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Curtis Symonds: former BET exec, creates a destination to celebrate the legacy of HBCUs. HBCUGO.TV · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: my next guest, I've been knowing him a long time
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Speaker 1: in the business. We've cross path d c b Et.
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Speaker 1: His name is Curtis Simmons. He launched HBCU go TV,
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Speaker 1: which is alive in streaming entertainment, educational, lifestyle and sports network.
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Speaker 1: HBCU go TV is divorce of African American Youth and
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Speaker 1: HBCU Community and currently airs on Roku and HBCU go
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Speaker 1: dot TV. Please work on the money making conversation, Curtis Simmons. Hello,
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Speaker 1: I'm right here. You can hear it. You can, I
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Speaker 1: can hear you. Now introduce you man, you just sat
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Speaker 1: down with girlis I don't know. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I put the pup up screen on it and I see,
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Speaker 1: I see the picture in the background, all that good stuff, Curtis,
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Speaker 1: How you doing that? Sir, Mr HBCU, Mr b Et,
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Speaker 1: Mr Producer, A great weekend. I gotta tell you what,
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Speaker 1: shot is honored to be on your show. That I've
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Speaker 1: heard a lot about the show, and I know you
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Speaker 1: very well man, and I'm looking forward to diving into conversations.
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Speaker 1: See we come up with the day. Well, you know
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Speaker 1: the thing about it is that we've talked previously when
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Speaker 1: you we we sat down and talked about the brand
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Speaker 1: of HBCU and how I can come into you know,
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Speaker 1: help grow this brand. And it excites me because HBCUs.
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Speaker 1: I didn't go to then HBCU school. I graduated from
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Speaker 1: University of Houston right down the street from Texas Southern
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Speaker 1: University and Third War Texas. So I appreciate that. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate because my passion and what I'm trying to do
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Speaker 1: and what I want to use the skills that God
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Speaker 1: gave me is when I'm bringing to the table and
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Speaker 1: that's marketing in branding, that's something I do very naturally.
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Speaker 1: When I look at a brand like HBCU, which for
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Speaker 1: some reason and has exploded on the landscape, why do
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Speaker 1: you feel that you know it's been struggling that funding
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Speaker 1: every year? Compress do you want to fund it? Then?
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Speaker 1: And then you know President Donald Trumps is taking claim
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Speaker 1: for like resurrect in hbc USED. If it went to
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Speaker 1: him in twenty eighteen in September, it wouldn't be an
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Speaker 1: HBC You find the program happening right now, hbc US
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Speaker 1: being so popularized in well, I think that you know,
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Speaker 1: with all the un wrestled we've had in this current time,
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Speaker 1: looking at where there should be some growth and where
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Speaker 1: there should be some responsible But I think it peels
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Speaker 1: back to the HBC circle. And I think when people
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Speaker 1: really dive in and really look at what HBC schools
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Speaker 1: have done over the years and creating some of the
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Speaker 1: great educational folks, political folks, and attain us UH sports athletes,
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Speaker 1: the hold nine yards has now become a better appreciation
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Speaker 1: across the board for what these schools have met. And
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Speaker 1: now you know, more people are looking at it. You know,
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Speaker 1: not one sided that it had been looked at for
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Speaker 1: a while because when you look at the great thing
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Speaker 1: about the HBC US in the sixties and seventies, that's
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Speaker 1: only where African Americans could go to PW. But many
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Speaker 1: white institutions got very smart and said, look appeally on
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Speaker 1: the athletics side, you know, we got to start incorporating
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Speaker 1: more of the African Americans into our schools. And because
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Speaker 1: they could provide the visibility that African American schools could not,
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Speaker 1: a lot of athletes jumped aboard. But now what's happening is,
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Speaker 1: you know people are understanding, look it ain't all about
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Speaker 1: the money, It's more about the experience. And then we
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Speaker 1: can start really you know, pushing more of the experience
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Speaker 1: of HBCUs and really show people who have come out
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Speaker 1: of there, who who have survived. You know, that I
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Speaker 1: think is really gonna be icing on the cake. And
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Speaker 1: I think now that it's become very apparent that these
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Speaker 1: schools are playing prominent role in educational African American kids.
