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Chef Kevin Bludso went from a small barbecue joint in Compton, CA to a global barbecue empire. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: life will present to you. My next guest is Kevin Bloodsoe.
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  Speaker 1: We go all the way back to the Hoodie Awards
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California, before he opened Blood Sools Bar
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  Speaker 1: and Q on Lobrell, which I've been too many times
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Kevin the Chef, television personnelity and two
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  Speaker 1: times Steve Harvey Hoodie Award winner. In two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: eight he opened Blood Souls by BBQ and has since
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  Speaker 1: grown into an international empire. Hear me when I say
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  Speaker 1: international from Compton to international with Bloodsols Bar and Q,
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  Speaker 1: which I talked about earlier, is right there on Libreal
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  Speaker 1: right there, man, got valet, parking, everything, great food every
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  Speaker 1: time I go there, Man, it's a beautiful display of food.
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  Speaker 1: People in there, cross sectional people, concession standing at the
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  Speaker 1: LAFC Soccer Stadium, a location in Proud Bird right there
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  Speaker 1: at La been there many times. Catering and the sprawling
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  Speaker 1: restaurant and bar called Santy Tone by Blood so BBQ
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  Speaker 1: and the crowd Casino and Melbourne. Him and y'all Milbourne, Australia.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the International park come from. The legend of
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  Speaker 1: blood So BBQ begins in Coursal count of Texas. That's
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  Speaker 1: right south of Dallas, Texas. The reason I know I'm
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  Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas, so I passed through coastal Kalna many times.
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  Speaker 2: I get up to Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now where the Bloodso family has been perfecting
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  Speaker 1: the craft of slow smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Meats for five generations.
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  Speaker 1: But while his family roots are laid in Texas, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: himself was born and raised in Compton, California.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I met him. Now he is a television star.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, Telli, he big time television star,
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  Speaker 1: sitting up that man got makeup and any plan on.
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  Speaker 1: You can catch him judging on Netflix the American Barbecue
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  Speaker 1: show Down.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen every episode.
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  Speaker 1: I've also seen him on the Food Channel, Cookie Network,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen him on the bar Rescue. I've seen his
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  Speaker 1: brother everywhere. Please welcome the money making conversations. I want
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  Speaker 1: to call him a dear friend and a guy I
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  Speaker 1: feel so blessed to talk to right now on my
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  Speaker 1: show today, my man Kevin Blood, how you doing, sir man?
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  Speaker 3: I am good. Hey, after that introduction, I'm just interview over.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm over here smiling the windows.
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  Speaker 1: I had to because I see you post a leg
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  Speaker 1: on the on the on social media.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna be talking to the legend on Thursday. I
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  Speaker 2: saw that on social media. I just smile.
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  Speaker 3: I took a let me just let me. Let me
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  Speaker 3: make it perfectly clear. I would not be doing probably
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  Speaker 3: none of this extra stuff if it wasn't so winning
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  Speaker 3: that first Hoodie award. Man, I would never forget that.
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  Speaker 3: I remember talking to you backstage. It was so cool
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  Speaker 3: and it was like I always knew you in Steve too.
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  Speaker 3: But when me and you hollered backstage and then you
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  Speaker 3: came and gave me the hug, I was like, damn,
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  Speaker 3: have my man here be fos. I just want to say, man,
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  Speaker 3: and I have life. And I mean, you told me
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  Speaker 3: something that night, and I don't know if you remember,
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  Speaker 3: but you said you're gonna be all right, always look
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  Speaker 3: out for your folks.
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  Speaker 2: You remember you told me absolutely, absolutely absolutely, I believe
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  Speaker 2: in that.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it that man, you know, and I just
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  Speaker 3: want to say, man, I appreciate you. I appreciate everything,
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  Speaker 3: and you guys have done for me, man, And I
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  Speaker 3: really really missed the Hoodie Awards. I really do because
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  Speaker 3: win I lose. It was so much fun, man, how
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  Speaker 3: y'all take normal folks from the neighborhood and made us
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  Speaker 3: feel incredible every time for those three or four days. Man,
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  Speaker 3: I just always wanted to thank you guys. Man, it
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  Speaker 3: was an incredible time. It was an incredible ride. And
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  Speaker 3: even because I think I went to like six straight
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  Speaker 3: or sound, absolutely can remember.
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  Speaker 1: We had those little meet and greets and all that stuffer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, the green room in there because.
