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Carlos King Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My Next Guest. Production company, Kingdom Rain Entertainment LLC, is
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Speaker 1: recognized as one of the leading entertainment companies in television.
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Speaker 1: His credits conclude Executive producer, Love and Marriage, Huntsville, Own
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Speaker 1: the Own Network, Styling Hollywood, Netflix, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bravo,
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Speaker 1: Hollywood Divas, TV one, The Next Fifteen, and Gucci Main
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Speaker 1: and Keisha the main Event on b ET. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: to money making conversation. They've said, let Freedom Rain. Let's
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Speaker 1: let Kingdom Rain, my man, Carlos King my man. For
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Speaker 1: first of all, you know you're doing great things and
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Speaker 1: UH in television because you know, it's just been a
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Speaker 1: journey in the reality world of respect, you know. And
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Speaker 1: I would and I just tell you share my personal story.
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Speaker 1: When I was producing and UH and creating the Neighborhood
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Speaker 1: Awards with Steve Steve har he was hosting. It was
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Speaker 1: a period where you know, there were no African Americans
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Speaker 1: and dramas and or nor African American show which at
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Speaker 1: Sitcom talent and all the talent was coming from the
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Speaker 1: reality TV world. And it was a period where reality
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Speaker 1: TV was fighting and throwing and cussing and fussing and
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Speaker 1: it was just ugly out there, and so it's really
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Speaker 1: putting a black eye on what do do black people
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Speaker 1: act like this? And I've seen that and I feel
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Speaker 1: there has been Now we see sitcoms with African Americans
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Speaker 1: on it, we see dramas would lead African Americans, and
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Speaker 1: I feel that that has helped uh stylized and help
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Speaker 1: the world of reality TV to be more accepted and
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Speaker 1: also shape better stories. Am I correcting that assessment? No,
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Speaker 1: you absolutely are. I think, um listen, when it comes
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Speaker 1: to reality TV. The reason why I started my company,
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Speaker 1: Kingdom Rain Entertainment is because I wanted to change the
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Speaker 1: landscape of how African Americans are beat on television. So, No,
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Speaker 1: You're testament is right in terms of what has been
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Speaker 1: sort of the attention that's been given to in the past,
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Speaker 1: and my hope is to redirect that in the future. Well,
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Speaker 1: you're doing a good job, first of all, because you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I would tell you like I can
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Speaker 1: have honest conversations and that and I really believe that
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Speaker 1: the stories are being told better because African Americans are
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Speaker 1: actually producing these shows with African America needs and African
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Speaker 1: American content, and they're not stories that we assumed that's
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Speaker 1: how they should act. Well, let's just make believe this
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Speaker 1: particular scenario and that I believe really helps. And so
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Speaker 1: when I you said, Rahan, you're excited to have me
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Speaker 1: on the show, Yes, I am, because you are telling
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Speaker 1: the story that is accurate. We all know it's entertainment.
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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, callers, that's entertainment. We got to
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Speaker 1: have the ratings. Heither right, But guess what there is
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Speaker 1: credibility and how the stories being told now because you
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Speaker 1: understand the culture. Yeah, no, that's true. That's true. And
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Speaker 1: I don't think other reason too, because again, prior to
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Speaker 1: me starting the company, I was a hired freelance producer
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Speaker 1: who had to produce these shows and did not really
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Speaker 1: have a stay in the beginning, middle, and end of
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Speaker 1: how these stories were being told. And the biggest themes
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Speaker 1: that I wanted to give people work, credibility and to
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Speaker 1: show that there is an audience out there where people,
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Speaker 1: especially African Americans, they want to see people who look
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Speaker 1: like them on television, but they also want to make
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Speaker 1: sure that it's really something that's happening in the real lives.
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Speaker 1: And when you look at love and marriage, Huntsville on
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Speaker 1: the Oprah Whimpering Network, and the show to me is
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Speaker 1: doing well, um, solely because you have three couples who
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Speaker 1: I think represent a large part of black family households.
