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

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Speaker 1: My next quest I've known for a very long time.
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Speaker 1: Nephew Tommy A K. Thomas Miles. I made him when
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Speaker 1: he was Thomas Biles. So that's how I fall back
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Speaker 1: we go. His career includes radio, television, film, prank, Phone Call,
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Speaker 1: Soul Dot, Comedy Dates, and he is hosting owns relationship
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Speaker 1: show Ready for Love by the Incredible super super producer
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Speaker 1: Will Paca. Nephew Tommy co host the nationally syndicated Steve
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Speaker 1: Harfe Morning Show, and his new food line include grits
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Speaker 1: two flavors, hard and soul and spicy. Love the website
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Speaker 1: right now, I said soul that so it's called J
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Speaker 1: Good Grits. But next month he's dropping the whole new
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Speaker 1: product line with it, and so you'll be able to buy,
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Speaker 1: probably be able to buy when this episode airs. Please
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Speaker 1: work with the money making conversation A K. Thomas Miles.
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Speaker 1: Nephew Tommy, I just wanna do it that way. How
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Speaker 1: you doing, really good, man, really good? I was excited, man.
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Speaker 1: You know, they sent me your bio and they send
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Speaker 1: a list of questions and everything. But you know, I
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Speaker 1: zee a few times. We're gonna talk about Ready for love,
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Speaker 1: but I see it in right on them grits, brother,
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Speaker 1: the grits and those grits, you know what preside. I
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Speaker 1: had no idea. I I um hardening up with this
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Speaker 1: guy in Houston, who's who, who's been cooking for years,
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Speaker 1: and I wanted am I needed an extra turkey for
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and and never met this guy before in my life.
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Speaker 1: I bought a turkey from it, and when I was leaving,
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Speaker 1: he said, hey, do you like grits. I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I love gritz You said, well take this season and
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Speaker 1: put it in your grits next time your wife cuts
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Speaker 1: grits for you. I said all right, and I never
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Speaker 1: got around to it. The guy calls me back and says, hey,
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Speaker 1: did you did you try the grid? Seas If like, nah,
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Speaker 1: I'm done it yet, and and then I don't know.
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Speaker 1: A week later, I told my wife, hey, let's try
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Speaker 1: these grids. Bruce Sean. When I tried those grids, and
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Speaker 1: oh my god, you got something. And you know, he
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Speaker 1: and I went back and forth collaborating on changing the
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Speaker 1: seasoning and changing this and that, and we finally got
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Speaker 1: what we want. So um, that heart and soul is
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Speaker 1: the original, and that that that uh that that that
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Speaker 1: spicy one is the next one behind, and then I
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Speaker 1: gotta go. You know, you know is always a grits debate,
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Speaker 1: right right right? You want sugar in your grips debate? No,
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Speaker 1: So so I'm coming up with Sweden sassy so we
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Speaker 1: can have Okay, okay, so we got the whole world
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Speaker 1: of grits coming man. So next month, be on the lookout.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be calling you on. But I'm gonna want
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Speaker 1: to be on here again so I can talk about
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Speaker 1: these grits. Well, first of all, you know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna turn your weight well talking about grits because both
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Speaker 1: of us from Houston, Texas, so we Southern boys. And
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Speaker 1: so because grit's, man, you know, you get the real
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Speaker 1: black people, the black people in the you know that
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Speaker 1: grit stuff, that grit talk because you know, we forgot
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Speaker 1: the bacon and grease, the bacon grease. They go with
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Speaker 1: grits to man, because grits has so much love to remember, Steve,
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Speaker 1: Steve Arby's the love when I cook grits because you
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Speaker 1: know I can cook grit So when I saw grits
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Speaker 1: as part of your you know, your entupitturity, newership. You
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Speaker 1: know you can. You get a lot of what you do,
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Speaker 1: T shirts, you do, prank phone calls, you do a
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Speaker 1: lot of great things. But but to go into this
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Speaker 1: venture called Just Good Grits, that's grit with a Z
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Speaker 1: dot com. You can go check it out right now,
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Speaker 1: Just Good Grits Z instead of the S dot com.
