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Frankie Faison, Chrishon Lampley, Guordan Banks, Nicaila & Muoyo Okome · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: his acting career in eighteen seventy four in the New
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  Speaker 1: York Shakespeare Festival production of king Lear. Right there, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot do king Lear. You hear my accent. I can't
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  Speaker 1: even come close to doing a character in king Lear.
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  Speaker 1: He did it with another eloquently speaking gentlemen called James
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  Speaker 1: Earl Jones in the title role. Then he got busy.
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  Speaker 1: He appeared alongside Edda Murphy and coming to America, they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do a remake. I don't know why they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna mess that up. There's an all time great movie
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  Speaker 1: coming to America and earned a role in nine Spike
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  Speaker 1: Lee film Do the Right Thing. That movie should have
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  Speaker 1: won an Oscar. He is noted for being the most
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  Speaker 1: frequent actor to appearing adaptations of Thomas harris Hannibal books,
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  Speaker 1: along with Man Hunter. That was a good movie, right there.
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  Speaker 1: He also appeared at lectures Jailer Barney and the Silence
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  Speaker 1: of a lamb Oh, that was a scared movie, right there,
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  Speaker 1: Jodie Foster, the sequel Hannibal, and the prequel Red Dragon.
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  Speaker 1: He is well known to many Baltimore City Police Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Irvan Burrell on HBO's critically applauded claimed drama The Wire.
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  Speaker 1: That show was too real for me, as many other
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  Speaker 1: critics include Blue bloods Lie to Me, Lauren Arthur s Vu,
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  Speaker 1: The Good Wife, Elementary Band, c We're gonna talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: That is my all time favorite show, and Luke Cage.
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  Speaker 1: He is not starting on a new show called The Village.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money, Megan Conversations, Frankie, it is on. Well, alright, alright,
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  Speaker 1: if he gonna get tired of talking about me, is
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  Speaker 1: he gonna get tired of talking about me? No, sir, no,
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  Speaker 1: sir no, sir, Ree, Brother, you are you are a
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  Speaker 1: consummate professional? You are you articulate? I had to tell people, man,
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  Speaker 1: when they come on my show, you know you you're
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  Speaker 1: a grinder. You're you're grinder. You know you've got good
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  Speaker 1: friends of mine like Vondi, Curtis Hall, my Boy, or
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  Speaker 1: Clifton Pile. These are something some people. They play all
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  Speaker 1: these different roles and I'm not saying you like them,
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  Speaker 1: but y'all, you forget your body of work sometimes. And
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  Speaker 1: how important I said, coming to America. If that ain't
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  Speaker 1: big in the black community, come on that, do the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. If that ain't big and the black men
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  Speaker 1: did he jump over there? Do man? Hudder and silence
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  Speaker 1: of the lamp. You don't do that. He just can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. But man, okay, before we get to the village. Um,
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  Speaker 1: all right, okay, Now, the wire that that changed television?
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  Speaker 1: Would you say that, would you? Because I would say
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  Speaker 1: I heard that on many occasions they said, yes, it
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  Speaker 1: has revolutionized television and the way people watch television and
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  Speaker 1: the things that they see on television. It was a huge, huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge success and a very important part of I think
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  Speaker 1: of history in general, not just Black history, but just
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  Speaker 1: history in general. In the way in which you report
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  Speaker 1: and watch and see things. So I'm so proud of that.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't even begin to tell you when when you
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  Speaker 1: when you read the script, because we all get scripts,
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  Speaker 1: you know you you writers come to you and and
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  Speaker 1: they say I want you. You auditioned for these roles,
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  Speaker 1: did you feel anything when you would reading your character
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  Speaker 1: as the series was developing, you felt like this is
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  Speaker 1: something different, this is really gritty, too too real. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: when I read it, I just felt that it was
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  Speaker 1: just phenomenal writing, and I felt like was something I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to be a part of. Initially, I had
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  Speaker 1: read I read audition for the role of for the
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  Speaker 1: role of the young lieutenant. Um, I can't and when
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  Speaker 1: I can't, believe my mind, my mind is doing a
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  Speaker 1: mental block on me. But they saw something in me
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  Speaker 1: that said that no, he should be the Commissioner Barrel.
