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Speaker 1: My next guest is a industry of friend and a

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Speaker 1: A Inspiration. Inspiration is the number one label and gospel

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Speaker 1: music home to Kirk Franklin. That's my man, Fred Hammond,

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Speaker 1: him a visionary. Please welcome Phil Thornton man. I'm honored man,

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Speaker 1: So that that's is how I'm able to balance and

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Speaker 1: And so gospel absolutely, I think it's gonna get better.

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Speaker 1: Some of these new artists, uh in the marketplace, like

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna continue to celebrate with Kirk Branking and

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Speaker 1: You know it's a beautiful thing. Uh as usual. I

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Speaker 1: I'm driving people this website. I went to website, got jealous.

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Speaker 1: williams Son. Thank you for that beautiful introduction, and you

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Speaker 1: I do my research. I was just like, you know,

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Speaker 1: just a beautiful thing that you're doing. Tell us about

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Speaker 1: You know it's really important because you know, we we

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you can speak volumes to this. With the

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that. I don't think your left

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Speaker 1: I grew up in the Bronx and Harlem in Manhattan,

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Speaker 1: and Frankie Crocker, who was then the Dean of Black Radio,

640
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Speaker 1: hired me a w BLS, which remains much like w

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Speaker 1: h R, a T station in New York and a

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Speaker 1: voice the Clarion Voice in the black community and other

643
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Speaker 1: communities as well. Uh Skip Dillard is the current program director.

644
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Speaker 1: But anyway, yes, he's I love him. He has just

645
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: he's just such a he's just so accomplished and wonderful.

646
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: But I one day I was I took a break

647
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: from radio and I started managing an artist by the

648
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: name of Gary Taylor. He's a songwriter, producer who wrote

649
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: Just Gets Better with Time for the Whispers, he wrote

650
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: Good Love for Nita Baker. Just a very talented writer, producer, artist,

651
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: and Sharon Haywood was the head of the record label

652
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: at that point the Black Music Division took me to

653
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: lunch engage. She said, you know, Dianna, I've been watching you.

654
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: Artists seemed to like you, and you seem to be

655
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: able to communicate with them. You should do artist development.

656
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: And I was like, really, Sharon, and had never considered it.

657
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: And then at that point I just started doing Explorer,

658
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: you know, Sharon Aaron Wood. Sharon Wood suggested. But my

659
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: first job came from Jimmy Damn and Terry Lewis's record label,

660
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 1: and I coached a group named Solo and from that point, Sean,

661
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: my phone has not stopped ringing. I have never advertised

662
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: I do not solicit and after Solo, I've worked with

663
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: Vertical whole Angie Stones group that I've worked with d' angelo,

664
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Speaker 1: who to this day is my closest confidante, best friend,

665
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: you know, beloved, cared for him deeply, and like I said,

666
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: the flden just hasn't stopped ringing. So I'm typically hired

667
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 1: by publicists managers. In some cases I've had artists, um

668
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: and then again, as we discussed the outside of our conversation,

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Speaker 1: I've worked with athletes and worked with Roy Jones Jr.

670
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: When he was heavyweight boxer. So it's been a mix

671
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: of people that I've had the opportunity to work with.

672
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: And I discovered that it was a passion. I relish

673
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: seeing people accomplished their dreams. I would really do and

674
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: I love that. I love to see people be successful.

675
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: It's really it's really interesting because you're telling the truth.

676
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: And I will just tell you if you ever try

677
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: to get in this business and as a as a

678
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: a person who sits down there, all these individuals want

679
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: is the truth. But how you tell them the truth

680
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: is the key, but also also the fact that you

681
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: have to be able to tell them sometimes actually how

682
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: it is because I talked to him all the time.

683
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: I said, when you were represented a bout William Mars

684
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Speaker 1: or I C M or c A. They got ten

685
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: thousand clients over there and all of my hustling from

686
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: anywhere from five to ten commission. So that means that

687
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 1: you're just a call note, the house note or whatever.

688
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: Now she'll tell you herself. She's on the end. When

689
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: when after the deal is done, they're talking to you, Dianna,

690
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: they're talking about Sean McDonald. The ages know where to

691
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: be fine, they know where to be found. Then you

692
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: know when he frustrated, when things don't go right, they

693
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: come to After the agent doesn't talk to you, they

694
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: come talk to you. They come talk to me. And

695
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: that part of the conversation really grows you as an individual.

696
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 1: And if we reflect on what we've done in our lives,

697
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 1: what do you think you've taken the way the most

698
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: from giving people advice? What what nuggets have you brought

699
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: back into your life? I guess the question I'm trying

700
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: to ask you, Dianna. Absolutely But you know you're absolutely right,

701
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: because with every client that I work with, I glean

702
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 1: I learned, I applied to my own situation. I take

703
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: away some of the values and the and the lessons.

704
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: Last night I worked with a gospel inspirational gospel artists

705
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: and I told her. At the conclusion of our session,

706
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: I was like, I've now you've ben give me. I've

707
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: been lifted and inspired by what you have shared with

708
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: me and your journey. And so it is constantly a

709
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: learning process for me. I am not empirical. I do

710
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,760
Speaker 1: not know at all, but I do know a lot.

711
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: I was a college dropout. I went back to Temple University,

712
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: got my degree, and it strengthened me as an artist

713
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: development media coach. So she's a person that it's very

714
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: few people who have come into my life because I'm

715
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: a real solo person. If yeah, I really um, I

716
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: think all the time. I would tell people that are

717
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: twenty four hours in a day, learn to use every hour.

718
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm that type of person. I go to bed and

719
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: I actually know what I'm gonna do when I get up.

720
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: That allows me the motivation to get up. And so

721
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: when she interviewed me, I would say, I would call

722
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: this industry love. I just fell in love with her energy,

723
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: her vision. Well, she's accomplished because she's so humble, and

724
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: that's a that's a quality that I have. You know

725
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you've done a lot, Rashaun, you

726
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: don't you don't hype yourself enough. Well, I don't have

727
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: time to be hyping myself because I have of many

728
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: other things I want to do. That's a that's an

729
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: accomplishment I have achieved now one of the you're not

730
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: leading with the ego. That's what I would say that

731
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: you're not leading with your ego. When you with special people,

732
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: they give you extra terminology to carry you forward. You

733
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: know that's in there. You know that's in the book. Now,

734
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't leave. I don't need to tell people my resume.

735
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't need to go to the mountain top and

736
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: tell people I'm standing on top. They can see me,

737
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: they can see you there exactly. Black Music Month, Okay,

738
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 1: when did this start? June Black Music Month was started

739
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. It was actually June seven, nine

740
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Speaker 1: seventy nine. On the Law and of the White House.

741
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: Then President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalind hosted, oh

742
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: proximately three hundred music industry leaders. There was a concert

743
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: of performance with Chuck Berry, uh Sarah Powell, who was

744
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: a classical singer. Dexter Onesell led the MFSB Orchestra. Umble

745
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: and Champagne King performed as well. It was a great

746
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: day and it was a picnic on the lawn with

747
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: tons of very accomplished black folks, and so that was

748
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 1: the very first celebration, and it was done at the

749
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: encouragement of the then Black Music Association that was founded

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Speaker 1: by my ex Kenny Gamble, who's one of the architects

751
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: of the Sound of Philadelphia Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,

752
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: multiple Grammy Award winner. So we went that day and

753
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: it was a beautiful event that celebrated not just Black artistry,

754
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: but American music, which is why it is important for

755
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: us to celebrate June Black Music Month as an opportunity

756
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 1: for us, a concentrated month for us to recognize the

757
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: contributions of people in the past, this generation of music makers,

758
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: and the ones to come. And I'm not just talking

759
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: about the artist on the mic. I'm talking about the songwriters,

760
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: the producers, the engineers, the people in the pressing plants,

761
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: folks who work at Apple Music, Spotify, Title, the streaming

762
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: digital services, any and everybody involved in the production of

763
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: music and its consumption. Rashan, I'm talking also about consumers,

764
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: so anybody who loves black music. And I might add

765
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: that while it's a concentrated period of time for us

766
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: to celebrate American music made by black folks. It's something

767
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: that we celebrate every single day of our lives, starting

768
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 1: when you heard your mama's heart beat. It started then

769
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: and it will continue until your very last breath. Really,

770
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 1: because we consume huge quantities of music. Absolutely, it's really

771
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: interesting because Uh, music plays such an important role in

772
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: my life. You know, I'm fortunate uh to understand music

773
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: of the sixties and seventies, eighties, and each decade is

774
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: a transition. You know, went from the sixties that pop

