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JD Lawrence Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest is here. Boy, I'll tell you something.
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Speaker 1: I got this guy got this car. Somebody messaged me
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Speaker 1: through LinkedIn and said, getting next Guesters in town? Could
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Speaker 1: he do the show? I think I immediately put my
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Speaker 1: sale number in there. Then't know who she will all
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Speaker 1: I know, I gotta get close to my board my
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Speaker 1: next guest. Production company Who's Laughing Now has been producing
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Speaker 1: hit drama das for the past twenty five years. To date,
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Speaker 1: he and his family have launched more than twenty productions,
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Speaker 1: delivering to sold out theaters across the country, in addition
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Speaker 1: to TV shows on GMC, Aspired, u MC, BT and Bravo.
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Speaker 1: Please work with the money, money making conversations J D. Lawrence, Right,
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Speaker 1: all right, yeah, get the numbers in now, you know,
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Speaker 1: getting this book of World Records. Actually I surpassed the
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Speaker 1: Guinness Book of World Records. Um. I went for the
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Speaker 1: Guinness Book of World Records, and we had a issue
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Speaker 1: with it because I beat the record and I didn't
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Speaker 1: know at the end of it, they wanted ten thousand dollars. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they wanted ten thousand dollars and I was like ten
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I said, well, hold on and then nobody
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Speaker 1: told me that I didn't see that in the contract, right,
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Speaker 1: So they want a ten thousand dollars to actually give
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Speaker 1: me the actual a award. So I said, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, no problem. We wrote them the check. Then
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Speaker 1: they told me I would only have it for one
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Speaker 1: day because it was a guy in Germany that because
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Speaker 1: at that time I only played fifty six and I
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Speaker 1: beat the fifty two characters. So I played fifty six,
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Speaker 1: but they said that I would only have it for
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Speaker 1: a day because it was a guy in Germany that
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Speaker 1: was doing sixty. I said, well, I'm not giving you
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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars for a day. That's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: So then we waited a year and I came back
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Speaker 1: because I wanted to challenge it, and also we got
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Speaker 1: our money back, and I went and I beat the
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Speaker 1: sixty characters and I did seventy two. Then they want
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Speaker 1: a twenty thousand. Oh, they just keep going up, they wants. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So my PR person said, will listen to all. We
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Speaker 1: gotta do what you said. You surpassed it, and if
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Speaker 1: they want to challenge it, you know, we have it
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Speaker 1: on you know film. Well, you know a lot of
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Speaker 1: people don't know that when you get those stars on
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Speaker 1: the Hollywood Walk of Fame, there's a fee for that,
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Speaker 1: mostly about thirty thollars. So you said, why what's your
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Speaker 1: Callum's not on because they don't want to pay that
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Speaker 1: thirty thousand well more, I could have just got me
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Speaker 1: a stock absolutely, And how you've been doing my friendorite
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Speaker 1: a long time? Little back history, Well, we came together
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Speaker 1: up in New York when I Steve and I went
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Speaker 1: to w BLS, New York City in two thousand and five,
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Speaker 1: and uh, and we just started connecting. Just what let
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Speaker 1: me say this back then, if nobody don't know, I
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Speaker 1: had asked um you to manage me, and you said
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Speaker 1: to me, what are you doing for yourself that I
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Speaker 1: can't do? And I sat there and I had to
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Speaker 1: think about it. For me, that'sked, well, what am I
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Speaker 1: doing for myself? And you said, brother, he said, do
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Speaker 1: it for yourself first, and then when you get to
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Speaker 1: what you gotta get to, then come back and say
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Speaker 1: all right, I can't go no further. But at that
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Speaker 1: point I think I was lazy and I didn't do it.
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Speaker 1: And I and I'm gonna tell you, I left that
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Speaker 1: meeting mad I was tight. I was like yeah, McDonald said,
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Speaker 1: I gotta do it myself. And then my wife said, well,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing for yourself? Like what? And then
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Speaker 1: I literally motivated myself to do something for myself because
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Speaker 1: I didn't stop talking to you. No, no, no, you
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Speaker 1: would answer my calls and everything. Absolutely, what are you doing? Nothing?
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Speaker 1: You know what? You like? Play what about this? With Sean?
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Speaker 1: You said can you watch this video? And things like that.
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Speaker 1: I just start seeing you moving forward. But there was
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Speaker 1: no denying your talent. It was like okay. Because of
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Speaker 1: what happens is a lot of people in Hollywood, they
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Speaker 1: get an agent, they get a manager and something I
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Speaker 1: didn't just stop. They think something magical is going to happen.
