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Thomas Miles, aka Nephew Tommy talks about why not becoming a track star did not disappoint his father · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: very long time. And Nephew Tommy a k a. Thomas Miles.
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  Speaker 1: I made him when he was Thomas Biles. So that's
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  Speaker 1: how fall back we go. His career includes radio, television, film,
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  Speaker 1: line include Grits two flavors, hard and Soul and Spicy
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  Speaker 1: Love the website right now said sol that so it's
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  Speaker 1: called That's Good Grits, but next morning he's dropping the
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  Speaker 1: whole new product line with it, and so you'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to buy, probably be able to buy when this
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  Speaker 1: AKA Thomas Miles, Nephew Tommy, I's wanna do it that
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  Speaker 1: way man. Good to be here without how you doing man,
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  Speaker 1: really good, Man, really good. I was excited. Man. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they sent me your bio and they send a list
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  Speaker 1: of questions and everything. But you know, I see it
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  Speaker 1: in a few times. We're gonna talk about ready for
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  Speaker 1: a little but I see it in right on them grits, brother,
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  Speaker 1: the grits and those grits. You know what shot. I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea. I um hartning up with this guy
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  Speaker 1: in Houston who's who's Who's been cooking for years and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted am I needed an extra turkey for Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: and never met this guy before in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: bought a turkey from it, and when I was leaving,
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  Speaker 1: he said, hey, do you like grits. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love grits. You said, well take this season and
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  Speaker 1: put it in your grits next time your wife cuts
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  Speaker 1: grits for you. I said all right, and I never
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  Speaker 1: got around to it. The guy calls me back and says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: did you did you try the grid seasoning? Like, na,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done it yet, and and then I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: A week later I told my wife, hey, let's try
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  Speaker 1: these grids. Bruce Sean. When I tried those grids, and
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, you got something. And you know, he
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  Speaker 1: and I went back and forth collaborating on changing the
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  Speaker 1: seasoning and changing this and that, and we finally got
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  Speaker 1: what we want. So um, that heart and Soul is
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  Speaker 1: the original, and that that that uh that that that
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  Speaker 1: spicy one is the next one behind it. And then
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go. You know, you know is always a
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  Speaker 1: grits debate, right right right? You want sugar in your grips,
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  Speaker 1: Always that debate. So so I'm coming up with Swede
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  Speaker 1: so we got the whole world of grits coming, man,
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  Speaker 1: So next month, be on the lookout. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: calling you. But I'm gonna want to be on here
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  Speaker 1: again so I can talk about these grids. Well, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, you know what, like Wenna, turn your weight,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about grits because both of us from Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: so we Southern boys, and so because grit's man. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you get the real black people, the black people
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  Speaker 1: in the you know that grit stuff, that grit talk.
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  Speaker 1: Because you know, if we forgot the bacon and grease,
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  Speaker 1: the bacon grease, they go over grits to man, because
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  Speaker 1: grits has so much love to remember, Steve, Steve Arby's
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  Speaker 1: the love when I cook grits, because you know I
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  Speaker 1: can cook grit So when I saw grits as part
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  Speaker 1: of your you know, your entupreturit newership. You know you
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  Speaker 1: can get a lot of all you do, T shirts,
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  Speaker 1: you do, prank phone calls, you do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great things. But but to go into this venture called
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  Speaker 1: Just Good Grits, that's grit with a Z dot com.
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  Speaker 1: You can go check it out right now, Just Good
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  Speaker 1: Grits Z instead of the S dot com. You can
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  Speaker 1: see right now. It has hard and soul and spicy love.
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  Speaker 1: Because when I saw your image on the box, I
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  Speaker 1: just I just started smiling, Thomas, I really did, man,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, man, thank you. And you know what you
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  Speaker 1: got me thinking When my mama used to cook grits.
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  Speaker 1: She would cook the grits and then you would mix
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  Speaker 1: the eggs in there with Hey, hey, Thomas, right if
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  Speaker 1: you you know, you know it's so many once you
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  Speaker 1: start doing. That's why I told you I'm dropping my
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  Speaker 1: TV show called Rashaan's Kitchen in Atlanta. Two million homes
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a Comcast tune E five A T and
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  Speaker 1: T U Verse channel six May six, that's when it drops.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to, you know, cook your
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  Speaker 1: grids on there because I do breakfast. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: love soft eggs. I do eggs over each I do
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  Speaker 1: the bacon, I do toads, I do biscuits. I have
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  Speaker 1: my boat ridding this. God done this calm bread. So
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  Speaker 1: I really want to just like, so you have to
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  Speaker 1: be on there. As soon as I get my order
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  Speaker 1: from you, I'm gonna put it online. Sick of pictures
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  Speaker 1: because people just love the fact that I cook. They
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  Speaker 1: always I get a lot of engagement. So I'm just excited.