775
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: sound of the Temptations, four Tops, dihind the Ross that

776
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: the music shifted us, you know, shifted us. And then

777
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 1: and the funk landed, you know, in the seventies, the

778
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: funk landed. Then I went into the you know, the disco,

779
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: and then the then then the New Edition dragged me

780
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: out of the pulled me out of it, and pulled

781
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: me out of this goal, you know, and uh, and

782
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: then and then we came into with Steve and I

783
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: started doing radio in two thousand, you know where you

784
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:35,439
Speaker 1: know fusion, you know Jill Scott, you know, Kim, Alicia Keys, Uh,

785
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: Charlie Wilson, came back and the rapp of course was running, running,

786
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: rampant all that time, but I was, I was. I

787
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 1: was driving the other day and I have this like

788
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: like two songs I have on Pandora. I was just

789
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: on my love playlist and I realized that there are

790
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: songs that I relate to that and I think about

791
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: the person that I'm with are experiencing that moment where

792
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: and I go, you know something, I bet you this

793
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: song doesn't even mean that much to that person that

794
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about when I hear this song. And that's

795
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: what music is to me and to everybody. It's that

796
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: moment that's important to you when you hear it again

797
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: or you heard it for the very first time. It

798
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: might not be important to you, Diana, that same song,

799
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: and we may be and I may be thinking about

800
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: you in that song. I might think think about that

801
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: where we were dancing, what we were eating, or club

802
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: we were in. But that's when I think about black music,

803
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: Mont That's what I think about. I think about the emotion,

804
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: the memory that is important to me. You know, it

805
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: might not be important to you, but the music is

806
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: important to everybody because everybody has that same moment tied

807
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: to some song. That's what. Well, here we go. So

808
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: there you go. So you're talking about the feeling, the

809
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: kinetic energy that music gives you. It has been proven

810
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: through myriads of scientific studies that music, when it's processed

811
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: by the brain, releases certain chemicals that make us feel good.

812
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: So music, it is a healing force. I mean, I'd

813
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: rather listened to like you were talking about the Temptations,

814
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite groups, rather than take

815
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: some medicine if I'm feeling damned, I'd rather get up

816
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: and dance because it's going to release endorphins in my body.

817
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: So music is one a universal language too. It is

818
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: a healing force provided to us by Almighty God. And

819
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: I respect what everybody believes, but that's what I believe.

820
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: And the other thing that we need to discuss is

821
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: that it is one of America's greatest financial exports around

822
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: the planet, to the tune of not that hundreds thousands millions,

823
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: but billions and many billions of dollars. Last year, the

824
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: music industry generated apostim at twenty billion dollars. And I

825
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: need to go on the record here now and say

826
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: much of that generated by black people we don't get

827
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: to participate in the ownership as much as we ought to,

828
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: But we are generating billions of dollars from just the

829
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: sales of music. And then on top of that, our

830
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: music influences culture. Look at it across the board commercials.

831
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: I was watching a TV commercial the other day and

832
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: they were using Miles Davis music. I was like, look

833
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: at this from Kind of Blue. Miles has been dead

834
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 1: for years, but look to his music and it invoked

835
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: a certain kind of feeling when I listened to it.

836
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 1: So music is used to sell everything from cars, to soap,

837
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: to cereal, you name it. Music is our music is

838
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: a money generating you're talking about money making. Black music

839
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: is a money making entity and one of our greatest

840
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: exports globally. You know. Now you on the board or

841
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: you know a board member of the National Museum of

842
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: African American Music, which is being built in Nashville. That so,

843
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: where are we at with that? And the real is

844
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: going to happen? Oh? I love this museum. It is

845
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 1: It is the combination of all of my work as

846
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: a music activist in the industry for many years. The

847
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: museum is very close to being finished and we are

848
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: no different. We've been impacted by the pandemic that we

849
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: are all currently going through. However, we're anticipating that it

850
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Speaker 1: things have not cleared up and there's you know, we're

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Speaker 1: going to put measures in effect that will allow people

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Speaker 1: to be able to come into the museum. However, if

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Speaker 1: that does not happen where we cannot physically have people

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Speaker 1: come in yet, we are going to do a virtual opening,

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Speaker 1: a soft opening, and of course as con progressives and

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Speaker 1: it's safe for human beings to congregate, then of course

859
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Speaker 1: school will open. But this is a museum and endeavor

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Speaker 1: that started two thousand two and has been going on

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Speaker 1: ever since. Sixty million dollars raised. We only have a

862
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Speaker 1: few more million dollars to raise to finish things, but

863
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Speaker 1: it is um I am also the chair of the

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Speaker 1: Music Industry Relations Committee that consists of people who are

865
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866
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Speaker 1: cultural value and want to get the message out not

867
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Speaker 1: just to America but to the world at large that

868
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Speaker 1: African American black music is a cultural gem and also

869
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Speaker 1: an economic Engine. So I'm excited to be on the board.

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Speaker 1: It's led by Henry Hicks. He's the CEO and president.

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Speaker 1: We have an esteemed group of people on our board

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Speaker 1: who were religiently to preserve, promote and protect our music

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Speaker 1: and culture. So I'm inviting you now, Rashan, You've gotta

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Speaker 1: across the street from the original Rymans facility. That when

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Speaker 1: courage isn't to discover the central role of African Americans

877
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Speaker 1: that played in shaping and creating all genres of American music,

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Speaker 1: beautiful put in asta good, good question. Okay, I let's see.

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Speaker 1: I want to say maybe six seven years ago, I

880
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881
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Speaker 1: the museum, telling me about this effort. And when I

882
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883
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886
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887
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888
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889
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890
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891
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893
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894
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895
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896
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897
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898
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Speaker 1: folks in Nashville the first major ambassadors of Black music

899
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Speaker 1: So what I didn't know as much as I knew

901
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902
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903
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904
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905
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Speaker 1: Initially this was going to be a Black history museum,

906
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Speaker 1: but it changed over the years. And again, as I said,

907
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Speaker 1: sixty million dollars later, and as you've seen from going

908
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Speaker 1: to our website, the National Museum of African American Music

909
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910
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912
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Speaker 1: my grandson, my friends and family. And for people who

913
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Speaker 1: don't know about our culture as much as they should,

914
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Speaker 1: they'll learn when they go to the museum. This in Broadway, Nashville,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Music City. Thank you, Thank you. She is an endedman,

916
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Speaker 1: speaker and CEO of influence entertainment. Thank you Diana Williams

917
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Speaker 1: for coming on money making conversations Lashan. Thank you for

918
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Speaker 1: back to money making conversations. My friend, you're Landa Aldams.

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Speaker 1: Well you're we're happy to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: My staff when we were going through the book of

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Speaker 1: this d is Landa Adam times what you mean? He said,

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Speaker 1: You know, every year by May Dams on this show

973
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Speaker 1: because you helped me launch my show in twent seventeen.

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Speaker 1: And every year you come on the show and my

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Speaker 1: my listeners love you. They they the ones they don't

976
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Speaker 1: know you become fans of yours and uh and just

977
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Speaker 1: Adam's handbag in a minute. But this week every nine

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Speaker 1: I got over the eighty thousand fan club members and

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Speaker 1: by the way, they are amazing handbags. Tell us about

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Speaker 1: that right quick. Well, first of all, you know, I

985
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Speaker 1: am a girly girl. I grew up with a girly

986
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Speaker 1: girl is a mom and a girly girl as a grandma.

987
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: So my grandma's were a girly girl. So, uh, we

988
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Speaker 1: always met the handbags, the scarves, the gloves, the shoes,

989
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Speaker 1: everything was you know, you had a you had a

990
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Speaker 1: specific thing that with with a specific thing. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the older I got, you know, the more prosperous I got,

992
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Speaker 1: I was able to buy some things that you know,

993
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: costs a little money. And then I'm started figuring, I'm like, no,

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00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I'm giving all these people all this money.

995
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 1: What about my fans? Because people always ask me who

996
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Speaker 1: are you wearing? Who was that buy? And I I

997
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: started thinking, now my fans can't buy a All of

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Speaker 1: my fans, I'll say, I can't buy a six d

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Speaker 1: dollar bag. But what if I could give them the

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Speaker 1: same quality, uh, and the same fashion, the same design,

1001
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Speaker 1: the same classic styles at a fraction of the price,

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Speaker 1: and then they could take a piece of your loan

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Speaker 1: to home with them, or you know, ship it to

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Speaker 1: a loved one or whatever. And that's pretty much how

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Speaker 1: it happened. And of course, you know, we are surrounded

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Speaker 1: by amazing people who do all types of things. You know,

1007
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: there's no sense of me trying to reinvent the wheel

1008
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: if someone has already success done it, and that's one

1009
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that you have taught so well.

