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Mike Vick, Kiana Dancie, Ri-Karlo Handy & Zach Thomas · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Dancy syndicated TV producer, founder and CEO of sun Wise Media.
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Speaker 1: Recall o' handy Chick fil A franchise e Zach Thomas, Farmer,
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Speaker 1: NFL player of Fox NFL kickoff show, co host V
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Speaker 1: seven apparel creator my man Michael Vick. I've set the stage.
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Speaker 1: It's time to start. What else we're gonna do here?
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Speaker 1: My guest is already in studio. I love it when
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Speaker 1: I have live guests in studio. My next guest began
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Speaker 1: his leadership journey as a chicken farmer, which I love
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Speaker 1: that you went from more chicken farmer so not owning
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Speaker 1: a Chick fil A. Attended the U. S Military Academy
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Speaker 1: at West Point, served as an Army ranger instructor, and
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Speaker 1: a college pastor, but none of this adequately prepared him
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Speaker 1: for the challenge of leading a team a one hundred
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Speaker 1: young adults when he became a Chick fil A franchise
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. Please welcome to Money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversation the author of Leader Farming, Zach Thomas. It's great
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Speaker 1: to be here. Great to be back. Absolutely, well, I'm
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Speaker 1: really excited your local you know, I broadcast the show
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Speaker 1: out of Atlanta, and I always like to bring talented
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and your brand of success. I think it's really
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Speaker 1: important because of the fact that you're dealing with a
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Speaker 1: working generation. I think that gets uh gets a bad rap,
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Speaker 1: the emmenial generation. And I think it's important that we
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Speaker 1: talked about that. We talked about it last time because
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Speaker 1: that's the basis of your book, Leader Farm, which is
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Speaker 1: a really good book. If you if you're confused of
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Speaker 1: how to uh get motivate, engage that generational group of
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Speaker 1: people that are dominating the workforce, and some of them
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Speaker 1: I read the article of the Days saying that that
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Speaker 1: whole workforce is hard to find. You you tended to
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Speaker 1: hire adults that in that work field of fast food
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Speaker 1: and I called chick fil as in the genre of
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Speaker 1: fast foods, and so more adults are being hired in
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Speaker 1: that world what used to be a world that was
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Speaker 1: strictly in that you know, young teenager to mid twenty
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Speaker 1: age range. So why is that, Zack, you know, I think,
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Speaker 1: UM just to mention though that if we do focus
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Speaker 1: on hiring adults. That's that's really kind of an unsustainable plan.
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Speaker 1: Like if you're looking at that and saying I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna hire adults, I'm gonna forget about this generation. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're the future of your hiring needs. Are are are
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Speaker 1: at at risk there? And so you know why is that?
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Speaker 1: Why is that? Rich? Well, you know you've gotta you've
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Speaker 1: got to look at the millennial generation and and even
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Speaker 1: now we're looking at centennials, which is the next generation,
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Speaker 1: and they think a little bit differently as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so you know, millennials are very very idealistic in nature,
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Speaker 1: and I think what we're seeing with centennials is that
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Speaker 1: they're a little bit more pragmatic in nature, and so
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Speaker 1: I think we'll see a little bit more stability with them.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I started looking at my overall hiring
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Speaker 1: strategy and I said, well, you know, I've got to
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Speaker 1: I don't want to guilt and manipulate people and try
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Speaker 1: to try to coerce people into staying. And so that
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Speaker 1: really started my journey of trying to figure out, Okay,
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Speaker 1: well how do I help them grow and become the
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Speaker 1: best version of themselves? And so I started thinking about
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Speaker 1: you know, my background as a farmer and growing up
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Speaker 1: on a farm. You know, that's what I did every day,
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Speaker 1: is to to grow things, and so I thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna help them grow. And when they believe
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Speaker 1: that your goal is to help them become the best
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Speaker 1: version of themselves and get them to where they want
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Speaker 1: to be, they're going to stick around a little bit longer. Well,
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Speaker 1: I've always had that philosophy. If anybody who's ever worked
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Speaker 1: for me, I always tell them, my goal is to
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Speaker 1: make you better for your next opportunity. And that's a
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Speaker 1: that's a real honest philosophy I've always had. And it's
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Speaker 1: really cool because everybody who's ever worked for me has
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Speaker 1: always felt that was too hard on them. I always
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Speaker 1: felt I expected too much of them, that I was
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Speaker 1: always driving them. But when they always called me back
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Speaker 1: and go thank you, I see it. Now I understand
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Speaker 1: exactly what you were talking about. And that's basically But
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Speaker 1: now when I look at your background, you're a military guy,
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Speaker 1: you're a pastor, so that's a real conservative I can
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Speaker 1: stay conservative relationship that you have with the world. Now
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Speaker 1: you have these young people, very independent minded, why, well,
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Speaker 1: how do you how how did this guy who's a
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Speaker 1: minister who was a military army ranger. Change, because you
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Speaker 1: had to make the adjustment. I did have to make
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Speaker 1: a change, absolutely, and I talked about it in my book.
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Speaker 1: I talked about the pendulum of leadership. And you know,
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Speaker 1: if you think about the the far you know one
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Speaker 1: one side of the other leadership style, So far left
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Speaker 1: leadership style was the airborne ranger, hard charging, like make
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Speaker 1: people cry for their mother kind of kind of leadership. Right.
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Speaker 1: And then when I became a college pastor, swung the
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Speaker 1: pendulum all the way over to the far right. And
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Speaker 1: I just developed this philosophy, if you just love everybody enough,
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Speaker 1: they'll do the right thing. And I got taken advantage
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Speaker 1: of pretty significantly. And so I had to find this
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Speaker 1: middle of the road approach, this middle ground approach, and
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Speaker 1: the way that I compare it it's a parenting Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I have six children, and so I think about, you know,
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Speaker 1: as a parent, my role is to help my children
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Speaker 1: grow up and be you know, productive citizens of society. Right.
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Speaker 1: But I've got to I've got to hold them accountable
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Speaker 1: and I've got to do things to show them I
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Speaker 1: love them. And and so that's really I started thinking
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Speaker 1: about it along those roads, and and really the leadership
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Speaker 1: style that I've developed it is kind of the middle
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Speaker 1: of the road approach. And you think about driving down
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Speaker 1: stilar road. You've got a ditch on both sides. Right.
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Speaker 1: If you become that hard charging, you know, ranger instructor
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Speaker 1: kind of guy, you're gonna drive people away. But if
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Speaker 1: you're in the in the right side ditch, then you
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Speaker 1: know you're gonna you're gonna become just too lenient and
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Speaker 1: people are gonna run all over you. And so really
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Speaker 1: the parenting style is what I really I started looking
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Speaker 1: back and saying, Okay, well, how am I gonna How
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Speaker 1: am I gonna parent my children? And then I started
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Speaker 1: looking at well, I've got to develop this this disciplined approach,
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Speaker 1: taking from this side, you know, taking from the ranger
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Speaker 1: instructor side, taking from my military background. But I've also
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Speaker 1: got to love people, and so finding that middle ground
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Speaker 1: of holding people accountable but yet helping them know that
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Speaker 1: you love them and you care about it. You don't
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Speaker 1: have tooth philosophies with my company I have. My company's
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Speaker 1: model is live to motivate, and I always tell people
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Speaker 1: stop reading a book and start writing your own book.