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  Speaker 2: Walk your red co Don't forget Kevin walked the red
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  Speaker 2: corp for that.
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  Speaker 3: The red red carpet and to get my first one
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  Speaker 3: for uh what was Sally Richard and uh Bernie Mack
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  Speaker 3: and he was I'm not Bernie Mack. George Wallace clowning
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  Speaker 3: for thirty minutes and my pants falling down and everything. Man, memories, man,
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  Speaker 3: I chairs the real toe.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you know, so I have the video of of
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  Speaker 1: your winning. I don't know if you have that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: an send it to you, man, Pae'm sending to you.
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  Speaker 2: I got them all. I got that time. History of
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  Speaker 2: the Hoodie Awards slash neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: But you know something, Kevin, is the thing about it
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  Speaker 1: is that that's what it was all about.
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  Speaker 2: It's always been about the people.
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  Speaker 1: It's always were recognizing the regular people, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: we get so we get become like unknown, we get burdened,
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  Speaker 1: like we're not even delivering a contributing And that's all
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  Speaker 1: I was telling you back to say take care of
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  Speaker 1: your people. Because what we didn't know, you know Steve
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  Speaker 1: already I didn't know at the time, was that we
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  Speaker 1: you know, I started this in Houston, Texas in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven just as a I was a sidekick on
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  Speaker 1: the radio show. And then what happened was Steve came,
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  Speaker 1: we got the radio gig in La. He said, we shan,
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  Speaker 1: did you uhould do that hoodie war thing? I think
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  Speaker 1: I got to be big, And you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: never as a as an individual, I could never just
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  Speaker 1: go to the radio station.
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  Speaker 2: But Steve was big enough to say, let's do this,
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  Speaker 2: let's do that.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta give credit what credit is due and they
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't know, and they sold it, and we sold the idea.
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  Speaker 1: We would to Vegas several times with the Forum several
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  Speaker 1: times and then we went back to Vegas. And so
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  Speaker 1: when you when you talk about it, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: what I didn't see coming was how it affected the business,
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  Speaker 1: how enabled you can talk about how the Hoody Awards
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  Speaker 1: affected you guys with all that promotions.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Holland it out on them. Here's the nominees, here's
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  Speaker 2: the nominees. Here's the top four, here's the top four.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the pride that it. I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 3: people still to this day just talk about when it
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  Speaker 3: was time to vote the first vote in the second vote,
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  Speaker 3: and how geniuses was the way y'all put that together
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  Speaker 3: to have the first vote in the second vote. But
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  Speaker 3: then the pride of bringing people together and people just
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  Speaker 3: wanting to be part of that. And then when you
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  Speaker 3: win and bring it home. Man, it's like in the neighborhood,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, you know, winning the national championship. You know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody want to come and so many people would wait
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  Speaker 3: to hear if you won. And I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we had customers cry when we lost.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And uh, it's that I mean because like I said,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have that much Like I said, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have that many shows that do that especially. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we barely got enough for real celebrities that they give
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  Speaker 3: prompts to to have, you know, the normal hard work
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  Speaker 3: and people trying to run their businesses and all that,
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  Speaker 3: doing their thing and getting award and and like I said,
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  Speaker 3: getting award from Sally Sally Richards and George Wallace and
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  Speaker 3: the people I met backstage and just the whole thing, man,
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  Speaker 3: is incredible. Man. I mean, it was a It was
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  Speaker 3: a real beautiful time, man. And it's just the pride
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  Speaker 3: that it brings and in the customers that you get.
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  Speaker 3: If you notice everything that I do, every show that
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  Speaker 3: I say that I do, they say about winning the
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  Speaker 3: Hoodie Award, no matter what they always say in Canada,
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  Speaker 3: Australia and whatever. Like the lady told the Woody, I said,
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  Speaker 3: it's the hoodie you know all over I always gee
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  Speaker 3: a proper man. Because, like I said, that was just
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  Speaker 3: a real exciting time man.
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  Speaker 1: It was real, you know, and thank you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that the whole idea man, was
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate the real stars of the community. That was
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  Speaker 1: the basis of the Movie Awards in the Neighborhood Awards.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the fact that and my whole thought was that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: instead of have the celebrities being recognized for honor, let's
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  Speaker 1: use the celebrities. It's almost like props to get people there,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, if we said that we were just gonna
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  Speaker 1: be doing best barbecue, best high school, would't nobody show up?