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Speaker 1: When you know someone who does something, merge with them,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, do a joint venture or

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Speaker 1: something like that with them so that you come you

1013
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Speaker 1: both come out on top. And we talked to the

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Speaker 1: manufacturer and they were like, oh, of course, we love

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Speaker 1: you and we think that that would be a we

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Speaker 1: would have a great synergy there, because synergy is very important.

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Speaker 1: You know, both sides are doing something that uh makes

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Speaker 1: both of them happy and making money at the same time.

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Speaker 1: It really is about that. You know. Let's let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the collection, because I got it pulled up because

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Speaker 1: I got I got six sisters and I'm gonna buy.

1022
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna tell you somebody I didn't.

1023
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Speaker 1: I just want to announce you will get a little

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Speaker 1: little surge from the McDonald name because the clutches are outstanding,

1025
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Speaker 1: the cross bodies outstanding. Everything bag is out standing. The

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00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: leather handbags, the Neon or the Neon bags are beautiful,

1027
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: you know, and the toach, the shoulder bags, the satchels.

1028
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: It's just the wallets. It's just how much involvement did

1029
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Speaker 1: you have in the whole putting together the collection, Yalanda, Well,

1030
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Speaker 1: here's the thing. I'm always hands on because I want

1031
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Speaker 1: no Number one, I want to know what my customer

1032
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: is getting right. That's first thing. I will never put

1033
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: out a product that I don't use and carry myself.

1034
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Speaker 1: When you see me show up to anything, whether it's

1035
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: a red carpet or whatever, if I have a bag

1036
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Speaker 1: in my hand, it's the Y bag. Love that why

1037
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Speaker 1: a bag? I love that you go you see me

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Speaker 1: going to church, it's a Y bag. If you see me,

1039
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Speaker 1: you know, out having dinner, well before the pandemic bag.

1040
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Speaker 1: And and again I know that the quality of these

1041
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Speaker 1: bags are so amazing because these the manufacturers. The same

1042
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Speaker 1: guy who does um bags for Bergdoff does bags for

1043
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Speaker 1: uh Macy's and blooming Dell's and all of those places.

1044
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Speaker 1: So that was definitely important to me. Next was the

1045
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Speaker 1: design and the fashion flags be on point with what's

1046
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: out there right now, because I want anybody saying, well,

1047
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Speaker 1: you know, I like her bags, but you know they're

1048
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Speaker 1: like about you know, or nice in the nineties. No, no, no,

1049
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Speaker 1: we are on par with what what happened during fashion

1050
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Speaker 1: week every twice a year, so you'll you'll never see um,

1051
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Speaker 1: you know, unless it's a classic bag like the tailor bag,

1052
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Speaker 1: like the Boss Lady bags. Uh that you know, those

1053
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Speaker 1: are classics that can you can get them at any time.

1054
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Speaker 1: You know, those are great. But I am not going

1055
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Speaker 1: to you know, as flowers are in like they were

1056
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Speaker 1: last season, I am not going to not have bags

1057
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Speaker 1: without flowers. We know, thank you. You know. Here's the

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Speaker 1: beautiful thing that I'm talking to. Landa Adams Um. Everybody

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Speaker 1: knows her from her career as a singer. She but

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00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: I've known her as a motivational person as an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: That's the side of her always. We always speak about

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Speaker 1: when she comes on money amazing conversations because of the

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00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: fact that you know, and I love when you threw

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00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: out the word why a bag? You know, that's that's

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00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: that's brand into the max right there, breaking it down,

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00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: making the initials mean something and like and the the

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Speaker 1: quality is what I'm just looking at it because of

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Speaker 1: the fact that I know I can see you walking

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00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: with that bag and looking normal, looking like it's part

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Speaker 1: of your style. That's what I loved about it, and

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00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: that's why when I'm looking at it now, I'm going wow,

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Speaker 1: you know, but I don't feel like intimidated. If a

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00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: person who wasn't land the albums with this bag, they

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00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: would look natural and they would look dressed up or

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00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: depending on what they want to want to satural they

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00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: want to water, they want while they want to should

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Speaker 1: bag the one throw. Over All, these different options really

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01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: makes for like people, a person who really can can

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Speaker 1: actually buy the collection. Yes, they actually can. Yeah, And

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01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: and it's reasonable enough that you can buy more than one.

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01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: And it's you know, if you want the higher end bags,

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Speaker 1: we have those, but we I refuse to make them

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01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: higher than you know, a certain amount because uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just think I want to be cognizant of where

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Speaker 1: everyone is in their life. And here's the foresight of this, Rashan.

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01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: You and I had no idea that this pandemic was coming, right,

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Speaker 1: And so where a person cannot afford a thousand dollar bag,

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01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: five hundred dollar bag, a two hundred dollar bag, they

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01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: can go to the website and they can they can

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Speaker 1: look at it and say, WHA's this is? This bag

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01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: looks similar to that twelve hundred dollar bag, right and

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01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 1: looking good looking good yes, and nobody would know the difference.

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01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is that that's why when

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01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: when I brought you on the show, I want to

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01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: make sure people know I'm engaged. I'm not just bringing

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01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 1: you on the show to talk about it. And I

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01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 1: like to believe you. I grew up with six sisters.

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Speaker 1: You though, I have a sense of that fashion of

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01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: what my sisters wore or where, and I've been in

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Speaker 1: the entertainment business assists of what that price line that

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01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: you and then then I've entertained everyday people, and that's

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Speaker 1: what it calls about, everyday people being able to reach

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Speaker 1: it to their budget. And but when you go to

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Speaker 1: the website, when you go to there and watch these bags,

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01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna buy something. I'm gonna just tell you, if

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01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: you don't want to buy something, don't go to the

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01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: website because it's gonna pull you in like it pull

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Speaker 1: your ball in. And now I'm six deep with my sisters.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the things that you have always been

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01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: so brilliant in and you've always taught me that you

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01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 1: always find the price point that the people who follow

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Speaker 1: you know. I I love ten thousand dollar bags. I

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01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,479
Speaker 1: don't own a ten thousand dollar bag because I think

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01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: that you know, I'd rather have ten thousand dollars worth

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01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: of stock, right right right. But you know, my thing

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01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: is how many of my fans and family as I

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Speaker 1: call them, would really invest because that's an investment in

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars as opposed to let's say, uh, absolutely absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I have to agree, and I'm just gonna stop people

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Speaker 1: like that, people out that buying these knockoffs. You you're

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Speaker 1: spending more on bad knockoffs would for quality. Y back there,

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Speaker 1: There you go, There you go, And you've always taught

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Speaker 1: there's there's more security and numbers than just the you know,

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Speaker 1: the branding, and we know branding is awesome. We know that, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I would rather have I would rather sell ten thousand

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Speaker 1: bag at their price than to sell to at ten dollars.

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Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. We're on the same

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Speaker 1: page with money Making conference. We're speaking to your Landa

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Speaker 1: Atoms Landa. Let me describe this. We're gonna transition to

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Speaker 1: the next product that she she's she's out there selling

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Speaker 1: us an entrepreneur over the years. It's called simply your Landa.

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Speaker 1: It's a bath and body collection. Let me read this.

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Speaker 1: Through the creation of the Simply Your landa collection, she

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Speaker 1: aims to improve the lives of others by improving the

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Speaker 1: skin through products from high quality knows what I say,

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Speaker 1: high quality and greenings as long as it says. My

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01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 1: passion for creating this line stems from the same passion

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Speaker 1: I possess when creating music. Is all about being spiritually,

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01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 1: emotionally and physically well. Yeah, balance, You have to have

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01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: balance in your life. And our our largest organs our skin.

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01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: And it's usually the part of us that we do

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01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: not take care of the most right, you know, and

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01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: that's from the top of your head to the souls

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01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 1: of your feet, as they say in the church. Absolutely absolutely,

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01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's really about you know, we spend a

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01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: lot of money when it's too late for our scared

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01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: you know. And and and one of the things I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about for some reason, early on and

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01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: when I was in high school, you know, I understood

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Speaker 1: my face, so I understood, you know, all these skin

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01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 1: I understood, you know, uh, pores and getting dirt out

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01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: of my pores, washing with cold water, washing with warm water.

