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Prank Phone Call King Nephew Tommy/Thomas Miles talks about overcoming the odds to host OWN’s Real Love and co-hosting the Steve Harvey Morning Show. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 3: success stories and start living your own. My guest today
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  Speaker 3: longtime friend Thomas Miles. He is the host of Owns,
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  Speaker 3: Ready for Love, Executive Duke bubble Ball, Will Packer, Own
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  Speaker 3: Popper Love and Relationship Dainty show Ready to Up. Come
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  Speaker 3: on That Yeah, returned to eighteen hopeful singles, Looking for
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  Speaker 3: Love and Big d Dallas texts Now on the show today.
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  Speaker 3: I also gonna interview Nephew Thomas from the popular Steve
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  Speaker 3: Harvey Morning Shows, also Thomass.
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  Speaker 3: up comedian, philanthropists, entrepreneur and family man. Please welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Owns hosts for Love. Thomas Miles.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing, Thomas, I'm good, I'm good. Thank you
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  Speaker 4: for signing man. Good to see you, man.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you taking the time to come on the show. Man,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I, like I said ninety two,
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  Speaker 3: I met you inspired Willian Thomas Mile, then you blew
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  Speaker 3: up on the Steve Hart Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Nephew Thomas. Now to I get to introduce you as
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Miles. Let's full How does that f full circle?
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  Speaker 5: It feels good, Man, been around the block with it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you start out as Thomas Miles, and you
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  Speaker 5: jumped into nephew Tommy, which is actually what what got
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  Speaker 5: me to this platau, and then you know, now maybe
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  Speaker 5: to actually go back to my name Thomas Miles. So
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  Speaker 5: it makes a full circle. But I think I think
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  Speaker 5: Nephew tom me, I don't slight him at all. He's
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  Speaker 5: got us to the to the point that we're able
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  Speaker 5: to get back to the name Thomas Miles and get
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  Speaker 5: more established. And but you know it took that going
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  Speaker 5: around the block, going around the world to get back
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  Speaker 5: to it.
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  Speaker 3: Well you know, you know, going around the world tour
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  Speaker 3: with Luther Vandros Thomas Miles.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know when you're doing
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  Speaker 1: Sister and Sister with me back in the day, Thomas, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Park building Parker to act like you know, Nephew tom me,
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  Speaker 3: it just did everything Thomas Miles was building something.
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  Speaker 1: Nephew told me.
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  Speaker 3: It was just that that that that that that that
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  Speaker 3: that that hook that wrought you to as they say,
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  Speaker 3: create longevity in this business. That's really key Man to
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  Speaker 3: enable to host the show. That Will Packard, that's our friend,
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  Speaker 3: both our friends. Man, damn you spotted at you your
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  Speaker 3: brand own the Steve Harvey Morning Show. How did that
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  Speaker 3: happen and why did you feel you could actually host
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  Speaker 3: the show like this?
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  Speaker 5: You know what, Man, Will gave me a call Rushan,
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  Speaker 5: And you know, people in Hollywood always say, you know what,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we're gonna work together.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna do something soon or later.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna do something people in Hollywood always say that,
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  Speaker 5: so I you know, when you're here, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I've been hearing this or I've been hearing this ever
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  Speaker 5: since I got to Hollywood. But Will Packer called me
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  Speaker 5: and said, uh he sent me a text first and
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  Speaker 5: showed me that he was had a couple of shows
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  Speaker 5: that was getting ready to blow up out of out
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  Speaker 5: of own network. And I was texting him back saying, hey, man,
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  Speaker 5: congratulations to you, brother, and he was like, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: just ready to love show. I want you to I
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  Speaker 5: want you to host this show and Rustani immediately immediately,
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  Speaker 5: I'm thinking, hey man, I ain't got no time for
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  Speaker 5: your prank phone call. Okay, I'm the one to do
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  Speaker 5: the pranks. You don't do the pranks. I do the pranks.
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  Speaker 4: So man, He's like, no time. This is perfect for you.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 4: You and your wife been together forever. You're the great
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  Speaker 4: person that.
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  Speaker 5: Can get in here and give people your your great
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  Speaker 5: advice on being married. I was like, okay, okay, new time, man.
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  Speaker 5: We look up later. Here we are.
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  Speaker 4: I'm one hundred plus episodes in brother, that's the blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now you know, you know we grew up on
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  Speaker 1: love connection, you know right right, the dating game, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Saying, newly weeded game and all that they got all
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  Speaker 3: those other shows out there.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't gonna mention the other shows out there.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody got they have naked, they look they don't have
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  Speaker 3: a job, Thomas, they got time to just take off
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  Speaker 3: because they ain't got nothing to take off from.
