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Rushion Interviews Queen Sugar Star, Actor Omar J. Dorsey | TV Medical Contributor Dr. Cedrek McFadden! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: It's what he likes to share. Now it's time to
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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here
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Speaker 1: we come. Omar Dorsey is my guest on the show.
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Speaker 1: He's a familiar facing television and film Selma when they
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Speaker 1: see Us, Django, Unchanged, Ray Donovan Bones, Jens Rita, Franklin.
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Speaker 1: Omar currently stars as a fan favorite Hollywood and Aba
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Speaker 1: Duvense l a CP Award winning show, Queen Sugar. Queen
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Speaker 1: Sugar has been lauded for his powerful portrayal of an
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Speaker 1: African American family and the Deep South. He can also
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Speaker 1: be seen portraying and curismatic and ever so style is
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Speaker 1: freed on season two of Stars Our Book three, Raising
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Speaker 1: Kane Early this fall again, Omar will be reprising his
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Speaker 1: role as Sheriff Barker and Halloween Ends The Ladiest installed
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Speaker 1: one in bloom House produced Hollywood franchise the film with
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Speaker 1: premier in theaters on Friday, October fourteen, justin taff for
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Speaker 1: I got it right here, y'all. The familiar face at all,
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Speaker 1: please working the money Making Conversations masterclass, the one and
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Speaker 1: only Omar Dorsey, my brother. Thank you so much for that. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just chasing. You know, the body of
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Speaker 1: work should be recognized because I look at sometimes we
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Speaker 1: were just grinders. You know what I'm saying. You're an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: You know people he's an actor. No, he's an entrepreneur
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Speaker 1: because he's building a business, building a career. And when
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Speaker 1: in the process of doing that, their peaks in their valids,
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Speaker 1: and there sometimes when you just you just cry because
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Speaker 1: you don't know chosen the right path. Can you talk
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Speaker 1: about some of your journey early on, because when I
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Speaker 1: was going through your resume, it was one thing that
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Speaker 1: did that in two thousand and six, all those beautiful
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Speaker 1: credits I've adread about it. God names associated you did
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Speaker 1: an episode of Entourage and it listened to you as
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Speaker 1: a young thug number one. That's that's that's a credit.
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Speaker 1: That's a credit. But that was two thousand six, right,
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about when it started turning after two thousand
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Speaker 1: and six. You know what. I came home as I
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Speaker 1: did Entourage and it was pretty good. It was alright,
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Speaker 1: at a good time. I like to show a lot,
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Speaker 1: but I said, I don't want to play thugs anymore.
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Speaker 1: I want to play something my kids can be very
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Speaker 1: proud of me. Of right, sir. So um, there have
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Speaker 1: been times in my career where I stepped back when
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Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, let me figure out
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Speaker 1: exactly what the next phase of my career is gonna be.
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Speaker 1: And if it takes time for me to do whatever
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Speaker 1: I need to do, um, take six months or a year, uh,
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Speaker 1: then I will do it and so I can be
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Speaker 1: seen in a different light. I didn't after that. I said,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to just play these nameless people or
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Speaker 1: and it was a pretty good role, you know it,
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Speaker 1: just it just sucked that it was called that. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, dude, you don't know if this
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Speaker 1: guy the young thug or whatever if he goes home
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Speaker 1: to a wife and kids or anything like that. But
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Speaker 1: you know about that time was the time I just
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Speaker 1: stepped back and I think I'm a gonta change agencies
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Speaker 1: and managements because I said, I had a vision for
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Speaker 1: myself that with much ch much further than just you know,
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Speaker 1: playing bit parts. Right, I got with an amazing manager,
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Speaker 1: gut was I'm managing with right now, frankn Zalez who
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Speaker 1: saw the fishing and he's you know, omar yo, I
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Speaker 1: see what you're trying to do, and you know, allow
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Speaker 1: me to guide you and take you to that next level.
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Speaker 1: And you know ever since then that we're gonna rocking
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Speaker 1: and rolling. Yeah, that's why that's I wanted to bring
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Speaker 1: that moment up because, like I said, there are many
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Speaker 1: moments we have in your life and so but also
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Speaker 1: you have to make a decision because people will see
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Speaker 1: you and keep pushing you down in lane where they
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Speaker 1: think you should be at, where they think you should go.
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Speaker 1: And then you have to realize that there's an unknown
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Speaker 1: when you push back that's not me, you know, the
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Speaker 1: is I'm working, but I don't want to work like that.
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Speaker 1: What fear unknown? Did you? Did you have to introduce
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Speaker 1: your peer group around you, what support group that you
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Speaker 1: have or was it just you? It's definitely my peer group,
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Speaker 1: you know. I have like a lot of friends who
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Speaker 1: are extremely successful. And even in two thousand and six, Uh,
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Speaker 1: the guys who I wrote with, uh, they they were
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Speaker 1: getting it. They were getting it, And I was like,
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Speaker 1: we all started out together, right, and then no reason
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Speaker 1: why I should be lagging behind and if we all
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Speaker 1: started at the same time. And even though I don't
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Speaker 1: measure my success by anybody else's, but I saw the
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Speaker 1: opportunities that were out there, and I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: drop the ball and get into a rat race and
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Speaker 1: just get into like, well, I'm always playing the same thing,
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Speaker 1: getting pigeon old. Even now, as much as I do
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Speaker 1: love playing Hollywood, I wouldn't go around and play something
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Speaker 1: like Kenneth f Reid or I will go and play
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Speaker 1: along and Harriet. I'll do something different that's so different
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Speaker 1: than what I'm playing, because I don't want anybody to
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Speaker 1: ever pigeonholed me into, uh you know, what they think
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Speaker 1: I should be doing. I'm like active comes from the theater. Man.
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Speaker 1: I'm used to playing Othello or playing y'all go either one.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm used to doing August Wilson. I'm used
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Speaker 1: to doing Tom Stopper, and I'm used bird Off Brick
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Speaker 1: and all these different things. So it's like I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to come into the film and television game and
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Speaker 1: just Okay, well he's a big guy, he's dark skinned.
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Speaker 1: Let's go and just make him thug number. No. No,
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Speaker 1: if'm don't be a thug woman Medino Brown, Absolutely, there
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Speaker 1: you go. They should have to kill them at the
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Speaker 1: end of that. They had sequel to three or four.
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Speaker 1: They have several sequels now. All the money. I didn't
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Speaker 1: mention the credit there, oh Mar that you had, but
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Speaker 1: you bring it out anyway. Because I hated you. I
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Speaker 1: hated you. I hated you and Harriet I bore everybody
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Speaker 1: hated me ya people, would you know what? For sure,
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Speaker 1: I've never felt so much better in all of my life,
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Speaker 1: like personal like oh my god, you're a sellout, like
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Speaker 1: amazing job. People are writing our ends about me. I'll say, yo,
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Speaker 1: I must have been really good and you because me
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Speaker 1: and Sound both did django and it Sound was like, man,
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Speaker 1: you want up me on this one man. They hated
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Speaker 1: me and said they're going because I think you saw
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Speaker 1: early uh viewing of it. He said, they don't hate,
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Speaker 1: they don't despise you. And this one, I said, that's
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Speaker 1: what I want. Man again, you love me again. Oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness. I would tell you something, man, if you
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Speaker 1: haven't seen this the movie, uh Holly, when you and
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Speaker 1: even and increased the relationship again in the acting scene
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Speaker 1: with and Aretha. You know genius series with Cynthia who
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Speaker 1: started as was the lead and Harriet and so that's
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Speaker 1: where the great role is about, because we know you,
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Speaker 1: not a in that period. You know you, and you
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Speaker 1: go back there and you accept the role of responsibility.
