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Full Episode: Reality Television Executive Producer Carlos King & Love and Marriage: Huntsville's Kimmi & Maurice Scott · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: be seen every Saturday night starring and Owns Love in
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Speaker 1: Marriage hunt Field. There are the power couple Kimmy Scott
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Speaker 1: and Maurice Scott. They're part of Owns Real Drama Weekend.
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Speaker 1: Kimmy Scott is an entrepreneur, real estate agent, a registered
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Speaker 1: nurse by trade who received both our undergraduate and graduate
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Speaker 1: degrees from the University of Alabama and Huntsville. She's also
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Speaker 1: a member of Delta Sigma, Thetum and as a passion
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Speaker 1: for cooking. Maury Scott is a consumer law attorney, real
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Speaker 1: estate investor, entrepreneur. He is the law firm United Legal.
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Speaker 1: He is the owner of Credit one U s A.
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Speaker 1: He's the older brother of mar Saul Scott, who I've
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Speaker 1: had on the short as well as Tea Shirt who
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Speaker 1: was also stars on the short. As you know, kimm
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Speaker 1: and Maurice got married the first season of the show
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Speaker 1: and still, as I said that Riding the Bio, have
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Speaker 1: not went on the honeymoon. We'll find out about that.
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Speaker 1: They're coming on the show to talk about the new
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Speaker 1: season of Owns, Love and Marriage Huntsville, which sometimes can
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Speaker 1: be a mess, but we're talking about entrepreneurship, which is
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Speaker 1: always filled with drama. Please work with the money making conversation,
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Speaker 1: Kimmy Scott and Maury Scott. Everybody, well, thank you for
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Speaker 1: coming on the show. First for all, let's get let's
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Speaker 1: do a little history on the show. You know, when
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Speaker 1: the show was launched, Um, how did you guys get
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Speaker 1: invited to do the show, and why did you accept
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Speaker 1: to do the show. You can each individually respond how
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Speaker 1: you want to. I just want to just get a
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Speaker 1: response in such a stage for the audience as to
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Speaker 1: who I'm interviewing. H Well, we uh we got introduced
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Speaker 1: to the show by a great idea from Melody Home. Okay, um,
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Speaker 1: we are all you know, we're all friends and we're
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Speaker 1: sitting around and then Mail comes up with this, you know,
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Speaker 1: genius idea of hey, let's do a reality show. So
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Speaker 1: we uh, we were invited to do a couple of
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Speaker 1: different pilots and things that we were filming for a
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Speaker 1: little while, and then she got Ricarlos and the magic happened. Kimmy,
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Speaker 1: that's somebody say it's magic, But when you put your
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Speaker 1: personal life out there and it's getting the social media
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Speaker 1: and sometimes it can be unmagical. Talk about some of
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Speaker 1: the the unmagical things that have happened. Because he said,
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Speaker 1: you know, because more we said was brilliant. Now I
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Speaker 1: when to watch the show, and like I always say,
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Speaker 1: you have one of the most animated faces I know
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Speaker 1: on television. Okay, you know you're one of the people
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Speaker 1: you can you tell it all on your face. You
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Speaker 1: can just as they say, you can just be smiling,
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Speaker 1: but I can look in your eyes say, well, she's
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Speaker 1: kind of mad at this situation. So talk about your
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Speaker 1: experience and then being allowed to, uh, you know, share
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Speaker 1: your your personal life is where as your professional life,
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Speaker 1: and then people can judge you because editing doesn't always
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Speaker 1: tell the true story. Correct. Correct, very much so correct
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Speaker 1: um he he loosely uses the term magic happen because
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Speaker 1: everything you just said literally is a correct and from
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Speaker 1: time to time you do kind of revisit your choice
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Speaker 1: to actually be one reality. At the moment, I believe
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Speaker 1: that both of us feel like the pros outweigh the
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Speaker 1: funds um and the biggest kind of which is people
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Speaker 1: voicing their opinion about your edited forty two minutes life.
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Speaker 1: So that's always a tough part, we know. And so
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Speaker 1: when I hear this two things you said Maurice and Kim,
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Speaker 1: and you said it was a great idea. Now, whenever
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Speaker 1: I look at reality show, especially shows like this, I
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Speaker 1: see a business opportunity because if you have a business,
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Speaker 1: your entrepreneurs like you are, you can promote it. You know,
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Speaker 1: you can build your brand and it can lead to
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Speaker 1: sex stories. It may not happen if you didn't have
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Speaker 1: this platform. With that being said, Maurice, so you started
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Speaker 1: with the word magic and brilliant. Let's talk about how
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Speaker 1: has that helped your business because I mentioned earlier you
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Speaker 1: have a law firm called United Legal and you're also
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Speaker 1: the owner of Credit one USA. Well, it's helping me
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Speaker 1: significantly reach a broader audience. Right, Like, we had clients
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Speaker 1: all across the nation that we're helping as far as um,
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Speaker 1: get their finances in order and actually participating in the market,
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Speaker 1: whether it's the Halloween market, is this market? Um, everything
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Speaker 1: boiled down to credit. So getting that consumer finance and
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Speaker 1: then moving on to consumer law, that's a whole different
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Speaker 1: area and a lot of consumers have no idea about
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Speaker 1: the different laws that are in place that protect them. Uh,
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Speaker 1: make sure that they're able to keep all the money
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Speaker 1: that they're earning. And then uh, there's some other things
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Speaker 1: that we're working on as well. But overall, as far
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Speaker 1: as the business aspect is concerned, I mean marketing. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's really interesting that Okay, Kimmy, you're a real estate
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Speaker 1: agent and then more as your real estate investor, and
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Speaker 1: we look at the housing market, and it is like
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Speaker 1: fire everywhere. You know. My younger brother he sold this
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Speaker 1: house in DC and I say within a week it
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Speaker 1: was sold, literally a week. My wife put her mom's
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Speaker 1: house on in Houston, Texas and they had like fifteen offer.
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Speaker 1: In fact fact, it was bidded up above the the
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Speaker 1: the the value that they had asked for at the time.
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Speaker 1: What is driving nationwide, not just in certain pockets of
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Speaker 1: the country. What is driving this high momentum for home
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Speaker 1: home ownership? UM? I personally believe that it's uh, it's
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Speaker 1: a false scarcity. Um. Right now we have this moratorium
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Speaker 1: on foreclosures and that right there is pushing housing values up.
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Speaker 1: And I think that right now we're experiencing a bubble
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Speaker 1: of such that UM, smart people would save money and
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Speaker 1: get prepared because we've seen this before. Now, Kimmy, you
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Speaker 1: you're the agent. You're out there, I want to say,
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Speaker 1: when you said the agent, you're out there doing the sales.
