WEBVTT - The Youth Are Brilliant 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.080 What's your family. It's your girl to meet A D. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.440 Mallory and it's your boy, my son and general and 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.399 we are your hosts of street politicians, the place where 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.680 the streets and politics. Me, what's up, my son? Let 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.919 me just tell you something. Who's up? If my wedding 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.720 ain't like Porsche's wedding, I ain't getting married. I can 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.760 get back. I can get married, but it's gonna had 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.400 now was mad Now I want to go to If 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.080 it can't be like Porsche's wedding, I'm gonna go to 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.720 the Justice to piece and have me a nice reception afterwards, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.320 and then that's that I want the husband. She married 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.360 the King of Zamunda. You know she had the King 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.159 of Wunda wedding. She had two weddings. You know, we 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.760 didn't make it to the first one, but the African 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.840 traditional wedding and then the when that we went to 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:01.920 was just dope managed. I just wanted to say shout 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.400 out to push her in something you know, or should 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.959 be having a good time all the time. I love 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.760 that he allows her to be her sister queen and 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.440 asta how I was saying that yesterday, like he allows 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.600 her to just be her I didn't even know because 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.080 I left from from the from the you know, wherever 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.319 I went, who knows um. And by the time I 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.479 came back, she was out there performing with Drew Hill. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.880 I didn't even know that that happened. I saw it online. Uh. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.240 It was a beautiful occasion of families coming together, of 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.880 friends coming together, and it was just done so well. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.000 And what I appreciate that people don't understand or no, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.080 or maybe they do know and they just hate nastrolls, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.640 is that, yes, Simon is very well off, and you 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.400 can tell that he loves taking care of Portion. But 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.640 Portion got her own stuff, She got her own money, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.640 she got her own businesses. She has plenty of things 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.280 going on, from a hair company to clothe and she's 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.240 got the Amazon deal. She's involved in all it was 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.800 a thing, So I'm sure she also was part of 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.960 her own experience. And you know, I was talking to bridesmaids, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.680 obviously Andy was one of the bridesmaids, and they just 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.480 said the way that they would treat it, it was 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.160 so nice and kind and sweet and just a lot 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.440 of you know, love and positivity, and you could see 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.640 that illuminating in their marriage. And you know, in in 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.920 their in their union, and of course the families and whatnot. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.720 It was and that's what I mean. I know I'm 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.520 being funny when I say let's do it. You know 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.600 it has to be big like this and the third. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.400 But what I mean is that the cultural aspect because 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.120 that was still president even in the American wedding, that 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.359 it was still present. The fact that the actual wedding ceremony, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.239 the music was the best gospel music ever. Every song 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:58.880 it was church, the sermon that the pastor gave and 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.400 the words that they used to encourage them. It just 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.359 was so many positive things. And of course the two 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.880 of them look like money. The money they're getting couple 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.240 of dollars man, you know, I just you know, um, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.640 people say, you know, marriage just love and this and that, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.079 and it is, you love people, But when you look 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.079 at that the kind of money that, man, that's a 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.959 different kind of money. But I'm just trying to be honest, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.519 like I but I really, but you could tell that 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.160 they love each other being around them from kind of 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.400 like the people know what I'm saying, so seeing it 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.200 and just being in in the clubs with them, just 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.160 being around just just there's an energy of when you 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.920 just enjoy somebody, you know, and they enjoy each other. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.920 She he's he's a lot more laid back than she is, 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.120 but he enjoys her and she includes him, and they 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.800 include each other and everything like there's communication that they 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.320 have that's just dope. You don't look like, oh, this 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.280 dude is with somebody and he just here. Now he's 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:04.120 enjoying this. She's having a good time. She knows he's 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.240 enjoying hoodie enjoying each other. So there's there's this level 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.240 of chemistry in the bond. If they got man, so 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.520 I'm demistry is the word, yes, and they got they 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.520 got a yang and yang thing that things are going on. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.599 So you know, I was I was blessed to be 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.760 in the building. So I appreciate being able to witness that. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:26.520 Man our sister would listen. You know, people try to say, oh, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.520 you know, she showed up. I'm gonna mak me a 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.800 T shirt that say I'm a cloud chaser because you know, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.560 I remember a long time ago, my old boss, they 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.560 used to say he's an ambulance chaser. Ambulance chasing. He 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.160 used to say, call me whatever you want, ambulance chasing. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.600 But actually I'm the ambulance, right and and and and 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.479 and I don't know how I'm gonna make it spin, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.320 but it doesn't fuck you saying that this one is 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.280 a cloud chaser and that my son is a cloud chaser. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:59.560 Like so even it's a beautiful thing because what happens 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.640 is when when you take the time to think that 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.039 somebody is chasing cloud you you and you don't even 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.040 understand the dynamics is that there's a level of work 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.520 and its level of respect that goes into you being 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.360 able to be in certain places and love that you have. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.159 You know, there's a level of dedication that you have 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.200 to what you do that people see, you know, and 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.760 and it can be misconstrued by some not even misconstrued 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.560 because it's intentional hate, you know what I'm saying, Because 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.360 when you don't even know somebody that you're calling them 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.960 out their name and you you decide that they cloud 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.080 chase it, that's all you Listen, Call me what you want. 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.200 But I want to put an explanation to it, right 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.760 because I would imagine that when people say you're a 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.599 cloud chaser, that means you're doing it for lights, You're 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.279 doing it for attention, right, you're trying to get people 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.400 to pay attention to you and and that, and that 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:56.719 is actually true because it leads to the next topic. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.440 Shank Wala Robinson right now said that. So I'm not 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.320 I'm not trying to but I'm sure there was a 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.400 hater that didn't write it because they might have felt 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.960 like this is inappropriate time, but they thought it in 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.640 the back of their mind that me getting involved Tiffany 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.360 loft In myself and then of course bringing everybody you 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.680 and others into the situation that we're doing it for cloud. Right. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.640 They might I'm sure they said that, but people did 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.200 not disrespect UM the space and bring all of that 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.040 negativity to it. And I gotta say that because I 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.120 don't want to UM misrepresent But there are people who 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:38.000 feel like Brianna Tall and other things. We yeah, their 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.600 family wanted good cloud chases. If that's what you call us, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.479 that's fine because what we know is that the State 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:51.320 Department wrote on their report that there was no evidence 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:56.039 of foul play on Chanquella Robinson and they was going 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.520 on about their business. Body a body was got back 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:05.960 to the body was claimed and sent back to the US, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.320 and uh, you know, they paid. The family had to 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.840 pay six thousand dollars to get the body back and 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.200 to get her remains. There was gonna be a service 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.560 and those people was gonna be on about their business. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.480 Why because first of all, and this is I'm not 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.080 even and I could give you all kinds of reasons 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.400 in terms of, like, you know, the conspiracies in my 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.800 mind around these government agencies and the federal government and 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.120 all of that, but just on a very basic level, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.800 it's so much sh happening across this world. There's so 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.640 many things you're talking about, the State Department, the United 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.720 States Department, Okay, do you know all of the things. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.200 You got the Department of Justice over there, you got 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.720 the FBI, you got all of this stuff. There's crime happening, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.960 there's people missing, there's wars going on. They got so 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.920 much going on. A black woman who was on vacation 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.600 with her friends that died, and the Mexican government said, 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.120 you know, it was nothing but alcohol, or they didn't 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.960 even say it was alcohol poisoning. But they didn't really say, hey, hey, hey, hey, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.880 there's something that happened over here, and we need to 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.160 put some people in the hot seat for it, right 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.760 They didn't say that they're going on about their business. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.560 When has this country ever stopped everything, stopped the cylinders 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.200 and and and said a black woman has been harm 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.120 or a black person, but especially a black woman has 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.080 been hard and we didn't do a full investigation. It 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.800 doesn't work like that. So what happens is the cloud 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.120 chases come right the people. Because when I spoke to 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.080 Chanquilla's mama and daddy, they was like, we're just trying 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.520 to figure out what happened to our daughter. We know 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.680 that the story they're telling us is not right, but 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.400 we don't have the means right they was Her father 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.720 was was pushing the FBI. He told me the story 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.640 of how he circled back. He was talking to Attorney 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.040 Crump and out on the phone and he said, as 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.079 he was at the cemetery looking for a plot for 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.160 his daughter, the video clip that we now have all 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.040 seen it was released, and he turned around and drove 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.400 to the FBI's office to get them to do something 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.280 for his daughter with this new evidence. So it was 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.960 all of that that went into it. And of course 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:22.080 on social media, we were out there pushing and demanding 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.880 that there be some real attention paid to this, but 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.000 not just on social media. People was making real phone calls, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.800 sending real emails and really going after and and and 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.720 pressuring the FBI and the State Department. That ship works. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.080 It works, so if you and you know what. There 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.880 was one comment someone said, oh, um, they and then 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.200 it doesn't always work, but it does work. At least 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.839 it will get you. You know what they say, the 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.560 squeaky will gets the oil right. Um. But there was 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.959 this one comment when a person when I wrote, I 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.719 thanked all the people who donated, you know, especially the 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.400 highest numbers above five hundred. I think them all. I 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.679 talked about the people on that list and kind from 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:10.040 Kyrie Irving to excuse me, to Stormy Wellington to uh 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:15.320 Kimba Walker uh to all these people grant cardone. Uh 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.160 there were so many people. Uh, Courtneyada, yel A um uh, 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.640 Comedian little rail. You know. I I talked about it 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.000 and I said, together we did this. And so this 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.600 person wrote, um, I know you don't think you raised 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.199 all of this money by yourself this as well. First 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.160 of all, unfortunately, under normal circumstances, I wouldn't even bring 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:40.160 it up. It doesn't matter. But since people don't understand 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.400 how things work. You have to. You gotta get the 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:48.199 record straight. As a Claire Hubs Claire Hunstable, you talk 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.240 about getting the record straight all the time, and whenever 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.960 she would say that, everybody in the house knew, oh 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.040 my god, So let's get the record straight. First of all, 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.480 there was no go fund me until we got involved. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.600 Our team in Mill Washington worked with the family to 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.079 create the go fund me and advise them on how 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.320 to put all the pieces in place. And because of 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.160 the nature of how fast to go fund me travel, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.160 it kept getting shut down because you know, people try 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.120 to steal. Then other go fund me is popped up 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.679 whether or not these are is this the official page 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.000 or not. We, through Michael Blake, who was our brother 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.400 former assembly men from New York, worked with go fund 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.280 Me to work out all the kinks on the platform 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.000 so that they could raise the type of resources they 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.840 need for all the things that are to come around 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:41.400 getting justice for their daughter. Then our friends, people we 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.000 work closely with, were the first people to come forward 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.840 with enough of the the with big enough numbers in 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.080 terms of what they donated and how they got their 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:55.200 friends together to donate. And that is how the go 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.160 fund me dropped from I mean, excuse me, it grew 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:04.360 from great numbers to astronomical in just amazing in terms 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.240 of what people came together to do. So no, it 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.160 doesn't mean we did it all by ourselves. That's why 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.880 we said we did it together. But you will not 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.480 take from us. You will not take from us what 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.440 we do every single day out here and how we 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.880 try to work with families and others to help them 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.520 through their grief and through the trauma that their experience. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.200 So if that makes us cloud chases, and it being 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.320 a cloud chase, it means that you're trying to get 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.720 the most attention possible and that attention helps to bring 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.760 justice or a little bit of peace to someone, a family, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.280 or something to our communities, then damn it. Signed me up, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.120 Sign me up, you said a mouthful. I ain't even 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.600 gotta sitting there after that, man, because the work somebody 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.320 got to do, the work that you ain't willing to do. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.000 So keep call us whatever you want to call us, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.000 but we know at the end of the day, these 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.120 families appreciate it. You know, we we we get whatever 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.840 we can. We try to stand with them, We try 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.720 to you know, advise them about things that we know, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.240 and we also try to get them the resources that 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.320 they need along this process. You know, it's nothing can 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.520 give you back your family. Remember, nothing's gonna give them 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.480 back to you. But but we understand that when when 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.600 it's time to pay for those were trying to pay 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.040 for the you know, the the going home services, those 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.200 things need to be paid for. When it's time to 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.880 get investigators and all of these people, that's going to 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.560 be to find out all the things and pay for 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.280 how to find these people that are hiding like there. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.120 It's really things going on. So if you're not really 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.080 pretty pretty much about to do anything, don't worry about us. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.920 You don't even need to write that. When we heard 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:40.480 you say that cloud, we heard it over. You ain't 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.280 got to keep righting the same thing as well. They 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.559 I'm gonna get me a shirt because I'm with it. Anyway, Uh, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:52.800 speaking of cloud chasing or whatever, I guess we're now 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.520 going to take that and I'm gonna use that term 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.720 in a more positive way. But I will say that 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.520 posted something today and I saw it right before we 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.880 started doing the show that you were talking about the 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.760 issue of um the internet and how the internet is 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.680 you know, the Internet is a dangerous dangerously if it 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:20.400 is not used properly. Right, um I'm My hashtag on 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.160 my post today was that the Internet is killing us, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.040 and I hope it didn't go over people's heads because 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:32.760 the way that the Internet is used sometimes first of all, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:39.520 too often as a means to um escalate tensions among 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.120 all kinds of people. It's not just beef between you know, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.600 two rappers or certain communities. It's a lot of issues 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.680 that once it gets to the Internet, it can get 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.080 exploited in a way that it's very dangerous. You have people, 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.800 young kids out here that are dying by suicide. You've 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:03.400 got trans people that are are dying also because one 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.440 their issues are never really talked about in major platforms, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.040 but also because of the way that other people feel 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.240 in terms of shame and things of that sort. There's 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.880 a lot of stuff going on that this Internet increases. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:22.480 And also just looking at the way that um uh 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.920 that the way that the Internet makes the black man 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:32.360 look so dangerous, a murderer, you know whatever, just robber 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.720 or whatever. It's so dangerous the way that we are 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.560 depicted and the way the Internet exposes it and escalates 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.520 it that it really literally puts our lives in danger 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.880 every single day. Yes, the Internet can be used for 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.280 some good things. Yes we can get together and help 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.520 Shanquella Robinson's family, but we also have to be very 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.960 mindful of what we are invested in. And we are 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.760 so um I was gonna say schizophrenic, but it's disrespectful 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.120 to use that term because they are people who suffer 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.920 with that. We're so confused. We're so confused that we 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.960 will help people die or help them kill themselves and 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.080 or one another, and then on the other hand be 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.840 so m so I hate that this happened to this person, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.960 and we're so sad about it. We gotta like figure 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.840 this out, you know what I mean? We got The 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.640 thing is, there are people invested in what you're talking about, right, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.080 so they're not trying to figure They have figured it out. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.000 They figured out that the more that I agitate and 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.960 I instigate and I promote negativity, it brings views to 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.640 these channels. And the more that I get views that's content, 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.080 and the more that I get paid for advertisement and 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.680 these companies assigned me don't matter what it is, and 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.160 if it's negative or whatever, I don't care they're invested 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.480 in that. So it's very dangerous because when you look 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.400 at the post that I posted, and you know, even 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.520 though the conflict happened, that the headlines that they post 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.800 they create violent. They create a violent atmosphere. Right, So 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.840 if me and you were arguing, and me and you 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.080 were just arguing on our page and only the people 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.320 that know us know it cool, it's still a lot 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:17.359 of people. But the minute that other blogs sites and 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.880 other you know, sites that have five ten million, five 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.720 six million start taking the worst part of that argument, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.440 right when I said I'm gonna hit you in the face. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.040 All the other times I might be like, y'all don't 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.000 got no beef with you, bro. This ship is this 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.360 ship is stupid. And they don't promote that part. That's 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.399 not what they're looking for. They're looking for the part where, oh, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.159 he said he's gonna punch him in the face, and 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.080 that's how they what they do. So somebody who was 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.680 told that they're gonna get punched in the face right 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.400 forgets that we actually spoils to be. They just see 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.440 that this part is being promoting it wrong, and now 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.240 I feel my ego. It's like then the world is 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.400 seeing you punk me, so what I need to get? 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.280 I need some get back or our friends who love 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.119 or seeing me get or thinking that I'm getting so 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.800 they want to retally against you or your friends when 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.160 they see you, or just fans of minds who love 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.879 me that don't really care for you. It creates an 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.280 atmosphere for them don't want to do something to you, 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.680 you know, and people and they know this happens because 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.119 there's a track record. They see it keep happening. They 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.960 keep these kids just dying over internet beef and they 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.480 know that. But they've made a conscious decision that they 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.800 don't have a responsibility and the only thing they're responsible 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.199 to do is to make money and get headlines that 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.480 people want to pay attention, you know. And that's what 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.119 it is. So until there's a reckoning, a real reckon 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.520 into where the culture is, like now, we're not even 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.720 letting you feel comfortable in this right now. They're the 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.720 people who do what they are comfortable, and they want 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.240 to do the interview and they want to get some 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.760 some cloud from it. They want to get somebody body 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.600 record if it's coming out, so they'll sitting down with 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.200 these I don't even know what to call them them more. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.720 But they sit down with them and they utilized them 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.080 for content, you know, and they talk about that. And 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.280 then as soon as they get into a beef, they create, 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.639 they create the atmosphere for it to turn into death 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.920 prison so or prison. And that's the other means. We're 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.280 dying in more ways than one. Um. And you know, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.520 I just I woke up this morning. Last night, while 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:29.280 traveling back from Georgia, I noticed that it was brewing. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:34.240 I saw it. I saw several blogs posting about beef 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:39.240 between two rappers, and then by the morning it was everywhere. 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.639 And I said, I feel compelled, you know, And I 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.720 couldn't even just call out one blog. It would have 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.040 been wonderful if I could have just said, oh, this 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.000 one posted or that one posted it, but it was 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.000 so many places, and at that point it doesn't even 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:57.159 matter anymore. Now I feel like we gotta sometimes. I 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.919 don't think people understand how we all play a ro. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.240 When I speak to students, I always say to them, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:09.160 be careful about sharing negative content between your friends when 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.520 they get into it, right like, you don't gotta amp 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.520 it by putting it on the internet, because once you 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.280 do that, you're helping to create. As you said, ego 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:24.080 ego gets involved. I was one of our friends, Erica 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:28.160 Ford out in um in Queens that does very important 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.760 anti violence work at Life Can. She talks about the 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:33.920 fact that and for the you know, again, I'm trying 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.040 not to save people's names because we're not trying to 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:40.440 promote the same stuff ourselves. But she talks about two 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:46.479 camps in Queens that was beef in years ago. Both 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:51.600 of the individuals who are major artists have moved away, 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:57.159 lived completely different lies, and there are kids still dying 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:02.720 today over me on way back then. They're still dying 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.080 over that beef. Same thing. You go to Chicago right 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.720 now and try to find out what's the issue between 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.720 what is it Carini Green and some other housing projects. 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.760 What's the problem? This is great grandfather ship that's been 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.879 going on for thirty years, forty years in this in 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:26.840 these communities, and it's still carrying on over something that 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.840 probably was not even the people who had the beef 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:34.680 in the first place. It ain't even that serious. So 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.000 we have to think about that when you're sharing it 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.359 and you're promoting this information, What is the what is 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.399 the goal? What are we trying to do because guess what, 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:46.760 and I'll say this and be done with it. We 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.840 even though I started out by saying it's a lot 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.359 of conflict between a lot of people, a lot of communities, 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.800 and the Internet exploits it all. Guess what. We're the 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:01.600 ones dying. Our kids are the ones that are dying 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.359 on a daily basis. So other communities might be going 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:09.200 through their ship too, But ain't nobody dying like black 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.440 people are dying, and like young black people are dying. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.800 So when do we all take a responsibility and get 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:22.240 you know, get in the game. Responsibility? Responsibility my thought 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:26.080 of the day. I know, folks don't say I don't 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.159 want to vote, I don't care about voting this and that, 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:30.560 and that's fine. I'm trying to convince you. I'm talking 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:34.760 to the ones who understand there is an agenda in 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:39.560 this country, my son, Linen, and the agenda right, the 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:44.520 agenda is very detrimental and dangerous to us as people 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:49.440 of color, as black folks, and particularly marginalized communities. All 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.360 you gotta do is listen to herschel Walker talk and 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:55.399 listen to the people that support him and the people 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.080 he supports. That's all you gotta do. You don't gotta 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:02.199 take to make Malory's word for it. Just go do 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:06.400 your own research. Listen to the man speak, and I'm 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:10.600 not talking about his lack of uh, you know, the 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.080 right words to say or to the ship, because sometimes 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:15.159 some of the ship the way he said, my family 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:18.240 members talk that way. I hear white folks talking that way. 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.360 I hear a lot of people that speak that way, 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.760 especially when you're somebody that's from the South. And this 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:28.240 is just how you communicate. That's not the issue, because 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.359 to narrow it down to that, we're actually missing the 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:35.240 real point. I don't give a ship people. Yeah, I 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:40.080 don't give you slang country talk, southern boy saying some 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:45.840 ships to your You gotter listen to what the man 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:49.600 is saying, the people who support him and the people 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:53.080 who he's talking about supporting, And this is what you 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:56.120 gotta listen to. I am not sitting here telling you 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:00.119 that Raphael Warnot is perfect or even listen. When I 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:03.440 watched ever by the way, I know Raphael were not 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:07.240 very well. Rafael Warknock I considered to be a friend, right, 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:10.239 but when I saw the white woman speaking to him 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.679 about her issue, and then I wasn't there, so I 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:14.719 can't tell you all the things that happened. I'm doing 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.760 some my on face value. Then a black man walks 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:22.120 up to him and asked him about reparations, and he 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:25.879 rushed him off, didn't want to talk about that issue. 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.240 And I know they'll say, well, no, it was because 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:30.119 the way the man approached him, and it was this, 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:32.560 and it was that. Okay, I wasn't there, so I 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:36.320 can't say no. But I know exactly. I know how 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:40.040 the Democrats do around the issue of reparations and how 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:42.600 they run from and don't want to discuss it, and 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.080 they used it. They say it's a hot button, it's 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.560 a it's a hot rail, it's your third rail issue, 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:49.439 and they don't want to talk about it. So it 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:52.120 makes sense that you would brush off a black man 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:54.959 who wanted to speak to you about something. Raphael were 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:59.800 not actually knows better. Reverend Warnock knows better. Okay, Dr 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.840 or Knock knows that a Senator war Knock knows better. 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:06.320 But it is the way that Democrats have boxed themselves 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:08.840 in and and and and I guess a lot of 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:11.080 ways which we talked about some black folks sea the 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:13.680 Republican party doing something else, and they like with ship. 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:16.320 I like that. I like what they're doing, just saying 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:19.040 whatever the hell they need to say, and and and 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:22.280 and standing ten toes down on their position. The only 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:24.760 thing is we want the position to be morally on code. 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:28.880 That's the only difference, right. All I'm saying is that 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:32.520 December six is the last state of vote. It's not. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.240 It's not the beginning. It is the end. And between 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:40.000 now and then, early voting is happening. Ask yourself why Georgia, 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.520 the State of Georgia, would go to court to try 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:48.399 to stop people from voting on Saturday. Why would why 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:52.280 would the State of Georgia try to stop That's my 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:56.080 thought of the day today. Why would the state of 0:25:56.160 --> 0:26:02.159 Georgia want to cancel early voting on Saturday, which is 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:04.639 a day when most black folks would go and do 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:08.240 their last minute voting. Why would they want to tamper 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:13.000 with early voting if they thought that, whether it be 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:16.480 if they wanted a fair election. Senator Walker or i 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:20.840 mean Senator Arnot or herschel Walker, they're trying to rig 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:25.040 the system so that the agenda that they have decided 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:29.840 on putting judges in the courts, conservative judges in the courts. 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:32.600 We've already talked on this show and many times about 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:36.040 things that's happening in the courts around this country. Okay, 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.480 abortion rights, which is your right to choose, locking people up, 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:44.000 more mass incarceration, all of those things, and then and 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:48.399 the list goes on and on. That's their agenda, and 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:51.520 hers Walker is gonna be one of those to help 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:54.399 uphold it. So do what you think you should, and 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:57.120 by the way, stand on your square. If you want 0:26:57.119 --> 0:26:58.720 to vote for him, you go and you do that 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.960 so that history can record where you stood. But to 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:07.600 stay home and do nothing is to me asinine makes 0:27:07.640 --> 0:27:12.000 no sense. Man. Like I said, I'm definitely I'm not. 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:17.679 But I'm not. No, I'm nonpartisan. You're not nonpartisan. That 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:23.159 is a lie, You're not. I just don't like the 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.520 people like I just it's just I can't see me 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:29.800 voting for for Hersheel Walker. I just I'm just like 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:32.840 what am I I was sitting there looking at these 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:35.960 people like am I in the Twilight though. Sometimes I 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.000 really just sit there and I'm like, Wow, this is 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:42.600 this right here is who they've got running for. This 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:44.639 is the man right here, They're running for the place 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:48.199 man afric America supports these people. And it's just like 0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:52.080 when you sit there and you think about that, you say, wow, 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:55.919 you got to think about the mind state of the 0:27:56.000 --> 0:28:00.160 individual that's gonna vote for hershel Walker. That's how I've 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:03.359 been just like you gotta sit there like what are 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:07.399 you actually thinking? Like what is it that you invested in? 0:28:07.520 --> 0:28:09.320 What are you putting your vote? Like what do you 0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:15.280 see happening? You understand? Like what is it exactly that 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:19.439 you are doing? And it's just like I just and 0:28:19.520 --> 0:28:30.199 so am I moving on that. So we've got a 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:33.560 good guest on today. We're trying to close this year 0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:39.520 our strong nice with these good old financial experts, health experts, 0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:45.360 all about our empowerment man, and this story is so inspiring. 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:49.320 Of course, we love Steve Harvey and have had the 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:52.760 opportunity to spend time with him in a social setting. 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:56.440 And even in the social setting, he's still educating and 0:28:56.480 --> 0:29:01.000 mentoring and and teaching and working on personal development with 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:03.840 folks around him and especially us as people who are 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:07.280 younger than him. Um, and just to see what the 0:29:07.360 --> 0:29:11.000 team looks like of all these people who come together 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:15.840 every day to work on his empire, UM and those 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:19.720 that he empowers. It's really, really, really such a just 0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:22.880 a brilliant story and so inspiring and a young man 0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:26.040 that we have joined in us today, UH is no 0:29:27.240 --> 0:29:31.960 less inspiring even on his own. A super brilliant businessman, 0:29:32.160 --> 0:29:36.880 business development expert and UM who works really closely with 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:40.800 Steve Harvey. So let's introduce this young man. His name 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:45.240 is to Beatie Stevens. He is the chief Strategy Officer 0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:51.120 and international Business Development Officer for UH excuse me, business 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:56.520 Development director for Steve Harvey Global. He also runs UM 0:29:56.560 --> 0:29:59.320 all of Steve Harvey's Middle Eastern work and things that 0:29:59.400 --> 0:30:03.440 he's doing in Africa. UH. He owns the rights to 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:09.240 help Steve to acquire the rights to UH Family Feud Africa. 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:12.840 So there's so much going on and the story of 0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:15.680 how they come together so powerful. So let's get to 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:19.360 be the on with us to talk about his life 0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:22.600 with Steve Harvey. Well, welcome to bet Man. I just 0:30:22.640 --> 0:30:25.560 want to say we're happy to have you man, thank 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:29.280 you for having me UM. Like I said, UH off camera, 0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:32.040 you all have a big platform, so aware of the 0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:34.120 show and just love what you're all really doing for 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:37.040 the community. Like just spotlighting and you all say a 0:30:37.040 --> 0:30:39.160 lot of real things. So I just appreciate John, you know, 0:30:39.200 --> 0:30:42.640 and I'm actually excited. So you know, well, I just 0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:44.800 want to thank you, and I just want to know, like, 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:47.240 how old are you because when I'm listening to this bio, 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:49.640 it sounds like we're talking about like a fifty six 0:30:49.680 --> 0:30:53.000 c old man. Yeah, so I just turned thirty, um 0:30:53.040 --> 0:30:56.880 in July, so I'm I'm getting up there. Wow, thirty 0:30:56.960 --> 0:30:59.320 years old. Well, I just want to say we appreciate you. 0:30:59.680 --> 0:31:02.480 The all work that you had to do to reach 0:31:02.640 --> 0:31:05.280 these levels, man is crazy. So as a black man, 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:07.800 I just want to salute you. Man, thank you so much. 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:11.120 I appreciate it. But we just can't start. Yeah. So 0:31:11.120 --> 0:31:16.320 so this story that I've heard on the internet so 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:19.239 many times and I was really inspired by it is 0:31:19.280 --> 0:31:21.120 one of the reasons why we wanted to have you 0:31:21.200 --> 0:31:25.920 to come up here. Um, It's the story for me 0:31:25.920 --> 0:31:29.920 means so many different things. You are best friends with 0:31:29.960 --> 0:31:34.280 Steve Harvey's son. He was best man I think at 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:36.920 your wedding, and he's going to be best man. It's 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:42.239 gonna be best man, okay. See, and um he was 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:45.640 asked by his dad to work with him. So Steve 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:48.000 tried to recruit his son to come and work with him, 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:52.840 looking for that young, fresh energy, and his son said, no, actually, Dad, 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:56.000 you need to sit down and work with to beat 0:31:55.960 --> 0:32:00.320 the Stevens my friend, right, he knew you already obvious sleep, 0:32:00.600 --> 0:32:03.400 but he was trying to give his son an opportunity. 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:05.680 And his son and this is what I mean by 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:09.080 how layered it is this young man instead of just 0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:11.600 trying to figure it out on his own, maybe doing 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:14.840 a good job, maybe not. He said, no, I know 0:32:15.000 --> 0:32:19.600 my homeboy is more a fit for this position, and 0:32:19.680 --> 0:32:22.000 he's someone you need to work with. People don't pass 0:32:22.040 --> 0:32:26.800 along opportunities like that number one And to you know, 0:32:26.960 --> 0:32:30.280 for Steve to take his advice and then trust you, 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:33.320 that's also pretty powerful. How did that feel and how 0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:38.600 did that experience unfold? Um? So the answer how it felt? 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:41.880 I mean it felt unreal, right, I mean I never 0:32:41.960 --> 0:32:44.040 in a million years, you know, you don't become friends 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:46.960 with somebody because for their parents are at least I 0:32:47.000 --> 0:32:49.960 don't you know, Um, he's my best friend now because 0:32:49.960 --> 0:32:52.280 he's Steve abby Son, because I know, you know, we 0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:54.840 met our first day at school at Morehouse. Um, and 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:57.000 I know that. You know, I've seen him break his 0:32:57.080 --> 0:32:59.480 hand helping me not get beat up, and you know 0:32:59.520 --> 0:33:02.360 he really that's my back, right, So I judged him 0:33:02.360 --> 0:33:05.280 on the character. Um, and that's probably why he recommended 0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:07.880 me for the position. But Brodrick and I met at 0:33:07.880 --> 0:33:09.800 more House, so we became friends. At more House, I 0:33:09.800 --> 0:33:12.240 had a shoe company called Steps by Stevens, so for 0:33:12.360 --> 0:33:14.760 every pair of shoes that I sold, will provide meals 0:33:14.760 --> 0:33:17.760 to women and children's shelters nationwide. And Roderick used to 0:33:17.800 --> 0:33:19.520 help me with my creative direction for that, so we 0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:23.840 did really well. I did that all throughout school. Um. 0:33:23.880 --> 0:33:26.480 And Mr Harvey has his mentorship camp, so Stephen Margue 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:30.480 Harvey Foundation, they go a mentorship camp where they foster um, 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.600 you know, just trying to teach father's voice, manhood. You know, 0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:36.840 the most at risk. You just show him opportunity in 0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:40.520 a way out. And I think sophomore junior Yeard went 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:42.400 to the camp with Roderick and I thought we were 0:33:42.400 --> 0:33:44.720 just gonna be having fun. But Roderick end up working. 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:47.040 And you know, if your best friends working, you spend 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:49.640 in the United his house. I'm not about to play basketball. 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:51.800 I'm gonna help you work, so we can you know, 0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:55.120 have fun. Well, what that end up turning into was 0:33:56.320 --> 0:33:59.400 like a recurring role. You know. I built a reputation 0:33:59.440 --> 0:34:02.960 for myself there as a hard worker. Um. And for me, 0:34:03.080 --> 0:34:05.360 I just saw this an opportunity to meet fortune CEO. 0:34:05.440 --> 0:34:08.640 So Mr Harvey's put these at risk youths around, just 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:10.960 motivational characters. So it might be the CEO of under 0:34:11.080 --> 0:34:13.759 Arm or CEO of the United Airlines. So I just 0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:16.640 saw it as an opportunity to kind of network and meet, 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:21.840 you know, new people. Um. And then from there, uh, 0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:25.960 Mr Harvey called me one day and I was like, hey, 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.439 I love the work that you're doing, Like keep coming 0:34:28.440 --> 0:34:30.120 to my foundation. You don't want to talk to you more? 