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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 2: It's the show that shares the secrets of success experienced

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Speaker 2: firsthand by marketing and branding expert, Rashawn McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I will know. He's given me advice on many occasions.

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Speaker 1: And in case you didn't notice, I'm not broke.

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Speaker 2: You know he'll be interviewing celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and industry

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Speaker 2: decision makers. It's what he likes to do. It's what

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Speaker 2: he likes to share. Now it's time to hear from

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Speaker 2: my man, Rashawn McDonald. Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Hi, I'm Rashawn McDowell, and I host

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Speaker 1: this show, Money Making Conversations Masterclass.

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Speaker 3: That's me.

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Speaker 1: The interviews and information on this show is your show.

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Speaker 1: It's your information. It's time to start reading other people's

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Speaker 1: success stories and start living your own. My guest today,

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Speaker 1: longtime friend, Thomas Miles. He is the host of OWN's

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Speaker 1: Ready for Love, Executive Dude, by the boy Will Packer.

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Speaker 1: Owns popular love and relationship dating show, Ready to Love.

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Speaker 1: Come on now. Return to 18 hopeful singles, looking for

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Speaker 1: love in Big D, Dallas, Texas. Now, on the show today,

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Speaker 1: I'm also going to interview Nephew Tommy from the popular

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show. That's also Thomas Fox. My guest today, boy,

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Speaker 1: he covers the gamut. Celebrity, TV host, radio host, stand-up comedian, philanthropist, entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: and family man. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass,

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Speaker 1: Owns Host for Love. That's my boy, Thomas Miles. How

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Speaker 1: you doing, Thomas?

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Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. Thank you, Rashad, man. Good to

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Speaker 3: see you, man.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time to come on the show, man. And,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I named you two. I

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Speaker 1: met you. Inspiring comedian, Thomas Miles. Then you blew up

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Speaker 1: on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Nephew Thomas. Now today,

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Speaker 1: I get to introduce you as Thomas Miles. That's full circle, brother.

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Speaker 1: How does that feel?

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Speaker 3: Full circle. It feels good, man. Been around the block

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Speaker 3: with it. You know, you start out.

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Speaker 4: As Thomas Miles, then you jumped into Nephew Tommy, which

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Speaker 4: is actually what got me to this plateau. And then,

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Speaker 4: you know, now I'm able to actually go back to

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Speaker 4: my name, Thomas Miles, so it makes a full circle.

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Speaker 4: But I think Nephew Tommy, I don't slight him at all.

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Speaker 4: He's got us to the point of we were able

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Speaker 4: to get back to the name Thomas Miles and get

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Speaker 4: more established.

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Speaker 3: But, you know, it took that. going around the block,

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Speaker 3: going around the world to get back to it.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, going around the world, touring with Luther Vandross,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Miles, you know what I'm saying? You know, when

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Speaker 1: you were doing Sister, Sister with me back in the day,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Miles, okay?

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Speaker 4: So Thomas Miles was building something.

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Speaker 1: Don't act like, you know, Nephew Tommy just did everything.

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Speaker 1: Thomas Miles was building something. Nephew Tommy was just that hook.

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Speaker 1: That allowed you to, as they say, create longevity in

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Speaker 1: this business. That's really key, man. To enable you to

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Speaker 1: host a show that Will Packard, that's our friend, both

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Speaker 1: our friends, man, out of BAMU, spotted you, your brand,

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Speaker 1: on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. How did that happen?

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Speaker 1: And why did you feel you could actually host a

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Speaker 3: You know what, man? Will gave me a call, Rashad, and.

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Speaker 4: You know, people in Hollywood always say, you know what,

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Speaker 4: we're going to work together. We're going to do something

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Speaker 4: sooner or later. People in Hollywood always say that. You know,

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Speaker 4: when you hear it, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've

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Speaker 4: been hearing this. I've been hearing this ever since I

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Speaker 4: got to Hollywood. But Will Packer called me and said,

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Speaker 4: he sent me a text first and showed me that

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Speaker 4: texting him back saying, hey, man, congratulations to you, brother.

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Speaker 4: And he was like, no, no, no, no. This is

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Speaker 4: a ready-to-love show. I want you to host this show.

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Speaker 4: And Rusan, immediately I'm thinking, hey, man, I ain't got

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Speaker 4: no time for your prank phone calls. Okay, I'm the

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Speaker 4: one who do the pranks. You don't do the pranks.