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Speaker 1: But what people don't realize is that is that managers
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Speaker 1: and ages are really just helping the talent to the
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Speaker 1: next level because of their because of their actions, because
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Speaker 1: of their acaulass. Example, step the smell is a is
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Speaker 1: a social media phenomenon. He brings in management to connect
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Speaker 1: him to the right people or ages to connect in
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Speaker 1: the right people, and that organization can lead to a
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Speaker 1: better financial situation. But believe me, I didn't make a
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Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith I didn't make a Steve Harvey. I
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Speaker 1: just positioned him based on the foundation that he gave me.
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Speaker 1: He had the found days. But Steve was always at
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Speaker 1: the ready to go on the road, ready to tell
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Speaker 1: a joke. And that's all I was asking him, what
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Speaker 1: are you doing for yourself to build your brand, to
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Speaker 1: work your brand? And the evolution of all these different
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Speaker 1: characters came along. Now you know, you're big and drama.
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Speaker 1: Just to explain to everybody on the show, what exactly
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Speaker 1: is a drama y A drama ty is Uh, my
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Speaker 1: interpretation of it is mixing drama with the comedy side
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Speaker 1: and bringing them both because um, I want people, you know,
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Speaker 1: I always want people to laugh, but I want to
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Speaker 1: feed them a message at the same time. So that's
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Speaker 1: the drama ty side of it is, you know, giving
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Speaker 1: them an important message, you know, that series, but making
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Speaker 1: it you know, it's almost like you know, uh, you
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Speaker 1: know feeding people ice cream, you know, feeding them their medicine.
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Speaker 1: But you got some ice cream, absolutely, you know, But
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Speaker 1: it's just it's just, you know, you have to be
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Speaker 1: talented to be to pull that off, because usually in
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Speaker 1: a scene is so dark that that you make that
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Speaker 1: right turn and people go with you and and things
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Speaker 1: like that. So now when I'm reading your bio j D.
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Speaker 1: It's talks about family. Who in your family as part
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Speaker 1: of the production. Everybody everybody works. What does that mean? Everybody?
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Speaker 1: Anybody that's eating my house is working? Is that? Because
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Speaker 1: I think it's important. You know, as a family, you're
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Speaker 1: a lot stronger and you want to keep family around
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Speaker 1: you when you're in this business. Because David and Tamila
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Speaker 1: man do that. Everybody in that house they can speak
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Speaker 1: and get up out of bed. Everybody gonna work. I
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Speaker 1: got my wife handles the money side of that. I
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Speaker 1: don't have my kids count my money. I just let
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Speaker 1: my wife help money. But I got a son who's
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Speaker 1: into um. He actually just graduated from cooking school. So
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Speaker 1: I did. And one thing that I did wrong about
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Speaker 1: that I totally cooked better than my wife, so she
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Speaker 1: hasn't cooked since. But he's into you know, music as well,
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Speaker 1: so he so he scores a lot of the music
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Speaker 1: for the show. And then I have my two daughters.
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Speaker 1: They handled the business side on screen, you know, so
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Speaker 1: when we did the reality show Bravo, they actually came
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Speaker 1: on screen, do it. Let's let's talk about something that's
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Speaker 1: really important. Your your successful actor and prominent stuttering. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: so that's that's something that's been part of your life.
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Speaker 1: And and and when you go into character, is not there, No,
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Speaker 1: not at all, you know. And it's weird because um,
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Speaker 1: I spoke to Samuel Jackson about this. He came to
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Speaker 1: New York City one time, him Bruce willis um Emily
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Speaker 1: um Blunt. And I remember having a conversation with sam
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Speaker 1: about it, and he's like, you know, you have to
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Speaker 1: put a character in front of that voice, you know,
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Speaker 1: because I didn't know that he had a speech. I started. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I spoke to um, I'm Steve about that. I
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Speaker 1: remember one time, Um was it dog what you? What
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Speaker 1: are you stuttering about? Dog Man? You know? But I've
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Speaker 1: you know, um um getting on stage, like when I
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Speaker 1: go into the character, you know, any character that I
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Speaker 1: decided to go into the counter just completely flows out
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Speaker 1: and this character does not start at all, you know.