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Speaker 1: But by the way, ain't nobody gonna hate nobody more
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Speaker 1: than Samy Yale and Janet go unchained that that food.
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Speaker 1: I was telling you something. You know, we were doing
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Speaker 1: the movie when he first comes down the stairs right right,
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Speaker 1: we're all in the line. We're watching them and Sam
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Speaker 1: goes into that character. It's everything inside of me not
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Speaker 1: to laugh because Sam was so on the nose, never
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Speaker 1: said anything like it. I was like, man, he is
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Speaker 1: showing up the scenery. He's ball man, this is in
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Speaker 1: the moment he was in the character. Man, that's he's
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Speaker 1: my favorite act of all time that that that dude
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Speaker 1: right there. He was more white than he was black,
7:53
Speaker 1: but he was more white. He was more of a
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Speaker 1: white player holder than the slave owner. They were like,
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Speaker 1: can you pull up, man, don't treat them. You treat
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Speaker 1: them like this, you treat them. He forgot who he
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Speaker 1: was and that was that I'm telling you, man, that's
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Speaker 1: like when we was shooting out, I was laughing. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to laugh so hard because he was really into
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Speaker 1: that character so deep. Yes, but it was so funny,
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Speaker 1: it was so outrageous. But and it was. But yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: So it's a couple of characters like that, Like I
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Speaker 1: think Mr. And Color Purple is pretty attrocious, sup. But
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Speaker 1: he has a redemption at the end. But you had
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Speaker 1: no regemption. Oh you ain't get no redemption. And Harry,
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Speaker 1: you get no redemption now? And Jano No, the Mr
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Speaker 1: had redemption and Color yes, yes, but that's a beautiful
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Speaker 1: part of you. Like I said, I was reading the
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Speaker 1: credit you know, Selma, Ray Donovanto, which I loved you
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Speaker 1: and Ray Donovan and things like that. Bones all those
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Speaker 1: bodies at work that are available to African American talent.
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Speaker 1: Now that we did I just I could say, man,
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Speaker 1: probably about eight years ago, all we had was reality
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Speaker 1: shows with black people acting in them on scripted shows.
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Speaker 1: When did you start noticing the opportunity was opening for
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Speaker 1: better scripted series like you on right now in Queen's Sugar,
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Speaker 1: which is helmed by Eva douven At, which is a
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Speaker 1: you know, award win in double a cp UH series.
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Speaker 1: When you start seeing roles like that come your way,
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Speaker 1: you went, wow, we started to turn the corner for
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Speaker 1: African American talent. It was a year that it was
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Speaker 1: a year that uh that that that that Jesus Lord,
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Speaker 1: it was a year that that that we came out.
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Speaker 1: Queen Sugar came out. Come, Queen Sugar came out, Atlanta
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Speaker 1: came out the same year Nothing you might have came
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Speaker 1: out the year before. So I saw the turn, and
9:41
Speaker 1: the next year the shot came out. I said, OK, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's what we look like. This is exactly what we
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Speaker 1: looked like in my regular life. It's not. Everybody's not
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Speaker 1: drug there was everybody's our basketball players, everybody's not reality stars. No, no, like,
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Speaker 1: these are regular people living a regular live. That's how
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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of people who I know, not the
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Speaker 1: people who are like zillionaires. But the people, even the
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Speaker 1: people who are famous actors or whatever. Man, we all
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Speaker 1: live the same way that we live on the Shy
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Speaker 1: on Queens, Sugar on Atlanta or Insecure. It's the same thing,
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Speaker 1: and we finally get to receive the reflection. It was
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Speaker 1: those two years, man, it was two thousand fifteen. In
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Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, and I said, it wasn't the renaissance
10:26
Speaker 1: of black television, because renaissance means rebirth. It was the
10:30
Speaker 1: birth of black television. It's not just sit Coomes. It's
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Speaker 1: not just us being silly or just and trust me,
10:36
Speaker 1: by my favorite shows in the world, but the rest
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Speaker 1: of my my whole life have been safer, the Sun
10:40
Speaker 1: and the Jefferson. Absolutely, it's not all just sit Comes.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm funny, but I ain't that funny. I
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Speaker 1: ain't gonna be able to be on nothing as good
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Speaker 1: as like Red Fox or uh Seman Helmsley, you know.
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Speaker 1: But I know that I can act, and I know
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Speaker 1: that I could bring what I can bring to you know,
10:56
Speaker 1: to drama or even to to some drama. Y. So
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Speaker 1: it was It's fifth two thousand fifteen, two thousand sixteen,
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Speaker 1: and I saw The Tired Turn, and I saw other
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Speaker 1: shows coming up behind it. It was great shows, even
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Speaker 1: like a show like This Is Us, which is not
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Speaker 1: particularly a black show, but when you have Sterling and
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Speaker 1: you have Susan, you know, who leads of the show,
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Speaker 1: then there you go, boom this you see a black family,
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Speaker 1: you know, so um yeah, that's where it was, man um.
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Speaker 1: It was that year. I think This Is Us and
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Speaker 1: quin Sula came out the same time after you know me,
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Speaker 1: Starling and Susan are not each other for over twenty years,
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Speaker 1: and and we were all just very excited, like this
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Speaker 1: is a really great opportunity that we really get a
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Speaker 1: chance to show our chops and what we can do
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Speaker 1: and show that we can you know, bring you can
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Speaker 1: have a fan base. So that those were the years.
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Speaker 1: That's when I saw the Tired Turn. And it's never
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Speaker 1: looked back. Man. Now you look, you know, you look
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Speaker 1: at all the so many it's a plethora shows right
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Speaker 1: now that that showed the black life. You look at
11:50
Speaker 1: ABD Elementary here. This is not particularly a black show,
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Speaker 1: but it is a black show, absolutely creative black woman.
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Speaker 1: But it's getting all the love, it's getting all the praise.
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Speaker 1: You know even before then, I think two thousand fourteen
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Speaker 1: or fifteen, when Blackness came out and I was like,
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Speaker 1: you know, this looks like my sam you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, I appreciate that because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that you're talking to Omar Dorsey. If his face looks
12:13
Speaker 1: for your var sounds familiar, Selma when they see us
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Speaker 1: Chain Gonna Chaine where we just laughed about what started
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Speaker 1: Sammy or Jackson and Jamie foxx Ray Donovan Bones Genius
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Speaker 1: sent there. You know she started that movie as well
12:27
Speaker 1: as Harriet, which we just talked about. The Reata Franklin.