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Speaker 1: You can see right now. It has hard and soul
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Speaker 1: and spicy love. Because when I saw your image on
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Speaker 1: the box, I just I just started smiling, Thomas, I
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Speaker 1: really did. Man, Thank you, man, thank you. And you
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Speaker 1: know what you got me thinking. When my mama used
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Speaker 1: to cook grits. She would cook the grits and then
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Speaker 1: you would mix the eggs in there with you. Hey, Thomas,
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Speaker 1: right if you you know, you know it's so many
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Speaker 1: once you start doing. That's why I told you I'm
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Speaker 1: dropping my TV show called Rashaan's Kitchen in Atlanta two
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Speaker 1: million homes gonna be a Comcast Tune five A T
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Speaker 1: and t U Verse channel six May six. That's when
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Speaker 1: it drops. I want to be able to, you know,
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Speaker 1: cook your grits on there because I do breakfast. You know,
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Speaker 1: I love soft eggs. I do eggs over each I
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Speaker 1: do the bacon, I do toades, I do biscuits. I
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Speaker 1: had my boat ridding this. God done this calm bread.
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Speaker 1: So I really want to just like, so you have
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Speaker 1: to be on there. As soon as I get my
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Speaker 1: order for you, am gonna put it online ticks of
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Speaker 1: pictures because people just love the fact that I cook
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Speaker 1: and always I get a lot of engagement. So I'm
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Speaker 1: just excited. But I just love the fact that I
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Speaker 1: saw that picture you and on the box, and I'm
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Speaker 1: gona tell you some time. I'm not even laughing in
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Speaker 1: a like a bad way. It's just like it's a
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Speaker 1: prideful thing because that's a that's that's possible. Man. You
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Speaker 1: can be in Krogers, you can be in public, you
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Speaker 1: can be at all these ordinationswid just on the dream
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Speaker 1: tell us about that. You know what, man, you know
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Speaker 1: I learned this from you. I learned this from Steve Harvey.
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Speaker 1: It's about connections. It's about you know, capitalizing on it
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Speaker 1: when you know that they're bad, when you know the
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Speaker 1: opportunity is there. Um, you know, I live in Houston, Texas,
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Speaker 1: so you know I have put my ear to the
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Speaker 1: street on what does it take to get a product
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Speaker 1: in an in an h g B in a Kroger,
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Speaker 1: you know, and we don't see many black products on
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Speaker 1: the shelf. So I did the groundwork and found out
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Speaker 1: what it takes me like is that it you know,
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Speaker 1: And I'm saying they say, you know, if you get
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Speaker 1: about fifty sixty dollars in sales online, you are now
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Speaker 1: eligible and available to possibly be in h g B.
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Speaker 1: So my thing is what I got a million plus
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Speaker 1: people following me on on every social media outlet you
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Speaker 1: can think of. Surely I can sell sending them some grets,
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Speaker 1: you know. So I'm just doing the map, saying it.
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Speaker 1: It all makes sense and um, and I'm connected with
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Speaker 1: people who are in the heads up of of h
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Speaker 1: g B, so it's right there. If I don't do it,
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Speaker 1: it makes no sense, man, Well it then they'll make
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Speaker 1: any sense. But more importantly, it makes sense that you
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Speaker 1: will talking about relationships like h g B is like
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Speaker 1: that's a power broker, you know, the day top quality,
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Speaker 1: the line we talked about. Everybody shops there in h
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Speaker 1: B and then you get to these Krogers. But I'm
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Speaker 1: just tell you, man, I was just so happy and
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Speaker 1: it just maybe smile just seeing your face on a
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Speaker 1: box of grich Man. And I've been and I and
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Speaker 1: I you know, because there's a black person man, we
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Speaker 1: grow up and and and and you know either the
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Speaker 1: ant your mama's and uncle bins and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I know who you are. You're a graduate of
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Speaker 1: Texas n Them. You know what I'm saying you you
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Speaker 1: you know you're you're a businessman. So you're kind of
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Speaker 1: like breaking the model of what has been portrayed of
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Speaker 1: black people. And you've been breaking the marrow a long time,
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Speaker 1: all the way back to Texas. And then talk about that. Now,
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Speaker 1: have to slow you down because sometimes we just be
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Speaker 1: doing stuff time and we don't realize what we're doing.
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Speaker 1: But but it's it was a much more prideful thing,
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Speaker 1: more than the fact that I knew you. But that
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Speaker 1: was more pride when I saw that that when I
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Speaker 1: went to the website Just Good Grits and I saw
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Speaker 1: that dot com, I went, wow, it's my board man.
