1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: advice to many occasions. In occasion didn't notice, I'm not broke. 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: decision makers. It's what he likes to do, it's what 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: he likes to share. Now it's time to hear from 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations here we come. 9 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 1: Welcome to a very very special money making conversation. I'm 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: your host, Rashan McDonald. I recognized that we all have 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: different definitions of success. For some in succisable paycheck. Mine 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: is helping people wake up and inspiring them to accomplish 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: their goals and live their very best life. These are 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: my passion and that's what I'm going to do for you. 15 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: That's why I created money Making Conversations. I want you 16 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: to stop tripping over small challenges and prepared to rise 17 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: above bigger obstacles that life will present to you. Like 18 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: I said, this is a very special area of money 19 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: making comments station. It's a telethon a stream of thought 20 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: that we're doing in. My next guest is playing a 21 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: very very important role of that. She's an actress, awarding 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: winning singer, songwriter, philanthropist, producer. Her name is Don Lewis. 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: We'll be talking about her career. She's an n double 24 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: a CP Image Award winner, Trumpet Award, Grammy Award winning singer, 25 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: multiple b M I and Asked CAP award winning songwriter, 26 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: Film television stage actor, and he's series tra TV creator 27 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: and producer. Last time she was on the show, she 28 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: was starting in a Broadway musical called Tina, about the 29 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: legendary Tina Turner herself. She played Tina Thomas, Tina Tanner's mom, 30 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: Zelma in the Broadway musical I recently saw. In the 31 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: episode of the Boys I saw were part of a 32 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: fund raiser like I stated for Vorhese College. Vorhes is 33 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: a private historical Black college in Denmark, South Carolina. My 34 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: boy uh the Cary Sellers. His family is now from 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: the Denmark, South Carolina area, is affiliated with the Ephistical Church, 36 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges in School. 37 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations and I'm gonna up, 38 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on her because I was supposed to 39 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: make a donation to her fundraiser, to her charity and 40 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: she never contacted me. Please welcome money making conversations. Don Lewis, Hey, 41 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: good morning with Sean. How are you how good? Just 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: in my own defense, we did reach out and we 43 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: were told something was coming and we filled out the 44 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: W two. So must have got okay, cool, Okay, that 45 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: would be fixed today because because I was like I said, well, 46 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: you know something, because I tried to be on top 47 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: of my game. You know when I say up here, 48 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 1: I'm not. Things happen. And the fact that you remember 49 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: and you brought it up is that blesses more than 50 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: you know. So we will make this work. We will 51 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: make it. Something must have gotten cross in. We will 52 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: get that straight. This week is the end of the year, 53 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: so you know, the end of the year then when 54 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: I'm always looking for nice tax right off? Okay, so 55 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: you we hit time again because you was this time 56 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: of year when we talked last year, like about it 57 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,399 Speaker 1: when you were starting on the broad in the Broadway 58 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: show Tina and you're playing Tina Termins mom and we 59 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: see what has happened in New York City right now, 60 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: Broadway has been completely shut down. Movie theaters have been 61 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: completely shut down. How has the pandemic before we get 62 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: into the Vorhees, Uh, stream of thron impacted your life? 63 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: And also while we're doing a charity fund raiser because 64 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: it's as in fact that HBCU schools and Vorhees is 65 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: an HBCU school. Yes, of course, of course, it is 66 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: so wonderful. Let me first of all say to be 67 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: able to speak with you again, and this time face 68 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: to face because the last time it's just the phone 69 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: conversation radio show. Uh. And it's my honor, my privilege 70 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: to be here in support of where he's. It's a 71 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: fabulous campus. I got to visit there. But as you said, 72 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that. But flip back, it's hard 73 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: to believe it's been a year already since we were 74 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: talking about Tina. Tina Turner, our musical opened actually a 75 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: year ago this past past Friday. It's hard to believe 76 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: it's been a year. We've been shut down for longer 77 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: than we were open. We were I had just finished 78 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: doing Quest Love Show, the Quest Love Love Supreme Shows 79 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: we were in the studio, turned my phone back on. 80 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: When I left the studio. It was on a Thursday, 81 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: March twelve. I will never forget it. I scheduled the 82 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: interview just in time to leave their grand a bite 83 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: to eat, head to the theater, which was like a 84 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: less than a mile away, and do my show and 85 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: keep it moving. My phone lights up with all these 86 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: bells and whistles. There is no show tonight. Don't come 87 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: to the theater. We will be closed for a month. 