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Bishop Ezekiel Williams stars in "Voices of Fire" on Netflix; Kyla Pratt stars in FOX series "Call Me Kat”; Tambra Cherie & Lateshia Pearson star in the new docu-series "Belle Collective" & Dr. Fredrick Jacobs is the CEO of “Celebrity’s Soul Food” · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: is Bishop Ezekiel Williams. He is the pastor and founder
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  Speaker 1: of Faith World Ministries in Norfolk, Virginia, and currently started
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  Speaker 1: in the Netflix docuseries Voices of Fire. The sixth episode
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  Speaker 1: series follows singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer for Royal Williams
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  Speaker 1: and who is his nephew, Bishop Willims. In this core
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  Speaker 1: of team influential gospel leaders venture into Hampton Rhodes and
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  Speaker 1: The inspiration behind the Voices of Fire, Bishop Ezekiel Williams.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, sir? Thank you so much, sir. I
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  Speaker 1: am well and glad to be here. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I've seen the series twice. It was
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  Speaker 1: when it first came out, it was trending and still
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  Speaker 1: is trending on Netflix at the top top You know,
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  Speaker 1: you do a top ten if you have don't have
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  Speaker 1: a Nextflix account. When you're poding up top ten, that
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  Speaker 1: means everybody's watching it. And usually how it works is
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  Speaker 1: this is a series. It's six episodes, so as people
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  Speaker 1: watch another explot, they go next to it and it
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  Speaker 1: causes your serious to trend, which bolds well because that's
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  Speaker 1: what Netflix want, and Voices of Fire is um I
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  Speaker 1: would call like an audio testimonial. Can I say that?
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  Speaker 1: I think you can? I think I think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a good, uh good way to put it. And Uh.
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  Speaker 1: If I had that have a different title, the title
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  Speaker 1: workshop Voices of Fire, it could have been this is
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  Speaker 1: my story, that could have been the title, um feel
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  Speaker 1: the Voice. But the name of this series is Voices
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  Speaker 1: of Fire, and that works out just fired. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: telling you, Bishop, it took me on a journey and
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  Speaker 1: allowed me to think about my life, think about the
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  Speaker 1: expectations people have for you, for yourself, the setbacks that
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  Speaker 1: you achieve in life. And I got emotional at times.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me your goal because because you think you hit
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  Speaker 1: all the points with me, that's wonderful. I am so
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  Speaker 1: glad to here and just amaze that you were able
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  Speaker 1: to take the time to do it twice all six episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Listen, we aim to touch lives.
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  Speaker 1: My whole goal. It's just spread the good news about
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And so I've come to realize that people
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  Speaker 1: don't always want to hear you preach over the pulpit,
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  Speaker 1: and so music is a medium that we can utilize,
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  Speaker 1: a tool that we can utilize that transcends all walks
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  Speaker 1: of life. Everybody's uh loves music, and so we found
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  Speaker 1: that that was a good way to get the message out.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think that that has been achieved. But
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  Speaker 1: in the process, I believe that the Lord does what
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  Speaker 1: he does, and he touches lives. He takes one one
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  Speaker 1: incident and he causes a different outcome in everybody's life.
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  Speaker 1: And so when we came together and we began to
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  Speaker 1: sing and to to to worship as we did, and
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  Speaker 1: to even record the testimonies of so many individuals, man,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, it was amazing and it just
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  Speaker 1: invoked all kinds of emotions. Well, Bishop Um, this series
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  Speaker 1: when it was when it was brought to me, I
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  Speaker 1: had to bring it to show the fact I want
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  Speaker 1: to get Larry, who is your music director? I want
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  Speaker 1: to get paid who is your vocal coach? And my
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  Speaker 1: boy Patrick, you know, he's the he's the comedy relief,
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  Speaker 1: but he's also a brilliant choirmaster. Okay, let's don't be
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  Speaker 1: real about it. When Lynette walked out from me said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: she can sing and she find he's real. He's real.
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  Speaker 1: Love it very much. And so you know, because you
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  Speaker 1: said that in your in the documentary about sometimes people
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear you preach it. Sometimes you have
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  Speaker 1: to do. You have to tell the story of the
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  Speaker 1: gospel a different way, and music always connects with people.
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  Speaker 1: But but this was a local project called Hampton Rose.
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  Speaker 1: Tell everybody about Hampton Rhodes, Virginia. Well, Hampton Rhodes, uh
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  Speaker 1: is a wonderful place to reside. Of course, it's uh
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  Speaker 1: heavily military in our area, and so it's transient. We
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  Speaker 1: have people who come from all parts of the world
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  Speaker 1: uh to reside here. They're here for a season and
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  Speaker 1: then they're gone. Some people take up their roots or
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  Speaker 1: make plant their roots here and um it's always been
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  Speaker 1: a musical area. Were seated right here on the eastern seaboard,
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  Speaker 1: uh right, you know, below New York and d C.
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  Speaker 1: And right above North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and all
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  Speaker 1: of these places are very very musical places. But it
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  Speaker 1: makes Virginia, it makes Hapton Roads almost like a melting
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  Speaker 1: pot or um, as they say in New Orleans, a
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  Speaker 1: big pot of gumbo. We have a little bit of everything,
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  Speaker 1: and we've produced some of the nation's greatest artists that
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  Speaker 1: there ever was, and so I'm very very proud of that.
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  Speaker 1: And um, music just kind of flows throughout the angs here.
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  Speaker 1: You know. The interesting thing about because I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the area a lot. You know, Steve Harvey and ire
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  Speaker 1: the Chrystler Hall. I know exactly. I've been on that
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  Speaker 1: stage Chrysler Hall, so I know the brilliance, that facility,
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  Speaker 1: the quality. I know that community is sold a lot
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  Speaker 1: of many a concert down there in that Chrysler Hall
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  Speaker 1: area and great food, a very uh community driven area
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  Speaker 1: down there. But you talk. The thing I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this series is that you got me emotional.
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  Speaker 1: Then you taught me something a boy sopranos, altos and tennis.
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  Speaker 1: And then these three individuals I mentioned their name earlier,
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  Speaker 1: Peggy the vocal code, Patrick chef mouth choir master, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: and then the more Larry talk about how they came
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  Speaker 1: together in the project. Because we know about for real
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  Speaker 1: superstar rapper, and I also learned two things about for
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  Speaker 1: Real Off stage he's a for real All stage, he's
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  Speaker 1: a farrel because stay that star power takes over stay.
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  Speaker 1: He's humble, he's a he's a he's a great person
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  Speaker 1: both places, but it's different. He understands his position in life.
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  Speaker 1: On stage he's a superstar. Off stage he's a humble,
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  Speaker 1: engaged individual. But you had three people that help you
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  Speaker 1: carry this magnificent series. Let's talk about them absolutely. And
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  Speaker 1: that's an easy thing to do, because for me it
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  Speaker 1: was a no brainer. Um. Most of us have worked
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  Speaker 1: together all of our lives. Uh. Peggy was one of
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  Speaker 1: the individuals who gave me, UH, my first opportunity of
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  Speaker 1: exposure with some of the greater stars that would come
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  Speaker 1: to the Hampton Roads area. As I played music most
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  Speaker 1: of my life piano and organ, and I was able
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  Speaker 1: to play for her choir, legendary choir, the Philharmonics and UM.
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  Speaker 1: And so she gave me the opportunity to work with
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  Speaker 1: him at maybe the age about fifteen years old. And
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  Speaker 1: so UM, I have a long lasting relationship with her.
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  Speaker 1: She's one of the best at what she does. And UM,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Patrick Riddick we grew up in the same church.
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  Speaker 1: He's younger than I, but we both attended the same church,
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  Speaker 1: New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ where our late
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  Speaker 1: founder was the late Bishop Barnett Carl thur Good, the
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  Speaker 1: man installed so much in all of us and UM,
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  Speaker 1: and so working with him there at the church, I
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  Speaker 1: knew his ability, his competence, and UH, I knew that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be the one for the job.
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  Speaker 1: And then Larry George, a young man. He's my own
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  Speaker 1: pastor of music there at Faith World Ministry, and so
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't do anything without him. I've watched him take
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  Speaker 1: a group of singers that were mediocre and just turned
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  Speaker 1: them into stella voices, and so he was a no
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  Speaker 1: brainer for me to pull them all together to assist
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  Speaker 1: me in this project. I have my own musical career,
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  Speaker 1: but for some time after I started preaching, I put
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  Speaker 1: it on the chef shelf. And and and and later it
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  Speaker 1: was my nephew that helped me to understand, No, the
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  Speaker 1: world needs what you have to offer, and we need
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  Speaker 1: to come together and do something to demonstrate that. And
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  Speaker 1: and here's where we are. We are you you you
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  Speaker 1: you landed in a great place. And you know, Netflix
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  Speaker 1: is an amazing storyteller, because there was Rodney Scott. I
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  Speaker 1: discovered him and that barbecue, his ability to bar based
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  Speaker 1: on that storytelling, that Chef series. Now we got a gospel.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing that interests me the most because it's
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  Speaker 1: a diverse gospel. I got the fact that you could
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  Speaker 1: have easily said, you know, I'm gonna get the best
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  Speaker 1: black gospel singers, but that wasn't the goal of this series.
