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Rushion Interviews Iconic Bobby Brown and his wife Alicia Etheredge about life, New A&E Projects, marriage, and tragedy! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. I recognized that we all have different definitions
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  Speaker 1: your friends, family, or coworkers stop you from planning or
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  Speaker 1: living your dreams. My desk guests or Bobby Brown, who
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  Speaker 1: is an award winning entertainer, producer, entrepreneur, and Arthur and
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  Speaker 1: the Lisa eh Ridge Brown. She is an entrepreneur, his
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  Speaker 1: manager and producer. Together their partners in Brown Ribbon Entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: they serve as executive producers on two new TV projects
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  Speaker 1: airing on the A E Network. Biography Bobby Brown and
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Brown Every Little Step. Today we will be discussing
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  Speaker 1: the four episodes that recently viewed. Biography Bobby Brown. Please
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  Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversations master Class. The very talented
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  Speaker 1: duo Apower, a couple Bobby Brown and Alicia et ric bound.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to money making conversation about the class. Hello, Sha,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for having us. You know, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I want to see, Bobby. You know I would like
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  Speaker 1: to keep that energy up. You know, it's about energy
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  Speaker 1: with you. Man. When the last time we connected was
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  Speaker 1: such a circulus sixty years ago, had the season and
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  Speaker 1: out there I took away to pack ticket home, dropped
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  Speaker 1: it on me some chicken and brother, it was good man,
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  Speaker 1: it was really really good. Brother. But this this whole series,
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  Speaker 1: at least here when you talk about it, because you're
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  Speaker 1: serving as one of the executive producers. You mentioned how
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  Speaker 1: your relationship, how y'all met, and how I played out
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  Speaker 1: along the way, and now you have a very successful
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  Speaker 1: not only a marriage as a as a loving couple,
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  Speaker 1: but a business couple. How does that work in this
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  Speaker 1: world because you're also managing as well. Talk to us
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  Speaker 1: right quick? Yeah, I think, um, you know, positive relationships
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  Speaker 1: are important. And when Bobby and I started working together first,
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  Speaker 1: we uh just fit perfectly on um like he was
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  Speaker 1: talented with and what I could execute for him. So
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  Speaker 1: the management side kind of worked real uh seamlessly, which
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  Speaker 1: is very nice, you know. Um. Obviously than getting into
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  Speaker 1: our personal relationship. We just have to find balance. Like
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  Speaker 1: everything in life, you know, we have to respect one
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  Speaker 1: another as individuals. We have to um uh support one another,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you have to find that balance, which
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  Speaker 1: is important when you have home life and work life.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been a natural progression for us to start
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  Speaker 1: businesses together, the Bobby Brown food line, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and um a lot of the projects that
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  Speaker 1: Bobby handles. You know, we do everything together. We um
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  Speaker 1: bring our best tools to the game, and we are teammates.
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  Speaker 1: That's really how it works. A key words she was
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  Speaker 1: saying continually in her conversation that she spoke was balance
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  Speaker 1: and Bobby, the word balance, I think in this four
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  Speaker 1: episode is I think a term that really fit you.
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  Speaker 1: Felt like you was always trying to find your balance,
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  Speaker 1: your place. You know, we won't talk for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Was just not a quick interview, but let's let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about that balance. Especially the first episode talks about where
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  Speaker 1: you grew up and then as you went through life
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  Speaker 1: finding your manhood. Let's talk about that. And then she
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  Speaker 1: says management, which we know it early on you were
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  Speaker 1: like all of you guys were taking advantage of as
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  Speaker 1: kids because there was no balance. Talk about that, Bobby Well.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning of my career, of course, um with
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  Speaker 1: new addition, there were you know, five eagles you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wanted to go a certain direction, wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a certain way, and that's where I had to
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  Speaker 1: find myself, where where I fit in in the group
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  Speaker 1: and where I fit in in life period UM with me,
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  Speaker 1: I I I I tend to um judge myself a
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  Speaker 1: little harshly, uh, because of because of the difficulties I've
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  Speaker 1: had when as I was growing up. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: learning to love myself and learning to treat myself with
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  Speaker 1: respect and learning to treat others with the same respect. UM,
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  Speaker 1: I think has helped me U progress in in in
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  Speaker 1: in a major way. In that major way has allowed
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  Speaker 1: me to look at the series that was very honest
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  Speaker 1: I felt, and and as you sat there, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reflection I felt in this series. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know they're very moments of that reflection.
