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Speaker 1: Let me give you some quotes from some recent um

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Speaker 1: making conversations, sports and General Hospital soap opera star stephen A. Smith.

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Speaker 1: I already did my corn bread. I baked that yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what cooking turkey like that. It's two

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Speaker 1: How's everything going with Are you're excited? Uh? How? Because

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Speaker 1: You're never gonna miss the show because it's always on

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Speaker 1: So we do all different types of food, and we

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Speaker 1: It should be a fun time. You know, Well, it's

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Speaker 1: Have I been delivering on that absolutely, And I appreciate

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Speaker 1: And you know, our relationship is a long term because

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Speaker 1: Now at the time, where were you in transitioning because

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Speaker 1: Now I was looking at the sweet potato bread pudding.

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Speaker 1: I'm I do I do a raising bread pudding and

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Speaker 1: we do that. Like I said, I know how to

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make the raising bread putting. Tell me

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Speaker 1: how's that done? How do you make that? Well, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna start with You're gonna peel and dice about a

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Speaker 1: maybe about six to eight cups of that, and then

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Speaker 1: what's going to take your bread pudding to the next

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Speaker 1: and I love to top it off. I put a

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Speaker 1: e a l as simpler to impress dot com. That's

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Speaker 1: simply to impress dot com. My next two guests are

855
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Speaker 1: a true power couple and the entertainment business. He is

856
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: a two time and double a CP Image Award winning

857
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: comedic actor and touring stand up comic and his wife.

858
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: Can I get a drum roll? Uh? For his wife?

859
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: I need a drum over? There you go, that's enough.

860
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: It's a Grammy Award winner, three time nuble, a c

861
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,439
Speaker 1: p Image Award winner, b ET Award winner, bill Board

862
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: Music Award winner, Stellar Gospel Music Award winner, and g

863
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: M a dove award winning singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and

864
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: businesswoman Hardward. An album Best Days, debated at number one

865
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: on multiple Billboard Music Sales charted and included the number

866
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Speaker 1: one platinum certified single take Me to the King. Tamila

867
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: That's her Name, said, the historic personal and industry record

868
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: as the first gospel lead artist in Billboard Gospel Radio

869
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 1: Chart history to scored three consecutive number ones from an album.

870
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: This string of hits included take Me to the King.

871
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: I can only imagine at this place. Please welcome the

872
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: money making conversation. This dynamic duo known as David and

873
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: Tamila Man good this morning. You know what I'm saying, Taba,

874
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: I gotta give you love, you know, David, o't that

875
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 1: you know? Give us a little couple of credits out there?

876
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: I got it hit everybody though, who Tabla is ain't doing?

877
00:44:51,840 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: Ain't doing? David Man, we are excellent. I'll preach you well.

878
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 1: You're you're You're fantastic. And you guys have always been

879
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: there for me, uh with Steve and I was doing

880
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: the Neighborhod Awards. Anytime we called to do anything, you

881
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: guys have been there rescuing it. With a strong faith

882
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: and commitment and uh and you and you value your fans.

883
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: And that's what I really liked about it, about your

884
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: career and what you've done. And I've known you guys

885
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: know a long time now over twenty years and so

886
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,720
Speaker 1: and you guys have been consistent and I've seen you grown.

887
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: But one of the things I wanted to talk about,

888
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: and you know, not jokingly, only I could you know,

889
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: I can jokingly talk about David and Tamil's career because

890
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: both of them have phenomenal careers as singers and actors.

891
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: And David, he decided one that he gonna do stand up.

892
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 1: That's how talented he is. He's just gonna decide on

893
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: his reality show, I'm gonna do stand up, right, you

894
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: try anything, but no, no, no, no no. But then

895
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: he gonna go on tour. Though you don't do it,

896
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: do it, do it and not afraid to do make it.