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Speaker 1: Whether or not you disagree with them or agree with them,
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Speaker 1: you know somebody who sort of represents that that lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: So the show has been a huge hit for own
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Speaker 1: because these African American couples who are successful, but they
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Speaker 1: also are giving you insight into what happened in their
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Speaker 1: households to hopefully shed light on what happens in households
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Speaker 1: across America. And the success of that show, to me,
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Speaker 1: shows the reason why I wanted to begin the company,
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Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that I continue to have people tune
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Speaker 1: into the shows we're creating over here. That really speaks
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Speaker 1: to that attention. Well, I'm gonna tell you something I know.
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Speaker 1: When I left IBM, I was a degree as mathematics
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Speaker 1: and left IBMS do stand up comic because I traveled
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Speaker 1: all over the country telling jokes. And what people don't
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Speaker 1: know is, uh, how modern the city of Huntsville is.
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Speaker 1: It's one of the It's like a silicon vast technology.
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Speaker 1: Why that's where NASA started NASA started in hunts exactly,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't understand that. So I remember, so,
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Speaker 1: if you any popular chain in America, food change in
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Speaker 1: America is in Huntsville, Outabam and and so and so.
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Speaker 1: I know I used to love going there because, you know,
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Speaker 1: great comedy and close are people you know, well, very
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Speaker 1: knowledgeable and you do crazy things to get people to laugh.
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Speaker 1: And so so you picked the city that, as one
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Speaker 1: would say, you know, it's like with a high uh
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Speaker 1: intellectual and cultural platform in Huntsville, Outbam. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of people didn't know that. And I think that you're
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Speaker 1: telling the story and opening people's eyes to Huntsville. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: that was you know what, that was the biggest goal.
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Speaker 1: When Melody and Mark Home met with me, you know,
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Speaker 1: they they drove from Huntsville to Atlanta. I was living
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Speaker 1: there at the time. This is maybe five years ago,
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Speaker 1: and they pitched me the idea of doing something in Huntsville.
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Speaker 1: And just to be completely transparent, I'm like, who's in
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Speaker 1: the husband all about? You know what I mean. We're
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Speaker 1: curious about the city than anything else. And I knew
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Speaker 1: that melitout Martell has something interesting to tell the world.
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Speaker 1: But I was really interested in the city as a whole.
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Speaker 1: And you are right. It's such a city that has
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Speaker 1: so many affluent black people who thrived there and they're
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Speaker 1: super smart. We met with a rocket scientist, you know,
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Speaker 1: this black man who's a rocket scientists. Think you hear,
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Speaker 1: you hear about what you've never really seen. So it's
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Speaker 1: such a smart, savvy town. And I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people watch the show and they're like, Wow, they're smart,
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Speaker 1: successful black people who live in Huntsville, Alabama, And to
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Speaker 1: me is putting the city on the map, and it's
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Speaker 1: allowing the city to really be shown in a light
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Speaker 1: that you know, when people think of the South, they think, oh,
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Speaker 1: they're uneducated, and the Sacific shows providing something different means
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Speaker 1: the world to me. Yeah, it's really cool. Like like
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Speaker 1: I I very when I when I realized it was
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Speaker 1: coming on, I tuned in because now and because if
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Speaker 1: you know, I've had a blessed life to be able
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Speaker 1: to articulate something by Huntsville, Alabama to you and be
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Speaker 1: able to be on dead own spot means that I've
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Speaker 1: I've experienced their culture and I was in my life
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Speaker 1: has allowed me to experience a lot of different paths,
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Speaker 1: and the fact that you know, this is not Birmingham,
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Speaker 1: this is not Montgomery, this is Huntsville. Totally different cons city,
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Speaker 1: totally different set up, totally different lifestyle. And it also
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Speaker 1: is who doesn't have it, Who doesn't know a country cousin? Okay, right,
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Speaker 1: we don't have you know, you know, just because everybody
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Speaker 1: got to cut your cousin in the South. Okay, everybody
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Speaker 1: in the North came from the South. So so you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't everybody from l A move from Alabama or Mississippi
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Speaker 1: or Arkansas. So yeah, so so you wasn't out of
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Speaker 1: your comfort zone. You actually bringing people back to their roots.