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Speaker 4: I do the pranks. So, man, he's like, no, Tom,

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Speaker 4: this is perfect for you, man. You and your wife

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Speaker 4: have been together forever. You're the great person that can

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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, okay. And Rusan, man, we look

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Speaker 4: I'm 100 plus episodes in, brother.

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Speaker 3: That's the blessing.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Now, you know, we grew up on Love Connection,

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Speaker 1: The Dayton game, you know what I'm saying? Newlywed game

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Speaker 1: and all that. And they got all these other shows

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Speaker 1: out there. I ain't going to mention the other shows

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Speaker 1: out there. Everybody got, they half-naked. They look like they

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Speaker 1: don't have a job, Thomas. They got time to just

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Speaker 1: take off because they ain't got nothing to take off from.

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Speaker 3: Not all ready to love.

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Speaker 1: These are grown people, brother. 30s and 40s now.

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Speaker 1: As they were saying, my lane tread on the tie.

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Speaker 3: But good tread, though.

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Speaker 1: Good tread, though. Talk about the difference in the people

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Speaker 1: in this show. Let's start breaking it down because I

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Speaker 1: got the list of all the names on the show,

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Speaker 1: so we're going to talk about them a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Okay. So, you know what?

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Speaker 4: The difference is, man, let me clarify the difference between

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Speaker 4: these other shows and this one, Sean. It's because, you know,

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Speaker 4: you got, when you hear something, and this is not

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Speaker 4: knocking them, these are great shows. When you hear Bachelor,

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Speaker 4: when you hear Bachelorette, when you hear all of that,

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Speaker 4: you're talking about people that are in their 20s. Life

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Speaker 4: is just now getting started. They have not been through

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Speaker 4: any ups and downs yet. Ready to Love is different.

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Speaker 4: This is the real deal. These people are 30s, 40s.

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Speaker 4: Some people are in their 50s. Some people are divorced.

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Speaker 4: Some people got kids. Some people career driven, never took

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Speaker 4: You got some men that are entrepreneurs that are doing

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Speaker 4: their thing. But the one thing they missing is love.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's really important that you say that because like

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm looking at Aries, you know, software sales manager.

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Speaker 1: Lee health and wellness coach. You know, you got a

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Speaker 1: TV and film producer. You got a, Oh, we got

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Speaker 1: I just saw that. A comedian coming on Ready to Love.

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Speaker 3: Boy, that's funny by itself, right?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the thing about it, I know it's

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Speaker 1: been Friday night's number one original cable series among African-American women.

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Speaker 1: What has that done to your brand?

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Speaker 4: And why have women attracted to the show? Man, let

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Speaker 4: me tell you something, Rashad. This thing has now... turned

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Speaker 4: into men and their spouses. The couples are sitting down

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Speaker 4: watching Ready to Love Friday nights. I'm getting texts. I'm

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Speaker 4: getting people hitting me on social media. This is their

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Speaker 4: big night. This is their big date night. This is

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Speaker 3: We get together.

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Speaker 4: And the big thing is, Rashad, is they're trying to

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Speaker 4: they're going to think are going to connect together. I

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Speaker 4: And the list goes on and on, man. So it's

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Speaker 4: you know, it's become number one on their own network.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now let's talk about the show here because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people I want people to get engaged with

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Speaker 1: the show. I know I watch a show in the

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Speaker 1: beginning to kick off one girl in the beginning, kick

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Speaker 1: this show actually works. Because some of these shows are insensitive.

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Speaker 1: This is definitely not one of those shows because it's

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Speaker 1: about really hoping that the people come on the show

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Speaker 1: really become a couple, really find love. That's really the

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Speaker 1: as you get older, the options to find that mate.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes.

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Speaker 1: And less.

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Speaker 1: How does ready to love work? What is the format

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Speaker 1: and how.

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Speaker 3: Do you, let me show you here.

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Speaker 4: Here's how ready to, here's how ready to love works. Um, you, you,

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Speaker 4: when you started off, you said 18 singles. So let me,

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Speaker 4: let's go back a little bit. When we first started this,

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Speaker 4: we started out with 20 singles, 10 men, 10 women.

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Speaker 4: So there is no, that's the prize. The prize is love.

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Speaker 4: There's no million dollars, no trip around the world. The

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Speaker 4: prize is love. That you found it for three couples. Now,

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Speaker 4: you read just a second ago, you said, 18 singles.

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Speaker 3: Right. So what we're doing, Rushawn, is we're throwing curveballs now.

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Speaker 4: We started with nine men, nine women, 18 people. So

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Speaker 4: two weeks later, I throw a curveball in and bring

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Speaker 4: we really are at the 20.

