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Anthony Hamilton, Ryan Leslie, Carl Francis, David & Tamela Mann · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Appearing on the show today
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Speaker 1: is my one of my favorites. R and B singer
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Speaker 1: Anthony Hamilton's the Dynamic husband and wife duo David and
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Speaker 1: Tamila Man, super Phone creator my Man Ryan Leslie, and
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Speaker 1: the nfl P A director of communications called Francis, and
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Speaker 1: he's sitting right next to me, so you know we're
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Speaker 1: about to start talking to me. So let me get
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Speaker 1: this right. And I really want to talk about relationships
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Speaker 1: in this show today. The reason need to sit next
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Speaker 1: to me. It's a relationship I started when I was
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Speaker 1: managing Steve Harvey at the time, and we're doing a
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Speaker 1: next guest is the director of Communication for the National
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Speaker 1: Football League Players Association. Nfl p A is the exclusive
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Speaker 1: bargaining agent for all NFL uh players and they protect
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Speaker 1: to preserve the rights of these NFL players, health and safety,
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Speaker 1: welfare and their working conditions. Please work with the money
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Speaker 1: making conversations. Call Francis, thank you for having me, my friend.
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Speaker 1: Let me just get this one thing out there. Really
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Speaker 1: is pretty pretty pretty huge. I think call you a
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Speaker 1: the spokesman for the NFL Players Associate, Yes, print, television, radio,
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Speaker 1: digital and all sports related media. Correct, correct, correct, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you say they kind of called. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: I've been there for some time, so I try. I
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Speaker 1: gotta go with managing and there, but it sounds like
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Speaker 1: a lot and it is a lot. Look, so don't
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Speaker 1: don't don't don't say it sounds like a lot. This
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Speaker 1: is the number one television sport. Okay, it changes the
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Speaker 1: dynamics of a network that's broadcast. Facebook is expanding to Europe.
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Speaker 1: It plays a game annually every day every year in London,
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Speaker 1: like several games now and so so. So I can't
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Speaker 1: let you say. So you have an international brand that
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Speaker 1: you for the Players Association, you're the spokesman walkers through
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Speaker 1: that process. No, it's a real simple process because the
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Speaker 1: game is the game. But one of the things that
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Speaker 1: we focus on is just detecting the rights on wayes
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Speaker 1: of our membership. You know, tem percent of what you
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Speaker 1: see is what a player experiences on Sunday, right, and
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Speaker 1: that's the temple, the set that we want to focus
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Speaker 1: on because we want the fans to love the sport.
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Speaker 1: But when the players come off the field, that's when
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Speaker 1: we're going to impact because players are people. Try to
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Speaker 1: sometimes uh separate players just from human to but they're
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Speaker 1: really a neighbor, right, They're really your brother, there, your
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Speaker 1: your cousin, church friends. There are people that are in
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Speaker 1: society and they have issues just like everybody else, and
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Speaker 1: so we try to be there to support them, provide
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Speaker 1: resources to them to help them actually make the transition
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Speaker 1: from the field into normal society. And that's the goal
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Speaker 1: and objective every day. But also protect their rights while
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Speaker 1: they are an employed in National Football League. And that's
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Speaker 1: really key because we know we have a sharp window,
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Speaker 1: absolutely short window, so and they're no guarantees. You can
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Speaker 1: sign a long term contract a portion of its guarantee.
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Speaker 1: That's why our athletes want such a high signing bonus
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Speaker 1: so they can feel like they they've got the value
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Speaker 1: of their contract. And so when you look at US sport,
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Speaker 1: that's so short term. There's a certain level of responsibility
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Speaker 1: and sometimes you can't live up to that responsibility as
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Speaker 1: the players association. So what what what what's that balance there? Well,
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Speaker 1: the balance is now you're starting to see full term
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Speaker 1: UH contracts are being guaranteed. The look at Kirk Cousins,
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Speaker 1: you look at your your your own quarterback here Matt
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Speaker 1: Ryan designed for one hundred and fifty million, you know,
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Speaker 1: thirty a year. I mean, so guys are making money.
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Speaker 1: But the key to all of this is is managing
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Speaker 1: what you have, whether it's guaranteed, whether it's one third guaranteed,
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Speaker 1: what's full guaranteed. The important thing for us is to
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Speaker 1: have programs in place to help players understand. As you
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Speaker 1: mentioned the short term money that you make, we wanted
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Speaker 1: to make it a long term process for you and
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Speaker 1: your family and you in your in the generation behind you.
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Speaker 1: And so that's the key objective for us, because at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, everyone is not going to
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Speaker 1: make as much money as probably the next person in
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Speaker 1: the locker room, but we can teach you how to
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Speaker 1: keep that money and preserve it for a long term goal. Okay,
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Speaker 1: here's the key. I get a lot of athletes, football players,
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Speaker 1: So that tells me that this shows about entrepreneurship absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and so I feel now there's a smarter football players
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Speaker 1: because in the what's gonna be real back in the day, nightclubs,
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Speaker 1: you know, car washers, a lot of stuff. They would
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Speaker 1: just open it up. They had no planning, but hype
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Speaker 1: drove the investment and not the planning. The business plan
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Speaker 1: wasn't part of that process, and and and so so
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Speaker 1: so when I look at that, what and social media
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Speaker 1: is really is a power broker in the game of
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Speaker 1: the NFL. So you're balancing all these things. What is
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Speaker 1: being set up at the organization NFL p A that
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Speaker 1: enables these players to be educated to understand the business,
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Speaker 1: the nuances of social media, the nuances of their brand,
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Speaker 1: and the power while they play and building this so
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Speaker 1: it it helps after they finished play. We have we
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Speaker 1: have a number of extended programs relationship with the group
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Speaker 1: called Financial Finess that's there to support players and give
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Speaker 1: them a basic struct and then here's the deal. We're
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Speaker 1: not when the player signs his contract. It's not objective
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, go invest in this and go invest
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Speaker 1: in this right because here's the thing you gott understand
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Speaker 1: in professional football and a lot of sports that's first
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Speaker 1: time generational wealth. Absolutely Abso this is not assion. This
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Speaker 1: isn't a discussion that's held in high school or elementary
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Speaker 1: school at the kitchen table of you know, what's the
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Speaker 1: what's the five or one C three or or what's
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Speaker 1: a banking statement? Like these things doesn't exist. Now you
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Speaker 1: drop a lot of money on a young man that's
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Speaker 1: two years old and say hey, manage your money, it's
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Speaker 1: very intimidating and so for us, we try to put
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Speaker 1: them in a place to start them at a very
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Speaker 1: simple place in terms of just the saving as account,
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Speaker 1: just saving. If you don't know what to do, just
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Speaker 1: put it in the bank and don't do anything until
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Speaker 1: you figure out what to do with it. And that's
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Speaker 1: really what it what it what the problem is when
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Speaker 1: you talk about quick money, that's quick because it comes
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Speaker 1: to you playing. And then it also doesn't come to
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Speaker 1: you year round, right, and so that means that as
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Speaker 1: a writer on TV shows, I used to work from
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Speaker 1: from June to February. Between February and May, there was
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Speaker 1: no check, so I had to learn to balance, Okay,
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Speaker 1: what's happening in that little down period. So I had
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Speaker 1: learned to shift by money so I can understand how
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Speaker 1: to live and not just live like a king and
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Speaker 1: then live like a pauper. But I had no money.