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01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: Warm water opens your pores, cold water ice closes your pores,

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01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: and what the reason I want to bring up this

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01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 1: about is that we're as African Americans and we know

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Speaker 1: what we're dealing with in these pandemic times. You know,

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01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: we'll we'll we'll we'll be we're higher victims of the

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. And it starts with care, and it starts

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01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 1: with spending time. And again we come into a product bathroom,

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01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 1: your bathroom body collection where guess what the price point

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01:04:56,440 --> 01:05:00,439
Speaker 1: is very reasonable? Talk about that. Well, here's the As

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01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: I got older, I realized that my skin and my

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01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: body were changing. Uh. You know me, I am a

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01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: health nut. I have always taken care of myself nutritionally,

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01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: spiritually and physically. And I found that the products that

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01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 1: I was using they were costing a lot of money

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01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 1: and I was not seeing the results that I wanted.

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Speaker 1: So I got with a friend of ours and UM,

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I've been thinking really hard

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Speaker 1: about creating my own bath and bodyline. You know, that

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01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:37,480
Speaker 1: was what we had the candles at first. And it

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Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, if you do that, I

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01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: will be a part of your your team. And um

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01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: we got with a scientists who was privy to some

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Speaker 1: of the really higher in um cosmetics and and and

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01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 1: and pharmaceuticals and skin suticals and all of those things

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01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: that nerd sure the skin. And I told him, Hey,

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01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: this is the thing that we have to do. We

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01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: have cleansed the skin, but we have to leave a

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01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: seal of moisture in there so people don't have to

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01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 1: continually use the too flay, you know, over and over

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01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 1: and over again during during the day, because people don't

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01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 1: have that kind of time. They get in the shower,

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01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: they get out of the shower moisturized, they're headed to

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01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: work or headed to wherever they're going to go. And

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01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: so you you know, I know all these influencers are

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01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 1: doing a lot of things right now. I mean, but

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01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: they're at home in front of cameras. So there are

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Speaker 1: real people, more than eight billion in the world, that

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01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch to do that really don't have

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01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: that kind of time. And I said, so I need

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Speaker 1: I need a body wash, I need a body soothflay,

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01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: which is a moisturizer, and I need a body oil

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01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 1: because there are some people who can't do you know,

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01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 1: the southflay for whatever reason, but they hand do the oils.

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01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 1: And I said, I definitely need a price point where

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Speaker 1: all my people can get it, but it has to

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01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 1: be so amazing that uh, they'll come back each and

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Speaker 1: every time. And we have the love and the chocolate

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01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: that have been I mean, we've been doing the bodyline

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01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 1: since two thousand and twelves, right, we know it's really

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01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 1: interesting because I'm gonna talk to the men here, okay,

1203
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: because we always jump out there with the elbows asher

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01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: and the ankles look like they're cracking on our you know,

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01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: we don't. You know, I'm gonna tell you this. I

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01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: look really bad. The other day. My wife had to

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01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 1: check me where you're going? Where are you going with

1208
01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: no socks? Where are you going with no socks? And

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01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 1: so and so that's what Let's let's go back to

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01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: the body all. Okay, So let's have you know we

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Speaker 1: our ski and God gave us our bodies, okay, and

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01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: we all it's gonna naturally deteriorate, but it doesn't have

1213
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: to naturally deteriorate fast if you take care of If

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01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: you take care that's right, And that's what this that's

1215
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: what this call is about. It's about it's about taking

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01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: care of you. And and you have a product from

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01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 1: a stylish standpoint. You can go out there from a

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01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 1: fashion standpoint, take care of your budget, take care of you. Look,

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01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 1: now we're talking about the physical side of you. When

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01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:18,759
Speaker 1: you're walking out there. How you how you wash down,

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01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 1: how you put all on your face Like I have

1222
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: a ball head. So you know, I slapped that body

1223
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: all on my head, okay, and so because that's what

1224
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: it does for me. Because I was walking out the door,

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01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 1: you know, I was just shaving and then put a

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01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 1: put a toel and white dry off the top. But

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01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: guess what it would kind of like start looking like

1228
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: it was cracking up there, you know, until I started

1229
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: putting the body all on it. That I'm just being

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01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:44,720
Speaker 1: honest with you, Landa. I use your products because your

1231
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 1: products make me feel better and look better. Thank you

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01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: so much. And that is you know, that's our intention.

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01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: Our intention is not just you know, to be in

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01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:58,719
Speaker 1: your life for just the sale. You know, we want

1235
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: to know how you feel about it because that's one

1236
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 1: of the things that we say, it just feels better,

1237
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 1: you know. Um. I knew that as we move into

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01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 1: these um these times where the sun it's uh, it's hotter,

1239
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: it seems like the sun it seems like the former

1240
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 1: uh climate. Uh, it stays with us longer than the

1241
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: winter and longer as fall. You know, you have to

1242
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: have something that combats that. And so when men are like, well,

1243
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: what about a men's product, Well, that's what the chocolate

1244
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: is for, you know, the chocolate men. You know, and

1245
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 1: and I have some brothers who use love as well,

1246
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,720
Speaker 1: because they say it reminds them of, you know, a

1247
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:47,799
Speaker 1: softer kind of smell that they don't have to worry

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01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 1: about whether it will clash with their cologne. Chocolate is

1249
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: not going to clash with your cologne. I wanted to

1250
01:09:55,439 --> 01:10:00,919
Speaker 1: make sure that you could layer this product product male good,

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01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 1: feel good, nourish the skin, cleanse the skin, and then

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01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: you know, and and get out there and do your

1253
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: thing in the world. Well you're doing that. That's That's

1254
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 1: why I'm just letting everybody know that. Just because you're

1255
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: on a line that says female products, Okay, these products

1256
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: are available for everybody, especially ben and we're we're all

1257
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 1: wards out there searching. Stop searching. Let's go to get

1258
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,519
Speaker 1: Lane of atoms. She got it. She got product over

1259
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: here that allows you to to take care of you.

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01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, the elbow where where men fail.

1261
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: We fell on that elbow, We fell on those ankles

1262
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: and ankles, but we die and they're told we forget

1263
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:40,639
Speaker 1: all of our toes and that's why we get bad.

1264
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: That's why told look bad in the summer. Summer's coming.

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01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: Start getting those toes right by getting the right product.

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Speaker 1: And you're Lyn. I wanted to bring you on the

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Speaker 1: show just to talk about that because of the fact

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Speaker 1: that I support you. You know, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: You don't have to ask me if if you would,

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Speaker 1: if you would not have done my interview today. And

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Speaker 1: I just you know, this is inspiration for me. I

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Speaker 1: get somethings interview when you when you do it as

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Speaker 1: well as you get something that we both were our kinship.

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Speaker 1: But I have to support things I feel fit African

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Speaker 1: American UH budget. I feel that makes them look good.

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Speaker 1: But I get tired of us going out there buying

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Speaker 1: products that don't uh, that don't suit your budget, buying knockoffs,

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Speaker 1: buying products that look extreme. But you can buy a collection.

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Speaker 1: You can buy a collection of your handbags, you can

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Speaker 1: buy a collection of your products, and you can keep winning.

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Speaker 1: That's you know, that's a that's the beauty of what

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Speaker 1: you're doing with your brains? Have you have you taken

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Speaker 1: to like everybody's doing these Instagram lives? And have you

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Speaker 1: have you done like a little story yet live online? Yet?

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Speaker 1: Have you done it yet? You know we're about you

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Speaker 1: have the I have the the Oprah thing. I had

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Speaker 1: a bunch of things, you know, and and I am

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Speaker 1: very protective family. I don't wanna, you know, be out

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Speaker 1: there just to be out there. I want, you know,

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Speaker 1: I I I protect my people. And when you know,

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Speaker 1: when when um, when the pandemic started, I talked to

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Speaker 1: all of my manufacturers. I talked to all of my distributors.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, I need a portion of this money

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Speaker 1: to go to, you know, feed the hungry. I need

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Speaker 1: as of this money to go to cooking for kids.