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Speaker 1: What you haven't seen that he plays Jane Cleveland role
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Speaker 1: in the in The Genius. Aretha Frankelt was just on
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Speaker 1: that geo. By the way, now you you in this SI,
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Speaker 1: I think I call this a peach yourself serious queen
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Speaker 1: Sugar because when you get this opportunity, you know, because
12:46
Speaker 1: we all know that how these checks come in Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: You you work and then you don't know when you're
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Speaker 1: gonna work again. When you kindly get a series, you
12:54
Speaker 1: can kind of relax, but you only relax to see
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Speaker 1: if they're gonna renew it. Then you can like, oh,
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Speaker 1: okayy reknew the tell us about your role in Queen's
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Speaker 1: Sugar and the difference it makes in your life, both
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Speaker 1: personally and what you're trying to do when you're trying
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Speaker 1: to change the narrative on how blacks have changed or
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Speaker 1: portrayed in television. Do you know it's a beautiful thing. Man.
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Speaker 1: I remember the day that I was doing to move
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Speaker 1: into Bahamas and it was Uh calls me, she says, Oh,
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Speaker 1: my mother do a show called Queen Sugars me. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be on the own network. And you know, I
13:27
Speaker 1: just got fairs working with Oprah on something with Ava
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Speaker 1: And she said, she said, I want you to read
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Speaker 1: the script and you tell what you think about it.
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Speaker 1: I read the script, she said, read it. I wrote
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Speaker 1: the Hollywood. I read it. I was like, oh, this
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Speaker 1: is a beautiful I said, you want me to play
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Speaker 1: this role? I just come down. This is me coming
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Speaker 1: out for Ray Donovan, right, and like, you know Cookie
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Speaker 1: Brown playing one of the coldest dudes on television. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she was like, yeah, oh I want you to play
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Speaker 1: this role. Those a matter of fact, when when Ray
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Speaker 1: Donovan was out, many went out. Uh when out, She's like,
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Speaker 1: I liked right on them and said you're great. After
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Speaker 1: she said, but I see something else for you. She
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Speaker 1: told me that, and I see something else. I don't
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Speaker 1: want you to always have to play you know this
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Speaker 1: that now, I said, Okay, I feel you. I feel you.
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Speaker 1: So maybe three or four months later she hits me
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Speaker 1: with that script and I will said, why this is amazing,
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Speaker 1: this is I love it. So when I issue for it,
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Speaker 1: said Bisi, no, no, no, no, no, no, this wow,
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Speaker 1: she said, she said, I'm producing the way ever we will.
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Speaker 1: I'm producing wa Oprah, we love you so well, call
14:27
Speaker 1: your lawyers and do the deal. And it's already a
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Speaker 1: put series, which mean it's already picked up for thirteen episodes.
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Speaker 1: So I worked from like job to job to like, wait,
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Speaker 1: thirteen episode? Whoa as a series? Right? My whole life
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Speaker 1: changed in that conversation, you know, and it truly did.
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Speaker 1: And and that's just the monetary thing. Playing Hollywood, playing
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Speaker 1: Hollyan's worth days name Hollywood has changed my life. So
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Speaker 1: I just changed my life as a man because I'm
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Speaker 1: saying these words to this woman every day, and I'm
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Speaker 1: saying At first, I was like, man, it's corny. Nobody
15:08
Speaker 1: thinks like this, somebody talks about this, I'll play it.
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Speaker 1: But then then the character starts to seep inside of me.
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Speaker 1: And I found myself, uh being more like Hollywood on
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Speaker 1: a daily basis, because I was like, this is how
15:23
Speaker 1: a man you treat this woman. This is how a
15:25
Speaker 1: man should be in the community, This is how a
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Speaker 1: Manson treat his whole family. So I feel like playing
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Speaker 1: that role has changed me that much and a change
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Speaker 1: of perception on the type of actor I am I
15:36
Speaker 1: see now, man, Like it's crazy, like the roles that
15:39
Speaker 1: I get now what you know we're talking about, going
15:41
Speaker 1: from playing Thug number one to playing the Sheriff and
15:48
Speaker 1: Halloween franchise, which is you know, also came from my
15:51
Speaker 1: buddies who did that He's Bound to Down series I
15:53
Speaker 1: used to be on. But like a lot of the
15:57
Speaker 1: stuff I get now, man, a lot most of the
15:59
Speaker 1: things that I get now are these upstanding, you know,
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Speaker 1: really great men. And I really appreciate that because and
16:07
Speaker 1: I know that it came from Queen Sugar. I know that.
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Speaker 1: But I finished on a movie called water Boys and
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Speaker 1: playing with the young the young fellow who's on day
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Speaker 1: that makes man um and I played his mentor. He
16:20
Speaker 1: knows a lot of streets stuff involved in it. But
16:22
Speaker 1: I played his mentor, who owns the who owns the
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Speaker 1: I T Company and own such a copy shop and
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Speaker 1: all of this type of stuff, and I hired him.
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Speaker 1: But I'm like the voice of reason throughout the movie.
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Speaker 1: And it's like, these are the roles that weren't really
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Speaker 1: offered to me before a Queen Sugar. So even like
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Speaker 1: even with that man, it's just such a blessing. And
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Speaker 1: even the stuff I get because I don't have audition
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Speaker 1: a lot anymore, I just get these offers for these
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Speaker 1: amazing roles. Now, congratulations, it all comes from you know,
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Speaker 1: seven eight years ago when when when Abel calls me
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and fifteen, you know, Um asked me
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Speaker 1: to read the script. So yeah, we'll be right back
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Speaker 1: with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: Im teous. I'm talking to Dorsey, a classically trained and
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Speaker 1: double a CP Award winning actor based in the Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: Georgia area called the Kata. During this thing down here,
17:27
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna transition a little bit, because I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure you are sports enthusiast. You know. Okay, you
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Speaker 1: got that? Okay? Cool? So so a real bull dog fan? Yes, okay, cool?
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Speaker 1: So so they're gonna win it again, sir, Yes, okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: Five people dropped into the first round defense last year. Here,
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Speaker 1: hey man, the boys right behind them, and ain't no
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Speaker 1: all Americans who not with money. We'll be good over
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Speaker 1: here now. You know, well, I bring it up the
18:22
Speaker 1: old man playing quarterback right absolutely now. When I when
18:26
Speaker 1: I look into your your brand, because I'm about to
18:28
Speaker 1: transition to Hollywood, Halloween, you know a series. You know.
18:32
Speaker 1: That's why I love about your career, man, because of
18:34
Speaker 1: the fact that hard work, consistency. You made a decision
18:37
Speaker 1: to say I don't want to do this. A lot
18:39
Speaker 1: of people look at you, go, hey man, you don't
18:42
Speaker 1: want to work anymore in Hollywood. Just what they're seeing
18:44
Speaker 1: you said, that's not what I see in myself. And
18:46
Speaker 1: then you working in an iconic horror series called Halloween
18:51
Speaker 1: and you play a character that's a dignified character, not
18:55
Speaker 1: a thug. You know, you you on the other side
18:57
Speaker 1: of the thug the police, you just share and you're
19:01
Speaker 1: working with the infamous Jamie Lee Curtis. That's my sister
19:06
Speaker 1: Lee Family Curtis talk so much smack uh. You wouldn't
19:11
Speaker 1: even understand this woman would talk. She talks so much trash.
