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Nafessa Williams, James Prince, Alan Rosen & Dystany Spurlock · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: making conversations. I always like to set up a show
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  Speaker 1: that everybody knows. Who's on the show today. Okay, First
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  Speaker 1: of all, we're gonna start out with the Fessor Williams,
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  Speaker 1: one of the co stars of the hit Superhero show
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  Speaker 1: on the c W Black Lightning. Alan Rosen, third generation
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  Speaker 1: owner of the Junior's restaurant chain, bast my man. We
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  Speaker 1: will be talking some food because I go out. I
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  Speaker 1: visited that restaurant a lot when I lived in New York.
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  Speaker 1: James Prince found the Rapid Lot Records and author of
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  Speaker 1: time on the show, and Destiny Spurlock, International pro drag Racer.
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  Speaker 1: Today is National Cheesecake Day. My next guest celebrations this
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  Speaker 1: day all the time with the world's most fabulous cheesecake
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  Speaker 1: from Junior's Restaurant. The man behind this extraordinary success is
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  Speaker 1: a third generation of the Rosen family to lead the
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  Speaker 1: Junior's Restaurant brand. Born and raised in New York, one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite cities. He grew up watching his father
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  Speaker 1: Walter run their original Junior's restaurant. While in high school
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  Speaker 1: and college. He spent his summers learning the business while
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  Speaker 1: also acting as a manager at the original Brooklyn location.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations on National Cheesecake Day,
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  Speaker 1: Alan Rosen, Thank you for having me. I appreciate such
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  Speaker 1: a nice introduction. Now, Allen, I I built you up.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're gonna give him. Man, you really built
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  Speaker 1: me up. That was I mean, that was almost too much,
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  Speaker 1: too much of a building. No, no, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: because I like cheesecake and this is your day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so so tell me is this this is a
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  Speaker 1: big media day for you on National Chief Day. Big,
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  Speaker 1: This is a big media da. I've been doing media
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  Speaker 1: since about six forty five. This morning in New York. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know this is you know, we've been around sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight years. National Cheesecake Day didn't exist in nineteen fifty.
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  Speaker 1: So we're very fortunate to have one of these names.
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  Speaker 1: You know. You know, every day is a different day,
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  Speaker 1: but today is our day. And it's nice in the summer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in July Bury to have a little shot
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  Speaker 1: in the arm, if you know what I mean, If
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  Speaker 1: someone gets some attention for our business has come up
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  Speaker 1: with a new flavor of cheesecake because we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: have some fun with it and just generally have a
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  Speaker 1: really nice day in all four of our restaurants. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the new flavor is strawberry short cake. Right, It's strawberry
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  Speaker 1: shortcake cheesecake. What we did was we baked our New
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  Speaker 1: York style and we're winning cheesecake with strawberries blended into it.
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  Speaker 1: And then on top of it, we built a strawberry shortcake.
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  Speaker 1: So you get a combination of two of the most
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  Speaker 1: popular deserts in America, certainly this time of year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: did tell me again? Okay? I got the you. You
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  Speaker 1: you put the strawberries in the milks mixed, right, and
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  Speaker 1: then you said the top layer we finished that. Then
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  Speaker 1: we take a layer of whipped cream. Then we take
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  Speaker 1: a layer of strawberry jam. Then we take another layer
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  Speaker 1: of cake, and then we put some more whipped cream
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  Speaker 1: around the whole thing, and then we finished it with
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  Speaker 1: some strawberry and fused buttercream. The man, that sounds very
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  Speaker 1: very good. But now let me ask you this, who
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  Speaker 1: thought of that? Alan? If your master chef, all of
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  Speaker 1: that we have in Amanda for you and she helped
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  Speaker 1: us talk with that flavor and so so do y'all
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  Speaker 1: do like a sample session? Oh yeah, we said every time.