88 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: The theater will be open till five o'clock if you 89 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: need something out of your dressing room. And there it began. 90 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: So I quickly took a quick flight back to l A. 91 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna check on my house, you know, 92 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: I hadn't been here more than eight months because of 93 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: rehearsals and the show, and then fly right back to 94 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: keep working, only to find out that those three weeks 95 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: turned into third days, which turns into sixty days. Ninety days, 96 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: five months is what they were projecting. Then they were projecting, Okay, 97 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: Broadway is not going to reopen until sometime in March 98 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: at the earliest. Now they're projecting that the earliest that 99 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: will reopen is June, possibly even September. So we're talking 100 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: about making money. We're talking about how realities and life 101 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: just happens and impact your life. And remember we were 102 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: talking about that when we did our radio spot about 103 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: how do you spend your money? How do you invest, 104 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: how do you save? How do you how do you 105 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: maximize what you have and piecemeal it and budget it 106 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: so that you were prepared because life will happen. So 107 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 1: for all of us who their primary income is live 108 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: performance theater, or you play in an orchestra or symphony, 109 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,679 Speaker 1: or concerts or recording artists who are make their money 110 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: doing concert venues and things like that, from most of 111 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: those people, they will be without a job for one 112 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: and a half years at the end of the day. 113 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: So unless you have opportunities or other revenue streams, this 114 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: is a very challenging time right now, an incredibly challenging 115 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: time for so so many people, and we must lift 116 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: them up in prayer. We lift ourselves up in in 117 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: hope and anticipation, you know, with this news of a 118 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 1: new vaccine and the possibilities of things, you know, getting 119 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: on a better track near the beginning or spring of 120 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: next year. Praise God for that, uh, in regard to 121 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: how it impacted me, Yeah, right there, right right along 122 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: with everyone you know, for a number of months because 123 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: everything is shut down because, as you know, the entertainment industry, 124 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: UH is based on people coming together, whether you're in 125 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: the theater. And in our show, there were a cast 126 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: of thirty three people in just the cast itself, the 127 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: performers on on stage, and only four of us had 128 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: our own dressing rooms. Okay, so everyone else is three 129 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 1: to five people in a dressing room. So there's no 130 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: way to socially distance. There's no way socially distance on stage. 131 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: We can't sing with our masks on. We can't, you know. 132 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: I mean the audience might be able to sit with 133 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: a mask on, or skip a seat or two, or 134 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: wear gloves and et cetera, which is helpful for them, 135 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: but it doesn't really do much for those of us 136 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: on stage. The band was fourteen people in one room. 137 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: Those are old theaters. Most theaters can't accommodate everybody. Hap 138 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: Broadway doesn't change old exactly. And you go on a 139 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: film set, you're up in people's faces on camera, people 140 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: are touching you in between shots. All of that, uh slowly, 141 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: but surely the film and television industry is finding a 142 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: way to make its way back. We have very very 143 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: extensive COVID protocols on sets. We get tested anywhere from 144 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: every twenty four to every seventy two hours on our sets, 145 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: um with all kinds of ppe and people who don't 146 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: have to be near you are not near you, meaning 147 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: if you're the one on camera that has to take 148 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: your mask off from time to time, all those kinds 149 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: of things to ensure everybody is safe. Um. You know, 150 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: different people have been able to create bubbles, just like 151 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: the NBA, just like some of the sports leagues, where 152 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: once you're in and we're working on this project, you're 153 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: not going anywhere else. You're not going to a party, 154 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: You're not going to a restaurant, You're not going anywhere. 155 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 1: We're keeping you right here, and we can keep you 156 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: in eye on. You will bring you your food, you 157 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: stay healthy, you will go home and see your family 158 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: when this is over. Absolutely absolutely, and I'm all for it. 159 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 1: I am all for it, um and gratefully. I also 160 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: do voiceovers animation, so sometimes when this all first happened, 161 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: I was able to every now and then do some 162 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: recording from right here at home. You know, those were 163 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: kind of few and far between, and then slowly in 164 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: the summer, you know, a couple of more opportunities came 165 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: up where they started sanitizing recording students. Just me in 166 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: the booth, the engineer at the board, and the producers 167 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: and directors direct me via zoom from wherever they are. 168 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: So again, no two people in the studio at the 169 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: same time. Everything is sanitized before and after every performer. 