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:32.200 I see something that you sound really special. I was like, 0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:34.719 all right, thank you, Miss Harvey. I appreciate it. So 0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:37.839 we started just kind of working on small deals, you know. 0:34:38.040 --> 0:34:41.200 I started working with a research and development and we 0:34:41.200 --> 0:34:45.000 were tasked one day with finding a franchise. So of course, 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:46.960 me being who I was, we took it a step 0:34:47.000 --> 0:34:50.359 further and end up doing an extremely good deal that 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:52.560 I later found out structurally why it was the best 0:34:52.640 --> 0:34:54.120 deal to come through the company at the time I 0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:57.680 was two and brodert with twenty three. So after that meeting, 0:34:58.160 --> 0:35:00.759 Mr Harvey, being very pleased with the deal and how 0:35:00.800 --> 0:35:03.880 it looked, he approached Roderick. I was like, hey, son, like, 0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:06.000 you know, I really need you to come help me 0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:08.160 on this road to a billion dollars. I want you 0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:10.480 to help me come learn the family business. Like I 0:35:10.560 --> 0:35:13.160 love all the works that you did in the deal. 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:16.080 And I really commend broder because I wasn't even in 0:35:16.080 --> 0:35:18.200 the room and it's just like just a testament to 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:19.759 his character because he was like, hey day, I'm not 0:35:20.080 --> 0:35:22.040 a lot to you, Like I was there representing your brand, 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:24.239 but to be the executed all the work and like, 0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:26.680 I know you want to give me this job opportunity, 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:27.880 but if you really want to make it like you 0:35:27.880 --> 0:35:32.640 should hire to be. Um. So yeah, that's I try 0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:35.120 to some eyes a short, but yeah, that's really not 0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:39.319 way and that that's real friendship. Man. So so what 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:41.960 what what is your task? Like what exactly do you 0:35:41.960 --> 0:35:46.719 do in my role right now? Yes? So, like you said, 0:35:46.719 --> 0:35:49.840 I'm chief strategy officer, so um, Mr Harvey, which a 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:51.799 lot of people don't know, and I'll probably get in 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:54.800 trouble after this interview. But he's like a very sophisticated businessman, 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:58.480 so he has an extremely sophisticated portfolio with a lot 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:02.600 of subsidiaries and minor companies underneath it. But he's also 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:05.279 the world's number one TV host, right so he's on 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:08.920 TV and radio probably twelve hours a day, twelve or 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:11.200 fourteen hours a day. Yet we still have to run 0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:16.760 these businesses. So UM, myself along with our Brandon Williams, 0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:19.960 is our general counsel and our CEO, and still Stay 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:22.759 which is like our chief development officer. Between the three 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:26.279 of us, we basically all managed sectors of the business, 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:29.480 right um. And we all work with him because him 0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:31.439 being on stage all the time, we are the people 0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:34.320 who actually run the day to day of all the businesses. 0:36:34.560 --> 0:36:40.080 So I think I might I can't even name how 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:42.399 many projects I have under my field right now. Um, 0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:44.800 And we build our teams, but my main responsibility and 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:47.920 role of strategy of course, so UM, I spend probably 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:50.400 the most time with Mr Harvey than anybody, so I 0:36:50.440 --> 0:36:53.040 have a clear understanding of everything and objectives that he 0:36:53.080 --> 0:36:54.719 wants to receive and what that he wants to do, 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:57.920 and then of course I'll implement that so managing corporate 0:36:57.960 --> 0:36:59.840 relationship with our partners, or whether it's that being me 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:04.239 ABC UM, our producer shows, whether that's UM going over 0:37:04.280 --> 0:37:08.360 financials UM with our CFO or any of our products 0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:10.520 in our businesses. Because with his life being so big, 0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:11.840 there are a lot of different things that we have 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:14.080 to get, you know, look over right, So I can 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:16.920 working on the TV show, I could be working on 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:21.160 an international business deal. Also managed his investment port portfolios 0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:23.560 like all our in house investments, to all these opportunities. 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:26.120 Anything that Steve Harvey has invested in, it probably comes 0:37:26.120 --> 0:37:29.279 across my My best brand is that's what crystalsess UM 0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:31.120 and if one of us are not on, it's probably 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:34.600 not a real a real deal or a real opportunity. 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:39.880 So I mean it's strategy, UM, operations, organization, UM, investment. 0:37:39.920 --> 0:37:43.000 I mean it's it's extremely diversified. And I think it's 0:37:43.040 --> 0:37:44.600 that way because I came from a chief of staff 0:37:44.640 --> 0:37:48.000 role originally UM, so I was always already working like 0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:52.280 every sector so UM, I mean it's kind of makeshift. 0:37:52.360 --> 0:37:53.879 You know. It's not like I'm market at a Nike 0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:55.560 where it's like, hey, I'm a marketing person. Not only 0:37:55.600 --> 0:37:58.799 do marketing, I work for a big fortune brand who 0:37:58.880 --> 0:38:01.239 was a person. So he is Nike. So I might 0:38:01.280 --> 0:38:04.040 be doing a marketing deal with our marketing partners. I 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:05.960 might be going over a PR report. I might be 0:38:06.719 --> 0:38:10.880 h looking at a gold mine in Africa. Um, you know, 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:16.319 so it's extremely But how often do you bring him 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:21.960 deals that he's unaware of or maybe not necessarily interested in, 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:24.520 where you've got to try to help him see how 0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:27.839 lucrative it can be all the time? Um. I was 0:38:28.000 --> 0:38:29.400 one thing I'll say if I'm Mr Harvey that I 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:32.640 commend him on is uh he doesn't. He always says, 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:34.920 you have to surmride yourself people smartly. Right. And with 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:37.600 that being said, he might not necessarily understand exactly what 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:41.000 I'm doing if it's a crypto deal or is um 0:38:41.080 --> 0:38:42.920 it can be last mail delivery, or he might not 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:45.440 actually understand, you know, how to read a p chart 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:49.719 or understand how we're doing the stock and investment. So um, 0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:52.759 usually we take we sit down and we'll go over it. Right. 0:38:52.760 --> 0:38:54.359 So Mr Harvey, we all have the ability to walk 0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:56.080 it up to the finish line. But one thing is 0:38:56.160 --> 0:38:58.120 the Harvey is he's very hands on with all his deals. 0:38:58.160 --> 0:39:01.680 So he signs every he's not signed until he understands. 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:05.000 So I'll say seventy percent of the time is usually 0:39:05.040 --> 0:39:07.960 explaining really ninety because he wants to be able to 0:39:07.960 --> 0:39:10.920 explain it to a child. He needs, he needs to 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:12.719 be able to explain to anybody who's working with and 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:18.080 it's his money. So you know, there must be a 0:39:18.280 --> 0:39:22.160 very crazy dynamic that you're working for your best friend's father. 0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:25.760 Is it weird? Is it fun? Like? How how is it? 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:28.960 It's really crazy because like you know, in our culture, right, 0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:31.279 Like the first thing my father said was, hey, man, 0:39:31.280 --> 0:39:34.360 don't mess up that man's money. Right, And he's giving 0:39:34.440 --> 0:39:37.400 it to Harvey like physical permission to beat you, right. 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:40.360 And I'm probably the only employee outside of his sons 0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:42.319 that you know that he can actually put his hands on. 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:44.880 And I won't say anything, but it's amazing. It's literally 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:48.319 like working with my second family. Um. The Harveys are 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:53.600 really like family to be Um. I feel like it's 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:55.400 a different level of loyalty, you know, like I know, 0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:57.360 no matter what I have is back because at the 0:39:57.440 --> 0:40:00.279 end of the day, is my best friend, right, So 0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:02.440 he has so many levels of respect for me. You 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:07.400 have my best friend's father you're older male, you're my boss, um, 0:40:07.440 --> 0:40:13.359 your mentor you know. So it's a crazy dynamic definitely. Um. 0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:15.040 But what I will say and that I come and 0:40:15.160 --> 0:40:17.400 Mr Harvey on it's life. He really put me in 0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:21.239 a position to to you know, when and if I 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:23.399 mess up, you give you the role to hang yourself right. 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:27.719 So um, he really let's talk about that. Let's talk 0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:30.080 about that. Has there been a time you said crypto 0:40:30.160 --> 0:40:32.120 and I know Crypto is losing a lot of money 0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:35.319 right now, So has there been a time when you 0:40:35.360 --> 0:40:37.640 did when things didn't go so well? And how did 0:40:37.640 --> 0:40:39.399 that play out? Because one of the things that we 0:40:39.520 --> 0:40:43.319 learned after spending some time with Stephen and by the way, 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:47.560 Steve is very supportive of us. He's very supportive of me, um, 0:40:47.600 --> 0:40:52.200 you know, always encouraging, very kind, and he is funny 0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:56.399 as hell even when he's upset. So even when he's 0:40:56.480 --> 0:41:00.200 explaining something to you that is like you know, f 0:41:00.360 --> 0:41:03.880 this ship man, he still is making you crack up 0:41:03.960 --> 0:41:11.400 laughing and he's not laughing at all. So um. So 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:14.680 to answer the question about messing up, I'm not gonna 0:41:14.719 --> 0:41:16.960 say I'm perfect. No one's a perfect investor, but we were. 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:21.160 We do rarely lose money. So you know, if you 0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:23.600 want to win, come with Steve Harvey and you can 0:41:23.680 --> 0:41:26.680 win with us. But um, nevertheless, that happened instance where 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:30.719 we're taking losses right um. Stark Market Crypto is an 0:41:30.719 --> 0:41:33.799 example right now, Blocked I just announced they're insulting, right 0:41:33.880 --> 0:41:35.839 so that's two major firms. Is probably about to be 0:41:36.239 --> 0:41:40.799 crazy wild wild west. But also, um, you know, for 0:41:40.920 --> 0:41:43.400 every loss, you just I just try to have more wins, 0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:46.880 right um. And for me, I take it very personal. 0:41:47.480 --> 0:41:49.960 You know, when I lose, I don't like to lose. 0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:52.520 I'm like, I'm a competitive guy, and my boss is 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:54.640 also very competitive. But what I will say, he's super 0:41:54.640 --> 0:41:57.759 supporter and he also knows, like the best part of 0:41:57.760 --> 0:41:59.520 bou working for Steve Harvey. I tell people all the 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:03.600 time is I work in a hundred seven like atmosphere 0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:08.279 of positivity, motivation. Losses happen like that that now you 0:42:08.320 --> 0:42:10.719 see on the internet. That's really him all the time. 0:42:10.880 --> 0:42:14.000 Like I probably am a walking Steve Arby, you know, 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:17.600 voice recorder or memo machine, right because that's the type 0:42:17.600 --> 0:42:20.400 of environment we're in. So um, and the times that 0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:22.759 we're taking losses even right now in crypto what I 0:42:22.760 --> 0:42:25.120 will say. Yes, we've taken a loss in crypto, however, 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:28.320 we have positioned ourselves and hedged our bets to where 0:42:28.640 --> 0:42:32.960 he's not taking a you know loss. Right, we positioned 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:35.520 it where you're gonna you know, your stop losses ten percent, right, 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:37.919 seven percent, So it's a lot of money, but it's 0:42:37.960 --> 0:42:42.160 also recoverable. So whenever I take a loss, Um, he's 0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:44.600 not the best person to talk to, you know, he's 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:48.560 not the easiest and like, yeah, y'all know comedian Steve Harvey, 0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:50.719 but don't forget it. He still has that other side 0:42:50.800 --> 0:42:53.200 y'all remember the Kings of comedy, And uh, he's not 0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:56.200 the best person to tell something something bad too, but 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:58.440 he always takes it on the chat. And he was 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:00.160 a guy who was homeless and lived in his car, right, 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:02.000 so he always sees the positive thought on it. So 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:04.319 he'll be mad at me for a little bit. But 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:06.759 then he also understands his business and nothing, nothing in 0:43:06.800 --> 0:43:11.319 business happens without risks, right now, That's that's that's real. 0:43:11.760 --> 0:43:15.400 You know what I wanted to know. So what what 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:18.239 exactly do you do in Africs? I know that you 0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:20.799 do like Middle use in Africa? Like, what's over there, 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:23.680 that you're doing over there, that you are focused on 0:43:24.280 --> 0:43:27.000 where you are. Were you on the trip when he 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:32.080 went to Ghana for the first time, Yeah, yeah, that 0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:36.120 was That's why I wanted to go. I started encouraging 0:43:36.120 --> 0:43:39.319 our team, like, let's go to Ghana. Uh and we 0:43:39.360 --> 0:43:41.640 did everything we had to do to get there, which 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:45.160 it wasn't it's not it doesn't have to be expensive, 0:43:45.200 --> 0:43:47.600 but the way we wanted to go. We put up 0:43:47.640 --> 0:43:50.680 a pretty yeah exactly, we put up a pretty pretty penny. 0:43:50.800 --> 0:43:53.399 But I wanted to Steve Harvey experience. When I saw 0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:58.040 him cry in those dungeons, I said, this is something 0:43:58.080 --> 0:43:59.680 that I have to do, and we did it in 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:03.960 Fro this year and it was so so, so so powerful. 0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:08.240 So there, yes, yeah, so yeah, I was there with them. 0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:12.480 Um so yes, out there with them. Yes, I do 0:44:12.800 --> 0:44:16.280 recommend um. One of my co workers, Brandon Williams, actually 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:18.759 see oh well. He he told me something that I 0:44:18.800 --> 0:44:21.920 really commended him on. He's from Atlanta, Southwest, you know, 0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:24.560 southwest side of the you know, normal and a guy right, 0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:27.719 super fluent, super smart. But he promised he's been making 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:29.680 money a long time and he was like, you know, 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:31.359 I've never been to Europe. I was like, well, why 0:44:31.360 --> 0:44:33.520 haven't you been to year? Like you go to places 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:35.960 I've never even knew existed, Like, why haven't you been 0:44:35.960 --> 0:44:38.239 to Europe? And he told me I promised myself I 0:44:38.239 --> 0:44:40.879 would never go to Europe before me to Africa. Mm hmm. 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:45.440 And it was like that was like a how moment 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:46.960 for me. I was like I don't get you know, 0:44:47.040 --> 0:44:49.719 we're always so fascinated with you know, European country and 0:44:49.719 --> 0:44:51.200 cultures is that we don't even need to go to 0:44:51.239 --> 0:44:53.520 place from So that's just a little tip and like 0:44:54.000 --> 0:44:56.719 highly recommend everyone to go to Africa. UM. But yeah, 0:44:56.719 --> 0:44:59.000 so while we're in Africa. So Mr Harvey went to 0:44:59.080 --> 0:45:02.719 Africa for the first um all it ten twelve years 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:04.840 ago and he said when he got off the airplane, 0:45:04.920 --> 0:45:07.960 it was like him uh coming home to a place 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:11.960 he's never been and that was just so um emotional 0:45:12.040 --> 0:45:16.399 and touching towards him. So uh, that was his first 0:45:16.400 --> 0:45:20.200 caase in Africa. About is so crazy how it happens 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:22.760 because I don't even think we've ever even told this story, 0:45:22.800 --> 0:45:25.920 but we got news that this talk show was being 0:45:25.960 --> 0:45:29.120 canceled by NBC. UM, and you know that's the talk show. 0:45:29.160 --> 0:45:33.279 They actually end up winning the ownership, like buying the 0:45:33.320 --> 0:45:35.640 ownership of his show, brought himself out of the contract, 0:45:36.080 --> 0:45:38.560 bought the ownership, and then sold the show back to NBC. 0:45:39.280 --> 0:45:43.640 So that's you know, NBC really didn't like that because 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:45.120 they said it was the first time they lost the 0:45:45.160 --> 0:45:48.319 talent to an agent and not another network. Right, So 0:45:48.360 --> 0:45:49.759 they end up saying they were going to cancel our 0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:55.479 show Seen and Um. Like a Harvey lesson that I learned. 