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Brand Building: Executive Producer states longevity comes from reinvention The Harlem Globetrotters predate the NBA and helped globalize basketball. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 2: and media executive with more than twenty five years of
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  Speaker 2: He currently serves as showrunner and executive producer of Harlem
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  Speaker 2: Glow Trotter's Secrets of the City. All episodes of Harlem
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  Speaker 2: Glow Trotter Secrets of the City season and one are
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  Speaker 2: it's been a.
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  Speaker 1: Long time man, you know, so we talk now.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you didn't like me no more, mister hand,
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  Speaker 2: mister handed, mister hand.
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  Speaker 1: It been that long, been that low.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I just you know, it's funny. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you just get your head down and you start working.
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  Speaker 3: And uh but but when you when you, when you,
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  Speaker 3: when you hustling and grinding and moving and shaking like
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  Speaker 3: we do, we always gonna come back around and see
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  Speaker 3: each other again sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, your business with Inspire TV plus, tell us about
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  Speaker 2: that relationship before we getting into the series. Because you
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  Speaker 2: have a career and MTV b et a lot of
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  Speaker 2: networks out there that you've done business with, but each
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  Speaker 2: one has a different responsibility creatively, and you have to
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  Speaker 2: hit certain budgets and certain creative requirements. Talk about that
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  Speaker 2: relationship and Inspire plus TV plus, Well, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm glad you start with that question because I
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  Speaker 3: actually that's what it is. It's a relationship. You know.
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  Speaker 3: We actually did a podcast called Money Moves a while back.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, and we we started licensing that to Aspire
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  Speaker 3: and just figuring out programming that that I was up
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  Speaker 3: to that worked for them, you know. And we would
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  Speaker 3: just always stay in communication. You know, they're there in
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta where Bounce TV was located, so we all know
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  Speaker 3: each other very well. I think some of the folks
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  Speaker 3: used to work at Bounced that work over there, and
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  Speaker 3: but me and Angela and Cannon over there have a
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  Speaker 3: really good relationship, and the founder, Charlie, have a good relationship.
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  Speaker 3: And and so we just always stayed in communication. And
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  Speaker 3: when I started working with the Harlem Globetrotters, I worked
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  Speaker 3: with them at NBC. I did a show called Play
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  Speaker 3: It Forward for NBC, is like a Saturday morning show,
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  Speaker 3: and that one for a few seasons. Yeah, and and
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  Speaker 3: so I was like, what what can we do with
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  Speaker 3: the Globetrotters, and and we started to talk about how
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to do travel shows, you know, and I start, well,
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  Speaker 3: the Globetrotters they all already traveling, right, maybe we could
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  Speaker 3: work something out. And that's how a conversation started.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's interesting because you know, it is true, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, the travel shows they see automatic everybody
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  Speaker 2: want to go see a travel show, just like a
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  Speaker 2: cooking show, just like a remodeling show or a house
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  Speaker 2: hunting shows. Now, what makes you the Globe Trotter show
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  Speaker 2: different when you talk about travel show?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so, I mean so keep in mind that
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  Speaker 3: Aspires a lifestyle network where you can watch as a
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  Speaker 3: you know, young woman, young man, black man in America
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  Speaker 3: and Aspire right, that's can'st the name to do all
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  Speaker 3: these you know, different cool things, whether it's cook style, design,
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  Speaker 3: your home, whatever it is. And obviously we love the travel,
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  Speaker 3: especially post pandemic. We actually are the fastest growing market
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  Speaker 3: for traveling people working abroad and things like that. So,
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  Speaker 3: but where to go and what to do and how
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  Speaker 3: to get there? You know, that's where the Secrets of
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  Speaker 3: the City comes in because we end up connected with
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  Speaker 3: expats all around the world. We end up learning about
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  Speaker 3: what it's like not just to live in that not
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  Speaker 3: just to go visit the city for vacation, but how
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  Speaker 3: to live in that city, how to be in that city,
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  Speaker 3: what's available for us as African Americans in that city
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  Speaker 3: that's unique to our experiences and our interests. And also,
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  Speaker 3: the Globe Trotters have a unique job. You know, they
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  Speaker 3: are ambassadors of good will. They go and do things
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  Speaker 3: like hang out with the Pope and spread joy around
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  Speaker 3: the world to different you know, ambassadors to the UN
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  Speaker 3: Food and Agricultural Department. So so that's one of the
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  Speaker 3: reasons why they go to places like Italy and make
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  Speaker 3: these appearances. And so the FAO is one of the
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  Speaker 3: organizations they work with closely, and that's the very unique
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  Speaker 3: experience of being a Globe trotter. But then additionally, while
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  Speaker 3: in Italy, we went and you know, with Ethiopian folks
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  Speaker 3: in there in their neighborhood and their restaurants, learn about
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  Speaker 3: the different folks in the diaspora that are around Rome
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  Speaker 3: and the different cities we go to. So we give
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  Speaker 3: a unique mix of culture that's local but also things
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  Speaker 3: that African Americans might be interested in going to West Day.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's an interesting thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I hate interviewing professionals like red because like,
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  Speaker 2: that was a question I had.