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  Speaker 1: But what can you tell us a couple of moments
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  Speaker 1: and that reflection Because it's like writing a book, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking with Lizy. You know we're
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  Speaker 1: writing a book. You start remembering things when they come
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  Speaker 1: back and go, oh, I forgot to say this. Did
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  Speaker 1: you leave it all on the table, Bobby, or you
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  Speaker 1: said I should added this? Hm, No, we left it
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  Speaker 1: all a lot of time. This became very therapeutic. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: to get everything out and get the cobwebs out and
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  Speaker 1: be able to move forward with life on on my terms,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on good terms. Um was everything for me.
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  Speaker 1: I also think that timing is everything, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: us in our lives, and this was the perfect time
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  Speaker 1: for this documentary to be uh, to come to light. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's been approached to us before and we have considered
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  Speaker 1: doing it as well as the series. But timing is
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  Speaker 1: everything in life, you know. Obviously Bobby has gone through,
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  Speaker 1: our whole family has gone through quite a bit of
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  Speaker 1: loss and a lot of highs and some lows that
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  Speaker 1: are major. But it's really where you are and figuring
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  Speaker 1: out where you're going right and everything is not always
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  Speaker 1: for right now. You have to really know when the
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  Speaker 1: timing is aligned you and I think for Bobby, like
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  Speaker 1: he mentioned, this was very therapeutic for all of our
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  Speaker 1: family and for him to express his emotions and touch
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  Speaker 1: upon things that like you said, you may have forgotten,
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  Speaker 1: but then you're reminding real quick and it takes you
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  Speaker 1: right back there. You know. I wish it had added.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very fun bonent that Bobby and I
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  Speaker 1: had when it was the Neighborhood Awards called the Hoody
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  Speaker 1: Awards in Vegas in Vegas, and we kept saying that.
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  Speaker 1: Steve always said, Man, you think Bobby go jump on
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  Speaker 1: that car? I said, you know, Bobby, because we were
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  Speaker 1: at the front of the stage there was a Forward
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  Speaker 1: car that was our title sponsor, our titles, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody we've done this show for sixteen years, nobody
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  Speaker 1: has ever jumped on the car. You have who jumped
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  Speaker 1: on the car Bobby Brow for the place lost their mind, Bob.
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  Speaker 1: But that's how you were, man. You always took it
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  Speaker 1: and this and I'm smiling us. I was laughing so
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  Speaker 1: hard and back and then my sponsor Forward came up.