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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely absolutely. And and looking I'm from right, come
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Speaker 1: on calling getting comfortable now, he getting comfortable now, it's
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Speaker 1: all just got let's let's do it. No, I'm from
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Speaker 1: Detroit and I grew up in the whole era of
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Speaker 1: black excellence, and you know, growing up when my motor
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Speaker 1: city was really thriving in the Motown Sound and all
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Speaker 1: that amazing stuff. So again, it's all about giving back
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Speaker 1: to your community in some in some way, and with Huntsville,
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Speaker 1: that was one part of it. But it's what you
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Speaker 1: said it again. I think the show is successful because
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Speaker 1: you look at these African American people and they remind
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Speaker 1: you of family, They remind you of home. And my
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Speaker 1: hope is that that is an eye opener as even
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Speaker 1: for me and my team to really start putting more
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Speaker 1: of these other I'm not gonna say forgotten towns, but
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Speaker 1: more so a town that a lot of people just
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Speaker 1: aren't familiar with. So even the way we're creating shows, Rashan,
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Speaker 1: we're really tafficking to markets where it's the typical Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: Miami in late New York, Like, we're going down to
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Speaker 1: the side just to really see what else is there.
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Speaker 1: Because I think the way television is is working a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. You know, they're bored easily with the
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Speaker 1: same city you see across television. But to tap into
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Speaker 1: those towns where you've heard about the city but you
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Speaker 1: don't really know about it, um, that excites me to
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Speaker 1: really put more of these cities on the bath. Well.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about man Callus King. You know, he's what
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Speaker 1: they say, He's a regardless of the record breaker when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the Midas touch in reality TV. We'll
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Speaker 1: be back with more money making conversations. I got a
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about because you did R and V
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Speaker 1: Divas in Atlanta. Correct, call us Hollywood Diva Hollywood. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you go, there, you go go. We'll be right back
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Speaker 1: with more of my man Callus King, all my friends.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Money Making Conversation, a show
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Speaker 1: that I put in place to invite my friends, CEOs,
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Speaker 1: interested decision makers, people who are making a difference, not
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Speaker 1: only in television but also in the business world. On
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Speaker 1: the phone, is my man call Us King. I am.
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed what he's doing in television. I've enjoyed the
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Speaker 1: way he's making an effort to look at it. I'm
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Speaker 1: an African American person, my my my family's African American,
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Speaker 1: and so when we look at television, we want to
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Speaker 1: be proud of what we see or see a slice
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Speaker 1: of life that is relatable to us. Reality TV when
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Speaker 1: it started out, wasn't really relatable. It got good ratings,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't really relatable. You know, sometimes it was offensive.
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Speaker 1: And I've seen a nice turn in reality TV, and
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Speaker 1: and this young man on the phone, Carlos King, has
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Speaker 1: been one of the instruments and making that turn, and
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Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you, sir. Thank you
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Speaker 1: a lot to me. I appreciate that, man, Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much. Now, I gotta tell you that because you know,
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Speaker 1: I started out our writing, uh, you know, on the
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Speaker 1: Parenthood and I went to Syney Hall sitcom and then
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Speaker 1: they did Sister Sister Jamie Fox show The Parkers. And
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Speaker 1: you know, it's sometimes when when I look out when
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Speaker 1: some these networks like b tr T wo uh repeats,
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Speaker 1: I can look over, my name is on like three
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Speaker 1: or four shows on the weekend and and and I
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Speaker 1: love it when young people come up to me and said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I grew up watching some of the shows
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Speaker 1: that you produced or some of the shows you wrote,
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Speaker 1: because I really made a conscious effort to to make
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Speaker 1: the storytelling funny entertainment for the sense of value to you.
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Speaker 1: So because I tell you this, you know you have
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Speaker 1: a gift callers, and a lot of people are a
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Speaker 1: lot of people are to estimate that because when you
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Speaker 1: can make people every day, come back every week, come
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Speaker 1: back at the same time, and set aside their business
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Speaker 1: schedule to say this is important in my life, that's
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Speaker 1: a skill, man. And you cannot allow anybody to say
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Speaker 1: that anybody can do that or that's no big deal.