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  Speaker 1: And so when I got that role, they came back
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  Speaker 1: and I hadn't remembered reading that role, because you're just
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  Speaker 1: getting a certain part of the script when you read
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  Speaker 1: in audition for things. But this it's turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be a wonderful choice for me, and it's been a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful choice for the production as well. I think we
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  Speaker 1: both served each other very well. And you don't know
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  Speaker 1: something's going to be amazing and fantastic. You just do
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  Speaker 1: the best you can while you're in it. And then
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  Speaker 1: and then things they happened, and they happened for the
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  Speaker 1: good and for this show it was it was well
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  Speaker 1: deserve irved. Okay, Now my wife gonna get excited when
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  Speaker 1: I broke up this show because man, from day one,
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't believe we didn't uh band sheet now that
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  Speaker 1: is that was a no brain of man. And then
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  Speaker 1: that was a show that just from reading the rig,
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  Speaker 1: just talking to the producer because I had to have
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  Speaker 1: a phone call, interview conversation with him, and he told
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  Speaker 1: me about the character and I said, God, I know
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  Speaker 1: that man. That man is so he is, so he's
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  Speaker 1: so in my body of work to come out, and
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  Speaker 1: it was easy and then the show came out. There.
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  Speaker 1: Now the writing advance, he is phenomenal. People don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: They think it's just one of those you know, action
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  Speaker 1: shows with lots of sex and violence and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look at the curve and then the
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  Speaker 1: journey of the writing, the writing path in this show,
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  Speaker 1: you will say, it is phenomenal. So you get you
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  Speaker 1: get sex, you get by lence, you get killing, and
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  Speaker 1: you get amazing writing and amazing actors. Bancie really is
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  Speaker 1: stands out. Is is one of my all time favorite
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  Speaker 1: tub shows to be a part of. And now I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that people get excited about it, and people for me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, little old ladies I never thought would be
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  Speaker 1: interested in that. They say, oh, I can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: see the next episode of Bantacie, and I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: you too, go ahead, it's great. So the most diverse
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  Speaker 1: show to have a hit television as far as I'm concerned,
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  Speaker 1: not I've never seen the show so diverse. You know
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  Speaker 1: the air, and it treats women with such respect. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's a powerhouse women and every ethnicity that you can
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  Speaker 1: name is well represented in Bancie. So fantasy stands out.
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  Speaker 1: It stands out because of the fact that what because
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  Speaker 1: the reason the reason that reason I bring it out
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  Speaker 1: first one of my favorite shows, but also the fact
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  Speaker 1: that your character could have been white. What I'm saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's in a rural community outside of in
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania and you and you bar owner. Now, how many
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  Speaker 1: black people you know, on the bar in that type
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  Speaker 1: of community, right, But you understand what I'm saying. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying that when we talk talking about talent
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  Speaker 1: and and and believability, and you gave us that even
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  Speaker 1: though the elements would say is that true? Yes, it
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  Speaker 1: is because your character allowed us to believe it, and
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  Speaker 1: then you gave us a reason the root for you
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  Speaker 1: and support your your your point of view. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a gift ye have. It's so universal and
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  Speaker 1: to me, you know, as an actor and as a
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  Speaker 1: person and a human being, that's very important to be universality.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I want something that that the whole universe
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  Speaker 1: can relate and respond to. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be backed into some corner of ethnicity, a stereotype, or
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  Speaker 1: any of that kind of stuff. I don't want, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that is not interesting to me something And I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your words about about that too, because if it's not,
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  Speaker 1: if it doesn't have that element of universality, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, uh, I'm not that interested in doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I will do certain things like that, but
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  Speaker 1: for most fun, I wanted to be broad strokes. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say it's undefinable. You know, anyone, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can, I can relate and I can respond to it.
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  Speaker 1: So that really moves my heart. I appreciate those words.
