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Cedric the Entertainer, Maria Taylor, Tye Smith, Corey & Tamara Galloway · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: I'm blessed my next guest. Over the course of a
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Speaker 1: career spanning more than thirty years, he has solidified his
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Speaker 1: status as one of the world's premier performers. He's an
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Speaker 1: award winning actor and comedian, writer, producer, director, and philanthropists
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Speaker 1: whose career spans television, live performances and film. He's currently
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Speaker 1: started on the hit CBS sitcom The Neighborhood, which is
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Speaker 1: TV's number one new comedy and airs on Monday nights.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome back back back to Money Making Conversations. Cedric
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Speaker 1: the entertained need all the noise. We're like, we're the
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Speaker 1: club smoke to come down. You said, New Year's Eve.
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Speaker 1: I'm in the hardest shows to do. Brother's a comedian
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Speaker 1: the New Year's Eve show? Who know it? Man? People
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Speaker 1: be up, you know, people be drunk already, and then
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Speaker 1: they loud and everybody got a loud outfit, so they
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Speaker 1: and the outfits loud, and so people don't understand this
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Speaker 1: that as a comedian, you know, we operate on response.
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Speaker 1: If you could see, you can see him through New
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Speaker 1: Year's Eve. But as a comedian, you need people to
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Speaker 1: laugh back at you. And about fifteen minutes before as midnight,
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Speaker 1: they start looking at they watch it, they start planning
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Speaker 1: on you, and you need them to keep listening to you.
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Speaker 1: So your biggest check you ever gets a performer, right,
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Speaker 1: centric is New Year's Eve? Boy, Right, that's a big
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Speaker 1: check of the year. But then like you know, then
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Speaker 1: you got three fo people in the clock just wrong.
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Speaker 1: You know this is a level thirty five, all this
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Speaker 1: loud counting. It ain't twill thirty years. I was just listening.
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Speaker 1: I was just looking back man, and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: because I had a comedy club in Houston, Texas in
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Speaker 1: two It's called Hip Hop Comedy Stops. And this young
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Speaker 1: man out of St. Louis, Uh, you know, I was
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Speaker 1: going I didn't know anything. I just started the comedy
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Speaker 1: Club because Death Comedy Jam was hot, and they told
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Speaker 1: me the guys St. Louis is funny and I and
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Speaker 1: that's when he was the first out of town act
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Speaker 1: that I booked. And Cedric, you know, you come from
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Speaker 1: the corporate world. A lot of people don't know that
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Speaker 1: Cedric has a college degree or corporate world. And he
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Speaker 1: kind of like me. I left IBM, I would kind
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Speaker 1: of a college degree in mathematics, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: people don't know that. They just see the funny side
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Speaker 1: of him and they don't see a serious side of Central.
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Speaker 1: And so just like people don't understand the serious side
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Speaker 1: of me. But they brought into because I managed town
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Speaker 1: like Steve so go okay, he's smart, you know. And
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Speaker 1: so and when I look when I look at your
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Speaker 1: brand and you had to tell people that you're gonna
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Speaker 1: lead a corporate space to tell jokes, how what was
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Speaker 1: that reaction? I mean it was hard. I had worked
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Speaker 1: for a Rico Corporation in the early areas of Facts Machine,
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Speaker 1: so it was a big company. Thanks was new, it
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Speaker 1: was hot. You can sell Facts Machine to anybody because
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Speaker 1: it was like selling somebody a matchic trick. They was like,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, I won't wanted them. I get I get,
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Speaker 1: I get the letter right now. I ain't okay, but
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Speaker 1: you can send my animos right now, yo. So people
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Speaker 1: like to start loving them. So then I started working
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Speaker 1: for State Farm uh as a claim of adjustion, and
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Speaker 1: you know, and at that time, you know, you can
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Speaker 1: see yourself being trapped. I started doing new comedy at
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Speaker 1: the same time I was doing State Farm, and I
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Speaker 1: saw myself getting more up in the corporate ladder, manly
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Speaker 1: because of my personality resha And it wasn't really like
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Speaker 1: I was good, but people like working with me, and
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Speaker 1: you realize that that's kind of it. Gon't like that,
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Speaker 1: it's who you know. Like, people go who you know? Well,
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Speaker 1: people go, well, if I'm gonna be you know, a supervisue,
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Speaker 1: we take four troops a year. I'd rather go with
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Speaker 1: Cedric then with Bob. So I'm gonna move set up.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, so, you cat, you were a young man.
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Speaker 1: You're about to start getting trapped making sixty seveny thousands
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Speaker 1: a year. You're like, if I started making this money,
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Speaker 1: I'll never go for my dreams. So I had to
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Speaker 1: make that. I had to make that decision right around
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Speaker 1: that early in my life, like y'all, I could take
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Speaker 1: this money and kind of you know, live the safe
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Speaker 1: life and you know, get the you know, get the
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Speaker 1: house with you, pick your fence and cool little you
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Speaker 1: know Christ with three hunting and that's gonna be my life,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I can go for this dream.
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Speaker 1: So I did now and I and that ain't hate
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Speaker 1: no Christ for three hundreds that just want just because
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Speaker 1: I was the same space. I was like, okay, because
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Speaker 1: you know you you nobody tells you can be a comedian.
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Speaker 1: And if you're in a black community, you know that's
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Speaker 1: not an option. That's not an option because Richard Pride
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Speaker 1: is the comedian and the Murford the comedian. Who are you?
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Speaker 1: Who are you? That's when people tell you that yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know black people said, black people will kill your
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Speaker 1: dreams sometimes, boy, shut up and going there and do
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do. You ain't rich and Proude, You
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Speaker 1: ain't there a Murphy and and and it's really important
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Speaker 1: that you understand that that you can't do that. That's
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Speaker 1: why I do the show that people you can understand
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Speaker 1: that you can be there because sometimes we as a
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Speaker 1: people who will slow down the opportunity to be be
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Speaker 1: be successful, like because they did we did, they didn't
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Speaker 1: do it, and they see the difficulties of being accomplished,
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Speaker 1: and then they tell you what you can't do. And
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Speaker 1: that's why I always tell kids. I tell parents, don't
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Speaker 1: tell your kids what they can't do. Try to help
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Speaker 1: them do what they want to do, and we all win.
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Speaker 1: Because that's that's your philosophy. Man, that's always loved about you.
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Speaker 1: That's a good shot, that's a that's a good shooters book. Man.