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  Speaker 1: But you got Steve Lovinholst, and you got the Sally
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  Speaker 1: just just Sally Richardson's on stage. You got the George
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  Speaker 1: Wallace on stage, you got Swoop Dog Ice Q showed
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  Speaker 1: up one year, Magic Johnson showed up.
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  Speaker 2: When you get all these people, people going whoa, whoa,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on here? What's going on here?
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  Speaker 3: And this will allow us to be back like like
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  Speaker 3: in the green like before.
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  Speaker 5: The wars, in the greenroom with them, you know, having cocktails.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like and everybody interacting. Man, it was incredible, man,
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  Speaker 3: Like I said to even the walkers to the not
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  Speaker 3: just the red carpet, when we walked through the casino
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, going inside getting ready to call in and
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  Speaker 3: walking inside that arena, man, that was like.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was that was major?
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  Speaker 3: Did that was?
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  Speaker 1: That was major because I you know the thing about
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  Speaker 1: it I would not share note I was and people
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  Speaker 1: come in there. Go, man, this is produced better than
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  Speaker 1: the immages, Dude, this is produced better.
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  Speaker 2: Than because I because I had to do that. The
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  Speaker 2: worst thing in the world, man.
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  Speaker 1: Is for us as black people, you know, to say
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do something good for us and didn't do
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  Speaker 1: it half.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do it slopping.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what that was my greatest love, man, because
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  Speaker 1: to see the look on y'all faces because y'all didn't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. Okay, this will always chump me out, man.
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  Speaker 1: It was those acceptance species. I wasn't ready for that, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't ready for because I told Steve Harrison, look, man,
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  Speaker 1: I got the fact we're gonna nominate him.
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  Speaker 2: I got the fact we're gonna vote. Vote. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what they're gonna say when they get
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  Speaker 2: up there.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all got up there, man, and it was like they
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  Speaker 1: brought me to tears many times, man, because I didn't realize.
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  Speaker 2: The impact of a of a war. A community award,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a community award and how it affected And
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  Speaker 1: you know when I because I always like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I was a regular guy. Steve was still a
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  Speaker 1: star you know, way back then. But I could go
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  Speaker 1: to a restaurant and I went by your place one
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  Speaker 1: time back in the hood. And when and then and
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  Speaker 1: then I found out my girl, Candy, he uhould do
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  Speaker 1: my backstage celebrity uh streaming.
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  Speaker 2: She said.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Shank Shank, Kevin is on the brea, I said.
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  Speaker 1: She said, he got a spot on the bre I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't even know Kevin. I didn't even know you had that.
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  Speaker 3: She was so candy, so cool. That's my baby sister now. Man,
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  Speaker 3: she is so cool, always so professional, man, and just incredible,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I mean, your whole staff was just like
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  Speaker 3: you know, oh man, I mean and I remember you
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  Speaker 3: guys came out and did the video of me, uh
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  Speaker 3: and I was still in content, man, And I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even know what you know, Candy, don't give no information.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can find my we have something.
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  Speaker 5: So she said, boy, you think I'm gonna lose my
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  Speaker 5: job over you know? So she said about the video
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  Speaker 5: when y'all did the video, she said, well, she well,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to say she lied, but she lies. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: we do this with all the contestants, with people don't
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  Speaker 5: get on the video. And at the lunch and then
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  Speaker 5: I was on the lunch and I didn't even know
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  Speaker 5: till I got there. You know, I mean, everything y'all
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  Speaker 5: did was it was just it was it was for
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  Speaker 5: even like the waiting like like like, and that first time,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm I'm nervous. I'm sweating like a brother
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  Speaker 5: out of clan with a white woman. You know what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying. I'm sweating and nervous. And I said, man,
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  Speaker 5: I ain't been this nervousness football days. And it was
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  Speaker 5: just uh and and I'm not even putting too much
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  Speaker 5: on it, man. It was other contestants that I met,
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  Speaker 5: and then the friendships the people that I met from
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  Speaker 5: other businesses that we are still good friends to this day.