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Speaker 1: But I also want to talk about some of your
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Speaker 1: community involvement. You know, I'm going up to Hampton this
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Speaker 1: weekend for for an event and Hampton Road. You do
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Speaker 1: a lot of work with these people you're working with,
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Speaker 1: and if all NFL pro bowler Michael Vick from that
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Speaker 1: area and uhh, former Super Bowl quarterback and current coach
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Speaker 1: come and coach UH and UH Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlins.
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Speaker 1: What do you guys doing in that as far as community?
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Speaker 1: You know, this is on your this is on your dam.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. A friend of mine name of Vernon lee Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, twenty two years ago you said we wanted
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Speaker 1: to You know, I've never had a chance to enact
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Speaker 1: put in the professional athletes when I was young coming
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Speaker 1: up in the Hampton Rose area, and you know, my
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Speaker 1: heroes were your large tailors, Ron Springs, Bruce Smith's, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Kenny easily. I mean, you can go on and on, right,
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Speaker 1: but I never charged that a. So when I got
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Speaker 1: to the NFL pre I was like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let me let me do this, and I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 1: you something. We've been hosting a football camp, free football camp,
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Speaker 1: uh for twenty two years. Never charged the kid because
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Speaker 1: I don't think a kid just needs to pay. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything wrong with paying. Absolutely, That's what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying is it's just in my heart. It was
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Speaker 1: my campaign because I wanted to change the heart to
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Speaker 1: say football maybe the catalyst, but I want what we're
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Speaker 1: telling you afterwards to be the driving goal for you
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Speaker 1: and being a productive citizen. And it has grown as
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Speaker 1: being something unbelievable. I mean even or Mike Tomlin. When
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Speaker 1: I first met mcdomlin, he was an assistant defensive backs
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Speaker 1: coach of Tampa Bay Buccaniers. He knows that. I mean
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Speaker 1: we met at the Combine and I say, listen, I'm
10:03
Speaker 1: doing a free football camp. You're from Newport News, I'm
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Speaker 1: from Hampton. Oh yeah, I know. You want to with
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Speaker 1: your brother and all of the stuff. And next thing
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, twenty two years Super Bowl he
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Speaker 1: was a defensive coordinator for a Minnesota Vikings, the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champion, and now he's a regular. We have our
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Speaker 1: own tailgate event where the fans come in. We've had
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Speaker 1: a mentorship program. We've impacted over ten thousand kids, given
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Speaker 1: out over eight thousand dollars worth of scholarships. I mean,
10:28
Speaker 1: you just impact people. And Michael Vick, Ronald Kerr's so
10:31
Speaker 1: many players that have come through that I can't even
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Speaker 1: draw Mayo. It's just so many. So what happens to
10:36
Speaker 1: a city where did he get the super Bowl? And
10:38
Speaker 1: the super Bowl? You know what's scary about the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: and Atlanta doesn't scared. Trust me. The last time I
10:45
Speaker 1: was here, you know, uh it was St. Louis and uh, Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: and that was my first time here for the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: And man, I'll tell you what you guys. You guys
10:56
Speaker 1: just locked up the city. I mean the city was
10:58
Speaker 1: just locked. I mean Wednesday through Sunday. I mean, every
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Speaker 1: and anybody was here in the city was a lot. Now,
11:07
Speaker 1: I can't help you out traffic, Wyse, so don't ask
11:10
Speaker 1: We can't here by yourself out now, don't ask me
11:12
Speaker 1: about traffic. I don't know how you get around, but
11:15
Speaker 1: figure it out. But I'll tell you what. The city
11:17
Speaker 1: is electric. And one thing that's really making it exciting
11:21
Speaker 1: is that unbelievable spaceship you guys called the Mercedes being Stadium.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, facility is unbelievable. It's like it's like a spaceship.
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Speaker 1: Not now. I went to Dallas and I saw the
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Speaker 1: Jerry Jim the Dallars Stadium. Unbelievable, beautiful, I mean, the
11:40
Speaker 1: the big Jumbo trying to talk. But you guys, I
11:44
Speaker 1: mean it's like the Jetsons over with Mercedes Stadium and
11:47
Speaker 1: it's it's it's unbelievable. It's crazy because there's so much
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Speaker 1: going on over there. They have trouble getting the fans
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Speaker 1: to go to the seats, you know exactly the problems
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Speaker 1: with being there for kick off. They have their party,
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Speaker 1: didn't they had? That's all that getting hot dogs and
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Speaker 1: just hanging out. That it's a social outside of it.
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Speaker 1: And that's what really has happened to so many events
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Speaker 1: that the stadium being built. Even know, we got Battery
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Speaker 1: Park where the Atlanta Braise you go, They've got ten
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Speaker 1: thousand restaurants and it's an experience, and Mercedes Binds is
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Speaker 1: an experience. The game, uh is part of the process.
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Speaker 1: You know, their lord, the lord to get you know,
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Speaker 1: seventy thousand people over there one time, you're giving them
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Speaker 1: an experience. And so the super Bowl is the ultimate experience.
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Speaker 1: You're bringing it back to Atlanta. You're bringing all of
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Speaker 1: this capital when that's a capital and common revenue generator
12:38
Speaker 1: and these things, and then you just this is known
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Speaker 1: to another city. That's what you do for the players,
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Speaker 1: That's what you're trying to set up for future opportunities.
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Speaker 1: That's your role. Well, I think it's key for us.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you mentioned that for players, like
12:52
Speaker 1: when we come to a city meeting in the the NFL,
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Speaker 1: and what the NFL p A does is connect with
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Speaker 1: the major corporations in the area and we tell players
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Speaker 1: on tours of the facility. Like last year in Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: we took players to Target to meet the CEO, to
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Speaker 1: sit down and talk about next next steps in your life,
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Speaker 1: and we took them on a journey and next customer
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Speaker 1: service experience to understand that. I'm sure our marketing team
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Speaker 1: with players inc our marketing arm Uh. We'll do that
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta with several companies. So it's not just come
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Speaker 1: have a good time and enjoy yourself, which but it's
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Speaker 1: the entrepreneurship side too. It's that transition that we take
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Speaker 1: a group of players and we were in San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: we did a tech conference when we went into Facebook
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Speaker 1: Silicon and we met with all these different tech companies
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Speaker 1: are Google and in other places to talk about the
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Speaker 1: next wave of technology, how you can become involved and
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Speaker 1: how you can create an opportunity for yourself beyond football.