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  Speaker 1: The goal of a series was to create a diverse
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  Speaker 1: so you can pull everybody in. Everybody can understand that
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  Speaker 1: they can hear the word, seeing the word, and participate
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  Speaker 1: technical doctors walking through the steps of why that was
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  Speaker 1: important to you? That was very important to me because
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  Speaker 1: I have a vision of building or or forming a
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  Speaker 1: multicultural church. And so for me, having acquired that just
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  Speaker 1: consisted of people who looked like me was not going
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  Speaker 1: to help me to accomplish that goal. And so I
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  Speaker 1: envisioned the acquire that was comprised of people from all
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  Speaker 1: walks of life. And uh, and I guess my whole
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  Speaker 1: thought was, you know, we we know in the Black
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  Speaker 1: gospel choir. You we know about the a launching, and
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  Speaker 1: we know that the powerful individuals that sing. But I
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  Speaker 1: was more interested in pulling in Caucasians and Latinos and
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  Speaker 1: and people from different ethnicities that were also Orientals, that
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  Speaker 1: were also equally talented, equally anointed. And I felt like
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  Speaker 1: if we put them together in a choir, when people
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  Speaker 1: saw people that look like them or saw individuals who
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  Speaker 1: resembled them, it would be an open invitation for them
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  Speaker 1: to come and to worship it, to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of what we were doing at Faith World and and
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  Speaker 1: and so far, I must say it has worked it
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  Speaker 1: as we have accomplished that goal. I've been contacted by
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  Speaker 1: people from all over the world, and uh, I would
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  Speaker 1: have never imagined. I would have never imagined. I was
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  Speaker 1: thinking on one level. But when you get calls from
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  Speaker 1: Brazil and Switzerland and Norway and and um Sri Lanka
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  Speaker 1: and so many other places. Uh, it really just blows
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  Speaker 1: your mind that God is really able to do exceeding
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  Speaker 1: abundantly above all that we can ask to think according
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  Speaker 1: to the power that works in us. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: Bishop of Ezeko Williams other I was called the hit series,
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  Speaker 1: popular series, the trending series Voices on Netflix. You know
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  Speaker 1: you used the word gumble earlier, and I I thought
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  Speaker 1: ran through my mind when I watched the series, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to be an insultant and use the word gumble,
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  Speaker 1: But you use the word gumble. Guess what. I'm from Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: I love gumbo. Okay, So when I when when when
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  Speaker 1: I see you know, whether Maria, you know dan Lee,
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  Speaker 1: you know the Pucky twins, you know all coming together? Ilana.
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  Speaker 1: What people need to understand about the series is that
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  Speaker 1: this is this series is bigger than music. It's about life.
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  Speaker 1: It's about what we need right now when we come
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  Speaker 1: out of twenty and going to one. We need to
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  Speaker 1: understand that we can all eat at the same table,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what happens. People feel that when you look different,
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have the same sensibilities, the same eating habits,
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  Speaker 1: the same lifestyle needs. And what this series did for me,
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  Speaker 1: I believe you put some people in an uncomfortable environment
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  Speaker 1: and they became comfortable, and that's where the anointing part
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  Speaker 1: comes out. Correct. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely, and all things
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  Speaker 1: work together for the good of them that love the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, when we put those individuals together,
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  Speaker 1: we did not know initially that or what their story
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  Speaker 1: was or how amazing their stories were. But God knew,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was an opportunity for us to work together,
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  Speaker 1: to get to know one another. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: love that U began to develop between the choir members
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  Speaker 1: and the directors, and we became one big family. And no,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't say, okay, Bishop Williams, we want to become
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  Speaker 1: members of your church necessarily, but that was a love
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  Speaker 1: that super see them even that kind of commitment, And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a wonderful thing because um, God has
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  Speaker 1: the ability to erase all the boundaries and all of
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  Speaker 1: all of the lines of division. And in a time
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  Speaker 1: when our country has seen so much division, I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was amazing that this series came out, um at
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  Speaker 1: the time, during our election and all of that, when
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  Speaker 1: there was so much division working in our country, this
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  Speaker 1: series came out to show that we can work together.
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  Speaker 1: There are still people who don't see color, but we
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  Speaker 1: just see souls, we see lives, we see individuals um
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  Speaker 1: that are just like us, just different skin and and
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  Speaker 1: it all makes sense to me, It really did. And
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  Speaker 1: so let me let me set the tone for everybody
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  Speaker 1: who have not seen the series and have seen this series,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just bringing back good feelings, a good time,
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  Speaker 1: good news. As they said, I'm bringing back good news.
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  Speaker 1: And you have four black people here, well five you
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  Speaker 1: want to clean forever? Who say I want to bring
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  Speaker 1: together mixed voices? Because a a Lana, she was fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years old. She only has one ear, so she can
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  Speaker 1: only really hear fifty of the sound. She's white at tag. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I was just gonna and then you have dan Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Who are I say that was the one that was
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  Speaker 1: gonna make me cry? But I'm sure you guys cried
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  Speaker 1: a lot too. So when she did just Jesus Loves Me,
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  Speaker 1: I went, Okay, Sure, a song I know I've sung
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  Speaker 1: in my life so many times. But why is this
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  Speaker 1: song affecting me? I'm gonna ask you that question, Bishop,
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  Speaker 1: Why did that song when she sunk it dan Lee
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  Speaker 1: affect me? Well? Because she she sang that song from
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  Speaker 1: a place of sincerity. She sang that song from a
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  Speaker 1: place of experience. Um. We don't know everybody's story, We
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  Speaker 1: don't know everybody's walk ofme life, but I can imagine,
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  Speaker 1: um that she's had her challenges and as we all
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  Speaker 1: have experienced rejection and many different things in life, and
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  Speaker 1: to come to a place where, um, she understands that
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what I've been through, regardless of what I've
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  Speaker 1: had to deal with in life, regardless to to to
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  Speaker 1: the different hills and valids and mountains and low places
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus loves me. When you come to that reality,
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  Speaker 1: when you come to that place of awareness, that there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing that you can do that will cause him to
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  Speaker 1: not love you, or that will UM prevent his love
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  Speaker 1: in your life. It's a wonderful place to be alive.
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  Speaker 1: And and and I think that's where she was um
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  Speaker 1: and when the tears were flowing and she says Jesus
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  Speaker 1: loves me, and I don't want to giveaway too much,
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  Speaker 1: but when but when she says everybody deserves to be loved,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot watch that scene without tearing up. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I get it, and and that's a message that we
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  Speaker 1: want the world to get. I'm gonna tell everybody. I
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  Speaker 1: spoke to the bishop prior to the interview so I
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  Speaker 1: can get it out of my system because I knew
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  Speaker 1: that if I revealed this on the show, how to
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  Speaker 1: slow down and had to take some moments together myself,
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  Speaker 1: because not only her rose when she saw Yeah, she
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  Speaker 1: took me there, good old girl out of Houston, Texas
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  Speaker 1: country as you can get right, and you know Marcus
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  Speaker 1: took me there. When you hear his story, because I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell you this story, you need to watch the series.
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  Speaker 1: But everybody has a testimony the tells them why they
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  Speaker 1: walked through these doors and why they were chosen because
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  Speaker 1: there were three thousand applicants Okay, three hundred were cut
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  Speaker 1: down to three hundred, and they came in and we
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  Speaker 1: saw a part of these stories. Now, the part of
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  Speaker 1: this story is that what you had to deal with
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  Speaker 1: in in your compadres, I want to say, because y'all
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  Speaker 1: had to see it all, we only saw a version
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  Speaker 1: of that. Where were you guys that emotionally doing this
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  Speaker 1: whole journey? Bishop? Well, it was very difficult. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was hard for for everyone involved, but it was
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  Speaker 1: difficult for me because, um, the talent was so good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you had to score from one to
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  Speaker 1: a hundred for each individuals, um we had out of
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the three hundred, we probably had two hundred one hundreds.
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  Speaker 1: So at that point, you know, you have to make
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  Speaker 1: some decisions, and it can't just be based on their
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: musical ability. That becomes very difficult because you seeing everybody's
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  Speaker 1: eyes and you hear in everyone's voice that this is
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: something that they've dreamed, dreamt about, and this is something
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that they've wanted to do, uh for so very very long,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and they're right here on the at the brink of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: their their dream coming true, and you have to decide
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: will you make it? Uh? Will we send you home?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: It's a very very difficult place to be in, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: we labor greatly uh in that and and and there
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: were sometimes of frustration, um that there were even individuals
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: that that the other said, hey, we gotta let them go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: That I even went back. It's not shown on the video,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: but I even went back and said, can't we give
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: them a one more chance? Is there anything else we
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: can do? My heart, my heart was very very very
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: attached to much of what was taken place because you
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: say it at the beginning, no callbacks, one shot to
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  Speaker 1: showcase your talent. That's right, absolutely and and and trust me,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I was reminded of that several times during the process
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  Speaker 1: as I tried to bother and reason uh with individuals
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  Speaker 1: concerning other thingers, I was reminded, you know, you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: we gotta what what what did for rel say, um,
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  Speaker 1: we want to acquire full of unicorns? And so um,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that made the difference, That made the difference because you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: said everybody was a winner. This voice is different styles,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: cultural difference, and you want to mail that into one
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: giant unicorn, which I felt was accomplished, but it's broken
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: down each series. The first three episodes are to me
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the most emotional part of the series. Don't get it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Wrongs are there too, because you get to know the people,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you get to hear that story, you get to see
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that that passionate singing that coming from the you know
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: he and Ki Ki and a classical apple training. You know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you talk about Damien and his uh, his attempts with
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: his life and how I went sideways several times. And
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: because I read dan Lee uh you know Jasmine, you
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  Speaker 1: know when she auditioned for the first time in front
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: of her real and again doubting herself like she doubted
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  Speaker 1: herselves so many times in her life. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm recommended people to see this because you know, I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: created money making conversation because I always tell people that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's as so many opportunities to be great
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: or seek that opportunity, and we don't do it. And
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that's what this series exposed because a lot of people
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: are looking for that second third or the or the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: return from a walkaway moment that they missed out on.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You know, you know dam is one of those people,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you know, and that's really what's enlightening and inspiring to me.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So there is a strong level of inspirational it's for
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Rachel in this series as well, correct Biship, that's right, absolutely,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: there's a strong level of inspiration and and and that
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: actually was kind of where it boiled down to in
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the selection of some of those difficult choices, those difficult
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: choices that we had to make against selecting singers um
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: when they had the talent and they had it all
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: going for them, then we had to go to the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: place of saying, but who moves the audience the most?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Who who brings the spirit with them? You know? And
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: so that spiritual emotional um element was was very important
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: as well. Here's here's a fun part about the whole
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: series to me. Well, if you see Michael Jordan walking
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  Speaker 1: a room, you know, first of all, he's six six,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna notice something different about him. You know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: he's six six or defensive tackle or football. He may
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  Speaker 1: be like through your pals, so you're gonna notice something
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  Speaker 1: different about him. So you're gonna assume there's something unique
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: or special about that person, and it may cross humble
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: rumbles in the room. Who's the guy? Who's the guy?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: But this show reveals how God has talented people just
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: walking around. They have restricted the responsibility of that talent,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and that's what this series is all about. And the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: classic example is Maria. Absolutely, come on, We'll come on that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: This this young girl. Um, she reminds me of a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Sandy Patty and just a little frame, um, you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and you just don't expect her to be able to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: do what she does. But then she she sings from
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a place of sincerity and pureness, and her voice, my god,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it just penetrates your heart and uh, it's just amazing.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: She's um, you know, she has a an affiliation with
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Native Americans and and that's something that you would not
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: have known and just her whole upbringing and you just
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: gotta see it. You just gotta see. That's all I'm saying.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: She is a hard part about it. We're talking about
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the series, but we can't tell you about the series
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: because we want the journey to be somewhat original. Yeah,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: we want you to walk in and see what we