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  Speaker 1: They're on his words, sir, They're honest words. And I say, sir,
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  Speaker 1: just out of respect because of your body of work.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking to Frank and face on. He's a star
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  Speaker 1: of the show on NBC called The Village. It comes
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  Speaker 1: on every Tuesday night at nine pm East and West
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  Speaker 1: a PM. Central Um is a very diverse New York apartment.
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  Speaker 1: That's the setting is New York. His resume is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking through it, you know, soap operas all
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  Speaker 1: my children. Wow, you know, can you can you stop?
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  Speaker 1: Can you just stop? You know you know I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: Son of Anarchy, the Vampire Diary, Shades of Blue, two Colors, Really, sir,
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  Speaker 1: you know, believe me, my friend, when I say this,
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  Speaker 1: as as as a younger person, you are, it's ration
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  Speaker 1: you're the people that we need. That your your your
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  Speaker 1: black history. You're walking black history. Understand that everything you
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  Speaker 1: do makes my life better and the people around you better.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, well that means that means the world to
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  Speaker 1: me because it's certainly with my mother got dressed her soul.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and my father, that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: kind of individual they always wanted to to raise. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, to hear those words sounding out of your mouth,
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  Speaker 1: I I give you a great deal of appreciation and respect,
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  Speaker 1: and I congratulate you too for the fine work that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. And you're hitting it out there, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just with energy and love and enthusiasm. Oh it's it's
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  Speaker 1: too overwhelming. Well, he plays Ron Davis on the Village.
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  Speaker 1: This is my man, Frank your face on check it
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  Speaker 1: Out on NBC every Tuesday. You keep winning, my brother,
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  Speaker 1: and keep keep keep that acting a lot. Well, right
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I got to you both have dynamic personality,
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  Speaker 1: first month, I was releasing an episode every single day
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  Speaker 1: talk to a lot of people like the show, but um,
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  Speaker 1: it was just a little bit all over the place, right, So, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I naturally just ran out of steam and stop liking
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  Speaker 1: I've been with my wife over the last three years now,
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  Speaker 1: almost three years now, just building her thing, just being
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  Speaker 1: very consistent each week, putting out an episode, knowing exactly
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  Speaker 1: who she's talking to. UM, So I actually she has
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  Speaker 1: the course that she teaches. I was asking her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: actually made me go through her course that she teaches, UM,
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  Speaker 1: just go through all the modules just like anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: And after doing that, that that kind of kind of
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  Speaker 1: set the stage for this show a lot better. And
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  Speaker 1: I found out the gates. You know, I know exactly
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to. UM. It's gotten a lot more attraction,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a lot quicker. So I think we're about seven weeks
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: in right now. It just crossed fifteen thousand downloads, which uh,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty happy about. And what we've both been in
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the top one podcasts, so you know, it's been it's
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: been exciting. Well, and did you make an announcement when
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: you launched your podcast or we just just click? So
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely marketed it anywhere and everywhere that I could
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: that I have access to. So that includes listeners of
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the previous podcast. You know, I tapped them on the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: shoulder let them know, Hey, I have something new. Sorry
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I wasn't here, but I'm back again. Would you like
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to listen? I have an email list, it's not a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: huge email list. Let everybody. There are no LinkedIn Facebook, Instagram.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: We're both pretty big on Instagram. UM, so you know, UM,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I think we both believe in Yes, you do have
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to create valuable content that people want to hear that's
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: gonna help them with their issues. But then you also
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: have to shout about it and remind them about it. Um,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you know, develop advocates for it, and just find ways
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to get the word out. That's really important to hear that.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Nikalo Um, you got him over here. You even your
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: husband you went, Nah, you got to go through the steps.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, because I think you know, people think they
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: can just pick up and start a podcast because everyone's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: doing it, and that if you launch it, the downloads
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: will come. But you have to be really strategic about it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: So what he's talking about in terms of knowing who
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you're talking to, I UM, make my students go through
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: this module about refining their topic so that they understand
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: who their target listener is. You literally should know what
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: that person does for a living, who else they're listening
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to and why. And the reason this is important is
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to fold one. It helps you to craft your content.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: So you also should be thinking about your content in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a long term way. You know, you should be thinking
