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Angela Yee, Katrina 'Kat Tat' Jackson, JD Lawrence & Melba Wilson · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: j D lrds. Right, All right, well seven, yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 1: actually I surpassed the Guinness Book of World Records. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I went for the Guinness Book of World Records and
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  Speaker 1: we had a issue with it because I beat the
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  Speaker 1: record and I didn't know at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted ten thousand dollars. Yeah, they wanted ten thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like ten thousand dollars. I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, and then nobody told me that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see that in the contract, right, So they want a
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars to actually give me the actual a award.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, okay, well, you know, no problem. We
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  Speaker 1: wrote them the check. Then they told me I would
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  Speaker 1: only have it for one day because it was a
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  Speaker 1: guy in Germany that because at that time I only
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  Speaker 1: played fifty six and I beat the fifty two characters.
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  Speaker 1: So I played fifty six, but they said that I
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  Speaker 1: would only have it for a day because it was
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  Speaker 1: a guy in Germany that was doing sixty. I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not giving you ten thousand dollars for a day.
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  Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. So then we waited a year
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  Speaker 1: and I came back because I wanted to challenge it,
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  Speaker 1: and also we got our money back, and I went
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  Speaker 1: and I beat the sixty characters and I did seventy two.
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  Speaker 1: Then they want a twenty thousand. Oh, they just keep
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  Speaker 1: going up, they want Yeah, so my pr person said, well,
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  Speaker 1: listen to all we gotta do is just said you
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  Speaker 1: surpassed it. And if they want to challenge it, you
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  Speaker 1: know we have it on you know film. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't know that when you
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  Speaker 1: get those stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, there's
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  Speaker 1: a fee for that about thirty thousand dollars. So you said,
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  Speaker 1: why what you call him? It's not because they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to pay that thirty thousand, Well ten thousand more.
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  Speaker 1: I could have just got me a star. Absolutely, And
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  Speaker 1: how you've been doing my friend a long time back history. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we came together up in New York when I Steve
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  Speaker 1: and I went to WBLS and New York City in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and uh, and we just started connecting.
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  Speaker 1: Just what let me say this back then, if nobody
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I had asked um you to manage me,
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  Speaker 1: and you said to me, what are you doing for
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  Speaker 1: yourself that I can't do? And I sat there and
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  Speaker 1: I had to think about it for men, asked, well
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  Speaker 1: what am I doing for myself? And you said, brother,
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  Speaker 1: he said, do it for yourself first, and then when
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  Speaker 1: you get to what you gotta get to then come
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  Speaker 1: back and say all right, I can't go no further.
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  Speaker 1: But at that point I think I was lazy and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do it, and I and I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you I left that meeting mad I was tight. I
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  Speaker 1: was like yeah, McDonald said, I gotta do it myself.
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  Speaker 1: And then my wife said, what what are you doing
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  Speaker 1: for yourself? Like what? And then I literally motivated myself
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  Speaker 1: to do something for myself because I didn't stop talking
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  Speaker 1: to you. No, no, no, you answer my calls and
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  Speaker 1: every day absolutely what are you doing? That said nothing?
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  Speaker 1: You know what You're like play what about this? With Sean?
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  Speaker 1: You said, hey, watch this video and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I just start seeing you moving forward. But there was
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  Speaker 1: no denying your talent. It was like okay, because what
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  Speaker 1: happens says a lot of people in Hollywood. They get
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  Speaker 1: an agent, they get a manager, and sometimes didn't just stop.
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  Speaker 1: They think something magical is going to happen. But what
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  Speaker 1: people don't realize that is that managers and ages are
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  Speaker 1: really just helping a talent to the next level because
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  Speaker 1: right people, and that organization can lead to a better
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  Speaker 1: financial situation. But believe me, I didn't make a Stephen
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  Speaker 1: A Smith. I didn't make a Steve Harvey. I just
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  Speaker 1: positioned him based on the foundation that he gave me.
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  Speaker 1: He had the foundation. But Steve was always at the
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  Speaker 1: ready to go on the road, ready to tell a joke.
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  Speaker 1: And that's all I was asking him, What are you
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  Speaker 1: doing for yourself to build your brand, to work your brand?
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  Speaker 1: And the evolution of all these different characters came along.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, you're big and drama. Just to explain
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  Speaker 1: to everybody on the show, what exactly is a drama
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  Speaker 1: A drama Ney is Uh my interpretation of it is
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  Speaker 1: mixing drumah with the comedy side and bringing them both because, um,
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  Speaker 1: I want people, you know, I always want people to laugh,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to feed them a message at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. So that's the drama side of it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, giving them an important message, you know that's serious,
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  Speaker 1: but making it you know, it's almost like you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know feeding people ice cream, you know, feeding them
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  Speaker 1: their medicine. But you got some ice cream. Absolutely, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just it's just, you know, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be talented to be to pull that off because usually
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  Speaker 1: in a scene is so dark that that you you
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  Speaker 1: make that the right turn and people go with you
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  Speaker 1: and and things like that. So now when I'm reading
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  Speaker 1: your bio j D. It's talks about family. Who in
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  Speaker 1: your family as part of the production. Everybody, everybody works
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  Speaker 1: that everybody, anybody that's eating my house is working, because
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  Speaker 1: I think it's important. You know, as a family, you're
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  Speaker 1: a lot of wronger and you want to keep family
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  Speaker 1: around you when you're in this business. Because David and
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  Speaker 1: Tamila man do that. Yes, everybody in that how they
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  Speaker 1: can't speak, get up out of bed. Everybody gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: I got my wife handles the money side of that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have my kids count my money. I just
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  Speaker 1: let my wife count my money. But I got a
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  Speaker 1: son who's into um. He actually just graduated from cooking school.