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Speaker 1: So that will happen in Atlanta to which is key
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Speaker 1: for the development and which I want people to understand
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Speaker 1: about us, meaning the NFL but more portant the NFL
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Speaker 1: players associtions what we do five members, so that's key
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Speaker 1: for us. Well, the thing that I want to make
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Speaker 1: sure I address here is that your skill, you you, you,
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Speaker 1: your ability to be the spokesperson for the NFL, and
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Speaker 1: all these layers with your over twenty five years of
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Speaker 1: experience member of MAGA Side five, your fraternity to the
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Speaker 1: day you die. Your ability to be able to have
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Speaker 1: relationships outside of football, inside of the football, understanding the
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Speaker 1: market and longevity, and more importantly now working on the
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Speaker 1: mental side of the NFL player. The concussions that mental health,
14:41
Speaker 1: bipolar issues. They're big. And I want to thank you
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Speaker 1: for coming to my show again your home. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for dropping by while you're in town. You know Bowl comes,
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Speaker 1: I may even stay over, but I know the hotels
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19:13
Speaker 1: the future should look like. And we are doing this
19:17
Speaker 1: based on the concept that without buildings, without without locomotives
19:23
Speaker 1: and steel and railroads and all of the all of
19:27
Speaker 1: the materials that were necessary to build value in the
19:32
Speaker 1: industrial age, the information age is really just about creating
19:38
Speaker 1: the most efficient way to exchange information. And we believe
19:42
Speaker 1: that superphone, that success happened at the speed of communication,
19:45
Speaker 1: and so there's so much information available to us. It's
19:47
Speaker 1: about communicating information as efficiently as possible. And so I
19:52
Speaker 1: believe it starts school, starts in our schools, it starts
19:55
Speaker 1: in it starting our early childhood education program. And I
20:00
Speaker 1: also believe in creativity being the the first that planted
20:06
Speaker 1: in order to make us, to make us, to really
20:11
Speaker 1: make us the kind of success kind of being technology.
20:15
Speaker 1: I had a meeting yesterday where someone brought to my
20:18
Speaker 1: attention or or made the comment that these jobs was
20:22
Speaker 1: more of an artist than he was a businessman. And
20:25
Speaker 1: when you look at the immensal excessive Apple as a
20:28
Speaker 1: technology company, a hardware technology come in software technology company.
20:33
Speaker 1: The creativity that that the helm means that minorities as
20:40
Speaker 1: urban music and all the creativity and cultural influence that
20:45
Speaker 1: we have, when it's harnessed the right way and it's
20:47
Speaker 1: directed the right way, it means that you know, we
20:50
Speaker 1: already have the makings of being incredible technologists because being
20:55
Speaker 1: the prenoledge, this requires great imagination. But that's the imagination
21:00
Speaker 1: needs to be tied to actual, real tactical skills of
21:05
Speaker 1: being able to speak the language of computers. And so
21:09
Speaker 1: that means that you have to wake up in the
21:10
Speaker 1: same way you would learn another language like French or
21:14
Speaker 1: any other language, Italian, you need to learn the language
21:17
Speaker 1: of computers. So the UK two computers exactly what you
21:22
Speaker 1: would like for them to do, and once you communicated once,
21:25
Speaker 1: they will do it over and over and over and
21:27
Speaker 1: over again at scale and be able to serve hundreds
21:30
Speaker 1: of millions and even in the case of Facebook or
21:33
Speaker 1: or what's that literally billions of people on the planet.
21:36
Speaker 1: And so I think for us as a people, we
21:38
Speaker 1: we just got a dream bigger. We've got a dream
21:41
Speaker 1: outside of the confines of whatever we believe our current
21:44
Speaker 1: circumstances are. And when we dream big and we apply
21:48
Speaker 1: creativity and ingenuity, because the technical skills that we can
21:53
Speaker 1: learn for free online, we can really start to float
21:58
Speaker 1: the way we should. Because that's what you did, because
22:01
Speaker 1: your degree is in government, correct, that's right, And so
22:05
Speaker 1: but you you you went to Code Academy and you
22:08
Speaker 1: learned online code and programming, and then that's what you're saying.
22:12
Speaker 1: That's what you're saying to us. Okay, do allow your
22:15
Speaker 1: your direction or that where you've been pointed, or your
22:17
Speaker 1: degree or what people expect of you to stop your ambition.
22:21
Speaker 1: And so how just wrapping it around, how did you
22:25
Speaker 1: perceive that that was the right place to go to
22:27
Speaker 1: to Code Academy to put you in the right direction
22:30
Speaker 1: for to really deliver all the technology that you're achieving
22:34
Speaker 1: right now? Correct? Yes, I'm gonna say this in every
22:39
Speaker 1: in every sense of the word, sir, you always look
22:42
Speaker 1: for the highest value proposition for the time that you're
22:45
Speaker 1: gonna put in. So even before technology, when I was
22:49
Speaker 1: doing music, I did want to research and I said, okay, well,
22:53
Speaker 1: how much does it cost for me to actually go
22:56
Speaker 1: get a beat from Jermaine degree? And I think at
22:58
Speaker 1: that time was the heyday and music industry, you know,
23:01
Speaker 1: about hundred thousand million dollars. If I looked at my
23:05
Speaker 1: bank account at the Thiland, you know, hundred thousand, quarter
23:08
Speaker 1: million dollars to get one beat. I might as well
23:10
Speaker 1: teach myself how to mean and and and that's and
23:15
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I did. And that is a resource
23:17
Speaker 1: that all of us you have, so in the absence
23:21
Speaker 1: of an end and when we apply time and we
23:25
Speaker 1: apply time and in in in an intentional way to
23:29
Speaker 1: achieving processing want to achieve. It's about a either finding
23:34
Speaker 1: a mentor or a teacher that is going to invest
23:38
Speaker 1: that time for you, or finding online resources. And at
23:42
Speaker 1: the time, you know, I didn't have online resources, but
23:45
Speaker 1: you know I had digital resources and listened to the
23:48
Speaker 1: domain repeat on TVs and to sit there and do
23:51
Speaker 1: my best to replicate it. And so the beauty of
23:54
Speaker 1: the information age is that a kid right now has
23:57
Speaker 1: more information at their fingertips than Bill Clinton had when
24:01
Speaker 1: he was the President of the United States and office.
24:03
Speaker 1: And so it's important for us to actually take the
24:07
Speaker 1: access that we have that information and leverage it in
24:10
Speaker 1: our favor. And so that means that whether you have
24:14
Speaker 1: money or not, there are free resources online that can
24:17
Speaker 1: teach you how to basically do anythame. You want to
24:20
Speaker 1: become a photoshop expert, if you want to become an
24:23
Speaker 1: Adobe Premiere pro expert, if you want to become a
24:26
Speaker 1: pro toose expert, you want to become a quoting expert,
24:29
Speaker 1: if you want to become an expert on science, or
24:31
Speaker 1: an expert on literally any topic. Wikipedia, YouTube and online
24:37
Speaker 1: resources can give you that education for free, and you
24:41
Speaker 1: can become an expert even without spending forty or fifty
24:44
Speaker 1: tho dollars a year for that piece of paper that
24:46
Speaker 1: gives a certificate that says you're an expert. And what
24:50
Speaker 1: you do with that knowledge is really us to you
24:53
Speaker 1: and it's not to you, But it's also about how
24:56
Speaker 1: you share the knowledge, right you can amount the knowledge
24:59
Speaker 1: and and all I would say that any new value
25:04
Speaker 1: that's created in the world is because someone creatively put
25:08
Speaker 1: their spin on it. And so superphone is you know,
25:11
Speaker 1: it's superphone and novel concept. And I'm driving to New
25:16
Speaker 1: York cities. You can hear it. You can hear the
25:18
Speaker 1: cyber wins in the background. Yeah, sure, superphone is a
25:23
Speaker 1: novel concept because of the ingenuity and creativity that's being
25:28
Speaker 1: applied to an existing technoledge, which is right. So I'm
25:34
Speaker 1: interested in just enabling and empowering and encouraging that next
25:39
Speaker 1: generation of creatives to be as creative as possible and
25:44
Speaker 1: look at problems that and challenges that the human race
25:48
Speaker 1: is going to be facing in the future, and making
25:50
Speaker 1: sure that you've shock in your mind so that you
25:53
Speaker 1: can solve for challenges that we don't even know exists yet.
