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Comedian Rickey Smiley discusses his faith, family and overcoming setbacks. nd the importance of family. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 3: My guest is the legendary Ricky Smiling.
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  Speaker 4: He's an incredible chef, comedian, actor, arthur, television host and
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  Speaker 4: award winning radio host of the top rated nationally syndicated program,
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  Speaker 4: The Ricky Smiley Morning Show.
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  Speaker 3: Ricky has been a comedian for more than thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: He's constant performing across the country and this year will
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  Speaker 4: be shooting a stand up comedy special in his hometown
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  Speaker 4: of Birmingham, Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you ever in Birmingham.
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  Speaker 4: Alabama, you have to drop by his hometown comedy club
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  Speaker 4: to start them on Monday nights where he regularly performs
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  Speaker 4: and hosts his charaoke night.
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  Speaker 3: That's sold out. It's sold out. Then they're eating chicken
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  Speaker 3: and laughing.
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  Speaker 4: Please welcome the money making covering Sension Masterclass showed the
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  Speaker 4: incredible Ricky Smiley, my brother, my young brother, my friend brother.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's up big bro? Hey?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I know you're trying to get the
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  Speaker 5: intro and stuff right. A lot of people don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Had it not been for you, it would not be
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  Speaker 5: the Ricky Smider Morning Show. Thanks to you and your
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  Speaker 5: influence and talking to Alfred and Missus Hughes when they
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  Speaker 5: asked a question, who would be great to fill in
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  Speaker 5: because y'alls going to another company'll and y'all said Ricky Snouley.
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  Speaker 5: So I really appreciate the opportunity, and I just try
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  Speaker 5: to take advantage of every opportunity that y'all have ever
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  Speaker 5: provided for me.
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  Speaker 2: So I appreciate you were shigning for everything.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, Ricky, thank you for being a mentor
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  Speaker 5: and thank you for being a big brother.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you because a lot of people get opportunities, Ricky,
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  Speaker 4: you know that, and they don't understand the work that's involved,
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  Speaker 4: because getting up every day all these years since we
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  Speaker 4: gave you the opportunity can be challenging, can be frustrating,
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  Speaker 4: and people walk away and go give half effort.
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  Speaker 3: But you've established your brand in radio.
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  Speaker 4: Tell the importanness of branding through the radio and how
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  Speaker 4: you impact the community other than just being a funny guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon is important.
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  Speaker 5: One thing that does reshine to keep your name out there,
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  Speaker 5: keep your brand out there. If you're lucky and blessed
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  Speaker 5: enough to get stations like DL Steve myself different ones
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  Speaker 5: every hour, at least two or three times an hour
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  Speaker 5: your name is mentioned on the radio station. Somebody dropped
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  Speaker 5: in the car, they hear your name. You know that's
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  Speaker 5: that's good for your Brand's good for your social media.
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  Speaker 5: That keep your your name presence with people. At the
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  Speaker 5: top of the hour when they do the station I
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  Speaker 5: d a home of the Ricky Smiley Morning Show or whatever,
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  Speaker 5: and then they might play a clip or whatever. These
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  Speaker 5: are in cars while people driving to work getting off work,
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  Speaker 5: dropping the kids, or you know, when they're flipping radio station,
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  Speaker 5: they hear your name. So when you show up at
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  Speaker 5: a comedy club or whatever, it hurts your name so
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  Speaker 5: much and it's a build up. People pay money and
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  Speaker 5: they stand the line and they come out to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Because it's not a lot of people that do radio
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  Speaker 5: that still perform other than d L and myself that.
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  Speaker 2: Have their own show, syndicated show.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that's that's important that the business side see. I've
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  Speaker 4: met Ricky Smiley.
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  Speaker 3: Web back when he was just a young comedian that
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be on stage to tell Joe. Now I'm
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  Speaker 3: here Ricky Smile and the business man.
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  Speaker 4: When did that part of Ricky Smile has started going
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  Speaker 4: in front of the comedian.
