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Full Episode: Stellar Award winning Pastor Mike Jr, and NYC Lobster Chef Ed McFarland · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: next guest is uh, I'm calling a good friend because
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  Speaker 1: off airman we've been laughing and talking about food. Pastor
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  Speaker 1: Mike McClure Jr. He's the senior pastor Rock City Church
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  Speaker 1: in Birmingham, Alabama. As an artist, Pastor Mike has garner
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  Speaker 1: three Stellar Awards, most notably Artists of the Year. Don't
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  Speaker 1: sleep on that that Autists of the Year at Stellar Awards.
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  Speaker 1: His crossover single I Got It was number one on
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  Speaker 1: Gospel radio and four weeks CONSECUTI twenty three weeks on
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  Speaker 1: R and B charted. Pastor Mike will be closing Ceremony
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  Speaker 1: performer Closing Ceremony performer along with other national acts for
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  Speaker 1: the World Games twenty twenty two in Birmingham. Y'all see,
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  Speaker 1: how did you know that? That's why I got him
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  Speaker 1: on the show. I didn't even know that. The World
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  Speaker 1: Games is an international sports event held every four years
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  Speaker 1: in the same year following each Summer Olympic Games stage.
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  Speaker 1: Over eleven days. The Game represents the pinnacle competition for
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  Speaker 1: thirty six hundred of the world's best athletes in thirty
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  Speaker 1: different unique sports. The world grade World Games generates worldwide exposure,
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  Speaker 1: but also we're here to talk about the world are
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  Speaker 1: exposed to. Pastor back to generate down there in berminhad
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  Speaker 1: see everybody try to push you. Your big gotta go
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  Speaker 1: to l A gott to go to New York. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta go to Chicago. Now everybody tends to go to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: He two hours down the road from Atlanta and turning up.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, He's down building his dream. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: this show is about, building your dream. Please work with
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  Speaker 1: the moneymaking conversation, Pastor Michaelclure Jr. Big bro. I am
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  Speaker 1: so excited to be here, and I know, I love
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  Speaker 1: how you said that everybody always tries to push you
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  Speaker 1: to Atlanta, to l A, to Nashville. I'm a firm
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  Speaker 1: believer that you should bloom where your planet. And we're
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  Speaker 1: winning right here from Birmingham, Alabama. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: be here and hopefully I get my pitch on that wall.
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  Speaker 1: Really see. First of all, we got a long interview
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  Speaker 1: because we're gonna laugh about some stuff, because I want
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  Speaker 1: to point some things out to some people about that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you don't have a all or give,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care where you move, nobody's gonna recognize it
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  Speaker 1: or appreciate it. I remember when I when I did
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  Speaker 1: stand the comment I was based out of Houston TEXTI
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  Speaker 1: that's from born in raised Houston texts. I moved to
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  Speaker 1: New York and then I moved to l A. I
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  Speaker 1: just I was doing television everything. Then all some when
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  Speaker 1: I was in the l A Pastor Mike, I decided,
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  Speaker 1: you know something, I'm gonna go back to Houston and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna become the biggest star I could be in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: And I did over the Commedy Club just blew up
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  Speaker 1: and guess what I got? Uh, I got cast and
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  Speaker 1: Jason's lyrics, and then I got broke back by Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harvey to write on his first sitcom, ABC is Being
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  Speaker 1: a Board. So by moving back to Houston, what people
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  Speaker 1: said I would not become a star, I went there
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  Speaker 1: became a star. And guess what people moved came and
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  Speaker 1: got me. They got me for they saw my talent.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes understanding what you're trying to do in life
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  Speaker 1: and then you know necessarily have to move to a
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  Speaker 1: chief success. But you have to have to have a plan.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's why you're successful in Birmingham because you
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  Speaker 1: have a plan. Pastor Mike, let's talk about that absolutely, man.
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  Speaker 1: I believe planning is absolutely critical. You know, um, what's
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  Speaker 1: so incredible even when you look biblically, God says uh,
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  Speaker 1: let that be lighting, that was let that be flying things.
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  Speaker 1: And that was before he put a steward in place.
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  Speaker 1: He had a plan. He says, I cannot put man
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  Speaker 1: in place if he has no assignment. And I'm with you, man.
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  Speaker 1: So many people were telling me, man, you need to
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  Speaker 1: go to Atlanta, you need to go to l A.
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  Speaker 1: I had a plan. I had a strategy, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe first things you have to understand is what is
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  Speaker 1: your unique assignment? Because what this is what I discovered.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go to CHURCHI but favor isn't
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  Speaker 1: always geographical just because you're special in Birmingham. If I
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  Speaker 1: go to Atlanta, there are a million pastor Mike Julius,
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  Speaker 1: So you have to win where you are, man. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about that, and I really believe that the
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  Speaker 1: best is yet to come. Know. I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: my board Todd Delaney. I call him, yeah, I call
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  Speaker 1: him to church out alone because I tell him this
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  Speaker 1: be himself, you know, because so many people try to
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  Speaker 1: give a definitely what the Bible is? What churches? Why
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  Speaker 1: are you supposed to go to church churches where your
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  Speaker 1: belief if your beliefs or one hundred is wherever you want,
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  Speaker 1: where you want to worship. Church plays an important role
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  Speaker 1: in that. But important and and and being that you
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  Speaker 1: have been your congregations have been huge past to mine
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  Speaker 1: and so and so. But you didn't just get there overnight.
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  Speaker 1: When did you realize what you were doing? Your sermon,
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  Speaker 1: your message was starting to be related to by not
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  Speaker 1: just a few, but thousands. I think the first thing
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  Speaker 1: we have to understand is that when people are trying
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  Speaker 1: to be successful, the first thing you have to understand
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  Speaker 1: is the origin of success. Since I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: people have been telling me there's something different about you.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, it was singing solos with my father.
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  Speaker 1: I had the largest youth ministry in the state of Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I was drawing seven, eight, nine hundred young
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  Speaker 1: people on a Monday night in my dad's church for
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  Speaker 1: youth church. You know. So when we started the church
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  Speaker 1: at twenty five, I held a spaghetti dinner down stairs
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  Speaker 1: in my dad's basement. I held up I invited about
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  Speaker 1: fifty and sixty people down and I shared my vision.
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  Speaker 1: We raised about twelve thousand dollars that night. I paid
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  Speaker 1: my rent up for six months. I bought my sound
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  Speaker 1: equipment with the other half, and we said, let's see God,
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  Speaker 1: I knew we had something special when people just started
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  Speaker 1: coming out of nowhere. If I can give you the
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  Speaker 1: fast forward version, because we don't have all day, I
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  Speaker 1: know that two thousand and nine, I'm gonna say ten
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  Speaker 1: people show up, two thousand ten, close to a thousand,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, it's over six thousand people and about
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  Speaker 1: well to the point where the fire marshal is stopping
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  Speaker 1: letting it has to stop letting people in. And that's
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  Speaker 1: when they hit me. I said, man, we're doing something special.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe so many times, uh, we miss on
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  Speaker 1: being who God called us to be because we're bent
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  Speaker 1: on doing what we want to be. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody church is absolutely vital. Like you said, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's absolutely vital fire development, but your relationship with God
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  Speaker 1: is more important. And sadly people limit their relationship with
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  Speaker 1: God on where they go exactly that. I believe that
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  Speaker 1: if your relationship with God is tight, we learned during
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic, I can have church where everybody am absolutely
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  Speaker 1: and and and church has always been the forefront of
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of people for crisis. You know that
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  Speaker 1: you know that you know, like they always say, you
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  Speaker 1: know when you you can't find God when you're doing good,
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  Speaker 1: but we're doing bad, you find them all the time.