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Speaker 1: You're out there, if I'm mistaken, out there taking people
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Speaker 1: in and suggesting these home prices. And so you're seeing
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Speaker 1: the shift. I see you more. And Maurice as an investor,
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Speaker 1: so you see the options from a different perspective, but
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Speaker 1: you're seeing the perspective from an actual customer perspective, correct, Kimmy,
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Speaker 1: all right, um, and from I agree with what Marie
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Speaker 1: said as well. UM, I don't know if it's all
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Speaker 1: of false security of availability, but at the moment, it's
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Speaker 1: just the seller's market and there's literally more buyers in
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Speaker 1: the market than there are homes to purchase. And the matorium,
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Speaker 1: as he mentioned, just got lifted out of the nationwide.
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Speaker 1: Different states have lifted there's at different times, um, but
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Speaker 1: the end of the month was that particular time. And
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Speaker 1: if people don't know what that is, that was where
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Speaker 1: there was a law passed that you couldn't put people
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Speaker 1: out of their homes if they didn't keep up with
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Speaker 1: their payments based on the pandemic and having had issues
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Speaker 1: financially with the pandemic. Um. And there are millions of
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Speaker 1: people who had trouble and this was helpful to them.
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Speaker 1: So now that that has been taken away, we're hoping
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Speaker 1: that it will balance out the availability of homes again
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Speaker 1: and um, just a little bit so that it kind
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Speaker 1: of comes down. But right now it's simply not enough
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Speaker 1: properties for the amount of people that want to purchase them,
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Speaker 1: and the interestry to interest rates are great. Um. And
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Speaker 1: so all of that kind of plays a role in
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Speaker 1: people wanting to sell their home because they want the
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Speaker 1: biggest bank for the book. Just like you mentioned on
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Speaker 1: your mom's home. The majority of these homes are selling
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Speaker 1: for over asking price. There's a fair amount that is
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Speaker 1: selling for over market value. So you know, it's just
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Speaker 1: it's just the supplying demand at the moment, it's just
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Speaker 1: supplying demand. Well, I would listen listen lists because I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to a couple of real estate people. That's why
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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this. You kind of experts to me,
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Speaker 1: because my arties need to hear this because we've seen
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Speaker 1: this before. You know, when the Halisey market came out
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Speaker 1: there and it was extending loans and and the bubble
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Speaker 1: burst and it really collapsed this economy, Mr investor. Uh,
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Speaker 1: how do you see that? Um? I actually see it. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I see it as an opportunity because you don't have
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Speaker 1: to get caught by surprise once again with the same information.
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Speaker 1: And and if I kind of look at real estates
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Speaker 1: similar to stock, I don't I don't like to buy
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Speaker 1: at the top of the market at all. Possible. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's some good deals that are out there still, and
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Speaker 1: they're they're they're available now, so there's always gonna be
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Speaker 1: another deal to come along. But I like to buy
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Speaker 1: when no one else is buying, because then that's where
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Speaker 1: the real deals are. And UM, I heard a story
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Speaker 1: a long time ago and they said that, um, good
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Speaker 1: money waits until the bad money leaves the market. And
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Speaker 1: in essence, all that saying is that individuals that are
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Speaker 1: buying at the top of the market, if the market collapses,
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Speaker 1: then you lose value in your home. But those that
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Speaker 1: buy later, those are the ones that actually get a
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Speaker 1: true transfer our wealth. And so, UM, I think that
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Speaker 1: people should be smart about their money. You know. I
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Speaker 1: I'd rather see someone purchase at home rather than just rent,
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Speaker 1: but be smart about it. Well, let's let's let's talk
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Speaker 1: about this because you are a registered nurse. We're still
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Speaker 1: in COVID. We all thought we was about to get
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Speaker 1: out of COVID. I'm double vaccinated and then relaxed my
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Speaker 1: whole life when I got vaccinated, cause I was I
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Speaker 1: realized I was living in a state of parent I
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Speaker 1: the grocery store, and then I got vaccinated and I relaxed.
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Speaker 1: I went, wow, I can Actually I wasn't hugging nobody.
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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't. I went back to that,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't that relaxed team. But you are a registered nurse, Kimmy,
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Speaker 1: and being a registered nurse, you see things from a
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Speaker 1: different perspective than both that either I see or Moor
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Speaker 1: receives during the COVID in walk us through that whole
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Speaker 1: if we all can live a normal life. Um, that's
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Speaker 1: a clinician. Is honestly difficult for me to ever see
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Speaker 1: doing COVID Night Team. How did that affect you mentally?
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Speaker 1: And there are fans out there need to hear the
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Speaker 1: the realm of the TV show, UH, they take extreme
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Speaker 1: precautions as far as what we need to do in
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Speaker 1: order to keep filming. UM, we took various lengthy breaks.
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Speaker 1: This has probably been the longest season ever filming because
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Speaker 1: we had to take so many UM mandated breaks, be
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Speaker 1: it statewide, nationwide, or just from the production company. UM.
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Speaker 1: We have to do the same things as far as
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Speaker 1: social distancing. We have to wear masks, We COVID tests
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Speaker 1: three times a week in order to continue filming. UM.
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Speaker 1: Anybody who's in the immediate circle of that filming group
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Speaker 1: has to test. So say, for instance, I have a
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Speaker 1: closing and they want to film the closing, the people
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Speaker 1: at the attorney's office have to test as well, so
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Speaker 1: they keep a real vigilant I on the COVID precautions,
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Speaker 1: which we can definitely respect. I think as far as
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Speaker 1: opening eyes, it probably open more resize more than my eyes,
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Speaker 1: to be fair, because as a nurse, I'm actually the
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Speaker 1: executive director, and so I didn't really have to beat
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Speaker 1: on the front lines unless I have to be on
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Speaker 1: the front lines. And with COVID, when you have nursing
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Speaker 1: and staff out, it's time for you to put your
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Speaker 1: scrubs on. So when he would see me get up
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Speaker 1: in the morning and put scrubs on, scrubs mint, it's
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Speaker 1: time for me to see patients, and it kind of
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Speaker 1: a spin for him to know that. Okay, so now
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Speaker 1: this is real because you have to go into these
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Speaker 1: it can affect you, it can affect our household. It's
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Speaker 1: stuff that you can bring home to our kids. And
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Speaker 1: so that's where a lot of that thing changed. And
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Speaker 1: in order to kind of reel it in, we gotta
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Speaker 1: do a lot of due diligence and our homework. I
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Speaker 1: believe that with the vaccinations that are coming out, there's
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Speaker 1: to be familiar with because it's new. It's new, and
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Speaker 1: anything new, it's gonna have signs and symptoms. We just
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Speaker 1: don't know them all at this point. And I think
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Speaker 1: that some of the fear and a lot of people
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Speaker 1: as far as taking the actual vaccine, it's just new
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Speaker 1: and we just gotta be familiar. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be that one. Um. So people
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Speaker 1: are fearful. So I think the due diligence and dissemination
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Speaker 1: of information is what's gonna help people want to get
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Speaker 1: on board to make sure that we do everything possible
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Speaker 1: to keep this virus from exploding like it did last year. Now, Morris,
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Speaker 1: you know, we just said, like I was honest with
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Speaker 1: you when when the when the COVID came out, you know,
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Speaker 1: I was paranoid. Now you live in with a health professional.
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Speaker 1: Where was your mind? Like she said, you know, she
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Speaker 1: put on the scrubs. Now you know she out there
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Speaker 1: dealing and and as a certain uncertainly uncomfortableness, How did
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Speaker 1: did that affect your relationship or did they create a
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Speaker 1: different conversation with the family that you did have previously.
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Speaker 1: How did you emotionally deal with that? Because it's still
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Speaker 1: a degree you know, even though she can say what
19:50
Speaker 1: she's doing is correct, and you still have your own
19:52
Speaker 1: mindset that you have to deal with. Talk to us
19:54
Speaker 1: about that. Well. Um, Initially, when when me actually had
20:00
Speaker 1: to go on the front lines, it was at the
20:03
Speaker 1: time where other countries death told was through the roof,
20:06
Speaker 1: so um, at that moment, it's it felt like it
20:10
Speaker 1: could have been a death sentence. And um, it's very
20:14
Speaker 1: difficult to deal with because this is, you know, my
20:17
Speaker 1: wife that we're talking about. So now you see the
20:21
Speaker 1: personal sacrifice. It's actually changed my mind completely about the
20:25
Speaker 1: medical profession in general. I know that they save lives,
20:28
Speaker 1: but you don't know to what extent When you actually
20:32
Speaker 1: put your own life on the line for someone else,
20:34
Speaker 1: then now you're really a hero, you know, And um,
20:39
Speaker 1: you look at it for the greater good of what
20:41
Speaker 1: she was doing. So I understand the selfless act, but Um,
20:46
Speaker 1: you know you still have concerns because this is this
20:49
Speaker 1: is a family member, this is somebody who's very close
20:52
Speaker 1: and I don't know what I do without them. So, um,
20:55
Speaker 1: you know there's stress that comes along with that. But
20:57
Speaker 1: then after you get to doing some more homework and
20:59
Speaker 1: you're realising that you know some of the precautions that
21:02
Speaker 1: were taken for you know, our country is different than
21:06
Speaker 1: other countries and I would respected them. Um. Also you
21:10
Speaker 1: know how healthy we are as well. Now let's talk
21:14
Speaker 1: about this this loved one, this beautiful woman that you
21:17
Speaker 1: married the first season of the show. Did I read
21:20
Speaker 1: the bio? Still have not went on a honeymoon? Not?
21:24
Speaker 1: Come on, Morris, to come on, brother, come on Black
21:25
Speaker 1: Now you gotta talk to me that you really see,
21:28
Speaker 1: I know, was technical or real professional? Talk about the
21:31
Speaker 1: real estate. Talk about how your baller got two businesses.
21:35
Speaker 1: You know she got to rescue in America. Yea hero.
21:41
Speaker 1: I just gotta get on your bar now. You know
21:43
Speaker 1: he can't make a time to go nowhere, get a
21:46
Speaker 1: rent with a condo. He could have walked in there
21:49
Speaker 1: with a with a with a suit on, with a
21:51
Speaker 1: mask on, and to care. You know, I gotta interview
21:55
Speaker 1: you in the third season and he come on, Maria,
22:01
Speaker 1: this is your Morris, this is your time to talk.
22:03
Speaker 1: But it's time to talk to all the black men
22:05
Speaker 1: in America. Okay, Mr McDonald, I thank you for this
22:09
Speaker 1: opportunity to address what you're about to do. What you're
22:12
Speaker 1: about to do? What's about to do? You read her bio?
22:17
Speaker 1: Uh huh. I'm actually of Jamaican this thing. Okay, she
22:22
Speaker 1: was I gotta in order to take her on a honeymoon.
22:27
Speaker 1: I'm gotta slow her down. Oh oh, is you Kimmy?
22:33
Speaker 1: You the problem? Kim me? Okay, Okay, Marie's let me
22:43
Speaker 1: ask you this, or let's we're just on my show.
22:46
Speaker 1: We're just on my show. You're a baller. Fantasize what
22:50
Speaker 1: would be a place or destiny? What would that experience
22:54
Speaker 1: be like for this beautiful remember of signal stat who's
22:59
Speaker 1: a here role in a medical profession, save it live,
23:02
Speaker 1: putting the family in teopardy, but all for the benefit
23:06
Speaker 1: of America? What would you take her hand? Man? This angel?
23:11
Speaker 1: Let let me tell you Jamaica. Jamaica, man, Jamaica. Make
23:16
Speaker 1: don start. Oh for sure, she loves son and fun
23:21
Speaker 1: for sure. If saying they ain't in her toes state.
23:28
Speaker 1: That's the one thing I know for sure, like the
23:31
Speaker 1: best times in her life always has son insane right right? So, um,
23:38
Speaker 1: we've actually, you know, going on a honeymoon and the
23:42
Speaker 1: timing has to be right, of course because we have
23:44
Speaker 1: the kids and uh, we got to make sure that
23:47
Speaker 1: all that stuff is in order. They're starting school. But
23:50
Speaker 1: this is about to go down. It's about to go down.
23:56
Speaker 1: Kim me here that I'm gonna bring you all back
23:58
Speaker 1: on the show now. It cannot be season four and
24:01
Speaker 1: we're still talking about it. I've been hearing it. I'm ready.
24:05
Speaker 1: I got a suitcase. You know how women that are?
24:10
Speaker 1: You know, because you know, you know, a beautiful couple, y'all.
24:15
Speaker 1: You know, y'all look good. Look right here I met
24:18
Speaker 1: when somebody looked good in front of me. I I'm
24:19
Speaker 1: not a shame y'all. Beautiful couple and he ain't just
24:22
Speaker 1: taking you know where the showcase you you know, put
24:24
Speaker 1: you on the pedestal, you know, held you up high
24:27
Speaker 1: like you know, like did the baby. You know what
24:29
Speaker 1: I'm saying, he ain't done nothing. You know, when when
24:34
Speaker 1: I when I when I when I look at the
24:36
Speaker 1: show and I'm just shifting gears a little bit here
24:39
Speaker 1: because I want to know, what do you know Tiffany
24:43
Speaker 1: and also Maurice and some of these storylines, because you know,
24:46
Speaker 1: like you know, especially recently when you had the little
24:49
Speaker 1: dinner with It and then then you were shocked by
24:51
Speaker 1: this new I call a shady character, Tiffany who's been
24:55
Speaker 1: added to the show. She just run around the just
24:57
Speaker 1: dropping dimes on everybody, and then you have to react
25:02
Speaker 1: to that, Like the last time was in the Luncheon
25:07
Speaker 1: when she dropped the dime on on Destiny and then
25:10
Speaker 1: she and then the previous episode she told, she told,
25:14
Speaker 1: she told Meller did she even know who Destiny was?
25:17
Speaker 1: And then she shared some information about monster and vaping
25:21
Speaker 1: and that shocked you because she revealed information by the kid.
25:24
Speaker 1: So how does these story lines work for my fans?
25:27
Speaker 1: As far as how do y'all walk into these scenes?
25:30
Speaker 1: Are y'all produced to up to a point or they
25:33
Speaker 1: just set scenarios? How does that work? Starting with you,
25:37
Speaker 1: Kimmy Den, I'm going to you because we need to
25:38
Speaker 1: get the men side of the story because that Martel,
25:41
Speaker 1: he's just a disaster. Okay, So as far as the
25:47
Speaker 1: production of the show UM, and all fairness, we have
25:52
Speaker 1: different um Field producers that are assigned to us, and
25:58
Speaker 1: they communicate with us on a very recular basis UM
26:01
Speaker 1: either phone in person just to know what's going on
26:05
Speaker 1: in our world each week, UM, what's coming up, events
26:09
Speaker 1: that are coming up, things that we have planned as
26:11
Speaker 1: far as our businesses or children, UM. And so they
26:17
Speaker 1: don't produce the situation. However, they do try to help
26:21
Speaker 1: us see different avenues of getting it filmed, like getting
26:26
Speaker 1: it on TV UM and the things that are actually
26:29
Speaker 1: I guess TV worthy, you know, because you might tell
26:32
Speaker 1: them ten different things you got going on this week,
26:35
Speaker 1: and they only interested in one UM, and that happens
26:39
Speaker 1: fairly often. The one thing I will say about the
26:42
Speaker 1: show that I say a lot actually is they force
26:47
Speaker 1: us to have some conversations that we might not normally have.
26:51
Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is because there are
26:55
Speaker 1: times like for me, especially when I have an alter
26:59
Speaker 1: case with someone, I kind of distanced myself UM because
27:04
Speaker 1: I really enjoy my peace, and my peace is more
27:07
Speaker 1: important than non piece UM. And so on the show,
27:13
Speaker 1: they have put us in situations where we're encouraged to
27:17
Speaker 1: talk it out instead of just even it be UM
27:21
Speaker 1: and and that is where production I think takes a
27:24
Speaker 1: big band and helping us get over some hurdles that
27:29
Speaker 1: maybe otherwise we wouldn't get over. UM And to be fair,
27:33
Speaker 1: it also produces some hurdles, produces some hurdles UM, But
27:40
Speaker 1: more often than not, it's just strict conversation that we've
27:44
Speaker 1: had with them, UM and they kind of determine the
27:48
Speaker 1: best day, the best time for us to kind of
27:51
Speaker 1: blossom that conversation into something that the nation can relate to. Well,
27:58
Speaker 1: you know, your brother's on the show, and he has
28:01
Speaker 1: kind of like a Lucy goosey personality, you know, versus
28:04
Speaker 1: your person Your personality is pretty straightforward. You know you
28:08
Speaker 1: you know, you truly are professional. And I'm not saying
28:11
Speaker 1: he's unprofessional, but I think you know what I'm saying.
28:13
Speaker 1: You know, he kind of jokes around a lot a
28:15
Speaker 1: lot of situations. Even though she slapped your hand when
28:17
Speaker 1: you joked around with Cara when y'all did that little
28:20
Speaker 1: video phone call, she didn't think that was a joke.
28:22
Speaker 1: Kimmy said that there ain't no time to joke. Now, okay,
28:24
Speaker 1: you stop all that joking now, you ain't no comedian.
28:28
Speaker 1: Now Mr Morris, Okay, now we look over that Bartel,
28:33
Speaker 1: his life a disaster is just being played out on
28:35
Speaker 1: social media, is being played out on TV. When you
28:39
Speaker 1: look at that and you're dealing with all of the situations,
28:41
Speaker 1: how do you how do you deal with that? How
28:44
Speaker 1: do you make sure that your brand, your family, it
28:48
Speaker 1: doesn't become a victim of this show or any type
28:51
Speaker 1: of show, that they can be exposed in a negative
28:53
Speaker 1: light because right now it has happened to them. And
28:56
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, like even Destiny she got a divorce
28:58
Speaker 1: on the show, and I'm not sure to turn this
29:00
Speaker 1: into a negative conversation, but it is a certain responsibility
29:03
Speaker 1: that you have to hope the hold both as a couple,
29:05
Speaker 1: to understand what you involved in and making sure that
29:08
Speaker 1: it doesn't impact your home. Yeah. I think that there's
29:13
Speaker 1: a level of emotional intelligence that's important when you're getting
29:16
Speaker 1: on a reality television show. Um, And there's a level
29:22
Speaker 1: of character that I'm not I'm not gonna play a
29:24
Speaker 1: certain character in life, and that's just being true to myself,
29:28
Speaker 1: true to my family, true to my braind um. And
29:32
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think that there's
29:35
Speaker 1: not enough. There's not enough game from television, UM or
29:40
Speaker 1: reality television to lose my family. UM, and I personally
29:46
Speaker 1: think that even in certain certain situations that they're dealing with, UM,
29:51
Speaker 1: it's difficult because the world has an idea about how
29:55
Speaker 1: their relationships should go when they see just snippets of
29:58
Speaker 1: the person. Yes, So even though Mark Tell and and
30:02
Speaker 1: this is this is a concept that's kind of difficult
30:05
Speaker 1: for a lot of fans to get. Martell is not
30:08
Speaker 1: in all the time, right, there's no way in the
30:12
Speaker 1: world that Martell would have been this person and Mail
30:15
Speaker 1: would have been with him for ten years, right. So
30:18
Speaker 1: that's just a portion of his personality. On the flip side,
30:22
Speaker 1: Martell is probably one of the nicest people you've ever meet.
30:26
Speaker 1: And he's awful. He's carrying, He's a kind of individual
30:30
Speaker 1: that will call you about, you know, something that you
30:33
Speaker 1: may have talked to him about two weeks ago, and
30:35
Speaker 1: he's found a solution for it. So there's a flip
30:38
Speaker 1: side to Mark Telle that you don't get a chance
30:40
Speaker 1: to see all the time, And there's a flip side
30:42
Speaker 1: to pretty much all of us. UM. You know, I'm
30:46
Speaker 1: reserved for the most part on the show, but I'm
30:49
Speaker 1: not always reserved. There's things that you know call spirited conversation.
30:54
Speaker 1: Um usually when you involve children, my family, you know
30:59
Speaker 1: the things you know definitely, will you know, turn up
31:02
Speaker 1: my uh my intensity a little bit. Well, I want
31:05
Speaker 1: to thank you both for coming on the show. I've
31:07
Speaker 1: been trying to get you all since season one. You're
31:10
Speaker 1: very special. Uh. More importantly, as as we walk through this,
31:14
Speaker 1: you know you you guys are black excellence and from
31:17
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31:19
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31:33
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31:37
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35:08
Speaker 1: My next guest is an industry decision maker. His name
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Speaker 1: is Carlos King. One of my favorite people and we've
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Speaker 1: Kingdom Rain, Rain Rain, King of Rain Entertainment. He is
35:22
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35:25
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35:28
Speaker 1: With over ten years under his production belt, King as
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Speaker 1: which we all know is a niche in itself, season
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Speaker 1: twenty five Oprah. Behind the scenes, his production company, king
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Speaker 1: Dom Rain Entertainment has created such shows as Style in
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Speaker 1: how do you build your dreams? Well, let's find out
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Speaker 1: how are you doing to call us? I'm well, thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for that greatness aduption. Well, first of all,
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Speaker 1: call us, you know, um, watching your work is uh
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Speaker 1: is my introduction to the world because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that we get for the first time we see it.
36:44
Speaker 1: Now we can talk and find out how does that
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Speaker 1: mind work putting any other these projects because you're dealing
36:49
Speaker 1: with people's lives and it's really impactful in some ways.
36:54
Speaker 1: These are unscripted and so you have to kind of
36:57
Speaker 1: like set the same like I think, uh, Larry David
37:01
Speaker 1: or HBO kind of has an unscriptive show where people
37:04
Speaker 1: walk in the kind of set up the scene, but
37:06
Speaker 1: it's from a comedy perspective, so you know that direction.
37:09
Speaker 1: So you could be throwing some curves when you're developing
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Speaker 1: these shows. So talk about the process to my viewers
37:16
Speaker 1: and listeners in the world of reality. Yeah, well again,
37:21
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. And no, it is true when
37:23
Speaker 1: you're dealing with real people and you're producing a reality show.
37:30
Speaker 1: It's very challenging because you really are following the reality
37:34
Speaker 1: of their life and off the time. That means the good,
37:38
Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly. And that's the reason why
37:41
Speaker 1: my shows are so relatable is because we don't orchestrate
37:44
Speaker 1: anything out of drama sake. We do such a fantastic
37:49
Speaker 1: job at the company to where we truly immerse ourselves
37:54
Speaker 1: into the lives of our talent, and because it's such
37:59
Speaker 1: bravery encourage for anybody to say, I want to let
38:05
Speaker 1: cameras inside my household and into my life. That's the
38:09
Speaker 1: privilege I don't take for granted. So because we have
38:12
Speaker 1: to constantly make sure that the mental health of these
38:17
Speaker 1: people are stable enough to really handle the conversation they're
38:21
Speaker 1: having on camera and then deal with the after effects
38:24
Speaker 1: of it when social media involved himself. So it is
38:28
Speaker 1: very challenging to produce. When you're doing a scripted show,
38:31
Speaker 1: you have an actor, they're playing character. They get paid
38:35
Speaker 1: to to to say what you wrote, and they get
38:39
Speaker 1: paid to do the action that you directed. So it's
38:43
Speaker 1: much easier in that sense, where in my case, I
38:47
Speaker 1: have to follow real people who have real issues and
38:49
Speaker 1: real story and because I'm so sensitive to them, I
38:55
Speaker 1: make sure that we all work together to put on
38:57
Speaker 1: a good show. Well, one of the bigger storylines was
38:59
Speaker 1: out of the love and marriage hunt Field. Like I said,
39:02
Speaker 1: when you're talking about your scripted and you're talking about
39:05
Speaker 1: this is not part of you know, you know, because
39:07
Speaker 1: all these when the when the story. Because I just
39:09
Speaker 1: recently interviewed that Kimmy and Maury Scott fantastic couple. First
39:13
Speaker 1: time I interviewed them, and and they were just saying
39:16
Speaker 1: they were all friends. And that's how you know, Melody
39:19
Speaker 1: came to them with this great idea about the show
39:21
Speaker 1: and Martel and they all got together and they shot
39:24
Speaker 1: about three pilots with you before it was finally picked up.
39:28
Speaker 1: And along the way, this success, you know, this unexpected
39:31
Speaker 1: drama comes out. It was this reality your reality shows.
39:35
Speaker 1: Guess what you can't change what happens because it's real.
39:39
Speaker 1: And that was the relationship breakup of Melody and Martel
39:43
Speaker 1: from a crisis management. How do you look at that
39:46
Speaker 1: and how did you kind of like hold it together
39:51
Speaker 1: respectfully and not try to explore it. Great question because
39:56
Speaker 1: there's a fine line within that and The main thing
39:59
Speaker 1: that I did that a lot of other reality reality
40:04
Speaker 1: producers don't do, is I ask permission. First. I said, hey,
40:12
Speaker 1: because you're telling you this is what you're going through,
40:15
Speaker 1: are you comfortable sharing that on camera? Because my job
40:21
Speaker 1: is to follow the reel. And what would be so
40:23
Speaker 1: unfortunate is if the entire town knows about this infidelity
40:29
Speaker 1: and you're on TV pretending you're in a great marriage,
40:33
Speaker 1: you are going to lose in the end because when
40:36
Speaker 1: people watch reality TV, they want to see authenticity. So
40:41
Speaker 1: the permission that I asked Melody and Martell was, if
40:46
Speaker 1: you trust me to handle this story, will tend to
40:51
Speaker 1: love and care. I promise you you would come out
40:54
Speaker 1: of this never feeling exploited. And at the end of
40:57
Speaker 1: the day, you, courtesy of being transparent, you're going to
41:02
Speaker 1: affect a lot of black households who are dealing with
41:05
Speaker 1: this issue, and they will look to you as to
41:08
Speaker 1: what to do right and what to do wrong, And
41:10
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're going to become the voice
41:13
Speaker 1: of this topic and the voice of this topic because
41:16
Speaker 1: you know Melody, you know she's come out of this
41:18
Speaker 1: as a uh mom entrepreneur, you know, powerful, strong, uh
41:25
Speaker 1: look fantastic and uh. And sometimes when I look at
41:29
Speaker 1: the show, I look at Martel confused, this is my
41:31
Speaker 1: this is me talking um angry, don't know the direction
41:35
Speaker 1: he wants to go with his life. And so you,
41:39
Speaker 1: as a producer, you see these things happening, do you
41:42
Speaker 1: give advice or do you just let it play off
41:45
Speaker 1: and say, this is what we're gonna do. Are you
41:47
Speaker 1: comfortable what we're gonna do? Or do you ever offer
41:49
Speaker 1: advice to the individuals who are playing out these real
41:51
Speaker 1: life characters Carlos, Yeah, I do live in a boat.