0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:59.160 It's like, always have options, like he never just have 0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:01.880 one stream and UM because that's too close to zero. 0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:04.080 If they turn off that stream income, you hurt. So 0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:06.600 that's why Mrs Harry always has the radio show, multiple 0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:10.000 talk shows, books, because he always has optionality. So they 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:13.000 said they were canceling the show, and you know, instead 0:46:13.040 --> 0:46:16.040 of sitting in self doubt and pity and everyone in Hollywood, 0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:19.600 I was saying, he's over, he's done, he's canceled. He 0:46:19.680 --> 0:46:22.840 was like, he's sat down, And we got an email 0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:25.239 from the Boxwana Diamond Council. So I don't know if 0:46:25.239 --> 0:46:27.239 you guys know, the majority of the world's commons come 0:46:27.280 --> 0:46:30.359 from Boswana in Africa. The Bears has a headquarters there, 0:46:30.480 --> 0:46:32.840 it's like ninety or eighties. So othern percent of the 0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:35.239 world diamonds come from Boswana, right, you would never know. 0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:37.719 I didn't even know where a Botswana was. So we 0:46:37.760 --> 0:46:39.960 end up going to the Boxwana Diamond Council meeting in 0:46:40.400 --> 0:46:43.720 seventeen and from that meeting, I mean the amount of opportunities. 0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:46.279 Mr Harvey met the President of Botswana at the time 0:46:47.160 --> 0:46:49.920 and he ended up calling Brandon Williams. When I was 0:46:49.960 --> 0:46:51.840 in the room with him, was like, hey Brandon, it 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:53.799 was like yes, sir. And one thing Mr Harvey, he 0:46:53.840 --> 0:46:56.279 doesn't he said stuff and just expects it to happen. 0:46:56.320 --> 0:46:57.800 So he said, I want to do TV and Africa 0:46:58.840 --> 0:47:01.640 hung up. So Brandon calls me is like, did he 0:47:01.680 --> 0:47:03.440 just said he wants to do Family Feuden? After that, 0:47:03.600 --> 0:47:06.760 I said, yeah, man so, and I actually commend Brandon. 0:47:06.800 --> 0:47:10.480 Brandon actually led all the all the actual legal negotiations 0:47:10.480 --> 0:47:13.000 and stuff for the license, like that was actually his deal. 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:15.400 I was, you know, there with them, but that was 0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:18.120 actually my first big international deal. So Brandon really lad 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:19.719 all that work. So I have to make sure he 0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:22.680 gets his credit. What credit is doing that? Um? But 0:47:22.719 --> 0:47:24.440 after Mr Harvey said that, he kind of just got 0:47:24.480 --> 0:47:27.480 off the phone and never before had it been done. 0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:29.040 You know, I don't know if you guys know this, 0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:31.840 but TV licensing how it works is you can have 0:47:31.880 --> 0:47:34.879 a hit show called it Family Few. They can either 0:47:35.040 --> 0:47:37.239 sell you the American version that's on TV now, but 0:47:37.280 --> 0:47:39.600 a lot of places don't speak English, right, so they'll 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:42.440 do their own version of the show Family Few, China, 0:47:42.800 --> 0:47:46.200 you know, any India in their own languages. So that's 0:47:46.200 --> 0:47:48.520 called license. So you have to buy those licensing rights 0:47:48.520 --> 0:47:50.919 that you pay freemantament to the parent company. Well, we're 0:47:50.920 --> 0:47:53.080 Brandon with the freemantam and told them they want to 0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:54.880 do TV and out for that and what all commend 0:47:54.920 --> 0:47:57.880 them more like their amazing partners nous and they were like, 0:47:57.920 --> 0:47:59.600 you know, we don't think it's gonna work. We don't 0:47:59.640 --> 0:48:01.080 know this want to do it, but here you go. 0:48:01.120 --> 0:48:02.400 If you want to buy it, you can buy it. 0:48:02.600 --> 0:48:06.400 So it got the rights and Brandon and myself spent 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:10.400 a hundred and twenty five days in Africa, and that's 0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:14.040 we were taking I think six seven meetings a day 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:16.879 because one that had never been done too. We were 0:48:17.000 --> 0:48:20.400 trying to create a new will Um and from Family 0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:22.439 Few to Africa end up by being a year later 0:48:22.600 --> 0:48:24.560 it was the number one show in South Africa, number 0:48:24.560 --> 0:48:27.880 one showing Ghana. UM. That's my first executive doucer TV credits. 0:48:27.920 --> 0:48:31.200 So UM we did multiple years and if it wasn't 0:48:31.200 --> 0:48:33.280 for COVID, we'll still be running out. So we're actually 0:48:33.320 --> 0:48:35.319 looking back, you know, how to get back. But the 0:48:35.360 --> 0:48:38.719 thought was not just do entertainment, but the thought Mr 0:48:38.719 --> 0:48:40.799 Harvey wants to do business on the continent. His man 0:48:40.880 --> 0:48:44.480 goes to bridge the gap between African and African Americans. 0:48:44.920 --> 0:48:47.160 But how can they do that? The easiest thing for 0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:48.719 us to do with TV. But once we got on 0:48:48.760 --> 0:48:51.080 the continent and started doing TV and then all the 0:48:51.120 --> 0:48:54.359 other business opportunities started coming. We started meeting with real 0:48:54.360 --> 0:48:58.040 business people because there so much. So starting in TV 0:48:58.360 --> 0:49:02.880 now melt Africa, which is the name of the company. UM, 0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:06.000 we're in everything from you know, austore, oil and gas, 0:49:06.200 --> 0:49:09.760 last amount delivery. We're investing. UM, We're working about working 0:49:09.800 --> 0:49:13.520 and looking to get agriculture and infrastructure UM. And of 0:49:13.560 --> 0:49:16.239 course like the same Harvey's ventures, how we invest in 0:49:16.280 --> 0:49:19.400 technology over here, we're going on that side. So UM 0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:24.360 currently doing business in South Africa, Botswana, Ghana. UM. We're 0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:29.280 looking at the proper way to do it in Nigeria, Uganda, Congo, 0:49:29.840 --> 0:49:31.920 and we also do business in Egypt right now, so 0:49:31.920 --> 0:49:34.360 that's just on the African continent, and that's either in 0:49:35.120 --> 0:49:37.960 UM A lot of it's not really even to entertainment, 0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:43.279 to take the truth, but Entertainment UM investing doing our 0:49:43.360 --> 0:49:48.840 venture capital office, UM strategic partnerships. So yeah, we do. 0:49:49.080 --> 0:49:52.879 We're in everything and UM the main goes start figure 0:49:52.880 --> 0:49:54.399 out how to do business and then we can go 0:49:54.800 --> 0:49:57.160 and go to a cabin or go to a Chris 0:49:57.280 --> 0:49:59.520 Rock or go to a Lebron and be like, hey, guys, 0:49:59.520 --> 0:50:02.040 like we figl a out this infrastructure. Now let's share 0:50:02.080 --> 0:50:04.480 the buprint and y'all can go do it too. I 0:50:04.600 --> 0:50:06.359 got a couple of hours, man, you know I'm gonna 0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:11.160 give them to you. Man. See if you we we're 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:13.960 gonna give to be the other money man, listen, money 0:50:13.960 --> 0:50:18.440 on to be the I'm actually mesmerized listening to you. 0:50:18.800 --> 0:50:21.920 Sometimes we talk to people and we're like OK, cap, 0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:26.200 but just listening to you, I was like captivated by 0:50:26.480 --> 0:50:31.640 how easily you explain these things the big words. Because 0:50:31.640 --> 0:50:34.560 I used to have this problem with my son and 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:36.440 I first started working together. I used to be like, 0:50:36.480 --> 0:50:38.880 I don't want to speak at those places because I 0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:41.600 don't know how to use all these big words, you know. 0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:44.480 And it's not that we don't know them, but sometimes 0:50:44.520 --> 0:50:48.520 you just don't even feel comfortable being in these rooms 0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:51.040 with these people who are talking all this stuff, and 0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:54.600 you just like speak no, you know, not normal, but 0:50:54.760 --> 0:50:58.759 just right on your level whatever that means. And he 0:50:58.880 --> 0:51:01.080 said to me one day, it's like, yo, people don't 0:51:01.120 --> 0:51:03.840 be knowing what you're talking about anyway when you too 0:51:03.960 --> 0:51:07.239 these words like you just need to speak like Tomka. 0:51:07.360 --> 0:51:10.160 Don't worry about trying to speak like the hard regret 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:14.279 to speak like Tomka is fine. And I realized that 0:51:14.320 --> 0:51:17.680 my message began to resonate more so as I'm listening 0:51:17.719 --> 0:51:20.320 to you, I know, you know what you're talking about. 0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:23.960 You're actually doing this stuff, and you're not just like 0:51:24.080 --> 0:51:27.160 repeating some ship from a book that you read somewhere, 0:51:27.200 --> 0:51:32.040 but actually it's lived the experience. I would give money 0:51:32.520 --> 0:51:35.640 to throw it in the air to go to Africa 0:51:35.680 --> 0:51:38.360 for a hundred and twenty five days. I would love 0:51:38.480 --> 0:51:40.640 to do that, you know, but my life is just 0:51:40.800 --> 0:51:43.440 not set up that way. But I would love that 0:51:43.520 --> 0:51:46.840 because the time that we were there, it wasn't enough. 0:51:47.360 --> 0:51:49.920 It wasn't enough. As we got to the end, we 0:51:49.960 --> 0:51:56.040 went to Egypt, Ghana and then Kenya, and as we 0:51:56.200 --> 0:52:00.520 got to the end, the business opportunity started to come. Um. 0:52:00.520 --> 0:52:03.520 The people started wanting to know more about who we were, 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:05.480 what we were there for, and what happ you. So 0:52:05.600 --> 0:52:08.200 it's very clear that you have to become one with 0:52:08.280 --> 0:52:11.040 the land and one with the people in order to 0:52:11.160 --> 0:52:14.600 get from it the benefits you know of being there. 0:52:14.680 --> 0:52:16.759 So anyway, it's powerful. I didn't have a question. I 0:52:16.800 --> 0:52:19.480 just wanted to say thank you, man. I appreciate it, 0:52:19.520 --> 0:52:24.320 Like I really promiself, Like I never really know expected 0:52:24.360 --> 0:52:26.480 to speak or even get highlighted for the stuff I 0:52:26.520 --> 0:52:29.000 do because I really just like it's always been who 0:52:29.000 --> 0:52:30.719 I am, right, Like I've always been a person, like 0:52:30.760 --> 0:52:33.480 I'll help anyone start their business or grow their business 0:52:33.480 --> 0:52:35.520 because I want to get more practice and helping business 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:39.040 and like I just believe, like I get out what 0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:41.040 I was, like, I'm gonna receive two times more than 0:52:41.080 --> 0:52:43.080 when I put out. So I tell people all the time, 0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:46.480 like if anything, they're like, oh, what's your nickname? Bed? 0:52:46.560 --> 0:52:48.200 It's like, man, I feel like I'm a hope. And 0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:50.760 the reason I say that is because, like I'm from Atlanta, Georgia, 0:52:51.000 --> 0:52:54.200 I'm the most normal person public schools. I used to walk, 0:52:54.280 --> 0:52:56.280 you know, two and a half miles to the bus 0:52:56.440 --> 0:52:58.239 to rough out a forty minute of bus throughout a 0:52:58.280 --> 0:53:00.080 thirty minute train. You know what I'm saying, Like I 0:53:00.120 --> 0:53:03.200 was selling candy, I played sports class clown, Like I'm 0:53:03.320 --> 0:53:04.880 only one of my friends in high school to go 0:53:04.920 --> 0:53:07.640 to college. Right, So for me, it's like, yes, I 0:53:07.640 --> 0:53:10.160 can talk and we can use big words, but at 0:53:10.160 --> 0:53:11.960 the end of the day, the message doesn't matter if 0:53:11.960 --> 0:53:14.680 it's not being received. So like to be able to 0:53:14.680 --> 0:53:18.440 talk to people. And like just because you don't know 0:53:18.640 --> 0:53:20.799 what equivocation means or how to use it and sit 0:53:20.920 --> 0:53:22.480 and it doesn't make you dumb. It just means that 0:53:22.560 --> 0:53:24.279 you And a lot of times it's just in our 0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:27.240 it's not inno vernacular because the people around us aren't 0:53:27.280 --> 0:53:29.600 using right, So while we're going to use the word 0:53:29.600 --> 0:53:31.160 that people around us aren't using it. If you're not 0:53:31.160 --> 0:53:33.120 trying to get hired education, probably really not going to 0:53:33.280 --> 0:53:34.759 use it. So for me, I just like to be 0:53:34.800 --> 0:53:36.399 able to talk like I do a lot of high 0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:39.160 school speaking like I told you, I'm the only one 0:53:39.200 --> 0:53:40.960 of my friends to go to college, so out of 0:53:41.000 --> 0:53:43.279 high school, you know, so I like to make sure 0:53:44.080 --> 0:53:49.480 how many how many hours do you work a day? Seven? 0:53:49.719 --> 0:53:54.200 Like like my fiance and she gets me. Now, I mean, 0:53:54.320 --> 0:53:57.000 so can I tell you what it really is? Uh? 0:53:57.120 --> 0:53:58.839 At one point in my career, see why I got 0:53:58.880 --> 0:54:01.680 the job between twenty three and I just kept geting 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:05.640 promotions right like every three months, four months, you know, 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:09.279 And I started like he brought me in. It was 0:54:09.360 --> 0:54:11.759 like working your way up from an assistant, all right, 0:54:11.800 --> 0:54:13.479 but for me, it was just like the opportunity class. 0:54:14.080 --> 0:54:17.759 But you know, at one point in time, I was 0:54:17.800 --> 0:54:19.880 twenty six and Mr Hard sixty two, so he was 0:54:19.960 --> 0:54:22.360 literally my age the other way around. And he he 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:24.480 was the hardest workingman in Hollywood. He had that name 0:54:25.440 --> 0:54:28.200 before I even started working for him. Right at one 0:54:28.239 --> 0:54:30.640 point when I started, we had seven TV shows, radio show, 0:54:30.719 --> 0:54:33.800 we had a book, and we were trapping. So for me, 0:54:34.520 --> 0:54:36.719 I'll literally I'll tell people the time, like if Steve 0:54:36.760 --> 0:54:38.480 Harvey has a school of success, this is like the 0:54:38.480 --> 0:54:42.080 Steve Harvey business school. So people who've been around would 0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:45.960 really listen the lies of the world, the Kevin Harts, 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:48.000 like you really take this blueprint that gives you. They're 0:54:48.040 --> 0:54:51.719 all uber successful. So I felt like when I first 0:54:51.719 --> 0:54:54.520 started working for we were living in Chicago. Radio starts 0:54:54.520 --> 0:54:55.960 at five o'clock. We will be a working at four 0:54:56.040 --> 0:54:59.080 thirty every day. And then after he does radio, he 0:54:59.120 --> 0:55:00.839 started taking his team. You meet him, so he does 0:55:00.960 --> 0:55:03.960 radio from the TV station, will be see from four 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:06.799 thirty to temp m. And he would do that every day. 0:55:06.840 --> 0:55:10.680 And he's sixty too, So there's no way like me 0:55:10.800 --> 0:55:12.839 being y am all right, boom, you're working for thirty 0:55:13.400 --> 0:55:17.160 four twenty seven. I'm sneaking in like I don't care 0:55:17.160 --> 0:55:18.640 if it's a minute, I'm gonna try to beat you. 0:55:19.080 --> 0:55:21.400 And I'm I follessly m gonna try to stay up 0:55:21.440 --> 0:55:24.320 and like stay after you. So I think he just 0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:27.239 is still the work ethic. And I see him, you know, 0:55:27.280 --> 0:55:30.000 I'll see him hustling, and he has way more money 0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:31.759 to me. So if he's still with hustling, it's a 0:55:32.000 --> 0:55:34.480 I don't have the time or the opportunity, right, It's 0:55:34.480 --> 0:55:37.520 like monkey see, monkey do, And it's like I'm working 0:55:37.640 --> 0:55:40.080 like Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, you name your great you know, 0:55:40.239 --> 0:55:43.240 so I would not emulate. So I mean, I'm pretty 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:45.160 sure it's not help you. Like we take breaks. I 0:55:45.280 --> 0:55:49.719 take breaks, but probably my first call, depending my first 0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:52.560 call could be at three am and then you know, 0:55:53.320 --> 0:55:55.719 I don't know, I'll take my last one like eight nine. 0:55:55.920 --> 0:55:58.280 But it depends. Like I work on a world close, 0:55:59.800 --> 0:56:02.759 I'm my house calling and I might also be on 0:56:02.800 --> 0:56:05.160 the set and have a few hours or you know, 0:56:05.440 --> 0:56:09.719 we work for sure. Well, so what what do you 0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:12.440 want your legacy to be? Like you're already thirty. You 0:56:12.600 --> 0:56:15.680 you creating such a a bar for yourself, So what 0:56:15.880 --> 0:56:18.799 what do you ultimately want your legacy to be? When 0:56:18.840 --> 0:56:23.160 it's all setting there? He helped the people? Mm hmmm, 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:29.920 however that happens? I um, like I really at the 0:56:30.040 --> 0:56:31.720 end of the day, like the reason I do business 0:56:31.760 --> 0:56:33.359 the one because I wanted to be a gangster rich. 0:56:33.400 --> 0:56:35.800 You know, I'm one sixty five so wet, so I 0:56:35.880 --> 0:56:39.000 can't you know what I'm saying. You got another This 0:56:39.120 --> 0:56:41.640 is another level. This is the real gangster right here. Now. 0:56:42.239 --> 0:56:44.759 Tell people like, because that's what I'm doing, coming from 0:56:44.800 --> 0:56:47.239 the streets and being in the streets, being involved in 0:56:47.239 --> 0:56:50.959 the street activity, prison, all these things. And as I grew, 0:56:51.520 --> 0:56:53.560 you know, this level of power, in this level of 0:56:54.080 --> 0:56:57.840 matigs mode and stuff that we glorified. He never competed 0:56:58.440 --> 0:57:01.560 with these rooms and these billionaires and millionaires. And when 0:57:01.600 --> 0:57:03.960 you start to realize, like that's what the real gangsters. 0:57:04.000 --> 0:57:06.719 The gangster got his family, he taking kids, mom, and 0:57:06.840 --> 0:57:10.080 he moved like this is what gangsters. So you right 0:57:10.160 --> 0:57:12.399 now you're one of the biggest gangs that I've ever met. Man. 0:57:12.560 --> 0:57:17.720 I appreciate it. Man, I like, honestly like cats like you, 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:20.200 while I really love your story, like that was you know, 0:57:20.760 --> 0:57:23.000 when you're a smart kid, like you know, you're be 0:57:23.120 --> 0:57:25.320 smart and funny that everybody like beaty man, like get 0:57:25.360 --> 0:57:27.600 out of here, you know. And I really attest that, 0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:30.120 like a lot of people I know, like yeah, all 0:57:30.160 --> 0:57:32.080 the folks I know, the people doing it and those 0:57:32.160 --> 0:57:34.440 my guys, right, but I also appreciate them because they 0:57:34.440 --> 0:57:36.640 would be like hate bet, like you don't really need 0:57:36.680 --> 0:57:38.960 to beat like come on, bro, like you got you 0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:42.400 got scholarships college, bro, Like get out of here. That's 0:57:42.400 --> 0:57:44.560 what we've gotta do, you know. So and that was 0:57:44.720 --> 0:57:46.480 and that's what it was about. But I just want 0:57:46.520 --> 0:57:50.280 to say I'm inspired I'm motivated. I'm putting my couple 0:57:50.280 --> 0:57:52.840 of little coins together, see if we could double triple them. 0:57:53.280 --> 0:57:55.000 You know, just keep doing what you're doing. Man, I 0:57:55.080 --> 0:57:58.320 salute you, thank you, and then I want to make 0:57:58.320 --> 0:58:01.240 sure I get your contact too, because I mean, you know, 0:58:01.440 --> 0:58:06.640 I don't want to about about the interview years old. 0:58:06.720 --> 0:58:10.400 So we're gonna get you weaken the weekend this information. Look, 0:58:10.440 --> 0:58:12.400 you're sitting there making a bilious We can get some 0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:15.720 funny when you When are you gonna start having children? 