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  Speaker 1: But I just love the fact that I saw that
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  Speaker 1: picture you and on the box, and I'm a day
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  Speaker 1: some time. I'm not even laughing in a like a
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  Speaker 1: bad way. It's just like it's a prideful thing because
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's that's possible. Man. You can be in Krogers,
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  Speaker 1: you can be in public, you can be in all
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  Speaker 1: these stordinationswide just on the dream. Tell about that. You
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  Speaker 1: know what, rich Man, You know, I learned this from you.
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  Speaker 1: I learned this from Steve Harvey. It's about connections, It's
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  Speaker 1: about you know, capitalizing on it when you know that
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  Speaker 1: they're there, when you know the opportunity is there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I live in Houston, Texas, so you know
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  Speaker 1: I have put my ear to the street on what
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  Speaker 1: does it take to get a product in an in
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  Speaker 1: an h g B in a Kroger, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't see many black products on the shelf. So
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  Speaker 1: I did the groundwork and found out what it taken out.
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  Speaker 1: Like is that it? You know? And I'm saying they say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you get about fifty sixty dollars in
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  Speaker 1: sales online, you are now eligible and available to possibly
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  Speaker 1: be in h g B. So my thing is what
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  Speaker 1: I got a million plus people following me on on
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  Speaker 1: every social media outlet you can think of. Surely I
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  Speaker 1: can sell for sending them some grants, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm just doing the map, saying it it all makes
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  Speaker 1: sense and um, and conected with people who are in
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  Speaker 1: the heads up of of h g B. So it's
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  Speaker 1: right there. If I don't do it, it makes no sense. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Well it don't make any sense. But more importantly, it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense that you're talking about relationships. H g B
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  Speaker 1: is like that's a power broker you know, Diday top
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  Speaker 1: quality of the line. We talked about everybody shops there
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  Speaker 1: in h G B and then get into these Krogers.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just tell you, man, I was just so
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  Speaker 1: happy and it just maybe smile just seeing your face
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  Speaker 1: on a box of grids. Man. And I mean and
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  Speaker 1: I and I you know, because there's a black person man,
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  Speaker 1: we grow up and and and and you know, either
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  Speaker 1: the anti Mamas and Uncle Bin's and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I know who you are. You're graduate of Texas
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  Speaker 1: and them. You know what I'm saying. You you you
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  Speaker 1: know you're you're a businessman. So you're kind of like
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  Speaker 1: breaking the model of what has been portrayed up black people.
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  Speaker 1: And you've been breaking the morrow long time, all the
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  Speaker 1: way back to Texas. And then talk about that. Not
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  Speaker 1: have to slow you down, because sometimes we just be
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  Speaker 1: doing stuff time and we realize what we're doing. But
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  Speaker 1: but it's it was a much more prideful theme more
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  Speaker 1: than the fact that I knew you. But I was
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  Speaker 1: more proud when I saw that that that when I
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  Speaker 1: went to the website Just Good Grits and I saw
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  Speaker 1: that dot com, I went, wow, it's my board man.
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  Speaker 1: Look at him on that box man, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: who you were to I knew what you represented as
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  Speaker 1: a man, but they just talk about that, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: It's been a journey man, um. I mean you you
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  Speaker 1: were there at the beginning. You put me on stage
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  Speaker 1: the first time I ever got on stage and doing
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  Speaker 1: stand up, and uh, it's just been a journey. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, at some point in my life, I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a there's a book coming, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a funny thing happened on the way to Hollywood, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And it's just the journey of every stop that I've made.
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  Speaker 1: I I had no idea I was gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: So when I saw something like the Grids, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I want to just dissect that whole prank phone called
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  Speaker 1: brand that you built. You know, there's this popular on YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's a little difficult now for me to
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  Speaker 1: to do the pranks sometimes because everybody is called on
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  Speaker 1: I was first starting, they didn't know that. So I
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  Speaker 1: was able to build this whole archive at that time.