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Speaker 1: You ever write that, well, you know, I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 1: you something saying, you know, when I see you, when
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Speaker 1: I'm go when the ride broke out up there in St. Louis,
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Speaker 1: you know, you said inside the jokes, you said inside
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Speaker 1: the jokes and went on TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know. And still still really involved in that kind
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Speaker 1: of advocacy right now because you know, policing, not to
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Speaker 1: jump the subject, but policing and the way that we
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Speaker 1: live in the world is that people can't power, sources,
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Speaker 1: can't be belonged to just somebody with the badge or
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Speaker 1: the power right now because they're still a human being
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Speaker 1: and so they if they if they feel protected you know,
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Speaker 1: by status, by you know, um, you know, being a
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Speaker 1: part of one organization. Then the rest of the world
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Speaker 1: is outside of that. And that's where you gotta be
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Speaker 1: careful about allowing you know, police to you know, to
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Speaker 1: be able to through their job. But King, they don't
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Speaker 1: have the freedom to say I was scared of my
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Speaker 1: life and therefore I took I had the whole right
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Speaker 1: to take somebody else in side. That's a thing, that's
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Speaker 1: a big responsibility. Right there, man on the phone, is
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Speaker 1: my man, Cedric the entertainer here? Like I said, he's
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Speaker 1: still Cedric. You're still on the Last O g right
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Speaker 1: with Tracy Morgan on still on the Last as well.
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Speaker 1: That new season will be coming on start next month.
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Speaker 1: Uh second season of The Last O Funny Show. Definitely
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Speaker 1: y'all wanted to tune into that, but no doubt but
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Speaker 1: Monday night now when CBS the number one show, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: teen was beautiful to you. You know what, And you've
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Speaker 1: done man, You've done some stuff. Boy, I tell you
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Speaker 1: you may not have a top that super Bowl commercial
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Speaker 1: Barca boy, that Supermove Merger that that puts you on
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Speaker 1: the spot right there at elevation. You be our Kings
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Speaker 1: to comedy right there. But man, what you're doing now,
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Speaker 1: what's that it really did? It's interesting because it's still
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Speaker 1: to this year. It was in the top five, like
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Speaker 1: they do evaluation best super Go commercially and that commercial
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Speaker 1: still to a strong So that's that's one of the
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Speaker 1: new kind of things. That's a blessing. Man. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: because I read that. I read that article. I went, wow, Man,
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Speaker 1: that's that's powerful. That you know, because because like I said,
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Speaker 1: you're the guy you know that in life that that
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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, you stay far people saying
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Speaker 1: why are you gonna go? You need to stay man,
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Speaker 1: that there's no guarantees, are you co jothing? I believe
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Speaker 1: in me. I believe I can do this, and that's
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Speaker 1: important to people to hear you say that. Man, Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's but I did it, you know,
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Speaker 1: like I said, also tell people this. I didn't do
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Speaker 1: it like frivolously. Like I I had created a strategy.
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Speaker 1: I started local, I performed and got my name up
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Speaker 1: locally so that I had like, uh, you know a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a cash flow that I could do
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Speaker 1: around Louis. Then I then I spread it out a
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Speaker 1: little bit Chicago, you know, Memphis, places I can run
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Speaker 1: down and make a little money, make sure I can
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Speaker 1: always pay my bills. And then I created a national platform.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't leave my job or none of those
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Speaker 1: things because my job hadn't showed us. Man, come on,
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Speaker 1: get little and I go to the doctor. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: given that up coming about I'm gonna comed you like, now,
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Speaker 1: I know you get the molas fixed, you're on the
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Speaker 1: last o. G You're not to start that. But you're successful, man,
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Speaker 1: you rolling, and then you get this opportunity now your
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Speaker 1: TV or another network CBS, you know, yeah, not that
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Speaker 1: that that's a crossover network, know what I'm saying, CBS. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so tell us about that whole process, man, the development
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Speaker 1: of the show. I mean, you know, well that's the
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Speaker 1: thing to always try to tell people that longevity. You know,
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Speaker 1: that reminds me of Mons King with Long Chef, and
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Speaker 1: it has this place is the idea of believing in
10:48
Speaker 1: the long run, man, Like, you can't necessarily here if
10:51
Speaker 1: you get hits now and you know, somebody have a
10:54
Speaker 1: big hit younger in their career. You go, but who's
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Speaker 1: what's the best thing about having a long career. So
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, from the Steve Harvey Show that
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Speaker 1: was on the w B to having my show to
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Speaker 1: soul Man that was on TV Land. I had never
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Speaker 1: had you know, I did, as said, changing presents on Fox,
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Speaker 1: but I've never had anything on one of the big networks.
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Speaker 1: I've had deals, but never and so to you know,
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Speaker 1: to this point in my life, to have a show
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Speaker 1: on the number one network with a number one new
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Speaker 1: comedy and to have that that that the resources of
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Speaker 1: that of that network behind you, uh, you see a difference.
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Speaker 1: There is a there is a vitalization that happens. As says,
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Speaker 1: I'm validated one people like people understand who I am
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Speaker 1: now they get my brand. I didn't really have to
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Speaker 1: change to do it. I tell the story that's about
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Speaker 1: something that we all live, gentrification, how neighborhoods are being
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, uh moved into things that we've
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Speaker 1: grown grown up with and now we had to deal
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Speaker 1: with the world moving forward and now you you gotta
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Speaker 1: deal with the old foods where your where your hairdresser
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Speaker 1: used to be, like so right, you know these kind
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Speaker 1: of things is you know, and I thought it was
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Speaker 1: just a great place for the show and so today
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Speaker 1: and so we just ain't up making a great partnership.
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Speaker 1: And I'm glad that people they ain't showing the show
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Speaker 1: and we're having a good time with him. Man, it's
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Speaker 1: just so true. It's truly, it's so true. It was
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Speaker 1: so funny because I used to text something from fifth Ward.
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Speaker 1: Fifth Ward is a black community, and so it was
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Speaker 1: my mom still lives there. Winning then built out of house.
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Speaker 1: She want to move, said she will. Hey, they ain't
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Speaker 1: gonna right, So I just built a house around her house.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm going like. You know, if I
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Speaker 1: just would tell that Dow that okay, okay, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: build a house around your house. Now, I gotta put
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Speaker 1: security along because everybody looking at the house, everybody looking
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Speaker 1: at her. But she refused to move. So they got
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Speaker 1: a big freeway they put into the neighborhood. And my
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Speaker 1: wife said, what's what's going on? I said, well, well,
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Speaker 1: my mom's value about to go up because all because
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Speaker 1: that's what happened, They all put a freeway in the
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Speaker 1: black neighborhood because they like black neighborhoods. They know that.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you're showing so time. That's why you
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Speaker 1: show it so timely man, That's why I love it. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: and it's and it's those kinds of things. And in
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Speaker 1: the process is that you know, we do you know,
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Speaker 1: like of course, you know, like guys like us, we've
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Speaker 1: had opportunities to live in a big world and operate
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Speaker 1: with a number of different people and everything doesn't break
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Speaker 1: down the black and white. So you do realize there's
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Speaker 1: groups of people out there that if you get to
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Speaker 1: know them as human beings, you actually enjoy them. And
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Speaker 1: I think the idea that we separate each other along
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Speaker 1: color lines, along uh, sexual preference, and you don't realize that,
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Speaker 1: you know, if I got to notice individual I would
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Speaker 1: enjoy them as a person. I would be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I don't have to judge you because you look different
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Speaker 1: than me, or you come from somewhere else. And so
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Speaker 1: that's where we try to also really encouraging this show.