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: felt visually and emotionally. And I think I think we've
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: done a really good job of that and telling you
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the how we will impacted. Of course, you know you
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: were there for the entire three hundred auditions. I've seen
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: a small window of it, but to answer your question
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: when you say a certain people who doubt it. Maria
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: was one of those people who had doubt what she
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: left the room. Yes, Patrick had issues because I don't
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: know exactly exactly. And it's it's it's very very uh
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: what would I say, It's a very fulfilling um uh
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: feeling that you get from this when you get to
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: see them fight their way back and and make believers
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: out of the people who doubted them. Um. More than
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: one occasion we were skeptic and and we just didn't know.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: But these same individuals went to work. I mean, they
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: brought their a game and they went to work, and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: before it was over, we were all we were all
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: convinced that they were the right choice. Absolutely. You know
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the Clock Sisters when it came out in um one
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: not one thing they kept seeing the mother major, the choir.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: We're talking about that one voice, one voice. You know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I want all y'all. Y'all might be separate, but we
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: need one voice. The Pucket Twins. Come on. Yeah, I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: told you I've seen this series twice now, so I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: can talk to you about this series all and all fair,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: but the Pocket Twins one voice. Tell us about that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: one voice, one voice. Uh. I really, honestly, it was
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: my first time experiencing anything like that. I was, I
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: was moved beyond expression when I heard them. That's something.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: It has to be something in their DNA. Being twins. Um.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I've often heard that twins can sometimes know what the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: other one is thinking, and they can feel what the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: other one is going through. Well, if any of that
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: is true, these twins um have the ability to have
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: a unified voice. Um when they sing. There are times
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: when you can't tell one from the other. And it's amazing.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And not to mention, um, these are not what you
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: would call, uh, your classical or your classic soul for singers.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Um this this These boys are white, these white boys,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And I mean I would I wouldn't go. You were
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: feeling too much, stop, stop too much. But I'm telling you,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I mean they let you have it. And it's amazing.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: You gotta see it. You gotta see it. You won't
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: regret it. Now you want to get uh the couple
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of the additional note to the Voices of the Fire
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Choir will be releasing his first single, hit The Refresh,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: in February. Hit the Refreshing February and if you want
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to see him February six on b ET the Voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Fire Choir Voices of Fire Choir will performing
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  Speaker 1: on the twenty second annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration. And
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: now we're gonna see him on the for real, not
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: just on Netflix on cable. Well, what's the big expectation,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: what's the journey for? Because in the beginning you told
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: them you're gonna sing here, You're gonna premier here. The
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: opportunity to travelers country, travelers world, is your vision happening.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: It's happening, man, It's happening. And I must admit, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: gotta be honest. Much of what I was saying initially
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: was by faith. I was speaking by faith. I was
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I was calling those things that be not as though
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: they were and calling them into existence. But God is
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: not letting it down. He's not failing me. These opportunities
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: are manifesting daily. UM. We're receiving calls from so many
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: individuals and UM just trying to pick the right UH,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: make the right decisions as to the different events that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: we should do. But it's been amazing. And you know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: this whole thing with the BT and the Gospel UH
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: celebration for the Super Bowl is one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: I would have never imagined that I would be involved
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  Speaker 1: in anything like that. But that's the door that has opened,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: along with so many other doors. And and and yes
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: we have um we have also uh worked a contract
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: with our c a inspiration and to be on that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: label or to be a part of that family. Um
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: with so many other gospel grades. UM, I'm not even
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: gonna start naming them, but you know, the greatest of
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the greats are there, and uh to be listed there
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: among those individuals, it's it's just a true testament that
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: dreams really do come true. And UH. And God is
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: faithful to fulfill his word in your life. If it
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: makes you a promise, He's gonna make good on it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And is happening. It's happening. It's a wonderful thing. Well, Bishop,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I survive, I've done this interview. UM, you know, yes,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Jesus does love us all. And then Dan Lee says
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the temple in the beginning, that's the only thing I'm
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: gonna give aware about this series. And there are unicorns
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in this series. There is redemption that is uplift, There
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: is motivation than there is second chance in this series.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Most importantly, there are blessings both giving and received in
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: this series is Voices of Fire. Uh, the inspiration I'm
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: speaking to him here. He's an inspiration to me. I'm
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a fan of his. He may not know it, but
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: now he knows it publicly that any time he has
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  Speaker 1: a home and money making conversation any platform I have,
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  Speaker 1: February six, I want to put it on all my
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: social media. When the single come out, please let me
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: know so I can post it on And then I
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: want to if I can get my my I called
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: my my Trio, my three amigos, if I get him
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: on the show to talk together before February six, Let's
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: make that happen too, because they deserve but shine as
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  Speaker 1: you're being given right now, because they were the anchors
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: for you, and they were the blessings being able to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: like when she took a Lana pulled her aside, and
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: there's some extra work to get her to the next
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: level of her success. That's what you get out of
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: this series. You know, we got divorce, we got the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: American Idol, just a different show just to show about
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: receiving and getting blessings testimonials because they are allowed to
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: tell the story. And my man, Bishop, you're blessing brother,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Thank you God, bless you man, and thanks for having
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: us on the show. We enjoyed it and and will
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: definitely make sure that our guys are part of whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to do well well. First of all, you
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  Speaker 1: the show, they always get caught off. Are because I'm
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: such a sincere interviewer, because I've been blessed man my life.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing the things I want to do in
• 33:06
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• 33:09
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  Speaker 1: proper understanding that God is giving me take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what this serious is about. And I can
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  Speaker 1: talk over and over about it, but you gotta see
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• 33:23
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  Speaker 1: stopped you, That's what it's about. It's let you know
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  Speaker 1: that only you can stop yourself if God gives you
• 33:35
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• 33:39
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• 33:41
  Speaker 1: that's where Forces of Fire is all about. Thank you
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Bishop for coming on my show. Thank you God blessed.
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  Speaker 1: in my body. I'm also not exercising as much. I'm
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: also not getting a lot of vitamin d um. I
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: want to make sure that I'm healthy just in case,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: you know, comeing in contact with anything COVID like, so
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I can fight it off. And I just wanted to
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: start putting better things in my body and and started
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: getting physically active again and just making sure I wasn't
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: laying down and chilling all day. You know, some days
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you gotta do that. But then you gotta get self
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: back on some type of schedule, and it's like, all right,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: don't don't fall off too hard because it's gonna everything's
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: gonna open up, and then what you're gonna be looking crazy.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I gained weight too, I really did gain weight. I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: was like my wife, she was, You're hungry, yeah, yeah,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: And I was eating breakfast, launching dinner and I never
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: do that. So but guess what. I was sitting around
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and I was watching TV, watching Tiger King all the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: stuff you know, you know, just different shows on Fox,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: ABC everything, you know, because Cowen had put me in
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: a lifestyle I had never done. In my face, I
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: couldn't control my movements and so uncertainty and so we
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: all trapped into that, and so you know, you know,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I was depressed, but I was in
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: a way, um confused about when I went out in public,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: how to I interact properly? And and then I read
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: your stories. I'm assuming you're based in California, and California
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: is like the COVID capital of the world right now,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: you know, with the with the recent surge and productions
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: being shut down and things like that. How do you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: like you said, you know, taking vitamins and watching what
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: you eat, but you still living that lifestyle. Is the
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: media over extending the story or you or you can
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: live uncomfortable you you move out comfortably in l A
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: um no, I'm as soon as you tell I don't
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: like being too close to people anyway. I like my Space.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I had funny I went to the grocery store and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I had this shirt on that said back up you
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: can read this. You too close And somebody was like,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: where'd you get that shirt, and I was like, I've
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: had this churf about five years, just had nothing to
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: do with the pandemic. I like the you know, I
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: like a little distance. I like personal space, and I
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't understand that. Also, UM,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I do a bye bye rules. And I do think
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: that safety is very important. UM if if someone needs
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: me to marry, wear a mask. If we think that
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: masks are protecting us in some way, of course I'm
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: gonna do what I need to do. UM. I have
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: UM older relatives, I have young children. UM, I believe in,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: you know, making sure that we're not spreading this thing
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: even further. I think it's kind of crazy that people
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: are still, UM, moving just anyway that they want to,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: and UM, not thinking about others. Um. Sometimes you gotta
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you gotta do what you gotta do. But if you
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: just don't want to sit in the house, Because I
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: really feel like this time really UM. I was talking
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: to my mom about it this morning, how it forced
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of us to slow down and focus on
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: things that we weren't really focusing on, and um, this
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: was a time to do that. And UM we all
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: went through different emotions of how to do it. But
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, don't want to work
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: on themselves, so they don't want to sit at home
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: with themselves. It's kind to figure out, Okay, well what
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: can I do to better me? You know, they like, no,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I want to do this and I want to do that,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: having tantrums and stuff. Um, but I really took the
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: time to work on me and things that I need
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: to get in order in my life, um mentally, physically, mentally,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: physically everywhere, you know, every aspect and just focus on that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: But no, we're not. We're not knew moving like normal.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Coming from his household, we were like, what excuse me?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Drop it on right there, thank you? Or even where
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: you're doing the show, I'm assuming you you take the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: pilot coming out of COVID taping a series. How is
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: this set? You know, because you still gotta be funny,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: You still gotta be comfortable with everybody around. It is
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: a comedy and so you know, I know my background
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: on thing. You do do do a table read with
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: every script? Do they do a table and they do
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: it via zoom or do it do it live with
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: your table read? Well, now we shot the pilot during
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: the pandemic and we're still shooting the series right now. Um,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: they have all these extra rules, everything that's put in place.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I basically get hair and makeup done and have to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: put a mask and a shield back on my face.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: So it's constant touch ups. Um. But for a table
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: reads right now, we do zoom table reads. UM. There's
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of producers. There's a lot of writers that
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: we haven't even met yet in person. Um, they've just
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: been watching us on the cameras and UM, it's it's weird. Um.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: But of course the only time that we're able to
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: be around each other is when we're shooting, and when
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: we're rehearsing, and you would it's weird sometimes because we'll
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: we'll be next to you. We'll they'll be like, no,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: you guys need to be closer together for the shot,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: and we're like, oh I can, I can be close
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: to the Okay, I can Okay. And then um, with
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: us actors, if you if you do, if you have
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to be closer, you have to kiss or you have
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: to hug. Um, you're extra tested that week. UM. I've
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: had days where I've been um, I've had to do
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: three tests in one day. Um, just to make sure
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that we keep us safe and our crew safe. And um, yeah,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: so it's it's been weird because you're kind of trying
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: to develop these characters when you can't really relax. So um,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: that's why a lot of us were a little anxious
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: with the show coming on, because we're like, how did
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: this happen? Like, I hope everything went great because everything's
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: moving kind of crazy on set, but I'm happy with that.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I've watched it last night and I enjoyed itself. Yeah,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. And you know, like I said, now,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: are you the tallest person on the show? Now, I
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: am a very um, you know, short lady. Uh, and
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: usually I am the shortest, but um, I think Miam