25:57
Speaker 1: And that's how you're going to really create value for
25:59
Speaker 1: the world. And when you praise value for the world,
26:01
Speaker 1: the world turns around them and create value for you.
26:04
Speaker 1: Now I want to go back for I know I'd
26:05
Speaker 1: said it earlier. If I don't bring up the fact
26:07
Speaker 1: that Stevie want to see D that you heard that
26:10
Speaker 1: friend heard Major Player. What was the Stevie want the
26:12
Speaker 1: song A C. D. Well, I would say, uh, step
26:18
Speaker 1: Wonders CD. That really change everything, That really to change
26:22
Speaker 1: the whole course of my life and career and life
26:26
Speaker 1: tast what songs in the key of life? Now you
26:28
Speaker 1: go what song though, What song though? That's a brilliant
26:32
Speaker 1: that's a brilliant c D. That's a brilliant c D.
26:35
Speaker 1: Which song? Yeah, really your brilliant body of work. And
26:38
Speaker 1: this all was loved and need of love today. And
26:41
Speaker 1: I really believe that, you know, that's what we're doing.
26:45
Speaker 1: We are we are actually creating the ability for people
26:49
Speaker 1: that have closer relationships and get to what we all
26:53
Speaker 1: craving life, which is more love. And if you have
26:56
Speaker 1: more love around your ideas, if you have more love
26:59
Speaker 1: around the questions that you are asking to help, that
27:02
Speaker 1: you are asking for, is so much more powerful to
27:05
Speaker 1: ask for help from someone that loves you as opposed
27:09
Speaker 1: to someone that doesn't know you. And you know what,
27:11
Speaker 1: I think there is a I think there's there. I
27:13
Speaker 1: believe in the inherent good of humanity. And I believe,
27:16
Speaker 1: like I said, people feel better helping, even better helping
27:20
Speaker 1: than being helped. And so the ability for you to
27:24
Speaker 1: actually find empathy and find real death in your relationships
27:29
Speaker 1: is just gonna make your life that much more enriched
27:31
Speaker 1: and better. And that's that's that's the goal. That's that's
27:35
Speaker 1: the aim of superphone and so and that means that
27:37
Speaker 1: whether that's that's your customers. Because you want your customers
27:41
Speaker 1: to feel like you love them, you know, and that's
27:42
Speaker 1: why you're building a product to help them, uh, to
27:45
Speaker 1: have better lives. Whether that's your fans, whether that's your
27:49
Speaker 1: friends and family or your colleagues. I feel like deeper
27:52
Speaker 1: relationships are really are going to extend your life. And
27:55
Speaker 1: only will they extended life, they'll make your life that
27:58
Speaker 1: much more enriched. And so as we go into so,
28:02
Speaker 1: I want you to think about your iPhone today, and
28:04
Speaker 1: I want you to think about how much better you're
28:06
Speaker 1: like to be, like having a better organization and having
28:10
Speaker 1: a little bit of automation and having intelligence on your
28:14
Speaker 1: messaging that actually allows for you phone. Yeah, Hey, my man,
28:21
Speaker 1: we know we're gonna take this show to TV. I've
28:23
Speaker 1: already been notified. Can you be my first test? Ryan? Absolutely,
28:29
Speaker 1: you're the best brother man I would be. Anybody has
28:35
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28:38
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28:40
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28:44
Speaker 1: your number, I will text you right back and we
28:46
Speaker 1: can continue to dialogue on my super phone. Stay strong, Ryan,
28:50
Speaker 1: Leslie super phone Go to Apple Store you can download
28:52
Speaker 1: it right now now on the on is my next guest. Uh.
29:02
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorites musical artists. He's a Grammar
29:05
Speaker 1: nominated R and B singer who has this deep, deep,
29:08
Speaker 1: deep soul, full emotional varts. You know him from such
29:11
Speaker 1: hits as my all time favorite Charlene, Pray for Me,
29:16
Speaker 1: just the Big Bones and can't let Go Please. Welcome
29:19
Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations, my man, Anthony Hamilton's Hello, how
29:25
Speaker 1: are you anthy long time my friend, long time, Yes, man.
29:29
Speaker 1: I think we've we've all been, uh on our journey
29:32
Speaker 1: and it's beautiful man, to see all this happening for you,
29:35
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I'm excited to be on the show.
29:38
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show. And it shows
29:40
Speaker 1: about entrepreneurship right that. I think that's why it's really
29:43
Speaker 1: regaining such popularity now, Anthony, because this this allows artists,
29:48
Speaker 1: especially sometimes people just want you to be the artists.
29:50
Speaker 1: They don't want to hear the story about your entrepreneurship
29:53
Speaker 1: background and the other layers of your life and charities
29:57
Speaker 1: and things like that. In the various artists and and
29:59
Speaker 1: see os and and interested decision makers know they can't
30:02
Speaker 1: come on money making conversations and didn't get their story
30:05
Speaker 1: told and they can tell it in a relax format.
30:07
Speaker 1: And I'm not walking away from your success. But also
30:11
Speaker 1: you have other layers of success, correct exactly, Yeah, branching out.
30:16
Speaker 1: You know sometimes people don't expect it when they when
30:19
Speaker 1: they just know you for one one thing. Um. But
30:23
Speaker 1: being a business person, I think you always have these
30:25
Speaker 1: creative ideas that you want to embark on. It. It's
30:30
Speaker 1: just exciting to be able to do something else but that.
30:34
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's the cool thing about life today
30:36
Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know, especially with social media,
30:39
Speaker 1: because I want to talk about social media and your
30:41
Speaker 1: brand because you know, you you come into you know,
30:44
Speaker 1: you just you have one dream that's just be a
30:46
Speaker 1: music artist and get your songs played on the radio.
30:49
Speaker 1: Get that to become go, get that become plaid to
30:51
Speaker 1: sell out arenas. But now you have this other social media,
30:54
Speaker 1: this this brand relationship that you have with your fans
30:58
Speaker 1: is not like a fan club. It's like it's immediate.
31:01
Speaker 1: How does how has that impacted your career? Well you
31:04
Speaker 1: get the really you know here and and read what
31:09
Speaker 1: people really think, see it, feel it. Um, people a
31:13
Speaker 1: post videos that I'm sending their songs or septimonies about
31:17
Speaker 1: how the music has changed their lives. And you know,
31:20
Speaker 1: you get to see them at the shows. They we
31:22
Speaker 1: post the videos of them enjoying your live performances. It's
31:28
Speaker 1: excited now when you do that. With that being said,
31:31
Speaker 1: what is the difference today for a musical artist? Because
31:34
Speaker 1: I get that all the time because they know what
31:36
Speaker 1: I've done in the business of I'm constantly being approached
31:38
Speaker 1: by people to manage their careers or give them advice.
