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Speaker 1: him to know him like that, you know, like I

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00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: hung out with Car like I hung out with with Tommy,

425
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, to Sheina a few times, but I never

426
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 1: hung out and and and it could have been my

427
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: fault because he had invited me over to his house before.

428
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 1: You know, shoot hoops. I'm not. I don't shoot hoop.

429
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,439
Speaker 1: I was a football player. I never got I never

430
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: I never got around and shooting hoop and um. But

431
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean when we see each other's like

432
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 1: we we we've been knowing each other for years. Though.

433
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:22,959
Speaker 1: That we did the reunion, it was real cool man

434
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: hanging with him and talking to him. Man, I mean,

435
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, it was a lot of love man on

436
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 1: set when I came through the window for the reunion,

437
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: a whole lot of love. Seemed like he didn't even

438
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: know I was gonna be there. Yeah. Did you encourage

439
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,399
Speaker 1: Danna to come to l A. How did that go?

440
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: You know? She I did. I did my first comedy

441
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 1: show out here. And remember they had Uptown Comedy. It

442
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: was Uptown Comedy Spot. Jathony Brown owned it and uh

443
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 1: they rabond Yeah, yeah, yeah it was it was Uptown

444
00:23:53,600 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: No no, no, no top comedy spot. Comedy. Man said,

445
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. And I met her there man,

446
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, the first time ever. We didn't know

447
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: y'all with cousins. Now, well we did at the time

448
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: we did well. My mother told me I was kidding

449
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: all the scurries. Okay, so, and she kind of reminds

450
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: me of my family. His daughter and I look alike. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

451
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: So y'all didn't meet up that y'all you met her?

452
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 1: That met her there? Yeah, exactly, trying to push up

453
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 1: on it. You thought she was cute country, don't count.

454
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: Don't listen to him. Don't listen to him. How did

455
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,959
Speaker 1: you I never heard that story? How did you make

456
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: your way to l A? So, Houston? I've always wanted

457
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 1: to be in l A. I've always wanted to just

458
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: for some reason, I was attracted to the city. Just

459
00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: give up Houston. I love Houston. You seen his home.

460
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:10,719
Speaker 1: It's different. You will always be home. But I always

461
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: felt photos though, I wanted to be somewhere with the

462
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: energy match mine um on entrepreneurial. That spirit you have

463
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: l A is a hoshposh. You have all these people come.

464
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: It's a melting pot of people from all over the

465
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: world that come that just want a better life and

466
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: just want to be judged on their on their work ethic.

467
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: And they're married. And that's what I That's where I

468
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: wanted to be. I wanted to be around that energy.

469
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: But you have a marketing degree. How do you take

470
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: a marketing degree and go out to l a and

471
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: become a writer? So I have a marketing degree, you can,

472
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: I say, from Texas Southern University. I'm very proud of that. So, um,

473
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: I just I have I want to say, I have layers.

474
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: I tried I'm morphined to five different people before I

475
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: turned thirty. Um, I just wanted to try different things.

476
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: I had an energy in me. I have a work

477
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: ethic in me where I knew I could be whatever

478
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: I put my stamp on. I could do whatever I

479
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: wanted to do. And so when I was young, I

480
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: tried to feel that out. What does that mean? And

481
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: where could I be successful? So I always wanted to write,

482
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: but my mom wanted me to have the marketing degree.

483
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: So I went and I got the marketing degree, and

484
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: then hello, hello mama. Um. And so after that, I

485
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: worked my nine to five and I interned at the

486
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Show. And then it was awesome. It was amazing,

487
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: it was amazing. I got a lot of opportunity from

488
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: that experience. I wrote my first spec script and I

489
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: was hired Um to assist Ralph Farqua, who was the

490
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: creator of the Mosia Show. He was hired to executive

491
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: produce The Proud Family and hired me as his assistant,

492
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: and I wrote some episodes while I was employed by

493
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: the show, so it was fun. I realized it was

494
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: not for me. While I was on the set of

495
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Show. Some wardrobe Steve's wardrobe girls and

496
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: I got together and we formed a business to make

497
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: some extra money during the holidays. And Steve said, whatever

498
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: money y'all come up with, I'll match it, and he did,

499
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: and we formed a I think we came up with

500
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: and he matched there and we started doing gifts for

501
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: the holidays and in that month we made fifteen thousand dollars. Again,

502
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: my servants heart. I loved um making people happy. During

503
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: that Will Smith Cedric the entertainer, shout out to e

504
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: Cedric Um, just the cast and people that were on

505
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: the lot. So we made a We made a great

506
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: deal of money. To us at that time, fifteen thousand

507
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: UH was a lot of money. So when I was

508
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: on The Proud Family, I saved my money up and

509
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: I formed my business which is now it's promotional products.