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Speaker 1: You know, more more people now starting to pay attention
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Speaker 1: to saying we've got to have more HBCU stuff, and
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Speaker 1: we've got to spend more time in driving the value
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Speaker 1: and exposure of these schools. That's one of the things
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Speaker 1: that I'm trying to do. HBC You Go TV. Now
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Speaker 1: you know the vision leading Media, eliminating divorced and the
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Speaker 1: experience of the hundred and seven is hundred and four
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Speaker 1: that accredited hbc US. And then the mission is to
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Speaker 1: increase brand awareness and support the sustainability of hbc USE
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Speaker 1: by making a meaningful financial contributions to the population of
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Speaker 1: these American institutions of higher learning. There are two days
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Speaker 1: of vision and the mission h HPC you Go TV.
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Speaker 1: How did they start though? Talk about your career, what
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Speaker 1: gives you credibility. You just hopped on the machine. First
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Speaker 1: of all, I know you with HC and I think
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Speaker 1: one of the one of the things that helped me
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Speaker 1: tremendously the shines. I grew up on the campus of
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Speaker 1: Subchial State University. My mother taught there before the year.
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Speaker 1: The father worked in for fifty years in the maintenance department,
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Speaker 1: So I had an opportunity to be in the bloodline.
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Speaker 1: I ended up my mother graduated from such a state
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Speaker 1: and I ended up graduating from such a state, and
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Speaker 1: also my sister graduated the Cuil State. So I had
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Speaker 1: the experience of you know, coming and living and being
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Speaker 1: part of that blood line of HBCUs. But then when
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Speaker 1: I got into the marketing side of the media business
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Speaker 1: and were for a cable system for for many years,
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Speaker 1: and I worked for ESPN, and then I got into
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Speaker 1: b T right, one of the biggest things I saw
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Speaker 1: was the lack of exposure for these universities because no
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Speaker 1: one really was really trying to help. In my old
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Speaker 1: days of BAT, when I came on the we really
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Speaker 1: were the anchors behind black college sports, and we did
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Speaker 1: that for almost ten years. But then, you know, we
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Speaker 1: were ahead of our time, and our guys didn't know
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Speaker 1: really how to sell it. And coming out of ESPN,
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Speaker 1: you know, and being a sports nutter, I was really
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Speaker 1: pushing black college sports like there was no no tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Because when I first came on board and BT we
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Speaker 1: were we were doing a week long tip take de
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Speaker 1: lay on the game, and I found it for Bob
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Speaker 1: to do live gates, you know. And then finally we
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Speaker 1: just got out there where the advertising world couldn't really
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Speaker 1: understand black college sports and they didn't want to put money,
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Speaker 1: and so it didn't enable us to continue with it,
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Speaker 1: but we knew there was a value there and that's
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Speaker 1: where other services started to the devonnant and now ESPN
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Speaker 1: has jumped in it. But what ABC you Go is
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Speaker 1: gonna do is that we're gonna be a part of
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Speaker 1: that because you know, as I've told the HBC schools
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Speaker 1: is like, you know, why are you letting just one
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Speaker 1: network control your visibility when you look at the Power
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Speaker 1: fives and you look at you know, other conferences they
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Speaker 1: got two and three media partners. Absolutely, you know. Now
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Speaker 1: you know, the the commissioners are getting smarter. They're looking
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Speaker 1: at ways in which they can drive expose you're looking
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Speaker 1: at way more they ways they can you know, bring
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Speaker 1: revenue to the universities, to their presidents. And so the
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Speaker 1: doors starting to crack. And now with HBC, you starting
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Speaker 1: to pick up some top name recruits like Howard picked
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Speaker 1: up making the basketball players seven footer. Uh, there's others.
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Speaker 1: Other players have gone on different places that have been
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Speaker 1: top recruis. And now the doors starting to slide open,
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Speaker 1: and which is gonna make you know, these schools become
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Speaker 1: very very attractive now on the agency go, but to
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Speaker 1: other people because as they want to see these young
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Speaker 1: this young challenge, and they're also gonna get a chance
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Speaker 1: to really expose themselves to some great challenge. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, let's talk about this stay in
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Speaker 1: the sports lane because we talked about SEC Conference and
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Speaker 1: Power five. I'm a software swack guy, you know Texas
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Speaker 1: Southern Preview, Grammar's Southern or the whole area over there.