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  Speaker 1: And now I look back and say, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: go into the studio cut these uh these prank calls,
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  Speaker 1: And I say, thank you, brother, thank you for cracking
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought you had lost your mind. But
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  Speaker 1: now I look back and say, oh my god. And
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  Speaker 1: Rushan now you know, like we were talking about resources
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  Speaker 1: before you know, I went to um. Yolanda Adams asked her,
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  Speaker 1: was about sixty some thousand dollars and I was blown away.
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  Speaker 1: And and here I am sitting on all these pranks.
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  Speaker 1: Go you made me going there and through these pranks.
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  Speaker 1: And I look back to Dave ru shan Man, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, every month YouTube sends me a check for
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  Speaker 1: my prank phone call. So brother, thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm grateful, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the couple of me. But you know, it all
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  Speaker 1: comes back to talent. I always tell people, you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. You know, I'm a pusher, you
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  Speaker 1: know that, but I pushed people who are feel But
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  Speaker 1: one thing that you work hard, never take that away
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  Speaker 1: from you. And then the fact that you're you're gifted,
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  Speaker 1: and and and all the way back to your sister,
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  Speaker 1: sister days. You know, I was casting your sister, sister,
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  Speaker 1: shaff as the police officer. You know, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: about six degree relationships and all that holding onto you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing some things that you're uncomfortable with when I say that,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you do things you're not paid for. That's the
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable part. Whether it's this, when does this endgame go to?
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is that when people look at your brand,
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  Speaker 1: they don't understand that it's a lot of work. You know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of fun. You're getting up every day.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: You have to be topical. You have to be ready.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: You're talking, we're working one of the biggest stars in
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the world. You never know what comes out of his
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: head or direction. He gonna go on sometime and you
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: gotta be ready for that. And so that whole process
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: that led you to be able to go into different
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: acting scenarios. But that that prank phone call, man, I
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: remember when I asked you that I knew we would
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: own to something. And you've done some CLAXI brother, You've
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: done celebrity and frank phone calls you. But the beauty
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: of it is that man, you just you were able
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: to manipulate you remember when they remember what one time
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: they was when they when you couldn't do prank phone call,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you had to get permission, ridden permission, and they tried
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: to shut you down. You figure that out. You're not
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: worry about I got this, I got this, and it
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: was just you know, but you you didn't allow this.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: You know, you you actually moved the needle or maintain
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: your brand. And so I take the cadus of the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: thank you and all that, but I also get back
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the hard work. When they were when legally it was
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: in the position to shut down your prank phone call,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: you pushed through that and you move hard, move forward,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and then that leads you to your comedy days. And
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: so I'm just letting everybody know that Nephew Tommy is
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: a brand. Y'all Thomas Miles the individual, but Nephew Tommy
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: is a brand. Talk about that Nephew Tommy brands? Uh wow,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you know what and and and and you already know
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: that they're really both two different people. Shot you know
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that two different people, but that brand. I had no
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: idea that it was gonna soar to this um to
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: put me on on the platform that I'm on. Um,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you guys gave me an opportunity on the radio and
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: we you know, you took a shot at me and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: and and it worked. The character itself, that that whole personna,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: it worked, and it just started building. And the next thing,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, the whole name Thomas Miles had
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: just completely gotten washed away. And it was Hey, I
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: am this guy, nephew Tommy and and and you know,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you just start building on it. What can I do
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: with it? I don't want to just sit on it
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and not not capitalized on on this opportunity I'm working for,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: you know, um so so this is one of the
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: biggest guys in the in the business. So I have
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to figure out how to make this work. Even though
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I'm underneath his umbrella, how do I still step out
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and shine a little bit and and make something my own?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: And I think this, um, you know, the pranks underneath
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: A few time me going out and doing stand up.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Uh you and I did it. We did a tour
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: together where you know, I was able to really showcase
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the characters that that all trapped inside my head and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and and being able to display that. But I think
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: it all goes back to we want to see this guy,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: nephew Tommy that we here on the radio. We want
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to see what he has from a stand up perspective.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So when they came to see me, they had no
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: idea what they were gonna get, and and to you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: to to set up a show the way I did,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: coming out first giving them fifty five minutes off the top,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and then in between each comedian to give them different
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: characters of of of me. Um. I think it was different.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was something that was very unexpected, and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that that even strengthened that a few timey brands. So um.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: You know, as we now move forward, it's like, Okay,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: what else can I do? Right? I don't. I don't