510
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: And corporate gifting for major corporation is for Fortune five hundreds.

511
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: Nice you work with some of the biggest global brands

512
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: in the world like Target. Um yes, I have Honda,

513
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: I have um oh my gosh, so many companies I

514
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: have all in our area, our local area. We have

515
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: all of the all of your phone, the phone company,

516
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: the you know, water companies, all of your utilities. We

517
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: have in the area and we've been serving them. We

518
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: have I think at this point we just got Metro.

519
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: I think we also have Metro in Houston. Shout out

520
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: to Houston again. Um so, yeah, we have Bristol Our

521
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: Squib that's one of our our best clients. Mackenzie. Um so,

522
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: we just have a number of clients. Exactly what are

523
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: y'all doing with these clients? What do you how do

524
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: you serve them? So what's the products? So they might

525
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: come to us and they say, you know, they might say, hey,

526
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: we have a community event. The target market. We're asking

527
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: what the target market is and what message they're working

528
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: to convey, and we'll work to come up with a

529
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: campaign of promotional products, branded items that best suits the brand,

530
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: that protects the brand and speaks to that to that

531
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: event and no and that target market. Let me tell

532
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: you something, man, I've seen her the products she used

533
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: to sell. I seen this girl is one of the

534
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: hardest working people I ever seen. I've seen her selling

535
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: stuff out of her garage, dude apartment garage and used

536
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: to wrap that gives herself and send them out like

537
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: she's like, she's a multi big time multi business, you know,

538
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: a conglomerate or something. Man. And she grew into that now.

539
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: And I remember, yeah, man, in her little bitty apartment,

540
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes me and my wife used getting into it.

541
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: I said, all right, way, ain't coming back. I go

542
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: over there. Girl be working hard. I'd be like she'd

543
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: be up to like twelve o'clock at night, still on

544
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: the phone, like I'm going back to my wife. I

545
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: can't over here. Yo, this is crazy. When a little

546
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: bit of food time she was in theiving room and

547
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: she she she made it happy. Man, I'm an eyewitness

548
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: to that. Eye witnessed Dana. How satisfying is it for

549
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: you to have those humble beginnings in l A and

550
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: then to be on the level you are right now

551
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: and then getting ready to do this podcast where you're

552
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: gonna share this information Oh wow, that is a loaded question.

553
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: I think that for me, I'm proud of my humble beginnings.

554
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: I'll say this. I started in fifth Ward, parents got divorce,

555
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: we moved to fifth Ward, and I used to have

556
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: eliminated stand so pickles now laters m eliminate to the

557
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: folks and far And it's just it was always in

558
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: my spirit, it was always in my soul. I always

559
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: knew as seven years old that I wanted to um,

560
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to serve others and I wanted to do

561
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: well for myself. I want to push past whatever limits

562
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: I think I have, I want to push past them.

563
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,479
Speaker 1: So coming from a humble, humble, humble begettings, I think

564
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: kind of brings a full circle because this is why

565
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: we want to do this, This is why I want

566
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: to do this, to whom much has given, much is required.

567
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: And I think that goes without saying, um, you know,

568
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: Reggie and I we're gonna say the wrong thing, We're

569
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: gonna put ourselves out there. We're both very private people.

570
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: So that that which leads me to this question. Yes,

571
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: you being such a low key person. All of this time,

572
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: you've been a low key, very low key person, and

573
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: now you're about to do a podcast where you're about

574
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: to put yourself out there and be and subject yourself

575
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: to a lot of scrutiny. Yes, are you really ready

576
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: for that? Well? I don't think I'm I don't think

577
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: I've been ready for anything that I stepped out on

578
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: theting tried. Yeah, but all the time you've been doing

579
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: all this other stuff, you've still been low key, I know.

580
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: But I think I hope more than anything that people

581
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: will see our heart and and our why and know

582
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: why we do it. We only want to help people,

583
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: and so hopefully that will be transparent as we as

584
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: we navigate, because we're gonna be learning to We're gonna

585
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: put our foot in our mouths. We're human. We're gonna

586
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: do a lot of things that maybe we will look

587
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: back on and say, uh, maybe we should have, you know,

588
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: treaded lighter. But I think we're going to put our full,

589
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: our full selves in be dedicated to it, and hopefully

590
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: as long as we can help anybody, hopefully that will

591
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: that will count for something. So yes, I think that's

592
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: both of our wise. Yeah, yeah, because you want to

593
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: give people something that they could when they get um

594
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: finished listening to us, and say well wow, and they

595
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: go put it to use and they say, hey, that

596
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: it really works, you know. So yeah, if it don't,

597
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: then you know, I mean it takes. It takes a

598
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: lot of work, man, You got a lot of time.