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Speaker 1: I need a portion of this money to go to

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Speaker 1: so and so and so on and so. So when

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Speaker 1: there's a stay at home thing in your state or

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Speaker 1: in your city. But can know that with the purchase

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Speaker 1: of these things, you are actually feeding people. You are

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Speaker 1: actually providing water, you're actually providing clothing, actually providing assistance

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Speaker 1: to the homeless folks who don't have what you have.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's always been and that's another

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Speaker 1: thing that you have always taught us as well. Have

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Speaker 1: take take bee in the position to give, and I

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Speaker 1: am so thankful that I am in the position to

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Speaker 1: get awesome. Let's uh. I want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they get clear what I'm asking you to do. I'm

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Speaker 1: asking you. Have you considered just going live with your

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Speaker 1: bags and your daughter? Is that gonna happen? Because I

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Speaker 1: want to promote it because I just see this as

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Speaker 1: a you know, qvc Y, a back embodied moment, because

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Speaker 1: that's what people are accepting, that that the pandemic has

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Speaker 1: shown us that people are in tune, especially African American community,

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Speaker 1: are in tune. We're going online. We understand the online

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Speaker 1: process and we know you have a repatable name. So

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Speaker 1: if we buy what you are all from, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get it. So where you're atting the planning stages with

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Speaker 1: that if it's going but we're almost of course, you

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Speaker 1: know everything has to go through attorney. So Mr Ricky

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Speaker 1: Attorney Ricky Andrecks n that sealed up and before before

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Speaker 1: the middle of June, we will have all of that done. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me know, so I can apply my social media

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Speaker 1: to it and my fan clubs and drive traffic just

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Speaker 1: like I did trap drove traffic the preference in Obama

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Speaker 1: for his HBCU speech on Saturday. And so it's using

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Speaker 1: our relationships that build that. But before we close, I

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Speaker 1: got you know, we always have two amazing people we

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Speaker 1: love and our daughters. My daughter goes to University Houston.

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Speaker 1: Your daughter goes to Howard University. Any updates. It's brag

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Speaker 1: time right now, because I'm gonna bragg in a minute.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you brag first. Well has successfully finished

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Speaker 1: her sophomore years. He is ow a uh, matriculating junior

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Speaker 1: as they say, yes, yes, yes, thriving jr. And um.

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Speaker 1: The pandemic you know, the stay at home, you know,

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Speaker 1: quarantine kind of thing kind of got to her at

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Speaker 1: first because she was so used to, yeah, the camaraderie

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Speaker 1: of you know, being around uh everybody, But it made

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Speaker 1: her stronger in the end because of course they were

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Speaker 1: zooming and face timing and doing all the skypes and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that, and and it showed her how strong

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Speaker 1: she really was. Yes, and so I I you know,

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Speaker 1: I told her, I'm like, hey, this pandemic, this quarantine

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Speaker 1: should teach you who who you are even more. And

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Speaker 1: it did. You know, it's really interesting you're saying that

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Speaker 1: because that happened with my daughter. You know, she would

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Speaker 1: be she finished the semester. She will be a senior

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Speaker 1: moving forward close. She closed out her classes online at

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Speaker 1: the University of Houston. And at first when she came over,

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Speaker 1: she was just in her room all the time. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's on our computer. And then she started coming out

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Speaker 1: and said, your dad, you need me to do something

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Speaker 1: for you. You need me to go somewhere with you.

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Speaker 1: I got to you know, got the mask. They got nobody.

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Speaker 1: She knows about social distance since she traveled with the

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Speaker 1: hand sanitized. I got. She's quipped. She got a kid

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Speaker 1: when she leaves the house and so and so I

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Speaker 1: watching how she's starting to clean up the house and

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Speaker 1: we've sitting on the porch on Sunday, I sat down

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Speaker 1: and just talked to her. And that's just having mature

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Speaker 1: conversations with my daughter. It's something I've never had because

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Speaker 1: I'm always traveling and I'm always there on the road,

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Speaker 1: and so I know that watching a young lady, a

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Speaker 1: young girl become a young lady. As you're watching a

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Speaker 1: young girl become a young lady and and and watching

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Speaker 1: them deal with global stress for the first time in

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Speaker 1: their lives, and there wasn't playing. That's when you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you tell your kids you're gonna graduate, you

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Speaker 1: gotta get a job. But nobody saw this comment. And

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Speaker 1: so that's a stress. What you're saying. I understand because

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Speaker 1: I've seen it play out of my daughter, and I

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Speaker 1: tell everybody it's a blessing to see. Take your time

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Speaker 1: my god. Yes, that's the biggest thing you can give

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Speaker 1: When he learned, I want, I want, I want year longer.

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Speaker 1: You know again, I want to bring you on the

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Speaker 1: start smiling. I wish I saw this link before Mother's Day,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't see it, So they're gonna get it

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Speaker 1: thank you. I'm gonna didn't touch with rickey to get

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Speaker 1: promoting you. Okay, right, all right? Thanks. If I could

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Speaker 1: Do you and his Black Music Month. My guest is

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Speaker 1: a legendary artist, manager, executive, producer, and the music executive.

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Speaker 1: His talent credits include a divers ary of artists including

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Speaker 1: Tupac Shakur, Stanley Clark, n w A, Digital Underground, and

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Speaker 1: the world Class Wrecking Crew. He continues to manage both

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Speaker 1: Shock Ge leader of Digital Underground, as well as the

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Speaker 1: group the and the catalog of my man Johnny Guitar Watson. Wow,

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Speaker 1: please welcome to my man, to the moneymaking conversace. You've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of talk about. You cannot have a

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Speaker 1: conversation with somebody that has Johnny guitar Watson in two

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Speaker 1: parks in the same conversation and ray Sean McDonald well

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Speaker 1: does not get excited about that. Please welcome to money

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Speaker 1: making conversation, my man, Adrian Gregory. How you doing, sir,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Thank you for for extending this invitations

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Speaker 1: to money making conversations. I absolutely appreciated. And uh yes,

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Speaker 1: Johnny guitar Watson and two in the same conversation, along

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Speaker 1: with Stanley Clark and solo piano group. There's a there's

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Speaker 1: a lot going on on multiple varieties of genre. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, first of all, you know, I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: the past. We're gonna talk about the current because you

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Speaker 1: gotta go on currently, you know. But but you know,

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Speaker 1: when you when you when you meet your talent to

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Speaker 1: I know that I managed Steve Harvard currently managed to

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Speaker 1: manage Steve hard from two thousand officially from two thousands

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Speaker 1: of sixteen, I currently managed Steven A. Smith. So you're

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Speaker 1: a talent, and so as as a talent, as a manager,

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Speaker 1: it takes a lot, especially when you're dealing with personalities

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Speaker 1: and it's tying to I always tell people, yes, kind

1454
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Speaker 1: of stay ahead of the ignorance when you're managing people

1455
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Speaker 1: because you never know what's running through their mind or

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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen the next day, especially with social media

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Speaker 1: out there and they can just start posting. So back

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Speaker 1: in the day, you got to do a press conference,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you want to come out there, just

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Speaker 1: start talking. Today they just wake up, not even wake up,

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Speaker 1: they just roll over in bed, just start type. And

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Speaker 1: which means as a talent, talk about what it takes

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Speaker 1: to be a manager, but more important, what it takes

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Speaker 1: to be a manager, and not trying to put you

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Speaker 1: on the spot. But you've had so many diverse, so unique,

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Speaker 1: so many different new, unique talents. Talk about that experience, Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I'd like to say, um, I watched

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Speaker 1: First Take every morning, so I appreciated. But but but

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Speaker 1: but to answer your question, what it takes to be

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Speaker 1: a manager, and so the words with artists is to

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Speaker 1: really understand them, to talk to them, to get to

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Speaker 1: know them. Not not just handling their business. Handling their

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01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:59,719
Speaker 1: businesses it's really the easy part, but getting to understand

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01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 1: who they are, how they operate, what they think, being

1475
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: able to understand what's important to them, and not not

1476
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: necessarily what's important to business or what's important to you,

1477
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:15,160
Speaker 1: but what's important to them. Because now, I mean, I've

1478
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: managed Shocked shot g for what thirty years, and just

1479
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:23,280
Speaker 1: recently he said, he said to me, I trust you,

1480
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 1: And I'm like, wow, that that was something because I

1481
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: know what's important to him. I know if someone comes

1482
01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:34,639
Speaker 1: to me and wanting to do something, I can almost

1483
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:36,439
Speaker 1: tell them yes or no without going to him. But

1484
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 1: but you always go to your artists. You don't make

1485
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: a decision without going to them first. Even if you

1486
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: think you know what the answer is, it's it's not

1487
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:47,599
Speaker 1: your place to make that decision. Is that their place

1488
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:50,599
Speaker 1: to make, that their decision. So it's it's really really

1489
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 1: important to understand who they are. And as you know,

1490
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:57,879
Speaker 1: I also represent the Johnny Guitar Watson catalog as an example.

1491
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:00,880
Speaker 1: It's important to understand what the family, what's important to

1492
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:03,839
Speaker 1: the family, what they'll what they'll accept, what they won't accept.

