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Sherri Shepherd, Aldis Hodge, Rodney Perry, Anthony Fykes & Robert Wright · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: when I bring people on the show, the most important
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Speaker 1: thing I try to give to them is lead a
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Speaker 1: balanced life, something I was not able to accomplish. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The last twenty years of my life. I was just
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Speaker 1: so focused on the next goal and didn't enjoy that goal,
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Speaker 1: nor that I wanted to spend the amount of time
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Speaker 1: that I should have spent with my family. Not saying
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Speaker 1: my family and my relationship suffer, but I knew I
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Speaker 1: kind of could have done better if I respected the
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Speaker 1: principles of a balanced life. My next quest, who's sitting
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Speaker 1: next to me? Uh? Saw me in that you know
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Speaker 1: what I call that that war torn that war torn
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Speaker 1: period when I was out there just grinding, just griding.
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Speaker 1: And when I said grinding, Uh saw him do comedy
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Speaker 1: in Chicago, and again when you see doing the BT
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Speaker 1: Comedy View Tour, Comic View Tour, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: just go back a little bit. Scarce was an audience
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Speaker 1: or a warm up person, radial personality, a writer, full
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Speaker 1: flared professional stand up comedy. I'm touching them to. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He's on the show today. Discussed hosting the tenth annual
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Speaker 1: Bronze Lens Awards show and many other career plans. Please
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Speaker 1: welcome to money making Common versations Rodney Perry. I must
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Speaker 1: be making money, man. I love it. Man. First of all,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me on man. You you know,
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Speaker 1: you said some really interesting balance man. And I think
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Speaker 1: you know, as guys like you and I have had
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Speaker 1: like traumatic health things that that really wake you up
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Speaker 1: to balance. When you when you're laying in the hospital
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Speaker 1: bed and you look around you see who's really there,
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Speaker 1: it makes you go wow. So I've been working, I've
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Speaker 1: been grinding, I've been trying to get way out there
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Speaker 1: to that thing. But the reality is the people around
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Speaker 1: you is a success. The people around you, people that
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Speaker 1: really really care, to the five or six or eight
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Speaker 1: or nine people that that really matter. And you know
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Speaker 1: we were in through all with social media and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff and and again making it, making it, making it.
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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, you can still have those goals,
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Speaker 1: but the people that matter matter right, and you have
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Speaker 1: to matter. That's the key. And I said you talked
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Speaker 1: about the the traumatic because because we all think we
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Speaker 1: are immortally have a timeline when it's your stop and
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Speaker 1: when it when it when it comes to you, Like
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Speaker 1: my my version was thyroid cancer. When it was announced
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Speaker 1: doctor told me, I can assure everybody. Once somebody tells
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Speaker 1: you the word, the cancer word to you just shut
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Speaker 1: down your whole mind process because because I don't care
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Speaker 1: where we are, you think that, you think that there's
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Speaker 1: a there's why. First of all, the why me immediately
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Speaker 1: jumps into you absolutely, and then you start And it's
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Speaker 1: what it allowed me to do, was allowed me to
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Speaker 1: make an assessment of where I was in my life
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Speaker 1: and where I can go. Fortunately for me, my cancer
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Speaker 1: isn't remission. And but that doesn't mean that that it
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Speaker 1: can't come back. The word that's what remission means. It
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Speaker 1: can't come back, and so it might be on another mission. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And so when it was affecting you, what part of
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Speaker 1: your life did you take in perspective? And as far
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Speaker 1: as the creer that you had built up to that point,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you take it on perspective. My my dramatic
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Speaker 1: health scare was a stroke. I had a stroke. So
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Speaker 1: I'm on the road Denver, Colorad. I know I'm telling jokes,
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Speaker 1: and I talked to my my buddy, Joey Wells, and
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Speaker 1: he was telling about another friend of ours that I
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Speaker 1: had a stroke, young lady named Mickey Gordon. And he
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Speaker 1: was telling me what had happened. And as he was
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Speaker 1: telling me her symptoms, in my mind I was like, yo,
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Speaker 1: I feel like that right now. Wow. And so as
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Speaker 1: we were talking, I was like, yo, man, I'm really
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Speaker 1: not feeling good. I'm on the road. I'm in a
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Speaker 1: hotel room, Denver, Colorado. And uh so I went across
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Speaker 1: the street to Walmart. I stuck my arm in the sleeve.
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Speaker 1: My blood pressure was two twenty one over onet. This
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Speaker 1: is how stupid your boys. I still gonna do two
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Speaker 1: shows that I got. I got obligations to do my
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Speaker 1: do my job. So forget how I'm feeling this. This
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Speaker 1: is how misguided I was. You know, in relationship what
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Speaker 1: you started ballance. So I was so singularly minded hitting
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Speaker 1: that stage. I even I even remember having this Thoughers.
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Speaker 1: I remember saying to myself, if I die, I wanted downstage.
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Speaker 1: And I had given that thought, not not thought of
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Speaker 1: my family, and not thought of what it would be
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Speaker 1: like to lose a father, a husband, a friend. I
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Speaker 1: don't even think about that. I was thinking about comedy.
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Speaker 1: And so even in those diat moments and so um
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Speaker 1: I went to the emergency room after the shows that night,
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Speaker 1: Shiop hands you know, took pictures all that stuff the
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Speaker 1: emercy room. You're in a hurry to get there, dude,
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Speaker 1: I'm in my mind they would they were lower my
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Speaker 1: pressure and send me home. I walked into the emergency room,
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Speaker 1: I was in. I see you for the next eight days.
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Speaker 1: I spent the next forty years old days in rehab,
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Speaker 1: learning how to walk again, learn how to use my
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Speaker 1: left hand again. My my stroke happened on my left side.
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Speaker 1: So basically, what happens your brain stops talking to that
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Speaker 1: side of your body. And so I was never in pain,
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Speaker 1: but I felt all those feelings. I felt the why me?
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Speaker 1: And you know, a guy kept telling me is why
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Speaker 1: not you? Why not you? Why not you be the
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Speaker 1: one to get to tell his story? And so you
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Speaker 1: go through the whole mental thing. I mean, I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna stand up com again. I cannot stand right. I
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Speaker 1: literally cannot stand up. I had to learn how to
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Speaker 1: walk again. I had a little little older my physical
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Speaker 1: therapy was a little older white lady, and she was
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Speaker 1: teaching me how to walk. And you know what, we
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Speaker 1: don't realize that people of color, it's stuff in your
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Speaker 1: walk that ain't textbook right. You know, you gotta he toe.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to put all this little you know, pivot ball.
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Speaker 1: You're like, you're gonna fall down if you put one
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Speaker 1: mode swag. So yeah, but that's that's amazing. So the
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Speaker 1: thing about is that your story is equally as crazy
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Speaker 1: as my story. Because I was in denial of my
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Speaker 1: health situation. I took my time getting to the hospital
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Speaker 1: and I stayed there thirty days. So I beat your record,
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Speaker 1: a record of stupidity. Okay, and because of the thing
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Speaker 1: but when you when you come back, you're trying to
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Speaker 1: play catch up. Yeah, that's why I was just trying
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Speaker 1: to play catch up front. I didn't want to lose,
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Speaker 1: you know, because you know, in the industry of the
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Speaker 1: entertainment industry, out of sight, out of mine, what have
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Speaker 1: you done for me lately? What have you done late?
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Speaker 1: And so now we we we we on the show
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Speaker 1: to day to talk about the tenth annual Bronze Lands
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Speaker 1: War you're hosting Saturday, Autist. Yeah, I'm excited, man. I've
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Speaker 1: been a fan of Bronze Lands for some time now.
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Speaker 1: When you think of of of African American film festivals,
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Speaker 1: it's it's at the top of the hierarchy. As that goes,
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Speaker 1: you've got a b FF and you've got Bronze Land
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Speaker 1: and so and Bronze Lens is right here in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: And I've been living here in fourteen years. And living
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Speaker 1: here in Atlanta, you have a sense of history. You
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Speaker 1: have a sense of the civil rights movement, you have
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Speaker 1: you you feel that and and what I love about
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Speaker 1: Atlanta is the things that are are black are dope.
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Speaker 1: Black owner and there's a lot of black owner operated
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Speaker 1: businesses things of that nature, and they're they're really nice.
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Speaker 1: You can go to Chicago, no this to Chicago or
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Speaker 1: d C or Baltimore or l A. But you can
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Speaker 1: see black owned business but they may not be the
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Speaker 1: as as good or comparable to their white counterparts. And
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Speaker 1: you see that, you know, in numbers here in Atlantic
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Speaker 1: and so um to be a part of Bronze Lands
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Speaker 1: was amazing. They reached out and and I was like,
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Speaker 1: why y'all have just called me? They went to my
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Speaker 1: agent's respect though, that's what that's respect that because it's
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Speaker 1: called direct. Sometimes a hooker there's always you know, and
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Speaker 1: then you go, okay, this is a professional moment because
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Speaker 1: I like that. I like people to call me that nobby.
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Speaker 1: I go, okay, okay, what about the car ride, what
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Speaker 1: about their red room? What about all they're all of
9:38
Speaker 1: a sudden the business side steps up. That's when they
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Speaker 1: come through the right representation. You win it and then
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Speaker 1: everything is in order and in in in life or
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Speaker 1: the helps or the helps. So yeah, so I'll be
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Speaker 1: hosting this year, and you know you add Roddey Perry
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Speaker 1: when you want your stuff, You're an event to be fun.
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Speaker 1: You know, energize and energize because I'm gonna get you that.
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Speaker 1: Oh You're gonna get the energy because that's your that's
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Speaker 1: your signature, your stand up energy. That's why I always
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Speaker 1: always admire people who are like you, because you do
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Speaker 1: comedy I would never do. And that's not an insult.
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Speaker 1: It's just that your mind thinks differently. I could never
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Speaker 1: put forth the energy you put on stage, but but
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Speaker 1: I had to relearn it, That's what I'm saying. So,
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Speaker 1: so you know, post stroke, I was way less physical
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Speaker 1: because I just couldn't be that physical. I'm kind of
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Speaker 1: getting back to that now, but I'm still not. I'm
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Speaker 1: probably you know, I'm probably sixty percent of myself as
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Speaker 1: far as what I used to do. Physically. But I
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Speaker 1: learned how to be more verbal. I learned how to
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Speaker 1: use my words better. I'm a better comedian now. I
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Speaker 1: love that. I love the fact that you're you're taking
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Speaker 1: these natural talents. First of all, your background Chicago, went
10:44
Speaker 1: to Louisiana, the navy man and in Englewood, all that
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Speaker 1: because all those journeys shaped you. And the thing that
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Speaker 1: also means that you your storyteller. That's that's a natural
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Speaker 1: bottom line, natural gift, your storyteller. But again, set back stone,
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Speaker 1: stop you know, sir, I'm I'm I'm too stupid to
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Speaker 1: stop right like I'm successful, you know. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: could have easily looked at my peers, looked at the
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Speaker 1: Kevin Hearts of the world, the Cat Williams of the world.
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Speaker 1: I could have looked at the people that was around me.
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Speaker 1: That that really blew and went and felt sorry for myself.
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Speaker 1: I was telling my friend my son the other day,
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Speaker 1: I was like, it's easy to look at other people,
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Speaker 1: but what what you have to be able to do
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Speaker 1: is look at yourself and be thankful for the steps
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Speaker 1: you can make. When you're lay in the hospital bed
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Speaker 1: and you cannot make a single step, you have to
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Speaker 1: find a way to be thankful for that step. That's
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Speaker 1: lot of those successful people and people I stopped doing
11:45
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11:48
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Speaker 1: for doing them? Developing your career that that was my mission.
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Speaker 1: My mission is what I'm doing right now. I enjoy
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Speaker 1: So when I look at you, you got my forty
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Speaker 1: you have time to talk to me? You know, I'm
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Speaker 1: take changes in our career, is you know? And and
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Speaker 1: then and then all of a sudden you're you're kind
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Speaker 1: of lost, you kind of who am I? Because you
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Speaker 1: get branded to a certain brand and as all people
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Speaker 1: know yourself, you know you for and then all of
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Speaker 1: sudden you have to look inside yourself to say what
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Speaker 1: am I capable of doing? You know, over the last
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Speaker 1: three years, that's what I've done. You know, I'm so
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Speaker 1: taking risks. I think that's what I admire about you,
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Speaker 1: because you do you get so locked into a certain
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Speaker 1: brand or a certain way people you know, they see
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Speaker 1: and be fearless to a certain point so that they
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Speaker 1: can see a different side of you. And so for me,
16:58
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't get locked into one thing. I always
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Speaker 1: would do things that scared me, such as, you know,
17:03
Speaker 1: I've never done radio, but unless I've been a guest.
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Speaker 1: So when you know, Tom Joyner offered me a regular
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Speaker 1: spot on his morning show. It wasn't something I had
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Speaker 1: done before, but I said, let me try it. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I was joined by Kim Witley and what
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Speaker 1: to us being co host on Tom joined his radio show.
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Speaker 1: So that was a different side of me that people
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Speaker 1: got to see. Hosting a game show is a different
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Speaker 1: side of me that people got to see. But it
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Speaker 1: required me to say, Okay, I've never hosted before, but
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Speaker 1: let me try it. So I think it's and even
17:43
Speaker 1: this movie Brian Banks, it's my first dramatic lead in
17:46
Speaker 1: a big film. So it required, you know, stepping out
17:49
Speaker 1: of my comfort zone and saying, let me try something
17:52
Speaker 1: else so somebody can see a different side. I think,
17:56
Speaker 1: unless you you know, commit to taking a risk it
18:01
Speaker 1: might not happen as fast. We know the thing about it, because, um,
18:04
Speaker 1: first of all, let's let's go back to this. Uh.
18:07
Speaker 1: This a single mom segment that you've developed and have
18:10
Speaker 1: developed and moved to Kim with a good friend of mine.
18:13
Speaker 1: It's really good friend of yours. Um, now that could
18:16
Speaker 1: be a podcast. You know, you know you know new
18:18
Speaker 1: Sean I see beyond you know, because we all know
18:21
Speaker 1: that Thomas retiring from radio at the end of this year.
18:24
Speaker 1: So now you have to realize that that brand that
18:26
Speaker 1: you two have developed. Uh, if you if you need
18:29
Speaker 1: to talk to ra Sean about setting up some sales
18:31
Speaker 1: opportunities BRANCHIOND the podcast opportunities, please do because that is
18:35
Speaker 1: a market you guys cannot walk away even though that
18:37
Speaker 1: show ends your that whole brand is going to develop
18:41
Speaker 1: into is amazing. I'm sure you're already thinking that way
18:43
Speaker 1: because you're busy and you all you think about making
18:45
Speaker 1: money that day. So know that when I talk to
18:47
Speaker 1: the journal public, know that that format that they've created
18:50
Speaker 1: you are either here in their own syndicated show or
18:53
Speaker 1: you will hear it in a podcast in the future. Okay,
18:57
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this series and I talked about
18:59
Speaker 1: all the time. Let's talk about this series. I read
19:01
Speaker 1: it to a couple of weeks ago at the Holly
19:03
Speaker 1: Rod Foundations, so she sh I, miss you, I need
19:06
Speaker 1: to talk to you. I got somebody thinks somebody's happening.
19:09
Speaker 1: So I'm sure you and I and all three of
19:11
Speaker 1: us will get together here in the near future to
19:13
Speaker 1: just just talk about the opportunity, because we are all friends,
19:16
Speaker 1: and we all are constantly making transitions in this business.
19:19
Speaker 1: Because sometimes this business doesn't offer in the guarantees. And
19:22
Speaker 1: I see the business entertainment. Entertainment is something you really
19:25
Speaker 1: don't fire security, and you see the opportunity, but the
19:28
Speaker 1: opportunity doesn't always mean it's secure. And so let's talk
19:31
Speaker 1: about your dramatic acting. Road I saw the movie Brian
19:34
Speaker 1: Banks him. Let's talk about you know, Octavia spent some
19:39
Speaker 1: moments he was happening in the series. You know when
19:41
Speaker 1: he came in, when they came to that house and
19:43
Speaker 1: took your boy to jail. Let's talk to you about this, Okay,
19:50
Speaker 1: you comedic actress, Okay, Yeah, making a shift to a
19:55
Speaker 1: dramatic because you you have to be dramatic this whole time.
19:58
Speaker 1: You know that you know, being that she's fun, she's
20:00
Speaker 1: able to um as a couple of moments where you
20:03
Speaker 1: do chuckle because she reaction just as a gifted comedic actress.
20:07
Speaker 1: But but but how did you come to this role
20:11
Speaker 1: and how did you make the decision? This is what
20:13
Speaker 1: I want to do. I read the script and I
20:17
Speaker 1: said to my agent, I mean I just locked into
20:19
Speaker 1: Leomi who played Brian Banks's mother, and her face her
20:23
Speaker 1: love for her son. At the time, my son, Jeffrey
20:26
Speaker 1: was twelve, and I said he could be Brian Banks.
20:29
Speaker 1: And I said to my agent, I have to get
20:31
Speaker 1: this audition, like I have to do it. And what
20:34
Speaker 1: worked against me where they really weren't as interested in
20:37
Speaker 1: seeing me, was because I have a comedic background. That's
20:41
Speaker 1: what people know me for is making them laugh. And
20:43
Speaker 1: this was a very heavy um dramatic movie. And so
20:47
Speaker 1: I had really had to fight and my agent had
20:50
Speaker 1: to fight to get me in. And they had other
20:52
Speaker 1: names that they were mentioning. You say Octavia, but they
20:55
Speaker 1: were they were. They wanted violent Davis. That was the
20:57
Speaker 1: first choice. The second choice was Octavia of da Pinket. Uh.
21:02
Speaker 1: They said, halle Berry, I nue ellis who is being
21:05
Speaker 1: nominated for when they see us, these are all beasts
21:09
Speaker 1: in the dramatic world, and so it was, um, it
21:13
Speaker 1: was it was that pressure as well, but you know,
21:16
Speaker 1: you have to keep If that's the dream, you have
21:19
Speaker 1: to keep going for it, and I keep. My agent
21:22
Speaker 1: finally got me an audition, and I'll never forget the
21:24
Speaker 1: chastic director said we've expanded the part of the mother
21:28
Speaker 1: and I said, oh my god, that's great, and she said,
21:30
Speaker 1: because we're trying to get Viola Davis. Do you know
21:33
Speaker 1: what pressure that is? Right before you be your auditions.
21:36
Speaker 1: They're trying to get Viola and now begin when you're ready.
21:40
Speaker 1: So um, And that's where I had to remember, literally
21:43
Speaker 1: in that audition, because I almost got deflated when I
21:46
Speaker 1: heard them say that they wanted Violet Davis. It almost
21:48
Speaker 1: sent me like I can't do this. I'm not even worthy.
21:51
Speaker 1: And I had to remember, Sherry, you're bringing something you.
21:54
Speaker 1: This is you, me is you. You You have a son
21:58
Speaker 1: who could be Brian Banks. What would it be like
22:00
Speaker 1: if they took Jeffrey from you? And that's when I
22:03
Speaker 1: started doing my line. So that was all up underneath me.
22:06
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna tell y'all felt against the wall,
22:08
Speaker 1: sliding down the wall. I was crying. I was screaming.
22:11
Speaker 1: I think I scared Lely of Daniel's butler, leave Daniel's
22:14
Speaker 1: sister who cast at the movie. It was so emotional
22:18
Speaker 1: the audition that when I got into the elevator, I
22:20
Speaker 1: still was in a fetal position because I went there
22:23
Speaker 1: and because I said, you know what they want Viola.
22:26
Speaker 1: I got nothing to lose, but I let me just
22:28
Speaker 1: let me just go and do what I do, because
22:31
Speaker 1: it's nothing like Viola. And um. I didn't hear from
22:35
Speaker 1: the people for a few weeks, so I didn't think
22:37
Speaker 1: I got it, but I knew I left everything on
22:40
Speaker 1: the table, and that's why I think you gotta leave
22:41
Speaker 1: everything on the table and go for it. And Tom
22:44
Speaker 1: Shatti ac Uh just this kidsman. He wrote The Nutty Professor,
22:49
Speaker 1: and he's directed Eddie Murphy and tons of movies. He's
22:52
Speaker 1: directed Jim Carrey in a lot of movies, and so
22:55
Speaker 1: he was used to working with stand up comics. So
22:58
Speaker 1: I had a few face time auditions with Tom, and
23:02
Speaker 1: I knew that I had gotten a job. When Tom
23:04
Speaker 1: said I had to sit on Eddie and I had
23:07
Speaker 1: to sit on Jim. I think I'm gonna have to
23:10
Speaker 1: sit on you too. And when I say sitting on people,
23:13
Speaker 1: it's sitting on the comedic, bringing down the comedy and
23:16
Speaker 1: bringing up the other side, the pain side. And you
23:20
Speaker 1: know from working with stand up comics are your life.
23:23
Speaker 1: We bring to the stage is pain. You take pain
23:27
Speaker 1: and you make it funny. So Tom shaddy Ak was
23:31
Speaker 1: able to take the funny side of Sherry and put
23:35
Speaker 1: it away and then all that was left was the pain.
23:38
Speaker 1: And so he was able to bring that out. And
23:41
Speaker 1: I'm and you know, it only takes one person to
23:44
Speaker 1: believe in you, to say to make it happen. And
23:47
Speaker 1: he was that one person for me that said, I
23:50
Speaker 1: think she can go beyond the funny. And that's that's
23:53
Speaker 1: important that you say that, because you know, when you get,
23:56
Speaker 1: when you get, you know, a lot of your early
23:58
Speaker 1: success was tied to the view. A lot of my success,
24:01
Speaker 1: if you look at my resume, is tied to Steve Hart.
24:03
Speaker 1: And no matter people will compliment you the on you great, great,
24:07
Speaker 1: but you know something you great in that lane. But
24:09
Speaker 1: being out now, the fact that you're doing a tays
24:12
Speaker 1: and Brian Banks, this Brian Banks movie is about it
24:15
Speaker 1: and consperrated young man who's wrong for them, consperrated sixteen
24:18
Speaker 1: years old, was false accused of rate and spend sixty
24:22
Speaker 1: years of his life. He's a very he's a football player,
24:24
Speaker 1: I mean not just a football player, five star football player.
24:28
Speaker 1: So probably headed to USC Probably would be in the
24:31
Speaker 1: pros because I won't give away any of the movie
24:33
Speaker 1: because guess what, you got to see the movie realize
24:35
Speaker 1: that through determination, through um having the right support system.
24:41
Speaker 1: The mom was the key to that, and also the
24:43
Speaker 1: legal system and the legal representatives came in and gave
24:46
Speaker 1: him the support system. But it's a constant battle. And
24:49
Speaker 1: when her character as as as she says, this is
24:52
Speaker 1: not you know, just like no different than Kevin Hard
24:55
Speaker 1: doing his his hiss, a dramatic role that he did,
24:58
Speaker 1: and everybody's portioning that that movie went to a million dollars. Okay,
25:01
Speaker 1: and this is your turn to say I can do more.
25:04
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about your resume that I
25:07
Speaker 1: currently see out there. I see an entrepreneur, I see
25:09
Speaker 1: your mom, I see a radio person. Now I see
25:12
Speaker 1: drama and that is beautiful because that lets me know
25:15
Speaker 1: that your three sixty and I forgot also best selling
25:19
Speaker 1: author Okay, that's the three sixty radio print, digital, social
25:24
Speaker 1: media influencer. When when I when I throw all these
25:27
Speaker 1: accoldes at you, how how do you respond to that
25:30
Speaker 1: that you are achieving and currently being blessed with? I
25:35
Speaker 1: am very thankful that people uh still want to work
25:38
Speaker 1: with me. I think that speaks to character and integrity, um,
25:42
Speaker 1: which is crucial in this business. And UM thankful that
25:46
Speaker 1: my you know that I have a reputation that's pretty
25:49
Speaker 1: solid where people say I would like to take a
25:52
Speaker 1: chance with her because I've heard about you know a
25:55
Speaker 1: lot of times. It's not who I've met, it's what
25:56
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Speaker 1: that make money. My next guest there on the phone
28:04
Speaker 1: right here, I feel the timely Joe. When the middle
28:07
Speaker 1: of summer, when box officers are exploding, that's when they
28:09
Speaker 1: really make Summer and Cristmas, and then they have Martin
28:13
Speaker 1: Luther King Weekend. Now the spring and March is starting
28:15
Speaker 1: to become a money making period too, but the summer
28:18
Speaker 1: has always been, you know, the beast of the box office.
28:21
Speaker 1: My next guests are in the movie theater business. They're
28:24
Speaker 1: the co founders of Next Act Cinema. Movie Theater in
28:28
Speaker 1: the Pikes Field is near Bottomore Mary area. Next Act
28:32
Speaker 1: Centema Theaters Stadium to see me, which I love just
28:36
Speaker 1: usually a back to go seat, you know, leather recliners.
28:40
Speaker 1: Remember the first time I went to the movie here
28:41
Speaker 1: the Lettle of Crown, I saw the movie Frozen. Boy,
28:44
Speaker 1: that was that was relaxing for me. In full service food,
28:46
Speaker 1: which I love to eat, I love. I'm gonna ask
28:48
Speaker 1: them do they have desserts because you know, I gotta
28:50
Speaker 1: have my dessert when I'm in the movie theater, little
28:53
Speaker 1: Sunday or something like that. Please welcome to Money Main
28:55
Speaker 1: Conversations the co founders of Next Act Cinema, Anthony Fikes
28:59
Speaker 1: and Rob but Right, Hey, thanks so much for having us.
29:04
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm very good, Thank you for coming
29:07
Speaker 1: on the show. Let's just before we didn't get into
29:09
Speaker 1: the whole next act. Let's talk about that menu at
29:12
Speaker 1: your movie theater. What are you serving? What are you
29:15
Speaker 1: serving at the movie theater? And before we go, where
29:19
Speaker 1: exactly you located. It's outside the Baltimore, Maryland area, correct, Pikes? Yeah,
29:24
Speaker 1: that's that's that's correct. We're actually in Baltimore County writing
29:27
Speaker 1: pipes still, so um pretty much right in the middle
29:30
Speaker 1: between Bottomore City and Baltimore County was located. Absolutely. Now,
29:34
Speaker 1: let's talk about that menu because you know you're bragg
29:36
Speaker 1: about it and I when I go to movie theaters,
29:38
Speaker 1: that changed my whole concept when you get a put
29:41
Speaker 1: that little button and get some food. So let's talk
29:43
Speaker 1: about that menu and what was the concept of putting
29:45
Speaker 1: that particular menu to your theater. Yeah. So, so Maryland
29:51
Speaker 1: is known for a couple of different um um select cuisines, right,
29:55
Speaker 1: and one of the things that Maryland is known for
29:57
Speaker 1: is craft and so we we we had to have crab,
30:02
Speaker 1: the crab Sandward just some variations of crabs on that menu.
30:05
Speaker 1: So we have a crab clout, um platter, we have
30:08
Speaker 1: a seafood um, a balstore club that's kind of a
30:12
Speaker 1: mix of like crab, meat, trimp and everything you know
30:14
Speaker 1: that goes in between. Um and now when those those
30:18
Speaker 1: menis are inspired really by the restaurant that we kind
30:20
Speaker 1: of partner with as well. And so um Crab is
30:23
Speaker 1: a staple and we know you're the pie guy, So
30:25
Speaker 1: any inspiration that you have to help us out on
30:28
Speaker 1: the dessert side, definitely give us a feedback. I'm coming
30:31
Speaker 1: down there, man, and this is your place because like
30:33
Speaker 1: I I'm always going up because I'll go to d
30:36
Speaker 1: C every week, and I got officers up in uh talent,
30:39
Speaker 1: let's give be talent represent the New York area. So
30:42
Speaker 1: definitely we're going to connect after this call. So I
30:45
Speaker 1: like to experience people to share some of some of
30:47
Speaker 1: my advice when I go to there to their businesses.
30:50
Speaker 1: You know that that I feel that can be relatable
30:52
Speaker 1: and make you even more successful. Now we're talking about
30:55
Speaker 1: the movie theater. Now, the box office pats came out
30:57
Speaker 1: this weekend. They're saying that the box officers six percent
31:00
Speaker 1: down from last year, which is always These numbers are
31:03
Speaker 1: way incredible out there. So how does the box officer
31:07
Speaker 1: of the week the week box office? How do you
31:09
Speaker 1: plan for the movies they come to your theater? And
31:12
Speaker 1: before I say that, tell us what's in your theater
31:14
Speaker 1: right now this weekend? What box What movies are playing
31:16
Speaker 1: in your theater this weekend? So Sean, internently, we have
31:21
Speaker 1: um Hobbin shaw um, and we also have Brian Banks. Okay, cool,
31:25
Speaker 1: Now what made the selection of those movies? So I
31:30
Speaker 1: think you know, when we're making those decisions, we're looking
31:33
Speaker 1: to see what movies are coming out, and we're also
31:36
Speaker 1: taking into consideration our audience. Right, Um, So for example,
31:41
Speaker 1: you know Lion King. Um, Tony, Now, we had a
31:43
Speaker 1: conversation like Rob, Rob and Tony do do we get
31:46
Speaker 1: Lion King? Because it's it's really a kids movie. But
31:49
Speaker 1: Tony said, you know, Rob, I think everybody kind of
31:51
Speaker 1: wants to see Lion King. And he was absolutely right because,
31:55
Speaker 1: like one of our policies is at the seven PM
31:58
Speaker 1: there's no one under the age of anyone, right, we're
32:01
Speaker 1: really trying to cater to that date night adults type
32:05
Speaker 1: of atmosphere and things of that nature. Um, but that's
32:08
Speaker 1: pretty much like how we're making those decisions around which movies. Um,
32:12
Speaker 1: we're we're gonna select. Now here's I'm going down to
32:16
Speaker 1: domestic box office so far this year. The number one movie,
32:19
Speaker 1: of course is Avengers End Game Beast almost a billion
32:23
Speaker 1: dollars in sales. The second one domestically The Line King
32:27
Speaker 1: almost five hundred, you know, million dollars in box office.
32:31
Speaker 1: Seat that's in that's in the United States. Then you
32:34
Speaker 1: have Captain Marvels number three, tars Story number four, he
32:38
Speaker 1: has Spider Man number five, and The Laddin is number six.
32:42
Speaker 1: These are all Disney movies, right right, right, Yeah, So
32:51
Speaker 1: I think and earlier when we kind of explored, you know,
32:55
Speaker 1: what movies we were going to get. We also, um,
32:57
Speaker 1: you have to be willing to be extremely disciplined on
33:01
Speaker 1: which which movies. And that's just in business in general, right.
33:04
Speaker 1: You know, you can experiment, but you have to be
33:05
Speaker 1: highly disciplined. And so for us, you know, we wanted
33:08
Speaker 1: to make sure that thinks to Robert's point, Um, we
33:11
Speaker 1: needed to cater to our audience. And that's kind of
33:14
Speaker 1: how we select these movies. I mean, you have these
33:17
Speaker 1: these domestic box office ticket sales that are doing well,
33:21
Speaker 1: I think, especially in the early part of the year,
33:23
Speaker 1: especially like for example, with US coming out, US did
33:25
Speaker 1: extremely well at our theater. We also did, you know,
33:28
Speaker 1: obviously The Avengers and Lion King. But then you know
33:32
Speaker 1: there's other movies as well that that perform well. For example,
33:35
Speaker 1: Shaft did extremely well with US is um and resonated
33:38
Speaker 1: with our audience. So so we're pretty disciplined when we
33:41
Speaker 1: you know, every week when we try to select some
33:42
Speaker 1: of these movies, sometimes you know, you don't necessarily get
33:45
Speaker 1: it right, especially because you know we're we're still kind
33:47
Speaker 1: of new in this game. Um, but you know, we learn,
33:50
Speaker 1: we learned each and every month kind of how we
33:53
Speaker 1: select our our our choices. We try to look at,
33:56
Speaker 1: you know, what's gonna trend well with our audience, in
33:58
Speaker 1: addition to what we think will perform well depending point
34:02
Speaker 1: you know, which actor and the actresses are in certain movies.
34:04
Speaker 1: So it's a couple of different metrics that we look
34:06
Speaker 1: at when we consider what we're gonna launch. It really
34:08
Speaker 1: is because im in fifteen years in Los Angeles, a
34:12
Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Magic Johnson, when he launched the
34:15
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson theaters, you know, the hill the same thing.
34:19
Speaker 1: You know, his his menu was a little bit diffrecated
34:21
Speaker 1: to that audience. The movies that he came were more
34:24
Speaker 1: catered to the audience appeal. And but one thing he
34:28
Speaker 1: always sold what you sell, you know, quality of service,
34:31
Speaker 1: cleaningness because you know, we gotta be real a lot
34:34
Speaker 1: of things. When you launched into an African American audience,
34:37
Speaker 1: sometimes the facilities aren't up to the standards of the
34:40
Speaker 1: general market, and it really is disappointing when a person
34:43
Speaker 1: like me would come in and go, wow, why the
34:44
Speaker 1: bathrooms are right, and you sell the fact that our
34:47
Speaker 1: menus outstanding, our facility looks, you know, nice chairs, the stadium,
34:52
Speaker 1: CD you're selling your brand and say, hey, we're on
34:55
Speaker 1: par with the general market theaters that you go out
34:58
Speaker 1: to come to us because you're you will get the
35:00
Speaker 1: same level of entertainment expectations on the big screen as
35:05
Speaker 1: well as the confort as well as the food. That's
35:07
Speaker 1: a really big selling point for you guys that you
35:09
Speaker 1: and that's why I brought you on the show to
35:10
Speaker 1: talk about the business side of selling your brand in
35:13
Speaker 1: this very competitive movie theater market. Yeah, yeah, no, I
35:18
Speaker 1: think I think to your point to you know, it
35:20
Speaker 1: was extremely important for Robin and when we launched this
35:22
Speaker 1: to remember that with any organization, you personally have to
35:26
Speaker 1: be held accountable for the decisions that you make as
35:29
Speaker 1: well as for your people. Right. So, you know, any
35:31
Speaker 1: good leader or manager obviously you know, UM encourage his
35:35
Speaker 1: accountability and the things that we do, you know, when
35:38
Speaker 1: we're even when we're you know here UM and we'll
35:40
Speaker 1: talking to our staff, we make sure that we are
35:42
Speaker 1: part of the team. Right. So it's not that you know,
35:45
Speaker 1: we try to lead from you know, necessarily you know,
35:49
Speaker 1: behind the podium, right, we leave from the side, and
35:52
Speaker 1: we encourage them to constantly make sure that we're catering
35:55
Speaker 1: to our guests always and that's from as soon as
35:57
Speaker 1: they walk in the door, they get greeted. As soon
35:59
Speaker 1: as they you're ready to go into the theater, they
36:01
Speaker 1: get the the door held open for them. And let's
36:03
Speaker 1: talk about you going into the fall, going into the
36:05
Speaker 1: Christmas what movies do we can we expect to see
36:08
Speaker 1: our projecting to be uh brought to your theater uh
36:12
Speaker 1: in the fall and also that that that amazing Christmas
36:15
Speaker 1: run that you have to do. What movies are we
36:17
Speaker 1: looking at? So so we're actually and and rocking us
36:21
Speaker 1: also talking on this. We also are now I can
36:23
Speaker 1: thinking about kind of what are the next election is
36:25
Speaker 1: going to be, right because there's a there's also a
36:27
Speaker 1: period of time right when a lot of movie theaters
36:30
Speaker 1: there's not a big blockbuster that's gonna launch, and so
36:33
Speaker 1: we have to be very thoughtful in how do we
36:35
Speaker 1: prepare for those times And so we're thinking about different
36:38
Speaker 1: you know, everything that's happened around Baltimore. For example, right now,
36:41
Speaker 1: one of the things that we're trying to do this
36:44
Speaker 1: launched kind of a week or two of like Baltimore
36:47
Speaker 1: based movies, absolutely Baltimore based actresses and actors for example,
36:51
Speaker 1: Jada Pinkett Smith right, um, and so you know we're
36:54
Speaker 1: going to make a theme it around kind of Baltimore proud,
36:57
Speaker 1: right and then in the in the in the lot
37:00
Speaker 1: of part of the month. I mean, the one movie
37:02
Speaker 1: that we cannot wait to get is Harriet, for example,
37:05
Speaker 1: because we know that that's going to resonate with our
37:07
Speaker 1: audience as well as the message behind it. So and
37:11
Speaker 1: Rob can speak a little bit more about, you know,
37:13
Speaker 1: other options that we're that we're considering. So Star Wars
37:17
Speaker 1: is coming out in UM around the Cristians Holiday. UM.
37:20
Speaker 1: I would imagine that's going to be another blockbuster. It's
37:23
Speaker 1: going to probably be added to that list that you
37:24
Speaker 1: kind of went down one of the top movies that's
37:27
Speaker 1: going to be out for this UM for this year,
37:30
Speaker 1: you know. And then you um, you also have a
37:31
Speaker 1: lot of other African American movies that are coming out
37:34
Speaker 1: with American UM, African American actors that are gonna be
37:38
Speaker 1: um be in and we're definitely targeting those those movies
37:41
Speaker 1: as well. Well. That's important. Like the Harriet's talking about
37:43
Speaker 1: the movie Harriet Tubman that's coming out. I definitely will
37:47
Speaker 1: uh you know, I tell you what we're gonna do.
37:48
Speaker 1: We're going to create relationship because important movies like that,
37:51
Speaker 1: I want to use my national bars. In fact, I'm
37:54
Speaker 1: syndicating this show and it's probably is going to be
37:56
Speaker 1: coming on in Baltimore in the fall to be able
37:59
Speaker 1: to bring you guys on regular because I know what
38:00
Speaker 1: you're trying to do. You're trying to build your brand,
38:02
Speaker 1: promote your brand. And the way you get there is
38:04
Speaker 1: why through relationships. And consider my relationships. As you know,
38:08
Speaker 1: as I talk, I understand what you're going through. You
38:10
Speaker 1: know you can't bring every movie there. You know you
38:13
Speaker 1: can't bring Frozen there. You might not get the reactually,
38:16
Speaker 1: so you gotta you gotta empty theater. Even though Frozen
38:18
Speaker 1: gonna make it's gonna make a billion dollars, but it
38:20
Speaker 1: might not make a billion dollars at your theater. And
38:23
Speaker 1: so you have to be small. You have to be
38:26
Speaker 1: able to, like you said, get the local local. First
38:29
Speaker 1: of all, you have to make your their awareness to
38:31
Speaker 1: the local community that you're there. What better way to
38:34
Speaker 1: do that by featuring local successful or Baltimore or residents
38:39
Speaker 1: who are now thriving in the movie and television industry.
38:42
Speaker 1: That's smart because you gotta be able to have a base,
38:46
Speaker 1: and the base has to know you exist. And so
38:48
Speaker 1: that's what you're doing right now. Because the thing about
38:51
Speaker 1: it you you you you you went to the bank.
38:53
Speaker 1: The bank said, no, what they generally do because you know,
38:55
Speaker 1: you put out a business mall. They look at you
38:57
Speaker 1: and they go, okay, tree, black dude about to open
39:00
Speaker 1: a movie theater. Okay, okay, uh key, you keep back
39:04
Speaker 1: with us next year. And and it's in it's tragic.
39:12
Speaker 1: It's tragic, you know. And and that because of the
39:14
Speaker 1: fact that because of the fact that it's not enough
39:16
Speaker 1: of us out there to say that this model will
39:19
Speaker 1: work and I have the expertise to do it. Don't
39:22
Speaker 1: look at my background, don't look at my color, look
39:25
Speaker 1: at my plan, and look at the fact that my my,
39:28
Speaker 1: my experience, this is what I do. And so that's
39:30
Speaker 1: why then you know that when when that you're probably
39:33
Speaker 1: gonna talk to me maybe a couple of times on
39:35
Speaker 1: this show. Each time, the goal is to promote your brand.
39:39
Speaker 1: Each time is to localize your brand, because in the end,
39:42
Speaker 1: you know, people are hearing this show in Los Angeles,
39:44
Speaker 1: hearing the show in Chicago. It's important that they're here
39:46
Speaker 1: to show where they can drive through your movie theater.
39:49
Speaker 1: And that's and that's why I really appreciate what you're doing.
39:54
Speaker 1: And well, I just want to say this one thing
39:56
Speaker 1: about this the trade off of what you joined. What
40:01
Speaker 1: will tell anybody who's listening, what's separate you from the
40:04
Speaker 1: normal movie theater experience. UM. I think it's one of
40:08
Speaker 1: the things that that that you talked about is that
40:10
Speaker 1: customer service based. I mean, that's one of the things
40:12
Speaker 1: that we're always driving home with our employees. And the
40:16
Speaker 1: good thing is we're seeing it interviews, Like if you've
40:19
Speaker 1: read some of the reviews, a lot of them are
40:22
Speaker 1: talking about the level of customer service that we're giving. Yeah,
40:26
Speaker 1: we we we serve food, we have for reclining seats, um,
40:29
Speaker 1: you know, nice picture quality. But they're also noticing, you know,
40:33
Speaker 1: the effort that we're putting into into customer service. And
40:37
Speaker 1: also I like the fact you said rushan A's after
40:39
Speaker 1: seven o'clock is an adult couple driven theater, because the
40:44
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40:46
Speaker 1: join the theory and go, oh my god, Okay, what
40:50
Speaker 1: why are you in here watching us with your four
40:53
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40:59
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42:32
Speaker 1: I've been watching them a long time. That's why I'm
42:34
Speaker 1: happy to have a Moon's show. When you you watched
42:36
Speaker 1: people see, I've been doing television in Hollywood's Naty too,
42:39
Speaker 1: so I've I've been able to see a lot of
42:41
Speaker 1: talent grow, a lot of top to be able to
42:43
Speaker 1: cast talent and movies and sitcoms and things like that.
42:46
Speaker 1: It's one of the young people that I missed as
42:48
Speaker 1: far as being able to work with. So having him
42:51
Speaker 1: on the phone today is really a blessing. His television
42:53
Speaker 1: and film credits include Turned, Friday Night Lights, Supernatural, The
42:57
Speaker 1: Walking Dead, The Blacklist, City of Angels, Own c S,
43:01
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43:15
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43:18
Speaker 1: on the movie. I just saw it last week at
43:20
Speaker 1: a at a screening in Atlanta, Georgia called the Brian
43:24
Speaker 1: Banks movie has been It's being promoted heavily everywhere. Please
43:27
Speaker 1: welcome to money making conversations. All this hodge. How are
43:33
Speaker 1: you doing? Okay, go come with that board? How are
43:35
Speaker 1: you doing? How are you doing this? Sir? It's really
43:42
Speaker 1: good watching your career. Man. Just just grow when you
43:44
Speaker 1: when you when you We're gonna talk about the movie.
43:46
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about the testament of what
43:48
Speaker 1: it takes to continually work as consistently as you work.
43:53
Speaker 1: Can you give any of my listeners some advice or
43:56
Speaker 1: some pointers on what you do to continually reach your dreams?
44:00
Speaker 1: And I would tell people you always reaching every day.
44:04
Speaker 1: I walk out of the house every day with a
44:05
Speaker 1: new goal. Cool. Can you can you? Can you share
44:08
Speaker 1: some I'll try to drop this quickly because I can
44:13
Speaker 1: go off forever on this stuffs go forever important. I've
44:19
Speaker 1: been in this business for thirty years, so where people
44:22
Speaker 1: are possibly discovering me now. They don't realize that it
44:26
Speaker 1: takes years of sacrifice and dedication to get to this place.
44:30
Speaker 1: Wherever you're building up different canid opportunities, and it all
44:36
Speaker 1: is sort of based on your preparation. You know, a
44:38
Speaker 1: lot of people get opportunities come their way, but they
44:40
Speaker 1: may not be prepared to handle it, so may pass by,
44:43
Speaker 1: or they may squander the actual opportunity. So you have
44:46
Speaker 1: to understand who you are and what you want out
44:48
Speaker 1: of it. Um when it comes to being an actor,
44:52
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time forget trying to be famous,
44:54
Speaker 1: trying to get money, and if that's what you want,
44:57
Speaker 1: go do something else. If you want to be an actor, entertainment,
45:00
Speaker 1: anything you want to do as a real artist at
45:02
Speaker 1: your craft, you should always seek to put more into
45:05
Speaker 1: it than you get out of it because at the
45:07
Speaker 1: end of the day, you'll get something out of it. Now,
45:09
Speaker 1: granted you can do a movie, you can get twenty
45:11
Speaker 1: million dollars, you should put fifty million dollars worth of
45:16
Speaker 1: value into that film because what's gonna be on that
45:19
Speaker 1: film is gonna last forever. People will always watch your
45:21
Speaker 1: legacy and be able to learn from it. You should
45:23
Speaker 1: want to continue to grow and elevate, and for me,
45:26
Speaker 1: I stand over the place of trying to do effective art. Hence,
45:30
Speaker 1: you know projects like on the Ground and Brian Banks
45:33
Speaker 1: I hate and figure it's like this is effective art
45:35
Speaker 1: that moves to culture in a different way because it
45:37
Speaker 1: shows and exhibits the beauty of black people, of black
45:40
Speaker 1: culture and just people in general to a degree of
45:42
Speaker 1: normal sing and gives us a voice in a different way. Now,
45:45
Speaker 1: like I said, I've been doing this thirty years. I
45:47
Speaker 1: have a firm foundation with my family, my mom, my brother,
45:50
Speaker 1: and my sister that helps immensely, especially in the dark
45:53
Speaker 1: times when the business is telling you you're not enough.
45:56
Speaker 1: I've been in rooms before as a child where you know,
45:58
Speaker 1: I've been twenty years old and audition with it like hey,
46:00
Speaker 1: you're not black enough. I'm like, what does that mean?
46:02
Speaker 1: You have to fully know your value when you're challenging
46:05
Speaker 1: a business like this that wants to strip everything about
46:08
Speaker 1: you away and replace it with something artificial. You have
46:11
Speaker 1: to demand attention for who and what you are and
46:16
Speaker 1: maintain everything that makes you special, which is already there.
46:20
Speaker 1: You don't have to fabricate it, but understand what your
46:25
Speaker 1: goal is you know, what kind of projects do you
46:28
Speaker 1: want to be a part of them? And why? You know? Really,
46:31
Speaker 1: the big question is why, why do you want to
46:34
Speaker 1: be here? Why do you want to do this? And
46:35
Speaker 1: are you prepared to make the sacrifice. There are times
46:38
Speaker 1: where I didn't work for months on end, almost a
46:40
Speaker 1: whole year, or times where I got fired for real,
46:43
Speaker 1: really awkward reasons like being uh to too popular character
46:49
Speaker 1: on the show. Um. But you can't let that beat
46:53
Speaker 1: you down because you know your why. It's substantial. Your
46:56
Speaker 1: why is what's going to carry you through, and a
46:58
Speaker 1: good reputation. Treat everyone with fairness along the way is
47:02
Speaker 1: what kind of pushes you down longevity because people will
47:08
Speaker 1: understand that, they will notice that. They will then also
47:10
Speaker 1: respect that they don't want to work yet. So understand
47:14
Speaker 1: why you're doing it, what you want to get out
47:15
Speaker 1: of it, Understand what you're trying to put into it,
47:18
Speaker 1: and keep yourself level headed and always hungry. You know,
47:22
Speaker 1: as an artist, the moment you become complacent or stop moving,
47:25
Speaker 1: you die. Your art dies because you think, well, there's
47:28
Speaker 1: no more room to grow. There's always room to grow,
47:30
Speaker 1: always something new to learn, So always be a humble
47:33
Speaker 1: student of the craft at all times. You can learn
47:37
Speaker 1: so much from a producer, from a director, you can
47:39
Speaker 1: also learn a lot from a background artist. Uh. You
47:43
Speaker 1: just have to be open and humble about how you
47:45
Speaker 1: approach everybody's positioning with respect. It's powerful, my friend, because
47:51
Speaker 1: the person who's who's been in a position to do
47:54
Speaker 1: the things you've done, the humble part really leads to
47:56
Speaker 1: your greatness. And a lot of people understand that. And
47:59
Speaker 1: the thing about when I was watching the movie, a
48:01
Speaker 1: little history about me and this project Brian Banks project,
48:04
Speaker 1: is that civil rights attorney Benjamin Cruff and I several
48:07
Speaker 1: years ago, was doing this TV show called u UH
48:11
Speaker 1: for TV Wonder that aired and we reached out to
48:14
Speaker 1: the Brian Banks people and he said, no, we got
48:16
Speaker 1: a movie project we're working on. We won't do your
48:18
Speaker 1: TV show. Okay, cool, so fast, you know as fast
48:21
Speaker 1: forward and you know fast. So I knew it a
48:23
Speaker 1: little bit about this history because the TV show is
48:25
Speaker 1: about wrongfully incarcerated people, you know, and uh, people have
48:30
Speaker 1: been in jail for no reason at all got out
48:32
Speaker 1: some sometimes they gotta check, sometimes they just gotta I'm sorry, okay.
48:36
Speaker 1: And when I was when I was invited to see
48:39
Speaker 1: this movie, so that was a kind of a personal
48:41
Speaker 1: history to the movie. When I sat down, I was
48:44
Speaker 1: and I was overjoyed to know that you were the
48:46
Speaker 1: lead character in it. Now absolutely, you know, because because
48:51
Speaker 1: I'm sitting down there and looking at them arms and
48:53
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, now he's been in the gym
48:55
Speaker 1: doing his thing. You know, it would be authentic and everything.
48:59
Speaker 1: So to me about the preparation. And then I didn't
49:03
Speaker 1: get a chance to physically meet Brian, but he did
49:06
Speaker 1: come out and talk a little bit about it, so
49:08
Speaker 1: I know that to overcome incarceration and and some of
49:12
Speaker 1: this and some of the plot storytelling of his dream
49:15
Speaker 1: kept getting knocked back, knocked back, knocked back, knocked back.
49:18
Speaker 1: How did you How were you able to sustain the
49:21
Speaker 1: reality and bring it or make it authentic to his
49:24
Speaker 1: situation and bring it on the screen. That made me
49:28
Speaker 1: not only cheer for the results even though I knew
49:30
Speaker 1: the results, I still a cheer for the results in
49:33
Speaker 1: the outcome. Thank you. Um well, it was really just Brian.
49:38
Speaker 1: He was every day. Um We talked every day, We
49:43
Speaker 1: were at the gym most days, trained for about a month,
49:48
Speaker 1: almost every single day before even got down the set
49:51
Speaker 1: start shooting, and uh, you know, we were with each
49:54
Speaker 1: other every single day throughout the shooting and you know, talking, kicking,
49:57
Speaker 1: hanging out before every scene. I would talking him about
50:00
Speaker 1: the scenario and asked me where his mindset was as
50:03
Speaker 1: he went through it. And he was just brave and
50:05
Speaker 1: vulnerable enough to go back down that dark road, that
50:08
Speaker 1: dark memory road, memory laying I mean to take me
50:12
Speaker 1: through it, and just being able to observe him and
50:16
Speaker 1: pull the honesty out of him. It's what I wanted
50:18
Speaker 1: to transform your own screen because I'm not playing a
50:20
Speaker 1: character or a characulture of him. It's a really thing,
50:25
Speaker 1: my interpretation of him. But I want to give the
50:28
Speaker 1: audience the vision of him that's most honest, given what
50:35
Speaker 1: I've seen from him personally, what he's shown me, what
50:38
Speaker 1: I've seen of him, asked he's interacted with other people.
50:41
Speaker 1: There's a light there, there's a a positivity there. There's
50:45
Speaker 1: a different sort of strengthen there that comes from having
50:51
Speaker 1: been through something and coming through the other side of impossibility.
50:56
Speaker 1: That that's hard to fabricate if you don't understand struggle.
51:00
Speaker 1: So we just had a lot of fellowship. Man and
51:03
Speaker 1: I was lucky because of the fact that he was
51:05
Speaker 1: right there and I really didn't have to figure it out,
51:08
Speaker 1: uh too much, that he was just available, you know,
51:11
Speaker 1: a sound board, and you know we connected on hardships
51:15
Speaker 1: that we both went through in our lives. That's kind
51:17
Speaker 1: of where we found synergy, you know, in our mindsets
51:22
Speaker 1: to how to try to deal with things. You know,
51:25
Speaker 1: whenever we're attacked, we feel as a whole I think
51:27
Speaker 1: we feel it as as a whole culture. So it's
51:30
Speaker 1: easy to happen to that thing because we see it
51:32
Speaker 1: all too often. And when it came to that, it
51:34
Speaker 1: was just the idea of yet again, because of what
51:41
Speaker 1: I am, everything that I am, everything that makes me
51:44
Speaker 1: naturally beautiful, it makes me meet, is being taken away
51:48
Speaker 1: simply because the world that I live in needs me,
51:55
Speaker 1: warrants me to be less than the world that I'm
51:59
Speaker 1: living in. I'm not saying that everybody and is what
52:01
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm saying in his reality dealing with you know,
52:04
Speaker 1: the police that and and and the statistics that go
52:07
Speaker 1: against in the world that he's living in pointing against
52:11
Speaker 1: him and his success um and it's to him then
52:14
Speaker 1: at that point to change it because we control our destiny,
52:17
Speaker 1: we command our value, we command our steps, and we
52:23
Speaker 1: have to actively participate in our in the potential of
52:26
Speaker 1: our future. So with that said, I just wanted to
52:30
Speaker 1: express the full range of him, from the darkest times
52:33
Speaker 1: all the way to this the most enlightened times. And
52:36
Speaker 1: in that moment, it was how much pain can want bear?
52:40
Speaker 1: How much pain can we bear as a culture? How
52:43
Speaker 1: how does that fear look when you can't do anything
52:46
Speaker 1: about the fact that you're life, your freedom, you're everything
52:50
Speaker 1: is being snatched away. We've seen the time and time
52:52
Speaker 1: and again on the news or heard from families that
52:54
Speaker 1: we may have experienced a little bit of ourselves. But
52:56
Speaker 1: it's simply was digging deep into the history that I
53:01
Speaker 1: understood as I've seen, as I've seen my culture being
53:04
Speaker 1: treated over the years. Well, gonna let you go to
53:06
Speaker 1: my brother. Thank you all this Hodge in the great
53:08
Speaker 1: movie I saw myself. Um cried up in the end,
53:11
Speaker 1: cheer standing ovation. Brian Banks is the movie. He's out there,
53:15
Speaker 1: y'all support him. I'm gonna support him. Keep winning, my man,
53:19
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53:27
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