599
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you know kindergartens. One time they thought that

600
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: Martin find me on the streets. And that's how it became. Bro. Man,

601
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: they found you on the street down as he was home.

602
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: I went to two universities. Man, it takes. Though it

603
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: just happened overnight, Bro, it don't happen overnight. Man, I

604
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: mean it takes a man. It take. It take hard work.

605
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: Brovoice reloaded podcast will be right back after the poet.

606
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: Let me answer a question when you, um, you guys

607
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: left down here Houston, Galaston to go to southern California,

608
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood movie stars. Did that cost to live

609
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: and play a part of the fear? Did you have

610
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: any fear and knowing that you were gonna have to

611
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: come up with this money because it costs a lot

612
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: of money to be in lost As California even more

613
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: now and it was that's the reason why I never left. Yeah,

614
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend that kind of money. Hey,

615
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: I remember, man, you know, my my family, A lot

616
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,239
Speaker 1: of them are coming, a lot of come back, come back,

617
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: a lot of them coming from all over. I'm talking. Yeah,

618
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: that's that's true. People, famous people are coming back to you. Boys. Man.

619
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: When I left gals and we all said in my

620
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: living room, man and a little bit the apartment my

621
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: mother house, and it was four of us, man, me

622
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: and my boys. I said, hey, man, we don't make

623
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: a pack. None of us coming back. I left. All

624
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: three of them came back too, came back the next day.

625
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: They spent the night outside looking at the college, and

626
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: drove back the next day. That's real. Third and uh,

627
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: but my aunt I was in Missouri because I had transferred,

628
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: went to Missouri my last year. And I was telling

629
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: my aunt something coming down there. I want to be

630
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: an actor. I got a friend out here. He's trying

631
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: to be an actor and he's not making it. And

632
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: you should go to the NFL, go play football. And

633
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: I wasn't even listening, man, I just like she got

634
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: through talking, Like we talked about earlier, about this, wait

635
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: for my opportunity to jump into the conversation. When she

636
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: got through talking, I said, okay, we'll be pulling in Friday.

637
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: I didn't know how he was gonna make it. We

638
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: left in a little bit of Nissan Sentral Man. I

639
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: was riding like this hill on the stering wheel because

640
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: all our stuff was packed in the back seat. All

641
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: the way to California. Yeah, we had about five hundred

642
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: bucks straight through. Dude, you got to have a good

643
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: support system. His wife is amazing. She was right, she was.

644
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: She's the most amazing, the most amazing woman ever. And

645
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: so she supported him and they had each other. And

646
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I had him when I moved out. I

647
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: had two months. I stayed. I had a roommate, had

648
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: a bad experience and he had to move me out

649
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night and I slept on

650
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: his couch for he and his wife's couch for Yes,

651
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: what was the bad experience? Yea with the guy right, No, no, no,

652
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: it was it was it was a girl. What happened?

653
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: I've been hearing these horror stories about roommates all the time. Oh, yeah,

654
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was insane that there were

655
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: a couple and uh, I guess she thought he was

656
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 1: getting too friendly with me. So Carr ended up getting

657
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: stolen jewelry getting stolen, so he had to come and

658
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: move me out like a thief in the night. So yeah,

659
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: it gets Harry out there. But I will tell you this,

660
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: I knew moving from Houston, I bet on myself. I

661
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: knew my worth, I knew my value, and even though

662
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: I was really young, I knew what I knew. I

663
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: could always come home. I didn't. I had it in

664
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: my mind. I never will unless it's on my terms.

665
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: And I put the pedal to the metal, to the

666
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: to the metal. And that's why I say. I worked

667
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: my nine of five and then I worked for Steve

668
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: Harvey in the afternoon. You know, I always I was

669
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: always thinking of ways to better myself. It was I

670
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: was never comfortable with just stutus quote. It just always

671
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: had a burning burning inside of me to do more

672
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: than to do better. First night in town, first night

673
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: in town. Put in California, you know that first day.

674
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: And first of all, I didn't even think. I didn't

675
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: even think about not making it. I never thought about

676
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: making it or not making it. I just I just

677
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: went with the flow, man, I just went with the floor.

