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Patti LaBelle, Rickey Smiley, Cedric The Entertainer & Steve Smith · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: money making conversations, I'm your host, Rashawn McDonald. This is
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Speaker 1: what I do. Appearing on the show today is Wow.
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Speaker 1: It's a Wow show, A Wow show. The legendary singer, songwriter, actress,
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Speaker 1: and entrepreneur padded Label. He had a fourteen year NBA
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Speaker 1: career and in two thousand three won the championship with
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Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs and today he is a top
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Speaker 1: college basketball NBA analyst Steve Smith. He's the pioneer of
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Speaker 1: the black stand up comedy movement and you heard his
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Speaker 1: voe in top animated family movies like Disney's Planes and
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Speaker 1: the sequel planes, Fire and Rescue, Charlotte's Well, all those
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Speaker 1: Madagscar movies, Ice Age and Dr Doolittle too. That will
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Speaker 1: be Centric the Entertainer. And finally, he's a stand up comedian,
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Speaker 1: television host, actor, and radio personality. That's my man, Ricky
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Speaker 1: Smilet too old. Let's go. I'm ready, it's time. He's
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Speaker 1: on the line. Let's go and start talking to this brother.
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Speaker 1: My first guest is an original king of comedy. He's
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Speaker 1: a pioneer, like I said earlier, black stand up comedy
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Speaker 1: because he played my comedy club way back in n
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Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen ninty too, and I knew that was a
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Speaker 1: black comedy club. You know him from the Steve Harvest
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Speaker 1: sitcom Here's this was this one starts to take off
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Speaker 1: for him, the number one rated Super Bowl commercials, number
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Speaker 1: one rated box office barbershop movies. And now you can
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Speaker 1: see him every week on the number one rated sitcom
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Speaker 1: on cable TV, the new TBS comedy The Last O J.
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Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation, Cedric the Entertainer,
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Speaker 1: what's up? Man? He said, I don't introduce you, got you.
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Speaker 1: I got to introduce you. You can't out with it right,
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Speaker 1: there then you don't answer the last O G got
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Speaker 1: the last O J. Blah blah blah blah, god, the
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Speaker 1: last JA. Oh my god, I can't believe I said
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Speaker 1: the last O J. Hey, Man, I said in front
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Speaker 1: of your behind, the last O G. To do it
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Speaker 1: for you, man, one of the top competents in the country.
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Speaker 1: That's classic, man. You know where my head is, Man,
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Speaker 1: that's just hearing what you're doing, man, and the history
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Speaker 1: and the start of it all. And and to see
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Speaker 1: today man, to be on the number one cable comedy
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Speaker 1: The Last O G on TVs. I've seen the show
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Speaker 1: and I just want to tell everybody that we started
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Speaker 1: doorg sitcom and television. While back it was just about
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Speaker 1: Neilsome ratings. But now you're in that multi media platform
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Speaker 1: where you know, it's the v O, D DVR, social media,
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Speaker 1: your smartphones, you know, it's streaming. There's so many layers,
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Speaker 1: and so when you when you don't understand that, how
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Speaker 1: are you today? When you talk about your brand? How
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Speaker 1: do you promote your brand? It's very important that you
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Speaker 1: participate now, correct, Yeah, yeah, I mean it is the thing.
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Speaker 1: You do have to participate of course. Uh, social media
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Speaker 1: is becoming more and more a lead of how people
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Speaker 1: recognize you and come to know you. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: fan bases continue to grow, they get younger, and those
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Speaker 1: are the people that come into what would be the
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Speaker 1: money buying share of the you know, having the younger
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Speaker 1: people that come up, and this is the audience that
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Speaker 1: most media people want. They want the younger folks who
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Speaker 1: are buyers, and then who's gonna grow can eventually be
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Speaker 1: the headholes of household. So that's a big And then
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Speaker 1: just trying to be a part of really relevant projects
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Speaker 1: as far as being a you know, actor and a comedian,
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Speaker 1: I start to stay relevant, you know, stay on stage. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm still a part of the you know,
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Speaker 1: the large one of the largely tour. We just did
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Speaker 1: our one hundred show, the comedy Get Down, touring around
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Speaker 1: the country doing arenas. That's still great, tot live showing
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Speaker 1: up in your city on that stage. You know, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the opportunity to you know, to talk
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Speaker 1: to guys like you at all times. You know, people
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Speaker 1: who are keeping their you know, they you know, their
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Speaker 1: head and finger on the pulse of it. You know. Uh,
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Speaker 1: that's what's That's how it's got to be done at
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Speaker 1: all times, and it's a it's a full circle job
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Speaker 1: and it's really it's really great because I know that
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Speaker 1: by being socially relevant, it makes your topical. Because if
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Speaker 1: you're not socially in tune, if you don't have that,
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Speaker 1: if you're not then influencer, you know, it can it can,
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Speaker 1: it can cast you lose job opportunities. Nowadays, it really
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Speaker 1: is a yeah, definitely, that's what uh. I mean that,
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Speaker 1: like you said, it is one of the leading actors
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Speaker 1: of how people are booked now. You know, it's interesting
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Speaker 1: that when it comes to television, it doesn't necessarily they've
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Speaker 1: learned this recently. It doesn't necessarily those who have you know,
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Speaker 1: millions of people following them, it doesn't necessarily transfer to
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Speaker 1: them being a start to to them being a start to.
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Speaker 1: You know, people when they want to go and pay
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Speaker 1: thirty forty dollars to sit down somewhere and watch you,
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Speaker 1: that's a different thing. If you if it's if it's
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Speaker 1: if it's three to two or three minutes on my phone, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a huge fan. If I gotta sit there,
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Speaker 1: then that's a different thing. That's when you you know,
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Speaker 1: you get to George Clooney's and you know, and and
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Speaker 1: and people who kind of earn their way up. And
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Speaker 1: you know, you have people do it great, like Kevin
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Speaker 1: Hard is amazing and you know, build this brand from
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Speaker 1: that and and and did great from you know, coming
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Speaker 1: from social media up. But then you have people that
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Speaker 1: you know that it's hard to survive that way, say
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Speaker 1: like a Dane Cook, who you know did it for
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Speaker 1: a long time, and then you gotta and then you
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Speaker 1: gotta try to maintain with jet back. That's a hard thing,
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Speaker 1: a harder thing to do after the Dane Cook is
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Speaker 1: one of the fantastic comedians out of the Northeast that
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Speaker 1: had a run of movies because he was so popular
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Speaker 1: with that college audience as a stand up comedian. Now,
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Speaker 1: do you want to congratulate you the last o g
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Speaker 1: u the number one comedy in renewed for a second season.
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Speaker 1: Let's get some applause going that said you come on now, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but then, but then, but this is I love about
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Speaker 1: you though. You're the multi stream income guy here. You
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Speaker 1: know that's being renewed, but you're working on another sitcom.
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Speaker 1: Did you just shot tell us about that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just shot a pilot for TVs. Really uh interesting show
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Speaker 1: did it with one of the writers from Big Bang Theory. Um.
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Speaker 1: It's um is entitled loosely right now, Welcome to the Neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: But it's about gentrification. It's work revertedentification is a white
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Speaker 1: family moves into all black neighborhoods. So this is about
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Speaker 1: when you know, you know, you start to see the
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Speaker 1: neighborhoods and be ours and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: how are starting to get rehabbed? And you look up
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Speaker 1: and it's it's line line of white people moving in
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere into the hood. So, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: we started to we want to do to look at
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Speaker 1: races like that. If it is really funny, there's an
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Speaker 1: interesting show to do, man. So we're excited about the
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Speaker 1: opportunity that's covered with that too. It's so funny because
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Speaker 1: you know how I come from my all black neighborhood
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Speaker 1: Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas, and you know, you always
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Speaker 1: have one white family in a black neighborhood. And I
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Speaker 1: laughed because this is like, this is a fluent group
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Speaker 1: of white people saying, you know something, we don't mind
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Speaker 1: being in this neighborhood. In fact, we don't mind as
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Speaker 1: so much. We're gonna push you all out. And I
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Speaker 1: just see the count man, you know where it's starting
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Speaker 1: to really happen all over the country. You know, you'll
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Speaker 1: see that when you know the inner city starting to
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Speaker 1: end up being you know, back for you look at
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Speaker 1: Detroit coming back. You look at St. Louis, it's south
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Speaker 1: sinceral l a. Man, if you go there now, you'll
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Speaker 1: see people over there with laborn noodles and pre wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, I thought, no, no, First of all, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna from the black people being pushed. The Latinams will
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Speaker 1: come and push them out. Then the white come in
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Speaker 1: and push them out. It's really interesting because in Houston,
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Speaker 1: I was just driving around. I was in Houston this
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Speaker 1: weekend because I still lived there as rather as Atlanta, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: and I was just driving through the neighborhoods going I
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Speaker 1: wish I had a Boston property. I wish I had
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Speaker 1: bought some property because all these high rises of these
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Speaker 1: stores and and and they will never have been there
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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, are now a dominant part of those
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Speaker 1: communities because guess what they produced, tax dollars and tax dollars.