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  Speaker 1: So I did and one thing that I did wrong
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  Speaker 1: about that, I totally look better than my wife. So
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  Speaker 1: she hasn't cooked since. But he's into you know, music
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  Speaker 1: as well, so he so he scores a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the music, you know, for the show. And then I
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  Speaker 1: have my two daughters. They handled the business side on screen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so when we did the reality show Bravo,
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  Speaker 1: they actually came on screen and do it. Let let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about something that's really important. Your your your successful
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  Speaker 1: actor and prominent stuttering. Okay, okay, So that's that's something
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  Speaker 1: that's been part of your life. And and and when
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  Speaker 1: you go out to character, is not there, No, not
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  Speaker 1: not at all, you know. And it's weird because um,
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  Speaker 1: I spoke to Samuel Jackson about this. He came to
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  Speaker 1: New York City one time, him, Bruce Willis, um Emily
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  Speaker 1: um Blunt, and I remember having a conversation with sam
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  Speaker 1: about it and he's like, you know, you have to
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  Speaker 1: put a character in front of that voice, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't know that he had a speech. I started, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I spoke to um, I'm Steve about that. I
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  Speaker 1: remember one time, Um was it dog? What you? What
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  Speaker 1: are you stuttering about? Dog? Spick up man? You know.
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  Speaker 1: But I've you know, um um getting on stage, Like
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  Speaker 1: when I go into the character, you know, any character
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  Speaker 1: that I decided to go into the character just completely
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  Speaker 1: throws out and this character does not start at all,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But I can't walk around life talking like that.
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  Speaker 1: You probably just look at you a little different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I did the school's working with But when you
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  Speaker 1: when you talking about because you did sending the two characters. Yeah, okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: let's break down that process because I don't know sending
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  Speaker 1: it to anybody like that. Okay, So in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the players, what it's called schizophren schizophrenia And right
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  Speaker 1: now it's been on tour right well, we've been doing
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  Speaker 1: some spot dates. We actually head out on the national
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  Speaker 1: was a J D numb Are you going to do
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  Speaker 1: these seventy two people? I washed one of the big time.
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  Speaker 1: We can go back when he really was a dominant force,
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  Speaker 1: took took many many stars out on the road. Kurt
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  Speaker 1: Franklin tour on the road, so he was always out there.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have I think you're carrious. And then Tyler Perry, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh who just took it to the next
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  Speaker 1: long Oh yeah, you know. And I have so much
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  Speaker 1: respect for Tyler because he built a brand out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and really made it something let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about something that's really important. Your your your successful actor
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  Speaker 1: and prominent stuttering. Okay, okay, so that's that's something that's
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  Speaker 1: been part of your life. And and and when you
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  Speaker 1: go into character, it's not there. No, not, not not
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  Speaker 1: at all, you know. And it's weird because Um, I
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Samuel Jackson about this. He came to New
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  Speaker 1: York City one time, him, Bruce Willis, Um Emily um Blunt,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember having a conversation with sam about it,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, you have to put a
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  Speaker 1: character in front of that voice, you know, because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that he had a speech and started, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I spoke to um, I'm Steve about that. I
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  Speaker 1: remember one time, Um, was it dog cute? What are
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  Speaker 1: you stuttering about? This big up man? You know? But
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  Speaker 1: I've you know, um um getting on stage, Like when
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  Speaker 1: I go into the characters, you know, any character that
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  Speaker 1: I decided to go into the counter just completely flows
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  Speaker 1: out and this character does not start at all, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't walk around life talking like that. You
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  Speaker 1: probably we should look at you a little different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I did it in school. What's working with But
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  Speaker 1: when you when you talking about because you did send
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  Speaker 1: the too characters. Yeah, okay, yes, let's break down that
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  Speaker 1: process because I don't know send it to anybody like that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So in the name of the players, what it's called
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  Speaker 1: schizophren schizophrenia And right now it's been on tour right well,
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing some spot dates. We actually head out
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  Speaker 1: on a national tour with a l W that's l
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  Speaker 1: uhhh yeah awesome. Yea, it was a J D numb
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna do these seventy two people? Washed? Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the big time? We can go back when he really
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  Speaker 1: was a dominant force, took took many many stars out
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  Speaker 1: on the road. Kurt Franklin tour on the road, so
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  Speaker 1: he was always out there. Now you have I think Carrios,
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  Speaker 1: uh and then Tyler Perry you know, uh who just
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  Speaker 1: took it to the next long oh yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I have so much respect for Tyler because he
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  Speaker 1: built a brand out of nowhere, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: really made it something. I remember we're about to go
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  Speaker 1: in this break, but I remember we was we was
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  Speaker 1: doing very well. Uh, he said, you gotta come to
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  Speaker 1: to be in the Kodak Theater and Kodak Theater way
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  Speaker 1: they do the Oscars and all the major awards in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: is world renowned. Last year, the Mayor of New York
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  Speaker 1: City and first Lady awarded the Brooklyn Navy with her
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  Speaker 1: own day in New York City. She's co host of
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  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club has transcended hip hop
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  Speaker 1: and pop culture become a popular style for both rising
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  Speaker 1: and established politician, community activists, and business leaders. The Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Angela. Ye, me sound
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  Speaker 1: really amazing. Well, you're amazing. Well, you know, the thing
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  Speaker 1: about it, the Angela is that you know you you
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  Speaker 1: you're you're in the in the era of social media
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  Speaker 1: and branding and and you know, women dominate radio listenership.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you ever show, unless you're doing sports,
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  Speaker 1: that's where men dominate listenership on sports. Hand and I
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  Speaker 1: produced so many fantastic morning shows, and I know the
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  Speaker 1: show you're on, there were two very dominant men. What
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  Speaker 1: do you feel your role us on the Breakfast Club?