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  Speaker 1: That is that. It's that classic car, the Hallmark car.
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  Speaker 1: When you know when you're you're walking and doing the doing,
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  Speaker 1: the doing, the uh doing during the time, you know
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  Speaker 1: you see two ft print, four foot prints, and then
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  Speaker 1: you see two foot prints when you know when you
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  Speaker 1: when you're doing bad. And they said, when I'm doing bad,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see two prints. He said, I'm carrying you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm carrying you through those hard times. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: really what you're doing with your life in Birmingham, you're
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  Speaker 1: carrying people. But the pandemic was a hard time for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. And guess what, it ain't over with.
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  Speaker 1: It has been is germinated to a delta variant. Now,
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  Speaker 1: So how do you deal with your congregation because you
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  Speaker 1: know church doors were shuttered and you couldn't go in there.
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  Speaker 1: It was mandated nationally. How did you and how are
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  Speaker 1: you dealing with that whole safety of the congregation versus
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  Speaker 1: generating the Word of God to your same congregation. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we were the first church in instead of Alabama to
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  Speaker 1: close our doors before it was a mandate Um. The
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday before everything broke loose, the Holy Spirit let on
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  Speaker 1: my heart, Michael, get ahead of this thing. I shut
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  Speaker 1: my doors, and of course passes and churches begin to
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  Speaker 1: ridicule me because they said this boy don't have any faith.
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  Speaker 1: I believe there's a thing a linement between faith and foolishness,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes foolishness puts on faith's close. If you're not careful,
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  Speaker 1: you will call something faith that's really foolish. And in
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  Speaker 1: my heart I felt the need to just kind of
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  Speaker 1: get ahead of it. So during this pandemic, I want
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  Speaker 1: to say this and I want to be as sensitive
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  Speaker 1: as possible and the words of that beautiful author. It
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  Speaker 1: was the best of times, but it was also the
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  Speaker 1: worst of times. We lost lives. Things were difficult. But
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of a pandemic, Um, God bless me
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  Speaker 1: to have two number one song Big When number one,
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  Speaker 1: staying on the chart for ten weeks. The second year
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  Speaker 1: I got it, went on the charts, sent on the
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  Speaker 1: charts for four weeks, I won five stell Awards, and
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  Speaker 1: a pandemic we had over six thousand people give their
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  Speaker 1: life to Christ. Virtually during a pandemic. So during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a national, nationwide reset. It caused
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  Speaker 1: everybody to re examine what was important, who was important?
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  Speaker 1: Have I gotten better or have I gotten worse? So
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  Speaker 1: we are still virtual. Although so many people are saying, man,
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  Speaker 1: come back, open the doors. Open the doors asked for
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  Speaker 1: me because thousands of people come to our church. I
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  Speaker 1: just feel the need to be responsible, you know, and say, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: although you guys want to come back, let's just be patient.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what's happening with the delta variant. And the
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  Speaker 1: moment I said a return date, lo and behold, Alabama
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  Speaker 1: had led the way the number one place in the
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  Speaker 1: country where we had ran out of hospital beds. We
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  Speaker 1: had ran out of uh I see you units. So
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's all about being responsible and not
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  Speaker 1: being dogmatic about my approach the church. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: where we're separating. The methodology of everybody is different. Just
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  Speaker 1: because your church is open and mind is closed doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make you right or make me wrong. It's what's best
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  Speaker 1: for you and what you believe. But I also believe
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  Speaker 1: we see a trend if we'd be honest that all
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  Speaker 1: those church doors are open people aren't in a hurry
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  Speaker 1: to return at the rate in which they were before.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's just not being dogmatic and our
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  Speaker 1: methodology concerning our christology. Well, let's let's talk about we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about philosophies when we're talking about watching you do
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  Speaker 1: your thing, because we got a lot of talk about
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  Speaker 1: you know you throughout I got it. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the World Games. But first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to talk about you and the whole
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  Speaker 1: principle of understanding your truths because I, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: would tell people it wasn't still I was in my
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  Speaker 1: authorities that I figured it out for Rashan McDonald past
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  Speaker 1: the mine, and so a lot of people shy away
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  Speaker 1: from that. When they hear a certain number, they think
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  Speaker 1: it out that fifty. You figured out the sixty, but
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  Speaker 1: try to figure it out before you leave, okay. And
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  Speaker 1: so when when I look at what you're doing with
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  Speaker 1: your church and with people coming at you, what is
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  Speaker 1: the most uh? Because because you said something about the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: you said, Richard, I want to be insensitive, but I
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  Speaker 1: reset myself doing the pandemic all right. I felt that
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  Speaker 1: I kind of caught up with my competition during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: And my staff would tell you I was planning when
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  Speaker 1: I came out of because I do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: live events, So I was planning to win as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you gave me the go. And so so do
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  Speaker 1: not ever consider that an insistance, because what people learned
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  Speaker 1: about pandemic is that there are no handouts. And guess what.
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  Speaker 1: It put a lot of people equal. It told a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people who were successful they became frustrated because
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have a plan, and made restaurants realize that
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  Speaker 1: carry out is the way to go. It made black
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  Speaker 1: people understand the value of technology. Him again, black people.
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  Speaker 1: Black people understood the value of technology even though it
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  Speaker 1: was resisting it. Even older generations understood the value of
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  Speaker 1: technology instead of dog and millennials. And so it really
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  Speaker 1: leveled a lot of thought processes. And so when you
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  Speaker 1: when you come around as to what you're doing, when
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  Speaker 1: I'll read your bio, you gave you gave out some
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  Speaker 1: free music there now you you dropped the free CD
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going like, okay, pan diffic was that good
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  Speaker 1: to you? Go on out? And I believe I believe.
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  Speaker 1: And since we're talking money making conversations I trained. I
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  Speaker 1: have about hundred people that I teach monthly on entrepreneur
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  Speaker 1: and creativity and what I'm trying to get them to
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  Speaker 1: realize sometimes as African Americans, so many times everything about
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  Speaker 1: what we do business wise and entrepreneur is about paying
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  Speaker 1: the next bill, not setting ourself up for legacy. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I told my class the other day, I said, Man,
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  Speaker 1: if you've got a long company, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: Go knock on two doors and tell them, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: want to be a blessing and cut these two yards
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  Speaker 1: for free. And I guarantee the person across street gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask who did that. That's called free marketing. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: giving away free music was my opportunity to say, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: here the chance to believe in me. And the response
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  Speaker 1: was crazy. Man. I believe people don't care how much
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  Speaker 1: you know until they know how much you care. And
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic exposed a lot, you know, I believe. I
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  Speaker 1: believe I was born in one year, I'll die in
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  Speaker 1: another year. It's the dash in the middle of that matters.