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  Speaker 3: Man. That's what That's what it's all about. Man. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I hear like the morning show sometimes and I get
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  Speaker 3: nervous because I remember during the time when it's voting time,
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  Speaker 3: because you know, we have urged the coast got us
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  Speaker 3: about a few hours and they haven't already started. But
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  Speaker 3: just that one year, it was six forty five, they
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  Speaker 3: was about to go off the air and uh, and
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  Speaker 3: it was this crypt Tom he said that he was
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  Speaker 3: doing the Top three or whatever. The top four, and
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  Speaker 3: we was number three already in time that Steve said,
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  Speaker 3: now that's a Now that don't make no sense. BLUs
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  Speaker 3: those number three them brothers in LA. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So this's I'm gonna explain everybody.
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  Speaker 1: See what happened was from two thousand and one to
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 2: We were in LA. It was an LA based radio station.
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  Speaker 1: Steve off in ninety two four to three, and Kevin
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  Speaker 1: and all everybody was in LA. So in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and five we left and went to New York. Were
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  Speaker 1: based in New York for two years. So for one
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  Speaker 1: year we took a year off. Two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't even do it. We didn't even do it,
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  Speaker 1: and we were trying to figure out what we had
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  Speaker 1: to do with our own career. We were struggling to
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  Speaker 1: try to come up after that run. And then two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven we brought it back and so were
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  Speaker 1: freakd Me and Steve. I was like, okay, they in LA,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know you guys, and like you said,
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  Speaker 1: y'all were three hours difference and y'all were voting.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all was seriously voting.
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  Speaker 3: Evan, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had them Uh, we had everybody,
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  Speaker 3: every old college people, everywhere, everybody we knew all over
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  Speaker 3: the United States. We had them going.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, and you'd be surprised how many
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  Speaker 3: people still come and tell me how much they missed that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I missed those weeks of the hoodie was I
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  Speaker 3: and so many people when you in it would go
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  Speaker 3: and I remember being you know, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 3: started in LA.
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  Speaker 2: And you did, and you did.
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  Speaker 3: But I remember being in. I remember, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: couple of times Bloodsos was the only one in. I
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  Speaker 3: remember one time we was the one my first year
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  Speaker 3: we wanted and Crench Shaw High won it. And then
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  Speaker 3: after that it got so big. It was people don't
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  Speaker 3: know how.
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  Speaker 2: Hard it is to four man. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like you know, because you're absolutely right,
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  Speaker 1: because two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, that's
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  Speaker 1: when the you know, it became really national because we
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  Speaker 1: started our syndicating to all these walket with New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Charlotte, Miami, all these different market Dallas and
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  Speaker 1: so it wasn't just LA anymore. That's why I steer
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  Speaker 1: trip that you guys were able to win before it
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  Speaker 1: really exploded. And when it really exploded, it was like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is something that was just just a cool idea
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  Speaker 1: that's become worldwide. But that but that kind of like
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  Speaker 1: prepared you for what you're doing now as a as
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  Speaker 1: A as they said, international brand.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about, the hoodies, we talked about coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Compton. You know, open up your shop. You got
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful restaurant. I'm gonna just tell you about the food. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and uh blod so bar and Q bar and Q
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  Speaker 1: that's on Lebrea. I swear to you guys every time
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  Speaker 1: I go to La You know, the COVID has kept
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  Speaker 1: me out, but I would go there. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you something'ma type of buy candy. Candy candy.
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  Speaker 1: She goes by Candy Marine now because I represent her
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  Speaker 1: as an actress and and uh talk to hosting producer.