31:41
Speaker 1: And there's so many different layers, so I can I
31:44
Speaker 1: just know when I started writing on and sitcoms and
31:47
Speaker 1: three and what you're doing today, when I'm doing today,
31:49
Speaker 1: it's totally different. So I can assume that if you
31:52
Speaker 1: were breaking into the musical business today, what is different?
31:57
Speaker 1: What are the major obstacle? Those are the major opportunities
32:01
Speaker 1: that the young musical artists listening to this show that
32:04
Speaker 1: you will give them advice on. Not only can you
32:08
Speaker 1: be successful that being you know, a musician, songwright or
32:12
Speaker 1: a producer, but also you can also get into advertisement MHM.
32:20
Speaker 1: When you have a lot of people following you, people
32:25
Speaker 1: brands come to you and and they want to They
32:28
Speaker 1: want to be a part of that it want to
32:31
Speaker 1: be a part of the movement. They want to be
32:32
Speaker 1: a part of your fans may so that they can
32:35
Speaker 1: sell this products. So you become now a different entity. Um.
32:40
Speaker 1: You know, it's almost like how Oprah Show was like
32:43
Speaker 1: major right, you know, to get part of that space
32:47
Speaker 1: and and and that energy and that you know, and
32:50
Speaker 1: that that exchange there might be a part of that.
32:53
Speaker 1: You become a different kind of entity now and and
32:57
Speaker 1: you can sell things outside of the music, could you know,
33:00
Speaker 1: you can really pretty much set up a store, um,
33:05
Speaker 1: being an entertainer now and you get a chance to
33:09
Speaker 1: to share your music with people who were never ever
33:12
Speaker 1: uh I think twice about you know, then during it
33:17
Speaker 1: off outside of their own comfort and going to the
33:20
Speaker 1: you can you can add to the to their world
33:24
Speaker 1: and vice versa. You know, it's really interesting here when
33:28
Speaker 1: you say that, because uh, you know my world. You know, entertainment.
33:33
Speaker 1: You know, bigger part of the entertainment was managing Steve Harvey,
33:37
Speaker 1: doing TV shows, during the radio, all these different platforms
33:39
Speaker 1: and and creating relationship. How many favors you've done for
33:43
Speaker 1: me for the Hoodie Awards or the neighborhood Awards, coming
33:46
Speaker 1: there and changing people's lives, and they were entrepreneurs. That's
33:49
Speaker 1: why I always love that format because about people within
33:52
Speaker 1: the real starts of the community. And then then I
33:55
Speaker 1: transition to now I'm one of I'm an award winning baker.
33:57
Speaker 1: So this is what you're saying, that reaching people that
34:00
Speaker 1: you will never see follow you. It's that, you know,
34:03
Speaker 1: I'm reaching people in Montana outa who Lord, Alabama, Nevada
34:08
Speaker 1: because I'm a baker. And when I started seeing you
34:11
Speaker 1: start putting these pictures out of these photos, these videos
34:14
Speaker 1: out about you cooking, you know, yeah, you know you.
34:18
Speaker 1: I me reached out to your manager, Eli, I said, Eli,
34:21
Speaker 1: I gotta get in touch with Anthony. You want to
34:23
Speaker 1: all this cooking going on, tell us about that, tell
34:25
Speaker 1: us about that. You know, I'm a Southern guy, man
34:29
Speaker 1: from Charlotte, North Carolina, and cooking has always been a
34:33
Speaker 1: very important part of our culture, and you know, people
34:37
Speaker 1: and a way to express yourself. And when you didn't
34:40
Speaker 1: have much, you had a good meal or you had
34:42
Speaker 1: a meal. Because you're you're from a single mom, you're
34:46
Speaker 1: read by a single mom. Correct, yeah, yeah, yeah, And
34:50
Speaker 1: then later on adopted so you know I had I've
34:53
Speaker 1: had it both of those expenses. But cooking is a
34:57
Speaker 1: way that I expressed myself and who I am. Um.
35:01
Speaker 1: I like this. I like different flavors and and and
35:04
Speaker 1: and and taste, smells, extras and combinations of of of
35:13
Speaker 1: plate that I can express myself like I might do
35:15
Speaker 1: curry corn with the with the big key back. He's
35:19
Speaker 1: showing that. Now I'll infuse my mastered tatoes with with
35:27
Speaker 1: with the sweet corn pure. Just you know, just different
35:30
Speaker 1: ways to to be creative. So food has always been
35:36
Speaker 1: very very uh okay, okay, okay, okay, Anthony, okay, pad
35:40
Speaker 1: Labella got her cookie show, yes, sir, okay, Now are
35:45
Speaker 1: we headed in the direction? Because look at him. You know,
35:48
Speaker 1: you got the social media filing, you got the brand,
35:50
Speaker 1: you got the name, and see you weren't throwing out
35:53
Speaker 1: them a little simple you know, he was at least
35:54
Speaker 1: words and infuge. You know that that's a cook. I
35:57
Speaker 1: would never use that word. I'm just there to eat.
36:00
Speaker 1: I just baked. You using those really really you know,
36:03
Speaker 1: those those those those those those those cool and they
36:06
Speaker 1: terms you know, in your whole scenario, so so so
36:10
Speaker 1: so tell us about what's what you're really doing here, Anthony,
36:13
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be on TV cooking. You know what
36:17
Speaker 1: the opportunity is is there? I will I will definitely
36:23
Speaker 1: look into it. I definitely want to put out cookbook,
36:28
Speaker 1: a different style of cookbook, just drawing on with African
36:32
Speaker 1: American expressions out of San Francisco, and you know, I
36:36
Speaker 1: think that will be the platform. They have a large,
36:41
Speaker 1: a large retail right right there, and uh, my fans,
36:47
Speaker 1: it fits if it's my brand. So I'll start off
36:50
Speaker 1: with a cookbook. People interested? Um, you know you start
36:55
Speaker 1: off with this cookbook? Did get thereybody? Because you know
36:57
Speaker 1: we're already interested. I was just gonna let you know
36:59
Speaker 1: that right now because you know my wife she loves fish,
37:03
Speaker 1: so you you just don't right into her her menu
37:06
Speaker 1: to see bads, you know what I'm saying. So with
37:08
Speaker 1: that being said, what what what what would a cookbook
37:11
Speaker 1: look like coming from Anthony Hamilton? Would they have desserts
37:14
Speaker 1: in it? Would they have breads? Would it just beyondree
37:17
Speaker 1: types or derbs or what? Would it be appetizers? It
37:22
Speaker 1: would not I would be four four meals. Um, that
37:25
Speaker 1: would be some some parings. Whether it be a good
37:28
Speaker 1: dessert with a good meal, or a good wine with
37:31
Speaker 1: a good meal, good kanyac with a good meal, and
37:35
Speaker 1: good music. So I want to transition a little bit
37:37
Speaker 1: to you said it earlier. African American expressions that said
37:41
Speaker 1: greeting cards, calendars, journals explain about that relationship. And when
37:45
Speaker 1: you said greeting cards, we're talking about you know, Valentine's Day,
37:47
Speaker 1: called Mother's Day, called Christmas cards. When you say greeting
37:51
Speaker 1: cards and calendars and journals, tell us how that's all
37:54
Speaker 1: gonna work out of the Anthony Hamilton's brand absolutely uh
37:59
Speaker 1: expression as I do through through songs, throughout performing and
38:03
Speaker 1: and people come to me all the time about my lyrics.
