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Rushion Interviews Film director and writer, Geno Brooks, reveals his secret ingredients to a successful career! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My guests is Gino Brooks. He's a director, writer, and producer,
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  Speaker 1: founder CEO of The Artistic Standard. Gino is an HBCU
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  Speaker 1: grab A Wilberforce University in the Great State of Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: where he joined A five A five So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get my give my a F I eight and graduating
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  Speaker 1: or degree of Real Rehabilitation Mental Health. He's also got
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  Speaker 1: the Master's degree of Rehabilitation consult Counseling from the University
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  Speaker 1: of Kentucky. His background includes that masters and playwrighting and
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  Speaker 1: screenwriting from u c l A. The Artistic Standard is
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  Speaker 1: a boutique media studio focused on developing, producing, and distributing
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  Speaker 1: and disruptive, socially and culturally impactful television, film and digital content.
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  Speaker 1: I have on with the show because he was disruptive
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  Speaker 1: in my life when I saw a body of work
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  Speaker 1: called on the Bounce TV network called The Johnson's about
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  Speaker 1: these four brothers who from the standpoint and I've lived
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  Speaker 1: in a great life and I'm gonna continue to live
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  Speaker 1: a great life. I've never seen it done so well,
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  Speaker 1: especially from an African American perspective focused on men. Please
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  Speaker 1: welcome to money making Conversations. Mastercland Gino Brooks h my
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  Speaker 1: brother that listen. That introduction was phenomenal, man, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for having me. I'm excited to be here. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in preparation of this, I watched a lot of interviews man,
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  Speaker 1: so I know how how in depth you are, and
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  Speaker 1: I love the conversation. So thank you. Excited. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that my life allows me to
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  Speaker 1: just you know, some people call me a renaissance man
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  Speaker 1: because I really do talk and have a clear understanding
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  Speaker 1: of what the journey can be. You know, my careers
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  Speaker 1: in mathematics, my minor, and sociology and which work for IBM.
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  Speaker 1: And then I realized that wasn't my dream. And then
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  Speaker 1: when I look at you, you know HBC you graduate,
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  Speaker 1: and then I see University of Kentucky, Then I see
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  Speaker 1: U c l A. You got all this blue grass
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  Speaker 1: and this basketball blue grass, the West Coast, the bit
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  Speaker 1: West Coach. I'll started for you, man, the HBCU that
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  Speaker 1: that black excellence captain you just pushed you out into world.
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  Speaker 1: It did it? Did it? Did? I was You know,
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  Speaker 1: The funny thing is I was one of the students
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  Speaker 1: I felt like needed the you know, the small campuses
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  Speaker 1: in the comparative, you know, comaraderie of like HBCUs the
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  Speaker 1: family aspect of that that brought me. Help focus me
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  Speaker 1: if you will, and I'm grateful for my experience to
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  Speaker 1: the spc U. I'm advocate for a spc U S.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm standing on the line right now in the
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  Speaker 1: entertainment industry hoping to bring more opportunities for creatives and
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  Speaker 1: a spc U S to get in the field that
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  Speaker 1: I've chosen since you know, it's interesting that when I
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  Speaker 1: look at your your life, Gino from a standpoint, because
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  Speaker 1: we have similarities, you know, because what we're doing now
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  Speaker 1: is not what we went to school for. Right right then,
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  Speaker 1: we also um pledge Fi. I played qu Sci fi
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  Speaker 1: and which you know it's it's calling doing the platform
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  Speaker 1: and the divine nine. You also have five a sigma
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  Speaker 1: out there. You got the nupes and you know the
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  Speaker 1: organization out there as well as well as the sorority
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  Speaker 1: organizations is tied to all of them. Delta, come on
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  Speaker 1: that Sima Gamma road. We got him out there, but
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  Speaker 1: you know you got me. This showed me no little okay,
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  Speaker 1: after that, let's make sure that get something you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna we started dropping name, they go hate on this.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna hate on this. Now. We talked a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about hbc Why did you choose an HBCU. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of hit a little bit, but I need
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  Speaker 1: more information because of the fact that in doing George Floyd,
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  Speaker 1: it just exploded. Donations were flooding into HBCU. Was like
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  Speaker 1: like the white folks finally discovered it. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. It was annoying to me. It was annoying
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  Speaker 1: to me because of the fact that you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: on ESPN now on a regular sports platform. They go live,
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  Speaker 1: they do live broadcast. I think this weekend they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be at the Hall of Fame game, you know when
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  Speaker 1: some Salem is playing up there. Steven A. Smith is