897
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: Got to make it, do to do you get a

898
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: lot of keys. But here's the thing about it. What

899
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 1: I want to talk about on the show, because I

900
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: was talking my show is about entrepreneurship, Tomline, David, and

901
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: you know, in this business, you come you come in

902
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: based on your talent, okay, and and God that given

903
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: both of you, individual to individual, tremendous amount of talent.

904
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: But I see over the years you're starting to control

905
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: your own destiny, okay. And if you can talk to

906
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: us a little bit about that. And when did it

907
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: really make you realize that you know that you can

908
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: actually book yourself, you can actually create your own music

909
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: production company. When did all that started to fall in place? Uh?

910
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: You know, we kind of started back in I think

911
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: we did our first album in two thousand four, right

912
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: there somewhere in there. And it's because we've seen how

913
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: the labels were treating artists, and it was like, you know,

914
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: I know how to do music. I know that Tamila

915
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: as one of those going with the voices. So it

916
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: was just like, let's do our own you know. At first, now,

917
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, at first, dam was like I

918
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: ain't having that. She was like, I'm not finished being

919
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: no solo album by myself and go out there by herself.

920
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: But I just believed in so much in what we had.

921
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: I just said, let's put the music together and put

922
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: it out there and it's such good people will buy it.

923
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: People will you know, we love it, so we just

924
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: decided to create our own and I just believe in ownership.

925
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: And you know, seeing you guys, guys like you who

926
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: started to control their own narrative in this business and

927
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: not allow people to tell you that you can do this,

928
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: you can't do that, and that's you know, having good

929
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: examples like that helped as well. Well, you know, it's important.

930
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: And thank you for that compliment because I always tell

931
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: people I didn't know. I didn't there was no blueprint

932
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: and and I and guess what was our raid? Was

933
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: Steve Harvier afraid? Yeah, because unknown makes you're afraid, but

934
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: you have to walk past it. What you say, I

935
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: was just about to see, you have to do it afraid,

936
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: and that's what that's that's what you guys did, and

937
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: that's what I I'm just seen that develop over the

938
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: years with with this. And I look at the month

939
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: of November and you guys, uh, that's a Thanksgiving month

940
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: for the Man family. In the month of November, you

941
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: have two big projects coming out of November. You have

942
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: the about the US Against the World, Secrets to our

943
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: Married Love, marriage and Family. What would be a book

944
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: available November that would be on Harper Comics. Correct, that's

945
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: the one I want to get a copy of so

946
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: I can give it to my fans, and then your

947
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: first Then the album drops Us against the World, The

948
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: Love Project drops November night. First, let's talk about the

949
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: album because last time he was on my show earlier

950
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: in the year, we talked about that. Now we were

951
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: it's October, November's next month is about to happen, and

952
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: any hiccups? Is it where you wanted to be? Is

953
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 1: everything timing out like you wanted to want it to happen.

954
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 1: What's happening is it's a lot. We put so much

955
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: at one time where the body can't keep up with

956
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: the work. But I mean we've I've really enjoyed it

957
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: to be in the studio with David again after over

958
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: fifteen years, because it's not about I've been pulling teeth

959
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 1: with him to sing with me on my records, and

960
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: he was like, every time it's time for him to

961
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: do it. The studio sessions, we find something to do.

962
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: We just hold on, hold on, hold up. That I

963
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: would be you know that David can sing a j David.

964
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: I know I would joke around about his singing. He

965
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: could sing that but you know, Tamla, you can sing,

966
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 1: and that's why it was so difficult for me to

967
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: go on. So I thought she was gonna be on

968
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: my very It's very intimidating to sing with Tamela. Man,

969
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: you know, it's like I know how to the thing.

970
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,760
Speaker 1: It it's not for you. It's not for you because

971
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: it's you. But the team that we put together, the

972
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: writing team that my friend David J put together for

973
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: this whole project, they Taylor made the song and the

974
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: lyrics everything just for me. So it made it comfortable.