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Speaker 1: Look at him on that box, man, and I knew
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Speaker 1: who you were, that I knew what you represented as
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Speaker 1: a man. But then just talk about that, you know what,
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Speaker 1: it's been a journey man. Um. I mean, you you
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Speaker 1: were there at the beginning. You put me on stage,
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Speaker 1: first time I ever got on stage and doing stand up,
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Speaker 1: and uh, it's just been a journey. So uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: at some point in my life I feel like, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a there's a book coming, you know, a funny
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Speaker 1: thing happened on the way to Hollywood, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and it's just the journey of every stop that I've made.
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Speaker 1: I had no idea I was gonna be doing stand up.
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Speaker 1: I had no idea I was going to be doing radio.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I was a theater major, thinking that, you know,
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Speaker 1: like all theater major. Okay, I'm going I'm on my
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Speaker 1: way to Broadway. Now, let me go to New York
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Speaker 1: and that's where I will be getting my career. That's
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Speaker 1: what you think. But you have no idea what your
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Speaker 1: journey is gonna be, and you have to be really
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Speaker 1: open about where your steps are going. And and sometimes
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Speaker 1: the journey you sometimes you need every stop along that
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Speaker 1: journey to get where you are, to be able to
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Speaker 1: look back and say, you know what, I respect where
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Speaker 1: I've been. I respect the whole journey God has sent
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Speaker 1: me through. And and now here I am I'm a
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Speaker 1: lot more mature, a lot a lot less crazy than
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Speaker 1: I used to, you know, so, so uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: you you just you grow up and and you learn
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Speaker 1: and you you you become a little bit more um
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Speaker 1: clear about what you need to be in the in
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Speaker 1: the journey that you're on and how to keep going
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Speaker 1: forward and and not uh not thinking that you can't
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Speaker 1: do something. So when I saw something like the grids,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what I can do this. Let me,
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Speaker 1: let me, let me put my resources together, because I
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Speaker 1: have too many resources not not to make it. You know,
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Speaker 1: they say it's six degrees of separation. I think I'm
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Speaker 1: I think I'm two or three phone calls from anybody,
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Speaker 1: So it can be done. So I just I just
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Speaker 1: don't tell myself that it can't happen. I'm always pressing
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Speaker 1: forward on we can do this if we want to
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Speaker 1: do so. You know, the beauty of you, man is
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Speaker 1: that you know, it's that you know when you're under
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Speaker 1: umbrella of Steve Harvey's brand, you know, the Steve Rubert
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Speaker 1: Morning Show, but the prank phone calls has enabled you
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Speaker 1: to separate yourself as a true individual, true gifted talent,
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Speaker 1: which has led to other things, other acting things. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna get to ready for love. But I want to
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Speaker 1: just dissect that whole prank phone call brand that you built.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's there's popular on YouTube, you know, generates income.
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Speaker 1: Let me say this though, Here's what Here's what the
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Speaker 1: listeners don't know is when I first started doing these
10:06
Speaker 1: prank phone called the One and Only, Rushan McDonald said,
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Speaker 1: I won't fire every week. I like, what, I won't
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Speaker 1: five every week? And you know what, I used to
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Speaker 1: think that was just bananas. I used to say, he
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Speaker 1: has lost his mind if you think I can do
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Speaker 1: this that many times a week. But what that did
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Speaker 1: for me, you got me to over three hundred prank
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Speaker 1: calls laying in the cut. I now have that many.
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Speaker 1: And and what it is, Rushan, is you know it's
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Speaker 1: a little difficult now for me to to do the
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Speaker 1: prank sometimes because everybody is called on and they know Nephew,
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Speaker 1: Timmy's boys. But back then, when I was first starting,
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Speaker 1: they didn't know that. So I was able to build
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Speaker 1: this whole archive at that time. And now I look
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Speaker 1: back and say, oh my god, Rushan McDonald, if he
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have made me going there go into the studio
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Speaker 1: cut these uh, these prank calls. I would not have
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Speaker 1: had this type of library at all. And I say,
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Speaker 1: thank you, brother, thank you for cracking that whip on me,
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Speaker 1: putting it on me. So going there and do do
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Speaker 1: what you wanted me to do. I thought I thought
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Speaker 1: you had lost your mind. But now I look back
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Speaker 1: and say, oh my god. And Rushan Now you know,
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Speaker 1: like we were talking about resources before, you know, I
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Speaker 1: went to um Yolanda Adams asked her, you know, how
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Speaker 1: do I get my stuff? Like like you got your
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Speaker 1: your your CDs in Walmart? How do I do that?
