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Bentley Evans, Jerome Love, Robert Youngblood & More · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: our first call on the line. Let's get started, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: My next guest is from the Small Business Administration. Because
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  Speaker 1: of the devastation the small business affected by Hurricane Harvey
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  Speaker 1: and State of Texas, I felt was important put to
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  Speaker 1: put a face on the people at the s b
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  Speaker 1: A who can help you police work on the money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations from the Small Business Administration Office of Disaster assistance.
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  Speaker 1: Mr Richard Jenkins, How you doing, sir? Thank you kind
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  Speaker 1: of low there? Can we can we get closer? Or
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  Speaker 1: did you volume up a little bit there? Awesome? Thank
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  Speaker 1: you Richard? Is it Rick or is it Richard? Because
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  Speaker 1: there's two people either way? Great? Great? Great great great?
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  Speaker 1: Because I was, you know, I would say, I gotta,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta, you know, I want to be respectful to
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  Speaker 1: everybody because your titles say it's Richard, and then when
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  Speaker 1: you get in the bio and just start saying Rick,
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  Speaker 1: and then that's fine, that's awesome. I know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Harricane Harvey came in, uh did this damage and left
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  Speaker 1: a lot not only just regular people, but the small
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  Speaker 1: business world which just just laid waste to us out there.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why I felt it was important to
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  Speaker 1: get you guys on the show. I know that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been trying to get the word out, and
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  Speaker 1: this is another extension of helping you guys get the
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  Speaker 1: word out that you are there for small businesses to
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  Speaker 1: get them back on their feet. Correct. Oh, very much so.
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  Speaker 1: And we really appreciate the opportunity that you're giving us
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  Speaker 1: to get the word out. You know, it's interesting we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the small businesses because we are the Small
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  Speaker 1: Business Administration, and you're absolutely correct. Uh, we help small businesses.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, in times of disaster, the Small Business
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  Speaker 1: Administration not only help small businesses, but we help businesses
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  Speaker 1: of all sizes. And what really people don't know is
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  Speaker 1: we also help homeowners and renters with losses to their
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  Speaker 1: homes and their personal property. How does that work? Just
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  Speaker 1: how does that work when you say you help them out?
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  Speaker 1: I know as a small business person, you know you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get back on your feet. Is that just
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  Speaker 1: an extension of that? How does that exactly work? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we have a Disaster Loan program, and we provide low
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  Speaker 1: interest disaster loans to help people and businesses rebuild from
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  Speaker 1: the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey. For example, a homeowner
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  Speaker 1: can come to us and apply for up to two
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to repair or replace their home. A
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  Speaker 1: homeowner and a renter or someone you know who rents
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  Speaker 1: an apartment or is renting a house, they can come
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  Speaker 1: to us and apply for up to forty dollars to repair,
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  Speaker 1: to repair or replace their personal property losses. Now, for now,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say for businesses, UM, we offer up
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  Speaker 1: to two million dollars. I know that number. How about
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  Speaker 1: you don't? I know that number a little bit, Highers.
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  Speaker 1: It is for businesses. You know, there's there's not only
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  Speaker 1: the real estate the building that they lost, but perhaps
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  Speaker 1: inventory and machinery and equipment, and you know that stuff
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  Speaker 1: can add up very very quickly. So the loans can
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  Speaker 1: go up to two million dollars to cover those losses.
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  Speaker 1: When when people come in, how do they qualify? Brothers,
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  Speaker 1: There's a there's a couple of things we look at. UM.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing we want to do is make sure
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  Speaker 1: that everybody registers for disaster assistance, and they can do
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  Speaker 1: that by going online at Disaster Assistance dot gov. And
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  Speaker 1: by doing so, that's really the key that unlocks the
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  Speaker 1: door to all of the federal and state programs. So
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  Speaker 1: let's let's talk about businesses. UM. A business owner can
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  Speaker 1: come to us and complete an application online. UM, we
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  Speaker 1: have an electronic loan application, and they can do that
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  Speaker 1: one of three ways. They can do it themselves online
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  Speaker 1: if they have access to the internet and just go
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  Speaker 1: onto our website at www. Dot SPA dot gov. Forward
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  Speaker 1: slash disaster and there's a ribbon at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the screen that says Hurricane Harvey and click on that
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  Speaker 1: and they'll walk you through the process. Or they can
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  Speaker 1: come into one of more than fifty disaster Recovery centers
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  Speaker 1: located throughout the state of Texas in the impacted area
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  Speaker 1: and actually sit down with a customer service representative who
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  Speaker 1: will help them complete their application. While they're in the center,
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  Speaker 1: they'll walk them through the process, they'll help them enter
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  Speaker 1: the data, they'll answer their questions about our program how
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  Speaker 1: it can help them recover um and give them all
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  Speaker 1: the information they need. Or they can do it the
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  Speaker 1: old fashioned way. They can request a paper application and
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  Speaker 1: mail it to But you know, here's the deal. You
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  Speaker 1: hear the word s b A Small Business Administration. All
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  Speaker 1: you just see is tons of paper, tons of backlog,
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  Speaker 1: just that big fear that that stops people from making
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  Speaker 1: that correct call, because calling you, guys is the correct
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. What makes them overcome that fear, fact,
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  Speaker 1: that fear of the unknown? I guess I should say
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to try to get assistance with the
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  Speaker 1: s b A. You know, it's a good point. People
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  Speaker 1: are concerned about how to how to fill out an application,
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  Speaker 1: but we streamlined the process so much over the years
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  Speaker 1: that it really is become much more simple than it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. UM. It takes twenty to thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: to complete an application. UM. You can fill out some
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  Speaker 1: forms that will help us UM get your tax returns,
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  Speaker 1: for example, so you don't necessarily have to locate those
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  Speaker 1: right away, UH to get the cross started. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, we do have a backlog. This was an
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  Speaker 1: enormous event, and we've got literally tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people that are coming to us for assistance. But the
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  Speaker 1: good news is we're already processed about seventy of the
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  Speaker 1: applications that we've received UM. So we are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: processing loans quickly. We're getting them done, we're getting answers
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  Speaker 1: to people about whether or not we can help them.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we're we're just about seven hundred and ten
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  Speaker 1: million dollars in loan approval so far to more than
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  Speaker 1: eight thousand and three hundred people. So how long I
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  Speaker 1: come in? I have a person an example of my nephew.
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  Speaker 1: He has a business called Big six Barbecue, very successful
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  Speaker 1: food trailer, and it was damaged UH by the Hurricane
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  Speaker 1: Harvard floodwaters and the rain came through the roof. So
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  Speaker 1: with him being said, I asked him about the SBA
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  Speaker 1: and he said, he gave me that. I don't know, uncle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, the insurance company is going to
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  Speaker 1: give him a nice check, but he's still gonna cover
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  Speaker 1: the overall repairs. How do I convince a young comportunere
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  Speaker 1: like that that he said, go to s B. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's why I want this call that happens. And
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  Speaker 1: you're my face because you know, hearing your VARs, hearing
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  Speaker 1: the the the the willingness to help, breaking down the
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  Speaker 1: walls of saying, come on in, at least listen to
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  Speaker 1: what we're trying to do to help you out before
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  Speaker 1: you reject the opportunity to get help. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: just kind of set it yourself. You can tell your
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  Speaker 1: nephew if he doesn't apply, he knows exactly what he's
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  Speaker 1: going to get. That won't be anything. The nice thing
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  Speaker 1: about the SBA's disastrolone program is we don't charge fees
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  Speaker 1: for anything. There's no application fees, there's no loan origination fees,
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  Speaker 1: there's no closing costs or document fees that you do.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad he had flood insurance. I'm glad he's
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  Speaker 1: going to get a recovery, but that recovery, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: probably won't restore everything back to its predisaster condition because
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  Speaker 1: some things insurance won't cover, and other things insurance will depreciate.
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  Speaker 1: Something won't get the full value of it. So while
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  Speaker 1: he thinks he may get a nice in church check,
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  Speaker 1: there's probably going to be some costs that are just
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  Speaker 1: simply not covered. Well. To get back into business, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to have to cover those costs one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he has the savings, and God bless him if
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  Speaker 1: he does, and that will help. Or maybe he can
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  Speaker 1: use credit cards, but do you really want to take
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  Speaker 1: on a high entrance card debt of nine where SPA's
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  Speaker 1: disaster loans for businesses or three point three. And here's
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  Speaker 1: another thing. If he comes in, spends that little bit
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  Speaker 1: of time to complete his application, go through the process,
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  Speaker 1: and let's say we approve him for his insurance deductible
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  Speaker 1: and what is insurance doesn't cost, Let's say that's ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. As he goes down the line and starts
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  Speaker 1: to rebuild and repair his business, maybe he only needs
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  Speaker 1: seven thousand, so that's all he takes from us, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe he decides down the line, you know what, my
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  Speaker 1: insurance covered more than I thought. I can use a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of savings and I can get what I
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  Speaker 1: need and get back into business. And I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to go into debt or take a loan out. Just
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  Speaker 1: tell us he doesn't want the loan, will cancel it,
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't cost him anything to do this. This
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  Speaker 1: is amazing to hear this conversation. How can they get
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  Speaker 1: in touch with it, not just you, just to be
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  Speaker 1: able to go through the process of of of getting information. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, the first thing we want people
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  Speaker 1: to do is register with FEMA at Disaster Assistance dot
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  Speaker 1: govn that's all one word, Disaster Assistance dot gov for SBA.
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  Speaker 1: For a business owner, they can call us directly at
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  Speaker 1: six five nine two nine five five, talk with our
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  Speaker 1: customer service representatives and they'll walk you through the process.