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Speaker 1: The reason they redo these communities. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: really want to do a quick transition and uh, because
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Speaker 1: I want to keep you for another break cter to
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Speaker 1: talk about everything. But how important the community is for
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Speaker 1: you being from St. Louis. You know, when all the
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Speaker 1: drama was out there, you didn't run from it. You
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Speaker 1: stayed in the You stayed in the front of it,
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Speaker 1: keeping the community calm. Why was that so important for
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Speaker 1: you to do that, etcetera. Well, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean, if the core of it is it's who
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Speaker 1: I am. I don't you know, I knew I do
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Speaker 1: entertainment as a job, but you know, I think that
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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a person. I'm a black person. I'm
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Speaker 1: a black man on the one of that father uh
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Speaker 1: one who is uh you know, believes that I have
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Speaker 1: something to say or contribute. I'm not a you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not a person that's out there drumming, you know,
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Speaker 1: on the bandwagon. At all times. I usually try to
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Speaker 1: get in and fight the fight where it's really necessary.
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Speaker 1: So with that, I have a lot of influences with
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Speaker 1: people the political roles. I understand that the fight has
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Speaker 1: to be on a bigger levels. I know a lot
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Speaker 1: of judges, I know, people that know how to get
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Speaker 1: things done, and so that's usually how I try to
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Speaker 1: participate in situations with things that go ride. So it's
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Speaker 1: not about you know, a lot of you know, paths
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Speaker 1: on the back and getting a lot of acclaim for it.
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Speaker 1: Uh So, but you know, it's just it's just, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think being a you know, a dude raised up
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Speaker 1: with a single mother, being the only male in that household,
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Speaker 1: I just always had to have that kind of man
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Speaker 1: type leadership attitude, uh you know, since I was a
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Speaker 1: young dude. So that's the that's the way I kind
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Speaker 1: of go about it. So the tour, I gotta I
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Speaker 1: gotta you, you threw that out man to get down tour.
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Speaker 1: But look here you you you were part of one
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Speaker 1: of the all time great the Original Kings of Comedy.
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Speaker 1: What are your mind felt this was cool to do
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Speaker 1: this tour, Cedric, I gotta ask you that question. It's
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Speaker 1: a good question, you know, I mean that was that
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Speaker 1: was the thing from doing the Original Kings. Of course,
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Speaker 1: you know, uh, there's a event comedy, was it? You know?
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Speaker 1: When we showed up in town, it was an end.
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Speaker 1: It was an event, and so you know, we were,
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Speaker 1: you know, and after after those years, you know, we
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Speaker 1: all kind of went back to our individual corners and
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Speaker 1: everybody started doing their own things, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: which is great, you know, and uh and so you know,
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Speaker 1: we all had the ability to go and do shows
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Speaker 1: and do well on our own. But I missed that energy.
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Speaker 1: I missed that camaraderie. And so when this opportunity came about,
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Speaker 1: this was all again. George Lopez had called the most
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Speaker 1: of us together in order to put up a statue
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Speaker 1: for Richard Pryor, and then you know, it turned into
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Speaker 1: the tour and so this was this was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be a one time thing. That's you know again this
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Speaker 1: class weekend, we celebrated our one hundred show together and so, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was just really special, man. And we're
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Speaker 1: still out on the road doing it. We still have
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Speaker 1: the ability to go individually if we want to. So
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Speaker 1: it's just the best of both worlds. It's like being
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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, it's got to be like
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Speaker 1: when new Addition was out and then you had body ground.
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Speaker 1: You'll show up and Johnny Geller come by it. Hell
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Speaker 1: the hell'll be able to go and come and then
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Speaker 1: there will be all new. Addition, all that wants got
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Speaker 1: nine groups of one. Well, you know, bet gonna do
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Speaker 1: a movie about y'all in a minute, you know that, Bet? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm just gonna they're getting on a little
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Speaker 1: boy with no band airline. He man, I appreciate you
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Speaker 1: taking the time and allow me to promote your brand. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I'm a friend brother, you know, I believe in you.
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Speaker 1: I'm a fan of your, friend of you, and you
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Speaker 1: know that anything you need always to reach out to me.
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Speaker 1: I promoted my social media. I know what understand the
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Speaker 1: value of the social media. But right now, Congratulations don't
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Speaker 1: be renewed for a second season on Data last o
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Speaker 1: g on TBS. And also, I'm gonna keep my prayers
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Speaker 1: out for your new new ship. Comp did you just
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Speaker 1: take the CBS. I want you to win in all
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Speaker 1: directions and keep winning, Cedric, I appreciate you, all right, man,
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Speaker 1: which is always fantastic. The game of basketball has been very,
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Speaker 1: very good to. My next guess is the former NBA
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Speaker 1: All Star. If if I say anything wrong, check me okay,
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Speaker 1: correct you, okay, World champion with the San Antonio Spurs,
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Speaker 1: Olympian businessman, broadcaster, philanthropers. After playing fourteen season and the NBA,
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Speaker 1: he became. You can see him in popular TV commercials,
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Speaker 1: which I always enjoy him and he looks so relaxed
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Speaker 1: because I can't actu So whenever I see anybody looking
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Speaker 1: back relaxed, how we go? What are you doing back?
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Speaker 1: College basketball? Seeing nightly on NBA TV and something cold suit?
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Speaker 1: You know, you know how the cold suit on the day,
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Speaker 1: but he got the cold suit on NBA today, uh TV.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations. Steve Smith. Appreciate it,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for having me. I like that. You
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Speaker 1: can do that again, absolutely, But you're not a cold
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Speaker 1: suit on with the little you know, square and everything. So, so,
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Speaker 1: what is the image of Steve Smith? What is Steve's
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Speaker 1: the brand? I guess I can say I would say
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Speaker 1: Steve Smith brand is just being himself, a humble person,
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Speaker 1: from that voice. He already got there for Wars. He
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Speaker 1: went into Steve Smith boys, it's just a natural, just natural,
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Speaker 1: just natural. My friend, just a kid from the east
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Speaker 1: side of Detroit, got a chance because of that around
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Speaker 1: basketball you talked about, got a chance to take me
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Speaker 1: around the world. And obviously for me, um, it's taken
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Speaker 1: me where. I still haven't had a job. I always
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Speaker 1: tell people I haven't got a job yet because I'm
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Speaker 1: doing stuff I love and dreamed to do. So dreamed
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Speaker 1: of playing in the NBA, and obviously that dream came true.
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Speaker 1: Never thought and dreamed of being broadcasting. But that was
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Speaker 1: something I said, that'd be a fun job. And but
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Speaker 1: how did that? How did that happen? Because you said
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Speaker 1: you never thought because you athlete correct more than just
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Speaker 1: an athlete. But I think, Um, at the end of
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Speaker 1: my career, never thought I'd being broadcasting. I was sitting
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Speaker 1: at the restaurant and some of alternery executives were there
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Speaker 1: that I got a chance to meet and be around
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Speaker 1: because I'm here in the land and played here, and
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Speaker 1: they said, Steve, would you want to be in broadcasting?
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Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no, not at all. That's not
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Speaker 1: for me. I didn't go over to school for that.
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Speaker 1: They said why not? And that the reason they caught me,
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Speaker 1: Because they said why not. I didn't have an answer,
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Speaker 1: so went in and did a demo and obviously they said, uh,
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Speaker 1: we think you'd be good. Why don't you think about
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Speaker 1: staying in basketball and covering the Hawks? And I tell people, boy,
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Speaker 1: coming to Hawks at that time, they couldn't win a game.