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  Speaker 1: We were so proud of our Cheesecake Heritage Edition that
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  Speaker 1: we would sit around and we will taste and test
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  Speaker 1: because we don't want to cover it up as you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, want to make sure it all
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  Speaker 1: enhances the experience doesn't take away from it. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: let's talk. Let's talk with Sean McDonald and my experiences
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  Speaker 1: at Junior's. Okay, first of all, they've all been fantastic. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me just put that out right there. I lived
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  Speaker 1: in New York twice. I lived in New York in
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  Speaker 1: eight eight, I lived in New York in ninety in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand five to two thousand and seven. So I've
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  Speaker 1: had a good experience. And I go to New York
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  Speaker 1: all the times. One of my favorite cities now, the
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  Speaker 1: Time Square location I go there is packed all the time.
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  Speaker 1: What is your most pop can I ask you that question?
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  Speaker 1: What you your more popy location? You can the one,
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  Speaker 1: the one and forty bitch shrink between Broadway and Eighth
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  Speaker 1: that you're referring here was probably in the top ten
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  Speaker 1: busiest restaurants in the United States of America. I know
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  Speaker 1: every time I go in there, you know, because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anybody, so you know, I gotta stand in
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  Speaker 1: lide so you know, listen, you know you know somebody now,
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  Speaker 1: but he's gonna be there. He's my man. Dad to do?
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  Speaker 1: Is your your text me? And well we'll flid because
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  Speaker 1: I just Jason, I go in there, I go in there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I've been at the Foxwood location. Okay, I've also been
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  Speaker 1: which is really great? Is that? Men? You a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different in Foxwood? That's the Foxwood to see it.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, a little more. We add a couple
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  Speaker 1: of local dishes wherever we are, so up at Foxwoods
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  Speaker 1: we might have prime red Yes dishes just because we
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  Speaker 1: want to. You know, we want to please the local clienta.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to act like a change each one
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  Speaker 1: of our restaurants or have each have a chef in them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everything is from scratch and we want to
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to the local environment where we are. We
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  Speaker 1: want to be part of it. If you want a
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  Speaker 1: good hamburger, everybody, you want a good hamburger, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go through his menu. If you want a good hamburger,
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  Speaker 1: go to Junior's because they have what I love, steak fries.
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  Speaker 1: See steak fries. Who you thought those good steak fries
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  Speaker 1: in front of me? You win in right there. And
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  Speaker 1: so so when you start breaking down that menu, the
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  Speaker 1: reason I like your menu is that it feels like
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  Speaker 1: a hearty experience eating experience. Is that by design? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely so, it's what I called is Brooklyn comfort fod.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're so for instance, when you get one
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  Speaker 1: of those deluxe burgers, it has steak fries that has
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  Speaker 1: homemade on e rings, it had a ten ounce burger
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  Speaker 1: on it. Um, you me. All of our portions are
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  Speaker 1: very large, and you know that's part of the charm
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  Speaker 1: of what we do. You're never gonna feel like you
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  Speaker 1: got you paid too much and didn't get enough. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because I used going there with my crew. One of
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  Speaker 1: my crew members, with Steve Harvey, the comedian, famous comedian,
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  Speaker 1: was scoring that all the time. And to Juniors. Remember
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  Speaker 1: absolutely foxl When we go into the Brooklyn location where
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  Speaker 1: we had our book signing back in two thousands nine,
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  Speaker 1: we hung out in Junior said Brooklyn and then like
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  Speaker 1: I said, at Times Square, whenever I'm over there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because it's got a ton of options to eat at.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna let everybody know that if you've
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  Speaker 1: never been, if you've ever been to New York, you
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  Speaker 1: will know what I'm telling you. You're true. There are
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  Speaker 1: a ton of eating options. And to say that his restaurants,
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  Speaker 1: that business is a testament to the quality of service,
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  Speaker 1: the pricing, and the type of good food that you
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  Speaker 1: consistently get, because that's what that's what kind of happens.
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  Speaker 1: Because you know when you when you spread out to
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  Speaker 1: these you know, we're not gonna use the word change.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, individual restaurant, you get the same
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  Speaker 1: service and the same smile. Because I'm that guy. I
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  Speaker 1: eat all over the country, and so I go into
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  Speaker 1: the place I expect that hamburger or that fries. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling something else about Juniors that y'all don't know. They
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  Speaker 1: sell grits. See you said that like that, ain't you
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  Speaker 1: get your choice of home fries? Regress. So I'm saying, See,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Southern born from Houston, Texans, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I lost my mind when I went to Junior's and
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  Speaker 1: they had grits on the menu. Yep, so is man.