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  Speaker 1: an hbc You graduate of some Salem state. That helps
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  Speaker 1: you help, you know. I get a lot of individuals
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  Speaker 1: who owned this show who when I looked through the bio,
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  Speaker 1: becausehen it isn't mean they bio. I always go down
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  Speaker 1: there that it's just so many man of you guys
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  Speaker 1: who graduated from HBCU. They're just doing it. Man, explain
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  Speaker 1: that to us. Yeah, I played ball sawt hoop um,
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  Speaker 1: and I came to before it's because of basketball for
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  Speaker 1: just you know, honesty, UM. And then once I got
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  Speaker 1: there and I kind of found my footing and UM
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  Speaker 1: in the Greek life. So that when I got there
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  Speaker 1: and taught me how to be a leader, how to
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  Speaker 1: run meetings, how to run business more importantly, how to
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  Speaker 1: be a student and a professional of course. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just grateful that my mom's took me to an
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  Speaker 1: Ami church. She heard about the school that was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing like a what is it when the panel? Right?
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  Speaker 1: When when schools come in? And and here's the last
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  Speaker 1: part to kind of top both together. My high school coach,
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  Speaker 1: I went to uh be Force. So it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just felt good. I got some offers from some
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  Speaker 1: some larger schools, and uh I just decided to feel
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  Speaker 1: I felt like what the Force was the place for
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  Speaker 1: me the type of student that I was, because I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking more importantly about like the longevity of it.
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  Speaker 1: I was good. But if I'm being honest, I probably
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  Speaker 1: knew by then that I wouldn't make it to the NBA, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I needed to set my life up as a student. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because my grandfather was also. It's basically entrepreneurship
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  Speaker 1: is in my family. So that was my goal to
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  Speaker 1: get somewhere where it could support me to be a
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  Speaker 1: student for a graduate from college like UM, and then
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  Speaker 1: also get a piece of my love and basketball. So
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting you said something there, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are are chasing dreams that go nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: or chase them too long. You said, Rashan, Look, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I was all Park. I go to the park. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the man all Park. I can see that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I was all Park. I'm telling that brother. Look, man,
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  Speaker 1: look you couldn't tell me nothing. I go out there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm naturally right handed. I played left. Then they started gambling,
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  Speaker 1: I'm right handed, you know what I'm saying. I was
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  Speaker 1: all part you know. And so but then then the
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  Speaker 1: realization is that that is not who I can be.
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  Speaker 1: It walcos to that step because that's a very mature
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  Speaker 1: decision that you have to make about your physicality as
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  Speaker 1: well as your dreams. Yeah, because like literally, man like,
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  Speaker 1: up until that point, that's probably exad to say, Um,
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  Speaker 1: my identity was all sports, right, it was all I
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  Speaker 1: all I concentrated on you know, I kind of knew
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  Speaker 1: I was an artist early on, and I put that
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  Speaker 1: to the side for the hope of you knowing, becoming
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  Speaker 1: a uh, you know, going to the professionals. And then
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  Speaker 1: at some point right before going to well, at some
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  Speaker 1: point once I got on campus, because I also thought
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  Speaker 1: I possibly could transfer to a larger school. So but
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  Speaker 1: once I got on campus and I realized who I
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  Speaker 1: could become and how my mother because I would go
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  Speaker 1: home and my mom's would be like, Yo, you're becoming
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing something different than you. And I'm so grateful
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  Speaker 1: to go before you know, community. Uh. And and again
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  Speaker 1: the small because the HBU was like h b c
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  Speaker 1: U s are small in comparison to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the p W I was like me, the university can tell,
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  Speaker 1: but what beforce is even smaller in the in the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the economy of HBCU. But it was what
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  Speaker 1: I needed, and you know, to be able to the
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  Speaker 1: smaller classrooms. You know, I can literally knock on my
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  Speaker 1: advisor's door and get an answer immediately. Man, that's the
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  Speaker 1: type of student that I need. So I recognized that early,
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  Speaker 1: and I just wanted to set myself up right, because,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, a lot of times people send they
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  Speaker 1: spend too much time and on the path that if
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  Speaker 1: they had recognized it earlier, UM, they probably could have
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  Speaker 1: saved them time sometime and some some grief. And I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. I wanted to my life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I knew that I wanted to be something different.