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Speaker 1: Even though you know, everybody gotta have tribal kind of pride,
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Speaker 1: you know, pride and being a black man and and
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Speaker 1: you know, loving black women and all these kind of
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Speaker 1: things that that makes us feel prideful, but you don't
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Speaker 1: judge the other. You don't judge the other because you
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Speaker 1: don't understand it, try to understand it and then recognize
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Speaker 1: that you can grow from those things. So that's what
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Speaker 1: my character is pretty hardcore. At first, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: you know, come to get to notice family and this
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Speaker 1: Maria Taylor. Thank you so much for having me. I'm
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Speaker 1: literally over here blessing, like have I done all those things?
18:33
Speaker 1: Are you sure you're talking about the right person? Yes,
18:35
Speaker 1: I am. Um Maria, you just tell me the journey
18:39
Speaker 1: to get here. You know I know that, Uh you
18:41
Speaker 1: know your your local because the show broadcast in Atlanta
18:45
Speaker 1: and you're from Afria. What did Georgia Volleyball basketball. How
18:49
Speaker 1: did they hold of was? What? What was your degree?
18:52
Speaker 1: Playing in? Well? I really started out when I got
18:55
Speaker 1: to Georgia thinking that I was going to be some
18:57
Speaker 1: kind of team doctor one day, and then I took
18:59
Speaker 1: biology and life. That's not a good idea because that's
19:01
Speaker 1: not my strength at all. So um, you know, a
19:05
Speaker 1: couple of majors later, went through the business cycle and
19:07
Speaker 1: to the accounting class. I got to broadcast journalism and
19:10
Speaker 1: thought to myself, like, this is really what I want
19:12
Speaker 1: to do. I love talking to people, I love interviewing people,
19:15
Speaker 1: just asking a bunch of questions and that would be
19:17
Speaker 1: the perfect sist for me. And luckily the University of
19:19
Speaker 1: Georgia has a great journalism school and Grady Yeah, so
19:22
Speaker 1: I was able to my senior year, We're putting on
19:24
Speaker 1: whole newscast. So I have a resume tape by the
19:27
Speaker 1: time I graduate. And then at the time, you know,
19:29
Speaker 1: Damon Evans was the athletics director at Georgia, and you
19:32
Speaker 1: knew my plans, my goals, my dreams were eventually working
19:34
Speaker 1: for ESPN, and he helped me get my first job
19:37
Speaker 1: out of the gates at Georgia, working for Georgia Dogs
19:39
Speaker 1: Dot com so I was just like the reporter of
19:41
Speaker 1: our website and I also did radio for volleyball and
19:44
Speaker 1: women's basketball. So so if that's why I always tell
19:48
Speaker 1: people to import of relationship. That's a relationship. They gave
19:51
Speaker 1: you a really first option. But also when I see
19:54
Speaker 1: you on television, what is what? What do you what
19:57
Speaker 1: do you consider your number one skills saying? Is it preparation? Oh?
20:00
Speaker 1: Is it the ability to think on the spot, Because
20:03
Speaker 1: when you're walking up the two coaches, sometimes they're happy.
20:06
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm talking about you know, she she's on the
20:08
Speaker 1: sideline with some of the biggest coaches in the game,
20:11
Speaker 1: and so not all of them. They they're just doing
20:14
Speaker 1: it because it's pretty much mandatory. They got to do
20:16
Speaker 1: the interview. So getting that information out and being articulated
20:20
Speaker 1: after a loss, after a victory, sometimes people are pulling
20:24
Speaker 1: on you, knocking you out the way. They don't care
20:26
Speaker 1: you Maria Jaylke and close to So how do you
20:29
Speaker 1: manage all how do you manage all that? Um? I
20:32
Speaker 1: think it's one of the keys that I actually learned
20:34
Speaker 1: in volleyball. It's called reading and reacting. So um, you
20:37
Speaker 1: almost have to read what's going on in the game.
20:39
Speaker 1: You have to read the coaches space when he comes over.
20:42
Speaker 1: You have to read the tone that he's taking with you.
20:44
Speaker 1: You kind of have to know if you don't be
20:45
Speaker 1: going to give you one question, or if he's gonna
20:47
Speaker 1: give you too, and then you react to him if
20:50
Speaker 1: he says something that's completely crazy that you didn't think
20:52
Speaker 1: that he was gonna say by having a follow up question,
20:55
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, if you ask, if you
20:58
Speaker 1: have two questions package, then you gonna look a little
21:00
Speaker 1: bit like you don't listen to him at all on camera,
21:03
Speaker 1: if you don't respond to what he just said. So
21:05
Speaker 1: you have to be able to react. I think those
21:07
Speaker 1: are two of the biggest criteria to becoming a sideline
21:10
Speaker 1: reporter or you know, just getting really good at your craft.
21:13
Speaker 1: Is that ability to kind of go with the flow,
21:15
Speaker 1: to listen, to change lanes quickly, um and adjust to
21:19
Speaker 1: what's going on around you in the circumstances that you
21:21
Speaker 1: can place that you know. The really thing about I'm
21:23
Speaker 1: talking to Maria Taylor. She's a host, reporter and analyst
21:26
Speaker 1: for ESPN covering college basketball, college football, and more. The
21:30
Speaker 1: thing I like about your career so far is that
21:33
Speaker 1: I I you know, I McGall discovered you on ESPN
21:36
Speaker 1: doing college basketball. Now you over here college football, you know,
21:40
Speaker 1: which means that you you know, you're diversifying your platform,
21:43
Speaker 1: multiple streets of income and so yeah, you know that's
21:46
Speaker 1: important because people can pigeonhold you and say, no, she's
21:49
Speaker 1: over there, she's basketball alone it. How are you able
21:52
Speaker 1: to make that transition? How? What what? What? What depth
21:55
Speaker 1: moved it? Were you able to pull off to be
21:57
Speaker 1: able to do that? Well? One of my biggest goals
22:00
Speaker 1: when I started my career was to make sure that
22:02
Speaker 1: that word pigeonhole never applied to me. So whether that
22:05
Speaker 1: was I wanted to grow skill sets as a host um,
22:09
Speaker 1: that was something that I would I would really go after.
