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Speaker 1: What's up is way Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee and

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Speaker 1: I have two special guests with me today. First up

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Speaker 1: is my guy, Frederick.

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Speaker 2: Fred Wick. Some people may know him.

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Speaker 3: That's not your name, that's one name.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Yelil Thurman is here.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, what what what up?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: Delil Thurman, you are the host of HBCU one on

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Speaker 1: one and Fred Wick you are a producer.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm ep.

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Speaker 4: Ep yes.

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Speaker 5: Now produce on it. Yes on HBC one on one.

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's a very intriguing and show that you know.

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Speaker 5: We try to shed the light on people that graduated

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Speaker 5: and went to HBCU so we can tell their stories.

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Speaker 1: And you both went to an HBCU, right, so you

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Speaker 1: went to Virginia State University.

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Speaker 4: I did shut up the trojanation in the building and

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Speaker 4: Fred what school.

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Speaker 2: Did you go to?

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Speaker 3: That's what we're doing.

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Speaker 5: Everybody know what I represent man, come on now.

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Speaker 1: In addition to managing your guid Jitleo, you also managed

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Speaker 1: Terrence J. That's how we first met actually when Terrence

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Speaker 1: was doing one on six in Park and.

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Speaker 2: You guys, did you guys meet at Anti?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Me and TJ.

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Speaker 5: We actually met at Anti which was funny. We had

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Speaker 5: a mutual friend by the name of Kim Worth that

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Speaker 5: introduced TJ and I to myself to each other. And

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Speaker 5: TJ was on the radio in college, so I was like,

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Speaker 5: I was interested in that. That was my major journalism

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Speaker 5: and communications. So the day I met him, he handed

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Speaker 5: me a stack of flyers. It was like your past

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Speaker 5: these out and I'm like, wait, what, like what part of.

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Speaker 3: The game is this?

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Speaker 5: But then I was like, you know what, if I

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Speaker 5: really want to be in this business, in this game

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Speaker 5: and learn this game, then I'll do it. And he

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Speaker 5: did it as a test. Next thing, No, I had

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Speaker 5: to fly us all over Antie's campus and from there.

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Speaker 2: So you didn't just throw them out, nah, didn't.

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 5: Back then there was no social media, so I actually

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Speaker 5: had to like put it on the cars. So from

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Speaker 5: there we just built a friendship and build the bond

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Speaker 5: and a career in this industry over twenty years now.

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Speaker 3: You know. He was like s JA president. I was

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Speaker 3: like on the chief of staff.

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Speaker 5: He was the host. I was a DJ, like shot

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Speaker 5: out of my guy Traubond and quiet Man. We had

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Speaker 5: this little group called Team Dollar in college where we

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Speaker 5: did all of the parties and we did step shows,

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Speaker 5: fashion shows. So everything that you know I'm doing now

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Speaker 5: I actually learned at A and T.

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Speaker 1: Just coming up and you know you're from Chicago, So

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Speaker 1: what was that like for you going from Chicago to

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Speaker 1: Virginia State University.

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Speaker 4: Man, we were literally just talking about this earlier. It

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Speaker 4: was probably the hardest transition. Chicago is a big city, quick,

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Speaker 4: fast paced. Petersburg, Virginia. I don't know if you ever

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Speaker 4: been to Petersburg, Virginia, but it's very small. You know,

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Speaker 4: you go from having public transportation to get around to

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Speaker 4: having to have somebody to borrow a car to you know,

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Speaker 4: it wasn't even really that mean fast food restaurants, Like yeah,

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Speaker 4: it was crazy because when I was in school, cookout

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Speaker 4: came to like it was literally walking distance and it

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Speaker 2: I've never been to a cookout.