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Speaker 1: You had to come up with stories, you had to
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Speaker 1: come up with different people had to come on and
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Speaker 1: just to keep talking about basketball. I think it expanded
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Speaker 1: me as a broadcast for a team that wasn't doing
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Speaker 1: well at the time. Okay, So so here's something I
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Speaker 1: wanted to talk about as education because of my degree
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Speaker 1: in mathematics. And it took me seven years to get
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Speaker 1: my degree. Okay, but I thought, I always tell people
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Speaker 1: that you can't reapop education, and so you went back
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Speaker 1: and got your degree. My mom a promise. When I
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Speaker 1: got a chance to go to Michigan State University my
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Speaker 1: junior year, I had this little thought that I was
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Speaker 1: gonna come out and my dad and they said, no,
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Speaker 1: you're not coming out earlier, going all four years and
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Speaker 1: then obviously when I finished, I only had eleven credits left.
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Speaker 1: When you know, you started procrasting, I'm gonna do that
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Speaker 1: in the summer. Summer started to go on. But my
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Speaker 1: mom eventually, you know, in my rookie year past, and
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Speaker 1: I always had that voice in my mind, you're going
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Speaker 1: back getting your degree. And so then after the time
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Speaker 1: it would really hit me was when my kids said, Dad,
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Speaker 1: you don't have your degree. Because I say, hey, you're
17:04
Speaker 1: going to college getting your dree. They said, you don't
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Speaker 1: have your degree. So that was the kicking my butt
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Speaker 1: to make me go back. And you can't talking nor
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Speaker 1: is if you're not applying it yourself. And I say,
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Speaker 1: the hardest thing just having leven credits left. It seemed
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Speaker 1: like that was nothing. When I first left, I go
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Speaker 1: back and do it. After years, kept going and going.
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Speaker 1: You always made excuse. But after the kids, in that
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Speaker 1: little voice, my mom made me go back. Well, it's
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Speaker 1: important to do. You know the reason I like it
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Speaker 1: because that means your goal. Person, the goals are important
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Speaker 1: to you. It's important you in athletics, and then in
17:31
Speaker 1: this part it's important you in life. Because of the
17:33
Speaker 1: fact that I would tell me, if you set a goal,
17:34
Speaker 1: you can actually you know, you can actually hold people accountable.
17:38
Speaker 1: And so once you got that degree, you can start
17:40
Speaker 1: holding your kids accountable for sure. I mean I could
17:43
Speaker 1: stick my chest out and so you have to. But
17:46
Speaker 1: I would say more than just that degree, just having
17:48
Speaker 1: that experience being on that college campus, and UM, I
17:51
Speaker 1: tell you, I'll take that into the next segment. That
17:53
Speaker 1: was the reason why I started my Steve Smith Scholarship Fund.
17:56
Speaker 1: I was talking about we're talking about we're talking about
17:59
Speaker 1: I'm back home, speaking obviously about basketball to the entire
18:03
Speaker 1: high school, my high school person high school, and a
18:05
Speaker 1: young lady stood up and said, Steve, you know, I
18:08
Speaker 1: want to go to college. I don't have enough funds
18:11
Speaker 1: and money and financially means to go to college. I
18:13
Speaker 1: did everything everybody told me to do. I'm a four
18:16
Speaker 1: point those students. I only miss class two or three
18:18
Speaker 1: times in my entire school, and uh, I don't have
18:21
Speaker 1: enough money to go to school, and how can I
18:23
Speaker 1: go without athletics? And that's when it started to me
18:25
Speaker 1: I needed to help and do something to have kids
18:27
Speaker 1: from my high school, my community. But the first thing,
18:29
Speaker 1: reaching your own personal pockets, Yeah you did. I had
18:32
Speaker 1: to write, so what what triggered that? Next step, you know,
18:35
Speaker 1: it's getting other people involved and getting them involved in
18:37
Speaker 1: the point of today, I can't do this by myself.
18:40
Speaker 1: What pushed that? What that opportunity in your mind? I
18:43
Speaker 1: think anything, you know, this is being successful. You're not
18:45
Speaker 1: gonna ever do it alone. I think for me, it
18:47
Speaker 1: was my you know, I call it team Smith, my parents,
18:50
Speaker 1: you know, my mom's voice even though she's passed, my dad,
18:53
Speaker 1: my parents, my wife, my community, understanding that this is
18:57
Speaker 1: something I wanted to do. And then obviously reaching in
18:59
Speaker 1: that that pocket is uh, it was I got that
19:04
Speaker 1: look for my wife. You you're about to donate how
19:06
Speaker 1: much two point five million dollars? Said why? And after
19:10
Speaker 1: you explain why, it all makes sense. And for me
19:12
Speaker 1: it was something I wanted to do. And like I said,
19:15
Speaker 1: always had that voice with my mom in my head.
19:16
Speaker 1: And that's and so how I has basketball being uh,
19:20
Speaker 1: because the beauty about you is superstar in college, we
19:23
Speaker 1: gotta say that, uh, superstar. You don't be the All
19:26
Speaker 1: Star and not being a superstar and the NBA Olympian,
19:29
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's rare opportunity right there. How has
19:33
Speaker 1: that helped you in life? Being that successful? And then
19:36
Speaker 1: and then, like you said, somebody approached you by being
19:39
Speaker 1: uh now, so you went old, that's not me. And
19:42
Speaker 1: so now you're so successful in this world. How's that happening?
19:46
Speaker 1: You know? I think he goes back, Um, you know
19:48
Speaker 1: their voices from my mom. But then on the other side,
19:51
Speaker 1: as my dad thirty seven years, he drove the city
19:53
Speaker 1: city of Detroit bus hard work, watching me get up
19:57
Speaker 1: at four o'clock in the morning, coming back at nine
19:58
Speaker 1: o'clock at night. You drove the bus with thirty seven years.
20:01
Speaker 1: So I made him retire just hard work. And I
20:04
Speaker 1: think whenever you put your mind to someone, you start
20:06
Speaker 1: to put in your stamp where you're gonna go in,
20:08
Speaker 1: and you gotta put in more work than anybody else
20:10
Speaker 1: to be successful. And I think you never measure yourself
20:13
Speaker 1: on I want to be better than you. I want
20:14
Speaker 1: to be better than you. You want to be the
20:16
Speaker 1: best version of yourself by putting in hard work. Okay,
20:18
Speaker 1: Steve Smith the personality that that's the person that I
20:21
Speaker 1: see on TV these commercials. You seem so see I'm
20:25
Speaker 1: just gonna get into Steves. See, you're the guy keeps saying,
20:27
Speaker 1: you know, I just want to play basketball. I just wanted.
20:29
Speaker 1: But you're so natural, Steve. I'm mad at you because
20:32
Speaker 1: you can do so many good things that are natural.
20:35
Speaker 1: Why why you know that's don't worry about that. Don't
20:40
Speaker 1: worry about they can't do everything. Don't there. But I
20:44
Speaker 1: can't act though, but I didn't stopped me from making money,
20:47
Speaker 1: So you're natural. Talking about that whole process, because I'm
20:50
Speaker 1: sure when people approach you by commercials, it was a
20:53
Speaker 1: doubt in your head. People approach you about being on
20:56
Speaker 1: TV at the national of covering college back, skitball, sideline reporting,
21:01
Speaker 1: there were always doubts, and I always trying to use
21:04
Speaker 1: this show to break through those doubts, break through those
21:07
Speaker 1: those moments where you are afraid, but you broke through.
21:10
Speaker 1: Why you gotta try. I mean, that's the one thing
21:13
Speaker 1: is you're not gonna succeed unless you try. And I
21:15
Speaker 1: think always it's a wisdom going out there and talking
21:18
Speaker 1: to people. Always say tell kids, seek wisdom, seek people
21:21
Speaker 1: like yourself to get a chance to been there before
21:22
Speaker 1: you ask people, ask questions. And I think more importantly
21:26
Speaker 1: is when you define yourself. It's hard to mess up
21:29
Speaker 1: being you if you just be yourself, whether it's good
21:31
Speaker 1: or bad, as smiles as eyes. It's always gonna be
21:33
Speaker 1: true to you. So I always, I guess probably myself
21:36
Speaker 1: on being me. Well, the cool thing about it is
21:38
Speaker 1: that and I guess the cool that that that the
21:41
Speaker 1: I guess the all the part that you were playing
21:43
Speaker 1: it out on a large stage. You know, I guess
21:46
Speaker 1: you could say, you know when you were doing it
21:47
Speaker 1: for the Hawks when nobody watching, because it was so
21:51
Speaker 1: that was good, good good, good training ground, great training ground.