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Speaker 1: That's me. Then I find out that but Thune Cookman
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Speaker 1: is coming to the swap. Then I find out fair
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Speaker 1: Mute is coming to the swag. See that's that feels
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Speaker 1: like the Black SEC to me, and that's what you're
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Speaker 1: talking about. Then you know, I was just talking to
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Speaker 1: Charlom Cullen, who is the commissioner of the SWAG, and
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Speaker 1: I think you're right on point. I mean, I try
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Speaker 1: to convince the conferences almost eight years ago because I
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Speaker 1: was really the one that brought up black college sports
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Speaker 1: to ESPN because I was consulting with him at the time,
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Speaker 1: and I was the one behind the SWAG of the
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Speaker 1: me act. Charlote ended up in Florida. But one of
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Speaker 1: the things I was trying to convince the AFC schools
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Speaker 1: early on was to make a power conference, but they
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Speaker 1: just couldn't get it. But now you're right, I think
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Speaker 1: that SWACK is on something, man, And then I think
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Speaker 1: they're building something that's gonna make it very, very track.
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Speaker 1: And I think what's gonna happen is SWACK is gonna
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Speaker 1: be decoference that everybody's gonna look at it, you know,
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Speaker 1: as far as really doing sports with and see if
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Speaker 1: they become one of the power you know, it's within
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Speaker 1: black houge sports. And I think they will. I'm thin
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Speaker 1: because they picked up, like you just said, the film
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Speaker 1: come with Fami, you you know, and I think there's
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Speaker 1: gonna be others that's gonna sprinkle over with powerhouse, even
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Speaker 1: in in in the middle level compass who are doing well,
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Speaker 1: who're gonna try to sneak in and really try to
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Speaker 1: make it a strong conference before it's all over. We're
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Speaker 1: talking about I think it. I think that's that's opportunity there.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about legacy football program, athletic program, band program,
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Speaker 1: were talking about band Bam, Mute what I'm saying. We're
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Speaker 1: already knowing the Squack is always had the gramblin Southern game.
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Speaker 1: There has been broadcast for years on NBC. So that's
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Speaker 1: what happened. That's always been like the Notre Dame game
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Speaker 1: on NBC for black sports. And so there's already media heritage,
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Speaker 1: media media lineage for the Squack program. And I look
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Speaker 1: like it because we have to start being smart and
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Speaker 1: realize we have economic dollars. If you want to get
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Speaker 1: the recruits, then you have to generate energy. If you're saying, man,
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Speaker 1: the Swack is the best place to come or you're
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Speaker 1: gonna be the best athletes, that's what's happening right now,
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Speaker 1: Jackson State. That's come on. Now, that's all I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: That's swack. That's that's spark ability right there. I mean
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Speaker 1: that spark ability. So you can talk to both Champ
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Speaker 1: coaching his son, his same his son, his son who
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Speaker 1: was a four star recruit was just d D A
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Speaker 1: D committed from the Florida school not going to act
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Speaker 1: in state exactly, and he was incredible and that and
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Speaker 1: I think that's the train you're gonna see on on
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Speaker 1: that astronomy. I think that you know, they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be many more like that. They're gonna start,
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Speaker 1: you know, drifting into because look, the bottom line is, man,
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Speaker 1: these young folks in football and basketball, they want to
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Speaker 1: get to the next level right right right now, that's
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. And and if we're able to begin
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Speaker 1: to start showing them through HBCU that you can get there,
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Speaker 1: right I think that's gonna be the doing. And I
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Speaker 1: think now the where the direction is moving, you know,
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Speaker 1: more and more kids will realized. And look, you know,
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Speaker 1: I asked the question too, Jalen Rose years ago when
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Speaker 1: when the Fat five you know, uh tape came out,
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Speaker 1: when they did the Fat five taket, and I said, Jayden,
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Speaker 1: if you would have took the Fat five to an HBCU,
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Speaker 1: do you think there have been different to taken it
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Speaker 1: to Michigan. He said, mancurse, I never thought about it
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Speaker 1: like that. I said, yeah, because all you wanna do
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Speaker 1: is it to the next level. And I want before
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Speaker 1: what it does that was before one and does. So
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Speaker 1: now you take that same model and move that into
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Speaker 1: an HBCU, everybody would want to come televise them, right,
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Speaker 1: everybody would follow them, right, and they would they would
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Speaker 1: become the team and the HBCUs and everybody w jumped
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Speaker 1: on right, you know the new question. So with the
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Speaker 1: the the the rays of awareness of Jackson State with
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Speaker 1: with a dion for example, right, only opens up more
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Speaker 1: doors to HBCUs and and that and that's what we
12:32
Speaker 1: gotta start taking advantage of it. The biggest thing that
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Speaker 1: we've got to take advantage of, Sean is Dad, We've
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Speaker 1: got to move HBCUs schools into thinking business and not
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Speaker 1: just education. Right. That's one of the biggest things that
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to work come into hbc goach. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to constantly bring them ideas of how to grow their
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Speaker 1: enrollment through bringing in some businesses that will support them
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Speaker 1: in order to grow the enrollment, because that's not the
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Speaker 1: way they think going in the door. Well his appears
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Speaker 1: and you're absolutely right, Uh, Notre Dame football is what
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Speaker 1: drives there, Rollman, Penn State, Alabama, University of Texas, these
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Speaker 1: are usc all, these are prominent programs. The drive enrollment
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Speaker 1: and it's it's really it's interesting because the academic success
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Speaker 1: of HBCUs is unquestionably an amazing story in itself, that
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Speaker 1: they're not even recognized because what because the athletic program,
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Speaker 1: which were the dominant voice in the sixties before integration happened.