38:07
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know what, it's already set
38:09
Speaker 1: up for me to uh to use my words and
38:12
Speaker 1: my voice. Why not extended through greeting cards for the
38:16
Speaker 1: beat holidays or just so simple. I appreciate you and
38:21
Speaker 1: and and love you and uh and and coming from
38:24
Speaker 1: from me, stop from Hallmark. Right. I expressed, you know,
38:31
Speaker 1: from my people and to my people in a way
38:33
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't normally understand. Uh. So I got with
38:38
Speaker 1: a African American expression, and I felt like it was
38:41
Speaker 1: a good marriage it's an extra American, Like you said,
38:44
Speaker 1: it's a it's a conference zone to you because you've
38:46
Speaker 1: always been an advocate for social change, always a voice
38:52
Speaker 1: on the front line of you know what I'm saying,
38:54
Speaker 1: this is not right? And what what drives you in
38:58
Speaker 1: that direction and make you to be so consistent with
39:01
Speaker 1: that tone? I think when you see uh, I think
39:07
Speaker 1: when you see anybody, a group of people, uh, a
39:12
Speaker 1: race of people mhm being mistreated or you know, look
39:18
Speaker 1: down upon and uh, and you still it's not right.
39:22
Speaker 1: You want to have justice, and so much injustice surrounding
39:27
Speaker 1: how we'll be treated and how we looked at and
39:30
Speaker 1: our value and and haven't changed after a while. You
39:33
Speaker 1: just you have to be you have to be drawn
39:36
Speaker 1: to do you have to be affected by it. And uh,
39:39
Speaker 1: I thanged. And I'm a father of six boys. I
39:42
Speaker 1: don't want them brought up in a in the world
39:43
Speaker 1: with that same ignorant mentality. So why not speak on
39:47
Speaker 1: it while I have a a platform and a lot
39:51
Speaker 1: of people with power and with you know, I can
39:57
Speaker 1: make a change. So when I use my boy and
39:59
Speaker 1: that's important because I'm a parents and you know, because
40:02
Speaker 1: you know you when you when you're When you're a parent,
40:04
Speaker 1: there's so many goals in life. You know, you first
40:06
Speaker 1: want a healthy child, and then you want to raise
40:09
Speaker 1: that child to be respectful, and then when they go
40:12
Speaker 1: to high school, you want them to get through that
40:15
Speaker 1: process because you know you're as we all have all
40:18
Speaker 1: personal high school experiences, and when they go to college,
40:22
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the the the unnerving part. You
40:24
Speaker 1: want them to walk away and you want to outlive
40:26
Speaker 1: your kids. That's the goal. You don't want to bury
40:29
Speaker 1: your kids. You want to outlive there and you don't
40:31
Speaker 1: want your children to have any negative experiences. And the
40:33
Speaker 1: fact that you have six boys that carries even bigger
40:37
Speaker 1: burden because guess what when you look at the local news,
40:40
Speaker 1: these are the African American young males are the ones
40:43
Speaker 1: being traumatized by the police. So emotionally, how does that?
40:47
Speaker 1: How do you deal with that as a as a father?
40:49
Speaker 1: And what do you tell your your boys when you
40:52
Speaker 1: see stuff like that happening almost on a weekly basis
40:55
Speaker 1: in the media. And then there and then there are
40:57
Speaker 1: quiddles that for us who watched the video years go,
41:00
Speaker 1: how could that happen? First of all, it pisses me
41:04
Speaker 1: off and then second, you know, I calmed down when
41:08
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, being angry ain't gonna always
41:13
Speaker 1: get me the results I need. So I need for
41:15
Speaker 1: them to think through it all. And I'm like, your
41:18
Speaker 1: gold every day is to get home safely, unharmed and
41:23
Speaker 1: uh and to outthinks your enemy. Um, and then it
41:28
Speaker 1: ain't all about boasting up and and let ego getting away.
41:33
Speaker 1: I think intelligence, intelligence and and class can go a
41:40
Speaker 1: long way. And that's sometimes you push out pushed out
41:43
Speaker 1: of your your comfort zone and ye out of the
41:48
Speaker 1: those elements. But you have to maintain uh certain amount
41:52
Speaker 1: of calm. It's a certain amount of um, level headedness.
41:59
Speaker 1: That's really key. That's really yeah. And then got I
42:04
Speaker 1: think the key you said was just get home. Just
42:07
Speaker 1: get home, don't don't don't let pride interrupt the journey.
42:10
Speaker 1: And the journey is to get home. And uh if
42:13
Speaker 1: yessir needs to be said, yes, sir, you know the
42:17
Speaker 1: follow the rules to the back. And that's that's what
42:19
Speaker 1: I do. You know that Quite frankly, anytime I'm pulled over,
42:22
Speaker 1: you know, I'm nervous and I'd like to believe that
42:25
Speaker 1: I've done nothing wrong. And so I'm gonna follow the rules,
42:28
Speaker 1: and and and and hopefully if by following the rules,
42:32
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be allowed to go on my way.
42:34
Speaker 1: And that's really the key. And I think that not
42:37
Speaker 1: saying I'm not I'm not putting any title onto other situations.
42:40
Speaker 1: All I know is that the bottom line. One thing
42:44
Speaker 1: that you're saying, get home saying that's the bottom line.
42:46
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna switch gears right here, because you know
42:48
Speaker 1: you've been sporting these hatlines. Here another entrepreneurship lane for you.
42:53
Speaker 1: These hats now you've been styling them, Anthony, do you
42:56
Speaker 1: have a hat line out there? Come on that. I
42:59
Speaker 1: am in a set of working on that and it's uh,
43:02
Speaker 1: that's one of my one of my babies. Um, I
43:05
Speaker 1: can't wait. We're in conversations with a few people and uh,
43:09
Speaker 1: the perfect marriage, it will come or close to the
43:12
Speaker 1: perfect marriage. Who come, and we'll make the best of it. Uh,
43:15
Speaker 1: but it's time. It's time to that. Like you said,
43:18
Speaker 1: I wear I've been wearing other folks pass right, you've
43:22
Speaker 1: been album you've been sporting them, you've been styling them.
43:26
Speaker 1: You know, you know, photo shoots, album covers, all that stuff. Man. Yeah,
43:32
Speaker 1: So now it's it's time for me to uh and
43:34
Speaker 1: build my own. Well, you're the thing I like about
43:37
Speaker 1: this conversation because you are a successful touring performer, venues
43:42
Speaker 1: three thousand, six thousand, ten thousand sea facilities on a
43:46
Speaker 1: you know, a monthly basis, and so these items that
43:49
Speaker 1: you're talking about, whether it's the greeting cards with a headline,
43:53
Speaker 1: you know, these things can be sold to your fans
43:56
Speaker 1: on tour. And so it's just a natural revenue generation
44:01
Speaker 1: generating process that you're developing here. And I just really,
44:04
Speaker 1: I really, I really like the way you're you're taking
44:06
Speaker 1: your brand and you just designing to hey or something.