21:54
Speaker 1: But when you when when when the stage kept getting
21:56
Speaker 1: bigger and having an opinion because you know, as an
21:58
Speaker 1: analyst you have to have no you have to meet
22:00
Speaker 1: these same players. You have the couch. You know, you
22:03
Speaker 1: have to be relevant because you know, as as a fan,
22:05
Speaker 1: we can see through a's saying nothing right. So so
22:08
Speaker 1: as as an analyst, how do you gauge that maintaining
22:11
Speaker 1: I got to tell the truth but also maintained the
22:13
Speaker 1: relationship or doesn't matter? It does matter? I think first
22:16
Speaker 1: of all, is I just love the game of basketball
22:19
Speaker 1: since three or four years old, was always I've always
22:22
Speaker 1: had a ball in my hand. Then I think I'm
22:24
Speaker 1: gonna watch it at the high school level, I'm gonna
22:26
Speaker 1: play it. I'm gonna coaching, and it doesn't have anything
22:28
Speaker 1: to do with finances. I would have played this game
22:30
Speaker 1: just because the love of it. I think the next
22:32
Speaker 1: part about it is I'm always around it. I've been
22:35
Speaker 1: around a U, I've been around kids. I keep in
22:38
Speaker 1: touch with all my friends and faunily around the country
22:40
Speaker 1: about kids in this game of basketball. And so for
22:43
Speaker 1: me to get a chance to be on TV, I'm
22:45
Speaker 1: just naturally talking like we would be talking we were
22:46
Speaker 1: at home. Some of those words that you can't say
22:49
Speaker 1: on their keeping keeping a lot of the pepper, I
22:52
Speaker 1: keep it all and I just think, you know, being
22:56
Speaker 1: able to break down the game from my eyes from
22:58
Speaker 1: a guy that's seen it in so many different ways,
23:00
Speaker 1: and obviously each year you get more experience, it helps.
23:02
Speaker 1: And also staying relevant. You gotta talk to the young
23:04
Speaker 1: group about the game of basketball. Then obviously going to
23:07
Speaker 1: guys like George Gerband, Spencer Haywood, guys that taught me
23:11
Speaker 1: the game from the city of Trading, the state of Michigan.
23:13
Speaker 1: You keep those two together and you're somewhere in the middle.
23:16
Speaker 1: You always got to talk to older guys who've done
23:17
Speaker 1: it because they have their vision. And then my youngsters.
23:20
Speaker 1: The youngsters telling me about the crossovers and different things
23:23
Speaker 1: real estate. Tell us how you got started, how you
23:25
Speaker 1: got started in there? Well, my guys, when I left
23:28
Speaker 1: Michigan State, I was UH standing apartment uh and the
23:33
Speaker 1: management companies called DTM Management, And then my business guys
23:37
Speaker 1: always told me that there's a few things that you know.
23:40
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not going anywhere. You've never seen pretty much
23:43
Speaker 1: a university closed down. You ever seen casinos closed down
23:46
Speaker 1: or hospitals? So put your money? Which one would you
23:49
Speaker 1: want to do? Steve? And I said university. That makes
23:51
Speaker 1: more sense to me. Your brand when you look at it,
23:56
Speaker 1: there's always a kid wants to have his wants to
23:58
Speaker 1: be at a university. They're all from Michigan State is
24:00
Speaker 1: fifty some thousand. It's gonna go to forty eight, but
24:03
Speaker 1: it's gonna be within forty eight to fifty two thousand
24:06
Speaker 1: since I've been around. And if you can have real
24:09
Speaker 1: estate around a university or hospital or a casino, those
24:14
Speaker 1: industries are pretty much not going anywhere. So I bought
24:16
Speaker 1: my one unit right thirty three thousand in n and
24:20
Speaker 1: ever since then, I've been blind box of a hundred
24:22
Speaker 1: units now every since then and you know, we've we've
24:25
Speaker 1: done pretty good and it's still going. So so you
24:27
Speaker 1: have a management company that handles that, the DT in
24:29
Speaker 1: management and that's how that's how it works. So that's
24:32
Speaker 1: how you're you're for raid, that's all. So you're making
24:34
Speaker 1: money while you sleep. That's that's what I want to do.
24:37
Speaker 1: So anyway, so you into the multiple streams of income
24:40
Speaker 1: while sleeping, I want to work too hard. That's another job.
24:44
Speaker 1: I want to keep. These jobs were The beauty of
24:46
Speaker 1: what I was telling people is that you know, when
24:48
Speaker 1: you when you show up for a basketball game or
24:50
Speaker 1: you're shore for an end of you that's called working wealthy.
24:53
Speaker 1: You know, the wealth you're trying to get. This what
24:55
Speaker 1: you're talking about with this real estate or anything that
24:57
Speaker 1: you have about to always tell people that that multiple
24:59
Speaker 1: stream of income makes you sleep comfortably and also tells
25:02
Speaker 1: you you can say no yes comfortably and say I
25:05
Speaker 1: don't feel like doing that comfortable. It was my time.
25:08
Speaker 1: I love my time, your time, and you can't. You
25:11
Speaker 1: haven't used it on your golf game. I don't think
25:13
Speaker 1: you said that, so I don't. So why are you
25:15
Speaker 1: spending your time up here? Because I reasonally asked that
25:17
Speaker 1: is that what's the next stage in life for a successful,
25:20
Speaker 1: a good looking guy. I appreciate that made some glasses,
25:23
Speaker 1: but I cast people for a living. Okay, So where
25:27
Speaker 1: you go? People approached you about hosting shows or producing, uh,
25:33
Speaker 1: you know any type of mediums today or you want
25:35
Speaker 1: to go with your brain? You know what I haven't.
25:38
Speaker 1: I'm sure people would. I just haven't opened that door
25:40
Speaker 1: to him. I think for me is I've had that
25:42
Speaker 1: door closed to a lot of different absolutes just because
25:44
Speaker 1: my focus has been my kids. Focus has been my
25:47
Speaker 1: family right, and like you said, I've been comfortable, so
25:50
Speaker 1: I've been able to I wouldn't say say no, I
25:52
Speaker 1: haven't been out there searching and reaching and then the
25:55
Speaker 1: money doesn't drive me. That's one thing is I signed
25:58
Speaker 1: my first rebound contract was more than what my dad made. Absolutely,
26:02
Speaker 1: and I'm not measuring myself to my dad. But I
26:03
Speaker 1: always said, never chase it, Never chase it organically, let
26:07
Speaker 1: it come and obviously put in hard work. And that's
26:09
Speaker 1: what it's happening with your whole life. That's why you
26:10
Speaker 1: look so comfortable. Next for me, though, entrepreneur, I want
26:13
Speaker 1: to get more real estate for me and also kids
26:16
Speaker 1: who want to do camps all over the country for
26:18
Speaker 1: kids and obviously UM provide some where. Can you say
26:21
Speaker 1: camps all over the country that basketball camps, whether it's
26:25
Speaker 1: education camps, love reading one of them, definitely. I want
26:28
Speaker 1: to have one of those large book clubs where everybody understand. Kids,
26:31
Speaker 1: if you can read, you almost can read yourself out
26:34
Speaker 1: of poverty. You can read yourself out of problems. And
26:36
Speaker 1: that's why I think Pete kids can do well. You
26:38
Speaker 1: know something, Are those in all those still in the
26:41
Speaker 1: planning stages? Are you always in the planning stages? Okay,
26:44
Speaker 1: we gotta moving from planning to action. There you go,
26:47
Speaker 1: you got the goals you've never been Let them tell
26:49
Speaker 1: you someone. When you're sitting next to a successful person, Steve,
26:52
Speaker 1: you realize that that's what they're gonna do. Surrounding yourself
26:55
Speaker 1: with the right people that will create that at the
26:57
Speaker 1: next step. Because you've said that constantly that you've never
26:59
Speaker 1: done any think about yourself, never and that's so moving
27:02
Speaker 1: forward to shooting, you know, shout the best ball. Yeah,
27:05
Speaker 1: from from the baseline, from the corner, Yeah, from the
27:07
Speaker 1: from the elbow. You're very good man. I want to
27:10
Speaker 1: thank you Steve Spith for coming on my show. I
27:12
Speaker 1: just said, just sharing your story, I appreciate you amazing. Well,
27:17
Speaker 1: you know, you're amazing guy. And uh, I think that
27:19
Speaker 1: when people see this side of you, it's a big
27:22
Speaker 1: blessing for them because they need to know that there's
27:24
Speaker 1: an evolution and in the athletes life and their evolutions
27:28
Speaker 1: are now affecting people in a positive way. And I
27:30
Speaker 1: thought in the story about your son being in your
27:33
Speaker 1: his grandmother's building, that's um, I'm gonna take that with
27:37
Speaker 1: me a long time. Thank you, sir, Thank you, thank you.