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: about what you're twelfth and fifteenth episode should be, not
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: just launching it excitedly and then running out of steam.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And it's also important to know who you're talking to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: because that helps you to find them online. So we
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: talk about Instagram and social media marketing. We're able to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: have effective posts and to have engagement because we know
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: where people are hanging out. We know what keywords to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: use to get them to to raise awareness of our
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: posts and to get us to show up in those conversations. Now,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: this is a this is an online course that you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: can take. Yes, it's called podcast Moguls, and you're able
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to take it through. Well. First, I offer a free
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: master class actually, so I don't just want people to
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: rush into podcast Moguls. I want them to understand things
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that they can do right now to get started. So
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  Speaker 1: for that I have people head over to site Hustle
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  Speaker 1: pro dot c slash live class for that master class,
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  Speaker 1: so that is completely free. You can walk through and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: understand how to launch and market your podcast. And when
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you're ready, because you really have to be ready to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: focus and concentrate and commit to the podcasting process, then
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I offer them an opportunity to join the podcast Moguls Accelerator.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: What the he's involved the feet the master classes free
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: excuse me a hundred percent free, so that you can
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: take at any time for free. And then four see
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: podcast moguls um Accelerated program. That fee is actually about
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  Speaker 1: to go up, so I can't state the fee at
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: this very moment, but it does start um, you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: right around right under a thousand. Okay, cool, alright, So
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: if I wanted one of my couple of my employees
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  Speaker 1: to take it, which which I do. Okay, That's why
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  Speaker 1: I brought you on the show. Because there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: a reality you have to invest in yourself and this
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  Speaker 1: is exactly yea. And again I'm talking to two experts.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know more Yo, you don't want to take
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  Speaker 1: that that hat, but I'm not gonna because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna give a thousand dollars to somebody who who's not
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  Speaker 1: an expert what I'm saying. So, and it's important because
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I'm a talent, I have great content.
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  Speaker 1: I am getting fantastic guests like you to on a show,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and they have additional other great guests. I usually have
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: four four fantastics guests to usually entertainment driven and to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur driven. And in this lane, you will be
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  Speaker 1: the entrepreneur driven guests that I have that shows on
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  Speaker 1: serious and and like I said, I'm trying to feed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, but I need to focus on
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  Speaker 1: something and I told everybody, let's focus on the podcast world.
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  Speaker 1: And so so with that being said, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: both of them take the free courts. Now just walking
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  Speaker 1: through those steps. How does that work time wise? Because
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I want people on the ARA to here because they're
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  Speaker 1: going to take your master class. I'm just gonna let
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  Speaker 1: you know that right as far as timeline, So again,
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  Speaker 1: the master class is a one hour live class where
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  Speaker 1: I teach everyone live the steps to that first one
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  Speaker 1: thousand downloads, because that first one thousand is really critical.
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  Speaker 1: Once you cross that threshold, not only are you showing
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  Speaker 1: up more in Apple's algorithms, so that your show is
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: being recommended to people who listen to other things. But
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: then you also now have a thousand ambassadors who have
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: listened to your show and are sharing it with their
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  Speaker 1: friends and are if you launch it correctly and know
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  Speaker 1: who you're talking to, they can then share your show
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: effectively and say, oh, I love this show. It's about X.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And then when you're ready to join podcast moguls, that
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  Speaker 1: is an eight week accelerator, so you are able to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: jump into the on demand lessons right away. And then
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: what I also do is every Wednesday, I coach live,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: so people can come into class every Wednesday and we
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just troubleshoot whatever you have going on, what challenges you have,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: so that I'm guiding you throughout that eight weeks, so
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  Speaker 1: you know that if you encounter any kind of issues
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  Speaker 1: at all, I'm there to help. I like this So
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  Speaker 1: it is online, which means that that's important, which is
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  Speaker 1: where all education is going now once finish university, people
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  Speaker 1: just looking for stat Now everybody got every major college
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  Speaker 1: has a Harvard doing it. So so more you watch
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  Speaker 1: the Kayla's out there side like she's working side like
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  Speaker 1: she did she's working, she's working, what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: So when it comes to I'm actually pretty integrated within
