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Speaker 1: on the c W Black Lightning. Alan Rosen, third generation

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Speaker 1: owner of the Junior's restaurant chain, bast my man. We

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Speaker 1: Today is National Cheesecake Day. My next guest celebrations this

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Speaker 1: day all the time with the world's most fabulous cheesecake

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Speaker 1: a third generation of the Rosen family to lead the

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations on National Cheesecake Day,

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Speaker 1: Alan Rosen, Thank you for having me. I appreciate such

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Speaker 1: a nice introduction. Now, Allen, I I built you up.

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Speaker 1: Correct that one thousand acres? Yeah, exactly, yes, um. And

634
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: that was one of the reasons. Uh. You know, I

635
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: looked at several ranches, several pieces of property, and it

636
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: was this one stood out the most to me because

637
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: it was a business and it's basically paid for itself,

638
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: you know, ideal hey, and also the black angles cattle

639
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: on the ranch, you know, it duces a quarter a

640
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: million a year. Okay, now let's go back to hide.

641
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: I all started because I'm from fifth Wards. I don't

642
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: know if you know that, James. I'm from fifth War

643
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: thirty and fifteen Main Street, right there on the corner

644
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: a Russell and Bain Street. That's where I grew up.

645
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: I grew up in my six sisters, two brothers, lived

646
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: in a two bedrooms shotgun house. And to be on

647
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: the national radio show from Us with a fellow young

648
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: man from the hoods of the streets of filth four,

649
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: I think it's a blessing for both of us. My friends. Oh,

650
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: no doubt about right. The harder than that, now, you

651
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: know what I know? You know, you know I knew

652
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: he was cut your man. I'mna say when I knew

653
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: he was country when I started reading about you were

654
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: selling warm chicken eggs in the hood. Yeah, yeah, I

655
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: definitely a dollar, doesn't you know what I mean? I

656
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: had had country boards that lived on that street, and

657
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: they were sent me to the store for him all

658
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: the time, right, and the live that I could be

659
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: the one to sell them that eggs. You could buy

660
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: a whole chicken for a dollar. Back then, I'm like, Okay,

661
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: I'm investing some of these chickens and these chickens, you know,

662
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: lay a few eggs, a dozen a belt or a week,

663
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 1: and band I became an egg entrepreneur. But you always

664
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: saw the value. Like I said, a lot of people

665
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: call the street hustle because they only say that because

666
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: the individual lives in a community, like an urban environment.

667
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: You don't hear the word street hustle if you don't

668
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: live in the hood. That's just you just taking advantage

669
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: of a situation that you sold. Profitability, a sell ability,

670
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: and accountability. You said, people need eggs. I know how

671
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: to get eggs. Let me sell these eggs. And guess what,

672
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: there was people out there buying your eggs. But that's

673
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: how you laid out your whole life, correct. Yeah, yeah,

674
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: between the eggs and diversified and went to cutting yards

675
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean. It went on and on.

676
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: I was only like eight nine years so, and uh,

677
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: I had several jobs. I worked on the back of

678
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: a wealth and truck. You know, man, I was I

679
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: just enjoying having money. I had this uncanny love for

680
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: money at the age of eight years old. And you know,

681
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: at all begun with me. I want to break the

682
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: poverty curse. You know what My family was concerned though.

683
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: Remember you you just count money, but you wouldn't need yourself.

684
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: You must have read about that whooping I got. Yeah, Yeah,

685
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: I got a whooping. Mm hmm, Yeah, I got a

686
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: whooping because I had a pocket full of money. And

687
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: I was waiting on my grandmother to come home from

688
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: work because I was hunger, but I had a pocket money.

689
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: So after she cooked, you know, I went to jump

690
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: in and got all kinds of energy and went to

691
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: stunting and pull out that bank roll. Head. Yeah, I

692
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: got a little walking. Don't this kind of money? Pocket

693
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: and the two standard and feed your stuff? Yeah, And

694
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: I thought that was very Uh, that's that's that's that's

695
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: a very understatement, you know. And I think that your

696
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: whole life when I when I read your book from

697
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: cover to cover. Um, starting with the fact that you

698
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: know you, does anybody really know that that real James Prince?

699
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 1: You know, because of the fact that people say you're

700
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: a hard business man, they say you're very calculated. I

701
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: remember when I met you outside my comedy club I

702
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: called the Hip Hop Commedies, that we were talking for

703
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: a few minutes before you hopped in your car. You

704
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: came to see him perform and um I walked back inside.

