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Gordon Fykes's goal is to provide healthcare for 10,000 in the minority community in 2024. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: guest is Gordon Fikes. He's the founder of United Clinical Research,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the only minority owned clinical trial site
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  Speaker 1: management organizations in the United States. The goal is to
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  Speaker 1: provide healthcare for the minority community that can be potentially
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  Speaker 1: life changing and saving. Gordon A s Fight has twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years of award winning pharmaceutical sales experience with many
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  Speaker 1: popular Fortune five hundred pharmaceutical companies. Please welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: money Making Conversation to tell us about United Clinical Research.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Gordon Fikes, how you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well. How are you sir?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Cool? Explanation? What exactly is United Clinical Research.
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  Speaker 3: NONY Clinical Research is a site a clinical trial site
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  Speaker 3: management company that works with pharmaceutical companies clinical resource research
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  Speaker 3: organizations in order to specifically find my more minorities for
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  Speaker 3: clinical trials. That's why we're in business.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So break down a little bit more. When you
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  Speaker 1: say you want minorities to participate in tests, or what
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  Speaker 1: is it your trial? The word trials, what is the
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  Speaker 1: word trials?
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  Speaker 3: Good question, good good questions. So to make it simple,
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  Speaker 3: what we want to do is there are thousands upon
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  Speaker 3: thousands of what we call human subject research trials. Right.
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  Speaker 3: The trial is a medical unapproved medication that has to
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  Speaker 3: go through the proper testing in order for the FDA
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  Speaker 3: to approve it. What my company does is assist those organizations,
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  Speaker 3: the pharmaceutical companies we call them CROs, the clinical research organizations,
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  Speaker 3: to find minorities to participate in those clinical trials.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you do. I gotta dive a little
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  Speaker 1: deeper on this, mister Fikes, because you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I looked at your background, you know, in nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: a graduate of Tuskegee University, Okay, and I'm African American black,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and when you start using the word trials,
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  Speaker 1: start use word tests around black people, we get real
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  Speaker 1: suspicious and we don't want to be bothered with that.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've started a company, I believe that. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that at all my heart. Now you can tell me
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  Speaker 1: that's why I brought you on the show to help
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  Speaker 1: me and help you because we want to break down
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stereotype. Because we got to get people
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  Speaker 1: to sign up for these trials in order for us
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  Speaker 1: to find cures, for us to find health remedies so
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  Speaker 1: our community can live longer. Because we found out doing
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  Speaker 1: COVID a lot of things. That was the reason we
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  Speaker 1: was high on the lift of people dying or people
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  Speaker 1: succeptible took OVID nineteen was because of our diabetes, high
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  Speaker 1: blood pressure, you know, weight issues and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what this whole world of clinical trials
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  Speaker 1: was really important to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. That is correct, and let me interject and tell
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  Speaker 3: you that he is. The people are not wrong for
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  Speaker 3: what we feel rightay, many of us, many of us
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  Speaker 3: say the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, when it really should be
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  Speaker 3: termed the civilists experiment at Tuskegee. And what happened was
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  Speaker 3: there were six hundred black men in nineteen thirty two,
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  Speaker 3: a portion of them did not have syphiless, and more
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  Speaker 3: than half had syphiless. Ten years later, eleven years later,
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen forty three, when penicillin became the common treatment
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  Speaker 3: for syphilis. Guess what those more than two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty men that had siblists, they were not given the penicillin. Now,
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  Speaker 3: that started the chain of events that lasted for forty
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  Speaker 3: years until nineteen seventy two until somebody said, hey, this
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  Speaker 3: is crazy, this has to stop. So just that grievance
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  Speaker 3: alone has caused a lot of issues with due reason
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  Speaker 3: in our communities. So you know, I want to tell
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  Speaker 3: people that what you feel is is true. It happened,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm here to talk about some things that have
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  Speaker 3: been put in place to change that whole paradise.