27:42
Speaker 1: We're right back more money making conversations. Hi, this Rashwan
28:03
Speaker 1: McDonald of laughing because he's on the phone and he's
28:07
Speaker 1: been driving me nuts because he knows I know him.
28:10
Speaker 1: He's my fraternity brother. You're listening to money making Conversations.
28:13
Speaker 1: He's a nationally syndicated radio host, a reality TV star,
28:17
Speaker 1: a TV personality, an incredible stand up comedian and author
28:21
Speaker 1: book drop last October from Simon and Schuster, actor and businessman.
28:25
Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation. Ricky Smiley, Hey, Hey,
28:31
Speaker 1: resn also do landscape like real PLoP? No no no, no,
28:37
Speaker 1: no no, no, I know you can bobecue. I know
28:39
Speaker 1: you can bobecue. Now, I know you can bobecue. What's
28:42
Speaker 1: your landscaping? Me and my granddad that used to have
28:44
Speaker 1: a landscaping business. I still do it on the slide
28:46
Speaker 1: because I slipped houses. So I go in and get
28:48
Speaker 1: the property main so I keep properties, maintain that our own.
28:52
Speaker 1: Uh huh. So you're flipping houses and you're don't landscaping. Yeah, Rash,
28:57
Speaker 1: I just put out some scotts I just put out
28:59
Speaker 1: some scott weed and feed. We need to feed this morning.
29:04
Speaker 1: He knows. He tell us the truth. He tells the truth.
29:07
Speaker 1: So so so if I'm if I'm named, if I'm
29:10
Speaker 1: in the movement, come keep me, keep run there with
29:13
Speaker 1: the funds I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm doing landscaping right
29:16
Speaker 1: now while I'm doing it. Mess of Alash. I I
29:21
Speaker 1: would go to a house, I would, I would sit
29:23
Speaker 1: up there and I get it. I get that work in. Man,
29:27
Speaker 1: I believe in landscaping. The thing about it is, I
29:29
Speaker 1: don't care how big a celebrity you are. You're still
29:32
Speaker 1: a man. I still fixed cars, I still cut grands.
29:35
Speaker 1: I still kill me. You know, cars you're fixing, no
29:39
Speaker 1: Rickie smiling that anything American maid rasch. I don't know
29:44
Speaker 1: how to fix uh yet. Uh I can fix anything, American.
29:48
Speaker 1: May I know how to pull h put an alternator off?
29:55
Speaker 1: I started votage regulator, you know, all of that little
29:58
Speaker 1: tow stuff. But what I can't do. I can't cool
30:00
Speaker 1: a transmission color. I don't have to that transmission. That's
30:03
Speaker 1: a real job there. See. I can do the starter,
30:06
Speaker 1: you can do the radiator, you can do the battery.
30:08
Speaker 1: The battery. I'm I'm, I'm a whole battery for I
30:12
Speaker 1: can do it like I can do it like it
30:14
Speaker 1: ain't nothing. Yeah, so so so so that's so. That's
30:19
Speaker 1: what I should add that to your intro or anybody
30:21
Speaker 1: should add that to intro landscaping, to the intro now
30:24
Speaker 1: land escaping. And I don't know what you call people
30:26
Speaker 1: that slip houses houses, that's what you call them, house flippers,
30:30
Speaker 1: house flippers. House. Okay, let's talk about And I don't
30:35
Speaker 1: slip on the set and set them up for session.
30:37
Speaker 1: They I get people that's gonna pay some real rent,
30:40
Speaker 1: real rent, real money, real real money. You don't have
30:44
Speaker 1: to go find them. They don't have that sad story
30:47
Speaker 1: because you know, they know you're on TV, they know
30:49
Speaker 1: you're on the radio, so they're doing They're gonna have
30:51
Speaker 1: a sad story for you. Look at how I'm doing.
30:53
Speaker 1: So you you have to worry about that. You'll get
30:55
Speaker 1: the people with the money so they won't have to
30:57
Speaker 1: worry about that saster. I'm wanting, not Ricky. I'm not
31:00
Speaker 1: running from you. I'm not running back. So is that
31:02
Speaker 1: another teeth of money? Right? Is that another team? You
31:05
Speaker 1: get them right out of medical school? You know how's
31:08
Speaker 1: already got furniture in it, already decorating, and you get
31:12
Speaker 1: the stuff and you you left that. They walk in
31:14
Speaker 1: the house and the only thing they have to do
31:16
Speaker 1: is by their clothes. Their parents got money, they write
31:18
Speaker 1: your big check and they move in and you're happy,
31:21
Speaker 1: and you're very happy. I am happy to day. Has
31:24
Speaker 1: been a good two days. Man. I used the weed either,
31:28
Speaker 1: I used the line more. I put on some scott
31:30
Speaker 1: weed and feed got my spreader, I got the sprinklers
31:33
Speaker 1: out and stuff to make sure. You know, uh that
31:36
Speaker 1: that fertile lines to get into that grass to kill
31:38
Speaker 1: that craft grass. But uh, I got bermuda grass. I
31:42
Speaker 1: got fescue grass. I got sixty four grass in some
31:46
Speaker 1: of the yards. So seeing the hide and all of
31:49
Speaker 1: that stuff. Well, you know the thing about it is
31:52
Speaker 1: that I cannot argue with you because I do the
31:55
Speaker 1: same thing you said everything you know, I'm looking for
31:58
Speaker 1: I'm looking for you to slip up. You know what
31:59
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But he didn't slip up at all, because
32:02
Speaker 1: you know you do. Do you do your weeding feed
32:03
Speaker 1: between February and May. That's when you do your weeding
32:07
Speaker 1: feed because you're gonna come back and later all with
32:09
Speaker 1: the fool with the fool, so you can you can
32:11
Speaker 1: build that that that that good green look. But you
32:13
Speaker 1: gotta get rid of the weeds here, get rid. Now
32:16
Speaker 1: do you drop down in the ant killer? Do you
32:18
Speaker 1: put in the ant killer out there for those fire ants?
32:21
Speaker 1: I mix it in with the weed and feed country.
32:26
Speaker 1: He's straight country man, straight count And your point, your point,
32:32
Speaker 1: a man, I'm a Houston, Texas board talk to a
32:34
Speaker 1: Burminham boy to Southern boards. I can I can't argue
32:37
Speaker 1: no more about you don't know what you're doing. Remember
32:39
Speaker 1: earlier I said really landscaping, really, but when you talk
32:43
Speaker 1: about you mixing fine at killer and we eat and
32:45
Speaker 1: feed together and rolling out there? Whoa brother? You don't
32:49
Speaker 1: point with your game? So Rick, how you how you're
32:52
Speaker 1: trying to do all this extra stuff. Let's talk about
32:54
Speaker 1: that morning show before we get the dish nation, before
32:56
Speaker 1: we get to the tour this morning show man, I
32:59
Speaker 1: just want to I want to back back a little
33:01
Speaker 1: bit about You're a funny guy. You're known for for
33:05
Speaker 1: incredible characters. You're humanitarian, but you're really a social activist.
33:11
Speaker 1: And that's a major, a major desire for people to
33:15
Speaker 1: understand that you care and you will put the side
33:18
Speaker 1: a step aside, step pass a joke to make people
33:21
Speaker 1: understand that we have to take this serious. Why is
33:23
Speaker 1: that so important? You rickey smiling? Well, you don't want
33:27
Speaker 1: people walking up to you? Do you live down? Make
33:30
Speaker 1: me land? People ain't gonna have no respect for you
33:33
Speaker 1: as a president if you don't stand for something. And
33:35
Speaker 1: people don't celebrate Mohammed I leave because he knocked that beat,
33:39
Speaker 1: Joe Frasier. People celebrate Mohammad. I leave because the way
33:42
Speaker 1: he stood for Mohammad. I leave. Put it all on
33:45
Speaker 1: the line when you make I don't care how much
33:47
Speaker 1: money you make. I don't care how successful you are.
