't let nobody stop you from achieving.

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Speaker 1: I guess she's that person. One of my favorite people

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Speaker 1: favorite people. My guess it's Deana Williams. She's the broadcaster, celebrity, strategist, curator,

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Speaker 1: live event producer, celebrating fifty years in the music, broadcasting

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Speaker 1: going to talk about this. We talk about longevity because

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Speaker 1: to achieve that some of the archives are really now

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Speaker 1: in the library of Congress co founder. Check this out,

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Speaker 1: She's established and she's going to get a big proclamation

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Speaker 1: in the city of Philadelphia. Please welcome the one and

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Speaker 3: How are you doing, Diana, ooh blushing, I'm another collar.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness for san Now you know I love,

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Speaker 3: love any opportunity to interact with you for a myriad

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Speaker 3: of reasons. One, you are so inspiring. You are when

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Speaker 3: bringing on the air people who are grustlers, grinding and hustling,

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Speaker 3: and you are a master grustler. So I'm honored to

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Speaker 3: my daughter went to she went she attended school there,

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Speaker 3: and shout out to David Lynton and.

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Speaker 1: The oh David Lynton, he's sitting in here.

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Speaker 5: And I didn't know that that's my boy.

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Speaker 1: You know, he got me on over here boy too,

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Speaker 1: because you know, everybody has a dream, and I was

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Speaker 3: Well, salute to you again for helping craft the careers

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Speaker 1: Well know, not today. You know you got to have

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Speaker 3: You know? Back I come from the era of radio personalities,

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Speaker 3: That's that's what I come from. And while I am

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Speaker 1: What you do, well, we know the beauty of you know,

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Speaker 3: Which one, oh my EXX you know, Piker Rock of

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Speaker 1: Don't go past that too fast, now, you know, South

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Speaker 3: You know Kenny Gamble, Leon Hoff, the great Drummer, Young Love,

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Speaker 1: you know, the soul trained thing.

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Speaker 3: The soul Trained theme with Don Cornelius was done by

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Speaker 3: Theodore pender Grass, Teddy Pendergrass Girl.

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Speaker 1: That was my song back in the day, boy, turn

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Speaker 4: Dates, Yeah, you know, you look across the you.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm talking to Deanna Williams. She's been proclaimed oftentime

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Speaker 1: She's done so much for my career. She's done so

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Speaker 3: Do you agree exactly?

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Speaker 4: I completely totally agree.

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Speaker 3: Black radio is the clarion voices of our community and

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Speaker 4: Who's coming to town?

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Speaker 3: What place did you be? What you know? It's voting,

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Speaker 3: it's time to register, Where to go, where to get help?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting. Like I'm from Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 4: And it was a little bit of everybody.

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Speaker 1: Now, now this is amazing when I hear all this conversation,

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Speaker 3: Often from R and B and jazz, no question about that.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely Now the nash New Museum of African African American

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Speaker 3: The museum is in Nashville because it became a partnership

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Speaker 3: this either, Rashaan, that Nashville a rich tradition in gospel

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Speaker 3: and black folks and the blues and gospels always in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: And the biggest ambassadors around the world in the eighteen

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Speaker 3: hundreds were the Jubilee singers, and people overlook that as well.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know that a lot of people forget all that.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Tennessee, Alabama, you know if you look

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Speaker 1: at you know, the whole when you look at the

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Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin, her story when she was going down to Alabama,

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Speaker 1: you know, muscle shows, that's what she was going down

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Speaker 1: that she was going all the way down there to

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Speaker 1: get the best musicians.

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Speaker 3: And absolutely a local musicians.

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Speaker 4: And hey, all those early Aretha Franklin.

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Speaker 3: Songs that we love, we're backed by a lot of

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Speaker 3: white boys and black people too. Bernard Party was was

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Speaker 3: a great.

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Speaker 1: I wonder why she's on on the song all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I just actually like to just shut up

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Speaker 1: and just let her talk because you're so elegant, first

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Speaker 1: of elegant in your tone and also the information you

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Speaker 1: just throw out. You know, it's like, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, it's never too late to manage somebody.

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Speaker 1: So you know we'll talk later. Off there, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: I met you earlier.

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Speaker 3: Now, oh well, sure, sure we're connected forever. So Nashville

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Speaker 3: is the home of the National Museum of African American Music,

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Speaker 3: located on Fifth and Broadway in the heart of downtown Nashville.

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Speaker 3: One side is the original grandelopri the other side is

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Speaker 3: the Bridgestone Arena. So we are like in the heart

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Speaker 3: of downtown and we cover all genres and sub genres

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Speaker 3: of Black music from field Hollows straight through to hip

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Speaker 3: hop right now. So you got to you gotta come

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Speaker 3: see the museum. And I encourage everyone to go to

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Speaker 3: n m a a m dot org. That's name a'am

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Speaker 3: and that's the acronym of the museum, so.

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Speaker 4: You can peruse it.