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  Speaker 1: Um if basketball didn't work out, nothink force helped me
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  Speaker 1: to find that. We'll be right back with more Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: know I was looking to your bio and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the series that you are director and writing now so
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  Speaker 1: producing The Johnson which is on Bounce TV. Incredible series
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  Speaker 1: of individuals who are listening or watching this episode have
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  Speaker 1: not seen these about four African American men. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we've seen shows like Living Single, We've seen the
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  Speaker 1: insecues of the world, but we've never seen this. For
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't use the words dysfunctional, but you know you can.
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  Speaker 1: You know each one has their own individual issues like
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  Speaker 1: you know in the in the in the other world,
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  Speaker 1: you would say female type issues because we marginalized what
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  Speaker 1: black men can be portrayed as. And this series that
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  Speaker 1: you are a part of which I have the pleasure
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  Speaker 1: of interview and two of the stars, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: when they your name popped up, general like, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: have it because again you have success in front of
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  Speaker 1: the screen because they're also executive producers, but also you
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  Speaker 1: are pushing the narrative as a writer and the director
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  Speaker 1: talk about being invited into that project the Johnson's on
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  Speaker 1: Bounced TV. Yeah, listen, man, I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a filmmaker that was traditionally I kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, cut my teeth independently on my own projects
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  Speaker 1: that I were write, producing, direct myself. And then Dais
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  Speaker 1: and Thomas and char Archibald who's also one of the
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  Speaker 1: executive producers over the Entertainer. Well, yeah, in sent two.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's that's the that's the second tary. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But the first thing I had to meet with the
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  Speaker 1: I had to meet with Dais and Thomas in Reching
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  Speaker 1: before right right right, yeah, yeah, said in area I
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure Eric Roan is allSome. I was looking.
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  Speaker 1: I've been knowing I since ninety two. Okay, so because
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  Speaker 1: all it's all good, Eric Rohner bar I have a
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  Speaker 1: comedy cling back in Houston, book down that that's how
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  Speaker 1: at Cedric then all of us with Steve Harvey and
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  Speaker 1: all of us, and the history is there. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of this whole series, man, because they're
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  Speaker 1: a strong African American. Man. You're from African American man,
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  Speaker 1: you turned into this wonderful series, and when did you
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  Speaker 1: realize it was something special? Man? Listen. I took the
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  Speaker 1: I would say once I got to Atlanta, right because
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  Speaker 1: I'm in l A. And we we did a lot
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  Speaker 1: of obviously talking to pre production and things that I
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  Speaker 1: started when I got to Atlanta and I saw the locations.
