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She 25 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: departed ESPN after nearly twelver years and now is a 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: senior staff writer at The Atlantic, started large, large freeway media, 27 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: and got engaged to the love of her life. We 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: gotta talk about that because I sold pictures on social 29 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 1: media because I follow her, you know, and please welcome 30 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: to money making conversation. Emmy Award winning journalists and a 31 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: huge social media influencer, Jamil Hill. What a introduction? Well, 32 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,199 Speaker 1: when I'm a fan, you do that when you're a fan, 33 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: and then you know, I like to say, everybody not 34 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: getting over shot McDonald, I go, oh two, say I 35 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: said that. Can I get Jamil here. I've been a 36 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: fan of yours for a long time. You don't know that, 37 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: you know, you don't know. I did not know that, 38 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: but that that definitely it's very humbling. So I really 39 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: appreciate it. So thank you. Because your talents, you have 40 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: a point of view, and that that's what that's what 41 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: inspires my relationship with you, because of the fact from 42 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: a from a fault, because this is the first time 43 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: we have spoken, and what drives that point of view 44 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: to say, you have an opinion and you want to 45 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: let other people understand where you stand. Is that important 46 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: to you? Well, it is important. Um, of course, some 47 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: of this depends on what it is you plan to say, 48 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: and I think it's something that just evolves over time. 49 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: I don't think as soon as you come out the 50 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: womb you automatically have an opinion. Your opinion is gained 51 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: through life experience, through um adversity, UM challenges, UM and 52 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: even successes. And so that's kind of where my opinion 53 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: has always kind of come to fruition. And I think 54 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: it's you know, a lot of it is determined based 55 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: off how you've lived and where you come. I mean 56 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: from the city and betrayed. It's a very gretty tough city. 57 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: And so I think a lot of the toughness and 58 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: the it and the determination that I have has been 59 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: formed based off where I grew up and how I 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: grew up, and so all of that informs my perspective, 61 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: and I think it's important to share it just because 62 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: there are other people who come from backgrounds that they 63 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: can relate to. Um, you know when they look at yours. 64 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: And so sometimes when you come from a certain background, 65 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: you feel as if you shouldn't be heard or don't 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: deserve to be heard. And so I'd like to think, um, 67 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: some example that you know, everybody deserves to be heard. 68 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: That it's only it's not a certain type of person 69 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: who has a certain from a certain place. I don't 70 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: those people who are to have an opinion and make 71 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: their mark in this world. Yeah, to be avitability, to 72 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: be able to right, to be able to articulate, and 73 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: being a female in a male dominated business now being 74 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: a ESPN for twoever years, I mean you have to 75 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: start in an environment that male dominated, even email dominates today. 76 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: So what is it important that you find your voice? 77 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: That was in sports? Now you find your voice and 78 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: I feel in a much more universal platform because you 79 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: talk about politics, were fashion talk about entertainment, you talk 80 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: about sports, even though you cut your teeth on that. 81 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: What is what is the vorce you're trying to? Uh? 82 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: I guess articulate on a daily basis on your podcast. Well, 83 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: one thing I'm really grateful about is when I got 84 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: to ESPN in November two thousand and six. It was 85 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: after I had already been a sports journalist for almost 86 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: a decade. So I came in there with a strong 87 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: sense of who I was, um, the type of content 88 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to produce, and what I was about. And 89 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 1: so I went there kind of at a at a 90 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: perfect age. And once I was there, I was able 91 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: to take all the things that I learned and um, 92 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: you know, learn the value of how to distribute that 93 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: content on different platforms. You know, I came in to 94 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: ESPN it's just to print newspaper reporter. And when I left, 95 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: my skill set was just so much different because even 96 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,919 Speaker 1: though you know what I was saying and who I was, 97 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: that hadn't really changed. But by the time I left, 98 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: I had you been a sports inner anchor, I've had 99 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: a podcast already, um, had done digital stuff, you know, 100 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 1: doing daily television, been a writer on a on a 101 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: digital platform. So I took all of that once I left. 102 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: Now I'm in a new iteration in my career, and 103 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: so that's why I'm able to use my content in 104 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: different ways. I'm a writer for The Atlantic publication that 105 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: I've always loved and had read for many years before 106 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: I started writing for him. Doing the podcast on Spotify, 107 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: I've already had a podcast at UP and so I'm 108 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: bringing that experience there and like to would have you know, 109 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: I had an idea in a sense of the type 110 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: of podcast I wanted to do going into it, and so, um, 111 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: a lot of it is just me kind of developing 112 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: into a utility you know, player to use the sports term. 113 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: And I tell young people all the time, the method 114 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: which we deliver things will allways changed. The technology is 115 