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Speaker 1: That's a very big deal. And that means that you
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Speaker 1: you you you've understand how to communicate an art form
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Speaker 1: to the masses that the masses deemed as important to
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Speaker 1: their lifestyle and they share or on social media or
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Speaker 1: they share of them on the coworkers and then they
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Speaker 1: galvanizes to high ratings and you should be commended for that.
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Speaker 1: And what what got to you at this point? What
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Speaker 1: what did it all start for? Callos? Well, let me
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Speaker 1: just start by saying I really appreciate those words because
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Speaker 1: you know, listen, I'll be honest with you. When when
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Speaker 1: I started out of my career producing again other shows
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Speaker 1: before for my company, you know, there's a moment I
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Speaker 1: look back at my career and I'm like, I wasn't
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Speaker 1: too proud of that one, or this could have been
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Speaker 1: handled differently, or wow, we we kind of show that.
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Speaker 1: So again, it's one of those things where you learn
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Speaker 1: from your mistakes and when you know better, you do better.
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Speaker 1: And again, the reason why I started the company is
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Speaker 1: because so many people talk about the change they want
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Speaker 1: to see, and I believe you have to be a
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Speaker 1: change creator in order to do that. So I appreciate
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Speaker 1: those words because it shows that I'm on my path
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Speaker 1: and fulfilling that that needs. So, you know, I started
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Speaker 1: out in turning at various networks and then you know,
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Speaker 1: BT is one of them, and turned out the view
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Speaker 1: back from Barbara Wabster was really a part of it.
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Speaker 1: And then I got a call to be a part
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Speaker 1: of The Real House Lives of Atlanta, you know, their
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Speaker 1: first season in two thousand eight. Yeah, and at the time,
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Speaker 1: I had no experience in reality so we were all
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Speaker 1: kind of new together, like me Needle. You know, we
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Speaker 1: met on set and the rest is history, just in
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Speaker 1: terms of exactly how that show really did take a
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Speaker 1: life on its own. And that show propelled my career
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Speaker 1: in a way once I started to become the executive
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Speaker 1: producer of it. And the moment I became the executive
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Speaker 1: producer of that particular show, um sort of skyrocket in
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Speaker 1: my career because a lot of people, that's what you
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Speaker 1: said earlier, they were like, wait, that's a black man
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Speaker 1: who's behind the scenes that executive producing this this show.
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Speaker 1: And the ratings increased, you know that that season that
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Speaker 1: I was the executive producer for the first time. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's in the history book that's the highest for the
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Speaker 1: season ever and that happened oh seven years ago, and
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Speaker 1: that was a period. Remember it was getting shaky, you know,
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Speaker 1: that shaky period for the Housewise. So you really made
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Speaker 1: that time for you know what I'm saying. Yeah, No,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yes I did. I wanted the moment
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Speaker 1: I got into the driver's seat, it was important for
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Speaker 1: me to tell the cast, like, listen, people really want
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Speaker 1: to know what you guys are really going through, like
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Speaker 1: the cat fights and all that to me is just
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Speaker 1: that's icing on the cake, like it's a given right.