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  Speaker 1: They go, is he standing on our car? And go yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in the crowd going crazy and she said, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's good Brandy, that's good Brandon. So but that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what you that's that's who you are, man. You are
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  Speaker 1: a guy who pushes it to the edge. But still
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  Speaker 1: understands respects that there's this is about entertainment, correct, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's always about entertainment with me. Um, That's
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  Speaker 1: that's what I've always dreamed. That's what I dreamed of,
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  Speaker 1: was being the greatest entertainer. I've watched people like Sammy
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  Speaker 1: Davis and Michael Jackson and Presley, um and and just
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  Speaker 1: made myself, you know, try to conform myself into all
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  Speaker 1: three of those individuals, you know, um and through a
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  Speaker 1: little Rick James and printing there with him. But entertainment
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  Speaker 1: is everything for me, man. You know, Um, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where i'd be without as as well as I
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  Speaker 1: guess you could say a little hip gyration from Elvis
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  Speaker 1: Presley because them hips, them hips were gyrating. Brother, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's at least he was. I was looking at this,
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  Speaker 1: I said, this boy either gonna. He didn't break his back,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't break his steel, he didn't throw his should
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  Speaker 1: out of way, because you are just a gyrating food
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Brown. Listen, I can I can attest that it
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  Speaker 1: is something in the blood because little stun Cashes can
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  Speaker 1: shake his hips still. So it's natural we'll be right
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  Speaker 1: back with more money making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's return to money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: You know you too, ord with uh, there was a
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  Speaker 1: moment in the Doctors it talks about Rick James where
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  Speaker 1: you were sitting on the side and that kind of
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  Speaker 1: like and like you said, you you you saw a
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  Speaker 1: guy who took it to the edge. The guy left
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  Speaker 1: it on the stage. You who who was irreverent in
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  Speaker 1: his reaction to what you thought of him. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you what he thinks of himself and then projected
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  Speaker 1: in his performances. What impact did Rick havill you? Because
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned his name Ria, Michael Jackson and things like
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  Speaker 1: these impactful talents. But Rick James is particularly mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the docuseries. Yes, Rick James played a major part in
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  Speaker 1: my life just from being being, um, a solid a
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  Speaker 1: solid cat. He was a solid you know individual that
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  Speaker 1: that taught me most of most of what I know
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  Speaker 1: about entertaining, about being on stage, about you know, showmanship,
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  Speaker 1: about being faithful for what I have know in the history. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he was just a really good mentor. Absolutely and your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that, Alicia, Yeah, I also feel that he
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  Speaker 1: was very important in his transition from a boy band
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  Speaker 1: to a solo artist. That was very major. And that's
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  Speaker 1: when Bobby really owned the stage and owned that because
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to be something different than what we knew
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  Speaker 1: him in New Edition. He really became Bobby Brown. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that was an important time for him, and I know
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  Speaker 1: Rick James was um very imperative at that time. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we was talking talking about. The word balance, balance,
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  Speaker 1: finding who you are. But you're a young man. You
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  Speaker 1: would like to say you got discovered, and you know
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  Speaker 1: it was more important when that two and fifty dollars
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  Speaker 1: than getting a contract when you got discovered about Morris Starr,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the life, that's the poverty level or the
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle level that you were living at that time. Where's
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  Speaker 1: the showing the money versus the opportunity. That was a balace.
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  Speaker 1: And then as you you know, I love every time
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Bell was interviewed, he always called you Bob, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody was saying, Bobby, I know he is Bobby Brown.
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  Speaker 1: He called you Bob. Talk about the relationship that you
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  Speaker 1: have with those young men, Bob, as Ricky Barrel always
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  Speaker 1: called you. The relationship that I have with my brothers
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  Speaker 1: or something. So um, they are they are. They're just there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, They're always there for me. And each time
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  Speaker 1: I need them, they they've been there, you know, through
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  Speaker 1: my ups and downs. You know, they don't judge me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they just they just solid, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: just they believe in what I believe in. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the truth and honesty. Well, they did judge you one time.
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  Speaker 1: That was in the Oka Oakland and that's when all
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  Speaker 1: Okay ncland was was the show where uh new edition
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  Speaker 1: within different directions. But I think that when you were
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  Speaker 1: doing something, and I've been there to team and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're doing something is yeah, you're making money,
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  Speaker 1: but you're frustrated when you wake up in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: when you go to sleep, or you're being we always
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  Speaker 1: tell people is that you can make money being somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: But when you fall down, can you get up being
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  Speaker 1: that person that you are not? And I felt that
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  Speaker 1: that's what you were, That's what you were battling the
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  Speaker 1: whole time. You're just were blessed an opportunity, but you
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  Speaker 1: could not be yourself? What was going through your mind?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna ask you that, Bobby. And then want
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  Speaker 1: you were starting because you you got to see it
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  Speaker 1: because you was in the industry and you got to
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  Speaker 1: see it, get to hear the rumors and then the
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  Speaker 1: feedback on all this's going down. Talk to us right quick, Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: What was going through my mind was, you know, um
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  Speaker 1: that I needed to I needed to release. I needed
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  Speaker 1: to release all of the things that I was feeling inside.