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  Speaker 1: They'll give you the information you need. Or another really
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  Speaker 1: really good way, and this is the way I recommended
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  Speaker 1: all people do. Take some time and go down and
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  Speaker 1: visit us at a disaster recovery center. And uh, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, there's more than fifty those established throughout the
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  Speaker 1: impacted area. You can go online at that website I
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  Speaker 1: gave you www dot sp A, dot gov slash disaster
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  Speaker 1: and find a location that's near you. They're listed in
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  Speaker 1: county order. Okay, my last course of go be when
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  Speaker 1: you get a law for forty dollars? What is the
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  Speaker 1: what is it? The payback period? Alone? Like that? I
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  Speaker 1: know interest, but what is the payback period? A couple
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  Speaker 1: of things. For businesses, the interest rates generally three point
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  Speaker 1: three percent, as we discussed, and for homeowners's generally one
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  Speaker 1: point seven five. The maximum term on the loan is
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  Speaker 1: up to thirty years. So you get busy, You get
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  Speaker 1: busy just doubling of the payments to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the correct and there's no prepayment filling penalty. You want
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  Speaker 1: to pay that loan off earlier. We want you to
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  Speaker 1: do that, no cost to you to do that. Let
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  Speaker 1: me get get this shout I going rich. Let me
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  Speaker 1: ladies and jump you actually have a face on my
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  Speaker 1: radio show, Money Making Conversation. Three point three interest rate
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  Speaker 1: for small businesses up to thirty years. You said, correct
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  Speaker 1: that thirty years with no early payoff penalties if you
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  Speaker 1: don't take advantage of this. Let's say you do have
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  Speaker 1: flood insurance, put that in the bank. You that as
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  Speaker 1: operational costs build momentum just the first time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you treat this as a potential blessing here, because it
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  Speaker 1: really is, because you can take that insurance money put
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  Speaker 1: in the bank if you need, and then take the
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  Speaker 1: loan and rebuild your property itself. Correct, Is that? Well? No, no, not.
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  Speaker 1: If we can make a loan, then we can make
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  Speaker 1: that loan before your insurance company settles. Okay, we make
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  Speaker 1: it for dollars and you end up getting twenty from
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  Speaker 1: your insurance. We would take twenty of your insurance and
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  Speaker 1: pay off the loan because we're not permitted to duplicate
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  Speaker 1: other recoveries from other programs or other insurance. But we
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  Speaker 1: can make the loan while you're waiting on your insurance
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  Speaker 1: to settle, so you can start to use our money.
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  Speaker 1: And then if the insurance settles, you know, six weeks
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  Speaker 1: from now or something, you'll still be able to start rebuilding.
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  Speaker 1: Once the insurance settles, will pay off the loan and
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  Speaker 1: then you'll be debt free. My man, I wanna, I'm
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  Speaker 1: talk to my nephew today we would doing some business together. Well, importantly,
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  Speaker 1: I want my listeners on Facebook who are watching to
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  Speaker 1: contact this organization and that has a face. His name
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  Speaker 1: is Mr Jenkins down at the SBA office for a
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  Speaker 1: disaster assistant. I want to thank you for calling in.
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  Speaker 1: I want to bring you on a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: just to keep reminding people because we know this is
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  Speaker 1: a recovery process. It's not gonna happen overnight. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you took the time to come by the
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  Speaker 1: show to day, I really appreciate it. Okay, we're very
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  Speaker 1: happy to be here and we always look forward to
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  Speaker 1: talking to your audience. Thank you, my friend. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. We'll be back from more money making conversations.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, we're about giving you information to win
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  Speaker 1: with the small business. You need to contact the Small
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  Speaker 1: Business Administration. I was on the phone right there with
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  Speaker 1: Richard Jenkins, who's telling you how you get loan three
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  Speaker 1: point for small businesses up to thirty years to pay
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  Speaker 1: back one point seven interest rate for small for homeowners
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  Speaker 1: and if you paid off early, there are no penalties.
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  Speaker 1: Information you can use one the main conversation. You're right
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  Speaker 1: back with my man your own love of Texas Black
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  Speaker 1: ex FO. Hi, welcome back to money Making Conversations. I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank my man Ricky Jenkins from the Small
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  Speaker 1: Business Administration Disaster Assistance Office. Guess what, They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: help us out, just like I'm trying to help you
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  Speaker 1: out every Monday by giving you information to win with. Again,
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  Speaker 1: those loans SBA loans for small businesses is three point
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  Speaker 1: three for homeowners one point seven percent. Long payoff is
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  Speaker 1: thirty years and there's no early payoff company. So please
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  Speaker 1: contact him. They go online and make it happen. My
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  Speaker 1: next guess he's on the phone and two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: two he founded the Texas Black Expo, which now produced
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  Speaker 1: is one of America's largest business expos in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: He is also my partner raising money for small businesses
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  Speaker 1: who are adversely affected by Hurricane Hark. Please welcome to
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  Speaker 1: money making Conversations. The energetic passionate joll Love. Hey, good lord,
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  Speaker 1: and how you're doing a shine. I want to thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for having me on your show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really looking forward to it, and thank you for all
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  Speaker 1: you're doing to the business community. Well, I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank you for for being my friend man. Uh, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that compliment. Uh. You know the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we never met and we we joined causes to uh
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  Speaker 1: do good for people we don't know. And before we
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  Speaker 1: get started, we're gonna listen to know what we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about is that you know, Drome, who was the founder
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  Speaker 1: of Texas Black Expo, contacted me and say we need
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  Speaker 1: to do something Rashaan to help out these small businesses
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  Speaker 1: that have been hurt or damaged or closed because of
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  Speaker 1: Arricane Harvey. A lot of people always hear about the individuals,
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  Speaker 1: but these individuals also own business, and these businesses hire people,
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  Speaker 1: and these businesses create tax issues trying to create taxes
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  Speaker 1: that en able to deceit to be run at the
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  Speaker 1: quality level that is run. And we're giving away a
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars to applicants who follow online at the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Black Expo. And it's been the exciting run and uh
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  Speaker 1: our goal is a hundred thousand dollars and uh we
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  Speaker 1: want to give a thousand dollars text to each anything
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  Speaker 1: you want to follow up on that before we get
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  Speaker 1: this actual interview about the Texas Black Expot. Rome, know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I think that's that's absolutely it um, just a quick update.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: We uh, we have pledged over about thirty one thousand
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: dollars that we have pledged. We've already given out eighteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand on October twelve, and we're gonna be giving out
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: another ten thousand to ten small business on this thousand
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: dollar grants. So we are about thirty something percent of
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: away there. But I do want to encourage all of
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: your listeners to continue to give, continue to support. If
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you go to Texas Black Expert dot com, there's a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: big league where they can make their donations because, like
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: like with Sean said, I mean, this is critically important, folks.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I heard the mayor one of his press conferences. He
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: said that fifty of Houstonians are richards. Twenty five percent
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: of those haven't gone back to work, and and one
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of the things he didn't say, and I don't have
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the statistics on, but I would imagine a pretty large
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: percentage of those individuals work for small business sits. So
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: we're from most most everybody's focusing on temporary house and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: m r s and things of that nature. But that's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: just a temporary thing. If you give them an m
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  Speaker 1: R E, but they don't have a job. Next week.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: That's like giving them man of fish, but not teaching
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: them out of fish. There's no long term sustainability. So
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I think that this Hurricane Harvey relief effort is vitally
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: important because it provides that long term sustainability by helping
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to support the businesses, to support the business owner, you
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: support those that work for them, and they have families.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: So it's just critically important. So the only thing I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: want to say is, please help us reach the goal
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars you know the tax of Black Expo dot
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  Speaker 1: com making donation. Add another please please please go to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: because Texas Expo Black Black Expo dot com and make
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that donation. Okay, we've been We've said the name several times.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Attorney jay Leen mac has always spoken highly in the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Texas Black Expo and she'd actually made the connection before
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: for both of us to meet and start this really
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: positive campaign eighties small business. What exactly is the Texas
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Black Expot Well, the Texas Black exploss she said, we
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: produced the largest African American empowerment festival in the state
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of Texas. I missed is very clear. Strengthening businesses, empowering youth,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and building better lives. So we do a myriad of
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: programs that helped to build and support small businesses across
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the state of Texas. But what we're most notably known
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: for is our Summer Celebration, which takes place in June.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: UM So imagine a hundred and fifty two hundreds small businesses,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: large businesses selling their products and services. We have a
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: big trade show, we have women's forms, we have um
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: A kid's on we have health fares, we have celebrity appearances, concerts,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: comedy shows, you name it. We have and source of
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: big festival for the community. And and it's really geared.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: All businesses are welcome. And I always tell people to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: make color is not black. This creed is all about
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: economic it's building his businesses. However, just as you know
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: their initiatives to support hurricane army or because there's a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: specific need there, we do address the specific needs of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the African American community because we know that there are
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: so many negative statistics statistics that affect the African American
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: community and the businesses that support those communities. So we
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: do provide a lot of programming and our focus is
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: on supporting those that are that are kind of in
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in in harms ways and and and that's that's important
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to understand. That's why I'm a champion of his conversation.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: When I said his conversation, I'm talking with John Love
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and two thousand two he went out there, he jumped
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and started the Texas Black Expo, an idea that four
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: years old. You know, you know and that that that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that's important that people understand that that's that you did
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: that because all you've had that entrepreneur spirit throughout your life.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Everything's reading the bio and we had conversations all the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: way back to nineteen you are You've been you've been
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: telling clothes, you've been writing books, you've been motivating everybody
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to win. Yes, sir, Yes, why you're wrong? Why? Why? Well,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: well let me let me go back to black egg,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: but I'll tie you to this Hurricane Harvard campaign. One
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: are the talking points that you will that I have
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: been making when people ask me why we're doing this
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and why it's so important. As I said, the most
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: efficient use of capital doing good time like this is
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to support a small business. Because you're undergirth that small business.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Not only do you help that owner his family, you
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: help the people they employ in their families. So in
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a disaster situation, it's the best use of capital. Well,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: when you look at black expol and you look at
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the Black community, when you look at the amount of