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Speaker 3: You can see our galleries. We have seven galleries, fifty

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Speaker 3: six thousand square foot facility, a Contemporary her Story and

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Speaker 3: History Museum of Music.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got a proclamation coming up in Black Music

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Speaker 1: mont Wise in Black Music Month. I wonder why this

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Speaker 1: happened in Philadelphia, but tell us about it, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I will tell you this. I was honored

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Speaker 1: recently at the Black Media Awards and went over there,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you don't get old when people recognize you.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get old in the fact that you have congratulations,

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Speaker 1: thank you know, congratulations on you. Because of the fact.

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Speaker 1: I'm just reminding everybody that you know, when people knock

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Speaker 1: on your door, they call you or remind you of

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Speaker 1: what you're doing now or what you've accomplished, it's truly

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Speaker 1: a blessing. And and for you to be honored in

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia in Black Music Month, tell us about it and

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Speaker 1: tell us, Uh, your expectations are they gonna let you

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Speaker 1: talk or you gonna take their wards? You're gonna walk around,

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Speaker 1: take some photos? What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Oh that's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: We're gambling. I as two of the founders that live

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Speaker 3: still in Philadelphia, are being recognized by Philadelphia City Council

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Speaker 3: on June eighth, and we are receiving proclamation for our

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Speaker 3: work as the co founders of June Black Music Month

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Speaker 3: and still living. We're champions of music and Philly. I'm

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Speaker 3: on the board of the Recording Academy, which is the

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Speaker 3: Grammy organization. Gamble is still very active in perpetuating culture

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Speaker 3: amongst black folks and others in the city of Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: So we are very excited, and our children very excited.

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Speaker 3: Their parents recognized.

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Speaker 1: You know, they just thought they just need to have

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Speaker 1: a party out there. You know, missus Me and Missus

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Speaker 1: Jones be jamming, love trained. The sound of Philadelphia. It

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Speaker 1: just be you know, the ship, a harship of horseship

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Speaker 1: of come on, n they can, just they can. It's

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Speaker 1: really amazing. The genius you have put the word genius

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Speaker 1: because there's something that that that I can't comprehend. My

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Speaker 1: degree is in math, so I know understand logic, I

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Speaker 1: understand numbers. I understand two plus two its four. But

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Speaker 1: the creativity, the process of being able to manipulate sound

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Speaker 1: and put together words and make those words just resonate

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Speaker 1: not only years but decades later. And the fact that

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Speaker 1: you were part of that is still a part of that.

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Speaker 1: Being able to tell this story on my show today,

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Speaker 1: I just want to thank you. I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for taking the time to come on masterclass.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you Rashaan for everything. Like I said, what

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Speaker 3: you do, you are a master.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. But again, let me just tell you

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Speaker 1: this now. You know, I'm just letting everybody know the

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Speaker 1: world know. She said, I wish I'd have met you earlier,

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Speaker 1: because you know, this about the This is about the

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Speaker 1: fourth time I've interviewed you, Diana. Okay, And every time

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Speaker 1: we always say we're gonna get together. Remember the first

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Speaker 1: time we supposed to, we were working on some TV

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Speaker 1: show where we're gonna go, Yeah, we're gonna be like

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Speaker 1: the masters, sitting over here and you know, talk to

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Speaker 1: young people trying to make careers out of that went

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Speaker 1: no where because guess what, we didn't talk no more.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's not too late.

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Speaker 4: It's never too late.

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Speaker 3: That's an advocate of it. It's never too late to

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Speaker 3: actualize your dreams.

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Speaker 1: She threw out a word that I knew nothing. I've

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Speaker 1: never heard, actual lives. Because you know why, I would

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Speaker 1: never say that word, because I will fumble through it.

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Speaker 4: Actual I know you wouldn't know, you wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I love you incredible congratulations and you know, uh, this

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Speaker 1: is live this live radio. I wanted people hear radio.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna get syndicated nationally through all my HBCU campuses

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Speaker 1: that carry my show and podcasts. But more importantly, you

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Speaker 1: are a You are an incredible person. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on, Money Making Conversation master class, the.

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Speaker 3: One Queen, Thank you, the.

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Speaker 1: Mother of Black music.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: If we celebrate every June.

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Speaker 3: And celebrate y'all read to your children, scream or by

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Speaker 3: the music of your favorite artists, go see live shows.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's so.

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Speaker 3: Many different ways you can and guess what consumers are

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Speaker 3: part of the celebration. It's not just for the artists

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Speaker 3: or the songwriters or the producers. It's the executives. It's you,

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Speaker 3: it's David Lynton, it's the listeners of double it's everybody

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Speaker 3: who consumes black music. So happy Early Black Music Month

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Speaker 3: to all, and.

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Speaker 1: We talked soon. I appreciate you, Thank you, Bye bye.

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Speaker 1: He is coming up next, Sergeant Major Keith L. Craig,

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Speaker 1: the super connected Hollywood whisperer. I'm gonna tell you something.