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  Speaker 1: Right Because the one thing about it is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I always try to bring individuals when the show that
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  Speaker 1: moved a needle, okay, United clinical research. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: involved with a lot of programs with sickle sale. I
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  Speaker 1: have a sickle cell trade and so always trying to
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  Speaker 1: find out a cure. So you need people for clinical
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  Speaker 1: research in order to be engaged. I'm not saying that's
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  Speaker 1: what this is involved in right now, but I know
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  Speaker 1: that's important to get people engaged to find out if
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  Speaker 1: we're hitting in the right direction. Now with that being said,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, because I'll be honest when I before
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  Speaker 1: the interview, I called mister Fikes. I said, mister fight,
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  Speaker 1: he is the lane of questions. I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 1: because in my mind I want to know and I
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure you're comfortable. We said we share.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it, brother, I know for a fact the
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  Speaker 1: question you asked God to be asked, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to answer them because they are true. It did happen
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  Speaker 1: in tuski had nothing, nothing to do with the university,
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Tuskegee Airmen. This happened in
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  Speaker 1: the city of Tuskegee, and it gets lumped into that
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  Speaker 1: whole Tuskegee world. And so you're you've come out of
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  Speaker 1: here become a leader, founded this United Clinical Research. What
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  Speaker 1: is the goal of United Clinical Research?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I have a long term goal, but the
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  Speaker 3: more immediate goal is I want to help at least
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  Speaker 3: ten thousand minority individuals. Now, let me say this. I
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  Speaker 3: don't discriminate, Okay, we're all one, homogeneous people, Okay, but
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  Speaker 3: this company was founded on the purpose of helping minorities,
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  Speaker 3: people of darker melanin people. You know, I want to
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  Speaker 3: help us find medications, find studies, human subject research, studies
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  Speaker 3: that can possibly save their grandparents, that could possibly save
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  Speaker 3: their parents, that could save a child even you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've been blessed to have the background and the knowledge
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  Speaker 3: that there are there are angels who have put together
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  Speaker 3: some of these medications, and people can take that for
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  Speaker 3: what it's worth, but there is healing in some of
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  Speaker 3: these medications, whether people want to believe it or not.
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  Speaker 3: My background is in biology and chemistry, so the science
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  Speaker 3: of it, I know there are science that can save lives.
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  Speaker 3: And my job is to number one, show people, show
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  Speaker 3: black people that look, what happened in the past cannot
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  Speaker 3: possibly happen in the future. And these are the steps
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  Speaker 3: that the government that we as a people have put
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  Speaker 3: in place. The biggest thing is called informed consent. But
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  Speaker 3: we can get into that if you want.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, because I think that's important in order for people
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  Speaker 1: to understand they are protected.
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  Speaker 3: Now correct, correct, they are protected, And for this reason
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  Speaker 3: and this reason only, I'm really moving forward and trying
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  Speaker 3: to position that if you know, if your parent, if
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  Speaker 3: you have a family member who has cancer, you have
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  Speaker 3: a family member that has diabetes, hypertension, plaqueariasis, anything. I
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  Speaker 3: want my company to be the company that you reach
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  Speaker 3: out to to say hey, can you help me and
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  Speaker 3: let me be let me be the person to try
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  Speaker 3: to help you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, I'm talking about Gordon Fikes. He's the founder
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  Speaker 1: of United Clinical Research, is the one and only minority
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  Speaker 1: owned clinical trial site management organization in the United States. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you use the word help, you know because we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about trials and is help getting them into
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  Speaker 1: a trial? Are there other ways you're talking about helping
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  Speaker 1: people who contact you?
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  Speaker 3: So you know, there's there's been a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: that reach out to me and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: I believe in some research, but other natural pathological ways
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  Speaker 3: that I can get help. You know, it's my job
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  Speaker 3: to say, look, here are your alternatives. Yes, there are
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  Speaker 3: some people that are doing natural studies of natural homeopathic
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  Speaker 3: ways of curing things. Mean I happen to know of those.