170 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: So again, fortunately that and my songwriting has enabled me 171 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: to you know, slowly but surely be able to maintain income. 172 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: So let measine this Don. I'm talking to Don Louis 173 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: of course, um, you know we're talking. We're doing a 174 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: stream of thought with for his college, HBCU College in Denmark, 175 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: South Carolina. That's why we were broadcasting the day because 176 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 1: we're trying to raise funds, you know, as all things. 177 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: Like she said, COVID has shutting down the Broadway for 178 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: roughly eighteen months there. Yes, and we can get excited 179 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,599 Speaker 1: about the fact that fires that has come up with 180 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: any percent accuracy of vaccine, but that's not gonna be 181 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: distributed right away. You know, they said they weren't even 182 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: giving them the more testing to in the December maybe, 183 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: and so then they were saying that vaccinations for the 184 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: general population were probably hitting the second quarter. But again, 185 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: the city of New York has shut down Broadway has 186 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: shut down movie theaters. The state of California has shut 187 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: down movie theaters. Right now, the major litigation with Disney 188 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: about trying to open up the Disney Park because of 189 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: the fact that they're trying to generate revenue. Major corporations 190 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: are laying all people, and so that's why we're trying 191 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: to ask people, you know, to see past some of 192 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: these hard times and helper college like Vorheeses. Now, how 193 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: did your relationship developed with them over the years. Uh, 194 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: you know you you're so curiosmatic and you and as 195 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: they say, uh black don't crack. You're doing a great 196 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: job of carrying that slogan to the end. There, don 197 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: very very kind. One of the administrators at Forest R 198 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 1: Herman Mason, I called Skip, Skip, give me if I 199 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: put you on blast, which but I've known Skip for 200 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: a decade and when he got brought onto Vorhees, Skipper 201 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: was aware that I do master classes and workshops for 202 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: colleges and corporations all across the country and abroad. I've 203 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: been doing that for decades. Which when we last talked, 204 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: we were talking about my foundation, a New Day Foundation, right, 205 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: So Skip asked me if I would please come and 206 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: do one of my workshops at Vorhees and I said, man, 207 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: of course I will. I'd be happy to and I'm 208 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: so glad that I did. It's a beautiful campus. It 209 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: feels like a little intimate home, it really does. And 210 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: all of those students are so accomplished, and they're so personable, 211 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 1: and they're so enthusiastic about their possibilities and their possibilities 212 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: through education. So I got to do a large assembly 213 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: and it blessed my heart. As soon as I walked 214 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: out on stage, everybody's it up and they started singing 215 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: the different World these so we were sitting there jam 216 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: and it was it was great. It was absolutely great, Um, 217 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: which is such an honor to me that those words, um, 218 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: you know, talking about taking what you've learned and what's 219 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: been deposited in you to give you the foundation and 220 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: the courage to step out and like you said, be 221 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: your best self. Encourage people to be their best self 222 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: based on the lessons that they learned. Before they went 223 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: in a position to step out for themselves, which is 224 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: every student at every HBCU, at every institute for higher 225 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: learning is doing So whatever it was you didn't know 226 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: or didn't know before you got there, you got a 227 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: big responsibility right now. So coming before he's it was, 228 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: it was fantastic. And RESI is donating and donating and 229 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: contributing to you know, because you had these big announcements 230 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: by the major corporations like Netflix they made a donation. 231 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: Uh uh, you know, Bloom made a donation and so 232 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: and so. But that that that's a trickle down donation 233 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: because of the fact that you have a hundred and 234 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: four HBCUs. And with that said, that means that you 235 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: need to we have students who need scholarships, we need 236 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: to books, we need to be able to pay the instructors. 