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: African American men in prison, you look at our birth
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: rates versus are death rates, the HIV and the health conditions,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: all that time of stuff, you can parallel and say
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: in many respects the African American community, even the asterisks,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it's in kahos. And just as supporting businesses can help
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in a disaster situation such as Harvey, building show businesses
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: can help to turn around some of these negative situations
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: affective the African American community. And we should not be
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: sitting back and waiting for anyone else to do anything
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: for us. We need to be able to build our
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: own businesses. I heard old people affect our own unemployment rates.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: If we have the we we're trillion dollar consumable. There's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: no reason we shouldn't be able to build our own communities.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: So that's why I do it. That's why it takes
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: as black Exploits so important now in terms of how
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I got into business. You know, I'm old school. My
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: dad was grew up on the farm. He told me,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: go go, go work hard, get your education so you
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: can get a good job. And I did that, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I got myself called good job. And I realized that
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that wasn't too good for me, and I jumped out
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and I said, I want to start my own business.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And I had no training, no knowledge of how to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: build a business. I just had a drive and the desire,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and I got out there, started my first business when
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I was nineteen. By time I was twenty five, I
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: was in the whole over a hundred thousand dollars. But
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I went on to learn a line from my mistakes.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And that's why I'm so passionate about trying to help
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: others who are trying to be successful in business, um
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and particularly in the minority community, because which is not
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: groom to think entrepreneur. We're not groom to think business.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. It's amazing because I I hear the passion
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: that I hear the information, so you able to deliver
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: passionate information. Very rarely do people do that. You know,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: then you didn't get on top of a box and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and and just scream to do until they blew in
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the phase. But they don't give you information and information
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you're telling you is that get up and empower you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: yourself and not wait, IMpower yourself. And that's the purpose
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of why you start. That's your missrs statement. And I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: love the fact that your Mrs David, you're telling me,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: come one, come all. But more importantly, African Americans start
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: lining up first for a change and starting and starting
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: for people to offer you change, you should make change yourself.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And that's the interstatement of the Texas Black Expo. Correct, yes, sir, yes, sir,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: it is. And I just think that we gotta be
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: able to control our own destinies. We cannot be sitting
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and waiting for anyone else to take care of us.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And I think that's what really I just really feel
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: so blessed. My my dad actually died a couple of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: years ago and cancer, and I never forget I was.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: My office is very close to the medical center here
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: in Houston. And you know, my dad's one of those
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: old school guys. He had to go in for the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: dated m R. I. And he if this m R
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I was at ten o'clock. He showed up nine o'clock
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: by himself, and they told I'm sir, you can't come
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: get a dated m r. I by yourself. Who So
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: my dad had called me. My dad called about nine thirty.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: He said, son, I need you, and I said what
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you need? He said, they won't let me get this
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: in mariality and somebody's with me. So I wrote what
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I was doing, roll to the medical center when with him,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: took them back to his hotel. Standing this hotel for
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: about four or five hours working over our computer, um
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: doing black export and everything else. And but what's my point?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: My point is I was able to control my own
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: destiny because I have my own business. And when my
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: dad asked me we were talking, he said, well, what
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: do you think success is what makes you blessed? And
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I said, I feel blessed right here because when you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: called me, I'm able to be there for you. I'm
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: still able here to work. I'm still able to do
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: what I need to take care of my family. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not having to go check with anyone else and this,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: that and the other. And I think that's the power
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of entrepreneurship. I'm able to help my dad, I'm able
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to help my children, I'm able. We're able to do
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: so much more when we have businesses and control our
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: own destiny, love you, not a one break guess. I'm
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: about to bring you back my friends, you know, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I want to just bring you back. You know. The
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: basic your conversation is Texas and Black Expo. But I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: do want to bring you back so people can call
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and ask your questions about entrepreneurship, because that's what they
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: really need to understand. And what people tend to not
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: believe is that. And I know I'm doing something unique
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: here because I'm not talking about entertainment. I'm not talking
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: about movies and I'm talking about sports. I'm talking about business.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: A lot of people when they hear the word business,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: they don't think that affects them just because they're employed.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to let people know that you can
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: have the entrepreneurs spirit and work for somebody which will
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: make you a better employee, which will make you make
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: more money. Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't can tell people.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I say, we're all entrepreneurs, some others are just independent
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: contract After you work for McDonald, contracting your services to
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: McDonald for a certain defeat, And when you think that way,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you value yourself more are and you will you will
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: you will be more productive, you know, to draw give
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: me one more time on how they can make that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: donation to the Harricane Relief for small businesses, so I
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: can get all out of here, brother, and we're gonna
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: We're gonna tell Samath to call you reschedule you for
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: two breaks this month, my man. Yes, yes, sir, it
• 28:17
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• 28:20
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• 28:22
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• 28:25
  Speaker 1: looking to the market and promote your business, we welcome
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you to be a part of our expot Our fifteen
• 28:30
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• 28:32
  Speaker 1: d oh, my man, I love you, appreciate you. I'm glad,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I'm a partnership with you, and let's keep winning. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Octoba twel is our next day that we give our
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: more checks. Correct October twelve, Yes, sir, I told a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: trust to o'clock at the History Eurban League office. We're
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: gonna be giving out ten thousand dollars to businesses effective
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a Hurrican card. Thank you. We'll be right back. Thank you,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: my man. Texas Black expos the founder, my man Jerome Love.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: We're coming up next if you want to know about LinkedIn,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I got the foremost authority on the social media platform
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: linked In. His name is Robert young Blood. He's been
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: on the show before. He turned it out. He's coming back.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I got it for two breaks. Well with Money Making Conversation.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rashan McDonald. Welcome back, ras Sean mcdonaldly
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: hosts of Money Making Conversations. We're having a great day
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: so far. I like to believe it's a great day
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: doing our thing, talking to different people about being successful.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: My next guest, well, you're not having on the show
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: before you know, I am a I am a LinkedIn fan.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell everybody right now. You know I
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: got success on social media on the Facebook, I got
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: success on the Instagram, and I got success into Twitter. Twitter.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not really I don't really get into Twitter as much.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: For Facebook and Instagram, very strong movement there. But my
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: favorite platform is linked In. I post as much as
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: possible about what I'm doing with my career to get
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the word out for over two decades. My next guest,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: are Y be Connect has focused his energy on building
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and maintaining quality relationships, which is one of the true
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: keys to success is relationships. He's one of the foremost
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: authorities on the social media platform linked In. Please workome
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the money making conversations Robert T. Young Blood, How the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Robert I'm doing well? Ver Sean Peason blessing. Can you
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: hear me, sir? Absolutely? And Robert and I am. I'm
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: making you sound big, am I'm making That's the goal here, Robert,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: because you got it going on with that LinkedIn My man.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what, man, I feel big, but
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: when I'm around giants, man, I feel like I'm in
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the right place. So thank you so much for the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: opportunity to be with you today. Appreciate it. Now tell
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: me this what is when the whole uh you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I had you on the show before only one break.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I got to feel two break because I want to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: slow it down and I'm not I'm not trying to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: have you give a seminar on my show, but I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: want to to educate you know, also hopefully dry business
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and relationships with you on LinkedIn that can build your
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: brand through Why be Connects. What exactly is why be Connects?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: So Why be Connects is a strategic consulting and coaching firm.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I work with sales executives and entrepreneurs to help them
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to enhance their visibility, credibility, and profitability using tools like LinkedIn.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Now when you have not not to what is the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: difference Because I like I said that, I told her
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I'm very successful on Facebook. I used it a lot. Instagram, Twitter,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: not feeling Twitter, but I do have a Twitter account.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Now I have the same thing with moneymaking conversations. I
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: have a monimating conversations Facebook account and have a moneymaking
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: conversations Twitter account. What is the true value of LinkedIn?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: The true value of LinkedIn is the opportunity to connect
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: with business professionals, whether they are CEOs or managing directors
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of companies, or if they are the people who can
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: decide to hire you for potential opportunities, recruiters and such um.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: The difference between Facebook and LinkedIn is that Facebook is
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: mainly social. It's mainly personal from a you know, I
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: know you from college and we just talk about anything
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and everything. LinkedIn is focuses primarily on your professional brand,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: your ability to attract those opportunities that will lead to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: revenue or lead to income, and so you know, in
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: some cases you're not able to get in front of
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the CEO on Facebook, but you can get in front
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: of the CEOs on LinkedIn. So if your goal as
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur is to secure a speaking opportunity, or maybe
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you want to identify additional sponsors, LinkedIn is the place
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to do it because people are using that platform to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: discuss business topics. That being said, how do you help
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a person, how do you help a company take advantage
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: of that platform. So my my aliens are solrpreneurs. My
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: my work with a lot of authors, speakers, coaches, life coaches,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and so their biggest challenge is really identifying their next client.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: It's really helping them to attract their ideal client. I'll
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: have a philosophy that if no one knows you exist,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: they can't pay you. So what we want to do
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: is I focus on teaching my clients how to be visible,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: how to perfect their elevator pitch, how to promote who
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: they are, what they do, how they do what they do,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and then who needs their service. Once they gain that
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: level of clarity and confidence, then we transition to LinkedIn
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to put those in words so that we can begin
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to magnetize their LinkedIn profile. And when I say magnetized,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I mean to draw people to you. There's certain words
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that that attracts people to the profile, and when the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: right person finds your profile, they're going to send you
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: an invitation to connect, and that's when the relationship can begin.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I believe that because some times, you know, I just
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: started LinkedIn this year, you know, I got almost like
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: five thousand connects. And the thing about it is that
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I know some weeks and not you know, people just
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: joining me left and right, and then some weeks nobody's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: joining me, and so so it really is tied to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: terms and how you present your present, your your profile,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: your your your posts. Correct, that's correct, And I think
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the key is it has to go beyond the connection.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: So you know, we we may have five thousand connections,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: but how well do we know those connections? Right? See,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: they may be connections, but they're not as strong. Your
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: network is not strong if you can't say anything about
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: them that you know about them personally. And that's my
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: charge connections. I'm profound that. Now say that one more time,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: because the goal with anything is to get numbers. Numbers
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: mean something, you know, you everybody I got a million,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: is I got a hundred? Got kind of brain that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: got five thousands, you say, right, just because you've got
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: five thousands, if you don't know your five thousands, they're worthless, right, correct,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, it's I would say, and they're not
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: worth it. I would say your network is not as strong. So,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: for example, you're doing a major fundraiser helping the people
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: are Houston out. You've you've got a credit, you've got
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: credibility with the people that you know. But imagine if
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: those five thousand people don't really know you and you
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: ask them for your help. You ask them for help,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and they're not gonna respond because they're like, Okay, I'm
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: connected to you, I like you, but I don't really
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: know you that well, so I'm not gonna open up
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: my checkbook. But if you knew them, if you went deep,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: if you serve them, and what happens is you put
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  Speaker 1: out a request, they'll jump right on it because they
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  Speaker 1: feel some level of connection to you personally, not to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: you just socially, but they feel connected to you personally.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: And that's that's something amazing. I guess that a classic
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: example of connecting to someone personally. The J. J. Watts
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Hurricane Harvey campaign. You know, he said, got two fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's at thirty three million dollars. And so now
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I'll let you know that the people he connected with
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: those people. That's just a huge example of how somebody
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: who can connect with you emotionally will translate into an
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: amazing response. And that's basically the purpose of your company
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: is to find a person or a company's social media
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: boars is that correct? That's correct, and to help them
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: understand how to add value first. So most people in business,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: they want to sell. And there's nothing wrong with selling.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with it because if you think about it,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: if no one sells, no one eats, right. But there's
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: a way to sell in a way that people see
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it as mutually beneficial. And so it's just a matter
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: of slowing down to speed up. So I believe that
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: if you find a way to serve people first. So
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: if I'm able to serve you and then I can
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: identify a gap that you have, I'm not selling you now.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I'm essentially giving you an opportunity to buy a solution
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: that solves your problem. And so that's what I strive
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: to do. I strive to help my clients to to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: think differently when it comes to business development, because if
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: you're not out there people, hitting the pavement and building relationships,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you know your business is going to go out of
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: business because of lack of business. And I go is
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: to put you in a position that you can attract
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: that using this tool that we call LinkedIn. Okay, before
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: we go to break, because I'm bringing Robert of why
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  Speaker 1: be Connects, one of the foremost authorities on the social
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: media platform LinkedIn. How can I get into contracted with you?
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Contact with you, Robert? The best way. The best way
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is through my website which is www dot y be
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: connects dot com. On all of the platforms social media wise,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: they can find me at why be Connects and uh
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and I love connecting with people specifically through LinkedIn, so
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: they can send me an invitation, let them let me
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: know that they heard about me on your show. Well,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: as long as they heard about you. That's the goal.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: That's why I got brought you back because I know
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: in any type of business, it's about consistent awareness. If
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: you consistently stay in front of somebody, eventually they're gonna
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: ask and you're abviously gonna take over and you have
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the ability and you've shown me you're just watching your
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: post on LinkedIn that you all a ware or how
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: to communicate and share opportunities and also letting everybody know
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: what's going on in the why be connect space. We've
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: been back with more with Robert young Blood, who is
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the founder of why be Connects again, one of the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: foremost authorities on the social media platform LinkedIn. If you're
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: not listening, to tell other people they need to listen
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to because it's money making conversation. I see you on
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Facebook money making conversation on Facebook fourteen eighty down in Houston, Texas,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: and I am also heard on our Heart radio podcast
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: on the Business Finance. We're getting it out there, Robert.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: We'll be back with more. How this ra Sean McDonald.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: You're listening to money making Conversation. If you have any
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: phone calls, you want to talk to us, anybody you
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: want to talk to on this show. It's about helping
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: you be a better person in your life, which is
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: your personal life. It's where as your career in business.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: On the phone right now, I have from why Be
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Connects and the I'm gonna keep you holding out that
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: title of people understand what I'm trying to do to you.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you relationships that will help you
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: in your personal life, in your business life, and then
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: also your life in general because a lot of people
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: jumping on these social media platforms and not really understanding.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Every time I have an interview on this show, I've
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: become better educated about what I'm doing, better understanding of
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: how I can do it better because it's a lot
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: of mean you said to work right, like foolishness going
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: on on social media. Now, what you don't see on
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: LinkedIn is bikini pictures. You don't see them, little poses
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: that they see them, little the little profile booty shots.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: You know, did you see on Facebook and Instagram? You
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: don't see that because on LinkedIn you trying to get
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: a job or you trying to present yourself in the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: professional manner that you want to speak or attract other
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: professional people to communicate with you in a business format. Again,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: let me bring back up live my man, Robert young Block. Robert,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: did I it correctly that my friends did? I said correctly?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: You said it absolutely correctly, and and I believe that
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: if if people do post those type of pictures, they
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: just have not understood the fact that LinkedIn is about
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: business and that that type of business. Most people I
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: look for that type of business on LinkedIn, so they
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: posting that that's not that's not appropriate. But I think
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: the key is really understanding how to network. And I
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people think they know how to network.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: But the truth, the true definition of networking is the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: ability to connect with others in a way that you
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: create mutual benefit. So if it's all about you, it's
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: not networking. If it's mutually beneficial, then it's about networking.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And I learned that from Dr George Fraser, one of
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the premier leaders in networking, who's been teaching that for
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: for years. And I'm just I'm thankful to be able
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: to take that message to this new generation. Days that
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I met he had Steve Harry and I both met
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: him in Cleveland, went up there for one of his uh,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: his entrepreneurs. He looked with his way, him and less
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Brown been doing this way for anybody else thought about
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: doing it, you know, motivating people for success, you know. Uh.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: George Frasier, who was on has been on this small
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: entrepreneur tip of opportunities for at least twenty to twenty
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: five years. That I know of, and he's still at
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the forefront of it. And for you to say his name,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I just can't let that name just slide by and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: not let everybody know. Why did he bring up that name?
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: You should google his name. I think Fraser's spelled f
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: R A S c R. Correct. That's correct. Yeah, that's correct.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: And uh and and he and and so when you
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: think about those you mentioned, Les Brown. I also got
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: to give a shout out to another one of my coaches,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Dr Eric Thomas. She had he was on Yeah, that's preacher,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: he's blazing the trail. I'm excited. I'm excited because a
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: lot of what I'm doing, uh, in terms of just
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: really enhancing people's lives has come as a result of
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: my relationship with ET you mean, a part of real
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: university and also you know, just being prepared it as
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: a speaker. But you know, the key, the key to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: all of that is networking. Is is the relationships that
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: you build. And there's also understanding exactly what is that
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: you want to do and where you want to go.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: And I tie that back into LinkedIn because if you
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: don't know what you want and you don't know where
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: you're striving to go. When you connect with the right person,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: you're gonna waste their time. And a lot of times
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: people are saying they want mentors, but what they need
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: or they need coaches. There's a big difference between a
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: mentor and the coach. And a mentor is gonna give
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: you time, they're gonna show you love. But when you
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: have a coach, you have to invest in that time.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: And so when I work with people i'm coaching them,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I often have to ask people with showing that I
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: asked them, can I can? I may have permission to
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: put my coaching hat on, which means that I'm gonna
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: talk straight to you. I'm gonna step on your toes
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: and if you get mad bling yourself because you gave
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: me permission to put my coach a hat on. But
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: that but that's what's needed when it comes to tools
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: like LinkedIn, because you never get a second chance to
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: make a first impression and a lot of people just
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: don't know what they don't know. And that's in portant
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: for you to say that because of the fact that
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I've been called arrogant, I've been called nor at all,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I've been called all those terms of trying to let
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: everybody know, Okay, this is if you asked me for advice,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: You asked me to come in here and run this operation.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: You've asked me to produce this and hold your budget
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: in line. But suddenly your your staff calling me arrogant,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: your staff calling me a nor it all because a
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: lot of people understand is that who you have around
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: you can hold you back, who you have around you
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: can stop you from your next opportunity. And so just
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: because they work for you, just because they show up
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: all time, don't mean they have the best interests of
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: your ultimate goal at heart. And that leads me back
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: to the whole process of LinkedIn content. What is off limits?