678
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: I'm here wherever I land, I'm gonna land. Man. The

679
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: first day we got there. My unt told me right

680
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 1: over by usc off of ver Month that's where she

681
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: lived hood. She said, hey, you got the Missouri place

682
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: on your car. This ain't Texas. This ain't Missouri. Take

683
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: your stuff out the back of the trunk. I said,

684
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: I get it to Mars, saying okay. Came back to mall.

685
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: Everything was gone, my white wind dress but football tapes, clippings, papers, all.

686
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: Had a big old poster in the back of me,

687
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: like big poster s m you on the gold line

688
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: like this. If we stopped, I think of Texas in

689
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: and then I'm like this hear. I said, they ain't

690
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: got my poster. And I had a three ft sell

691
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: Magnum appellic gun. I said it ain't take that, so

692
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: I pulled it in the back. I put in the back.

693
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: She said, boy, you ain't nothing, and I said I

694
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: got something that. I said, I go get that after

695
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: why she said, boy, this is not I went back

696
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: out there. That's my initiation. But my cousin she knew.

697
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: She said, well, usually when they steal people stuff, they're

698
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: leaving in this alley. You know what they don't want there,

699
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: you know, leaving in the alley. So I got some

700
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: of the stuff back, you know, but the main stuff that, Yeah,

701
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: I got some stuff back in the dump stuff man,

702
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: and some of the stuff they I knew who did it, man,

703
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: and the dude ain't living to this day. But you

704
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: didn't have anything to do with let's just be clear

705
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: about that. But he did. Dude name j J. Got me,

706
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: got me for my stuff. Dog. But the way AD

707
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: dressed you shouldn't never touched that. But it was that

708
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: in the trash. Uh. We couldn't find that one. Somebody

709
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: somebody wrote that one. You know what you know I had, Man,

710
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: I would hurt me, but he would hurt me. Is

711
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: he got my Vanessa Dear real collection. Oh wow, not Vanessa.

712
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: That hurt me to my heart right here, my Vanessa

713
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: Dear Rio. Man. But I never thought about, man, I never.

714
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: I never thought about like if I was gonna make it,

715
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: if I wasn't gonna make it. This is like college, man.

716
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: I never. I mean in high school, I never thought,

717
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: uh going to a dh one school or college. I

718
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: was just playing football and I just start getting let

719
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: us man, I wouldn't even anticipating going to play college football. Man,

720
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: it just happened, you know, when I did death. Jam.

721
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: I didn't even I want to do I didn't even

722
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: uh try to do death jam. Man, it just happened.

723
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: It just came about. I didn't see it. Seemed like

724
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: to me, you kind of like followed the opportunity. I

725
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: just I just I just went, man, because I never

726
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: had in my mind that, you know, from when I

727
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: was in the fourth grade. I know, I wanted to

728
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: I want to play football, I want to run track,

729
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: and I wanted to at I had a piece of

730
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: paper and I wrote it and I stuck it on

731
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: my door when I was a kid, and every time

732
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: I walked out of my room, I looked at that

733
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: paper and it followed that way. Man. I never thought

734
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna happen. I never I never had a doubt. Man.

735
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: You know. I took my wife out there, man, and

736
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, the only thing I was worried

737
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: about is taking care of her. I didn't want her

738
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: to be out there, you know, struggling. I said, Man,

739
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: if I canna take care of my wife, I'll be

740
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: all right. But I didn't never think. I never thought

741
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: that I wasn't gonna make it. Yeah, you play a

742
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: lot of supporting roles if you ever, like really just

743
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: wanted to be the guy all the way out in

744
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: the front. I do. And I just before I came

745
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: out here, and I just landed a new agent, man,

746
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: uh b H agency. And they want to take me

747
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: in a whole different direction, man, they want to take

748
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: me more dramatic now, you know. So I'm happy that

749
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: I got with her, you know, um Charlene him over there,

750
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And um, I'm excited, man, I'm looking forward

751
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: to this, this this new year. Man, what's the wildest

752
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: story you can share with us about somebody recognized and

753
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: you asked brod Man in the streets. Yeah, Uh, I

754
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: was coming. I was coming from the set Martin, and

755
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: uh it was a big girl, man. She was a

756
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: big old girl and he was walking because I had

757
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: the park in the parking lot with it with the audience,

758
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 1: you know, everybody else had, you know what I'm saying.