237 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: We have Athletic programs are not operating, not just an 238 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: HBCU schools but across the country being shut down because 239 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: of the fact that they are not in a position 240 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: to participate. And so with that being said, a school 241 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: like Vorhees which is in Denmark, South Carolina, and uh, 242 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: it's like said my bark card sellers. You know, CNN. 243 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: One of the youngest um congressmen elected officials in the 244 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: state of South Carolina was on the show. We talked 245 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: about it and the fact that the show, my show, 246 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: My Show broadcast money making conversation has been. One of 247 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,679 Speaker 1: the first schools that picked me up for consideration was 248 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: was Vorhees, which is an HBCU school. And so when 249 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: I when I talked to someone like you done, You're 250 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: so award look and you're so articulate. The fact that 251 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: you was able to you know, you mentioned it, singer actress, 252 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: How did the voiceover come about in your career? You know? 253 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: I was one of those kids was always I loved 254 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: imitating people. I loved singing along with the programs I 255 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: saw on television or just just having a good time. 256 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: And I was one of those kids where my grandmother 257 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: used to say, you need to stop doing that because 258 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: one day your voice is gonna get stuck. And if 259 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: Grandmama could see me now to say, see Granny, I'm 260 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: getting paid to come up with all these crazy voices 261 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: and act the fool and be people that visually you 262 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: would never hire me to be. You would never hire 263 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: me to be a seven year old boy. You and 264 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: you were hired me to be a ninety year old grandmother. 265 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: You know what I mean all of that. So, but 266 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: animation came about. I don't know if the name Suzanne 267 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: to Pass come on, Suzanne to Pass sisters. Tradition was 268 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: that she hired me to be a writer for the 269 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: Maori Twins Tina and then she okay, well that was 270 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: how she and I met. She saw me sing at 271 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: an event and said, who's working with you? I want 272 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: to work with you. She wanted to manage me. That 273 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: was when she was thinking about doing management. And she 274 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: was hired to do this new Kid in Play cartoon. 275 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: Remember that she brought me in and I played the 276 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: little sister, the little annoying little sister in the Kid 277 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: and Play cartoon. And the voiceover community is a very 278 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: tight knit community. So once you're in, and by the 279 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: grace of God, if you're able to get a good 280 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: reputation either for your personality or for your ability to 281 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: be flexible with your voice, word gets around. So when 282 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: I got hired to do that, people like, but wait, 283 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: who is who is that? I've not heard her voice 284 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: before and she's black. Oh we need to get her. 285 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: So word of mouth got me from one job to 286 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: the next job to the next job. And uh I 287 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: worked for almost three years like that before I got 288 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: an agent, and then got an agent, and my career 289 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: has been going just this roll and now another one. 290 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: You're acting made from different world, I think with Cree Summers. 291 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: Cree Summer. Cree Summer also does voice over, and uh, 292 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: I honestly knew. You know that the field existed because 293 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: you grow up on cartoons, whether it's the flint Stones 294 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: or Jetsons, you know, whatever it was, so you knew 295 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: somebody did the voices. But then then you heard things 296 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: like Hannah barb Barbara where it's like one person doing 297 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: eight or not, like, oh my gosh, just like bugs 298 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: Bunny is Donald Duck is is what is Yosemite saying? 299 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: But called the same person. Oh my gosh. So when 300 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: I got my opportunity. So right now I'm on about 301 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: ten different animated series. Congratulations, thank you. The newest one 302 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: that just aired is CBS didn't animated Star Trek series 303 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: called Star Trek Love absolutely the voice of Captain Freeman 304 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: on that show. In Futurama, Um La Barbara in um 305 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: We're in the World, is Carmen San Diego. I'm the 306 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 1: chief in Apple and Onion, I miss Miss Patty, and 307 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 1: I mean the list just goes on in spirit. I'm 308 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: Franny and Doc mix stuffins. I'm granting mixed stuff ins 309 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 1: and it's I consider myself very fortunate. And I'm gonna 310 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: say something, you know, I I love watching television buyed. 311 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: People always say trying, how do you do what you do? 312 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: And you seem seem to be able to watch TV, 313 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: read books, go to movies and stay abreast of everything 314 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: that's happening. And so one of my favorite, uh sci 315 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: fi series, a super superhero series is The Boys and 316 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: so on Amazon. And so I'm watching Amazon. I'm going 317 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:51,959 Speaker 1: Don said Don Luis and the beauty of Amazon. You know, 318 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: you can put it on pause and they'll show you 319 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: who who's in that scene? So how did that? How 320 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: did that opportunity to come about? Wow, I am so 321 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: your fan of the show. It's crazy. It's a crazy show. Honesty, 322 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: I'm such a fan of the show. It is so wacky, 323 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: it is so irreverent, it is so many things. It's 324 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 1: hilarious to me and thought provoking