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Speaker 1: The word connected, the word relationship is why Hollywood works.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have the relationship. You don't know anybody.

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Speaker 1: Talent is there. Talent is important, but you gotta be

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Speaker 1: connected where I'm talking to next in my next break

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Speaker 1: a connector a connector, don't go nowhere. One Making Conversation

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Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Be right back with Sergeant Made There,

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Speaker 1: Major Keith L. Craig.

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Speaker 7: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

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Speaker 7: with Rushawn McDonald.

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Speaker 5: HBCUs represent Black Excellence. If you attend or are an

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Speaker 5: alumnus of an HBCU, we want to hear about your story.

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Speaker 5: The MYHBCU Story Digital Library will allow current HBCU students

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Speaker 5: and alumni to share their stories.

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Speaker 1: Registration is open to everyone.

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Speaker 5: More information is available at HBCU college day dot com.

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Speaker 5: Click my HBCU Story. Next, you can upload a photo.

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Speaker 5: The photo can be recent or from when you attended

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Speaker 5: your HBCU. Then share your academic or social experience at

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Speaker 5: your HBCU, which can be your favorite class, hangout, joint,

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Speaker 5: homecoming game, student center, honor, off campus party, greek show,

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Speaker 5: and how attending an HBCU changed your life. We also

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Speaker 5: want to hear stories if you pleasure a fraternity or

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Speaker 5: sorority The goal is to use your my HBCU story

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Speaker 5: to promote and uplift the HBCU brand. Your HBCU prepared

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Speaker 5: you for success, and now we want everyone to read

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Speaker 5: about your black excellence. Our information is available at HBCU

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Speaker 5: College day dot com. You can click my HBCU story

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Speaker 5: to share your story.

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Speaker 7: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Rashan McDonald. Welcome back to Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversation master Class. I'm a dreamer, y'all. All right, Maybe

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Speaker 1: you don't know that about me, but I come from

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood. I come from an inner city, six sisters,

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Speaker 1: two brothers, And the interesting thing about me was that

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Speaker 1: I watched television, and television showed me a world that

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Speaker 1: I wasn't living in. It showed me the possibilities. And

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Speaker 1: I used to always watch Jaques Cousteau was my man.

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Speaker 1: When I was growing up. I was so Joques Gusteau.

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Speaker 1: And when I went to college, guess what. I worked

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Speaker 1: offshore because I wanted that. I wanted that experience. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to be in the ocean. I were working eighty

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Speaker 1: miles out in the golf on a on an all rig.

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Speaker 1: They will fly me out there on the health helicopter

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Speaker 1: and I stay out there for two weeks. And so

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Speaker 1: I tell people, you know, if you don't dream it,

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Speaker 1: you don't think about it, you don't make it a possibility,

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Speaker 1: then it cannot happen. Well, my next guest is a

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Speaker 1: person who that's what he does. He makes the impossible possible.

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Major Keith L. Craig, the super connected Hollywood whisperers,

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Speaker 1: a go to for independent filmmakers, producers, directors, development deals,

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Speaker 1: finance options, distribution and budgets. I don't want to lose

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Speaker 1: anybody on this because because of the fact that if

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Speaker 1: he doesn't do what he do, then you don't watch

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Speaker 1: what you see on television. You need him. This year,

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Speaker 1: they have fifty new titles to be released across digital

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Speaker 1: platforms including Amazon, Google Play, Apple, Roku and then select

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Speaker 1: theaters in less than thirty days. Because he in partnership

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Speaker 1: poor to Craig clients, film will go global. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to the money making Conversation mathterclass the one and only

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Major Keith L. Craig. How are you doing, sirt?

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Speaker 4: How are you doing? Thank you for the introduction, glad

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Speaker 4: to be here.

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Speaker 1: Well, guess what, Sergeant Major. Let's let's start right there.

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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for the service. Let's get

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Speaker 1: a history there, because you let me know there's a

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Speaker 1: military in you. How did it all get started?

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Speaker 4: A long time ago, age seventeen, I went into the military.

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Speaker 1: So it was a really long time ago, sir. Was

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Speaker 1: lasted last week, can be last week? It was.

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Speaker 4: It was a long time ago, you see in a

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Speaker 4: storyteller already.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely do you think? Do you think, sir?

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Speaker 4: But yes, a long long time ago, at age seventeen,

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Speaker 4: my mom actually actually had to sign me into the military.