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  Speaker 1: In our first meeting, UM, Dais and Thomas said to me, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know they're depending on me because I had the
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  Speaker 1: bulk of the first five episodes of the season. But
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  Speaker 1: they you know, what they were looking for. What they
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  Speaker 1: promised the network was that they were gonna change trying
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  Speaker 1: to change the narrative of how Bounce was being viewed
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Right, So, Um, Thomas and Dais took
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  Speaker 1: it upon themselves to um say, hey, man, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: really lean into this. UM project is just obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: not just something we're doing, but we wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: UM the gold standard for what Bounce will be known
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  Speaker 1: for moving forward. And with that, you know, they mentioned
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  Speaker 1: some other premium channels. I don't know if that's necessary
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  Speaker 1: that they want to like strive to be you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, play ball with if you will. And so
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  Speaker 1: when and with that said, I came in and I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, I know what to do. You know,
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  Speaker 1: from my aspect um, this is how I want to
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  Speaker 1: cover it, you know, from a directing standpoint, lighting wise,
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  Speaker 1: we all kind of came up with that together, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about it. Well, I would tell you
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  Speaker 1: everybody you know, UM, I've been doing television, high level
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  Speaker 1: tech network televisions, just naty four, ABC, UM, hit movies,
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  Speaker 1: hit syndication. So when I look at the show like this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then you can you can you can
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  Speaker 1: look at because we're of all, they're not working with
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  Speaker 1: network budget. Okay, right, right, So first of all, I go,
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  Speaker 1: I look at the lighting first. Okay, Okay, they passed
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  Speaker 1: the lighting test, which means everybody was litd correctly walking
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  Speaker 1: the room shadows wasn't blocking black people. You can still
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  Speaker 1: still see them. It was in nightclub scenes. Everybody was
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  Speaker 1: still clear. Okay. The second test is audio. Okay, with
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  Speaker 1: no echo, everybody was clear. They're defining the scenes. You
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  Speaker 1: can see somebody in the background. Then you know that's
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  Speaker 1: a relevant moment and all that stuff. Then the third
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  Speaker 1: thing in a well done series is chemistry. Fourth is lickability.
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  Speaker 1: Fifth is completed project that five step. Now let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to chemistry, Deluge, Earthquake. Now, the thing about Earthquakes character,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, if you have not seen this series, Bounce,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to the writer director of this series, is
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  Speaker 1: that Earthquake developed in the series. Yes, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: group became more pronounced became earthquake. When I say that,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. D's character, Man, I know, he
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  Speaker 1: has a national syndicated show, so it's a natural transition.
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  Speaker 1: But the role he plays is fantastic. Man, talk about
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  Speaker 1: that whole chemistry Well, I would just say, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: the cool thing about the guys, I'll start with the
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  Speaker 1: four guys first. They are amazing to work with. They're
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  Speaker 1: extremely professional, um, and they come to work like it's
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  Speaker 1: their last day. Of work and I say that we're
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  Speaker 1: all you know, all my my heart open, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever I ask of them when I'm directing them, Um,
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  Speaker 1: they really dropped in. They believe and trusting me and
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  Speaker 1: my vision for the overall series. And then I'll just
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  Speaker 1: add for DL and and Earthquake Man, they are I
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  Speaker 1: would say they come around obviously with the wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: they come out and they helped ground the show. You
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  Speaker 1: know what, I think d L's character and character in
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  Speaker 1: particular is someone that's uh coming with the wisdom, but
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  Speaker 1: he's also speaking to them. We you know, we do
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  Speaker 1: a great job of having him speak to them in
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  Speaker 1: terms that that's not too above them, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I think that's what that that's what
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  Speaker 1: does it for me. Lastly, um, they spend time together.
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  Speaker 1: These are these brothers, are true friends. These are guys
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  Speaker 1: that you'll catch up the supermarket together. So it's easy
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  Speaker 1: for me to come in as a directors who, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, drop us into a moment or tell them
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  Speaker 1: challenge them on something else because they've been through it
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  Speaker 1: as friends and it's just you're seeing that on screen.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more money making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to money Making Conversations
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. You know, they're just thing they're
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  Speaker 1: thinking about a d G and Tholmost. They spent their
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  Speaker 1: own money put together this pilot, like they went over
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  Speaker 1: to UH to Cedric and Eric Rohn, Cedric Entertaining Air
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  Speaker 1: Chrome pitched it. They bought into it, and then they
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  Speaker 1: found a great writer director like you to help put
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  Speaker 1: it on the screen. The thing that I really admired
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  Speaker 1: about the whole process is that the quality and from
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  Speaker 1: a reduction standpoint, because this is what you were saying,
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  Speaker 1: the gold standards that you were talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being able to still put out the level of quality.