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: and I are around them around the same height and
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Leslie shorter than I am, um, but kills on, so
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: it looks like I'm way taller than them when I'm not.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: When you carry your newfound height, well okay, because because
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: because you know, I've seen the pilot's very entertained and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and you use such a natural Kyla and in this
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: this new opportunity to you to bo television in the
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: sitcom on Fox Network? What what tell us everybody about
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: your character with your name Randy. The serious is called
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: called Me Cad. If you have not seen it, comes
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: with every Thursday night on Fox, please tell us about
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: We'll call Me. Cat is a show based on a
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: show from the UK called Miranda. My character's name on
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: this show is Randy and she is the barista in
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Cat Cat Cafe who is young, vibrant, tells it like
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: it is, tells you even if you don't want to
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: hear it, She's gonna let you know. Um, but she's
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: the life of every party and um yeah. It's a
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: show about a woman, a cat played by Myambiolic, who
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: is thirty nine, unmarried, doesn't have any kids, and finally
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: something happened in her life where she was just like,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I need to make a change and I don't want
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to work as a math professor. This is not fulfilling
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: for me. And she just dropped everything that everybody he
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: said that she needs to be doing and decided to
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: her dream. And so now you guys get to watch
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: her live her dream along with two crazy sidekicks who
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: work in the shop with her. And and we have
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: more characters at our at our bar next door. Middle
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: c played by Julian Gan and Seyenne Jackson and we're
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: just we're having fun. It's a lot of fun. Okay.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I assume as a series go along, we'll learn more
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: about your characters. Right now, I'm seeing you as a
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: very beautiful, very opinionated not really into cats, which you
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: work in a which is which is hilarious. A woman
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: you like cats, but she's working in a cat cafe.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Uh that you know, Randy gotta make her money. She
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: gotta figure it up. I'm not running from it. I'm
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: just letting everybody know how crazy this character is. And
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: let's talk about my favorite man. He's a he's a
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: star on social media, Leslie Jordan. He's about to be
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: about Hi. He's taller than you. Dunk on tattoo, can't dunt.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: That's showed you now, Leslie is hilarious. I remember going
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: into the writer's room and they said, we cast Phil's character. Um,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: he's amazing. You have to look at his Instagram. It's
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: the cutest, funniest thing ever. And I said, let me see,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and they showed me one thing and I was like,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: oh my goodnes see hilarious. I have to follow him.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Literally two weeks later is when he went viral, like
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: he became everybody's you know, go to during the pandemic.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: And when I tell you, this man is so sweet
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: and so hilarious, like you never know what's gonna come
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: out of his mouth, Like what he gives you guys
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: on Instagram that is his every day. He is amazing.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: He really is amazing. And so let me just tell
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: you what she's talking about. I think he went from
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: like a half a million Instagram follows to like five million.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I think he was less than that. I think he was.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I think he was even lower than half of Yeah,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: because I know it's a real low number. I didn't
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: want to like go but low what it could have been,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: but this is an amazing low number. And if you
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: go to this Instagram account, he dances. He let's give
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: a little background here. He does a lot of voice
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: over work and which we're gonna get to in a minute,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: because your animated reboot on Disney Plus because and so
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know him, but they've heard him,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: and so to see him kind of playing out these
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: little character playoffs and stuff on TikTok and all these
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: different platforms. He's made for social media, and he's fun
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: and he's an older guy that's very hip, very topical,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: very uh, you know, everybody find it. Compared to somebody
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: like that, I would say Dick Van Dyke type, because
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: he doesn't act his age and he's very relatable and
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: you have to be able at all. He is a
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: big old kid. He eats all the props on the set.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you're not, we need that for the next take.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: And he's like very is. He's been in this game
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: for so long and acting for so long, and I
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: think it's amazing that something like Instagram has now shown
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: the world who this man really is. And he is
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: absolutely hilarious. Like I I like half the stuff that
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: comes out of his mouth. I don't even know how
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: he's on Fox because he's just like anything that comes
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: to his branding, it's just out. It's just and I'm like,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: let's say that. But he like, he's the sweetest and
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: he has so many great things coming his way because
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: of because of Instagram, and then and then seeing the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: things that he does and the joy that he brings
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: to everyone who follows him, it's like that's what we
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: all needed, you know. So he just he exploded at
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: the right time we needed him. He helped through He
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: helped so many people through this. Here's the fun part
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: about your show, because you know we all you know Hollywood.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: You know, you get a show, your audition and they
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: don't get a call back, and then you get a
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: show where the star of the show comes from all
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: and incredibly hit a hit series called The Big Bang Theory.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: One of the executive producers is from The Big Bang Theory.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: And now you get to be a part of a
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: show on Fox Television. Tell us about that emotional you
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: got it in the relationship that you built on the
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: show with your leading lady who was Emmy nominated from
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: The Big Bang Theory. What's crazy is that, Um, this
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: project came to me, UM from the creative the show
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: who's also producing, Darlene Hunt. I worked with her previously,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: and UM, She's like, I need you to come in,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I need you to test for this, and UM I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: heard that. You know, Miam was a part of it,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: and Jim Parsons was a part of it, and UM,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: just to even get the opportunity to be in the
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: same room as people that you know you can learn from,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: UM was an amazing This thought of the possibility of
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: being able to do that and then to actually be
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: able to become a part of the show and work
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: with these people that, when I tell you, did not
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: disappoint in any type of way. Miam is like literally
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: does everything, and she's so sweet and gracious and a
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: human being, and to to you know, I've been in
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: this business for a very long time and I've worked
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: so much and there's not a lot of times where
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I come across people where I'm like, Okay, I have
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: to watch everything this person is doing because she is
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: doing like she's doing everything and she's doing it great.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: So you know, I just I feel so blessed to
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: be a part of a situation with people who have
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: worked so successfully for so long but are also amazing
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: human beings that show that, you know, you don't have
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: to be crazy to make things work. I mean, you
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: gotta be a little crazy, but but the good crazy,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: well we know you're crazy. Penny Proud, Okay, Penny Proud.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Did you think it would come back? Um? I didn't.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't think a lot of people for you, you did.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I My voice hasn't changed at all. Literally loved Somebody's
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: like deal, kids, listen to you, because when you're talking,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: you don't sound like nobody's mama. You sound like a
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: little card to character. Like, first of all, yes, they
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: do listen to me anyway. No, but I never thought that. Um,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have been hearing different things here and there,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and so many things they're getting rebooted and remade, and
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: so of course I didn't, you know, think that it
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: was I heard talks, but I didn't think it would
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: be a possibility. And um, then I got the call
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: from Ralph Farquar and Bruce Smith and they basically said
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: they wanted to give it a go, and I'm like, hey,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: like anybody else playing Penny, so y'all we better figured
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: this out. And and then you know, brought everybody along
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: for the ride. And it's been tough because, um, we
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: actually started recording right before the right when the pandemic
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: was happening, and so we had to start recording everything
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: at home, and it's difficult to record at home when
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: you have kids that are not in school and they
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: a loud like a mama. So we're figuring this out
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: though we're making it happen, checks checks, I'm like, maybe
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: this is for a few minutes they're trying to get
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: a part in the show. That's what I know what
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: they're trying to do. Now, let's talk about this this
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: this character. You know when you talk about recording at home,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: you know this is not picking up your phone or
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: your cell phone recording at the home. They send you
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: some special equipment. How did that work out? Oh? Yes,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: we had to get the right mics, um, the right
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: uh everything that needed to go into a computer. And
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: I literally, when I tell you this computer thing, before
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: this pandemic, I knew how to ask some right email
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and uh, I knew how to write message, but as
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: far as anything else, no, So I've learned so much. Um,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I had to learn different tools and how to record
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: myself finn and even having I don't even know the
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: name of the things that they sent, Like I had
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: a bounce thing that I had to put behind the
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: microphone and I had to put I went to visit
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: my grandmother, had to put pillows on top of it
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: to make sure that the sound was the sound quality
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: was good. Like, they sent us so much stuff, and
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, luckily my man is uh the recording artist,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: so he knows how to cook up all that stuff.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, I don't have to um
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: cry today. Uh So luckily I had the help that
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I needed. But yeah, they sent us everything. You know,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: you have to learn sometimes, and so the thing about
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: it is that when you get it, to get an opportunity. So,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I looked at the this is Disney Plus
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: where I just so soul that Jamie Fox, Uh animazing,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: which is really great. Is I've seen it twice. It's
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: really fun. And then I hear about this announcement, uh,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: you know, the return. I just call it the return
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: of Penny Proud. You know family, Louder and Prouder. So
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: when I hit and Prouder, I hear volume. I hear
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: that they're gonna be all over the placement. We know
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: your Disney Plus, so you're not gonna get extreme. What
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: does Louder and Proud of me? But to me Louder
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: and Prouder. I feel like when I was recording The
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Proud Family back in the day, I had no idea
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: what I was a party. I was fourteen years old,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: and I didn't realize the things that we were talking
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: about in the messages that we were giving young kids
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: watching um watching the cartoon and I feel like louder
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: and prouder now it's like we've it's like Proud Family
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: two point oh. We basically upgraded the conversations that are
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: gonna be happening. And I'm surprised to some of the
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: things that you know, Disney Pluses is allowing us to do.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: But you know, we have to do those type of
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: things if we want to maintain the authenticity of being
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: the Proud Family. We have to come through with the messages.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: We have to come through with the knowledge. We have
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: to come through with the real things that need to
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: be said and leads to be taught and learned about,
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  Speaker 1: especially in our community. So I just feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of storylines that people are gonna be like, what,
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  Speaker 1: But you know that it's it's teach them young, teaching young.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking about your career because I've been fortunate to watch
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  Speaker 1: your career, you know, I've been fortunate to be on
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  Speaker 1: set with you and watch the professionalism, watch you watch
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  Speaker 1: how you at a young age and and and and
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  Speaker 1: as a young teenager and become a young adult. That's longevity.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you have people who want to get
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  Speaker 1: into business, can you give them any advice or any
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  Speaker 1: thoughts to the process of what this business can offer
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: you offer you for opportunity, but what you have to
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  Speaker 1: give or sacrifice to be successful in this business. Uh,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: this business is a very difficult one. UM. I always
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  Speaker 1: tell people, please only get involved if it's something that
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  Speaker 1: you have loved for that you love, um, fame and
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: all that popular stuff, and that doesn't really it's too
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: much going on to just want that. Um. And then
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: also it's it's practice, it's studying it, taking it seriously,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a very difficult. It's like it's
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  Speaker 1: mentally it can be completely draining. And I know a
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: lot of people look at me and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're you know you you turned out so well and
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you know, that's because I was able
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  Speaker 1: to recognize when things were too much for me or
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: when I need to just change how I looked at things. Mentally, like,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: in this business, you're gonna be told no a million times,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna make you question yourself. It's gonna make
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: you rethink everything that you know about you, and you
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: have to get stuck in your head that hey, I'm
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: gonna keep getting told no. But that doesn't mean that
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not good, that doesn't mean that I'm not worth it.