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, and we are very clear about what
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  Speaker 1: our roles are. But for myself, I would say that
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  Speaker 1: my role is the person that brings the facts and
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  Speaker 1: the one that gets there earlier than everybody does the research,
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  Speaker 1: presents the stories and that's probably the most prep from
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  Speaker 1: when we have interviews. I'm also the one that bring
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  Speaker 1: the bag in when things get off track. So people, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as the person that the same one, well, you know, so,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, that's really funny because you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I look at Live Service, you're kind of not saying
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  Speaker 1: on that show. You know. You know what's funny is
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  Speaker 1: I still am kind of like the Barbara Walters on
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  Speaker 1: one that is the most say that all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and people also say, well, Angela doesn't tell us her
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  Speaker 1: experiences life, and I always look at it like when
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  Speaker 1: I'm here every single thank you guys knowing me from
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  Speaker 1: the breakfast club. I'm trying to learn more about other people.
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  Speaker 1: But I still feeling like I have always been somewhat
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  Speaker 1: conservative when it comes to a mon and sex life.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: So if I want to be honest, everybody is not
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: a freak. A lot of people are conservative also. Absolutely
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: to learn about new things absolutely, you know, and that's
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: why you know it's called fantasy. You know, you have
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: a fantasy and you can't have a reality. And so
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: when i'm you know, I try to reach out and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you know, when guests come on my show, and especially
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: unique guests because you all unique guests, because we know
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't mention that that's that amount of
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: all activity of book club or you know you're obviously
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: in shape you running, you know, or I'm sure if
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you run in front of me, I'm not gonna catch you,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you know, especially I keep up with you for a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: New York block after that, we all got something. I
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: bet you if you started running. That's a little bit
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: like every few days, like I ran with people that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: their life who have asked everything. And I've seen people
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: like that. One of my really good friends from college,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Nay was marathon. Before that he had asked, I never
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: ran a day in her life the Crown. That's amazing.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And you no, no, because let's let's like, I can't
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: go to detail because I'm on free Radio to rest
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: your radio with your lift service show. But you know
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you got on there. I see Stephanie and Loreale on
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the show. Now are they are? Is that your team? Uh?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: How does that? How does the makeup? And then you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: have to guess, you know, you know, they come on
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the show and you're they're teasers. You're you're trying to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: pull out the nuggets of sometimes shock or information, like
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: you said, you know, I saw you know Chelsea Handler
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: episode and now so when you were on that episode,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you admitted, I'm not trying to be open. That's that's
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: never been my goal. You know what I loved about it,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and I always tell people in my intro is about
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you know, you're out there writing your own story and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that's what impresses me. And it's just just tell people
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: why that's important that Angela else who story first. Well,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I think we all very diverse human being. Sometimes people
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: think we're so monolithic as black women. They think if
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you're a journalist that automatically you went to be Oprah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: We all respect Oprah of course, like there's no denying
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: what she did and what she's created is amazing, her
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: whole empire, but that doesn't mean that's who I'm modeling
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: myself after. And there's nothing wrong with that. I think
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that people think, oh, you're gonna be the next Open,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and that's not always what it is like for myself.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I could never be the next Oprah because that's just
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: not the lane that I'm in. I've never been. Uh,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I've never done interviews like she has like I do
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: sometimes to have ageory emails. I come from serious satellite
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: radio and as you know, it was very unsensored. I
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: was on a hip hop station that was very dominated
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that it was like eight percent males that listen. To
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: keep it real, like that's how I started doing radio.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I've always been like when I started, I was the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: only woman on the station, you know, on Shave forty five.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: So for myself that I could even see myself being
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and that's coming from this whole hip hop that's not open.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: You know. Well I would tell you this, Uh, you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I have a gift. You know, I see talent and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I recognize where they're gonna go. You know, this is
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: just you know, like I said, one thing I know
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: this is about you is that you're you know, you're
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a person who reinvents her sound. You know, you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and and then you understand multiple strings of income what
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I just mentioned. And so so what you're doing now
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: is just a version of what you're doing now. And
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: as you mature, you know, your values change, and you know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the next ten years, but it's
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: gonna be a different Angela Yee in ten years, because
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: that's just you. You know, you you have a clear understanding,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Like you already admit certain things. I'm conservative Rashan. You know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: conservative things start taking over and they start directing you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: where you want to go with your brain. And this
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: is what this is all about, your brain, you know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: because you carry I always tell people, you know, you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: care a certain group of people you with you for
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: twenty years and they have value for twenty years. That's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: who you go out and tell advertising. I'm eighteen to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: thirty four. I'm eighteen to four to nine. That's that's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the number they want, twenty five four the night. So
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: you carry those folks for twenty years, you know, you
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you know, along the way, you reinvent yourself to hang
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: on to them and also sometimes to be relevant to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a younger group so you can care them with you.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And so when I look at your brands, you know
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and you know actually real estate investor. And then are
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you a homeowner? Yes? So I do have right now
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: for residences. Well that's a that's that's like a that's
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I said a homeowner or not? You said four residencis