41:56
Speaker 1: So primarily I follow the reality of what they're going
41:59
Speaker 1: through because because what I like for my audience to
42:03
Speaker 1: see again is the authenticity of someone dealing with pain
42:07
Speaker 1: and joy. Right, So when Martell, when you watch the
42:11
Speaker 1: show and you see Martell struggling with light after divorce,
42:17
Speaker 1: I think a lot of black men, specifically black men,
42:21
Speaker 1: and they may have steps outside of their marriage and
42:25
Speaker 1: their wives leave them. They struggle with the realization that
42:31
Speaker 1: my infidelity ruined this this relationship that I adored and
42:37
Speaker 1: and and who am I outside of being married to
42:40
Speaker 1: this woman who we were a partner in all of this?
42:44
Speaker 1: And I think you're seeing some regret or Martell's behalf,
42:49
Speaker 1: and as a black man producing this show, I cannot
42:53
Speaker 1: sit back watch this man go through this pain and
42:57
Speaker 1: not offer some sort of advice to hell. So I
43:02
Speaker 1: definitely have had numerous conversations mal, most recently two weeks ago,
43:12
Speaker 1: because I love them all and I want to make
43:14
Speaker 1: sure that at the end of the day they're okay. Well,
43:17
Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is that you said
43:19
Speaker 1: it earlier about social media, because that's one of the
43:22
Speaker 1: biggest churches and benefits of modern day success, you know,
43:27
Speaker 1: But in reality TV it can be even worse because,
43:30
Speaker 1: unlike a script, you're just playing a character and that's
43:32
Speaker 1: my character told me to write that, you know where
43:34
Speaker 1: reality show? How does social media work for you? And
43:38
Speaker 1: how do you tell a talent because they are talents,
43:42
Speaker 1: you know, whether they playing themselves or not, they are
43:44
Speaker 1: they are talent. How do you recommend to talent that's
43:48
Speaker 1: playing out a life that they can go to the
43:50
Speaker 1: grocery store and she really is a Mortel, you know,
43:53
Speaker 1: he she really is Kimmy, he really is more Ree,
43:56
Speaker 1: she really is a tissue teacher. All these people are
43:58
Speaker 1: going to the grocery store being the sales. So social
44:01
Speaker 1: media can be very painful in the world of social media.
44:05
Speaker 1: Do you encourage them to do social media or that's
44:08
Speaker 1: that's their own thing. You walk away. They grown people,
44:11
Speaker 1: They deal with it what they have to deal with it.
44:14
Speaker 1: I discourage them for reading the comments on soccial media.
44:19
Speaker 1: I think you have to use social media what it's for,
44:23
Speaker 1: and that's engagement, and that is promoting whatever vehicle you
44:29
Speaker 1: have to to get the word out. And once you post,
44:33
Speaker 1: you leave right. You don't stay on them. Read the
44:37
Speaker 1: comments because the number one to say I can make
44:45
Speaker 1: is read comments of what other people are saying about them.
44:50
Speaker 1: Because what I've learned through social media, and I love
44:54
Speaker 1: social media, but I learned this, the meanest comments get
44:58
Speaker 1: the most reaction. So if a game that people on
45:02
Speaker 1: social media are playing in terms of how can I
45:06
Speaker 1: trump this comment so that mind can get the most traction,
45:10
Speaker 1: in order to do that, you have to get meaner
45:13
Speaker 1: and nastier, and that can really affect so much's mental health.
45:18
Speaker 1: So I tell my reality stars, do not read the
45:22
Speaker 1: comment because it will ruin your day. Yes, that will
45:26
Speaker 1: remain your life if you just keep reading that feed
45:29
Speaker 1: on the daily basis but it's all started somewhere else
45:32
Speaker 1: for you, not on We just talked about the current success.
45:35
Speaker 1: When did you realize how did you get into the game.
45:38
Speaker 1: You know, we've had this conversation before. We have new
45:40
Speaker 1: listeners and new views. But I want to talk because
45:43
Speaker 1: I want everybody wants to do what you do. Call
45:45
Speaker 1: us okay, But again, you have a gift and I
45:47
Speaker 1: tell people, you know, I was a sitcom writer, and
45:50
Speaker 1: believe it, there were more talented sitcom writers than me,
45:53
Speaker 1: and I could tell there was a difference between just
45:55
Speaker 1: like there's a difference between the Michael Jordan's and a
45:57
Speaker 1: player who was drafted in the first round. Their talents,
46:00
Speaker 1: and you have that special gift, that that certain I
46:04
Speaker 1: what makes you so special, And I'm not saying that
46:07
Speaker 1: in a negative way, but obviously you see things different.
46:10
Speaker 1: Call os why and how did that? How was it
46:14
Speaker 1: introduced to you when you first got into reality television.
46:19
Speaker 1: Because I was a kid who was sort of a
46:22
Speaker 1: nerd going up to Detroit. I would watch endless hours
46:31
Speaker 1: of television, which included everything from the Oprah Winfrey Show
46:36
Speaker 1: to the local news too. I'm a kid watching the
46:40
Speaker 1: Datelin NBC like I was a student of people. I
46:45
Speaker 1: was a student of character, I was a student of knowledge,
46:49
Speaker 1: and because of that, I thought I would become a
46:53
Speaker 1: psychologist because I just love to get in the minds
46:56
Speaker 1: of people and and really understand their behavior. Because I
47:00
Speaker 1: had all of that education growing up. When I decided
47:05
Speaker 1: to major and journalism in college and minor psychology, I
47:12
Speaker 1: took both um gifts that I had a journalism and
47:15
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47:19
Speaker 1: when I got an internship at BT, I just started
47:22
Speaker 1: to really climb the ladder and I got a job there,
47:26
Speaker 1: and I got offered to do a reality show because
47:29
Speaker 1: my friends and the business knew that I loved reality TV.
47:33
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47:37
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47:40
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47:43
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47:47
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47:50
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Speaker 1: the AD Council. Awesome. But also, let's let's talk about
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Speaker 1: reality coming into it, because there was a lot of
49:37
Speaker 1: negative about being that reality game. You know, it wasn't real,
49:41
Speaker 1: it was it was cheesy, it was offensive, a lot
49:45
Speaker 1: of the a lot of the shows were really aggressive.