19:15
Speaker 1: I love her so much, and she is so funny.
19:17
Speaker 1: She's so she's just a throwback to those women of
19:21
Speaker 1: the seventies. And then you know she's like one of
19:23
Speaker 1: those actresses. Man, but she can she's still like she's
19:26
Speaker 1: still ripped up in amazing shape. Man. She I love
19:29
Speaker 1: Jamie Lee with all my art. Man, I love her.
19:32
Speaker 1: Because we didn't have any scenes in the first one,
19:34
Speaker 1: so we kind of the second one. She was like, Omar,
19:36
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to talk to you, but
19:38
Speaker 1: I absolutely love your your acting. I love everything that
19:41
Speaker 1: you do. I love what you did in the Holloway.
19:43
Speaker 1: I was like, man, that's crazy that I appreciate it.
19:45
Speaker 1: We only had one one or two scenes in the
19:47
Speaker 1: first one. So she saw the thing put together, she
19:50
Speaker 1: was just so excited. She loves it, man, And you
19:52
Speaker 1: know that we have a great time. I love Jamie
19:54
Speaker 1: Lee with all my heart. Well you know that that
19:57
Speaker 1: Bloomhouse resurrected the brain, you know, and I can't wait
20:01
Speaker 1: to the areas again this fall October fourteen when his
20:04
Speaker 1: theaters again. Now, then you go over to power book
20:08
Speaker 1: and like I said, and let's let's talk about that
20:10
Speaker 1: a minute, because, like you said, Rishan, now that I'm
20:12
Speaker 1: getting a diversity in my roles, I don't mind doing it.
20:16
Speaker 1: It's just part of your portfolio or not. It's part
20:18
Speaker 1: of your catchet. Now, so explain everybody what exactly what
20:21
Speaker 1: you mean what it is is this like okay, so
20:24
Speaker 1: I played I play uh Cardier for ree Car Cardier
20:29
Speaker 1: does free Um, and you don't know, he's a very
20:33
Speaker 1: mysterious character. Um. You know, we only only episode three
20:36
Speaker 1: right now, so he's just just getting a little drops
20:39
Speaker 1: of what he's doing. But episode four it's gonna go
20:42
Speaker 1: is what it goes on with u? Um. You know,
20:44
Speaker 1: you have to start to see a little bit of
20:46
Speaker 1: what he is and who he like, like how he
20:48
Speaker 1: moves around and he's in the music business, but he's
20:52
Speaker 1: also in the art world. He's in some other things too.
20:56
Speaker 1: But you don't even know that. You really wouldn't even
20:58
Speaker 1: understand all, you know, And it's like he's a a
21:00
Speaker 1: serious character, who's um you know, Uh, he's a man
21:04
Speaker 1: of mystery. That's all I'll say is the most impeccable suits.
21:10
Speaker 1: And I took you the last episode of Just stand
21:12
Speaker 1: Out yesterday. I was speaking, I was speaking that speech
21:16
Speaker 1: I was. I was talking to the lead, the character
21:19
Speaker 1: Rock played by Petina Miller, was a was spitting game
21:22
Speaker 1: out of but I was spitting game using Shakespeare. Why
21:27
Speaker 1: so you you know I get a chance to use
21:28
Speaker 1: some of that. And I was dropping on him and
21:30
Speaker 1: it was like, whoa, this is something different. I've never
21:33
Speaker 1: got the chance to say Shakespeare on the camera before.
21:35
Speaker 1: I've better gonna on theater. But I was like, Wow,
21:37
Speaker 1: this is this is fun. I love it. I love it.
21:39
Speaker 1: I was speaking to all my dorsey, uh, just about
21:42
Speaker 1: his career, A brilliant career and his only growing But
21:45
Speaker 1: currently it's the last season. Sadly, as we say, Queen
21:48
Speaker 1: Sugar on their own network, a project brought to him
21:51
Speaker 1: by Eva duven At has turned into an n double
21:54
Speaker 1: a TV award winning show and it's part of your legacy.
21:57
Speaker 1: Now as we wrapp for this interview, and you've in
22:00
Speaker 1: a part a guy who, like I said, I pointed
22:02
Speaker 1: out something in two thousand and six just to let
22:04
Speaker 1: you know your body at work high and shifted out
22:06
Speaker 1: and how I look at so diverse. So you know
22:10
Speaker 1: you could be hated and Harriet and be loved in
22:13
Speaker 1: Queens Sugar and then mysterious and raising Canaan. So that's
22:18
Speaker 1: where you're add in your life, my friend, and then
22:20
Speaker 1: you can be right there the shaff Barker in Hollywood.
22:24
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful resonate, Ma, man, any of important thoughts, man,
22:28
Speaker 1: you know, I just appreciate you, man, um. But yeah,
22:31
Speaker 1: this is what it is man Like, Like you said,
22:33
Speaker 1: you have to really believe in yourself, you know, um.
22:36
Speaker 1: But before any before anybody can believe in you, gotta
22:39
Speaker 1: believe that the skills that you have, that the work
22:42
Speaker 1: that you put in like that that will translate whenever
22:47
Speaker 1: and whatever career path you choose, what however you want
22:51
Speaker 1: to do it, if you're into politics or if you're
22:53
Speaker 1: into uh, the arts, if you're in the sports, or
22:57
Speaker 1: if you're into education, if you have done or due diligence,
23:01
Speaker 1: and then one day the light will shine on you
23:04
Speaker 1: and you'll be ready to be ready for your clothes up. Cool.
23:07
Speaker 1: Thank you, my brother. I appreciate you taking the time
23:09
Speaker 1: to come on there and talk about the last season
23:12
Speaker 1: of Queen Sugar Again. We'll be watching a game we're
23:15
Speaker 1: watching on the small screen, be watching a big thing.
23:17
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23:20
Speaker 1: Appreciate we talked to my friend. Stay sav a brother.
23:25
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23:49
Speaker 1: She explains how important it is to support our communities first,
23:53
Speaker 1: you know, I'm learning this thing like you were saying earlier,
23:56
Speaker 1: and to just be honest with people, and you know,
24:00
Speaker 1: you know, we do it for other genres or other
24:02
Speaker 1: people that are not from our community. I just want
24:05
Speaker 1: us to learn to support one another and we all
24:08
Speaker 1: can grow and we all can be me and Dan
24:11
Speaker 1: or whatever we want to be in if we support
24:13
Speaker 1: our own as black people. Guys, we don't really need nobody,
24:16
Speaker 1: That's true. We could do it all of ourselves, you know,
24:20
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24:22
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Speaker 1: next causse is Dr Cedric McFadden is a popular TV
24:40
Speaker 1: medical contributor for Black Health is Black Health adket and
24:44
Speaker 1: Assistant Professor of Surgery. Dr McFadden graduated with honors something
24:48
Speaker 1: that I did from Xavier University of Louisiana and New
24:52
Speaker 1: Orleans down in that good food country and they and
24:56
Speaker 1: learned his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine
24:59
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia another great eating place as well. And man
25:03
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25:05
Speaker 1: Carolina today we'll be talking to about vaccines, variants, masking, reinfections, antibodies,
25:12
Speaker 1: and coping with the loss of the coping with loss
25:15
Speaker 1: and isolation. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Master Class,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Centric McFadden. How are you doing, sir, Thank you
25:22
Speaker 1: so much for having me. I'm honored to be one
25:24
Speaker 1: of your guests. Well, thank you, because I when I
25:27
Speaker 1: look at my medical history, sir, you know, um in
25:30
Speaker 1: the eighteen you know, I always thought I was a
25:32
Speaker 1: guy who could like um hell himself. You know, if
25:36
Speaker 1: I if I got a cold, I just go outside
25:38
Speaker 1: and play basketball and just swing it out of me.