975
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they made it very comfortable for us to

976
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: get go in and do the music. So that's what

977
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: made it easy for me because at first I was

978
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: I was shaking in my boost that first I've seen

979
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: an acapella. I've seen her acapella. Okay, bring down the house.

980
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: Two people, just throw hard mic on the front row.

981
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: She get up like you know know that you don't

982
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: even do the me me me, me, oh children do

983
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: the scales. She don't do nothing. David, do this, do this,

984
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: everybody this our challenge. You go oh just Steve. I

985
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: would just give her the mike right just saying she

986
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: on like oh me oh it's too late at night.

987
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: Oh it's too She don't do that. She don't do that.

988
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 1: She just starts singing, just singing. So I understand you've

989
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: being intimidated. After all those credits, I just read they

990
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: are important enough to say we're gonna put them on

991
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: this big screen. And that's how that's the talent you

992
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: got it. That's that's why you gotta go see this show.

993
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 1: You gotta go see the show because they're very special.

994
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: Tell us exactly how the show starts. What's all happening

995
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: in the show and hide ends? Cause you David the

996
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: time looking you tell me how that works. It starts

997
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: with the whole family on stage and we do this

998
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: big number, this number called Us against the World. Is

999
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 1: that you know there's it's the title song to the album.

1000
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 1: It's called Us against the World. So the whole family

1001
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: does the US against the World sones and then David

1002
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: comes out, David Jr. Comes out and had this big,

1003
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: huge party. We were in rehearsal last night and I

1004
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: just heard is DJ it y'all? This boy is rocking

1005
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: the plays party having to play going. Then my daughter

1006
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: Tia is doing a tribute. I don't know if I

1007
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 1: want to give away her tribute. I'm gonna tell it anyway.

1008
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 1: He's doing this really good tribute to Arita Franklin. It's

1009
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: a queen and it's a it's a really heartfelt tribute

1010
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: that she's doing. And then I come out and do

1011
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: stand us. Then Tabola comes out after immunition and just

1012
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: takes us the church for a second, and we interrupt

1013
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: the whole show to encourage families, encouraged couples with the

1014
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: love set. And then in the middle of that, I'm

1015
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what happened to me yesterday in rehearsals

1016
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: from this love set. It had me crying. She looked up.

1017
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: She said, Babe, you can't do that because if I

1018
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: look down the crying, I'm gonna be done. You said,

1019
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: the crying like that, I'm gonna start crying. And then

1020
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,879
Speaker 1: Tam just took us straight out to church who were

1021
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: in rehearsal. It was the people that were working at

1022
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: the theater where we were rehearsing yesterday that will cry.

1023
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: So it's that kind of movie. That's the whole show

1024
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: right there. I just laid it out to you. Well,

1025
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, you know, I'm gonna be there.

1026
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: Like I said, if I'm gonna if I'm gonna see

1027
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: you for almost four or five days, I'm gonna have

1028
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: to hug you. And don't give Rashaw McDonald no ticket.

1029
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: Don't give me no ticket. I'm buying my ticket, okay,

1030
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: because I support I believe, I believe in the Man's

1031
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: I believe in the Man's now. I believe in the Man.

1032
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: And just let me just recap everything to the everybody's listening. No,

1033
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: remember nine the album drops us against the world. The

1034
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: Love Project, The Man Family Tour will be in town.

1035
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: They just described it. Get your tickets now, I'm send

1036
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: me some banners can put on on social media. David Tamla,

1037
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: thank you for getting on the show today. You know

1038
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: I respect your money making conversation. You support me. I

1039
00:53:54,640 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: gotta support you too. We love you. We look for things. Yeah,

1040
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: we sort of stopped paying attention and racked up a

1041
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: lot of debt. Yeah, it was stressful. He blamed me

1042
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: for my credit card debt and I blamed him for

1043
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: building that man cave. It's awesome anyway, we stopped blaming

1044
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: each other, did our homework and read that a smart

1045
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