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  Speaker 1: What's what's what's so great about Juniors, you know, is
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  Speaker 1: that there's two items on the menu. So so for instance,
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  Speaker 1: if you go there tonight and you want a cheeseburger
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  Speaker 1: de luxe, or you want a piece of brawled salmone
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  Speaker 1: or chicken parmjan or a broiled you know, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: broiled steak, we have it all. And I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: there's almost two items on that, man, but it is
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  Speaker 1: not you know something. The thing about it, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you somebody, because a lot of players, you have
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  Speaker 1: a a lot of menu items, it kind of like
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  Speaker 1: confuses you, you know, like no, no, no, no, this
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  Speaker 1: is all done. So Juniors when originally started was almost
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  Speaker 1: like a kosher style restaurant. But over the years, what
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  Speaker 1: we've added is a local favorite. So we have the
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  Speaker 1: Southern influences like the grits and barbecue chicken and ribs
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  Speaker 1: because that's what our customers wanted, okay. And and when
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  Speaker 1: we ever my father or my uncle added something in
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  Speaker 1: the menu, they said, if we're gonna add something, guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be great. So everything's done with a
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  Speaker 1: real attain to the detail. And if you're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: have a slice of cheesecake or a burger or a
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  Speaker 1: corn me from Starmi sandwich. Why shouldn't it be the best,
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  Speaker 1: most delicious, served in a really nice environment by some
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  Speaker 1: really nice family members. That's what we That's how we
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  Speaker 1: talked about the people I work with, and we have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, close to nine people working with us only
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  Speaker 1: with four restaurants, um. But that's that's how busy these
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  Speaker 1: restaurants are. Absolutely, and I agree now before we in
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  Speaker 1: this break, because I'm bringing it back because I want
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  Speaker 1: to learn about your the whole history of you, your brand,
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  Speaker 1: your development, because I love the fact you worked worked
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  Speaker 1: at the restaurant and you learned your crap before you
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  Speaker 1: inherited the business the way you. I didn't inherit I
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  Speaker 1: didn't correct you. Shortly, I didn't inherit anything. I thought.
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  Speaker 1: I bought my business from my uncle in a real transaction. Nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing is a gift in this family. That's why. That's why.
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  Speaker 1: You know, up until my kids were seven years old,
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  Speaker 1: I work seven days a week, and then I decided
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  Speaker 1: to take one or two days off just because I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to watch and play a little week. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: your children, and uh, oh are they are? They are there?
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  Speaker 1: They like seventeen seventeen, fifteen sows boy girl, twins who
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  Speaker 1: are seventeen, and another boy who's fifteen. Um, I think
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  Speaker 1: they're fond of the business. I don't think they're clear
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  Speaker 1: yet on what they're gonna do with their lives. I
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  Speaker 1: want to give them plenty of opportunity to make their
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  Speaker 1: own minds up. You know it always always you always
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  Speaker 1: amazed me people. It is a positive statement, Alec, because
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  Speaker 1: you got it. You know, you understood that this is
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to do, whether you know and and
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  Speaker 1: and you know I wanted to be in the restaurant business.
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  Speaker 1: What passion drove you in that direction? I think when
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  Speaker 1: you're a young boy. I was the youngest of three boys.