705
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: He said, man, you was out there talking to James. Boy,

706
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: you look you didn't get shot and so but you

707
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: just you know, you know, I'm just a little too,

708
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: you know, because people because people just felt that. You know,

709
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: you get around here, you know, you better be ready,

710
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: you better be on your toe. You stand next to James,

711
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: especially in public. Was that reputation warried that James? No,

712
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: you know, they a lot of people. Man, they've been

713
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: lying on me for years. You know, it's almost became

714
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: immune to it. Man, don't I don't eat my life

715
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: to bother me because I don't know all these stories

716
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: come from, you know what I mean. Not it's a

717
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: it's a fact that I'm not known joke, nothing like that.

718
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: But as far as uh abusing my authority, what I mean,

719
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: mistreating one in any kind of way. You know I'm not.

720
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: I'm not blessed the way I am living that way.

721
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: Absolutely no. All you know, would you be walking around

722
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, people live their life in jail, are dead.

723
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: You know's there's ambience of that, there's evidence of that.

724
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: But all I know is that I was out there talking.

725
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: It was a sould out show. He was telling me,

726
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: I used to be you funny. I just thank you

727
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: because Willie D from the ghetto boards you to come

728
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: out of the club all time, the hip hop comedy stuff.

729
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: He used to live at, the hip hop comedy stoff

730
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: and uh, scar Face will come by that I've never

731
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: met Busher with you just crazy and uh, I never

732
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: really wanted to meet it once he got shot, Now

733
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: I really didn't want me to do who got shot

734
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: in the eye and survived? That wasn't really my bag

735
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: of tricks right there. But but but you know, but

736
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: just talking to you, that that that that that that

737
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: that allowed me to understand that you were a humble guy.

738
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: That's why I took away when I met you, a

739
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: humble guy, a successful guy, but you're very humble and

740
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: I think that that's that's the quality that that that

741
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: stands out the most when I tell people about my

742
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: experience and communicy, can't you because you were just this

743
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: was naty two, So you took the height of your

744
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 1: success that little run there. Everybody knew who it works,

745
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: you know who you were, and and and and then

746
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: the fact when you came into my comedy club, it

747
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: was like it was Buzzard, James and James and there

748
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: games in there. Okay, okay, cool, that's all right. You

749
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: know I played it off, all right, yeah, all right,

750
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: He's the only superstar came in my comedy club. Come on, now,

751
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: you know, but that but that humbleness is what carries

752
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: you today. Correct. Oh, yeah, you know, I'm a I'm

753
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: a man that you know. I definitely believe and give

754
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 1: and respect. You know what I mean. I believe in

755
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: order to receive it, you have to give it. And

756
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: you know I give it. And as you say that,

757
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I've I've earned it. And

758
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: then it's different places in my life. I demand that

759
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: There's so many things in the book that I want

760
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: people to read. I want people to buy The Art

761
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: and Size of Respect by James Prince Um. He's one

762
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: of the greater historians of rap music. From the standpoint

763
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: of when you read the book, it's like a it's

764
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: like a lesson of how to do it right. But

765
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: just tell us, in short about your experience with our

766
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: floor Mayweather and uh and let's we wrap this up

767
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: on how I note my friend. Yeah, well, you know,

768
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: of course, I build a recreations center and and full

769
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: court basketball, uh, the gym, the weight rowan, the computer room,

770
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: and then I build a boxing gym. I all on

771
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: the same piece of property in filth war and boxing

772
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: has always been my first love. And after serving amateurs

773
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: in the boxing gym, I decided, you know, I said, okay,

774
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 1: it's time for me to get back in the boxing.

775
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: And you know I did. I remember, you know, praying

776
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: and actually the Lord to bless me with the champion

777
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: because every goal, everything I ever trying to accompass in life,

778
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: I prayed first before I executed faith. So you know,

779
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: I went on to set up a meeting with Mike

780
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: Tyson in Las Vegas. Went to went to Las Vegas

781
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: watching Mike Tyson in the gym spawing, and Flaude Maywell

782
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: to have to come in the gym as well. So

783
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: you know, Flaude kept coming to me trying to hold

784
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: a conversation, and eventually he left his number with me

785
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: and say, man, you want to do something to night,

786
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,879
Speaker 1: give me a call. So I went home with Mike

787
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: Tyson to have a meeting with him that afternoon, and

788
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, eventually Mike got his wife on the phone,

789
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: and you know, Mike Tomay. I want Pressed to be

790
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: a part of my team. So I went on back

791
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: to my role later on that night and got up

792
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: the next day thinking I was gonna go visible with

793
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson before I left or whatnot. And his phone

794
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 1: was not working you know what I mean. I think

795
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 1: his manager up whatever that guy named, was disconnected the phone.