1493
01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 1: But with the same token, you still talk to the family,

1494
01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:11,760
Speaker 1: regardless of what the offer is, regardless of what you're

1495
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 1: thinking is, regardless of what you think, you may know

1496
01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 1: about what their thoughts are, because their thoughts can change

1497
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:20,000
Speaker 1: and and so it's important to know what it's important,

1498
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 1: important to know what they want. But it's always important

1499
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: to take everything to man. There is nothing I don't

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01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 1: take to to them and because of that I have

1501
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 1: I have their trust. We don't always agree, and that's

1502
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:33,080
Speaker 1: okay because at the end of the day, is their

1503
01:23:33,120 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 1: catalog is or their career and you suggest things whom

1504
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 1: that's what your job is to suggest things to them,

1505
01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:41,639
Speaker 1: give them alternatives if you don't. If you guys don't

1506
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 1: agree on something, and then have a discussion about it,

1507
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, you're you represent them.

1508
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:50,720
Speaker 1: So when you finished with the discussion. If what they

1509
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: want is more is more important than what you think

1510
01:23:54,160 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 1: is right. It's all about what they want. It's really

1511
01:23:56,360 --> 01:23:59,360
Speaker 1: important to say that because and also you gotta have answers.

1512
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: What you can't you is manage somebody and keep saying

1513
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: I don't know or let me let me check. You

1514
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:08,880
Speaker 1: really have to be on top of your game. Correct. Oh, absolutely,

1515
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 1: you have. You have to go. You have to go

1516
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: in the business in general, and this is money making

1517
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:17,759
Speaker 1: conversations business in general. You have to know the answers

1518
01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: almost before they're asked of you, before you asked the question.

1519
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 1: And it's not it's not gonna be absolute. You need

1520
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: to do the best you can to be prepared, studied,

1521
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: research about whatever topic you're gonna be talking about. Yeah,

1522
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:32,920
Speaker 1: Steve always, he's always you know everything. I go, Yes,

1523
01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 1: I do, because if I don't know everything, then we're

1524
01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:37,040
Speaker 1: gonna have a problem because you're gonna ask me. So

1525
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 1: that means that you know, because people always ask me,

1526
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 1: ro do you watch you watch television that much? I go,

1527
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: I watch a lot, I read a lot. I just

1528
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,759
Speaker 1: know that I can't shut down because as a manager

1529
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: your information, you have to be a trail player you

1530
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 1: have to be able to advise. You have to be

1531
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 1: able at least have a conversation by so many different layers,

1532
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,599
Speaker 1: especially based on the type of talent that you're representing.

1533
01:24:59,040 --> 01:25:01,439
Speaker 1: And that's really the key to all of this, and

1534
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,639
Speaker 1: so is that you have to be I'm not trying

1535
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:06,640
Speaker 1: to say you have to be super smart, you just

1536
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:10,280
Speaker 1: have to be knowledgeable. Yes, knowledge well, and that's and

1537
01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:12,600
Speaker 1: that's exactly what you're saying. You have to you have

1538
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: to read a lot. You you have to consume a

1539
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: lot of information, whether it's whether television, radio, podcasts, now, um.

1540
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 1: You know. For for myself, I've been around a long time,

1541
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: so I've been on a huge learning curve over two

1542
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:30,760
Speaker 1: or three two or three years with this whole digital age,

1543
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 1: and it changes daily. It literally changes daily. So the

1544
01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: conversation you and I are having right now, if we

1545
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:39,599
Speaker 1: were having a specific conversation about some type of marketing

1546
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: promotion or or show or anything of that nature, by

1547
01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 1: the time we're off the conversation, it may have changed already.

1548
01:25:47,479 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: It really really really telling the truth there. For a fact,

1549
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 1: I remember just just a story because he's like me,

1550
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:56,719
Speaker 1: we were transition. We started when you know, just email

1551
01:25:56,760 --> 01:25:58,560
Speaker 1: when the emails, you know, we grew up in the

1552
01:25:58,640 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 1: cell phone era. Then they intern But I remember when uh,

1553
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,519
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey that we was we had a deal. We

1554
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:06,320
Speaker 1: went up to New York two thousand and five, two

1555
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:09,000
Speaker 1: thousand seven and WBLS up there in New York, and

1556
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:11,720
Speaker 1: then we moved to Atlanta. And between two thousand and

1557
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:14,759
Speaker 1: seven and two thousand nine was when, you know, social

1558
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,599
Speaker 1: media was starting to grow. And I kept noticing that,

1559
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 1: you know, all the CNN or whoever on news had

1560
01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 1: their little handles, their little handles, you know, follow me,

1561
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: follow me. And I was still resisting because we had

1562
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:29,519
Speaker 1: like a nine hundred thousand fan club email base, so

1563
01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: that was working for me. That was working for me,

1564
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:35,599
Speaker 1: and so but I just knew that this social media

1565
01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:38,720
Speaker 1: had to happen. And and the reason I bring that

1566
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 1: up because it was in two thousand and twelve. The

1567
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:44,679
Speaker 1: reason we got our talk show was because I grew

1568
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 1: his social media, and I grew on social media so

1569
01:26:47,439 --> 01:26:51,719
Speaker 1: much that it competed with Dr Phil you know, Katie Curic,

1570
01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:53,880
Speaker 1: all our competition. The only person that was beating us

1571
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: in social media at the time was Len Degenerous. And

1572
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 1: so so that's what you're saying right there, you're saying, Rahan,

1573
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: you know you not only have to know what you

1574
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 1: need to know right now, you have be willing to change.

1575
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:08,120
Speaker 1: And also when you change, you have to be willing

1576
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:11,200
Speaker 1: to see what what that what that change is going

1577
01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: to impact your your customers. So when Shock said he

1578
01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 1: trusts you, that says a lot because guess what, it's

1579
01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 1: a lot of things that are going on out there

1580
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:21,040
Speaker 1: that can question him. Whether you're up to date or

1581
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 1: whether you are you on point? Are you start? So

1582
01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: you still wired into the changes. That's a blessing man,

1583
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: that's a compliment to your talents. Well, well, thank you,

1584
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 1: and you're absolutely right. You do have to change, change,

1585
01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:35,519
Speaker 1: adapt and grow. And when you don't know something, don't

1586
01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:37,519
Speaker 1: be afraid to reach out and ask. I mean, I

1587
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 1: consult with a lot of different people in a lot

1588
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 1: of different areas because it's it's you know, there's so

1589
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:46,639
Speaker 1: many things that are going on, whether whether you're dealing

1590
01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:50,959
Speaker 1: with the law, what you're dealing with with uh UH

1591
01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 1: ledgers and accounting, whether you're digital dealing with the digital media,

1592
01:27:54,479 --> 01:27:58,400
Speaker 1: digital media and social media. You have to be willing

1593
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: to to know. Also, you have to be willing to

1594
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,679
Speaker 1: reach out to people who know more than about something

1595
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 1: that you do. That's that's important, and that's important as

1596
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:11,760
Speaker 1: a manager. You cannot be afraid to not know when

1597
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: So when you go back to your client, you say,

1598
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:17,800
Speaker 1: I can share this information with you. This is what

1599
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: I've found out because I've reached out to someone who

1600
01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: knows what they're doing. They work on this every day,

1601
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 1: because we can't work on every little thing every day,

1602
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:28,960
Speaker 1: so we have to reach out to people. But you know,

1603
01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:31,799
Speaker 1: the interesting part about your career and the brand Atrian

1604
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 1: that you've produced is that, I know, man, when you

1605
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 1: have black talent, a lot of people don't want to

1606
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:40,680
Speaker 1: mess with your talent. You know, they either have reputations

1607
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 1: or they feel that they have limited growth potential or

1608
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 1: and then as you grow that brand and other people, oh,

1609
01:28:47,360 --> 01:28:50,600
Speaker 1: I see now start to try to take advantage of

1610
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 1: their relationship or manipulate the relationship to their advantage. And

1611
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 1: then we have black music, mom, you know, which we

1612
01:28:56,400 --> 01:29:00,040
Speaker 1: know to recognize the role that black music. When you

1613
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:03,120
Speaker 1: here little Richard his death recently, and and you you

1614
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:05,680
Speaker 1: reread the Franklin and all these legends that are out

1615
01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:08,360
Speaker 1: there that are pastors and they're still alive. The Paddle

1616
01:29:08,439 --> 01:29:10,439
Speaker 1: La Belle is the old J's, you know, all the

1617
01:29:10,520 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: individuals still like that producing great music. What's the important

1618
01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:16,640
Speaker 1: of June being Black Music Month before we go to

1619
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 1: the next break? Well, you know, I think it's important

1620
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:27,600
Speaker 1: that we focus on black music. But as I really personally,

1621
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: I don't like Black Music Month. I think every every

1622
01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 1: month should be black mule, absolutely absolutely, you know, you

1623
01:29:34,240 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 1: know um especially I think it was last year rap

1624
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: took over, which is a print primarily black art took

1625
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:45,759
Speaker 1: over all of music as far as as far as value,

1626
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 1: as far as amount of sales and streams, et cetera.