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  Speaker 1: I saw my dad working tirelessly, and I used to
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  Speaker 1: go to work with him, and I you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you're a kid and you're five years old and you're
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  Speaker 1: not as tall as the counter that you're working behind,
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  Speaker 1: and you look up, everything is so grand, and I
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  Speaker 1: just took this great view of it. Some people might
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  Speaker 1: look at it, Oh, my dad worked too hard or
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  Speaker 1: was too tough for too many hours, and I, for
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  Speaker 1: some reason just loved it. And you know, there's an expression,
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  Speaker 1: and it's true for me. You never work with Daniel
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  Speaker 1: life if you love what you do. And I'm so
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  Speaker 1: fortunate because I'm fifty years old now and I love
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  Speaker 1: what I do, and so it's great. I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go. You know, I'm sitting here in New York
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  Speaker 1: right now. I'm going to Brooklyn and I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: work in the kitchen for a few minutes. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: not because I have to, but because I want to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put on my chef scout and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go make some sandwiches with the guys. That's awesome. Never
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  Speaker 1: to answer, you do a number nine hundred employees now, yep,
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  Speaker 1: four restaurants, that's what you say it, right, and plus
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  Speaker 1: a plus a hundred thousand square foot bakery in South
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  Speaker 1: Jersey to make all the wholesale cakes that are going
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  Speaker 1: across the country. Now, you know, you're busy, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a positive busy. So what's the what's the
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  Speaker 1: what's the what's the goal, what's the what what's the brand? Read?
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I think the goal is to
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  Speaker 1: be good. But the goal is Also I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: lie and say we don't want to grow. We're growing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know every time we digest the location. We just
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  Speaker 1: got a location in Florida, to be honest, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: make it, much to my chagrin. Um, so now we've
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  Speaker 1: got to go back to the drawing board and find
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  Speaker 1: the next location. Um. We've got to keep growing our
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  Speaker 1: wholesale business. You know, we've got to get into into
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  Speaker 1: supermarkets that are in your neck of the woods down
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, because right now in the northeast were very popular.
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  Speaker 1: But we've got to spread out and keep working it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're still on QBC selling hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of cheesekakes here. We sell you know, over a hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands something cheesekakes here direct to consumer. We're selling
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  Speaker 1: probably you know, a couple of million more in the
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  Speaker 1: wholesale channels. Um. You know, we're we're we're fairly like
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've got the own live business on fire,
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, because that's like, that's that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you call no brick and mortar. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you just there and you know what's what's great is
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  Speaker 1: it is a store, and and don't think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everyone thinks once you build your website it's sort of
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  Speaker 1: just done. You are constantly reinvesting in that. It is
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  Speaker 1: a store. It needs new It needs new paint, and
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  Speaker 1: needs new walls, It needs new plumbing. It constantly has
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  Speaker 1: to be worked one and we are working on it
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  Speaker 1: every month to make the experience better for people. On
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  Speaker 1: the phone is my man, Alan Rosen. He oversees the
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  Speaker 1: restaurants Junior's restaurant, retail, bakery, wholesale, and mail are the
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  Speaker 1: operations which generates that you can correct me. It says
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  Speaker 1: it was sixty five million dollars in annual sales. Closer
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  Speaker 1: closer to a hundred. Okay, we've had a good couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. Okay, you know, some man whoever said to
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  Speaker 1: me this information usually listen to only because I like you,
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  Speaker 1: And by letting that out there is usually I don't
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  Speaker 1: say those kind of numbers because I find it almost
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing because that's not the goal. I'm being totally honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. Our goal is to be good at serving
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  Speaker 1: food to people in a great environment, having a great
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  Speaker 1: time every day, serving great cheesecake. How many it says
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  Speaker 1: five thousand customers daily and approximately twenty thousand cheesecakes every week.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably up to sixties seventy thousand cakes a week
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  Speaker 1: now a of it. I love this guy. I love
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  Speaker 1: this guy. Is National Cheesecake Day. I'm on the phone
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  Speaker 1: with Alan Allen. Thank you for coming on my show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna chan you the man. I I patronize your
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  Speaker 1: business before I knew you. I'm a patronize and even
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  Speaker 1: more and tell the world that you know you appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your enthusiasm for what you do, because you
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  Speaker 1: sound pretty fired up. I'm fired up about you. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Is about money making conversation. You keep winning out there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be right back with Moore from Marsan
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  Speaker 1: very small, and they have very limited amount of storage space,
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's a drag racer, she's a you know,
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• 26:46
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• 26:55
  Speaker 1: you own a your co owner of a truck and business.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: What what does a trucking business? Okay? So, um, the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: name of my business is Skygo Logistics, and UM, I'm
• 27:05
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• 27:09
  Speaker 1: But we travel all over the place. Uh. Like I said,
• 27:11
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• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'm super small. I do do that. And um we
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• 27:22
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• 27:25
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  Speaker 1: something like nineties something percent of people that take the
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• 28:09
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of cool. So, yes, you have to
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• 28:14
  Speaker 1: And you are naturally gifted? Uh? Desin you know Desinely Spurlock.