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  Speaker 1: You know, So me being a solo artist, uh really
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  Speaker 1: was was? It was inevitable? You know, I was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a solo artist in the beginning, but new
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  Speaker 1: addition took me to the heights that I was. I
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  Speaker 1: that that got me through the dual. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: becoming a solo artist was you know, my main goal. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great that you'll see in the documentary
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  Speaker 1: as well. Uh, Johnny, I believe and Ricky and Bobby
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  Speaker 1: are have talking about exactly that when they were younger,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the things that were being told to
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  Speaker 1: them to you know, make sure Bobby was kicked out
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  Speaker 1: of the group basically because it was going to harm them,
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  Speaker 1: instead of embracing Bobby becoming an individual because this was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be you know, just so tight cookie cutter
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  Speaker 1: kind of tight, and Bobby was going through growing pains.
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  Speaker 1: He needed to express himself and he needed to do
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  Speaker 1: something different on stage, and we're just happy that he
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  Speaker 1: got the opportunity to do it. Well. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is that you know, I'm older
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  Speaker 1: than both for you too, so and that's a good
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  Speaker 1: thing because of the fact that I get to see
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  Speaker 1: life different and a different set of eyes and the
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  Speaker 1: new edition. When the when the Candian Girl came out,
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  Speaker 1: it's struck positive in my community because you know, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have we all these little white groups came out,
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  Speaker 1: and when y'all came out, man, it was like wow,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it really was a wow, Bobby, It really
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  Speaker 1: was a new addition, was a wow for the black
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  Speaker 1: community because of the fact that you know, the Jackson
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  Speaker 1: fives don't count, they don't count, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys were like me, and I was a
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  Speaker 1: young black boy teenagers and moved into manhood. And seeing
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  Speaker 1: y'all talk in and and and react and move and
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  Speaker 1: dance and seeing other women that I won't want y'all,
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  Speaker 1: that was a lot to take in. But also I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be you know, because I grew up wanting
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  Speaker 1: to be Michael Jackson. Then I shifted and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be Bobby Brown. You know what I'm saying, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's two totally different people. You turned on a different
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  Speaker 1: light switch for a lot of black teenagers and black
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  Speaker 1: grown men because we couldn't be Michael Jackson. But boy,
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  Speaker 1: I could beat Bobby Brown. He dressed like me, he
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  Speaker 1: walked like me, he parted like me. He did things
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  Speaker 1: on stage and I wish I could do. The women
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  Speaker 1: were clamoring on him. You know, Michael Jackson w he
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  Speaker 1: you know he wasn't you know he was knew that
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  Speaker 1: he was just out there the perform You really wanted
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  Speaker 1: every girl in that stadium to want you. That's a
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  Speaker 1: powerful poor brother, and I thank you for that. You're
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  Speaker 1: so welcome. But talking about that, because that was a crisipal,
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  Speaker 1: that was like to say, that's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a performance a standard command comedian. I've been
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  Speaker 1: in front the twenty thou. I know what you walk
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  Speaker 1: on stage. There's a responsibility. When you say hello, do
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  Speaker 1: you say good night? What do people take away from you?