0:58:16.280 --> 0:58:19.680 My girl wants so we're getting married next June and 0:58:19.800 --> 0:58:22.800 Lake Como. I thought it was gonna be Atlanta, but 0:58:23.440 --> 0:58:25.840 so she's doing that. So she said she want to 0:58:25.880 --> 0:58:28.800 start on honeymoon. But I'm the oldest of four, so 0:58:29.520 --> 0:58:31.479 I got I got kids in high school. My little 0:58:31.480 --> 0:58:34.400 brother just texts me this morning, like, in seven am, 0:58:34.880 --> 0:58:37.320 how many squares of cologned I'll put on? And where 0:58:37.880 --> 0:58:43.680 I'm like, Okay, who are you trying to impress? An? 0:58:43.920 --> 0:58:46.920 Ain't up wrong with that? No, I think it's just 0:58:47.280 --> 0:58:52.320 it's really empowering to know that you are have been 0:58:52.400 --> 0:58:56.880 empowered by Steve Harvey, but then you're not because some 0:58:57.040 --> 0:58:59.560 of our people are empowered and they don't show up, right, 0:58:59.640 --> 0:59:02.680 they don't. It's just the truth. They don't. They don't 0:59:02.680 --> 0:59:04.960 show up, they don't do the thing they need to 0:59:05.080 --> 0:59:09.840 do to be the guy or the gal in the room. Right. 0:59:10.080 --> 0:59:13.480 And I hear you talking about the work ethic. So 0:59:13.760 --> 0:59:16.720 many of our young people believe that it's supposed to 0:59:16.800 --> 0:59:20.360 just be turnkey. It just happens, turn on the phone, boom, 0:59:20.520 --> 0:59:23.440 million dollars. And it is not like I don't know 0:59:23.640 --> 0:59:25.800 anyone that me and I know there are people out 0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:29.320 here that they have TikTok and different things and they 0:59:29.440 --> 0:59:32.960 just made money off of something quick and easy. But 0:59:33.120 --> 0:59:37.840 that's not the story generally, it's not, you know. And 0:59:38.080 --> 0:59:41.680 and I I worry about our generation of young people 0:59:41.760 --> 0:59:46.640 that's coming behind because they, you know, they the stress level, 0:59:46.760 --> 0:59:50.560 the anxiety that is happening as a result of folks 0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:53.400 who really don't want to work that much or work 0:59:53.520 --> 0:59:57.400 that hard. And I get it. White supremacy has created 0:59:57.440 --> 1:00:03.720 a situation where working yourself to death is actually making 1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:07.320 us more successful, but it's physically killing us. So I 1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:09.600 don't know the balance. I really don't know the best 1:00:09.600 --> 1:00:12.200 because we work all the time to we live each 1:00:12.360 --> 1:00:16.360 sleep our work. But it's it's not healthy. But yet 1:00:16.560 --> 1:00:20.200 I don't know any other way to become successful without 1:00:20.280 --> 1:00:25.760 doing it. Yeah, I think, well, one, if you love 1:00:25.840 --> 1:00:27.800 what you do, y'all aren't really working. And like, when 1:00:27.800 --> 1:00:30.320 you really ask me that question, I don't ever feel 1:00:30.360 --> 1:00:33.040 like I'm working. Like I gotta spreadsheep behind you right now, 1:00:33.040 --> 1:00:35.840 and I'm gonna be reading this year, you know, like 1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:39.680 because I really love what I do. Um, So I 1:00:39.800 --> 1:00:43.400 think like that's the first thing. Um. And then secondly 1:00:43.520 --> 1:00:48.680 I feel that people do like I think it's easy, right, um, 1:00:49.040 --> 1:00:52.520 but it's the sacrifice man. Like I speak at a 1:00:52.560 --> 1:00:55.840 lot of high schools, and you know, first and foremost, 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:59.120 let's get this point clear. A million dollars, it's a 1:00:59.320 --> 1:01:04.000 lot of money. And it's so hard to ask anybody 1:01:04.000 --> 1:01:06.680 who's ever made a million dollars. It is so hard 1:01:06.840 --> 1:01:09.959 to make a million dollars. But guess what's harder keeping? Yeah, 1:01:10.240 --> 1:01:11.840 because as soon as you spend one dollar, you're no 1:01:11.960 --> 1:01:15.200 longer a millionaires. Right, So it's super hard to make 1:01:15.240 --> 1:01:17.600 a lot of money. And Mr Harvey's favorite line is 1:01:18.120 --> 1:01:19.959 it takes a long time to make a lot of money. 1:01:21.240 --> 1:01:23.040 I'm telling you all these hardy gyms on the drop 1:01:23.240 --> 1:01:26.280 is gonna be good ones, right, But he uses this analogy, said, man, 1:01:26.320 --> 1:01:29.919 look at the first class of airplane. People on first 1:01:29.920 --> 1:01:32.240 class of airplane got great here or nowhere because you 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:35.760 gotta work to get up there. It costs unless someone's 1:01:35.800 --> 1:01:38.320 paying it, like it costs to get up there, and 1:01:38.320 --> 1:01:41.120 it takes a long time no matter what the way 1:01:41.200 --> 1:01:43.480 you do it. Now, I do believe in work as smart, 1:01:44.120 --> 1:01:46.520 um and not hard and trying to become more efficient, 1:01:46.720 --> 1:01:48.280 you know, with how I use my time and you 1:01:48.440 --> 1:01:51.160 lose my efforts, but you still have to work hard. 1:01:51.680 --> 1:01:55.200 I mean, it's not easy like people all the time. 1:01:55.280 --> 1:01:58.080 It's not easy, Like you don't understand. I've missed so 1:01:58.400 --> 1:02:03.840 many homecome and I've missed so many birthdays, life events. Um. 1:02:04.480 --> 1:02:07.760 And it's sacrifices like um, me and my fiance we 1:02:07.840 --> 1:02:09.960 end up breaking up when I first took the job 1:02:10.000 --> 1:02:12.360 because I was just doing so much I didn't have 1:02:12.440 --> 1:02:15.400 the time to give to my relationship. Right. So it's 1:02:15.400 --> 1:02:17.640 a lot of sacrifices. But for me, it's de lay 1:02:17.720 --> 1:02:21.560 gratification versus instant gratification. Right. So my instant gratification is 1:02:22.320 --> 1:02:24.800 I can come spend money to go to every party 1:02:25.400 --> 1:02:29.080 and miss these meetings and you know, instant gratifications going 1:02:29.120 --> 1:02:30.959 to the club on the section of things that would 1:02:30.960 --> 1:02:34.280 instantly make me happy. But what's delay gratification? Delay gratifications 1:02:34.400 --> 1:02:37.000 understanding that the sacrifice that I'm paying is later on 1:02:37.080 --> 1:02:39.800 pay dividends. So no, I'm not gonna spend this money, 1:02:39.880 --> 1:02:42.120 or yes, I'm gonna work these extra hours, or I'm 1:02:42.120 --> 1:02:45.240 gonna stay around just to see who I might need. Right, 1:02:45.320 --> 1:02:48.720 So I think I think this generation, I think we're 1:02:48.760 --> 1:02:51.000 gonna be cool because I think my generation honestly was 1:02:51.200 --> 1:02:53.280 you know, we thought we were failures if we don't 1:02:53.280 --> 1:02:55.680 have a millionars at eight team, right, because they made it, 1:02:56.080 --> 1:02:58.960 made it that simple. Um or that's how it seemed social, 1:02:59.160 --> 1:03:01.840 like social tech, the tech bobble like that's when we 1:03:01.920 --> 1:03:05.040 grew up. So um, I don't think the tick, I know, 1:03:05.160 --> 1:03:08.040 the TikTok makes it seem easy because now everybody's an 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:11.040 edge retainer and everyone's teaching you how to make a 1:03:11.160 --> 1:03:14.280 hundred thousand. They're telling you the faster, but they're just 1:03:14.400 --> 1:03:16.560 doing that because these guys aren't really making money off that. 1:03:16.680 --> 1:03:18.600 Whatever they're selling you, they're making money off they're following. 1:03:19.240 --> 1:03:20.640 So they need you to follow them. They need to 1:03:20.640 --> 1:03:23.040 look like they're getting money. Nine percent these guys aren't 1:03:23.080 --> 1:03:24.800 making money off of it, and that they were, they 1:03:24.800 --> 1:03:28.040 would tell you that it takes time to make money. 1:03:28.080 --> 1:03:30.800 You will get some hits. But like those people on TikTok, 1:03:30.840 --> 1:03:32.800 how many Elon Musk are there? How many Steve Harpy 1:03:32.920 --> 1:03:37.840 are they? Right? Like people, it's this book called The 1:03:37.880 --> 1:03:40.560 Millionaire next Door. You know, like ninety nine percent of 1:03:40.600 --> 1:03:45.160 millionaires are normal working people m and they became millionaires 1:03:45.240 --> 1:03:47.920 not from having a big hit idea. It's come from 1:03:48.000 --> 1:03:52.840 saving and investing and looking below their means. Yeah, I 1:03:53.040 --> 1:03:57.880 highly recommend that book to anybody period, The Millionaire next Door, 1:03:58.720 --> 1:04:01.600 and it's gonna teach you the habits of a normal millionaire. 1:04:02.320 --> 1:04:04.560 The typical millionaire has been living in their house twenty 1:04:04.600 --> 1:04:08.160 five or thirty years. The typical millionaires, it's usually you know, 1:04:08.720 --> 1:04:11.720 have not leasing cars to own their cars. They have 1:04:11.880 --> 1:04:15.760 hed time, and they have a normal die so hard work. 1:04:15.800 --> 1:04:18.160 You gotta you gotta work hard, and you gotta sacrifice 1:04:18.800 --> 1:04:21.960 faith kind kind of you can kind of answer my 1:04:22.120 --> 1:04:25.040 last question because I was gonna ask you, young boy, 1:04:25.480 --> 1:04:28.160 young black boy coming from the hood, comes up to 1:04:28.240 --> 1:04:31.760 you and you want some advice, and you know, he says, 1:04:31.760 --> 1:04:33.680 how did you become sexual? Give me some advice? What 1:04:33.760 --> 1:04:38.080 would you tell with him? Like right there and in 1:04:38.560 --> 1:04:43.000 one minute sixty it's hard. First piece of ice is hard, 1:04:43.040 --> 1:04:47.360 but don't quit. And anybody under eighteen, the first thing 1:04:47.400 --> 1:04:49.840 I tell them, for real, for real is all your 1:04:49.880 --> 1:04:53.080 friends is stupid and you are probably stupid too, Like, 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:55.080 let's just be real. I started to shoot company when 1:04:55.080 --> 1:04:57.840 out seventeen, and I used to always tell people. Everyone 1:04:57.960 --> 1:04:59.920 used to ask me why, why do you want us 1:05:00.000 --> 1:05:01.360 our shoes? Why do you want to start shoot? But 1:05:01.360 --> 1:05:03.480 now they ask me how because they don't have that 1:05:03.560 --> 1:05:05.560 ability in their head to see what you want. So 1:05:05.640 --> 1:05:10.280 I'm gonna say, hard work, keep working hard, networking. Networking 1:05:10.360 --> 1:05:13.480 is the most important thing. Fund a mentor. Listen, you 1:05:13.600 --> 1:05:16.080 might not find someone in your exact feel but a 1:05:16.160 --> 1:05:17.880 mentor is a mentor. You can find someone who's an 1:05:17.880 --> 1:05:20.360 accounting who can help you and teach you accounting, and 1:05:20.400 --> 1:05:22.400 then that could be the next interception, right Like a 1:05:22.480 --> 1:05:29.040 mentors impartant um can be humble man like, it's somewhere bigger, richer, stronger, 1:05:29.160 --> 1:05:31.520 look better, like just be humble and treat people the 1:05:31.560 --> 1:05:32.960 way you want to be treated because at the end 1:05:33.000 --> 1:05:35.680 of the day, like don't be a Dirk through like this, 1:05:36.520 --> 1:05:39.480 Like how you treat people will get you. So for 1:05:39.920 --> 1:05:42.040 the reason that I got the opportunity to see part 1:05:42.040 --> 1:05:43.840 of you because how I treat I later found out 1:05:43.880 --> 1:05:45.439 was because how I was treating people at the camp 1:05:45.920 --> 1:05:50.080 and like, be willing to do what others aren't. Man, right, seriously, 1:05:50.440 --> 1:05:55.560 be willing to do what others aren't. Great advice. You know. Well, 1:05:55.760 --> 1:05:58.680 I want to thank you, you know, for coming up 1:05:58.720 --> 1:06:02.200 here dropping this with MS. We're gonna give you a call. 1:06:02.280 --> 1:06:05.240 We're gonna give you some money. You know what I'm saying. 1:06:05.240 --> 1:06:08.960 We're gonna get this going. You know what. I appreciate you, man. 1:06:09.040 --> 1:06:12.120 You you got a very strong head on your shoulders, 1:06:12.800 --> 1:06:16.240 beautiful personality. Man, keep doing what you're doing. In congratulations 1:06:16.360 --> 1:06:20.080 or if you know you and your wife and you 1:06:20.160 --> 1:06:23.440 know to wife to be wife to be, she would say, wife, 1:06:23.960 --> 1:06:30.040 you gotta man her first. Yeah, she tells me that. Okay, 1:06:30.160 --> 1:06:32.720 now she's amazing. Seriously, thank you so much to be. 1:06:32.920 --> 1:06:35.240 We appreciate you for being on with us today. Is 1:06:35.320 --> 1:06:40.160 sharing so many gems. You teach courses, man, teach courses. 1:06:40.480 --> 1:06:43.000 You know, I'm thinking about that, but I don't want 1:06:43.040 --> 1:06:45.720 to charge to people, right you know, well, but you 1:06:45.840 --> 1:06:48.959 know that I see a lot of people nineties seven 1:06:49.040 --> 1:06:52.160 dollars because I know, Um, one of your big supporters 1:06:52.640 --> 1:06:56.080 or one of Steve's big supporters for the foundation is 1:06:56.160 --> 1:07:00.080 coach Stormy Um. Actually we met Stormy willing to and 1:07:00.320 --> 1:07:04.720 at the golf event where we learned that she was 1:07:04.800 --> 1:07:09.360 like one of the highest donors to the foundation from 1:07:09.520 --> 1:07:12.880 just as a single person not a corporation. UM, and 1:07:13.000 --> 1:07:17.760 I learned so much about your intellectual property and how 1:07:18.000 --> 1:07:21.560 you don't have to charge people two thousand dollars, but 1:07:21.720 --> 1:07:25.360 that nineties seven dollars, that hundred and nineties seven dollars. 1:07:25.640 --> 1:07:28.520 It makes the person honest, like this is something I 1:07:28.640 --> 1:07:31.480 really want when I go online and log on and 1:07:31.560 --> 1:07:33.800 pay this a little bit of money to be in 1:07:33.880 --> 1:07:38.320 a community where I can learn. I have because because 1:07:38.640 --> 1:07:41.440 one of the challenges I see with some of the 1:07:41.560 --> 1:07:45.200 folks that are doing great things trying to educate people 1:07:45.480 --> 1:07:49.479 on Instagram, it doesn't a lot of people can't catch 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:53.320 it in those seconds. So that's why those classrooms settings 1:07:53.360 --> 1:07:55.760 are important, because you need to be able to ask questions. 1:07:56.240 --> 1:07:59.520 You don't need trolling and other people with their thoughts. 1:07:59.640 --> 1:08:02.200 You really need to be focused and so I hear 1:08:02.920 --> 1:08:07.560 education coming from you. You know, so we I want 1:08:07.600 --> 1:08:09.800 you to keep doing that. Thank you all for having me. 1:08:10.520 --> 1:08:12.720 I hope to be back next year. I hope I 1:08:12.800 --> 1:08:16.479 didn't get banned. Um. I know the producers don't have 1:08:16.520 --> 1:08:18.599 their cameras on, so I hope they're not shaking their head. 1:08:18.640 --> 1:08:20.559 But I love to come back and help and then 1:08:20.720 --> 1:08:22.240 um also, like I said, I just want to help 1:08:22.240 --> 1:08:24.639 you all, um in any way that I can, like honestly, 1:08:24.880 --> 1:08:26.600 like that's really what I love to do. Is just 1:08:26.720 --> 1:08:29.560 like I like making the play like John Stock, you 1:08:29.640 --> 1:08:32.280 know listen, I like I like to get the ellie. 1:08:32.640 --> 1:08:36.200 You throw it, I'm gonna catch it. Thank you all 1:08:36.240 --> 1:08:38.800 for having me, and I look forward to our new 1:08:38.880 --> 1:08:41.120 founding relationship. Man, I really want to help you out. 1:08:41.320 --> 1:08:45.280 You want to have friends, now, that's our that's our friends. 1:08:45.280 --> 1:08:50.200 When y'all come to the A JR. Cricket is on me. Yeah, 1:08:50.680 --> 1:08:52.400 we're gonna lock in. I'm see you. I'm gonna see 1:08:52.400 --> 1:08:55.040 you guys something I know. Sure, So before you go, though, 1:08:55.160 --> 1:08:58.000 tell us where we can find you. And also if 1:08:58.040 --> 1:09:01.000 you have any new ventures, let us know about it 1:09:01.080 --> 1:09:03.719 so folks can support you. My website is the Stephen 1:09:03.760 --> 1:09:06.280 Group dot co, so you can always hit me on 1:09:06.320 --> 1:09:08.519 one of those platforms if you want to work. And 1:09:08.880 --> 1:09:11.400 I actually do have a new venture off the Leash media. 1:09:11.880 --> 1:09:14.720 I'm wearing the merchandise right now. And it's basically a 1:09:14.800 --> 1:09:17.519 platform think of ESPN or Bleacher Reports, but for like 1:09:17.600 --> 1:09:21.559 French bulldogs and breeders. So we're connecting the community. Um 1:09:21.600 --> 1:09:23.400 if you want to learn, if you're a breeder you 1:09:23.479 --> 1:09:25.400 want to learn how to breed, or you're interested you 1:09:25.439 --> 1:09:27.599 want to looking for some places to buy a dog 1:09:27.840 --> 1:09:30.400 or meet new people in that community. That's come check 1:09:30.479 --> 1:09:34.120 us out all positive information and uh yeah, I don't 1:09:34.120 --> 1:09:36.200 know if you guys know, but apparently dog breeding is 1:09:36.240 --> 1:09:38.800 a really big industry that yeah, to get a lot 1:09:38.840 --> 1:09:40.720 of money. Man, I'm coming off the leash, man. Make 1:09:40.760 --> 1:09:46.320 sure y'all go support my brother the leash. That's so 1:09:46.439 --> 1:09:49.000 you've got good ideas off the leaf, thank you. Man. 1:09:49.040 --> 1:09:51.240 That's what partnerships coming to play. Man, Like you're you 1:09:51.320 --> 1:09:53.240 have the partner with people who are a plus plus 1:09:53.360 --> 1:09:55.400 and um, I do the business, So I didn't think 1:09:55.439 --> 1:09:57.720 of any of the marketing. But that's why, you know, 1:09:57.880 --> 1:10:00.360 partnerships and relationships are so important. So I'm them forward 1:10:00.400 --> 1:10:03.400 to building a relationship with you guys, And honestly, we 1:10:03.520 --> 1:10:05.320 probably do need to book you guys for a dog 1:10:05.400 --> 1:10:09.240 show that we have coming up off listen. I'm scared 1:10:09.280 --> 1:10:12.160 of dogs. I'm scared of dogs, but if it could 1:10:12.200 --> 1:10:16.320 get me closer to my billionaire status, I'll be there. 1:10:16.640 --> 1:10:31.120 Scared than Yeah, Chase for joining us the beating see 1:10:31.200 --> 1:10:33.960 this is this is this gives me hope. Not to 1:10:34.080 --> 1:10:39.320 say that I think that like most of the young 1:10:39.479 --> 1:10:42.920 people are like, you know, I don't know, not something 1:10:43.000 --> 1:10:45.040 I don't even have the right word to describe it. 1:10:45.120 --> 1:10:47.840 It's just like I do notice that when I'm trying 1:10:47.880 --> 1:10:50.360 to work with some of the younger people, it's kind 1:10:50.360 --> 1:10:55.719 of difficult to get like a good strong work product 1:10:55.920 --> 1:10:59.439 and people interested in like hustle hard like it just 1:10:59.560 --> 1:11:04.200 seems it's difficult, but um to be he said something 1:11:04.280 --> 1:11:08.479 that I think is so powerful. He's into working smarter, right, 1:11:08.560 --> 1:11:11.240 So I think in many ways they also as younger 1:11:11.400 --> 1:11:15.760 people have found out that we don't have to go 1:11:16.120 --> 1:11:19.519 to uh nine to five job every day and just 1:11:19.760 --> 1:11:23.240 do whatever we're told, but actually we can actually create 1:11:23.600 --> 1:11:27.160 and you know, and be strategists even at a young age. 1:11:27.479 --> 1:11:31.120 And I think that if he that trajectory that he's on, 1:11:31.240 --> 1:11:33.040 if there are more young people, I'm glad to hear 1:11:33.120 --> 1:11:35.759 that he's in high schools because if more young people 1:11:35.960 --> 1:11:39.160 follow in not just his footsteps, but really sort of 1:11:39.400 --> 1:11:43.120 model what they are doing around this idea of being 1:11:43.240 --> 1:11:46.800 strategists and not just workers, then we might be all right. 