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Speaker 1: And you know that, Kurt, you know that the way
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Speaker 1: they are black athletes and hall of fame. I think
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Speaker 1: it's over thirty two hbc U UH players who are
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Speaker 1: in the Professional Football Hall of Fame and so so
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Speaker 1: now let's look at that. Now. That's why I think
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Speaker 1: it's important that the Dion Sanders is at Jackson State
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Speaker 1: because then he's gonna he's gonna bring in athletes, which
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Speaker 1: means that a fan base and the alumni base will
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Speaker 1: get re e generally re energized. And that's what we're
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Speaker 1: which is needed, which is needed because right now, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about let's talk about a spc U s they
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Speaker 1: known for the band and if they got a good
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Speaker 1: football team, and then the academics is third. And I
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Speaker 1: think what happens is as black people, we always fight
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Speaker 1: that monica that we're more than just athletes, were just
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Speaker 1: more than physical objects. And so that's the fight that
14:29
Speaker 1: you were talking about right now, is exactly we want
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Speaker 1: to be able to recognize for our intellect and not
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Speaker 1: because we can entertained and not because we can perform
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Speaker 1: on an athletic platform. And so that's the dream, that's
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Speaker 1: the right on point. Yea, that's that's what yours right
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Speaker 1: with my my personal myself. You know, I've been trying
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Speaker 1: to show young man and young ladies like listen, I
14:52
Speaker 1: came out of the state with a physical education major,
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Speaker 1: PE major. Right, I've been the marketing guy since I've
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Speaker 1: been in the busines US thirty some plus years. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm going into the biggest hall of fame of the
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Speaker 1: media industry, broadcasting and cable next years, going into a
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Speaker 1: Hall of fame major. Let me bring that up. Don't
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Speaker 1: be just just throwing out that information. That's valuable information.
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Speaker 1: They're one of my questions. Let me set that up.
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Speaker 1: You're just jumping out there just casually throwing it out. Now,
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Speaker 1: I stand interview with people that know more information and
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Speaker 1: just be putting it out ahead of time. We're stealing
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Speaker 1: eight PCU. Now you have jumped into this legendary honor
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Speaker 1: that you're getting in twenty twenty one. Well since year,
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Speaker 1: open your mouth, Curtis, tell us about this honor that
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Speaker 1: you're getting in twenty twenty one. That's one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest the opportunities you can get in media. Talk about
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Speaker 1: that broadcasting. You know, I appreciate that. I mean, you know,
15:49
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's always an honor when you
15:53
Speaker 1: have your colleagues, you know, nominates you as one of
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Speaker 1: the best in the business. And I really of a
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Speaker 1: one of the things that has been my my real
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Speaker 1: headache over my years is that I never really taken
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Speaker 1: advantage of my network like I should have. I've had
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Speaker 1: more people always say to me, hey man, I don't
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Speaker 1: think you realize how much you bring to the table,
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Speaker 1: and you undervalue yourself a lot. Well, this honor Rashane
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Speaker 1: next year is one that I've been seeking for like
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Speaker 1: the last twenty years because I thought that I gave
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Speaker 1: a lot to the industry. And one of the things
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Speaker 1: that I wrote a part of a book I wrote
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Speaker 1: a while a couple of years back called as a
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Speaker 1: Gamble and a HBCUs are shure back within that I
16:38
Speaker 1: talked a lot about during that time, Rashan. One of
16:41
Speaker 1: the things that I think we all get, we all
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Speaker 1: have overside us is not recognizing and dealing with our
16:48
Speaker 1: family the way it is because your family is all
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Speaker 1: you have. Man, at the end of the day, somebody have, man,
16:53
Speaker 1: and my family went and fought with me thinking thin.