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  Speaker 1: My takeaway was like, Wow, what was your takeaway when
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  Speaker 1: you was out there? My takeaway was just loving, loving
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  Speaker 1: every moment of I mean every moment of it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that that was that was my that was my that
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  Speaker 1: was my school, that was my home, that was my church,
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  Speaker 1: that was that was my everything. Just being on stage
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  Speaker 1: and performing from people. Um I I still get a
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  Speaker 1: big kick out of it, you know. Um it's still
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  Speaker 1: something that that that just just makes me boil inside. Right, right, people,
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  Speaker 1: at least you when I when I when I told you,
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  Speaker 1: when you hear my craziness looking at this young man
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  Speaker 1: here and how he affected me? And and what what
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts? You know, because I'm not I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the first person said that. Even people in
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  Speaker 1: the video and the doctor sries talk about celebrities talk
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  Speaker 1: about how you how they they saw you. It was
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  Speaker 1: it was y'all out the performing, but they zeroed in
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  Speaker 1: on you and what you were doing, how you were performing,
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  Speaker 1: how you were interacting, your point of view. I think
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  Speaker 1: we should say that very clearly you had a point
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  Speaker 1: of view. You were just fighting to have it hurt. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with what you said. I mean, obviously I
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  Speaker 1: witnessed and grew up with Bobby a New edition as well,
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  Speaker 1: But Bobby always had that star fact that he came
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  Speaker 1: on that stage and demanded the attention, right, that's something
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  Speaker 1: that you know, not everybody has, and he maximized that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he took that to another level. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can't forget seeing a Bobby Brown concert without remembering
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  Speaker 1: coming out in his throne, bringing the girls up on
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  Speaker 1: stage and really giving it to them and really making
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  Speaker 1: this a show that you talked about forever. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you talked about it, We still talk about it. But
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  Speaker 1: that cure entertainment guest that he has is wow. I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you that when at least when he jumped
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  Speaker 1: on top of that forward car in La Vegas, I
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  Speaker 1: went wow, Wow, you don't know what think the thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people, you know what I'm saying, and he just
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  Speaker 1: did it. I went wow, And I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I knew what was gonna happen. And that was a
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  Speaker 1: good thing because he gave me what I expected from him,
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  Speaker 1: which is maximum performance, maximum wow. And that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of what I what I took away. Because there's
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  Speaker 1: some really nice moments in this biography. I think the
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  Speaker 1: most touching was the moment that you moments that you
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  Speaker 1: shared with us. Sure, talk about that the moments with us.
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  Speaker 1: Um that was really special to me because he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the individuals in this entertainment field that I've really respect.
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  Speaker 1: I really Uh. I think he's doing a great job
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  Speaker 1: doing what he does best, and that's entertained. Um. He
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  Speaker 1: came to me when he was just a young young Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they show it too. Yeah, I wanted to get out
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  Speaker 1: and and and do it. And I just just embraced
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: him in my mom's and and made sure that he
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: he went the right directions as far as you know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: his career was concerned. Um, Us was a really talented
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: brother and I'm just glad to know him as a friend.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Well, you know this show was
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: filled with many celebrities because you know vivis in there.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: You know he's just got his tight T shirt on
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: showing under everything like you've been throw down and everything.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: And you know Ricky Bell's in there, of course, Ralph
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: trans Van and uh running the vote. It's just a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: group or and then when you when you look at
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the you know Key Swere, that's my board, Captain Sexy
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: in there, you know Ussher, you know Jermaine Dupris in
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: their baby phase. It's just a lot of other professionals
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: in the industry that commented possibly about you know, we all,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you know, we all saw a part of history Bobby
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: with you and when you got the Bobby Brown Way
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: in Boston Roxbury, that is probably to be out of
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the four episodes. It was a profound moment for me
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to see happened. Tells us about that energy because you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: know it was on tape, but it was a build
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: up to that moment. You know, the mayor was there
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, a little black boy from Roxbury. What's
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: supposed to make it bipolar? You know what I'm saying, Well,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be anywhere there there, Um it was.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: It was definitely a big surprise, Um for me. We're
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: just going to film, you know, we were just going
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to film Michael Bivins. Um, all of a sudden, here's this,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: He's the mayor and all of these people out there
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to give me a street, I mean to for for
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: me to have a street in Boston is just amazing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I mean knowing that I ran through all of them
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: streets with uh with some spunk, absolutely, absolutely absolutely, you know,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and putting this all together a lesia. You know, it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: four episodes. You know this, it's called the Beginning, and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: then the career, and then the you know, then the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Whitney relationship, and then moving to the pain, the pain.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I call it the Pain episode. And when when you