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  Speaker 1: It just means that that one thing wasn't meant for me.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: And now I'm on the hunt for the next thing.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: And uh, I know someone asked me recently, like what
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: did you audition for that you didn't get? And it
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: took me like ten minutes to think about it because
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: I was like, honestly, after all, bition for something. If
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: I haven't heard back, Oh no, it's out of it's
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: it's it's gone, and I'm onto the next thing. I
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: can't dwell on the past, you know. So if you
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: want to get into a business like this, you just
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: gotta make sure here is straight because a lot of
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: people don't understand that. You know, we're human beings, we're
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: not machines, and we go through the same things that
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: everybody else goes through. And if you want to do it,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: just keep hustling and fighting and people gonna tell you can't,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: just like anything else, you gotta prove them wrong. Well you, well,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I'm proud of you, Penny proud, okay,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: And I've seen I've seen the journey and I know
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: you know, there's so many there's so many casualties out there,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: and you know what I'm talking about. And uh, and
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: it's sad by that process because it's really can be
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: famous on the series and then all of a sudden,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: you're constantly chasing that that series or that moment or
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: that opportunity, and like you said, you have to actually
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: walk away. You have to shut down and don't let
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: these negatives win. And if you let the negatives win,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I think that's when that's when you don't have but
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: you fall away. Had a balanced life and I always
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: tell people on the show that it's important to have
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: a balanced life, that you are not consumed by what
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: you do but who you are. And you've always had that,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: as Paul your mantra that I've always um, I've always
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: wanted to have it all and UM, I remember being
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: younger and people like, don't have kids yet, and I'm like,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: first of all, what I want to do? Um, But
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: I just feel like you have to have balance. I
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: understand that what I do for a living is my
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: job and I love it and I'm very fortunate to
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: be able to do something that I love. Um, it
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: is not my complete entire life. Um, I am a
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: regular person with an extraordinary job. And um, it's difficult,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: especially in a business like this, because you, like you said,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: you have those moments where you have the TV shows
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and you're on top and the next thing you know,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: people are looking at you like you've never worked before,
• 59:50
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• 59:54
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• 59:56
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• 59:59
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  Speaker 1: of the National Women's brought your organization her brochtes bring
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  Speaker 1: That's right. This docuseries is set in Jackson, Mississippi. I've
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  Speaker 1: Just recently went there and hung out with mcgirl Tambra
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  Speaker 1: that were being for the Relationship Hour, Please Wacker, the
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  Speaker 1: money making conversations my girls Tambora, Sari and Latisha Pearson.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, and now first time now I met Tambora,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna just tell you and she'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I told us you were talented when I met. That
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  Speaker 1: was about four years ago. I said you were talented,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, are You're gonna stay in Jackson? She's
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  Speaker 1: and she loved the community. So tell us what happened
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  Speaker 1: since I last saw you. Because I was down there
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  Speaker 1: doing my perfect bake tour, telling everybody I would have
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  Speaker 1: a baking contest. I was doing that in the Winner
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  Speaker 1: one in the Jackson area, and that's how we met. Yes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: yes I still have my perfect bank. A matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: you gifted me with one. Yes, it has been some years,
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  Speaker 1: ra Sean, and you want me right you you told
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  Speaker 1: me then. I remember the words that we the conversation
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  Speaker 1: me being talented and the one thing you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: know that you're not telling everybody. You wanted to know
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  Speaker 1: why am I still in Jock? Yes, what's your question
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  Speaker 1: to me? That was your question? If that was your
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  Speaker 1: number one who I said? I kept telling me like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to leave, You don't want to leave.
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  Speaker 1: He kept telling me that. I do remember that. Then.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of happened since then, and since then, I've
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  Speaker 1: done some television. Since then, I've been doing television, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hosting. Of course, I still love, absolutely love
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  Speaker 1: my station. I love what I do, and I do
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  Speaker 1: believe one of the reasons that God had me stay
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  Speaker 1: in this opportunity right here. We get to show people
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  Speaker 1: Jackson like I've never seen before. What is amazing to
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  Speaker 1: into this relationship with you. You look fantabulous looks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love the colors. You know you
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  Speaker 1: you got a little you got that that swag to
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  Speaker 1: you when you walk out in the streets. Now, tell
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  Speaker 1: us about your background like I do know about you know, look,
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  Speaker 1: look Tamber, tell us about you. Hello. Can you hear me? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I can hear you. Can you hear me? Absolutely? Don't
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  Speaker 1: they got WiFi out do me. We got big time
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  Speaker 1: country on me. I'm not going country on you. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for having us. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: It's an eye to be on your show. I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. Everything Timber actually said so wonderful things about you.
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  Speaker 1: So I did do a little research, right, So, my girl,
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  Speaker 1: Timber did say great things about you. So again, it's
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: so great, great introduction. As you said, I am the
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  Speaker 1: founder of an organization called National Women's Branch Organization, and
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: it is for female entrepreneurs. We provide them with resources
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  Speaker 1: to help them start businesses, whether it be um to
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  Speaker 1: educate them with financial literacy to help them start businesses.
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  Speaker 1: We also empower them. We focus most more so on
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  Speaker 1: mindset change, because we all know that everything starts in
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: the mind first, and that's the only way you'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to see anything productive in your life. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what we do. I have my plan wants care to
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  Speaker 1: women because I personally knew that in order to make
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  Speaker 1: anything and anybody great, I first had to become the change, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I created that platform for women. So yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: my country self. Okay, you own owning girl. I pro
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  Speaker 1: used to Texas. Don't let these close fool you. I
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  Speaker 1: like and now here's a great thing about this whole
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  Speaker 1: cover and says you guys in Mississippi, we've seen the
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: racial arrest this country went under, and we saw a
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: tremendous change in the state of Mississippi when the removal
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: of the flag. You know, from a media standpoint, you
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: out front and I know you get a lot of
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: calls and a lot of reactions. TAMPERA, talk to me
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: about that change that you've seen with the removal the flag.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: I know it's not major, some stack some situations, but
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: it still was a major change from a symbolism standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely had radio personalities from across the country to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to me, some people who didn't even realize that
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: we still had that flag with that and they didn't
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: even realize it. And so it was literally history. It
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: was a history that we can say that we actually
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: were a part of here in Jackson because we've watched
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: people march to take that black down, We've watched protests
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: to take it down, we brought protests to keep it up,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's been ongoing. It's not something that just happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's been an ongoing fight. And to finally see that
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: fight and watch how it ends played right in front
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  Speaker 1: of us, it's a part of history. And I'm actually
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: happy to say that I was on air when it happened. Wow. Well,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're talking about black empowerment, Letitia and
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: you we're gonna get to the revitalization of fair Street
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: and the Man and but you know, we're talking about
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: the South, and the Mississippi has always had a terrible
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: racist history. You know in the South, you know, you know,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: you can go to Alabama, you know, Georgia, all assoft
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: have their stories. The Mississippi is always stood out when
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: you're talking about black women in poweroy what you're talking
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: about black girl magic. Talk to us about some of
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: the obstacles and then what you're trying to achieve when
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: you're talking about breaking through that financial literacy, sealing and
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: their glass ceiling. Well, as you said, Um, coming from
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: the South and trying to uplift the black community, we
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: all know it's history. So of course I'll face several obstacles,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: obstacles from partnerships, meaning that banks in the community, trying
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: to get my ladies a partnership to help them establish
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: credit with some of our banks, UM. And also that's
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: something that we need more of here in the South.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: We need I mean all over black black owned UM banks,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I've definitely faced that trying to get
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: partners UM to partner with my organization to help us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Luckily and properly, we have been able to
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: secure a few partners that can help entrepreneurs, are black
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs UM take our loans to start establishing credit. And
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: that is so important to learn financial literacy because coming up,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: that's something that I wasn't taught, you know. And again, Um,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: everything that I do is passion driven or it's from
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: experiences that I do not want anyone else to encounter.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: So that's basically what this organization and it's entirety is.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: It is to help girls, women who look exactly like me,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: to have the opportunity to succeed. So that's why this
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: platform was created. Well when did it start? And you
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: were you inspired by somebody? M hmm. Well actually it
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: started as women Brunch Mississippi and we started that in
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen. I attended a brunch in Atlanta, Georgia,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: and I was just so amazed by this brunch that
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: I attended. Well it wasn't even a brunch, it was
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: an event. It was like a networking event, and uh,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I was so amazed how women were networking together. They
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: were like, you know, how can I pour into you?