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Speaker 1: Yolanda Adams made one phone call and the next thing
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Speaker 1: I know, I was in Walmart and my first check
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Speaker 1: and and one month out of Walmart was about sixty
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Speaker 1: some thousand dollars and I was blown away. And and
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Speaker 1: here I am sitting on all these pranks. Go you
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Speaker 1: made me going there and do these pranks. And I
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Speaker 1: look back to Dave Rushan man, and you know, every
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Speaker 1: month YouTube sends me a check for my prank phone call.
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Speaker 1: So brother, thank you so much, thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you. I'm grateful, well, thank you for the compliment.
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Speaker 1: But you know, it all comes back to talent. I
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Speaker 1: always tell people you know a lot of people. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pusher, you know that, but I push people
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Speaker 1: who are feel But one thing, you work hard, Never
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Speaker 1: take that away from you. And then the fact that
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Speaker 1: you're you're gifted, and and and all the way back
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Speaker 1: to your sister sister days. You know, I was casting
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Speaker 1: your sister sisters. You know what I'm saying. As the share,
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Speaker 1: that's the share as the police officer, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: but that's some people Understandment's about when you talk about
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Speaker 1: six degree relationships and all that holding onto you know,
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Speaker 1: doing some things that you're uncomfortable with When I say that,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you do things you're not paid for. That's the
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Speaker 1: uncomfortable part. When does this When does this endgame go to?
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Speaker 1: But the problem is that when people look at your brand,
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Speaker 1: they don't understand that it's a lot of work. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of fun. You're getting up every day.
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Speaker 1: You have to be topical, you have to be ready.
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Speaker 1: You're talking, we're working one of the biggest stars in
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Speaker 1: the world. You never know what comes out of his
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Speaker 1: head with directing. He gonna go on sometime and you
12:59
Speaker 1: gotta be ready for that. And so that whole process
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Speaker 1: that led you to be able to go into different
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Speaker 1: acting scenarios. But that that prank phone call. Man, I
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Speaker 1: remember when I asked you that I knew we would
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Speaker 1: own to something. And you've done some CLAXI brother, you've
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Speaker 1: done a celebrity and frank phone calls you. But the
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Speaker 1: beauty of it is that man, you just you were
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Speaker 1: able to manipulate you remember when they remember what one
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Speaker 1: time they was when they when you couldn't do prank
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Speaker 1: phone call. You had to get permission, ridden permission, and
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Speaker 1: they tried to shut you down. You figure that out.
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Speaker 1: You're not worry about I got this, I got this,
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Speaker 1: and it was just you know, but you you didn't
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Speaker 1: allow this. You know you you constantly move the needle
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Speaker 1: or maintain your brand. And so I take the cadus
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Speaker 1: of the thank you and all that, but also get
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Speaker 1: back the hard work. When they were when legally it
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Speaker 1: was in a position to shut down your prank phone call.
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Speaker 1: You push through that and you move hard, move forward,
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Speaker 1: and then that leads you to your comedy days. And
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Speaker 1: so I'm just letting everybody know that nephew Tommy is
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Speaker 1: a brand y'all. Thomas Miles the individual. But nephew Tommy
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Speaker 1: is a brand. Talk about that nephew Tommy brands. Uh wow,
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Speaker 1: you know what and and and and you already know
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Speaker 1: that they're really both two different people shot and you
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Speaker 1: know that two different people, but that brand. I had
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Speaker 1: no idea that it was gonna soar to this um
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Speaker 1: to put me on on the platform that I'm on. Um,
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Speaker 1: you guys gave me an opportunity on the radio and
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Speaker 1: we you know, you took a shot at me and
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Speaker 1: um and and it worked. The the character itself that
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Speaker 1: that whole personna, it worked, and it just started building.
14:31
Speaker 1: And the next thing, you know, you know, the whole
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Speaker 1: name Thomas Miles had just completely gotten washed away. And
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Speaker 1: it was like, Hey, I am this guy, nephew Tommy
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Speaker 1: and and and you know you just start building on it.
