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Greg Carter Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: an independent filmmaker. He's a graduate of the Texas A
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Speaker 1: and M University and has produced over thirty featured films
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Speaker 1: and several have been featured at Sundance. Also, his movies
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Speaker 1: have been distributed by Sony, Lionsgate, Wanner Brothers, and Netflix,
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Speaker 1: just to name a few. He's one of the Independent
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Speaker 1: Spirit Award and has been inducted into Texas Filmmakers Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame. He's on the show today to discuss his
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Speaker 1: career and the second season The Fifth War. New episodes
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Speaker 1: of Fifth Ward stream every Thursday through September three on
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Speaker 1: UMC dot TV. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, my
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Speaker 1: man Greg Carter, Thank you, thank you, my brother Sean.
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Speaker 1: I'm so slighted to be on the show. I got
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Speaker 1: seven grade at the Dutch and I said, I gotta
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Speaker 1: live up to that. Actually, hey, Greg, you know, because
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Speaker 1: we're both from Houston, Texas, and you're doing a show
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Speaker 1: about I was born in the Fifth War. I lived
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Speaker 1: there the first ten years of my life. Russell and
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Speaker 1: uh and and and thirty fifteen Main Street. It's it's
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Speaker 1: the home that I lived in, a two bedroom shotgun
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Speaker 1: house and had six sisters, two brothers. My father was
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Speaker 1: a truck driver, my mom was My mother was to
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Speaker 1: stay at home all and so uh. The whole concept
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Speaker 1: of doing the show called Fifth War really really just
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Speaker 1: touched home with me emotionally because I know that that
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Speaker 1: was those first ten years were a very important part
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Speaker 1: of my life. In fifth Ward is a community like
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Speaker 1: any neighborhood, is an urban based, inter city neighborhood that's
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Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. Just to give everybody who's listening the
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Speaker 1: exact location of where this particular community is and and
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Speaker 1: it's one of the prominent black communities in Houston, Texas.
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Speaker 1: But you but this initially started out as a movie, correct,
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Speaker 1: this series is correct, that's correct, so years ago. I'm
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Speaker 1: also from the neighborhood. So forward, my my family at
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Speaker 1: home church is on the corner of lying Uh and
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Speaker 1: UH and also my family Stelf family still live it
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Speaker 1: over there, and so it was one of the things
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Speaker 1: that was important to me when I started out. I
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Speaker 1: was trying to tell a story about the neighborhood based
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Speaker 1: on the people I knew. And so back in eight
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Speaker 1: dating myself, I did the first I did the first
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Speaker 1: U UH movie and it had a lot of success.
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Speaker 1: It went to south By Software and a lot of
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Speaker 1: film festivals, and then after that I ended up putting
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Speaker 1: it writing a treatment for a TV show and I
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Speaker 1: put it on the shelf and it was there, sat
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Speaker 1: on the shelf. But probably about twenty years. And then
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Speaker 1: later I got approached by UH Angela Northington, who was
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Speaker 1: the head of content over at UMC at the time,
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Speaker 1: also UH Sylvia George, who's the general management of network
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Speaker 1: about the show. And I said, hey, I got this thing.
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Speaker 1: I condusted obviously what happened and when everybody got it,
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Speaker 1: they truly enjoyed it. And that was the beginning UH
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Speaker 1: season one, and we had a successful season one. So
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Speaker 1: then we came back for two. Now, when you do
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Speaker 1: a show that hasn't emotion tied to it, because like
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Speaker 1: I said, you grew up there, I grew up in
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Speaker 1: there in that environment. Tell us about season one. I
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Speaker 1: know there was a there's a character chain for a
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Speaker 1: major character chain for season two, and tell us about
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Speaker 1: that and uh and also just putting together a show.
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Speaker 1: We know it's shot. Some of the scenes are there
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Speaker 1: are the shots within the community itself, all of them
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Speaker 1: on set, No, all of all of the show is
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Speaker 1: primarily shot in Houston, Texas, uh and and and the
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Speaker 1: majority of those shots in Houston, Texas are in the
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Speaker 1: fifth ward. I wanted to have an authenticity, UH for
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Speaker 1: the show, to make sure that you know, I was
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Speaker 1: quote unquote keeping it real. Uh. But then the other thing,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, we did had a couple of changes of
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Speaker 1: our lead actor who played the role of Ray Ray Uh,
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Speaker 1: he got cast into another TV show. And then we
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Speaker 1: have another character who played the role of Robert Kennedy
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Speaker 1: who's a police commander. He had schedule shooting, uh, schedule
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Speaker 1: conflicts and he had to and we and of course
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Speaker 1: when you're shooting on a time frame and the schedule,
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Speaker 1: you just have to kind of go into it and
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Speaker 1: get it done. So uh, you know, you get me
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Speaker 1: to the situation where uh you make the decisions that
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Speaker 1: you can uh and then sacrifice what you can keep
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Speaker 1: pressing forward, right, And like I said, there's nothing negative.