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  Speaker 1: I was telling a world shot. I was engaged in
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  Speaker 1: the relationship and then you brought in my girl from
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  Speaker 1: a uh from Steve Harvey show. Uh. Man, it was
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  Speaker 1: just just just kept killing me, man, keep killing me
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  Speaker 1: with all these great favorites on this show. Man, just
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  Speaker 1: a just a great series. Man that that continually to grow.
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  Speaker 1: When you do something like this, it becomes a resume
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  Speaker 1: standard for you and a hue to see that I
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  Speaker 1: can't be great in this business. You have the artist standard,
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  Speaker 1: the artistics standard, excuse me, company that you have. How
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  Speaker 1: do you tie all that together? What's the next step
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  Speaker 1: for you? Gino Brooks well, before I answered, I would
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  Speaker 1: love to make sure I mentioned Stan austen Um, who
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  Speaker 1: is our cinematographer for Johnson. So I just want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you know we have we have something with
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  Speaker 1: His name is then my name is Gino. We call
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  Speaker 1: each other. We call ourselves Tino when we're together, so
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  Speaker 1: that's our live hash tag for ourselves man, and we
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  Speaker 1: absolutely worked extremely well together to help bring these visuals
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  Speaker 1: to you. For my part of it, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's other directors as well. So I just want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure I mentioned that Um. But no, Miss terry Man.
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  Speaker 1: She she came in and absolutely fit into because what
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  Speaker 1: Dais and Thomas does extremely well is we make it
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  Speaker 1: feel like feminine. I know a lot of things are
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  Speaker 1: projects that I've been a part of. People say that,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like it's like dropping in on the family picnic,
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  Speaker 1: like food over, There're gonna make your own plate. That's
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  Speaker 1: and that's the kind of analogy for what this is
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  Speaker 1: with Johnson. So I just want to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: that is being said, because they set the table for
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  Speaker 1: us UH in a way that you know, we feel
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  Speaker 1: like our thoughts and our creative input is value. I think.
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  Speaker 1: Terry also added that UM, I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: what happens next with her character. UM. And as far
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  Speaker 1: as the standard for me, again, that goes back to
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  Speaker 1: the guys. Their goal. Their goal was to lift this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say lift the standard of Bounce because
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  Speaker 1: it sounds crazy, but I would just say, help Bounce
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  Speaker 1: realize that their next elevation, if you will, UM. And
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that's where I live by. That's what my arts represent.
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  Speaker 1: That's obviously what the name of my company is, the
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  Speaker 1: artistic standard. When I go out, I want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that everything that I do UH of quality, is
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  Speaker 1: of substance, and I give it my d percent all
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  Speaker 1: because I know the one that project will be left
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  Speaker 1: behind with knowing that I gave it my best and
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  Speaker 1: it falls within my moral compass. In addition to it's
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  Speaker 1: the it's the set up for my next goal, my
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  Speaker 1: next project. And I think Johnson UM is a part
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  Speaker 1: of my journey and extremely to be on this path
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  Speaker 1: with the brothers, and I look forward to next season UM,
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  Speaker 1: and I also look forward to the many things that's
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  Speaker 1: happening for me in my career and my production company wor.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just let you know, I'm I my whole
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: life has been able to recognize gifted individuals and talented individuals.
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  Speaker 1: I can assure you, Mr Geno Brooks, we will be
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  Speaker 1: walking together. Uh he said, I give me it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a year window. Within that year window, you
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: will begin to ring from Rashaan McDonald. Okay, you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and that good question for you, Joman, Okay, how do
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I make that wall? Man? Behind you? That's what I'm shooting.
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  Speaker 1: That's the standard for me, Like, how do I make
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: that wall? It's it's the other on this wall right here,
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  Speaker 1: Gino two on the other side. You know that there's
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  Speaker 1: a paddler bell on wall. You know what to see
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  Speaker 1: over there? A lot of boy that that wall is
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  Speaker 1: cold over that too. Don't let this just stop you.