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Speaker 1: And that's important because I'm hearing that's what you're doing
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Speaker 1: with your life. Because when you're writing your own book,
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Speaker 1: there's changed. And what the thing that annoys me the
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Speaker 1: most about the millennial generation that gets criticized a lot
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Speaker 1: because they've taken upon themselves that they want to be entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 1: How it's almost how dare you? You have worked for anybody?
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Speaker 1: How could you just so you want to be entrepreneurs? Why? Why? Why?
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Speaker 1: Why is there so much I'm talking about older hate.
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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, the word haters, it always
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Speaker 1: referred to to the younger generation, but this older generation
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Speaker 1: is really hating on the millennial generation, which is ages
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Speaker 1: eighteen to thirty four. Because technology. I always tell people,
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Speaker 1: technology has changed the game. It's allowed you to get
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Speaker 1: so much information immediately, so it means that they're they're
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Speaker 1: not so much your attention span, but they're available information.
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Speaker 1: I always tell people this personally. I've taken upon myself
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Speaker 1: to leave my cell phone at home now because somehow
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Speaker 1: we have a system in our mind that we have
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Speaker 1: to take that cell phone with us. If we don't,
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Speaker 1: something bad it's going to happen. And so when you said,
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Speaker 1: you're making these changes. What was the number one thing
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Speaker 1: that that that that occurred in your philosophy that win
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Speaker 1: Now I'm hitting in the right direction and dealing with
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Speaker 1: this organization or this group of people are just demover
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Speaker 1: this eighteen and thirty or four? What? What? What? What?
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Speaker 1: What was that game changing for you? Well, my big
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Speaker 1: wake up moment was when I got hit by a
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Speaker 1: car in October of two thousand eleven. So I don't
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Speaker 1: suggest that for anyone. Um. I was literally pedestrian walking
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Speaker 1: across the street and got hit by a car. UM.
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Speaker 1: But I spent a lot of time sitting on the couch,
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Speaker 1: you know, thinking about That's how you developed the book,
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Speaker 1: right form, That's where it started, yes, sir, and just
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Speaker 1: started spend a lot of time just contemplating thinking about life,
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Speaker 1: what really matters and and what kind of legacy do
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Speaker 1: I want to leave? Now? What is the process? Let's
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Speaker 1: tell everybody what's the process to be a Chick fil A?
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Speaker 1: Do you own the building? Do you own the land?
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Speaker 1: Like traditional franchise owners and operators? How does that work?
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Speaker 1: It's quite a bit different than traditional franchise opportunities, where
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Speaker 1: we don't make the initial investment in the land of
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Speaker 1: the building. You know, Chick fil A owns the property,
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Speaker 1: they own the building, and we are granted the right
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Speaker 1: to operate the franchise in that in that building and
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Speaker 1: on that land. And so you know, really, when you
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Speaker 1: think about it, it's not so much an asset because
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Speaker 1: I can't I can't sell my Chick fil A franchise
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Speaker 1: when I get ready to retire, I can't leave it
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Speaker 1: to my children. But it's a cash flow opportunity. And
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Speaker 1: so from a money making conversation, um, so you know,
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Speaker 1: you got to think about your your your money making opportunities.
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Speaker 1: Is an investment, Is it an asset opportunity or is
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Speaker 1: it more of a cash flow opportunity? And in Chick
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Speaker 1: fil A franchise ease, it's very much a cash flow opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Would that be said? Like a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of people get in the other McDonald's, the burger keys,
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Speaker 1: you him say they own a hundred or they may
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Speaker 1: own two hundred. Can that be accomplished under the under
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Speaker 1: the business model of Chick Fila. Can you be a
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Speaker 1: part of multiple uh Chick fil a franchises? You can, um,
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Speaker 1: but not in that number. And so right now I
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Speaker 1: think the most that anyone owns is three and UM
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Speaker 1: and those are out in Texas. Actually most of those
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Speaker 1: guys that have three UM. But that is that is
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Speaker 1: how um. You know, Truant established a model to where
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Speaker 1: he wanted local ownership. You know, with McDonald's franchise, e s,
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Speaker 1: I could live in Florida and on thirty McDonald's and Toledo, right,
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Speaker 1: but but not in the case of Chick fil A.
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Speaker 1: He wants we want local ownership so that we're fully
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Speaker 1: invested in the business. And and that's where you know,
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Speaker 1: I was previously at Macklin Crossing in Marietta, Georgia, which
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Speaker 1: is where very popular. That's where I started, and I
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Speaker 1: applied for the opportunity to open the new rock Mart
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Speaker 1: location and where you're count correct, And that's my home,
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Speaker 1: that's where I'm from. And so I really I had
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Speaker 1: to relocate. I had to give up my franchise in
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Speaker 1: Marietta because it was too far from the new franchise.
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Speaker 1: And so, you know, long term, I want to be
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Speaker 1: a multi unit operator. That was another reason why I
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Speaker 1: relocated out of the Atlanta market because Atlanta is very,
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Speaker 1: very saturated. But moving outside the Atlanta market there's potential
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Speaker 1: opportunity for multi unit a little bit more. Okay, cool
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Speaker 1: with that being said, Okay, you back to the Leader
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Speaker 1: farm in your book. Okay, you have employed people you
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Speaker 1: in Marryotta, that's a certain core people, I think, more
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Speaker 1: densely populated. Then you're going out to this new location.
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Speaker 1: What was the difference in the type of employees that
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Speaker 1: you were able to bring on board and that motivation.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think that I'm in a smaller community,
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Speaker 1: I am in a rural community versus a more urban community,
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Speaker 1: and I think that what I'm seeing here is that
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Speaker 1: I've got quite a bit more full time folks that are,
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Speaker 1: you know, wanting to um be a part of an organization.
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Speaker 1: They see the the impact that Chick fil A is
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Speaker 1: making in the community and they're like, hey, I want
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Speaker 1: to be a part of that. And uh and so.
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Speaker 1: But you know, we still have turnover. And that's what
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Speaker 1: one of the things I talked about in the book
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Speaker 1: is is just to embrace turnover. Because you know, so
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Speaker 1: many people, we spend so much time fighting turnover. But
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Speaker 1: if we actually embrace it, and we developed systems and
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Speaker 1: processes in our business that fully embraced turnover, I think
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Speaker 1: we can. We can operate our businesses without guilt and
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Speaker 1: manipulation and trying to control people. And that's the whole goal.
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Speaker 1: So uh, you know, like I said earlier that my
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Speaker 1: voice is dominant in the in the on the college campuses,
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Speaker 1: it's dominant in the eighteen and three to four age group.
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Speaker 1: What would you have to say to to that group
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Speaker 1: that gets uh? I think hate it on because they
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Speaker 1: want to be entrepreneurs. They see an opportunity, like you
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Speaker 1: said earlier off air about they see the Zuckenberg. They
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Speaker 1: see these young people who are billionaires and millionaires overnight,
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Speaker 1: you know, based on I P O S. What do
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Speaker 1: you say to them is the frame of hourly employment
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Speaker 1: away to start and then elevate yourself. How do you
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Speaker 1: how do you get them to come come to the
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Speaker 1: outside the only wage side, right, I would encourage them
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Speaker 1: to see, whether it's working at Chick fil A or
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Speaker 1: really any other um franchise, opportunity to go in and
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Speaker 1: see that as an opportunity to learn business skills, to
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Speaker 1: learn things that work ethic, you know, that's that's important, right,
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Speaker 1: And so to learn work ethic, to to to establish
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Speaker 1: some grit in their daily routine and uh and that
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Speaker 1: will set them up for success for their future entrepreneurship
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Speaker 1: and uh anything they want to do on their own
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Speaker 1: in the future. So you know, if they can they
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Speaker 1: just stick in there for a little while and uh
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Speaker 1: and try to try to uh learn from from a
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Speaker 1: franchise e or from someone that's been in business for
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Speaker 1: themselves for quite some time. They can actually learn a
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Speaker 1: good bed and so see it as a learning opportunity.