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Speaker 4: I heard you earlier say that, you know, you're from

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Speaker 4: a community that was it wasn't it wasn't supportive as

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Speaker 4: far as launching you into you know, your tomorrow. So

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Speaker 4: with me, you know, my mom and I was once homeless,

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Speaker 4: you know. So you know it's from there that I

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Speaker 4: actually you got my wheel to succeed, right, So my

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Speaker 4: you know, I had some people in my past once

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Speaker 4: told me that I wasn't going to amount too much

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Speaker 4: because I didn't necessarily like to do what you know,

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Speaker 4: we were doing down there. As far as shark sharecropper

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Speaker 4: was concerned. But uh, fast forward, I went to the

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Speaker 4: military and and just had some great assignments and and there,

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Speaker 4: you know, I learned the I learned discipline. I know,

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Speaker 4: you know, the power of you know, having morals and

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Speaker 4: values and integrity and honors, being honest and selfless service

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Speaker 4: to others, and and that pretty much led me to

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Speaker 4: to have some great assignments. And actually was deployed six times,

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Speaker 4: spent over two years in in Iraq. In one of

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Speaker 4: those years, I was part of intelligence brigade that actually

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Speaker 4: gathered the intelligence that led to the captives of dam

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Speaker 4: Hussein was at the time arch Emmy number one. Fast

651
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Speaker 4: forward twenty ten, I actually uh took three thousand men

652
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Speaker 4: and women over to Haiti for poor the Prince to

653
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Speaker 4: help to sustain the city that were you know, over

654
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Speaker 4: there because of the earthquake. Twenty eleven, twenty twelve, I

655
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Speaker 4: was part of the logistical unit in Afghanistan in between

656
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Speaker 4: Kabul and Kandahar. Will actually supported see a team six

657
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Speaker 4: as we crossed the burn into to take out a

658
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Speaker 4: summer bin laden. So as you can see, I've been

659
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Speaker 4: around and with the places I've been and the people

660
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Speaker 4: I've met, throughout the years, I was able to excel

661
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Speaker 4: in the military and make it all the way to

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Speaker 4: the top one percent, which is a sergeant major. And

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Speaker 4: for those those you listeners who don't know what the

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Speaker 4: sergeant major is, because Hollywood has done an awesome job

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Speaker 4: of teaching people what you know, a colonel is or

666
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Speaker 4: a general is or at role is right, but they

667
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Speaker 4: don't know this that every one of those rushan has

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Speaker 4: a sergeant major as a senior advisor. They don't make

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Speaker 4: a move unless they, you know, unless they you know,

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Speaker 4: have dialogue with the sergeant major. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: So yes, and that's kind of how that was my

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Speaker 4: army career.

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Speaker 1: So let's go down on that career because I think

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Speaker 1: it's important as one of the things that you know,

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Speaker 1: this big giant press releeve. People always saying how you

676
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Speaker 1: guests on your show for show, But sometimes I get

677
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Speaker 1: these press release that come out and I go, wow,

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Speaker 1: I need to talk to him because of the fact that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we talk about options in our community, we

680
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Speaker 1: talk about the negativity of you know, sometimes I'm gonna

681
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Speaker 1: tell you some sergeant made I look at television and

682
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Speaker 1: I see, you know, violence and I'm just praying it

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Speaker 1: they're not going to put a black person's face on

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Speaker 1: the screen, because it appears far too often than I

685
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Speaker 1: want to say it should. And so I remember once

686
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Speaker 1: when I was really an advocating military service. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in the black community, like you know,

688
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Speaker 1: trying to were resisting the values that I was trying

689
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Speaker 1: to say that a young person who doesn't may not

690
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Speaker 1: have the options to go to college should at least

691
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Speaker 1: look at it, don't just announce it. Tell us about

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Speaker 1: the values, because I don't want to go past that,

693
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Speaker 1: because because it still holds a lot of tremendous values

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Speaker 1: right now, and quite frankly, the military community is struggling

695
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Speaker 1: to enlist people, to get people to enlist.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, yes, obviously I actually a hold an MBA now,

697
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Speaker 4: but you know I got that inside of the military,

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Speaker 4: you know, And I also have no student loans because

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Speaker 4: of that, because as as as a as a soldier

700
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Speaker 4: that's in the military, you actually have the ability to

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Speaker 4: go to school and get your education while you're serving.

702
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Speaker 4: So it's kind of like, you know, you it's a

703
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Speaker 4: win win for those who don't want a student loan.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. So, you know, oftentimes we

705
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Speaker 4: talk about society, you know how it kind of steers

706
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Speaker 4: us to it kind of presents a road map to us,

707
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Speaker 4: like you you should go to college right as you

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Speaker 4: go to college, that that will determine your job, but

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Speaker 4: that also determines a certain amount of debt as you

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Speaker 4: as you leave the university, you know. So, So I

711
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Speaker 4: was actually this past weekend speaking at the Howard University

712
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Speaker 4: and one of the things I spoke to people about

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Speaker 4: was professional score. You know, believe it or not, society

714
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Speaker 4: is keeping score of the things that you've done before

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Speaker 4: you leave college. As you enter college, for instance, it's like,

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Speaker 4: what was the GPA, what was the NCAP scoreps? You

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Speaker 4: know what was Were you part of community out there?

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Speaker 4: You know when you go to church, boy scout, girl scout?

719
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Speaker 4: So you have to always build.

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Speaker 1: On your brand.