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: want to stop, you know, I want to I want
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to keep reaching for everything I can reach for. So
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I'm reaching for grits. Now, let's see what I do
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: with the grits. And we just keep going on and on. Man, Well,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I say a few time in the comedy club Las Vegas, Okay,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Atlantic City, Okay, I'm just saying, you know, you know
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I think that I don't I don't think small. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: think big when I see the opportunity because you got
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the marketing tool, you got the social media, and so
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: these things are really special. And when you start building
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: out the relationship, you have to realize that, you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Tamarin Hall with you going on there with your grits
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and all. That's the good stuff. But more importantly, the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: part of the side of that I always loved by
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Thomas is that he gave. He always give back. He
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: always gave back. And we were doing the military tour,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: which you know, which was a great run for you
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: when you was going over to entertaining the troops, and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that that was a gear back that caught you, you know,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and you didn't see it comment before you dove in.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: It was something that you was proud to be a
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: part of. Talk about that. Uh you know what, Ris Shanman,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I went over there, uh with with not knowing what
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to expect. Uh. Did two of those USO tours actually,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: um my my first one was I was with Robert Ory.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I was with Jordan's Sparks, who one American idol young
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: lady named Minka Kelly and actress. So they had quite
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a few other talents there and and but I was
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the guy that had to be that person that hopes
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that you know, I call it the black Bob hope yes, yes, yes,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: go over and perform for the troops. And I was
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: just blown away by what I saw, just just the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: you know, the front line, the people that represent the country.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe how they put their lives on the line.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And um, we were we were visiting hospitals, and we
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: were in one guy's particular room and he had just
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: come out of surgery and um, he said, um, when
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: he woke up, we were we were all standing around
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: his bed. I mean, he has just woken up from
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: surgery and his his his both his legs have been
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: blown completely on. He's just coming out and he says,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I would love to take pictures with you guys,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: but I gotta go. I gotta get back to my
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: men that they're waiting for me. And he doesn't even
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: realize what has happened to him. And man, we're standing
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: there around and with tears running down our face, and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and when we left, you know, we're heading back to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the States. That's one of the chief officers. You know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: what happens to these people when they get back home,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and he said, well, you know, you know, you know
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: American texts care. We take care of our soldiers. I say, well,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: how long does that take? He said, well, sometimes it
• 21:58
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, you know that's a good
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  Speaker 1: created out of the brand of Nephew Tommy. You know
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  Speaker 1: that Nephew Tommy, that brother, that machine at business. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I envisioned a warehouse just nephew Tommy logo on it, like,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you know, a hundred people working in the making T
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  Speaker 1: shirts or mixing grid. You know, I think, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: doing charity engagements and all that stuff, because that's the vision, man,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: because you you know, we all sit back, Thomas, because
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: we're both from Houston, and you know, you know, your
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: father was an amazing man who I always you know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: always loved the fact about your father was that you
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: actually live in your father's life. You know, he didn't
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: get a chance, you know, he became a blue collar
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: worker and he didn't get a chance to pursue the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: entertainment career. Does that ever cross your mind, man, that
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you know, you you was a track star, but then
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you know you were so far away from what he was,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: what his dream was. But now you're living his dream.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: That really is an emotional moment, man, when I think
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: about it. You know what, Man, I had no idea.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: You know, I was getting ready to um. You know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I did all that. I did track all through high
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: schoo and uh and I also did drama all through
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: high school and I chose the drama scholarship and I
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: actually thought that I disappointed him, that I disappointed him
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: by not you didn't running track, you didn't. And man,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to uh, getting ready to pull out
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of the drive with him. My mother bought me a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: brand new little Toyota pick up truck, and I'm getting
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: ready to go off to college and the whole better.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: The truck is loaded and and that's when he's standing
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: there saying, um, you know you you you you got
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: my dream. I was like, what what do you What
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: are you talking about? Because keeps crying and I'm like,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: what do you what's going on? He said, you got
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: my dream? I said. I said, no, I'm not. I'm
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: not running track, Pops. You know I'm I'm I'm gonna
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: pursue this theater thing. He said, yeah, you got my dream.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I said, what are you talking about? And that's when
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he tells me that he was a theater major at
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Texas Southern University and he had to drop out of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: school because you had to help his mother and his
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: father helped raise his siblings because my dad was the oldest.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: And he said, you got my dream, so it's up
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to you to do something with What you're gonna do
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: with my dream. So, Um, I hope, I'm I hope
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I'm making a proud brother looking at Thomas. First of all,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you made him proud. You know what I'm saying, Uh,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I know what you did before he passed away, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I know what you're doing that. That's why I you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: know when I before we got on the cars that Thomas,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I want to slow this down, I said, because I
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: know him so well. Sometimes I missed these moments in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: conversation because you just blow past him. You think that
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: they let's not talk about that. But I knew that.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: You know, one of my greater just poems, I didn't
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: get to meet your dad. You know, I told you that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I said, Man, I'm so mad, Bro, I'm so mad
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: because because you know, you know, because the stories, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the chief of jacsonally got up there man and touch
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  Speaker 1: on the stories. Man, I just didn't do we hafybody,
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  Speaker 1: yn't do it, halfybody Home Depot legends and that's just
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the beauty. So so that's why I really love the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: fact that now they're ready for love. You know, came
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: back to Houston, Thomas came back to youth to tell
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, man, your dad, your family, your mob,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: bought the house for her, all these things. Man to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: bring your your gifts because a lot of people doubt.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You know, I know when I quit IBM and told
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: people I want to do stand up comedy. Yeah, okay,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: really next day to Murphy right right right, So a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: lot of people question that process because it's not a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: nine to five jobs. They don't understand. But Brother to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: bring Ready for Love. Let's tell us about Let's tell
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: everybody what Ready for Love is and then we will
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: talk about bringing it back to Houston. Let me tell
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you this, okay, But those that don't know, Ready to
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Love is a is a dating show, and uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: not your typical dating show. You know, your typical dating show.
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  Speaker 1: People are in the twenties, life is just getting started.
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  Speaker 1: This is different. These people in their thirties, forties, some
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  Speaker 1: are in their fifties. People have been married, gotten divorced.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You even have people who are mostly career driven, having
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: taken time to find a relationship and they come on
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  Speaker 1: Ready to Love. So we start out with twenty singles,
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  Speaker 1: ten men and ten women, and it's a it's a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: process of elimination. The powershifts back and forth from the
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: men to the women. Women eliminate men, men eliminate women.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: And it's a ten week journey and at the end
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: of that ten weeks, we wind up with six people,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: six people, three couples who have hopefully found love. That
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  Speaker 1: is that's the prize. There is no million dollars, no
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: trip around the world. Love is the prize. That's what
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you win. I am your host, I'm your your cupid,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: your love coach, whatever you wanna call it. And I
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: navigate and got these people on this journey of finding
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  Speaker 1: love and it is. It is very exciting because people
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: are tuning in every Friday night on the own network
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to um. You know, people are trying to pair it up.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: You know, who do I think is gonna make it
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to the end and who I think it's gonna connect with? Who?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And it's just a great grown and sexy show. People
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: are loving it. We're not we're not on their fight
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and we're not throwing drinks and the thank you, thank you.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: We are having a good time and ready to love us. Now.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Uh here we are in Houston again, um and and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and it's beautiful that we are. We're showing off our city.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: People get to see what Houston is all about, some
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: of the night areas, some of the great locations and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: monumental places in Houston that people don't know about. So,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you know, I think sometimes when people think Texas, they
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: think we got a horse sitting outside of the house.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: That's not the case. This is a you may turkey
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: leg hut, the turkey leg hut. So we definitely put
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the turkey leg hut on it. But sure so in
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: all those tuff in those type of places, you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: even the breakfast club, you know, people those black owned
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: business that we wanted to make sure we we gave
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: them the spotlight and we did that. So I'm excited
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: about this season. Man. Well, you know the thing about
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it is that you got the call from our board,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Will Pack you know who, you know, we we we
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: watched him grow to you know, I'm saying that Steve
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and I was blessed to have a relationship on the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Think Like a Man, Want would You Appear? And Thinking
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Like a Man movie, And he also did Think like
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a Man too, and that we all, I know, that
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: was the lunch for Kevin Hart's career, now, was those
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: two movies. So him making that phone call to you,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: he had already known about the cash and previous movie.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: How was the what was the thought process of him
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: telling you want to host because your stand up? You know,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: so a lot of things run through your mind. Am