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Speaker 1: What can I do with it? I don't want to
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Speaker 1: just sit on it and not not capitalized on on
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Speaker 1: this opportunity I'm working for, you know, um so so
14:51
Speaker 1: this is one of the biggest guys in the in
14:52
Speaker 1: the business. So I have to figure out how to
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Speaker 1: make this work even though I'm underneath his umbrella. How
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Speaker 1: do I steal stey about and shine a little bit
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Speaker 1: and and make something my own. And I think this, um,
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Speaker 1: you know the pranks underneath a few time me going
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Speaker 1: out and doing stand up. Uh, you and I did it.
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Speaker 1: We did a tour together where you know, I was
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Speaker 1: able to really showcase the characters that that all trapped
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Speaker 1: inside my head and and and being able to display that.
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Speaker 1: But I think it all goes back to we want
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Speaker 1: to see this guy, nephew Tommy that we here on
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Speaker 1: the radio. We want to see what he has from
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Speaker 1: a stand up perspective. So when they came to see me,
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Speaker 1: they had no idea what they were gonna get, and
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Speaker 1: and to you know, to to set up a show
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Speaker 1: the way I did, coming out first giving them five
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Speaker 1: minutes off the top, and then in between each comedian
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Speaker 1: to give them different characters of of of me. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think it was different. I think it was something
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Speaker 1: that was very unexpected and that that even strengthened that
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Speaker 1: nephew Timmy brands. So, um, you know, as we now
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Speaker 1: move forward, just like, Okay, what else can I do? Right?
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to stop, you know, I
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Speaker 1: want to I want to keep reaching for everything I
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Speaker 1: can reach for. So I'm reaching for grits. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, you know I think that
18:14
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18:16
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18:19
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Speaker 1: really special. And when you start building out the relationship.
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18:27
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18:29
Speaker 1: the good stuff. But more importantly, the part of the
18:31
Speaker 1: side of that I always loved a boy Thomas is
18:33
Speaker 1: that he gave. He always give back. He always gave back.
18:36
Speaker 1: And when you were doing the military tour, which you know,
18:39
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18:41
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18:44
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18:49
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18:51
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18:55
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19:04
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19:07
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19:10
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19:13
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19:16
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19:19
Speaker 1: I call it the black Bob hope, yes, yes, yes,
19:23
Speaker 1: go over and perform for the troops and I was
19:26
Speaker 1: just blown away by what I saw, just just you know,
19:29
Speaker 1: the front line, the people that represent the country. I
19:32
Speaker 1: couldn't believe how they put their lives on the line.
19:35
Speaker 1: And um, we were we were visiting hospitals and we
19:39
Speaker 1: were in one guy's particular room and he had just
19:41
Speaker 1: come out of surgery and um, he said, um, when
19:44
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19:47
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19:50
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19:53
Speaker 1: blown completely on. He's just coming out and he says,
19:57
Speaker 1: you know, I would love to take pictures with you guys,
20:00
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20:02
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20:06
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20:08
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20:11
Speaker 1: and when we left, you know, we're heading back to
20:14
Speaker 1: the States. That's one of the chief officers. You know
20:17
Speaker 1: what happens to these people when they get back home.
20:20
Speaker 1: And he said, well, you know, you know, you know,
20:22
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20:25
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20:27
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20:29
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20:31
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20:35
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20:38
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20:43
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20:46
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21:00
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21:07
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21:09
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve, I believe two thousand trail. Yeah,
21:12
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21:15
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21:18
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21:21
Speaker 1: You know, I envisioned a warehouse just Nephew Tommy logo
21:24
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21:27
Speaker 1: the making T shirts or mixing grid. You know, I think,
21:30
Speaker 1: you know, doing charity engagements and all that stuff, because
21:33
Speaker 1: that's the vision, man, because you you know, we all
21:35
Speaker 1: sit back, Thomas, because we're both from Houston. And you know,
21:38
Speaker 1: you know, your father was an amazing man who always,
21:41
Speaker 1: you know, always loved. The fact about your father was
21:44
Speaker 1: that you actually live in your father's life. You know,
21:46
Speaker 1: he didn't get a chance. You know, he became a
21:48
Speaker 1: blue collar worker and he didn't get a chance to
21:51
Speaker 1: pursue the entertainment career. Does that ever cross your mind, man,
21:55
Speaker 1: that you know, you you was a track star, but
21:57
Speaker 1: then you know you were so far away from what
21:59
Speaker 1: he was, what his dream was. But now you're living
22:02
Speaker 1: his dream. That really is an emotional moment, man, when
22:05
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22:07
Speaker 1: no idea. You know, I was getting ready to um.