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  Speaker 1: He went through by three four courtions already. But that's
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 3: I got more read, I got, I got forgot death.
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  Speaker 2: And we will get deeper because okay, the Harlem Globe
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  Speaker 2: Trotters one hundred years Now, there's a certain responsibility for
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  Speaker 2: Aspire TV Plus and you to deliver you know, relevance.
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  Speaker 2: Why should we watch the Harlem Globe Trotters. Now, before
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  Speaker 2: the call, I told you Lewis Dunbar, he went to
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  Speaker 2: college with me, one of the oldest, one of the
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  Speaker 2: oldest members Houston Cougar's universe, Houston Cougars of the Harlem
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  Speaker 2: Clo trilogy.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're telling me his sons on the team now.
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  Speaker 2: But but that responsibility of delivering black content, there's historical
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  Speaker 2: black content. Yeah, and you work with them before. What's
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  Speaker 2: to spend now that gains my interest other than seeing
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  Speaker 2: them on black on the basketball court doing what they do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, here's the thing. And I got to
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  Speaker 3: give a shout out to the to the Harlem Glowtrotter's team,
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  Speaker 3: the office, to executives brom Win and Keith and the
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  Speaker 3: team there they are. They're the architects of this because
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  Speaker 3: you know, you got to think back to the pandemic, right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for a long time, the Harlem Glow Trotters
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  Speaker 3: in the eighties were on sitcoms, were you know, in
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  Speaker 3: your home, they were on Gilligan's Island, right, They were
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  Speaker 3: celebrities in the way that NBA players are celebrities now.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously the NBA got really popular and I kind
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  Speaker 3: of really overtook them a lot of other sports and
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  Speaker 3: other things. But the Harlem Glotrotters are way older than
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  Speaker 3: the NBA. They you know, twenty thirty years older than
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  Speaker 3: the NBA. You know, they're the ones that spread basketball
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  Speaker 3: around the world.
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  Speaker 2: We'll chang to play for the Harlem glow Charters.
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  Speaker 1: Before he od lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Year, it was like, you know, imagine like the WNBA
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  Speaker 3: in some of these WBE players now they're getting their
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  Speaker 3: salaries up for But for a long time, they would
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  Speaker 3: play overseas and they would come over here, and that's
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  Speaker 3: how it was with NBA early on. You know, they
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  Speaker 3: would be like, I'm a hallan lowd trotter, but I
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  Speaker 3: also playing this thing called the NBA too, right, But
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  Speaker 3: obviously NBA has grown massively and now they have a
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  Speaker 3: worldwide footprint as well. But I share that to say
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  Speaker 3: for context, they disappeared from the spotlight, you know, as
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  Speaker 3: far as being on television, you know, in the nineties
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  Speaker 3: and in the early two thousands, et cetera. And there
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  Speaker 3: was a concerted effort after the pandemic to bring them
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  Speaker 3: back to the spotlight and get the folks, get folks
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  Speaker 3: back interested in seeing them on television and seeing them
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  Speaker 3: in media and not just going to the games. The
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  Speaker 3: cool thing about their business though, is they never stopped touring.