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  Speaker 1: And if I can give your listen to something that special,
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  Speaker 1: life isn't about duration, It's about donation. I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 1: that again. It's not about duration, it's about donation. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about how long you live, but how strong you live.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody has length, nobody has strength. So what
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic was, it's it broadened your perspective on your
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  Speaker 1: impact and your influence. You do amazing live shows, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and there would be some trepidation. I wonder if it
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  Speaker 1: would be the same way to translate virtually, and here
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  Speaker 1: we are now virtually. And what's crazy is you took
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  Speaker 1: a corner of the room, and if they look at
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  Speaker 1: the corner of the room, they went to the shot
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  Speaker 1: that they have on your If your team would go
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  Speaker 1: to the camera shot now where you're sitting there and
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  Speaker 1: they can see me behind you on the screens, you
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  Speaker 1: have four TVs, five TVs and the shot, you have
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  Speaker 1: some picture frames. You turned a corner into a live
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  Speaker 1: set that can compete with every talk show in America
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  Speaker 1: right there from your spot. That's being creative and I
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  Speaker 1: believe what we have to do as African Americans, especially
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  Speaker 1: when resources oftentimes don't float down. There was Malcolm X
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  Speaker 1: who said, when America catches a cold, Black America gets pneumonia.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of times, when America gets creativity, Black
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  Speaker 1: America is often twenty years behind the spectrum. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe what this pandemic has done for us, It's given
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  Speaker 1: us the ability to be creative, because if we ain't
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  Speaker 1: nothing else as Black people were creative. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: you give us a little, you give us the end
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  Speaker 1: of a pig, We're turning in the chicklands and everything
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  Speaker 1: you give us scraps, we're turning into soul foods. Because
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  Speaker 1: I believe, and I in DNA where you're creative. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, I always say, I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: insensitive because I want to be mindful that people lost
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  Speaker 1: loved ones during a pandemic. I had to do virtual
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  Speaker 1: funerals during a pandemic. So while yes, many of us
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  Speaker 1: were winning, a lot of people were losing. But I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's finding a way to um embrace the wholeness
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  Speaker 1: We've given away over sixty dollars worth of free gas,
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  Speaker 1: bought multiple homes, cars, everything, and everybody says, why are
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  Speaker 1: If we was live, the whole stadium will be going
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  Speaker 1: crazy because I made God a promise. Sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: God a promise if you ever gave me an opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: I would be a blessing. And I believe from the
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  Speaker 1: know until they know how much you care. And for me,
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  Speaker 1: giving back is what we do and for and for you.
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  Speaker 1: You can see it all over you this college to
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  Speaker 1: a different things you've been doing. They don't realize this,
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  Speaker 1: even writing, helping with Steve Harvey and all the third
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  Speaker 1: different things you've done. That's giving of your intellectual property.
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  Speaker 1: That that that that's what I call a residual blessing.
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  Speaker 1: That I was sitting at home laughing at a joke
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  Speaker 1: or laughing at a show that I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: You had your hand and you heal people through somebody.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm telling you, man, I believe, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: stop talking when I say this. I believe as black
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  Speaker 1: Black Americans, I believe this man, our culture would go
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  Speaker 1: to another level if we embrace collaboration versus competition, collaboration
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  Speaker 1: versus competition, I main this. I could be Somebody hit
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  Speaker 1: me the other day that was like, man, your music
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  Speaker 1: career is taken off. I struck a partnership with this
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  Speaker 1: gonna be partners in this, and they was like, well, man,
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  Speaker 1: be careful, don't give away too much. I looked at
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  Speaker 1: is why I can make a hundred percent of ten
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  Speaker 1: dollars or of a hundred thousand dollars, because collaboration is
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  Speaker 1: the new thing. Think about this. When God made the world,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I can do the birds, I can do
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  Speaker 1: the trees, I can do the monkeys. I can do
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  Speaker 1: the water, I can do the sea. But when it
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  Speaker 1: came to the one thing that could generate revenue and produce,
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  Speaker 1: which was mad, he said, let us that's collaboration, Big broth,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe money making conversations. Tip Number one from
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  Speaker 1: pastor Mike Jr. Is solidify your team. Yep, solidify your team.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to my team, I need attendance, I
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  Speaker 1: need allegiance, I need agregient I need an attendance of agreement.
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  Speaker 1: I need allegiance and I need accountability. If you can
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  Speaker 1: give me them, for we can shake the world. Man,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely agree with you because you know four things. Two
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  Speaker 1: things the point about like this whole set up a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people question, Okay, why are you gonna do
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  Speaker 1: it that way? Because sometimes you have to look past
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  Speaker 1: people who want to understand your vision and don't see
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  Speaker 1: the final results. That's okay, But I had to have
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  Speaker 1: a team to create this kind of bring them in
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  Speaker 1: what you think and trust them. That makes sense. That
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. That makes sense because just because you write
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  Speaker 1: to check through me, that you have to be there
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  Speaker 1: with making all the final decisions because sometimes I can
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  Speaker 1: see something different and make your check be better and
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  Speaker 1: your value are like greater. Then October nineteen, I was
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting in the world. I would have because
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of talents past the mike. And
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  Speaker 1: this is what it runs into a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that go, man, you talent, what you're gonna do? I
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  Speaker 1: told God this man, I said, God listening, if you
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  Speaker 1: allow me to utilize my talents, and I will give
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  Speaker 1: you max effort, max effort and all my talents, said
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  Speaker 1: I give you max effort. I stopped. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a rapper, I'm not an athlete. I stopped trying
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  Speaker 1: to pay basketball. I stopped trying to act like I
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  Speaker 1: can say, okay, out writing, producing. You know what I'm saying, branding, marketing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I focused on. I stopped trying to act,
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  Speaker 1: and then I walked away from stand up comedy. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know something, this ain't what I do. I focused
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  Speaker 1: on what I do. And that's what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people make a mistake are They get caught up in
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  Speaker 1: the dream but not the results. Is that dream of reality.