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Speaker 1: That's my encouragement to them. And again and that's good
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Speaker 1: because I think that you you're learning from a top
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Speaker 1: level a small corporation. I always look at every franchise
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Speaker 1: as every every as a stand alone because that experience,
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Speaker 1: that that that the sales are tied to that particular location.
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Speaker 1: So I always look at as a little many businesses.
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Speaker 1: So so when you go in there, you gotta market.
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Speaker 1: Even though it's nationally market, you still gotta market. You
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Speaker 1: still gotta have that same customer service, You still gotta
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Speaker 1: have the ability to win. But more importantly, developing that
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Speaker 1: mindset that you're preaching on the regular basis in uh
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Speaker 1: leader farming. That that's being a Chick fil A franchise.
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Speaker 1: After being hit by a Carvel made you realize that
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Speaker 1: there was change and you have to you know, you
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Speaker 1: have to meet in the middle. Absolutely. You know, the
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Speaker 1: abillage to say this is where I what have done
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Speaker 1: doesn't always motivate the people that you're trying to hire,
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Speaker 1: and more importantly, keeping them on board long term is
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Speaker 1: the goal. So any any any departing statements, in any
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Speaker 1: hype you want to put out for your brain before
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Speaker 1: you leave, Zach, Well, I just encourage folks to develop
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Speaker 1: a philosophy of leader what do you want to call
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Speaker 1: leader farming or whatever you want to call it, But
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Speaker 1: it's just it's really just pouring into young people and
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Speaker 1: seeing the fruit of your labor through what they're doing,
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Speaker 1: and just helping them grow and develop and in turn
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Speaker 1: that will actually lead to too great rewards for yourself
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Speaker 1: as well. Well. You know, I'm a big fan of yours.
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Speaker 1: Brought it back on the show, and I like to
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Speaker 1: believe it in the fall, you come back on the
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Speaker 1: A long time we talked, we talked through LinkedIn. But
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Speaker 1: it's great because we go all the way back to
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles back in the day. My next guest company,
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Speaker 1: Sunwise Media, strongly believes that there is a void or
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Speaker 1: television or family friendly and aspirational programming directed to African
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Speaker 1: American viewers the field avoids. Sun Wise Media produces and
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Speaker 1: distributes original and acquired content to broadcast on cable and
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Speaker 1: s P O D platforms all over the world. Please
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Speaker 1: welcome to money Making Conversation with Carlo Handy. How doing
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Speaker 1: call o, sir? How are you? First of all, welcome
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Speaker 1: to Roshan McDonald's New World where you met me back
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Speaker 1: in the l A days. How you doing? Yeah, I'm good,
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Speaker 1: I'm good. How are you this morning? I'm really good.
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Speaker 1: Before we get started, please tell everybody about about I
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Speaker 1: kind of like summarized it in the intro. But Somewhi
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Speaker 1: sun Wise Media, what is that? And then we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about your journey to get into sun Wise Media. Yeah. So,
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Speaker 1: some Wise Media is a you know, production company studio,
19:56
Speaker 1: but we specialize in syndicating content and what that means
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Speaker 1: is we create our own content. We own the content
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Speaker 1: we create, and we distributed to stations around the country
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Speaker 1: UM for for consumers to view, basically skipping over that
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Speaker 1: going to the network process, going straight to the station's
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Speaker 1: absolutely because you have that you because you've developed what
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Speaker 1: they say in the resume of respect because you know
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Speaker 1: it was that Bouncing network. So please to tell everybody
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Speaker 1: exactly what Bounce Network is and the and the and
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Speaker 1: the media reach abouts. Yeah. So I started a bounced
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Speaker 1: about it a year after they got established doing um
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Speaker 1: doing all the original programming and and you know, over
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Speaker 1: the last five years, that company grew a lot from
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Speaker 1: twenty two million homes too, I believe in you know,
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Speaker 1: up in the eighty plus million homes now UM and
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Speaker 1: you know, just getting a lot of attraction and popularity
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Speaker 1: over the years while I was there, and you know,
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Speaker 1: created several shows they're like saying centers and helped do
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Speaker 1: some um a lot of the sitcoms that Bentley Evans
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Speaker 1: does over there, and it brought the Trumpet Awards over there.
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Speaker 1: So we just you know, we're able to do a
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Speaker 1: lot of different things that to to create an offering
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Speaker 1: for mainly audiences that watch TV over the air you
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Speaker 1: know that don't have cable, and you know there's some
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Speaker 1: cable carriage every in some areas, but mostly you know,
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Speaker 1: for the viewers that are over the air that didn't
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Speaker 1: have any African American programming, you know that they could watch. Well,
21:28
Speaker 1: that's important that you say, because you know, that's the
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Speaker 1: first time I heard that, Because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: this because your shows basically you know, at Antanna, you
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Speaker 1: you don't have to go through a cable service because
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Speaker 1: we're all tied to the direct TV. It feels like
21:42
Speaker 1: it is okay, well, but you're saying that it's basically
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Speaker 1: free TV, right exactly exactly I mean, and you know
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Speaker 1: most free TV is uh you know, also available on
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Speaker 1: cable in some cases. But but but but you know,
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Speaker 1: just like uh, you know, your radio show for instance,
22:01
Speaker 1: if you're driving in your car, if you're on a
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Speaker 1: terrestrial station, you get it for free, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. And so that that's a value to a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. You know, not everybody has, you know,
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Speaker 1: a hundred dollars of months to pay for cable. So
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Speaker 1: so that that's you know, and and not only and
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Speaker 1: not not only that. Nowadays people are choosing the stream
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Speaker 1: and do other things. Um and so the free offering
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Speaker 1: of over the air to rest your radio and TV
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Speaker 1: is a supplemental to we know whatever they're getting all
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Speaker 1: the cart from Netflix or who or whatever. Okay, like
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Speaker 1: Will the Fall with the CEO of Sunwise Media, you know,
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Speaker 1: he was former senior vice president of original program for
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Speaker 1: Bounds TV. And I always feel like, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: always getting educated on my show because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that when you say that, I really didn't realize that
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Speaker 1: was the case, because, like I said, I'm tied into
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Speaker 1: direct TV. I'm tied into either Warner Cable or Cox
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Speaker 1: or Infinity. So I've always just felt I was on cable.