22:11
Speaker 1: I wanted to everyone to feel like if they needed
22:13
Speaker 1: someone to be an analyst for basketball and volleyball, I
22:16
Speaker 1: could do that, or if you need a reporter, I
22:18
Speaker 1: could do that. And of course, in order to do
22:20
Speaker 1: all those things, you have to be able to work
22:22
Speaker 1: in multiple sports. Otherwise you'll only work for say, four
22:25
Speaker 1: months out of the year, and I didn't want that.
22:27
Speaker 1: I wanted a full time and everyone wants that. Somebody
22:32
Speaker 1: was great coming out of school because Comcast Sports South,
22:35
Speaker 1: you know Atlanta, they used to be around CSS, they
22:37
Speaker 1: were the high school sports. I was able to do
22:40
Speaker 1: some football games for them, and it kind of translated
22:42
Speaker 1: into doing the SEC game of the week for CSS
22:45
Speaker 1: as well, and so that's how I got into the
22:47
Speaker 1: football lane. But it all started with being just good
22:50
Speaker 1: at basketball and volleyball for them first. That's really awesome.
22:53
Speaker 1: And so now you're sitting and I see a regular
22:56
Speaker 1: on Get Up, which is even even another stratosphere, and
23:01
Speaker 1: you you get the report, you get to have your opinion,
23:04
Speaker 1: you get to how has that that that transition to
23:07
Speaker 1: that platform changed your perspective. Yeah, I think it's changed
23:13
Speaker 1: the game in a lot of ways for me because
23:15
Speaker 1: you kind of get seen in the same lane after
23:17
Speaker 1: a while. So you know, being the reporter or on
23:21
Speaker 1: college game that you have a certain role. Being on
23:24
Speaker 1: the sidelines, you know, you have a very particular role
23:26
Speaker 1: and it's reporting and a lot of your hits are
23:28
Speaker 1: only for a thirty second. Meanwhile, when you do get up,
23:31
Speaker 1: you know, you might do the highlight read with Jalen
23:33
Speaker 1: and then you have to have a conversation about the
23:35
Speaker 1: Lakers and then you need to go over and help
23:37
Speaker 1: them with Dan or Laski doing a touch screen and
23:39
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you know you're talking about
23:41
Speaker 1: what the Jets need next. And so I think it's
23:43
Speaker 1: not only does it helping me. I mean every day
23:45
Speaker 1: I seriously learned something to do and feel like I'm
23:47
Speaker 1: getting better at my craft, but it also position positions
23:50
Speaker 1: you from a broader scheme, whether that's the higher ups
23:53
Speaker 1: realizing oh it's like a real host to like she
23:56
Speaker 1: could sit in that chair um and lead a conversation
23:59
Speaker 1: and be the conduct through on a show. I think
24:01
Speaker 1: for my career it's been an awesome opportunity to just
24:04
Speaker 1: kind of flex some different muscles. I'm getting really just
24:06
Speaker 1: like you get really strong with your close or whatever.
24:08
Speaker 1: But if you're not working on your cats, your legs
24:09
Speaker 1: don't look crazy. And so I have been working a
24:11
Speaker 1: really hard just one internet. You don't want the crazy legs. Yeah,
24:15
Speaker 1: you know you don't want to be looking You're looking
24:17
Speaker 1: at you like she, I mean she looks strong on
24:18
Speaker 1: top of she's the legs they're like little too thick.
24:20
Speaker 1: You know, I'm getting balanced now as a broadcaster. Well,
24:24
Speaker 1: you know that's why I love about you, know how
24:26
Speaker 1: you you know, I'm just a fan of watching you
24:30
Speaker 1: be you because you know the college basketball to college
24:34
Speaker 1: football and get up allows you to talk about everything
24:38
Speaker 1: not baseball is about the camp, you know, and then
24:41
Speaker 1: professional football and so you because you're your your your
24:45
Speaker 1: voice allows you to to but you. But I hope
24:49
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying is that you are really cultivating.
24:53
Speaker 1: At three sixty, I think that you've dreamed about in
24:55
Speaker 1: your career. Well it's funny because when I set out,
24:58
Speaker 1: you know, I used to always say, you just I
25:00
Speaker 1: want to be a reporter on ESPN. And then there
25:02
Speaker 1: was a point I think it was twelve, and I
25:04
Speaker 1: got the job and said, okay, it's time to adjust
25:05
Speaker 1: these goals, like what do you really want to do?
25:07
Speaker 1: Like what is the highest dream that you could possibly have?
25:10
Speaker 1: And I remember rob and Roberts says, and I've read
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Speaker 1: her books like nine times. So there's a kid listening
25:15
Speaker 1: read from the heart eight Rules to live By. She
25:17
Speaker 1: has two of them. The Seven Rules to Live By
25:19
Speaker 1: was before she got cancers. Then she wrote eight Rules
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Speaker 1: to Live By. But she always said dream big, but
25:23
Speaker 1: focus really small. But my big dream is being on
25:26
Speaker 1: Good Morning America. Then like what are the skill sets
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Speaker 1: that I need to get there? And who needs to
25:30
Speaker 1: believe in me? And who do I need to impress?
25:32
Speaker 1: And you know what, do I need to have entertainment
25:34
Speaker 1: in my background? Do I need to have a little
25:36
Speaker 1: bit of news? So all of that stuff is what
25:38
Speaker 1: I'm kind of trying to line up if my ultimate
25:40
Speaker 1: goal is maybe doing a big morning show or something
25:42
Speaker 1: like that, which is what my goal kind of changed
25:45
Speaker 1: to once I got to ESPN again. Ladies and gentlemen,
25:48
Speaker 1: you can catch her, she tells you. Those schedules incredible.
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Speaker 1: She's gonna be on Get Up As every morning on ESPN.
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Speaker 1: Maria do not change. Okay, stop telling the girl and
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate you, and thank you
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Speaker 1: Are what city are you calling me from? Right now?