759
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: So I'm parting with the audience, man. And my cousin

760
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: was and my other cousin in California, she's like, she's

761
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: the girl, said bro Man. And I said, hey, how

762
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: are you doing? And then she saw running and my

763
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: cousin said, you better, you better, uh, walking a little faster, right,

764
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: and then she saw it like my cousin, now you

765
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: better running. So I saw running man girl. I got

766
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: in my car man and it was like it was

767
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: like like cool Joe dog and that was I was like, wow,

768
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: that's what I know. That's when I knew that you know,

769
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: this character was was you know, bigger than um. You

770
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: know that that that I thought, Man, I was just

771
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: doing another role because like I said, I've done you know,

772
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: I played this character on FIS called Tyrrel and show

773
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: called um True Colors with Frankie face on Yeah, yeah man,

774
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: and um, you know I did other things, but Martin

775
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: was the one that, like I say, man, that's that's

776
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: the staple that um, everybody knows. What's the story that

777
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: you can share with us? Where it came out all bad?

778
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: It was like I'm really just a negative experience because

779
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes when your celebrity people can be fans

780
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: of yours, they don't really know how to react, they

781
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: don't know how to speak to you when they see you.

782
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:41,479
Speaker 1: Sometimes that they're star struck in a negative way. Yeah,

783
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: and you know, and you know how you know what's

784
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: funny about that? Man? It always stuff like that always

785
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: happened at home, your home people. You know, I never

786
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: had really bad experiences with you know, people from somewhere else,

787
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: but is at home, you know, classmates, you know, they

788
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: might get a little jealous and they'd be like, oh, man,

789
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, man, blah blah blah

790
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: blah blah. And I ain't even say nothing. Man, I'm

791
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: just all the time, you know what I mean. It's

792
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: like I didn't even say nothing, dude, I'm trying to

793
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: I'm trying to hang out, you know, have fun, and

794
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, man, it's crazy. Man by myself. Man,

795
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 1: I'm doing me by myself. You came in here. Yeah,

796
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: that is that that is It's always that person, man,

797
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: this it's never you know, I don't think I ever

798
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: had a bad experience with with somebody outside of my hometown.

799
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: But why do you think that is? That is happening

800
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 1: in your own because they think that they know me,

801
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: and they think that man, I'm funny than him, or

802
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 1: I can do this better than him. You know, I

803
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: remember when I used to take theater classes man, and

804
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: I was in Cottage. You know, my friends used to say, man,

805
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: you'll start lying back and man, you taking many stuff

806
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: for girls. Man, Now the'm saying casts asked me. You

807
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 1: know they you know I was doing theater and football play.

808
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm lying back and start lying back and they think

809
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, girl stuff to take theater classes,

810
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: you know. So um then say those same cats now

811
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: asked me, can I hook him up? So now I

812
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: put in the work all these years, put into work,

813
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: but now you just want to come out here, and

814
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: I just think that you just go on. I played

815
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: football and I was in speeching drama too in school,

816
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah? Well see that was that in

817
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: high school to college. No, no, no, you know who

818
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: I am like junior high school. Yeah, my first you

819
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: didn't never get no flag for that. That's what I'm saying.

820
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. As I say I wish your

821
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: mother would play. I was about to say that we got,

822
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: we got because I got because the girls was in there. Man,

823
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: I got flag bro on my on my But they

824
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: came and seeing that some of the plays, and they

825
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: showed there a lot of love. They respected it, and uh,

826
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 1: but you know that that was the story. Man. It's

827
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: like I knew what I wanted to do you know,

828
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: no one to do? And I did it, you know,

829
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: And and I was nervous as hell walking to my

830
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: first audition in college the place c J Memphis. Man

831
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: go and I was there. He was my first time

832
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: going up on stage to do comedy. J Anthony Brown

833
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 1: started me in doing comedy. Man. Yeah, yeah, man, he

834
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: once started. Yeah, he's my man. Man. He the one

835
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: told me to go to hip hop. He said, Man,

836
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: go to the Clipan and Houston. Man. He owned part

837
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: of the club and said, go to my clip and

838
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: Houston this bring up there. You know, I was on Marcus.

839
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: He used to warm up the audience on Martin and

840
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: He's like, Man, let's go down and then, you know,

841
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: bring up the audience. May get your thound dollars for

842
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: seven shows. I thought there was a lot of money.

843
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: I'm like a thousand for something show. Okay, really ain't going,

844
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Speaker 1: I ain't going now, really gonna talk. You're gonna talk

845
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Speaker 1: to me out of a lot of money. Hundred and yeah.

846
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: At that time, man, the show was hot. How long

847
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: you had to be able there? We did? We did?

848
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: What what on stage? Or how long did you have

849
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: to be on stage? For the herd Bucks I was hosting.