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  Speaker 5: People like you cussing people out on the phone every
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  Speaker 5: other week. Yah yeah, yeah. I want everybody that's watching
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  Speaker 5: this interview to see that this a very classy and
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  Speaker 5: pleasant interview. As a matter of fact, when I came
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  Speaker 5: on the interview, I had on a Nike T shirt
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  Speaker 5: and Rashaan cursed at me and told me I need
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  Speaker 5: to go put on a suit coat. Tired or told
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  Speaker 5: them that, so I had to run run back to
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  Speaker 5: my room and get dressed. People don't understand the relationship
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  Speaker 5: without listen. You have to have somebody to coach you,
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  Speaker 5: and coaching don't have to be kind. Nick Saban holler
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  Speaker 5: at those guys all day, cussing out all week, but
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  Speaker 5: then they.
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  Speaker 2: Hold up the SEC championship at the end of the day. Day.
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  Speaker 5: And if you don't have anybody mentoring you, somebody saying, hey,
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  Speaker 5: go put on a shirt. Hey, okay, this is a
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  Speaker 5: real this is an interview of our business. Go put
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  Speaker 5: on a shirt and tie. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't thinking or whatever, but I just appreciate. I
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  Speaker 5: appreciate the correction. And Rashaana know I'm not sensitive. Get
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  Speaker 5: in my face, curse me. I'll tell me what I
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  Speaker 5: need to know. Don't let me walk around the party
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  Speaker 5: with nothing in my nose. Give me some tissue, tell
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  Speaker 5: me to go in the corner and blow my nose.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. That's that's what a real
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  Speaker 2: friend gonna do for you.
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  Speaker 5: So people like yourself one of my top mentors, getting
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  Speaker 5: at me about certain things and certain stuff on like
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  Speaker 5: you'll call me if you see something on social media
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  Speaker 5: saying hey, you, you should reconsider that you maybe you
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  Speaker 5: should take that down.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about that. Hell, you don't know unless you
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  Speaker 2: have a coach. So I just appreciate everything.
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  Speaker 5: But that's what turned you into a business, and having
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  Speaker 5: a coach and having correction.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know your hometown guy, you know, and I've
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  Speaker 4: been down to your house and I'm a let everybody
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  Speaker 4: know when you come to Ricky Smiley house, come home, gry,
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  Speaker 4: come homewark because.
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  Speaker 3: He gets mad if you don't understand that.
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  Speaker 4: He's you're coming to a hidden chef because if he
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  Speaker 4: didn't do the RICKSI Morning Show, he'd be doing Ricky
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  Speaker 4: Smiley Cooking Show.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us about that. He's gonna walk you through the house.
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  Speaker 3: He gonna take you out in the garage, show you
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  Speaker 3: that extra refrigerator.
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  Speaker 2: He gonna show you.
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  Speaker 3: The shelves that looked like walmart Ricky. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the chicken and dumplins something I know.
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  Speaker 3: So what did what did the cooking training come from?
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  Speaker 3: What did that? I know you down home? Both tell
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  Speaker 3: us about that.
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  Speaker 5: Rason, I'm the oldest grand child, so I had to
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  Speaker 5: help my grandma. You know, people would drop aunts and
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  Speaker 5: uncles would drop their kids at my grandmother's for the summer,
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  Speaker 5: so I had to help my grandmother prepare meals. I
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  Speaker 5: got that kind of figuring out, like, well, why are
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  Speaker 5: you doing that like that? Why don't you do that
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  Speaker 5: like this? And and then this started making sense to
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  Speaker 5: my grandmoma, you know, so I started getting in there.
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  Speaker 5: And then it got to a point where my grandmother
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  Speaker 5: got tired of argument and the kitchen. She said, well,
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  Speaker 5: you where you cook the meal, will you go in
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  Speaker 5: there and take out the part ropes? And I started
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  Speaker 5: adding my own little seasonings and spices and.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff too it.
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  Speaker 5: And then it got to a point where my grandmother
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't cook anymore. As a matter of fact, when my
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  Speaker 5: grandparents got older, I would cook a lot of food.
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  Speaker 5: At the beginning of the week, my grandparents would come
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  Speaker 5: over with tougher wear bowls.
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  Speaker 2: And then they would have dinner. For the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the week.
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  Speaker 5: I would cook for myself and both set for my
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  Speaker 5: grandparents and we would divide the food.
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  Speaker 2: Just before they all passed away, and.