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Speaker 1: I'm in Santa Cruz, California. I'm I'm out your training
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Speaker 1: to your training? What's that? Uh? Getting ready for? What's
29:46
Speaker 1: What's okay? I was. I had to get them. I
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Speaker 1: had to get those three letters right because I messed
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Speaker 1: him up. The other day when I was interviewing a
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Speaker 1: another young man from the National Football League, I said, PTO,
29:58
Speaker 1: so you started laughing at he's I can use those days,
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Speaker 1: but uh so does it ever stop? Does the training
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Speaker 1: ever stop? His year round? Huh? Here's yeah, it's really
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Speaker 1: it's really year around that You just gotta you gotta
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Speaker 1: know when let rest your body, how to build it
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Speaker 1: back up to to get it ready for the season
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Speaker 1: and all that. So it's it's definitely a year around.
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Speaker 1: So the O T A S that really is I
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Speaker 1: preseason and preceded to prepare you for the football season. Yeah,
30:37
Speaker 1: exactly when do you rest, sir? When do you rest?
30:44
Speaker 1: You might you might rest uh of a year, a
30:47
Speaker 1: total of year. You might rest for like a month.
30:51
Speaker 1: You might rest for a total of a month. Because
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Speaker 1: right after the season, most guys take like, you know,
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks off and to completely nothing that
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Speaker 1: they started back doing little foundation stuff that building foundation
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Speaker 1: back up, right, So, so what's the what's the what's
31:05
Speaker 1: the off season like for you? We're going to talk
31:07
Speaker 1: about the many programs you're involved, but I would like
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Speaker 1: the people who know about you as an individual, and
31:12
Speaker 1: also the fact that you know you weren't you were
31:15
Speaker 1: not a high first round draft pick, you were not
31:18
Speaker 1: from one of those major UH power five schools, and
31:22
Speaker 1: you've been successful in life. Towns and tigers and towns
31:26
Speaker 1: in Maryland. How does a young man from that school
31:29
Speaker 1: make it in the National Football League? Um? Really just
31:34
Speaker 1: not not giving up, not uh not quitting, Um, just
31:39
Speaker 1: just pushing and understanding and believing that, you know, greater
31:42
Speaker 1: things are coming, especially to those who worked and put
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Speaker 1: in the work, and for me especially you know, praying
31:49
Speaker 1: and stand in the word and just just ultimately just
31:52
Speaker 1: believing that the greatest teams are coming. Now, you were
31:56
Speaker 1: drafted in the fifth round. So that's that's pretty that's
31:58
Speaker 1: a pretty nice check round. It's filth frown And then
32:02
Speaker 1: you know you went for a poler school. Today. Invite
32:04
Speaker 1: you to the combine. Yeah, I got invited to combine.
32:07
Speaker 1: That was key right there, getting inviteds to combine because
32:10
Speaker 1: you got to show off your speed, your agility and
32:12
Speaker 1: all that stuff that helped you. Right yeah, yeah, I
32:15
Speaker 1: believe it helped. And then so so to get there
32:19
Speaker 1: and now you now you with Seattle and now you
32:23
Speaker 1: went to Titans. So when you with Seattle, how was
32:26
Speaker 1: that first experience when you came into the camp? You
32:29
Speaker 1: your fearth frowned draft pick you way up and you know,
32:32
Speaker 1: you went from the East to the very west. It's
32:36
Speaker 1: a total, total culture change. You have to mine it's
32:39
Speaker 1: a culture change. So how did you deal with that?
32:42
Speaker 1: You know, because your friends, you know, you need support,
32:44
Speaker 1: You need support your new teammates and you how did
32:47
Speaker 1: that work for you? Um? They endn know working out
32:51
Speaker 1: pretty well because of the team I went to. We
32:53
Speaker 1: had a lot of better leadership, especially that we've been
32:57
Speaker 1: a GB I had veteran leaders like Earl Thomas, Richard Sherman,
33:02
Speaker 1: Cam Chanfer and um. Yeah, so also a clearer development
33:09
Speaker 1: guy Mo Kelly out in Seattle. He is a big
33:12
Speaker 1: help and helping like the rookies and the other guys
33:16
Speaker 1: get adjusted to the to the new you know, the
33:19
Speaker 1: new community and just the new Uh. The business of
33:22
Speaker 1: the NFL, not just you know, college and NFL is
33:26
Speaker 1: different because you know it's a business when he comes
33:29
Speaker 1: to the NFL. We's the great thing about you going
33:33
Speaker 1: to Seattle. You got to see and be around some
33:36
Speaker 1: real personalities, people who speak their mind. You know Bennett
33:40
Speaker 1: deefensive Lineman. You know he real personality, you said, Richard Simmons,
33:44
Speaker 1: Stanford Grad real personality. Earl Thomas eb had don't forget
33:50
Speaker 1: the man, the quarterback, real Russell Russell Wilson, a lot
33:54
Speaker 1: of personality. Why receiver Dougall All this guy did that?
34:01
Speaker 1: Did that help you to understand that you could have
34:03
Speaker 1: a because you came into into the National Football League
34:07
Speaker 1: right at the right at the Colin Kapernack moment, and
34:10
Speaker 1: it kind of changed the whole perception of the quote
34:13
Speaker 1: unquote black athlete in the National Football League. And I
34:16
Speaker 1: am I saying that right or my my misstating something.
34:20
Speaker 1: Can you explain that a little more, meaning that you know,
34:23
Speaker 1: we became outspoken. You know, they were the protests, And
34:26
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to put you on the spot. I'm
34:28
Speaker 1: just saying I'm just in my perception of that. You know,
34:31
Speaker 1: before before that period, just play football, play nobody. No,
34:36
Speaker 1: you went out there, got that check, you got hurt,
34:38
Speaker 1: you complained, you know you you would complain. But this
34:41
Speaker 1: time politics, I guess socialism or social so so the
34:45
Speaker 1: social climate that was happening, industries came inside the stadium.
34:49
Speaker 1: Did that have an effect on you? And not saying, uh,
34:52
Speaker 1: not trying to put your spot, just saying that it
34:54
Speaker 1: did create a culture change in the in the league.
34:57
Speaker 1: Did it Uh, yeah, I feel like it is. It's
35:01
Speaker 1: just um, I feel like that help athletes speak out
35:05
Speaker 1: on political issues and social issues and knowing that we
35:10
Speaker 1: can use our platform to bring awareness and change to
35:14
Speaker 1: what we believe in and what we see out there.