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Speaker 4: And check but I never heard of it until I

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Speaker 4: got there. And also to like just the culture and

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Speaker 4: the vibe at Virginia State was different, you know, coming

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Speaker 4: from Chicago, you know, we talk a certain way. Like

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Speaker 4: I got made fun of because I don't do the

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Speaker 4: r I don't put the car you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: They're like, no, it's car and I'm like, no, it's

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Speaker 4: the car, Like yeah, what is that? And so, you know,

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Speaker 4: but then you start to really be exposed to just

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Speaker 4: different cultures. And so after like my freshman year, which

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Speaker 4: I hated it honestly, I ended up joining the frag

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Speaker 4: uh SGA president vice president, the one that matters OMEGA

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Speaker 4: Side five Incorporated. Yeah, we're working, we're working, we're working.

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Speaker 4: But like you know, and then that's when I really

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Speaker 4: like found out who I was gonna be. Like my

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Speaker 4: dad told me in high school, you know, go to HBCU.

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Speaker 1: Vib Okay, so you always knew because you had applied

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Speaker 1: to other HBCUs as well, but you knew you were

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So I applied to all schools, got in Virginia State,

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Speaker 4: came to Chicago for a scholarship reception. They offered me

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Speaker 4: the most money. My mom used to say, you gotta

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Speaker 4: pay for college. I'm like, what do you mean. She's like,

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Speaker 4: people pay for school. I'm like, well, I didn't pay

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Speaker 4: for high school. I am not paying for college. And

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Speaker 4: I'm like I'm not gonna pay for college. And how

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Speaker 4: the cookies fail. I didn't pay for college, and so

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Speaker 4: it was two questions. Money was paid for, and then

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Speaker 4: it was I asked some friends that was there. I said,

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Speaker 4: all the q's on the yard. They're like, yeah, I said,

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Speaker 4: I'll see yall on the fall. And that's how I

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Speaker 4: got to Virginia State.

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Speaker 2: Never helen to take you to graduate.

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Speaker 5: Out to my five sitess, Man, it's not about you

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Speaker 5: know when you graduates. When you graduate, So yeah, you know,

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Speaker 5: I did fire years man, But I actually originally started

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Speaker 5: school at Elizabeth City State University, so I transferred. So

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Speaker 5: when I transferred the offline to A and T, I

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Speaker 5: lost credits, so technically I had to start.

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Speaker 3: Over when I went over to Action.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, but for me, it was one of

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Speaker 5: the greatest decisions I ever made because I probably won't

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Speaker 5: be sitting here right now.

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Speaker 1: And I think about the network that you have when

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Speaker 1: you go to an HBCU. My business partner went to

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Speaker 1: Tennessee State University, so he started the coffee company with me,

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Speaker 1: Tony Fote, And everywhere every time I.

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Speaker 2: Go anywhere and like anywhere, they'd be like, oh.

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Speaker 1: You're a partner, Tony fourte, he's a celebrity because he

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Speaker 1: had such a great network from having gone to an

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Speaker 1: HBCU and having gone to TSU that everywhere I go,

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Speaker 1: it's like people.

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Speaker 3: We're HBCUs.

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Speaker 5: We're like, we're like a big family that just want

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Speaker 5: to support each other in whatever endeavors that you're doing,

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Speaker 5: no matter what it is. And you know a lot

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Speaker 3: And that was one of the things.

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Speaker 5: That how me and Jelia have really connected because he

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Speaker 5: went to HBCU. He was a cute, so we had

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Speaker 5: a lot of things that was a line. I was like,

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Speaker 5: we know what, let's let's see where this can go.

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Speaker 5: Let's see you know, the two of us working together

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Speaker 1: Now, you though, you started up a yard talk one

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Speaker 1: on one, all right, so talk about the whole transformation

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Speaker 1: and starting you all talk one on one?

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Speaker 2: What made you do that? And then how we got

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Speaker 4: So you know, you know, working in this field and

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Speaker 4: media entertainment, everybody not gonna be here and you know

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Speaker 4: was like, I don't know what I'm gonna do with

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Speaker 4: I was SGA president, we had a wild seat. It

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Speaker 4: was a wild year. It was a wild wild year.