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: are you just out right my house in Brooklyn that
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I live in out right? Because I just paid off
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the mortgage that was my birgagations. So what's it? What's it?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: The thirty year mortgage or fifteen year mortgage that you're
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: paid on. It started off as a thirty year. Then
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I refinanced it um two years ago to make it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a fifteen years just to get a lower rate. And
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: ye know when I did that, because the rates had dropped,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that also meant that I wasn't even paying much more
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: than I was paying already just to make it a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: fifteen year instead of a thirty year because of the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: rate drop. And then I had made a promise to
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: myself there by my birthday, I want to pay off
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: my mortgage that I did it. We know, something's really
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: interesting because that gets to your your were wealth winds
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that believe that's right, Uh that you do. We are
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: winds as we do with uh Stacy Tisdale because people
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: need to understand that because I did the same thing
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: with Mike. You know, I have two homes. I paid
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: all both from once in Houston, was in Atlanta. In
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the first home, I had a thirty year mortgage and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: then uh, and so when you go to fifteen, it's
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: really not that big of a difference, right, Yeah, you're right.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Especially it's really the percentage to you know, what your
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: interest is so once that instant dropped a point, and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you'll be surprised how much I can shave off. And
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you're paying less interest from the beginning of your loan.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So it just really makes sense. But for myself, I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: think people would tell you it's not a good idea
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to pay up your mortgage. People will tell you all
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: kinds of things, what they do, what they tell you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that people justly out there. They will tell you don't
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: pay off people. I remember God said, I'm sorry for
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: cutting because I gotta be mad. Somebody told me, don't
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: don't pay that all. What what are you talking about?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Do when you're making a certain amount of income, I'm
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: taking property tax, don't even apply anymore properly next only
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: go up to a certain If you've gotta find me
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: in the hall, believe me, properly tax don cuple five
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: million dollars. You're stopping in the one million dollar range.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: So everything else the government is gonna take anyway. So
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: so that's why that's why I really value you, know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: your finding your financial literacy campaign. Talk to us a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: little bit about that, because you know so much to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: talk about this. I'm gonna just tell you, like Angela
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be our first conversation and I'm just gonna
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: expose my my listeners to you. But you got so
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: much going on, so let's talk about the financial literacy.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: You know, you know you, you know you you. You've
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: been recognized by with a Day in New York City.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: You know you're the popular club. You gotta you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: you get a hundred thousands of one point five million
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: views on your lip service show every time and airs.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: You know you got you. What's the goal? What's the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: go I think as to her this ideas to literacy part,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I do this thing called Wealth Wednesday's once a month
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: for stacy and that's actually at my juice bar, because
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I have a juice bar in Brooklyn called Juices for Life,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and we do that there because when I first opened
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: that juice bar, it will be where four years in
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: September since we opened this juice bar with Stop Pea
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: from the Locks and when we first got the juice bar,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I got this space in Brooklyn for us. That's amazing,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Like it's a beautiful space, it's nice and open, it
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: has a backyard. And my goal was always I wanted
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: this to be a place where the community can come
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: in Best Side and yes it's the best guide and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: have events. It's on Malcolm X Boulevard. And for me,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be something that's also caters to our community,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the core people that are from the Best Side, that
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: are from that neighborhood, so they feel like this is
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: for us, because there's so much sense of fake gentrification
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: going on, so many businesses coming in that aren't trying
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to link us still not welcome to be in those businesses.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: So I wanted it to be a place where it's
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: not get your stuff and go, it's more comments, it down,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: have a meeting if you need to say all day,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: we got the TV. It's a little lounge area and France.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do? You want to have
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a baby shower here? You need to have an We
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: said all kinds of things up for people. So I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: started was Wednesday because I wanted to have something that
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: with free for the community that was also empowering them
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to know that they can be successful and can make
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: money and can be homeowners and can have great credit.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Now here's the thing about it, how times changed, Because
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you know, are a little background on me and July
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: moved to New York and a eight to be a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: stand up comic. I wanted to be the next next,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you know. And Eddie Murphy was hot out there. Richard
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Prova course was always hot. And I remember I took
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the subway and I got off Bitto. Okay, I thought
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I was in another country. You know what I'm talking about?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: She went, no juice back right now. And it just
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: shows you how that whole community has moved itself forward.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And how did you know know that's why you have
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a basketball team there now, you know? And I always say,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the interesting thing about New York is that is that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: everybody you know, Manhattan gets all the hype. Okay, but
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn's his own city. You don't even have to leave
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: bro A great person stands alone. They asked you what
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you from. You don't say that you and I am
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: a fan of yours and also know that I just
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: want to let you know that keep doing what you're doing.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: This whole multiple the multi stream, multiple streams. We income
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: being able to understand that the community comes first. That's
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: your brand. And also the fact that you are female.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: That represents being you and being strong and being having
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a voce that that delivers a message that's equal for everybody.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: That's important and I want you to maintain. We'll be