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Speaker 1: But it's what you said earlier for you tobe tune
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Speaker 1: week to week to watch the same show at a
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Speaker 1: particular time. We have to give the more. We have
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Speaker 1: to be more honest, and I credit my cast with
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Speaker 1: being open enough to do that, and that has been
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Speaker 1: to me the recipe of my entire career is really
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Speaker 1: telling cast members to show their authentic selves because that's
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Speaker 1: the only way someone at home is going to be
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Speaker 1: able to connect with you. So although I started off
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the total poles, I truly worked
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Speaker 1: my way to what people consider to be the top
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Speaker 1: because I was there, I was labor focused on what
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Speaker 1: the end goal was and that was to start a
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Speaker 1: company that I can't say, Okay, let's start doing shows
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Speaker 1: that we all can sit back and say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we're actually proud of the work that we're doing. And
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Speaker 1: that's that's the goal. As we are entering and figuring
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Speaker 1: out our next late of shows. So what is what
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Speaker 1: is that next slate of shows for us that we
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Speaker 1: can talk about or we just in earlier, you know how,
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Speaker 1: you know how these networks gover signed can't take too
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Speaker 1: much of the in game drive you knock on wood,
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Speaker 1: you know what. I don't say it too quick, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I just that's not the end. But I don't
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Speaker 1: say this much to you. I and the rest of
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Speaker 1: my team was super excited with what's coming down the
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Speaker 1: pipeline because you know, loving marriage Huntsville is the gift
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Speaker 1: that keeps on giving. And then we did Styling Hollywood
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Speaker 1: on Netflix, which was great, and we are just still
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Speaker 1: happy to be the go to production company where you
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Speaker 1: really want to see black excellence and you want to
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Speaker 1: see black excellence in a way to where you don't
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Speaker 1: have to call it guilty pleasure because you don't feel
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Speaker 1: guilty watching it. And that to me is the agenda
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Speaker 1: as we entered into the new year. Well as beautiful
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Speaker 1: to say, you know, when I think about what you're
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Speaker 1: trying to do, it shows. You know, if there's information,
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Speaker 1: I always tell people there's information you can get from
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Speaker 1: these shows, lifestyle information you can get from these shows.
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Speaker 1: And to say that, you said, listen, ver Sean, I
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Speaker 1: want ownership in these shows. I'm gonna have my own
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Speaker 1: production company. And that really is the big big line,
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Speaker 1: you know. You know when I when I see people
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Speaker 1: out there selling these these production companies and these shows
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Speaker 1: for three hundred and four hundred million dollars, that's because
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Speaker 1: they had a piece of it, Okay, yeah, and they
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Speaker 1: benefited from it. Really has something I'm learning from Tyler
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Speaker 1: Perry too, where Tyler Perry is the king. Okay, he's
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Speaker 1: the king. Yeah, don't let nobody you know, he financed
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Speaker 1: those early you know sitcoms himself, you know, from the
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Speaker 1: money he generated from the place that he did on
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Speaker 1: the road. Everybody was calling the chipless circuit, which nobody
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Speaker 1: calls the chipland circuit anymore, Okay, by the way, And
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Speaker 1: so that's because you know, you you label something if
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Speaker 1: you don't understand, if you devalue something, you know, and
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Speaker 1: that's really important, and I would I would tell you this.
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Speaker 1: I know you're not involved with the show, just show
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Speaker 1: love and hip hop. But when I see when I
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Speaker 1: see it being promoted doing football games, I'm going like,
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Speaker 1: what you know, you know that these shows are now
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Speaker 1: translating to everyday America. Okay, yeah, you know, and so
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Speaker 1: so that means that there there is being you know,
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Speaker 1: you're not pigeonholding. And so that's the next fight that
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Speaker 1: we have to do with these reality shows like we
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Speaker 1: had to do with sitcoms on the w B, you know,
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Speaker 1: on c W and UPN talking about only black people
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Speaker 1: who are watching. So we're gonna give it a lore,
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Speaker 1: you know, advertising raid even though it's the same commercial
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Speaker 1: that run on the other shows. That's the next battle,
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Speaker 1: because when I see that, I see Chicago black ink
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Speaker 1: running on these football commercials, I'm going like, okay, now, okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: this is not just one of once in a while,
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Speaker 1: but on a regular basis, Okay, I'm going like, okay,
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Speaker 1: this is interesting now, okay because somebody is making a
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Speaker 1: conscious effort to do this, Okay, because I'm saying this
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Speaker 1: on a regular basis. And that means that the shows
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Speaker 1: that you're doing now are relatable, are entertainment that is
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Speaker 1: being perceived as acceptable and is being promoted to the masses.
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Speaker 1: So no, that's the next journey callos that you're going into.