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the podcast Mugul's process for example. UM, so when she's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: doing the master class we just talked about then, I'm
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: usually um, since we don't have other staff right now,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I'm usually helping out in there in the chat, just
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: answering people's questions and um, you know, just getting people
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  Speaker 1: excited and getting people prepared. Also, since it's a family business,
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  Speaker 1: family hustle also show up in the weekly class as
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: well to do more of the same, and it's it's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: been pretty cool just seeing some of the results sometimes
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you know, um, sometimes we'll just ask us stout, hey
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: are these products good? Are they delivering? And it's just
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: been cool seeing some of the students, Like there's been
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: people who had podcasts and then you know, first three
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: months of this year they joined the course and now
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that rather than hundreds of downloads, they're getting thousands of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: downloads and their people hitting the new and noteworthy charts.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You know, people who have doubled their downloads within their
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  Speaker 1: eight weeks in the program. So it's it's like, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's my wife, so I'm biased, but I
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  Speaker 1: do think she's one of the best out there. But then, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in my own business that's independent from my
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  Speaker 1: podcast moguls inside out of pro um. So one exciting
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  Speaker 1: thing I have right now, I've kind of taken my
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  Speaker 1: app business in a different direction. So I don't think
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I actually mentioned this, but I in twenty fifteen. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was I sold the portfolio I built up
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: until then, so sold all the apps is over a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hundred apps. Um, so that that was a pretty exciting moment.
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  Speaker 1: But then it was like, okay, you know, um, what's next? Uh?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You know what am I doing next? So I tried
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  Speaker 1: some different businesses and found my way back to apps.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Now that the way I'm thinking about it now is
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that I'm focusing on a very particular niche, and um
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that niche is black people, right. So I feel like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of great, great apps out there
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: on the market, a lot of great content, but when
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: they built them that they didn't necessarily have us in mind,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I'm looking at things
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  Speaker 1: that exists, and um, just looking at where where there's
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a lack of content that needs to exist and where
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I can plug in. So the very first one that
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: we're rolling out the the first version of it actually
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: just came out last week. It's called color Now are
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Um and it's it's a coloring book apps. So through
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: my research, I actually found that these coloring books are
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: very popular. People use them to relax, the kind of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: therapeutic and um, you know, funny enough, a lot of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: adults use them to play with. So I decided, uh,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: it would be a good thing to have images of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: black people in culture within this this kind of product.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: So got gotta wrapped this up. I gotta bring you
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  Speaker 1: back on the show, each one of you, individuals. You've
• 27:10
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  Speaker 1: and and then my uh, you know family and immediate family.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know what I want to I want
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  Speaker 1: to put it all out there, you know, I want
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  Speaker 1: to put I want to put my arts into chasing
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  Speaker 1: my dreams. And that's what I did. What makes you consistent?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I see all these great artists you work with, h
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  Speaker 1: you know, John Legend, Bad Boy Leyla Hathwick been on
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, No here from l A, Meek Meal?
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  Speaker 1: How do you work with all these different talents and
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  Speaker 1: then maintain who you are well? First, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: of those artists that you need have played a huge
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  Speaker 1: role and just me being an artist because it's so crazy,
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  Speaker 1: like like with with Meek Mill. He was one of
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  Speaker 1: the artists that I worked with and I wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: expecting to tap into my artistry the way that I
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  Speaker 1: did with Meek Mill, but he definitely like pushed me
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  Speaker 1: and and and brought it out of me just by
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  Speaker 1: you know, encouraging you know, me as a singer, and
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  Speaker 1: as a vocalist, because I started off writing songs for
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  Speaker 1: these people, and every time I would go on the studio,
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  Speaker 1: even with Keisha Cold, she would hear my voice and
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  Speaker 1: then I would end up on a track, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just never, it never. I went to see fifty
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  Speaker 1: Cents with a friend of mine, and my friends just
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  Speaker 1: told me this, you know, he told me to start singing,
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  Speaker 1: and and I did. In fifty Cents threw me in
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  Speaker 1: the studio right away and we ended up doing a
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  Speaker 1: song called Definition of Sexy. And so I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't I didn't know that there was that
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  Speaker 1: thing that was inside of me that I was hiding.