33:50
Speaker 1: If you don't stand for something, what what what what
33:54
Speaker 1: if if if you if if you ain't women to
33:58
Speaker 1: die for something, you're not fit to live right right right?
34:01
Speaker 1: And that's what But would you say that with passion? Though?
34:04
Speaker 1: You know that I say that. It's not a it's
34:07
Speaker 1: not something you're saying that just in the Cavalier. And
34:09
Speaker 1: I've always known that about you because because you know,
34:13
Speaker 1: because you you are really you know, like I said,
34:16
Speaker 1: God has blessed us all because we're talking right here
34:18
Speaker 1: on the phone, on the phone, on the radio podcast,
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Speaker 1: all series x M, all these formats. But the thing
34:24
Speaker 1: about it is that it's more important that you understand
34:26
Speaker 1: that you have a strong community involvement, and there is
34:29
Speaker 1: the joke is not bigger than than the community and
34:33
Speaker 1: and and delivering the right message. And that's that's consistent
34:36
Speaker 1: with you want was that? I mean, I mean, sure,
34:40
Speaker 1: you know God has been good that you God give
34:42
Speaker 1: your responsibility, sir. You know, uh reached one teach one man.
34:46
Speaker 1: You gotta get out of here. You know how to
34:48
Speaker 1: help people. You got you a nice house, you got
34:51
Speaker 1: you a couple of cars. So it ain't about you.
34:55
Speaker 1: In my book, I talked about. You know, when my
34:56
Speaker 1: grandmoma died, they left the cemetery and got on plane
35:00
Speaker 1: and when and did the show that night. I did
35:02
Speaker 1: a show with the same suit with tears and snot
35:06
Speaker 1: in it that that I wore to my grandmama's funeral.
35:09
Speaker 1: Because gifts Worth Sean, their grandmama died too, and their
35:13
Speaker 1: mama died, and their daddy died, and their kids died,
35:17
Speaker 1: and they got cancer, and they got Luke Kenyan, who
35:21
Speaker 1: are you the counselor show as much as give as
35:23
Speaker 1: much as required. You gotta go out here and do
35:26
Speaker 1: God's well. You know what I do on my birthday.
35:28
Speaker 1: I don't walk around all months with money tent to
35:31
Speaker 1: me thinking everybody's to stop and turned back with somersaults
35:35
Speaker 1: for my little stinking birthday. You know what I do
35:37
Speaker 1: on my birthday every sun. The lady that gave birth
35:40
Speaker 1: to me, I go pick her up, and we go
35:43
Speaker 1: to the Salvation Army and we put on aprons, and
35:46
Speaker 1: I'm buy a birthday cake and cut it up and
35:48
Speaker 1: feed it to the homeless and have my birthday every
35:51
Speaker 1: year with the homeless. Because Jesus Christ said, what about
35:55
Speaker 1: the least of these? You understand what I'm saying, that's
36:00
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about, you know, because in this
36:03
Speaker 1: year now, that's important. I just don't want to say
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Speaker 1: that that I've never heard that story and I'm saying
36:08
Speaker 1: it's not true because of the fact that you're not
36:10
Speaker 1: trying to publicize that story. Correct. You know, it's about
36:13
Speaker 1: it's a personal thing that you realize that it's kind
36:17
Speaker 1: of like humanizes you. You know, it brings you back
36:20
Speaker 1: to reality that where you could be if things didn't
36:23
Speaker 1: go right in your life. Right right right, I'm telling you, man,
36:29
Speaker 1: you know you look and you see people suffer. Man,
36:31
Speaker 1: God give you a spirit of discernment as a comedian,
36:34
Speaker 1: because when you walk up on stage and you're looking
36:37
Speaker 1: at them, people in the eyes, and people in the
36:39
Speaker 1: work they asked on to put together fifty dollars to
36:42
Speaker 1: come see you perform. You look at their shoes, they
36:45
Speaker 1: jury they close. You can look at their eyes and
36:47
Speaker 1: tell that they were to run away, that they're sick,
36:50
Speaker 1: you know, the hair coming out because they got cancer.
36:52
Speaker 1: And you point them out and you're tell them to
36:54
Speaker 1: come to the funding the stage and you tell them
36:56
Speaker 1: to come backstage. I can't even tell you how many
36:59
Speaker 1: bit your areas all over the country where my pictures
37:02
Speaker 1: inside there. Bitture Wind took a picture with the loved
37:04
Speaker 1: one because God let me see it. He let me
37:08
Speaker 1: love on them people. And the people be like, wow,
37:10
Speaker 1: and here you are. And I'm gonna do this. Man,
37:13
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry. I got
37:16
Speaker 1: on playing. I think about miss Mary Anne and and
37:19
Speaker 1: MMR James, you know, and Miss Andrews, all these people
37:22
Speaker 1: that inter wrote me who got dancer. I went on
37:24
Speaker 1: the plane and walked in their living room and how happy.
37:27
Speaker 1: And they're excited that they was now here, gonna here.
37:30
Speaker 1: I am wake up and do a morning show. I
37:32
Speaker 1: get the perform in front of millions every morning, and
37:34
Speaker 1: then here go these other folks wake up every day
37:37
Speaker 1: facing death and and and and I have a responsibility
37:42
Speaker 1: to go see about him, even if I go and
37:45
Speaker 1: take pictures. I went and hugo hood that man. That
37:48
Speaker 1: man gripped me up and stood up with one leg
37:53
Speaker 1: to take a picture with me. I said, I said,
37:55
Speaker 1: you're gonna stand up? He said, man, he said something
37:57
Speaker 1: to take stand up and take this picture to you,
37:59
Speaker 1: because I can't glee to you in my different room.
38:02
Speaker 1: So that's like for mad that's what's making wishes come true. Man, man,
38:08
Speaker 1: you know, And in two weeks he was gone, you know,
38:11
Speaker 1: Reverend Reverend pars he's going, man. And and and he
38:15
Speaker 1: taught school and and then helped people and and did
38:19
Speaker 1: all these wonderful things and stuff for people. And then
38:22
Speaker 1: he got cancer. You know, we buried him last week,
38:25
Speaker 1: but just able to make people smile. And we bought
38:27
Speaker 1: him a church man. We fixed up his stellarship, halling
38:30
Speaker 1: in his church and stuff. You know, man, that's why
38:33
Speaker 1: I used the brand in order to do good. You understand,
38:38
Speaker 1: I could have been been by the bigger the star
38:41
Speaker 1: if I wouldn't went to l A and pursuit it.
38:46
Speaker 1: You're a big star. Now there's two tours are coming
38:48
Speaker 1: up which I've never heard of my life. A talent
38:51
Speaker 1: as big as you been on two significant uh tours,
38:55
Speaker 1: one with Martin Lawrence and one with Mike Epps. Um okay,
39:02
Speaker 1: now let's just break down the date so people can
39:04
Speaker 1: know you can go to the the ticket match or March third,
39:06
Speaker 1: here be in St. Louis. May, I mean May May third,
39:09
Speaker 1: he'd be in St. Louis. May tenth, here be in
39:11
Speaker 1: Tampa May twenty six. I gotta come see you because
39:13
Speaker 1: you've been in Houston, Texas. Made June eighth, you made
39:16
Speaker 1: Chicago June nine, a Capital One Center. That's in Washington,
39:21
Speaker 1: d C. That's the Martin Lawrence Tour. That's the Martin
39:23
Speaker 1: Lawrence Tour. In June fifteenth at the Bridge Stone in Nashville,
39:27
Speaker 1: that's the Martin Lawrence Tour. And you know, we're gonna
39:29
Speaker 1: tell you who's all on the tour. The next tour
39:32
Speaker 1: is the Mike Epps Platinum Comedy Tour. That's made four.
39:36
Speaker 1: That's in uh, Mississippi, that wire just right outside of Memphis.
39:39
Speaker 1: And then that's that's May Feel. He's in Dallas, Texas,
39:42
Speaker 1: you know, at the Verizons and everybody know what that's at.
39:45
Speaker 1: And then made thirte he's in Steve Harvey's hometown of
39:48
Speaker 1: cleaveand Ohio. Okay, now that means you're busy. That means
39:53
Speaker 1: you you're gonna be able to put some kids through college.