22:58
Speaker 1: But you're saying that Bounce TV. That was one of
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Speaker 1: the strong selling points is that, like you said, there's
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Speaker 1: a difference between terrestrial and there's a difference between X
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Speaker 1: and radio service through serious and that's what one of
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Speaker 1: the advantages in which enhanced the growth of the Bounced
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Speaker 1: TV network. Now, because you now have that relationship, does
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Speaker 1: that give you an end to be one of these
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Speaker 1: people you can take programming back to Bounce, to to
23:22
Speaker 1: to to UH to get on their their network. Are
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Speaker 1: That's just one of the assets that you have in
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Speaker 1: your two box. Well, I mean over the over the years,
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Speaker 1: you know, I worked with BT, I worked with v
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Speaker 1: H one, you know, I worked with UM a lot
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Speaker 1: of a lot of different stations. And so will build
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Speaker 1: a network of I build the network of folks that
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Speaker 1: I can reach out to over the years for different
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Speaker 1: circumstances and that that that's one of my assets. But
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Speaker 1: ultimately the reason why I created this syndication UM. This
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Speaker 1: this uh the model that I'm doing now with with
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Speaker 1: the programming. You know, I'm not the first to do
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Speaker 1: it by far, but I feel like, you know, the
23:59
Speaker 1: it gives me a little bit more leverage not to
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Speaker 1: have to go to too many middlemen to get my
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Speaker 1: my content on television. You know, one of the one
24:07
Speaker 1: of the things I'm doing now is more of a
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Speaker 1: business to business strategy where I'm offering value to these
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Speaker 1: stations for it with my content. And you know, in exchange,
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Speaker 1: you know, we get to share and split into in
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Speaker 1: the in the in the revenue of that content. So okay,
24:23
Speaker 1: now you get into the business. You know, Rashan just
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Speaker 1: screwed it up on the microphone now, you know, because
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Speaker 1: this is money making conversations Now call now, let's talk,
24:31
Speaker 1: let's talk. Let's just tell everybody about this young man. Okay,
24:35
Speaker 1: because when you when you become vice president of a
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Speaker 1: network like Bounce TV, everybody got a TV idea, everybody
24:43
Speaker 1: pitching to you. Now you have a successful production company,
24:47
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. How do how does an individual
24:50
Speaker 1: who's listening to the show, who probably hear it on
24:52
Speaker 1: podcasts or here on series exam or here their live
24:55
Speaker 1: right now, how do they pitch shows to your production company?
24:58
Speaker 1: And how do they get your production company? Sunwise the media? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can. Anybody can go to some wise media dot
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Speaker 1: com and you know, you click the contact us and
25:09
Speaker 1: send a note about what you're trying to do. We
25:12
Speaker 1: we we typically um, you know, look to have agents
25:16
Speaker 1: or you know, people that we know contact us to
25:20
Speaker 1: solicit content um because you know it could be overwhelming.
25:24
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people have ideas, a lot
25:28
Speaker 1: of people got ideas, and they act like you stole
25:31
Speaker 1: their idea if they pitch it to and not only
25:36
Speaker 1: and not only that, though, I think that a lot
25:38
Speaker 1: of people have you know, here's what happens. There's a
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Speaker 1: term in our industry called MP or MOM. Most often
25:46
Speaker 1: pitched you know that there's a there's uh. You know
25:51
Speaker 1: a lot of people have these ideas, these epiphanies in
25:54
Speaker 1: their sleep. They wake up they're like, oh, this is
25:55
Speaker 1: a great TV idea, but they miss they miss a step.
25:58
Speaker 1: They don't research if it's been done before, or maybe
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Speaker 1: why it doesn't exist already. And there's a lot of
26:04
Speaker 1: different reasons why certain shows don't exist. But you know,
26:07
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised how often I get pitched the show
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Speaker 1: that's are either already on TV or was on TV
26:13
Speaker 1: five years ago, um and um and and and and then,
26:17
Speaker 1: or you know it's in development right now. You know,
26:20
Speaker 1: you just gotta have the right sauce. So I would
26:22
Speaker 1: say this to most people. If you have an idea,
26:25
Speaker 1: you know, TV, selling TV shows is not just about
26:28
Speaker 1: the idea. You have to package it. So you know,
26:31
Speaker 1: packaging it means get you know, assigning a talent to it,
26:35
Speaker 1: or a producer that's well known, or a u um
26:40
Speaker 1: or some kind of unique access, especially in reality TV,
26:44
Speaker 1: you know, some kind of unique assets that only you
26:46
Speaker 1: have and that's your show. Those elements make up the show,
26:50
Speaker 1: not the idea. Okay, So a guy like Roshan McDonald,
26:53
Speaker 1: you know people always coming to me and I always
26:55
Speaker 1: because I'm developing shows. Let's do a scenario, and how
26:59
Speaker 1: would I come to your company and say, are you
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Speaker 1: looking for a certain type of TV show like you
27:06
Speaker 1: did mention Doc Johns drop you here with your reality shows?
27:09
Speaker 1: What what are you looking for? I hear the word
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Speaker 1: family friendly, I hear original content. What are you looking for?
27:15
Speaker 1: Just to just to stop people just for just throwing
27:18
Speaker 1: I got the next American idol. I got the because
27:21
Speaker 1: because let's let's be real about it. Because he already
27:24
Speaker 1: says that his successes baits on budgets, bringing in shows
27:28
Speaker 1: as a certain cost factor, and also being able to
27:31
Speaker 1: a timeline. It's a it's a it's something that you
27:34
Speaker 1: know Byron Idline has mastered. It is something that that
27:37
Speaker 1: uh that Tyler Perry has mastered and and people are
27:42
Speaker 1: using that model consistently. Bounces mastered along with Bentley Evans
27:45
Speaker 1: has mastered that and created some very successful sitcoms on
27:49
Speaker 1: Bounce Network. If you don't know Bentley Evans, he created Martin,
27:52
Speaker 1: he created Jamie Fox. So we're talking successful people in
27:56
Speaker 1: his business who have who have been at one level
27:59
Speaker 1: finance to the realize these models works at this this
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Speaker 1: model works at this level. Tell us how what do
28:04
Speaker 1: we bring to you to get your attention media? Well,
28:10
Speaker 1: I like things that aren't necessarily always on already on TV.
28:15
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to do a version of
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Speaker 1: something else. So so if it hasn't been televised, if
28:22
Speaker 1: it hasn't been exploited in a way where where no one,
28:27
Speaker 1: you know, where there's an audience for it, but they
28:29
Speaker 1: haven't been able to see it on TV, That's that's
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Speaker 1: what I wanna. That's what I want to talk about. UM.
28:35
Speaker 1: In addition to that, you know, one of the one
28:38
Speaker 1: of the things that we've done is, for instance, were
28:40
Speaker 1: partnered with another UM entity called Sore Radio to do
28:46
Speaker 1: the Gospel Radio Awards and we shot that h this
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Speaker 1: past month in in Chicago and now will be coming
28:53
Speaker 1: out in fourth quarter. And but that's a unique thing.
28:55
Speaker 1: It's an event that already was happening, and you know,
28:59
Speaker 1: we brought our cameras, we brought our know how to
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Speaker 1: get it produced. And now that's going to be something
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Speaker 1: that we do annually. You know, I'm using my influence
29:07
Speaker 1: to help you be successful. And Ricarlo, I'm just great.
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Speaker 1: I'm just great that you're you're you're succeeded in the
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Speaker 1: field that you want to win in. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: back to more money making Conversations. Thank you again for
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29:42
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29:58
Speaker 1: I say it's popular because people coming video now. I
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Speaker 1: She's my good friend. She's been at my house dancing, Yes,
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Speaker 1: eating what you're fading me, But now I'm putting that's right.