850
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: I was hosting, so I just brought it up comics, man,

851
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: So I really have any jokes? But I asked him,

852
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: can I tell jokes? Is if you think you can

853
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: tell the jokes? Man? And and and thought I was cool.

854
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: And somebody else saw me in the artist. Man. They

855
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: took me all over the world man, Japan, Germany. I

856
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: was hosting, you know, for the troops. So that's how

857
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: I did that. How how long was it that you

858
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: was in l A before you got your first role? Man?

859
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: It wasn't long at all, um, because maybe shoot, maybe

860
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: two months? And how did you go about doing it?

861
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: Two much? I found? Man? I was. I went to

862
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: this bank and his cat named Muhammed. He was the man.

863
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: Things happened for a reason. Man, he was. He was

864
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: a security. He said, hey, man, I'm gonna be on

865
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: TV tonight. We didn't even know this, dude. I said, really,

866
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,959
Speaker 1: I see, I'm trying to be an actor. I said,

867
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: how you do this? I'm just gonna be extra, man,

868
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be an extra. I said, how do

869
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: you be an extra? And he told me how to

870
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: do it? And I did it for I did extra

871
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: work for four times. And I told my wife on

872
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: the fourth point, I say, man, I ain't doing this

873
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: chump no more. And I was supposed to be a

874
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: stand in for this this actor and shot for show

875
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: Call movie Call Uh, I Love You The Death of

876
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: River Phoenix Kevin Klein and Tracy Oldman. I was supposed

877
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: to be a stand in actor didn't show up. So

878
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: River Phoenix, I'm standing behind the River Phoenix and I'm

879
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: from I'm from Texas. Man, I ain't scared of nothing.

880
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 1: I s the only thing they could do. I said,

881
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start talking, because that's on what you get

882
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: your sad car. You have to talk in the movie,

883
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: and there going to be in a movie. You gotta

884
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: have your sad car. So I said, well, ain't I'm

885
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: a sad car. Ain't I said, I was talking. Don't

886
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: think you could do it? Take me to shut up,

887
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: go home. They can't put their hands on me. As

888
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: long as I know k can put their hands on me,

889
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm good. So I start talking. And I just started

890
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: talking and Lawrence can I saw. I said, hey, good

891
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: jobs man, good job, like good job. And they said,

892
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: you know, Lawrence casting Man, the director, Big director of

893
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: the Big Chill and all that. They came up to me,

894
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: gave me a contract man, and then I was saying it.

895
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: I was saying, I wish I could see that countrack

896
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 1: right now because I can't understand nothing wrong. I'm trying

897
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: to hurt from. I was safe, can dude, And I

898
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: got my my River Phoenix many risk in peace. He

899
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: was more happy for me than myself. River was so

900
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: cool man. He was jumping up maybe he's coming out shot,

901
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: hitting me in my arm, punching me. He had this

902
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: old beat up car he ust to get in through

903
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: the window us to jump through the winter to getting

904
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: his cars. Because he was like, you know, mellow dude. Man,

905
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 1: he was punching in my in my face. Man, good

906
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: y'all man. I mean you know this hit me on

907
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: my arms and stuff like, good y'all man. He said,

908
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: that's that's great. Congratulations. And I found out later when

909
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: I did the movie Class actle Kid played the actor

910
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: then show up. It was Timmy Forward. That's how I

911
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: got my tough for Martin. Tommy, Tommy, you don't want

912
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: to show up man. And we were talking on the

913
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: set of a Class Act and I was like, man,

914
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: don't I got my sad. Call this acting and showing

915
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: for this, this role in this movie called I Love

916
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: You definite said what he said? Man, it was me, man,

917
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: it's because I was doing uh Hall of Nights. Yeah,

918
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: River Phoenix died, um drug man in that club. What's

919
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,399
Speaker 1: the name of that club? The Viper the Viper Room.

920
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: What kind of dude was he? Though? And I was surprise, brother,

921
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: because the dude we was eating doing a scene eating

922
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: a pizza and he was eating he was picking off

923
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: the veggies man eating because he was a vegetarian. It

924
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: was vegan, so he eating the vegetables. I'm like, how

925
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: this dude, you know, eating vegetables but you know he

926
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 1: oh on drugs. That's why I couldn't believe that, Like wow,

927
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: because everybody got their own vices that story. So it's

928
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: like I know I got because I never drank in

929
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: my life. Man, never had a drink in my life,

930
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: never smoked in my life. But I got that that

931
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: weakness with that tweets born it's my problem. It calls

932
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: me never smoked, We never had a drink. Can't say

933
00:49:55,920 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: high taste, man, but I can tell you how bluebearrel tastes. Baby. Yeah,

934
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: so straight up down an ice cream then to tell

935
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: us that story about when Mohammed Ali for the second

936
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: time when he was in l A. Oh my goodness.