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: How can you pour into me? And I was like, wow,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: this is something that Mississippi needs. So originally it started
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: as a networking event. I hosted on my first event
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and seventeen, mingling over Mimosa's business branch
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: to allow business owners to come in a network. Well,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: we set up for like sixty sixty sixty two people
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: and we had over a hundred a hundred people to attend,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: and I was like Oh my goodness. That that was
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: like a supplied demand. That was something that was needed
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: in a confirmation for me to do more of them.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: So I created Women Brunched Mississippi, and that Women Branch
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Mississippi was to empower the women here in the state.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Well as the organization starts to like take its own life,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: thank you Jesus, it starts to take its own life.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I had women reaching out in Alabama, I had women
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: reaching out in Atlanta, in Texas. How can I be
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: a part of this organization? So I was like, you
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: know what, let me get outside my conference zone and
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: I stepped out to National Women's Brunch Organization. Well, there's
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: the great thing about it is that you're trying to
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: create change. Now, when I when I go back to Tambera,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you some timber Mississippi. Monica Barnes text me,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: you know Mrs Monica bar And she's one of the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: executive producers of Steve Harvey Morning Show. I gave her
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: a break and gave her opportunity to get on the show.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: And she text me, uh, Tambra is gonna do your show,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: and she wants to know if you remember her. I
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: was so mad that I got that text, like I'm
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: gonna forget you were at a long conversations, were in
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: the studio for several hours, and I remember everything I
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: told you. I said, why are you still in Jackson?
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: And and that made an impression on me. And when
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: I when I think that, I think about what you
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: were becoming, and you was evolving not only as a
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: as an individual, but as a person. And this is
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: this whole. This is gonna be a big transition, ladies,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: because now you know, people gonna know you, sometimes for
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: the right reason, for the wrong reasons. Know. And you
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: have the show called The Relationship Our on radio. Okay,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: they say it's controvertial. Uh, please tell us why, And
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: it's fine controversy, but but tell us why. Well, you
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: know what, I've been doing that show for years and
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: it's just a part of something that's inside the Midday
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: that we do once a week, and it has been controversy.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: I think they why they call it controversy. It is
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: because we open the phone lines to the to the audience.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: It's it's open to the audience. The audience comes up
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: with the questions, they spend in what they want to
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: talk about and literally people give their opinions on what's
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: going on. We all know that relationships pretty much rule
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: this entire world. Okay, we know that. So we talked
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: about not only personal relationships and professional relationships, but all
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: types of relationships, even if you're dealing with family, and
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of times it can be very controversial just
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: by the things that people say. I've had people to
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: call and say the strangest things. So it does and
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: we're in the middle of the day, we're talking at
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: one of the flocks, this night conversation. This is this
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: conversation you're literally at listening to. That's what you say
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: when they say controversy. I've had people to call me
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: and say, look, do you know who asked that question?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Because if that's like she's talking about my husband. I
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: had those type of questions. But it's all fun, and
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: it talked about I know, right, and talked about relationships
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: because relationships are so important and it's just opened opinions
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: up for everyone to get involved. Well, you know, you
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: know Steven Harvey and I you know, when he comes
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: to relationship, act like a lady, to think like a man.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: The movies, so I know, the Strawberry Letter that he
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: does at the top of eight o'clock. Been doing that
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: since two thousands, so I know the power of a relationship.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: But you're doing it for a whole hour though. We
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: just did a letter, so that whole hour concept. Would
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: you take several phone calls or is it man? They
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: called to man and the women rashan like men and women. Yes,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: we open it up for everyone to call. And I
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: hear from my ladies and I hear from my guys
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: point of view, and sometimes the ladies am more interested
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: in a guy's point of view because you know, when
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: you're over the phone, you give me yourself. You can
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: say exactly what you want to say and how you
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: feel instead of like you thinking somebody's looking at you
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: or trying to judge you. So that's why I think
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: when people say its controverts, because they're seeing how they
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: really feel, because they don't have to be seen. It's
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: not zoom down on the TV show with the Steve
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Harvey type of Oprah is on the phone and they
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: can get away with it. Now you phone, they can
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: get away with whatever they say. They're real feelings about
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: how they feel. On that on the topic that we're
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: actually talking about like the conversations and the stories that
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: I have heard something don't actually have part of my
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: book some of the years that the conversations I've heard,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: some of the things will blow your mind. And there's
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: no no judgment. Don't nobody's judging you because we're just
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: listening to your real opinion. Right. So, Letitia, you have
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: heard her show? Have you heard our show? Absolutely? Absolutely?
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: You cannot be in Jackson, Mississippi and had absolutely both
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: of y'all funny to me like Jackson, Mississippi, New York.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: I would tell you'all something you know it's jack Why
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: have it? You know how we met her brunch? This
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: is why I love La Titia Latsha reached out to
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: me for her brunch and we've been just like this
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: the relationship group ever. So y'all got a TV relationship,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: y'all a real relationship, Yes see, I can. I can
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: tie these manufactured relationship. You know your TV You're ready
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: in Stall. She a community Stall. Y'all make a great
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: television show. So you guys know each other. Oh absolutely absolutely,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: That's why that's why this show here very collective, is
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: so so amazing because we're all connected. It's not anything
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: like you said manufactory, Like this is this is our
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: real life. It's reality. And I think that that's what
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: people they're gonna love about it. I think that they're
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: going to love the realness. I think not only that
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: they're gonna love the ladies, and they're gonna love Mississippi.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: You know, everybody is curious about Mississippi and this group
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: of women. We all bring something out of miss out
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: of us. That's that's so Mississippi, and it's so different,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: and it's so unique, and we're all, you know, we're
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: all friends. Now, this is about five ladies. Five ladies.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: I'm meeting two of you. Guys. I'm Lutitia, I mean
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: you Tambrod. You also have Latrish Rogers, Dr and Twine Louds,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: and then you have h A. Maria we Hamilton Jam.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: The personality of Dr Antoinette, what's the question, don't mesity pity? Yes,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: what's Antoine's personality? Um? So, if I had to say
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Antoine's personality, of course she's a dentist. So um, I
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: think that you know she's just cool l you know,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: cool lay back. I mean, I really don't know, like
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: the personality. If I had to say like I could
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: easily you say, what's timas personality? But believe midday diva
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: well sweet you know, with um with you know. But
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: if I had to say Antoinea, she's that. She's just
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: very you know, low key chilled, you know. She she's
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: not as out I'm gonna say it's glad like you're
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: gonna hear me in Tambla. You gonna hear she's a
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: dinner So she can't be too out there hasn't of
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: decorma professionalism now, so tim me, Timmy just Tamber how
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: a boy? Latrice Rogers? Can you championship about her? Camber Ladre?
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: And definitely I actually met Latrice through radio. Yes, that's
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: actually like she's been a client of radio where I've
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: actually voiced her commercials and that's how we met is
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: through radio. She's a client of our station. I've actually
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: done some things with her and that's how we met.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: And I think about Latresea's personality, I think really business minded,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: like she was all about her business when I met her,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: and she wanted to grow her business. So I literally
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: watched her business grow. I really had. So it's a
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: great thing just to watch the growth when it starts
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: right here and you watch it just grow. That is beautiful,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: like you cannot help but absolutely respect it and love
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: it well. The final member is Maria. Marie Hamilton's what
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: does the professional and tell me something about it? Oh
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: my goodness. Ree is definitely a powerhouse in the community.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: M Marie is her business partner. Sc actually s and I.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: We're from the same hometown and that's how I met Marie.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: Marie has been at my brunches, attending my brunches and
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: supported my brunches ever since the very first brunch that
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: I had, so our relationship has gone from business to
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: personal nowity and she is just all business minded like
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: they operate all of these businesses. She's always looking forward
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: to the next big thing. Marie is that she's very outspoken,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: but she's very lovable too, So Marie. This is five women.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: It's called the Bell Collective is set in Jackson, Mississippi.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: There's are dynamic women representing the finest of Mississippi's entrepreneurship,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: determined to break through the ceiling glass ceiling of social consciousness.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: The interesting thing about these shows is that when it
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: airs January fifteen, I believe it's the premier date. Do
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: you expect you know, this is fame, you know, because
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: all you know, people know you. You guys in the
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: community to know you. But it's like I always tell people, like,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: you know, my name is Roshan, And when people started
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: saying my name correctly all time, it really tripped me
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: out because I can always tell people who didn't know
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: me when they didn't say it right. Not everybody's gonna
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: know how to say Letitia's right way. That's just how
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: I said. And I and my friends called me Latitia.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: But that's a good point. When I hear Latitia high Latitia,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: I know that someone on my father's side or my
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: arm is upset at me, and she's cool with me.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: It's hey, Titia, and she's upset Ltitia. But Tam, but
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: you know, you're on the radio show and since you
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: are famous. You know, I'm not saying Latitia isn't famous,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: but you know in the radio you're in the popular
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: show Relationship our show, So you used to that level.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: But this is a visual level you're about to get to.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: Are you ready for that? Let me tell you actually,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: I I did have the opportunity to do some guest
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: hosting before and that was on another network. And then
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: I was actually doing some other hosting in guest corresponding
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: stuff Traditionation, which was on another network. So I'm really gutten.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: I think I had my feet wet a lot, to
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: be honest, because once you come across that screen, a
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: lot of things are coming at you. So I've had
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: my feet wet quite a few times now. But I
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: definitely think this is because I'm actually opening up my
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: personal life. I'm not just talking entertainment news. I'm not
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: just hosting anything, which I'm used to doing that one
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: television that I'm actually opening my personal life. So this
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: is very different for me. Okay, well you you open
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: it up, tell us about your personal life. What is
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: your personal life? Brought it up? You don't people? Oh
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: but this is what I said. When I say personal life,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: I mean I am still you too. I have always
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: having myself. It's far a having a professional life that
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: was super super public, which I absolutely love because I'm
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: a people prison. I love people. I love social life,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: I love all of that. I love people. I do
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: have a passion for people. But I managed to keep
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: my private life in personal life kind of private just
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: because I feel like, does anybody in my personal life.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: They didn't sign up for that. They didn't sign it
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: up for any of what I have going on. But
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: on this show, you actually do get a chance. You
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: see the conversations that I might have with my parents
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: that are very personal to me that you've never seen before.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: So when I say personal life for Sean, I'm not
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: just talking about like personal boyfriend. But although you might
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: see a little bit of that in dating and stuff like,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: that's what I want to set as well. I want
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: to see the man that man, what about the man?