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  Speaker 1: I got this whole room, and I'm feel blessed man
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that you mad are my future.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: You know, you are individuals where I'm working on projects
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  Speaker 1: where I sit on this show man and I just
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: see talent like you, and I just make just write down,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: gonna work with that person, Gonna work with that person.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: And because I'm always looking for young writers, that's why
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I let you know, man, and I'm gonna get that
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: cinematographer's number two from because she Man, I'm telling I'll
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: be watching TV. I'll be going, Okay, I know how
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: much money they're doing. I know what this production number is.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I know it just products and number years. And I said,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: and go ahead, because because you know there's nothing negative
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to your certain levels, production number is going to be
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: what they are. And brother, and I told Thomas this,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and I told Ajis, I said, Brother, the quality, yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the acting, but you can act great, but if it
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: looks sloppy, look like it's been edited badly. You know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: when one episode end, they pick right back up. Just brother, Oh,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just beautiful man, just beautiful, dude. Yeah, man, I think
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: that's I think one of my specialties. And I think
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: with the guys have done extremely well speaking about the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: quality of the production. Is that you make it feel
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like you know you're looking at something with the larger budget, right,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: And that's that's all to do with the leadership with
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the guys. You know, my creative him put along with
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the master behind the camera and him and his team,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and that's stand awesome, man. So I'm just excited to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: be a part of that. Gumbo brings that quality of
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  Speaker 1: project that you're looking at for your for everybody who's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: on audio can't see what he's saying. So you on
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  Speaker 1: that wall, you got Steven A. Smith, Ricky Smile and
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  Speaker 1: when the ri Cal Robinson, Bishop t D. Jake's you
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  Speaker 1: got uh, George Lopez, you got Aaron Roker, Nancy Grace,
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Franklin, Till Murray, Tamarin Hall, my Boy, Boris Ko,
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  Speaker 1: Nie Cedric, the entertainer, Chris Paul, just keeps going down,
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  Speaker 1: La la, Anthony Bisiman, Crump, the boy making good, my boy,
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  Speaker 1: Will Packer, HBCU boy. That's that's, that's, that's, that's that's.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I made a decision. You know, when
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I stopped managing Steve what I was what was my voice?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And then all bunch of celebrities were calling my show.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: But I didn't know why I had to stop. So
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I know why they called me. Now they value my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: They're value that what I'm trying to put out there,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: like I hopefully you value what I'm trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here to talk about your brill I'm gonna
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: here the showcase that you're brilliant talent, and I want
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to bring you back because of the fact that I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: really want to talk about the mental health because because
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: that right there, man, is a is a we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk off fair because within the black community, we felt
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: so many times when it comes to mental health and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the truisms of hey, you can lay down and tell
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: somebody struggling, You tell us abody you stress, you tell
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  Speaker 1: somebody that. The fact that black people as a race
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  Speaker 1: all the most stressed out race and most mentally fatigued
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  Speaker 1: race in the world because we come in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody know we're black, Okay, everybody you know, we can't
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: have been having those skin tone maybe tagging. Oh he
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: might be a Spane, he might be George, we might
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: be Polish, we might be friends. We're walking the room, Gino,
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  Speaker 1: we're black. I already know, and we got deal with that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: But more importantly, keep putting out that quality of material.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Man that Johnson is on Bounce TV. This is you know.
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  Speaker 1: You see my board, Thomas number six pick in the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: draft in the NFL. My board a g went on
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  Speaker 1: Broadway at the age of three. Team these are people
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that are working on this project. Dynamic individuals came together.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: But more importantly, you gotta have a lot of wheels
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  Speaker 1: to make greatness. And I'm talking to greatness right now.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And General Brooks remember this, that's a name, the Artistic Standard.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: He's a founder CEO. Thank you for coming on Money
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Making Conversation masterclass, absolutely anytime, looking forward to it, and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for this opportunity, UH to get
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  Speaker 1: in front of your audience. Man again, I'm a huge
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: fan and I'm looking forward to us talking in the future.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Well again, thank you for coming to money Making a Conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye,