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Wendy Raquel Robinson, Jeannie Mai, Brian White & Tony Smith · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and
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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me
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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,
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Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know, he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs,
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do.
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Speaker 1: It's what he likes to share. Now it's time to
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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here
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Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, it is ras Sean McDonald money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversations as usual. I bring top talent, top knowledge, top information.
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Speaker 1: Knowledge and information can be perceived to be the same thing,
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Speaker 1: but I disagree. It's how you get the information, and
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Speaker 1: you take that information and you shape it into some knowledge,
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Speaker 1: and you shape that knowledge into an opportunity. You shape
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Speaker 1: that opportunity into a goal, and when you make that goal,
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Speaker 1: you can start playing in success. My next guest is
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Speaker 1: a fashion expert, actress and TV personality. I first noticed
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Speaker 1: her on the show in the Style Network called How
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Speaker 1: Do I Look? Because I had a car makeover show
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Speaker 1: on the Style Network at the same time called pulled Over.
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Speaker 1: She's on the show to promote her new series, Holy
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Speaker 1: Moldy on ABC. The show premiers jew and executive and
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Speaker 1: is executive produced by NBA superstar Steph long Range Curry
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Speaker 1: of The Golden State Warris Please working with the Money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversations Emmy Award winning co host of The Real
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Speaker 1: Genie My Well, thank you. The energy is what I
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Speaker 1: expected none. You are the true energy of the Real
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Speaker 1: You know that, right? I mean, you know, I'm just
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Speaker 1: hype about life because you know, I have a great
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Speaker 1: relationship with Lonnie, you know, and I did uh the
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Speaker 1: sister sister with girl Mari many years and know both
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Speaker 1: for the girl. And then uh, then I just had
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Speaker 1: Adrian on the show and uh and and and it
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Speaker 1: was all someone you're talking about. I had to get you, well,
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Speaker 1: I had to wait on this show. Holy Moly. I
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Speaker 1: had to wait on it. The Holy Moly wasn't have
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Speaker 1: been shot yet I heard about it. So now you're
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Speaker 1: here talking about stretching out, because the thing about it
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Speaker 1: is that, like I said, really, you know, I always
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Speaker 1: look at people a body of work. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: when the Style Network was just no longer existing anymore.
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Speaker 1: That's when I first show you. And then, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I was still producing a lot of independent shows myself
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Speaker 1: and still managing Steve Harve at the same time. And
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Speaker 1: when I had pulled over, you know, you started looking
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Speaker 1: at other shows on the show and you started noticing
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Speaker 1: different talents. Well you want one of the talents that
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Speaker 1: caught my And guess what you're watching on the sideline
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Speaker 1: right Well, you know you're always trying to try You're
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know, other other ideas for
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Speaker 1: different shows. You know, who could start in different shows,
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Speaker 1: and so so you always and that still was in
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Speaker 1: the early game of reality shows. Reality shows just exploded, right,
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Speaker 1: but that was like the ear in early two thousand,
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Speaker 1: thousand four, two thousand five time frame. And so because
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Speaker 1: I left New York and I did a barbershop show
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Speaker 1: for MTV It's called The Shop, which is the same
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Speaker 1: type of show that that Lebron James is doing right
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Speaker 1: now on HBO. And so yeah, so so I saw
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Speaker 1: you and I went wow, you know, it was beyond
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Speaker 1: you know, you know us attractive, articulate, but your energy
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Speaker 1: is what sold me that. Thank you absolutely. And so
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Speaker 1: when I see you on the reel now and putting
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Speaker 1: that energy to its golf man, it's crazy. And then
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I have so much energy on the reel.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, being able to be um on
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Speaker 1: the show that talks about women, you know about teaches
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Speaker 1: men out there what they need to know about. I
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Speaker 1: had to bring my energy to Holy moly, it just
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Speaker 1: made sense. Emmy Emmy Award winning. Okay, let's go. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna get these titles, right, Emmy Award winning Genie. Now
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Speaker 1: you got at the house, right, you gotta get the
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Speaker 1: trophy because I got Now it's representing Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: it's just a lot of problem. My mom polishes that
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Speaker 1: you go because I got mine at the house and
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Speaker 1: sit in the fireplace. You know, they look at they
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Speaker 1: look at me. That's that's because they're not passing those out.
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Speaker 1: And then you have to realize that they're not passing
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Speaker 1: those out. And when you when you warned the honor
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Speaker 1: and continue to understand that it's a true blessing, but
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Speaker 1: they're not passing them out, and so so they might
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Speaker 1: do them local, these little local marks. But Jewels was
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Speaker 1: national and it was well deserved. Yeah, we killed it.
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Speaker 1: I say, Menny love to Memoi Housily Adrian Hill. We
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Speaker 1: killed it. We really looked hard for it, and we
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Speaker 1: have an amazing team that aims to please everything we
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Speaker 1: dream about. They bring to Truition Um an amazing executive producer,
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Speaker 1: Like just every single person on the team helped us
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Speaker 1: get to where we are. So it's it's it's a
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Speaker 1: it's seriously just the beginning seeing it right there. Now
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Speaker 1: let's talk about holy mom. Let me give me a
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Speaker 1: little background by Rashan McDonald. This is kind of like
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Speaker 1: advanced put put golf right, both put golf on steroids
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Speaker 1: at my room. Yes exactly, Yes, that's exactly it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so so put put golf. I have to say, in
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Speaker 1: college was my number one dating place, no way of shin.
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. I could hear that about that.
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Speaker 1: You know, you sound like a person who types about
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Speaker 1: having a little different fun and you know, something that
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Speaker 1: to bring some adventure into any date. I could see
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Speaker 1: that it was the number one committee was like it
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Speaker 1: was so cool because you know, you could actually talk
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Speaker 1: to your date and get close to your date as well.
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Speaker 1: And then it was it was like it was it
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Speaker 1: was outdoors and and and I always felt so to
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Speaker 1: see this on a national platform, I'm really excited because
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Speaker 1: I know how much fun I personally had and and
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Speaker 1: I was good at that. I was good at it that.
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Speaker 1: So to see you now, are you what is your
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Speaker 1: put put game level? Yeah? So, I mean I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: boss if I say to myself, because I make it fun.
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Speaker 1: It's not just getting a hole in one. Then your
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Speaker 1: golf is all about the composition, the personality, taking each
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Speaker 1: other on the fashion, the ability to kind of break
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Speaker 1: down every hole and make it a fun experience, just
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Speaker 1: you know, from the way you play it. So being
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Speaker 1: the sideline correspondent to hold Molly was a perfect job
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Speaker 1: for me because I basically come and I bring the flag. Um,
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Speaker 1: you have all these contestants that are that we found
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Speaker 1: from across the globe to come and compete for twenty
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Speaker 1: five thou dollars. They also are competing against our executive producers,
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Speaker 1: that's Curry. So there's so many elements that make you
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Speaker 1: bring your a game and it's a crazy game. All
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Speaker 1: the holes are basically made larger than life. The wooden mills.
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Speaker 1: There are wooden mills that knocked people out on their
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Speaker 1: back there's floating toilips that give you a nice cushion
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Speaker 1: for your fall. There are three story foot drops into
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Speaker 1: freezing cold maagoons. There's glaciers that you guys slip and
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Speaker 1: slide your way up in order to fight a polar
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Speaker 1: bear to fut your hole in. It's it's insane. I
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Speaker 1: have never in my life seen anything like this. But
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Speaker 1: it also makes me wonder why the hell does it
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Speaker 1: take so long, because ministry called should be at this level.
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Speaker 1: It is so much fun. Well, okay, first of all,
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Speaker 1: you just grab things I've never experienced, so which is
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Speaker 1: a great thing. And so you said a glazier, uh,
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Speaker 1: three foot drops, you said the waterfall, you said the
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Speaker 1: windmill that will knock you down. Okay, okay, this is sound,
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Speaker 1: this is done. That sounds fun. But before, I before
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Speaker 1: we're going to further detail, you mentioned Steph Curry. I
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Speaker 1: know he has it. I know he loves to play
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Speaker 1: golf personally. So now he's in there, they're competing against him,
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Speaker 1: or he's just the host, they're competing against him, but
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Speaker 1: he's also the executive producer. So there's a moment where
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Speaker 1: every contestant has to make a decision on whether or
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Speaker 1: not they want to play again, or they want to
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Speaker 1: have Stef Curry touch for them, or they want a
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Speaker 1: robot to put for them. So Steth Curry actually go
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Speaker 1: against a robot, which goes to show how good he
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Speaker 1: is that golf because the robot has accuracy, so you
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Speaker 1: would be usually surprised. Okay, So now you, my friend,
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Speaker 1: did you play at all? Are you just? Man? I
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Speaker 1: bring it, Kimmy, and I also not only killed it
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Speaker 1: at some of my strokes, but I go ahead to
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Speaker 1: ahead with pretty big celebrity who I had my eye after,
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Speaker 1: and let me tell you, I did not go away upset.
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Speaker 1: I definitely won that. You're gonna have to wait and
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Speaker 1: see who it is I put again. Okay, Okay, now
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Speaker 1: so you action because you only mentioned Slot Sideline reporter
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Speaker 1: at first. So you're out there throwing down with the
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Speaker 1: with the putter yourself. Because I'm messy like that, I
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Speaker 1: had to get into it even though I'm just the
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Speaker 1: host of me. I'm only going to sit down host
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Speaker 1: like you know, I have to get up in it too.
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Speaker 1: Now that that's what I love about this. So so,
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Speaker 1: because you know, I watch other shows like American Ninja
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Speaker 1: where the host of truly on the sidelines. They on
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Speaker 1: the sideline, they just point, They just talking about what
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Speaker 1: they see. No, not this one. Nope, I get into it.
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Speaker 1: I definitely do because I had to. It's so much
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Speaker 1: fun when you see it though. The course is unbelievable,
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Speaker 1: so it makes you want to jump in and get
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Speaker 1: in there and get yourself a little dirty with everybody else.
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Speaker 1: One thing once Skills said, you have your very descriptive
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Speaker 1: in your tone. So walk us through a typical Holy Holy,
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Speaker 1: I guess the contest. How does it start? And how
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Speaker 1: many holes is it? And what are the point are
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Speaker 1: the point? Is there a point system? Because you mentioned
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Speaker 1: the kids, you mentioned why where are they standing there? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: So the entire course takes place in Santa Clarita, which
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Speaker 1: it's huge. I mean we're talking I think of like
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Speaker 1: maybe ten of your major golf courses all put together.
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Speaker 1: It's massive. You can't see from one end of the
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Speaker 1: course to the other. And every hole has a very
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Speaker 1: specific strategic way of kind of taking you around the world.
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Speaker 1: So we have a little bit of that challenge. We
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Speaker 1: take you to the coldest outsit the ice glaciers. Um,
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Speaker 1: we take you through a logger's run um, you know,
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Speaker 1: with um some huge tumbling blogs that come and take
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Speaker 1: you down. So each hole is crafted so you have
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Speaker 1: a really cool experience that unlike anything you've ever seen,
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Speaker 1: larger than life. All in good fun, but definitely you're
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Speaker 1: going to get um mac laft or spun in some
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Speaker 1: type of way. And so these golfers go head to
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Speaker 1: head as they count down each week towards the winning
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Speaker 1: dollars and being able to say that they are the
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Speaker 1: champion of Minister Golf. They get to compete with people
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Speaker 1: like Steph Curry and other celebrity guests that we had
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Speaker 1: every single week. I can't believe I had a couple
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Speaker 1: of pro golfers too. Actually, a kind of fan goes
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Speaker 1: a little bit ran up through without pictures and everything.
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Speaker 1: The entire game, Yeah, the entire game is a trip, man,
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Speaker 1: because you just you can't believe what people will go
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Speaker 1: through to prove that they are the best at golf.
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Speaker 1: And then you also can't believe what the human body
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Speaker 1: can endure when you see some of these holes take
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Speaker 1: them down. It's crazy. So now, now how did this
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Speaker 1: maybe two days might be a producer courtion. How did
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Speaker 1: they get the contestants. How did they get me to commit? No, No,
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Speaker 1: the contestants who play the game, how did they find them?
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Speaker 1: Because it feels like they had to. They feel like
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Speaker 1: they had a huge world white search, search the class
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Speaker 1: America to find the most passionate people for ministerr Golf. Wow,
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Speaker 1: here we are, so you're telling about there there these
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Speaker 1: are like the best of the best and miniature golf world.
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Speaker 1: That's right for the most passionate. I would say the
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Speaker 1: most cassionate. And so yes, some of champions in their
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Speaker 1: own challenge. Okay, so Rushan should have been there. Rushan
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Speaker 1: should have been there, you know, fighting with the with
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Speaker 1: the glaciers, finding fight, fighting it there with the windmill.
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Speaker 1: That you have some very descriptive journeys on this course.
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Speaker 1: Now you're talking about the windmill. The windmill that what
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Speaker 1: you as as a breeze tie too it or what
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Speaker 1: is it? Or what is the most adventurous hole? I
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Speaker 1: guess you could say top three most adventurous holes that
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Speaker 1: that that that the contestant would have to endure to
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Speaker 1: complete the course. The most difficult hole would probably be
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Speaker 1: the that's challenge is it's a huge wind now that
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Speaker 1: is going at that you think looks easy going, but
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Speaker 1: when you stand up next year and you've got to
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Speaker 1: jump through, no amount of jump rope or double duch
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Speaker 1: is going to prepare you for this right and when
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Speaker 1: this wind will hit you. I saw human beings fly
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Speaker 1: in different shapes and colors. I was dying it was
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Speaker 1: And the funny thing is you can absolutely laugh. It's
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Speaker 1: the first time you have permission to last like people
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Speaker 1: so well. I want to thank everybody for I want
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Speaker 1: to thank you Jeannie for coming on my show, and
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Speaker 1: I want to remind everybody to check out Holy Moly
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Speaker 1: on ABC is hosted by is that could be a
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Speaker 1: boost by a man and Steph Curry. So you need
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Speaker 1: to do your thing. I appreciate you. Okay, thank you, Rashan,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much. I can't wait to see you
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. My next guest. Uh, excited about it?
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Speaker 1: I read it. I read an article about my next
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Speaker 1: guest in the Triple A magazine of Texas. Triple A
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Speaker 1: stands for the American Automobile Association, and their magazine feature
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Speaker 1: stories about local businesses in Texas. The business that Triple
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Speaker 1: A magazine feature was Jarvis Boards, a surfboard company based
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Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas, and his owner is an African American.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to moneymaking Conversations. The owner of Jarvis Boards,
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Speaker 1: Tony Smith. Thank you for having me, Tony. How are
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Speaker 1: you doing, my friend, I'm doing great. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: having me on. Oh yeah, Well, I've been a member
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Speaker 1: of Triple A for about what it's about eighty five?
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Speaker 1: Could I be used to be a road comic and
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Speaker 1: so I always on the road, So I knew I
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Speaker 1: need to Triple A just in case my car broke down.
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Speaker 1: So I've been an avid reader, uh and receiving the
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Speaker 1: Triple A magazine on a monthly basis, And I came
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Speaker 1: across your article and I felt your story is compelling
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Speaker 1: because of the fact that you're venturing as an entrepreneur
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Speaker 1: in an environment that one would consider that shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: an environment that you should venture into. But I wanted
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Speaker 1: to tell your story because one, you are Houstonian. Let's
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Speaker 1: get that out. Because I'm a Houstonian by the way. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's funny. Um. You know, I grew up in Houston,
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Speaker 1: and everybody at my parents church and neighborhood back in
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Speaker 1: Acres Homes in Houston came over and saw us in
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Speaker 1: Triple and magazine and they're all excited to shoot my
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Speaker 1: parents and talk to my parents about it. Um. So
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Speaker 1: that that that piece of press has been been great
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Speaker 1: for us, and it was a conduitor and that you
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Speaker 1: and I which is exciting absolutely. Um. Acre's home was
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Speaker 1: on the north side of Houston, as the mayor of
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Speaker 1: Houston is from Acre's home. Just let you know, as
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Speaker 1: a pretty thriving community. UM. From phil War Texas in
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Speaker 1: Houston and uh two communities MoMA like in the kind
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Speaker 1: of like in the heart of Houston. And now, what
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Speaker 1: school did you go to college? Uh? So I went
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Speaker 1: to Trinity University in San Antonio, UM, and then would
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Speaker 1: would come up to Austin, Texas to go rock climbing
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Speaker 1: all the time and just kind of fell in love
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Speaker 1: with the outdoor lifestyle. And Austin and moved to Austin
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Speaker 1: and begin my career in finance in two thousands fives. Okay,
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Speaker 1: now let's just talk about rock climbing. Okay, Now, you
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Speaker 1: know you've gotta be honest. This is I'm African American.
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Speaker 1: African American. Okay, rock climbing, boards, surfing out there in
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Speaker 1: the water. That's not what we will typically assume an
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Speaker 1: African American do. Correct. That that's correct, and that's uh,
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Speaker 1: that's one of the driving forces for me personally for
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Speaker 1: the company Vision company brand and why I'm so avid about,
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Speaker 1: you know, pushing the sport and and pushing Jervis boards
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Speaker 1: is you know this, this African American experience doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to be a narrow path of of of activities. Um
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Speaker 1: with with a lot more people adventuring outdoors and rock climbing, surfing,
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Speaker 1: paddle boarding, all of those are just fun, great athletic
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Speaker 1: activities that are enjoyable, um that I enjoyed personally. And
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Speaker 1: I want, you know, when when my kids twenty thirty
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Speaker 1: years old, for people to not be having the conversation saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's not a not an African American thing, or you know,
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Speaker 1: black people don't don't do X y Z UM. You know,
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Speaker 1: I want to be on sort of that leading edge
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Speaker 1: if you will, well, you're on the leading edge. I'll
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Speaker 1: let you know that I'm acting like you're not on
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Speaker 1: the leading edge. You're all on the edge, my friend.
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Speaker 1: And it's funny when I when I told my mom
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Speaker 1: that I wonder if to start a company building paddle board,
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Speaker 1: She's like, what's the paddle board? Talk? Talked about listeners
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Speaker 1: and educate them or exactly what your company does? Yees.
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Speaker 1: So Jarvis Boards, what we do is we bill stand
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Speaker 1: up paddle boards UM. But specifically our stand up poddle
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Speaker 1: boards are made out of wood, so they have a
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Speaker 1: really high end, unique look with a lot of them
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Speaker 1: customizable with different graphics logos. You know, we've built UH
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Speaker 1: boards for a number of celebrities and UM athletes, UH
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Speaker 1: and and CEOs of companies and so they'll customize them
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Speaker 1: with with whatever detail or logo they like. UM and
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Speaker 1: that's what really makes us unique. One. You know, our
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Speaker 1: boards are made in the States here in Austin, Texas too.
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Speaker 1: They're customizable and three um, they're made out of wood,
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Speaker 1: so they have this really premium, high end look UM.
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Speaker 1: As far as poddle boarding as a sport, you know,
18:34
Speaker 1: it's the fastest growing water sport in the country. UM,
18:37
Speaker 1: that's just exploded in popularity in the last nine ten years.
18:41
Speaker 1: It can be enjoyed, you know at the ocean, surfing,
18:44
Speaker 1: inland lakes and rivers for fishing. Um, you can do yoga,
18:49
Speaker 1: just hang out and relax. A lot of our poddle
18:52
Speaker 1: boards that we sell we put in cup holders so
18:54
Speaker 1: you can just hang out on the water and have
18:56
Speaker 1: a nice cold one for yourself to be like Jarvis,
19:00
Speaker 1: you're going too far, my friend the couples about that. Now,
19:03
Speaker 1: let's let's get a little bit more impadable paddle board
19:06
Speaker 1: and you're standing up correct and then you got correct.
19:09
Speaker 1: You got this long paddle and you go on left
19:11
Speaker 1: right and moving yourself. So people need to know you
19:15
Speaker 1: kind of need to be in prepared to stand a lot,
19:19
Speaker 1: you know when you pad the board all right, that's right. Um,
19:24
Speaker 1: you know, think of it as like a giant surfboard. Uh.
19:26
Speaker 1: And a lot of people see it and they're intimidated.
19:29
Speaker 1: On my Instagram, I have a story that I did,
19:33
Speaker 1: uh when Bruce Bowen came up. He's an NBA spur retired.
19:37
Speaker 1: Now he came up and warning and unfortunately three times
19:43
Speaker 1: taken out and go piddle warning for the Joe the time.
19:51
Speaker 1: Um ye can hear me? All right, Tony, I want
19:53
Speaker 1: to let you know, let's let's back up a little
19:55
Speaker 1: bit on this Jarvis board and Bruce Bones. Okay, let's
19:58
Speaker 1: let's really multi fact Jarvis ball. Okay, Bruce boyn he
20:02
Speaker 1: kind of like to say he was. This guy was
20:03
Speaker 1: Santa to you. Three times NBA Defensive Player of the
20:07
Speaker 1: Year for the San Antonio Spoard. Let's give using them
20:09
Speaker 1: HiPE now, Tony, Okay, you know jobs boy, you know
20:13
Speaker 1: I read about your article. He's a big deal now
20:16
Speaker 1: because he kind of threw him my thoughts. He's bilingual.
20:18
Speaker 1: You know it's Bruce Board is a bad boy. Okay,
20:21
Speaker 1: came up to your shop now, I'm just sending it.
20:23
Speaker 1: Came up to Jarvis Boards. So let's set a tone
20:25
Speaker 1: that three time NBA defensive player that you came to
20:28
Speaker 1: your location. Yes, yes, that's right. And and I'll add
20:33
Speaker 1: he was absolutely the coolest, most laid back down the
20:37
Speaker 1: earth guy that you can you can imagine, Um, you
20:40
Speaker 1: know you just talking to him, you would never think
20:43
Speaker 1: he's three times you know NBA defenseive player, Like he
20:47
Speaker 1: was just so down the earth and cool and laid
20:49
Speaker 1: back and funny that it was just you know, like
20:52
Speaker 1: taking out anybody else to go piddle boarding for the
20:54
Speaker 1: first time. But but but we, uh, you know, go
20:58
Speaker 1: out and he's he's a he's a big beauty's tall.
21:00
Speaker 1: He's a little bit nervous, but you know, he's athletic
21:02
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he's tent. And he gets on
21:04
Speaker 1: the board and I give him a few five ten
21:07
Speaker 1: minutes tutorial. We hop on, he starts battling, and then
21:11
Speaker 1: you know, by the by the first hour, he's cracking
21:14
Speaker 1: jokes and we're having a good time. So one of
21:16
Speaker 1: the cool things about the sport is how accessible it
21:20
Speaker 1: is for wide range of people and athletic types. Right,
21:25
Speaker 1: So I've sold boards too. You know, one of my
21:27
Speaker 1: favorite customers here and in Austin, Texas. This was my
21:31
Speaker 1: early early days when I was just getting started, still
21:34
Speaker 1: working my day job in finance, but she bought one
21:37
Speaker 1: of my boards. Are actually our husband bought it for
21:39
Speaker 1: as a retirement yestum. She's a grandmother of six. I
21:43
Speaker 1: think she was like sixty seven years old at the
21:45
Speaker 1: time and just a sweet older lady. And uh, we
21:49
Speaker 1: still send each other Christmas cards. You know that that's
21:51
Speaker 1: one of the the cool things about the sport is
21:54
Speaker 1: making those personal connections and and and engaging with people
21:57
Speaker 1: and learning their stories and being able to build a physical,
22:01
Speaker 1: tangible product that they can love using enjoy. Absolutely the
22:06
Speaker 1: the thing that they're really excited me about getting you
22:08
Speaker 1: on the show. And thank you for taking the time
22:10
Speaker 1: to come on the show. I'm speaking to Tony Smith.
22:12
Speaker 1: He's based in Austin, Texas. He's the owner of Jarvis
22:16
Speaker 1: boards is. Uh, the paddle boards is which is a
22:18
Speaker 1: growing sport and um and outdoor adventure entertainment. And so
22:23
Speaker 1: the thing that you you made a decision to go
22:26
Speaker 1: into this, tell everybody how you got started, because you
22:28
Speaker 1: started out building a canoe, correct, and then then this
22:30
Speaker 1: evolved into this. See you just had that that then
22:34
Speaker 1: instinct to work with your hands, and it started with
22:36
Speaker 1: a canoe. Yeah, so it even really starts, um, you
22:41
Speaker 1: know before then uh, and you know, I do a
22:43
Speaker 1: little bit of homework about you, and you're sort of
22:45
Speaker 1: unconventional story of of you know, IBM to to leaving
22:49
Speaker 1: that day job to focus on your passion of you know,
22:51
Speaker 1: stand up media and um, my road is a little
22:54
Speaker 1: bit similar. You know. Growing up in Houston, my dad
22:58
Speaker 1: had a construction company and so we you I grew
23:01
Speaker 1: up in the family business doing stuff with our hands
23:03
Speaker 1: all the time, you know, uh, restoring cars and building
23:07
Speaker 1: model rockets and just all sorts of hands on just
23:10
Speaker 1: building stuff. You know, I absolutely loved it. Went away.
23:14
Speaker 1: I got a degree in finance. Um, I'm not really
23:16
Speaker 1: sure why I did that. Did that and you know,
23:21
Speaker 1: I was working in finance for about ten years or
23:23
Speaker 1: so and worked for a number of big asset managers
23:27
Speaker 1: and had great stable careers there, but there was just
23:31
Speaker 1: that teeth missing right of of building things, and that
23:35
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial bug and entrepreneurial spirit just kind of wasn't there. Okay,
23:40
Speaker 1: when is it? When are you going to have the
23:41
Speaker 1: first Javish boards paddleboard raced in awestome texts? You know,
23:47
Speaker 1: I don't know if we will do a race. That's
23:50
Speaker 1: something that we thought about. What we have done a
23:53
Speaker 1: good bit of that's been a win. When Um, that
23:56
Speaker 1: I appreciate personally is uh tying our else to charitable
24:01
Speaker 1: events and causes Um, even a loaning boards out for
24:06
Speaker 1: you know he've done some river clean up things here,
24:09
Speaker 1: or donating a customized board. Um. Like I said, we
24:13
Speaker 1: were with the Maui Jam invitation excuse me basketball tournament
24:18
Speaker 1: in Hawaii. Um, and you know we donated some boards
24:22
Speaker 1: to that cause and got a little bit of ESPN
24:24
Speaker 1: coverage and um. You know, I was able to meet J.
24:27
Speaker 1: Billis and hang out with Bill Walton and that sort
24:29
Speaker 1: of stuff, which is is great because we raised you know,
24:32
Speaker 1: thirty thou knowledge from the Maui Food Bank. But it's
24:34
Speaker 1: also great for Jarvis Boards because Smiths he just throws
24:44
Speaker 1: out names, not listening. The power of the relationship. J.
24:48
Speaker 1: Billis is the college basketball voice for ESPN. Bill Walton
24:55
Speaker 1: in eighteen seventy seven lead Portland Trail Baylors to the
24:59
Speaker 1: NBA Championship and also led the Boston Celtics to an
25:03
Speaker 1: NBA championship and it's an NBA Hall of Famer he is. Yeah,
25:09
Speaker 1: And again he was just so down the earth and
25:13
Speaker 1: so cool. You know, he met with him in the ESPN,
25:16
Speaker 1: came into fel them and all that stuff, and I
25:18
Speaker 1: probably spent a good fifty minutes just chatting with him
25:22
Speaker 1: like you know anybody else? Um and uh yeah, just
25:26
Speaker 1: a cool guy. You're a cool guy, Tony. I'm gonna
25:29
Speaker 1: tell you a cool guy. You're down to earth and
25:31
Speaker 1: I love being able to promote you. I love to
25:33
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25:35
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25:38
Speaker 1: appreciate it coming on my show Money Make Conversation. That's
25:40
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25:43
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25:56
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25:59
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38:47
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38:50
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44:44
Speaker 1: how are you? Thank you for having me on? Well,
44:46
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you, man. Let's let's let's let's
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Speaker 1: talk about the wet right now. You're you? Are you?
44:51
Speaker 1: You send at the house? You you do? You're acting
44:53
Speaker 1: on some set? What's going on? Man's yeah, right now
44:57
Speaker 1: I'm at the house. We were getting some work done. Um,
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Speaker 1: get ready to head out on the road and promote ambitions.
45:03
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45:05
Speaker 1: family with me. My wife's family, she's from Argentina, some
45:08
Speaker 1: of her family lives in Miami. Sort of bringing my
45:11
Speaker 1: daughter so they can meet them, and uh, you know,
45:14
Speaker 1: just celebrate the life being good. Well, you know that's
45:19
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a lot of good eating meat, meat, meat. Yeah, yeah,
45:25
Speaker 1: a lot of seafood, a lot of seafood down there. Absolutely.
45:28
Speaker 1: So when you when you start looking at your career,
45:30
Speaker 1: all right, I'll go through your resume and I put
45:33
Speaker 1: your father's name, Jojo White, and being a sports fan,
45:36
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45:41
Speaker 1: meet Jojo White, watching him succeed in the climate of Boston,
45:47
Speaker 1: watching him succeed on a basketball team like the Boston Celtics.
45:52
Speaker 1: What was that like? Because for me it was important
45:54
Speaker 1: because he was a successful African American succeeding against the
45:58
Speaker 1: odds and succeeding and fronment that that that made me
46:02
Speaker 1: feel that I can make it too. Yeah it uh,
46:06
Speaker 1: I mean it was very educational. Uh. It was also
46:10
Speaker 1: very challenging because my parents were divorced when I was four. Um,
46:14
Speaker 1: I was close with my dad, but I lived and
46:15
Speaker 1: was raised by my mom, and so you know, I
46:19
Speaker 1: when I wasn't with my father, I was a witness,
46:23
Speaker 1: you know, like a fan watching on TV the light
46:26
Speaker 1: that was happening. But I was very aware of it
46:28
Speaker 1: because he was not living in Boston. Uh in my
46:32
Speaker 1: in my teen years, but he was always in the
46:33
Speaker 1: Boston papers. Uh in my you know, when I was
46:36
Speaker 1: eight nine and ten. Still he's still playing and uh,
46:39
Speaker 1: you know, I'm aware of everything he's doing, but I
46:41
Speaker 1: just can't see him as much. Um. You know, we
46:43
Speaker 1: didn't have Uh we were texting all day the way
46:46
Speaker 1: we are now. The word work. There was a video
46:48
Speaker 1: so you know, if there was a window, you know,
46:50
Speaker 1: half hour a day when Dad was free on the phone,
46:52
Speaker 1: when I was free on a hardline phone and we
46:54
Speaker 1: could talk, but that wasn't often. So UM, I learned
46:58
Speaker 1: how this kind of lifestyle that I'm in now works
47:02
Speaker 1: and how it can work better. Uh when with the
47:06
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47:09
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47:11
Speaker 1: h has an even better experience than maybe my siblings
47:15
Speaker 1: and I did with the with the challenges of distance.
47:18
Speaker 1: And by the same token, I learned all the great
47:22
Speaker 1: ways my dad uh maneuvered through space. I learned through
47:26
Speaker 1: his his lessons. He was in the sixty eight panem
47:29
Speaker 1: Games and in the sixty nine Olympics, and that that's
47:33
Speaker 1: the black Gobl Olympics movie. Glory Road is about that.
47:36
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the things I learned from
47:38
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47:41
Speaker 1: my dad did not get on that podium. Don't uh
47:46
Speaker 1: let your fans know about your politics and your opinions
47:49
Speaker 1: before you've won them some trophies. Uh, they don't care.
47:53
Speaker 1: That very clear to his number one draft pick in
47:56
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixty nine that that that's something that
47:59
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48:01
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48:06
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48:09
Speaker 1: more than that. Um, and you know, recognizing his place
48:13
Speaker 1: and his position and and always being happy to be
48:16
Speaker 1: a part of something positive. It is an asset that
48:19
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48:22
Speaker 1: as something that's very valuable. Congratulations, because I guess what
48:26
Speaker 1: what I thank you, you know, because I guess what
48:29
Speaker 1: what individuals do when you have so few role models,
48:32
Speaker 1: and you know, back then, you know, you have a
48:34
Speaker 1: lot of role model because of social media, because the media,
48:36
Speaker 1: because of the way the system works nowadays, that relationships
48:40
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48:43
Speaker 1: on who you can talk to, limited on how you
48:45
Speaker 1: can talk to him and where you can go. And
48:47
Speaker 1: because of the fact that he was featured in a
48:49
Speaker 1: market and Boston had a lot of success with a
48:51
Speaker 1: lot of African American talent, but he was definitely in
48:54
Speaker 1: a market that was perceived to be not favorable to
48:57
Speaker 1: the African Americans and he exceeds very much so and
49:02
Speaker 1: what he what I think that the lesson at the
49:04
Speaker 1: you know, when I look at the when I reflect
49:06
Speaker 1: from now in hindsight, what Dad didn't do is he
49:10
Speaker 1: he didn't talk a lot. He walks off and carried
49:12
Speaker 1: a big stick. And so in the beginning of his career,
49:15
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49:18
Speaker 1: the number one draft picks and as soon as you know,
49:22
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49:25
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49:29
Speaker 1: started doing the things with red support at that point
49:32
Speaker 1: that we're quote unquote appropriate and just what it taught
49:34
Speaker 1: me was a lot with the social media era, where
49:37
Speaker 1: everybody leads with how great they are when you know
49:40
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Speaker 1: they're worried about being famous or being recognized for that greatness.
49:48
Speaker 1: And and that's the opposite of the approach that I
49:51
Speaker 1: was shown and demonstrated by my father, and and the
49:55
Speaker 1: approach that I tried to apply to my craft currently,
49:58
Speaker 1: which seems to be the opposite of you know, the
50:02
Speaker 1: motto or the credo not real, not really, because every
50:06
Speaker 1: role you play I watch, your credit or your career
50:08
Speaker 1: is yours. Dignity is strength. Uh. You articulate, you're a
50:13
Speaker 1: good looking guy. Uh, and you always come across as
50:16
Speaker 1: a strong, a strong, independent person and no matter how
50:20
Speaker 1: extreme your characters are. And uh, I just wanted to
50:23
Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk about your father, and we're
50:25
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50:26
Speaker 1: the fact that it was referencing his dad, the legendary
50:30
Speaker 1: Boston Celtic star Jojo White, and how the impact he
50:33
Speaker 1: played on the community as a player and also on
50:36
Speaker 1: in his personal life. But more importantly, when I look
50:38
Speaker 1: at your characters that you play now, it explains a
50:41
Speaker 1: little bit about you, know, your your physicality. It also
50:44
Speaker 1: explains your daring its you know, because one of the
50:46
Speaker 1: favorite characters that you that I recently saw you play
50:50
Speaker 1: was on Ray Donovan and uh, and how do you
50:56
Speaker 1: prepare for a crazy character like that? I'll let you
51:01
Speaker 1: in on a couple of secrets. David Hollander, Uh, the
51:04
Speaker 1: creator of Ray Donovan. UH, gave me the opportunity in
51:07
Speaker 1: season one to to join the show. And Uh. As
51:11
Speaker 1: season one went on, we had a lot of fun
51:13
Speaker 1: and he came to me and he said, hey, you
51:15
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51:19
Speaker 1: dout of it. And I said, that's how I saw it,
51:21
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51:23
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51:27
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51:30
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51:33
Speaker 1: he goes, all right, exactly, so I have some things
51:35
Speaker 1: in mind for season two and you know, just so,
51:39
Speaker 1: are you open to play and to go with me
51:41
Speaker 1: if I get pretty crazy? And I absolutely, Man, I'll
51:43
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51:46
Speaker 1: to me over the summer and said, we don't have
51:48
Speaker 1: a lot of He actually said this, he said, we
51:50
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of writers of color on the
51:52
Speaker 1: staff and they don't have any. And he said, we'd
51:55
Speaker 1: like to you know, I would never uh be outlandish
52:00
Speaker 1: as to try to create the dialogue for you and
52:02
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52:05
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52:08
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52:11
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52:13
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52:17
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52:21
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52:24
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52:28
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52:30
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52:33
Speaker 1: to help ground it a little bit more because it
52:35
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52:38
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52:41
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52:44
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52:48
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52:52
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52:54
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52:57
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53:00
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53:05
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53:08
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53:14
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