44:10
Speaker 1: It's time for me to make revenue off the stage.
44:12
Speaker 1: Make revenue while I'm sleepy. That's the big picture, now, correct, Anthony.
44:17
Speaker 1: That is the big picture. And uh, if you're gonna
44:20
Speaker 1: be successful, you have to be making money while you're sleeping.
44:24
Speaker 1: It just it just makes sense. It just it takes
44:27
Speaker 1: the stress off you and sets up, you know, a
44:31
Speaker 1: legacy and and you know, providing these opportunities while you rest.
44:37
Speaker 1: I think when you're chasing and chasing and chasing, you
44:40
Speaker 1: don't get the rest you need, and you don't think
44:42
Speaker 1: properly when you when you're under the gun every time,
44:45
Speaker 1: So while you're resting, if you're making money, there's a
44:48
Speaker 1: different conflict when you wake up. Well, I'm gona tell
44:50
Speaker 1: you something, Chef Hamilton's, Um, I'm gonna reach out to
44:53
Speaker 1: ELI and tell them, hey, man, start sending me some
44:56
Speaker 1: videos so I can start posting them on a weekly basis.
44:59
Speaker 1: I'm not one of them, one of them guys who
45:01
Speaker 1: just do it off on one one out Chef Hamilton's,
45:04
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this on a regular basis if you
45:06
Speaker 1: want to. All, I just know that that's my that's
45:09
Speaker 1: my genre, that's my that's that's what people follow me,
45:12
Speaker 1: my my program director. He always laugh because people away say,
45:15
Speaker 1: do you know what they guys, they know nothing about
45:16
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, they know nothing about money making conversation, but
45:20
Speaker 1: they know I bake. And he always laughs. And I
45:22
Speaker 1: just know that this is something you're building. Paddler, Bell's
45:26
Speaker 1: and Walmart. You can be in Walmart. Two brother, let's
45:29
Speaker 1: keep winning, man, yeahlet's do it. Man. I appreciate this,
45:32
Speaker 1: and uh, I can't wait to take some of those
45:34
Speaker 1: those pies. And I'm on the real deal. We're gonna
45:37
Speaker 1: make that happen. Congratulations man, and we'll talk to him
45:39
Speaker 1: also about that TV show. You got a lot of
45:41
Speaker 1: things going on, Anthony. I'm just sorry man. Jeff Hamilton,
45:44
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45:47
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45:52
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46:57
Speaker 1: we're closing in tow too. I'm telling some last time
47:01
Speaker 1: that was on my show Tamla went down. You're funny.
47:04
Speaker 1: I I can't believe how funny you are. She're laughing
47:07
Speaker 1: a whole interview and she's married to one of the
47:09
Speaker 1: funniest men in America. So I kind of like kind
47:12
Speaker 1: of told you who we are. Let me let me
47:14
Speaker 1: introduce them properly. My next guest. Uh, you know, a
47:18
Speaker 1: dynamic duo and a CP Image Award winning actor and
47:21
Speaker 1: his wife Grammy Award winning recording artists. Uh. They're so
47:26
Speaker 1: busy that they have two websites, two websites killing man
47:31
Speaker 1: Music dot Com and Mane Tour dot Com. That's just
47:35
Speaker 1: when you're busy, Okay, when you you just directed people
47:38
Speaker 1: anywhere and then they got their social media, they're there.
47:40
Speaker 1: Their beast. Now if they're there, they're the freely neighborhood
47:43
Speaker 1: entertainment beast. This couple here, please, welcome to money making conversation.
47:47
Speaker 1: David and Tamla man my favorite. Come Come on now,
47:54
Speaker 1: come on dot, good morning, Come on now. Um, I've
47:59
Speaker 1: never you know that the beauty of YouTube is that
48:03
Speaker 1: your goal is to make people feel good. Your goal
48:06
Speaker 1: is to inspire people that today will be the best
48:09
Speaker 1: day in your life. That is awesome to have that
48:12
Speaker 1: type of uh lifestyle that generates that type of positivity
48:18
Speaker 1: to people. Am I right in saying that about this
48:21
Speaker 1: dynamic couple? Yes? It would That would be We're encouraging,
48:25
Speaker 1: is what I would just summing up to be. Encourage
48:28
Speaker 1: you to do better for all of us. Would be
48:30
Speaker 1: better in every fason of your life. Be better. Now, Okay,
48:34
Speaker 1: now you know I'm reading Essence, you know, talking about
48:38
Speaker 1: thirty years of love, thirty year anniversary. You know, been together,
48:44
Speaker 1: you know we survivors, children everywhere, palatial property in Texas.
48:51
Speaker 1: You know, then I just gotta come out and talkt
48:53
Speaker 1: about I've been together with my wife for thirty years.
48:56
Speaker 1: You know I'm not in Essence, I'm not in ebone,
48:59
Speaker 1: I'm not on social media. How does it feel to
49:03
Speaker 1: be thirty years in the game, and then people feel
49:06
Speaker 1: like that's shocking information. You know that that's the first
49:09
Speaker 1: first first, let me say that, let me give you
49:11
Speaker 1: your flowers here, right, every congratulations. That's a major thing,
49:18
Speaker 1: especially nowadays. You know, back in the day, it used
49:20
Speaker 1: to be that way. You know, people used to stay
49:22
Speaker 1: together that long. But somebody can get a common cold
49:25
Speaker 1: and that's reasons for divorce. Now, yes, yes, you know,
49:30
Speaker 1: so it's not happening much. So that's why it's like, wow,
49:35
Speaker 1: but you know, but you know, but the thing about
49:36
Speaker 1: it is that you guys are in the entertainment business
49:39
Speaker 1: and so and then you know, so you're not bringing
49:42
Speaker 1: different conversations home because we know an entertainment I'm an
49:45
Speaker 1: entertainer to you know, there's no guarantees. So there's a
49:49
Speaker 1: lot of emotionally, and we all know that one of
49:52
Speaker 1: the number one reasons for divorce is financing finances. The
49:57
Speaker 1: money ain't there. The conversation gets kind of distant, Okay.
50:00
Speaker 1: I called it the number one reason for the grass
50:04
Speaker 1: on the other side, so we think, right, yes, yes,
50:08
Speaker 1: absolutely aflute. People go to chase that green the grass
50:11
Speaker 1: and they don't know what that person used to get
50:14
Speaker 1: that grass green. Absolutely, you know. You know the funny
50:24
Speaker 1: thing about Tamla without you know, the brilliance of your voice.