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  Speaker 1: But these great artists who who have inspired me over
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  Speaker 1: the years and even now, uh kind of like planted
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  Speaker 1: those seeds. And honestly, sometimes we forget to plant those
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  Speaker 1: seeds into into our brothers and our sisters and our
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  Speaker 1: and and the people that's coming you know, behind us,
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  Speaker 1: and even before us. You know, we had we have
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  Speaker 1: to continue to plant those seasons. So I've had some
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: talented people and they really helped plant plant to see
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  Speaker 1: of me even you know, pursuing it at this level.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm truly grateful to have worked with them, with
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: those artists and you know, have crossed their path and
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  Speaker 1: the music business because it's definitely changing my change my
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  Speaker 1: focus and and has also brought uh a new, a
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: new creative journey as an artist in my life. Well
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: here's the funny part about being a songwriter. And so
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  Speaker 1: he can he can attest to this. So when you
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  Speaker 1: when you're a songwriter, you after you have to sing
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  Speaker 1: the song. Most yes, some people a lot of songs
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  Speaker 1: writer sing the song correct. And so so here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: So they're in the studio, they go, okay, let me
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  Speaker 1: hear the song, you know. So you know, he starts
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  Speaker 1: singing and go, I know, they started squinching. Huh what
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  Speaker 1: they still who is this dude? If? The next question?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Who is this dude? And then next thing and go okay,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: how can I work with? So you was winning twice,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you winning twice with a great song, and then you
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: win it twice secondly with a great VARs and then
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: you had what they call swam and uh and that
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: that that's the beauty of you were just going there man,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: just doing your thing. And then God blessed you with
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: a clear understanding your humbleness because you weren't going in
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: there trying to get a gig other than hey, I
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: have a great song I think will really go good
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  Speaker 1: with your voice and your style with your albums, or
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  Speaker 1: ce D or whatever. And then they heard you, they went, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I got this is a bonus track, right right, right right.
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  Speaker 1: And I can tell that you you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of insight education on how the music business work, because
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like you're telling me my life, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you're telling me, like all the steps, so I
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  Speaker 1: know this happened before, and you've seen these steps in
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the evolution of a songwriter turning into artists. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: it and I love it. I love That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: just letting you know. We have a relationship now in
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the business and just invite you to call me for
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  Speaker 1: any mentoring advice. Just call me like I give myself.
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  Speaker 1: I connect with you. I appreciate that. It is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. Okay, it is what it is. I started
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation for this reason. Okay, I cannot leave
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  Speaker 1: this earth with information that I can use to have
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  Speaker 1: somebody else. And I have been that I have been
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: in too many studios. It's not too many artists. Like
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I said, Kesha, Kesha. I met Keshia Cole when she
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  Speaker 1: was auditioned and she wanted and she auditioned for me,
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  Speaker 1: and so then she became as a great autist. And
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: she reminded me, I auditioned for you with Sean and
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I said, oh yeah, and because not because it was
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: just not because I was arrogant. It was just that
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I wanted to hear how great she was. And then
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: she went on to greatness and still living the life
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: of greatness as a song styles. And then you say,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: John Legend used to coming to the studio all the time,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: one of the most professional individuals I've ever met in
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: my life. If you tell John to be in the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: studio at six thirty am, he had there six fifteen.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: He's there, sift all the way, not complaining, not not tired,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: ready to do the work. So when you see how
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  Speaker 1: great he is, when you see he's all over the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: place with a music, a music style that a lot
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: of people questioned because he wasn't doing traditional arm Some
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: people would say, what type of music is he doing?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: And so when I look at your music, Mr banks.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Keep doing what you're doing, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, don't
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: worry about that cubicle that you left, because you're not
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: gonna You're not operating on a A and B plan.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: You're working on an A plan. It's called you. And
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you're gonna keep winning because you have multiple streams of income.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Streams of income means you can write a song, you're