at the same time, 325 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: because some of that stuff is like, you know, what 326 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, specially this season is going on. 327 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: This season felt don't kind of like kind of like 328 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: a little bit about reality, you know, racism and not 329 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: people between racism, experimentation with genetic augmentation. I mean, all 330 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: kinds of things, all kinds of things. Um. So I'm 331 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: actually packing to head to New York to start repousals 332 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 1: for Tina, and I get a call It's like, would 333 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: you be interested, you know, and coming to play with 334 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: us in this in this episode of the Boys, And 335 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: you could have called said will you be interested? That's 336 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: that's the call, No, Audi, will you be interested? Yeah, 337 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: that's awesome. That's all. So when you get when you 338 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: get those calls like that, which is a blessing because 339 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: I know how to entertain how this industry is. Sometimes 340 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: some of the things that drains a performer is always auditioning, 341 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: always auditioning, and always getting rejected. We still do that too, 342 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: We still It's a whole new game right now, since 343 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: no one's going in in person for auditions, you now 344 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: have to become your own producer, your own cinematographer, your 345 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: own sound person, lighting person who you have enough friends 346 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: to come and read sides with your like, I need 347 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: a wall to do this audition? What in the world? 348 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: So now you're your own director, your own lighting designer, 349 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: sound person's like, Okay, this is way too much, but 350 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: that's now becoming the norm. And I gotta tell you, 351 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: while it may be practical, it's really not good for 352 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: us actors. It's very stressful. It really is. It's very 353 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 1: stress You call are you busy? Are you get just 354 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: called for the bars? Are you being see? Are you free? Man? 355 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: I was packing. I was packing to head to New 356 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: York for a year and a half to start doing Tina, 357 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: and he said we need to appear for like a 358 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: week or so. I was like, I can come for 359 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: three days because I'm sitting here. I'll be leaving suitcases. 360 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: So I flew from l A to Toronto. I worked 361 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: my my three days back to l A, finished packing, 362 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: then flew back to New York, all within a week 363 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: to start rehearsals for Tina. Now, let's let's always admire 364 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: individuals who are so casual about their talents, Okay, because 365 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: you know Tina is a musical, Okay, and you're about 366 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: to go into a very intense sci fi series called 367 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: The Boys. There's Arizona, Amazon, and you plan a character 368 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: is kind of a low key character, but a character 369 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: who is reluctant to be a participant in sharing information. 370 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: So how so you get the script? How do you 371 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: how do you build that character structure in the credibility 372 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: even though you know you're limited on the amount of 373 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: time that they wanted you and you have to deliver, 374 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: like basically one take opportunities. You know, Um, there are 375 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: certain stories that resonate for different reasons, that particular story 376 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,199 Speaker 1: coming from a community being a person of color that 377 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: witnesses uh crime by a white person onto a black person. 378 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: There are generations where you as much as it's the 379 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: right thing you do, people constantly are warning you don't talk, 380 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: don't tell, because it's gonna be bad for you. They're 381 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 1: gonna come down on you. Uh, this could blow back 382 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: on your family. And which is the things that a 383 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: lot of communities still deal with today. When you see 384 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: things happening in your community and you know what's wrong, 385 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: and part of you really want to speak up because 386 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: you know that's the right thing to do or the 387 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: wrong is only going to increase and ultimately overtake your community, 388 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: and you want to do the right thing. But for 389 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: different reasons. You get beat down, you get told not 390 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: to be a squealer, you get told if you say anything, 391 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: I'm coming for you. But this woman sees the science 392 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: and sees the better part of like, you know what, 393 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: I've been holding onto this long enough. Absolutely I got 394 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: to tell the truth and it gen It then shifts 395 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: the entire rest of the season, you know, And I'm 396 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: not gonna be a spoiler. I think I think we've 397 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: done a good job here Don with the boys, shaping 398 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 1: your character, not telling anybody how you came into the 399 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: how that episode was developed. But the fun part about 400 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: it for me was to be watching television, deeply engrossed 401 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: in the series, and then one of my favorite people 402 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: pops on the screen and they deliver in a role 403 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: that I would not have expected, you know, because you're 404 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: not made up. You know, I will give that away. 405 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: She's not looking vivacious, you know, she's looking very ordinary 406 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: and this character that she's playing for the boys, but 407 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: she delivers a magnificent to sequence. Because my man lives 408 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: a long aso, which I think that episode really featured him, 409 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: and he did an amazing job for that particular Epilode. 