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  Speaker 1: She took me at the first time. She said no,
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  Speaker 1: she said, Kevin said he got you on this with Sharan.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: I said, you know, I don't like that. I don't
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: like that and said I don't like when y'all pay,
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: but go ahead.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: And so and so. So.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: You know, every time I go in there. I don't
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: tell nobody I'm going I've taken the air force in there.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Air force in there because I had a big contract
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: air Force. And then I was doing a base like
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: two hours away, uh in the month of March, two
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: hours away. And I told them, I said, I want
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: you to go to La and Or and get and
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: pick up this barbecue.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Run.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: They said, rashan really, I said yes, bloodsoe on le Brell.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: I said them, Colin Greens gonna kill you. They're gonna
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: mess you up. Now, I said, Collin Greens gonna messh
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: you up. And they said, well, I they two hours down,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: two hours back.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Was nobody disappointed? They went, wow, I see why you went.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Appreciate That's how powerful I believe in your brand.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: That's how good your brain is.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Tell everybody about the menu that you have, the type
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: of food that you serve on your menu, Kevin.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, like I always say, Mabe, we do it right,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: low and slow like a six boat. You know what
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. Right, take that time. The brisket is fifteen hours,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: the ribs it's four to five hours. You know, we
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: we you know, I'm a firm believer. It's it ain't broke,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: don't don't fix it. You know, I still do it
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: the way Willie may feel. You do it. When I
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: would come in U spend my summers in Corsicanada, you know,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: she would take her time and do it right, you know.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: And I just try to. I just try to keep
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: that going at every spot that we got, you know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: and and like I say, just knowing incredible people like
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: you and and and and it's so funny you bring
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: up because I had a discussion about that with a
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: younger guy who just opening up the spot, and he
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: was saying, you know, say, you know, uh, sometimes celebrities
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: come in and uh this and that, this and that.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I said, let me just tell you one thing. I
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: don't care who they are, whatever whatever, you give them
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: that option, because celebrities are different. Some of them are
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: just like you who like I want to pay some
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: of them don't, you know, but you being you need
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: you need them more than they need you. And like
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: on any field, you got cool people and you got uh,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: you know, people who's tripping or whatever whatever. But that's
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: on you to understand that. But a celebrity coming in
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: there's going to look out for your business. But you
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: have to respect, just like they respect your work as
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: a chef, and they come to your spot, you have
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: to respect they work like these people don't want to
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: deal with people sometimes, but they take the time to
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: come come to you and come to your spot. And
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: sometimes us as business owners have to really quick speaking
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: on people's pocketbooks and all that. And one tweet are
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: some of the like when you talk about free advertisements
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: or are some of the stuff that you do? I
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: can never pay for that right right?
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Because I post every tidy. I posted post a couple
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: of last month and I hadn't even been there, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I act.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Like I was that.
• 17:43
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• 17:55
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• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. But I can't And
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I respect that, and I love that so much. And
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I try to tell younger brothers and sisters who open up,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: get that mentality. They ninety percent of the time they
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: gonna pay, but make sure you give them the respect
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: that they deserve, you know. I mean, we got all
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: huge celebrities coming there. Can I do the same thing
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: with all of them? Right, all of them? And I'm
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: not gonna drop no names, but I'm talking about foods.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: You know. Some of the best artists we ever had,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: foods from the Titanic and everything, come in that spot
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: and they all look out. But you better give them,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: you know, take care of them, man, because these people
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: are gonna unique that. Who wasn't for that? And the
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Hoodie Awards and getting to know that. I mean, it
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: was so many celebrities that come to the Hoodie Awards
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: that came to the restaurant. After World I got to
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: come see what this is about.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, and that's that's called community. But the thing
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: about it, let me just tell you. Let me tell
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you something real talk here. Every time I've been I've
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: been there over a dozen times. Okay, I brought people
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: with me. I went in there by myself and just
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: got the vegetables spread because when you get the vegetable
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: spread in the meat, it's just too much.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: And I'm always traveling and I don't. Really. I'm in
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a hotel, so I can't do.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: It to go okay and so so so sometimes I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: come in there, give me some corn bread and then
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I give me the the you know, some collar greens
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and beans and so I just break it up like that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Or sometimes it's come in and give me a sandwich
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and so. But every time I go in there, the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: service is always on point.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Kevin. The meal looks exactly the same of quality separation.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I mean picture, I take pictures of your food and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: then people do. People go, okay, it looks like that,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I said all the time, all the time. I remember
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: when I brought the Air National Guard in there. You know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: we were staying way in Long Beach for for a conference.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I said, they said, it's where we're gonna eat. I said,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: we going to uh blood toe Bar and Q is