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: back with more money Making Conversation with the star of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, Angela p. Money Making Conversations continues online
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• 27:53
  Speaker 1: money Making Conversations on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Our next
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: guest is the first time on the show, which I'm
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: always excited because I get to learn new things. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: get to expand my conversation base. Keep talking to the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: same people. You don't get educated as much. I will
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: be educated after this show. But she about food, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: everybody who listens to this show knows Rashwan McDonald is
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: an all time great foodie. My next guest restaurant is
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the premier comfort food comfort food destination in New York City,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: as you will see from her Instagram page at Melbourne Harlem.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Celebrities like nas Nick Cannon, her cousins sienns April, Ryan
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: dil Hugely and many more all in your her American
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: comfort food. I want to know what that is, you know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: American comfortable. She has always seen on the Food Network,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: whether she is a judge on Beat, Bobby Flay cooking,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: with the amazing host on the kitchen or trying to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: pick the winner and the finale are the Worst Cooks
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: in America? That's one of my favorite shows. Those people
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: really can't cool. Please working the money making conversation my
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: girl Melbolle, Wilson, Rest Shawan, how are you like? You know?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I had to put all those credits in there because
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: some of them were just so worth talking about. Now
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: now because Bobby Flay as my boy. Then you got
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the kitchen what you gotta come on there with a
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: little nice little quick recipes. You gotta put out real
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: fast so so people can capture at home, and it's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: kind of like competing. Everybody taste and sample your stuff
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: on the spot, so you know, you know, you gotta
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: have your act together. And then but my favorite show,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Worst Cooks in America A well, they truly are the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: worst cooks when they start out. However, you know, they
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: get in there with ambarrel and they throw down. They
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: really learned how to cook. And uh, I've been really
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: inspired and surprisingly happy with some of the results that
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: have come out of that show. Well, I'm gonna tell
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you something. The ones that they cut early, they just
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and cool. They they they they somewhere destroying people's lives
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: right now. You know what, I've been blessed because I've
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: only done the finale on Worst Cooks and Worst Bakers,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: so I consider myself. But you obviously some of those
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: early rounds, I don't know if your girl can do
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that because you they're so bad. You almost talk, You
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: almost think they just you know, oh, they just want
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: to be on TV, especially on the celebrity side. You know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you think, you know, it's like Dancing with the Stars,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: you know, that's the celebrities. You have to regular everyday people.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: But you know, if you're a cook person, you really
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: know they don't that that's not what they do. You know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: when you really do know, and you know, cooking is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a labor of love and it's something that not everyone
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: can do, but it's something that everyone can enjoy, especially
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: when you get that skinnish product at the end on
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: your plate. So and ultimately that's why I'm in business,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: because not everyone can and not everyone wants to. So well,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: let's talk about that. Okay, we we we intro starts
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you at you know, restaurant opening, and we're gonna talk
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: about your new restaurant that's opening, and I want to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: put that banner on my social media and fan club
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: let them know because I go to New York a lot,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and so you're definitely going to see my mud because
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I am truly a foodie. Now you're intro talked about
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: comfort food, American comfort food. What exactly is that? Well?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: To me, American comfort food is food that evokes warm
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and wonderful memories. It's food that transports you back to
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: great times and year. Everybody in the studio, everybody's studio,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: they perked up their ears. Now come on, now, come on,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: don't be messing with us like that. Now, John can
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: be that cheesy, gooey, delicious macaroni and cheese that your
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Matha used to throw that out with kid, Or it
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: can be that tato salad that Uncle John used to make.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: You know, it's just that transforms you. And I think
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: these days and John, we all need to be comforted
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and take him back to those times. Y'all do potato
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: salad that you're restaurant. Now, I don't do potato salad.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I do tato salad. It's a big difference. Now you
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: don't put no pole in front of them because I'm
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: gonna tell you something that is a whole you would
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: make me mad. Put some bad potatoes out there. You
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: got to know their menu, because that's the first thing,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: because I'm always searching for food. I'm searching for good
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: potatoes at Tato Sat. But see, I'm touching it that
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: because she said Tata Sat because it's right my CAMPI
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: from South Carolina. Though. That explains it all right, So
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: so this is good comfort food now now, So so
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: what do you where exactly is the restaurant located, the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: name of the restaurant, Where is it located? What are
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the hours? So the restaurant is called Melba's, easy for
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: me to remember, and it's on the southwest corner of
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteenth Street in Harlem. So it's three
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: hundred West one hundred and fourteen Street, New York, one
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: zero zero to five are Instagram is Melba's within us
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: are of them And I'm going bread and Butter in Harlem.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And that's why it was really important for me to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: open up in a community that I love so much,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: but the community that has changed a lot o racial back.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I remember because I moved when I moved to you know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I've been in New York several times. I moved to
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: New York when I first started doing comedy in and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: you know that you couldn't even catch a cab north.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: You know, they wouldn't even they wouldn't take you north.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: That alone past Hall of you weren't you weren't going there.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: That That's why they had the gypsy cabs and was
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: really changed the game for Hall of and traffic with Uber.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Uber was picking you up everywhere, and so that really
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: really changed the game as far as transportation up there
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: because you you put the Uber in and they come