410 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 1: He's a good guy. I've known laws for a long time. 411 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 1: And Jack Quaid who plays Hue, actually he is in 412 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: the cast of Star Trek Lower Decks, so he and 413 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: I work a lot together. So U yeah, so that 414 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: was that was very very cool that episode lives. I 415 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: was so proud of him because he carried that whole episode, 416 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: the whole drive down. We found out about his father 417 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: and they've got of background information and that's what makes 418 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: a really good serious and that what makes it when 419 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: I when I look at you, don you know, you know, 420 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: just out of respect, you're fantastic. You are an uplift. 421 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: Just in our conversation that I'm having with you right now, 422 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: you know, there is a ray of not only just 423 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: natural beauty, but a ray of uplift. And that's that's 424 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: that's that's that's something just just natural within you. Like 425 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: I wouldn't use to work probably, but you're just energized 426 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: to make people feel good. Oh that's a That's probably 427 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: one of the kindest things anyone could say to me. 428 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: And I absolutely appreciate that and receive that. And uh, 429 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: I gotta give our glory to God. I really do, 430 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: I really do, because we're living in a very scary place. Uh, 431 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: and for generations it's been a very very scary place 432 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: and the irony that it's still meaning the America is 433 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: one of the best places to live on the planet 434 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: to let you know what the realities are most likely 435 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: in other places. And we are now living through such 436 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: a shift in what the world's reality is, what our 437 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: country's reality and potential is with this recent election and 438 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: veil being pulled off and people showing you very clearly 439 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: who they are, very clearly who they are. So for 440 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:05,479 Speaker 1: myself and other people who UM identify themselves as sons 441 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: and daughters of Christ, of Jesus, of God, UM, it's 442 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 1: our job to reflect this is how it can be. 443 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: This is how weak as individuals can be. God stands 444 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: for love, forgiveness, grace, unity, community, UM, servants of your 445 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: fellow man, and and a stewardship of those who are 446 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: less fortunate than you. So if you're in a position 447 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: with the mindset that you have to have what it 448 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: is you want and are accustomed to in your life 449 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: at the expense of someone else, you call yourself a 450 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: child of God, you need to go back and read 451 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: the book. And I'm not saying you know whoever you are, 452 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: you know who you are. If you believe that violence 453 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: and killing and fighting and burning and obstructing justice is 454 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: the way to make sure that what you believe is insured, 455 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: then you're not talking about democracy. You're not talking about 456 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: being christ Like. This is what's coming out of people's mouths. 457 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: They're doing what they're doing in the name of democracy, 458 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: not caring who lives or dies, not not caring whose 459 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: voices are listened to. And the it's mind boggling when 460 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: you see the the contradictory statements were just four years ago, 461 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: these same people were accusing the Democrats of exactly what 462 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: they're doing now. Absolutely, I don't even have to say anything. 463 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 1: Let's just play the tape of what you said just 464 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: two years ago now, and y'all have a conversation. Let 465 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: that person and the person you're seeing you are never 466 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: have a conversation. And I'm gonna step over here and 467 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: do my job. So for me, whatever light, whatever grace, 468 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: whatever joy you see is because um, I don't know 469 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: any other way to get through. And I'm telling you something. 470 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: We need more of that today. As you know, what 471 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: you just said was Fortunately it was the truth. We 472 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: have contradictory people who say one thing but actually show 473 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 1: their colors to me and another but more, but more more, 474 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,719 Speaker 1: you know them that's correct. And so you know this 475 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: is like our PPS moment. You know, you've been watching 476 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: PBS and you you see a great uh singing moments 477 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: and then they cut away and they have these two 478 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: nice looking people I could call us Don and Rashan. 479 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: We're two nice looking people who come back and tell you, 480 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: I'm sure you enjoyed that. Well, the only way you 481 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: can continue to enjoy such great entertainment is by donating. 