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: in l A. He said all the way over that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I said, yes, we're gonna go over there, went up
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and there. Man, they went wow after because because the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: beauty about the beautiful things about coming to this place,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: like when.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: You get your meal, you get that double meat, triple meat.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: All the because I'm telling the guy man, people always say, man,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you small, you eat all that food.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, stay off my plate, Stay off my plate.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Stay we need to switch that up.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And so what happens when you have by five people
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: at the table okay, and all that food come to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the table. You get attention man, because it looks so
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: beautiful because every one of the plates is look immaculate
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: as far as we want to say, you word is immaculate.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Everything is nothing running off the sides, nothing too small,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: The portions are good.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: That's why I just love what I what I eat.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: That's why when I got to sneak in, because I'm
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: gonna tell Kevin, you know the problem, because it's about
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: of respect. That's why I started the Hoodie Awards, man,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: because it's about showing love.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: The fact that you guys, you still believe in it
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: just excites me even more.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And the fact that the fact that you're doing so
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: well and you your TV so talk about how did
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the television stuff start for you?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And how would you? How would you? Were you nervous?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Did you know?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: What?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Did you? Did you play it off? How did it
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: all kick off for you? Kevin?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: What my first one? And it's so funny, my niece,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: because I'm just like, shoot, this is maybe twenty ten, Kevin.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I'm uh, I'm still knee deep in the conf location.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: So uh uh, this producer call and said, hey, we
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: really want to get you know, Kevin bluffing. He happened
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: to be at the restaurant. I didn't know who he was,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: you know, in the restaurant, in the kitchen, we clown
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: in the back, We clown and cracked jokes and bags.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: So the dude heard me back there clown and so
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I never even seen it, didn't know who he was.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: And uh, he kept calling, and he kept always. He
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: got my niece itself on the meat was called and
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: she was like, this guy wants you for a TV show.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And I was like, what TV show? Bar Rescue? And
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I never heard of it, you know, never heard of the
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: show and all that and that. He kept calling, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: then one day she said, look, this dude need a video. We'
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: finna go to your house and do this video. So
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: we we went to the house and started the video
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: of just you know, me interviewing or whatever whatever. But
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: before the thing was even set up, it's me cussing
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: her out. I'm like, She's like, who these sow and sos?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Is and this that. So when she fit it, she
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: sent the whole thing and John Taffer's seen it and
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: he taught now, I gotta have this, dude. I gotta
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: have them. Damn bam bam uh and I got this
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: a funny store. I'm gonna keep the shure up. But
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: from my first episode was in uh Kansas City, Uh.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I think it was called Boondocks or whatever. The show
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: never was supposed to air because so we saved this bar.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, this dude is That's when I learned to
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: between like old Southern races are a Southern rocker. This
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: dude was a Southern rock and we we actually are
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: good friends now and you know southern rocker. They like
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: wrap and country and on it. Thinking he was a racist.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: But anyway, we get into it on the show. I'm like,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm finna put hands on this food and
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: it's all on the show. But he didn't have no reverse.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: He didn't have no reverse, so he wasn't no pump.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I'm gonna I'm gonna get
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you it, You're gonna get But anyway, so it's so crazy.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: So it takes about a couple of months for them
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: to do it. So the night before the show was
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: supposed to air, which was Thanksgiving weekend that year, I
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: can't think of the exact year. He was having a
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: party at his bar and got a guy was smoking,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: big time country singer at his bar, and they got
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: into it, had a fight to do, kind of got
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: the best of Chris. Chris shot and killed the dude. Wow,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: the night before the show was supposed to end, so
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: they had to pull up the show. But the show
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: accidentally aired on the replay later on that night. And
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: it's a big old thing and all that, but I'm saying,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I'm getting into this food, this wool go to. He
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: could have went to the back and got a gun
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: on me, you know, but that was my first episode,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: my first shot. And then John Tapper is like huge
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: in my life, like you guys. So I mean, this
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: dude is as far as business and bars and the
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: things that he knows. And like I said, fifteen episodes later, Man,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: he keeps me busy. In fact, he called me the
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: other day to congratulate me because the Netflix show is
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: doing so good. Is number one half the last week
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: it was the number one unscripted show on Netflix. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: dude is doing well. Man.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: First of all, that we're talking about the American Barbecue Showdown, Okay,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and they got some characters on there. And your girl
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: from Mississippi, she's the real dead who cooks the whole hall?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Did you know before the show or of this new offer?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I knew ever, I knew over that was our first
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: time meeting. And uh, she's incredible. I mean she's a legend.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: She's a legend. And uh and you'd be surprised some
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: of those cooks to be first time. I mean they
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: did such a good job of getting that cast to
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: get you know, and.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Uh, well be a part of well, you know you,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I know you'll be back because it's part of your brain.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: It's part of you, part of what you do.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: That Like like you know, when I put the press