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: get you pick you're on the corner and you go back.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: That really changed the whole cab service for for for
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: everybody in the city of New York. And so for
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: New York. Where I loved buy Hall OFM was that
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: they had always had these unique restaurants where you're going
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: in you get good original food. I called the food
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: that you have original food because of the fact that
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: it does take you back because so many times you
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: can't good good vegetables, a good corn bread, a good
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: good good you know, it's just good food. So let's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: go through your menu and you putting that together. The menu,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: because now you got me hungry, and I'm trying to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: figure out when I'm gonna get back up in New York.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: And here's the deal about me, Melbourne. When I come
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to your restaurant, I don't want, no, I don't, I
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: don't I pay. I'm one of these guys here. No no,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: no no. You come over there with and then asked
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: me to give me the I got that. Now I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: gonna really be mad at you because you're an entrepreneur
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and so so I always go in. So tell me
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: about to but I'll tell you that that's the only
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: way I work. You know, Steve Harve and I when
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: we was traveling, we we we Hey. I got that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I got that because of course you know that when
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the when, the when the phone company, because you know,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I can't tell them I got that. Yeah, I need
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I need to write that check. So I truly do
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. And when you talk about supporting small businesses,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: especially businesses of color, the way that we can make
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: sure that we stay in business is through economic development,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: which means making sure that our dollars circulate within our
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: community at least eight times. And that happens when people
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: like you come into these communities and pays. So I
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: truly and support hearing that from you, and thank you.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: We're gonna plan this out because everybody knows me. I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: just went up to my board. Saw him in Seattle June,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: baby up there, went up there. So when I say
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something, I go and do it now
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: because he get you down a Tuesday night so you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: can experience the live music. Okay, cool, this this, this
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: is all good. This is a really really good conversation. Okay.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: So so when you talk about you said in a
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: small kitchen, said about you said, it sets about a
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: hundred people under the nine. Okay, the new restaurant what what? What?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: What's the capacity going to be on that? I'm so excited.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: The new restaurant is the spot that seats seventy and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: it's seafood. It's all the food. Um, you know, instead
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: of going to city out and you can you can
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: stay in our neighborhood and come to Melvin's three minutes
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: away from the original space. And it's paying homage to
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the black fisherman because when we change to this country
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: as slaves, a lot of us came from the coast
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and we had fisherman skills and so we learned how
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to fish, and so it's it's paying tribute to women.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: We have a team of amazing women that are that
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: are partners with me and this venture. We have. Our
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: fishmonger is a female who were super excited about our
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: our some We have a female So that's doing the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: whole wineless who's from how Harlem That was just written
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: up in Food and Wine magazine. Chiha McCoy are executive
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: chef chef Mimi, who is phenomenal who lives in Arlom
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: has a huge sea food background. And then there's me.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: So it's women coming together to celebrate food and we're
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: super duper excited about it. It will be open the
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: first week in February. And while it's gonna be amazing, Okay, cool.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: So you're timing my visit. You're timing my visit to
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: New York. I got that meets. I can do two
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: restaurant stops, that's right, Okay cool. Now, just a natural
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: transition because I want to talk about you becoming the
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: first African American female to be the president of the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: New York City Hospitality Alliance. Let's tell everybody what the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: New York City Hospitality Alliance is not the hallm but
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the New York City Hospitality Alliance. And while I well,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I've been a member of the New York City Hospitality
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Alliance since its inception. And what it is, it's over
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: three thousand unstaurants, um all based in in the five
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: boons of New York City. Is everyone from Tao to Lavo,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to Nobu to Trabeca Grill to Sylvia's to b LT Steak.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So it is the most premier restaurant here in the city.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: And we lobby on behalf of the needs of not
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: just a restaurant, but the nightlife venues, you know, from
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: from d L to um oh god god, I can't
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: even to Marquee, uh, you know, to the Gold Bar,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: but some of the biggest and best places in the city.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: And we lobby on behalf of of our of our venues,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you know. Um. The city sometimes under Mayor de Blasio
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: can be very difficult to business owners um in terms
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: of fees of commercial property taxes, etcetera. So we lobby
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: on behalf of of New York owned restaurants and nightclubs.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: And this is the first time, not only that they've
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: had a female as the president, but a person of
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: color in general as a president. So I'm super duper
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: excited and just coming upon my year one tenure as
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the president of the New York City Hospitality Alliance. Well,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I want to group congratulation to you, first of all,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and secondly for coming on my show. You'll be seeing me,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I know, Super Bowls of February. Second, So the week
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: of February nine, I would be in New York City
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: to visit both for your restaurants. One of the restaurants
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I'm especially ordered that corn bread. Put that out there,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and then give me some good seafood at the other restaurant.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: But again, continue your success. Um again, You're special because
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: you want it and you earned it, and I'm gonna
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: support you not only by a visit, but any social
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: media post that you want to have please let me
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: know and I would definitely post the social media when
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: your restaurant, your two a few restaurants open to New
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: York City first week of February. Okay, rast, I thank
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: you alone, will talk soon, but we'll see each other soon. Okay.