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  Speaker 3: My job is to provide you with choices. That's all
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  Speaker 3: I can do and let you make your informed decision
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  Speaker 3: on what you want to do. So that's what I
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  Speaker 3: want to do, and for the next year, I want
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  Speaker 3: to help at least ten thousand people who reach those goals.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, they just broke this down, mister Fike's you
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  Speaker 1: know the number ten thousand. Where did that number come from? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Ten thousand?
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  Speaker 3: You know there is I'm gonna be honest with you,
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  Speaker 3: that number popped up. You know, I was really thinking
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  Speaker 3: about this interview and some of the goals that I've
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  Speaker 3: set for the company's no particularly, I really should have said,
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  Speaker 3: I want to help as many people as possible. But
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  Speaker 3: me knowing this, if I can hit that number, then
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  Speaker 3: I would have done. I would have exceeded my own
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  Speaker 3: expectation of how many people that I can help with
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  Speaker 3: this process.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the thing that is like, if you're being interviewed
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  Speaker 1: on my show and I'm happy it syndicates on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty HBCU Campus series x M one forty two, you
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  Speaker 1: know it drops on my podcasts. So I'm giving you
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  Speaker 1: a platform to educate people about the United Clinical Research.
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  Speaker 1: How can one reach you? And is their website? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: First of all, the website is under construction. However, if
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  Speaker 3: you reach out to me directly on all social media
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  Speaker 3: platforms on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and you can reach me
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  Speaker 3: by Gordon fights g O R D O N y
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  Speaker 3: k E s. If you reach out to me directly,
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  Speaker 3: I will make sure that my people will will help
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  Speaker 3: anyone that reaches out to me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, but at the time, you now, this is an event.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my degree is in mathematics, and so sure
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  Speaker 1: you know biology, well versed in that, the sciences, well
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  Speaker 1: versed in that. How does one based I know, I said,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years you've been in the pharmaceutical award winner
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  Speaker 1: in the pharmaceutical field and sales and experience. But how
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  Speaker 1: does one become a founder of a United clinical research
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  Speaker 1: that company? Well, how did that happen?
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  Speaker 3: You know? So seven years ago I had the privilege
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  Speaker 3: of working at my alma mater as a program director
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  Speaker 3: under the tutor legit mentorship of doctor Ruben Warren. And
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  Speaker 3: it was during this time that we actually worked with
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  Speaker 3: a pharmaceutical company on a project that looked at increasing
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  Speaker 3: minority participation in minority individuals. This was seven years ago
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  Speaker 3: before the FDA stepped in and started making different mandates
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  Speaker 3: that said two pharmaceutical companies that look, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to increase your number. So seven years ago doing
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  Speaker 3: this work, I realized that there was an opportunity. And
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  Speaker 3: then April of twenty twenty two, I read some information
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  Speaker 3: from the FDA that said, hey, you know, this is not.
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  Speaker 3: This is no longer a suggestion, This is an op
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  Speaker 3: This is something you all are going to have to do.
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  Speaker 3: And mister McDonald, let me tell you. When the FDA
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  Speaker 3: says that is something you're going to have to do,
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  Speaker 3: that means if you don't do it, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: affect your bottom line, meaning that there is a possibility
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  Speaker 3: that some medications may not get approved because you didn't
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  Speaker 3: test an appropriate number of minorities in the trials.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely correct. I'm talking to Gordon Fikes, he's the founder
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  Speaker 1: of United Clinical Research. We were right back to you
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  Speaker 1: more about the whole process. You know, he has an
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  Speaker 1: event we talk about a Memphis, Tennessee where he was
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  Speaker 1: attempted to break a world record for screening blood pressure
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  Speaker 1: and an eight hour time perioy. That and more when
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  Speaker 1: you come back on clinical trials in America done by
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  Speaker 1: United Clinical Research. Welcome back to Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host with Sean McDonald. I've been speaking
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  Speaker 1: to Gordon Fightights, he's the founder of United Clinical Research
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  Speaker 1: and clinical trials. You know, we talked about stereotypes, rumors,
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  Speaker 1: urban legends that oftentimes stops black people from participating all minorities,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes you have to watch the word minority because
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  Speaker 1: now white women are considered minorities, and so a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't know that, and so that word has
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  Speaker 1: been allowed to be engaged in different relationships. But before
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  Speaker 1: we go in there further, I have a phone call
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  Speaker 1: that I want to go to right now, Beverly from Decatur.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing, Beverly?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: I'm well, how are you? Miss mac donald?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation master Class. You're on the
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  Speaker 1: phone where Gordon Fikes, the founder of United Clinical Research.