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  Speaker 1: Now ready to love these some grown people. Brother, as
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  Speaker 1: they were saying, my.
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  Speaker 3: Lane, tie on the tread on the tie, but Fred
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  Speaker 3: could tread though. Talk about the difference and the people
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  Speaker 3: in this show. Let's start breaking it down because I
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  Speaker 3: got the list of all the names on the show,
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  Speaker 3: so we won't talk about them a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So you know what the difference is, man, let
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  Speaker 5: me let me, let me clarify.
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  Speaker 4: The difference between these other shows and mister Shriver.
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  Speaker 5: John is because you know, you got when you hear something,
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  Speaker 5: and this is not knocking them something. These are great shows.
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  Speaker 5: When you hear Bachelor and you hear Bachelorette. When you
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  Speaker 5: hear all of that, you're talking about people that are
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  Speaker 5: in their twenties. Life is just now getting started. They
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  Speaker 5: have not been through any ups and downs. Yet Ready
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  Speaker 5: to Love is different. This is the real deal. These
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  Speaker 5: people are thirties, forties, some people are in their fifties.
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  Speaker 5: Some people are divorced, some people got kids. Some people
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  Speaker 5: career driven, never took time for love. You know, you
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  Speaker 5: got some boss ladies, you got some men that are
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  Speaker 5: entrepreneurs that are doing their thing, but the one thing
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  Speaker 5: they miss it is love.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's really important that you say that, because, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, I'm looking at aries. You know, software sales manager, okay,
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  Speaker 3: lead health and wellness coach. You know you got a
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  Speaker 3: TV and film producer, you got ah, we got a
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  Speaker 3: comedian on that, James Red Now, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I comedian coming on Ready to Love or that's funny
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  Speaker 5: by itself, right absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: But you know the thing about it, I know it's
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  Speaker 3: popular because they said in twenty twenty two, Ready to
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  Speaker 3: Love has been Friday Night's number one original cable series
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  Speaker 3: American African American women.
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  Speaker 1: What has that done to your brand?
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  Speaker 4: The show man?
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something, Rachelle, this thing has now
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  Speaker 5: uh turned into uh men and and their their spouses
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  Speaker 5: that you know, the couples are sitting down watching Ready
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  Speaker 5: to Love Friday Nights. I'm getting I'm getting texts, I'm
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  Speaker 5: getting people hit me in my uh on social media,
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  Speaker 5: how this is their big night, this is their.
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  Speaker 4: Big date night.
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  Speaker 5: This has blown up to be that there's there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of ladies who get together saying, you know, this
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  Speaker 5: is our this is our TV night on Friday nights.
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  Speaker 4: We get together.
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  Speaker 5: And the big thing is Rashan is they're trying to
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  Speaker 5: pick out who they think to be, who they gonna
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna connect together. I want them to get together, right,
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  Speaker 5: I want them to get together and listen, list goes
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  Speaker 5: on and on. Man, So it's become this great date
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  Speaker 5: night for a lot of people, and you know it's
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  Speaker 5: it's become number one on the old network.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, now let's let's talk about the show here because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: I want people to get engaged with the show.
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  Speaker 3: I know I watched the show in the beginning to
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  Speaker 3: kick off one girl and begetting kick off one guy
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  Speaker 3: and to get it break down everybody how this show
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  Speaker 3: actually works and because we don't because you know, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of lots of some of these shows are insensitive,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't think I don't think this is definitely
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  Speaker 3: not one of those shows. Because It's about really hoping
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  Speaker 3: that the people come on the show really become a
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  Speaker 3: couple really fine, right, love, that's really the number one goal.
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  Speaker 3: And we know, and we know as African Americans anybody
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  Speaker 3: as you get older, the options to find that mate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, unless okay, how does Ready to Love work?
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  Speaker 1: What is the formatt and how do you.
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  Speaker 4: Let me show you? Right here?
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  Speaker 5: Take your time here, ready, here's Already to Love works.