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Speaker 1: You know, I put my family at times, and it's
16:58
Speaker 1: a rough box because I'm working night and day, traveling
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Speaker 1: all the time, missing things, you know, And you know
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Speaker 1: that's a big thing now to me. And so to
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Speaker 1: be honored and see all the sacrifice of my family
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Speaker 1: went through in order for me to obtain hon't like
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Speaker 1: this next year. It's big for me, man, It's very
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Speaker 1: big for me. And also too, you know, have many
17:22
Speaker 1: of my peers who have now called me and saying, man,
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Speaker 1: this is over to man, you should have got this
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Speaker 1: thing a long time ago. Man. You know, I'm just
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Speaker 1: shocked that it's taking this long. Begin And I give
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Speaker 1: him you know, the I forgot it was uh in
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Speaker 1: the NFL who it took him a long time. You know,
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Speaker 1: I just said, listen, you know, the whole thing is
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Speaker 1: I taught I was talking to be patients. You know,
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Speaker 1: patients is the world of life. You know, if you
17:48
Speaker 1: know you've done something right, somebody would reward you down
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Speaker 1: the road. And so you know, this reward is you know,
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Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg in the industry, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't realize how big it was until I
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Speaker 1: saw all the people who got honored in front of
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Speaker 1: the African American like Oprah, Bob Johnson, you know, and
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Speaker 1: I'm and I'm like the third within all of BT
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Speaker 1: to get on it, you know. So it's a big stuff, man,
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20:25
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20:28
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21:29
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21:31
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21:33
Speaker 1: students and alumni, and we're trying to get the you know,
21:37
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21:40
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21:44
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21:53
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21:58
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22:18
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22:22
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22:24
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22:27
Speaker 1: content or is it categorize? How is it? Because it's
22:31
Speaker 1: gonna be honest. You know, HPCUS recognized for the athleticism,
22:35
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22:40
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22:44
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22:50
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22:56
Speaker 1: that's been one of our charter schools that we've been
22:58
Speaker 1: working very closely with because really the programming that we're
23:01
Speaker 1: trying to create is they have the students create programming
23:03
Speaker 1: for the network and then we're doing some lifestyle programming.
23:07
Speaker 1: We've created a show with Charlotte Neil called What's Next
23:10
Speaker 1: with Charlie Neil and doing very similar things you're doing
23:13
Speaker 1: here with your podcast of interviewing people in the ABC circle,
23:16
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23:20
Speaker 1: HBCU who are doing things in the community or in
23:23
Speaker 1: business who can help enlighten us on how to move forward.
23:27
Speaker 1: And of course, like you said, you know, we're doing
23:29
Speaker 1: we're doing HBC Sports right now. We're doing it on
23:32
Speaker 1: a lot of tape stuff material that we're getting. We
23:35
Speaker 1: hope to try to have some large sports in one
23:37
Speaker 1: and we'll see what what comes about, you know, in
23:40
Speaker 1: regards to that. And then we're trying to create other
23:44
Speaker 1: programming around um, you know HBCUs that people would really
23:50
Speaker 1: relate to, Like we have a black quiz show, uh
23:52
Speaker 1: that we got from Don Jackson and the Chicogogmy. He
23:54
Speaker 1: gave us twenty six episodes, uh that we're working with
23:57
Speaker 1: uh that I think it's all around HBC is good.
23:59
Speaker 1: So but the questions are really tough. You know. I'm
24:01
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24:03
Speaker 1: figure out the answers to some of these questions. Is
24:05
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24:13
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24:15
Speaker 1: we picked up with Zenni Garrison and uh Jannon Rubin,
24:20
Speaker 1: which is really all about social justice, but it's it's
24:22
Speaker 1: UH game set shot is what it's called. And they
24:25
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24:29
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24:33
Speaker 1: You know. So it's slowly but surely picking up program
24:36
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24:40
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24:44
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25:11
Speaker 1: who created Christmas Clause, Clarence Clause. You know, young black couple,
25:17
Speaker 1: black couple, you know, both of them graduate from HBCUs.