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  Speaker 3: They never stopped making people smile around the world. And
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of you know, youth every year that
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  Speaker 3: their first basketball experience is the Hallan lolwd Trotter. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that that there's this kind of nostalgia for
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  Speaker 3: folks that have been wite some his kids, and with
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  Speaker 3: the TV shows, we're bringing them back to the adults
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  Speaker 3: and the adult experiences because these are grown folks that
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  Speaker 3: know how to have fun and know how to you know,
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  Speaker 3: dance and hang out and have good advice to give
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  Speaker 3: and you know, so they're interesting individuals off the court
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Great I'm talking recall O Handy. He's the executive producer
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  Speaker 2: and the show runner of Harlem Glow Trail Secrets of
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  Speaker 2: the City. Now here's the fun part about this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I grew up with Metal Locke Landham currently need the
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  Speaker 2: Driven right now. I can visually just see these moments
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  Speaker 2: man when he would do that hook shot from half
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  Speaker 2: court and make it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, how how could he do that?
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  Speaker 2: And consistently did that, you know, and the famous running
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  Speaker 2: around with the bucket and then throw the bucket.
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  Speaker 1: One time it was just it was just paper and
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  Speaker 1: next time it's real water.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: All those great moments still make me smile. And when
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  Speaker 2: you look at the Hall of Glow Traders and they're traveling,
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  Speaker 2: you're traveling with them. These are these are tall black men. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so immediately when they land into airport they get attention,
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  Speaker 2: going to restaurant to get attention. How do you make
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  Speaker 2: that work of people making decisions? Are they basketball players?
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  Speaker 3: Are they?
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  Speaker 1: Are they the Lakers?
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  Speaker 3: Are they?
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  Speaker 1: You know they just started well potentially you know their money, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Depending on what country you're in with the Globetrotters, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you might get mobbed, you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 3: especially in Australia, the UK. You know, they sell out
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  Speaker 3: the O two, you know, which is the big arena
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  Speaker 3: in London. You know. So there's definitely cities and places
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  Speaker 3: where where they're as big of a celebrity as anybody.
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  Speaker 3: And when you walk it around you do have to
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  Speaker 3: manage it. You know to say hey, no, no more autographs,
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  Speaker 3: no more pictures, things like that and keep it moving.
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  Speaker 3: But they're such nice guys, like genuine you know, guys
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  Speaker 3: and girls to this. There are female Globe Trotters and
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  Speaker 3: they they are just the nicest people you to me,
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  Speaker 3: they were just warning genim that's part of I think
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  Speaker 3: you've got to be a nice person to be a Globetrotter,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And so they they are
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I said that bachelors are good will,
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  Speaker 3: so they don't mind it at all. And I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a cool experience for the people because there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of it is family, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: young people. So you can't be uh, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: can't be an a hole, you know, you gotta be.
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  Speaker 2: Good, absolutely, And I think that's that's the responsibility that
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  Speaker 2: comes on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're gifted.
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  Speaker 2: I remember a couple of years ago I had I
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  Speaker 2: was doing a contract with their National Guard, and I
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  Speaker 2: invited members of the Globe Trotters to just be introduced
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  Speaker 2: to the audience on the campus of Clark Atlanta University.
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  Speaker 2: And they're basketball skills. Let's forget the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: personality they're just gifted individuals. From a basketball standpoint, Are
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  Speaker 2: you ever some of those trick shots?
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  Speaker 1: Read? Are you ever in all those things? I see
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  Speaker 1: them on the YouTube, I'm going like, how does how
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  Speaker 1: do they do that?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Look, you shoot with them, you know, sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: want to give it a shot right right. I remember
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  Speaker 3: I was shooting with them one time, and they'll shoot
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  Speaker 3: the ball from the baseline from the opposite in the
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  Speaker 3: the court right and just and just shooting and make it.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't even get it all the way over to
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  Speaker 3: the who right right right. My ball was falling short
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  Speaker 3: of the of the area, you know, you know. So
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  Speaker 3: it's not that they're athletic, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And they and they and they and they train, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they trained. They have a special boot camp they go
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  Speaker 3: to to be a Harlem low trotter. And I got
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  Speaker 3: to experience that boot camp. Okay, and that's serious.