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Speaker 1: I was just telling people about their business, you know,
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Speaker 1: like I said, we as change happening, and you have
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Speaker 1: to move forward and and recast with the best person
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Speaker 1: that's available to do that role. And you have a
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Speaker 1: very talented guy, so very talented people that you brought
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Speaker 1: on for the second season. And that's why I wanted
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Speaker 1: to let everybody know there are changes. And so if
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Speaker 1: your fans on the show and you've waked the premier episode,
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Speaker 1: because to my understanding, the episode has already aired and
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be in that episode, right, sir, That
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Speaker 1: is correct? Correct? Uh. So, so when you watch the show,
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Speaker 1: if you haven't watched the show, what you'll find is
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Speaker 1: it's not just a narrative with characters who say dialogue.
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Speaker 1: For me, it was important that the show itself, uh
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Speaker 1: was not just my story, but the story of other
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Speaker 1: voices that also know and love Fifth Woard. So uh
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Speaker 1: at the beginning and the end of each episode, you
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Speaker 1: have a small interview with someone from the neighborhood who
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Speaker 1: gives their experience about what made or what makes Fifth
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Speaker 1: Ward special. And so we we try to make sure
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Speaker 1: that uh that is uh something that that. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I want to keep it engaged with the audience, but
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Speaker 1: also let the audience know that there's more than just
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Speaker 1: great card to telling this story about Pickle and the
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Speaker 1: neighborhood who we love. There's other people too that that
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Speaker 1: are gaging the story. And wow, you know, I know
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Speaker 1: we were. I was all I flew into town. I
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Speaker 1: remember a great call me, Richelle. I'd like you to
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Speaker 1: take this and it was more of an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: be a part of something special because I consider you
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Speaker 1: doing a project about a very important community within a
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Speaker 1: black community within Houston, Texas, a community that was that
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Speaker 1: I was born in the community that I pride myself.
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Speaker 1: I tell people from fear forth all the time. But
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Speaker 1: then we see the feel worth that you and I
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Speaker 1: were born in. It's changing and and UH as they
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Speaker 1: say the streets have gotten wider and white people are
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Speaker 1: moving in. It's true not just for Fifth War, but
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Speaker 1: it's also true for a lot of communities, UH in
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Speaker 1: the UH throughout the United States. And what happens is
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Speaker 1: that you have these depressed home values, which means these
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Speaker 1: areas of right for uh gentrification. And what gentrification is
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Speaker 1: if people don't know, it's a process of where you're
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Speaker 1: slowly UH moving I guess in the simplest way, moving
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Speaker 1: the original residents out and culturally and sometimes uh racially,
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Speaker 1: changing the way the neighborhood is. UH. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: for me, if you look at what's happening in Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles where they're building build a brand football stadium in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the hood, are we going to the
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Speaker 1: right there Inglewood? That is correct, happening in Englewood right now? Uh,
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Speaker 1: those you are listening, just let me just even expand
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Speaker 1: it They're not only only building a stadium, they built
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Speaker 1: a train system to go right up to it, so
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Speaker 1: Crenshaw to put this train line in this metro line,
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Speaker 1: and so that just you know, when they want to
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Speaker 1: make a change, they can make a significant change. And
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Speaker 1: when you do it, change like that. It affected the
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Speaker 1: black businesses that were along Crunchhall along the way, and
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Speaker 1: so that's what a lot of people understand say is
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Speaker 1: for the good, but also who you heard and create
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Speaker 1: this quote unquote good. And so that's what we're dealing
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Speaker 1: person across the street, they can't pay that new tax,
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Speaker 1: homeless situation or they have to move out a neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: That and that's all the neighborhood they know. And that's
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Speaker 1: the tragic part about that process, isn't it right? Right? Oh? Absolutely?
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Speaker 1: And uh is happening in Seattle? Uh is happening? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Like I was about to say, people who live in
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Speaker 1: New York, they just built a new basketball arena in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1: That neighborhood is changing. So so these it's happening nationwide
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Speaker 1: and in the last five or teen years is happening
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Speaker 1: an increasing pace, and so we have to fight for
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Speaker 1: our neighborhoods and so that we can have and keep
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Speaker 1: the cultural representation that made the neighborhood great because when
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Speaker 1: the people come into many people come into the community,
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Speaker 1: what time with that. That's okay, no worries there. But
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Speaker 1: but we want we want the respect of the of
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Speaker 1: the of the neighborhood to be there. We want the
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Speaker 1: culture of the neighborhood to stay, you know, we want
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Speaker 1: all that to happen. Wow, now let's talk about this.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to said I don't want to get
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Speaker 1: so social to forget that I brought you in this
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Speaker 1: show because you're not gonna get to talking because we
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Speaker 1: because you're a texted NM grad, I'm a Universe Houston grad.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we've we've gotten out degrees. We you know,
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Speaker 1: we have intelligence behind and not saying other people don't
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Speaker 1: have intelligence, but we both from Fifth War and so
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Speaker 1: we have a passion when we start talking about this.