25:40
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And then then in the
25:42
Speaker 1: eighteen and my lung collapse and I stayed in hospital
25:45
Speaker 1: for thirty days. So that was the first, uh touch
25:48
Speaker 1: of immortality I couldn't live for tapped into my life
25:52
Speaker 1: because I checked out of the hospital about three times,
25:54
Speaker 1: and every time they said, we got to bring it back.
25:56
Speaker 1: We don't know what's wrong with you. And then in
26:00
Speaker 1: mean I I was diagnosed with cancer. And you know yourself, doctor,
26:05
Speaker 1: when you tell us about it that they have cancer,
26:10
Speaker 1: their life and my life did flash, you know, and
26:12
Speaker 1: it was it was a sudden sense of reality. They
26:15
Speaker 1: didn't even told me anything anybody was it was curable.
26:18
Speaker 1: They just all I heard was cancer, and it was
26:20
Speaker 1: tied to me and my body, and uh it was
26:23
Speaker 1: turned out to be thyroid cancer. And there was another
26:25
Speaker 1: surgical scar that was around my neck and they removed
26:29
Speaker 1: that and uh, birth the cancer out of me, you know,
26:33
Speaker 1: And I'm still every year I go through checks. And
26:35
Speaker 1: then recently I had a sweat gland tumor that we're
26:38
Speaker 1: moving the back of my head and so I got
26:41
Speaker 1: a scar here, scar here, scar on my back. Now
26:45
Speaker 1: these are visual physical scars. The pandemic a lot of
26:49
Speaker 1: left a lot of emotional scars tied to isolation. And
26:52
Speaker 1: talked to us about that. But you're absolutely right. I
26:56
Speaker 1: think one of the scars and the challenges that people
27:00
Speaker 1: arents after COVID, even during the pandemic, was sort of
27:04
Speaker 1: that feeling of being alone, whether that be you're stuck
27:06
Speaker 1: in the house, can't go out to work, or not
27:09
Speaker 1: interacting with your normal social circle. That's hard a lot
27:12
Speaker 1: of people. And it's it's hard because we're used to
27:15
Speaker 1: having time together with our family. We're used to having
27:18
Speaker 1: family unions, having dinners at church and we stopped all
27:22
Speaker 1: of it, and that creates, you know, a scar you
27:27
Speaker 1: talk about, you know what creates the scar. Initially, it's
27:30
Speaker 1: it's the trauma. It's the it's the injury to this
27:33
Speaker 1: tissue to the cells that then needs to as it healed,
27:38
Speaker 1: a residual presence. And often we're seeing even now that
27:42
Speaker 1: we're you know, getting to a different phase of the pandemic,
27:46
Speaker 1: you might say, uh, there's residual there's residual anxiety, whether
27:51
Speaker 1: it be just entering back into normal life there ever,
27:56
Speaker 1: it will be such a thing. Um, but often we're
27:59
Speaker 1: still finding challenges with you know, how our churches can
28:03
Speaker 1: come back together again, that's scar, right, How our students
28:07
Speaker 1: can come back together and play football, that's a scar.
28:10
Speaker 1: And how we make our lives continue despite the scars
28:14
Speaker 1: so still real, you know, a present effect with this
28:19
Speaker 1: all that we're gonna have to to continue to work through
28:21
Speaker 1: and follow kind of our science and making sure we're
28:25
Speaker 1: thinking of ourselves at the same time. You know, when
28:27
Speaker 1: you talk about being a black health advocate, you know,
28:30
Speaker 1: you know, we know black people when notorious bad eaters,
28:35
Speaker 1: fried food is our friend. You know, Uh, the high
28:40
Speaker 1: cholesterol is the silent killer in the black community. And uh,
28:44
Speaker 1: but now we're talking about mental health too, which falls
28:47
Speaker 1: into your genre. We could have to deal with that,
28:49
Speaker 1: and black people are starting their mit they have mental
28:52
Speaker 1: issues that need to be handled. Why do you think
28:57
Speaker 1: that finally, black poor say we have problems and we
29:02
Speaker 1: need to discuss them openly. I think we've we've come
29:06
Speaker 1: to a place where we recognize that you can't ignore it.
29:10
Speaker 1: I mean two thousand and twenty was a tough year
29:14
Speaker 1: and we it was reminiscent of what we saw, you know,
29:18
Speaker 1: from videos from the sixties sort of civil rights, where
29:21
Speaker 1: you can't ignore in your face, uh, you know, graphic
29:27
Speaker 1: images of what's happening in front of us. And I
29:31
Speaker 1: think we got to a collective place, not only blacks,
29:34
Speaker 1: but all of them are that you know, we were
29:37
Speaker 1: having to do with the trauma of it all. I
29:41
Speaker 1: think we also understood more that we've had people who
29:46
Speaker 1: look like myself. We've been able to talk with uh
29:50
Speaker 1: media and talk with churches and schools and to open
29:54
Speaker 1: the door for the conversation about mental health, especially in person,
29:59
Speaker 1: to call it black and having you know, celebrities and
30:02
Speaker 1: having people come forth talking about their troubles and having pastors,
30:07
Speaker 1: we opened about their troubles. We've understood that we all experience,
30:12
Speaker 1: all have challenges when it comes down from mental health.
30:15
Speaker 1: We all have to find resolution and active process to
30:19
Speaker 1: help us move beyond it. Um, it's a welcome sight. Um.
30:23
Speaker 1: You can't continue to push towards greatness if you're often
30:29
Speaker 1: mentally pushing back years of stress and abuse and challenges.
30:34
Speaker 1: And so it's gonna help us become stronger. It's gonna
30:36
Speaker 1: help us become better when we do push for it
30:39
Speaker 1: and mush beyond that. Dr bad And you know, here's
30:42
Speaker 1: the thing, you know, the health contributor and everything tends
30:47
Speaker 1: to come back at your dorstam Okay, And we are
30:50
Speaker 1: the African American and the Brown community. We are a
30:52
Speaker 1: community of denying yours. You know, we deny the gay community.