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  Speaker 1: What is your question?
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  Speaker 4: My question is, if you you have blacks that are
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  Speaker 4: willing to participate in these clinical trials, how can we
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  Speaker 4: be assured that we are actually given the correct medicine
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  Speaker 4: and we're not being given up placipo or or some
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  Speaker 4: arbitrary medicine.
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  Speaker 3: So that there is one thing that you can do
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  Speaker 3: is once you find out that there is a possible
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  Speaker 3: trial for you, the very first question you should ask
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  Speaker 3: is will I be given to study drug? And based
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  Speaker 3: on the answer of that, if you get an answer
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  Speaker 3: that says you know it's possible or no, then at
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  Speaker 3: that point you have to make a decision on whether
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  Speaker 3: or not you want to, you know, be a part
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  Speaker 3: of that clinical trial. But that should be one of
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  Speaker 3: the first questions that you ask any anyone that's offering,
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  Speaker 3: you know, such a research. Twelve four years.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Beverly, based on your question, would you consider participating
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  Speaker 1: in a clinical trial?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, actually, unfortunately I was streating with COVID
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  Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty one. I want to believe, and
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  Speaker 4: I was given the when I was because I was
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  Speaker 4: admitted into the hospital and I was administered the rem
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  Speaker 4: DECA there I think that's how you pronounce it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, and that was what they told
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  Speaker 4: me that I was being given. And you know, eventually
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  Speaker 4: I got better over a month or so. But I
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  Speaker 4: still had my concerns if it was the actual medicine
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  Speaker 4: they said it was, you know, based on our history
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  Speaker 4: with you know, medicine or science and research.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's what we was talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was talking about that history that rumors because they
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  Speaker 1: are true in the community and mister Fis has to
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  Speaker 1: fight against that. And I just want to ask you
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  Speaker 1: an honest question, Beverly. Thank you for calling Money Making
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  Speaker 1: Conversation master Class. You know, when you hear these, we
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  Speaker 1: can say the word urban legends. What drives you not
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  Speaker 1: to trust? What drives you in your mindset? I can't
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable participating, so it can help us get there,
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  Speaker 1: so we can get more African Americans. Guess what this
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  Speaker 1: is all about? African Americans? We say to my word
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  Speaker 1: minority really is about African Americans?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 4: What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What engages you to say yes or no as a participant.
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  Speaker 4: Well, just some of the you know, some of the
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  Speaker 4: stories we've read in the news, uh, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: our history, the one that you use for an example,
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  Speaker 4: the Tuskegee Toskegee study, and then that was and then
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  Speaker 4: we just kept the we're just in the dark so
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  Speaker 4: much about our medicine. But I can't even and I
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  Speaker 4: can't think of the lady's name, but she played a
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  Speaker 4: major role in cancer. I think the Harvard took some
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  Speaker 4: of it was either John.
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  Speaker 3: Read Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 4: Her blood and all of this coming out so many,
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  Speaker 4: you know, decades later.
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  Speaker 3: There's just.
