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Speaker 1: companies sports and lifestyle and culture called Slick, their Black

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Speaker 1: Santa Company which I love, Business Land Inside the Game,

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Speaker 1: Business Inside the Game, called Big and No Label, each

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Speaker 1: with the objective of combining creative talent with the original

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Speaker 1: Please Welcome to Money Making Conversations Byron Davis thank you, guys.

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Speaker 1: I was running who you was talking about. I was

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Speaker 1: looking for that. You need to really need to stop backing.

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Speaker 1: Would I would just go back when we when we

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Speaker 1: first met many years ago, used to come up to

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Speaker 1: the Steve Hurry Morning Show. I was the producer. We

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Speaker 1: just we just we were chopping up back then when

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Speaker 1: you were doing those Magic Johns and All Star Games

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Speaker 1: back in the day. Man, I've always been a big

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Speaker 1: fan of yours. But one thing I wanted to say

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Speaker 1: about you is that I said renaissance man, And I

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Speaker 1: said that with with with a lot of uh what

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Speaker 1: I say, uh, pride, Because man, you've always from the

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Speaker 1: into entertainment. So I'm gonna give you credit, man, because

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Speaker 1: you jumped out there first, and because you you know

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Speaker 1: you you you You've had an amazing career. Because I

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Speaker 1: it was filled with injuries, and but every time you

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Speaker 1: And I want to just out there right quick. Was

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Speaker 1: what was that motivation? Because a lot of times when

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Speaker 1: you get injured, you can just give up. You can

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Speaker 1: just say, hey, man, wow, I'm tired of this, but

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Speaker 1: you came back. Every time you came back. Man, you

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Speaker 1: was a bad man on that court. Explain to this

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Speaker 1: how did that happen? Burn Man? You know, I think

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Speaker 1: it's just from my upbringing, you know, uh, going up

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Speaker 1: it uh PTSD right. Uh. But I think that when

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Speaker 1: you get addressed with this situation all the time. Somebody

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Speaker 1: from you burn, come on mare and hook me up

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Speaker 1: a good job. Idea gonna make a millions of dollars?

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Speaker 1: What drives you in the creative platform? For me, it's

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Speaker 1: what what what drugs needs is? I think that there's

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Speaker 1: a an opportunity, sir and um, you know, to tell

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Speaker 1: for a period there you know, we were fighting on TV,

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Speaker 1: Michael Strahan's brand. These brands are very as they say,

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Speaker 1: But you know, for me, it's it's about once again,

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Speaker 1: knowing that's a role that you're playing because for a

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Speaker 1: check and but delivering information, I'm thinking it's a man,

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Speaker 1: your more your more visionary things that you have planning. Man,

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Speaker 1: But thank you for getting on the call. I know

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Speaker 1: that's what I would be too. We've been right back,

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