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Speaker 4: So the military forded me an opportunity to go get

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Speaker 4: educated and be able to have a launch point to

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Speaker 4: choose anything that I wanted to do from the military,

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Speaker 4: because it's obviously it brands you to where it doesn't

725
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Speaker 4: matter what color you're choosing, red or blue, whatever side

726
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Speaker 4: you choose, and everybody accepts people have served their country

727
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Speaker 4: because we believe red, white and blue, you know.

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Speaker 1: You know, so, so what when did you start to

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Speaker 1: transition into seeing Hollywood or entertainment as an option.

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Speaker 4: When I was deployed over in iraq U, I saw

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Speaker 4: organization that would bring over entertainment to try to take

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Speaker 4: our of mind off of combat for two or three

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Speaker 4: hours you know year because we spent three sixty five,

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Speaker 4: three and sixty five days uh in deployments. So but

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Speaker 4: I never saw any entertainment that looked like us, you know,

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Speaker 4: saying for us the minorities. Right. So it was at

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Speaker 4: that point as a senior, as a senior advisor, a

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Speaker 4: senior soldier in an elements soldiers came to me, uh

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Speaker 4: and asked me, you know, sergeant major, what can we

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Speaker 4: do to have somebody that we like?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: I started to reach out and and reach out to

743
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Speaker 4: Hollywood and and meet a few people and then brought

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Speaker 4: over the likes of BB King and the temptations and

745
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Speaker 4: things that nature and it you know, it kind of

746
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Speaker 4: felt good to make people happy. So that's what I

747
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Speaker 4: you know, I started, I got the bug right then, Like, okay,

748
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Speaker 4: so you so you.

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Speaker 1: Started out basically a promoter you're producing shows, bringing in

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Speaker 1: talent that was appealing to to an artist that felt

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Speaker 1: that they were not getting to they were they were,

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Speaker 1: they were happy to be entertained, but wasn't really feeling

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Speaker 1: the entertainment.

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Speaker 4: Right, right, It's absolutely right. The most of the entertainment

755
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Speaker 4: was from Kentucky or Tennessee. If you understand that mean

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Speaker 4: right absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, until you participate that you put yourself

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Speaker 1: in a position to be able to have power. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, as a position you in sergeant major,

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Speaker 1: you positioned yourself to be a promoter, to be a

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Speaker 1: producer skill set that guess what people do every day,

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Speaker 1: you know, Promoters are just advertisers. Promoters are just you know,

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Speaker 1: companies that somebody promotes these grocery stores, somebody promotes these cars,

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Speaker 1: somebody promotes these football games, these basketball games. That's all

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Speaker 1: he was doing in the smallest stage. But you were

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Speaker 1: learning to skill and that skill allowed you to start

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Speaker 1: starting seeing beyond what you were doing in the military.

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Speaker 4: Correct, absolutely absolutely. As a and I was a senior

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Speaker 4: logistation in military. So when I got that call to

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Speaker 4: go out to Hollywood's and meet some executives out there,

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Speaker 4: and I was looking around. You know, what could I do?

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Speaker 4: You know, there was producer, there was there was distribution,

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Speaker 4: there was you know, theistic things that nature. The one

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Speaker 4: thing that I saw that the science connected and the

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Speaker 4: science made sense to me. Logistics and distribution is pretty

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Speaker 4: much the same, right. You know, there's a there's a need.

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Speaker 4: Uh you know, there's a component that needs to be

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Speaker 4: carried somewhere and people need that thing, so you help

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Speaker 4: delivered that. So that that made sense to me. So

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Speaker 4: I just went to u c l A And got

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Speaker 4: certified in the Business of Entertainment and from there it

782
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Speaker 4: started on my plights.

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Speaker 1: Now, now let's let's put it. Let's be honest about it.

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Speaker 1: This is this whole relationship you in the military. Sergeant

785
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Speaker 1: made you. Yes, you cared a certain amount of respect

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Speaker 1: when you walked in the room. People. I know, I'm

787
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Speaker 1: gonna give you my respects. Thank you for your service.

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Speaker 1: Cause first wall, you protected me and you don't even

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Speaker 1: know me. So that is that is a that's a

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Speaker 1: mindset that people have to wrap their head around. There

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Speaker 1: that somebody has chosen to protect this entire country in

792
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Speaker 1: parts that person may never go or never see. And

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Speaker 1: but that's a special person that does that. But when

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Speaker 1: you walk in the room with these producers, these executives,

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Speaker 1: these these individuals who are decision making, do you feel

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Speaker 1: that because you were in the military allowed you a

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Speaker 1: certain ability to make a better make stronger relationships, or

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Speaker 1: create relationships you might not have had if you were

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Speaker 1: not in the military.

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Speaker 4: I would say being in the military, it taught me

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Speaker 4: how to enter a room. Right, there's a certain way.