937
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: So I had a I had a doctor that I

938
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Speaker 1: had surgery um signed surgery. And it was my last

939
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: visit of five for one of the first business I

940
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: saw a picture on the wall, uh that my doctor

941
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: had with Muhammad Ali, and I said, you know, told

942
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: him my story of how I met him when I

943
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: was young, and he and I showed him a picture

944
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: that I had with Muhammed Ali, and he was like

945
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: to hold onto this, to this picture, So I gave

946
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: him a copy of it. And my last visit in

947
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: the doctor's chair, doctor all of my nose and all

948
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: of a sudden the door swings open and Muhammed Ali

949
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: walks in. Yes, yes, he bought no knock, no nothing,

950
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: He just walks in. And this was close to before

951
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: he died, so he was you know, I couldn't really

952
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: speak very well, but opened the door and my doctor said,

953
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: do you remember this this young lady. And he looked

954
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: at me and he smiled so big, and he was

955
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: like beautiful. Just I think he was thinking more of

956
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: the experience, you know that we had when I was

957
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, when we were glued to

958
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: the hip. It was. It was one of the greatest

959
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: experiences of my life. I didn't know that, Yeah, greatest.

960
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: I meant Mohammed Alien had to share in the hotel

961
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: in the university. I ain't met No Mohammed in university

962
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: on me so hard because I met the champ. But

963
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 1: the champion told b W he looked like Joe Fraser

964
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: and he got in that boxing stand. Yeah, yeah did.

965
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: And Ali had so many moments like that. If you go,

966
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: he just walks into a room and surprised people. But

967
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: the idea that he had planned, you know, he wasn't

968
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: feeling well, he wasn't at his best, and he's still

969
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: time to come to that office and to see me.

970
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: It was, it was, you know, it was. That was

971
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: a surreal moment as well. One of the things I

972
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: wanted I want to say though some people have been

973
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: asking about rich people's business. You know, how how does

974
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: Reggie come into the full I have a business, but

975
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: this is again the business of Reginald runs himself as

976
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: a business, and so he has and he does it flawlessly.

977
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: He doesn't have an assistant he's on the road Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

978
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: and he runs his own business completely and he um,

979
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: he does it well. And he's grown. He's on he

980
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: does sometimes two shows a day, and he's grown. Um,

981
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 1: he's organized. Um, he can tell you anything about his business.

982
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: He has a lot to share about the industry. UM.

983
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: So I think just just know when you come to

984
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: our podcast, when you when you um come tune in,

985
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna learn a lot about a lot. You know,

986
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,959
Speaker 1: You're going to be able to see things from different perspectives,

987
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: and then you'll tell us what you want to know.

988
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: The goal for us is to go inside of various businesses.

989
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: We want to take you along a journey. We want

990
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: to show you show people regular people doing um jobs

991
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: that we don't talk about a lot. You know. We

992
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: want to take you and show you minority business owners

993
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: that own car dealerships successfully. Um. You know. We just

994
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: want just jobs, things that people do that don't get

995
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: a lot of play but are very lucrative for minorities.

996
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: You have to understand in the US, seventy percent of

997
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,280
Speaker 1: small businesses, which is anything under I think it's forty million,

998
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: is considered a small business. Is um Caucasian driven everything.

999
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: I think black folks are at about six point six percent,

1000
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: Asians are at six point two percent, and Hispanics I

1001
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,800
Speaker 1: think are about a team point of the small business

1002
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: pathe So we need to figure out how we elevate

1003
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: and go to the next level and make sure that

1004
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: we are growing our own percentages in our numbers in

1005
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: different ways. So that's what we want to do. Yeah,

1006
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: we an Asian number is a little skewed because they

1007
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: have a much smaller population than we do. So we

1008
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,280
Speaker 1: should have a higher number. Yea, we should have because

1009
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: we represent a much larger demographic. Yeah. Yeah, well that's

1010
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: that's gonna be Uh, that's that's gonna be very beneficial.

1011
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: That's what we try to do on this podcast is

1012
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,280
Speaker 1: basically give people information and instructions they have to navigate

1013
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. Yeah, and it's been

1014
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: very beautiful sitting here with you guys, uh, sucking up

1015
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: game and learning a little bit more about your lives.