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna develop this clothing line, You're going to
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the restaurant business and all those things. And plus guess
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: what you can sing and you can go on you
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: can do t shirts. That's called multiple streams of income.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: That's why I do this show. Because you're a special
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: young man and because you got it, you understand. And
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: that's the part that I loved about you is the
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: fact that see you still even though you walked away
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  Speaker 1: from that corporate environment, you still brought it with you
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• 43:12
  Speaker 1: gonna talk in the future. Know them A big fan
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• 43:23
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  Speaker 1: being a wine enthusiast. You know, well, how are you doing,
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  Speaker 1: get back to you wine enthusia. What does that mean
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: when you said your wine enthusiasm? So actually I'm a
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  Speaker 1: wine to Ghoston, so I am a wine maker. So
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  Speaker 1: maker of wine to ghost on is another term meaning
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  Speaker 1: I don't actually crush the grapes myself. I forced them
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  Speaker 1: from different men, doing this for years now, six years
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  Speaker 1: in the game. A wine what's just that? Naw, that's
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: a French term. So I buy uh certain wines, a
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  Speaker 1: certain greaks, if you will, from different vineyards, and I
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  Speaker 1: actually create the formulas myself. So chemist wine maker or
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  Speaker 1: whatever you'd like to call it. But each formula is mine.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been in industry twenty years, but I've owned
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  Speaker 1: my company six years and over fifties thousand bottles sold
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  Speaker 1: whether nego Now let's talk about let's talk about this
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: whole wine business. I you know, I had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of really uh interesting stories about wine because wine is
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  Speaker 1: really big with be a basketball player, yes, yes, athletes.
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  Speaker 1: In general, wine is associated with food, wine is Wine
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  Speaker 1: is associated with sexy thiss, Ryan is associated with romance. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Often times people use the word wine and doesn't sound
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  Speaker 1: like they'll get wine to there there children, Ye, And
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: so what makes wine crossed so many lines and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: come across like Jack Daniels, which you know you don't
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  Speaker 1: get much you can call the police, but I can
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  Speaker 1: give my child. I can have a dinner. You know,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: if somebody that dinner drinking Jack Daniel, what they steak
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  Speaker 1: Somebody looking at him, is he an alcoholic because he drunk?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on there? But you can have a glass
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  Speaker 1: has a different field. You're absolutely all right. Wine. I mean, Jesus,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: drink wine. I mean, wine is something that goes back
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: so so far, and it's it's more of a feeling.
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  Speaker 1: It's not necessarily okay, I'm drinking for an alcoholic content.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: It's flavor, um, just like anything in a recipe in
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: certain seasonings. So it sets a tone, it's sets an experience.
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  Speaker 1: It sets yeah, the sexiness. And there's so many intricacies
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  Speaker 1: to wine. Um, it's not simple, uh, And there's so
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  Speaker 1: many flavor profiles and so many different varietals and grapes
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  Speaker 1: and it takes a long time. And not that's not
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: discounting the spirit industry. It's just saying wine can tend
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: to be a little more full as far as it's
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: the array of of types and varietals that makes it
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: so much more intricate and the very very difficult, complicated industry.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: But still beautiful at the same time. And um, so
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: what is what is? What is Love cork Screw What
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  Speaker 1: is that? So? Um? I started this company in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand thirteen, Love cork Screw, um houses, I have six
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  Speaker 1: different varietals. Um again, I'm gonna Gocianta Winemaker. I launched
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  Speaker 1: six different varietals two thousand thirteen, and I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: likes of Mariano's, Whole Foods, Target, Benny's, just the name
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  Speaker 1: a few, and uh, I am a winemaker. So Love
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  Speaker 1: Corkscrew kind of has the gamut of being the six
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  Speaker 1: different ritals. Of course, I can't do everything. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to make the thousands of varietals
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  Speaker 1: at different you know, brands, maybe to do, but as
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  Speaker 1: a small batchline, I can do six, and more than
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  Speaker 1: likely you're gonna like one of the six. And I
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  Speaker 1: make it very very easy for consumers. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people cannot pronounce Brudeaux, Kianti, shown and Blanc. So what
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  Speaker 1: they do is they buy Love Quarkscrew based off of
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  Speaker 1: the labels and what they like. Like for instance, my
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  Speaker 1: cab is We're moving on up. My my Pino Grigio
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  Speaker 1: is good times, good friends. My reason is head over heels.