• 40:02
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  Speaker 1: My next guest, it's the third time every year she
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: comes on the show. Like it's like it's like a
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: year because the first time it was twenty seventeen in December,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and we came back in in December again, I believe,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and then now we're in January. I'm a little off
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: on my annual you know, fixed that I gotta have
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: with Cat that she comes in with energy. My next
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: guest is a tattoo artist, business owner, painter, philanthropists and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: social media influence and reality television star. She's the first
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: African American woman to own a tattoo studio in Los Angeles,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: achievement noticed after being discovered on vich once hit series
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Black and Crew Chicago artistic and creative handworkers included and
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: doing tattoos for countless celebrities and athletes. Please welcome again,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Katrina cat Tat Jackson. Hey, thank you so much for
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: having me back. Always so good to shop it out
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: with you. Well, you know, um, last time he was on,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: you know you you just opened the tattoo's location and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: what's your name of it? Tell us everybody where's that?
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Where's that? The shop is called Enigma Tattoo And we're
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: right in Beverly Hills or right on Peko and Robertson,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: So it's a pretty popular intersection. Were right in the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: center of the city. Yeah, because because the reason is
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes when traffic is bad, I take
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Robertson and can make that left and I gotta go
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: right past Peek Cold, you know, and I had to
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: stop because I'm trying to get to Santa Monica. Make
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: that right so I get into Hollywood. So I'll make
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: that left because I always stay because she's gonna be
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: mad because I always stay at the at the International
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Intercomo the hotel, which is right there in Century City.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I'm right down the street from so oh yeah, yeah,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: next time you gotta pull over and come on in. Yes,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: what's what's the experience? You know, because when here's tattoo,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: because I know you have an experience when it comes
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: into your location. Talk to us about the experience. Um,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: you mean like the experience of like a client. So
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: like clients, I know, you have your work on the
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: walls and things like that. Correct. Yeah, so, um, everyone
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: that steps from the shop they literally said, like, man,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the vibing here is just amazing, and that's what I wanted. Um,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I knew I wanted a tattoo shop. But when you
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: think about, um, tattoo shops in the past, like a
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: lot of them are like little hole in the wall
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: shops or you know, just not really like a super
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: comforting vibe. But like Enigma, when you walk in, it's
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: good music, good energy, beautiful artwork. I mean there's eight
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: of us and all of us are painters as well.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: So people come in and they're literally like blown away
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: by all the art on the walls. And this is
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: like an art gallery, you know. So we've been blessed
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: to have UM two annual art shows since we've been
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: open um. People come in and purchased the artwork for
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: their homes, and you know, they get tattoos. So the
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: tattoo experience is just very, very relaxing, and I guess
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you could say scenic, you know, because they're you know,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: they get to just look at all the art while
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: they get tattoos. We always have good music going, good conversation.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: It's just a good vibe. Well that's why. That's why
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I was looking one of the people understand that, you know,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: you know people, all people have different version of what
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: they feel the tattoo. I've seen them, you know, you
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: go down Hollywood sun sunset, and then you just see
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: you look where they go. Oh, I'm not going up
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: in there, you know. Or you know, that's not a
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: place that that you want to go for the very
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: first time to get your tattoo. But that's the experience
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: that you didn't want at your location. And and and
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: when we first talk, when you first opened it, that's
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: what really excited me was that you was creating an
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: experience and that the people will walk away and tell
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: somebody else about that experience. And that's really and that's
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: very in line with you know what what what you
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: get when you go to beauty slaws and uh, barbershops
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: and this experience. That's why you keep coming back because
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you sit there and talk and chat chop it up.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: But you're adding the creative aspect of artwork, which is
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: really part of your passion. Right. Yeah. And I feel
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: like with any um, like with any service industry, whether
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: it's like um tattoo shop or like you said, hair
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: salon and Barbara, like you know, social media is still
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: prevalent these days, um, but really what matters is the
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: word of mouth, you know, and what people are saying
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: and spreading the word about about your place of business.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: So I think that that's more important than than anything. Well,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you know, the thing about it is that though first
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: of all, you said social media now, uh, you know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: you're just posing left and right. Just that's just out there,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: just posing, you know, And so so are you modeling
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: now or because because I just and that's a good
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: thing now because all your all your all your poses
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: are in good taste and and and and but the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: but the response and the engagement that you're getting is
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: really incredible. And I commend you on that because you're
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: doing it more or I just stopped started following you
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: at the wrong time because you always pop up on
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: my timeline that posing again, posing again, and so so so?