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Speaker 1: When you start talking about building your revernue, your resume,
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Speaker 1: about opportunity with your production company, know that your value
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Speaker 1: of what you're doing, it's growing, my friend, And don't
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Speaker 1: sleep on that. Okay, thank you man, I appreciated. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: So now you got you got freedom Rain out there,
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Speaker 1: Kingdom Rain is backing it up, backing it up. And
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Speaker 1: I h when you when you put together these casts? Uh,
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Speaker 1: and you put put together the show? Which show do
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Speaker 1: you feel over the years that you that you you know,
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Speaker 1: I know we talked about Housewives of Atlanta they really
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Speaker 1: touched you? Or just just say hey, man, really I
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Speaker 1: learned so much from being a part of that show.
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Speaker 1: And you know I always have friends from that show.
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Speaker 1: What show may have touched you like that over the
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Speaker 1: years that I produced somebody as sir? Oh, good question. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'll say this much. I think since Hollywood Divas was
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Speaker 1: the first show that my company was able to produce
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Speaker 1: for TV, one, Yeah, thank you. Back in twenty four team,
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Speaker 1: I would say that show will always mean the most
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Speaker 1: to me. It's like it's like I'm not a parent,
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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna assume all parents feel this way about
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Speaker 1: their first born, Like there's nothing like your first born.
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Speaker 1: Like you love your you love all your kids equally,
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Speaker 1: but that that feeling and that experience of your firstborn
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Speaker 1: means the most. It's because it's the first. We don't
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Speaker 1: look at it interest You say that. It's interesting. You
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Speaker 1: say that because I want I want to share a
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Speaker 1: story which I know we're running that time. I want
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Speaker 1: to get this in And it's very propositive what you're saying,
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Speaker 1: because when you go out there and you do something
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Speaker 1: for the first time, what's your production company? I remember
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Speaker 1: when I was did the Neighborhood Awards and I actually
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Speaker 1: produced it for the first time myself, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I there was you know, people ask me and I
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Speaker 1: told him yeah, even though I didn't know what, I
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Speaker 1: still moved forward with confidence because I felt I was ready.
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Speaker 1: I felt that I've seen it all enough to be
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Speaker 1: able to confidably go out there and know that that
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Speaker 1: camera goes there, that stage and goes there that like
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Speaker 1: you goes there, that has to happen right there. And
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Speaker 1: and I actually when when when when I actually was rehearsal,
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Speaker 1: I was I was brought to tears because I realized
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Speaker 1: that there's how much work you have to put in,
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Speaker 1: and how many naysayers stepping between your stepping between your opportunities,
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Speaker 1: and even the people that you care about you really
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Speaker 1: came turned to him because they don't even know what
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Speaker 1: you're talking about. So the support that they can offer
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Speaker 1: to you, it's nice, but it ain't enough. And and
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Speaker 1: you got to walk out there. I always tell people this,
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Speaker 1: and joking, I always say, if you are if you
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Speaker 1: are in the military and you're telling that you're the
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Speaker 1: captain and you're telling somebody to charge up a hill,
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Speaker 1: you can't have tears in your eyes because the reality
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Speaker 1: is is that you have to be straight, you have
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Speaker 1: to be strong, you have to be at the top
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Speaker 1: of your game, even even if everybody around you questions you.
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Speaker 1: That means you have to do your homework. And my friend,
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Speaker 1: I say that in a very complimentary manner, sharing a
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Speaker 1: very personal part of my life. Seeing what you are
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Speaker 1: doing and seeing what you are accomplishing, I'm proud of
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Speaker 1: your callers, Thank you for doing my show. And U
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Speaker 1: and I always know if you have a banner of
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Speaker 1: sizzle reel that you want to promote, a premier or
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Speaker 1: a big moment of closure and then the guests you
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Speaker 1: want to bring on my show. Give a home here, callers.
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Speaker 1: Because of the fact that you are changing television, man,
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Speaker 1: don't change. And the revenue is coming, my man, the
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Speaker 1: revenue is coming. Kingdom Rain. Y'all, Kingdom Rain. Thank you callers,
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Speaker 1: appreciate your brother