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Speaker 1: But I can't walk around life talking like that. You
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Speaker 1: probably we just look at you a little different. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I did it in school, was working with But
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Speaker 1: when you when you talk about because you did sending
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Speaker 1: the two characters. Yeah, okay, yes, let's break down that
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Speaker 1: process because I don't know sending it to anybody like that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So in the name of the players, what it's called
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Speaker 1: schizophren schizophrenia And right now it's been on tour right well,
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Speaker 1: we've been doing some spot dates. We actually head out
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Speaker 1: on a national tour with a l W that's ol
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Speaker 1: uh awesome. It was a j D N Are you
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Speaker 1: gonna do these seventy two people? I watched one of
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Speaker 1: the big time We can go back when he really
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Speaker 1: was a dominant force, took took many many stars out
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Speaker 1: on the row. Kurt Franklin tour on the road, so
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Speaker 1: he was always out there. Now you have I think
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Speaker 1: Carrious uh. And then Tyler Perry, yes, you know who
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Speaker 1: just took it to the next long oh yeah, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I have so much respect for Tyler because he
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Speaker 1: built a brand out of nowhere, you know, and and
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Speaker 1: really made it something. I remember we're about to go
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Speaker 1: in this break, but I remember what we was. We
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Speaker 1: was doing radio and Los Angeles and Shama Moore he
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Speaker 1: called me said, Sean Chamore has the new series on CPS. Uh.
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Speaker 1: His dooring very well. Uh, he said, uh, you gotta
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Speaker 1: come to he was playing at the Kodak Theater because
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Speaker 1: you knew there was a big difference for his type
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Speaker 1: of show to be in the Kodak Theater and the
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Speaker 1: Kodak Theater way they do the Oscars and all of
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Speaker 1: major awards in Hollywood. He said, you gotta come see
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Speaker 1: this guy. And he had. He hadn't done the movies yet,
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Speaker 1: none of them did. Movies had hit it, but he
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Speaker 1: was already just breaking ground and and and going to
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Speaker 1: the next level with his brand and understanding ownership of
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Speaker 1: his brand. She understood that he didn't give away rights
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and because he knew his brand
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Speaker 1: meant something. And that's really the key with him. And
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Speaker 1: when we were talking about business, you always have to
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Speaker 1: have your mind at the at the at the top
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Speaker 1: of the game when it comes to business. Because people
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Speaker 1: are on your brand, you can walk away. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about somebody who kind of lost his brand. Will
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Speaker 1: come right back from this break on the I'm only
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Speaker 1: I'm here, y'all. Money making conversations, old friend, uh many characters,
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Speaker 1: J D Lawrence, How this Rashard McDonald, you're listening to
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Speaker 1: money making conversation in the studio with me? Um My
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Speaker 1: guest production company Who's laughing Now has produced UH has
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Speaker 1: been producing hit drama these for the past twenty five years. Today,
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Speaker 1: he and his family because everybody in that house works,
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Speaker 1: has launch more than twenty productions, debating to sold a
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Speaker 1: lot of theaters across the country, and his shows have
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Speaker 1: been seen on TV network like GMC, aspired, UMC, BT
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Speaker 1: and Bravo. Now You're back here. We were talking about Decarious,
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Speaker 1: We was talking about Tyler Perry and then brought I
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Speaker 1: brought up a shot Shelley Garrett which was the beauty
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Speaker 1: shop and beauty shop I remember shop got was converted
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Speaker 1: to a TV show, got converted to a TV show.
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Speaker 1: He was the first one I think when you start
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Speaker 1: talking about that style, that urban market style of UH
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Speaker 1: jumped out there and was selling out everywhere because because
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Speaker 1: we had seen nothing like him and that What is
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Speaker 1: your audience base for for these type of plays, UM,
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Speaker 1: I would say, UM, I have a more of a
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Speaker 1: mixed audience, but it's predominantly African American women, while you
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Speaker 1: have a mixed audience because I think that because um
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Speaker 1: My comedy, because I do so many different characters and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that, it kind of comes across more of
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Speaker 1: an Eddie Murphy, uh Martin Lawrence on stage, all these
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Speaker 1: different characters. So I think I kind of bring in
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Speaker 1: a lot more diverse uh diverse audience, understand point of
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Speaker 1: character development and stand there where we know. Well, I
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Speaker 1: will not pigeonhole what urban what urban plays are that
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Speaker 1: urban theater is in that format. But because there's so
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Speaker 1: many different styles, you know, Love Jones, you know, all
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Speaker 1: the media series, the Beauty Shop series, and that's the
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Speaker 1: great thing about urban theater. I remember once I did
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Speaker 1: a um AN interview and a woman asked me. She
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Speaker 1: was talking about Tyler and she said, well, what do
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Speaker 1: you think about his films and movies because I don't
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Speaker 1: really think that that that they're you know, great and
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Speaker 1: all that. And I said, well, listen, that's kind of
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Speaker 1: a you know, first of all, somebody's making millions and
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Somebody's liking it. So I don't know
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Speaker 1: where you you know, when you're getting that from. But
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Speaker 1: I said, it's unfair to put me in a position
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Speaker 1: to be judgmental about someone that looks like me, that's
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Speaker 1: doing business like that. I said, in second, that's like
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Speaker 1: asking George Lucas, how come your films on scary enough?