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Is that is that personal growth for you to realize
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: that who you all? You feel good about yoursel I'm
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: not saying you never felt good about yourself, but you
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: really are showing your brain and that's part of your marketing. Yeah,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: thank you so much. I really appreciate you noticing that
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: because I remember when I first started tattooing. Um, I
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: felt like I had to um be, I had to
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: hide the face and you know, the beauty behind the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: girl that was the artist. I felt like in order
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: to be taken serious in this industry, I could only
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: put out my tattoos, you know, like it's not about me,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: It's not about what I look like. It's only about
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: my artwork. And I've built up my portfolio to a
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: place where people know that my work speaks for itself.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: But um, thanks to you know, reality TV, people got
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: to see me and got to get to know me
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and know who I am behind you know, um all
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: the tattoos and stuff. So now I'm not a place
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: where I'm comfortable, like I feel like my work has
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: spoken for itself, and I can also like I work
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: hard too. I'm in the gym, you know, like I
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: have beautiful tattoos on my body, and I've been blessed
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: for like you know, endorsement deals and beauty brands and
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: fashion brands to recognize me, and you want me to
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: represent their brands. So it's just crazy how things come
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: full circles. You know. I've always just stayed true to
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: just being the best that I can in any aspect,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: whether it's working, you know, tattoos, my artwork, working out,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: and um, things are just starting to comfortable circles. So
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I used to remember I used to take pictures and
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: my mom would be like, like, why are you just
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: taking pictures for no reason? It's for a magazine or something,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: And now it's for it's for an endorsement, you know what, right? Right? Oh, no,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: you're gonna fire you. You know, you know you know me.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a professional. I gotta say an eye for talent.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I understand what brandings are all about, and I just
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: have noticed the comfort zone and then a a targeted
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: approach to what you're trying to do because I can
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: tell everybody all the pictures are tasteful, All the pictures
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: are tasteful, they all professional. But there what is what
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: it's done for me as a person who doesn't have
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: a tattoo is like and a guy. You know, I
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: remember when when it was created an ex computer Steve
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Talk Show, when somebody came up with a tattoo were
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: called car washing. We had to cover those up. And
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: what you've done is normalized the process and you and
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: other people now you know, we know it's a it's
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: a big world of people out there who own TV
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: that uh doing tattoos. But but seeing you an attractive
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: person has allowed people to understand that there is value,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: there's artwork. That's what that's what really, that's what it
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: attracts me, is like you are a walking piece of art.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate that. It's and it's
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: really that's a that's an amazing thing to say that
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: did you you you you are a walking piece of
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: piece of art that of course cannot be bought, but
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: can't be sponsored for imercial indorsement. And that's that's beautiful
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: because the reason I enjoyed talking to you. Is that
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Cat tatism Because I just watched your our conversation. I
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: remember when we first started. You know, I could tell
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: you our first conversation. You're trying to find who you are,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: you know, and you you know you you walked away
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: from the TV show and you didn't you didn't know
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: what the future help. But you were strong and saying
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna be special. And then
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: when you came on the show last year, I could
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: tell it when you when you opened the Tattoos Studio
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: and Beverly Hills, your energy was way up because you
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: really started focusing on and then this whole year just
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: watching you on social media, just watching you your personal growth,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: your physical growth. You know, just now sky's the limit
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: now for you. You know that, right? Thank you? I
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Yes, that's absolutely So let's talk about some
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: stuff that's going on that they sent to me. Okay.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Cat has been invited by the NFL Players Association to
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: this year's Super in Miami, Florida. Cat would designed create
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl inspired artwork and lead the annual National Football
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: League of Players Association Painting with the Pros event at
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: the local Miami Dade County School this year. The school
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: is Carol's City Senior High School that you guys are
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: gonna be How did that happen? How did you how
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: did that come about? And what were your thoughts? Did you?
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Were you involved and saying this this is the actual
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: concept of what you wanted to present at the school? Um? Yeah,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: this is UM. So this will be the third time, um,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: the third annual Super Bowl that I've worked with the
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Players Association. So I was connected with them about three
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: years ago and we did the first I forgot how
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: m it happened, but I met um Carol, she's UM,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: one of the leaving ladies of the association, and UM,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: they partnered with me and they wanted me to design
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: the painting. And back then it was in Minnesota, So
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: you started out, nic that's extreme. That Minnesota, Miami, that's extreme.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: That that's extreme, so extreme, Oh my god. And it
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: was so cold that the whole time. And I was
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: born in Minnesota, so I know all about that code.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm from Chicago to so um it was
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  Speaker 1: get the paintings with the high school. We went to
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  Speaker 1: that was an experienced and it was just so great
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it, but initially I was going to
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  Speaker 1: was so amazing, and then they asked me back the
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  Speaker 1: and those kids were so talented, like um they did
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