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  Speaker 1: And so in the eighteen ninety I regard you give
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  Speaker 1: me mat I'm gonna give you max effort. And he said,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: look here, you give me max effort. You can accomplish
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  Speaker 1: your dreams. And that's through hard work, as through relationships,
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  Speaker 1: and through accomplishing thing that you're not supposed to. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're doing your life today. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: love your energy because of the fact that we are
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  Speaker 1: different age groups, we're living in different cities, but one
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  Speaker 1: thing we do share in common faith, hard work and relationships. Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: relationships to everything. And I want to free somebody right now,
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  Speaker 1: because you touched on something that I think we have
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  Speaker 1: to kill, debunk and demystify in our culture. And that's
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  Speaker 1: this uh, that's this punishment of being talented, and multiple
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  Speaker 1: areas with there's a there's a remnant of people. I
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  Speaker 1: used to say a generation, but that limits us to
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  Speaker 1: age group. I want to say a remnant. There's a
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  Speaker 1: remnant or a tribe of people that are rising, who
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  Speaker 1: are um, who have an ambidextrous anointing. They're blessed in
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  Speaker 1: both hands. They can write and sing or produce and create,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And there's a quote that we say that
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  Speaker 1: we say wrong. It says to be a jack of
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  Speaker 1: all trades is to be a master of none. That's
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  Speaker 1: an incomplete statement because the original quote is to be
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  Speaker 1: a jack of all trades is to be a master
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  Speaker 1: of none, but to be better than that which has one,
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  Speaker 1: which means I may be able to do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff and I may not master everything, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: better at what I do. Think the people who think
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  Speaker 1: they mastered it. And so for you, you said something
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  Speaker 1: that was critical. And I was talking to somebody yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and there was like, man, seeing you do all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: has to be so mind blowing. I said, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to succeed. It's a guy who's close to me.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I want you to succeed in music the
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  Speaker 1: same way I'm exceeded. But at some point you gotta
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  Speaker 1: stop and say, God got his hand on this. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'd like to to go. They
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  Speaker 1: told me, no other artists in the history of gospel
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  Speaker 1: music has ever went from New Artists of the Year
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  Speaker 1: their first year two Artists of the Year their second year.
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  Speaker 1: You can't write that script. That's God. You know. There
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  Speaker 1: is no um there. I tell everybody. When you look
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  Speaker 1: at Joel those things with fifty thou people pre pandemic
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  Speaker 1: in an arena, there is no fifty thousand persons sermon,
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  Speaker 1: or you look at Steve Harvey, there is no uh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thousand seat arena joke. At some point, God just
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  Speaker 1: blesses it, you know. And I think what we got
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  Speaker 1: to stop. As black people, and not just people in general,
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  Speaker 1: we tend to we tend to downplay the writer and
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the speaker. So a lot of us are falling
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  Speaker 1: in love with artists who didn't even write the song.
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  Speaker 1: They just sunk it. And don't even realize the artists
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  Speaker 1: broke and the person who wrote it living in a
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  Speaker 1: mansis of its. Hey, that's me for the past of Mike.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I said, you know you might not
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  Speaker 1: recognize me because it recognize the record that we may
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  Speaker 1: not recognize you. But when a Negro ship with a
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  Speaker 1: shiny ball head, five TV screens, a microphone, and a
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  Speaker 1: smart water with a basketball right there, man, I got it,
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  Speaker 1: I got it, got it? Okay, Artists of the Year
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  Speaker 1: pastor Mike performing in the closing games of the World
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  Speaker 1: Games of twenty twenty two all Like, I just say this,
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  Speaker 1: those honors were for one when a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: feeling sorry for themselves, a lot of people were complained
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  Speaker 1: about life. He was accomplishing those tasks in to be
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  Speaker 1: ardered in one. And so I say that before we
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  Speaker 1: go over to the World Game, conversation is this? It's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: when is always opta you? Some man? I remember when
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  Speaker 1: I was on Sending Hall and I was writing his
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  Speaker 1: sitcom and it got canceled and I want one of
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  Speaker 1: my best suits into the building. The guy said, man,
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  Speaker 1: why are you all dressed up? I said, why shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: that be I said, it's not a sad day for me,
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  Speaker 1: and so a lot of people take sadness. I remember
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  Speaker 1: I did the eulogy for my mom and my dad,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I did that because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact I wanted to make sure that the
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  Speaker 1: message of how great they were and how important they
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  Speaker 1: worked for me and my family was told. I was told.
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  Speaker 1: And so when I look at you the World Game
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  Speaker 1: two that didn't come about based on something you did
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  Speaker 1: last year, that was just like you were saying. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Osten used to write. I used to write the uh
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  Speaker 1: the sermons for his dad. That's hen't want to preach.
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  Speaker 1: He don't want to preach. He started writing. And when
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  Speaker 1: your dad suddenly passed away, he was pushed to the
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  Speaker 1: forefront and his ready Steve Harvey, didn't he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do family few. That wasn't his option because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be a traffic cop. And then him
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  Speaker 1: and made him the greatest star on television in America today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: look at you, World Games with part of your journey.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what when the opportunity to present itself, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't run from us. Tell us about the World Game,
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  Speaker 1: Tell about your role in pastor Mike, and let's keep talking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited about the World Games. They come around
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  Speaker 1: every four years after the Summer Games. Man, I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you it is so INCREDI and I want to read
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  Speaker 1: this to you because I want to make sure I
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  Speaker 1: get this right. I want you to catch it. There
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  Speaker 1: are six categories of sports competition. Man, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: what's so incredible about the World Games is all the
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  Speaker 1: people that come from across the world. Over thirty six
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: hundred athletes will come will converge on Birmingham, Alabama, from
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: air sports to archery, two billers to gymnastics. This was
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  Speaker 1: so important to me because I have four boys. My
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  Speaker 1: top three boys played football. They're starting on the football team.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: My third son, my middle son, Michael, is um is
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: on the spectrum of autism. He has Asperger syndrome. So
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of times in the African American community where
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  Speaker 1: we speak, sports is either football or basketball, football, basketball, music.
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  Speaker 1: I was able to look at him. We have a
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  Speaker 1: pool table downstairs. He's falling in love with pool. I said, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what he said, Well, Dad, you can get an
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  Speaker 1: Olympic medal for billards. The World Games is so vital
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  Speaker 1: to our coach. I'm telling you, the entire world is
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: coming to Birmingham, Alabama. It's a new generation of sports.
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  Speaker 1: We get a chance to witness history, a once in
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: a lifetime event. Look at this. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: this right. There will be two hundred plus metal competitions
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: at the World Games in two and many of the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: events are the sports World Championship. That's critical. Take, for instance,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the female team USA Baseball softball team. They're competing now,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: but they will also be competing at the World Games.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's such an honor into somebody who's dreaming big right now.
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  Speaker 1: I never in my life thought I would be a
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  Speaker 1: part of the World Games. Here's what's crazy, big bro.