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  Speaker 5: You when you started off, you said eighteen singles. So
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  Speaker 5: let me let's go back a little bit. When we
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  Speaker 5: first started this. We started out with twenty singles, ten men,
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  Speaker 5: ten women, all right, and this is what this is
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  Speaker 5: is it's a process of elimination. One week, the women
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  Speaker 5: eliminate the men, the next week, men eliminating women, and
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  Speaker 5: it dwindles down till by the end of ten eleven weeks,
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  Speaker 5: we are now down to six people, three couples who
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  Speaker 5: have hopefully found love. That's it. So there is no
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  Speaker 5: that's the prize. The prize is loved. There's no million dollars,
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  Speaker 5: no trip around the world. The prize is love that
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  Speaker 5: you found it for three couples. Now you read just
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  Speaker 5: a second ago, you said eighteen singles, so what we're
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  Speaker 5: doing Roushan is we're throwing curveballs.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: We started with nine men, nine men and nine women,
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  Speaker 5: eighteen eighteen people. So two weeks later, I throw a
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  Speaker 5: curveball in and bring in a lady and bring in
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  Speaker 5: a guy. So now we really are at the twenty.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just not giving it to you all at one time.
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh okay, okay, okay, Gods, so.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta switch it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: So because people have been watching the show, you know,
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  Speaker 5: so when you get new casts, remember they like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I know what's gonna happen here. I know what's gonna
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  Speaker 5: happen here. Oh no, you don't. We're finn change all
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  Speaker 5: this thing up. We're gonna give it to you little
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  Speaker 5: by little.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm not trying to give away the show, but
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  Speaker 3: there are always people who become your favorite or you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know people who either either nut got personality or
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  Speaker 3: you really because your shirt people, you know, you go
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  Speaker 3: that that person ain't ever gonna find love. But the show,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna ride with it. Any any favorites on the
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  Speaker 3: show that we can, we can we can kind of follow,
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  Speaker 3: not saying that you you point to who gonna actually
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  Speaker 3: make love or get to the love portion. But talk
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  Speaker 3: about the guests of the individual talenteds on the show.
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  Speaker 5: Man, you got you got so many moves? Do you
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  Speaker 5: see the one on now that is the she's a stylist.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and Sierra, she's thirty three Sierra.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Sierra is a favorite of mine, Rashan, because she funny,
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  Speaker 5: is all good, Rashana. If we wanted her to open
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  Speaker 5: up and do fifteen minutes, she'll go out there and
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  Speaker 5: kill it, I promise. So she's a favorite. She's the
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  Speaker 5: one that you really want, you want to see her
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  Speaker 5: fine love, but she's so she's so real, she's so
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  Speaker 5: natural and she's not she's not playing with the with
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  Speaker 5: with with what's going on. She really wants to find love,
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  Speaker 5: but she refuses to fake it. She wants you to
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  Speaker 5: know exactly who she is. So she's my favorite on
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  Speaker 5: this season for Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Man right now. What on the guy side, we got okay?
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  Speaker 4: On the guy Herbert, you got.
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  Speaker 3: Jack and James and Marvin and Peel and Travis and
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  Speaker 3: ma and Maria Maria.
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  Speaker 4: Marier Marier Molray.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I like Maray Now listen now Marvin Marvin scares
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  Speaker 5: me Sean. Okay, the one name Marvin, because Marvin he
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  Speaker 5: writes these erotic books and he's into these this he's
• 11:08
  Speaker 5: into these whips and he's in the whips and chains.
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  Speaker 1: And that the one of the promo talking about dominating.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, and and the girl looks at
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  Speaker 3: him like, huh did.
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  Speaker 5: You say he got a whole He got a whole
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  Speaker 5: dungeon at his house. I don't even want to go
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  Speaker 5: over there.
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  Speaker 1: This is real. This is real, this is real.
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  Speaker 4: You can't write this. And he writes he also he
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  Speaker 4: writes erotic books. He's a he's a he's a he's
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  Speaker 4: a he's a he's a novelist, he's an author.
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  Speaker 5: So so, but Marier is the more is the guy
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  Speaker 5: that's a man's man.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: He does a lot in the community, you know, very philanthropic.
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  Speaker 5: So you know those are my favorite. If it comes
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  Speaker 5: to God, Marier for the female will be Sierra.
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  Speaker 3: Right right, So as you as you go through this show,
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  Speaker 3: what is the show done for you?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Because I know I know you know you you launched
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  Speaker 3: your career as a comedian, okay, right, and then you start,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're trying to get these little nuggets and
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  Speaker 3: acting and.
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  Speaker 1: All these things.
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  Speaker 3: And Steve Harvey morning, the show made you a prison,
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  Speaker 3: especially with the pranks. Now I see a different a
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  Speaker 3: different style of you. And how are you? How is
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  Speaker 3: that with your social media? How are people reacting?