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  Speaker 2: want to really bring that into perspective because the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you know, you see brilliant talents like you know,
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  Speaker 2: Steph Curry, you know he's shooting antics and I shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: use the word antics, you know, because they're just incredibly
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  Speaker 2: gifted talents. I just want to make sure that people
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  Speaker 2: understand that they're in Bassidor's good wills. But these are
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  Speaker 2: extremely talented athletes who play basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Do the athletes who play the role? That's what they're playing?
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  Speaker 3: A role?
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  Speaker 2: You know, because they're not they're playing games against the
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  Speaker 2: same people all the time. They're playing to win, they're
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  Speaker 2: playing to entertain. What's that mindset as you're a producer
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  Speaker 2: that you're trying to capture and also keep that energy
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  Speaker 2: up consistently when you're all the show run of this
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  Speaker 2: series and you're all the executive producer, you know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you're familiar with track right, but
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  Speaker 3: like my son runs across country, okay, and it's still
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  Speaker 3: a competitive sport, but mostly you're trying to pr which
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  Speaker 3: is your meet your personal best, right right. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that the Globetrotters are extremely competitive, not only with
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  Speaker 3: each other, with the other teams, but you know, they
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  Speaker 3: got to make all these shots. It's not you can't.
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  Speaker 3: You can't pretend to shoot the ball and pretend to
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  Speaker 3: make it. You've got to actually make the basketball. You
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  Speaker 3: got to be able to dribble, you got to be
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  Speaker 3: able to dunk, you got to be able to do
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  Speaker 3: all these athletic things. And they keep out doing themselves.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you go see a glow Trotter show
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  Speaker 3: now it's different in a whole other level than it
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  Speaker 3: was you know when you may have seen it ten
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  Speaker 3: years ago. And and I think that's what makes the Globetrotters,
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  Speaker 3: you know, actual, the players who they are, because they're
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  Speaker 3: they are really competitors, and they're masters at their craft
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  Speaker 3: because they've been doing it for years. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: these guys have in these players, they've been playing basketball
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  Speaker 3: since they was young, you know, and uh and so
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  Speaker 3: and so this is just you know, like like you said,
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  Speaker 3: with Steph Curry, you know, he I think I think
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  Speaker 3: he takes I don't know, some actronomical number of shots
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  Speaker 3: a year for practice and then maybe ten percent or
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  Speaker 3: five percent of those shots you know, actually in a game,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And I think it's the same thing with
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  Speaker 3: the glow Trotter. They're working hard off the court all
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the show, because, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I you know when I you know read I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of like a walk down memory lane
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  Speaker 2: for a person my age talking to everybody who's hanging around,
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  Speaker 2: people who I have respected all my life, their talent
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  Speaker 2: and entertainment. Fact that we're talking about the whole of it,
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  Speaker 2: Holland Grove, Driters, and then to see that they've been
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  Speaker 2: able to sustain it for a hundred years, that means yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean how many how many black businesses can we
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  Speaker 3: say are one hundred years old, which which I think
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  Speaker 3: is awesome, you know what I mean, Like, I think.
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  Speaker 1: That recognizable, recognizable.
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  Speaker 3: Recognizable too, Yeah, recognizable have still the admiration of the
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  Speaker 3: audience and in all ages. So I mean that's why
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  Speaker 3: I was like, whatever they need, I want to keep
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  Speaker 3: help grow on the brand. And I want to.
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  Speaker 2: Not just say black just one hundred years. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about nighteen twenty six. Okay, you can start just naming Nate.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about Brand Rockefellers because series and closed came.
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  Speaker 2: You know, all these these businesses that have been legendary
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  Speaker 2: in that period have not stood the test of time.
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  Speaker 2: And when you look at that, let's talk about you
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  Speaker 2: kind of mention it when you was like talk about
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  Speaker 2: the pope and different everythings. If these areas of the shows,
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  Speaker 2: what is the just talk about what does an episode
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  Speaker 2: feel like in general?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's a travel show.