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Speaker 4: We got into it with the football team at the

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Speaker 4: championship game. It was a brawl. It was like a

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Speaker 4: stabbing on campus. It was a lot of things that

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Speaker 4: y'all that like just so negative. And so I was like,

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Speaker 4: the next semester. And so we created the spoken word

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Speaker 4: turn that narrative around, and then it did so well

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Speaker 4: I was like, Yo, we need somebody to control our

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Speaker 4: what's campus life like? To show people the positives of HBCUs.

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Speaker 4: And this was before content like and everybody doing content now,

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: First of all, there's a few different things that I

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Speaker 1: But now you can see that nationwide college enrollment is

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Speaker 1: like I went, you know, and Fred, I'm sure you

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Speaker 4: My sister's at Tennessee State right now, shout out denying.

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Speaker 4: She's at Tennessee State sophomore.

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Speaker 2: I got to make sure she meets my partner.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, figure it out for sure. Get him on

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Speaker 3: We got them on the show, and let's get to

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Speaker 1: Because what's great about it it's not just celebrities, but

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Speaker 1: it's also every day successful people who have gone to

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Speaker 4: On and that was funny how we got Fred. So

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Speaker 4: so what happened was right. And I don't even know

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Speaker 4: if Fred knows this story. So I actually got the car.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't even supposed to host the show. Tyley Carr

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Speaker 4: HBCU Gaming. They was doing some stuff with the network.

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Speaker 4: He had a host, end up not having a host

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Speaker 4: no more. He called me. I was in DC. He like, Yo,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna rod with you. I'm all right back cool.

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Speaker 4: The first guest didn't show up, like then Shoe like,

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Speaker 4: we're filming, we gotta turn it in then show up.

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Speaker 4: So the first episode is literally just me and Tally

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Speaker 4: talking about yard Talk one on one HBCU Game Day

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Speaker 4: US coming together to Crazy you want One, and I said, Yo,

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Speaker 4: Taler like, look, I can get spicy, like I can

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Speaker 4: call my friends. So I called Shae with Shaye like, look,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm fred with you and your background. So

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Speaker 5: We like, we know everything that's on that list, but

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Speaker 4: you'll get people to support you. Because like even my

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Speaker 4: relationship with Freid, it wasn't it just so he had

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Speaker 4: to believe in me, you know, and that's how we

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Speaker 4: got here.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, you.

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Speaker 5: Know when you're you're out and about and people always

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Speaker 5: walk up to you and say, hey, I'm want to

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Speaker 5: do this, I want to do that, and you're like okay,

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Speaker 5: but you're like, let me see how consistent you're going

446
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Speaker 5: to be, how you know how much you're gonna follow up.

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Speaker 5: Let me see what you're gonna do. So like Jeel

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Speaker 5: or reach out and I'm like, all right, cool, let's

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Speaker 5: follow back up a week from now. Let's follow back

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Speaker 5: up a month from now. And it was to the

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Speaker 5: point where Jeel be reaching out to me so much.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, how can I help this guy out

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Speaker 5: so he can stop reaching out to me?

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Speaker 2: Because becomes resistance.

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Speaker 4: Baby.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now do you think that Ty would have helped

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Speaker 1: you if you were Kappa?

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Speaker 4: You know, you know, I'll be honest with you. I

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Speaker 4: don't know. That's that's that's a great question. I think that.

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Speaker 4: So it was so so it's actually interesting. So when

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Speaker 4: me and time Mat it was on the phone when

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Speaker 4: I was at work and it was yo, you know,

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Speaker 4: I go to I went to go to Virginia stated

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Speaker 4: and he was like, you're not a new side. So

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Speaker 4: that's the chapter of my school. And I'm like, what

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Speaker 4: you mean, I'm not new side? And I went from

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Speaker 4: business to bruh, Like what you mean, I'm not a

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Speaker 4: new side? Like what are you newse like and it

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Speaker 4: he was like nah, but then he spit his tag

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Speaker 4: and all this other stuff. But he's like, I gotta

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Speaker 4: love for Neusa. I got love for Virginia State. So

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Speaker 4: that really just changed our relationship and how transparent he

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Speaker 4: can be with me about different things and the opportunity.