35:17
Speaker 1: Because you gotta think about a lot of athletes come
35:19
Speaker 1: from those communities that they are being affected in the
35:23
Speaker 1: negative way and they just want to bring life to
35:26
Speaker 1: They just want to bring life to the situation. I like,
35:30
Speaker 1: can you explain that a little bit more so? Tide's
35:33
Speaker 1: not gonna just throw out a response on something. What
35:35
Speaker 1: you just say, brother, think I got a career. You
35:37
Speaker 1: ain't messing me up with this interview. What you say
35:40
Speaker 1: something wrong? The reason the reason I brought that up
35:42
Speaker 1: because you're involved with the Habitats for Humanity and then
35:45
Speaker 1: your other program, and these are really socially conscious programs,
35:49
Speaker 1: Like well, first of all, habits Habitat for your manity,
35:53
Speaker 1: you have to work. That's not something you used to
35:56
Speaker 1: go around just just just grin and take pictures. They're
35:58
Speaker 1: they're actually building home. It's correct. Yeah, That's why I'm
36:05
Speaker 1: I love how to touch me many because it's more
36:07
Speaker 1: like you really put you getting your hands dirty, like
36:09
Speaker 1: you were there building a foundation, putting your hands on
36:12
Speaker 1: the house, and like you're you're there with the family
36:15
Speaker 1: who's going to live in the house. So you know
36:16
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, you're doing the handles them building the house, uh,
36:20
Speaker 1: cutting wood, putting the doors up now, and nobody stuff
36:24
Speaker 1: on the roof. That's why I really like them because,
36:27
Speaker 1: like like I said, it's more of a hands on think.
36:29
Speaker 1: It's not just she's just throwing money to a to
36:32
Speaker 1: a thing, like you're actually helping volunteer, you know that.
36:35
Speaker 1: I feel like that goes along way. Now, A lot
36:37
Speaker 1: of athletes do foundations. What is your foundation structures? You friend,
36:44
Speaker 1: mother or father or sister, brother are a relative? Who
36:49
Speaker 1: who runs your foundation? Uh? Me? Really me and uh family,
36:56
Speaker 1: family and friends? But I say namely me, but it
37:00
Speaker 1: just like I I can't, I can't describe it no
37:03
Speaker 1: better than me and how I go about life and
37:05
Speaker 1: how I go to things. Well, you're kind of doing
37:08
Speaker 1: it anyway when you're talking about the habitats for humanity,
37:12
Speaker 1: there are similarities, correct, Yeah. I try to uh connect
37:18
Speaker 1: with companies that I believe has the same value system
37:21
Speaker 1: as myself and and and that value the system is
37:26
Speaker 1: what Uh that value system, I would say, is a
37:32
Speaker 1: genuine care for people. It's not about it's about it's
37:38
Speaker 1: not about money. I know. You know in this world
37:41
Speaker 1: a lot of people get lost in the money aspect,
37:43
Speaker 1: thinking that money and power, you know, saying it will
37:47
Speaker 1: lead you long way if I believe or like some
37:50
Speaker 1: value things like you no compassion forgiveness. Uh, the thing
37:55
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37:58
Speaker 1: really measure the degree that some people you know, stuff
38:02
Speaker 1: like that. You know when when I look at the well,
38:05
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38:08
Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans. Was drafted in the fifth round
38:12
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38:15
Speaker 1: there was no guarantees. He got cut by Seattle. Then
38:17
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38:20
Speaker 1: he got picked up by the Tennessee Titan. When you're
38:22
Speaker 1: going through those trials and tribulations, what was your You're
38:25
Speaker 1: an athlete, you know you have a short window. You
38:27
Speaker 1: compete against other athletes and like I said, you know
38:30
Speaker 1: at towns and you're the fastest person on the team
38:32
Speaker 1: or maybe the stronger person on the team. Then you
38:34
Speaker 1: come to the NFL and you're like you First you
38:36
Speaker 1: go to the combine, you go wow. Then you go
38:38
Speaker 1: to the NFL, you go wow wow. So what keeps
38:42
Speaker 1: you mentally motivated that you can win in that environment? Um,
38:49
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say how motivated because that's I feel like
38:52
Speaker 1: that's motivation is just the motion that comes and goes.
38:55
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm dedicated. I'm dedicated to be that I
39:01
Speaker 1: know I can be and I can said I believe that, uh,
39:04
Speaker 1: I can be one of the best to ever play
39:06
Speaker 1: this game. And that's where that's why I put in
39:09
Speaker 1: day in and day out. Um. I cherished the small
39:14
Speaker 1: things like the training, the moments and training, and I
39:17
Speaker 1: feel like that those those small things add up to
39:20
Speaker 1: bigger things down the line. Like when when things do
39:23
Speaker 1: it acually turn my way and people see the player
39:27
Speaker 1: that I am being, that I can be and will be,
39:30
Speaker 1: it will be accumulation of all the things that I've
39:33
Speaker 1: worked worked for for in term of years back. It
39:35
Speaker 1: won't just be from the stuff I did you know
39:39
Speaker 1: up um right now, it would be from the things
39:41
Speaker 1: I did years ago that people need to see. That's important. So, um,
39:46
Speaker 1: You're the spokesperson or habitats for humanity. Uh, your fantastic
39:51
Speaker 1: organizations Simple greatness like it's as simple as you great.
39:54
Speaker 1: This is what you can achieve no matter what standards are.
39:57
Speaker 1: More roadblocks are U thoughts that people might have about
40:01
Speaker 1: what you can and can I do? Um, do you
40:03
Speaker 1: have any software, I mean some social media handles you
40:06
Speaker 1: want to throw up right quick time so we can
40:08
Speaker 1: get you building your brand? Yeah? My my Instagram is
40:12
Speaker 1: ty Smith y E Smith, um, and my Twitter is
40:16
Speaker 1: ty Smith. Um she isn't cat besn't boy for cornerback, Yes,
40:21
Speaker 1: sir and um. I also have a website. Um, it's
40:25
Speaker 1: simple with the letters G and S dot com and
40:30
Speaker 1: people can go read up about simple greatness and see
40:32
Speaker 1: the teams that we that we have done and go
40:35
Speaker 1: and continue to do in the future. Appreciated my friend
40:38
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42:19
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42:34
Speaker 1: of a pro sports team in New York City, New
42:37
Speaker 1: York history, and first African American owner or a pro
42:40
Speaker 1: football team. He is the CEO and she serves as
42:43
Speaker 1: Chief Revenue Officer of the New York Streets. Their firm,
42:47
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42:51
Speaker 1: investment firm with investments and entertainment, manufacturing, and real estate.
42:55
Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations. Founder and chairman see
43:00
Speaker 1: old at the firm, Corey and Tamearra Galloway. Hello, Oh
43:07
Speaker 1: you know I was there. They just knew I was
43:11
Speaker 1: gonna mess up your name, they can say, you know,
43:15
Speaker 1: but everything. First, First of all they tell me is
43:16
Speaker 1: your Birthdayay, okay, alright, birthday. You're doing my show on
43:21
Speaker 1: the birthday. So with Corey, what you're gonna do? Brother,
43:23
Speaker 1: Come on now, Wenna, we're gonna we're gonna make this
43:25
Speaker 1: personal air. Oh we're gonna do that. Oh my god,
43:31
Speaker 1: but I have not done. Brother. We celebrate no. We
43:34
Speaker 1: celebrate no on your show. That's unique. That's unique. That's
43:40
Speaker 1: the first. That's what you you used to doing first,
43:42
Speaker 1: my friend, you used to doing first. And I read
43:45
Speaker 1: your bio on both of you and it's very rather unique.