• 28:19
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• 29:47
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• 29:50
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations. James Prince, Yeah you do. Hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: my show man. Oh Man, I appreciate that introduction. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I got five akers man, you got one thousand acres?
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  Speaker 1: What man? You made my little five akers man? That
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  Speaker 1: not even that even a good part of your backyard?
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  Speaker 1: One thousands. I started off with a with a quarter, right,
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  Speaker 1: m So it was a blessing to be able to
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  Speaker 1: uh uh be where I'm at, man, you know, thankful. Well,
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• 32:16
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• 32:39
  Speaker 1: that was one of the reasons. Uh. You know, I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: looked at several ranches, several pieces of property, and it
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: was this one stood out the most to me because
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: it was a business and it's basically paid for itself,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you know, ideal hey, and also the black angles cattle
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: on the ranch, you know, it duces a quarter a
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: million a year. Okay, now let's go back to hide.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I all started because I'm from fifth Wards. I don't
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: know if you know that, James. I'm from fifth War
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: thirty and fifteen Main Street, right there on the corner
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a Russell and Bain Street. That's where I grew up.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I grew up in my six sisters, two brothers, lived
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: in a two bedrooms shotgun house. And to be on
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the national radio show from Us with a fellow young
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: man from the hoods of the streets of filth four,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I think it's a blessing for both of us. My friends. Oh,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: no doubt about right. The harder than that, now, you
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: know what I know? You know, you know I knew
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: he was cut your man. I'mna say when I knew
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: he was country when I started reading about you were
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: selling warm chicken eggs in the hood. Yeah, yeah, I
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: definitely a dollar, doesn't you know what I mean? I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: had had country boards that lived on that street, and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: they were sent me to the store for him all
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the time, right, and the live that I could be
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the one to sell them that eggs. You could buy
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a whole chicken for a dollar. Back then, I'm like, Okay,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I'm investing some of these chickens and these chickens, you know,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: lay a few eggs, a dozen a belt or a week,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and band I became an egg entrepreneur. But you always
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: saw the value. Like I said, a lot of people
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: call the street hustle because they only say that because
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the individual lives in a community, like an urban environment.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: You don't hear the word street hustle if you don't
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: live in the hood. That's just you just taking advantage
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of a situation that you sold. Profitability, a sell ability,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and accountability. You said, people need eggs. I know how
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to get eggs. Let me sell these eggs. And guess what,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: there was people out there buying your eggs. But that's
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: how you laid out your whole life, correct. Yeah, yeah,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: between the eggs and diversified and went to cutting yards
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and you know what I mean. It went on and on.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I was only like eight nine years so, and uh,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I had several jobs. I worked on the back of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: a wealth and truck. You know, man, I was I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: just enjoying having money. I had this uncanny love for
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: money at the age of eight years old. And you know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: at all begun with me. I want to break the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: poverty curse. You know what My family was concerned though.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Remember you you just count money, but you wouldn't need yourself.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: You must have read about that whooping I got. Yeah, Yeah,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I got a whooping. Mm hmm, Yeah, I got a
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: whooping because I had a pocket full of money. And
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I was waiting on my grandmother to come home from
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: work because I was hunger, but I had a pocket money.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: So after she cooked, you know, I went to jump
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in and got all kinds of energy and went to
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: stunting and pull out that bank roll. Head. Yeah, I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: got a little walking. Don't this kind of money? Pocket
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: and the two standard and feed your stuff? Yeah, And
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I thought that was very Uh, that's that's that's that's
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: a very understatement, you know. And I think that your
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: whole life when I when I read your book from
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: cover to cover. Um, starting with the fact that you
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: know you, does anybody really know that that real James Prince?