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Speaker 4: So I don't think. I think I still would have

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Speaker 4: got the opportunities, but it wouldn't have been as with

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Speaker 4: love as much, like I'm not because even like our

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Speaker 4: relationship with Fred and like Terrence J and Ue, like

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Speaker 4: we all the Bruhs. So it's like it all kind

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Speaker 4: of layers back. It's like, oh, it's like if you

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Speaker 4: meet somebody from your hometown, Oh you're from and then

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Speaker 4: they went to your high school. Oh, like now you

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Speaker 4: really want to support them, you know. And oushe and

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Speaker 4: our freds Lane brother in business partner, we went the

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Speaker 4: same high school and we both from Chicago, so it

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Speaker 4: changed like Okay, you're Bruh, but you from the crib.

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna make sure I teak this, treat this

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Speaker 4: relationship with extra love and care because we're from the

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Speaker 4: same place.

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Speaker 2: That's dope.

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Speaker 1: And I think what's also really important is given back

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Speaker 1: to HBCUs and what I love right now too, in particular,

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Speaker 1: people who didn't even attend some of these universities, they're

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Speaker 1: still donating and given and people can still do that.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to have graduated from there for sure,

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Speaker 1: you know, to be able to do that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love the support that we're getting right now.

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Speaker 3: I mean every dollar counts, every dollar helps.

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Speaker 5: You know, a lot of these HBCUs are underfunded and

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Speaker 5: they need more state funding, and also they need the

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Speaker 5: alumni to give back so that the sports programs, the

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Speaker 5: educational buildings, the dorm rooms can provide, you know, the

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Speaker 5: incoming students a wonderful opportunity in school where they don't

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Speaker 5: have to be worrying about, you know, the small little things.

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Speaker 5: You know, because when I was at school of Anti

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Speaker 5: that the alumni gave back for us. So it's the

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Speaker 5: only right that we do the same thing for the

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Speaker 5: next wave and the next generation of kids that's coming up.

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Speaker 1: And what it's great is that people have this alumni

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Speaker 1: network that they could tap into now and even just

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Speaker 1: from watching the HBCU one on one series, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of people I didn't know went to an HBCU.

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Speaker 1: So it's just nice to see those different connections of

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Speaker 1: people going and they're very proud of it.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely everybody. And it's crazy because now you know, you

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Speaker 4: got those people that people might not know about, got

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Speaker 4: really unique stories. And that's so that's one part of

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Speaker 4: the show that I love is like when you tune

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Speaker 4: in like, oh, dang this person, Oh I love their

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Speaker 4: story or bo. But then it's some people like household names,

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Speaker 4: like a lot a lot of people like I don't

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Speaker 4: even know Las Girls went to Howard I'm right, you know,

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Speaker 4: and it's like I'm like, yeah, he had a trans

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Speaker 4: scholarship and everything, you know, and but it's like they

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Speaker 4: was like, no, I really didn't know. And so then

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Speaker 4: it starts to you know, one thing I always wanted

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Speaker 4: to do with the show was also connect the dots

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Speaker 4: for some people that some of these household names or

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Speaker 4: people that you see on TV or entertainment or whatever,

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Speaker 4: they did go to some of these HBCUs as well.

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Speaker 4: So I think that's cool as well.

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Speaker 2: All right, but what can we look forward to seeing

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Speaker 2: on the new season?

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Speaker 4: Man, this new season crazy? So it uh Every Sunday,

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Speaker 4: twelve pm Eastern on the Spire TV. We got DJ Trauma.