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Oh content? What? What should people avoid doing? You know,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see a lot of interesting things on
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: on on LinkedIn, people basically lately asking for jobs, people
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: blatantly or promoting themselves. What is? What is? What? What
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: lines of And I'm gonna go a little deeper after
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: you answer this question about what happens when you go
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: on linked in? What what are the oftenest area for
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: content on LinkedIn? So I would say, I would say,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: you know, definitely, definitely promote yourself, but promote yourself in
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the context of the value you bring to the tape.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm oftentimes job seekers are looking for jobs
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: and they help post how they sailed out three three
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: hundred applications or sent in things on different job boards,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: and I always respond to them, and I say, listen,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: stop looking for a job and start finding problems to solve.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: So I am i saying don't look for a job now.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm saying, take your focus from
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: finding a job and put your focus on finding people
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: who have problems that you can solve. So, and one
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: of the things that the content is not posting your problems.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Don't don't post what's going wrong? Post what you need
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: help with solving. So, so post the problem that you
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: have as it pertains to you know, I need help
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: with communication, or is anyone here that can help me
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: enhance my interview skills. But instead most people are posting
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: about this this recruiter doesn't want to give me a shot,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: or this person doesn't want to help me. That that
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: that's gonna fall on deaf ears. But if you focus
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: on asking the right questions, like what's the what are
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: the top ten questions that interviewers ask in an interview.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: If you throw those out, people are gonna want to
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: help you left and right because they've been through the situation.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: And you want to be able to create a community
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: of supporters who can teach you what you need to know,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: which will put you in the right place. Another thing is,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: obviously people talk about avoiding politics and and UH and religion.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: It's kind of tough to do nowadays. I mean sometimes
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: these social media sites will put that stuff up there
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: and people post their opinions. But I think if you
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: want to if you want to stand out and let
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: your brand shine, focus on what you bring to the table,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: or focus on you know what challenges you're facing, and
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: look for solutions or people you know people that can
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: help you with those solutions. And the solution is the
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: most important. Is that put you in a position to win,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: putting in a position to provide you and information that
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: is going to get to the next of them. Again,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: before we get out of here, please Robert, tell everybody
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: how they can connect with you. Tell everybody you know,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: what is your basic purpose or being on this show.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Just just wrap it up in the nutshell and you
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: know you have access to me anytime more importantly, please
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: give me a bann of email or del the deal
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: is my program director for money Making Conversations, email him
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: a banner so we can put it up on to
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: connect to your website today. And that's the whole purpose
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: of me developing truly money making conversations Facebook, because now
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: when I talk to entrepreneurs or talked to my guests,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I can start supporting you guys and also assisting in
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: your brand build and be able to get the word.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do it on my personal Facebook page as much,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: but on this money to make conversation format that I
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: have is Facebook Face we own brother, So please get
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: your face, Please get your bant over to us today
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: so we can drive traffic to why be Connects. But
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: tell everybody how to reach you absolutely, So I'll just
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: start with my purpose. So my purpose is to create awareness,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: empower leaders, promote philanthropy, and facilitate connections that lead to
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: outstanding outcomes. That's my purpose. Uh. And they can find
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: me on why be Connects dot com. All of my
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: social media platforms are there. Uh and uh And like
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I said, if you connect with me on linked then
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: make sure you send a personalized message for someone I
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: have to emphasize that people hit to connect button and
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: it's just a random and random invitation, but they have
• 47:43
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• 47:46
  Speaker 1: And for those who are listening, send me a personalized
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: message and let me know you found me on the
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Sean McDonald show. And I'm looking forward to you know,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: being able to serve. I'm looking forward to coming to Houston.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I love to meet you in person and build with you.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: And where you face it, Robert, I'm out of Richmond.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I'm out of Richmond, Virginia, which my mentor call is
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: a rich Man Virginia. But we're right here in the
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: center center of Virginia. And uh, I traveled quite a
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: bit and I'm looking forward to the first smarter of
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I'm putting together a team so we can uh take
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: some daytime and you, I want to tell you right
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• 48:29
  Speaker 1: out there and change some lives. Man and do it
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: our way, and do it our way because you're a
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: fantastic person. But also you have information and I also
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: want to let everybody know from a fraternity side. He's
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: an alpha fi alpha, so you alpha fire alfa brother
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• 48:46
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• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Robert. We're gonna talk toon my Man's Please
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: get that banner over to Dale or Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 1: the Facebook page. I appreciate you. We talked soon. Okay,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the encouraged my brother. Thanks for all you do. Coming
• 49:07
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• 52:08
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• 52:35
  Speaker 1: your lips move, ain't ain't here in the word, looking
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: at the person behind you, looking at the person behind you,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: and listen to nothing. They got that little blank staff.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: He'd be going him listen to me to talk. That's
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: what they do. They're waiting to talk right right and
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: so and so when you told me about your program.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Please let's get everybody super interested right now on money
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: making a conversation on my Facebook page. There's also be
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: played on my podcast which is on our Heart Radio.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: And you heard live in Houston, Texas on kl f
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: L tell us about Rise absolutely well. Before I get
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: started out to say much love and prayers to the
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: victims in Las Vegas, man, I have some you know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: prayers out to them, but you know, to give you
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: a little bit of insight about Rise man is uh
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: where video on demand company targeted at the urban millennial market. Man,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: So we'd like to call ourselves Netflix with swags and
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: uh and basically what we do, Wasteally, what we do
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: is we go and find creators, content creators who are
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: creating dynamic content and we make it available on our
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: platform and it's a subscription based platform, and really try
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: to focus on content that connects with that multicultural millennial audience. Man.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: And so uh so that's in essence what we do, man.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: We we like to amplify the voice of Erman creators.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Now what that mean is saying now you said a
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: lot real quick. Now this actually just I've just asked
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: you this, Jake, now because you said millennial. So so
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: you tell me grown people like that they can't even
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: upload on your site. Oh no, anybody can upload that
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: has stories that connect with with the urban because you
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: because you lost a lot of people right there with
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: my owner. This ain't this ain't hip hop America. You know,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: this ain't the young flyve show. You know what I'm
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: saying on t RM. I'll just let you know what
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: you said when you said millennial. There's a lot of people.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm fitted. It's not just for millennials, man,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: but it's for people that that love, um, you know,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: the urban culture. When I say urban, I don't mean
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: hip hop. I mean anything that connects with the with
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: the African American or the minority audience. Man that we
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: go see. I had to reel you back because sometimes
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you something, Jay, you could out there start
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: talking to your fan. You can run off half your room.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I can't let you do that because because when I
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: met you your platform, I felt there was a need
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: and like I said, no, this is about me, j
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: this is this will not be the only time you
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: will be on my show. This is a marketing opportunity
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: that I'm providing to people to hear about your brain.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: And like I said, it's gonna be replayed on my ipode,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: on my my podcast, on our Heart Radio, It'll be
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: posted on my Money Making Conversations Facebook page for because
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: I gotta keep selling people and the way that's the
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: only way you're gonna win. Because people are such disbelievers
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: and people are basically lazy in general when it comes
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: to trying to be successful. That's why. That's why and
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I would say that correctly. What I said, that's why
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: McDonald's keeps advertising, That's what Target keeps advertising. That's what
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: if you Chick fil A keeps advertis why you know
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: about that cow. If they stop advertising about that cow,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: sales will drop. Absolutely, they will. Absolutely. It's so this
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: is like my whole thing. That's why I created Monimaking Conversation,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: which is another extension of the Neighborhood Awards where I
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: supported small businesses, is to let people know, listen to
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: this opportunity. He's a small business, but he's providing the
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: stream that you don't have right now. And my correct
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: is saying that this dream that you're providing is a
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: rare opportunity for content creators in the urban platform to
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: be able to upload their shows on your platform. Correct
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: and and and monetize it. And I'll tell you resign.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Really really, where it came about is man, we looked
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: at the success of platforms like Netflix and and like Hulu,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and obviously these are these are you know, well known platforms,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: international platforms that are extremely successful. But when you look
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: at those platforms, less than one percent of the original programming,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: which are the greatest driver of growth for those platforms,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: less than one percent of the original programming was created
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: by by by minority filmmakers. And so I started coming
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: across all of these my noority filmmakers were shining. You're
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: you're familiar with that industry because you have all these
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: film festivals. They go out there, these films go there
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: and they just die. They just die. Award winning content,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: you know, Rashaun, award winning content that is in their
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: winning awards and these film festivals and you never see
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: this content. And for these content creators man other than
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: these film festivals and others than YouTube, which you know
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes they can't make, you know, a significant amount of
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: money from I said, man, we have to create a
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: platform for you, for you all to be able to
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: monetize this content and be able to get this content
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: out there to the audiences that will connect with it.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: And that that is the that is the reason that
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: we launched this this platform and understanding media, Okay, And
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: that's the reason you're on this show because because you'd,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: like said, you know that you have to spread the
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: word and the more people and more quality people you
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: communicate with, because it's all about quality. Because no, this
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: is about Jay he's just not uploading junk on his network. No, no,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: not at all. Can you give us some parameters on
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: exactly how you know, how this one get the content
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: to you? Is it a certain length? Give us a parameters? Well, so,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: so here's the thing, man. We we focus on creators
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: that are are creating great content. And it could be
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: a number of different things. So we have everything from uh,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: from web series on there to feature films, two documentaries. Uh.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: You know, there is a process of selection process and
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: because because again you know, we're not just looking for
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: anything and everything that could go on YouTube. We really
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: want to make sure that we focus on on quality content.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: So so you know, those those are something we definitely
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: have a process. And so they can go to on