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Speaker 1: But this series, some of your main characters Maya and
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Speaker 1: my boy called Anthony Payne and all my Gooding and
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Speaker 1: Jaylen Mack talk about putting the cast together like this
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Speaker 1: and if you don't know Maya the former singer Seal,
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't jay former the singer Maya is one of
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Speaker 1: the lead characters in this particular problem. Gary Sturgis bringing
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Speaker 1: all that casting together. My man called Anthon, who I
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Speaker 1: love to death, and Omar Gooding I should work with
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Speaker 1: him on a Smart Guy back in the day on
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Speaker 1: w B. And so I know who you're working with
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Speaker 1: in Jayleen Mac. She's a She's one of the most
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Speaker 1: famous attorney slash actresses in the game. Oh yeah, daily
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Speaker 1: look days. Sometimes I marvel how much Daily Mac does
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Speaker 1: in a day. I'm like daily, you being more to
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Speaker 1: day sometimes and some people doing a whole month. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how you do it. But the cast, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know. I'm the son of a Methodist minister, and
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Speaker 1: I feel like I was really blessed to have a
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Speaker 1: cast such as Maya and Gary and Karl, Anthony, paying, Omar,
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Speaker 1: original Ty Dorsey, Uh, Jayleen, all those people. And there's
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Speaker 1: so many terrific talented people who are from the Houston
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Speaker 1: area of local actors that come in. And what I
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Speaker 1: think it really was was that when people have opportunity
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Speaker 1: to read the script. The first draft of the season one,
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Speaker 1: episode one script. Uh, people will just drawn to the
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Speaker 1: characters because you know, we don't really have a lot
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Speaker 1: of stories that are urban that are told from the
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Speaker 1: perspective of, you know, residents in the neighborhood more. I think,
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Speaker 1: somehow another we came to the conclusion that that was past.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to be this, that and the other, but
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Speaker 1: we cannot forget our forgotten poor and are forgotten under
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Speaker 1: classes are with us. You know, I consider myself and
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Speaker 1: just as you, someone who picked ourselves from the from
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Speaker 1: the bootstrapt. But there we still have those neighborhoods there,
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Speaker 1: and it's important for us as individuals to make sure
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Speaker 1: that we give, give and inspire hope so that those
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Speaker 1: people can thrive and do well. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: thes are written from a perspective that they have a
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Speaker 1: huge sense of hope and faith in them. And so, uh,
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Speaker 1: even even cards he played is playing the bad guy,
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Speaker 1: he still has that in his character where he is
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Speaker 1: trying to do things for the betterment, but he has
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Speaker 1: his own way of doing it. And so I think
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Speaker 1: that's what I always wanted to do. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: make sure that uh we connected with UH with the
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Speaker 1: understanding that you know, when things are not the best
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Speaker 1: way they can be, you know you you can survive
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Speaker 1: and you can make it. But also show how people
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Speaker 1: were move in and we've through through life, maybe the
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Speaker 1: way that uh, you didn't do it, but maybe your
16:48
Speaker 1: grandparents did it or your mother and father did it,
16:51
Speaker 1: because people are still doing that today and I think
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Speaker 1: it's important to bring a spotlight to that journey. I'm
16:56
Speaker 1: talking to Great Carter, director, creator, exacutive producer. You know everything,
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Speaker 1: he added, he does it all. That's what you do
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Speaker 1: when you when you're when you're learning. The reason the
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Speaker 1: reason I'm saying that because I gotta go back on us,
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Speaker 1: but also if you want to catch this series fild War,
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Speaker 1: it's on UMC dot tv. It's as as a streaming
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Speaker 1: service and anywhere you find Netflix and Hulu, you can
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Speaker 1: find UMC dot tv and just go to the site
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Speaker 1: and find the fifth ward. This is a fantastic series.
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Speaker 1: It's in this second season. But let's go back in
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Speaker 1: our journey, all the way back to when I opened
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Speaker 1: a comedy club, hip hop comedy stop, and when you
17:31
Speaker 1: were you was you know, all I heard was Gred Carter,
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Speaker 1: you gotta get a bad car because you were doing
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Speaker 1: all them. You thought, all the music videos in the
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Speaker 1: city of Houston next time, that's where you cut your teeth.