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Speaker 1: Okay, he's on the first He didn't Trauma by the way,

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Speaker 1: that is my guy, right, but he is also Dave

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Speaker 1: Chappelle was on the road with him, but he went

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Speaker 1: to Clark right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so DJ Trauma and there he came through show

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Speaker 4: mad Love. I love his stories. I love everybody's stories

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Speaker 4: because it's all unique. Another DJ this year, we got

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Speaker 4: a DJ Stormy. She's a female DJ in Atlanta. I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure if you're familiar the Nike yard Runner campaign.

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Speaker 4: Nike did a campaign where they highlighted like yard runners,

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Speaker 4: like people that ran the yard and sent out Nikes

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Speaker 4: and really just put a different spotlight on HBCU. So

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Speaker 4: we got one of the people that actually created that movement.

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Speaker 4: A Rinse is gonna be He went to Howard but

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Speaker 4: then someone actually created the fam you Dunk Custom Shoe.

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Speaker 4: Kate the Great is on there. I got people in

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Speaker 4: the community like my god Q Derek. He's doing some

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Speaker 4: really amazing things in Fairville with just young entrepreneurs and

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Speaker 4: his thing was, you know, when I grew up, I

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Speaker 4: was going to school with flip fops and socks because

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Speaker 4: I didn't have money to afford stuff. And so he's

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Speaker 4: now giving back to the community. He just got recognized

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Speaker 4: as forty on the forty and what he's doing. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the list is crazy. I got VPS and you.

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Speaker 2: Know, that's great.

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Speaker 1: I see a lot of organizations now, institutions trying to

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Speaker 1: tap in to ABCUS students and alumni even as far

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Speaker 1: as hiring, you know, and making sure that those programs

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Speaker 1: are there and available and that they're tapping because those

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, is an under resource thing that

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Speaker 1: they can be doing. Because I know, we had some

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Speaker 1: people from Potential up here and they were talking about

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Speaker 1: the program that they have where they specifically make sure

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Speaker 1: that they reach out and target HBCU students for their

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Speaker 1: internships and for hiring.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and STEM programs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just getting it out there too.

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Speaker 5: You know a lot of students don't be knowing about

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Speaker 5: these opportunities, and a lot of brands don't know how

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Speaker 5: to connect with the students. That's why HBCU Want on

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Speaker 5: One is such an amazing platform because we're bringing everybody

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Speaker 5: to one stop.

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Speaker 3: That way, the brands can't figure out how to get

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Speaker 3: in touch.

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Speaker 5: With the students, and the students can learn about those

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Speaker 5: type opportunities to help. You know, they can get a

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Speaker 5: scholarship from a prudential or something like that that helped

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Speaker 5: them finish school, because some people can do three four

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Speaker 5: years about the graduate or can graduate because they don't

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Speaker 5: have enough funding. But then certain scholarships from these fortuatepho

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Speaker 5: und companies can help a lot of a lot of students.

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Speaker 3: Complete their degrees.

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Speaker 5: So it's just important that we all figure out, you know,

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Speaker 5: how we can reach each other and connect with each other.

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Speaker 1: Right, a great source of recruiting too, just to get

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Speaker 1: some of these students. Well you guys, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: How can people reach you? Where can people watch? Just

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Speaker 1: give all that information so they know how to tap in.

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Speaker 4: HBCU one to one on all platforms. We Aspire TV

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Speaker 4: twelve pm Eastern, so it's right before football.

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Speaker 2: So you can go ahead to the longest.

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Speaker 4: Longest runner show a season and more to count. I'm

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Speaker 4: Jelil Thurmino o Social.

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Speaker 3: I'm Frederick W j R. On Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's all I got shout out to Courtney

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Speaker 1: where her friends sisters my favorite.

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Speaker 5: I feel like at a certain point I have to

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Speaker 5: ask my sister to hire me because she's she's just.

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Speaker 2: One of the major things.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all right

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Speaker 2: For Angela y