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  Speaker 1: If you catch this. They asked me to perform on
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the clothes and ceremony of the World Games and help
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: with the opening ceremony of the World Games. But before
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: they ever asked me that, they asked me to be
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: an ambassador for the World Games. And I want you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to catch this. Not because of the songs, I say,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: not because of the billboard chart placements, not because of
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the Stellar awards, but because I've been spending the last
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: twelve years in my city loving people, and I want
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to submit to somebody right now. You are so busy
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: trying to blow up that God will oftentimes check your motives.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Let me give you this lesson and I'm gonna let
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you go. Okay, here it is. God has two jobs.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: He either exalts or he humbles. I'm saying, either God
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: exalts or he humbles. Make that makes sense, pastor Mike.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: If you humble yourself, God will exalt you. But if
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you exalt yourself, God will humble you. And one thing
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I love about what you're saying and with all that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you've done, and I really feel I've not just gained
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a friend or a big brother, but I've gained a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: mentor and an advisor who I can run some stuff
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: by and say, no, young blood, chill right there, because
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  Speaker 1: you give me something, and I want all your listeners
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  Speaker 1: to catch us. These are money making decisions. You give
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  Speaker 1: me something I can't pay for with your speed, if
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you're able to give me advice about everything you learned
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  Speaker 1: in thirty years and thirty minutes, I just gained the
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  Speaker 1: speed of moving at a pace that I normally couldn't move.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: That so for me, man, like you said, working with
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the World Game. That's such an honor. Shout out to
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: our Mayor Randall Wolfan, who was just realistic to the
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  Speaker 1: entire board, re elected to the entire board, the entire committee,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: who's absolutely phenomenal. Birmingham, Alabama is being put on a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: national stage and we will not disappoint. From building a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: new stadium to upgrading uptown. Downtown is beautiful. We're renovating
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: all over the place. Go get your ticket because this
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: is going down at the World Game. We're shutting it down.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And man, first of all, Man, I gotta come cause
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I do dream lands and we gotta do right this guy. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go either way. We're gonna We're gonna just
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  Speaker 1: go what we're gonna do. Another one I got, I
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• 32:17
  Speaker 1: make you slap your mama faster. Mike, Man, thanks for
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: coming on money make conversations. Brother. I appreciate you. Man,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we will see each other. You're a blessing brother. And
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: this this show has allowed me to meet so many
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: new friends man, and so many people that I have
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: started to mentor because I've told everybody, man, I'm not
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: gonna leave this world with knowledge that I can share,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna if if you take if you
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: take my information and make a million dollars with it,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: it's your money, it's your dream because I couldn't do it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: So that's what the blessing of me being in your
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: life is that I'm not here to gain. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: to give and understand that cool. Thank you for coming
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• 32:58
  Speaker 1: more money making conversation with Rashaan McDonald. If dog people
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  Speaker 1: My next kist is Chef Ed McFarlan, and it is
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  Speaker 1: the executive chef and owner of EDS Lobster Bar, Locald
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  Speaker 1: and Soho and Sag Harbor. Eds Lobster Bar has been
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  Speaker 1: open for over fourteen years in New York City and
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  Speaker 1: New York City one of my favorite shities. Y'all just
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  Speaker 1: let y'all up front. So I'm about to go back
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  Speaker 1: home here a little bit not from Houston, Texas, born
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  Speaker 1: and raised, and there's an upscale fish restaurant that specializes
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: in lobster. Youah mean, lobster loves the lobs a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Don't there. Don't go there, try to get no chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Lobster lives to lobster. He grew up in an American
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  Speaker 1: Italian household in Brooklyn and Stadn Island and got his
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  Speaker 1: feet where there's a teenager working in red sauce Italian
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  Speaker 1: restaurants and pizzaias, so it's only natural fire such dishes
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  Speaker 1: as lost to Raviola and lost the lots of meat
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  Speaker 1: balls on the menu at Ed's Lobster Bar. To this day,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: there are no restaurants who focused on making lobster to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: star of the show where it's a star to show
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: it is lobster bar. Come on that he's a successful
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  Speaker 1: lan restaurant entrepreneur or he's also talk about building your dream.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to mighty making conversation, the ultimate authority on
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  Speaker 1: lobster chiff Ed McFarland, how are you doing it? Very good,
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  Speaker 1: so happy to be here with you today. This is
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: fantastic and I appreciate your time and wonderful, wonderful accolades
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  Speaker 1: that you gave me. I'm only hoping that I live
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  Speaker 1: up to the image you're just portrayed of me. Well,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: you know, let's let's talk about because a lot of
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: people get into business. Even even a specialty can be
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: a curse, but also can lead you around the right
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: path of success because you can open a restaurant trying
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: to be good at a lot of things. What made
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you make the decisions that lobster, which some people may
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: proceed to be expensive out of their price range when
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: they look at the menu, it's not like it's shrimp,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: it's a lot like it's cod or some catfish. Why
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: did you settle on lobster? You know, it's interesting because
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: when I was working in restaurants, I had an affinity
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to cook fish. I really enjoyed the delicatenus and I
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: really enjoyed the fact that you didn't have to do
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  Speaker 1: a lot to it. The flavor is all about the
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  Speaker 1: lobster itself. So for me, it was about one of
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  Speaker 1: my mantras, which is always keep it simple. And I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: like to keep all of my stuff simple and let
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the ingredients speak for itself. So for me, lobster was
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: just a natural choice. It was a very niche specific item.
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  Speaker 1: It is expensive, and it continues to get more expensive
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  Speaker 1: as the years go on, and you know, for various reasons.
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  Speaker 1: But the one thing I really love about it is
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: nobody was exploring all the different things you could do
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  Speaker 1: with it, and it really is an untapped market. You know,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: other than lobster roles, which you can find everywhere. Now
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you're not seeing people make true lobster raviolis where it's
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: just lobster in the ravioli. You're not seeing people make
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: lobster meat balls. You don't see lobster nachos everywhere. We
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: do a lobster ramen now where we get unbelievable flavor
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and the broth from lobster stock and reductions. So I
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: really just wanted to exploit that uh factor that nobody's
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: experimenting with it, because it does end up being an
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: expensive ingredient, especially if you don't get stuff right, and
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you know, you don't get everything right on the first try.
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  Speaker 1: You're really experimenting and doing all different things until you
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: get the dish right. You know, it's not like I
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  Speaker 1: threw together the lobster meat ball together in the first try.