30:57
Speaker 1: Guess what we lead in aide infection, We deny our
31:03
Speaker 1: health habits, we lead in COVID deaths. You know what
31:07
Speaker 1: I'm saying? We didn't. We know, we deny that we
31:10
Speaker 1: need mental health, We lead in stress related illnesses, denied,
31:16
Speaker 1: denied that that, how can we stop denying? And then
31:21
Speaker 1: which in turn will cause us to live a healthier
31:24
Speaker 1: life starting with the gay community. Yeah, I mean it
31:30
Speaker 1: starts by first, um acknowledging, acknowledging that there are problems.
31:38
Speaker 1: Even though you see these problems, if you don't acknowledge
31:41
Speaker 1: that exists, you'll never accept and then work towards activating
31:45
Speaker 1: a solution for that problem. So we have to first
31:49
Speaker 1: acknowledge and then we have to entrusts the two part.
31:52
Speaker 1: Then um, you know churches say all the time just
31:54
Speaker 1: to acknowledge and then move beyond it. We have to
31:58
Speaker 1: acknowledge the fact it we do have eating half sess
32:02
Speaker 1: you mentioned that mark helpful. We often acknowledge that we
32:05
Speaker 1: have certain behaviors, whether it be substance abuse, alcohol to
32:09
Speaker 1: back of that are killing this. We have to acknowledge
32:13
Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, we've had challenges in getting
32:17
Speaker 1: you know, the healthcare that we need over the years
32:20
Speaker 1: because the systemic racism and the burden is not placed
32:23
Speaker 1: solely on African Americans. As a medical profession, we have
32:27
Speaker 1: to acknowledge the years of systemic racism that has helped
32:32
Speaker 1: um kind of continue some of those cycles of disparity, right,
32:35
Speaker 1: and so we all have our work to do, but
32:38
Speaker 1: we also have to take the ownership and move forward
32:40
Speaker 1: with our own progress. Well, you know, they thank you
32:44
Speaker 1: for the response, and I guess and upset to me
32:47
Speaker 1: because of the fact that we are such a proud
32:51
Speaker 1: race and when I when I see us leading in
32:55
Speaker 1: negative stats, when I see us leading in age debts,
33:00
Speaker 1: and then you know, it just only makes us overall
33:02
Speaker 1: as a race, look look look inefficient, look defective. In
33:07
Speaker 1: other way, when we used when you know, I don't
33:09
Speaker 1: want COVID, when they started listening COVID debts and early
33:12
Speaker 1: on it was like we out to tend people who
33:15
Speaker 1: are dying with black or some states some cities was
33:17
Speaker 1: six out of ten that that was. That's a statue
33:20
Speaker 1: you want to lead in. But they all go back
33:23
Speaker 1: to that our eating habits and how we live our
33:26
Speaker 1: lives daily are also the communities that we also live in. Correct, Well,
33:31
Speaker 1: it's it's a combination of things. It's it's certainly you
33:34
Speaker 1: know your your bodies ability to handle an infection like COVID,
33:41
Speaker 1: you have to be held right, I mean, so the
33:43
Speaker 1: already OBEs you have comobilities as certainly gonna make it
33:46
Speaker 1: harder for you to fight something like But as we
33:51
Speaker 1: see with it's now COVID and see what cancers procects.
33:54
Speaker 1: It's colorrectal cancer, heart disease. We see a pattern that
33:59
Speaker 1: exists where there is disparity in outcomes, where blacks are
34:03
Speaker 1: more likely to die from many of these illnesses compared
34:08
Speaker 1: to the white counterparts. Not all of that is genetics
34:11
Speaker 1: and all of that is eating well. Some of it's
34:13
Speaker 1: just disparity that's caused from sort of social determinants of
34:17
Speaker 1: how well we have access to care, not only care,
34:21
Speaker 1: but awten we have access to good medical care. So
34:24
Speaker 1: it's a combination of a lot of these other factors.
34:27
Speaker 1: It's not exactly that we're just eating poorly. It's not
34:31
Speaker 1: exactly that made bad choices. It's the collective of all
34:34
Speaker 1: of those things that creates the narrative that you displays
34:39
Speaker 1: the disparity and health and outcomes. Now, let's you know
34:43
Speaker 1: the thing about media. Media doesn't help you know when
34:48
Speaker 1: because now if you think about it, like for instance,
34:51
Speaker 1: recently President Biden, he had COVID and I think his
34:55
Speaker 1: wife has COVID as well, because he had double positi
35:00
Speaker 1: of the tests and now he's out. But now if
35:03
Speaker 1: you if you listen to the media, nobody's dying from
35:05
Speaker 1: COVID and we know that's not true, but when it was,
35:09
Speaker 1: when it was media savvy to lead with that story,
35:12
Speaker 1: it was all over the news. How do you think
35:15
Speaker 1: the role of how the COVID situation, especially when it
35:19
Speaker 1: comes to death, should be communicated and there should just
35:22
Speaker 1: stay at the top of the storage and hey or
35:24
Speaker 1: or it doesn't matter because it's all about TV raidings. Well, yeah,
35:28
Speaker 1: that's a that's a very difficult question to answer because
35:33
Speaker 1: there are several ways of that, right. I mean, there's
35:36
Speaker 1: the present news of what's happened that day that takes
35:40
Speaker 1: presidents often over what's happened two, three or four months ago.
35:44
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a similar effective when you're celebrating Breast
35:48
Speaker 1: Cancer Weariness Month. It doesn't mean that people are dying
35:51
Speaker 1: from in a light to it at this point, but
35:55
Speaker 1: there's this undercurrent of of a a story that's always
35:59
Speaker 1: president um and I think that's where we in the
36:02
Speaker 1: community have to do our part. Listen, It's like when
36:05
Speaker 1: you go to church, you know say that. It's like
36:08
Speaker 1: or if you go to school wherever the lessons have
36:11
Speaker 1: been taught, that's not where the real work is done.
36:14
Speaker 1: The real work is done on a daily basis. It's
36:16
Speaker 1: a minute. I meant, it's what we do in our communities,
36:19
Speaker 1: it's what we do in our homes, it's what we
36:22
Speaker 1: do in our cases of work. And so we can
36:24
Speaker 1: certainly take the lead from what we see in media
36:28
Speaker 1: as sort of the highlight of what's happening. But there's
36:30
Speaker 1: real work that's happened every day across this country, every hospital,
36:35
Speaker 1: every doctor's office, every home where. What we know is
36:38
Speaker 1: happening needs to be a dealt with addressed term of
36:41
Speaker 1: the doctor, says With McFadden, popular TV medical contributor, Black
36:45
Speaker 1: health advocate and Assistant Professor of surgery. Um So I
36:50
Speaker 1: can assume based on the response not saying it directly
36:52
Speaker 1: from you or how America's hamlet that we know people
36:55
Speaker 1: die from the flu. You know it's not being reported,
36:59
Speaker 1: So the same thing is happening basically COVID. People are
37:02
Speaker 1: out there dying of COVID. It's just not been reported,
37:05
Speaker 1: but they I am a person who's double VACS. I'm
37:09
Speaker 1: a person who wears his mask, especially on the plane. Sir,
37:12
Speaker 1: I will have my mask on, but I go through
37:15
Speaker 1: the airport, I'll be I'll be flying to bar. It
37:17
Speaker 1: will be people walking around like, WHOA, Okay, I don't
37:22
Speaker 1: know none of y'all. People, I don't know where you
37:23
Speaker 1: come from. Okay, y'all just breathe that I've got my
37:26
Speaker 1: mask on. What are your thoughts when you see that?