482 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: And we're asking you during the three month Dreamer Thon 483 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: to donate to voorhees Is. That's how that was a 484 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 1: pretty good pitch. There was that phenomenal seen. I've been 485 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: watchings absolutely right. What we're talking about, what we are 486 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: talking about, protecting democracy, protecting positivity, protecting potential is we 487 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: have to invest in it and for a lot of goal. 488 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: Right now is probably one of the worst times you 489 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: can ask them. Can you spare a dollar? Can you 490 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: spare five dollars, can you spare fifty, a hundred, whatever 491 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: you can spare? Think about it this way, if at 492 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: all possible. If this is your community, if these are 493 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: your kids, if these are your friends kids, this is 494 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: our future. Please support Vorhees. Please support the HBCU in 495 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 1: your community. But if you're watching this today, we're checking 496 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: you for Vorhees. Whatever you can possibly give, And sometimes 497 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: it's money, sometimes it's services. Maybe you don't have money, 498 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: but maybe you work for a company that makes computers, 499 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: maybe you work for a company that has digital space. 500 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: Get that company to start donating, Get your bosses to 501 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: start donating. Be a voice of encouragement and of change 502 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: and of support. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are given 503 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: away by by corporations every year to all kinds of organizationations. 504 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,479 Speaker 1: Talk to your boss, talk to your philanthropic arm of 505 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: where you work, of who you serve. To say, please 506 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: please consider this college. It's gonna make a huge difference 507 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: to each and every one of these students. Done. Wow, 508 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming back on money making conversations. Thank 509 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: you for being part of stream than for Vorhees. More importantly, 510 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: you know, like you said, this was annual year. Because 511 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: remember I was supposed to be in New York watching 512 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: you on Tina and that didn't happen. So when this 513 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: pandemic slows down. In fact, I'll be in l A tomorrow. 514 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: I got some meetings in flying from Atlanta, but I'm 515 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: only there for one day. But more importantly, you're part 516 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: of my life and you're part of what I believe in. 517 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: Your part of the the approach that I have of 518 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: trying to give people free advice, free uplift and uh 519 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: making them feel good about themselves doing doing downtimes don't change. 520 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: I really appreciate you. Don thank you, thank you so much, 521 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: and thank you Rashan, Thank you boy, he's thank you 522 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: to everyone who is watching. The fact that you're here 523 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: I means you're already on the same page and you're 524 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: already hitting in the right direction. Thank you for everything 525 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: you've already. This is what we're gonna do. This is 526 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do done next year, because the next 527 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: year I want we're gonna talk to them, we should 528 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: look at what we need to do. A live you 529 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: and I because I'm enjoying it because you you you're 530 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: something special. You you're special. And then I want to 531 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: do something just like they do with PPS. We're gonna 532 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: just we're gonna just uh because I got a lot 533 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: of friends in the business, and You've got a lot 534 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: of friends in the business, and we're gonna host I'm 535 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: telling what he's I'm volunteering right now. And my girl 536 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: down she's on the same page with me. And when 537 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna do, we're gonna do a streamer thon and 538 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna invite different friends that we know in the 539 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: business to call in via stream and then we'll get 540 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: to generate this get these donations and flying. Because I 541 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: just found out about this recently, I would have been 542 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: much more engaged. But the most I can give it 543 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: is what we're doing right now. This great interview I'm 544 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: delivered with you that will air on that wild air 545 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 1: doing the stream of thro But let's here, let's let's 546 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: have them contact my people. They can contact your people 547 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: if you feel great about this idea, but let's host 548 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: something to use our resources in this industry to really 549 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: make next year's three month, three mo thon to be 550 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: an amazing uh uh financial endowment for the school. Your thoughts, yep, 551 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: I'm in with you. Remember remember lou rossolutely it was fantastic. 552 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: I did that telethon uh several several times, but were 553 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: in then my friend, thank you for coming on the 554 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: show money making conferences, We're talking okay, And thank you 555 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: again for your ongoing support of the New Day Foundation. Absolutely. 556 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 1: Oh girls, you know I'm writing to check today. What 557 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: you're not gonna do is me talk to you again 558 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: without knowing that it was on me that the check 559 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: was not delivered. You're sending all you from and it 560 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: was a Rashawn mcdalf. Well, I'm gonna fix all that 561 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: this week. I appreciate you, Bye bye. Absolutely