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  Speaker 1: It was perfect, so and the same thing with the
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: lobster on and so your R and D tends to
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: get a little expensive as as you're working on well,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: you know, I can always tell you when I when
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: when you eat good food and all lobsters. Not to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: say that's why I wanted to interview you because of
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the fact that we have so many you you have
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: lost it on different coasts. You have lost that that
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: that some people say it's tender, have eating lobster in
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the Hawaii, which they say is a little sweeter. So
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to the authority and and this is really
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: some serious question. I'm asking you because I want to
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  Speaker 1: educate my audience. It will just educate myself on how
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: do you why is it different taste for lobs on
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: different parts where you buy it? And also is it
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: is the texture change? Is a change in the type
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: of water that our lobsters raised versus free versus uh,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you know, and you know in a in a in
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: a in in in a cultivated environment, is there a
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: difference in the lobster. So there's there's a huge difference
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: in lobster. First, nobody's farm raising lobster. So we'll just
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: throw that out of the equation. It's too expensive to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: farm race. It's much it's much cheaper, even even at
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the high prices, for for the lobster to be wild caught.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: They've done experiments um where they've tried to raise lobsters
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: to a pound and a half. It's just too time
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: consuming and and too much money. Just takes too many years.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: They do, however, hatch them in Maine and up in
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the Northeast for the what is in my opinion, the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: greatest lobster, which is the North American law through what
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: we tend to call main lobster. They do pull the
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: lobsters visibly showing eggs out of the water, bring them
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to hatcheries. They'll hatch them and distribute them across rocky
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: ocean bottom so they have the best chance of survival.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: But there is a big difference in the lobster. You know,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: our lobsters here that we use at eggs and the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: traditional main lops or that you get on the northeastern
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Canada as well that we have philopster roles. We're using tail,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: knuckle and claw, although most lobster roles use knuckle and
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: claw meat exclusively. There is a difference. Our lot our
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: lobster is from colder, sweeter water. When you're using the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: rock lobsters that you find across South America's South Africa,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Australia and far to stuff like that where you know
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the guys are diving down and pulling up these you
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: beautiful big lobsters because you're just eating the tails. In
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: my opinion, the meat tends to be a little tougher,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: not that they're not the just you wouldn't use them
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: for a lobster role um. If we're talking specifically lobster
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: is one of the biggest differences you would find in
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the product that you're getting is whether people are cooking
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: lobsters where we cook and chill all of our own
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: lobster meat in the house, or they're buying the stuff
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: out of the processing plants that comes from the main shedders.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know how in detail you
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: want me to to talk about that. Shedding season is
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: when you kind of if you've ever taken a whole
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: lobster and you can be crushed it with your hands,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: that's a shedder, and the shedders can be very sweet,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: but there's also less meat in the shell. But what
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: happens is they'll send those to the processing plants because
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: they don't live a long time out of the water
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: and they can't withstand the shipping um. So what will
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: happen with those is they'll go to processing plants. And
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: that's the traditional stuff you see when you're on the
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: main coast or you're getting a less expensive lobster roll
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and the texture is kind a weird and stringy. That's
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: because the meat has been frozen already. And that's how
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: you kind of know the difference in in the Northeast
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: lobster if you get that beautiful lobster and it's big
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: chunks and you're biting it, kind of like what we
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: do here and some of the other places that I've
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: worked at across New York City before up in my
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: own place, or you go to like the shack type
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: style place and you're taking a lobster roll to go
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: and you're noticing meets a little stringy or it's more watery.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: That's because they're using the frozen lobster meat. And that's
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: kind of the more traditional way to make it because
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: it's the less expensive way than having labor where somebody's
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: busting lobster out of the shell all day and that's there,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: that's their job. Well, the whole thing is the experience.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Now that the experience is the restaurant experience. Going in
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the great and great, We're gonna get to the menu
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: because I'm a foodie. I gotta get to the menus.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: But when you're talking about the you know, the tortilla
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: chips and the peak of the gayo and the lops
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: of chiese jobs, the cilantro. You know, I gotta get
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: there because nothing like nacho. That's what we're about to
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: get to you in a minute. But but but the experience, man,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: is where I really get out of a restaurant. I
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: don't care what the food is, but if I don't
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: get the experience of walking in and feeling great serveys,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the ambiance. Talk about the ambiance of your locations. I'm
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: talking to chef and mcfallen. He owns It's Lobster Bar,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: which is an institution in the New York Marketings now
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: has one outside of the city is sag Harbor. But
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: let's talk about the experience and why it's so important
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: for you to create becoming an authority on lobsters, but
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: also to have the experience to be unique to your facility,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: to your restaurants. You know, it all starts at the top,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: and it's important to create an atmosphere that's warm and
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: friendly for everybody. And you know, listen, every single restaurant
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: is not for everybody. Uh, we specialize in something very specific.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: We're not a diner, and not that there's anything wrong
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: with that food, but there's places for everything, and you
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: cannot be everything to everybody. So first and foremost, we
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: wanted to create an atmosphere that was nantu Get meets
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: New York City meets Maine. So you get a little
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: bit of the shacky element, you get a little bit
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: of the upscale beach culture, but thrown into a casual,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: fast paced New York atmosphere where you're coming in. We're
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: very very bright white looking marble, stainless steel accents, and
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: but you want to be swept away to the beach.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: That's the whole purpose of the concept. You're walking off
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: of the New York City street, getting out of the
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: hustle and bustle, and you want to be somewhere where
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: you're welcomed in a friendly atmosphere. And you know that
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: starts from the top. It's all about mindset and creating
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: the environment that you want your customers to enjoy. And
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I like an environment where it's friendly, casual.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: You sit down at the bar, you're chatting with the bartender,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: you're chatting with the server, you're chatting with the people
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: sitting next to you, and anybody could be walking through
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the door and we get anybody in the restaurant from
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you know, the restaurant owner, chef, casual person of the city,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: two celebrities, and everybody's in this tight little boxing area
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and wonderful. You know, there's nobody's hiding and eds lots
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: of our it's all for the open. There's no hidden
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: booths or anything like that. And even in the new
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: space that's not going to exist either, because we're moving
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: down the street from our older location to a new
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: owner spot just one block down, and soho at one
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Grand Street. So you know, it's it's all about creating
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: an experience. It starts. It's the experience. You're right when
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: you say you want to go in somewhere. I my
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: staffs do with me forever. The customers come back and
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: they come back because it truly is a place where
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the servers do know you. But let's let's talk about
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the beginning here. You know, you know you wanted to
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: be a chef because I love your personality, because you're
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: a good talker. First of all, you're a good talker.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: You have a great personality, So you could have been
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of things other than the chef. Why did
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: you Why did you become a chef? You know, it's interesting,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: And I called my epiphany story. Because I had a
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: bunch of jobs. I was working in the pizzeria, I
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: had a job working on the docks. At the time.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I was working at the Board of Elections in New
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: York City as a part time job. I had just
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: dropped out of college. And I woke up. I woke
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: up one morning and I went, I want to cook.
• 47:21
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• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I went I was. I was driving the Board of
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  Speaker 1: the city and I stopped at the magazine sam while
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I was sitting in the truck because I had to
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: sit outside in the van, and I grabbed. I said,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna grab a cooking magazine. I grabbed.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I literally grabbed the issue of Gourmet magazine. And you
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: know they were we had Gourmet magazine in the house,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: food and wine. I never really picked them up, but
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm going to culinary school.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna cook. I'm gonna start working in the city.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I grabbed the magazine. I started flipping through it and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: there was an ad in there for the French Culinary Institute.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is one true under ridge
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  Speaker 1: version of what happened. I pulled the magazine boom boom, boom,
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• 48:09
  Speaker 1: got out of bed, I picked the magazine up and
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: I made the phone call. I made an appointment to
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• 48:16
  Speaker 1: in school. Within nine months, I had graduated the culinary
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  Speaker 1: program and I was working appecially in the New York City.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, that is literally how fast it happened. But
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: the one thing I have to say is that without
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: knowing it. I mean I've studied mindset now over the
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: past couple of years, but without knowing it, my subconscious
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: from all the years was working in that passion, pushing
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: me in that direction, and I just ten xt myself,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: you know, like all the self help guys everything all
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: talking about ten exting yourself and mass of action. I
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: went all in. That was it. Boom, I decided it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: I went all in. Within within a couple of months,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: I was there. Within six months, I was done. Are
• 49:00
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• 49:02
  Speaker 1: three star restaurant and I was going to work six
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: days a week and if they needed me there more,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: and they said come, I went. That was no question.