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: You know, because of the fact that people say you're
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: a hard business man, they say you're very calculated. I
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: remember when I met you outside my comedy club I
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: called the Hip Hop Commedies, that we were talking for
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a few minutes before you hopped in your car. You
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: came to see him perform and um I walked back inside.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: He said, man, you was out there talking to James. Boy,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you look you didn't get shot and so but you
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: just you know, you know, I'm just a little too,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you know, because people because people just felt that. You know,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: you get around here, you know, you better be ready,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: you better be on your toe. You stand next to James,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: especially in public. Was that reputation warried that James? No,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you know, they a lot of people. Man, they've been
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: lying on me for years. You know, it's almost became
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: immune to it. Man, don't I don't eat my life
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to bother me because I don't know all these stories
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: come from, you know what I mean. Not it's a
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: it's a fact that I'm not known joke, nothing like that.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: But as far as uh abusing my authority, what I mean,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: mistreating one in any kind of way. You know I'm not.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not blessed the way I am living that way.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Absolutely no. All you know, would you be walking around
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you know, people live their life in jail, are dead.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: You know's there's ambience of that, there's evidence of that.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: But all I know is that I was out there talking.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: It was a sould out show. He was telling me,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I used to be you funny. I just thank you
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: because Willie D from the ghetto boards you to come
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: out of the club all time, the hip hop comedy stuff.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: He used to live at, the hip hop comedy stoff
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and uh, scar Face will come by that I've never
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: met Busher with you just crazy and uh, I never
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: really wanted to meet it once he got shot, Now
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I really didn't want me to do who got shot
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: in the eye and survived? That wasn't really my bag
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: of tricks right there. But but but you know, but
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: just talking to you, that that that that that that
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: that allowed me to understand that you were a humble guy.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: That's why I took away when I met you, a
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: humble guy, a successful guy, but you're very humble and
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I think that that's that's the quality that that that
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: stands out the most when I tell people about my
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: experience and communicy, can't you because you were just this
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: was naty two, So you took the height of your
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: success that little run there. Everybody knew who it works,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: you know who you were, and and and and then
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the fact when you came into my comedy club, it
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: was like it was Buzzard, James and James and there
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: games in there. Okay, okay, cool, that's all right. You
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: know I played it off, all right, yeah, all right,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: He's the only superstar came in my comedy club. Come on, now,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: you know, but that but that humbleness is what carries
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: you today. Correct. Oh, yeah, you know, I'm a I'm
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: a man that you know. I definitely believe and give
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and respect. You know what I mean. I believe in
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: order to receive it, you have to give it. And
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: you know I give it. And as you say that,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I've I've earned it. And
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: then it's different places in my life. I demand that
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: There's so many things in the book that I want
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: people to read. I want people to buy The Art
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and Size of Respect by James Prince Um. He's one
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: of the greater historians of rap music. From the standpoint
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: of when you read the book, it's like a it's
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: like a lesson of how to do it right. But
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: just tell us, in short about your experience with our
• 39:34
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• 39:37
  Speaker 1: on how I note my friend. Yeah, well, you know,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: of course, I build a recreations center and and full
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: court basketball, uh, the gym, the weight rowan, the computer room,
• 39:51
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• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the same piece of property in filth war and boxing
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: has always been my first love. And after serving amateurs
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: in the boxing gym, I decided, you know, I said, okay,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: it's time for me to get back in the boxing.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: And you know I did. I remember, you know, praying
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and actually the Lord to bless me with the champion
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: because every goal, everything I ever trying to accompass in life,
• 40:19
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  Speaker 1: I went on to set up a meeting with Mike
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Tyson in Las Vegas. Went to went to Las Vegas