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: talk about that, you know, you you've you've drawn you
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: pulled him out, and you've helped him get out of
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that darkness, out of that pains, you know, and you
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: know because I've seen you know, Bobby, and you know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: we've been around and you know, because I was Steve
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Harvey all the time and music and interviewed him sitting
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: rooms together and he may not even remember, but I've
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: always been there champion him and believing that there's a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: better opportunity. You just need to write people around him.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And you came in and you all that right person,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that trust factor, that balance that we've been talking about
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: this entire show talking about pulling him out of that darkness,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: those dark spaces. Yeah, you're absolutely going to be able
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to experience that in this four part series of you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: all the stuff Bobby has been through as well as
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: from his childhood and moving on and carrying it with you,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know. Um, we don't stop and let that pain
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: or work through that enough. That's how you come out
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: of the darkness. I mean a lot of prayer as well. Um.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's been a journey to say the least.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: But you know, when I knew Bob, Bobby and back
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Bob in those younger years and you'll get more of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that as well in this docuseries. And so watching him
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: grow and become a man and having the challenges and battles,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you know, you just want someone to be solid by
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: your side, and even if that's just your friend, you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you have to be able to trust in something and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: someone or something bigger than yourself. And so, um, yeah,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: we have come through the fire and you know, we
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: see light and we are just living our lives with gratitude.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: It's just about really being still sometimes and just really
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: living in gratitude of the now, because if you live
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: in the past, it's just sometimes too overwhelming, you know.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And you'll see the tools that we uh use to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: help ourselves. Absolutely. You have two projects here on the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: A and E Network this is the biography of Bobby Brown,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and then you have a reality dr Sears coming up
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Bobby Brown every little step. Can you give us some
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: little teasers about what that's gonna be about how many
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: episodes you guys are gonna tape? Can you give me
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: just a little drop some nuggets on me, miss executive producer?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Come on, Bobby quiet, let uk, Let let me talk.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Let thank come on, Lisa. Well, you know that this
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: series is gonna be a twelve episode series we're super
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: excited about. You'll see the first episode right after the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: docuse series. Um a docu documentary, I'm sorry on met one,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: So it'll continue now. They'll pick up basically where you
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: see Bobby's life right with myself and our children that live,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: our three little ones that live with us, and you'll
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: get some insight to the older children as well, which
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: is nice. But how we live daily as a family.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: You know, there's not enough example of a black family
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that have a mother and a father in the house.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: We just need to see more of this. You know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: this is reality because we're just allowing you to see
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: us as who we are, and you're gonna see a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: lot of um, what Bobby does best entertain right is
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: natural state. He's not on stage, but in our house
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: we act like it's stage all the time. We have
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: kids that love to dance. You want to say something,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: at least he want to say something. Come on, come on, Bob,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Come on, Bob, come on. No, no, I don't have
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: anything to sign ahead. I love it, but I love it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: You know, it's different for me in front of the camera.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you that Bobby is as entertaining as ever.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And you guys just love it. It's endearing, it's intimate.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: You know, it's uh celebrated and uh we don't really
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: we don't really uh you know say anything is off
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: limits really basically. So it's a it's a PG, you know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it's a family uh something for everybody show. Well, I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: want to thank both for y'all. You know again, Uh,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: it's always a blessing. When I talked to you too,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you you're you're so charming, so honest, and the four
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: part Doctor Sries is a muss watch. It's a musswatch
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: because it's compelling, it's honest, and also you're part of history, brother,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you really are. You're part of my life. You're part
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: of every of Americana pop culture. R and b um.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: If you know somebody, you know, I forgot we when
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: you did um uh. We worked together with Beyonce say
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and we remember you're Steve. When you was on that
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: that's when I realized you could act with with the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: with the Cooper Gooden Jr. Beyonce, Steve Hard We did
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: that movie together with you. This brother right here can
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: act right here, y'all. I have known him a long time,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a long time and keep winning. Brother and you two
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and you keep him well. He's supposed to be balanced, Alicia,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: because you're a special as well. Thank you. Thank you
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Sean in person. Soon Oh you welcome on girl. I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: gotta get some of that season. Come on. I want
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to buy what I wanted to sign it. My wife
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: loved it, by the way, and I love you. Okay,
• 27:15
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• 27:17
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