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Speaker 1: a fundraiser in a long time. So people just making

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Speaker 1: line with PS by Pat Smith, a portion of the

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Speaker 1: proceeds I always donate back to treasure You what what

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Speaker 1: what is? What is that closing line? What is it?

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Speaker 1: When you when you say that is it? Is it? What?

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Speaker 1: What is it? What is it? Gear towards the professional woman,

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Speaker 1: the casual where? What is the what is the clone? LPs?

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Speaker 1: What is pois the fashion so PS? It's Pat Smith?

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Speaker 1: But it also means PS like just one more thing.

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Speaker 1: So I played off of that because you know what,

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Speaker 1: So I didn't want a clothing line that was going

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Speaker 1: they're still cute and unique pieces. Okay, what is that website? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that is ps by Smith dot com. See, I gotta

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Speaker 1: Because of the fact that I know I got another second,

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Speaker 1: you're an executive producer alongside your husband Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: NFL Hall of Famer and Smith of Canal Street. A

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Speaker 1: faith driven film. Uh that speaks to millennials who find

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Speaker 1: confident in the belief systems were driven is a propeller

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Speaker 1: women to know. Um, So I am I'm executive producer

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Speaker 1: actually um executive producer. Well that's good because they wrote

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Speaker 1: because I'm I'm Let me just tell you something. My

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Speaker 1: I remember our mana Steve Harvey, many years and I

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Speaker 1: to show that this is a project. So let's talk

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Speaker 1: about executive producer of Canal Street, Miss past Smith. Let's

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Speaker 1: get it right and let me let me if you

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Speaker 1: don't mind, let me just say this and why it's

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Speaker 1: important for me personally. It's because, like I said, I

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Speaker 1: of course I moved to Dallas and got married in

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Speaker 1: raising children. I just kind of lost path. So I

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Speaker 1: want people to know that, you know, now I'm forty

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Speaker 1: wanted to make that clear because many times people do

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Speaker 1: want to, you know, connect me to Emma or Emma

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Speaker 1: But I want women to know that you can. We

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Speaker 1: want to be in films or do films, but Pat

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Speaker 1: does well. Young lady, um I say young, because you are.

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Speaker 1: You're fantastic, You're amazing. I think I want to tell

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you about thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: Canal Street. We just gotta go out and see that

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Speaker 1: The veterans always sound like you've been out there, yo. No,

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Speaker 1: for the iconic Grammy Awards. Okay coming up in February,

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Speaker 1: gonna call my friend Jesse Collins. What's happening, Rashan? How

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Speaker 1: you doing doing very good? Man? Uh? Your energy side? Lord,

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Speaker 1: you just tie from being so busy man. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: just we are. We did uh we did a panel

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Speaker 1: we just I'm just getting back just walking in an offensite.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing that were you based at to

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Speaker 1: it just do a radio. When we first connected, right

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Speaker 1: Yes sir, yes, sir. And that was my first that

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Speaker 1: BT Awards when Steve Harvey and Cedric didn't table with

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Speaker 1: That was like the start. That was like the start

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Speaker 1: of the Jesse College brand. Correct. Yeah, that was yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was really good. You know when once we started

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Speaker 1: getting those Awards shows and BT Awards. You know though,

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Speaker 1: it was you guys that you know what Stephen said

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Speaker 1: that that really, you know, laid the template for what

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Speaker 1: the BT Awards became, and then everything just kind of

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Speaker 1: grew off of that. Mm hm. Now let's let's talk

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Speaker 1: about you, the you, the individual who I'd like to say, man,

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Speaker 1: you you you don't shy away from an opportunity. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people say this is all I do. You know,

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Speaker 1: I can't executive producer a drama series, so I can't

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Speaker 1: ejective producer a show that's not on B E T.

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Speaker 1: I can't injective just gonna appeal to the masses. What

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Speaker 1: drives you, Jesse? What drives you? For me, it's just

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Speaker 1: it's about diversity. It's about just trying to um. You know,

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Speaker 1: Hollywood loves to put people in boxes. They would love

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Speaker 1: and and they don't want you to you know, they

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Speaker 1: in the African American space. And you know, that just

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me, because you know, entertainment is

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Speaker 1: constantly changing, and you got to be able to evolve

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Speaker 1: with it because one day the thing that you do

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Speaker 1: you simply how are you gonna play your bills? You

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Speaker 1: to come back. That just doesn't work. So you gotta, um,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be diversified. And you know, I love all