43:48
Speaker 1: And when I when I started talking about trend setters, groundbreakers, visionaries,
43:54
Speaker 1: I'm sure those names I have been used to describe
43:58
Speaker 1: both of you as a couple as well as individuals.
44:01
Speaker 1: So how do you get into football business? So we
44:04
Speaker 1: um I started by he's a consult with pro athletes,
44:09
Speaker 1: mainly NFL NBA players for about ten years. And Marcus
44:15
Speaker 1: Colston who played for the Saints, and I uh, he
44:19
Speaker 1: launched the team in Harburg called the Hansburg and I
44:23
Speaker 1: worked with him on that for four years. And that's
44:26
Speaker 1: when I was introduced to the arena sports industry and
44:31
Speaker 1: got to know all the owners and different leagues from
44:34
Speaker 1: a FL to i f L to n a L.
44:38
Speaker 1: Such a fragmented business, but got the meet and understand
44:42
Speaker 1: a lot of the players in the industry. And when
44:45
Speaker 1: I I'm a native New Yorker. So we end up
44:51
Speaker 1: getting out of that team and market's end up investing
44:55
Speaker 1: in the Philadelphia Soul, which is an arena football team,
44:57
Speaker 1: and got to know the owners there. And and as
45:00
Speaker 1: we're getting to know the owners and they say, hey,
45:01
Speaker 1: you know, New York doesn't have a market have a team,
45:04
Speaker 1: but it has a big market. And that began the journey.
45:07
Speaker 1: And I was three years ago just to um find
45:12
Speaker 1: a location so we can actually launch a team. And
45:15
Speaker 1: that was a three year journey. So how we how
45:17
Speaker 1: I got into the arena space was through my consulting
45:21
Speaker 1: with pro athletes with Marcus Colston and working on the
45:24
Speaker 1: Harrisburg's campaigne let Us all the way to the seven
45:28
Speaker 1: years later launching the New York Streets. Explain to my
45:32
Speaker 1: listeners what exactly is arena football. So arena football is
45:39
Speaker 1: played inside hence the word arena. It's basically playing on
45:45
Speaker 1: the same city yards field similar to a hockey rink.
45:50
Speaker 1: And basically it's eight on eight. About ten percent of
45:55
Speaker 1: arena football players, Arena football leagu players go onto the NFL.
46:01
Speaker 1: So it is a place where, um, the NFL pays
46:04
Speaker 1: attention to if you for anyone that's really in the
46:08
Speaker 1: sports and really into the NFL from a geek, this
46:11
Speaker 1: point of view in the collective bargaining agreement with the
46:14
Speaker 1: NFL Players Association and the NFL, Arena football is actually
46:18
Speaker 1: spelled out in that collective bargaining agreement because it's such
46:21
Speaker 1: a source of talent for the NFL. Well, one of
46:26
Speaker 1: one of the famous alumnus from there is Kurt Warner
46:30
Speaker 1: is now Hall of Fame for the back Kurt Warner,
46:34
Speaker 1: and uh, he came for arena football. And it's all
46:36
Speaker 1: about I'm a fan of arena football. I watch it
46:39
Speaker 1: high scoring. Um, you you as a fan, you just
46:43
Speaker 1: like hockey because you know you can run right up
46:45
Speaker 1: into those pads and so so that you you you
46:49
Speaker 1: you mastermind. You filed in the chairman and then got
46:52
Speaker 1: the chief revenue. This is all about money now. It's
46:56
Speaker 1: all about why through the females, the women, then our lives.
47:00
Speaker 1: The ladies control the first tree. That's what he said.
47:04
Speaker 1: They say it when it comes to the money. The
47:06
Speaker 1: purse trings is controlled by the ladies. So Chief Revenue Officer,
47:12
Speaker 1: please come to the front of the room. Thank you.
47:16
Speaker 1: He's pitching this idea to you about he's been working
47:20
Speaker 1: on it. Professional football player down New Orleans. Why receiver
47:26
Speaker 1: four years? Why does this seem like a good idea
47:29
Speaker 1: to the chief revenue officer the New York streets. Well,
47:34
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you, to be honest, I
47:36
Speaker 1: wasn't really sure to begin with. How you know that
47:43
Speaker 1: was my first reaction, But I have to say that
47:44
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm with him all the way. We have.
47:47
Speaker 1: All we do is strategize and figure out what it
47:49
Speaker 1: is that we're going to be able to accomplish together.
47:52
Speaker 1: And you know, this is my background. Sponsorship has been
47:55
Speaker 1: my life for the last twenty years. So being able
47:59
Speaker 1: to leverage the football market and being involved on this
48:02
Speaker 1: level with my husband has been a dream. Contrue. Now,
48:04
Speaker 1: this is really interesting because when I go through resumes,
48:06
Speaker 1: I try to pull out a lot of bios and
48:08
Speaker 1: trying to pull out little nuggets and like one of
48:10
Speaker 1: the gems was a mother of four being able to
48:15
Speaker 1: balance being a mother of four. Let's talk about that,
48:19
Speaker 1: because I always tell people or publicly on my show
48:22
Speaker 1: that despite all my success, I did not understand how
48:26
Speaker 1: to balance my life. I would just all in on work.
48:30
Speaker 1: Were you like that, Corey of Were you able to
48:32
Speaker 1: balance your life? Yeah? I think, Um, what I've been
48:36
Speaker 1: able to do. The reason I set out to work
48:39
Speaker 1: on my own is to actually have ultimate balance. So
48:43
Speaker 1: you know the thing about an entrepreneurs you can schedule
48:45
Speaker 1: your meetings according to your schedule, and unless it's a
48:50
Speaker 1: revenue meeting, right which I'll move having and earth to
48:52
Speaker 1: take those meetings with all the other meetings working around
48:55
Speaker 1: our kids schedule definitely comes from Now I'm gonna come
48:58
Speaker 1: back to the mother of four. Now, you know I
49:00
Speaker 1: was talking to then I just lead over the court.
49:02
Speaker 1: I think everybody went, are you talking to Timer the mother?