796
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: So I was left with Mayweather novel. I asked my friend,

797
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: I say, uh, who is this guy? And he told

798
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: me said, oh, that Flawed Mayweather. He's a hundred and

799
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: thirty pound champions. At that point, you know, a red

800
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: light went off in my head because I say, man,

801
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: I prayed for a champion, Tyson, ain't you no champion?

802
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: At if he wasn't a champion at the time, he's

803
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 1: just the number one box in the world. So bam.

804
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: Within a week period of time, myself and Flawed Mayweather.

805
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: You know it was in business together. I'm gonna tell

806
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: everybody please buy this book. James, thank you for calling

807
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: my show man. I hope you enjoyed it. If for

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00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: a king, baby, you keep winning, and you keep winning

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00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,080
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Speaker 1: of your hit superhero series Black Lights. She plays the

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Speaker 1: role of Anisa Pears a k A. Thunder, the passionate

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Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversation. No Fisa Williams. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: What a warm what a warm welcome. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm home and home is home is right now Atlanta

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Speaker 1: or Atlanta, Georgia. Okay, you could have come in studio

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Speaker 1: and did this interview girl this, I'm really mad. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm really mad. Now to make you mad, don't make

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Speaker 1: me mad. Because you're a superhero. You're superhero, You're thunder.

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Speaker 1: Thunder can make a difference. Now, let's talk about We've

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it and some of the shows you've

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Speaker 1: done it for. But let's talk about Black Lightning. How

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Speaker 1: you auditioned for that role and how it is so

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Speaker 1: it's changing the game for you know, we all know

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Speaker 1: about Black Panther, we all know about that, but Black

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Speaker 1: Lightning is has carved out his own niches is playing

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Speaker 1: very well on Netflix. I follow it and I went

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Speaker 1: from CT. Did you know you're hot when Netflix picked

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Speaker 1: that you've got something going on. So tell us about

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Speaker 1: how did you audition and how your life has changed

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Speaker 1: that you've been associated with Black Lightning. Well, I got

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Speaker 1: the call from my manager about a year and a

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Speaker 1: half ago that I had this all, this thing called

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Speaker 1: Black Lightning. I didn't. I never I never heard of

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Speaker 1: Black Lightning. Never knew that we even had a black

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Speaker 1: superhero along with his family that was a part of

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Speaker 1: never knew either. Don't worry about it. I never do.

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Speaker 1: I never knew. But I get the script and I

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Speaker 1: the writers and the executive producers, I knew that this

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Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of their work, always wanted to

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Speaker 1: So I read the script and I was like, I

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Speaker 1: just appreciated the story. Most superheroes you see are, you know,

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Speaker 1: have a middle age man with the family who is

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Speaker 1: a high school principle. We've just never seen or heard

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Speaker 1: this story before, and I appreciated the strong bold and

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Speaker 1: independent female characters that they created within this world. So

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Speaker 1: I went in for this job and I was like, listen, y'all,

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Speaker 1: y'all looking for me. I felt so connected. I felt

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Speaker 1: the story that I just really went in so focused,

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Speaker 1: and I said, just go in and let them know

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Speaker 1: you know, to go in and and show them that

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Speaker 1: I understood this character and that I was really wanting

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Speaker 1: to give my voice over to her and under you know,

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Speaker 1: I just said everything about her world. So um, coming

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Speaker 1: from a city like Philly, I understand some of the

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Speaker 1: problems that that that the city Freeland faces within the

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Speaker 1: show and just wanting to be a voice for that

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Speaker 1: and hopefully start change, you know, with within our country,

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Speaker 1: within our cities. And um, that was pretty much my

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Speaker 1: my my audition process a minute this week. She said

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Speaker 1: a lot of good information because I want to continue

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Speaker 1: She mentioned mar Brock and her husband now Mars, some

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Speaker 1: of the work that Mars done, his girlfriends being Mary

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Speaker 1: Jane the game. Just to know a little history about

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Speaker 1: her writing sample and you know, uh, in the new

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Speaker 1: series on own and so that's THEMP. Okay to know

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Speaker 1: that about that, okay to show black Lightning. She has

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Speaker 1: a sister, and she has a mom, and she has

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Speaker 1: a dad. That's the family dynamic that she's talking about,

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Speaker 1: and that the encompasses black Lightning. In her father's role,

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Speaker 1: he's a high school principal. Now her character is a

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Speaker 1: and I want to ask about this, and as we

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Speaker 1: go through the interview process, she had a relationship. But

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Speaker 1: I thought in the beginning that bogged down the show

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Speaker 1: because the show succeeds based on the family dynamic and

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Speaker 1: how they all come together. Because she has a sister

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Speaker 1: who's reluctant to be a superhero. She just wants to

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Speaker 1: She just wants to have kids. She wants to be

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Speaker 1: a normal person, and she's she's trauma tized. In the series.