39:55
Speaker 1: You can do some landscaping, you can do some more
39:57
Speaker 1: flipping houses, you can do all that stuff. Who on
40:00
Speaker 1: the show with you? Who's what fools are sharing the
40:03
Speaker 1: stay with you? I know Tony Rock. I heard he's
40:05
Speaker 1: out there with you, d Ray Oh yeah. Uh Michael
40:11
Speaker 1: Blackston black a blackster. Yeah? Is he still is he
40:18
Speaker 1: still showing his butt? No, he stayed dressed. Okay, but
40:24
Speaker 1: but he's funny. But they all are on the tour, man,
40:28
Speaker 1: are they all giving? Uh? And the tour is absolutely hilarious.
40:35
Speaker 1: And when I tell you we're have a good time,
40:37
Speaker 1: we have a good time now to be on this too,
40:39
Speaker 1: because it's like, you know, because you know, you have
40:41
Speaker 1: a certain energy. We're talking about the energy of Martin
40:44
Speaker 1: Lawrence energy and then you have Mike's energy is more
40:47
Speaker 1: lying I think with your energy. Is the difference is
40:54
Speaker 1: that Martin Lawrence to it like personally as a comedian
40:58
Speaker 1: is really really laid back and professional. It's just it's professional,
41:05
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, you want to tour with
41:07
Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence. With Mike is a little bit more laid
41:10
Speaker 1: back because it's Mike, you know, and uh you know,
41:15
Speaker 1: so that that's the difference, you know. But but with
41:19
Speaker 1: Mark Lawrence tool, you know, you get butterflies in your
41:22
Speaker 1: stomic and you want to do everything right because you're
41:24
Speaker 1: working with a comedic icon. Yes sir, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,
41:29
Speaker 1: it's real. I can are you working with a Richard Brown,
41:33
Speaker 1: Flip Wilson, Eddie Murphy, it's Martin Lawrence. So you have
41:37
Speaker 1: that opportunity to do that tour with him, so you
41:40
Speaker 1: try to do everything right. That's that's that's the that's
41:43
Speaker 1: the only that. That's the first time in twenty years
41:46
Speaker 1: that I lost sleep over a comedy show. My man,
41:51
Speaker 1: and you make me happy because your but I love you, man.
41:58
Speaker 1: I gotta say that to the world, and I hope
42:00
Speaker 1: everybody understand that you're beyond the jokes. And that's another time.
42:03
Speaker 1: I want you to do an uncensored I want you're
42:05
Speaker 1: doing uncensored man on TV one. I want the people
42:08
Speaker 1: to hear you. I'm gonna call him and say, hey,
42:12
Speaker 1: you need to do an uncensored man on TV one.
42:14
Speaker 1: I'm gonna called d'angelo's and tell her make sure we
42:18
Speaker 1: get Rickey smiling an uncensored in eighteen. Okay, keep winning, brother,
42:24
Speaker 1: Thank you for let me be on your show. Thank
42:25
Speaker 1: you for the opportunity. You're the best man. We owe
42:28
Speaker 1: each other lunch and dinner soon soon we'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Her website is Patti la Belle, her Facebook is Patti
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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Miss Patti La Belle. Girl, you are
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Speaker 1: a brand. You are a brand, and I had to
44:52
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44:54
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44:56
Speaker 1: that go, I am the real I am this the
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Speaker 1: one night only. That's who I am. And that's that's
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Speaker 1: that's that's a great uh. Congratulations and all your success
45:12
Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur. But I want before we get into
45:15
Speaker 1: that part, I want to talk about you being on
45:17
Speaker 1: VICH one's Mother's Day Special, which airs tonight. Dear Mama,
45:21
Speaker 1: A love Letter to Mom's premiering again on VICH one tonight.
45:25
Speaker 1: It's nine pm Eastern Standard Time, hosted by my good
45:28
Speaker 1: friend Lola Anthony and my boy Anthony. And tell us
45:31
Speaker 1: about what you're doing on the show tonight. Well, I'm
45:34
Speaker 1: surprising Puff Daddy's mother with one of her sons of
45:38
Speaker 1: Patty labels that she loves. You are my friends, and
45:43
Speaker 1: I just I mean, I was so happy to have
45:46
Speaker 1: been asked to do this, you know, and I've known
45:48
Speaker 1: Puffy and his mother for a long time and they're
45:51
Speaker 1: so genuine And how do you say no to something
45:54
Speaker 1: like that? Well, you know you, you know you're a
45:57
Speaker 1: conversationalist in concert because I've seen you many times and
46:00
Speaker 1: you are you move people and you motivate people through
46:03
Speaker 1: your music. I've seen people, I've seen people cry, I've
46:07
Speaker 1: seen people go to church in your concerts. That that
46:11
Speaker 1: that that carrits a lot of responsibility when you do
46:14
Speaker 1: a show, doesn't it, Patty? Yeah, of course does because
46:19
Speaker 1: once I, uh, before we go on stage and then
46:23
Speaker 1: my musical director and are we go over the list,
46:25
Speaker 1: it's like twenty songs for an hour and uh thirty
46:29
Speaker 1: minutes or ever how long I can be on stage.
46:32
Speaker 1: But whenever I go out and see the audience, that
46:35
Speaker 1: list change every day. And never saw five shows every night.
46:42
Speaker 1: The same song will be different because I sing it differently.
46:45
Speaker 1: I interpret things differently every time I get on stage.
46:49
Speaker 1: So you can never predict what Patty's going to sing
46:52
Speaker 1: or say. And I believe that. Now you've got a
46:54
Speaker 1: big concert Mother's Day concert coming up mate at the
46:57
Speaker 1: James L. Man Night Center, which I've been that many
47:00
Speaker 1: times with Steve Harvey. That's a great facility in Miami, Florida.
47:06
Speaker 1: And if you want any additional day, go to Patti
47:08
Speaker 1: LaBelle dot com and you can get to tickets. Now
47:11
Speaker 1: let's let's go to this acting. This acting that you're doing. Now,
47:15
Speaker 1: you know you on you on the Star Fox TV
47:19
Speaker 1: show Star. You're playing Queen Latifa's mother. Christine tell us
47:22
Speaker 1: about that role, Well, Paintlestifa is one of my best
47:26
Speaker 1: friends from back in the day, and she always would
47:28
Speaker 1: call me sort of like mom. And you know, since
47:31
Speaker 1: the guy, it's like I said to the mother's I
47:36
Speaker 1: I accepted Queen the ward in Philadelphia about a week
47:39
Speaker 1: after her mother past because she couldn't accept it. And
47:42
Speaker 1: when I heard I was going to play her mother,
47:44
Speaker 1: I said, this is just perfect. But then when I
47:45
Speaker 1: heard I was playing a gangster mom, a stretch. But
47:51
Speaker 1: most of my friends, thank you, thank you, thank you
47:57
Speaker 1: who you did. And I am that woman. And Brandy
48:01
Speaker 1: Brandy is also my daughter on the Ster. And I'm
48:05
Speaker 1: gonna go back and do some more episode mis Lee
48:08
Speaker 1: Daniels and I mean, I'm happy to do that, soho.
48:12
Speaker 1: And then I'm on the show Green Leaf Opra Winfrey's
48:15
Speaker 1: on the own network. I'm playing a minister. I'm a pastor. Okay,
48:19
Speaker 1: so you playing a gangster, playing a gangster mom on
48:22
Speaker 1: the Star and you're playing a minister, A minister. That's
48:30
Speaker 1: diversity there, girl, that's diversity. And then on a Netflix
48:35
Speaker 1: I'm playing Patty LaBelle I am h Alan Arkin's wife
48:39
Speaker 1: dies and it's with Jay Leno and Michael Douglas and
48:43
Speaker 1: I'm playing Patty Labell singing Lady Marmalade at half funeral,
48:47
Speaker 1: and you know that's that's a stretch to sing that
48:49
Speaker 1: kind of thung out a funeral. I've offered things and
48:55
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be in the position not I
48:58
Speaker 1: am ex send me three. Because usually when you age
49:01
Speaker 1: you things don't come to you as much. You know,
49:04
Speaker 1: you you you disappear, right, and I've not. I've not
49:08
Speaker 1: been you know, disappearing with both and it's just a blessing.
49:12
Speaker 1: You know. I know that it could happen the other
49:15
Speaker 1: way totally for me, but it's happening in a great way.