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  Speaker 5: They just really didn't have to cook anymore, so they
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  Speaker 5: would warm up stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I just love to cook, and I started adding my
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  Speaker 5: own little twisting and flavor to it. So I learned
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  Speaker 5: how to get down and get down. Plus I'm trained
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  Speaker 5: by an executive chef. I am trained Kurt Boudreaux, chef
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  Speaker 5: Gennar Uh. They are giving me some wonderful recipes and
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  Speaker 5: gotten in the kitchen with me and taught me a
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  Speaker 5: lot of techniques and a lot of things about seasoning
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  Speaker 5: and flavoring and making sure that your food is good,
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  Speaker 5: you know, helping me, coaching me in and cooking.
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  Speaker 4: So but I share a name like pastor body there's
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  Speaker 4: into Burman and market. Not trying to connect the two.
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  Speaker 4: But church church, you are a church boar. You start
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  Speaker 4: your show every day with a gospel song. Why is
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  Speaker 4: that important?
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  Speaker 3: Ricky?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? First of all, shout out the past.
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  Speaker 5: Uh uh uh Pastor Mike, Uh, he lived, he lived
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  Speaker 5: one street over.
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  Speaker 2: Her right there. Let me show Let me show you
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  Speaker 2: where his house here? Now? Uh uh?
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  Speaker 5: You know you know sign before we eat before black folks,
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  Speaker 5: before we eat, we honor God. Before we travel, we
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  Speaker 5: ask God for traveling grace. And you know, you know,
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  Speaker 5: before you do a morning show, you don't know what
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  Speaker 5: kind of date somebody's having, what kind of morning somebody's having.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know what somebody went through that night.
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  Speaker 5: And I always told God, if I ever had my
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  Speaker 5: own morning show, I was gonna always open up and
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  Speaker 5: on him. So those first fifteen minutes on my morning show,
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  Speaker 5: I'm giving you, giving God the praise that he deserved,
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  Speaker 5: woke us up this morning and closed on our right mind.
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  Speaker 5: Things might not be perfect, but we just putting a
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  Speaker 5: lot of hope in people giving you know, and God
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  Speaker 5: honors that, you know when you give him praise like
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  Speaker 5: that every single morning on the syndicated show. Sometimes God
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  Speaker 5: minister the people through you, and I mixed uping new
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  Speaker 5: with the own because I'm gonna have me. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I'll play like all of the up to day artists,
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  Speaker 5: but I promise you, I promise you every morning I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna have some Plano's tenors in Alto.
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  Speaker 3: That's the morning show for a repart.
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  Speaker 4: I get up at four thirty old school and doing
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  Speaker 4: Steve Hard Morning Show all those years, I still get
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  Speaker 4: up like I'm doing the morning show at six and
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  Speaker 4: six am. I get up at four thirty. Ain't nobody
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  Speaker 4: wants to get up before thirty, you know that, Rick? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: But what gets me rolling? I'm on your social media feed.
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  Speaker 3: I follow Ricky Smiley feed on Facebook. If you have not.
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  Speaker 4: Liked him or follow him, you're missing some of the
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  Speaker 4: funniest social media post in the country. In the country, Ricky,
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  Speaker 4: you literally if you don't make me laugh, you make
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  Speaker 4: me smile. Oh, you make me say that boy's a food,
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  Speaker 4: that boy's crazy, that boy's stupid, that boy's ignorant. How
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  Speaker 4: the consistency of them. Sometimes the other day when you
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  Speaker 4: had the lady or the lady the fat feet.
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  Speaker 2: When I when I put this, just blessed.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a simple taught process, Ricky. Where is all
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  Speaker 4: this ignorance coming from? Ricky on your Facebook page? And
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  Speaker 4: nikas posting consistently.
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  Speaker 5: In the bed waking up in the middle of the
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  Speaker 5: night thinking the stupid stuff, thinking the crazy stuff and
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  Speaker 5: funny stuff. If I laugh out loud in my bedroom,
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  Speaker 5: next thing, you know, I said, Okay, I'm gonna post
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  Speaker 5: this in the morning. Sometimes, yeah, I think I'm posting
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  Speaker 5: around five, between five and six am.