1:11:47.400 --> 1:11:49.479 But it's it's still work though, you know what I'm saying, 1:11:49.600 --> 1:11:51.240 And I think he said he said, you've got a 1:11:51.280 --> 1:11:54.160 work hard and and the work hard doesn't mean that 1:11:54.280 --> 1:11:56.800 you exhaust yourself when you you know, you run around 1:11:56.800 --> 1:11:59.880 and a chicken. It means that you are intentional a 1:12:00.000 --> 1:12:03.600 about being successful. Right that whatever you whatever it is 1:12:03.680 --> 1:12:07.160 that you know it's gonna take to acquire that success, 1:12:07.360 --> 1:12:09.640 you have to do that, and you gotta do it constantly, 1:12:09.960 --> 1:12:12.720 because there's somebody else out there that's working hard that 1:12:12.920 --> 1:12:14.559 even if they're just sitting in their bed and they're 1:12:14.560 --> 1:12:16.960 on the computer, whatever it is that they're doing to 1:12:17.080 --> 1:12:19.240 get to that level they have, it has to be done. 1:12:19.439 --> 1:12:22.120 And I think that's what I see a lot of youth, 1:12:22.600 --> 1:12:24.040 You know that I see a lot of them. Have 1:12:24.600 --> 1:12:26.960 they the dreams? They're like, y'all want to get this. 1:12:27.160 --> 1:12:30.960 I want this. They motivated in their mind. But the 1:12:31.080 --> 1:12:34.160 actions that it takes to actually get to what you're 1:12:34.160 --> 1:12:36.519 trying to go, they don't. I don't. I don't see. 1:12:36.720 --> 1:12:38.640 I just don't see the energy. It's a level of 1:12:38.800 --> 1:12:41.800 energy and passion that you gotta have. And and I 1:12:41.960 --> 1:12:44.280 tell I tell my own kids this all the time. 1:12:44.680 --> 1:12:47.760 I would love to give you anything, right, but I 1:12:47.880 --> 1:12:49.880 want to see you have to make me believe that 1:12:50.080 --> 1:12:53.200 that's what you want. Can just say you know I 1:12:53.280 --> 1:12:55.800 want this, and that I'm investing in you what you 1:12:55.960 --> 1:12:58.360 invest in you, I'll double what you invest in you 1:12:58.439 --> 1:13:00.519 if I see that you invest in you. So, you know, 1:13:00.640 --> 1:13:03.360 listening to to be the he understands that mind sick. 1:13:03.600 --> 1:13:08.200 He understands, like he says, this is a billionaire who 1:13:08.320 --> 1:13:10.800 who's got way more money than me, and he's moving 1:13:11.200 --> 1:13:14.599 and you know, on the trajectory success, and I can't 1:13:15.000 --> 1:13:18.000 work less than him. You know, there's no way, there's 1:13:18.040 --> 1:13:20.320 no way I should be working less than him when 1:13:20.560 --> 1:13:22.960 he got way more than I want. You know, I 1:13:23.120 --> 1:13:26.360 than I than I have. So I understand exactly what 1:13:26.439 --> 1:13:29.560 you're saying about trying to be smarter, work smarter, But 1:13:29.800 --> 1:13:31.960 it's still that energy gotta be there, gotta be that 1:13:32.080 --> 1:13:36.080 passion and that energy. Man and his personality is so 1:13:37.040 --> 1:13:39.120 you know, just he was just I don't want to 1:13:39.160 --> 1:13:42.200 say so sweet, because I don't know if that was it, 1:13:42.400 --> 1:13:46.080 but what he was to me was so authentic and 1:13:46.280 --> 1:13:51.680 just kind, And that takes you a long way when 1:13:51.760 --> 1:13:55.000 you have skills. You know, first of all, didn't working 1:13:55.080 --> 1:13:58.160 for someone like Steve Harvey. You're not going to get 1:13:58.920 --> 1:14:01.479 to impress him get the job done just because your 1:14:01.520 --> 1:14:04.200 social media page is copping. You gotta be able to 1:14:04.479 --> 1:14:10.719 speak to someone and convince people in person that your product, 1:14:10.840 --> 1:14:13.560 whatever you're selling, or whatever you need from them or 1:14:13.600 --> 1:14:18.080 whatever deal you have is beneficial. That takes into personal skills, 1:14:18.400 --> 1:14:21.479 And oftentimes when I'm talking to some young people, I 1:14:21.520 --> 1:14:24.280 have to say, speak up, you know, speak up, project 1:14:24.360 --> 1:14:31.000 your voice, stop mumbling, you know which maybe that huhnfidence, Yeah, 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:33.960 And maybe that mumbling thing is also a part of 1:14:34.000 --> 1:14:37.720 the whole mumble rapping, like what they listened to entertainment. 1:14:38.160 --> 1:14:41.000 I don't know, but I I find myself saying to 1:14:41.360 --> 1:14:43.680 some of the young people, even young people around me, 1:14:44.240 --> 1:14:47.559 what like speak up? Now, I'm as I'm getting older, 1:14:47.800 --> 1:14:50.320 and I'm not even joking, like I'm serious. As I'm 1:14:50.360 --> 1:14:54.960 getting older, my hearing is not so great. In on 1:14:55.240 --> 1:14:58.840 my left side, it's not so great. So I realized 1:14:58.880 --> 1:15:01.920 that sometimes I just don't really even here. But even 1:15:02.040 --> 1:15:06.439 after I'm like, huh, like what say the words? Speak up? 1:15:06.720 --> 1:15:10.880 Because where I come from, as a professional who's been 1:15:10.960 --> 1:15:15.280 out here for almost thirty years, you had to project 1:15:15.439 --> 1:15:20.479 yourself to explain your position, to speak with clarity, and 1:15:20.600 --> 1:15:25.360 to really capture a room, an audience, another individual. So 1:15:25.600 --> 1:15:28.280 that's the way that I learned, and I don't and 1:15:28.560 --> 1:15:31.479 I think the Internet is sort of dumbing that down 1:15:32.000 --> 1:15:34.080 and we just gotta find a way to have balance. 1:15:34.160 --> 1:15:36.680 So I think to be the he needs to be 1:15:36.840 --> 1:15:41.000 out here really helping to educate our youth on what 1:15:41.200 --> 1:15:43.960 it takes to be successful. So I love them, I 1:15:44.240 --> 1:15:46.640 appreciate it to be. Then that brings me into my 1:15:46.720 --> 1:15:54.479 idem getting, you know, being a young black entrepreneur like himself. 1:15:54.479 --> 1:15:57.400 Shout out to my my boy Mark with his Bear 1:15:57.479 --> 1:16:01.280 Witness clothing be Witness Underscore, hovering on Instagram. He gave 1:16:01.320 --> 1:16:04.280 me this. I actually, I know I've been supporting all 1:16:04.400 --> 1:16:08.640 black businesses, especially clothing around this time. You know, my 1:16:08.760 --> 1:16:14.160 boycott a Nike. And you know last week I made 1:16:14.240 --> 1:16:16.719 a couple of videos of me throwing away my Nikes, 1:16:17.400 --> 1:16:20.200 you know, and there was the outrage. You know, the 1:16:20.280 --> 1:16:22.880 people made the page why are you throwing away Nike? 1:16:23.439 --> 1:16:27.320 You know what's going on? People could use that, you know, 1:16:27.479 --> 1:16:29.920 I'm not didn't make a page. People made all types 1:16:29.960 --> 1:16:32.720 of posts. There was a post here, Mice did this. 1:16:32.800 --> 1:16:34.639 It was all over the inter then Mike, so I'm 1:16:34.680 --> 1:16:36.599 doing this, what do you think? And then people that, oh, 1:16:37.040 --> 1:16:39.120 I'm not throwing this away? And I said to myself, 1:16:39.320 --> 1:16:42.720 and that's your that's your prerogative right if you if 1:16:42.760 --> 1:16:46.080 you pay your money for something, whatever it is that 1:16:46.200 --> 1:16:49.240 you choose to use. If you by one thousand other 1:16:49.320 --> 1:16:51.600 coat and you decide you wonder to buy because you 1:16:51.640 --> 1:16:53.840 wanted to burn the coat, that is your coat. It 1:16:54.000 --> 1:16:57.040 is your money. It is your prerogative to do whatever 1:16:57.280 --> 1:16:59.960 it is you want with your money. When I made 1:17:00.320 --> 1:17:04.080 my boycott against Nike, right, it wasn't because I didn't 1:17:04.120 --> 1:17:08.040 like nikee I was I wanted to sacrifice something right. 1:17:08.120 --> 1:17:11.759 When I looked at how the CEO spoke about Kyrie, 1:17:11.880 --> 1:17:17.040 and pretty much, you know, devalued him as a man. 1:17:17.360 --> 1:17:19.200 And I know he was speaking about a black man 1:17:19.240 --> 1:17:21.680 who I know is a good character, a good individual. 1:17:22.120 --> 1:17:25.240 And I watched him grow up in the industry under 1:17:25.280 --> 1:17:28.200 the spotlights and trying to do things to be, you know, 1:17:28.439 --> 1:17:31.080 be a beacon of light, as he says, and try 1:17:31.160 --> 1:17:34.960 to do positive things and always talking about positivity in 1:17:35.040 --> 1:17:38.120 our community and invest in our community and giving you know, 1:17:38.479 --> 1:17:41.120 money to the poor, and giving money to those who 1:17:41.200 --> 1:17:43.720 have tragedies, always doing things like that. And when I 1:17:43.840 --> 1:17:46.800 heard this this white man sit up there and speak 1:17:46.840 --> 1:17:48.920 to him and said he crossed the line and he 1:17:48.960 --> 1:17:52.479 could just sever a partnership that he was doing with him, 1:17:52.640 --> 1:17:54.519 it made me feel away. It made me feel like 1:17:54.960 --> 1:18:00.920 I was watching a slave massive tell a tell a boy, 1:18:01.120 --> 1:18:02.960 like they used to say, boy, if you cross that line, 1:18:02.960 --> 1:18:05.920 we're gonna do this to you. And it just didn't 1:18:06.080 --> 1:18:07.960 it didn't sit well with me, you know. And it 1:18:08.040 --> 1:18:11.160 wasn't about Kyrie. You know, people oh Kyrie. Still, it 1:18:11.280 --> 1:18:14.920 wasn't so much a Kyrie was the condoit of what 1:18:15.080 --> 1:18:19.280 it was. His situation made me reflect about my personal 1:18:19.360 --> 1:18:22.800 opinion about it as a as a whole. So I 1:18:22.920 --> 1:18:26.000 didn't do it because Kyrie was boy kott Nake. Kyrie 1:18:26.080 --> 1:18:28.200 had his own situation. But when I looked at it, 1:18:28.800 --> 1:18:33.040 the the man himself, the person who was benefiting off 1:18:33.120 --> 1:18:35.320 me spending my money, I didn't think he should benefit 1:18:35.400 --> 1:18:38.240 off it anymore. So I made a conscious decision that 1:18:38.360 --> 1:18:41.240 I wanted the same way he said that we cut ties, 1:18:41.360 --> 1:18:43.559 I wanted to cut ties with NIKEE. So I invested 1:18:43.640 --> 1:18:46.560 thousands of dollars of my money and Nike and a 1:18:46.680 --> 1:18:50.600 lot of times, you know, people people protest differently. My 1:18:50.760 --> 1:18:54.000 protests wasn't to go give it to the Salvation, You'll 1:18:54.040 --> 1:18:57.280 give it to this. I've I've given clothes, I've given food. 1:18:57.400 --> 1:19:00.519 I donate all the time. There's a bunch of things 1:19:00.560 --> 1:19:02.120 people you can't you don't get to talk to me 1:19:02.200 --> 1:19:04.600 about donate. And I know they're people hungry and and 1:19:04.800 --> 1:19:07.760 and just like tomorrow, I might go, I got a 1:19:07.880 --> 1:19:10.000 bunch of clothes and I'm cleaning out here. I'm gonna 1:19:10.000 --> 1:19:12.720 go give those to the homeless people. I give money 1:19:12.800 --> 1:19:14.560 to the homeless. I do all types of things. I 1:19:14.680 --> 1:19:17.400 feed the community, So you don't get to tell me 1:19:17.520 --> 1:19:19.800 about donat and I know what that looks like. But 1:19:20.040 --> 1:19:23.560 my protest with these nikes and throwing them into my 1:19:23.800 --> 1:19:27.280 sinerator was to let you know that I was willing 1:19:27.400 --> 1:19:31.120 to not have right. I was willing to It's pretty 1:19:31.200 --> 1:19:33.240 much like I'm willing to burn it and give it 1:19:33.400 --> 1:19:35.760 up to show you that it doesn't value and me 1:19:35.880 --> 1:19:39.599 giving it to somebody, that's that's self fulfilling. That's a fulfillment. 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:42.960 I'm doing something nice, I'm doing something kind. Somebody else 1:19:43.120 --> 1:19:44.720 is gonna carry on those shoes. I don't care if 1:19:44.720 --> 1:19:46.800 they're homeless. Somebody might look at me like, damn, I 1:19:46.920 --> 1:19:50.280 like those. Where you get these Jordan's from? I want 1:19:50.320 --> 1:19:52.840 those Jordans. It's still advertising to me. You might not 1:19:53.000 --> 1:19:54.760 think it's some people think, oh if I see it 1:19:54.800 --> 1:19:56.599 on the bum I don't want to know if I see, 1:20:00.160 --> 1:20:03.760 I'm sorry, a homeless person. If I see five dollar 1:20:04.040 --> 1:20:06.240 sneakers on a homeless person that I know, of course 1:20:06.280 --> 1:20:09.080 fil knowledge. When I'm a connoisseur, it's gonna still make 1:20:09.160 --> 1:20:11.240 me say, oh, where do you get those? Let me 1:20:11.360 --> 1:20:13.920 look up those and go get it. So that mindset 1:20:14.080 --> 1:20:16.080 that you have didn't fit me. So some of you 1:20:16.240 --> 1:20:18.400 might want to invest and you want to donate your 1:20:18.439 --> 1:20:20.640 cloth that I didn't want to donate my Nikes. I 1:20:20.840 --> 1:20:25.160 wanted to throw minds in incinerator, right, And I didn't 1:20:25.280 --> 1:20:28.439 understand why so many people were so angry about my 1:20:28.880 --> 1:20:33.000 personal protests with my personal shoes that I spent my 1:20:33.280 --> 1:20:36.840 personal money with. If you didn't see understand the mind state, 1:20:36.920 --> 1:20:39.760 I said, and I gave you know the analogy if 1:20:39.960 --> 1:20:42.320 if you have spoiled foods a bunch of people that's 1:20:42.400 --> 1:20:45.360 hungry anywhere. But when I look at my refrigerator and 1:20:45.760 --> 1:20:48.479 the food is spoiled, I'm not gonna go say, yo, 1:20:49.240 --> 1:20:51.080 I don't want this. I think it's spoil I'm gonna 1:20:51.120 --> 1:20:53.760 give it to a homeless person. No, because I don't 1:20:53.760 --> 1:20:56.639 even think it's worth eating. So that's how I felt 1:20:56.640 --> 1:20:59.400 about the Nakes. I don't think that they're even worth wearing. 1:20:59.760 --> 1:21:03.040 I don't think that we should be continue I meet personally. 1:21:03.160 --> 1:21:05.920 I think we should just completely cold Turkey. When when 1:21:06.000 --> 1:21:08.200 Nike looks around and they're like, yo, nobody in the 1:21:08.280 --> 1:21:10.760 world is where Nike, not even the homeless people. Then 1:21:10.800 --> 1:21:12.720 we got to start figuring out what how do we 1:21:12.960 --> 1:21:15.960 change and we deal with black communities differently. But the 1:21:16.120 --> 1:21:20.920 crazy part about it was what I found out. So 1:21:21.240 --> 1:21:23.360 when I was leaving my building after I threw about 1:21:24.400 --> 1:21:28.600 sneakers into the incinerator, when the building managers comes to me, 1:21:28.680 --> 1:21:32.479 he says, hey, he said, you know, I heard about 1:21:32.600 --> 1:21:34.439 the protest you were doing Nike, and let me give 1:21:34.439 --> 1:21:36.760 you a story. So he's telling me. He says, he's 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:40.080 a young boy. He's in college in this building, you know, 1:21:40.360 --> 1:21:42.880 and he goes to the church all the time. He's 1:21:42.920 --> 1:21:45.360 been very you know, he's going back to school. He 1:21:45.400 --> 1:21:48.960 doesn't have much of anything, you know, and last weekend 1:21:49.520 --> 1:21:53.400 he had put twenty dollars into the collection plate, you know, 1:21:53.560 --> 1:21:56.120 praying just to pray. That was probably his last twenty dollars. 1:21:56.200 --> 1:21:58.519 And you know, we're trying to help him through school, 1:21:59.120 --> 1:22:00.519 and he did. He was telling me how he was 1:22:00.560 --> 1:22:04.000 in some real bad times and he said he came 1:22:04.560 --> 1:22:07.360 he was working in the cinerator in the building and 1:22:07.720 --> 1:22:10.639 all of a sudden he opens these boxes and see 1:22:10.680 --> 1:22:13.760 these sneakers. He said, he prayed so hard, he he 1:22:14.160 --> 1:22:17.960 he he believed in God so much after seeing those sneakers. 1:22:18.320 --> 1:22:20.519 And I said to myself that wasn't my attention. But 1:22:20.640 --> 1:22:23.719 God had his own intention. God thought that man should 1:22:23.720 --> 1:22:27.040 get those sneakers, so I donated them to the cinerator, 1:22:27.200 --> 1:22:30.519 and the cinerator donated to that man. So people's blessings 1:22:30.600 --> 1:22:33.120 come in different ways, you know, my my, my, my 1:22:33.360 --> 1:22:35.240 mind state was never to give in to anyone, but 1:22:35.360 --> 1:22:38.040 God saw it fit that that man would get those sneakers. 1:22:38.320 --> 1:22:40.960 So I just try to tell you everybody's protests and 1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:44.599 everybody's blessings and everybody's situation is different, So don't get 1:22:44.640 --> 1:22:46.120 you don't get to tell me what to do with 1:22:46.240 --> 1:22:48.560 mis God wanted that man to have those sneakers that 1:22:48.640 --> 1:22:51.960 I do away, you know, So that's that's how that happens. 1:22:52.280 --> 1:22:56.439 I heard you say more than one time burn using 1:22:56.560 --> 1:23:00.439 the word burn, So I don't encourage it anyone burn 1:23:00.840 --> 1:23:04.479 because we do have an environment to protect, and burning 1:23:05.200 --> 1:23:09.600 rubber and burning shoes and materials and all of that 1:23:09.800 --> 1:23:13.160 is actually not healthy for us and in our society, 1:23:13.280 --> 1:23:17.400 so we don't want to burn things. UM. I know 1:23:17.760 --> 1:23:23.320 the history of you know, see the Loris Tucker rolling 1:23:23.439 --> 1:23:27.479 over CDs on the ground. Um, which is different because 1:23:27.640 --> 1:23:30.120 at least we could say that I forget the artist 1:23:30.240 --> 1:23:33.960 that she was some some um I forgot, I know 1:23:34.120 --> 1:23:38.519 the story. Sometimes it's a Tupac. Are you sure? I 1:23:38.640 --> 1:23:42.519 believe so because I remember Tupac spoke about hmm, I 1:23:42.600 --> 1:23:47.040 don't know anyway, So you know, because she was protesting 1:23:47.439 --> 1:23:53.400 certain lyrics and but that would be a a black 1:23:53.640 --> 1:23:56.200 artist and a black woman, and so there was some 1:23:56.560 --> 1:24:00.880 conflict there. I think over time more people have begun 1:24:01.000 --> 1:24:04.320 to recognize the point she was making. Right, So even 1:24:04.479 --> 1:24:08.280 if we still would say, well, you know, we don't 1:24:08.360 --> 1:24:12.639 have to attack our own, but we do understand more 1:24:12.800 --> 1:24:17.240 now that some of the content in our music, in 1:24:17.360 --> 1:24:20.960 the music industry from back then, she was trying to say, 1:24:21.200 --> 1:24:24.519 it's harmful to our people. I don't know yet how 1:24:24.600 --> 1:24:28.679 to reconcile those two things, because I just, like I said, 1:24:28.720 --> 1:24:32.680 we're all walking contradictions. I can sit and listen to 1:24:33.479 --> 1:24:36.479 drop down and get your ego on and all kinds 1:24:36.520 --> 1:24:39.920 of music that I know is degrading towards women and 1:24:40.240 --> 1:24:46.559 still talk about empowerment and still understand that those lyrics 1:24:46.640 --> 1:24:50.439 are not helpful to our young people. So we all 1:24:50.960 --> 1:24:54.679 have these contradictions of what we deal with as humans, 1:24:55.640 --> 1:24:59.080 which is off topic, but it's just my thought process 1:24:59.160 --> 1:25:03.000 of what I go through when trying to reconcile the brand, 1:25:03.720 --> 1:25:08.560 the people behind the brand, the the you know, the 1:25:08.600 --> 1:25:13.960 the the the white folks who are inside of these 1:25:14.080 --> 1:25:19.160 companies that have literally zero respect for Black people outside 1:25:19.240 --> 1:25:21.920 of wanting us to spend our money. So there's so 1:25:22.160 --> 1:25:25.639 many elements working altogether, because even when I think about 1:25:25.920 --> 1:25:30.240 the music industry side, there is somebody that profits from 1:25:30.880 --> 1:25:35.640 us degrading ourselves and the lyrics that we use, um 1:25:35.760 --> 1:25:39.960 sometimes in our community that can escalate situations, UM that 1:25:40.160 --> 1:25:43.160 keeps us sort of dumbed down, or that really in 1:25:43.360 --> 1:25:46.800 some ways glorifies a lifestyle that we want to try 1:25:46.840 --> 1:25:49.400 to move our people away from. There are people that 1:25:49.520 --> 1:25:52.600 benefit from that. So you know, you know that the 1:25:52.720 --> 1:25:55.200 two things might not be exactly the same. But that's 1:25:55.240 --> 1:25:57.280 one of the things that I've really been wrestling with. 1:25:57.840 --> 1:26:01.400 When I saw you with your protests, and then thinking 1:26:01.479 --> 1:26:03.719 back to the history of c C the Lord's Tucker, 1:26:04.640 --> 1:26:08.120 what I will say is that I when we had 1:26:08.800 --> 1:26:14.240 the boycott against Gucci Gucci, I packed up every piece 1:26:14.280 --> 1:26:16.920 of Gucci that I had, all the way down to 1:26:17.600 --> 1:26:20.719 you know, I had gloves, I had little air rings, 1:26:20.840 --> 1:26:25.400 I had several shoes, multiple bags. Gucci was the first 1:26:25.560 --> 1:26:28.760 perse that I received, like when I was a young girl, 1:26:29.200 --> 1:26:31.680 and that somebody seven I don't know who it was. 1:26:31.760 --> 1:26:33.519 I was seventeen years old. Might have been my mom, 1:26:33.600 --> 1:26:35.320 I don't know, but somebody brought me a cute little 1:26:35.320 --> 1:26:38.920 Gucci purse. I still had that purse and put it 1:26:38.960 --> 1:26:41.880 in the rotation, and you know, whenever I bring it 1:26:41.960 --> 1:26:45.040 back out, because you know, the classics are always um, 1:26:45.200 --> 1:26:49.200 they're always good. And I packed up every single thing 1:26:49.640 --> 1:26:52.280 and put it away, and it's been packed up because 1:26:52.439 --> 1:26:56.200 I refused to one where it ever again. I've not 1:26:56.439 --> 1:26:59.800 purchased anything from Gucci since the black face sweater and 1:27:00.120 --> 1:27:04.040 is people don't know why we decided to boycott gruci um, 1:27:04.520 --> 1:27:08.120 you know, because of the black face sweater that they 1:27:08.240 --> 1:27:10.800 put out, which you can go look it up. I 1:27:10.920 --> 1:27:15.400 packed it up, haven't used it, haven't purchased not one item, 1:27:15.840 --> 1:27:18.600 you know, no matter how cute this stuff looks. Like 1:27:18.760 --> 1:27:22.560 you said, it's a personal sacrifice. What I think is 1:27:23.160 --> 1:27:27.000 what I'm challenged by three points in this. The first 1:27:27.080 --> 1:27:31.320 thing is that there are people who want to try 1:27:31.600 --> 1:27:36.200 to uh, well, let me say this. There's three pieces 1:27:36.320 --> 1:27:39.800 three points on this that I wrestle with. The First 1:27:39.880 --> 1:27:44.240 thing is that my boycott doesn't mean yours. Right, We're 1:27:44.320 --> 1:27:48.439 not dumb. We know that in order to call a 1:27:49.120 --> 1:27:55.639 national international boycott against some major corporation, it requires more 1:27:55.760 --> 1:27:59.080 than my son throwing out some sneakers to making my 1:27:59.200 --> 1:28:02.559 son getting on the internet saying we're done with the brand. 