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: related that police out, you know, they say, I said, well,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Kevin's name first, Kevin Bludso's name first on the pressure League.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: That press release was reached one hundred million people.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Wow, that Fresh Releaf picked them.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: When you start talking about audience picked up by different
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: websites and they started putting that number together, one hundred
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: million people.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And that's what relationships do. Kevin.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And that's what you're talking about this whole conversation is
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that you respect the process, you understand the process. Just
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: drop some jewels on people about the value of relationships, Kevin.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like I say when you when you say,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: look look out, I would not be here if it
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: wasn't for people looking out for me. And you know
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: saying I always say Russia's uh, I don't give to
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: be blessed. I'm blessed, so I give you know, it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: not no secret recipe that this, you know, it has
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: to come from your heart. Like I try to tell people,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: love to talk about all the funerals and stuff we
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: paid for, you know, with blood cells. Okay, let's also
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: talk about the scholarships and how many kids we put
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: through college too. It's more of the good things that
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: out weigh the bad things. And God had put me
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: in position to help like that. And that's what I'm saying.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: And it it, it comes, and that's what it's like.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: It's so weird, it's just and I try to tell
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: people it has to come from your heart, and it's natural.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: The blessing is gonna keep bringing in if you do
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do. And how was you raised?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: You was raised to give you know, messing us as
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: black folks. I mean, you know, coming up, what we had,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: all we had was food and and love and hugs
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: and all that, and like we gotta we gotta go
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: back to that, man, We got to go back to that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: And you gotta want to put the work in. It's
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: hard work. Like people want to get a business. I know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: you know, a business is gonna be the hardest job
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: you ever had in your life, right right, And if
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: you don't have admitting that's why everybody can't do it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: A business is gonna be the hardest job in your life.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, I said that, dude, telling I want to
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: be like you. I want to you know, be able
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: to live in Texas and this and this and that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I said, Okay, well you ready to go eight years
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: without off day? You know what I mean?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna I'm gonna post that on a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: motivational card, Kevin, I'm gonna put that on my work.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Are you ready to give eight years without an off day?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Well? Yeah, open up. Let me tell you. When I
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: first opened up Blood Shucks, I was still djaying so
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I would have a I would. I would get to
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: blood Thoes at four o'clock on a Saturday morning and
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: uh be there until seven o'clock. Go home at night,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: go home, take a shower, pack my gig up, and
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: go do a DJ gig. Get back about two three
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: in the morning, take a shower, and go up to
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: blood Thoes to take briskets off and get ready for
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: the day. Twenty four hours straight. And that went on
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: for the first almost year and a half of my
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: business because I was at one time I was just
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: DJing and catering, so I was booked, you know, But
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: I had to do what I had to do. I mean,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: my daughter wrote one of the cut wish I had it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: She said, my daddy, if you knew the work my daddy,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: it was called my Daddy's not overnight success. My daddy
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: would come in at three four in the morning. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: would just hope my father got at least one hour
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: of sleep, and I know he didn't. My Daddy's not
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: an overnight success. And they got to know everybody's path
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: is not gonna be that way, you know. But it's tough,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: especially when you and I would and I know you know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: when you know money making conversations. I would tell anybody
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: if you can, please have the money and the back
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: end to start because when you start on a shoe
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: string budget, that's why a lot of them don't make it,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: because you need that. And us as a community, that's
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: why we need our own banks and we need because
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: we can't these younger they can't get the loans. You know.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: They want you to be experienced to get a small
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: businessman loan, but you you need the small businessman loan
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: to get going, you know, right, They and they and
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: they have to understand that. Then as you grow, get
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: get you know, get with a good team. I have
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: a good team behind me. There's no way I could
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: do what I'm doing if I didn't have the team
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: that I have working, you know with with you know,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: the Bloodsholls LLC. The people that we have, the things
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: that have been done, the doors that have opened to
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: get to you straight, to get on the braid, to
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: get in those conversations that we need to be in
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: so we can have a voice, you know. And that's
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: the whole thing. You have to have a good team, man,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: and you got to trust the team. You might be
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: the quarterback, but you need.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Some goods, linemen, running backs, coaches, you know, on the sidelines,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: cheer in your own cheerleaders, all that stuff, man.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: And more importantly, you need fans in the stands. That's
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: called customers, right people.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: And how you keep them by putting out a good product.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Kevin, I just want to thank you, man, And look,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: we don't hang out on come and wrap up the show.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I want to get the number and so we can
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: stay in touch. But I just love you, man, I
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  Speaker 1: just love you, man.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I got so much love and respect for you. Bro.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's it's unwavering man, real.