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 1: always going to change. But that's why you have to 116 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: have a foundation of understanding what your core skills are. 117 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: If you want to be a journalist, you have to 118 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: number one, be curious and two you have to know 119 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: how to report. Those two things will not change. It 120 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're getting your message out um you know, 121 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: be a bull be a bullhorn, or if you're doing 122 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: it on a platform like you have. So uh, it 123 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: just is a matter of to me adaptation. And so 124 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: now with my podcast, what I wanted to do is 125 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: just down with interesting people, um, people who have something 126 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: to say, compelling people, And I always say I always 127 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: say to people that, like, everybody who's on my podcast 128 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: are not people that I have necessarily agree with. Some people, 129 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: I think that's what makes it interesting. Um, they just 130 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: have to have something to say. And UM, my only 131 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: rule that I ever had for it is that I 132 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: don't capitulate the stupid. So, um, there's one thing to 133 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: have a different opinion, there's the one thing another thing 134 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: to have a stupid, unimportant opinion. So I wanted to 135 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: sit down with people, hear what they have to say, 136 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: get their backstory, and figure out what made them them. 137 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: Well that's interesting because um, when I when I hear 138 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: you and when I watched you on ESPN, I always 139 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: got there the feeling you was creative. You know, use 140 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: us a creative person especialized to watch the promos when 141 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: you're in Michael Hope, we're hosting forts and they were 142 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: very entertainment, they were very organic to your personality. So 143 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: now when I look at that, you know, it's the 144 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: Atlantic magazine. Atlantic magazine that you're not covering coverage politics, culture, technology, 145 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: health and more and podcast videos and that's a lot. 146 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: And I think that you're you're you're following your you're 147 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: in an area now and your personality in your career 148 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: where guess what, all the tentacles can start being tapped. 149 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yeah. When I when I was thinking 150 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: about what I wanted to my career look like post ESPN, 151 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to do different things, but I 152 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: also knew that I wanted it to work in a 153 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: certain synergy. So, uh, the Atlantic like writing is very 154 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: important to me, and I don't think people really realize 155 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,239 Speaker 1: that until after I left the ESPN need me going 156 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: into broadcasting was a pure accident. It wasn't something I 157 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: decided to do about talked about being a pure accident. 158 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: So this is a great thing about working at ESPN 159 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: UM is that they have so many different you know, platforms, 160 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: and uh, what happens is once you sort of show 161 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: the ability to uh you know, kind of have an 162 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: opinion and to put it out there in a thoughtful way, 163 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: that's what makes television producers attracted to putting you on TV. 164 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: So I was writing in the producers sees that I 165 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: have an opinion about a particular issue, they wanted to 166 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: step from their show. They put me on their show. 167 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: I happened to be natural when it came to television. 168 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: A lot of the reason I was natural about it 169 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: is because I didn't really care about it. So I 170 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: didn't go on there and trying to be some fake 171 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: version of somebody else on TV. I mean there being 172 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: myself because that's the only thing that I knew how 173 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: to do. I didn't know any better. Okay, I'm not 174 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: that good of an actor to act as someone else 175 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: on television, so um, giving my comfort level, Um, you know, 176 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: it started to really it worked for me. And one 177 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: show called, and another show called, and that was two 178 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: years in to ESPN, and half my job was television 179 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: and that wasn't the way it was supposed to be. Again, 180 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: I was hired to be a sports columnist for ESPN 181 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: dot com. That was the original job. And so the 182 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: TV stuff started to pop off. And I'm very honest 183 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: about this, and I don't mind saying it. I don't 184 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: feel guilty about it. Um. I chose television, eventually dropped 185 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: the writing and show television because of the money and 186 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: the thing is in in TV there. You know, when 187 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: I saw that Matt Lowerd was making twenty five million 188 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: dollars a year, and I think, yeah, Friday's off. Well, 189 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: that'll change your mind about television. So you know, the writer, 190 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: a writer is only going to get paid so much 191 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: what you can make in TV. And you know this 192 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: because in your background, which you can make a TV 193 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: is is it's the beast down. But we're gonna hold 194 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: that thought. We're gonna come back with more. I want 195 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: to talk about that. You know this top five m 196 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 1: c s that I hearried about. I want to find 197 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: out we on the same page here, Jamil Hill, one 198 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 1: of my favorite people in the in the media period. 199 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: Money making conversation with Sean McDonald, Jamal, This was Sean McDonald, 200 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,599 Speaker 1: How you doing good? Did I mentioned the name of 201 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: your podcast? You know you got? I got? You know 202 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: my program director is your classmate over here. You know 203 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: the name of the podcast with Jamal Hill is unbothered. 