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  Speaker 3: It's a travel show. But you know, one of the
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  Speaker 3: elements of the show is called Secrets of the City
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  Speaker 3: because we give you secrets. We literally you know, that's
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: when you watch the show, like you got to watch
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: the Mexico episode. You know, people have seen photos of
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: how you you know, can take a balloon hot air
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: balloon over the Pyramids the right right, so see, but like,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: how do you do that? What's the best way to
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: do that? What are all the little secrets around that
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: area and the timing of how you should book it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we went to London and north of London,
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  Speaker 3: you know those the little the rock structure that is
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  Speaker 3: really popular. The name is escaping me right now. But
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  Speaker 3: there's secrets to be able to get access to these
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  Speaker 3: artifacts in these historical places. You know that people don't know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because you just go to the website and
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  Speaker 3: you experience it like a tourist. But they they're haul
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: and glow trotters. When they go to the pyramids, they
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: ride dirt bikes right up to the base of the
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: pyramid and it's the whole little secret. It's called the
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: back alley of the back alley of the pyramids is
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: the way they went in and not the front, you know.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: And so I think there's cool little little things like that, nuggets.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: But also, you know, because because of the show and
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: the audience is an aspire, we're also giving you very
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  Speaker 3: unique x BAT communities that you can connect with in
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: each city, very unique areas you should visit in each
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: city that have the diaspora and different historical elements. Like Brussels,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: we talk about where the chocolate really comes from from
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Africa and taking responsibility for that, you know what I mean.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: So like it's just I think it's documenting all these
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  Speaker 3: things that might be important to you, not only as
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: an individual that wants to travel, but as a part
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: of this larger African American and African diaspora.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking to the showrunner, executive producer. Been around for
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: twenty five years, That's what he's saying there, twenty five years.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: But you know, they always know we've been hustling the
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: way longer than that. Recaller, you know, and you have
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: been a champion for opportunity. And I always tell people,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you know, I kind of really I kind of started
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: the show as a mentoring platform, be able to yeah,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the people ask me questions or how I get in
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: the industry. But you've been better than that. You've been
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: delivering the goods on giving people opportunities. You started a foundation.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Tell us why that is important because it's ongoing today
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: and the impact you've had in the industry over the years.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Recall them, Yeah, you know, I always say, you know,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of people have a lot of complaints about
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: how hard it is to get in the industry, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I've been very fortunate. You know, since I was fourteen
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: years old, I had really good mentors, people that took
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: me under their wing. You know, I was an eager kid,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: so from working on independent films as a teenager to
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: being a part of these programs in high school that
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: allowed me to get on TV show sets and things
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: like that. It just it just seemed natural to me
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: that that's something we should do. So I've always done it,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: you know, when I was a show runner, I would
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: get people chances, even on Secrets of the City. You know,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: we have a lot of folks doing their job for
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the first time. You know, I've always been the one
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: willing to give someone their first shot, because a lot
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: of times that's the hardest one to get. But we
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: formalized it into the Adie Foundation in twenty twenty because
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: there was a viral moment, but mainly it was a
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: realization that there aren't a lot of black folks in
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: post production because they don't get the opportunity to learn
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: how to do those skills in college. You know, in
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: film school. No one's teaching you how to group and
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: stink for American idol in film school, right and there's
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: there's a various particular skill and you can't get that
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: job unless you know how to do it. And so
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: we started training people and offering them to the industry,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: and it started with a class of eight people. You know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: partner with the Urban League in twenty twenty and today,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: you know, we have over four hundred alumni that are
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: working on all your favorite shows from the Michael Jackson
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: movie all the way to all the Power Universe shows
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: in twelve different occupations. We do hair and makeup and
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: so it's just really been growing. And now we're a
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: nationally recognized registered apprenticeship program partner with the California Film Commission,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: and it's just amazing to see it grow. Now it's
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: this thing that's outside of me that's just growing and
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'm you know, watching it just can keep blossoming it,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: which is awesome.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I really appreciate it. That's why they
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: bring it up. I know the current administration wants to,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: like you remove color lines. I would tell people this,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I've been black all my life. And I say that