1627
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:52,240
Speaker 1: And so you know, I think it's important to have

1628
01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 1: focus and take time so everyone focuses on it. But

1629
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 1: I think you need to focus on it all year round.

1630
01:29:56,760 --> 01:29:58,760
Speaker 1: I think they need to needs to be events all

1631
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:04,400
Speaker 1: year round focusing on black music. So Tupox corp Um

1632
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:07,320
Speaker 1: like reason, why why do the wish? Why do you

1633
01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:12,519
Speaker 1: say that he's one of the greatest uh political speeches,

1634
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:18,240
Speaker 1: socially rap, socially conscious rap, uplifting rap. I consider Brenda's

1635
01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:20,240
Speaker 1: Got a Baby one of the great one of the

1636
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 1: all time great rap songs. Keep your head up, Um,

1637
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: how do you like it? One of the great party songs? Um.

1638
01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:32,639
Speaker 1: Just just just an array of music and talent from

1639
01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: a young man who left this world far earlier than

1640
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:38,519
Speaker 1: we that I wished or anybody would have liked to

1641
01:30:38,560 --> 01:30:40,800
Speaker 1: have seen. So just talk to us about managing of

1642
01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 1: talent as unique. He was an actor, poet, and uh

1643
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:49,679
Speaker 1: a vision area. Talk to us right quick, Atrian, Yeah,

1644
01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 1: I think that or that that that's a lot. And

1645
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 1: he was actually all of those things. And he came

1646
01:30:56,680 --> 01:31:01,400
Speaker 1: from a panther family, as as some people may know,

1647
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:05,960
Speaker 1: and so they they spent a lot of time studying

1648
01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: and learning and teaching him. So he had a wide

1649
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 1: variety of of ways of looking at things. That's why

1650
01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: you could have Brent's got a baby, you could have trapped,

1651
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 1: you could have how do you want It? You could

1652
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 1: have all those different songs, you know, and and then

1653
01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:23,920
Speaker 1: in this time and it's just so interesting to me

1654
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:28,800
Speaker 1: because I remember when Tupac was accosted by the cops

1655
01:31:29,479 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: and and experience that we had then and and you know,

1656
01:31:33,840 --> 01:31:35,680
Speaker 1: he was accosted by the cops. He was slammed on

1657
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:39,120
Speaker 1: the ground, he was beaten up, handcuffed, and then we

1658
01:31:39,160 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 1: had to go to court to prove prove a jaywalking ticket.

1659
01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:49,760
Speaker 1: At jaywalking ticket, that's and you know, black young men

1660
01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: really have to understand that the power of the police.

1661
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 1: And I know they're trying to change some of that

1662
01:31:56,120 --> 01:31:58,599
Speaker 1: now and and and it absolutely needs to be changed.

1663
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:01,800
Speaker 1: But the cop came over to Tupac and said, hey,

1664
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:05,080
Speaker 1: he walked across street, you're jay walking, And Tupac, being expressive,

1665
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 1: was just moving his hands and saying, why are you

1666
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:09,320
Speaker 1: asking me about this? Where you asked me about this?

1667
01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:12,439
Speaker 1: And the guy didn't like a young man standing up

1668
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 1: for himself. But that's what that's what a panther kid does.

1669
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 1: And Tupac was absolutely a panther, black panther kid from

1670
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:23,320
Speaker 1: from from that space. And so I just think it was,

1671
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, important that his family taught him what what

1672
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:31,840
Speaker 1: they taught him so that so that he could then

1673
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:34,799
Speaker 1: go on and be who he was able to become,

1674
01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, through through a lot of people's support and

1675
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:42,560
Speaker 1: including myself. That's amazing. Now, I was looking to do

1676
01:32:42,680 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 1: your bio and your catalog and information and different names

1677
01:32:45,880 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 1: popped up. A name popped up that may be the

1678
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:50,400
Speaker 1: same name I know, and I love this young lady

1679
01:32:50,479 --> 01:32:55,800
Speaker 1: deaf Stephanie Frederick. Yes, yes, st Stephanie Frederick is an

1680
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 1: awesome person. Actually spoke to her this morning. Um she's

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Speaker 1: executive producer, producer. Um. Year years ago she was a

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Speaker 1: on air. Um. Uhston Texas. I'm from Houston, Texas. Yes

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Speaker 1: and um yes, Stephane. Stephanie is absolutely great. She has

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Speaker 1: she has a great company, F g W Productions. Uh.

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01:33:23,560 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 1: They do a lot of things. Even when when she

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01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:29,519
Speaker 1: does the Oscars. Every year that Stefinitely does Oscars, she

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01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:32,920
Speaker 1: brings a young person to just tell her. How many

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01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:35,720
Speaker 1: people do that? Just hang out with her and experience

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01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:38,600
Speaker 1: that experience of experiencing the Oscars, what it's like to

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Speaker 1: work in that world, what it's like to be on

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01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:43,840
Speaker 1: the red carpet. I mean, how many people do that

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01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:47,839
Speaker 1: within their company. I mean I think that's just incredible. Oh.

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Speaker 1: You know I've been knowing stefanitely. Uh when I have

1694
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:53,640
Speaker 1: to go way back to like ninety two when my

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01:33:53,720 --> 01:33:56,120
Speaker 1: comedy club, hip Hop Comedy stopped and she used to

1696
01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 1: come there, and you know, she was on Fox News

1697
01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:01,840
Speaker 1: at the time, and you should tell me I could

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01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:04,719
Speaker 1: be great, I could be special. So I know the value.

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01:34:04,800 --> 01:34:06,599
Speaker 1: I know that person that you're talking about how many

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01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:09,400
Speaker 1: people not many? And I know that you know she

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01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:11,920
Speaker 1: she's a firm believer of paying it for and she

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01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:16,200
Speaker 1: does not allow a male dominated industry to stop her

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01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:18,720
Speaker 1: from being great. And that's when you and I just

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01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:20,240
Speaker 1: had to bring that up. I saw you one of

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01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 1: the one of the individuals, one of the people on

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01:34:22,240 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: your roster. And that's important that you again another diverse

1707
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:29,160
Speaker 1: roster again. You don't hang and say this is who

1708
01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 1: I can only be. I can be more. Now let's

1709
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:38,280
Speaker 1: talk about mellow moods. What exactly is that mellow moods? Well, so,

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01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 1: so what happened a few years ago, Just to give

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01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:46,320
Speaker 1: me a little quick history. I um, I started putting

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01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:49,320
Speaker 1: out some more rap records again and realize that I've

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01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:51,400
Speaker 1: gotten a little older. I don't you know, I'm not

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01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:57,519
Speaker 1: anymore go hang out in the clubs. But I love music.

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01:34:58,200 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 1: It's just my love. That's what I do. So I

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01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 1: wanted to find something that I could do that was

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01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:09,080
Speaker 1: that was good and that brought peace and harmony to people.

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01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 1: Because I'm not a little older. You know, I need

1719
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 1: I need to wake up. Listening to park And and

1720
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,360
Speaker 1: Stanley Clark and a lot of other you know music

1721
01:35:17,400 --> 01:35:19,600
Speaker 1: that I like to listen to digital underground, but in

1722
01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:21,360
Speaker 1: the evening, I need something to go to sleep to.

1723
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:25,760
Speaker 1: So it's all. It's all to go to sleep. It's

1724
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:29,599
Speaker 1: all to go to sleep. It is so so Melo

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01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:33,840
Speaker 1: Music is a collection of three pianists that and and

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01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:36,280
Speaker 1: African American pianists. And I went to them and they're

1727
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:41,280
Speaker 1: all jazz pianists. They're they're either teachers or or touring musicians,

1728
01:35:41,280 --> 01:35:43,880
Speaker 1: and I said, I want you to do something it's

1729
01:35:43,880 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: a little different for you, play a little less notes, um,

1730
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:52,840
Speaker 1: and something to relax to. And no one in our

1731
01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:56,559
Speaker 1: culture is doing this that I that I've found as

1732
01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:59,120
Speaker 1: as an executive producer, as a company or as pianist,

1733
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 1: because everyone wants to show how good they are. And

1734
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: they're awesome pianists. I mean one of one of them

1735
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:07,640
Speaker 1: is the pianists for the count Basis for what is

1736
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:10,720
Speaker 1: now the count Basie Orchestra, So I mean they're awesome pianists.