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  Speaker 1: Dude? Are they looking for love advice from you?
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  Speaker 6: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Are you a love shine?
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  Speaker 4: I have become.
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  Speaker 5: I have become the love doctor that people are. People
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  Speaker 5: are calling wanting information even here, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm still in you know, uh home is always Houston,
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  Speaker 5: Texas for me and you both.
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  Speaker 4: So what's up? I got?
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  Speaker 5: I've had couples in my neighborhood Rushan Wow calling calling saying, hey,
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  Speaker 5: can you come sit down and talk to me and
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  Speaker 5: my husband?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, it has and it's gotten to
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  Speaker 5: this and people have people now given me this new
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  Speaker 5: hat to wear that I'm this guy that can actually
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  Speaker 5: just come in and sit down and have a conversation with.
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  Speaker 4: You and maybe get you and your relationship back on track.
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  Speaker 5: Had no earthly idea that my life would evolve to this,
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  Speaker 5: no earthly idea, but it's there. You know, there's people
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  Speaker 5: from all over there saying, hey, we got to sit
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  Speaker 5: down and talk to Tommy I want to talk to Tommy.
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  Speaker 5: I want to get some advice from Tommy. So it's changed, Rashan,
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  Speaker 5: it really has.
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  Speaker 6: Man, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
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  Speaker 6: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know me, why y'all? Okay, ready to festival?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, okay, So we got to talk out
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  Speaker 5: there on this one.
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  Speaker 4: I go, I got it. I'm ahead of you, trust me, dude.
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  Speaker 1: All these bron folks ain't got no place to go.
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  Speaker 1: Come on that.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I think we can put them someplace for three days.
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  Speaker 3: I think you and I and we'll packer. Now we
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  Speaker 3: can't leave up on will packer made of a big.
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  Speaker 1: Box office.
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  Speaker 4: I came up.
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  Speaker 5: I came up with Love Fest twenty twenty four. And
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  Speaker 5: it's just that it's that, it's that love is whether
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  Speaker 5: you and whether you couples or whether you singles. We
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  Speaker 5: got that. We got that getaway island for you to
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  Speaker 5: go to. We're gonna have concerts every night. We're gonna
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  Speaker 5: have this, this and that, but you're gonna have a
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  Speaker 5: good time. But it's love Fest, love Fest twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 5: and then and it just goes on and on, twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, yes, sir, these black people ain't going nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: You got the number one This is ready to Love
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  Speaker 3: now Friday yepes number one Original single series cable series African.
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  Speaker 1: American Women, and we all know once you get the women,
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  Speaker 1: you win it. Eighteen plus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah all we usuid we said twenty or two because
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  Speaker 3: show just came on.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be twenty two three two. I'm predicting it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be twenty twenty three two.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, now let's shift gears here, Thomas Miles, I'm
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  Speaker 3: tired of talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to nephew.
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  Speaker 4: Nephew. Yeah, that's a different guy.
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  Speaker 3: Give everybody the backstore how that character was created, man,
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  Speaker 3: and how it got started man and evolved and it
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  Speaker 3: just just just get't let everybody know, man.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So what you guys don't know, let me let
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  Speaker 5: me break it off for you is is uh I was.
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  Speaker 5: I would always come to Hollywood. I come to Hollywood.
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  Speaker 5: Every time I come to Hollywood. I'm calling Rouseeawan McDonald. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: So man, I'm in town. How long are you here?
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  Speaker 5: Telling by a week? But I can't get you nothing
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  Speaker 5: no week. So but Roushine would do the best he could.
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  Speaker 4: He would give me.
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  Speaker 5: H He got me on The Parkers, got me on
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  Speaker 5: Sister's Sister. Every time I come in guest starring role
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  Speaker 5: on these sitcoms, I would come in there and get it.
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  Speaker 4: And then on one.
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  Speaker 5: Particular time, Uh, I come in town and I just
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: got on hiatus.
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  Speaker 4: Off.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: We're on hiatus with me opening for Luther Vandraws, and
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: Luther says, hey, we gonna be We're gonna be off
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: about six months and then we're gonna be back out
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: on the road. I'm gonna go write a new album
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: and then I'm we'll be right back out. I'm like, okay,
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go to Hollywood and hang out with
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: my acting buddies. And you know that's when you're sleeping
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: in one apartment six people. You know, everything in the
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: refrigerator got a sticky on it. Don't touch my stuff.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: So so I called Rushine again, Hey, I'm in town.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: How long you here? By here I'm here bout six months?