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I make that statement because when I walk in the room,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: you see me for my color verts and the other
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: people don't have that distinction. You know, they can work
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a room and I don't know if they're Jewish or
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: do know if they Polish, Italian or French until they
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: tell me so. Because you can make a decision about
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: me based on stereotypes and based on what you preconceived
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: notions or an experience you may have had with another
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: person of color, then that that can hamper my opportunities.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: What you're doing is significant, and I just wanted to
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: make sure that yes, you're a survivor, Yes you went
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: on MTV B E T, but you don't forget reed
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: and I want to make sure I congratulate you on it.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Give you a flowers, brother, because when you see people
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: you know and hopefully they're doing the same thing, you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: hopefully they are understanding how they got in the business,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: because that's important, and it's equally important that you representing
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: on a show like this. I'm sure as by our
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: TV had a lot of people they can come to,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: but they got to get the most qualified person to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: tell the Harlem glow Trotter story. That's important that you
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: didn't you earned this shot as a showrunner. You earned
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: this shot as a executive producer. Tell us about that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's interesting, Like I have
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: always been trying to understand how things work, you know,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: and that's a lot of the decisions I made. A
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: lot of opportunities I went after were to get to
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: the point to understand the business and make those kind
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: of moves. So with my company, some Wise Media, you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: we've been doing a lot of independent things, but we've
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: been blessed to be able to inform these partnerships because
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: it's trust there, you know. So this is actually a
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: really big factor of our business that people missed. Our
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: business is less about skills and creativity and more about trust. Yes, right,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: And when people trust that you can do and actually
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: what you say you're going to do, they will partner
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: with you, you know, and as long as you come through.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And so as an editor, I built trust, you know.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: And then that allowed me to produce a Kisha Cole
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: show because I was an editor and they wanted me
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: to edit the second season. I was like, I can't
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: edit the second season, and let's I'm producing it too,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: because I want certain things to be a certch way.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: So I became a producer and I'm producing a bet
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: And then you know, got to go to the development
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: and network side. Because I produced so many shows, I
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: was like, can you trust me with your network? So
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: there's Bounced TV now that trust me with their whole
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: slate of originals, you know, and so and so that's
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: kind of been the path I've been on, is really
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: building these strong relationships where people trust that I'm going
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: to deliver for them. And I think if you do
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: that in whatever business you do, whether you've got, you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: a cupcake shop, are you trying to be, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: a producer or director. You want to build trust with
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: the distributors or the people that you need to trust
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: you to deliver so you can so you can do
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: your craft.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: You've seen his work on MTV own BT and stars
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: hit series like Satsan Sinats. That was the last time
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I interviewed him, and I don't want that to be
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a long period break.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Like we have for this.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I'll be back anytime you want.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Thank you, brother, But right now he's on here talking
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: about the Harlem Globe Trotters. Secrets to the City is
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a show on on Inspire TV. Thank you again, brother
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: for coming on my show, and thank you for being
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: a blessing man. Because when they told me this interview
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: came to me very quickly and they said Rashan and
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: they told me who it was. They told me the
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: subject matter, which was a Harlem glow Trotters, so organization
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: that you know for a fact, man, black Faces weren't
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: on TV for a long time as reg and when
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Harlem Clobe Trotters were on TV on a regular I
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: could always count on every year seeing the Harlem Glow
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Trotters on TV and then and they brightened my day.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: And to see you bringing them back with Aspire TV plus,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: you know, I guess being the.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Inspiration of it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I want to thank you, brother, and congratulate both parties
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: for making this happen one hundred years.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Brother, I can't say that one hundred years.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: And if you want to stay tapped in with what
• 23:50
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• 23:59
  Speaker 2: You stay well well, I'm tapped in today, brother, and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: we're gonna put the word out about it you and
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: let everybody know the great work you continue to do.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Let's say fifty years, I get the interview me and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you be sitting there and they with much much much
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: grayer hair, my brother, much much much grayer hair. But
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: continue work, continue great work, and thanks Inspired TV plus.
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