22:10
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22:12
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22:15
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22:19
Speaker 1: And I actually thought that I disappointed him, that I
22:22
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22:25
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22:28
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22:30
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22:33
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22:35
Speaker 1: the whole better. The truck is loaded, and and that's
22:39
Speaker 1: when he's standing there saying, um, you know you you
22:42
Speaker 1: you you got my dream. I was like, what what
22:44
Speaker 1: do you? What are you talking about? Keeps crying and
22:46
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you what's going on? He said,
22:48
Speaker 1: you got my dream? I said, I said, no, I'm not.
22:52
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22:55
Speaker 1: gonna pursue the steer of thing. He said, yeah, you
22:58
Speaker 1: got my dream. I said, what are you talking about?
23:02
Speaker 1: And that's when he tells me that he was a
23:03
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23:07
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23:10
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23:12
Speaker 1: dad was the oldest. And he said, you got my dream,
23:15
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23:17
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23:20
Speaker 1: I'm I hope I'm making him proud brother. Looking at it, Thomas,
23:23
Speaker 1: first of all, you made him proud. You know what
23:25
Speaker 1: I'm saying, uh, I know what you did before he
23:27
Speaker 1: passed away, and I know what you're doing that. That's
23:29
Speaker 1: why I you know, when I before we got on
23:32
Speaker 1: the cart, said Thomas, I want to slow this down,
23:34
Speaker 1: I said, because I know him so well. Sometimes I
23:37
Speaker 1: missed these moments in conversation because you just blow pass him.
23:39
Speaker 1: You think that, hey, let's not talk about that. But
23:42
Speaker 1: I knew that. You know, one of my great disapoem
23:45
Speaker 1: was I didn't get to meet your dad. You know,
23:46
Speaker 1: I told you that. I said, Man, I'm so mad, Bro,
23:49
Speaker 1: I'm so mad because because you know, you know, because
23:52
Speaker 1: the stories, you know, the chief of jacksonally got up there, man,
23:55
Speaker 1: and to tell the stories. Man, I just didn't do it.
23:58
Speaker 1: Everybody didn't do it. Happy about it home people legends.
24:06
Speaker 1: That's just the beauty. So so that's why I really
24:08
Speaker 1: love the fact that now they're ready for love. You know,
24:11
Speaker 1: came back to Houston, Thomas, came back to Euston. Tom.
24:15
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, Man, your dad, your family, your
24:18
Speaker 1: mob bought the house for her, all these things. Man,
24:22
Speaker 1: to bring your your gifts because a lot of people doubt.
24:26
Speaker 1: You know, I know when I quit IBM and show
24:27
Speaker 1: people I want to do stand up comedy. Yeah, okay,
24:30
Speaker 1: really next day to Murphy right right, right. So a
24:33
Speaker 1: lot of people question that process because it's not a
24:35
Speaker 1: nine to five jobs. They don't understand. But brother to
24:38
Speaker 1: bring Ready for Love. Let's tell us about Let's tell
24:41
Speaker 1: everybody what Ready for Love is, and then we will
24:43
Speaker 1: talk about bringing it back to Houston. Let me tell
24:45
Speaker 1: you this, Okay, but those that don't know, Ready to
24:47
Speaker 1: Love is a is a dating show, and uh, it's
24:50
Speaker 1: not your typical dating show. You know, your typical dating show.
24:53
Speaker 1: People are in the twenties, life is just getting started.
24:57
Speaker 1: This is different. These people in their thirties, forties, some
25:00
Speaker 1: are in their fifties. People have been married, gotten divorced.
25:03
Speaker 1: You even have people who are mostly career driven, having
25:07
Speaker 1: taken time to find a relationship, and um, they come
25:11
Speaker 1: on Ready to Love. So we start out with twenty singles,
25:14
Speaker 1: ten men and ten women, and it's a it's a
25:18
Speaker 1: process of elimination, the powerships back and forth from the
25:21
Speaker 1: men to the women. Women eliminate men, men eliminate women.