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: And we said, okay, we work with six months you
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: got six months. We might, we might, we might be
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: in there. You come in here for four a's. I
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: can't get you nothing before the eight. And he says,
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: once you come up here and hang out with Steve
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: on the radio and talk smack like y'all do. And
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: I'm like, eh, okay, uh what time? He say, five
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: by five? Get it about five five thirty. I was like,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: I said, yeah, I'll I'll eat dinner early. No no, no, no, no, no,
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: no no no, I ain't talking. I ain't talking about
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: any I'm coming out in the morning. I'm like, in
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: the morning. What So I get up, go to the
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: radio station and jump on there with Steve, and I
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: think we do it Rotsurn. I think we do it
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: about two three weeks and it is a hit yesterday.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Los Angeles loves it and it's the birth of Uncle
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: and Neph and it just goes completely crazy. And man,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: let me tell you something. What's the blessing of this
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: roots Stane is? I told you said, I told you.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: I said, hey, man, I can do this. I can
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: play with y'all on this radio. Boy, I can't be
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: playing with y'all. When Luther called me, When Luther called me,
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I gotta go.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I can't be fooling with y'all.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: And the blessing of it all, the blessing of it all, man,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: is that you know. Unfortunately we never went back out.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Luther passed away. So it's like it's like, man, God
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: gave me a job before he before I even knew
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I needed one, And here here I am, twenty plus
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: years later, still on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: You know that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: And that's that's a that's an amasi. I'll tell you
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: some man, the two things have to happen. You gotta
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: have talent, you gotta have accept the blessing with God
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: is point you in that direction. A lot of people
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: don't see that because they just see work.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Because you saw because he's telling the truth.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: When I said five five thirty, he really thought it
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: was afternoon, you know, and a lot of people go
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: mass too early. I'm not a I'm not a morning person,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: you know. But he just went, Man, let's do this.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: And we used to have Thomas go to go to
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: He would always come in the studio. We tell her, hey, man,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: go over to the L A. F. The street was
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles, go over to Christmpy Kreme on Krin
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Sharp remember.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Because he had to always act like he did. He
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: forgot to come to work. That was his character. He
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: forgot to come to work. Oh oh I'm sick, he
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: would always.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: And then the time for New Year's Eve, when you
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: took over his house, the city city went crazy.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: And I don't think people, I don't think people realized
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: what I was in the street before you brought me
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: into the studio.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and that's what I'm talking about.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: In the winter, it was there was some cold times, man,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: and we wasn't kicking out, no real money.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: But he said he sold you know something, man, I
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: believe in this, you know.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: And and the reason I bring up their story because
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: everybody wants a check nowadays.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Everybody want I'm gonna get paid. They don't see the opportunity.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Put the work in. Go put the work in.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: If you looked at other ways, say hey, man, anybody
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: paying me? No, I ain't gonna do all that craziness,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: we wouldn't be talking today.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: We wouldn't be talking to Thomas Miles.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: That's true. That's true.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And let me and let me say this to your
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: to your audience, man, is is when we first started
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: doing these prank calls right, and and and and and
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: you know, I did a couple of it, and they went, well,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: mister Rusim McDonald comes in and say, I'm.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Gonna need five every week. I need five. I was like,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I was like, now you're not man, people hanging up
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: on me. I don't care. I need five.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: So every week I was like, oh my god, he
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: wants this spy. I was so mad about that.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why does he.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Want he won't I want five every week? I need
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: one for every day of the week for money through.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I don't need five, man.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: I look back now, I got over three hundred plus
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: prank calls. It is a library that is just amazing
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: because now you know, everyone knows my voice. But but
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: the time that you was making me grind and do
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: it is the time that I was accumulating all of
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: that library that you It had no earthly idea that
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: I'll be able to look back and say.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I got a gold mine. Yes, I
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: got a gold mine, you know.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: But then as we as we drift through this conversation,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I got to go back to the philanthropy side of you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I remember early on when when you was going over
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: during the during the comedy shows. You remember, I think
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: he was on Air Force two, not Air Force one,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Air Force two, you know, flying over there with the generals,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: and man, we we didn't see that, Tommy, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: but now that's that's part of your your brand. Talk
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Mm hm.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: So so you know, you guys allowed me to go
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: over and perform for the troops manu Uso tour. I
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: think the first one I was with. I was with
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Robert or Minka Kelly uh uh Jordan Sparks who won
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: American Idol, and.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: We go over. Yeah, we go over there and perform
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: for the troops.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: And you know, we would we would go to hospitals
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: and and and different places and visit, uh, all these
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: guys in the military. But one guy had just had surgery,
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: had his legs, had his legs blown off, and he
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: was just waking up while we were in the room.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: And man, we're standing around and while he's coming to
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: and we start taking pictures with him. Man, and he says,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: he says, hey, I'd like to I'd like to keep
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: taking pictures with y'all, but I got to get back
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: to my men. He hasn't realized what's happened. And man,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: we said, now we me Robert or Jordan's spark. We man,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: we are in tears, we crying. And when we came
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: out of that room, I asked one of the soldiers,
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I say, hey, man, what happens to these soldiers when
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: they get back home? I said, what do we take
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: care of these guys? They say, yeah, it's a it's
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: a system you gotta go through, you know. But I say,
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: but what about the right now?