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  Speaker 1: Talk, you know, because of the fact that I know
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  Speaker 1: where you came from. I know, I know, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that what I've been doing all my life. But
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  Speaker 1: tell people, I've been doing this since all eighteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, God just just said this is what
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  Speaker 1: you do. You uplift people. You don't when somebody's behind you,
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  Speaker 1: you don't run off and leave them. You extend on
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  Speaker 1: right hand. And that's what the Neighborhood Awards is. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the Hoodie Awards was. And to see you have
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  Speaker 1: such a reaction in it, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people like that, man, I'll be in DC. People to
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  Speaker 1: come on that you ain't gonna bring it back. Come
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  Speaker 1: on that shop, shut shut. I'm talking about barbershops, be just.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about high school churches Detroit and lamb all
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  Speaker 1: over this country. Stop me go shout for real, man,
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  Speaker 1: for real. I said, look, well we're thinking about it. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I got something else. They're gonna jump off, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about a brother because I understand exactly what's going off,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in life, and I know it's need,
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  Speaker 1: especially during these time and black unrest.
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  Speaker 2: Because we got to go out there and vote.
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  Speaker 1: We got to register to vote, and I'm voting in person,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, I am voting in the pace. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: messing around with no mail in ballot. I'm not messing
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  Speaker 1: around with that. And I want somebody to go, here's
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  Speaker 1: your card, Sure you've officially voted, because I want to
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  Speaker 1: people understand that that if you want something in life,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what it is, a business, you want to graduate,
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  Speaker 1: you want to be in a relationship for a long term.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard work. It's hard work, and voting is hard.
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  Speaker 1: If you got stand in that line, if it's raining,
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  Speaker 1: if it's storming, standing that line, because if that don't
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  Speaker 1: make a change, it's going to be a four more
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  Speaker 1: years of a life that would never be good, especially
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  Speaker 1: for people who aren't making it. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: just talk about you know, we've crossed a little line there, Kevin.
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  Speaker 2: We can survive the ignorance. I'm not there.
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  Speaker 1: But see again, if I'm making it and my people
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  Speaker 1: ain't making it, then I'm not making it.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. You ain't making it because that's a burden,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And I always say too, and I know
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  Speaker 3: we rapping, But it wasn't that long ago when we
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  Speaker 3: talk about standing in lines. I' me and my son
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  Speaker 3: was at play football at Utah. He called me one
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  Speaker 3: day and he was just upset and he was like Dad,
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  Speaker 3: he was one to sixty five. I said, yeah, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: He said the Voters Act was made Junal whatever. Since
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  Speaker 3: I said yeah, whatever it was. He said, so when
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  Speaker 3: you was born, black people couldn't vote. I said no.
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  Speaker 3: So he said, my granting them couldn't vote. I said no,
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  Speaker 3: and it hit home with them, like he knows people.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't believe that he knew black people that couldn't
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  Speaker 3: vote at the time, right, And if people don't think
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  Speaker 3: certain things can happen again. Like I tell people all
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  Speaker 3: the time, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, theory of ferist
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  Speaker 3: or whatever I said. But when they came to and
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  Speaker 3: got them brothers from Africa for slavery, I said, they
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  Speaker 3: were living normal lives.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they were normal life.
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  Speaker 3: I said, Please look at the big picture on everything.
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  Speaker 3: Please look at people trying to line up with Russia
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  Speaker 3: and things like that. Just always look at the big picture, man,
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  Speaker 3: and get out there and vote. Man, it's this I
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  Speaker 3: never thought we would be to this time again, and
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  Speaker 3: we are. And if this don't bring us all together,
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  Speaker 3: and like I said, you can't say certain things aren't different,
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  Speaker 3: because I mean, I was in LA for the ninety
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  Speaker 3: two rides, you know what I mean. You know brothers
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  Speaker 3: and Hispanics out there. But now who's out there now?
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  Speaker 3: It's white, black Hispanic together. And like I said, maybe
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  Speaker 3: not in all lifetime, but I feel like once you
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  Speaker 3: have kids, ain't novice about maybe in the lifetime and
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  Speaker 3: a lifetime after that, racism might not exist no more,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And that's what I try
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  Speaker 3: to work forwards. Man.
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  Speaker 1: But we got to do it, you know, Yes, Kevin,
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  Speaker 2: Two time, I said, two time Steve Harvey Hooey Award winner.
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  Speaker 3: I jor graduating class, Official College.
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