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Speaker 1: And I thought I was gonna come in here and
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Speaker 1: there was gonna be another one. No no, no, no
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Speaker 1: no no, not because we're not that. I must not
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Speaker 1: be family if you don't bring me another pie your family.
30:29
Speaker 1: But that's what you do with family, see, because family
30:31
Speaker 1: keep expecting things, and don't they say reciprocate because I
30:37
Speaker 1: have You know, I have fame. I supposedly have money
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Speaker 1: that comes with that fame. So people just always want
30:43
Speaker 1: me to go in one direction, but they never if
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Speaker 1: you if I give you a turkey leg, I want
30:47
Speaker 1: a turkey leg back. Okay, First of all, you have
30:49
Speaker 1: to take what you well. First of all, you can't.
30:50
Speaker 1: You can't take what people don't have. I don't have
30:52
Speaker 1: a turkey leg to give you. I can't make a
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Speaker 1: pie because I don't know how to make a pie.
30:56
Speaker 1: But I'm here in your building and your nice studio,
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Speaker 1: here with the man with a good year to you.
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Speaker 1: I'm just like you know, they don't don't don't tell
31:02
Speaker 1: people what they casey hear me talk. You know, I
31:07
Speaker 1: want the ladies to know that Rushan has surrounded himself
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31:39
Speaker 1: And I believe that man is single. Now, well, I
31:41
Speaker 1: don't know about all that. I'm not gonna get into
31:43
Speaker 1: that because of the fact that all I'm doing is
31:45
Speaker 1: trying to do a show called money Making Conversation and
31:48
Speaker 1: you as a solo preneurs, which you stand up comedy
31:52
Speaker 1: person is. But let's go back because she when I
31:54
Speaker 1: when because I talked about this because my degree is
31:56
Speaker 1: a mathematics and uh, you know the way from university
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Speaker 1: Houston and work with to work for IBM. So I
32:03
Speaker 1: enjoyed that corporate experience. And I talked to a lot
32:06
Speaker 1: of millennials and through my show, through my media social
32:09
Speaker 1: media platforms, and so I always want to let them
32:12
Speaker 1: know there's a journey to what you do, but also
32:15
Speaker 1: let them know that just because you die in this
32:16
Speaker 1: path don't mean you have to stay down this absolutely
32:19
Speaker 1: So tell us about your academics and then your corporate experience.
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Speaker 1: Oh lord. So, first of all, I went to Georgia
32:24
Speaker 1: Southern University. I went on a scholarship, and I will
32:26
Speaker 1: tell you when I went to Georgia Southern University, I
32:28
Speaker 1: had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.
32:30
Speaker 1: I did get accepted to Clark Atlanta. My mother, in
32:33
Speaker 1: her mind, she didn't want me to go to Clark Atlanta.
32:35
Speaker 1: If I could be very frank, and I know it's
32:36
Speaker 1: a lot of HBCU graduates and attendees out there, but
32:39
Speaker 1: my mother was like, baby, you already black. I need
32:42
Speaker 1: you to go into the world and figure out how
32:43
Speaker 1: the rest of the world work. So we're not gonna
32:45
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32:46
Speaker 1: you guys. And then she said, if you don't go
32:49
Speaker 1: to Clark Atlanta, although you have a scholarship, I would
32:51
Speaker 1: buy your car. So where did I go? Georgia Southern
32:54
Speaker 1: University with that car, brand new car, I put the
32:57
Speaker 1: first mile on. So I went to Georgia Southern Univerally
33:00
Speaker 1: not really sure what I wanted to do. I started
33:02
Speaker 1: with so many different, you know, majors. I was a
33:04
Speaker 1: c I S major, thinking I wanted to, you know,
33:06
Speaker 1: write culture, computer information system. Let's take well I found
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Speaker 1: not real wick. Then my mind don't work like that.
33:15
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like I'm not a programmer,
33:16
Speaker 1: Like I'm not that person that could sit in the
33:18
Speaker 1: dark and write cold. And half the time I didn't
33:20
Speaker 1: know it. Look, I went to my teacher. I was like,
33:22
Speaker 1: this is not for me, and my teacher said, your grade,
33:24
Speaker 1: say so my degree? And then, you know, I went
33:29
Speaker 1: through so many things. I just knew that I wanted
33:31
Speaker 1: a business degree. So to be honest with you, I
33:33
Speaker 1: ended up graduating with a marketing degree. And at first
33:36
Speaker 1: I was kind of feeling some kind of way about
33:37
Speaker 1: it because I thought a marketing degree was too soft
33:40
Speaker 1: in skills. But I used my marketing marketing degree every
33:44
Speaker 1: day since I've graduated from college. And when I graduated
33:47
Speaker 1: from college, I got a and I must say this
33:50
Speaker 1: everybody just listening, I actually took the L SAD. I
33:52
Speaker 1: took the L SADE and decided that I did not
33:54
Speaker 1: want to go to law school just because you know,
33:57
Speaker 1: it just wasn't again, I have not some of the
34:00
Speaker 1: lawyer's gonna out there, like what you mean, I have
34:02
Speaker 1: a big personality. I didn't want to be into in
34:06
Speaker 1: a courtroom, nor did I have the desire to go
34:08
Speaker 1: to law school. After I took the L side, I
34:10
Speaker 1: was like, this ain't me either. So what I did
34:12
Speaker 1: is I took a job. I went to work with
34:14
Speaker 1: Sony via the computers, and I was trained people. I
34:18
Speaker 1: was in front of people, you know, upper lower, management, sales, rests,
34:21
Speaker 1: all different type of people, even consumers. I trained people
34:24
Speaker 1: on the viol computers. I was in charge of launching
34:26
Speaker 1: new products and in certain in the market Atlanta specifically,
34:29
Speaker 1: and then eventually I moved to Houston with Samsung. Now
34:32
Speaker 1: Samsung Telecommunications was an amazing opportunity for me because I
34:36
Speaker 1: ran I managed the team. I managed to jokes managed
34:40
Speaker 1: the fourth largest territory in the United States, Yes, Kiana dancing.
34:44
Speaker 1: Those are my receipts. So when I went to UM Houston,
34:47
Speaker 1: I had no idea again that I was even funny. Now, Rashan,
34:50
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. People used to tell me all
34:51
Speaker 1: the time, you are so funny. Oh my god, Oh
34:54
Speaker 1: my god, you should, Oh my god, it happened to
34:56
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Speaker 1: pants because I was telling her. I was telling jokes.
35:03
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I was like that girl, your
35:07
Speaker 1: pass off, this little Joe. So what I did, I'm
35:09
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. I was working in the Houston market.
35:12
Speaker 1: I was, and I started doing stand up because I
35:14
Speaker 1: was going through a breakup and anybody's listening to me,
35:16
Speaker 1: I want you to hear me clearly. I used comedy
35:19
Speaker 1: to heal myself. Hole I went through it. I was
35:21
Speaker 1: in a relationship for ten years from nineteen and twenty nine,
35:25
Speaker 1: and that man, although I loved him. I loved that
35:27
Speaker 1: man so much. I would have married him on the bike.
35:29
Speaker 1: But he couldn't keep a job, so he couldn't feed me.