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  Speaker 2: My first post. I have to hit them hard, something
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  Speaker 2: something real funny.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, when I posted that the lady feet and
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  Speaker 5: a lot of time you look at the feet and
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  Speaker 5: you know, you see what the feet is and how
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  Speaker 5: the feet look. You don't have to make fun of
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  Speaker 5: the feat. You just say this just blessed me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you know what. This is what a bad day
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  Speaker 3: look like, right right? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, rashon social media is so important.
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  Speaker 5: Keeping your fans and your followers entertained or whatever. Social
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  Speaker 5: media helped to sell out shows post on media that
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  Speaker 5: you're performed somewhere. A lot of gigs that you get
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  Speaker 5: because you got followers. So when you get the followers,
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  Speaker 5: you have to keep them entertained and get your little
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  Speaker 5: help to help you run your social media to make
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  Speaker 5: sure that you don't make any mistakes and get kicked off,
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  Speaker 5: face broken, all that kind of stuff that you're operating correctly.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Fun now social media. You could be anywhere you be
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  Speaker 3: in New York.
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  Speaker 4: You can follow them for social media and get those
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  Speaker 4: huge labs that I get every morning. But if you
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  Speaker 4: want to see it for real, the raw version, the
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  Speaker 4: improvisational version, the impromptu talent that shouldn't be on stage,
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of talent that should be on stage,
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  Speaker 4: go to Birmingham, Alabama on a Monday night Stardom and
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  Speaker 4: he will show you the gifts that God gave him
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  Speaker 4: at that Carraoke Night talk to tell him about it, Ricky,
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  Speaker 4: come on, oh.
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  Speaker 5: Man, Carryoke Night is great. I got a co host
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  Speaker 5: named Big Chris.
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  Speaker 3: That ain't everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody loved Big Chris, Big Chris. I think Big Chris
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  Speaker 5: be thirty four on his on his next birthday. Thanks
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  Speaker 5: Birthday coming up sometime February and March something like that.
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  Speaker 5: But that's my co host right on Karaoke Night. And
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  Speaker 5: I know how to keep Chris in lane. You know,
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  Speaker 5: Chris is a distraction and Big Chris it's a challenge.
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  Speaker 5: It's a challenge, but I know how to. I know
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  Speaker 5: how to keep him in lane because you know we
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  Speaker 5: are a good conversation on CARRYO.
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  Speaker 6: Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more Money
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  Speaker 6: Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 6: Masterclass hosted by Rashaan McDonald.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if you you go to Ricky Smiler dot com
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  Speaker 4: and you scroll down and he has video clips of
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  Speaker 4: current uh Monday Night performances that stood out that night.
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  Speaker 4: So just in case you can't get down there, just
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  Speaker 4: go to Ricky Smiler dot com.
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  Speaker 3: He's just going shine really do follow me? Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 5: Brother, Hey, Hey, that means that means I've been doing
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  Speaker 5: everything right because I had got no text something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Boy.
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  Speaker 5: Well you know, you know it's like it's like if
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  Speaker 5: Rashaan called, you just gonna look at the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I know, I know. Take that.
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  Speaker 3: Smith said, come on, Rashan, why are you calling me? Stephen, Stephen,
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  Speaker 3: That's all just a couple of things I want to
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  Speaker 3: say to your brother. That's all just I love you.
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  Speaker 3: Just held. Just give me a minute to talk before
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  Speaker 3: you come in. Because in the.
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  Speaker 4: End, you know, even with Steve Harvey and any else
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  Speaker 4: I'm involved in my life, I understand crisis management. I
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  Speaker 4: understand the next step, the six months down the line,
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  Speaker 4: the three months down loud. It might be funny now
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  Speaker 4: the repercussions of it. I'm not saying you've done anything
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  Speaker 4: disasters like I just try to just get in everybody's
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  Speaker 4: ears that I love, that I believe in. That makes
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  Speaker 4: the difference, because you want of these people can elect presidents,
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  Speaker 4: you want of these people can raise funds for a community.
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  Speaker 3: You want of the black voices that we.
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  Speaker 4: Have at the next generation is because you know the
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  Speaker 4: al Sharptons, the Jesse Jackson's and Andrew Young's. That group
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  Speaker 4: either near the grave or their voices irrelevant to the
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  Speaker 4: community that we're.