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: watching Mike Tyson in the gym spawing, and Flaude Maywell
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to have to come in the gym as well. So
• 40:36
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• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a conversation, and eventually he left his number with me
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and say, man, you want to do something to night,
• 40:44
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• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Tyson to have a meeting with him that afternoon, and
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you know, eventually Mike got his wife on the phone,
• 40:54
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• 40:57
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• 40:59
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• 41:03
  Speaker 1: the next day thinking I was gonna go visible with
• 41:05
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• 41:09
  Speaker 1: was not working you know what I mean. I think
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: his manager up whatever that guy named, was disconnected the phone.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: So I was left with Mayweather novel. I asked my friend,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I say, uh, who is this guy? And he told
• 41:23
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• 41:29
  Speaker 1: light went off in my head because I say, man,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I prayed for a champion, Tyson, ain't you no champion?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: At if he wasn't a champion at the time, he's
• 41:38
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• 41:42
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• 41:46
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  Speaker 1: What a warm what a warm welcome. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you auditioned for that role and how it is so
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  Speaker 1: it's changing the game for you know, we all know
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  Speaker 1: about Black Panther, we all know about that, but Black
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  Speaker 1: Lightning is has carved out his own niches is playing
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: very well on Netflix. I follow it and I went
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  Speaker 1: from CT. Did you know you're hot when Netflix picked
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  Speaker 1: you up a quickly. That's a good sign right there
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  Speaker 1: that you've got something going on. So tell us about
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: how did you audition and how your life has changed
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  Speaker 1: that you've been associated with Black Lightning. Well, I got
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  Speaker 1: the call from my manager about a year and a
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  Speaker 1: half ago that I had this all, this thing called
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  Speaker 1: Black Lightning. I didn't. I never I never heard of
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  Speaker 1: Black Lightning. Never knew that we even had a black
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  Speaker 1: superhero along with his family that was a part of
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  Speaker 1: the d C universe. Never knew, So I go, I
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  Speaker 1: never knew either. Don't worry about it. I never do.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew. But I get the script and I
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: was like, first of all, knowing that Mara and Salu
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  Speaker 1: mckilbre at the helm of it all and they were
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  Speaker 1: the writers and the executive producers, I knew that this
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  Speaker 1: would be a good show because their work speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of their work, always wanted to
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  Speaker 1: work with them. So I was first excited to read
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  Speaker 1: the script because I knew they were attached to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I read the script and I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: just appreciated the story. Most superheroes you see are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in their early twenties, and here with Black Lightning, you
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  Speaker 1: have a middle age man with the family who is
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  Speaker 1: a high school principle. We've just never seen or heard
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  Speaker 1: this story before, and I appreciated the strong bold and
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• 48:41
  Speaker 1: I went in for this job and I was like, listen, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: so connected to the character and felt so connected to
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• 48:54
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  Speaker 1: I understood this character and that I was really wanting
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: to give my voice over to her and under you know,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I just said everything about her world. So um, coming
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: from a city like Philly, I understand some of the
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: problems that that that the city Freeland faces within the
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  Speaker 1: show and just wanting to be a voice for that
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  Speaker 1: my my audition process a minute this week. She said
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  Speaker 1: series on own and so that's THEMP. Okay to know
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  Speaker 1: that about that, okay to show black Lightning. She has
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  Speaker 1: a sister, and she has a mom, and she has
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: a dad. That's the family dynamic that she's talking about,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: and that the encompasses black Lightning. In her father's role,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: he's a high school principal. Now her character is a
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: very defiant character. And initially on the show. Um, the
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: character is a gay character. Now initially on the show,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: and I want to ask about this, and as we
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: go through the interview process, she had a relationship. But
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I thought in the beginning that bogged down the show
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: because the show succeeds based on the family dynamic and
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: how they all come together. Because she has a sister
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: who's reluctant to be a superhero. She just wants to
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: She just wants to have kids. She wants to be
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: a normal person, and she's she's trauma tized. In the series.