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Speaker 1: And we met a couple of times, but you know,
17:45
Speaker 1: but we didn't meet enough because I was still trying
17:47
Speaker 1: to build my brand and then eventually go back to
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Speaker 1: l A and started writing no sitcoms. But really it's
17:53
Speaker 1: always a journey, and you got to start somewhere, and
17:56
Speaker 1: it started with you those early years when rap took
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Speaker 1: off to get all boards with just just just put
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Speaker 1: a put a face on the city of Houston music scene,
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Speaker 1: and you was right at the heart of it. Brig.
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Speaker 1: It was funny because, uh, so when I went to college,
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Speaker 1: I was studying engineering and I had the chance to
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Speaker 1: study I had to take a couple of like this
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Speaker 1: and uh and I studied, uh screenplay writing. And it
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Speaker 1: was just so happened that there was a gentleman by
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Speaker 1: the name of Charles gold On who was a guest
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Speaker 1: lecturer at tech A and M. And once I had
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Speaker 1: my first taste of writing and directing, I was sold.
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Speaker 1: I was like, Yeah, this engineering degree is not gonna
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Speaker 1: be no good because I know what I want to
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Speaker 1: do now. So then I from there and I went
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Speaker 1: to UH Rice University and I started taking UH in
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Speaker 1: the massive m f A program and started studying. And
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Speaker 1: so I knew when I came out that's what I
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Speaker 1: wanted to do, and it was gonna be a situation
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Speaker 1: where Okay, I can need to pack up a go
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Speaker 1: to UH, you know, to Los Angeles and New York,
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Speaker 1: or either I can try to do something. So I
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Speaker 1: decided to write my first script and then hire myself
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Speaker 1: to produce and directed. And that was the eight cor
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Speaker 1: in the genesis of how things started. And I always
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Speaker 1: tried to look at UH, you know, everybody's journey being
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Speaker 1: unique and different, including my own. So you know, I
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Speaker 1: didn't long for Okay, I gotta go, I gotta go,
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Speaker 1: I gotta get out of it. I just because I
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Speaker 1: at the time I was married and I was starting
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Speaker 1: off with two kids, and I was just like, you
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Speaker 1: know what I can I can be a dad and
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Speaker 1: do both. That proved to be a little difficult, but
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Speaker 1: you know, I still I still know that, you know,
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Speaker 1: with perseverance, you can find success. And so I always
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Speaker 1: thought that, you know, once I got into the situation
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Speaker 1: of actually trying to make UH content and and drive.
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Speaker 1: You know, we call it content now, but you just
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Speaker 1: I'm shooting the movie. I do that. I always had
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Speaker 1: the Vivie know when I started off doing the music
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Speaker 1: videos and everything else, that the that the big prize
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Speaker 1: was doing movies and TV. And you know, fortunately for me,
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Speaker 1: I was I was at a time where it was
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Speaker 1: a much more open opportunity to do it than was
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Speaker 1: blockbuster videos everywhere, lots of companies making content UH and
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Speaker 1: fill the shelves there. And so I was just in
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Speaker 1: a very unique situation. And I feel blessed to do it.
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Speaker 1: And now, you know, it's funny because you look around
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Speaker 1: some you know, fifteen or twenty twenty five years later, whoa,
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Speaker 1: I'm here. And so part of what I tried to
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Speaker 1: do as well is to realize that my journey just
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Speaker 1: ain't all about me, It's about also helping people. So
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Speaker 1: I also teach UH filmmaking at the University of Houston
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Speaker 1: UH in the Let's A School, And I also do
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Speaker 1: UH also do different UH work with jay You mentioned
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Speaker 1: Jayleen Mac. I work with Mrs j Lee Mac. She
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Speaker 1: has a program called Impact a volunteer. They're working with kids.
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Speaker 1: So it's an important part of, you know, just making
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Speaker 1: sure that your legacy, like what you do is out there. Wow.
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Speaker 1: He's uh, he's the Independence one of the Independent Spirit Award.
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Speaker 1: He's been inducted into the Texas Filmmaker's Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: He's on the show to talk about fearth Ward a
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Speaker 1: serious as in the second season. You can reach it
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Speaker 1: on u MC dot TV. Whenever they're in the streaming
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Speaker 1: there as well. I want Greg want to thank you
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Speaker 1: for coming on the show, and thank you for putting
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Speaker 1: me on your show. And again I want to help
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Speaker 1: promote and this is just one project. I know when
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Speaker 1: you have a future project. We've connected because you know
21:51
Speaker 1: when I when I look at our relationship that we've
21:55
Speaker 1: had started in Houston and we kind of like launched
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Speaker 1: our careers simultaneously. And I was as a comedian and
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Speaker 1: I eventually came a producer, writer and manager of talent,
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Speaker 1: and and you started out as an engineer. My degree
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Speaker 1: was mathematics, so we all started in a different direction,
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Speaker 1: but creativity overwhelmed us and now we are content creators. Gregg,
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