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Speaker 1: Now Thunder Thunder all about being a superhero. She's all

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Speaker 1: about taking her power and and and and saving the community,

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Speaker 1: fixing the wrongs in the community. Of fact, her father

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Speaker 1: has to calm Thunder down. Now you can continue excited yeah, Thunder, Thunder.

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Speaker 1: She understands and she learns that she has these superpowers,

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Speaker 1: and you see her through the first season trying to

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Speaker 1: navigate and develop them. And once this lightbulb goes off

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Speaker 1: of understanding how her powers work, she gets really really

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Speaker 1: excited and really passionate, and she believes that this is

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Speaker 1: a gift from God and she is she used it

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Speaker 1: to save people who can't save themselves. So that is

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Speaker 1: her logic behind, you know, wanting to go out and

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Speaker 1: use the powers that have been given to her. Um

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Speaker 1: and as you said, uh, my sister on the show

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Speaker 1: played by China and the claim she has a totally

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Speaker 1: different feeling about having these powers. She thinks that it

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Speaker 1: makes us freaks and she's not normal and she just,

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Speaker 1: you know, this doesn't really understand and why her life

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Speaker 1: has been you know, changed in the in the major

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Speaker 1: way that it has been. And you can see, you know,

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Speaker 1: throughout the season where I'm trying to convince her that

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Speaker 1: we have to use our God given powers. And as

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Speaker 1: you spoke on Black Lightning, you know, deal with the

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Speaker 1: fact that his daughter has these same powers, not the

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Speaker 1: same powers, but you know they have been given special

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Speaker 1: abilities and just trying to you know, navigate through that

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Speaker 1: world of of protecting them. But also you know, I

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Speaker 1: have to train them because it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: And if I trained them, then hopefully you know they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll you know, be as well off as possible when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the whole superhero world. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's really a show about a family first,

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Speaker 1: and it's not it's not that you're reminded that they're

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Speaker 1: superheroes until you see them in their costumes, when you

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Speaker 1: see them actually out fighting crime and saving people. But

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Speaker 1: it's really a show about a family and you know,

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Speaker 1: going through family problems and them trying to overcome them together,

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Speaker 1: which I thought was really cool because you don't see

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Speaker 1: a superhero, you know, with his family, as I mentioned before,

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Speaker 1: you you know, you usually see this young superhero flying

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Speaker 1: and jumping all around, and you have this family of

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Speaker 1: really cool idea. And kudos to everyone over at d

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Speaker 1: C and Tony, Isabella and Trevor who created you know, this,

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Speaker 1: this this character. And before we go, I want to

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Speaker 1: we go, because I want to just let everybody shape

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Speaker 1: us about your efforts in the community. Thank you. I

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Speaker 1: just believe that, you know, it's our duty to serve

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Speaker 1: Much is given, much is required, and I believe that

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Speaker 1: empower each other. And that's pretty much my life mission,

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Speaker 1: I believe. You know, Um, life begins when you start

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Speaker 1: then the once you understand what your purpose is, your

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Speaker 1: job next is to help the next person and you know,

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Speaker 1: discover what THEIRS is and encourage them to follow theirs.

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Speaker 1: So um, that's just basically you know. I try to

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Speaker 1: And I try to go when I go when I

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Speaker 1: you know, when I'm not filming. But it's the Peggy

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Speaker 1: we see, we pray, you know, just incur sometimes just listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm most happy when I'm when I'm serving and when

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Speaker 1: of my favorite things to be doing. And I get

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Speaker 1: please keep doing it real quickly tell everybody about Saturday

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Speaker 1: Uh Dreaming one more time when we close out the show,

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Speaker 1: how they can find it and what exactly it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Saturday Dreaming is my own, my online boucheek. I'm

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Speaker 1: a co owner with my best friends in thirteen years old.

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Speaker 1: So it's really cool. I believe in building with your

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Speaker 1: friends and and and you know, making your dreams together

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