204 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: That's right, he said. You ain't said like, okay, let 205 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: me make sure I get that out of front. You know, 206 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: you know when you have classmates over here pushing your 207 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,719 Speaker 1: you know, don't let me just work my show in 208 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: the flow. I want to work it. You know, I 209 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: gotta produce. You know about them producers, they'd be sitting 210 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: on a side like in your ear on TV. You 211 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: know about that be talking you're about to say something 212 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: in the ear said now say my boy man, good boy. 213 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: Her boys are Dale Henderson, Michigan State grad. You know 214 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: I'm there. That's right. The last few years I've been 215 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: frustrating that basketball tournament. That's almost that almost almost I know. 216 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: Now let's talk about now there again my program director, 217 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: Dale Henderson. We're talking about five MC top five MCS. 218 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: Now what was that all? What was he talking about? See? 219 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: Can you can? You? Can you educate my audience? Everybody 220 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 1: knows your real range of conversation. It's not just tied 221 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: to sports. Come on, and I want people to understand 222 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: m that my podcast on Spotify, which is called Jamal 223 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: Hill is unbolted by the way you can download subscribe 224 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: for freeze. You don't know that? Um is that? You know? 225 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: One of the sort of questions I like to ask, 226 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: especially because lately I've had a lot of mcs on. 227 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: I had Tolquality ice Cube, I've had Black Thought in 228 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: comment and I like to hear who their fives are. 229 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: And it's funny because they're they've all corrected me and say, 230 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: you mean my favorites, right? And I was like, okay, 231 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: I'll let you in to your favorites. So they're very yeah, 232 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: they're very um specific about it. So we've had an 233 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: ongoing rolling conversation about top five m c s. And 234 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: what's so interesting is when you ask actual mcs their 235 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: top five, there's so much different than what most of 236 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: the public will say. Like most of the public will say, 237 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: you know Biggie or Pod jay Z A lot of them, Yeah, 238 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: a lot of them have jay Z in their top five. 239 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 1: But then they go super specific and they'll say, it's 240 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: amazing is of all the rappers are named. I'm think 241 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: four of the five that I had on there put 242 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: Big that Cane in their top five, and you never 243 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: hear that in the general public. But in terms of 244 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: respect for his lyrics and slow, so many mcs love Big, 245 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: Big Day Came and Cool g rap and there's just 246 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: they're just different kind of names. I mean. So, another 247 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: name that came up, I think it was common that 248 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: may have said it, or it was either common or 249 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: black thought was Andre's three thousands, And I told them him, 250 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: I cannot I love three sacks out. You know the 251 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: roots of my favorite hip hop rout for all time 252 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: Outcast is one a n W bag number two. I 253 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: could not put Andre three Sacks in my top five 254 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: because he gotta have a solo album. Look, I know 255 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna say, but what about 256 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: love below? I get it. No, I need three Sacks 257 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: to have kids go on his own solo before he 258 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: is five, because the other artists have had to do it. 259 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: And the thing about three Stacks cheating, man, he is 260 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: cheating because he will come in on a feature and 261 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: just drop a hydrogen bomb on the track and then 262 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: he's out just one verse and then he's gone, and 263 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: it's like, no, man, I need a whole album. And 264 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: that's to put you in the top top. See this 265 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,599 Speaker 1: is that. This is why I follow her. This is 266 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: what I followed show even know I followed because her 267 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: personality is so cool. And it's the part that I 268 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: want to make sure to come out of in my 269 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: interview with her, is that she's so much. She's so fun, 270 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: she's so much. She's one of the people like you know, 271 00:13:58,320 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: people look at me, they look at my face up 272 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: to they go, oh, you have any good time? Ago? 273 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: What's wrong? Well, you don't look like you have. But 274 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: the amazing thing about when you when you talk to 275 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: a person like Jamil Hill and you look at the 276 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: brand that she's developing and the career that she's had, 277 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,719 Speaker 1: it's really really allows you to be this is a 278 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: unique situation. So who who are? What is your top five? 279 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: Let's go go to the heart of this conversation. I 280 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: don't really care what commons said, I don't care what 281 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: anybody say. Who is your top five? So we get 282 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: this all. We're gonna put this on my social media, 283 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: Jamil top five MC what you now? You put you 284 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: now you're putting like a little little one. Look uh 285 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: what saying by qualified? There you go see she's a writer. 286 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: I just had a way. She gonna throw the word 287 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: out for me. She could be a game show up qualified. Yes, 288 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: thank you, Jami. So my top five and I emphasized my, 289 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: not yours. So because people when you say top five, 290 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: but like what about says if it was about such 291 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: such such such would be a top five? Right right 292 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: right right, right right right? It's not jay Z big 293 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: and black thoughts. Okay, So so tupac ain't nowhere. No, 294 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: it's not tupac Ain't nowhere. Party politics, sex, Tupac ain't nowhere. 