1:28:02.920 --> 1:28:05.880 It takes more than that, right, It takes lots of 1:28:05.960 --> 1:28:08.639 folks to get involved. You gotta get the message out 1:28:08.800 --> 1:28:12.040 beyond social media, because sometimes we live in the bubble 1:28:12.120 --> 1:28:14.360 of social media and think that all of our people 1:28:14.439 --> 1:28:16.840 are seeing in hearing it, and they're not. They just 1:28:17.000 --> 1:28:19.679 don't know, they don't know about what's going on. They're 1:28:19.720 --> 1:28:24.760 not necessarily following each person the The mainstream media is 1:28:24.840 --> 1:28:26.760 not gonna cover it, so it takes more than that. 1:28:27.160 --> 1:28:30.400 But there is a community of people who do share 1:28:30.880 --> 1:28:34.759 your ideals and beliefs. They might not throw everything away 1:28:35.000 --> 1:28:38.720 in the incinerator, but they still have decided during this 1:28:38.840 --> 1:28:41.160 holiday season and maybe for the rest of my life, 1:28:41.400 --> 1:28:44.519 I'm not purchasing Mike Nike anymore because I don't like 1:28:45.080 --> 1:28:48.439 what I heard come out of Phil Knight's mouth. Right, 1:28:48.680 --> 1:28:50.680 they have a right to that. We have a right 1:28:50.760 --> 1:28:53.040 to that, and all you gotta do is you don't 1:28:53.080 --> 1:28:56.240 gotta take the time to go on somebody's page and 1:28:56.360 --> 1:29:00.080 tell them about how I ain't boycotting Nike. I'm not. 1:29:00.240 --> 1:29:01.680 You don't have to do that. You could just keep 1:29:01.760 --> 1:29:04.880 moving and let the community that's building that has made 1:29:04.960 --> 1:29:09.240 that decision do what they are doing. So this because 1:29:09.479 --> 1:29:14.120 because because guess what, all of these corporations, if you 1:29:14.400 --> 1:29:17.639 really want to talk about it, every single one of them, 1:29:17.880 --> 1:29:20.920 I would say, except Ben and Jerry's because they really 1:29:21.040 --> 1:29:24.040 try to do a good job of being an advocate 1:29:24.120 --> 1:29:27.559 and ally and an accomplice in the community. But other 1:29:27.680 --> 1:29:31.559 than that, I don't know many corporations that people shouldn't 1:29:31.600 --> 1:29:34.759 and can't say I'm done with it for whatever reason. 1:29:35.120 --> 1:29:38.680 It's it's a million reasons. Amazon workers right. If you 1:29:39.000 --> 1:29:42.080 ask Ben Cronk right now, he's gonna tell you about 1:29:42.120 --> 1:29:45.560 all the people that he's suing for different things that 1:29:45.680 --> 1:29:48.720 has happened, Johnson and Johnson and the cancer products with 1:29:48.840 --> 1:29:53.719 the powder over here over it's something so protecting brands 1:29:54.000 --> 1:29:56.360 at this point, we don't have to do that. Somebody 1:29:56.400 --> 1:29:57.760 could just wake up in the morning and say, you 1:29:57.840 --> 1:30:00.040 know what, I decided I don't support such as to 1:30:00.160 --> 1:30:01.960 no more, and I bet you we can find reasons 1:30:02.040 --> 1:30:05.439 to back up why what that person is saying about 1:30:05.560 --> 1:30:09.560 these white leg corporations, Right, So I deal with that. 1:30:10.000 --> 1:30:13.479 The next thing is, I saw people on my page 1:30:13.520 --> 1:30:15.479 when I posted feel nice, and this is it might 1:30:15.520 --> 1:30:17.639 take me a little second to explain it, but it's important. 1:30:18.240 --> 1:30:21.080 I saw people on my page when I posted feel 1:30:21.200 --> 1:30:27.360 nice statements saying, why are you supporting anti semitism by saying, 1:30:27.760 --> 1:30:34.360 you know, by supporting Kyrie and boycotting Nike and that that, 1:30:34.640 --> 1:30:36.760 and and some of the people who said it. I 1:30:37.040 --> 1:30:39.200 looked at some profiles, some of them were white folks, 1:30:40.280 --> 1:30:45.640 and it really pissed me off. Because what people do 1:30:46.680 --> 1:30:50.880 is they understand the ability to walk and chew bubble 1:30:50.960 --> 1:30:54.080 come at the same time. In their own community. They 1:30:54.160 --> 1:31:00.320 can say, well, we can challenge or individual for doing 1:31:00.479 --> 1:31:04.639 something that is harmful or wrong or whatever, and then 1:31:04.960 --> 1:31:08.679 still maybe, you know, let them come back to work. 1:31:09.000 --> 1:31:11.479 As we saw Kyrie is gonna make money for the 1:31:11.640 --> 1:31:15.320 NBA for for the nets. He could go back to work. 1:31:15.479 --> 1:31:18.680 So they can reconcile that two things can happen at 1:31:18.720 --> 1:31:22.680 the same time. They can reconcile in their own communities. 1:31:22.800 --> 1:31:27.600 How they can support. Uh, Some people can support the 1:31:28.200 --> 1:31:33.080 relationship that the US has with Israel Palestine, but then 1:31:33.240 --> 1:31:36.080 also say that they want to see the conflict in 1:31:36.320 --> 1:31:39.599 and the people of Palestine be made hold so they 1:31:39.720 --> 1:31:42.800 can they can reconcile those two things. Why is it 1:31:43.000 --> 1:31:46.680 so difficult for people to see and understand that from 1:31:46.800 --> 1:31:51.000 our perspective, Kyrie apologize for what he did. You and 1:31:51.120 --> 1:31:54.320 I have been very clear and explaining that a denial 1:31:54.479 --> 1:31:57.960 of the Holocaust and anything that makes a people, the 1:31:58.120 --> 1:32:02.599 white Jews evil, that's something we don't support. Kyrie also 1:32:02.800 --> 1:32:05.960 said that he apologized. We talked. They said, well, it 1:32:06.040 --> 1:32:09.000 took him too long. Listen, we are human, we are 1:32:09.120 --> 1:32:11.640 human right, and so he found he got to the 1:32:11.720 --> 1:32:14.280 point where he understood it. He said, he was defensive, 1:32:14.439 --> 1:32:17.519 he understood it. He apologized, He did what he had 1:32:17.600 --> 1:32:21.000 to do. We can say, Kyrie, and we can say, 1:32:21.040 --> 1:32:23.200 by the way, Nike has the right not to do 1:32:23.320 --> 1:32:25.760 business with him anymore. They got right to do that. 1:32:26.840 --> 1:32:30.400 What we're talking about, just like we have learned about 1:32:31.040 --> 1:32:35.560 anti Jewish tropes, so saying things like when you know 1:32:35.680 --> 1:32:40.040 they control everything, those are things that is harmful to 1:32:40.200 --> 1:32:44.679 the Jewish community because of the history of how them 1:32:44.840 --> 1:32:49.280 being in control of everything makes them look and the 1:32:49.400 --> 1:32:52.120 fact that there are people who literally want to harm 1:32:52.280 --> 1:32:56.400 them for that statement. Right, we can understand that why 1:32:56.600 --> 1:32:59.400 is it so hard for people to understand that saying 1:32:59.760 --> 1:33:04.000 a black man stepped over the line from a white 1:33:04.040 --> 1:33:07.439 man at his age that comes from a certain era, 1:33:08.240 --> 1:33:12.479 that that is also though that is an anti black trope. 1:33:12.920 --> 1:33:16.120 I don't get it. I don't understand why that's not 1:33:16.520 --> 1:33:21.240 clear that I can challenge the film. I can also 1:33:21.600 --> 1:33:24.479 ask the question of why Amazon still has it up. 1:33:25.280 --> 1:33:29.040 I can also appreciate Kyrie standing up like a man 1:33:29.240 --> 1:33:32.360 and saying that he apologized, and I cannot like the 1:33:32.479 --> 1:33:36.560 way that Phil Knights spoke about a black name. Is 1:33:36.640 --> 1:33:39.559 that hard? It's hard when you don't want it, when 1:33:39.560 --> 1:33:41.439 you don't want to understand what's going on, when you 1:33:41.560 --> 1:33:44.120 just want to focus on something because you want to 1:33:44.200 --> 1:33:46.800 deflect and you don't want to deal with the whole 1:33:46.880 --> 1:33:49.920 situation and totality. Of course, it's hard. It's it's it's 1:33:49.960 --> 1:33:52.560 almost impossible for somebody that doesn't want to listen to 1:33:52.680 --> 1:33:56.240 reason or be able to have or want you to 1:33:56.320 --> 1:34:00.160 have proper discernment, right, they want you to focus. It's 1:34:00.240 --> 1:34:03.559 on something. When we're talking about there's a whole pot 1:34:03.600 --> 1:34:05.920 and able to look a little burnt piece right there, 1:34:06.000 --> 1:34:08.200 You're like, yeah, but it's a whole piehead, and I'm 1:34:08.240 --> 1:34:10.439 gonna talk about the whole pot. We see the birth piece, 1:34:10.479 --> 1:34:13.000 we're gonna say it's burn We're gonna talk about the 1:34:13.040 --> 1:34:16.519 whole pie. So you know it's it's actually deflection, and 1:34:16.640 --> 1:34:19.640 it's it's gaslight, and well, right, because we've learned a 1:34:19.720 --> 1:34:23.639 lot about gaslighting over the last several years. My last 1:34:23.760 --> 1:34:28.479 point is that, as I said, everybody does things differently. 1:34:28.960 --> 1:34:33.200 I'm not gonna go take every pair of Nike. By 1:34:33.240 --> 1:34:35.600 the way, I probably wouldn't even have any sweatsuits to 1:34:35.640 --> 1:34:38.800 wear other than until Freedom if I gathered up all 1:34:39.320 --> 1:34:41.960 my Nike sweatsuits, because that's pretty much all I have 1:34:42.160 --> 1:34:45.360 been there, even though I'm more than likely not gonna 1:34:45.400 --> 1:34:49.120 be wearing them. But nonetheless, I probably won't throw it 1:34:49.200 --> 1:34:52.800 all in the incinerator. I probably will never it's two 1:34:52.960 --> 1:34:55.639 pair of Nikes that I have that I'm telling y'all 1:34:55.760 --> 1:34:58.439 right now, I'm probably still gonna wear. But the rest 1:34:58.520 --> 1:35:00.840 of it, it's not that serious to me. I'm not 1:35:01.000 --> 1:35:04.640 that caught up in I have to have any of it. 1:35:05.280 --> 1:35:08.560 When I understand that the level of disrespect that I 1:35:08.800 --> 1:35:11.080 felt or the way that I felt, I don't want 1:35:11.080 --> 1:35:13.320 to feel that way. I don't want to hear a 1:35:13.400 --> 1:35:16.720 white man use certain language because it triggers me. And 1:35:16.800 --> 1:35:19.880 then when I put on his brand, I'm walking around 1:35:20.040 --> 1:35:22.720 with that on me. I don't want that, right, So 1:35:23.280 --> 1:35:26.479 I'm probably never going to put it on again and 1:35:26.560 --> 1:35:29.320 if but I do recognize that there may come a 1:35:29.400 --> 1:35:32.760 day when there's a new man that heads Nike. Right, 1:35:33.040 --> 1:35:36.599 there's a new spirit that comes into Nike that makes 1:35:36.720 --> 1:35:40.519 us feel better and we feel like, Okay, this brand 1:35:41.120 --> 1:35:43.639 is back in our good graces, and I might pull 1:35:43.680 --> 1:35:46.040 it back out that's my choice. But I can't be 1:35:46.160 --> 1:35:48.240 mad at you because you choose to say you're never 1:35:48.360 --> 1:35:51.960 wearing it again. That's what this freedom of choice is supposed, 1:35:52.560 --> 1:35:54.280 and that's what it is is for me to say, 1:35:54.720 --> 1:35:57.920 I've come to a conclusion in my life that's certain that, 1:35:58.320 --> 1:36:01.360 especially as black people, we control by certain things, right, 1:36:01.920 --> 1:36:05.360 Because even the anxiety of me saying, damn, I ain't 1:36:05.400 --> 1:36:07.120 gonna be able with my sneakers, I'm getting rid of 1:36:07.160 --> 1:36:09.240 my sneakers, and I'm like, good, this ship is just sneakers, 1:36:09.880 --> 1:36:12.200 Like what what? What is it about these sneakers that 1:36:12.320 --> 1:36:16.000 make me feel some level of pain or frustration? Why 1:36:16.040 --> 1:36:18.680 do I feel attached to some ship that don't define me, 1:36:18.800 --> 1:36:21.599 has never done nothing for me. It's actually the people 1:36:21.640 --> 1:36:25.479 who actually own this or would do things to harm 1:36:25.520 --> 1:36:27.560 me and probably have invested in things that harm me. 1:36:27.960 --> 1:36:30.000 So why do I need to be connected that I 1:36:30.040 --> 1:36:32.400 don't have any problems with somebody else? But I just 1:36:32.520 --> 1:36:36.760 think what happens is when you have a level of 1:36:37.920 --> 1:36:44.280 strength empower, when you self empower, it bothers people. I 1:36:44.439 --> 1:36:48.760 realized that I'm very I'm very um passionate about things 1:36:48.800 --> 1:36:52.960 that I do. I'm very bottom line. Is when I 1:36:53.000 --> 1:36:54.880 get to my mind that some ship is bottom line, 1:36:54.920 --> 1:36:56.320 it just is what it is for me, And I 1:36:56.439 --> 1:37:00.200 noticed that it bothers people who don't have that right. 1:37:00.360 --> 1:37:03.080 It bothers people who just want to be status quo 1:37:03.320 --> 1:37:06.759 and want to peacefully coexist. I can coexist with somebody 1:37:06.800 --> 1:37:09.560 who loves Nike. It's a lot of a lot of 1:37:09.640 --> 1:37:12.559 the artists and I love And I'm gonna seat though, 1:37:12.600 --> 1:37:14.560 and I'm not gonna I don't feel a way that 1:37:14.680 --> 1:37:16.880 you love Nankee, but you shouldn't feel a way that 1:37:16.920 --> 1:37:19.120 I don't give a funk about it. You understand I'm saying. 1:37:19.160 --> 1:37:21.040 So that's what it is when you, when you, when 1:37:21.080 --> 1:37:23.439 you don't have a level of power and you don't 1:37:23.479 --> 1:37:26.040 have strength to do certain ship, you envy it in 1:37:26.160 --> 1:37:28.200 somebody else. And I think that's where a lot of 1:37:28.280 --> 1:37:30.200 it comes from because I keep acting people. What does 1:37:30.360 --> 1:37:33.479 my sneakers do the harm you? Whether I throw them 1:37:33.479 --> 1:37:36.599 away or not, Why does it make you feel a way? 1:37:37.080 --> 1:37:39.519 Does it? Are you you work for Nike? Are you 1:37:39.600 --> 1:37:42.040 getting a you know in my doing something to take 1:37:42.120 --> 1:37:45.519 away from your reality. I don't speak about things unless 1:37:45.840 --> 1:37:49.080 I feel like they negatively affect something that I actually 1:37:49.160 --> 1:37:53.040 stand on. Um I represent you know that I benefit 1:37:53.160 --> 1:37:56.320 from organizations that I'm connected to. Usually when you hear me, 1:37:56.360 --> 1:37:59.000 it's talking about violence, it's talking about negativity, it's talking 1:37:59.000 --> 1:38:02.479 about things that affecting these kids in a negative way. 1:38:02.560 --> 1:38:05.680 I speak. If I speak about somebody that does you 1:38:05.720 --> 1:38:08.360 know that that contribute to those things? That's what my 1:38:08.800 --> 1:38:11.719 you know, that's what the gripe is for my personal 1:38:11.840 --> 1:38:14.519 Sneakers should never be a gripe with nobody. There should 1:38:14.600 --> 1:38:16.600 never be a grape what I do because if I 1:38:16.640 --> 1:38:18.519 want to told you, you want to know. And I 1:38:18.680 --> 1:38:20.679 did it because I know there's some people that want 1:38:20.680 --> 1:38:22.760 to unplug from the ship. It's people that want to 1:38:22.800 --> 1:38:24.320 be like, yo, this ship don't define me and they 1:38:24.360 --> 1:38:27.200 don't know they don't see nobody else that they respect, 1:38:27.640 --> 1:38:30.160 or see nobody that they have a level of respect 1:38:30.280 --> 1:38:33.560 or understanding for take that type of stand. So I 1:38:33.760 --> 1:38:35.800 wanted to make it seem like, Yo, you ain't the 1:38:35.880 --> 1:38:37.960 only one that don't care about none of this ship. 1:38:38.280 --> 1:38:40.400 If you want to separate and get out this, makee this, 1:38:40.640 --> 1:38:43.040 then it's it's some of us that's doing it. And 1:38:43.120 --> 1:38:45.920 it was a representation of it. Man, I was actually 1:38:46.040 --> 1:38:49.640 advertising us separating ourselves from some ship that don't mean 1:38:49.720 --> 1:38:52.240 us no good. So and I don't know about Cloud Chase, 1:38:52.320 --> 1:38:54.679 and I've never been a negative Chase Cloud. I don't 1:38:54.720 --> 1:38:57.200 even know what that is that somebody else, but I 1:38:57.439 --> 1:39:00.200 understand we live in the Internet error and everybody she's 1:39:00.240 --> 1:39:04.519 advertising their way of life and advertising their mentality, and 1:39:04.600 --> 1:39:06.960 a lot of that ship is rubbing off negatively. So 1:39:07.080 --> 1:39:09.719 I wanted to give my advertisement of what I stand 1:39:09.800 --> 1:39:11.840 on and get the people that want to follow that 1:39:11.960 --> 1:39:14.720 and believe that that's something to stand on, something that 1:39:15.000 --> 1:39:17.240 you know, somebody that's a representative to say, fucking I 1:39:17.320 --> 1:39:19.880 want to do that as well. Yeah, I mean that's it, 1:39:20.040 --> 1:39:21.880 And you know what I think There's the last point 1:39:22.479 --> 1:39:26.560 is that in Janice on our production team, she she 1:39:26.680 --> 1:39:30.760 made a very good point earlier today that we are 1:39:30.920 --> 1:39:35.360 so connected to these brands that we would rather buy 1:39:35.800 --> 1:39:38.599 from the brand no matter how much is killing our 1:39:38.720 --> 1:39:42.600 pockets or whatever. Then we will support our own and 1:39:42.760 --> 1:39:45.640 that's something that all of us have fallen victim to. 1:39:45.960 --> 1:39:48.599 I personally buy from anybody like I could buy from 1:39:48.960 --> 1:39:51.880 whatever community. I went to Africa and you saw me. 1:39:52.000 --> 1:39:54.960 I went crazy buying everything that I could. You know, 1:39:55.120 --> 1:39:58.080 there's my parents instilled that at me from a young 1:39:58.200 --> 1:40:01.040 age because the Mark one first of all Mark one 1:40:01.520 --> 1:40:04.679 five that I wish they could, you know, for any someday, 1:40:04.800 --> 1:40:07.800 please bring it back if there's anybody out there listening to. 1:40:07.920 --> 1:40:11.639 Mark one was the most special place in Harlem because 1:40:11.680 --> 1:40:13.920 it was right on a hundred twenty street and it 1:40:14.080 --> 1:40:17.559 was a big open mark that had all black people 1:40:18.040 --> 1:40:22.320 selling jury coats. I mean, there was a few non blacks, 1:40:22.400 --> 1:40:25.439 but it was black people heavy. The even the food 1:40:25.640 --> 1:40:29.400 and the food court, all of that was cultural people 1:40:29.479 --> 1:40:31.840 doing nails. I used to do nails in the mark 1:40:31.920 --> 1:40:33.639 Can you believe that I was in like a nail 1:40:34.000 --> 1:40:36.519 person at the time. I wasn't that great. It lasted 1:40:36.520 --> 1:40:39.639 about two weeks, but nonetheless, so I went there then. 1:40:40.040 --> 1:40:42.240 You know, we used to have all the vendors outside. 1:40:42.360 --> 1:40:46.840 I've always found cool things with vendors that I can 1:40:46.920 --> 1:40:50.160 add to my look. You know. Also the Mark One, 1:40:51.320 --> 1:40:53.680 I mean the Mark one sixteen street which is now 1:40:53.920 --> 1:40:56.200 and for anybody who's in Harlem who's listening to this, 1:40:56.560 --> 1:40:58.400 you could go to a hundred and sixteen street in 1:40:58.520 --> 1:41:02.400 Harlem right now to day and there are the African 1:41:02.479 --> 1:41:05.800 community is there. They can make anything you want them 1:41:05.880 --> 1:41:09.559 to make in terms of dresses, putting fabric on suits. 1:41:09.800 --> 1:41:12.719 So I've always been into that. And I buy stuff 1:41:12.760 --> 1:41:16.759 from brands. Absolutely, I buy from brands. I buy from friends. 1:41:17.080 --> 1:41:20.760 I'm one of those people. Sometimes I get messages from 1:41:20.880 --> 1:41:23.439 boutiques online right because one of the things I gotta 1:41:23.520 --> 1:41:25.800 do better is that I actually purchased things in my 1:41:25.880 --> 1:41:29.439 own name. That's probably something I need to change. But 1:41:29.560 --> 1:41:32.120 if I see something I like on Instagram, I clicked 1:41:32.160 --> 1:41:35.479 the people the people's page purchase their little dresses and 1:41:35.640 --> 1:41:37.880 different things. I'm not that good with putting it on 1:41:38.680 --> 1:41:41.519 and showing it, but I do that. My book tour, 1:41:41.840 --> 1:41:44.360 I had a bunch of black brands that the stylust 1:41:44.439 --> 1:41:47.439 pulled from me and or purchased items for me. But 1:41:47.600 --> 1:41:51.160 I get messages from boutique so all the time like wow, 1:41:51.479 --> 1:41:53.960 or they'll put little notes in my box when the 1:41:54.080 --> 1:41:56.599 things come and say thank you so much for supporting us. 1:41:56.840 --> 1:41:59.880 And it's a direct purchase. And again I buy brands, 1:42:00.120 --> 1:42:02.679 So I do all of that. We give black people 1:42:02.760 --> 1:42:05.200 a lot of money around this country when we go. 1:42:05.680 --> 1:42:09.040 If it's a bus company for a tour, if it's food, 1:42:09.640 --> 1:42:13.240 shout out to Quita, our chef in Kentucky. Instead of 1:42:13.360 --> 1:42:16.559 us going into a city and eating food from folks 1:42:16.640 --> 1:42:19.400 that we're protesting against that know us and we don't 1:42:19.439 --> 1:42:21.759 know who's cooking in the kitchen, we hired a black 1:42:21.840 --> 1:42:25.200 woman who cooked for us every day, two times a day. 1:42:25.640 --> 1:42:30.799 I mean, we the security team, the car services, everything 1:42:30.920 --> 1:42:34.800 that we do, we try to employ. If it's not black, 1:42:34.920 --> 1:42:37.280 it's brown, it's our people. And even if it is 1:42:37.360 --> 1:42:40.639 white folks, it's white folks that's conscious about the issues. 1:42:41.160 --> 1:42:44.719 And so we just all we're saying is like you said, 1:42:45.240 --> 1:42:48.519 if we feel it and it feels disrespectful, we don't 1:42:48.560 --> 1:42:51.559 need you that bad anyway, just don't. So it's it's 1:42:51.640 --> 1:42:55.080 it's that quick. It can just be over without a problem. 1:42:55.560 --> 1:42:59.439 And there it is. And with that said, brings us 1:42:59.479 --> 1:43:03.519 to the end another dope episode. Shoutouts to BEDC two 1:43:03.560 --> 1:43:08.880 bet two Beat Stevens and with that said, brings us 1:43:08.920 --> 1:43:11.320 to the end of another great episode of the number 1:43:11.400 --> 1:43:15.160 one podcast and the world Street Politicians Shout out to 1:43:15.200 --> 1:43:19.880 to Beat Stevens for his masterclass that he gave us 1:43:19.920 --> 1:43:23.920 today and shout out to y'all for supporting us. Man, 1:43:24.040 --> 1:43:26.360 keep on tuning in, let us know what you like, 1:43:26.520 --> 1:43:28.800 let us know what you don't like, what you want 1:43:28.840 --> 1:43:32.560 to hear. 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