37:29
Speaker 1: Am I being overly health conscious? Or am I doing
37:33
Speaker 1: the right thing based on how I should treat my
37:37
Speaker 1: mental health and my body? Well, you know, we all
37:41
Speaker 1: have been the right You're you're in the store, You're
37:44
Speaker 1: you're wearing a mask. Other folks aren't wearing the mask. Um.
37:48
Speaker 1: I do think it's the responsibility of us to take
37:52
Speaker 1: care of knowing ourselves for the people that are around us,
37:56
Speaker 1: and told folks, folks that that means where the mask
37:59
Speaker 1: means wearing a mask, um, even if it's in the airport,
38:02
Speaker 1: even if it's in churches or schools. I do think
38:06
Speaker 1: that as we have seen more people like yourself getting
38:10
Speaker 1: double lacks, getting your boosters and following up on symptoms
38:14
Speaker 1: and doing our responsibility, it doesn't make us fell like, Okay,
38:18
Speaker 1: we're in the safer spot. Uh. And in some ways
38:21
Speaker 1: there's some truth to that, but we still have a
38:23
Speaker 1: responsibility in places where we don't know the the health
38:28
Speaker 1: of the people that were around. You know, we're in
38:30
Speaker 1: these large public settings. It's a different group than if
38:33
Speaker 1: we're in sort of the confines of our home or employment,
38:37
Speaker 1: where we know the people that were around. So I
38:39
Speaker 1: don't think that you're being unreasonable, and I don't think
38:42
Speaker 1: you should completely out of place, because again you're doing
38:45
Speaker 1: what is right, especially making sure we take care of
38:48
Speaker 1: your own health and think here of the people that
38:50
Speaker 1: are around you as well. Yeah, you know, it's really interesting.
38:53
Speaker 1: You know, um, the medical community is will never be
38:58
Speaker 1: the same since COVID because you know, because now you know,
39:02
Speaker 1: you zoom my doctor said that we don't have to
39:04
Speaker 1: meet we can meet the a zoom. Okay, all right.
39:08
Speaker 1: You know before that there have been blasts form me
39:11
Speaker 1: that have been you don't do medicals, you don't do
39:14
Speaker 1: medical care like that. That's horrific. But now the rules
39:18
Speaker 1: have changed, doctor talk to me. Yeah, they have traded
39:22
Speaker 1: for even in our own practice. I mean I've always
39:26
Speaker 1: you know, we've we've we've talked in the past before
39:29
Speaker 1: COVID about the availability of doing tellent medicine and as
39:33
Speaker 1: a as as a surgeon, I think there's no way
39:36
Speaker 1: that a surgeon can do a visit that way, and
39:38
Speaker 1: we know that's not the case. Now there's certain visits
39:41
Speaker 1: you can't do, but there are definitely some conversations that
39:44
Speaker 1: we can't have through this medium. And I think it's
39:47
Speaker 1: like using the tools that we have to our advantage
39:50
Speaker 1: and then coming back to see how can we continue
39:52
Speaker 1: to use these tools to maximize the patient care and
39:55
Speaker 1: to maximize and builability of people to come see us
39:59
Speaker 1: and to get the care they even if they can't
40:01
Speaker 1: physically come see it. So I think it's still gonna
40:03
Speaker 1: be a part of what we do. To what degree
40:06
Speaker 1: that's gonna be left to see, But you know, I've
40:07
Speaker 1: also welcomed it and I enjoyed having this conversation over
40:12
Speaker 1: a virtual care over the virtual platform with my patients.
40:16
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
40:19
Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations
40:27
Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You know, and I know what
40:32
Speaker 1: it's not going anywhere, but this is where my takeaway
40:34
Speaker 1: because you know, as you get older, you get more
40:37
Speaker 1: and more care and you care more about living longer
40:39
Speaker 1: as you get older. Young people would listening to this
40:42
Speaker 1: podcast or this radio show. You'll you'll find that earlier
40:45
Speaker 1: life you don't care as you get older, you're trying
40:47
Speaker 1: to extend the years because because you can. You know,
40:50
Speaker 1: like I said, you know when you when you're eighteen,
40:51
Speaker 1: you said that we're fifted. Oh that's a long way away.
40:55
Speaker 1: But when you're saying and farty, get right around the corner.
40:59
Speaker 1: And and so the thing that just tell you to
41:02
Speaker 1: share a story with you like when I when I
41:05
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with thyrod cancer um I I every year
41:09
Speaker 1: I was a doctor at Emory, and I saying nothing
41:12
Speaker 1: negative about emery, but he missed it, and and and
41:17
Speaker 1: and then I when I go to my annual dental
41:19
Speaker 1: appointment and they missed it. And the person who found
41:22
Speaker 1: it was a person who's doing my blood test. They
41:25
Speaker 1: just asked me to to to touch feel around my
41:29
Speaker 1: neck and he said, can we do a biopsy? And
41:32
Speaker 1: biopsy came back cancerous. And so what I was my
41:36
Speaker 1: takeaway from the reason those two other people missed it
41:40
Speaker 1: was that I was casual in my conversation. You know,
41:43
Speaker 1: you know when you meet people, you know them, they
41:46
Speaker 1: ask you questions, you go and you were a stranger
41:50
Speaker 1: that's that's who she was, and I didn't know who
41:52
Speaker 1: she was. She started to ask me probably the same question.
41:55
Speaker 1: I just spoke differently. Wasn't laughing around? Wasn't joking around
41:59
Speaker 1: by having a great day? Are thinking about leaving as
42:02
Speaker 1: soon as them? And what I've learned in the zoom calls,
42:06
Speaker 1: and this is anybody who's talking to a medical professional,
42:09
Speaker 1: slow down, don't zoom. Don't do the zoom call because
42:13
Speaker 1: you want to get it out of the way. Don't
42:15
Speaker 1: do the zoom call because you're in a hurry. Listen
42:18
Speaker 1: to what the doctor is saying, because that disconnects can
42:22
Speaker 1: be dangerous because you haven't made an effort to make
42:26
Speaker 1: that happen. It's just turned on the switch WI Fi.
42:29
Speaker 1: You there, am I right, It's it's still a real
42:32
Speaker 1: medical because it's still time to hear about the problems
42:37
Speaker 1: you're having and also to hear about potential solutions to
42:41
Speaker 1: those problems. UM. I think a quick note to make
42:44
Speaker 1: sure that you do that is before you get on
42:46
Speaker 1: the call, right down the things that are that are
42:49
Speaker 1: on your mind. Right down some key questions, because you
42:53
Speaker 1: can sometimes forget the things that you want to say
42:56
Speaker 1: if you don't have them read, especially in front of
42:58
Speaker 1: a doctor or someone that you're gonna be kind of
43:01
Speaker 1: going through it really quickly, having a piece of paper
43:04
Speaker 1: and have those key concerns that you have. So Kennie
43:07
Speaker 1: even shot down notes during that busines as well. Now
43:11
Speaker 1: when you had when I had the title of Dr
43:12
Speaker 1: McFadden Black health Advocate, you know you've you've heard me.