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Speaker 3: I'm just not giving it to you all at one time.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay oh okay okay.

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Speaker 4: So you gotta switch it up a little bit so

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Speaker 4: because people have been watching the show you know so

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Speaker 4: when you get new cast remember they like oh i

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Speaker 4: know what's gonna happen here i know what's gonna happen

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Speaker 4: here oh no you don't we're gonna change all this

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Speaker 4: thing up we're gonna give it to you little by little.

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Speaker 1: Now i'm not trying to give away the show but

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Speaker 1: there are always people who become your favorites or yeah

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Speaker 1: you know you know people who Either a nut or

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Speaker 1: you go, that person ain't ever going to find love.

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Speaker 1: But the end of the show, we're going to ride

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Speaker 1: with it. Any favorites on the show that we can

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Speaker 1: kind of follow? Not saying that you point to who's

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Speaker 1: going to actually make love or get to the love portion,

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Speaker 1: but talk about the guests, the individual talents that's on

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Speaker 3: Man, you got so many.

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Speaker 4: Now, Rashaun, do you see the one on there that

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Speaker 4: is the– she's a stylist.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Sierra.

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Speaker 1: She's 33. Sierra.

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Speaker 3: Now, Sierra is.

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Speaker 4: A favorite of mine, Rashaun, because– She funny as all good. Rashawn,

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Speaker 4: if we wanted her to open up and do 15 minutes,

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Speaker 4: She's the one that you really want. You want to

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Speaker 3: Dallas, man.

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Speaker 1: Now, what on the guy side?

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Speaker 1: You got Abe Herbert. You got Jack and James and

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Speaker 1: Marvin and Phil and Travis. Is it Moria? Moria?

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Speaker 3: Moria. Moria. Moria. Now, I like Moria. Now, listen. Now,

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Speaker 3: Marvin scares me, Ruchon. Okay? The one named Marvin.

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Speaker 4: Because Marvin, he writes these erotic books, and he's into this–

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Speaker 1: And the girl looks at him.

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Speaker 3: Like, huh? Son, he got a whole dungeon at his house.

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Speaker 1: This is real now. This is real.

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Speaker 3: This is real. You can't write this. And he also

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Speaker 4: So, but Moria is the guy that's a man's man.

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Speaker 1: Right, right. So, as you go through this show, what

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Speaker 3: Right, right.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're trying to get these little nuggets and

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey morning show made you a person, especially with

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Now, I see a different style of you. And how

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Speaker 1: are you, how is that with your social media? How

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Speaker 1: are people reacting? Are they looking for love advice from

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Speaker 3: Rashad! Rashad!

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Speaker 4: I have become... I have become the love doctor. People

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Speaker 4: Even here in, you know, I'm still in, you know,

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Speaker 4: So, Rochelle, I've had couples in my neighborhood, Rochelle.

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Speaker 3: Wow. Calling, calling, saying, hey, can you come sit down

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Speaker 4: from Tommy. So it's changed, Rashaun. It really has, man.

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Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 5: We'll be right back with more Money-Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome

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Speaker 5: back to the Money-Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashaun McDonald.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, Tom, you know me. Why y'all ain't, okay,

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Speaker 1: ready to go to the festival? Where is it at, bro?

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Speaker 1: Where is it at?

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, okay. Rashaun, we got to talk off

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Speaker 3: I'm ahead of you. Trust me, I'm ahead of you.

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Speaker 1: All these broad folks that got no place to go,

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Speaker 1: come on now.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: I think we can put them someplace for three days.

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Speaker 1: I think you and I, and we're packing now.

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Speaker 3: We can't leave our bar. We're packing.

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Speaker 1: Made over a billion dollars in the box office.

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Speaker 3: So, Rashad, I came up with.

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Speaker 4: Love Fest 2024. And it's just that Love Fest, whether

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Speaker 4: you're couples or whether you're singles, We got that getaway

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Speaker 4: island for you to go to. We're going to have

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Speaker 4: But you're going to have a good time. But it's

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Speaker 4: Love Fest. Love Fest 2024. And it just goes on

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Speaker 3: 2025, 26, 27. Hey, man. Yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: These black people ain't going nowhere. You got the number one.

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Speaker 1: This is Ready to Love now. Friday nights. Number one

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Speaker 1: original single series, cable series, African-American women. And we all

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Speaker 1: know once you get the women, you win it. 18 plus.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 1: All we're saying is 2022 because the show just came on.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be 2022.

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Speaker 1: I'm predicting it's going to be 2022. Now, let's shift

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Speaker 1: gears here, Thomas Miles. I'm tired of talking to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to Nephew Tommy! Nephew Tommy!

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Speaker 1: Hey, Thomas, give everybody a backstory of how that character

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Speaker 4: Okay, so what you guys don't know, let me break

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Speaker 4: it off for you, is I would always come to Hollywood.

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Speaker 3: I'd come to Hollywood.

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Speaker 4: Every time I'd come to Hollywood, I'm calling Ruchon McDonald, okay?

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Speaker 3: So, man, I'm in town. How long you here, Tom?

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Speaker 3: About a week.

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Speaker 4: Boy, I can't get you nothing in a week. But

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Speaker 4: he got me on the Parkers, got me on Sister, Sister, Sister.

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Speaker 4: You know, everything in the refrigerator got a sticky on it.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm in town. How long you here? I'm about here.

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Speaker 4: I'm here about six months. And Ruchon, okay, we can

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Speaker 4: be able to. You come in here for four days.

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Speaker 4: I can't get you nothing for four days. And he says,

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, eh, okay. Okay. what time? He said, 5,

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Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I'll eat dinner early. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 4: So I get up, go to the radio station, and

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Speaker 4: I think we do it about two, three weeks, and

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Speaker 4: completely crazy. And, man, let me tell you something. What's

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Speaker 4: the blessing of this, Ruchon, is I told you, I said, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: You know, that's amazing. I'll tell you something, man. Two

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Speaker 1: When I said 5, 5, 30, he really thought it

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Speaker 1: too early. I'm not a morning person. But he just went, man,

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Speaker 1: let's do this. And we used to have Thomas go to...

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sick.

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Speaker 1: And then the time for New Year's Eve when you

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Speaker 4: I don't think people realize, Rashawn, I was in the

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes. And the winter, there was some cold times.

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Speaker 1: They don't see the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Go put the work in. Go put the work in.

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Speaker 1: If you looked at other ways, say, hey, man, ain't

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Speaker 3: We wouldn't be talking today.

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't be talking to Thomas Miles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. That's true.

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Speaker 4: And let me say this to your audience, man, is

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Speaker 3: And, you know, I did a couple of them and

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Speaker 3: I was so mad about that. I was like, why

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Speaker 4: Man, I look back now, I got over 300 plus

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Speaker 3: It is a library that is just amazing.

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Speaker 4: Because now, you know, everyone knows my voice, but the

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Speaker 4: It had no earthly idea that I'll be able to

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Speaker 3: I got a gold mine. But then.

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Speaker 1: back to the philanthropy side of you. I remember early

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Speaker 1: on when you was going over during the comedy shows. Remember,

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Speaker 1: I think you was on Air Force Two. Not Air

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Speaker 1: Force One, Air Force Two. You know, flying over there

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Speaker 1: with the generals. And, man, we didn't see that, Tommy,

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Speaker 1: you know. But now that's part of your brand. Talk

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Speaker 1: about that.

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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. So, you know, you guys allowed me to go

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Speaker 4: over and perform for the troops, man, USO tour. I

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Speaker 4: think the first one I was with, I was with

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Speaker 4: Robert Ori, Minka Kelly, Jordan Sparks, who won American Idol.

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Speaker 4: And we go over and, yeah, we go over there

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Speaker 4: and perform for the troops. And, you know, Rashawn, we

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Speaker 4: would go to hospitals and different places and visit all

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Speaker 4: these guys in the military. But one guy had just

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Speaker 4: had surgery, had his legs blown off. And he was

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Speaker 4: just waking up while we were in the room. And, man,

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Speaker 4: we're standing around him while he's coming to, and we

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Speaker 4: start taking pictures with him, man.

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Speaker 3: And he says, hey, I'd.

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Speaker 4: Like to keep taking pictures with y'all, but I got

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Speaker 4: to get back to my men. He hasn't realized what's happened. And, man,

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Speaker 4: we sitting there, me, Robert, Ori, Jordan, Spartan, man, we

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Speaker 4: are in tears.

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Speaker 3: We crying.

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Speaker 4: And when we came out of that room, I asked

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Speaker 4: one of the soldiers, I said, hey, man, what happens?

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Speaker 4: to these soldiers when they get back home. I said,

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Speaker 4: what do we take care of these guys? They said, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's a, it's a system you got to go through,

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Speaker 4: you know, but I say, but what about the right now?

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Speaker 3: Right. And he said, well, you know, that's always the struggle.