49:48
Speaker 1: Also show black women in a very negative light. So
49:51
Speaker 1: how did you, being a guy who's a fan of
49:54
Speaker 1: reality TV, how did you say, did you have a
49:57
Speaker 1: vision call us when you came on board to say
49:59
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that type of reality TV? This
50:01
Speaker 1: is where I want to approach you. Talk about that
50:03
Speaker 1: whole approach of organizing, that thought process of you coming
50:06
Speaker 1: into the reality game. Okay, cool, I'm with you, Okay cool.
50:12
Speaker 1: So when I got my start in reality TV again,
50:17
Speaker 1: my first show was The Real Housewife in Atlanta, And
50:21
Speaker 1: obviously that was a very entertaining show that had a
50:24
Speaker 1: lot of arguments and big fights and things like that,
50:27
Speaker 1: because that show wasn't produced by a company that I started.
50:32
Speaker 1: I was a worker b who followed the guidelines of
50:36
Speaker 1: how to produce that particular show, and the moment I
50:40
Speaker 1: became the executive producer of that show, a ship happened
50:44
Speaker 1: in my thought of let's make it less about these
50:48
Speaker 1: cat fights and more about what's happening inside the households
50:51
Speaker 1: of these people, so that the season that I became
50:55
Speaker 1: the executive producer is the highest rated season of that
50:59
Speaker 1: show to date. The moment that happened is when I
51:04
Speaker 1: decided to start my company, Kingdom Right Entertainment, because I
51:08
Speaker 1: did have a consciousness of saying I know a lot
51:12
Speaker 1: of black people who wanted the reality TV, but they
51:15
Speaker 1: think they have to sell their soul and have a
51:18
Speaker 1: physical altercation to make that happen, and I wanted to
51:23
Speaker 1: be the alternative to that. So when you watch Love
51:26
Speaker 1: and Marriage Hunts Bill, for example, you see these beautiful
51:31
Speaker 1: black people who are successful. That's only showing you what
51:35
Speaker 1: really is happening in their lives, in their households. And
51:39
Speaker 1: that show has become the number one show on the network,
51:43
Speaker 1: and there has not been a physical altercation on that show.
51:48
Speaker 1: So that proves of people. When you build something that
51:52
Speaker 1: is true to you, people will come. Well it was
51:56
Speaker 1: it was one that came close well, I believe when
51:59
Speaker 1: where all Tail was on the patio with with Melody
52:04
Speaker 1: and he told her why she why he cheated on
52:08
Speaker 1: her because she blah blah blah blah, and she threw
52:11
Speaker 1: some man, m come on, call us, call them. I
52:16
Speaker 1: had to shot out that scared y'all. Call that scared y'all. No,
52:20
Speaker 1: you are accurate. So was what was very tally about
52:25
Speaker 1: that bump man call listen. You don't tell no black
52:32
Speaker 1: woman come on now, another woman does better. That's where
52:37
Speaker 1: I got from it, and I think a lot of
52:40
Speaker 1: men watch that show and said I'm gonna keep my
52:42
Speaker 1: mouth shut, dude to call us. When he said that,
52:45
Speaker 1: I was like, are you kidding me? Dude? Are you
52:48
Speaker 1: really kidding me? In front of friends, cameras are rolling
52:54
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see this to Melody and she's not
52:57
Speaker 1: going to react on this show. I saw that bad
53:00
Speaker 1: when if I if I you know, you know when
53:02
Speaker 1: you growing up calls you your your your parents are
53:04
Speaker 1: popping in the back of the head. They should have popped.
53:07
Speaker 1: So one of you should have came out of the audience.
53:09
Speaker 1: You should came out from the can and say, I'm
53:11
Speaker 1: gonna tell them about do something that your parents did
53:13
Speaker 1: to you when you was a kid. I'm a pop
53:15
Speaker 1: you in the back of your big dumbhead. I laughed
53:18
Speaker 1: so but I also felt so bad because I went, dude,
53:22
Speaker 1: you know that was that was uncalled for. But that
53:25
Speaker 1: that's the closest you've come on that show. Because she
53:27
Speaker 1: threw something. I swear to you, she threw it for real.
53:31
Speaker 1: She threw that in for real. She she has good aim.
53:34
Speaker 1: I'll say that. Well, the beauty of you callers is that,
53:39
Speaker 1: you know, Oprah Winfred you said early in your conversation
53:42
Speaker 1: that you watched The Growing Up and I'm gonna just
53:45
Speaker 1: share an example of me. Sometimes when you get in
53:48
Speaker 1: the position you meet stars or you and you kind
53:51
Speaker 1: of like pull back a little bit. You feel like
53:54
Speaker 1: in the rain though I don't really belong here, just
53:56
Speaker 1: really happening to me. And then you realize, hey, this stop, stop,
54:01
Speaker 1: stop all that ignorance. It's happening to you because your
54:03
Speaker 1: work has put you there. Just happen to you because
54:06
Speaker 1: the respect has put you there. It's happening to you
54:08
Speaker 1: because you're supposed to be there. When did all that
54:11
Speaker 1: coming to you? Because because I know you, we share
54:14
Speaker 1: similar qualities, so we both are humble, you know. I
54:17
Speaker 1: come from a nerdy background, you know, and and uh
54:20
Speaker 1: some people I tell people I was shot and you
54:22
Speaker 1: never shot. Where it's yes I was, you know, Yes
54:25
Speaker 1: I was, Yes I was, you know, And so I
54:27
Speaker 1: just had to fight through it and then realized that
54:30
Speaker 1: my opinion mattered. In my opinion matters, then you have
54:33
Speaker 1: to tell people what your opinion is. And that's who
54:35
Speaker 1: you are. So when you elevate yourself to do this
54:38
Speaker 1: behind the scenes for Oprah, when were your thought process
54:42
Speaker 1: and where did you come to coming to to introspective
54:46
Speaker 1: about yourself as a talent and where you are at
54:48
Speaker 1: in that point of your career. You know what was
54:52
Speaker 1: so interesting is I'm a man of faith, and I
54:55
Speaker 1: believe in prayer, and I believe and and and just
54:58
Speaker 1: you know, believing in God and praying to him. So
55:01
Speaker 1: to be a kid watching Oprah Winfrey show, and then
55:05
Speaker 1: that gave later having the opportunity to I tell people
55:10
Speaker 1: all the time, I got paid to follow her around. Right,
55:13
Speaker 1: That's that's that's a good job. I So the moment
55:20
Speaker 1: I was around her to me gave me the the
55:25
Speaker 1: confirmation that God was saying to me, I want you
55:30
Speaker 1: to see what's possible and and I want you to
55:34
Speaker 1: shadow a woman you look up to a black billionaire
55:40
Speaker 1: because I am seeding the steps in terms of how
55:44
Speaker 1: I see you being. And I took that as a
55:49
Speaker 1: way of saying, I now know what I have to do,
55:53
Speaker 1: and that truly, truly, truly, truly gave me the permission
55:58
Speaker 1: that I needed from my internal self to say I
56:01
Speaker 1: can do this because I saw someone else do it.