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  Speaker 1: slow everybody down. First of all, when I when I'm
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: doing when I'm doing an interview and I'm engaged, just
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of chefs come out of the kitchen
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: and talk to you. You know the restaurant. Now Yopa
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: had come on. I want you to sit down. How
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: did do you engage? Are you? I'm saying a stupid
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: question because I know you do. The customers have to
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: love you, man, You have to have a loyal base.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: When you come out, they probably put it. You probably
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: put people smile on people's face because they know you
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: love the business, they know your passionate about the food.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: They know you're an expert. And your celebrity too because
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: you appear of TV all the time, you judge on
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: different shows and things like that. How do your customers
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: react to you? Because you are I would like to say,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: a celebrity, but also you are down the earth guy.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Because this personality, I can see myself walking in the
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: pizza pizza re you go. I can see that happening
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: to you. It's it has to be a fun atmosphere.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: It's lobster. You know what it has to be, and
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: you know what it's all about, smiles on people's faces,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: And it starts with the staff. Smiling smiling staff makes
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: customers small. But I talked to customers all the time.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I love engage and it's hard to get me to
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: sit down. I don't say still for that very long.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: But if you're sitting at the bar, I'm happy to
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: go stand beyond the ball and chat and and have
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: a rank and kind of stuff. Whatever you want. And
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: it's interesting, you know, I've I've always tried to take
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the ego out of it and um and and it
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: gets hard sometimes. And I'm not a big ego guy.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: And that's one of the things I've kept out of
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: the restaurant is that you know, like this is an
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: industry full of egos. Uh, Servers have egos, Cooks have egos,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: bartenders have egos, chef's have egos, manager of egos and
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: you know, if if it comes from the top where
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: it's not about one individual but it's about the whole
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: success of the of the staff together, it really changes
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the way things go. And I get people come in
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: and they go, chef, take a picture with me, showing
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: no problem with people that I know who looking and go,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: are you really taking a picture with somebody? And you know,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: and I know your videotaping me, But this is what
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: they get double clubs. Yes, yes, I'm taking a picture
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: with them because they asked me to take a picture.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: People they know me, they want to break them and
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: that's what they literally get. And that's that's me walking
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: through the dieting room. It's this, you know, go stick
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: it to yourself and be don't like it, But you know,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be big, I wanted to be loud,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I wanted I wanted to be boisterous and I wanted
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: to reflect who I am, and you know I'm I'm
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: a fun guy. I'm always joking around. I like to
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: tone it down. I am a disruptor, right, my guys.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: You know, the first five six years the restaurant was open,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I cooked on the line every day, lunch and dinner.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Then I expedited the food until I got to the
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: point where I was comfortable and I was ready to
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: start expanding and move myself out of the kitchen and
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: be that personality outside. But my guy's man, they've been
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: with me forever. They got to chef, get out of
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the kitchen because they're cooking and it's busy, and if
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I'm back there, they're like, chef, stop, stop, because I'm
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: chirping in their ear what are you doing? And I'm
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I'm disrupting them as I'm helping them put the food out,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: and it makes it quite comical. But you know, they're
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: getting frustrated because they got to do their job. And
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: then they got me kind of absolutely so that I go,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Come on, pick up the pace.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: But that's not the way you do that. And you know,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: my staff, my kitchen. He has been with me and
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: my guys on the line most of every ten years.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I'm opened fourteen years. Most of those guys really ten years. Um.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Over the years the service have changed, but I still
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: got a few people with me about that have been seven, eight, nine,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: ten years as well out in the front of the house.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: So you know, I've created an environment that the people
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: do well. They want to come to work every day,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: but you know they must perform me out talking to
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the customers. Then everybody, I don't gonna get the food.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Get food the enemy the tickets on the board of
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: the enemy. Right, I want to coot off the lawn,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: let's go. I love it. And you know, hear the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: word family, hear the word relationships, and and so what
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: happened because of New York City became the epicenter of
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and see you know city I love shut
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: down and seeing Broadway shut down? How did that impact
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: your business because this is family and suddenly you couldn't
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: do what you do normal. Your energy hand to change
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: is shift out. I'm sure that was probably the most
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: dramatic part of your life in the fourteen years that
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: you own a lab Sabar and Soho talk to everybody
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: about how do you dealt with it emotionally? How did
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: you woke up one day, hey man, stop crying your
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: own you know, yeah, this is this is this is
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: a this is a good story because I had I
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: had the high and the low during this period and
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: and then you know, kind of build it back up.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: And I never concerned myself with take out as a
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: cost center. I never concerned myself with the delivery apps
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: because the restaurant was busy and I didn't think my
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: food traveled well. I literally went from having customers in
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: my restaurant to getting one order a day, and it
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: was my friend delivering food to his office and that
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: was my only order for the first week of COVID
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: when we shut down, and I said to myself, if
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: I shut this restaurant down, I'm shutting my life down.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I'm shutting down what I do, I'm shutting down who
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I am, and I'm shutting down where I go every day.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: So I refused to close. I refused to close. I sai,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna figure this out. And I doubled down my efforts,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and you know, I went back to showing up at
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: work eight am and staying until the door was locked.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: And I sat there with my computer out and and
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I sat there with a budget, a budget calculator. And
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I went to my guys and in the kitchen, because
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: you know, truly these people are family, because they've been
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: with me for so long. These aren't transient employees at
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: work for six months and leave. Most of my weight
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: staff didn't want to work, and I, honestly I didn't
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: have a job for them. So I kept a couple
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: of them on and I said, listen, this is what
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I can afford to give you for hours. And I
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: gave my front of the house manager a few a
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: certain amount of hours to work with. And I went
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: to my guy in the kitchen. I said, you know,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: we went from my thinking the kitchen from like four
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: hundred hours a week too. I gave him a hundred
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: and forty hours. And I literally said to him, I'm
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: giving you a hundred and forty hours. You talk to everybody,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: you guys, divvy up the hours however you want. If
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: you want three guys to work, the three guys are
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: gonna work the hours. If you want to split it
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: between everybody equally, everybody's gonna do it, I said, but
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: we're getting rid of the cleaning service. Anybody who works.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: We're back to old school restaurant. Every night, everybody cleans,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: every morning, everybody cleans, everybody does every job. Everybody's a dishwasher,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: everybody's a cook, everybody's a prep guy, everybody's packaging food
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: to go until we figure this out. And and I said,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: when when when we figure out how the PPP stuff
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: is gonna work, and we'll make some changes at that point.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: But this is what I have to focus on. I
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: have to focus on budgeting and figuring. I I'm gonna
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: stretch this money until we start to do business again.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: And I went from I went from doing one order
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: a day and take out two over the course of
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: six weeks to doing over a hundred orders a day
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: and take out. And you know, it's just you know what,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: where And it's really true, where you focus your attention
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: is where you build. And as soon as we went
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: back to opening and my attention went away from the
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: takeout and delivery, the takeout and delivery dropped off and
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: we started getting customers back in the restaurant. Uh. But
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: but it was it was really interesting. I mean I
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: was driving deliveries to New Jersey. I was dropping deliveries
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: to Westchester to Brooklyn myself because I would say, like,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: you know what, if I had somebody that was willing
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: to do a big order, I was gonna take it
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to them, because you know what, there's nothing more humbling
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: than going, I have a full restaurant to have I
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: have one order fright day one or what am I
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: gonna do? And I kept the key people on site.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: But it was interesting because I literally went back to
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: working seven days a week. And and you know when
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: when you start working seven days a week and I
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: have family at home and I have small kids, and Daddy,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: where are you going? Daddy? Were you know? They were
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: used to me being home in the morning. I was
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: hold every morning with them, dropped them off at school,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: and I went to work. And I wasn't home anymore.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I was leaving at seven am and I was getting
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: home at ten o'clock. And you know, it was FaceTime
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: phone calls. But I got to the point I worked
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: seven days a week. It was fifty nine straight days,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: and I literally snapped like a twig. The delivery guys
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: are outside, you know, they started, you know, the rules
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: were ever changing for us. You could sell liqu or,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: you couldn't. You could let people inside, you couldn't let
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: the delivery guys inside. This one mask, no mask, the
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: whole thing. Now, I got six tablets in here. I've
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: never done this before. The things are beeping. The delivery
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: guys are trying to pick up from five restaurants at
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the same time so they can make more money, and
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: they yelling in the restaurant, where's my order, Where's this?