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: Tell me your man talking about her parents? You don't
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: see your parent people. I do have some things going
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: on in my personal life. Well you know that I've
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: done that. I probably need the handle. So you see
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: all of that on you'll collected. Teacher, teacher, what about you?
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: Now she brought up this. I wouldn't even gonna go there.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: But when you have somebody open the pan down on box.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: Not I did it to my house, That's what I mean.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: Tam here you did you just kept and you said,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: oh my personal life, where teacher, teacher, teacher, your turn
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: turn my personal of course. I mean you guys are
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: gonna see my personal in its entirety. Um, of course
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: I am married. I'm married to Gwyn Glenn and I
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: we've been together for twenty three years. We've been married
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: for seventeen years. We have a son, Joshua, who was
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: five years. Oh, you're gonna see the ends and out
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: of me trying to really focus on my business move
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: from housewife under Glenn to boss wife. So what I
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: love about it? And and and even the producers, everyone
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: who worked on this show. They made us so comfortable
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: being totally transparent that I think I was maybe to
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: the transparent. So what you really? Um? What you get?
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: So you who watch Bill Collective, I'm sure the world
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: will be like I know tsha. Yeah, Well well good.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ask a. Of course you're Bill Collective.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: Where did that title come from? Well, the producer, UM,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: Carlos King. Of course, we all know Carlos King, the
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: King of Reality, UM, his company Kingdom Rain. Um. Carlos
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: mentioned on our preview that the name came from. Of course,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: we're in the South, We're known for being els, and
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a collective, um, five different women. So
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: I guessed him and his brower mind he put together
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Bell Collective Cool before we go, I want to talk
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: about I mentioned it in their opening about the black
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: iconic black neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi on Farres Street. Tell
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: us a little bit about that is there's an important
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: need to revitalize that street in that community. M it
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: is so important, um And as you are seeing on
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: the show, was an inspiration inspired by my grandfather, his
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: face with a light of each time he talks about
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: Farres Street and how that was a black mecca. There
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: was a safe place for black people, how there were
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: grocery stores and and things and anything that a black
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: person needs, just even the fellowship with one another, you
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: can find it on Farres Street. So I started to
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: do my research on Faris Street myself, and oh my god,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: and it was just so amazing. I felt like I
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: have to make this happen. I have to be a
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: part of something here because it's history and it's something
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: that our ancestors would be proud about. So I feel
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: like too when I share Fis with Timber. Before Timber
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: and I've had this conversation that it's so important for
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: us to work together to try and revitalize this area,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: not only for us, but for the generations after us.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: So it's my baby, it's my heart. I'm putting everything
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: in it, and I'm praying and believing everything's gonna manifest
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: the way. The great thing about it is that it's
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: on TV now, so donations will come in and all
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: that good stuff. But you know, Tamber, I got I gotta,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: I gotta wrap it up with Chamber. Now that's my girl.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: You know she did to I spent time with on
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: the radio. I didn't believe she still being Jackson, Misissippi.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: Not she on TV in Jackson, Mississippi. You know. So
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: all I know is that you proved me wrong. You
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: are going to be a star. I told you that
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: when I first met you. You know, you would have
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: fantastic friend here on my show the T Shaw you
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Or T Shaw? You know what,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: what's the future for your temper? Because you're you're fantastic personality,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: You're single. I'm gonna look, I'm gonna see a man
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: or you on TV. But theyin't the real man. That's
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: a man doing the TV show. So they're gonna be
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: other men do come your way, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: They will come in and try to scoop scool cool cool.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: You're gonna become a relationship out you, and so I
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: just want to talk to your shot you. You know me,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: I still had that same you had that same drive
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: and that same passion that we talked about. I still
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: have that. I'm still going for it. You know, you
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: said I win with Jackson. That's not true. That is
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: not true. You know, I love radio, I love television.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: I absolutely love what I do. Of course, you know,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: one of my goal is continue to do television and
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: radio and host on television. You know, I love people,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: passion for entertainment. My passion has not changed. My passion
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: for people has not changed. My passion for helping people
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: has not changed. Everything is still in the same and
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: I'm just in a different feat in a different driving feet,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: but my passion's still there. I absolutely love what I do,
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  Speaker 1: so credible to me. So let's talk about the before
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: we get to the menu. Let's talk about the Celebrity
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  Speaker 1: Soul Food story. Because the menu is UH is diverse
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  Speaker 1: meat lovers, vegetarian, and vegans, which lets me know why
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  Speaker 1: push doing the pandemic because we all know doing COVID
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  Speaker 1: their team African America. They're not saying it publicly, but
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  Speaker 1: being said, you launched the Celebrity Soul Food store. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us how that dream came about and how we got
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: to today. Before we get into the menu. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for me, Um, I think I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: Ce Oh it's been it's been serviced so poorly, you know.
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  Speaker 1: the mom and pops. I think it's amazing. Our grandmothers
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  Speaker 1: why I'm here. I don't I don't stand. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: creating history. I'm standing on the back of history. But
• 1:41:47
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  Speaker 1: sure that soul food go up there with all the
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  Speaker 1: ever want to give us credit. And then the other
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• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: it's much more served than just herbs and spice and soulful.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's like I remember being at my grandmother's
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: house and I was small and I was sleeping, and
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  Speaker 1: when it was tasting amazing. Just so it's the stories
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  Speaker 1: sure as the new manager, so that's not happened. We
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  Speaker 1: wait to present the mission. So they are they all
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  Speaker 1: can know how great really so is? Well, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's really great here you talk with passion, talking with
• 1:43:07
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• 1:43:10
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• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: that you know I love I love a vegan plate
• 1:43:15
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  Speaker 1: Now what is the difference? Always the same thing just
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  Speaker 1: mother and my my grandmother particularly uh is African American
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• 1:44:16
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• 1:44:22
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• 1:44:25
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• 1:44:29
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• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: dishes of the traditionalists, it's really not professional. You know.
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• 1:44:40
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• 1:44:42
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• 1:44:48
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• 1:44:51
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• 1:44:54
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• 1:45:07
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  Speaker 1: really a second tonight. What I want to know is
• 1:45:12
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• 1:45:44
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  Speaker 1: meet lovers, like you said, but you have vegetarian and vegan.
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  Speaker 1: That's a different style of cooking. Talk about your background
• 1:45:54
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• 1:45:57
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• 1:46:01
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• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: menus together. Let's go and give you credit for that.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that. Well, you know one of the
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: things I did, and this is why I can really
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: pay homage to UH to some great people. It um.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: You know when I when I started on this journey,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: not only did I train under some of the best
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: selfs in the country, but I spent five years traveling
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: throughout the United States, all the way from Alabama, others
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: an Annam, Mississippi, Florida, talking some grandmothers and great grandmothers
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: and sitting down with them, learning first of all, before
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: I put my hand to these dishes, what's the authenticity
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: of the dish, what's the instrument of the dish? How
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: did this all come about? Then what I did is
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: I spake because this is where it gets tight. But
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: this is why I want to be honest and be
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: over with people, because it's hard work. And when I
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: met you, you didn't tell me it would be easy.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: You told me put in the work, invest in yourself.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: So what I did is I spent over one point
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: six million dollars going into a kitchen, scaling that pitchure.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: Because you gotta remember back in the day, all they
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: told us was, hey, I put love in a little
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: bit of this, A little bit of that you can't
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: scale that. I've speed with business. See, So what I
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: get is I spend the resources I invested in myself.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: I invested in this project, and we went into the
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: kitchen and we got the nutritional facts. Then when I
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: get this out of lebaty relationships, so that we can
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: get a whole of the premium items, the premium ores,
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: the premium flowers, the things that are necessary that take
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: you to the next level, and that's what we present
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: to our franchisees. Until this world. We are not Grandma's food.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: We are Grandma two points. Oh we Grandma on steroids.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: Best believe that way. We'll just we did authenticity of
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: revision that we elevated and we innovated so that you
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: know what it can be presented with all the other
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: great culinary disease. But this was differently. This was excited me.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: I've seen taco restaurants explain Mexican restaurants to expand Hamburger
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: Chicken in my lifetime. I've seen Popeye's grow, I've seen
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: Chick fil A explode in my lifetime. You know what
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I've seen golden carrals go across this country,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: you know, and so now, but why now, why why
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: hasn't that happened? That was it? Was it? The technology
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: was that the principle, like you said earlier in the conversation,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: A lot of times quality the restaurant like that are
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: buried deep in the black neighborhoods. You know, they don't
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: they don't have the sense of technology saying that we're
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: gonna do door dads, We're gonna do uber we're gonna
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: have the technology when you walk up there, you've got
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: the iPads and all these things. What did you see?