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Speaker 1: How came your films on funny enough? George Lucas does
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Speaker 1: sci fi, you know, Tyler does his brand. And I said,
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Speaker 1: and it's unfair for us to look at Tyler and say,
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Speaker 1: we expect you to do everything for everybody. See, he's
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Speaker 1: opening up the door for other writers like myself, and
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Speaker 1: and and and so forth to coming so that we
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Speaker 1: can help him with him. But you have Ron Howard,
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Speaker 1: you have Steven Spielberg, we have George Lucas. But we
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Speaker 1: expect Tyler to do everything for everybody. And that's not fair.
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Speaker 1: You can't put all of that on one person. That's
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Speaker 1: interesting that you're saying that they're holding up to a
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Speaker 1: universal standards. You can't do standard. A sitcom is a sitcom,
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Speaker 1: and sitcom is not drawn, and that that's that's really,
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Speaker 1: that's really. You're never gonna go to Adam Sandlin say
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Speaker 1: why wasn't your film sci fi enough? Because you don't
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Speaker 1: have to, because there's somebody out there doing sci fi
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Speaker 1: that's not this, that's not his genre. And sometimes when
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Speaker 1: people leave their genre, all theise doesn't follow. That's why
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Speaker 1: I was important when Kevin Hard did the drama a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. It made over a hundred million dollars.
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Speaker 1: Was it the upside? Yeah, when the guy had to
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Speaker 1: was in the wheel. Let me tell you something. Kevin's
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Speaker 1: performance in that show was phenomenal. I mean phenomenal. Man,
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Speaker 1: I was blown away. Well, you know, he can act,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm not unfortunate that I've been
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Speaker 1: very fortunate to produce him on on his shows. And
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Speaker 1: you watch a person, you go, that guy has something
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Speaker 1: extra going on, you know, because they have They have
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Speaker 1: a different level. Will Smith is that way too. They
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Speaker 1: have a different level. That's why these individuals have. They
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Speaker 1: can change so many different characters, you know, and I
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Speaker 1: wish you didn't say character. They just placed so many
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Speaker 1: different roles and I think that's the difference and difference
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Speaker 1: in their longeity. Eddie Murphrey, you look at him for
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Speaker 1: the animation drama. You know, if anybody has not seen Dolomite,
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Speaker 1: oh it's incredible. And I tell you who else is
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Speaker 1: phenomenal in that Wesley Snipes. Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes,
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Speaker 1: I love you know watching Dolomite this on Netflix, and
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Speaker 1: you should watch, and he should, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: he should be nominated over there. We should have won
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Speaker 1: an Oscar for back a Dream Girl. You should have
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Speaker 1: want to Oscar way back then because he was phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: That's the singer when he told him that, no, we're
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Speaker 1: not gonna put that album out because that's not the
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Speaker 1: music we do at this studio. Oh man, he was
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Speaker 1: just just just brilliant in that. And also I think
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Speaker 1: he should have gotten Oscar for when he played all
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Speaker 1: those characters and professor Yeah, yes he should have been Yes,
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Speaker 1: he should have. He should have gotten no Oscar for that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what and then given one absolutely McDonald
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Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. And so so you look at these people
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Speaker 1: who play these different characters and I saw Wesley sniping there,
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Speaker 1: snipes in the fant just amazing in there. And so,
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Speaker 1: what what is the goal of your production? What is
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Speaker 1: the I know everybody wants to do turning into a
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Speaker 1: film or turn into a television series. What is the
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Speaker 1: goal of the productions that you create on the road
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Speaker 1: to educate? I think that we've laughed enough or we
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Speaker 1: don't laugh enough, but it's time to really start educating.