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  Speaker 3: Talking to nowadays.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we say rappers out there killing each other
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  Speaker 4: and we try to reel all this in.
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  Speaker 3: And you on a hip hop format, talk about your role.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, my role is to give you about as of funny,
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  Speaker 5: spiritual and community and what.
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  Speaker 2: Is it called pop culture?
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  Speaker 5: So you know we're talking about what's going on, uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know with with all these athletes and their relationships
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  Speaker 5: and rappers and singers and their relationships.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, stuff that's going on with with singers.
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  Speaker 5: And you know Gary does that Uh uh Gary, Gary
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  Speaker 5: with the tu man. There was a tense moment when
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  Speaker 5: he when he when he came on there when Dionne
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  Speaker 5: and and Tracy broke up, and he said that Tracy
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  Speaker 5: Evans has entered the transferred portal.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I threw I threw my headphones and got up
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  Speaker 5: and walked out the room.
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  Speaker 2: I was in tears.
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  Speaker 5: Not the fact that I wasn't laughing at the fact
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  Speaker 5: that they broke up, but the fact that Gary.
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  Speaker 2: Said that they she chopped the transfer see resigning and you.
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  Speaker 5: Know Brian is my friend, but man, that was funny.
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  Speaker 5: But Prian, I'm sure you're not getting married because Prian
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  Speaker 5: loved Gary. But but for Gary to say that she
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  Speaker 5: jumped in the transfer portal, man, I think everybody this
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  Speaker 5: polity to their headphone long and just went and stepped outside.
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  Speaker 5: Uh and and everybody's just scattered because it was it
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  Speaker 5: was that funny. But for him to put it into
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  Speaker 5: that crist But we all will agree she's a five
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  Speaker 5: star recruit.
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  Speaker 3: We were all.
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  Speaker 7: Whoam you see them videos with her decorating the Christmas
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  Speaker 7: tree that with that blue dress.
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  Speaker 2: Sun we shun.
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  Speaker 3: Five star recruit?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Doc Alabama water un see water know the dame
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  Speaker 4: wanna Georgia wanna everybody? She's in that transfer a portal.
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  Speaker 4: Let me just tell you something about Ricky smile. Let's
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: let's move out the jokes. Professional, smart, educated, family man, honest.
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  Speaker 3: Loyal to a fault.
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  Speaker 4: But more importantly, he don't forget. He don't forget, and
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  Speaker 4: he cared about your kids, even if he doesn't know
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  Speaker 4: your kids. He cared about your family even if he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't know your family. That's why that morning show I
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  Speaker 4: had to fight and get him understand who he was
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  Speaker 4: and what value he was going to bring and has
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: been bringing to the table the last two decades of
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: being on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't see that back then, but I think he
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: understands it now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it now, and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: I really really really appreciate it and grateful for the
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  Speaker 5: opportunity we on some of the big stay We're on
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: a news station in Tampa call the Vibe the Cocks Radio.
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  Speaker 5: Flip the entire format and put us on so you
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  Speaker 5: can hear us now in Tampa, Saint Pete, Bradington.
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  Speaker 2: Sarasota, clear Water. So that's a big station. Of course.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we're on in Orlando, number one in Miami,
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  Speaker 5: number one in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: Then we have Atlanta, Dallas.
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  Speaker 5: Louisville, Nashville, really big station there, Cleveland, Baltimore. It leaves
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  Speaker 5: over into the DC area, Chicago, definitely on in the Shire,
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  Speaker 5: were on in in Portland, Oregon. We on in Seattle, Washington.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, don't forget my hometown in Houston now, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 8: we're definitely in Houston on a big station in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of.
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  Speaker 4: Fact, Now, book are rumors that Ricky Smileley wants to
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: be an author. I said it in the credits for
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: the Next Level talk about that I wrote one.
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  Speaker 5: Book called stand By Your Truth. I just wrote another book.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so excited about it. And if I'm not mistaking
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: this topic that I mean, the title is going to
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: be side Show. Uh you remember show step step right
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  Speaker 5: up her Hey can't afford to pass it by, but guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: So it shows the happy side and the sad side.
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  Speaker 5: Considering that twenty twenty twenty three, I had something to
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  Speaker 5: go on with all.