49:18
Speaker 1: Well you know that's why. That's why I mentioned social
49:21
Speaker 1: media to you, because you are relevant and that's that's
49:24
Speaker 1: really the difference in being seventy three twenty years ago
49:27
Speaker 1: and being seventy three today, because you're relevant on Facebook,
49:31
Speaker 1: you're relevant on Twitter, you're relevant on Instagram. And it
49:34
Speaker 1: used to be just having a website and the fan club.
49:37
Speaker 1: So don't don't underseil yourself because of the fact that
49:40
Speaker 1: you made yourself a topical brand. And I always tell
49:42
Speaker 1: people about that, especially as an entrepreneur. You being so topical,
49:46
Speaker 1: it means that we can follow you as fans. You
49:49
Speaker 1: your engagement or whatever you post something on your social
49:51
Speaker 1: media is powerful and relevant. And also you post inspirational
49:55
Speaker 1: quotes too that inspire us to realize that you know,
49:59
Speaker 1: there's no age when you cannot be successful. That's what
50:01
Speaker 1: your vision is for me. And you know what also
50:05
Speaker 1: that made me feel so great is when I did
50:07
Speaker 1: dance when the starts at one and after that at
50:10
Speaker 1: the airport closing orcase, people say you did that at
50:13
Speaker 1: certainly once a we can do anything more? I said,
50:15
Speaker 1: any of you put your heart to sister numbers, not stop. Now,
50:20
Speaker 1: let's talk about this. Let's talk about this, this cooking show.
50:23
Speaker 1: Because I'm tired of people I would tell I don't
50:26
Speaker 1: know how word got out that I was bringing you
50:28
Speaker 1: on my show, but I've had at least three celebrities
50:31
Speaker 1: called me go how can I gives? Just asked Patty
50:34
Speaker 1: how can I get booked on her cooking show? So
50:37
Speaker 1: please tell the world, Patty, how do you get your
50:40
Speaker 1: guests for your show? Because I'm tiring. I'm talking driving
50:42
Speaker 1: up here to day. I got two texts. Please tell
50:45
Speaker 1: Patty show, Please tell Patty. So how do you get
50:48
Speaker 1: on your Well, first of all, you don't have to
50:51
Speaker 1: be at Oka. You can do just an everyday woman
50:56
Speaker 1: or man or whatever. Uh. And I have a lot
50:59
Speaker 1: of of yours been on the shows because that's just
51:02
Speaker 1: come out and ask them. And so if there are
51:04
Speaker 1: any celebrities that want to ask me, can they be on?
51:06
Speaker 1: Just go to Patty dot com and put it out
51:09
Speaker 1: there and I'll let you know if you're worthy. But
51:12
Speaker 1: I'm only joking the gangster side you. That was the
51:19
Speaker 1: gangster sidey. I love waking your show because because you
51:23
Speaker 1: know you you you know you pick stuff over your hands,
51:26
Speaker 1: you put your hands are clean because you know a
51:27
Speaker 1: lot of cooking shows everything everything is with fargs and everything.
51:31
Speaker 1: But when you're cooking in your kitchen, come on, now,
51:34
Speaker 1: you're handed clean. I remember when j hard you know,
51:38
Speaker 1: and take off those range You can't be mixing hands
51:41
Speaker 1: rings on. There you go, there you go, there you go.
51:45
Speaker 1: Now I've done some things with the rings on, but
51:47
Speaker 1: if not with mixing. You can't mix stuff with dirty
51:50
Speaker 1: fingernails and rings. You cannot do that. You cannot do that.
51:53
Speaker 1: You absolutely tell them. Let mesk you this about the
51:57
Speaker 1: Patty's Good Lifeline, which is currently included pies, cobblers. Just
52:01
Speaker 1: the entrepreneurship side though. What I want to just keep
52:04
Speaker 1: at seventy three that you're becoming a brand with banana
52:08
Speaker 1: putting in fancy kicks all available with Walmart. Where is
52:11
Speaker 1: that that right now? Tell us how I know it's exploding,
52:15
Speaker 1: tell us about it. It's exploding. And I'm also, uh,
52:19
Speaker 1: I have betting you know at Macy. I have betting
52:22
Speaker 1: at um Walmart also, and I have I have so
52:26
Speaker 1: many other things like twenty eight items about to appear,
52:29
Speaker 1: you know, uh my brand, and we're just moving right
52:33
Speaker 1: along with quality. Uh nothing that so better taste, so
52:38
Speaker 1: naty you don't want to eat, or something not so
52:40
Speaker 1: soft that you don't want to put it in your bed.
52:42
Speaker 1: So I'm doing the best I can with what I have.
52:45
Speaker 1: And what I have is my son who is my manager,
52:48
Speaker 1: and friends Alex you know, who pushed me like crazy
52:53
Speaker 1: and for years they've been working for this Good Life brand.
52:56
Speaker 1: And the Sweet Potato pies were the first thing that
52:59
Speaker 1: you know, we put out there and they did quite
53:02
Speaker 1: quite well and they're still doing more. We know the
53:04
Speaker 1: thing I just want to tell everybody about you know,
53:07
Speaker 1: you be on VH one to night on the Dear
53:11
Speaker 1: Mama Special and you're being concerned made thirteenth to James L.
53:15
Speaker 1: Knight in Miami, Florida. But you're such a brand and
53:18
Speaker 1: you're such a topical inspiration and the fact that when
53:21
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, you seem so happy because you're
53:24
Speaker 1: so happy because the variety that multiple streams of income
53:28
Speaker 1: is surrounding your life. Did you see this coming? I
53:31
Speaker 1: know your son, you know, I know him very well,
53:33
Speaker 1: and he was always we can do more, we can
53:35
Speaker 1: do more, and to see it coming into fruition. What
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Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that? Patty? My thoughts would be
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Speaker 1: on that that it should have happened because my it's quality,
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Speaker 1: you know. And then I knew too that being the
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Speaker 1: black woman who wouldn't be accepted as quickly as maybe
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Speaker 1: Betty Crocker or Paula Dean or anything. So they worked
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Speaker 1: so hard and I worked for her in perfecting the
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Speaker 1: recipes for the that I knew it had to do
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Speaker 1: something because I know it's great, not good, it's great,
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Speaker 1: and I can't put my name on anything. I know
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Speaker 1: you can't. I know that's absolutely true. And I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: just tell everybody before we're in this interview about you
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Speaker 1: as an individual. And I mentioned it earlier in my
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Speaker 1: intro Dad when I launched Money Making Conversations. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of friendship. A lot of people say
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Speaker 1: you called rashaan show and you called me. And at
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Speaker 1: the time, you know, I just had one station in Houston, Texas,
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Speaker 1: and you trusted the instincts of supporting me. And I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna let you know now you know U on
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Speaker 1: my heart radio podcast, I get two and fifty thousand
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Speaker 1: download today. I'm on Serious XM Channel one for the
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Speaker 1: one that's h U Rtist Howard University. I'm on Serious
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Speaker 1: Channel XM that's channeling one for the two that's all
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Speaker 1: HBCU campuses. I have a fan club over two two thousand.
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Speaker 1: I've almost a million social media followers, and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: just tell you that a lot of it was due
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Speaker 1: to the fact that you you branded me MS LaBelle,
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Speaker 1: you branded me and you supported me. And I want
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Speaker 1: to say thank you on this day. My mom is
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Speaker 1: living today and you're my mom right now. MS LaBelle,
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Speaker 1: thank you for supporting me. Okay when later, thank you
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Speaker 1: and you're worthy of everything that's coming to you in
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Speaker 1: that world. Continue to come and uh and and you
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Speaker 1: know I'm gonna keep it supporting those pies. And I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody just go to you. Go your website,
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Speaker 1: Pad Labell dot com. You want to be on be
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Speaker 1: on the show. And she doesn't do just celebrities. You
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Speaker 1: keep winning, You have anything else you want to say?
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Speaker 1: No is this holler at me everyone who wants to
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Speaker 1: deal with And just thank you for all the support
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Speaker 1: that I've gotten for the last fifty four years. People
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Speaker 1: who like Patty Labell and I I don't think it
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Speaker 1: for so thank you so much. I appreciate you cool
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Speaker 1: and thank you for for supporting me. One year later,
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Speaker 1: Pad LaBelle, y'all miss Patty. Patty