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: the Rise dot com and and rises with the Y
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: and they can you know, certainly learn more about what
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: it is that we do learn more about the process.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: But it's not anything and everything because the audience doesn't
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: want to see anything and everything and and and just
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: because we're targetting a minority audience doesn't mean that our
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: quality is going to be any less than what you
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: would expect. Is that what happens people just think that
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: you know, it's black as cheap, it's poorly produced, there's
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: no standards. That's what That's what annoyed me the most,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: man about about you know, about being black, you know,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: because being African American, because of the fact that it
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: is the process. You know, sometimes your add rage can
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: be cheaper. People think all that's some junk over there.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. Things like that. That's
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: why when I met you, it was it was a
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: prioritist for me, because I know, I've been in the
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: television industry and fortunately in the movie industry as well,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: all the books, radio, and I know I fought that battle, man,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and I will continue to fight that battle to say
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: my work, my productions are the same quality as a
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: non African American project exactly. And and everything that we do.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: We've been in the media business for for about six years,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: and out of the gate, we came with the best
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: level of quality that we could because we certainly wanted
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: to combat that. And and I come, I come across
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: all these creators that are creating great content. Man. But
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: they take these ideas, and they take these concepts, they
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have the relationships they take them to Hollywood.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: If they can even get those those kind of connections,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and you know, if they can even get there, and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: and nobody gives them an opportunity if they don't have
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: a big name, they don't they aren't giving that opportunity.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: And so that's what I love. That's why I love
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: what we do with Rising, and uh, I'm looking forward
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: to even greater things with us as we get into
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: original content production of our own. Um, you know, so
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: excited about where we're going with it now, you know
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: under like with Netflix, I'm a Netflix fan. Okay, I
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: don't have Hulu, I don't have Amazon. Netflix got not
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: money right now? Okay, they got they got the Marvel series,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: you know, you know they got you know, they got Nackos.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: I love Nackos, Nockles, the new season, they got Stranger
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Things and things. But all these are categorized, you know
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So so when they come to Rise, uh,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: you is every because that's the medio of streaming. Because
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: streaming allows the entrepreneurs like you to exist because you're
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: not really trying to program twenty four hours a day
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: to day, like you're providing content. You go over there,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: you click on the common, you click on the heart,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: you click on the side fire. Is this separated like
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: that on Rise? Yeah, Yeah, it's absolutely. It's separated into categories.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: It's separated into uh, you know, in genres, whether you're
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: looking for a series, whether you're looking for a short.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Which is an opportunity that that we've been able to
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: capitalize on um is being able to bring shorts onto
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: the platform. So so I mean it is no different
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: than an experience that you would have, including the quality
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: of the technology. It is no difference than an experience
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: that you would have at Netflix. Uh, it's just that
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: the content is created by minority filmmakers and the stories
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: are going to connect with the minority. Order. Well, I'm
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: something Jay Jackson Senior. If you have a moment, I'm
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: going to break. I want to bring it back to
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: we can wrap up. And I'm enjoying this conversation because
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: of the fact that I'm providing information that and also
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: created a relationship with you, because you know this best
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: lost is about relationship and if I can, I know,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna share a couple of stories on the
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: other side that let people know how you gotta do
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: it this way, you gotta be able to sit down
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: with individuals like Jay. They are rules that he has
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: even at his level. Now, if you don't abate the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: rules he has a hit level, you're never making the Netflix,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: You're never making the ABC. He is like a he's
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: like the farming system to get it right. So that's
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: why you just can't bring no sloppy mess over there
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: and get mad when he tells you know, yeah, be
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: looking at be looking at you like you don't know
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about. But here's the thing side. We'll
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: work with you now, we'll we'll work with you right
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: right not you understand that protest, which you might not
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: get with some of the other platforms, and so we
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: want you to get there. We want to be at
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: that place to help you. I like that, did you
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: hear what? Did you hear? What he said? Here? Work
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: with you. But he won't fight with you though. That's
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: a big difference. What j is not gonna do is
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: fight with you. And if you give you a note
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: for change and you come back with the same product,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: that relationship is gonna go a little sideways right there,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: because you're right there, he thought he talking to a
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: very ignorant person. You will be racked right back with
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: more rises R Y s C. I'm loving this, Jay,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: I hope you're loving it too. Were listening to money
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: making Conversations. Keep your ears up, everybody, because we spread
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: some news. Boy cool, welcome back to money making conversations.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: This show is on eight that's in Houston, Texas, on
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: your AM dial. Next this very mark, We're gonna go
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: on FL, sir. That's a little hidden secret, but we're
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: going up on FL. I'm taking over Houston, y'all because
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: I've been called the black Mole just a small entrepreneurship,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: and I'm holding onto that title. We've had my man
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Rick Jenkins from SBA Disaster Assistance Office on air, my
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: man Drawn Love from the Texas Black Expo been on
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: the air, and then my man Robert A. Y Be
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: connection as Robert young Blood foremost authority and linked in
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: social media trainee and connections. But now I got my
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: man Jay Jackson met this young man at Moby he
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: as he said, I was on the stage spitting five
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: five the building what I'm trying to do with this show?
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, because you know a post I
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: love posting on LinkedIn and I saw you you you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: share the post about me and telling everybody to tune in,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate that. But that's how relationships grow, that's
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: how you that's how you spread the word, and that's
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: how it's important about your brand. So so this whole break,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I just really want to slow it down a little
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: bit and let everybody explain to everybody again what exact
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: the is rise a's R Y s E. Okay, so
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: I'll slow it down. Um, we're a video on demand service.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: Um that is targeted that that that that urban audience.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: So so if you think about what Netflix is, we
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: we focus on urban audiences. We were like, we're a
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: MR of BT meets Netflix. That's that's the best way.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: But but their shows, well take them a hard time
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: getting on BT, but they can come to rise R
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: y s C and you work with them, get the
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: standards to your network standards and put them on that correct.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. And so if there are content creators out
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: there that are creating content that are struggling with distribution
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: of their content and looking for ways to to monetize
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: their content, um, those are the top type of people
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: that we look for. We we we you know, sour
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: film festivals all across the nation in search of everything
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: from web series to documentaries to feature films. Too short. Um,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: and if it if it's targets an urban audience, then
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: then we wanted on our platform and you know, to
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: meet certain quality for awesome. Now, let me ask you this.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: You're an entrepreneur. It's not always easy to be an entrepreneur.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Know what keeps you going? My friends? Man? What keeps
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: me going? Man? Is passion? Man, I tell you I'm
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: driven by purpose. I I listened to your other callers
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: and they were talking about the why and talking about passion.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm like you, ra Sean I I one of
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: my pet peeves is when I see people who are
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: settling right, who are not happy, and and they have
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: the power. Man, they have the power to take control
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: of their life, but they don't do it. And so
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: I said, you know, everything that we've I've ever done
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: and been an entrepreneur for a long time rises in
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: our first venture. Um. But it's always been about empowering,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: providing and empowering resource, much like you're doing with your
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: radio show that can say hey, here's an opportunity right
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: to take what you do or what you have a
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: passion for doing what you have a talent for doing.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: And uh, and we can help you turn it into
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: something that you can make, you know, make a lot
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: of money with and uh and enjoy life. Now, how
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: do you promote Rise? How? What is the what are
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: the channels? You know? You know, it's a funny thing
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: about it that that's out there, like you know, Facebook
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: getself promoted? You know, is your Twitter? Netflix? You get
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: a remote? Netflix sitting on there. It's you're sitting right there,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: you know, I HBO ain't sitting there, Cinemax ain't sitting
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: there for Netflix, and sitting on my remote for my
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Sony TV I just bought on my Samsung TV. Right
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: It's just sitting right there. So Netflix a getting promoted
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: right there. We shot in our studio. It says Netflix
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: right there. That's the craziest thing I've ever seen in
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: my life. They can't help up win, No, yeah, absolutely,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: and and and that's fine, And that's fine because we
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: focus on promoting to where our audience is at. And
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: so um we have the app available to Rise app
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: is available in you know, for Apple, for Android, for Amazon,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: and for Windows devices. So they can certainly download the
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Rise app by just saying, you know, typing in going
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: to their their app store is typing in Rise app
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: r y s E. We're available online. You can go
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: to on the Rise dot com and that will take
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: you to our multimedia platform. You can access Rise TV
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: from there. So uh and and actually we're in the
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: process of developing in Roadku app. So while we might
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: not have our logo on the remote, uh, if an
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: individual has the Roku device that you know curates a
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: lot of different streaming platform they can go right there
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: in Our app will will be available in the next
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: couple of months. Because yeah, I'm changing. I'm a technology guy,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: you know, like I have slain Box. I've been doing
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: by for everybody knew what sling was, you know, five years.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I've because we're on the road. You never home TV,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: you know, so I slam box is the device that
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: allows you to don't care where you're in the world,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: as long as you have WiFi internet, you connect to
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: your cable box at your house and whatever your service
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: is channels or uh, subscriptions you have on your cable
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: service at your home, you can see it. I've seen
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: it in pairs. I watched TV Jamaica. I watched TV
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: in Canada, I watched TV in Africa. That's what slam
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  Speaker 1: box is. I'm just saying these things that what he's
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: talking about, it is not going away, that's all. This
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  Speaker 1: is not going away. This is the way and and
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  Speaker 1: and and what what bothers me is that everybody like
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  Speaker 1: this is a young thing. Okay, no, no, no no. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: I an I did run into a lady. I was
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  Speaker 1: in New York and she took a picture of me,
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  Speaker 1: and she had a flip phone. Kind of scared me
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: because because she handed it to a young guy and
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: he looked at it, like, what's gonna do with this?
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: She said, she said, young man, you know the right
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  Speaker 1: there when I used to word young man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an old person had that flip phone. Now right now.