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  Speaker 2: Of my kids.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: My oldest son passed away, my daughter gave birth, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: both of my younger two kids graduated college in one
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  Speaker 5: graduate college and pledge.
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  Speaker 2: AKA.
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  Speaker 5: So it's been it's been twenty twenty three has been.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: It's been like that.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: I've been dealing with depression, sadness, anxiety.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Losing a child is.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Something I would never wish on anybody. This time of year,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: you know, the holidays are are really hard. I've been
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: getting therapy twice a week, learning how to sit in
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: my feelings instead of just finding something to do and
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: blocking it out of my head.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Because it's still there.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: It's a possible, and it's gonna come out one way
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: or the other. So I had to learn how to
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: sit in my feelings and just sit right here in
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  Speaker 5: this chair about this fireplace and cry it out.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And I'm talking about sitting in this house.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: If you was a fly on the wall and saw
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: me sit by myself at this table and cry for
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: hours in hours and just just cry, you know, trying
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: to get that, get that out of my system. Because
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: losing a kid or shunning the bills don't stop coming.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: I still got to get up the new radio because
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: other people have lost kids.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Also. My son was thirty two.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: But I did carry ok last night and there was
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: a lady and her husband sitting in the audience just
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: trying to enjoy the husband's birthday because they got to
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: bury there of twenty five year old son Saturday. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: who are you, Who are you not to get up
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  Speaker 5: and get on the radio and inspire somebody just because
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: you suffered the loss from people going through worse twenty
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  Speaker 5: five my son, God gave me.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I look at it like God gave me.
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  Speaker 5: Extra years because my son could have died when he
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: was twenty five.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: He could have died when he was seventeen, you know,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And a lot of time.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Man, God, all of this stuff, at the end of
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: the day is a test. How are you going to
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: handle this situation?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: You gonna make this situation about you? Are you gonna
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: use the situation to get better, to get close of
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: the God, bring other people close to the God, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: help other people with their situation. And so my son
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: died on a Sunday. They told me to take as
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: much time as I need. That Wednesday, I was back
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: on the air and I cried in between the songs.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: I cried doing Mercy Break, but I thugged it out
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  Speaker 5: and I stayed on the radio and did what I.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Had to do.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: And I went and served the homes at the Salvation
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Army that Wednesday before his funeral. I thank God for
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: carrying me. I thank God for keeping me. I thank God.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: If I never knew God.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: A day of my life, I knew him January.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: To twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. Because I didn't do
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: it by myself. God was carrying me. I couldn't walk
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: down the hall to get to the elevator to get
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: on the plane to get the Birnham.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I said God, if I can make it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Down the hall, from my door to the elevator at
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: my apartment Complax in Dallas.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: If you let me make it to the elevator.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: I can make it because I promised God I was
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: about to pass out, and that's a fact.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I'm glad he allowed me that honest moment.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: That's why I didn't want to interrupt, because our relationship
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: is about honesty. Our relationship about the truth. Let me
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: tell you the truth about this man. Incredible family, incredible father, parent.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I love it. Hey, Ricky, smile again.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Thank you for taking the time to come with money
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  Speaker 4: making conversation, master class show man, your special brother in
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: so many ways, because you're changing lives every day, changing
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: my lines at four thirty in the morning, money through Friday.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: You changed my life than happiness to it more important.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Man, Allow me to share your story, this side of
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: it and the return of little Darren.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Whoa me Me I love. And we learned a couple
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: of things. We learned about transfer a portal of day.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: We learned that he taking a special with David and
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Lynn Talbot. Okay, we learned that on.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Monday nights, the karaoke night that he holds is sold out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: So if you want to get a ticket. If you
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: don't get a ticket.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Go to rickysmile dot com and you can see some
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: of the top excerpts for those video excerpts.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: From that on this website. But more important, we learned
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: that you your humble brother.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: You're humble, god fearing man man, and I will see
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: you at your comedy special on that Friday night.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go rid the Route to the Good Bruthers.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Ricky Smitty spring Syer, Chapter two thousand, trade dollars, baby baby,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: a real baby.
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  Speaker 3: He's a young folk.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty one, y'all, I'm looking at you nineteen eighty one,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: four degrees hotly in the hell.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I love it, brother, Thank you, rick smiling.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Love you man.
• 25:25
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