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Speaker 1: And we don't have a lot of forums that we
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Speaker 1: can do that in. So I think that, you know,
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Speaker 1: taking advantage of the media, um, taking advantage of having
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Speaker 1: our own and telling our stories. You know, while we're
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Speaker 1: telling them, we should also educate people in them, and
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Speaker 1: especially not even just ourselves, but educate other people from
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Speaker 1: different cultures about us. So that's what Martin and Malcolm, Yes,
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Speaker 1: Martin Macy, it's premier and that's going to be on
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Speaker 1: a spire and tell us about Martin and Martin and
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Speaker 1: Moncolm which stars um Little Zane is in it, Um
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Speaker 1: Tony Terry. I have a young man by the name
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Speaker 1: of Victor Lando in it. And myself is about a
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Speaker 1: young man who sees his brother get shot. Um he
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Speaker 1: started to protests and you know, and do all this
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Speaker 1: stuff in the the but and he gets locked up
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Speaker 1: and he's locked up in a civil rights jail cell
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Speaker 1: because it's overcrowded, so they bring him downstairs to the
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Speaker 1: sistivil rights uh cell that hasn't been opening, like in
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Speaker 1: sixty years. So while he's down there, the spirit of
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Speaker 1: Martin Malcolm visit him and they actually re educate him
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Speaker 1: on how to go about protests and process. Which it
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Speaker 1: is interesting because you know, we've always said that Martin
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Speaker 1: Martin Martin Luther King was a person of peace, yes,
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Speaker 1: you know. And Malcolm X was a person who who
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Speaker 1: did not have the word by violence, the word a
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Speaker 1: boy using force. You get his message across. So that's
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Speaker 1: the story we're telling that. Well, these two actually come
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Speaker 1: together now and they in the first twenty minutes of
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Speaker 1: the film, with fifteen minutes of the film, they're going
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Speaker 1: back and forth about that. But they have to come
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Speaker 1: together in order to train this young man or to
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Speaker 1: get through to him. And the thing is, I believe
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Speaker 1: that Martin got a lot of this stuff because of Malcolm.
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Speaker 1: You didn't want to deal with Malcolm, so you gave
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Speaker 1: Martin a lot of these things. I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people dealt with Martin Malcolm, I mean Martin uh
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Speaker 1: um differently because they didn't want to do with Malcolm,
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Speaker 1: you know. But now I think that we're living in
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Speaker 1: a state of Malcolm. Back then, we were living in
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Speaker 1: a Martin world, so we didn't so we as a
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Speaker 1: people coming up, I think we had that Martin been fgitality,
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Speaker 1: Let's be peaceful, let's do this. Now it's like we're
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Speaker 1: living like Malcolm, you know. When we want to talk
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Speaker 1: about this we're gonna fight about this. We're not just
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Speaker 1: gonna stand there. Well, you know, it's really interesting when
17:41
Speaker 1: we don't want to diverse into politics and social change.
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Speaker 1: We know in drama day, this is what you do.
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Speaker 1: You know, you take stories and you socialize it into
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Speaker 1: your scripts and they become a very relatable which creates
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Speaker 1: conversation when people walk away from your events. So are
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Speaker 1: you gonna do more our reality shows? Or I am
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Speaker 1: the only problem that I have with reality It's hard
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Speaker 1: to control our narrative. The network has a lot to
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Speaker 1: control with our narrative, and I didn't want to have
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Speaker 1: Even when we did your Husband's Cheating on us um
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Speaker 1: with the production company that that I was working with,
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Speaker 1: I was a little bit upset at how they were
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Speaker 1: trying to portray our people. And I remember one day
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Speaker 1: in particular, we were working on set and the producer
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Speaker 1: or the owner of the production company went down and
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Speaker 1: told the cast, I don't care about j D or
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Speaker 1: how he feels about the show. I need you to
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Speaker 1: do it this way. And they started doing it that
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Speaker 1: way and I came and stopped the said, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: what are y'all doing? I said, this is your opportunity,
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Speaker 1: you know, t to present how we are or present
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Speaker 1: our narrative the way that we want to do it,
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Speaker 1: not the way that he wants to do it. Because
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Speaker 1: when this is all said and done, I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: a job. He's gonna have a job, and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be unemployed. And I would I always tell that, ys
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Speaker 1: to tell that to Steve Harver told the major story
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Speaker 1: when they Rick Carell Robinson. It's important that I tell
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Speaker 1: the right story for your brand because I'm behind the
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Speaker 1: scenes and generally if I'm behind the scenes, I can
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Speaker 1: go somewhere and the side up and getting a little
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Speaker 1: job because I'm not different eyes about what was put
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Speaker 1: out there in general problem but especially through social media
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Speaker 1: and all these different formats, who can criticize you. And
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Speaker 1: so when when I when I look at what you're
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Speaker 1: doing and I see the brand grow, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know we have urban comedy, you bility to diverse base.