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  Speaker 1: She ain't gonna be a rise customer that right now, bro, No,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. She is knock maybe not right away
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• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: as you went that, I'm not. When I learned ja
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  Speaker 1: don't argue with all the people they're closed to do.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: They're close to the end. You know, I'm saying, it's
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: funny that you said that, because even when we came
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: about this whole concept and begin before we begin building
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: this man, we have been a media company for years,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: and I think I put a magazine in your hand
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: when I was absolutely nice magazine. Then I want to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: be in you know what I'm saying. So, so here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. I had about twelve writers, all under the
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  Speaker 1: age that wrote for me. And one day I signed
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  Speaker 1: the article to one of the writers to cover something
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: that was coming on on traditional television and she said
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: to me, Jay, well I don't I don't have cable.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: And I was blown away. This is several years ago now,
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  Speaker 1: and she sause, well, I I streamed, said I stream
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  Speaker 1: everything you know online. And so I went and asked
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  Speaker 1: the other eleven writers, all of them under sean, and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: only two of them even on the TV, and only
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: one of them had cable out of all twelve of them.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: And I said, oh, clearly, this is where the future
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: is at. This is whether that is what caused us
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  Speaker 1: the pivot into that direction and begin building out this platform.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: And building out this farm of rise because it is
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: it is a phenomenal because I know that you know
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: when the and then we're talking to technology, because we're
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: all always tell people the iPhone is only eight years
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: old because Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy when she was
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: running against President of Barack Obama on her iPhone. So
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: it's only eight years old, okay, a little bit over
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: eight years old, okay. And so with that being said,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's important to people understand that if first you
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: had the iPads, you know, an iPads, we will will
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  Speaker 1: put out there. They were popular because people wanted to
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: look at something that was comfortable to their television. Said okay,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: but now you know you watch TV on your phone now,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: and so you what you stream on your phone, and
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: so because of that, the game has changed. Officially. It
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: means that what we're talking about streaming and and and
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: and streaming and watching your television and watching movies and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: all these things, the way of life is on your phone,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: and it's not and it's only gonna get smaller and
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: eventually you're gonna have glasses that you're gonna just put
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: on your on your on your head and watch TV
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: right through these little glasses that's called virtual TV and
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: all that's coming. And so, so what what are the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: goals for you in the next few years? Are you
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: gonna try to get a venture capital is involved? What's
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: the goal here because you owned something and also tell
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: people how they can submit their are content to you. Okay, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny that you asked me about the goals
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  Speaker 1: because we launched um in our in vata format and
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: that that is when you're launching a test phase, and
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: we shattered the numbers the projections that we that we anticipated,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: and so we said, okay, we know we have something
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: here that the audience is hungry for. We know one
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: thing we do know is that people of color watch
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: more content than than anybody else, right, So so we
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: know that we got an audience that is looking for
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: content that they can relate to. And so next for
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: us is we're in We just entered a seed round
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: of funding for us. So now we're in that capital
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: raising fide. We're feeding with with angel investors because we
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: wanted to be right. We don't want to trickle this
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: thing out and it be nickel and dying the whole way.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: We want to launch and in its absolutely and then
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: also just the quality, even more content, being able to
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: buy even more content. I mean to know, Netflix spends
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: millions on content, and we don't necessarily know you have
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: the million subsis, but we certainly want to make sure
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: that content creators are getting paid and uh, in the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: next couple of years, we look to build our our
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  Speaker 1: subscriber base, and we've looked to build that that that
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  Speaker 1: subscriber base up and and become a household name among
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: our community, very much like Netflix is among I want
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: to appreciate this fantastic and interview. By the way, you
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  Speaker 1: get a banner over so we can posted on money
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  Speaker 1: rise h. Like I said, my program directors is Adel Henderson,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Samantha Taylor haunts all of my small business guests that
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  Speaker 1: we put on the show. It's it's just a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel that what you're doing it's only gonna build.
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  Speaker 1: But it's only gonna build because you're creating relationships. And
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: I feel I'm one of the relationships that you can
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  Speaker 1: count on. Okay, I appreciate that I appreciate. They can
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  Speaker 1: My man Bitley Evans, the creator Martin the Creative Jay
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  Speaker 1: a true executive producer on a major sitcom back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. That's why I'm standing there because of bit Live.
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  Speaker 1: you successful, then you're listening to the right show. Right back,
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  Speaker 1: all right, last break, last half hour the show. Ruean McDonald,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host on my making a conversation. My next
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  Speaker 1: guest puts a spile on my face. He's played a
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna say that right up front. I can honestly
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  Speaker 1: tell you that he trusted me and gave me an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to co executive produce on his hit Damie Fox
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  Speaker 1: Please Walk from the Money Making Conversations Bentley, Kyle Evans,
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  Speaker 1: Hey Benley. Then I let you out. Then I let
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  Speaker 1: I still shust you. And I'm so proud of you, man,
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  Speaker 1: so proud of your accomplishments. Well, thank you man. You
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• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: You invited me out there to the studio Northfield Rights, California,
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  Speaker 1: Nor three, California, which is just north of the valley
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California. And the thing about it is
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted to first of all, I want to
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  Speaker 1: let you know that everything you do that you're doing
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  Speaker 1: right now with your sitcoms, please give me any siss
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  Speaker 1: a real, any banners and that the days that the
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  Speaker 1: shows come on, and I will tell you they will
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: be posted on my money making conversation platform. That's why
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: I designed this show to give give people that I
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: know in this business who who just needs extra opportunity
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: to get their word out. You know, you bounces doing
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: their job, but I know you need other people to
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  Speaker 1: see it, and eventually things become viral and you get
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: hit shows. And that's the whole process. It isn't it
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  Speaker 1: bent like it really is, man, And I will do
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  Speaker 1: just that. I appreciate I appreciate you giving me that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to to you know, share my platform on your platform.
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  Speaker 1: So it is exactly the way to do it. And
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just a new paradigm. It's a
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: new new time in this entertainment game where we can
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  Speaker 1: do that and we need that social media push and
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: that's what that's what you know a lot of people say,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: you know, my life is really great from what I'm
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: talking about Defences. This show is broadcasting live in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It will be heard again on my Heart Radio podcast
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm also broadcasting on my Facebook page on money
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• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: of the growth of the show, because of the word
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  Speaker 1: of trying to get out and this is about small entrepreneurship,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: and that's what you do. You're an entrepreneur and you
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: started real earlier. This this is where I really got
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: you on the show, Bndley, because you know, you knew
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: early on my man, this is what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: How does that operate your you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: really try to wrap my head around people who figured
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  Speaker 1: out so young. How how I mean? You know, it's
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: interesting because I, like a lot of other people in
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: the entertainment industry, you know, we you know, you're infatuated
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: the idea of getting popular and showing your face through
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: the acting medium. And you know, I realized I was
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: you funny by the way. He's funny now. But just
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  Speaker 1: let you know, this is a very entertaining executive producer
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  Speaker 1: that there's a lot of a lot of out they're
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: just just tied. But you actually be laughing so hard
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: in the writer's room with You're going he paid me
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: for this, He paid me for this? Okay, cool? How
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: about that, man. I mean, I love being I love
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: keeping it fun. Man. The cats that I learned from
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: we're just the funniest people. Robert telling who you and
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: I both have in common, and every wins and and
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: and Martin Lawrence and those guys that you know, it's
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: just it keeps it fun. And I knew early on
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: that I wanted to be behind the scenes, but I
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: was always told that that was not necessarily a game
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: that black people could get in. Come on, and and
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: on top of that, you know, my story was a
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: little different because I didn't have the college degree. You Therefore,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna be a little more difficult.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew I wanted to be behind the scenes
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: because I felt like that's where the real money was
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: being made. And that was that was it for me.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: So as soon as I got an opportunity to jump
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: from in front of the camera to writing and producing,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: which you know, Martin Lawrence gave me a shot at that,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: I immediately jumped at that. And uh and that's that's
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: pretty much my you know, my my little road to
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: getting behind the scenes. Okay, Okay, see now that's why
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: that's why I hate right there, you know, he tried
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: to put it down a little road. Look, the most
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: popular black show other than the Cosby Show, and then
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: here's your black people's Martin. Yeah, you know what. And
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: when we were making I am I telling the truth
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  Speaker 1: and my law you are man, We didn't know, we
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: didn't know, we had no idea, man, and the hear'story
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: of black people. You have Cosby, then you have Martin
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, man, I mean it's it's man. I
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: don't even know what to say about it because it's it's. Uh.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: It took us all by surprise, but I do I
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: will say that we were all swinging for the fence.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, Martin gave it everything he had on that floor,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: and you know, if it wasn't on the page, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't on the stage. So we gave it all we
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: had in that writer's room too, and that and that
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: that that that pretty much. Let let me get a
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: little extra little bump about it. He started as an
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: intern on Hollywood Shuffle. That was Robert Howson breakout movie
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: that he did with the with Keen and Iva Rans.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: You know, that's what and intern really don't get paid.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: That's what always annoyed me about people. They want to
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: get paid to everything they do. You know, they if
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: you don't pay me. And I always tell people that
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of things you're doing this business to get
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: ahead will not be attached to a check you but
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: the relationship that you create can eventually give you a
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: check and get you get paid, get and get and
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: give you an opportunity to get paid. So that was
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: that's how you really got started. Then on Martin you
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: you came on as a writer. Correct, how I was
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: that relationship? Yeah, man, you know it's I mean, coming
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: into the Martin Show, I mean it was really interesting
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: because we were boys and and uh you know, he
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: kept telling me, you know, mine's a straight shooter, and
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: he said, hey, man, look I got this shot. They
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: want to do this show with me, and I don't
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: know what the show is, but I need you to,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: uh you know, come come with me and check my voice.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: Check my voice exactly because Steve deal with Steve Harvey,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: I do exactly what you talk about. You know exactly
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: what it is. So then when he said, uh, I
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: told him, I said, well, look man, I need to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: be writing the show. He said, yeah, well bet you
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: know I mean no, no, no offense. You know, we active,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know. And I showed him
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: like a body of work that I had working on
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Stack that nobody had ever seen. And and Martin called
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: me up on a weekend and said, yo, man, I
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: was reading the script you wrote these, And I was like, yeah,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: he goes, You've gotta be my writer. You're you're it.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you relate to me, you know me, and
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: I think we can make something happen. And he, man,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: he went out on a limb man and got me
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: in that game. He took me into a meeting at
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: twentieth Century five and they told him that I had
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: to wait outside. Come on at them that if it
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: was if he didn't come into the room, I wasn't
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: coming into the room. Come on, now, come on, now.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: We don't do that for each other, man, And that's
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: that's the reason we stay down. And he did that
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: for me, and anybody that got something bad to say
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: about money, they need to come to see me, because
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: I'll think him I'm the guy he should take to
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: the fight. I'm telling you something interesting that's a very
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: similar story you know that Steve Harvey did for me
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: on this first TV show with being the boys because
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Steve and myself j Anthony Brown, and he said, I
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: want you all to write because guess what, when you're
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: an African American person, you get in the writer's room,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: basically it's gonna be a white writer's room, and they
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: know nothing about you. They know nothing about your culture.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: They may have saw some stand up videos about you,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: and they go in their room talking about they know
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: who you are, and now they're supposed to write script
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: for your in your voice and they and I remember
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: the ABC the producer UH said that, well, well we'll
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: read some of these scripts and see if we will
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: consider him Steve Win. If they don't do the show,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: I won't get it back on that plane. That is
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: how I got into business, because he stepped up for
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: me and gave me my shot on ABC, on Me
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: and the Boars, just like Martin Lawrence stepped up for
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: you and gave you your shot. But the difference is
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: you learned the business the way I learned the business.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: That's why you're still successful in the business. That's why
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: you're on the phone today because we're going to talk
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: about that journey. We're about to go to a break
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: and we come back, Billy. I know you have two
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: shows premiering tonight. Correct, Man, Okay, I know why you're
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: on this show. But man, we're here to promote these
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: TV shows now. But I had to tell everybody that
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  Speaker 1: you just wrapped up in the cut that was on
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  Speaker 1: this summer. Correct, that's correct. It ran for thirteen consecutive weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and uh we did great, great, great numbers for for
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  Speaker 1: its uh for its second season, third season, excuse me
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  Speaker 1: so removed? You got renewed for the fourth season. Right,
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  Speaker 1: that's correct, Yes, sir, Yeah, I'm I do my homework bad.