35:31
Speaker 1: So mama had to go some money. So from there
35:36
Speaker 1: money I chowed money. So I actually when I my
35:43
Speaker 1: first time on stage. Um, I started doing stand up
35:46
Speaker 1: just like Open Mike, you know, high Goes, you know,
35:48
Speaker 1: but you also doing real estate and Texas too. I
35:51
Speaker 1: got my real estate license in two thousand six. S actually,
35:56
Speaker 1: I got my real estate license in two thousand six
35:58
Speaker 1: so that I could sell myself my own home. Um,
36:00
Speaker 1: I was in Houston. I was renting, and that's not
36:03
Speaker 1: okay with my mother. My mother always told me to
36:04
Speaker 1: have your own. Mom, there's a real estate agent. Also,
36:07
Speaker 1: we're partners, so she was like, hey, baby, let's say something.
36:10
Speaker 1: You can't continue to pay somebody else's mortgage. You need
36:12
Speaker 1: to own your own and pay and pay into yourself.
36:15
Speaker 1: Because the best thing for a woman specifically is to
36:18
Speaker 1: have to build wealth by real estate because they're not
36:21
Speaker 1: creating any more land. So once you buy the land,
36:23
Speaker 1: even if you got a nice, old raggedy house, you
36:25
Speaker 1: can tear the house down, but that's land, because that's
36:28
Speaker 1: what they'd come on now. So I literally I studied
36:34
Speaker 1: the took the real estate test. I told myself the
36:37
Speaker 1: house me and then that was my commission. And then
36:41
Speaker 1: from there, you know, I started talking to young women
36:43
Speaker 1: like you need to buy a house. Stop stop on
36:45
Speaker 1: you know, renting on your own, okay, And then I
36:48
Speaker 1: started doing stand up. I was in the open mics,
36:50
Speaker 1: and then you know, Monique, Monique was at the improv
36:54
Speaker 1: the Good Improv Oscar winning. Monique was in the improv
36:58
Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. Long story short, I was making people
37:01
Speaker 1: laughing out in her line and her show, and she
37:03
Speaker 1: told me, hey, lady, do you tell jokes? I said no,
37:05
Speaker 1: I never have. She said, well, next time I see you,
37:08
Speaker 1: I want you to have told me that you've been
37:09
Speaker 1: on stage. She wrote her number down and on that
37:11
Speaker 1: day I started doing stand up, but I never called her.
37:15
Speaker 1: The co host of TV one, which has been renewed
37:19
Speaker 1: for a second seasons. Tell us about that because it
37:22
Speaker 1: was your biggest um um entertainment moment, yes, in your
37:27
Speaker 1: career so far, and there would be other big ones.
37:29
Speaker 1: What were the changes first when you when you were selected,
37:32
Speaker 1: and what have been the changes with popularity? Because you
37:35
Speaker 1: know you do lease a degree of privacy, you do
37:39
Speaker 1: you do that so I have to balance life. That's
37:42
Speaker 1: a heavy question. Okay. Well, first of all, I just
37:46
Speaker 1: want to say this that I would not be here
37:48
Speaker 1: if it was not for God, and thank you Jesus
37:51
Speaker 1: that he saw me worthy, and I will tell you
37:53
Speaker 1: anything that you want you can absolutely put. You know,
37:55
Speaker 1: you can bake some plans, but if it's not meant
37:57
Speaker 1: for you, God gonna change some plans for you. You You understand.
38:00
Speaker 1: But my my work life balance has changed in that.
38:03
Speaker 1: Um I'm not naturally a morning person. So for me
38:06
Speaker 1: as a stand up comedian, honey, I'm going to bed
38:08
Speaker 1: at four. Now I'm waking up at four. I have
38:11
Speaker 1: to be up in hair and make up. I have
38:12
Speaker 1: to be ready. I have to be perfect, to be alert,
38:14
Speaker 1: and the people want you to talk, so you got
38:17
Speaker 1: to make your mouth work. I've got to be open,
38:19
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So at the end of
38:21
Speaker 1: the day, if at the very least, that's the biggest
38:24
Speaker 1: thing that I've had to change is my lifestyle. You know,
38:27
Speaker 1: I'm eating. You have to eat properly because you gotta
38:29
Speaker 1: look pretty when you're on TV. You gotta make sure, yes,
38:33
Speaker 1: she is pretty, honey. But you know, you gotta make
38:35
Speaker 1: sure you look good. It feel good inside so you
38:37
Speaker 1: can look good outside. Um. I also will say that,
38:40
Speaker 1: you know, people do recognize me. I was in the
38:42
Speaker 1: airport last night and then someone I felt him looking
38:45
Speaker 1: at me and I didn't, you know. It was so awkward.
38:48
Speaker 1: I was just like, do you know me? He was like,
38:49
Speaker 1: I do, and I want to ask you for an autograph,
38:51
Speaker 1: but I'm shine And I was like, well you just
38:53
Speaker 1: said what you won't wear the paper And I'm walking
38:56
Speaker 1: through the airport and I would tell you I don't
38:58
Speaker 1: look at myself as a celebrity. I love when people
39:01
Speaker 1: approach me. I have no qualms with that. I want
39:03
Speaker 1: you to know that I'm a real person. So people,
39:06
Speaker 1: you've always been like I always have been like even
39:08
Speaker 1: when I wasn't talking to you, but you was gonna
39:09
Speaker 1: talk to me, you know. And I said, listen, let
39:14
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I know you don't know who
39:16
Speaker 1: I am, but you're gonna listen. My mama area told
39:18
Speaker 1: me I'm somebody. Now you don't need to get on board.
39:21
Speaker 1: That so true, so true. But it was a good time.
39:24
Speaker 1: It's a good time, a good place to be here.
39:26
Speaker 1: I'm right, like you said, this has been one of
39:28
Speaker 1: the biggest accomplishments in my career. But I've done a
39:31
Speaker 1: lot of things. I was the first as for the
39:33
Speaker 1: first female celebrity remaster for for the Universe that no, no, no, no,
39:38
Speaker 1: you don't ever don't. I love universal. In fact, that
39:42
Speaker 1: was going. I had to bring that up because you
39:44
Speaker 1: have to be challenged to control those like because they
39:48
Speaker 1: weren't they weren't coming that for the elephant. I didn't
39:51
Speaker 1: know what to expects for the circus because I was
39:53
Speaker 1: like a black circus when they're gonna have chickens. I'm
39:55
Speaker 1: being a real patty. But then tell you that circus
39:58
Speaker 1: is amazing. And if you never see that, you better
40:02
Speaker 1: now that because that really is a traveling event because
40:06
Speaker 1: you as family. They come in there and you know
40:09
Speaker 1: there's not a big dollars not the road with him,
40:12
Speaker 1: I ain't to leave home and go No, I did
40:16
Speaker 1: a guest spot. Oh my goodness, girl, we just stopped
40:20
Speaker 1: talking to you because I'm about to get involved with
40:22
Speaker 1: that on the road. You're in a little bit of
40:24
Speaker 1: trailer back there with that big coming up to your
40:29
Speaker 1: hip level with me. I was there though, I was there,
40:33
Speaker 1: Okay you first. Now you're you're touring stand up comedy.
40:37
Speaker 1: I am. You have a tour that goes out it's
40:39
Speaker 1: called Single in the City. And many people kept asking me,
40:42
Speaker 1: or keep asking me, why did you name your tour
40:44
Speaker 1: single in the city. First of all, I am a single,
40:46
Speaker 1: independent woman. I remind people of that am. Eventually, I
40:51
Speaker 1: would love to get married one day. But I'll tell
40:52
Speaker 1: you I love and I own my singleness, and I
40:55
Speaker 1: think that that is something that a lot of women
40:57
Speaker 1: should do. I don't think that you should look at
40:59
Speaker 1: being single as a badge of you know, the distress.