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  Speaker 4: There's just quite a bit of history that leads me
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  Speaker 4: to feel that way. And you know, and it's sad
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  Speaker 4: because I know there are trials out that it could be,
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  Speaker 4: you know, quite beneficial to us, but if we're scared
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  Speaker 4: to use them, you know, how we ever know if
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  Speaker 4: we and even sometimes my own doctors, Uh, I'm faced
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  Speaker 4: with something now. I've been going to see the same
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  Speaker 4: doctor for so many years and knows my history, you know,
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  Speaker 4: backwards and forth. But I've been stricken with something that
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  Speaker 4: I'm dealing with now right that should have been and.
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  Speaker 1: Dealt with absolutely that happened to me, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: my cancer discovery. You know my doctor, mister, and the
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  Speaker 1: person who's doing my blood test is the one who
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  Speaker 1: found it. And it was a doctor I was going
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  Speaker 1: to over at least ten years, and I think there
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  Speaker 1: was the casual relationship we had created that allowed him
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  Speaker 1: to just you know, walking in door, sit down, ask
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  Speaker 1: me about my life, ask me how I've been doing,
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  Speaker 1: and then walk right back out there. It was the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with my dinnists. So I think that what
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  Speaker 1: mister Fike said earlier, asking the right question, making sure
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  Speaker 1: you don't make assumptions, and make sure that whatever how
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  Speaker 1: they respond, you're comfortable with. If the response doesn't allow
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  Speaker 1: you to be comfortable, ask another question. If it leads
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  Speaker 1: to them going shrugging their shoulders or going you can
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  Speaker 1: do this if if you want to, then get up
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  Speaker 1: and get out. And that is and that's the bottom line, and.
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  Speaker 4: Usual that's what I do. Because I'm seeing three specialists
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  Speaker 4: now about my well, I've gone to three and I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to make sure I wanted to not double with
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  Speaker 4: triple check that my eyes are being treated for what
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  Speaker 4: is the actual diagnosis because of the lack I guess
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  Speaker 4: the lackadaisical relationship like you said you had with your dog.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, you know some Beverly, and I tell you
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  Speaker 1: to everybody, and I want to thank you for calling
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  Speaker 1: the show, is that the bottom line is all tied
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  Speaker 1: to you and what you feel you have to do
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  Speaker 1: and want to do. There are a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: walking around here just like Beverly, don't want to make
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the phone call, got ideas. I'm not gonna be bothered
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  Speaker 1: with that. There are a lot of people who lost
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: their lives during COVID because they didn't want to wear
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a mask, They didn't want to be they didn't want
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to be involved in that situation. So my whole purpose
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of bringing mister Fikes on the show, and you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I called him before the show. I said you I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: told something said brother it's some urban legends out there
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that just working against your dreams. That number of ten
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: thousand sounds good, but there's an uphill can But I said,
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  Speaker 1: look here, I want to be a champion for you,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: because if I can't convince you, if I can't help
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  Speaker 1: you get there, then guess what somebody else needs to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: step in and help you. But each one is a
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  Speaker 1: leg up. It's a leg up. It's like climbing the ladder.
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  Speaker 1: You can't climb the ladder unless you take one step
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Now you can try to jump some steps,
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  Speaker 1: and most time you jump some steps in the ladder,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna fall off and hurt yourself. And so we're
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: not trying to hurt anybody. This show is an honest show.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: We're inviting people to call on. And plus I wanted
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to open up mister Fikes's eyes to the community too
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: so he can hear and go, oh, Rashan you it
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: really is out there, because you know we can hear.
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  Speaker 1: But she the community just called in. She Beverly is community,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: she's neighborhood and those same type far But also what
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I heard in Beverly is that I try, I do,
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  Speaker 1: and that's all you want, right, mister Fikes.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. And here's something for both anyone listening.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't share this with you earlier, mister McDonald, Miss Beverly.
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  Speaker 3: The motto for United Critical Research is trust worthiness must
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: precede trust. So what does that mean? It's not so
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: for so long. The pharmaceuticals, even some doctors say, well,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: those people should trust us. Now, if you walk in
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: an office and you don't feel like whoever you are
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: working with is trust worthy, walk out. We have to
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: show that we're trustworthy before you exhibit trust in anything.