1016
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: I thought I knew you. I guess you've still got

1017
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: some more secrets, but keep seeing. But it's it's definitely

1018
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: good man about you. Dana just talked about you all

1019
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: and not just talking mc gual raid best friend. Nobody

1020
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: teases me. Nobody teases me like him. Girl, you don't

1021
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:19,959
Speaker 1: have a forehead, you got you got an eight head?

1022
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: Scared about that? Ye? Not clouds me. I'm glad to

1023
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: have a thick skin. Please please, I would that, man.

1024
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: I would love everybody to to join in and check

1025
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 1: us out to Instagram. Please come follow us Instagram Rich

1026
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Speaker 1: People's Business podcast where all the socials TikTok. Come join

1027
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: us and we'll keep you posted. We're gonna we're gonna

1028
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: jump off probably the first quarter of the year, but

1029
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 1: we'll keep you posted. You come follow us. Reggie is

1030
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 1: your your hand over for TikTok Instagram? Your hand man

1031
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Speaker 1: Underscore feel Flow? Yeah yeah, Danna Haley, what's your what's

1032
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Speaker 1: the business? I g oh Steral Marketing, Stera Marketing, and

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Speaker 1: we're also launching the bot box. And let me tell

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Speaker 1: you something. I have bought a number of items from

1035
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Speaker 1: Quality products, quality, packaging, quality service. Quality. Now, yeah, used

1037
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Speaker 1: to be chicken change, but NIC's nice, not even when

1038
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Speaker 1: she's small. Did really were carrying them bad boys to man? Yeah?

1039
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: I didn't play. I can. I have tell on one

1040
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,240
Speaker 1: little story. So when I first worked started working with Honda,

1041
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: I had this little apartment stuff in the garage. Like

1042
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: Reggie said, they said, oh, we're gonna come to a walkthrough.

1043
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: We want to do a site visits. I was saying, oh,

1044
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: it was just me. So the lady driving up to

1045
00:56:57,719 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: the to the site visits, She's like, what are we

1046
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: gonna do when we get there? And I'm thinking, you're

1047
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: gonna walk in, you gonna turn around, and you're gonna

1048
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 1: go back out. And so she gets to the apartment

1049
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: and she steps through the door and she says, oh,

1050
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Speaker 1: ships And I said good And she said, you've been

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Speaker 1: working with us all this time, and it had been

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Speaker 1: about four months. He said, I thought you were a

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Speaker 1: multimillion dollar company. She said, you're so responsive, you know,

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Speaker 1: you answer the phone every time. And she said everything

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Speaker 1: is above top quality. She said, if you may, if

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Speaker 1: you made me feel like that with just what you've

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Speaker 1: done with this little apartment, she said, I will help

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Speaker 1: you grow with Honda. And that lady was amazing. She

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Speaker 1: was true to her word. Yeah, that's it, that's it

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Speaker 1: you got all about. That's what it's all about. You

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Speaker 1: gotta fight. You can do it even if you don't

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Speaker 1: have any money. You gotta fight. It'll come. That's right. Really, Uh,

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Speaker 1: what's the tour looked like? Yeah? Man, my first show

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Speaker 1: back is June January tenth. I got to go to Germany, Man,

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Speaker 1: I do something over there for the troops, and then

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Speaker 1: I go to Jamaica. So those are two first two

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Speaker 1: out the gate. Yeah, that's live. That's perfectly. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to convince will go on this farewell tour. Man, that

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Speaker 1: would be so dope right there, boy, Yeah, that would

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Speaker 1: be so dope right down. I like it. Call me,

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Speaker 1: call me when you open right here, I'm gonna come

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Speaker 1: out on tour with us incorrigible. Okay, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: well again, thank you all for coming on and can't

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Speaker 1: wait to see y'all blow up and y'all back on

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Speaker 1: the show and then you guys like we see what

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Speaker 1: we did with it. Yeah, you know that'd be beautiful

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Speaker 1: to see. Drive we can pull up in a couple

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Speaker 1: of may backs for y'all. It's our laws. We're finna

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Speaker 1: get right now. Right Well, if we at these icons,

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Speaker 1: you know, hey, where else can we go with? You

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Speaker 1: just make sure man, when y'all put up in those

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Speaker 1: made decks that you have some sandwiches and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have a whole lot of serve with butter off on

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Speaker 1: him and some sprinkles. It's gonna be what's up as

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Speaker 1: that times it's time to go. We ain't got no mo,

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Speaker 1: no mo, no mo talk. This episode was produced by

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Speaker 1: A King and brought to you by The Black Effect

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network and I Heart Radio.