41:03
Speaker 1: You should look at it like it's it's an honor
41:05
Speaker 1: if you choose, and I have chosen to be single.
41:08
Speaker 1: I love who I am. I take myself on weekly days.
41:10
Speaker 1: Single ladies, if you're out there, you're listening to my voice.
41:13
Speaker 1: I want you to know that it's okay to do
41:14
Speaker 1: you take yourself out on the day, take yourself on
41:16
Speaker 1: the very expensive you know day order you know, make reservations,
41:20
Speaker 1: get you a nice glass of wine, get the best
41:21
Speaker 1: meal on the menu. Because you need to know how
41:23
Speaker 1: to be treated. Whether you're doing that for yourself or
41:25
Speaker 1: someone that's gonna do that, you'll know open, you know,
41:28
Speaker 1: pull up to the valet, put on a nice dress,
41:30
Speaker 1: take care of you and then where you have. If
41:32
Speaker 1: you have standards, the guy's not meeting your standards, you
41:35
Speaker 1: know how to kick into the curve. Come on now, somebody,
41:37
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna do this for myself and you can't
41:39
Speaker 1: do it boy by, because that's important because I have
41:43
Speaker 1: six sisters, okay, so I understand the value. I have
41:45
Speaker 1: a single daughter. So I have a value system that
41:48
Speaker 1: you have to put in place. And one of the
41:50
Speaker 1: reasons that Steve Harvey's book Likely to Think Like a
41:52
Speaker 1: Man was so popular sold three million copies, was translating
41:56
Speaker 1: thirty different foreign languages. We made two very success for
42:00
Speaker 1: what we should generated almost two million dollars. I would
42:03
Speaker 1: say my credit because we told women in that book
42:09
Speaker 1: the value yourself. You are a point that you are
42:12
Speaker 1: the queen. We're the reason men wake up in the morning,
42:14
Speaker 1: with the reason we dressed with the reason we buy
42:16
Speaker 1: cars we call my hat right, you know, we're the
42:19
Speaker 1: reason that there is wards, there is this. Listen. I'm
42:22
Speaker 1: gonna tell you if the women just stop, if you
42:24
Speaker 1: hold the sugar, ladies, I promise you, things will change. Yes,
42:28
Speaker 1: I'm down to them, down to the let's listen and
42:35
Speaker 1: we just hold back the sugar. I promise you that
42:37
Speaker 1: will be peace. You know what I'm saying. The gas
42:39
Speaker 1: prices will go down, you know, he might even grow
42:42
Speaker 1: hair on his hand away. It's but I'm telling you,
42:47
Speaker 1: I just really want people to women to specifically embrace
42:50
Speaker 1: the fact that they're single. You don't have to feel less.
42:53
Speaker 1: Then you don't have to feel like this, you know
42:54
Speaker 1: you're not worthy at the end of the day, when
42:56
Speaker 1: you're meant to be in a relationship or when you're ready,
42:58
Speaker 1: you will be because that's in portant because of the
43:00
Speaker 1: fact that when you're own the road. I've been a
43:03
Speaker 1: stand up comic tour and stand up comic since okay,
43:08
Speaker 1: before my time, but absolutely, absolutely and proud of it.
43:11
Speaker 1: Done death comedy, Jam, I've done. You know that women
43:16
Speaker 1: are women, especially African American women, and that's why you
43:19
Speaker 1: look at what this happened to Tiffany Hattish. I'm applauded,
43:23
Speaker 1: she's exploded, and I wish your all the opportunities. But
43:27
Speaker 1: again she's one, yes, and there's and it should be room.
43:30
Speaker 1: There should be more, and there's absolutely room for more
43:33
Speaker 1: than one. And I'm not gonna forget Monique here about
43:36
Speaker 1: this interview. Monique some more Tiffany Hattish, you know, want
43:41
Speaker 1: the side that's so many talented African so many talented
43:46
Speaker 1: African American women. So there's room for us all. But
43:48
Speaker 1: I just I really remind people that. So the point
43:52
Speaker 1: the question was why did I name the tour single
43:54
Speaker 1: in the city, And it's just when I get there.
43:55
Speaker 1: I was singing in the city in Birmingham. I was
43:57
Speaker 1: singing in the city in Memphis. But if I meet
43:59
Speaker 1: a guy you want to take me out, well, you know,
44:01
Speaker 1: first of all, match dot com. Let me tell you something.
44:04
Speaker 1: Go ahead and call the girl, and you know, hook
44:06
Speaker 1: me up with an account because I'm telling you match
44:08
Speaker 1: dot com, tender bumble. Whoever black people meet, come on
44:12
Speaker 1: that farmers. Okay, listen, I will take a farmer, a
44:19
Speaker 1: good farm, but you gotta have on that farm and
44:22
Speaker 1: don't have more than to go in account. I need boom,
44:26
Speaker 1: I need all the things that makes money. Said you,
44:30
Speaker 1: you're very popular on the road, and that's what people say.
44:33
Speaker 1: They what they make a commitment tickets. You host a
44:38
Speaker 1: comedy night and it last, Yes, I do. I host
44:41
Speaker 1: Atlanta Comedy Theater every Friday here in North Across when
44:44
Speaker 1: I'm in town, which is you know, thank god, it's
44:46
Speaker 1: been half and half. But you're like the end of
44:48
Speaker 1: the day, moment is working. Okay, let me ask you,
44:51
Speaker 1: can I work with you? You could? Or what I
44:53
Speaker 1: gotta do to get into Miss Danc's life? How you
44:56
Speaker 1: trying to get into I just see such popularity. I'll
44:59
Speaker 1: see my over here. I see money making conversations over here.
45:03
Speaker 1: I just feel that, you know, you know, you know.
45:05
Speaker 1: What I do, I take, I formulate, I create, build
45:08
Speaker 1: a beast. But I'm gonna say that I'm saying this.
45:12
Speaker 1: I'm already a beast. But what I do need you
45:14
Speaker 1: to do is take it up to not you know
45:16
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, come on now, but you're saying this
45:19
Speaker 1: now When you saying can I get in your life? Now,
45:20
Speaker 1: that sounds different. I know you got a good wife
45:22
Speaker 1: at home. I'm saying. I'm saying, so I had to
45:26
Speaker 1: kind of step back like you because she listened to
45:29
Speaker 1: the show, and my mom's in town. She listened to
45:31
Speaker 1: the show. So this is all of my business. I'm
45:34
Speaker 1: just telling you because I look at you and I
45:36
Speaker 1: wanted to bring you on the show because sometimes people
45:38
Speaker 1: see such a small picture and I want you to
45:40
Speaker 1: come back because because I just want people to just
45:43
Speaker 1: build ammunition on you just started putting it in that
45:47
Speaker 1: place that you are something special and girl, this this
45:50
Speaker 1: this went by so fast, and we're gonna talk a
45:53
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45:55
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49:08
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49:12
Speaker 1: NFL Kickoff show on Fox. Okay, here you are you
49:18
Speaker 1: you're you're You're an extremely talented athlete. But everybody is
49:23
Speaker 1: not extremely talented in the words, you have natural guard gifts,
49:26
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49:28
Speaker 1: hard to achieve the same opportunity that you get. What
49:32
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49:38
Speaker 1: How do you how do you approach you prepping for
49:41
Speaker 1: those shows? Well, you know, it's it's it's kind of tricky. Um.