802
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Speaker 4: There's a certain way as a man, you know, Oh woman,

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Speaker 4: you have to carry yourself right, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: There's a strict there's a certain dress code associated with that. Because,

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Speaker 4: believe it or not, we we we are always judged

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Speaker 4: and scores always kept on how we move. So it's

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Speaker 4: very important that you know, they always want to put

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Speaker 4: us in a box based on our pigmentation. So it's

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Speaker 4: very important that you move as a you know, like

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Speaker 4: a professional. Yes, you know, because you are being so

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Speaker 4: it's it's.

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Speaker 1: How you move, and it's really and it's important that

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Speaker 1: you people hear that, you know, because of the fact

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Speaker 1: that you know, we could, we could, you know as

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Speaker 1: young people. We all were young. You know, I had

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Speaker 1: to before I lost all my hair. I had a

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Speaker 1: big afro. I remember, in fact, we're going to go

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Speaker 1: to break when we come back and tell this a

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Speaker 1: little short story about how I didn't want to conform

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Speaker 1: to my company's dress code and guess what, there was

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Speaker 1: no success for me. Frustration and that's all he's talking about.

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Speaker 1: Be right back with more Sergeant Major talking about he's

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Speaker 1: a whisper, y'all, but he talks loud on my show.

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Speaker 7: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

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Speaker 7: with Rashawn McDonald.

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Speaker 8: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 8: of Inspiration with Rashawn McDonald.

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Speaker 1: This week, I sat down with award winning actor, best

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Speaker 1: selling author, and entrepreneur Heal Harper. He stopped by and

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Speaker 1: talked about how his thyrout cancer diagnosis led to his

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Speaker 1: role as a health and wellness ambassador, teaching everyday people

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Speaker 1: how to live healthier lives.

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Speaker 6: We believe that a lot of the root cause of

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Speaker 6: cancer has to do with what we put on our skin.

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Speaker 6: Our skin is the largest organ on our body and

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Speaker 6: endors everything. Just as if you ate it, your ender consistent,

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Speaker 6: your liver, your kidneys have to deal with it. And

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Speaker 6: they said the reason why it'll never be tested because

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Speaker 6: the same companies that make the lotions that contain the aluminum,

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Speaker 6: the petroleum, the paramis and the oils and all these things.

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Speaker 6: The same companies who make that are all the same

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Speaker 6: companies as a drug company, So they're never going to

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Speaker 6: do a long term study of the effects of their product.

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Speaker 1: If you want to listen to this full interview with

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Speaker 1: hell Harper, it's available on money Making Conversations dot com.

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Speaker 7: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I'm on the phone with He's here, Sergeant Major Black Panther.

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00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: I want to bring up that movie. I'm pausing because

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about how important that movie was for me personally,

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Speaker 1: how important that movie was for me in the in

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Speaker 1: the in the industry, because we had never had a

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Speaker 1: movie come out that that sold the tickets that it sold,

853
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: that was directed by a black director, and you happen

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Speaker 1: to be a distributor, probably the long African American distributor

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Speaker 1: on that movie. Tell about your tell us about your

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Speaker 1: role and some of the achievements that you were able to,

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Speaker 1: groundbreaking achievements that you were able to do with the movie.

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Speaker 1: Black Panther.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was part of the team, and you're right,

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Speaker 4: You're correct, I was the only black guy that was

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Speaker 4: part of the strategy for distributing Black Panther. And what

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Speaker 4: I mean about distribution, Uh, you know, I was one

863
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 4: of the people that designed the strategy as far as

864
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 4: what what demographic market aread of Black Camp will be

865
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,959
Speaker 4: released in right, and that's based on know everything from

866
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 4: Race Creed, you know. So yes, I was a part

867
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 4: of that, uh, that strategy on how he was going

868
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 4: to launch that and Black Panther went on to make

869
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 4: one point three billion dollars. So yes, at the time

870
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 4: when questions were asked of me, do you think that

871
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 4: this would be a successful movie, because, like you said, uh,

872
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 4: it was directed by black you know, Ryan Coogler, a

873
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 4: black director, and it was the first film in history

874
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 4: to have an all black cast, which was you know,

875
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 4: angela basket far As with a good chat with Bozeman,

876
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 4: Michael be Jordans on and so forth. You know, it

877
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 4: was a risk for the studios from their vantage points,

878
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 4: you know. So but yes, all those things were factors

879
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 4: in it, and and even all the way down to

880
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 4: when we were talking about you know, what months should

881
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 4: we should we release it in and uh, obviously you

882
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 4: know I see the month of February. Why because it's

883
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 4: Black History Month. You know, that means something to us.

884
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 4: So absolutely, I was very proud to do that, and

885
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 4: also excited to get get phone calls from the likes

886
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 4: of stars that were actually renting out the theater so

887
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 4: that the underprivileged community could actually go and screen the movie.

888
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, the ones that couldn't afford it.

889
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 4: So very proud of my people, if you will, my

890
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 4: brothers and sisters who who did things like that, who

891
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 4: had the means to make that available to everybody.

892
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: You know, Sergeant Major, I'm talking to Sergeant Major Keith L. Craig.