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Where's that? And and I'm I'm trying to be there
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: by myself during the day, have an assistant at night
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: to help me in the front. And I'm sitting in
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: the computer, I'm trying to punch orders, and I'm trying
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: to coordinate something in the back. And I literally, literally
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: no joke, I lost it. I literally lost it. I
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: went from being like this massive mindset guru, like yeah,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: we're all working together. Everything is great, We're gonna figure
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: it out. To shut the f of when I get it.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: If you don't like it, leave and and and then
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I literally was screaming. I afterwards, I apologized everybody I
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: walked in the kitchen. It was a Saturday, it was
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: a Saturday. It was a Saturday afternoon. I walke in
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: the case. I apologized to my whole staff, and I said, guys,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: we're all off on Monday. The restaurants closed. I need
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: a day And literally, from that point, I said to myself,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna lose it because I can't
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: afford to put people on, but mentally, I can't afford
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: to be here. My kids are at home crying when
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: I leave the house. I'm frustrated that, you know, these
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: guys outside in the street are trying to work, but
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: you know it's you know, we're all trying to figure
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: it out. And we're not a takeout restaurant, and and
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: and my guys in the kitchen aren't used to doing
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: takeout either. They used to play the meals, serving customers
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: and now we're just throwing it all together. And and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I literally was like, you know what, We're closed on
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Mondays for the next three weeks. I have to have
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: a day off. Everybody's off and and and uh. And
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a learning lesson because even if
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: you're gonna go all in, you still have to have
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: time for that mental reset. If you're not giving yourself
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: the time to recuperate from your efforts each and every day,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: you're you're doing yourself a disservice because you're not at
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: your best. And I wasn't at my best anymore, and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: and and and it wasn't because I wasn't spending enough
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: time at home. It wasn't because I wasn't spending enough
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: time at work. It was I wasn't giving myself enough
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: time to rest and reset my brain for each every day. Absolutely,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: you know, I got a few men just left here,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: but I want to go through a couple of year. Fabie.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: I'm a food You've been saying that from the jump,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: and you know, and I went through your social media
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: timeline and well got nervous because I could. I got
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: nervous looking good. That's how I have a love sea
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: good food. Make go wow, man, that's really tasty. I've
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier about the lobsters and the lachos and the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: cheese and the pia pika, the gaio and the cilantro.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Tell me two of your favorite menu items that when
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: someone goes to the its lobster bar, it is really
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: it really is is a winner. So so listen, first
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: and foremost if nobody's ever been to the Lobster Bar,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: I would literally say to them, if you've never been here,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: you should Somebody at the table should get a lobster role,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: even if you're gonna split it, because that's truly what's
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: made the restaurant popular was the lobster role. However, to me,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: the best dish on the menu is the lobster avioli.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: It's all lobster inside. We make a lobster pasta, fresh
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: made pasta with lobster paste in it, the cream sauce
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: has a lobster reduction in it, and it just bursting
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: with lobster flavor. That that's always something I tell people.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Listen if you if you're looking to eat. It's a
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: heavy dish, but that's my favorite dish on the menu. However,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: the lobster nachos, since I put them on and they've
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: been on the menu for just over a year now,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: that was kind of creation out of COVID. You know,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: you can't sit still. You've got you've got to create
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: stuff that travels. So nachos everything packed separate. That that's
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: selling like crazy at the restaurant and we're frawing the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: chips in the restaurant, they're hot. We're making a cheese
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: sauce that has a ton of lobster stock in it,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: so this way you're getting a lot, a lot of flavor.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I use that same sauce in the lobster mac and
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: cheese and then you know fresh piogo to gaio every day,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: shop lops or pickle the Hall of Painters. It's a
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: tradicitional It is a tradicial Nzo dish, but with shop
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: lobster in it and and and lobster reduction. So to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: me that that's like that's a go to dish now.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: And you know, we moved through so many fresh oysters
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: in the restaurant. It's it's it's something you don't want
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: to pass up eating oysters in the restaurant because we
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: turned through oysters like crazy. Man, you got me with pickled.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: I listen to when people talk. When he said pickled hallapenio,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: I went, that's my man right there, because I hate
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: it when people put fresh holla opinions, oh notches. I
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: don't understand where it's coming from. But my man, it
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: was great talking to you, and I really appreciate you
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: coming on money. Fantastic. So if you're not there, and
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: you hear somebody says, stephen A. Smith came into your restaurant.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Know your boy Rashaan McDonald, because I'm not gonna be recognizable.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be recognizable, your boy, Rashan McDonald brought him
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: in there. Okay, well I'm gonna recognize your RuSHA. And
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: that's awesome. I really appreciate this day. It was fantastic,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun and I love the energy. I
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: love the bar. If you gotta go and hey, man,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: your beast man. And I say that in a strong compliment. Man,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: and you stay successful and you will see me this
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: year in your restaurant. I promise you that. Thank you
• 1:04:45
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  Speaker 1: with your daily minute of inspiration. This week I sat
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• 1:05:32
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