25:25
Speaker 1: And it's a ten week journey and at the end
25:28
Speaker 1: of that ten weeks we wind up with six people,
25:31
Speaker 1: six people, three couples who have hopefully found love. That
25:36
Speaker 1: is that's the prize. There is no million dollars, no
25:40
Speaker 1: trip around the world. Love is the prize. That's what
25:43
Speaker 1: you win. I am your host, I'm your your cupid,
25:47
Speaker 1: your love coach, whatever you wanna call it. And I
25:51
Speaker 1: navigate and got these people on this journey of finding love.
25:54
Speaker 1: And it is. It is very exciting because people are
25:57
Speaker 1: tuning in every Friday night on the own network to um.
26:01
Speaker 1: You know, people are trying to pair it up. You
26:03
Speaker 1: know who do I think is gonna make it to
26:04
Speaker 1: the end And I think it's gonna connect with who.
26:07
Speaker 1: And it's just a great grown and sexy show. People
26:09
Speaker 1: are loving it. We're not We're not on their fighting,
26:12
Speaker 1: we're not throwing drinks anything, thank you. We are having
26:16
Speaker 1: a good time and ready to love is now. Uh
26:19
Speaker 1: here we are in Houston again, um and and and
26:22
Speaker 1: it's beautiful that we are. We're showing off our city.
26:25
Speaker 1: People get to see what Houston is all about, some
26:27
Speaker 1: of the night areas, some of the great locations and
26:30
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26:33
Speaker 1: you know, I think sometimes when people think Texas. They
26:35
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26:37
Speaker 1: That's not the case. This is a four long le hut,
26:43
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26:45
Speaker 1: leg hut on it. But sure so in all those stuff,
26:47
Speaker 1: in those type of places, you know, even the breakfast club,
26:50
Speaker 1: you know, people those black owned business that we wanted
26:52
Speaker 1: to make sure we we gave them the spotlight and
26:54
Speaker 1: we did that. So I'm excited about this season. Man. Well,
26:57
Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is that you got
26:59
Speaker 1: the call from our board, Will Pack, you know who,
27:03
Speaker 1: you know, we we we watched him grow to you
27:04
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that Steve and I was blessed
27:06
Speaker 1: to have a relationship on the think like a man,
27:09
Speaker 1: want would you appear? And thinking like a man movie?
27:11
Speaker 1: And he also did think like a man too, and
27:12
Speaker 1: that we all know. That was the lunch for Kevin
27:14
Speaker 1: Hart's career. Now was those two movies. So him making
27:18
Speaker 1: that phone call to you, he had already known about
27:20
Speaker 1: you cash in previous movie. How was the what was
27:22
Speaker 1: the thought process of him telling you want to host
27:25
Speaker 1: because your stand up you know, so a lot of
27:27
Speaker 1: things run through your mind. I'm not gonna be funny.
27:29
Speaker 1: What can I do? And so, but you have to
27:32
Speaker 1: be almost like a straight shooter in this situation and
27:35
Speaker 1: also take these relationships seriously. Talk about that. How you
27:38
Speaker 1: have to process that, you know what we're saying. First,
27:41
Speaker 1: the first was the phone call. Because my phone call,
27:44
Speaker 1: I thought I was being pranked. Only somebody got me,
27:48
Speaker 1: you know. But but we'll hit me up and say hey, man,
27:51
Speaker 1: I I got something for you. And you know, you
27:54
Speaker 1: know how Hollywood is wet. People always say hey, I'm
27:56
Speaker 1: gonna have something for you know, I have my people
27:58
Speaker 1: call your people. Okay. No, Will called directly and said
28:02
Speaker 1: I got something for you, and I was like okay,
28:05
Speaker 1: and uh, I was overwhelmed. Man, you know, I get
28:07
Speaker 1: teary eyed. I was all emotional. But I was grateful
28:11
Speaker 1: that he called me. He said, man, you and your wife,
28:14
Speaker 1: uh have been together for a long time. This is
28:17
Speaker 1: for you. So I had to digest this as how
28:21
Speaker 1: do I take this in? Do I take this in
28:24
Speaker 1: as as a comedian, because like you're saying, I can't.
28:27
Speaker 1: We're not on there cracking jokes when people are really
28:29
Speaker 1: seriously trying to find a relationship. So I had to
28:32
Speaker 1: find a balance between the two and really, Rishan, if
28:36
Speaker 1: you if you think about it, I kind of blended
28:39
Speaker 1: Thomas Miles and nephew tim Me together and that's you know,
28:42
Speaker 1: you get a new a bit of a little bit
28:44
Speaker 1: of a ballots, so both of the boys get the play.