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Speaker 1: You know, like most people, you're entertained by a lot

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Speaker 1: had a government that was oppressive at that time. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had a president that wasn't really checking for us,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, there are some Sadly, there are

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Speaker 1: some dualities. As you watch the show and you think

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Speaker 1: about where things are today, you kind of see that, like, oh,

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Speaker 1: something's changed with some things are either making a comeback

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Speaker 1: or have remain the same. Um all of that against

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Speaker 1: Don struggle to to cut through and be and and

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Speaker 1: create something iconic along of course with all the things

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Speaker 1: that we love from Soul Train. So you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: the music, you're gonna get the Soul Train line, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get the fashion from that time period. Like it's

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Speaker 1: all it's all bundled in one to make it a

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Speaker 1: show that everybody can enjoy. When you when you look

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Speaker 1: at the project like that, it comes to you because

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Speaker 1: of the fact it's my style. And so the promos

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Speaker 1: got me because the style is you know, it's like

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Speaker 1: and I'm just saying, let everybody know we're talking about

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Jesse Collins of Jesse Collins Entertainment, one

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Speaker 1: of the iconic producers and creative minds in Hollywood today.

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Speaker 1: The new series that will be Aaron on BT called

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Speaker 1: American Soul. It will premiere Tuesday, February fifth, starting at

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Speaker 1: nine pm and would air back to back episodes. It's

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Speaker 1: the first season order is ten episodes. How is the

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Speaker 1: casting because a good friend of mine, uh Saraphiny Johnson,

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Speaker 1: we're on this series, and and so did the series

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Speaker 1: is written? And then you guys went out the casting

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Speaker 1: to cast a series? How did how did how did you? How?

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Speaker 1: How did they work? Basically what it was is that

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Speaker 1: they ordered ten scripts out of the gate. You know,

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Speaker 1: Divon Gregory and Jonathan Prince just great show runners, and

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Speaker 1: leap of faith at the post to ordering a pilot

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Speaker 1: we kind of said, we said, listen, if you do

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Speaker 1: Bad news is, because of the production schedule, you won't

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Speaker 1: get the rest of them till two thousand twenty. And

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Speaker 1: it was one of those things where they just they

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Speaker 1: were just they committed to it so much and they

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Speaker 1: loved it so much that they said, okay, just go.

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Speaker 1: But then we wrote the ten scripts and then we started,

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Speaker 1: uh and we started the casting process finding these Knelius

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Speaker 1: the ultimate don't yes exactly, and we shot um, you know,

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Speaker 1: We're still in the edit, but these things will you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll get there. That's and that's that's amazing. So so

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Speaker 1: the thing about it is that let's go back a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Let's go back to the New Edition. You

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Speaker 1: know when you just, oh lord, you know, out of

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Speaker 1: the blue, just set all kind of records. So tell

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Speaker 1: I like to say, for B. E. T that you

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Speaker 1: helmed as an executive producer, the New Addition series, I

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Speaker 1: one that was you know, one of those big pivotal

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Speaker 1: moments you know, Uh, it touched the culture. I think

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Speaker 1: it it excited a basic gout. Everyone at BT excited. Um,

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Speaker 1: it was something that took a long time. It was

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Speaker 1: about ten years to get it from from script to scream.

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Speaker 1: But you know, everything is about timing. I think you know,

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Speaker 1: Before we go, I want to tell everybody. February five,

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Speaker 1: American Soul, the executive producer I have. I'm on the

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Speaker 1: phone right now. Yep, it's a hit show. He's made

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Speaker 1: hit after hit. Dear Mama, New Edition, Bobby Brown BT Awards,

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Speaker 1: bet on it, you can hit me hit after hit

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Speaker 1: after hit, and right now on HBO The Amanda Seals

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Speaker 1: HBO Comedy Special, Jesse, thank you for calling my show,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Collins Entertainment. Google it. The man's hiring because he

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Speaker 1: has multiple streams of income. Thank you. I appreciate you. Man.

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Speaker 1: You know you always, every time I talk to you,

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Speaker 1: And it's and it's getting like that every day with me, Obie.

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Speaker 1: not joking. You know. I was doing a radio show

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Speaker 1: I'm solling he being Obie now, Mars, I got him,

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Speaker 1: And so with those emails that that motivate us to

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Speaker 1: It's been over a year the last all that's right, okay,

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945
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Speaker 1: the format? How? How does it work? Okay, So the

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974
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