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I gonna be funny? What can I do? And so?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: But you had to be almost like a straight shooter
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: in this situation and also take these relationships seriously. Talk
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: about that. How you have to process that, you know
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: what ever're something? First, the first was the phone call.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Because the phone call, I thought I was being pranked
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: only somebody got me, you know. But but Will hit
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: me up and said, hey, man, I I got something
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: for you. And you know, you know how Hollywood is
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: we sorrying people always say hey, I'm gonna have something
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: for you know, I have my people call your people. Okay, No,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: We'll called directly and said I got something for you.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: And I was like okay, and uh, I was overwhelmed. Man,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you know, I get teary eyed. I was all emotional,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: but I was grateful that he called me. He said, man,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you and your white uh have been together for a
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: long time. This is for you. So I had to
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: digest this as how do I take this in? Do
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I take this in as as a comedian, because like
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you're saying, I can't. We're not on there cracking jokes
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: when people are really seriously trying to find a relationship.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So I had to find a balance between the two
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and and really, Rishan, if you if you think about it,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I kind of blended Thomas Myles and nephew tim Me together.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: You know, you get a little bit of a little
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: bit of a ballots so both of the boys get
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to play, you know, so you know, everybody knows Thomas
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Miles is pretty serious, but if you time me, you
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: know he he likes to have fun. So a little blend.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And then of course, um just just just you know,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: a guy that's been married for a long time, even
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: my parents who were married up until the day my
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: father left here, I have nothing but that to go
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: off of, which is a great mold to look at.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not I'm not a I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a person that has a textbook for this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a formula. All I can do is trying to
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  Speaker 1: share with these people that are trying to find love
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  Speaker 1: what I've gone through and what I've seen my folks
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  Speaker 1: go through, and give them honest, true advice and that's
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  Speaker 1: what they like about it. Well, you know, I want
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  Speaker 1: to close the show in this whole scenario ready to love,
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  Speaker 1: because you know I built this character a few times
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  Speaker 1: with you and you was able to grow to this
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  Speaker 1: amazing persona that is today. But along the way, it
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  Speaker 1: was a young lady that we that that loved you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, had children with you, had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: a couple of I mean a couple of TV shows,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but you know you have to go through
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  Speaker 1: a point where you know you you were a single
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  Speaker 1: guy on the radio. You know, I'm saying she had
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  Speaker 1: just stand by that ignorance. You know, I'm saying with Shu,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be single baby, Okay, okay, And now you know
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  Speaker 1: you're back and used. And she made an appearance on
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  Speaker 1: the show. Just talk about her. Man having that that
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  Speaker 1: that soldier, that female soldier by your side all these
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  Speaker 1: years on. You know what she's she's she's that ride
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  Speaker 1: of die man. Um. You know we first started out,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have no money, I and nothing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she was the one with with the good job and
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  Speaker 1: and um you know engineer out of Texas, A and
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  Speaker 1: M so she was holding us together. Man, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just you know, I I I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure I stepped up for someone that had
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  Speaker 1: so much confidence in me and my career that had
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even started yet, but just just just told me
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  Speaker 1: that I could do it. Um. You know, it got
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  Speaker 1: to the point once I got on the radio with
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  Speaker 1: you guys and things started to turn. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: when I wanted to put the shoe on the other foot,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: where you know, my wife don't have to work no more.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: And and I love that. I love the fact that
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  Speaker 1: she carried the load. I mean, think about Rush even
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the cars I had and it was hers. They wasn't mine.
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  Speaker 1: I had nothing, So so you know, you know, she
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  Speaker 1: she she took care of me. We wrote it out.
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  Speaker 1: And to be able to to um turn around and
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  Speaker 1: give her the world and then for a TV show
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  Speaker 1: to come back to my hometown. And then you put
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  Speaker 1: your queen on that with you. Uh, you can't write that,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You just can't write it is. It's beautiful. She's on
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: She's appearing on four episodes this season. I love it
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  Speaker 1: and she just shares her honest opinion. Man, so I
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  Speaker 1: think it's good. Well, brother, I love you. Thomas and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: uh I love Thomas. I love both of you, Thomas,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: but more in fact, I love the fact you're really
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: embracing the brand and you see the business side of it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: That's what money making conversation is all about. Man, And
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: good luck you owe me some grits started putting on
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  Speaker 1: Love baby. You know I can mention the sugar, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and sweetest and sweetest. I know you're gonna say that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Now you're gonna say that. I don't you're gonna say that,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: but but I love you man, And thank you for
• 34:56
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