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  Speaker 3: And I want anybody to know that we have to
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: show that we're trustworthy before you trust. So I want
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: everybody to remember that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Oh I've got a few minutes left, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure I talk about your Memphis vent that's
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: coming up. I believe, well, you want to break a
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  Speaker 1: world record for screening blood pressure in an eight hour
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  Speaker 1: time period. Now, you know blood pressure, that's serious. And
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: whenever I go to a doctor, they take my blood pressure.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm on blood pressure peels okay, And so
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: every morning I get up, I take my blood pressure pel. Again.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people, a lot of people don't understand
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  Speaker 1: the power, and the blood pressure really is a silent killer.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people you hear stuff like, oh,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: he looks so good. I was just talking to him
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  Speaker 1: the other day. I saw him in church. He was
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: running and jogging and playing basketball. Well, see that's what
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  Speaker 1: blood pressure will allow you to do until you keep
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: consistently hitting that number. And so my blood pressure pills
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: forced me to change my diet but also allows me
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to live a normal life. But if I act stupid,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I'm mean, use the word stupid and stop taking that pill.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Guess what I'd be one of those stories you hear about, Well,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: we shall look so good. You know, I was just
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: eating with him, I saw him and go in the coreer,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: what's wrong? What happened? And so so now you're in
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Memphis trying to break a record. Tell us about this,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and I want to wish you great luck on on
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: on doing it, but tell us about the bigger picture
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and when is this happening?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Eighth No February second four. You've got the
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  Speaker 3: clinical research along with the music Moves You. Foundation has
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: a title sponsor America of Tennessee, who has said, you
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: know what this is something great for the Memphis community.
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  Speaker 3: And along with the Memphis Grizzlies, the basketball team, we're
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: gonna try to break the world record of twenty six thousand,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: seven hundred and forty four people were tested in India?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Did you hear what I said India? A few years back?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I talked about this earlier this.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Now, what was that number?
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Again?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: One more time, sir? What was that number?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six thousand, seven hundred and forty four people.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you now, you know you're in Memphis.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Memphis is not a big city. Now. Now, if you
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: told me you was coming down here and doing it
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, you know, Houston, or even New York because
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you can probably get them out of all the boroughs.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: But you're in Memphis trying to break a record right now.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know. You really pushing it,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: my friend, You've really pushing it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: But I respect. Let's make it simple, though.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Let's make it simple, Okay.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know the census population, yes, sir, I would.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I would assume there's at least twenty two hundred and
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: seventy thousand black folks.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yes it is, Yes, it is, Yes, it is at
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: least that yes, it is.
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  Speaker 3: If I can't get ten percent of that population, sir,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: to test their blood pressure, I'm not doing something that
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: none of us are doing.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I tell you what we do. What's that date, February.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: What's that date?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: February, February second.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, this is what we're gonna do, mister Fikes.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: You know New Year's Resolution, that's what that's what people do,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: turn loose, think about their health. Blood pressure. So we're
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: gonna bring you back on the show the Tuesday before
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: that event. That could. That's a deal.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: That's what.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: That's the deal, because you gonna need help now. I'm
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: just telling you gonna need help now. I know you
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: try to get ten percent, but you gotta get them.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You gotta get some people coming from Nashville drive up
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to last You're gonna need to help, my friend, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering to help you out. More importantly, I want
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to thank you for allowing me to have an honest
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: conversation with the community about what you're trying to do.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Because what you're trying to do needs to get done.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And I'm speaking to the founder of the United Clinical
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Research He's the one and only minority clinical trial site
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: management organization in the United States. Gordon Fikes, thank you
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass and we will
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: see you the first Tuesday before your event, February second.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, hey, I appreciate you, Sir, I appreciate it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Stays strong.
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