43:17
Speaker 1: I I don't know if I have a health issue
43:19
Speaker 1: other than life. You live alone. Life, things are gonna happen.
43:22
Speaker 1: You know. I'm not a drinker of alcohol, don't smoke,
43:25
Speaker 1: so these are just things that just happened in my
43:28
Speaker 1: life part of my metabolism. When you say black health advocate,
43:32
Speaker 1: Dr macfadden, what does that mean for me? I immediately
43:37
Speaker 1: think about everyone in my family and specifically my my
43:41
Speaker 1: grandmother UM that had health problems that would go to
43:46
Speaker 1: the doctor UM and often she leaves the doctor. I
43:51
Speaker 1: don't really think understanding exactly what was related, and not
43:56
Speaker 1: having um immediate person or even her own ability to
44:03
Speaker 1: advocate questions. Second guests come back around UH to clarify
44:10
Speaker 1: UM information that's been presented. So when I say black
44:14
Speaker 1: health advocate, I'm primarily referring to someone who's gonna speak up,
44:20
Speaker 1: ask the questions, ask the questions again, ask them in
44:24
Speaker 1: a different way, and not necessarily saying we're driving for
44:27
Speaker 1: a certain answer, but we're providing clearing what clarities because
44:32
Speaker 1: we need decisions to be made in space. That's that's um,
44:36
Speaker 1: it's fully comprehended. You know, you don't want to make
44:39
Speaker 1: a decision that's uneven, and so you make that decision
44:43
Speaker 1: based on fully understanding. And that's what I like for
44:46
Speaker 1: people to do, is to understand the health problems that
44:50
Speaker 1: they face so they can make better decisions about the
44:53
Speaker 1: cure that they need to receive. Cool. Now you would
44:56
Speaker 1: just go down in Louisiana school CA. I did come
45:00
Speaker 1: on that. I did a great time. Come on that time.
45:03
Speaker 1: I would saying I born in Houston, Texas. Okay, I
45:06
Speaker 1: t my boys my best man in the way I
45:10
Speaker 1: need from New Orleans with the high school SAT. So
45:13
Speaker 1: I've been down New Orleans a lot. Tell us about
45:15
Speaker 1: your college life, man, because I'm here was a lot
45:17
Speaker 1: of fun but also tied to great education and black excellence.
45:20
Speaker 1: Talk to us. It did, and I'm just honored to
45:24
Speaker 1: have that experience of being out of HBCU like Saving University.
45:28
Speaker 1: You know, I initially planned to attend at different university
45:32
Speaker 1: UM that was not at HBCU, And towards the middle
45:37
Speaker 1: of my senior high school imports teachers. I had a
45:40
Speaker 1: teacher that reached out and said, you should check out
45:42
Speaker 1: the school about called Saving UM. I had never been
45:45
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. I knew nothing about it, but the presentation,
45:49
Speaker 1: at least from the news report was about their history
45:53
Speaker 1: and helping black skin to medical school. Hearing them he
45:57
Speaker 1: has been a leader for years, for decades and preparing
46:00
Speaker 1: African American students into medical school. And I knew then
46:04
Speaker 1: I wanted to become a doctor. And so that's kind
46:06
Speaker 1: of what let me even get to Save here. And
46:08
Speaker 1: I fully took advantage of all the things that Savior
46:11
Speaker 1: from the premedi society, the student government, she dealing with,
46:15
Speaker 1: different activities in my campus. It was really a great
46:17
Speaker 1: time to explore more about, you know, culture in New
46:22
Speaker 1: Orleans UM. And I was grateful to have the experience
46:25
Speaker 1: of being out of church in the Lower ninth Ward
46:29
Speaker 1: and and and had a chance to interact very very
46:32
Speaker 1: closely with members of the community and to learn about
46:36
Speaker 1: their experiences and people to give back to them. So
46:39
Speaker 1: I it was. It was one of the most you know, fabius,
46:42
Speaker 1: four years of my life and I wouldn't treat for
46:45
Speaker 1: anything in the world. Wow, you know I I look
46:48
Speaker 1: at it, I say black excellence. When I talked about HBCUs,
46:51
Speaker 1: I didn't attend an HPCU. I'm my advocate of hpc US,
46:54
Speaker 1: my company, and my brand and my brand association. In fact,
46:58
Speaker 1: one of my nieces she should going down to proving
47:00
Speaker 1: your inn them. I'm very proud of her. Uh this
47:03
Speaker 1: fall should be enrolling into an HBCU. But when you
47:06
Speaker 1: look at the like you just said, people don't know.
47:11
Speaker 1: What you don't know can hurt you and the success
47:15
Speaker 1: and the academic success, especially of HBCUs. If you had
47:19
Speaker 1: somebody listening to this, who's listening to the show, who
47:21
Speaker 1: don't know what tiny secret or what secret or brand
47:25
Speaker 1: awareness that you'd like to bring to the table that
47:27
Speaker 1: people should know about HBCUs, especially the one you attended. Yeah,
47:32
Speaker 1: it is a is a hotbed of just excellence, you know,
47:36
Speaker 1: from people around the country, around the world who recognized
47:39
Speaker 1: that and come together space going through sort of premed
47:45
Speaker 1: trying it was. It was nothing uncommon for us to
47:49
Speaker 1: always studying together in the library setting, and you have
47:54
Speaker 1: people who've been through the classes before who reached back
47:58
Speaker 1: out and kind of help you get through with what
48:00
Speaker 1: you're getting through. Um, it was just nothing like UM
48:03
Speaker 1: I grew up in the day watching a different world,
48:06
Speaker 1: And while we didn't have a Wayne or Willy Gilbert,
48:10
Speaker 1: it was very similar that sort of communal, that sort
48:13
Speaker 1: of camaraderie. It was. It was phenomenal space. And UM,
48:19
Speaker 1: I didn't pledge in in in college, UM because I
48:23
Speaker 1: felt like I had so many other brothers around right,
48:26
Speaker 1: didn't even feel like there was anything lacking to one
48:30
Speaker 1: because it was just a commonplace. But Dr said Pratt,
48:35
Speaker 1: and uh, I want you to come back. You know,
48:37
Speaker 1: I think that what I try to do on my
48:39
Speaker 1: show is provide information. Um, you didn't dodge anybody questions.
48:43
Speaker 1: Not that the questions you should dodge, but some people.
48:46
Speaker 1: But to clear understanding that more and more in our
48:49
Speaker 1: community need to have advocates like you need to have
48:52
Speaker 1: a place where they can go and get the information.
48:54
Speaker 1: There's there's spoon fair to them, not just shoved down
48:57
Speaker 1: their throat, and not when it's too late, but early
49:00
Speaker 1: in the game. Because pre care is really the precursor
49:03
Speaker 1: to good care. And I want to thank you for
49:06
Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversation master Class and don't make
49:08
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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. We talked to Mr HBC
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