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: And he said, well, you know, that's always the struggle.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: So man, when I came back home, I said, now
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: I've found something that I'm passionate about.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: And that's where I came up with Miles of Giving.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: And my thing was, I want to be able to
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: give back to people right now. So whether it's a
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, you'll be surprised what that
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: does to a soldier immediately or what they're going through.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: And that's what Miles of Good Giving stands on. Man,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: we are about right now.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Finish. We don't have to send our money. It ain't
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: got to get approved by nobody. I'm gonna send this
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: man two thousand dollars. I'm gonna send this lady, three
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: thousand dollars. We are the Right Now Foundation. That's who
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: we are, Miles to.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Give right now because man, you know we say thank
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: you for your service. Time is what service needs to
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: be more than to thank you, you know, excut And
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: that's that's important. And I just love the way and
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: that's see the beauty of that. That's Thomas Miles and nephew.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Thomas right there.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir see, that's that's a combined blessing of this
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: boy's talent. And I said boy in a very affectionate
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: way because I've known him so long, and uh, in
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: the neighborhood, you can call this there's my boy. And
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: everybody said, oh, that's cool, it's good, you know, but
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I know that when I'm talking to you, Thomas, you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: ready to love. You know, this is the show. This
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: is a show that's changed your life, but another show
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: that you did. All know if you're still.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Doing you're still doing the Black the Black College quit, Yes,
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Black Collage quit.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: You're still doing that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: We're coming up this fall with shooting the new season.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Okay, you get worse than Steve.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, y'all, hold on, let
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: me start counting out.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Ready to Love number one.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, eighteen women, eighteen plus black women, Steve Harry morning
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: the show.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Tell me when I stopped, when I got it, when
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I went, I of.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Fingers, okay, black college quids, okay, stand up comedian okay,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: you know the actor.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I'm fine, man, My one hand is feeled right now
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to fall.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: And then then then he got the library over there,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: a pray phone girl said, that's a six job.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It's just it's just that's mail box money. That's mail
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: box money. Then he Philanchbor, a family man.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: All that and a family man at the same time.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: How is all this happening? Now?
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Brother?
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Where are you at now? Where's the future for Thomas Bowles?
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I think I'm in a I think I'm in a
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: better place now, rashwan, a good place where it's now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: It's about what I want to do? What I want
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: to do?
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: What?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: What do I want to show people that they haven't
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: seen about me yet?
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: What?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: What what talent do I want to pull out and
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: and and show you? So you know, just recently I
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: shot a movie on on Lifetime with Stephanie Mills called Pride,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: which is under the umbrella of Bishop TD Jakes and
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Derek Williams. So now people are starting to see that
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: other side of Thomas Miles that oh my god, the boy.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Can the boy can act, he can go right.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: So so so now you're getting those phone calls we
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: would love you to come, uh do this role or
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: do that role. So I think that's the next platform
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: is trying to do that more on a consistent basis.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Well, the next platform is to start in your own
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: sitcom or lead your own drama. Because you got the town.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: You know, that's what you went to Texas A and
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: M for. Okay, exactly exactly one wait, none of that
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: degree at Texa A and M.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Brow. Let's gonna put out that new I'm gonna make
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a man sharing love with the with the new.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Hey man, thank you for taking the time to come
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: on the show, not only talk about the number one
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: showing on every Friday. African American Women eighteen to plus
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two is back on. Now you can
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: hear him every five days a week on Steve brod
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Morning Show as nephew Thomas. We all know him back
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: from Houston, Texas as Thomas Miles. Thank your brother for
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Thank you sir, Thank you for having me man five
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I need five every week.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Five fye job that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: What you talking about? Five by job fie job.
• 26:16
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