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  Speaker 1: So you're able to call out a brand off of
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  Speaker 1: a catch phrase, a certain varietal of my catch phrases,
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  Speaker 1: which makes love quarks too, so easy for the consumer.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I wanted to do, and I think
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  Speaker 1: I've done that. Well. It's called marketing. And so you
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  Speaker 1: sat down and and and they say, look, uh so,
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  Speaker 1: who's your brand? Who is your brand appealing to? What?
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  Speaker 1: What age? Is an age group or is it is
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: it a journal market? What is it? Because you're not in,
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  Speaker 1: because you're in Mariano, I know exactly what Mariano's His
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  Speaker 1: whole foods a very selective audience target and those are
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  Speaker 1: very selective audiences which are really really will appeal to.
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  Speaker 1: It's wine you on this shelf. How do you Because
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  Speaker 1: I've done in these stores and there's competition, how do
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  Speaker 1: you break the wall competition? You know, it's very difficult.
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  Speaker 1: And I will say definitely I fit the general market.
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  Speaker 1: Um as an African American wine maker, of course I'm
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  Speaker 1: an appeal to allow of the African American market, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not just specific to that. My labels are so
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  Speaker 1: appealing to everyone just because they're so colorful. So definitely
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  Speaker 1: general market. But wine drinkers, I would say that I'm
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  Speaker 1: really veering towards um Are forty four, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: the young professional. But oh my god, gosh, some of
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  Speaker 1: the high end wine somalis in their fifties and sixties
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  Speaker 1: love my wine as well because they enjoy a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of everything. So yes, it's very difficult to stay
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  Speaker 1: on the shelves. I'm fighting NonStop just for the small
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  Speaker 1: amount of shelf space I have. But I think love
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  Speaker 1: quirks who appeal is just off as an attraction because
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  Speaker 1: the number one reason why people buy wine off the
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  Speaker 1: shelf are the labels, Number two the price, and number
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  Speaker 1: three of the taste. Um So I'm hitting all three. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And I think love couksy is very fun, exciting and
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  Speaker 1: appealing to everyone. Now now you're you're you're an expert.
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  Speaker 1: So we're sitting down. So there's certain wine that you
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  Speaker 1: drink with certain food correct, Yes, yes, okay, it's very important.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched my wife, you know, sit over there and
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  Speaker 1: she goes red or white and you know, give me
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  Speaker 1: lemonade as lemonade water good. So so I'm eating the steak,
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  Speaker 1: what what you know? And we're talking only your lines,
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  Speaker 1: you have six different lines. What would I do with
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  Speaker 1: a steak or what what what? What brand or what
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  Speaker 1: selection would I use for a steak? That would be
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  Speaker 1: my cabinet Sanian, which is we're moving on up, So
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  Speaker 1: the easiest right way. I always tell a lot of
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the people that I teach about wines um and educate
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: about wines just seriously think of it as the seasoning.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: So if you have a good steak in your home,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: marinating your steak, what do you normally marinate you're steaking?
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: What do you normally dress you're steaking, whether it's the
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: bosomic vinegrette, whether it's pepper um, you know, different deep,
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  Speaker 1: muddy things that you would make around a steak. So
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  Speaker 1: that that's what makes sense to a muddy, deep peppery wine,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: which would be my cabinet song Yon and I use
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  Speaker 1: another great example of the opposite. Let's say you're at
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  Speaker 1: a steakhouse. You're at the best steakhouse in the country.
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  Speaker 1: You have your steak, and I like my steak walking right,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I like my medium rare, and I say to the
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  Speaker 1: you know what, can I have a cup of sugar
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: and I take a cup of sugar, and I take
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  Speaker 1: a spoon and I put it on top of the steak.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Does that sound good? No? So why would you drink
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: a sweet wine with your steak? So it's literally just
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: thinking of what makes sense butter fish, Oh, chardonnay, which
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: is normally buttery. So it's just that simple. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 1: say that one more time. That was really smart information.
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  Speaker 1: So now, because I want to impress my wife, next
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