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: What research did you say? That they set out and
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: you say, man, we can do this. This is time
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: for this is our time. This is the celebrity soul
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: food time. Well, you know, one of the things that
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: I saw is and then it's going back to and uh,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: kudos to you man. Is what I saw is you
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: know what, Um, I stopped thinking too small, but I
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: set on this thing. I I just set out to
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: open my restaurant. You know what I mean? This has
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: to be a lot of changing and it has to
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: be inspired for all their room at the table. So
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: the first thing that I did is, you know, wait, um,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: first of all, I build relationships with an amazing developer
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: because the location, we see it matters, but it really
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: does when you have to buy from location. The other
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: things that you mentioned is technology and people are so
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: behind the millennials and those that's coming behind them are
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: on the absolute their phone. They won't break quality, and
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: they wanted fast. They want to be on their phone.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: They want to move with technology. And so we added
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: that to our restaurant, Dinney. We went as far as
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: even implementing robots inside of our our restaurants that assist
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: the servers, which is the second enough providing that great
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: technological experience, but more slow than that, it goes back
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: to the operator themselves. You know, many people are open
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: their restaurants without building brain quality. And that's something that
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: you talk a lot about on your show, is that
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: bring me and the boards are building that value. And
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: so they launched uh what I call a moment pop
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: and crulse for them, But I believe those days are over.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: You have to build brand. You have to build systems,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: which mean said, you can be in this particul a situation.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: You could be great at cooking, but you'd be poorly
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: at business. You have to have administrative ability. And then
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: I've seen celebrities open restaurants which they got a great name,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: but they have no systems, no uh and no UM,
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: no concept of knowing shelf work in them of what happened,
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: so they don't last. And so many people, you know,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: but when we deal with our franchisees, we better them
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: all around the country, but we take them to our
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: processes because you must have us you know, set and
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: you must be able to follow the systems that are
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: in place to make sure that everything stay in compliance,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: that no matter where you go out in the world,
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: that you always be that consistency of that great That
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: is so important to thank you, Doc when you talk
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: about this, because, like I said, you know, you see
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: wing stops out there, you see the fund records out there,
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: you see you see all these these Hamburgers places that
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: are popping up left and right. Now. Talk about that
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: whole franchise franchise process, because it was really important that
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: you're not just taking that money, you're trained in them
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: and doctoring them into the way this restaurant business should
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: be run. The quality means that plate would be the
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: same in San Francisco as it will be in Houston, Texas,
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: as it will be in Chicago. That's where people fail.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I remember, Sylvia was the bomb in
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: New York City. Hall of then it went out to
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: d C. Expand to Atlanta. Maybe that was it, you know,
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: and that's where the business conversation comes in. So that's
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: why I was excited to get you on the show.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: I want to be a part of putting the word
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: out about your franchising capabilities. Let's talk about that whole
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: thing that you're talking about, nurturing that business nurturing that
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: you're talking about in the whole the whole celebrity soul
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: food franchise e model. Well, you know what if it
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: is the first thing I did is that nobody can
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: do anything right about themselves. So I went and I
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: found the best of the best and the most elite
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: leaders in their space in this industry, and I put
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: them on my team. So you're talking about I have
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: a CSO, I have a CFO, I have an operations person,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: I have a corporate shell. I put a team together
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: that when we bring in and we bet these franchisees
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: from around the countries, we're not just making money deals.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: We invest in people, which means that before we get
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: to the liquidity and what you do and do not
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: have because we can assist you and help you find
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: your project. Its first, it's about you. First of all,
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: are you too burned out to presume your pursue your
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: own dream? Are you still ready to work hard and
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: to get it in? And it secondly is pain your
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: fallows systems because sometimes people are so selfish and so
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: self centered they want to do it their own way,
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: and the reality of it is, if they could have
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: did it their own way, they would have did it
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: by now. But if you're going to get in a
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: vehicle that's bigger than yourself and we are part of
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: making history, you have to adhere to systems. And that's
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: where my team is great about because we train, we
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: invest in our franchisees, but only in the operators that
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: are willing to adhere to those boundaries. Because the reality
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: is this, It goes back to the moment pops. You know,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: you can go in on Monday and let's say Grandma's
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: there and the food is a maybe. But when Grandma
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: passes away, oftentimes what you find is that the kids
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: mess it all up. The restaurant was out of business.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: You know why. No systems in place, and nobody could
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: ever scale Grandma. No one could never package Roma. And
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: that take investing, and that takes time, and that's what
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: we've done and that's what takes us to the next level.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: So when we invite people here and you know, we've
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: got calls and applications, we probably get a thousand a day. Really,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: all of the people all around the world from to
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: buy all the way to some of your biggest theme
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: parks or one of the individuals. But ships, you're gonna
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: cruise ships too. It's about the passion and the love
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: of the cuisine and wanting to present us in a
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: way to say you no way, thank God for Grandma
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: and what it is and Grandma and him and all
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: that little stuff. And that's really being homage to it
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: and do it right. And we're doing it the right way. Well,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: you know you said it. You know, theme parks, airports,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: you know, this is franchising, this is what This is
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: the mindset that you're under being able to to do
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: a two hundred store national roll out. What is the
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: mindset of that? Dr Jacobs, Well, what is is that,
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the mindset and is first of all, uh
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: unity and diversification, you know, inclusion. And that's what people
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: messed up is because they want to hold it hostage.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: Soul food is not a baby. It's grown, it's graduated college.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: It's right, but you're holding it constitution and you didn't
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: you don't want to share it with the world, and
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: that's why they put it in some of those the
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: neighborhoods that they do. But this belongs to all people.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: That's a story that go with this. But guess what
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: from all cultures can participate in it. So we crossed over.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: It's for African Americans for all those other culches who
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: were having to say, you know what, it's many things
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: we may not agree about, but there's but one thing
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: we can't agree about is that we can come to
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: this table, bring some amazing bread, and we definitely give
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: the paper for an amazing God. And that's how I'm
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: rocket about, friend, Is that how you how you have
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: to feed the scalability? How do you have to feed
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: its corporately? How do you have to feek is outside
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: of oneself? You gotta think a big picture and that
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: right there. You cannot have a small mind, nor can
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: you go into a situation where you have no division side. Okay, cool,
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: Now we got the business out the way. Now let's
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: get to that menu. Come on, Dr Jacob, that menu, brother. Okay,
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: let's start in my little favorite lane. The desserts are
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: the desserts gonna be consistent with every restaurant? And what
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: are some of the desserts that we look forward to?
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: First of all, all the way across the board California,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: or you walk in Florida. You're walk in New Mexico,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: You're gonna find that same dessert, the same item. Just amazing.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: That's how we're rocking it. What our greatest desserts that
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: we haven't the menu, But again we innobate if we
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: have our our red velvet buntcake. But what we do
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: is we infuse it with toffee and then we are
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: topic with twenty folk carry gold sprinkles, uh, and an
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: infusion of sauce with a homemade cream cheese icing. Uh.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: That man and you know the batter they said, want
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: to make me stop your mom and know me wait
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: a mom off and say Mom, I love you, but
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: they get you. You know what I'm saying. Like I said,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I see things I love
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: about you. Dr Jacob to us that dessert you kind
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: of like stood up, slid to the front of the chair.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: Look here, let me tell you about this this this
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: this butt red every buntcake, little toffee, little cream cheese
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: on top. Slap your mom. Now, let's slide over to
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: one of my favorites. Because I don't eat meat as
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: much as I used to, I still eat me a good,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: too good meat now, but I love veggian. Somehow veggians
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: have become part of my brand. Now I would throw down.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: So so you had vegetarians and he had vegans. Explain
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: the difference in that and how would it be presented
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: on your menus? Okay? So stick for instance, Um, you
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: know the vegan dynamic first of all, one of the
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: key items that need people who watch juditionalists don't know about.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: It's like an amazing product called jack fruit. What we
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: do is with with jake fruit is that we you know,
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: we jerk it. Everybody know what that I mean. You
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. We create a drug with it.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: But what we do is we don't just plate it.
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: We don't. We don't. We don't just put it on there.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: We don't just a top of with veggie things that nature.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: What we do is we have what's called a stuff
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: pineapple bowl where we carve out the pineapple, we fileted
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: carbon out molsted all uh. We were serving over a
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: parlow or a roller rice uh. And then we infuse
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: that a topping with the jack dripped fruit. Uh. And
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: we create our homemades. We're called bals barbecue sauce or
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: a sauce of trolls. I mean, we do mumbo sauce
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: and so many others and we uh top that item
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: or what have you, and you can have a vegan item,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: but it's it's second to none. I mean we're not
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: you're not in on just normal plating. Everything is in
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: a vative. You know you have that of course. And
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: then if I vegetarians, I mean, uh, we have so
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: many vegetable items. Uh. You know you can have your
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: collar greens. But this is where it gets really in
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: deep is that you don't need pork. You really don't.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: All you want to do is to make sure you
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: have the flavor. So the way we we prep and
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: prepare our greens, you can still have an amazing uh
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: green experience without all the fat, without all the meat
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: product in it, so that you can still enjoy yourself. Uh.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: And then my friend, you then you're taking into the
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: next level when it comes to being in a vegetarian
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: and also traditions. I mean quite naturally, we have the oxtails,
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: but these uxtails made its initial between the South and
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: our Caribbean brothers and sisters in the Caribbeans, enridging that gap.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: So you're talking about creating a roasting and raised oxtails
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: with a Demi glaze that a second to none. That
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: you yourself can be at your office right now on
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: the show and you can keep that same suit on,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: grab your friend and go out to dinner and have
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: an amazing time and come right back into another show
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: because you don't feel heavy, you don't feel the argic,
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: and that you just had one of Grandma two point
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: old best meals in the country. That's what I love
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: about it. This is what say. First of all, see
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: it's the funny part of I've Got there's a video
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: because first of all, when we start talking about dessert,
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: he slid to the front of his check. Okay, then
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: you start talking about the oxtail, he went to the side.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: He kint like, turned to the side. You know, an
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: oxtail with that Demi glazes. You shine when you go
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: out for luck, you come back out. You wouldn't be
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: heavy about seem loving this whole interview. And this is
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna want you to do. I will need
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: some video because I'm gonna do some simulcast screen simul
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: screens with you so people can show what you're talking about.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: Because you are so descriptive they actually need to see
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: a photo, so we cant people fired up about everything
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: that you're doing. But the last part about it that
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: really was key to me was that you want to
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: cater to a diverse crowd. What exactly does that mean? Well,
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I mean is,
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: first of all, sometimes people think when they're saying diverse,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: let me first correct this they're thinking is about ethnicity.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: But the first thing of it is it's different walks
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: of life. People have health issues now, people of different Asian,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: different dietaries. Why have you guess what we can here
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: and meet those feeds? Because before you get the vegan,
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: vegetarian or authenticiy, what about the people who has to
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: be gluten free? You know, there's so many elements to
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: people's lives. But guess what, you can still come to
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: our restaurant. Now, who can say that in this world
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: that you can go to a soulful restaurant and need
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: gluten free or vegan, vegetarian, or you can be traditions
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: all in one place. The second thing, though, it is
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: when it comes to talk common locations and how we
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: choose we put our restaurants and prime areas that a
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: diverse market can come to. Meaning it's not secluded to
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: one side of the tracks, it's not put in one
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: area for one type of people. This is about everybody.
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