56:03
Speaker 1: And then a couple of years after that, I had
56:07
Speaker 1: to um follow Tyler Perry in the same way when
56:11
Speaker 1: he got to the own network and I had that
56:14
Speaker 1: same conference, Uh we need your Carlos can say they
56:22
Speaker 1: follow Open len Frey and Tyler Perry like not everyone
56:27
Speaker 1: can say that. So I use that as the way
56:30
Speaker 1: of saying, you have a gift and God is preparing
56:34
Speaker 1: you for something bigger. Well, you know the interesting thing
56:36
Speaker 1: when I when I listened to you talk and well,
56:39
Speaker 1: if everything is a journey, and you know that call
56:41
Speaker 1: us you know, because we all dream, we all hope,
56:43
Speaker 1: we pray and but it's the work ethic and then
56:46
Speaker 1: it's what you've been given because each network has a
56:49
Speaker 1: different budget. A lot of people you would love to
56:51
Speaker 1: think you work with the same budget on TV one,
56:54
Speaker 1: a Netflix or own, a BT they all have different budget,
56:57
Speaker 1: but you have you still have to deliver a first
56:59
Speaker 1: class prob jack. So how do you work with the
57:02
Speaker 1: budgets on that the that are given to you? And
57:04
Speaker 1: then how do you assess? How do your staff and
57:08
Speaker 1: you know, do you call in favors? Sometimes you don't
57:11
Speaker 1: take care of you on this and come come take
57:13
Speaker 1: care of me on this? How does that work? Because Bill,
57:15
Speaker 1: in your brain is about relationships. I know that for
57:18
Speaker 1: a fact, and relationships have helped me when I when
57:21
Speaker 1: when I've transitioned in my career. Relationship about helping you.
57:24
Speaker 1: But now you're the guy who who you. You're the
57:26
Speaker 1: hip maker. Now you're the HP maker. So people expect
57:29
Speaker 1: you to get when they come to you, to get paid.
57:31
Speaker 1: So those little requests they obticually won't. Hey, man, I
57:35
Speaker 1: remember remember me when I took care of you? So
57:37
Speaker 1: how does that work with you? Because now you ever
57:39
Speaker 1: first look deal with own and that qualifies you as uh,
57:42
Speaker 1: that's the ultimate man when somebody say, look, we're just
57:44
Speaker 1: gonna give you a deal to create shows, and that's
57:48
Speaker 1: the blessing of your journey. And so talk about that
57:50
Speaker 1: when you when it was approached to you, and what
57:53
Speaker 1: were the first thoughts that ran through your mind when
57:55
Speaker 1: owned said here's the first look, first look deal for
57:57
Speaker 1: you and your company. Kingdom Rain entertained it was. It
58:03
Speaker 1: was magical because my company became what we call him
58:08
Speaker 1: the business, a full service production company, which means that
58:13
Speaker 1: the buck stops here. We don't we don't have a
58:16
Speaker 1: co production with another like everything begins and ends with
58:20
Speaker 1: Kingdom Rank Entertainment. So to have that within the first
58:25
Speaker 1: year of launching the company is nothing but God's favor
58:29
Speaker 1: on my life. So I needed that in order to
58:34
Speaker 1: show the marketplace right that I am the little engine
58:38
Speaker 1: that could. This black man who owns his own company,
58:42
Speaker 1: has the has the respect of Oprah. Winfrey was saying,
58:47
Speaker 1: I want you Tobe create shows for my network. So
58:51
Speaker 1: when you talk about budgets with other networks, yeah, you
58:56
Speaker 1: have to definitely, you know Rob Peter, you know, Getting
59:01
Speaker 1: Paul and all those things, because you know you have
59:05
Speaker 1: to use what's given to you. And that can be challenging.
59:08
Speaker 1: And yes, you have a call in favors from people
59:09
Speaker 1: who you kind of grew up with in the business.
59:12
Speaker 1: Like you said, relationships are key, so I have Well,
59:16
Speaker 1: the beauty of you, my friend, is this. You know
59:19
Speaker 1: you You're You're master the world. I can't do you know.
59:22
Speaker 1: And and that's a good thing because like I said,
59:25
Speaker 1: you know, it means you're you're creating a brand. And
59:28
Speaker 1: all the years of working with different projects, which one
59:32
Speaker 1: challenge you the most. I'm talking about not a negative challenge,
59:34
Speaker 1: but production wires and creatively And you went, Wow, that
59:38
Speaker 1: was a lot of work, man, But I'm glad I
59:39
Speaker 1: got it done. Which project of all the projects you've
59:41
Speaker 1: done that really pushed you creatively and really test your
59:46
Speaker 1: personality and your sanity. I think I said that right.
59:52
Speaker 1: I think I got it really right. So you can
59:54
Speaker 1: say a good response, okay U. I had a show
1:00:01
Speaker 1: a BT called BT persentson Encore last week. We had
1:00:05
Speaker 1: Our Sees the Finality absolutely and that was the most
1:00:08
Speaker 1: challenging show to date of my career because I had
1:00:12
Speaker 1: to it was a house reality show and we had
1:00:16
Speaker 1: thirty days to shoot a show twenty four seven for
1:00:21
Speaker 1: thirty days of these former girl group members living in
1:00:25
Speaker 1: a house together to form a supergroup, and you're dealing
1:00:29
Speaker 1: with personalities and music and again it's around the clock
1:00:35
Speaker 1: for thirty days. And that pushed me to a place
1:00:39
Speaker 1: that I didn't know existed in terms of my brain
1:00:42
Speaker 1: having the capacity to handle this. And and it was
1:00:47
Speaker 1: such a good gift to to have UM because it
1:00:51
Speaker 1: allowed me to want to push things further. And the
1:00:55
Speaker 1: shows I'm producing wells interesting thing about it, because you
1:00:58
Speaker 1: were dealing with some level of frustration with talent, you know,
1:01:02
Speaker 1: who felt that they should be bigger or felt that
1:01:05
Speaker 1: they were wrong. And they see this and some of
1:01:07
Speaker 1: them say yes to doing things, But then I don't
1:01:09
Speaker 1: want to do the work, you know, you know, you know,
1:01:12
Speaker 1: if that's the point that frustrate you, why are you here?
1:01:13
Speaker 1: Then well, you know, why why are you wasting my time?
1:01:17
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna curry, but why are you wasting my time?
1:01:19
Speaker 1: That's the part that makes you mad. Okay, you knew
1:01:21
Speaker 1: what you were signing up for, now you now you
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Speaker 1: got the attitude, okay, But the thing that really came
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