49:05
Speaker 1: Now he's talking to Corey the mother. He's just he's
49:08
Speaker 1: just the day. So talk about that. You know, the
49:12
Speaker 1: whole responsibility of being a mom, and sometimes that can
49:15
Speaker 1: be guilt when you're when you're working mom when it
49:18
Speaker 1: comes to parenting and and being being responsible and wanting
49:22
Speaker 1: your child to have all the time and realize that
49:25
Speaker 1: they you were there for them, how they How are
49:27
Speaker 1: you able to balance it being a mother for you know,
49:30
Speaker 1: balance is such a hard word. You know, I worked
49:32
Speaker 1: really really hard to make sure that we're balancing. But
49:34
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm something something's not
49:37
Speaker 1: a you know that we're never really fully satisfied. But
49:42
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, our values are very
49:43
Speaker 1: much aligned Corey and I with you know, God, first,
49:46
Speaker 1: family and just making sure that you know, everything else
49:49
Speaker 1: will fall into place once we have those those those
49:53
Speaker 1: those are you know, our stars. But at the end
49:55
Speaker 1: of the day, you know, my kids literally right now
49:58
Speaker 1: we're trying to get two oldest into college. So there's
50:01
Speaker 1: a lot of time that's being spent on you know,
50:03
Speaker 1: college applications and everybody being anxious and where are they going?
50:09
Speaker 1: And I am available, like the no matter what, you know,
50:11
Speaker 1: I'm definitely available no matter what we're doing. Like obviously,
50:14
Speaker 1: revenue is definitely our number one priority. Like just like
50:17
Speaker 1: Corey said, so when we're when we have different meetings,
50:19
Speaker 1: but we have we're blessed to be able to kind
50:21
Speaker 1: of schedule around it to make sure that there is
50:24
Speaker 1: a balance. Now I have to stay when you're doing
50:28
Speaker 1: when you're doing a venture like this, let me just
50:31
Speaker 1: tell people about her background. You know, she's work for
50:36
Speaker 1: Time Incorporated and was very instrumental in the growth of
50:39
Speaker 1: iconic brands as Real Simple and people say People Magazine. Correct, Yes, okay,
50:46
Speaker 1: so these aren't like you know, these are brands. Did
50:50
Speaker 1: you walk into a store? You see them on the
50:52
Speaker 1: share recognizable. So the idea of taking the New York
50:56
Speaker 1: Streets and being able to brand it and market it,
50:59
Speaker 1: what is the land when you have this tremendous background,
51:02
Speaker 1: which also means you probably have tremendous connections and tremendous relationships,
51:06
Speaker 1: how do you do you go into You know, you're
51:09
Speaker 1: proclaimed as the chief revenue officer in the bio, but
51:12
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're involved in the marketing and the branding
51:15
Speaker 1: and the publicity of the New York Streets. Correct. Correct, Yes,
51:20
Speaker 1: I've got my hand a little bit of everything. Absolutely.
51:23
Speaker 1: I just didn't let them just throw that one title
51:25
Speaker 1: on you. I know you got five five? Um over there,
51:27
Speaker 1: Come on, Corey, Come on that, Corey, you got to
51:30
Speaker 1: You got two in the resume here the founder and chairman,
51:33
Speaker 1: she just has one. You got three? You got founder
51:38
Speaker 1: chairman and see, oh you got a budget of going
51:44
Speaker 1: she just got one type revenue. So so I'm going
51:48
Speaker 1: through the bio. I'm just going, okay, but she she's
51:51
Speaker 1: over here and we're not even got the glad yet.
51:53
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back there. We're about to go to Chip. Really,
51:57
Speaker 1: I don't know why Corey on the on the show
52:00
Speaker 1: because she's but let's let's talk about that, because you
52:08
Speaker 1: did to do what I'm talking about, and I know
52:11
Speaker 1: he's proud of you because of the fact that you
52:14
Speaker 1: walk in the room and in an environment of trying
52:17
Speaker 1: to be able to uh, be able to let people
52:21
Speaker 1: know that you can do the job and to be
52:25
Speaker 1: at the market People magazine Real Simple, which is like
52:28
Speaker 1: basically a lifestyle magazine for the general market. How do
52:32
Speaker 1: you how do you accomplish these things? What is your
52:35
Speaker 1: point of view? Well, you know, it's interesting because you're right,
52:38
Speaker 1: like I really I grew up at timing and really
52:41
Speaker 1: being exposed to the best of the best in terms
52:44
Speaker 1: of brands and marketing. So yeah, my my draw on
52:48
Speaker 1: my experience from Real Simple, from People in Style magazine
52:52
Speaker 1: essence a lot and really you know, the mantra that
52:54
Speaker 1: we have around here is executing with excellence and making
52:57
Speaker 1: sure that you know, around all of the people that
53:00
Speaker 1: we have around the table definitely come with excellence, and
53:04
Speaker 1: you know, we draw on that a lot, just in
53:05
Speaker 1: terms of I do have a little bit of a
53:07
Speaker 1: reputation I should say when my expectations are and what
53:12
Speaker 1: we're delivering. And I'm really I'm really impressed that you
53:15
Speaker 1: that you noted that well. I had to because of
53:18
Speaker 1: the fact that, um my whole I'm I like to blame.
53:23
Speaker 1: I'm a brand expert, and I'm really into marketing and
53:26
Speaker 1: when I when I love to bring power couples on
53:29
Speaker 1: the show because that's a that's a that's a different combination,
53:32
Speaker 1: you know, because of the fact that you have to
53:34
Speaker 1: be able to work and then you be able to
53:36
Speaker 1: work together that would be able to turn it off.
53:38
Speaker 1: We able to say, look, we're good, we're good. Now
53:41
Speaker 1: we're gonna go home and be with the family. That's
53:43
Speaker 1: an interesting dynamics and a lot of people don't understand.
53:45
Speaker 1: And so like when when I'm going through your resume
53:48
Speaker 1: and looking at what core is accomplished, and I'm looking
53:50
Speaker 1: at what you accomplished it, I'm going Wow, you. Success
53:54
Speaker 1: has to happen. There's no guarantee, but success has to
53:57
Speaker 1: happen because you you, both of you have of tremendous
54:00
Speaker 1: wealth of you know what I always said, mentorship. You
54:03
Speaker 1: can mentor each other. Yes, well, they're the owners of
54:10
Speaker 1: the New York Streets Inargural season kicks off April. Um.
54:15
Speaker 1: I want to congratulation, congratulations or an happy birthday to you. Core.
54:19
Speaker 1: You're an amazing individual. Please please, please, please please come
54:23
Speaker 1: back on my show. Please give me that that those
54:26
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54:29
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54:32
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54:34
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54:37
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