49:48
Speaker 1: You know, I think you know, to my advantage, I
49:52
Speaker 1: played the game, so I know players feelings and emotions
49:56
Speaker 1: after win or loss, and just I'm just saying that
50:00
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50:02
Speaker 1: go on TV and I'm able to talk about it,
50:05
Speaker 1: I'm such a fan of the game, I know how
50:07
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Speaker 1: there's a problem and needs to be fixed. Um, if
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Speaker 1: week by week based on you know, every player storyline.
50:32
Speaker 1: Every player in the NFL has a storyline. You know,
50:36
Speaker 1: if you're playing you know, guys you know, playing the
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Speaker 1: offensive line, they're not. It's visible. So you know, if
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Speaker 1: when guys giving up ten sacks the game again, he'll
50:45
Speaker 1: be a story do that. But you know guys like
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Speaker 1: Godell Beckham, we watches every move you know, Drew Breeze,
50:50
Speaker 1: he watches every move round. You know, the premier players
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Speaker 1: in the game. You know, give us something to talk
50:58
Speaker 1: about weekend and week out based on performance. And I
51:01
Speaker 1: know what it should look like. So it helps me
51:03
Speaker 1: when I get on set. Now, what it also helps
51:06
Speaker 1: is the fact that you still maintain this high profile
51:09
Speaker 1: television parents and then you're launching a clothing brand called
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Speaker 1: V seven. Tell us about that high performance active where yeah,
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Speaker 1: well V seven was low, you know it was in
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Speaker 1: V seven, you know from two thousands three to two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven. You know, uh, permount deal with Nike,
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Speaker 1: and you know is Nike has been graces to me.
51:32
Speaker 1: You know though throughout the course of my career, man
51:35
Speaker 1: have been so loyal and you know we've had, you know,
51:38
Speaker 1: such good times. You know, they they gave me permission,
51:42
Speaker 1: they kind of redo it again on my own, you know,
51:44
Speaker 1: and just you know, go out, you know, still represent Nike.
51:48
Speaker 1: Still I never leave the Nike BRANDO Nike branded for life. Um,
51:54
Speaker 1: you know I I you know, chant that relationship to
51:58
Speaker 1: you know, to the day I that So you know,
52:00
Speaker 1: I still do work with Nike. I'm still there for them.
52:03
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Speaker 1: you know, we were pushed to get into big retail
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Speaker 1: stores and we feel like we're ready. I don't want
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53:51
Speaker 1: Shoulders the head coach you know on the offensive coordinator, Uh,
53:56
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm excited, man. It's just this is
53:58
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to you know, connect with the you know,
54:03
Speaker 1: a league that's you know on a rise and look
54:06
Speaker 1: it's looking to you know, be around for a long
54:08
Speaker 1: time and help you know, get plays, you know, another
54:12
Speaker 1: opportunity to continue their careers and further their careazy, get
54:16
Speaker 1: good teaching and coaching and maybe go on and and
54:18
Speaker 1: do greater things. So that's what that's what they're set
54:22
Speaker 1: up for. So, um, well, we know we needed, we
54:25
Speaker 1: need to go ahead and I'm I'm gonna be marking.
54:27
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna take on a little subtle V seven marketing.
54:30
Speaker 1: Let's get this V seven tied to this league here. Okay, well,
54:35
Speaker 1: I think those are conversations that Camp could be had there.
54:38
Speaker 1: We're gonna Mike there, you gonna make conversation, Mike conversation
54:42
Speaker 1: and it. Yeah, that's a little by making conversation, what
54:46
Speaker 1: what whatever? What I was and what I was mentioned,
54:50
Speaker 1: because we're having a plenty baking conversations. You know, bring
54:54
Speaker 1: my cleep back and let my cleep be there. Uh
54:57
Speaker 1: you know, Flagship you now you're gon and be seven.
55:01
Speaker 1: Look we can, but it will only be the Atlanta
55:04
Speaker 1: Alliance to absolutely, absolutely only get it absolutely you know,
55:09
Speaker 1: it's what makes us special. Let's set us apart. So
55:12
Speaker 1: you know those conversations that the project you had at
55:14
Speaker 1: some point, you know, as the relationship continues to bro um.
55:18
Speaker 1: You know, if we're working with a great growth of
55:19
Speaker 1: people from Charlie episode to um you know, j K McKay,
55:24
Speaker 1: um Solver down to brad Children. So I mean the
55:27
Speaker 1: league is going to be very successful. We're gonna make
55:29
Speaker 1: sure that it's successful and it's just good for us,
55:32
Speaker 1: just more football for people to watch. I'm gonna tell
55:34
Speaker 1: you something. I'm telling something. First of all, it's not
55:36
Speaker 1: competing with the NFL. Okay, that's why I love That's
55:40
Speaker 1: why I love it because see that I'm I'm I'm
55:44
Speaker 1: a withdrawal. No one can get people to the NFL.
55:46
Speaker 1: Let's go and get that true now. But I'm just
55:48
Speaker 1: saying that all all I'm being hit with is for
55:51
Speaker 1: draft picks to combine leading up to the draft. If
55:56
Speaker 1: I can get some some good football that I can
55:58
Speaker 1: watch and go go a tend game, I'm there. I'm there. Yeah,
56:02
Speaker 1: absolutely inspective. If it's in your city, why not support um?
56:07
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, when you got you know,
56:09
Speaker 1: some of the best of the best food has been
56:11
Speaker 1: around the game. Yes, sir, you know other you know
56:16
Speaker 1: this is in Atlanta, y'all, we're talking about Atlanta. He's
56:18
Speaker 1: gonna be inta. Michael Vick is coming back on the
56:21
Speaker 1: side of Atlanta, and I'm glad that they gave an
56:25
Speaker 1: opportunity to come home. But they will have a team
56:27
Speaker 1: in the Lando coach by us so already, so that's
56:31
Speaker 1: gonna be is gonna be good football at me here, Mike.
56:36
Speaker 1: You know there's might be some shootouts offenses there too. Well,
56:42
Speaker 1: here's the deal, man, I'm on the phone. Whatever I'm
56:44
Speaker 1: talking to, Michael Vick. This is the man is multiple
56:47
Speaker 1: streams of income. Michael Vick Okay, Fox Sports analysts. He
56:52
Speaker 1: the v found that the VIC Foundation is being reinvigorated,
56:56
Speaker 1: but he never stopped giving back to the community clothing brand.
57:00
Speaker 1: He's seven is a Virginia Tech. We already had a
57:02
Speaker 1: money made conversation. They're gonna be on the Atlanta team here.
57:05
Speaker 1: He's an offensive coordinator for the football team that will
57:08
Speaker 1: not be competing against the NFL. It will be starting
57:12
Speaker 1: right after February nine, the next year, after the Super Bowl.
57:15
Speaker 1: This man special and Michael Vick, Man, I'm glad I
57:18
Speaker 1: got I'm we finally got to talk man. You special, dude,
57:24
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta tell you start brother, because you're a superstar.
57:27
Speaker 1: Oh and off the field, okay, talking cheap, winning my brother,
57:34
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