25:21
Speaker 1: And so it's really interesting how granular the relationship has
25:25
Speaker 1: been so me being able to provide content and so
25:28
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25:32
Speaker 1: So and so, now now I'm doing video like I
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Speaker 1: and so, which means that I'll be able to get
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Speaker 1: even bigger talent, even bigger relationships, but more important, exposing
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Speaker 1: the entrepreneurial value of HBCUs and also being able to
25:53
Speaker 1: give you quality programming because that's what sales. Even though
25:56
Speaker 1: if I can get to celebrity HBCU people on my
25:59
Speaker 1: show and get them on your network, then guess what
26:02
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26:05
Speaker 1: And that's what we're gonna do. That's how that's well.
26:08
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm for anyone listening to the Sean Show
26:12
Speaker 1: right now, let me just say this, I am very,
26:14
Speaker 1: very very excited to have building relationship with one of
26:17
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26:20
Speaker 1: I think that having him part of HBCU goal is
26:24
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26:27
Speaker 1: forward to marketing, building the brand and really working side
26:31
Speaker 1: by side with him to really grow you know, his
26:34
Speaker 1: show and really grow our partnership to show number one,
26:38
Speaker 1: to show people we can work together. Number two, to
26:41
Speaker 1: take advantage of this networking, the building of all the
26:44
Speaker 1: people in the ABCY circle so that, as the earlier mentioned,
26:48
Speaker 1: we can build something that everybody can be proud of
26:50
Speaker 1: down the road. That's really the goal, right, that's really
26:52
Speaker 1: the goal, and that's really what we're trying to do,
26:54
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's amazing. We gotta you know,
26:57
Speaker 1: our president and vice president elect, which is a amazing
27:00
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27:04
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27:07
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27:10
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27:14
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27:17
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27:22
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27:37
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27:40
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28:08
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28:10
Speaker 1: that you're talking about that are young people are totally
28:13
Speaker 1: unaware of, totally unaware of. I was of a group
28:16
Speaker 1: of young folks will back right before about a year ago,
28:20
Speaker 1: right for the virus hip, and was talking to them
28:22
Speaker 1: about black media and mentioned Earl Graves's name, right, and
28:27
Speaker 1: no one in the room knew who Earl Graves was.
28:30
Speaker 1: No one, And I said, how can you be in
28:33
Speaker 1: a communication journalism department and not know who Earl Graves is?
28:38
Speaker 1: But that's because and this is one of the things
28:40
Speaker 1: that I'm getting on a lot of the communications partners
28:44
Speaker 1: in the HBC circles saying, listen, you gotta quit preachings
28:48
Speaker 1: from the book and start educating these people on the history,
28:50
Speaker 1: right so they understand when they stepped by the door,
28:53
Speaker 1: who they are and who created the landscape for them, right. Well,
28:57
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29:07
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29:09
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29:20
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29:24
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29:27
Speaker 1: of those folks like the john Agents of the world.
29:29
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29:32
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29:35
Speaker 1: And everybody was caught up in their own silos. Man,
29:37
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29:40
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29:44
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29:47
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30:04
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30:06
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30:09
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30:42
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30:44
Speaker 1: target audience for we wrap up their primary at the
30:47
Speaker 1: millennials eighteen to twenty four. The secondary is the alumni
30:51
Speaker 1: which is forty nine and right. So the alumni is
30:56
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30:59
Speaker 1: for the young people, because of course we build a
31:02
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31:04
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31:06
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31:14
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31:22
Speaker 1: That that's the part of it, man. I mean, we
31:24
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31:27
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31:29
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31:35
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31:38
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31:42
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31:46
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31:48
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. But anyway, my point is to your point.
31:53
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31:56
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31:59
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32:02
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32:06
Speaker 1: And that's what makes hbc so strong. But a lot
32:10
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32:13
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32:15
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32:18
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32:21
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32:24
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32:29
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32:33
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32:36
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32:42
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32:45
Speaker 1: the Ivy League level of a black HBCU schools, And
32:50
Speaker 1: that's where we're at now. We're at a We're at
32:52
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32:55
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32:58
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33:01
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33:11
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33:19
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33:22
Speaker 1: But curse you got me brother. Like I said, I'm
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33:27
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33:29
Speaker 1: you and Samantha and the crew man. Thank you very
33:32
Speaker 1: much for having me today. Well again, you know when
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Speaker 1: Congratulations for your one honor that you're gonna be for
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