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Speaker 4: So man, when I came back home, I said, now

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Speaker 4: I've found something that I'm passionate about. And, and, and

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Speaker 4: that's where I came up with miles of giving. And

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Speaker 4: my thing was, I want to be able to give

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Speaker 4: back to people right now. So whether it's a thousand

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Speaker 4: or $ 1, 500, you'll be surprised. what that does to a

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Speaker 4: soldier immediately or what they're going through. And that's what

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Speaker 4: Miles of Given stands on, man. We are about right now.

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Speaker 4: We don't have to send our money. It ain't got

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Speaker 4: to get approved by nobody. I'm going to send this

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Speaker 4: man $ 2, 000. I'm going to send this lady $ 3, 000. We

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Speaker 4: are the right now foundation.

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Speaker 3: That's who we are. Miles of Given. I love that.

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Speaker 3: The right now.

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 1: Because, man, you know, we say thank you for your service.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes service needs to be more than a thank you.

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Speaker 3: You know, exactly.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's important. And I just love the way

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Speaker 1: that's see the beauty of that. That's Thomas Miles and

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Speaker 1: nephew Tommy right there.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: That's a combined blessing of this boy's talent. I said, boy,

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Speaker 1: the very affectionate way, because I've known him so long.

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Speaker 1: And in the neighborhood, you can call him as my boy.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.

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Speaker 3: It's good.

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Speaker 1: You know, but. But I know that when I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to you, Thomas, you know, the ready to love, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a show. this is a show that's changed

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Speaker 1: your life, but another show that you did, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're still doing it. You're still doing the Black....

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Speaker 3: Black College Quiz.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Black College Quiz. You're still doing that? We're coming up

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Speaker 4: this fall. We're shooting a new season.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Okay.

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Speaker 1: You're getting worse than Steve.

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Speaker 3: Okay. Okay, hold on. Hold on, y'all. Hold on.

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Speaker 1: Let me start counting. Ready to love. Number one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. 18 women, 18 plus.

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Speaker 1: Black women. Steve Harvey Moore on your show. Tell me

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Speaker 1: when I stop when I run out of fingers, okay?

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Speaker 1: Black college quiz, okay? Stand-up comedian, okay? You know, actor.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine, man. My one hand is filled right now.

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Speaker 4: Filled.

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Speaker 1: And then you got the library over there. That's a

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Speaker 1: six job. That's mailbox money. That's mailbox money. Then you

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Speaker 1: have a family man.

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Speaker 4: And a family man at the same time.

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Speaker 1: How is all this happening now, brother? where are you

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Speaker 1: at now? Where's the future for Thomas Miles?

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Speaker 4: I think I'm in a, I think I'm in a

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Speaker 4: better place now, Rashawn, uh, a good place where it's

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Speaker 4: now it's about what I want to do, what I

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Speaker 4: want to do. What, what do I want to show

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Speaker 4: people that they haven't seen about me yet? Um, what, what,

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Speaker 4: what talent do I want to pull out and, and,

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Speaker 4: and show you? So, you know, just recently I shot

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Speaker 4: a movie on, on lifetime with, um, with Stephanie Mills

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Speaker 4: called Pride, which is under the umbrella of Bishop T.D.

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Speaker 3: Jakes and Derek Williams.

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Speaker 4: So now people are starting to see that other side

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Speaker 4: of Thomas Miles that, oh, my.

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Speaker 3: God, the boy can act. He can go. Right, right.

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Speaker 4: So now you're getting those phone calls. We would love

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Speaker 4: you to come do this role or do that role.

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Speaker 4: So I think that's the next platform is trying to

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Speaker 4: do that more on a consistent basis.

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Speaker 1: Well, next platform is to start your own sitcom, or

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Speaker 1: lead your own drama. Because you got the talent. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's what you went to Texas A & M for.

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Speaker 3: Okay? Exactly. Exactly.

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Speaker 1: You're right. That's it, bro. Let's go put out that nuke.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to make a man sharing love with the nuke. Hey, man,

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

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Speaker 1: Now let me talk about the number one show on

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Speaker 1: every Friday. African American Women 18 and plus in 2022

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Speaker 1: is back on now. You can hear them every Five

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Speaker 1: days a week on Steve Hart Morning Show as Nephew Tommy,

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Speaker 1: but we all know him back from Houston, Texas as

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Speaker 1: Thomas Miles. Thank you, brother, for coming on Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversation Masterclass.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. Thank you for having me, man. Five.

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Speaker 3: I need five every week. Five.

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Speaker 1: Five jobs. That's what you're talking about. Five jobs. Five jobs.

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Speaker 1: Five jobs.

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