28:46
Speaker 1: You know. So you know, everybody knows Thomas Miles is
28:49
Speaker 1: pretty serious, but if you time me, you know he
28:52
Speaker 1: uh he likes to have fun, so a little blend.
28:54
Speaker 1: And then of course, um just just just you know,
28:58
Speaker 1: a guy that's been married h for a long time,
29:02
Speaker 1: even my parents who were married up until the day
29:05
Speaker 1: my father left here, I have nothing but that to
29:08
Speaker 1: go off of, which is a great mold to look at.
29:11
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not I'm not a I'm not
29:14
Speaker 1: a person that has a textbook for this. I don't
29:17
Speaker 1: have a formula. All I can do is try to
29:20
Speaker 1: share with these people that are trying to find love
29:22
Speaker 1: what I've gone through and what I've seen my folks
29:24
Speaker 1: go through, and give them honest, true advice and that's
29:27
Speaker 1: what they like about it. Well, you know, I want
29:29
Speaker 1: to close the show in this whole scenario ready to love,
29:33
Speaker 1: because you know, I built this character a few times
29:36
Speaker 1: with you, and you was able to grow at this
29:38
Speaker 1: amazing uh persona that is today. But along the way,
29:42
Speaker 1: it was a young lady that we that that loved you.
29:45
Speaker 1: You know, had children with you, had a couple of
29:47
Speaker 1: a couple of I mean a couple of TV shows.
29:50
Speaker 1: You know. But you know you have to go through
29:52
Speaker 1: a point where you know you you were a single
29:54
Speaker 1: guy on the radio. You know what I'm saying. You
29:57
Speaker 1: just stand by that ignorance. You know, I'm saying with
29:59
Speaker 1: Richard that I'll be single baby, Okay, okay, And now
30:03
Speaker 1: you know you're back and used. And she made an
30:05
Speaker 1: appearance on the show. Just talk about her. Man, having
30:08
Speaker 1: that that that soldier, that female soldier by your side
30:12
Speaker 1: all these years. You know what you're saying, she's she's
30:15
Speaker 1: she's that ride of dime. Man. Um. You know we
30:18
Speaker 1: first started out, I didn't have no money and nothing.
30:22
Speaker 1: You know, she was the one with with the good
30:24
Speaker 1: job and and um you know engineer out of Texas
30:28
Speaker 1: and m so she was holding us together man, and um,
30:31
Speaker 1: you know, I just you know, I I I wanted
30:35
Speaker 1: to make sure I stepped up for someone that had
30:38
Speaker 1: so much confidence in me and my career, that had
30:41
Speaker 1: hadn't even started yet, but just just just told me
30:44
Speaker 1: that I could do it. Um. You know, it got
30:47
Speaker 1: to the point one once I got on the radio
30:50
Speaker 1: with you guys and things started to turn. You know,
30:53
Speaker 1: that's when I wanted to put the shoe on the
30:55
Speaker 1: other foot, where you know, my wife don't have to
30:57
Speaker 1: work no more. And I love that. I love the
31:00
Speaker 1: fact that she carried the load. I mean, think about
31:02
Speaker 1: rush and even the cars I had and it was hers.
31:07
Speaker 1: They wasn't mine. I had nothing, so so you know,
31:13
Speaker 1: you know, she she she took care of me. We
31:15
Speaker 1: wrote it out and to be able to to um
31:19
Speaker 1: turn around and give her the world and then for
31:22
Speaker 1: a TV show to come back to my hometown and
31:25
Speaker 1: then you put your queen on that with you. Uh,
31:27
Speaker 1: you can't write that, You just can't write it is.
31:30
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. She's on She's appearing on four episodes this season.
31:34
Speaker 1: I love it. And she just shares her honest opinion. Man,
31:37
Speaker 1: So I think it's good. Well, brother, I love you, Thomas,
31:41
Speaker 1: and uh, I love Thomas. I love both of you, Thomas,
31:45
Speaker 1: but more in fact that I love the fact you're
31:47
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31:49
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31:52
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31:58
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32:03
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32:06
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit that. I don't you're gonna say that,
32:08
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