893
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: You know, I've been in Hollywood since ninety three, went

894
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: out there in nineteen ninety doing stand up comedy. I

895
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: actually started writing on television shows in ninety four and

896
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: been fortunate to write on anywhere from The Parkers, the

897
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox Show, The Sister Sisters, the Robert Townsend Show,

898
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: The Parkers I mean Robert towns to Your Parenthood, as

899
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: well as Arsenial Hall and that whole period of writing.

900
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: And I hope put it is distributing the whole put relationship.

901
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: Tell everybody what exactly is your role in Hollywood?

902
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 4: Well, my role in Hollywood is, like say, I think

903
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 4: the young people call the plug, right, because my clients

904
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 4: are the networks. When you talk about hbos, the Stars

905
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 4: to show Times, you know, the the netflixes and all

906
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 4: those along with it, broadcasting the digital pieces of it.

907
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 4: You know, I have the ability to when people have

908
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 4: finished films, to get their content, to find they find

909
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 4: a good home for their for their content.

910
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 3: Right.

911
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 4: I think that's very, very, very important. And I also

912
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 4: you mentioned earlier why they called me to holl with whisper.

913
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 4: I think it has something to do with us trying

914
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 4: to protect the filmmakers because you know what we we

915
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 4: We speak to five and six filmmakers every day, and

916
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 4: what we're noticing is they go into the filmmaking piece

917
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 4: of it with understanding that it's three it's three pieces

918
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 4: to filmmaking, the pre production and production the post production.

919
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 4: So the flaw in that though, is by the time

920
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 4: you finish post production, your editing, so and so forth,

921
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 4: you actually are out of money, you know. So it's

922
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 4: what my partner and I, Jeff Porter, what we do

923
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 4: is we teach people there are six phases. Maybe teaches

924
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 4: the wrong word, but we we coach teach a mentor

925
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 4: that there are six phases.

926
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 7: You know.

927
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 4: The additional three phases is branding, marketing, and then distribution.

928
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,479
Speaker 4: So it's very important that you say almost a third

929
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,720
Speaker 4: of your budgets that you're looking at as a production

930
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 4: budget to make sure that you'll feelm actually it does

931
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 4: the business that you wanted to do at the box office.

932
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you this, because you know the

933
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: streaming is out here. You got a big old writers

934
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: strike going on, and you're in distribution, and then you

935
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: got all these titles. You know, I look at a

936
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: lot of streaming channels out there and that go and

937
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: they say the word free, and then I see all

938
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:45,399
Speaker 1: these these movies, these blockbusters from back in the day,

939
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: and they start and collect all these catalogs. As a distributor,

940
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: how do you align yourself with certain channels or streaming

941
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: channels to say this is where I want to take

942
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: your product or do you wait for them to ask

943
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: you for the opportune to distribute your products?

944
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 4: Do you mean the filmmakers, Yes, sir, you you know,

945
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 4: we we both right, we we we look for films

946
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 4: that we you know that we're interested in right and

947
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 4: also you know, filmmakers look for us people that are

948
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 4: interested in getting results, because as we make a name

949
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 4: for ourselves, obviously my my resume you know, makes people.

950
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 4: You know, let's let's at least just check these guys

951
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 4: out and from there we just do good business, you

952
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. We, like I said earlier, we're

953
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 4: all about transparency and integrity, things that nature. And we

954
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 4: have direct relationships with these platforms. So if you bring

955
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 4: a film to us, it's not a it's not if

956
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 4: you can get it there. We have relationships. We know

957
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 4: what these networks and these digital platforms are looking for,

958
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Even when we shit on

959
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 4: a monthly basis with these broadcasters, these network stations, right,

960
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 4: the conversation is, you know, we're looking for a BOC.

961
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 4: These are the components of what we're looking for right now.

962
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 4: Whether it be all female lead driven cat with humor,

963
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Or is it are you

964
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 4: looking for, you know, horror with some mystery in it.

965
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 4: Well we know what those we know what those apps are.

966
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 4: So when we come back once we find a filmmaker

967
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 4: that we we think either they're going into making the film,

968
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 4: you know, with with with those components you know of

969
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 4: that production there, or we you know, we take what

970
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 4: they have, we find what they already have, and we

971
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 4: shot and we bring it to the networks and that

972
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 4: you know, we sign a liscens to deal.

973
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: Well know, it's interesting because I'm really trying to wrap

974
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: my head around this because you know, it's like, you know,

975
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: as a writer, I knew I got a check for

976
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: writing there's a stand up. I got a check for

977
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: telling my jokes. As a manager, I got commission check.

978
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: How does it you know, I'm not trying to get

979
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: in any detail, but how does a person like you

980
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: make money? So people can understand how the process works.

981
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 4: Sure, as as as a distributor, right, there's obviously there's

982
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 4: services fees. Right, so when you bring a movie, a finish,

983
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 4: a finished movie to us whatever, there's a there's a

984
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 4: services fee attached to that based on we service you.