295 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: See see that's how that's how you get in the 296 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: fights on the corner. Really, Hey, they can ask me, 297 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: debate me whatever, if we if you ask me to 298 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: insulted me. I'm on Spotify on Spotify five Spotify. That's 299 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: her show, so you call her get that point of view. 300 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: But she allows us to have a person out. Now, 301 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: it's a couple of guests on this show. And when 302 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: I saw the list, I went Cat Williams, and then 303 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: I saw Stacy Abrams. That's an extreme Stacy Abels, African 304 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: American woman who wore ran for almost became the next governor, 305 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: but lost to Brian Kemp in his last good meatorial election. Okay, 306 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: so how do you how do you have a conversation 307 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: between Cat Williams. They didn't have another conversation with Stacey Abrams. Well, 308 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: as I said, you know, the number one thing you 309 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: have to do is is be interesting. That's so that's 310 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: what attracts me to having certain people on. And this 311 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: is part of my twenty one years experienced as a journalist. 312 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: I've interviewed all manner of people. I know. Mostly I've 313 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: been primarily in sports, but I've interviewed all manner of athletes, 314 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: from high school athletes UM to Lebron James to a 315 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: number of different people, all with different stories, from different backgrounds, 316 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: a different collage of people, and it's no different when 317 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: you step outside of sports. Obviously. Stacy Abram, she's the 318 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: first black woman UH to be to be the gym, 319 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: to be a nominee of the governor, to win her 320 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: party's nominee for governor. UM. You know, there's a lot 321 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: of people who followed the news know that there's a 322 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: lot of over suppression on in Georgia, a lot of 323 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: murky circumstances around her laws and um, she has a testimony, 324 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: and you want to find out that somebody who suffers 325 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: that kind of setback, how do they go on from there? 326 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: And her career in life was like an interesting thing 327 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: about her and maybe some people can know this is 328 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: that she's actually written I think uh six um kind 329 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: of romance novels. So she's a novelist and she writes 330 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: under a food him and I thought that was, you know, 331 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,439 Speaker 1: very interesting and cast He's got a lot of layers 332 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: to him, and that's one of the most interesting people 333 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: that I've ever talked to uh, you know, he left 334 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: home when he was thirteen, and he he left because 335 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: he just wanted to leave. And as he told me 336 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: on my podcast, he saw that Jesus said he was 337 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: a man at thirty three, and so he thought he 338 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: was a man that could leave. So um, so yeah, 339 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: I mean it's just these people who I think have 340 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: very interesting stories um that happened maybe been put out 341 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: there in the way that that I, you know, I 342 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: have been able to put them out there, especially because 343 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: the podcast. The great thing about it and you know this, 344 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: you know with your show here it's an infinite environment 345 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: and you're talking to one person and it's just you two, 346 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: and I think that allows people to really, you know, 347 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: really open up. I have one dropping today with Marcellis 348 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: Bennett Um the former NFL player, formers super Bowl champion, 349 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: and Marcellis be Is he is crazy, but he's crazy smart. 350 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: He's a genius. I mean, he's got a great book 351 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: out direct that young black boys who need to hear 352 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: that they can be something other than entertainers and athletes. 353 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: And so he just pits the profile of the type 354 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: of person that I think people would really enjoy hearing from. 355 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: Awesome speaking to uh Jamil Hill. She has a new 356 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 1: Spotify podcast called Jamiel Hill is Unbothered with drops. New 357 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 1: episodes every Monday and Thursday at six pm Easter Standard time. 358 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing. She is to you to co 359 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: host on the show, right, I do um uh. In fact, 360 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: as soon as we get up the phone, I'm gonna 361 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: get ready and go in and we're gonna take a 362 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: podcast that will air next week. Michael Arsenal and Cole 363 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: Wildly and for sports fans, Cold Wildly father Ralph Wildly, 364 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: who was definitely a big influence on my career. He's 365 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: the first black person I saw on the sports reporters. 366 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: And Michael Arsenal, who the New York Times step selling 367 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: author who has a great book out called I Can't 368 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: Date Jesus. Well, my my, my, my friend. I'm okay, 369 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: I call you my friend because I've been following you 370 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: and everything. I know you're I know you've been engaged. 371 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: I saw your picture. I was happy for you. You 372 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: know you have a balanced life now. But more importantly 373 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: it's to me. I'm telling you, I got to do 374 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: the top five on my social media. I'm gonna share 375 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: about her, Okay, and let's let the world. I'm gonna 376 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 1: do Roshaun's Top five. We're gonna down. Okay, so I'm 377 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: getting bit about it, Okay, said I love her, love her. 378 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: She's one of the people. May you can do get out, 379 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: you know, verbally in a in a in a public 380 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: place and she go whatever, whatever, dude, ain't scared of you. 381 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: You know. I love her. I love her again. She's amazing. Um, 382 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: I got it on my show for the first time. 383 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: I hope she comes back. An amazing podcast. Jamil Hill 384 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: is Unbothered on us Spotify. It's a Spotify podcast. 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