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  Speaker 1: I I know you know this first time on my show,
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  Speaker 1: Cut because I know Dorin Wilson, that's my boy from
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  Speaker 1: The Parkers. Yeah, and then you got you got Channel
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  Speaker 1: Lawson Kennel who was also on The Parkers, right, and
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  Speaker 1: then the very very very funny John Marshall Jones j
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  Speaker 1: Mac Show. Now now in in terms of black shows,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: now I gotta write them. Now it's the Cosby Show,
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. She played Bernie Max on the
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  Speaker 1: that's right, that's right, that's right. So you know the
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  Speaker 1: show is it's a fun show. I keep most of
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  Speaker 1: my shows kind of kind of small. Uh. We don't
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• 1:27:55
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• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: be around for generation. It wasn't it, But that's how
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: sitcom started. We talked about all the way back to
• 1:28:03
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  Speaker 1: there was only in two rooms. I Love Lucy, that's right,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: the Dick Van Dyke Show, they were only in two rooms,
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  Speaker 1: That was it on the Dick Van Dyke Show. So
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  Speaker 1: you just basically going back to what TV was. You
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: always tell people black and white. You had to act
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  Speaker 1: with your three sitcoms. Correct. That is correct, man, that
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  Speaker 1: at a budget that allows you to be able to
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  Speaker 1: expand your horizons in that genre. Correct, that is correct?
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: That that's correct. You know, Rashane, I spent uh, you know,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: twenty years in what I thought was show business, uh,
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  Speaker 1: until I realized that I wasn't in show business at all.
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  Speaker 1: I was just in the producing business, in the writing business.
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  Speaker 1: Finally cool. That's today's October Suton tonight on Bounce TV.
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  Speaker 1: You have two shows premiere. Let's get to the region
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  Speaker 1: we owned the show today. I was saving this build.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: Enough we have family time and then your brand new
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: show Grown Folks will start a fool named g Thing. Now,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you working with g Thing with
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: his loud self. You know what's so funny, Gary, He's
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: so crazy. G Thing is uh? He is that that
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: that loud mouth, he's that lower park He's what. But
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: he's what Jackie Gleeson was to the Honeymoon. Absolutely. You know,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: He's what Fred Flepstone was to the Flintstone. He's that
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: guy command that respect, absolutely, and he's gonna keep it real. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: He's that blue collar comic that deserved opportunity to get
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  Speaker 1: his voice out there. And I was just happy to
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  Speaker 1: be the one that gave him that shot. I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you something. I I that's the great thing about my life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, whether it's whether it's whether it's Karen Hard,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Martin with his g Thing, or whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Foxx, we we are Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: or Steve Harvey, Jathan Brown. We all came from that
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  Speaker 1: pool of talent, and G Thing was one of those
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  Speaker 1: ultimate hustlers. Whenever you come to a come to a
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  Speaker 1: major watcher. He was warming up the crowd up there, hustling,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: making him laugh. He was always hustling. And you see
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: him in a little movie called Moneyball, and you seem
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: a little movie called disaster Movie because he was always
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: and so for you to give him a shot, the
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: brother could always act. He was always professional. I'm just
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: joking the fact that I know he's loud and he's energetic.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: When I say he's loud, I'm saying that's positive because
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: he's not afraid to lay it out there. And I
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: think to get the funniest moments, you gotta go through
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: that next wall. You gotta be able to push the envelope.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: And then that energy sells everybody to do the same thing,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: don't you agree? I definitely agree. And I tried not
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: to find tune him, you know, too much, because he
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: is from St. Louis and he does, and I'll tell
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: him to his face. He does like to split a
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: verb every now and then, and I think that's okay
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: because that's who he is and that's who I'm promoting.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: I think that it's okay to be you know, to
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: be that and be funny. But he knows he's a
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  Speaker 1: very smart guy, and he knows how to put promote
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  Speaker 1: and he has a presence. And that's and that's what
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to sell. Now, he is playing a blue
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: collar character. That so, so he's not saying he's a
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  Speaker 1: college professor professor. He's playing a blue collar carrecter. So
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  Speaker 1: he is the right to say eight, that's right. He's
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  Speaker 1: When you go to the airport, you're checking in, they
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  Speaker 1: uh and the and the more they performed, the more
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• 1:32:33
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• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: And now now that's the new show that's gonna air
• 1:32:38
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• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the show Now, the show's coming back into the sixth season.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: This is to show that you brought down to the
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• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: that's correct. Family Time, Family Time Now, tell us about
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: family Time and tell us why it's been so successful
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: going into his six seasons, which premieres tonight. Family Time
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  Speaker 1: as well as grown folks on Vince TV. Tell us
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: what actually, actually, this is the fifth season. We've already
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: been renewed for us. Okay, this is the fifth season,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: and you already been picked up for Aready's been picked
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  Speaker 1: up for six. That's that's the Let me be quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Just tell us about the show man. It's it's a
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: blessing man. First of all family time stars Omar Gooding
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: and uh Angel Conwell uh and also Jayla Calhoun and
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: my son Benley Kyle Evans Jr. I wonder what you're
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: gonna promote him? Now, Hey, we got we gotta look
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: out for ourselves. And please and please, I'll be remiss
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: if I don't talk about your talented writing sister, Stacy. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You know Stacy Stacy Evans Morgan. She's been rocking with
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: me for some years. We had never worked together until
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  Speaker 1: we started doing this independent thing. And uh, she's you know,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: she always always comes through for me. I mean, she
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: is a big sister, and but she's very talented. She's
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: probably a much better writer than I am. Just to
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: give her all her credit. But that's right to bring
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  Speaker 1: up because I reachinally bringing it up because you know,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: the Wayne is I always got, you know, like there's
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: a thousand of them. I'm letting you know, you're building
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: your own the Evans. You're feeling the Evans trying. Man,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: I got my nephew over there whiling out with Nick
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: Cannon Nia Evans, and he's exact producing that show. And
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: we're trying to you know, we're trying to make our
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  Speaker 1: make our present self and it's business. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: want to I want to see y'all on the cover
• 1:34:21
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  Speaker 1: the real Evans, not the Evans from from Good Time, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Evans and Entertainment. The writers, the producers, changing the game.
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  Speaker 1: So so Family Time. What makes Family Time We're going
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  Speaker 1: into is fifth season, renewed for the sixth seasons on
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  Speaker 1: Boss TV premier tonight. Family Time works because it is
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: the if, the if, the depiction of an African American
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: family in the in this new uh this new Millennium,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's skinny Jeans meets meets the copy shows.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're taking a real family issues. I mean
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  Speaker 1: this is well a mother and a father they arguing
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  Speaker 1: bigger over real things, and the kids, uh, you know,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: going from living in the hood to moving slightly up
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: the hill from the hood and how and we see
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: how that you know what the difference is between those
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: two experiences. But it's not only what family time. It's
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: not about the four core characters that live in the house.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: It's all of the outside characters, the family, extended family
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: members that they bring to the house, that bring their
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: drama into their house. These these people won the lottery
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• 1:35:44
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• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: Tangerine Thomas play Lisa's too, and they're both crazy is
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know what. And they bring their drama and uh,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: you know, we've had a lot of guest stars. Lynn
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: Woodfield came in and she plays their mother. And Chris
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: Williams came in and he plays Omar's character, Tony's brother,
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: and he's the boushee guy that's married to the white girl.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: So we're you know, we're showing the real deal of
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: what this black family experience is about. And you know
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: we felt like, you know, we were doing it before
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: Black Ish, we were on the air, so we wanted
• 1:36:25
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