985
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. We get your film on Netflix,

986
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 4: then you know, become a partner. It's a partnership. Okay,

987
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 4: So you say, you say, you know, you say, Sergeant

988
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 4: Major Stargy, Major Craig, I have a film. Okayon simme

989
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 4: over Screenlink's take a look at it. You know, once

990
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 4: we look at that film, we say, okay, we think

991
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 4: we got a home for that film. Let's let's send

992
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 4: it over and talk to you know, this personal with

993
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 4: this network. See what they say and from Once we

994
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 4: get the the the ya from that network, we come

995
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,959
Speaker 4: back and reports to this is this is the offer.

996
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 4: You know, we got a offer. We're gonna do a

997
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 4: counter and ask for these type of you know, these changes,

998
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 4: these stipulations.

999
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Now you got my mind flowing. Now, okay,

1000
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: so do you do? Do you do like specials like

1001
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: music specials if it's produced, could I bring that to you?

1002
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: Or you just do films a series? What what can

1003
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: one bring to you?

1004
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 4: Well, if you could bring everything for us to take

1005
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 4: a look at it, right, Obviously the full features are

1006
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 4: the most sought after things by the broadcasters. But when

1007
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 4: you're talking about the music productions, right, obviously you have

1008
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 4: to have their clearances associated with that, right, So you

1009
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 4: got to make sure all your homework are done. If

1010
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 4: you got song that somebody else own, well you got

1011
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 4: to go get clearance right, right, for all of that,

1012
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,720
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So, and we would require

1013
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 4: all of that. You got to make sure you got

1014
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 4: e ando insurance arison no missions insurance. This is the

1015
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 4: insurance is to cover you if somebody assues you because

1016
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 4: you didn't get total clearance. Are your work or your

1017
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,359
Speaker 4: move too fast? You know what I'm saying. So it's

1018
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 4: very important, you know, to just check all your blocks

1019
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 4: out and we'll make sure if you're bringing something to us,

1020
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 4: first of all, it has to have the production value

1021
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 4: based on what you say in the budget was right,

1022
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 4: you know optically. These people are professionals, so they know

1023
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 4: what something costs or did not cost, you know what

1024
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 4: I'm saying. So we look at the production value to

1025
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 4: make sure you got the red cameras or the black

1026
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 4: magics and so on and so forth, and and the aalent,

1027
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 4: you know, the acting, the talent. Everything is you know

1028
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 4: a component of for successful you know, partnership.

1029
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: Wow, hey, sergeant major, please tell people how they how

1030
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: they can reach out to you. Is a website?

1031
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 7: Is it?

1032
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 3: Uh?

1033
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: What number? How they can reach you? Because I next

1034
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:14,240
Speaker 1: time I bring you on, We're gonna start this different.

1035
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna take some phone calls because you you pushing

1036
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: that information that people need to know because don't nobody

1037
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 1: know where to go.

1038
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 4: Understand, I'm saying you can find us at pcfimimedia dot com.

1039
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 4: That's pcfimimedia dot com. I'm on Instagram at official Keith

1040
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 4: al Craig Official Keith.

1041
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 3: Al Craig All one word.

1042
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 4: I also have a website Keith Craig dot org or

1043
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 4: r G or you can email me at Keith dot

1044
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 4: Craig at pcfmimedia dot com.

1045
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: Okay, now, slow that down. That gonna get busy. That

1046
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 1: that that gonna get busy right now. So because your role,

1047
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: if somebody has projects, don't just be emailing Sergeant may

1048
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: just be emailing them. If you got content that you

1049
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: don't know where to take it, content that you want

1050
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: to some advice on where to distribute it, then Sergeant

1051
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 1: Major can get you that. Can you give out that

1052
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: email address one more time, Sergeant Major?

1053
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 4: Sure, that's Keith dot Craig at Pcfilmanmedia dot com. That's

1054
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 4: one word, Pcfilmandmedia dot com. Spell it out one word

1055
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 4: admia dot com.

1056
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 1: Wow, you know you're whispering to me? Now, you're not

1057
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: only whispering you're talking to me right now because because

1058
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you man, as a black person, we

1059
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: don't know where to go. We don't know where to go.

1060
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 4: We don't know.

1061
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: We're just being creative. We're making stuff. At least we're

1062
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: getting a professional person telling us this wont work, or

1063
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: this work, or you need to do your homework, do

1064
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: better production, invest more timing. You got the wrong cameras,

1065
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,320
Speaker 1: You need to get your license, you need to get everything,

1066
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: your release on, all your talents. Stuff like that. We

1067
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: don't know. But if you contact him here, get you

1068
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: started in the right direction. Sergeant Major, thank you man

1069
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: for coming to my show. And I want to bring

1070
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: you back, man, if you don't mind, I want to

1071
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 1: take phone calls so people can ask you questions and

1072
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: let's do it like a class on money making conversations.

1073
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: Master class. Good with that.

1074
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 4: I would I would love to come back. I would

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