1737
01:36:10,920 --> 01:36:12,800
Speaker 1: So I just have them play a few less notes

1738
01:36:13,080 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 1: and play something that's nice and relaxing for people. And

1739
01:36:16,640 --> 01:36:19,280
Speaker 1: um the name of the groups of Silver Piano Group

1740
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:22,120
Speaker 1: because it's a collection of artists, and I'm putting different

1741
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:24,800
Speaker 1: artists in there as we speak. I have a young

1742
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:29,360
Speaker 1: lady that um is working on her Masters in classical piano.

1743
01:36:29,479 --> 01:36:32,680
Speaker 1: She just did something so um she'll be on our

1744
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:35,320
Speaker 1: next album that will be August, coming out August thirty one.

1745
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm just working on doing something just

1746
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 1: a little bit different, little little pieceful, especially in this time.

1747
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:46,479
Speaker 1: We really need that. And um, you know that that's

1748
01:36:46,520 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. Well, you know they always tell people,

1749
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:51,600
Speaker 1: you know, what is your legacy? You know, because you

1750
01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 1: know we're getting this business adren and and you know

1751
01:36:56,479 --> 01:36:58,000
Speaker 1: we want to be success. We want to make money.

1752
01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:00,200
Speaker 1: First of all. Our goal is to make money. And

1753
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:02,759
Speaker 1: then after you when you look at your body of work,

1754
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:06,360
Speaker 1: it's fantastic body of work, and go, what am I leading? Man?

1755
01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:09,719
Speaker 1: What is my voice? Is the that is my voice

1756
01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:12,559
Speaker 1: being heard? Are am I leaving a part of it?

1757
01:37:12,600 --> 01:37:14,320
Speaker 1: And that's what it sounds like you're doing with this

1758
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:16,920
Speaker 1: particular project because of the fact that it's not a

1759
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:21,200
Speaker 1: one off, it's ongoing. Correct, Absolutely, it's ongoing. We put

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01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:24,719
Speaker 1: our first album out several weeks ago. Our second album

1761
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:28,160
Speaker 1: is coming out at the end of August, and we

1762
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:32,559
Speaker 1: have three singles before that, and like you said, it

1763
01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:36,280
Speaker 1: is legacy. I started with World Class Wrecking Crew the nine.

1764
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:39,360
Speaker 1: In the nineteen I worked. I was the tour manager

1765
01:37:39,439 --> 01:37:42,120
Speaker 1: for n w A. You know, put the Digital Underground

1766
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:44,720
Speaker 1: records out, the two Pac records out, MC smooth, and

1767
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: some in some other work records. And you know, now

1768
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 1: now as I'm a little older, I'm doing something a

1769
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:53,840
Speaker 1: little different. But that's all right. But that's all right,

1770
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 1: And don't forget I'm the executive producer of Salley Clark's

1771
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:01,040
Speaker 1: last two albums. So so you know, I work on

1772
01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:03,840
Speaker 1: a wide variety of music. You know, I work. I

1773
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:08,160
Speaker 1: work with Stephanie, as you mentioned earlier, and you know,

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01:38:08,280 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: I think it's important to have that wide variety as

1775
01:38:11,080 --> 01:38:13,759
Speaker 1: you grow and as you change, because everyone grows and changes,

1776
01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:17,920
Speaker 1: and you know, running around in the clubs is not

1777
01:38:17,920 --> 01:38:20,679
Speaker 1: not the same as it was for me thirty years ago, right,

1778
01:38:20,760 --> 01:38:22,479
Speaker 1: And I want to think that absolutely, and I want

1779
01:38:22,520 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 1: to make a note about that because that's why I

1780
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:26,760
Speaker 1: brought up Stephanie Frederick. Because Stephanie Frederick is a is

1781
01:38:26,800 --> 01:38:30,519
Speaker 1: a content creation, she's video, she's vision. You know, it's

1782
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 1: nothing to do with music. You know, music can be

1783
01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:36,799
Speaker 1: induced introduced into her work. And our clients include Universal Pictures,

1784
01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:40,400
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Disney. That lets you know the

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01:38:40,479 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 1: body of work that that you are, that you have,

1786
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:45,640
Speaker 1: you have, the you have, you know this this this

1787
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:49,439
Speaker 1: the solo piano project that you have right now that

1788
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: that's going to called the Solo Piano Group Project and

1789
01:38:52,520 --> 01:38:56,000
Speaker 1: it's out now May eight then in August roughly. I

1790
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: want to ask you, with the pandemic going on in

1791
01:38:58,240 --> 01:39:01,759
Speaker 1: zoom uh streaming being so popular, have you done anything

1792
01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:05,040
Speaker 1: with the team through using zoom or anything with the

1793
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:08,439
Speaker 1: pandemic times that that could be uplifting and motivating for

1794
01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 1: the people to who we are locked in us still

1795
01:39:11,160 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 1: basically locked in win the new normal right now with

1796
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:15,360
Speaker 1: this COVID nteen. That doesn't mean our lives are going

1797
01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:21,320
Speaker 1: to change. Yeah, So UM, I do it. I talked

1798
01:39:21,360 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 1: at USC every year and and this this year we

1799
01:39:25,479 --> 01:39:27,960
Speaker 1: did a Zoom talk with with the class this is

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01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:31,760
Speaker 1: the business class, and so I did that. Um, we

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01:39:31,880 --> 01:39:35,599
Speaker 1: are having the solo pianists record and then and then

1802
01:39:35,640 --> 01:39:38,600
Speaker 1: we do a zoom with them as well. So so

1803
01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: even though they can't play live right now people can

1804
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:46,000
Speaker 1: still see them through through Facebook and all the other

1805
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:49,479
Speaker 1: modalities you YouTube and Instagram and all of those, and

1806
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:53,240
Speaker 1: so um, we are doing that, and we're looking at

1807
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:55,320
Speaker 1: doing some of some other things like that, maybe doing

1808
01:39:55,360 --> 01:39:58,679
Speaker 1: a bigger, bigger concert and and we're also look looking

1809
01:39:58,760 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 1: at doing some uh some talks myself and some of

1810
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:04,320
Speaker 1: some of the other people that have worked with over

1811
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:07,120
Speaker 1: the years, just doing question and answer session. So we're

1812
01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:08,720
Speaker 1: looking at doing a lot of different things. I mean,

1813
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:11,559
Speaker 1: the world has changing, and even when it does go

1814
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:14,439
Speaker 1: back to some type of normalcy, I think Zoom and

1815
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 1: these these opportunities are going to be there because what

1816
01:40:17,320 --> 01:40:20,360
Speaker 1: that gives is people from all over the world a

1817
01:40:20,479 --> 01:40:24,600
Speaker 1: chance to see here and talk to you know, myself, yourself,

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01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:26,920
Speaker 1: and and and and others that they may have interest

1819
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:28,519
Speaker 1: in that they may never get to see, you, may

1820
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:30,919
Speaker 1: never come into their city, but if they have Internet,

1821
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:33,200
Speaker 1: they can hear them and they can see them. And

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01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 1: I think it's a very good outlet for for all

1823
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Speaker 1: of us. You know that, not not only the content creators,

1824
01:40:40,320 --> 01:40:43,320
Speaker 1: but also the listeners and viewers as well. Awesome. I

1825
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 1: appreciate your Atrian. I want to thank you for coming

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01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:47,920
Speaker 1: on Money making conversation. Anyway, We'll get in touch with you.

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Speaker 1: Anyway we can buy this album, get involved social media.

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01:40:52,000 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 1: Tell us about the Solo Piano Group. It came out

1829
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:57,880
Speaker 1: May eighth, uh developed you know from the Solo Piano Group.

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Speaker 1: The name of the album is Mellow Moods May eight

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01:41:01,600 --> 01:41:04,000
Speaker 1: by the Solo Piano Group. Anyway we can reach out

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01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:06,839
Speaker 1: socially or digitally. How can we reach out? Yeah, so

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01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:10,640
Speaker 1: so I'm on Instagram, I'm on all platforms Solo Piano well,

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01:41:10,640 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 1: first of all, Solo Piano Group. Solo Piano Group is

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01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:19,879
Speaker 1: on all platforms, um from Instagram to Facebook, YouTube, everything.

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Speaker 1: I'm on all platforms. You can reach me on Facebook, Twitter,

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Speaker 1: or Instagram. Adrian Gregory, depending pun them, whether it's whether

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Speaker 1: it's Facebook or or Instagram or Twitter might be a

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Speaker 1: little bit different handled, but Adrian Gregory is always in

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Speaker 1: your story on Money Making Conversation. It's a journey man.

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Speaker 1: history and I appreciate you so much for doing this.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, we'll talking soon. When I remember I

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