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Speaker 1: Are you pitching any type of sit calls, any type
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Speaker 1: of particular dramas. I know you got the show coming out,
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Speaker 1: and make sure you give some banners so I could
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Speaker 1: promote it as by Martin and Malcolm that's in February
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Speaker 1: and uh, bravo your GMC. You've done all these different formats.
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Speaker 1: What is really the future of you man? Uh? You know,
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Speaker 1: for me, I want to get more into television heavily.
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Speaker 1: Script content is king right now, everybody looking for content
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Speaker 1: and I have maybe over thirty scripts on the TV side,
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Speaker 1: um maybe nine to of teen films, you know, um
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Speaker 1: um um um. One of my goals is to try
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Speaker 1: to you know, sit up a meeting with Tyler because
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Speaker 1: I've never met him as long as I've been doing shows,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've never had a face to face with
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Speaker 1: him ever, you know, so I would like to go
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Speaker 1: that route, you know, and meet him. Another gentleman. I
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Speaker 1: would love to meet Byron Allen, absolutely absolutely, you know.
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Speaker 1: So it's about really network working down. There's really really
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Speaker 1: cool to say that, because you know, it used to
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Speaker 1: be just open yeah over still out there, but now
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Speaker 1: you you're pulling out too prominent African American males who
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Speaker 1: really are forced a force in the media today and
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Speaker 1: they built their brand differently. So it means that when
20:40
Speaker 1: I talk to people about my show, as means that,
20:42
Speaker 1: like I always tell people, don't you know, stop reading
20:44
Speaker 1: their stores and start writing your own, but used their
20:49
Speaker 1: use their success to motivate you to plan your goals,
20:52
Speaker 1: to plan your success and be committed to it. And
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Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. You know that. The beauty
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Speaker 1: of our relationship and why I'm happy to have you
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Speaker 1: on the show is that, first of all, I've always
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Speaker 1: believed in you. I want to just say that to
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Speaker 1: your face to face, and you know you have a friend.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to support you. It was no issue, I said,
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Speaker 1: this was just happened yesterday you were talking to day.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember. I wrote a song
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Speaker 1: called monkey Down, absolutely because Steven them had something going
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Speaker 1: on with monkey Down. And I remember going into my
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Speaker 1: studio and writing that song and my wife was like,
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Speaker 1: what what are you doing it? And I said, oh,
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Speaker 1: I just heard Steven Harvard and talking about doing some
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Speaker 1: monkey down thing. And she was like, they are not
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Speaker 1: gonna play that and now. And I stayed in my
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Speaker 1: studio for about four hours writing this song called monkey Down,
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Speaker 1: and I submitted it in and you text me and
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Speaker 1: you said we're gonna play this tomorrow morning at six.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I said, you know what, Sean McDonald,
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Speaker 1: he said, they're gonna play my wife like he ain't
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Speaker 1: playing that song. I tell you six fifteen, that song
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Speaker 1: was on the air eight o'clock. That's back on their
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Speaker 1: was like you down, down, down down, that was that
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Speaker 1: was something. That thing changed the face of our morning show,
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Speaker 1: that whole bit, that whole character. And uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I've always been a person who trusted my instincts. You know,
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Speaker 1: I went against the grain. People have told me, I
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Speaker 1: tell it like I did, like you do. But but
22:20
Speaker 1: but it was never any malice and challenging people to
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Speaker 1: know that I'm I'm just a step in your success.
22:27
Speaker 1: There are many many steps after me. You if I
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Speaker 1: can help you up a few steps, but don't expect
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Speaker 1: me to carry you to the end, because that's not
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Speaker 1: the life. Doesn't have that option. So always keep an
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Speaker 1: open mind, always little ezed that God gave you the talent,
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Speaker 1: put in it and maximize it day to day and
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Speaker 1: you will be successful. A little factor. You have, the family,
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Speaker 1: you put them the work. This is your brand. I
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Speaker 1: love the fact that you said, Rashaan, I stutter. We
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Speaker 1: guess what when I hit that stage, I'm mad. Character,
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Speaker 1: Everything's clean, j D. Thank you for coming on. Thank
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Speaker 1: you put it down much. Then I love it