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  Speaker 1: Now Thunder Thunder all about being a superhero. She's all
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  Speaker 1: about taking her power and and and and saving the community,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: fixing the wrongs in the community. Of fact, her father
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: has to calm Thunder down. Now you can continue excited yeah, Thunder, Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: She understands and she learns that she has these superpowers,
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  Speaker 1: and you see her through the first season trying to
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: navigate and develop them. And once this lightbulb goes off
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: of understanding how her powers work, she gets really really
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  Speaker 1: excited and really passionate, and she believes that this is
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: a gift from God and she is she used it
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  Speaker 1: to save people who can't save themselves. So that is
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: her logic behind, you know, wanting to go out and
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: use the powers that have been given to her. Um
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: and as you said, uh, my sister on the show
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: played by China and the claim she has a totally
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: different feeling about having these powers. She thinks that it
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: makes us freaks and she's not normal and she just,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: you know, this doesn't really understand and why her life
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: has been you know, changed in the in the major
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: way that it has been. And you can see, you know,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: throughout the season where I'm trying to convince her that
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: we have to use our God given powers. And as
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: you spoke on Black Lightning, you know, deal with the
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: fact that his daughter has these same powers, not the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: same powers, but you know they have been given special
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: abilities and just trying to you know, navigate through that
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: world of of protecting them. But also you know, I
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: have to train them because it is what it is.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: And if I trained them, then hopefully you know they'll
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: they'll you know, be as well off as possible when
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: it comes to the whole superhero world. So yeah, it's
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's really a show about a family first,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: and it's not it's not that you're reminded that they're
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: superheroes until you see them in their costumes, when you
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: see them actually out fighting crime and saving people. But
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: it's really a show about a family and you know,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: going through family problems and them trying to overcome them together,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: which I thought was really cool because you don't see
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: a superhero, you know, with his family, as I mentioned before,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: you you know, you usually see this young superhero flying
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and jumping all around, and you have this family of
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: superheroes and and that's just an amazing concept with a
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: really cool idea. And kudos to everyone over at d
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: C and Tony, Isabella and Trevor who created you know, this,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: this this character. And before we go, I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about some of the get back programs you work
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  Speaker 1: with the skid Role campaign. Let's talk about that before
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  Speaker 1: we go, because I want to just let everybody shape
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  Speaker 1: all your lifestyle. You know that you do have time
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  Speaker 1: for the for individuals. Your character that you just you
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  Speaker 1: do a TV really transcend to your everyday life. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about your efforts in the community. Thank you. I
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  Speaker 1: just believe that, you know, it's our duty to serve
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  Speaker 1: and to give back, especially when you've been blessed so much.
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  Speaker 1: Much is given, much is required, and I believe that
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  Speaker 1: the secret and service, you know, and we're put here
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  Speaker 1: to bless each other and too, you know, inspire and
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: empower each other. And that's pretty much my life mission,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I believe. You know, Um, life begins when you start
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  Speaker 1: to follow your dreams and understand what your purposes. And
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  Speaker 1: then the once you understand what your purpose is, your
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  Speaker 1: job next is to help the next person and you know,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: discover what THEIRS is and encourage them to follow theirs.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: So um, that's just basically you know. I try to
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  Speaker 1: live by that rule. I go down to Ski Road
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  Speaker 1: while I was going when I was in l A.
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  Speaker 1: And I try to go when I go when I
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: you know, when I'm not filming. But it's the Peggy
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  Speaker 1: Beatrice Foundation and we go down to Skiar Road. We closed,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: we see, we pray, you know, just incur sometimes just listen,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: you know, being a listening ear and I love doing it.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: I'm most happy when I'm when I'm serving and when
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I'm giving. So um, that's that's definitely one of one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite things to be doing. And I get
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  Speaker 1: please keep doing it real quickly tell everybody about Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Uh Dreaming one more time when we close out the show,
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  Speaker 1: how they can find it and what exactly it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so Saturday Dreaming is my own, my online boucheek. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a co owner with my best friends in thirteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really cool. I believe in building with your
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  Speaker 1: be come in reality. So that's what Saturday Dreaming is.
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  Speaker 1: It's an online bout cater to young women who are
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  Speaker 1: So you can follow us a Saturday Dreaming on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and uh yeah, post your pictures tagged me. I want
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  Speaker 1: you Black Lightning she's one of the stars. I wanna
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  Speaker 1: let you know that you're the only person I've ever
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• 55:39
  Speaker 1: came to you first and you came back. You showed
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  Speaker 1: me love. I'm giving love back to you. I love
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  Speaker 1: the show. I love all the characters. Keep winning support
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  Speaker 1: I really really keep winning. Everybody needs to watch the show,
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  Speaker 1: watching and repeat it on Netflix. It's a great show
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