50:28
Speaker 1: And this is really interesting that the couple that you
50:31
Speaker 1: guys are and I just want to slow it down
50:34
Speaker 1: and talk about it, you know, and the and the
50:36
Speaker 1: brilliance of David's comedic ability to be at the top
50:41
Speaker 1: of your game, the two of you guys, that's that's
50:43
Speaker 1: the that's the difference. Even though y'all have done shows together,
50:47
Speaker 1: we know that the jokes are gonna come from him,
50:50
Speaker 1: and the steady voice of reason on those shows are
50:52
Speaker 1: gonna come from you. And so what is the David
50:56
Speaker 1: and Tamla brand? What is the brand? The brand for us,
51:02
Speaker 1: it's quite simple. We we just want to make good
51:06
Speaker 1: quality family entertainment that the whole family can watch. And
51:10
Speaker 1: it's gonna leave a message and you know, not preaching.
51:14
Speaker 1: We're not trying to preach it anybody. We just want
51:16
Speaker 1: to send messages of hope to anybody. And before you
51:19
Speaker 1: know it, you sit and you've listened to whether like
51:22
Speaker 1: last night we did a show, I did stand up
51:25
Speaker 1: and before you know it, there were subliminal messages thrown
51:29
Speaker 1: at you. You know about fives and wife side to
51:34
Speaker 1: take care of the husband's And then Tam came and
51:37
Speaker 1: there's nothing subliminal about her message taking it to the key.
51:43
Speaker 1: There's nothing so bim taking you to the king. I'm
51:45
Speaker 1: just letting you know that, right, do you know when
51:50
Speaker 1: their journey they no, ain't no right turn, ain't no swerves,
51:53
Speaker 1: you know, ain't no yield side. I'm taking you to
51:57
Speaker 1: the camp. It's all up in your face. And you know,
52:00
Speaker 1: I guess, like we were talking about earlier, I guess
52:03
Speaker 1: the big shocker is because we're in an industry that's
52:07
Speaker 1: known for divorce. I mean you you you look in
52:11
Speaker 1: our industry and you can just about pick out a
52:13
Speaker 1: handful of couples that have stood the test of time
52:16
Speaker 1: that are just said, look, no matter what, it's gonna
52:19
Speaker 1: be me and you to death through us parts. And
52:22
Speaker 1: then you look at look at the other ones. It's like,
52:25
Speaker 1: it's gonna be me and you until we kill each
52:26
Speaker 1: other or something like that. Right, right, right, We've just
52:30
Speaker 1: taken a stand. And then one of the first things
52:32
Speaker 1: we tell the vorce is not an option. Bottom line,
52:35
Speaker 1: who's gonna work through it? Because the thing I always
52:38
Speaker 1: say is life is like a circle. If you don't
52:40
Speaker 1: pass the test with that, with that that person, you're
52:45
Speaker 1: gonna go through the same test again with somebody else.
52:48
Speaker 1: But why not just sit and let's reason together, get
52:52
Speaker 1: an understanding, and we can just roll together. Now. Now,
52:55
Speaker 1: we also we also tell people if he going upside
52:58
Speaker 1: your heads, that's that's this thank you. Don't stay if
53:02
Speaker 1: there's some abuse going on, run forest, run when you're
53:09
Speaker 1: running out your cell phone calling the police simultaneously just
53:13
Speaker 1: in case he runs to thank you. Because I think
53:19
Speaker 1: that's important that you're you're talking like this because it
53:22
Speaker 1: talks about thirty Talk about the book that's coming out
53:25
Speaker 1: this fall. You're celebrating thirty years in love by releasing
53:28
Speaker 1: your first book this fall, Us Against the World, Our
53:32
Speaker 1: Secrets to Love, Marriage and Family, available November of this year. Now,
53:38
Speaker 1: let's break that up. What is the secrets the Tamela
53:42
Speaker 1: and David David and Tamila Man's Secrets to Love. Give
53:44
Speaker 1: us just a short synopsis. What's that secret? Right? Quick?
53:48
Speaker 1: I would say, will see that we're trying to outdo
53:51
Speaker 1: each other, doing for each other like nothing goes lacking,
53:55
Speaker 1: nothing goes wrong. Morning, I'm making sure that he's getting
53:59
Speaker 1: his needs met and he's making sure that I'm getting
54:02
Speaker 1: my needs met. And everybody is happy, and we have
54:06
Speaker 1: our three elves, live, love and laugh. You're you'll be
54:10
Speaker 1: surprised at how many couples out there. They can go
54:14
Speaker 1: to work, they laugh with everybody else, they joke and
54:17
Speaker 1: kid with everybody else, and they don't they can't sit
54:20
Speaker 1: and laugh and just have a good belly lads with
54:22
Speaker 1: each other. And you know, we just we're just living
54:26
Speaker 1: work fifty two this year, and we're living some of
54:30
Speaker 1: our best years and and we're living them in love.
54:35
Speaker 1: And I also say another thing for us will be,
54:39
Speaker 1: Another sid for us will be is we love each other.
54:43
Speaker 1: We love the first of all, we love our kids.
54:45
Speaker 1: But we made our relationship priority. So that's another thing.
54:50
Speaker 1: Is we didn't put our kids before our marriage. And
54:53
Speaker 1: some people do that. Some people do that, Yes, yes,
54:56
Speaker 1: a lot of people. And then they you know, the
54:58
Speaker 1: kids grow up and they leave home, and then you're wondering,
55:02
Speaker 1: who is with me? Who are you? Who are you?
55:05
Speaker 1: Who are you? Because the kids, the kids and other
55:09
Speaker 1: stuff becomes the glue. And then once the kids are gone,
55:12
Speaker 1: the glue is gone. And so you find your yourself,
55:15
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out how we're gonna stay together
55:17
Speaker 1: because our glue is gone. Okay, so that that transition
55:20
Speaker 1: to the next for marriage. That's what you guys are
55:23
Speaker 1: talking about, the glue. The glue really the you, David
55:27
Speaker 1: and Tammi, you are the base. Okay, How the base
55:30
Speaker 1: goals is how everything else goals. Okay, you're not you're
55:34
Speaker 1: not prioritizing any of the kids. The money, the singing.
55:38
Speaker 1: The touring's about, honey, what do you need to be happy? Honey?
55:42
Speaker 1: What you need to be happy? Let's equally come together
55:45
Speaker 1: and be happy together. Don't over compensate to keep that
55:49
Speaker 1: person happy and you're not happy. That's the key, right,
55:52
Speaker 1: that is definitely the key. Like Dr Phil here, y'all,
55:56
Speaker 1: we're about to go this ain't money may come say
56:00
Speaker 1: no more this the David and tambler Man show. Now. Well,
56:04
Speaker 1: in the book we talk about how to deal with
56:06
Speaker 1: even our finances as a couple. That you know, that
56:10
Speaker 1: can that can break a couple of Come on, say poor,
56:13
Speaker 1: but when we cool with rich, when it's rich, that poor,
56:18
Speaker 1: that poor, you're different than them, don't you mean your
56:20
Speaker 1: poor though? That poor? Yeah, that poor different conversation. You
56:23
Speaker 1: can't sell a lot of things when you're poor, though,
56:25
Speaker 1: Like can that get denserned? Yeah, yeah, not over I've
56:37
Speaker 1: been going I've been going over that, going over the
56:39
Speaker 1: Golden Corral. Hey baby, you got it all advertiser salad
56:45
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56:47
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